New words help us to communicate. New words help us to think in new ways.
While the Orwelian concept that a restricted language would prevent wrongthinking
is untrue there is a real benefit from being able to use new words to
help ourselves to think in new ways. Those for whom English is a second
or third language have the advantage of an alternative source of thoughts
and analogies. For those of us who are doomed to speak the only language
that is really worth learning we must make up for our deficit by fully
exploring the power of our language. If there is not enough flexibility
and novelty in our language to test our intellect we should stretch ourselves
and exercise our flabby minds, like prisoners in a small cell, if we cannot
get enough exercise by merely pacing up and down our prison we can develop
our literary intellect by artificial means, such as neologenesis. The
art, science and mystery of making up new words.
Ept: the capacity to do the right thing at the right time in
the right way.
Ertia: the faculty of motion.
Fer: (vt) failure to draw reasonable conclusions from readily
available evidence. This is closely related to asmuch: not seeing that.
Interestingly these words are heard together in a traditional C of E
wedding ceremony. i.e.
Fer asmuch as John & Mary have consented together in holy wedlock,
and have witnessed the same before God and this company etc.
Ferior: adj. equal in status. Ane: sensible and serious.
Cle: somebody who isn't the brother of one of your parents.
Iverse: everything that God made.
Ionist: Everybody in Northen Ireland who doesn't want the status
quo.
Turb: vt. leave in peace, similar in use to tress and rupt.
Hevelled: Looking good, not a hair out of place.
Gust: A strong feeling of warmth and liking.
Co: a place where music and dancing does not take place. A good
place to meet members of the opposite sex.
Que: something that isn't old.
Quated: something in good condition and up to date.
Cipate: failing to predict something.
Rrhinum: a plant that is not a snapdragon.
Podes: Your side of the world.
Norexia: Normal healthy eating.
Romatic: Free from scent.
Pril: That part of the year between May and March.
Postasy: standing by your beliefs.
Ique: Something that there are more than one of
Telligible: something hard to understand, to replace the clumsy
double negative Unintelligible.
Ferno: A nice cool place. As in “After the heat of the
sauna Max was happy to retreat to the more temperate charms of the bar,
a veritable ferno.”
Gulate: a quadruped not having hooves
Ciple: somebody who doesn't follow anybody.
Ciplinarian: somebody who is easy going with their authority
Consolate: Cheery manner. Not to be confused with disconsulate,
a verb, the disposal by a well practised flick of a menthol cigarette
at the end of a fag break.
Posal: the practice of retaining items that could be easily
discarded. This should not be confused with either proposal or antiposal.
Antiposal being a suggestion of something which should not be done.
Carding: hanging onto things unnecessarily instead of taining
them. see posal.
Habille: fuly dressed and ready for anything.
In Guise: looking exactly like you normally do.
Pensible: really useful, can't be done without, the better alternative
to the ugly double negative indispensible.
Taff: the male side of the family.
Tance: closeness.
Tinct: Unclear and imprecise. (Similar to the ugly double negative
indistinct)
Cern: Could not be bothered. Blasé.
not to be confused with
Cernment: Poor judgement, taste or insight. e.g. Wearing the
pink tutu to the palace garden party was the height of cernment.
Dict: agreeing completely
Rip On: A terrific bargain.
Feck: strong, effective and responsible.
Peer: being very comparable to others.
Parate: equal, the same.
Parage: v.t. praise. e.g. The survivors paraged the bravery
of the light brigade who had cretely charged the enemy guns.
Port: v. refl. mope, living as if it were a great burden.
Pute: V.i. & t agree noisily.
Putatious: fond of agreement.
Tillery: a building in the highlands or islands of Scotland
in which whisky is not made.
Der: above
Bove: under
Iform: mismatched clothing As in: He put his t-shirt
on bove his plaid iform.
*UNIX (n) Boy who is able to explain either what a Hrung is,
or why it should choose to collapse on Betelgeuse Seven.
Crepancy: close agreement and alignment.
Creet: careless, foolhardy.
Crete: amorphous.
Crimination: an inability to make snap judgements or choices.
H: an article of pottery into which things cannot be put.
K:
1) something neither round nor flat.
2) pencil
C:
1) something neither round nor flat for people who don't know their
Greek alphabet.
2) a modest and sensible act
Pel: (v.t.) attracting together.
Pensing: not giving out, tributing. as in “Hey dude, stop
pensing those Es man, we all need some”
Penser: One who does not give out, a kind of tributer. A Yorkshireman.
Dia: a country not south of the Himalayas.
Cognito: being in guise.
P: a large devil.
Pishness: acting like a big devil.
Ch: an it of measure. (think about it)
Cest: sex with people who are not close blood relatives.
Dex:
1] the three less dextrous fingers.
2] Also the last place you should look to find what you want. And
by extension, the place you find something.
