In the 1980's, there was a book called Sniglets: Words that Should Be in the Dictionary, but Aren't. They were made-up words, like "vacation elbow," for Dad's ability to contort his body and stretch his arm to reach you in the back seat when you are fighting on a long drive. Lately, I've been thinking of words I could change or add one letter to create a Sniglet. So far I've come up with:
hospitility: how you treat visiting relatives you don't want to stay too long
due dulligence: board deliberations before an ill-conceived, bubble-fueled merger
chief sexecutive: a president, governor, mayor, or CEO caught in a public sex scandal
idiet: a fad or crash diet with no sound nutritional underpinning; also, someone on such a diet
incestment management: when the people running the US Treasury Dept are all former Goldman Sachs employees
mosquitoe: that itch your foot gets right after you've laced up your hiking boots
sin-laws: the parents of a live-in boyfriend or girlfriend
Lust: a pointless TV show about a bunch of attractive people who crash on a remote island already populated with other attractive people (oops, that's not a new definition)
iPaid: the newest, must-have pricey gadget from Apple
litigatar: the lawyers who will get rich over the next 20 years fighting over tar balls washing up on Gulf Coast beaches
What Sniglets can you create by tweaking an existing word?
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Those are good ones. I loved that book!
Here is my most recent list of Words That Should Be:
http://daisybrain.wordpress.com/2010/06/27/words-that-should-be/
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