While sports fishing off the Florida coast, a tourist capsized his boat. He could swim, but his fear of alligators kept him clinging to the overturned craft.
Spotting and old beachcomber standing on the shore, the tourist shouted,
"Are there any gators around here?!"
"Naw," the man hollered back, "they ain"t been around for years!"
Feeling safe, the tourist started swimming leisurely toward the shore.
About halfway there he asked the guy,
"How"d you get rid of the gators?"
"We didn"t do nothin"," the beachcomber said. "The sharks got "em."
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]
