One Lucky Soul: Words I Made Up

Wednesday, 18 June 2025

Words I Made Up — The Twenty First

It took a full year since Words I Made Up — The Twentieth to follow with another list-article in the series. As mentioned on multiple occasions, once they reach 200 the neologisms will be compiled into one silly and absurdly ridiculous book. They already have and, a decade later, it is about time, so I am currently mid the publishing process. Stay tuned. A whole new language is being invented here while enriching the current one.

Soon you will be able to check the entire collection while sitting on the toilet. Sure you could have always done that on the phone, but there is something rather charming about flipping pages with the same hand used to handle your business. O’ you Lucky Souls.

Now Onward Forward with the new babies.

• Peeromania (n): Impulse-control disorder characterised by an excessive desire to set one's friends on fire.

• Ha!mock (n): Canvas bed suspended from two supporting cords at both ends, which once you lie in starts to ridicule and make fun of you while gently swinging left and right.

• Subpoeña Colada: To order or summon someone for a tropical cocktail.

• Truant (n. and adj): An authentic insect that skips school.

• Congatulation (n): How Latin American drummers express joy between one another.

• Stresspassing (v): When an anxious person enters someone’s land or property without permission; equally used when the owner is the one with anxiety.

• Aboar (v): To loath and detest wild pigs; to regard them with extreme repugnance.

• Nileist (n.): A distrustful Egyptian cynic.

From the same lands of the Cairopractor* (n.) [from Words I Made Up — The Eighteenth]: Practitioner of complementary medicine treating misaligned joints who is based in the Egyptian capital.

Some Nilelists can also be either Cairopractors but not necessarily.

• Aroam (v): To move around part aimlessly and part following a specific scent.

• Insalt (v): To disrespect someone by throwing white crystalline spices at them anywhere outside traditional weddings.