Say What?! Funny, Alternative Meanings For Common Words

Tuesday, 31 March 2009

Say What?! Funny, Alternative Meanings For Common Words

Arbitrator \ar'-bi-tray-ter\:
A cook that leaves Arby's to work at McDonald's.

Avoidable \uh-voy'-duh-buhl\:
What a bullfighter tries to do.

Baloney \buh-lo'-nee\:
Where some hemlines fall.

Bernadette \burn'-a-det\:
The act of torching a mortgage.

Burglarize \bur'-gler-ize\:
What a crook sees with.

Control \kon-trol'\:
A short, ugly inmate.

Counterfeiters \kown-ter-fit-ers \:
Workers who put together kitchen cabinets.

Eclipse \i-klips'\:
What an English barber does for a living.

Eyedropper \i'-drop-ur\:
A clumsy ophthalmologist.

>Heroes \hee'-rhos\:
What a guy in a boat does.

Left Bank \left' bangk'\:
What the robber did when his bag was full of loot.

Misty \mis'-tee\:
How golfers create divots.

Paradox \par'-u-doks\:
Two physicians.

Parasites \par'-uh-sites\:
What you see from the top of the Eiffel Tower.

Pharmacist \farm'-uh-sist\:
A helper on the farm.

Polarize \po'-lur-ize\:
What penguins see with.

Primate \pri'-mat\:
Removing your spouse from in front of the TV.

Relief \ree-leef'\:
What trees do in the spring.

Rubberneck \rub'-er-nek\:
What you do to relax your wife.

Seamstress \seem'-stres\:
Describes 250 pounds in a size six.

Selfish \sel'-fish\:
What the owner of a seafood store does.

Subdued \sub-dood'\:
Like, a guy, like, works on one of those, like, submarines, man.

Sudafed \sood'-a-fed\:
Bringing litigation against a government official.
Do you know any other common words that you can play around with and add alternative meanings to?
These words and meanings are from http://www.commonplacebook.com

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Comments (24)

like..are we ever gonna use this.
- 3/31/2009 3:07 PM
- immaairheadxl@xanga (message)
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:/
- 3/31/2009 3:08 PM
- MangoWOW@xanga (message)
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I tried to guess some of them before looking at the definition. I completely failed. :P
- 3/31/2009 3:11 PM
- Kazydai (message)
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Proper - someone that props.
- 3/31/2009 3:12 PM
- Parsimony@xanga (message)
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I really liked this blog btw, short and sweet for the noggin.
- 3/31/2009 3:23 PM
- Parsimony@xanga (message)
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lol someone had alotta time on their hands but i enjoyed it
- 3/31/2009 3:25 PM
- musickdiva@xanga (message)
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Interesting. =]
- 3/31/2009 3:29 PM
- TakingxOverxMe@xanga (message)
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This is different! :P

I can't think of any..I'll get back to you. P:
- 3/31/2009 3:42 PM
- Sugarling@xanga (message)
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theres red neck..
BARD - verb. Past tense of the infinitive "to
borrow."

Usage: "My brother bard my pickup truck."

JAWJUH - noun. A highly flammable state just north of Florida.

Usage: "My brother from Jawjah bard my pickup truck."

MUNTS - noun. A calendar division.

Usage: "My brother from Jawjuh bard my pickup truck, and I aint herd from him in
munts."
- 3/31/2009 4:27 PM
- beforedawn@xanga (message)
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hehe

ASAP - As soon as ah pee. xP
- 3/31/2009 5:33 PM
- rocking_horse222@xanga (message)
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I snickered a little bit.
- 3/31/2009 7:16 PM
- eskeemo_kisses@xanga (message)
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waste of time :\
- 3/31/2009 7:39 PM
- lovechartreuse@xanga (message)
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seems like you got all of these from the urban dictionary, eh bud?
- 3/31/2009 7:47 PM
- beetunes@xanga (message)
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...have you ever looked up the meaning to "dork"?
- 3/31/2009 9:10 PM
- irunwithwerewolves@xanga (message)
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hhahahahahaa.. genius!!!!!!!!!!1
- 3/31/2009 9:31 PM
- orangeisthebestcolor@xanga (message)
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this sounds a lot like jeff foxworthy's redneck dictionary, but i loved them all!
- 3/31/2009 9:40 PM
- xo_lovelyx@xanga (message)
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LOL
- 3/31/2009 10:09 PM
- doremi_ichigo@xanga (message)
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@beforedawn@xanga - that's pretty neat!
these are all awesome! i like "eclipse" hahahaha .. all of these are great =]
- 3/31/2009 10:24 PM
- iheartyou09909@xanga (message)
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skeleton - bones with the people scraped off of them

ick...(this daffynition was found in a children's book).
- 3/31/2009 10:25 PM
- YouTOme@xanga (message)
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That's pretty cool xD
- 3/31/2009 10:57 PM
- spanz@xanga (message)
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I think there was a "thing" about an ex Hooters worker suing her employers regarding a sales competition. She thought she'd be winning a Toyota. What she got was a Toy Yoda. :D
- 4/1/2009 4:11 AM
- Lakakalo@xanga (message)
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i see what you did there.
- 4/1/2009 8:25 AM
- jolee121910@xanga (message)
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Wow...this was so punny.
- 4/1/2009 12:49 PM
- thecommonfate@xanga (message)
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Lame punniness. xD
- 4/1/2009 4:31 PM
- breeadork@xanga (message)
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