Daily definitions
- Forefinger
- n. The finger commonly used in pointing out two malefactors.
- Emancipation
- n. A bondman’s change from the tyranny of another to the despotism of himself.
- He was a slave: at word he went and came; His iron collar cut him to the bone. Then Liberty erased his owner’s name, Tightened the rivets and inscribed his own.
- G.J.
- Egotist
- n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.
- Megaceph, chosen to serve the State In the halls of legislative debate, One day with all his credentials came To the capitol’s door and announced his name. The doorkeeper looked, with a comical twist Of the face, at the eminent egotist, And said: “Go away, for we settle here All manner of questions, knotty and queer, And we cannot have, when the speaker demands To be told how every member stands, A man who to all things under the sky Assents by eternally voting ‘I’.”
- Nepotism
- n. Appointing your grandmother to office for the good of the party.