Also., I like to end things (and there’s a multitude here) in …erator…
eg. The metal bending machine is the “Benderator”, the Bamix is the “Mixelator” and the fridge can be the “Colderator”…
endless.
(I must add here that the cat is the “Caterator”, but thats more due to it sounding cool in a Terminator kind of way than it actually applying to anything.)
Ginormous (so common it is probably considered a word)
And, a personal favorite: if you play guitar and have your tongue firmly planted in your cheek, it is sarcastic form to refer to your collection of axes as your “guitarsenal”
I use the suffix “-ative” a lot. A noisy dog, for example, is very barkative. If my husband wants soup for dinner but I don’t, it’s because I’m just not in a very soupative mood.
Stumpified: a cross between stumped and stupefied. Very useful when I want to convey a particular feeling of not knowing what to do next. It came about when I misread a sign for a town called Stumpfield.
I often warn people of the potential ramipercussions of their actions. It’s when things are likely to go worse than either ramifications or repercussions can handle.
You might try to get some of these into the Urban Dictionary. They’ve accepted twitterary (a secretary who handles a celebrity’s twitter account, because she can’t be bothered to do her own tweets) from me, but they didn’t like boron (boring and stupid.)
Somehow, the refrigerator became the** refrigigator** for me. I have no feeling in my feet. If I ever get 'em back, they’ll be togent.
I like “confuzzled” which is a sort of triple portmanteau – confused, puzzled, and fuzzy on the concept. (I thought this was original but I just saw it in someone else’s post in a different thread – I guess it gets made up pretty frequently.)
Another triple portmanteau: “fantabuliffic” (fantastic, fabulous, and terrific).
Back in high school, a friend’s favorite word was “groovadelic”. (Yes, this was in the early 70s.)
(By the way – I wonder how come Rilchiam hasn’t yet weighed in with the origin of his name?)
I just received an email from a company called Iron Mountain (they specialize in document storage and destruction services) making a reference to “Shredonomics,” a term which they’ve apparently trademarked.
Outside of this thread, I hope to never use that word again.