Portmanteur

A made up word to describe a person who makes up words. 

This is what one looks like.  (The puppy is for scale.)  

Credit: The amazing Lacie.  A Portmanteau is, as it turns out, what I like to make.  A made up word that is a blend of two or more other words.  My friend Lacie wrote this lymerick.. I had to include it:

Aww. She also gave me a Dr. Seuss book that I somehow didn’t know about.  On Beyond Zebra!

The usage of the word ‘portmanteau’ in this sense first appeared in Lewis Carroll’s book Through the Looking-Glass (1871), in which Humpty Dumpty explains to Alice the coinage of the unusual words in Jabberwocky:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portmanteau

“A humorous synonym for “portmanteau word” is “frankenword”, itself a portmanteau word, blending “Frankenstein” and “word”"

I guess that means you could also call me a frankenworder.  But don’t.

Fesorta

A hat that’s sorta like a Fedora, but lacks the iconic genuineness of The Blues Brothers, Indiana Jones, or Freddy Krueger. 

This is the Indie Fesorta.  It’s like the Indy Fedora that Indiana Jones wears, but looks more like it came in a dress up set, and tries to bring some film noir legitimacy. That’s not something a hat can do on it’s own. Also it’s used more for playing Dungeons and Dragons than it is for keeping the sun off of your head, as they are rarely worn during the day. 

I’m not judging, of course, just reporting.  The Fesorta is making it’s way in to your world.  I After I saw this guy (above), within five minutes I saw two more Fesortas.  I explained to them all that I needed a picture of hats.  I found that if people think you’re on a treasure hunt, you can really get away with a lot.  

The Gay Mafia Fesorta.   Life is freekin good when you’re wackin some guy in a hat like this. 

 

 

The Yacht Rock Fesorta, AKA the Key Largo Fesorta.

I’ll update if I find any other varieties.

Spontanerience

The balance of practical wisdom and impulsive vigor

Friendable

Adjective
Easy to be friends with. My son Harper made this word up to describe himself, and he’s right. He is very friendable.

Manergy

Noun

Energy spent for its own sake.  

When a muscley man looks into the void and makes a honking noise while flexing his face and arm muscles, he is expending manergy.   I hesitate (and ask the reader to  hesitate) before calling it ‘pointless’, since there undoubtedly is a purpose for it, and therefore a point.  However, it isn’t healthy in large doses, and If men aren’t careful, more and more of their potentially useful energy could turn into manergy.  Manergy is the corn syrup of energy. 

 

Horchatacicle

I didn’t really make up this word, but it’s a word everyone should know.

I’ve found some good things in my day.  Smores, Nina Simone, self-dating, the list goes on.  This was a bright moment.  First there’s the goodness of Horchata: (not my picture)

We know about this already.  It’s too good to be called a liquid.  It’s too precious for that.

Anyway, I give you the perfect summer item: The Horchatacicle:

 

 They have them at El Chilito

Hangry

Adjective

To hunger to the point of anger.  To become hungry, then angry and hungry, then fully hangry.  Hangry is worse than the sum of its parts.

My son Henry is able to express this using only his face…

 

note: I didn’t make up this word.  The credit goes to my friend Montana.

Plantasy

Noun

A Plantasy is a plan, which develops incrementally, then exponentially to a frenzy of planning planniness, reaching epic fantasy proportions. 

Banizzler

Banizzler

It’s a banizzler- A banana with a twizzler center.  For people who are ‘trying to start eating healthier.’  At work we are transitioning out the junk food, I thought this might be a softer landing for some.  You don’t want to just go eating fruit and vegetables straight out of the gate..   

“You can’t win friends with salad…”

Homer Simpson

Mailure

Noun

A failure to convey an idea or emotion in an email communication, due to the impersonal nature of text.