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07 Sep 03 - 06:02 PM (#1014529) Subject: create a new word From: open mike We have invented seeral new words here. some come about thru typos, and others from new applications of old terms. In the Chat today we have come up with a couple. Anyone have any others? Wongerful Bummocks ... cross between bums and bollocks. |
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07 Sep 03 - 06:06 PM (#1014534) Subject: RE: create a new word From: open mike this should ber in the b.s. department Javem.....Coffe house muzak |
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07 Sep 03 - 06:33 PM (#1014556) Subject: RE: create a new word From: Bill D "seeral" words which come in bunches during a trance. |
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07 Sep 03 - 07:00 PM (#1014572) Subject: RE: create a new word From: GUEST,pdq BLOG: a cross between a "BL-under" and a "b-OG". |
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07 Sep 03 - 07:03 PM (#1014576) Subject: RE: create a new word From: wysiwyg A "Mike-or-Dave"-- a hand truck, used now that the two teen brothers have moved out of the house taking their muskles with them! As in, "Honey, couldja fetch the Mike-or-Dave and move this crap? ~Susan |
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07 Sep 03 - 07:49 PM (#1014589) Subject: RE: create a new word From: Peter Woodruff I spent the weekend at the Essex County Club so I could attend all the festivities for my nephew Tom's and his bride Carrie's wedding in Manchester by the Sea. We all came down to breakfast the first morning to discover a desert for a breakfast. Ever have toast with no butter? The little foil wrapped packets were actually chocolate. We enjoyed? the incontinental breakfast. |
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07 Sep 03 - 08:02 PM (#1014597) Subject: RE: create a new word From: open mike i was just thinking (as i was pulling weeds in the garden) that BLOG might mean weB LOg. Any one know of the actual origin of this term? I have been only hearing it recently. oh and yes, my favorite "sniglet" is the name given to restaurant workers (waiters, waitresses) who grind pepper onto your salad (soup, etc.) the Peppier (pep-ee-ay) |
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07 Sep 03 - 08:06 PM (#1014598) Subject: RE: create a new word From: Peter Woodruff Should one also tip the Peppier? for an unwanted service? |
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07 Sep 03 - 08:23 PM (#1014606) Subject: RE: create a new word From: Rapparee So is the person who grinds Parmesan cheese onto your Italian dinner a "fromagier" or (my preference) a "cheeser"? Or the the cost of the meal determine the title? I've always thought of the sommelier as the "wino" and the waiter who pulled the cork out of the bottle of wine as a "jerker." |
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07 Sep 03 - 08:25 PM (#1014608) Subject: RE: create a new word From: Nigel Parsons Peter Woodruff: Never mind the "incontinental breakfast", I know that 'duvets' are now termed 'Continental Quilts', do bedwetters have "Incontinental Quilts" ? Nigel |
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08 Sep 03 - 08:52 AM (#1014689) Subject: RE: create a new word From: The Barden of England 'Sumwatt' - Failure to add up electrical use properly, causing huge shutdowns to the grid. |
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08 Sep 03 - 09:32 AM (#1014718) Subject: RE: create a new word From: Allan C. You'll find a few gems here. |
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08 Sep 03 - 09:37 AM (#1014721) Subject: RE: create a new word From: Allan C. By the way, what is it with the pepper grinders anyway? Is it assumed that customers are too technologically challenged to operate such a complicated machine? I find it absolutely insulting. |
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08 Sep 03 - 09:43 AM (#1014728) Subject: RE: create a new word From: Dave the Gnome The new Nissan Micra adds come up with a few. The one they don't mention is SHIny and briTE... Cheers DtG |
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08 Sep 03 - 09:49 AM (#1014731) Subject: RE: create a new word From: Amos It zealous service, Allan -- not an insult!! It is supposed to be a luxurious little consideration. A |
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08 Sep 03 - 11:42 AM (#1014793) Subject: RE: create a new word From: mack/misophist Been there, done that. 'Misophist' is a new word. The official definition is ' a man who eats peanut butter while contemplating a mirage.' Sort of the opposite of philosopher. |
