# Ever "Invented" A Word? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 21, 2010, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-invented-a-word/544064 "2010-06-21T23:52:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Jarrow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7c8e57/32.png) [@Jarrow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jarrow)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-invented-a-word/544064/61 "2010-07-01T07:41:06Z")
“Body eumorphic disorder.” Google shows a 2 or 3 others have also coined it, but until I searched just now, as far as I knew I’d coined all by myself. And none of those others apply it to themselves. Me, I totally have it. ---
**Author:** ![Runestar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/74df32/32.png) [@Runestar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Runestar)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-invented-a-word/544064/62 "2010-07-01T19:51:53Z")
**Vendoject** - one of those seemingly faultless coins (or in this day and age, bills) that the vending machine just won’t accept for some reason. ---
**Author:** ![In\_Winnipeg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a8b319/32.png) [@In\_Winnipeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/In_Winnipeg)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2010, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-invented-a-word/544064/63 "2010-07-03T00:30:59Z")
Back around Grade Five, I coined the word “screeling” to describe the sound of sea gulls anywhere they are present in profusion, eg. at a garbage dump. I think I was trying to suggest “squealing” but for some reason it came out “screeling”, to which my teacher at the time said, “Sometimes it makes sense to make up a word.” On another tangent, I sometimes describe a bunch of pricks (eg. the fans of an opposing team) as _penii erecti_, which has a kind of Latin sound to it. ---
**Author:** ![NetTrekker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nettrekker/32/2909_2.png) [@NetTrekker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NetTrekker)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2010, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-invented-a-word/544064/64 "2010-07-03T02:41:32Z")
> [@Taomist](#): > > I thought I invented saying ‘Son of a mother!’ when swearing, but after doing this for 30 odd years, I finally heard someone else say it the other day. Either it finally has gotten around, or it’s one of those ‘everyone thinks of it at the same time’ kinda thing. Hrmph. For avoiding cuss words, I always liked “farking bastage.” Someone else made that up though. ---
**Author:** ![In\_Winnipeg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a8b319/32.png) [@In\_Winnipeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/In_Winnipeg)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2010, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-invented-a-word/544064/65 "2010-07-04T21:43:52Z")
> [@NetTrekker](#): > > For avoiding cuss words, I always liked “farking bastage.” Someone else made that up though. I think that came from the movie _Johnny Dangerously_, along with “fargin’ iceholes”… ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2010, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-invented-a-word/544064/66 "2010-07-04T22:01:48Z")
My German Mom never could manage the soft “d” pronounciation of the word “fridge”, so the whole family adopted “fritch” as the word… We still use it in honor of her. Quasi ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2010, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-invented-a-word/544064/67 "2010-07-05T03:13:14Z")
Deceivous. A combination of both decitful and devious. I can’t claim credit, that goes to my significant other, to describe the ex. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-invented-a-word/544064.md?page=3)