Rejected Dictionary Entries

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ADULT :
A person who has stopped growing at both ends and is now growing in the middle.


BEAUTY PARLOR :
A place where women curl up and dye.

COMMITTEE :
A body that keeps minutes and wastes hours.

DUST :
Mud with the juice squeezed out.


CANNIBAL :
Someone who is fed up with people.

GOSSIPER :
A person who will never tell a lie if the truth will do more damage.

HANDKERCHIEF :
Cold Storage.

INFLATION :
Cutting money in half without damaging the paper.

CHICKENS :

The only animals you eat before they are born and after they are dead.

EGOTIST :
Someone me-deep in conversation

MOSQUITO :
An insect that makes you like flies better.

RAISIN :
Grape with a sunburn.

SECRET :
Something you tell to one person at a time.

SKELETON : 
A bunch of bones with the person scraped off.

TOOTHACHE :
The pain that drives you to extraction.

TOMORROW :
One of the greatest labor saving devices of today.

YAWN :
An honest opinion openly expressed.

WRINKLES :
Something other people have. You have character lines.