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- Old
- adj. In that stage of usefulness which is not inconsistent with
general inefficiency, as an old man. Discredited by lapse of time
and offensive to the popular taste, as an old book.
“Old books? The devil take them!” Goby said.
Harley Shum
“Fresh every day must be my books and bread.”
Nature herself approves the Goby rule
And gives us every moment a fresh fool. - old age
- 1. the nearly final stage of life, when a being is no longer capable of activity, apart from vocal criticism and unconscious manipulation.
- 2. the opposite of New Age, though equally vague and nonsensical.
more at New Age. - Oleaginous
- adj. Oily, smooth, sleek. Disraeli once described the manner of Bishop Wilberforce as “unctuous, oleaginous, saponaceous.” And the good prelate was ever afterward known as Soapy Sam. For every man there is something in the vocabulary that would stick to him like a second skin. His enemies have only to find it.
- Olympian
- adj. Relating to a mountain in Thessaly, once inhabited by
gods, now a repository of yellowing newspapers, beer bottles and
mutilated sardine cans, attesting the presence of the tourist and his
appetite.
His name the smirking tourist scrawls
Averil Joop
Upon Minerva’s temple walls,
Where thundered once Olympian Zeus,
And marks his appetite’s abuse. - Omen
- n. A sign that something will happen if nothing happens.
- on the lam
- fleeing to evade capture; not to be confused with the Scottish expression, “on the lamb.”
- onanism
- 1. the habitual touching of one’s self.
- 2. the habitual reading of one’s poetry.
- Once
- adv. Enough.
- one-trick-pony
- 1. colloquial phrase used to describe anyone who is named Pauly Shore.
- 2. a consistently accurate label to place on those celebrities you find on the cover of “People.”
- 3. a consistently accurate label to place on most any celebrity.
