Gassassination

Meaning: What the guy sitting next to you, does to you, when he farts. Usually not fatal, although it is known to knock a few unconscious.
Pronunciation: Gassa-see-nay-shun
Usage: With the recent spotlight on the use of various torture techniques by interrogators at Guantanamo Bay, authorities are seriously looking at gassasination techniques. Interrogators are being encouraged to eat exotic food.
Root: Gas +assassination

Numching

Meaning: The process of crunching numbers.
Pronunciation: Num-ching
Usage: Excel is an excellent tool for numching. I must add that it is about the only tool that makes MS Office worth buying.
Root: Number+Crunching

Crumbers

Meaning: Crunched numbers, numbers that are created by being processed in spreadsheets.
Pronunciation: Crum-bers
Uasge: The crumbers indicate a bearish real estate market for the foreseeable future.
Root: Crunched + Numbers

Zingredient

Meaning: That which adds spunk, spirit & life to anything.
Pronunciation: Zing-greed-dee-yunt.
Usage: Without a zingredient we will all be zombies.
Root: Zing + Ingredient.

Zymogul

Meaning: The king of breweries.
Pronunciation: Zy-mo-gul.
Usage: Vijay Mallya wishes to emerge as the undisputed zymogul of the world.
Root: Zymo (Greek word that means to brew) + Mogul.

Zedifice

Meaning: The last building in a street, road, town or village.
Pronunciation: Zed-if-is.
Usage: The coordinates for my house is - it's about 3 buildings before the zedifice on the Elm Street in Transylvania.
Root: Zed (the last alphabet) + Edifice.

Zaradushta

Meaning: Being slightly evil.
Pronunciation: Za-ra-dhoosh-ta.
Usage: Even a saint has been a zaradushta sometime in his life.
Root: Zara (Urdu word for little) + Dushta (Sanskrit word for evil).

XBoxidation

Meaning: The charged state of a person playing a video or a computer game.
Pronunciation: X-box-C-dation.
Usage: Some experts are of the view that XBoxidation generates more excitement than sex.
Root: XBox + Oxidation (a chemical reaction to injection of oxygen).
Related Coinage: XBoxidated (being in a state of XBoxidation).

Xenohow

Meaning: Knowledge on aliens and their behaviour.
Pronunciation: Xee-know-how.
Usage: Life would have been far more interesting if I had acquired xenohow instead of a degree in mining engineering.
Root: Xeno (alien) + Knowhow (knowledge).

Xerockstar

Meaning: A musician who's turned popular by lifting songs from here & there.
Pronunciation: Xerox-sta.
Usage: Deva's trackrecord will earn him a well-deserved berth in the Xerockstar Hall of Fame.
Root: Xerox (the rolemodel for copycats) + Rockstar.

Palluminous

Meaning: Looking eye-catchingly lustrous in a luxurious saree.
Pronunciation: Pal-luminous.
Usage: Marriages are the only occasions when one gets to see palluminous women these days.
Root: Pallu (the free hanging end of the saree that's usually laden with zari) + Luminous.

Vegatable Pushao

Meaning: Vegatable Pulao that tastes awful.
Pronunciation: Obvious.
Usage: After my unforgettable vegetable pushao, I don't think anyone will ever ask me to play cook.
Root: The opposite of pull is push. A pulao usually tastes good. So a pushao should by definition taste bad. The only way a Vegetable Pushao will be consumed is by pushing it down your throats.

Kaviyal

Meaning: A collabarative poem.
Pronunciation: Ka-we-yal.
Usage: The kaviyal format offers exciting possibilities. Imagine an epic on the Kauravas created jointly by a hundred poets.
Root: Kavi (Poet in Hindi) + Aviyal (Mish Mash in Tamil).

Slamsaab

Meaning: An arse licking flunkey.
Pronunciation: Slam-saab.
Usage: I don't wanna work in a company that expects me to be a slamsaab.
Root: The anglicised version of 'Salaam Saab' (a hindi expression that translates to 'I salute you sir').

Dissrael

Meaning: Offend someone so much that they decide to retaliate in kind.
Pronunciation: Dis-rail.
Usage: The Hizbollah's dissreal strategy has boomeranged.
Root: Diss (to slight, insult or disrespect) + Israel (a country with a reputation of hitting back).

Clockupation

Meaning: Time pass.
Pronunciation: Clock-you-pay-shun.
Usage: When I am jobless at office, I hone my gaming skills for clockupation.
Root: Clock (time) + Occupation

NRP

Meaning: Abbreviation for Negotiable Retail Price.
Pronunciation: En-ar-pee.
Usage: The Burma Bazaar chap quoted an NRP of Rs. 120 for the DVD.
Root: Haggling is so common in bazaars across India. While the branded goods are sold at MRP (Maximum Retail Price), there is no fixed rate for commodities. Whatever the final price, the seller always judges the customer and makes a first quote, this is what I've called the NRP (Negotiable Retail Price).

Mull Qaeida

Meaning: Thought terrorists.
Pronunciation: Mull-ky-da.
Usage: The creative community is often the target of the mull qaeida.
Root: Mull (Think) + Al Qaeida (a terrorist organisation).

Botempered

Meaning: Completely cold, machine like behaviour.
Pronunciation: Bot-tempered.
Usage: Who'd like to work in an office where everyone is botempered?
Root: Bot (short form for robot) + Tempered.

Chucking Footh

Meaning: A euphemism for fucking chooth.
Pronunciation: Obvious.
Usage: Don't marry him. He's a chucking footh.
Root: Spoonerism of fucking chooth (a hinglish expletive that rougly translates to 'a guy who cannot think beyond the pussy').

Fisterical

Meaning: Uncontrollably violent.
Pronunciation: Fist-terry-cull.
Usage: The English hooligans turned fisterical when England where denied the penalty.
Root: So hysterical that one gets into fistcuffs.

Bastard Piece

Meaning: A planted article in a newspaper of unknown origin.
Pronunciation: Obvious.
Usage: You can tell a bastard piece by just looking at the missing byline.
Root: Self explanatory.

Telemination

Meaning: Using telephonic interviews to filter out unwanted candidates.
Pronunciation: Telly-me-nation.
Usage: I have shortlisted people based on a process of telemination.
Root: Telephone + Elimination.
Related Coinages: Teleminator - one who uses this technique. Teleminated - a victim of this technique.

Favour Curry

Meaning: A mix of inducements to get a job done.
Pronunciation: Self explanatory.
Usage: The bureaucrat didn't pass the project even after feasting on our favour curry. We need to find another way of tackling him.
Root: From the existing phrase 'curry favour'.

Clappetite

Meaning: A craving for applause.
Pronunciation: Clap-pit-tight.
Usage: Anybody who's anybody has a large clappetite.
Root: Clap + Appetite.

Flawndry

Meaning: Where blemishes, mistakes & obvious weaknesses are ironed out.
Pronunciation: Obvious.
Usage: Manmohan Singh's blundering government needs to visit a flawndry for a makeover.
Root: Flaw + Laundry.

Funecdote

Meaning: An anecdote that's been spiced-up to inject some mirth in conversations.
Pronunciation: Fun-neck-dote.
Usage: The degree of masala added in a funecdote is a function of the audience profile.
Root: Fun + Anecdote.

Zidance

Meaning: Head butting.
Pronunciation: Zee-dance.
Usage: Instead of staging a walkout, it will be more entertaining if our parliamentarians do the zidance.
Root: Zidane's (pronounced zidance) now famous headbutt in the 2006 World Cup Soccer Finals.

Slogmatism

Meaning: The stubborn belief that sheer hard work can earn you success.
Pronunciation: Slog-mat-ism.
Related Coinage: Slogmatic - one who has such a belief.
Usage: Slogmatics have reduced our beautiful world into a mindless factory.
Root: Slog + Dogmatism.

Phinicky

Meaning: Fussy about sharing the phone number.
Pronunciation: Ff-finicky.
Usage: I wonder why nobody is phinicky in this country.
Root: Ph (Short form for phone) + Finicky.

Deja Deja Vu

Meaning: The feeling of having already experienced the feeling of having already experienced the present situation.
Pronunciation: Day-zha-day-zha-woo.
Usage: Ground Hog Day is full of deja deja vus.
Root: Deja (already) + Vu (seen).

Fuckonteur

Meaning: A person who loves to recount tales of his or her sexual conquests.
Pronunciation: Fuck-con-tear.
Usage: After a few shots, Jeffrey the fuckonteur, subjected us to yet another wham-bam episode from his colourful life.
Root: Fuck + Raconteur.

Roughree

Meaning: A football refree who doles out red cards by the dozen.
Pronunciation: Rough-ree.
Usage: Roughrees inject drama into otherwise dull matches.
Root: Rough + Refree.

Buystander

Meaning: A curious onlooker in a shopping mall.
Pronunciation: Same as bystander.
Usage: At any point of time, Spencer's Mall has a thousand buystanders.
Root: Buy + Bystander.

Desibelle

Meaning: A loudmouthed Indian woman.
Pronunciation: They-see-bell.
Usage: A desibelle is the English equivalent of a bajaari.
Root: Sounds like Decibel (the measure of sound intensity). Desi (Hindi for Indian) + Belle.

Kithyadi

Meaning: All your distant friends and acquaintances.
Pronunciation: Kith-ya-dhee.
Usage: Ever since I've joined an NGO, I've been shamelessly approaching my kith, kin and even kithyadi for donations.
Root: Kith (friends & acquaintances) + Ithyadi (Sanskrit word for et cetera).

Lackamaidical

Meaning: A state of laziness caused by over-reliance upon a maid.
Pronounciation: Lack-a-maid-i-cal
Usage: My spoilt cousin is becoming a little too lackamaidical - after finishing a meal, he just leaves the table, expecting the maid to clear away his cutlery.
Root: Lackadaisical + Maid

Tupperweary

Meaning: The state of mind of a multi-level marketer after seeing little or no profit from the venture.
Pronunciation: Tupper-wear-ree.
Usage: My cousin was so enthusiastic about network marketing, initially. Now she's tupperweary.
Root: Tupperware (a famed network marketer) + Weary (fatigued).

Rupeace

Meaning: That stage of life, when money doesn't affect you anymore.
Pronunciation: Rup-peace.
Usage: The quest for rupeace can be one helluva journey.
Root: Rupees (Indian currency) + Peace (state of equilibrium).

Cribgyor

Meaning: A colorful crib session.
Pronunciation: Crib-gee-or.
Usage: No raise? No promotions? Time you organised a cribgyor.
Root: Crib + Vibgyor (The seven colours of the rainbow).

Punadulterated

Meaning: Without resorting to silly puns.
Pronunciation: Pun-adult-ta-rated.
Usage: British humour is punadulterated fun.
Root: Pun + Unadulterated.

Himbroglio

Meaning: A messy affair with a man.
Pronunciation: Him-brog-leo.
Usage: I wonder how Jo will get out of the Surya himbroglio.
Root: Him + Imbroglio.

Sooniversity

Meaning: An institution that lets you pick a skill very quickly by offering crash courses. The courses may be of dubious nature, though.
Pronunciation: Obvious.
Usage: I am an amateur astronaut. I studied rocket science at a sooniversity named NASA (Nair's Academy for Science & Astronomy).
Root: Soon + University.

70mm Goof

Meaning: A really big mistake that one can't hide even if one tries.
Pronunciation: Self explanatory.
Usage: George Bush's every tiny blooper is accorded the status of a 70mm goof.
Root: 70mm (Cinematic metaphor for larger than life) + Goof (blunder).

Tantronyms

Meaning: The colourful expletives used when one throws a tantrum.
Pronunciation: Tan-tro-nyms.
Usage: Captain Haddock has a lovely repertoire of tantronyms.
Root: Tantrum (fit of anger) + Nyms (names)

Aladdin Offer

Meaning: An unbelievably enticing sales scheme.
Pronunciation: Obvious.
Usage: The colour TV sop in the Tamil Nadu elections was an Aladdin Offer that zapped many.
Root: In the Aladdin fairy tale, the evil wizard offers a brand new lamp for the old one. The exchange offer seems so good, that Aladdin's princess takes it up without any thought.

Buffet Cheque

Meaning: A huge sum of money donated to a charitable organisation for an assortment of social causes.
Pronunciation: Obvious.
Usage: NGOs in India are still waiting for that buffet cheque from the Ambanis.
Root: Warren Buffet's plans to donate almost $35 billion to the Bill Gates foundation.

