When languages evolve, it's essential that scholars and dictionaries keep up. The internet has spawned a new crop of funny words for stuff, and while you may not like all of them, some of them are clever combos that seem like they might actually be useful!
Many of these words come from urbandictionary.com, which is basically a dictionary of all new slang. Their site is probably the most complete dictionary of modern words, but it's also chock-full of nonsense.
Most of these words are portmanteaus, which are what you get when you mash both the sounds and meanings of two words together to get a new one. Did you know, for example, that the word 'smog' is a portmanteau (smoke and fog)? 'Brunch' (breakfast and lunch) is another one that has recently reached a status of an everyday word, although it's been around for a while. Also, if you're eating your brunch with a spork, then that's a portmanteau double-whammy.
Check our list of funny new words below - you might find one that will stick to your lexicon perfectly.
More info: urbandictionary (h/t: demilked)
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Askhole
Bedgasm
Textpectation
Chairdrobe
Where else are you supposed to put clothes that you've worn once, but don't need to go in the hamper?
Masturdating
Cellfish
So very common things recently, represented nicely with the word.
Nonversation
I like to think of it more as silentsation. ie:speaking without talking.
Destinesia
So, you used that photo of Bogota's Monserrate with this word... That completely defines the fact that I still dunno why I'm writing this!!
Errorist
Carcolepsy
Due to my horrible case of carcolepsy, I make a bad navigator. Somebody else call shotgun, I'm going to crash out in the back seat!
Ambitchous
Hiberdating
Only to end up completely alone when the boyfriend/girlfriend dumps them. Seen that happen more than once.
Youniverse
Columbusing
amerigutang (for Amerigo Vespucci, Amerika and orangutang) - one who is not bad at something but pretend to be the best because of how loud is. 🧐
to those narrow minds saying racist, columbus was a white guy! lets just find a popular historical black guy now! :)
Thanks you! Finally we in India can claim to be the real and inky Indians!
This is obviously a white boy with a complex, and I ain't white. If you "discovered it" but did nothing about it, u still want credit?
If I discover a new restaurant do I have to be the first person there for it to be a legitimate discovery?
Why just white people? Yes I know Columbus was a white guy, but I believe this particular phenomenon is ubiquitous!
Why white people????? I live in a mostly mestizo country, must people are non-white, and guess what: it's human nature.
What's the word for when people who AREN'T white claim to have discovered something that has been around for ages? Or is that not a thing?
They probably did 'invent' it through natural requirement or need so no need to invent. Americans are exceedingly good at columbusing
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That's racist! Maybe we should redefine the word 'discover'. Besides, the negro didn't discover Africa--he simply didn't know how to leave.
Do you have ZERO self awareness? You start the sentence with "Thats racist"...then proceed to be racist yourself. And the "Negro" didnt have to "discover" Africa...since they were the first humans on the planet, they were already there. Perhaps you should "discover" some education and better manners.
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Afterclap
There needs to be a word for the opposite of this, i.e. the person who starts clapping before the performance is finished.
Beerboarding
Unlightening
Nerdjacking
Nomonym
Doppelbanger
Cupidity-stupid Things You Do ,when In Love
Umm... except this is already a word and it means something quite different.
Sexcident (n) The Situation In Which You Accidently Find Yourself In Someone Else's Bed
Typerventilating
Never before in the history of mankind have so many been so aware of the typerventilating histrionics of one single man
Juggersnot
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LAUNDRAIL: Wet articles left out to dry on stairs or balcony railings
I know (hope) this is satire, but am I the only one who finds all of these new words a sort of regression?
NONE of these are "new words", just rehashed, already in use words. Let's not purposefully degrade our languages please.
Pedentistry: the attitude of dentists to one's infrequent visits or poor flossing technique.
Gosh; now I can die with the peace of mind that the englishslanguage will survive.....
Christscrimination: discrimination under the guise of christianity.
MUFFSTACHE: when a woman does not tend to her bikini line and it pokes out either side of undies or swimmers
#42 - A Realistic Interpretation by Constantly Disappointed = "Constappointed" - being full of judgment and lacking humor.
Dixelated: Receiving an unwanted digital image of someones junk. "You've been dixelated."
LAUNDRAIL: Wet articles left out to dry on stairs or balcony railings
I know (hope) this is satire, but am I the only one who finds all of these new words a sort of regression?
NONE of these are "new words", just rehashed, already in use words. Let's not purposefully degrade our languages please.
Pedentistry: the attitude of dentists to one's infrequent visits or poor flossing technique.
Gosh; now I can die with the peace of mind that the englishslanguage will survive.....
Christscrimination: discrimination under the guise of christianity.
MUFFSTACHE: when a woman does not tend to her bikini line and it pokes out either side of undies or swimmers
#42 - A Realistic Interpretation by Constantly Disappointed = "Constappointed" - being full of judgment and lacking humor.
Dixelated: Receiving an unwanted digital image of someones junk. "You've been dixelated."
