Does anyone remember the comedian Rich Hall who wrote for David Letterman and also starred in the HBO series "Not Necessarily The News"? He used to do a segment on something he called sniglets, which were words that aren't in the dictionary but ought to be. He featured one sniglet per episode. Two I have always remembered:
Carpetuation - The act, when vacuuming, of running something over and over, picking it up, examining it, tossing it back to the carpet and trying to vacuum it up again. lol
Funch - Turning your pillow over and over trying to find the cool spot.
It's one of those days and I have no idea why he even popped into my head this morning!
He had a couple of books of sniglets that he had compiled and I found these on Wiki:
- Adam 69: Two police cars, parked next to each other, facing opposite directions, in such a way that the drivers' side doors are only inches from each other, allowing the officers to chat with each other while waiting for a traffic violation to happen.
- Alcolean: The point just before a drunk person starts to stumble.
- Ancinemation: The curious act of waiting in line to see a movie and watching exiting movie goers' reactions to see if they liked the movie or not.
- Anniversorry: The act of buying presents, especially diamonds, to make up for a forgotten anniversary.
- Autoberg: The chunks of ice that form on your car fenders when driving on snowy roads.
- Carperimiter: The area of a rug or carpet that is along the wall and cannot be reached by the regular vacuum cleaner, forcing one to use the nozzle attachment and hose.
- Cinemuck: The sticky substance on the floor of a movie theater.
- Doork: A person who tries to enter through a door clearly marked 'Exit'.[9]
- Downpause: The split second interruption of rain as you drive your car under a bridge.[10]
- Elacceleration: The mistaken belief that the more times one presses an elevator call button, the faster the elevator will arrive.
- Hozone: That mysterious place where one sock always seems to end up after doing laundry.
- Icealanche: The avalanche of ice that occurs when a glass or cup is tipped up to drink the last of the liquid.
- Idiolocation: The spot on the map marked "You are here."[11]
- Idiot Box: The part of the envelope that tells a person where to place the stamp when they can't quite figure it out for themselves.
- Lactomangulation: Manhandling the "open here" spout on a milk carton so badly that one has to resort to using the "illegal" side.
- Magnacarta: The lonely car in a lot that always attracts shopping carts
- Musquirt: The yellow-colored liquid water that condenses on the top surface of a refrigerated mustard squeeze bottle.
- Nerkle: Someone who leaves their Christmas lights/decorations up all year.
- Pre-autoistic McConsumption: The tendency to start eating your french fries in the car on your way home.
- Sark: The marks left on one's ankle after wearing tube socks all day.
- Televator: The rolling line on a TV when the Horizontal hold isn't adjusted.
- Toastaphobia: The fear of sticking a fork in a toaster even when it's unplugged.
If you're in the mood for more, I have a link to them. Some are hilarious!
http://bertc.com/subfour/truth/sniglets.htm
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