Forum's English-ish Dictionary

[Shna_na]

So a Redditor's Russian wife was having difficulty with trying to describe a tape measure. She said to him "Do you and an inch?... Do you have inches?... Do you have a roll of inches?" and when told its real name she said it sounded stupid. This was posted to imgur here and spiraled out of control as the community posted their examples of what they've heard people saying like this. Here are some examples from that post (and this one, made by someone who saw it all and picked out his favorites):

• Ulcers: Sore mouth bubbles.
  
• Merry-go-round: Horse tornado
  
• Ice cubes: Very cold water with corners.
  
• Matches: Things to turn candles on.
  
• Air horn: Scream spray.
  

Do you get the idea? Anyway, my point is that we should do this, as a game. Think of a word, any word, and make a description for it as can be seen here. If you have a real-life example of one then go ahead and put it in. It does not have to relate to the game and can be literally anything (within reason, don't be stupid). The scoring consists of 1 point per word with a definition. Extra point for those that are real-life examples. I'll start with a few so you can get an idea of the layout (you can post as many as you like in one post):

• Engine: Fire pipe.
  
• Water: Basic drinking liquid.
  
• Tree: Natural wood pillar.
  
• Microphone: Fuzzy talk ball.
  
• Air freshener: Smell squirter.
  

[astropapi1]

Capsule: People box.

I too, saw that imgur post.

[mrrpamplemousse]

Fuel: Dinosaur juice

[Shna_na]

These are great so far

Flag: Coloured floppy cloth on a stick.

[sal_vager]

Rocket: Up going fire tower.

[astropapi1]

Orbit: Blue map circle.

[Noname117]

Crash: Uncontrolled high-speed landing

[CaptainGiblets]

Probe: Electric space box

[Shna_na]

Solar Panel: Sun farm.

[CaptainGiblets]

Rover:Car in space

[Shna_na]

Runway:​ Aeroplane road.

[Deathsoul097]

Engine: Fire-Shooting Pusher Cone

[mrrpamplemousse]

RCS: Rotating rocket thingy

[spaceman1999]

Fish:Floppy water wiggler.

[BagelRabbit]

Mainsail: Big Fire Spewer

[FanaticalFighter]

This is interesting...

Jebediah: Crazy little green man

Kerbol: Hot ball with fire

Mun: Deathstar look-alike in sky

Fuel: Thing to burn go fast

Tylo: Grey enemy in space

Eve: Purple killer in space

Kraken: Weird everywhere

[rasheed]

VAB: Big big box where green people put stuff to get into space.

[robogungt8]

Car: Fast horse with wheels

[Flymetothemun]

Fire-

Bright Hot Fuel

[Superfluous J]

Target Marker (on navball): Purple thing.

Prograde Marker (on navball): Yellow thing.

Usage: (to describe how to modify your approach to target during a dock) Put the yellow thing on the purple thing.

Note: I say this in my videos all the time. I also use the NavBall Docking Alignment mod so I also sometimes say "Put the yellow thing on the other side of the purple thing from the red thing."

[Chrisd857]

It does not have to relate to the game and can be literally anything

I'm amused, then, at how many relate to the game .

Periapsis - low water mark of blue map sort-of-circle

Dictionary - list of scribble meanings

Game - fun waste of time

Forum Game - fun waste of time with strange light people

[Dooz]

Aerospike - spike o fire.

Edited March 10, 2014 by Dooz

[mythbusters844]

Bell: Big curvy thing that makes noise or makes hot gas expand well.

Brick: Red thing that you can build with.

[mrrpamplemousse]

Kraken: Flying spaghetti monster

[StrandedonEarth]

Window: Clear part of wall

Door Part of wall that opens

Kerbalnaut: Spam in a can

Spam: Smashed meat