" allotment "

 [ "Allot" ]

1: Correct definition = distribute: administer or bestow, as in small portions.

  * e.g.,  ... Correct example: Given as a task; "her allotted chores" 

 [ "Allot" ]

2: Incorrect version: An illiterate way of spelling "a lot". The most common mistake however (very common unfortunetly) is "alot".

  * e.g.,  ... Incorrect example: "I liek that allot" 

 [ "Allot" ]

3: I'm no snooty English teacher or anything, but these particular mistakes drive me crazy! What is going on with education these days?

 [ "allot" ]

1: stupid way of saying "a lot"

  * e.g.,  ... John: wanna go for a drink? 

 [ "allotmenting" ]

1: The word used when speaking about working on your allotment, allotment in this sense meaning a small piece of land you own for growing food on.

  * e.g.,  ... Oh, just a bit of allotmenting... 

 [ "allot" ]

1: A word improperly used by many. As no one wants to recognize that "alot" is a valid word (see David Horvitz definition in Urban Dictionary), most spell-checkers propose to change "alot" to "allot". Unknowingly users just accept the choice.

  * e.g.,  ... "I love the UD site alot." After spell checking in Outlook, you end up with "I love the UD site allot." 

 [ "allot" ]

2: Next time your spell checker tells you "alot" is not correct, please "add" it to your dictionary.

 [ "allot" ]

1: A word improperly used by many. As no one wants to recognize that "alot" is a valid word (see David Horvitz definition in Urban Dictionary), most spell-checkers propose to change "alot" to "allot". Unknowingly users just accept the choice.

  * e.g.,  ... "I love the UD site alot." After spell checking in Outlook, you end up with "I love the UD site allot." 

 [ "allot" ]

2: Next time your spell checker tells you "alot" is not correct, please "add" it to your dictionary.

 [ "Terry Waite's allotment" ]

1: Self-explanatory to Britishers in the 1990's, this description of unruly hair will puzzle the rest of us, so:

  * e.g.,  ... The man on the bench had a red beard like Terry Waite's allotment. 

 [ "Terry Waite's allotment" ]

2:  Terry Waite served as the Anglican Church's international diplomacy negotiator. In 1987, he was himself taken hostage in Lebanon and held mostly in solitary confinement until his release in 199 He's a well-known public speaker now.

 [ "Terry Waite's allotment" ]

3:  "Allotment" in Britain is an urban rented garden patch.

 [ "Terry Waite's allotment" ]

4:  Hence, Terry Waite's allotment would be untended and weed-choked.

 [ "Terry Waite's allotment" ]

5:  I haven't determined if Waite actually was an allotment holder at the time of his confinement.

 [ "Terry Waite's allotment" ]

1: (Simile.) Describes a badly overgrown ladygarden or punani in need of a lot of TLC. (And possibly an industrial-sized strimmer.)

  * e.g.,  ... "I pulled down her knickers, and she had a twat like Terry Waite's allotment! I've seen long-haired poodles with less hair than her!" 

 [ "Terry Waite's allotment" ]

1: see ambush

  * e.g.,  ... I got totally ambushed, she was groomed like Terry Waite's allotment. 

 [ "Dig my allotment" ]

1: Get aggressively railed

  * e.g.,  ... Hmm I’d let him dig my allotment - I want him to rail me 

 [ "allotmenteering" ]

1: Keeping fit by working on an allotment

  * e.g.,  ... Digging, weeding and growing veg on the allotment is a workout called allotmenteering.