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Ok, we started goofing around with the English language on another post I started...but this might be the cat' meow. The words you post must be actual words used in a conversation or over heard by you while you were eavesdropping. I'll start:

!. Insuperior:
In a conversation with an old sailing buddy, he dropped this little bomb over a couple of drinks after a race, " Man, my wife is so damned smart with her f-ckin' bookkeeping skill's, she makes me feel insuperior !!!
2. Ignorment:
When learning how to train horses, the old cowboy I was privileged to learn from said, " When you come up against a boneheaded cayuse, don't let him show you no, ignorment or you're gonna lose surely as day foller's the night!!!

Fixin, as in I'm a fixin to make some liquor.

Bewildermence, "How quaint," the blue-eyed sweetheart said, with some bewildermence. As found the the cowboy poem The Oyster by Baxter Black.

Well, I live in the South and maybe we need our own dictionary down here. Some words are real words, but mean something different. Like the word, "directly". You might think it means to move from one point to another in a straight line, but in the South someone might say, "I'll do that directly.", which means, "I'll do that in a little while.". Then, there's "pert near" and "might nigh", which can be used interchangeably. Both mean something like "very near", as in - "I might nigh got drunk last night.".

Smelt - not a little fish, but smell in the past tense - that is, smelled. "I smelt something awful in my wash."

Derbis. A friend of my son's once read "debris" as "derbis" and we embraced it immediately as a great word for extraneous matter. As in "I should filter my pantydropper one more time, there is still quite a bit of derbis in the bottom of the bottle"
Or, to make a gumballhead: "just add sugar to water, invert, and add to all the derbis left in the bottom of the fermenter from an AG batch" Or "you got a little derbis there in your nose", many uses.

MichiganCornhusker wrote:Derbis. A friend of my son's once read "debris" as "derbis" and we embraced it immediately as a great word for extraneous matter. As in "I should filter my pantydropper one more time, there is still quite a bit of derbis in the bottom of the bottle"
Or, to make a gumballhead: "just add sugar to water, invert, and add to all the derbis left in the bottom of the fermenter from an AG batch" Or "you got a little derbis there in your nose", many uses.

My father has always pronounced it "derbis"...

"surprived" my little Niece's way of saying deprived. She's 24 now and it still is standard

Kids are good at getting things a little out of whack. My daughter is 23 yo and still calls Christmas ornaments, "ordamets". When she was little, she would look out the window around dusk and pronounce that it was "darking" outside.

rad14701 wrote:My father has always pronounced it "derbis"..

Seriously, I just think it's a better word.

bellybuster wrote:"surprived" my little Niece's way of saying deprived. She's 24 now and it still is standard

Yep, kids are great, we adopted "hamburger sauce" for ketchup, and "goosegyver" for screwdriver because of our kids.

We've got a lot at work, enough that I write them down. "Slantindicular" is one, if it needs to be just a little off plumb. I'll look for my list.

scruffing = a polite word for what consenting adults do in private.

Hootis = it can be many things, such as a part or piece of something or a tool. See you take this hootis right here, and put in there and... well you get the drift.

rnw349 wrote:Hootis = it can be many things, such as a part or piece of something or a tool. See you take this hootis right here, and put in there and... well you get the drift.

Kinda like a doohickey.

S-Cackalacky wrote:

rnw349 wrote:Hootis = it can be many things, such as a part or piece of something or a tool. See you take this hootis right here, and put in there and... well you get the drift.

Kinda like a doohickey.

Or thingamabobby

Thingamabob on the west coast

Or, a thingamajig. Even non-words can have many synonyms. Amazing - the spell checker likes "thingamajig".

My sister called ambulances amblieneces, when I was a kid my stepdad used to say "who dropped there lunch" when someone farted, I would always look around to see if someone had actually dropped there lunch on the ground , didn't know the real meaning for years!. Flary Foss was another one for fairyfloss lol. Thingamebob is the same as a whomyawhat or a dohickey lol.

A gizahoots can often be found connected to a fratistat in my neck of the woods.

A fellow I work with will sometimes use a hammer or a mallerd to pround on machine parts to get them to move.

I know Jimbo knows this but be thankful you don't live in Iceland as one word can have more than one meaning depending on it's location in a sentence. Very confusing!

Whammerjammer -- an oversized hootis.

Nukular -- atomic, as in nukular power.

Uncomfortatability -- damnfino, I only heard it used once, by George W. Bush (aka President Shitforbrains)

Damnfino -- a ranch in Wyoming. Also the response of everyone who tried to guess what the ranch brand represented.

Shitforbrains -- 1. a cranium filled with excrement. 2. Unbelievably stupid. Often used to describe American politicians.

catywampus - (adj) Things have not gone as expected, especially if they spiraled out of control. Eg. The party was going great til Bill got drunk, then it went all catywampus.

Here's some that get used in my line of work, though they are technically acronyms, we use them a bit ....they might as well be words

Dilligaf ........ do I look like I give a f...

woftam ........ waste of fuc...ing time and money

fubar ............ f..ked up beyond all recognition

snafu ............ situation normal, all f...ed up

afterwise - what happens when you wise up after it happened.

"Dilligaf" Thanks, that's gonna come in handy.

flustrated... Combination of flustered and frustrated...

I have a special needs family member that gets stuck in strange loops. One of these loops involves her constantly saying that everyone around her is cuteifule, which seems to be a mashup of cute and beautiful.

TOURON.

TOUR - ON

Combination of a tourist and a moron

Coyote

I once hired a contractor who fixed my chimley and windles.

Maritimer wrote:I once hired a contractor who fixed my chimley and windles.

Did he warsh the windles?