Meaning: one who tries hard to fake cockney accent after watching Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels for the first time, but soon realizes that he's(she's) not good at it and ultimately gives up.
Usage: After the first screening of LSTSB the hall was full of cockneysuckers.
Pronounciation: cock-ne-sakar
Root: cockney + sucker
Sunday, January 29, 2006
Saturday, January 28, 2006
Pre-ception
Meaning: The curious practice of having the wedding reception before the wedding.
Pronunciation: Pree-ception.
Usage: Most tamilians opt for a pre-ception, thanks to wedding hall economics.
Root: Prepone + Reception.
Pronunciation: Pree-ception.
Usage: Most tamilians opt for a pre-ception, thanks to wedding hall economics.
Root: Prepone + Reception.
Yawn Tennis
Meaning: Never ending verbal volleys in a courtroom.
Pronunciation: Obvious.
Usage: Most legal eagles get out of a tight corner by wearing out the judge with some mind numbing yawn tennis.
Root: Lawn tennis.
Pronunciation: Obvious.
Usage: Most legal eagles get out of a tight corner by wearing out the judge with some mind numbing yawn tennis.
Root: Lawn tennis.
Friday, January 27, 2006
Dickchik Dickchik
Meaning: the sound that cars playing Punjabi-rap make as they pass by.
Usage: To irritate passers-by with dickchik dickchik is Harry's sole salvation.
Pronounciation: dick-chik dick-chik
Root: very onomatopoeic
Usage: To irritate passers-by with dickchik dickchik is Harry's sole salvation.
Pronounciation: dick-chik dick-chik
Root: very onomatopoeic
anti-Saymight
Meaning: one who hates juice (no pun intended)
Usage: The juice shop had to close down its operations due to increasing anti-Saymightic sentiments.
Pronounciation: anty-say-might
Root: anti-Semitism
Note: fruit juices bring about instant strength...and strength leads to might
Usage: The juice shop had to close down its operations due to increasing anti-Saymightic sentiments.
Pronounciation: anty-say-might
Root: anti-Semitism
Note: fruit juices bring about instant strength...and strength leads to might
Thursday, January 26, 2006
Presscendo
Meaning: Media build up.
Usage: I dunno if Sania Mirza can live up to the presscendo.
Pronunciation: Press-send-o.
Root: Press + Crescendo.
Usage: I dunno if Sania Mirza can live up to the presscendo.
Pronunciation: Press-send-o.
Root: Press + Crescendo.
Kneemoania
Meaning: Very, very tired legs.
Usage: After the marathon, I had an instant attack of kneemoania.
Pronunciation: Same as pneumonia.
Root: Obvious.
Usage: After the marathon, I had an instant attack of kneemoania.
Pronunciation: Same as pneumonia.
Root: Obvious.
Skypography
Meaning: The art of writing in the sky by releasing vapour from an aeroplane.
Usage: Brian proposed to his girlfriend using skypography.
Pronunciation: Sky-po-graf-fee
Root: Sky + Typography.
Usage: Brian proposed to his girlfriend using skypography.
Pronunciation: Sky-po-graf-fee
Root: Sky + Typography.
Tuesday, January 24, 2006
Lustronomer
Meaning: A person who studies shapely bods.
Pronunciation: Lust-rawn-nummer.
Usage: Every man is a lustronomer at some point of his life.
Root: Lust+ astronomer.
Pronunciation: Lust-rawn-nummer.
Usage: Every man is a lustronomer at some point of his life.
Root: Lust+ astronomer.
Pointlessium
Meaning: A useless chemical element.
Pronunciation: Point-less-CM.
Usage: Every element discovered after atomic number 94 has been a Pointlessium.
Root: Every element after 89 has an -ium as its suffix. And since nobody anyway remembers elements after 94, we can safely assign the monicker Pointlessium.
Pronunciation: Point-less-CM.
Usage: Every element discovered after atomic number 94 has been a Pointlessium.
Root: Every element after 89 has an -ium as its suffix. And since nobody anyway remembers elements after 94, we can safely assign the monicker Pointlessium.
Hindocrinate
Meaning: Brainwashing people into militant Hindutva.
Usage: Is Narendra Modi trying to Hindocrinate Gujarat?
Pronunciation: Hind-awk-trinate
Root: Hindutva + Indoctrinate.
Usage: Is Narendra Modi trying to Hindocrinate Gujarat?
Pronunciation: Hind-awk-trinate
Root: Hindutva + Indoctrinate.
Ying & Yan
Meaning: Ying symbolises effeminate men. And Yan symbolises women with masculine tendencies.
Usage: The Yin & Yang imbalance has led to the Ying & Yan balance.
Pronunciation: Obvious.
Root: Yin + Yang = Ying. Yang + Yin = Yan.
Usage: The Yin & Yang imbalance has led to the Ying & Yan balance.
Pronunciation: Obvious.
Root: Yin + Yang = Ying. Yang + Yin = Yan.
Thinheritance
Meaning: The measly portion of wealth bequeathed to a person by a nasty benefactor, post-death.
Usage: Yashovardhan Birla was not at all amused with his thinheritance.
Pronunciation: Rhymes with inheritance.
Root: Obvious.
Usage: Yashovardhan Birla was not at all amused with his thinheritance.
Pronunciation: Rhymes with inheritance.
Root: Obvious.
Horibral Column
Meaning: Spine that never stands up.
Usage: Tony Blair's servility to Bush has never perplexed me. Blame it on his horibral column.
Pronunciation: Horry-bral-call-lum.
Root: Hori is the opposite of verti. Just insert this insight into vertebral column. You get a phrase that means exactly the opposite.
Usage: Tony Blair's servility to Bush has never perplexed me. Blame it on his horibral column.
Pronunciation: Horry-bral-call-lum.
Root: Hori is the opposite of verti. Just insert this insight into vertebral column. You get a phrase that means exactly the opposite.
Monday, January 23, 2006
Sunday, January 22, 2006
Mouse-padstitute
Meaning: anything (usually household or stationery items) that is used as a substitute for a mouse pad
Usage: Amongst hardcore games, hard-bound books make the best mouse-padstitute
Pronounciation: mawz pads-T-tute
Root: mouse-pad + substitute
Usage: Amongst hardcore games, hard-bound books make the best mouse-padstitute
Pronounciation: mawz pads-T-tute
Root: mouse-pad + substitute
Saturday, January 21, 2006
Metabrahma
Meaning: The ultimate god.
Usage: If Sachin is God, then Bradman must have been a metabrahma.
Pronunciation: Meta-brumma.
Root: Brahma is the creator. Metabrahma literally means the creator of creators.
Usage: If Sachin is God, then Bradman must have been a metabrahma.
Pronunciation: Meta-brumma.
Root: Brahma is the creator. Metabrahma literally means the creator of creators.
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