Alternate Meanings for Common Words
My sister Jill sent these to me; I just had to share.PRICELESS!!
The ANNUAL NEOLOGISM CONTESTOnce again, The Washington Post has published the winning submissions to its yearly contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings or common words.And the winners are:
1. Coffee n.)
The person upon whom one coughs.
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 nightgown.
7. Lymph (v.)
To walk with a lisp.
8. Gargoyle (n.)
Olive-flavored mouthwash.
9. Flatulence (n.)
Emergency vehicle that picks you up after you are
run over by a steamroller.
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 bearing adopted by
proctologists.
proctologists.
13. Pokemon (n)
A Rastafarian proctologist.
14. Oyster (n.)
A person who sprinkles his conversation with
Yiddishisms.
Yiddishisms.
15. Frisbeetarianism (n.)
The belief that, when you die, your soul flies up
onto the roof and gets stuck there.
onto the roof and gets stuck there.
16. Circumvent (n.)
An opening in the front of boxer shorts worn by
Jewish men.
Jewish men.
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