### Author:  [@heater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/heater)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2004, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-dont-exist-but-should/229056/21 "2004-02-14T00:11:07Z")
My g/f’s daughter came up with this one long ago.
**cigadent** - any accidental burn caused by an errant smoke®.
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### Author:  [@shannablu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shannablu)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2004, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-dont-exist-but-should/229056/22 "2004-02-14T00:41:47Z")
I came up with a word once and a co-worker added to it…
**zarquaminous** : being greater in size than enormous, gigantic, etc., except when referring to strawberry shortcake, then it means “extrememly moist”.
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### Author:  [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2004, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-dont-exist-but-should/229056/23 "2004-02-14T00:45:25Z")
[hijack] This thread reminds me of my absolute all-time favourite scene from Blackadder…
> [@](#):
>
> J: (places two manuscripts on the table, but picks up the top one)
> Here it is, sir: the very cornerstone of English scholarship. This book,
> sir, contains every word in our beloved language.
>
> G: Hmm.
>
> E: Every single one, sir?
>
> J: (confidently) Every single word, sir!
>
> E: (to Prince) Oh, well, in that case, sir, I hope you will not object if
> I also offer the Doctor my most enthusiastic contrafribblarities.
>
> J: What?
>
> E: `Contrafribblarites’, sir? It is a common word down our way.
>
> J: Damn! (writes in the book)
>
> E: Oh, I’m sorry, sir. I’m anus-peptic, phrasmotic, even compunctious to have
> caused you such pericombobulation.
>
> J: What? What? WHAT?
>
> G: What are you on about, Blackadder? This is all beginning to sound a bit
> like dago talk to me.
>
> E: I’m sorry, sir. I merely wished to congratulate the Doctor on not having
> left out a single word. (J sneers) Shall I fetch the tea, Your Highness?
>
> G: Yes, yes – and get that damned fire up here, will you?
>
> E: Certainly, sir. I shall return interphrastically. (exits) (J writes some
> more)
>
> \
>
> : Leaving already, Doctor? Not staying for your pendigestatery
> interludicule?
>
> J: No, sir! Show me out!
>
> E: Certainly, sir – anything I can do to facilitate your velocitous
> extramuralisation.
[/Hijack]
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### Author:  [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2004, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-dont-exist-but-should/229056/24 "2004-02-14T01:22:04Z")
**Lobsang** that was funny.
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### Author:  [@MLS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MLS)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2004, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-dont-exist-but-should/229056/25 "2004-02-14T01:43:31Z")
My daughter accidentally came up with “severious” – obviously both severe and serious. We use it all the time now.
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### Author:  [@boofy\_bloke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boofy_bloke)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2004, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-dont-exist-but-should/229056/26 "2004-02-14T01:43:43Z")
**circumsuction:** to stand in one place while vacuuming in a circle all around oneself.
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### Author:  [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2004, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-dont-exist-but-should/229056/27 "2004-02-14T01:49:03Z")
The word ‘boredodiedom’ was spawned accidentally once when the utterer meant to say ‘died of boredom’. (the ‘f’ being silent in the pronunciation of ‘of’)
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### Author:  [@Vlad\_Igor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vlad_Igor)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2004, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-dont-exist-but-should/229056/28 "2004-02-14T02:01:07Z")
> [@Shirley Ujest](#):
>
> I like this one alot.
>
> \*\*Ambi-sextrious. \*\* A name that can be either Male or Female. Taylor, Chris, Pat…etc.
I have been corrected by said daughter. Her pita was **defunctional** and **dysfective**. Said daughter has also informed us of her plans to study liguistics at a US Midwestern university. I have no doubt that she will.
Vlad/Igor
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### Author:  [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2004, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-dont-exist-but-should/229056/29 "2004-02-14T02:29:28Z")
**Shirley** , I think the word you are looking for in your OP, that feeling you get when you forget whom it is you’re calling at the moment, is **callzheimers.**
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### Author:  [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2004, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-dont-exist-but-should/229056/30 "2004-02-14T04:27:17Z")
**Unnice** Failure to be nice (not purposely been mean, just not doing what one wants). I am trying to convince my husband that it is a real word, he says that that’s unpossible. 😃
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### Author:  [@Wearia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wearia)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2004, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-dont-exist-but-should/229056/31 "2004-02-14T05:36:41Z")
**Blud**. The blue liquid that they use in tampon commercials.
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### Author:  [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2004, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-dont-exist-but-should/229056/32 "2004-02-14T05:40:24Z")
rectum (re-defined use of real word). Having ruined a pair of shoes.
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### Author:  [@Gadfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadfly)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2004, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-dont-exist-but-should/229056/33 "2004-02-14T06:08:20Z")
[Stuponfucious.](http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2003-12-10&res=l)
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### Author:  [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2004, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-dont-exist-but-should/229056/34 "2004-02-14T06:47:02Z")
> [@Snickers](#):
>
> Going off **peasea** ’s excellent **niblings** hee hee, wouldn’t this term be **narents**?
But aren’t they niblings because Niece and Nephew both start with N? How about Unts, since they both have an U and an N in them? 🙂
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### Author:  [@Sangre\_Azul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sangre_Azul)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2004, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-dont-exist-but-should/229056/35 "2004-02-14T07:00:54Z")
I may be the sole beneficiary, but I sure could use the word **churk** – a place of worship one attends in the capacity of a paid employee, and _not_ a member of the congregation/faith. “The church where I work” is too cumbersome a phrase and “I’m off to play the masses” (I’m a musician) sounds like I’m going to a carnival/horserace or something.
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### Author:  [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2004, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-dont-exist-but-should/229056/36 "2004-02-14T08:34:32Z")
We always used **neicephews** to denote neices or nephews. I guess the grown up version would be **auncles** (pronounced like ankles)
**hacklag** - the time between getting a really bad haircut and having it grow out.
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### Author:  [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2004, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-dont-exist-but-should/229056/37 "2004-02-14T09:10:36Z")
**Prossible** —A bit more certain than “possible,” but not quite as much as “probable.”
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### Author:  [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2004, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-dont-exist-but-should/229056/38 "2004-02-14T11:06:41Z")
> [@elfkin477](#):
>
> But aren’t they niblings because Niece and Nephew both start with N? How about Unts, since they both have an U and an N in them? 🙂
The only problem I have with Unts is that it reminds me too much of a Kipling poem about camels [Oonts](http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/verse/volumeXI/oonts.html). And, umm… some people may have some problems with their aunt and uncle, but that’s just too harsh for me. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Martha\_Medea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martha_Medea)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2004, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-dont-exist-but-should/229056/39 "2004-02-14T12:30:57Z")
‘Kneepits’ for the bits behind the knees.
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### Author:  [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2004, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-dont-exist-but-should/229056/40 "2004-02-14T12:47:08Z")
**Utohflush** - The feeling that comes over you when you realize you’ve just done something incredibly stupid
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