Subject: RE: Neologisms--Are You An Ignoranus? From: Mrrzy Date: 05 Aug 20 - 02:17 PM Hah! And as a child I thought the neanderthals were jewish cavemen. |
Subject: RE: Neologisms--Are You An Ignoranus? From: Mr Red Date: 04 Aug 20 - 05:18 PM Meanderthal. What serious walkers call people who want to take in the area at their own pace. IE not striding it out! |
Subject: RE: Neologisms--Are You An Ignoranus? From: Mrrzy Date: 04 Aug 20 - 10:53 AM From today's zoom meeting: Post-paid years: working as a volunteer because no one hires you because you're old. |
Subject: RE: Neologisms--Are You An Ignoranus? From: EBarnacle Date: 01 Aug 20 - 05:17 PM Sorry, but a Mazel Tov cocktail is what celebrants imbibe after the champagne at a Jewish celebration. Wealthfare is what is used to give money to the people who don't need it, at the expense of the 99%, usually part of a wonderful tax cut. |
Subject: RE: Neologisms--Are You An Ignoranus? From: Steve Shaw Date: 01 Aug 20 - 03:41 PM Disaster: what happened to a naked woman who sat on superglue... |
Subject: RE: Neologisms--Are You An Ignoranus? From: Mrrzy Date: 01 Aug 20 - 03:08 PM A friend of mine who did not grow up in the States had these two good ones: Weaseling and dieseling [wheeling and dealing] Burned to withereens [akin to smashed to smithereens] Another friend who did grow up here had these 2: Cuddly-sac [cul-de-sac] Mazel tov cocktail [Molotov cocktail] I know these are malapropisms but they were new to me, and I liked them so I say them now. Well, not the cocktail one, any more. Actually, withereens would count as a neologism. |
Subject: RE: Neologisms--Are You An Ignoranus? From: Neil D Date: 01 Aug 20 - 12:17 PM Catastrophe - Award given to a feline for winning the best butt contest. |
Subject: RE: Neologisms--Are You An Ignoranus? From: Tradsinger Date: 31 Jul 20 - 06:33 AM Cornish - a bit like corn. Harpist - not conpletely drunk. Tabby - big church in Yorkshire. ("I'm sorry I haven't a clue") Tradsinger |
Subject: RE: Neologisms--Are You An Ignoranus? From: Mrrzy Date: 29 Jul 20 - 08:04 AM Only if it ends at 4 years. Then, yes, a new Dark Age. |
Subject: RE: Neologisms--Are You An Ignoranus? From: Mr Red Date: 29 Jul 20 - 01:46 AM Do we call the last 4 years ................ The Endarkenment |
Subject: RE: Neologisms--Are You An Ignoranus? From: Bill D Date: 26 Jul 20 - 11:25 AM As a side note, I often watch MSNBC at 10PM EST, and I can't remember Lawrence O'Donnell ever saying "President Trump"... he may refer to him 30 times in an hour, but always as just "Donald Trump" I'd bet it's a calculated snub of the 'resident's legitimacy. |
Subject: RE: Neologisms--Are You An Ignoranus? From: Mr Red Date: 26 Jul 20 - 01:52 AM Prezzydense? |
Subject: RE: Neologisms--Are You An Ignoranus? From: Ebbie Date: 26 Jul 20 - 12:58 AM I call him the pResident. |
Subject: RE: Neologisms--Are You An Ignoranus? From: Mr Red Date: 25 Jul 20 - 03:31 AM or did I mean Précisdunce? Well he was a Precedence (to put it mildly). |
Subject: RE: Neologisms--Are You An Ignoranus? From: Mr Red Date: 25 Jul 20 - 03:24 AM 😂 next (pulleeeeeese) Presidump |
Subject: RE: Neologisms--Are You An Ignoranus? From: meself Date: 24 Jul 20 - 11:31 PM Speaking of timely - one I cooked up a while back and have been trying to popularize ever since: "presidunce" ... explanation required? |
Subject: RE: Neologisms--Are You An Ignoranus? From: Mr Red Date: 24 Jul 20 - 04:34 AM Bozone - how timely - we needed a word like that to describe Haystack Central ! |
Subject: RE: Neologisms--Are You An Ignoranus? From: Mrrzy Date: 22 Jul 20 - 04:27 PM Nicely put! |
Subject: RE: Neologisms--Are You An Ignoranus? From: Stilly River Sage Date: 21 Jul 20 - 03:01 PM Wasband is handy if you no longer espouse the term "ex." |
