Sniglet- A word that doesn’t
appear in the dictionary, but should.
Here are a bunch of examples:
Aeropalmics - The study of wind resistance conducted by
holding a cupped hand out the car window.
Animalanche - When you kick your stuffed animals in your sleep
and they fall all over you or the floor.
Aquadextrous - Possessing the ability to turn the bathtub
faucet on and off with your toes.
Aqualibrium - The point where the stream of drinking
fountain water is at its perfect height, thus relieving the drinker from (a)
having to suck the nozzle, or (b) squirting himself in the eye.
Bazookacidal Tendencies - The overwhelming desire of most
individuals to reach out and pop the gigantic gum bubble billowing from
someone's mouth.
Blivet - to flip
your pillow looking for a cool spot.
Blossor - The hair style one has after removing a baseball
cap.
Bowlikinetics - The act of trying to control a released
bowling ball by twisting one's body in the direction one wants it to go.
Chwads -The small,
disgusting wads of chewed gum commonly found beneath table and counter tops.
Cheedle - The
orange residue left on fingers after eating Cheetos or some other cheesy snack.
Elbonics - The actions of two people maneuvering for one
armrest in a movie theater.
Ellacelleration - The mistaken belief that repeatedly
pressing the elevator button will make it go faster
Fetchplex - State of momentary confusion in a dog whose
owner has faked throwing the ball and palmed it behind his back.
Fictate - To inform a television or screen character of
impending danger under the assumption they can hear you.
Grackles – The wrinkles that appear on the body after
staying in water too long.
Knuck -Ice cream
collected on the back of the hand when scraping the last portions from the box.
Mittsquinter - A ballplayer who looks into his glove after
missing the ball, as if, somehow, the cause of the error lies there.
Oopzama - Sudden
scratching of scalp or face upon realization that the person you were waving at
isn't who you thought it was.
Optortionist - The
kid in school who can turn his eyelids inside out.
Oreosis - The practice of eating the cream center of an Oreo
before eating the cookie outsides.
P-spot - The area
directly above the urinal in public restrooms that men stare at, knowing a
glance in any other direction would arouse suspicion.
Phonesia - The affliction of dialing a phone number and
forgetting whom you were calling just as they answer.
Pigslice - The last unclaimed piece of pizza that everyone
is secretly dying for.
Prestofrigeration -
The peculiar habit, when searching for a snack, of constantly returning to
the refrigerator in hopes that something new will have materialized.
Slurm - The slime that accumulates on the underside of a
soap bar when it sits in the dish too long.
Snackmosphere - The empty but explosive layer of air at the
top of a potato chip bag.
Snargle - To lessen the visual impact of a horror movie by
filtering it through one's fingers.
Sniffleridge -
The groove running between the nose and the mouth
Spirobits - The
frayed bits of left-behind paper in a spiral notebook.
Spudrubble -
Unclaimed french fries at the bottom of a fastfood bag.
Umbrace - The small
strap that holds an umbrella in place.
Toastaphobia -
The fear of sticking a fork in a toaster even when it's unplugged
On the back of
this sheet, do any combination of these three options as long as you do 10 total.
1. Choose a
sniglet and explain why the word is a perfect match for the definition.
2. Choose a
new word that you think is better and explain why it’s better.
3. Make up
your own sniglet and defintion.
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