Neologisms*

 

*Neologisms are often created by combining existing words or by giving
words new and unique suffixes or prefixes.                                                   

 BEST NEOLOGISMS* FROM THE WASHINGTON POST

The Washington Post's Style Invitational asked readers to take any
word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing
one letter, and supply a new definition.

Here are this year's winners:

1. Bozone: The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright
ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little
sign of breaking down in the near future.

2. Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of
getting laid.

3. Cashtration: The act of buying a house, which renders the subject
financially impotent for an indefinite period.

4. Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.

5. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the
person who doesn't get it.

6. Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.

7. Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.

8. Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease.

9. Karmageddon: It's like, when everybody is sending off all these
really bad vibes, right?  And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's
like, a serious bummer.

10. Decafalon: The grueling event of getting through the day consuming
only things that are good for you.

11. Glibido: All talk and no action.

12. Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when
they come at you rapidly.

13. Arachnoleptic fit: The frantic dance performed just after you've
accidentally walked through a spider web.

14. Beelzebug: Satan in the form of a mosquito that gets into your
bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.

15. Caterpallor: The color you turn after finding half a grub in the
fruit you're eating.

16. Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an asshole.