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As a tangential thread to the one I started on nice words.

Here's one on words that have undergone meaning reassignment surgery 

Crepuscular - A person or persons that have become strong/ powerful and athletic by eating nothing but pancakes 

Fee free to add your own 

 

TWS

 MonkeyPuzzle 07 Nov 2018
In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Lackadaisical - The listless, dejected attitude brought on by seeing dead flowers.

 TMM 07 Nov 2018
In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Countryside: The murder of Piers Morgan.

S. Fry

 upordown 07 Nov 2018
In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Hiatus - a cross between a hyena and a tortoise

In reply to upordown:

> Hiatus - a cross between a hyena and a tortoise

how did they manage that ? 

The mind boggles

 MonkeyPuzzle 07 Nov 2018
In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Irony - Metallic (or should that be non-metallic?)

 Hat Dude 07 Nov 2018
In reply to MonkeyPuzzle:

> Lackadaisical -

Alternative meaning - A perfect lawn

 Hat Dude 07 Nov 2018
In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Ubiquitous -We get out of a taxi

 Stichtplate 07 Nov 2018
In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Dinosaur...

Hurty shoulder after highly kinetic climbing move.

 Stichtplate 07 Nov 2018
In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Rappel...

The region of purgatory reserved for Vanilla Ice, Insane Clown Posse and House Of Pain.

 Hat Dude 07 Nov 2018
In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Sheepish - What comes out of a Shewee

In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Traditioning - Training technique applicable to climbing, placing protection as you progress

Perspire - The act of loosing money in an uncontrolled manor.

Mannerisms  - The everyday activities of people of wealth and high social standing.

 

A little bit crap but made me smirk 

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 DerwentDiluted 07 Nov 2018
In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Epistemology 

The philosophical underpinnings of home brewing.

 Phil Anderson 07 Nov 2018
In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Flattery: Hillary's alter ego

 profitofdoom 07 Nov 2018
In reply to Chive Talkin\':

> Hiatus - a cross between a hyena and a tortoise

> how did they manage that ? 

> The mind boggles

They had to shell out a lot. Must be barking mad

 wercat 07 Nov 2018
In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Therapist, A barely concealed sex offender

 

Badgeholder, a soft tissue injury to your armroot

Fickle, a piece of preserved vegetable stuck painfully in a toothgap with sudden pain that makes you curse

Menswear - the department for uncouth adult males

Childswear - a public order offence

Womenswear, really shouldn't exist

Babywear, the toll of being a new parent

 

Software, underwear for knights in armour

 

 

Post edited at 15:55
 DerwentDiluted 07 Nov 2018
In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Lassitude.

 

"What's that girl? Theres a group of children stuck in the old goldmine? The water is rising and you don't give a shit?"

In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Metrosexual - a person aroused by forms of transport 

 Hat Dude 07 Nov 2018
In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Palindrome - a friendly airport

Carabiner - soft drink made from crushed motor vehicles

Post edited at 16:21
 DerwentDiluted 07 Nov 2018
In reply to Hat Dude:

Ribena,

climbing equipment manufactured from hot pressed blackcurrants.

 Tom Valentine 07 Nov 2018
In reply to Hat Dude:

Not very tasteful......

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Removed User 07 Nov 2018
In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Dogmatic

An automatic dog

Removed User 07 Nov 2018
In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Charisma

 

The opposite of charisntma

In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Kitchenware - and apron or chef's hat 

In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Motorway - a graveyard for cars 

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 wercat 07 Nov 2018
In reply to Chive Talkin\':

HighWay

 

A greeting by a Geordie torn between cultures

 

 

 

In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Capricious - a violent goat 

In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Marmalade - sexual gratification involving yeast based spreads.  

Removed User 07 Nov 2018
In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Foolhardy

 

What Nelson said to Hardy when the latter thought his admiral asked for a kiss

Post edited at 19:23
 Andy Mullett 07 Nov 2018
In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Awestruck..... a horsebox.

