Night. A sleeping couple is lying in a bed. Door bell rings. A couple wakes up. Woman: "Quick! My husband is back!" Man jumps out from a window. Flying down he starts to think: "Shit! But I am the husband!"
n. Burrowing plant-eating australian marsupial. [aboriginal]
WOMENS
libber n. Colloq. Supporter of women's liberation.
- liberation n. (also women's lib) colloq. Movement urging the liberation of women from domestic duties and subservient status.
- rights n.pl. Position of legal and social equality with men.
WONDER
—n. - emotion, esp. Admiration, excited by what is unexpected, unfamiliar, or inexplicable.
- strange or remarkable thing, specimen, event, etc.
- (attrib.) Having marvellous or amazing properties etc. (wonder drug; wonder woman). —v. - be filled with wonder or great surprise.
- (foll. By that) be surprised to find.
- desire or be curious to know (i wonder what the time is). i shouldn't wonder colloq. I think it likely. No (or small) wonder one cannot be surprised. Work (or do) wonders 1 do miracles.
- be remarkably effective. [old english]
WONTED
attrib. Adj. Habitual, usual.
WOODED
adj. Having woods or many trees.
WOODEN
adj. - made of wood.
- like wood.
- a stiff, clumsy. B expressionless. woodenly adv. Woodenness n.
WOOFER
n. Loudspeaker for low frequencies. [from *woof1]
WOOLEN
(brit. Woollen) —adj. Made wholly or partly of wool. —n. - woollen fabric.
- (in pl.) Woollen garments. [old english]
WOOLLY
—adj. (-ier, -iest) 1 bearing wool.
- like wool.
- woollen (a woolly cardigan).
- (of a sound) indistinct.
- (of thought) vague or confused. —n. (pl. -ies) colloq. Woollen garment, esp. A pullover. woolliness n.
