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Uxbridge English Dictionary

krus_aragon

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Phobia - a realy, really strong pint

Dispense - to ridicule the Vice President of the USA
 
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Ah yes.
Plymouth - Better quality than chipboard teeth.

..but inferior quality to a Teignmouth

also

Barnstaple - items used as an alternative to nails in the construction of wooden farm buildings
Wadebridge - a west country term for a ford
Truro - genuine fish eggs
 

Busaholic

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..but inferior quality to a Teignmouth

also

Barnstaple - items used as an alternative to nails in the construction of wooden farm buildings
Wadebridge - a west country term for a ford
Truro - genuine fish eggs
Falmouth - Jim Davidson.
 

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Bideford - old lady’s vehicle.
Newton Abbot - A bit like ‘a frog on a monk’
Boscastle - The chief execs pad.
Mousehole - A rodents, erm. Never mind.
 

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Narcissism - An irrational belief that certain varieties of daffodil are inherently inferior to others
 

61653 HTAFC

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Electron - what Americans did in 1980 and 1984*
Neutron - a mint-in-box copy of a 1980s computer game
Quark - Sound made by a duck from Surrey

Arsenic - Mr. Cage is being a real diva...
Bismuth - to talk rubbish
Tungsten - licking a 9-volt battery
Hydrogen - insider knowledge gained by boat gricers
Nitrogen - as above, but specifically for manually-propelled nocturnal movements

*correction. See below :oops:
 
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bnm

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Oops! Think I was channelling Bush junior... :oops:

Or perhaps you were channeling Bush Snr's VP, Dan Qualye. Another US Republican who wasn't the sharpest tool in the box. He famously 'corrected' an elementary schoolkids spelling of 'potato' by adding a terminal 'e'.
 

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Lion - Not possible when the farmer decides to flail all the hedgerows at 8am on a Sunday morning. Git.
 

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Balustrade - gravel theft
Turpentine - a Newcastle highwayman
Penitentiary - fearful of pasta tubes
Cinematic - transgressions by robots
 

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Enfranchised - when your 2mm scale railway is privatised
 

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Deterred - Cleaned the toilets (removed the turds...)

Deferred - Skinned the cat / dog / rabbit...
 

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