May 21, 2020

Tired of words and their stuffy old meanings? Now you can use the same words… differently! (Plus I threw a few made up words in there.)
Request: When you go on a quest… again
Pandemic: Too many pans
Transmute: A transgender person with laryngitis
Essential Workers: People forced to work and die to make more money for the elite rulers of the Greedocracy
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July 8, 2015
Unlike some new word sites, you do not have to pay me a royalty every time you use these words. But a tip would be nice.
Flossophy – the philosophy of dental care
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December 24, 2014
New words, better than the tired, old words you’ve grown used to:
- Ashamorse [ə-ˈshām-hȯrs] The state of being ashamed and having remorse. This word came from my teenage daughter. A related version: shamorse.
- Arborcide [är-bər-sīd] The murder of trees (“We’re not into arborcide – we have an artificial Christmas tree.”)
- Pizzarito [pēt-sə-rē-tō] Make a pizza on a torilla, roll it up & you have a pizzarito.
- Afraud [a-frȯd] African email scams
- Christmasochist [kris-mə-sə-kist] Someone who takes on way too much at Christmas
- Kwanzaaholic* [kwän-zə-hȯ-lik] Someone who’s a bit over the top with Kwanzaa
- Vaccumulate [va-kyüm-ə-lāt] To accumulate vacuums
- Tesslatte [tes-lä-tā] My drink of choice when I am driving my (future) Tessla
- Placebotox [plə-ˈsē-bō-täk] A saline injection substituting for an actual botox treatment
- Extravagansett* [ik-ˌstra-və-ˈgan-zət] Any celebration in Narragansett, Rhode Island
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*Courtesy Auntie Linda
To try out some older new words, click the daisy:

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July 29, 2014
- Whenever I’m lonely, I take my carpet, add a space and I have a car pet that I take with me on road trips.
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August 27, 2013
It’s always more exciting when you use all caps and an exclamation point in your blog post titles. But it’s not just graphic hyperbole – this post is SUPER EXCITING because I am introducing some important new words that you will want to shout from the rooftops (assuming you’re not living in a country where they shoot you for that, which is harder & harder to find).

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September 6, 2012

Compounding…
Chocolate, yes, but chocoearly and chocoften.
When someone says, “Somewhat,” ask, “Somewhy?”
When told, “Whatever,” reply with, “Whatnever!”
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August 12, 2012
From Now On….
From now on, socks are called Foot Pockets.
From now on, shoes are called Foot Cases.
From now on, the act of pooping is called Fecalization*.
From now on, a comb is called a Hair Rake.
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July 4, 2012

Word needed! A metal container is a can and a glass container is a jar. But we have no word (that I know of) for a plastic container. I suggest plidge, because it rhymes with “fridge,” and thus would be a boon to the both the poetry and music industries.
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September 23, 2011

Here are some new words. Many of them come from my 11 and 13 year old children:
A new term of endearment for you to use: Dear + Darling = Dearling
Funcle: a fun uncle (not to be confused with funkle, a funky uncle)
Recyclopedia: an encyclopedia of reused words (or, as my daughter says, an encyclopedia of homophones)
Docktour: a tour of a dock, of course. I guess a Doctour would be a tour of a hospital staff
Insanitize: To make insanely clean
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October 11, 2010
Here are some useful definitions:
- Charity: an itty-bitty chair
- Underwhere?: lost underpants
- Relationship: A boatload of your relatives
Why is the plural of attorney attorneys and not attornies? Is it the fault of that ‘e’ before the ‘y’? In that case, get rid of it. From now on, it’s attorny and attornies. Of course, if you want to save money, you can call your atorny a-torn-knee, in which case your torn knee can act as its own legal representative in suing for compensation. Read the rest of this entry »
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