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A character quotes a seemingly made-up word that no one has ever heard of before then. This is usually a word the writer just made up but is occasionally a real obscure, archaic or obsolete word; for instance, 400 years before we had computers, we had email, which is a raised or embossed image pressed into metal (and pronounced EM-eye, because it's French), and "unfriend", which meant exactly what it does today (just at the tavern, rather than on Facebook). A type of Neologism (for the many cases where the word is new), of which Scrabble Babble is a Sub-Trope. Some examples are another form of Malaproper. See also Delusions of Eloquence and Informed Obscenity. Characters who primarily talk in these are known as a Neologizer. Not to be confused with Buffy Speak which is a lack of nuance and sometimes making new compound words, not entirely new words. For words that are actually not new, it may be a case of either Accidentally-Correct Writing or Shown Their Work. If these made-up words are only used and are repeated in a pattern of some sort in a conversation, that's a Conlang. Named for an exchange from an episode of The Simpsons. A Simpsons screenwriter invented the word "cromulent" when the showrunner challenged the team to think up several real-sounding, but fake, words. The screenwriter says the word "cromulent" is intended to mean "fine" or "acceptable". The word "cromulent" has subsequently been used in real life by writers and politicians. The made-up word embiggen was later used in a completely cromulent paper on string theory. It's on pages 28 and 31 here. It has also been added to Webster's Dictionary and Dictionary.com. |
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"Omnishambles", as introduced by The Thick of It, has seen common enough usage to be added to the online OED. | |
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In Molly's Game, Charlie is reading Molly's book and comments that 'verticality' is not a real word. Molly insists that it is and ends up emailing him a link to it in the American dictionary. | |
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The ones in Adventure Time usually derive from the dialogue's wordplay-filled style. Examples include "wrongteous" (opposite of "righteous"), and "manlorette party" (what else do you call the male equivalent of a bachelorette party?). There's also the PG equivalent of "Oh my God" wherein they instead use the phrase "Oh my Glob". | |
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Sly Cooper: The Murray hopes you were not harmed by his meteoropic entrance, for the Thunder Flop knows neither friend nor foe, only destruction! | |
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Bon Iver has 'fide' and 'fane' from "Perth." Fane is a genuine word, meaning "temple". Fide, not so much, unless he's speaking Latin. Later, on his 2015 album 22, a Million, he makes up words such as "Astuary" on "8 (Circle)", "Paramind" on "29 #STRAFFORD APTS," and "Fuckified" on "10 10 d E A T h b R E a s T âš„ âš„." |
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In 1920, mathematician Milton Kasner wrote a number on a blackboard: 1 followed by 100 zeroes (also depicted as "1e100"). He asked his nine-year-old nephew Milton Sirotta what to call it. The boy said it should be called a "googol", and the name stuck. From there, Milton coined the word "googolplex", which is a 1 followed by a googol zeroes (although his original definition was "one, followed by writing zeroes until you get tired"). The search engine Google owes its name to the googol (quirkily misspelled, as tech companies like to do), and the company's headquarters in California is appropriately called the "Googleplex". | |
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Caddicarus frequently uses the made-up word "cyoar", the definition of which will not be mentioned here. | |
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One Get Fuzzy strip from an arc about their new manager had said manager use the words "Dinnerfy" and "Eatification" to describe eating. | |
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Sluggy Freelance: Millard Dynam Stoop trying to create a Significant Anagram: The next comic... |
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The Ghost and Molly McGee: Molly has a desire to "enhappify" the world. | |
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On The Cosby Show, Rudy invented the word zrbrt: to kiss someone on the cheek while blowing a raspberry. Rudy invented the spelling (at random). Cliff invented the definition. | |
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Channel Awesome members often combine insults into new words because normal insults just aren't strong enough to deal with the crap they are dealing with. Highlights include Linkara's "Idiostuperiffic" for insanely dumb people or plots, and The Nostalgia Critic's "Supercrapafuckerifficexpialibullshit" — a film so bad the censors really oughta go and pull it. | |
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MS Paint Adventures makes a Running Gag of applying this to sci-fi gadgets, starting with the Pumpkin Appearifier from Jailbreak. Meanwhile, in Homestuck, the otherwise linguistically stringent Jane is quite defensive about the cromulence of the word "shalln't." | |
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That '70s Show: In "Trampled Under Foot", Fez has an Imagine Spot where he wonders what it will be like to have Hyde, Eric, and Kelso teach him how to get girls. | |
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On The Sarah Silverman Program, in the episode "Kangamangus", Sarah tries to coin a new word and comes up with "ozay" (hard to define, but when you just feel...ozay). Her attempts to popularize it pale next to the organic spread of "dotnose", which Brian comes up with accidentally when Steve is so stubborn that he won't acknowledge a marker dot on his own nose despite everyone mentioning it. Others find "dotnose" offensive for no particular reason (other than that it sounds insulting), and at a dictionary induction ceremony, Brian and Steve are threatened with the "kangamangus" (a very specific physical retribution). "Kancamagus" is the name of a scenic highway in New Hampshire. |
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The Vicar of Dibley: Jim and Frank come over, interrupting Geraldine's rendezvous with David's brother (long story). They have a crossword question. She makes up the word "ploddipop" to get them out of the house. | |
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"Embiggen" has entered the lexicon as a synonym for "enlarge", mostly on the Internet, after the same scene from The Simpsons that gave us "cromulent". The most interesting use is on Language Log, populated by expert linguists, whose caption to enlarge pictures reads, "Click to embiggen". | |
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In the Escape Slide Parachute episode of MythBusters, the word "criminy" (uttered by Adam) gets this treatment by the narrator, who assumes that Adam just made the word up. ("Criminy" is an actual word, if rather old.) The narrator would have known this if he had watched a single episode of Hey Arnold!, where Helga said this word so frequently as to really make it her own. Gary Larson also used it quite a few times in The Far Side. | |
