As a senior citizen was driving down the freeway, his car phone rang. Answering, he heard his wife"s voice urgently warning him, "Herman, I just heard on the news that there"s a car going the wrong way on 280. Please be careful!"
"Heck," said Herman, "It"s not just one car. It"s hundreds of them!"
adj. (placed after brother, sister, or cousin) having both parents the same, or both grandparents the same on one side (brother german; cousin german). [latin germanus]
- measles n.pl. Disease like mild measles; rubella.
- measles n.pl. Disease like mild measles; rubella.
- shepherd n. (also german shepherd dog) = *alsatian.
- silver n. White alloy of nickel, zinc, and copper.
- —n. - a native or national of germany. B person of german descent.
- language of germany. —adj. Of germany or its people or language. [latin germanus]
GERUND
n. Verbal noun, in english ending in -ing (e.g. Do you mind my asking you?). [latin]
GETOUT
n. Means of avoiding something.
GEYSER
n. - intermittent hot spring.
- apparatus for heating water. [icelandic geysir from geysa to gush]
GHETTO
n. (pl. -s) 1 part of a city occupied by a minority group.
- hist. Jewish quarter in a city.
- segregated group or area. [italian]
GIBBER
v. Jabber inarticulately. [imitative]
GIBBET
—n. Hist. - a gallows. B post with an arm on which an executed criminal was hung.
- (prec. By the) death by hanging. —v. (-t-) 1 put to death by hanging.
- expose or hang up on a gibbet. [french gibet]
GIBBON
n. Long-armed se asian anthropoid ape. [french]
GIFTED
adj. Talented; intelligent.
GIGGLE
—v. (-ling) laugh in half-suppressed spasms. —n. - such a laugh.
- colloq. Amusing person or thing; joke (did it for a giggle). giggly adj. (-ier, -iest). [imitative]
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