WaPo, alternate meanings for various words

[never cry wolf]

Not sure if anyone has posted this prior, first I've seen it.

The Washington Post annually publishes a contest for readers in which they are asked to supply alternate meanings for various words. The following were some of the winning entries in this year's contest:

* coffee (n.), a person who is coughed upon

* flabbergasted (adj.), appalled over how much weight you have gained

* abdicate (v.), to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach

* esplanade (v.), to attempt an explanation while drunk

* willy-nilly (adj.), impotent

* negligent (adj.), describes a condition in which you absentmindedly answer the door in your nightie

* lymph (v.), to walk with a lisp

* gargoyle (n.), an olive-flavored mouthwash

* flatulence (n.), the emergency vehicle that picks you up after you are run over by a steamroller

* balderdash (n.), a rapidly receding hairline

* testicle (n.), a humorous question on an exam

* rectitude (n.), the formal, dignified demeanor assumed by a proctologist immediately before he examines you

* oyster (n.), a person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddish expressions

* circumvent (n.), the opening in the front of boxer shorts

* frisbeetarianism (n.), The belief that, when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck there

* pokemon (n), A Jamaican proctologist

[orthogonal]

1. freedom (n)

freedom (n), why the terrorists hate us; unnecessary luxury under the Bush administration

Bill of Rights (n) archaic, mere paper listing mere suggestions to the monarch

free speech (n), doctrine establishing the rights of Fox News and Clear Chanel Communications; applicable to corporations only

terrorist (n), anyone opposed to the King; a dissenter

patriotism (n), a fig-leaf that justifies anything

[never cry wolf]

2. Very nice!!!......n/t