miscoranda: by Sean B. Palmer

More Exispeciferous Words

I invent a lot of words. And usually, I lose track of these words, because I create them for use in conversation or articles and then move to the next project so fast that I don't note down what words I've created.

Usually, such words are just derivations of existing words, so that their meanings can be easily construed. It's the best way to gather acceptance for a new word if you want it to be used on a wider scale.

Most of the following fifteen words were created by me very recently, and some of them are just fun & whimsy. Some have regular synonyms, and are therefore useless. But perhaps one or two have value. Numbers in parentheses are the words' googlecounts.

activitometer, n. (2)
A device which measures the level of activity within a system. Original context: "an activitometer would be so great".
albii, pl. n. (1,270)
The plural of the word "album". Original context: "Albii are complete units".
amibientic, adj. (0)
The adjecteval form of "ambience". Original context: "an amibientic dimension".
arbitraritarianalism, n. (0)
Nonce word created as the nominalized form of "arbitrary". Original context: "oh, the arbitraritarianalism".
enmirthulate, v. (0)
To make something mirthful. Original context: "I enmirthulate myself".
fudgeulated, adj. (0)
Pertaining to that which has been kludged, hacked up, invented as a stopgap, or broken. Original context: "fudgeulated character string".
gemheap, n. (1)
A collection of valuable objects; originally: smorgheap.
idyllatry, n. (4)
The nominal form of "idyllic".
insultation, n. (3,090)
A stream of insults. Original context: "fed up with this constant insultation".
oftenlyish, adv. (0)
Nonce variant of "oftenish". Original context: "I do that oftenlyish too".
oodlefull, n. (0)
A lot; a great quantity of a thing. Variant spelling: oodleful. Original context: "I can provide that by the oodlefull".
prenth, adj. (34)
Historically rural. Example: "The place is renound for being prenth, but progress has been quite kind".
quietage, n. (124)
Variant of "quietness". Original context: "sorry for the email quietage".
smörktacular, adj. (0)
Nonce synonym of great, spectacular.
verbular, adj. (47)
Inclined to use verbs. Original context: "it makes people less verbular, so I guess so".
by Sean B. Palmer, at 2003-09-22 19:08:27. Comment?

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