Have you ever invented a word that might be useful to others?

[BurtWorm]

My brother and I invented a word--thaga--when we were kids almost onomatapoetically to describe certain painful, annoying or irritating situations that one is powerless to do anything about. Like, for example, when a teacher would erase the blackboard and leave little streaks of chalk at the edges, that was thaga. I was thinking this when I saw a thread title here with an important word misspelled in it. As I waited and waited for the poster to edit it, thaga came to mind.

Thaga is also applicable in situations that cause extreme discomfort: nails scratching on the blackboard, teeth touching aluminum foil, fingers bending backwards. Or when someone describes an accident that involves that kind of pain, I immediately recoil and think, "Thaga!"

So what words have you invented?

[Aristus]

1. Spimmach.

The kind of food spill you get on your clothing only when it is imperative that you not have a food-stain on your clothes. The kind that never happens if you're not going anywhere. B-)

[BurtWorm]

4. Spimmach stains on a brand new white shirt are thaga.

x(

[cheezus]

2. don't have a word, but we need one

"i'm sorry", when used in the context of expressing sympathy. Often times it is interpreted as an unnecessary apology when it isn't. "My sympathies" works, but sounds sterile.

[fob]

6. Isn't that what "My condolences" is for?

[cheezus]

21. that strikes me as something you say when someone dies

looking for something inbetween

that sucks
and
my condolences

[Kire]

7. what about nothing?

I DON'T NEED YOUR FUCKING SYMPATHY!

/sarcasm (sort of)/

[fob]

3. Not mine. but a friend and his brothers invented

Disgrasting.

A combo of Disgusting and Disgraceful. It happens to be a perfect description of bush*co!

[Maddy McCall]

5. My kid made up "obsta" and "deflictified."

Obsta means cool, as in "You the obsta."

Deflictified means dumb, ignorant, or stupid.

[BurtWorm]

9. Bubba was the obsta

Bubba the lobsta, I mean.

Deflictified has a nice ring to it, considering what it means! The perfect thing to say to someone you don't like. "That is a most deflictified thing you just said, Henderson. Most deflictified."

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

8. Sadoconservative.

A good word, I think, for the likes of Rush Limpballs and Annthrax Coulter -- people whose conservatism leads them actually to enjoy the suffering of weaker, more vulnerable people.

[BurtWorm]

14. That is really good!

Nice useful term. :thumbsup:

[Demit]

10. Sort of a new word: Vagoo

Actually an altered pronunciation of "vague". Used to describe someone who's more than a little ditzy. "I saw so-and-so the other day. She was being her usual vagoo self..."

How do you pronounce "thaga"?

[BurtWorm]

13. Unvoiced "th," rhymes with wogga.

[LadyLeo]

15. elemotivation

Thats when you keep hitting the button on the elevator to motivate it to come quicker

[Kire]

11. my brother and I were never on that level

the only word I can think of that my brother and I made up was "Googly-gangos", which we shouted when we threw these soft rubber monster trinket toys we used to have at each other

[ladjf]

12. Yes, "shortgevity". Also, "ruly", the opposite of "unruly".

[Babel_17]

16. Ah, "sniglets"! :)

I used to love those.

To answer your question, yes I have.

I coined the compound word "road-bunnies".

Much like "dust-bunnies" they are the aggregation on the road of asphalt particles as a result of road work.

http://www.geocities.com/krishna_kunchith/humor/sniglets.html

A snippet:


Sniglets

Sniglet (snig' lit) n.
Any word that doesn't appear in the dictionary, but should

by Rich Hall and friends.

Aets (ehtz) n.
Greek symbols on water fountain handles.
Agonosis (ag u no' sis) n.
The syndrome of tuning into "Wide World of Sports" every Saturday just to watch the skier rack himself.
Airdirt (ayr' dirt) n.
A hanging plant that's been ignored for three weeks or more.
Alpopuck (al' po puk) n.
Any empty dish pushed around the kitchen floor by a dog trying to get the last morsel.
Anchority (an chor' ih tee) n.
A group's final, hard-fought decision on what toppings to order on a pizza.
ARG (Audio Retinal Gyration) (ay ahr gee) v.
To move the head in a circular fashion while attempting to read a rotating record label.

B+ stampede (bee' plus stam peed) n.
The attempt by half the classroom to claim the paper with no name on it.
Backspackle (bak' spak uhl) n.
Markings on the back of one's shirt from riding a fenderless bicycle.

[ladjf]

17. "Stobaphillia" - animals that love light.

"vertogotatious" - An environment that causes vertigo.

[Salviati]

18. Brocking

a verb, to gain entrance to an otherwise inaccessable location on the coattails of someone authorized to be there.

Usage:

"How did he get in here?"

"I dunno, he must have brocked his way in"

This is named after some guy named Brock, who would always sneak into our dorm to hang out in the lounge, even though no one really could stand him at all.

