Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Scammony
Scammony is actually an Asian plant which yields a gum resin used as a "drastic purgative". Scary. Your meanings were slightly less frigtening, but I still don't have a poll so I can't get people to vote. However, I would have chosen these three for the poll: Scriptor Senex, Empath and Chris.
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Scammony is a North of England dish consisting of potatoes, some form of left-over meat, vegetrable stock and any other left-overs that come to hand. Accordingly, it never tastes the same twice. Nobody makes scammony like my mother used to make it!
Perhaps we need a new word, because I was coming in here to say that it's a kind of stir-up of all the leftovers. Either we're right and the word is Jungian-deep, or I need another definition. Or both.
When someone marries illegally, and it was all a sham, just to leave and try to get part of the money as alimony, the courts will try to retrieve the ill-gotten gain, and the slang term for it in the legal profession is "scammony."
Rarely heard nowadays, scammony is where two or more jazz singers scat sing in harmony. 'Doo diddly doo wat dum a lam bam skiddly wow kazam...'sort of thing.
I wonder if anyone singing a cover version has to copy the exact lyrics?
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Scammony is the word you use to describe a thoroughly unconvincing lie.
"I was - I was fishing for milk bottles," he blabbered uncomfortably, obviously aware that we had easily spotted the scammomy fib.
Scammony is a delicious Italian meat dish that includes tenderized lamb, beef, and chicken combined in a savoury sauce and placed in a cassarole mix of potato and cheese.
Yum! Yum! Pass the Scammony
Most everyone on the wrong side of the law knows that the highest levels of scammony are achieved when all the cons, flimflammers, and shady dealers involved can put aside their differences for that one great heist that will make them all rich (they try to avoid fame - notoriety - out of obvious career considerations).
The opposite of a truly scammonious hustle is a complete bungle known as the dreaded 'cacophscammy' where all the sheisters who are nominally in cahoots secretly try to out-dupe each other as well and the larger deception comes crashing down in a complete jumble, each man mumbling harshly to himself about getting double-crossed by the others, each rip-off artist generally ending up behind bars writing ugly notes to comrades, lacking eloquence or even suspecting the many double-entendres serendipitously woven amongst their words.
"The most scammonious snow jobs are never discovered, of course, which is just music to the ears of the true, seasoned swindler. To keep one's entire racket completely beneath notice requires all the subtle counterpoint of a fine symphonic fugue, and becomes the goal itself to a true connoisseur of the black art of fraud. The monetary (or other) rewards are simply icing on the cake, a nice after-performance glass of sherry or a refreshing mint."
Scammony (n., colloq.): the sermon held on Septuagesima Sunday
Scammony is a region of Ireland where it is said that the leprechauns are particularly tricky.
Stephen from Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
http://stephen-has-spoken.blogspot.com/
Scammony and Jypps, attorneys at law - serving our community for way over a year. A company you can trust!
Scammony is the game little children play in the playground at school. It's a bit like hopscotch except instead of using stones to kick about you use a small ball, and instead of a grid of squares, there is a series of circles.
Lorenzo.
The scammony is the green scum on the side of fish tanks. It is caused by a scum sickness on the fish, in the tank.
Scammony is a Scandanavian dish made out of mashed sheeps eyes. We stole the sheep on one of our pillaging trips.
Scammony is a Scandanavian dish made out of mashed sheeps eyes. We stole the sheep on one of our pillaging trips.
Scammony(n): A matrimonial agreement that allows partners to walk out of a married life without the formality of divorce.
a middle english prayer for prosperity
it goes like this:
"ur faether wic arth en heffnum
gyvys momonie
we dun spen tall we bengivn"
the monks of the mountain usually sing it in a respectful gregorian style chant. but when times are scarce, they speed it up to the tune of "magic carpet ride" by steppenwolf.
I think Scammony is an ancient dialect spoken in the north of Ireland, consisting mostly of clicks, hoots, whistles, hacking noises, and moans. It had no written form and fast became obsolete due to it's difficulty to even say, let alone speak.
When insurance investigators uncover fraudulent claims they are called 'scammonies'. There is a healthy rivalry amongst these professionals who compete to see who can uncover the most scammonies each month.
Scammony is a collective term for the most heinous sins against humanity. Amongst them are pouring the tea in the cup BEFORE the milk, taking a biscuit BEFORE offering them to others, passing the port around the table to the right, using the wrong knife for fish dishes, eating soup from the side of the bowl closest to you, etc, etc. The punishment for a scammony is social cutting.
If you had a poll, I'd vote for Scriptor Senex, who had the right definition (not that "Asian plant blah gum resin blah "drastic purgative" thing which was CLEARLY made up to make us laugh).
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