the sound an unschooler makes while fleeing "concerned" and "well meaning" adolts who ask "Why aren't you in school/college?" or "What are you going to do with your life?"
the sound a squirrel makes while flying through mid-air after being flung from a catapult with a hangover from consuming way too many vodka-soaked acorns.

Argle Barf:(exclam) Argâ¡2f, var. Argle Bargle: Argâ¡2gl

Argle Barf

Adolt: (noun) ay dolt

Someone who has a 9 to 5 job which they don't enjoy
Someone who thinks getting money is the purpose of life
Someone who does not enjoy life
The voice that tells you you'll understand when you're older
Someone who pretends to be wiser than they actually are

Adult: Ad Alt

What one must be too watch naughty movies.

Ayeme: (adj) AI me

A wish to spend more time with a certain person, in a more-than-friends not-precisely-definable way. Example: "I feel ayeme towards you."
See also Relationship

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Bitch: you mean you don't know how to pronounce that? ARRRG!

street-slang for "stating one's misfortunes"
a good thing to do with other people..."Never bitch alone, Scarlett. People find out..." -Rhett Butler
a nice thing to do with friends: SEE: BitchingCircle

Bitching Circle:

something where you go around and state your troubles. Especially nice to do with cute guys

Bleem:(adj) bleem

A sort of happy anger
See also: Gloop
A copyright infringement.

Book:(noun) buk

hard copy alternitive to computers. They can never be erased! A miracle!
But sadly they can be burned:(
A source of knolage.
A source of spelling. Hopefully.
Something else to waste money and library space on. Sheesh. Why can't we just get on with life people? This is the Age of Technology! Stop reading paper and cutting down trees! Feel the friendly glow of the computer screen! [9]
A word collection.
A wonderful source of entertainment, surpassing all others except unschooler stuff on the computer. And sometimes books are even better than that! [14]
What most of my friends (who go to school) don't recognize when I show them one.

Botheration:(exclam) bo ther a shun

A word used to indicate badness, instead of other, more extreme words

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Canadi: (noun, I think) kah nah die

A singular Canadian. (A.K.A.: Kanadeans, Candians, etc.) See Also: Sad Candian. Kind of how one dice is a die. It's spelled with only an I at the end because as an English speaker I like to be difficult.

Canadae: (pl. noun, I think) kah nah day

Multiple Canadians. See Also: Happy Candians.
In the Animal Classification Table (for want of the correct name) it's also the Family name for canines. (or something like that.) This can be taken as either an insult or a compliment. I, for one, mean it has a compliment because I love the doggies, the wolves (I wouldn't have called myself Black Wolf a few years ago if I didn't), and the other canine Peoples, and I think Canadians are pretty rad too. (In case you haven't guessed I'm American.) You agree with me then, eh? : )

Chiyah: (interj) chee yahw (kinda rolled together) or chee Yahw

an exclaimation of joy and/or excitement. Tantamount to "yeah", "hell yeah", "dude", or "awesome".
an exclaimation of approval or radness.

Chopsticks: (plural noun) chop stiks

Alternative silverware. Useful for eating. (rice and nori, oatmeal, spahgetti, pancakes, potatoes, applesauce, barley soup, parmesean cheese, etc.) Also useful for putting up long hair, conversation starters, knitting, public weirdness, killing vampires, dueling, emergency surgery, and many other uses.

How exactly do you eat oatmeal with chopsticks?

Carefully and quickly. Precision is required, as is Oatmeal that is thick enough.

Ah, oatmeal that is thick enough. I could probably do this with my cornmeal mush, but I tend to like my oatmeal almost runny enough to drink.

Then that's what you should do. Drink it!

