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- Werewolf
- n. A wolf that was once, or is sometimes, a man. All werewolves are of evil disposition, having assumed a bestial form to gratify a beastial appetite, but some, transformed by sorcery, are as humane and is consistent with an acquired taste for human flesh. Some Bavarian peasants having caught a wolf one evening, tied it to a post by the tail and went to bed. The next morning nothing was there! Greatly perplexed, they consulted the local priest, who told them that their captive was undoubtedly a werewolf and had resumed its human for during the night. “The next time that you take a wolf,” the good man said, “see that you chain it by the leg, and in the morning you will find a Lutheran.”
- wetback
- derogatory term for Mexican immigrants, referring to the midnight swim that once brought many across the Rio Grande into the US; the term is offensive and baseless however, as all are able to towel-off before they take an American’s job away.
- Whangdepootenawah
- n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected
affliction that strikes hard.
Should you ask me whence this laughter,
Whence this audible big-smiling,
With its labial extension,
With its maxillar distortion
And its diaphragmic rhythmus
Like the billowing of an ocean,
Like the shaking of a carpet,
I should answer, I should tell you:
From the great deeps of the spirit,
From the unplummeted abysmus
Of the soul this laughter welleth
As the fountain, the gug-guggle,
Like the river from the canon [sic],
To entoken and give warning
That my present mood is sunny.
Should you ask me further question —
Why the great deeps of the spirit,
Why the unplummeted abysmus
Of the soule extrudes this laughter,
This all audible big-smiling,
I should answer, I should tell you
With a white heart, tumpitumpy,
With a true tongue, honest Injun:
William Bryan, he has Caught It,
Caught the Whangdepootenawah!Is’t the sandhill crane, the shankank,
Standing in the marsh, the kneedeep,
Standing silent in the kneedeep
With his wing-tips crossed behind him
And his neck close-reefed before him,
With his bill, his william, buried
In the down upon his bosom,
With his head retracted inly,
While his shoulders overlook it?
Does the sandhill crane, the shankank,
Shiver grayly in the north wind,
Wishing he had died when little,
As the sparrow, the chipchip, does?
No ’tis not the Shankank standing,
Standing in the gray and dismal
Marsh, the gray and dismal kneedeep.
No, ’tis peerless William Bryan
Realizing that he’s Caught It,
Caught the Whangdepootenawah! - what
- once a proper interrogative, now used almost exclusively to express irritability, exasperation, or disgust.
- whatever
- 1. the definitive word for 21st century American culture, “Generation W.”
- 2. an internal sigh of submission; the appropriate attitude for maintaining one’s place of employment.
- 3. a passive-aggressive utterance which lashes out at an opposing point of view while attempting to eliminate the possibility of further discussion.
- Wheat
- n. A cereal from which a tolerably good whisky can with some difficulty be made, and which is used also for bread. The French are said to eat more bread per capita of population than any other people, which is natural, for only they know how to make the stuff palatable.
- wheel
- 1. that which one is discouraged from re-inventing by tenet of the popular Stone Age revivalist movement.
- 2. that which one is actively, abusively discouraged from re-inventing by those whose wheels might not favorably compare.
- whisker biscuit
- an after dinner treat and dental floss rolled into one.
see also beaver. - whiskey
- 1. the amniotic fluid endemic to the Irish.
- 2. ambrosia.
- 3. the most faithful of wives.
