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Have fun with a new word each day. I'll choose a word. You make up a meaning.
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1. I choose an obscure dictionary word.
2. You invent a wacky meaning and add it as a comment.
3. After a certain time I list the true meaning and choose a winner for the invented meaning.
There are no prizes, just lots of fun!
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2. You invent a wacky meaning and add it as a comment.
3. After a certain time I list the true meaning and choose a winner for the invented meaning.
There are no prizes, just lots of fun!
Remember, children use this site too.
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15 comments:
meniscus (adj.) - describes when foul language becomes dangerous.
The ice cream fell off her cone and into to her lap. She cursed and screamed. He looked over to see the mess. the traffic stopped. He looked up just in time to slam on the brakes, swerve and avoid an accident. It was a menicus moment, and the ice cream was now in his lap. They'll be going to therapy starting next week.
Meniscus - well this was the sign above the many Gents public toilets in Rome (methinks an iscus may have been a trough). Of course there would have been a ladysitus for the fairer sex.
I was thinking along the lines of Pastor Phil that it could mean cussing, only it's just men cussing.
I'll just say that it's the lightheadedness or heavyheadedness you feel when you are sick. It affects the brain.
A meniscus is any object hurled at one's husband in anger.
It's a term used almost exclusively in court documents.
Meniscus:
It's a mini disc invented by mobsters used to store “family” secrets. They also invented a tiny machine camouflaged as a Roman statue to play these discs on.
Meniscus is a derogatory term for premenstrual rage hurled at the male species:
Bob: 'You stayin' for another pint then mate?'
Bill: 'You've got to be joking. She'll 'ave a right meniscus if I'm not 'ome by ten!'
And cheers for the win for pilgarlic, chaps!
Meniscus is the drool like substance that a baby produces after a good nursing and a gentle massage.
" The Mad Fishicist and his Belle laughed when their week old baby girl became so content that meniscus formed on the side of her precious little mouth"
Meniscus are the seeds in strawberries.
(I have to say, coincidentally, that my brother in law called to say he'd torn his meniscus last night.)
Meniscus is a game in which a plastic disk is thrown at a target, usually a pole or a tree but sometimes a round container. Points are scored based on how close the disk comes to the target and on whether the target is actually hit, and, in the case of the container, on whether the disk lands inside the target.
Stephen from Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
http://stephen-has-spoken.blogspot.com/
In ancient Damascus, all brothels or gentlemen's clubs were called a meniscus. Not very exciting though, as the entertainment danced around the tent pole in a burka.
Meniscus (n)- the name for the crust that forms on top of pudding that sits around for too long. Some people love menisci (pl) and think they're awful and eat their pudding right away to avoid this.
(ah, I know the actual meaning to this for once)
Um, that sould be and some think they're awful. Oops!
Meniscus (n.) An elaborate excuse, i.e. something more inventive than "the dog ate my homework"...
Giacomo Meniscus was a 17th century cartographer. He was given a fleet of ships and commissioned to produce the most accurate map of the world at that time. However, Meniscus was more interested in chatting up girls in the port bars, and so large parts of the world, mainly those without bars, weren't mapped in the time allowed. Consequently he employed an artist to draw serpents and other fearsome creatures, with the "There be Beasties" written in those bits of the map.
A meniscus is a disc with an arrow in the middle and divided into segments designating love, money, happiness etc (rather like a roulette wheel). It is used by lazy astrologers to predict the future. Rather than mess around with complicated astrological charts, they spin the meniscus and predict accordingly. So next time your horoscope says that an abundance of riches are in store or that you are going to win the next wordimp vote, don’t hold you breath.
Meniscus is a slimy sort of once-liquid that oozes along the bottom of drying up river beds.
It's usually green and an amazing amount of wild life live in the meniscus: snakes, frogs, beetly type things etc.
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