Words that don’t exist but should: Profashional

Profashional: [pro-FASH-un-al] n. Someone who is an expert in style and always looks sharp. Can you believe he got that look for only $100? He’s such a profashional.

Props to Mayhem once again.

Words that don’t exist but should: Pyrofessional

Pyrofessional: [PI-ro-fess-shun-al] (n) Someone who is an expert at producing flame or making things burn. I had to hide the matches because my son’s such a pyrofessional.

Credit and props to Mayhem, who is also a pyrofessional and joining me in my hobby of making up silly words.

Words that don’t exist but should: Failvert

Failvert: (n) advertising that turns potential customers away from the product. That ad with the guy licking all the biscuits was a complete failvert.

Arnott’s Shapes and your Inappropriately Short Shorts ad, I’m looking directly at you. And throwing up in my mouth a little.

Words that don’t exist but should: Quirkafleg

[Apologies if this is a repost, I did try an search for it]

Quirkafleg: v [QWERK-a-FLEG] -ged -ging. 1. A paroxysm of disgust and/or revulsion. The small child quirkaflegged after the bully spat on her. or, Don’t show that to my dad, he’ll totally quirkafleg. 2. (n) An expression of disgust three levels above ‘squick’. Euw, no… quirkafleg!

Words that don’t exist, but should: Inanism

Inanism (n): [in-NAYN-is-um] 1. a saying, malapropism or phrase that is inherently inane. [eg: “Working hard or hardly working?”] 2. a means of filling the air with noise under the guise of conversation. [eg: “Sure, we talked; but it was all inanisms.”] orig: Inane.

Why this word needs to exist: we seriously need a word for the verbal nothing that spouts effortlessly from the mouths of those loud, annoying people in the office/workspace/elevator.

Endorse the word. Make it real.