Tuesday, 8 October 2013

Paradisical

Paradisical: adjective. This word is known for having two very separate meanings. One is describing something, which is heavenly and magical, like a paradise. The other meaning is the dissing of parasols and parrots. It has been often stated that "one does not simply dis the parasolic parrot" as well as "one is not simply paradisical", which, as the clever observer will notice, are completely identical. There are few places in the world, which have been described as paradisical. A few examples are of places which have been described as paradisical are Liverpool, Kabul and Grozny.

Monday, 7 October 2013

Babbylonian

Babbylonian: adjective. The properest way to write what is commonly spelled as "Babylonian." Babbylonian is, contrary to what one might have expected, not read the same way as "Babylonian," because the latter of the two should, in fact, be read as "Bay-bee-low-knee-an" rather than "Bah-bi-low-knee-an" and it is a wonder people understand the horrendous spelling of the word at all. In conclusion, as Lewis the rolling car would have told you, never spell Babbylonian incorrectly and never try to dangle a pokemon from a keychain.   

Sunday, 6 October 2013

Sysiphusimism

Sysiphusimism: noun. Similar to pessimism, sysiphusimism is the act of having no hope for onself or the world, because all previous attempts at doing something have failed. Interestingly, people suffering from sysiphusimism are not called sysiphusimists but sissies, the term not being viewed as derogatory. In the light of these facts, several psychologists in Botswana did research on icons of the American culture and found out that the lion in the Wizard of Oz was originally not a scaredy-cat, but a feline suffering from chronic depressions and that his voyage to Oz was really an ordinary trip to obtain his yearly medications.   

Saturday, 5 October 2013

Weepangelise

Weepangelise: verb. To move around extremely quickly, only when not being observed by anyone. This is extremely difficult as anyone attempting to weepanglise must observe every detail of his surroundings to ensure that he is not being observed, as that would prevent him from moving. Those who are very skilled in weepangelising are capable of moving, simply during the blink of an observer. Therefore a skilled weepangeliser can be extremely difficult if his intentions aren't pure or good. The authors of this blog ask the general public to be extremely weary of people weepangelising, although they realised that weepangelisers are quite difficult to recognise.

Friday, 4 October 2013

Skidaddle

Skidaddle: verb. To skedaddle on skis. While skedaddling usually involves panicky and unorganised fleeing, skidaddling is always tactical and planned out beforehand, which is not illogical when taking into account the fact that skedaddling on skis requires a very large area for manoeuvring. From a scientific perspective, skidaddling is by far the most logical method of organised and unorganised retreat alike, as the skis are an essencial component of gaining speed for the afore mentioned fleeing. 

Thursday, 3 October 2013

Fumic

Fumic: adjective. Made up or containing a large amount of fumes. It is common knowledge that any larger industrialised metropolis is known to be extremely fumic, but most people are unaware of the fact that people can be described as fumic. For years the word had only been associated with objects, even though it was originally meant to describe people. When tobacco became readily available throughout Europe, many people of the oposition of this new trend, described smokers as fumic, hoping it would discourage other people from taking up smoking as well.

Wednesday, 2 October 2013

Smothersome

Smothersome: adjective. A person, object, animal or abstract term that is easily smothered. While smothering most animals and humans may be deemed easy by professional murderers, smothering an object or an abstract term requires a high amount of skill. Though a fire can be smothered with sand, foam or any other materials that may fill a fire extinguisher (rats, mice and hamsters included), a rock or the Eiffel Tower would be far more resistant and would probably have to be melted before being smothered with a wet towel. Abstract terms are even harder to smother, as they would seep right through the wet towel and so they have to be smothered with a slab of wet iron. To help people understand the different degrees of how smothersome a thing can get, the Movement for the Rationalisation of the English Language has made the following guide (note that this movement has its own particular form of English which may be confusing to one who has never been in contact with it):

1. Do thing have respiratory system? (add 3 points if yes, 1 point if no, 2 points if not sure)
2. Be thing tangible? (add 3 points if yes, 1 point if no, 2 points if markhor) 
3. Be thing animal/human or thing/abstract term? (add 3 points if animal/human, 1 point if thing/abstract term, 2 points if George Bush)

Results: If score add up to 8 or 9, thing be completely smothersome. If score add up to 3 or 4, thing be almost unsmothersome. If score add up to 5,6 or 7 thing be most probably markhor in White House or George Bush skipping on mountain in Kashmir. 

