Yeah, but we have a word to describe a limp. We need a short word to describe raising one shoulders to one’ ears in response to cold weather.
And it does rhyme with purple.
Yes! I’ve been using the analogy of the frog in the pot of boiling water to describe a particular circumstance I’m currently dealing with. Much easier to say “I got lobstered.”
”Parenting.”
Now if we only had a word for the times when you think of a clever retort only after it’s too late to use it… 
Lass
I saw an example of this recently, at the Mall.
Time was, there would be a large display board just inside the main entrances with a map of the mall and a directory below the map. I always found it fairly quick and easy to find any store in the mall that I wanted.
Last week, I went to that Mall again. (I don’t go there often.) Now in place of the large display board was an equally large (perhaps 6 ft high by 3 ft wide) computer touch-screen. The main display was a vague illustration of the mall, with two buttons “Browse” and “Search” and a few other buttons along the side with cryptic icons.
Finding one’s way around the mall apparently would require some elaborate navigation around this multi-view on-screen site. I managed to find the store I was looking for very quickly quite by accident. I still don’t know what most of those buttons with the cryptic icons do or even what’s the difference between “Browse” and “Search”, and I didn’t spend any extra time playing with it to learn how it all works.
I think Shindogu is your closest call, even though I seem to remember it stops being a shindogu once you Can actually buy it. But ever since we discovered this in a book collecting various examples, my wife and I surely use it that way.
Examples from the books include:
A combined household duster and cocktail-shaker, for the housewife who wants to reward herself as she is going along.
The all-day tissue dispenser, which is basically a toilet roll fixed on top of a hat, for hay fever sufferers.
Duster slippers for cats, so they can help out with the housework.
The all-over plastic bathing suit, to enable people who suffer from aquaphobia to swim without coming into contact with water.
Thank you! My vocabulary has just been expanded by 1. (What’s the word for a word that you always wanted to exist and that you subsequently find out does?)
:dubious:
j
I’m glad someone invented “yeet”, we really needed an opposite to “yoink”.
A complete set of gender neutral pronouns.
Is there a word for:
Performing an action which is presented as being for the greater good but which is, in reality, done purely out of self interest?
(Also the noun form to describe such an act. There’s a lot of that going on at the moment.)
j
A new noun: Penitentiary Walk
Definition: In a public space such as a park or a well-used trail, a walk in which each group maintains a safe and polite distance (typically at least 10 meters) between itself and the group ahead.
Example of use: Social distancing was giving us cabin fever - we had to get out of he house, so we went for a penitentiary walk beside the canal.
Also the corresponding verb,** to penitentiary walk** - to walk as described above.
j