It tries to send the last of the water through to brew.

Example: The coffee is ready, didn't you hear it percuburp?

@percussive maintainence:= The suprisingly successful technique of trying to fix something by hitting it.

Example: The TV wasn't working, but I did a bit of percussive maintainance on it and now it's fine.

@Percussive Maintenance:= The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again

Example:

@perdner:= Combination of pretty near and damn near.

Example: I perdner lost control of my car.

@perfeczide:= To make perfect

Example: I perfeczide the car, so now it runs better than ever.

@perfle:= The tear-off strips of paper with holes in them on each side of the page used by pin-feed printers.

Example: Some of the perfle was in the waste basket by the printer,

some was hanging over the sides of the basket, but most was on the floor.

@perflippity:= Silly, effeminate behavour.

Example: The high school girls at the mall were annoying me with their perflippity.

@perfory:= The little strips of paper with holes, used to maintain alignment of paper in printers and billing machines.

Example: Tear off the perfory before you distribute the sheets.

@perfucked:= Perfectly fucked (up).

When a thing or situation has become as bad as possible, contrary to all expectations.

Murphy's law taken to an extreme.

Example: We've wrecked the car, it's raining, my wallet's gone, and Jane just went into labor.

This is totally perfucked.

@perfumigate:= to douse onesself with perfume or some other type of freshening spray in order to mask odors such as smoke, b.o., etc.

Example: I ate the sizzlin' platter of fajitas at Chili's and had to perfumigate before going back to the office.

@perfused:= 1. N. The state of being both perplexed and confused.

2. Adj. Expression of a confused state.

Example: JimBob looked perfused when it was explained to him that naked tractor riding was not a good idea.

@pericoital dysnomia:= n. During an intimate event, the act of addressing one's lover by a name other than her own.

Example: Julie wept as she handed him the divorce papers, which cited pericoital dysnomia as the grounds. It didn't help when he then hissed, You won't get one red cent from me, Stephanie.

@perimenomancy:= The art of predicting the future by waiting to see what happens.

Example: It's easy to criticise with the gift of perimenomancy.

@periomma:= Punctuation used to to separate sentences.

Example: That's not a semicolon, it's a periomma.

@permafunk:= An unpleasant, unmaskable, and tenaciously pernicious human odor, usually of bodily origin.

Example: He would have gladly offered to help with his roommate's laundry if it were not for the

permafunk which leapt from the hamper.

@permagin:= Someone who will stay a virgin forever, usually not by choice.

Example: I'll bet you that Brandon ends up being a permagin.

@permagrin:= 1. A state of being.

2. The appearance of a permanent state of grinning or smiling,

despite your circumstances or state of mind.

3 - often associated with intoxication.

Example: Mary must be extremely high> She has that permagrin going on.

@Permahold:= The act of being placed on hold for an indefinate amount of time (while listening to terriable hold music), wondering if you will ever be picked up.

Example: I called my insurance company today and I was left on permahold.

@Permanti Style:= Adding cole slaw and french fries to any kind of sandwich.

Originating from the Permanti Bros. restaurant in Pittsburgh, PA

Example: Just mind your own business. I'm making my sandwich Permanti Style today.

@permatary:= That quick-fix temporary repair job you did around the house 14 yrs. ago is still working? That's a permatary job.

Example: He was a jack-of-all-trades, but many of his repairs were done in permatary manner.

@permavein:= Someone who works out so much that she develops enlarged veins that show at all times.

Example: If you keep doing those pushups, you're going to become a permavein.

@pernt:= Pertinent information.

Example: We had to read through three paragraphs to get to the pernt.

@perp walk:= Marshals or sheriff's deputies escorting a prisoner--parading a prisoner in front of the media.

Example: The camera crews call it a perp walk.

The reason they love a good perp walk is because all they have to do is line up outside the courthouse, point and shoot while the Marshals hustle the guy, the perpetrator, out to that unmarked Crown Victoria they always have waiting down at the curb. If the cameramen are lucky, they get a shot of some jerk with cuffs on, a raincoat pulled up over his head, looking guilty as hell.

