Neologism

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Panadopter (n): Someone who’ll sign up to anything.

Mini Monster

A minor Bridezilla is known as a Bridezooky.

Big Brother Is Teaching You

Eduganda (n): Content designed to inform and convert.

American Expression

AMEXican (n): Someone who lives on credit.

Later, Later

T’didn’t: (n,v) Something you never got around to doing; the act of not doing it.

“It was on my todo list, but I t’didn’t.”

Metrosexual WordWatch Presents...

...word of the week: Guyliner. [smile]

Drink!

Boozelage (n):
1. The part of a plane where they keep the drinks.
2. Any large repository of alcohol destined to fuel an evening.

With Apologies to Douglas

...or possibly thanks to him. I found myself in the cinema the other night, watching the ads and needing a word to describe a modern experience, so I’ve liffted this one:

Amersham (n): That feeling of disappointment when you’re watching a really cool advert with a really cool soundtrack, grooving along, and it turns out to be for something mundane like yoghurt.

Dada

Paterbase (n): A sperm bank.

Mash-Up

Taterbase (n): The place in your kitchen where you store your spuds.

Bzzzwords

onomatopedia (n). A book of words that sound like the thing they represent.

“Would you hand me the onomatopedia, please Martha? I need to know if this thing’s still frzzt’d.”

More, More, More

Alexical metrophobia (n). Fear of being stuck on the tube without anything to read.

“This man’s having an attack of alexical metrophobia – I need 25cc’s of Dan Brown, stat!”

Neonym (n). A word coined expressly for the purpose of sounding ‘new’, esp. by marketing people.

“‘Firewall’? Pah! That’s just a neonym for network packet filter.”

Trigenariaphobia (n). Fear of turning 30.

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Copywrath (n): The backlash from copyright infringement.

“I sampled some phat beats from a Smurfs album, but pretty soon I had to face Papa’s copywrath.”