Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Currycature

Meaning: A sad imitation of Indian food.
Pronunciation: Curry-kay-ture.
Usage: Unfortunately, the balti restaurants are nothing but currycatures.
Root: Curry + Caricature.

Monday, July 13, 2009

Ghoshala

Meaning: A bong hangout.
Pronunciation: Gho-sha-la.
Usage: If it plays a Mithun movie, it must be a ghoshala.
Root: Ghosh (a bong surname) + Aalaya (place in Hindi).

Saturday, July 11, 2009

Kilogrammarian

Meaning: A heavy weight in grammar.
Pronunciation: Kilo-gram-may-ri-yan.
Usage: Given a chance, a kilogrammarian is capable of detecting a hundred errors in The Hindu.
Root: Kilogram (unit of weight) + Grammarian.

Thursday, July 09, 2009

Meekasura

Meaning: A timid terrorist.
Pronunciation: Me-ka-su-ra.
Usage: There will always be one meekasura even in Satan's camp.
Root: Meek + Asura.

Scornication

Meaning: Running down illicit intercourse. Especially between members of the same sex.
Pronunciation: Scor-ni-kay-shun.
Usage: Liberals can never understand as to why conservatives indulge in scornication.
Root: Derived from to pour scorn on fornication.

Budrenaline

Meaning: High on alcohol.
Pronunciation: Bud-ri-na-lin.
Usage: 7 out of 10 road accidents at night can be blamed on the budrenaline rush.
Root: Bud (nick for Budweiser) + Adrenaline (State of excitement).

Tuesday, July 07, 2009

Queulogy

Meaning: When the world joins in chorus to praise the deceased.
Pronunciation: Q-lo-gee.
Usage: Michael Jackson would have been amused if he had been around to see his queulogy. All those folks who ran him down are today calling him an icon.
Root: Queue + Eulogy.

Stereotypist

Meaning: A hack who churns out hackneyed stuff.
Pronunciation: Self-explanatory.
Usage: There's a certain pleasure in being a stereotypist. Because you are catering to zero expectations.
Root: Stereotypist or Stereotyper is an already existing word. All we've done is to reinterpret it.

Monday, July 06, 2009

Cellection

Meaning: An election where members cast their vote using a cell phone.
Pronunciation: Sell-leck-shun.
Usage: News channels justify their shallow stance on policies using data from cellections as fig leaf.
Root: Cell + Election.

Sunday, July 05, 2009

Flashion Design

Meaning: Designing clothes in such a way that there is maximum skin show.
Pronunciation: Flash-shun-design.
Usage: Flashion Designers will be in great demand in the film industry.
Root: Flash (indecent exposure) + Fashion Design.

Flukocyte

Meaning: The luck element.
Pronunciation: Floo-ko-sight.
Usage: He may be short on talent but he's so full of flukocytes.
Root: Fluke (luck) + Cyte (from kytos - greek for cell).