Wench: You could say it is a derogatory term applied to waitresses that outright accuses them of questionable virtue, but have you seen some of the waitresses lately? The term may come back into vogue.
Vogue:
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Wench: You could say it is a derogatory term applied to waitresses that outright accuses them of questionable virtue, but have you seen some of the waitresses lately? The term may come back into vogue.
Vogue:
Vogue: The fashion industry’s version of planned obsolescence.
Questionable:
Questionable: Not coming up to a stated table of values. For example, to the Atheist, belief in God is questionable, but not to religious people. To religious people evolution is questionable, but not to scientists. To people who define normal as "a man is a man and a woman a woman and marriage should consist of one man, one woman" alternative lifestyles are questionable but those who have alternate lifestyles think that view both questionable and narrow minded. Depends on one's point of view.
Wrong:
Wrong: Everyone else
Narcissist:
Narcissist: Me? Yeah, me. You? No, it ‘s me.
Nefarious:
Nefarious: Very well known as a lying, cheating, parsimonious rat unworthy of any favor
Parsimonious
Parsimonious: Prudential penny-pinching.
Poverty:
Poverty: The state of not having enough money to feed oneself, and often therefore using one's new iPhone, Macbook, or the Smart function of one's 48-inch 3D HD LED TV to complain on social media about not having enough money.
Sacrifice:
Sacrifice: from "sacre" French for sacred and "fice" or Fice: A robot high-five (Urban Dictionary); hence: Sacred Robot High Five for giving up stuff.
High Five:
High Five: The Eagles original band. You old timers from America will get that I'm sure!
Down Low:
See, I got that reference, and the pun wot followed it. The Eagles started as Linda Ronstadt's backing <cough> band, meaning they all stood, or sat, behind her. As such, every night they had a view most men'd have considered enviable, resulting in sneaky little smiling glances between them--or so one assumes. What they were all surreptitiously leering at was, of course, Linda Ronstadt's down low. Well, her tush, at any rate, which, in those tight 70s bellbottoms, looked mighty fine.
Fanny (we'll see which of you geezers familiar with that same time period will get this--without googling it, mind you)
Fanny: That part of the body upon which you sit, which can be difficult when mom "spanks your fanny!" 2) First name of hymn writer Fanny Crosby "Standing Somewhere in the Shadows You'll Find Jesus." 3) Titular heroine prostitute in an erotic novel by English novelist John Cleland, Fanny Hill 4) First name of Radio funny girl Fanny Brice (Baby Snooks) shall I go on? I have a large memory...
Roscoe:
Roscoe: Robinson Crusoe’s nickname.
Cartoon:
Cartoon: The only form of graphic language the population will soon comprehend, as evidenced by plummeting literacy and the rise of emojis as medium.
Well done, Pendragon, but you missed the one I had in mind, which connected to the Linda Ronstadt thing, and that was the band Fanny, a well competent all female blues rock ensemble from the same time period that could hold their own with any of their male equivalents.
Titular, a word I endorse for many reasons
Titular: Famed for some heroine deed, like attending a college. Title was meant to be an aid for fast recognition of a person's capabilities in order to have more effective interaction. Usually used for showing off among peers and lying to one's little ago that they are not as worse-less as they usually feel.
Medal:
By the way, a Roscoe is pulp fiction slang for a gun...
Medal: A reward given for an accomplishment, such as a good conduct medal in the Military, a Purple Heart for being wounded in action, or a bronze/silver/gold for achievement in the Olympics. 2) a charm to ward off evil such as a St. Christopher's Medal
Fetish:
Fetish: An object emboding a spirit giving it magical powers.
Voodoo
Voodoo: A general class of weird stuff like a doll or poppet that you put pins into after you have made and stuffed it. It is probably best for the innocent people around you if you are a skeptic and don’t believe in this kind of stuff since then you won’t be tempted to experiment and find out.
Charm:
Charm: Something I use to have lots of, when I were a lad, but which apparently vamoosed along with my hair, since nowadays the only ostensible females who'll glance in my direction collect social security.
Girth. And don't get cute.
Girth: In our world where we live in three dimensions, length, width, and height, this would be width. Some of us girth more than others...
Span:
Span: Like length, width or height except it is more associated with time. However it also means clean like a newly split piece of wood so “neat” that one could eat off of it.
Neurosurgeon:
Neurosurgeon: a chap with a scalpel who you hope will only cut through select neurons, and not nick a blood vessel tiny enough to go unnoticed, but vital enough to bleed all over your brain later when you're sipping a mint julip in the recovery room.
You didn't leave us with a new word. I'll make one up that came to mind from another thread:
Boredom:
Boredom: The ancestral home of the Bores.
Echo:
Echo: The shadow of sound
Egad:
Egad: cousin to Gad Zooks! and distant relative of Streuth!
nincompoop
Nincompoop: This comes from an attempt by 17th century academics to sound out the Latin phrase “non compos mentis” without resorting to pig latin. You can still hear the “non” in the initial “nin” sound and the “com” sound is clearly in both, but after that things break down as they inevitably would and “pos mentis” is turned into “poop” which probably generated enough laughter that the original nincompoop felt he got it right.
Pig Latin:
nincompoop: 1) Female noncompoop; 2) person not acquainted, or unenamored, with NIИ; 3) modern ninnyhammer
Rats ! Snaked.
Back in a moment...
Pig Latin: Spoken language in the book "Animal Farm" translated into English.
Rhythm and Blues:
I have no recollection of Pig Latin being spoken in "Animal Farm" and think, tailor, that you may be pulling our leg, you heathen.
Rhythm 'n' Blues: A term first coined in 1948 by a chap called Jerry Wexler who wrote for Billboard magazine. It replaced the term 'race music' which, ironically, came from within the black community. It was music of and about the urban African-American experience and was initially marketed to black people. When the blonde-haired, blue-eyed daughters of whitey later started shaking their moneymakers to it, whitey didn't take to kindly to it.
Money maker:
Money maker: Counterfeiter
Morals:
Morals: The standards by which we judge the other guy and pardon ourselves.
Pardon:
Pardon? Didn't hear you.
Subversion.
Subversion. The art of misdirection that allows a hypocrite get away with it
Heretic:
Heretic: Someone who pops a bubble of establishment hot air.
Hot Air:
Hot air: I hear there was another presidential debate tonight. Bound to be plenty of it there.
Hooey
Hooey: The daily output of the pathological liar, which fouls the air considerably during presidential debates
Debate:
Debate: a modern farce which, every four years, has both Lincoln and Douglas doubled over in their graves with laughter.
Lumbago:
Lumbago: Mysterious back pain that is enough for a person to get disability payments, but not enough to interfere with their having six children with two different women, or to stop backbreaking work around their property
Disability:
Disability: Dis ability is one I developed after years of practice.
Corny:
Corny: A word used to describe starched collars.
Snow: