2019 Wordplay is now complete!
The winners for 2019 are listed first (in red). Congratulations to Jackin YOW (we know that’s in Canada) for coming in first this year. Congratuations to all the top 10!.
We have continued with some categories we used the past few years. The Top 10 are in RED at the top of the list. We only choose one top-10 per submitter, so for the more prolific contributors, we have the honorable mentions showing in BLUE. We also used this category for the extra’s that didn’t fit in the top 10. These are listed alphabetically by word. Congratulations to the winners!
Word | Definition | Name | |
WINNERS | |||
Knewledge | All that stuff you’ve ever forgotten | JackinYOW | |
Lugeubrious | Wallowing in misery and going downhill fast | Doug Langmead | |
Cerebrawl | A battle of wits | Anne DelCampo | |
Plodcast | A boring online interview | Michael de Silva | |
Typerbole | Billions of unwanted texts | Callum O’Ciarin | |
Oblituary | Written out of history | Gillian Winter | |
Dismangled | The result of taking something apart and realizing you can never reassemble it | Mary Raab | |
Suburbane | Not quite suave, courteous, or refined in manner | Robert Mangas | |
Procrastimate | Someone who encourages your tardiness | Vali Jamal PhD | |
Nanarchy | An environment in which grandma rules the roost | Wayne Price | |
Honorable Mention – Alphabetical Order | |||
Anonamity | Friendliness toward strangers | Michael de Silva | |
Criticasm | The cerebral hole into which one dumps rejected opposing opinions | JackinYOW | |
Dipsomat | An alcoholic ambassador | Geoff Williams | |
Dorchestra | Musical group made up entirely of nerds | Jerry Heckler | |
Fambush | When a member of your family appears out of the blue (especially with needs and/or difficulites) | Name Withheld | |
Megitating | Vegetating disguised as meditation | Elaine Baran | |
Nondescrypt | An unremarked grave | Doug Langmead | |
Nyetflix | To cancel your subscription as a result of a price increase | Wayne Price | |
Pressimism | The sinking feeling one gets when paying attention to the news | Sid Schwab | |
Threadmill | Weaving as you walk | Gillian Winter & Doug Langmead | |
The rest of 2019 Entries: | |||
Deadful | Notice at cemetery “sorry full up-please try later” | Geoff William | |
Gerounding | noun-verbal communication | Doug Langmead | |
Elagalic | Lamentable Celtic Poetry | Doug Langmead | |
Procrastineat | To have a snack not because you are hungry, but as a way to put off doing something you don’t want to do | Name Withheld | |
Tarentula | A dancing spider | Doug Langmead | |
Epicpen | A medicated device for writers of truly great books | Geoff Williams | |
Tsaliva | Uncontrollable dribbling after a wavew of nausea | Doug Langmead | |
Cattywampum | Money caried in a golf bag to be used at the end of a round of golf to tip the caddy | Wayne Price | |
Condominimum | A REALLY small dwelling | Geoff Williams | |
Locost | Bargain price plague | Geoff Williams | |
Reconomics | Locations scout budgeting | Michael de Silva | |
Detridental | Causing your teeth to fall out | Geoff Williams | |
Columny | Libelous editorial. | Michael de Silva | |
Miasman | How the human species is likely to be described by anyone surviving the next 100 years on Earth | Geoff Williams | |
Pearps | Cat burglars who concentrate on very specific types of jewelry | Geoff Williams | |
Amenuensis | A theological scribe who specialises in having the last word | Doug Langmead | |
Procrusteen | A teenage dictator | Vali Jamal PhD | |
Bunglar | An inept thief | Geoff Williams | |
Algebro | Math for guys | Michael de Silva | |
Pectorial | Bodybuilder portraits. | Michael de Silva | |
Preminstrual | An ovature | Doug Langmead | |
Meagle | Skinny dog | Michael de Silva | |
Humbrella | A deployable shield against the storms of arrogance | Doug Langmead | |
