Lexicography Tuesday
Jun. 11th, 2002 10:08 amTen Words I Just Made Up (defined by my friends):
Please help me come up with definitions for these words. This is how words are developed.
Update: Pappenschnot and Hoondiggle would be a good name for a band.
* Farmer's Blow: A method of clearing one's nose by blocking one nostril and blowing through the other one forcefully.
- Momolodo - (noun - slang) A code word warning friends not to use the bathroom. "Dude, that guy just dropped a momolodo. And he didn't even courtesy flush."
- Schlapf - (verb) That drooly, leaning-on-the-poor-sap-next-to-you sleeping that people do on planes and stuff.
- Rainbarge - (noun) The assorted trash that floats down the street during a heavy rain and ends up blocking the storm sewer drain.
- Flufferdiddle - (noun) The little pieces of cotton that pill up on new flannel sheets.
- Skonk - (verb) To hit on a particularly unattractive member of the opposite sex, ie; a skank.
- Nangyflipple - (verb) The act of [Alt-Tabbing] on your computer, between work and recreation. Generally to disguise the fact that you're goofing off when you should be working.
- Skarndoopy - (noun) Something Scandinavians use for wagering, as in "You bet your skarndoopy that I'm bringing the gravlax."
- Phlarp - (noun) The little bag of now-unfilled flesh that remains after lancing a boil, draining a blister or popping a particularly large zit.
- Pappenschnot - (noun) The mucosa residue left on the ground/fencepost/clothes after an older farmer type gentleman executes a "Farmer Blow*"
- Hoondiggle - (verb) The act of scraping ones hand over the carpet to make very tiny objects leap into the air.
Please help me come up with definitions for these words. This is how words are developed.
Update: Pappenschnot and Hoondiggle would be a good name for a band.
* Farmer's Blow: A method of clearing one's nose by blocking one nostril and blowing through the other one forcefully.