Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Are you the 'coffer' or the 'coffee'?



Recently the Washington Post ran an item concerning a contest in which readers were called upon to supply alternative meanings for common words. As follows are the winning entries:

Coffee (n)the person upon whom one coughs

Flabbergasted (adj)appalled by how much weight one has gained. Especially appropriate this time of year

Abdicate (v)give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach. (see ‘this time of year’)

Esplanade (v)to attempt an explanation while drunk

Willy-nilly (adj)impotent

Negligent (adj)answering the door when only wearing a filmy nightgown

Lymph (v)to walk with a lisp

Gargoyle (n)olive flavored mouthwash

Balderdash (n)rapidly declining hairline

Testicle (n)a humorous question on an exam

Pokemon (n)a Rastafarian proctologist

Oyster (n)a person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddishisms.

Keeping in the spirit of the contest, I’ve coined a couple of my own. They are:

Ambivalence (n)an emergency vehicle operated by EMTs who really don’t give a damn

Vulvo (n)a very sexy new Swedish car model

Please feel free to include any of your own. I’d love to read them.

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13 Comments:

Blogger Jazz said...

yeah, but Vulvo isn't an actual word is it? Good god, tell me it isn't!!!

9:18 AM  
Blogger thailandchani said...

I'm sure it means something in some language. :)

9:40 AM  
Blogger andrea said...

Thanks, Ian. I look forward to these Washington Post definition articles every year!

9:42 AM  
Blogger Ellee Seymour said...

I must say I haven't heard of this before, it sounds like a good brain teaser to keep the grey cells active in old age. I shall be a lost cause.

10:57 AM  
Blogger heartinsanfrancisco said...

Messenger (n) - one who leaves stuff all over the place, or any 5-year old

Upscale (n) - an erroneously calculated weight-measuring device

Atonement (n) - singing candy

11:33 AM  
Blogger geewits said...

How about:
menagerie (n) a group of males gathered to watch sports on TV.

2:32 PM  
Blogger Casdok said...

Thesaurus = an extinct monster who lived on paper!

2:26 AM  
Blogger laughingwolf said...

some i heard years ago, others are amazingly clever ;)

5:11 AM  
Blogger Tai said...

This is not quite the same, but it's MY favorite:

Sarchasm: The distance between the person being sarcastic and the person not getting it.

9:03 AM  
Blogger Janice Thomson said...

These were great Ian - I had not heard of these either. Excellent!

9:57 AM  
Blogger Dr. Deb said...

ROLF

4:58 PM  
Blogger jmb said...

Isn't that a fun thing? I was hoping for good things in the comments since I am hopeless at this. Sure enough

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