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Fishing: A venerable contest in which modern man pits his intelligence and technology against the native wit of primitive aquatic vertebrates, and generally finishes second.

Activities Definitions

Falsies: Making mountains out of molehills.

Appearance Clothing Definitions

Impotent: Willy-nilly.

Definitions Sex

Gourmet: A food fetishist.

Cooking Definitions Food/Drink Occupations

Cynic: A man who sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist
Communication Definitions Language

Awe: Wow of silence.

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Cat: A pygmy lion who loathes mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.

(1863 – 1935) British-born American writer, artist & illustrator
Animals Cats Definitions

Alimony: The fee a woman charges for name-dropping.

Definitions Marriage

Electrician: A person who wires for money.

Definitions Occupations Work

Luck: The thing that draws us for jury duty, but never for the lottery.

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Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

Definitions Marriage

Accordion Music: Noise that comes from playing both ends against the middle.

Definitions Entertainment Music

Diet: A brief period of starvation followed by a gain of five pounds.

Definitions Food/Drink

Bride: A gal who puts her foot down as soon as her new husband has carried her over the threshold.

Definitions Marriage Wives

Taxation: The process by which money is collected from the people to pay the salaries of the men who do the collecting.

Definitions Government Taxes

Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.

English author, actor, humorist & playwright
Books Communication Definitions Reading/Writing

Sewing Circle: A group of women who needle each other.

Definitions Friends Wordplay

Sabbatical: A Latin word meaning, “I quit, but you won’t know it for certain for a year.”

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Recount: In American politics, another throw of the dice, accorded to the player against whom they are loaded.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist
Definitions Elections/Voting Government

B Flat: An apiary.

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Neurotic: Someone who worries about things that didn’t happen in the past instead of worrying about things that won’t happen in the future.

Definitions People