Inpidginous Vocab H
Do you find yourself lapsing into pidgin from time to time? God knows how long we've been here, trying to eat from the tree of knowledge and then falling from grace or from the Anglosphere. It may be time to consider a bit of a vocab overhaul and on the other hand some revision too. Don't be a hoon!
revision:
HEAD LIKE A REVOLVING MALLEE ROOT insulting description of somenone with unruly hair: Got a head like a revolving mallee root.
HORSE BITE a sharp blow to the skin (usually someone else's bare legs) with a cupped hand. Compare camel bite, crow peck, monkey shine.
HOW'S YOUR MOTHER'S CHOOKS? It meant "hello how are you?" It was used by my grandfather who is in his 70's now. When meeting someone: So, how's your Mother's chooks?
HILLS HOIST The hills hoist is a rotary clothes line fitted with a hoist that is operated by a crown and pinion winding mechanism. In Australia Lance Hill is commonly thought to have invented the rotary clothes hoist, but he adapted the existing design in 1946 by including his own winding mechanism. The name hills hoist is used generically in Australia for any rotary clothes line.
new words:
HOME MEAL REPLACEMENT n. A full, cooked meal purchased at a grocery store or other food outlet
HOMEPRENEUR n. An entrepreneur who creates and manages a home-based business.
HURRIED CHILD SYNDROME (HUR.eed chyld SIN.drum, -drohm) n. A condition in which parents overschedule their children's lives, push them hard for academic success, and expect them to behave and react as miniature adults.
—hurried child n.
One symptom of the hurried child syndrome is forcing pre-school children to constantly take classes and perform other "enrichment" exercises to help them prepare for school. This is also called hothousing
HETEROFLEXIBLE (het.ur.oh.FLEKS.uh.bul) n. A heterosexual person who is open to relationships with people of the same sex.
HEDGEHOG CONCEPT (HEJ.hawg kon.sept) n. An idea or concept that, if done extremely well and to the exclusion of almost everything else, can help a person's career or a company's business achieve their full potential.
The fox knows a little about many things, but the hedgehog knows only one big thing very well. The fox is complex; the hedgehog simple. And the hedgehog wins. Research shows that breakthroughs require a simple, hedgehog-like understanding of : what a company can be the best in the world at, how its economics work best, and what best ignites the passions of its people. Breakthroughs happen when you get the hedgehog concept and become systematic and consistent with it.
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