Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Deodand
Believe it or not! A deodand is an object which caused the death of a person and has been confiscated by the crown to be used for charitable purposes. I presume they wiped the blood off first. That has to be the spookiest real meaning I've found so far. Thanks for your impressive guesses. No one came close, but that's hardly surprising. I like Ali's meaning far more and so did the voters. Well done, Ali.
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A fashion victim who followed a short-lived 1840s trend of wearing ten of everything.
A deodand is a very small, but integral component of a radio or television. It is an incredibly minute part, but without it your appliance is rendered absolutely useless.
A deodand is a tree found only in India . It is tall and symmetrical in that it has a slim silvery brown trunk and the branch structure is pyramidical ;the leaves are long and a dark glossy green and the general effect is of a very tall serious umbrella without the curl to the handle .
Deodands are used to line the driveway of impressive houses and lend a general air of sombre propriety to the houses of the nouveau riche .
A deodand is a fleeting dream. When you wake up in the morning, you have a teasing memory of a dream. You try hard to remember what your dream was about, but you can't grasp it. It's gone.
I woke up this morning with a deodand. I can't remember what happened.
A deodand is a shield you can use on a bus or in an elevator when your next 2 somebody who doesn't wear deodorant.
A deodand is a collection of many small snowflakes. You see deodands when it is snowing furiously, and each "snowflake" is enormous. Deodands collect on the ground to make excellent snowball snow. Scientists think this is because part of the deodand's nature is to stick together.
"The first snow of the year is often characterized by deodands, those large fluffy clumps of snow that so excite children."
A deodand is a flower with a long stalk like a dandelion with 10 petals.
Someone who never learns a lesson. They get told off over and over but it doesn't make any difference.
Coincidentally a deodand is the perfect partner for yesterday's Feria. A deodand is a god like man who exudes such confidence and masculinity that he has ladies swooning wherever he goes. However, he is oblivious to all of them except the beautiful feria. Once they meet however, marriage is inevitable and in front of an awestruck congregation the vicar pronounces them "deodand and feria"
Annika Rose was kind of on the right track with her guess....A deodand is actually somebody who fails to use deodorant, which is a shame because they are definitely the kind of people that need to use it the most. Deodands wear lots of synthetic fabrics and can always be found wearing a jumper (sweater for you guys in the States)on the hottest of hot days. Deodands cause a massive dilemma for the rest of us non-deodands, as it is very difficult trying to tell a deodand that they really should use deodorant.
A deodand is a dandelion clock that has already had all its fluffy seeds blown off, making it even less useful for telling the time than usual. Unless, of course, it happens to be 0 o'clock, in which case it is absolutely spot on.
Deodand is a verb denoting the removal of the receptors in the nose, so that people lose their sense of smell. This is most commonly done for people with extreme reactions to certain smells or people who have to sit alongside the non-deodarant wearers that Vicki B refers to.
A slim, well-dressed fellow with an eye for wealthy elderly women.
"When Aunt Kitty first met the Deodand, he began the conversation by talking about his favorite blog, Knit and Pray."
Deodands are the little white flakes your deodorant leaves on your clothes (deodorant + dandruff).
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