[Maddy McCall]

20. He didn't end up being a high-school principal, did he?

You just described a guy I knew by the last name of Brock. :-)

[Rob H.]

19. A friend of mine came up with "feck"

Meaning dirt, grime, mold, grease, etc., as in, "I picked it up and put it in the trash, but it left some feck behind" or "Don't touch that! It has feck on it."

A couple I've been using lately are dumbassedness and jackassery, as in, "A friend of mine watches FoxNews and I've told him it's the height of dumbassedness to believe anything they say. He said he just watches it to enjoy the jackassery of O'Reilly and Hannity."

Don't know if those are original to me, though. :)

[immoderate]

22. Two good stories:

When I lived in Arizona, I went with a friend to get his van from service. While we waited in 103 degree heat, a sevice manager came up to us to ask if we were being helped. We told him that they asked us to wait and just disappeared. He said, "Oh those guys. They're just being lactose."

In another situation, a client was explaining why everybody at his office was so dressed up. "We're getting a visit from a couple of dilitaries," he said.

I have shared those with my friends and now they are part of our vocabulary. My friend will ask me, "Are you coming over, or are you being lactose?"

--IMM

[EFerrari]

23. Heard on Charlie Rose with Hunter Thompson

"ideopath"

:)

[Rob H.]

24. Here are some fun ones

From a radio station in Canada's Most Wanted Words contest.
____

The lines you get on your face from your sheets and pillows when you're sleeping. You know the ones, they're similar to the lines you get from wearing socks that are too tight, but these ones are on your face and if you still have them by the time you get to the office, everyone knows you slept in.

• Cotslots
• Dream seams
• Slimples
• Crevidents
• Sheetfaced
• Rip van wrinkles
• Rumplesheetskin
• Pillowpinches
• Percalations
• Drool gutters
• Scrunchligs
• Shrinkles

A person who has trouble keeping plants alive. "Trouble" is putting it mildly. What they actually do is kill houseplants, flowers, vegetables, even shrubbery with ease and efficiency.

• Herbicidal maniac
• hortikillturist
• botchanist
• plantagonizer
• necrofloriac
• horticidal maniac
• vegicidal maniac
• grass-assin
• botanicidal
• roto-killer
• vegecutioner
• veggiscarian
• fleurfatale
• fleurderer
• floraputz
• morticulturist
• flortician
• hortician
• planters thwart
• earth-smother

[fob]

25. Again, NOT my words, but I just got this e-mail that seemed appropriate

1. Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.

2. Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.

3. Bozone (n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.

4. Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.

5. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period.

6. Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.

7. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.

8. Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.

9. Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.

10. Osteopornosis: A degenerate's disease. (This one got extra credit.)

11. Karmageddon: It's like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like,! the Earth explodes and it's like, a serious bummer.

12. Decafalon (n.): The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.

13. Glibido: All talk and no action.

14. Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.

15. Arachnoleptic fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web.

16. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.

17. Caterpallor (n.): The color you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you're eating.

18. Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an asshole.


#14 is waht bush*co tries to do and #18 is another perfect example of bush* himself*!

[wideopen]

26. piddledick

Kind of like "dickin' around" except lazier and less focused on anything.

[LiberalEsto]

27. speedozer

This is a driver who is in a great big hurry to pull out in front of you, then slows down to a glacial pace.

NJ is the speedozer capital of the universe.

[October]

28. My teenage daughter invents a lot of words...such as

slitch - (verb) To squeeze, slide.
Just slitch it on in there.

crowdation - (nounish) gathering of large groups of people
Gee, lots of crowdation here today...

[fob]

29. Wait! It took 3 posts but now I remember one of my own!

Foof (n): The small remaining piece of a fingernail after you trim your fingernails that you didn't notice until you inadvertantly stab yourself with it!

[Beetwasher]

30. Pedecrastination

When you're walking down the street and someone's walking towards you and you can't get around eachother because you keep moving the same way. The proper response is "thanks for the dance!"

[xmas74]

31. A friend of mine used to say paxilated.

As in the drug. It means to be lulled into a sense of doped-up complacency. Such as, when someone's cat dies she used to say "I done been paxilated" meaning "I'm too out of it and just too lazy to care".
This entire country has done been paxilated.

[EFerrari]

32. Don't knock paxil, zoloft or prozac, lol.

Do you realize how many people's mania is being levelled out by these drugs? Hey, that's one more road rage you won't have to endure.

[xmas74]

33. She was taking Paxil at the time.

That's when she started to say it.
She has now moved on to bigger and better drugs.

[EFerrari]

34. Hope she has good supervision, that's the real hitch.

We've the best mental health tech in the world and not very good delivery (aka, diagnosis & supervision).

Bet we could get a book out of the stuff people say about all these new meds, right or wrong.

[Speck Tater]

35. Gesunderbluss

When someone sneezes, it's gesundheit + bless you + blunderbuss.