 

 

Thanks to " I'm sorry..." the home of new definitions.

 

 Philip 07 Nov 2018
In reply to Andy Mullett:

Catacomb - brush a moggy

Arsenal - extreme bikini wax

Sheepish - like a sheep

Daisy - a bit like a podium

In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Motorize - to frighten with engines

 the sheep 07 Nov 2018
In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Decrepit 

An old pancake 

 NaCl 07 Nov 2018
In reply to the sheep: 

best thread in ages.

Keep up the excellent work.

 Blue Straggler 07 Nov 2018
In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Semillon - a wine infused with Viagra. (Adapted from I’m Sorry....)

 Clarence 08 Nov 2018
In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Saxophone - a mobile predominantly used for taking nutscapes.

In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Disassembly - to criticize someone's building skills

 

 Philip 08 Nov 2018

Bondage - old enough to be 007

 yorkshire_lad2 08 Nov 2018
In reply to Chive Talkin\':

ISIHAC

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 Toccata 08 Nov 2018
In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Titillate - delayed puberty

Colonade - a fizzy enema

Rancour - A Japanese insult

(all thanks to I'm Sorry)

Post edited at 09:48
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In reply to yorkshire_lad2:

> ISIHAC

Yes seems everyone is cheating and using this resource , or are you suggesting that I shouldn't have bothered with the thread  ?

 

 

 upordown 08 Nov 2018
In reply to Chive Talkin\':

onomatopoeia - a warning that a puppy might not be house-trained

 AllanMac 08 Nov 2018
In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Dinosaur.

Welshman with an incomplete toolkit.

 wercat 08 Nov 2018
In reply to Chive Talkin\':

not me, don't know what it means or what it is

Oh now I do, not familiar (an untruthful relative) with the acronymn

 

I heard the very first broadcast, in a snowstorm in upper Weardale, sheltering in a lambing hut made from old rolling stock.   Wellies for walking boots, old school satchel as rucsack and a camping gaz stove and rice pud!

Post edited at 11:13
 Hat Dude 08 Nov 2018
In reply to Stichtplate:

> Rappel...

> The region of purgatory reserved for Vanilla Ice, Insane Clown Posse and House Of Pain.


Abseil - Gym class special offer

In reply to wercat:

> not me, don't know what it means or what it is

I would hope not too.

> Oh now I do, not familiar (an untruthful relative) with the acronymn

I'd never heard of it until this thread and I've not used it .   It removes the fun and brain growing /warping subversive ( reading or singing underwater ) excise it set out to be .

:-D

Post edited at 11:32
 Hat Dude 08 Nov 2018
In reply to yorkshire_lad2:

> ISIHAC -

Abraham's dyslexic son?

 

 the sheep 08 Nov 2018
In reply to Hat Dude:

Gramophone

 

Your drug dealers number 

 Hat Dude 08 Nov 2018
In reply to Andy Mullett:

> Awestruck..... a horsebox.

Awestruck - SUV belonging to a "Lady of Leisure"

 

 Phil Anderson 08 Nov 2018
In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Oi! Not everyone!

In reply to Phil Anderson:

> Oi! Not everyone!

Sorry .  I take it back .  

I apologize.   

Apologize - to convert to or dress as a Roman or Greek  god.   

 

Post edited at 17:38
 jayjackson 08 Nov 2018
In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Granary - ladies only old people’s home

 DerwentDiluted 08 Nov 2018
In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Lemonade

French newspaper for the dyslexic.

 Pinch'a'salt 08 Nov 2018
In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Hullabaloo - how to greet a bear...

 wercat 09 Nov 2018
In reply to Pinch'a'salt:

I believe there is a kind of establishment I can go to at night to indulge in as much broth as I can take ....

