# 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:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![NoUseForAName](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbce88/32.png) [@NoUseForAName](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoUseForAName)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2002, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-ever-invented-a-word/114780/41 "2002-06-24T02:43:47Z")
**Bah fungo!** Used in place of the common expletive. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2002, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-ever-invented-a-word/114780/42 "2002-06-24T12:29:13Z")
Instead of saying "someone I’ve met on the Internet and have developed an e-mail relationship with, but never met IRL, I simply say “E-friend.” I never have to define it either. ---
**Author:** ![Vertiginous\_Annie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a587f6/32.png) [@Vertiginous\_Annie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vertiginous_Annie)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2002, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-ever-invented-a-word/114780/43 "2002-06-24T13:18:27Z")
Ginormous - for those times when neither gigantic or enormous will do. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2002, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-ever-invented-a-word/114780/44 "2002-06-24T16:14:45Z")
\*\*Obstecologist \*\* which is a metric form of Obstetrics and Gynocology. It’s much easier to pronounce, quicker \*and \* whenever I use it \*everyone \* knows exactly what I am talking about. ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2002, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-ever-invented-a-word/114780/45 "2002-06-24T17:39:16Z")
…but I like to revive old words, from the 18th and 19th centuries.I think it sad that great words like “blatherskite” and “plugugly” are lost to the English language! I like the old words because they seem so, well, elegant! Take the english word “dog”…isn’t it much nicer to use “hound”? I try to revive old words in the following way: -I make a point to use the word at least 10-16 times per day -I use the words in SD postings -I use the words in emails to friends and associates Please HELP revive these words! Current candidates are" -PLUGUGLY -ABSCOND -VERSIMILITUDE Thanks you, and go out and USE THOSE WORDS!! ---
**Author:** ![Jimmy\_The\_Veal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/49beb7/32.png) [@Jimmy\_The\_Veal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimmy_The_Veal)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2002, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-ever-invented-a-word/114780/46 "2002-06-24T18:09:23Z")
Some friends and I found there was no suitable word for the lack of the sense of smell. Although “anosmia” is the technical term, the lack of any of the other senses has a nice, concise word to describe it. To wit: - If you lack the sense of sight, you are “blind” - If you lack the sense of sound, you are “deaf” - If you lack the sense of touch, you are “numb” - If you lack the sense of taste, you are “tacky” So after great thought we coined the term “clat” to refer to someone who is “smell deaf” or who has no sense of smell. Feel free to use it. Not that the opportunity presents itself that often. Only once so far for me. At a cocktail party someone was telling a story about a friend who had been in an accident and lost her sense of smell for a while. I asked “Could she smell at all, or was she totally clat?” ---
**Author:** ![Tygr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df788c/32.png) [@Tygr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tygr)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2002, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-ever-invented-a-word/114780/47 "2002-06-24T20:01:40Z")
Created by Mrs. Tygr: **passenge** , _v._, to travel in a vehicle but not drive it, fly it or work on it. _“It’s my turn to drive. You passenge for a while.”_ **destinate** , _v._, to arrive at the place to which one is going. _“I gotta potty. When do we destinate?”_ These are the after-effects of my wife’s automobile-induced narcolepsy. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-else-ever-invented-a-word/114780.md?page=2)