What words or phrases have you coined?

[SoSueMe]

As a kid I would say I like my shirt "tucked out" rather than "untucked".
I could see the difference, but the symmetry with "tucked in" just appealed to me.

I also always use the word cornputer. Just sounds better than computer, although the look alike.

When I'm a great man, perhaps king, these usages will flourish, and be emblazoned over the gates of power.

What do you bring to the next séance with Webster's ghost?
(He coined more words than any other modern man)(Shakespeare didn't speak our language, did he?)

[lswote]

Well for some reason I like the word homo-selectual instead of homo-sexual.

[Sassy]

I believe the record will show that I was the one who trued the SDMB meeting in Springfield into Spiffled

[Danielinthewolvesden]

Well, back ina gal a....no no no, but it was quite a few years ago, my gaming group made up two expressions we sometime hear today; "he's HISTORY" and "I'm in deep Kim-chee". I also believe I made up the word "presentism", the act of judging heroes & great men of the past, by Todays standards.

[Flutterby]

I was rping one day (heck I rp every day..) but someone came in and her c was dressed in blue jeans and a sweatshirt everyone else was dressed in armor or leather or other stuff and she said something ooc about not being normal and I replied that Normalcy is Relative and it hit me how true that is.

A crazy person is considered crazy because they act different from us.. well if everyone was crazy then the way we consider normal now would be considered crazy. Its all a matter of view and who you surround yourself with.

[Achernar]

"Eitherbody" and "Neitherbody"

I didn't actually coin these - my Sister used "eitherbody" by accident, but I picked it up and made it popular. Their usage is obvious enough: use in place of "everybody" and "nobody" when talking about only two people. I'm sure I have some better ones, but I can't think of them right now.

[soulsling]

"there's only so much good weed in this world, all the rest is just schwag."

[RealityChuck]

If there ever is a need for the term, I coined the word "transphylite" for someone who wants to undergo a species change operation in a story of mine. If the OED ever adds the term, I'll be cited.

[X-files]

A transtitute is a hooker who takes the subway to work.

[voguevixen]

When I was in high school a friend and I were watching a video of The World According to Garp and there is a scene where Garp and his mother are bringing in groceries and Garp is so upset that he slams a bag down on the counter so hard it rips. My friend Ellen blurted out "Man, that really rips my bag!" and that was our phrase for intense anger for years, to this very day, even.

[Sealemon88]

Dar, as a way of saying something is really cheesy or stupid (For those who don't indulge in cheeseball movies, Dar is the name of the Beatmaster).

Wiseassery. as in, I'm the Dean Of Wiseassery.

When was a kid, I used ubajalicieous instead of delicious.

Not necessarily original, but my motto has general been Fuck All The Bullshit.

[yojimbo]

I like using Template Movie i.e. movies that have created a genre or reinvented it, like Star Wars or Die Hard

[Gilligan]

My wife accuses me of "clavinizing" when she asks me something and I start rattling off some long-winded BS when I don't know the answer.

[BANNED]

I just coined "metaphor shear", when your metaphor gets into trouble and starts to separate.

[Wood Thrush]

I coined the following song, to the tune of Bingo

[SarumanRex]

I've thought up two phrases that I believe are original, let me know if you've heard them before. They are:
"With the truth as your enemy, what hope can there be?"
and as a metaphor for death, "To turn and face the greater mind". I was thinking of putting these lines into my songs but I don't want to plagerize anyone.

[vanilla]

softing.
Its where you lightly strroke someone's arms or back,etc.
Like massage lite.

[SteelToes]

Detourees are the people who dodge the orange cones.
Detournouts are the wide spots where you wait for the opposite cars to pass by before you can procede.
Detournabouts are where we send people back because it's going to be blocked for hours while we unstuck a truck.

[drewbert]

Long, long ago, I called the dishwasher a "dirtwasher" and the name has stuck in the family. Also we sometimes use the word "fruitile" to describe an effort both futile and fruitless.

And just the other day, I coined the word "fussitudinous," which of course is a word used to describe something which has the quality of being able to be fussed with. "Fussitudinosity" came shortly thereafter.

[Chronos]

A bit of background first: Folks like Einstein are generally referred to as geniuses (or genii, if you know Latin). However, by the standard definition of "genius", it just means that someone's in the 98th or 99th percentile-- using the word of Big Al is a major understatement. Now, the term "genius" comes from the ancient Romans, and it refers to a man's patron spirit, sort of like a guardian angel. Together with the Lares, three gods from the standard pantheon who were seen as representative of a person's livelihood etc., they consisted of the household gods, or pentates. Since, in the Roman usage, the Lares (singular lars) were more powerful than the Genii, and had universal impact, that's the term I use for someone who's smarter than a genius, and whose ideas have had a universal impact.

