# 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:** 14\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portmanteau-you-invented/609450/61 "2012-01-20T16:31:35Z")
When I was a kid, I thought I invented the word summersault for a tumble. But it seems so unconnected to what the word means that surely I’d heard it before, and it wasn’t synchronicity. ---
**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 20, 2012, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portmanteau-you-invented/609450/62 "2012-01-20T18:44:36Z")
Metroflexual - someone whose orientation is…ambiguous… …in theory. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portmanteau-you-invented/609450/63 "2012-01-20T18:53:38Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > Plus, what would you eat it with? 😃 A runcible spoon. Duh. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Faruiza](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@Faruiza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Faruiza)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2012, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portmanteau-you-invented/609450/64 "2012-01-22T06:09:16Z")
Not mine, but recently from the mouth of my love: Snuffligate - The very intense investigation dogs perform with their noses. “Man, Marley and Jack just _had_ to snuffligate my shoes when I got home.” Snuffligation, Snuffligating, etc. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2012, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portmanteau-you-invented/609450/65 "2012-01-22T12:48:21Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > A runcible spoon. Duh. 😃 Damn! Beat me to it! It’s not technically a portmanteau, but I have one friend who is NOT an optimist by any stretch of the imagination. I call him a mope fiend. ---
**Author:** ![SiXSwordS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@SiXSwordS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SiXSwordS)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2012, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portmanteau-you-invented/609450/66 "2012-01-22T13:45:02Z")
> [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > Twitticism- a really stupid question or statement. Twittiocy - The use of Twitter to broadcast one’s idiocy ---
**Author:** ![Faruiza](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@Faruiza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Faruiza)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2012, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portmanteau-you-invented/609450/67 "2012-01-22T22:19:23Z")
Thought of two more by the same man… Vajaycancy - What you have if you’re a single woman. Mirth Quake - The shaking one does when trying to stifle a laugh, as in church or a staff meeting. ---
**Author:** ![codgerone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c37758/32.png) [@codgerone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/codgerone)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2012, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portmanteau-you-invented/609450/68 "2012-01-23T18:39:06Z")
A friend of mine and I came up with Affucktion to describe our relationship. Think FWB but no intention of going further. ---
**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 25, 2012, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portmanteau-you-invented/609450/69 "2012-01-25T20:27:09Z")
We need a word to describe a certain kind of celebrity. Not someone who became famous for being a good actor or singer, but acquired fame through no discernable talent…like Snooki or the Kardashians. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2012, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portmanteau-you-invented/609450/70 "2012-01-26T02:32:18Z")
**Shrugnostic** : a person who doesn’t care whether god exists. ---
**Author:** ![brittekland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@brittekland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brittekland)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2012, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portmanteau-you-invented/609450/71 "2012-01-26T02:54:41Z")
\*\*Thurtening \*\*: Actually a friend of mine blurted out, “ **It’s thurtening!** ”, hearing thunder and seeing lightening at the same time when we weren’t quite _realistic_ under influence, a long time ago. That cracked up some 30 of us for at least over an hour well after midnight and the local cops came to the camping ground to shut us up to no avail. ---
**Author:** ![SiXSwordS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@SiXSwordS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SiXSwordS)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2012, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portmanteau-you-invented/609450/72 "2012-01-26T14:34:08Z")
> [@Enola\_Straight](#): > > We need a word to describe a certain kind of celebrity …[with] no discernable talent…like Snooki or the Kardashians. 😉 Celebrinobody ?? > [@panache45](#): > > **Shrugnostic** : a person who doesn’t care whether god exists. **Shagnostic** a person who doesn’t know if their lover is _really_ seeing God or if they’re just faking it. ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2012, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portmanteau-you-invented/609450/73 "2012-01-26T15:18:11Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > I got this one from my cousin. Anytime she hears of something fake or faux, she replaces the first letter with an “f” (sometimes just adding the “f”). > > Fake cheese? **Feese.** > > Faux leather: **Fleather.** > > It’s a portmanteau machine! And fun at parties. Fake boobs? **Foobs**. “Bolt-ons” is also acceptable. ---
**Author:** ![Toucanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@Toucanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toucanna)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2012, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portmanteau-you-invented/609450/74 "2012-02-03T06:10:30Z")
> [@beowulff](#): > > Shampaign - I invented this word to describe this situation. Whaaaaa? Are you sure that isn’t a still pic from an [_SNL_](http://media3.onsugar.com/files/upl2/1/13254/12_2009/73c27a5d945d8018_Picture_14.larger/i/Kristin-Wiig-Genius.jpg) skit? > [@tdn](#): > > If he prefers same sex imaginary numbers, is he a fauxmosexual? ::golf clap:: * * * My sister and I came up with “riffkiss”. It’s how we pronounce “RFQS” which stands for “Reduced for quick sale”. Derived from the stickers the grocery store puts on cut fruit, fresh meat, and dairy products that are about to go out of code. I came up with “hextuple-u”. Example: “hextuple-u straightdope dot com”. Two u’s times three = six. Ergo, hextuple-u. For some reason, it hasn’t caught on. 😕 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/portmanteau-you-invented/609450.md?page=3)