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New Meanings for Old Words
Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2009 8:21 pm
by Cenwulf
This was started Over There when I collected a few which had been used in Scurra's signature, which he had got from I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue.
Here are a few which have appeared before:
megaphone - an early mobile phone, about the size and weight of a house brick.
microphone - a modern mobile phone, about the size and weight of a cream cracker.
pergola - a stealer of garden furniture
neophyte - hand-to-hand combat
diagram - a map of Wales
dramatic - a whisky dispenser
pesto - an italian nuisance
surreptitiously - wearing a wig without telling anyone
A couple of new ones:
protest - in favour of exams
Slovak - a hoover with not much suction
Re: New Meanings for Old Words
Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2009 8:25 pm
by Scurra
Here - I got some of then from ISIHAC, but by no means all of them.
Abacus - Swearing at the news you've got to go and see Mamma Mia! Again.
Re: New Meanings for Old Words
Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2009 8:33 pm
by Cenwulf
I didn't say you had got all of them form ISIHAC, just the first few:
Lampoon - device for using when whaling at night
Cursory - where young children go to learn how to swear
Spectacular - a short-sighted vampire
Creche - a car accident in Woking
Which must have come from ISIHAC as they were in the Uxbridge English Dictionary.
aromatic - a self-dispensing quiver
vanilla - an ape in a truck
matricide - killing someone with a bed
Re: New Meanings for Old Words
Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 5:17 pm
by kingsley
Some of these are brilliant!
Re: New Meanings for Old Words
Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2009 8:57 pm
by Bunnylump
Intelligent - Stephen Fry
No, not that he's a clever sod, he's an In -telli -gent.
Dishevelled - someone who has had their hevel removed.
Re: New Meanings for Old Words
Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2009 9:25 pm
by Scurra
Implosion - exploding pixie
Cantaloupe - unable to run away to get married
Wedlock - the secret of a happy marriage
Depressed - to crumple up
Re: New Meanings for Old Words
Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2009 9:51 pm
by Sigur Ros
Coffee - a person who is coughed upon
Esplanade - to attempt an explanation while drunk
Pokemon - A Jamaican proctologist
Flabbergasted - appalled over how much weight you have gained (sad but probably true)
Balderdash - a rapidly receding hairline
Re: New Meanings for Old Words
Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2009 9:55 pm
by LAT

Think my OH is flabbergasted by the balderdash.
Re: New Meanings for Old Words
Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 9:35 pm
by Cenwulf
bandicoot - a bow-legged water bird
tripod - to prosecute a pea
leukocyte - a fan of the Star Wars movies
Re: New Meanings for Old Words
Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 9:07 pm
by Cenwulf
dissident - someone who is insulting about other people's teeth
pizzicato - playing the violin while drunk
piccolo - an Italian gherkin
Re: New Meanings for Old Words
Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 12:25 pm
by kathlyn
Beauty parlour - A place where women curl up and dye.
Cannibal - Someone who is fed up with people.
Dust - Mud with the juice sqeezed out.
Handkerchief - Cold storage.
Inflation - Cutting money in half without damaging the paper.
Toothache - A pain that drives you to extraction.
Tomorrow - One of the greatest labour saving devices of today.
Committee - A body that takes minutes and wastes hours.
Yawn - An honest opinion openly expressed.
Chickens - The only animals you eat before they are born and after they die.
Re: New Meanings for Old Words
Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 10:56 pm
by Cenwulf
Hibernation - Ireland
Vamoose - to run away from an elk
Diverse - a funeral ode
Re: New Meanings for Old Words
Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2011 5:40 am
by clvrlad
philanthropist---drunk on someone else's money
Re: New Meanings for Old Words
Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2012 7:13 pm
by Bunnylump
Boy: A noise with dirt on it.
Re: New Meanings for Old Words
Posted: Sun Jul 28, 2013 11:15 pm
by Cenwulf
This seems more Ambrose Bierce than ISIHAC.
Lead (n.) : A thin strip of leather with a dumb creature at one end and a dog at the other.