Dictionary Jokes

Kind of lame jokes I make up for myself after reading the dictionary.

Someone asked was I being sesquipedalianist just to make a joke on reddit! Which I repudiate!

Me and my GF had a fight about the dictionary

And you know one word led to another

I remember meeting a guy, before the days of the Internet, who wanted to try and start a new ‘Joke Format’ and I’m interested to see if it catches on.

It’s like a ‘knock knock’ Joke in that you have a set-up line response sort of thing like this:

1. ‘I started a new business’

2. ‘Oh yeah? What business are you in’

1. ‘The Rollercoaster business’

2. ‘And how’s business?’

1. ‘it has its ups and downs’

Or

1. ‘I started a new busienss’

2. ‘Oh yeah? What business are you in’

1. ‘The Welsh Dictionary business’

2. ‘And how’s business?’

1. ‘The R’s are long”

Just any sort of silly stupid pun or spin you can put on it, with kudos for the most ludicrous convoluted businesses.

All these jokes about Hamlet on top of a dictionary are getting tiresome

When it’s just a play on words.

I once swallowed a whole dictionary.

It gave me thesaurus throat I’ve ever had.

I opened the dictionary

To check the meaning of Practical joke. It said *see fooling*

I checked fooling and it said *see Practical joke*.

A man asked his friend,” what do you call a dictionary on drugs? “

His friend replied,” If it is addictionary I swear to God I am going to kill you.”

The man replied,” I was going to say ‘ high definition ‘ but yours is better.

My dad ought to buy a dictionary.

He just said, “I need words with U.”

All I asked for this Christmas was a dictionary and I didn’t get one

I’m at a loss for words.

What word is spelled wrong on every dictionary.

Wrong

My school did a performance last year called “The Dictionary”

Turns out it was just a play on words.

My brother has been writing a stage drama about a dictionary and a thesaurus. I’m really looking forward to it.

I love a play on words.

Last night I tried to read the dictionary in bed but didn’t finish it.

I got up to p

A Dictionary and a Thesaurus are in a library…

A Dictionary and a Thesaurus are in a library. The librarian who has taken good care of them for years and years is retiring. Understandably, the Dictionary and Thesaurus are both sad.

The Thesaurus says to the Dictionary “I can see how distraught you are.”

The Dictionary responds “You don’t even know the meaning of the word.”

The Thesaurus then says “But I know what it’s like.”

Words in a dictionary were having a fight

‘Honest’ says, “My H is silent”. ‘Tsunami’ says, “My T is silent”. ‘Island’ says, “My S is silent”.

‘Queue’ says, “Hold my beer stupids”.

I once choked trying to eat a dictionary. So then my friend helped me spit it out…

He took the words right out of my mouth.

I keep telling people gullible isn’t in the dictionary

Don’t believe me look it up

What do you call a dictionary on drugs?

High definition

I tried looking for some hurtful words in the dictionary.

I’m not reading it again until it apologizes.

I wrote a script about the dictionary for my local theatre

It’s a play on words.

I have an odd friend who gets off to the dictionary.

It’s weird but he’s come to terms with it.

What’s the longest word in the dictionary?

Smiles. Because there’s a mile between the two S’s

I am so bored I started reading the dictionary from start to finish.

I am past caring.

A girl just finished telling her problem to a dictionary, thesaurus and an atlas…

The dictionary replied, “I know what you mean”

The thesaurus said, “I feel the same way”

And the atlas said, “I can see where you’re coming from”

What do they say about a rapper who stole a dictionary?

He got a way with words.

Dr. Samuel Johnson, author of the first great dictionary of English language, was visited by a delegation of respectable ladies of London.

“Dr Johnson,” they said, “we congratulate you for omitting all indecent or obscene words from your dictionary.”

“Ladies,” said Dr. Johnson, “I congratulate you for looking them up.”

I was really angry at my friend Mark for stealing my dictionary.

I told him, “Mark, my words!”

Pages have been ripped out of the dictionary at the public library

Authorities are at a loss for words

Dictionary namesake Noah Webster’s funeral

Noah Webster was an important man in the field of lexicography. So when he died his wife, Miriam, decided to have a large funeral. Many people came out. Near the end, after the eulogy, Miriam asked if anyone else wanted to say something about her late husband. A man comes up to her and says, “I would like to say a word if that is acceptable.”

Miriam says, “Of course!”

The man goes up and says, “Plethora.”

The widow Webster smiles and says, “Thank you, that means a lot.”

Another man comes up to her and says, “I, too, would like to say a word if that is acceptable.”

Miriam says, “Of course!”

The man goes up and says, “Infinity.”

The widow Webster smiles and says, “Thank you, that means more than you can know.”

Lastly, a woman comes up to Miriam and says, “I, too, would like to say a word if that is acceptable.”

Miriam says, “Of course!”

The woman goes up and says, “Aorta.”

The widow Webster smiles and says, “Thank you, that warms my heart.”

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There are myriad ways to tell this joke. These are just the words I use. Which do you use/ have seen used instead?

I’m tearing out pages of the dictionary.

I’m up to Mischief.

Trump was told that the word ‘gullible’ had been removed from the dictionary.

“Don’t be ridiculous,” he replied, “there’s no such word as dictionary.”

