Recently a friend and I started to get emails from Merriam Webster's website to work on our vocabulary. Temporize, detritus, zenith, and others have been included in the daily email. Most times, I forget the meaning before I can go to the next email (You notice that I only put the words and not the definitions:-)
By getting these emails, it brought back some funny memories about times when people created their own words.
Word: Cumuffb'tween
Sentence: Boy! If you don't cumuffb'tween them bushes!!
Meaning: Come from between
Source: Excerpt from Steve Harvey
Word: Runt
Sentence: I bought this ground beef yesterday, and it is runt!
Meaning: Ruined; spoiled; outdated
Source: While in Kroger, I witnessed a lady use this terminology in order to explain her grievance to the customer service rep. Luckily, I used my context clues, and then explained it to the rep. (LOL!)
Word: Idear
Sentence: I have a wonderful idear for the church banquet.
Meaning: Thought
Source: Occasionally, you may hear this word from the elderly. I know my great grandmother used idear (Please don't come from heaven to get me Shemama), and I always wonder why people would put letter r at the end of certain words. If you know why please let me know.
Create a word today and help laughter stay!
P.S. If you have any creative words or commonly misused words, please post them to the comment section; and I will add them to the posting. Please use the same format that I used. Thanks!
posted by GodisloveisGod @ 9:02 PM
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Word: laxy-daisy
Sentence: He's so laxy-daisy at work, he doesn't care about anything.
Meaning: lacking life, spirit or zest
Source: A friend actually used this in a conversation
Word: Paisel
Sentence: I would love a Paisel robe to match my slippers.
Meaning: Made of a soft wool fabric with a colorful, woven or printed and swirled pattern of abstract curved shapes.
Marked with this pattern.
Word: Purkle
Sentence: I like to put peppermints in my purkles
Meaning: A cucumber that has been preserved.
Word: Murk
Sentence: The baby needs some murk.
Meaning: A fluid secreted by the mammary glands of females for the nourishment of their young; especially : cow's milk used as a food by humans
Word: Nurkel
Sentence: Do you have a NURKEL I can borrow, I am trying to set SUMPTIN outta da machine.
Meaning: A U.S. coin worth five cents, made of a nickel and copper alloy.
Source: Memphis City School Systems
Word: FINTA
Sentence: I was FINTA leave when it began to rain.
Meaning: Ready to, on the verge of
Word: saat
Sentence: I wish you'd git somewhere n saat down.
Meaning: rest the buttocks on the ground or in a seat while keeping the torso upright
Source: A lady in the beauty shop said this to a little boy.
Word: Fewn
Sentence: Are you going to Sis. Tate's fewn Saturday?
Meaning: Ceremonial burial or cremation of a corpse.
Source: Several of my grandparents friends would use this word.
Word: Maine
Sentences: What's up, Maine! Maine, I burned my hand. Maine, that food was good. Maine, he missed the shot.
Meaning: Adult male human; used to express strong feeling (as pleasure, surprise, displeasure or disappointment)
Source: Any street corner in Memphis
Word: burtiful
Sentence: Maine, she is burtiful!
Meaning: Pretty; lovely
Source: Blackhaven
Word: Her
Sentence: Come over her!
Meaning: In or at this place or point.
Source: My old hood
Word: Stoutjunt
Sentence: Maine, did you see that stoutjunt at the club.
Meaning: a woman with a well-proportioned body.
Word: Der
Sentence: Hand me that comb right der.
Meaning: At or in that place (there)
Source: Any of our fine public housing facilities
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Word: Hrer
Sentence: Hurry up and come over hrer.
Meaning: To this place; hither: (here)
Source: Willie Herenton's school of English
Word: Sheeat
Sentence: He thought I was gonna give him my money- Sheeat
Meaning: Used to express surprise, anger, or extreme displeasure.
Source: Outside on the porch at my Nanny's house.
Word: Iownebnbelee
Sentence: Mane, Iownebnbelee it happened like that.
Meaning: it is difficult to fathom, very difficult to believe,
Source: The Mall of Memphis- 1995
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Word: Lieberry
Sentence: Take that book back to da liebarry before you get a late fee.
Meaning: A place in which literary and artistic materials, such as books, periodicals, newspapers, pamphlets, prints, records, and tapes, are kept for reading, reference, or lending.
Source: That damn Willie H. said it at my graduation ceremony, this was his last year as Superintendent of Schools.
Word: Potna
Sentence: Maine, me and my potna saw this stoutjunt at the mall
Meaning: Close friend, homie
Source: A fellow employee said this in conversation today
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