02 October 2019

Improving words (13)

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

Adverse:  A poetic sales pitch

Commodification:  The act of transforming something into a toilet

Contact:  The politeness of prison inmates

Copperhead:  The number of police officers per unit of population

Deluded:  Deprived of quaaludes

Flippant:  Heavy breathing due to the exertion of jumping backwards

Harpoon:  An impolite term for a woman who plays a stringed instrument

Horatio:  The number of prostitutes in relation to another number

Hypotenuse:  An injection needle that can be used almost a dozen times

Implying:  The untruthful words of a small demon

Inventory:  It's either in the air-conditioning outlet or at the YMCA

Isolate:  Dammit, I'll never be able to get there on time

Legend:  A foot

Platitude:  The quality of being a duck-billed platypus

Primaries:  A priggish constellation

Relay:  To have sex with the same person again

Sacrament:  A sack of excrement

Salmonella:  A re-make of Cinderella in which the main character is a fish

Solace:  A playing card depicting the Sun

Summa cum Laude:  Some cum loudly

Warming:  A merciless militarist

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

8 Comments:

Blogger Lady M said...

Ok it took me a second but I got there in the end. Pretty clever.

02 October, 2019 09:19  
Blogger Debra She Who Seeks said...

Horatio Hornblower is on his way over to kick your ass. Don't also make fun of his last name when he gets there.

02 October, 2019 09:52  
Blogger jono said...

I was doing fine (just grinning) until sacrament and then I lost it.

02 October, 2019 12:03  
Blogger Infidel753 said...

Lady M: Just trying to improve the language a bit.....

Debra: I'll just tell him his horn b lower than it should b.

Jono: I maintain that that one is the correct definition.....

02 October, 2019 12:10  
Blogger jenny_o said...

You're so good at these.

And "I so late" is something I actually go around saying a lot of the time, believe it or not :)

02 October, 2019 14:00  
Blogger RO said...

Wow! These are quite clever and really funny too! Make me put on my thinking hat! Hugs, RO

03 October, 2019 06:24  
Blogger Infidel753 said...

Jenny_o, RO: Thanks! This is the 13th list of these that I've done, but there always seem to be more words available to improve.

03 October, 2019 19:08  
Blogger Adam said...

Nice ideas.

04 October, 2019 06:42  

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