Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Wampee
A wampee is a tree which grows in China and yields grape-like fruit, also called wampee of course - or so says my dictionary. I've never seen or eaten a wampee to the best of my knowledge. Nor been to China. Thanks for your inventive meanings today. The Mad Fishicist was too hard to beat this time. Thanks for that, TMF.
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To wampee (vb) is to urinate in public.
It has its origins in the phrase ´to spend a penny´ which in turn came about when the payment for use of a public toilet in the UK was one pence (many, many years ago).
As the cost of using a public toilet is now much higher than one penny and ´to spend thirty pence (or thirty p)´ doesn´t have the same ring, the phrase ´I´m just going to wampee´ came into use.
Wampee is a type of illegal poteen brewed by Romanian Gypsies. It is made by distilling a mixture of turnips and potatos, is highly alchoholic and averages about 85% proof.
The recipe for the brew is secret and only a few families know it.
The Romanian police frequently raid the Gypsies' encampments to break the illegal wampee distillation plant, but as the Gypsies are more intelligent than the police, the actual plant is very rarely found. There is a thriving black market trade between Romania and the rest of Europe.
Wampee is an onomatopoeic word of Japanese origin. It is used to describe a traditional battle cry used by players of the Oriental board game Go (one of the martial arts). The practice of crying stopped after it was realised that some players were using it to surreptitiously blow their opponents' stones onto different spots.
A wampee was a kind of specially humidified tipi used by asthamtic Native Americans.
Asthmatic even!
Wampee(pronounced like "whomp-ee"): A person who gets a "whomp" on the head, deserved or accidental.
The wampee got hit on the head with a magazine by his wife when he teased her about her new haircut.
It's a slang term for the irrational state of mind occupied by soccer fans during a match involving their favourite team. This particularly applies to disproportional anger after said team loses, or the referee makes any kind of decision whatsoever.
Wampee - when someone is so totally exhausted, even after a full night's sleep. (synonym: knackered)
"I woke up completely wampee this morning and all I'm able to do is lay here and cuddle with my kitty on the bed. Surely, they will not let me do this once I get to the office!"
Wampee is a show business term formed from the words "warm" and "pizazz", and is used to describe an actor, a show or a performance that is very noticeably less than it should be.
Stephen from Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
http://stephen-has-spoken.blogspot.com/
Wampee:
Antonym of vampy. A shy and introverted person that prefers to dress in oversized clothing hiding every part of the body.
"The twins were the complete opposite, one was quiet and wampee, the other, well let’s just say she’s vampy and not give you more details."
Wampee is the plural for the Native American unit of currency wampum.
Yes I like the currency idea!
But is a wampee not the exhileration felt after that "Wham bam thank ma'am" evening?
Doh! I meant "Wham bam thank YOU ma'am" of course.
A Wampee is a mythical creature which has stalked the swamps and boggy areas of the North American continent since time immemorial. It is seven or more feet tall a wiry green body and wild purple hair. It has a great affinity for fish, which swim between it's multiple legs and which it uses to lure fishermen to their dooms. There is an old Native American saying: "Don't fish near the Wampee for the WAmpee fish you."
Wampee is Sweetpees little brother of Popeye fame. Little Wampee loved to wamp around in his wampers. His favorite TV program was "Wamper" Room.
cold dinner
"Honey, your wampee is left in the microwave"
Wampee (adj) - slang for the taste of a bad batch of moonshine.
Yep, ol' Huber' so'd me dat moonshine fo' a nicko, and I be tellin' you it taste all wa'mpee lyke.
A Wampee is a little tent that houses the toilet facilities for Indians that live in Wigwams.
like a wamp (rhymes with damp).
wimps beat up on wamps. they both beat up on whomps. a whomp is a wamp that's been whomped by a wimp. a wimp whomps wamps, but seldom does a whomp wamp a wimp. it has been done before, but that whomp was wamped long before he could take credit for wamping the wimp. you could say the wimp was wampee, but then you'd be stating the obvious, right?
Wampee (Wireless Activated Machine Pee) is a word that comes from robotics. It is a program by which robots simulate urinating at the push of a button on a remote control.
Also used in sentences such as, "Son, if you don't pee before you sleep, I'll have to install a wampee on you!"
Wampee is also an American aquatic plant, pickerel weed, Pontederia cordata, with purple flowers.
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