Poutification | Purse-lipped pomposity | Doug Langmead | |
Governmen | An all male Parliament | Geoff Williams | |
Lattex | A rubberized uniform worn by Starbucks employees | Geoff Williams | |
Effincacious | Damn fine! | Doug Langmead | |
Huscle | Brisk brawn | Elaine Baran | |
Nocturinal | Waking up at midnight needing to use the bathroom | Betsy Jones | |
Currant | Why Humboldt is known as a scientist and not a poet – rhyme without raisins | Doug Langmead | |
Anti-blamish (cream) | You apply it to avoid joining the blame-game for the day | Vali Jamal PhD | |
Gurling | Winter sport for women only | Geoff Williams | |
Manchor | Barcalounger. | Michael de Silva | |
Bunrise | Early morning alarm set by a baker | Geoff Williams | |
Apocalypso | Type of music played as the world is ending | Betsy Jones | |
Exitstentialism | The belief that Schrodinger’s box has a secret catflap, by means of which his cat comes and goes as it pleases, unbeknownst to the observer | Doug Langmead | |
Beverrage | Drunken rage | Noah Bond | |
Thingamagig | A musical performance where the names of the instruments are uncertain | Charles Abbott | |
Bothox | A double-yoker | Doug Langmead | |
Monotaur | Not your stereotypical maze-dweller | Doug Langmead | |
Satiesfactory | Where the French Classical composer wrote his pianoworks | Geoff Williams | |
Perpetraitor | Someone who perpetrates a subversive action against his own nation | Vali Jamal PhD | |
Encounther | Meeting with a lady | Noah Bond | |
Verbotim | Speak not ! | Doug Langmead | |
Lastke | Last Pancake | Michael de Silva | |
Blareney | Loud Irish hyperbole | Noah Bond | |
Elament | A jumboled eulogy | Doug Langmead | |
Indeligible | The impression of having read something important but unreadable | Buzz Spector | |
Quasimotoe | Disfigured digit of the foot | Noah Bond | |
Scallywig | An amusing headdress from Liverpool | Callum O’Ciarin | |
Gongoose | A disappeared species | Geoff Williams | |
Froxtrot | Fashion show | Noah Bond | |
Lunch-mob | People who hang around the buffet table | Doug Langmead | |
Hentrancing | Increasing egg production by hypnosis | Geoff Williams | |
Taccident | Uber disaster | Geoff Williams | |
Crabbie | Uber driver after Taccident | Geoff Williams | |
Dysalexia | The common malfunction of Amazon’s Alexa device in identifying speech sounds and learning how they relate to words | Deac Manross | |
Sterm | A Point exactly half way along the length of a boat – from Stem to Stern | Geoff Williams | |
Slaughterhouse | A theater where people die laughing | Doug Langmead | |
Carousal | The erotic frisson experienced whilst waiting for the baggage conveyor to start at Airport Arrivals. Will it deliver the goods? | Doug Langmead | |
Zealousy | Fervent insecurity | Callum O’Ciarin | |
Typologuy | The chap responsible for finding and fixing typos in logos | Doug Langmead | |
Banalysis | A recollection of boredom | Callum O’Ciarin | |
Crhyme | Wretched rap | Callum O’Ciarin | |
Brisque | A creamy soup made in a fast food restaurant | Geoff Williams | |
Blunderbust | A poorly constructed bra | Geoff Williams | |
Saladroit | Limp lettuce | Callum O’Ciarin | |
Symphathy | Getting really involved at a Classical music concert | Geoff Williams | |
Amorgasbord | Lady Chatterly’s Larder | Doug Langmead | |
Smorgasbored | Insufficient variety in Lady Chatterly’s Larder | Doug Langmead | |
Obligrated | Annoyingly persistent sympathy | Callum O’Ciarin | |
Embrio | Vigorous prenatal movement | Callum O’Ciarin | |
Discombodulate | A confusing out of body experience | Bryon W Reynolds | |
Etceterrata | More typos than I’d care to mention | Doug Langmead | |
Extuberance | Potato frenzy | Michael de Silva | |
Crustration | A: Anger at lack of lobsters
B: A desperate shortage of bread |
