STRESSONYMS V

The answers to the clues below are stressonyms - words or phrases in which the stress (accent) shifts from one syllable or word to another. For example, a fruit bowl is a bowl of fruit - as on a table - with the stress on fruit. But in the question, "Did you ever see a fruit bowl?" - the stress could be shifted to bowl to create an image of a piece of fruit bowling. Answer each clue below with a question in the form of "Did you ever see?" - with an appropriate stressonym.  

1. Computer hardware

2. Seaside promenades

3. Journeys from bar to bar

4. Banned picnic projectile

5. Print quantities

6. High-security storage spots

7. Bug used in genetic research

8. Certain hair style bid farewell 

9. Keyboard instrument that plays by itself

10. Load of laundry on a two-wheeler

Answers:

 

Did you ever see .............................

 

1. a disk drive?

2. a board walk?

3. a pub crawl?

4. a lawn dart?

5. a press run?

6. a bank vault?

7. a fruit fly?

8. a permanent wave?

9. a piano roll?

10. a wash cycle?

 

Credit: 

Fred Piscop