# Made up words **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 24, 2025, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-words/1017450 "2025-04-24T16:57:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![psiekier](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psiekier/32/116_2.png) [@psiekier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psiekier)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2025, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-words/1017450/21 "2025-04-25T14:21:43Z")
I think every family has words that are in common usage amongst themselves - especially when children are in the mix - but rare or unheard of otherwise. We pass around a lot of [Rich Hall’s sniglets](https://a.co/d/ijDylSG), like “Esso-asso” or “bleemus”, but we also have our own words: **Conventure** - An excursion, no matter how small or how grand. **Beego Money** - Cash consisting solely of coins. **Dee-dah-doos** - McDonalds. **Nu̇nny** - The soft satin edging on blankets. Dogs, cats, and rabbits have ears made of similar material. **Bonkyhead** - Someone acting like an idiot. The bonkyhead is crispy. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2025, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-words/1017450/22 "2025-04-25T17:22:32Z")
OK, did you watch the “30 for 30” episode on Ocho Cinco? He used that exact phrase. ---
**Author:** ![doc481](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f8ce5/32.png) [@doc481](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doc481)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2025, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-words/1017450/23 "2025-04-26T01:27:45Z")
I’m not sure which phrase you are referring to. ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2025, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-words/1017450/24 "2025-04-26T21:26:18Z")
ambervalence, the feeling you get when the traffic light turns yellow and you’re at such a distance from it that you have trouble deciding whether to continue through or stop. vegantarian, a cannibal who only eats vegans. ---
**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:** [April 26, 2025, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-words/1017450/25 "2025-04-26T22:33:21Z")
> [@bibliophage](#): > > ambervalence Brilliant! ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2025, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-words/1017450/26 "2025-04-26T22:49:22Z")
Umbri-Aago was the guy who turned on the lights when we weren’t home. Lights were on a timer, but it was cooler to have a boogie-man sneaking around the house. A word I always thought was made up that my folks used: Charette…a difficult situation. My Dad got it from one of his bosses who would proclaim something “charette city.” Apparently it’s a real word. ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2025, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-words/1017450/27 "2025-04-26T23:00:26Z")
The OED says it means > Chiefly North American (originally Architecture). A period of intense (group) work, typically undertaken in order to meet a deadline. Also: a collaborative workshop focusing on a particular problem or project; (Town Planning) a public meeting or conference devoted to discussion of a proposed community building project. It also defines it as an obsolete term for a carriage, wagon or chariot, and says the modern definition is “probably originally with reference to the former custom among French architecture students of using a cart to carry their work on the day of an exhibition”. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2025, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-words/1017450/28 "2025-04-27T01:43:59Z")
I’ll take that as a “No,” then. “Pisstivity.” For my own contribution: “First one out of the shoe.” When I first heard it as a kid, that’s what I thought the person was saying (instead of “chute”), and that’s the way I would repeat it when the opportunity arose. Even after I found out what they really said some years later, I still kept with “shoe.” ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2025, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-words/1017450/29 "2025-04-27T03:43:15Z")
How about “pandeve”. It’s a mashup of Pandora and Eve. It’s a person who believes that life used to be easy and would still be easy now if not for . . . fill in the blank. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/made-up-words/1017450.md?page=1)