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."
adj. - of or like the french satirist rabelais or his writings.
- marked by exuberant imagination and coarse humour.
RADIOACTIVE
adj. Of or exhibiting radioactivity.
RADIOCARBON
n. Radioactive isotope of carbon.
RADIOPHONIC
adj. Of or relating to electronically produced sound, esp. Music.
RALLENTANDO
mus. —adv. & adj. With a gradual decrease of speed. —n. (pl. -s or -di) passage to be performed in this way. [italian]
RANGEFINDER
n. Instrument for estimating the distance of an object to be shot at or photographed.
RAPSCALLION
n. Archaic or joc. Rascal. [perhaps from *rascal]
RASTAFARIAN
(also rasta) —n. Member of a jamaican sect, often having dreadlocks and regarding haile selassie of ethiopia as god. —adj. Of this sect. [ras tafari, title of former emperor haile selassie]
RATATOUILLE
n. Dish of stewed onions, courgettes, tomatoes, aubergines, and peppers. [french dial.]
