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.

Saturday, July 15, 2006

Flawndry

Meaning: Where blemishes, mistakes & obvious weaknesses are ironed out.
Pronunciation: Obvious.
Usage: Manmohan Singh's blundering government needs to visit a flawndry for a makeover.
Root: Flaw + Laundry.

Friday, July 14, 2006

Funecdote

Meaning: An anecdote that's been spiced-up to inject some mirth in conversations.
Pronunciation: Fun-neck-dote.
Usage: The degree of masala added in a funecdote is a function of the audience profile.
Root: Fun + Anecdote.

Thursday, July 13, 2006

Zidance

Meaning: Head butting.
Pronunciation: Zee-dance.
Usage: Instead of staging a walkout, it will be more entertaining if our parliamentarians do the zidance.
Root: Zidane's (pronounced zidance) now famous headbutt in the 2006 World Cup Soccer Finals.

Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Slogmatism

Meaning: The stubborn belief that sheer hard work can earn you success.
Pronunciation: Slog-mat-ism.
Related Coinage: Slogmatic - one who has such a belief.
Usage: Slogmatics have reduced our beautiful world into a mindless factory.
Root: Slog + Dogmatism.

Tuesday, July 11, 2006

Phinicky

Meaning: Fussy about sharing the phone number.
Pronunciation: Ff-finicky.
Usage: I wonder why nobody is phinicky in this country.
Root: Ph (Short form for phone) + Finicky.

Deja Deja Vu

Meaning: The feeling of having already experienced the feeling of having already experienced the present situation.
Pronunciation: Day-zha-day-zha-woo.
Usage: Ground Hog Day is full of deja deja vus.
Root: Deja (already) + Vu (seen).

Fuckonteur

Meaning: A person who loves to recount tales of his or her sexual conquests.
Pronunciation: Fuck-con-tear.
Usage: After a few shots, Jeffrey the fuckonteur, subjected us to yet another wham-bam episode from his colourful life.
Root: Fuck + Raconteur.

Monday, July 10, 2006

Roughree

Meaning: A football refree who doles out red cards by the dozen.
Pronunciation: Rough-ree.
Usage: Roughrees inject drama into otherwise dull matches.
Root: Rough + Refree.

Sunday, July 09, 2006

Buystander

Meaning: A curious onlooker in a shopping mall.
Pronunciation: Same as bystander.
Usage: At any point of time, Spencer's Mall has a thousand buystanders.
Root: Buy + Bystander.

Saturday, July 08, 2006

Desibelle

Meaning: A loudmouthed Indian woman.
Pronunciation: They-see-bell.
Usage: A desibelle is the English equivalent of a bajaari.
Root: Sounds like Decibel (the measure of sound intensity). Desi (Hindi for Indian) + Belle.

Friday, July 07, 2006

Kithyadi

Meaning: All your distant friends and acquaintances.
Pronunciation: Kith-ya-dhee.
Usage: Ever since I've joined an NGO, I've been shamelessly approaching my kith, kin and even kithyadi for donations.
Root: Kith (friends & acquaintances) + Ithyadi (Sanskrit word for et cetera).

Thursday, July 06, 2006

Lackamaidical

Meaning: A state of laziness caused by over-reliance upon a maid.
Pronounciation: Lack-a-maid-i-cal
Usage: My spoilt cousin is becoming a little too lackamaidical - after finishing a meal, he just leaves the table, expecting the maid to clear away his cutlery.
Root: Lackadaisical + Maid

Tupperweary

Meaning: The state of mind of a multi-level marketer after seeing little or no profit from the venture.
Pronunciation: Tupper-wear-ree.
Usage: My cousin was so enthusiastic about network marketing, initially. Now she's tupperweary.
Root: Tupperware (a famed network marketer) + Weary (fatigued).

Wednesday, July 05, 2006

Rupeace

Meaning: That stage of life, when money doesn't affect you anymore.
Pronunciation: Rup-peace.
Usage: The quest for rupeace can be one helluva journey.
Root: Rupees (Indian currency) + Peace (state of equilibrium).

Tuesday, July 04, 2006

Cribgyor

Meaning: A colorful crib session.
Pronunciation: Crib-gee-or.
Usage: No raise? No promotions? Time you organised a cribgyor.
Root: Crib + Vibgyor (The seven colours of the rainbow).

Monday, July 03, 2006

Punadulterated

Meaning: Without resorting to silly puns.
Pronunciation: Pun-adult-ta-rated.
Usage: British humour is punadulterated fun.
Root: Pun + Unadulterated.

Sunday, July 02, 2006

Himbroglio

Meaning: A messy affair with a man.
Pronunciation: Him-brog-leo.
Usage: I wonder how Jo will get out of the Surya himbroglio.
Root: Him + Imbroglio.

Sooniversity

Meaning: An institution that lets you pick a skill very quickly by offering crash courses. The courses may be of dubious nature, though.
Pronunciation: Obvious.
Usage: I am an amateur astronaut. I studied rocket science at a sooniversity named NASA (Nair's Academy for Science & Astronomy).
Root: Soon + University.