Word Mint

Pajama Veshti

2012-01-31T21:29:00.001-08:00

Meaning: The panchakacham style veshti that's tucked in between the legs to give it the appearance of a solemn pajama.
Pronunciation: Obvious.
Usage: Ram from Kansas was looking his Kumbakonam self in the pajama veshti that he was forced to wear during the wedding ceremonies.
Root: Self explanatory.

Bibliobanophobia

2012-01-29T03:46:00.000-08:00

Meaning: The fear of the consequences of reading or writing a proscribed book.
Pronunciation: Bib-leo-ban-no-fo-be-yeah.
Usage: The UPA has stoked the fires of Bibliobanophobia in the Jaipur Literature Festival, all for some votes in Uttar Pradesh.
Root: Self explanatory.

Missguise

2012-01-26T21:38:00.000-08:00

Meaning: To dress up like a woman.
Pronunciation: Miss-guys.
Usage: Every Indian actor loves a role where there's scope to wear a missguise.
Root: Miss (a lady) + Guise (external appearance)

Gluteus Flammeus

2012-01-26T02:15:00.000-08:00

Meaning: Euphemism for arse of fire.
Pronunciation: Glue-tea-yes-flame-me-yes.
Usage: After the Adelaide debacle, Viru needs to worry about his gluteus flammeus.
Root: Gluteus (short for Butt) + Flammeus (latin for fiery).

Twinyear Day

2012-01-24T05:30:00.000-08:00

Meaning: When DD-MM matches YYYY of the year, that day is called Twinyear Day.
Pronunciation: Twin-year-day.
Usage: 20/12/2012 is going to be the last Twinyear Day of this century.
Root: Self explanatory.

Eisoptrography

2012-01-22T22:10:00.000-08:00

Meaning: The art of mirror writing.
Pronunciation: Esop-tro-graf-fee.
Usage: Leonardo da Vinci was a master of painting, science, mathematics, engineering, botany, geology, cartography and eisoptrography.
Root: Eisoptro- (Greek for mirror) + Graphos (greek for writing).

Balliloquy

2012-01-21T22:04:00.000-08:00

Meaning: Making the cricket ball talk with an awesome display of movement and bounce.
Pronunciation: Ball-li-lock-kwi.
Usage: Peter Siddle's balliloquy was in full display at WACA.
Root: Ball + Solliloquy (an artistic expression of self using monologue).

Truegality

2012-01-21T07:21:00.000-08:00

Meaning: Economy of truth.
Pronunciation: Tru-gal-lit-tee.
Usage: PC's truegality will be his undoing in February.
Root: Frugality (miserliness) + True (factual).

Flabrication

2012-01-18T19:01:00.000-08:00

Meaning: The act of making a thing/person appear fatter.
Pronunciation: Flab-brick-kay-shun.
Usage: Vidya Balan is playing a pregnant woman in Kahaani. Her look needs plenty of flabrication.
Root: Flab (fat) + Fabrication (manufacturing).
Other derivations: Flabricate, Flabricated, Flabricating.

Claymason

2012-01-17T18:31:00.000-08:00

Meaning: One who can create magic with claymation.
Pronunciation: Klay-may-sun.
Usage: The claymasons at Vaibhav Studios deserve all praise for the Amaron batteries work that won a lot of acclaim.
Root: Masons (builders) who work with clay.

Dieman

2012-01-17T09:21:00.000-08:00

Meaning: One who has lost the will to live.
Pronunciation: Die-man.
Usage: When you're stuck between life and death, you become a dieman.
Root: Self explanatory.
Coinage: Word coined by my 7-year old nephew Adit Pushan.

Jaathbreaker

2012-01-17T03:48:00.000-08:00

Meaning: One who renounces caste.
Pronunciation: Rhymes with pathbreaker.
Usage: We need more jaathbreakers for Hinduism to reinvent itself.
Root: Jaath (Hindi for caste) + Breaker (an iconoclast).

Slackberry

2012-01-15T21:34:00.000-08:00

Meaning: Delayed transmitter of information.
Pronunciation: Slack-ber-ree.
Usage: The world was a happier place in the times of the postal slackberry.
Root: Slack (slow) + Blackberry (an instant message device).

