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nudge nurse: patient harassment
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From Webster's New World Dictionary, Second College Edition:
Last quarter -- Lather: the quarterly redneck bath
Kidskin -- Kimono: the latest rage for Japanese leather-lovers
Invention -- Invisible: the Emperor's New Clothes?
Anticoagulant -- Antipathy: a substance that delays the clotting of bad blood.
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Volcano Islands -- Voluntary: a spontaneous organ solo of a bombastic nature.
Up-bow -- Upset: violence in the violin section.
Triumphant -- Trolley: A Streetcar Named De Winner?
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re. Macaw - Magistrate, but only for mynah offences the judge sounds like a bird brain to me. 
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From Webster's New World Dictionary, Second College Edition:
Tarragon - Tassel: a little something to spice up your outfit
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Webster's New World Dictionary and Thesaurus:
pg 617:
sunken / superstar: Michael Jackson.......
pg 241:
folly / footwork: Flirty Dancing (ok, so, I took poetic license with the def of folly....but being flirty could be considered a folly, and I could not resist rhyming Dirty Dancing :)
pg 433:
open air / opiate: A drug so powerful, one must ingest it in the open air, lest he infects everyone in the building with it......
pg 293:
hobo / holiday: Why, a holiday for hobos, of course!
pg 377:
manly / mansion: A mansion full of manly mans........
pg 597:
splinter / sportsman: Someone who enjoys digging splinters out of other people's skin, as a contact sport.......
pg 466:
picturesque / pile: What some art noveau types might call a pile of junk......
PG 296:
hostile / housewife: A given........
pg 295:
homework / hooey: What my son would say about the school work he is forced to do at home.....
pg19:
amaretto / amethyst: An oxymoron by Greek standards.......
pg 661:
turtleneck / two: A high necked sweater for a two headed turtle......
pg 677:
uptight / usage: People who are uptight about the proper usage of words like "longue" and "lounge"........
pg 642:
timber / tinkle: When timber goes......well, you 'know'......
pg 615:
sucker / suit: No definition needed....wev'e all worn one........
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To pull what RubyRed called a "minor threadjack" (nice word) my parents still have a dictionary so thick it is often used as a highchair and so old that computer is defined as "one who computes"
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My parents have a dictionary so old that nuclear is not in it.
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So which dictionaries are these?
Details, Zed & CBean, enquiring minds want details!
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The thick one was a 1947 Websters. I'm having Mom put it in the will for me.
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