Subject: FW: Vocabulary Words
my favorite is the last one.!!!!!!!!
For those who
appreciate the intricacies of the English language, the
Washington Post publishes a yearly contest in which readers
are asked to
supply alternate meanings for various words.
The
following were some of this year's winning entries:
1. Coffee (n.),
a person who is coughed upon.
2. Flabbergasted (adj.), appalled
over how much weight you have gained.
3.
Abdicate (v.), to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.
4. Esplanade (v.), to
attempt an explanation while drunk.
5.
Willy-nilly (adj.), impotent.
6. Negligent (adj.), describes a
condition in which you absentmindedly answer the
door in your nightie.
7. Lymph (v.), to walk with a lisp.
8.
Gargoyle (n.), an olive-flavored mouthwash.
9. Flatulence (n.) the
emergency vehicle that picks you up after you are
run over by a steamroller.
10. Balderdash (n.), a rapidly receding
hairline.
11. Testicle (n.), a humorous question on an
exam.
12. Rectitude (n.), the formal, dignified demeanor
assumed by a proctologist immediately before he
examines you.
13. Oyster (n.), a person who sprinkles
his conversation with Yiddish
expressions.
14. Circumvent (n.), the opening in the front of
boxer shorts.
15. Frisbeetarianism (n.), The
belief that, when you die, your soul goes up on the
roof and gets stuck there.
16. Pokemon (n), A
Jamaican
proctologist