KeyLPD

2012-01-14T19:44:00.000-08:00

Meaning: The disappointment of discovering that you've used the wrong key for the right lock. Basically, KeyLPD is Key Lock Pairing Dissonance.
Pronunciation: Kee-El-Pee-Dee.
Usage: After the drinking binge, we headed to the car. I tried to open the door, several times. Unfortunately we couldn't, as KeyLPD happened.
Root: KeyLPD = Key + KLPD (a campus slang for frustration).

-ha

2012-01-13T20:01:00.000-08:00

Meaning: Suffix notating 'and a half'. Represents the same value as the decimal 'point 5'.
Pronunciation: Ha.
Usage: Two and a half can be shortened to twoha and seven and a half to sevenha with the new -ha suffix.
Root: Ha is the phonetically useful half of the word 'half'.

Neatpicker

2012-01-12T20:19:00.000-08:00

Meaning: A tidiness freak who keeps badgering people about their hygienic peccadilloes.
Pronunciation: Neat-pick-kar.
Usage: In all of my 40 years, I haven't yet come across a male neatpicker.
Pronunciation: Neat(clean & orderly)+ Nitpicker (fault finder).

Sareegar

2012-01-12T19:44:00.000-08:00

Meaning: A saree smith.
Pronunciation: Sa-re-gur.
Usage: It's indeed strange that none of our traditional sareegars have chosen to make a brand out of themselves.
Root: Saree (the attire of women in India) + Karigar (Hindi for craftsman)

Pluggage

2012-01-12T02:43:00.000-08:00

Meaning: All the additional plug-ins, downloads and apps on your machine.
Pronunciation: Plug-age.
Usage: My hard disk is full. Now I have no other choice but to let go of my pluggage.
Root: Plug-in (add on software) + Luggage (a hold all for personal belongings).

Phenyl Glugger

2012-01-10T20:12:00.000-08:00

Meaning: Sucker for freebies.
Pronunciation: Fin-nyle-glug-ga
Usage: Pork barrel politics will be the norm as long as voters are phenyl gluggers.
Root: From the colourful tamil expression: "Avan free-ya kudutha phenyl-ayum kudipaan (if it's for free, he'll even drink phenyl).

Geomartians

2012-01-09T18:47:00.000-08:00

Meaning: Earthlings who've moved to Mars.
Pronunciation: Jiyo-marshy-yens.
Usage: In fifty to hundred years, the first Geomartians would hopefully set foot on the red planet.
Root: Geo (Earth) + Martian (residents of Mars)

Reallygion

2012-01-08T18:57:00.000-08:00

Meaning: A school of thought that believes Earth is the only heaven and the only path for reaching this goal is to create a happy reality through good old hard work, persistence, beauty, humour and sincerity.
Pronunciation: Really-jun.
Usage: Groucho Marx, Isaac Newton, Kishore Kumar, Don Bradman, Madonna & Marilyn Monroe are some of the gods and goddesses of Reallygion.
Root: Derived from the 'religion of reality'.

Squad Erat Demonstrandum

2012-01-07T19:56:00.000-08:00

Meaning: The Logic Nazis.
Note: Squad Erat Demonstrandum is to be used in the abbreviated form. As in, SED.
Usage: The SED revel in score debating points. The only way to beat them is to be irrational.
Root: Squad (a clique)+ QED (a term used at the end of a carefully constructed proof based on logic).

Twinsitu

2012-01-06T01:23:00.000-08:00

Meaning: Being in two states at the same time.
Pronunciation: Twin-sit-too.
Usage: Heisenberg was the first to pinpoint the twinsitu nature of beings.
Root: Twin (two of the same origin) + in situ (Latin for on site) = one identical being in two different sites.

Paytheist

2012-01-05T20:42:00.000-08:00

Meaning: One who believes that bribing gods can work wonders.
Pronunciation: Pay-thee-yist.
Usage: Students in India turn paythiests before exams and atheists after the results.
Root: Self explanatory.

