# Has Anyone Else Ever Invented A Word. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 19, 2002, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-ever-invented-a-word/114780 "2002-06-19T01:52:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2002, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-ever-invented-a-word/114780/21 "2002-06-22T23:38:58Z")
**Tator.**. Take the ‘dic’ away from ‘dictator’. **Skrankle**. General epithet. “You forgot to mail the letters? You skrankle!” “Skrankle-screw! The cable’s out!” **Beg-a-thon**. Public broadcasting telethon. “Pleeeeeeeze send us money! We’ll give you this nifty key chain!” Coined by Jerry Krupnik, TV reviewer from the Newark Star-Ledger. ---
**Author:** ![BraheSilver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@BraheSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BraheSilver)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2002, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-ever-invented-a-word/114780/22 "2002-06-23T00:52:28Z")
**laxinate** - that feeling of expectation when you’re using a public toilet with a line behind you, between the moments when you whip it out and actual urination begins. **kasneezle** - a sneeze that blows more out of the mouth than the nose. This one gets used quite often at my home. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2002, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-ever-invented-a-word/114780/23 "2002-06-23T04:19:40Z")
In my parents’ household, the **hedgehog** is the term for the large, oaken sideboard in the front hallway, which my mom invented in a fit of lethologia many years ago. ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2002, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-ever-invented-a-word/114780/24 "2002-06-23T04:42:56Z")
My word, that I thought I thought up, was **KRUNK** , which was a very flexable word. I thought it up circa 1984. Then I heard Connan O’brian use the word, and using it as if he made it up.:mad: I was pissed for 2 years over that. Then, in about 1998, I saw an old, old movie, in which (I think it was Carry Grant, but I may be wrong) a character uses the word krunk as an insult. :smack: Here I was ticked because I thought connan stole it from me! ---
**Author:** ![ianzin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ed655f/32.png) [@ianzin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ianzin)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2002, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-ever-invented-a-word/114780/25 "2002-06-23T15:33:12Z")
**lurnk** to visit the Boards and learn things but not post anything. ---
**Author:** ![EggNogg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb8c5e/32.png) [@EggNogg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EggNogg)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2002, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-ever-invented-a-word/114780/26 "2002-06-23T16:35:22Z")
meatosity - the percentage of meat in your sandwedge spamosity - same as above, but i dont count ‘spam’ as a meat egg ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2002, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-ever-invented-a-word/114780/27 "2002-06-23T18:35:11Z")
My friend and I made up a word in Latin class in high school: flinge. **Flinge** : Verb; 1) To attach a flange onto something 2) To operate a currently existing flange ---
**Author:** ![SanibelMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@SanibelMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanibelMan)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2002, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-ever-invented-a-word/114780/28 "2002-06-23T18:47:22Z")
When I was a little kid, I came up with the words “tractionate” and “frictionate” to describe things which had a lot of traction or friction. My parents make fun of me to this day for it. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2002, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-ever-invented-a-word/114780/29 "2002-06-23T19:53:57Z")
I’m afraid the most I’ve ever done is come up with the acronym “V.V.” for “Verbal Vomit,” a term invented by a fellow poster on another message board to describe the rantings of a resident troll. Though I beleive I might have independantly come up with the word “Skitters” to describe any number of otherwise unidentified gangly, fast moving monsters that attack you out of the darkness in a First Person Shooter. Ranchoth ---
**Author:** ![QueenAl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/d26b3c/32.png) [@QueenAl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QueenAl)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2002, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-ever-invented-a-word/114780/30 "2002-06-23T19:58:33Z")
I’ve made up tons of words, but only two that I’ve since seen used by people not known to me (but the word did not exist before I started using it): Fop: verb, int: to have several windows of different forums and message boards open at once, and post in them one after the other; in other words, to ‘forum hop.’ (Of course, fop also means a dandy, but this is a new meaning. I’ve seen it used a great number of times recently). Snarkle: verb, int: to laugh snarkily. I have often snarkled at posts on the SDMB. This one became so rapidly accepted as a word that soon _everyone_ was using it. But I was the first! ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2002, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-ever-invented-a-word/114780/31 "2002-06-23T20:16:24Z")
Dinosnarf…a small, cuddly creature who likes to nibble noses. ---
**Author:** ![HerMajestyLorna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/7cd45c/32.png) [@HerMajestyLorna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HerMajestyLorna)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2002, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-ever-invented-a-word/114780/32 "2002-06-23T20:22:21Z")
Shart. As in, “Oh, shart! I forgot my glasses!” Half shit, half fart. ---
**Author:** ![Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speaker_for_the_Dead)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2002, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-ever-invented-a-word/114780/33 "2002-06-23T23:26:15Z")
**Shwank** - Merely ‘swank’ with a twist. I also randomly insert French, or more rarely, German into my everyday usage. I also have adopted Fruitloop to replace any swear. ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_B](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jim_b/32/4338_2.png) [@Jim\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_B)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2002, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-ever-invented-a-word/114780/34 "2002-06-24T00:04:37Z")
**Gambophilia** : a person who is greatly attracted to legs. You can have alot of fun with phoney Latin roots. E.g., it says in my Latin-English dictionary that _dumus_ is the Latin word for “bush” (thorny bushes in particular, it says). So… **Dumophilia** : a person really enamored with President Bush (Junior or Senior, I guess). **Dumophobia** : someone who hates or distrusts the Bushes, their policies, their election results, _etc_. _Dumus_ seems appropriate for another reason. Hmmm, I wonder why. 😉 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_B](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jim_b/32/4338_2.png) [@Jim\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_B)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2002, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-ever-invented-a-word/114780/35 "2002-06-24T00:08:27Z")
BTW, I should have said **gambophilia** , etc. referred to the _condition_ of having those problems or characteristics. **Gambophili_ac_** more correctly would refer to the person… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sinyster1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Sinyster1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sinyster1)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2002, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-ever-invented-a-word/114780/36 "2002-06-24T00:12:55Z")
Fargle-nargle, that says it all. Fargle-nargle. ---
**Author:** ![PRNYouth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9dc877/32.png) [@PRNYouth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PRNYouth)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2002, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-ever-invented-a-word/114780/37 "2002-06-24T01:19:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by EggNogg \* > **meatosity - the percentage of meat in your sandwedge** I’ve never tried putting meat in my sandwedge, but if it would take a few strokes off my golf game, I’m willing to try it. What meatosity do you recommend, EggNogg? 😃 My word is derivative of another word, and it’s used as an all-purpose expression of frustration. For your approval, I submit **crappity**. ---
**Author:** ![Improv\_Geek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b3f665/32.png) [@Improv\_Geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Improv_Geek)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2002, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-ever-invented-a-word/114780/38 "2002-06-24T02:15:57Z")
Well in fact I have taken inventing words to a new level, I’m a mini Tolkien and in my hobby I am creating my own world with its own languages. I won’t bore you with such unusual information but let it say this hobby has grabbed me. Ronin ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2002, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-ever-invented-a-word/114780/39 "2002-06-24T02:21:58Z")
**Jim B** I reccomend you look for a book called ‘The meaning of Liff’ by Douglas Adams. You might like it. I also like inventing words. but only if they are really stupid ones like ploon, fleesewoggin, murdleflang etc… ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2002, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-ever-invented-a-word/114780/40 "2002-06-24T02:36:56Z")
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