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VIKING DICTIONARY

Edited by GARRY DASHNER with contributions from EARL Van BEEK and CLAUDIA HOUSE. Please feel free to send your definitions.
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A

accordance - A handheld portable keyboard that is played by squeezing air into the instrument.
 
addict - Space on top of the house and under the roof where you keep stuff.
 
adieu - The wet stuff you find on the ground in the morning.

adore - Something you open to enter a room.
 
air duct - Flying mallard.

albumen -  Book you put photographs in.
 
alledge - Projecting eave you find on buildings.
 
allegory - Large reptile that lives in swampy areas.
 
alto - Digit you find on a singer's foot.
 
Amarillo - An animal with a protective shell covering.
 
Anastasia - Substance used to put people to sleep before an operation.
 
annex - Someone you used to be married to.
 
ante - Female relative.
 
anthrax - Government run railroad.
 
apogee - Telling someone you're sorry.
 
appeal - The outer covering of a banana
 
aquaduct - Duck that scuba dives.
 
aquarium - One of the 12 signs of the Zodiac.
 
archaeologist - Someone who studies the State of Arkansas.

aspen - Something you take for a headache.
 
assault - Opposite of appepper.
 
Atlantis - Capitol of the State of Georgia.

atom - Name of first man mentioned in the Bible.
 
attack - Small nail with a big head.
 
attitude - The height at which an airplane flies.
 
Audabon - Big German highway where birds hang out.
 
autobiography - A car's history.
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B
 
ballet - Guy who parks your car for you when you eat at a fancy restaurant.
 
bandana - A long yellow fruit.
 
baroque - State of not having any money.
 
beau - Something an Indian uses to shoot arrows.

Belfast - The morning meal.
 
bipartisanship - When Republicans and Democrats come together to screw the American taxpayer.
 
bizarre - Woman's top piece undergarment.
 
bland - Group of musicians.
 
bondage - The act of watching 007 movies.
 
booze - The plural of boo.
 
broadband - Group of female musicians.
 
bronchitis - Extinct dinosaur who coughed a lot.
 
buccaneer - What an ear of corn cost.
 
buoy - Male child.
 
burrito - Small burro.
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C
 
caesarean - Member of the Julius Caesar Fan Club.
 
Cancun - Protective covering that a caterpillar makes while waiting to become a butterfly.
 
carafe - Tall African animal with a long neck.
 
carnivore - Place that has amusement rides and booths featuring games of skill in which you can win prizes.
 
carpal - Pertaining to the species of freshwater fish known as carp.
 
cashew - Sneezing sound.
 
cashier - Type of nut
 
cataract - Luxury car made by General Motors.
 
caucus - Very large desert plant that has prickly spines.
 
cellar - Somebody who peddles merchandise.
 
cello - Gelatin desert which comes in many flavors.
 
census - Referring to sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch.
 
centimeter - Bug with a hundred legs.

checkmate - The spouse of a married couple who live in Czechoslovakia.
 
cheetah - Someone who doesn't play fair.

chic - Company that makes razors.

chivalry - Major auto manufacturer that makes the Corvette.
 
cistern - Female version of bretheren.
 
cleaver - Beaver and Wally's last name.

cockney - The bendable part of a rooster's leg.
 
collander - Something that shows months and days of the year.

comment - A small heavenly body that travels through Space and has a gaseous tail.
 
concubine - Big tractor-type piece of equipment used on a farm to harvest wheat.
 
conjunction - Place where prisoners meet.

consonant - A large land mass such as North America.

constipation - A group of stars in a particular pattern or design, such as Ursa Major.
 
context - Competitive event between 2 or more persons or teams.

corporation - The act of several people working together for their benefit.
 
cosmetologist - Someone who studies the Cosmos.

corroborator - The part of a car that feeds a mixture of air and gas to the engine.
 
CPA - Form of first aid treatment.
 
comment - Heavenly body, such as Halley's Comment.
 
cowling - Small cow.
 
crowbar - Place where blackbirds get drunk.
 
