# Made up words or Words You Use Wrong For Fun **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 25, 2016, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-words-or-words-you-use-wrong-for-fun/755682 "2016-05-25T18:21:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Kropotkin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kropotkin/32/18045_2.png) [@Kropotkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kropotkin)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-words-or-words-you-use-wrong-for-fun/755682/81 "2016-06-02T22:39:52Z")
At restaurants my kid bother [sic!] liked to tell servers to “please give my excrements to the chef for his oblivious good taste.” Abyssinia? Well, you go Uruguay and I’ll go mine… ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2016, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-words-or-words-you-use-wrong-for-fun/755682/82 "2016-06-03T00:11:01Z")
> [@Mama\_Zappa](#): > > Noranges, napples and mice cream (I think I’ll have a norange, or maybe a napple, heck, I’ll have some mice cream instead). Mice cream is also known as throat medicine here. If my husband and I are working on a grocery list, we’ll even say “Get a dozen noranges”. No snausages? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2016, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-words-or-words-you-use-wrong-for-fun/755682/83 "2016-06-03T00:25:11Z")
Re _jamais vu_: I KNOW there’s a word for it. Mine is a “made-up-word” and “a-word-I-use-wrong-for-fun” as per the thread title. day-jah-voo \<–\> voo-jah-day Get it? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2016, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-words-or-words-you-use-wrong-for-fun/755682/84 "2016-06-03T01:24:01Z")
If I am P.O.'ed about something but not enough to cuss at it, I say “Rashkamakov” and then go about my business. I have taken to using the MMP workweek phrases: Moanday 2Day Hump Day Thorsday Firday ---
**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:** [June 3, 2016, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-words-or-words-you-use-wrong-for-fun/755682/85 "2016-06-03T01:35:16Z")
The electronics tool that shows waveforms? That’s a sillyscope. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2016, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-words-or-words-you-use-wrong-for-fun/755682/86 "2016-06-03T01:43:22Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Re _jamais vu_: I KNOW there’s a word for it. Mine is a “made-up-word” and “a-word-I-use-wrong-for-fun” as per the thread title. Well, now everyone else also knows about the term _jamais vu._ We’re being educational. And those of us who knew it already got to show off. So it’s all good, see? ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2016, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-words-or-words-you-use-wrong-for-fun/755682/87 "2016-06-03T02:24:26Z")
> [@Martian Bigfoot](#): > > … And those of us who knew it already got to show off. … I got that part. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2016, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-words-or-words-you-use-wrong-for-fun/755682/88 "2016-06-03T02:28:46Z")
What a wonderful thread. Such a refreshing change from the “words and phrases that make me unaccountably apopleptic” threads that always get hundreds of posts. When I was a kid I couldn’t fathom how “specific” apparently had connotations of being kind of small, but the Specific Ocean was the biggest one. > [@GinoC](#): > > My daughter was in her mid-teens before she realized cromulent wasn’t a real word. She was a bit miffed at her parents. By now - sure it’s a real word! It must have been around a lot longer than some of the tech-derived words, and I don’t think it’s going away. Did you know _chortle_ was invented by Lewis Carrol in _Through The Looking Glass_? He also coined the expression for the kind of word that he liked to invent, _portmanteau word_. A portmanteau is (or was) a kind of suitcase that opens into two sections. Thus _chortle_ = chuckle+snort; _slithy_ = lithe & slimy. A modern portmanteau is _glamping_ for glamorous camping. I wish a lot of the other words he invented for _Jabberwocky_ would become more popular, too. I think my favorite is _frumious_, best spoken with a parody of an upper class (British) English accent with a speech impediment where the “r” comes out as a “w”. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2016, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-words-or-words-you-use-wrong-for-fun/755682/89 "2016-06-03T02:47:43Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > I got that part. :rolleyes: Well, now you’re making it sound like a bad thing. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2016, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-words-or-words-you-use-wrong-for-fun/755682/90 "2016-06-03T10:54:33Z")
Grandma came to visit. She took the train as far as the local station, then I was centimeter. ---
**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:** [June 3, 2016, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-words-or-words-you-use-wrong-for-fun/755682/91 "2016-06-03T20:04:23Z")
Re: norange In Spanish, it does start with an “n”, _naranja._ ---
