Sunday, January 29, 2006

Cockneysucker

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

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.

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.

Herfidy

Meaning: Betrayal of trust of wife or girlfriend.
Pronunciation: Her-fid-dee
Usage: Hillary may never forgive Bill Clinton's herfidy.
Root: Perfidy.

Friday, January 27, 2006

Sybarista

Meaning: Person devoted to the pleasure derived from having barista brewed coffee
Usage : No one can claim to be a sybarista without having visited the first starbucks store in seattle.
Pronunciation : s+eye+burr+is+ta
Root : sybarite + barista

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

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

Thursday, January 26, 2006

Indozzie

Meaning: An Australian of Indian origin.
Usage: Instead of just wooing ABCDs we should also build bridges with Indozzies.
Pronunciation: Ind-ozzy
Root: Indo + Ozzie (As in Aussie).

Presscendo

Meaning: Media build up.
Usage: I dunno if Sania Mirza can live up to the presscendo.
Pronunciation: Press-send-o.
Root: Press + Crescendo.

Ganagram

Meaning: A song that's been created by remixing the notes of an already popular song.
Usage: Deva, the man who gave us the gana paatu, is a great exponent of ganagrams.
Pronunciation: Gaana (rhymes with ghana)-gram.
Root: Gana (song in Hindi) + Anagram.

Halfluent

Meaning: On the road to getting rich.
Usage: India is no longer a poor country. You can call it a halfluent nation.
Pronunciation: Haf (american pronunciation) + fluent.
Root: Half + Affluent.

Kneemoania

Meaning: Very, very tired legs.
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.

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.

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.

Crushmir

Meaning: The doctrine that Kashmir can only won by brute force.
Usage: If India doesn't follow the Crushmir policy, there is a great chance that Srinigar might become the hub of Al Qaeida, in the years to come.
Pronunciation: Crush-meer
Root: Crush + Kashmir.

Hindocrinate

Meaning: Brainwashing people into militant Hindutva.
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.

Saydative

Meaning: Talk that can put you to sleep.
Usage: Manmohan Singh's speech was a 60-minute saydative.
Pronunciation: Say-day-tive.
Root: Say + Sedative.

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.

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.

Monday, January 23, 2006

Bonghari

Meaning: a Bengali, born and brought up in Bihar
Usage: Never get into an argument with a Bonghari.
Pronounciation: bongha-ri
Root: Bong(slang for Bengali) + Bihari

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

Phuthor

Meaning: an author who adds "PhD" after his name.
Usage: In journalism, it's best to keep things simple. You'll turn off readers if you sound like a phuthor.
Pronounciation: fu-ther
Origin: Phd + author

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.