Daffynition

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A daffynition (a

, but often much less complex and easier to create.

Under the name Uxbridge English Dictionary, making up daffynitions is a popular game on the

.

A lesser-known subclass of daffynition is the goofinition, which relies strictly on literal associations and correct spellings, such as "lobster = a weak tennis player". This play on words is similar to

Cockney rhyming slang

.

Examples

• acrostic: An angry bloodsucking arachnid. (a-cross-tick)
• American: A happy cylindrical food container. (a-merry-can)
• apéritif: A set of dentures. (a-pair-of-teeth)
• avoidable: What a bullfighter tries to do. (avoid-a-bull)
• buccaneer: too much to pay for corn ([a]-buck-an-ear)
• dandelion: A fashionably dressed big cat (dandy-lion)
• decadent: Possessing only ten teeth. (deca-dent)
• denial: A river in Africa. (the-Nile)
• devastation: Where people wait for buses. (the-bus-station)
• dilate: live long (die-late)
• euthanasia: Teenagers in the world's largest continent. (youth-in-Asia)
• fortunate: Consumption of an expensive meal. (fortune-ate)
• impolite: A flaming goblin. (imp-alight)
• indistinct: where one places dirty dishes (in-the-sink)
• information: how geese fly (in-formation)
• innuendoes: Italian suppositories. (in-you-end-os)
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• isolate: Me not on time. (I-(am)-so-late)
• legend: A foot. (leg-end)
• oboe: A French tramp. (hobo)
• paradox: Two doctors. (pair-of-docs) or where one ties two boats. (Pair of docks)
• pasteurise: Too far to see. (past-your-eyes)
• protein: In favour of youth. (pro-teen)
• propaganda: A gentlemanly goose. (proper-gander) or to look at something very carefully (proper-gander, where gander is slang for looking)
• recycle: To repair a bicycle, or obtain a replacement bicycle. (re-cycle)
• relief: What trees do in Spring. (re-leaf)
• specimen: An Italian astronaut. (spaceman)
• symmetry: A South African or New Zealand graveyard. (cemetery)

See also

• Sniglet
• The Meaning of Liff
• The Devil's Dictionary

External links

• The Odford English Dictionary (Daffynitions)
• Fuller's Dictionary of Daffynitions