Subject: RE: Neologisms--Are You An Ignoranus? From: Bill D Date: 21 Jul 20 - 02:39 PM I used up most of my cleverness trying to keep up with 'spaw and Amos and wysi and kat... thinking... |
Subject: RE: Neologisms--Are You An Ignoranus? From: Mrrzy Date: 21 Jul 20 - 12:43 PM I refreshed this thread because it is funny. Also because I read this word today: Wasband. A male ex-spouse with whom you are still on friendly term. Rhymes with husband. Created by divorced folks who think Ex is too distant a term. The word Nibling [gender-free term for niece or nephew], which I made up in my childhood, is worming its way into the vernacular, and was apparently coined decades earlier but I hadn't heard it at the time I made it up. Any new words you like? |
Subject: RE: Neologisms--Are You An Ignoranus? From: Amos Date: 18 Jan 07 - 05:39 PM Canadia -- a charitable organization for the benefit of abandoned tins. A |
Subject: RE: Neologisms--Are You An Ignoranus? From: katlaughing Date: 18 Jan 07 - 05:25 PM And here I thought my Rog was of Canuckian descent. (NOI=No Offense Intended!) |
Subject: RE: Neologisms--Are You An Ignoranus? From: wysiwyg Date: 18 Jan 07 - 04:59 PM Canadia-- it SOUNDS right. Does that make my friends from there, Canadi-ish? Oh, right-- they'd be Canadaians. Which they ARE...... oy. ~Susan |
Subject: RE: Neologisms--Are You An Ignoranus? From: Bill D Date: 18 Jan 07 - 04:37 PM Canadia...is that where Arcadians mine Vanadium? (wow, it DOES tend to stick!) |
Subject: RE: Neologisms--Are You An Ignoranus? From: wysiwyg Date: 17 Jan 07 - 11:34 PM Sorry-- an old one from Hardi-- gomorrahfied (another obivious one) "Obivious" is not a typo! And one from my son-- Canadia, where they speak Canadian. Say Canadia more than about 5 times in a month's time and you're stuck with it for life. ~S~ |
Subject: RE: Neologisms--Are You An Ignoranus? From: wysiwyg Date: 17 Jan 07 - 11:32 PM napQuest-- obivious, innit? ~S~ |
Subject: RE: Neologisms--Are You An Ignoranus? From: wysiwyg Date: 17 Jan 07 - 11:30 PM googleographer-- someone who maps the path to the end of the internet with a satellite camera, and all the service costs you is having to see a few ads pop up expledia-- the website for locating newly-constructed Centers for Scatology Scatologist-- student of Ella Fitzgerald ~S~ |
Subject: RE: Neologisms--Are You An Ignoranus? From: katlaughing Date: 17 Jan 07 - 11:27 PM LOL! Or, Hillary'nUS in 2008! Download - depressing haul for a fisherman gainsay - good news from one's banker e-lopement - a wayward, romantic email OR slightly slower than a galloping e-mail beedazzler - one who charms the apiaary googleographer - (someone think of something for this one, pleae?) |
Subject: RE: Neologisms--Are You An Ignoranus? From: Bill D Date: 17 Jan 07 - 10:08 PM demonize - to remove financial incentive Je t'adore- it's COLD in here, stop letting in the weather! constable - where the prisoners keep horses renovation - when the Sun decides to get us again (well, I was sleepy!) |
Subject: RE: Neologisms--Are You An Ignoranus? From: katlaughing Date: 17 Jan 07 - 09:58 PM Bill, wouldn't it be crustation? Hillarious - a small government mound in Washington D.C. (Capitol Hill) Bodacious - Bo Derek in her younger years OR Beaudacious - Beau Bridges Ausintatious - saucy, hip town in Texas Pal O'Verdi - friend of an opera composer |
Subject: RE: Neologisms--Are You An Ignoranus? From: JennyO Date: 17 Jan 07 - 09:57 PM defeat - what you use to walk with deduct - a water fowl defence - an enclosure detail - see Bill D's entry Used in a sentence: Defeat of deduct went over defence before detail. |
