P is for Possiblay, Placeland and Pants!

PAGARISM [noun]
Pronunciation Page A Rizzum.
Meaning Stealing somebody's website ideas.
Usage "If you steal my ideas, you will not only be convicted of pagarism, but sent first class to your nearest mental hospital."
Origin Zed and Meaghan (I think), mid-1998.

PANE [noun]
Pronunciation Pane
Meaning Pain, in a teenybopper / bad goth sense.
Usage "one of the hostees of sparklyaquaticingeniosuskewlkitty [dot] org bashed me on the purpleblickhamsterdroppings UBB!!!!!! teh pane!"
Origin Zed and Twi, late 1998.

PANG [noun]
Pronunciation Pang
Meaning Bent brown plastic thing with a cross-shaped cross-section, suitable for holding up tile-Rummikub boards.
Usage Preventing other players from seeing what tiles you've got.
Origin MB Games, probably. I gave them the name, though, in the early 90s.

PANTS [adjective / exclamation]
Pronunciation Pants
Meaning Rubbish / darn!
Usage "Everything else is elasticated pants." "I have a grade 8 piano exam in two days and I still can't play Twinkle Twinkle Little Star with one hand. Pants!"
Origin Although very well known these days, Noj started saying it in May 1998. As everyone I know picked it up off me, it has to be included in Creat.

PEEM (1) [noun]
Pronunciation Peem.
Meaning Pound or pound coin.
Usage Spending?
Origin Zed's Uncle, 2000.

PEEM (2) [noun]
Pronunciation Peem.
Meaning One of those cardboard cones which come with wool wrapped round them.
Usage They probably make quite effective sex toys weapons for hitting people over the head with.
Origin Zed's Grandmother, Some Decades Ago.

PHOBILE MOAN [noun]
Pronunciation Foe Byle Mone
Meaning Mobile Phone
Usage Keeping in touch with your friends. Extensive usage can be harmful due to radiation, though.
Origin Probably the 80s.

PHOTOGEENIC [adjective]
Pronunciation Foe toe geen ick. The 'g' of 'geen' is about as easy as it is to look good in a photo.
Meaning Looking like a geen in photos.
Usage "Please put me in Geen Magazine! I'm very photogeenic."
Origin Zed, early 1999.

PINK [adjective]
Pronunciation Pink
Meaning Annoying or ax-worthy.
Usage "'Pink' by Aerosmith is totally pink."
Origin Noj, early 1998, but it died out quickly. Or perhaps it dyed out quickly, when Zed's mother accidentally washed it with some black clothes.

PLACELAND / PLACELAND PLACE [noun]
Pronunciation Place Land / Place Land Place.
Meaning As well as a v. groovy Paul Simon album, the name of any place that you can't remember or don't wish to reveal.
Usage "Now, where did I leave my brain? Oh, yes, in placeland place."
Origin Zed, 1998.

PLOOMED INTO GLUNGE
Pronunciation Ploomd In Tu Glundge
Meaning Thrown into darkness.
Usage "There was a bright flash of light before I was once again ploomed into glunge."
Origin Zed's mother, 1923 BC. (Yes, she's that old.) Spoonerised version of the phrase "plunged into gloom".

POSSIBLAY [adverb]
Pronunciation Poss Ib Lie
Meaning Possibly.
Usage "I was going to call this website 'Possiblay Mebbe' until I realised I hated Bjork."
Origin Zed, 1998 ish.

PRITTY [adjective]
Pronunciation Pritt E.
Meaning 1. Pretty, in a teenyboppery sense. 2. Covered in glue.
Usage 1. "Omigawd, that neon orange gypsy skirt is, like, soooooooo pritty!" 2. "We're so pritty, oh so pritty!"
Origin 1. Abducted from The Boppers by The Unholy Trinity in early 1999. 2. Zed, 2000, while researching for her thesis on the correlation between punk rockers and glue sniffing (started when New Wave music got stuck in her head a lot) another obvious example being The Buzzcocks' "I don't get U-hu!"

PROSPECTI / PROSPECTORA [noun]
Pronunciation Pros Peck Tea / Pros Peck Torah
Meaning The plural of "prospectus", a brochure advertising a school or university.
Usage Deciding whether you want to attend an educational establishment or not. Still, you shouldn't make a decision until you've seen the place for yourself.
Origin Zed, early 1998, while studying them. She isn't sure whether "prospectus" would be a first or third group noun, were it Latin, hence the indecisiveness over the correct plural.

PSYCHICS [noun / adjective]
Pronunciation Sigh-kicks.
Meaning Physics.
Usage "There was no astrology section on our Psychics paper. Booers!"
Origin Zed, 1998.

PSYCHOLOGIT [noun]
Pronunciation Sy Coll Oh Git
Meaning Geenic psychologist.
Usage "I'm schizophrenic and the psychologit had the nerve to ask me who I was!"
Origin Liz, 2000. A typo, but we liked it.

GO PUMPH [verb]
Pronunciation Goe Pumf
Meaning Despite the inherent rudeness of this phrase, it refers to hair. Go puffy / kinkier than usual. The opposite is the equally dubious phrase "go whee".
Usage "Your hair's gone pumph again today."
Origin Bryn, 2001, when describing the usual state of Ibid's hair.

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