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08 Sep 03 - 01:27 PM (#1014863) Subject: RE: create a new word From: Chip2447 While splitting wood for the stove one day I discovered "octify". If "rectify" indicates finding a solution to a problem..Octify fixes that problem into eight pieces...Along those lines, it has since become a standard of mine used when smashing something to bits. Then there is "Glork" the sound a bullet makes when it hits a meaty, fleshy body. Usually reserved for TV. And Spooge, anything unpleasant and usually unidentifiable that is left somplace it shouldn't have. Spooged, stepping in, or getting spooge on your person. While technically not a NEW word, I use howrya alot. Chip2447 |
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08 Sep 03 - 03:36 PM (#1014925) Subject: RE: create a new word From: kitchen piper One I've been using for a while, as I'm on the computer so much is quat The past past tense for quit. ie to quit a computer program, "I quat" lol :-)) Vix |
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08 Sep 03 - 03:37 PM (#1014926) Subject: RE: create a new word From: wysiwyg Um............... Chipper..... erm, "spooge" is already taken...... with a specific meaning assigned, to which some react with the feelings you reflect..... somebuddy help me out here..... ~S~ |
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08 Sep 03 - 03:49 PM (#1014930) Subject: RE: create a new word From: Peter K (Fionn) George Orwell devoted one of his essays to what he saw as a lack of words in some areas of the English lexicon. One of the samples he cited was nostalgia, around which there were nuances of emotion for which no words yet existed. Anyway, he seemed to think he was stuck with whatever was then available. for he observed that "the art of writing lies largely in the perversion of words." I appreciate the ingenuity shown here in carrying our vocabulary to new heights, but I think the Orwellian view still holds good for the moment. |
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08 Sep 03 - 05:00 PM (#1014964) Subject: RE: create a new word From: Chip2447 Ah yes Susan, you are indeed correct, but locally spooge has grown beyond the definition that you refer to. Bubble gum on hot pavement is spooge as is baby puke. Around here you can get spooged by a skunk, or by a water balloon. If I were to take a high dive off onto pavement, what remained of me would most likely be refered to as spooge. That unknown, unidentifible green stuff that grows in my fridge is technically spooge as well. A pedestrian, a mud puddle, and a careless driver are ingredients for a good spooging. I have heard SPLORK used as a replacement for a particularly messy GLORK. perhaps, this is a spooge/glork combination... I should have Quat long ago, but I'm still looking to octify a broken computer, I hope I dont glork someone and turn them into spooge when I toss this thing out of the window!!! Chip2447 |
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08 Sep 03 - 05:12 PM (#1014969) Subject: RE: create a new word From: rock chick eejit as my Irish friend signed himself, who was i to argue with him |
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08 Sep 03 - 05:40 PM (#1014984) Subject: RE: create a new word From: wysiwyg Sir! I can assure you (most emphatically), that neither in your neighborhood nor in mine shall I be "spooged by a skunk, or by a water balloon," whatever your quaint local customs may be (in reality or in your own somewhat.... odd... imagination)! Why the very idea has me all-bungled-up-inside, as my pal Lou says about internal tangles! ~Susan |
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08 Sep 03 - 06:02 PM (#1014991) Subject: RE: create a new word From: Liz the Squeak Tonights offering was 'pnone' - that word given to phones that ring but on answering them, there is never anyone there. We had a serial pnoner a while ago - someone would phone us and leave long silences on the answerphone. LTS |
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08 Sep 03 - 07:24 PM (#1015050) Subject: RE: create a new word From: Amos Here's a reference regarding spooge. Sorry you asked... A |
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08 Sep 03 - 07:31 PM (#1015054) Subject: RE: create a new word From: wysiwyg Spunk-y! ~S~ |
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08 Sep 03 - 09:07 PM (#1015114) Subject: RE: create a new word From: open mike i often create new words from typos today i created 2 new seasons wummer and sinter i presume one is 1/2 way between winter and summer and the other is 1/2 way between summer and winter.. perhaps these are the autumnal and vernal equinoxes?! |
