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    Shticky Guy
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    You may need to think a little out of the box for some of these:

    dilate: live long

    abominable: a bull that swallowed a bomb

    professor: opposite of confessor

    pharmacist: a farm hand

    psychopath: crazy paving

    agog: a half finished Jewish place of worship

    aftermath: relaxation following your algebra class

    infantry: a small tree

    artery: the study of paintings

    nitrate: the price after the sun goes down

    post operative: a mailman

    aadvark: a German expression to describe something that is difficult to do

    oyster: a person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddishisms

    benign: what you be after you be 8

    syntax: paying a priest for absolution after a wrong doing

    thesaurus: a dinosaur that studies words

    balderdash: a rapidly receding hairline

    afterdraft: life following conscription

    goad: the past tense of go

    morbid: a higher offer

    oxymoron: a person as dumb as an ox

    recovery room: a place to do upholstery

    satire: to be seated in a more elevated position

    avoidable: what the bullfighter tries to do

    counterfeiters: workers who install kitchen closets

    hamlet: a small pig

    medieval: not completely wicked

    medical staff: a doctor’s walking stick

    acre: someone that aches

    liqor: what an animal does to her offspring to get them clean

    PLEASE ADD MORE

    #892482
    ☕️coffee addict
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    Tired: ran over

    #892483
    147
    Participant

    “I can fish”

    Does this mean:- 1) I am able to fish a fish out of the lake? or Does it mean:- 2) I place fish into metal cans.

    #892484
    Toi
    Participant

    he he. scrutinize.

    #892485
    OneOfMany
    Participant

    lol oyster is really funny.

    #892486
    writersoul
    Participant

    sausage: when marinara gets old

    candelabra: the spell to turn lights on

    biology: the study of leave-taking

    apartment: rural living

    #892487
    gr8 masmid
    Member

    coffee: the person onto whom one coughs

    giraffiti: vandalism spray-painted very very high

    congress:opposite of progress (for Americans only)

    politics: lots of blood-sucking insects

    #892488
    Toi
    Participant

    calories: little creatures that live in my closet and sew my clothes a little tighter every night while i sleep.

    #892489
    2facer
    Participant

    progress- opposite of congress

    (so true! lol!)

    #892490
    Shticky Guy
    Participant

    PaySach – the Jewish festival that costs a lot

    #892491
    sof davar
    Member

    Disintary: Insulting someone named Terrell

    #892492
    writersoul
    Participant

    Disintary isn’t a word. Try dysentery (or then again, don’t).

    armchair: relaxing place to put your gun down and sit

    sweater: bad thing to wear in the summer

    refrigerator: something that frigerates again

    #892493
    Shticky Guy
    Participant

    Flabbergasted: appalled over

    how much weight you have gained.

    Abdicate: to give up all hope of

    ever having a flat stomach

    Liabilities- the ability to lie

    Disguise- To be cruel to men

    Intaxication: Euphoria at

    getting a tax refund, which

    lasts until you realize it was

    your money to start with

    Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-

    painted very, very high

    Caterpallor ( n.): The color

    you turn after finding half a

    worm in the fruit you’re

    eating.

    Carnation n. Country where each

    citizen owns an automobile

    Cantaloupe Gotta get married in a

    synagogue

    Clothes dryer An appliance

    designed to eat socks.

    Seizure , n. An alcoholic Roman

    emperor.

    Tablet A small table.

    Terminal illness Airport

    sickness

    #892494

    airplane- land in the sky

    #892495
    Shticky Guy
    Participant

    Here’s 2 of my own that I just made up:

    crescendo: (I couldn’t spell this one and couldn’t even find it on my school dictionary!) : a group of Japanese people who man a ship or aircraft

    Sequence: a row of shiny pins

    Do you get them/like them?

    #892496
    TheGoq
    Participant

    Really great stuff Shticky had me rolling.

    #892497
    BTGuy
    Participant

    Fantastic postings! lol

    #892498
    zichmich
    Member

    i try harder

    #892499
    Shticky Guy
    Participant

    From Fashionablee:

    Noshstalgic: We all have that

    special food from our youth that

    disappeared from the grocery’s

    well-stocked nosh aisle.

    http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/noshstalgic

    #892500
    kapusta
    Participant

    remain- second dinner

    depend- what happens when someone borrows a pen long term

    *kapusta*

    #892501
    Shticky Guy
    Participant

    caption: what my son does when I tell him repeatedly to wear his hat while wearing his tefillin

    #892502

    reserved- leftovers.

    #892503
    HaLeiVi
    Participant

    Perpetrator – One who keeps on doing it.

    #892504
    Shticky Guy
    Participant

    Nitrous Oxo – a laughing stock.

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