Welcome, Guest: Register On Nairaland / LOGIN! / Trending / Recent / NewStats: 3,168,933 members, 7,872,996 topics. Date: Thursday, 27 June 2024 at 06:28 AM |
Nairaland Forum / Nairaland / General / Education / The Foolish Dictionary:100 Hilarious Meaning Of Words (723 Views)
Drop One English Word Which Will Make People Check Their Dictionary / Dictionary Meaning Of Based On Logistics / List Of Words To Use Instead Of "Very" (2) (3) (4)
The Foolish Dictionary:100 Hilarious Meaning Of Words by Greatzeus(m): 9:05am On Sep 25, 2015 |
The Foolish Dictionary:100 Hilarious meaning of words If you can take your time to go through this list,it will be worth your time,dont stop at 1,2,15 or 99, get to 100 1.ABSTINENCE: From the Persian ab, water, and stein, or tankard. Hence, water tankard, or "water wagon." 2.ACCIDENT: A condition of affairs in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body better. 3.ADAMANT: From "Adam's Aunt," reputed to be a hard character. Hence, anything tough, or hard. 4.ADVICE: A commodity peddled by your lawyer and given away by your mother-in-law, but impossible to dispose of yourself. Famous as the one thing which it is "More blessed to give than receive" 5.ADVERSITY: A bottomless lake, surrounded by near-sighted friends 6.AFFINITY: Complimentary term for your husband or your wife. Sometimes a synonym for "Your finish." 7.ALCOHOL: A liquid good for preserving almost everything except secrets. 8.ALIMONY: An expensive soothing syrup, prescribed by the judge for a divorcee's bleeding heart. (Old spelling, allay money). 9.ANCESTORS: The originators of the Family Tree, a remarkable sex paradox in which the Ann sisters are always the four fathers. 10.ANTI-IMPERIALIST: A patriot whose conscience works overtime 11.ARGUMENT: Breaking and entering the ear, assault and battery on the brain and disturbing the peace. 12.ATHLETE: A dignified bunch of muscles, unable to split wood or sift the ashes. 13.BACHELOR: From Latin baculus, a stick, unattached. Hence, an unattached man, which any lady may stick, stick to, or get stuck on. 14.BACKBITER: A mosquito 15.BASEBALL: A game in which the young man who bravely strikes out for himself receives no praise for it. 16.BENEDICT: A married male. 17.BENEDICTINE: A married female. 18.BENEDICTION: Their children. 19.BIRTH :An aid to life, discovered by Woman 20.BONE: the original price of a wife. Note, Adam, who had to give up one bone before he got Eve. 21.BRAIN: The top-floor apartment in the Human Block, known as the Cranium, and kept by the Sarah Sisters--Sarah Brum and Sarah Belum, assisted by Medulla Oblongata 22.BROKE: A word expressing the ultimate condition of one who is too much bent on speculating 23.CAB: Affair for a drive. 24.CAFE: A place where the public pays the proprietor for the privilege of tipping the waiters for something to eat 25.CANNIBAL: A heathen hobo who never works, but lives on other people. 26.CAPTIVATE: From Lat. caput, head, and Eng. vacate, or empty,--to empty the head. Note, Women who have captivated men 27.CAVALRY: That arm of the military service that engages in the real hoss-tilities 28.CEMETERY: The one place where princes and paupers, porters and presidents are finally on the dead level. 29.CHAUFFEUR: A man who is smart enough to operate an automobile, but clever enough not to own one. 30.CONSCIENCE: The fear of being found out. 31.COSMETIC: A new face-maker 32.CREDIT: Something for nothing 33.CREDITOR: Something with nothing. 34.CRITIC: A wet blanket that soaks everything it touches 35.CROOK: One who exceeds the speed limit in Law & Order 36.CYNIC: A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. 37.DANCE: A brisk, physical exercise, invented by St. Vitus 38.DATES: A fruit commonly plucked from the Family Tree and spread on the leaves of history 39.DEBT: A big word beginning with Owe, which grows bigger the more it is contracted. 40.DELEGATE: From Eng. dally, to loaf, and Fr. gate, spoiled. A spoiled loafer. 41.DEVIL: An old rascal mentioned in the Bible, now reported engaged to Mary McLane 42.DIAMOND: A bright gem the sparkle of which sometimes renders a woman stone-blind to the defects of the man proffering it 43.DIARY: An honest autobiography. A good keepsake but a bad give away. 44.DIPLOMAT: An international liar, with an elastic conscience and a rubber neck. 45.DIVIDENDS: A gambler's reward 46.DIVORCE: it is frequently a legal formula that immediately precedes a fashionable wedding 47.DREAM: What a man may call a woman, though a Pill may have suggested it. Sweethearts are dreams because they seldom come true; wives, because they're often a night-mare, and both because they go by contraries. 48.DYNAMITE: The peroration of an anarchist's argument 49.EARLY: A title of stupidity 50.ECONOMY: Denying ourselves a necessary today in order to buy a luxury to-morrow 51.ELECTION: A periodical picnic for the American People. Held in booths, where the Voter puts in his ballot, and The Machine elects whatever it chooses 52.ENGAGEMENT: In war, a battle. In love, the salubrious calm that precedes the real hostilities. 