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March 29, 2012 12:21 pm at 12:21 pm #602704Shticky GuyParticipant
You may need to think a little out of the box for some of these:
dilate: live long
abominable: a bull that swallowed a bomb
professor: opposite of confessor
pharmacist: a farm hand
psychopath: crazy paving
agog: a half finished Jewish place of worship
aftermath: relaxation following your algebra class
infantry: a small tree
artery: the study of paintings
nitrate: the price after the sun goes down
post operative: a mailman
aadvark: a German expression to describe something that is difficult to do
oyster: a person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddishisms
benign: what you be after you be 8
syntax: paying a priest for absolution after a wrong doing
thesaurus: a dinosaur that studies words
balderdash: a rapidly receding hairline
afterdraft: life following conscription
goad: the past tense of go
morbid: a higher offer
oxymoron: a person as dumb as an ox
recovery room: a place to do upholstery
satire: to be seated in a more elevated position
avoidable: what the bullfighter tries to do
counterfeiters: workers who install kitchen closets
hamlet: a small pig
medieval: not completely wicked
medical staff: a doctor’s walking stick
acre: someone that aches
liqor: what an animal does to her offspring to get them clean
PLEASE ADD MORE
March 29, 2012 8:27 pm at 8:27 pm #892482☕️coffee addictParticipantTired: ran over
March 30, 2012 3:28 am at 3:28 am #892483147Participant“I can fish”
Does this mean:- 1) I am able to fish a fish out of the lake? or Does it mean:- 2) I place fish into metal cans.
March 30, 2012 4:39 am at 4:39 am #892484ToiParticipanthe he. scrutinize.
March 30, 2012 5:17 am at 5:17 am #892485OneOfManyParticipantlol oyster is really funny.
March 30, 2012 1:30 pm at 1:30 pm #892486writersoulParticipantsausage: when marinara gets old
candelabra: the spell to turn lights on
biology: the study of leave-taking
apartment: rural living
March 31, 2012 10:19 pm at 10:19 pm #892487gr8 masmidMembercoffee: the person onto whom one coughs
giraffiti: vandalism spray-painted very very high
congress:opposite of progress (for Americans only)
politics: lots of blood-sucking insects
April 1, 2012 3:29 am at 3:29 am #892488ToiParticipantcalories: little creatures that live in my closet and sew my clothes a little tighter every night while i sleep.
April 1, 2012 3:57 am at 3:57 am #8924892facerParticipantprogress- opposite of congress
(so true! lol!)
April 2, 2012 10:58 am at 10:58 am #892490Shticky GuyParticipantPaySach – the Jewish festival that costs a lot
April 2, 2012 12:52 pm at 12:52 pm #892491sof davarMemberDisintary: Insulting someone named Terrell
April 2, 2012 3:05 pm at 3:05 pm #892492writersoulParticipantDisintary isn’t a word. Try dysentery (or then again, don’t).
armchair: relaxing place to put your gun down and sit
sweater: bad thing to wear in the summer
refrigerator: something that frigerates again
June 18, 2012 10:15 pm at 10:15 pm #892493Shticky GuyParticipantFlabbergasted: appalled over
how much weight you have gained.
Abdicate: to give up all hope of
ever having a flat stomach
Liabilities- the ability to lie
Disguise- To be cruel to men
Intaxication: Euphoria at
getting a tax refund, which
lasts until you realize it was
your money to start with
Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-
painted very, very high
Caterpallor ( n.): The color
you turn after finding half a
worm in the fruit you’re
eating.
Carnation n. Country where each
citizen owns an automobile
Cantaloupe Gotta get married in a
synagogue
Clothes dryer An appliance
designed to eat socks.
Seizure , n. An alcoholic Roman
emperor.
Tablet A small table.
Terminal illness Airport
sickness
June 18, 2012 10:53 pm at 10:53 pm #892494Doodle-Man™Memberairplane- land in the sky
June 19, 2012 9:01 am at 9:01 am #892495Shticky GuyParticipantHere’s 2 of my own that I just made up:
crescendo: (I couldn’t spell this one and couldn’t even find it on my school dictionary!) : a group of Japanese people who man a ship or aircraft
Sequence: a row of shiny pins
Do you get them/like them?
June 19, 2012 2:04 pm at 2:04 pm #892496TheGoqParticipantReally great stuff Shticky had me rolling.
June 19, 2012 3:24 pm at 3:24 pm #892497BTGuyParticipantFantastic postings! lol
June 20, 2012 2:11 am at 2:11 am #892498zichmichMemberi try harder
June 20, 2012 6:35 am at 6:35 am #892499Shticky GuyParticipantFrom Fashionablee:
Noshstalgic: We all have that
special food from our youth that
disappeared from the grocery’s
well-stocked nosh aisle.
June 20, 2012 6:48 am at 6:48 am #892500kapustaParticipantJune 20, 2012 3:44 pm at 3:44 pm #892501Shticky GuyParticipantcaption: what my son does when I tell him repeatedly to wear his hat while wearing his tefillin
June 20, 2012 9:26 pm at 9:26 pm #892502Doodle-Man™Memberreserved- leftovers.
June 21, 2012 2:20 am at 2:20 am #892503HaLeiViParticipantPerpetrator – One who keeps on doing it.
August 23, 2012 10:08 pm at 10:08 pm #892504Shticky GuyParticipantNitrous Oxo – a laughing stock.
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