Elogy

Elogy: noun. A poem of serious reflection, which praises someone or something highly, often used to commemorate the achievements of a recently deceased individual. Elogies are the often ignored member of the trio composed of itself, elegies and eulogies. This fact may be due to the fact that they are often the most difficult of the three to create, due to the emotional discord or dichotomy they can create, as well as the pure skill required to execute them successfully.

Bouleward

Bouleward: noun. A small street, usually consisting of only two lanes, which has been assigned to a larger road, at least four lanes, so that it may learn the proper avenue-ways, so that it may one day become a great lane in its own right and may even aspire to become a highway. A boulewardship for drives usually lasts around 6 years, depending on various factors, such as the economic stability of the neighbourhood and testosterone levels of nearby residents.

Ruminomitor

Ruminomitor: noun. A device that measures the process of chewing cud and overthinking. Every ruminomitor has a feature, where you can set the limit on what is excessive ruminating, and when such a level is reached, the device either administers a strong electric shock or hurls a bowling ball in your general direction, depending on which model you've invested in.

Summ

Summ: adjective. Describing warm and pleasant weather usually accompanied by cloudless skies and warm pleasant winds with occasional powerful storms. It is also an archaic term for the weather of May, although the word was coined in 1919, it was declared archaic by the WORLD WORD COUNCIL® in 1920, one of the last acts of the council before it was disbanded by a young Prince Philip.

Wint

Wint: adjective. Describing cold and unpleasant weather, usually accompanied by snow or sleet/hail and oftentimes strong and biting winds. Also an archaic term used to describe the weather in November. Antonym of the word 'summ'. First cited in a poem written by Bede that has now been lost, but a record of the word being used in that poem had been found in a early 16th century glossary found in a dusty cupboard in Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, which later burned down in 1854 in a unusual fire constrained solely to said dusty cupboard, from which the book hadn't been moved for some reason.

Frostbite

Frostbite: noun. A bite from the American poet Robert Frost, which causes poetism. A person that receives a frostbite will over time (roughly 3 fortnights) turn into an intolerable, self-satisfied maniac obsessed with trees and dark forests, who constantly carries around loose sheafs of paper covered in incomprehensible scribblings. Cures for the effects of frostbite include drinking Emily Dickinson's tears or wearing Lord Byron's underwear (preferably clean).

Bjenga

Bjenga: noun. A social board game, which involves stacking cardboard boxes, cartons, juice boxes and other assorted rubbish on top of a bin, so as to avoid having to take trash out. Perks of the game include the lack of any additional cost, once you have acquired a bin, and the various skills that are improved during the game, such as spatial awareness, patience, tolerance and time management.
Note: The 'b' is silent.

Misconception

Misconception: noun. An attempt at the initiation of pregnancy, where an egg and a sperm attempt to form a union, but are unable to do so for one of a variety of potential reasons. These reasons can include plain refusal by the egg to participate, the weakness of the sperm cell after its long and arduous journey, lack of self-esteem on the sperm cell's part, or quite simply Jupiter not being in Scorpio.

Responsibillity

Responsibillity: noun. The state or fact of having the duty to deal with and be accountable for bills. Responsibillity is one of the most hotly debated topics in a student house share, as well as in private meetings between Finance ministers and the CEOs of companies they technically definitely don't own. It also goes hand in hand with 'accountability', which we hope is self explanatory.

Nunawhat

Nunawhat: exclamation. A popular phrase expressing confusion often uttered in the northern reaches of Canada. Depending on the intonation the speaker places on the word, it can denote a variety of emotions, however as mentioned it is usually associated with a question mark, an upward intonation and the emotion of confusion. NUNAWHAT?

Cclluubb

Cclluubb: noun. (Pronounced exactly the same as the word 'club') An association or organisation dedicated to people interested in heavy sticks with a thick end, particularly ones used as weapons. The only known cclluubb in the world can be found in Baker Lake, Nunavut, Canada and has given rise to such jokes as "A seal walks into a cclluubb..."

Antiantiism

Antiantiism: noun. The philosophical movement opposed to the idea of the prefix 'anti-' and its uses in vocabulary. The movement was initiated by John Locke in an effort to rid the English language of unnecessary negativity and pessimism. Locke suggested that all words that utilised the preposition 'anti-' were being unnecessarily depressing, as the same idea could be expressed by saying 'opposed to x', rather than 'anti-x'. To be fair, he may have had a point.

Wallet

Wallet: noun. A little pocket or shelf in a wall. This word has been used by masons for centuries, but was only recently added to regular everyday parlance. There was some concern about this introduction into everyday speech, as some suggested that it could lead to the extinction of the word 'nook', however they were reassured by the idea that the phrase 'nooks and crannies' would keep the word alive and well.

