The Meaning of Liff (Meaning of Liff, #1)

by Douglas Adams

In Life1 there are many hundreds of common experiences, feelings, situations and even objects which we all know and recognize, but for which no word exists. On the other hand, the world is littered with thousands of spare words which spend their time doing nothing but loafing about on signposts pointing at places.

Shoeburyness n. The vague uncomfortable feeling you get when sitting on a seat which is still warm from somebody else’s bottom.