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AngRang   n.  one Planet Eccchs/Perswayssick County thirteen-month year

 

arkettysmash   int.  a cuss word meaning, “May a Slog-swigging goth soil your second cousin’s undergarments.”

 

Bend-A-Britch   n. propr.  commercial formula that claims to remedy the chafing and itching caused by ill-fitting underwear

 

bimbus  n.  rear end

 

Blirg   n.  an almost month-long holiday season where time runs backwards

 

Blirgular  adj.  pertaining to Blirg

 

bloonked parrumph,  mashed potato-like mush (smells like cauliflower gone bad, seasoned with sulphur and a dash of skunk)

 

blurdle sauce  n.  pungent purple sauce, most commonly poured over bloonked parrumph

 

boinger  n. in zorgle, a player struggles through a line of tacklers and tosses a wooden bat over his adversaries’ goal post, attempts to run eight bases across the field, then roll a heavy black ball into his own team’s net. Each hard-won task, or “boinger,” earns him one “zoing.”

 

boingtang  n.  one Planet Eccchs/Perswayssick County century

 

Bozovia  n.  mountainous region of Planet Eccchs

 

Bumpex  n. propr.   one of Gneeecey’s meds, used to control symptoms of Redecoritis, a neurological disorder

 

chévere (ché-ve-re) adj. colloq.  Spanish slang for “good, cool”

 

Crack O’Dawn   n. propr.  rock-like breakfast cereal eaten by Gneeecey

 

Cronon   n.  Planet Eccchs’s smaller, vacation resort moon

 

Cross-Eyed cheese   n. propr.  pressed curds that kinda stare back at’cha with holes resembling crossed eyes

 

Dalmation Beer   n. propr.  white, sudsy brew containing evenly suspended, dime-sized black spheres

                              

Decvember   n.  the month that follows Octvember

 

diroctor   n.  title conferred upon an individual, such as Gneeecey, who is a doctor and a director

 

ecnalubma   n.  ambulance, backwards

 

Eccchser   n.   individual hailing from Planet Eccchs

 

EDE  abbr.  acronym for Exponential Dimensional Event

 

eglonkerated field of emaxicated energy,   thirteenth dimension fire that doesn’t harm Markmen, but can definitely put a hurting on folks like Nicki and Gneeecey

 

Electronic Water Cyclone 3000   n. propr.   Gneeecey’s high-tech toilet—three-thousand cyclones per flush

 

Ergzap   n. colloq.  derogatory term used by Markmen, meaning “inferior alien,” applied especially to Earthlings

 

Exponential Dimensional Event,   tripled dimen-sional displacement, responsible for the accidental interface of two different dimensions, according to Sooperflea

 

fiddabumbling  n.  popular Planet Eccchs/Per-swayssick County sport of parachuting from a mountaintop or airplane, while playing a violin, chewing gum and blowing large bubbles

 

fiddabumble   v.  to parachute from a mountaintop or airplane while playing a violin, chewing gum and blowing large bubbles

 

FishVendor 4   n.  Planet Eccchs’s larger moon, and home to several reform facilities for selfish folk

 

flumm   n.   seventeen-inch-long worm residing in Perswayssick County’s northwestern hills

 

flummery   n.   rehydrated flumm gizzards—yum!

 

fracas   n.  a bronze, lumpy-trunked tree, native to Planet Eccchs and Perswayssick County, that produces hairy gourds known as grongoids

 

Freak O’Nature Foods   n. propr.   popular Perswayssick County snack food company, identifiable by the image of the three-headed hawk displayed on product packaging

 

FriedEgg   n.  Friday, to us

 

Frummidge Melt   n. propr.   French-inspired grilled Cross-Eyed cheese sandwich (Perswayssick County’s version of “The Happy Waitress”)

 

fully simmered ice block soup,   self-explanatory

 

All “G” words are pronounced with a hard “G”:



 

gaaah-gaaah   n.   female goth

 

gazooonga   n.   male goth

 

Glavorzian 320x wires   n. propr.   expensive, top-of-the-line audio cables, with mierk-tensilated input-out-put repellent gizmos on each end

 

gloortworms   n.   green worms that light up and smell like Limburger cheese, and are commonly fed to captive goonafish

 

Gnautical Seafood Wharf-Barf Salad Combo   n. prop.  a Gneeezle’s lunchtime surf’n’turf favorite, garnished with sand dollars.

