I’m not saying I made all these up but I don’t hear many others people use them. What are some of your made up/new words?
Aggravate = angervate
Drudgery = trudgery
Pissed off to pisstivity…. and beyond…
Some days the my coworkers just angervate me.
Walking in deep snow is definitely trudgery.
I’m pissed off to the highest point of pisstivity.
I grok them. They all seem cromulent to me. Such lists embiggen our vocabulary, let’s make it ginormous. You’re one hoopy frood.
QX on those.
<thor>All words are made up.</thor>
Stranger
Pisto=pissed off
Refrigigator = A machine for keeping things cold. Reptile-skin finish is an extra-cost option.
Frognosticator = An amphibian weatherman.
Croc (also: croc’d, auto-croc, etc.)
To extract the contents of the stomach by any technique. Named after Dr. Brady Barr’s technique of inserting a large PVC tube in the mouth of a darted and tagged crocodile on a Nat’l Geographic rerun I once happened to see.
Darth Maul’d
An antagonist who is attacked by two or more heroes (from whatever Star Wars movie Darth Maul appears in).
F’skin (also: f’skined, f’skining)
Research of any kind. Corruption of “forskning,” the Danish word for research.
Lope’d
Anyone, but especially a child, who gets carried off by a flying dinosaur or other airborne creature, for food or mating purposes (from The Valley of Gwangi).
Oldenburging
To deprive something of its function (from Claes Oldenburg’s statement of intent on some long-ago watched TV documentary).
I used to make fun of my step-dad for using the word flustrated. It was only after his death that I found out the OED says it is a real word that’s been around for 300 years.
For a fiction writing class, I came up with the term Avis Crabtree. An Avis Crabtree is any fictitious name that is too creative to be believable.
Disastrophe — worse than a disaster and a catastrophe combined
Vegable — unnecessary syllable jettisoned
Bass-ackwards.
The tic in my Broca’s area keeps producing new words without meaning. If I try, I can come up with meanings out of the blue.
CRUCK.
To make a small surreptitious adjustment.
“She tried to cruck down the thermostat without anyone noticing.” “Before walking into the interview, I quickly crucked my bra straps.”
FLEEN.
A clear plastic wrap used to protect auto bodies from dirt.
“Before driving on that dirt road in the rain, better fleen your ride. Cheaper than a car wash. Mind you don’t fleen the grille!”
BOODER.
Situation normal. The usual, The ordinary. The everyday. The unremarkable. The white T-shirt of moods.
“How’s it going?” “Eh, just booder, you know…”
“What a damn booder day this is.”
My latest Broca word is “gooberation,” but I haven’t thought of a meaning for it.
Gooberation is why I can’t watch anything with George Lindsey in it. It’s more of an exclamation, really.
No kidding? You’ve seen The Legend of Boggy Creek too? There wasted an hour and a half of my life in my misspent youth…
“Naplich” (hard “ch” at the end, as if it were spelled “naplick”) the atmosphere in a room or place that is conducive to taking a nap.
Use in a sentence: “It’s feeling very naplich around here.”
There was a cajun cook guy on youtube that used to say this all the time, I think it’s from Smokey & the Bandit
Hangry - when you are cranky due to lack of food intact.
My friends have also been using verbally an abbreviation of “slow motion” but we haven’t decided on a spelling of it yet. slo-mosh looks like it should rhyme with posh and it doesn’t, it is the just the first part or motion.. Mowsh?
Well, what does that mean Biggs, ‘hinky’?
I don’t know. Strange.
Weird.
Well, why don’t you say strange or weird? I mean hinky, that has no meaning.
Well, we say hinky.
I don’t want you guys using words around me that have no meaning. I’m taking the stairs and walking.
How about ‘bullshit?’ How about ‘bullshit’, Sam?
“Administrivia” is standard DoD slang from 40 years ago (!) that’s probably all over the civilian world by now.
“Craptacular” is another great now-commonplace portmanteau.
In my active EMS days, “goobernacious” referred to any item or bodily part that was covered in mucus, typically patient airways or airway adjuncts. “We’re going to need a new suction canister; this one’s really goobernacious.”
Earlier in my illustrious career I worked (rather poorly, probably) for a long-suffering wholesaler who coined a term for the way I kept putting boxes on shelves with the label facing the wall, instead of outward and visible. “Nyvie, you put 'em all assways again.”
“Assways” and “asswise” were interchangeable.
My late grandmother never got the hang of English, despite many, many years of living in English-speaking countries. But she got creative with it. “Snow flurries” came out as “snow flowers.”
Detroitus — junk coming out of a certain city in Michigan.