Definitions of ‘Q’ Words

n. A number showing how many times a sum of money belonging to one person is contained in the pocket of another—usually about as many times as it can be got there.

n. A sufficient number of members of a deliberative body to have their own way and their own way of having it. In the United States Senate a quorum consists of the chairman of the Committee on Finance and a messenger from the White House; in the House of Representatives, of the Speaker and the devil.

A person or automaton that is neither doctor nor nurse, but somehow still discouragingly entrusted with the preservation of ones very life, specifically in its waning seconds.

Unlike traditional medical professionals, quasi-medics can not be held accountable for deaths resulting from their care or lack of, regardless of whether or not it is intentional, which surveys have shown, it almost always is.

Quasi-medics, though entrusted with preserving the sanctity of life in office buildings, little league games and in limited instances at illegal death matches, they are commonly paid less than 1/3rd of the survival rate. Wealthy attorneys and politicians fail to understand why they are the first permitted and even encouraged to die on the way to more serious medical care, but there are no critics of such actions, so it goes largely unnoticed.

Quasi-Medic also refers to a vessel, person, profession or situation which would traditionally be of a true medical nature, but for whatever reason is not. The most common reasons for such a shortfall include budget and laziness, but rarely anything else.

n. A woman by whom the realm is ruled when there is a king, and through whom it is ruled when there is not.

1. (n) Word of unknown meaning spoken only, though often, by adults.

n. An implement of torture yielded by a goose and commonly wielded by an ass. This use of the quill is now obsolete, but its modern equivalent, the steel pen, is wielded by the same everlasting Presence.

(n) An endearing habit in a new lover so annoying it will ultimately lead to the end of the relationship.