Geoff Williams | |
Beakfast | Bird’s first meal of the day | Michael de Silva | |
Smallet | Tiny hammer | Michael de Silva | |
Ponytrail | Manure | Michael de Silva | |
Fleat-footed | Wing-footed, but flightless | Doug Langmead | |
Shtupport | Mattress | Michael de Silva | |
Skinky | Like a certain amphibian | Michael de Silva | |
Partnerd | Someone in danger of becoming totally obsessive about the love of their life | Derek Farr | |
Cryteria | Measures of lachrymorosity | Doug Langmead | |
Lugeubrious | Wallowing in misery and going downhill fast | Doug Langmead | |
Disdeign | Contradescension | Doug Langmead | |
Pandolin | An armoured bear – a cross between a panda and a pangolin | Geoff Williams | |
Collaberation | Devalliance | Doug Langmead | |
Rhuemantic | Afflictionate | Doug Langmead & Ruth Krause | |
Rhuemantic Arthritis | Curled up together and unable to disengage | Doug Landmead | |
Machiiavellian | Aircrafty – at twice the speed of sound | Doug Langmead | |
Aptellation | A particularly fitting name for a person or a thing | Noah Dorsky | |
Aisdle | Two pews and far between | Doug Langmead | |
Demeritus | Ignore our opinions at your own peril | JackinYOW | |
Reciproyals | What sovereigns eat | JackinYOW | |
Hooternanny | A buxom babysitter | Anne DelCampo | |
Eggress | Chickbirth | Anne DelCampo | |
Execrabble | An ill-disciplined Board of Directors | Doug Langmead | |
Prehearse | The funeral home | Anne DelCampo | |
Bunthouse | Dugout | Geoff Williams | |
Elequent | Someone who talks through their nose | Doug Langmead | |
Eyelaid | When a wink is as good as a nod | Doug Langmead | |
Embareassment | Post “mooning” chagrin | Anne DelCampo | |
Egomanioc | Root of conflict | Michael de Silva | |
Clanguage | Dialect | Michael de Silva | |
Bello | A shouted greeting | Geoff Williams | |
Falloween | The kids come home on Oct 31st empy handed | Geoff Williams | |
Tyson | A very powerful vacuum cleaner | Geoff Williams | |
Cadvocate | Lawyer for the cheater | Michael de Silva | |
Nanorak | Skiwear for atoms | Michael de Silva | |
Biterated | Taste-tested | JackinYOW | |
Viscusity | Letting the expletives flow forth, fluidly | JackinYOW | |
Aphrodisiact | Love potion result | Michael de Silva | |
Ayewitness | Vote counter | Michael de Silva | |
Auto-esoteric | The pleasure derived from WPMI submissions that only the contributor understands | Doug Langmead | |
Virtuperative | Cruel criticism based on presumed virtue | Vali Jamal PhD | |
Alegae | Tavern growth | Michael de Silva | |
Lainguage | Pillow Talk | Michael de Silva | |
Neverthelass | Always the lad | JackinYOW | |
Slurvives | Overcoming a character assasination / malicious gossip | Helen Argyros | |
Tixation | State-sanctioned bloodsucking | JackinYOW | |
Abdominable | A descriptive word for those unfamiliar with planks and crunches | Anne DelCampo | |
Loverpool | A harem | Geoff Williams | |
Knews | News one already knows | Helen Argyros | |
Ginsult | Disparaging remark made by someone after one too many martinis | Kathryn Thomas | |
Fortifived | Emerging from a midlife crisis wearing a cloak of invenerability | Doug Langmead | |
Neversmore | A dietary warning: Unless you are “ravenous”, do not eat marshmallow, chocolate, and graham cracker treats | Anne DelCampo | |
Kindread | Fear of siblings | Michael de Silva | |
Curryculum vitae | An aspirant chef’s application listing all the curries he can cook | Vali Jamal PhD | |
Odiferoust | Ejection from a venue due to personal hygiene issues | Anne DelCampo | |
Infatunation | Love of country | Michael de Silva | |
Somnambullist | A rough sleep-walker | Vali Jamal PhD | |
Laxicographer | A lax word collector | Vali Jamal PhD | |
Grhetorical | A greeting where you don’t necessarily want or need a reply i.e. How was your day? | Henry Clare | |
