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Are their any words you've made up which you use as part of your daily conversation?

― Billy Dods, Monday, 8 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

We use Knockerblocker in our house to describe a padded waistcoat or body warmer.
Quite how it came about I don’t know but I’m fairly sure it’s something my son said when he was about 3 years old. I’ve even checked the OED and can’t find it.

― Billy Dods, Monday, 8 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You know those episodes of Eastenders where Barry has to dress up like a chicken, or in Neighbours when, say, Toadie gets into some wacky scrape or in Hollyoaks when Tony or Max and OB do ANYTHING, well in our house, we refer to those moments as being gwerpy.

― jamesmichaelward, Monday, 8 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

1 Thorg 2 Deamp 3 Orkken

― Mike Hanle y, Monday, 8 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

slocket

― toraneko, Monday, 8 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Goziar". Meaning "faint disgust".

― Kodanshi, Monday, 8 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Every remote controller in our house is known as "The twadger". Don't ask me why... it just is.

Smeagol

― smeagol, Monday, 8 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dop (verb) - When I was still at Uni. a common feature of my life was the dop. To Dop is the act of intending just to pop somewhere for a few minutes, yet actually spending the whole day there, most often heard in the sentence "I'm just dopping down the pub." Most of my best friends are doppers.

― Trevor, Monday, 8 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Very eenteresting Trevor: over here 'to dop' (cruddy South African accent pronounces 'dop' a bit like 'dawp' or 'dorp') is slang for boozing.

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Monday, 8 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"derange" to mean "vex or annoy". i have a half-baked etymology but it just sounds so GOOD

my boss is deranging me today. she is the DERANGOR

― katie, Monday, 8 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

DerangX0r, surely?

― m jemmeson, Monday, 8 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The degree of made up words being used in a family/relationship shows how close knit it is. This proves my family was as close as you can get. We had a long list of made up words. No use to give a list here cause they were derived from the Dutch language. It was so bad I had to think twice when I went in a shop to buy gum. hah!

― nathalie (nathalie), Monday, 8 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Flipperty = general exclamation.

There are lots of others, I must make a mental note when I say them!

― jel, Monday, 8 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

1 Thorg 2 Deamp 3 Orkken

These are all characters who never quite made it into Xena-warrior princess, yeah Mike?

― Billy Dods, Monday, 8 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have a little game I like to play which is to see how far my made-up word can make it into the language. My biggest success so far has been GAYDAR. I'm not kidding, either. Mid-'80s.

And spoodge = semen. That's at least 10 years old!

― suzy, Monday, 8 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Orcatrane" - the repetition/continuation/escalation of an event or set of circumstances leading to an unpleasant or undesirable outcome.

― rainy, Monday, 8 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

suzy, you did not come up with spooge.

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 8 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Remote control = hooferdoofer

― DG, Monday, 8 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

When I was a really little kid I had some odd rituals which were accompanied by chantings/vocalizations. One of these rituals (the one performed nightly before bed) consisted of me throwing my pajamas in the air and screaming "cat door baddit!"

Wouldn't it be cool if adults did things like that spontaneously/ while engaging in everyday activities/at work?

― turner, Tuesday, 9 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Spooge and its cousin sploodge have been around for a while--for at least 7-10 yrs. at least

― turner, Tuesday, 9 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

does Lexis index Penthouse?

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 9 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

dooflatchie [doo-flah-chee] noun — 1. an unnamed assembly part. 2. a useful whatzit.

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 9 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Spoodge - definitely created wordwise almost exactly 11 years ago by me. I'd never heard it before it just sort of fell out of my mouth, fnarr fnarr.

― suzy, Tuesday, 9 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

when i was a dirty little teenager, i invented the term "sperminator" to describe good looking male. it never caught on, but i am now attempting to revive it thanx to the reminder this thread gave me.

― di, Tuesday, 9 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

NO WOMEN ALLOWED! *thump thump thump thump* (Apologies to anyone confused by this. It isn't worth explaining.)

Erm, yeah. Isn't hooferdoofer Noel Edmonds' (oh god, I hope this doesn't mean the rule of threes takes effect) fault? From Telly Addicts? Please tell me you didn't get it from there.

― Rebecca, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

hehehehe...rebecca just went on the GOOD list.

― jess, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sperminator's No Woman Allowed is a great big steaming hunk of Gabba hell. And CLASSIC.

― suzy, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have doubts re: Suzy being sole originator of "gaydar".

― Sarah, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well, I don't. Nobody at my college full of future A-list gay boys and old Stonewaller faculty from all over the world had heard that term before I started using it, and I made it up two years before I went there.

