BRYMBO
The single unappetising bun left in a baker's shop after four p.m.
BUDBY
A nipple clearly defined through flimsy or wet material.
BUDE A polite joke reserved for use in the presence of vicars.
BULDOOO
a virulent red-coloured pus which generally accompanies clonmult (q.v.) and sandberge (q.v.)
BURBAGE
The sound made by a liftful of people all trying to breathe politely through their noses.
BURES
The scabs on knees and elbows formed by a compulsion to make love on cheap Habitat floor-matting.
BURLESTON
That peculiarly tuneless humming and whistling adopted by people who are extremely angry.
BURLINGJOBB
A seventeenth-century crime by which excrement is thrown into the street from a ground-floor window.
BURNT YATES
Condition to which yates (q.v.) will suddenly pass without any apparent interviewing period, after the spirit of the throckmorton (q.v.) has finally been summoned by incessant throcking (q.v.)
BURSLEDON
The bluebottle one is too tired to get up and start, but not tired enough to sleep through.
BURTON COGGLES
A bunch of keys found in a drawer whose purpose has long been forgotten, and which can therefore now be used only for dropping down people's backs as a cure for nose-bleeds.
BURWASH
The pleasurable cool sloosh of puddle water over the toes of your gumboots.
CAARNDUNCAN (n.)
The high-pitched and insistent cry of the young female human urging one of its peer group to do something dangerous on a cliff-edge or piece of toxic waste ground.
CAIRNPAT (n.)
A large piece of dried dung found in mountainous terrain above the cowline which leads the experienced tracker to believe that hikers have recently passed.
CAMER (n.)
A mis-tossed caber.
CANNOCK CHASE (n.)
In any box of After Eight Mints, there is always a large number of empty envelopes and no more that four or five actual mints. The cannock chase is the process by which, no matter which part of the box often, you will always extract most of the empty sachets before pinning down an actual minot, or 'cannock'. The cannock chase also occurs with people who put their dead matches back in the matchbox, and then embarrass themselves at parties trying to light cigarettes with tree quarters of an inch of charcoal. The term is also used to describe futile attempts to pursue unscrupulous advertising agencies who nick your ideas to sell chocolates with.
CHENIES (pl.n.)
The last few sprigs or tassels of last Christmas's decoration you notice on the ceiling while lying on the sofa on an August afternoon.
CHICAGO (n.)
The foul-smelling wind which precedes an underground railway train.
CHIPPING ONGAR (n.)
The disgust and embarrassment (or 'ongar') felt by an observer in the presence of a person festooned with kirbies (q.v.) when they don't know them well enough to tell them to wipe them off, invariably this 'ongar' is accompanied by an involuntary staccato twitching of the leg (or 'chipping')
CLABBY (adj.)
A 'clabby' conversation is one stuck up by a commissionaire or cleaning lady in order to avoid any further actual work. The opening gambit is usually designed to provoke the maximum confusion, and therefore the longest possible clabby conversation. It is vitally important to learn the correct, or 'clixby' (q.v.), responses to a clabby gambit, and not to get trapped by a 'ditherington' (q.v.). For instance, if confronted with a clabby gambit such as 'Oh, mr Smith, I didn't know you'd had your leg off', the ditherington response is 'I haven't....' whereas the clixby is 'good.'
CLACKAVOID (n.)
Technical BBC term for a page of dialogue from Blake's Seven.
CLACKMANNAN (n.)
The sound made by knocking over an elephant's-foot umbrella stand full of walking sticks. Hence name for a particular kind of disco drum riff.
CLATHY (adj.)
Nervously indecisive about how safely to dispose of a dud lightbulb.
CLENCHWARTON (n. archaic)
One who assists an exorcist by squeezing whichever part of the possessed the exorcist deems useful.
CLIXBY (adj.)
Politely rude. Briskly vague. Firmly uninformative.