I thought I coined a new word yesterday: Endearritating

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I’m taking a break from covid for the moment. I’ve had 872 of my 1110 patients test positive for it, a few have died, I haven’t gotten it yet, and I’m sort of off for 3 days now, only working remotely instead of having to suit up in PPE when I get to the health unit.

It was there that the term occurred to me while listening to another staff member talk about how their kid was going to dress up in mini PPE for Halloween, and how cute the kid looked in it

Well, turns out I didn’t actually create it de novo for the first time, first use. A quick check of Google showed me that I was not the first to use it, but it did only result in 32 unique hits on Google (including a link to the Urban dictionary), which makes me think not all that many folks thought of it before I did. Probably more than a dozen thousand or so.

Further review of those few links showed that the word did appear in a book I read back in 2007 or so: Give War a Chance by P. J. O’Rourke. He used it to describe Dr. Ruth. I honestly don’t remember that particular passage, nor the word but I guess it did arise from my subconscious on its own.

Endearritating: Adorably annoying; aggravating, but cute.

Anybody else heard/use the term?

Anybody else think they coined a new word? If so, did it turn out to be truly original?

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Insinuendo.

If you’ve ever been the object of conversational malice you don’t require a definition.

And yeah, it would appear that others have come up with it as well.

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I recently thought I invented the word “automato” for a tomato sauce processing machine, but nope.

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A roommate I had years ago used the word “humongous” a lot. He once told me that the had thought he invented it, until he noticed that other people were using it.

When I was quite young, my father occasionally used the word “keister” (sp?), meaning ass, which I had never otherwise heard. (He sometimes pronounced it “kazister”.) It was some years later that Reagan, now president, publicly used the word, after which it became better known. (Perhaps Reagan had earlier used it in his acting career?)

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Never heard it, but know someone who it describes perfectly.

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I have coined a few words, and some are now part of Urban Dictionary. Twitterary is one, meaning someone who handles a Twitter account for a celebrity too lazy or tech-clumsy to do it herself. Urban Dictionary: twitterary

Our president would probably benefit from having a twitterary, but he’s a Very Stable Genius, ya know.

I have some entries at UD as Oliver Faltz, but now I’m Telly Watt-Amagonadou there now.