Tuesday, 1 October 2013

Communikate

Communikate: verb. The act of communicating with Kate. One might think that this can apply to any Kate, anywhere in the world, for example Kate, the duchess of Cambridge, but one would be wrong in thinking that. In fact one can only communikate with the Kate, from the brilliant play by Arthur Miller "All My Sons". Kate Keller plays a significant role in the plot of the play and whenever a different character has a dialogue with Kate, this can be referred to as communikating. Arthur Miller himself was quite fond of the word and used it regularly, while writing the play. However since the pronunciation of the word is indistinguishable from the pronunciation of communicate very few people were aware of Miller's usage of the word.

Monday, 30 September 2013

Cassoweary

Cassoweary: adjective. When one is overtly tired of cassowaries to the point of sleepiness and subsequent collapse into hibernation at an encounter with one. The Bureau for the Conservation of Cassowaries in Australia states that about one tenth of all rangers working for the organisation suffers from cassoweariness seasonally and over one half of all people who have quit the job have had reprecussions leading to permanent cassoweariness. This condition is incurable and its causes are unknown. Famous celebrities who suffer from being cassoweary include Skippy the Bush Kangaroo (who never starred alongside cassowaries because of his anxiety) and Mickey Mouse, who contracted cassoweariness from Pluto.

Sunday, 29 September 2013

Slurprise

Slurprise: noun. The thing that happens when one slurps down a drink, but despite all efforts, the water level rises instead of decreasing. This word could likewise describe the surprise this casues. The word slurprise itself was first used in a quite different context and with a quite different meaning by the infamous composer Gustav Mahler, who claimed that prising a slur out of his orchestra, which he incorrectly jumbled up into slurprising, is harder than stoning a heretic with bananas, both of which he had previously attempted.  

Saturday, 28 September 2013

Upgramme

Upgramme: noun. This word has two very distinct meanings, which are used frequently in technology industries and the world of physics.
1. A programme of upgrading. These are very common, and have become more and more common in recent years, as technologies are developed faster and faster. In fact some scientists have begun to claim that we live in a world of a perpetual upgramme. 
2. A gramme or gram, which is added on and increases the overall weight. The word has been recently used in Physics textbooks, because it saves time and space. Generally it has been the recent increase in the price of putting words on paper, that has caused the increase of the usage of this word.

Friday, 27 September 2013

Dogholicism

Dogholicism: noun. A not too famous denomination of Christianity that differs from Catholicism in several key areas. One of these areas is original sin, which Dogholics refer to as "original woof" and the role of the Pope, whom Dogholics choose to follow only if he offers a good amount of dog biscuits. As well as this, marital fidelity, so highly regarded within the Catholic Church, is absolutely beyond the understanding of Dogholics, who will probably jump on whatever has legs and a pulse (or perhaps not even that) with the intention of procreating. However, both of the denominations have a common stance on birth control, as Dogholics don´t have to care for their own offspring for too long anyway.

Thursday, 26 September 2013

Porcanket

Porcanket: noun. A blanket made from the skin or skins of porcupines. This famous accessory not only provides immense comfort, but also excellent protection. Possibly the most famous porcanket belonged to the famous Hannibal, who took it everywhere with him as protection against potential nighttime assassins. The authors of this blog would also here recognise the brilliant, but also often overlooked Scipio Africanus, who in the end defeated Hannibal and thereby also took his porcanket, which has since then been in his family for centuries. It is also rumoured that both Queen Victoria and Fidel Castro have owned a porcanket, which has allowed them to escape many assassination attempts.

Wednesday, 25 September 2013

Sockerel

Sockerel: noun. A vulgar poem mentioning a sock or association football. Derived from the words sock and doggerel, sockerel made its first appearance in a parody of Shakespeare´s play Othello, where instead of finding a handkerchief, Othello stumbles upon Desdemona´s sock and proceeds to hang himself from it, much to Iago´s amusement (in this parody, however, Iago is a parrot, as the play had been inspired by the popular Disney film Aladdin, which had, in turn, also been parodied by the same theatre company, calling it "A laddie" and moving the setting to a rural scottish village, where Jafar and the Sultan bet on a Celtic-Rangers game and use the powers of the Loch Ness monster to alter the score leading to catastrophic consequences. Luckily, the football players eventually run out of energy after a series of several thousand matched penalties - obviously due to rigging - and the Sultan along with Jafar decide to go to a pub and blame Margaret Thatcher). 

Tuesday, 24 September 2013

Gymbership

Gymbership: noun. A membership to a gym, or a ship made up of large pieces of timber/lumber. Interestingly, the original meaning of the word is the one associated with a gymnasium. In Ancient greece, the word was used to describe being a member of an institution not only for physical, but also intellectual exercise. It was only in the 17th century that sailors and carpenters began to use the word to refer to galleons, frigates, fluyts and barques. The famous critic of everything, Christopher Marlowe wrote an entire book discussing the matter of the word, aptly titled "The Massacre at Paris". The authors of this blog highly recommend the book as delightful reading.