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08 Sep 03 - 09:31 PM (#1015124) Subject: RE: create a new word From: wysiwyg Seasons in Indihio and Ohdiana. ~S~ |
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08 Sep 03 - 11:27 PM (#1015175) Subject: RE: create a new word From: reggie miles Hmm, half way between wummer and sinter or sinter and wummer would lead me to imagine that they should be more correctly refered to as fring and spall or fang and sprill. I took a soundboard from a 100 year old German piano (the piano didn't work anyway) and "reinguitarnated" into the face of my resophonic guitar. The guitar I built is my own unique hybrid cross between a Dobro and a National style resonator so I call it a "Nobro". |
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09 Sep 03 - 12:17 AM (#1015200) Subject: RE: create a new word From: open mike isn/t a piano sound board huge and weighs about a ton? how the guitar feel about being inguitarnated? or how did the piano feel for that matter? have a picture?\ nice to see you again, nobro. |
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09 Sep 03 - 12:45 AM (#1015211) Subject: RE: create a new word From: Chip2447 Me, an odd imagination? Why thank you M'dear, that is the one of the nicest things anyone on the "CAT" has ever said to me. WHOO HOOOO!!! It's official. I'm an ODD DUCK!!! Sorry Geoff, but I have to steal your signature line tonight, I'll change the spelling and still give you full credit. KWACK KWACK Chip2447(an official oddity) |
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09 Sep 03 - 12:50 AM (#1015212) Subject: RE: create a new word From: LadyJean Many years ago, I had a very destructive kitten. It was then that I came up with the term kittastrophe. When you hear a crash, and the kitten comes charging down the hall, and hides in the closet, you know there's been another kittastrophe. (The destructive kitten is now a very fat cat.) |
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09 Sep 03 - 04:17 AM (#1015262) Subject: RE: create a new word From: reggie miles open mike, believe me the piano felt nothing. It was already dead. Actually the soundboard is the spruce resonator on the back of all upright pianos and doesn't weigh much atall. I think you are refering to the what's known as the harp (in pianny terminalology) that thing which holds all of the strings in place and is made of some serious metal. It is connected to the soundboard but can be extrickated with one rusty bladed, worn-out, skillsaw. At least, that's what I used. Old Sarky is what I call mine. The guitar, on the other hand, has been in a comma <(no, that's not a typo) for years ever since but through constant vigilance, reconstructive surgery, physical therapy and a lifetime of kemo we're hoping that eventually it will make a miraculous recovery as a salad bowl or planter some day. LadyJean sounds like your wee kitten could have used some Kittatonic to mellow out. I here it's on sale at the Mudcat Farmusee. |
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09 Sep 03 - 07:21 AM (#1015325) Subject: RE: create a new word From: sian, west wales A friend and I are godparents to 4 kids. He insists on referring to us as God and Goddess; I consider us to have 50-50 shares in 3 goddettes and 1 godling. I also have another 2 (1 boy, 1 girl) in another family, but they don't use the term 'godmother'. The Dad suggested earth mother, which makes me feel like the Goddess of Willendorf (OK - there may be similarities, but I'm in denial) so if ANYONE can think of a better word, please let me know! sian |
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09 Sep 03 - 07:34 AM (#1015333) Subject: RE: create a new word From: Mr Happy i like 'avant garde a clue!' think it was in a film-don't recall name-about a soul band in ireland. |
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09 Sep 03 - 07:36 AM (#1015335) Subject: RE: create a new word From: Mr Happy rembered!- 'The Commitments' |
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09 Sep 03 - 08:33 AM (#1015375) Subject: RE: create a new word From: Tig Before Badger and I were married we lived together for some years. My Dad used to thoroughly enjoy introducing John to people like the local vicar as "My Sin-in-Law"! |
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09 Sep 03 - 08:46 AM (#1015383) Subject: RE: create a new word From: GUEST,MMario sian - I have friends who don't want to use the term "godparent" - they use "pledge-parent" or oath-parent" |
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09 Sep 03 - 09:10 AM (#1015399) Subject: RE: create a new word From: sian, west wales Sounds a bit like a Sorority/Fraternity, MM. Would that make me their Significant Oather? sian |
