05 July 2019

Improving words (11)

Some more revised word definitions, based on what the words visibly should mean.....

Advise:  A sales pitch that grips you hard

Appear:  An organ of hearing you can download to your phone

Bisect:  A religion for those who "swing both ways"

Canteen:  Always fire the youngest worker

Confusion:  The merging of prison inmates

Dentist:  A supporter of minor impact damage

Emotion:  The movement of data through the internet

Expensive:  Formerly thoughtful

Figurine:  Fruity piss

Gambit:  Bitten on the leg

Heather:  A kindly thing to do, if she's cold

Justice:  Merely frozen water

Mangrove:  An area where men grow on trees

Missing:  To perform a song incorrectly

Mosquito:  A very small mosque

Mutton:  2,000 pounds of dogs

Opal:  An Irish friend

Product:  In favor of large pipes

Rampant:  Heavy breathing after the exertion of ramming something

Reproach:  Your Congressperson is a disease-bearing insect

Resin:  To violate a taboo again

Scandinavian:  To intensively examine the aggravating noise made by birds

Scarcity:  A metropolis where everyone shows marks of past wounds

Tenant:  Nearly a dozen small insects

Windlass:  A young lady with a flatulence problem

[The previous "improving words" post is here.]

7 Comments:

Blogger Debra She Who Seeks said...

Ha ha, bisect, gambit and windlass! You're very clever.

05 July, 2019 08:59  
Blogger Mary Kirkland said...

Oh those are funny. For a couple of them it took me a second to get it. Clever.

05 July, 2019 10:15  
Blogger Victor said...

These are pure genius!

05 July, 2019 18:40  
Blogger jenny_o said...

Excellent - you've even got a triple-play with Scandinavian!

I was trying to guess some of them before I read your definitions, and rampant was the only easy one - except I was picturing pants on male sheep instead of a way to breathe :)

06 July, 2019 10:29  
Blogger Jono said...

I'm saving these along with the previous lists for when I need a break from conventional thinking. Great mental exercise and entertainment!

06 July, 2019 20:35  
Blogger Professor Chaos said...

Standing Ovation!

07 July, 2019 09:39  
Blogger Infidel753 said...

Thanks! I appreciate the comments.

I guess "rampant" could also be a small insect that climbed inclined pathways -- some words can have more than one meaning.

08 July, 2019 05:39  

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