shaggy dog story

A long-winded anecdote that has a silly or anticlimactic ending. The old man was known for telling shaggy dog stories that made people groan and scratch their heads when he reached the ending.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Pit	PIT	Limburgish
Bile	-	Irish Mythology
Maiken	-	Danish, Norwegian
Danyal	-	Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Turkish
Glynn	-	Welsh
Gid'on	-	Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew