Wednesday, September 05, 2007
Flivver
A flivver is a cheap motor car. Funny that. Our family has always owned flivvers and never known what to call them. Now we do. It's a slang word of unknown origin according to my dictionary. However, all sorts of other flivvers made it to the blog. Well done everyone - and welcome back, Pastor Phil. Thesaurus Rex took full honours on the poll for this one. Congratulations, again, T.R.
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A person who collects shoes of different colours and designs but of the same size, of course, is called a flivver.
My friend Ruby is a flivver who owns 154 different pairs of shoes.
To flivver, means quite simply to fail to deliver. e.g.
"I've waited in all day only to find that Ikea have yet again flivvered!"
Flivver is an adjective that describes individuals or groups that are upset because they are unprepared for what they are currently experiencing.
The first graders were flivvered by what they knew had to be a second grade exam.
Flivvers are leftover leftovers. Unlike regular leftovers, they are often disguised as a brand new dish, hence the (in)famous Flivver Pie we all remember from our childhood days.
Flivver is the cold feeling of fear and disgust that runs through you when you see an insect that particularly repulses or frightens you, e.g. an arachnophobe on seeing a spider. I get a lot of flivvers at this time of year :-(
flivver (v) - to shoot across a roundabout in heavy traffic without using one's signal.
Jacques flivvered across to the roundabout exit honking and gesturing wildly leaving the poor American tourists screaming for their lives, and vowing never to drive in Paris again.
Back from France, and using my experience to define words.
Flivver:
Liver flavored flowers.
To flivver is when you expel air from your mouth allowing your lips to flap rapidly which makes a similar sound to when a horse snorts.
Throwing the Mills & Boone novel across the room, Sebastian flivvered, "What a load of sentimental twaddle!"
Thanks for the votes for sciagraphy, folks. Why do I only do best when I get a bit earthy, I wonder?
A baby born to a flibbertigibbet. (Can be one parent or both.)
From the middle-english: flevier
(To Organic Mama....do you exsanguinate ex-lovers for hire? I need a job done.)
Organic Mama: I think Father Ann should be the one to deal with your ex-lover. She has a brilliant range of torture equipment.
Flivver: This is a term that biologists use during disection. It refers to the little pins that hold the skin apart so they can get to the innards easily.
Lorenzo.
A flivver is a kind of disasterous kiss (perhaps between two inexperienced teenagers or a pair of outrageous drunks) which inadvertantly ends up with one person eg biting the others' lip or licking the inside of their nostril.
'Outside El Paralytico's nightclub, inebriated youths flivverred eachother whilst waiting in the taxi queue'
I had to comment on this one because the Flivver is my high school's mascot!
Flivver (v)- to wallow in agonizing indecision over a trivial thing for a very long period of time
i.e. Sally was not about to say she was five hours late for work because she was flivvering about which of her new shoes to wear, so she said she had her car stolen and had to track it down.
(If Word Imp's definition is true, I have a very funny story about flivvers. Maybe I'll post it on my blog.)
Though I've been chided by embarrased wordimp family members (I'm talking BLOOD family) for displaying what they view as my 'unseemly' (though not uncalled for) admiration for the definitions of Brian o' Vretanos--I have to comment on his ensanguinate definition.
It wasn't exactly an ensanguination that eminated from me...more like that horse/pig thing that explodes from both the throat and the nose...and a little too loud for the workplace as well. My co-workers, I'm sure, have become used to unusual chuckling noises from me throughout the day. (And isn't he just the perfect gentleman, on this family site, not to actually tell the joke?)
Sorry, EXsanguinate.
Flivver
I'm a people-watcher. There are times when I see two people walking (it could be kids, adults, a couple, etc) and their strides match step by step, in sync. If you look at them laterally (from the side) you could see two people with only one pair of legs, not two. That's flivver.
Flivver. A sliver on a fly.
The flies buzzing around the sticky paper fly trap kept getting sticky flivvers on their feet. Poor chaps, it is never good for a fly to get a flivver.
Flivver is poor or tasteless flavor. The term started out as "fled flavor", which was reduced to flevver. Flevver sounded too much like flavor, though, so the word was soon changed to the current pronunciation and spelling.
Example: Puzzled by the flivver in the breakfast roll, he studied the list of ingredients and was unable to find anything that he could identify as food.
Stephen from Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
http://stephen-has-spoken.blogspot.com/
Flivver is when the line you have just joined at the supermarket checkout, passport control, cinema, or whatever, stops moving and the line which you have just left, because you it was making no progress at all, zooms forward at amazing speed.
Flivver is a small group of people, classified on any basis, that do not qualify to be described as a minority because there aren't enough of them.
For instance, the number of people who think the world is flat are a flivver and not a minority, because there aren't enough of them.
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