Thursday 31 December 2009

Eyebrowse

n. To glance in a searching manner; a casual visual examination or investigation.
'Their eyebrowsing suggested nothing as a present.'
'She eyebrowsed the evidence, but nothing looked out of place.'

can be used in poetic irony, e.g. 'The furrowed eyebrowsing of listless Christmas shoppers.'

Omniblush

vi. To be embarassed in a moving, but overbearing, manner; to be self-consciously overcome by a situation.
'Everyone saw her omniblush at his very public and dramatic display of affection.'

Obstrepiphany

n. A clamorous or boisterous realisation; a sudden defiant and unruly understanding.
'He read the paragraph and yelled in an obstrepiphany of despair; his subsequent behaviour had him escorted from the premises.'

Staidist

n. One who takes pleasure from inflicting sedate propriety on others without their consent.
'The fierce staidist froitled them, forcing them to sit on the sofa, sip cold tea and nibble stale biscuits.'

Commiserati

n. A sympathetic collective with whom to share sorrow.
See example usage under Schadenfreund.

Mathocism

n. Self-inflicted algebra.
'In an evening of mathocism, she re-derived the Laplace Transform from first principles.'

Mathocist n. One who indulges in mathocism.

Mathocistic adj. Pertaining to, or having a leaning towards, mathocism.

Schadenfreund

n. A colleague, or close associate, for whom things never go well.
'Alex, his schadenfreund, had tested the sympathies of the local commiserati.'

Tuesday 29 December 2009

Infusiasm

n. An acute or absorbing interest in pouring; to be excitedly single-minded about mixtures.
'Milk was splashed everywhere in his infusiasm.'

Trogulyke

n. (Trademark) A commercial enterprise targetting cave dwellers.

Vanglican

1. n. An English truck driver.
'The number plates revealed he was a vanglican.'
2. adj. Pertaining to lorry and truck pursuits in England.
'The presentation on tonnage and surface adhesion was the highlight of the annual vanglican conference.'

Sunday 27 December 2009

Ponium

n. An equine pedestal

Saturday 26 December 2009

Mellocution

n. The act of speaking and gesturing in a relaxed manner; to use gentle articulation and inflection.
'It was her mellocution that put them at ease.'

Note: not to be confused with Mallocution

Mallocution

n. The act of accidentally disseminating misleading information.
'His mallocation did nothing but cause confusion and delay.'

Note: not to be confused with Mellocution

Retrobate

n. A nuisance with an eye on the past

Thursday 24 December 2009

Bronometer

n. A device for measuring the Welsh.

Forumulate

vt. The contemplation or consideration of what to say in a busy marketplace or internet discussion environment.
'He asked around as he forumulated his response.'

Valedictionary

n. A compendium of farewell.

Mecro

pref. Denotes that an object is at normal resolution; having a one-on-one internal mapping
'Out of her window she watched the mecrocosm of daily life'

Saturday 19 December 2009

Calendometry

1. n. (Scientific discipline) The measurement and ordering of macro units of time.
'The timetable for the Spring semester was accurately devised by the Calendometry Department.'
2. n. The knowledgeable and accurate recording of events that have happened or will happen.
'Her earlier calendometry meant she always knew where she was supposed to be.'
'The lack of detail in the report highlighted the group's poor calendometry.'

Wednesday 16 December 2009

Probservation

n. The voicing of a concern or issue; a sensing of inherent difficulty.
'The failure should have been expected, since no one had listened to his probservations.'

Verible

adj. Dynamically exacting; a near constant. Having a fluid truth.
'His verible wisdom had been questioned before.'

Saturday 12 December 2009

Froitle

vi. To be nervously, but politely, disorientated or upset.
'He was clearly froitled for some time afterwards.'
vt. To cause someone or something to be nervously, but politely, disorientated or upset.
'Their thorority froitled her.'
'I hope the punion did nothing to froitle you.'

Thorority

n. An intense and undeviating certainty of what is right.
'Your thorority about the situation is comforting.'

Egocipe

(ee-goss-i-pee)
1. n. Doing things the way one wants to; an overarching individualism.
'His egocipe hinted at OCD.'
2. n. An ordered or structured way to please oneself; an indulgent selfishness.
'She had guessed his egocipe, and planned around it.'

Fronology

n. (Scientific discipline) The intense study of the top of fingers and fingernails.
'She may have been a beautician, but her thorority suggested she was well read in fronology.'

Receptitude

n. The willingness to accept new things, to be open to original ideas.
'They were astonished by the old man's receptitude to the theory.'

