# Words you made up

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-made-up/728514>\
**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:** 7\
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**Author:** ![AllShookDown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d9b06d/32.png) [@AllShookDown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AllShookDown)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2015, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-made-up/728514/61 "2015-08-26T13:46:06Z")

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Yamful - good to eat  
Coot - a cute guy that’s too old to be called cute any more is coot  
Perfty - perfect

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**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2015, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-made-up/728514/62 "2015-08-26T18:35:31Z")

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Fungle - to completely botch something. Coined in honor of criminologist Dennis Fung, who was part of the team that fungled the O.J. trial.

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**Author:** ![Dante\_G](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@Dante\_G](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dante_G)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2015, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-made-up/728514/63 "2015-08-27T00:33:04Z")

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I like to use flibbertigibbet when I’m at work.

I know its a real word, but I use instead of the F word while I’m on my computer or doing something at work and things don’t go the right way. It can really ease the stress ya know.

“FLIBBERTIGIBBET!”

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**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2015, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-made-up/728514/64 "2015-08-27T03:50:44Z")

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> [@movingfinger](#):
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> orgasmerado–I don’t have a meaning yet for this word, but it sounds like it has many intriguing possibilities. See what you come up with.

It could be similar to “orgasmnado,” an orgasm so intense that not only does the world seem to spin, the orgasm-haver actually starts to spin.

> [@movingfinger](#):
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> Upscalator–a mechanical device to get one from the first to the second floor. There is a name for a device that brings one back down. can you guess what it is?
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> Descendavater? Nnnooo… but thanks, anyway.

Downulator?

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**Author:** ![Tierce](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@Tierce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tierce)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2015, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-made-up/728514/65 "2015-08-27T22:52:37Z")

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When a dog (preferably with long ears) leans out the window of a moving car, it’s called “fidoplaning”.

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**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2015, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-made-up/728514/66 "2015-08-27T22:59:05Z")

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A work buddy and I came up with “therape” for what happens to you when you get some kind of therapy.

“I was theraped today.”

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**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 28, 2015, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-made-up/728514/67 "2015-08-28T01:15:32Z")

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> [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](#):
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> …  
> Downulator?

Downscalator?

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