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EAST WITTERING (n.) :
The same as west wittering (q.v.) only it's you they've trying
to get away from. EDGBASTON (n.) :
The spare seat-cushion carried by a London bus, which is placed
against the rear bumper when the driver wishes to indicate that
the bus has broken down. No one knows how this charming old custom
originated or how long it will continue. ELY (n.) :
The first, tiniest inkling you get that something, somewhere,
has gone terribly wrong. EMSWORTH (n.) :
Measure of time and noiselessness defined as the moment between
the doors of a lift closing and it beginning to move. EPPING (participial vb.) :
The futile movements of forefingers and eyebrows used when failing
to attract the attention of waiters and barmen. EPSOM (n.) :
An entry in a diary (such as a date or a set of initials) or a
name and address in your address book, which you haven't the faintest
idea what it's doing there. EPWORTH (n.) :
The precise value of the usefulness of epping (q.v.). It is a
little-known fact than an earlier draft of the final line of the
film Gone with the Wind had Clark Gable saying 'Frankly my dear,
i don't give an epworth', the line being eventually changed on
the grounds that it might not be understood in Cleveland. ERIBOLL (n.) :
A brown bubble of cheese containing gaseous matter which grows
on Welsh rarebit. It was Sir Alexander Flemming's study of eribolls
which led, indirectly, to his discovery of the fact that he didn't
like Welsh rarebit very much. ESHER (n.) :
One of those push tapes installed in public washrooms enabling
the user to wash their trousers without actually getting into
the basin. The most powerful esher of recent years was 'damped
down' by Red Adair after an incredible sixty-eight days' fight
in Manchester's Piccadilly Station. EVERSCREECH (n.) :
The look given by a group of polite, angry people to a rude, calm
queuebarger. EWELME (n.) :
The smile bestowed on you by an air hostess. EXETER (n.) :
All light household and electrical goods contain a number of vital
components plus at least one exeter. If you've just mended a fuse,
changed a bulb or fixed a blender, the exeter is the small, flat
or round plastic or bakelite piece left over which means you have
to undo everything and start all over again.