Warnography

Meaning: A series of particularly lewd text messages (a single one is referred to as a Warnograph)
Pronounciation; Warn-awe-graph-ee
Usage: At the end of the last Ashes series, a number of young English women had their cell phones filled with copious amounts of Warnography
Root: Shane Warne + pornography

Pastel Journalism

Meaning: Reporting on softer fields like art, music, movies & literature.
Pronunciation: Self explanatory.
Usage: The New Yorker is a great advertisement for pastel journalism.
Root: Yellow Journalism is hard hitting & unscrupulous. Pastel journalism is at the opposite end of the spectrum. It's based on facts. Focuses on un-sensational topics. And doesn't try to run down anyone, without basis.

Clingfisher

Meaning: A person who shamelessly latches on to a group or a friend for the sake of free beer.
Pronunciation: Obvious.
Usage: My booze bill ballooned the moment 3 clingfishers from my office gatecrashed into our private party.
Root: Cling (trait of a parasite) + Kingfisher (India's largest selling beer brand).

Leophilist

Meaning: A person obsessed with collecting Cannes Lions.
Pronunciation: Lee-yo-fill-list.
Usage: Brand building is a secondary pursuit for the leophilists.
Root: Leo (Latin for Lion ) + Philist (One who collects). The Cannes Lion is an award that every creative person craves for. This word aspires to describe such people.

Gentamoeba

Meaning: An unremarkable man whose presence you won't even notice.
Pronunciation: Gent-um-me-ba.
Plural: Gentamoebae.
Usage: Let's face it. 98% of men folk are gentamoebae.
Root: Gent + Entamoeba (formless, shapeless, almost invisible organism).

Pecksuberant

Meaning: 1. Unrestrained in kissing. 2. Profuse kisser.
Pronunciation: Peck-soo-ber-runt.
Usage: Never show your cheek to a pecksuberant man.
Root: Peck + Exuberant.

Patlivation

Meaning: The low levels of motivation when you know you have a very slim chance of achieving your goal.
Pronunciation: Puth-lee-way-shun.
Usage: "The boys need to shed their patlivation if we have to win the world cup," said the captain of Zimbabwe cricket team.
Root: Moti in hindi is fat. Thin in Hindi is patli. Replace the 'moti' in motivation with 'patli' you get patlivation.

Maxiaturize

Meaning: To think, plan or design on a very large scale.
Pronunciation: Max-see-a-ch-er-rise
Usage: You need to maxiaturize to make a film like Antz, rivetting.
Root: The opposite of miniaturize.

Fadverb

Meaning: A new word that is suddenly in vogue.
Pronunciation: Rhymes with adverb.
Usage: Podcast is the fadverb of the year.
Root: Fad + Verb (Latin for word).

Knowyali

Meaning: A person with a mental disorder.
Pronunciation: No-ya-lee.
Usage: If you really analyse, every man is a knowyali.
Root: Know (a measure of the mental faculty) + Noyali (tamil word for one who needs treatment).

Aishtray

Meaning: to lose direction in life and get indulged in proscribed pleasures.
Pronounciation: æsh-tray
Usage: Baby Mahajan went aishtray after his father's death.
Root: aish(Hindi for "to indulge oneself in forbidden activities") + astray

Snort Circuit

Meaning: Shut down of the body when one snorts more than what one can take.
Pronunciation: Obvious.
Usage: What happened in Vivek Moitra's case was a snort circuit of sorts.
Root: Snort + Short Circuit.

Goonlighter

Meaning: One who freelances as a thug at night.
Pronunciation: Obvious.
Usage: I have a very Fight-Clubbish idea. What if we create an enterprise of goonlighters?
Root: Goon + Moonlighter.

Spatatatatat

Meaning: A series of unending petty quarrels.
Pronunciation: Spat-a-tat-a-tat.
Usage: Hubbies and wives who go spatatatatat invariably end up in family courts.
Root: Spat + Ratatatatat

Storist

Meaning: One who travels with the sole purpose of shopping
Pronounciation: Store-ist
Usage: The Great Singapore Annual Sale has seen thousands of storists coming in from abroad in the last few weeks to fill up malls.
Root: Store + tourist

Pieristalsis

Meaning: A popular Mafioso method of disposing of the unwanted, using a pier and a strong pair of hands.
Pronounciation: Peer-is-tall-sis
Usage: The Godfather wondered to himself whether a garrote or pieristalsis might be the best method of getting rid of a traitor in the Family.
Root: Pier + peristalsis

Cinemotographer

Meaning: One who shoots films using cell phone cameras.
Pronunciation: Sinny-moto-grafer.
Usage: There's a scope for a television channel that just screens films made by cinemotographers.
Root: Cinematographer + Moto (short form for motorola, a name synonymous with cell phones).

Planetymology

Meaning: Study of the origin of planet names.
Pronunciation: Plan-netty-maul-la-jee.
Usage: Two millennia from now, trivia lovers in many galaxies will sign up for crash courses in planetymology.
Root: Planet + Etymology.

Cheesy Living

Meaning: Surviving on a junk diet of cheese filled pizzas, pastas and sandwiches.
Pronunciation: Obvious.
Usage: Cheesy living can make the skinny Somalians look pleasantly plump.
Root: A play on easy living.

Bellysai

Meaning: The embarrassing rumbles of the stomach.
Pronunciation: Bell-lis-sigh.
Usage: After lunch, my classmates were treated to a bout of Bellysai by me.
Root: Belly + Isai (music in tamil). Mellisai is supposed to mean light melodious music in Tamil. Bellysai is exactly the opposite. It's cacophonic. And is a result of a heavy stomach.
Known synonym: Borborygmi

Slurrogate Dad

Meaning: A man who is unfairly assumed to be the father of a new born child.
Pronunciation: Slur-row-gate-dad.
Usage: Tabloids have a field day creating slurrogate dads out of 'innocent' celebrities.
Root: Slur (to cast an aspersion) + Surrogate dad.

Bread Letter Day

Meaning: The all important day when salaries get disbursed.
Pronunciation: Obvious.
Usage: The charm of being a daily wager is every day is a bread letter day.
Root: The red letter day on which you earn your bread.

Wishoom Dishoom

Meaning: Itching to pick a fight.
Pronunciation: Wish-shoom Dish-shoom
Usage: I was all wishoom dishoom when I heard I had been demoted.
Root: Wish + Dishoom Dishoom (Sound Fx for a fight sequence in Indian films)

Wittylation

Meaning: Using humour to enhance sex appeal.
Pronunciation: Wit-tea-lay-shun.
Usage: Wittylation works. It can win you a date. But after that looks take over.
Root: Wit + Titillation.

Liecence

Meaning: licence to lie
Usage: Seems our politicians were born with a liecence
Pronunciation: lye-sense
Root: lie + licence

Dievorce

Meaning: A divorce that doesn't leave you enough money to live with
Usage: Harry went hand-to-mouth after his dievorce
Pronunciation: die-vorce
Root: die (in a figurative sense) + divorce
Note: divorce is pronounced di'e'vorce (with a squeaky 'e') by a good proportion of Indians

Chabacchus

Meaning: A chewable intoxicant.
Pronunciation: Cha-back-cuss.
Usage: Salvia Divinorum is a mild type of chabacchus.
Root: Chaba (To chew in Hindi) + Bacchus (Roman god of intoxication).

Petroller Coaster

Meaning: An economy characterised by extreme changes in petrol prices.
Pronunciation: Pet-rolla-coasta.
Usage: Any state with no oil resources or Arab allies is bound to be a petroller coaster.
Root: Petrol + Roller Coaster.

Habsentee

Meaning: Chronic leave taker.
Pronunciation: Hab-senti.
Usage: The Soccer World Cup will spawn a thousand habsentees.
Root: Habitual absentee.

Intellacktual

Meaning: An intellectually challenged person.
Pronounciation: inta-lack-chual
Usage: "They misunderestimated me", said the intellacktual.
Root: obvious

Pyasage

Meaning: Period of time when there is water scarcity in urban areas, generally, Metropolises. (Note: I do not wish to extend this to droughts in villages as I feel it is too flippant for such use.)
Pronunciation: Refer to the Root
Usage: Water from Veeranam may alleviate the pyasages of the past in Chennai.
Root: Pyas (thirst in Hindi) + Age (period of time)

Transearlyator

Meaning: One who can decode the original from a translation.
Pronunciation: Tranz-early-ate-er.
Usage: By some stroke of misfortune if all our sanskrit epics get destroyed, we may need the services of a transearlyator to salvage the classics using his craft.
Root: Transearlyator is a play on trans-late-or. The idea being a translator decodes A to create B. A transearlyator can decipher A from B. That is he can recreate the earlier form from a later form.

Skillusionist

Meaning: One who can make you believe that he or she is proficient in whatever he or she does.
Pronunciation: Obvious.
Usage: I wear the skillusionist's hat during job interviews.
Root: Skill + Illusionist.

Wishkanya

Meaning: A girl boys/men yearn for
Pronounciation: vish-kanya
Usage: Despite her age, Aishwarya still is a wishkanya.
Root: Wish (as in 'Desire') + Kanya(Hindi for 'girl')

Kiduciary

Meaning: The legal guardian of a parentless child.
Pronunciation: Kid-do-sheary.
Usage: The villain of many Hindi films of yore was the unscrupulous kiduciary.
Root: Kid + Fiduciary.

Shakolade

Meaning: A dubious award, prize or trophy.
Pronunciation: Shuck-co-laid.
Usage: Management Guru Arindam Chaudhari has quite a few shakolades to his credit.
Root: Shak (Hindi for suspicion) + Accolades.

Jaamboree

Meaning: Drunken celebration.
Pronunciation: Jaam-bo-ree.
Usage: Let's plan for a jaamboree after the conference.
Root: Jaam (Wine in urdu) + Jamboree (noisy revelry).

Blueshua

Meaning: The born rich.
Pronunciation: Blew-shoe-wah.
Usage: The blueshua is not as lazy as you think.
Root: Blue blooded bourgeoisie.

Gympressive

Meaning: A sculpted body that arouses admiration or envy.
Pronunciation: Jim-pressive.
Usage: Is there a way to look gympressive without stepping into a gym?
Root: Gym + Impressive.

Jokecabulary

Meaning: The set of jokes known to a person.
Pronunciation: Jo-cab-yoo-lary.
Usage: I have an ant-sized jokecabulary.
Root: Joke + Vocabulary.

Kabuddy

Meaning: A childhood friend.
Pronunciation: Ka-buddy
Usage: Vinod Kambli was Sachin Tendulkar's kabuddy.
Root: Kabaddi (an Indian game everyone plays during childhood) + buddy.

Maicro

Meaning: descriptive of something that lies between micro- and macro-
Pronunciation: my-crow
Usage: Maicro-economic effects are rarely taken into account.
Root: obvious

Holocaste

Meaning: destruction of social and economic fabric of a society due to caste-based politics.
Pronunciation: ho-lo-kaast
Usage: India is at the brink of a holocaste.
Root: from the Holocaust

Whiteskinophilia

Meaning: A fetish for white skin
Pronunciation: white +skin+ philia
Usage: Whiteskinophilia is a common disorder among Indians.
Root: obvious

Blendability

Meaning: The ability to blend well in a given circumstance
Pronunciation: Obvious.
Usage: Blendability is one of the major soft skills or so my HR guy keeps saying.
Root: Blend + ability

Stembezzle

Meaning: Fraudulent usage of banked stem cells.
Related Coinage: Stembezzlement.
Pronunciation: Obvious.
Usage: Stembezzlement will be a common crime in the next century.
Root: Embezzling stem cells stored with a stem cell bank.

Showcus Pocus

Meaning: A highly publicised illusion.
Pronunciation: Show-cus-poke-cus.
Usage: David Blaine is very much a showcus pocus man.
Root: Show + Hocus Pocus.

Kissen

Meaning: The place where good kisses are cooked up
Pronunciation: Kis-shen
Usage: Jay must have worked at a kisshen earlier.
Root: Kitchen giving way to Kissen

Coffeen

Meaning: What dead coffee addicts are carried away in
Pronunciation: Pretty simple, ain't it?
Usage: Chandru deserves his coffeen, truly.
Root: Coffee + Coffin

Chittizen

Meaning: One who religiously keeps writing letters to the editor.
Pronunciation: Chit-tee-zen
Usage: Senior chittizens are typically the grouchy retired types.
Root: Chitti (Hindi word for letter) + Citizen.