Fabrick

Fabrick: noun. Another word for wall. This word was created as part of the Movement for the Rationalisation of the English Language, where the members attempted to make all semantically related words, also be related structurally. Unsurprisingly, this did not get very far, but fabrick, was one of the few words that potentially seemed like it could actually catch on, given enough time.

Searies

Searies: noun. A number of things of a similar kind coming one after another and relating to one of the following:
1. The sea. For example a series of documentaries about marine animals could be defined as a searies. A series of books about why water is a conspiracy and the seas and oceans aren't actually real would also be considered a searies.
2. Searing. Several articles about particularly strong chilis, lava, the latest pop hits, the surface of Mercury, the boiling point of titanium and my mixtape, would all be considered searies. 
3. Anything scathing or apathetic. For example, several consecutive blogposts, which all seem to be linked by the theme of apathy could be considered a searies.

You-th

You-th: noun. The apparent vitality and young-ness of all those around you, even if they're older than you, after a particularly long and exhausting day/week/month/year/life. In 2020, the editors of the DSM shall discuss whether to add you-th to the list of causes of depression. You-th is most commonly identified by a particularly strong disregard for anyone too energetic or happy about their own lives, but importantly, this feeling has to be stronger than it is on 'normal' days.

Sadbundence

Sadbundence: noun. A phenomenon observed by George Carlin amongst the general English-speaking populace and its vocabulary, of the incredible number of words to describe various aspects of apathy, depression, sadness, agony, acedia, sloth, lethargy, torpor, fatigue, hebetude, inanition, languor, indolence, lassitude, weariness and similar.

Langwish

Langwish: verb. To desire to lose all energy and vitality and simply turn into a pile of dust, because that would be easier than dealing with all of the stressful adult-like things that one has to do in life. Everyone langwishes at least a few times in their life, however very few people have actually gone through with their desire. On the Eeyore scale of Apathy, langwishing is scored just above ennui, but below languor.

Memery

Memery: noun. A special storage space in the brains of people born after 1990 dedicated entirely to the storage and maintenance of memes, most commonly internet memes in the forms of gifs. The main purpose of the memery, is to be able to, at any given time produce a meme appropriate for the current situation or fitting the topic of discussion. Some people's memeries are much better developed than others', this is however based entirely on practice and usage of one's memery. Those who utilise them more frequently have been shown to have a much larger and versatile memery. 

Techish

Techish: noun. The language spoken by stage technicians all over the world. Even if two techies do not share the same native language, through the power of techish, they can still communicate enough to be able to successfully run and manage a production. Unfortunately, not enough research has gone into techish, to understand how exactly this can happen, but the phenomenon is well documented, as early as from the first stagings of Mozart's Don Giovanni, where the Austrian and Czech techies somehow managed to cooperate despite not speaking each other's languages whatsoever.

Posthumorous

Posthumourous, alt. American English spelling posthumorous : adjective. Describing something which becomes funny with the death of the originator, or describing something funny, which is only found or understood after the death of the originator. For example, the book titled 'The Complete Book of Running', which emphasised the health benefits of jogging, was only imbued with a sense of irony after the author Jim Fixx died of a heart attack at the age of 52, while jogging.

Explinate

Explinate: verb. To explain an explication or explicate an explanation. Linguists have offered this as an explanation for what occurs when people go off on a tangent, that's unrelated to what they were originally talking about. Much study has been devoted to the phenomenon of conversational tangents, and so far this is the only explanation that hasn't been disproved by further research. The basic idea is that, a person will postulate an explanation or idea that links two other ideas, but will feel that this isn't sufficiently explained or will subconsciously feel that that train of thought is more interesting, so will instead choose to explinate, leading to the tangent.

Flatflatmate

Flatflatmate: noun. A person who shares an apartment with others and also happens to be two-dimensional. Flatflatmates are becoming increasingly rare in modern times, probably due to the access to instant gratification and feedback provided by social media, leading to a decrease in two-dimensional characters.

Clerkinwell

Clerkinwell: phrase, slang. This piece of late 19th century slang is fairly easy to explain. Many clerks, whether it be law or store, could be found in Victorian England and to many of these, their profession was so key to defining their identity, that when asked how their day had been, they would customarily reply: "Clerkinwell!" 

Hacknee

Hacknee: noun. A knee with pain that has been caused by overuse. Hacknees are most common amongst footballers, bouncers, seamstresses and anyone who has visited the Burj Dubai when the elevators weren't working. The malady was first identified by famed physician Elizabeth Blackwell, and attesting to the greatness of her life, this discovery was one of the least impressive feats of her career.