Crocus - Plural of croak.  EX: "Due to the large amount of frogs in the pond, there were a lot of crocus."
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D
 
debunk - Place where a cowboy sleeps.
 
defeat - Part of the human body that people walk on.
 
disbar - Kick someone out of a saloon.    
 
Dillinger - Small pistol.

dinar - Term for either the midday or evening meal.
 
diversity - Place where students go to get a higher education.
 
dogma - A puppy's mother.
donate - Small round fried cake with a hole in it that is good for dunking in coffee.
 
DNA - And spelled backward.
 
DVD - Brand of men's underwear.
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E

eccentricity - The stuff that powers your TV, computer, lights and other appliances.

eggplant - A place where chickens work.

egress - A female eagle.
 
elocution - What happens when a person touches a live electrical wire.
 
emu - Message sent electronically by a computer.
 
enema - The bad guys.
 
equation - The great imaginary circle that goes around the middle of Earth.
 
era - Part of the body you hear with.
 
esophagus - An ancient Greek philosopher.
 
extradition - When a newspaper puts outs another special edition in the same day.
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F
 
falsehood - Somebody who pretends to be a gangster, even though he isn't.
 
farther - Someone's daddy.
 
femur - Government agency that takes care of disasters.
 
fer - American colloquial country word which can be used to state an expression, animal skin, distance, used as a threat or as a syllable in another word.
 
EX:
1)  What'd ya do that fer?
2)  A bear has got thick fer.
3)  It's a fer piece down the road.
4)  If you don't stop it, I'm goin' give you what fer! 
5)  A person from another country is called a fereigner.
 
feud - Nourishment for the body.
 
fijord - Particular brand name of an automobile such as Chevy.
 
filly - Resident of Philadelphia.
 
finish - Having to do with the country of Finland.
 
flouridation - The act of moving to the State of Florida.
 
foist - Number one.

form - Place where food and animals are raised such as a vegetable form or chicken form.
 
fraud - Father of modern psychiatry.
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G
 
gamma - Your mother's mother.

Gatorade - Legal service for low income reptiles.
 
gel - Place where bad people are sent.
 
Gemini - First name of the cricket character in Walt Disney's Pinocchio.
 
gemologist - Someone who studies gymnasiums.
 
genes - Pants, usually made of denim, that cowboys and cowboy wannabees wear.
 
geneology - The study of Barbara Eden.
 
geranium - An element used to make atomic bombs.
 
germinate - Become a citizen of Germany.
 
gerund - Baby gerbil.
 
gizard - Lizard who legally had his name changed.

gnome - Town in Alaska.
 
gravel - Small wooden mallet a Judge uses to bring the Court to order.

grouse - A measurement of quantity equaling a count of 144.

gypsum - What a con artist does to people.
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H
 
hair - Long-eared animal with a cotton tail.    
 
hamster - Place where you put dirty clothes. 

harmony - A food made from dried maize (corn).
 
heard - Bunch of animals.
 
heretic - Small blood-sucking insect that attaches itself to rabbits.
 
hamlet - Small pig.
 
historical - The state of being a person gets when he panics in a given situation. He goes historical.
 
hominy - Different sounds blended together.
 
hootenanny - Gathering of owls and goats.
 
hostel - Unfriendly. Not hospitable at all.
 
hot pants - What you get if you back into a stove.

hyphenate - What a bear does during the Winter.
 
hypocrite - One who studies the life of Hippocrates.
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I
 
idiom - Stupid person.
 
iguana - Used with the long "I" in phrases such as, "Iguana go out and get something to eat."
 
indentured - Means your teeth are in.

intense - Where campers sleep.

interjection - Place where two roads meet.
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J
 
jewelry - Group of 12 men who decide a court case.
 
jugular - Guy who can  juggle several items at once.
 
