Vocabulary Builder -- IX

Welcome to the unimagined 9th installment of vocabulary building, Skunk-style. As for the character at the right, his soul purpose is celebrating the fact that he is mentioned -- albeit indirectly, sorta -- somewhere in this h'yar lexicological sequence of the space & spelling time continuum, in a contextual sense to the overall syntax practiced herein and wherever else a good English teacher with a handly ruler can make instant corrections to mistakes in the making.

Oops; well, at least they could when I was in school. A couple did, too...*whack*.

At any rate, onward and downward we drag English with selections like hyar:

Antipasto:

- Italian meaning "hates pasta"

- Italian meaning "a hors d'oeuvre"

- Italian meaning "a dead aunt"

Cockade:

- Viagra

- a benefit concert for roosters with erectile dysfunction

- a rosette worn in a hat as a badge of office

Maginot Line:

- it doesn't work very well in singles' bars, either

- a poorly-conceived magic trick

- a line of defense on which one relies blindly

Genteel:

- male eel

- duck with class

- refined or stylish

Hugger-mugger:

- a politician

- "in secret"

- a thief who works close

Incept:

- a bug

- sex between siblings

- take a master's or doctor's degree

Gargoyle:

- usually done with mouth wash

- grotesque carved face projecting from a roof gutter

- barlighting conceals this at a distance

Dogma:

- bitch

- arrogant expression of opinion

- fetish with drinking from toilets

Glockenspiel:

- a musical instrument

- German meaning "das fraulein mitte nice glutten valken, ja"

- German-made firearm

Handicap:

- British cartoon character

- the hat's always handy

- disadvantaged imposed on superior competitor

Problematic:

- doubtful or questionable

- squirrels have invaded the roof

- congressional in origin, it's designed to cost lots and automatically be a problem

Oxpecker:

- and you thought it'd be a bad idea for pigs to fly

- male oxes swear by 'em; the females have differing opinions

- African bird that feeds on parasites living on animals

Instigator:

- someone who stirs things up

- a new Chia product

- what a guy's zipper becomes when he gets caught in it...*rimshot*

Enema:

- who we're fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan

- Auntie

- I rectum it's a medical thang to purge da bowels

Jabberwocky:

- Chewy just won't shut up

- Ebonics meaning "walkin' the walk, peckerwood"

- a piece of nonsensical writing...*TOING*

Laissez-passer:

- French meaning "so lazee, he pass le gas in le crowd"

- French meaning "a permit to let pass"

- French meaning "an inefficient NFL QB"

Nappy:

- need to take one

- this, "headed" and "ho" got Don Imus briefly fired

- British meaning "diaper"

Anti-oxident:

- agent that inhibits oxidation

- Kim Jong Il

- investigator of ox cart crashes in Malaysia

Parti-pris:

- French meaning "le party pooper"

- French meaning "spoiled debutante"

- French meaning "side taken"

Kendo:

- what Barbie's after in the divorce

- fence Japanese farmers use to contain cows

- form of Japanese fencing using bamboo swords

Gravitas:

- an orbital problem for astronauts

- seriousness

- when age and gravity send your ass south

Candor:

- frankness

- an abbreviated history of wieners

- one of those endangered big birds

Maim:

- Redneck meaning "howdy do, Maim"

- danged Yankee state waaay up yonder in the NE

- cripple

Greed:

- Redneck meaning "we greed on this h'yar"

- Redneck meaning "she dun got greed and throwd up"

- excessive desire

I dunno...maybe upcoming storm chasing will save y'all from Part X gettin' created...maybe ;-)