Better Definitions of Common Words and Phrases
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Better and funnier definitions and real meanings of some common words in English - smile and learn at the same time!
ADULT: A person who has stopped growing at both ends and is now growing in the middle.
BATHROOM: A room used by the entire family, believed by all except Mom to be self-cleaning.
BOSS: Someone who is early when you are late and late when you are early.
CHICKENS: The only animals you eat before they are born and after they are dead.
CLASSIC: A book which people praise, but do not read.
COURTESY: The art of yawning with your mouth closed.
DIVORCE: Future tense of marriage.
DOCTOR: A person who kills your ills by pills, and kills you with his bills.
EXPERIENCE : The name men give to their mistakes.
EGOTIST: Someone who is usually me-deep in conversation.
FABLE: A story told by a teenager arriving home after curfew.
GRANDMOTHER: A baby-sitter who doesn't hang around the refrigerator.
GRANDPARENTS: The people who think your children are wonderful even though they're sure you're not raising them right.
GROCERY LIST:. What you spend half an hour writing, then forget to take with you to the store.
INDEPENDENT: How we want our children to be as long as they do everything we say.
PROFESSOR: Someone who talks in someone else's sleep.
PSYCHOLOGIST: A man who watches everyone else when a beautiful girl enters the room.
SKELETON: A bunch of bones with the person scraped off.
SMILE: A curve that can set a lot of things straight.
SPOILED ROTTEN: What the kids become after as little as 15 minutes with Grandma.
TOOTHACHE: The pain that drives you to extraction.
VEGETARIAN: Old Indian word for bad hunter.
YAWN: An honest opinion openly expressed.
WRINKLES: Something other people have. You have character lines.
ZUCCHINI: Vegetable which can be baked, boiled, fried or steamed before kids refuse to eat it.