# The Meaning of Liff

- Author: [Douglas Adams](https://www.leafyquotes.com/douglas-adams.md)
- Quotes: 7
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## Quotes

> WOKING (vb.) To enter the kitchen with the precise determination to perform something only to forget what it is just before you do it.

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> AALST (n.) One who changes his name to be further to the front.

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> FAIRYMOUNT (vb. n.) Polite word for buggery.

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> LAXOBIGGING (ptcpl.vb.) Struggling to extrude an extremely large turd.

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> SHOEBURYNESS (abs.n.) The vague uncomfortable feeling you get when sitting on a seat which is still warm from somebody else's bottom

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> ABOYNE (vb.) To beat an expert at a game of skill by playing so appallingly badly that none of his clever tactics or strategies are of any use to him.

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> CLIXBY (adj.) Politely rude. Briskly vague. Firmly uninformative.

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