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Title: ANNUAL NEOLOGISM CONTEST
Post by: kawGIRL on March 10, 2006, 03:47:38 PM
Once again, The Washington Post has published the winning submissions to its yearly contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for common words.

The winners are:
1:   Coffee (n.) the person upon whom one coughs.
2:   Flabbergasted (adj.) appalled over how much weight you have gained.
3:   Abdicate (v.) to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.
4:   Esplanade (v.) to attempt an explanation while drunk.
5:   Willy-nilly (adj.) impotent.
6:   Negligent (adj.) describes a condition in which you absent-mindedly answer the door in your nightgown.
7:    Lymph (v.) to walk with a lisp.
8:    Gargoyle (n.) olive-flavored mouthwash.
9:    Flatulence (n.) emergency vehicle that picks you up after you are run over by a steamroller.
10:  Balderdash (n.) a rapidly receding hairline.
11:  Testicle (n.) a humorous question on an exam.
12:  Rectitude (n.) the formal, dignified bearing adopted by proctologists.
13:  Pokemon (n) a Rastafarian proctologist.   :R
14:  Oyster (n.) a person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddishisms.
15:  Frisbeetarianism (n.) (Back by popular demand): The belief that, when you die, your Soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck there.
16:  Circumvent (n.) an opening in the front of boxer shorts worn by Jewish men.


Title: Re: ANNUAL NEOLOGISM CONTEST
Post by: MachineDog on March 13, 2006, 08:55:02 AM
Haha, that last one was great. :D


Title: Re: ANNUAL NEOLOGISM CONTEST
Post by: qt314nfla on January 07, 2007, 12:35:51 PM
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