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