W is for Wabt The Pane!, Wots, Wuv and Woog!
WABT [verb]
Pronunciation Wobt. Noj always pronounces it 'wabt' (a bit like 'rabbit') though.
Meaning Want, in Bad Goth Bopper speak.
Usage "I wabt teh ability to come up with a half decent example sentence, mimphit!"
Origin Zed, January 1999, in a line of a bad goth poem. For some reason, Twi found it hysterical, so it stuck.
WAO! [exclamation]
Pronunciation Wow!
Meaning Wow!
Usage "Wao! It's an example sentence!"
Origin Sarah Yoj and Zed, simultaneously, late 1999.
WEBBIS [noun]
Pronunciation Weh biss
Meaning Naughty person.
Usage "Oh, you're such a little webbis!"
Origin My mother or grandmother, ages ago.
WELL THAN MORECAMBE
Pronunciation Well Thun More Come
Meaning More Than Welcome
Usage "You're well than Morecambe to make use of this example sentence, although why you'd want to, I can't imagine."
Origin Zed, 1998.
WHAT?
Pronunciation A very fast "Wat?" that would do well in the question, "WHAT ees your name?"
Meaning What?
Usage "I think West Life are the best group ever." "WHAT?"
Origin Zed, 1999.
GO WHEE [verb]
Pronunciation As it looks.
Meaning Not as rude as it looks. It refers to hair, and means to go straighter than usual, with a slight kink at the end. The opposite is to go pumph.
Usage "Your hair's gone whee instead of pumph."
Origin Bryn, 2001, when referring to Ibid's hair in an unusual state.
WINDIZ [noun]
Pronunciation Win Dizz.
Meaning Windows, as in the computer type.
Usage "Why aye, man, ah've got Windiz, but ah he-at it!"
Origin A forward I found at Phar Site about the Geordie version of Windows.
WINDOZE [noun]
Pronunciation Win Doze.
Meaning Windows, as in the computer type, used in a derogatory sense.
Usage "Windoze won't shut down properly."
Origin Aevil Microsoft. I think I got the name "Windoze" from some pro-Acorn games writer.
WISHDOSHER [noun]
Pronunciation Wish Dosh Ur.
Meaning Dishwasher.
Usage Washing dishes. Duh.
Origin The 80s, right? Word invented by my Mum.
WOOG [adjective / exclamation]
Pronunciation Wooog.
Meaning Cute, in a somewhat grandmotherly sense.
Usage "Aren't you just the woogiest woogie in the whole wide world?"
Origin Twi, mid 1997. Several years early, I invented an adjective "Woog P" to describe houses built at T junctions that were inevitably crashed into lorries a lot. But let's just forget about that, ok?
WORM DRIVER [noun]
Pronunciation Wurm Dryvur
Meaning Dreamweaver, a WYSIWYG HTML editor from Macromedia.
Usage "My thirty day Worm Driver trial period ran out in December. Rsers."
Origin Dad, November 1999. Coincidentally, one of the things I've been using Macromedia software for since the term was coined has been to propel a worm across the computer screen . . .
WOTS [noun]
Pronunciation Wots.
Meaning Lots.
Usage "There are wots of pants example sentences around these days."
Origin Zed, late 1999. It went well with "wuv".
WUV [noun]
Pronunciation Wuv.
Meaning Love.
Usage "Don't you just wuv these useless example sentences?"
Origin Shrug, late 1999. Shrug is good at coming up with words.
WW2BAM [noun]
Pronunciation "Hoo wobts?"
Meaning "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?", a TV program where the only easy questions are those you know the answers to.
Usage WW2BAM? Not I, said the snail!
Origin Roe, late 1999. My initial reaction, "World War 2 Bam?"
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