What words or phrases have you coined?

My best friend and I came up with “'Bama” referring to something that is lame or outdated.

We were sitting around, listening to Whitney’s
My Love Is Your Love" CD, and I was telling him about my lame-ass trip to Alabama a few years ago, and he said, “this song is SO 'bama!” and it has been our phrase ever since.

Also, I give great scratch. I am a world-reknowned back-scratcher, and therefore have copyrighted the term “scratch” as a noun. :slight_smile:

I always use the word “enjoyous” when I refer to something that brings enjoyment. I don’t know if it’s a real word or not, though… I also came up with the term “middies” when referring to 'Dopers who are neither “newbies” nor “oldies” (regs).

I also know the man who claims to have invented the word “dweeb”.

In college, my roommates and I coined the word “slunt” as a cross between slut and, well, you can figure out the rest…

To this day I consider it the worst term ever a male could use towards a female.

Whenever starting a complicated home repair project, I always tell Mrs. Kunilou “in theory this should work.”

It usually doesn’t, and she has threatened to put it on my tombstone.

has this ever been coined, it just occured to me.

what we see is literally only a reflection of what is there.

My wife loves chicken gizzards, but I can’t stand them (too chewy). I like chicken livers, but the love of my life thinks they’re terrible. Our compromise, she will sometimes fry up a batch of both, and we pick out what we want. The dish is known in our family as “lizards”.

“Rinkit” is also a favorite substitute word, as in “That guy is a real rinkit”.

When the son was at that wonderful age where everything was imitated, I was deep into a football game. My team scored, and I jumped around with upraised arms yelling “TOUCHDOWN!!!” and the son joined in. Realizing I was onto something, I quickly added “BANANA PATCH!!!” and he followed along. We did that for every touchdown afterwards. It was about 3 years before he caught on.

Back when my pet dino was alive, the whole clan was setting around the table in our cave. I knocked over a glass of tea and it poured into my lap. Mom told me that I had spilled it on purpose. Thus, Mr. Winkie became my purpose.

I generally never swear, so for me, cursing consists of words like “shoot” and “crumb”.
One time I was really angry and wanted to tell someone off, but all I could muster up was “Eat My Clock!”. Unfortunately, I said it in front of several friends and it instantly became a commonly used phrase.

“Thats all kinds of stupid” - I used this in high school all the time. Don’t remember if I made it up or heard it somewhere.

I’ve heard that used to mean something lame and outdated 2 or so years ago referring to clothes, when me and my friends used to use it 7 or 8 years ago, it meant a white guy trying to act like a black gangster, another term being “wigger”, and we spelled it bamma.

Some co-workers and I were discussing the relative fanciness of some of the suburbs around St.Louis. I said “So, Brentwood seems pretty la-di-da to me.” My superviser said, “Hey, there are plenty of towns that are WAY more la-di-da than Brentwood!” Soon we had set up a “Scale of Relative
La-Di-Dasity”, a made-up word if there ever was one!

I can actually remember saying, years ago, “Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades,” and thinking it was an original thought. Considering how many places I’ve seen it said since then, I suspect I’d actually heard it before.

And then there was the time in high school physics class where we named a new physical constant after one of us, whose last name was Moser. For example:

1 Mose = “I don’t know.”
1 Mose^2 = “I don’t care.”
1 Mose^3 = “Get off my back already!”

Then, logically:

1/Mose = “I know.”
1/Mose^2 = “I care.”
1/Mose^3 = “Get on my back already!”

Here is one I have used for years “Semper Gumby” (always flexable).

E=MC**2

What? You don’t believe me?!

…I’ll be running away now…:slight_smile: :slight_smile: :slight_smile:

I make up words as a matter of course…

When I was a child, I used to say arm-arches instead of arm pits.

When you’ve eaten too much, you are sufficiently suffouncified.

A friend of mine coined electronical.

If you aren’t all that bright, but you want to sound smart,occasionally add this to the end words.

…ITUDITY…

IE: My lawn has a weeditudity factor of 9.

Don’t I seem brighter now?

When I was a kid, I thought it was “homeless-sexual”. I figured there were some bums out there who just couldn’t get enough.

  • JB

“Beat your meat, not your kids.”

I coined this phrase just recently. It means that frustrated parents should masturbate, rather than beating their children. See my website for details: http://www.angelfire.com/me3/yesterdayman/bible.html

Coined for my friend who has Attention Deficit Disorder: multi-fascinated. He was staring distractedly at one of those mosaic tile-topped tables while we were talking. I said, “Are you listening to me?” He said, “Of course. I can do both.” I said, “Oh, I see, you’re multi-fascinated.”

I used onamatopeia to come up with: hork. It is both a verb and an exclamation. To hork is to heave or gag without actually throwing up. It’s about the sound, really. Hork is what you do when you are forced to interact with something disgusting, as in: “Why won’t you let Dave take you to the movie?” “I would never go out with HIM, he makes me hork!” Or you could just shorten that to an incredulous and disgusted “HORK!” in response to the same question. It is supposed to mimic the sound a cat makes when it has a hairball.

Some other friends of mine used to say “Ah, so!” in the same vein as saying “you have learned much, grasshopper.” If you refuted someone in a particularly masterful way, they might acknowledge it by going “Ah, so.” One of my friends refuted a lovingly crafted argument of mine with a few short words. I responded with the usual “Ah-so,” but said without it’s usual respectful tone. He responded: “Don’t call me an ah-so!” We all laughed, and now it has two meanings among us. You might say it has come to mean a particularly odious type of know it all who wants to appear humble at the same time. We will hear them out, then look at each other, nod, and say as one: “Ah, so!” in a knowing sort of way.

The only word I can think of that I made up was in the pit yesterday-‘assholitoudinous’.
Once we were at a family gathering and we were talking about horses and my sister wondered what would happen if they stampededed. We broke up when we heard that and she still gets reminded about at least once a year. In university we referred to pizza as za, and if we wanted to go for a snack and we wanted to talk and otherwise kill time we would say we were going for a slowjay. -Slow orange juice.
Keith

Don’t know who coined these… we always just considered them “family” words. (Every family speaks its own language :smiley: )

Rataskate or Scragagate: Verbs, used interchangably. Meaning: to be tickled until hiccups occur.
(My dad did this to me a lot!)“Someone needs to be rataskated!”

Umberchute: Noun. An umbrella
“Don’t forget your umberchute.”

There are many more but I’m drawing a blank at the moment.

Chrisbar