For All WORD Lovers

[pinkpopcorn]

The Washington Post's Mensa Invitational once again invited readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition.

Here are the winners:

1. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period of time.

2. Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an ass.

3. Intaxicaton: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.

4. Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.

5. Bozone (n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.

6. nah....

7. Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.

8. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.

9. Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.

10. Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease.

(This one got extra credit.)

11. Karmageddon: It's like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like, a serious bummer.

12. Decafalon (n): The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.

13. Glibido: All talk and no action.

14. Dopeler Effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.

15. Arachnoleptic Fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web.

16. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and

cannot be cast out.

17. Caterpallor (n.): The color you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you're eating.

The Washington Post has also published the winning submissions to its yearly contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for common words.

And the winners are:

1. Coffee, n. The person upon whom one coughs.

2. Flabbergasted, adj. Appalled by discovering

how much weight one has gained.

3. Abdicate, v. To give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.

4. Esplanade, v. To attempt an explanation while drunk.

5. Willy-nilly, adj. Impotent.

6. Negligent, adj. Absent mindedly answering the door when wearing only a nightgown.

7. Lymph, v. To walk with a lisp.

8. Gargoyle, n. Olive-flavored mouthwash.

9. Flatulence, n. Emergency vehicle that picks up someone who has been run over by a steamroller.

10. Balderdash, n. A rapidly receding hairline.

11. Testicle, n. A humorous question on an exam.

12. Rectitude, n. The formal, dignified bearing adopted by proctologists.

13. Pokemon, n. A Rastafarian proctologist.

14. Oyster, n. A person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddishisms.

15. Frisbeetarianism, n. The belief that, after death, the soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck there.

16. Circumvent, n. An opening in the front of boxer shorts worn by Jewish men.

I edited one of the definitions so as not to offend anyone.

[Joey]

I love this we should put it on fun and games and try to come up

with some of our own.

[Brother_Bliss]

I love this we should put it on fun and games and try to come up

with some of our own.

Agreed.

Interchange ----------> Fun & Games

[Joey]

song-suffering: what you have when standing near someone at the meeting who can't

carry a tune.

mendurance: what us sisters have when dealing with the brothers.

fattitude: when you just don't care what you look like anymore.

buttonous: when your butt grows bigger because of over eating due to your fattitude.

smelousy: when you smell something really good and you wish you had it.

wignorant: a person who tells someone with a hairpiece "Hey nice hair cut."

[Joey]

one more...

long-puffering: what a bible student has who can't quit smoking.

[Catalyst]

one more...

long-puffering: what a bible student has who can't quit smoking.

( This is more difficult than I thought..)

Pioneera = The length of time a publisher has been a regular pioneer

Bangers and dash = a quick meal for British people

[Catalyst]

A gigabite = a person with an unusually large mouth

[Joey]

negative: a relative who is always a downer

[Joey]

freezer: someone whose been going door to door in the cold for too long.

I'm trying to keep them spiritual I could have said...

freezer: someone who stops when the police are after them.

[pinkpopcorn]

Nancy these are cute!

My daughter said several cool things. She was, in her terms, the word Nazi! LOL She had a hidden writer inside her so words really made her tick.

Julie-isms:

Morbidly Obtuse - a really thick headed idiot

Fashionably Sarcastic - her own definition of self

Excessive Compulsive - Julie's description of her father who could never pass up a two-fer on donuts, and bought 6 boxes

[rocket]

Mouthorhea: person who can't keep a secret or a gossiper (diarrhea of the mouth)

[Joey]

So funny everyone.Love them!!!

[Joey]

butter: a goat

[rocket]

TROLLING: Man with zipper down.

[Catalyst]

Mooron - a stupid cow

[Catalyst]

Escalator = a person who has high ambitions

[John_boyRBi8]

If you like this, you may also like: @CEDictionary on Twitter. This is a brother that I follow and sometimes contribute to.

And yes, I do visit Amazon too often...

[Astrid]

A gigabite = a person with an unusually large mouth

They are all great, but this one really made laugh out loud!

[Greenfield]

Assumption - thinking with your rear end instead of your head

[retroHelen]

Mine are more like new definitions for old words:

Problematic = disastrous loft

stifling = Pig dance from Scotland

Dipthong = fondue underwear

rambling = male sheep jewellery

Bacchanalian = betting at a space race

On a similar theme to the thread: What do you call a cat that's eaten a duck? - A duck filled fatty puss!