PRYDXL

1. any unknown Mayan alchemical compound [MA]

2. contradictions which only "seem" paradoxical [MA]

3. martianspeak as received by Jack Spicer

4. the ability to forget one's own phone number in a crisis [MA]

5. a web anthology of text, poems, music which which which contain little if any recognizable English. please send your submissions to Miekal And at dtv@mwt.net no deadline. what do words want?

6. a detachment disability triggered by repeated leverage buy-outs. [SK]

7. (n) in Goidelic mythology the son of Bubo and Psalter. Leprechauns kidnapped him at birth. [SK]

8. (n) one hundredth part of the Senate of Ninevah. [SK]

9. (n) an experimental fuel for disposable butane lighters. to date, it does not mix very well with methane series having two isomeric forms; however, scientists at genome labs inc., washington d.c., in a recent Scientific Journal article stated, "the mistakes were inherently isomeric. isomorphic experiments on mice look more promising, with less spelling errors, and we are all fired up by the initial results." [SK]

10. someone who has an obsessive-compulsive snooping disorder. [SK]

11. dogmatic assertion of the order of time or importance; usually referring to someone who says, "I was here first!" [SK]

12. a factory where pixels are produced. [SK]

13a. juvenile pterodactyl, faux fawn wanna be, fain, as signet is to swan [GM]

13b. (per-y-dok-l) (n) (New Latin Prydxlactylus, genus of small juvenile reptiles, from Greek pryteron wing + daktylos finger, 1830) any of various juvenile Prydxlosaurs (suborder Prydxlvloidea) of the Late Jurassic and Cretaceous period having a rudimentary tail and small yellow beak, main diet of mushrooms and coprolite. [CB]

14. sap extracted from the cones of indigenous pine trees; used as a preservative in eggnog. [SK]

15. a parody in essay form; used with 'of', the students were each asked to write a prydxl of War and Peace for the final examination. [SK]

16. party game using ten digits or fingers. [SK]

17. (archaic) ancient Portuguese monetary unit. [SK]

18. uncertain outcome; when one hedges one's bets, refuses to predict or to take one side v. the other, one will issue a prydxl instead, thereby playing it safe; used mostly in legal briefs. [SK]

19.(v)(colloquial) to coin. orig. Medieval when monks would engrave their favorite slogans on the front and back of coin units to be used as talismans. gave rise to expressions such as, heads or tails and six of one half-dozen of the other. fell into disuse sometime after the invention of the two-headed coin, subsequent to which, you had flip sides of the same. [SK]

20. refers to nosey northerners who pry into the ways of southerners.[JF]

21. Xray vision produced when unraveling the double helix into cerebral cortex [EH]

22. (n) the term used in literary criticism to describe a work that displays a powerful understanding of critical theory and an able, highly experimental manipulation of the medium, but that ultimately says absolutely nothing definite, and will support any number of contradictory interpretations. is said to be named after the first text written in such a fashion, whose entire body reads 'prydxl.' informal. [DS]

23. (n) An invitation to play euchre in Alaska. [JK]

24. (n) An inconstant, unfixed, but ever-present and ever-moving co-ordinate in a computational device's active matrix at any given time. Synchronic patterns within the matrix may result in all action within the matrix being fatally suspended due to the "prydxl" being "corralled" (cf). Operating systems cannot give a warning when they suffer such a "prydxl lock". The device must be isolated from its power source and then reconnected. It is recognised that most if not all computational device freezes are caused by the locking of a prydxl. It is not yet clear whether more than one "prydxl" lock can happen simultaneously. [AM]

25. (n) that which comes before prediction (Orig:Babel Fish Corp) [SR]

26. (n) A Freudian slip accompanied by an excessive flow of saliva. As in - "Oops! I didn't mean to say it or spray it!" "You prydxlite!" [MS]

27. The predicament of having one's penis caught in an orifice (post copulation). A phenomenon that often occurs with mating dogs. [DW]

28. It's a toothpaste. Better than Crest. [JR]

29. (pree-diks-ul) (slang) a sum equivalent to $10,000. The term derives from the surname of Uigurstani president Najmani Prydxl who reputedly won his country's presidency by paying that amount to have ballot boxes excluded from the counting process (cf. a BUSH). Common usage...Do this favour for me and it's worth a prydxl. [AM]

30. one having an inordinate amount of pride (as in pride XL) [CB]

31. acronym for: People Rallying for Yankee Doodle Xenophobes of Louisiana! [CB]