Samakatti

2012-01-03T20:32:00.000-08:00

Meaning: Cube.
Pronunciation: Sa-ma-cut-tee.
Usage: Gana Sadhuram is the tamil term for a cube. Literally, that means 3-dimensional square. But not all 3-dimensional squares are cubes. So I am proposing Samakatti as it at least captures the soul of a cube.
Root: Sama (Tamil for symmetric) + Katti (Tamil for block)

Billfering

2012-01-02T18:35:00.000-08:00

Meaning: To steal in small amounts by overcharging a bit.
Pronunciation: Bil-fur.
Usage: In bars and pubs, where no one's in a position to remember what they consumed, the management might be tempted to indulge in some harmless billfering.
Root: Bill + Pilfer.

Whohickey

2012-01-01T18:32:00.000-08:00

Meaning: A person whose name the speaker cannot remember.
Pronunciation: Who-hic-kee.
Usage: Some whohickey came up to me and asked for my car keys. I assumed he was the chauffeur. How am I supposed to know that he was a car thief?
Root: Doohickey (a thing whose name the speaker cannot remember) + Who (a person).
Note: Whohickey is synonymous with Whatshisname.

Ventrilarmo

2011-12-31T19:29:00.000-08:00

Meaning: Bad feeling in the stomach.
Pronunciation: Went-tree-la-mo.
Usage: I should have listened to my ventrilarmo while hiring that guy.
Root: Ventri (Latin for stomach) + Alarmo (Italian for alarm).

Kannadaata

2011-12-30T20:25:00.000-08:00

Meaning: One who donates eyes.
Pronunciation: Cun-na-dha-taa.
Usage: Dead people need to turn into kannadaatas if the whole world must see.
Root: Kan (Tamil for eyes) + daata (provider).

Disstrionics

2011-12-29T20:26:00.000-08:00

Meaning: Pretending to be disrespectful.
Pronunciation: Dis-tree-yawn-nicks.
Usage: When Rajniti Prasad tore the Lok Pal bill, he was just showing off his skills in disstronics.
Root: Diss (short for disrespectful) + Histrionics (acting).

Narcaughtics

2011-12-28T08:55:00.000-08:00

Meaning: Illegal substances under the custody of the anti-drug squad.
Pronunciation: Nor-cot-ticks.
Usage: Bankrupt economies might be tempted to earn revenues by dumping their narcaughtics in the black market.
Root: Pretty obvious.

Parryvartan

2011-12-26T18:31:00.000-08:00

Meaning: To resist change.
Pronunciation: Pare-ree-var-thun.
Usage: Forces of parryvartan will ensure that the FIAT currency regime stays on.
Root: Parry (to avoid) + Parivartan (Hindi for change).

Shaansad

2011-12-26T02:16:00.000-08:00

Meaning: The prestige associated with being a parliamentarian.
Pronunciation: Shaan-sadh.
Usage: Lok Sabha must pass a strong Lok Pal bill. Else, the very shaansad of members, may get diluted.
Root: Shaan (Urdu for pride) + Saansad (Hindi for Parliamentarian)

Tropikhana

2011-12-24T20:33:00.000-08:00

Meaning: A sumptuous breakfast washed down with some fruit juice.
Pronunciation: Trop-pick-kha-na.
Usage: I began the lazy weekend in an idyllic resort with a filling tropikhana.
Root: Tropicana + Khana (Hindi for food).

Orgunners

2011-12-23T23:30:00.000-08:00

Meaning: The ones who kill or maim people for organ harvesting.
Pronunciation: Or-gun-ners.
Usage: China's orgunners can never be forgiven for the intolerable cruelty of their crime.
Root: Derived from the gunners who kill for bodily organs.

Ameeriat

2011-12-22T20:24:00.000-08:00

Meaning: A state run by the rich.
Pronunciation: Um-me-ri-yat.
Usage: If our businessmen had their way, they would run India like an Ameeriat. Focus on money making and sweep all discordant issues under the carpet.
Root: Ameer (Urdu for rich) + -iat (Urdu equivalent of -cracy).
Note: Ameeriat is a synonym for plutocracy. It was coined first by Santosh Tiwari, a jolly good fellow.

