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

Thursday, August 03, 2006

Zingredient

Meaning: That which adds spunk, spirit & life to anything.
Pronunciation: Zing-greed-dee-yunt.
Usage: Without a zingredient we will all be zombies.
Root: Zing + Ingredient.

Zymogul

Meaning: The king of breweries.
Pronunciation: Zy-mo-gul.
Usage: Vijay Mallya wishes to emerge as the undisputed zymogul of the world.
Root: Zymo (Greek word that means to brew) + Mogul.

Zedifice

Meaning: The last building in a street, road, town or village.
Pronunciation: Zed-if-is.
Usage: The coordinates for my house is - it's about 3 buildings before the zedifice on the Elm Street in Transylvania.
Root: Zed (the last alphabet) + Edifice.

Zaradushta

Meaning: Being slightly evil.
Pronunciation: Za-ra-dhoosh-ta.
Usage: Even a saint has been a zaradushta sometime in his life.
Root: Zara (Urdu word for little) + Dushta (Sanskrit word for evil).

XBoxidation

Meaning: The charged state of a person playing a video or a computer game.
Pronunciation: X-box-C-dation.
Usage: Some experts are of the view that XBoxidation generates more excitement than sex.
Root: XBox + Oxidation (a chemical reaction to injection of oxygen).
Related Coinage: XBoxidated (being in a state of XBoxidation).

Xenohow

Meaning: Knowledge on aliens and their behaviour.
Pronunciation: Xee-know-how.
Usage: Life would have been far more interesting if I had acquired xenohow instead of a degree in mining engineering.
Root: Xeno (alien) + Knowhow (knowledge).

Xerockstar

Meaning: A musician who's turned popular by lifting songs from here & there.
Pronunciation: Xerox-sta.
Usage: Deva's trackrecord will earn him a well-deserved berth in the Xerockstar Hall of Fame.
Root: Xerox (the rolemodel for copycats) + Rockstar.

Tuesday, August 01, 2006

Palluminous

Meaning: Looking eye-catchingly lustrous in a luxurious saree.
Pronunciation: Pal-luminous.
Usage: Marriages are the only occasions when one gets to see palluminous women these days.
Root: Pallu (the free hanging end of the saree that's usually laden with zari) + Luminous.

Monday, July 31, 2006

Vegatable Pushao

Meaning: Vegatable Pulao that tastes awful.
Pronunciation: Obvious.
Usage: After my unforgettable vegetable pushao, I don't think anyone will ever ask me to play cook.
Root: The opposite of pull is push. A pulao usually tastes good. So a pushao should by definition taste bad. The only way a Vegetable Pushao will be consumed is by pushing it down your throats.

Saturday, July 29, 2006

Kaviyal

Meaning: A collabarative poem.
Pronunciation: Ka-we-yal.
Usage: The kaviyal format offers exciting possibilities. Imagine an epic on the Kauravas created jointly by a hundred poets.
Root: Kavi (Poet in Hindi) + Aviyal (Mish Mash in Tamil).

Friday, July 28, 2006

Slamsaab

Meaning: An arse licking flunkey.
Pronunciation: Slam-saab.
Usage: I don't wanna work in a company that expects me to be a slamsaab.
Root: The anglicised version of 'Salaam Saab' (a hindi expression that translates to 'I salute you sir').

Thursday, July 27, 2006

Dissrael

Meaning: Offend someone so much that they decide to retaliate in kind.
Pronunciation: Dis-rail.
Usage: The Hizbollah's dissreal strategy has boomeranged.
Root: Diss (to slight, insult or disrespect) + Israel (a country with a reputation of hitting back).

Tuesday, July 25, 2006

Clockupation

Meaning: Time pass.
Pronunciation: Clock-you-pay-shun.
Usage: When I am jobless at office, I hone my gaming skills for clockupation.
Root: Clock (time) + Occupation

Monday, July 24, 2006

NRP

Meaning: Abbreviation for Negotiable Retail Price.
Pronunciation: En-ar-pee.
Usage: The Burma Bazaar chap quoted an NRP of Rs. 120 for the DVD.
Root: Haggling is so common in bazaars across India. While the branded goods are sold at MRP (Maximum Retail Price), there is no fixed rate for commodities. Whatever the final price, the seller always judges the customer and makes a first quote, this is what I've called the NRP (Negotiable Retail Price).

Friday, July 21, 2006

Mull Qaeida

Meaning: Thought terrorists.
Pronunciation: Mull-ky-da.
Usage: The creative community is often the target of the mull qaeida.
Root: Mull (Think) + Al Qaeida (a terrorist organisation).

Thursday, July 20, 2006

Botempered

Meaning: Completely cold, machine like behaviour.
Pronunciation: Bot-tempered.
Usage: Who'd like to work in an office where everyone is botempered?
Root: Bot (short form for robot) + Tempered.

Wednesday, July 19, 2006

Chucking Footh

Meaning: A euphemism for fucking chooth.
Pronunciation: Obvious.
Usage: Don't marry him. He's a chucking footh.
Root: Spoonerism of fucking chooth (a hinglish expletive that rougly translates to 'a guy who cannot think beyond the pussy').

Fisterical

Meaning: Uncontrollably violent.
Pronunciation: Fist-terry-cull.
Usage: The English hooligans turned fisterical when England where denied the penalty.
Root: So hysterical that one gets into fistcuffs.

Bastard Piece

Meaning: A planted article in a newspaper of unknown origin.
Pronunciation: Obvious.
Usage: You can tell a bastard piece by just looking at the missing byline.
Root: Self explanatory.

Tuesday, July 18, 2006

Telemination

Meaning: Using telephonic interviews to filter out unwanted candidates.
Pronunciation: Telly-me-nation.
Usage: I have shortlisted people based on a process of telemination.
Root: Telephone + Elimination.
Related Coinages: Teleminator - one who uses this technique. Teleminated - a victim of this technique.

Monday, July 17, 2006

Favour Curry

Meaning: A mix of inducements to get a job done.
Pronunciation: Self explanatory.
Usage: The bureaucrat didn't pass the project even after feasting on our favour curry. We need to find another way of tackling him.
Root: From the existing phrase 'curry favour'.

Sunday, July 16, 2006

Clappetite

Meaning: A craving for applause.
Pronunciation: Clap-pit-tight.
Usage: Anybody who's anybody has a large clappetite.
Root: Clap + Appetite.