Dictionary of New WordsSomewhat inspired by The (Deeper) Meaning of Liff, this page just lists some of the more amusing non-words I, or others, have made up... These words may be genuine words, misspellings of genuine words, or just fabrications. For the terminally humourless, I've also provided etymological information. Corrections, expansions or additions are welcome.Although the idea for this kind of exercise was provided by my mother, I now find that the format is that of LangMaker.com's New English -- the word my mother started me off with was inoculatte, which they have. If you like the idea, go visit their site! afrodisiac af-rO-diz'i-ak, adj making one's hair sexy. -- n something that makes the hair sexy; the correct shampoo for a hair type. [afro, aphrodisiac] boyant boi'@nt, adj enthusiastic, like a young male. -- n boyancy etc.. [boy and buoyant] broadshoid brord'SorEd, n A broadsheet newspaper at the smaller, tabloid size. [broadsheet and tabloid] carnifer cahnif@, n A meat-eating tree. -- adj carniferous. [carnivore and conifer] incompotent in-com'pOt@nt, adj without the capability to do anything right. How boyfriends and husbands often feel. [incompetant and impotent] inoculatte in-ok'U-latA or -lRtA or -t@, vt to take coffee introvenously when behind schedule. -- n inoculattion etc. [LangMaker.com, from inoculate and Ital. caffe latte] jamais vu ja'mA vU, n a feeling that one has experienced before something that is not currently happening and has not happened. [Fr. "never seen", from déjà vu "already seen"] movical mUvic@l, n a musical movie, such as Chicago. [Seren Haf, from movie and musical] quantumplate 'kwont@mplAt, vt or vi to think, or not to think, possibly about something, noöne is sure. [Aldis and Seren Haf, from quantum (superposition) and comtemplate] triv triv, adv or excl trivially, clearly, without further effort. [#misc, from trivially]
umbridge um'bridj, n any town of acrimony, (archaic) the moral high ground. (from the place where The Urchers is recorded.) (The Urchers: a rural radio show in which everyone used to be pious, but now just hates everyone else.) The real town of Umbridge is near High Dudgeon. [from Ambridge, where The Archers is set, and to take umbridge, to take the moral high ground and get annoyed]
urcher @ch@, n a person (esp. soap opera character) who gets on badly with everyone else. [see umbridge for ety]
vulture or vultuer vul'ch@r or vul'tu@r, n a (usu. male) person giving much attention to one recently out of a relationship, usu. in the hope of having it returned. [Kirk & Young, from metaph. circling and carrion, alternative spelling Aldis from Fr. tuer, to kill] vultuee -'chuE or -'tuE (back formation) the object of such attention.
webshite web'shIt, (coarse) n a website containing little or no content of interest to the world in general. [Bex, from website and shite (!)]
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