Thursday, March 01, 2007

brilliant new words

From a friend. These new words & explanations are brilliant!

  • Thought you might like some of these creative words:

    Here is the Washington Post's Mensa Invitational, which once again
    asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding,
    subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition.


    The 2006 winners are:

    1. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying (or building) 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 Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until
    you realize that 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. Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.

    11. Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)

    12. Karmageddon: It's when everybody is sending off all these really
    bad vibes, and then the Earth explodes and it's a serious bummer.

    13. Decafalon: (n.): The grueling event of getting through the day
    consuming only things that are good for you.

    14. Glibido: All talk and no action.

    15. Dopeler Effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when
    they come at you rapidly.

    16. Arachnoleptic Fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after
    you've accidentally walked through a spider web.

    17. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into
    your
    bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.


    18. Caterpallor (n.): The color you turn after finding half a worm in
    the fruit you're eating.

    The Washington Post has also published the winning submissions to its
    yearly contest in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for
    common words. And the winners are:

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

    2. Flabbergasted, (adj.) appalled by discovering how much weight one
    has 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.) absentmindedly answering the door when wearing
    only a nightgown.

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

    8. Gargoyle, (n.) olive-flavored mouthwash.

    9. Flatulence, (n.) emergency vehicle that picks up someone who has
    been 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.) the belief that, after death, the soul
    flies up onto the roof and gets stuck there.

    16. Circumvent, (n.) an opening in the front of boxer shorts worn by
    Jewish man.

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