Double meanings
I was thinking today how my Mother called my ex-husband Wombat.
I wasn't quite sure where she got that from but there you go...
Sense of humor he had, so he came up with " eats roots and leaves"...
Well should have seen the look on her face, lol, it was very early into the relationship.
So, a Wombat, is actually a fat creature, haha, that poos alot, lives on vacant farm land, and digs huge holes, and eats leaves, and eats, roots..
So hense underlines a double meaning.
Wondering if you can think of any?
I am in a fun mood shhhh
CW
Do we not realise that in order to find a soul
It doesn't happen over night
if truth were to be told.
Like everything in life that's hard to achieve
you must believe!
My dad used to call my mum a 'wrong head' whenever she went off on one of her ramblings about things she had no idea about...insisting she was right!
We all thought it was 2 words cleverly strung together by my dear Farja but...
Wronghead
Wrong"head`\, n. A person of a perverse understanding or obstinate character. [R.]
Turns out old Daddykins knew what he was talking about
"You know the way a poem sometimes makes an absurd connectionThat's himLyrically professing his affection...""Never humour a fool for he will think he is a wise man"
i cant think of anything at the time,
but this reminds me of the show "not necc the news".
the show (if any remember from early 80's) was about stupid new and a segmant of it was putting 2 words together.
oh i forgot to say the segment name was : SNIGLETS
Portmanteau words? See Lewis Carrol's poem, Jabberwocky. And the mome raths outgrabe ... I feel bad for non-native speakers trying to figure that one out!
As for double meanings, how about moto? Motto? Who knows? :P CW loves it when I speak Spanish ... well, sometimes doll, I don't know how to say it in English!
Most of the portmanteaux I've come up with are not fit for mature discussion :P You know, when you start out with one cuss word and you end up with another. George Carlin would love it.
When i was younger I memorised the whooole of the Jabberwocky poem!
The cheshire cat in Alice in wonderland recites the poem too!
"You know the way a poem sometimes makes an absurd connectionThat's himLyrically professing his affection...""Never humour a fool for he will think he is a wise man"
I memorised Jabberwocky once upon a time too. But now I tend to muddle it.
Well we use a lot of dbl talk. Most of it seems to relate to sex, I get a text msg that he has a hard problem, I text back saying I'm sure he can handle it. I say it's a nice day and he'll ask, is it wet? I'll respond dripping. This can go on for quite a while.
In tenebris lux, " in darkness there is light.. - La Spanish from CWLittle
As for double meanings, how about moto? Motto? Who knows? :P CW loves it when I speak Spanish ... well, sometimes doll, I don't know how to say it in English!
Ad idem ?
MOTTO - A motto, like a coat of arms, or an eagle is the motto of a football team, their motto, or they can be words, that you live by, your motto..
And, MOTO - Yep, cars/scooters/motorcycles abreviated to "moto" even here in little old Australia...
Ad idem - "of the same mind"... Are we? lol..
My motto on WH is to always win...and never ride a moto
CW
Do we not realise that in order to find a soul
It doesn't happen over night
if truth were to be told.
Like everything in life that's hard to achieve
you must believe!
CW i think anything can have a double meaning...
For example alot of innuendo has double meanings. On one end it may be innocent while the other has a naughty thought.
A movie comes to mind... This 13 yr old boy wishes to be a man... Well he gets his wish becomes successful however he still thinks like a boy. A attractive coworker of his goes to see his apartment. He has a bunk-bed (two twin sized beds one on top of the other)
He says to her "Want to have a sleep over, she says sure then he replies Cool But I'm on top"
When i was a kid watching that movie I thought "Man there is no way i would let her have top"
I saw it about a year ago and I just laughed and thought back to when i was a kid.
The name of the movie is Big with Tom Hanks
Nice guys don't finish last, weak guys finish last.
HAHA, LLL.... Good point..
It's how you take it, you can write something as well for sure and read it either way, pending on how you are thinking..
But I beg to differ with WOMBAT - only joking it was the eats, roots & leaves that had that double meaning after all.
Do we not realise that in order to find a soul
It doesn't happen over night
if truth were to be told.
Like everything in life that's hard to achieve
you must believe!
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