Bestrangement | An ideal marital separation | Anne DelCampo | |
Purgastory | Excuse for delayed entrance into the “Pearly Gates” | Anne DelCampo | |
Reluctrance | 1. An unwillingness to be hypnotised
2. Reluctance to re-live the past under hypnosis |
Doug Langmead | |
Skirmisses | 1. Missed skirmishes
2. Girls who go in for habitual skirmishes |
Vali Jamal PhD | |
Delaborate | Simplify | Michael de Silva | |
Apocalypso | Last dance | Michael de Silva | |
Sincome | Money earned while engaging in pride, envy, gluttony, lust, anger, greed and/or sloth | Dale Tatum | |
Sincome tax | A levy placed on sinful behavior. Formerly known as “penance.” | Dale Tatum | |
Flintloock | Shooting a glance in the expectation that sparks will fly | Doug Langmead | |
Cleanary | Clean and green | Dushyant Chauhan | |
Dimewitted | Penny wise, pound foolish | Doug Langmead | |
Earnhance | To improve the quality, amount, or strength of earning | Buhari Raheem | |
Fauxlt | Framed | Michael de Silva | |
Exfoliate | To fall for your ex | Maggie | |
pierarchy | Pies rank ordered by preference | Mia Debidin | |
frognosticate | To predict a plague of frogs | Dale Tatum | |
C’alf | A side of beef | Doug Langmead | |
Neormal | New normal | Michael de Silva | |
Qualiflying | Clearing TSA at the airport | Anne DelCampo | |
Touron | A tourist who causes problems to locals through unintelligent action, particularly in situations involving driving | John Spade | |
Cadaveran | Three little hearses, all in a row | Doug Langmead | |
Paenalize | Sing to | Michael de Silva | |
Collaberration | Insert project name here< | Lorien | |
Scantilever | An underwired half-bra | Doug Langmead | |
Oybvious | Talmudic | Michael de Silva | |
Harmoney | Currency facing the same way | Michael de Silva | |
Nowledge | The facts and information that can be instantly accessed with one cell phone | Anne DelCampo | |
Punes | Ancient word play | Michael de Silva | |
Nohilist | One who considers traditional Japanese theatre to be meaningless | Doug Langmead | |
Mallnutrition | A vitamin deficiency caused by frequent visits to shopping center “food courts” | Anne DelCampo | |
Endiva | A salad snob | Endiva | |
Pendearment | A love letter | Anne DelCampo | |
Desirderatum | A thing not just wanted, but wanted by desire | Vali Jamal PhD | |
Rhambunctious | Once full of energy; now sapped by rheumatism | Vali Jamal PhD | |
Hurridan | A mean old scold running late | Michael de Silva | |
Accootrements | Paraphernalia required to support a crochety old fellow | Anne DelCampo | |
Viruslent | Something even more infectious and dangerous to one’s mental health | Vali Jamal PhD | |
Non de Plume | A hatless Hussar | Doug Langmead | |
Trampe l’oel | Bordello decor | Michael de Silva | |
Jalapeñot | What you say to someone when they ask you if you want jalapeños or not | Andrea Zeeman | |
Diligenot | Not diligent, just a loafer | Vali Jamal PhD | |
Sedulout | Far from diligent: A diligeNOT | Vali Jamal PhD | |
Pulchridude | A show-off (male) dude (of his looks) | Vali Jamal PhD | |
Verisimilidude | A person pretending to be another (usually famous) person | Vali Jamal PhD | |
Nostealga | A sentimental longing or wistful affection and appropriation for the past, a past in which the user wasn’t alive yet | Emily Golden | |
Nanomaly | Microscopic irregularity | Michael de Silva | |
Libidno | Frigid | Michael de Silva | |
Palindrone | mmmmmmm | Michael de Silva | |
Clarynx | Ahem | Michael de Silva | |
Viagries | Sexual vagaries under the stimulant | Vali Jamal PhD | |
Volumptuous | Voluptuous voluminously | Vali Jamal PhD | |
Incountenence | Keeping track of trips to the restroom | Robert Pantangco | |
Incountenence | Keeping track of many times you lost control of your bladder | Robert Pantangco | |