Circle: (noun) ser kul

A vaguely oblong shape made when there are large amounts of homeschoolers who need to see and hear eachother.
To the uninitiated it may resemble a square, octagon, triangle, or many other shapes.
One of many GenerallyUniformOvoids

Clog:(group noun) klog

"a school of fish", "a flock of birds", "a clog of unschoolers"

Referring to large (more then 2) groups of unschoolers at large, complete with hair dye, baggy jeans, long hair, shaved heads, art supplies, geek toys, stacks of books and arms wrapped firmly around each other. Applies well to unschoolers habits of clogging up a system like school

Crud (adj) krud

A word to indicate bothersome-ness.
The stuff inbetween your toes, or your ears, if you're That Rick.
A vast amount of useless stuff.

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Define: (v) dee fine

to un find something, usually homework assigments
to make up something that sounds fine and post it in the unschooler dictionary.

Denial: Da' Nile

A river in Egypt.
The long time homeland of Repulicrats.
The only place where Policese makes any sence or is even vaguely cohearent.

Deprilirium: dep ri leer ee um

a cross between deprivation and delirium. Most commenly found in the phrase "sleep deprilirium" (see Don'tQuoteThat)

Describe:(vt) De skrï¢?*to unscribe something, like unwriting something: see Erase

Dog:(n) dog

A small Horse.
A largish bird.
A medium sized elephant.
A fuzzy carbon based lifeform.
A cohesive amount of energy that, once assembled, can be referred to as a "dog"
What you've been working like after you've had a hard day's night.
God spelled backwards.
Frisbee fetching balls of energy.
A domesticated canine.

Drain: drey-n

The sort of place where you find clogs.
The sort of place NBTSC is for clogs of unschoolers.
The sort of place Wikiweb is for clogs of wikin.
Some place in the USA

Dude:(n,vt,adj) dood

An all-purpose word, can be used it any context, to mean almost anything, or quite often, absolutely nothing.
Something to say when you're tired from staying up til 2 AM the night before and you can't quite put what you want to say into words. Just say dude. Someone will understand.
Something moms don't like to be called. [13]

Duffyhead:(n) duff ee hed

Someone who's head and Duff are interchangeable.

Dufyhead:(n) doo fee hed [8]

Someone who is a Dufyhead, or acts in a Dufyheaded way.
Someone who does not know what a Dufyhead is.
Someone who refuses to define Dufyhead.

"I think I refuse to define dufyhead, therefore I am dufyhead."

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Eh: (n) pronounciation: unknown. Supposed: A

Something Canadians say when they don't understand what is going on, and they try to make themselves look important by claiming that only THEY know how to say it. But we Americans, since we are people of freedom, can say it however we like. Ay! Take that, Heather Ted and Neil! (berly sticks out her tongue.) [16]
Wrong! We understand perfectly. We use 'eh' to signify the end of a sentence sometimes, though.

Erase:(n) uh race

A sport in the Computer Olymics
A lifeform found only in servers.
An electronic race, hence: E-race.

Evil:(adj, n) ee vil, ee vul

Good.
Very very very bad, wicked, and nasty.
Something you say to Eve when she's about to run into a hill: "Eve! 'ill"
"E" type vileness, of course!
An electronic type of vileness.

[-6] 'F' section

Fair:

What Life is.

Farfelheimer:(exclam) Far fel hi mer

Farfelhimer, exam.: "Oh, Farfelheimer!"

Feeg: (verb) feegh

Tired. Example: I'm all feeged out.

Folic Acid: (noun) fall ic ass id

If you want to become the Fooseball champ eat Lucky charms before hand, or, if no Lucky charms are available, someother source of Folic Acid.

Forever: as in "we'll be together forever!"

An eternity.
A lifetime.
About Two Years usually.

Frolic Acid: (verb) (abv. for "Frolicing while on acid")

Generally speeking a bad idea for long term health.

Frood and/or Froody: (I have to Add this???) Froo~d or Froo~dee.

[noun]~really amazingly together guy.
[adj]~really togther, cool amazing zow-bangity whoop neato! *Usage.."Hey, you sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? Theres a frood who knows where his towel is."

Funtabulous: (adj) fuhn taab yeh luss

Fun and fabulous.