Digenous: foreign, immigrant. As in “The digenous Australians
are prone to sunburn, skin cancer and excess boasting, especially about
sporting prowess.”
Dian Summer: a period of foul weather in the autumn.
Digo: a rainbow colour that might not exist.
Dote: a poison.
Quarian: a person who loves new things.
Quated: Bang up to date.
Bauch: keep on the straight and narrow.
Bilitate: Make stronger.
Butant: somebody who has done this kind of thing before.
Cagon: any shape with more or less than 10 sides.
agon: any shape with more or less than nine sides.
Clivity: an upward slope.
Cline:
1) sloping upards
2) V. accept. e.g. although he was jured by his trip Bill
graciously clined the offer of a hand up to his feet.
Crepit: young, fit and full of beans.
Lirium: calm apathy.
Nouement: part of a play to which no previous action seems to
be building.
Precate: v.t. express approval of.
Preciate: v.t. allow to increase in value.
Tinguish: see as being the same.
Tinguished: Ordinary, one of the mass. e.g. Tim had a tinguished
career, all he had to show for it was a clock engraved “Thanks
for forty years effort Tom. We don't know what we will do without you.”
Plicit: plainly expressed.
Postor: the genuine person.
Presario: A poor organizer of public entertainments.
Pressionable: cynical, not easily mislead.
Promptu: well rehearsed.
Provise: rehearse and bring to perfection by careful planning.
Pudence: good manners. Acting solently, respectful and pertinent,
also sumptuous, shameful or blushing.
Pugn: to confirm honour and respect.
Derprivileged: the rich.
Derstate:to boast.
Derwriter: somebody who promises to deny liability, especially
in a crisis.
Petus: a lack of motivating force.
Peat : say something once only.
Vestigate: let a crime go undetected.
Derhand: overt, in the open
Quisitive: apathetic
Beca: about a third of the area below Canal St. in Manhattan
piarist: a man without any bees
poplectic: in full control of powers of sense and motion.
pron: a garment incapable of protecting the front of your regular
clothes.
becile: bright, articulate person of well above average intellect.
tellectual : dull witted person not to be confused with:
telectual: couch potato
telectualism: the theory that knowledge is wholly or mainly
derived from Sky/Fox (delete the less ppropriate proprietary name).
carcerate: liberate from prison
ify: make separate
patch: keep here.
Piary: place where bees should never be kept
Vian: terrestrial animal
Untie: not the BBC
Pt: inappropriate
Candescent: dull
Jury: unhurt
Tact: broken
Derplay: make the most out of
nal: open and easygoing
utumn: Spring
strology: highly respected branch of science
thlete: a person given to the life of a couch potato, a telectual
udible: too quiet to be heard.
uthor: somebody who hasn't written a novel
berration: normal behaviour.
mex card: something you should always leave at home.
mnesiac: person who always remembers
mony: a non-metal with good properties of conduction, often
found in mixtures with mislead.
mphetamine: a real downer
mphibious: equally ill at ease in or out of water.
mbidexterity: capable of putting either foot in it, always able
to lend the wrong hand.
*Calumnyst: someone who deliberately writes badly of others
Nimal: A civilised person.
Limony: An arrangement where divorced people don't give each
other money.
Crobat: q.v. thlete above.
nal Sex: Pussy.
OL: A decent ISP.
ger: Calmness.
ger Management: Overcoming your calm state in a reasonable manner.
tonym: A word meaning exactly its own meaning.
ustralia: Europe.
Dependence Day: little-known American festival celebrated by
loyalists who actually liked being a colony.
cimate: make something completely whole
scend: stay exactly where you are, going neither up nor down.
cide: to be unable to make decisions as a life choice.
lloy: metal without impurities.
agenarian: somebody less than 90 years old
chalant: uptight, moved, excited, different.
specific urethritis: very nasty disease not even doctors talk
about. You really don't want to get this one.
Bba: An unpopular but talented band.
dominals: the beer gut of a thlete.
attoir: animal holiday camp.
dication: hanging on in there, continuing to do your duty.
horrent: lovely
ject: Chirpy, cheerful, full of beans.
le-bodied: crippled
lution: going without washing. e.g. the Glastonbury Festival
is one long round of music, sex, drugs and lution.
o: offensive term for a white Australian.
racadabra: dull words which fail to transform things, political
speeches are full of this.
seiler: a person who climbs up a rope.
sinth: a weak beverage favoured by tellectuals.
stemious: not passing up the opportunity to eat, drink and be
merry. The Scotch are noted stemers.
struse: simple to understand
surd: logical and sensible. e.g. take those high heels off at
once young lady, you've a cupboard full of surd shoes, wear a pair of
those.
sence: that which makes the heart less fond
Patch note: a complete list of what they didn't send you.
abolic steroids: drugs often misused by thletes and crobats.
