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BreakTime: Whipster's Punabridged Dictionary - L thru Z

Here's the Official "Whipster's Punabridged Dictionary" (L-Z) that was hidden and recently discovered buried deep inside a box in a far corner of my garage for over 25 years. It's  deep truths and incite can now be shared with others so that they can unlock the true meaning of these words...

laundress -   a gown worn while sitting in the grass
legend -   the edge of a cliff -- see also allege
locate -   nickname for a short girl named Catherine
macaw -   what I have trouble starting on cold mornings
minimum -   a very small mother
moth -   green thtuff, found on the north thide of treeth
nitrate -   cheapest price for calling long distance
notator -   no gravy, either
observatory -   what the patriot general told his spy to do
oleate -   what Ole did when he went to a restaurant
overbear -   a better place to be than under one, though not much
paradise -   two ivory cubes with dots all over them
paraffins -   what's found on the side of fish
paralyze -   tow untruths
plaintiff -   a simple argument
program -   in favor of the metric system
protein -   in favor of teenagers
rampage -   the page in the encyclopedia about male sheep
rapscallion -   a door knocker shaped like an onion
rattan -   what a rat gets while vacationing in Florida
sherbet -   a horse that can't lose
stereogram -   a singing telegram delivered by two messengers
stirrup -   what you do with cake batter
submit -   cold-weather handgear on an underwater ship
subsidy -   a town underneath another town
tenure -   the number following nineure
Thursday -   what you get while crossing the desert
tithe -   th fathen shoeth with a bow in the latheth
unabated -   a mousetrap without any cheese or a fishhook with a worm
uproar -   the noise that a flying lion would make if lions could fly
uralite -   what you say to a person who weighs less than fifty pounds
valorous -   a big animal vit tusks; lives in vater
vanguard -   a person who protects trucks
variola -   what a person is if he is over one hundred years old
vermilion -   the number following vernine-hundred ninety-nine-thousand-nine-hundred ninety-nine
versicle -   a frozen poem on a stick
warehouse -   what you say when you're lost
washable -   something a cowboy does, very carefully, with soap and water
whereto -   the number following wherone
wholesale -   where a gopher goes to buy a new home
windjammer -   a person who spreads jelly on bread during a hurricane
xerophyte -   no argument
yoga -   the yellow-colored center portion of a yegg
zealotry -   what a tree salesman likes to do

Note: Author Unknown -- I'm not sure who originally compiled this list, but believe it is in the public domain. Click here for Volume A-K. Warning: there is more coming from this compilation.

Copyright 2008 by Lawrence Yerkes. All Rights Reserved.

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