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07 May 2020

Improving words (15)

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

Beginning:  The part of a baseball game set aside for craven requests

Centrally:  A large public gathering of pennies

Covenant:  A small insect that lives with a group of witches

Decorum:  A Caribbean alcoholic drink in the style of art from the twenties and thirties

Dickinson:  What happens when you leave your son alone with a Catholic priest

Diode:  A poem in honor of princess Diana

Dissect:  To insult a religious faction

Excoriate:  The former central part of an apple which I consumed

Garden:  A home for a certain type of fish

Hospitable:  Subject to being spat on by a prostitute

Incur:  Swallowed by a nasty dog

Improper:  One who uses a lasso to capture small demons

Pallid:  The thing you put on top of your friend's container to keep him from escaping

Pinafore:  With a tiny needle up front

Replace:  Delicate embroidery that expresses your reputation

Restoration:  A relaxing long speech

Searing:  A band worn around one finger to show your relationship with the ocean

Sewage:  The age at which you're old enough to attach pieces of cloth together with a needle and thread

Substance:  The correct way to stand in an undersea vessel

Summary:  A person named after the mother of Jesus who is good at addition

Thinking:  A monarch who isn't overweight

[The previous "improving words" post is here.]
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14 comments:

  1. Sixpence Notthewiser07 May, 2020 04:45

    Hahaha
    Oh linguistic puns are the best.

    XOXO

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  2. Ole Phat Stu07 May, 2020 08:18

    Subservient : captain's batman in a U-boat.

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  3. Debra She Who Seeks07 May, 2020 10:07

    These are great!

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  4. jono07 May, 2020 12:18

    These keep getting better. Dickinson just about had me on the floor!

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  5. Mike07 May, 2020 12:50

    I did an LOL at Dickinson. Shame on me.

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  6. Lady M07 May, 2020 13:24

    Oooh Dickinson is wickedly funny but sad too.

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  7. jenny_o07 May, 2020 19:46

    I think you must have to have a certain kind of brain to do this. I don't have it, but you sure do. I liked "incur" and "substance" especially.

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  8. Victor07 May, 2020 20:19

    Dickinson almost made me spit out the gum I'm chewing!

    They're all great!

    I've got one I don't think you've listed before:
    Papal - A friend of your father.

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  9. nonnie999907 May, 2020 21:23

    Very comical (the guy named Al you share a microphone with) and ʷ (witty, a very tiny W).

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  10. Mary Kirkland08 May, 2020 15:13

    Summary lol. I like those.

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  11. Professor Chaos09 May, 2020 06:06

    I love tgis feature. These are always so amazing.

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  12. Infidel75309 May, 2020 08:38

    Thanks everyone! The great work of language reform continues to move forward. And Catholic priests are always a good source of material.

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  13. RO23 May, 2020 01:43

    The way your brain works and your exceptional intelligence always intrigues me. How in the world you can come up with these is pretty amazing and fun! Hugs, RO

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  14. Infidel75323 May, 2020 12:45

    Thanks :-) I try.....my brain has always been very language-focused.....

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