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  • “In that sense it shares a common mission with lingofactory: to seed the world with madeupical words.”

    We Are Not Alone

  • “Labels: frostitute, lingofactory, madeupical, neologism posted by John McGrath @ 4: 46 PM 1 Comments”

    Archive 2007-11-01

  • “Labels: frostitute, lingofactory, madeupical, neologism posted by John McGrath @ 4: 46 PM”

    We Are Not Alone

  • “I am shocked, shocked, shocked, I tell you, to think that anyone might believe for an instant that I was guilty of contributing madeupical facts or scientifically implausible theories to Wordie.”

    phosphenes

  • “Have you also joined the cult of ninja madeupical etymologists and/or piratical madeupical etymologists?”

    phosphenes

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Words tagged ‘madeupical’

  1. a ------- of riddles
  2. a bellow of buffalo
  3. a bend of divers
  4. a bleary of sleepyheads
  5. a bnuch of typos
  6. a body of double-entendres
  7. a braggadocio of exotic pizzas
  8. a breakfast of puffins
  9. a butt of jokes
  10. a casket of undertakers
  11. a cavity of dentists
  12. a constellulation of starlets
  13. a correction of proofreaders
  14. a criss-cross toss of frogapplesauce
  15. a destiny of fatalists
  16. a dodge of politicians
  17. a doodad of whatchamacallits
  18. a duo of pandas
  19. a dusting of bakers
  20. a failure of investment banks
  21. a feedbag of fastfood employees
  22. a fig of lewd hand signals
  23. a forget of toes
  24. a fright of horror movies
  25. a grudgeon of grudges
  26. a hellzapoppin of ideas
  27. a hilarity of comedians
  28. a hork of politicians
  29. a jam of toes
  30. a jamboree of breakfast muffins
  31. a jingle of keys
  32. a jolt of coffee drinkers
  33. a lush of rain
  34. a mouthful of oral surgeons
  35. a multifariousness of sesquipedalians
  36. a n. of abbreviations
  37. a natural enlargement of spammers
  38. a nerve of neurologists
  39. a nitwit of politicians
  40. a palette of nuances
  41. a penny-drop of realisations
  42. a pinch of nurses
  43. a pinch of tax collectors
  44. a pinhead of nerds
  45. a piranha of mortgage lenders
  46. a polka of pennsylvanians
  47. a pout of b-grade celebrities
  48. a pucker of sourballs
  49. a puff of smokers
  50. a quidnunc of busybodies
  51. a raft of lifeguards
  52. a rainbow of gay activists
  53. a raisin d'etre of icecream flavours
  54. a repetitious, parroted, restated, duplicate, reiterated echo of tautologies
  55. a sanguine of genetically-engineered invisible vampire iguanas
  56. a schproing of bouncy cupcakes
  57. a scowl of misanthropes
  58. a shiv of nasty pointy things that make me quiver
  59. a shriek of children
  60. a skein of knitters
  1. a splash of divers
  2. a stern of obelisks
  3. a steroid of pro athletes
  4. a style of hairdressers
  5. a surly of adolescents
  6. a swat of nuns
  7. a treasure chest of pirates
  8. a tweed of academics
  9. a verbosity of intellectuals
  10. a whodunnit of crime writers
  11. abananaeneid
  12. abanananad
  13. adverlingus
  14. agitron
  15. alumninium
  16. ampersandiform
  17. an aftertaste of advertisers
  18. an aggravation of drivers
  19. an anorexia of models
  20. an avoidance of recluses
  21. an ephemera of banks
  22. an excuse of latecomers
  23. an invention of madeupical collective nouns
  24. an itch of allergists
  25. an o.l.o.a.
  26. anomnomaly
  27. anonymour
  28. antefluance
  29. apocalypso
  30. apocalyptofreudendudgeon
  31. arachnemesis
  32. arctoarcolapsia
  33. arctocoprous
  34. aripnon
  35. ashmouthing