[-7] 'G' section

Geek: [n] geek

Like a Hacker. Think of a hacker larva.
Person who sticks out like a sore thumb for lack of conformity and general intelligence, esp. in the school system.
Not such a bad thing to be, in this age where techno geeks rule the world. Definitions involving chicken heads no longer apply.

Gloop:(adj) gloop

To feel a sort of numbish happy melancholy.
Play dough with too much water in it

Gold:(noun,adj) gull d

Not Boring
"Here comeeees Gold! Glitter and Gold! (up an octave) Here comeees Gold! Glitter and Gold! (Now, in a dramatic voice) Here comes Glitter and Goooollllld, Gooooooolllld, Goooooooooooollllllld!!!!!" [10]

Grinnle:

To grin in more-than-usual goofy way.

Grok: (v) grahk

To competely understand something
Cannibalism (they're not mutally exclusive)
See 'Stranger in a Strange Land' by Robert Heinlen'

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Hack: (n, v) hak

To play Hackysack
To whack something into little pieces
Something Robyn does to her poor ponies
To cough loudly and conspicuously

Hacker: (adj) ha k r

One who plays Hackysack
See http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html

Happy Candians: (n) hap pee can dee ans

Mutiple Canadians.
A bunch of Canadians making fun of Americans. Note: There is no such thing as a Happy Candian (singular) unless that Candian is outside of the US or in the company of unschoolers.

Happy dog: (n)

Another term for a stinkdog.
The opposite of this term is Sad dog.

Heaven:(n) heh vin

Not Back To School Camp, see: NBTSC
more seriously, something we yearn for all our lives

Hurrah Hurroh: her-ah her-oh

An word to exclaim when pleased.

[-9] 'I' section

Icky: (adj) î·«ee

Something or someone very random.
Something or someone very cool.
Something or someone with a very big head.
Something or someone who wears a red hat.
Zack Shuman
A hairplug left in a bathtub strainer after someone has taken a shower. See crud.
A clog of wikin in a drain.

Imagineer: ihm aj in EER

example: all the people who were talking about ways to make an ideal chopstick
an engineer with imagination
"someone who builds things that, until they built them, weren't buildable." -Alan Moses, Marina and Ethan's dad
A movie theater for microbes build within an ear.

Insultation: In Sul tAY Shon

when one says something that is sure to get them insulted.

Example of use: "You set your self up for insultation!"

[-10] 'J' section

Jake: Jae 'K.

jakes are beyond description with mear words.

Just Friends: (adj)

There's something wacky going on here.
See also Relationship and Squimblish

[-11] 'K' section

[-12] 'L' section

Lerrrve: (v) ler rr vh

Texan love. esp. from a moth. Example: "I lerrrve you, Betsy!"

Leg:(n) Leg

Part of the body between stomach and small intestine
good for nibbling.

Liver: Live er

Something to be found in one's left leg, if I remember my Bevis trivia correctly...

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Meanyhead:(n) mee nee hed

a total buster brown bozo-butt
someone who's got a meanly cool head (for example, DrNick with his Freakishly Huge Head)

Meatspace:(n) meet spay s

The place where you can see people face to face and in three dimensions and give them a physical hug, without involving electronic equipment or paper.
A butcher shop, charnel house, cannibal's cave, or any other space where meat is present.

Minions:(n) min yons

Like onions, but less rare.
Like stake, but more rare.
A large group of people who follow and serve a prevailing authority, usually an evil prevailing authority such as Darth Vader, public school, or Microsoft.

Miraculous:(adj) Mirac u los

Slang for someone named "Mirac" to have lost.

Muah:(onomatopoea) mm u wa

A tough-sounding word that expresses love for someone or something
A word for expressions such as "oh yeah!" and "hell yeah!" and "Haha!"

Moxy Fruvous:(noun) mox ?*roo ví¿ªA band that's as good (possibly better) than They Might Be Giants (see They Might Be Giants)

Four hot guys playing about 20 instruments and singing funny songs

Mugging:(noun) Mug ing

An assault with intent to rob
To hug goodbye in a typoed, now in-jokey, way. Often a symptom of too much time spent online.

