More words

I'm watching now the 3rd season of Monty Python's Flying Circus, probably the funniest (but I've always seen single sketches on YT so I can't tell about the 4th and last); nevertheless, it came complete with subtitles, which I have to admit are quite useful in some case, and of course this gives us new precious words for the blog dictionary:

ponce verb

Synonyms:

noun: pander

ponced past participle; ponced past tense; poncing present participle; ponces 3rd person singular present

1) Live off a prostitute's earnings

2) Ask for or obtain (something to which one is not strictly entitled) I ponced a cigarette off her

ponce Noun /päns/

ponces plural

1) A man who lives off a prostitute's earnings

2) An effeminate man

jet·ti·son

Verb /ˈjetisən/ /-zən/

jettisoned past tense; jettisons 3rd person singular present; jettisoned past participle; jettisoning present participle

1) Throw or drop (something) from an aircraft or shipsix aircraft jettisoned their loads in the sea

2) Abandon or discard (someone or something that is no longer wanted)

individuals are often forced to jettison certain attitudes and behaviors

gob Noun

Synonyms:

verb: spit, expectorate

noun: mouth, sailor, seaman

gobs plural

1. An American sailor

2. A person's mouth

Jean told him to shut his big gob

(no, I didn't)

gob Noun /gäb/

gobs plural

A lump or clot of a slimy or viscous substance

a gob of phlegm

A small lump

A lot of --he wants to make gobs of money selling cassettes

za·ny

Noun /ˈzānē/

Synonyms:

noun: buffoon, fool, clown, jester, harlequin

zanies plural

An erratic or eccentric person

A comic performer partnering a clown, whom he imitated in an amusing way

za·ny Adjective /ˈzānē/zanier comparative; zaniest superlative

Amusingly unconventional and idiosyncratic

zany humor

A recurring idiomatic expression is: so much for (a subject is over, let's go on with the next one)

"So much for this post"