This is what the plaintiff's bar snarls and moans about when they say their clients are getting tried in the court of public opinion. My lawyer complained about it just like everybody else. Fact is though, when I did my perp walk down at the Richard B. Russell Federal Building in Atlanta, I was guilty. Fair's fair.

(Copyright 1995, Walter Sorrells, _Power of Attorney_)

@Perry-factor:= The degree to which a person, place or thing resembles Matthew Perry.

Example: Perry-factor HIGH... There is nobody more Matthew Perry than that guy!

@persact:= Both perfect and exact.

Example: You don't have to talk so persact!

@persnackity:= Nasty. Mostly used when describing teeth, skin, hair, or other areas of the body one is to keepneat and tidy.

Example: He was cute. Bbut did you see those persnackity teeth?

@persona-non-cognita:= A brainless or thoughtless individual.

Example: I see that guy every morning on the crowded, rush-hour train with his stuff spread all over the seat next to him; what a persona-non-cognita.

@personalities:= Any other word for breasts.

Example: I'm only after girls with nice personalities. Yeah, look at the personalities on her

@personality-free:= Someone who lacks charisma, character, a sense of humor, or one who is just plain dull or overly serious.

Example: The personality-free client responded to my joke with a blank stare.

@personwidth:= Adapted from the telecommunications term bandwidth meaning the amount of data a particular device or segment of a network can transfer or process at once. Personwidth is likewise the maximum amount of people needed to achieve a project, or describes why someone doesn't have sufficient time to complete a task.

Example: I don't think we have sufficient personwidth in this department to finish the project this year.

@pertnear:= Almost

Example: I pertnear made it to work on Monday.

@perugal:= To stare at someone for no particular reason

Example: Why are you perugalling at me?

@perving:= Acting in a nasty manner, being a pervert, annoying someone with your stupid remarks

Example: He was sooo perving, said Alex,He kept on making stupid innuendoes.

@perzactify:= To be perfectly exact.

Example: Her emotional state was perzactified by his thoughtless actions.

@peshall:= Undeniably, extraordinarily, extremely special. May be used only to refer to a person. Additional l's may be added to increase the said person's peshallness.

Example: I love you sooo much...you are sooo peshallllllll to me!

@pessimal:= Opposite of optimal, just as pessimist is the opposite of optimist.

Example: My father's choice of name for me was pessimal, said a man named Sue.

@pessimum:= The opposite of optimum; the worst example.

Example: I worked really hard, but it turned out to be the pessimum situation.

@Pesticle:= A guy who is being a girl for some action.

Example: That guy won't leave me alone. He is a real pesticle.

@Pete Tong:= UK rhyming slam for wrong, based on Radio 1 DJ, Pete Tong

Example: It's all gone a bit Pete Tong. Or, (shortened version), NSync at number 1? That's just a bit Pete, mate.

@PeterGabrielizing:= When recording artists take an abnormally long time to come out with a new release because they continually revise their material and have trouble finalizing their work. Such artists often announce release dates that get postponed several times in succession.

Example: Deceased director Stanley Kubrick shouldn't have spent so much time PeterGabrielizing with the production of AI - Artificial Intelligence. Now he's dead and Spielberg is getting all the credit.

@petranoid:= a portmanteau of the words paranoid and petrified describing the state of being too scared of what may happen to be able to move/do anything about it.

Example: If that girl in Scream weren't so petranoid, she might have lived to be in the sequel.

@petranoid:= Scared to be scared.

Example: The young man seemed to be petranoid.

@Petro-strangulation:= Choking from the fumes of the car in front of you when you have the misfortune to be following a vehicle that is billowing smoke.

Example: Teresa was suffering from petro-strangulation as she followed Jeremy's hopelessy out-of-tune 57 Chevy.

@petroligarchy:= Rule or government by a small group--leaders of the oil and petroleum industry. A collision of petroleum, or petrol, and oligarchy. (Variation: petroiligarchy.)

Example: Petroligarchy is a prevalent, but unrecognized form of government.