Itihaasya

Meaning: Mocking historical events or personalities.
Pronunciation: Ithy-ha-sya.
Usage: Mel Brooks was a great practitioner of itihaasya.
Root: Itihaas (Hindi for history) + Haasya (Hindi for humour).

Flutooth

Meaning: A bluetooth device that fails to network.
Pronunciation: Flew-tooth.
Usage: I am still looking for some takers for my flutooth handset on ebay.
Root: Blue Tooth (generic term for wireless networking device) down with Flu.

Fretrimental

Meaning: Anything that makes your BP (Blood Pressure) soar.
Pronunciation: Fret-ri-mental.
Usage: Watching India lose to West Indies at 4 am in the morning can be truly fretrimental.
Root: Fret (irritation/anger) + Detrimental (harmful).

Busyotherapy

Meaning: Boosting self-importance by acting busy.
Pronunciation: Bizzy-yo-therapy.
Usage: Busyotherapy can do wonders for your ego.
Root: Busy + Physiotherapy.

Janworries

Meaning: New year anxieties.
Pronunciation: Obvious.
Usage: New year bashes are a nice way of drowning your janworries.
Root: January + Worries.

Parriage

Meaning: A marriage that is pre-occupied with fending off blows from the spouse
Pronunciation: As in marriage
Usage: I wish you a happy parriage
Root: Parried + Marriage

Rudrakshasa

Meaning: Divine demon.
Pronunciation: Ru-dh-raak-shasaa.
Usage: Sometimes to alter the course of mankind, the forces above send a rudrakshasa.
Root: Rudra (Form of Shiva) + Rakshasa (Demon).

Sayduction

Meaning: The art of tempting with words.
Pronunciation: Same as seduction.
Usage: Copywriting is all about sayduction.
Root: Say + Seduction.

Kidiosyncrasy

Meaning: Childish quirks.
Pronunciation: Kid-deo-sink-rasi.
Usage: Snatch the remote from a man to discover his kidiosyncrasies.
Root: Kid + Ideosyncrasy.

Stuckasstic

Meaning: Constipated.
Pronunciation: Stuck-ass-stick.
Usage: Boss sported a stuckasstic look as he read out the no-raises-for-this-year communique.
Root: From stuck ass.

Yippietaph

Meaning: A statement of relief or joy made by detractors of the dead.
Pronunciation: Yippie-taf.
Usage: George Dubya Bush is ready with his yippietaph for Osama but the trouble is Bin Laden ain't dead yet.
Root: Yippie (An expression of joy) + Epitaph.

Parabloopers

Meaning: Blundering, clumsy paratroopers
Pronunciation: Para-Blue-purse
Usage: That bunch of idiots are parabloopers!
Root: Paratroopers + Blooper

Whatery

Meaning: Very weak, toned down questions
Pronunciation: Wot-ery
Usage: That journo's questions were very whatery
Root: What + Watery

Folliday

Meaning: A day in which everything that can go wrong, does.
Pronunciation: As is
Usage: Monday was a total folliday
Root: Folly + Day

Distart

Meaning: Mangling an existing digital image with photoshop filters and creating an altogether new abstract image.
Pronunciation: Dis-tart.
Usage: Even a person with no art sense can become a distartist.
Root: Distortion + Art.

Ragarble

Meaning: Distorting and twisting ragas beyond recognition.
Pronunciation: Ra-ga-ble.
Usage: You don't have to ragarble medlodies to produce remixes.
Root: Raga + Garble.

Wapparatus

Meaning: A wireless device.
Pronunciation: Rhymes with apparatus.
Usage: In the future, it may be compulsory for you to carry your wapparatus wherever you go.
Root: WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) + Apparatus.

Apeist

Meaning : Someone who doesn't believe that man evolved from apes
Usage : Most apeists, by intelligent design, are not atheists.
Pronunication : Ape + ist
Root : Ape + Atheist
Note : word already exists in urban dictionary but has a different meaning than the one i propose here

Shyvite

Meaning: A girl who flips for shy guys.
Pronunciation: Shy-white.
Usage: 60% of the chicks in my campus were shyvites.
Root: The phonetic equivalent of the Hindu word Shaivite (one who worships Shiva).

Exwhyzed

Meaning: One who loves to have the last word.
Pronunciation: Obvious.
Usage: Two exwhyzeds can never end a conversation, even if they wish to.
Root: Exwhyzed is a word coined with the last three letters of the english alphabet. In a way, it's symbolic of the last word. Also X,Y & Z are often used to denote people.

Dhanemia

Meaning: Wealth deficency. Key symptom is an alarmingly low bank balance.
Pronunciation: Rhymes with anaemia.
Usage: No woman will touch a dhanemic man.
Root: Dhan (Hindi for wealth) + Anaemia.

Kevlarmour

Meaning: Bullet-proof vest. Also a metaphor for an impenetrable shield.
Pronunciation: Kev-lar-mur.
Usage: We need to a develop a kevlarmour to protect ourselves from bio-terrorism.
Root: Kevlar is a synthetic material that's 5 times stronger than steel. They say it's bullet resistant. So Kevlar + Armour is an impenetrable shield.

Slaviary

Meaning: A prison for slaves or bonded labourers.
Pronunciation: Slay-we-ya-ree.
Usage: Most BPOs are run like slaviaries.
Root: An aviary (bird cage) for slaves.

Bibliosomniac

Meaning: One who falls asleep while reading books.
Pronunciation: Bib-lee-yo-so-mmm-niac.
Usage: The splendidly written NCERT text books made me a bibliosomniac.
Root: Biblio (greek for book) + Somniac (sleepy type).
Related Coinage: Bibliosomnia - The phenomenon of falling asleep while reading books.

Whamboyant

Meaning: Pompously promiscuous.
Pronunciation: Vam-boy-unt.
Usage: You're whamboyant if you brag about your sexcapades.
Root: Wham (bang) + Flamboyant.

Mapogoogle

Meaning: Surf a city using google earth.
Pronunciation: Map-po-google.
Usage: Tourists of the future will mapogoogle a place before they visit it.
Root: Map (study topography) + Google (scan)

Homebudsman

Meaning: Solver of family disputes.
Pronunciation: Rhymes with ombudsman.
Usage: The senior most member of joint families often get to play homebudsman.
Root: Home + Ombudsman.

Planguish

Meaning: A proposal that's gathering dust.
Pronunciation: Obvious.
Meaning: The desalination idea has been planguishing for some time now.
Root: Plan + Languish.

Aloofthansa

Meaning: A high flier who keeps to himself.
Pronunciation: al-lufthansa.
Usage: Akshaye Khanna has this reputation of being an aloofthansa.
Root: Aloof + Lufthansa (synonymous with high fliers).

Grresponsible

Meaning: An undependable person with a mercurial temperament.
Pronunciation: Obvious.
Usage: Alcoholics & dopppsies are very grresponsible.
Root: Grr + Irresponsible.

Wheregument

Meaning : Arguments about decisions regarding places
Usage : My roommate and I have whereguments about where to eat dinner
Pronunciation : where + gyoo+ ment
Root : where + argument

Portmantwos

Meaning: Names coined to label couples using the port manteau funda. As in Brangelina for Brad Pitt and Angelina.
Pronunciation: Port-maan-toos.
Usage: Beniffer is the most popular portmantwo, till date.
Root: Port Manteau (Words formed by fusing two words) + Two (Couple).

Laxeleration

Meaning: Slowing things down.
Pronunciation: Lax-sil-la-ray-shun.
Usage: Jacques Kallis is a great exponent of laxeleration. He always manages to bring down the run rate of South Africa.
Root: Lax (to delay) + Acceleration.

Glampaign

Meaning: A campaign that's propped on glamour
Pronunciation: Glam-pain
Usage: Glampaigns are naturally relying on actors to pull in mass votes.
Root: Glamour + Campaign

Spoilport

Meaning: Food imports / exports that don't adhere to regulations.
Pronunciation: Spoil-port
Usage: India is usually a victim of spoilports from developed countries.
Root: Spoil + import / export

Callera

Meaning: The disease spread by the call center bug.
Pronunciation: Cholera
Usage: Callera is going to land the country in deep trouble some years from now.
Root: Cholera

Elecshot

Meaning:A shot in the arm for candidates in an election
Pronunciation: Elek-shot
usage: Maran's supposed involvement in the DTH issue is an elecshot for JJ
Root: Election + shot that gives a high

Grimbo

Meaning: A grim bimbo
Pronunciation: Grim-bow
Usage: He prefers a happy nebbish to a grimbo.
Roots: Grim + bimbo

Blooker

Meaning: A book that's got a stupid blunder
Pronunciation: Blue + ker
Usage: Kaavya's blooker is a perfect showcase for her plagiarising skills.
Root: Book+ Bloomer

Bald Letter

Meaning: An undated letter from an anonymous person.
Pronunciation: Obvious.
Usage: Bald letters are often used by ethical terrorists to warn people about an impending attack.
Root: Literal translation of the tamil expression 'Mottai Kadidasu'. Logic being a letter with no 'from address and date' looks bald.
Related coinage: Anonymissive (anonymous + missive).

Schlepson

Meaning: A clumsy printer.
Pronunciation: Sh-lep-sun.
Usage: I wrote a nice short story. My schlepson made it look like software code.
Root: Schlep (slang for clumsy person) + Epson (a brand name synonymous with printers)

Shoutsourcing

Meaning: Hiring crowds for cheering.
Pronunciation: Obvious.
Usage: Every leader in Tamil Nadu is attracting huge crowds. One wonders if it's shoutsourcing at work.
Root: Obvious.

Errorberation

Meaning: Repeated errors
Pronunciation: Error-ber-a-shun
Usage:His errorberation costed him his job
Root: Error + Reverberation

Mongrolia

Meaning: A mix-breed dog from Central Asia
Pronunciation: Mon-gro-leah
Usage: I just gifted her a pet. A mongrolia
Root: Mongrel + Mongolia

Vexplosive

Meaning: Shatteringly frustrating.
Pronunciation: Obvious.
Usage: Kaif has been remarkably vexplosive in the last 12 months.
Root: Vex + Explosive.
Related expression: KLPD.

Elecshun

Meaning: An election that is not well attended by the voters
Pronunciation: Same as election
Usage: The poor voter turnout is the first sign of an elecshun.
Root: Election + shun

Lingua franka

Meaning: A particularly frank way of speaking.
Pronunciation: as is what is.
Usage: Her brand of lingua franka always sets me thinking.
Root: lingua = language + franka, for frankness

Trichoculturist

Meaning: One who lets hair grow.
Pronunciation: Try-co-culture-wrist.
Usage: On a lazy Sunday, every male is a trichoculturist.
Root: Trikh (Greek for hair) + Culturist (One who farms).

Lifterature

Meaning: Plagiarised printed work(s).
Pronunciation: Lift-ra-cha
Usage: I am not sure if one can classify Da Vinci Code as lifterature.
Root: Lift (as in steal) + Literature.

Hurrygen

Meaning: A patronising term for the internet generation renowned for little or no patience for reading, listening and thinking.
Pronunciation: Hurry-gen.
Usage: The hurrygen prefer blogs over books.
Root: HURRY + GENeration.
Inspiration: Harijan, the patronising Indian label for the underprivileged.

Meandertaal

Meaning: An experimental musician who believes in scoring music the good old way - spontaneously.
Pronunciation: Me-under-taal.
Usage: Meandertaals try not to stick to a set rhythm, lyric or melody.
Root: Neanderthal (synonymous with primal) + Meander (one who wanders aimlessly) + Taal (Hindi for beat).

Telepati

Meaning: A long distance husband. As in, a hubby who rarely gets to be with his wife at home.
Pronunciation: Same as telepathy.
Usage: Having a telepati may not be such a bad idea. The wifey gets money to splurge and a lot of space for herself.
Root: Tele (Greek for long distance) + Pati (Hindi for husband).
Related Coinage: Telepati may also be used to connote a couch potato. Logic - one who's married to the television.

Metal Magnet

Meaning: Prolific award winner.
Pronunciation: Duh.
Usage: The metal magnet David Droga will chair the jury at the Cannes Lions festival.
Root: One who attracts golds, silvers and bronzes by the dozens.

Drapidation

Meaning: A fear of billowing drapes
Usage: Every horror movie heroine has experienced drapidation
Pronunciation : drap+id+ay+shun
Root: Drape+ trepidation
Related coinage : indrapid

Layman brooder

Meaning: A layman who spends time brooding.
Pronunciation: obvious.
Usage: LehmanBrothers is no place for layman brooders.
Root: obvious.

