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American who lived in Denmark for a couple years. I'm in interested in all languages, but time is unaccommodating, so my current studies point toward Latin and its romantic children. In addition to the languages enumerated in my Babel board, I have spent some time on Chinese, Russian, and Hebrew.
Wordsmithy
[edit]I have a terrible fondness for coining new words, so here are a few.
A
[edit]abā/abab (Latin preposition)
- (indicating ablation) away from immediately
- Necesse est proficīscī abab hōc oppidō
- It is necessary to depart from this city immediately
- Necesse est proficīscī abab hōc oppidō
- (indicating agency or instrumentality) strictly by means of
- Hōc opus factum est abā fīliō meō
- This was was done by my son and my son alone
- Hōc opus factum est abā fīliō meō
- (indicating association) to/with in the slightest
- Homō sum, hūmānī nihil abā me aliēnum putō
- I am a man, I consider nothing that is human alien to me whatsoever
- Homō sum, hūmānī nihil abā me aliēnum putō
ascorn (adjective)
- caused to be disdainful
- Used in the phrase "to set someone ascorn"
- A scowl crossed her face as the meager results set her ascorn
- Used in the phrase "to set someone ascorn"
B
[edit]biscotheque
- cookie jar
bloint
- the middle portion of pizza toppings not attached to any one slice
C
[edit]charuglierie
- an unappealing charcuterie spread
- From charcuterie with uglier substituted for cuter
choosard
- one who chooses/must choose
conniptioner
- mage who performs magic by working themselves into a frothy rage; the mage equivalent of a berserker
- From conniption + -er
D
[edit]detritivore
- someone who performs anilingus
- From detritivore ("bottom feeder")
dietrrhea
- incontinence which causes weight loss
E
[edit]ectocardesmus
- the state of being unable to stop loving someone who doesn't love you back; unrequited love
F
[edit]femtodesy (noun), femtodesic (adjective)
- nuclear fission (noun), fissile (adjective)
- From femto- (from femtometer, the size of a uranium atom) + δαίω meaning both split and burn
fingerwalk
- to slowly move the hand with the fingers in a walking motion
- Inspired by tiptoe
- A handful of chills fingerwalked their way up her spine
- Inspired by tiptoe
flamboy
- a male who likes to dress and/or act in a flashy, flamboyant, feminine manner without being homosexual
- From flamboyant + tomboy
- No, he doesn't like boys, he's just a flamboy
- From flamboyant + tomboy
G
[edit]gilter
- to gild with a glow of gold
- May we ever nestle in these giltered dreams
glorygrasper
- one who chases after social standing and power, usually with little regard for others; clout shark
grithe
- to grind into whatever one is writhing upon
gruesify
- to work horrors upon
- to cause someone/something to be gruesome
gyrostasis
- a state of putting in effort but making no progress; the state of spinning one's wheels
- From gyro- + stasis; different from the physics study of rotating bodies, gyrostatics
H
[edit]hintermind
- subconscious or unconscious mind
I
[edit]infrablack
- the molten anti-black you see when rubbing your eyes, after staring at the sun, or during a migraine
L
[edit]larm
- loud noise, din
M
[edit]mellonostalgia
- bittersweet homesickness for a future you will never walk
miserate
- to lament
- Back-formation from commiserate, removing the sympathetic aspect com-; from Latin miseror
morrowmorn
- the coming morning
N
[edit]niffle
- to laugh by only blowing air out the nose
- From sound association to sniffle
S
[edit]scurven
- hateful, cretinous, cowardly, but dangerous
snackadillo
- an amount of food, usually between meals, that you should not have eaten
- From snack + peccadillo ("small sin")
soo (adverb)
- to the extent that
- very
spookums
- a term of endearment for goths and Halloween enthusiasts
sweveneer
- one who dreams dreams or sees visions
- one who causes others to dream or see visions
T
[edit]twither
- to stutter as one sighs
U
[edit]uggle
- to forge with ugliness
- This differs from the obsolete uggle, meaning to make something (that already exists) dirty. This meaning implies ugliness woven into the very fibers of the subject's being.
- Their uggled faces kindle naught but the basest hatred in my belly
- This differs from the obsolete uggle, meaning to make something (that already exists) dirty. This meaning implies ugliness woven into the very fibers of the subject's being.
V
[edit]vertext
- a text that causes a paradigm shift; a seminal work in written form
W
[edit]wam, wart, wis, ware
- past imperfect conjugations of to be
- Used to indicate an unfinished past state. "I was a student" implies that you are no longer a student while "I wam a student" implies that though the story is in the past, you are still a student.
Proposed Imperfect of "to be" Singular Plural First wam ware Second wart ware Third wis ware
Y
[edit]yesmonger
- yes man (subordinate to superior)
- authority who easily grants permission
- Of course she asked grandpa, he's such a yesmonger