Neologisms--Are You An Ignoranus?

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