Covid has me really bored at home so I read the entire dictionary and actually found a word spelled wrong.

Wrong.

This morning I ripped ‘afresh’ and ‘anew’ from my dictionary.

Tonight, I will kill again

I read the dictionary the other day

At the start you think it’s the aardvark, but by the end it turns out the zebra did it.

I went to see “The Dictionary: A Musical” last night but left disappointed…

The whole thing was just a big play on words.

I downloaded a swearing dictionary from the Pirate Bay and

Received a torrent of abuse.

After a long day’s work, I came home and saw my kid ripping off the front and back pages of my dictionary.

Things just went from Bad to Worse.

Just found the absolute worst page in the dictionary

What I saw was disgraceful, disgusting, dishonest and disingenuous.

Did you hear that they’re making a Broadway production based off the dictionary?

It’s a play on words.

When you have finished reading the dictionary

Every other book is just a remix.

How is a thrown dictionary similar to birds flying south for winter?

They’re both flying information.

I was reading through the dictionary the other day I couldn’t believe what I found.

Nothing starts with N.

Someone gave me a Dictionary that only went up to “S”

I have no idea what this means

Me: I’ve lost the dictionary

Her: Can you look upstairs?

Me: I can’t look up anything

You know why the Bible is better than the dictionary?

The dictionary has verbs, but the Bible has PROverbs!

I gave my 4 month old son a dictionary.

He doesn’t walk so I thought it would get him from A to B quickly.

People always call me a walking dictionary

I thought they meant I was smart with a good vocabulary, but apparently I’m just thick.

I just read through six pages in a dictionary.

I learnt next to nothing.

Every dictionary has at least one mistake

It’s in the “m” section, after mist.

I got a tattoo of a dictionary on my bisep…

I wanted to add definition to my arm

I bought a dictionary and when I got home I realized all the pages were blank…

I have no words for how angry I am.

My son chewed and swallowed a dictionary.

We gave him Epsom salts – but we can’t get a word out of him.

If I ripped out the first 100 pages of my dictionary, will I then be able to look up well, but and actually?

Well yes, but, actually no

My wife bought me a camouflage cover for my dictionary and it’s just what I always wanted

I’d like to thank her, but I can’t find the words

There is no word like IMPOSSIBLE in my dictionary

Should have checked before I bought it.

If there is an Urban Dictionary…

…Shouldn’t there be a Rural Dictionary

Credits to my friend Portia.

I’ll never use that dictionary again…

The definition it gave for “obfuscate” was confusing and misleading.

Go look in the dictionary and see what gonorrhoea means

Two boys from the mountains, Leroy and Jasper have been promoted from privates to sergeants.

Not long after, they’re out for a walk and Leroys says, “Hey, Jasper, there’s the NCO Club. Let’s you and me stop in.”

“But we’s privates,” protests Jasper. “We’s sergeants now,” says Leroy, pulling him inside.

“Now, Jasper, I’m a-gonna sit down and have me a drink.”

“But we’s privates,” says Jasper.

“You blind, boy?” asks Leroy, pointing at his stripes. “We’s sergeants now.”

So they have their drink, and pretty soon a hooker comes up to Leroy. “You’re cute,” she says, “and I’d like to date you, but I’ve got a bad case of gonorrhoea.”

Leroy pulls his friend to the side and whispers, “Jasper, go look in the dictionary and see what gonorrhoea means. If it’s okay, give me the okay sign.”

So Jasper goes to look it up, comes back, and gives Leroy the big okay sign.

Three weeks later Leroy is laid up in the infirmary with a terrible case of gonorrhoea.

“Jasper,” he says, “what fo’ you give me the okay?”

“Well, Leroy, in the dictionary, it say gonorrhoea affects only the privates.” He points to his stripes. “But we’s sergeants now!”

Why did the bodybuilder borrow a dictionary?

Because he wanted to know how to define muscle.

I couldn’t afford a nice television, so I just smoked a ton of weed and read the dictionary.

High definition.

Now that there is a musical about Alexander Hamilton, I’m going to make a Musical about the founding of the Webster’s English Dictionary

It’s going to be a play on words

I’m like a human dictionary.

Because of all this definition (while flexing arm that has never been worked out)

Why did the dictionary have an existential breakdown?

He couldn’t find the meaning of life.

Have you ever looked up the word “whistle” in the dictionary?

I found it a bit under whelming.

My favourite word in the dictionary is “toned”

Great definition

I just want to thank the guy who lent me his dictionary to look for the meaning of the word plethora…

It means a lot

I once abused someone with a dictionary…

The judge didn’t know whether to charge me with verbal or physical assault

My friend: the newest edition of the Anger Management Dictionary still doesnt have the word “patience!”

Me: Just wait.

Dictionary definition; ‘lackadaisical’

*noun* ‘A bicycle built for one’.

Webster’s dictionary recently changed the spelling of Aquarius to “Ahquarius.”

This is the donning of the “h” of Ahquarius.

No English dictionary has been able to explain the difference between the two words COMPLETE and FINISHED.

Some people say there’s no difference but there is.

When you marry the right woman, you are COMPLETE!

When you marry the wrong woman, you are FINISHED!

And if you marry a wife like mine who likes shopping, you are COMPLETELY FINISHED!

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