Fun with Words

writin52 · Apr 11, 2008

What word or words make you laugh just by saying them? Use your favourite word in a sentence giving it a new made-up meaning that has nothing to do with what it really means.

Here's one of mine: oxymoron One of those thick-headed people who seem to go through life acting like oxen, but aren't as intelligent.

dobiwon · Apr 11, 2008

Two of mine:

gobbledygook: food that you just know if you eat it, it will make you throw up. As in "The thing I hate about going to great-aunt Thelma's is that you have to be polite and eat that gobbledygook she serves."

The other is lickety-split, but these delicate fingers won't even attempt to put that into a sentence :Ssh:

-- well, okay: "a frozen concoction consisting of an ice-cream-covered banana on a stick."

Mr Flibble · Apr 12, 2008

Arachibutyrophobia -- the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth. I'll get that into a story one day....

And for some reason pendulous. It just sounds funny, and a bit rude. Brannick was very proud of his new invention : The Pendulous Crunchalator.

HeronW · Apr 12, 2008

Murgatroyd--from the phrase 'heavens to murgatroyd' which is either giving the heavens to murgatroyd, the distance from one to the other, or that murgatroyd is opposite in all ways to the heavens in climate, fast food, parking spaces :}

Pthom · Apr 12, 2008

Okay so I just spent the last hour looking for the origins of Heavens to Murgatroyd (Murgatroid). I think Heron's offered definitions of its meaning are as good as any.

Trish · Apr 15, 2008

Lolly-Gobble-Bliss-Bomb. This means my Molly!

HeronW · Apr 17, 2008

He was discombobulated and this so soon after being combobulated too.

Spell-it-out · Apr 17, 2008

In sports, when a players 'picks up an injury'.

We were running around, having a ball, when trevor picked up an injury.
Stupid man, i told him to leave it, but i guess the bright colurs appealed to him!

paprikapink · Apr 17, 2008

The swans approached and rubbernecked to display their love.

HeronW · Apr 24, 2008

Tatterdemalion tumbleweeds rolled past, ignoring the world like misanthropic nomads.

Fun with Words

writin52

dobiwon

Planning to retire for the 5th time

Mr Flibble

They've been very bad, Mr Flibble

HeronW

Down Under Fan

Pthom

Word butcher

Trish

HeronW

Down Under Fan

Spell-it-out

I'm gonna give all my secrets away

paprikapink

Bored fanatic

HeronW

Down Under Fan