Portmanteau words seem to be in vogue right now. What are your favorities?
One of mine is “bromance,” describing two guys who are only emotionally involved, without having sex. House and Wilson are having a bromance.
Mallmanac. The almanac of a shopping mall that shows you where everything is.
Prostitot: Young teen girls dressing way too provocatively.
I still like spork
Hermaphrolite - A hermaphrodite that only has the sexual organ of one gender.
Retrosexual - a man that’s gone old school in his behavior and dress.
Irrelephant - for when everyone already knows about the elephant in the room.
Luvike - for that weird state when you really like somebody but you don’t love them.
And of course spork, but that has entered the vernacular.
This was from Sniglets:
Destinesia–going someplace and then forgetting why you went there.
I’ve always been a fan of term manscaping - when men put a lot of effort into the care and feeding of their body hair.
An “elephant in the room” is already something everyone knows about.
I am a proud freegan.
Optics.
“I am opposed to Obama’s policies, but the optics of a Black president are great.”
Just to piss on the fire hydrant (mark my place) I’ll mention a few place names I can think of:
Calexico
Mexicali
Florala
Texarkana
Delmarva
Tenntucky
Indochina
Brapan
Jazil
(I suspect these last two are imaginary)
Just wanted to say that I just now read the Wiki article and saw these listed there. I actually thought of them as good examples before seeing the Wiki.
Canberries–the jellied cranberry sauce that comes out with ridges like the can
Outside of L.A. the town Fontana is typically called “Fontucky”
According to my Dick, bodacious is from bold and audacious and even if it isn’t it’s a bodacious word.
fantabulous
Ah, there’s one in an RP/combat game I play. One of the roles in the game is “panther girls,” mostly naked women who run around in groups in the forests, shooting and fighting with everyone. The general belief is that many of the players are actually male, so they are called:
manthers
I came up with one tonight by accident: monopolate
It’s when you both dominate and monopolize something or someone. You’ve been monopolated! Heh, well I like it!
manstrating.
as in, “Jason is in a mood today. He’s totally manstrating.”