"nil carb..." this sounds quite Atkinsian!

"ululation" I believe this is the sound made
often by women who are cheering on belly dancers..
it sounds as if they are pronouncing Lotta Lotta Lotta....
in high tones with the tongue going up and down in their
mouths and often a hand is held in from of their mouth during this.

but my REAL word for the day is transmogrification
i was thinking of the word the other day then i heard
Garrison Kiellor read a poem that included that word.
The poem had to do with a hamster or guinea pig that had died...\
no....it was a gerbil. I have this image that transMOGrify
means some sort of metamorphosis which involves british kitties...but it probably means something else. NAMELY:

transmogrify \trans-MOG-ruh-fy\, transitive verb:
To change into a different shape or to transform, often with bizarre or humorous effect.

    A washing machine transmogrified into a guitar.
    --Adrian Searle, "Come, friendly pigeons," The Guardian, March 16, 2000
    For the impulsive sin of turning to look back at the funereal pyre of Sodom and Gomorrah, Lot's wife is transmogrified into a pillar of salt as she flees the inferno.
    --Elizabeth Wurtzel, Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women

    Roast chicken is still roast chicken whether you label it haute cuisine, bourgeois cuisine or country cooking; even calling it "poulet roti" will not transmogrify this simple bird.
    --Jacques Pepin, "The Chicken Dinner, Both Humble and Noble," New York Times, January 4, 1989


Transmogrify is perhaps a humorous blend of transmigrate (for the form) and transmute (for the sense).

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(trns-mgr-f, trnz-)
tr.v. trans·mog·ri·fied, trans·mog·ri·fy·ing, trans·mog·ri·fies

    To change into a different shape or form, especially one that is fantastic or bizarre. See Synonyms at convert.

[Origin unknown.]trans·mogri·fi·cation (-f-kshn) n.

transmogrify

\Trans*mog"ri*fy\, v. t. [A humorous coinage.] To change into a different shape; to transform. [Colloq.] --Fielding.

v : change completely the nature or appearance of; "In Kafka's story, a person metamorphoses into a bug"; "The treatment and diet transfigured her into a beautiful young woman"; "Jesus was transfigured after his resurrection" [syn: metamorphose, transfigure]
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