Eye-banker

Meaning: An organ stanley who deals in eyes.
Pronunciation: I-ban-kar
Usage: Everyone wants to be an eye-banker these days.
Root: Investment banking

Communishta

Meaning: Unshakeable faith in communism.
Pronunciation: Commune-nishta
Usage: EMS Namboodripad was renowned for his communishta.
Root: Communism + Nishta (Sanskrit for absolute faith).
Related coinage: Saffronishta - Unshakeable faith in Hindutva.
Note: The difference between Saffronista and Saffronishta is the former describes an idealogue while the latter is about the extent of faith in the ideology.

Fluffoon

Meaning: A comically goofy character.
Pronunciation: Fluff-foon.
Usage: Jim Carey's made millions playing fluffoon.
Root: Fluff (To botch up) + Buffoon

Errudite

Meaning: One who learns from mistakes.
Pronunciation: Same as erudite.
Usage: There is hope for Sehwag if he's the errudite types.
Root: Err + Erudite.

Dashbored

Meaning: Tired of meaningless running around
Pronunciation: Dash-board
Usage: I was dashbored by the time I got my visa.
Root: Obvious

Dibble

Meaning: A steady flow of water or any other liquid
Usage: The initial dribble in the metro water tanker slowly grew into a dibble.
Root: Dribble - an unsteady, though continuous, flow

Constimail

Meaning: Mail that takes ages to go out.
Pronunciation: Cons...te...mail
Usage: Constimails are a pain in the butt as they slow down busy work hours.
Root: Constipate

Hognoscenti

Meaning: Experts in patterns of eating especially overeating
Pronunciation: Hog-no-shen-tea (Burp. That's a mouthful)
Usage: Are all hognoscenti fat?
Root:Cognoscenti / hog

Hirsuit

Meaning: Hair that's all dressed up
Pronunciation:Hir - soot
Usage: That hirsuit becomes her.
Root: Hirsute / suit

Phlegmployee

Meaning:An employee who's an irritant and a drag.
Pronunciation: Flem-ployee
Usage: One phlegmployee is enough to make me love other employees.
Root: phlegm + employee

Buttractive

Meaning: Having an irrestibly stunning rear.
Pronunciation: But-rack-tive.
Usage: Roger Binny was quite popular with women because of his buttractive looks.
Root: Butt + Attractive.

Rubber Mails

Meaning: Emails that bounce back.
Pronunciation: You know it. Don't ya?
Usage: Thankfully, all my hate mails to Arjun Singh turned out to be rubber mails.
Root: Obvious.

Ghoset

Meaning: A dead bengali
Pronunciation: As in Ghost
Usage: Calcutta is a Ghoset town
Root: Ghose (Bengali Surname) + Ghost

Newsyvore

Meaning: One who always wishes to be in the news.
Pronunciation: New-zee-vore.
Usage: 6 out of 5 politicians are newsyvores.
Root: Newsy + Vore (suffix that means one who feeds on).

Dorminator

Meaning: The hostel bully
Pronunciation: Easy, isn't it?
Usage: Akshay is the Dorminator for Bishop Heber hall
Root: Dorm + Dominator

Twinema

Meaning: Same film made in two languages. With two different casts. Piloted by the same director. And released on the same date.
Pronunciation: Twin-nay-ma.
Usage: Yuva is a twinema of Ayutha Ezhutha.
Root: Twin + Cinema.
Related Coinage: Thinema - A film of very slim duration. That is, a short film.

Freedispose

Meaning: Influence in advance by promising to dole out freebies.
Pronunciation: Free-dis-pose.
Usage: Jayalalitha, Karunanidhi & Vijay Kanth are trying very hard to freedispose the electorate.
Root: Predispose + Freebies.
Related Coinage: Free-empt.

Thinthinee

Meaning: A fancily designed, manually operated cycle rickshaw.
Pronunciation: Thin-thinny.
Usage: India can rake in the tourist moolah if we offer thinthinee rides in temple towns, at a fat premium.
Root: Thinthinee is the antonym of the engine operated South East Asian Vehicle called Fatfatee.

Loominous

Meaning: The blissful glow that lights up your face after a satisfactory crap.
Pronunciation: looo-min-us.
Usage: His loominous expression left me verbally constipated.
Root: Obvious.

Stuckcess

Meaning: Sticking with the same formula that got you success in the first place. And repeatedly failing.
Pronunciation: Rhymes with success.
Usage: A stuckcessful person is a one trick pony.
Root: Stuck (Unable to move beyond) + Success.

Dimaagogue

Meaning: A leader who obtains power by plotting and scheming.
Pronunciation: The-maa-gog.
Usage: Jayalalitha is a bigger dimaagogue than Karunanidhi.
Root: Dimaag (Hindi word for brain. Also synonymous with cunning) + Demagogue.

Francevestite

Meaning: Somebody who lives partly in France
Pronunciation: Franz-ves-tight
Usage: PG Wodehouse was a Francevestite
Root: France + Transvestite

LOLita

Meaning: A young girl who laughs a lot
Pronunciation: As is
Usage: My girlfriend is a LOLita
Root: LOL (Chat-ese for Laugh out Loud) + Lolita

Hypurractive

Meaning: Purring too much
Pronunciation: obvious.
Usage: Hypurractive women are so entertaining, don't you think?
Root: Purr (feline sexuality oozed by some women) + Hyperactive

Amerrican

Meaning: A Merry making American
Pronunciation: obvious
Usage: Micheal is an Amerrican in the true sense of the word.
Root: Merry + American.

Moderm

Meaning: A chic, modern woman
Pronunciation: Maa-derm
Usage: She? Oh, she is Sandra maderm
Root: Madam + Modern

Sivant

Meaning: A learned devotee of the god Shiva
Pronunciation: obvious
Usage: My son is a Sivant
Root: Sivan (Indian god) + Savant

Tripnicate

Meaning: Travelling that is so good, it's like sex
Pronunciation: Rhymes with Triplicate
Usage: I tripnicated on my bikeride to Kumbakkonam
Root: Trip + Fornicate

Terradicate

Meaning: Decimate life forms on Earth.
Pronunciation: Terra-de-cate.
Usage: Earthlings, you have two choices. Either you worship Anantha. Or get terradicated.
Root: Terra (Earth in latin) + Eradicate.

Chaina

Meaning: Chinese tea.
Pronunciation: Homonym of China.
Usage: Says George Bush, "China is where they make chaina."
Root: Chai (Hindi word for Tea) + China.

Qwertylizer

Meaning: A news, an event, an accident or an incident that launches you into post mode on the blogosphere.
Pronunciation: Kwerty-lie-zer.
Usage: The mandal issue was a huge qwertylizer for Indian bloggers.
Root: Qwerty (Synonymous with keying in) + Fertilizer.

Trickochet

Meaning: A dirty trick that boomerangs.
Pronunciation: Trick-co-chay.
Usage: An Iranian invasion by America will be a costly trickochet.
Root: Trick + Ricochet.

Deafugee

Meaning: A person who joins a terrible place ignoring dire warnings from the inmates.
Pronunciation: Rhymes with refugee.
Usage: I know people who turn deafugees when they get a good pay packet.
Root: Obvious.

Kranticar

Meaning: A revolutionary automobile that can fly.
Pronunciation: Cranty-car.
Usage: We need to create skyways and air traffic signals before we allow mass production of kranticars.
Root: Krantikari (Hindi for revolutionary) + Car.

Toiletters

Meaning: Messages posted on the loo wall using graffiti or any other means.
Pronunciation: Toy-letters.
Usage: Toiletters can be a wacky advertising medium.
Root: Toilet + Letters.

Hellopathy

Meaning: Curing depression using peptalk over the phone.
Pronunciation: Rhymes with Allopathy.
Usage: Suicide helplines demonstrate the power of hellopathy.
Root: Obvious.

Colourgy

Meaning: Aversion to a hue.
Pronunciation: Cull-ur-gee.
Usage: I am colourgic to mithai pink.
Root: Colour + Allergy.

Celerographer

Meaning: A speedy writer.
Pronunciation: Cell-lee-row-grafer.
Usage: Words just gush out of the pen of celerographers.
Root: Celero (fast in greek) + Grapher (writer in greek).

Cubortion

Meaning: Baby killing.
Pronunciation: Cub-or-shun.
Usage: The word infanticide works only for humans, cubortion can be used for all species.
Root: Cub + Abortion.

Stag Gag

Meaning: A downright vulgar joke that leaves men in splits.
Pronunciation: Obvious.
Usage: What's a bachelor party without stag gags?
Root: Gags exchanged in Stag parties.

Sawalnut

Meaning: A person who loves to question everything.
Pronunciation: Sa-wall-nut.
Usage: Sawalnut is the baap of the jigyasu baalak.
Root: Sawal (Hindi for Question) + Nut (One who's crazy about something).

Woeters

Meaning: Long suffering voters to whom elections have made no difference.
Pronunciation: Homonym of voters.
Usage: The woeters of Tamil Nadu have zero expectations from all the kazhagams.
Root: Woe + Voters.

Chunaversion

Meaning: A dislike for elections.
Pronunciation: Chu-now-version.
Usage: Armchair politicians have a chunaversion.
Root: Chunav (Hindi for election) + Aversion.

Opposeur

Meaning: Pretending to oppose to make an impression.
Pronunciation: Oppo-zeo.
Usage: I'd rather be a follower than be an opposeur.
Root: Oppose + Poseur.

Seasun

Meaning: The Sunny season
Pronounciation: same as season
Usage: The seasun in India is pretty much the same all year through
Root: season + sun

Beautitful

Meaning: Pretty and buxom
Pronounciation: sandwich a tit between beauty and ful
Usage: Pamela is a beautitful person
Root: obvious

Confission

Meaning: State of confusion in which thoughts splinter away.
Pronunciation: con+ fission
Usage: Meeting her always causes confission in my mind.
Root: con + antonym of fusion.

Antipro

Meaning: A habitual opposer with no beliefs or ideology.
Pronunciation: Anti-pro.
Usage: An antipro takes a predictably opposite stance because he wants to stand out from the crowd.
Root: One who turns anti because the world is pro something.

Blager

Meaning: A beer drinking blogger.
Pronunciation: blah-ger
Usage: Quick-gun Murugan is a blager.
Root: Blog + Lager

Epeestemology

Meaning: A philosophical knowledge of urine.
Pronunciation: a-pee-stemo-legy
Usage: Clinical labs have a well formed epeestemology.
Root: Pee + epistemology

Casteration

Meaning: Sterilizing a virile organisation, institution or society by forcing caste based reservation down its throat.
Pronunciation: Caste-ration.
Usage: Mandal will only result in the casteration of the IITs.
Root: Obvious.

Misscriminate

Meaning: Partiality shown to pretty young things.
Pronunciation: Miss-crim-me-nate.
Usage: There is a strong feeling that women get better grades, better jobs, better raises due to misscrimination.
Root: Obvious.

Mandalgebra

Meaning: Caste calculations.
Pronunciation: Mun-dull-gee-bra.
Usage: Arjun Singh thinks he can help the Congress win the next elections with his mandalgebra.
Root: The Mandal Commission is synonymous with caste-based reservation quotas. Mandalgebra is a derivation from Mandal + algebra.

Puffraid

Meaning: Being paranoid about smoking.
Pronunciation: Puff-raid.
Usage: Don't be puffraid. At the max, you'll get lung cancer, turn impotent, lose some appetite and will end up hurting a thousand people around you.
Root: Afraid of taking a puff.

Paracetamaul

Meaning: A drug with adverse side effects. Or one that aggravates the illness.
Pronunciation: Same as paracetamol.
Usage: The blooming paracetamaul induced a rash of skin rashes. So I couldn't show my face to the world for nearly a week.
Root: Paracetamol + maul.

Thenkri

Meaning: Last job.
Pronunciation: Then-kree.
Usage: I was the master of mediocrity in my thenkri.
Root: Naukri means job in Hindi. Phonetically that's Now-kree. Replace now with then, you get thenkri.

Funcoction

Meaning: The act of making up something just for kicks.
Pronunciation: Fun-cock-shun.
Usage: Wordmint is a nice outlet for funcoctions.
Root: Fun + Concoction.

Tightenic

Meaning: A high pressure situation.
Pronunciation: Rhymes with titanic.
Usage: Raina seems capable of handling tightenic moments.
Root: Obvious.

