Accolading – the process of building up another person’s self-esteem.
Antbridge – a special type of construction designed for crossing small chasms without getting multiple feet wet.
Architypicality – reflecting the behaviour of building designers whereby ponytails are linked to excessive fees for work that has to be adjusted by actual builders to ensure the construction remains upright and habitable, other than for issues created by the inhabitants.
Arking – emitting a mournful cry, especially on viewing an admittedly rare event, such as a black rainbow.
Authorology – a modest eulogy for a writer of quality but enduring public ignorance.
Awarely – being cogniscant of something that, as far as can be determined, no one else is aware of but actually become cognisant of in the process of determining that no one is aware of it.
Awesoming – the process of becoming superior to everyone else.
Barrackian – a person normally domiciled in army quarters who suddenly finds him- or herself living in the White House.
Besmirchment – becoming sullied without pleasure.
Bicycular – the erratic movement by a velocipede-like device that ends in disaster.
Burrowworld – homes for those who enjoy being kept in the dark; politicians’ preferred destinations for electors.
Cacophonium – a device for fooling hens into laying extra legs beyond the call of duty.
Chitting – a type of pugilism where one fighter is permitted to cheat but no one is sure which.
Chuffiness – being in a state induced by putting on one’s first pair of rose-tinted spectacles.
Closetrophobic – the fear of ruling anything out.
Combombulate - to invent a new word.
Comparabilitiousness – to be stuck in an unending and useless cycle of assessing options.
Conspiracising – a conjugal visit without intent.
Cunninged – being unwittingly treated in a deceptive manner.
Darking – the period at the end of a day.
Dazier – semi-concussed.
De-aggressified – a castrated hound of any type, other than female.
De-angelicising – knocking her off her pedestal.
Depracatoriness – being in a constant state of self-modestying.
Dinnerplating – having one’s main meal of the day.
Effectation – worrying that one is not making a good impression.
Elephantaroo – a creature that is almost certain of making an impression.
Embering – a wood fire that is tired of watching itself.
Enscene – to create a virtual image.
Envelopicity – the degree to which something can surround something else from every conceivable direction.
Excrementary – when one is making an impression but of an extreme kind.
Eyeflaps – eyelids.
Fleurescence – to glow like a French firefly.
Fluffball – baseball, softball, fluffball.
Fluffysomeness – engaging in fluffball. Fourhandergate – a moveable fence that requires two people to open.
Fulled – sated.
Galleoned – someone who definitely has the wind up.
Giganticker – Big Ben.
Glurped – drinking and vomiting simultaneously.
Goldening – becoming hard and yellow.
Goldness – having enviable characteristics, such as wealth. Goodonyamate – saying everything that needs to be said largely without using one’s lips.
Grandsiblings – fraternal relatives.
Grannynanosecond – how long it takes for a grandmother to realise that the latest- born excels all those born before, but she still loves them all.
Greathood – when an author signs his first contract.
Hander – a person who reads palms, though not other trees.
Hexagonalums – an entrancingly-large number.
Homo spiritus ephemera – an example of using Latin in an inappropriate, but ultimately fascinating, way.
iapplecoreporation – a business with a strange fixation on eyes.
Idreamt – to state something that cannot possibly be verified as fact.
Imbibication – to practise moving from sobriety to stupefaction, particularly in Ireland.
Imperialled – becoming, usually unwillingly, part of an empire.
Inbetweensters – fence-sitters.
Incinerblaster – a large and complex device that destroys whatever in a most satisfying manner.
Interrupret – between one place and another in a conversation.
Introspectfulling – giving a matter considerable inwardly-focussed thought on matters generally peripheral to the previous thought.
Jaggled – having been attacked by a serrated knife.
Kerk – an avian expression of surprise.
Landsliders – slippery customers.
Loshings – a lot.
Luncheoning – feeding on something.
Marinerical – a person who enjoys galleoning people.
Meetee – a person who, typically, is met.
Messager – someone who sends messages.
Modestying – trying to appear less important than one really is and everyone knows it.
Moluscian – an expert on molluscs. Monsoonical – weather in areas not associated with monsoons.
Moongrazers – aficionados of Swiss cheese.
Netpal – a virtual penpal.
Neuronosphere – the brain.
Nonplussology – the practice of creating crossword puzzles.
Oldening – a process inconceivable to the young.
Overling – someone who thinks he is, or actually is, superior.
Pachydermitis – an elephant with an itch.
P&Oing – travelling by ocean liner. Pinkering – a noise one makes when one inadvertently finds oneself walking on a very hot corrugated iron roof without footware.
Policemanly – being prepared to risk one’s life by conducting a little old lady across a road when she really simply wanted to discuss the stupidity of climate change deniers.
Putridiculous – discovering a hugely-awful smell in a gathering of angels.
Quadralgorythms – immensely complex mathematics played on a bagpipe.
Quadrapedic – a four-legged creature. Quong – a creature that looks like a kangaroo but isn’t.
Quongday – the common birthday of quongs.
Quontiplets – numberless offspring.
Rapple – to climb down a fruit tree.
Releasees – people who are left out.
Reporterly – answering back, incessantly.
Retrospectfully – looking back to ensure that all the good social-behaviour boxes are ticked.
Rhetoricality – being unable or unwilling to ask a question that you really want someone to answer.
Rhinoaquapluvium - to suffer from an incessently runny nose.
Rurberling – making noises appropriate when one is under water.
Scoundrality – behaving like a cad.
Scrunchious – a higher order of deliciousness than Seventh Heaven.
Scummified – being trolled.
Semiperimatical – half-encircled.
Septiweekly – every forty-nine days.
Serpenting – moving in a snake-like fashion.
Shoppees – unfortunate people who have to put up with shoppers.
Skinnering – sliding down a pole covered in sandpaper while nude.
Skinship – people with the same body colour and the same everything else as everyone else.
Smallgiganticker – a timepiece of lesser size than Big Ben, but not by much.
Squiffle – the noise piglets make when their tails become entangled.
Strivation – the case when one tries too hard and refuses to give up because it is a sign of weakness.
Sunraying – spreading joy.
Superiously – to have a great opinion of one’s self-worth that is not borne out by a single fact.
Susselled – having walked through a field of stinging nettles.
Tangentilise – to pursue something not entirely germane.
Tangentialism – to tangentialise.
Tennysonn’d – having fantasies about galloping to one’s death through a valley.
Throsstle – to strive for something without having thought it through or having sufficient will or persistence to achieve it; to be in a state of strivation.
Thrushed – having an unfortunate medical condition.
Timemore – the wished-for extension after the instruction of "put down your pens".
Timetracks – unseeable and irretrievable evidence that would be able to inform one of where all the years have gone.
Touchlessly – virtual caressing.
Treelegs – what holds rugby players up.
Ughy – unpleasant.
Undry – wet.
Unslumbered – waking up, or without sleep, obviously.
Whiffling – see Squiffle, above.
Weoweearoo – an expression of exuberance.
Weeowaroostering – see Weoweearoo.
Whisting – an activity similar to wishing and with similar effectiveness, for the most part.
Wisdoming – practising wiseness.
Whuffled – the noise a pig makes when it tries to unscrew its tail.
Check out Thomas Bulford's English Companion for more in this ilk.
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