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BACK WAY means: Back way is slang for anal sex.

BELFA means: Belfa was early th century slang for a prostitute.

CLIP ARTIST means: Clip artist is American slang for a fraudster, cardsharp or confidence trickster.

GREENER means: Greener is British slang for a naïve person.

Bahhhhstard means: One who is part sheep, and part man. This whooley breed thrives on the charity of others. Like a tick, it latches on leeching off it's host, until a new host is with deeper pockets can be found.

gynie means: gynecologist

take a powder means: To leave. Look, if you don't like it here, take a powder.

zombie means: (1) crack cocaine. (2) phencyclidine (PCP )

tartan means: n, adj plaid. The stripes-and-checkers pattern that Scotsmen use for their kilts but is also used for all sorts of things from throw rugs to tacky seat covers.

axe means: Taunt against someone who was angry or expressed annoyance. Usually pronounced with the "A" sound prolonged which made it even more annoying; eg X says "Give me back my pencil!", Y responds "Axe!", X- "Give it back now!", Y and others "AAAAAxe!" etc... Probably comes from the concept of a psychopath carrying out an axe attack; sometimes used in the longer more placatory form "OK, OK, don't have an axe attack!". Various private and public schools in the Cambridge area. (ed: I reckon it's just 'ask' mispronounced, but what do I know?).

dunny means: Toilet (originally outside but now any): e.g. the classic "Aussie curse", i.e. "may your chooks turn into emus and kick your dunny down!" There is an ongoing theme in Austrlain urban mythology about the redback spider that hides under the toilet seat and leaps out to bite yer bum (or worse) when you go to satisfy natures urges.. In fact this is based on reality in 'the old days' few homes had indoor plumbing and most used outdoor dunny's a la Shrek (basically just holes in the ground with an improvised seat over it. Redback spiders like dark moist conditions which the dunny provided, and the crap attracted flies which of course was an ideal food supply. Therefore the old style dunny was an ideal place for these things to live. You won't find them indoors often though so using the loo in Australia isn't often a dangerous experience - often.

sot means: Engage in male to male '69' (simultaneous mutual oral sex)

Colors means: The particles of gold gleaming in a prospector's gold pan.

ROACH means: filter for cannabis

Shivering Jemmy means:     A half naked begger

bilk means: To swindle or cheat. Imogene Ettasis is a bigwig in the human genome project.

biz means: Business. This job bites.

zonk means: To hit. As teenagers, we used to hold zit popping contests to see who could shoot their zits the farthest.

Achromatized means: of Achromatize

Adoptive means: Pertaining to adoption; made or acquired by adoption; fitted to adopt; as, an adoptive father, an child; an adoptive language.

Aheight means: Aloft; on high.

Ambrein means: A fragrant substance which is the chief constituent of ambergris.

Animality means: Animal existence or nature.

Authorship means: Source; origin; origination; as, the authorship of a book or review, or of an act, or state of affairs.

Burr means: Any rough or prickly envelope of the seeds of plants, whether a pericarp, a persistent calyx, or an involucre, as of the chestnut and burdock. Also, any weed which bears burs.

Churlish means: Wanting pliancy; unmanageable; unyielding; not easily wrought; as, a churlish soil; the churlish and intractable nature of some minerals.

Cicisbeo means: A professed admirer of a married woman; a dangler about women.

Corinthian means: Of or pertaining to an amateur sailor or yachtsman; as, a corinthian race (one in which the contesting yachts must be manned by amateurs.)

Disenamor means: To free from the captivity of love.

Instituting means: of Institute

Lorette means: In France, a name for a woman who is supported by her lovers, and devotes herself to idleness, show, and pleasure; -- so called from the church of Notre Dame de Lorette, in Paris, near which many of them resided.

Monocotyle means: Monocotyledonous.

Perisomata means: of Perisoma

Pipette means: A small glass tube, often with an enlargement or bulb in the middle, and usually graduated, -- used for transferring or delivering measured quantities.

Plegepoda means: Same as Infusoria.

Sea wolf means: The wolf fish.

Shard means: The hard wing case of a beetle.

Vibrissa means: The bristlelike feathers near the mouth of many birds.