Related:

• AUCTIONEER, n. The man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Coward, n.: One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• DEBAUCHEE, n. One who has so earnestly pursued pleasure that he has had the misfortune to overtake it.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• EXPOSTULATION, n. One of the many methods by which fools prefer to lose their friends.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• GENEALOGY, n. An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Dejeuner, n. The breakfast of an American who has been in Paris.
  Variously pronounced. -- Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary...
• REBEL, n. A proponent of a new misrule who has failed to establish it.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...