Monday, 23 September 2013

Stumblebee

Stumblebee: noun. A bumblebee that stumbles while walking, possibly because of excessive nectar consumption. A stumblebee is not to be confused with a jumblebee (a bumblebee that jumbles things), a tumblebee (a bumblebee that tumbles), a fumblebee (a bumblebee that fumbles), a grumblebee (a bumblebee that grumbles), a mumblebee (a bumblebee that mumbles), a rumblebee (a bumblebee that rumbles or has consumed far too much liquor), a humblebee (a bumblebee that grovels and is an ideal candidate for priesthood) and definitely not with a bumblebeer (a distilled liquor from bumblebees). Ideally, one should also not confuse stumblebees with slumberbees (bumblebees that take often naps) and stubblebees (bumblebees that have an excess of facial hair).

Sunday, 22 September 2013

Pigmalion

Pigmalion: noun. Unlike Pygmalion, pigmalion is what happens when too many ions are present within a pig,  often leading to catastrophic results. The dangerousness of such pig usually depends on how many ions are present inside it and what element they come from. For example, a pig with ten grammes of hydrogen ions is less dangerous than a pig with twenty grammes of hydrogen ions and far less dangerous than a pig containing 30 grammes of plutonium ions. The word itself had been derived from the roots "pig," "mal" and "ion," the "mal" part pertaining to the results of letting such pig into the civilised world.  

Saturday, 21 September 2013

Conquerative

Conquerative: adjective. Describing something or someone that enjoys to conquer or often does so. This word has been used by famous historians, such as Edward Gibbon, to describe kingdoms or empires and people throughout history. Very often this word has been associated with the Roman empire, the Mongols and Napoleon Bonaparte. In recent years it has been used with people such as Dan Quayle and Greece.

Friday, 20 September 2013

Maulhault

Maulhault: noun. This word has several commonly acknowledged definitions and bitter disputes exist between the supporters of each. Because of their particular viciousness and unscrupulous threats, the creators of this blog have decided not to put them down at all and make up their own definitions (as they, however, do very rarely - in fact, this is the first time for... a very long time).
1. A jump performed by the Sith Darth Maul that entered universal history after the airing of Star Wars Episode 1. Contests around the galaxy have been held ever since his death to see who the best maulhaulter is, but, as with Luciano Pavarotti, there is only one Darth Maul... at least there was.
2. An amalgamation of the German words "Maul" and "halten," meaning "mouth" and "to hold." This word has reportedly been used as a common threat by German teachers who fled to South America after the Second World War.        

Thursday, 19 September 2013

Hleggeflemisch

Hleggeflemisch: verb. The action of quoting or making up a study that had never been carried out for the selfish purposes of whoever the perpetrator is. Before any further progress is made into discovering the origins of the word, the writers of this blog would like to make it known that they deeply deplore hleggeflemisching, especially after the study conducted by the esteemed professor Xióngmāo Fènbiàn (熊貓糞便) of Hǔ cèsuǒ (虎廁所) University in Datong proved a direct correlation between hleggeflemisching and hair loss in adult male impalas. With that being said, it is also necessary to admit that the etymological background of hleggeflemisching is absolutely unknown and will probably stay concealed forever with the rest of the world´s mysteries.

Wednesday, 18 September 2013

Matealot

Matealot: noun. Although this may sound like a very unusual word, which would have a rather exotic meaning, it in fact has multiple meanings, which have been used quite frequently in the past.
1. The mate of a matelot. For those who don't know, a matelot is a sailor or seaman, look it up! The partnet of this sailor or seaman was commonly referred to as a matealot. 
2. Someone or something, which mates frequently. This is more commonly associated with animals, but has been used previously in conjunction with people, namely William Topaz McGonagall and Judas.
3. Someone, who when playing chess, often and incorrectly declares a "mate", when in fact the game is far from over and they are probably losing.
4. The inhabitant of a small settlement in Trinidad and Tobago.

Tuesday, 17 September 2013

Consequence

Consequence: noun. Something which is directly or indirectly related to a sequence. This term is only used in certain branches of mathematics, specifically in Number Theory and Combinatorics. The term was coined by famous mathematician Pierre de Fermat, who is famous for his famous Last Theorem. The word is however much more commonly used in its meaning of a direct implication. This means that when asked, only 0.0134% of people will give the mathematical definition of the word, as their answer to what the definition of consequence is.

