Can you look deep inside a word and find another meaning?
ABASEMENT: Where the furnace is located.
ABDICATE: to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.
AFTERMATH: Relaxation after algebra class.
ALARMS: What an octopus is.
ARBITRATOR: A cook that leaves Arby’s to work at McDonalds
AVOIDABLE: What the bullfighter tried to do.
BALDERDASH: A rapidly receding hairline.
BARIUM: What the undertaker usually does.
BAROQUE: When I spend more than I make.
BERNADETTE: The act of torching a mortgage.
BUCCANEER: The price of a cob of corn.
BURGLARIZE: What a crook sees with.
CANTALOUPE: When you can’t run off and get married.
CARNATION: Place where every citizen owns an automobile.
CATALOGS: Material used to build cow fences.
CAUTERIZE: Made eye contact with a woman.
COFFEE: The person you coughed on.
COLANDER: Someone who arrives on the same plane as you did.
COUNTERFEITERS: Workers who put together kitchen countertops.
CYTOLOGY: The study of real estate.
DIPLOMA: Da’ man who fixes da’ pipes
DOCKYARD: A physician’s garden.
ECLIPSE: What a barber does.
FLATULENCE: Emergency vehicle that picks you up after you have been run over by a steamroller.
HAMLET: A small pig
HEROES: What a guy in a row boat does.
KHAKIS: What you need to start the car in Boston.
LEFTBANK: What the robber did when his bag was full of money.
MEDIEVAL: Not totally wicked.
MISTY: How golfers create divots.
MYTH: A female moth.
NEGLIGENT: describes a condition in which you absentmindedly answer the door in your nightgown.
NITRATES: Opposite of day rates.
OCTOPUS: A cat with eight legs.
PARADOX: Two physicians.
PASTEURIZE: Too far to see.
PHARMACIST: A helper on the farm.
POLYGON: A dead parrot.
POSTOPERATIVE: The letter carrier.
PRIMATE: Removing your spouse from in front of the TV.
PROPAGANDA: A gentlemanly goose.
RELIEF: What trees do in the spring.
RUBBERNECK: What you do to relax your wife.
SEAMSTRESS: What happens to your pants when you eat too much.
SELFISH: What the owner of a seafood store does.
STALEMATE: A leading cause of divorce.
SUDAFED: Brought litigation against a government official.
TOBOGGAN: Why we go to an auction.
URINE: If you haven’t gone out.
How many did you guess? Can you add any?
You’re a riot and I love these. 😀 😀 😀
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I loved them all too, but it takes a few of them to get into the groove, doesn’t it!
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A few… 😀
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I loved the KHAKIS one. LOL! I can hear Boston Rob saying that one.
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Yes – that one takes an accent.
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If the “coffee” is the person who is coughed on, then “coffer” would be the person who coughed. 🙂
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Exactly.
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I love word-play! Well done!
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Well done by others, of course. I just spent a lot of time finding them all!
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Yeah, I do a lot of that kind of thing myself! Thanks for doing it, they were great!
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brilliant!
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These definitions are wonderful, aren’t they! Wish I had thought them up myself…
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Great! Wish I could think of these things.
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Me too. So many talented wordsmiths out there!
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Lots of fun. I love this kind of thing.
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I always think of you when I find word play. You are so good at this kind of thing!
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Outstanding, Margie!! You usually see those in jokes where the teacher asks some kid to use the word in a sentence. Wish I could thinka one, but I’m drawin’ a blank, as the artist with the invisible pencil said… : P
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There are times when I wish I had the kind of mind that thought of these things, instead of just being good at finding them on the internet!
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