What's Your Favorite Word (That's Not in the Dictionary)?

[DrJavaJoe]

How many ginormous lingweenies do we have here? Confuzzled? Well just chillax and click here.




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[sleipnir214]

My father coined the verb "to razoo", which has a meaning somewhere between "to ask for volunteers" and "to shanghai".

When a manager asks his subordinates for volunteers for a project, but he and they both understand that the subordinates really don't have much of a choice in the matter, the manager has razooed some help for his project.


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[CajunCenturion]

I like 'flustrated' - Both flustered and frustrated.

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[strongm]

Amusingly, 'ginormous' is actually in one of the Webster dictionaries (the New Millennium™ Dictionary of English)...

 

[tsdragon]

I like "fantabulous". A combination of fantastic and fabulous.


Tracy Dryden

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[MakeItSo]

From my own experience:

polkadodge : the pseudo dance when two people attempt to pass each other, each moving in the same direction

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[elanor]

I like "lasterday" (indicating a day in the recent past that was not yesterday, but will not - or cannot - be further identified) and "gription" (indicating something like traction, but involving a gripping action...my toes have a lot of gription on a tree branch, but almost none on ice).
Thanks!
Elanor

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

I would add:

"automagically", a cross between automatically, and magically (often used when describing how code works to those that don't understand), and

"grint", a cross between grease, grime, and lint. Due to its pronunciation, this word has the (dubious) honour of being the only word I know to rhyme with "pint". It can come in two forms - industrial grint, and household grint - the latter of which is often found in kitchens around range hoods, and on top of cupboards.

Dan


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[RodKnowlton]

For the moments when neither "gratification" nor "satisfaction" capture the feeling completely:

Gratisfaction.

 

[GwydionM]

Traunch - it is in use, but missing from lots of big dictionaries

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An old man who lives in the UK

 

[AngelB]

BRPS, my name - Geraint - rhymes with pint!

Gez



Sorry, did I say something wrong? Pardon me for breathing which I never do anyway so I don't know why I bother to say it Oh God I'm so depressed - Marvin, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

 

[stormbind]

WIBBLE!

It is a word I use all the time. Unfortunately, and I did not know this when I started using it, Black Adder (BBC) beat me to it so it's not my word.

I currently use it as an alternative pronunciation for World Wide Web - and it works rather well

Unfortunately, I am not alone in this so it could well be not my word - again! Darn!

WERGY!

It is a word I use occationally. Unfortunately it does not mean anything, but I find it works extremely well for expressing disapointment (if said slowly) or shock (if said quickly).

This is definately my word - nobody else is lunatic enough to adopt it

--Glen

Memoria mihi benigna erit qui eam perscribam

 

[SkipVought]

suprizzlegasted

surprised, frazzled and flabbergasted!

Skip,
[sub]
[red]Be advised:[/red]When Viscounts were guillotined just as they were disclosing where their jewels were hidden, it shows to go that you should...
Never hatchet your Counts before they chicken! [/sub]

 

[stormbind]

flabberblasted was used on an ITV show.

--Glen

Memoria mihi benigna erit qui eam perscribam

 

[craigsboyd]

From my two year old son:

dindin - a word meaning a meal

nighnigh - a word meaning to go to sleep

passee - a word meaning pacifier

bubble juice - a word for his vitamin supplement drink that tastes like a malt

cake! - anything that he really really likes

...the latter is my favorite and I strive to give him "cake!" every chance I get.

http://www.sweetpotatosoftware.com

 

[spewn]

Gratisfaction = latin american freedom fighter group.

hmmm...

- g

 

[johnwm]

GwydionM,
When you say Traunch do you mean tranche (which is often mis-pronounced traunch)

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[donbott]

Somethinh I read:

Reintarnation - the belief that when you die you will come back as Gabby Hayes.

DonBott

 

[ttmac]

More can be found here -

http://www.wordspy.com/diversions/neologisms.asp

Some that I found particularly good are: -

awkword, noun - A word that is difficult to pronounce.

bad tongue day, noun - A day in which a person frequently mispronounces words and stumbles over sentences.

grammer slack, noun - The tolerance exhibited by most Internet users for small spelling and grammar errors (such as spelling "grammar" as "grammer," an all-too frequent gaffe of people who do complain about other people's mistakes).

Tom.

 

[xlbo]

Organgrind

when it seems like everything is getting in the way of organising something "Man, that was an organgrind !". The 13 yr old boy in me also thinks it's a funny innuendo.

wubduf

A B'stardisation of the initials wwbdfd - Weebles Wibble But Don't Fall Down - implies resilience.

and my absolute fave
Dooood
Like dude but makes the extra ooooooo count as much as possible. properly pronounced, it should (just about) be 2 syllables - doooooowoooooooood

Rgds, Geoff

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