Kickshawing

2011-12-21T21:09:00.001-08:00

Meaning: Reverse-towing an auto rickshaw that has broken down by kicking it from the rear side using the momentum of the moving auto rickshaw traveling right behind. Here's a video to demonstrate the technique.
Pronunciation: Kick-shoing.
Usage: Thanks to some diligent kickshawing from a good samaritan, the pregnant woman was able to reach the hospital on time.
Root: Derived from Kicking (Thrusting of foot) a rickshaw.
Note: By extension, Kickshaw is the rickshaw that's being reverse-towed using this technique.

Stintern

2011-12-20T18:39:00.000-08:00

Meaning: A seasoned hand learning the ropes on a new job.
Pronunciation: Stin-turn.
Usage: Nine months into his job, our VP is still as clueless as a stintern.
Root: Stint (period of responsibility) + Intern (Trainee).
Note: By extension, Stinternship is the training period on a new job.

Tanuvad

2011-12-19T20:33:00.000-08:00

Meaning: Body language.
Pronunciation: Thun-noo-vaad.
Usage: To read an animal's mind, you need to know the nuances of tanuvad.
Root: Tan (Hindi for body) + Anuvad (Hindi for 'to interpret').
Note: By extension, a Tanuvadi is an expert in interpreting body language.

She Sickness

2011-12-19T19:28:00.000-08:00

Meaning: What a woman goes through during 'that time of the month'.
Pronunciation: She-sick-ness.
Usage: Woman 2.0 will not have to go through the labour of she sickness.
Root: Obvious.

Chaapoholic

2011-12-19T18:32:00.000-08:00

Meaning: Addicted to minting money.
Pronunciation: Cha-po-hall-lick.
Usage: We'll be stuck with a mountain of debt if we don't vote out the chaapoholics.
Root: Note Chaapna (Hindi for printing money) + -holic (suffix cueing addict).

Sopistry

2011-12-19T08:50:00.000-08:00

Meaning: Providing sops to win elections under the pretext of a loftier cause.
Pronunciation: Sop-piss-tree.
Usage: The Food Security Bill type of sopistry won't cut ice with the aam aadmi. He'll take what comes his way and vote for someone else.
Root: Sop (anything given to pacify) + Sophistry (fallacious argument).

Mazaakistan

2011-12-18T19:37:00.000-08:00

Meaning: The humour world.
Pronunciation: Ma-zaak-kiss-taan.
Usage: In prosperous societies, young minds don't wish to be engineers, doctors or MBAs. They wannabe the maharajas of Mazaakistan.
Root: Mazaak (Hindi for joke) + -stan (urdu suffix for place)

Ruecide

2011-12-17T18:19:00.000-08:00

Meaning: The regret pangs experienced by a killer.
Pronunciation: Rew-side.
Usage: Life imprisonment is like slow torture. It torments the killer by injecting him with ruecide.
Root: Rue (deep regret) + -cidium (act of killing).
Note: It could also refer to the guilt experienced after a failed suicide attempt.

Marsismo

2011-12-16T20:14:00.000-08:00

Meaning: The bravado of colonising Mars.
Pronunciation: Mar-sis-mo.
Usage: A few decades from now, presidential candidates will win elections, fueled by Marsismo.
Root: Machismo of occupying Mars.

Cerebum

2011-12-15T20:22:00.000-08:00

Meaning: Smart but lazy.
Pronunciation: Seree-bum.
Usage: People have outsourced their thinking to the internet. We have more cerebums now than ever before.
Root: Cerebrum (the part of brain that controls all activity) + bum (idler).

Isoscentric

2011-12-14T21:28:00.000-08:00

Meaning: Having the same fragrance.
Pronunciation: Iso-cent-rick.
Usage: The trouble with perfumes is it makes us all feel isoscentric.
Root: Iso (same) + Scentric (focal points in space with a fragrance).

Boomsdayer

2011-12-14T19:52:00.000-08:00

Meaning: Hopeless optimist.
Pronunciation: Booms-day-yer.
Usage: You might be tempted to call me a boomsdayer if I were to tell you that 100 years from now, each of us could afford a planet for ourselves.
Root: The polar opposite of a doomsdayer.