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09 Sep 03 - 09:23 AM (#1015412) Subject: RE: create a new word From: Mr Happy dord= density? http://www.snopes.com/language/mistakes/dord.htm |
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09 Sep 03 - 11:23 AM (#1015500) Subject: RE: create a new word From: reggie miles I could have sworn I wrote Old Sparky not Sarky. It was late or early, or maybe it was somewhere inbetween. I guess that'd be learly. |
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09 Sep 03 - 12:00 PM (#1015533) Subject: RE: create a new word From: Hollowfox Dwil. Actually an acronym for Deal With It Later. Originally referred to boxes of stuff that needed sorted. They still do. |
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09 Sep 03 - 12:08 PM (#1015537) Subject: RE: create a new word From: Jim McLean When my son was a toddler, he referred to radiaters as 'radi-heaters' and liquidisers he called 'soup-erdisers'. |
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09 Sep 03 - 03:40 PM (#1015662) Subject: RE: create a new word From: open mike is a liquidiser a blender? or an osterizer...which i think is from a family nema Oster. I remember the Waring Blender is from Fred Waring (who led a chorus called the Pennsylvanians) who invented the tool to prepare food for his mother who had a swallowing disorder or some throat thing... |
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09 Sep 03 - 03:46 PM (#1015667) Subject: RE: create a new word From: GUEST I seem to remember a wonderful dictionary by I think Douglas Adams....lost my copy :( |
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09 Sep 03 - 04:01 PM (#1015678) Subject: RE: create a new word From: TheBigPinkLad In the distant past I invented a word to describe the occurance of some notion dawning on two or more people at the same time. It's spelled 'pnoc' but pronounced 'cunumdenum.' |
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09 Sep 03 - 04:09 PM (#1015688) Subject: RE: create a new word From: Beccy My favorite un-word is one invented by my husband: "gription" It is like friction and gripping combined- lovely word. Usage? "The sandpaper on the edge of the steps provides gription." Beccy |
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09 Sep 03 - 04:42 PM (#1015715) Subject: RE: create a new word From: Little Hawk An acquantance of mine in the early 70's used a unique term all his own... "kreech" It meant to react with horror, disgust, etc, as in "When I saw that horrible mess in the kitchen I just kreeched!" To kreech properly involved a sharp, noisy intake of breath through clenched teeth (not through the nostrils!), accompanied by a pained facial grimace, pulling back the lips, contorting the facial muscles, and squinting the eyes. A really good kreech was quite impressive. - LH |
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09 Sep 03 - 07:47 PM (#1015869) Subject: RE: create a new word From: JennyO I believe the Douglas Adams book is called "The Meaning of Lif". It gives new creative meanings to place names (of course they are all in the UK). I might get round to finding it one day when I unpack all my books. I also invented some Australian ones a few years ago (the list is also lost somewhere in the bowels of the house). I am just trying to recall some of them: Sydney - a position between sitting and kneeling The Grampians - a condition suffered by old people early in the morning Woolwich - what you get from wearing some types of jumpers Mildura - those stubborn marks you can't get off bathroom tiles, also known as Greystanes Forbes - a creeping feeling in the stomach from that curry you ate last night more when I think of them.................. Jenny |
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10 Sep 03 - 12:31 AM (#1016040) Subject: RE: create a new word From: Donuel antiflaccidosis Schwartcism Bushardly elhacktions pensionility |
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10 Sep 03 - 08:48 PM (#1016603) Subject: RE: create a new word From: Celtaddict When you go into the next room and forget why you went there, you are having an attack of destinesia. |
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10 Sep 03 - 08:49 PM (#1016604) Subject: RE: create a new word From: Celtaddict Bouncing around in a clumsy way, as the activities of a young calf, is called fronking. |
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11 Sep 03 - 12:48 AM (#1016692) Subject: RE: create a new word From: Bee-dubya-ell SCR disease. It's like CRS (Can't Remember Shit) disease only much worse. Not only can you not remember shit, you can't even remember the right name for the disease. Bruce |
