Little Johnny was sitting on a park bench munching on one candy bar after another.
After the sixth one a man on the bench across from him said, "Son, you know eating all that candy isn’t good for you. It will give you acne, rot your teeth, make you fat."
Little Johnny replied, "My grandfather lived to be 107 years old."
The man asked, "Did your grandfather eat 6 candy bars at a time?"
Little Johnny answered, "No, he minded his own business!"
- 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]
