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Invent A Word

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  • 15-12-2003 10:48pm
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    Registered Users Posts: 78,267 ✭✭✭✭


    I dreamt this last night. Invent a word and give a definition.

    Propeteer (noun). One who makes disproportionate financial gain from a proerty transaction, e.g. a property developer or estate agent. From "property" and "profiteer".


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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,552 ✭✭✭Steoob


    brainegate (verb) - to grow a brain
    e.g. Brainegate MAN!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,797 ✭✭✭Paddy20


    Scrumblefilth; Looking for the erotic bits in books, especially when young.

    Note: Not sure if that word would be a (noun) or not, let those more qualified than me decide?..

    P.:ninja: :eek: [Good thread idea], should be a Sticky ! imho.


  • Registered Users Posts: 19,396 ✭✭✭✭Karoma


    vocabuventor noun
    One who makes up words for the hell of it.

    see also: vocabuvented,vocabuvention



    liffenate verb.
    To dispose of in water


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,760 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Flutterby reinventing the old descriptive word.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 742 ✭✭✭Senor_Fudge


    uzielial
    a state of being influenced by the uzi sub machine gun and all that it stands for


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  • Registered Users Posts: 78,267 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Originally posted by Capt'n Midnight
    Flutterby reinventing the old descriptive word.
    They were originally called this.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,267 ✭✭✭Exit


    Jumblant
    A person who complains a lot.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,760 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Originally posted by Victor
    They were originally called this.
    Hence reinvent, now if you don't mind I'm off to the trademark office to do a bit of wordstaking*

    * to take a public domain term and register it for your own use so you can retroactively sue others who have been using the term.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 208 ✭✭TUTS


    Feckeld : Tired ........ "Im really feckeld after last night"

    Moohaun : Muppet......... "Leave me alone you Moohaun"

    Cupof****off : "Will yo go away and have a CUPOF****OFF"

    MonkeyProblems : To b confused ..... "Ive got a dose of the auld monkeyproblems"

    Have loads more ....... like strange questions for pubs ..... Do frogs have ball joints? or.... Do fish have livers? Say em with a straight face and you'll get rid of any person you dont like. This also gives the added bonus of them thinking that you are a strange bastard....hence no more annoying unwanted conversations in the pub. They just stay away....
    :D



    Out of interest, is this normal?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,797 ✭✭✭Paddy20


    Moanaholic: A person addicted to complaining, someone who is always moaning.

    P.:ninja: [Just like me] :eek:


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,114 ✭✭✭Kappar


    Ge (pron) An asexual pronoun used to refer to the man/woman or boy/girl previously mentioned or implied

    Gis (adj) The possessive form of ge

    Gim (pron) The objective case of ge


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,760 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Originally posted by TUTS
    "Ive got a dose of the auld monkeyproblems"
    Do fish have livers?
    Out of interest, is this normal?
    I would suggest a dose of cod liver oil for the monkeyproblems.

    Keoghing Silimar sound but not to be confused with "Queueing" The art of reinventing the wheel and more importantly then patenting it.. REF: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1418165.stm


  • Registered Users Posts: 78,267 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Krump (verb) To utterly detroy or flatten with excessive force, as of an object or military force - the tank krumped the car. From crumple.

    Courtesy of Nessie.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,155 ✭✭✭ykt0di9url7bc3


    Spraggled - used to refer to the death of a fraggle...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 990 ✭✭✭lili


    i invent a lot of english words, because often i'm too lazy to check my english dictionary, actually i think i got a special language which is understood only by me:)


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,760 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Gruntled (word) The state one is in before becoming dis...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,797 ✭✭✭Paddy20


    Christmasitis; An irrational morbid fear of Christmas, which can manifest itself in many ways. From breaking out in a rash, to hiding away in a room until it is all over. A difficult psychological fear, that may require therapy or Psychiatric consultations, in order to help the sufferer overcome this 'phobia' type illness.

    P.:ninja:


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,309 ✭✭✭✭Bard


    Mathisology - n. - the system of beliefs concerning looking concerned and happy at the same time in a completely wooden way with a completely plastic face while crooning a sad old Christmas song and raking in the cash.

    Like Johnny Mathis.

