Friday

Sniglets

Being a word person, I love sniglets. According to Wikipedia, a sniglet is defined as a "word that should be in the dictionary, but isn't". While Rich Hall invented the word "sniglet" itself, sniglets are actually a long-running popular joke in which people make up their own humorous words to describe things or concepts that have no "official" words.

Some of my favorites:

  • Cheedle: The orange residue left on fingers after eating Cheetos or some other cheesy snack.
  • Execuglide: The act of using your wheeled office chair to move from one place to another.
  • Glackett: The ball inside a can of spray paint (or other aerosol can) for stirring the contents inside the can.
  • Toastaphobia: - The fear of sticking a fork in a toaster even when it's unplugged.
  • Telecrastination: - The act of always letting the phone ring at least twice before you pick it up, even when you're only six inches away.
  • Spudrubble : - Unclaimed french fries at the bottom of a fastfood bag.
  • Presto-frigeration: - The peculiar habit, when searching for a snack, of constantly returning to the refrigerator in hopes that something new will have materialized.
  • Pillsburglar: - Person able to sample the icing on a new cake without leaving a fingerprint.
  • Omnibiblious - adj. Indifferent to type of drink. "Oh, you can get me anything. I'm omnibiblious."
  • Musquirt: - The water that comes out of the initial squirts of a squeeze mustard bottle.