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11 Sep 03 - 01:41 AM (#1016708) Subject: RE: create a new word From: open mike i have a friend who has a generic name for additives (especially in toothpaste) Asceum Glorbates... perhaps can also be ingredients in food with lots of chemicals... we used to call this type of food "skonk" food. that would mean anything that is not necessarily good for you=--=junk food |
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11 Sep 03 - 10:07 PM (#1017296) Subject: RE: create a new word From: Bert That horrible little VW is called a BUGLI and a Chattery is a cell phone battery, at least when my daughter uses it. |
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12 Sep 03 - 02:15 AM (#1017347) Subject: RE: create a new word From: mouldy Playing scrabble in the 70s, my other half insisted that "gutwaver" and "unwet" were allowed. Well I could perhaps have let him get away with the second (even though it wasn't in the dictionary), but "gutwaver"...it was the only way he could use all 7 tiles at one go! Mind you, remembering how he has been affected in the past by food that was a bit suspect... Andrea |
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13 Sep 03 - 12:04 AM (#1017985) Subject: RE: create a new word From: GUEST,leeneia When I'm absorbed in computer work, I think my so-called left brain switches off and my right brain takes on a bigger role than usual. That's when I use the terms minus-ify (minimize) and plusify (maximize) to myself. |
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13 Sep 03 - 09:50 AM (#1018114) Subject: RE: create a new word From: gnomad Incredulate - To make somebody believe something which any rational person would recognise as nonsense. |
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18 Jun 04 - 02:03 PM (#1210017) Subject: RE: create a new word From: C-flat Just found these today in my inbox;- TESTICULATING - Waving your arms around and talking bollocks. BLAMESTORMING - Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and deciding who was responsible. PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE - The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again. OHNOSECOND - That minuscule fraction of time during which you realise that you've just made BIG mistake. C-flat. |
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18 Jun 04 - 06:15 PM (#1210158) Subject: RE: create a new word From: GUEST, TheBigPinkLad I thought I had invented this: drape vt: cover in cloth or similar material but when I looked it up in the dictionary someone had already beaten me to it. Here's the strange thing though ... it has exactly the same meaning ... |
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18 Jun 04 - 10:17 PM (#1210227) Subject: RE: create a new word From: Shanghaiceltic My wife Jade is Chinese. She came up with the word 'bargue' to argue and bargain at the same time. A nessecity in China. |
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15 Aug 05 - 01:19 AM (#1541927) Subject: RE: create a new word From: open mike the only threads that exist as far as i can see here are the saved ones in the "traced threads" on my personal page. now they are tracerrated. |
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15 Aug 05 - 10:30 AM (#1542206) Subject: RE: create a new word From: Bill D my wife's family name for recipes made from leftovers, all mixed together with few identifiable parts. (sometimes applied to casseroles which one actually chooses the ingredients.) Oobleck |
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15 Aug 05 - 11:59 AM (#1542290) Subject: RE: create a new word From: frogprince circumlocution: talking one's foreskin off. |
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15 Aug 05 - 03:37 PM (#1542426) Subject: RE: create a new word From: Cluin Vacuulation - Using the Hoover for an unrecommended purpose. |
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15 Aug 05 - 04:32 PM (#1542464) Subject: RE: create a new word From: gnomad For JennyO, just in case the book never turned up: Meaning of Liff |
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15 Aug 05 - 05:00 PM (#1542482) Subject: RE: create a new word From: Tannywheeler A friend of my mom's came up with "Fubb" some 30-40yrs. back. It means a person who loves an animal. Not the mindless idiocy of Disney, assigning human characteristics to them; or saying you love animals in the aggregate. This means someone who doesn'tnecessarily like animals or the idea of "pets", but has been drawn in to the "support" circle of a particular, individual animal. This person recognizes the limitations of the particular animal, learns over time benavioral signals of the creature, and respects the "personality"(? animal-ity?) and individual intelligence of that being. That is a "Fubb". I think there are some fubbs in this cafe. |
