Friday, July 27, 2007

Mian Culpa

Meaning: Husband at fault.
Pronunciation: Me-yaan-cul-pa.
Usage: Bill Clinton's expected to do a 'mian culpa' number while campaigning for Hillary.
Pronunciation: Mian (Urdu for husband) + Mea Culpa (Latin for my fault).

Beeverage

Meaning: Any honey tinged drink.
Pronunciation: Beaver-age.
Usage: Beevarges are highly recommended for infants.
Root: Bee Beverage.

Thursday, July 26, 2007

Bopraybop

Meaning: An expression of surprise, awe or shock.
Pronunciation: Bop-ray-bop.
Usage: Bopraybop! You've really bloomed into one buxom woman.
Root: An anglicised form of hindi expression baap-rey-baap.

Specuniary

Meaning: Concerning notional money.
Pronunciation: Speck-queue-ni-ya-ry.
Usage: Market capitalisation is purely specuniary.
Root: Spec (short form for speculative) + Pecuniary (pertraining money).

Dosamosa

Meaning: A dosa with a filling.
Pronunciation: Dho-sa-mo-sa.
Usage: The dosamosa is the future of the dosa.
Root: Dosa + Samosa (a fried snack with a filling).

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Unoliteraverb

Meaning: One letter word.
Pronunciation: Oo-know-litra-verb.
Usage: I is the most used unoliteraverb.
Root: Uno (latin for one) + Litera (latin for letter) + Verb (word).

Shrnk

Meaning: To devowelize.
Pronunciation: Sh-r-nk.
Usage: The word devowelization ironically uses vowels. To correct this anomaly I am suggesting the usage of shrnk.
Root: The sms version of Shrink.

Ichthyodipsosis

Meaning: A state when one tends to drink like a fish.
Pronunciation: Ick-theo-dip-sauce-sis.
Usage: My car suffers from ichthyodipsosis. It consumes petrol like there's no tomorrow.
Root: Ichthyo (Greek for fish) + Dipsosis (Greek for excessive thirst).
Note: Hicthyodipsosis will be one pitcher further :-)

Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Thyagaroger

Meaning: An incompetent carnatic singer.
Pronunciation: Th-ya-ga-roj-err.
Usage: If Subbudu were alive, he'd label the current crop of filmy singers as Thyagarogers.
Root: Thyagaraja (the master composer of carnatic music) + roger (slang for to screw).

Shuttendant

Meaning: A flunkie who finishes off people.
Pronunciation: Shut-ten-dant.
Usage: Suparis are executed by faceless shuttendants from the Bombay underworld.
Root: Shut (Close...slang for finishing people off) + Attendant.

Shoveasana

Meaning: Showing the middle finger.
Pronunciation: Shove-ass-na.
Usage: Chappell assumed the classic shoveasana pose in Kolkata.
Root: Shove-it-up-yours + Asana.

Persecutie

Meaning: A paranaoid bimbo who assumes the world is full of stalkers.
Pronunciation: Persy-QT
Usage: Persecuties feel the need to engage full time bouncers.
Root: Cutie with persecution complex.

Monday, July 23, 2007

Threecasting

Meaning: Forecasting forecasts.
Pronunciation: 3-casting.
Usage: Threecasting astrological predictions gives me an immense kick.
Root: What comes before Fourcasting :-)

Disslam

Meaning: Islam-bashing resorted to by ranters with an agenda.
Pronunciation: Diss-laam.
Usage: Disslam was invented by Karl Rove to help the Republicans.
Root: Diss (to show disrespect) + Islam.

Glumbustious

Meaning: Uncontrollably dejected.
Pronunciation: Glum-busty-yes.
Usage: England were glumbustious when rain played spoilsport at Lord's.
Root: Glum + Rumbustious.

Humethyst

Meaning: An ordinary singer.
Pronunciation: Hummer-thyst.
Usage: In my humble opinion, Illayaraja was responsible for the tyranny of humethsyts in the eighties.
Root: Hum (sing) + amethyst (semi-precious stone) = a not-so-rare-gem of a singer.

Shantee

Meaning: Playing golf for appeasement.
Pronunciation: Shan-tee.
Usage: The only way to hold on to an angry client is by shanteeing with the man who is hopping mad.
Root: Shanti (sanskrit for peace) + Tee (to play golf).

Sunday, July 22, 2007

Dotonym

Meaning: a) Domain name. b) A name that precedes or follows a dot.
Pronunciation: Dot-toe-nym.
Usage: a) When Experts Exchange is written as a dotonym, it has another connotation.
b) Sulfury's blogger dotonym is h2so4.
Root: Self explanatory.

Aaraamite

Meaning: A lover of indolence.
Pronunciation: Aa-raam-might.
Usage: Aaraamites prefer to retire at 40.
Root: Aaraam is the hindi word for resting.

Boothakennedy

Meaning: A person who makes a mountain out of a molehill.
Pronunciation: Boo-dha-ken-na-dee.
Usage: You can't enter politics, if you're not a boothakennedy.
Root: From the tamil word boothakannadi (which means magnifying glass).

Boomerwrong

Meaning: Bad karma that comes back to haunt you.
Pronunciation: Boomer-wrong.
Usage: Osama was a classic case of a CIA boomerwrong.
Root: Boomerang + Wrong.
Note: The word boomerwrong already exists. I've just given it another spin.

Potyak

Meaning: Drug-induced babble.
Pronunciation: Pot-yak
Usage: I dunno if truth serum potyak can be used as evidence in court.
Root: Pot (slang for drugs) + Yak (blather).

Monday, December 04, 2006

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

Sunday, November 05, 2006

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