This is my jabberwocky of fabricated words, each one quietly dreams of becoming mainstream.

My dream? To overhear one of them used in a game of Scrabble or Boggle. Feel free to adopt these neologism-wannabes into your everyday conversations.

 

A

• AppreSHEate – when a female contentedly devours comfort food…like a tray of chocolate chip cookies, or a bag of chocolate-covered pretzels, or all the scones under the lucite dome in the bakery.
• ASSertained – being amused by one or more dolts behaving badly.
• AUSTENtacious – when a writer gets wrapped up in their rhythmic flow.

B

• Bewreathments – when holiday decorations make festive cemetery adornments.

C

• CATapulting – Leaping out of bed in response to the demands of a vocal feline.
• CharacterSEZations – when fictional characters quote other fictional characters.
• Clawstrophobia – when creatures with barbs on their paws fear confinement or a trip to the veterinarian.

D

• Damericans – when US citizens travel abroad and neglect to pack their manners and refuse to adapt to other cultures.
• DisaBILLity – estrangement from someone named Billy.
• DissoNANCY – the mental abyss you spiral into after receiving an unkind text or phone call from someone named Nancy.
• Dogma – 1. a set of principles laid down by people that co-exist with a canine(s). 2. a human that identifies as having a canine child.
• Dreadicated – when your emotions are hyper-focused on worry & fear.

E

• Epickurean – when your go-to travel adaptor is the Epicka. Look it up people; this is the best adaptor when traveling to another country.

F

• Fauthentic – when you pretend to be something you’re not; someone that makes false statements with a slight lisp.
• FinicKITTY – when your feline boss is all fussy & cattitude-y about what they “need”.

H

• Hitchcocking – when your logo or selfie subtly infiltrates most of your social media posts.
• Hungerhanded – when someone disrespects your food boundaries. Sometimes used in tandem with snackstabbing.

I

• IlLITTERate – when the cat has imperfect aim at their little sandboxy-lavatory.

J

• Jibberjabberwockstar – a creative individual invents a word that is added to a dictionary or becomes commonly used.
• Joyeur – a person who delights in the beauty of everyday life.

K

• Karendipity – 1. a magical phenomenon I experience when I stumble upon creative inspiration or poetic mischief. 2. The enchanting karma that boomerangs when excessively demanding women make outrageous requests.

L

• Lexiconnoisseur – creatives that push the limits of quirky by inventing new words.

M

• Manuvering – an elegant way to describe mucking a horse’s stall.
• Miscreedant – a know-it-all; someone that isn’t open to others’ perspectives.

N

• NarSHHHHHHism – individuals that quietly think very highly of themselves. It’s also a personality trait described by someone with a lisp.
• Neuroine – a neurospicy woman idealized for her noble qualities...a neurodivergent heroine.

P

• PersnicKITTY – when your feline boss displays ‘finickitty-esque” behaviors.
• PredDICKtion – a forecast made prior to an event of how others with vexing behavior could negatively impact your aura.

Q

• Quirkaholic – a creative that cannot control their compulsively unique & unconventional behavior.

R

• Recipeasies – a collection of very simple instructions on how to prepare specific dishes.

S

• Self-taut – bumbling about the gym and miraculously gaining muscle mass, despite yourself.
• SiniSISTER – a female sibling that freaks you out with their words or actions.
• Snackstabber – miscreants that steal your last snack & act as if they didn’t. Kinda like Hungerhanded, but with malicious intent.
• Sociopathetic – someone that is fondly aware they lack compassion and emotional intelligence.

T

• Tantals – objects or intangibles that are a teeny-tiny bit beyond your reach.
• TeleCATesis – the ability to move a cat off your chair with that certain look.

U

• Unfiltered Kiltered – individuals of Scottish descent that don’t hesitate to say what is on their minds.

V

• Vaudevillain – a mean-spirited person that absurdly exaggerates their meanness.