# Words that don't exist but should.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-dont-exist-but-should/229056
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [February 13, 2004, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-dont-exist-but-should/229056 "2004-02-13T16:26:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2004, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-dont-exist-but-should/229056/41 "2004-02-14T13:54:19Z")
Palmcopilot–Any instrument used on a palm pilot keyboard other than the little plastic stick; i.e. a pencil, an unbent paper clip, a fingernail.
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### Author:  [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2004, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-dont-exist-but-should/229056/42 "2004-02-14T14:19:08Z")
People enjoying this thread can join in at [The Dag’s Dictionary](http://www.abc.net.au/sydney/richardglover/features/dagsdictionary.htm) at Australian ABC radio. Check out the recent ones and maybe add some international input.
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### Author:  [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2004, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-dont-exist-but-should/229056/43 "2004-02-14T14:19:26Z")
> [@Shirley Ujest](#):
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> **Obstecologist** a melding of Obstecologist (sp?) and Gynocologist. Ob-Gyn isn’t as fluid enough.
Ummm… I’m a little confused as to how Obstecologist is a melding of Obstecologist, and, well, anything.
I think you meant a melding of Obstetrician and Gynecologist.
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### Author:  [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2004, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-dont-exist-but-should/229056/44 "2004-02-14T14:32:43Z")
**Dutchboy** I bow to your superior paint drinking skills. I conflusterpated the two words.
My bad.
**Conflustercated**** Con **fused +** Flust **ered + Mentally Consti** pated** = Conflusterpated. To mix up. I just made that up.
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### Author:  [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2004, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-dont-exist-but-should/229056/45 "2004-02-14T14:34:37Z")
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> **Confluster_p_ated**** Con **fused +** Flust **ered + Mentally Consti** pated** = Conflusterpated. To mix up. I just made that up.
I am an idion.
\*\* Idio **t + mor** on\*\* = Idion.
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### Author:  [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2004, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-dont-exist-but-should/229056/46 "2004-02-14T16:33:20Z")
> [@Shirley Ujest](#):
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> **Dutchboy** I bow to your superior paint drinking skills. I conflusterpated the two words.
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> My bad.
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> **Conflustercated**** Con **fused +** Flust **ered + Mentally Consti** pated** = Conflusterpated. To mix up. I just made that up.
You’re evil.
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### Author:  [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2004, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-dont-exist-but-should/229056/47 "2004-02-15T01:57:49Z")
Whorship - The act of keeping your computer as a shine to manipulated photos that paste the heads of actresses (or actors) on to the bodies porn stars.
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### Author:  [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2004, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-dont-exist-but-should/229056/48 "2004-02-15T03:15:53Z")
In our house we say:
**Assident** - when you fart and _almost_ shit your pants.
**Assplosion** - explosive diarrhea, of course.
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### Author:  [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2004, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-dont-exist-but-should/229056/49 "2004-02-15T03:16:50Z")
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> **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.**
THAT IS PERFECT! THANK you!
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### Author:  [@kung\_fu\_lola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kung_fu_lola)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2004, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-dont-exist-but-should/229056/50 "2004-02-15T06:44:55Z")
Theterosexual for someone who is heterosexual in _theory_, but not in practice. Like Madonna.
Sensuexual. It means like it sounds. Sen-shoo-ex-shue-uhl.
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### Author:  [@raizok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raizok)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2004, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-dont-exist-but-should/229056/51 "2004-02-15T06:50:51Z")
A buddy of mine once got into a heavy makeout session with this chick and she gave him a handjob through his pants. To this day I have referred to it as a “cottonjob” since nothing was actually outside of his underwear. That word really bugs him 😃 but everyone else I know loves it 🙂
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### Author:  [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2004, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-dont-exist-but-should/229056/52 "2004-02-16T13:01:38Z")
**Blooter** : **Blo** ing and **Toot** ing your own horn.
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### Author:  [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2004, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-dont-exist-but-should/229056/53 "2004-02-16T13:28:16Z")
**Bluck** –Anything that both **bl** ows and su **ck** s. No, I’m not going to post a poetic example.
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### Author:  [@jovan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jovan)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2004, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-dont-exist-but-should/229056/54 "2004-02-16T14:04:12Z")
> [@Kalhoun](#):
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> Heh. My husband was in Vietnam. The Vietnamese word for water is “mizoo” (that’s phonetic. I don’t really know how to spell it). Anyhoo, we used to call milk “moozoo” and beer was “Boozoo.”
[ot]Hmmm… “mizu” is water in Japanese. In Vietnamese, I think it’s “n??c”, but honestly I’ll be damned if I know how to pronunce that. [/ot]
I’d like to nominate the noun **flormurour** , spelled **flormuror** in America.
I’ll be damned if I know what it means, though.
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### Author:  [@kellner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kellner)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2004, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-dont-exist-but-should/229056/55 "2004-02-16T15:58:00Z")
> [@Martha](#):
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> ‘Kneepits’ for the bits behind the knees.
Seriously, there isn’t a word for _that_ in English? Strange.
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### Author:  [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2004, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-dont-exist-but-should/229056/56 "2004-02-16T16:08:57Z")
**Spush** is my favorite Southern-sounding word. _Spush that bug there, would ya?_
DOT in every state could save big money by using **Nexit** for Next Exit, **Rightno or Redno** for No Right or Turn on Red, and **Splimit** for Speed Limit. _Antelope Freeway Nexit, Splimit 25_
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### Author:  [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2004, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-dont-exist-but-should/229056/57 "2004-02-16T18:17:24Z")
> [@danceswithcats](#):
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> **Spush** is my favorite Southern-sounding word. _Spush that bug there, would ya?_
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> DOT in every state could save big money by using **Nexit** for Next Exit, **Rightno or Redno** for No Right or Turn on Red, and **Splimit** for Speed Limit. _Antelope Freeway Nexit, Splimit 25_
Merge could be broken down to **MRG**. _Left Turn Only On Green Arrow_ could become **Wait Green Left** Kind of some archaic-speak.
This is a great idea.
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### Author:  [@Treviathan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treviathan)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2004, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-dont-exist-but-should/229056/58 "2004-02-16T20:27:40Z")
**preancé** - the period of acquaintanceship before two people start dating each other. Usually used in retrospect.
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### Author:  [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)
#### Post date: [February 16, 2004, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-dont-exist-but-should/229056/59 "2004-02-16T22:14:23Z")
> [@kellner](#):
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> Seriously, there isn’t a word for _that_ in English? Strange.
No, we don’t have a word for it. Do you have it in German? I don’t remember.
This also seems a good place to make my contribution, which you’ll probably get only if you have three or more cats, and if you understand German.
**Gekittle** \*, a mass of cats sleeping together with their bodies and limbs all intertwined.
\*Or **Gekaetzl**.
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### Author:  [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2004, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-dont-exist-but-should/229056/60 "2004-03-16T22:33:57Z")
> [@](#):
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> My daughter cam up with this one when she was about 5 (she’s now 12) or so: **disastrophe** , a combination of disaster and catastrophe.
I love this word and use it all the time now.
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