Words that don't exist but should.

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.

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.

I’ve always liked James Lileks’ phrase, “micturationally impecunious”. I’ll leave it to the doper community to translate to the vernacular.

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?!)

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.

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.

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!”

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! :slight_smile:

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Don’t you mean the NegaMegaBuck Line??

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”.

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.

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.