The Other Dictionary

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dahlia: More every day

dainty: Hot drink drunk in southern Scandinavia

daisy: Last letter of the American alphabet during waking hours

damage: Period of time from the date of birth of a barrage

damnation: Country of barrages

debate: Remove lure from hook

debonair: 1. Flying girl coming out in society; 2. Girl coming out in society atop Prince of Wales

debrief: Remove undergarment

debunk: Remove top level from two level bed

decade: Put presidential adviser on floor

decamp: Get rid of effeminate behaviour

decant: Put social insect on floor

deceit: 1. Remove chair; 2. Vote incumbent MP out

decider: Extract alcoholic apple drink

decorating: Put a British sailor on the floor

decrease: Iron

defeat: Remove lower limb extremities

defer: Remove animal skin and hair

deficiency: Remove marine organisms in their natural habitat

define: Return penalty

defunct: Music with 70s soul musical essence extracted

dehydrating: Remove British sailor’s skin

delay: Restore virginity

delight: Darken

deliver: Remove detoxifying body organ

delude: Remove sexual references

deluxe: Brings misfortune

demeaning: Remove sense

democracy: Obscure ocean of ladies’ fingers

demote: Drain water from around a castle

denial: Render Egypt riverless

denominate: Remove support for a candidate

denote: Remove musical symbols from score

density: Urban expanse of fox holes

dependant: 1. Remove gold chain ornament; 2. Profound final social insect in a row

depict: No longer selected

deplete: Iron

deport: Set sail

depose: Render someone incapable of setting themselves for a photo shoot

deride: Dismount

descant: Office-bound pen-pushing social insect

descent: Remove smell

despise: Eliminates enemy agents

detail: Cut off animal’s rear appendage

detest: Remove from exam

detractor: Render farmer unable to mechanically plough fields

device: Make virtuous

devote: Disenfranchise

dialogue: Change the colour of a large piece of wood

diarist: Change the colour of a hand/arm joint

diatonic: Change the colour of a medicine

diatribe: Change the colour of a clan of people

digest: Exhort joke to expire

dilute: Change colour of medieval stringed instrument

dimension: Comment about colouring fluid

diploma: Exhort mother to duck far down

direct: Colour changing substance destroyed

disappear: Insult a member of the House of Lords

disappoint: Insult a unit of scoring

disarm: Insult upper limb

disarray: Insult a large, wide fish

disavow: Have no respect for a promise

disavowal: Have no respect for one of a, e, i, o or u

disband: Insult musical group

disbar: Have no respect for drinking establishment

discern: Have no respect for earthenware pot

discharge: Have no respect for fee

disclaim: 1. Fail to honour assertion of ownership; 2. Round, flat object unable to walk

disclaimer: 1. Have no respect for one who asserts ownership; 2. Round, flat object even more unable to walk

disco: Insult firm

discount: Insult Dracula

discourse: Have no respect for studies

discover: Have no respect for lid

discreet: Insult large Greek island

discriminate: Edge of round, flat object inside octet

discuss: Insult insult

disdain: Insult native of southern Scandinavia

disfigure: Have no respect for shape

disgrace: Have no respect for poise and elegance

disguise: Have no respect for men

disharmony: Have no respect for singing together

dislodge: Have no respect for country house

dismayed: Insult servant girl

dismember: Insult person belonging to club

dismiss: Insult young lady

dismount: Have no respect for steed

disorientate: Insult octet from east

dispatch: Make fun of pirate’s eye cover

disperse: Have no respect for money pouch

displace: Have no respect for location

display: Have no respect for drama

disport: Have no respect for harbour town

disrobe: Have no respect for outer garment

distaste: Have no respect for tongue sense

distribute: Have no respect for formal expression of admiration and appreciation

diverge: Colour edge

diverse: Poem about colour changing substance

diversion: Way to end it all

divest: Colour undergarment

dockland: Country inhabited by physicians

dolmen: Male playthings

domain: Hair on back of female deer’s neck

donation: Country of female deer

dopey: Female deer urine

downhill: Large pile of fluffy duck feathers

downmarket: Place to buy duck feathers

downstream: River of fluffy duck feathers

dryad: Not a wet commercial

ductile: Drop down to avoid bathroom wall ceramic

dulcet: Boring stage scenery

dunking: Manure monarch

during: Circle of condensation on ground in morning

duty: Hot drink made from condensation on ground in morning

dynasty: Suffer a terrible end