Last Sunday Shu posted an Opus comic in Wordplay. He thought it might be a good game for us, but perhaps it's too hard as a game. You really have to be on the same wavelength to guess what made-up word somebody had in mind.

However, we could come up with our own definitions and punny imaginary words to define them with. For example, in today's Opus there were 3:

٭ Giving up all hope for a flat stomach - abdicate
٭ Destroying the American language with these made up words - little bon bon mots
٭ Vehicle for carrying squished folks to the hospital (my personal favorite!) - flatulance

Okay. Your turn!

Many of these things have been on an emailthat makes the rounds periodically, claiming to be the results of a weekly daffynitions contest in the Washington Post.

One of my favorites from this list:
Rectitude (n.), the formal, dignified demeanor assumed by a proctologist immediately before he examines you.

Here's another fun word-game attributed to the same source. I like it even better. My favorite from that list:

Glibido: (gli bë' dõ) All talk and no action.

Either or both would be fun additions to word games, I think. We would just need to think of a way to link the next entry to the last. Perhaps it would be required to start with the, say, third letter of the previous entry? Even easier, put them under Wordplay, and people will just post an entry when they think of one, as we do with Tom Swifties. (Or used to... hey, whatever happened to Tom Swifties?)

Yes, I love the Tom Swifties, too!

I agree that we should just post them when we think of them. I can move this to Wordplay, I suppose. (Or...perhaps I should say arnie can move this. Arnie, would you mind moving this to Wordplay because I don't know how to move threads. Thanks!)

Done.

There's an excellent list of Tom Swifties on Wordie