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This is part of Marcus' schtick in 1/0, with a dash of Delusions of Eloquence. | |
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Gwonam in Faces of Evil: Squadala, we're off! | |
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Horrible Histories: Combined with Last-Second Word Swap in the 'Historical First Dates' sketch on the "Ridiculous Romantics" special. Catherine Howard attends her first date with Henry VIII accompanied by Francis Dereham. When Henry asks who he is, Francis starts to say he's her boyfriend, but is kicked by Catherine under the table after he says "boyfr...", and Catherine hurriedly finishes the sentence by saying "Boyfr...ump! It's a new word meaning companion. Or servant." | |
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iCarly: In "iAm Your Biggest Fan", Carly tells Mandy that they need "fladoodles" for their web show just to get her off their backs. Sam asks what it is, but Carly says that she just made it up. Mandy somehow manages to find a packet of them anyway. Mandy had to go down to the ethnic district to find them however. | |
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A number of cartoons have used the nonsense word "tralfazz". Looney Tunes, The Jetsons, Phineas and Ferb... | |
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In Hustle, Mickey and Emma have a long debate over whether 'stickability' is a word. Mickey insists that if it isn't, then it should be. | |
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Wreck-It Ralph gave us "Turbo-tastic!" | |
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Sharing the Night: Twilight's realm consisting solely of libraries is referred to as a "librararchy". In Sharing the Nation, Ember refers to Celestia absorbing draconic magic and then splitting into two part-dragon alicorns as "bilizardification". | |
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Warrior has destrucity, foked, skronk, and jet-jack. Although skronk could possibly be an onomatopoeia. | |
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In Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, Dirk's Suspiciously Specific Denials, designed to convince his fellow students he has psychic powers, include denying he's "psychosassic". And then denying the word "psychosassic" means anything anyway. | |
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On Mr. Show, a character was introduced as "Edmund Premington is a hunter, an explorer, a novelist, and an adventurer; a travelliare, an explorist, and a noveller." | |
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Lampshaded as MC Frontalot acknowledges that "possibleness is not a cromulent word" in "Nerdcore Rising." | |
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The Carpenter in Alice: Madness Returns speaks in this manner with some regularity. | |
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Millard Dynam Stoop trying to create a Significant Anagram: | |
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Arrested Development gave us "analrapist", a combination of analist and therapist. Given the word's inventor was Tobias Funke, he's completely oblivious to the fact it looks like "anal rapist". | |
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In one article for Cracked, Michael Swaim coins the term "presturbating" — the act of masturbating to the porn that gets you horny enough to watch the porn that really gets you off, because you're dead inside. (It can also mean "masturbating a priest".) | |
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A short story arc in Calvin and Hobbes revealed that animals have their own words for the way things smell, such as "snippid" for a brisk autumn day. As it turns out, this was a Batman Gambit by Hobbes to get Calvin to ask, "How do I smell?" To which the answer, of course, is "Terrible!" | |
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The SCP Foundation has SCP-566, a "word a day calendar" which lists definitions for these. Which would be fine, except that people who read it become absolutely convinced that they're normal words, and become violently angry at anyone who tells them that they aren't real words. It has since been changed and it doesn't have that effect anymore. Instead, some of the words describe highly anomalous subjects, actions, or events. | |
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On Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, J's new boss Jesus (not Jesus Christ) comes up with the word "teffort" which is a combination of the words "team" and "effort". | |
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The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion: The character Lord Rugdumph gro-Shurga speaks entirely in this mode, saying things like "Let us conversate on the Lady Rogbut." and "You found my belabored daughter! I will tell Burz gro-Khash about your indentures! Take this. It has been passed in my family for many generators." | |
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In a sketch parodying Inside the Actors Studio, Will Ferrell (impersonating James Lipton) describes Charles Nelson Reilly's (Alec Baldwin) performance as so great that no word in English can do it justice, and that he must invent a new word right now to properly convey its greatness: Scrumtrulescence. The performance was scrumtrulescent. Xzibit has gone on to use this word in episodes of Pimp My Ride. | |
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Zak from The Secret Saturdays claims 'beautifulous' is a word in British. | |
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Jay from The View Askewniverse likes to use the word "Snoogans" as his "I agree" catchphrase. | |
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Discworld has a couple of "whelmed" type moments: In Guards! Guards! when Angua asks who the disgruntled man is, Carrot says it's Captain Vimes "but I don't think he's ever been gruntled". In Jingo, after Lord Vetinari makes a sardonic comment about Colon and Nobby: |
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From Kung Pow! Enter the Fist | |
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In Mean Girls Gretchen is trying to get the term "fetch" accepted as an adjective (meaning, roughly, 'cool'). Regina: "Stop trying to make 'fetch' happen!" | |
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One bit on The Daily Show parodied a string of recent corporate mergers by having correspondent John Hodgman "merge" with Merriam-Webster to produce a new dictionary, with words like "greeb" (greed, for the 2010s instead of the 1980s) and "engrocious" ("a lot", which it kind of sounds like, no?). Later in the conversation, we get "overlargement" and "naiviotically". | |
