These are all words which didn’t quite make it into the Oxford English dictionary.
- I love a Nonversation. I think I will probably end up Dunandunating on that.
- Not sure how my mother would respond to being called a Vidiot
- I hope this all doesn’t cause – Xenolexica
- At least by publishing this I will no longer be a Stealth-geek. I will be openly displaying by sadness and getting joy from words like pregreening. I’d like to know the word for cyclist who completely ignores red lights.
- I reckon Wurfing will inevitably get into the dictionary at some stage, I mean it’s what everyone does!
DICTIONARY OF NON WORDS;
- Accordionated – being able to drive and refold a road map at the same time
- Asphinxiation – being sick to death of unanswerable puzzles or riddles
- Blogish – a variety of English that uses a large number of initialisms, frequently used on blogs
- Dringle – the watermark left on wood caused by a glass of liquid.
- Dunandunate – the overuse of a word or phrase that has recently been added to your own vocabulary
- Earworm – a catchy tune that frequently gets stuck in your head
- Espacular – something especially spectacular
- Freegan – someone who rejects consumerism, usually by eating discarded food
- Fumb – your large toe
- Furgle – to feel in a pocket or bag for a small object such as a coin or key
- Glocalization – running a business according to both local and global considerations
- Griefer – someone who spends their online time harassing others
- Headset jockey – a telephone call centre worker
- Lexpionage – the sleuthing of words and phrases
- Locavor – a person who tries to eat only locally grown or produced food
- Museum head – feeling mentally exhausted and no longer able to take in information; Usually following a trip to a museum
- Nonversation – a worthless conversation, wherein nothing is explained or otherwise Elaborated upon
- Nudenda – an unhidden agenda
- Oninate – to overwhelm with post-dining breath
- Optotoxical – a look that could kill, normally from a parent or spouse
- Parrotise – a haven for exotic birds especially green ones
- Peppier – a waiter whose sole job is to offer diners ground pepper, usually from a large pepper mill
- Percuperate – to prepare for the possibility of being ill
- Pharming – the practice of creating a dummy website for phishing data
- Polkadodge – the dance that occurs when two people attempt to pass each other but move in the same direction
- Pregreening – to creep forwards while waiting for a red light to change
- Quackmire – the muddy edges of a duck pond
- Scrax – the waxy coating that is scratched off an instant lottery ticket
- Smushables – items that must be pack at the top of a bag to avoid being squashed
- Spatulate – removing cake mixture from the side of a bowl with a spatula
- Sprog – to go faster then a jog but slower then a sprint
- Sprummer – when summer and spring time can’t decide which is to come first, usually hot one day then cold the next
- Stealth-geek – someone who hides their nerdy interests while maintaining a normal outward appearance
- Vidiot – someone who is inept at the act of programming video recording equipment
- Whinese – a term for the language spoken by children on lengthy trips
- Wibble – the trembling of the lower lip just shy of actually crying
- Wurfing – the act of surfing the Internet while at work
- Wikism – a piece of information that claims to be true but is wildly inaccurate
- Xenolexica – a grave confusion when faced with unusual words