Shanimoon

Meaning: A honeymoon gone awry.
Pronunciation: Rhymes with honeymoon.
Usage: Ganguly's shanimoon with the press should hopefully end soon.
Root: Shani (a tamil curse, also a hindu god known for his malefic influence) + Honeymoon.

Weedio

Meaning: A video produced under the influence of drugs.
Pronunciation: Wee-deo.
Usage: Dr. Prakash was a purveyor of pornographic weedios.
Root: Weed + Video.

Tofronto

Meaning: A tobacco substitute that feels very much like tobacco but is not at all harmful.
Pronunciation: Toe-front-toe.
Usage: Tobacco kills. Tofronto doesn't.
Root: Phonetically tobacco is toe-back-co. Since tofronto is harmless tobacco, I've replaced back with front to capture this opposite effect.

Ughmark

Meaning: Shorthand for terrible quality.
Pronunciation: Obvious.
Usage: I can conjure up ughmark music in no time.
Root: Agmark is a symbol for high quality in India.

Shakeekat

Meaning: Distorted reality as perceived by a paranoid person(s).
Pronunciation: Shuck-key-kuth.
Usage: The reality is Greg Chappell has nothing against Saurav Ganguly. The shakeekat is Greg is out to get Saurav.
Root: Shak (Hindi for suspicion)+ Haqeekat (Urdu for reality).

Moddiction

Meaning: Addiction to mobile phones
Pronounciation: Mo-dick-shun
Usage: I suffer from sever moddiction
Root: Mobile + Addiction

Secondary meaning: Addiction to modifications. Typically used in conjunction with computer games which support add on modifications or MODs.
Pronounciation: Mod-dick-shun
Root: MOD + Addiction

(Contributed by Nirenjan)

Paunchnama

Meaning: A plan or report that a dietician makes for an overweight client before the service agreement is signed
Pronunciation: pawn-ch-nama
Usage: His paunchnama said that he will lose 20 kgs in 3 months.
Root: Paunch + Panchnama (A report required to be made by the investigating officer)

Fengshoo

Meaning: Someone who rubbishes / doesn't believe in feng shui (and the like) beliefs
Pronunciation: feng + shu
Usage: He has an orthodox upbringing yet he is a staunch fengshoo
Root: Feng Shui + Shoo

Kafi Latte

Meaning: A place that serves coffee late into the night.
Pronunciation: kafi-laat-a
Usage: In Delhi, besides 5-star coffee shops, there arn't many kafi latte hangouts.
Root: Cafe Latte + Kafi (quite / enough in Hindi) + Late

Dawould

Meaning: Undercover intelligence on what the underworld is up up to / would do next
Pronunciation: da-wood
Usage: The police team was on stand by. All the chief needed to order a raid at the mill was an official dawould report.
Root: Dawood (underworld king) + Would

Floppywriter

Meaning: A copywriter who writes only short (floppy-sized) ads
Pronunciation: flaw-p-writer
Usage: I would to love to write long copy ads, but clients in India have forced me to become a floppywriter.
Root: Floppy Disc + Copywriter

Cyster

Meaning: Having two cysts on your body at the same time
Pronunciation: Rhymes with sister
Usage: I was dilly-dallying on getting the cyst on my thigh surgically removed but when a cyster came, I called the doctor for an appointment right away.
Root: Cyst + Sister

Havaldarr, Havaldarpok

Meaning: A scared, timid policeman
Pronunciation: haval-dur / haval-dur-pok
Usage: When it comes to nabbing the likes of Dawood, even the supercops in the country turn into havaldarrs / havaldarpoks.
Root: Havaldar (policeman) + Darr, Darpork (scare, scared)

Dejawoo

Meaning: Trying to woo someone again and again
Pronunciation: Rhymes with Deja vu
Usage: The secret of a successful marriage is to dejawoo your partner everyday
Root: Deja vu + Woo

Innoweight

Meaning: Important innovations. Innovations that hold a lot of weight.
Pronunciation: Rhymes with innovate
Usage: Viagra was the innoweight of the century
Root: Innovate + Weight

Innowait

Meaning: Inventions that come before their time. Inventions that can wait.
Pronunciation: Rhymes with innovate
Usage: Scientists can innowait on cars that can fly and swim.
Root: Innovate + Wait

Loutspeaker

Meaning: A stupid person speaking to an audience
Pronunciation: Rhymes with loudspeaker
Usage: Most politicians are loutspeakers
Root: Lout + Loudspeaker

Bahartender

Meaning: A bouncer who stands outside a pub
Pronunciation: ba-haar-tender
Usage: Mike Tyson started his career as a bahartender
Root: Bahar (Hindi for outside) + bartender

Meowbile

Meaning: Mobiles phones meant specially for showing off in 'kitty' parties
Pronunciation: mew-bile
Usage: Gladrags Mrs India is the brand-ambassador for Nokia's new range of meowbiles
Root: meow (cats) + mobile

Ewaporate

Meaning: Losing one's WAP enabled mobile phone in thin air
Pronunciation: Rhymes with evaporate
Usage: My office is full of kleptomaniacs. Yesterday my new Nokia N ewaporated.
Root: WAP + evaporate

Betroom

Meaning: A room where bookies hide and do business from
Pronunciation: Rhymes with bedroom
Usage: Most bookies work out of betrooms in downtown
Root: Bet + Bedroom

Shootia

Meaning: A crappy photographer
Pronunciation: shoot-e-ah
Usage: The guy who shot her portfolio was a shootia
Root: Shoot + Chootia (a common Indian verbal abuse)

Indillectual

Meaning: To think profoundly about India
Pronunciation: indi-lek-chooel
Usage: Politicians in India just act indillectual but no one wants to do anything about it.
Root: India + Intellectual

Ammanisia

Meaning: Selective amnesia for a woman in one's life
Pronunciation: ammani+ shea.
Usage: How I wish I had ammanisia now!
Root: Ammani (Tamil for lady) + amnesia.

Pyarrogance

Meaning: The typical arrogance that people in love display.
Pronunciation: pyar-o-gens.
Usage: Them lovesick couples and their pyarrogance always gets on my nerves.
Root: Pyar (Hindi for love) + arrogance.

Bachillor

Meaning: An ice maiden who makes bachelors freeze in their tracks.
Pronunciation: as is what is.
Usage: Just met the woman of my life, but my bad luck, she is a professional bachillor.
Root: Obvious.

Traumance

Meaning: A broken romance
Pronunciation: Tro-mance
Usage: I'm convalescing from a traumance just now.
Root: Trauma + Romance

Tykobrahade

Meaning: To suffer a nose cut. Or simply put, a loss of face.
Pronunciation: Tie-co-bra-hade.
Usage: BJP was tykobrahade in 1984. It just won 2 seats, then.
Root: Derived from the infamous incident concerning the great astronomer Tycho Brahe. Here's the juice on the incident as recorded by Pierre Gasendi in 1654...
"The 10th of december 1566 there was a dance at Lucas Bacmeisters house in the connection to a wedding. Lucas Bacmeister was a professor of theology at the univeristy of Rostock where Tycho studied. Among the guests were Tycho Brahe and another danish nobleman, Manderup Parsberg. They started an argument and they separated in anger. The 27th of december this argument started again, and in the evening of the 29th of december a duel was held. It was around 7 in the evening and in darkness. Parsberg gives Tycho a cut over his nose that took away almost the front part of his nose. Tycho had an artificial nose made, not from wax, but from an alloy of gold and silver[*] and put it on so skillfully, that it looked like a real nose Wilhelm Janszoon Blaeu, who spent time with Tycho for nearly two years, also said that Tycho used to carry a small box with a paste or glue, with which he often would put on the nose."

Whackyoom

Meaning: The state of being bereft of ideas.
Pronunciation: Homonym of vacuum.
Usage: An ad agency cannot afford to exist in a whackyoom.
Root: Obvious.

Arabino

Meaning: An arabian albino
Pronunciation: Ara-bhi-no
Usage: Sheik Abdullah is an Arabino
Root: Arab + Albino

Morphection

Meaning: A case of morphing an original picture to perfection. Typically used with celebrity photos of an explicit nature.
Pronunciation: Mor-feck-shun
Usage: Those explicit photos of Aishwarya Rai are examples of morphectionism.
Root: Morph + Perfection

(Contributed by Nirenjan)

Gladget

Meaning : Any gadget that makes a geek happy ie almost any gadget
Usage : Gladgets unlike girlfriends are a one time investment
Pronunciation : Glad + jet
Root : Glad + Gadget

Flukometer

Meaning: A measure of just how lucky one can get. 0 means jinxed. 10 means you're Midas.
Pronunciation: Rhymes with glucometer.
Usage: Harbhajan Singh's performance today should clock 7 on the flukometer.
Root: Obvious.

Cribbetite

Meaning: Desire for continuous complaining
Pronunciation: Rhymes with appetite.
Usage: When talking about his boss, he has a huge cribbetite.
Root: Crib (v. to complain) + Appetite
Note: Not to be confused with crabbetite.

(Contributed by Nirenjan)

Broadom

Meaning: Impatient and bored with your girl/woman
Pronunciation: Obvious
Usage: Desciribe my relationship? It's broadom
Root: Broad + Boredom

Capitalation

Meaning: The act of surrendering to the need of using capital letters.
Pronounciation: Obvious
Usage: I was using lower case until my capitalation at Wordmint, prompted by Mr. Anantha.
Root: Capitals + Capitulation

Suiside

Meaning: The destruction or ruin of one's own interests by siding with the obviously wrong party in an argument.
Pronounciation: Obvious
Usage: Supporting George Bush on Iraq was suiside on the part of Tony Blair.
Root: Suicide + Side (v)

Knewdist

Meaning: One who flaunts one's knowledge.
Pronunciation: Same as Nudist.
Usage: The moment I walked into the conference room I realised I had walked into a knewdist park. Everyone was showing off. No one was listening to each other.
Root: Knew + Nudist.

Disparitea

Meaning: The state of a cup of tea tasting markedly different from another depending on the 'master'; the reason why some people prefer to drink tea from the same vendor/tea-shop always.
Pronunciation: Dis-pa-re-tea
Usage: I have not been able to adjust to the disparitea in pondy bazar!
Root: Disparity + Tea.

Inquilabh

Meaning: Sudden or momentous change that results in immediate profits/profitability.
Pronunciation: In-kuh-laabh
Usage: Switching to linux and free software at my company was no less than an inquilabh!
Root: Inquilab (urdu, meaning revolution) + Labh (sanskrit, meaning gain or profit)

Erretic

Meaning: A person who holds unorthodox opinions that are derived from error
Pronunciation: As is
Usage: Obvious?
Root: Error + Heretic

Andhrapreneur

Meaning: An entrepreneur from Andhra Pradesh
Pronunciation: as is
Usage: Mahendravada venkata ganapathigaru (an old classmate of mine, honest!) is an Andhrapreneur.
Root: Andhra (as in the state of andhra pradesh in india) + Entrepreneur

Kitchcock

Meaning: The room where a male does his own cooking
Pronunciation: obvious
Usage: If the kitchen is the domain of the females, then kitchcock is the domain of the males.
Root: Kitchen + cock (male attribute)

Hyperlibidemia

Meaning: A state of abnormally high libido
Pronunciation: hi-per-libid-emia
Usage: My shrink says idleness can cause hyperlibidemia.
Root: Hyper + libido mixed with hyperlipidemia (High Fat in blood)

Erratomaniac

Meaning: A person who is crazy about finding faults with others
Pronunciation: Err-ato-mania
Usage: My boss is such an erratomaniac pain in the wrong place.
Root: errata+ erotomania

Clicktomaniac

Meaning: He who steals mice and other input devices
Pronunciation: Clik-toh-maniac
Usage: Our office IT guy is a clicktomaniac
Root: Click (mouse-click) + Kleptomaniac

Terribill

Meaning: A scary bill for an exorbitant amount
Pronunciation: Obvious.
Usage: Ordinary bills I can pay, but these terribills terrify me
Root: Terrible + bill

Tricket

Meaning: A game of cricket that is riddled with tricks.
Pronunciation: Obvious.
Usage: Nowadays there is not much cricket being played, most of it is only tricket!
Root: Obvious.

Macrimony

Meaning: A marriage that is marred by acrimony
Pronunciation: mak-re-mony
Usage: I have seen so much of macrimony, that I have decided to remain an eternal bachelor.
Root: Obvious.

