Post your favorite Sniglets (words that aren't in the dictionary but

[bertha katzenengel]

should be)

Mine:

Cheedle: the orange stuff that sticks to your fingers when you eat Cheetos

Accordionated: the ability to drive and fold a road map* at the same time

but my fave:

Ignisecond: the instant of time in which your hand slams your car door as your brain screams, "My keys are in there!"

Your favorite Sniglets? Let's have 'em!



* For the youngsters: We used to navigate while driving by using maps printed on very large sheets of paper. They were carefully folded when new, to about the size of a slice of pizza (if it were rectangular), but hard to fold back together again. You're spoiled with your GPS! ;)

[Critters2]

1. Stunment

I know astonishment is close, but there's a fine line between being astonished and being stunned.

[southpaw]

2. OMG, I had forgotten all about sniglets!

I remember Rich Hall doing the Sniglets feature on 'Not Necessarily the News' back in the early '80s.

I'm trying to remember the term for the black, crusty stuff that collects around the top of the ketchup bottle...

And there was one that meant 'the fear of being scalded to death in the shower'... hydro-thermo phobia or something

[bertha katzenengel]

3. kick

:kick:

[ThingsGottaChange]

4. Keep this kicked!

I still have a Sniglets book. I have to hunt for it and it's getting close to beddy-bye time now. Maybe we can do a quiz from the book tomorrow, eh?

I really loved NNTN!

[southpaw]

5. Spudrubble

(spud' rubb uhl) - n. Unclaimed french fries at the bottom of a fastfood bag.

[Sir Jeffrey]

10. I remember these...

Potentater: n. The largest french fry in the group

Minutater: n. The smallest french fry in the group

[Squeech]

6. The Meaning of Liff

Douglas Adams (who wrote Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) collaborated with a colleague on this Sniglets-like book. The idea was that there were concepts in human discourse that needed words, and there were also all these otherwise idle words wasting their time on maps and road signs and such, so they figured out what all these place names would mean if they were actual dictionary words.

My favorite was "Zeerust," a town in South Africa, which they defined as (from memory, possibly wrong) "That peculiar quality of datedness that inheres to things that were originally designed to look futuristic."

[Dukkha]

7. Brattled

the fear that the bus load of kids that pulled up next to you is making fun of you.

[July]

8. "Meganegabar" and "Expressholes"

Meganegabar being the line you draw after the spelled-out dollar amount on a check so that no-one can add "and a million bucks."

"Expressholes" being people who get in the express line at the supermarket with more than the permitted number of items.

[southpaw]

12. Esso Asso

The driver who cuts through the corner gas station to avoid waiting for the light to change.

[_testify_]

9. I have a Sniglets book!

My faves are:

Hozone - the place that the one sock from every load of laundry disappears to

Sirlines - the grill marks on steaks

and from a google search:
Lactomangulation - n. Manhandling the "open here" spout on a milk carton so badly that one has to resort to using the "illegal" side.

[Sir Jeffrey]

11. Here is one...

Esso Asso: n. The guy who pulls into a gas station at an intersection to avoid a red light.

I still use this one today.

[southpaw]

14. We were posting at the same time!!!

How cool is that! :toast:

(see post #12)

[Sir Jeffrey]

19. Sweet!

:headbang:

[SteppingRazor]

13. My favorite that I've coined: Vomilicious

I delicious meal that makes one sick afterward, often a rich dish with heavy cream sauces.

[azmouse]

15. Hurp

It's not quite a hiccup, not quite a burp... Hurp!

[Tikki]

16. "tacalog".......

I wanted it to be "tagalog"...but, that is already a recognized word..

tacalog: v. the audio process of catching words or phrases that join together to make a sentence as you
use your television remote to surf channels....


Tikki

[acmavm]

17. ...

Carperpetuation (kar' pur pet u a shun) - n. The act, when vacuuming, of running over a string at least a dozen times, reaching over and picking it up, examining it, then putting it back down to give the vacuum one more chance.

Cinemuck - n. The combination of popcorn, soda, and melted chocolate which covers the floors of movie theaters.

[NewWaveChick1981]

18. I used to love it when Rich Hall read them on "Not Necessarily

the News"! :rofl:

Some of my faves:

Flen - the orange stuff that sticks to your fingers when you eat Cheetos

Hozone - the mystical black hole in the back of your dryer that hangs on to missing socks so you'll never find them again

[yellowdogintexas]

20. Chit...the holey strip you tear off tractor fed computer paper

Spagellum (spa gel' um) - n. The loose strand on each forkful of spaghetti that beats one about the chin and whiskers.



Pupkus (pup' kus) - n. The moist residue left on a window after a dog presses its nose to it.



Table Snorkeling (tay' bul snawrk' ling) - n. Frantic gesticulations when one bites into hot food and has to take in air to cool it off. (Maypo, anyone?)


CALTITUDE (kal' tih tood) n. The height to which a cat's rear end can rise to meet the hand stroking it.


go here:http://www.fortunecity.com/meltingpot/regent/827/sniglets.html
I just laughed myself silly reading this!

[WannaBeGrumpy]

21. FRIMACE!!!

i was trying to say frown and grimace and it came out frimace!