Ok so I am a bit OCD… The thoughts of random words tossed pell-mell on a page aggravated me. So here is a new list, all spiffy organized with lots of new words.
Cheers
Mark
- A
- Anjalation: Conversations about small towns after you have moved to the big city. 😉
- A-Stasi-nation: The censorship of ‘free’ speech in America post Charlie Kirk’s death.
- Auditard: Audi owners (see Beamtard).
- B
- Bambulated: Discovering the world of 3D printing.
- Beamtard: BMW owners who think the road belongs to them and the usual rules (especially courtesy) do not apply.
- Beevil: Wasps that follow you around the backyard while both hands are busy pushing the lawnmower.
- Blorticity: The politically spun baloney we have to endure every day in mainstream media.
- Bogdacious: Lady mud wrestlers.
- Bonjer: A cement mixing truck when you are 3 years old.
- Boycuts: Layoffs in the U.S. due to Canadian reaction to Trump’s tariffs.
- C
- Caninish: Being blessed with common dog sense.
- Canuked: The fear in Canadians with a wingnut at the wheel south of the border.
- Chernicated: When a colleague tells you you should be recording your thoughts for posterity and your OCD mind goes into overdrive (on the positive side there is a *NEW* Quotes / Thoughts widget in the footer!)
- Chernobilization: The effect on operations when 1 of 2 main SME’s leaves the building.
- Colated: When I have had too much Dr. Pepper.
- Coopirate: People who’s idea of cooperation involves yelling the loudest or throwing their co-workers under the bus.
- Corpoorate: When wages are low but company profits are high (’nuff said).
- Crispian: People with a half-baked idea of Christianity.
- Cronicle: Record of regularly scheduled operations.
- Cumulonimrod: The fool who persists in playing golf during a thunderstorm.
- Currage: What it takes to eat extra spicy food.
- D
- Dalitante: People who are more ‘artistic’ than ‘artists’.
- Deeb: Sister (somewhat derogatory this started life as D.B. – Dumb Bum)
- Discotent: That irritated feeling you get when the 70’s playlist is all Disco music.
- E
- Elivation: That ego lift you get pestering people.
- Epicresponse: A common response to messages on MSTeams.
- Eugentics: What our ‘noble’ tech-bros base their world view on.
- Ethernot: When two devices on the same sub-net have the same IP.
- F
- Faceblech: About 90% of what is in my newsfeed.
- Fearnication: Making out in the rec room and hoping your parents don’t come home.
- Fearonics: A phobia that your computer security software is out to get you.
- Feeture: A program bug you thought was planned until the programmer puts his foot in it.
- Fent: Singular of fence.
- Frankishly: To take life at face value, without fear of expressing your views.
- Friedatated: The look my dog gives me when I give her a pet but no cookie.
- Friedelated: The look my dog gives me when I DO have cookies (opposite of Friedatated).
- Fromacked: Discovering the Cheddar cheese has moldy bits on it.
- G
- Gilmored: (not to be confused with ‘Gilmoured‘!) When a journalist says something on social media that initially sounds way like a conspiracy theory but the longer you listen you realize this is ‘the real deal’! (have a listen at Rachel Gilmore)
- Gilmoured: That euphoric feeling when you hear the first notes of the solo in ‘Comfortably Numb’.
- Grayze: Hours spent online just admiring the talents of others.
- Gritose: How your feet feel after walking on wet sand on the beach.
- H
- Haddicked: Catherine says “Never order Fish and Chips at a Pizza Restaurant!” – she was right!
- Heddy: The ability to persevere and find the simple beauties in life.
- Hesterical: Watching the lengths men will go to to preserve the patriarchy.
- Hmmmitage: Isolating yourself so you can observe the oddities right under our noses. Also a place to do same.
- I
- Idiobatic: Fools that rise in spite of their many shortcomings.
- Insumnia: Counting sheep when you can’t sleep.
- Intaxicated: The euphoria when you get your tax return.
- J
- Jamped: Getting excited about open mic nights.
- Jojobad: Natural remedies after their best before date.
- Jonesatated: When people think you are a Boomer and you aren’t.
