Monday, February 13, 2006

Sleekonomics

Meaning: The art of making the economy look good by resorting to window dressing.
Pronunciation: Slee-ko-nomix.
Usage: I think the Chinese are wizards in sleekonomics. They've hoodwinked the world into thinking, they're a super power.
Root: Sleek + economics.

Saturday, February 11, 2006

Janusoplasty

Meaning: Face transplant surgery.
Pronunciation: Jay-nus-o-plasty.
Usage: What if Osama Bin Laden has undergone a janusoplasty?
Root: In roman mythology, Janus is a two-faced god. Since a face transplant is about acquiring a second face, I thought linking it to Janus would make sense.

Base Transplant

Meaning: Getting yourself a bigger butt via plastic surgery.
Pronunciation: Obvious.
Usage: The success of JLO might inspire many to go in for a base transplant.
Root: Face Transplant.

Laloo Paratha

Meaning: A caste-laced sop dished out for votes.
Pronunciation: La-loo-purr-atta
Usage: To win the Tamilnadu election, Jayalalitha may cook some laloo parathas for the weaker sections.
Root: From Laloo Yadav, a pastmaster at caste politics. And aloo paratha.

Thursday, February 09, 2006

Schmuckoustic

Meaning: Stupid sounding.
Pronunciation: Sh-muck-coo-stick
Usage: Who is more schmuckoustic? Laloo or Dubya?
Root: Schmuck + acoustic.

Shunusual

Meaning: Avoiding the usual for the sake of being different.
Pronunciation: Shun-you-usual.
Usage: In advertising, you're forced to be shunusual most of the time.
Root: Shun the usual.

Wednesday, February 08, 2006

Dubyarn

Meaning: Shallow justification for a patently unjust act.
Pronunciation: Dub-yarn.
Usage: Hitler's dubyarn for his conquests was that germany needed more living space.
Root: Dubya + yarn.

Pentaguns

Meaning: Weapons supplied by the CIA.
Pronunciation: Pen-ta-guns.
Usage: America pumps in the pentaguns first. And then a puppet democracy.
Root: Pentagon + guns.

Kalashnikkah

Meaning: Married to a cause that involves weiding the gun. Invariably the AK-47.
Pronunciation: Cal-ash-nick-kaah
Usage: If you ask my honest opinion, it's about time the Kashmiri separatists dissolved their kalashnikkah.
Root: Kalashnikov + nikkah.

Tuesday, February 07, 2006

Optiogram

Meaning: Sending a message with one's eyes.
Pronunciation: Op-tee-o-gram.
Usage: It was a tense meeting. I could make out from my boss's optiogram that it was pointless to argue anymore.
Root: Opti (eye in greek) + gram (as in the suffix in telegram, hologram, phonogram).

Monday, February 06, 2006

Toonslaught

Meaning: A blasphemous attack done in jest, using cartoons.
Pronunciation: Toon-slot
Usage: Conservative Islamists all over the world are enraged over the European toonslaught on Prophet Mohammad.
Root: Toon + Onslaught.

Jetonation

Meaning: A plane explosion.
Pronunciation: Rhymes with detonation.
Usage: CIA has intelligence that the Al Qaeda is planning a series of jetonations in smaller countries.
Root: Obvious.

Saturday, February 04, 2006

Whatsyayana

Meaning: The go-to-guy for all coital queries.
Pronunciation: Watts-ya-yana
Usage: Every campus has one whatsayayana.
Root: What + Vatsyayana (the author of kama sutra).

Pyaarthritis

Meaning: When love makes you go weak in the knees.
Pronunciation: Pyaar-thry-tis.
Usage: It was a pyaarthritis moment. Vineet didn't know what hit him. He went straight to Sonali and proposed to her.
Root: Pyaar (Hindi word for love) + Arthritis (a condition that makes your knees weak).

Showpium

Meaning: The irresistible pull of showbiz.
Pronunciation: Rhymes with opium.
Usage: Showpium is the reason why people are glued to their televisions.
Root: Obvious.

Friday, February 03, 2006

Babooboo

Meaning: A blooper or a snafu committed by a bureaucrat.
Pronunciation: Babu-boo
Usage: Many good governments earn a bad name, thanks to babooboos.
Root: Babu (the hindi word for a bureaucrat) + boo boo.
Note: The word is not a fresh coinage. It's probably a name in some language.

Talksymoron

Meaning: Anything that sounds retarded.
Pronunciation: Toxy-moron.
Usage: I think the word 'Kewl' is a talksymoron.
Root: Obvious.

Dunnomad

Meaning: A knowledge seeker who travels from website to website in search of information.
Pronunciation: Doe-know-mad
Usage: Dunnomads are cyber gypsies with a brain.
Root: Dunno (don't know) + Nomad.

Antarickshaw

Meaning: A futuristic space cab that can cart 2 or 3 people at a time.
Pronunciation: Unther-rickshaw.
Usage: I am a space tourist. I love getting on to an antarickshaw and seeing new galaxies.
Root: Antariksha (Cosmos in sanskrit) + Rickshaw.

Thursday, February 02, 2006

Punctualious

Meaning: very meticulous about use of punctuations.
Usage: G.B. Shaw was very punctualious in his writings.
Pronounciation: pank-chu-é-li-us
Root: punctuation + punctilious

Paraboli

Meaning: Making an outrageously about-turn statement.
Pronunciation: Para-bolee.
Usage: Mayawati is the queen of paraboli.
Root: Parabola (geometrical representation of a u-turn) + boli (hindi word for speak).

Voodoonym

Meaning: When you assume someone else's name with an intent of bringing disrepute to that name, the assumed name is called a voodoonym.
Pronunciation: Woo-doo-nym.
Usage: Beware, someone, somewhere might be using your name as his voodoonym.
Root: The meaning kinda sums it up.

Shoutnumber

Meaning: To be drowned out by a torrent of voices.
Pronunciation: Obvious.
Usage: The opposition was shoutnumbered by the ruling party MLAs.
Root: Shout + Outnumber.

Piquebrain

Meaning: an annoying person
Usage: Harry is a piquebrain.
Pronounciation: pick-brain
Root: pique (verb) + brain

Wednesday, February 01, 2006

Manimosity

Meaning: A feeling of ill will against men.
Pronunciation: Manee-maw-city
Usage: Jilted women tend to develop manimosity.
Root: Man + Animosity.