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December 17, 2016 · 9:40 am

New words to live by: “Spam fat”

Time, once again, for New words to live by. This is a word or phrase not currently in use in the U.S. English lexicon, but might need to be considered. Other words, such as obsurd, crumpify, subsus, flib, congressed, and others, can be found by clicking on the tags below. Today’s New Word is created by combing a sound and a noun. Without further waiting, Spam fat.

OLD WORDS
Spam, v. Original a noun meant to name a food product consisting mostly of pork and formed into a block, in the digital/computer age it became a verb meaning to inundate people with unwanted e-mails, text messages, possibly even kitten photos.

Fat, n. That adipose material that shows up on your body when and where you least want, often, but not exclusively, around the fall and winter holidays.

NEW WORD
Spam fat, n. 1. That adipose material that shows up too often and too quickly because you are being inundated with too many goodies in too short a space of time. 2. Too many e-mails in too short of time offering you last-minute gifts to buy, parties to attend, and photos of parties to which you didn’t attend or weren’t invited. This also includes post-holiday spam fat offering you ways to lose those “extra holiday pounds.”

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October 22, 2016 · 7:22 am

New words to live by: “Cackle pants”

It is time, once again, for New words to live by. This is a word or phrase not currently in use in the U.S. English lexicon, but might need to be considered. Other words, such as obsurd, crumpify, subsus, flib, congressed, and others, can be found by clicking on the tags below. Today’s New Word is created by combing a sound and a noun. Without further waiting, Cackle pants.

OLD WORDS
Cackle, v. 1. To chatter noisily; prattle. 2. Laugh in a broken, shrill manner. 3. To utter a broken, shrill sound or cry, like a hen.

Pants, n. A loose- (or sometime tight-) fitting garment for the lower part of the body with leg portions that usually reach the ankle.

NEW WORD
Cackle pants, n. 1. The sound of slightly stiff new pants, particularly wool, worn for the first time. Sometimes accompanied by static electricity sparks. 2. Somebody who has noisy flatulence. Don’t mind, Uncle Bob, he’s a bit ripe, but that’s because he’s a cackle pants. 3. A politician or person seeking public office who speaks in platitudes, generalities, banalities, conspiracies, circular or empty rhetoric. Sometimes demeaning and often predicting dire consequences if not elected.

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September 11, 2016 · 6:49 pm

New words to live by: “Freeman’s palate”

It is time, once again, for New words to live by. This is a word or phrase not currently in use in the U.S. English lexicon, but might need to be considered. Other words, such as obsurd, crumpify, subsus, flib, congressed, and others, can be found by clicking on the tags below. Today’s New Word might be considered a portmanteau word. It is created by combing a proper man and a noun. Without further waiting, Freeman palate.

OLD WORDS
Freeman, n. 1. Proper name.

palate, n. 1. Roof of the mouth (both hard and soft palate), separating the oral cavity from nasal cavity. 2. A sense of taste. 3. Mental appreciation, aesthetic or intellectual taste

NEW WORD
Freeman’s palate, n. 1. To be out at a restaurant and want what your lunch or dinner partner ordered once it has arrived over what you have ordered. It comes from Mark Freeman often hearing that from his lunch partner. That is, “Yours looks good. I should have ordered that instead of what I ordered.”

2. Can also be used in an aesthetic or intellectual sense as well. (“If he only had Freeman’s palate, he would have chosen a better dinner companion.”)

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June 12, 2016 · 7:12 am

New words to live by: “Hypocrassy”

It is time, once again, for New words to live by. This is a word or phrase not currently in use in the U.S. English lexicon, but might need to be considered. Other words, such as obsurd, crumpify, subsus, flib, congressed, and others, can be found by clicking on the tags below. Today’s New Word is a compounding of two nouns into a new word. Without further waiting, hypocrassy (hypocrisy + crass) is the new word for this month.

OLD WORDS
Hypocrisy, n. 1. A person pretending to have moral or religious beliefs, principles, or a virtuous nature that he or she does not possess. In other words, a pretense toward something virtuous. 2. An instance or act of hypocrisy.

