A porter in a British hotel comes upon an American tourist impatiently jabbing at the button for the lift.
"Sir, the lift will be here in a moment."
"Lift? Lift?" replies the American. "Oh, you mean the elevator."
"No sir, here we call it a lift."
"Well, as it was invented in the United States, it’s called an elevator."
"Yes sir, but as the language was invented here, it’s called a lift."
n. Usu. Derog. Intellectual or literary woman. [18th-c. Blue stocking society]
BODYBUILDING
n. Exercises to enlarge and strengthen the muscles.
BOOGIEWOOGIE
n. Style of playing blues or jazz on the piano. [origin unknown]
BOWLINGALLEY
n. - long enclosure for skittles or tenpin bowling.
- building with these.
BOWLINGGREEN
n. Lawn for playing bowls.
BRASSRUBBING
n. - practice of taking impressions by rubbing heelball etc. Over paper laid on engraved brasses.
- impression obtained by this.
BREAKDANCING
n. Acrobatic style of street-dancing.
BREAKTHROUGH
n. - major advance or discovery.
- act of breaking through an obstacle etc.
BREASTSTROKE
n. Swimming stroke made by extending both arms forward and sweeping them back.
BREATHALYSER
n. (also -lyzer) propr. Instrument for measuring alcohol levels in the breath exhaled into it. breathalyse v. (also -lyze) (-sing or -zing). [from *breath, *analyse]
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