gnostic3's definitions

double toque day

n. Freezing cold winter day.

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She looks like a double toque day there all right. I can’t feel my knees.

by gnostic3 December 26, 2021

summer whine

n. A brief expected recurring Canadian complaint about the brevity of the snow-free season.

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Whenever Pierre dusts the snow off his mittens in early June you can expect a summer whine.

by gnostic3 June 27, 2022

pringle

v. To twist, shrivel, or bend from a flat uniform discoid shape into something resembling a deformed potato chip.

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Am I seeing this right! Tell me you did not just pringle my bicycle wheel!

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Jen’s umbilical hernia recurred when her mesh pringled due to a chronic Yersinia infection.

by gnostic3 February 4, 2019

skidboard

n. Skateboard with the wheels ripped off. Used on icy streets, railings etc in Canada during winter.

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Dude! Radical skidboard you got there, eh. Gnarly undercarriage remnants. Would you go downhill faster if you just bought a snowboard?

Leave me alone mom.

by gnostic3 December 28, 2022

jaggering

v. Chaotically lunging about a stage trying to recreate the magic of the past. Done by aging singers, politicians, tycoons etc.

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Why are Trump and Biden still jaggering? Give it a rest men.

by gnostic3 May 11, 2024

ho hummish

adj. Moderately bleak state of being. Similar to eeyoriffic but not so gloomy.

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I don't think I’ll go out tonight. I feel a bit ho hummish.

by gnostic3 December 21, 2017

resectomy

n. An operation during which something important is removed, but it is not clear, because of infection, scarring or malignant destruction, which organ has been excised.

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You look tired doctor.

Yeah, I was up all night operating.

What operation?

Well... don't really know. Kind of a resectomy. But I think we got it all.

by gnostic3 February 14, 2019