There's a fake meaning (to acquire a pub) derived from breaking the word "bargaining" into false lexical constituents. Here are some more lexical constituent puns presented as tricky riddles. If you saw these before on Twitter or Slack, you may want to skip the first seven.A man walks into a bar. He asks the owner, "How did you gain this bar?" The owner responds, "By bargaining."— Gate Of Heavens (@GateOfHeavens) November 12, 2013
1. Fake meaning: A hollow metal cylinder that was born under the first sign of the Western zodiac.
Real meaning: Yellow finches native to islands off the coast of Portugal and Morocco.
Hyphenation pattern: 3 letter - 5 letters.
2. Fake meaning: An Oriental or Eastern Orthodox painting of a religious figure which people like to brush their fingers against.
Real meaning: The river separating Gaul from Italy.
Pattern: 3-4.
3. Fake meaning: A mesh for catching a falling male descendant.
Real meaning: A form of poem in 14 lines.
Pattern: 3-3.
4. Fake meaning: A sheep made from the remains of a fire.
Real meaning: An Indian monastery.
Pattern: 3-3.
5. Fake meaning: A lord of immoral transgressions.
Real meaning: Gradually entering into the ground.
Pattern: 3-4.
6. Fake meaning: A furry animal that can be caressed when it sits on your thighs.
Real meaning: A small fold in a garment. (This one was a little obscure to me.)
Pattern: 3-3.
7. Fake meaning: 2000 pounds of intercourse.
Real meaning: A groundskeeper for a graveyard or parish.
Pattern: 3-3.
8. Fake meaning: The edge of a garment that has been sewn by a ground-dwelling eusocial insect.
Real meaning: An uplifting song associated with a nation or other social group.
Pattern: 3-3.
9. Fake meaning: A large saline body of water in the shape of a torus which is connected to an ocean.
Real meaning: Hot enough to scorch.
Pattern: 3-4.
10. Fake meaning: To prohibit Scottish bonnets.
Real meaning: The miniature, dwarf variety of any chicken breed. Also a publishing house that uses a chicken as its mascot. Also a weight class in boxing between fly- and feather-.
Pattern: 3-3.
11. Fake meaning: A place to lie down and rest in a pub.
Real meaning: Having jagged spines, as on a fish hook.
Pattern: 3-3.
12. Fake meaning: The era in which an item of clothing was worn.
Real meaning: Trash.
Pattern: 4-3.
13. Fake meaning: A person who cooperates with a lower limb.
Real meaning: Done in a licit manner.
Pattern: 3-4.
14. Fake meaning: A single object which reflects light at the lowest end of the visible spectrum.
Real meaning: To have performed again.
Pattern: 3-3.
15. Fake meaning: When NBC tries to make a new version of an 80s sitcom featuring an alien anteater.
Real meaning: A pasta sauce made with parmesan cheese, named after its inventor.
Pattern: 3-4.
16. Fake meaning: A billion years of geological time following the domestication of boars.
Real meaning: A dove, especially one which is not white.
Pattern: 3-3.
17. Fake meaning: A person who shoots down several enemies in combat while riding a wave.
Real meaning: The outer or uppermost layer of a thing.
Pattern: 4-3.
18. Fake meaning: A skinny monarch.
Real meaning: Cognition.
Pattern: 4-4
Real meaning: Moving quickly, or adjusting a camera smoothly between long-shot and a close-up.
Pattern: 3-4.
20. Fake meaning: A regular stopping place on a public transportation route for shrew-like mammals.
Real meaning: Sexual assault, especially of children. (Sorry.)
Pattern: 4-7.
21. Fake meaning: A long serrated blade re-purposed as a weapon in battle.
Real meaning: The capital of Poland.
Pattern: 3-3.
22. Fake meaning: White cereal grain stored in a baseball hat.
Real meaning: A sudden change of mood or behavior; eccentrically impulsive.
Pattern: 3-4.
23. Fake meaning: The speed at which molten metal is poured into a mold.
Real meaning: To remove the testicles of a male animal.
Pattern: 4-4.
24. Fake meaning: The sound of sonar pulse reflected off of gauze fabric. (The fabric is a little obscure. It's the five-letter component, if that helps.)
Real meaning: Being thrifty.
Pattern. 5-4.
25. Fake meaning: A commercial for a solid sphere.
Real meaning: A narrative poem or song presented in short stanzas.
Pattern: 4-2.
26. Fake meaning: The last stop on a line of the San Francisco metro.
Real meaning: To serve alcoholic drinks from behind a counter.
Pattern: 4-3.
27: Fake meaning: Anger experienced in a small sheltered bay.
Real meaning: The extent to which something has been placed beneath another thing, especially for concealment or protection.
Pattern: 4-4.
28. Fake meaning: Having the poor visual acuity of a cloistered religious mendicant.
Real meaning: Tampered with a machine in the manner of a curious primate.
Pattern: 4-4.
29. Fake meaning: A Native American from a tribe indigenous to Colorado and surrounding areas who has chemically reshaped their hair into curls.
Real meaning: To change, especially to reorder the elements of a mathematical set.
Pattern: 4-3.
30: Powdered resin used in laser printers which is pale in color.
Real meaning: A person who is unrestrained, unruly, or unchaste.
Pattern: 3-5.
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