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Anglesey (n)
The sound made by a creaking staircase when someone climbs slowly and carefully.
(Arnaud) |
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Bayswater (n)
The fact of going into the bathroom with new, clean socks on, and stupidly putting one's foot onto spilt water.
(Aziza) |
Balcrass (v)
To listen to music very, very loud.
(Inès) |
Berletter (v)
To colour inside every letter of a word, a sentence or a text by need or through boredom. When I am thinking, I berletter my test sheet, which sometimes causes trouble with the teacher.
(Océane) |
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Biderwick (n)
The habit of undoing one's jeans after eating a lot.
(Hafid) |
Blackum (n)
Chewing-gum which people throw on the ground and which in days becomes part of the road surface.
(Mohamed) |
Breadness (n)
The fact of eating less than other people.
(Éloge) |
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Bridly (adj)
Descriptive of a person who has a bad mark at the first lesson on the Monday morning.
(Eugénie) |
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Camden (n)
The smell of toast.
(Julie) |
Chichester (n)
Someone who pretends to listen but is doing something else.
(Arnaud) |
Chigging (adj)
Descriptive of someone who does not have an ink cartridge just when the teacher says "Take a sheet of paper".
(Eugénie) |
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Chloor (v)
To rub a chair on the floor when sitting on it; usually occurs when someone is too lazy to lift the chair up instead of dragging it along the floor just to move two inches further.
(Mohamed) |
Cookham (n)
A child who sucks his/her thumb.
(Émilie) |
Crydy (adj)
Someone who is crydy does not cry at a funeral.
(Eugénie) |
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Cutclow (v)
[Pret: cutclew; ptp: cutclowen]
To cut one's chewing-gum in two halves when the teacher tells one to put it in the bin, then throw away one half and keep the other half in one's mouth.
(Hafid) |
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Debden
1 (v) To take the trolley that squeaks.
2 (n) The squeaking trolley among one hundred at your local supermarket.
(Aziza) |
Dover (n)
Someone wearing sunglasses when there is no sunshine.
(Florian) |
Drax (v)
To love something because other people love it.
(Éloge) |
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Dulwich (v)
To read a word or a sentence ten times and have a feeling of déjà vu but not to be able to remember having read it before.
(Charlotte) |
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Ench (n)
The English accent as spoken by French people.
(Mohamed) |
Exeter (n)
Someone who stubbornly does things at their own, exasperatingly slow, speed though everyone around is in a hurry.
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Geekton (v)
To wear one's clothes inside out through absent-mindedness.
(Émilie) |
Gelruff (n)
The white particles gel leaves on the hair when it is overused.
(Mohamed) |
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Halbury (n)
The mysterious hole in your sock. A halbury usually appears when no other clean socks are available.
(Inès) |
Hornesh (v)
To draw geometrical or intricate patterns absent-mindedly while talking onthe phone.
Horneshing usually turns to worplesdonning*.
(Mr B) |
Howden (v)
To know something is going to happen because you have dreamt of it.
(Éloge) |
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Kewham (n)
A book used to give lines for pupils to copy as a form of punishment.
(Inès) |
Kilburn (n)
The thin layer of yogurt on the yogurt jug.
(Léna) |
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Lacock (n)
The litter left by the class that took place before your own lesson.
(Florian) |
Leger (n)
Kind of people who bend both legs at intervals when they are standing.
(Adil) |
Lenzancer (n)
Person who takes the parking space you were going to take.
(Julie) |
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Lewisham (adj)
Descriptive of a person who wears very large clothes. Adv.: Lewishamly.
(Julie) |
Lindon (n)
The label around a felt-tip pen.
(Inès) |
Liskeard (n)
The overburnt, blackened part of a cake.
(Éloge) |
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Llafair (v)
(Of a classroom) To have the nauseating smell left by a group of schoolchildren.
(Vanille) |
Llanfey (v)
To eat without appetite.
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Malden (n)
The sound of the rain on the window.
(Julie) |
Meldunbush (adj)
Descriptive of the feeling of well-being after getting rid of a strong urinary desire.
(Adil) |
Modworded (adj)
(Of a person) Who knows a word exists, but cannot manage to remember it.
Adv.: modwordedly. "Er... er...", he said modwordedly.
(Océane) |
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Otley (n)
The circular mark left by a heavy dish on a plastic tablecloth.
(Vanille) |
Overness (n)
The fact that the T-shirt label juts out from the T-shirt.
Phrase: to have (the) overness.
(Léna) |
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Pendness (n)
The fact of carrying a rucksack or schoolbag very low.
(Julie) |
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Stapleton (n)
The sound of the wipers on the windscreen, especially when they are getting old.
(Julie) |
Stepney (n)
To look for a word that does not exist.
(Charlotte) |
Swindon (n)
A piece of food, especially a vividly coloured one, that is stuck between two teeth in a visible place.
"The Duchess, fascinated by the recurring flashes of multiple swindon in the General's smiling false teeth, felt she was going to be sick on his uniform" (Dick Charlens).
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Swindoned (adj)
(Of a person) Affected by swindon*.
(Of a mouth) Containing a or several swindon(s)*.
(Swindonned is a usually accepted alternative spelling.)
(Mr B ) |
Swindoning (adj)
(Of food) Which is likely to leave swindon(s)* in people's mouths.
(Swindonning is a usually accepted alternative spelling.)
(Mr B ) |
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Taroupe (n)
A person with joining eyebrows.
(Émilie) |
Taunton (v)
To do two things at the same time, failing to do the first thing properly.
(Arnaud) |
Tencham (n)
The trip children take to go to school.
(Florian) |
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Thirsk (v)
To keep looking at one's new clothes.
(Éloge) |
Trickslock (v)
To repeatedly twist and untwist a lock of one's hair around one's forefinger in an absent-minded way.
By extension, to do any such movement in one's hair with any finger.
"The exam room was filled with the rustling of permed hair being feverishly trickslocked as the candidates were frowning over the subtleties of the secretary recruitement ability test." (Homer Sholkells)
(Mr B) |
Trill (n)
'The smallest room in a house apart from the toilet. Usually, the bathroom is the trill.
(Éloge) |
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Trocten (v)
To insist to stand though there are chairs.
Adv.: trocteningly.
(Mehdi) |
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Vauxhall (v)
To go to a trading or public place (eg supermarket, library, post-office) on closing day.
(Aziza) |
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Westdall (n)
Someone who uses platform shoes to look taller.
(Inès) |
Windchard (n)
The habit of chewing on pens when their owner does not know the answers to the questions when sitting a test.
To windchardize a pen / pencil.
(Hafid) |
Worplesdon (v)
To become totally absorbed in a useless, uninteresting activity (such as watching one's fingernails, scribbling or horneshing*) carried on while listening to something important.
(Mr B) |
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Yarm (adj)
Too loud to be well understood.
(Éloge) |
Yeovil (n)
Someone who hates drinking from someone else's glass (or, more generally, dreads using previously used cuttlery, plates, etc.).
(Pauline) |
Yorell (v)
To speak to say nothing of interest.
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