# Portmanteau you invented **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 13, 2012, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portmanteau-you-invented/609450 "2012-01-13T23:17:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portmanteau-you-invented/609450/1 "2012-01-13T23:17:31Z")
Have you ever invented a new combo word? One I invented is “shiggles”. ---
**Author:** ![Lo-Slung\_Denim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f6c823/32.png) [@Lo-Slung\_Denim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lo-Slung_Denim)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portmanteau-you-invented/609450/2 "2012-01-13T23:19:24Z")
I like to think I invented “wanxiety” - feeling anxious and guilty after, ah, you know. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portmanteau-you-invented/609450/3 "2012-01-13T23:22:54Z")
Grasshop: Bluegrass-Hip Hop fusion music. ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portmanteau-you-invented/609450/4 "2012-01-13T23:23:36Z")
\*\*Becatted \*\*- unable to move from a place due to the weight or placement of cat(s) on one’s person. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2012, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portmanteau-you-invented/609450/5 "2012-01-13T23:36:24Z")
I call Capri shorts “shants” (“shorts” + “pants”). Hate the things with a passion, which inspired the name. ---
**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:** [January 14, 2012, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portmanteau-you-invented/609450/6 "2012-01-14T00:34:25Z")
Asimovian invented “snowpokes” for people who slow waaaaay down when it’s snowing. ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2012, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portmanteau-you-invented/609450/7 "2012-01-14T00:48:44Z")
We eat quite a lot of Quorn products (vegetarian meat substitutes), and we call them all by Qu + part of the word. Quasages, quicken, qurgers. (Quince, sadly, doesn’t work. Quicken does because it’s pronounced differently to the other meaning and is in a different context). It wasn’t that long ago that my daughter realised that quasages is not a real word. I think Quorn should rebrand that product - it’s way better than Quorn sausages. > [@Nawth\_Chucka](#): > > \*\*Becatted \*\*- unable to move from a place due to the weight or placement of cat(s) on one’s person. I like that one and will use it from now on. I am becatted on a daily basis. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2012, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portmanteau-you-invented/609450/8 "2012-01-14T01:12:09Z")
> [@SciFiSam](#): > > Quince, sadly, doesn’t work. Plus, what would you eat it with? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2012, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portmanteau-you-invented/609450/9 "2012-01-14T02:05:03Z")
**Implediment** - a combination of implement and impediment, used for badly designed devices, systems or software that will never repay the time it takes to learn to work them properly. ---
**Author:** ![11811](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/9d8465/32.png) [@11811](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/11811)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2012, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portmanteau-you-invented/609450/10 "2012-01-14T02:23:33Z")
Spantaculous: spectacular, fantastic, and fabulous ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2012, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portmanteau-you-invented/609450/11 "2012-01-14T02:25:11Z")
“Gesbians”, after hearing the phrase “gays and lesbians” once too often. ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2012, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portmanteau-you-invented/609450/12 "2012-01-14T02:27:00Z")
Well, everyone has heard craptacular (which I think pretty good). I have called my PC ‘The Computalator’ since Der Arnold’s famous flick. ---
**Author:** ![iftheresaway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ecae2f/32.png) [@iftheresaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iftheresaway)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2012, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portmanteau-you-invented/609450/13 "2012-01-14T03:04:56Z")
I often use “coughter” for when I laugh so hard it makes me cough (since expanded to refer to coughing fits in general). ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2012, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portmanteau-you-invented/609450/14 "2012-01-14T03:46:30Z")
I doubt that I’m the only person in the history of the English language to think of it, but I came up with “perplextual” to describe people like me. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2012, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portmanteau-you-invented/609450/15 "2012-01-14T04:02:01Z")
**Phlemonade.** Drinking lemonade builds up a bit of phlem in the back of my throat. The rest is history. ---
**Author:** ![nikonikosuru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5f8ce5/32.png) [@nikonikosuru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nikonikosuru)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2012, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portmanteau-you-invented/609450/16 "2012-01-14T04:47:01Z")
Shiggles is pretty common around here, I use it regularly (although I wonder if my new acquaintences know what it stands for.) ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2012, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portmanteau-you-invented/609450/17 "2012-01-14T05:18:25Z")
Shampaign - I invented this word to describe [this](http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/tea-partiers-arizona-prop-fake-latin) situation. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2012, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portmanteau-you-invented/609450/18 "2012-01-14T05:29:24Z")
Not sure if I invented them–it may have been a friend–but **upscalator** and **downscalator**. I can take credit for **kittysburg** : a few cats sleeping in close proximity to one another, as on the bed or in front of the fire. They resemble the dead in [this photo](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Battle_of_Gettysburg.jpg) of the Gettysburg battlefield, simply lying where they fell. Usage: “I can’t vacuum the living room; it’s kittysburg in there.” ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2012, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portmanteau-you-invented/609450/19 "2012-01-14T05:35:54Z")
Kittysburg. heh heh heh That sounds cute. How many cats do you have? Or maybe I should ask how many cats have you? 🙂 I always loved that line about how dogs consider you to be their god and cats assume that they are yours. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2012, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portmanteau-you-invented/609450/20 "2012-01-14T05:44:33Z")
> [@Gagundathar](#): > > How many cats do you have? > Or maybe I should ask how many cats have you? 🙂 I have six cats. Or perhaps, six cats employ me. 🙂 And when they all nap in front of the fire, it does look like kittysburg! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portmanteau-you-invented/609450.md?page=2)