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!"
breathing n. Breathing with long breaths, esp. As exercise.
- —adj. - extending far down or in (deep water; deep wound; deep shelf).
- (predic.) A to or at a specified depth (water 6 feet deep). B in a specified number of ranks (soldiers drawn up six deep).
- situated or coming from far down, back, or in (deep in his pockets; deep sigh).
- low-pitched, full-toned (deep voice).
- intense, extreme (deep sleep; deep colour; deep interest).
- (predic.) Fully absorbed or overwhelmed (deep in a book; deep in debt).
- profound; difficult to understand (too deep for me). —n. - (prec. By the) poet. Sea, esp. When deep.
- abyss, pit, cavity.
- (prec. By the) cricket position of a fielder distant from the batsman.
- deep state (deep of the night). —adv. Deeply; far down or in (dig deep). go off the deep end colloq. Give way to anger or emotion. In deep water in trouble or difficulty. deeply adv. [old english]
