Tuesday 30 August 2016

Pignity

Pignity: noun. The quality of being composed and serious, and also a pig. A pig with pignity likes to wear monocles and top-hats while talking disparagingly about plebeians and espousing trickle-down economics.

Saturday 27 August 2016

Bareheadella

Bareheadellanoun. A cappella in which no one wears any caps or other headcovers (which, as I understand, is the primary purpose of cappellas). Bareheadellas sing without any musical accompaniment, as cappellas do, with one sole exception: they do not wear any caps or other headcovers. Also, the sole difference between the people who sing in cappellas and bareheadellas is that people who sing in bareheadellas do not mind not wearing caps.  

Thursday 25 August 2016

Personella

Personella: noun. A vigorous dance a tarantula makes when it is bitten by a human. Personellas originated in Southeast Asia where eating tarantulas is very popular, and there are consequently many injuries related to spiders, humans, and mastication.


Tuesday 23 August 2016

Humanella

Humanella: noun. A disease a tapeworm gets, as a result of which it defecates bits of humans. In fact, it is more of a side effect of salmonella, which makes sense considering a tapeworm eats, sleeps, and exists all of its life inside a human, and so, logically, the only thing a tapeworm can defecate are things found in a human. Come to think of it, the term humanella is rather redundant.

Saturday 20 August 2016

Frigorific

Frigorific: adjective. Absolutely freaking wonderful, so terrific it sends shivers down your spine. Often, people use the word frigorific in connection with cold things, such as ice, snow, and freezers, but this is not necessary. Anything colder than lukewarm will do. An example of this word used in a sentence is "Oh, gosh, Barb, this fridge is ecological, elegant, oh it's absolutely frigorific!"

Thursday 18 August 2016

Apothecare

Apothecare: noun. The attention one gets at a drugstore or in drug-related issues. An example of the word used in a sentence is "The patient who went to the drugstore did not receive proper apothecare and subsequently turned into a newt." The word can also be used as a verb, as in "I went to the drugstore, but they didn't really seem to apothecare about me."  

Tuesday 16 August 2016

Sealot

Sealot: noun. A person who is very passionate, even fanatical about seas. Contrary to popular belief, a sealot is not a parking place in a harbour, so there you have it, Frank, and shut the hell up. 

Saturday 13 August 2016

Yabbit

Yabbit: noun. A rabbit that yaps a lot or has some other annoying tic. Most rabbits are actually yabbits, which should not really surprise anyone who has kept one such insane, disgruntled, spastically masticating bundle of nerves.

Thursday 11 August 2016

Istence

Istence: noun. The primordial state of not being. The only thing that can uncontroversially be said of istence is that it is negated by existence, though even this idea is coming under fire with some denying istence altogether. Others, of course, deny existence, but that's a whole new can of worms. Philosophers who speak of istence separate into two groups. Some do not believe istence is possible, or that if it is, that it is not relevant, as an istent object would be a contradiction. Others believe in istence, but split into many factions over what it is. Professor Rockyfjordson of Oslo University writes that an object qualifies as istent only insofar as none of what will constitute it exists. Professor Prunedanishsen of Copenhagen University, however, rebuts this theory, claiming that even such an object would technically be in existence if we accepted Professor Hawthorne's argument about temporal parts.

Tuesday 9 August 2016

Xex

Xex: noun. Fornication in which the participants lie perpendicularly to each other. Xex can be performed by any number of people, provided they make one or several cross shapes with their bodies. It can also be performed by any combination of sexes, as the Republican party has formally renounced spying on people in their bedrooms last week. From now on, it has declared, homosexuals will be discovered by a series of tortures and exorcisms.

Saturday 6 August 2016

Cowder

Cowder: noun. A beef chowder. Cowder is not too popular for not entirely clear reasons, though some linguists have speculated that it has to do with the negative perception of the word "cow" in the English-speaking world. Citing this hypothesis, several restaurants in the USA decided to rename the dish from cowder to bovineowder, thus killing the word in the last remnants of its traditional haunts. The word cowder is now artificially kept alive by encyclopaedias and weird blogs.

Thursday 4 August 2016

Chadow

Chadow: noun. A shadow thrown by a man named Chad. Feeling itself to be very important, much like most people named Chad, the word Chadow frequently attempts to foist itself on users of the English language in attempts to battle its irrelevance.

Tuesday 2 August 2016

Lambscape

Lambscape: noun. A landscape filled with a lot of lambs or sheep, also known as New Zealand.
Lambscape: verb. To remove wool from a lamb or sheep, the ovine equivalent of manscaping.