Shoreditch

Shoreditch: verb. 
1. To pretend that coastlines don't exist and neither do seas or oceans. Some people believe that this is a diagnosable mental disorder, but this has never been confirmed. An example of the use of this word in such a sense is: "'What happened to our inflatable walrus?' 'I shoreditched it away.'"
2. To throw people who are too confident with themselves into a kind of trough or canal, so as to teach them a lesson about ego-centricism and the concept of humility. This technique has uncertain success results.

Campden

Campden: noun. That one tent in the campsite, which seems to be emanating an incredible amount of smoke without having a fireplace and all the cool kids seem to congregate around. Camp dens are usually either miles away from all the other tents or right in the centre of the entire campsite, where everyone can hear and smell everything. It is also common practice for campdens not to be secured properly with tent pegs, so there is a high chance that the tent or part of the tent will fly away some time in the next few nights.

Lactopi

Lactopi: noun. Octopi made up of lactose. Interestingly, lactopi are only ever found in pairs or groups, so the singular version of the word, 'lactopus', doesn't exist. Lactopi are extremely timid creatures and observing one requires incredible patience and endurance. Keen sighters and researchers must spend days in the dairy fields or the milk seas in hopes of perhaps spotting some, but it is never guaranteed and there are those who go through their entire lives without seeing one, or even being aware of their existence.

Sandwichify

Sandwichify: verb. To make a food safe to eat with your hands without getting them dirty, allowing you to gamble while eating. For example the creation of a burrito is the sandwichification of meat or beans, by wrapping it in a tortilla. This process was first created by the Maya, who decided to wrap their chocolate bars in palm fronds, so as to not get their hands dirty while playing an early variant of blackjack. The concept was later independently invented in at least 23 different locations and cultures.

Anguilt

Anguilt: noun. Anguish caused by a resounding sense of guilt. Also an excellent politician-repellent. There are certain active ingredients in anguilt, which politicians find unbearable and in fact, most are unable to even stand within 15 metres of anything displaying anguilt, due to the potential danger of them being infected with anguilt, which would most likely lead to their implosion.

Pintlegudgeon

Pintlegudgeon: verb. There are two meanings to this word:

1. To flip-flop on an issue. Unsurprisingly this word was created by bored political satirists, who needed a particularly long-word to fill the speech bubble on a caricature of Warren G. Harding.
2. To give things names that immediately reveal which part is meant to resemble the male genitalia and which the female.

Garland

Garland: verb. To be garlanded means to be prevented entry into a club, institution, organisation, group, entity or some such without just cause, simply for the sake of being petty. Garlanding also often occurs while one branch of government limits the power and effectivity of another branch of government, something that is technically illegal I suppose, but who cares really, am I right or am I right? Besides in the last year of a presidency the president is technically already on leave, no?

Pushulate

Pushulate: verb. Die out or go into hiding, so as to become extremely rare or scarce. This word was created by Noah Webster as an antonym for pullulate, when he was composing the second version of his dictionary and was horrified to discover, that some moron had come up with pullulate, but hadn't made the obvious logical step to pushulate. Webster was so dumbfounded he requested an executive order from President Monroe to immediately make the word a mandatory part of elementary school curriculum. Although the order was immediately overturned by president Adams, it was still the most consequential part of Monroe's presidency.

Pullchritudinous

Pullchritudinous: adjective. As everyone knows, pulchritudinous describes someone of great physical beauty, and consecutively, pullchritudinous describes someone of such beauty than an admirer cannot help but be drawn physically towards the person, until they are caught in their orbit of attraction. Pullchritude is different from charisma; this is more of a basal, primitive reaction that cannot be suppressed. Only a few individuals in history have been describe-able, as pullchritudinous, and such individuals have had to sequester themselves from society, so as not to cause general public unrest.

Sucinct

Sucinct: adjective. The succinct form of the word succinct. Sucinct is yet another word from the labs of the Movement for the Rationalisation of the English Language, in their effort to eliminate unnecessary vowels and consonants and generally make life easier for every English speaker. According to some very reliable statistics from the Southeastern Middle Michigan University, sucinct has already overtaken succinct in usage on Twitter, Friendster and Grindr.

D(earth)²

D(earth)²: noun. A scarcity or lack of earth. This word was created in 2015 at the International Overpopulation Commune and Conference held in the City of Manila. D(earth)² was created to describe the increasing lack of available land for human habitation, as the world population continues to sky rocket (see local maternity hospital). Recent estimates suggest that by 2050 the only available plot of land the size of a reasonable vegetable patch will be available somewhere on the border between the Republic of Texas and the Midwest Federation. 