  36. asplosion
  37. assmarmite
  38. atagging
  39. atrial fibrillation
  40. attachmeant
  41. attemptress
  42. attitudical
  43. aurora borealysis
  44. autopneumotrombics
  45. autotomaton
  46. avauntular
  47. aword
  48. baboom
  49. bananosecond
  50. beepidemiology
  51. beepilepsy
  52. bentholaryngomania
  53. bereitlich
  54. betawork
  55. blamestorm
  56. blandau
  57. blisster
  58. blitzcraig
  59. blogghvel
  60. bloggish
  1. blurgit
  2. boggart
  3. boomorange
  4. bovaries
  5. bovver budgie
  6. bozolink
  7. bozon
  8. bozone
  9. braggart
  10. brain-breakage
  11. brave new word
  12. breadlet
  13. briffit
  14. britglish
  15. britlish
  16. britpicking
  17. britspeak
  18. broadloid
  19. bum-calder
  20. bunicular
  21. burnt umbrage
  22. bysmal
  23. cald
  24. cannape
  25. caribouian
  26. carmudgeon
  27. carpathian tunnel syndrome
  28. cartle dogs
  29. cartpoke
  30. cartpunch
  31. cashewe
  32. catapiptocorophilia
  33. celebetude
  34. cephalopygian
  35. cephalopygmy
  36. cherrymoya
  37. choanopitaphilia
  38. christnapping
  39. chronolexiverse
  40. chugly
  41. circumbicycle
  42. circumcredance
  43. clickerati
  44. cockbitten
  45. coconberry
  46. cognonosavanti
  47. coitus-à-la-vache-qui-rit
  48. compoundiness
  49. computer unsavvy
  50. confuzzled
  51. contemptation
  52. cooter muffaloon
  53. copycataclysm
  54. corbally casserole
  55. cowboy stoichiometry
  56. crankles
  57. crotchdiculous
  58. crudicon
  59. crysis
  60. cudslide
  1. cuirbouillabaisse
  2. damsonic
  3. dasykakosteatopygian
  4. datelier
  5. death muncher
  6. deceleratrix
  7. defenestrationityessed
  8. deja loo
  9. del.icio.us-ed
  10. demagod
  11. deparrotization
  12. depidgin
  13. deprifixation
  14. desperanto
  15. dewlapricot
  16. dexterity
  17. dickish
  18. dickishness
  19. didelphinodoxaphobia
  20. digiton
  21. dijon vu
  22. direct-a-tron
  23. doggart
  24. domiknitrix
  25. dopeler effect
  26. downhomie
  27. drawkward
  28. drilling for fail
  29. drögg ot shrögg blögg ot stögg
  30. early
  31. eefriblaisbnitskayskaya
  32. eggart
  33. egognomics
  34. einiopterophagist
  35. electile dysfunction
  36. eleventy
  37. emanata
  38. ensnorkelled
  39. erms
  40. eskimo pi
  41. eu-demonics
  42. evidence-free fact
  43. exsqueeze me
  44. faggart
  45. fail reserve
  46. failbus
  47. fanboi
  48. fanbrat
  49. fanficcer
  50. fangurl
  51. fanthing
  52. fantiquette
  53. farious
  54. faszinierlich
  55. feefifobia
  56. fermacelli
  57. fermicelli
  58. fidgetty grubs
  59. field of dorkular expertise
  60. flagellicious
  1. flagillitious
  2. flagulence
  3. flartimuckets
  4. flatulist
  5. flogiston
  6. flustrated
  7. fobia
  8. focalologist
  9. foregasm
  10. frindle
  11. fuckee
  12. funderwear
  13. fur rain
  14. further-fetched
  15. gauntelope
  16. gazellion
  17. gehunteschpundt
  18. giraffle
  19. girlychuckle
  20. girlygiggle
  21. global worrying
  22. glumbo
  23. gluppit
  24. godswallop
  25. googleganger
  26. googlipresent
  27. grapple
  28. graspberry
  29. grassiere
  30. graucho
  31. grenyarnia
  32. grimmoire
  33. grinchworm
  34. groupier
  35. gynoaromabulia
  36. haggart
  37. hampster
  38. handicoot
  39. hivory
  40. hoggart
  41. homoblivious
  42. hongry
  43. hufta
  44. humbuckness
  45. ichthyodigital
  46. ichthyodigitalis
  47. ichthyodigitalophagist
  48. igneospection
  49. indotherm
  50. ingerschnop
  51. interweb
  52. irrelephant
  53. irritable vowel syndrome
  54. jackaspiration
  55. jaul-canker
  56. joinedupical
  57. karamel sutra
  58. kitler
  59. klandau
  60. knitten

