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hey ur getting all of these from dictionary.com its just theyre word of the day

Yep. I'm not going to look all this crap up.

I think that you'll have fun with this one. Here goes:

c u m \KUM; KUHM\, preposition: With; along with; combined with; -- often used in combination. C u m is from the Latin c u m, "with."


Fixed it so that the autocensor didn't replace it.

Shortination

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FLONKING

An English pub game.

When summer comes or charity fund-raising is involved, English pub games often veer from mere eccentricity towards total lunacy. These are the days of marrow dangling, passing the splod, Portuguese sardine racing, conger cuddling, rhubarb thrashing, and dwile flonking.

The game is officially played by two teams of twelve players, though there is great flexibility in numbers (the terminology and rules also vary from place to place). The fielding team gathers in a circle, called a girter, enclosing a member of the other team, the flonker. He holds a broom handle (usually called the driveller), on top of which is a beer-soaked rag, the dwile or dwyle.

At a signal, the girter dances around the flonker in a circle. He must flick (or flonk) the dwile with the driveller so it hits a girter team member. His score depends on which part of the body he hits—the usual scoring is three points for a hit on the head (a wanton), two for a hit on the body, (a marther), and just one for a leg strike (a ripple). If after two shots the flonker hasn’t scored he is swadged, or potted, which means he has to drink a quantity of beer from a chamber pot within a given time. After all the members of one team have flonked, the other team is put in. The winner is the team with the most points after two innings, usually the one with more members still upright.

Since today is All Hallow's Eve [Halloween], I thought I'd add these to the list.

wraith \RAYTH\, noun: 1. An apparition of a living person seen before death; hence, an apparition; a specter; a ghost. 2. A shadowy or insubstantial form, appearance, or representation of something. Wraith is from Scottish warth, probably originally "a guardian angel, hence a person's ghost seen -- as a warning or means of protection -- immediately before death, hence any apparition," from Old Norse vörthr, "watcher, guardian."

ghoul \gool\, noun: 1. One who delights in the revolting, morbid, or loathsome. 2. A grave robber. 3. An evil spirit or demon in Muslim folklore believed to plunder graves and feed on corpses.

vampire \VAM pir\, noun: 1. A reanimated corpse that is believed to rise from the grave at night to suck the blood of sleeping people. 2. A person, such as an extortionist, who preys upon others. 3. A vampire bat.

ghost \gost\, noun: 1. The spirit of a dead person, especially one believed to appear in bodily likeness to living persons or to haunt former habitats. 2. The center of spiritual life; the soul. 3. A demon or spirit. 4. A returning or haunting memory or image. 5a. A slight or faint trace: just a ghost of a smile. 5b. The tiniest bit: not a ghost of a chance. 6. A faint, false image, as: a. A secondary image on a television or radar screen caused by reflected waves. b. A displaced image in a photograph caused by the optical system of the camera. c. A false spectral line caused by imperfections in the diffraction grating. d. A displaced image in a mirror caused by reflection from the front of the glass.

hob·gob·lin \HOB gob lin\, noun: 1. An ugly, mischievous elf or goblin. 2. An object or a source of fear, dread, or harassment; a bugbear. 3. A frightful goblin; an imp; a bugaboo; also, a name formerly given to the household spirit.

goblin \GOB lin\, noun: 1. A grotesque elfin creature of folklore, thought to work mischief or evil. 2. An evil or mischievous spirit; a playful or malicious elf; a frightful phantom; a gnome.