Shipman's collected neologisms

I've collected these neologisms from listening to my unique friends (where credited), and from my own verbal fumbles (the rest). A lot of them are hybrids of two words, and in those cases I have tried to name the parents linked with an `x'.

arscending: Originally a typo for "ascending". Example usage: "This project is sorted in arscending order: it's bass-ackwards."

2014-12

descrides: describes x decries.

Wyatt Walker, 2014-11-22

epistemotomy: Shaving the truth.

2013-02-02

epistemectomy: Surgical removal of all truth.

2013-02-02

gesticuflect

gesticulate x genuflect

phenazamal: phenomenal x amazing. I like this one because it jumps to a different word and then jumps back.

2013-01-17

festification: variant of `festive occasion', as in: `On this festification'

Early 1983

Foister: foster x foist. Example: We're having this new software methodology foistered off on us.

1983-6-21

Substenance: subsistence x sustenance. Example: About time to go to the canteen for some form of substenance.

Jeff Bernstein, ca. 1979

Politigant: political litigant

1983-6-27

Documine: to place explosive ideas in a document

1983-8-24, as I mis-heard Tom Sanderson

Flashionable: flashy x fashionable

Steve Senn, 1984-3-9

Landscraping: the process of removing all vegetation from the property so you can put in all new vegetation.

Steve Senn, 1984-3-9

Mutterance: muttered utterance

1984-4-8

Schegister: schedule x register. Example: Schegistration is Monday, so clearly we should have a party Sunday.

Amy Blackburn

Ignortant: important but you can ignore it

1984-4-16

Deadlous & dangery: witness, Dick Carlson & Charley Rhodes

1984-8-23

Specertain: specific x certain. Example: You have to set this argument to a specertain value.

1984-11-30

Disoriental: Ideas from Asia that tend to confuse Westerners.

1985-1-26

Futilitarian: Something you need to use but it's futile to try.

Greg Titus, 1985-4-27

Strubble: struggle x trouble, to Ray Rachkowski, who ran a computer firm in Albuquerque called Data Handling for several decades

1985-6-5

Iconocladists: Biological systematists who try to use cladism to smash the existing classifications

1986-1-21, in reaction to a letter from Leonard Compagno

Personal snicketies: things about which one is persnickety. I once considered adding this text to one of the typesetting drafts of Dave DeSante's book ``Distributional Checklist of North American Birds'': ``Set in a Computer Modern font altered for the author's personal snicketies.''

1986-4-26

Inferiating complex: an infuriating inferiority complex.

1987-1-7

Bankrupture: financial disaster

1987-1-21

Smotch: smudge x blotch. Example: You've got a smotch on your cheek.

Magail Medina, 1987-4-5

Siestivate: siesta x estivate; to hibernate in the afternoon.

Phil Johnson, 1987-5-9

Indiscrepancies: indiscreet discrepancies

James Robnett, 1988-7-4

Scrumption: an attribute of good food

Falline Danforth, 1991-11-21

A-sports-ual: someone who does not do sports

Carol Hankins (?)

Noxiating: noxious x asphyxiating

1993-8-22

Mathochism: mathematical masochism

mis-heard by Theresa Boracci, 1993-8-31

Congratulodolences: congratulations x condolences. Also "condologratulations".

1993-10-18, to Craig Hayenga, upon his sudden, inconvenient resignation from a job he was better off without.

bargling: bargaining x haggling

Miranda Brown

bellignorant: aggressively stupid

Miranda Brown

withtract: withdraw x retract

Cecile Gross, All Things Considered, 1997-5-15

boron: bore x moron

James Robnett, 1998-11-21

sub-pessimal: Worse than possible.

2000-8-6

claptraptions: marginal functional machines

2001-2-13

microlomaniac: obsessed with detail

2001-4-10

squirmish: describing the mating of starfishes

Nan Silvernail, 2001-5-5

epilude: episode x interlude. Example: ``Here comes another fantasy epilude,'' while watching Grease

2001-5-28

enigmanic: enigmatic, yet also manic

2001-10-6

tarditional: traditional but retarded

2001-08-28

sarcaustic: sarcastic x caustic

Nan Silvernail, 2001-10-13

circumspicuous

Malapropism for `circumspect', 2001-10-29

cheapquels

Brian Miller, on http://www.animationnation.com/

disgrossting: disgusting x gross

Jason van Patten, 2003-07-02, describing the Mac OS X user interface

hysteremonies

Anticipating the opening ceremonies of the 2004 Olympics, 2004-8-10.

manifiasco: manifesto x fiasco

Kendal O.

Last updated: 2014/12/15 20:52:22
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