Actually, it's a Meatspace Hug; see Meatspace

Mwahahaha: (Onomatopopea)

A mad scientist type utterance that means "so there". It can also mean that the person who uttered is joyfully doing a devious thing.

[-14] 'N' section

NBTSC:(noun) en bee tee es see

Not Back To School Camp: see Heaven
A drain for the unschooler clogs: see clog, drain

Nekkid: Ne-kid

To be in a lake or pond with no clothes on

Nobits:(noun) (slang) no-bits

see: NBTSC.

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Obsanity:(n) ob Sa ni tee

Offensive reality
Fat Cleanliness

Omniscience (noun) om nee sigh ence

The process of knowing everything about the universe
God's college degree

Optimisim: (noun) op-ti-mi-zum

A blue jelly-like substance shared among friends

Organization: [n] not defined in standard TheUnschoolerDictionary.

[-16] 'P' section

PAA:(acronym) Personal Analog Assistant

Personal Analog Assistant:(noun)

A device used to schedule appointments, store notes and more, with a clever stylus-based user interface design, and extensible storage mechanisim.

PlansUMake: (noun) plahns-yu-mehke

A name of a finacial advisory group.

Platypus:

Mayor of NBTSC
an aquatic mammalian hacker "Like a duck!" "Ducks aren't mammalian."

"Well if they aren't they should be!"

Play Dough: (n) play doh

A nessesity for relieving stress
Bad to eat!
But not as bad as plastic

Policese: poli-seez

The language spoken by Republicrats. Also see denial

Pulips: (verb) pu-lihps

Umm, what does pulips mean, anyway?
The sound that many small stones make when landing in a pool of water aprox. 1 to 1.5 feet deep (For all you Canadae that's aprox. 33 - 50 cm.).

Puntificate: (Verb)

To puntificate is to try to think of a pun...

Princi: (me)

The plural of princess.

Pronoun: proh-now-n

A noun that lost it's amatuer status [57]

Psycho Bitch: (adj)

A person who is good at foosball and has been offically 'dubbed' a Psycho Bitch by Mitch/knuteboy.

There are also Honorary Psycho Bitches, who don't play fooseball but are in all other ways Psycho Bitches

[-17] 'Q' section

Quat: (interrog.)

Interrogative questioning a thing or occurance.

Quelcome: (noun, verb)

Unschooler greeting, principally used online.

[-18] 'R' section

Rad[1]:(adj) rad:

Wonderful
A color if your rhally from somewhere else.

Rediculous:(adj) red ic u lous

to be a red iculous.
one who wishes to be a red iculous.
to redicule louses (very cruel, i tell you!).

Relationship:(n) Re·la·shun·ship

Friendship gone life-threatening
See also Just Friends

Relationshop: (n) ree lay shun shop

Where you go to get a relationship (see Relationship)
possibly located in a warehouse in Seattle Washington sometime in the future?

Republicrats: Re-pulic-rats

Polititions of the unified republican and demicratic parties, see: Policese and Denial

Rummy Tubber:(n) Rum my Tub ber

One who Tubs one's Rummy of course!
Something not allowed in polite society or company

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Sad: [adj] sad

What we are when we have to say goodbye. Example: Charlie is sad right now because he has to get offline for a month.

Sad Candian: (n) sahd can dee an

A singular Canadian in the US surrounded by non-unschooling Americans.
What a singular American in the US surrounded by non-unschooling Americans wishes to be.

Sad Dog: (n)

A dog who is getting a bath. This is a direct result of the common stinkdog metamorphasis coming into contact with it's human guardians.
see also: stinkdog

Sabbath: (noun) sa bith,

An excuse to lie around and not work (amen to that!)
First name of the famous singer Sabbath Whoremonger. [11]
The second name of the famous singer Black Sabbath.

School:(n) skool

A minimum security prison for people aged 6-18.
See also: Assorted Calvin and Hobbes books on the subject, as well as Matt Groening's books "School is Hell" and "Life is Hell"
A number of fish , of the same type, swimming in the same direction.
A drab, grey building, with a lot of drab, grey teachers, who try to teach you drab, grey things it will never be necessary to know.
The government's brainwashing station.

