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UNITASKING
PRONUNCIATION: (YOO-ni-tas-king)
MEANING: noun: Doing one thing at a time.
ETYMOLOGY: Patterned after the word multitasking. Earliest documented use: 1985 (multitasking is from 1966).
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MUNITASKING - what the City Manager does
NITASKING - Do you have lice?
UNTASKING - "You're fired!"
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ALLISION
PRONUNCIATION: (uh-LIZH-uhn)
MEANING: noun: A moving object striking against a stationary object.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin allidere (to strike against), from ad- (toward) + laedere (to harm). Earliest documented use: 1615 (collision is also from 1615).
NOTES: In maritime usage, the term allision is used for a vessel striking a fixed object, while collision is between two moving ships. Frequently, the word collision is used in both cases.
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WALLISION - to hit the wall
ALLISIN - the ultimate triumph of evil
ALLISON - Noah's comment just before he set sail in the Ark
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MIDDLESCENCE
PRONUNCIATION: (mid-uhl-ES-uhns)
MEANING: noun: The middle-age period of life.
ETYMOLOGY: Patterned after adolescence. Earliest documented use: 1965 (adolescence is from 1425).
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MUDDLESCENCE - the next phase characterized by lapses but not yet demented
MIDDLESCIENCE - more than introductory but not an advanced degree
MINDLESCENCE - what Jedi have to study
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YEASAYER
PRONUNCIATION: (YE-say-uhr)
MEANING: noun:
1. A person with a confident and positive outlook.
2. A person who agrees uncritically; a yes-man.
ETYMOLOGY: Patterned after the term naysayer. Earliest documented use: 1934 (naysayer is from 1628).
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YEASTYER - makes better-rising bread
YEASLAYER - proponent of capital punishment
TEASAYER - gives a predictable answer when asked, "Coffee, tea, or milk?"
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LONGLIST
PRONUNCIATION: (LONG-list)
MEANING: noun: A preliminary list of candidates, such as people, places, things, etc. (for a prize, job, etc.), from which a shortlist is compiled.
verb tr.: To place on a longlist.
ETYMOLOGY: Patterned after the word shortlist. Earliest documented use: 1972 (shortlist is from 1927).
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BONGLIST - social marijuana smokers
JONGLIST - entertainer/mime/jester/singer/storyteller
LONGLIFT - world's tallest elevator
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Then make it so.
BIRMINGHAMIZE
PRONUNCIATION: (BUHR-ming-ham-aiz)
MEANING: verb tr.: To render artificial.
ETYMOLOGY: After Birmingham, UK, where counterfeit coins were produced in the 17th century. Another word with a similar sense has formed from the corruption of the name Birmingham: brummagem. Earliest documented use: 1856.
NOTES: True to their name, in Birmingham, they have artificial grass, artificial body parts, artificial collections, and even colleges offering degrees in artificial intelligence.
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BIRMINGHAMICE - fake jewelry
BRRMINGHAMIZE - to take the heat off counterfeit stolen property
BIRMINGHAMAIZE - corn grown in the West Midlands region of England
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BARBADOS
PRONUNCIATION: (bar-BAY-doz, -dos, duhs)
MEANING: verb tr.: To forcibly ship someone to another place to work.
ETYMOLOGY: After Barbados, an island country in the Caribbean, formerly a British colony. Between 1640 and 1660 thousands of Irish people were sent by the British as indentured servants to work in Barbados and elsewhere in the Caribbean. The name of the island is from Portuguese/Spanish barbados (bearded ones). It’s not clear whether this refers to the people, the appearance of the dense vegetation, or something else. Earliest documented use: 1655.
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PARADOS - two deuces, in a Guadalajara poker game
EARBADOS - musically raucous and out-of-tune
CARBADOS - 1. fusses made about dietary sugar and starch; 2. the prescribed amount of these nutrients
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SOLECIZE
PRONUNCIATION: (SOL-uh-syz)
MEANING: verb intr.: To make an error in language, etiquette, etc.
ETYMOLOGY: After Soloi, an ancient Athenian colony in Cilicia, whose dialect the Athenians considered as substandard. Earliest documented use: 1627. The noun form is solecism
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SOLESIZE - how big did you say your feet are?
LOLECIZE - to render humorous enough for social media
SOLECIDE - what we risk commtting by overfishing
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LOCARNIZE
PRONUNCIATION: (lo-KAHR-nyz)
MEANING: verb tr., intr.: To bring about peace or settle a disagreement by negotiation.
ETYMOLOGY: After Locarno, Switzerland, where in Oct 1925, Germany, France, Belgium, Great Britain, and Italy met to settle post-WWI disputes and concluded the Locarno Treaties. Earliest documented use: 1925.
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LOCHARNIZE - flood Yon Bonnie Banks by constructing a large dam
LOCARBIZE - remove the sugars and starches
NOCARNIZE - adopt a meatless diet
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DEBUNK
PRONUNCIATION: (di-BUNGK)
MEANING: verb tr.: To expose the falseness of a claim, myth, belief, etc.
ETYMOLOGY: After Buncombe, a county in North Carolina. In 1820, Felix Walker, a representative from that area, made a pointless speech in the US Congress. While his colleagues in Congress urged him to stop and move to vote on an issue, Walker claimed that he had to make a speech “for Buncombe”. Eventually, “Buncombe” became a synonym for meaningless speech, became shortened to “bunkum”, and then to “bunk”. And if there’s bunk, it’s one’s duty to debunk. Earliest documented use: 1923.
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EBUNK - to telecommute to summer camp
DEBUCK - to swindle, US style
DEDUNK - to wring the coffee out of a doughnut
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