More Fractured Etymology
- Lexicon Leghorn is back with his whimsical perception of the words we thought meant something else.
Are you ready for another foray into that volumous tome that can only be called the Dictionary of Gibberish ?
- Apparent - a mother or a father
- Asperse - a pocket book made out of snake skin
- Auditorium - the place where the IRS checks your records
- Cartoon - Speed Buggy or Speed Racer
- Castrated - Gave a grade to the members of a play
- Coincide - the edge of a dime
- Coupling - a small cup
- Courage - how old your dog is
- Crematorium - a shop that specializes in cream and other dairy products
- Elixir - what he does for foreplay
- Emotional Attachment - Animated picture included in an e-mail
- Gradated - took your grandmother to the Prom
- Insinuate - you had dinner at your mistress' home
- Magnet - holder behind a car's driver's seat to store magazines
- Parsimony - what a divorced preacher pays his ex-wife
- Policy - Resembling or like a law enforcement action
- Polyunsaturated - Used hairdryer on parrot caught in rain
- Sentiment - mailed some candy
- Service - bring frozen water to table for the drinks
- Snafu - like a sneeze, a sound you make when tasting tofu
- Traffic ticket - Gets you in to see that particular band
- Violins - fighting; mayhem
- Worship - an aircraft carrier, for one
- Yacht - contraction of 'you ought'
- Yoplait - a rap musical
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3 comments:
I just love Fractured Etymology and this was one of your best episodes yet.:-)
THank you!
It's the weekend, I guess no one needs any vocabularic help.
I know, weekends are always slow.:)
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