EAT v. i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and deglutition."I was in the drawing-room, enjoying my dinner,"
said Brillat-Savarin,
beginning an anecdote. "What!" interrupted
Rochebriant; "eating dinner
in a drawing-room?" "I must beg you to observe,
monsieur," explained
the great gastronome, "that I did not say I was
eating my dinner, but
enjoying it. I had dined an hour before."
EAVESDROP v. i. Secretly to overhear a catalogue of the crimes and vices of another or yourself.A lady with one of her ears applied
To an open keyhole heard, inside,
Two female gossips in converse free--
The subject engaging them was she.
"I think," said one, "and my husband thinks
That she's a prying, inquisitive minx!"
As soon as no more of it she could hear
The lady, indignant, removed her ear.
"I will not stay," she said, with a pout,
"To hear my character lied about!"
Gopete Sherany
ECCENTRICITY n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity.
ECONOMY n. Purchasing the barrel of whiskey that you do not need for the price of the cow that you cannot afford.
EDIBLE adj. Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
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