NWoTD - Futility Belt

Futilty belt - the belt that attempts to hold up a seriously overweight person's pants is a futility belt because, no matter how tight it is cinched, those pants are going to droop.

Why yes, I do feel a little bad about this new word but not bad enough not to share it.

NWoTD - Scentimental

Scentimental - when a certain smell evokes a vivid memory.

I'm having a distinct sense of having coined this one already. But searches come up empty.

NWoTD - Yapkin

Yapkin - what an overly talkative person uses to clean their mouth while eating. Or, what gets shoved in someone's mouth during a kidnapping to keep them from yapping.

NWoTD - Popening

Popening - if the Pope were available for ribbon cutting ceremonies then they would be called Popenings.

NWoTD - Crassmas

Crassmas - forgetting what the Christmas holiday is really about and focusing on spend, spend, spend means you are celebrating Crassmas.

NWoTD - Patroll

Patroll - scouring the internet to find things you disagree with in order to start fights (i.e. trolling for arguments).

NWoTD - Hilladay

Hilladay - holiday in the hills. Or a special holiday for a girl named Hillary.

NWoTD - Schleptomania

Schleptomania - the overpowering urge to bring far more than you will ever need on trips. Like three bags for a weekend trip. Many parents suffer from advanced forms of schleptomania.

NWoTD - Gravytas

Gravytas - serious about gravy. And, in my family, we are very serious about gravy.

NWoTD - Naughtical

This one is for Nutsy Fagan. And, in memory of, my father who loved sailing and imparted that love on to me.

Naughtical - debauchery on the high seas.

NWoTD - Bangster

Bangster - gang banger. I.e. lowlife loser with no future.

NWoTD - Fur Paux

Fur paux - "accidentally" wearing fur and generating outrage among the militant PETAists.

NWoTD - Studebt

Studebt - student debt. Not too tough to figure that one out.

NWoTD - Hasband

Hasband - a lame husband.

NWoTD - Poisition

Poisition - a job that is corrosive to your soul. See: McClellan, Scott; or Snow, Tony.

NWoTD - Parrotard

Parrotard - somebody who's obviously pretty stupid and exists for no reason but to parrot (repeat) talking points written by someone else. See Hasselbeck, Elizabeth.

NWoTD - Halloweek

Halloweek - because a single day for costume play dress up fun is just nowhere near enough to a four year old, we have come up with Halloweek, a week long celebration of Halloween.

NWoTD - Cameltopia

Cameltopia - the belief that the world would be a better place if there were more cameltoes.

NWoTD - Retart

Retart - mashed up from retarded art, coined by Nutsy in response to the idiot who slapped some wagon wheels on a Hummer H3 and called it an art piece.

Nice!

NWoTD - Blogan

Today's new word is another mash up, actually its a mash up of a mash up.

Blogan - blog (mashed up from web log) slogan, the cute and supposed to be witty saying that goes underneath your cute and supposed to be witty blog title.