53.ETIQUETTE: A convenient code of conduct which makes Lying a virtue and Snobbishness a righteous deed 54.EVOLUTION: A clever trick performed by one Darwin, who made a monkey of Adam. 55.FAME: Having a brand of cigars named after you 56.FICTION: The Constitutional fiat that "all men are created equal. 57.FLATTERY: Cologne water, to be smelled of but not swallowed. 58.FORBEARANCE: The spirit of toleration shown when a man who knows, patiently listens to a fool who does not. 58.GOLF: An excuse for carrying unconcealed weapons and a Scotch breath. 60.GOSSIP: a vulture that tears its prey to bits, or an exercise of the wind-pipe from which every victim gets a blow. 61.HEAVEN: A good place to be raised to. 62.HELL: Poverty. 63.HEREDITY: The cause of all our faults 64.HISTORY: The evil that men do. 65.IDIOT: From Eng. idea, and out. One who is just out of ideas. 66.INCOME: The reliable offspring of a wise investment 67.INFANT: A disturber of the peace. 68.INTUITION: A fictitious quality in females--really Suspicion. 69.JOB: An uncertain commodity regulated by a Union Card. 70.JUDGE: One who sits on a bench in a court, frames sentences and finishes crooks for a living, and swears continually 71.JURY: Twelve men chosen to decide who has the better lawyer 72.KISS: An indescribable something that is of no value to any one, but is much prized by the right two 73.LAWYER: One who defends your estate against an enemy, in order to appropriate it to himself 74.LEGISLATURE: Hence, a company of men brought together to bluster, or a company of law makers who know nothing about law. 75.LIE: A very poor substitute for the truth but the only one discovered up to date 76.LOVE: A man's insane desire to become a woman's meal-ticket 77.LOVER: An ardent admirer who says, "Yes, dearest, I will shovel the snow of the lake so that we can go skating!" and, after marriage remarks, "What! Shovel the snow off the walk for you? Well, I should say not! I'm no chore boy." 78.MAN: Something that "Goes first on four feet, then two feet, then three, but the more feet it goes on the weaker it be!" 79.MANICURE: The only woman who can beat a carpenter at soaking nails. 80.MATRIMONY: A game for women, in which the unmarried half are trying to find a husband and the married half trying not to be found out by one. Both halves are eminently successful. 81.MIRACLE: A woman who won't talk 82.MONEY: Society's vindication of vulgarity. 83.MONOPOLY: A modern device for impoverishing others 84.MOON: The only lighting monopoly that never made money. 85.MOSQUITO: A small insect designed by God to make us think better of flies. 86.NEIGHBOR: One who knows more about your affairs than yourself 87.OBESITY: A surplus gone to waist 88.OPIUM: The real author of "The Dream Book." 89.PARENTS: One of the hardships of a minor's life 90.PEACE: A mythical condition of tranquillity frequently reported from the Phillipines 91.PESSIMIST: One who paints things blue. And sometimes red. 92.PHILANTHROPIST: One who returns to the people publicly a small percentage of the wealth he steals from them privately 93.POLICEMAN: A never present help in time of trouble. 94.QUESTION: Is marriage a failure? 95.REPUTATION: A personal possession, frequently not discovered until lost 96.SINNER: A stupid person who gets found out. 97.WOMAN: An aspiring creature whose political sphere is still slightly flattened at the polls. 98.YEAR: A period originally including 365 days, now 325, since the other 40 are Lent. 99.ZEALOT :One who loves morality so well he will commit crime to maintain it. 100.ZIGZAG: The popular route after a heavy drinking. From the FOOLISH Dictionary Executed by GIDEON WURDZ Master of Pholly, Doctor of Loquacious Lunacy, Fellow of the Royal Gibe Society, etc., etc. |
Re: The Foolish Dictionary:100 Hilarious Meaning Of Words by Greatzeus(m): 9:08am On Sep 25, 2015 |
4.ADVICE: A commodity peddled by your lawyer and given away by your mother-in-law, but impossible to dispose of yourself. Famous as the one thing which it is "More blessed to give than receive" so truuuuueee |
Re: The Foolish Dictionary:100 Hilarious Meaning Of Words by chocolateme(f): 9:11am On Sep 25, 2015 |
Wow |
Re: The Foolish Dictionary:100 Hilarious Meaning Of Words by Greatzeus(m): 9:11am On Sep 25, 2015 |
6.AFFINITY: Complimentary term for your husband or your wife. Sometimes a synonym for "Your finish." |
Re: The Foolish Dictionary:100 Hilarious Meaning Of Words by Greatzeus(m): 9:14am On Sep 25, 2015 |
12.ATHLETE: A dignified bunch of muscles, unable to split wood or sift the ashes. ohh my lol,esp Jamaicans |
Re: The Foolish Dictionary:100 Hilarious Meaning Of Words by Haywhymido(m): 10:35am On Sep 25, 2015 |
Ohk |
Re: The Foolish Dictionary:100 Hilarious Meaning Of Words by Nobody: 10:52pm On Sep 25, 2015 |
LMAO. I happen to prefer Ambrose Bier's Devil's Dictionary; the wit is mordant, and the aphorisms timeless.
|
(1) (Reply)
Unizik Postpones Resumption Date Of New And Old Students / Fuoye 2016 Aspirants / Pls Help Me Decide
(Go Up)
Sections: politics (1) business autos (1) jobs (1) career education (1) romance computers phones travel sports fashion health religion celebs tv-movies music-radio literature webmasters programming techmarket Links: (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) Nairaland - Copyright © 2005 - 2024 Oluwaseun Osewa. All rights reserved. See How To Advertise. 71 |