Humor: Washington Post Neologism Contest

Ten Common Words Improved

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The Washington Post published the winning submissions to its yearly contest. Readers are asked to supply new meanings for familiar words. Here are a few of the winners:

1. coffee (n.) the person upon whom one coughs.

2. flabbergasted (adj.) appalled by discovering how much weight one has gained.

3. esplanade (v.) to attempt an explanation while drunk.

4. negligent (adj.) absentmindedly answering the door when wearing only a nightgown.

5. lymph (v.) to walk with a lisp.

6. gargoyle (n.) olive-flavored mouthwash.

7. balderdash (n.) a rapidly receding hairline.

8. pokemon (n.) a Rastafarian proctologist.

9. oyster (n.) a person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddishisms.

10. Frisbeetarianism (n.) the belief that, after death, the soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck there.

Via Barbara Curtis at Mommy Life

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