This is the only word in the English language
that could be a noun, verb, adj, adv, prep.
UP
Read until the end… you’ll laugh.
This two-letter word in English has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that word is “UP.” It is listed in the dictionary as an [adv], [prep], [adj], [n] or [v].
It’s easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP?
At a meeting, why does a topic come UP? Why do we speak UP, and why are the officers UP for election and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report? We call UP our friends, brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver, warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. We lock UP the house and fix UP the old car.
At other times, this little word has real special meaning. People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses.
To be dressed is one thing but to be dressed UP is special.
And this UP is confusing: A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP.
We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night. We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP!
To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP, look UP the word UP in the dictionary. In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost 1/4 of the page and can add UP to about thirty definitions.
If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don’t give UP, you may wind UP with a hundred or more.
When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP. When the sun comes out, we say it is clearing UP. When it rains, the earth soaks it UP.. When it does not rain for awhile, things dry UP. One could go on and on, but I’ll wrap it UP, for now. . . my time is UP!
Oh. . . one more thing: What is the first thing you do in the morning and the last thing you do at night?
UP!
Did that one crack you UP?
Now I’ll shut UP!
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Thanks to my lovely friend Maria C for this fun one…
I think there is another word, and to see what I’m talking about, you could do a search and replace of this word everywhere you have ‘up’ in your post. It starts with F and ends with K, and it’s not Facebook.
well, we could also add this mysterious word of yours to each place where we have UP and it would be funny too… what say you?
We could even change the endings using f*k-ing, f*k-ed, f*k-s to make each and every up f*k-ing funny! I’m all for a good laugh!
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Eff yeah!
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This really cracked me UP!
Thanks, Tess – you brought UP a smile with your comment!
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Funny! So, if I’m down with this, is that alright?
LOL! That’s very good – took me a while to get it!
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So what’s up? I’m fed up and all used up! 😉
Well, what’s UP with that?!?!?
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Up up and away!
Don’t forget to tie that parachute on very snugly before you head on up to the sky, Binky!!
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Don’t ever shut up for long! Please!
Not to worry – that would not even come UP for consideration!!! Thanks and thumbs UP, Hook!!!
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I’m linking to this from a post I have scheduled for later this month. I wrote it a few days before I found this! Sue
thanks very much, Sue! And again, I thank my friend Maria C for sending it to me in the first place!
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This made me smile for once this evening. Thanks…
Perfect!!!
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Total giggles here!
Nothing like a good honest case of the giggles, if I do say so myself!!
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