Homonym
noun
a word that is both a homophone and a homograph, that is, exactly the same as another in sound and spelling but different in meaning.
FYI—a homophone is NOT a human shaped telephone. A homograph is NOT a human shaped pie chart. Also, you can't play records on a homograph.
Dingbat
noun
1: a glyph that is not a letter, number, or form of punctuation (such as %, ✂ or ✠)
2: an eccentric, stupid and/or empty-headed person.
Dingbat with new implants
3: a terrifying hybrid of bird and mammal common to the Great Lakes region of the U.S. It has a short, feathered body, small antlers and large wings.
4: a type of apartment building that flourished in the Sun Belt region of the United States in the 1950s and 1960s. Dingbats are boxy, two or three-story apartment houses with overhangs sheltering street-front parking.
I ❤ dingbats.
Boobert and Empty Greene are vicious and vile dingbats.
Here on the Neck, dingbat apartments and condos are common.
Ailurophile
noun
a person who likes cats.
Comes from Greek aílouro(s), which means “cat” and –phile, meaning “enthusiast for.”
An
ailurophile is NOT a homonym. Also, what sane, well-balanced soul
doesn’t like cats? I mean, pie, cake, ice cream, bon bons and
cats—what’s not to love?!
Taradiddle
noun
a small lie; fib.
I’m
sorry, NO. Ya see, Tara, according to the encyclopedia Britannica, is a
Buddhist saviour-goddess with a boatload of forms. She’s mondo popular
in Nepal, Tibet, and Mongolia. So a Taradiddle is, well, when someone
gets a little bit lucky with the goddess. Of course, both definitions
could be accurate and taradiddle may very well be a homonym. e.g.: Brad
told a taradiddle when he said that he Taradiddled.
n.b., NOT to be confused with paradiddle.
Paradiddle
noun
A percussive exercise which involves playing four even strokes in the order ‘right left right right’ or ‘left right left left.’ In drum terminology, “para” means "single stroke" and “diddle” means "double stroke.”
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