32. Albanian slang for "the eye of the needle". [DW]

33. a change-changer used primarily by mass merchandise supermarkets; a machine which predetermines a fixed, arbitrary X% of the gross and bilks customers of this amount for its work; a device which leaves consumers net amount figures to exchange for paper money; an invention used to empty ashtrays, vases and the like in the home environment, where pocket change (pennies et al) has been known to collect at the speed of light; (orig.) modelled on the pinball machine, it saves customers and consumers alike the arduous tasks of counting, squeezing and rolling up change into those impossibly small paper wrappers, and then having to stand in long lines at banks for the equivalent amount in bank notes; an apparatus that changes change into cash while you play pokemon. [SK]

34. in sibling sequencing the prydxl follows the prodigy; in a family of multiples, the middle child who competes for attention; in botany, a root that sprouts at a radically different angle. [SK]

35. [L., from Gr. prydxlaeos, raw meat] the raw meat eaten by plants when roasted to a pulp by geographical natives; has world-wide distribution. [SK]

36. a robbery that almost doesn't come off [MH]

37. (n) A complex wherein the sufferer discovers that they are neither here nor there. As in -"In a state of prydxl." [MS]

38. a mirror-hung car deodorizer [MH]

39. a state of confusion one experiences when she doesn't know why she's being asked to provide her full name. [DW]

40. (v) (from the Sanskrit prydxlshad, to sit and await) to sit and wait anxiously. [SK]

41. (n) Shampoo specifically designed by the Oxydyl Corp., for putting kinks into your hairstyle. Also used in the early 18th Century by Max G. Oxydyl for his washing soap product, which was not as successful a product as his special socks for soldiers in cold war zones. [SR]

42. (n) the scab on top of a syphilitic chancre located in the genital region; not to be confused with prydxill, a non-syphilitic scab; prydxlous, a., having the qualities of a prydxl. [SK]

43. a now dis-credited anti-depressant, once lauded as "the sunshine pill". The active ingredient, prydxline hydrochloride, was suspected of causing hemorrhagic fever but initial research papers voicing this suspicion were concealed by the manufacturers Eli Glaxy and the drug extensively trialled in sub-Saharan Africa. It was never patented for use in The US or Europe. Prydxline hydrochloride is now used as an ingredient in the manufacture of flame retardant seating in aircraft. [AM]

44. Brand name pro generic cynic Rx; active ingredients toxin cynicisms [GM]

45. a term derived from Linguistic Theory denoting a refinement in the practice of stylistic analysis. [AM]

46. a laboriously contrived fiction which the user supposes enhances his or her image. [AM]

47. instant genus arcane, of phylum berry dxls that have to eschewed woe before uttering produces extreme whazat, herb? [GM]

48. spam in the guise of junk mail. [SK]

49. (from the L. ipse oopse) a confirmed rumor. [SK]

50. The fortelling of a catastrophic event. First coined by Max Troosie who hollered moments before the Hindenburg landed "I zense an imminent prydxl." Unfortunately Mr. Troosie did not live to enjoy the prominence of his verbal contribution to the dictionary. [DW]

51. the key on your keyring you forget what it goes to, but you keep anyway because you think it might be something important [MH]

52. putative quote gene marker for owning a sequence of nouns and verbs, effete of copyright, as if one could property own beckoning. [GM]

53.(n) an ongoing situation of uncertain future duration (etym. uncertain) [AM]

54. (cinemat.) The encoded password of the computer programme in Gorachovski's banned 1973 film noir we have the keys of the planet. Gorachovski concocted the word by latinising his telephone number, Pryograd 540. [AM]

55. forcing the lid off a medicine bottle [DC]

56. plural form of the noun, "srydxxxl." [BG]

57. (n) A very high powered prescription drug. In the United States, prescription drugs are classified into 5 "schedules" and are symbolized with a Roman numeral and the letter "x" to denote narcotic. The letter "p" denotes prescription; "r" denotes regulated; "y" denotes psychotropic; and "d" denotes dangerous. "xl" denotes extra large dosage. [CB]

58. A yodel, made up on the spot but somehow making perfect sense, within the melodic structure of the existing song. [JT]

59. (n) (abbr. PRYDXL) Peoples' Represenative Yeshiva to Destroy Xenophobia in Learning [CB]

60. "pryd" is "prayed", past tense of "pray"; and "xl" signifies abundance, fullness, a large quantity; therefore, "prydxl" is a state of extreme, extravagant, overly abundant prayerfulness; also, a praying festival [CB]

61. n. the prydxl is a large green insect, similar to a grasshopper, with a triangular head and two long antennae, that inhabits the forests of southern France. They can be very aggressive when provoked. [WS]