New Words

[Cenwulf]

This is something which I started Over There - a place for all the words which haven't appeared in dictionaries yet, or local terms for anything. I'll start off with a few puzzle-related ones:

InSiCoQua (abbr.) Something you will only find if you realise what you are supposed to be looking for. (Latin, Invenio si cogno quaererum)

Scurralous (adj.) of a puzzle, difficult to solve unless you can work out the hidden logic, which is usually InSiCoQua and only understandable after you have been given a) a hint or b) the answer.

3am moment - when you wake up in the middle of the night and suddenly realise the answer to something which had been bothering you for a long time.

aha moment - the moment at which you realise the InSiCoQua of a puzzle, especially as a 3am moment.

bemasement - a state combining amazement and bemusement, whch may be caused by looking at the latest issue of Puzzlebrains.

[Looby]

That is one of the threads that I have carefully copied and saved

[MBH]

copied

To police a religious festival?

[Looby]

What's wrong with saying 'copied'?

...but it does make a good new word!

[Cenwulf]

I think MBH is mixing up the 'New Words' thread with the 'New Meanings for Old Words' thread.
I'll have to start one of them as well.

[MBH]

Oh..........

Threadlexic - posting a perfectly valid response exactly the wrong place

[Cenwulf]

The Washington Post asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it slightly and supply a new definition. Here are this year's winners:

Bozone - the substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The "bozone layer", unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.

Foreploy - Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting someone to have sex with you.

Cashtration - the act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period.

Sarchasm - the gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesen't get it

Hipatitis - terminal coolness.

Osteopornosis - a degenerate disease

Glibido - all talk and no action

Arachnoleptic fit - the frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider's web

Catterpallor - the colour you turn after finding half a grub in the fruit you're eating

Giraffiti - Vandalism spray-painted very, very high

[MBH]

Love the last one - that'll have Scurra checking the walls of his nice new forum for spray-painted clues or pointers

[Bunnylump]

My favourite is Bozone. That's what I have at present.

[Looby]

I think they are all great - and I can think of people to fit them all too

[Scurra]

I keep telling you, Bunny - you've got the opposite problem. You're the smart one but for some reason you seem to be a magnet for the really stupid ideas

[Bunnylump]

Oh yes, I'm skilled at coming up with stupid answers. I take great pride in that. I like to make things as complicated as possible for myself. Trouble is I'm not "simple or obvious". (Just waiting for you all to disagree with that last statement...)






Please?

[LAT]

You're obviously not simple. Quite complicated really I reckon.

[Bunnylump]

Oh I could definitely confuse your average psychoanalyst, I reckon. I could probably make one have a nervous breakdown if I tried hard enough.

[Cenwulf]

vauxhall (noun): an answer to a Puzzlebrains puzzle which has been achieved by an educated guess rather than actually working out the puzzle. (Referring to the 'Vauxhall' puzzle in Down The Tube.)

A few of my answers in Playing The Fool have been vauxhalls...

[LAT]

I could do with some Vauxhalls.

[Wulfruna]

I have a feeling that we had already coined a word for that syndrome..... it's known as a 'Pisces' .
However 'Vauxhall' lends itself beautifully to being a verb: "I vauxhalled that one" - nice thought!

[Laura]

No, no ; the definition of a Pisces should be 'can only be worked out if you actually understand how Scurra's mind works.'

[giraffe]

Yes a Pisces is " a puzzle that can only be solved if you take you brain out, turn it inside out and put it back upside down"

[Scurra]

I do read these threads you know

Anyway, you say that as though it were a bad thing...