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Continuing on the subject of words, you may have heard me say now and again how I marvel at the beauty and flexibility of the English language.
So why aren’t these beauties found on BuzzFeed part of our everyday conversations already?
Errorist
(n) Someone who repeatedly makes mistakes, or is always wrong
Carcolepsy
(n) A condition where a passenger falls asleep as soon as the car starts moving
Textpectation
(n) The anticipation felt when waiting for a response to a text
Bedgasm
(n) The feeling of euphoria experienced when climbing into bed at the end of a very long day
Nonversation
(n) A completely worthless conversation
Destinasia
(n) When by the time you have reached your destination, you have forgotten why you were going there in the first place
Cellfish
(n) An individual so caught up on their cell phone that they are rude or inconsiderate to others
Dudevorce
(n) When two bros officially end their friendship
Askhole
(n) Someone who asks way too many obnoxious or indiscreet questions
Masturdating
(n) Going out alone to a movie or restaurant
Hiberdating
(n) The period during which a person ignores their friends because they have a new boy/girlfriend
Internest
(n) The cocoon of blankets and pillows surrounding you while surfing the Internet
Afterclap
(n) The last person to clap, after everyone else has stopped
Unlightening
(v) Learning something that makes you dumber
Chiptease
(v) When you buy a bag of potato chips thinking it will be full, but it turns out it’s mostly air
Beerboarding
(v) Extracting information from a friend or colleague by getting them drunk
Chairdrobe
(n) The pile of clothes on a chair
Epiphanot
(n) An idea that seems brilliant at first, but is not
Juggersnot
(n) A huge impending sneeze you can’t prevent
For more beauties like these, visit Buzzfeed!
Also, as Connie informed me, here is a fun site if you like to create words. It’s a word game in which you create a word for a given definition, and then other players vote for the best one.
These are all so inventive, Nicholas, I am getting infogasmic, to toss another one…cheers.. Raj.
Lol – a brilliant one, at that 😀
Thanks and welcome 🙂
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Reblogged this on Enlightened Sid and commented:
Wow!! There are words for these everyday occurrences too!!
I found most of these terms in the Urban Dictionary, but here is a fun site if you like to create words: https://www.verbotomy.com/. It’s a word game in which you create a word for a given definition, and then other players vote for the best one.
Ooh, great link! Thank you – adding to the post now 🙂
I always say that a book signed by its author is “authorgraphed.”
Love it! 😀
I suspect others have likely used it as well. Although I’ve never seen it anywhere, it’s too obvious not to think of.
We often get chairrobes in our house!
It’s a permanent feature of ours 😀
We have a floordrobe – like the chairdrobe but lower.
Lol – love it! 😀
You are a genius
Lol – such a sweet thing to say, but the credit goes to the Buzzfeed people. I’m merely sharing their hard work 🙂
Apricity (noun): the warmth of sunlight on your skin.
I love English.
Wow, that’s a new one! 🙂
Thanks and welcome!
Haha! Love it! Came over from Edwina’s Episodes
Thanks and welcome 🙂
Reblogged this on drakanewh and commented:
Good shit.
Hilarious Nicholas, needed a good laugh after the few days I’ve had. Thank you!
So glad you enjoyed it! 🙂
Superb words, Nicholas… I love Unwords – a great website “for words that aren’t, but should be”. My favourite find there was “Sarchasm: the gulf of understanding between a person making a sarcastic remark, and the person who doesn’t get it”
Lol – that’s a great one! 😀
What’s the link to Unwords?
Just http://www.unwords.com. I was never off it about 10 years ago. It’s a bit untidy but still full of great stuff!
Sweet! Thanks for the tip 🙂
Ha! This is awesome are these actuall real words? Magnificent if they are made my day and I laughed out loud and bedgasm!
Lol – thanks and welcome! They are words, if we all agree to use them. So, that’s your task for the day 😀
Ha! Ok deal
Oh these are btilliant, Nick, well done!
See? I even made up a new word of my own… or rather the damn phone did! Btilliant = ?
Lol – I often correct typos in people’s comments, but I’m leaving that one, then 😀
To eager… pressed the send button too quick!
To eager… perchance to send… 😉
Also, this phone has an uber sensitive touch screen and selects letters if my finger hovers a bit too close by accident. Air swipe or something or other. I turned it off but still its too responsive. Drives me crazy!
I have a tablet that has the exact opposite problem. You have to hammer the keys before they respond. It’s like talking to your deaf uncle…
LOL! Perfect imagery!
Not mine, but thanks 🙂
Love this! Being a fan of making up my own words, lol, I can identify with some of these beauties! Of course I shared! 🙂
Excellent – thank you! 🙂
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I love this post by Nicholas C. Rossis. You have to check out these words––they’re hilarious!
Hi Nicholas! You have opened a can of words for me, my friend! Ha, ha! I love learning new words and there are definitely some great ones here. I finally have a word for what happens to my puppy the minute he gets in my car––carcolepsy! Brilliant! My favorites are errorist, bedgasm, and cellfish! Great post! 😀
Lol – those are great ones, alright! 😀
I love them. Will start to sneak some of them in to my vocabulary 😉
You and me both 😀
These are so awesome. Sure to be some of the 5000 new words added to the next addition of the scrabble dictionary.
Super! That way I have a head start 😉
Such a great list. Kudos on the wordgasm. Van
Lol – wordgasm; I love it! 😀
English is flexible. I never understood how I flunked 5th grade English when I spoke it. I’m in agreement with Hobbs.