 

Gneeezle’s   n. propr.   Gneeecey’s popular Murgatroyd Avenue restaurant

 

Gnorks   n.   Planet Eccchs’s beloved underdog championship zorgle team

 

goonafish   n.   two-tailed, luminous blue fish (no unsightly head)

 

goonafish melt,   scrumptious Gneeezle’s goonafish sandwich, topped with cheese of your choice and grilled to perfection, sort of

 

goth   n.   vicious, many-legged, metallic-fanged, chrome-bodied dachshund-sized beast

 

Grate Gizzy,   shortened-to-conserve-consonants title of county director, Perswayssick County’s highest elected office, currently held by Diroctor B. Z. Z. Gneeecey

 

Grate Gizzygalumpaggis,   title of county director, Perswayssick County’s highest elected office, currently held by Diroctor B. Z. Z. Gneeecey

 

Grate One,   how Gneeecey is known throughout Perswayssick County

 

Grimace   n.  major retail holiday that occurs at the end of Blirg, where Perswayssick County residents exchange greeting cards and purple rubber wallets, and decorate with purple glitter-sprayed dead rubber chickens

grongoid   n.   hairy gourd that grows on a fracas tree

 

health cigar,   an oblong, striped potato-like cigar that’s supposed to help Gneeecey with his, uh, problem….

 

hice   n.  plural of “house”

 

horse divorces,   how snack-loving Gneeecey pronounces “hors d’oeuvres”

 

Iggleheimer   n. colloq.   derogatory term applied to fools, inspired by Planet Eccchs’s mythical, mountain-dwelling, bad-mannered troglodytes of the same name

 

imburse   v.  to pay someone back once (as opposed to reimburse, which, according to Gneeecey, means to pay someone back twice.)

 

inclopitation   n.  Planet Eccchs/Perswayssick County version of a lobotomy

 

ingesticule  n. tiny opening on the surface of a goonafish’s body, giving it a phosphorescent appearance and allowing it to take in nutrition

 

jackass burger,   popular Gneeezle’s fast-food staple—fried, simulated donkey meat, stuffed between two rindom buns

 

manevelins   n. pl.   leftovers

 

manicomio  (pronounced just the way it looks)  n. Spanish for lunatic asylum

 

Markman   n.  rotten gangster-like alien named Mark, from Planet of the Marked Men

 

Markmen   n. pl.   rotten gangster-like aliens, all named Mark, from Planet of the Marked Men

 

Mechanical Bull 2000  n. propr.  high-tech, rough riding toilet that Gneeecey would’ve purchased, had it not thrown him as he tested it out in the front window of Murgatroyd Avenue’s popular plumbing store, Squiggleman’s, during rush hour

 

merkolator   n. propr.  triple-beaked appliance used to brew Merk Perk

 

Merk Perk   n. propr.   bittersweet, gelatinous Freak O’Nature coffee that you eat with a fork

 

miercoles   n.   an unstable element mined in Perswayssick County’s northwestern hills

 

mierk   n.  hazardous byproduct of miercoles, used in the manufacture of just about everything in Perswayssick County—even added to foods

 

mierkolatory   n.  miercoles refinery

 

mi’ja  (mee ja)  n. colloq.   Spanish, contraction of “mi hija” (“my daughter”), affectionate slang for “my girl,” “home girl”

 

Millvill   n. propr.   a medication taken by Gneeecey, to treat an unspecified disorder

 

Mondistink   n.   Monday, to us

 

mon-ney   n.  the nerdi$h way that Gneeecey pronounce$ hi$ favorite thing

 

nebberd-kinnezzard   adv. colloq.  means “extra never,”on Planet Eccchs and in Perswayssick County 

nurkzoog   n.  purple particles that float in Planet Zoid III’s atmosphere, causing Eccchsers to experience breathing difficulties

 

occasional chairs,   chairs that are occasionally chairs

 

Octvember   n.   the month before Decvember

 

O’Gurt   n. propr.  poultry-flavored probiotics available at Gneeezle’s

 

oogdenplantzil   n.  Perswayssick County's version of eggplant

 

oogdimonious   adj.  morose, sulky, gloomy

 

ooglitis  n.  infected speech caused by the neurological disorder, Redecoritis, where afflicted individuals like Gneeecey, would, for example, say “proboobably” instead of “probably”

 

optically-saturnated meridian zlooper,   gaseous, Saturn-like type of computer mouse used by the villainous, high-tech Markmen  

 

orgnock  n.  Cronese latrine, found in abundance on Planet Eccchs’s vacation moon Cronon

 

Ouch-O Strips   n. propr.  popular brand of adhesive bandage covering most Perswayssick County booboos

 

outvoice   n.  opposite of invoice

 

PDT   abbr.   Primary Dimensional Transgressor

 

Perswayssick City   n.  capital of Perswayssick County

 

Perswayssick County,   dimension created by an Exponential Dimensional Event

 

Planet Eccchs, (pronounced “Planet X”),  where Gneeeecey, Sooperflea, Flubbubb, Altitude, and fifteen million other stranded Eccchsers come from

 

plook  v.  in zorgle, to zorg, or complete a triple-boinger (all three tasks—fighting through a line of tacklers and tossing a wooden bat over the adversaries’ goal post, running eight bases across the field, and rolling a heavy black ball into one’s own team’s net)    

 

Primary Dimensional Transgressor,   rogue planet that causes an Exponential Dimensional Event

 

Prndl   n.   a girl’s name, on Planet Eccchs; (park, reverse, neutral, drive, and low—to us.)

