Sunday 29 April 2012

Procrasturbate


procrasturbate / prəʊ'kræs'təbeɪt / verb to stimulate one’s genitals for sexual pleasure as a means to delay action: you’d get your homework done quicker if you didn’t procrasturbate so often [blend of procrastinate and masturbate

Causea

causea / kɔ:'zi:ə, kɔ:'ʒə, kɔ:'si:ʌ, kɔ:'ʃə / noun the feeling of sickness in the stomach with an urge to vomit experienced after consuming a high coffee to food ratio [blend of coffee and nausea]

Saturday 21 April 2012

Hangopent


hangopent / hæŋ'əʊ'pent / verb to feel remorse or show contrition for recent actions performed while inebriated: please allow me to hangopent for texting you photos of my scrotum last night [blend of hangover and repent]

Friday 20 April 2012

Prough


prough / prɒf / verb to suddenly expel air from one’s lungs to create a noise as a deliberate attempt to indicate displeasure at another person’s cigarette smoking [blend of pretend and cough]

Thursday 19 April 2012

Voyeverie

voyeverie / vɔɪ'evɜ:ri: / noun to be so lost in a moment of reverie as to unintentionally direct one’s gaze toward a stranger’s backside or genital region, or toward a female’s bosom: I was so tired on the train this morning that some girl caused a scene in response to my voyeverie [blend of voyeur and reverie] [see also: publerection]

Jophemism

jophemism / ʤɒ'fem'ɪsm / noun Colloquial a vague word used in substitution for a blunt word when discussing professional sports, sportsmen or sportswomen; usually bearing a dubious correlation with ordinary English usage: ‘ordinary’ and ‘average’ are jophemisms for bad; ‘physical’ is a jophemism for violent (particularly when callously violent) [blend of jock and euphemism

Wrongonym

wrongonym / rɒŋ'ɒ'nɪm / noun a word vaguely similar with another in pronunciation, yet so dissimilar only ignoramuses suffering diarrhoea of the vowels could mistakenly apply it: ‘quite’ is a wrongonym for ‘quiet’ in the passage ‘please be quite, I have to work early tomorrow’ [blend of wrong and homonym