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Undertoad 05-29-2005 08:27 AM

Mirriam-Webster's top 10 "non-words"
 
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

Undertoad 05-29-2005 08:30 AM

I guess we have to wait for next year's list for...

11. pwned (interj, adj): readily defeated through the use of powerful tactics.

wolf 05-29-2005 08:33 AM

I do not use any of these, and have not heard of most of them.

garnet 05-29-2005 10:52 PM

Isn't the name of the dictionary MERRIAM-Webster?

SteveDallas 05-30-2005 01:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Undertoad
1. ginormous (adj): bigger than gigantic and bigger than enormous

I would have guessed it had something to do with gin.

wolf 05-30-2005 08:57 AM

You mean like a really big martini?

ashke 05-30-2005 10:28 AM

A bigtini? But that would be an oxymoron...

cowhead 05-30-2005 01:41 PM

naw, that would be a bigtiny.. wouldn't it? and i've only heard gignormous.. slight regional variation I suppose

chainsaw 05-31-2005 11:25 AM

I started using "ginormous" after seeing Elf.

Buddy: Have you seen these toilets? They're GINORMOUS! :D

breakingnews 05-31-2005 11:38 AM

Funny, I've been using "ginormous" for as long as I can remember. I think I heard it first from my brother when I was 12 or 13, old enough to know it was not really a word but used it anyway.

Another common one in my vocab -

Fratastic (also Fratacular) (adj): situations, usually involving alcohol and ego-driven homoerotic behavior, of "Animal House" proportions

jaguar 05-31-2005 11:55 AM

I use 5 of these. I suddenly feel disturbingly trendy.

breakingnews 05-31-2005 12:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jaguar
I use 5 of these. I suddenly feel disturbingly trendy.

Which five?

lookout123 05-31-2005 12:33 PM

if i had toguess, i'd say Jag uses #'s 1,4,5,7,10.

jaguar 05-31-2005 12:48 PM

2, 3, 4, 5, 6. 6 not so much.
I wasn't aware there was a delay on callerID.

Undertoad 05-31-2005 12:50 PM

I use 1, 2, and 3. And somehow I was not even aware that usage of #2 extended beyond me. I don't think I made it up, I just think I heard it somewhere and started using it and never heard anyone else ever use it.


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