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Just Shoot Me!: Finch and Eliot replace Nina's word-a-day calendar with one filled with Perfectly Cromulent Words right before she goes for a radio interview, in which she uses them all. Link here. The word "ass-tastic" is apparently common in their magazine. |
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Wicked has a number of these being used by corrupt headmistress/press secretary Madame Morrible, including "definish" (as in "definite"...ish), "braverism" and "surreptitially". This suits her character well. Also, G(a)linda gives us confusifying. Yep. Confusifying. G(a)linda has several more, including the word "rejoicify" in her character intro at the start of the play. Such words show up throughout the play, usually out of the blue or in the middle of not-so-important song lyrics. For example, in "Loathing" the student body describes Elphaba as "disgustingified." |
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"Shipoopi" in The Music Man. | |
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Irregular Webcomic! gives us the "splanch", a fictional organ which many alien characters apparently possess, as evidenced by the many declarations of "Ow! My splanch!". In the commentary, the author admits that although he didn't know it at the time of writing "splanch" is actually a real word, but means something entirely different (it's a style of house architecture). While "splanch" isn't anatomical, "splanchnic" means "related to the intestines". |
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In Retail there is a strip where Cooper says that work has been "Benambling", and mocks his boss, Josh, for not knowing what it means. He responds that he simply didn't hear him and actually knows what it is. Then he talks with his girfriend and confirms it's just a made-up word while we see him in the background already using it in conversation. | |
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The Order of the Stick gives us this biollorky example. | |
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In Jingo, after Lord Vetinari makes a sardonic comment about Colon and Nobby: | |
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In Persona 5, Yusuke describes his corrupt mentor Madarame's Mental World as "abominous". | |
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Yeager in Nodwick managed to invent an Eighth Deadly Sin - which he duly termed Blasphotrociterra-o-rama. | |
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In the WWF in 1996, there was a tag team called the Bodydonnas, made up of Skip (Chris Candido) and Zip (Tom Prichard.) No definition seems to exist other than that it was the name of a tag team. | |
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Sans from Undertale counts how many times you've died to him on the No Mercy path. After the third time he poses the question of what comes after "thrice"note there are no dictionary-supported words of that sort after "thrice". Engage him in a rematch again and he tells you that you've died to him "quice" in a row. He just uses "x times in a row" afterward. | |
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A Koodo Mobile ad campaign centers around made-up words of varying levels of cromulence, such as "Thumbactionist", "Tabrific", "Bigbillification", and other things that sound like they came out of an ad campaign in 1984. A few years ago, a car ad in the UK was very similar, but exclusively picked two (often opposed) words, and mashed them together- "Sporty" and "Safe" became "Spafe", for instance. Richard Hammond deemed this to be a load of shiny and bright. |
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Red Dwarf features "Jozxyqk," which the Cat claims is a word his people scream when "you get your sexual organs trapped in something." Whether he's lying to win at Scrabble is unclear. | |
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Scott The Woz opens his "2D to 3D" episode by coining a new word to describe "that dimension fever we all have from time to time." The new word is "dimentia." | |
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In Avengers: Infinity War, after Thor tells the Guardians that they need to go to Nidavellir (which, of course, is an actual location from Norse Mythology), Drax claims it's a made-up word. Rather than argue the point, Thor points out that all words are made up. | |
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Ultra Fast Pony: From the episode "The Pet Games": | |
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Deadliest Catch gives us ''Crabalanche'' which is what you get when you dump a freshly retrieved container filled with crab onto the sorting table. | |
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In Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel!, there is the Meriff of Concordia. After taking office, he created the title for himself by combining the words "mayor" and "sheriff". Also, there's the word "Pre-Sequel" in the title. Handsome Jack takes credit for that one. | |
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In the episode "How The Ghosts Stole Christmas" of The X-Files, the ghosts use a number of psychological tactics to mess with Mulder and Scully, at one point gives a summation of why Mulder sucks with a unique insult. | |
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The Cinema Snob ends his review of Slumber Party Massacre II with a poll on his next review, all based on Independence Day, inspired by its upcoming sequel, Independence Day: Resurgence ("Which ever one wins, I fucking lose!"). The choices are an Asylum parody, Independence Daysaster ("Cause that's a fucking word") and a porn parody, Inrearpendence Day ("That one, however, totally a word"). To his surprise, the winner — by a massive margin — is the unrelated 1983 Domestic Abuse drama Independence Day (he complains about this in a later poll: "If you didn't vote because you thought the porn movie would win, grrrr, don't do that!"). | |
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In a video of Atomic Shrimp, Shrimp makes up words to confuse various scammers. These words include "glarded", "nearter", "whatevery", and so forth. Eventually, he even uses a website to generate words! | |
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In the Marvel Cinematic Universe fic "Tingle", when Kate Bishop is trying to assure Clint Barton that Peter Parker isn't the one who suggested that she engage in a polyamorous relationship with him and Yelena Belova, Kate states that Peter is such an opposite of a sleazebag that he's a "gaby-zeels" ("Sleazebag" spelt backwards). | |
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Oghren in the Awakening expansion for Dragon Age: Origins does this in the course of drunkenly thanking the Warden Commander for saving him in combat: "There was that guy, and he was all 'Rrrrr!' and I was 'Hrrr!' and then I got hit by an arrow. Then I fell over, and it was 'meep!' But you were there and you were all 'Roaarr!' Ha! Spectaculous!" To which the PC may choose to respond "That's not even a word!" | |
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Songdrops: In "The Sneeze Song", the word "snoze" is used in place of "sneeze" to rhyme first with "nose", then with "knows". In "The Day You Told Me Your Name", the word "snugglicious" is used as a term of endearment. |
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Baldur's Gate III: Volo the bard was captured by goblins and forced to sing a ballad extoling the virtues of their leaders. By the time the party finds him, he's making up words and hoping that the goblins don't notice. | |
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Words of Radiance (second book of The Stormlight Archive): | |
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Stargate SG-1: In "The Fifth Race", Jack O'Neill begins using seemingly made-up words, albeit without realizing he is doing so. As it turns out, he's speaking Ancient. | |
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In The Inbetweeners, Will drunkenly insults Neil's Ambiguously Gay dad by calling him a "bumder", later explaining that it's a cross between 'bummer' and 'bender' (both of which are pejorative British slang terms for a homosexual man). | |
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Sword Art Online Abridged gives us this legendary exchange between a bible-thumping assassin and his long-suffering assistant as they try and murder a player named Schmitt: | |
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BanG Dream!: Moca Aoba tends to make up words using the names of her various friends. "Tsugurific" seems to have found a permanent place in lexicon of her band, Afterglow. Tsugumi, for whom it was coined, in one strip◊, suggests Moca is taking it a bit far. | |
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Victorious: "Oh my God, she's having heart confarctions!!" | |
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Steven Universe has an episode where Lapis and Peridot have been making sculptures, but they describe what they did in really abstract terms, leading to this response. Then they call the sculptures morps for the entire episode. | |
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The Secret History: "Metahemeralism," a concept which Bunny insists exists but is at great pains to define. He nonetheless manages to base an entire essay around it—albeit the worst essay he ever wrote. | |
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On Seinfeld, when Elaine gets the New Yorker editor to admit the cartoon he printed makes no sense. note He only printed it because he liked the kitty. | |
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Adrian Mole prides himself on his massive "intellectual" vocabulary, and in Prostrate Years, uses the word "contrapositional" during an argument with Daisy, who is not impressed. Another word is "expectorated", seen in True Confessions. | |
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It's a real word, derived from Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels. The land of the giants is called Brobdingnag. | |
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The Colbert Report: On its inaugural show they created and defined the word "truthiness" (defining reality by what feels in your gut like it should be true, rather than what is actually true.) which went on to become a runaway hit, starting with getting chosen as the American Dialect Society's Word of the Year for 2005. Also, wikiality: the concept that something is taken to be true if enough people think it is. |
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The sequel to Persona 4: Arena is Persona 4 Arena Ultimax, a combo of "Ultra" and "Max". Interestingly, this comes from the Japanese title, Persona 4: The Ultimax Ultra Suplex Hold. And yet, there's a gun named Ultimax 100. Turns out they didn't make it up. |
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Sometimes words in dialogue in the Pokémon Vietnamese Crystal bootleg slur together into one monster word. For example, "NOT" + "HARMONIOUS" = "NOTHARMONIOUS". | |
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Centaurworld: In "Bunch O' Scrunch", the terminology related to the eponymous party game consists of fairly unusual words like Sniff-Snirk, Splurf-Dorrf and Sflü. | |
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In a brief arc in Bloom County, moral guardians were cracking down on the strip for the use of "inappropriate language", citing frequent uses of "the four-letter H-word, the four-letter D-word, and the fourteen-letter S-word". After heavy speculation as to what this latter word is, one of the characters announcing this can only think of "Snugglebunnies"? In the next strip, the two remark on how somehow saying "Snugglebunnies" is bad enough to get the strip cut. Their response: "We have one thing to say to that. Snugglebunnies! Snugglebunnies! Snu-" and the strip gets cut mid-word. Interestingly, later in the strip's run, the word started showing up here and there. It's also on Urban Dictionary. | |
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This is the source of a running gag in Fable II. You see, it turns out that there's a new thesaurus being published in Albion... | |
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Sam & Cat: the episode "Lumpatious" starts when the kid Sam and Cat are babysitting tells his jerk of a big brother "Why do you have to be so... lumpatious?" which he proceeds to make fun of him over. Sam and Cat proceed to bet that they will prove "Lumpatious" is a real word and the episode centers around them trying to get the word accepted into the Oxnard Dictionary. | |
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Garfield and Friends: In "Learning Lessons", the Buddy Bears try to make the show more educational by interrupting an otherwise "normal" episode to provide trivia on anything that came up in conversation. Irritated, Garfield asks them what they know about "gazorninplats", and after they're unable to find any information on it, they give up and leave. It backfires at the end of the episode when G&F is "cancelled" for The Gazorninplat Hour. "The Longest Doze" features a Show Within a Show hosted by a character named Fred Gazorninplat. Garfield claims that the host changed his name to get the job and that he used to be called Sam Gazorninplat. The same episode also includes the Gazorninplat Book of World Records. In part 2 of "Snow Wade and the 77 Dwarves", Roy is refusing to kiss Snow Wade so she wakes up, but then reads the story and is happy to do it because he learned he gets "20 million gazortniks". "Double Trouble Talk" has Roy taking a double-talk class, where he learns how to get out of doing any of his work by spouting off excuses with nonsense words, such as "I had to go to the wukleman and have my creel oblicated." |
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A Green Lantern (2011)-themed cell phone commercial describes its Internet surfing as "faster-er." | |
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Fans of Star Trek have created a dictionary of perfectly Romulan words. | |
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And comes full circle in the movie My Little Pony: Equestria Girls when Pinkie Pie coins the word "nervouscited" (nervous + excited), and Applejack says, "You do realize that's not a real word, right?" | |
