Look, just invent a word, will you? And define it. And make it germane to its definition while you're at it; there'll be no "flibbertigibbets" to describe a thing of whose function you have no knowledge. No, this word must make etymological sense lest it be consigned to the ... to the... to the ... to the ranks of deletia. (n; a notional space where everything that is thrown away or unused goes) (EDIT: And yes, you can reuse a word that exists in some other subject - like I appear to have done here - but make it mean something new)
Cupiocracy - a hybrid word, from the Latin cupio (I want) and the Greek kratos (rule) A system of government in which every wish, desire and craving if its citizens are satisfied
How about: Autonachash - "aw-toh-NAH-kahsh" Combining Greek Auto (Self), and Hebrew Nachash (Serpent). It means self-serpent, alluding to the idea that the Biblical devil or serpent can reside within us as selfishness. "He tried his whole life to live selflessly, but the autonachash proved a subtle beast."
Funny stuff! I'll try a new word. inscribbled: filled with useless details He stared blankly at Question 1. His mind was inscribbled with everything except an answer.
I agree, this is fun ... but we already have a thread like that: wonky dictionary. There's no harm in having two, sure. I've been performing music, as part of a choir (and occasional soloist) for just under 21 years now, so I came up with a musical term or two. How about this: appologiatura. "ah-poh-loh-jia-TOO-rah" An appogiatura (from Italian appoggiare, “to lean”), in music, an ornamental note that temporarily displaces, and subsequently resolves into, a main note, usually by stepwise motion. For instance, a short middle-C resolves into a longer middle-D. An appologiatura, on the other hand, is a wrong note that the musician quickly corrects, usually while blushing and hoping that nobody noticed. "Gosh, Nathan's always singing C-flats instead of C-naturals. It's a good thing he can fix it in time with an appologiatura, but I wish he'd stop it, or the whole bass section would sound wonky, the conductor would get annoyed, and we'd all get in trouble."
Riseup. Description for a building: new (or near-new), well-maintained, in good order. From the opposites of 'tumble' and 'down'. "That house ain't tumbledown, Tony! Waddaya, stupid? It's riseup!"
Yes, I love it! Inscribbled with densely-enmauved notions. Enmauved; adj: Purple (as in prose), overwrought, overworked and altogether too much - and yet somehow richer for it,
Ah!, I was sadly unaware of the Wonk. Dict. I shall have a perusal now, see if I can't uplift my bedark't vocabulary. Bedark't (adj): unenlightened, shrouded by night and shadows
No, I think they are two different word games. This thread is about making up words, the other one is about making up meanings for existing words
That's similar to how guitar players use chromatic alterations. Basically, you displace a chord tone with another note a half step up or down that can resolve back into the chord tone, usually a flat third into a third or a major seventh into a root, though the major seventh can step back into the dominant (flat) seventh, particularly in blues. Fortunately for us, there's no real "wrong" notes that can't be corrected quickly and made to sound as if you meant to do it all along. I imagine in chorus that would be disastrous unless everybody sang the same "wrong" note.
*L* Yep, that's where stagecraft (a fancy word for "keeping a straight face, bluffing, and getting on with it") comes in. I performed in live theatre for several years, and have had a few mishaps. The worst thing you can do is freeze, with your mouth half-open, but no sound coming out. The show must go on. Luckily, that hasn't happened to me yet. Since I perform with a major choir in my hometown (the Royal Melbourne Philharmonic, one of the oldest choirs in Australia), and since we often perform very well-known classical pieces (e.g. Handel's Messiah) ... then everyone singing the 'wrong' note would be a disaster. We've had instances of where one person was singing the soprano line (but transposing it down to the bass clef), instead of singing the bass line. (We covered him up by sticking him in the back row and singing louder than him). But imagine if the entire bass section - i.e. 12-14 men - were doing that. The critics would eat us alive. In blues terms, I'd guess it's the equivalent of someone singing -- for instance -- "Hit the Road, Jack" like "Got My Mojo Working". (I may be wrong? I don't know many blues songs, so please correct me if I'm wrong). Anyway, another word .. let's see. Another one from the world of music: Flute-flies. Similar-but-different to the more common fruit flies, these happen when you're performing outdoors. (They especially plague marching bands). Yeesh. Also ... Pitch. This is what the conductor will do with the music on his stand if a section of the orchestra plays the wrong notes one too many times. This only happens at rehearsals. If it happens in performance, you're in the wrong show.
Bearwolf. Like a werewolf, but perpetually confused. When it hiccups, it develops a bear's snout with wolf ears, or wolf's claws over a bear's paws. A sad wizard's experiment, soon abandoned and went extinct, because it couldn't figure out whether to eat honey or human flesh, and so it starved to death.
