The Foolish Dictionary Words starting with W
WAITER : An Inn-experienced servant.
WAR : A wholesale means of making heroes which, if planned in a small way, would produce only murderers.
WATER : A thin substance applied to stocks with which to soak buyers.
WEDDING : A trade in which the bride is generally given away, and the groom is often sold.
WEEDS : Found in gardens and widows. For removing easily, marry the widow.
WHISKY : Trouble put up in liquid form.
WICKEDNESS : A myth invented by good people to account for the singular attractiveness of others.
WIDOW : The wife of a golfer during the open season, unless she golfs, too. In that event the children are golf orphans.
WIND : An aerial phenomenon, superinduced by an ephemeral agitation of the nebular strata, whereby air, (hot or cold), impelled into transitory activity, generates a prolonged passage through space, owing to certain occult ethereal stimuli, and results in zephyrs, breezes, blows, blow-outs, blizzards, gales, simoons, hurricanes, tornadoes or typhoons. Barred from Kansas Cyclone-cellars but frequently blended with Chicago tongue--canned or conversational.
WOMAN : An aspiring creature whose political sphere is still slightly flattened at the polls.