# Cool words that don't exist **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 7, 2021, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words-that-dont-exist/932391 "2021-02-07T20:40:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2021, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words-that-dont-exist/932391/1 "2021-02-07T20:40:41Z")
Partly inspired by the ‘cool words’ thread, and partly mothered by the necessity to invent some nonsense for my scambaiting activities, I’m interested to hear some words that sound like they could exist, but don’t. Background: I’ve decided to go a bit Jabberwocky with my current collection of scammers and I have so far asked them if the funds (8.5 million dollars for me) have been glarded. It will be a problem if the funds are glarded, because my account is in a tax clode. So I need some more words that are either completely nonexistent, or so incredibly obscure that they hardly exist. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2021, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words-that-dont-exist/932391/2 "2021-02-07T21:40:52Z")
Not quite exactly the same thing, but Douglas Adams presented us with a treasure-trove of words that ought to exist, in The Meaning of Liff. Veeblefetzer and Foistboinder also come to mind. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2021, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words-that-dont-exist/932391/3 "2021-02-07T21:54:44Z")
[Nonsense Word Generator](http://soybomb.com/tricks/words/) > This page generates nonsense words based on a frequency list of phonemes as they occur in legitimate English words. Generated words are checked against a list of approximately 500,000 English words. An actual word may slip through occasionally but it should mostly generate pronounceable gibberish. Sample > | quirylorally | suribettons | prosopor | horrention | bascal | > | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | > | mellecutiner | wardrol | exclost | misjuntalled | extrand | ---
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2021, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words-that-dont-exist/932391/4 "2021-02-07T23:30:43Z")
Entiled. It’s like entailed and entitled, but it’s when all your cash is walled up behind a tile in the bathroom and will take a while to free up. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2021, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words-that-dont-exist/932391/5 "2021-02-08T01:37:15Z")
A/k/a “I own a house.” 😀 ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2021, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words-that-dont-exist/932391/6 "2021-02-08T01:42:39Z")
scume: (skyoom), n., people or culture that offends to the very soul, so that one avoids the mere mention of them in polite society; e.g. _Here Comes Honey BooBoo_. ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2021, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words-that-dont-exist/932391/7 "2021-02-08T01:44:15Z")
Blackadder Series 3 "Ink and Incapability\* Contrafibularities Anaspeptic Frasmotic Pericombobulation Extramuralisation ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2021, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words-that-dont-exist/932391/8 "2021-02-08T02:57:12Z")
It’s a real word, but I like absquatulate. These aren’t: Fomination Derisitory Miminative Liliscuous ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2021, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words-that-dont-exist/932391/9 "2021-02-08T03:49:45Z")
Mastermotivation. _The act of self-motivation_ ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2021, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words-that-dont-exist/932391/10 "2021-02-08T09:18:44Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Nonsense Word Generator Oh, that’s very lovely - thank you! ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2021, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words-that-dont-exist/932391/11 "2021-02-08T15:38:28Z")
A Facebook friend posted this: > Geographer tough talk: “It’s absolutely bosporus to think that a gibraltar like that and those two dardanelles he hangs out with could be such a bunch of azores.” ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2021, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words-that-dont-exist/932391/12 "2021-02-08T15:42:47Z")
From an episode of Family Ties involving a Scrabble game: ZOQUO = to engage in water sports USHNUU = to towel off (e.g. after water sports) ---
**Author:** ![Borborygmi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/borborygmi/32/217_2.png) [@Borborygmi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Borborygmi)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2021, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words-that-dont-exist/932391/13 "2021-02-08T16:06:50Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > [Nonsense Word Generator](http://soybomb.com/tricks/words/) That’s a pretty hasturish link, running\_coach. I’ll hanorcate that site since I snoodisibly need to come up with a holmous word or two. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2021, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words-that-dont-exist/932391/14 "2021-02-08T16:10:18Z")
Kurt Vonnegut gave us _Wompeters, Foma, and Granfalloons_ He even used it as the title of a book. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2021, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words-that-dont-exist/932391/15 "2021-02-08T16:54:27Z")
> [@Borborygmi](#): > > That’s a pretty hasturish link, running\_coach. I’ll hanorcate that site since I snoodisibly need to come up with a holmous word or two. I trene to liffer. Artibly, I’m spenegated by your sorbidity! ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2021, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words-that-dont-exist/932391/16 "2021-02-08T17:03:21Z")
And I remember what two of those mean. ---
**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2021, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words-that-dont-exist/932391/17 "2021-02-08T18:15:44Z")
I want two pronouns, meaning “we including you the listener/reader” and “we not including you the listener/reader”. ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2021, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words-that-dont-exist/932391/18 "2021-02-08T23:15:58Z")
You can have that if you speak an Austronesian language, rather than English. > **[Clusivity](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clusivity)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > In linguistics, clusivity is a grammatical distinction between inclusive and exclusive first-person pronouns and verbal morphology, also called inclusive "we" and exclusive "we". Inclusive "we" specifically includes the addressee (that is, one of the words for "we" means "you and I and possibly others"), while exclusive "we" specifically excludes the addressee (that is, another word for "we" means "he/she/they and I, but not you"), regardless of w... ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2021, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words-that-dont-exist/932391/19 "2021-02-08T23:28:28Z")
Are you aware of a book called _Finnegan’s Wake_? ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2021, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cool-words-that-dont-exist/932391/20 "2021-02-08T23:41:19Z")
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