Watchespati

2011-12-11T06:49:00.001-08:00

Meaning: Time keeper.
Pronunciation: Watches-pa-thi.
Usage: Astronomers were the watchespatis in Ancient India.
Root: Watches (measure of time) + Pati (Sanskrit suffix meaning 'master of').

Stolpolski

2011-12-06T19:48:00.001-08:00

Meaning: One who cheats and wins elections.
Pronunciation: Stole-poll-ski.
Usage: In the stolpolski hall of fame, Putin will earn a knighthood for his latest exploits.
Root: Stole (robbing) + Poll (elections) + Polski (a common Eastern European surname)

Mrsed

2011-12-04T09:27:00.000-08:00

Meaning: He who had to stay at home because a wife put her foot down
Pronunciation: Miss-us-ed
Usage: Aravind was Mrsed at the school reunion last Sunday
Root: Missed+Mrs

(Note: Co-coined with @msnarain)

Calorie Payattu

2011-11-30T19:29:00.001-08:00

Meaning: The war to stay in shape.
Pronunciation: Cal-low-ree-pa-yet-tu.
Usage: My folks keep cribbing about the bulge. So I am planning to get into some much needed Calorie Payattu soon. But then I am known to procrastinate.
Root: Calorie (measure of food energy) + Payattu (Malayalam word meaning fight)

Saapat Roaman

2011-11-30T18:58:00.001-08:00

Meaning: A South Indian foodie who hops from sabha to sabha in search of good food.
Pronunciation: Sa-part-roman.
Usage: The distinguishing feature of a saapat roaman is he's into the music season for the food.
Root: Saapat Raman (Tamil for glutton) + Roam (to check out places).
NOTE: A Saapat Roman is a South Indian foodie who loves Italian cuisine.

Sabhatical

2011-11-30T18:29:00.001-08:00

Meaning: A break taken to enjoy the December music season in Chennai.
Pronunciation: Sa-baa-ti-cull.
Usage: I intend to spend my entire sabhatical in Music Academy.
Root: Sabha (synonymous with the many music halls in Chennai) + Sabbatical.

Paronomagia

2011-11-27T06:41:00.001-08:00

Meaning: Visual pun.
Pronunciation: Pair-run-no-may-gee-ya.
Usage: The first technique for creating clever ads is to dabble in paranomagia.
Root: Paranomasia (Word play) + Image.

GIFt

2011-11-25T10:26:00.001-08:00

Meaning: The ability to quickly search and locate an appropriate low-res animation to use as a snappy response in an online discussion thread

Usage: I cracked a brilliant pun but Vishal used his GIFt to find a cat falling asleep as a response

Bicamperal

2011-11-24T23:06:00.000-08:00

Meaning: Straight male being camp when it suits him.
Pronunciation: obvious
Usage: "Not sure what to make of that star. Plays macho roles but wears pink flowery shirts" "He's bicamperal".
Root: Bicameral + Camp.

Ablissmal

2011-11-23T18:50:00.000-08:00

Meaning: Extremely below par. Yet extremely pleasurable.
Pronunciation: ub-bliss-mull.
Usage: The lyrics of the song that's on everyone's lips was supposedly penned in just 6 minutes. Is that the reason why it's ablissmal?
Root: Abysmal + Bliss.

Sputnick

2011-11-14T19:44:00.000-08:00

Meaning: A nick that results in a skier.
Pronunciation: Spoot-nick.
Usage: Sewhag slashes at a short pitched delivery from Roach and he sputnicks it to Third man.
Root: Named after Sputnik - the first artificial satellite that was put out into earth's orbit.

Start Downs

2011-11-14T19:28:00.000-08:00

Meaning: New companies floated with an intention of making losses.
Pronunciation: Start-dounce.
Usage: When you have loads of black money, it helps to set up a flurry of start downs if the idea is to launder.
Root: The polar opposite of a start up.

Spaternity

2011-11-08T20:23:00.000-08:00

Meaning: A paternity row.
Pronunciation: Spat-turn-nitty.
Usage: If Idi Amin were alive, he'd have lost all his wealth battling spaternity.
Root: Obvious.

Diemension

2011-10-31T11:00:00.000-07:00

Meaning: The aspect of measure in the world of the deceased.
Pronunciation: Die-mention.
Usage: The dead have many invisible diemensions that our scientists can never figure.
Root: Die + Dimension.