Brother

Brother: verb. For a male to worry, disturb or upset someone, if they are your sibling. This word was first coined by the renowned actress Jane Fonda in her thirteenth autobiography (all editions include a free exercise DVD and a brochure on how to look youthful in your later years), when she covered the intense period of her life between June 12th of 1949 and September 2nd of the same year. In a passage discussing her youthful involvement with the political left, she mentioned the clear expression of disinterest from her brother, renowned actor Peter Fonda, stating that she was "frankly brothered by it."

Rapism

Rapism: noun. The belief that rape exists. As some logicians may have intuited, this suggests that there is a belief that rape doesn't exist, which is indeed the case, and arapism, is a significant problem that plagues often significant communities, usually consisting of rapists and their relations, or generally people not sympathising or understand the victim's position.

Sweather

Sweather: noun. Weather that causes a person to sweat. The exact characteristics of sweather can never be well defined, due to the variation amongst the general populace in conditions that lead to sweating. For example, those suffering from hyperhidrosis would describe most conditions as sweather, while some particularly resistant specimens would have to be subject to the Sahara desert, before being willing to admit that they even have sweat glands.

Ducktile

Ducktile: adjective. (of a metal) able to be drawn out into a duck-like shape.
(of a person) docile or gullible with a propensity for lowering one's head quickly and suddenly in the face of potential danger or a threat of some form. This word originates in the writings of Ernest Hemingway, who needed a succinct way to describe all those tedious soldier-characters that he filled his books with.

Compunsure

Compunsure: noun. The state or feeling of being panicked and lacking control. The word is credited to the philosopher Lucretius, who in his infamous poem 'De rerum natura' suggests that if you attain a state of compunsure, you are well on your way to achieving a kind of nirvana...or something, we weren't really listening...

Aquacurious

Aquacurious: adjective. Although aquarius are considered a fixed sign of the zodiac, they can under special circumstances, become almost mutable, in which case they are identified as 'aquacurious'. These special circumstances include Uranus being in recession and Mercury in Sagittarius, while Venus suffers from inflation, the Moon files for bankruptcy and the Sun hires an interior decorator to "fix the place up".

Trumpcate

Trumpcate: verb. To suggest that someone is involved in some sort of crime or 'crooked' activity, without having any evidence to show for it, simply to make yourself appear more credible and appealing. This word will be created in the year 2035 by the political commentator Adele Cersei Gonzalez, while giving a lecture on the effects of hate on common sense.

Catkini

Catkini: noun. Much like the batkini, this is a swimsuit, which covers the entire body except for the face, hands and feet, intended to comply with the Islamic traditions of modest dress, with cat ears on top. In fact, the two are exactly identical and this is simply a marketing ploy designed to earn corrupt clothing firms more and more money! Simply put, someone in a dingy office realised that the ears of some bats look exactly the same as the ears of most cats and decided to employ this to his benefit. He probably now sits in a slightly less dingy office.

Batkini

Batkini: noun. A type of swim suit which covers the entire body except for the face, hands and feet, intended to comply with Islamic traditions of modest dress, with bat ears on top. With this adage, when a wearer is requested or instructed to remove the batkini, they can claim to be wearing a Batman costume, which can either be interpreted to mean a costume of the well-known comic book superhero, or a traditional dress from the city of Batman, Turkey, whichever floats the requestors proverbial boat.

Sleevish

Sleevish: adjective. Describing someone, who wears their heart on their sleeve. The word was coined by three years ago by a lonely introvert sitting in a park at dusk, thinking that his sleevishness was the reason for his loneliness, as his overeagerness combined with the need to withdraw after prolonged social exposure tended to confuse people rather than bring them closer. Interestingly enough, he was right.

Re-morse

Re-morse: noun and verb. Two equally interesting definitions for this word:

1. noun. Deep regret or guilt for a wrong committed expressed through some form of encrypted transmission and often through an archaic and obsolete communication technology. For example, sending the following tap code by carrier pigeon would be an example of re-morse: ".... ...   ... ....   .... ..    .... ..    ..... ...."
2. verb. To resend a message in Morse code either because the first message wasn't delivered or because you panicked at the last second, turned on airplane mode, stopped the first message from sending and decided to send something else instead after turning airplane mode back off again.

Disparrot

Disparrot: adjective. The quality of being so different from a parrot, that there really is no foundation for a sensible comparison. For example, an 18 wheeler is highly disparrot, while a toucan isn't particularly disparrot. The word can also be used for making comparisons in its comparative form, as exemplified here: "The recently discovered planet Proxima Centauri b is far disparroter than a Palestine sunbird." The superlative form of the word is only used in opinions, rather than factual writing, as it is extremely difficult to verify the veracity of the claim, mostly because geneticists simply can't be asked.

