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- SIYW.TXT List of Unusual Words with Their Meanings 66
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- Chapter W
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- List of Unusual Words with Their Meanings
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- The following words are unusual and\or were not in the ShareSpell dictionary.
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- abbr. The abbreviation for abbreviation.
- Abney level A type of clinometer consisting of a sighting tube, a rotating
- bubble level, and a protractor.
- addressable Able to be addressed. This to store & recall a number.
- adulations Many excessively laudatory flatulent flatteries.
- Applesoft Floating point BASIC on the Apple II computer.
- archaeic The archaeic spelling of archaic.
- ASCS Acronym: Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service.
- assed Having been treated with a donkey.
- babysitter One who sits on babies.
- backcompass A compass reading taken back towards the direction from which
- you are surveying.
- Backdoor to Hell Cave
- A fabled cavern of mythical size and difficulty.
- backsight A sight taken back towards the direction from which you are
- travelling.
- Ballentine The name of the fellow who showed me FORTRAN.
- BASICA A computer language on the Genuine IBM PC.
- bassackwards The condition of being completely turned around and headed in
- exactly the wrong direction.
- BBSs Bulletin Board Systems
- befuddlement Complete and utter confusion, or worse.
- Beiter The author's family name.
- BLACKBEARD A programmer's text editor used to write this text.
- BLM Acronym: Bureau of Land Management.
- Boonies A place where Dan'l Boone would feel at home.
- Brunton A fancy compass, sometimes called an Army Artillery compass,
- bux Federal Reserve Notes. You probably call 'em "dollars".
- Byter The author's digital name.
- Capricia The author's pet goat kid.
- CAVEMAP A surveying computer program.
- cheapie Pejorative term for inexpensive.
- Chuckem, Gona A junior partner in Pluckum, Phuccum, Chuckem & Moore.
- compuscript A manuscript written with a computer.
- computerese A language of the computer literate and numerate.
- COS The abbr. for cosine, pronounced "cosign".
- cosign To guarantee a bank loan such that they take all of the profit
- and you take all of the risk.
- Dan'l The way Dan'l Boone signed his name.
- Denneys Gap A gap through a ridge, inhabited by Denneys.
- diabolically In league with the devil.
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- dong The jacking organ of a jackass.
- enuf Newspeak for enough.
- eschatology The scientific study of ultimate destinies & purposes.
- Esq. The abbr. for Esquire. Liars put this after their names.
- etc. The abbr. for et cetera.
- exponentiate To raise to an exponent or power. To multiply by itself a
- number of times. Exponentiation is to multiplication what
- multiplication is to addition.
- eyelevel The elevation of your eye above ground.
- Fergle A facetious University in Cincinnati, Ohio.
- Forney Cat The name of the author's pet tomcat.
- Gordian Knot A mythological knot which could be untied only with a sword.
- gotta Imperative. Newspeak for got to. Must.
- gradians A method of measuring direction where a circle is divided into
- 400 parts to confuse The Enemy.
- guesstimating The act of making an informed but inaccurate measurement.
- Gunsmoke The name of the author's pet jackass.
- GW-BASIC The acronym for Generic Whizbang Beginners All-purpose Symbolic
- Instruction Code, a computer language on the PC-clone.
- hydrology The scientific study of water resources.
- Inc. The abbr. for Incorporated.
- inkberries Poke berries. A weed whose berry was used for ink.
- Keson A brand of tape measures.
- kinda Newspeak for kind of. Approximately.
- laptop A small computer used in the lap.
- lensatic An Army marching compass. A cheap sighting compass accurate to
- about ten degrees. If you have one, destroy it before someone
- uses it to get lost in the woods.
- Lyman M. Lyonn An Associate with Pluckum, Phuccum, Chuckem & Moore,
- Attorneys at Law.
- Mechanicville A city in upstate New York.
- MicroSoft A software company, famous for its user-friendly DOS.
- monopod A tripod with only one leg and foot.
- MS The acronym for MicroSoft.
- MSL The acronym for Mean Sea Level
- mspellings Ms. Pellings' marital status is irrelevant.
- mumbo Muttered incantations. Usually mumbo jumbo, muttered GREAT
- incantations.
- Newspeak The new rationalized American English language.
- ochlophobe One who fears crowds and crowded places. I don't actually fear
- them, I simply despise them.
- ole The ole way of saying old.
- oughta Newspeak for ought to. Should.
- Pac-Perchild A non-sexist video game.
- Ph.D. The abbr. for Posthole Digger.
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- Phuccum, Hardy A Junior partner
- Pluckum, Howie The Senior Partner at the prestigious Law Firm of
- Pluckum, Phuccum, Chuckem, & Moore, Attorneys at Law.
- POB The acronym for Post Office Box.
- prestidigitate To perform sleight of hand magic.
- PVC ACRONYM for Poly Vinyl Chloride, a plastic.
- Rensselaer A county in Upstate New York on the East Bank of the Hudson.
- replot To plot again.
- Ritner A ghost town in Kentucky, between Denneys Gap and Jones Holler.
- Saratoga A county in Upstate New York; the city of Saratoga Springs.
- SASE The acronym for Self Addressed Stamped Envelope.
- Schenectady A city in upstate New York on the Mohawk River home of
- Union College and General Electric corporate headquarters.
- serendipity The art of making unexpected fortunate discoveries.
- sez Newspeak for says.
- shalt The archaeic imperative future auxiliary verb.
- ShareSpell The spell checker used to generate this word list.
- shareware A method of software distribution.
- SIG Acronym for Special Interest Group.
- SIN Abbr. for sine, a trigonometric function. Pronounced "sign".
- Sipe, F Henry The author of the book "Compass Land Surveying".
- SIY Acronym for Survey It Yourself.
- speleology The scientific study of caves.
- Stillwater A town and village in Saratoga County, Upstate New York.
- stringbox A one man distance measuring instrument.
- Suunto The brand name of a Finnish compass. "Sue-UN-toe"
- topo Topographic map.
- tribulations Afflictions, difficulties.
- trickier More tricky than tricky.
- typograhpic A typograhpic error, not a editorial error.
- underlaps Gore. Where two parts fail to join.
- USGS The acronym for United States Geological Survey.
- la vara A Spanish colonial distance unit, variable, about 2.74 feet.
- vee sight The little notch on a Silva Ranger mirror cover.
- wanna Newspeak for want to.
- whatcha Newspeak for what do you.
- whatchamacallits Things with name unknown.
- whizbang Technologically sophisticated.
- Wuckit The landowner of a large cave in Albany County, New York.
- Yuppie The name of the author's bitch.
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- pages 69-71 reserved for expanded word list.
- Send me a list of words which I should add.
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