- K
- Khangratulations: When your globetrotting permanent bachelor colleague finally gets lassoed and ties the knot… 😉
- Klanmidia: An infection for white nationalists.
- L
- Lawndry: What I do every Thursday night.
- Lebenzilch: Having no life (I can relate).
- M
- Maffineer: A proudly pro-Canada Canadian (count me in!). Check out Tod Maffin out on FB!
- Mamalade:Think breakfast, toast, cannibal – ’nuff said.
- Mervana: Listening to a relaxation tape of ocean sounds.
- Muskles: Tech bros. flexing their billions.
- N
- Neiled: That feeling of sadness for lost friends when you hear a special song you shared.
- Noaascape: The unpredicted severe storms Americans can expect now that Trump has cut back on NOAA.
- Noemination: Suggesting to authorities that your neighbour be deported.
- Nomnivore: People who will eat anything.
- Ntr: See Xit below.
- O
- Orcastraited: How the whale watching tour operators herd the whales for the pleasure of tourists (not a fan!)
- Oxynauts: People who just ‘have’ to follow the latest fad.
- P
- Pawarful: A person who will gladly jump out of bed at 2a.m. to fix a misbehaving computer device.
- Plakate: The art of sculpting Capt. Janeway in 3D.
- Politate: When a Canadian wants to be PM but we all know who is really going to be calling the shots (see Putintate).
- Poliveered: When the Conservative Party of Canada takes a sharp turn to the right.
- Polyfacked: When forced to use polyester sewing thread that knots, frays, splits and generally gets you tossing the spool in the garbage (out of black cotton thread this morning… grrr…)
- Possumated: That feeling of foreboding that tells you to run away.
- Procticality: That feeling you get when forced to sit through an extended management meeting.
- Putintate: When an American president thinks he is the big boss but we all know different.
- Pyrogrammary: The ‘art’ of inflammatory language.
- Q
- Quinked: When a hockey team knows the captain wants to bail on them and it shows on the ice.
- R
- Razacked: You know that one bad thing you could never possibly do? It just happened.
- Roggeveened: When people remind you how short you are by leaning on the top of your head.
- S
- Sfearical: A phobia of tennis balls.
- Sinchronicity: The relationship between dark money and media.
- Smallfried: Never go to a restaurant on a ‘Kids Eat Free!’ weekend.
- Sniffulating: What my dog does every morning under my desk, looking for dropped pretzels no doubt.
- Soupernatural: The difference between a crockpot and opening a can of Campbell’s Cream of Mushroom.
- Stellinated: Learning to edit STL files in FreeCAD (not for the faint of heart!)
- Suhrly: The look German folks give you when they are not suffering fools.
- T
- Teramadolls: Over-medicated plastic people.
- Ternery: A bird house.
- Tricerabottoms: The dinosaur no-one has ever heard of.
- Trumpetz: Blowhards with ABSOLUTELY no idea what they are talking about.
- Tyranosaurusex: The former Mrs. Tyranosaurus.
- U
- Umarated: To start the day with upbeat conversation with co-workers (this works best on Monday mornings when almost everybody wishes it was still Sunday [snicker]).
- Undollarated: The effect of tariffs on your wallet.
- V
- Vegiant: Radical vegans. I have nothing against vegans, except when they tell me what I HAVE to eat.
- Vergin: Your state just before you end chastity.
- W
- Wecondu: When people think a pill will replace a sensible diet.
- Woozly: When your dog can’t decide whether to be playful, snuggly or bossy.
- Woozletime: When you first let your dog out of her kennel in the morning (see Woozly).
- X
- Xenophone: What Christian Nationalists use to spew as much garbage, as far as possible, as loudly as possible.
- Xit: Phonetic opposite of ntr.
- Y
- Yammertated: The annoyance you get when people just keep talking and talking about nothing (ok, I talk alot so I probably yammertate other people).
- Yougurt: See Mamalade above.
- Youmorous: When the joke is on you.
- Z
- Zitizen: Lover of pasta.
- Zpatiality: The inability of Gen Z to think outside the box.
(Original image by JJ-Jordan at pixabay.com)