Self-invented words ...

[anothersam]

I came up with ‘neologism’, a complicated word used to describe how the protagonist of The Matrix struggled with the logic of the new world he discovered he was living in and how a critic might rate the film on a par with a certain bodily fluid… but somehow it took on a different meaning.

 

[monkers]

I came up with ‘neologism’, a complicated word used to describe how the protagonist of The Matrix struggled with the logic of the new world he discovered he was living in and how a critic might rate the film on a par with a certain bodily fluid… but somehow it took on a different meaning.

Oh I think you were beaten to that one. I've heard that word a number of times. Sure enough the dick 'n' harry says first attested in 1772.

 

[Archie_tect]

Not so much new words but phrases that our family's picked up from various places and started to use when the children were small...
"a whole new can of beans" [alternative view]
"a prawn in a teacup" [mountain out of a molehill]
"sticks of dynamite", [battery level on a mobile phone]
"dipstick" [USB memory stick]
"par cark" [where to cark your par]
"miece pissing" [the moment you realise your jigsaw is ruined and you've wasted your entire life]

 

[Fab Foodie]

One of mine is Mythapprehension....

 

[Toshiba Boy]

In our family, if someone has done something particularly well, they are duly advised they deserve a stickyfoot, based on a friend's young child who had received a "stickyfoot" at school from her headteacher for a a very good piece of work.

 

[ColinJ]

One of mine is Mythapprehension....

A morbid fear of lithpers...

 

[Dave7]

I seem to recall putting this on another thread many moons ago but.....
Years back our friends daughter who was about 5 years old was getting herself wound up and really wanted to call her Mum some names.
With steam coming out of her ears she told her Mum......."you are, you are....a scrimbog. And a blumph".
Probably not funny to others but me and MrsD still chuckle over it.
Spelling is mine of course.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

One of mine is Mythapprehension....

Failing to catch the culprit?

 

[Profpointy]

I invented twunt and shonky. I sold the latter to Richard Hammond for a tenner, half a pack of Bensons, and a well thumbed copy of Razzle.

In the police a flock of sergeants is called a 'confusion'.

"Shonky" is a longstanding Australian word for products or services not of the highest quality, or individuals / organisations of questionable ethics

 

[Profpointy]

Not a word, but a phrase coined by a work colleague. He was a Finnish guy, and though he had excellent English couldn't think of the right word to use when I came into work unshaven and looking somewhat scruffy one day - "you look like a ....mmm, park man"

 

[Brains]

I genuinely have given two words to the English Language;

Acid Jazz:
When trying to explain the new type of music some friends were putting together, another acquaintance then 'borrowed' the term for the name of his new record company, which in turn was then used by the music industry of the time.

Karaoke:
Long story, but we acquired the first and only Karaoke system in Europe back in 1988.
(It ran with a 24" CRT television and 12" laser discs, 12 songs per disc, each disc cost £100, it took us several hours to set it all up)

We set up a club and tried to come up with a name for the idea, "Sing along a record" and "Club Singing" just did not work, so we called it "Okey Kokey Kara Oke"
We literally had them queuing around the block for 9 months until an importer than bought in a load of new generation Japanese Karaoke machines that ran on the 'new' (and much cheaper) CD/DVD format and within a month every pub in the land had a Karaoke night.

 

[Wobbling]

When my children were young even though having no interest I picked up on the non sensible name iky poo in I think the mikado sorry for the spelling for the better educated.This proved invaluable and still does if I wanted to swear very loudly over a long period of time .
I have no idea why I say it and obviously get funny looks but am considered eccentric rather than foul mouthed .
Please if moderating on responses to this take into account that it is very weird

 

[The Bystander]

Sophisted technocrodge are two "words" that tumbled from my mouth while attempting to explain to somebody that they didn't need such "sophisticated technology" for something or other.
I may have been temporarily possessed by the spirit of the late Stanley Unwin.

 

[Moon bunny]

Ah, I had commenced speculation about your reading ability, based upon your apparent poor grammatical and oratory prowess

It was I that took the word 'fiddler', slang for a player of the violin or viola, and applied it to the burgeoning ranks of 70s celebrity perverts.

Not funny but:
https://theukdatabase.net/2012/05/22/christopher-fiddler-carlisleupperby/

 

[Bonefish Blues]

A snork is any kind of tube, such as a vacuum cleaner hose.