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David K. Israel
Weekend Word Wrap
by David K. Israel - August 25, 2006 - 3:01 PM

Today’s Word Wrap keeps on with our tradition of bringing you the hippest, most happening new words being coined, as they’re coined… well, okay, with at least a 5-second delay, ‘cause a blog that brands itself as SMART certainly don’t wanna go lookin’ all stupid and bleep.

Today’s sparkling entries come to you via the good folk over at Word Spy:

guyliner n. Eyeliner designed for and used by men. (Citations)

rejuvenile n. An adult who enjoys activities and things normally associated with children. —adj., v.— rejuveniling pp. (Citations)

SMUM n. A woman who finds motherhood and her children tedious and uninteresting. [Acronym from Smart, Middle-Class, Uninvolved, Mother.] (Citations)

face blindness n. Difficulty recognizing faces or telling faces apart. Also: face-blindness.
—face-blind adj. (Citations)

aireoke (air.ee.OH.kee) n. Playing air guitar and singing to prerecorded music; playing air guitar in a public performance. Also: air-eoke. [Blend of air guitar and karaoke.] (Citations)

asset_small.jpgAnd if you’ve never heard aireoke, but think you might have the talent – or just like making a fool of yourself onstage, be sure to check out aireoke.com and their cool blog. It’s air-eokay in my book. Heavens, did I just coin a new word? aireokay — adj. a decent aireoke performance, a well played air-guitar

Comments (4)
  1. aireoke … that would be a portmanteau, yes/no? If so, yay MentalFloss-U!!

  2. Indeed!

  3. Face-blindness is an actual disorder called prosopagnosia. A person who has it can see faces clearly and remember them, but cannot make a connection between the face and the name of the person.

    Here’s a site I found on stumbleupon, if you want more info:
    http://www.prosopagnosia.com/

  4. “patriopathy”, intolerance of political dissent (how timely).

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