made up words

[ferret88]

My wife has a TERRIBLE habit of using nondescript, made-up words for things she cannot immediately remember the names of. Her terms-of-choice are "thingy-thing" and "fun stuff." For example, at a restaurant she will want to order some version of flavored iced tea and will ask if they have any reaspberry fun stuff.
(She also has pronoun trouble in that she starts conversations using pronouns for which she has provided no reference, but that's probably a different thread.)

The other, generally accepted, ones that bug me are "aks" for "ask" and "expresso" for "espresso."

[Spexxvet]

Vomitose. As in: "I think I've had too much too drink - I feel vomitose"

[barefoot serpent]

barfaroni -- a bit too descriptive for me.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by Shawnee123

I feel that way about people saying "anywayS." There are many co-workers and educators and higher-ups who simply should know better.

Solecisms are bad; it's that simple.

Something the pointyheaded Bush Bashers don't mention is that roughly a third of Congress, House and Senate, say "nucular." "Misunderestimated," however, is probably in the national lexicon to stay for at least a decade and maybe permanently: it concisely nails a certain kind of error, and does it while being amusingly, rather than gratingly, country.

Learned coinings aren't so bad: the anywaysers and the irregardless-gushers suffer from being hemipygian. While I'm trying to promote the word, I'm not so enthusiastic about any related words such as a noun like hemipygine, meaning a hemipygian person. It's too ambiguously spelt.

Axing a question fills me with an urge to gesture.

The US military spokesmen's inability to pronounce "cache" correctly makes me sigh. Were there NO military men in Iraq and Afghanistan who hailed from places with French placenames like Cache la Poudre, near Fort Collins, Colorado? It rhymes with "cash," guys.

[Sundae]

Made up words within my family:

Beebles - any dried catfood, also used to describe boring cereal
Dither - not the dictionary definition, but an all over body shiver of disgust - "Those caterpillar pictures gave me the dithers"
Gollop - to drink in large swallows - "Stop golloping, you'll make yourself sick!"
Gullet (also gulluted, gulleting) - replaces "fillet" (fish)
Lurkey - left over turkey, also Licken and Larky Bread (I used to eat garlic bread for breakfast when I was a pizza waitress)
Mashipots - mashed potatoes
Sleepy-bo - the feeling of utter exhaustion that overcomes small children when they are literally falling asleep where they are
Spiggits - biscuits (cookies)

Obviously these are childhood words, but are still used without embarrassment.

[funkykule]

liberry for library
pacific/pacifically for specific/specifically
prolly for probably
all annoy me.

But i get over it cos I have a few of my own:
fuffer- anything of the cuddly variety.
eddy fuff- anything extremely cute.
randomer- anybody not known to me~ some randomer cut me off
and various made up swearwords etc..

[Beestie]

Just listen to that moron Bo Deitl on Imus in the morning and you could fill up this thread. I'm not even gonna start.

[lumberjim]

Originally Posted by NoBoxes

Regarding your first question, "orient" and "orientate" are both in common use though the latter is still not accepted by some (the English language is still evolving as are some of its users).



"Orientees" are oriented by attending an orientation.

Just a suggestion while on the subject of made up words!

now, if you took an asian person and spun them around in a circle for a few minutes, would they become disoriented?



Gunt: the chubbiness below the beltline that some women display.

Sniglet: a made up word.

[MurMetz]

My husband has a horrible (but entertaining) habit of mixing up two words that have the same (or close) definition:

to him,
drowsy + groggy = droggy

[wolf]

Originally Posted by skysidhe

ummmm NO. You go visit yours because you are too sensitive. For a shrink. You don't want to be transfering now do ya. umm and arn't you the resident shrink anyway??

I am not a shrink. I am a Mental Health Commitment Officer.

I actually don't like or have much respect for the majority of shrinks, therapists, counsellors, psychologists, and licensed social workers. I know from direct experience that about 80% of them are gaping idiots who couldn't gain entry into any other major.

[glatt]

Originally Posted by wolf

I know from direct experience that about 80% of them are gaping idiots who couldn't gain entry into any other major.

I think you can say the same for just about any field.

[Elspode]

Classic Peter Principle situation.

[Spexxvet]

Chubby chafe - the irritaion between fat thighs, from rubbing together while walking.

Originally Posted by Spexxvet

Chubby chafe - the irritaion between fat thighs, from rubbing together while walking.

Those are both actual words.

Proactive.... god I heard it so much in the damn office.
I wanna' find the glib fuck that made that shit-up and stomp them like a puppy.
*happyBuddhistthoughtshappyBuddhistthoughtshappyBuddhistthoughtshappyBuddhistthoughtshappyBuddhistthoughtshappyBuddhistthoughts*

[Urbane Guerrilla]

A neologism contest where the challenge was to change or add a single letter in or to a word, and then define the new word, produced the concise and useful-sounding Ignoranus -- someone both ignorant and an asshole.