Thursday, July 26, 2007
Pergunnah
A pergunnah is a division of territory in India. A bit like a state or region maybe, only a bit smaller I think. Perhaps one of our Indian word imps can throw some light on that one in due course. One blog comment may have been questioning the fairness of my use of an Indian word. In reply, I would say that I only use words which are in my English dictionary and sometimes they happen to be words from other countries. Congratulations to Duckman who achieved the highest number of votes on the poll.
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Pergunnah is a small village in Southern Ireland famed for it's lace making.
Pergunnah lace is most known as the trimming to clerical robes.
Pergunnah is a little known spice from the orient. Widely used in soups and spices in Korea and Vietnam, Europeans tend to find it a little bitter for their taste. You can sometimes find it in the high-class delicatessens but it may be more easily obtained on-line.
Pergunnah expresses, and calculates the frustrating range of possibilities when planning for an event in which the number of participants are undetermined.
"Who is going on our 15 day trip to the Wales?"
"I'm gonna!"
"I'm gonna...I think."
"John wants to, but isn't sure if he's gonna."
"I'm gonna...no wait. I still have to check to see if I can get the time off."
"You were gonna do that a month ago."
"I was gonna, but I forgot."
"Who else is gonna go?"
"Ray is gonna if he can get someone to watch the dogs, and Sally is gonna if she has the money. How much is it gonna cost?"
"I am trying to determine the cost, but it depends on how many people are gonna go. So we have 1 gonna, and 5 maybe gonnas. How can I determine a per/person price?"
"You could set a pergunnah price."
All similarities to real events are completely intentional.
It's a rare relative of the piranha, so named because it catches its prey by spitting out miniature stings like bullets. Will eat anything that moves.
The effect on humans of a successful pergunnah attack ranges from mild irritation to excruciating agony, depending on where they get stung.
Pergunnah is to Purgatory as Nirvana is to Paradise.
A pergunnah is an old man or woman who has little money or is having a run of bad luck. It originally referred only to old women, as the term is a corruption of "poor grandma", but as the original words became less recognizable the usage spread to include old men as well.
Stephen from Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
http://stephen-has-spoken.blogspot.com/
Pergunnah - The word used to describe the capacity of bullets in a magazine used in firearms.
"That clip there is a 20 pergunnah."
Pergunnah -
The elaborarion of multi- syllable words that enhance the gestation period of the ellusive left handed strident amphibian like creature that screeches on moon lit nights.
Pergunnah is a new product developed by the Pergo laminate flooring company. It is a wood look flooring product containing large amounts of gutta percha, a tough, rubberlike gum made from the sap of the Palaquium gutta tree. It is being marketed as the ideal flooring for preschools as it is easy to clean and the kiddies tend to bounce and laugh when they fall instead of crash and cry.
Pergunnah - a range of trendy ethnic style clothing sold in Marks and Spencers.
(Sorry folks, you may not get the connection outside the UK of this one.)
Pergunnah - The name of a tower in one of the less well-known tales of Camelot. [from Pyre = tower + Gunnah]
A beautiful maiden Gunnah was trapped in a tower with no stairs or door, just a single window. The tower was surrounded by swamp (etc). The Knights of the round table were stumped. Gunnah had short hair and all her bedding was straw. Until it occurred to one of them that foundations in a swamp weren't a good idea (the forces of evil had broken so many rules that they thought one more building reg. wouldn't matter). They dug one side away, and eventually the tower toppled. The knight came speeding through and scooped up Gunnah at just the right moment.
And they all lived happily ever after.
Nowadays one can use "Pergunnah" to describe any kind of dodgy structure (e.g. the Leaning Tower of Pisa or the Scottish Parliament).
Wow! Your blog is fun! I found you via an interview with Julia of "3 for 365" where she named you one of her three blog heroines.
Believe it or not, she named me too! :)
Just read about poor Gunnah (and her highly questionable 'happily everafter')from Brian o Vetranos and my pyaemia is flaring up again.
Somebody STOP him!
The pergunnah (n) is the scoring system using in gurning competitions.
It works in a similar way to that of figure skating, with points being awarded for both style and executution. Thus, while an attempt to perfom a 'full gurn with triple twist' may earn the competitor high marks on the style scale, failure to comlete this complicated position accurately will lose him/her points on the execution scale.
Pergunnah: This was originally what Hawaiian natives were going to call their priests/shaman/gurus but upon using the term for the first time they discovered it wouldn’t work.
Hawaiian Dude to his Shaman: "Hey there Big Pergunnah!”
Hawaiian Shaman: “What?! Are you saying I look pregnant?! Are you calling me fat?!”
Hawaiian Dude: “No sir! I was just… we were just trying out a new title for you.”
Hawaiian Shaman: “Well I don’t like it! Now get the kahunas outta here!”
Hawaiian Dude: “OMG! That’s perfect!” (squealing in delight)
And so it evolved to “The Big Kahuna”
Umm... I spent allot of time on this but now it looks like I'm giving the origins for "Kahuna". Oh well since it's a "true" story there's nothing I can do about it now.
Pergunnah-(n.) a type of chant used to cleanse the soul
Pergunnah-One of those shelter/covering thingy's built by rugged individualist, hunting/fishing outdoorsmen out of old boards, rusty, corrugated sheet metal, discarded beer crates, army-surplus canvas and other found materials. The guys use them to keep from freezing to death during hunting season while watching for game animals to shoot or while fishing through holes they've cut in frozen lake ice.
It makes sense, since hunting season has to take place during bitterly cold weather. I think, (though I'm not sure) only certain men from the U.S.A. take part in this custom (The Mad Fishiscist could tell us) and I'm a little hazy on my description because women know not to go near a pergunnah. Pergunnah's are also to be distinguished from the traditional 'duck blind' used by British or European men who dress better and use shotguns and have servants to fetch their downed prey.
Pergunnah (n.) a curmudgeonly Iranian man who still despises all Greeks because of what happened at Persepolis.
an ornamental herb hanging in the kitchen of someone without any culinary experience.
an ornamental herb hanging in the kitchen of someone without any culinary experience.
which language are we talking here?
GOod Blog, I learn a lots by reading here!!!
A pergunnah is a large intestine found in seasquid after consuming too large a meal for the stomach membrain cells to contain.
It is the actual bulge protruding from the squids stomach not the cause of it all.(that was eating a whole human stranded in a lagoonwearing nothing but his hair
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