Monday, February 11, 2008
Bottomry
Bottomry is a money lending system. It's particularly to do with ships. The lender loans money to a shipowner so he can make a voyage. The ship is the security. Sadly, if the ship goes down, so does the lender's security. There you go. Your invented meanings, I have to say, were completely and utterly wonderful. I was in awe. And well done to Flamingo for being the best of the best according to the poll votes.
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Bottomry is the imprint left on your bare skin when you have been sitting in a plastic beach chair in shorts or swimsuit.
The bottomry is the lowest rung of a ladder or the beginning of an adventure.
"The young couple began their marriage at the bottomry and continued to grow to the toppery."
Bottomry is the name of a character in a play by Eustace Clutterbuck who was a rival of William Shakespeare. The play was called 'Mid-Winter's Morning Nightmare'.
A very sad effect of field combat in WWI...
You've heard of trench-mouth and trench-foot?
Well...
Bottomry is of course, the list of acceptable answers which men may give to their partner's question, "Does my bottom look big in this skirt/dress etc."
The correct answer depends much upon voice tone, speed of response (think too long and you're done for) and facial expression. Unfortunately, women can always tell when a man is lyeing. The bottomry list is constantly being updated and extends to thirty pages to date.
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Sorry, can't spell lieing or lying let's say fibbing then.
Bottomry, I'm sorry to say is a decidedly puerile office sport played in secret by male staff members who run a weekly poll on their female colleagues for the 'Bottom of the Week' award.
Bottomry is the name given to the variety of life that exists in the deepest depths of the ocean. That lantern fish? He's a bottomry fish.
The bottomry is that part of the armoury where the armour for the lower half of the body is stored.
I have it on good authority that Bottomry is a horticultural term, and is used to contrast with the word Topiary.
Topiary being the sculpting of trees and shrubs and thus.... Bottomry being the act of performing wanton destruction or uglification to a shrub or plant that is aready rather nice looking.
e.g. "The plants had been afflicted by continuous bottomry, and as such were in a terrible state!"
The botomry is the factory where robotic bottoms are made for people who have lost their bottoms in car crashes, skydiving or lyposuction gone bad.
Dear word imp,
I can not vote with the new poll you have, is there something wrong.
Alright, it's going to be hard to top Dancerella but here goes: Bottomry is the tray placed under a clay pot to hold the run off water. It's really quite utilitarian, not all that funny after all.
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