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Or... make up your own word
Have you ever thought of a word that could be real, only to find it's not?
The word journalist is a real word, and so is journalism. However, you can be a novelist, but not practice novelism.
So, yeah. I guess you get the drift from this
Be sure to include a definition if it's unclear what a word would mean.
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I made up one once... but the meaning was sort of x-rated.
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Oh oh! I remember another:
Sarcast: a person who is sarcastic
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I rarely make up my own words, but I do like finding lost and forgotten ones and dusting them off, despite the fact no spellchecker or dictionary recognises them.
Mommet. A miniature representation of a person, used for witchcraft rituals, preferably containing some element of the intended victim, such as blood or hair
Gloottokoma. A wooden box used to lock away children to stunt their growth. Being a dwarf was a well-paid profession in the dark ages.
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"Beautesque"; a portmanteau of "grotesque" and "beau", implying an artform (of any sort) which combines elements of the aesthetic and the obscene. The goal of this style would be to present work that both alienates and enamors people.
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Blastic
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Got another! (you'll see it in another thread)
Relige- n.: shorthand for 'Religious Person' (can also be combined with prefixes such as super- and non-)
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How about "hypercritic?" meaning somebody who is very critical.
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If you are acting in a confused way, could it be said that you are acting 'confusedly'? I used this word the other day when my lecturer asked me how I was getting on with an assignment. He laughed at me!
Also, if you order things 'A, B, C...' then it is alphabetical order. I also use the words 'numberbetical order' for ordering things '1, 2, 3...' and 'colourbetical order' for odering things 'red, orange, yellow' and so on. Again I am ridiculed for this but I dont care. I like to cultivate an eccentric form of speech. lol.
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He laughed when you said confusedly? That's a real word!
Also, they already have numerical order, which is easier on the tongue
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He told me confusedly wasnt a real word. And nimberbeticl order is much more fun to say. lol.
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Confusedly is real. It may just have been the way you said it.
Like, if you'd just said 'confused' and then added the '-ly' then it'd come out wrong.
It's supposed to be pronounced like 'con-fuse-ed-ly'
Get it?
And I don't think there's a word for the colors (and if there is, it's probably really difficult to pronounce)
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No I pronounced it 'con-fuse-ed-ly'. He must just be thick.
And if there isnt a word for putting colours in oder then there is clearly a gap in our language and I shall hereby declare 'colourbetical' as the correct word. lol. -
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Bridging those gaps was the point of this
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In Italian there's a word for the rotund imprint a cup full of liquid leaves when it's been removed from a wooden surface.
The French word for Spainard also means "cockroaches," and the German word for Frenchman also means "lice."
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I do this ALL THE TIME. Like I will just take a word I like and put it in a different tense and make it work. I hear "Is that even a word" all the time. I can't think of any right now but I'll add them as soon as I think of them.
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It's occurred to me that all these words fall into what TV Tropes calls "Buffy Speak";
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I recall one that's not x-rated 
...not sure if other people use it or not, though ... "stuffer"...(or "stucker") for 'stupid f***er'
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If you are tempremental, do you have 'temprementalily'? An example of this in a sentence would be 'her temprementalily was getting on his nerves'.
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Dr. Suess would be proud
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My favorite has always been 'confluzzlegasted'. It's a mix between confused, flustered, flabbergasted and befuddled.
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Hugglyicious.
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Summidih!
I'll let you guess that one yourselves
But I have also coined several words which cannot be recalled at the moment except for imaginosity! -
I made one up for a story...actually I made a couple up.
Morsmorphi
Morsmorphosis
Meta-Morsmorphosis
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Fantasy terms
I make up words for settings alien to our own, in fantasy or sci-fi stories. In my spiritualism stories, a "novate" is a newly qualified Shaman. In another I imagined a future in which Skype and Yahoo had merged, Skyhoo. -
One of the words in my books was a made-up word, and that would be:
Intrapitation - the ability to be caught in a trap or any sort of skullduggery. -
Urm...I'll give the meaning of my words.
Morsmorphi - A person who can change their shape, body and form.
Morsmorphosis - The act of changing a person's shape, body and form.
Meta-Morsmorphosis - Transforming into an animal and gaining that animals attricbutes (hooves, whiskers, tails, ears)
Minosphoris - Transforming into a being made solely of one of the five elements: Wind, Water, Earth, Fire, or Lightning. -
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are a few real words that might fit some of the above posts. I'm just saying...
flatulopetic
adj. - pretentious, pompous, inflated
fustian
n. - pompousness, pretentiousness
grammaticaster
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A word that did exist but,I can't find in the modern dictionaries nor anyone who has heard of it. Naugyhyde: A hard/firm vinyl.
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So did I. In the future I will check with dictionary.com when i need to find a word that is an old but good one. Thanks.
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I never had one, but my friend thought 'Indubiously' was a word.
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pestimisticality
this is my "pessimistic reality" word
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There was a German comedian, Stephan Raab, who made up a word that is actually more than one word, but it is baby talk, rushed together. He sang a song about a woman and a dog that went to get something. Rather than speaking proper German, she rushed the words together and changed the sounds of the letters while talking to her dog, as someone might speak to a baby. The song is half English, half German. He had many Germans, and me, saying it because it was fun to say:
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I wrote the word 'bittered' a few nights ago, and my Word '07 dictionary didn't pick it up.
Low and behold, it came up on Dictionary.com.
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I was just shocked out of my socks when I typed guesstimate and it came up as an actual word! I always thought my engineer friends made it up while working on equations.
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