Wednesday, May 18, 2005
Highfalutin
Pompous or pretentious: “highfalutin reasons for denying direct federal assistance to the unemployed”
Tuesday, May 17, 2005
Monday, May 09, 2005
Thursday, May 05, 2005
Spoonerism
The transposition of usually initial sounds in a pair of words.
Some examples:
-- The Lord is a shoving leopard ["loving shepherd"].
-- It is kisstomary to cuss ["customary to kiss"] the bride.
-- Is the bean dizzy ["dean busy"]?
-- Let me sew you to your sheet ["show you to your seat"].
Some examples:
-- The Lord is a shoving leopard ["loving shepherd"].
-- It is kisstomary to cuss ["customary to kiss"] the bride.
-- Is the bean dizzy ["dean busy"]?
-- Let me sew you to your sheet ["show you to your seat"].
Tuesday, May 03, 2005
Osculate
(1) To kiss.
(2) Mathematics. To have three or more points coincident with.
(3) To come together; contact.
(2) Mathematics. To have three or more points coincident with.
(3) To come together; contact.
Monday, May 02, 2005
Complicit
Associated with or participating in a questionable act or a crime; having complicity: newspapers complicit with the propaganda arm of a dictatorship.