The Goofiest Word

[Two-bit guru]

Writing a piece recently I typed "kerflooey" and the spell check said it wasn't a word. Spell check recommended "kerfuffle" which is a word. Of course, I think kerflooey is a word, too.

Kerfuffle means commotion, agitation, disorder.

Do you know a goofy word and it's meaning? Or can you invent one and its meaning? After all, all of our words weren't words before someone said they were.

 

[orcel]

Writing a piece recently I typed "kerflooey" and the spell check said it wasn't a word. Spell check recommended "kerfuffle" which is a word. Of course, I think kerflooey is a word, too.

Kerfuffle means commotion, agitation, disorder.

Do you know a goofy word and it's meaning? Or can you invent one and its meaning? After all, all of our words weren't words before someone said they were.

Though I'm not terrible interested in creating words, I've been fighting for years to strike the work asparagus from the leicon, in favor of the more accurate phrase "overgrown lawn clippings."

 

[elmarna]

Hoity Toity = snob, upity, think they are better then every one else.
Grew up useing it & heard it a lot when competeing in forward hunt seat equitation.
found out later it was a popular phrase before the 1940's

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

defenestration - the act of throwing someone out a window. Those silly protestants.

 

[Two-bit guru]

Hoity Toity = snob, upity, think they are better then every one else.
Grew up useing it & heard it a lot when competeing in forward hunt seat equitation.
found out later it was a popular phrase before the 1940's

My Dad used to refer to certain other people, usually relatives, as "Putting on the dog." It meant they were acting more important than they were.

 

[Two-bit guru]

defenestration - the act of throwing someone out a window. Those silly protestants.

Would demansardation be the act of throwing someone off the roof?

 

[Me Myself]

I don´t know I always say incoherenyt words without meanings and then wonder what they mean.

Among them:

Prapuka

Brabushta

Paprushka

Ramapuka

Nramakta!

tramapinga

*** like that

 

[tumbleweed41]

floccinaucinihilipilification noun Rare .
the estimation of something as valueless
Floccinaucinihilipilification | Define Floccinaucinihilipilification at Dictionary.com

 

[Two-bit guru]

I don´t know I always say incoherenyt words without meanings and then wonder what they mean.

Among them: Prapuka, Brabushta, Paprushka, Ramapuka, Nramakta!, tramapinga
*** like that

My wife, who is of Polish ancestry, does the same thing!

I sing (although I'm not a singer) meaningless words that sound like French, although I'm unable to do it in writing.

 

[Religiousman101]

methionylglutaminylarginyltyrosylglutamylserylleucylphen

Not sure what it means, but it's the longest word in the english dictionary - can anyone even pronounce this?

 

[beenie]

antidisestablishmentarianism

Whaaaa?

Oh look, we have an answer:

antidisestablishmentarianism - definition of antidisestablishmentarianism by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.

n. 1. the doctrine or political position that opposes the withdrawal of state recognition of an established church; - used especially concerning the Anglican Church in England. Opposed to disestablishmentarianism.

Of course it's political.

 

[Bighoss]

"NUTTERANCE"--something said by a person of severely compromised mental capacity or someone otherwise having an deranged and disordered sense of reality, e.g. someone who still contends that the earth is flat or that the current President of the United States was not born in this country.

 

[Enlighten]

Fankle -

A fankle is a muddle or state of confusion. Such a state can arise in even the best-organised families at holiday time. No matter how foolproof your forward-planning seems to be, no matter how many detailed lists you compile, no matter how many times you check passports and tickets, the adults in the household usually get into a fankle just before the journey begins.

Useful Scots word: fankle | Caledonian Mercury - Heritage

 

[Kilgore Trout]

bromance - speaks for itself.

 

[Vinayaka]

reminds me of Mr. Kastanza's invention, .. the bro

 

[Two-bit guru]

Anyone for "interrobang?"

 

[Gjallarhorn]

Anyone for "interrobang?"

Seconded. The symbol itself is hilarious.

 

[Two-bit guru]

How about lollapalooza?

 

[Skwim]

What's wrong with words like

• Bom
• Clim
• Crum
• Com
• Det
• Dout
• Dum
• Lam
• Lim
• Num
• Plumer
• Sutle
• Thum
• Tom
• Wom

?
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Instead we have a silent "B" slid in, which does add a dam thing . . . Oh yeah, that silent "n" thing is another pet peeve. :149:

• Bomb
• Climb
• Crumb
• Comb
• Debt
• Doubt
• Dumb
• Lamb
• Limb
• Numb
• Plumber
• Subtle
• Thumb
• Tomb
• Womb

​

 

[Two-bit guru]

Nothing wrong with those words, Skwim, either with the B or without.

I like bamboozle