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15 Aug 05 - 05:59 PM (#1542531) Subject: RE: create a new word From: Shanghaiceltic Bargue What you need to do when shopping at a market here. Bargaining and arguing, Jade came up with it. |
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15 Aug 05 - 07:54 PM (#1542637) Subject: RE: create a new word From: Bunnahabhain Hasn't anyone mentioned blickify yet? ( make into a blue clicky) |
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16 Aug 05 - 12:47 AM (#1542849) Subject: RE: create a new word From: Little Hawk Wonky. As in "wonky fingers". "You've got wonky fi-i-i-i-i-ngers!" It means creepy, nasty, slimy, grabby fingers. Imagine the young Jerry Lewis groping somebody and you've got the picture... |
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16 Aug 05 - 04:29 AM (#1542918) Subject: RE: create a new word From: Gurney Up in the serious section is a thread 'Who's going to Tonder.' I used to do some of that, wandering-tottering. Something to do with Barley Wine. |
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16 Aug 05 - 10:07 AM (#1543064) Subject: RE: create a new word From: JennyO Thanks gnomad. The book did turn up fortunately, but it's still nice to have it online as well! Jenny |
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16 Aug 05 - 10:41 AM (#1543089) Subject: RE: create a new word From: curmudgeon A new verb, to "shamble" ie., to ploddingly wander about, mentally or physically , with no discernable destination, that information being known only to the shambler. Now I must go do my penance on another thread - Tom |
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16 Aug 05 - 10:53 AM (#1543100) Subject: RE: create a new word From: GUEST,Cod Fiddler "Testiculate" is my favourite. It means to gesticulate while talking bollocks. "Grismal" is a nice mix of "grim" and "dismal". Hull on a rainly day perhaps? "Diagony" is desperation suffered by someone trying to walk quickly on a crowded pavement. |
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16 Aug 05 - 06:39 PM (#1543471) Subject: RE: create a new word From: The Fooles Troupe 'shamble' has been used like that for ages... |
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16 Aug 05 - 07:11 PM (#1543500) Subject: RE: create a new word From: Bill D "Pachydermatology" the practice of keeping elephant's skin comfy. |
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17 Aug 05 - 10:27 AM (#1543939) Subject: RE: create a new word From: moongoddess yeasterday - how long my bread has been rising |
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17 Aug 05 - 10:43 AM (#1543955) Subject: RE: create a new word From: Tam the man getfifu ya basa |
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17 Aug 05 - 10:43 AM (#1543957) Subject: RE: create a new word From: Tam the man I meant getifuryabassa |
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17 Aug 05 - 02:25 PM (#1544194) Subject: RE: create a new word From: GUEST,Fullerton colondrious - like a colonder, leaky, full of 'oles. I made that word up when I was little. |
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18 Aug 05 - 06:10 AM (#1544658) Subject: RE: create a new word From: Bob Bolton G'day, Last night Patricia, a friend and I went to see a musical in the ShowRoom at Sydney's Star Casino. The foyer and staircase ( ... and the lower walls ...) are all in synthetic "stone) reconstituted from black rock and sand ... with shards of silver mirror scattered all through the surface. Glitterrazzo! Regard(les), Bob |
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19 Aug 05 - 05:53 AM (#1545533) Subject: RE: create a new word From: GUEST My own invented word is 'wimpaceous'. I reserve for those days when I wake up feeling out of sorts but can't quite summon up the energy or courage to ring in sick - so go in anyway and sit at my desk feeling miserable. |
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19 Aug 05 - 02:46 PM (#1545862) Subject: RE: create a new word From: GUEST,wld I suppose our main collective contribution has been 'mudcatter' martingibsonesque.....? |
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19 Aug 05 - 07:55 PM (#1546087) Subject: RE: create a new word From: The Fooles Troupe Supercalifragilisticexpelaid... What? Oh, sorry! |
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19 Aug 05 - 08:39 PM (#1546102) Subject: RE: create a new word From: Little Hawk Confluent: mixes together in such a way as to become a formless mass. Like Shambles' threads complaining about the way the forum is moderated. Or like the MOABS thread. |
