Great made up words (Washington post contest each year)
16Here the winners from the annual Washington Post contest for made up words with their new meaning. Some of them are really funny! @kyeh suggested I make a new thread (I posted an unblame for this on the goat thread) and see what words meh folks come up with. The rules are in the first picture.
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So this thread is the Mehnsa Invitational?
@Kyeh I should have stolen that for the thread title. Too late now
Disastrosus - a plea to get rid of the Houston baseball team.
@st_ellis Could be worse; you could have the Texas Rangers.
@phendrick in which case you’d have to be derangered
Mehnstruation - an uninspiring period in your life
@st_ellis A fallow time, when you can’t conceive of anything productive.
Pairanoia - the persistent and irrational feeling that only two people are out to get you
Mehnsch - the unsuspecting, gullible customer at a certain to-be-unnamed online deal site, just looking for that special “deal”.
@phendrick Ooo, that’s good.
Does it need to be a single word?
Guinea Big (n.): A capybara.
@heartny
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@heartny IMO you have won this thread.
Mehndacities - inconsequential falsehoods.
Mehn and Womehn - gendered mehmbers of this forum.
Dismaysed - what the San Francisco Giants were in 1972
Mehstarbation - starring your own posts.
Primenesia - Receiving an Amazon package, forgetting what it is you ordered.
Deutschbag - A person who overuses terms like “zeitgeist” or “schadenfreude”.
@PocketBrain Gesundheit!
Pizzagami - The art of folding a pizza box so it actually fits in the garbage can.
Guesspertise - A strong talent for speculating accurately.
Vitamin V - The questionable dietary value of anything out of a vending machine.
Manduntary - Corporate voluntary, middle-management mandatory.
@PocketBrain The verb form of this is when your manager voluntold you to do a manduntary task.
Sesquipedestrian - Someone who only thinks he has a large vocabulary.
Potatoe (v) - To ruin your political career with a single gaffe.
Guestimate - party planning based on how many are expected vs how many said they would come.
@rockblossom Perfect time to ply your guesspertise.
Frauduct - A product that does little more than take your money.
Condimental - having a tantrum when there’s no ketchup for the fries.
@rockblossom
Definitely makes one karen for the manager.
Karen - To do anything in an annoyingly entitled fashion.
@PocketBrain Apologies to actual people named Karen.
@PocketBrain
OK, so at first I thought you hadn’t read (or followed) the directions, then I saw the name of the person that wrote the original post that @kidsandnliz had shared and thought… OK, that works… maybe…
Concensus - agreeing to answer a bunch of questions because a lot of other people are doing it.
Demockracy - an electoral process in China, Russia, North Korea, Iran, and a whole lot of other places.
Speaker dox - a tiny piece of paper written in Chinese.
Political analist - the person giving the viewpoint of the other party.
Vegan mehyonnaise - today’s product.
Maundatory - Compulsory foot washing
Mehringue - that unappealing topping they put on pies instead of real whipped cream
Condoscension - the attitude of patronizing superiority evinced by people who live in highrises