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Portmanteau: a new word that fuses two words or morphemes; Retronym: creating a new word to denote an old object or concept whose original name has come to be used for something else; Oxymoron: a combination of two contradictory terms; Zeugma and Syllepsis: the use of a single phrase in two ways simultaneously; Pun: deliberately mixing two ...
to face (as a situation), experience ("If you can meet with triumph and disaster, and treat those two impostors just the same" – Kipling); to encounter for the first time (How I Met Your Mother) to have a meeting with (as people) ("Vice president meets with Iraqi officials", CNN ) *(UK generally meet (transitive) or meet up with ) [ 3 ]
Have a go – to try to achieve something, as in "have a bash at this crossword" to strike physically to attack verbally a party or celebration "they're having a little bash this weekend" (orig. US, but now probably more common in UK than US) bath (pl.) swimming pool (v.) to bathe, or give a bath to, example have a bath (US: take a bath meaning ...
euphemism for C.U.N.T, shown by the first letter of each word chicken cutlets: gel inserts used to create cleavage [2] choices: a catchphrase used by Tatianna (season 2; All Stars season 2) [4] condragulations [2] [7] drag wordplay for the word "congratulations" cooking: allowing time for face powder to set [5] country realness
Cryptic crossword clues consist typically of a definition and some type of word play. Cryptic crossword clues need to be viewed two ways. One is a surface reading and one a hidden meaning. [27] The surface reading is the basic reading of the clue to look for key words and how those words are constructed in the clue. The second way is the hidden ...
A contronym is a word with two opposite meanings. For example, the word original can mean "authentic, traditional", or "novel, never done before". This feature is also called enantiosemy , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] enantionymy ( enantio- means "opposite"), antilogy or autoantonymy .
Lists of words having different meanings in American and British English: (A–L; M–Z) Works; Works with different titles in the UK and US.
Word play is closely related to word games; that is, games in which the point is manipulating words. See also language game for a linguist's variation. Word play can cause problems for translators: e.g., in the book Winnie-the-Pooh a character mistakes the word "issue" for the noise of a sneeze , a resemblance which disappears when the word ...