I love it… 🙂
Nicholas, thanks for sharing. This gave me some serious chuckles. My favorite is chairdrobe. My husband is tired of me asking him to clean up the pile on the chair. Now I can tell him to spruce up his chairdrobe. Love it! 😀
Lol – I have my own chairdrobe in the library. Drives Electra nuts 😀
🙂
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I wonder if Nicholas will give anyone an honorable mention who can produces a story using all the ‘new’ words.
Bedgasm is my new favorite word; esp. when I have clean sheets!
Lol – and you’ve just taken a steaming hot bath. Doesn’t get any better than that… 😀
So fun! Please add my inventions: *nrtml*, which is an acronym of “not relevant to my life,” which is used as an adjective, especially when dumping unwanted items, people, mail, email. Also, *anticipitacious,” which is also an adjective, describing that delicious state of anticipation mixed with eagerness and anxiety in equal parts, such as what one feels when one is awaiting the arrival of a blind date.
I used to teach writing/Freshman Comp to undergraduates and used lexicalization for extra credit as a monthly fun romp. My favorite student-created word: “cinegoo,” which perfectly captures the noun form of the gunk that we step on and through when walking through a movie theatre after a show has just ended.
Best to you, Nicholas!
Lol – these are brilliant 😀
After I had read all the words, I wondered which I could add to my collection of fascinating words.
Lol – all of them, perhaps? 😀
Very funny. Playing with words is an enjoyable game of art.
One of the better ones 🙂
These are hilarious. 😀 😀 😀
Haha, what a funny list!
Thanks! Typical buzzfeed humor 🙂
Love that 😀
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This post is just too funny for words. I started reading it with a giggle and ended up roaring by the end. Enjoy!
I love these. We frequently have to brainstorm things where I work. Epiphinot has happened many times.
Lol – oh, these brings back memories from my office days… 😀
Hilarious and carcolepsy is being used in this house. Unless driving, my wife always falls asleep in the car.
My previous girlfriend did that. I envied her.
I get drowsy these days, but it’s more that I have nothing to do on long car rides.
I know… I used to be able to read when in the car, but I get dizzy nowadays.
Was never able to do that. I get motion sickness very easily.
Laughing a lot. Thanks for the giggles.
Thanks for reading 😀
My favorites are unlightening and juggersnot. They are all awesome, though.
Lol – I think mine had to be bedgasm. My sleep deprivation is shining through 😀
So great! I think I’ve needed every one of these at some point, but they were absent from my dictionary 🙂
Lol – I’m glad to have helped you fill up your dictionary, then 😀
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Great! Love it – definitely suffer from the first two and and awaiting comfirmation on some of the others!
Lol – don’t we all 😀
This post is so fun! The Dudevorce reminds me of Bromance: when a bro spends way to much time with another bro, always calling, etc. Granted, this term is often used by the wife of the bro being swooned over.
You know, I made the same connection myself. Funny how we think alike 😀
Actually, that doesn’t even surprise me. We’re kindred spirits.
You know, I’ve come to believe that. How odd, given how far we grew up from each other…
It is. I guess geography doesn’t matter. Perhaps we were raised similarly by parents that shared the same beliefs. It’s cool, though.
How very timely – I have just finished re-reading ‘1984’! The horrible idea of Newspeak has been more frightening to me this time round than last time – I so much enjoyed these examples of how language grows. While I am undoubtedly a penant and get irritated by aggravated and foam at the mouth when media and criteria are used as singulars, I do enjoy neologisms, especially verbing. As I read once in a Calvin and Hobbes strip; ‘Verbing weirds words.’ How true – and we all need more weird.
I love that particular Calvin & Hobbes strip so much, that I have included it in my post, My 4 Golden Rules of Writing (https://nicholasrossis.me/2014/08/26/my-golden-rules-of-writing/)
https://nicholasrossis.me/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/calvin-and-hobbes-verb-nouns.gif
This is one of my favourites as well! Hobbes’s comment on on making language a complete impediment to understanding already happens between generations.
Lol – not to mention, among countries like the UK and the US 😀
Love them all. I think you should send it to the Oxford dictionnary!
Lol – we do have to start using them, don’t we ? 😀
Reblogged this on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog and commented:
The continuing evolution of the english language? 😀
Destinasia and Errorist sound like they could make great book titles. 😉
Lol – you may be on to something here 😀
Brilliant. I’ve reblogged on my blog Write Dorne. 🙂
Thank you so much for sharing, and welcome! 🙂
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Hugh, of Hugh’s Views and News drew my attention to this.
I think these word could and should catch on… what do you think?
Thanks for dropping by .
I’ll be back.
Oh what wonderful words. Thanks so much for the laughs! 🙂
Lol – a pleasure 😀
What fun words. I so love textpectation. I wonder if we can include mailpectation when waiting for that important ‘change of life’ email?
Oooh, I’ll start using that right away! 😀
A new one I began using is “textversation” that back-and-forth text messaging, where a phone call would work better.
Sweet! We should add that to the list 😀
I need a bedgasm so much LOL
I’m sooooo tired.
Great post. 🙂
Lol – don’t we all 😀
Thanks!
As a mother frequently shinned by one or other daughter hiberdating all these resonounced!
Lol – nice! 😀
These had me laughing so much! I have sent your blog-post to a friend of mine who teaches English to business students – I know he will love it.
Thank you so much for sharing! 🙂
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Reading this from my internest!
Lol, this post had me in stitches – I can’t say I’ve heard of any of these words. Speaking of new words, try having a conversation with the modern teen – sometimes I think my 15 year daughter is speaking an entirely different language. She often throws in words that are current amongst the young and I just stare blankly at her and wonder what she’s talking about. Yep, it has to be said, English is one language you can guarantee will give us new and peculiar words to giggle over 😀
Which is exactly why I love it 😀