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Posted By: musick Demented Dictionary (UCLIU) - 01/16/05 10:19 PM
estimate ethic - Maintains your car should be worth as much as it was before you were in the accident!

tolerably tone - Don't taint the walls with too much tint.

reeker reflectiveness - Pee-yeww (cough)!

histogen hoard - A mad botonist's collection.

burlesque busboy - Who works in a transvestite tavern.

MW 9th Collegiate

For newcomers: Open most dictionaries to any page and you'll see two words at the top defining an alphabetical span of words on that page. These two, quite often create (with your help) interesting juxtopositions! Out of *courtesy we cite the source, of course.
Posted By: Wordwind Re: Demented Dictionary (UCLIU) - 01/16/05 10:21 PM
In reply to:

burlesque busboy - Who works in a transvestite tavern.


And if he tells pretty good jokes, hey, so much the better burlesque!

Posted By: musick Re: Demented Dictionary (UCLIU) - 01/18/05 10:40 PM
bolt bondage - Somewhere on a shelf in the basement of a hardware store...

facultative fair - You never know what's gonna be showing as today's exhibits.

hooked hopper - Can't stop jumping rope 'til the record is broken!

postimpressionism potassium cyanide - If Van Gogh thought cutting off his ear took too long...

tabescent tachygraphy - Progressively shorter shorthand.

warm-up wash - End of the day activity for "polar bear club" members.

Posted By: consuelo Re: Demented Dictionary (UCLIU) - 01/21/05 09:22 AM
mural must...only talented artists need apply

Scrabble Dictionary 3rd Ed.1996
Posted By: maverick Re: Demented Dictionary (UCLIU) - 01/21/05 01:43 PM
palpate pantile : tangible terracotta

heroism hide : thick-skinned superman

hare haste : hmmm, strugglin' wi' dis un!

Collins Eng Dic & Thes 21st C ed

Posted By: Owlbow Re: Demented Dictionary (UCLIU) - 01/21/05 01:52 PM
hare haste : ineffective strategy in a competition against a turtle

metric Michael: A man unable to get his foot in the door

Webster’s New Coll. 1974





Posted By: maverick Re: Demented Dictionary (UCLIU) - 01/21/05 02:05 PM
create cretaceous : themilum

croix de guerre crow : brave bird

crybaby culmination : undignified argument (see metastasis)

defunct delicate : broken knicker elastic

deceptive decoration : W's war record

ibid

Posted By: tsuwm Re: Demented Dictionary (UCLIU) - 01/21/05 06:42 PM
gablock gallionic - spurious indifferece to the care of fighting cocks
or, outrageous crossthreading
- joe (hogmaster) friday

oh yeah, courtesy... Dictionary Game
(I'll go away now, muze)

sorry, can't resist..
parentation pasquil - satire on parental funeral rites
Posted By: musick Re: Demented Dictionary (UCLIU) - 01/21/05 08:24 PM
Please stay, tsuwm... we need some more *obscurity.

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transpontine trash - Not in my back yard.

disagree discharge - An animated argument.

pile driver pimento - Those that resist being stuffed into olives get special treatment.

F+W 1971

Posted By: consuelo Re: Demented Dictionary (UCLIU) - 01/26/05 11:50 AM
multiply murderee ... serial killer on a spree

gimmick give ... You may have won a million dollars

powerplay praise ... and the pfans went wild!

elevated elsewhere ... foundation transportation

chamber change ... a trickster in the game of Russian Roulette

Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary 1987

Posted By: Owlbow Re: Demented Dictionary (UCLIU) - 01/26/05 04:48 PM
front frugivorous

battle line of fruitarians or
criminal distraction by one hungry for a frenzied night of discothèque

Webster’s New Coll. 1974

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