''Is this a Neologism I See Before Me?''

They say that the average human being has a lexicon of about 10,000 words. While Shakespeare had a vocabulary of 60,000 including the introduction of about 3,000 words alone to the English language . . . But hey, screw Shakespeare! Nobody likes a show-off.

 

Seemingly the benchmark of an educated mind usually correlates with the size of the person's vocabulary. So in attempts to overtake Shakespeare and his MASSIVE . . . dictionary, people seem to be continually creating their own neologisms - newly coined words or expressions.

"These words are razors to my wounded heart"...well suck it up Tarquin, spoken language is only about 50,000 years old, and we're only getting around to the good stuff now!

1) mouse potato A 21st century version of the couch potato.
2) yellular The loudness one adopts during a bad cell phone connection.
3) academic bulimia Cram study session that results in everything you've learned being 'ink-puked' onto the paper; with immediate forgetting of everything you've learned.
4) spillion An immense number, especially of gallons of oil in the Gulf spill.

5) fatacular Spectacularly fat.

6) vegetarian A bad hunter; someone who survives by consuming not food, but the stuff food eats.

7) brickberry old, out-dated, monstrosity of a phone

8) staycation Takes time off but stays at home.

9) stitch n' bitch A gathering of women who like to partake in some knitting while having a good 'aul rant.

10) seagull manager A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, sh*ts on everything, and then leaves.

11) 404 Clueless.
12) Christmas bogus Receiving nothing from your employer at Christmas.
13) awk-word Difficult word to pronounce.
14) Darth Breather That annoying person wheezing away beside you at the cinema.
15) Bro Favor As opposed to 'Por Favor'; undertaken by a friend.
16) Frisbee-tarianism The belief that when you die, your soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck there.
17) piss-hap A mishap that generally involves you getting sh*t-faced.
18) Writer's Crap As opposed to 'cramp'.
19) Resolution rush people who swarm to the gym in the weeks after New Years.
20) scrou-venir Anything that you've kept (or stolen) from someone's house after you've slept with them.

Just another 49,980 and we'll be laughing...
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- Chomsky would be turning in his . . ? . . bed . . . , if he heard some of this nonsense!