Actually a quethiock is a special type of hosiery that you have to wear when declaiming Shakespeare. It's designed to make your calves look weedy and your knees look enormous, such that you resemble a pair of struck matches tied together at the top.

Today we has:
Iwerne Courtney

long lost brother of an British actor, who was knighted in 2001 and the name Iwerne Courtney derives from when the Courtenays (a Devon family ) owned land here, on the Iwerne stream

Iwerne Courtney is, simply, Shroton.

That takes us to:
Warninglid

This is to be found on a tin of Corned Beef, to advise you that you are about to sever an artery trying to remove the contents.

A Shroton is a new torpedo under development by the federation to replace the photon torpedo.
.....and named after a place in Dorset, England, UK, Earth.


Warninglid.....its a procedure used by ladies of a certain persuasion whose come from sweden

If only! A warninglid is a device fitted to a dustbin to remind you of your recycling obligations. The more advanced versions can tell the time and will go off loudly enough to wake the entire street if you think you can get away with dumping glass in the general waste bin at three in the morning.

Kev1n - what persuasion, exactly ... ?

Today we as:
Giggleswick

Something that makes the memsahib laugh when she sees it for the first time.

no idea - I read it in a book

A candle impregnated with nitrous oxide?

The uses you could put that to ... I was going to suggest it was a counterpane that you just can't take seriously, but I take my hat off to you.

Saturday:
Mankinholes

Something Sacha Baron Cohen had in mind when he went to see his tailor?

Mankinholes are a form of linen napkin used mostly by men from Blackburn, Lancashire

oh....and giggleswicks are a form of artificial lighting requiring naked flames used once every year at a pagan festival; use is accompanied by a lot of laughing

Mankinholes are just places where you store your nephews, if you have any.

Sunday's word is
Widdop

A mankini worn by Ann Widicombe.

A sortie by a P61

In the late 20th century, the Japanese tried to manufacture drinks to rival the U.K. industry. When it came to canned beer, though, they were completely stymied by their inability to achieve the necessary quality, which was caused by, however hard they tried, their initial failure to recognise the importance of the widget in each can. Once the yen (no penny in Japan) dropped, they did everything in their power to find the original formula, but it was hidden in the wilds of the Yorkshire moors, where only the totally foolhardy will venture. Eventually, they decided to make their own, but, to hide the origins of the item, they gave it a German title, of Widget Doppelganger, but this was too long, since it went right round the can twice, so it had to be shortened to the word you see above.

Edgar, you nearly had me convinced until you claimed that a widget was an essential for canned beer. As any civilised person knows, a widget is death to beer, and in most cases so is a can.

A widdop is in fact a frog who's lost her husband.

Monday's word is:
Duntisbourne Leer

This will be my last for a while as I'm reverting to the 20th century over Christmas. Would anyone like to hold the fort until 3 January? I think we owe it to Obi to keep the old thread going ...

This came about after the local Hostelry in Duntisbourne, 'The Squire and Strumpet', emplyed a rather buxom young serving wench. Being a rural community, there were many land workers, mostly carrot crunchers and ploughmen, from the Squires estate, who frequented the hostelry on a daily basis, imbibing much local scrumpy. After several pints, the said locals were all trying to peer down the top of the said barmaid, who did much to encourage them. The landlord was delighted, as his profits grew, as did other things.
Naturally the term that evolved from admiring the barmaid's assets became known as the Duntisbourne Leer.

its a village somewhere in the middle of nowhere



I'll have a go at a word or two tho I am going to be awol myself from Dec 25 for four days.....

They're all villages in the middle of nowhere!

Thanks for offering to take over. Everyone else be nice to kev1n, now!

Yes

Please

Do

Why should we be nice to Kev1n? We hav'nt been up till now.

becasue if you dont, you know I'm bigger, stronger, harder and when I have taken over the world and rule with a rod of extreme and ruthless iron, you want to be in my good books, and not listed in my little black book of people to have bumped off by my secret service......


today's word -

Lucent

A small coin used to gain access to the little boy's room

[quote name='kev1n' date='Dec 20 2011, 04:10 PM' post='921149']
becasue if you dont, you know I'm bigger, stronger, harder and when I have taken over the world and rule with a rod of extreme and ruthless iron, you want to be in my good books, and not listed in my little black book of people to have bumped off by my secret service......


need i say more

ok, your in my litle black book.....and by the way, you dont know how to 'quote' properly

just thought I'd mention that......

well thats it then its all over im in the book best sell my stash and perpare for a nasty end ........................................... i think not

Your name isn't Kev1n Yong-Il by any chance.

no

and it's not Lucent either

or adolf
or Ghengis
or Pol
or Josef
or Erich
or any or those....

Can you just imagine it....a tyrant called Kev1n?

Wow, I never knew this was still going!

My guess tomorrow's word will be something to do with Cheese.

AR.

No word for today? so here's one >>
Ainderby Quernhow

Rats....beaten me to it!

I can actually......comfortably and with ease.....

it's another remote village, on a remote island somewhere in the pacific ocean, exact location unknown, inhabited by the long lost descendants of gentlemen of a certain persuasion whose bedroom habits led to their being excluded from society in the 19th century. The original comments given to these gentlemen went along the lines of "Aint they a bunch of Q***** how can they do that?"
Over time, this evolved into the island's present name

nb
this information was acquired through research in the school library's equalities section and it's use here implies, suggests or indicates no such proclivities either on the part of the school or its students or upon those who may, for whatever reason, trasmit the information contained herein to other parties

Today's word is

RUNDLET

a very small victorian roundabout

...it's gone quiet again.....

so in the absence of anything at all; here's today's word -

Swaddle.

What a duck does when it's p*ssed

close enough.....
and for my final word before my festive break;

Felicitations


back in four days
byeeeeee!

Looks like we have all been away for Christmas so the new word is >>
Ardgay

Something you don't want to meet down a dark alley.

pronounced "Ard Guy", it's a small village just outside Bonar Bridge in Sutherland. Ardgay itself is in Rossshire, and like Bonar Bridge,
is the scene of many wild parties (least it was in the '70s), worth hitchhiking 30 miles for . . .

The physical effect brought on by fantacies about Felicity Kendal ????

woody has it just about right....^
as for ardgay being in or out of bonar bridge, lets not go there.....

today's word -

Wilkommen Zuruck

und dir auch, Herr Kev1n.
Froehliche Weihnachten und ein gutes neues Jahr!

Producers of the X-rated version of Wallace and Gromit.

I see your Gaelic is improving!

..and a merry christmas and a happy new year to you as well Madnurse.....
who did get it about right

today's word -

Model Mini