The Washington Post's Style Invitational once again 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. Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with. 2. Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly. 3. Bozone (n.): 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. 4. Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid. 5. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period. 6. Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high. 7. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it. 8. Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late. 9. Hipatitis: Terminal coolness. 10. Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.) 11. 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. 12. Decafalon (n.): The gruelling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you. 13. Glibido: All talk and no action. 14. Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly. 15. Arachnoleptic fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web. 16. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out. 17. Caterpallor (n.): The color you turn after finding half a grub in the fruit you're eating.
How's about it, guys? Are we ready for a new word game?????
n. 1.)A person who can fawn over and flatter someone by extrasensory means. 2)A person who can make another believe they are being flattered, without actually speaking or moving.
quote:Originally posted by TrossL: telephant - n. 1. A person who can fawn over and flatter someone by extrasensory means. 2. A person who can make another believe they are being flattered, without actually speaking or moving.
telepant - a phone-sex operator
inkuisition - a cruel newspaper article that rakes one over the coals
incensitivity - immunity to the smell of burning incense
quote:Originally posted by Hic et ubique: _appewiser_ - the preferred appetiser
Or maybe: "The King of Hors D'oeuvres," thin and fizzy but not particularly suited to the British palate.
(And yes, Shufitz, once again it is I who bring up a beer reference. I figure if I can keep my numbers down to roughly one third of R.E.'s in this regard I'll be doing something.)
wouldn't this be a fun word game for the wordplay section???
Possibly, in fact I hope so. However, the number of posts we've received in this thread since Kalleh started it in 2003 doesn't seem to bode too well. I've tried to revive it three times since then, with only moderate success.
Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
GREENWITCH MEAN TIME - the old hag may be environmentally aware, but that's no excuse for magically making my golf ball vanish when it's my turn to putt.
