11 definitions by Chuck Hastings

fundamentalist

One who believes that principles are more important than people, or results.

Osama bin Laden
Tomas Torquemada
Jerry Falwell
Meir Kahane
Ted Unabomber

One can be a fundamentalist in any religious or secular creed.

by Chuck Hastings June 28, 2003

gonif

A Hebrew/Yiddish word, often used (and spelled various ways) in English; particularly used in southern California. There is no exact English equivalent word; `operator' is maybe the closest. A gonif operates on the shadowy borders of illegality and/or impropriety, and gets away with it, and is not quite an outright crook. The word seems to combine proper moral disapproval with sneaking admiration. Reference: 'The Joys of Yiddish,' by Leo Rosten.

Seymour was an accomplished and clever gonif. He could con birds out of trees, and could figure out how to game any bureaucratic system within a few minutes.

by Chuck Hastings June 30, 2003

mugwump

A political fence-sitter, who won't come down on either side of the fence and tries to have things both ways. Originally an Algonquin Indian word; used in American politics for more than a century.

He was a mugwump about supporting the Iraq war. He had his mug on one side of that issue, and his wump on the other.

by Chuck Hastings June 30, 2003

bazoofsi

A female breast. Sounds vaguely Persian (pre-Ayatollah),
and more polite than `jug' or `tit' or `boob' or `hooter' or
`knocker.'

She had the biggest pair of bazoofsies in the last five years of
PLAYBOY.

by Chuck Hastings June 28, 2003

yowie

An anthropoid reported from the New South Wales area of Australia, similar to the Pacific Northwest bigfoot/sasquatch and to creatures reported from many regions of Asia.

I saw a yowie down by the river, but after I went and got my camera he was gone.

by Chuck Hastings June 28, 2003

intertwingled

Intertwined in a tangled manner.

John's and Marsha's bodies were passionately intertwingled.

The kitten left my knitting yarns hopelessly intertwingled.

by Chuck Hastings June 28, 2003

nebbish

Originally a Hebrew word, popularized in English by the cartoonist Herb Gardner. A `sad sack,' a loser, a person who can't make any thing or any situation work right for him or her; unassertive, shy, timid. Reference: `The Joys of Yiddish,' by Leo Rosten. His definition is "An innocuous, ineffectual, weak, helpless or hapless unfortunate." There are other spellings also.

The poor little fourth-grader was such a nebbish that she peed in her pants, rather than speaking up and asking the teacher for a hall pass to go to the bathroom.

by Chuck Hastings June 30, 2003