eConsultant - Meaning of Liff

PABBY (n.,vb.) : (Fencing term.) The play, or manoeuvre, where one swordsman leaps on to the table and pulls the battleaxe off the wall.
PANT-Y-WACCO (adj.) : The final state of mind of retired colonel before they come to take him away.
POPCASTLE (n.) : Something drawn or modelled by a small child which you are supposed to know wait it is.
PAPPLE (vb.) : To do what babies do to soup with their spoons.
PAPWORTH EVERARD (n.) : Technical term for the third take of an orgasm scene during the making of a pornographic film.
PEEBLES (pl.n.) : Small, carefully rolled pellets of skegness (q.v.)
PELUTHO (n.) : A South American ball game. The balls are whacked against a brick wall with a stout wooden bat until the prisoner confesses.
PEN-TRE-TAFARN-Y-FEDW (n.) : Welsh word which literally translates as 'leaking-biro-by-the-glass-hole-of-the-clerk-of-the-bank-has-been-taken-to-another-place-leaving-only-the-special-inkwell-and-three- inches-of-tin-chain'.
PEORIA (n.) : The fear of peeling too few potatoes.
PERCYHORNER (n.) : (English public-school slang). A prefect whose duty it is to surprise new boys at the urinal and humiliate them in a manner of his choosing.
PERRANZABULOE (n.) : One of those spray things used to wet ironing with.
PEVENSEY (n. archaic) : The right to collect shingle from the king's foreshore.
PIDDLETRENTHIDE (n.) : A trouser stain caused by a wimbledon (q.v.). Not to be confused with a botley (q.v.)
PIMLICO (n.) : Small odd-shaped piece of plastic or curious metal component found in the bottom of kitchen rummage drawer when spring-cleaning or looking for Sellotape.
PIMPERNE (n.) : One of those rubber nodules found on the underneath side of a lavatory seat.
PITLOCHRY (n.) : The background gurgling noise heard in Wimby Bars caused by people trying to get the last bubbles out of their milkshakes by slurping loudly through their straws.
PITSLIGO (n.) : Part of traditional mating rite. During the first hot day of spring, all the men in the tube start giving up their seats to ladies and straphanging. The purpose of pitsligo is for them to demonstrate their manhood by displaying the wet patches under their arms.
PLEELEY (adj.) : Descriptive of a drunk person's attempt to be endearing.
PLYMOUTH (vb.) : To relate an amusing story to someone without remembering that it was they who told it to you in the first place.
PLYMPTON (n.) : The (pointless) knob on top of a war memorial.
PODE HOLE (n.) : A hole drilled in chipboard lavatory walls by homosexuals for any one of a number of purposes.
POGES (pl.n.) : The lumps of dry powder that remain after cooking a packet soup.
POLBATHIC (adj.) : Gifted with ability to manipulate taps using only the feet.
POLLOCH (n.) : One of those tiny ribbed-plastic and aluminium foil tubs of milk served on trains enabling you to carry one safely back to you compartment where your legs in comfort trying to get the bloody things open.
POLPERRO (n.) : A polperro is the ball, or muff, of soggy hair found clinging to bath overflow-holes.
POONA (n.) : Satisfied grunting noise made when sitting back after a good meal.
POTT SHRIGLEY (n.) : Dried remains of a week-old casserole, eaten when extremely drunk at two a.m.
PUDSEY (n.) : The curious-shaped flat wads of dough left on a kitchen table after someone has been cutting scones out of it.