Amarulence:
How politicians think of the voters - Bitterness, spite.
Aphnology:
What Politicians are preoccupied with - The study of wealth.
Back-hander:
Only the very new, or the two honest MP's in Parliament would not know what this means - A bribe or illegal inducement.
Bank:
Where politicians prefer not to store their ill-gotten back-handers and bribes, preferring to use Overseas...
The English language is to receive a massive overhaul in 2013, say experts from the Guild Of Dictionary Writers.
Spokesmen say that the language has become cluttered and over-complicated in recent years, with many new words being added and spellin...
Miami, Florida - Evolutionists could not contain their excitement when a paper and ink factory exploded today, inadvertently creating an entire, accurate dictionary in its wake.
Miami Paper and Ink Inc. exploded for unknown reasons. As hundreds w...
Boffins in charge of the English language have been told to go back to school in a row over their choice of Word of the Year for 2011.
'Squeezed middle' was chosen ahead of "Arab spring' and 'phone hacking' for the accolade by Oxford Dictionaries.
The religions of the world are finally united thanks to a change in the definition of the word religion in the latest edition of the Oxford English Dictionary.
The new definition reads:
Religion (N): Any one of a set of delusional belief systems...
Merriam-Webster have released their updates and revisions list today, and many linguists are up in arms over one particular change. The word "psychotic" and all of it's relations and roots have been changed to receive an additional definition. The...
New York - The highly respected Webster's Dictionary has announced it will include the acronym "WTF" in their 2012 edition. "WTF" which stands for "what the fuck"?" or "what the fuck!!!" is now used so commonly by so many Americans about so many t...
Electoral Roll - Packed lunch at the polling station
Egg Nog - Noggin The Nog's chicken keeper
Crumhorn - Musical cream cake
Profiterole - Actor's salary
Omelette - Short meditation mantra
Letter - Renter of rooms
Yorkshire Pudding - Geoff Boycott
Reg Varney - Manto's brother
Rhode Island Red - New England communist
Nudism - Dism updated
Francophile - Spanish Civil Wa...
The Oxford English Dictionary has announced a new raft of words that have become acceptable for use in every day speech.
Demonstrating his ability to use words himself, dictionary editor Professor Pip Datpost said he was "excited, ecstatic, deligh...
The Oxford English dictionary has made the remarkable step of allowing some so-called emoticons into the dictionary complete with full definitions.
Emoticons are the punctuation marks that display emotional responses, such as the traditional smile...
Excuse me for my forwardness but I must admit that I am not so good at the speaking of the language of the world.
My dear fwends, I will make try to explain my comings in this space.
I pronounce the dictionary to be open and welcome you to read at the leisure you much enjoy.
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Maris Padowal = The name I was borned with in goat stable next to shed.
Family = P...
The verb "to assange" has been officially added to the Oxbridge English dictionary this week, in honour of the whiney attention-seeker Julian Assange.
"To assange" is officially defined as "to act in a criminal manner and then to behave smugly and...
Top lexicographers have today announced new additions to, and definitions for, the words within the English language dictionary. Of these additions and revisions, however, there stands a solitary point of controversy - the word "gay" will now have th...
Word experts working on a new dictionary have been told that their efforts probably won't be printed.
80 lexicographers are beavering away preparing the next edition of the Oxford English Dictionary - OED3.
But publishers have warned them that...
A mortal blow was struck to the literary world centered in Britain recently when it was announced that 21 years of research done by Spoof Writer Lynton, would wind up in a Dust Bin when Publishers decided it was not economically feasible to issue the...
PC DO-GOODERS AT THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY have officially announced the banning of the word "now" as of midnight tonight. They claim the word has lost all of its currency due to cod-dramatic overuse in right-wing tabloids, and as such will egg...
Some of you might like to know what your supervisor/manager is really saying in all those glowing employee work performance evaluations she/he keeps filling in.
Inchcock Chambers, our unpaid roving reporter brings you advice attained at great risk, by actually meeting management personnel under cover.
He hopes this dictionary will assist you.
AVERAGE: Not too bright.
EXCEPTIONALLY WELL...
The world of lexicography was left stunned, shocked and dumbfounded last night as a mistake that had long gone unnoticed in the Oxford English Dictionary was uncovered.
The phrase 'smart arse' first appeared in the dictionary 100 years ago. Since...