Made-up Words

[Flick James]

I've got this thing I do occasionally where I make up words that don't exist, but I try to make them seem like real words. There's no real purpose to it. I don't even try to make up joke words that have a joke definition. These words have no definition, but I suppose somebody could make one up. Nope, they're just non-existent words. The idea is to make them seem like real words to the point that you could say them or write them in a sentence and the reader might actually believe it's a real word. Here are some example:

cogealous
filondrical
pinsenate
phransome
quandriesce
chilf
exprundilate
prancicle
pretchum
peauche
blundite

I sometimes do this when I'm in class and consumed with boredom. I had an instructor pass by me once, pause, look down at the page I was writing made-up words on, pause for a few seconds, and move on. I've always wondered what he was thinking.

Does this strike anybody as particularly odd? I sometimes wonder.

[indianasmith]

Vootie!  It's totally stanulous.

[Couchtr26]

Nah, doesn't strike me as odd Flick.  To be honest, I think sometimes we are lacking words for certain concepts or words that portray the meaning or feeling with just sound.  However, I have never thought of doing that myself.  I, also, understand that isn't your purpose.  I just think it is odd you don't see it more in a way. 

[Leah]

I say Farcicle as a combo of Farce and icle to substitute for f**k.

[Jack]

If there were such a word as "blundite" I'd definitely use it.  It's like "blunder" crossed with some type of mineral.

[Trevor]

I have two South African words which look like they're made up but they aren't.

1. MAMPARA: [MAAMPAARAH] a slang word that means 'idiot' ~ if you call someone this who doesn't know what the word means, they'll think they've been given a compliment. 

2. FONG-KONG: another slang word meaning rubbish ~ e.g. fake knock-off  Naike, AIDDDIAS and Rheebuck shoes which look like the real Dr Leonard H McCoy but aren't. 

[Flangepart]

From DISPICABLE ME: Chillax!

I like making up words, and putting them where a normal word belongs, just so see if they're listening.
When you pass someone in the hall way, they say "Hows it going?"
You say, "Not prehensile. Not prehensile at all."
If they don't react, they were speaking in 'Auto-politese.'

[Flick James]

2. FONG-KONG: another slang word meaning rubbish ~ e.g. fake knock-off  Naike, AIDDDIAS and Rheebuck shoes which look like the real Dr Leonard H McCoy but aren't. 

I am working that into my lexicon. 

[Flick James]

I say Farcicle as a combo of Farce and icle to substitute for f**k.

Very close to farcical, which is a real word.

[trekgeezer]

Mine is a verb      venuvulate         feel free to attach your own meaning

[Flick James]

Mine is a verb      venuvulate         feel free to attach your own meaning

Something makes me picture a lewd gyration of some kind.