meyt: n. (1) The tangles in long hair that persist even after multiple combings. Often used of the hair of another person, such as a child whose hair you are trying to comb.
(2) Any small aggravation that increases exponentially with the amount of time allowed to perform the task.
Example: Her father refused to comb her hair, as his patience was not equal to the meyts that inevitably resulted.
OR
I’m sorry I’m late; the meyts piled up one after another on my way out the door: I lost my keys, my shoestring broke, and I locked the door on my shirttails.
Smensonist: n. One who believes that glasses are preferrable to contact lenses because of their worth as a fashion statement (derived from William Harvey Smenson, former Louisville Gazette editor known for his outlandish green bifocals)
Damn, I had to jump in on a hard one. And btw, does this remind anybody of SAT testing?
Ok, verdicalliprate: When one slips on a bananna peel and breaks his back (I know it sucks, but it’s the best I can do), as in “Yeah, Bob verdicalliprated yesterday.”
appolte: a small roundish stone that gets lodged inside your shoe which is just sufficiently annoying enough to for you to feel it but not enough to make you take off your shoe and shake it out.
deven
A minor but annoying obligation. “It’ll have to wait till the afternoon. I’ve got a whole bunch of devens to look after in the morning.”
flurble
A type of audio distortion commonly seen in school movies that have become unsynchronised. “We were watching this drivers’-ed movie about Nick and Susan and the time they went on a joyride to Deadman’s Curve, and just at the good part the projector lost it and the audio went all flurbly, b blbibkbeb b b tbhbisb b b b.”
Yinch: (v. tr.) To make an involuntary motion when you see someone else cause themselves pain, especially by doing something stupid that you have done in the past.
(n.) The gesture thus made; i.e. “I couldn’t help but yinch when I saw you slam your fingers in the car door.”
Please excuse my yinch error - my example should be listed under the transitive verb for correctness. The noun form would have to be more like, “I saw that yinch you did - what happened?”
Gamular: Gah-muh-lar, Coined by Vogue in 1983, refers to the young women whose attractiveness trade on their legs. Imprecations of flat-chested ness if accent is on first syllable instead of third.
Usage: You’re quite gamular, and – you’re an autumn, right? --, so I’d recommend this checked miniskirt and this lumberjacket…