Undava King
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Katika kuperuzzi vitabu library leo nimevutiwa kukushirikisha kuisoma KAMUSI YA SHETANI (By Bierce A.), nakuomba tuongozane pamoja katika tafsiri ya baadhi ya maneno niliyoona kwa namna moja au nyingine yanaweza kukupatia maarifa mapya au tafsiri tofauti na ulivyotegemea, kumbuka kushea kile ulichokielewa au ambacho ujaelewa kimemaanishwa nini kwa baadhi ya maneno ambayo nitayawasilisha kama yalivyo kwenye kamusi kwa lugha ya kiingereza:-
ASS, n. A public singer with a good voice but no ear.
BAAL, n. An old deity formerly much worshiped under various names. As Belushi,bel, Beelzebub or Babel he had the tower Shinar. Baal is the sun god.
COMMERCE, n. A kind of transaction in which A plunders from B the goods of C, and for compensation B picks the pocket of D of money belong to E.
COMMONWEALTH, n. An administrative entity operated by an incalculable multitude of political parasites, logically active but fortuitously efficient.
DIPLOMACY, n. The patriotic art of lying for one's country.
ECONOMY, n. Purchasing the barrel of whiskey that you don't need for the price of the cow that you cannot afford.
EGOTIST, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.
ELECTRICITY, n. The power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else.
FINANCE, n. The art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager.
HEAVEN, n. A place where the wicked cease from troubling you with talk of their personal affairs, and the good listen with attention while you expound your own.
HEBREW, n. A male Jew as distinguished from the shebrew, an altogether superior creation.
HELPMATE, n. A wife, or bitter half.
ILLUMINATI, n. A sect of Spanish heretics of the 16century; so called because they were light weights cunctations illuminati.
INFIDEL,n. In New York, one who doesn't believe in christian religion; in Constantinople, one who does.
INFLUENCE, n. In politics, a visionary quo given in exchange for substantial quid.
LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.
MONDAY, n. In christian countries, the day after the baseball game.
MONEY, n. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting which were part with it. An evidence of culture and a passport to polite society. Supportable property.
PATRIOTISM, n. Combustible rubbish read to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
PEACE, n. In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.
PRAY, n. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single ever alive, confessing the sins of others.
PRESIDENT, n. The leading figure in small group of men of whom- and of whom only- it is positively known that immense numbers of their country men didn't want any of them for president.
RELIGION n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the unknowable.
REDEMPTION, n. Deliverance of sinners from the penalty of their sin, through their murder of their deity against whom they sinned.
POLITENESS, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy.
POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared.
POLITICS, n. A strife of interest masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
POTABLE, n. Suitable for drinking.
POVERTY, n. A file provided for the teeth of the rats of reform. The number of plans for it's abolition equals that of the reformers who suffer from it, plus that of the philosophers who know nothing about it.
TRUTH, n. An ingenious compound of impediment in their wit.
VOTE, n. The instrumental and symbol of freeman's power to make fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
WITCH, n. (1) Any ugly and repulsive old woman, in a wicked league with the devil.
(2) A beautiful and attractive young woman, in wickedness a league beyond the devil.
WOMAN, n. An animal usually living in the vicinity of Man, and having a rudimentary suspectibility to domestication.
ASS, n. A public singer with a good voice but no ear.
BAAL, n. An old deity formerly much worshiped under various names. As Belushi,bel, Beelzebub or Babel he had the tower Shinar. Baal is the sun god.
COMMERCE, n. A kind of transaction in which A plunders from B the goods of C, and for compensation B picks the pocket of D of money belong to E.
COMMONWEALTH, n. An administrative entity operated by an incalculable multitude of political parasites, logically active but fortuitously efficient.
DIPLOMACY, n. The patriotic art of lying for one's country.
ECONOMY, n. Purchasing the barrel of whiskey that you don't need for the price of the cow that you cannot afford.
EGOTIST, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.
ELECTRICITY, n. The power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else.
FINANCE, n. The art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager.
HEAVEN, n. A place where the wicked cease from troubling you with talk of their personal affairs, and the good listen with attention while you expound your own.
HEBREW, n. A male Jew as distinguished from the shebrew, an altogether superior creation.
HELPMATE, n. A wife, or bitter half.
ILLUMINATI, n. A sect of Spanish heretics of the 16century; so called because they were light weights cunctations illuminati.
INFIDEL,n. In New York, one who doesn't believe in christian religion; in Constantinople, one who does.
INFLUENCE, n. In politics, a visionary quo given in exchange for substantial quid.
LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.
MONDAY, n. In christian countries, the day after the baseball game.
MONEY, n. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting which were part with it. An evidence of culture and a passport to polite society. Supportable property.
PATRIOTISM, n. Combustible rubbish read to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
PEACE, n. In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.
PRAY, n. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single ever alive, confessing the sins of others.
PRESIDENT, n. The leading figure in small group of men of whom- and of whom only- it is positively known that immense numbers of their country men didn't want any of them for president.
RELIGION n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the unknowable.
REDEMPTION, n. Deliverance of sinners from the penalty of their sin, through their murder of their deity against whom they sinned.
POLITENESS, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy.
POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared.
POLITICS, n. A strife of interest masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
POTABLE, n. Suitable for drinking.
POVERTY, n. A file provided for the teeth of the rats of reform. The number of plans for it's abolition equals that of the reformers who suffer from it, plus that of the philosophers who know nothing about it.
TRUTH, n. An ingenious compound of impediment in their wit.
VOTE, n. The instrumental and symbol of freeman's power to make fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
WITCH, n. (1) Any ugly and repulsive old woman, in a wicked league with the devil.
(2) A beautiful and attractive young woman, in wickedness a league beyond the devil.
WOMAN, n. An animal usually living in the vicinity of Man, and having a rudimentary suspectibility to domestication.