Monday, 16 September 2013

Ultrantiracism

Ultrantiracism: noun. The social phenomenon that results from overt caution not to offend people of different races. Ultrantiracism portrays itself in many different forms, as shown in the survey made in California a few months ago. The survey, conducted by Enguma Nguruwe, showed that when the regular American was asked to describe a picture of a person with black skin colour, that aspect of their visage was completely left out. Furthermore, over eighty per cent of the test subjects were of the opinion that in supermarkets, an equal amount of black, white and yellow refrigerators should be sold; regardless of the price and profit made by the shopkeepers.

Sunday, 15 September 2013

Antishouldism

Antishouldism: noun. A school of thought that refuses the use of the word "should" as part of both formal and informal language.  Antishouldists, as part of their doctrine, do not call themselves antishouldists, but prefer to go by the title doordonotdoists, which is contemptuously pronounced as "Door doughnut do-ists" rather than "Do or do not doists" by the rival group set up to to antishouldists, simply known as shouldists. Quite hypocritically, the very first sentence in the holy scripture of this organisation, written by an unknown monk in the 14th centruy and completely rewritten in the 1970s, states the following: "We jointly advocate that the word 'should' should be crossed out of the dictionary and should nevermore be mentioned." 

Saturday, 14 September 2013

Extraterraneous

Extraterraneous: adjective. Describing something, which is a) from a different planet than Earth and b) quite difficult and tiring. Most common example of extraterraneous activities include Vogon poetry and a conversation with a Wookiee or Gungan. Interestingly the word has existed since the time of King Wladyslaw III Spindleshanks of Poland. It originated in the home of a lazy Norwegian fisherman and according to lore, the tale, too long to describe here, involved a herring, too much tea and a very pretty sea urchin.  

Friday, 13 September 2013

Gumgan

Gumgan: noun. A popular sweet widely consumed on the planet of Naboo. Not to be confused with gungan, the indigenous race on the planet and gumgun, a weapon used by them to make their enemies wet and sticky. Gumgan is manufactured in the warm and damp conditions of the marshes on Naboo, giving them an unforgettable taste irresistible for aficionados in this field of sweet making.   

Thursday, 12 September 2013

Oun

Oun: preposition. Used to indicate inclusion and exclusion within space, a place or limits. In other words the word is used when something is both "in" and "out" of something. For example: "Air is oun the house." The word was created by Galen of Pergamon, who used it to describe the state of blood after an incision or a cut/bruise. Since then the word has been scarcely used in the medical profession and even less so in others. However the sentence created by famed humorist Lenny Bruce has reignited the favorable flame of this word. The sentence is as follows: "The preposition is oun the noun."

Wednesday, 11 September 2013

Calvisignation

Calvisignation: noun. The resignation upon doing well in any aspect of one´s life on the basis of the Calvinist belief that all has been set out already. This sociological phenomenon, though common among the afore mentioned religious group, was also quite frequent among ancient Greeks who, upon finding out something terrible at the local oracle hotline, committed mass suicide in order to prevent unpleasant surprises. The irony in that was, of course, that by killing themselves they had actually fulfilled the oracles´ rather vague prophecies consisting of wails and howls and resulting in the conclusion that time would be better spent in the local tavern.

Tuesday, 10 September 2013

Thermotea

Thermotea: noun. Tea which keeps the temperature it was made at for about 26 hours. This is the brilliant invention of Thomas Lipton, who created thermotea after years of experimentation. However he was extremely paranoid of a rival company stealing his idea and so never revealed the recipe or formula for making it to anyone. Therefore when he died, the process of creating thermotea was lost and people had the opportunity to enjoy the brilliant drink only for about 5 years. Some people believe that when Lipton bequeathed the majority of his possessions to the city of Glasgow, he included the formula for the creation of thermotea with them, and now the mayor of Glasgow is the only one, who can enjoy the drink. However this theory has been declared preposterous by men with lab coats.

Monday, 9 September 2013

Ramboo

Ramboo: noun. The word ramboo has several possible meanings; the most used ones are listed below:
1. A species of red plant growing in the harsh climate of Nepal, China and India, which had been widely replaced by bamboo and now only survives in a few pocketses of vegetation in Sichuan.
2. A word for the misappreciation of a certain ram´s performance in the annual Ramolympic games, an institution set up as a rival to the more famous and popular Goatolympic games.
3. A spooky ghost of a ram that haunts the castle of Anthrax and makes strange faces at the nuns living there. In this particular case, ramboo, can be spelled with a capital letter, but experts in this field of knowledge advocate the opinion that there are more than one ramboos running around the castle and so it would be more politically correct if this spooky ghost of a ram only had a lowercase letter.    

