Words we do not the meaning of and can't be arsed to look up

[Parson Henry]

Can anyone help with these?

Shambolic?

Quango?

Nomenclature?

 

[Brighton Breezy]

Shambolic is just a variation of shambles.

If Brighton played badly and were a shambles, you could say 'Brighton's peformance was shambolic'.

 

[Brighton Breezy]

Quango?

Quasi

Autonomous

Non

Government

Organisation

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Quango is a fizzy drink

 

[Hampden Park]

Quango is a fizzy drink

they drink it in the congo

 

[Parson Henry]

Quango?

Quasi

Autonomous

Non

Government

Organisation

Which means exactly what?

 

[bhaexpress]

Zeitgiest (is that how you spell it ?) Hear and read it all the time but what is it exactly ?

 

[Parson Henry]

Some more.

Paraclete


Seraphim


Cherubim

 

[Brighton Breezy]

Which means exactly what?

A quango is an organization which is established by a government to consider a subject of public importance, but which is independent from the government.

 

[Da Man Clay]

they drink it in the congo

um bongo?

 

[Titanic]

 

[On the Left Wing]

Oxymoron

A highly ventilated yob?

 

[Gwylan]

Zeitgeist is literally the spirit of the age, the cultural signifiers of that particularly time. Eg Free love fitted with the zeitgeist of the 60s.

Cherubim and seraphim are types of angels,

Paraclete is a posh term for the Holy Ghost.

 

[Parson Henry]

Zeitgeist is literally the spirit of the age, the cultural signifiers of that particularly time. Eg Free love fitted with the zeitgeist of the 60s.

Cherubim and seraphim are types of angels,

Paraclete is a posh term for the Holy Ghost.

Thanks Gwyllie. I thought Paraclete was something you used to seal gaps between the bath and the tiles.

 

[On the Left Wing]

I thought fellatio was an opera by Verdi

 

[Parson Henry]

i thought it was a chant when an opposing player tripped up...eee fell a tio!

 

[Le Premier Cru]

Nomenclature - Jargon/terminology used in a particular science, art, etc., like (to use one of Lord B's examples) traffic management.

Can we invent words? There really should be a no'women'clature.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Hegemony.

Pedagogic.

Autochthonous.

 

[West Hoathly Seagull]

Vicarious (has nothing to do with vicars)
Contemporaneous
Thyristor
Oliagenous (sp?)

Virtually every word used by Mr White during the enquiry.

 

[Bigtomfu]

Autochthonous.

A geological term used to describe the material above a thrust fault plane which during times of deviatoric stress moves over the stationary material beneath the fault plane- this is known as the allocthonous material.