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    The Washington Post publishes a definitions contest for readers...

    Long but worth it!

    http://www-personal.umich.edu/~shameem/neolog.html

    Neologisms .....

    The Washington Post publishes a contest for readers in which they are asked to supply alternate meanings for various words.

    Coffee (n.), a person who is coughed upon.

    Flabbergasted (adj.), appalled over how much weight you have gained.

    Abdicate (v.), to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.

    Esplanade (v.), to attempt an explanation while drunk.

    Willy-nilly (adj.), impotent

    Negligent (adj.), describes a condition in which you absentmindedly answer the door in your nightie.

    Lymph (v.), to walk with a lisp.

    Gargoyle (n.), an olive-flavored mouthwash.

    Flatulence (n.) the emergency vehicle that picks you up after you are run over by a steamroller.

    Balderdash (n.), a rapidly receding hairline.

    Testicle (n.), a humorous question on an exam.

    Rectitude (n.), the formal, dignified demeanor assumed by a proctologist immediately before he examines you.

    Oyster (n.), a person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddish expressions.

    Circumvent (n.), the opening in the front of boxer shorts.

    Frisbeetarianism (n.), The belief that, when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck there.

    Pokemon (n), A Jamaican proctologist.

    Bustard (n.), a rude bus driver.

    Semantics (n.), pranks conducted by young men studying for the priesthood.

    Spatula: n. A fight among vampires.

    Excruciate: n., the ligament that attaches your ex-wife to your paycheck.

    Perplexed: adj., lost in a movie theater.

    Population: n., that nice sensation you get when drinking soda.

    Racket: n., a small pair of breasts.

    Nincompoop: n., the military command responsible for battlefield sanitation.

    Ineffable: adj., describes someone you absolutely cannot swear in front of.

    Pontificate: n., a document given to each graduating pope.

    Pimple: n., pimp's apprentice.

    Discussion: n., a Frisbee-related head injury.

    Ozone: n., area in which the G-spot is located.

    Flattery: n., a place that manufactures A and B cup brassieres only.

    Cabbage Patch: A patch for those trying to stop eating cabbage.

    Sudafed: A software program on how to file a civil action against the government.

    Pop Secret: Paternity suit settled without publicity.

    Oral-B: Monica's grade on her last intern evaluation.



    The Washington Posts Style Invitational also asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting or changing one letter, and supply a new definition:

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

    Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.

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

    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.

    Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of obtaining sex.

    Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously.

    Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease.

    Karmageddon: End of the world due to a build up of bad-vibes.

    Glibido: All talk and no action.

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

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

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

    Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.

    Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.

    Tumfoolery: When a middle-aged man sucks in his stomach while being introduced to an attractive woman

    Fadavers: Last year's hot fads.

    Main Geeze: How an elderly, unmarried couple refer to each other.

    Polarvoid: The state of having no baby pictures, a condition that usually befalls the second-born child.

    Dozie: The lie a person tells when a telephone caller wakes him up and he denies that he was sleeping.

    Hooternanny: The au pair you thought was especially promising, but your wife sent back to the agency.

    Alexpandria: A town known for its buffet restaurants.

    Apocalypstic: The little smudge I came home with on my collar that makes my wife act like it's the end of the world.

    Defenestraction: A ruse to divert the cop's attention while you throw the evidence out the window.

    Accimental: Caused by a Freudian slip.

    Algaebra: What the Little Mermaid wears over her chest.

    Aliass: A body double for a nude scene.

    Arbyss: The deepest part of the stomach, reserved for two Giant Roast Beefs, large Curly Fries and a chocolate shake.

    Avant-harde: Before the Cialis kicks in.

    Doltergeist: a spirit that decides to haunt someplace stupid, such as your septic tank.

    Guillozine: a magazine for executioners.



    Buzz Words and Phrases for the 21st Century

    � BLAMESTORMING
    Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.

    � SEAGULL MANAGER
    A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything, and then leaves.

    � CHAINSAW CONSULTANT
    An outside expert brought in to reduce the employee headcount, leaving the top brass with clean hands.

    � CUBE FARM
    An office filled with cubicles.

    � MOUSE POTATO
    The on-line, wired generation's answer to the couch potato.

    � PRAIRIE DOGGING
    When someone yells or drops something loudly in a cube farm, and people's heads pop up over the walls to see what's going on.

    � SITCOMs
    (Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage) What yuppies turn into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home with the kids.

    � STARTER MARRIAGE
    A short-lived first marriage that ends in divorce with no kids, no property and no regrets.

    � STRESS PUPPY
    A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiny.

    � SWIPED OUT
    An ATM or credit card that has been rendered useless because the magnetic strip is worn away from extensive use.

    � TOURISTS
    People who take training classes just to get a vacation from their jobs. "We had three serious students in the class; the rest were just tourists."

    � TREEWARE
    Hacker slang for documentation or other printed material.

    � XEROX SUBSIDY
    Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one's workplace.

    � CHIPS & SALSA
    Chips = hardware, Salsa = software. "Well, first we gotta figure out if the problem's in your chips or your salsa."

    � PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE
    The fine art of whacking the heck out of an electronic device to get it to work again. (Try not to dent the case.)

    � SALMON DAY
    The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed and die in the end.

    � CLM
    (Career Limiting Move) Used among microserfs to describe ill-advised activity. Trashing your boss while he or she is within earshot is a serious CLM.

    � ADMINISPHERE
    The rarefied organizational layers beginning just above the rank and file. Decisions that fall from the adminisphere are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to solve.

    � DILBERTED
    To be exploited and oppressed by your boss. Derived from the experiences of Dilbert, the geek-in-hell comic strip character. "I've been Dilberted again. The old man revised the specs for the fourth time this week."

    � 404
    Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error message "404 Not Found," meaning that the requested document could not be located. "Don't bother asking him ... he's 404, man."
    "Do or do not. There is no try." -- Yoda

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    nibling (n): collective reference to one's nieces and nephews
    muggle (n): (adapted from the Harry Potter books) - person who can't acquire a particular skill easily, e.g., "I'm such a muggle, my nieces use all the functions of their cell phones and I still haven't figured mine out."

    And some purely funny ones:
    spice (n): plural of spouse
    polarize: what a bear sees with
    ostracize: what an ostrich sees with
    relief: what happens to trees in spring
    Praying for peace in the Middle East, Ukraine, and around the world.

    I've been Boo'd ... right off the stage!

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    Brrrr, I've been Frosted! Thank you, Asiel and Pomtzu!


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    "We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays." -- Persius, first century Roman poet

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    There used to something called a "sniglet": Any word that doesn't appear in the dictionary but should. You can probably still find them. One of my absolute faves was "dognut", n. The large nut on the side of a fire hydrant.
    I've been finally defrosted by cassiesmom!
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