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WOD contest revisited



isa2
Austria

WOD contest revisited
 
For all those who have not posted anything so far to make this a really successful game. Here again is the new word to find a definition for:

spanogyny

Rules for newcomers to the game:
Please. do not supply the real meaning. Try to make up a funny/ silly/ witty definition of your own.

PLEASE. do not hesitate to participate. Here is the link to previous entries.

4 Jul 2014      





JuliaKaraban
Russian Federation

Let �s think: spanextend from side to side of, gyn = gynecologist. So, spanogyny = the way of visiting this doctor.

4 Jul 2014     



Mr. Wilson
Chile

Here is another resource for wacky words:

https://www.wordnik.com/lists/list-of-silly-words

Your game is a nice idea. I had a high school English teacher, not Teacher of English, and she used a word game that also invented meanings for words. It was a kind of "word pun game". A shout out to Ms. Elaine Johnson from Tamalpais High School in Mill Valley, California, USA.

In her game she started us off with a word that we had to "misunderstand" and assign  a definition to, which was actually of another word that sounded like it. These are puns, but in a series anticipating a next word. Really keeps student thinking and on their toes. For example, if I say the word "Ballet" and explain it as "Something that you use to vote in an election," then the next person says no, not ballet, you mean "Ballot" that is that is what they stack things on to move them, and the next person could say, no not Ballot, you mean "pallete"  and pun pallete with another word without saying it, only defining it.

A bit complicated. For more advanced groups, but a lot of fun once you get the hang of it.

4 Jul 2014     



isa2
Austria

Contest closed now. Thnx to all. 

5 Jul 2014