Ever "Invented" A Word?

“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.

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.

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.

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”…

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

Deceivous. A combination of both decitful and devious. I can’t claim credit, that goes to my significant other, to describe the ex.