Our Strange Lingo

a flexible tube conveying water, used chiefly for watering plants and in firefighting.

• hose

• dose

• lose

measured amount of medicine

• dose

• hose

• lose

to have less of something than you had before

• dose

• hose

• lose

a large bird that has a long neck and webbed feet

• sparrow

• pigeon

• goose

a long strip used to untangle hair

• tomb

• comb

• bomb

an underground place for burying the dead

• tomb

• comb

• bomb

to turn over again and again in a particular direction

• roll

• slip

• jump

a container used to give a shape

• mould

• could

• scold

having no companion

• lone

• cheerful

• sad

someone who is extremely interested in a particular subject so that other people think they are strange or unusual

• break

• freak

• course