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Update 140224

I see that the links for these have gone stale, so I'll just update and add the whole stuff right here.


Original Post 070725

A hundred years ago, back when the internet was a mere mass of text... well, o k, still, .. sometime within this new century, but far enough back... I put some neologisms up on a site that has now become a wiki! I just remembered having done that, and had to go track it down again. I can hardly remember my exact entries... sad face.. but will have to look through the whole word list now in order to find them all. - not so unfun. Now that it's a wiki though, there is no credit given to the contributors, so my word babies now float freely in commonspace without any reference to where they came from. THAT is how etymologies get broken, and we have entries in Merriam Webster like this:

Cuddle
etymology: uhhhhhhhh. Ah dunnooooo, eh?
(I wonder if it might be related to the Irish word codladh? j/k)
(This was a poke-joke at Mary)

I remembered these as being my contributions. Some were words I used with friends and family; some were words I cobbled together for fun:

Gloopgleep
unedited from the original version! Yay!

An over-the-top comic relief character in movies or tv. That character being so annoying that you hate it. Examples are, Jar Jar Binks (the king of gloopgleeps), That alien monkey thing from the Lost in Space movie, Mac from Mac and Me, The "brownies" from Willow. Orbity from the Jetsons reboot. Scrappy Doo.
Origin: A consmashulation of both the names of the comic relief aliens from the animation Herculoids.

B'weet
pronunciation key incorrectly edited by someone who thought IPA wasn't good enough. Vowel in place of apostrophe should be a schwa. What do they think this is a sci fi alien's name?

A piece of wild hair that sticks up, out of control, from your head.
Origin: My little brother coined the term when we were kids,  referring to the character Buckwheat from The Little Rascals, and how his hair stuck up all over.

Drizzmial
nicely unchanged.

That feeling of slight, but not overwhelming depression brought on by a day of constant but weak rain.
Origin: A portmanteau of "drizzle" and "dismal", with an extra vowel thrown in for consistency.

Fedoralingo
Pretty much as I wrote it.

The slang of the 1930's and 40's.
Origin: combination of the name of the hat that was popular then (and apparently again now), and the word "lingo," meaning language.

Kantapa
something with the text encoding makes the ää appear as question marks. What's that about? ... And I guess my cousin's grandma has become my own?

The best part, or bite, of a food. Examples: The tip of a slice of pizza, the middle piece of a square cake. The cherry on top. This is certainly a subjective term, so examples may vary.
The Finnish word for the heal of a loaf of bread. To trick kids into eating it, one would proffer it as the best part.

Stop-afoot
Almost forgot about this one.

Now I just have to figure out how to get my credit put back on my entries. I see that there are entries attributed to some specific names.

The opposite of "Go-ahead". when a boss or superior puts the kibosh on your plan or idea (seemingly for no reason.)

Das Blinkenlights

The flashing, blinking lights on the computers in old sci-fi movies, seemingly having no real function except to do just that, and to indicate, "this is the computer". 
Origin: Guy Harrison coined the term, using as we did, German to indicate something was ridiculous. 

Chowzers

The meal in between lunch and dinner, which is not the British "tea." Similar to brunch for breakfast and lunch. 
Origin: Mary and I came up with it on a whim. 

Griandóite

Tá mé griandóite thuas ar mo cheann, faoi mo chuid gruaige. An arú deireadh seachtaine seo caite, bhí mé amuigh ag an bhfeis Bróid na nAerach anseo, agus bhí mé amuigh faoin ngrian dhá lá ar fad. Anois, tá mé ag scamhadh is ag scoitheadh mo chraiceann.