Cricketing lexicon

[cnerd123]

Bucknor, adjective

Deaf / hard of hearing

"Sorry, could you speak up? I'm a little Bucknor in my left ear"

 

[OverratedSanity]

Bucknor, adjective

Deaf / hard of hearing

"Sorry, could you speak up? I'm a little Bucknor in my left ear"

Cue someone making a Tendulkar selective deafness joke, conveniently forgetting that god is omniscient.

 

[Bijed]

Jennings' drop, noun

A comically bad failure to complete a straightforward task.

"Shri's failure to correctly disembark from a bus has been described by some as a Jennings' drop."

 

[Bijed]

Pick Jennings, verb

To use something despite it being broken.

'I can't get my phone screen repaired until Monday, so I'm going to have to pick jennings for a while.'

Today's instalment of 'things that stayed relevant longer than they should'

 

[Burgey]

This is one of my favourite CW threads. Just opened it up for a reprise and see ***** has been stinking it up. Fer shame.

 

[Bijed]

Shakib's World Cup, noun

A brilliant standout performance in a sporting event

"I still can't believe Michael Phelps won eight gold medals and seven world records in the Olympics that time, it really was a Shakib's World Cup for him."

 

[honestbharani]

athlai, verb

To be incredibly untrustworthy.

"This evil bastard spent days trying to convince me he was actually a horse. There he was, eating hay and ****ting in my living room and demanding apples and sugarcubes. More fool me, it turned out he was athlaing the whole time"

Can't believe this only makes sense to me now.

 

[Howe_zat]

Bairstow, noun

A reinvention.

'David Bowie's career was characterised by significant bairstows between each album.'

 

[Howe_zat]

Gavin, noun

A cricketing philistine.

'Why does anyone remember Flintoff fondly? His batting average was lower than his bowling average.'
'Piss off, Gavin.'

 

[BoyBrumby]

Fatbobkey, noun

An item that counterintuitively seems to work incredibly well, despite all evidence suggesting it shouldn't.

"Yeah, they have holes and suspicious looking stains, but my old jeans are a total fatbobkey; I pull every time I wear them."

Olliepope, noun

An item that doesn't seem to work in practice, despite all evidence suggesting it should.

"The meal in the Michelin starred restaurant was an olliepope, she said she only saw me as a friend."

 

[Uppercut]

Baz-, prefix

A crude and aggressive strategy, particularly one that is inexplicably successful.

"In accordance with our pivot to "Bazvertising", all of our commercials now consist of an angry man screaming at viewers to gamble more. BetBet's revenues have tripled."

 

[OverratedSanity]

"chris.hinton was 'Bazposting' on cricketweb.net thoughout the 5th test between India and England "

 

[Bijed]

Bazposting'"

The official antonym to Gambhiring?

 

[MW1304]

Bijed's long game with the avatar paying dividends.

 

[Blenkinsop]

Harmer, verb

To achieve astonishing success by being reasonably competent in an environment where standards are low.

"Datsun and Toyota completely Harmered the US automobile market in the 1970s by making cars that didn't instantly fall to bits."

(see also Jeetan Patel).

 

[GIMH]

woakes, noun

To be useful or productive at home but completely useless otherwise.

“I get loads done when I work from home but when I go into the office between chatting, ogling pretty ladies and visiting the vending machine I become a total woakes”

or

“My phone battery is so drained that I have to have it plugged in all the time; it’s basically a woakes.”

Shady on Root, verb

To assess something’s value based on a tiny portion of what it offers.

“My mate heard Revolution 9 and decided The Beatles are shite - what a Shady on Root that was!”

 

[Shady Slim]

woakes, noun

To be useful or productive at home but completely useless otherwise.

“I get loads done when I work from home but when I go into the office between chatting, ogling pretty ladies and visiting the vending machine I become a total woakes”

or

“My phone battery is so drained that I have to have it plugged in all the time; it’s basically a woakes.”

smart man, getting in before someone can claim this one as "to anderson"

 

[Adders]

Only 3 people on this forum dumb enough to try and run with that......

 

[Blenkinsop]

Marnus, noun

A copy that replicates the accidental qualities of the original as well as the important ones.

"Kings of Leon were originally a total Marnus of Creedence Clearwater Revival, right down to the beards."

 

[Starfighter]

Shady on Root, verb

To assess something’s value based on a tiny portion of what it offers.

“My mate heard Revolution 9 and decided The Beatles are ****e - what a Shady on Root that was!”

Disagree with this example, could've sampled about eight dozen other songs and come to the same conclusion