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September 13, 2015 · 4:26 pm

New words to live by: “Awkwapella”

It is the first or second weekend of the month and 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, awkwapella is the new word for this month.

Old Words
awkward, adj. 1. Missing social graces or manners. 2. Caused by a lack of social grace. [Editor’s note: There are other definitions for awkward, but these are the two best applicable to the new word.]

a cappella, adv., adj.. without instrument accompaniment.

New Word
awkwapella, adj. an unplanned and often awkward activity that suddenly casts full and unwanted attention on you.

For example, doing something embarrassing in front of others, especially your peers, co-workers, or friends that gets you attention from everybody in the immediate area. Maybe you have a noticeable laugh, which you try to hide by only laughing when everybody laughs, but then once you keep laughing after everybody else has stopped. Or maybe you start laughing at something, believing others will join you, but they never do.

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August 9, 2015 · 11:10 am

New words to live by: “citybilly” and “hill slicker”

It is the first or second weekend of the month and 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, citybilly and hill slicker are the new words / phrases for this month.

Old Words
Hillbilly, n. a person from a remote or backwoods area, usually meaning somebody from the Appalachian Mountains in the southern U.S.

City slicker, n. a term, often meant disparagingly, for a natty dressed, worldly focused city dweller.

New Words
Citybilly, n. second, even third generation hillbilly who has moved to the city but retains many if not most of their hillbilly ways. Also, those who act like hillbillies in the city even if they have been city dwellers for some time/generations.

Hill slicker, n. city person who has moved to the country, but still retains many of his or her city ways and expects the same big city amenities in the country setting. Think of the wife, Lisa Douglas, in TV sitcom Green Acres.

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June 21, 2015 · 5:33 pm

New words to live by: “Wallowacity”

It is the first or second (or in this case, third) weekend of the month and 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, Wallowacity is the new word / phrase for this month:

Wallow, n. The ability to self-indulge or revel.

-acity, noun suffix meaning “strong characteristic of” or “quality of.” or It is Latin suffix and appears Latin words such as tenacity.
tenacity.

New word Wallowacity, n. The state or degree to which you can master wallowing.

Example: There are few things that a man can do that woman can’t do equally as well and sometimes better. There is one thing, though, that men are more naturally born to and that is wallowing. From a young age, boys begin mastering the art of wallowing, but it rarely comes into full bloom or full wallowacity until around 55 years of age.

Boys may read about great men such as George Washington or Napoleon, sports greats such as Babe Ruth, great composers such as Mozart or dynamic world leaders such as Martin Luther King, Jr., but the men most of them grow up secretly admiring and then emulating is the guy in their circle of friends who has achieved his full wallow potential, his full wallowacity.

Maybe this entry was a week late due to a bit of wallowacity.

Just the gift to give dad for Father’s Day.

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May 10, 2015 · 9:13 pm

New Words to live by: “Conscience sedation”

It is the first or second weekend of the month and 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 two words. Without further waiting, conscience sedation is the new word / phrase for this month:

Conscience, n.the self-guided sense of what is right or wrong in one’s conduct or motives, impelling one toward right action, such as following one’s conscience.

2. the complex of ethical and moral principles that controls or inhibits the actions or thoughts of an individual.

Sedation, n. 1. calming of mental excitement or abatement of physiological function, often by administering a drug, also known as a sedative.

2. the state so induced.

How about Conscience sedation?

Conscience sedation, n. 1. the mental condition or state by which you sedate your conscience in order to function in a situation. At best, you are amoral, but more likely a sociopath. This state can be achieved by drugs or by accepting whole heartedly a misguided ideology (Faux News, NRA, Tea Party), or sometimes by running for political office.

2. the state so induced

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April 11, 2015 · 8:20 pm

New words to live by: “Disrot”

It is the first or second weekend of the month and 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 a prefix and a root word. Without further waiting, disrot is the new word / phrase for this month:

Dis, a Latin prefix meaning “apart,” “asunder,” “away,” “utterly,” or having a privative, negative, or reversing force.

(For example: disrobe means to remove robe or clothing. Dismount means to climb off the mount, usually an animal such as a horse.)

Rot, v. 1.to undergo decomposition; decay.
2. to deteriorate, disintegrate, fall, or become weak due to decay (often followed by away, from, off, etc.).
3. to languish, as in confinement.
4. to become morally corrupt or offensive.

How about Disrot?

Disrot, v. What happens after spending 5 snow days with your kids, once they have returned to school. You disrot. What happens after a long and tedious meeting in which much is said but little is accomplished. Example: Once the meeting was over, she felt herself disrot. Second example: Once he stopped watching Faux News, he felt himself begin to disrot, and it was a freeing and scary feeling.

