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call a spade a spade

vb. (context idiomatic English) To speak the truth; to say things as they really are.

tuns

n. (plural of tun English)

thwackingly

adv. With a thwacking sound.

broomstick

n. 1 the handle of a broom - a tool used to sweep the floor 2 ''(witchcraft)'' A broom, imbued with magic enabling one to fly riding the handle.

wall clock

n. A clock mounted on a wall.

tropicamide

n. A particular anticholinergic used as a mydriatic to permit better examination of the eye.

proviral

a. Of or pertaining to a provirus

poop out

vb. 1 (context transitive English) To defecate 2 (context intransitive English) To quit due to tiredness

malformedness

n. incorrect form; quality of being malformed

national supremacy

n. 1 A perceived superiority based on nationality or ethnicity. 2 The belief that a particular nation is inherently superior to others.

overgazing

vb. (present participle of overgaze English)

changgi

n. (alternative spelling of janggi English)

peters out

vb. (en-third-person singularpeter out)

rumpot

n. (context slang English) A drunkard.

scoped out

vb. (en-past of: scope out)

turnup

alt. 1 (context British English) The cuff on a trouser leg that is, or can be turned up. 2 The next card taken from the top of a pack of cards and displayed. n. 1 (context British English) The cuff on a trouser leg that is, or can be turned up. 2 The next card taken from the top of a pack of cards and displayed.

input

n. 1 The act or process of putting in; infusion. 2 That which is put in, as in an amount. 3 contribution, or share in a contribution. 4 Something fed into a process with the intention of it shaping or affecting the outputs of that process. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To put in; put on. 2 (context transitive English) To enter#Verb dat

  1. 3 (context transitive English) To accept data that is entered.

pudwhackers

n. (plural of pudwhacker English)

Usage examples of "pudwhackers".

Kelly was busy running an acceleration recompute when the update for this particular maneuver came in, so I took over the computer and input the change.

In this system it is possible to replace the tactile, behavioural stimulus by its neurophysiological analogue, that is, by direct electrical stimulation of the sensory nerve inputs.

By the mid-1970s, it was clear that neither sensory inputs nor motor outputs had properties which corresponded to the behavioural habituation, as neither showed such decrements in electrical response.

Indeed it is even possible to produce a form of associative learning in which behavioural and neurophysiological inputs are mixed.

But this peripheral vision processes input very fast, with visual information reaching the brain and mind more rapidly than from the binocular area.

In most humans the input and reactions were woven into a snarl that even biofeedback training could barely begin to unravel.

We completely short the input, et cetera, but how do we make with a gadget like that?

The end of the energy input was sensed immediately by the water coolant flowing in the fuel elements that no longer were super-hot.

The primary coolant, without the heat input from the nuclear fissions, had cooled to 350 degrees.

America new crashes, derailments and rail accidents were being reported, Smith input these new destinations into his exploding data base.

Bigelow built into their prototype predictor the feedback circuits needed to incorporate the tracking data derived from radar signals reflecting off enemy warplanes, and to feed that stream of new inputs to the computers targeting apparatus.

The hov jerked and rose up, following a previously inputted flight path.

DC voltage from any AC input up to a kilovolt at any frequency from fifty hertz to a kilohertz.

But next day they showed up unexpectedly at the Karmology Clinic with some input relating to Vietnam in general and Ortho Bob Dulang in particular, tales of who bought what in the Ton Son Nhut latrine while bats intercepted the legendary oversize mosquitoes, who entered wailing a hot bounded world they might, at the last moment, have recognized, and stoned bat-fishermen cast their hooked lines upward into the dark .

He turned to the control console and began inputting new instructions, altering the spacial and temporal paradigms.