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  • sionnach In a rare misstep by the delightful Stephen Fry, he fails to use this word when he most needed it, at the 9:43 mark in this video Oct 19, 2011

  • janejetson Madeupicals are an inventure of frolicking brainscapes. *3* Feb 26, 2010

  • ruzuzu Here's a slightly creepy article about a collection of unintentional Freudian slips madeupicalled by therapy clients. Jan 14, 2010

  • reesetee Gego needs to gego away. Nov 30, 2009

  • dontcry *freep* Nov 29, 2009

  • PossibleUnderscore Damn right vo!
    And I'm sorry but colon cleanser doesn't sound overly appealing either. Nov 28, 2009

  • vanishedone Spam Cleanse

    The achy spammy products are plenty on Wordnik and there are many who think achy spammers resemble colon cleansers, but they deserve much worse than that. These kinds of achy spam products will make the site's members irritated. Nov 28, 2009

  • gego Acai Cleanse


    The acai berry products are plenty in the market and there are many who think that acai berry products are merely colon cleansers, but they are much more than that.
    These kinds of Acai cleanse products will make the method simpler.
    www.goarticles.com
    Nov 28, 2009

  • mollusque This reminds me of arguments about what is a species. No definition of "species" works in all situations, and the same is true of "word". OED2 says about species, "The exact definition of a species, and the criteria by which species are to be distinguished (esp. in relation to genera or varieties), have been the subject of much discussion."

    Some of the hallmarks of words are that they are pronounceable, used for open communication, have inferable meanings, and are related to other words (have derivations).

    I don't think every combination of letters can be considered a word. "Madeupical" meets all four of the criteria above; "dhn" mets none of them. The meaning of madeupical, might be inferred by a native speaker of English even without a context, even though it is not a standard formation. The meaning of dhn cannot be determined without a context. It might be an acronym, or it might be an arbitrary string of characters that conveys meaning only as a code. Nov 26, 2009

  • gangerh But yuckty is in the ear of the beyucker and/or beyuckee. Nov 26, 2009

  • sionnach "a sentient being that is incommunicado"

    Would an example of this be a "dog lying doggo"? Nov 26, 2009

  • milosrdenstvi I would note that gangerh's definition does not make something a good word. Words can be made up and mutually understood, but linguistically some neologisms are just yucky. Nov 26, 2009

  • Jubjub But any such etymological regression must eventually lead to the rootless root and the unrooted rooter. The fabulous first fount of phrases. The majestic magician of madeupicals. Nov 25, 2009

  • PossibleUnderscore I can accept gangerh's last comment. That's reasonable, but for words that are used more widely, I think, should have some sort of etymology or root. Nov 25, 2009

  • sionnach But 'runcible' is not sheer nonsense. Witness:

    runcible fork

    runcible spoon

    You say spork, I say runcible spoon. Nov 25, 2009

  • reesetee I'd just like to thank PossibleUnderscore for posting this discussion on the madeupical page. :-) Nov 25, 2009

  • gangerh OK.
    I would say a word is a word if the sense or nonsense of it is understood by a communicator and/or a communicatee and/or a sentient being that is incommunicado.
    Nov 25, 2009

  • Telofy So every combination of letters would constitute a word. I’m wondering if such a definition is not too broad to be useful, but I kind of like it. Nov 25, 2009

  • Jubjub I wonder if that's too narrow still. What about words like runcible that are pure nonsense and can't be strictly understood? I'd say they're still words. And I'd like to think that I am free to make up words, and they are indeed words (in the barest sense), even if the rest of the population never happens to adopt or understand them. They may not be very good words, but what else would they be?(Maybe in that case, the communicator and communicatee are one and the same?) Nov 25, 2009

