The Washington Post's Mensa Invitational once again invited 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 (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period of time.
2. Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an asshole.
3. Intaxicaton: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.
4. Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.
5. 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.
6. Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.
7. Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.
8. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.
9. Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.
10. Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)
11. Karmageddon: It's like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like, a serious bummer.
12. Decafalon (n): 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 performed 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.
I challenge you to make up a word and post it in the comments!
Have a great weekend :)
Perkatory: That terrible part of the day when you're just stumbling out of bed, and the coffee pot seems so far away that you fear you'll never reach it.
ReplyDeleteGreat list!
I can't think of anything remotely clever right now, but I really enjoyed the post! :-)
ReplyDeleteForeploy! yeah, what guy hasn't used that one? I'm going on a little over five hours of sleep after staying up late writing so not a chance my brain could make up a word right now. At least not on purpose...
ReplyDeleteThese are hilarious. No word from me, but now I'll be trying to come up with one all day.
ReplyDeleteDishwisher (n.): One who sits quietly at the end of a meal hoping someone else will offer to clean the kitchen.
ReplyDeleteLOL methinks me will use the first two in future life :)
ReplyDeleteMy first thought these must all be leftover George W Bush-isms.
ReplyDeletelike, wow, man! :P
ReplyDeleteThese are hilarious! Trying to come up with a word is going to plague me all day now.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely loved these. Couldn't think of anything as smart as these.
ReplyDeleteFlysquatter: When a fly gets into your house and somehow manages to survive every attempt at extermination. And just when you think it's dead, it buzzes tauntingly right past your face.
ReplyDeletefunny stuff
ReplyDeleteThat is a great list. I can't think of one now, but the Income Property guy on HGTV has started saying Rentavation. I hope that doesn't catch on. Ugh.
ReplyDeleteSpilk--spilt milk.
ReplyDelete"Mangerous": Description for the hazardous things done exclusively by men to impress someone they like.
ReplyDelete"Self-mentored": My habit of assuming that I improve people around me by constantly talking about myself.
Hah! These are better than mine. Did you see that post?
ReplyDeletehttp://theqqqe.blogspot.com/2010/07/stupid-neologisms.html
Ha! These are pretty funny.
ReplyDeleteOkay, here's my bad entry:
ReplyDeleteimpactification: The state of being paralyzed after being too heavily impacted.
And here's another bad one: demortgagize: to undergo foreclosure.
Arachnoleptic Fit, LOL! I've done that dance now and again. EEEEEEEK! Spiders seem a recurring theme on blogs, of late! ::shudders::
ReplyDeleteSome Dark Romantic
I made up astronomizing - the act of looking at the sky through telescopes.
ReplyDeleteThose words are great. Thanks for the laughs.
It's late and I'm bushed, so all I got is Greymated: When a girl has sex with a guy during her period.
ReplyDeleteLOL. Those are awesome!
ReplyDeleteTrying to make up a new word . . . all right, I can't think of anything.
Haha bozone is pretty great! They should really work on making a dictionary for the creative people of the world. ;)
ReplyDeleteToo funny,
ReplyDeleteThanks for the laughs Michael.
Have a great weekend.
Confreshment stand on baseball games where they actually sell refreshing foods like real lemonade instead of junk food.
ReplyDeleteNot quite mensa material. I laughed out loud at some of theose.
Good stuff. Teencagers: parents who would rather put their teenage kids in a cage than allow them to grow up.
ReplyDeleteI happen to be a teencager
Those are great!! I especially like bozone and sarchasm!! :)
ReplyDeleteKarmageddon is really good. Made me LOL.
ReplyDeleteROFL,... Thanks gor sharing this... Made me very happy....
ReplyDeleteJJRod'z
Those are brilliant. I am not. Thanks for the laughs.
ReplyDeletehypocola - When you are low on Coke and must run to the store. Hi Michael! I'm doing well.
ReplyDeleteHeehee, I love these. Here's my own:
ReplyDeleteBarphoria - the high you get after throwing up from the flu & you think you might be getting better!
These are BRILLIANT I love them all! ROFL!
ReplyDeleteThese are all hilarious and I really loved coming to visit your blog today. Thanks for the laughs Michael!
ReplyDeleteThese are all hilarious. I'm sitting at the cafe snickering to myself behind my computer.
ReplyDeleteI'll contribute "heatwade": the slow, trudging walk of a person who must be outside amidst a heatwave.
I'm currently experiencing cashtration.
ReplyDeleteI'd say promotiwhore for those who promote their books constantly. They join writing groups on FB just to get their books out there. They set up their own promotion group and post multiple times each day. Perhaps prostibook would work better?
I love perkatory. It helps to set up my coffeemaker the night before.
ReplyDeleteMy son made up this word "Hungry- ama"
ReplyDeleteie drama when you are hungry and want to pick up a fight for no reason.
Pedrofile - A gay mexican child molester
ReplyDeletePurdyful-Not quite beautiful, more than pretty
ReplyDeleteTesticulating: The act of standing in the middle of the room, waving your arms and talking bollocks.
ReplyDelete@TRiP: That's a good one!
ReplyDeleteThese are all STOLEN SNIGLETS ! At least give Rich Hall his due credit !!
ReplyDeleteThese were all STOLEN SNIGLETS ! At least give Rich Hall his credit !
ReplyDeleteI got them in a funny email. I had no idea where they came from but if they're from Rich Hall, that's awesome.
DeleteDipshidiot...no explanation necessary 🤓🤓
ReplyDeleteDelirexmatoshnerzorps, rheumotelethicfreedenmits and triampleduetransemititis. Nothing to do with medicines. They are simply synonyms for ‘happy’.
ReplyDeleteMiniscule - N. A very small, yet expensive school for rich people with little class; At this school the upper class learns words like “Bigly”
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