Callsetto

2011-10-19T19:46:00.001-07:00

Meaning: A prank call using a fake voice.
Pronunciation: Call-set-toe.
Usage: Thrown in the device of a callsetto if you want to add some more gags to your script.
Root: Call + Falsetto (False voice).

Retryree

2011-10-19T19:36:00.000-07:00

Meaning: One who stages a comeback post-retirement.
Pronunciation: Rit-try-ree.
Usage: Shahid Afridi is a never say die retryree.
Root: Retry + Retiree.

Thintoretto

2011-10-19T19:09:00.000-07:00

Meaning: A struggling artist.
Pronunciation: Thin-toe-ret-toe.
Usage: I am just your regular Thintoretto living off the scraps of what little I make by drawing storyboards for clueless clients and ad agencies.
Root: Thin (dimnished) + Tintoretto (a renowned renaissance painter who reportedly never achieved financial sufficiency).

Nagaraadi

2011-10-16T19:52:00.000-07:00

Meaning: Street parlance.
Pronunciation: Na-gar-aah-dhi.
Usage: Gujli, gujaals, gilma and gabbu are some g-words that have crept into the Chennai nagaraadi.
Root: Nagar (tamil for area) + Agaraadi (tamil for lexicon).

Hulkemist

2011-10-11T19:57:00.000-07:00

Meaning: He who transforms himself into a muscle man using steroids.
Prounciation: Hulk-kay-mist.
Usage: The 6,7 and 8-packers we see on screen may just be hulkemists, for all we know.
Root: Hulk + Alchemist.

Perrypathetics

2011-10-11T19:42:00.001-07:00

Meaning: The hopeless supporters of Rick Perry.
Pronunciation: Perry-path-thetix.
Usage: The Texan governor is now relying on his hard core base of perrypathetics to bounceback in the primaries.
Root: Rick Perry + Peripatetics (itinerant evangelisers of a school of thought).

Lethohyalosis

2011-10-09T19:53:00.000-07:00

Meaning: The inability to remember where you left your specs.
Pronunciation: Leth-tho-high-ya-low-sis.
Usage: The witness couldn't have seen the crime as she's acutely prone to lethohyalosis.
Root: Letho (greek for forgetfulness) + Hyalos (greek for glass).

Witrify

2011-10-09T19:12:00.000-07:00

Meaning: To lighten up a heated discussion by injecting some humour.
Pronunciation: Wit-ree-fai.
Usage: We need more Piloo Modis in parliament who can witrify any situation.
Root: Wit + Vitrify (to change into glass through heat infusion).

Anthropole

2011-10-08T20:57:00.000-07:00

Meaning: The habitable points for mankind on the cosmic map.
Pronunciation: An-throw-pole.
Usage: The shortage of natural resources will force our world to seek out new Anthropoles using Star Trek like missions.
Root: Anthro (Greek for man) + Pole (an axis).

Natalie Portmanteau

2011-10-08T20:08:00.000-07:00

Meaning: A versatile woman with accomplishments in multiple fields.
Pronunciation: Nat-ta-lee-port-maan-too.
Usage: Annie was a classic Natalie Portmanteau. She was a good orator, an educationist and a leading light of Theosophy.
Root: Natalie Portman (the versatile actress with a degree in psychology from harvard who is said to be fluent in German, Hebrew, French, Japanese and English) + Portmanteau (a blend of two or more morphemes).

Tellyflake

2011-10-08T19:52:00.000-07:00

Meaning: The random dot pattern of static when no transmission signal is picked up by your television.
Pronunciation: Tell-lee-flake.
Usage: In those zen like moments, watching the tellyflake is as soothing as meditating on an aquarium.
Root: Telly (slang for television) + Flake (the static dots look like snow flakes).

Berryani

2011-10-07T21:01:00.000-07:00

Meaning: Messages served by your BlackBerry.
Pronunciation: Berry-ya-nee.
Usage: My morning routine is simple: wake up, smell the coffee, sample the berryani and then off to fight fires at office.
Root: Berry (as in Blackberry) + Biriyani (a meat dish).

