Thursday, May 19, 2005

Top Ten Favorite Words (Not in the Dictionary)

Merriam-Webster asked visitors to their site to submit words which were not in the dictionary. The following list is the pick of the bunch.

1. ginormous (adj): bigger than gigantic and bigger than enormous

2. confuzzled (adj): confused and puzzled at the same time

3. woot (interj): an exclamation of joy or excitement

4. chillax (v): chill out/relax, hang out with friends

5. cognitive displaysia (n): the feeling you have before you even leave the house that you are going to forget something and not remember it until you're on the highway

6. gription (n): the purchase gained by friction: "My car needs new tires because the old ones have lost their gription."

7. phonecrastinate (v): to put off answering the phone until caller ID displays the incoming name and number

8. slickery (adj): having a surface that is wet and icy

9. snirt (n): snow that is dirty, often seen by the side of roads and parking lots that have been plowed

10. lingweenie (n): a person incapable of producing neologisms

Some of them seem very 'Meaning of Liff' to me, pretty funny that 'woot' made the list
- Top Ten Favorite Words (Not in the Dictionary)
- The Meaning of Liff

[Via. Boing Boing]

1 Comments:

At 6:43 pm, Anonymous Anonymous said...

cognitive displaysia is gold :)

If I hear anyone say chillax, however, I may be forced to punace em (punch them in the face).

 

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