Buzzbombers
Weevly beans
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| Bananas |
WDCS211:
Slang for money. Set aside the very
common names for specific pieces of money
(greenback, fiver, dime, quarter) Barks
also excelled in more 'exotic' names such
as Coconuts, Fins, Shin Plasters,
Simoleons, Smackers. U$36:
Moola. WDCS226: Pesozies |
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| Blinkus of the Thinkus |
FC0456:
Mild form of amnesia |
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| Blistergall |
U$63: A
powerful acid (Blister means swelling of
the skin, Gall means bitter liquid) |
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| Bohimaton |
WDCS036:
Something of a huge size. Barks once
divulged from where he got the fantasy
word: The only person I ever heard
use the word was my first father-in-law.
He was an Englishman, and when he was
talking to kids, he would tell them scary
stories about these big bohimatons that'd
come down the stairs in the dark! |
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| Buzzbombers |
WDCS158:
Attacking bees |
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| Camparee |
WDCS262: A
scouts' camporee (subtraction of Camp and
Jamboree) |
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| Feeblewit |
WDCS280:
Person of little intelligence |
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| Fiddlefoot |
WDCS261:
Someone unsteady on his feet (in this
case a nervous deer) |
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| Fluker |
WDCS251:
One who is bestowed with a stroke of good
luck |
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| Hodad |
WDCS280: A
name for a fake surfer. Barks used this
highly specialized surfer term along with
another one, Cowabunga, which is a more
widely known outcry today |
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| Horriferocious |
U$24:
Terrible (subtraction of Horrific and
Ferocious) |
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| Litterbugging |
WDCS270:
Discarding rubbish while dancing (combination
of Litter and Jitterbugging). Barks used
a similar expression of his in an
interview: Just thinking up troubles
that could beset Uncle Scrooge because of
his coin collection scared me into a
lifestyle of financial fritterbugging.
The term Fritterbugging may be 'decoded'
into meaning Spending |
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| Nycron |
WDCS292:
Barks' version of a synthetic polymer
such as nylon |
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| Odzookens |
WDCS233: A
rarely used outcry meaning Dear Me
or words to that effect |
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| Phonus Artichokus |
WDCS199: An
invented planet name (Phonus means Phony
or Fake and Artichokus could -
besides being the name of the vegetable
Artichoke - also mean Thin Air which is
much more plausible considering the
subject) |
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| Photogs |
WDCS247:
Slang for Photographers |
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| Puckeritis of the Pipelines |
SF2: Fake
doctors' Latin for contraction in the
veins |
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| Ramfire petrol |
WDCS255:
Powerful engine fuel (besides the direct
interpretation of Ram being a type of
sheep and Fire being Flames you could
also see Ram as a term meaning Force and
Fire as a term meaning Something
Extremely Good) |
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| Snippishness |
WDCS289:
Uncontrolled and Quick-witted (probably a
contraction from Snippy meaning sharp-tongued
and Snappishness meaning Irritability) |
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| Super-Zow gasoline |
WDCS255:
Powerful engine fuel (Zow may be rooted
in the term Zowie, an outcry which
denotes Shock or Disbelief) |
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| Vigahrizes |
U$47:
Stimulates (from the American-English
term Vigor) |
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| Vimmy |
WDCS234:
Acting without thinking (probably taken
from the term Whimsy meaning a Fanciful
Idea) |
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| Weevly |
WDCS283:
Old term for contaminated food.
Especially widespread between British
sailors who used to sing a sad song
called Leave Her, Johnny, Leave Her
when they were returning to port after an
endless journey. One of the dismal verses
sounds: There was rotten meat and
weevly bread, you'd eat it or you'd
starve to death! |
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| Whozzix |
WDCS194:
Barks' term for a gizmo or a device which
is hard to name precisely. The Who (or
even the term Who's it?) is implicit thus
strengthening the term |
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