**Author:** ![Iceraptoress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b19c9b/32.png) [@Iceraptoress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iceraptoress)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2016, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-words-or-words-you-use-wrong-for-fun/755682/92 "2016-06-04T11:10:29Z")
> [@MissTake](#): > > Worstershireshyershewer schaush for worstershire sauce We have one for Worstershire sauce too = Worster-shishter-shire Sauce. And you have to kind of sing it when you say it. ---
**Author:** ![eburacum45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eburacum45/32/8690_2.png) [@eburacum45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eburacum45)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2016, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-words-or-words-you-use-wrong-for-fun/755682/93 "2016-06-04T20:47:57Z")
The television remote. No proper name for it (remote?- nah.) We called it the ‘thing’ (where’s the thing? You know- the thing!) until my daughter started calling it the ‘Dingwa’. Now it’s always the Dingwa. ---
**Author:** ![MacLir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9e8a1a/32.png) [@MacLir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacLir)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2016, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-words-or-words-you-use-wrong-for-fun/755682/94 "2016-06-06T23:09:25Z")
Automagically :rolleyes: Used for a process which proceeds dependably on its own, but is complex enough to not be obvious as to how it works. Drives my wife nuts when I use it. ---
**Author:** ![CelticKnot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/celticknot/32/3392_2.png) [@CelticKnot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CelticKnot)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2016, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-words-or-words-you-use-wrong-for-fun/755682/95 "2016-06-10T15:08:28Z")
I was trying to ask a question and jumbled up “brilliant person” and “idiot” and came up with a new word. Brillianite: n. idiot, (sarcastic) brilliant person; From brilliant + -ite (adherent); to be used in a rhetorical question: What brillianite though up (insert bad/annoying idea here)? ---
**Author:** ![Philliam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/philliam/32/3011_2.png) [@Philliam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philliam)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2016, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-words-or-words-you-use-wrong-for-fun/755682/96 "2016-06-10T17:29:02Z")
As an early reader (newspapers and magazines by age 5) several word threw me for a loop: ‘Misled’ was pronounced missile-d in my head and seemed to be like when you scratch your head in confusion. ‘Molesters’ From the old ‘back of the magazine’ pepper spray ads was pronounced mole-sters (as they obviously were some kind of creepy underground gangsters preying on people). Both of these are now current, at least in family conversations. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2016, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-words-or-words-you-use-wrong-for-fun/755682/97 "2016-06-10T17:39:18Z")
> [@Philliam](#): > > ‘Molesters’ From the old ‘back of the magazine’ pepper spray ads was pronounced mole-sters (as they obviously were some kind of creepy underground gangsters preying on people). This brings to mind Tobias Funke’s portmanteau of analyst and therapist - his business card described him as an [Analrapist](http://arresteddevelopment.wikia.com/wiki/Analrapist). ---
**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:** [June 10, 2016, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-words-or-words-you-use-wrong-for-fun/755682/98 "2016-06-10T21:58:52Z")
> [@Philliam](#): > > ‘Molesters’ From the old ‘back of the magazine’ pepper spray ads was pronounced mole-sters (as they obviously were some kind of creepy underground gangsters preying on people). > 😃 This was further confused by Molester Mole, a character in Walt Kelly’s _Pogo_ comic strip. ---
**Author:** ![Annoying\_Buzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Annoying\_Buzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annoying_Buzz)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2016, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-words-or-words-you-use-wrong-for-fun/755682/99 "2016-06-14T09:44:59Z")
> [@Pliam](#): > > I have always felt that uniformity is something the language lacked. For instance, evade has evasion, why can’t avoid have avoision? [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/avoision](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/avoision) ---
**Author:** ![Oglomott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oglomott/32/3543_2.png) [@Oglomott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oglomott)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2016, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-words-or-words-you-use-wrong-for-fun/755682/100 "2016-06-14T10:06:21Z")
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