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?"