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.

Bareheadella

Bareheadella: noun. 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.  

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.

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.

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!"

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."  

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

Onomatopia

Onomatopia: noun. A fictional world in which everyone communicates via onomatopoeias, words whose sounds resemble the objects they describe, such as "tick tock" or "roar." Several essays and treatises (the difference between which no one really knows or cares about and seldom bothers to find out before forgetting it again) have been written on Onomatopias, but the most famous example of an Onomatopia comes from the Eighteenth century novelistic ripoff of Thomas More's Utopia, imaginatively called Onomatopia. Rather imaginatively, the author envisions a society whose classes are drifting apart because of the language barriers constructed between them, owing to the different sets of vocabularies each of them develops. Even words for the same things become different, which is perhaps best documented by the words for sex. While the lower classes develop the word "squeaky-squeaky" because of their worn down beds, the middle class develops the word "hubba-hubba" in an effort to seem more like the pretentious higher classes. Meanwhile, the higher classes themselves do not develop any word for sex because it is deemed improper, and they slowly die out.

Empurple

Empurple: verb. While the conventional definition for the word empurple is "to become purple," a new meaning arose with an error in a 1996 translation of the Bolivian novel Cincuenta tonos de morado by a translator who has since changed his name and fled to Australia. Attempting to translate the wordplay of the Spanish original, in which the main character is in love (está enamorado) with a tub of perfectly purple (morado) blueberry ice-cream, the translator - admitting years later that the decision came in a moment of very bad judgement - decided to translate the word enamorado as empurple, not meaning "to become purple" but "to fall in love." Thus arose a mistake killing the translator's career, but meanwhile enriching the English dictionary, which is what this blog is all about. Yes, we really are a flock of scavenging, immoral vultures.

Reporpoise

Reporpoise: noun. The word reporpoise is often erroneously used by environmental activists such as Greenpeace and Cabbages "R" Us to mean "to return porpoises to their natural habitat" or for "a natural habitat to regain its porpoise population." However, to reporpoise in the correct sense of the word is to change the purpose of a porpoise. It is a well known fact that the porpoise economy has recently undergone a severe recession and numerous porpoises were looking for new jobs. The word reporpoise came into being as a result of a government-run effort to qualify porpoises for jobs in the service sector from manufacturing jobs, an effort which met with remarkable success. The porpoise economy grew substantially, once again showing that neoliberalism is a horrible mistake.

Spireality

Spireality: noun. The quality of being like a spiral. The word was invented by the Physics for the American South movement, which is highly unpopular for unknown reasons, after decades of negotiations with the American Guild of Fabric Makers failed. The PAS was protesting that the word "spirality" was being hijacked by the AGFM to denote the "untwisting of yarn in fabric," but its demands for the repurposing of the word did not fall on fertile ground. As a result, the PAS wrote the Declaration of 2008, in which it coined the word spireality while denouncing flat earth theories and young earth creationism. Clearly, 2008 was an eventful year for the American South.

Trunkulent

Trunkulent: adjective. To be eager to fight, usually said of Ents, trees and bushes, and of people wielding sticks and other wooden objects. An example of the word used in a sentence is: "Losing her game of croquet, Lady Genevieve Anne Isabelle of Sandwich started becoming very trunkulent and, after several nervous displays involving beating the earth with her mallet, finally whacked her opponent, Sir John Paul Ringo George of Liverpool, straight into the ground."

Framewok

Framewok: noun. The basic concept underlying round-bottomed cooking vessels. An example of the word used in a sentence is "The manual showed me how to use the wok in specific circumstances, but I still don't understand the whole framewok."

Sikh

Sikh: verb. To look for fulfillment within the framework of Sikhism. The word comes from a popular saying paraphrased from the Guru Granth Sahib: "Sikh and you shall f-india." The past form of the word to sikh is sokhed, which is, coincidentally, the term for one soaked with Sikh knowledge.  

Poup

Poup: verb. To poop soup. Though the word poup is sometimes taken to mean "to poop something with the consistency of soup," this interpretation is inaccurate and impractical, seeing as soups come in varying degrees of viscosity, from bouillon to super creamy cheese soup. To poup is simply to poop soup. Real soup.

Apopiate

Apopiate: adjective.
1. Suitable for doing whatever a pope does. An example of this word used in a sentence is: "The cardinals decided that the most apopiate person for the job was Jozef Wojtyla."
2. Something suitable for papal use or interaction. "The French president decided that the most apopiate gift was a porcelain altar boy."

verb.
1. To devote papal funds to a cause. "The money collected from the German princes was apopiated for fighting against other German princes.
2. For a pope to take something. "Martin Luther argued that the Pope would apopiate the German lands in the same way that he apopiated a large part of Italy."
3. To take someone's pope. Contrary to popular belief, this is not what happened during the Babylonian Captivity of the Papacy (also known as the Avignon Papacy).