  • gangerh OK,then. My mistake.
    I would say a word is a word if it is mutually understood by a communicator and a communicatee. Nov 25, 2009

  • Telofy Then books written in a language I don’t understand wouldn’t contain any words when I “read” them. Or would I then just not qualify as communicatee? In that case, if a sentence in such a language were embedded in an English text, for example to show all the pretty characters, I would cease to be communicatee for a second while I read that sentence? That strikes me as rather unintuitive . . .
    I’d rather say that a word becomes a word for someone when (s)he either associates some concept with its form or comes to believe that someone else might do so.
    “Madeupical” then could just mean that someone wants to point out that the originator of the word is a specific person and moreover a person that is felt to be close to some degree, be it temporally, socially or in some other way. Nov 25, 2009

  • gangerh I would say a word is a word if it is mutually understood by the communicator and the communicatee.
    Nov 25, 2009

  • milosrdenstvi A while ago I saw a video on the internet of Erin McKean talking about lexicography. It pissed me off for some reason I can't remember, and now all I do remember is that she said that loving a word makes it real, which I whole-heartedly agree with, with the caveat that love should not be applied mindlessly, but only to such words as are inherently lovable. (Shoot me, I'm a Platonist in a post-modern world...) Nov 25, 2009

  • PossibleUnderscore Exactly my point. Somewhere along the line, someone has to make up the word.
    (Please don't confuse a word with a random bunch of letters that sound nice together stuck onto a meaning. I can't accept that, and I think I'm justified. Correct me if I'm wrong.) Nov 25, 2009

  • gangerh Surely every word was once ante-madeupical? Nov 25, 2009

  • gangerh That's good then. Nov 25, 2009

  • PossibleUnderscore That's what I was hoping to hear! ;-)
    Unfortunately, I don't think the rest of the world necessarily agrees. Nov 25, 2009

  • Prolagus madeupical words ARE legitimate! Nov 24, 2009

  • reesetee I don't know about Wordnik, but the line was mighty blurry on Wordie. ;-) Nov 24, 2009

  • PossibleUnderscore Important question: what constitutes a legitimate word, especially in comparison with a 'madeupical' one?
    Nov 24, 2009

  • dontcry *puts shades on* Oct 19, 2009

  • dontcry Um... it's really white in here... Oct 19, 2009

  • reesetee That was a very johnty comment, Pro. Oct 18, 2009

  • Prolagus How can one be the johntest guy? Nobody can possibly be johnter than you. Oct 17, 2009

  • john Who the hell is the 'johntest' guy? I don't trust him. Might be madeupical. Oct 16, 2009

  • Prolagus Wait a moment, John... why doesn't this comment appear on Wordie as well? And where are Wordie comments? This could be a mess, if we use both websites for a while and comments are mixed when the merging is complete... Oct 16, 2009

  • johntest Well hello, old friend. My first comment on nuevo Wordnik. Oct 16, 2009

  • reesetee John, I added an etymology for madeupical yesterday. Actually, I just directed everyone to Wordie's nounal page where it first occurred, but same difference. ;-) Sep 11, 2009

  • john Here it is on Wordnik. I like that Wordnik's giant computer brain suggests "cromulent" as a related word. Sep 11, 2009

  • reesetee Invented on the fly here: http://wordie.org/words/nounal. Also see "madeupatory" on Wordie. Sep 10, 2009

  • milosrdenstvi Thanks! Although, now that I've thought about how I wanted to pose the question for a while, I figured out pretty much all I wanted was overstatement. Psh. Jun 11, 2009

  • Prolagus Gangerh's lost for word. Jun 11, 2009

  • milosrdenstvi There's a list I found once which offered to help make up words for concepts that we don't know or have the name of. I can't find it now. Can anyone help? Or I could just describe my problem here, I guess... Jun 11, 2009

  • reesetee Uav! Who knew? Jun 4, 2009

  • chained_bear Uav! Actually, this sentence popped out at me: "madeupical etymology isn't defined yet."

    *rubs hands in anticipation* Jun 4, 2009

  • Prolagus Wow! You can use it to track Wordies' lives outside Wordie! Jun 4, 2009

  • frindley Ok, confession time. Who's been googling:
    madeupical -site:wordie.org
    ?

