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Pugillax

Pugillax:

A black market intestinal-cleansing medication sometimes used by boxers, in order to make it into a lower weight class.

Pugillax, old Aztec noun, also spelled puqillax.
The puqillax was the name of the thornlike piece of wood used in the Aztec coronation rituals, when a new Inka was installed. The coming Inka was supposed to bore the puqillax through his tongue and foreskin, to prove he was a man of great courage and to demonstrate the will to neglect his own feelings in favour of the common rules.
A wide collection of puqillaxes can be seen in the etnographic museum in Lima.

Pugillax:
A dog breed specific to the LA airport which arose from a cross of feral drug sniffing dogs and small pug dogs that had escaped from their inattentive actor and actress owners.

pugillax
the flute of Gill Hakaida leader of the Hakaida Squad.

Pugillax: A roman hair coif/colourant made from the blood and nasal mucus of injured gladiators.

pug il lax n.
A comprehensive system for non-destructively measuring the separation between the eyes of small dogs.

So close, very good choices, but give it a while longer...

pugillax (adj): lacking logic, point or quality.
ex. I'm having a cow of a time shoveling through your pugillax set of reasoning.

pugillax verb, pu-gill-ax

A very ugly electric guitar, particularly one decorated by a teenager. Frequent techniques include acrylic spray paint, automotive striping tape, and other people's band graphics.

"Pugillax" originally refered to one of these , but now is more often used for the insturment decorated with the same skill with which it is played.

Of course if I went with what my dictionary says...

Pugillax: the amount that can be carried in a relaxed hand.

Excellent entries, all. I bet SRu thought she had me with the guitar reference... nearly did.

But in the end it comes down to Gromit, DIT and colin... with the prize going to colin. Aaaaaas usual!

Your word, sir!

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Originally posted by martin:
Pugillax: A roman hair coif/colourant made from the blood and nasal mucus of injured gladiators.

I DO like Colin's definition, but please, there is just such an opportunistic depravity to Martin's def., I just had to shout this out.

I thought the implication that there are destructive systems for measuring the eye-separation of small dogs was pretty depraved, but evidently not depraved enough.

The new word is kleptmeria.

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Kleptmeria: A desire to steal the sea(s), usually exhibited by small beachgoing children with buckets.

kleptmeria klept me ree ah
n.
an individual or government agency in charge of controlling substances, devices or information that steals from their own confiscated spoils for their own use or for illegal trading.

Etymology: Orignating from "I stole my own ass." Also coined during a coupled event involving the RIA Novosti and the Russian/Iran drug control coalition where the information that the control agencies were illegally distibuting Afghani opium was illegally printed by the RIA Novosti after the censored information was stolen by the hopped up reporter that figured it out in the first place.

Kleptmeria: Items liberated by hotel patrons.

Example: "On inspection, Mr Oldman's portmanteau was found to contain 3 silver teaspoons, a bath towel and other kleptmeria, including a small rubberplant."

Gromit's attempt is unbeatable,
but I'm going to enter the game anyway...

Kleptmeria (2005 pop. 150,000)

Located in southeastern Spain,
on the Mediterranean Sea,
the city of Kleptmeria is also know as the Iberic Hollywood.

Kleptmeria-based movie studios, despite their predominant reputation in Spanish cinema,
have often had to deal with the reputation of only producing cheap remakes
of successful American movies.

After the release of 'Abre Los Ojos',
- a shameless remake of his 'Vanilla Sky' -
Cameron Crowe notoriously called Alejandro Amenabar "One of those Kleptmerian hacks."

--
ArkanGL

(Splitcoil, you are correct, I wouldn't have offered that definition for anyone else)

Now, to go from the toadying to the tasteless. . .

"Kleptmeria" is an adult oriented reality televison show. The name is loosely based on the Greek for "semen stealer", which is odd, because the show is taped in Lithuania.

Ten atractive contestants vie to see which of them can achieve one orgasm every ten minutes for the duration of the two-hour show. This is usualy done by manual masturbation, but theme shows sometimes require special techniques (who could forget the "garden vegetable" episode?) and one Valentine's day episode required each contestant to bring a "special friend."

Kleptmeria participant (garden vegetable episode):