Another word bounce happening here! Elaine bounced off my pet peeve post, now I’m bouncing off hers from yesterday. This is fun, yes?
I took a trip recently. I bet you’ve taken the same one. The one where you start from your search bar, intent on research into a monumentally important topic, and you end up somewhere you’ve never been.
Enter…if you dare… The Cynic’s Dictionary. One of the funniest dictionaries I’ve ever come across. I unearthed a version of this, so some of the word definitions are slightly different than what you’ll see on the website.
On the other side of this post, please tell us your favorites, or make up your own.
Here goes:
ABDICATE: To give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.
BALDERDASH: A rapidly receding hairline.
CANNIBAL: Someone who is fed up with people.
CONSCIOUSNESS: that annoying time between naps.
INFLATION: Cutting money in half without damaging the paper.
Okay, let’s have some fun! Make up your own, or pull some from the website above… 🙂
I’ve seen lists like this on Facebook, but of course, I don’t remember any of them. I play a similar game on my author page over there. I use the dictionary.com word of the day and people provide their own definitions. Some of them can be very clever.
Word, Terry!
I’ve played your game! I don’t know if I’ve ever been clever, but I try. 🙂
Have a wonderful, wordy day…
Deb, love the Cynic’s Dictionary. Here are a couple that jumped out:
“Alliance, n. In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other’s pocket that they cannot separately plunder a third.
“Conservative, (n.), A statesman who is enamoured of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others.”
“Harangue, n. A speech by an opponent, who is known as an harangue-outang.”
Snort!
I love those…and so apropos for today, Debbie. Gotta keep smiling in the face of idiocy, I guess. (See how I did that?) Double snort!
Have a great day!
I’d never heard of the Cynic’s Dictionary.. I liked this one: Litigation, n. A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
Hi Patricia!
I’d never heard of it either. I like your example. I wonder if JSB would… Ha!
Have a good one.
This one leapt out at me, Deb:
“Egotist, (n.) ,A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.” LOL
Thanks for the chuckle this morning!
Good morning, Dale.
That’s a darn good one. And we have so many examples in the public square to draw from!
Keep smilin’, and have a day chock full of chuckles, my friend.
Yes, the classic The Devil’s Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce (1906). More:
LAWFUL, adj. Compatible with the will of a judge having jurisdiction.
LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
LIAR, n. A lawyer with a roving commission.
Love it, Jim!
A slippery slope indeed. Do lawyers-in-training take a class where they learn how to wear climbing spikes to prevent that downhill slide?
🙂
Thanks for stopping by today, and have a good one!
What fun. I liked this one:
Advice, n. The smallest current coin.
Advice, n. The smallest current coin.
A stellar example, Kay!
If only we could call that up from our memory banks when in a group and tempted to wax eloquent… 🙂
Thanks for funnin’ with us this morning, and I hope you have a good weekend.
Another fun blog, Deb. My husband gave me Ambrose Bierce’s “Devil’s Dictionary” when we were dating. That’s how I knew he was the man for me. ( I still have Don and the dictionary.)
How about Dame Agatha’s definition of speech, “an invention of man’s to keep him from thinking.”
Good to hear you still have the two Ds, Elaine. 🥳
“How about Dame Agatha’s definition of speech, “’an invention of man’s to keep him from thinking.’”
Proves how smart the Dame really was…and one of my favorite authors of all time!
Thanks for sharing that, and hope you have a great Friday. 👍