Dictionary with a Touch of Humor
(enjoying words with special points of view, sometimes humorous, and which are not found in a "regular" dictionary)
beauty parlor (s) (lexicomedy); beauty parlors (pl)
A place, or places, where some women go to dye.
bigamist
Italian for thick fog, big-a-mist.
bigamy (lexicomedy)
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.
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.
crow
A bird that never complains without caws.
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