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March 22, 2015 · 1:49 am

New words to live by: “slop kick”

It is the second full weekend of the month and 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 two words cackle and brain. Without further chattering, slop kick is the new word / phrase for this month:

slop, n. 1) badly cooked or unappetizing drink or food. 2) liquid carelessly spilled or sloshed about. (There are other definitions, but these will do.)

v. the act of the liquid sloshing over the edge of its container. (The liquid slopped to the floor.)

kick, v. 1) to drive with a foot or feet (as in kick the ball). 2) to force, drive, make, etc. 3) to strike in recoiling (as in a gun kicking the shooter when it recoils).

How about slop kick?

slop kick, v. The act of hastily passing off to somebody else something you don’t want to do, but then you still find yourself stuck with at least part of what you tried to get rid of. Often, the most unwanted part.

Example: Barbara slop kicked the Van Buren project to me, but still found herself part of the team tasked with the completing the project, and she was assigned the part she liked least.

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February 8, 2015 · 8:00 pm

New words to live by: “Cacklebrain”

It is the first or second weekend of the month and 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 two words cackle and brain. Without further chattering, cacklebrain is the new word / phrase for this month:

Cackle, n. 1) chatter or idle talk. 2) a form of laughter, usually shrill and broken in nature. 3) the sound of such laughter.

(There is also a verb form meaning idle talk, prattle, or to sound like a hen, or laugh in a shrill, broken manner, but the noun form is more what we are interested in here.)

Brain, n. Anatomy. That oblong organ sitting on top of your neck, enclosed in cranium, composed of two halves of convoluted gray and white matter directing your central nervous system.

How about Cacklebrain?

Cacklebrain, n. A person whose brain and mouth are full of shrill, idle patter, laughter always at somebody else’s expense, and an overweening sense of self-importance. In short, to motor your mouth with your mind in neutral and think you have said something profound. Example, most Fox network commentators. Example, Sarah Palin.

Cacklebrain is related to loopid another New Word. Exposure to Cacklebrains is a strong sign of Loopidity, a spiraling condition from which few escape.

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November 2, 2014 · 2:16 pm

New words to live by: “Auto Body Experience”

It is the first weekend of the month and time 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 three words: Auto, Body, and Experience. Without further chattering, Auto Body Experience is the new word / phrase for this month:

Auto, n. an object, such as a car or truck that propels itself by way of an engine.

Body, n. the physical structure of a plant, animal, or human, dead or alive.

Experience, n. a specific instance of personally undergoing, encountering, or observing something.

Auto Body Experience, n. The total of what happens when you experience a wreck while you are in your own car. It similar to but not the same as an out-of-body experience. With an Auto Body Experience, there is often a jolt of unreality, particularly if you get hit from behind and are at first confused as to what is happening.

Whether you see it coming or not, whether it involves other cars, or only your car, you, and a stationary object — such as a guard rail after you and your car have started spinning on a thin sheet of ice — there is nothing quite like an Auto Body Experience.

And then there is all the paperwork.

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October 4, 2014 · 7:04 am

New words to live by: “Loopid”

It is the first weekend of the month and time 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 merging of two words: Loop and Stupid. Without further chattering, Loopid is the new word for this month:

Loop, n. an object, such as a string, rope, or wire folded or turned back on itself, sometimes so that what goes out will come back on itself. Example, a feedback loop when the original signal keeps repeating itself.

Stupid, adj. dull, foolish, senseless, either a person or idea.

Loopid, adj. When you are so stupid, you don’t know how stupid you are and because of that, you continue to remain stupid, but may nonetheless think you are smart. Also known as a Loop Stupid.

n. One who is Loop Stupid.

To further explain the concept here is a short video.

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August 10, 2014 · 6:05 pm

New words to live by: “law of the inverse square”

It is the second weekend of the month and time again for a new word to live. 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. This month’s New Word is related to aging and being a parent: law of the inverse square.

Inverse-square law

Inverse-square law

Inverse-square law = In physics, this means the further you stand from an electromagnetic source (For example, light), the less radiation you will receive? That depends on how far from the source you stand. If you stand two feet further back from where you were, you will receive ¼ th the amount. If you stand six feet back, you will receive 1/36th the amount.

An expression that could elicit "the look."

An expression that could elicit “the look.”

Law of the inverse square = the further you get from your childhood in terms of age and maturity (at least to some degree), the more you will start sounding like at least one of your parents. This can be in tone of voice, mannerisms, phrases, and temperament. In this case, the further away in time you travel, the more pronounced these things become. You become the “square” (parent) you promised yourself you wouldn’t be when you grew up, particularly the stern side of your parents. The law giver

For example, as your child grows up and asks the 20th time why something has to be done, you snap back with the same tone and inflection as your father, “Because I said so.”

Or, if you’re a mother, you give your child “the look,” which was the same look your mother gave you.

Training is not required. It happens, in an eerie, secretive, delayed genetic development sort of way.

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