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Saturday, January 17, 2026

Definitions with a point

  • avarich, adjective. Having wealth or great possessions accumulated through an insatiable greed for riches (a portmanteau of avarice + rich).
  • confuzzled, adjective. A state of being extremely bewildered or perplexed (a portmanteau of confused + puzzled).
  • educatiolatry, noun. Worship of and/or excessive and unwarranted reverence for education (a portmanteau of education + idolatry).
  • eggs-pert, noun. One with the special skill or knowledge representing mastery of the subject of eggs.
  • ex-pert, noun. One who used to show bold and impertinent behavior, but no longer does so.
  • ex-spurt, noun. One who used to used to be capable of sudden bursts of effort, but no longer is.
  • figmentary, adjective. Pertaining to or connected with things created, imagined, or invented in the mind (figment, a product of mental invention or notion + -ary, a suffix with the general sense “pertaining to, connected with”).
  • hate speech, noun. Speech that is hated by the people defining it.
  • illeagle, noun. A sick symbol of the United States of America.
  • impastor, noun. A person who deceives by pretending to be a pastor; a false teacher (a portmanteau of impostor + pastor).
  • ka-balloon, interjection. A sudden and loud sound of a balloon popping.
  • lymph, verb. To walk with a lisp.
  • macrimony, noun. The state of being in a harsh and bitter marriage (a portmanteau of matrimony + acrimony).
  • occupatience, noun. The act of waiting for the right job to come along (a portmanteau of occupation + patience).
  • poly-scriptura, noun. Many scriptures (from poly “many” + scriptura “scripture”). A recently coined phrase used by some to describe those Christians who find authority in many different translations of the scriptures.
  • sheeple, noun. People who blindly follow orders and avoid critical thinking (a portmanteau of sheep + people).
  • smord, noun. A portmanteau (from smushed word).
  • texagon, noun. A plane figure in the shape of Texas.
  • transhee, noun. A man in the form of a wailing woman who appears to or is heard by members of a society as a sign that their society is dying.
  • transposer, noun. A transgender person who writes music (a portmanteau of transgender + composer).
  • weerie, adjective. Exhausted by things that incite superstitious fear (from weary + eerie).
  • YouTubesday, noun. The Tuesday you spent all day watching videos on YouTube.

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