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ArmyGrl

ArmyGrl

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Do you have a favorite obscure or made-up word?

Example -

Volander: the ethereal feeling of looking down at the world through an airplane window; catching a glimpse of far-flung places you'll never visit in person.

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And on that note...I've seen the pyramids in Egypt twice...through the window of an airplane.

So, share with us your favorite obscure or made-up word. ;) Little kids, especially, are good with the made-up ones.
 
My little boy used to mispronounce carbohydrates. Yes it's complicated word for a 3 year old, but we count carbohydrates for every meal due to type 1 diabetes. My little boy came up with "cardboardhighrates". It's amazing how many times we accidentally use that word instead of the proper one, even13 years later.
 
Onomatopoeia. It was a word of the day when I was in Junior high school and has stuck with me since because I like how it’s spelled.
 
When we were kids we called a syringe a shotstinger. I was embarrassed when I was older, perhaps in sixth grade, when a friend told me it was not a real word.

@ArmyGrl one of my greatest regrets was not going into the Giza Pyramid, Khafre. I stood there, ticket in hand, while my husband and daughter went inside. I’m just too claustrophobic to explore tight places. Alas.

I love your word, volander.
 
We do this all the time, but it's in Swedish so noone would understand.

But playing with words have always been something we do. Often we translate an English phrase or word literally, which create something that makes no sense in Swedish.

One of my "hobbies" are to talk Swenglish (bad English with made up words and Swedish accent) - cuz it annoys my son LOL I'm a bad mother. (Before you call the cops on me, he's 25 years old LOL).

Also I love to speak "Ge-Deutsch" - fake German by mixing the little German I know with Swedish words adding the prefix Ge- to every word.

Yup -- me weirdo. Ge-crazy Ge-frau.

Maybe I should start translate Swedish proverbs and sayings literally to English, and just type in the forums to confuse people??? Or would that be to jump into a mad barrell? :giggle
 
I have a few that are pretty inappropriate :giggle
I do use loquacious from time to time with my students and some of them have learned what I mean.
 
I was a full on adult working as a mechanical engineer when (my now husband who I also work with) said the word catawampus. (caddywhampus) I chuckled and told him to quit using made up words only to be corrected by every other person in the discussion that it was indeed a real word. :giggle Whoops!

adjective
1. askew; awry.
2. positioned diagonally; cater-cornered.

adverb
3. diagonally; obliquely: We took a shortcut and walked catawampus across the field.
 
I thought of another one... my oldest when he was little used to say "lasternight" instead of yesterday and last night. :giggle
 
I've always loved "supercallafragalistic" both atrocious & appropriate lol

I was just saying that opaque always screws with me. I'm not sure why, but I just don't want to believe that it means the opposite of transparent.
 
I'll add garrulous to your loquacious... I kept mixing them up, until I just accepted they are mostly interchangeable except garrulous has a more negative connotation
 
My little one, when she was little used to make up (or as she put it "exist" new words)... as in -Mila, this word doesn't exist... - It does now, Mummy, I have just existed it... Vegebattles - actually reflected well the battle that eating veggies involved, and we are still using it 15+ years on.
 
LoveItScrapIt said:
I was just saying that opaque always screws with me. I'm not sure why, but I just don't want to believe that it means the opposite of transparent.
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Me TOO!!!!! It seems like it should mean transparent. Isn't that weird?
 
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