These words sound hilarious to me for some reason, and if someone didn’t know the meaning, a good guess could be made from the sound.
- Waste – whatever it is, you know it’s not good and you don’t want to get involved
- fair – Put together two groups of drinkers from different countries, this is what you get. You recognize one when you see one.
- Hootenanny – I’ve known musicians from all ages since the 60’s, so I have a sign at my house that says “No Hootenannies”, the word is funnier than the actual event.
- Scribble – everyone does it, not many will admit it, but it’s funny
- Banana – fun to say even if you add more syllables. I like 5, then rhymes with “Roseannadanna”
- Pijama – Is this singular or plural, can you have one?
- Armadillo – some kind of military vehicle, right?
- Folderol – sounds like something to drink, as in “last night I was so shattered I went crazy”.
- Whippoorwill – What did poor Will do?
- Talkative – famous Latin philosopher, or maybe a Star Trek character, “Spock, go find Loquacious, he knows intergalactic philosophy”
- Testicle – led to testify, testimony, testament, while swearing to grab the family jewels when you do so (or as the Bible says in its original TESTAMENT, “Abraham grabbed his thigh” – close enough!)
- Nothing good – The funniest expression for homeless people, it has to be Shakespeare.
- Pawn – see “nothing good” because it’s more fun
- Petroleum – is an ancestral track, pronounced with two or three syllables, as in “aw-eee-yull” in the south, sometimes “awl”, and is pronounced “earl” in The Honeymooners, “oh-ill” elsewhere
- Shorts – and can you believe that people would hear that and still use them? “Yeah, I have to get some of those boxers, look what they are about”
- Haberdashery – a middle eastern fast food place?
- Peccadillo – this could mean several things, one is a small armadillo
- Swamp – It is usually said with two syllables, if you are one, it is not so funny.
- Impudent – from Lawrence of Arabia, “You, sir, are an insolent rascal.” (it’s more fun if the British use it)
- Elbow – you have to pause between syllables, and when you think about it, where does this word come from? Why are there no other bows on the body like knee bow, neck bow, leg bow?
- Pumpkin – this is a compound word made up of two smaller words and fun in that way also because it is a step beyond the kissing cousins
- Strong – yes sir, he was a big man, not a girly girl
- Gargoyle – Wait, is this English? gargoyles came from the sound gargoyles make during storms anyway.
- I forget – is an Irish valet or Greek author, “O’blivion, let’s go to the seersucker today and bring me that new volume of Oblivion too.”
- Gerrymander – a small amphibian? some cricket position, as in “now gerrymander is starting for Manchester”
- Anonymous – most prolific writer in any language; the only word that rhymes with “Hieronymous”
- Bugger – funny, no matter how you use it, it applies to many as in “that old snot!”
- Petticoat – A small coat? and goes where? Is it a coat for what exactly?
- Copacetic – I think my grandmother used to prescribe this homeopathic remedy as a pharmacist in the 1920s before it was outlawed.
- Weenie – We laugh at them, we make fun of them and we eat them!
- grenade – Let’s see, what will we call that fruit? Maybe it is related to granite?
- Swedish turnip – That street hedgehog was certainly a pest, have you ever seen a kohlrabi?
- jellyfish – Is it edible, in a peanut butter tartar sandwich? now that’s just disgusting …
- Daffodil – a cartoon character or an Irish herb
- Sabbatical – this can’t be good, I think it involves worshiping the devil and dancing naked in groups
- Chinese orange – this is a word that is not said in mixed company, and all children know that it is a part of the body that cannot be mentioned
- Embarrassed – I had to be gassed to do this once.