Subject: RE: Neologisms--Are You An Ignoranus? From: Bill D Date: 17 Jan 07 - 12:14 PM debugs - what bothers most primates details- what de cows use to swish away debugs |
Subject: RE: Neologisms--Are You An Ignoranus? From: Amos Date: 17 Jan 07 - 12:00 PM Infestation -- The most crowded stop on the line, riddled with fleas. Deduction -- what brings de heat from de furniss. A |
Subject: RE: Neologisms--Are You An Ignoranus? From: Bill D Date: 17 Jan 07 - 11:57 AM defenestration - the last stop on the line. |
Subject: RE: Neologisms--Are You An Ignoranus? From: Stilly River Sage Date: 17 Jan 07 - 11:24 AM Devastation--the train stop not for the hoi polloi |
Subject: RE: Neologisms--Are You An Ignoranus? From: Bill D Date: 17 Jan 07 - 11:10 AM Crustacean ...an above ground stop where there is a seafood restaurant..(I owed you one, Amos) |
Subject: RE: Neologisms--Are You An Ignoranus? From: Amos Date: 17 Jan 07 - 11:01 AM Eustation -- a tube stop on the eyes, ears and throat line. A |
Subject: RE: Neologisms--Are You An Ignoranus? From: Roger the Skiffler Date: 17 Jan 07 - 09:33 AM Thanks to Joe or another Mudelf for correcting my usual mistypings! RtS |
Subject: RE: Neologisms--Are You An Ignoranus? From: HuwG Date: 17 Jan 07 - 09:15 AM From ISIHAC and one or two of my own: Raffia - Bohemian gangsters Dichotomy - surgical operation to remove a Welshman Apres-ski - plaster of paris Hullabulloo - correct way to address a bear Garbage - to rubbish another's style sense |
Subject: RE: Neologisms--Are You An Ignoranus? From: Wolfgang Date: 17 Jan 07 - 04:48 AM I'm still laughing. Wolfgang |
Subject: RE: Neologisms--Are You An Ignoranus? From: autolycus Date: 16 Jan 07 - 05:41 PM Just a note on the I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue reference. It's a BBC radio prog, "the antidote to panel games". the most consistently funny prog on BBC. They have a round called "Uxbridge Englsh Dictionary",where the panellists come up with new definitions of English words. Not Oxbridge(Oxford/Cambridge mix, but Uxbridge,a rather downmarket suburb. e.g. 'Shellfish' - a bit like a shelf 'Creche' - a car accident in Purley (a poshish place south of London. 'soaring' - too much fruit in the diet. Ivor Ivor |
Subject: RE: Neologisms--Are You An Ignoranus? From: dick greenhaus Date: 16 Jan 07 - 05:38 PM ANyone recall Thurber's take on neologisms? He called them carcinomenclature. |
Subject: RE: Neologisms--Are You An Ignoranus? From: Slag Date: 16 Jan 07 - 04:00 PM Mercy Bo-cups. That was just stupendulous (stunned and heavy hung). |
Subject: RE: Neologisms--Are You An Ignoranus? From: Ebbie Date: 16 Jan 07 - 03:48 PM "packysandy": Raggedy Ann's mate preparing to leave her. |
Subject: RE: Neologisms--Are You An Ignoranus? From: Amos Date: 16 Jan 07 - 03:31 PM Pachysandy: a. a sugary biscuit popular among elephants(n.) b. The main source of business for pachydermatologists, a condition of very large beds (adj.) c. A kind of ivy with large leaves found in desert regions. A |
Subject: RE: Neologisms--Are You An Ignoranus? From: Bill D Date: 16 Jan 07 - 03:15 PM Pachydermatologist...well, someone has be an expert on elephants who itch! |
Subject: RE: Neologisms--Are You An Ignoranus? From: catspaw49 Date: 16 Jan 07 - 03:12 PM Glad to see you're still losin' it Skiff.....and faster than ever as well! Spaw |
Subject: RE: Neologisms--Are You An Ignoranus? From: fat B****rd Date: 16 Jan 07 - 02:55 PM Thank you Thimbles. I bet you like those from I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue* as well. * UK Radio show. |
Subject: RE: Neologisms--Are You An Ignoranus? From: katlaughing Date: 16 Jan 07 - 02:41 PM epicurious - Always wanting to know the WHY of foods epidemonologist - evil skin doctor |
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