The use of a more
expressi
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more di
stasteful wo
rd in place of an
other. It would be the opposite of euphemism.
Eu in greek means well or good; kakos means bad or evil.
Example: The use of the word corpse instead of the deceased is a good example.
caddiwompas: The state of being grossly out of alignment, skewed, or uneven.
Example: There was so much weight piled on one side of the van, it sat caddiwompas.
caddywampus: It means kittycorner, or askew.
Example: The tornado blew the house all caddywampus.
The liquor store is caddywampus from the Lovely Mullet Hair Say-lon.
caf: A cafeteria, preferably one in a highschool or college campus.
Example: Yeah, let's go to the caf and get some pizza.
Caffuffed: To be extremely exhausted and tired, as a result of which you fall asleep.
Example: I was caffuffed after cooking for the whole Smith family so I went straight to bed.
cage: Motorcyclists' slang for a car.
Example: Man, that cage almost hit me broadside.
cagey: Feeling pent up, need to get outside
Example: I've been in this office too long. I'm getting cagey
caggy: (clothing) Adjective meaning old and unwanted yet still useful i.e. decorating wear
Example: I'll put on those caggy jeans to clean out the garage
cak: Hitting your shin on something hard and usually blunt, so it makes the shin bone,
which is close to the skin on the front of your shin, hurt like bejesus.
From mountain biking, where the most usual blunt instrument for cakking is a pedal.
Example: Owwwwwww! Just cakked my right shin on my SPuD (qv) on that last descent.
cake: money, lots of it.
Example: That Bill Gates is rolling in cake!
cake: Used to describe a woman who has a fat ass--in a good way.
Example: J Lo has cake.
cake and pie: So easy as to be laughable, a piece of cake and easy as pie combined, from Bill Gibson, somewhere in the Neuromancer trilogy.
Example: Doing graphics on a Macintosh? Cake and pie!
cakehead: Someone who is not very bright.
Example: That cakehead just ran that redlight.
cakewalk: Easily done, same as a piece of cake.
Example: Our calculus test was cakewalk. [There is a dance called a cakewalk.
If you're on the right square when the music stops, you win a cake.
It's also defined as something accomplished with supreme ease.]
calamatastrophy: Worse than a calamity but not quite a catastrophe.
Example: There was a calamatastrophy involving 23 cars on the freeway last night
calculeer: The dead lifeless look on one's face after sitting through Mr. Graham's calculus class.
Example: Jane sure has a mean calculeer on her face today.
calcumalator: Calculator. Use the word when you want to feign stupidity.
Example: I can't do these physics problems, even when I use my calcumalator.
caldwellian: To brazenly use trickery, charm, craftiness or sleight of hand to get your way; to scam or grift; exhibiting or possessing a general mischieveous nature.
Example: So you planned the whole thing, and everyone got caught but you? How caldwellian.
calico cat: (adj) Great. Usually about a time, place, or event. This is used by just a few of my friends and me in Kalamazoo, MI.
Example: This At the Drive-In show is thoroughly calico cat.
Californication: The process of ruining the quality of life of a residential area by an influx of former residents of the state of California.
Example: Damn Californicators. They want to pass laws against breathing heavy.
caligula: A level of something, just above mad.
Example: Check out Bizarro with the powered-up chainsaw. He's caligula.
calipso: A frontal wedgie.
Example: