Funny New Words
Carcolepsy: a condition where the passenger falls asleep as soon as the car starts moving
Cellfish: an individual who continues talking on their cell phone to the point of being rude or inconsiderate of other people
Chairdrobe: a piling of clothes on a chair instead of in the closet or dresser (also see floordrobe)
Chiptease: when you buy a bag of potato chips expecting it to be full but it is mostly air
Confungry: confused and angry
Definotly: definitely not
Destinesia: when you get to the place you were going but forget why you were going there in the first place
Errorist: someone who consistently makes mistakes or is always wrong
Fabulize: to make fabulous
Hangry: hungry and angry
Mantrum: a man experiencing a tantrum
Misophonia: an annoyance or anger caused by the sound of someone eating
Misosmellia: an annoyance or anger caused by the smell of someone’s food
Misovisulia: an annoyance or anger caused by watching someone eat, especially chewing with their mouth open or talking with food in their mouth
Niblings: a person’s nieces and nephews
Nonversation: a completely worthless conversation; small talk
Prospiracy: a secret plan to do something beneficial for another person or group of people
Shooista: a person very passionate about shoes
Sillerious: silly and serious
Smellucination: an olfactory hallucination — the perception of a smell when there is no source for that smell
Textpectation: the anticipation felt when waiting for a response to a text
Unlightening: learning something that makes you dumber
Youniverse: used to indicate that a person only has knowledge of him or herself; their universe consists only of them
Oxford’s Word of the Year for 2016
According to Oxford Dictionaries, the Word of the Year 2016 is post-truth.
Post-truth: an adjective defined as ‘relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief’.
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