noun
A pleasant memory of someone you never want to see again.
Faint whismirs of a movie theater date brushed through Kathy’s mind as she looked at the DVD case. She put it back on the rack and moved to the next aisle, trying to think of something else.
verb
To speak at length on a topic one is fascinated by to an uninterested audience.
In extreme cases, may lead to a yamgasm.
I’ve totally got Pokémon on the brain recently. I’ve been yamgushing about it to anyone who will listen.
adjective
As manly as it is possible to be.
Monster trucks? Manly. Monster rockets? Ultimale.
noun
“Novelists” is not a nomentracely, and neither is “car-owners”. But “people who have at least four pairs of shoes,” “people who have seen only half of the film ‘Braveheart,'” and “people who enjoy vanilla more than chocolate but not as much as strawberry” are all nomentracelies.
noun
A word invented in a dream.
I heard some new words in a dream last night. I don’t know where my subconscious gets these oneirologisms.
verb
To wave back to someone who was not waving to you.
I shamewaved to a stranger earlier today - she looked like someone I used to know, but it wasn’t her, and it turned out her friend was standing behind me. So embarrassing.
noun
A desire to build, create, improve, or otherwise do something constructive.
After spending years with menial jobs and empty hobbies, Mandira was filled with yinchornado. She was tired of games and wanted to do something that mattered - something real.
noun
The feeling of melancholy and self-directed frustration that comes from realizing that one has slept away the morning.
When I woke up and saw it was already eleven o’clock, the crud factor set in, and I knew I would have to be very productive with the rest of my day to overcome it.
verb
To catch oneself just in time to minimize the consequences of a stumble or other clumsy action.
I tripped on the sidewalk, but managed to dewobble and just make some quick steps to regain my balance.
noun
An emotionally arresting reminder of something long forgotten.
Miguel was looking through old papers when he suddenly came across a sautosk - a drawing his son had made, some twenty years earlier. He froze, lost in memory, until he realized he could no longer recall what he’d been looking for in the first place.
noun phrase
The inability to expend effort when that effort is mechanically assisted, such as continuing to walk when on an escalator or moving walkway.
I don’t get people who have acquired situational paralysis, and just stand there on the moving walkway. I love walking fast on those - it makes me feel like The Flash.
verb
To explain in a way that might seem condescending, but if you just listen, I’m sure you’ll see I really do understand this better than you and am just trying to help.
I can tell you’re having trouble understanding the difference between the Nintendo 2DS, 3DS, and 3DS XL. Allow me to Dansplain.
noun
The psychological obstacle that leads one to overestimate the effort of a particular action and thereby incorrectly judge it as not worth doing - until the action is begun, at which point it is clearly worth doing.
Often induced by chorn.
Yeah, that party sounds really fun, but I’m very comfortable on this couch and and I don’t feel like dressing up. It’s not gonna be easy to get over this lazybump.
noun
Mundane tasks that must be completed or obstacles that must be cleared before one can undertake the action that one actually wants to take.
Unlike chores which must be regularly completed to maintain a standard of living, or errands that must be completed for their own sake, or tasks performed in exchange for a reward, chorn simply stands in the way of a pleasant activity. Cleaning one’s apartment or inflating one’s car tires is normally a chore, but before inviting guests over or going on a road trip (respectively) it becomes chorn.
This party’s gonna be awesome, but setting it up was hard work. I spent all day clearing chorn.
noun
An idea that has been forgotten except for the certainty that it was brilliant.
I really need to keep a pad of paper by the bed. I keep getting these great ideas when I’m falling asleep and in the morning I’m just left with mnesia-nuggets.
noun phrase
Exhaustion and partial dehydration due to the body spending all its resources ensuring constant sinus congestion.
When you have a cold, you’re tired enough anyway without the phlegm fatigue. It’s adding insult to injury.
noun
The first meal had after sleeping for more than five hours, especially if it is not during traditional breakfast time.
I’m still really jetlagged, so I slept most of the day and had blargfarst around four in the afternoon.
noun phrase
The disappointment that comes from building up desire for something because it’s available, and then being disappointed when it isn’t even though you didn’t originally want it at all.
I’d been jonesin' for a reuben all morning, so I went to the sandwich shop and then saw they had tuna melts - suddenly I really wanted a tuna melt, but it turned out they were out of tuna so I had to get a stupid ol' reuben. What a hype and switch.
noun phrase
The disorienting experience of placing your hand on the handrail of an escalator or moving walkway only to find that it moves at a different speed than the escalator or walkway itself.
Steep escalators wouldn’t give me so much vertigo if it weren’t for the handrail drift making me worry I’m going to lose my balance.
noun
The philosophical position that the most morally correct action is the one that generates the most futility, by rendering moot as many other actions as possible. (Distinct from fatalism, which holds that the actions are moot to begin with.)
I took a class in futilitarianism in college. Our professor had anterograde amnesia. For the final exam, our essays were written with inkless pens and then burned. I got a perfect score, for which I received zero hours of credit.