Improving words (27)
Bestowed: It's better to be a creditor than a debtor
Brandish: A deep plate for the hard outer layers of grain
Canton: To fire employees with a total weight of 2,000 pounds
Cunningham: A smart pig
Debris: To reverse a Jewish circumcision
Discern: To show contempt for the Large Hadron Collider
Endorsing: Please either stop or burst into song
Familiar: A person who tells untruths to his own family
Format: In favor of a small carpet
Fungible: Capable of being transformed into a fungus
Insinuate: You were always in a state of immorality while eating
Intermittent: To bury a tree-like Lord of the Rings creature wearing a baseball glove
Limpid: Even the primordial instinctive mind is wimpy
Pageant: A small insect who turns the leaves of your book for you
Permission: For each voyage
Profundity: In favor of an enjoyable song
Record: To tie someone up again
Sextant: Your French aunt who takes a special interest in you
Tireless: A car or bike with bare wheels
Transparent: A person who doesn't actually have kids, but self-identifies as having them
Upstart: A fruit pastry delivered by the United Parcel Service
[The previous "improving words" post is here.]
10 Comments:
Or insinuate could mean you ate something taboo. Not even immoral, but against some rule of tribal identity.
And don't even try to glean some wisdom from such rules.
That Infidel is a short canton.
A proper Imperial canton is 2240 lbs.
Bloody rebel colonials ;-)
Upstart. It would be great to find one in the mailbox every day.
Anon: The "in" at the beginning must be included in the meaning.
NickM: Whatevs, imperialist.
Mike: Unfortunately only the Postal Service is allowed to put things in mailboxes. UPS would just leave your tart on your porch each day to be stolen by passers-by.
Would still be in sin. You know, God hates shrimp and all.
Right!
I'm sending in the 51st Bombay Light Infantry to get medieval on your seditionist arse.
Oh, buggery! It may just be another "Mr Bean" movie...
Just don't send The Thin Blue Line to arrest me. I might die laughing.
You found that funny? Really? I mean really?
cunningham made me giggle.
Names are a pretty rich source for these, but they need to be common enough for people to recognize easily.
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