Worrycane

Meaning: Overblown worries.
Pronunciation: War-ree-cane.
Usage: Obama's attempts to whip up a worrycane over Sandy will yield him good dividends.
Root: Self explanatory.

Unscrewpulous

Meaning: Philanderer.
Pronunciation: Un-screw-pull-lus.
Usage: If you are a willing victim of the unscrewpulous, you have only yourself to blame.
Root: Doesn't need elaboration.

Tellyfluous

Meaning: Visually poetic and pleasing.
Pronunciation: Tell-lee-flew-us.
Usage: Gorgeous makes some really tellyfluous commercials.
Root: Telly (Television) + Mellifluous (pleasurable).

Chupchap

Meaning: A man with no point of view.
Pronunciation: Choop-Chap.
Usage: Till the shit hits the ceiling, most of us are chupchaps.
Root: Chupchaap (Hindi for silence) + Chap (a man).

Pinayata

Meaning: A rectangle with rounded corners.
Pronunciation: Peena-ya-tha.
Usage: The pinayata shape is the norm in the tablet and mobile phone industry today.
Root: Pina (Sanskrit for round) + Ayata (Sanskrit for rectangle).

Psycheverse

Meaning: The mental plane or the universe of conscious and unconscious thoughts.
Pronunciation: Sigh-key-verse.
Usage: Sir Roger Penrose and Sri Aurobindo seem to allude to the existence of a psycheverse.
Root: Psyche (the mind as a whole) + Universe.

Kinflation

Meaning: The sudden expansion of your social circle when you become famous.
Pronunciation: Kin-flay-shun.
Usage: To manage the kinflationary pressures, most celebraties hire assholes as their managers.
Root: Kin (relatives) + Inflation (expansion).

Bidibub Test

Meaning: A simple test to determine if you have a stuffed nose or not. Basically read aloud the word 'minimum'. If you utter it as 'bidibub', chances are you have a blocked nose.
Pronunciation: Biddy-bub Test.
Usage: I was invited by an RJ to be the guest of his talk show on the same day I cleared the Bidibub Test. Burphy's law!
Root: Those with a stuffed nose tend to get their M's and N's mixed up with B's and D's.

Tryku

Meaning: Attempt at a haiku.
Pronunciation: Try-coo.
Usage: In a bid to impress myself, I penned a hundred trykus in 10 minutes flat.
Root: Self explanatory.

Slobbyist

Meaning: The wheeler dealer who will go to any sleazy length to get the job done.
Pronunciation: Slob-bee-ist.
Usage: The netaji sent his slobbyist to negotiate the terms for his kickback.
Root: Slobby (obnoxious) + Lobbyist

Marshoepials

Meaning: Earthlings who've set foot on Mars with bag and baggage.
Pronunciation: Mar-shoo-pee-yells.
Usage: The Curiosity mission would inspire a new generation of Marshoepials to drop anchor on the red planet.
Root: Mars + Shoe (gear for walking) + Marsupials (mammals with pouches)

Funnadata

Meaning: One who adds humour to our lives without charging for it.
Pronunciation: Fun-na-daatha.
Usage: There should be a thanksgiving day for the invisible funnadatas who have minted all the jokes that are in circulation today.
Root: Fun + Annadata (Sanskrit for provider).

Thaalistan

Meaning: Any restaurant serving North Indian food.
Pronunciation: Tha-liz-thaan.
Usage: A decade ago, there were just a handful of thaalistans in Chennai. Now the story is very different.
Root: Thaali (the North Indian platter) + -stan (a place that is home to)

Somberry

Meaning: The cell phone that never works.
Pronunciation: Soam (rhymes with foam) + Berry.
Usage: Me and my somberry are made for each other.
Root: Somberi (Tamil word for 'one who shuns work') + Blackberry (synonymous with a mobile phone).

Ballot Zombies

Meaning: Voters who exercise their democratic rights only during elections.
Pronunciation: Ballot-zom-bees.
Usage: 99% of us are ballot zombies. It's the other 1% who shape our future.
Root: Ballot (process of voting in a democracy) + Zombies (the dead and walking).

Nymnastics

Meaning: The art of playing with names. Basically twisting it and contorting it to milk some humour.
Pronunciation: Nym-nast-ticks.
Usage: If there were an olympic medal for nymnastics, who wouldn't love to give it a shot?
Root: Nym (greek for name) + Gymnastics.

ABUPA

Meaning: Anybody But UPA
Pronunciation: Uh-boo-pa.
Usage: In 2014, the BJP might be a default beneficiary of the ABUPA factor.
Root: ABUPA is an acronym derived from Anybody But United Progressive Alliance. The UPA is India's governing alliance headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

Rollingual

Meaning: Languages with a retroflex approximant. Or simply put, languages with an 'R' spoken the American way.
Pronunciation: Roll-ling-gwull.
Usage: Tamil and Malayalam are rollingual by nature. They have the letter 'zha'.
Root: Lingua is tongue in Latin. So Rollingual is a language in which you have to roll your tongue.

Curine

Meaning: The practice of drinking urine for self healing.
Pronunciation: Kyoo-rin.
Usage: When Swami Agnivesh uses the phrase 'Swamootra Chikitsa' he's basically asking you to try curine.
Root: Cure + Urine.

Cholestroll

Meaning: The daily walk regimen to control cholesterol.
Pronunciation: Ko-less-stroll.
Usage: My precious morning is frittered away in a 45-minute cholestroll.
Root: Cholesterol + Stroll (leisurely walk).

Turnquote

Meaning: He who doesn't practice what he preaches.
Pronunciation: Same as turncoat.
Usage: I know many turnquote CEOs. I am one myself.
Root: Turncoat (one who switches to an opposite side) + Quote (what one often paraphrases).

Maytheism

Meaning: Belief in the existence of a higher force or a guiding spirit but not in a religious 'god'.
Pronunciation: May-thee-ism.
Usage: The difference between Maytheism and Agnosticism is that the Maytheist believes there is an order behind the chaos that we see.
Root: May (meaning possibility) + Theism (belief in the existence of god).

Snobriquet

Meaning: A pompous title overtly cueing a higher status.
Pronunciation: Snob-ree-kay.
Usage: 'Supreme Star' is actor Sarath Kumar's snobriquet.
Root: Snob + Sobriquet.

House of Yellders

Meaning: A very unruly and unparliamentary Upper House.
Pronunciation: House of Yell-ders.
Usage: The shouting brigade at the House of Yellders would make a great jeering squad at India-Pakistan matches.
Route: Yell + House of Elders (a sobriquet for the Rajya Sabha in India)

Glassimov

Meaning: Movies shot with Google Glass.
Pronunciation: Glassy-mao.
Usage: Sundance should consider having a separate Glassimov section for indie film makers.
Root: GLASSY + MOVie.