Sunday, 8 September 2013

Batctus

Batctus: noun. A word describing a grilled bat stuck on a cactus, a not too popular meal in Mexico. While the cactus itself is not eaten, its prickly exterior allows several bats to be put on it before being spun around above an open fire, much like a gyros. According to natives, a batctus is the most disgusting dish imaginable and its consumption is purely a matter of tradition, the maintenance of which is governed and funded by the UNESCO. Professional batctus eaters are also payed by the organisation to perform the ritual of cooking, consuming and then vomiting in front of tourists and UNESCO even contributed to building signs along major Mexican highways explaining the importance of batcti to natives and foreigners alike. The pronunciation of the word itself is rather complicated for English speakers, nevertheless, many poets have come to appreciate its rhythmic ring. For example the poet William McGonagall wrote the following short poem about the ritual of preparing a batctus:

One morning when sitting on a cactus,
A man - I am sorry to say,
Decided to prepare a batctus,
To brighten his terrible day.

His hand grabbed a bat wing which maybe,
Was harvested in Dundee bay,
He stuck it gently as a baby,
On the spikes of the cactus to stay.

A strong sound from the distance drew near him,
Something that was coming his way,
And the man said to himself looking quite dim:
It was stupid of me, yes a man from Dundee, to prepare a batctus on a railway.

Saturday, 7 September 2013

Nocious

Nocious: adjective. Harmful, poisonous and very very dark, with occasional shimmers of things resembling stars. The word is most commonly associated with the dizziness felt and seen after having inhaled Hydrogen Selenide, however it can be and is associated with a wide variety of other things. The term was coined by the Swedish chemist Jöns Jacob Berzelius who was a passionate amateur astronomer, but also a proper chemist.

Friday, 6 September 2013

Ponticy

Ponticy: noun. A policy regarding bridges. One may think that there aren't many ponticies, however that is incorrect as there are over 200 of them. For example Ponticy #166 is: "Thou shalt not disturb the troll under the bridge." The history of ponticies dates back to Ancient times, when they were known as aqueducticies and related to aqueducts. However the Romans had no regard for these policies and so they became largely unknown until their revival asponticies in the late 14th century. 

Thursday, 5 September 2013

Plumbet

Plumbet: verb. When a plumber plummets from a very high point or into a very low point or a combination of both. Plumbetting is a very common word, since in some countries, the plumbing on high-rise buildings is accessible only from the outside and so a plumber has to clamber his way up before he actually starts to plumb, both of which is equally dangerous when done on a high-rise building. The first recorded case of a plumbet, however, did not come from a tall building, but from space. In fact, the first plumbet started on June the sixth, 2006 from the International Space Station itself and took several days, during which the plumber involved was able to give his exact coordinates and was caught exactly seventy two hours later in a giant pool of bubble-wrap prepared by the national fire brigade of Uzbekistan, which the ISS happened to be flying over at the beginning of the plumbet.

Wednesday, 4 September 2013

Sheepwrecking

Sheepwrecking: noun. Contrary to popular belief in New Zealand, sheepwrecking is not the act of wrecking while driving a sheep or multiple sheep at once, nor does it describe the situation when one drives their car, boat or plane into one. Sheepwrecking is, in fact, the act of discriminating against a certain group of animals and thereby wrecking their self-confidence by not allowing them to have a distinct plural form. This applies to animals such as sheep, fish, jellyfish, flying fish, swordfish, angelfish, stonefish, pufferfish, scorpionfish, lionfish, longfish, shortfish, fatfish, slimfish, goodfish, badfish, smellyfish, stinkyfish, platyfish and chicken. This discriminatory phenomenon also occurs in different languages besides English, for example in Swahili most animals, bananas, tomatoes and grandmothers have an identical singular and plural form, but out of the afore mentioned, only the animals can officially file a sheepwrecking complaint (unlike the bananas, tomatoes and grandmothers who can´t file one at all due to reduced mobility).

Tuesday, 3 September 2013

Schappiness

Schappiness: noun. A word describing the joyous feeling felt by a very small percentage of schoolchildren at coming back to school after the Summer holidays. In fact, the number of schoolchildren that suffered from schappiness was always so small, that until 2001, the World Association for Kidz´ Mental Health based in Brooklyn did not classify it as a condition at all. According to the main medical department of the above mentioned organisation, it is not known whether this condition is hereditary or adopted, however all experts studying it find it puzzling, out of the norm and as one of the researchers working there quite poignantly said: "Well I don´t know too much about this, but after lots´a hard research, I came to the conclusion that it´s totally weird." 

