4950Playing With Etymology: The Irony Behind Every ‘Word’
Playing With Etymology: The Irony Behind Every ‘Word’
April 29, 2025 5 min read

Playing With Etymology: The Irony Behind Every ‘Word’

1.Dentist:

2. Martyrdom:

The death that is imposed because of the person’s adherence of a religious faith or cause.

Creative Answer: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

3. Pilot:

A person who flies or is qualified to fly an aircraft or spacecraft.

Creative Answer: A person who spend most of the day looking out of the window.

4. Marketing Manager:

The marketing manager is a person who plans about how to promote products, services or brands and oversee all marketing activity.

Unmanageable Answer: Marketing manager is a person who thinks he can deliver a baby even if no man and woman are available.

5. Psychologist:

Someone who studies the human mind, human emotions and behavior, and how different situations have an effect on people.

Unattractive Answer: A man who watches everyone else when a beautiful girl enters the room.

6. Professor:

A teacher of the highest academic rank in a college or university, who has been awarded the title ‘Professor’ in a particular branch of learning.

Professing: Someone who talks in someone else’s sleep.

7. Economist:

A person who studies or has a special knowledge of economics.

Economic Answer: A person who knows more about money than the people who have it.

8. Gynecologist:

A physician who specializes in treating diseases of the female reproductive organs and providing well-woman health care that focuses primarily on the reproductive organs.

Plenty of answers: A gynecologist is a dentist for the downstairs mouth.
Who is authoritative to see others can’t/other dreams about.
A pervert with a medical degree.

9. Secretary:

A person employed by an individual or in an office to assist with correspondence, make appointments and carry out administrative tasks.

Creative Answer: Housewife for the office.

10. Hacker:

A hacker is any highly skilled computer expert capable of breaking into computer systems and networks using bugs and exploits.

Lazy Answer: A lazy person who by chance loves ‘all-computer’ and is happy that he now need not move from a place to earn money.

11. Archaeologist:

A person who studies human history and prehistory through the excavation of sites and the analysis of artifacts and other physical remains.

Ruined Answer: Man whose career lies in ruins.

12. Politician:

A person who is professionally involved in politics, especially as a holder of an elected office.

Selling Answer: Salespeople who sell voter’s dreams but deliver only nightmares.

13. Statistician:

A statistician is a math expert who uses huge amounts of data to figure out how likely it is that something will happen, like your chances of winning the lottery.

Statistical Answer: Someone who is good with numbers but lacks the personality to be an accountant.

14. Lawyer:

One whose profession is to give legal advice and assistance to clients and represent them in court or in other legal matters.

Argued Answer: One who takes a simple two-way promise and turn it into several complicated one-way promises which neither side can understand or hope to fulfill.

15. Editor:

A person who is in charge of and determines the final content of a newspaper, magazine, or multi-author book.

Edited Answer: A person employed on a newspaper whose business is to separate the wheat from chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

16. Diplomat:

A person appointed by a national government to conduct official negotiations and maintain political, economic, and social relations with another country or countries.

Diplomatic Answer: A person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.

17. Consultant

A consultant is a professional who provides expert advice in a particular area.

Simple Answer: Someone who borrows your watch, tells you the time and then charges you for the privilege.

18. Committee:

A person or group of persons elected or appointed to perform some service or function, as to investigate, report on, or act upon a particular matter.

Committed Answer: A group of people who keep minutes and waste hours.

19. Broker:

A broker is an individual or firm that charges a fee or commission for executing buy and sell orders submitted by an investor.

Brokerage: A broker is a person whose first five letters spells broke, more debts are spelled as a broker.

20. Barrister:

A person called to the bar and entitled to practice as an advocate, particularly in the higher courts.

Creative Answer: English derivation of the French term for the bastard.

21. Teacher:

A teacher is a person who helps others to acquire knowledge, competencies or values. In simple words, a person who teaches, especially in a school.

Manipulated Answer: A person who helps you solve problems you’d never have without them.

22. Doctor:

A person with a medical degree whose job is to treat people who are ill or hurt.

Godly-Human Answer: Someone who saves a life by chance.

23. Scientist:

A person who is studying or has expert knowledge of one or more of the natural or physical sciences.

Scientific Answer: Someone very confused, one who hasn’t yet found a specialization and refers himself by this general term.

24. Biologist:

A biologist is a scientist who focuses on living organisms, including plants and animals.

Biological Answer: Someone who doesn’t know how to classify what’s living and what’s non-living as yet.

25. Engineer:

A person, whose job is to design or build machines, engines, or electrical equipment, or things such as roads, railways, or bridges, using scientific principles.

Engineered: Someone who is not creative and considers creativity as not their domain.

26. Manager:

An individual who is in charge of a certain group of task, or a certain subset of a company.

Manageable Answer: Someone who takes credit for what delegates do and points finger at the delegates for something wrong he does.

27. Client:

A person or group that uses the professional advice or services of a lawyer, accountant, advertising agency, architect, etc.

Hilarious Answer: Client is the one who doesn’t know why he wants a baby.

28. Dancer:

A person who dances or whose profession is dancing.

Hip Hop Answer: Someone whose brain doesn’t move as quickly as the body.

29. Historian:

An expert in or student of history, especially that of a particular period, geographical region, or social phenomenon.

Just an Answer: Someone with a serious ‘Math Phobia’ at high school level.

30. HR Manager:

The individual within an organization responsible for hiring new employees, supervising employee evaluations, meditation between employees and bosses as necessary, and general overseeing of the personnel department.

Human Resourced Answer: Person who thinks that… a Donkey can deliver a Human Baby – if given 9 Months.

31. Quality Auditor:

An independent third party who carries out the quality audit.

Audited Answer: Person who is never happy with a delivered baby.

32. Civil Engineer:

An engineer who designs and maintains roads, bridges, dams, and similar structures.

Civil Answer: Draw up plans for something that will not be built according to those plans.

Original Source: BuzzFeed

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