Claroscopy

Claroscopy: noun. The word claroscopy was devised in a series of attempts to describe the faculty of seeing things before they happen. Though the word "clairvoyance" eventually came out victorious, claroscopy and similar short-lived words, most notably clarividence, continue to haunt the nightmares of people in favour of the rationalisation of the English language, most notably people in the Movement for the Rationalisation of the English Language founded by Lewis Carroll.

Prack

Prack: noun. A rack that is somehow practical, for example through high efficacy, effectiveness, or efficiency. The term originated with regard to the rack traditionally used for torture, though nowadays it is more commonly associated with things like spice racks or hay racks. It is interesting to note that the famous actor Chris Prack is not related in anyway to pracks because his name is actually Chris Pratt.

Sprooge

Sprooge: verb. We don't actually know what the word sprooge means or whether it even is a word. But we thought sprooge sounded way too cool not to be made a word, so we have created it without a definition, letting it out into the world like the beautiful monster of Dr Frankenstein it is. By the way, its past tense is sproge.

Grum

Grum: adjective. The word grum is a cross between the words glum and grim. After a board meeting of our blog editors, we agreed none of us had any idea of why there was any need for the word grum at all, seeing as there are hosts of words to describe the bad and generally awful.

Jarter

Jarter: noun or verb.  The word jarter has two definitions. Coincidentally, both of them, though derived in completely different ways, come in handy when one is in a dire lack of cash.

1. As a noun, a jarter is a garter made from a jar, which is far more useful than one may think, provided one maintains a relatively stable body weight and doesn't move one's legs too much.

2. As a verb, to jarter is to barter for jars. Such skill is very useful when one is stuck in strife-torn Bolivia and requires large storage jars for rice and mangoes.  

Drap

Drap: noun. Draps are curtains shorter than drapes. The word drap lost its substantial popularity when people started to question why there should be a word for something shorter than drapes when one could just simply call it a curtain. Since then, the word drap was repurposed to mean "drab crap," a comment often made about unsatisfactory clothing by people of the slightly impoverished medium rung of the lower upper class.  

Fromic

Fromic: verb. To fromic is to frolic with cheese... a lot of cheese:
Cheese that is carried, cheese that is found,
Cheese that is lying right there on the ground,
Cheese that is oval, cheese that is round,
Cheese that is everywhere, just look around!
New cheese and old cheese,
Blue cheese and gold cheese,
Hot cheese and cold cheese,
Spot cheese and hold cheese!

Nangle

Nangle: verb. The word nangle has several, wildly different definitions, so context plays a vital role for how the following are used:
1. To strangle a grandmother (or 'nan').
2. To strangle a nanny.
3. When a grandmother inclines at an angle.
4. When a nanny inclines at an angle.
5. When one looks at a grandmother or nanny from an angle.

Smigger

Smigger: noun or verb. A smigger is something between a smile and a snigger. To smigger is to make such an expression. Smiggering tends to occur most in confusing or uncertain contexts, in which it is unclear whether a matter is to be openly smiled at or snidely taunted. One telling use of the word smigger can be found in the semi-contemporary novel (semi-contemporary in the sense that it is a novel written about a long time ago but in an unintentionally anachronistic way) Anne Boleyn and the three dudes, which tells about Anne Boleyn's secret (and probably made up) sexual exploits:

Henry VIII paced the room like a giant bull-frog would if it could not leap.
"So what can you tell me about Henry Norris?" He asked, wound up like a tea-kettle before the little switch with the red light turns off.
Anne grew tense like a verb. She tried to conjure an image of a gallant aristocrat, but her mind was like a TV screen drowning in static. The 'static', of course, was the intruding image of a Henry Norris, naked like a fridge (a fridge without all of the annoying stickers and magnets, that is), with a penis the size of a flash drive.
"Only that he is a great man of great ways," she smiggered.

Glatch

Glatch: verb. To glatch is to gladly catch, to catch with an outward display of pleasure. For example, the sentence "the first baseman glatches the ball" tells us that the first baseman catches the ball while smiling, grinning, or showing his happiness in some other way (e.g. mildly salivating), ostensibly at having put the runner out with this action. The word glatch follows the conjugations of the word "catch." Thus, the present tense declensions are "I glatch, you glatch, he/she/it glatches, we glatch, you (plural) glatch, they glatch," the future tense is "will glatch," and the past tense is glaught.

