quebolaine - bowler's knee. this ailment usually afflicts "gutter-ballers". the degeneration of knee cartilage and synovial fluid appears to be caused by the repetetive strain on the joint by bad posture and form. this condition has made sufferers a target of discrimination in bowling leagues throughout the world. Don't pick him, Ted. Lookit the way he bends. See the wince? Quebolaine for sure.
call the Quebolaine Discriminatory Foundation hotline if you are the victim of a quebolaine hate-crime at 1-800-LAMENEE.
it should be noted that this ailment afflicts only ten-pinners.(the ones who bowl with bigger balls) it is a fast-emerging problem now plagueing the bowling community, that sees five-pin quebolaine wanna-be's faking the ailment in the attempt to be seen as a big-baller rather than a small-baller. sadly, these attempts almost always fail, leaving the faker subject to bouts of depression that inevitably lead to one of the many quebolainary suicides now rocking the five-pin world.

*ahem*

Yeah, ckc, you appear to hasve won by default. And this is the last time I'm picking a word.

A most excellent definition by the feline, or was that fe-lion?

i prefer felione.

what a lame way to get the opportunity to choose. ah well.

new word - linquan

lin quan

n. A chinese herbal remedy said to be effective in treating a wide variety of illness, including indigestion, constipation, diarrhea, heart palpitations, headaches, runny nose, congestion, athelete's foot, gout, warts, bowel cancer and decapitation. The remedy is prepared from the leaves of a rare flowering plant found only in a region about 100km south of Xian, gathered during the brief spring bloom and dried carefully over a period of several months, but scum scraped from the hulls of Shanghai river barges (or some might say any river sludge with sufficient quantities of industrial waste) can be an effective substitute. Regardless of which formulation is used the western medical community continues to ignore this wonder of folk medicine, probably owing to the fact that the only scientifically established effect is a slight itchyness around the ankles followed by projectile vomiting.

Linquan is indeed Chinese in origin; its literal meaning is "just before advising". As an English loan-word it refers to the sudden and enervating realisation, shortly before advising someone against continuing with a doltishly dangerous stunt, that if they had the wit to heed your warning they wouldn't be about to do something they needed to be warned against in the first place. By extension linquan is a slang term for an irritatingly well-informed killjoy or someone who just chickened out at the last moment - although that last usage is only common among certified practitioners of the Ancient and Noble Art of Shark-Teasing.

Linquan - translated literally from the Mandarin, it is the cooking term "deboned."

In most common usage, it refers to the soft-tissue injuries suffered by feeble, elderly Chinese men who try to imitate sexual techniques from black-market pirate copies of American porno movies. The American "talent" is younger, fitter, and highly trained, thus avoiding the painful and debilitating damage that befalls the unwary dabbler.

Remember, if the lable says "for research and educational purposes only," you shouldn't try it at home.

i'm not choosing a winner until i get more entries. don't even think i won't keep nudging this thread back to the top until my demands are met.

linquan

archaic, of Portuguese origin; in lutherie, the linquan is the angle at which each string of a stringed instrument breaks over the nut as it passes to its tuning peg.

With the popularization of the guitar and the corruption of lutherie terminology, linquan has fallen out of use among all but the masters of Europe. Instead, the less precise, less elegant terms "headstock angle" and "string break" have come into more regular use.

Designing an instrument with optimal linquan has long been the greatest challenge of the luthier. Too shallow a linquan and the instrument will suffer in tone due to insufficient string pressure at the nut.


Too great a linquan results in tuning and breakage difficulties.

I'm surprised to see so many of my Esteemed Colleagues indulging in such shoddy Oriental transliteration and even more distracted translation of well known Romance languages. But, I suppose, sadly, few nowadays recall the last phase of the USA's early pioneer history, a time we'd do well to remember given our Current State of Affairs.

Mary Linquan was of mixed Sioux/Welsh stock and hailed originally from Portland, OR when that town was little more than a logging community at the turn of the century. She married young, ever for that day and age, at 12,. but her husband died in a freak netting accident aboard the USS Mercurial, a whaling ship of some renown in the Southern Seas. Penniless and nearly without any formal education, Ms Linquan set out to the Oregon High Desert with a group of dissident Mormons in 1911. The trip was arduous, but Mary bore the manifold hardships in silence.