Countenance | Keeping track of how many times a person was able to control his / her bladder | Robert Pantangco | |
Bautumn | A Puckish creation with the head of a donkey and a tail that has seen too many summers | Doug Langmead | |
Scantimonious | Scant in the area of sanctimony | Vali Jamal PhD | |
Feelon | Groper | Michael de Silva | |
Hammas Sandwich | A sandwich of ham and hummus | Gary Barone | |
Filet Minion | Spineless flunky | Doug Langmead | |
Angstrum | Shortest ukulele lick ever played | Michael de Silva | |
Freudian Shlip | In vino veritas | Michael de Silva | |
Amazomnia | The act of scouring Amazon so hard that you can’t sleep. A reminder of your Amazomnia normally presents itself 2 days later on your door step. | Leslie Mercier | |
Semicolon | Alternative meaning: A vestige after an intestinal operation | Vali Jamal PhD | |
Famourous | Horny | Michael de Silva | |
Paramedici | Italian royalty physician | Michael de Silva | |
Pregmatic | Fertile | Michael de Silva | |
Distanguished | A distinguished person under great anguish | Vali Jamal PhD | |
Circumspent | Can’t think about it anymore | Michael de Silva | |
Debtour | a. An unsettling diversion for a man of limited means
b. The owed less travelled |
Doug Langmead | |
Pliain’t | Stiff | Michael de Silva | |
Entertaintment | An unsavoury pastime | Doug Langmead & Gillian Winter | |
Dwharf | Short pier | Michael De Silva | |
Preculiar | Before it’s odd | Michael de Silva | |
Rebot | Robot Clone | Michael de Silva | |
Abbeyence | The flight of capital to a monestry | Doug Langmead | |
Monestary | A capital retreat | Doug Langmead | |
Helitosis | Baad breath | Michael de Silva | |
Dixtinguished | A once-distinguished person now burnt-out | Vali Jamal PhD | |
Pillfer | Steal medication | Michael de Silva | |
Empressario | A lady impresario, majestic at that | Vali Jamal PhD | |
Dilastory | Why you were late again | Michael de Silva | |
Larsceny | Upstaging the other actors | Michael de Silva | |
Abusement | What a sadist looks for on boring weekends | Mary Raab | |
Plentifolly | Living on credit | Michael de Silva | |
Pigmalion | A British movie about a big bad wolf who ” ‘uffs and puffs and blows yer ‘ouse down” – but can’t. Until Professor Henry Higgins gives him elocution lessons prior to a hearty bacon breakfast. | Doug Langmead | |
Succeep | The tendency of social-climbing to spread around | Charlie Abbott | |
Diagonail | From a bad hammer strike | Michael de Silva | |
Diabolick | A curl of hair that won’t stay down | Michael de Silva | |
Misteak | A diet characterized by an excessive amount of red meat | John Amodeo | |
Petroll | Fuel for a small outboard motor. | Michael de Silva | |
Cousteaudian | A member of the cleaning staff at Sea World | Derek Rogers | |
Proseur | One who pretends to be a writer | Michael de Silva | |
Repsychling | The never ending processing of our emotions | Verna Gillis | |
Promisecuity | Promising over and over what it is impossible to promise | Verna Gillis | |
Gnomad | A wandering Elf | Doug Langmead | |
Photone | Sound of light | Michael de Silva | |
Psychopracter | For daily attitude adjustments | Verna Gillis | |
Picadorm | Where bullfighters bunk | Michael de Silva | |
Jealoutsy | A lout wth a jealous heart | Vali Jamal PhD | |
Plodcast | A boring online interview | Michael de Silva | |
Petithe | Less than 10 percent | Michael de Silva | |
Lexcongrapher | One who passes off new words as his own coinages | Vali Jamal PhD | |
Foliarge | A tall hedge | Michael de Silva | |
Swahilli | An undulululating language | Doug Langmead | |
Mailpractices | Showng a lack of e-tiquette in minding an email account | Vali Jamal PhD | |
Quorump | Result of sitting through long meetings | Michael de Silva | |
Filet Magnon | Eating Cro | Doug Langmead | |
Consumate | A mate in indulging in consumerism | Vali Jamal PhD | |