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Michael from The Office (US) does this often, frequently within a Malaproper. | |
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Fergalicious, definition: make them boys go loco! | |
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A common occurrence in A Bit of Fry and Laurie. Most notably on a scene that has allegedly been censored of its swear words, where they make up their own obscenities instead, including: "prunk", "fusk", "cloffing", "pimhole" and "pempslider" (which appears to be the foulest of the lot). | |
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Kaeloo: Stumpy frequently invents his own words, like "tentacools", and insists that they are real words. | |
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In Will & Grace, Grace says "I'm spramped if I do, I'm spramped if I don't!" and Jack corrects her on her usage. This is a reference to Jack's Kwyjibo earlier in the episode. "Spramped" has since become a "real" word, meaning splashing a liquid up against a surface, creating foam and turbulence. For instance, the tradition of tossing a bucket of water against someone's face, or waves hitting a cliff face. |
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The famous "spoony bard" line of Final Fantasy IV was often assumed to be this trope in action, or simply a humorous mistranslation. Many are surprised to find that "spoony" is, in fact, a real English word with a definition that fits perfectly for the situation. For those who are too lazy to look it up, it means "sentimentally or foolishly amorous." Humorously lampshaded by Tom Slattery, who handled the retranslation for Final Fantasy IV DS: "The bard was spoony. We checked!" | |
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Team America: World Police has variations on "valmorphanize" (e.g. "valmorify") which is used by characters to describe every bit of Applied Phlebotinum in the film. | |
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Done in a c-span type episode of The Onion where a senator starts to use the word "Pronk" in his vocabulary (it's supposed to be used in the positive, as in "These pancakes were pronking delicious!"). Hilarity Ensues when said senator replaces 95 percent of his vocabulary with prank. Interesting note: "Pronk" IS a real word. It's actually a very rare gait in some ungulates, where all four legs push simultaneously to bounce around. Mostly used by springboks, which are actually named for it. It's also known as "stotting". A better example would be Pinkie Pie, though. | |
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"Responstible" in Saving Mr. Banks, where Pamela Travers insists that The Sherman Brothers "un-make it up". | |
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Chass Michael Michaels from Blades of Glory offers the word "Mind-bottling", which may or may not be a limited vocabulary version of "Mind-boggling". | |
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30 Rock: Jack Donaghy coined the term "innoventually" during 24 straight hours of successful problem-solving (referred to, by him of course, as "Reaganing"). Of course, at the very last moment, his Reaganing (which would have been rewarded with a shower of lavish gifts) was rendered moot by his inability to solve Liz Lemon's intimacy problem... at least not until after the 24 hours had elapsed. It Makes Sense in Context... the Reaganing, not "innoventually". Also, "Whuck...?" from Liz. Another one from Liz: snart, a simultaneous sneeze and fart. |
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Times Like This: Cassie invents "Voljack" — and goes back a century to put it in the dictionary — all just to win a "Words With Friends" game. | |
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In Sleeper, Diane Keaton's character describes a friend's painting as "pure keane. No, it's greater than keane...it's cugat." (The made-up words are a Shout-Out to '60s schlock artist Margaret Keane and bandleader-turned-cartoonist Xavier Cugat, respectively.) | |
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In Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, all Spider-People, regardless of what universe they're from, call MacGuffins and the like "Goobers." | |
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M*A*S*H: One episode has Hawkeye imitating Charles Winchester on the telephone, employing the latter's typical Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness. At one point he uses the word "sidacious", then covers the receiver with his hand and admits to B.J. and Klinger that he just made it up. In another episode, Charles has to deal with a wounded GI who moonlights as a securities salesman and keeps pestering the other patients in post-op. He finally shuts the guy up by telling him he's damaged his "latrickium" and is in danger of permanently losing his voice if he doesn't go 48 hours without talking. |
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Persona: The sequel to Persona 4: Arena is Persona 4 Arena Ultimax, a combo of "Ultra" and "Max". Interestingly, this comes from the Japanese title, Persona 4: The Ultimax Ultra Suplex Hold. And yet, there's a gun named Ultimax 100. Turns out they didn't make it up. In Persona 5, Yusuke describes his corrupt mentor Madarame's Mental World as "abominous". |
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Equestrylvania: The Chronomage tends to use his own words in place of plain English. Then again, he is based on Lewis Carroll characters, so... | |
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Skippy's List has examples: | |
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An entire episode of Recess revolves around T.J. making up a new word ("whomp", as in, "Man, this whomps!"). He is punished, because most of the adults assume it must be a 'bad' (dirty) word. In truth, he made up the word as a minced oath so he wouldn't get in trouble anymore. After a good deal of irony and courtroom antics, it's decided that the word is up to anyone's interpretation since it was made up, and "Those who think it has a dirty meaning probably have dirty minds to begin with". | |
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Not the Nine O'Clock News: Gerald, the Talking Gorilla uses the term 'Flange' for the collective noun of baboons. This one made it to the Ask Oxford website. note A great many such alleged collective nouns for groups of particular animals (which you may have seen lists of) originated in poems, jokes among old hunting clubs, etc. The collection of these in lists is contributing to some of them becoming real terms. | |
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In the The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius episode "The Incredible Shrinking Town", Jimmy, Carl and Sheen coax the Space Bandits Zix, Travoltron and Tee to fight each other pretending to be their consciences. As they argue, Travoltron call Zix a "chazazeech" which Zix says isn't even a word. | |
