# Words you made up **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 22, 2015, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-made-up/728514 "2015-08-22T10:51:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2015, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-made-up/728514/1 "2015-08-22T10:51:52Z")
Or made up by family/friends, including terms coined by a baby/toddler, that you regularly use. Give the word, define it, use in a sentence. Noshlik Hungry for a snack “What’s in the fridge-- I’m feeling kind of noshlik.” Variation: Naplik In need of a nap “I’m going to lie down-- feeling quite naplik.” Lunchable Available for lunch _\_ “Are you lunchable today?” ---
**Author:** ![HotDogWater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/35a633/32.png) [@HotDogWater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HotDogWater)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2015, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-made-up/728514/2 "2015-08-22T16:00:52Z")
Gription: very sticky combination of grip and friction “Use good gription when hitting your driver off the tee” ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2015, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-made-up/728514/3 "2015-08-22T18:03:03Z")
Not so much made up, as fixed: Vegable Same as “Vegetable” Which vegables do you want from the store? ---
**Author:** ![ITR\_champion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c67d28/32.png) [@ITR\_champion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ITR_champion)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2015, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-made-up/728514/4 "2015-08-22T18:31:08Z")
**Disfute** : (verb) to simultaneously dispute and refute In a heated exchange of words, Alice disfuted Bob’s assertion about the dangers of GMOs. ---
**Author:** ![TwoCarrotSnowman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/twocarrotsnowman/32/15879_2.png) [@TwoCarrotSnowman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwoCarrotSnowman)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2015, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-made-up/728514/5 "2015-08-22T18:38:20Z")
When I was very young, my mum would hand me a banana and tell me “don’t eat the skin”. In my confused, childish brain, I somehow decided that this is what they were called. I couldn’t manage such a complicated sentence at that age though, so I shortened it - and to this day, bananas are called “donties” in our family. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2015, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-made-up/728514/6 "2015-08-22T18:52:27Z")
Floobage: the movement of a woman’s breasts relative to her torso. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2015, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-made-up/728514/7 "2015-08-22T18:59:32Z")
Losertic. To describe a person who drives like a lunatic while also indicating that they are a complete loser who is only endangering those around them. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2015, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-made-up/728514/8 "2015-08-22T21:03:18Z")
For that time around the Holidays when I’m REALLY not feeling it ---- Bah-Humfuck. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2015, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-made-up/728514/9 "2015-08-22T22:21:34Z")
> [@](#): > > **Inevitable** > [in-ev-i-tuh-buh l][sup]1[/sup] > **noun** > A foreseeable event in which one or more people are injured and/or killed, said event’s occurrence caused by one human’s complete disregard for basic safety practices: _In Beijing, there was yet another inevitable when a taxi driver, going well over the speed limit, ran a red light at a major intersection and struck a vehicle in the intersection, thus killing all four occupants of the other vehicle._ > > [sup]1[/sup]Pronunciation guide from [Dictionary.com](http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/inevitable?s=t) I coined the term a few years ago while living in South Korea. I’m now living in Beijing, China and the prevalence of inevitables here is not amusing. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2015, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-made-up/728514/10 "2015-08-22T22:41:07Z")
A couple from childhood: _bibo_ - the satin edge of a blanket. “I like to rub my feet on the bibo.” (Still true, forty-odd years later.) _The pup_ - the laundry chute. “Mom! Whadda I do with my dirty socks?” “Stick 'em down the pup!” _bip_ - fart. “Okay, dammit, who bipped?” Almost inevitably yelled by my dad on long road trips. _dinkle_ - penis. “Dinkle guitar! Dinkle guitar!” - what you yell when you’re standing in the shower, holding one hand out as if you were playing an invisible guitar, and waving your wand with the other. And you’re a seven-year-old boy. What can I say? It was the 70’s, and we didn’t have a Nintendo. You made your own entertainment. ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2015, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-made-up/728514/11 "2015-08-22T23:01:51Z")
_Wibbly_ - an unpleasant, less-than-firm texture - think undercooked bacon. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2015, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-made-up/728514/12 "2015-08-22T23:16:28Z")
During a conversation about which current players are “of a good enough standard to be considered the greatest of all time” I shortened the phrase to **GOATworthy**. I was later amazed to find that no-one uses it except my friends and I although, “who is worthy of being considered the GOAT” is a common discussion. Anyhow it makes for a pithy rejoinder, “Sorry simply not GOATworthy.” ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2015, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-made-up/728514/13 "2015-08-22T23:30:10Z")
Moronothug: a wannabe badass ninth grader, usually found to be incarcerated before his twelfth grade year. ---
**Author:** ![Daylate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9dc877/32.png) [@Daylate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daylate)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2015, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-made-up/728514/14 "2015-08-22T23:42:32Z")
My daughter’s name for a hammer was “pounder”. Pretty descriptive, actually. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2015, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-made-up/728514/15 "2015-08-22T23:43:35Z")
Cunt based: shitty. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2015, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-made-up/728514/16 "2015-08-22T23:46:25Z")
Turkey cousins: The cousins of one’s cousins on the other side, to whom one is thus not directly related. “We’re going to stop by Aunt M\_\_\_'s over Christmas break.” “Will the turkey cousins be there?” Coined because, in my family, the family so related whom we see most often, we consider (affectionately) to be a bunch of turkeys. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2015, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-made-up/728514/17 "2015-08-22T23:47:42Z")
I had a roommate once who used the word “humongous” a lot. I thought (at the time) that he had made it up. When I discovered that the word was already in fairly common use, and pointed that out to him, he was surprised. He thought he had made it up too. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2015, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-made-up/728514/18 "2015-08-22T23:50:35Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > “Dinkle guitar! Dinkle guitar!” - what you yell when you’re standing in the shower, holding one hand out as if you were playing an invisible guitar, and waving your wand with the other. And you’re a seven-year-old boy. What can I say? It was the 70’s, and we didn’t have a Nintendo. You made your own entertainment. Well, when you’re seven years old and have a wee-wee to play with, who needs Nintendo? ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2015, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-made-up/728514/19 "2015-08-23T00:31:20Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Turkey cousins: The cousins of one’s cousins on the other side, to whom one is thus not directly related. “We’re going to stop by Aunt M\_\_\_'s over Christmas break.” “Will the turkey cousins be there?” Coined because, in my family, the family so related whom we see most often, we consider (affectionately) to be a bunch of turkeys. Or maybe because you only see them at Thanksgiving? These are great, BTW. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2015, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-made-up/728514/20 "2015-08-23T00:35:01Z")
My mom liked to remind me of two words I made up as a toddler. Water was “aylum”, and when I would point at something I would say what sounded like the first syllable of Brezhnev. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-made-up/728514.md?page=2)