Quid Pro Bro | A favor or advantage granted or expected from one male to another in return for something typically related to career advancement or beer | Christina George | |
Bredhead | The red haired offspring of two red haired parents | Kathryn Thomas | |
Fettucino | Coffee-flavored pasta | Michael de Silva | |
Fiascon | A failed swindle | Michael dee Silva | |
Velcrow | A bird of a feather that locks together | Doug Langmead | |
Schrodinger’s car | Occurs after realizing you haven’t paid for parking, but the pay-for-parking period has elapsed. Until you return, your vehicle exists simultaneously as both tcketed and unticketed | John Spooner | |
Infestments | Investments that go against the common good | Vali Jamal PhD | |
Prequiem | A ceremony for a living and robust person for him to know the sort of insults that people will withhold at the final ceremony. He may be given a prethumous award. | Vali Jamal PhD | |
inerpt | Can’t stand still | Doug Langmead | |
Elactation | An infant’s joy at breastfeeding | MIchael de Silva | |
Maleodorous | A man smelling badly | Vali Jamal PhD | |
Forloon | Mad-cow milkmaid | Doug Langmead | |
E-tiquette | Etiquette relating to electronic life – email, tweet, etc… | Vali Jamal PhD | |
Comfartable | How relieved one feels after passing gas | Kelvin Lim | |
Impotense | An inability to write in the first person | Derek Farr | |
Fastborwarding | Fastforwarding through the boring parts of a movie | Gary Brisebois | |
Playgiarism | Where people plagiarize at will and think it’s fun | Vali Jamal PhD | |
Comfidence | The assurance you feel from a particularly well fitting set of dentures | Derek Farr | |
Procivility | Proclivity shown civilly | Vali Jamal PhD | |
Aficionada | A person who hates all sports, particularly soccer | Wayne | |
Apploud | Over enthusiastic cheering at the end of a speech | Derek Farr | |
Kenoacidosis | The burning sensation in your stomach from wagering by choosing numbers from 1 through 80 and losing | Chase Haddock | |
Contemtious | Contentious views deserving of contempt | Vali Jamal PhD | |
Varibose | Frequently, though not consistently, verbose | JackinYow | |
Oftentatious | Regular bouts of being gaudy with desire | Doug Langmead | |
Solipissm | Soliturinaryness | Doug Langmead | |
Preincarnation | 9 months of pregnancy leading to birth | Jerry Heckler | |
Piecemell | A pelling mistake made in haste | Doug Langmead | |
Tributarry | Oxbows, billabongs, ponds and the like that no longer go with the flow | Doug Langmead | |
Legregious | Most horrible case of varicose veins | JackinYow | |
Pyralitic | Lit. | Lorien | |
Tepidation | A feeling of fear or anxiety that something or someone will be only slightly warm or luke warm | Mia debidin | |
Verboscity | Washington D.C. | Anne DelCampo | |
Cawcophony | Crowing Pains | Doug Langmead | |
Obeyance | Leave the obedience to a later time | Vali Jamal PhD | |
Mentrapment | When a woman is tricked into committing a crime because a bunch of men suddenly decided that what she was doing should be illegal | Kevin | |
Bardello | Where poets go to be “inspired” by a muse…or two | Anne DelCampo | |
Chumneys | Long-haul travellers crammed into smoking rooms in transit lounges | Doug Langmead | |
Idiotsyncrasy | A mode of behavior or way of thought peculiar to stupid people | Mia Debidin | |
Self-miserating | Being able to make yourself perfectly miserable without any help from all the total a*holes around you | Jim Matusik | |
Obesequious | Obsequity (sic) triggered by an adverse weight-to-height ratio | Vali Jamal PhD | |
Plaggard | Someone displaying a small sign of enthusiasm | Doug Langmead | |
Kidiots | Seventh graders after lunch | Delbert Park | |
Contraduction | Frenchman, toujours complaining he has to translate for foreigners | JackinYOW | |