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25 Nov 08 - 12:38 PM (#2501330) Subject: RE: create a new word From: Cluin We need a new word to label the feeling/state/action of only noticing a typo AFTER posting. |
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25 Nov 08 - 01:41 PM (#2501386) Subject: RE: create a new word From: Little Hawk blathertwaddle: balderdash, nonsense, rubbish, vain and empty talk. bilgeroar: see "blathertwaddle". filch-ranger: a bothersome but essentially quite trivial pest (like my dachshund when he is barking at something that is 3 miles away) Ream-nosed Romflombler: an exceedingly rare bird, so rare in fact that no one has seen it yet. Glebe: Another rare variety of bird. Includers the Swanson's Glebe, the Ruffed Glebe, the Great Northern Glebe, the Speckled Glebe, the Whistling Glebe, the Western Glebe, the Grey Glebe, the Golfer's Glebe, the Pestilent Glebe, the Red-headed Glebe, the Downy Glebe, the Forest Glebe, the Praire Glebe, the Florida Glebe, the Common Albanian Glebe, the Peckerson's Glebe, the Arborial Glebe, the Wandering Glebe, the Bald Glebe, the Yellow-Bellied Glebe, the Giant Glebe, the Mute Glebe, the Bishop's Glebe, the Variegated Glebe, the Stalking Glebe, the Foxglove Glebe, the Maundering Glebe, the Barred Glebe, the Incontinent Glebe, the Lesser Glebe, and last, but.....well, just last, I guess.....the Least Glebe! |
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25 Nov 08 - 01:57 PM (#2501399) Subject: RE: create a new word From: open mike i had forgotten that i started this thread..here is a word i came up with after cleaning up fire rubble...."frubble" you would not believe how much trash is left when a fire burns 59,000 acres of trees, houses, vehicles and everything.... |
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25 Nov 08 - 01:59 PM (#2501402) Subject: RE: create a new word From: Uncle_DaveO Not new, but from my high school years, sixty or so years ago: "Gesundheit! You snoze!" (past tense of sneeze) Dave Oesterreich |
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25 Nov 08 - 02:00 PM (#2501403) Subject: RE: create a new word From: Little Hawk You have snoozen. |
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25 Nov 08 - 02:05 PM (#2501408) Subject: RE: create a new word From: Uncle_DaveO Open Mike asked: isn't a piano sound board huge and weighs about a ton? Laurel, you're referring, I think, to the frame of the piano. The sound board would be pretty large in plan, but very thin, made out of spruce or something like that. Dave Oesterreich |
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25 Nov 08 - 05:11 PM (#2501544) Subject: RE: create a new word From: Bill D "Another rare variety of bird" Like the Yellow-Topped, Marble-Backed Clattering Jay? or the Red-Breasted Bed Thrasher? |
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25 Nov 08 - 05:12 PM (#2501545) Subject: RE: create a new word From: Leadfingers If Filth is Pollution , and a rich man is a Putocrat , is some one who is filthy Rich a Pollutocrat ? |
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25 Nov 08 - 05:48 PM (#2501585) Subject: RE: create a new word From: Georgiansilver A Paraphrenic = one who regularly uses the emergency chute. |
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25 Nov 08 - 06:09 PM (#2501612) Subject: RE: create a new word From: Little Hawk tandependentious - Pretentious, pompous, overly serious in one's speech and deportment. |
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25 Nov 08 - 06:11 PM (#2501613) Subject: RE: create a new word From: Little Hawk maundering - complaining, arguing, and carrying on in an exessive, irksome, and inappropriate fashion. |
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25 Nov 08 - 06:14 PM (#2501616) Subject: RE: create a new word From: Little Hawk An example of new words in use: "I've had enough of your maundering, tandependentious blathertwaddle," said the Ream-nosed Romflombler to the Peckerson's Glebe. "You're nothing but a corpulent, pettifogging filch-ranger!" |
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26 Nov 08 - 04:57 PM (#2502357) Subject: RE: create a new word From: Cluin A fecanese... any variety of small dog that produces far too much poop for its size. |
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26 Nov 08 - 05:43 PM (#2502420) Subject: RE: create a new word From: Georgiansilver Thought that was a shitzu!!! |
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26 Nov 08 - 06:15 PM (#2502457) Subject: RE: create a new word From: Ed T "bipolar opposite" |
