# Words that don't exist but should. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 28, 2000, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-dont-exist-but-should/43114 "2000-11-28T23:55:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2001, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-dont-exist-but-should/43114/41 "2001-12-04T16:32:46Z")
**nibblage** noun, (1) The right of the person who goes out for burgers and fries to nibble on the latter. (2) The means of calculating fair nibblage, factoring in such criteria as the number of people for whom the food is intended, and the distance that must be driven. **kibblon** noun, The smallest recognizable particle of dry cat food, usually found on the floor near food dishes. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2001, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-dont-exist-but-should/43114/42 "2001-12-04T16:54:14Z")
**penaltee** - trying to position your golf ball up as high as possible for your drive. **testiculate** - scratch your scroat. **poot-du-jour** - a reflection of yesterday’s menu. **avant-pard** - developing something new to apologise for. ---
**Author:** ![Ewdlorr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dfb087/32.png) [@Ewdlorr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ewdlorr)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2001, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-dont-exist-but-should/43114/43 "2001-12-04T17:08:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by screech-owl \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by scratch1300 \* > > **One of my own is demipygean, a nice (I think) synonym for “half-assed”.** > > I am going to sneak that into a memo at work and see if anyone notices. (“Our demipygean efforts will show us no little modicum of success.”) > > I’ve already described someone as being on medical leave with “arthripoidal invasion of the lower alimentary canal” (“having a bug in one’s butt”), but I think that will go over much better. \*\* I’ve always liked [James Lileks’](http://www.lileks.com/) phrase, “micturationally impecunious”. I’ll leave it to the doper community to translate to the vernacular. ---
**Author:** ![Loopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loopus/32/15343_2.png) [@Loopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopus)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2001, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-dont-exist-but-should/43114/44 "2001-12-04T18:38:06Z")
Logicize (LOJ-ih-size)- To use logic (perhaps in a questionable way) to arrive at a conclusion. I actually tried to use this word in an essay, and was shocked to learn that it didn’t exist! “Rationalize” is similar, but not quite what I wanted. -Loopus (We’ve been working on this language for a thousand years. When will it be finished?!) ---
**Author:** ![Ewdlorr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dfb087/32.png) [@Ewdlorr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ewdlorr)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2001, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-dont-exist-but-should/43114/45 "2001-12-04T19:25:16Z")
It’s actually Adam Carrolla’s, that annoying (yet surprisingly sometimes hilarious) dude from “Loveline” and “The Man Show”: **ricockulous** – also **ricoculous** _(ri-COK-yoo-lus)_ When something’s sheer lunacy exceeds all previously measured values, it’s no longer ridiculous – it’s _ **ricockulous** _. ---
**Author:** ![Khadro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@Khadro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadro)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2001, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-dont-exist-but-should/43114/46 "2001-12-04T22:33:37Z")
Aromasphere - the area around an object in which you can easily smell said object. there are dozens of others that my SO and I have made up, but they related mostly to things that affect us directly. her pet was neither full grown, nor still a baby, so it was in the “puppog” stage. Things like that. ---
**Author:** ![Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2001, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-dont-exist-but-should/43114/47 "2001-12-04T23:30:05Z")
I’ve always been partial to “Taffer”, from the game Thief, and Thief 2. It’s a catch-all word for a dreg of society…“Trickster”, “Vandal”, “Idiot”, et al. Can also be used as a verb. “You mean he managed to fit -all- of his fingers into his gaping anus?! You’re **taffin’** me!” ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2001, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-dont-exist-but-should/43114/48 "2001-12-05T03:42:17Z")
**javaman** , I was all set to kick your butt for reopening such an old post…but, the ones you came up with were pretty damn good! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![HelloKitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecccb3/32.png) [@HelloKitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelloKitty)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2001, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-dont-exist-but-should/43114/49 "2001-12-05T04:14:37Z")
[QUOTE] \*Originally posted by Saltire \* \*\* > [@](#): > > My fave: Meganegabar–The line you put on a check to prevent someone else from adding “and a million dollars.” \*\* Don’t you mean the **NegaMegaBuck Line**?? ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2001, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-dont-exist-but-should/43114/50 "2001-12-05T05:36:04Z")
GUZINTAH-Multiplicative term. ex- Four guzintah twelve…three times. Five guzintah ten…two times. Supersyllabliphonication-the act of adding extra syllables to a word which does not posess them in print. ex- Pronouncing “Four” as “Foe-wer”. ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2001, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-dont-exist-but-should/43114/51 "2001-12-05T20:11:08Z")
**Snee-** A sneeze that doesn’t completely execute. You feel your nose tingling and you start inhaling, anticipating the forceful thrust of air and saliva that is expected, but it never materializes. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-dont-exist-but-should/43114/52 "2001-12-06T23:53:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Czarcasm \* > \*\ ***javaman** , I was all set to kick your butt for reopening such an old post…but, the ones you came up with were pretty damn good! 🙂 \*\* Your forbearance was greatly appreciated. Seriously, is there a rule against bumping old threads? I seem to remember asking about it once, a LONG time ago, and **Manhattan** said it was OK. I can’t give you a link because it’s so old. At any rate, I figured it was better than opening a new thread on the same subject; if it’s been buried that long, then most people probably haven’t seen it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-dont-exist-but-should/43114.md?page=2)