I would like to draw your attention to the following strange words:
Phlegmatic: It refers to a quality of unemotional calmness, not to an automatic phlegm dispensary machine.
Trainee: A person being trained in some behavior or task, not a term of endearment for a locomotive.
Boogyman: A make believe evil entity evoked to scare children, not a man with a excess of nose mucus.
Vagile: It’s the ability of a species to move about or disperse itself, not an agile vagina.
Penal: Things that relate to punishment, not things that relate to penises.
Fartlek: This is a training system for distance runners, regardless of the fact that it is pronounced “fart lick.”
Farthing: An old British coin, not to be read as “fart thing.”
Bladdernose: This is an unfortunate name we have given a type of seal. Please don’t anybody tell the bladdernose seals that we call them this.
Pollinose: This is a word that describes a yellow, powdery covering of some insects, not a word that describes an enormous nose piecing, or a “pole in nose.”
Ulignose: This describes something living in mud, not to be confused with “uglinose,” which may describe a person suffering from “pole in nose.”
Rebuttal: A legal refute of an opposing argument, not a surgical procedure to reattach a person’s butt.
Sheboygan: Sheboygan, Wisconsin is an inherently funny name for a town, not because of the strangeness of the “sheboy” part of the word, as Sheboygan is pronounced with a short (or soft, as I like to call it) “e” (shə-boi’gən). It’s just funny. Everyone in Sheboygan should be a comedian.
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while i have partiicular appeciation for vagile and Sheboygan, it was trainee that caused me to laugh so hard I spit my sip of fizzy water onto the computer.
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That’s funny, because I figured that would be the least obviously funny. I underestimated my audience when I thought the fart jokes would be most appreciated.
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Frolicking: to run about and play happily. Do not confuse this with licking someone’s hair-do. It can upset them.
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Har Har… Add that one to my new Daisybrain Survey question, which is now the compendium to this blog.
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Pollinose? Are you telling me that wasn’t Terry Hornsby’s nickname?
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I was once being interviewed for an elevator mechanic apprenticeship by a couple of union stewards, and one of them told me he was from Astatula. (FL). I told him I always thought Astatula sounded like a sneeze. His companion laughed heartily and so did I. He did not. I believe it was this and the admission that I drove a Toyota when they asked me what brand of truck I drove, that kept me from the job.
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boogyman = bogeyman = bog man = celtic human sacrifice preserved in anaerobic conditions for centuries.
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For years, I’ve had this idea for a B-Movie called The Bog People. They would be really flat from their centuries being compressed in the bogs – they could slip under doors. It’d be a lot easier now to make it with computer animation. If one of you Hollywood types is reading this, just let me know & I’ll send the script for a modest fee and a role as the crotchety old police chief who doesn’t believe the teenagers that the bog people have come back to life!
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… or I could play the crazy old guy who warns them not to go near the bog!
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Hey Eric, run with that. If you want to sell it faster, make them teenage vampire flat bog people.
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Just came across your comment on my old site: Thanks! (if a little late…)
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