NWoTD - Brrtter

Brrtter - bitter cold (the brrr part). The kind of cold that makes you think you'll shatter like a glass if something hits you.

NWoTD - Barticle

Barticle - an article dealing with Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) or Bart Simpson.

NWoTD - Hearticle

Hearticle - an article that deals with or tugs on the heart.

NWoTD - Tarticle

Tarticle - an article about a tart or person of, uhhhhh, looser morals.

NWoTD - Sparticle

Sparticle - an article about Sparta or possibly an article about sparring.

NWoTD - Starticle

Starticle - a starting article, one that leads to a series of articles.

NWoTD - Smarticle

Smarticle - smart article. Something you read that makes you think.

NWoTD - Indensity

Indensity - dense intensity. People who are deeply passionate about something they don't know enough about to form a complete opinion. The people who hold poorly spelled protest signs, anti-gay rights activists, Glenn Beck, these are the poster children for indensity.

It is a very difficult condition to overcome with logic and reasoning because the positions are so entrenched as to be underground where they can't or won't hear you.

NWoTD - Dividences

Dividences - divided by differences.

NWoTD - Techxorcism

Techxorcism - tech exorcism, driving the poltergeists and demons out of a computer or a network through a combination of voodoo and reinstallations. It is unlikely that I'm the first to come up with this mash-up new word but I'm pretending that I am.

NWoTD - Troubleshat

Troubleshat - troubleshooting stupid shit.

NWoTD - Maneuvure

Maneuvure - take maneuver and mash it into manure and you get maneuvure which means a shitty move, nasty thing to do, like sleeping with your best friend's ex or eating someone else's lunch in the company break room.

NWoTD - Horrifuck

Horrifuck - sex with a horrible person or someone that makes you feel horrible.

NWoTD - Uncome

Uncome - the opposite of income.

NWoTD - Twetiquette

Twetiquette - twitter etiquette.

NWoTD - Hardor

Hardor - ardor, or intense feelings of love, made more difficult to sustain, i.e. harder ardor.

NWoTD - Pission

Pission - pissed on passion. The "Not tonight, dear, I have a headache" syndrome.

NWoTD - Forture

Forture - fortunate torture. The only example of this I can think of is how the use of torture during the Bush Administration was used as a major recruiting tool for the terrorists.

NWoTD - Stathroom

Stathroom - staff bathroom.

NWoTD - Proudent

Proudent - prudently proud, that is, being careful and sensible about your feelings of self respect or pleasure in something by which you measure your self-worth. Not allowing your ego to inflate precipitously because of something you've done.

NWoTD - Pandemonious

Pandemonious - a state of extreme confusion and disorder but with its own sort of harmony, i.e. when people build sandbag walls to try and stave off floodwaters, they are working pandemoniously or the chaos of a school power outage but orchestrated by teachers directing the chaos and getting through it.

NWoTD - Meatosis

Meatosis - the process of cutting a large slab of meat into smaller portions to serve is meatosis. From mitosis - cell division in which the nucleus divides into nuclei.

NWoTD - Telapathy

Telapathy - you could read someone's mind but you're too lazy to do so.

NWoTD - Grinace

Grinace - a half grin and half grimace is a grinace.

NWoTD - Pission

Pission - pissed on passion, via headache or just plain old crappy mood.

NWoTD - Retarculous

Retarculous - ridiculously retarded, as in, having access to healthcare by emergency room visitation even though this drives up medical costs and bankrupts the person with the health issue. This sort of thinking is retarculous. Glenn Beck is the poster child for retarculousness.

NWoTD - Creople

Creople - (cree-pull) creepy people. Like this freaking nutter.

NWoTD - Slimnesia

Slimnesia - when you can't remember ever having been thin.

NWoTD - Slamnesia

Slamnesia - when you can't remember if you've slept with someone or not. Can also be called Bangnesia.

NWoTD - Phooty

Phooty - a fake booty, taken from phooey booty, indicating a misrepresented backside via slimming girdle or butt cheek implants or even taped up cheeks.