Monday, 2 September 2013

Ramgle

Ramgle: verb. To seemingly speak of nothing, but at the same time viciously arguing a point. In essence the word is a combination of wrangling and rambling, however is evidently very different. One might think that wrangling and rambling are opposites, which would suggest that ramgling is an oxymoron, however that is not the case. We assure you that ramgling is possible and you find people, who very often ramgle. The origin of the word is uncertain, however it is suggested that it was Bertrand Russell, who introduced the word back into common speech.

Sunday, 1 September 2013

Runon

Runon: noun. There are several meanings, which are known to belong to this word and have originated in different sections of the plethora of humanness.
1. Something which is not necessarily covered in runes, but does in someway contain runes of some sort. Although one may think that runon actually refers to something, which is on runes, but that would be incorrect.
2. Someone who is currently extremely drunk on rum. The most attentive of observers will notice the lack of correlation is spelling, but this can be easily explained. The word was coined by runon himself, and one who has been extremely drunk on rum, shall understand why the author payed little attention to spelling.

Saturday, 31 August 2013

Runon

Runon: verb. This word has two meanings, which are used in very specific contexts:

1. When running a marathon, to continue running even after having finished the marathon. There are very few instances of this ever happening, although it has several times resulted in the lapping of several of the slower runners. The word was developed in this field by commentators of marathons, while they were having their lunch break.
2. To, while writing a text, intentionally leave out punctuation, such as commas, full stops, dashes and colons, and combine sentences to create, what is known as a run-on sentence, and as an observant reader may have noticed, this sentence itself is an excellent example of the aforementioned runoning. 

Friday, 30 August 2013

Melony

Melony: adjective. In order to at least partially explain the ambiguity regarding marshmelons, it is necessary to explain their meloniness. Being melony (which, by the way, can be pronounced the way it is spelt or even the way it is not spelt) shows itself in a few different forms. Someone who is melony usually has more bodymass, a round belly and possibly a green tint with stripes on their skin. A melony object often tastes like a melon (unlike melony people who taste like chicken), it may or may not be green and it always rolls down a hill like a melon when you push it (regarding that fact, it is rather similar to melony people).

Note to readers: none of the facts above were obtained experimentally but retrieved from people who have notable experience in this field. We would, therefore, like to thank the kind community in Papua New Guinea that helped us with this article, especially regarding the taste and downhill mobility of melony people.   

Thursday, 29 August 2013

Marshmelon

Marshmelon: noun. There are two commonly used definitions of this word and it is often very hard to distinguish which one of them is being used in a particular sentence, even with plenty of context.
1. A sweet that is mushy, but also a little melony.
2. A melon that grows in a marsh.
As you can see, the above definitions are truly ambiguous and interchangeable, which is one of the reasons why this word is no longer used in formal and informal contexts alike. 

Wednesday, 28 August 2013

Spockera

Spockera: noun. An opera featuring the Star Trek character Spock. The role is quite often a minor one, for example in Verdi´s Aida, he only features behind the croud of singing Egyptians trying to zap a space alien with a laser gun. In another production, the Bartered Bride, the stage directions have Spock hiding behind the wide dresses of buxom Bohemian women, slowly crawling towards the spaceship parked in Jeník´s (the main protagonist´s) back yard. When given a singing role, as in the case of the famous opera Batman and the Spacemonkeys by Philip Glass, Spock is a baritone, but this is not necessarily the rule since Johann Strauss junior had a very young spock sing a lovely mezzo-soprano aria on a flying saucer in the operetta Fuchs du hast die Gans gestohlen.  

Tuesday, 27 August 2013

Dictionarize

Dictionarize: verb. Although you may think this means to add something to a dictionary, it in fact means to look something up in a dictionary; this word is significantly more popular than thesaurize, but is still used very rarely, something which has for years depressed the Webster family, who's ancestor, Noah Webster, coined the word after having found that in none of the 27 languages he learnt, was there a word to well suit his newest publication.

Monday, 26 August 2013

Thesaurize

Thesaurize: verb. To look for something, most probably a word in a thesaurus. This action is very common, although not as common as dictionarizing, nonetheless it is still quite surprising that thesaurizing hasn't become more popular in everyday speech. Unsurprisingly the word was coined by Peter Mark Roget, the creator of the first modern thesaurus, although interestingly he himself never used the word, because he became disillusioned with it.

Sunday, 25 August 2013

Sunbrella

Sunbrella: noun. According to the Movement for the Rationalisation of the English Language, a sunbrella is an object used to shield oneself from the sun, but is not a parasol. The main difference between the two, as Lewis Carroll pointed out, is that a sunbrella simply isn´t a parasol and a parasol is not a sunbrella. Because of the similarity of the two objects (which Carroll never saw), one term for them eventually had to drop out of common usage and, sadly, it was not the word "parasol," which sounds completely un-English and even has the foreign words "para" (for) and "sol" (sun) within itself. 