― suzy, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I believe you made it up independently. I'm just not convinced that the manufacturers of the GAYDAR got it via you. I mean I made up the 'Pearl Necklace Harbor' porn flick, but then I discovered it was a real thing. This reminds me of when dave q claimed to be the orginator of the 'lottery is a tax on the stupid' cliché.

― Nick, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Amonaciphric is a variant of AMMON, "suburb" of Idaho Falls and a cause of high-fiving.

Speelies equals testicles or pocket change.

Zuh-zuh-fuh means to vex, this harks back a long way. It also means "Bolweavil."

― 1 1 2 3 5, Wednesday, 10 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hozone: the place your socks disappear to when you go to match them after laundering and there are odd ones out.

― suzy, Sunday, 14 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hehehe, my brother and I still use "hooferdoofer" and yes we DID get it from Telly Addicts.

I have no idea where Noel Edmonds got it from, or why he assumed that's what EVERYONE calls a remote control.

― jamesmichaelward, Sunday, 14 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

On the Gaydar tip, did "Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll" exist as a phrase pre-Ian Dury. I read it in the Q obit and am still not convinced. (Though both are at least plausible)

― Graham, Sunday, 14 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Chumpikitty - Good and also bad but sometimes like a golden weariness.

― Mike Hanle y, Sunday, 14 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Floorganized: piles of shit all over the floor, but you know what's in each of them.

Piling system: like a filing system, but on the floor. Any visitors to my flat know what I mean.

― suzy, Sunday, 14 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Clothes monster: that what springs out at you when you open your closet door.

Hair monster: that what causes irrational dread in your shower drain.

― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 14 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one year passes...

prettiful - beautiful
spiffirific - awesome
cakaroon - raccoon
christle - shiny
oki-taeh - okay
mad skillz - impressive
duck tape - useful
cuppae/kawa - cute
w00t - surprised * as in you w00ted me
gorram - damn it
droog - to be high
squishified - the state of being squished
donkicide - the killing of innocent donkey kongs
aqua-dextrous - the ability to turn off and on the water spout in the tub with your foot
confuzzled - the croos between confused and puzzled
stabulous - so funny its painful
fupendous - stupid
snickaz - laughter
guy-lingual - the ability to converse in male tongue
popi - pyscho
satAM -cartoons

i have more but... they just get ascarier... yuppers... i think i'm actually failing english. ^.^

― A Kronin, Wednesday, 1 October 2003 23:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I tend to spout random syllables instead of trying to remember the word I mean, or to fill in when I don't know the name of something (like a street or whatever). The girlfriend noticed how frequently I do this and now refers to "those noises you use instead of words."

(Examples:

"Hand me the ... uh ... flibbertigibbit."
"Spoon?"
"Yeah."

"Is there a Starbuck's down on ... uh ... humpyhump?"
"Indiana Ave?"
"Yeah.")

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 23:36 (twenty-two years ago)

neolojizm

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 23:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Slintybintgints own this thread, Get in.

― Matt (Matt), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 23:50 (twenty-two years ago)

boingwazzer: (adj): When an event is so good, you can't help, but shout it

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 23:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought up the word "fantabulous" back in 1997 after thinking of how something was both "fantastic" and "fabulous". I'd never heard anyone use it before and thought it was my little word invention. Six years later, I was watching an episode of 30 Minute Meals and I hear Rachael Ray use the word "fantabulous". This got me thinking about who else has been using that word and whether it was an existing word when I first "coined" it, because I don't believe she's ever been in a Duran fan chatroom before....

― Legendary Nothingness (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 2 October 2003 00:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Believe it or not, Google search result for fantabulous = 39000+ hits.

― Kim (Kim), Thursday, 2 October 2003 01:38 (twenty-two years ago)

*mind boggles*

I certainly know they all couldn't have sprouted from a single source. So... multiple "inventors"? Eek.

― Legendary Nothingness (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 2 October 2003 01:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I think it was actually suzy who coined it.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 2 October 2003 01:44 (twenty-two years ago)

how about "fantabulorific" ?

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 2 October 2003 01:45 (twenty-two years ago)

This thread is egreciously malontondoric.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Thursday, 2 October 2003 01:49 (twenty-two years ago)

First recorded use of fanatabulous on USENET was the seminal message Subject: Re: The Enterprise can go warp 15, easy - (nf) in net.startrek on the 26th October 1983.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 2 October 2003 01:50 (twenty-two years ago)

capron (an apron worn backwards. seen on weird waiter)
carbecue (car on fire. i didn't make this one up)
manties (obvious, eh)

nuggets (testicles)

― JasonD (JasonD), Thursday, 2 October 2003 01:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Skipping 12 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

Out of the blue mundane posts combined with inflammatory user names are kind of weird.

