Here’s a silly one. Has anybody ever heard the word “bonkers” used to mean “radio buttons”? I heard it in a dream and wondered if my subconscious made it up or if I really heard it somewhere.
The specific usage was “Bill Clinton can sew that up for you. Right now he’s adding agreement bonkers to our website. He’ll be along in a minute.”
Don’t ask me.
Don’t go nuts researching this. I’ve dreamt words before. I once spent weeks trying to find where I’d seen a paragraph about “pharic noise” (yes, that’s an “r”), which, if it existed, would refer to meaningless words like “hello.” Another time I actually dreamt the dictionary entry for “stil,” which meant something like “stylus” until the death of St. Peter, after which it came to mean “fishook.” I bet Freud would love both of those.
Yeah, I dream about reading the dictionary. The collective yawn induced by that revelation just… oh never mind.