[Nacho4Sara]

My best friend and I came up with "'Bama" referring to something that is lame or outdated.

We were sitting around, listening to Whitney's
My Love Is Your Love" CD, and I was telling him about my lame-ass trip to Alabama a few years ago, and he said, "this song is SO 'bama!" and it has been our phrase ever since.

Also, I give great scratch. I am a world-reknowned back-scratcher, and therefore have copyrighted the term "scratch" as a noun.

[SPOOFE]

I always use the word "enjoyous" when I refer to something that brings enjoyment. I don't know if it's a real word or not, though... I also came up with the term "middies" when referring to 'Dopers who are neither "newbies" nor "oldies" (regs).

I also know the man who claims to have invented the word "dweeb".

[Gazoo]

In college, my roommates and I coined the word "slunt" as a cross between slut and, well, you can figure out the rest...

To this day I consider it the worst term ever a male could use towards a female.

[kunilou]

Whenever starting a complicated home repair project, I always tell Mrs. Kunilou "in theory this should work."

It usually doesn't, and she has threatened to put it on my tombstone.

[soulsling]

has this ever been coined, it just occured to me.

what we see is literally only a reflection of what is there.

[mikehardware]

My wife loves chicken gizzards, but I can't stand them (too chewy). I like chicken livers, but the love of my life thinks they're terrible. Our compromise, she will sometimes fry up a batch of both, and we pick out what we want. The dish is known in our family as "lizards".

"Rinkit" is also a favorite substitute word, as in "That guy is a real rinkit".

When the son was at that wonderful age where everything was imitated, I was deep into a football game. My team scored, and I jumped around with upraised arms yelling "TOUCHDOWN!!!" and the son joined in. Realizing I was onto something, I quickly added "BANANA PATCH!!!" and he followed along. We did that for every touchdown afterwards. It was about 3 years before he caught on.

[jesuslynch]

Back when my pet dino was alive, the whole clan was setting around the table in our cave. I knocked over a glass of tea and it poured into my lap. Mom told me that I had spilled it on purpose. Thus, Mr. Winkie became my purpose.

[Sunshine]

I generally never swear, so for me, cursing consists of words like "shoot" and "crumb".
One time I was really angry and wanted to tell someone off, but all I could muster up was "Eat My Clock!". Unfortunately, I said it in front of several friends and it instantly became a commonly used phrase.

[Modian]

"Thats all kinds of stupid" - I used this in high school all the time. Don't remember if I made it up or heard it somewhere.

My best friend and I came up with "'Bama" referring to something that is lame or outdated.

I've heard that used to mean something lame and outdated 2 or so years ago referring to clothes, when me and my friends used to use it 7 or 8 years ago, it meant a white guy trying to act like a black gangster, another term being "wigger", and we spelled it bamma.

[Lor]

Some co-workers and I were discussing the relative fanciness of some of the suburbs around St.Louis. I said "So, Brentwood seems pretty la-di-da to me." My superviser said, "Hey, there are plenty of towns that are WAY more la-di-da than Brentwood!" Soon we had set up a "Scale of Relative
La-Di-Dasity", a made-up word if there ever was one!

[2nd Law]

I can actually remember saying, years ago, "Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades," and thinking it was an original thought. Considering how many places I've seen it said since then, I suspect I'd actually heard it before.

[drewbert]

And then there was the time in high school physics class where we named a new physical constant after one of us, whose last name was Moser. For example:

1 Mose = "I don't know."
1 Mose^2 = "I don't care."
1 Mose^3 = "Get off my back already!"

Then, logically:

1/Mose = "I know."
1/Mose^2 = "I care."
1/Mose^3 = "Get on my back already!"

[Action Jackson]

Here is one I have used for years "Semper Gumby" (always flexable).

[QuickSilver]

E=MC**2

What? You don't believe me?!

....I'll be running away now........

[JimmyNipples]

I make up words as a matter of course.....

When I was a child, I used to say arm-arches instead of arm pits.

When you've eaten too much, you are sufficiently suffouncified.

A friend of mine coined electronical.

If you aren't all that bright, but you want to sound smart,occasionally add this to the end words.



..........ITUDITY............

IE: My lawn has a weeditudity factor of 9.

Don't I seem brighter now?

[junebeetle]

Well for some reason I like the word homo-selectual instead of homo-sexual.

When I was a kid, I thought it was "homeless-sexual". I figured there were some bums out there who just couldn't get enough.

- JB

[yESTERDAY mAN]

"Beat your meat, not your kids."