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Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations features a case where the accused may or may not have dancingly descended onto the crime scene. In the first game, noted business man and murderer Redd White tends to use cromulent words in his everyday speech, overlapping with Malaproper. This "verbosity" is an attempt to make himself appear smarter than he actually is. note This is also a Woolseyism; in the original Japanese, White (Masaru Konaka) instead peppered his speech with Gratuitous English. Possibly due to Keep It Foreign, White additionally throws in several misused Spanish phrases in the English localization. Lotta Hart also qualifies. Reckgiven! Short for "You reckon? That's a given!" |
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NewsRadio: Beth invents a word to see if it will catch on ("If my boyfriend acted like that, I would go absolutely bitchcakes"). By the end of the episode, the radio station's owner, Jimmy James, is using it. Perversely, the word actually did catch on, in a small way, in the real world: it's in the Urban Dictionary and everything. There's also the word "gazzizza". It's kind of like a street "aloha". |
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Futurama: In the future, they reinvent a bunch of current words more or less by accident, like "automocar" and "cellphone telephone". In one episode, they state that the word "ask" has been replaced by "aks", as in, "I want to aks you a question." The writers were consistent with this from then on. Of course, there are some American dialects where it's already pronounced that way. And "ax" (pronounced aks) is an archaic English word for "ask", dating back at least to Beowulf. When Fry makes a "Uranus" joke and no one gets it, Professor Farnsworth tells him the planet was renamed years ago to stop those same childish jokes. The new name? "Urectum". |
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang used "phantasmagorical" in a similar way, although that word actually dates to the turn of the 19th century. | |
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In Regis Philbin: Who Wants to Be Me?, he noted that during the peak of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? fever, there were dark suits done in the style that Regis wore on the show. Some ad execs promoted it as the "Philbinization" of neckwear. Regis was baffled at that term: "What does that even MEAN?!" | |
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The West Wing: In a meeting with some congressmen, Vice President Bob Russell says "The Speaker is trying to propulgate a tax bill onto an appropriations package." Later, Leo speculates, "Maybe he meant 'propagate', or 'promulgate'." | |
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Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness: In "Father Crime", Shifu's Con Man father peppers his speech with these to bamboozle his marks. | |
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The Lord's Prayer says, "Give us this day our epiousios bread". The problem is that a different word is used elsewhere in the Bible for 'daily', so word historians and Bible scholars have obviously been studying contemporary sources to figure out what it could possibly mean. | |
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Forbiden Fruit: The Tempation of Edward Cullen: "'I dunno maybe' I plimpled mutely." | |
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You Have Been Watching: | |
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In the final episode of Ashes to Ashes (2008), Gene Hunt declares that he can transfer Alex Drake from CID because she is "causing disconsternation amongst her male colleagues." To which Alex immediately replies that "Disconsternation is not a word." | |
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Jade Empire features a character, Qui the Promoter, who talks almost entirely like this, including a Shout-Out to the Simpsons quote at the top of the page. | |
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Giant Bomb's video player has an "Embiggen" option to enlarge the player and centre it on the page. This then turns into the "Debiggen" option, which puts it back to normal. | |
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Saturday Night Live: In a sketch parodying Inside the Actors Studio, Will Ferrell (impersonating James Lipton) describes Charles Nelson Reilly's (Alec Baldwin) performance as so great that no word in English can do it justice, and that he must invent a new word right now to properly convey its greatness: Scrumtrulescence. The performance was scrumtrulescent. Xzibit has gone on to use this word in episodes of Pimp My Ride. Spoofing Bush's supposed lack of intelligence (even if the sketch is from before his first election): the mediator of the Gore-Bush debate asks them for a one-word "best argument for the campaign". Bush's word is "Strategery". In a joking Take That! at his critics, Bush and other members of his administration continued to drop the word "strategery" into public statements, and it was used as the title of a book about the President which depicted a disconnect between his shrewd political savvy as represented in the book, and his bumbling buffoonery as represented by his enemies. |
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Young Sheldon: Georgie calls himself an "entrepreneurialist" instead of "entrepreneur". When Veronica notes that it's not a real word, Georgie says he'll gladly invent a new word for her. | |
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Happens a lot with the Duke of Zill in Felix the Cat: The Movie, such as calling his servant a "numcrut." | |
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Plants vs. Zombies has the Cherry Bomb brothers who can't decide whether to explode or detonate, so they decide to 'explodonate' instead. | |
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From the Map Men episode "What will the world look like in 250 million years?": | |
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Pippi Longstocking once made up such a nice new word that she spent the rest of that chapter trying to find out what it could mean. In the original Swedish, this word was "spunk", which isn't a Swedish word. In English, it's "spink". She decided it's a beetle. | |
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The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee combines this with Schrödinger's Gun: a few audience members are selected to compete in the eponymous bee. Most of the words they get are real, but these tend to be thrown out when the play needs to declare a spelling correct/incorrect regardless of the spelling the audience member attempts. "Catarjunes" is one such example, evidently an exclamation of despair from mariners in distress. | |
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From the first episode of The IT Crowd: It's actually "drudgeon," which is a real word. It's unlikely Moss wouldn't know this, given his abilities on Countdown in a later series. Later, Jen is drunk. A later episode has Jen and Roy arguing over the cromulence of 'damp squid' rather than 'damp squib'. When Moss appears on Countdown, he insists that the randomly-selected letters already spell a word, "tnetennba." When asked to use it in a sentence, he says: "Good morning, that's a nice tnetennba." |
