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Mirriam-Webster's top 10 "non-words"
1. ginormous (adj): bigger than gigantic and bigger than enormous
2. confuzzled (adj): confused and puzzled at the same time 3. woot (interj): an exclamation of joy or excitement 4. chillax (v): chill out/relax, hang out with friends 5. cognitive displaysia (n): the feeling you have before you even leave the house that you are going to forget something and not remember it until you're on the highway 6. gription (n): the purchase gained by friction: "My car needs new tires because the old ones have lost their gription." 7. phonecrastinate (v): to put off answering the phone until caller ID displays the incoming name and number 8. slickery (adj): having a surface that is wet and icy 9. snirt (n): snow that is dirty, often seen by the side of roads and parking lots that have been plowed 10. lingweenie (n): a person incapable of producing neologisms |
I guess we have to wait for next year's list for...
11. pwned (interj, adj): readily defeated through the use of powerful tactics. |
I do not use any of these, and have not heard of most of them.
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Isn't the name of the dictionary MERRIAM-Webster?
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You mean like a really big martini?
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A bigtini? But that would be an oxymoron...
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naw, that would be a bigtiny.. wouldn't it? and i've only heard gignormous.. slight regional variation I suppose
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I started using "ginormous" after seeing Elf.
Buddy: Have you seen these toilets? They're GINORMOUS! :D |
Funny, I've been using "ginormous" for as long as I can remember. I think I heard it first from my brother when I was 12 or 13, old enough to know it was not really a word but used it anyway.
Another common one in my vocab - Fratastic (also Fratacular) (adj): situations, usually involving alcohol and ego-driven homoerotic behavior, of "Animal House" proportions |
I use 5 of these. I suddenly feel disturbingly trendy.
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if i had toguess, i'd say Jag uses #'s 1,4,5,7,10.
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2, 3, 4, 5, 6. 6 not so much.
I wasn't aware there was a delay on callerID. |
I use 1, 2, and 3. And somehow I was not even aware that usage of #2 extended beyond me. I don't think I made it up, I just think I heard it somewhere and started using it and never heard anyone else ever use it.
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