tv. to acquire an enormous vocabulary. (Usually in the past tense.) : My uncle says I've swallowed the dictionary. That's because I know so many big words.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition. Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Swallow the dictionaryis always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
So is zedonk. Does it mean:
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
