Hibernation - Definition

***Keith_M*** · 23-12-2012 02:27 PM

Hibernation (Noun) - (Derived from the verb '(to) Hibernate'). A state employed by various animals of reducing bodily activity, even to to the point of sleep, to survive the cold winter months when there is often less to eat.

Hibernian (Noun) - (also derived from the verb 'to hibernate') - A Football Club in Edinburgh. So called because of the traditional tendency of the players employed by said club to reduce bodily activity in the winter months to cope with the 'cauld wethur'.
Traditional symptoms of this torpur are:

reduced points tally from mid-November to mid-March;
sacking of managers;
increase of number of threads on hibs.net entitled: "What is the point of [insert name of current scapegoat]" , "[insert name of manager] must go" or, the ever traditional "Petrie, get it sorted".

Winter Slump (Noun) - Well loved tradition in the EH6/EH7 regions of Edinburgh whereby the aforementioned football club traditionally undo any good will instilled in the natives of the region by the rare decent performance during August to mid-November by employing the age old Hibernate tradition.

Coodnaebuya - (Colloquial Expression) - Often to be found at beginning of discourses between residents of the aforementioned EH6/EH7 areas during the traditional 'Winter Slump', as in 'We coodnaebuya ferkin win the noo'. Thought to be decended from the same Latin root form 'couldnae' as used in the phrase 'couldnae-score-in-a-brothul'.