Orcos (or’-kos): Swearing that a statement is true.
X: Where is my red shirt?
RAY: I have no idea.
X: You lie you die!
RAY: I swear on my mother’s grave: I DO NOT KNOW.
X: Your mother is alive and well in Miami.
RAY: Well then, I swear on your mother’s grave.
X: That does it. Put up your hands. I’m taking you in.
RAY: Hello, 911? My roommate has flipped his widget–what’s that? His widget! It’s just a figure of speech, like flipping one’s wig, or flipping out.
Now, please send somebody over! He’s threatening me–he is pointing his cheap Chinese spatula at me. He’s waving it around. HURRY!
X: I see my shirt under the couch. Sorry.
RAY: Dumb ass.
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Definition courtesy of “Silva Rhetoricae” (rhetoric.byu.edu).
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