Grantariksh

2011-10-06T19:29:00.000-07:00

Meaning: The book of all books that contains everything.
Pronunciation: Grunth-tha-reeksh.
Usage: The current species inhabiting this planet is a mere paragraph in the timeless pages of the grantariksh.
Root: Grantha (Sanskrit for Book) + Antariksh (Sanskrit for Universe).

Finishiate

2011-10-06T10:12:00.000-07:00

Meaning: Trigger the end.
Pronunciation: Fin-nish-she-yate.
Usage: Whenever nature wishes to start afresh, she finitiates the erasure with a mighty cataclysm.
Root: Finish + Initiate.

Wimperial

2011-10-05T07:20:00.000-07:00

Meaning: Befitting of a cowardly ruler.
Prounciation: Wimp-pee-real.
Usage: The princeling's silence on all issues of national importance is responsible for his wimperial aura.
Root: Wimp + Imperial.

Knorrvegian

2011-10-04T23:18:00.000-07:00

Meaning: One who subsists on soups and salads.
Pronunciation: Nor-wedge-jian.
Usage: My optimal formula for staying in shape: Live on junk food during daytime and turn a knorrvegian at night.
Root: Knorr (a brand synonymous with soups)+Vegian (short for vegetarian).

Ethins

2011-10-03T20:47:00.000-07:00

Meaning: A new branch of philosophy that operates under the assumption that man can never be moral.
Pronunciation: Eth-ins.
Usage: The sole purpose of the study of Business Ethins is to estimate the optimal level of immorality a company needs to practice to make pots of money and yet be perceived as 'respectable'.
Root: The opposite of Ethicks.

Skillduggery

2011-08-08T19:23:00.000-07:00

Meaning: Falsification of capabilities with an intent to benefit from it.
Pronunciation: Skill-dugger-ree.
Usage: With the internet, anyone can appear smarter than they are. The only way to nail the practitioners of skillduggery is to carry out old-fashioned reference checks.
Root: Skill + Skullduggery.

Spawndylitis

2011-07-03T20:33:00.001-07:00

Meaning: Labour pain.
Pronunciation: Spawn-de-light-tis.
Usage: Leotina Albina is one hell of a fecund woman. She's 65 and has delivered 64 children. I wonder how she manages her spawndylitis.
Root: Spawn + Spondylitis.

Ecoinomics

2011-06-29T19:39:00.000-07:00

Meaning: The cost of production vis-a-vis worth argument that decides whether a coin is in currency or not.
Pronunciation: ik-coin-no-mix.
Usage: If the 25 paise's fate was sealed by ecoinomics, it won't be long before the 50 paise is phased out using the same logic.
Root: Derived from 'Economics of minting the coin'.

Grrresponsible

2011-06-27T02:17:00.000-07:00

Meaning: Maintaining a calm exterior despite being full of pent up rage.
Pronunciation: Grrr-Res-pon-sybil.
Usage: Despite 26/11, India went about its business in a grrresponsible manner.
Root: Self explanatory.

Spelch

2011-06-11T11:17:00.001-07:00

Meaning: The red squiggly lines belched out by the word processor after a spell check.
Pronunciation: Sss-pelch.
Usage: No writer looks flattering when his document is littered with the spelch from MS Word.
Root: Self explanatory.

Nymonia

2011-06-07T21:47:00.000-07:00

Meaning: The state of forgetting names.
Pronunciation: Nim-moan-nia.
Usage: When you touch forty, your mind falls prey to nymonia.
Root: Nym (Greek root for name) + Pneumonia (a common illness).

Agreeculture

2011-06-03T03:56:00.000-07:00

Meaning: A mileu of conformity.
Pronunciation: Ug-gree-cul-chur.
Usage: The 'Like' button on Facebook has seeded the spread of agreeculture among many social groups.
Root: Pretty obvious.

Nestranged

2011-05-31T22:52:00.000-07:00

Meaning: Room mates who are no longer on talking terms.
Pronunciation: Nest-ranged.
Usage: What do you do when you bump into a nestranged buddy? Do you flash a warm smile or do you give him the cold shoulder?
Root: Nest (Residence) + Estranged (alienated).

