The line in a newspaper column that makes the conjecture of the rest of the article seem to be fact.

Swarraton

The particular species of mangled curse words uttered when a very heavy weight lands on a sensitive part and you are too angry to even swear properly.

Clatskanie

If you are knitting, and manage to drop both needles at once in such a way that they drop most or all of the stitches, as a consequence of which the item you are knitting immediately becomes unravelled into several long strings of thread and forces you to start again from the beginning, you are said to have committed a "clatskanie".

Kirkuk

The Russian name for the polo mint, as polo means something rather rude in Russian.

Shifnal

The way a perfectly innocent person looks when taking part in a police identity parade.

Culbokie

A small bird not unlike a sparrow, but with the ant-like ability to lift a hundred times its own body weight. It is not known how this is accomplished, but it is used by the bird to make secure mountain nesting sites burrowing into a hillside then placing a huge boulder in front of the hole.

The creature is becoming a pest since it started to make nests in multistorey car parks which closely resemble its mountain home in bleakness and the availability of boulders (also known as "cars").

Killarney

Californian liberal's view of Schwarzenegger.

Andover