Epping and Devizes are both towns in the UK. The idea is to take an interesting sounding proper name, pretend it's just a normal word and then come up with your own definition.
I think skoonspruit (forgot the spelling) is the main one that still stuck in casual use decades later for my family.
It's the rare fountain thing a saliva gland makes eg when yawning.
There was another one for a group of cars all doing exactly the speed limit because one of them is a police car. I was better at remembering the definitions than the actual words.
I borrowed someone's copy of that once back in said 1980's. I remember there was a word for the cooler side of the pillow when you turned it over, but can't remember what it is - but I think it started with 'a'....seached the internet for it 'abilene', not to be confused with Abeline in Texas of course.
There seemed to be a lot of words related to knights having to deal with the different reasons/states of drawbridges not opening to let them in as well.
Now I have an irrational desire for Bryan Ferry to write a song similar to Avalon, but called Abilene all about how nice the cooler side of the pillow is.
"in the beginning of the Monty Python film, the gravestone with the title "The Meaning of Liff" appears before a lightning bolt strikes the last F and converts it to an E."
