an entire sub-genre of redefinitions based on "dis-" meaning "this"

When last we left our hero, we had:

distinct: it really smelled bad - haberdasher

disguise: noun form of "he's" - haberdasher

discourse: the serving which has just arrived at an Italian restaurant - straightarrow

dyslexia: when someone steals your Lexus - Asa Lovejoy

disdain's da one from Copenhagen. - jerry thomas

to which I now add

dissuade: how heavy did you say it was?

dissuade: is it real leather?

disagree: finally, that other English word that ends in "-gry"! (the first two are angry and hungry)

disbursed: You squeezed my balloon when I asked you not to

discover: turn the record to the other side, please


Keep those cards and letters coming, folks! :-)

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DISH: "This" as spoken by someone who's had molto vino rosso.

distress call: Hey everybody, time to get a haircut!

disappear: Introducing Lord Tolloller. "Bow, bow, ye lower middle classes..."
(Entrance and March, Iolanthe, Act I)

dissent - email returned "undelivered"

dissemble - exit a meeting alone

disgruntle - eject from "boot camp"

Disaster .... she underwent a total gluteusmaximusectomy.

dysphoria: I brought you a present! (Hey, this is supposed to be a word board, isn't it?!)

"dissonant" - sonnet written by an amateur [without rhyme or reason]

discard: Daddy took the T-Bird away!

dismount - climb down the mountain
discount - not that good at math

discord: no pits left in the apple

display - Get back to work!

discuss - no more cursing!

quilting: the sound made by a handmade pen when dropped on a metallic surface.

Instinct: What happened when the baked bean fest was held at the local resort.

defenestrate: the result of oceanic flooding of the marshland

marshallate: where there chocolate brownies for the cops went.

copulation: when policemen yodel.

placate: instruction to Miss Hepburn from her piano teacher.

disbarred: the poorly-enunciated Shakespeare

disjointed - knee replacement (I have been without a computer and have been dying to post that! )

distill: plow the field (should have waited till Spring for that one)

despicable: able to be described

desecrate: my milk bottles came in that box

decimate: ...beat you at chess!

discord: I just played three notes at the same time

dispirited - liquor cabinet is empty.

dessert: ouch!

dissolute - couldn't be a guitar with that big pear-shaped soundbox, and besides, the fingerboard is shaped funny.