The Deeper Meaning of Liff - Douglas Adams [48]
wounds
doubtful: Hoddlesdon
on elbows: Bures
wrong
camera: Hosmer
gone terribly: Ely
place, heart in the: Willimantic
things you’re in a mind to get: Hynish
Y
yawns
badly supressed: Wawne
one who: Lolland
things that produce a lot of: Dolgellau, Rigolet
yearnings
batty: Abercrave
nostalgic: Aberystwyth
yes
people who won’t quite say: Yetman, Yesnaby
people you would like to say: Low Ardwello
yes, meaning no: Yesnaby
youth
crap about jobs done during: Pulverbatch
resentment of unfairly apportioned: Trunch
Z
Z, A to: Worgret
Appendix
Douglas Adams is the creator of Dirk Gently, Last Chance to See and all five volumes of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy trilogy. He has a magnificent pulverbatch.
John Lloyd is the producer behind Not the Nine O’Clock News, Spitting Image, Blackadder and a number of affcots.
FOOTNOTES
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*1And, indeed, in Liff. Return to text.
*2WAYZGOOSE: A stubble-goose, an entertainment given to journeymen at the beginning of winter. (1731) Oxford English Dictionary. (Proof, if anyone should need it, that this book is a lot more use and only slightly less barmy than the Oxford English Dictionary). Return to text.
*3Good luck Return to text.
*4Loudly, as if in pain. Return to text.
*5 Probably Return to text.
*6 Or just gargle Return to text.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Adams, Douglas
The deeper meaning of liff: a dictionary of things there aren’t any words for yet—but there ought to be / Douglas Adams & John Lloyd; illuminated by Bert Kitchen.
p. cm.
Rev. ed. of: The meaning of liff. c1984.
Includes index.
I. English language—Terms and phrases—Humor. 2. English language—Humor. 3. English wit and humor. I. Lloyd, John, 1951-. II. Adams, Douglas, 1952- Meaning of liff. III. Title.
PN6231.W64A33 1993
428.1’0207—dc20 93-25255
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