# What words or phrases have you coined? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 4, 2000, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-or-phrases-have-you-coined/21354 "2000-06-04T06:43:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SoSueMe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@SoSueMe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SoSueMe)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2000, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-or-phrases-have-you-coined/21354/1 "2000-06-04T06:43:24Z")
As a kid I would say I like my shirt “tucked out” rather than “untucked”. I could see the difference, but the symmetry with “tucked in” just appealed to me. I also always use the word cornputer. Just sounds better than computer, although the look alike. When I’m a great man, perhaps king, these usages will flourish, and be emblazoned over the gates of power. What do you bring to the next séance with Webster’s ghost? (He coined more words than any other modern man)(Shakespeare didn’t speak our language, did he?) ---
**Author:** ![lswote](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lswote/32/5737_2.png) [@lswote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lswote)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2000, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-or-phrases-have-you-coined/21354/2 "2000-06-04T07:06:21Z")
Well for some reason I like the word homo-selectual instead of homo-sexual. ---
**Author:** ![Sassy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@Sassy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sassy)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2000, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-or-phrases-have-you-coined/21354/3 "2000-06-04T07:10:30Z")
I believe the record will show that I was the one who trued the SDMB meeting in Springfield into Spiffled 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Danielinthewolvesden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Danielinthewolvesden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danielinthewolvesden)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2000, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-or-phrases-have-you-coined/21354/4 "2000-06-04T08:07:09Z")
Well, back ina gal a…no no no, but it was quite a few years ago, my gaming group made up two expressions we sometime hear today; “he’s HISTORY” and “I’m in deep Kim-chee”. I also believe I made up the word “presentism”, the act of judging heroes & great men of the past, by Todays standards. ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2000, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-or-phrases-have-you-coined/21354/5 "2000-06-04T11:28:51Z")
I was rping one day (heck I rp every day…;)) but someone came in and her c was dressed in blue jeans and a sweatshirt everyone else was dressed in armor or leather or other stuff and she said something ooc about not being normal and I replied that Normalcy is Relative and it hit me how true that is. A crazy person is considered crazy because they act different from us… well if everyone was crazy then the way we consider normal now would be considered crazy. Its all a matter of view and who you surround yourself with. ---
**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2000, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-or-phrases-have-you-coined/21354/6 "2000-06-04T12:03:14Z")
“Eitherbody” and “Neitherbody” I didn’t actually coin these - my Sister used “eitherbody” by accident, but I picked it up and made it popular. 🙂 Their usage is obvious enough: use in place of “everybody” and “nobody” when talking about only two people. I’m sure I have some better ones, but I can’t think of them right now. ---
**Author:** ![soulsling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@soulsling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/soulsling)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2000, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-or-phrases-have-you-coined/21354/7 "2000-06-04T15:02:09Z")
“there’s only so much good weed in this world, all the rest is just schwag.” ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2000, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-or-phrases-have-you-coined/21354/8 "2000-06-04T15:08:13Z")
If there ever is a need for the term, I coined the word “transphylite” for someone who wants to undergo a species change operation in a story of mine. If the OED ever adds the term, I’ll be cited. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![X-files](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/76d3ee/32.png) [@X-files](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/X-files)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2000, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-or-phrases-have-you-coined/21354/9 "2000-06-04T19:37:15Z")
A transtitute is a hooker who takes the subway to work. ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2000, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-or-phrases-have-you-coined/21354/10 "2000-06-04T19:56:00Z")
When I was in high school a friend and I were watching a video of _The World According to Garp_ and there is a scene where Garp and his mother are bringing in groceries and Garp is so upset that he slams a bag down on the counter so hard it rips. My friend Ellen blurted out “Man, that really rips my bag!” and that was our phrase for intense anger for years, to this very day, even. ---