Trunge

Trunge: verb. To trudge to the sound of grunge or to trudge thinking in a way typical of the grunge style. This includes trudging to angsty thoughts, trudging alienated thoughts, and even trudging to apathetic ones.

Glumber

Glumber: noun. A glumber is a type of sleep (and to glumber is to practice that type of sleep), but what exactly this sleep is like is a mystery, as experts have not been able to reach a consensus over the origins of the word. Some, particularly the optimist school of linguistics, hold that the glumber is a glad slumber, while others, particularly the pessimists, maintain that the glumber is a glum slumber. Realists, quite characteristically, believe the glumber to be a glib slumber, a belief which proves beyond all doubt that all realists are really disguised and disgusting, self-congratulating pessimists. It is interesting to note that the Absurdist school of linguistics believes the glumber to derive from gluey gliding slumber and pistachios. How they concluded that is yet to be found out.

Jale

Jale: noun. In its new initiative to become increasingly self-sufficient, Yale University announced the launching of the jale project, a way of incarcerating all of its misbehaving students, professors, and employees. The jale, as indicated by some hazy declaration made by some sort of shady, alumni-led, and omnipotent management board, is going to be an integral part to hushing up scandals, by way of utilising a highly corrupt justice system and ways of circumventing it. While the board officially maintains that the jale will have a higher admissions rate than the university, and will thus be a viable endeavour, several experts on university and incarceration policy have concluded that given previous experience at institutions of higher learning, the jale will, for the most part, remain unoccupied, and will serve more as a never-to-be-used deterrent, just like grades below Cs do at Ivy League colleges. 

Spick

Spick: verb. To verbally choose something. A person who spicks is called a spicker and the thing chosen is called a spickee. The word is especially useful when trying to sort out a quarrel over the rules of dibs. Spicking something takes precedence in the rules of dibs over merely hinting or indicating at picking and mentally picking. It is second only to actually appropriating the object in question.  

Spitful

Spitful: adjective: Full of spit, and potentially a little malicious. The most spitful things on the planet are llamas and little children, though the latter are first by far. Llamas, for their part, harbour a lot of spit, and often quite a lot of antipathy towards humans. Little children, somewhat more concerningly, not only harbour a lot of spit - which they are very willing to use, by the way - but they are also the seed and the embodiment of the Antichrist.  If you see a little child on the street, run. Better yet, get a plane ticket, fly to Antarctica, and spend the rest of your life researching penguins, compensating for the lack of social interaction by trying to imitate penguin sounds and failing miserably at it, proving to be a failure both in human terms, and in penguin ones.

Multiple-minded

Multiple-minded: adjective. The word multiple-minded, increasingly written in its unhyphenated* form, multipleminded, is defined as having and concentrating on multiple aims or goals. Multiple-minded people are often told by Capitalist society that they cannot succeed in their endeavours, and by and large, they internalise this attitude, which is really quite tragic. Excuse the writers of the blog right now, while they go lament their sad fate over copious amounts of alcohol.

* Speaking of unhyphenated words, it is an interesting and sad reflection of the arbitrary and unfair nature of life that the word unhyphenated itself is often written in its hyphenated form: un-hyphenated.

Distriboot

Distriboot: verb. The word distriboot has two very different meanings. Please, please, please make sure you know which meaning is being employed before consenting to buying/selling/doing anything.
1. To distribute boots, shoes, or other footwear.
2. To distribute bootings, i.e. to kick around oneself.
I hope it is sufficiently clear now why one should be most aware of what sort of distribootion one signs oneself up for. As a side note, keep in mind that distribootion denotes not only the act of distribooting (whether with the first or the second meaning), but also the act of distributing "boos" or other signs of disapprobation.

Overstand

Overstand: verb. To overstand is to comprehend something too well. Though the frequently repeated adage says that "one can never know too many things", it is a fact of life that people often do know too much, which takes a negative toll on them. Overstanding life, for example, is why many intelligent people turn to Nihilism, alcoholism, or plain old death to solve their dissatisfaction with what they have discovered the world to be. As another frequently repeated adage says, "ignorance is bliss." It is quite strange, really, how these two sayings can coexist alongside each other without the general populace taking notice. It seems one of them is always selected when deemed pertinent to a certain situation, leaving the other behind, forgotten, or rather, hushed up. As a rule, people see what they want to see, and choose the narrative they want to have.

Derstand

Derstand: verb. To be in a state of ignorance about some particular thing or things in general. Understanding is a negation of this state of ignorance - derstanding. An example of the word derstand and derstanding used in context would be the following: "Mr Brown completely derstood his wife. He did not care to learn about her interests or hobbies, and the only thing he ever talked to her about was Nihilism, which she boycotted, being a die-hard Existentialist. Of course, her husband did not know that, assuming her, in his derstanding, to be an Absurdist." 