Crewked

Meaning: A shifty and illegal crew
Pronunciation: Obvious
Usage: I have a bad feeling about that platoon - a crewked one
Root: Crew + Crooked

Enthusiazure

Meaning: State of being suddenly seized by enthusiasm
Pronunciation: As is
Usage: Newbie reincarnut's having an enthusiazure!
Root: Enthusiasm + Seizure

Freevolous

Meaning: Inappropriately silly but free.
Pronunciation: Frivolous with an 'ee'
Usage: I got an absolutely freevolous gift along with my new fridge — cat chow!
Root: Free + Frivolous.

Promosition

Meaning: Sleeping your way to the top
Pronunciation: Pro-moe-see-shun
Usage: Some people promosition their career
Root: Promotion + Proposition

Protender

Meaning: A professional pretender.
Pronunciation: Obvious
Usage: Chandru is a Protender man. He can walk into the KGB, no questions asked
Root: Pro + Pretender

Pervertive

Pervertive:(n)
Meaning: A detective with too much sex on his mind
Pronunciation: Puh-ver-tive.
Usage: Sgt. Jason there...you be wary of him. He's a pervertive
Root: Pervert+Detective

Pervertive:(adj)
Meaning: The abundance of perverted people in society
Pronunciation: Puh-ver-tive
Usage: Urban India is a dificult to live in. A Pervertive place
Root: Pervert+Pervasive

Thought Gypsy

Meaning: Dreamer.
Pronunciation: Obvious.
Usage: I've lived so many lives as a thought gypsy.
Root: Obvious.

Sofaloo

Meaning: Couch potato.
Pronunciation: Sofa-loo.
Usage: I unwind by playing sofaloo to HBO.
Root: Sofa + Aloo (Hindi for potato).

Textramarital Affair

Meaning: Flirtatious messages (SMS or chat) sent out by a married person. Not necessarily to the spouse.
Pronunciation: Rhymes with extramarital affair.
Usage: Yahoo chat is the parking lot for textramarital affairs.
Root: Obvious.

Piyodeling

Meaning: Drunken singing.
Pronunciation: Pee-yo-dell-ling.
Usage: Some of the more memorable tunes are born during bouts of piyodeling.
Root: Piyo (to drink in Hindi) + Yodeling (Singing with pitch variation).

Guessticulate

Meaning: Indicate unsureness of response by scratching one's head.
Pronunciation: Guess-stick-cue-late.
Usage: I was guessticulating non-stop during my viva voce.
Root: Obvious.

Gloathsome

Meaning: Digustingly boastful.
Pronunciation: Glow-thsum.
Usage: Graeme Smith can be very gloathsome at times.
Root: Gloat + Loathsome.

Rackumen

keenness of judgement about breast sizes
Usage : After years of experience, Naidu Hall salesmen must have acquired above average rackumen
Pronunication : rack + yoo + men
Root : Rack (slang for breasts) + acumen

Wooman

Meaning: A female who goes all out to woo her man/men.
Prounciation: just stress more on the oo.
Usage: She's a new age wooman who does not hesitate to initiate amorous activity
Root: woo+ woman.

Debternity

Meaning: The excrutiatingly long period of time taken to pay what's overdue to you.
Prounciation: Det-turn-nit-tea.
Usage: I know many people who take a debternity to return even 10 bucks.
Root: Debt + Eternity.

Sweatropolis

Meaning: A hot and humid city.
Pronunciation: Sweat-row-polis.
Usage: Madras has been a sweatropolis since time immemorial.
Root: Sweat + Metrolopolis.

Scorelation

Meaning: The correlation between the scores of a cricketer and the endorsement fee he charges for appearing in ads. A negative scorelation means the cricketer is earning a high endorsement fee despite non-performance. A positive scorelation obviously means the high endorsement fee is a result of great performances.
Pronunciation: Rhymes with correlation.
Usage: Tendulkar has had a negative scorelation for the past four years.
Root: Obvious.

Pissification

Meaning: The act of passing urine
Pronunciation: Piss-e-fication.
Usage: Indian men are adept at pissification, especially on a public wall.
Root: obvious

Talkraman

Meaning: Verbal onslaught.
Pronunciation: Talk-ra-mon.
Usage: Jaipal Reddy's talkraman took the wind out of BJP's sails.
Root: Talk + Aakraman (Hindi for attack).

Vettimology

Meaning: A pointless study to fill one's time.
Pronunciation: Wet-tea-maul-logy.
Usage: Management Trainees indulge in vettimology to appear busy.
Root: Derived from Vetti (Tamil for jobless) and Etymology.

Ponnupaathufying

Meaning: The Indian tradition of the wannabe groom checking out the wannabe bride in full view of both the families.
Pronunciation: Pon-nu-path-thu-phi-ing.
Usage: Ponnupaathufying can be one hell of a stress interview for the guy in question.
Root: Ponnu (Tamil for girl) + Paathu (Tamil for checking out) + fying (Tamil slang suffix for an activity).

Psychlostyle

Meaning: Copycat behaviour.
Pronunciation: Homonym of cyclostyle.
Usage: Kids tend to psychlostyle their mom's mannerisms.
Root: Obvious.

Rantonym

Meaning: The cuss words that immediately come to mind when you think of a person.
Pronunciation: Rhymes with antonym.
Usage: Dimwit is the rantonym I'd associate with Dubya.
Root: Obvious.

Vroomatic

Meaning: Dealing with high octane speed or excitement.
Pronunciation: Rhymes with rheumatic.
Usage: F1 lovers are very vroomatic in their tastes.
Root: Obvious.

Shoddynary

Meaning: Cheapish looking.
Pronunciation: Shoddy-nary.
Usage: I turned up for the interview in a very shoddynary attire. Thankfully they didn't select me.
Root: Shoddy + Ordinary.

Atome

Meaning: A tiny book.
Pronunciation: At-tome.
Usage: In Gold Ink on a Chip is a 5mm atome created by Pawan Sinha and Pamela R. Lipson. Magnify it 600 times, you will be reading the New Testament.
Root: Atom (As a metaphor for size) + Tome.

Auwrath

Meaning: An angry woman.
Pronunciation: Ou-raath.
Usage: Hell hath no fury like an auwrath scorned.
Root: Aurath (Hindi for woman) + Wrath.

Jackplot

Meaning: A hackneyed plot that unexpectedly becomes a mega grosser.
Pronunciation: Jack-plot.
Usage: Subash Ghai hits upon a jackplot once in 3 years.
Root: Jackpot + Plot.

Bakvasthu Shastra

Meaning: The mindless alterations in interiors, made in the name of Vasthu or Feng Shui.
Pronunciation: Buck-vaas-thu shaas-tra.
Usage: Demolishing rooms and placing fish tanks are some signs of bakvasthu shastra.
Root: Bakwas (hindi for rubbish) + Vasthu Shastra.

Growned

Meaning: A sound of despair associated with growth pangs
Pronounciation: Rhymes with groaned
Usage: Bangalore's infrastructure growned
Root: Grow+Groaned

Newthanasia

Meaning: The act of shooting down new proposals, ideas or concepts.
Pronunciation: New-thun-asia.
Usage: Status-quoists practice newthanasia.
Root: New + thanasia (death).

Cashablanka

Meaning: to encash a blank cheque.
Pronounciation: kaisha-blanka
Usage: Harry handed over the blank cheque to his son and said: cashablanka.
Root: Obvious

Jobitch

Meaning: to bitch about one's job.
Pronounciation: job-itch
Usage: I haven't met a soul yet who didn't jobitch.
Root: job + bitch (verb)

Apaartunity

Meaning: an opportunity one can't let go.
Pronounciation: apaar-chew-nity
Usage: I can't miss the apaartunity of studying at Harvard.
Root: apaar (Hindi for 'unparalleled') + opportunity.

Hindie movie

Meaning: An independent Hindi movie.
Pronounciation: hin-D moo-V
Usage: Konkana Sen is one of the foremost Hindie movie actors.
Root: Hindi + indie movie

Yeticulous

Meaning: One who takes pains to appear abominable.
Pronunciation: Rhymes with meticulous.
Usage: Avi is very yeticulous in his online avatar.
Root: Yeti + Meticulous.

Cubiclodyte

Meaning: One who stays at office all the time.
Pronunciation: Cubic-low-dyte.
Usage: Once you join a BPO, you must get ready to morph into a cubiclodyte.
Root: Cubicle + Dyte (greek for dweller).

Reekonomics

Meaning: Financial ideas or proposals that raise a stink.
Pronunciation: Reek-co-norm-mix.
Usage: Chidamabaram's reekomomics might cost Sonia Gandhi dearly.
Root: Reek + Economics.

Clashanova

Meaning: A guy who loves a fight.
Pronunciation: Clash-sha-no-va.
Usage: There are very few clashanovas in the Indian cricket team.
Root: Clash + Casanova.

Rotivation

Meaning: The drive to work for food.
Pronunciation: Rhymes with motivation.
Usage: Man is a slave of the ordinary, thanks to his rotivation.
Root: Roti (Hindi for staple diet) + Motivation.

Adonoise

Meaning: An aspiring Adonis who makes too much noise about his conquests.
Pronunciation: Ado- Noise.
Usage: As it is Adonises are irritating, more so when they are Adonoises!
Root: Adonis, the Greek God of Male Charm, lover of Aphrodite, the Goddess of love.

Cumbhakt

Meaning: A person who is obsessed with screwing.
Pronunciation: Cum-buck-th.
Usage: Women think all men are cumbhakts.
Root: Cum + Bhakt (Hindi for worshipper).

Pseudopolyglot

Meaning: One who pretends to know many languages.
Pronunciation: Sew-do-poly-glot.
Usage: With a massive vocabulary of 8000 English words, 3 French words, 2 German words and 1 Esperanto word, I passed myself off as a polyglot. But I guess wordminters will call me a pseudopolyglot.
Root: Pseudo (Fake) + Polyglot (One who speaks many languages).

Aphrodisciac

Meaning: euphemism for DVD containing porno material
Pronunciation: afro-disc-iac
Usage: Nothing like the aphrodisciacs to make a man feel larger than life.
Root: obvious

Fishlist

Meaning: The seafood menu at restaurants
Pronunciation: fish-list (obviously)
Usage: The Canton has a great fishlist
Root: Fish + List (Based on wishlist)

Juntapose

Meaning: The positioning of ordinary people in a photograph.
Pronounciation: Jun-taa-pose
Usage: Family photos are exercises in juntaposing
Root: Junta + pose (Based on Juxtapose)

(With a little help from Chenthil)

Proacher

Meaning: An over-enthusiastic Preacher, a preacher who poaches
Pronunciation: Pro-cher.
Usage: Father D'Souza is a proacher
Root: Poach + Preacher.

Moronica

Meaning: To utter rubbish or meaningless argument/ideas/opinions, repeatedly.
Pronunciation: Moron-nika
Usage: He is playing the moronica
Root: moron + harmonica
(This word was coined by Abhishek Toraskar)

Clowniche

Meaning: Strategic positioning as the joker in the pack.
Pronunciation: Clown-neesh.
Usage: Arshad Warsi occupies the clowniche in Bollywood.
Root: Clownish + Niche.

Artistree

Meaning: A female artist
Pronounciation: Arti-stree
Usage: Divya shows great promise. She would make a great artistree
Root: Artist+Stree

Pffafagraphy

Meaning: Photography that's random, aimless, pure pffaf
Pronounciation: Faff-a-graph-ee
Usage: Chandru's no Atul Kasbekar. His is pure pffafagraphy.
Root: Pffaf+Photography

Entertaintment

Meaning: Form of oral creative art, in which tainting others brings loads of fun.
Pronunciation: Obvious.
Usage: Hanging out with gossipmongers always offers wholesome entertaintment.
Root: Obvious.

Restaurrant

Meaning: a place where one can rest and bitch.
Pronunciation: rest-aur-rant.
Usage: We went to the restaurrant and drank coffee.
Root: rest + aur(Hindi for 'and') + rant

Tralalaws

Meaning: Copyright issues related to music.
Pronunciation: Tra-la-loss.
Usage: Anu Mallik cares two hoots for tralalaws.
Root: Obvious.

Electronixed

Meaning: Rejected by the electronic ballot.
Pronunciation: Elect-raw-nixed.
Usage: Will Jayalalitha be electronixed on May 8th? Only time will tell.
Root: Electronic Voting + Nix (to reject).

Funnerving

Meaning: Sense of humour that psyches you out.
Pronunciation: Obvious.
Usage: That woman was so witty I found her funnerving.
Root: Obvious.