Crass, n. 1. Devoid of delicacy, sensitivity, or refinement. Also known as gross, stupid, obtuse.

NEW WORD
Hypocrassy, n. 1. A person pretending to have moral or religious beliefs, principles, and is devoid of delicacy, sensitivity, or refinement. In other words, he or she will repeat a lie even when told it is a lie or knows it is a lie in an effort to make the lie the “known truth.” Also, a group of supposedly virtuous people all promoting the same lack of moral or religious judgment.

Example:
A certain U.S. presidential candidate who continues saying he’s going to build a wall along the Mexican border and is going to make the Mexicans pay for it, and that the wall will keep undocumented immigrants out of the United States. And because he is, a judge of Mexican decent can’t officiate at a trial that involves one of the candidate’s many failed enterprises.

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May 15, 2016 · 5:14 pm

New words to live by: “Democrazy”

It is time, once again, for New words to live by. This is a word or phrase not currently in use in the U.S. English lexicon, but might need to be considered. Other words, such as obsurd, crumpify, subsus, flib, congressed, and others, can be found by clicking on the tags below. Today’s New Word is a compounding of two nouns into a new word. Without further waiting, democrazy (demo-crazy) is the new word for this month.

OLD WORDS
Democracy, n. a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system. Or, to borrow from U.S. President Lincoln: “Government of the people, by the people, for the people….”

Crazy, n. 1. Mentally deranged, senseless, insane. 2. Unsound, impractical.

NEW WORD
Democrazy, n. 1. The illusion of democracy or the democratic process obscured by the insanity of money, the senselessness of political debates over inane subjects (e.g., hand size), and the impractical notion that whoever is elected can fix it all. 2. Every four-year mental lapse in judgment and sanity where the supreme power is invested in money and those who have. 3. Any subset thereof, in which elections can be for state, local, and non-Presidential offices. 4. The last stage of democracy before it goes totalitarian.

Campaign sold out

Campaign sold out

Example:
See your local newspaper or most any TV channel between now and November. Plenty of examples exist there.

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March 13, 2016 · 11:48 pm

New words to live by: “Emotification”

It is time, once again, for New words to live by. This is a word or phrase not currently in use in the U.S. English lexicon, but might need to be considered. Other words, such as obsurd, crumpify, subsus, flib, congressed, and others, can be found by clicking on the tags below. Today’s New Word is a compounding of two nouns into a new word. Without further waiting, emotification is the new word for this month.

OLD WORDS
Emote, v. to show or pretend emotion.

fiction, n. something invented, imagined, or feigned as in a made-up story .

NEW WORD
Emotification, n. 1. Showing pretend emotion over a made-up story. 2. Show emotion over a lie as if the strength of the emotion can vanquish to falsehood of the lie.

Example:
Senator John Snowball decried the fall of U.S. greatness, taking to the Sunday talk shows and speech circuit to excoriate those he saw as the cause of the fall: the lame-street media, foreigners taking Americans’ jobs, liberal, secular humanist and their worship of the devil, and modern ice cream makers, whom he was sure, were not putting enough fat in his low-fat ice cream. He vows to bring them all to heal by dragging them before his Senate select sub-committee on the collapse of fat and the fall of the I.Q. of the American public.

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February 21, 2016 · 10:22 am

New words to live by: “Internept”

It is time, once again, for New words to live by. This is a word or phrase not currently in use in the U.S. English lexicon, but might need to be considered. Other words, such as obsurd, crumpify, subsus, flib, congressed, and others, can be found by clicking on the tags below. Today’s New Word is a compounding of two nouns into a new word. Without further waiting, Internept is the new word for this month.

OLD WORDS
Internet, n. vast computer network linking smaller computer networks worldwide, including governmental, commercial, and education networks. Often preceded by the word “the” and sometimes capitalized: “The Internet.”

Inept, n. 1. Lacking skill or aptitude for an assignment or task. 2. Incompetent, clumsy, awkward, out-of-place.

NEW WORD
Internept, n. 1. Those times when the Internet is so slow as to be worthless, unable to perform the tasks directed to it. 2. A person so awkward, clumsy, or out of place when attempting to perform tasks on the Internet. Such a person is a step or two ahead of the Luddite.