 

proboobably   adv.  the way an ooglitis-infected individual pronounces the word “probably”

 

PUNI   abbr.   Perswayssick University of New Ideas. PUNI, PUNI, rah, rah!

 

Quantum Electrohypernuculational Globulization,   the force, according to Sooperflea, that causes a planet to become a Primary Dimensional Transgressor

 

Redecoritis   n.   a neurological disorder where afflicted individuals, like Gneeecey, believe that furniture, trees, and other inanimate objects are stalking them

                                                                      

Referendum 345,   also known as “Question 345,” approval would mandate the cleanup and redevelopment of the mierked-up Perswayssick River banks, protect the county’s environment, save the goonafish from extinction, and outlaw mierk, replacing the noxious gunk with benign compound zodd, within six months

 

Repulsid   n. propr.   a medication taken by Gneeecey, to treat an unspecified disorder

 

rindom   n.  raspy, rust-colored arrow-like grain originating on Planet Eccchs

 

Rindom Doodles   n. propr.  crunchy, razor-sharp, quill-covered rindom arrows—another fine Freak O’Nature snack food

 

Rotzels   n. propr.  Slog-soaked, aged Freak O’Nature-style pretzels

 

schlock   v.  to pick grongoids from a fracas tree

 

sclogg   n.  three-legged, sneaker-wearing mollusk listed on Gneeezle’s menus

 

Slog   n. propr.  pulpy, often fermented beverage

 

sloggenberry pie,   Perswayssick County’s version of strawberry cheesecake

 

slothflog   n.  onion-like three-legged appetizer

 

Slug Nuts   n. propr.  Freak O’Nature’s rock-like nuts that slug you with their hearty, rindom-based flavor

 

Snatturday   n.  Saturday, to us

 

Someday   n.  Sunday, to us

 

Splodge   n. propr.  large-finned dinosaur of an automobile, comparable to, say, a '57 Plymouth

 

sploggle   n.  device that attaches to the back of a toilet seat, for the purpose of keeping canine-humanoids’ tails “high and dry”

 

StomQuell   n. propr.   antacid tablet sold in Perswayssick County

 

Stradivopoulos   n. propr.  on Planet Eccchs and in Perswayssick County, a much coveted, astronom-ically expensive violin

 

Surprise Stew,    a Gneeezle’s entrée consisting of broth, goonafish, athletic socks, bottle caps, screws, etc.

 

Swillsville crackers   n. propr.   another fine and crunchy Freak O’Nature snack food

 

Thirsty  n.  Thursday, to us

 

TooStank   n.  Tuesday, to us

 

triple-boinger   n.   in zorgle, the completion of all three boingers, or tasks

 

Tumm-Eaze   n.   cherry-flavored antacid tablet

 

VLAM   abbr.   Very Low Assistant Management

 

vlecks   n. pl.  on Planet Eccchs and in Persway-

ssick City, what one doesn’t give a deck of

 

vlonkets   n. pl.  on Planet Eccchs, what herds of vlork vault over

 

vlork   n.  at night, Eccchser insomniacs often count these sheep-like entities, vaulting over vlonkets

 

voaline  n.  the way that Gneeecey pronounces “violin”

 

WetNoodlesday   n.  Wednesday, to us

 

xylophobia   n.  fear of xylophones

 

yupperooney   adv. colloq.  an enthusiastic “yes,” often followed by an exclamation point!

 

ZigZodd Burgers,   Gneeezle’s burgers, made with zodd

 

ZIT   abbr.  Zodd Intertechnological Technologies

 

zloggy   adj.  describes Planet Zoid III’s nurkzoog-filled atmosphere

 

zodd   n.  a benign and abundant natural com-

pound that can replace mierk

 

zogulate   v.  to apply a thin layer of mierk to one-

self, in order to create a visible body (if you’re a Markman)

 

Zoid III   n.  planet in Planet Eccchs’s quadrant

 

zoing   n.  in zorgle, a point earned by completing one boinger

 

zorg   v.  in zorgle, to plook, or complete a triple-boinger

 

zorgle    n.    popular Planet Eccchs sport where a player fights through a line of tacklers and tosses a wooden bat over his adversaries’ goal post, runs eight bases across the field, and rolls a heavy black ball into his own team’s net. Each hard-won task is a “boinger,”earning him one “zoing.” When a player completes all three boingers, he has zorgged or plooked, a triple-boinger.

 

zorgler   n.  zorgle player

 

zork   n.  Planet Eccchs unit of currency, worth approximately two U.S. dollars

 

Zurt   n. propr.   rindom-based, mustard-like condiment

 

Zyphon Finals,   winners of these Zorgle playoffs compete in the prestigious Intergalactic Championship game

 

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