Words You Won’t Find in the Dictionary

  • Arachnoleptic Fit
    (n.) The frantic dance performed just after you’ve accidentally walked through a spider web.
  • Beelzebug
    (n.) Satan in the form of a mosquito that gets into your bedroom at 3 am in the morning and cannot be cast out.
  • Bozone
    (n.) 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.
  • Caterpallor
    (n.) The color you turn after finding half a grub in the fruit you’re eating.
  • Cashtration
    (n.) The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period.
  • Decaflon
    (n.) The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.
  • Dopelar Effect
    (n.) The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when you come at them rapidly.
  • Extraterrestaurant
    (n.) An eating place where you feel you’ve been abducted and experimented upon. Also known as an E-T-ry.
  • Faunacated
    (adj.) How wildlife ends up when its environment is destroyed. Hence faunacatering (v.), which has made a meal of many species.
  • Grantartica
    (n.) The cold, isolated place where art companies dwell without funding.
  • Hemaglobe
    (n.) The bloody state of the world.
  • Intaxication
    (n.) Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.
  • Kinstirpation
    (n.) A painful inability to move relatives who come to visit.
  • Lullabuoy
    (n.) An idea that keeps floating into your head and prevents you from drifting off to sleep.
  • Reintarnation
    (n.) Coming back to life as a hillbilly.
  • Karmageddon
    (n.)It’s like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it’s like a serious bummer.
  • Sarchasm
    (n.)The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the recipient who doesn’t get it.