gnostic3's definitions

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

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

racers

n. People with an interest in reducing racism and related injustices.

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Racers are out to change the world and build a new, just, reality.

by gnostic3 June 6, 2020

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

exconerated

v. Declared not-guilty, despite yor obvious guilt, by a cadre of supporters.

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I hope to buy my way out of this mess. I will appoint my own judge and be exconerated by Tuesday.

by gnostic3 February 1, 2020

fringer

n. Theatre enthusiast willing to endure numerous hard benches and enthusiastic presentations of confused mayhem in the search for one nugget of magic

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I am going to the Fringe Theatre Festival this weekend. This is the year that being a fringer pays off.

You say that every year.

by gnostic3 August 7, 2019

frugalitarian

n. Person who is careful with his money, but not cheap or miserly, despite what people say.

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You still wearing those ratty shoes you bought at the thrift shop. What a cheapskate.

You will never understand the philosophy of the frugalitarian.

That is my hope.

by gnostic3 November 11, 2019