Not mine, but my two year old has been referring to things that happened in the past as “yestertime”… I’ve found myself using it. Not as specific as yesterday!
It was at least that long ago. I may have used it in the 70s, but I’m not sure. I’m pretty sure I used it in college, which was '80-'84.
Have at! 
Okay, so far the classy insult collection has “Oedipalist” and “proctotreme”. Anyone got another, or do I have to do with “Hi Opal”?
I refer to staple-removers as “snake dentures.”
On my LiveJournal, I occasionally play a game I call One Different Letter. I invite people to submit old words (which I call “paleologisms,” another coinage I can take credit for); I either remove one letter, add one letter, change one letter, or move one letter. I then provide a definition for the new word.
One of my favorites: someone submitted “zombie.” I added an “o” and came up with “zoombie,” which is one of those fast-moving undead brain-munchers like the ones in 28 Days Later.
I have been trying to get a local beer combo named appropriately. Anyone in the PDX area has probably been to a Mcmenamins, where they have their own brews. Two of them mixed together is always a good combo, Ruby and Terminator, also known as a Rubinator. So a couple years back there was some difficulty getting the raspberries? for the Ruby, so they brewed a batch from another fruit and called it Purple Haze. Its very good and not quite as sweet as the Ruby. So after trying it the first time I turned and asked the waiter for a Hazinator, which they gave me a funny look and deemed it a good call for a name. Well, there are lots of mcmenamins, some of them had been calling it purpinator? which sounds terrible. So for a couple years now anytime they have purple haze I ask for the Hazinator, I think its starting to catch on (though to be honest its only my friends and I that call it that from what I know).
Damn. So many people have come up with my phrase.
Then there’s pandeve. The word is formed by combining Pandora and Eve. It describes a person who believes that the world was made to be or should be a good and just and easy to live in place, and that it would be, too, if it weren’t for those (fill in ethnic group, political group, or people who do/don’t do this obvious thing). Some of them are sad and wistful, others hanker to line the right group of people up against the wall to be shot.
Someone I know made a up a German word for something American, when visiting in Germany. German words often are known words stuck together that are descriptive. The next time she was in that town a couple years later it was in common use. I don’t know what the word was either. It had something to do with new electronic technology.
I have two in the Urban Dictionary, aspect and twitterary.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=oliver+faltz
Aspect is like henpecked, only it’s your television that dominates your life. The degree of aspect is expressed a ratio. 23:7 is pretty high.
Twitterary is an underling who handles the twitter account for a celebrity, who can’t be bothered to tweet for herself. If you have been reading a star’s tweets, you may be hanging on the every word of a twitterary.
Butt Loogey: The sticky, snot like poops.
I called my brother that once, and it stuck.
I once told an architect that he had an edifice complex, but that’s more of a pun.
People. Period.
A couple of my friends drink vodka with diet coke, I like to order it as a VD. It’s not catching on though.
I just coined one last night and immediately I thought of this thread (yes, I probably spend waaayyy too much time on the dope if that’s what’s happening).
Boner punch: being violently stabbed by someone’s boner.
My husband and I were starting to get intimate last night and I rolled onto my back. He climbed on top, but instead of being gentle, he kinda plopped down on top of me, stabbing me in the gut with his boner. My response was “Ow! You just boner punched my ovary!”
I’ll take “phrases that you never hear at parties” for a thousand, Alex.
We had a fellow troop in the Army who bummed cigarettes constantly. His name was Grishman, so we coined the verb “to grish,” which means to take a cigarette with no attempt to replace or pay for it.
We also had a GI named Lombardo, who was sometimes found to be wearing someone else’s clothes or shoes or using someone else’s equipment, usually a surprise to the donor. So we made a more general case out of the grish verb, “to lomborrow,” which means to use anything without plans to return it or notify the borrowed party.
Useful. “Sorry, Sarge, someone lomborrowed my rifle.”
I made a variation of Buffalo hot wings with chunks of boneless breast meat instead of actual wings.
“Buffalo Not Wings”.
When I was a little kid the house I lived in had a chimney over the kitchen stove instead of a vent hood. It had a tin rain cap which made odd gloorky noises when it rained. Somehow, either my mother or my father, or just possibly I, called this rather pleasant noise “Gutching and Draking”.
werg
I invented this when I was about 9 or 10 years old. However (and this is important!) the spoken word “werg” is only meaningful when accompanied by a particular gesture. This consists in holding the tips of the fingers and thumb of each hand close together (but not touching), placing the fingertips thus arranged to the upper temples on either side of the head, and rotating both sets of fingertips against the scalp as “werg” is spoken.
It is a mild insult, meaning something between “fool,” “jerk,” and “poindexter.”
Ooh, I already know where I’m gonna use that one. Yoink!
I coin words and phrases all the time, but their use is usually only accepted within tight groups of friends or coworkers. I did try LQTM (Laughing Quietly To Myself) as an internet acronym*. It never caught on.
- Because really, how often do you literally LOL? Much less ROFL, LMFAO, etc.