Showing posts with label words. Show all posts
Showing posts with label words. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Combining/Manipulating Words


I've noticed lately, that the news people have been combining and manipulating words to form new words for their reports. I thought that sort of thing was only used by fiction writers. Words like...

Sharting - When you thought you were only going to fart, but ended up sh%ting in your pants.

Bromance - Two platonic guy friends hanging out.

Manstrating - The monthly male cycle.

Just this week I heard words like this on the radio during the news report. Words like...

E-lationship - A relationship that exists solely through emails

Hacktivist - An activist who shows his displeasure by hacking into websites.

Can you think of any others. I find these words fascinating!!!

Thursday, September 2, 2010

New Words You May Like To Use (I know I will)


10 New Words added to the Oxford English Dictionary

Catastrophizing: view or present a situation as considerably worse than it actually is.

Overthink: think about (something) too much or for too long.

Matchy-matchy: excessively color coordinated.

LBD: little black dress

Frenemy: a person with whom one is friendly despite a fundamental dislike or rivalry.

Cool hunter: a person whose job it is to make observations or predictions about new styles and trends.

Bromance: a close but nonsexual relationship between two men.

Exit strategy: a preplanned means of extricating oneself from a situation.

Defriend: another term for unfriend (remove someone from a list of friends or contacts on a social networking site).

Soft skills: personal attributes that enable someone to interact effectively and harmoniously with other people.

 Other Words added to the Online Webster’s Dictionary

 religitics (noun): politics influenced by religious views

 showmance (noun): romance between two people on a reality TV show

 sexercise (noun): sex as a form of exercise

 cyberchondriac (noun) one who imagines physical ailments afeter reading about them on the Internet

 worddrobe (noun): one’s vocabulary

 robocall (noun): an automated phone call that delivers a prerecorded message

 cashtray (noun) an ashtray full of coins

 BMW (abbreviation): beautiful mature woman

 Bradburian (adjective): relating to the works of Ray Bradbury

 Poeian (noun) relating to the works of Edgar Allen Poe

 carbage (noun) trash left in car

 cyberlaofing (noun) surfing the Internet while at work

 textversation (noun) an exchange of text messages

 krakatoic (adjective): violent, loud or with sudden energy

 autumize (verb) to prepare for or make appropriate for autumn

 spray mail (noun) the dispatch of one email to a large number of recipients at one time

 sucktastic (adjective) fantastically awful or sucky

 drizzmal (adjective) rainy weather that evokes melancholy

 jeggings (noun): leggings that resemble tight-fitting denim jeans

 jenky (adjective): inferior in quality

 hujungous (adjuective): humongous