@Petsgiving:= The day after Thanksgiving.

Example: Thanksgiving is on Thursday, but many take off both Thursday and Friday. So what's the 2nd holiday? Why it's the day we give our little buddies Thanksgiving left-overs. It's Petsgiving Day.

@petuny:= Small girl. Word was born from an attempt at trying to say the words petite and puny at the same time

Example: Look at that girl, she is nice but a little thin. You could say she is petuney

@peurile:= puerile \PYOO-uhr-uhl; PYOOR-uhl\, adjective: Displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity; juvenile; childish.

Example: And, in one of the most puerile episodes of his adult career, he punishes his old schoolmates for being rich and vulgar by breaking into their houses to soak the labels off their boasted wine collections.--Thomas R. Edwards, Mordecai Richler Then and Now, (1) New York Times, June 22, 1980

Political argument is becoming a puerile cartoon about the moral...doing battle with the immoral. --George F. Will, The Costs of Moral Exhibitionism, (2) Washington Post, April 15, 2001. (3) Thank God Dana F has submitted a new word--attorniquette. So many of the other recent submittals have just been peurile.

@pever:= A condition resulting from high hormone levels, usually characterized by a feverish craziness and the illogical disregard for personal safety, leading to constant yearning for sex.

Example: Her pever lasted over 50 men. OR He got the pever and really did some stupid things.

@pevroid:= A dim-witted pesty person.

Example: Chris is a pevroid.

@pew:= Pew- If the Situation around you stinks, it is Pew.

Example: Mom/Dad: No, you Can't go to your friend's house. You: Oh, this is pew.

@pez:= Greeting such as: Hello, hi, etc.

Example: Paul said pez to his new friend Joe.

@pezacrapp:= An object that is useless or pointless.

Example: That new water-resistant sponge is a pezacrapp.

@pfffff:= Used to show disbelief, disdain, disregard, or mild disgust. Especially used in response to something deemed utterly ridiculous.

Example: A: Let's go see a movie tonight. B: Can't. Got no money. C: Pffff.

@pffft:= A guttural exclamation. Suggestive of disbelief or discounting what someone has said.

Example: She thinks her designs are cutting edge? Pffft. They look like recycled 80's advertisements to me.

@pfft:= A word used when you know someone is lying.

Example: So went out with him? PFFT.

@pfizer:= Uncool, pre-juvenile, wankish--a person embodying the foregoing.

Example: The birthday party was really pfizer. After all, it was in honor of a pfizer.

@PFM:= Pure Freaking Magic. Used by the computer elite when something is too cutting edge

to be understood even in their own circles. (Coined by the boys at maximum3d.com.)

Example: We understood the FSAA, but 8-layer single pass multi-texturing? That's just PFM.

@PFO:= Pissed, Fell Over. British hospital slang to explain injuries to a patient admitted while drunk,

Example: The PFOs start rolling in just before midnight.

@phalam:= A nincompoop, mundu.

Example: As soon as Chris opens his mouth you know he's a phalam.

@phalangophile:= Someone obsessed with flying people the bird.

Example: Jim was grooving on blue highway ambience when he was

accosted by a vehement phalangophile, who seemed disgusted by some imagined slight.

@phallacy:= A concept or situation which is wrong due to outdated patriarchy or male chauvinism.

Example: It is not true that women are bad drivers. That's a phallacy.

@Phantom-of-the-water-cooler:= A terminated employee who insists on sneaking back into a workplace and visiting with ex-employees.

Example: My boss had a strict policy on preventing Phantoms-of-the water-coolers at my worksite.

@pharkarcarharssen:= The feeling one gets when leaving a pub, intoxicated, during the day,

and stepping out into the bright summer sun.

Example: I'd spent all afternoon in the pub and stepped out into the bright July sun and t

his overwhelming wave of pharkarcarharssen swept over me.

@pharlism:= Tendency to grunt, squeek, or squeal at random and in a horrible fashion.

Example: Pigs tend to suffer from pharlism.

@pharmaceuticab:= 1: Taxi in which you get drunk in the back seat.