The
Washington Post has also published the winning submissions to its
yearly contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings
for common words.
And the winners are:
1. Coffee, ~ the person upon whom one coughs.
2. Flabbergasted, ~ Appalled by discovering how much weight one has gained.
3. Abdicate, ~ To give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.
4. esplanade, ~ To attempt an explanation while drunk.
5. Willy-nilly, ~ Impotent.
6. Negligent, ~ Absentmindedly answering the door when wearing only a nightgown.
7. Lymph, ~ To walk with a lisp.
8. Gargoyle, ~ Olive-flavored mouthwash.
9. Flatulence, ~ Emergency vehicle that picks up someone who has been run over by a steamroller.
10. Balderdash, ~ A rapidly receding hairline.
11. Testicle, ~ A humorous question on an exam.
12. Rectitude, ~ The formal, dignified bearing adopted by proctologists.
13. Pokemon, ~ A Rastafarian proctologist.
14. Oyster, ~ A person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddishisms.
15. Frisbeetarianism, ~ The belief that, after death, the soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck there.
16. Circumvent, ~ An opening in the front of boxer shorts worn by Jewish men
And the winners are:
1. Coffee, ~ the person upon whom one coughs.
2. Flabbergasted, ~ Appalled by discovering how much weight one has gained.
3. Abdicate, ~ To give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.
4. esplanade, ~ To attempt an explanation while drunk.
5. Willy-nilly, ~ Impotent.
6. Negligent, ~ Absentmindedly answering the door when wearing only a nightgown.
7. Lymph, ~ To walk with a lisp.
8. Gargoyle, ~ Olive-flavored mouthwash.
9. Flatulence, ~ Emergency vehicle that picks up someone who has been run over by a steamroller.
10. Balderdash, ~ A rapidly receding hairline.
11. Testicle, ~ A humorous question on an exam.
12. Rectitude, ~ The formal, dignified bearing adopted by proctologists.
13. Pokemon, ~ A Rastafarian proctologist.
14. Oyster, ~ A person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddishisms.
15. Frisbeetarianism, ~ The belief that, after death, the soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck there.
16. Circumvent, ~ An opening in the front of boxer shorts worn by Jewish men
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