Word invention

[lecheekyworm]

 Has any ABer invented a word - I think I have - what about melge - to merge and melt - a couple could melge together. What about it? or shall I just go back to my knitting.

[Shipstabber]

Skirfing - skiving on the internet.

[Peter Pedant]

my three siblings and I still maintain our baby language. yes yes I know there's something wrong with us....

[Quizmonster]

I constantly make up words, often just from snippets of ordinary conversation. "Yizint" was a recent one...based on hearing someone say: "It's a lovely day, isn't it?" I then use such words to mean whatever I want them to mean. I might, for example, say: "He's a complete yizint, that Michael Howard!"

[Robble]

One of my pals uses the word 'ironical' in conversations instead of 'ironic'. But I don't know if she's actually being ironical when she says it or not!

[Tim Baxter]

"'Twas brillig and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe.  All mimsy were the borograths and the momewrathes outgrabe"

or so said Lewis Carol who called his word creation, portmanteau words just like melge.  See if you can sort out his original words from 'Jaberwocky'!

[bernardo]

You are a mad bad sad rancid rankerous nankerous skankerous cantankerous and intransigent nang-bandit!  You are a gargogulated booliak!

[growley]

Most couples invent private/secret languages, but my ex and myself were quite prolific in inventing new words. We still use them with each other ( we're still best friends). One which sticks in the mind is the verb to 'chimpulate', which is the act of picking one's own or another's spots - it happens, believe me. From the habit of chimpanzees grooming one another. Hence 'stop chimpulating, you'll make it worse.' etc.Another ( sorry for the continuing spot theme) is our name for the very simple metal stick with a circular hole one end, which one uses to remove black heads. It, and only it, is called 'the machine'. One more, of very many, 'Arty Farty Craporama' - any of the songs of Radiohead... 

[ann_h]

The game of "antiscrabble" is a marvellous source of such words. (Everyone has some tiles, 9 rather than 7 perhaps. Take turns inventing a word that is feasible, and suggest a definintion. The word and definition are discussed/ approved by all players. No scores, just for fun.)

 

Some I remember are:

thelts - the straps a viking tied his helmet on with.

connain - a person of vaguely Irish extraction who grew up in, say, Oxfordshire

finnamy - the cr"p said connain comes out with at the pub about Ireland and Irishness.

 

And a family word - shlobbly, which is the state of rumpled sleepiness like a child waking for the loo in the night.

 

Home-made words, I love 'em!!

[brionon]

 Sibling = Person from the Planet Sib.

 

Sheeple= People who act like sheep.