HARCionary

Below is the much anticipated HARCionary. I collection of words created during our 5 week pursuit of humpback whale understanding during HARC. Compiled by fellow member of Mysticetes Don’t Floss, Zeus Williamson. This should provide some insight into how screwed up we all were during those trying days.

 The words in the following HARCionary are set out as following

word
author:  noun,verb,adjective
- description; synonyms(if available): use in a sentence
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baditude
Amy James: noun,
- a poor manner, disposition or feeling towards a task at HARC; lethargic, jaded: the volunteers had a baditude towards data entry
blowinho
A. Volunteer: verb,
- to produce or emit a small or tiny current of air, usually related to the spout of a calf; splutter, whisper: blowinho!, Pod A, 36 degrees, 1 reticule
bumhurl
David Donnelly: verb,
- to throw or fling a bowel movement with great force or vigour from the posterior or behind; bazookacrap, misshite: double D was caught short and had to omit a swift bumhurl off the side of Carmena.
belusa
Rob Slade/Bec Dunlop: Noun,
- to be a regular member of Beluga: after failing to get a tag on the Bear and Mindi were once again belusas
carweiner
Mindi Rekdahl: Noun,
- a regular boat member of Carmena: after getting a tag on double D and Ron acted like carweiners
codification
Zeus Williamson/Mindi Rekdahl: noun,
- the act, process, or result of arranging in a systematic form or code: Ellen spent the afternoon codifying her whale song
- to defecate or void excrement simultaneaously: Ellen and Mindi went to the bathroom separately, avoiding codification.
dramastic
Ailbhe Kavanagh: adjective,
- fantastically dramatic or dramatically fantastic; fantastic, dramatic: Stacy was dramastically ditsy; it was another dramastic day on emu mountain
drewlicious
Mindi Rekdahl: adjective,
- an overrated performance or behaviour; Zeus spent another drewlicious day on the theodolite.
drewlusional
Bec Dunlop: noun,
- a false belief or opinion at HARC, overestimating ones importance at HARC; drewluded: Bec referred to Mike as drewlusional when he thought the sea state would abate; Drew
fuck tonne
Amy James: noun,
- a flexible numerical unit, usually a large amount; shit load: there were a fuck tonne of whales spotted from emu mountain
googleable
Zeus Williamson: adjective,
- the ability to be googled: the volunteers were able to find Horizons because it was googleable
HARCless
Bec Dunlop: adjective,
- an unsympathetic, unfeeling, unkind action during HARC; evil; thoughtless; heartless: Mike was HARCless leaving the boat crews out during an abating sea state
hydrofucked
Bret Johns: verb,
- to botch, botch or ruin, particularly during the building of the buoys; ballsed: Bret and Zeus had to redo the hydrophone attachments when Mike found that they were hydrofucked
manualing
Elise Goodwin: noun,
- the act of working on a HARC manual: Elise spent the majority of her time at HARC manualing
negatory
Rob Slade: adjective,
- marked by negation; negative, no: ‘Beluga, do you have a tag on?’ ‘Negatory..... negatory.’
noadkill
Zeus Williamson: noun,
- a boat member that has been left our during abating conditions; the volunteers peeled the noadkill off the bow of Carmena
snarty
Anita ‘Muzza’ Murray: adjective,
- testy or irritable; short, snotty, snarky; after a long morning on acoustics Muzza was often snarty to Zeus.
paulfficient
Zeus Williamson: adjective,
- when one is not efficient at all; drewlicious; once again Paul had been paulfficient on Emu mountain
protocolised
Elise Goodwin: verb,
- specifically ordering a situation at HARC; every situation at HARC ran smoothly, once it was protocolised
zeusful
Pam Quayle: adjective,
- to be of some service or use but nobody is exactly sure what; once again Michele (with 1 L) was zeusful.
zeusless
Pam Quayle: adjective,
- a piece of utterly useless and irrelevant information; although amusing Zeus’ and Bret’s songs were utterly zuesless.