A woman walked into the kitchen to find her husband stalking around with a fly swatter.
"What are you doing?" she asked.
"Hunting flies," he responded.
"Oh… Killed any?" she asked.
"Yep, three males, two females," he replied.
Intrigued, she asked, "How can you tell?"
He responded, "Three were on a beer can, two were on the phone."
—n. Dent. —v. Mark with dints. by dint of by force or means of. [old english and old norse]
DIRE
adj. - a calamitous, dreadful. B ominous. C (predic) colloq. Very bad.
- urgent (in dire need). [latin]
DIRK
n. Short dagger. [origin unknown]
DIRT
cheap adj. & adv. Colloq. Extremely cheap.
- n. - unclean matter that soils.
- a earth, soil. B earth, cinders, etc., used to make the surface for a road etc. (usu. Attrib.: dirt track).
- foul or malicious words or talk.
- excrement. treat like dirt treat with contempt. [old norse drit excrement]
DISC
brake n. Brake employing the friction of pads against a disc.
- jockey n. Presenter of recorded pop music.
- n. (also disk esp. Us and in sense 4a) 1 a flat thin circular object. B round flat or apparently flat surface or mark.
- layer of cartilage between vertebrae.
- gramophone record.
- a (usu. Disk; in full magnetic disk) flat circular computer storage device. B (in full optical disc) disc for data recorded and read by laser. [latin *discus]
DISH
—n. - a shallow flat-bottomed container for food. B its contents. C particular kind of food or food prepared to a particular recipe (meat dish).
- (in pl.) Crockery, pans, etc. After a meal (wash the dishes).
- a dish-shaped object or cavity. B = *satellite dish.
To add to the dictionary krossvordista new word or its definition to an existing word, click on the "Add a word or definition of" fill opened form and click "to send".