Country Dictionary

Used as an adjective, this means old-fashioned, out-of-date. Usually applied to attitudes.

Man, Mr. McMahon is so slide rule! Why does he always use long division, when there's a calculator right on his desk?

The times of day when you realize that it's too early or too late to call friends and/or family. "Hoot" is an acronym that stands for "hold off on telephone". "Hoot" also suggests times of the day when owls are active and hooting.

Adam: Do you think it's okay to call Barbara and Debbie for a hike up in the Catskills?
John: I dunno, Adam, I think it's hoot time for Debbie. She works a graveyard shift and usually hits the sack first thing when she gets home.

Occurs when you have your eye on something you want or need and you're competing with one or more people for the same thing, like a seat on the train or a much-coveted book. It's as if you had shone an imaginary laser pointer at the seat or book, in order to claim your right to have it.

(To passenger on bus): Excuse me, but I saw that seat first. In case you didn't notice,I have two sick kids.
Sorry, laser lock! (Passenger, mumbling): Ayyyy, que la tiznada!

Any type of beginning chemistry class, from the not-always-so-pleasant smells that emanate from the laboratories of such classes.

I dropped a beaker of indole in Stink 101, and the whole lab stank for days on end!

A synonym for gooshky. Like gooshky, this word is never used in a derogatory fashion.

Maureen has booldy oobs. She's pudgy but not ugly.

Golfball-sized hail

In New York, when there's a really bad thunderstorm, we can get hail but it's not exactly hardhat weather---you have to be in the South for that.

A Chechen musical instrument, this is a type of lute with usually three strings, a spade- or bottle-shaped hollow body, and a short fretted fingerboard. The sound quality is bright but at the same time soft in volume. "Dechik" means "wood" and "pondur" or "pondar" means "musical instrument".

I like the sound of a dechik-pondur better than the Chechen balalaika.