Example:
Jim knew what they were going to say, that he was incompetent with computers, maybe even a Luddite. But he knew how to turn on a computer and to do some basic functions. It just seemed that every time he got on the Internet, the stupid thing bogged down, and no matter what he did, he couldn’t speed it up. When he asked for help, somebody accused him of being Internept.

[Editor’s note: Thank you to Ashlie for the suggestion.]

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January 9, 2016 · 11:35 pm

New words to live by: “Holiday Horse Latitudes”

It is time, once again, for New words to live by. This is a word or phrase not currently in use in the U.S. English lexicon, but might need to be considered. Other words, such as obsurd, crumpify, subsus, flib, congressed, and others, can be found by clicking on the tags below. Today’s New Word is a compounding of a word and a a phrase. Without further waiting, Holiday Horse Latitudes is the new phrase for this month.

OLD WORDS
Holiday, n. A time or period of exemption from any requirement, duty, assessment, etc. Often a day fixed by law or custom on which ordinary business is suspended in commemoration of some event or in honor of some person.

It's not easy to glide through the Holiday Horse Latitudes.

It’s not easy to glide through the Holiday Horse Latitudes.

Horse Latitudes, n. The horse latitudes are located at about 30 to 38 degrees north and south of the equator. According to legend, the term comes from ships sailing to the New World that would often become stalled for days or even weeks when they encountered areas of high pressure and calm winds. Many of these ships carried horses to the Americas as part of their cargo. Unable to sail and resupply due to lack of wind, crews often ran out of drinking water. To conserve scarce water, sailors on these ships would sometimes throw the horses they were transporting overboard. Thus, the phrase “horse latitudes” was born. Source: http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/horse-latitudes.html

NEW WORD
Holiday Horse Latitudes, n. That time of year, usually shortly after the first of a new year, when all the major holidays have been celebrated and there is not another one for several months. Usually Memorial Day, which is the end of May, in the U.S.

All that is left are a few lesser-celebrated holidays, such as President’s Day, and overly hyped pseudo-holidays like the Super Bowl.

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December 12, 2015 · 8:21 pm

New words to live by: “Indiplation”

It is time, once again, for New words to live by. This is a word or phrase not currently in use in the U.S. English lexicon, but might need to be considered. Other words, such as obsurd, crumpify, subsus, flib, congressed, and others, can be found by clicking on the tags below. Today’s New Word is a compounding of word and a suffix two words. Without further waiting, indiplation is the new word for this month.

OLD WORDS
Indigestion, n. 1. Difficulty or inability to digest food; fancy term: dyspepsia.

Contemplation, n. 1. Thoughtful observation. 2. Deep contemplation, full reflection.

NEW WORD
Indiplation, n. Nagging indigestion or churning heat burn caused by thoughtful observation or continued reflection on the foible filled state of mankind.

Homo sapiens — wise man, my ass. Homo disgustus was more like it, and that was being generous. Tom wadded up the newspaper and threw in the trash and then crunched another antacid tablet. His tenth today and it wasn’t even noon. This indiplation was eating a hole in his stomach and his wallet.

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October 18, 2015 · 7:36 pm

New words to live by: “surlen”

It is time, once again, for a new word to live by. This is a word or phrase not currently in use in the U.S. English lexicon, but might need to be considered. Other words, such as obsurd, crumpify, subsus, flib, congressed, and others, can be found by clicking on the tags below. Today’s New Word is a compounding of word and a suffix two words. Without further waiting, surlen is the new word for this month.

OLD WORDS
surly, adj. 1. Bad-tempered, churlishly rude. 2. Unfriendly; irritable.

sullen, adv., adj. 1. Ill-humored or silently ill-humored. 2. Showing irritation. 3. Sluggish, like a stream.

NEW WORD
surlen, adj. 1. Dark look of irritability. 2. Sluggish and ill-tempered. Can be rude.

Displayed most often by children between the ages of 10 and 20, who master it when told by parents or adults to do their homework, pick up their rooms, finish their chores. If looks could kill, grave diggers would be in short supply.

Sometimes referred to as the “passive-aggressive up yours.”

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