― Kittenfucker (ktepi), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 19:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Indeed.

― IFuckedYourSister, Tuesday, 4 May 2004 20:13 (twenty-one years ago)

thanx bye!! dont use my word or ill kill ya cuz i got my wayz!!

From polite to homicidal in 0.8 seconds.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 20:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh sorry, I meant:

― Cracker Barrel (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 20:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Watch out, VengaCracker, don't invite the wayz.

― Away in the manger (ktepi), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 20:22 (twenty-one years ago)

"Frothies" to describe little white-haired old ladies (usually the ones who drive really slowly)

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 20:24 (twenty-one years ago)

doompies - for fingers.
due to my saying "doompie doomp doomp" when walking my fingers along things to entertain my son. Now he thinks doompies is the real word for fingers :-(

― donna (donna), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 01:14 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...

LUNCHING IS NOT A WORD. I will physically kill the next person who says it.

― Always Winter Never Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 01:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Why? It's a perfectly cromulent word. I would embiggen anyone who cared to use it.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 01:32 (twenty-one years ago)

"Stop trying to make 'fetch' happen!"

― Skottie, Wednesday, 19 May 2004 01:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Not until you stop trying to make 'felch' happen.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 01:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought up the word "fantabulous" back in 1997 after thinking of how something was both "fantastic" and "fabulous". I'd never heard anyone use it before and thought it was my little word invention. Six years later, I was watching an episode of 30 Minute Meals and I hear Rachael Ray use the word "fantabulous". This got me thinking about who else has been using that word and whether it was an existing word when I first "coined" it, because I don't believe she's ever been in a Duran fan chatroom before....
-- Legendary Nothingness

Sorry Dee, my best friend used this word all the time when we were kids, back in the mid 70's.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 01:36 (twenty-one years ago)

aja

― x Jeremy (Atila the Honeybun), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 01:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Hahaha

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 01:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm certain I've heard the word fantabulous before '97 I'm afraid Col, but hey at least you didn't attempt to copyright the word "wog" like a certain australian comedian did some years back.

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 01:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I invented "awesome" and that's why I am not the president

― aimurchie, Wednesday, 19 May 2004 01:51 (twenty-one years ago)

"grogus" - gruesome and bogus

― aimurchie, Wednesday, 19 May 2004 11:24 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

The thing we use at home to hang up underwear to dry is called the Pantsandsocker. I have no idea what they are actually called.

My son invented the excellent 'radiheater' and 'pajumper' (his pajama top).

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Saturday, 16 July 2005 12:25 (twenty years ago)

Tedri/Teds: Excellent/Great
Cowcow: Milk
Klack: Fall ("The chicken klacked over")

― dog latin (dog latin), Saturday, 16 July 2005 12:30 (twenty years ago)

karates = creeps (as in feelings of dread)

"I don't want to watch Little Mermaid, that squid lady gives me the karates."

This word was coined because the word "creeps" gave my daughter the karates.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 16 July 2005 12:35 (twenty years ago)

When I was younger, a dodo was the cardboard bit in the inside of a loo roll. I didn't realise that other people didn't use this word until people laughed at me in the playground for being silly and using made up words. (this doesn't really come up in daily conversation that often these days, but it did as a kid when we used to make Blue-Peter-esque things that always involved cardboard tubes from the inside of a loo roll).

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 16 July 2005 12:40 (twenty years ago)

I often say things like "bacom" or "bacob" instead of "bacon"

― dog latin (dog latin), Saturday, 16 July 2005 13:15 (twenty years ago)

how corny

― ken c (ken c), Saturday, 16 July 2005 16:04 (twenty years ago)

oooh double meaning! bacob!! see what i did there???

― ken c (ken c), Saturday, 16 July 2005 16:04 (twenty years ago)

ominence

― pete d, Saturday, 16 July 2005 20:31 (twenty years ago)

i call nipples 'pings' and hands 'paddies' but i stole that from bob barker when he asked a contestant to 'put a paddy on either side of the box'

― sunny successor (he hates my guts, we had a fight) (katharine), Sunday, 17 July 2005 17:17 (twenty years ago)

oh and my mom, for reasons unknown to me, has always called eyebrows 'eyebrowns'.