Friday 11 December 2009

Striggle

vi. To wrestle energetically. 'His striggling made him hard to subdue.'
can be applied to abstract processes 'She striggled to understand the theory.'

Plessitude

n. A abundance of weariness; being excessively listless; an ample lethargy.
'His plessitude was almost tangible; his work suffered for it.'

Bruty

n. An aesthetic thug.

Thursday 10 December 2009

Remunication

1. n. The art of offering ideas for financial reward. 'His sports car told of his renumication skills.'
2. n. A discussion about projected, or intended, financial provision. 'The remunication led to him being hired at a lesser rate than he'd hoped.'

Slumbark

vi. To growl miserably. 'The pitiful sound of distant slumbarking worried the driddling visitors.'

Bellotron

n. An early wind driven instrument used for simulating shouting.

Antegress

n. The place before an exit.
'She waited in the antegress before he took her home.'

Froligarchy

n. A ruling executive composed of a small number of jovialists.

Crumplete

1. adj. Not fully represented; missing some items. 'The jigsaw looked good, but unfortunately crumplete.'
2. adj. Not in a presentable state; falling short of expectation. 'His jacket was crumplete, with holes in the elbows.'

Amoretum

n. A love nest.

Driddle

1. n. Slight, but exaggerated, fidgeting.
2. vi. To fidget in a slight, but exaggerated, manner.

Frism

n. The refraction or softening of light through loose or unkempt hair; a diffusion caused by hair. 'As she stood before the sunset, a frism suggested her smile.'

Predundant

adj. (of an object) Deemed unnecessary before the need fails to arise.

Punion

(pew-nee-on)
n. An ineffective collective

Wednesday 9 December 2009

Furbulance

n. The effect of stroking an animal's hair contrary to its growth pattern.

Snarkolepsy

n. A debilitating condition in which the sufferer helplessly makes unpleasant or malicious remarks.

Snarkoleptic adj. pertaining to, or having traits of Snarkolepsy

Proofidence

n. Unequivocal serendipitous confirmation or verification of a happen-stance; indubitous substantiation of facts (whether dubious or unquestionable).

Nutant

n. A novel innovation based on known prior art; a fresh variation.

also
Nutate vt. to make, create or manufacture a nutant.

Flamster

n. A percussive rodent.

Horsome

adj. Astonishing equine activity.

Cavement

n. A pathway hewn in rock.

Sning

1. vi. and vt. to chuckle melodically.
2. n. a melodic chuckle.

Huffluent

adj. An excessive haughtiness.

Fremale

adj. unrestricted gender classification.

Blasberry

n. Small, explosive fruit

Refume

vi. and vt. to be angrily or vehemently obstinate.

Snoregasbord

n. Collective term for noisy sleepers.

Antivoke

vt. to precipitate, or induce, no response.

Slimilar

adj. having a small likeness, or bearing a passing resemblance, to another thing.

Thermicelli

n. small heat streams

Slowcomotive

n. An engine or device refined for tardy traversal.

Tuesday 8 December 2009

Oughtumn

n. The season for realising what one should be doing.

Starecase

vt. To look someone up and down, as in 'she starecased him with distain.'

Palleable

adj. easy to be friends with; having an 'easy-going' nature. Normally said of a person; but could be applied to creatures or other objects.

Untertain

vt. To bore (people)

Awenithology

n. (Scientific discipline) The study of the incredible.

Moanitor

n. A device for viewing discontent

Hourcheology

n. (Scientific discipline) The practice of looking for an item that was in one's posession just a short time ago.

Amourment

n. protective garment worn in times of intense emotional displays.

Omenclature

n. The taxonomy of prophecy

Sunday 6 December 2009

Sircle

n. A geometric shape of nobility.

Lexologism

1. n. a word.
2. n. a description of a word
3. n. the study of descriptions of words
4. n. a description of the study of descriptions of words

Unplify

1. vt. to make quieter.
2. vt. to make less detailed.

Umazing

1. excl. Uncertain acknowledgement of an astonishing event.
2. adj. used to unplify, belittle or downplay a fact, event, or object.

..and a good day to you too, sir..

I've never considered myself to have sufficient to say to make it worth owning a blog.

I'm still not convinced, however a colleague who runs a fictionary suggested that I should have a place-holder for my similarly arcane lexologisms.

I present a 'folkabulary' - words which, provided sufficient restraint is foregone, may yet become part of the lexology of the English speaking folk. (Better yet, that of non-English speakers)

Tom (of the Fictionary) is very good at providing the pronunciatia of his words (applause); alas, I cannot guarantee such attention to detail.

Well, let's see how we get on...