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August 4, 2013 · 4:52 pm

New Word to Live By: “Blankenstein”

First Saturday (or Sunday) of the month. Time for new words to live by. Once a month on the first Saturday (or Sunday) of each month, I will list a new word. This is NOT a word you are likely to find in the dictionary. It is a new word, often a portmanteau word, sometimes just a new word not made from merging two other words. Some of the previous words have included: obsurd, a combination of obscure and absurd, obscure absurdity means something obsurd. These new words might even be considered an exercise in obsurdity.

Here now is the new word.

Blankenstein, n., 1) The blank look on your computer monitor when the hard drive has crashed and all your files are gone, the program has crashed and your important work is gone, or your computer won’t start up for some reason, such as the motherboard gone band, and you can’t access your folders and files. In some cases, also known as “The Blue Screen of Death.”

Beware the Blankenstein!

Beware the Blankenstein!

2) The blank look on a low level business or government functionary who, while claiming to help you, is actually doing nothing to aid your situation. The blank or dead eye look and the monotone voice are often signs of the Blankenstein in non-action. While this can sometimes be confused with being lost in thought, it is more the thought, on the part of the functionary, that you will get lost.

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July 6, 2013 · 11:51 pm

New Word: “Face tedious”

It is the first Saturday 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. Today’s New Word is actually a phrase instead of word maybe by merging two other words as has been the case before. Still, without further chattering is the new word for the month of July:

Face tedious, n. what you become to others when you spend too much time on Facebook and other social media commenting and posting too often with too little to actually say. In short, a virtual bore, or “vore.”

Example: Bob kept commenting on Sam’s vacation photos posted on Facebook. He had commented so much and so often that he was a face tedious to all of Sam’s other friends who had liked or commented on the photos, because they kept getting notifications that Bob had commented yet again. None of them “liked” Bob’s comments any more and many of them wished for a “vore” symbol to click to send Bob a message.

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June 1, 2013 · 11:08 pm

New word: “crumpify”

First Saturday of the month. Time for new words to live by. Once a month on the first Saturday of each month, I will list a new word. This is NOT a word you are likely to find in the dictionary. It is a new word, often a portmanteau word, sometimes just a new word not made from merging two other words. Some of the previous words have included: obsurd, a combination of obscure and absurd, obscure absurdity means something obsurd. These new words might even be considered an exercise in obsurdity.

Here now is the new word.

Crumpify: v., to crumple something multiple times or in multiple ways, so as to leave it in a multiple crumpled state. It can still be useable in this state, but is often seen as a transitional state to something better.

For example: “If I crumpify my car enough, maybe my parents will buy me the sports car I always wanted.”

Crumpified: adj., the condition of being in a state of crumpification, i.e., multiple crumples.

For example: On Monday, Joey found the crumpified gum he had stuck under his school desk on Friday. He peeled it off, popped it into his mouth and chewed on it for a several minutes until it was soft again. It had lost some of its flavor, but he could still blow a bubble with the double-wad he had started off with.

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May 4, 2013 · 11:00 pm

New word: “subsus”

In this day and time health experts across the country are telling Americans that the average American diet is a wreck: two low in fiber, too high in fat, too high in salt, too many calories, etc. What is needed is a word to capture all this, and here it is: subsus.

Subsus is a combination of
Substandard: adj., meaning below standard or less than adequate.

and

Sustenance: n., means of sustaining life, nourishment.

Now, your doctor or health professional, when he or she tells you to lose weight and eat better, can sum it all up with one word: subsus. “Fred, as you know, your subsus will be your undoing, first of your belt, then your pants’ button, and then your very health.”

Fred then will heave a big sigh and promise to do better, but after several mornings of nothing but one poached egg, one piece of plain, un-buttered toast, and one cup of tepid, black coffee, Fred may feel he is suffering subsus of a different sort.

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March 23, 2013 · 11:57 pm

New word: “Flib”

We are all looking for ways to cut back, and here is a way to cut back on words: flib.

See the definitions below and how the new word is used. Maybe flib can become the next big thing in its own little, trivial way.

Old Words to create new word:
Flippant, adj. lacking in seriousness, maybe characterized by levity; shallow, humorously disrespectful.

Fib, n. minor falsehood; trivial or small lie

New word:
Flib, n. small, trivial lie or falsehood lacking in seriousness, and may contain levity.

Example of new word in action:
Wife: Honey, do I look fat in this dress.

Husband: Dear, that dress was made for you and all your splendor.

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March 2, 2013 · 2:18 pm

New word: “congressed”

Upon occasion, it seems that there are gaps in the English language: experiences, ideas, emotions, and even eventualities that don’t quite have a word to identify them. Today, we have one such experience in need of a new definition…

They congressed.

v.i. (verb intransitive): To meet for no discernible reason, to then accomplish no discernible goal, and then to adjourn with no discernible conclusion.

Speeches can be made, positions staked out, even bills passed out, but all of little note in addressing the issues at hand.

They congressed despite themselves, and were well paid for it.

As well as a verb intransitive which means a verb that needs no direct object, this is a new classification of verb, known as the verb intransigent: meaning a verb that has no direct object and does no direct work due to the entropy of ideology, intellect, or the simple overwhelming asinine nature of the persons congressing.

A fine example of a place where congressing takes place. A place where good governing goes to die.

A fine example of a place where congressing takes place. A place where good governing goes to die.

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December 23, 2012 · 7:23 pm

New word: “Untree”

What is a succinct way to say the main course of your meal, your entree is not up to expectation?

You can stick any number of adjectives before the noun. For example, bad entree, lackluster entree, limp entree. But in our fast-paced society, maybe there is a need for a one-word noun that covers the issue.

That’s why we, to collective perspicacity of this blog suggest this new word: “untree.”

For example, “Waiter, my untree.”

That is all you would have to say. You wouldn’t have to say, “Waiter, my entree is unacceptable.”

Just say: “Waiter, my untree.”

bowl of oatmeal

Sometimes breakfast is the most untree of the day.

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August 10, 2012 · 3:04 pm

New word to live by: “festidious”

Every now and then there comes a need for a new word. Toward that end, we here at Booker’s Blog will from time to time put forth new words for consideration. We hope you will give them their proper consideration, and if you find them useful, bring them like a new friend into your daily life.

New word: festidious:
A combination of fastidious and fetish.

Fastidious, adj., hard to please; excessively particular, critical, or demanding

Fetish, n., any object, idea, etc., eliciting unquestioning reverence, respect, or devotion: to make a fetish of high grades.

Festidious: a fastidious fetish, near irrational adherence to rules, ideas, persons, body parts, etc.

Used in a sentence: He was festidious to the point of obsurdity (another new word) in the way he folded and put away his underwear. If there was any woman who could understand him and please him in this area, he would marry her, even if he had to festidiously force her into it.

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