Juan - The number "1" in Spanish.

junket - What you do with a car when it don't run anymore.
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K
 
Krakatoa - What happens when you smash your foot against a wall.

kinetic - A State in the Northeastern U.S.   
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L

launch - The midday meal.
 
laureate - Rope a cowboy uses.
 
lent - Stuff you find in your belly button.
 
licentious - Having a head full of lice.
 
lien - Skinny; not fat.
 
logo - Crazy.

louse - A country in SE Asia.

lumbar - Material used to build a house.
 
lunge - Meal eaten at Noon.
 
lyre - Someone who can't tell the truth.
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M
 
macaroni - Man who helped invent the wireless radio.
 
mammery - Refering to the ability to remember things.
 
massuer - French word for, "mister".
 
mayor - Female horse.
 
minuet - Small menu for people in a hurry.
 
misery - Twenty-fourth State to be admitted to the Union.
 
more - Something you cut the grass with.
 
mousse - Large animal with antlers.

muse - Member of the deer family. Bullwinkle was a cartoon muse.
 
myth - Title a woman who is not married uses.
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N
 
neutron - Unused; in mint condition. Once used, it then becomes an oldtron.
 
nightmare - Female horse that likes to run around in the evening.
 
notion - Large body of water such as the Atlantic Notion and Pacific Notion.
 
nuthatch - Place to put crazy people.
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O

occidental - Something nobody meant to happen.
 
oculist - Someone who plays the ocarina.
 
octagon - Sea creature with 8 arms.
 
okie dokie - Same as yip.
 
one - The opposite of lost.
 
optometrist - Someone who has a rosy outlook on life.
 
opus - First name of Sheriff Taylor's boy on "The Andy Griffith Show".
 
option - Event where people bid on items.
 
organ - State in the NW part of America.
 
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P
 
pampas - Disposable diapers.
 
pastor - A place where cows graze.
 
patina -  Half of a famous singing duo known as, "Ike and Patina Turner".
 
paws - To stop momentarily.
 
PBS - Something women get every month that makes them cranky.
 
pear - Two of a kind.
 
peony - Small horse.
 
perigree - A small talking bird.
 
perish - Capital of France.
 
peruse - Country in South America.
 
pew - Bad smell.
 
philatelist - Someone who thinks the World is going to end.
 
Phoenix - Mythological bird that lives in Arizona.
 
phosphate - Gland in the urinary system that only males have.
 
phylum - What you do to finger nails when they get too long.
 
pillar - Something you lay your head on.
 
pistachio - Wooden boy puppet who came to life and started hanging out with a talking cricket.
 
pigment - Something a hog chews to keep his breath fresh.
 
placard - An old time automobile.
 
platelets - Small dishes.
 
Plato - The name of Mickey Mouse's dog.
 
poke - Meat that comes from a pig.
 
politician - Either an imbecile working his way up to become an idiot or a career criminal. Political party makes no difference.
 
popular - Type of tree.
 
porcupine - Fat conifer tree.
 
precedent - Head of a country.
 
predicate - An animal that preys on another animal.
 
profane - Gas used in heating homes and to cook food.

prints - Son of a King.
 
prism - Place where bad people go.
 
profit - Someone who can predict the future.
 
pronoun - A noun that has lost its amateur status.
 
prose - Guys who play professional sports.
 
provenance - Capitol of Rhode Island.
 
pupa - School student.
 
purpose - Sea creature something like a dolphin.

pyrite - Man with a black patch over one eye, a parrot on his shoulder and says "arr" a lot.
 
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Q

quandary - Place where people take their clothes to be washed and ironed.

quell - A small game bird.
 
quest - A certain brand of toothpaste.
 
quid - Refers to the following:
         1. Young person. A famous youthful outlaw of the Old West was known as, "Billy the Quid."
         2. Young goat
         3. To joke around. Such as to quid a person. The person then might say, "Are you quidding me?!"
 
quilt - Something a Scotsman wears while playing the bagpipes.
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R
 
ratification - The act of squealing on somebody.
 
recession - Period of time that school children get to play.

red herring - A Communist fish.
 
reign - Precipitation that falls from the sky.
 
reincarnation - Popular brand of condensed milk.
 
relativity - Referring to one's relationship with family members.
 
