Words that ought to exist.

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Pedants' corner seems most annoying appropriate place to ask.

It once took me quite some time to convince DP that after snow had fallen it had not, it fact

snown

dooberry firkin.

Confussed

Some how just feels more accurate than plain confused especially if over something really petty or annoying.

Kif. Is kif a word? We used to say it to mean brilliant:

"did you see Duran Duran on TOTP last night, they were well kif"

plinky is a remote control in our house.

oojimaflit - for the thing I can't remember the name of

" Where the f**kin hell is my oojimaflit"

We have a doofer too! "Where's the doofer"

ha Ha!!

roffle! I often want to roffle in RL.

confussled or confuzzled (US version I giess)

I had to pop out earlier today to buy onions, because I had nonions.

ahhh guess

pumpa for a fart

i.e. daddy has eggy pumpas

nonions

My Dad made up the word "snar" when I was little, to mean the little bits of broken crisps or cereal at the bottom of the packet. We still use it, and now the DCs use it too. They get all the perfect crisps and pretzels, and leave me and DH the snar.

Oh, and we don't do pumpas, we boof!

dishmellious - is very very tasty food

and "hobbalub" is one that my niece used to say as a toddler - 25yrs later we are still using it.

I love this thread am chuckling to myself as i read all the posts.

Ian Macmillan was on the radio recently inviting new "Yorkshire words". One of the best sent in was "skrettlings", which are the crunchy, tasty bits left over in the pan after you have fried something.

I also think one should be able to be gruntled, and to mantle things.

hobbalub = extremely horrible

just thought i'd leave you guessing for a bit

gruntled, meaning happy as a pig in shit?

I often roffle as well.

And say 'effeffess' instead of actually swearing.

fantabulous

&

embuggerance

I remember on Word of Mouth they had a competition to make up a new word. Someone came up with 'Festilities' to describe celebrations taking place on stressful family occasions.