# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Lilacs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Lilacs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lilacs)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2012, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portmanteau-you-invented/609450/41 "2012-01-16T17:06:08Z")
I didn’t invent this, my coworker uses it; it might be common for all I know. But she has a dog she calls the Ch’wiener, for the chow and dachshund heritage. ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2012, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portmanteau-you-invented/609450/42 "2012-01-16T17:24:31Z")
“Peenging”- using the sound of the urine stream in the toilet bowl to adjust my aim so that I don’t have to turn on the bathroom light in the middle of the night. ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2012, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portmanteau-you-invented/609450/43 "2012-01-16T17:48:33Z")
Pseudorgasm - she’s faking it ---
**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 16, 2012, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portmanteau-you-invented/609450/44 "2012-01-16T17:55:46Z")
> [@Enola\_Straight](#): > > Pseudorgasm - she’s faking it How about “Norgasm: No, that’s not working either.” ---
**Author:** ![shorin-ryu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@shorin-ryu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shorin-ryu)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2012, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portmanteau-you-invented/609450/45 "2012-01-16T17:58:38Z")
Someone in my office created it, but we all use it: Indignorant. For people who get indignant at us over the phone because they are ignorant about what they need. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2012, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portmanteau-you-invented/609450/46 "2012-01-16T18:00:42Z")
I describe the way certain cold medicines make me feel as floofy, it’s sort of flaky and goofy. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2012, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portmanteau-you-invented/609450/47 "2012-01-16T18:05:08Z")
**Snuffleupagation:** The tendency of technical or mechanical glitches, gremlins and such to disappear when the unit is inspected or sent for repair. (From Mr. Snuffleupagus, a creature on Sesame Street who will only come out of hiding for Big Bird, vanishing when other characters appear.) This word was rejected in 2005 by the [Atlantic Monthly’s Word Fugitives](http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/fugitives/index.htm) column, apparently because only puns, not portmanteaux, were acceptable. However, nowhere was it stated in the contest rules that submissions must be puns. Life ain’t fair sometimes. ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2012, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portmanteau-you-invented/609450/48 "2012-01-16T18:13:57Z")
I doubt these haven’t been thought of elsewhere, but in order to stop offending people when I swear…which is a lot…I created a couple of terms that fit well but don’t give anyone reason to act indignant: 'jackhole, and ‘son of a mother’. Edit to add: I guess jackhole is the only real portmanteau there, though the second one is a couple of phrases thrown together…just some stuff left out. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Gymnopithys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/fbc32d/32.png) [@Gymnopithys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gymnopithys)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2012, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portmanteau-you-invented/609450/49 "2012-01-16T20:00:52Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > I’m not the one who came up with it, but [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=638530) thread has a term for the opposite of a vegetarian; a meatatarian. Translate/calque _meatatarian_ in French and you have _viandarien_ (viande à rien - nothing meat). Oh, I’m going to show off my linguistical skill to my friends.🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Kiber](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kiber/32/317_2.png) [@Kiber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiber)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2012, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portmanteau-you-invented/609450/50 "2012-01-16T20:33:52Z")
I’m certain others use this as well - but my kids are convinced that **hanitizer** (hand sanitizer) is a real word. ---
**Author:** ![Fionn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Fionn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fionn)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2012, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portmanteau-you-invented/609450/51 "2012-01-16T21:49:01Z")
Mallcurity-mall security, from the days when I worked in a mall For some reason, I greatly prefer “shitacular” to “craptacular.” ---
**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 16, 2012, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portmanteau-you-invented/609450/52 "2012-01-16T22:03:08Z")
I forgot one I might have invented but my whole family uses. Canberries: The jellied cranberry sauce that stays in the shape of a can. ---
**Author:** ![Scubaqueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@Scubaqueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scubaqueen)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2012, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portmanteau-you-invented/609450/53 "2012-01-18T14:29:00Z")
Gruse. A combo of gross and gruesome I invented in my youth that I still use today. Snorgles. That isn’t mine. Someone on the Dope created that or used it in the context of kitty- cuddling. I use it exclusively with the SuperKittehs. They approve. My cubemate’s four year old daughter came up with ‘ginantical’ to describe something big. We all use it now. ---
**Author:** ![Daylate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9dc877/32.png) [@Daylate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daylate)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portmanteau-you-invented/609450/54 "2012-01-19T17:45:32Z")
Google on “sniglets”. A whole genre of this sort of thing. An example is: Downpause: The split second interruption of rain as you drive your car under a bridge. ---
**Author:** ![Mrs\_Ducky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrs_ducky/32/6227_2.png) [@Mrs\_Ducky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrs_Ducky)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portmanteau-you-invented/609450/55 "2012-01-19T20:12:12Z")
My step-grandfather once had a hard time getting out the words “windshield wipers”. It came out “windsheepers”. We’ve used that term ever since. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portmanteau-you-invented/609450/56 "2012-01-19T20:15:19Z")
Catastrofuck, for screwups that are bigger than a clusterfuck and demand more profanity than a word like catastrophe. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portmanteau-you-invented/609450/57 "2012-01-19T21:12:26Z")
> [@Two\_Many\_Cats](#): > > I believe I’m the only one to use fauxsexual for someone who prefers sex with imaginary lovers. If he prefers same sex imaginary numbers, is he a fauxmosexual? ---
**Author:** ![HotDogWater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/35a633/32.png) [@HotDogWater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HotDogWater)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2012, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portmanteau-you-invented/609450/58 "2012-01-19T22:53:43Z")
Gription…a mix of grip and friction. think about it. ---
**Author:** ![Cheez\_Whia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d26b3c/32.png) [@Cheez\_Whia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheez_Whia)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portmanteau-you-invented/609450/59 "2012-01-20T01:32:46Z")
Daylight Slaving Time. Happens every spring at the home center! ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portmanteau-you-invented/609450/60 "2012-01-20T15:38:39Z")
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