A small percentage of a political candidate's overall electability that puts her/him over the top. The amount of good looking that it takes a candidate to edge out a political opponent.
The candidate with the most Cute Factor usually wins the election.
Cute Factor won the election.
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Advice delivered in a prideful, arrogant and flippant or facetious manner.
"Can you stop talking long enough for your lips to catch up?", she smuggested.
"Please, sit down and rest your brain.", was his smuggestion
A reusable, cloth or other material shopping bag or sack.
A bag other than those that the store provides.
A tote that you bring with you for putting items that you have purchased at a store into.
A recycled shopping bag.
"I conserve resources by bringing my baug(s) to the store with me."
"Jeeves, it's time to shop. Gather up my baugs and we shall be going."
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Terrain/land that is not mountainous, but has elevation. A specific area of land that gains in elevation and then drops, although not as much as a mountainous area would.
The land area below the Rocky Mountains is hillious.
We took a hike that was rather steep and hillious.
Monologue: a (usually long) dramatic speech by a single actor.
Monologophobia:
A fear of performing memorized speeches within plays or other performance types.
A fear of forgetting a memorized speech during a performance.
A fear that encompasses avoiding trying out for plays or other performance venues with long speeches in them, that must be memorized.
I can't try out for the community theater's version of Steel Magnolias, because I have monologophobia.
If I get the part of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, then I am sure that my monologophobia will ruin my performance.
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