School Kid:(n) Skool-kid

A person, age 6-18, with a far inferior education.
Politial Prisoner.
A person, age 6-18, who spends much of their life in a state of perpetual boredom.
What we are all suppose-ed to be. "Off of school today?..."

Schwodge: (verb) ska-wodge

A synonym for hug, far more descriptive
Something from Peter Pan

Scrum Tum: skrum tum

A word to indicate yummyness (ex. Scrum tum!!)
A word to indicate sorrow (ex. Scrum tuuuuum...)
A word to indicate confusion (ex. Scrum tum?)

-Scrum-diddliumptious:- Scrum-didl-lee-ump-tious

home made apple pie.

Scrumplicious: (adj) sk rump lish is

Deliciously scrumptious

Server:(n) ser ver

Short for Surprized Vermin.

Shin:(n) shin

A device for finding furniture in the dark
A few pages in any Chinese phone book.

Shnoof:(n) Sh noof

when a beverage comes out of the nose, as a direct result of laughter while swallowing.

Silliness:(n) sill e ness

The act of, being Silly: See, Rediculous

Smacktastic[2]:(adj) smak tas tik

Cool or good, usually hip and/or perverse as well.

Smigh:

To sigh and smile at the same time. Mostly used on IRC when life isn't so great but you're amused nonetheless.

Smint:

Simple, elegantly, easy to use, well designed
Extension of 'cool', implying coolness due to above qualities (contrast with splufty). For example, "my new laptop computer is splutfy!" and "my new laptop computer has a smint way of folding closed".

Smirk:

A sardonic smile. Don't ask me what sardonic means. I always thought it was the sort of smile Rhett Butler (the most p'werfull man in the South) would give when someone told him he had to eat sardines.

Smirkle:

An intensified smirk
roughly translated: HA!

Smivate:(adj) smi-vä´?*Small and private

Snarf: just like it sounds

What to say when something is abserd. Related: "Yeah, Right"

Sniggle: (v) SNIG ul

a cross between a snuggle and a wiggle
a cross between a snort and a giggle
something you do late at night when you can't figure out what else to do, but you're still having fun

Snirk: (v) snurk

like a smirk, except better.

It is also possible, and rather probable in certain moods on IRC, to snirk rapidly. I'm not quite sure how it's done, but it's quite interesting to watch.

The sound you make when you have a mouthfull of food and somone makes you laugh and you are trying really hard NOT to spit it everywhere.

Snerflish:(adj) sner flish

A mix of anger and upsettedness, most distressing and un-fun.
Mitchell on stormy days

Spifftastic:(n) spif tas tik

Fantastic, and Spiffy, combined!*

Splufty: [adj] spluf'ty

Of or pertaining to spluft.
Very interesting; stylish; well-done; beautiful; heartfelt; admirable; copacetic.
Extension of 'cool', implying featureful coolness
A word we could all stand to use more often.

Squimblish: (n. and adj.)

Just Friends but not exactly by choice. Would possibly be Together if one situation or another were different. Not commited... at least not officially.
Can be used in "We're squimblish" explaining a situation, or "I feel squimblish towards you."
See also Relationship

Squatlum:(n) skwat lum

A part on Noam's body that Fuzzhead kicks when he uses anagrams.
Of course.
Duh!
The domain of the squat.

Standard: Stan-dard not defined in standard TheUnschoolerDictionary.

Stinkdog: (n)

An overly friendly stinkbug with a tail and fur.
This species is a metamorphasized normal dog. The metamorphasis occurs when the dog rolls in something vile (or, if you're Carrie: e-vile). All the sudden, this stinkdog wants to be your friend and cuddle.
see also: Dog and Sad dog

Swooft:(adj) s woof t

In, of, having or pertaining to swooftness. (so it's self explanitory and cannot be defined with other, less godly words, deal with it.)

