Monday, October 15, 2007
Huggery
I wish I could say a huggery was something a lot more cuddly than it really is. But I can't. It's really a little boring. It happens when a barrister tries to get a job with an attorney. Something like that anyway. The dictionary meaning was a bit vague. However, the invented meanings were fabulous. I loved them all. And I personally think huggery should get a new meaning. Magdalene's huggery was a big hit with the voters, so that could be it. Well done, Magdalene.
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A huggery is an alternative collective noun for bears.
A huggery is a special place in Tokyo, Japan (where else) where you can go for a hug whenever you're feeling blue. Only 200 yen ;)
Huggery, pronounced "hudgery", is a term used in joinery. It's the process by which all of the parts that aren't quite the right size are made to fit anyway. It's a skill that many buyers of self-assembly furniture could really do with learning (I know I could).
Huggery means the moment when relatives hug each other, before and after they see or have to leave a get-together. But mostly it just means a hugging moment for any reason, even a night-night hug for the kids.
On Christmas, Uncle John and Aunt Amy rounded up the kids, preparing to leave Grandma's house. Instant huggery was given, the children's faces beaming with the attention they were given.
Huggery is the term for the type of over enthusiastic cuddles one receives from an inebriate once they get to the 'You're my best mate' stage of the evening. Can be delivered by total strangers and result in cracked ribs.
A Huggery is a convent for nuns of the Hugenot variety.
They wear yellow habits with red undies.
Lorenzo.
huggery - Although generally assumed to be a collection of Teddy Bears, a huggery is actually a collection of words not found in online or unabridged dictionaries, and therefore assumed not to be true words of the English language. The huggery includes such words as yabba-dabba-do, and huggery. Supercalifragalisticexpialidocious was once part of the grouping of huggery words, but has now found its way into the dictionary. Similarly many words join the huggery for a brief season to emerge into the adulthood of true words - like groovy, but some will become orphaned by the society which birthed them, and forever remain in the huggery.
Huggery /HUH guh ree/ is the near-rapturous state of desire in which an individual is overcome with such a primal urge to abandon all will that the mouth salivates to a point of overflowing the lower lip when the letter 'n' is pronounced…
“Sheila, we baked you a double-fudge brownie chocolate chunk supreme cake to commemorate your first week of fasting!”
“Huh-wha? </swallow> Aaugh… </swallow> …so… </swallow></swallow> …huggery!”
I think Magdalene has got it just right. But here goes:
Huggery Bomphart was the real name of, you guessed it, Humphrey Bogart. His first agent suggested that a slight switching of consonants would give him a more star-worthy name. His family continued to call him Huggery, but made sure to only do it in private so the secret wouldn't get out.
Thanks ever so much for the votes on Fraxinella. It's an honour to share the winners' title with thinks!
First off, I want to know where to buy this marvelous hosiery!
A huggery is a most excellent day care facility where the staff is loving and amiable. They praise and embrace the children to encourage good behavior. Bad behavior is discouraged by sad looks and gentle explanations of why that was bad and what would be a good alternative behavior.
Huggery is the proper term for a toilet paper factory. Some of the most important employees at the huggery are those who test the cushiony softness of the paper.
A "huggery" is a poem generated by cutting up parts of the Bible and rearranging the words, eg:
The daily smite left Noah meek
Whilst Lazarus begat all week
But Sodom made Job sore afraid
And then they all drank Gatorade*
It was popularised in 1646 (that's about quarter to five for all you non-24-hour clock people) by some monk or other, I forget his name.
*NB This may be a mistranslation of "wine"; my Sesame Street My First Bible isn't too hot on translational accuracy.
A Huggery is, quite obviously, a small, moodily lit, bar with pleasant, softly-spoken staff, specially provided for people who have recently had some upset in their lives. Often used by people on their way home from work after a bad day.
to be huggery is to be very untidy
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