Words that don't exist but should.

How about drunch? It is how hubby and I call any meal between dinner and lunch. We also though of linner, but we didn’t quite like it and frankly we needed a word for that.

snackalicious – mmmmmmm these pringles are snackalicious!

Sloggiest : Combination of Slightest and Foggiest…

I haven’t the sloggiest idea what you’re on about.

One of those “two words trying to come out at once” (saycopation?) errors that I ended up really liking.

One of Rich Hall’s Sniglets: Pupsqueak: The sound a dog makes when it opens its mouth too wide to yawn.

Oh, and another of his, one that I use in spoken convo all the time because I’ve never heard a more perfect description…

Napjerk: That sudden jerking movement your body makes just as you’re drifting off to sleep.

<ot> I do this all the time, always accompanied by some dream (such as falling off a bike, or tripping over something). Drives me nuts. And now I do it on the train, but it’s my hands that jerk. :shrug: </ot>

snopes – as a verb.

I thought of that today when somebody sent me one of those old, old myths and I had to “snopes” him.

Phoney - A person (usually in a restaurant or movie theater) talking in a loud obnoxious voice on their cell phone.

If there is more than one of them, they are a cell of phonies

Do too, actually.

Here’s a favorite of mine:

Muzzy - combo of muddled and fuzzy. Used to discribe that discontected feeling experienced from strong pain medication.

Tally

Flattose - milk fart

Flattose intolerance - extreme aversion to a milk fart

Chegging – Checking to see if you just touched part of the dinner table or someone else’s leg.

Fedex - to buy a meal for a former partner

Visarrrrgh! - the feeling of being alarmed upon receiving your credit card statement

Parn - pornography of average quality

Webslite - URL lacking interesting content

Castrology - divinatory system based on stars and constellations over Cuba

Madonnakebab - junk funk consumed after concert by popular singer

Fidgital camera - Modern device for taking images that involves lots of twiddly, awkward bits

Brokayen - sort of broken but does still actually work

Nouse - a computer mouse that has ceased to function and now serves no useful purpose whatsoever

Vegasp - sudden intake of breath upon winning a lot in a casino

Sement - That which makes sheets stick together

Gaffair - an extra-marital relationship that was, frankly, a bit of a disaster

RISP - a dead internet service provider

Badvert - a TV commercial so awful it puts you off the product

In computer programming, you sometimes have a situation where an exception arises in one step of a process, which is so serious that the job should end right there so corrective action can be taken. But some programmers, misunderstanding the principle of catching all errors, use exception handlers that detect the error and then set the state back to normal, so nobody ever knows anything went wrong.

I nominate overhandling, or exception hiding.

"We couldn’t figure out where it was going wrong because there was an overhandled exception.

Dramedy- a show with drama and comedy.
Motherfugly- someone really, REALLY ugly.
Pseudorgasm-she’s faking it.

I’ve looking for those words all my life. :smiley:

pseudorgasm.

A most excellent word. Most excellent indeed.

Horridle; Horridly Horrible. Or horribly horrid. Or horribly horridle [recursive!]

Saturunday - when you have only one day off from work instead of your normal two, and must complete your normal weekend chores, errands, and socializing in a single 24-hour period, and it feels like the weekend has been smushed into one day.

Nonday - the name of the ‘day that has no name’ - upon first waking, but before full coherency, you have no idea what day it is: Zzzzzzzzzzz … (snort) … skygzyzk … (twitch) … hanh?!! … whaaaa?? … do I go to work today? … do I sleep in do I go to the vet’s today or did I do that yesterday? [Full consciousness achieved] Oh yeah, it’s <insert name of day here>. [NOTE: this syndrome is very closely related to daymnesia - when you suddenly realize (in the middle of the day), you’ve forgotten what day it is namewise - is today Saturday?, Thursday? Monday?.]

Threads like these make my jaw drop as to how incredibly rich in words the English language is compared to ours.

Though, you need to import the Swedish “lagom”! Lagom is when something is just right: not too much, not too little, just lagom. I use it all the time.

YAY!

I made it to THREADSPOTTING because of my SHAMELESS WHORING!

Thanks, **TUBA! **

Arrivesearchi: till we Google again, farewell.

A few words from my wife…

Gihugeant and Hunormous - combos of giant & huge, and huge & enormous

**Alorn ** - alone and forlorn