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Neologisms

 
 
Reply Sat 16 Sep, 2006 12:54 pm
The Washington Post's Mensa Invitational once again asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition. Here are the winners:

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

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

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

4. Bozone: The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near fu ture.

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

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 disease. (This one got extra credit.)

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

12. Decafalon: 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 you perform 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.

And the pick of the literature.

18. Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an asshole.
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gustavratzenhofer
 
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Reply Sat 16 Sep, 2006 12:59 pm
Hemispere

An African weapon with a high-performance motor.
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Merry Andrew
 
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Reply Sat 16 Sep, 2006 01:01 pm
Matchismo -- that feeling of male superiority one gets by striking a wooden match on one's thumbnail.
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gustavratzenhofer
 
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Reply Sat 16 Sep, 2006 01:09 pm
Invantory --

http://www.edinphoto.org.uk/0_edin_t/0_edinburgh_transport_cars_vans_lorries_-_trojan_vans.jpg
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gustavratzenhofer
 
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Reply Sat 16 Sep, 2006 01:30 pm
Crepusculiar -- One who is prone to prevaricate during filtered light.
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Francis
 
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Reply Sat 16 Sep, 2006 01:34 pm
Merry Andrew wrote:
Matchismo -- that feeling of male superiority one gets by striking a wooden match on one's thumbnail.


I thought it was the aptitude to fit together...
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Merry Andrew
 
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Reply Sat 16 Sep, 2006 01:38 pm
Francis wrote:
Merry Andrew wrote:
Matchismo -- that feeling of male superiority one gets by striking a wooden match on one's thumbnail.


I thought it was the aptitude to fit together...


No, that's 'interlockutor.' (Keep trying, Frannie. Smile)
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gustavratzenhofer
 
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Reply Sat 16 Sep, 2006 01:44 pm
uterdus -- the principal agent in the expulsion of feces.
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Merry Andrew
 
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Reply Sat 16 Sep, 2006 01:56 pm
gondoliar -- a Venice water-taxi driver who deliberately misrepresents the amount of the fare.
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Francis
 
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Reply Sat 16 Sep, 2006 02:14 pm
Canspiracy - Stealing packs of beer.
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CerealKiller
 
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Reply Thu 21 Sep, 2006 11:19 pm
Doltergeist: a spirit that decides to haunt someplace stupid, such as your septic tank.
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CerealKiller
 
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Reply Thu 21 Sep, 2006 11:36 pm
rentipede: any of various wormlike creatures who rent an apartment with no intention of paying rent
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CerealKiller
 
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Reply Thu 21 Sep, 2006 11:48 pm
lymp node: a node that can't maintain an erection
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Merry Andrew
 
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Reply Fri 22 Sep, 2006 02:29 pm
déja moo -- the odd feeling that you've heard this bull before.
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dlowan
 
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Reply Fri 22 Sep, 2006 05:55 pm
ycleptomaniac: identity thief
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dadpad
 
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Reply Fri 22 Sep, 2006 06:46 pm
clowan - a funny bunny.
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Merry Andrew
 
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Reply Fri 22 Sep, 2006 09:04 pm
blamless -- a firearm that won't fire
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dadpad
 
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Reply Fri 22 Sep, 2006 10:04 pm
some musical terms

Frugalhorn;
a sensible and inexspensive brass instrument

Allregretto:
When you are 16 bars into a piece and realize you took too fast a tempo
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Merry Andrew
 
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Reply Sat 23 Sep, 2006 05:01 pm
cold snore -- the weird sounds that a sufferer of a head cold makes when trying to sleep.
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