# Things that need words made up for them **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 26, 2001, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-need-words-made-up-for-them/89796 "2001-10-26T16:06:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ThatGuyWithPants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df788c/32.png) [@ThatGuyWithPants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThatGuyWithPants)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-need-words-made-up-for-them/89796/21 "2001-10-27T20:22:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by featherlou \* > \*\*(There probably is a word for this, but I’ve never run across it) - what’s the name for that little pointy piece of gum in between and behind your two front teeth that always gets burned when you bite into hot pizza? See, it needs its own name, because I’m tired of calling it “that little pointy piece of gum in between and behind your two front teeth that always gets burned when you bite into hot pizza”. > \*\* What the heck?! I thought I was the only one who had that problem! I thought I was some sort of freak of nature because of it. Now I’m just a freak of nature who’s not alone. heh heh. Good question though. hmm, I’ll get back to you on it. ---
**Author:** ![Eternal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@Eternal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eternal)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2001, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-need-words-made-up-for-them/89796/22 "2001-10-28T08:20:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ThatGuyWithPants \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by featherlou \* > > \*\*(There probably is a word for this, but I’ve never run across it) - what’s the name for that little pointy piece of gum in between and behind your two front teeth that always gets burned when you bite into hot pizza? See, it needs its own name, because I’m tired of calling it “that little pointy piece of gum in between and behind your two front teeth that always gets burned when you bite into hot pizza”. > > \*\* > > What the heck?! I thought I was the only one who had that problem! I thought I was some sort of freak of nature because of it. Now I’m just a freak of nature who’s not alone. heh heh. Good question though. hmm, I’ll get back to you on it. \*\* I beliefe it’s called the “urethra”. As in “My urethra’s on fire!” ---
**Author:** ![DarkJudicator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@DarkJudicator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarkJudicator)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2001, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-need-words-made-up-for-them/89796/23 "2001-10-28T08:46:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Redukter \* > \*\*We need a word for proving something true that you just denied - for example, saying ‘I’m not sick’, but bursting out in a fit of coughing soon afterwards. I propose _knird_ - with the ‘K’ pronounced (‘kuh-nerd’). Can be a noun and a verb, too. Sample sentence - _He soon thereafter knirded, thereby disproving his statement._ \*\* Knurd (different spelling) is a Terry Pratchett word for the exact opposite state to alcoholic intoxication - not only sober, but completely stripped of all the comfortable illusions in which the average person lives their life. I think there needs to be a word for the embarassing situation where you misspell a word, erase it, misspell it the same way again, erase it, misspell it again… actually, I should make it more general… doing anything stupid, undoing it, then redoing it the exact same way. Also, when you’re with friends and you’re singing, what’s the word for when you drop the volume of your voice bacause you’ve forgotten the words, and sing gibberish hoping nobody will notice? [sub]Or is this just something that happens to me?[/sub] It’s not quite mumbling, it’s not quite humming… so what is it? ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2001, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-need-words-made-up-for-them/89796/24 "2001-10-28T10:26:20Z")
I’m surprised nobody’s mentioned Douglas Adams’[_The Meaning of Liff_](http://kulichki-win.rambler.ru/moshkow/ADAMS/liff.txt). The concept is simple: a lot of things need words for them, and a lot of words are wasted as placenames. The late, great DA simply matched them up as he saw best. Well worth a click. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2001, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-need-words-made-up-for-them/89796/25 "2001-10-29T03:02:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DarkJudicator \* > \*\*\ > Also, when you’re with friends and you’re singing, what’s the word for when you drop the volume of your voice bacause you’ve forgotten the words, and sing gibberish hoping nobody will notice? [sub]Or is this just something that happens to me?[/sub] It’s not quite mumbling, it’s not quite humming… so what is it? \*\* Well, I would propose “gibumbling” for that. As in “I hope nobody heard me gibumbling that song.” ---
**Author:** ![Anal\_Scurvy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c57346/32.png) [@Anal\_Scurvy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anal_Scurvy)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2001, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-need-words-made-up-for-them/89796/26 "2001-10-29T05:27:51Z")
We need a word for the expression the deli clerk makes when I spank the big hams at Safeway. She’s so cute, but it’s an expression like I’ve never seen before. Every time. It’s uncanny. ---
**Author:** ![Enuma\_Elish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5e9695/32.png) [@Enuma\_Elish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enuma_Elish)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2001, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-need-words-made-up-for-them/89796/27 "2001-10-29T13:55:39Z")
What do you put on your pizza??? Urethra - noun (pl -thras or -thrae) {from Greek ourethra or French ourein - to urinate} (1634): the canal that in most mammals carries off the urine from the bladder and in the male serves also as a genital duct. ---
**Author:** ![Simetra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Simetra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simetra)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2001, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-need-words-made-up-for-them/89796/28 "2001-10-29T14:20:49Z")
Your savior is here. [Pseudo Dictionary](http://www.pseudodictionary.com/) Post your new words, read mine under the name “Semi”. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bad_News_Baboon)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2001, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-need-words-made-up-for-them/89796/29 "2001-10-30T14:38:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by drpepper \* > \*\*Wish I could take credit for thinking this up, but there is already a sniglet for eye boogers, **Baboon** , and it’s “optigoop”. \*\* wow, that’s even worse than sleep! we need a word that sounds horrible. optigoop almost sounds medical! These words to describe the dischard of stuff from your head: snot boogers c’mon. we can do better than optigoop, can’t we? maybe this needs it’s own thread? 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-need-words-made-up-for-them/89796.md?page=1)