Borchers

1. Individuals residing in rural northwest Iowa who are often featured in stories told by grandparents; such stories may involve the subject eating too much ice-cream and developing a stomach ache or diarrhea, stepping in cow maneur, or falling asleep in front of the television after an exhausting day.

2. Residents in rural northwest Iowa who one tell stories about, regardless of whether the listener knows or cares about the subjects.

1. Ol' Borcher came home t' other night with a gut-ache; guess he ate an entire large pizza at The Pizza Ranch.

2. I hadn't walked through the door before Grandma started telling a story about how one o' the Borchers accidentally scooped up his pet cat while shovelin' snow.

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Clams

Nuts, testicles; most frequently used to explain situations in which a guy gets it in the balls.

Oof! Uuuggghhhh... I just got it in the clams.

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aewggs

(n.) eggs, as pronounced by dads; the way dads pronounce the word "eggs"; similar to dads' pronunciations of yogurt and apples (e.g. yogewt, appoes)

When Dad called on his way over, he said, "I stopped by Modaoe and I'm bringin' some aewggs."

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Heminway

A term used to desribe someone who is a writer, though more frequently someone who fashions him/herself a writer but really isn't, or is not a very good one; derived from the name Ernest Hemingway, famed American novelist and story writer, but with the "g" removed to give it a colliquial informal feel, suggesting its ironic nature.

Ol' Heminway over there is writing all the time; too bad it's all drivel! That schmuck thinks he's going to be the next great novelist.

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big nuts

big balls

He's got big nuts.

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Grunt

1. (v.) defecate, crap, poop (grunts, grunted)

2. (n.) crap, poop, turd

syn: poop (n.,v.); log, load (n.)

1. I grunted after the big lunch.

2. Byrne left a big grunt in the can.

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Snert

(snd., excl.) A term that has no meaning or definition, usually spoken, though it may be written, to make an acqaintance laugh in an inappropriate situation; the term is often spoken as the speaker looks slightly downward and generally to the left or right, sometimes with his open hand extended outward from his nose

Hiedeman, not knowing that Robley had whispered "snert" to Horse and Roof, was perplexed by all of the laughter in the classroom.

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