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GRUMBLE should be the definition of the sound a healthy muscle car makes.

MILK should be the word to describe throwing up in your mouth a little bit.

What common word, based solely on it's sound, should mean something else?

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[+6] - firefly - 04/21/2017CHOCOLATE--Literary works written on blackboards LAVATORY--Grade school erupting volcano project COFFEE--Physician's charge for treating a respiratory symptom
[+5] - boomerang - 04/18/2017CHLAMYDIA should be a beautiful spring flower: You should see the chlamydias in my yard! They're awesome!
[+4] - Blickers - 04/19/2017To be "debriefed" sounds like it means somebody is pulling your jockey shorts off. At least that's what I thought when I was in 7th grade and they were pulling the astronauts out of...
[+4] - firefly - 04/23/2017Laundry--grass clippings left after mowing.
[+4] - ekename - 04/28/2017vindicate - the terroir of the wine
[+3] - Blickers - 04/18/2017Here's a word which already has changed meaning because of the way it sounds: Fulsome. It used to mean disgusting. But it's name suggests "full", (which has positive associations),...
[+3] - boomerang - 04/18/2017Similarly, "awesome" original meant filled with awe and "awe" originally meant terror or dread, so if something was awesome it was dreadful.
[+3] - coluber2001 - 04/19/2017Restive should mean relaxing instead of fidgety.
[+3] - edgarblythe - 04/19/2017migraine a farmer admires his crop
[+3] - Roberta - 04/19/2017[i]Ener[/i]vate should mean [i]ener[/i]gize.

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@boomerang,

'****,' for believers in The Almighty, esp if Fem
That is, 'He She/it"
God forgive me

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@boomerang,

Here's a word which already has changed meaning because of the way it sounds: Fulsome. It used to mean disgusting. But it's name suggests "full", (which has positive associations), and so it was mistakenly used to mean something nice and abundant. As a result it now can be used to mean just that.

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@boomerang,

Quantum Mechanics sounds like an auto repair shop owned by a Native American.

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@Blickers,

Similarly, "awesome" original meant filled with awe and "awe" originally meant terror or dread, so if something was awesome it was dreadful.

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CHLAMYDIA should be a beautiful spring flower:

You should see the chlamydias in my yard! They're awesome!

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@boomerang,

MARSUPIAL sounds like a spicy seafood soup.
(Mar means sea in Spanish).

I had a nice marsupial for lunch, and here at 4 pm I can still taste it.

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Marzipan should be an exotic city that smells of cinnamon and oregano.

The next James Bond movie started filming in Marzipan this month...

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Sean Locke said if you didn't know what cottaging was, you might want to give it a go because it sounds quite nice, cream teas and picnics by the riverbank, that sort of thing.

(This is my second post today about casual sex in public lavatories btw. Must be one of those days.)

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@boomerang,

Boom should mean bust.

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Restive should mean relaxing instead of fidgety.

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Reticule -- that uncomfortable feeling you get being around someone who is always right about everything.

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Reticule -- that uncomfortable feeling you get when you're around someone who is never wrong about anything.

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migraine
a farmer admires his crop

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Enervate should mean energize.

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OOps . . . I repeated myself . . . it should have been:

Loquacious -- Nervous about the neighborhood you're in.

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@Setanta,

good one

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@boomerang,

To be "debriefed" sounds like it means somebody is pulling your jockey shorts off.

At least that's what I thought when I was in 7th grade and they were pulling the astronauts out of the sea after they returned from space. "All three astronauts will be immediately medically examined and then debriefed by NASA", the TV said.

In seventh grade, I was considering trying to be an astronaut when I grew up. I started wondering just what they actually expect you to go through to get the job.

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@boomerang,

CHOCOLATE--Literary works written on blackboards

LAVATORY--Grade school erupting volcano project

COFFEE--Physician's charge for treating a respiratory symptom

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Brazen - Being a complete donkey (esp.in philosophistry) and/or nothingness.

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