Douglas Adams, the famed author of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" banded together with John Lloyd to create "The Meaning of Liff," a book filled with absurd definitions to words that haven't been created yet.

1. Ahenny (adj.) - The way people stand when examining other people's bookshelves.

2. Alltami (n.) - The ancient art of being able to balance the hot and cold shower taps.

3. Woking (ptcpl. vb.) - Standing in the kitchen wondering what you came in here for.

4. Cloates Point (n.) - The precise instant at which scrambled eggs are ready.

5. Aboyne (vb.) - To beat an expert at a game of skill by playing so appallingly that none of his clever tactics or strategies are of any use to him.

6. Lemvig (n.) - A person who can be relied upon to be doing worse than you.

7. Rhymney (n.) - That part of a song lyric which you suddenly discover you've been mishearing for years.

8. Abruzzo (vb.) - The worn patch of ground under a swing.

9. Aigburth (n.) - Any piece of readily identifiable anatomy found amongst cooked meat.

10. Trunch (n.) - Instinctive resentment of people younger than you.

11. Swaffham Bulbeck (n.) - An entire picnic lunchtime spent fighting off wasps.

12. Tonypandy (n.) - The voice used by presenters on children's television programs.

13. Dalmilling (ptcl. vb.) - Continually making small talk to someone who is trying to read a book.

14. Fraddam (n.) - The small awkward-shaped piece of cheese which remains after grating a large regular-shaped piece of cheese, and which enables you to grate your fingers.

15. Duddo (n.) - The most deformed potato in any given collection of potatoes.

16. Ghent (adj.) - Descriptive of the mood indicated by cartoonists by drawing a character's mouth as a wavy line.

17. Fulking (ptcpl. vb.) - Pretending not to be in when the carol-singers come round.

18. Shimpling (ptcpl. vb.) - Lying about the state of your life in order to cheer up your parents.

19. Motspur (n.) - The fourth wheel of a supermarket trolley which looks identical to the other three but renders the trolley completely uncontrollable.

20. Golant (adj.) - Blank, sly and faintly embarrassed. Pertaining to the expression seen on the face of someone who has clearly forgotten your name.

21. Boolteens (pl. n.) - The small scattering of foreign coins and halfpennies which inhabit dressing tables. Since they are never used and never thrown away boolteens account for a significant drain on the world's money supply.

22. Ampus (n.) - A lurid bruise which you can't remember getting.

23. Sturry (n.) - A token run. Pedestrians who have chosen to cross a road immediately in front of an approaching vehicle generally give a little wave and break into a sturry. This gives the impression of hurrying without having any practical effect on their speed whatsoever.

24. Quenby (n.) - A stubborn spot on a window which you spend twenty minutes trying to clean off before discovering it's on the other side of the glass.

25. Limerigg (vb.) - To jar one's leg as a result of the disappearance of a stair which isn't there in the darkness.

26. Macroy (n.) - An authoritative, confident opinion based on one you read in a newspaper.

27. Fladderbister (n.) - That part of a raincoat which trails out of a car after you've closed the door on it.

28. Farnham (n.) - The feeling you get at about four o'clock in the afternoon when you haven't got enough done.

29. Duleek (n.) - Sudden realization, as you lie in bed waiting for the alarm to go off, that it should have gone off an hour ago.

30. Craboon (vb.) - To shout boisterously from a cliff.

31. Spurger (n.) - One who in answer to the question 'How are you?' actually tells you.

32. Stibbard (n.) - The invisible brake pedal on the passenger's side of the car.

33. Skibbereen (n.) - The noise made by a sunburned high leaving a plastic chair.

34. Scosthrop (vb.) - To make vague opening or cutting movements with the hands when wandering about looking for a tin opener, scissors, etc., in the hope that this will help in some way.

35. Yesnaby (n.) - A 'yes, maybe' which means 'no'.

36. Bathel (vb.) - To pretend to have read the book under discussion when in fact you've only seen the TV series.

37. Frating Green (adj.) - The shade of green which is supposed to make you feel comfortable in hospitals, industrious in schools and uneasy in police stations.

38. Jeffers (pl. n.) - Persons who honestly believe that a business lunch is going to achieve something.

39. Lulworth (n.) - Measure of conversation. A lulworth defines the amount of the length, loudness and embarrassment of a statement you make when everyone else in the room unaccountably stops talking at the same moment.

40. Naugatuck (n.) - A plastic sachet containing shampoo, polyfilla, etc., which it is impossible to open except by biting off the corners.

41. Ozark (n.) - One who offers to help after all the work has been done.

42. Rochester (n.) - One who is able to gain occupation of the armrests on both sides of their cinema or aircraft seat.