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Moshi Monsters has a lot of these, including "anymoshi" for anyone, "monsterlicious" and "scrum-dilly-icious" for "delicious" and a lot of words that are said to mean "totally awesome". note These words are "choptastic", "gloptastic", "splattastic", "monsterrific", "roarsome", "pawsome" and "belchtastic". | |
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Young Justice: Robin (Dick Grayson) is fond of taking the affixes off of words to make new ones. His favourite is "whelmed": what you get when you're neither overwhelmed or underwhelmed. The fandom has embraced it whole-heartedly; some are actually used for Idiosyncratic Ship Naming. Ironically, "whelmed" is a word. It means the same thing as "overwhelmed." In "Revelation", The Joker is furious that a bunch of teenagers have foiled their Evil Plan. |
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Hermitcraft: After being smacked by the "Dare Stick", Grian was challenged to invent a three-syllable word and to use it in conversation to fool the other Hermits into believing it's a real word. The result: 'chobblesome', which according to Grian, means "worthy of discussion". | |
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Lampshaded in The Emperor's New School: | |
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Bad Lip Reading: During the video "Democratic National Convention", Barack Obama lists several words that sound like real words but aren't, including; hondish, coddlesip, eubillicant, respeciment, complectogram and toelingus. | |
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Mario & Luigi: Dream Team: Bedsmith likes to describe Prince Dreambert as being "Oh-So-Nappable". As in, he really, really wants to nap on him. | |
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Duckman episode "Vuuck, as in Duck" has several characters use the word "Brobdingnagian" in casual conversation throughout the episode. After the third use of the word, Cornfed just gives up and gives the definition to the audience. It's a real word, derived from Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels. The land of the giants is called Brobdingnag. |
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Deadly Rooms of Death features a rare case of a cromulent word being used for a game mechanic, with the room coordinate system—when describing a room's coordinates, it will describe it in terms of rooms north/south/east/west from the entrance. Once, twice, and thrice are used as standard, but starting from 4 rooms over in 1 direction, "Quarce" is used, followed by "quince" for 5, "sence" for 6, "septence" for 7, "octence" for 8, "novence" for 9, "tonce" for 10, "elevonce" for 11, "twolce" for 12, "thorce" for 13, "quartonce" for 14, "quintonce" for 15, "sextonce" for 16, "septonce" for 17, "octonce" for 18, and finally "noventonce" for 19. Past that, the game simply uses the shorthand form of coordinates. | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants: When SpongeBob accidentally shrinks Squidward with Mermaidman's belt, Patrick suggests turning the belt buckle from "M" for "Mini" to "W" for "Wumbo". When SpongeBob disputes the word, Patrick goes into a mini-rant about it. |
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El Goonish Shive: Adrian Raven comments on the subtitle of the "Sister II" arc questioning if "awakenings" is even a word. In Party, Grace refers to Ellen's artificial backstory as "nose beepery and second life dreamery". When Tedd questions this, Grace explains "I have my own dictionary." |
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Frindle is based completely around the protagonist making up a new word and trying to make it catch on. It means "pen." | |
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Unsounded: When Sette is saying Uaid is good for walking people places, but not so much for fighting, she says "S'orright for pedestration but don't got much fight in it." | |
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Blackadder, trying to confuse the writer of a well-known dictionary: Johnson later goes ballistic when he realises that Baldrick knows a word that's not in the dictionary, namely "sausage". Oh, and Blackadder mentions another Johnson forgot: "aardvark". "I shall return... interfrastically." |
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In the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode "Look Before You Sleep", Applejack claims to be "the get-alongingest pony you're ever gonna meet!", and Rarity retorts "That's not even a word." Gets a bit of a Call-Back in season 2 premiere "The Return of Harmony, Part 1", when the Cutie Mark Crusaders have this exchange (for added fun, Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle are Applejack and Rarity's respective little sisters): And comes full circle in the movie My Little Pony: Equestria Girls when Pinkie Pie coins the word "nervouscited" (nervous + excited), and Applejack says, "You do realize that's not a real word, right?" |
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Doctor Who: In "The Runaway Bride", Donna Noble accuses the Doctor of making stuff up when she finds herself snatched from her wedding. | |
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NYPD Blue: When Andy adopts the female dog of a suicide victim he says that the dog has a problem with her "fatagus". It was a word invented for the show, but the network censors still had a problem with it. | |
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In a Monty Python's Flying Circus sketch, the word "splunge" is coined by frightened screenwriters to provide temporary respite from tyrannical Hollywood producer Irving C. Saltzberg. It means, "It's a great idea, but possibly not, and I'm not being indecisive!" note He does not like Yes-men, but does not like it when people disagree with him. | |
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In The Avengers Loki uses the term "quim", an obsolete derogative meaning a certain part of a woman. Of course, he is a thousand years old. Note: may be considered obsolete in the US, but is commonly used in the UK. A man who considers himself a master at pleasuring women might, for example, refer to himself as a "quim ninja." | |
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Gets a bit of a Call-Back in season 2 premiere "The Return of Harmony, Part 1", when the Cutie Mark Crusaders have this exchange (for added fun, Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle are Applejack and Rarity's respective little sisters): | |
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In Diary of a Wimpy Kid, three-year-old Manny Heffley invented two words: "bubby" (a term for brother) and "ploopy" (an insult). | |
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In The BFG, the giant does not know English very well, so makes up words, including "disastrophe" (disaster), "whopsy-whiffling", "ringbeller", "winkswiffler and "phizzwizard" (terms for pleasant dreams), "trogglehumper", "bogthumper" and "grobswitcher" (terms for nightmares), "filthsome" (disgusting) and "chiddler" (child). | |
