The Fictionarium is the repository for newly created words. There's a chance that some of these words have been invented by other folks. It happens.
23 March 2009
18 March 2009
NWoTD - Tweeterhea
Tweeterhea - an explosion of tweets on Twitter after a prolonged period of no tweets at all.
16 March 2009
NWoTD - Craw-struck
Craw-struck - when something gets stuck in your mind, usually because you're annoyed.
10 March 2009
NWoTD - Containted
Containted - contained contamination.
This also leads to containters - contaminated containers.
This also leads to containters - contaminated containers.
05 March 2009
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?
Why yes, I am fighting a cold right now, what makes you ask?
04 March 2009
26 February 2009
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.
20 February 2009
18 February 2009
NWoTD - Douchebattery
Douchebattery - beating the annoying snot out of someone who's behaving like a douchebag.
13 February 2009
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).
07 February 2009
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?
Horkano: when you blow your nose and the resultant flow of goo is like an erupting volcano. Delightful, eh?
06 February 2009
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.
Got a good example of a franchise taking a turn for the cheese (and the money, of course)? Leave it in the comments.
30 January 2009
NWoTD - Felonocity
Felonocity - the speed at which crime increases as the economy worsens. Compounded from felon and velocity.
28 January 2009
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.
21 January 2009
17 January 2009
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.
14 January 2009
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.
10 January 2009
09 January 2009
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.
02 January 2009
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.
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