More Neologenetics

Words are good.

More words are better.

New words are doubleplusgood.

Dehymenizer

A dehymenizer is the word for the spike often found on the top of tubes of ointment, used to break the "tamper-evident seal".

Maîtresse

A word borrowed from French (for schoolmistress) to express the concept of a mature woman who enjoys, makes a habit of or at the very least does, introduce boys to the pleasures of sex.

Saponistas

(from the Italian opera del sapone: soap opera) obsesive consumers of soap operas and general gossips, people who live their lives as if in a soap opera. It is arguable whether this is a female form or whether there is a need for a male form of the word.

Ectlexic

People who continually make simple errors such as there for their, your for you're ect. ect. ect. (sic)

Gratio

Gratio means, in one word, "% extra free". From Gratis (contracted ablative plural of the Latin gratia 'favour') and ratio.

Pacratism

(noun), a doctrine emphasizing the collection of small objects or trivia, much to the point of overcoming whatever space was formally available. (packrat + ism) Example: Through his fervency to completely fill his basement with old magazines, John has shown great pacratism.

Veristac

Veristac is a word the world has been crying out for.

A word is needed to simply encapsulate the concept that a particular object can be safely stacked upon other examples of the same object, but only to a limited degree. Beyond the veristac limit the objects at the bottom of the stack may be damaged.

Without a simple word this concept is only expressed by the use of convoluted phrases or diagrams for the illiterate.

Careful study under laboratory conditions of standard temperature, air pressure and gravity should confirm that veristac values tend to be in approximate inverse relationship to the object's mass. The veristac of a housebrick is rather large compared to that of a Ford Anglia and for certain large sea mammals the veristac value is actually less than one.

This object may be safely stacked on top of copies of itself 3 high, don't try to stack it any higher or some of the objects in the stack will be damaged. VeriStac 3.

Maxhigh:

alternative word for veristac.

Illiterati

People fluent in reading signs and symbols designed to communicate without the use of words.

The illiterati would have no problem in understanding all the symbols shown the box for this television:

Veristac 6, two person handling (one man or two women?) don't drop, don't truck from this side, this way up, fragile (treat as glass). Don't squish. Televisions don't like being mistreated, and they are watching you.

That two person handling sign is sometimes put on the boxes of 14 inch PORTABLE televisions! How long would you keep your job as a "warehouseperson" if you asked for help lifting such a box?

Finandipity

The unexpected and sudden joy caused by finding some money which you were unaware that you had or which you had forgotten about having. (FINANCIAL + SERENDIPITY)

Sofinandipity

Finandipity, but behind the sofa cushions. (SOFA + FINANDIPITY)

Meme-hacker.

Someone who takes an idea and ruins it by thinking he understands it, proclaiming to all and sundry that he does, when in fact he has no understanding whatsoever.

Social Pollution

People with negative charisma who hang around you all the time and make others think badly of you.

Bogitation

(bodge-itation): Using spurious logic, thus the verb to bogitate, meaning to use spurious logic.

Fantile

The opposite of infantile, that is: acting in a mature fashion.

Transigent

Agreeable.

Wieldy

Easy to carry.

Scale

(verb) To fill one's kettle with limescale, purposefully or not.

Tangerine

(noun)

As a political mandarin (word derived from a Chinese official in any of nine grades of the pre-Communist civil service) but less useful. A form of Civil Self Servant.

Maricle

(noun)

Random image in food, paint, mouldy patches on dormitory ceilings etc. that vaguely resembles a human female face and is taken to be an image of the Mother of God. (Cheese optional)

How did we cope without such words for so long?

Thanks to Forum contributors for these words, especially Evil Teuf, Arthur Philip Dent, Mike and Clinton Labombard.

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