Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Wagabond

Meaning: A street dog.
Pronunciation: Sounds like vagabond.
Usage: At the stroke of midnight, the wagabonds get a spring in their step and strut around like they own the streets. Have you noticed?
Root: Obvious.

Saturday, October 04, 2008

Crambidextrous

Meaning: Leveraging cramming skills to appear unusually smart.
Pronunciation: Cram-be-dex-trus.
Usage: Sarah Palin is crambidextrous. That's why she's able to shine through in her speeches despite muddling through her candid interviews.
Root: Cram + ambidextrous.

Palincompetent

Meaning: Not that bad. Not that good.
Pronunciation: Pal-lin-comp-pee-tent.
Usage: Rahul Gandhi is in the same league as his dad. He's sorta palincompetent.
Root: Palin + Incompetent.

Thursday, October 02, 2008

Impotentiary

Meaning: A place infested with timid, servile cowards.
Pronunciation: Im-po-ten-shiary.
Usage: Sycophancy can turn any organization into an impotentiary.
Root: Impotent + Derived from the latin suffix arium (means place containing).

Binbox

Meaning: The spam folder in one's email account.
Pronunciation: Obvious.
Usage: I mistook your proposal to be a Nigerian scam mail and I sent it to the binbox.
Root: Bin + Inbox.

Wednesday, October 01, 2008

Pontingficate

Meaning: Preaching what you don't practice.
Pronunciation: Pont-ting-fick-ate.
Usage: After sledging to their hearts content on the field, the aussies always pontingficate in the post-match conference.
Root: Ponting (Captain of Australian cricket team and an exponent of wrongeous indignation) + Pontificate.

Wrecksasperation

Meaning: The anger that seizes you when you see something dear being destroyed and you can do precious little about it.
Pronunciation: Rexas-per-ray-shun.
Usage: Can you sense the wrecksasperation of the GOP every time McCain runs down their ideology under the guise of being a maverick?
Root: Wreck + Exasperation.

Sunday, September 21, 2008

Capitalistless

Meaning: A laggard capitalist economy.
Pronunciation: Cap-pit-tull-list-less.
Usage: Even Thomas Friedman could never have imagined that America will turn capitalistless, one day.
Root: Capitalist + Listless.

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Brew Blooded

Meaning: A person who's addicted to beer.
Pronunciation: Obvious.
Usage: Jayalalitha has accused Vijaykanth of being brew blooded.
Root: Brew (Slang for beer) + Blooded = One with beer in the veins.

Nycton

Meaning: Dark particle.
Pronunciation: Nick-tawn.
Usage: The cosmos was initially a sea of nyctons and divinions.
Root: Nyct (Greek prefix for darkness or night) + -on (Particle).

Divinon

Meaning: The God Particle.
Pronunciation: Di-wine-non.
Usage: The Hadron Collider project is about unraveling the divinon.
Root: Divine (God like) + -on (Particle).

Monday, September 08, 2008

Piyologism

Meaning: Newly coined word spewed serendipitously in a drunken state.
Pronunciation: Pi-yo-lodge-jism.
Usage: A few pegs down, our man started blathering malapropisms, spoonerisms and piyologisms.
Root: Piyo (to drink in Hindi) + Neologism (newly coined word).

Sunday, September 07, 2008

Spothole

Meaning: The brand window section in a TV commercial or Radio spot that interrupts the smooth flow of story telling.
Pronunciation: Obvious.
Usage: You won't spot the spotholes in the Director's Cut.
Root: Spot (an ad for radio or TV)+ Pothole (the cause for bumpy rides in Indian roads).

Nextpotus

Meaning: Soon to be President of the United States.
Pronunciation: Nex-po-tus.
Usage: If Obama is to be the Nextpotus, he needs to portray John McCain as George McCain.
Root: Next + POTUS (Acronym for President Of The United States).

Saturday, September 06, 2008

Booclear Bomb

Meaning: A hoax bomb planted using prank calls.
Pronunciation: Obvious.
Usage: When kids feel like shutting down their school these days, they press the booclear bomb button.
Root: Boo (to scare) + Clear (to evacuate) + Bomb (an explosive) = to scare and to cause an evacuation using the threat of a bomb.

Bellycacy

Meaning: Appetite-inducing, fat-enhancing junk food.
Pronunciation: Bell-lee-cuss-see.
Usage: The beach side bajjis are bellycacies waiting to be devoured.
Root: Belly + Delicacy.

Chromanticize

Meaning: Making a new improved product appear like the next big thing.
Pronunciation: Crow-man-ti-size.
Usage: Chromanticizing that new browser is the new pastime of the mainstream media.
Root: Chrome (as in Google Chrome)+ Romanticize.

Friday, August 29, 2008

Stopstartist

Meaning: A serial entrepreneur best known for shutting down many start-ups.
Pronunciation: Stop-star-tist.
Usage: Don't you dare hire that guy. They say he's a stopstartist.
Root: Stop (wind up) + Startist (A past-master at creating start-ups).

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Buddhujeevi

Meaning: A normally smart person who acts, talks or behaves like a retard.
Pronunciation: Boo-dhoo-GV.
Usage: Arundhati Roy switches to her Buddhujeevi mode whenever she's asked to write a lead column for the Outlook.
Root: Buddhijeevi (Hindi for intellectual) + Buddhu (Hindi for fool).

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Stomuck

Meaning: Junk food.
Pronunciation: Rhymes withs stomach.
Usage: Any oily food is stomuck. Period.
Root: Stomach + Muck.

Friday, August 15, 2008

Dopulation

Meaning: Having intercourse under the influence of illegal substances.
Pronunciation: Dope-pue-lay-shun.
Usage: Date rapes are a perverse form of dopulation.
Root: Dope + Copulation.

Thursday, July 17, 2008

Fatonement

Meaning: An aftermath of binging on food. Usually, starts with a guilt trip and ends with a period of mad dieting to shed the newly acquired flab.
Pronunciation: Fa-tone-ment.
Usage: What's the point of fatonement if you're going to hog like a pig after a week of ascetic dieting?
Root: Fat + Atonement.

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Clapitulation

Meaning: Pandering to the gallery.
Pronunciation: Clap-pee-tue-lay-shun.
Usage: The abject clapitulation of Bollywood to forces of commerce is a source of concern.
Root: Clap + Capitulation.

Wednesday, July 09, 2008

Bawho

Meaning: The elusive ideal daughter-in-law.
Pronunciation: Ba-who.
Usage: Moms in India search for bawhos and not biwis for their laadla.
Root: Bahu (daughter-in-law in hindi) + Who.

Friday, July 04, 2008

Windsinuate

Meaning: To accuse someone of farting.
Pronunciation: Win-sin-nu-ate.
Usage: Thumb rule of the Book of Farts: the one who windsinuates first is always the culprit.
Root: Wind + Insinuate.