General Terms A-G

Addams or Addams Family – church or mass. See also “Lurch” (JB and NT)
Andrew – Angry
Andrea – Anger
Angus – Angers
Armour – night. See also “Shining Armour”
Arschwanger – Someone who speaks a lot of excrement (BH/PC) *NEW!*
Autumn – Awesome, only in a more mellow kind of way (SP/JB) *NEW!*
Bacchus Marsh – A bad back.
Bacon – Good (PC and HS)
Barmera – A book sale or book fest. Can also relate to other sales eg. A CD Barmera is a CD sale. (PC) *NEW!*
Basic Instinct – Stomach problems often leading to frequent trips to the toilet. (JB and PC) *NEW!*
Benes – Benediction (NZ)
Bowtie – Beau or boyfriend/girlfriend/partner in general. See also “Tie” *NEW!*
BP – Bad pain. “I had a stop at the BP station” means “I had some bad pain”
Broth – The Wrath of Beth
Carnal Ignorance – the opposite of Carnal Knowledge
Chalking up a toad – Walking down/up the road *NEW*!
The Cheese Scale – a male heterosexual scale (ie sexist) of rating the attractiveness of women à whether it be mild, cheddar, vintage or tasty or other (James H and JB)
Chopin – Shopping. If you say “I’m going to play some Chopin”, you are saying “I’m going shopping”. *NEW!*
Chow down – eat (Trad)
Chug a lug – pub
Circling Like A Shark – Looking for a park (PB)
Corsican – a word meaning clearance, derived from Asterix in Corsica à Q: Can a Corsican and two friends come aboard? A: Corsican. Use in a sentence: Can I get a Corsican on that? (Goscinny and Underzo)
Dixlexic – 1. The habit of having really screwed relationships with the fairer and more feminine sex. 2. Having mixed feelings about a romantic entanglement – one that you are currently in or thinking about being in. 3. Generally bad luck in romantic relationships or feeling bad about the whole love thing (JB after SH)
Dixlexicon - Beavish’s very own Language of Love. *NEW*! See also The Dixlexicon et al
Doing a James – pretending to bump into things and hurting yourself for a laugh (PC)
A Fest/Groovy Fest – A night where we watch a specific movie/s – usually movies with the same director/star/writer etc and are classic/cult movies or by a classic/cult director. (JB and James H) See also Groovy.
Flying the bird – Spreading the word *NEW*!
Flogging the bat - 'to feel guilty about something' or 'to feel sorry for someone' because you'd like to feel a particular way, but you just can't bring yourself to (BH/PC). *NEW*!
Fourth Sister - A tall tale. (PC and BH) *NEW!*
Gasm - A suffix for new words relating to wonderful sensations from things. Eg. “Foodgasm” is received on tasting great food and there is also “musigasm” regarding extraordinary music and others. *NEW!* (BM)
Groovy – A movie (JB and James H)
Geebon – A very strange person, a bit weird, a bit freaky (PB and Joel D)