# Made-up Words. A Dramastic question. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 22, 2009, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-words-a-dramastic-question/522134 "2009-12-22T00:41:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Super\_Kapowzler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a698b9/32.png) [@Super\_Kapowzler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Super_Kapowzler)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2009, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-words-a-dramastic-question/522134/1 "2009-12-22T00:41:59Z")
I use made-up words on a daily basis. But I am not the only one. During employment training for a job, many years ago, a woman said “The difference is DRAMASTIC!” Having some schoolastic attributations, I knew she meant “dramatic+drastic”, and took it to heart. What are word melange that you’ve used? ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2009, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-words-a-dramastic-question/522134/2 "2009-12-22T00:57:01Z")
I like “disastrophe” (the word not the event! 😛 ) ---
**Author:** ![chacoguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@chacoguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chacoguy)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2009, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-words-a-dramastic-question/522134/3 "2009-12-22T01:05:22Z")
Pain + Anus =Panus ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2009, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-words-a-dramastic-question/522134/4 "2009-12-22T01:33:09Z")
Jellied cranberry sauce in the shape of a can = canberries Snuggling and snoozing = snoozle The horrible event from my childhood when I ate too many Thin Mints = The Mintcident ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2009, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-words-a-dramastic-question/522134/5 "2009-12-22T01:47:27Z")
Grooky - that feeling you have when you’ve been swimming in a dirty lake and the lake water dried on your body and in your hair. ---
**Author:** ![Remarkable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@Remarkable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Remarkable)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2009, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-words-a-dramastic-question/522134/6 "2009-12-22T03:29:51Z")
I use - Nokay - regularly… (No and Okay). Very useful for a noncommittal answer, eg. “you really should try this food i invented… it’s pasta and fruit bake. It’s Fantastic!” err… “Nokay”. Misses Remarkable obviously isn’t overly impressed. 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.) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2009, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-words-a-dramastic-question/522134/7 "2009-12-22T07:29:24Z")
Sometimes I “reconjigger” to indicate that I don’t really know what I’m doing but maybe I’ll fix the problem anyway. ---
**Author:** ![AboutAsWeirdAsYouCanGet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@AboutAsWeirdAsYouCanGet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AboutAsWeirdAsYouCanGet)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2009, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-words-a-dramastic-question/522134/8 "2009-12-22T08:57:20Z")
Flustrerated…frustrated and flustered… ---
**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:** [December 22, 2009, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-words-a-dramastic-question/522134/9 "2009-12-22T10:27:51Z")
Nevermind ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2009, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-words-a-dramastic-question/522134/10 "2009-12-22T12:59:33Z")
Absotively, posilutely. Craptacular. (common these days, but still great) 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** ” ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2009, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-words-a-dramastic-question/522134/11 "2009-12-22T15:04:07Z")
> [@Remarkable](#): > > 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”… Oh, yes. And the microwave is the “Nukolator.” 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. ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2009, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-words-a-dramastic-question/522134/12 "2009-12-22T15:11:08Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Gus\_Gusterson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85f322/32.png) [@Gus\_Gusterson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gus_Gusterson)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2009, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-words-a-dramastic-question/522134/13 "2009-12-22T15:13:46Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Heckity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a5b964/32.png) [@Heckity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heckity)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2009, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-words-a-dramastic-question/522134/14 "2009-12-22T16:13:19Z")
I’ve used “misunderheard” for years. I misheard, therefore I miscomprehended - had I heard correctly I would have understood. I also use “smuffocated”. That’s smothered and suffocated. I suppose if it were real and on film it could be “snuffocated”. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2009, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-words-a-dramastic-question/522134/15 "2009-12-23T00:25:55Z")
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.** ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2009, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-words-a-dramastic-question/522134/16 "2009-12-23T17:28:43Z")
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?) ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2009, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-words-a-dramastic-question/522134/17 "2009-12-23T19:48:48Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2009, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-words-a-dramastic-question/522134/18 "2009-12-23T20:03:31Z")
nm ---
**Author:** ![Trick\_Rider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Trick\_Rider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trick_Rider)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2009, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-words-a-dramastic-question/522134/19 "2009-12-23T20:46:30Z")
I quite like “funsettling”. I’d actually like to start my own movie studio someday and call it “Funsettletainment”. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2009, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-words-a-dramastic-question/522134/20 "2009-12-24T01:02:35Z")
“Futzencrumb”-usually in a high whiny voice like a leprechaun, when I’m a tad annoyed at something. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-words-a-dramastic-question/522134.md?page=2)