Meaning: Angry woman.
Pronunciation: Ou-wrath.
Usage: Parliament will have to face the music from auwraths who are sick and tired of the daily harassment they have to put up with.
Root: Aurat (Hindi for woman) + Wrath (anger).
Monday, December 17, 2012
Sorry Gama
Meaning: Awfully offkey music.
Pronunciation: Saw-ree-ga-ma.
Usage: After subjecting the audience to some ear splitting sorry gama, the vidhwaan hopped to the next kutcheri.
Root: Sorry + Sare Gama (the first four notes in Carnatic music).
Pronunciation: Saw-ree-ga-ma.
Usage: After subjecting the audience to some ear splitting sorry gama, the vidhwaan hopped to the next kutcheri.
Root: Sorry + Sare Gama (the first four notes in Carnatic music).
Sunday, December 02, 2012
Follygamous
Meaning: Having regretted the act of marriage more than once. Synonymous with multiple divorcees.
Pronunciation: Fall-lee-gam-us.
Usage: Follygamous folks make great story tellers.
Root: Self explanatory.
Pronunciation: Fall-lee-gam-us.
Usage: Follygamous folks make great story tellers.
Root: Self explanatory.
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Wednesday, October 03, 2012
Unscrewpulous
Meaning: Philanderer.
Pronunciation: Un-screw-pull-lus.
Usage: If you are a willing victim of the unscrewpulous, you have only yourself to blame.
Root: Doesn't need elaboration.
Pronunciation: Un-screw-pull-lus.
Usage: If you are a willing victim of the unscrewpulous, you have only yourself to blame.
Root: Doesn't need elaboration.
Monday, October 01, 2012
Tellyfluous
Meaning: Visually poetic and pleasing.
Pronunciation: Tell-lee-flew-us.
Usage: Gorgeous makes some really tellyfluous commercials.
Root: Telly (Television) + Mellifluous (pleasurable).
Pronunciation: Tell-lee-flew-us.
Usage: Gorgeous makes some really tellyfluous commercials.
Root: Telly (Television) + Mellifluous (pleasurable).
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Thursday, September 06, 2012
Pinayata
Meaning: A rectangle with rounded corners.
Pronunciation: Peena-ya-tha.
Usage: The pinayata shape is the norm in the tablet and mobile phone industry today.
Root: Pina (Sanskrit for round) + Ayata (Sanskrit for rectangle).
Pronunciation: Peena-ya-tha.
Usage: The pinayata shape is the norm in the tablet and mobile phone industry today.
Root: Pina (Sanskrit for round) + Ayata (Sanskrit for rectangle).
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Psycheverse
Meaning: The mental plane or the universe of conscious and unconscious thoughts.
Pronunciation: Sigh-key-verse.
Usage: Sir Roger Penrose and Sri Aurobindo seem to allude to the existence of a psycheverse.
Root: Psyche (the mind as a whole) + Universe.
Pronunciation: Sigh-key-verse.
Usage: Sir Roger Penrose and Sri Aurobindo seem to allude to the existence of a psycheverse.
Root: Psyche (the mind as a whole) + Universe.
Monday, August 20, 2012
Kinflation
Meaning: The sudden expansion of your social circle when you become famous.
Pronunciation: Kin-flay-shun.
Usage: To manage the kinflationary pressures, most celebraties hire assholes as their managers.
Root: Kin (relatives) + Inflation (expansion).
Pronunciation: Kin-flay-shun.
Usage: To manage the kinflationary pressures, most celebraties hire assholes as their managers.
Root: Kin (relatives) + Inflation (expansion).
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Bidibub Test
Meaning: A simple test to determine if you have a stuffed nose or not. Basically read aloud the word 'minimum'. If you utter it as 'bidibub', chances are you have a blocked nose.
Pronunciation: Biddy-bub Test.
Usage: I was invited by an RJ to be the guest of his talk show on the same day I cleared the Bidibub Test. Burphy's law!
Root: Those with a stuffed nose tend to get their M's and N's mixed up with B's and D's.
Pronunciation: Biddy-bub Test.
Usage: I was invited by an RJ to be the guest of his talk show on the same day I cleared the Bidibub Test. Burphy's law!
Root: Those with a stuffed nose tend to get their M's and N's mixed up with B's and D's.
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Friday, August 10, 2012
Wednesday, August 08, 2012
Marshoepials
Meaning: Earthlings who've set foot on Mars with bag and baggage.
Pronunciation: Mar-shoo-pee-yells.
Usage: The Curiosity mission would inspire a new generation of Marshoepials to drop anchor on the red planet.
Root: Mars + Shoe (gear for walking) + Marsupials (mammals with pouches)
Pronunciation: Mar-shoo-pee-yells.
Usage: The Curiosity mission would inspire a new generation of Marshoepials to drop anchor on the red planet.
Root: Mars + Shoe (gear for walking) + Marsupials (mammals with pouches)
Funnadata
Meaning: One who adds humour to our lives without charging for it.
Pronunciation: Fun-na-daatha.
Usage: There should be a thanksgiving day for the invisible funnadatas who have minted all the jokes that are in circulation today.
Root: Fun + Annadata (Sanskrit for provider).
Pronunciation: Fun-na-daatha.
Usage: There should be a thanksgiving day for the invisible funnadatas who have minted all the jokes that are in circulation today.
Root: Fun + Annadata (Sanskrit for provider).
Thaalistan
Meaning: Any restaurant serving North Indian food.
Pronunciation: Tha-liz-thaan.
Usage: A decade ago, there were just a handful of thaalistans in Chennai. Now the story is very different.
Root: Thaali (the North Indian platter) + -stan (a place that is home to)
Pronunciation: Tha-liz-thaan.
Usage: A decade ago, there were just a handful of thaalistans in Chennai. Now the story is very different.
Root: Thaali (the North Indian platter) + -stan (a place that is home to)
Wednesday, August 01, 2012
Ballot Zombies
Meaning: Voters who exercise their democratic rights only during elections.
Pronunciation: Ballot-zom-bees.
Usage: 99% of us are ballot zombies. It's the other 1% who shape our future.
Root: Ballot (process of voting in a democracy) + Zombies (the dead and walking).
Pronunciation: Ballot-zom-bees.
Usage: 99% of us are ballot zombies. It's the other 1% who shape our future.
Root: Ballot (process of voting in a democracy) + Zombies (the dead and walking).
Sunday, July 29, 2012
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.
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.
Thursday, July 26, 2012
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.
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.
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
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.
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.
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Monday, July 09, 2012
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).
Pronunciation: Ko-less-stroll.
Usage: My precious morning is frittered away in a 45-minute cholestroll.
Root: Cholesterol + Stroll (leisurely walk).
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