17 May 2021

Improving words (20)

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

Apocalypse:  Darkness caused by an ape passing in front of the Sun

Appliance:  An alliance of apples

Barrage:  Anger in a tavern

Catastrophe:  An apostrophe used by a cat

Clover:  A devotee of the speed of light

Conflagration:  A limited supply of banners for prison inmates

Decent:  To rob someone of a penny

Depot:  To take someone's marijuana away

Furrow:  An argument about animal hair

Hearse:  A British male posterior

Hibernate:  To become Irish

Industrial:  Middle Eastern currency lying in the dirt

Insisted:  Theodore who is doing something improper with his sister

Laterally:  A public gathering which doesn't start on time

Lavish:  Similar to molten rock from a volcano

Looking:  A toilet monarch

Primrose:  A red, priggish flower

Ramshackle:  A restraint for male sheep

Reinvest:  A garment worn over the chest while driving horses

Rumpled:  Guided by an ass

Succumbed:  A bed in which you suck..... well, you know.

Taxonomy:  An economy based on taxes

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

9 Comments:

Blogger Debra She Who Seeks said...

Very clever!

17 May, 2021 06:33  
Blogger Mike said...

Some of these I had to think about for a few seconds. Clover being one of them.

17 May, 2021 10:43  
Blogger Sixpence Notthewiser said...

Ohh, Hibernate, right?
Also, Rumpled? LMAOOO

XOXO

17 May, 2021 16:50  
Anonymous Ole Phat Stu said...

Anti-Vaxxer : Wife of Uncle Vaxxer.

18 May, 2021 08:00  
Blogger Mary Kirkland said...

Those are pretty good. Decent- I want my penny back now. lol

19 May, 2021 14:07  
Anonymous nonnie9999 said...

Improving? Where is that little devil constantly moving to? He may incur extra charges on his cellphone.

20 May, 2021 12:43  
Blogger Ali Redford said...

Excellent-thanks!

23 May, 2021 19:20  
Blogger Daal said...

these would make for a wild crossword puzzle!

23 July, 2021 15:06  
Blogger Infidel753 said...

Maybe I should do a crossword-puzzle version.....

24 July, 2021 01:40  

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