Browsing page 29 of new words for August 26, 2009

expression

• For many, especially in the Southern US, it means the person referenced is an ignoramus. That is, if the person had their shoes shined. they could easily be fooled by the shine man who could just as well put shit on their shoes as shoe polish. The ignoramus wouldn't know the difference and happily walk the streets of some Northern US town proudly displaying his newly "shined" shoes.

  Last edited on Dec 28 2014. Submitted by Anonymous on Dec 28 2014.

verb

• to be intelligent. Always used in the negative.

  He doesn't know shit from Shinola.

  • See more words with the same meaning: intelligent, smart.
  • See more words with the same meaning: unintelligent, dumb.

  Last edited on Dec 08 2011. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Aug 26 2009.

noun

• a website with little or no content, consisting of mostly (or entirely) links to other websites.

  Search engines do their best to weed out link farms from search results.

  • See more words with the same meaning: computer slang.

  Last edited on Jan 24 2012. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Aug 26 2009.

noun - uncountable

• of an entire task, the easy portions.

  We've already tackled the low-hanging fruit, so it's time to move onto the difficult problems that we've been putting off.

  • See more words with the same meaning: business (related to).
  • See more words with the same meaning: easy, simple.

  Last edited on Nov 28 2015. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Aug 26 2009.