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A few years ago, a car ad in the UK was very similar, but exclusively picked two (often opposed) words, and mashed them together- "Sporty" and "Safe" became "Spafe", for instance. Richard Hammond deemed this to be a load of shiny and bright. | |
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South Park: Subverted in "Worldwide Recorder Concert". The boys are mad because all the boys from New York are mocking them for not knowing what "queef" means. They invent the word "mung" to trick the New Yorkers into using a word that doesn't exist, only to find out that it already is a word. Played straight in "Hooked on Monkey Phonics." When he becomes a finalist at the spelling bee, Kyle has to spell "krocsyldiphithic" (which is not a real word in the English language). When he asks for its definition and to hear it used in a sentence, all he gets is: "Something that has a krocsyldiph-like quality" and "Krocsyldiphithic is a hard word to spell." |
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The dialog of Mr. Pages from Fallen London is full of this. Also see its Twitter feed for many examples. | |
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In the Slenderfandom, people will often affix "Slender" to the beginning of Slenderman-related words. Also, it's common to refer to that thing he does when he's not really doing anything but he's really scary for some reason as "slendering around". | |
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Mi Tru Lov regularly uses the word "somebloke" when Kawaiilyn is unsure of who is speaking. There's also "tolfig" and "smileyly". | |
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Mary Poppins gave us "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious." | |
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Calvin & Hobbes: The Series gives us "hugeoppotamousness", used to describe the vastness of the world and/or the universe. Lampshaded: | |
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Homestar Runner characters seem to make up a good portion their language on the fly. The bizarre thing is it's usually perfectly clear what they mean even when the words are completely random (e.g. "This electricity bill is pretendous!). Strong Bad even contemplated making an entire dictionary "fo' his own words". Similar gems include "fangoriously", "jibblies" and "burninated." | |
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"Embiggen" itself is the catchphrase of Ms. Marvel (2014) when she activates her Sizeshifter and Partial Transformation powers (she also uses "disembiggen" to shrink). | |
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Lowtax has coined the use of "ploishing"note a misspelling of "polish" in one of the games he played to refer to falling out of the game map and into the skybox, whether done intentionally or accidentally. | |
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Adiboo: Magical Playland: If the player clicks on the swing, it will grow a face and say "Akalibada". | |
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In Everything Everywhere All at Once Evelyn is being briefed by Alpha Waymond on the ultimate threat facing the multiverse, an all-powerful villain known as Jobu Tupaki. Upon hearing the name an overwhelmed and frustrated Evelyn says, "You're just making up sounds!" | |
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The Equestrian Civil Service Series: Apparently, there is a law on the books in Equestria (dating back several hundred years) stating that polyphiloprogeny is strictly forbidden in Equestria on pain of summary phythoplasty. Unfortunately, nobody in modern Equestria knows what either "polyphiloprogeny" or "phythoplasty" actually means. So they can't enforce the law because they don't know what it actually forbids or what the punishment for breaking it is supposed to be, but they can't repeal it because they can't debate it because they don't know what it actually means. | |
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Viewtiful Joe: Joe mishears the word "beautiful" when Alastor describes his fighting style, and "Viewtiful" worms its way into the game's lexicon. Your score is rated in Viewtifuls, you get a Viewtiful score bonus, and the highest ranking is Rainbow V for Viewtiful! | |
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Parodied in Family Guy. | |
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Cannibal! The Musical has "shpadoinkle", a word used repeatedly by different characters in wildly inconsistent contexts. The word was originally used as a placeholder in the lyrics of one of the songs until Trey Parker decided that it was funnier to leave the nonsense word in, and it became a Running Gag. | |
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Several words in The Eye of Argon; the "scoszctic" cult intends to sacrifice a "nerelady" who speaks "bustily" in a secret chamber under a mausoleum full of "expugnisively carved" statues. | |
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How I Met Your Mother: In one episode Marshall says he's been using made up words to avoid lying to Lily. "Are you going to quit and work for the NRDC?" "Absatively!" "The Possimpible": Nexus between the Possible and the Impossible. When questioned on it Barney claims that making up words shows "vision and creativity - 'visiativity'". |
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The word "revengeance" from Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. First joke everyone makes about the game and is often met with the explanation of it being an archaic word. | |
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The Critic: Duke Phillips pays Webster's Dictionary to include the word "quzybuk" (meaning "a big problem") in order to win a game of Scrabble. He also paid them to add the word "dukelicious." When he learns that nobody's using it, he mutters "What a duketastrophe." In a later scene, a scientist refers to a situation as "a real quzybuk". | |
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Friends: In an earlier episode, Chandler, bemoaning his pickiness with women, once mentioned he broke up with a girl for (mis)pronouncing a word, "supposebly" (meant to be "supposedly".) The incorrect version seems to stick with Joey, though. Another episode had Rachel refer to Chandler's job as a "Transponster" to which Monica replies "That's not even a word!" |
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Tales of the Undiscovered Swords gives us kobigatana 侫刀, roughly meaning "fucked-up sword". It comes from the word kobihito 侫人, meaning "messed-up person", from the Man'y�shū poem Konotegashiwa's name is taken from. | |
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In Guards! Guards! when Angua asks who the disgruntled man is, Carrot says it's Captain Vimes "but I don't think he's ever been gruntled". | |
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