# Post Your Sniglets Here

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-sniglets-here/25740>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 16, 2000, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-sniglets-here/25740 "2000-07-16T15:32:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Cumulus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@Cumulus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cumulus)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2000, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-sniglets-here/25740/1 "2000-07-16T15:32:23Z")

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You may recall that, during the 1980s, Rich Hall (an alumni of Saturday Night Live and other comedy shows) compiled several books’ worth of made-up words from people all around the country and the world.

These made-up words (or sniglets) were usually used by these people in their private life to describe people, things, events, and the like.

I’d like to hear your own sniglets.

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**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2000, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-sniglets-here/25740/2 "2000-07-16T16:27:13Z")

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My friends came up with this one years ago:  
BLASTERPOP, n. - The brief popping sound that comes from your computer’s speakers when your SoundBlaster initializes during the boot sequence. Now a somewhat-archaic term.

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**Author:** ![annalamerino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b3f665/32.png) [@annalamerino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/annalamerino)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2000, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-sniglets-here/25740/3 "2000-07-16T17:14:47Z")

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The classic is the **nuttinbutton** , that thing on stoplight polls to turn on the “Walk” sign.

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**Author:** ![TheNerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/858c86/32.png) [@TheNerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheNerd)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2000, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-sniglets-here/25740/4 "2000-07-16T20:11:24Z")

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Not my own (which I’ll remember soon enough), but some of my favorites:

Wimbledown - The fuzz on a tennisball.

Puzz - that dust/lint in a jigsaw puzzle box after all the pieces are removed.

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**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2000, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-sniglets-here/25740/5 "2000-07-17T02:12:11Z")

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Bant: _verb_ To strike someone’s face with your penis.

ie I had to bant her to get her attention.

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**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2000, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-your-sniglets-here/25740/6 "2000-07-17T02:17:55Z")

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_noun_ The width of the area between a woman’s legs while standing up.  
_usage_ “That woman has a wide pusky.”