There's a word for that?

Question

Okay, so I was doing some surfing on a completely different subject and ran across this page on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuk.

What really caught my eye was the final paragraph:
"An interesting, though perhaps unrelated fact is that on the Portuguese islands of the Azores, "kuk" is a verb meaning "to unintentionally spray ketchup". It is popularily used to point out and ridicule people who spill the red sauce. A phrase commonly uttered at dinner tables on the islands is – "O haha, ele kuk.""

Now my first thought was... they have such severe ketchup-spillage issues over there that they had to create a word just to describe it? That's hilarious!

My question to you is: what weird words do we have like that in English - a word that is completely pointless and used for unusual circumstances, but one that we just HAD to have?

whoops. when i put the link to the wikipedia article, it included the period at the end of my sentence as part of the link... here it is again, sans period: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuk

Answer 1

To run "amuck" (or "amok"):
To go about randomly killing or doing violence.

aglet:
The little plastic tip on shoe laces.

And of course:
whatchamacallits!

Answer 2

I clicked your link and there was no entry for "kuk".
Did you kuk up???!!!! LOL

Maybe it was just a prank.... there's lots of writers for wikipedia, some of them probably like to joke around.

Answer 3

Early Sat. Night Live. What was that tall guys name?
Sniglets, I think he called them.

Wait, you wanted a real word.
can't think of one.

Answer 4

supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

Answer 5

jism or j-i-z-z or c-u-m