We need new words. . .

[zakalex]

These used to be called "snigglets."

My 2 faves:
- "Buckstasy" -- The elation from finding forgotten money in a coat/pants pocket.
- "Schwee" -- Sound the door makes on Star Trek

"Buckstasy" is already the feeling we all have when Heather is playing well.

 

[Sonny44]

Play to level of competition - a fakewalk or duckpoop
Missed layup - a nayup or lameup

 

[Moose]

Bunny flop!

 

[Kibitzer]

The folks in and around Pittsburgh, PA have doing this for scores of decades.
Joe: Jaetjet? ........ Did you eat, yet?
Fred: Nodju? ........No, did you?

I am an old Yinzer myself and am thus totally accustomed to "redding up" interior portions of my domecile and I know that when it rains heavily or snows lightly that the sidewalks will become "slippy." And those excessively curious people are "nebby."

 

[pinotbear]

View attachment 466 Bunny flop!

either that, or trolling for Dobermans with live bait..

 

[Icebear]

Play to level of competition - a fakewalk or duckpoop
Missed layup - a nayup or lameup

Nay-up was exactly what I was thinking as I read through the thread Sonny.

 

[CL82]

An amazingly bad job is "craptastic"

 

[Ozzie Nelson]

Great Thread Kibs...

 

[semper]

Bunnino = a missed bunny

For playing down: Undereffort

 

[Icebear]

Hackadaisical: lazy defense leading to an attempt to make up for bad position by slashing a shooter and sending them to the ground and the line.

 

[Kibitzer]

Great Thread Kibs...

This was an enormous amount of fun and demonstrated that our Boneyarders are collectively and individually highly creative. Let me sign off (this thread only and only for me) by providing a couple word fugitives from the book that we can all identify with:

• First, a word to describe mistakenly written homonyms (your for you're, and so on): Try nononym, errerr, sinonym or illiteration.
• Then there are those who leave long, meandering messages on answering devices, then rattle off their phone numbers at lightning speed at the end (making it necessary to hear the entire recorded monologue again to get to those important digits with pen in hand to copy them): Consider prestodigitators, prolixity-split, or number-mumblers (or shorter version, numblers).

I'll leave it at that by saying Thanks to participants and Go, Huskies!

Back to you, Geno.

 

[NCorBust]

I am an old Yinzer myself and am thus totally accustomed to "redding up" interior portions of my domecile and I know that when it rains heavily or snows lightly that the sidewalks will become "slippy." And those excessively curious people are "nebby."

I'm from Windber, Pa, a coal town, hard against Johnstown, a steel town. When I went to college, the greater New York metro guys had field day with me. They all wanted to learn a new language. Reminded me of Eliza Doolittle at the races with her new language.

 

[Phil]

• Then there are those who leave long, meandering messages on answering devices, then rattle off their phone numbers at lightning speed at the end (making it necessary to hear the entire recorded monologue again to get to those important digits with pen in hand to copy them): Consider prestodigitators, prolixity-split, or number-mumblers (or shorter version, numblers).

This just happened to me yesterday!!! I got a call from someone I have been trying to reach for months, (incidentally, to make arrangements to see West Virgina) and he left a long message, then ripped through his cell phone number in about a second (he was calling from an airport pay phone, so I couldn't simply look at caller ID). I had to replay the message several times before I could get all the digits.

Luckily I did, and we connected, which reminds me, I have to leave in about an hour to meet him.

 

[Bestiarius]

Play down to teams with level of a distinctly lower level of ability:

Godoh! - (go doh) A tragicomedy in two acts.

Failure of good players to make what appear to be easy layups:

Les Miserables

Genono - Doing anything Auriemma doesn't like.

 

[Icebear]

I'm from Windber, Pa, a coal town, hard against Johnstown, a steel town. When I went to college, the greater New York metro guys had field day with me. They all wanted to learn a new language. Reminded me of Eliza Doolittle at the races with her new language.

My wife and I almost served a Lutheran Church in Windber.