In March 2006 I submitted a bunch of UED definitions, as heard on the wonderful "I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue", to the BBC Radio 4 online message boards.
For no other reason than sheer vanity and self-promotion, I reproduce them here to show you just how bloody clever I am.
Solace: a really good gospel singer
Diversion: Welsh-language edition
Inspector: a member of a villainous, world-threatening organisation
Incorrigible: egg-on a male cow
Anagram: a stripper dressed as the Princess Royal
Sublime: a member of the citrus underclass
Intestate: survived test seven
Pomegranate: stone used to build the Australian Embassy in London
Syllabus: Scouse public transport
Indignation: everyone living like students
Catastrophe: prize-winning moggie
Indispensible: winner of One Man and his Cow
Yom Kippur: Jewish festival of the smoked herring
Valuable: bovine pricing
Pheromone: King of Egypt complaining
Prawn: a Geordie lying down
Vulcanised: gone pointy-eared
Flamboyant: floating candle
Uncanny: removed from its tin
Eulogy: a Christmas horse
Phlegmatic: having a head-cold
Ecstatic: moving
Implode: a bunch of goblins
Vagabond: shares in vagrants
Toulouse Lautrec: a long walk to the toilet
Atlas: bare-headed
Vagrant: a moan about nothing in particular
Diatribe: second-rate clan
Sofa: you're dumped!
Morning: Geordie complaints
Lift: on a Parade gound, the opposite of "rate"
Content: a fake marquee
That was then. I'm still at it thanks to a recent thread on Twitter (which didn't exist back then...).
incline: what a pen leaves
wok: Jonathan Ross's favourite kind of music
antipasti: down with Ginster's!
extractor fan: a former admirer of farm machinery
late: not heavy
effigy: how to spell "feg"
Thursday 12 August 2010
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