I tend to use “Hiello” which is a cross of ‘hi’ and ‘hello’ for friends I know on instant messaging.
I did this accidentally once: I couldn’t decide whether a situation was best described as a “flap” or a “kerfuffle;” wound up telling my co-worker that “there was a fluffle.”
“Bustration”: when waiting for a bus and there are dozens of buses coming around the corner, and not a one of them is the one you’re waiting for. It’s a Metrobus when you need a Ride-On, or vice-versa. When it’s the right type of bus, it’s not the right route. When it’s the right route, it’s going in the wrong direction. Or getting off a bus just in time to see the one you’re transferring to pull away from the stop. Arghh!
webwide - occuring with or existing on all websites
Happy Holidaze, everyone!
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.
Well I accuse my son of wearing “manpris” all the time … those long shorts men and teenage boys wear that come down below their knees. And since he got a messenger bag for Christmas, I’ve been calling it his “murse,” but I don’t think I made that up.
cmyk, in that vein, I’m always telling people when they compliment a fake fur garment: “Thank you. Many fauxs gave their lives for this vest.”
We eat lots of qualads.
Twitticism- a really stupid question or statement.
I came up with this one before they invented Twitter. I’m not sure if that makes it better or worse.
I’m not the one who came up with it, but this thread has a term for the opposite of a vegetarian; a meatatarian.
I coined flustrated (flustered and frustrated) at a time in my life when I often felt that way. A web search suggests I was not being as original as I thought.
Manpon, for the male drama queen at the bar.
I was going to post the same word. a former coworker used to say this all the time. She has a really flustrated personality and we don’t think she knew what she was saying.
I believe I’m the only one to use fauxsexual for someone who prefers sex with imaginary lovers.
It’s a word that I need to explain things.
Distructions = directions + instructions.
Patriotica, the almost erotic overuse of red white and blue or the stars-and-stripes.
A young goth is gothling.
“Catpacity” - the number of felines that can reasonably live in a given area, as in: “I’d love to adopt another kitten, but my apartment is already exceeding maximum catpacity.”
Oh no, I sharted in my shants!
One word I made up was disagrievance (disagree + grievance). I’m still waiting for it to catch on.
Nasty, pronounced with a long /a/ sound, for that fast food that’s simultaneously nasty and tasty.
Pignorant