The Meaning Of Liff

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Diogenes Nov 2020 10:55am, 18 Nov 2020 55,041 posts	Diogenes HARLAXTON (n.) An unexpected but urgent bowel movement required mid-run despite thinking one had emptied sufficiently beforehand.
Diogenes Nov 2020 10:57am, 18 Nov 2020 55,042 posts	Diogenes STRAGGLETHORPE (n.) The last person at an event who wants to run or walk behind the tail-runner.
Diogenes Nov 2020 11:00am, 18 Nov 2020 55,043 posts	Diogenes HOUGH-ON-THE-HILL (n.) Gross expectoration performed on acquiring summit, however slight.
Diogenes Nov 2020 11:01am, 18 Nov 2020 55,044 posts	Diogenes HOWGILL (n.) The product of a particularly violent hough-on-the-hill
HappyG(rrr) Jan 2021 11:54am, 9 Jan 2021 36,969 posts	HappyG(rrr) Not place names but some fab words in here dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com
RichHL Apr 2021 1:48pm, 1 Apr 2021 15,785 posts	RichHL KIRTLING (n. arch.) small pieces of dried vegetable matter used as padding in cheek prostheses. KIRTLING GREEN (n. arch.) small pieces of vegetable matter which are collected to be dried and used as KIRTLING (q.v.).
Lizzie Whizz Nov 2022 12:02pm, 16 Nov 2022 27,161 posts	Lizzie Whizz Dio reminded me we have this wire. FARNHAM (n.) The feeling you get about four o'clock in the afternoon when you haven't got enough done.
RichHL Nov 2022 8:33pm, 16 Nov 2022 19,934 posts	RichHL SPALDING (n.) - the emotion or quality of being equally angry and embarrassed at one's own forgetfulness.
Lizzie W 4 Feb 11:40am, 4 Feb 2026 29,633 posts	Lizzie W This came up at work today: Nantwich (n.) A late-night snack, invented by the Earl of Nantwich, which consists of the dampest thing in the fridge, pressed between two of the driest things in the fridge. The Earl, who lived in a flat in Clapham, invented the nantwich to avoid having to go shopping.
LindsD 4 Feb 2:05pm, 4 Feb 2026 78,197 posts	LindsD