Another jenne slang dictionary meme entry

[bunnyjadwiga]

Five MORE words I use in conversation that I have to explain to most people:

• Frum: strictly observing the orthodox Judaic rules for behavior. For instance, frum women will never bring margarine to the table unwrapped, lest someone look in through the window and see them apparently using butter at a meat meal. Colloquially, by extension, frum can also modify other religious sects, such as frum Mormon or frum Dianic; frum XML.
  
• Wifty-farkle or Woofty-farkle, sometimes shortened to wifty: fluffy spiritual (or magickal) behavior lacking in a solid theo- or thealogical basis. Not to be confused with treehugging. Does not have to be sweetness and light; vampirism as a religion is also wifty, just dark-wifty.
  
• flat caps or hats, of a driver or drivers: elderly men who drive eccentrically and slowly, often in the left lane, to the annoyance of other drivers. Stolen whosale from the Bagthorpes series.
  
• Hedgehogging or hedgehogging about: stolen again from the Bagthorpes. Bustling around giving the impression of doing a great deal of work and not accomplishing much.
  
• Christian Ritual Abuse: family or child abuse in which a wacko uses nominally Christian ideas and scriptures to justify/structure his abusive behavior. Similar to the myth of "Satanic Ritual Abuse" but much easier to document.
  

Comments

[chargirlgenius.livejournal.com]

Much like flat-caps, I use the term Q-tip. It's an old man or lady with white hair whose families haven't convinced them to give up the car keys yet.

[tattycat.livejournal.com]

*laughs* That's funny-- I usually use Q-Tip to refer to those outrageously thin women whose heads look too big for their bodies.

[loosecanon.livejournal.com]

marshmallows on toothpicks!

[chargirlgenius.livejournal.com]

I use "lollipops" for those. :-)

[loosecanon.livejournal.com]

cottontops!

[chargirlgenius.livejournal.com]

Hm. Not sure. I think I first used it when living in Philly, so it could have been.

[montuos]

Ok, it's the Florida vector at work here! I got it from my sister, who lived in Florida for a while.

[maziemaus.livejournal.com]

I think of frum more as someone who has to wear tights and a long sleeved dress in order to be modest in the middle of summer.

The margarine/butter thing is obeying the code of "ma'aris ayen" (wow, what spelling).