 

sorry that is rather an old one

 

Supersonic, the noise of a loud slurper consuming his first course

Post edited at 10:18
 wercat 09 Nov 2018
In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Algorithm,  My pal has opened a new music and dance studio

 

Cyclops,  carried out by special forces mounted on velocipedes

Post edited at 10:21
 wercat 09 Nov 2018
In reply to Chive Talkin\':

 

> Apologize - to convert to or dress as a Roman or Greek  god.   

 

Apology, expression of surprise  by crews returning from the moon

 

Post edited at 10:23
 Hat Dude 09 Nov 2018
In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Iceaxe - Alan Sugar describing what he does on the Apprentice

 wercat 09 Nov 2018
In reply to Hat Dude:

Loan Shark,  Billy-no-mates wearing fins and swimming under water

 

Tangent,  a decent bloke, just back from holiday

Post edited at 10:49
 Hat Dude 09 Nov 2018
In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Just thought of a subcategory of words for which we really don't want to know alternative meanings.

I'll start with

Upcoming

Forthcoming

 

 the sheep 09 Nov 2018
In reply to Hat Dude:

Horrid

Prostitute removal service

 

 mark20 09 Nov 2018
In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Midwifery - Part way through a fart

 the sheep 09 Nov 2018
In reply to mark20:

Abdicate 

Give up hope of ever having a flat stomach 

In reply to the sheep:

Stockbroker - a really clumsy shopkeeper 

In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Dentist - a panel beater

In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Seamstress - I think she's rather upset 

 wercat 10 Nov 2018
In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Red Leader, a skilled tradesman who believes he is still flying against the Luftwaffe

 

(might be a bit obscure but Lead as in metal)

Post edited at 13:10
In reply to wercat:

Cowboy - a bullock

In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Minister - a small and tiny whisk

Post edited at 19:09
In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Impurities - very small perfections

 althesin 10 Nov 2018
In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Walnut.     One who prefers to climb inside

Shunt.       A quiet nasty person.

Post edited at 20:19
 wercat 10 Nov 2018
In reply to althesin:

Helmet,  descriptive of a very unfortunate or unpleasant encounter

Custody, said of clothes that met with an accident during the pudding course

Application,  apple cooked the Louisiana way

Seesaw, what a teenager does in the bathroom mirror

Spermwhale  - a cry of ecstasy

Post edited at 21:07
In reply to wercat:

Miserable - tight fisted and wayward

 Hat Dude 10 Nov 2018
In reply to Chive Talkin\':

> Seamstress - I think she's rather upset 


Seamstress - just before your trousers split

Removed User 10 Nov 2018
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Purgatory  - to flush Liam Fox(or similar) down the toilet

Fumitory  - stinking Conservative

Boycott  - Lads Bed

Disquiet - hates silence

Deterred - to have a dump

In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Masterbate -  the best lure available

In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Reassigned - to repeat the signature on my bum

 wercat 11 Nov 2018
In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Increase,  something of the state of trousers seen in old codgers who have spent too many hours in the corner of their favourite hostelry

 

 althesin 11 Nov 2018
In reply to wercat:

Summit, a Yorkshire thing.

In reply to althesin:

> Summit, a Yorkshire thing.

Also a maths operation for chavs

 Timmd 11 Nov 2018
In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Tangent. An agreeable suntanned fellow. 

Elephant. When Ellie keels over. 

Pipettes. Small pips. 

Post edited at 14:49
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Eyebrows - refering to myself looking 

 wercat 11 Nov 2018
In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Vision Chips, friday tea for the TV Repair man

Fish 'n Chips,  complicated electronics used by a demented nuclear scientist

 

 

 

 wercat 11 Nov 2018
In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Function, drill movement executed in response to the command of a terrifying drill sergeant by a nervous recruit

25 Pounder, something leaving you that leaves you feeling somewhat lighter in mind and body

 

Much Better, someone with a gambling problem

Blackpool Tower, someone you follow in queue, traffic, endless, if driving there on the Friday before a Bank Holiday

Tower of London, a silly American who bought London as a holiday souvenir, from a man he met in the pub

Post edited at 16:17
In reply to Timmd:

Sinister - a very naughty sibling or a village full of criminal's

Post edited at 16:27
 Blue Straggler 11 Nov 2018
In reply to Chive Talkin\':

> Sinister - a very naughty sibling or a village full of criminal's

Mama Straggler for whom English is not a first language, once jokingly told me I was too sinister.