NWoTD - Employtation

Employtation - an exploited employee is an employtation. See, Wal-Mart for so many examples of employtations that there are dozens of lawsuits in process at any given time to force Wal-Mart to pay workers for mandated break time and for being forced to work off the clock.

NWoTD - Atternity

Atternity - a permanent attorney or being tied up by lawyers in perpetuity.

NWoTD - Nicknamania

Nicknamania - (nick-na-mania) the manic use of nicknames, either through addiction or because you can't be bothered to actually learn people's names.

NWoTD - Twammer

Twammer - Twitter spammer

NWoTD - Twetiquette

Twetiquette - Twitter etiquette

NWotD - Douchebootery

Douchebootery - putting up with a douchebag to get at that booty. Either the booty is the douchebag or there is a gatekeeper to the booty who is a douchebag. Either way, you deal with a douchebag to get yourself some.

NWoTD - Twignorant

Twignorant - not knowing about Twitter or not knowing about some of the culture of Twitter including txtspk abbreviations like LOL, WTF and BFF.

NWoTD - Twitterati

Twitterati - the creme de la creme of the Twitter world.

NWoTD - Confronsational

Confronsational - people who engage in bullying talk during conversations are being confronsational. It is, obviously, a mashup of confrontational and conversation.

NWoTD - Noosepaper

Noosepaper - the rope around the neck of the dead tree newspaper business that is slowly strangling the life out of it is called a noosepaper.

NWoTD - Gerk

Gerk - a geeky jerk. Think the IT guy at a company who treats everyone like they are partially retarded for not being able to configure Outlook properly.

NWoTD - Indepantsoff Day

Indepantsoff Day - the national holiday where no one is allowed to wear pants.

NWoTD - Oogling

Oogling - using Google Images to ogle a hot chick or guy.

NWoTD - Fumungous

Fumungous - an incredibly huge stink, like when Nande gases out an entire room with her fish oil farts. A mashup of fumes and humongous, of course.

And yes, I'm quite proud of this one.

NWoTD - Assome

Assome - an awesome ass, in a good way.

NWoTD - Angravation

Angravation - when you get aggravated and angry.

NWoTD - Twitbag or Twithole

Twitbag or Twithole - someone who follows you on Twitter in order to get you to follow them back and then they unfollow you.

NWoTD - Toolbag

Toolbag - a slightly more PC version of douchebag, a combo of tool and douchebag. Inspired by one of the custodians at one of my schools who epitomized the essence of a toolbag.

NWoTD - Fisciocy

Fisciocy - (pronunciation - fis-key-ah-see) fiscal idiocy. See, current economic plans in California for a great example.

This new word gives rise to other new ones like fisciocracy - a system of government where the richest people have the most authority. Fiscion - fiscal lies, from fiscal and fiction.

NWoTD - Faillow

Faillow - follow fail, i.e. someone follows you on Twitter in the vain hopes that you'll automatically follow them back. For whatever reason, you do not follow them back and that is the very definition of a faillow.

NWoTD - Photoge

Photoge - photographic protege. Inspired by this photo.

NWoTD - Combraides

Combraides - friends who share a common combing fetish/past time.

NWoTD - Inskintive

Inskintive - motivated by skin, or the promise of some flesh.

NWoTD - Inscentive

Inscentive - incentivized by smell.

NWoTD - Insintive

Insintive - incentivized by sin.

NWoTD - Celeberated

Celeberated - berated by celebration. The action of sarcastically celebrating someone's questionable achievement. The sarcastic applause of a crowd when a pitcher, who's given up 7-8 runs in an inning, finally recording the last out of the inning.

NWoTD - Avastar

Avastar - a pirate's avatar (as in Avast, me hearties, this be my avastar!).

And no, I'm not really a huge fan of Talk Like a Pirate Day. Honest.

