Nymnastics

Meaning: The art of playing with names. Basically twisting it and contorting it to milk some humour.
Pronunciation: Nym-nast-ticks.
Usage: If there were an olympic medal for nymnastics, who wouldn't love to give it a shot?
Root: Nym (greek for name) + Gymnastics.

ABUPA

Meaning: Anybody But UPA
Pronunciation: Uh-boo-pa.
Usage: In 2014, the BJP might be a default beneficiary of the ABUPA factor.
Root: ABUPA is an acronym derived from Anybody But United Progressive Alliance. The UPA is India's governing alliance headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

Rollingual

Meaning: Languages with a retroflex approximant. Or simply put, languages with an 'R' spoken the American way.
Pronunciation: Roll-ling-gwull.
Usage: Tamil and Malayalam are rollingual by nature. They have the letter 'zha'.
Root: Lingua is tongue in Latin. So Rollingual is a language in which you have to roll your tongue.

Curine

Meaning: The practice of drinking urine for self healing.
Pronunciation: Kyoo-rin.
Usage: When Swami Agnivesh uses the phrase 'Swamootra Chikitsa' he's basically asking you to try curine.
Root: Cure + Urine.

Cholestroll

Meaning: The daily walk regimen to control cholesterol.
Pronunciation: Ko-less-stroll.
Usage: My precious morning is frittered away in a 45-minute cholestroll.
Root: Cholesterol + Stroll (leisurely walk).

Turnquote

Meaning: He who doesn't practice what he preaches.
Pronunciation: Same as turncoat.
Usage: I know many turnquote CEOs. I am one myself.
Root: Turncoat (one who switches to an opposite side) + Quote (what one often paraphrases).

Maytheism

Meaning: Belief in the existence of a higher force or a guiding spirit but not in a religious 'god'.
Pronunciation: May-thee-ism.
Usage: The difference between Maytheism and Agnosticism is that the Maytheist believes there is an order behind the chaos that we see.
Root: May (meaning possibility) + Theism (belief in the existence of god).

Snobriquet

Meaning: A pompous title overtly cueing a higher status.
Pronunciation: Snob-ree-kay.
Usage: 'Supreme Star' is actor Sarath Kumar's snobriquet.
Root: Snob + Sobriquet.

House of Yellders

Meaning: A very unruly and unparliamentary Upper House.
Pronunciation: House of Yell-ders.
Usage: The shouting brigade at the House of Yellders would make a great jeering squad at India-Pakistan matches.
Route: Yell + House of Elders (a sobriquet for the Rajya Sabha in India)

Glassimov

Meaning: Movies shot with Google Glass.
Pronunciation: Glassy-mao.
Usage: Sundance should consider having a separate Glassimov section for indie film makers.
Root: GLASSY + MOVie.

Pairents

Meaning: Two sets of parents. As in, biological and adopted or biological and surrogate parents.
Pronunication: Pair-rents.
Usage: Next generation children will have to learn to cope with the complexities of dealing with pairents.
Root: Pair + Parents.

Scrapling

Meaning: The act of crunching the appalam and mixing it with rice.
Pronunciation: Scrap-pling.
Usage: Podi rice tastes better when one resorts to scrapling.
Root: Scrap (small bits) + Mingling (mixing).
Credits: Coined by Ariman, the 3 1/2 year old boy wonder.

Green Gush

Meaning: Very appreciative on the outside. Envious inside.
Pronunciation: Self evident.
Usage: 'Good for you' is the first sign of a green gush.
Root: Green (the colour of envy) + Gush (to pour out praise).

Gonecentration

Meaning: The inability to concentrate due to digital distractions.
Pronunciation: Gone-sen-tray-shun.
Usage: It's harder to come up with a good idea today as everyone in the ad agency is afflicted by facebook induced gonecentration.
Root: Derived from 'Concentration gone'.

Cupo di Kaapi

Meaning: The coffee of all coffees.
Pronunciation: Cup-po-the-kaap-pee.
Usage: If you are in Chennai, you should try the Kumbakonam Degree Cofee at Sangeetha's. That to me is the capo di kaapi.
Root: Italian expression 'Capo di capi' (meaning boss of all bosses) + Cup + Kaapi (South Indian Coffee).

Minusebo

Meaning: A medicine that's prescribed as a mild drug but ends up resulting in strong side effects.
Pronunciation: My-naseeb-bo.
Usage: My doctor underestimated my cholesterol drug. It turned out to be a minusebo.
Root: Antonym of a placebo (sounds like plus-sebo).

Jurispewdence

Meaning: The penchant to spout legalese to complicate matters.
Pronunciation: Juris-spew-dense.
Usage: The panel discussions on tv channels have off late been unwatchable thanks to an overload of jurispewdence.
Root: Jurispudence (Law) + Spew.

Empoorment

Meaning: Depletion of wealth and economic health.
Pronunciation: Em-poor-ment.
Usage: The freebies doled out by political parties of Tamil Nadu has been singularly responsible for the empoorment of the state.
Root: Self explanatory.

Costerity

Meaning: Mindless cost cutting in the name of austerity.
Pronunciation: Cost-terry-tea.
Usage: Buying second hand guns for the army is an example of costerity.
Root: Self explanatory.

Jimblify

Meaning: Speaking English with a stereotype Mallu accent.
Pronunciation: Gym-blee-fai.
Usage: Lola Kutty is the one who can teach you how to jimblify.
Root: Derived from the iconic word 'jimbly' which happens to be the mallu way of saying 'simply'.

Dinka Chicka

Meaning: A girl who loves to dance.
Pronunciation: Dink-ka-chick-ka
Usage: Ranu made the mistake of dating a dinka chicka. He ended up with a slipped disc.
Root: Dinka Chika (a foot tapping number from 'Ready') + Chicka (slang for hot chick).

Skillduggery

Meaning: Laying claim to skills without any basis.
Pronunciation: Skill-dug-ga-ri.
Usage: Our detective firm specialises in uncovering the skillduggery in CVs.
Root: Skill + Skullduggery.

Synodobs

Meaning: People with identical dates of birth.
Pronunciation: Sin-no-dobs.
Usage: I am looking for research papers on synodobs. I am very interested in knowing if their life paths are similar.
Root: Syno (greek for same) + DOBs (Dates of birth).

Triggertarianism

Meaning: The belief that one must have the right to carry arms for protecting one's liberty.
Pronunciation: Trigger-tay-ri-yen-nizm.
Usage: One of the core values of a Republican is triggertarianism.
Root: Trigger (denoting fire arms) + Libertarianism (the doctrine of liberty).

Baaptism

Meaning: The act of inventing a name for the unknown father.
Pronunciation: Baap-tizm.
Usage: The bastards of the world have to resort to baaptism to gain acceptance from us miserable sods.
Root: Baptism (the name giving formality) + Baap (Hindi word for father).