    Mathisologitis - n. - The disease with symptoms being the revulsion and possible explosive vomiting brought on by encountering Mathisology

    Inoculatte - v. - To take coffee intravenously when you are running late. (I didn't make that one up, but its good ;) )

    Bannerfannerismic - adj. - the euphoric feeling felt when the Co. Clare football or hurling team actually WIN something...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,481 ✭✭✭Vader


    Transmutify verb to take a conversation off topic, to take an existing idea or practice and pervert it, to breed cats and donkeys.

    see also spaming, trolling and knackers*





    *In the inbred scumbag form, not as a reference to those members of the travelling community who are being mislabeled and unfairly treated by the public.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,760 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    That's a little close to transmogify (cf. revenge of the babysat etc.) which of course is the preferred term when it comes to breeding cats and donkeys ;)

    ###### :-w- to blame another so the buck does not stop for the longest possible time, by which time it will have been forgotten about or no longer matter in light of newer bigger problem. Persons to be blamed would include someone who has left the company, joined a monesrty, been made MD or emigrated to Austrialia etc.. Unlike scapegoating the object is to avoid getting an innocent in trouble if at all possible. "But that's the way Evans used to do it before he retired"

    Buckspreading: -w- A method of blame avoidance practised within groups of three or more. Each person insists that they are not at fault since obviously it was the responsibility of one of the others, though will not admit to knowing which one of the others it was.
    Not practised much in aincent China where all three would have been punished in the same manner.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,481 ✭✭✭Vader


    Originally posted by Capt'n Midnight
    That's a little close to transmogify (cf. revenge of the babysat etc.) which of course is the preferred term when it comes to breeding cats and donkeys ;)

    ###### :-w- to blame another so the buck does not stop for the longest possible time, by which time it will have been forgotten about or no longer matter in light of newer bigger problem. Persons to be blamed would include someone who has left the company, joined a monesrty, been made MD or emigrated to Austrialia etc.. Unlike scapegoating the object is to avoid getting an innocent in trouble if at all possible. "But that's the way Evans used to do it before he retired"

    Whats the word?


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,711 ✭✭✭Praetorian


    Each year the Washington Post's Style Invitational asks readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting or changing only one letter, and supply a new definition. Here are the 2002
    winners:

    1. INTAXICATION: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.

    2. REINTARNATION: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.

    3. FOREPLOY: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.

    4. GIRAFFITI: Vandalism painted very, very high.

    5. SARCHASM: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.

    6. INOCULATTE: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.

    7. OSTEOPORNOSIS: A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)

    8. KARMAGEDDON: It's like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like, a serious bummer.

    9. GLIBIDO: All talk and no action.

    10. DOPELER EFFECT: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.

    And, the winner of the Washington Post's Style Invitational:

    11. IGNORANUS: A person who's both stupid and an asshole.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,267 ✭✭✭Exit


    Sarchasm! I like it.


  • Registered Users Posts: 78,267 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    "Sluttony" - a slapper who comes back for more.


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 10,558 Mod ✭✭✭✭Robbo


    "Blogadocio" (noun) : A person who lives vicariously through heavily inflated and stylised blog entries, mushrooming the asinine and mundane into epoch making life changing experiences. May also have specially crafted "IRC personality".


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 ✭✭✭✭Sarky


    Noodlous: Of or to do with noodles.

    eg. "Ah, Cup Noodle- Cheap, spicy and full of noodlous goodness!"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 ✭✭✭✭Sarky


    coffibrilate: To feel jittery as a result of too much coffee.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,760 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    patantic -

    \Pa*tan"tic\, Patantical \Pa*tan"tic*al\, a.
    Of or pertaining to a patent cult; characteristic of, or
    resembling, a patent; extremely malicious or wicked use of intellectual property; devilish clauses ;ostentatious of meaning; as, a patantic worshiper; a patantic dispositition; a patantical affectation. ``Figures padantical.'', patanic host --Shak.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 30 HelgaTheSwedishMilkmaid


    Prentious : Not, as is often thought, a misspelling of the word "pretentious" in an issue of the (late, in many senses of the word) zine Clytemenestra, but an adjective indicating the wearing of cotton socks and shouting "Horlicks!" frequently, randomly, and without provocation. The word used to describe our annual picnic in Killiney at the end of the summer.

    Blinteresting : Don't tell too many people about this one - it can be said at random intervals by people who don't wish to lie, but need to feign interest while attempting to listen to someone who is saying blindingly uninteresting things.

    When the day bends / at the bend of the day : Midday, when time moves as far as it can away from night, and has to turn back.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 78,267 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Oldbitchuary

    old·bitch·u·ar·y ( P ) Pronunciation Key (-bch-r)
    n. pl. old·bitch·u·ar·ies
    A published notice of a death, sometimes with a brief biography of the deceased, in this case of someone who really deserved to die.


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