relevant - Big Gray animal that has a long trunk.
 
reverie - Sports official who makes sure everybody plays by the rules.
 
rivet - What a frog says.
 
robust - Female robot.
 
roe - What you do to propel a small boat.
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S
 
Salem - What people do when they have boats.
 
sarong - Opposite of saright.
 
sextant - Singing group composed of six people.
 
seizure - Roman ruler.

simmer - Hottest season of the year.
 
share - Singing partner of Sonny Bono.

shedding - The act of building small storage buildings.
 
shofar - Hired man who drives a car for somebody.
 
silverware - Clothes for the Lone Ranger's horse.
 
skittish - Referring to things of Scotland.
 
slur - Title given to Knights of old such as Slur Galahad and Slur Lancelot.
 
sower - Having aches and pains.
 
spectators - Certain preparation of potatoes such as friedtators and mashedtators.

stagnation - Country run by male deer.
 
stalking - something you wear on your foot.

stature - Sculpture made out of rock, metal or some other substance.

stirrup - To cause something to happen. EX: "He likes to deliberately stirrup trouble."

suppository - Place where people keep money.
 
sturgeon - Doctor who operates on people.
 
suet - Article of clothing usually worn by men.

suppository - Safe place to keep your money.

supple - The evening meal.
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T

tangent - Gentleman who has spent some time out in the Sun.
 
taut - Past tense of teach.
 
taxidermist - Doctor who treats cab drivers with skin disorders.

tenet - Someone who lives in an apartment and pays rent.
 
tense - Places for campers to sleep in.
 
terrain - Railroad engine and cars.
 
tetrahedron - Flying reptile from the dinosaur age who had many sides.
 
thesaurus - Extinct dinosaur that used to read a lot.
 
thirsty - Fifth day of the week.
 
thong - Written melody for vocalizing.
 
thrombosis - Musical instrument with a long slide.
 
timbre - Pertaining to forests and trees.
 
tinnitis - Fear of the number 10.
 
tofu - A form of self-defense using the foot.
 
tortilla - Female tortoise.
 
towed - Frog-like amphibious creature.
 
trader - Someone who betrays others.
 
transition - Part of the automobile that changes gears.
 
tray - Three of a kind.
 
trigonometry - The study of Roy Rogers' horse, "Trigger".
 
tulips - What everyone has on their mouth.
 
tuner - A large food fish found in the ocean. Some people like to have a tuner salad sandwich for lunch.
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U
 
ulcer - City in Ireland.
 
udder - To speak. To say something.
 
urine - Hillbilly possessive. EX: "T'aint urine, 'tis myine."
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V
 
valet - Method of dancing on your toes.
 
vegetarian - Person who takes care of sick animals.
 
vendetta - Italian sports car.
 
Viking - An extremely good-looking and intelligent person who attended Northeast High School in Kansas City, Missouri.
 
violence - The Plural of violin.
 
volley - A piece of low land between hills or mountains.
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W
 
wader - Someone who serves you at a restaurant.
 
wail - A big sea creature.
 
we - French for "Yes".
 
weasel - Something an artist uses to paint a picture on.
 
whaler - Someone who cries a lot.
 
whelk - Famous bandleader.
 
whether - Meaning climate conditions such as sunshine, rain, sleet and snow, etc.
 
whine - Drink made from grapes.
 
why - Twenty-fifth letter of the alphabet.
 
wiener - Someone who comes in first.
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X
 
 
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Y
 
yak - Talk a lot.
 
yawl - Hillbilly possessive. EX: "Yawl come back now, ya heah!"
 
yawning - A shade over a door or window that keeps the sun out.

yellow journalism - The act of using newspapers to potty train a new puppy.
 
yip - Yes
 
yoke - Funny story.
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Z
 
zeal - Aquatic mammal with flippers, sometimes seen in a circus balancing a ball on its nose.
 
zinc - Place where you wash the dishes.
 
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PHRASES:
 
kinda/sorta - Maybe?!
 
coulda/woulda - Pretty please!