I coined this phrase just recently. It means that frustrated parents should masturbate, rather than beating their children. See my website for details: http://www.angelfire.com/me3/yesterdayman/bible.html

[Edwardina]

Coined for my friend who has Attention Deficit Disorder: multi-fascinated. He was staring distractedly at one of those mosaic tile-topped tables while we were talking. I said, "Are you listening to me?" He said, "Of course. I can do both." I said, "Oh, I see, you're multi-fascinated."

I used onamatopeia to come up with: hork. It is both a verb and an exclamation. To hork is to heave or gag without actually throwing up. It's about the sound, really. Hork is what you do when you are forced to interact with something disgusting, as in: "Why won't you let Dave take you to the movie?" "I would never go out with HIM, he makes me hork!" Or you could just shorten that to an incredulous and disgusted "HORK!" in response to the same question. It is supposed to mimic the sound a cat makes when it has a hairball.

Some other friends of mine used to say "Ah, so!" in the same vein as saying "you have learned much, grasshopper." If you refuted someone in a particularly masterful way, they might acknowledge it by going "Ah, so." One of my friends refuted a lovingly crafted argument of mine with a few short words. I responded with the usual "Ah-so," but said without it's usual respectful tone. He responded: "Don't call me an ah-so!" We all laughed, and now it has two meanings among us. You might say it has come to mean a particularly odious type of know it all who wants to appear humble at the same time. We will hear them out, then look at each other, nod, and say as one: "Ah, so!" in a knowing sort of way.

[Odieman]

The only word I can think of that I made up was in the pit yesterday-'assholitoudinous'.
Once we were at a family gathering and we were talking about horses and my sister wondered what would happen if they stampededed. We broke up when we heard that and she still gets reminded about at least once a year. In university we referred to pizza as za, and if we wanted to go for a snack and we wanted to talk and otherwise kill time we would say we were going for a slowjay. -Slow orange juice.
Keith

[Tally-Ho]

Don't know who coined these... we always just considered them "family" words. (Every family speaks its own language )

Rataskate or Scragagate: Verbs, used interchangably. Meaning: to be tickled until hiccups occur.
(My dad did this to me a lot!)"Someone needs to be rataskated!"

Umberchute: Noun. An umbrella
"Don't forget your umberchute."

There are many more but I'm drawing a blank at the moment.

Chrisbar

[Biggirl]

I call my daughter Missy Foonga when she starts acting all prissy on me. Dunno why.

[Juniper]

I've had so many punchlines that became standard among my family and friends I can't remember them all. One from college came about during a dorm conversation where a friend tried to get me to go on a date her brother. She said something like, 'if he wasn't my brother, I'd do him.' To which I replied,

"Well, if you can't keep it in your pants, keep it in the family."

This has become a comment on any behavior reported in the media relating to incest.

[Pizzle Boy]

Observative, instead of observant

I once called the styrofoam thing you put your beer in a 'beer warmer'. All my friends still use it.

[tracer]

Danielinthewolvesden wrote:

quite a few years ago, my gaming group made up two expressions we sometime hear today; "he's HISTORY" and "I'm in deep Kim-chee".

Um, an acquaintance of mine heard the phrase "in deep kimche" back when he was in the Navy in the early 1980s. I doubt a gaming group's slang would have made it all the way into the Armed Forces by that time.

[tracer]

Everytime my gramma on my father's side didn't understand what you were saying (i.e. if you tried speaking a foreign language in front of her), she'd say, "Moscatittily-poo-poo to you, too!"

[Smeghead]

"Chucklebutt" is a surprisingly good derogatory term.
And, of course, the plural of doofus is "doofii".

Those are the ones I use that get me weird looks from passersby.

[D Marie]

My brother and my cousin made up a word when they were about six or seven years old: "Heeny." It has the exact same usage and sense as "D'oh!" from the Simpsons. It quickly became a family buzzword.

This same cousin is prone to strange malapropisms and mangling of idioms. Once he was asked if the pool was hot or cold, and he said, "It's just kind of luke." So now we say "luke" instead of "lukewarm."

He also tried to say that someone was dim, as in "not the sharpest knife in the drawer," or "a couple sandwiches short of a picnic," or "has a screw loose." Somehow he conflated all of these ideas and came out with: "He's a couple of screws short of a fork!" We say that one too

[Edwardina]

Smeghead -

I love "chucklebutt!" I'm always looking for whimsical and relatively inoffensive ways to insult people. Thanks, I think I'll use this one.

[annalamerino]

Snakeout - when campers wait for a snake to reappear.

[tiggeril]

To my friends upon leaving a restaurant:

"Shall we roll?"
Mike: "We shall!"

You should see the looks we get from hostesses/cashiers/other diners... c'mon, it's fun!
(my regards to Tom Servo)