Homofoam: noun. A word spelled the same way as
another word, but with a different meaning. The word homofoam itself is an example of a homofoam, with over five hundred meanings in all standard varieties
of the English language. The most widely acknowledged meanings of this word
include the already mentioned definition and several others like the following:
Trying to treat a disease by means of applying foam; turning a human being into
foam; turning foam into a human being; foaming at the mouth at encountering a
couple of gay people; sticking a turnip into a ventilation shaft, and so on. As
in the case of palindromemordnilap
and orghnourghmahtopayyya, the word homofoam was invented by campaigners of
the Movement for the Rationalisation of the English Language in the late
nineteenth century with Lewis Carroll acting as the chairman and headcoiner of the noble
organisation.
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