Nabode | Jail | Michael de Silva | |
Headshunted | A blandishment to the CEO after a sideways promotion | Doug Langmead | |
Accountrant | Oath muttered when taxes are owed | JackinYOW | |
Sirious | Siri’s earnest attempt at finding the correctly interpreted voice command stuttered by the Apple Iphone user | Name Withheld | |
Hangricidal | When intense hunger makes you contemplate committing homicide to obtain nourishment | Bre D | |
Chapterone | A guarantor that there won’t be any hanky-panky until Chapter 2 | Doug Langmead | |
Infantuation | An infantile infatuation for someone by a grown-up | Vali Jamal PhD | |
Insanitry | Lost shit | Lorien | |
Plaggard | Someone showing a small sign of enthusiasm | Doug Langmead | |
Obuse | Harshly insulting derogatory remarks made about a person’s weight | Richard Hussey | |
Dermapologist | A doctor who says he’s sorry, but he can’t seem to find a cure for your skin condition | Jerry Heckler | |
Diapertribe | A bitter exhibition of ageism by a teen | Vali Jamal PhD | |
Drespot | Petticoat tyrant | Doug Langmead | |
Financling | Life savings, stuffed in one’s mattress | JackinYOW | |
Diatripe | A long speech or written piece attacking someone or something but meaningless tripe – a tale told by an idiot signifying nothing (Shakespeare). | Vali Jamal PhD | |
Pterodidactyl | A fossilised flying thesaurus | Doug Langmead | |
Nastissist | Breaks the rule but had to invent after an evening of disGussion on Facebook with one | Vali Jamal PhD | |
Insurferable | A curmudgeon who waives the rules | Doug Langmead | |
Faminist | A person who hunger strikes to support equal rights | Susan Lord | |
Crominal | Prehistoric felon | JackinYOW | |
Cabnegation | When ride shares replace taxis | Michael de Silva | |
Aporcalypse | Waking up in a world where bacon does not exist | Bill Magerman | |
Podiatriste | Someone who cries when slicing bonions | Doug Langmead | |
Edumcation | Education of the Mind – If you don’t Mind | The Lateralist | |
Virtuperative | Abusive, claiming it as a virtue, French spelling | Vali Jamal PhD | |
Abastement | Reduction of cooking juice | Michael de Silva | |
Amathema | Hatred of math | Michael de Silva | |
Billionoire | Someone who made this fortune on the black market | JackinYOW | |
Ablandonment | Leaving a tasteless meal unfinished | Michael de Silva | |
Credator | Someone who will hunt you down like an animal if you owe them money | Jerry Heckler | |
Impetunious | One daisy short of a flower bed | Doug Langmead | |
Self-depreciating | Self-erosion of one’s worth | Vali Jamal PhD | |
Vinregrette | That sinking feeling after dousing the entire salad and realizing there was more than couild possibly be eaten at one meal | Anita Leathers | |
Meame | A meme with feeling | Name Withheld | |
Cantilover | Despondent impotent suitor | JackinYOW | |
Svengoli | A hockey player who mentally intimidates opponents not to score | Jerry Heckler | |
Abbraviation | A short hop | Michael de Silva | |
Whereforeboding | The dreaded question one does not want asked or to have to answer, particularly when posed by curious three year olds or nosy elderly relatives | Samantha Janes | |
Recidivisma | That mysterious force that draws ex-cons back to a life if crime | Doug Harrod | |
Drule | Measurable length of saliva hanging from corner of mouth when you wake up in public | Derek Farr | |
Shoptometry | The art of just looking, not buying | Joyce | |
Maffia | Criminal knitwork | Doug Langmead | |
Scoffee | Person who helps themselves to more than their fair share from a communal coffee pot | Derek Farr | |
Like-blinded | People share the same opinions, ideas, or interests based on propaganda | Name Withheld | |
Sweat heart | A sweetie that turned sour and sweatish | Vali Jamal PhD | |