Renewclear

2011-05-30T20:32:00.000-07:00

Meaning: Replacing nuclear energy with renewable energy.
Pronunciation: Ren-new-klear.
Usage: 2022 will be the year when the world goes renewclear.
Root: Renew (short for Renewable Sources) + Nuclear.

Chompensation

2011-05-29T22:49:00.000-07:00

Meaning: Offering food coupons as perks to employees.
Pronunciation: Chomp-pen-say-shun.
Usage: After my treadmill session, I jogged across to the nearest Saravana Bhavan to enjoy my chompensation.
Root: Chomp (the act of eating) + Compensation.

Gaylelurophobia

2011-05-27T20:40:00.000-07:00

Meaning: The fear of losing the lead batsman to a juicy delivery. And hence the fear of losing a match.
Pronunciation: Gail-lew-ro-fo-be-yeah.
Usage: If the rest of RCB can exorcise their gaylelurophobia, they should beat CSK in IPL 4.
Root: Gayle (the one man army for RCB in IPL 4) + Lure + Phobia.

Mezzaniners

2011-05-26T20:26:00.000-07:00

Meaning: The strata in-between two clearly distinguishable classes. The Lower Middle Class and the Upper Middle Class can be termed as the Mezzaniners.
Pronunciation: Mey-za-neen-ners.
Usage: Mezzaniners are the getting-there crowd. Fiercely ambitious, restless and hard working, this class of people mimic the tastes of the layer above them.
Root: From Mezzanine(the intermediary floor).

Tamble

2011-05-26T01:29:00.000-07:00

Meaning: A Tamilian who rambles.
Pronunciation: Tam-bil.
Usage: Karunanidhi is the grand father of all Tambles.
Root: Obvious.

Papyrearus

2011-05-25T20:46:00.000-07:00

Meaning: Toilet paper.
Pronunciation: Pup-pie-rear-rus.
Usage: The papyrearus has very few takers in our country because India is a lota nation.
Root: Papyrus (Greek for paper) + Rear (Euphemism for arse).

Yuckcentric

2011-05-09T21:00:00.000-07:00

Meaning: Strange behaviour that's meant to be off putting.
Pronunciation: Yuck-sent-trick.
Usage: There is a perverse pleasure in being yuckcentric.
Root: Yuck + Eccentric.

Osama Veda

2011-05-09T20:30:00.000-07:00

Meaning: Literature or audio material preaching hatred.
Pronunciation: Os-saa-ma-way-da.
Usage: Osama Veda is the easy detergent for quick brainwashes.
Root: Osama + Sama Veda.

Dressignation

2011-04-17T23:02:00.000-07:00

Meaning: A designation that looks more impressive than it actually is.
Pronunciation: Drez-zig-nay-shun.
Usage: Director (Vertical Operations) is a great dressignation for a lift operator.
Root: Dressed up + Designation.

Commentrade

2011-03-25T02:34:00.000-07:00

Meaning: Person sharing the commentary box with you.
Pronunciation: Cum-enter-ade
Usage: Sunil Gavaskar and Geoff Boycott were once commentrades.
Root: Commentator + Comrade

Kaamrade

2011-03-25T02:28:00.000-07:00

Meaning: A colleague. One who works with you. Your fellow wage earner
Pronunciation: As is.
Usage: "I thought I saw my Kaamrade Vignesh in a cinema"
Root: Kaam (Hindi for work) + Comrade

Gapsamaniac

2011-03-19T22:08:00.000-07:00

Meaning: One who lies for the kick of it.
Pronunciation: Gup-sa-may-nee-yak.
Usage: Gapsamaniacs have no ulterior motive. They just lie because they are great story tellers.
Root: Gapsa (tamil slang for lie) + Maniac (one who craves for).

Quakeverter

2011-03-13T06:02:00.000-07:00

Meaning: An Earth Reactor with the ability to harness energy generated during an earth quake into potential energy for powering cities.
Pronunciation: kwake-vurt-ter.
Usage: An earth quake releases a mindboggling amount of energy in an instant. The quakeverter's challenge is to capture this energy and to release it in spurts for future use of mankind.
Root: Quake + Inverter (a device that inverts energy).