Prefixed Goofinitions

Some words which appear to have prefixes like auto- or pre-, or un- often make what I call prefixed goofinitions.  Also see Goofinitions.

antelope — stretches before jogging

autocrat — car buff

autonomy — study of cars names

antiseptic — opposed to the number 7

bishop — double jump

cogent — fellow nobleman

confront — swindler’s cover

concourse — prison education

counterman — census taker

decadent — having ten teeth

descent — clear the air

device — criminal rehabilitation

discover — take the lid off

explain — now decorated

expert — no longer lively

illiterate — moan and groan repeatedly

incontinent — not abroad

injury — trial phase

intent — camping

invent — take a deep breath

maximum — speechless

minimum — talkative

minister — midget

mistress — cowlick

nonplus — subtract

observe — bus tables (undo what the waiter did)

postpone — after the corn bread

preamble — leg stretches

prediction — baby talk

prefix — break

prepared — with the rind still on

preserve — preheat and prepare

pretension — before the argument

pretext — table of contents

prolong — in favor of length

procure — medicine for money players

protraction — against bald tires

rebelled — rang again

repast — de ja vu

semiconductor — truck driver

solitude — sunshine

submerge — put together a big sandwich

superintend — really, really mean to

supervisor — long billed cap

transmitted — shook hands

trivia — three lane road

understand — crouch down a little

unfounded — lost again

unison — half of a bison

universe — one line poem

unrest — exercise

This entertaining page is just one of the many humorous pages showing how English language words can be fun, often being the center of jokes, witticisms, puns, and jest and bringing smiles if not laughter to the comedian in each of us.