Pun: A form of wit, to which wise men stoop and fools aspire

KILT, n. A costume sometimes worn by Scotchmen in America and Americans in Scotland.

TAIL, n. The part of an animal's spine that has transcended its natural limitations to set up an independent existence in a world of its own.

Dictionary: a malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic

EXTINCTION, n. The raw material out of which theology created the future state.

CERBERUS, n. The watch-dog of Hades, whose duty it was to guard the entrance - against whom or what does not clearly appear; everybody, sooner or later, had to go there, and nobody wanted to carry off the entrance.

Adolescence: The stage between puberty and adultery.