Meaning of Liff: CLATHY to CORFE

(Liff words collected: 550)


CLATHY : (adj.) Nervously indecisive about how safely to dispose of a dead lightbulb.
CLENCHWARTON : (n. archaic) One who assists an exorcist by squeezing whichever part of the possessed the exorcist deems useful.
CLIXBY : (adj.) Politely rude. Bliskly vague. Firmly uninformative.
CLONMULT : (n.) A yellow ooze usually found near secretions of buldoo (q.v.) and sadberge (q.v.).
CLOVIS : (q.v.) One who actually looks forward to putting up the Christmas decorations in the office.
CLUN : (n.) A leg which has gone to sleep and has to be hauled around after you.
CLUNES : (pl.n.) People who just won't go.
CONDOVER : (n.) One who is employed to stand about all day browsing through the magazine racks in the newsagent.
CONG : (n.) Strange-shaped metal utensil found at the back of the saucepan cupboard. Many authorities believe that congs provide conclusive proof of the existence of a now extinct form of yellow vegetable which the Victorians used to boil mercilessly.
CORFE : (n.) An object which is almost totally indistinguishable from a newspaper, the one crucial difference being tat it belongs to somebody else and is unaccountably much more interesting that your own - which may otherwise appear to be in all respects identical. Though it is a rule of life that a train or other public place may contain any number of corfes but only one newspaper, it is quite possible to transform your own perfectly ordinary newspaper into a corfe by the simple expedient of letting somebody else read it.

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