    Very curious! Jun 4, 2009

  • reesetee That's true, sionnach. Madeupatory came first, and it was made up right here (see comments), whereas madeupical was coined at nounal.

    Thank you for remembering. I do miss the verbal sparring with The Uselessness. :-) Dec 31, 2008

  • sionnach
    I would just like to remind everyone that, before there was madeupical, there was madeupatory.

    As the conversation for the ages below will corroborate. Ahh, but I was just a Wordie neophyte then:

    chicken catch-a-tory

    I miss uselessness. Dec 31, 2008

  • reesetee *bows* Nov 25, 2008

  • Prolagus This word is Wordie's frindle. Nov 22, 2008

  • rolig The role of madeupical words in the quality of fiction writing was recently the subject of an xkcd comic panel (be sure not to miss the mouse rollover text). This panel was discussed today on the linguistics blog Language Log. Oct 10, 2008

  • reesetee Ah, what do they know, uselessness? ;-> Yarb, I can't believe you dreamed about madeupickal in its variant 19th-century spelling! You must be wordieing too hard. Nov 24, 2007

  • uselessness Haha! I actually got the opportunity to use madeupical in a business meeting yesterday... unfortunately my coworkers didn't exactly get the reference. :-P Nov 22, 2007

  • yarb The other night I dreamt I was reading an obscure novel from nineteen-o-something. In a footnote of this novel, or it might have been non-fiction a la William James, I saw the word "madeupickal", and thought "a-ha! This will be a killer citation!" Then I woke up. Nov 22, 2007

  • reesetee Got that right. :-) Nov 9, 2007

  • uselessness Particularly hilarious ones. Nov 9, 2007

  • vanishedone Don't worry about it; misunderstandings just happen sometimes. Nov 9, 2007

  • reesetee Ah, mock-seriously, you say! Now I understand. Apologies if I came off sounding snippy. :-) Nov 9, 2007

  • vanishedone Yes, I know you were joking; and I was taking it mock-seriously. Maybe I should use more emoticons, but on this of all sites... Nov 9, 2007

  • reesetee The originator is me. Uselessness is correct. And I was just joking. See the wink down there? ;-)

    And Cthulhu had nothing to do with it; believe me. Nov 8, 2007

  • vanishedone There we are: it can be done. Cheers. (Though I do like the Hellenic-sounding one.) Nov 8, 2007

  • uselessness "Made. Up. Ickle." :-P Nov 8, 2007

  • vanishedone Consult the originator?

    How can you not have a pronunciation guide for a word? Even if it's 'uncertain', on the model of Cthulhu, that's still information that permits a guide. Nov 8, 2007

  • reesetee But it's a madeupical word, VanishedOne--how can we have a pronunciation guide for a madeupical word? ;-) Nov 8, 2007

  • vanishedone We need a pronunciation guide: this is my first time looking at this page, and I'd expected the pronunciation to be mad-yuu'pi-cal. Nov 8, 2007

  • chained_bear I think sniglets were "invented" (maybe not) by Rich Hall, a 1980s-era comedian who used to be on Saturday Night Live. He put out a bunch of books of sniglets and stuff. Some of my favorites (that I still remember) were:
    motspur--the one wheel on a shopping cart that won't go the right way
    essoasso--a person who avoids a red light by cutting through a corner gas station
    blurfle--to be speaking loudly over music, as at a dance club, only to have the music stop suddenly just as you're saying something like "... testicles laminated!" Oct 26, 2007

  • rocksinmypockets I just learned the word sniglet, which is a synonym for madeupical, and equally fun to say. Oct 26, 2007

  • reesetee Archive note: the very first mention of madeupical is at nounal. So in ages hence, all will see Wordie brilliance. Oct 16, 2007

  • reesetee Of course it's real! After all, I made it up, and I'm real! Case closed.

    Besides, no one ever puts madeupical words on Wordie. Ever. Sep 13, 2007

  • uselessness Because we've all been saying this word, and nobody had it listed. It's totally real, by the way. Sep 12, 2007

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