# Words or phrases you've coined (update to closed thread) **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 14, 2013, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-phrases-youve-coined-update-to-closed-thread/650283 "2013-02-14T15:08:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Chessic\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@Chessic\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chessic_Sense)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-phrases-youve-coined-update-to-closed-thread/650283/21 "2013-02-15T04:47:44Z")
Often, a chess player will find their knight attacked and move it forward to threaten the opponent’s pieces, only to find it trapped and unable to get out of the thicket. I called this an “Iraq knight”…no exit strategy.😛 > [@ThelmaLou](#): > > “Deja vu” is the feeling in a new place that you’ve been there before. > > I coined “voo-jah day” to mean being in a familiar place but feeling like you’ve never ever been there before in your entire life. Closely related is “do vajay,” the feeling you haven’t been, but you’re going to come soon. ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-phrases-youve-coined-update-to-closed-thread/650283/22 "2013-02-15T04:59:48Z")
“Pizza bones” for the crusts. Only it wasn’t me, it was my then toddler (who’s now 34). ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-phrases-youve-coined-update-to-closed-thread/650283/23 "2013-02-15T05:39:03Z")
“Maybe you oughta go sleep off some of that evil.” In a gaming session, with a rather immature gamer who’d decided he wanted to play an evil paladin. He went around being EEEEEEEVIL until the city guards caught him and threw him in jail, where he could, one hopes, sleep off… well, you get the point. ---
**Author:** ![misstee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/958977/32.png) [@misstee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/misstee)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-phrases-youve-coined-update-to-closed-thread/650283/24 "2013-02-15T06:29:49Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > My niece did that as a pre-teen a few years ago. Later she added pointing the fingers downwards so it was What Ever Moron. My 12 year old went through this phase a couple of years ago a well. She added an “L” to the “W”, “E”, and “M” for what ever major loser. It was annoying. ---
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-phrases-youve-coined-update-to-closed-thread/650283/25 "2013-02-15T08:17:48Z")
“Lemon”-The Asian equivalent of “white trash” ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-phrases-youve-coined-update-to-closed-thread/650283/26 "2013-02-15T08:35:22Z")
When my kids were toddlers, I used to tell them: “If it’s not yours, LEAVE IT ALONE.” It got to the point where they knew the SAYING just fine, but the lesson just floated away… ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-phrases-youve-coined-update-to-closed-thread/650283/27 "2013-02-15T14:58:37Z")
> [@CanvasShoes](#): > > “Pizza bones” for the crusts. Only it wasn’t me, it was my then toddler (who’s now 34). I love this one. > [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](#): > > “Lemon”-The Asian equivalent of “white trash” I don’t get it. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-phrases-youve-coined-update-to-closed-thread/650283/28 "2013-02-15T15:16:26Z")
_Earbud pollution_ - the noise leaking out of the earphones of someone who’s listening to an iPod at a high volume. \*Shopping-mall osmosis \*- When a popular song you’ve never purposely listened to sounds familiar to you, even though you’ve never consciously listened to it - you’ve heard it so often in the background at shopping malls, stores, etc. that you’ve picked up the song through shopping-mall osmosis. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-phrases-youve-coined-update-to-closed-thread/650283/29 "2013-02-15T17:24:21Z")
I coined “wading in the shallow end of the gene pool,” back in the early '90s. Also the word “shrugnostic,” meaning someone for whom the God question is irrelevant; someone who doesn’t care whether or not there’s a God. ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-phrases-youve-coined-update-to-closed-thread/650283/30 "2013-02-15T17:43:04Z")
Bumpdate - bumping an old thread to provide an update. I invented it to me but I may not have been the first. ---
**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-phrases-youve-coined-update-to-closed-thread/650283/31 "2013-02-15T19:20:45Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > I love this one. Thanks we do too! Our family just loves family in-jokes and sayings. Once one gets coined, it’s family lore forever. 😃 My daughter is bright, so a lot of them come from her babyhood/toddlerhood. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-phrases-youve-coined-update-to-closed-thread/650283/32 "2013-02-15T19:28:34Z")
> [@Pacific420](#): > > :)it was me that started “rocket surgery” I found the source of this. From the Iliad: Odysseus: Δεν είναι πυραύλων χειρουργική επέμβαση ---
**Author:** ![Canadjun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-phrases-youve-coined-update-to-closed-thread/650283/33 "2013-02-15T19:37:44Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > “Deja vu” is the feeling in a new place that you’ve been there before. > > I coined “voo-jah day” to mean being in a familiar place but feeling like you’ve never ever been there before in your entire life. See [Jamais vu](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamais_vu). ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-phrases-youve-coined-update-to-closed-thread/650283/34 "2013-02-15T20:36:22Z")
I invented the word disagrievance. I’m still waiting for it to catch on. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-phrases-youve-coined-update-to-closed-thread/650283/35 "2013-02-15T20:54:05Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > I coined “wading in the shallow end of the gene pool,” back in the early '90s.. Yet somehow I heard it when I was in college in the 80s. ---
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-phrases-youve-coined-update-to-closed-thread/650283/36 "2013-02-15T20:57:28Z")
French Cake Palace - My name for the Cheesecake Factory. One day I was trying to tell a friend where to meet us and for the life of me I couldn’t remember the name, my brain substituted those words and it just stuck. Now that’s all I call it. Mouth Ghost - When your mouth suddenly gets haunted by a phantom flavor of something you haven’t eaten recently - sometimes for a long time. Like when out of no where you get the flavor of onion rings. ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-phrases-youve-coined-update-to-closed-thread/650283/37 "2013-02-15T21:45:50Z")
When I was younger an annoying person was a gaper. “Oh my og , he is such a gaper” A pretty girl was a box. “Wow! Jeff’s new girlfriend is a real box” ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2013, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-phrases-youve-coined-update-to-closed-thread/650283/38 "2013-02-16T01:46:11Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > Yet somehow I heard it when I was in college in the 80s. Or maybe I coined it in the 70s. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2013, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-phrases-youve-coined-update-to-closed-thread/650283/39 "2013-02-17T04:05:20Z")
> [@CanvasShoes](#): > > “Pizza bones” for the crusts. Only it wasn’t me, it was my then toddler (who’s now 34). [A whole lot of other Dopers](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=666745) have heard it too. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f08c70/32.png) [@Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Brother_Walker)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2013, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-phrases-youve-coined-update-to-closed-thread/650283/40 "2013-02-17T19:09:55Z")
My friends used to get together every Friday to play Texas Hold 'Em. This tradition grew pretty big pretty fast, to the point we would switch homes to host games. One time, at Katie’s house, we had 2 tables with 7 players at each table. As the game progressed, it came down to 3 players at one table. The last three players were all blonde women. As the rules of the game allow, they kept switching winning hands so that there was no progress being made, just moving chips around. The 3 ladies collectively decided to fold the game and split the pot rather than play to a winner. All the men (who had all been beaten out) were aghast at this decision. This isn’t how Texas Hold 'Em is played. The ladies all agreed that they would just rather share the money than play a futile game. I decided to call this Blonde Logic. Which instantly became “Blondgic”. The definition: Only a blonde can think this way and thinks it makes sense. Because this way of thinking doesn’t follow the rules and nobody else thinks it makes any sense other than a blonde. Or in this case, a trio of blondes. I like to think that Blondgic is more relevant than most people think, and now that I have this word in my vernacular, I think it is used more often than most people think. But that’s just me. (Because you can never know what a blonde is thinking). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-phrases-youve-coined-update-to-closed-thread/650283.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-phrases-youve-coined-update-to-closed-thread/650283.md?page=3)