[-101] The other 'A' section

Alphabetical: [adj] alfa beti' cal

Is what this isn't.

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Tertarica: (noun) teh-tahr-ih-ka

A rare disease caused by eating too many dairy products.

They Might Be Giants: they mite bee gi ants

A good band. Comparable to Moxy Fruvous. You can get chords, lyrics, and interpretations at http://www.tmbg.org

Ticklish:

What Kim isn't.
What Roya is.
What Ari is. Really.
What Carrie isn't. Really.

Tidmo: (noun) tihd-moh

A small, hungry mouse.

TMBG: (acronym) see They Might Be Giants

Tortoise:

that one in the proverbial story who always beat the hare (which isn't quite fair you know. tortoises have several leading characteristics like the ability to make good hairbrush backings whihc are denied to hares. they can't be good hairbrush backs and track stars! it's just not fair!)

[-21] 'U' section

un·schooled: (uhn-skoold) adj.

Not educated or instructed; having little or no formal schooling.
Not the result of training; natural: an artist of unschooled talents

Upsettedness: Up-set-ed-nes

how all of us wikin who can't clog in the camp meatspace this year feel.

[-22] 'V' section

Vibble:(vt) vi bull

"to vibble", usually in a "vibbleacious" manner. [4]

[-23] 'W' section

Wanshit: (noun) wahn-shiht

Everyone knows what Wanshit means, don't they? [15]

Wax:(noun)

A protective coating for tables, chairs, books, pens, knives... etc
What comes out of your ear
Regarding the moon, the process of gradually changing from new to full.
To be creative (albeit usually sappy), ie. To wax poetic.

Wicked:

Good in a wicked sort of way. Like Maine
really good.

Wikid:

Everything writen here on wikiweb. see: smacktastic and or spifftastic

Wikin:

the sort of person who writes the wikid stuff on this webpage.[42]

WoRd: (noun) wo herd

Ripe for abuse
Like play dough, it is easily molded into different forms

[-24] 'X' section

Xerofnol: (noun) zehr-rahf-nul

A type of small insect found only in South Africa. Just ask Veronica Allstar.

[-25] 'Y' section

-Ya-yas-: (noun) yah yahs

Excitable energy
A sound that is made when one is excited: "Yah! Yah! Yah!"
A sound that is made when one encounters a startling physical sensation, such as being tickled or having ice put down one's shirt: "Yaaaah!"

[-26] 'Z' section

[1] most importantly, we are all so it.

[2] it's a summer word, okay?

[6] "Might I make an observation!!" ~ Deep Thought, the computer.

[8] no offense ry, but since kate and i did invent the word, i fixed the spelling because i do believe we would know how it's spelled. ;) (yeah, yeah, i'm being a brat, but no, it's not just jennyrosebeingabitchtoryland, it's just that duffyhead sounds like ... well. duffyhead, vs dufyhead. ;)

[9] just in case you couldn't figure it out, I am being sarcastic. Mostly. Marina

[10] Okay, it was late and we were silly. So sue us. Hasn't anyone else ever watched Jem and the Holograms? No? Come on, losers! -Robyn and Fuzzbucket

[11] Puke Horsemeat is the name of the band. [12]

[12] As we said earlier, it's late and we're silly!

[13] Well, at least my mom and my friends mom don't like to be called dude. -Kathleen

[14] But it'd have to be a really good book.

[15] Hey! You've been cheating, haven't you?

[16] Hoorah! Gimme some elbow! :) -marina

[92] there is also a SillyScrabbleDictionary for people who like the GamesUnschoolersPlay -JoyfulGoddess

[57] Thanks to Calvin and Hobbes

[42] Yeah, we're a clog of spifftastic wikin aren't we? [43]

[43] Uh-huh, wikiweb is a really swooft drain. [44]

[44] Not as swooft as camp itself though, camp is just such a splufty, smivate, meatplace.

[1001] would it be possible to put footnote type things, except letters, at the top of the page so one could go to a specific letter like in a traditional dictionary?

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