Calorie Payattu

Meaning: The war to stay in shape.
Pronunciation: Cal-low-ree-pa-yet-tu.
Usage: My folks keep cribbing about the bulge. So I am planning to get into some much needed Calorie Payattu soon. But then I am known to procrastinate.
Root: Calorie (measure of food energy) + Payattu (Malayalam word meaning fight)

Saapat Roaman

Meaning: A South Indian foodie who hops from sabha to sabha in search of good food.
Pronunciation: Sa-part-roman.
Usage: The distinguishing feature of a saapat roaman is he's into the music season for the food.
Root: Saapat Raman (Tamil for glutton) + Roam (to check out places).
NOTE: A Saapat Roman is a South Indian foodie who loves Italian cuisine.

Sabhatical

Meaning: A break taken to enjoy the December music season in Chennai.
Pronunciation: Sa-baa-ti-cull.
Usage: I intend to spend my entire sabhatical in Music Academy.
Root: Sabha (synonymous with the many music halls in Chennai) + Sabbatical.

Paronomagia

Meaning: Visual pun.
Pronunciation: Pair-run-no-may-gee-ya.
Usage: The first technique for creating clever ads is to dabble in paranomagia.
Root: Paranomasia (Word play) + Image.

GIFt

Meaning: The ability to quickly search and locate an appropriate low-res animation to use as a snappy response in an online discussion thread

Usage: I cracked a brilliant pun but Vishal used his GIFt to find a cat falling asleep as a response

Bicamperal

Meaning: Straight male being camp when it suits him.
Pronunciation: obvious
Usage: "Not sure what to make of that star. Plays macho roles but wears pink flowery shirts" "He's bicamperal".
Root: Bicameral + Camp.

Ablissmal

Meaning: Extremely below par. Yet extremely pleasurable.
Pronunciation: ub-bliss-mull.
Usage: The lyrics of the song that's on everyone's lips was supposedly penned in just 6 minutes. Is that the reason why it's ablissmal?
Root: Abysmal + Bliss.

Sputnick

Meaning: A nick that results in a skier.
Pronunciation: Spoot-nick.
Usage: Sewhag slashes at a short pitched delivery from Roach and he sputnicks it to Third man.
Root: Named after Sputnik - the first artificial satellite that was put out into earth's orbit.

Start Downs

Meaning: New companies floated with an intention of making losses.
Pronunciation: Start-dounce.
Usage: When you have loads of black money, it helps to set up a flurry of start downs if the idea is to launder.
Root: The polar opposite of a start up.

Spaternity

Meaning: A paternity row.
Pronunciation: Spat-turn-nitty.
Usage: If Idi Amin were alive, he'd have lost all his wealth battling spaternity.
Root: Obvious.

Diemension

Meaning: The aspect of measure in the world of the deceased.
Pronunciation: Die-mention.
Usage: The dead have many invisible diemensions that our scientists can never figure.
Root: Die + Dimension.

Callsetto

Meaning: A prank call using a fake voice.
Pronunciation: Call-set-toe.
Usage: Thrown in the device of a callsetto if you want to add some more gags to your script.
Root: Call + Falsetto (False voice).

Retryree

Meaning: One who stages a comeback post-retirement.
Pronunciation: Rit-try-ree.
Usage: Shahid Afridi is a never say die retryree.
Root: Retry + Retiree.

Thintoretto

Meaning: A struggling artist.
Pronunciation: Thin-toe-ret-toe.
Usage: I am just your regular Thintoretto living off the scraps of what little I make by drawing storyboards for clueless clients and ad agencies.
Root: Thin (dimnished) + Tintoretto (a renowned renaissance painter who reportedly never achieved financial sufficiency).

Nagaraadi

Meaning: Street parlance.
Pronunciation: Na-gar-aah-dhi.
Usage: Gujli, gujaals, gilma and gabbu are some g-words that have crept into the Chennai nagaraadi.
Root: Nagar (tamil for area) + Agaraadi (tamil for lexicon).

Hulkemist

Meaning: He who transforms himself into a muscle man using steroids.
Prounciation: Hulk-kay-mist.
Usage: The 6,7 and 8-packers we see on screen may just be hulkemists, for all we know.
Root: Hulk + Alchemist.

Perrypathetics

Meaning: The hopeless supporters of Rick Perry.
Pronunciation: Perry-path-thetix.
Usage: The Texan governor is now relying on his hard core base of perrypathetics to bounceback in the primaries.
Root: Rick Perry + Peripatetics (itinerant evangelisers of a school of thought).

Lethohyalosis

Meaning: The inability to remember where you left your specs.
Pronunciation: Leth-tho-high-ya-low-sis.
Usage: The witness couldn't have seen the crime as she's acutely prone to lethohyalosis.
Root: Letho (greek for forgetfulness) + Hyalos (greek for glass).

Witrify

Meaning: To lighten up a heated discussion by injecting some humour.
Pronunciation: Wit-ree-fai.
Usage: We need more Piloo Modis in parliament who can witrify any situation.
Root: Wit + Vitrify (to change into glass through heat infusion).

Anthropole

Meaning: The habitable points for mankind on the cosmic map.
Pronunciation: An-throw-pole.
Usage: The shortage of natural resources will force our world to seek out new Anthropoles using Star Trek like missions.
Root: Anthro (Greek for man) + Pole (an axis).

Natalie Portmanteau

Meaning: A versatile woman with accomplishments in multiple fields.
Pronunciation: Nat-ta-lee-port-maan-too.
Usage: Annie was a classic Natalie Portmanteau. She was a good orator, an educationist and a leading light of Theosophy.
Root: Natalie Portman (the versatile actress with a degree in psychology from harvard who is said to be fluent in German, Hebrew, French, Japanese and English) + Portmanteau (a blend of two or more morphemes).

Tellyflake

Meaning: The random dot pattern of static when no transmission signal is picked up by your television.
Pronunciation: Tell-lee-flake.
Usage: In those zen like moments, watching the tellyflake is as soothing as meditating on an aquarium.
Root: Telly (slang for television) + Flake (the static dots look like snow flakes).

Berryani

Meaning: Messages served by your BlackBerry.
Pronunciation: Berry-ya-nee.
Usage: My morning routine is simple: wake up, smell the coffee, sample the berryani and then off to fight fires at office.
Root: Berry (as in Blackberry) + Biriyani (a meat dish).

Grantariksh

Meaning: The book of all books that contains everything.
Pronunciation: Grunth-tha-reeksh.
Usage: The current species inhabiting this planet is a mere paragraph in the timeless pages of the grantariksh.
Root: Grantha (Sanskrit for Book) + Antariksh (Sanskrit for Universe).

Finishiate

Meaning: Trigger the end.
Pronunciation: Fin-nish-she-yate.
Usage: Whenever nature wishes to start afresh, she finitiates the erasure with a mighty cataclysm.
Root: Finish + Initiate.