By the time they had reached their destination, some 50 miles short of both the Washington and Idaho boarders, there were only two woman of childbearing age left, herself and a Ms Primmonnick (her first name is lost to us.) Given their dire circumstances, Mary proposed a sort of reverse polygamy where the two woman would share the remaining 27 men as husbands. This arrangement worked fairly well, with most men siring one child (little is said of Messrs Thomson and Wilkes who, apparently, chose to build a cabin for themselves at the far end of town).

But their pioneer bliss was ended roughly 13 years later when officials in Salt Lake City learned of this community. They dispatched a most unsavory man named John Malicon to San Francisco where he obtained the services of 6 Japanese martial artists. In the earliest recorded American use of ninja, the group set out to the town (by now called Chastity) and, in the dead of the night of April 22nd, killed every man, woman and child except Mary, who managed to hide inside a barrel of pickled prairie dogs. She eventually made her way back to Portland and then to San Francisco where her tale was greeted with disbelief at best, and outright derision at worst. She died, penniless and disillusioned, at the age of 56.

This story would have normally gone unremarked, were it not for a strange serendipity in 1961 involving Project Blue Book. Air Force investigators were drawn to the former site of the town of Chastity by stories of multiple UFO sightings as well as reports of anomalous behavior in radios, televisions, etc. It was there that they discovered the evidence that proved the massacre and vindicated Mary Linquan.

Oddly, to this day, the site remains closed to the public and under guard of Air Force personnel.

linquan - Pronounced lynn-cahn.

A word whose origins lie in the heavily Creole sections of the southern United States, possibly a perversion of the French lien coine, or linked corner (f). Linquan is the term for a system of hand signals used to communicate by criminals at opposing corners of a block. Primarily used by Creole-speaking African-Americans in poor sections of town, this word was not actually recognized even by scholars of the Creole language. It seems that the only time they heard the word for many years was from agitated prisoners under questioning, whom they assumed were referring to 'Lincoln's failure'.

linquan

Origin unclear. Often coupled with the laboured exhalation of a breath. Denotes failure, particularly in the realm of a relationship.

Linquan:

Linquan is an interior design school of though that originated in the far east. Defining charcteristics include live animals stapled to walls to off-set, organically, the sheet-metal floors that designers let rust in the tropical sun for 3 years, 2 weeks, 4 days and 20 hours. (This is an important feature as the PINquan school lays out ONLY sheet TITANIUM and then only for 2 years, 4 months, 5 days and 12 hours. Linquanis think that Pinquanis are sloppy and non-dedicated while the Pinquanis believe that the Linquanis are haughty price gougers)

Thought to have originated with the late Arthur Linquan (a former student of the even later Barry Pinquan), Linquani decoration is highly prized and sought after by certain witch-doctors and shamans. In decoration for these releigious leaders, the most commonly used animal is a chicken... rather, hundreds of chickens, stapled to the walls in patterns that are reminiscent of abstract Picasso designs. Blood from the chickens streams down the walls creating what amounts to a chaotic and wholly interventionless pattern. This aspect, most precisely, is supposed to illustrate the randomness of the universe, but for the most part it just pools on the floor and stinks up the place.

The Pinquan school is more highly prized in the homes of beef packers whereas the Linquan school is, as mentioned, more prized among mystical figures.

Both design schools are still trying to incorporate a DRAIN (viz. for rogue blood) into their designs, but to date have not reached any internal concesci.

i've always had a soft spot for finger gestures.

i'm seeing such obscene finger gestures from such a pristine girl.

hurtstotouchfire is your winner.

[suspicious] This isn't some ploy to get me posting more often again, is it?

Next word:

sturgei

stur gei

n. The feeling that you are being followed by a very large but silent crowd of people who hide behind bushes and trash cans whenever you turn around. Also, the feeling that your friends are conspiring with said large, silent crowd by distracting you with inane conversations about the weather, silly games they found on the internet, and proposals of marriage.

Sturgei n. [Based on the fictional character Vassily Sturgei, that appeared in Kipling's Pathan, the little known sequel to Kim]

Used to describe an enemy who is so useless to be really helpful. A true sturgei has to be devoted to its cause and damaging to the same.

José

holy shit!!!

JRE, i was going to post the exact same definition with the exception of different back story. wierd.

(knew i should've posted it when i had the chance.)

Well, either great minds think alike, or we just stumbled on a word that should exist with that meaning.

Pick your favorite.

José