# Help me define a new word: "strelth" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 13, 2011, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-define-a-new-word-strelth/592578 "2011-08-13T15:47:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2011, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-define-a-new-word-strelth/592578/1 "2011-08-13T15:47:41Z")
I did a Yahoo! search on this “word” and got no hits. That’s after having tried numerous others hoping for similar results, but too many “non-words” I came up with appear to have been taken. Just based on its look and sound, what do you propose as a definition for “strelth”? If we can get as many as twenty good choices, maybe we can do a poll! ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2011, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-define-a-new-word-strelth/592578/2 "2011-08-13T15:55:02Z")
Secretly strong. ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2011, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-define-a-new-word-strelth/592578/3 "2011-08-13T16:26:46Z")
Obviously a portmanteau word combining “strength” and “health.” As in, “I do resistaerobic exercises to improve my strelth.” ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2011, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-define-a-new-word-strelth/592578/4 "2011-08-13T16:33:28Z")
That quality in the genus _Felis_ which allows a cat to jump from a standstill, noiselessly, to the top of a sideboard or chest of drawers. From _strength_ + _stealth_. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2011, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-define-a-new-word-strelth/592578/5 "2011-08-13T16:43:04Z")
Streaking stealthily. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2011, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-define-a-new-word-strelth/592578/6 "2011-08-13T16:46:41Z")
I was thinking a portmanteau of “strength” and “stealth”. Which appears to be what **hajario** was thinking, too, but I took it in a different direction: Strength by virtue of stealth. It’s no secret that a B-2 or F-117 is a powerful airplane, but it’s powerful because it’s stealthy. ---
**Author:** ![Lukeinva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lukeinva/32/17872_2.png) [@Lukeinva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lukeinva)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2011, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-define-a-new-word-strelth/592578/7 "2011-08-13T17:53:11Z")
Street wealth. \*The homeless guy found a busy corner where he accumulated a bulging pocket of strelth. \* ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2011, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-define-a-new-word-strelth/592578/8 "2011-08-13T18:02:33Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Streaking stealthily. Surely that would be “strelthing”? Strelth sounds like a noun. Likewise, **hajaro** , that would be “strelthy”. I think strelth could be the fourth-dimensional equivalent of length, height and width. ---
**Author:** ![Crown\_Prince\_of\_Irony](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ed655f/32.png) [@Crown\_Prince\_of\_Irony](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crown_Prince_of_Irony)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2011, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-define-a-new-word-strelth/592578/9 "2011-08-13T18:11:55Z")
Stealthily stretchy - you know how when you stretch spandex, it makes the faintest if sounds? Well, with strelth fabric, ninjas, Navy Seals and Army Rangers can get their yoga on **and** kill you before you ever hear them.