Fake Word of the Day XIII
An occasional series where I take something for which there is no word and invent a word for it.
child corn - an unnecessarily shocking term for baby corn.
Jimmy Carter Effect - doing something good or useful about 25 years after it would have made a difference.
cowdog - a tiny, vicious, high-pitched, yappy dog that runs away as soon as you stand up.
pialogue - a conversation you get into for the right reasons, but you know exactly how it's going to go, and there's really not a lot you can do about it, and if you keep pushing it, you'll be the bad guy. Most pialogues end with the words "But I love him".
barratron - the sort of person who brings logical analysis to a situation which requires compassion and diplomacy.
twittle - a short text message or tweet that makes no sense at all, even after you fix it up.
fauxtee - an arrangement of facial hair that looks like the wearer was aiming for a different effect.
giblate - a customised license plate with so many substitutions and abbreviations that you have no idea what it's supposed to say.
schmoo - the feeling you get when you realise you've spent the last ten minutes trying to clone-brush away a bit of dust on your monitor's screen.
knibble - that part of your nose or ears that doesn't look quite right.
ovary acting - the various types of fake emotion with which some women manipulate everyone around them.
flubble - that little shudder generated in a stalled or slow car when another car whips past at speed.
Related: If you like this sort of thing, you might like Fake Word of the Day XII, and the official Fake Words page on my own website.
child corn - an unnecessarily shocking term for baby corn.
Jimmy Carter Effect - doing something good or useful about 25 years after it would have made a difference.
cowdog - a tiny, vicious, high-pitched, yappy dog that runs away as soon as you stand up.
pialogue - a conversation you get into for the right reasons, but you know exactly how it's going to go, and there's really not a lot you can do about it, and if you keep pushing it, you'll be the bad guy. Most pialogues end with the words "But I love him".
barratron - the sort of person who brings logical analysis to a situation which requires compassion and diplomacy.
twittle - a short text message or tweet that makes no sense at all, even after you fix it up.
fauxtee - an arrangement of facial hair that looks like the wearer was aiming for a different effect.
giblate - a customised license plate with so many substitutions and abbreviations that you have no idea what it's supposed to say.
schmoo - the feeling you get when you realise you've spent the last ten minutes trying to clone-brush away a bit of dust on your monitor's screen.
knibble - that part of your nose or ears that doesn't look quite right.
ovary acting - the various types of fake emotion with which some women manipulate everyone around them.
flubble - that little shudder generated in a stalled or slow car when another car whips past at speed.
Related: If you like this sort of thing, you might like Fake Word of the Day XII, and the official Fake Words page on my own website.