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26 Nov 08 - 11:46 PM (#2502610) Subject: RE: create a new word From: Genie I (as far as I know) made up and am still using the term "e-dress" as a shorter and easier term for "email address" than "email addy." It still hasn't caught on, apparently, but I can't quite understand why, when I continually run across other, similar terms such as "e-tail" (electronic retail) and "e-commerce." That's my term, an' I'm stickin' to it! |
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27 Nov 08 - 12:16 AM (#2502615) Subject: RE: create a new word From: Cluin I've seen that term around for years, Genie. Often without the hyphen. |
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27 Nov 08 - 02:43 AM (#2502647) Subject: RE: create a new word From: Escapee My six year old grandson calls his infant cousin his grandsister. |
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27 Nov 08 - 05:37 AM (#2502722) Subject: RE: create a new word From: gnu Cluin... fecanese... hahaha, I LOVE it! When communicating on the itnernut (yes, internut), I dunno why so many people ask me what I mean when I say I sent them an e. Or, what I mean when I ask them for their eaddy.... okay, that one, maybe. |
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27 Nov 08 - 07:39 AM (#2502797) Subject: RE: create a new word From: Bryn Pugh Peewaddle ! = nonsense, bollocks (being spoken) When a grave mistake has been made : I've bopped a drollock. Divlock - combination of 'divvy' and 'pillock' |
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27 Nov 08 - 09:18 AM (#2502862) Subject: RE: create a new word From: topical tom "Globbers" for rubber gloves. |
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27 Nov 08 - 12:41 PM (#2502979) Subject: RE: create a new word From: Genie Interesting that you've often seen "e-dress" or "edress," Cluin. I've been using it for about 10 years and never once seen anyone else use it. Your experience seems more normal, though, since the term follows naturally from all the other "e-" neologisms (etrade, etail, email, e-commerce). Another I've made up pertains to a condition my cat regularly gets in summertime, when the fleas get really active. (It can be controlled with flea collars and, if necessary, shots from the vet, but I've never been able to prevent it completely.) Fleas bite, then the cat scratches the bites and gets a skin irritation and scabs from scratching them. There's an actual veterinary medical term for this - some sort of contact dermatitis - but my way of referring to it is: "Secondary flea-bitis." |
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27 Nov 08 - 12:47 PM (#2502987) Subject: RE: create a new word From: Genie Uncle Dave O, harking back to high school days, you may have heard these: "bluefish" - past tense of "blowfish" "blice" - plural of "blouse" "spice" - plural of "spice" "kleenices" - plural of "Kleenex" |
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27 Nov 08 - 01:19 PM (#2503004) Subject: RE: create a new word From: Genie One I've heard a lot, over the past few years is "craptastic." Meaning, is not obvious, is "amazingly crappy." But I think the field of psychology could use more terms for its sub-areas of study: "ohsittology" - the study of sudden strong negative emotional responses "priogotry" - racism, sexism, or other prejudice expressed in especially obnoxious fasion or by especially obnoxious people |
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27 Nov 08 - 03:58 PM (#2503098) Subject: RE: create a new word From: dick greenhaus Thurber coined the term carcinomenclature Useful term |
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27 Nov 08 - 04:02 PM (#2503101) Subject: RE: create a new word From: Genie One that needs no explanation: "mammOWWWgram" |
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27 Nov 08 - 04:22 PM (#2503114) Subject: RE: create a new word From: Little Hawk swandipitous - astonishing |
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27 Nov 08 - 08:06 PM (#2503213) Subject: RE: create a new word From: Lox Been looking through to see if someone provided an explanation of "BLOG" and couldn't find one - apologies if I overlooked it, but here it is as I undestand it. Blog ---> looks like ---> Biog. Biog is short for Biography. Ta daa ^_^ |
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27 Nov 08 - 09:44 PM (#2503254) Subject: RE: create a new word From: Genie Lox, the derivation of "blog" is simply that it's a shortened form of "weblog." Much as I used to call mushrooms "shrooms" -- which my Brit boyfriend thought was weird, though I later discovered that term was in common usage among users of the psychedelic varieties. Genie |