I need some new made-up words to play with - any suggestions?

Answer 1

snorkulon

Answer 2

This article wasn't actually featured in the Washington Post, but it's peppered over a number of sites on the web. It has some great suggestions (even though a few of the words don't follow the rule of changing just one letter) : -


Washington Post Mensa invitational

The Washington Post's Mensa Invitational once again asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition.

Here are this year's winners:

1. Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund,
which lasts until you realize it was your money to
start with.

2. Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly

3. Bozone (n.): The substance surrounding stupid
people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer,
unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near
future.

4. Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for
the purpose of getting laid.

5. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the
subject financially impotent for an indefinite period.

6. Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.

7. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic
wit and the person who doesn't get it.

8. Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you
are running late.

9. Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.

10. Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease (This one got extra
credit.)

11. Karmageddon: It's like, when everybody is sending
off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like,
the Earth explodes and it's like, a serious bummer.

12. Decafalon (n.): The gruelling event of getting
through the day consuming only things that are good
for you.

13. Glibido: All talk and no action.

14. Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to
seem smarter when they come at you rapidly

15. Arachnoleptic fit (n.): The frantic dance
performed just after you've accidentally walked
through a spider web.

16. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito,
that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning
and cannot be cast out.

17. Caterpallor (n.): The colour you turn after finding half a worm
in the fruit you're eating.


And the pick of the literature:

18. Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an
asshole

Answer 3

Try using a foreign language. Recently we needed to make a "magic scroll" for a LARP game, and it had to have something written on it. So we copied and Albanian article about some new TV technology. It worked out just fine! You just have to look for a language that is distant enough from your own, that no one else around speaks, and that has words that can find a way to pronounce.

Answer 4

Tublumpingwapado

Answer 5

Shrill seeking. A dangerous sport practised by journalists when trying to get a sensible answer from a politician.

Answer 6

Skuterboinecker

Answer 7

Quasiparahyperultradefarction

Answer 8

One dazzling morning contained during the night, 2 ineffective boys have been given as much as have a combat. back to back, they confronted one yet another, Drew out their swords and shot one yet another. The deaf policeman heard that noise, And got here and killed those 2 ineffective boys.

Answer 9

Pericombobulation.

Answer 10

Trechfunctular - having the ability to imitate trees.

Answer 11

Boc - barmy old cack an idea which is both wrong and outdated e.g. the world is flat is boc