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darning needle
[Louisiana] dragonfly
dead, euphemisms for
carked it; doing the dirt dance; joined the choir invisible; left this
mortal coil; pushing up daisies; six feet under; snuffed
def
1: -adj- [perhaps elliptical from definately (good, etc.) - Eric
Partridge] excellent; admirable. When Danny [a young graffiti artist
in N. London] speaks approvingly of certain lettering he says it is
def. A great piece is a "burner". Poor work is "toy". Someone who
copies another's style is a "biter". [Guardian, 14 Oct 1987]
deficate, euphemisms for
bake a brownie, a loaf; bomb the Bowl; choke a brownie, a darkie; chop a
log; cook a butt burrito, some chocolate, some fudge; crap; curl some
pipe; disembowel; do the Royal Squat; download some brownware; draw mud;
drop; drop anchor, a bomb, a dookie, the kids off at the lake, a load,
wolf bait, your ordinance; dump; dump a stump; enjoy a meatball
sandwich; feed the fish; give birth to a (name of rival); hatch a new
(name of rival); have a shit; heave a Havana; hit paydirt; launch a
torpedo; lay a brick, a log, some cable; load the crapper; make a
deposit, a log entry, mud, room for lunch, some fertilizer; offload some
freight; pack your underwear; paint with the brown stuff; park some
bark, your breakfast; pinch a loaf; poke the turtle's head out; poop;
put fruit in the bowl; recycle fiber; release your payload; ride the
hoop; seek revenge for the brown bomber; shake a brown bomber; shit;
sink a link, the Bismark; sit on the bowl, the can, the throne; snap a
log; spray and wipe; squat; squeeze a coily; squeeze a loaf; squeeze one
out; taint the cloth; take a dump, a growler, a load off your mind, a
shit, a steamer; test the plumbing; zap the porcelain
devil strip
[1995, Akron, OH] median strip
diarrhea, euphemisms for
agent brown; anal hot chocolate; aztec two-step; brownie batter; bud
mud; bum gravy; chocolate splat, ~ surprise, ~ syrup explosion;
the chunky
sputters; drippy doo-doo; Hershey squirts; liquid bummer, ~ doo,
~ Satan, ~ shit; lubricant; Montezuma's revenge; Reagan's revenge;
rectal hot chocolate, ~ soup; the runs; the schlitz; Shilshul [NFI];
the shits; Spam;
the squirts; the trots; trouser chili; upside-down hot fudge sundae
To suffer diarrhea:
brew some hot chocolate; cook some hot fudge;
percolating butt coffee; piss rusty water out your ass; shit a flock of
sparrows
dickskinner
euphemism for an arm or hand; The teachers asked a question, and he
waved his dickskinner in the air.
dime
see dropped a dime
dingleberry
-n- fesces stuck between buttocks;
synonym winnet (Brit)
dinner
Dinner has a complex effective definition in American English.
Dinner is the main meal of the day. If you eat dinner at noon, as
farmers do and many others do on Sunday, then you eat supper in the
evening. If you eat dinner in the evening, then you eat lunch at noon.
-Frank Palmer, FIDO Words conference, Jan 96
Not in my home . . . my wife and I both eat lunch at noon; in the
evening she eats dinner but I eat supper. When I was growing up the
evening meal was supper, not only for farmers but for almost everyone.
Wife is ten years younger.
-Bob Donahue, FIDO Words conference, Jan 96
When I was growing up, I remember the names changing as we moved.
When I lived in Charlotte (ages 2-5, and I don't remember what terms
were used before then), the three meals were breakfast, lunch, and
supper. When we moved to the D.C. area (ages 5-8), it became breakfast,
lunch, and dinner. When we moved to Goldsboro, NC, the breakfast, lunch,
dinner pattern stuck. Some of my relatives who have lived in Goldsboro
all their life, however, eat breakfast, dinner, and supper. -Scott
Rhodes, FIDO Words conference, Jan 96
dis, dissing
-vt- to show disrespect; All you do is dis me.
dog
It takes a big dog to weigh a ton.
Used in context to mean, it takes a strong person to handle
the situation, ~ to admit a mistake
dogpile
people dogpile when many jump on top of one,
sometimes as a form of horseplay, sometimes as punishment
see also pink belly
DOLE
Tehran (Reuter) - For the past few weeks, the behind the doors
discussion at many Iranian newspaper and magazine publishing outfits
seems to be revolving not around political, social and economic issues,
but the spelling of Bob Dole's name instead. It turns out that the
proper spelling of the Republican Party's likely nominee, Dole, is
exactly the same as that of the word penis in Persian. ``At first it
might seem funny to some people, but it's creating a serious issue for
us. How can we write headlines using that word?,'' said Majid Fanni, a
prepress specialist at a Tehran service bureau.
Professor Hassan Khadem, a Persian literature lecturer at New York
University added ``It's actually not a real problem. In Persian,
certain vowels are optional. [Therefore] they could write his name a
couple of different ways to avoid the ambiguity. But for an exact
pronunciation, 'Dowl' as opposed to 'Dol', well, they'd have to spell it
that way.'' Fanni explained ``It's not easy. In print, especially for
headlines, we don't use [optional] vowel symbols. Because of that, his
name can be read in that way.''
International organizations are quite familiar and cognizant of these
types of issues. General Motors for example, spends over 300,000
dollars a year just researching car names to make sure they are not
trade marked, as well as being acceptable in foreign countries.
Ali Zarkoob, a grade school teacher in Western Tehran said ``I'm sure
kids will find it very funny. The humor magazines will probably go
crazy over it too.'' A columnist for Tehran's Hamshahri daily who
requested to remain anonymous stated ``It's a real problem that no one
wants to face. Think about it. What should we write if he wins?
'Clinton loses Presidency'? That's not right. 'Penis wins US Presidency'
isn't exactly acceptable either.' - FIDO Funny conference, May 96
don't touch your moustache
thank you; heard 1987 from people stationed at Misawa Air Base,
from the similarity to the Japanese phrase, which sounds like
doe E tash A mosh teh
doof
-n- [Berlin, GE, 1990] silly or stupid person
dookie
-n- feces
doolie
recruit at the US Air Force Academy
dope
-adj- [1990- ] clever, knowledgeable, smart;
He's dope, he knows how to dress;
I know every burp and fart they make; I'm dope.
dork
1: an unpopular or repellant person; adj dorky;
syn creep, nerd
2: penis; compare putz
drabbing (Hamlet, Act II Sc I)
associating with sluts [Greenwich House Annotated Shakespeare]
dropped a dime
[refers to the cost of a call on a payphone] turn somebody over to the
police, usually used disparagingly; You think I'd drop a dime on him?
[Eddie Murphy, 48 Hours];
also heard dropped a big dime on me for emphasis;
compare with the nickel dropped
drunk, euphemisms for
blitzed; in the grip of the grape; soft;
spifflicated [R.Chandler, The Long Good-Bye,
1953]; stinko
D.S.L.s
Dick Sucking Lips
duck
-n- a snob; a conceited, stuck-up female
dunny
[Australian] toilet
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