Words that don't exist but should.

Ah, sniglets.

http://almavijai.sphosting.com/Sniglets/sniglets.html

I absotively, posilutely love sniglets!

Neologology: the study of neologisms.

Example: This thread is an excercise in neologology.

Porndering: Trying to deduce what the other customers in the adult novelty shop are there to get.

Dopacetic: When all your work for the day is done and you can surf the boards till quittin’ time.

threasurrection - You thought the thread was dead, but surprise! It’s back!

A friend of mine once coined “I under-get-it” as a response to someone stumbling over a series of words that never quite make it out, but the meaning is clear.

That already has a word, and a lovely one when properly pronounced with a soft g: frottage.

Audient: The singular of audience; what you get when you take your crap late seventies ska band to a pub in the middle of nowhere and the single person who walks in has left his dog at home…

I know GWB takes a pasting off of many on here, but there is no doubt that he has empoored the Enlish language.

The trouble is, most people misunderestimisate him…

D’OH!per - what a long-time SDMB poster is when s/he does something stupid like forgetting to search threads before asking a question that’s been covered in the Forum Sticky, or posting to the wrong forum, and the like.

Not like anyone in this reply box would actually have done anything listed above in only the first week back on the boards after a long hiatus…

Enlish: Another word for the English. Common among those who don’t preview their posts.

Diarrhea= Ass Vomit
Hemorrhoids= Hangeroids
A couple of my favorite euphamisms for moving one’s bowels are:

  1. Launching a rocket
  2. Growing a tail

It’s funny how humans are compelled to be creative when talking about a seemingly uncomfortable, yet completely natural subject. I, for one, find it a hilarious topic of discussion and will join in at every opportunity!!!

Fruitile - Futile and fruitless (credit my parents)
Ambiphibuous - Able to drink with either hand (credit my grandpa)
Wussitudinosity - Referring to the condition of being a wuss (yours truly)

You’ve just given me another goal in life…

For all of those Douglas Adams fans out there: The Meaning Of Liff

These are all good words, but too many of them are either a melding of existing words or just plain Orwellian. What we need are entirely new words, like:

Arsesia - That condition of the eyes after a particularly good sneeze.
Warkling - Eating out when you know you can’t afford it, really.
Sampone - The poor explaination you give for mistakenly kissing a stranger.
Criving - Telling someone that they have food in their teeth.
Tredlion - The garnish on the plate that looks more appetizing than the actual entre.
Orphofantic - Unconcerned with the amount of shop grease under one’s fingernails.
Spliddle - Coffee induced twitch.
Depnear - The wet spot on your pillow in the morning with many possible origins.
Smong - A tomato that has a split in the skin.
Frablous - Loving anything to do with the “Atkins” diet.
Samling - Being bombarded constantly with reminders of the “Atkins” diet in advertising.
Blaiderous - Beginning to hate anything to do with the “Atkins” diet.
Drigerous - Wishing Dr. Atkins was still alive so that you could put him on a pornographic mailing list, infesting his house with rabid dung beetles or something equally horrific for inflicting his commercially friendly “diet” upon the world.
Gradernious - Tired from typing too much early in the morning.

Yup

My circle uses Homoflexual for people who have a preference for a particular sex but will sleep with either.

Antibanting - one who is not following the Atkins diet.
from William Banting a London undertaker who popularised
an almost all meat diet in the mid 19thC

Actually, that already has a name: it’s called a myoclonic jerk.

That said, I’ll add headbob as both a noun and verb for the act of falling slowly asleep in your chair until your head suddenly falls forwards or backwards and wakes you up.

Also, the spouse and I call any hand-pushed cart, trolley, etc with a squeaky wheel an eeky due to the noise it makes (eeky eeky eeky eeky…).

Pedzing A place in the road where people walk in front of your car.

Nipply cold as in “It’s a tit bit nipply out there”. (thanks to my dafter for that one :slight_smile: . Oh dafter because daughter should rhyme with laughter and my daughter would drive me daft! :smiley:

As long as you don’t slafter her aughterwards.

Stupidiots. Stupid idiots-obvious.

I like kneepit better-certainly more rememberable!