Long, long ago I tried this with readers but it went down like a lead balloon. Think I'll try again. If it's popular, there are plenty more of them waiting to post.
The idea is that it is a phonetic dictionary and so the definitions do not accord with the meanng of the words but with the parts of the words, as sounded. Try these:
One reader has just asked about this post and so I'd best take one of them and dissect it. Antelope - OK, it's an animal. But ant [the pictured insect] ... and he elopes with his girlfriend ... well, the image tickles the fancy. Same with "sin till late". [Chuckle - well I like them anyway.]
The idea is that it is a phonetic dictionary and so the definitions do not accord with the meanng of the words but with the parts of the words, as sounded. Try these:
6 Antelope................Absconding insect
8 Badinage................Memory, sex, teeth
11 Canteloupe...........Chaperoned
13 Carrion......................Continue
16 Condescending..........Greek Paratrooper
18.Divest........................Princess's garment
23 Felonious..................Monk
36 Ideal..........................You shuffle
63 Scintillate..................Nocturnal orgy
68 Surcingle...................Unmarried baronet
One reader has just asked about this post and so I'd best take one of them and dissect it. Antelope - OK, it's an animal. But ant [the pictured insect] ... and he elopes with his girlfriend ... well, the image tickles the fancy. Same with "sin till late". [Chuckle - well I like them anyway.]
SCINTILLATE
ReplyDeleteNow I've outlived my youthfulness,
A quiet life for me.
Where once I used to scintillate,
Now I sin till ten past three.
By Roger Mcgough
8.Bad in age.
ReplyDelete11. Can't elope.
13. Carry on
16. Con descending.
18. Di- vest
36 I deal
68 Sir single
DO I get a prize?
Great game, James. More, more, more.
Canteloupe - love it! What about morphemes ....... Music CD?
ReplyDeleteI came. I read. I got it. I giggled.
ReplyDeleteGreat: well done James. I'm just trying to thing of something....
ReplyDeleteI'll come back if an idea comes to mind.
Ok, but I think condescending is stretching it a bit.
ReplyDeleteLiz - :)
ReplyDeleteUber - well, well and welcome :)
1st Lady - that's a good one too
Lady M - thank you, gracious lady
Tiberius - the honour is mine
JMB - you should see some of the others!!!
I like "scintillate" best.
ReplyDelete:) Magnificent, say I, and my old friend Leonard O'Davinci is nodding.
ReplyDeleteAs for my favouite: I am, of course, with Lady Limoncello.
And the verses contributed by Liz gave me another big smile.
Excellent James.
ReplyDeleteMore please.
Thank you kind sirs and lady.
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