Thursday, June 21, 2007
Squacco
A squacco is a small, crested heron. Perhaps some of you knew that but were humouring me for the purposes of the word game. Thanks for that. The meanings were squishy and squeamish but lots of fun. Ingrid got the most votes on the poll, which makes her a very happy winner indeed. Well done, Ingrid!
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Squacco - Large cloud or clouds of small flying insects, mostly encountered during summer evenings, whose sole intention is to squash themselves on your car windscreen (windsheild) in an effort to obliterate your view of the road. Juicy ones (squacco splurgius) have a secondary ability to create a nasty, sticky smear if you turn on the wipers
A squacco (n.) is a mad duck.
someone who talks a lot or psychobabbles
A rich person who squanders all his wealth, so as to get a first-hand experience of squalor.
Squacco - A soup similar in texture to Gazpacho but whose primary ingredient is Butternut Squash.
the infant son of Sacagawea, the Indian guide for Lewis and Clark. He would later attend Oxford and change his name to James Alton Clark. A noted U.S. judge.
It is the juice that is spit out after someone has indulged in chewing tobacco.
A squacco is a 2/3 vegetable-1/3 fruit cross, with roots in the squash, zucchini, and tomato plant families. It can be any combination of purple, red, and green, and is loved by many for its fleshy, yet juicy quality.
A Squacco is a hen with an overly healthy dose of male hormone. She thinks she is a rooster. She can be easily picked out in the hen coop by her square, wide breasted appearance and boxer style walk. Her jewelry of choice would be heavy, chunky gold chain, with perhaps a mini capelet of turkey feathers.
Squacco is a special kind of stucco made from lime, sand, gravel and water, that incorporates heron droppings as the binding material. Prior to the 20th century, it was widely used in Southern Europe and the Middle East in masonry and as sculptural material. In the last five years, there has been a resurgence of Squacco as an environmentally friendly material for construction.
Squacco - a game which combines squash and bunco, usually played imdoors with long handled rackets and large, tennis ball-sized rubbery dice. Can get quite dangerous if alcohol is involved.
"Jenny had one too many martinis at last night's Squacco game and nearly took out the hostess' kitchen window trying to hurl the winning roll of the dice! We knew trouble was afoot when she first arrived and was showing off her new custom-built 22-foot long Squacco racket and carrying a bottle of Grey Goose."
Squacco is a concoction created by a toddler for the purpose of finger painting. The color is normally determined by the makeup found in the child's home.
Squacco - the ripping sound your pants make when you squat down.
An Italian restaurant where everyone has to squat and eat!
Squacco is a rare oyster found on the Olympic peninsula.
It can only be dug at night during the month of April. The best beach to find Squacco is near Sequim WA- a little village with possibly the highest amount of rainfall in the world.
A quack is someone who is an untrained doctor...a squacco is a specialist quack!
The squacco is the linear composition that illuminates the underpining of the three diminsional lifters on an elevator.
Squacco is the Lithuanians' answer to the more common stucco. Squacco is mainly comprised of the crushed up ruins of old buildings mixed with a strong putty.
Squacco n. The noise emanating from a playground full of children.
Balthazar knew he had overslept when he was awakened by the squacco from the neighboring school.
Squacco:
A person that knows every swearword ever invented in every language in the entire world... and then brags about it.
Bee.
A.K.A. Squacco
Squacco (n) 1. The ultra-"sounds" made by bats 2. Any direction finding system that uses ultrasound echos. [From Squawk and Echo]
"Berkley was very proud of his new Squacco system, which enabled him to read whilst walking. The main difficulty was obtaining a reliable supply of bats"
The Australian Department of Tourism would prefer this not be publicized but squacco is the noxious & acidic excrement of the Minor Barrier Reef Squid. This squid is unique in the cephalopod family for it's habit of allowing itself to be washed up on shore and executing a sort of "squat & squirt" action and depositing a viscous, purple substance in the sand that causes mothers to scream and clutch their young children to their breasts when the kids accidently step in a puddle squacco.
OK, this is a VERY FUNNY day...
Squacco(n) derives from the Venezuelan expression, "guaco". It is the sound a person makes after spitting out something he or she finds utterly disgusting. Less dramatic variations include "yucko," and "icky."
"Squacco!, she exclaimed, after spitting out the crap-covered fly that flew into her mouth.
Stucco on the Buckingham Palace.
A weird exclamation.
A squacco is a stool pigeon, an informer, but one who makes no attempt to hide this and actually brags about it. The usefulness of such people is not as great as it could be, as they tend to suddenly disappear or meet with an unfortunate accident before being able to testify.
Stephen from Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
http://stephen-has-spoken.blogspot.com/
A pregnant woman squatting
I got nothin' today...but it's fun to read evryones defin-ventions....
Squacco (n.) A substance used by Finnish fishermen who live along the coast, to cover the outer walls of their homes, which makes them completely impervious to the damaging effects of salt spray. :o)
Squacco (n)- the technical term for that gooey slimy messy residue of guts and blood and who-knows-what left behind after you squash a bug.
i.e. When the biggest bug he had ever seen in his life flew in and landed on the wall, Abram decided against squashing it instantly, as the squacco from it would probably take years to clean up.
Squacco is the inventor of succotash.
A squacco is when a squash referee tells you to call your lets even though you have been calling lets, only the ref hasn't been awarding you any.
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