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Annual Neologism Contest

Steve

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Once again, The Washington Post has published the winning submissions to
its yearly contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternative
meanings for common words.


The winners are:


1. Coffee (N.), the person upon whom one coughs.


2. Flabbergasted (adj.), appalled over how much weight you have gained.


3. Abdicate (V.), to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.


4. Esplanade (V.),! to attempt an explanation while drunk.


5. Willy-nilly (Adj.), impotent.


6. Negligent (Adj.), describes a condition in which you absentmindedly answer the door in your nightgown.


7. Lymph (V.), to walk with a lisp.


8. Gargoyle (N.), Olive-flavored mouthwash.


9. Flatulence (N.) emergency vehicle that picks you up after you are run over by a steamroller.


10. Balderdash (N.), a rapidly receding hairline.


11. Testicle (N.), a humorous question on an exam.


12. Rectitude (N.), the formal, dignified bearing adopted by proctologists.


13. Pokemon (N), a Rastafarian proctologist.


14. Oyster (N.), a person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddishisms.


15. Frisbeetarianism (N), (back by popular demand): The belief that, when you die, your Soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck there.


16. Circumvent (N.), an opening in the front of boxer shorts worn by Jewish men.
 
Wonderful! Thanks, Steve - this part-time philologist appreciates these!
 
Hehehehe Lymph, hehehehehehehe
 
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:]Flatulence (N.) emergency vehicle that picks you up after you are run over by a steamroller.[/QUOTE]

I thought that was an ambivalence, and it takes you to the hospitable.
 
I thought an ambivalence was a pedicab for emergencies?
which in turn brings up :
Pedicure: A remedy for bratty kids
Hospitable: what they strap you onto to operate on you!
 
I'm sure many of you remember comedian Rich Hall and his "sniglets" (Saturday Night Live?). Hilarious stuff. If you do a Google search on "sniglet", you'll see lots of info. Here's one of my favorite sniglets from one of the lists:

oxoxomoron - a person who includes symbolic "hugs and kisses" at the end of their e-mail.

/bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/laugh.gif Mickey
 
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