Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Tacamahac
Tacamahac is a bit like it sounds. It's gum resin from certain South American trees and comes from an old Aztec word. Plenty of variety on the blog today, including some fascinating camp reminiscences. Thanks for all your contributions. Raelha drew the most votes today. Congratulations and thanks for another great meaning, Raelha.
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Spoken rubbish. As in: "I've had just about enough of listening to your tacamahac".
tacamahac is a hairstyle that is slowly becoming quite a craze. it's a lot like a mohawk, except here, the hairdresser just hacks off random bunches of hair to give that unkempt, dont-care, anti-establishment, i-just-got-in-a-dogfight, supercool look.
in january 2007, Natalie O became the first person to get a tacamahac. interestingly it happened quite by accident. her hairdresser-a lady by the name of vera-had a seizure whilst cutting natalie's hair. natalie sued the beauty parlour and ordered a wig. however a significant number of people had seen her hair already and many loved the look. beauty parlours everywhere were swamped by people requesting similiar haircuts.
the style was named the tacamahac, by stylist Trudy Taca, though Vera was the original inventor.
-word carpenter
Tacamahac is part of a saddle used by mounted Afghan war lords.
The tacamahac is made out of loops of intricately worked leather and is attached to the pommel. It is in this pouch of leather that the war lord keeps his sandwiches and thermos of cocoa.
A tacamahac is a type of tomahawk form exclusively from taco shells.
A tacamahac is a portable hammock. Easy to carry around with you, it opens up in seconds and can be tacked up anywhere whenever you want to take a quick nap.
Tacamahac:
A disease that keeps you bed ridden, hacking and yelling out swear words at people trying to help you.
It’s horrible! The side effects can last for years.
This excuses those of us who have had it to constantly be swearing at people.
Tacamahac is a Northwest Indian word! (North American Native).
Tacoma, Washington, just south of Seattle was orginally called Tacamahac. The word means plentiful fish.
A colloquial phrase to describe an obsessive nail and/or screw horder: A tacamahac is to nails as anorack is to train-spotting.
Free Willy
Tacamahac - is a smooth black road surface laid by a team of dyslexic workmen.
Tacamahac (pronounced "tatsamahatch", and properly written with accents on the "c"s) was an Eastern European model of car manufactured at the height of the cold war. It had a unique roof-mounted engine, and used to topple over if cornered sharply.
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall the factory now makes skateboards.
Mr Tacamahac invented the first waterproof raincoat which you could stick on the wall when you got home.
Tacamahac: An ancient indian tribe that was well known for their Tacamahacan music.
Tacamahac (n.) is the sound made by lots of people typing at the same time, such as in an internet café or large office. It´s often used in a negative sense:
Matt turned up at work with a huge hangover, which wasn´t helped by the tacamahac in the office. It got so bad that he had to curl himself up in a pile of bubble-wrap and have a quick snooze under his desk.
Tacamahac-
Sounds like a nickname for Blogger blogs that feature hacks and codes.
It can also mean a blog of note.
A tacamahac was an old fashioned Scottish remedy for the dry mouths suffered by bagpipe players. Most recipes consisted of small amounts of honey and thin porridge, topped up with copious slugs of single Islay malt whisky.
And thanks for my win for conventicle on Saturday, chaps!
Tacamahac is a mythical event in Latino mythology, where a woman dressed like the Goddess herself to trick the devil. Today, it is the award given to the winnder of the Annual J'Lo Lookalike Contest.
Sheilabythebeach and others are absolutely correct about the North American Indian connection, but am I the only one whose parents sent her to Camp Tacamahak every summer? Hard to believe. Anyway, we did all the canoeing, archery, hiking, etc. associated with the great old summer camps of yore. I still carry my dog eared "Judi Is A Wood Lore Woodchuck" card in my wallet earned by successfully starting a campfire using a fire starter flint. I get tears in my eyes remembering our childish voices raised, beneath the pines, in our favorite camp song:
"A Tac-a-ma-hak!
A Tac-a-ma-hak!
A Tac-a-ma-hak-hak-HEY!"
(repeat five times)
Each "HEY" was accompanied by a different gesture, first a 'thumb's up', followed by 'knees together', 'elbows back', 'chin up', and on the final repeat, 'butt out'.
I never knew there were other camps out there for kids like me! My folks sent me to Camp Id-ra-ha-je, and Camp Tapqawengo! You were really lucky when you got to throw your fagots into the fire!! What a thrill. But all sentimentality aside, Tacamahak is indeed a camp at the base of Arrowhead mountain and rests beneath an arrowhead burn pictured on the side of the mountain (where the Arrowhead brand of water originally came from). The neatest part was when we did our tamahawk hikes under the stars repeating our chants and looking for clues of the location of the Tacamahak burial grounds. See? I went there too Judi!!!!
a stale old cup of coffee
A tacamahac is a tall tale. The name comes from the "brass tacks" expression (meaning hard facts), plus inserted syllables intended to give an emphasis meaning "and even more so!"
Stephen from Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
http://stephen-has-spoken.blogspot.com/
I vote for "plenty of fish"
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