A young boy was playing with a ball in the street. He kicked it too hard, and it broke the window of a house and fell inside. A lady came to the window with the ball and shouted at the young boy, so he ran away, but he still wanted his ball back.
A few minutes later he returned and knocked at the door of the house, and when the lady answered it, he said, "My father"s going to come and fix your window very soon."
After a few more minutes a man came to the door with tools in his hand, so the lady let the boy take his ball away.
When the man finished fixing the window, he said to the lady, "That will cost you exactly ten dollars."
"But aren"t you the father of that young boy?" the woman asked, looking surprised.
"No," he answered, equally surprised. "Aren"t you his mother? "
—adj. (-ier, -iest) 1 very tired after exertion or endurance.
- (foll. By of) no longer interested in, tired of.
- tiring, tedious. —v. (-ies, -ied) make or grow weary. wearily adv. Weariness n. [old english]
WEAVE
—v. (-ving; past wove; past part. Woven or wove) 1 a form (fabric) by interlacing long threads in two directions. B form (thread) into fabric in this way.
- make fabric in this way.
- a (foll. By into) make (facts etc.) Into a story or connected whole. B make (a story) in this way. —n. Style of weaving. [old english]
- v. (-ving) move repeatedly from side to side; take an intricate course to avoid obstructions. get weaving slang begin action; hurry. [old norse: related to *wave]
WEBER
n. The si unit of magnetic flux. [weber, name of a physicist]
WEDGE
—n. - piece of tapering wood or metal etc. Driven between two objects or parts to secure or separate them.
- anything resembling a wedge.
- golf club with a wedge-shaped head. —v. (-ging) 1 secure or fasten with a wedge.
- force open or apart with a wedge.
- (foll. By in, into) pack or thrust (a thing or oneself) tightly in or into. thin end of the wedge colloq. Thing of little importance in itself, but likely to lead to more serious developments. [old english]
WEEDS
n.pl. (in full widow's weeds) archaic deep mourning worn by a widow. [old english, = garment]
WEEDY
adj. (-ier, -iest) 1 weak, feeble.
- having many weeds.
WEENY
adj. (-ier, -iest) colloq. Tiny. [from *wee1]
WEEPY
adj. (-ier, -iest) colloq. Inclined to weep; tearful.
WEIGH
v. - find the weight of.
- balance in the hands to guess or as if to guess the weight of.
- (often foll. By out) take a definite weight of (a substance); measure out (a specified weight) (weigh out the flour; weigh out 6 oz).
- a estimate the relative value, importance, or desirability of. B (foll. By with, against) compare.
- be equal to (a specified weight).
- have (esp. A specified) importance; exert an influence.
- (often foll. By on) be heavy or burdensome (to); be depressing (to). weigh down 1 bring down by exerting weight.
- be oppressive to. Weigh in (of a boxer before a contest, or a jockey after a race) be weighed. Weigh in with colloq. Advance (an argument etc.) Boldly. Weigh out (of a jockey) be weighed before a race. Weigh up colloq. Form an estimate of. Weigh one's words carefully choose the way one expresses something. [old english, = carry]
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