The Washington Post's Style Invitational asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition. Here are some recent winners:
Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.
Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.
Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.
Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.
Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.
Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.
Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.
Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease. (this one got extra credit)
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.
Glibido: All talk and no action.
Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.
And, the pick of the literature:
Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an ahole.
Just wondering if any of you wonderfully inventive Hatrackers could come up with anymore.
Have Fun
Posted by Alucard... (Member # 4924) on :
Intestenal Fortitude: The act of drawing up one's testes into the abdominal cavity during times of extreme danger.
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Posted by Alucard... (Member # 4924) on :
Undermime: The utilization of silent artists to prevent or delay something from happening.
Posted by Alucard... (Member # 4924) on :
Ludricant: The theory that reducing viscosity is absurd.
Posted by Alucard... (Member # 4924) on :
Cornication: The vulgar act of fondling corn (on the cob)
Posted by Morbo (Member # 5309) on :
inscrotable --impossible to knee ramanesque --anything an undergrad would eat ramantic --cheap attempts at romance ambuguous --vauge references to bugs exatic --strange stuff from your attic glumorous --moody celebs sicrifice --when an editor refuses to change a quote, no matter what
Posted by Morbo (Member # 5309) on :
Wow, this is really fun and addictive, thanks for posting it, SurReal.
Posted by eslaine (Member # 5433) on :
Thanks, nice thread.
And the Wordploys are:
Obscone: a naughty pastry. Becoma: initiating torpor. Boyou: men from the marsh. Increament: one unit of coffee whitener. Narecosis: Unconsciousness caused by hairloss.
Thanks for the Fluff! (It's a good fluff.) Posted by Morbo (Member # 5309) on :
fareplay--making out in a taxi
Posted by Alucard... (Member # 4924) on :
innurendo (To imply: "up yours!")
Posted by SirReal (Member # 5257) on :
I knew I could count on you guys to find more. Keep 'em coming.
Here's a few
Cro-Mignon: A really nice Prehistoric Steak
Science Faction:A splinter group of renegade Sci-Fi readers
and finally.... (I couldn't resist)
Hatcrack:The insidiously addictive drug that causes me to check this site daily for new and interesting posts.
Posted by SirReal (Member # 5257) on :
<Bump>
Posted by SirReal (Member # 5257) on :
Anyone else? Bueller, Bueller, Bueller.
Posted by SirReal (Member # 5257) on :
How about...
Omnimpotent:Having unlimted power over nothing
Posted by Trondheim (Member # 4990) on :
Too bad there's just one interchangeable letter, otherwise I would suggest:
Surgin - a woman who has had her virginity surgically resurrected.
But maybe there could be a two letter handicap for those of us who are not natives? Posted by SirReal (Member # 5257) on :
I, personally, don't care. It's the humor I'm all about.
Posted by Kayla (Member # 2403) on :
::wonders how Trondheim spells virgin::
Posted by Alucard... (Member # 4924) on :
Alphanumenic: The relationship between words and the male species.
So basically, a man, poor of words, may use foreploy to better his chances with the female species. She however, may associate this with alphanumenic glibido. He may be considered a reintarnated ignoranus in which she decides to kick him between the legs. His quick reflexes may permit intestenal fortitude, but his life could then deteriorate into a viscious circle of osteopornosis with frequents acts of cornication.
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Posted by Trondheim (Member # 4990) on :
Exactly like you do, Kayla.
That's why I asked for a non-native handicap Posted by Alucard... (Member # 4924) on :
Strange,
We spell it Martha Stewart or Janet Reno where I come from.
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