Two young boys were spending the night at their grandparents the week before Christmas.
At bedtime, the two boys knelt beside their beds to say their prayers when the youngest one began praying at the top of his lungs.
"I PRAY FOR A NEW BICYCLE…
I PRAY FOR A NEW NINTENDO…
I PRAY FOR A NEW VCR…"
His older brother leaned over and nudged the younger brother and said, "Why are you shouting your prayers? God isn’t deaf."
To which the little brother replied, "No, but Grandma is!”
- large indian or se asian deciduous tree yielding this. [portuguese from malayalam]
TEAL
n. (pl. Same) small freshwater duck. [origin unknown]
TEAM
spirit n. Willingness to act for the communal good.
- —n. - set of players forming one side in a game.
- two or more people working together.
- set of draught animals. —v. - (usu. Foll. By up) join in a team or in common action (teamed up with them).
- (foll. By with) match or coordinate (clothes). [old english]
TEAR
—v. (past tore; past part. Torn) 1 (often foll. By up) pull apart or to pieces with some force (tore up the letter).
- a make a hole or rent in this way; undergo this (have torn my coat; curtain tore). B make (a hole or rent).
- (foll. By away, off, at, etc.) Pull violently (tore off the cover; tore down the notice).
- violently disrupt or divide (torn by guilt).
- colloq. Go hurriedly (tore across the road). —n. - hole etc. Caused by tearing.
- torn part of cloth etc. be torn between have difficulty in choosing between. Tear apart 1 search (a place) exhaustively.
- criticize forcefully.
- destroy; divide utterly; distress greatly. Tear one's hair out colloq. Behave with extreme desperation. Tear into colloq. - severely reprimand.
- start (an activity) vigorously. Tear oneself away leave reluctantly. Tear to shreds colloq. Refute or criticize thoroughly. That's torn it colloq. That has spoiled things etc. [old english]
- n. - drop of clear salty liquid secreted by glands from the eye, and shed esp. In grief.
- tearlike thing; drop. in tears crying. [old english]
TEAT
n. - mammary nipple, esp. Of an animal.
- rubber nipple for sucking from a bottle. [french from germanic]
TECH
n. (also tec) colloq. Technical college. [abbreviation]
TEEM
v. - be abundant.
- (foll. By with) be full of or swarming with (teeming with ideas). [old english, = give birth to]
- v. (often foll. By down) (of water etc.) Flow copiously; pour (teeming with rain). [old norse]
TEEN
attrib. Adj. = *teenage. [abbreviation]
- suffix forming numerals from 13 to 19. [old english]