Corporeat | When large companies go on an acquisition spree | Derek Farr | |
Environmentalmist | The psychic fog inducing one to believe civilization has only X years left to be “saved.” | JackinYOW | |
Bittle | A little snippet of information to kick things off | Name Withheld | |
Rapnea | Running out of breath while rapping | Michael de Silva | |
Trude | Something that is true but is best left unsaid | Chris Whitfield | |
Prosparity | Achieving equal wealth with the Jones’s who live next door | Derek Farr | |
Dawnload | An early morning hack of a company’s data | Derek Farr | |
Dolephin | A morose porpoise | Doug Langmead | |
Disgusto | Really getting into what’s bothering you | Lorien | |
Abandonmeet | Mixer for nihilists | Michael de Silva | |
Corndom | A latex sleeve worn while eating corn, to prevent getting butter on one’s fingers, hands, and/or arms. | John Davis | |
Lustening | Longing to hear a particular sound | Lori Wacker | |
Proctagonist | Lead colorectal surgeon | JackinYOW | |
Aserration | Why tab and slot closures on cereal boxes rarely function | Michael de Silva | |
Gabolition | No talking | Michael de Silva | |
Lextemporize | Drafting laws capriciously | JackinYOW | |
Lablution | Dog washing | Michael de Silva | |
Spurtacus | Cussed a lot, but intermittently | JackinYOW | |
Abacuss | Heard when a tremor moves the beads in mid-calculation | Michael de Silva | |
Ptometrists | Concert pianists’ page-turners | Doug Langmead | |
Cacademy Award | For worst picture | Michael de Silva | |
Mantress | Masculine version of mistress | Bruce C | |
Lextemporize | Making up laws, rules or regulations as convenient to those in power | JackinYOW | |
Fedonistic | One who is particularly self-indulgent in the culinary realm | Robert Mangas | |
Errota | A list of your sexual errors | Paul | |
Moroose | A disgruntled elk | Doug Langmead | |
Symposium | A convention you supposedly attended | Sophie H | |
Antaganoistic | Stop with all that pandemonium! | JackinYOW | |
Bitcher | Butcher who really doesn’t like his job | JackinYOW | |
Extoliate | To drone on and on endlessly over the virtues of proper exfoliation | Cynthia Glenn | |
Basket Case | Someone who enters a supermarket and picks up a basket despite knowing they need a trolley | Sophie H | |
Plargue | Plagiarize a previously expounded philisophical stance | JackinYOW | |
Phatographs/Phitographs | Before/After selfies | JackinYOW | |
Impatent | Just missing out on that million dollar patent | JackinYOW | |
Tittoo | Strategically hidden inking | JackinYOW | |
Preborn | That twinkle in your father’s eye | JackinYOW | |
Saton | Bedeviled | JackinYOW | |
Hippodrone | A stadium wherein politicians run around in ideological circles and bloviate | JackinYOW | |
Busimessmen | Businessmen who mess up their own business. | Vali Jamal PhD | |
Calamitious | Causing just a pinch more vicious damage to property | Vali Jamal PhD | |
Automobile | The ability to move of one’s own accord | Name Withheld | |
Layman | A male prostitute | Name Withheld | |
Benedictionary | A dictionary containing the meanings of all blessings | Vali Jamal PhD | |
Duddle | Wait a requisite amount of time to approach unexploded ordinances | JackinYOW | |
Davi | Male diva | JackinYOW | |
Taxative | A pill that increases the amount and frequency of the taxes one pays | Lynne | |
Stylemate | Two women at a cocktail party in the same dress | JackinYOW | |
Daligence | Earnest loafing | JackinYOW | |
Legow | A description of the pain felt after stepping on a piece of Lego. | Moriarty Jones | |
Inflatuation | When you think you love someone so much it hurts, but then you fart and realize it was just gas | Name Withheld | |
Testosternone | A condition experienced by many older men. | Mike Sackheim | |
Opcyst | A surgeon who removes cysts | Diane Lewis |