Comments on: Weekend Word Wrap: coin a word

By: Digital Sextant : Netonym

Digital Sextant : Netonym — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:18:16 +0000

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By: Janet

Janet — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 15:41:37 +0000

Cookipocker – pronounced (Cookie-pock-er) n. “my lady parts”

Other girls called thier’s a suzy or coochie or just plain vagina.
Mine was a cookiepocker

By: Molly

Molly — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 13:27:04 +0000

Too late to enter another one? I am submitting it on behalf of my parents, who just came up with it the other day. The word is homonaction. It’s when you coincidentally say a word, and at the same time do an action that is a homonym of that word. For example, you say “There are a whole lot of people in this park,” and accidentally step in a hole at the exact moment you said the word “whole.” Clever, eh?

By: Cliff Sees

Cliff Sees — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 02:19:49 +0000

A long time ago, in a writing class, we were given the assignment of coining a new word. When we later recited our words to the class, I was surprised to find that I was the only one to come up with a “real” word.
In my case, I’ve always found the word “extraterrestrial” not only to be a tongue-twister, but too darn long as well. This was before Steven Spielberg came up with simply “E.T.”.
I coined the word “exogaean”: “exo”, a prefix for “outside of” and “gaea” from the Greek Earth goddess. Made sense to me.
I don’t remember what my grade was, though.

By: KJ

KJ — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 20:55:17 +0000

Last summer, while pontificating on the latin phrase “non sequitor”, I came up with the adjective “non sequitious” as in “We were not talking about the price of tea in China. You are being non-sequitious again!” I thought I came up with something new only to be disappointed when “A Word A Day” highlighted the word “sequitious”.

By: Frank S Besner

Frank S Besner — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 15:13:10 +0000

ingrediate: to consume ingredients that normally make up complex dishes seperately in order to bypass the fabrication sequence, out of laziness.
“Honey, don’t you want a REAL sandwich insead of just ingredienating, like that in front to the computer?”

Also Jessica, I think you were thinking og the letter “Y” in french. it’s pronounced “EE-GREH-K”, “X” would be pronounced “YKS”

By: Liz

Liz — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 09:49:26 +0000

grumption (N) righteous indignation lacking empowerment.

Rather a combination of gumption and grumpy. Used when I’ve been wronged and am therefore grumpy, but don’t have the gumption to defend myself.
As in I am supposed to drive the company car tomorrow, but they mis-filed the insurance paperwork, have informed me I shall have to find an alternate means of transportation and I don’t have the grumption to tell them it’s 2:30 and they have until 5 today to fix it.

By: Techsplorer

Techsplorer — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 05:57:15 +0000

poo-ty (POO-tee) noun. 1. A person intent on ruining another's happiness; a "party pooper". (a mangling of the words "party" and "pooper". Ex: We'll have a great time—stop being such a pooty!!!

By: Anad

Anad — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 13:40:17 +0000

choi-xi-ety (choy-ZIE-ety) noun.
1.Anxiety or apprehension that results from having too many choices.

Ex: After spending weeks researching her new laptop purchase, Stella realized she was immobilized by choixiety.

By: Aemi

Aemi — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 22:25:03 +0000

When I was little I referred to a large dark cloudbank as “ominacing”, a rather clear mix of “ominous” and “menacing”. My brain then filed it away as a real word, and I still occasionally use it.