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a non-amos

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words that "ought to be"
« on: July 05, 2007, 02:00:51 AM »
No, this is not a serious topic.  This is more of a "creative exercise", with tongue planted firmly in cheek.

How about this one:  MINORSNAG

as in:  "We might have a small problem.  We seem to have hit a minorsnag."

antonym: MAJORSNAG
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Re: words that "ought to be"
« Reply #1 on: July 05, 2007, 04:36:17 AM »
MMM!!!
I will need to ponder that one...and see what i come up with....
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Re: words that "ought to be"
« Reply #2 on: July 05, 2007, 04:55:51 AM »
Well I thought eelpie ought to be a word. Not that I'd eat it...
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Re: words that "ought to be"
« Reply #3 on: July 05, 2007, 05:08:16 AM »

My daughter has just asked me for a 'hottlebottle' ...
..and when it's hot i like to sit in my 'conservingtree'...
'spagbol'..we eat a lot...

Are they ok to be going on with???
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Re: words that "ought to be"
« Reply #4 on: July 05, 2007, 05:10:36 AM »
Mine has only one word these days-- Gutenschniebels, as in, "How was school today?" "Gutenschniebels."
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Re: words that "ought to be"
« Reply #5 on: July 05, 2007, 05:12:36 AM »
It's much the same here...only the word is 'WHATEVER'
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Re: words that "ought to be"
« Reply #6 on: July 05, 2007, 11:46:34 AM »
A family favourite is SCREEPERS. Meaning windscreen wipers.
First used by my then 3 year old daughter (she's now 22), we tend to forget it's not part of the standard English vocabulary.
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Re: words that "ought to be"
« Reply #7 on: July 05, 2007, 05:57:41 PM »
We seem to have collected dozens of "family" words, including "gozzies" for contact lenses (long story, but connected to "gozzie-eyed" or cross-eyed) "mink" pies (mince pies) "smuccles".....that's the stuff that comes out when you cut yourself (don't ask)  and "earwigglers" which naturally are cotton buds. I once, to my shame, asked for "earwigglers" at a chemist!
Oh yes, and I suffer from "the twitchies"...Restless Leg Syndrome" to the rest of you.
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Re: words that "ought to be"
« Reply #8 on: July 05, 2007, 06:19:53 PM »
When I was young (not so very long ago) I used to call coathangers 'hangcoaters' .... made much more sense to me and still does! 
We also use 'sheeps' for more than one sheep ... if you can have cows, pigs and hens you can have sheeps in my opinion! 
My boss has a very strange habit of adding an 'r' before words beginning with vowels just to be amusing/confusing ... reggs, relephants , rexactly retcetera ... v. odd but a lovely man!  >:D
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Re: words that "ought to be"
« Reply #9 on: July 05, 2007, 06:36:38 PM »
I love screepers...i might adopt that word...
And i absolutely agree with the sheeps...
My 2 use 'buttonbugs' for bellybuttons or wood lice...
..and..'chicken bumps' for goose pimples..
So cute....
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Re: words that "ought to be"
« Reply #10 on: July 05, 2007, 06:39:17 PM »
I really like "screepers" too. I forgot....we eat "buttyboilers"...aka Jaffles. That'll probably only make sense to you Brits!
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Re: words that "ought to be"
« Reply #11 on: July 05, 2007, 08:43:06 PM »
Jaffles...???
Is that a hybrid... of jaffa cakes and waffles ???
Sounds yummy whatever it is...
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Re: words that "ought to be"
« Reply #12 on: July 05, 2007, 08:53:20 PM »
Sorry.....I thought that Jaffles were British....toasted sandwiches that you used to make in a cast iron thingy, but now make in a spiffy electric sandwich maker.
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Re: words that "ought to be"
« Reply #13 on: July 05, 2007, 08:56:54 PM »
Never heard that before...i have seen the waffle irons though...
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Re: words that "ought to be"
« Reply #14 on: July 05, 2007, 09:02:57 PM »
Aah, but the difference is that you use the waffle iron to cook batter, whereas the jaffle iron is kind of hollow, so that you can put your fillings in !
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