Meaning of Liff: TULSA to TYNE and WEAR

(Liff words collected: 550)


TULSA : (n.) A slurp of beer which has accidentally gone down your shirt collar.
TUMBY : (n.) The involuntary abdominal gurgling which fills the silence following someone else's intimate personal revelation.
TWEEDSMUIR : (collective n.) The name given to the extensive collection of hats kept in the downstairs lavatory which don't fit anyone in the family.
TWEMLOW GREEN : (n.) The colour of some of Nigel Rees's trousers, worn in the mistaken belief that they go rather well with his sproston green (q.v.) jackets.
TWOMILEBORRIS : (n.) A popular Ease European outdoor game in which the first person to reach the front of the meat queue wins, and the losers have to forfeit their bath plugs.
TYNE and WEAR : (nouns) The 'Tyne' is the small priceless or vital object accidentally dropped on the floor (e.g. diamond tieclip, contact lens) and the 'wear' is the large immovable object (e.g. Welsh dresser, car-crusher) that it shelters under.





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