Saturday, 24 August 2013

Nimrodparadoxianism

Nimrodparadoxianism: noun. A word describing the paradoxical situation arising from a quality not being attributed to the person whom it is named after. This does not apply to people whose name is the name of a certain disease; for example, the fact that Parkinson never suffered from Parkinson´s is not a nimrodparadoxianism. However, the fact that the great ancient king Nimrod was not a nimrod (using the modern understanding of the word) is a Nimrodparadoxianism. According to the omnipresent and omniscient wikipedia, this paradox was caused by Bugs Bunny who sarcastically referred to Elmer Fudd as "nimrod," which was misinterpreted by a large part of the audience.

Friday, 23 August 2013

Gangaroo


Gangaroo: Noun. There are currently 4 definitions of this word, these are:
1. An alternative for the plural of kangaroo most commonly used to fit a letter limit, or as a way to try to win a non-multiplettering contest for one who did not notice the 2 As Gs and Os in the word.
2. An abnormally aggressive group of kangaroos, their behavior makes the difference between a gangaroo and a troop of kangaroos.
3. A doppelganger kangaroo, these are very hard to identify because it requires a gangaroo’s gangaroo to be found and then one has to be confirmed to have been born first to determine which one is really a gangaroo and which on is a kangaroo.
4. Decay of soft tissues of the body after an attack by 1 or more kangaroo(s), many have commented on how strange it is that if one were to suffer from this condition after an accident not relating to kangaroos (for example: being attacked by a bear) it would still be considered gangaroo rather than gangrene if the person was attacked by a kangaroo up to 24 hours before the accident.
More than one of these definitions can be used in the same sentence, for example: A man began to suffer from gangaroo after being attacked by a gangaroo of gangaroo gangaro.

Thursday, 22 August 2013

Calicornithologicalisation

Calicornithologicalisation: noun. The simple way of saying "when a bird is caught by a cat." Granted, the word has more letters, but when the spaces between the words of the above definition are counted, Calicornithologicalisation comes out as the clear winner of word-simplicity. The term itself was coined one night by an unknown person in an unknown place watching an unknown TV station, most probably after the consumption of an unknown brand of liquor. Modern sortologists (you know, people who sort stuff) further split the term Calicornithologicalisation into two categories: Victoriacalicornithologicalisation and Defectocalicornithologicalisation, the former being the name for a successful Calicornithologicalisation and the latter for the opposite.

Wednesday, 21 August 2013

Permwhale

Permwhale: noun. A recently discovered species of whale that is either found around the area of the city Perm or during the Permean period. As time travel is becoming more expensive now due to the slow devalvation of Deutschmarks, the former description is the more commonly used one. However, there is no proof of such a type of Permwhale and the only confirmation of its existence comes from a few drunk Russians who claim to have seen a rather big fish last Saturday night.

Tuesday, 20 August 2013

Salutaricious

Salutaricious: adjective. Describing something which is helpful or beneficial. The word is clearly the direct opposite of pernicious and is commonly used in terms and phrases such as: salutaricious anaemia and salutaricious deed. It is unclear where the word comes from or where it was first used. There are many different theories; for example, one theory states that the word was first used in a lifeguard instruction manual to describe life guards.

Monday, 19 August 2013

Exfoliage

Exfoliage: verb. To remove or destroy unwanted foliage and shrubbery. This is common practice in gardens all around the world. Often combined with weeding, it is unknown, why this word has become so unpopular in recent days. Some suggest it could be traced to the decreasing number of gardens as people become overworked, more adrenaline based and with little time to tend to pesky decoration. There are reports of exfoliaging dating back to the 14th century AD, when the Queens of countries began to have a say in the decoration of royal castles.

Sunday, 18 August 2013

Mountain

Mountain: verb. To act or show characteristics of being a mountain. To mountain means to behave rather stoically, silently and often being quite dull and dumb. Nevertheless mountaining is very popular in regions around the Caucasus, where to an uniformed tourist the local inhabitants may appear quite disconnected,  while they are in fact simply mountaining. The most famous case of mountaining was the famous and dangerous Mata Hari, who conducted mountaining during her trial and was later executed.

Saturday, 17 August 2013

Pregnatable

Pregnatable: adjective. Describing someone who is capable of becoming pregnant. This word can be applied to most women from a certain age to a certain age. The women who are the exception to this can be described as impregnatable. The word was first used by famed gynaecologist James Marion Sims, who is commonly known as the father of modern gynaecology, not a popular computer simulation game.

