Words To Remember:



I did and do collect a lot of things. Quotes. Keychains. Books. Pogs. World of Warcraft Achievements. Memories. Songs. Stories.

Another thing I collect are words. Not just any words. I'm talking about the castoffs, the amalgamations and portmanteaus, the slangsters, the randos. I try to keep a running list and thought maybe ya'll would enjoy what I've got thus far:

1. Pessoptimist, someone who is both a pessimist and an optimist, either alternating or at the same time.
2. Eunoia, the quality of "beautiful thinking."
3. Sarcaustic, being sarcastic and caustic at the same time. Sarcasm that burns.
4. Lunaphile, being a lover of all things moon-related.
5. Xenophilia, an affection for unknown/foreign objects and/or people, the opposite of xenophobia.
6. Wonderlust, unlike wanderlust's strong desire for travel, this is a strong desire for wonder, for things amazing or magical or just plain awesome.
7. Lackadaisical, lacking enthusiasm and determination, carelessly lazy. 
8. Hobroken, a word describing the New Jersey City of Hoboken and reflecting the Bro culture that has ruined it. Also means anything broken by a hobo.
9. Phantasmagoria, a sequence of real or imaginary events, like in a dream.
10. Humanimal, a human and animal, or the expression of the animal-qualities of the human animals, or vice versa -- the human-qualities of animal animals.
11. Acateur, an academic saboteur, or an acapella saboteur.
12. Slanguage, slang within language, a language composed entirely of slang, and/or speaking only in slang.
13. Videots, idiots who base their idiocy on videos they've watched (real, imagined, and/or those never actually watched).
14. Holidaze, the daze that precedes, occurs during, and follows any major holiday season.
15. Surreality, the surreal qualities of reality; of, relating to, or characteristic of surrealism, an artistic and literarystyle; surrealistic; having the disorienting, hallucinatory quality of a dream; unreal; fantastic.
16. Inbredneck, rednecks who are inbred. the trashiest of the White trash.
17. Infocalypse, the apocalypse of information, or an apocalypse predicated upon information, whether its selective destruction or selective dissemination.
18. Zedonk, a zebroid, a combination of a donkey and a zebra.
19. Blaxploitation, the exploitation of black people, especially with regard to stereotyped roles in movies.
20. Broster, a bro and hipster combined. Basically a dude who lifts and dresses like a lumberjack, but is not actually a jacked lumberjack.
21. Frenemy, a person with whom one is friendly despite a fundamental dislike or rivalry.
22. Ambisextrous, a humorous allusion to bisexuality (or, at least, an intentional one), or having both masculine and feminine elements.
23. Melancholic, someone who is addicted to the state of melancholy, feeling or expressing pensive sadness, suffering from or denoting a severe form of depression.
24. Happimess, the messiness of happiness, or the messiness of a Happy Meal.
25. Saboteurism, the tourism of some saboteurs, people who enjoy or appreciate the qualities of a saboteur but can never truly become one, like a tourist.

Also, here are links to some of my Urban Dictionary submissions:

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Notka&defid=

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pessoptimist&defid=1081602812303566

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Piratical


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