 

 

the adjective she should have used was “cynical”

In reply to wercat:

Nappy - when your feeling tired ! 

I feel like a nappy . 

Post edited at 16:34
 althesin 11 Nov 2018
In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Twit, Northern comedian.

Twerk, Northern occupation.

 wercat 11 Nov 2018
In reply to Chive Talkin\':

"Internet!",   enthusiastically shouted encouragement to an attacker in a Northern local football match

Internecine, Trigonometrical diagram drawn by a mathematician sitting at a picnic

Porcupine , longed for meat meal

Interflora,  another "I'm"

Post edited at 21:38
 Blue Straggler 11 Nov 2018
In reply to althesin:

Aldi - a Geordie 24-hour shop (ashamed to say I first heard this one said by Jimmy Carr)

In reply to wercat:

Hosiery - another name for brothel

 wercat 11 Nov 2018
In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Pubic,  a cheap biro you found in church

In reply to Chive Talkin\':

I must admit there's been a few that I don't actually get . 

I think this may be in part to regional dialect and maybe some stupidity on my part. 

A jolly good thread though everyone . 

I'm enjoying popping back when I think of new ones and seeing peoples additions. 

Now where was I.  

Message - a period of history awash with waste.  

Post edited at 22:01
In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Library - a untruthful soft cheese

 

In reply to wercat:

Terminator - a device for splitting time into small 6 week slots 

 wercat 11 Nov 2018
In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Legal Secretary, one who is at least sixteen ... (think that's an old Punch one)

Post edited at 22:21
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Crimson - Mr bigs male offspring

 wercat 11 Nov 2018
In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Melancholy,  one and a half of your 5 a day

In reply to wercat:

Belay - The reproductive act of the common Apis 

 wercat 12 Nov 2018
In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Medecine,  Naughty doctors having fun

Tupperware, glam clothing to go out on the pull

 

 

 

 Timmd 12 Nov 2018
In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Germolene, a trampoline for Germans. 

Edit: germaphobe, a person with a phobia of Germans. 

Post edited at 15:38
In reply to Timmd:

Nightmare - A chivalrous form of transport used for jousting 

 wercat 12 Nov 2018
In reply to Timmd:

Greg's Hut,  a good place on the Pennine moors if you want a late night pie

PC World,  watch out you speak without breaking any of the many rules

 

 

 DerwentDiluted 12 Nov 2018
In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Shambolic

Fake testicle.

 DerwentDiluted 12 Nov 2018
In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Polaroids

Too much sitting on the ice.

In reply to DerwentDiluted:

Collapse - the failure of your lower bowel 

In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Goodbye - a bargain 

In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Chewable - navigable by train

 tlouth7 13 Nov 2018
In reply to Chive Talkin\':

coffee - a bit under the weather

milk - people who are like me

In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Isolation - A type of lonesome triangle 

 

 Hat Dude 13 Nov 2018
In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Awesome - How much a "Lady of Leisure" charges

 Hat Dude 13 Nov 2018
In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Gravity - A drink of Bovril

In reply to Hat Dude:

Beakers - another name for all birds  ( and the platypus )

 wercat 13 Nov 2018
In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Hologram, a cheap record player bought in the pub.  When I got it home there were no works inside

Telegraph, harsh parents keeping stats on kids TV habits

Supreme, hot and piping liquid, served in the tents of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers

Dinner, small child which at 4am finds it has been given a loud drum for Christmas

Post edited at 17:02
 DerwentDiluted 13 Nov 2018
In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Perpetuate

Scale of charges in Korean restaurant.

