General Terms H-Z

Heavenly Lies – To be “early to bed and early to rise” or good sleep in general
Hot Bun – Fun
Honeysuckle – Sallywattle, a place of tranquillity and refuge near the Natural Bridge/Arch (AH after AD)
Huzak – music selected by Hugh (can be changed eg. into “Jameszak” and “Paulzak” for music created by James or Paul) (PC)
Illeisure - The opposite of leisure
Illeisurable – Something in which you cannot find leisure
Jackie or Jackie Chan - Jacket (JB and PC)
Jenny Bunn – An extremely attractive but also very sweet and warm young woman, usually a primary school teacher or a teacher of some sort (derived from the name of the main character in Kingsley Amis’ Take A Girl Like You)
Kenny – The art of having a drink in company that one does not necessarily know well. On such an occasion, being strangers is no barrier. *NEW*!
Kerfuffle – felafel
La Festy – A period of celebration that comes at the end of a housing lease, where everyone involved has a good time cleaning the place up for the landlord’s pleasure (JB and JD)
Lar Sect – Secular.“He is part of the Lar Sect” means “He is secular”. See also “Sect of Lar” *NEW!*
Lemon and Lime – Time *NEW*!
Liz Hurley – 1. To throw-up 2. An Unattractive woman. *NEW!* (PB, JB)
Llama Sutra – We haven’t totally worked out what this means yet (PC) *NEW!*
Lemon Butter – Very nice. Ie. “That’s very lemon butter of you” means “That’s very nice of you” (PC)
Lurch – church or mass. See also “Addams” (JB and NT)
Marbowls – a game based on bowls, invented by James H and James B, and played using large marbles as the balls and a small marble as a jack. To be played on the carpet, preferably at The Furnace’s place. (James H and JB)
Nark – chat/talk. See “Shark” (JB with James H)
Pants down or pants or pantsa – answer
Par-tae – Party (traditional)
Phido or Fido – Phd (“Chips is wrestling with Fido” = “Joel is doing some work on his phd”)
The P – Lang Park PCYC, James B’s place of work
Pig – wine
Polylingual – The type of verbosity one has when one drinks too much alcohol
Prue – Prude (PB)
Ruth – Right or Correct or Right On (As in “That’s Ruth, I did have a nark on the shark with The Furnace”, which means, “That’s right, I did talk to Bernice on the phone”)
Salt the watermelon – To offend one’s host (PC and NZ)
Sect of Lar – Secular. See also “Lar Sect” *NEW!*
Sexy Lexis – Someone with a sexy lexis, is someone who has a sexy way of speaking (JB/Simone P) *NEW!*
Shark – phone (“have a nark on the shark”) (JB with James H)
Shining Armour – A good night
Showing your shorthand – Showing off, impressing potential bowties, flirting. (JB/PC)
*NEW!*
Skivvy – To be a bit philosophical (HS & PC)
Sleep ‘n Shout or Sleep – Restaurant. *NEW!*
State of the nation – Conversation. *NEW*!
Straubulent – the act of being stroppy, yet voluptuous (JB, SS and NZ)
Stickster - Someone who lives out in the sticks, or someone who you don’t know very well and in fact seem metaphorically distant to you. (BH/PC)*NEW!*
Sunny Cal - Caloundra
Sweat shop - Bottle shop (originsà bottle-o, BO, sweat, sweat shop).
Tall chalk – Small talk *NEW*!
Ted Egan Moment – A moment that seems to go on forever, but has to be faced for the sake of politeness. Often a tale, story or video. (SH) *NEW!*
Tie – Beau or boyfriend/girlfriend/partner in general. See also “Bow Tie” *NEW!*
Turkey Scratch – To be desperately seeking female company eg. “I’m having a bit of a turkey scratch at the moment – I’ve been a bit dickslexic” or “I’ve always been dickslexic about the turkey scratch.” The male scrub turkey builds a nest during mating season, even if he doesn’t have female company and he keeps on building it or starts another one until the end of the season or until he meets a woman turkey. See Enter the "Turkey Scratch" Into Your Dixlexicon from the Slang of Beavish blog.
The Van Gogh – the Hodge’s van or vehicle in general
Venison – beer
Vickster - Someone with whose name you have a great familiarity with despite not really knowing them. False familiarity. (BH/PC) *NEW!*
Wendell – Way (PB)
A When Album – a music album that you know you will buy. It is not a matter of if you will buy it but when you will buy it. Can be used in other circumstances. (NZ)