Dictionary with a Touch of Humor

(enjoying words with special points of view, sometimes humorous, and which are not found in a "regular" dictionary)


barium
What is done when people are dead.
beauty parlor (lexicomedy)
A place where some women go to dye.
bigamist
Italian for thick fog, big-a-mist.
bigamy
Having one spouse too many and there are some who believe that monogamy is the same.
boastful baker
Bragamuffin.
boring
Charm-free.
bouyant
Young male member of the ant family.
buccaneer
Overpayment for corn on the cob.
Burbank
A place that stores cold cash.
careful speech
Elocaution.
chickens
1. The only animals either eaten before they are born or after they are dead.
2. Chic hens.
Christmas
A widely observed holiday during which the past nor the future is of as much interest as is the present.
cigarette
A weed product whose smoke, some say, should never be inhaled; and still more insist should never be exhaled.
clothes horse
Dressperado.
committee (lexicomedy)
A group that keeps minutes and wastes hours.

Dictionary information. Dictionary sources of information:

Dictionaries and Lexicons, Part One;
Dictionaries and Lexicons, Part Two.


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