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Old 10-10-2007, 01:38 AM   #1 (permalink)
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New words in the dictionary

Oxford dictionary has added some new words. Can people guess what these mean (and no cheating by looking them up):
  1. bahookie
  2. crunk
  3. radge
  4. shoulder-surfing
  5. yogalates
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Old 10-10-2007, 01:41 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Oxford dictionary has added some new words. Can people guess what these mean (and no cheating by looking them up):
  1. bahookie
  2. crunk
  3. radge
  4. shoulder-surfing
  5. yogalates
Bar/Pub games?
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Old 10-10-2007, 01:59 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Nope...but I think Morse & Lee may recognise a couple
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Old 10-10-2007, 02:20 AM   #4 (permalink)
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Nope...but I think Morse & Lee may recognise a couple
Is 4 an onlooker whilst somebody is on the net?
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"You were given the choice between war and dishonor.
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(Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.)

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Old 10-10-2007, 02:23 AM   #5 (permalink)
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Is 4 an onlooker whilst somebody is on the net?
Close - right idea but where else would someone try to look over your shoulder?
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Close - right idea but where else would someone try to look over your shoulder?
Oh I could..................but I won't!
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"You were given the choice between war and dishonor.
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Spidge, Kitty is definately going to have to have a quiet word with you

Discipline has been very lax since she started back at school
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Spidge, Kitty is definately going to have to have a quiet word with you

Discipline has been very lax since she started back at school
I am respectful of her absence!
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Pfft!

I expect a shoulder-surfer is someone looking over your shoulder at a cash point.

And i think yogalates is something to do with yoga/pilates.

The rest I have not a scooby.
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OK, another one on the list:

Scooby?

And Kitty got her two correct
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