**Author:** ![Sealemon88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Sealemon88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sealemon88)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2000, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-or-phrases-have-you-coined/21354/11 "2000-06-04T20:26:45Z")
Dar, as a way of saying something is really cheesy or stupid (For those who don’t indulge in cheeseball movies, Dar is the name of the Beatmaster). Wiseassery. as in, I’m the Dean Of Wiseassery. When was a kid, I used ubajalicieous instead of delicious. Not necessarily original, but my motto has general been Fuck All The Bullshit. ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2000, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-or-phrases-have-you-coined/21354/12 "2000-06-04T20:34:09Z")
I like using _Template Movie_ i.e. movies that have created a genre or reinvented it, like _Star Wars_ or _Die Hard_ ---
**Author:** ![Gilligan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Gilligan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gilligan)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2000, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-or-phrases-have-you-coined/21354/13 "2000-06-04T20:58:27Z")
My wife accuses me of “clavinizing” when she asks me something and I start rattling off some long-winded BS when I don’t know the answer. ---
**Author:** ![\_BANNED\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/9d8465/32.png) [@\_BANNED\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_BANNED_1)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2000, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-or-phrases-have-you-coined/21354/14 "2000-06-04T21:20:16Z")
I just coined “metaphor shear”, when your metaphor gets into trouble and starts to separate. ---
**Author:** ![Wood\_Thrush](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b38774/32.png) [@Wood\_Thrush](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wood_Thrush)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2000, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-or-phrases-have-you-coined/21354/15 "2000-06-04T22:32:08Z")
I coined the following song, to the tune of **Bingo** ---
**Author:** ![SarumanRex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@SarumanRex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SarumanRex)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2000, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-or-phrases-have-you-coined/21354/16 "2000-06-04T23:02:25Z")
I’ve thought up two phrases that I believe are original, let me know if you’ve heard them before. They are: “With the truth as your enemy, what hope can there be?” and as a metaphor for death, “To turn and face the greater mind”. I was thinking of putting these lines into my songs but I don’t want to plagerize anyone. ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2000, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-or-phrases-have-you-coined/21354/17 "2000-06-05T01:03:56Z")
softing. Its where you lightly strroke someone’s arms or back,etc. Like massage lite. ---
**Author:** ![SteelToes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba8739/32.png) [@SteelToes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteelToes)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2000, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-or-phrases-have-you-coined/21354/18 "2000-06-05T01:17:04Z")
Detourees are the people who dodge the orange cones. Detournouts are the wide spots where you wait for the opposite cars to pass by before you can procede. Detournabouts are where we send people back because it’s going to be blocked for hours while we unstuck a truck. ---
**Author:** ![drewbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drewbert/32/15890_2.png) [@drewbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewbert)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2000, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-or-phrases-have-you-coined/21354/19 "2000-06-05T01:32:40Z")
Long, long ago, I called the dishwasher a “dirtwasher” and the name has stuck in the family. Also we sometimes use the word “fruitile” to describe an effort both futile and fruitless. And just the other day, I coined the word “fussitudinous,” which of course is a word used to describe something which has the quality of being able to be fussed with. “Fussitudinosity” came shortly thereafter. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2000, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-or-phrases-have-you-coined/21354/20 "2000-06-05T02:02:02Z")
A bit of background first: Folks like Einstein are generally referred to as geniuses (or genii, if you know Latin). However, by the standard definition of “genius”, it just means that someone’s in the 98th or 99th percentile-- using the word of Big Al is a major understatement. Now, the term “genius” comes from the ancient Romans, and it refers to a man’s patron spirit, sort of like a guardian angel. Together with the Lares, three gods from the standard pantheon who were seen as representative of a person’s livelihood etc., they consisted of the household gods, or pentates. Since, in the Roman usage, the Lares (singular lars) were more powerful than the Genii, and had universal impact, that’s the term I use for someone who’s smarter than a genius, and whose ideas have had a universal impact. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-words-or-phrases-have-you-coined/21354.md?page=2)