Noun. The treacherous mix of toys, clothes, bibs, and food that rapidly accumulate when one has an infant in the house.
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I wanted this to be the opposite of “pronunciation”, but now I think it describes a scenario like this:
An “angel” visits the Virgin, and tells her: “I know I can trust you with an important matter. Here is my story. My uncle, the late Mr. Payne Spencer, was the Undersecretary of foreign matters in Nigeria, working under the corrupt regime. Due to inflated military contracts, he had access to funds floating in the Central Nigeria National Bank amounting to US$2,500,000.00. But tragically, last year he and his wife and 3 children were killed in a plane crash. You have been recommended as a trustworthy party to transfer these funds to, but this has to be done in the utmost secrecy. If you could transfer by wire the sum of $2000 then we can get the process going…”
The opposite of Procrastination, it would mean to jump straight into something with no delay at all. You wouldn’t consider the consequences etc.
Well, it’s not original, but it refers to the smashed-up Dorito crumbs at the bottom of the bag.
(reference-punk)
The subculture of radical reference librarians, e.g., http://www.radicalreference.info
And it kinda sounds like redrum.
To dadazle: v. to dazzle a person with Dada. It loses one Z to stress the dada component.
“Your qoute of Tristan Tzara has dadazled me!”
Suburbs spelled sideways (sort of), and specially reserved for suburbs that are serviced by stinky busses. Like the one I live in.
What was it that was so dreadfully wrong with electric trams? Silly me, I’ve forgotten again!
As a linguist, I can only think of language-related words, so how about PERSONABULARY. Googling it gave no results.
It could mean either the personal vocabulary (set of words) owned or used by a certain individual (in that case it would be more or less, but not exactly, a synonym of “idiolect”), which however is not particularty witty or cool, or a book where you can find all the key aspects of a person’s life listed and explained, e.g. their idiosyncratic features, pets, significant people in their life etc. A sort of user’s manual to that person.
Actually, I bought something like that in the U.S., except for the fact that my Personabulary would have an alphabetical arrangement which this book does not (All About Me by Philipp Keel). It’s a fun book to write in.
Similarly, I thought about Relationabulary: you write one and then hand it out to each new boyfriend/girlfriend as soon as you start dating them; it would contain all explanations and directions (preferences, do-s and don’t-s, the non-negotiables, values etc.) about you as a prospective mate, thus sparing both of you false expectations, illusions or misinterpretations and finally a great loss of time. Hmmm…
I like this one, could be really useful in many occasions, hehe. If it does not exist already, I’ll have to market such book!
asterisk is cooking up a storm
that need to exist…
A friend of mine thinks that the world “malefit” needs to exist as the opposite of “benefit,” since talking about “benefits and drawbacks” or “benefits and disadvantages” of something is always a bit awkward. But “benefits and malefits?” Mmm, that goes down smoooooth.
My needs-to-be-a-word of choice is “pointful” as the opposite of “pointless.”
Profanities are especially fun to make up, but so easy as to be ineligible for this challenge.
It’s either a monstrously old gorgonzola or a Japanese horror film monster that can turn people to stone.
You guys choose.






