I love that word, it always makes me laugh.

Merriam-Webster Asks: What's Your Favorite Word (That's Not in the Dictionary)?

What a lovely bunch of vocabularians (persons who make up new words) you are! Lasterday (refers to any day before today) we squinched (action required to fit something into a space that is slightly too small) a schmiglet (a small unit of measurement) of your awesomtastic (so wonderful the words just meld in your mouth) one-of-a-kind entries into this space in preparation for today's Top Ten reveal. With so many chizzy (awesome, super, happening) creations to choose from, we admit to becoming a bit flusterpated (a state of being flustered that's so intense, one's actions and words become bound up) and fahoodled (confused, esp. when trying to think of too many things at once). We craughed (to cry and laugh simultaneously), we troddled (to wander around without knowing of doing so), and finally decided to use the schwack (a large amount) of multiple entries received as the basis for the Top Ten—this is, let's not forget, all about favoritism.

From the thousands of submissions we received, here, then, are the ten words (not in the dictionary) entered the most often:

Top Ten Favorite Words (Not in the Dictionary)

1. ginormous (adj): bigger than gigantic and bigger than enormous

2. confuzzled (adj): confused and puzzled at the same time

3. woot (interj): an exclamation of joy or excitement

4. chillax (v): chill out/relax, hang out with friends

5. cognitive displaysia (n): the feeling you have before you even leave the house that you are going to forget something and not remember it until you're on the highway

6. gription (n): the purchase gained by friction: "My car needs new tires because the old ones have lost their gription."

7. phonecrastinate (v): to put off answering the phone until caller ID displays the incoming name and number

8. slickery (adj): having a surface that is wet and icy

9. snirt (n): snow that is dirty, often seen by the side of roads and parking lots that have been plowed

10. lingweenie (n): a person incapable of producing neologisms

Yeah, ginormous is good. If criminy isn't in the dictionary, then that would get my vote. Also, I like it when Mr. Burns calls the grocery store the "food jobber."

I love using that word too! People always give me that "did she just say 'criminy'?" look.

1 entry found for criminy.
Main Entry: criminy
Part of Speech: interjection
Definition: an exclamation of surprise, a mild oath; also written crimine, cf. crikey
Etymology: Italian crimine `crime'; euphemism for `Christ'



Source: Webster's New Millennium™ Dictionary of English, Preview Edition (v 0.9.6)
Copyright © 2003-2005 Lexico Publishing Group, LLC

Good word. Reminds me of a woman I used to work with who ALWAYS misspelled the word "confused" as "confussed." Of course, I've seen worse misspellings in my lifetime, but it always amused me that no one ever told her she was misspelling it in the first place. I still use the word to this day, mispronouncing it the way it's spelled, in order to make a funny with my husband sometimes.

"Woot" will be a full-fledged word soon.

I also like "assphisticated" (cultured redneck) and "trothered" (too much trouble to be bothered).

Unlax.

Gar

Ginormous and w00t! are the only words on that list I've ever heard

I should've submitted my niece's word -- tolater -- combination of "tomorrow" and "later". For example, "I won't have time to do it right now, I'll do it tolater."

yeah, same here. and i'd never use any of those words unless i were mocking someone.

Ginormous is the only one I have ever heard

I like ridonkulous

These kind of words are pretty common if you've had rural relatives who were born before 1950.

"Wicked mollyhocked rate off the path, took an' mucked up the gription summit fierce"

That kinda thing.

Here too. Except I use w00t and have used ginormous on occasion.

The other day on AIM, I told Dri that she's so "predorktable."

Aren't these just snigglets?

Damn, I thought this was a thread about Ginobili's penis size.

Damn, I thought this was a thread about Britney's titties.

My word contribution is Bromance.