An old favourite from the Douglas Adams stable, well-known to anyone familiar with Pants MC. The game of giving dictionary definitions to place names. Please define the place provided by the previous player, and then post one of your own.
One of the two sides (the other being called Tissnington) in a dispute that has degenerated into exchanges of "Tis!" and "Tisn't!" Hansard, 6 December 1878: "Uproar in the House, followed by Tissington-Tissnington that continued for fully twenty minutes."
Trade jargon, referring to the price of bulk industrial chemicals, eg methanol is about £200 Purton. (Softers) 'Oo's this noe, then? Noe needs to know. :-)
A cock-up, a hash, a pig's breakfast, as in, "You made a right Blunsdon of that, didn't you?" Also, the act of removing with extreme prejudice the person responsible for such an event, or a person marked for such removal. The word comes from Viscount Blunsdon, eldest son of Lord Cox-Bramley, who, rightly fearing that his heir lacked the business acumen to manage the family estates at such time as he might inherit, attempted to train him up by setting him to such tasks as managing the piggery, inspecting the drains, and collecting rent from the tenant farmers, but he displayed a complete lack of competence and initiative at everything his hand was set to. It was during the last of these appointments that he met an untimely end at the bottom of a well. Foul play was never proved, Lord Cox-Bramley's more industrious second son took his place in the line of succession, and everyone was satisfied.
A new development of small fields built on a grid layout for race horses which will be available as soon as the unsightly houses on the site can be demolished
Named after the famous revolutionary meaning "The place where terrorism is carried out" The final truncation being largely due to the slurring applied by George Dubya
Someone who gives directions in terms of compass points, disregarding the existence of walls, buildings, railway lines, rivers, oceans, and all the other obstructions in the places where the roads aren't, that make it a physical impossibility to "go west for a few miles, then bear north, and you can't miss it".
A town-twinning arrangement that absolutely nobody cares about, not even the town councillors who performed the ritual. (From Böthen, a stereotypical name of a small village in Germany, and Hampton, the same in England.)
Someone who heckles and, as the Scots would say, has his gas put on a peep by the wit of the performer's response, is said to be heckmondwyke. Etymologically, there is buried in the history of the expression a derogatory reference to oral sex.
A "snymer" (to suggest its correct pronunciation) is someone who delights in vexing other people by having a surname that no-one can spell from hearing it.