― sunny successor (he hates my guts, we had a fight) (katharine), Sunday, 17 July 2005 17:18 (twenty years ago)

New word invented today "Ghandy"

When somethin is both useful and non-violent.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Sunday, 17 July 2005 17:28 (twenty years ago)

My gf and I have a word "shtointz" that's a rough equivalent of "thingy." It does have usage rules, but they're entirely intuitive and we sometimes make them up as we go along.

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 18 July 2005 01:33 (twenty years ago)

hmm..
in my world, a chad = a cigarette
a miff = a joint
meowskas = hello, beautiful

― g-kit (g-kit), Monday, 18 July 2005 10:09 (twenty years ago)

five months pass...

My son invented the excellent 'radiheater' and 'pajumper' (his pajama top).

His latest good one is "jawsome" meaning jaw-droppingly-awesome.

He recently started describing cool stuff as being "totally OFF THE CHAIN". I have no idea where he got it from.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 15:55 (twenty years ago)

Believe it or not, Google search result for fantabulous = 39000+ hits.

Someone once said to me, "I get what Fantastic is, but what kind of word is Dabulous?" ROFael.

― D.I.Y. U.N.K.L.E. (dave225.3), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 15:58 (twenty years ago)

Today my mother and I ate pasta at 3pm and called it "linner". But we are a couple of LOONS.

― Laurel, Thursday, 22 December 2005 04:53 (twenty years ago)

and by extension a midnight snack could be: supfast or dinbreak.

― remy (x Jeremy), Thursday, 22 December 2005 05:02 (twenty years ago)

This thread is egreciously malontondoric.

-- colin s barrow (colinsbarro...), October 2nd, 2003.

OTM.

― waldo jeffers scenario (haitch), Thursday, 22 December 2005 05:07 (twenty years ago)

My mom says "linner"! She usually prefers "lupper," though.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 22 December 2005 05:13 (twenty years ago)

We say linner sometimes too =)

One a good friend of mine uses is "zole" in place of "LOL" in msn convos etc. I like zole.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 22 December 2005 05:16 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

'tedri' is NOT a "made up word" it's street slang from the ghettos of Cambridge, Emgland!!!!!!

Just wanted to make that clear.

― 'teve, Thursday, 9 March 2006 10:17 (nineteen years ago)

All words are made up ;_;
LUNCHING IS NOT A WORD. I will physically kill the next person who says it.
lunch (lŭnch)
n.
A meal eaten at midday.
The food provided for a midday mea

intr.v., lunched, lunch·ing, lunch·es.
To eat a midday meal.

― Øystein (Øystein), Thursday, 9 March 2006 10:24 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh, I think the Blue Ball and The Backs are tedri, don't you dougie!
x-pissed

― Ball, Thursday, 9 March 2006 10:25 (nineteen years ago)

aren't all words made up?

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Thursday, 9 March 2006 11:33 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

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― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 02:32 (eighteen years ago)

*cough* To repeat:

I think there is a word in here which should be part of the vocabulary.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 02:33 (eighteen years ago)

He recently started describing cool stuff as being "totally OFF THE CHAIN". I have no idea where he got it from.

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("totally off the chain" only resulted in 2,630 results.)

― Jesse, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 04:40 (eighteen years ago)

*grumblemuttermutter* Illegal my ass.....

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― Jesse, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 04:41 (eighteen years ago)

four years pass...

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― look out honey, 'cause I'm using ayo technology (crüt), Sunday, 18 September 2011 00:44 (fourteen years ago)

two years pass...

Zeroplane
Jazzumping

― monoprix à dimanche (dog latin), Thursday, 4 September 2014 11:06 (eleven years ago)

chloroformalism - observing formalities without a shred of attention or imagination

― Aimless, Thursday, 4 September 2014 18:25 (eleven years ago)

eight years pass...

part of my brain has essentially invented its own language. it took me over half of my life to decipher some words, while others i knew immediately.

a flairndip, for example, is the sound one's body makes when you experience a belch so violent and so unexpectedly as to sort of vomit into one's own mouth from behind. and i've just sort of *always known* that's what it is.

"plurmb" otherwise remained a mystery most of my life but i knew what it meant immediately. it came to my attention by combining two similar street names. it basically means whatever the hell you want when you're talking to a good friend who 'gets the vibe' or whatever. very cheese.

which i am made of, btw. thx 4 reading ly

― kiss me while the world decays (Austin), Saturday, 21 January 2023 18:44 (two years ago)

ten months pass...

uberflooben

― STUPID CRAP FACE (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 12 December 2023 15:47 (two years ago)

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