NWoTD - Belligeriot

Belligeriot - (bill-idge-e-rut) belligerent idiot. Usually an alcohol-fueled dumbass wanted to fight for some ridiculous reason.

NWoTD - Stupility

Stupility - stupid futility. Engaging in some activity with a foregone conclusion and expecting something other than the foregone conclusion to occur.

NWoTD - Sementic

Sementic - conversation or discussion of spermatic matters.

NWoTD - Tersonality

Tersonality - a terse personality. Think stereotypical New Englander.

NWoTD - Tweeterhea

Tweeterhea - an explosion of tweets on Twitter after a prolonged period of no tweets at all.

NWoTD - Craw-struck

Craw-struck - when something gets stuck in your mind, usually because you're annoyed.

NWoTD - Containted

Containted - contained contamination.

This also leads to containters - contaminated containers.

NWoTD - Vitaminimize

Vitaminimize - to supplement with vitamins in an attempt to minimize the effects of a cold.

Why yes, I am fighting a cold right now, what makes you ask?

NWoTD - Cumpassion

Cumpassion - pretending to care about someone in order to have sex with them.

NWoTD - Mironic

Mironic - moronically ironic. As in, a student who should have failed the second grade being forced into third because her parents refused to sign the document to hold her back. If she's not ready for the third grade she needs to stay back.

NWoTD - Asspersion

Asspersion - a disparaging remark about someone's butt.

NWoTD - Douchebattery

Douchebattery - beating the annoying snot out of someone who's behaving like a douchebag.

NWoTD - Lubrary

Lubrary - a place where lubrications are stored and sorted according to the Dewey Decimal System by use (sex, automotive, industrial, etc.) and by chemical formula (graphite, various oils, water-based, etc).

NWoTD - Horkano

Today's new word comes from combining the words volcano and hork (blowing your nose) thus.

Horkano: when you blow your nose and the resultant flow of goo is like an erupting volcano. Delightful, eh?

NWoTD - Francheese

Francheese - when a previously good television or movie series is spun off into a cheesy direction. Sort of like the addition of the highly marketable Ewoks to the first Star Wars trilogy or the addition of the incredibly annoying Jar Jar Binks to the second trilogy. I'm sure there are dozens of other examples of francheese.

Got a good example of a franchise taking a turn for the cheese (and the money, of course)? Leave it in the comments.

NWoTD - Felonocity

Felonocity - the speed at which crime increases as the economy worsens. Compounded from felon and velocity.

NWoTD - Rideiculous

Rideiculous - a stupid ride (and not in a good way), i.e. the dumbshit with the ape hanger handlebars that made him hold his arms above his head to ride his Harley and he nearly dropped it in the parking lot because it was so ungainly.

NWoTD - Foolush

Foolush - a stupid drunk, comes from foolish lush, obviously.

NWoTD - Swervitude

Swervitude - swerving with attitude. Meant to indicate the people who treat the highway like their own personal race course and swerve in and out of traffic and across multiple lanes regardless of the danger they present to everyone around them.

NWoTD - Twurfing

Twurfing - astroturfing (Wiki - neologism for formal public relations campaigns in politics and advertising which seek to create the impression of being spontaneous "grassroots" behavior, hence the reference to the artificial grass, AstroTurf) via Twitter but includes the marketing wonks/SEO "experts" who use Twitter to expand their network of contacts.

NWoTD - Phlotation

Phlotation - making ends meet by selling photographs is phlotation.

NWoTD - Revisionisticalism

Revisionisticalism - the effort to rewrite history in order to paint yourself in a better light by the use of talking points dispersed throughout your organization. See Cheney, Dick and Bush, George for current examples of revisionisticalism.

NWoTD - Slopportunity

Slopportunity - when someone takes advantage of a drunk person for sex or other actions then you are being slopportunistic. Or, another definition, a slopportunity is an opportunity to make a buck off of a sloppy situation, i.e. how a tow truck driver loves freezing rain because more cars slide off the road and mean more money in his pocket.