Friday, 16 August 2013

Overpaper

Overpaper: verb. To be overwhelmed or overpowered by paper in some form or another. This can occur in many different forms, ranging from newspaper stacks toppling to toilet paper mummification. The first recorded case of overpaperment occurred in 2555 BCE, when a man died of intense bleeding in a field of Cyperus Papyrus. However this is not an official case of overpaperment, but rather overpapyrusment. Technically speaking the first official person to be overpapered was the man in charge of the Venice Patent Office in the early 15th century. The poor man was a friend of Francesco Foscari, and his death led to Foscari's embitterment and subsequent severing of ties between Venice and Florence.

Thursday, 15 August 2013

Afrazing

Afrazing: adjective. As "merry" is associated with Christmas and "happy" with the New Year, afrazing is associated with Kwanzaa. It is used in phrases such as: "Have an afrazing Kwanzaa!" Interestingly although Kwanzaa was first celebrated in 1966, the word actually comes from 1953, when it was used by Hakim Jamal, early in his career, when he was attempting to explain what he believed in to Malcolm X. The word was then reused by Maulana Karenga, the master teacher, after Kwanzaa had become an established holiday. Kwanzaa is a recognised holiday, because it is not underlined in red, when typed into a Google document.

Wednesday, 14 August 2013

Hippochondriac


Hippochondriac: Noun. Someone who is unduly preoccupied with physical traits and beliefs that a discovery that they are in fact a hippopotamus is imminent. There have been many cases of hippochondria throughout history and there is no known cause for such a psychological condition. Some psychiatrists have linked hippochondria to Lachanophobia, specifically the fear of broccoli, but it is unknown whether or not this is causative or correlative. There is not yet a treatment that is consistently effective in preventing or recovering from hippochondria, some psychiatrists believe that eating enough broccolis will help one recover from this condition but this has not been tested for most hippochondriacs won’t go near the stuff. In recent years there has been an increase in hypo-hippochondriacs (people who fear that they may have hippochondria); a handful of Democratic politicians claim to believe that this is due to the actions of Republican party members, Republican politicians blame the Democrats, and Psychiatrists blame themselves.

Tuesday, 13 August 2013

Multiplettered


Multiplettered: Adjective. For a word or sentence to have multiple occurrences of the same letter. If a letter appears multiple times in order, the word/sentence is sequentially multiplettered. If a word/sentence is totally multiplettered then it is made up entirely of 2 or more of the same letter. If a half of a word/sentence is made up of the same letter, the word/sentence is semi multiplettered; an example in a sentence is, “’Mirror’ is a semi multiplettered word/sentence due to its Rs”. This word was first used in 1977 and quickly started competitions for young people to try to make the longest words/sentences that didn’t have multiple occurrences of the same letter, because of injuries sustained during these competitions they were quickly shut down or closely monitored for the next 2 years, at which point most people forgot about them. Non-multiplettering contests have not yet gained the popularity that they once had and few believe that they will, not because of what happened before, but because the competitions weren’t a very much fun at all.

Monday, 12 August 2013

Stalactasis


Stalactasis: Noun. The process of being injured and/or killed by the formation of a stalactite. While there are no recorded incidents of stalactasis, many anatomists have agreed that it is possible if one were to stay in the same place for too long. Because of this some anatomists have pushed to have signs outside of caves warning people not to hold still for too many centuries, unfortunately none these requests have been granted. Though there is some dispute about the details of stalactasis it is still far less controversial than the process of stalagmasis which has been the topic of many arguments among anatomists and sign-builders, these arguments usually divide people into 4 groups: People who believe in Stalagmasis, people who don’t, people on the side that costs the least money, and people who don’t care. While people who don’t care have won the majority of these arguments, each of them has received an anonymous message warning them that the topic cannot be avoided forever…

Sunday, 11 August 2013

Starecrow


Starecrow: Noun. An alternative to the scarecrow, these structures typically has some resemblance to human heads and gives unsettling looks toward crows in an attempt to scare them away while not having to build a body for it. Starecrows have existed for centuries, originating as the severed heads of vanquished enemies mounted on large sticks. Starecrows are frequently used as Halloween decorations. Pumpkins have often been used to make starecrows but a certain level of detail in the eyes is required for it to be considered a starecrow, otherwise it will simply be a Jack-O‘-Lantern (A starecrow made from a pumpkin is also considered a Jack-O’-Lantern). Delegates in the UN have tried to motion to truly define how much detail is necessary to have a starecrow, these motions were not successful as the other delegates did not see this subject as relevant to anything.