Thursday, October 25, 2007
Jequirity
Oddly enough, jequirity is an Indian shrub! Its seeds are used for ornamental and medicinal purposes. We were all well and truly fooled by that one. Loved your meanings as usual. Its amazing how many original meanings we can come up with, each and every day. The power of the human mind and all that, I guess. And one of our clever word imps has won at the poll again today. Congratulations, Brian O Vretanos!
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Jequirity refers to the mad joy that erupts in children having a water fight. Cheeky, giggling squirts with a waterpistol soon lead to begging parents for the hosepipe to be turned on, and chasing one another with buckets of water to the accompaniment of loud shrieking. Jequirity inevitably leads to cross mothers being forced to re-wash the laundry that they just hung out to dry.
A jequirity is a blessing, a curse, or a prayer which goes desperately wrong, or misses the intended mark.
Cupid pulled back the bow string, and let the arrow fly, and gasped in horror when the beautiful long-haired maiden turned around sporting an 18 inch beard. Butch and Harry have been married for 10 years now. Nobody is quite sure how to make sense of it - except Cupid who has remained strangely quiet about the affair.
Of course this refers to types of computer keyboard. A jequerity keyboard is one that has nearly all the keys in the place you expect them. All that is except the ampersand, forward slash or some other darned key you need a lot which has been secreted in your blind spot.
This is a relatively new term to the lexicon. One of the many that owes its origin to the Harry Potter craze. Jequirity occurs when one thinks he or she is Professor Quirrel. Je (the french "I") am Quirrill.
Jequirity is the tongue in a pair of ice skates; the condition of the jequire after wear that causes it to slip into the shoe while skating. The leather becomes soft and wrinkled.
James, the reigning Iowa state champion in men's figure skating, twisted his ankle in Sunday's competition due to jequirity. "My jequire slipped when I made the final jump," he told reporters, while realizing his Olympic goals were dashed. Jequidity is one of those risks you take in this sport.
Jequirity is the expression made by a guilty person trying to look innocent, as in "Who, Me?"
"I could have sworn I put the rest of yesterday's cake in the fridge", said Lucy.
"Maybe the kids ate it.", said her husband, but his look of jequirity told her otherwise.
Jequerity (n)- the art of pulling the most unthinkably annoying, totally untraceable pranks, a skill acquired through much practice and study. Very useful on April Fool's Day, or when one is just mad at somebody.
(thanks for the votes on pittite, everyone! I'm so amazed I won!)
Jequirity. n. The act of enjoying a party whilst remaining sober. Unlike sobriety it is a happy state of affairs. Unlike drunkenness it's only effect the next morning is a slightly amused smile around the corners of the mouth.
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