Wednesday, May 31, 2006

Jokecabulary

Meaning: The set of jokes known to a person.
Pronunciation: Jo-cab-yoo-lary.
Usage: I have an ant-sized jokecabulary.
Root: Joke + Vocabulary.

Tuesday, May 30, 2006

Kabuddy

Meaning: A childhood friend.
Pronunciation: Ka-buddy
Usage: Vinod Kambli was Sachin Tendulkar's kabuddy.
Root: Kabaddi (an Indian game everyone plays during childhood) + buddy.

Maicro

Meaning: descriptive of something that lies between micro- and macro-
Pronunciation: my-crow
Usage: Maicro-economic effects are rarely taken into account.
Root: obvious

Holocaste

Meaning: destruction of social and economic fabric of a society due to caste-based politics.
Pronunciation: ho-lo-kaast
Usage: India is at the brink of a holocaste.
Root: from the Holocaust

Monday, May 29, 2006

Whiteskinophilia

Meaning: A fetish for white skin
Pronunciation: white +skin+ philia
Usage: Whiteskinophilia is a common disorder among Indians.
Root: obvious

Blendability

Meaning: The ability to blend well in a given circumstance
Pronunciation: Obvious.
Usage: Blendability is one of the major soft skills or so my HR guy keeps saying.
Root: Blend + ability

Sunday, May 28, 2006

Stembezzle

Meaning: Fraudulent usage of banked stem cells.
Related Coinage: Stembezzlement.
Pronunciation: Obvious.
Usage: Stembezzlement will be a common crime in the next century.
Root: Embezzling stem cells stored with a stem cell bank.

Saturday, May 27, 2006

Showcus Pocus

Meaning: A highly publicised illusion.
Pronunciation: Show-cus-poke-cus.
Usage: David Blaine is very much a showcus pocus man.
Root: Show + Hocus Pocus.

Kissen

Meaning: The place where good kisses are cooked up
Pronunciation: Kis-shen
Usage: Jay must have worked at a kisshen earlier.
Root: Kitchen giving way to Kissen

Coffeen

Meaning: What dead coffee addicts are carried away in
Pronunciation: Pretty simple, ain't it?
Usage: Chandru deserves his coffeen, truly.
Root: Coffee + Coffin

Thursday, May 25, 2006

Chittizen

Meaning: One who religiously keeps writing letters to the editor.
Pronunciation: Chit-tee-zen
Usage: Senior chittizens are typically the grouchy retired types.
Root: Chitti (Hindi word for letter) + Citizen.

Wednesday, May 24, 2006

Itihaasya

Meaning: Mocking historical events or personalities.
Pronunciation: Ithy-ha-sya.
Usage: Mel Brooks was a great practitioner of itihaasya.
Root: Itihaas (Hindi for history) + Haasya (Hindi for humour).

Tuesday, May 23, 2006

Flutooth

Meaning: A bluetooth device that fails to network.
Pronunciation: Flew-tooth.
Usage: I am still looking for some takers for my flutooth handset on ebay.
Root: Blue Tooth (generic term for wireless networking device) down with Flu.

Fretrimental

Meaning: Anything that makes your BP (Blood Pressure) soar.
Pronunciation: Fret-ri-mental.
Usage: Watching India lose to West Indies at 4 am in the morning can be truly fretrimental.
Root: Fret (irritation/anger) + Detrimental (harmful).

Busyotherapy

Meaning: Boosting self-importance by acting busy.
Pronunciation: Bizzy-yo-therapy.
Usage: Busyotherapy can do wonders for your ego.
Root: Busy + Physiotherapy.

Monday, May 22, 2006

Janworries

Meaning: New year anxieties.
Pronunciation: Obvious.
Usage: New year bashes are a nice way of drowning your janworries.
Root: January + Worries.

Sunday, May 21, 2006

Parriage

Meaning: A marriage that is pre-occupied with fending off blows from the spouse
Pronunciation: As in marriage
Usage: I wish you a happy parriage
Root: Parried + Marriage

Saturday, May 20, 2006

Rudrakshasa

Meaning: Divine demon.
Pronunciation: Ru-dh-raak-shasaa.
Usage: Sometimes to alter the course of mankind, the forces above send a rudrakshasa.
Root: Rudra (Form of Shiva) + Rakshasa (Demon).

Sayduction

Meaning: The art of tempting with words.
Pronunciation: Same as seduction.
Usage: Copywriting is all about sayduction.
Root: Say + Seduction.

Kidiosyncrasy

Meaning: Childish quirks.
Pronunciation: Kid-deo-sink-rasi.
Usage: Snatch the remote from a man to discover his kidiosyncrasies.
Root: Kid + Ideosyncrasy.

Stuckasstic

Meaning: Constipated.
Pronunciation: Stuck-ass-stick.
Usage: Boss sported a stuckasstic look as he read out the no-raises-for-this-year communique.
Root: From stuck ass.

Thursday, May 18, 2006

Yippietaph

Meaning: A statement of relief or joy made by detractors of the dead.
Pronunciation: Yippie-taf.
Usage: George Dubya Bush is ready with his yippietaph for Osama but the trouble is Bin Laden ain't dead yet.
Root: Yippie (An expression of joy) + Epitaph.

Wednesday, May 17, 2006

Parabloopers

Meaning: Blundering, clumsy paratroopers
Pronunciation: Para-Blue-purse
Usage: That bunch of idiots are parabloopers!
Root: Paratroopers + Blooper

Whatery

Meaning: Very weak, toned down questions
Pronunciation: Wot-ery
Usage: That journo's questions were very whatery
Root: What + Watery

Folliday

Meaning: A day in which everything that can go wrong, does.
Pronunciation: As is
Usage: Monday was a total folliday
Root: Folly + Day