Tyresome

Meaning: That flabby look.
Pronunciation: Homonym of tiresome.
Usage: Belly dancers are best when they are tyresome.
Root: Tyres around the stomach.

Streecycle

Meaning: When a guy dates his former girl friend.
Pronunciation: Sthree-cycle.
Usage: What do you do when you get no one? Streecycle.
Root: Stree (Hindi word for woman) + Recycle.

Jeespotting

Meaning: to ogle at married women.
Pronounciation: G-spotting
Usage: One study reveals that young men are more prone to jeespotting that older men.
Root: c.f. Jeespot

Curry Cinema

Meaning: Films with an Indian flavour.
Pronunciation: Obvious.
Usage: Curry Cinema is a mix of masala, emotions, entertainment, art, reality, romance, action and music.
Root: Curry (cues Indian and mix) + Cinema.
Note: I proprose Curry Cinema as an alternative to Bollywood Films. Because a) It's more Indian sounding. b) It has the potential to be the umbrella phrase for Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu, Marathi, Bhojpuri, Punjabi, Gujarati, Bengali, Assamese, Kashmiri, Hindi and Indian English films.

Nayeve

Meaning: A state of woman-hatred
Pronunciation: Nai eve
Usage: Before I met her, I was green and naive. After she met someone else I became blue and nayeve.
Root: obvious

Cognispent

Meaning: Mentally drained, burnt out
Pronunciation: Obvious.
Usage: I wanted to dazzle her with my cogniscent speech. But everytime I meet her, I end up being cognispent and speechless.

Sorrygama

Meaning: An awful singer.
Pronunciation: Obvious.
Usage: I honestly think I am a great singer. Pity the world thinks I am a sorrygama.
Root: One who cuts a sorry figure with Sa re ga ma (the musical notes).

Khaanabis

Meaning: Addictive food.
Pronunciation: Khaa-na-bis.
Usage: Gongura is the Andhra khaanabis.
Root: Khaana (Hindi word for food) + Canabis (an addictive substance).

Stallternative

Meaning: A sub-optimal plan, option or idea knowingly given to buy time.
Pronunciation: Stall-ta-native.
Usage: Making the LOC the official border, is a brilliant stallternative presented by India to Pakistan, to prolong the Kashmir impasse.
Root: Stall + Alternative.

Signide

Meaning: Death sentence.
Pronunciation: Sy-nide.
Usage: The judge broke the nib after delivering a signide to the paedophile.
Root: Sign + Cyanide (poison).

Madamesold

Meaning: A sold out madameselle.
Pronunciation: madme + sold
Usage: Madameselle yesterday. madamesold today. madameresale tomorrow. The market for madams is always there i suppose!
Root: French

Agnoistic

Meaning: An empty agnostic who makes too much noise
Usage: He is an agnoistic who likes to be the centre of all attention.
Pronunciation: ag + noise + stick

Magentism

Meaning: A gent with loads of magnetism
Usage: Me and my magentism - all I seem to attract are rusty females!
Pronunciation: ma + gent + ism
Root: Anagram of magnetism

Phoneycation

Meaning: Virtual sex.
Pronunciation: Phoney-cay-shun.
Usage: 1 in 10 people who are on Yahoo chat, chat in the hope of phoneycation.
Root: Phoney + Fornication.
Note: An alternate meaning could be telephone sex.

Gossipahi

Meaning: One who uses gossip mongering as a tool to rubbish oponents.
Pronunciation: Gause-sip-pa-he.
Usage: Sanjay Joshi of BJP was felled by gossipahis in his own party.
Root: Gossip + Sipahi (means soldier or sepoy in Hindi).

Softworn Engineer

Meaning: A worn out software engineer
Pronunciation: soft + worn + engineer
Usage: I started out as a software engineer. Pretty soon I became quite softworn...gotta do something about it
Root: Obvious

Fludicrous

Meaning: The farcical preventive steps taken to stop bird flu.
Pronunciation: Rhymes with ludicrous.
Usage: Slaughtering half a million chickens to avert a disease that hasn't even killed 10 Indians was simply fludicrous.
Root: Obvious.

Shrumberger

Meaning: a job that entails a lot of physical labour.
Pronunciation: shrum-ber-ger ('ber' as in Bernice; 'ger' as in Germany)
Usage: Don't get Shrumbergered; join some IT firm.
Root: Shrum (Hindi for 'physical labour')
Note: Schlumberger is one of the world's top-most oil corporations, along with Halliburton and others.

Majahidin

Meaning: the inner joy.
Pronunciation: maja-hid-in
Usage: Religious teachings are aimed at bringing out majahidin.
Root: maja (Hindi for 'joy') + hid (hidden) + in (inside)

Cull-de-sack

Meaning: summary expulsion from an organization.
Pronunciation: kal-D-saik
Usage: A large number of GE employees were mercilessly cull-de-sacked under Welch's rank-and-yank policy.
Root: cull + sack

Procure & Gamble

Meaning: indulgence in socially unacceptable activities.
Pronunciation: pro-cure and gam-bal
Usage: Every year, a lot of people go to Amsterdam to procure & gamble.
Root: Procure + Gamble

Indian Idle

Meaning: one who suffers from perennial fecklessness.
Pronunciation: in-D-un I-dul
Usage: Government offices are infested with Indian Idles.
Root: Obvious

Parelines

Meaning: Budget airlines that chop the frills and offer you just a seat to travel from point A to point B.
Pronunciation: Pair-lines.
Usage: The parelines business is bound to be a huge success in a country like India where over 900 million people have never travelled by air because it's unaffordable.
Root: Pare (cut the superficial and offer the substance) + Airlines.

Completon

Meaning: A complex person.
Pronunciation: Comp-il-ton.
Usage: A completon reacts differently to the same stimulus at different points of time.
Root: Complex + Simpleton.

starestruck

meaning: dumbstruck by a stare
pronunctiation: stare + struck
usage: Her looks had me starestruck for hours
root: obvious

messiayyo

meaning: a person who always prophesises doom
pronunciation: mess-i-yo
usage: he is not a messiah, more like a messiayyo!
root: needs no telling

Penema

Meaning: The trigger for writing copiously.
Pronunciation: Pen-nee-ma.
Usage: Arundhati Roy & Arun Shourie are always in search of a penema.
Root: Pen + Enema.

Yellection

Meaning: A voice vote.
Pronunciation: Yell-lek-shun.
Usage: The yellection sealed the fate of the no-confidence motion in the Lok Sabha.
Root: Yell + election.

Formullah

Meaning: One who swears by formulas.
Pronunciation: For-mullah
Usage: When the stakes are huge, I prefer to be a formullah.
Root: Formula + mullah (a religious man).
Note: Google shows up the word. But it's not been used in this context.

Bhaiceps

Meaning: Mafia muscle.
Pronunciation: Bhai-seps.
Usage: No one takes panga with him, thanks to his bhaiceps.
Root: Bhai (the Bombay slang for mafia man) + Biceps.

Showmosexual

Meaning: A person who believes in attracting attention by showing more skin.
Pronunciation: Rhymes with homosexual.
Usage: If you're not a showmosexual, you have no future in Bollywood.
Root: Show + more to be sexual.

Tamgaru

Meaning: A person of Tamil & Telugu lineage.
Pronunciation: Tam-ga-roo.
Usage: Chennai has more than a million tamgarus.
Root: Tam (Slang for tamilian) + Garu (a telugu suffix for a person)

Jeespot

Meaning: The vermillion dot on a married women's forehead that acts as a big turn-off for potential suitors.
Pronunciation: Obvious.
Usage: Shamim thought he'll ask his neighbour out for a date. But he backed off when he saw her jeespot.
Root: The Sindoor (vermillion dot) is the married woman's cryptic way of saying, "Look dude, I am married." In North India, when you address a woman sporting the Sindoor, you attach a respectful suffix 'jee' to her name. As in Priyajee, Shanthajee, Bhavnajee...Therefore the dot that makes you go jee is the jeespot.

Shyfocals

Meaning: Contact lenses.
Pronunciation: Rhymes with bifocals.
Usage: Rani Mukherjee wore dark tinted shyfocals in Black.
Root: People slip into contact lenses when they're shy of wearing spectacles. So that's Shy + Bifocals.

Frugalbandi

Meaning: A musical show put together by 3 or more people with minimal equipment and almost no rehearsal. Simply put, a public jamming session.
Pronunciation: Frugal-bun-dhi
Usage: I love the spontaneity of frugalbandis.
Root: Frugal + Jugalbandi (a hindi word that means a musical show put together by two people.)

Cutpros

Meaning: Film editors who edit with Final Cut Pro.
Pronunciation: Cut-prose.
Usage: There's a demand for at least 100 more cutpros in Chennai.
Root: Obvious.

Hushtachar

Meaning: Silence over corruption.
Pronunciation: Hush-ta-char.
Usage: The good man's hushtachar is to blame for the bad man's brashtachar.
Root: Hush + Brashtachar (Hindi word for corruption)

Scorndom

Meaning: Contempt for wearing condoms.
Pronunciation: Scon-dum.
Usage: In rural India, men think it's almost macho to have a healthy scorndom.
Root: Scorn for condom.

Prosetitution

Meaning: Writing for money. And nothing else.
Pronunciation: Prose-tea-tuition.
Usage: Copywriting is 99% prosetitution and 1% inspiration.
Root: Prose + Prostitution.

Teavorcee

Meaning: One who's kicked the habit of drinking tea.
Pronunciation: tee-vor-see.
Usage: I used to guzzle 15 cups of lemon tea, everyday. Then one fine day, I turned a teavorcee and started my flirtation with chilled beer.
Root: Obvious.

Paiyengar

Meaning: An Iyengar boy.
Pronunciation: Pai-young-gaar.
Usage: We are on the look out for a well-educated, well-placed paiyengar earning a fat salary.
Root: Paiyan (Boy in Tamil) + Iyengar (orthodox tamil brahmins)

Puprentice

Meaning: A newbie apprentice.
Pronunciation: Rhymes with apprentice.
Usage: If you're a female puprentice, the whole office will be thirsting to meet you. If you're a male puprentice, no has time for you.
Root: Pup + Apprentice.

Flamebassy

Meaning : a burning embassy
Usage : Several Danish flamebassys opened up in the muslim world over the past few days
Pronunciation : flame + bass + ee
Root : flame + embassy

Moneypal

Meaning: a filthy-rich friend, who can be duped into buying anything.
Pronunciation: mani-pal
Usage: I have my moneypal buy books I can't afford.
Root: money + pal

Flait

Meaning: an ungainly gait.
Pronunciation: flayt (rhymes with gait)
Usage: Her flait is a turn-off.
Root: flail + gait

Gharithmetic

Meaning: The fine art of balancing home needs with a limited income.
Pronunciation: Ghur-ryth-matic.
Usage: The Indian housewife's gharithmetic can offer you more insights than a Harvard case study.
Root: Ghar (Hindi word for home) + Arithmetic.

Talksickology

Meaning: Study of obnoxious phrases and words.
Pronunciation: Homonym of toxicology.
Usage: As a linguist, I often wonder why no one offers a PhD in talksickology.
Root: Study of sick sounding talk.

Squashiorkor

Meaning: The weak state of the body after a game of squash.
Pronunciation: Obvious.
Usage: If you're athletic you feel charged after a game of squash. If you're like me, you'll end up with squashiorkor.
Root: Squash + Kwashiorkor (weakness due to malnutrition).

Chickstermination

Meaning: Mass killing of chicken resorted to on the onset of bird flu.
Pronunciation: Chix-termy-nation.
Usage: We condemn Hitler's genocide. But don't mind staying silent on the issue of chickstrmination.
Root: Chicken + Extermination.

Classanova

Meaning: The biggest flirt on campus.
Pronunciation: Rhymes with casanova.
Usage: I met our classanova, the other day. He's now a pale shadow of his former self.
Root: Obvious.

Chennaive

Meaning: Chennaiites with old Madras qualities.
Pronunciation: Chen-nai-eve.
Usage: If you ask me, I'd rather be with the Chennaive than hang out with the Madracease.
Root: Chennai + naive.

Madracease

Meaning: Aggressive, ambitious, crafty, fun loving, outgoing, cosmopolitan Chennaiites.
Pronunciation: Homonym of Madrasis.
Usage: The BPO revolution has spawned a new breed of Madracease who are very Mumbai in their outlook.
Root: Madrasis are often associated with traits like conservative, no-nonsense, simple, guileless, trustworthy etc. Madracease are people who have stopping being so.

