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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[Paul4Meep]

Here are some I've made up:

Defogification: Removing the fog or mist from a glass surface, most often car windows or eye glasses.

Fogification: When a glass surface, most often car windows or eye glasses, becomes foggy or covered in mist.

Snammunwidget: Some unidentifiable or unknown object. Most often something that has no recognizable function of purpose. "No house should be without at least one good snammunwidget."

Some good ones I did not make up:

Heinosity: Being very heinous. Made famous by Edge and Christian in their goofy E&C days. "You so totally reek of heinosity!" Also known as the opposite of awesomeness.

Reekazoid: Somebody who "totally reeks of heinosity." Somebody who "sucks." Also made famous by Edge and Christian.

Chicktionairy: I know I heard this on some TV show, I just don't recall which. It is a guy's address book of girls. By the way, quick note to the ladies of TT, I don't agree with using that term, I'm just coming up with sniglets or neologisms.

Hateorade: A hate-filled beverage that causes you to act like a "hater." I'm sure that this originated somewhere else, but I first heard it used (quite often) by WWE Smack Down general manager Theodore Long. Yeah, I watch too much wrestling. By the way, when I say this, it sounds hilarious, because I can say it in the lamest white guy way possible.

 

[Paul4Meep]

Okay, I just HAD to list some of my favorite from the sniglets site somebody provided in this thread.

Bovilexia: The uncontrollable urge to lean out the car window and yell "Moo!" every time you pass a cow.

Anticiparcellate: Waiting until the mailman is several houses down the street before picking up the mail, so as not too appear too anxious.

LOL! I actually do that myself if I'm ever home to get the mail.

Aqualibrium: The point where the stream of drinking fountain water is at its perfect height, thus relieving the drinker from (a) having to suck the nozzle, or (b) squirting himself in the eye.

Blurfle: To be caught talking at the top of one's lungs when the music at the bar or disco suddenly stops.

Burbulation: The obsessive act of opening and closing a refrigerator door in an attempt to catch it before the automatic light comes on.

Burgacide: What you call the desperate action of a hamburger leaping to its death through the holes in the Bar-B-Q grill.

Carperpetuation: The act, when vacuuming, of running over a string at least a dozen times, reaching over and picking it up, examining it, then putting it back down to give the vacuum one more chance.

Okay, I'd better stop for now, or I'll end up giving you practically the whole web site. ;-)

 

[LFI]

Person A is in the comfy chair.

Person B is sitting on the floor.

Person C is leaning in the doorway.

They're fraternity brothers and it's shortly after 1PM, so they're watching "Days of our Lives".

Person A gets up to run to the bathroom.

The moment Person A is up, Person B hops into his chair.

Person C laughs and yells at Person A: "Oh man! You got zooshed!"

To zoosh someone is to take their chair when they get up, although they were planning on sitting back down again. The bolder among us will actually shout "Zoosh!" as they do it!

I have wondered if it could apply to the cubicle vultures that steal up everything from someone's desk when they've left the company (but are typically still in the parking lot!) and I've decided it doesn't. That deserves its own word.

Anyone?

--Dave

 

[tsdragon]

We used to just call it "cubicle mining".


Tracy Dryden

Meddle not in the affairs of dragons,
For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.

 

[xlbo]

we just used to call it "being a ****". I was most often guilty ;-)

Rgds, Geoff

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[ChrisHunt]

Favorite not-in-the-dictionary word?

The impossibly attractive photographs of food in cookery books, restaurant menus, food packaging etc. are gastroporn.

Not my invention (736 matches for it on Google), but I think it's pretty cool.

-- Chris Hunt
Webmaster & Tragedian
Extra Connections Ltd

 

[Paul4Meep]

I thought of something for one I listed.

Bovilexia: The uncontrollable urge to lean out the car window and yell "Moo!" every time you pass a cow.

Anybody used to watch Titus when it was on Fox? (Note to Titus fans: By the way, a DVD set is now available which has seasons one and two.) Dave had bovilexia! LOL! They didn't actually use that word, though.

Person C laughs and yells at Person A: "Oh man! You got zooshed!"

To zoosh someone is to take their chair when they get up, although they were planning on sitting back down again. The bolder among us will actually shout "Zoosh!" as they do it!

I like that one. Never heard that before.

The impossibly attractive photographs of food in cookery books, restaurant menus, food packaging etc. are gastroporn.

I know just what you mean. Ever notice how stuff looks A LOT more delicious on TV and other advertising than in real life. Sometimes, A LOT bigger too. Case in point, anybody heard of KFC's new snacker sandwhich thingers for 99 cents? In the commercial, they look like a big, delicious chicken patty sandwhich.

My girlfriend and I tried them once. They are literally one shriveled little chicken finger on a tiny little bun (and the buns tasted really stale and were crappy overall) with a tiny little leaf of lettuce that looked completely unripe. Wait... does lettuce get ripe? Well, it was crappy lettuce, anyway.

 

[tsdragon]

If you knew what they actually USE instead of the real thing in many of those gastropornographic (whew!) images you would be less impressed. Ice cream is usually mashed potatoes or Crisco, not ice cream at all! Much of the other stuff is fake too.


Tracy Dryden

Meddle not in the affairs of dragons,
For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.

 

[elanor]

From my son:

Lawnscapers: Landscapers who never actually make any horticultural changes to the property...they only cut the grass and rake the leaves.

Thanks!
Elanor

 

[nicksims]

For those who remember the larger, older Buicks and Oldsmobiles- but can't remember which is which...

the Oldsmabuick.

Nick

 

[SamBones]

One of my favorites...

Automagically: Something that automatically happens, but we either don't know how or why, or don't want to take the time to explain how or why.

I like it because most people read it as "automatically" any way.

Another word that's been in my family for ever, but I can't for the life of me figure out why...

Asparagacious: Of, or having the appearance of, an Asparagus. ("Oh Maude, your new green dress makes you look positively asparagacious!")

That's pretty close to Asparaginous, which is in the dictionary (mine any way)...

Asparaginous: Pertaining or allied to, or resembling, asparagus; having shoots which are eaten like asparagus; as, asparaginous vegetables.

It's the "allied to" part that cracks me up. I guess one could consider themselves an ally to asparagus. I personally wouldn't be an asparagus ally unless I knew their full agenda before hand.

 

[SteveGlo]

gizzit - stuff people don't want to take with them when leaving as in

"anyone want this?"
"gizzit here"

and

"got any gizzits?"

apologies to Farmer (he knows what I mean)

 

[adam0101]

I had a co-worker who would always use guesstimate instead of "guess" or "estimate". It used to drive me nuts!

Adam

 

[SamBones]

A gesstimate is an important part of the process of making a S.W.A.G.

 

[GwydionM]

Katrinad?

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An old man who lives in the UK

 

[PaulTEG]

In reference to tsdragons's point on the gastropornography, it's never hot either.

Tried it once for a friend's restaurant, the only way to shoot the grub was right under the warming lamp, pictures didn't come out too bad, but could've been better

--Paul

Spend an hour a week on CPAN, helps cure all known programming ailments ;-)