October 5, 2008
Retromingent, verb
Urinating rearwards
"And that's where the English language can fall down, I reckon," said Nipper.
"Why?" asked Zeds.
"Because all I can conjure there is stripy wallpaper, bad editing, pipe music, moustaches, incomprehensible plots involving dangerously-hung black gardeners and pretend-teenage hitch-hikers, and untended lady gardens looking not entirely dissimilar to Kew after the hurricane."
"Eh?"
"'Retromingent: Of 1970s porn', surely?"
QueeneMab
Thanks for this useful addition to my vocabulary and for the applied example. It has saved me struggling to find an appropriate application myself.
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