GELOTOLOGY - The study of humor and laughter, from the Greek gelos, laughter
This is taken from an article in CALIFORNIA magazine March/April 2009 had a brief alphabetical Humor Lexicon, author doesn't appear.
Showing posts with label New Word. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New Word. Show all posts
9/25/09
6/19/09
HUMOR LEXICON WELLERISM
WELLERISM: After the character San Weller in Charles Dickens's The Pickwick Papers, combining a common expression with a facetious sequel.
i.e "It all comes back to me now," said the Captain as he spat into the wind."
This is taken from an article in CALIFORNIA magazine March/April 2009 had a brief alphabetical Humor Lexicon, author doesn't appear.
i.e "It all comes back to me now," said the Captain as he spat into the wind."
This is taken from an article in CALIFORNIA magazine March/April 2009 had a brief alphabetical Humor Lexicon, author doesn't appear.
5/28/09
HUMOR LEXICON MARGINALIA
MARGINALIA: The stuff written in margins of books, often by way of sly commentary - or criticism, such as, "In case of fire, throw this in."
This is taken from an article in CALIFORNIA magazine March/April 2009 had a brief alphabetical Humor Lexicon, author doesn't appear.
This is taken from an article in CALIFORNIA magazine March/April 2009 had a brief alphabetical Humor Lexicon, author doesn't appear.
12/16/08
WORD REINTRODUCTION! IXNAY!
I am reintroducing the word IXNAY into my vocabulary! It's Pig-Latin I am told. I like the sound of it! It certainly sounds like a banishment!
7/27/08
STARVELINGS : A NEW WORD For Me
TRAIN WRECK - The Life and Death of Anna Nicole Smith
by Donna Hogan (her sister) as told to Henrietta Tiefenthaler
intro vi and vii
"Anna Nicole Smith was an exception to the starvelings who usually flaunted themselves in pages of Playboy weighing in at one hundred and forty pounds, partly accounted for by an expensively enhansed chest the size of Texas."
by Donna Hogan (her sister) as told to Henrietta Tiefenthaler
intro vi and vii
"Anna Nicole Smith was an exception to the starvelings who usually flaunted themselves in pages of Playboy weighing in at one hundred and forty pounds, partly accounted for by an expensively enhansed chest the size of Texas."
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