Everyfrom

Everyfrom: preposition. From everywhere. The antonym of everyto - to everywhere. The word everyfrom was invented to simplify everyday language. Where one would usually say "people flocked to the market from everywhere" or "robbers attacked her from all sides", one can use the much shorter formulations "people flocked to the market everyfrom" and "robbers attacked her everyfrom." The word everyto is quite similar in this respect, and it has the added benefit of elucidating sentences. While one could say "the gnats flew everywhere", it is unclear whether the author of this sentence means to say that the gnats were in one place and flew from that one place into many different places, or whether the gnats were simply flying everywhere from the very beginning. The word everyto covers the second meaning; in the sentence "the gnats flew everyto", there is no confusion: the gnats simply flew from one place to a lot of other places.

Conduckt

Conduckt: verb. There are several meanings with which the word conduckt is frequently used.
1. To conduct ducks. Typically, a policeman or another public official conduckts, or becomes a conducktor, by stopping traffic to show crossing ducks the way using his or her baton.
2. To conduct, being a duck. A duck conduckts many things, such as heat, love, and electricity. 
3. To  let through by ducking. For example, if a duck is flying straight towards my head and I duck, thus letting it pass, I can be said to be conduckting.

Strate

Strate: adjective. Without a curve or bend, moving in one direction only. The shape of the shortest possible line from one point to another in a two dimensional space. We actually had to make this word up completely here at Enriching the English Dictionary, which is strange considering how useful it seems to be. It does sound familiar though...

Lieful

Lieful: Adjective. The antonym of truthful: to be full of lies. An example of this word used in context is: "That presidential candidate is so lieful. Then again... so are all politicians. The problem isn't whether one is truthful or lieful - it's clear that they all lie through their teeth. The problem is that this presidential candidate is a raving psychopath."

Dulcinean

Dulcinean: adjective. Idealised, idolised, glorified. A Dulcinean ideal is constructed over some real foundation - a person, animal, or object - though sometimes, even this reality is not necessary. The basic idea is then augmented by fantasy and wishful thinking. Thus, we arrive at someone or something Dulcinean, an idealised version of our romantic interest, desired meal, or favourite politician. 

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Special Announcement from one of our blog writers: Tomorrow is my dog's Name Day! To honour my wonderful bitch, I have given her the opportunity of entering history with her very own word. Ladies and gentlemen, I have the immense pleasure to present you with the first dictionary entry written completely by a dog:

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I couldn't get her to write more, but this looks very insightful indeed.

Sanchian

Sanchian: adjective. The word Sanchian, synonymous with the word Panzian, denotes the quality of being very trusting, rather stupid, but capable, at the same time, of showing a great deal of prudence and judgement. A sanchian person will, for example, follow a deranged old man through dangerous and mostly imagined adventures at his own peril, yet will excercise Solomonic wisdom when in charge of a whole town. Some have argued that even the great Don Quixote is a Sanchian character, but the difference there, it seems, is that Don Quixote is highly intelligent consistently, and often appears to be aware of his own insanity, even indicating that it is ingeniously self-caused.

Dutchless

Dutchless: adjective. Lacking in Dutch people or Dutch qualities. For example, North Korea is, for the most part, completely Dutchless, with very few Dutch influences and very few Dutch tourists as well.

Dutchess

Dutchess: noun. A dutchess is the official term for a Dutch duchess. The word dutchess has been rendered largely obsolete following the year 1830, when Belgium and the Netherlands split and the Netherlands retained no duches or dutchesses save the monarch, who is the Duche or Dutchess of Limburg. Thus, the only duche surviving today is Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands, and the only dutchess is his wife, Queen Máxima.

Jesuine

Jesuine: adjective. Contrary to popular belief, to be jesuine isn't to behave like a genuine Jesuit. Being stinking Catholics, it is indeed quite difficult, if not nearly impossible, for Jesuits to be genuine, the only exception, perhaps, being Pope Francis. To be jesuine is to genuinely behave like a Jesuit, in other words, to behave exactly like a Jesuit would. A person described as Jesuine will often employ caustic reasoning, softly question conservative Catholic dogma, and torture a couple of heretics here and there.

Jobial

Jobial: adjective. Someone called jobial accepts all challenges thrown their way with grace and good humour. Jobiality is typical of very religious people, who embrace all of their hardships and praise the Lord for his mysterious ways, maintaining a "when life gives you lemons, make lemonade" attitude in face of the meaningless void that is existence.