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[jon_chaisson]

The latest Oxford English Dictionary has been revealed and supposedly lists 150 ways to insult someone (including my favorite one, "chucklehead")...WOOT!

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/08/11/dictionary.words.reut/index.html

Part of the story mentions words that are actually mixes of two words into one (charity+mugger (e.g., street person looking for a hand out)="chugger", labrador+poodle=labradoodle), and it got me thinking: post your own mutations (real or made up) here that you like to use or would like to see used in current slang. I'm very curious to see what we can come up with.

Post away, kiddies!

Comments

[chaoticmoth.livejournal.com]

I've always liked "vidiot" for someone addicted to television. I take pride in being a member of that club.

[mekkasimian.livejournal.com]

AFTER LONG GAMING SESSION, brainiacfive DESCRIBE SOMETHING AS "STUPID", BUT TIRED BRAIN SWITCH TO "DUMB" MID-WORD.

SO COME OUT: "STUM"

SIMIANS USE EVER SINCE.

=M=

[emmalyon.livejournal.com]

I use stuff like "fantabulous" and "craptacular" all the time....I am also continually amused by the made-up words which is see at work, like "comfortablity".

[joncwriter.livejournal.com]

oh, some of the words I see in the files I scan are just horrendous, like they decided that multiple prefixes and suffixes are a good thing.

[empress-schwa.livejournal.com]

I was suprised it took this long for "lush" to make it.

[dasmarzipan.livejournal.com]

I took a peek and you know, I hate that the word "pottymouth" has made it into the dictionary. Along those same lines...another beef, the phrase, "that joke made me pee my pants". If I must be explicit, it's "pee IN my pants". The fact that folks deliberately skip that just drive me NUTS. AND, I've only heard folks from certain areas use it, so it lends a certain bias to me to which I otherwise wouldn't pay attention. Grrrr.

I've only seen the very beginning of "Kissing Jessica Stein", but it makes fun of all of these guys that Jessica is dating...they misuse words like crazy, which made me laugh. I think the character is a writer.