A man speaks frantically into the phone, "My wife is pregnant, and her contractions are only two minutes apart!"
"Is this her first child?" the doctor queries.
"No, you idiot!" the man shouts. "This is her husband!"
n. Usu. Derog. Intellectual or literary woman. [18th-c. Blue stocking society]
BODYBUILDING
n. Exercises to enlarge and strengthen the muscles.
BOOGIEWOOGIE
n. Style of playing blues or jazz on the piano. [origin unknown]
BOWLINGALLEY
n. - long enclosure for skittles or tenpin bowling.
- building with these.
BOWLINGGREEN
n. Lawn for playing bowls.
BRASSRUBBING
n. - practice of taking impressions by rubbing heelball etc. Over paper laid on engraved brasses.
- impression obtained by this.
BREAKDANCING
n. Acrobatic style of street-dancing.
BREAKTHROUGH
n. - major advance or discovery.
- act of breaking through an obstacle etc.
BREASTSTROKE
n. Swimming stroke made by extending both arms forward and sweeping them back.
BREATHALYSER
n. (also -lyzer) propr. Instrument for measuring alcohol levels in the breath exhaled into it. breathalyse v. (also -lyze) (-sing or -zing). [from *breath, *analyse]
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