Potshala

Meaning: A hideout for smoking pot.
Pronunciation: Pot-sha-la
Usage: If Rajesh is not at office or home, he must be in the nearest potshala.
Root: Pot + shala (hindi word for place). Word derived from paatshala.

Plucquisition

Meaning: A ballsy but hostile acquistion.
Pronunciation: Pluck-kwi-zeeshan.
Usage: It is to be seen if Lakshmi Mittal manages the plucquisition of Arcelor.
Root: Pluck + Acquisition.

Thought Soccer

Meaning: Bouncing ideas off.
Pronunciation: Thot-socker.
Usage: I get my kicks playing thought soccer with minds I respect.
Root: In soccer the ball gets dribbled, kicked and sometimes people use their head. Replace the ball with a thought, it seems to make a nice metaphor.

Phonevita

Meaning: Pep talk over phone.
Pronunciation: Obvious.
Usage: I was really down and out. My dad's phonevita got me back on track.
Root: Obvious.

Hunchayat

Meaning: A jury that goes by gut feel.
Pronunciation: Rhymes with Panchayat.
Usage: Creative initiatives need to be judged by hunchayats.
Root: Hunch + Panchayat (an informal village jury in India)

Funderestimate

Meaning: Underestimating the humour quotient.
Pronunciation: Rhymes with underestimate.
Usage: Bollywood gags invariably fall flat because they funderestimate the audience.
Root: Obvious.

Starverchi

Meaning: One who cooks only when there's no other option.
Usage: When it rained poonais and naais in Chennai, I had to play starverchi.
Pronunciation: Sta-var-chi.
Root: Starver + Bawarchi (the hindi word for a cook).

Baternity

Meaning: An excruciatingly long innings.
Pronunciation: Batter-nity.
Usage: Geoff Boycott's baternity at Leeds, took 10 hours. He managed to pile up 246 runs. For this effort, he was dropped in the next test match.
Root: Bat + eternity.

Spendearment

Meaning: Buying love by splurging on gifts.
Pronunciation: Spend-dear-ment.
Usage: A lady will say 'I do' depending on the terms of spendearment.
Root: Spend + Endearment.

IRN

Meaning: An NRI who's returned to India.
Pronunciation: Eye-aar-ren.
Usage: India's prosperity will be steered by millions of enlightened IRNs.
Root: IRN is NRI headed backwards. Also IRN means India Returned NRI.

Surmouse

Meaning: A not-so-wild guess.
Pronunciation: Sir-mouse
Usage: The statement 'Ganguly will never be in the one day team' is a surmouse. While 'Ganguly will never be in the Indian team' is a surmise.
Root: Surmouse is the singular of surmice (phonetically surmise). So it will always be a smaller, milder guess.

Pegnant

Meaning: Having a bloated beer belly.
Pronunciation: Peg-nunt.
Usage: I need to do some exercise to shed my pegnant look.
Root: Peg + pregnant.

Hefemeral

Meaning: 10 seconds of international fame attained by stripping for the playboy magazine.
Pronunciation: Rhymes with ephemeral.
Usage: Playboy bunnies are hefemeral celebrities.
Root: Derived from Hugh Hefner, the founder of Playboy magazine. Hefner was often referred to as Hef.

Recartography

Meaning: The technique of altering geographical borders by redrawing maps.
Pronunciation: Re-carto-grafy.
Usage: Recartography will be in vogue in a decade or two.
Root: Re (again) + cartography (science of map making).

Sleekonomics

Meaning: The art of making the economy look good by resorting to window dressing.
Pronunciation: Slee-ko-nomix.
Usage: I think the Chinese are wizards in sleekonomics. They've hoodwinked the world into thinking, they're a super power.
Root: Sleek + economics.

Janusoplasty

Meaning: Face transplant surgery.
Pronunciation: Jay-nus-o-plasty.
Usage: What if Osama Bin Laden has undergone a janusoplasty?
Root: In roman mythology, Janus is a two-faced god. Since a face transplant is about acquiring a second face, I thought linking it to Janus would make sense.

Base Transplant

Meaning: Getting yourself a bigger butt via plastic surgery.
Pronunciation: Obvious.
Usage: The success of JLO might inspire many to go in for a base transplant.
Root: Face Transplant.

Laloo Paratha

Meaning: A caste-laced sop dished out for votes.
Pronunciation: La-loo-purr-atta
Usage: To win the Tamilnadu election, Jayalalitha may cook some laloo parathas for the weaker sections.
Root: From Laloo Yadav, a pastmaster at caste politics. And aloo paratha.

Schmuckoustic

Meaning: Stupid sounding.
Pronunciation: Sh-muck-coo-stick
Usage: Who is more schmuckoustic? Laloo or Dubya?
Root: Schmuck + acoustic.

Shunusual

Meaning: Avoiding the usual for the sake of being different.
Pronunciation: Shun-you-usual.
Usage: In advertising, you're forced to be shunusual most of the time.
Root: Shun the usual.

Dubyarn

Meaning: Shallow justification for a patently unjust act.
Pronunciation: Dub-yarn.
Usage: Hitler's dubyarn for his conquests was that germany needed more living space.
Root: Dubya + yarn.

Pentaguns

Meaning: Weapons supplied by the CIA.
Pronunciation: Pen-ta-guns.
Usage: America pumps in the pentaguns first. And then a puppet democracy.
Root: Pentagon + guns.

Kalashnikkah

Meaning: Married to a cause that involves weiding the gun. Invariably the AK-47.
Pronunciation: Cal-ash-nick-kaah
Usage: If you ask my honest opinion, it's about time the Kashmiri separatists dissolved their kalashnikkah.
Root: Kalashnikov + nikkah.

Optiogram

Meaning: Sending a message with one's eyes.
Pronunciation: Op-tee-o-gram.
Usage: It was a tense meeting. I could make out from my boss's optiogram that it was pointless to argue anymore.
Root: Opti (eye in greek) + gram (as in the suffix in telegram, hologram, phonogram).

Toonslaught

Meaning: A blasphemous attack done in jest, using cartoons.
Pronunciation: Toon-slot
Usage: Conservative Islamists all over the world are enraged over the European toonslaught on Prophet Mohammad.
Root: Toon + Onslaught.

Jetonation

Meaning: A plane explosion.
Pronunciation: Rhymes with detonation.
Usage: CIA has intelligence that the Al Qaeda is planning a series of jetonations in smaller countries.
Root: Obvious.

Whatsyayana

Meaning: The go-to-guy for all coital queries.
Pronunciation: Watts-ya-yana
Usage: Every campus has one whatsayayana.
Root: What + Vatsyayana (the author of kama sutra).

Pyaarthritis

Meaning: When love makes you go weak in the knees.
Pronunciation: Pyaar-thry-tis.
Usage: It was a pyaarthritis moment. Vineet didn't know what hit him. He went straight to Sonali and proposed to her.
Root: Pyaar (Hindi word for love) + Arthritis (a condition that makes your knees weak).

Showpium

Meaning: The irresistible pull of showbiz.
Pronunciation: Rhymes with opium.
Usage: Showpium is the reason why people are glued to their televisions.
Root: Obvious.

Babooboo

Meaning: A blooper or a snafu committed by a bureaucrat.
Pronunciation: Babu-boo
Usage: Many good governments earn a bad name, thanks to babooboos.
Root: Babu (the hindi word for a bureaucrat) + boo boo.
Note: The word is not a fresh coinage. It's probably a name in some language.

Talksymoron

Meaning: Anything that sounds retarded.
Pronunciation: Toxy-moron.
Usage: I think the word 'Kewl' is a talksymoron.
Root: Obvious.

Dunnomad

Meaning: A knowledge seeker who travels from website to website in search of information.
Pronunciation: Doe-know-mad
Usage: Dunnomads are cyber gypsies with a brain.
Root: Dunno (don't know) + Nomad.

Antarickshaw

Meaning: A futuristic space cab that can cart 2 or 3 people at a time.
Pronunciation: Unther-rickshaw.
Usage: I am a space tourist. I love getting on to an antarickshaw and seeing new galaxies.
Root: Antariksha (Cosmos in sanskrit) + Rickshaw.

Punctualious

Meaning: very meticulous about use of punctuations.
Usage: G.B. Shaw was very punctualious in his writings.
Pronounciation: pank-chu-é-li-us
Root: punctuation + punctilious

Paraboli

Meaning: Making an outrageously about-turn statement.
Pronunciation: Para-bolee.
Usage: Mayawati is the queen of paraboli.
Root: Parabola (geometrical representation of a u-turn) + boli (hindi word for speak).

Voodoonym

Meaning: When you assume someone else's name with an intent of bringing disrepute to that name, the assumed name is called a voodoonym.
Pronunciation: Woo-doo-nym.
Usage: Beware, someone, somewhere might be using your name as his voodoonym.
Root: The meaning kinda sums it up.

Shoutnumber

Meaning: To be drowned out by a torrent of voices.
Pronunciation: Obvious.
Usage: The opposition was shoutnumbered by the ruling party MLAs.
Root: Shout + Outnumber.

Piquebrain

Meaning: an annoying person
Usage: Harry is a piquebrain.
Pronounciation: pick-brain
Root: pique (verb) + brain

Manimosity

Meaning: A feeling of ill will against men.
Pronunciation: Manee-maw-city
Usage: Jilted women tend to develop manimosity.
Root: Man + Animosity.

Layins

Meaning: Advertising layouts that don't see the light of the day.
Pronunciation: Lay-ince.
Usage: My portfolio is littered with some lovely layins.
Root: Layouts that stay in the comp.

Brazealot

Meaning: An enthusiastic supporter of the Brazilian football team.
Pronunciation: Bra-zeal-lut.
Usage: There are tonnes of brazealots even in a cricket crazy country like India.
Root: Brazil + Zealot.

Laevotee

Meaning: A communist at heart.
Pronunciation: Lee-vo-tea.
Usage: N. Ram is the most famous laevotee in Chennai.
Root: A devotee of leftist principles. Note: Laevo is left in latin.

Persiflog

Meaning: severe banter
Usage: Halfway into the India-Pak world-cup('96) match, the two commentators- Gavaskar and Imran Khan- picked up the rapier of persiflog.
Pronounciation: per-C-flog
Root: persiflage + flog

Halloocination

Meaning: Fantasies in the toilet.
Pronunciation: Hal-loose-sin-nation.
Usage: The Liril ads were supposedly based on the premise that women do a lot of halloocination.
Root: Obvious.

Bogitation

Meaning: Deep thought in the toilet.
Pronunciation: Bawg-it-tayshun.
Usage: I get most of my ideas during extended sessions of bogitation.
Root: Bog (loo) + Cogitation.

Pornslaught

Meaning: The gush of porno emails in your inbox. Or sudden explosion of porno pop-ups on your comp.
Pronunciation: Porn-slot.
Usage: My girlfriend gave me a disgusted look when she looked at the mails in my inbox. She didn't realise it was plain pornslaught.
Root: Porn + onslaught.

Quackophony

Meaning: Bathroom singing. Or when the uninitiated and untrained boldly belt out songs like pros, regardless of whether the rendition is offkey or offbeat.
Pronunciation: Kwack-co-phoney.
Usage: I am a big fan of Kishore Anna's quackophony.
Root: Quack (pretending to be a pro) + Phony (Sounds).

SWG

Meaning: The Indian flag.
Pronunciation: Es-Double-You-Gee.
Usage: Indians are a sentimental lot. Burning the SWG could cause a riot.
Root: Saffron, White & Green.

Oleopoly

Meaning: Domination by the oil cartels.
Pronunciation: Olio-polly.
Usage: The days of the oleopoly are numbered.
Root: Oleo means oil in latin/greek. Poly is control.

Squintellectual

Meaning: An intellectual with an ideological bias.
Pronunciation: Skwint-tellectuals.
Usage: The Seminar magazine is the favourite haunt of India's most renowned squintellectuals.
Root: Obvious.

Shallumni

Meaning: Wannabe students of a prestigious institute or univ.
Pronunciation: Shall-loom-nai.
Usage: The IITs attract over 100,000 shallumni every year.
Root: Shall + alumni.

Conkology

Meaning: Study of breakdowns, failures and malfunctions.
Pronunciation: Conk-call-logy.
Usage: Professor Avinash had this bright idea of starting a course on conkology.
Root: Conk (malfunction) + Logy (study of).