Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Made Up Word Meanings

The Washington Post has a yearly contest in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for words. Here are some winning entries:
  • Coffee (n.), a person who is coughed upon.
  • Flabbergasted (adj.), appalled over how much weight you have gained.
  • Abdicate (v.), to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.
  • Esplanade (v.), to attempt an explanation while drunk.
  • Willy-nilly (adj.), impotent
  • Negligent (adj.), describes a condition in which you absent-mindedly answer the door in your nightie.
  • Lymph (v.), to walk with a lisp.
  • Gargoyle (n.), an olive-flavored mouthwash.
  • Flatulence (n.) the emergency vehicle that picks you up after you are run over by a steamroller.
  • Balderdash (n.), a rapidly receding hairline.
  • Testicle (n.), a humorous question in an exam.
  • Rectitude (n.), the formal, dignified demeanor assumed by a proctologist immediately before he examines you.
  • Oyster (n.), a person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddish expressions.
  • Circumvent (n.), the opening in the front of boxer shorts.
  • Pokemon (n), A Jamaican proctologist.
In another Washington Post contest readers are invited to change a word by one letter and give an amusing meaning.
  • Arachnoleptic fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web.
  • Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito that gets into your bedroom at 3 in the morning and cannot be cast out.
  • 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.
  • Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period.
  • Caterpallor (n.): The color you turn after finding half a grub in the fruit you're eating.
  • Decaflon (n.): The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.
  • DeJaNesia - the feeling that you've forgotten this before (Denny)
  • Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.
  • Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.
  • Frisbeetarianism (n.), The belief that, when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck there.
  • Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.
  • Glibido: All talk and no action.
  • Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.
  • Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.
  • Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.
  • Karmageddon: It's like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like, a serious bummer.
  • Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease.
  • Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.
  • Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.
I'm done.

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