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Referendum - a posionous drug filled cigarette. 

In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Currency - an ocean of dried grapes 

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Copyright - a perfectly replicating medieval scribe

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Butcher - a gym addicted meathead 

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Microwave - a pigmys hand gesture

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Horology - the study of frightening people.  

Post edited at 04:21
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Waiting game - A good hard gym session involving grouse

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Politician's - people who put make up on avians 

In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Torque - Forceful one sided conversation

 althesin 14 Nov 2018
In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Wild Country, the best most amazing sex you'll ever get.

 wercat 14 Nov 2018
In reply to althesin:

Climbing boots, you can send them out to do a route when you're not up to it yourself

 

Polar Bear, you can tell which end is which with the aid of a magnet

 

Which, a magazine for women of a certain occupation

Post edited at 09:29
In reply to althesin:

> Wild Country, the best most amazing sex you'll ever get.

Or one that's not been washed or trimmed in a while 

In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Understanding - A prostrate or kneeling position 

In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Subdivision - Peter Hook and Stephen Morris

 wercat 14 Nov 2018
In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Ohm,  where the electrician goes after work

Farad, how a German electronics engineer gets to work.

Lusk 14 Nov 2018
In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Entrance fee - getting shafted.

 althesin 14 Nov 2018
In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Doggie style, cannine boundary crossing.

In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Groundhog - Minced pork

 Hat Dude 14 Nov 2018
In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Cotapaxi - Where Tory & Labour supporters stop trying to score Remembrance Day points off each other and agree to end that other interminable thread

 

 

Removed User 14 Nov 2018
In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Moorcock  - a nymphomaniacs wish

Removed User 14 Nov 2018
In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Culinary Thrombosis

 

A clot in the kitchen

 

In reply to althesin:

> Doggie style, cannine boundary crossing.

Also cannine fashion wear.  

And   sh!ting on the floor 

 

In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Parabolic -  A drug enhanced soldier

Shambolic - A 20 leafed clover 

Post edited at 12:07
 wercat 15 Nov 2018
In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Downing Street, a place where good ideas are shot down

In reply to wercat:

> Downing Street, a place where good ideas are shot down

 That's debatable .   The good ideas bit anyway.

In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Meticulous - police officers dressed as clowns balancing custard on their head

 wercat 16 Nov 2018
In reply to Chive Talkin\':

so custardy officers then?

In reply to wercat:

> so custardy officers then?

very good 

In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Herbicide - The murder of Parsley the Lion 

 Hat Dude 16 Nov 2018
In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Suicide - Murdering Sooty's girlfriend

 the sheep 19 Nov 2018
In reply to Hat Dude:

Shambolic  -  a fake testicle 

 wercat 19 Nov 2018
In reply to the sheep:

Synchronicity, naughtiness to the beat of a clock

In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Decision -  perceiving with 10 eyes

 Timmd 20 Nov 2018
In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Decision, the undoing of an incision. 

Indecision, neither one or the other. 

In reply to Timmd:

> Decision, the undoing of an incision. 

> Indecision, neither one or the other. 

Tabasco - a messy affair with a bill

 wercat 20 Nov 2018
In reply to Chive Talkin\':

DoMeSDOS, an operating system for small computers that kills all known data

Turpentine, where a famous highwayman rested while passing through Newcastle

 

In reply to wercat:

Pertex - a rather attractively small and well shaped former girlfriend

 althesin 20 Nov 2018
In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Syntax, heavenly accounting system.

In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Elephantine - Goulding's young adult worshipping club

 

 john arran 21 Nov 2018
In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Champagne - A bout of hypochondria.

Sinn Fein - Penalty, ref

 Hat Dude 21 Nov 2018
In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Outlook - Umpires review

In reply to Hat Dude:

Article - Jazzling for the male region

 wercat 22 Nov 2018
In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Particle,  a frozen part, partly ice

In reply to Chive Talkin\':

Nautical - Something that is mainly nothing , but not quite.


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