Dictionary with a Touch of Humor

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

useless
A reference to things that we should use less.
vision*
The art of seeing things invisible.
Weight Watchers meeting
Prattle of the bulge.
window-shopping
Eye browse.
workaholic (s) (noun), workaholics (pl)
1. In lexicomedy: Someone who gets drunk every time anyone talks about tasks, jobs, chores, or duties:

At a grave in a cemetery, two women are visiting. One woman says, "I understand he was a workaholic." The other woman responds, "He was . . . but, he drank at home, too."

—"Wizard of Id" comic strip, October 24, 2007.
2. A person who occupies himself or herself compulsively with business matters: While the term workaholic generally implies that someone enjoys his or her job very much, quite often that person is also obsessed with it.
3. Etymology: coined from work with the second element abstracted from alcoholic.

This provides us with the old Rodney Dangerfield joke: "My old man was a workaholic and every time he thought about work, he got drunk."

Someone who is obsessively occupied with work.
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wurdz, wurds, werdz, werds, wordz
Words for those who don't care how they spell "words" or for those who don't know how to spell the word "words".
yawn
Often an honest opinion openly expressed.

Dictionary information. Dictionary sources of information:

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