Made up word from made up song

Obviously one of the most iconic examples of lyrical nonsense is the phrase “zigazig ah,” introduced to us by none other than the legendary Spice Girls. The ‘90s brought music lovers a handful of made-up words (keep reading to find out more), but “zigazig ah” is definitely the ~spiciest~ one.

Originating from the British girl group’s smash 1996 single “Wannabe,” the catchphrase is instantly recognizable by anyone born before the 2000s, and for good reason: “Wannabe” was an international sensation, not only topping charts and earning a double-platinum certification in the UK, but also conquering radio waves in the States and tons of other countries.

The 1996 track was not only wildly catchy but pretty mysterious. For years, everyone was wondering exactly what “zigazig ah,” meant, and it wasn’t until 2017 that one of the song’s co-writers anonymously revealed the truth behind the song’s meaning, per the Sun and Marie Claire.

“There was this one eighties pop dude who hated us for encroaching on what he considered ‘his turf’ which was boy bands and girl bands,” the unnamed source explained. “This guy had this nasty habit of taking a dump in the shared [toilet] while smoking a cigar, so we took to referring to him as ‘Sh*t and Cigars.’”

OK, gross — but the phrase “sh*t and cigars” does sound like “zigazig ah,” so I guess it makes sense.

Wednesday, December 183 min read

Hearts will skip a beat

Pulse will quicken

Lighter on your feet

Just a feeling

Falling in repeat

Love is a made-up word

Every time we meet

A new emotion takes me out to sea

Don’t know where we’re going, darling, you and me

Love is a made-up word

The way we feel can’t be defined

With candy hearts and valentines

Roses bloom and roses die

But you and I, we got it right

Love is a made-up word

It’s always a new day

When I’m with you

Take me to a place

Where the sun is shining on my face

When you take me, take me away

We don’t have to be like all the others

We can make it up, we’ll discover what we really need

Love is a made-up word

The way we feel can’t be defined

With candy hearts and valentines

Roses bloom and roses die

But you and I, we got it right

Love is a made-up word

Love, love is a made-up word

Oh love, love is a made-up word

Hearts will skip a beat

Pulse will quicken

Lighter on your feet

Just a feeling

Falling in repeat

Love is a made-up word

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Songs which feature words made up strictly for the purposes of the song.

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Made Up Words in Songs Lyrics, Latest Entries

Performer		Song Title		Made Up Words		Comments & Submittor Name
Rammstein		B********		Bückstabü		Accoring to guitarist Richard Kruspe; it means whatever the listener wants it to mean. — Jay
SSQ		Synthicide		Synthicide		There’s a line in the song that goes «killing the pain, synthicide». So I think it’s saying that listening to synthesizer music or synthpop music will help get rid of you sadness, hurt and other negative emotions. But «synthicide» is definitely not a real word. To me, the word implies murdering somebody with a synthesizer (beating them to death with it I guess LOL) or that you’ve killed a synthesizer, LOL. The song’s from the 80s but definitely wasn’t a hit. But the lead singer of SSQ was a young Stacy Q., who would a few years later have a hit with and become a «one hit wonder» with her catchy song Two Of Hearts. Synthicide’s an OK song but I think the title and lyrics hurt it somewhat and that’s why it wasn’t a hit, but yeah I’ve definitely heard better. — Edward
Yung Gravy		Oops!		Supercalifragilisticexpialidopesh*t, supercalifragiliyourexbeonsomeh**sh*t		He’s just making up rude words out of another made-up word “supercalifragilisticexpialidocious”! — BrilliantJ8
The Beatles		I Am the Walrus		Goo Goo G’joob		Sounds like baby talk. Of course, this was around the time The Beatles went all Psychedelic so there was bound to be some weird lyrics. — Steve
Betty Hutton		Doing What Come Natur’lly		natur’lly		From the musical, Annie Get Your Gun. — Sheila Oh
Tears for Fears		Mad World		Halargian		The final line «Halargian world, mad world» references a studio in-joke: «Halarge» was a fictional planet invented by a couple of guest musicians on Tears for Fears’ first album. In Gary Jules’ well-known cover, this line is changed to «enlarging your world, mad world.» — Sejica
Chairlift		Amanaemonesia		Amanaemonesia		Lead singer Caroline Polachek says it’s «a made-up word, made from combining a bunch of other different words. It means everything it sounds like.» — Sejica
Frankie Smith		Double Dutch Bus		Hizzey, gizzirls, Y’izzall, hizzave, mizzove, izzout, wizzay, sizzo, gizzuys, plizzay, bizzasketbizzall, izzsay, whizzat, nizzo, yizzou, izzan’t, etc.		These are words with the «izz» added. — JohnHowarth
They Might Be Giants, Mike Doughty, Elegant Too		Mr.Xcitement		hubba, blubba, landem, clamdem, glands, staben, hoobalicious, aden, mooky, Flansy, trooky,		— RayGun Sharpadero
The Associates		Skipping		Beauxillous		The lyric “Beauxillous Griffin” sounds very similar to “bruxellois griffon”, and may have been some sort of play on it. Billy MacKenzie was a real dog lover after all, it would not be the first canine-related Associates lyric. — Vonne
The Letter People		Ms. F’s song		Foodle-doodle-doo, feedle-deedle-dee		— JohnHowarth
Gioacchino Rossini		Impromptu tarantellisé		tarantellisé		Instrumental, but suggestive of a tarantella — Alan the Ottoman
Gioacchino Rossini		Prélude fugassé		fugassé		Instrumental, but the title suggests a fugal structure — Alan the Ottoman
Hall and Oates		Rockability		The girl got rockability.		Rockability isn’t a real word. But I think in the song it’s their way of saying she’s cool, sexy or attractive I guess. — Edward
Tom Waits		Swordfishtrombone		swordfishtrombone		«He went and took up with a Salvation Army band girl Who played dirty water on a swordfishtrombone.» — are the lyrics that have the title word in context. Neither the word nor its overall context in the song make its meaning very self-explanatory. I googled the word and tried to look up a definition, to make sure it wasn’t a pre-existing word. I found nothing to suggest it to be anything other than the song’s invention. It seems an obscure, not clearly definable term, just a juxtaposition of two dissimilar entities. — Natalie Lundgren
Ethel Merman		It’s De-Lovely		de-lovely		Lovely is a word but de-lovely isn’t. — Old Man Edgar Winter
Massive Attack		Karmacoma		Karmacoma		In line of chorus: «Karmacoma, jamaica an’ roma» — Farlow Maitland
PB&J Otter		Zip, Zap Zoop		Zoop		— Weast Weasel
Pat Boone		The Wang Dang Taffy-Apple Tango		wang dang		— Musiclover
Electric Light Orchestra		Don’t Bring Me Down		Grooss		According to the liner notes of the ELO compilation Flashback and elsewhere, Lynne has explained that he was singing that made-up word «Grooss», which some have suggested sounds like the German expression «Gruß» (Gruss). After the song’s release, so many people had misinterpreted the word as «Bruce» that Lynne actually began to sing the word as «Bruce» for fun at live shows. — Joey F.

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How’s your vocabulary? While it might already be robust, breaking out the big words will only take you so far these days. It seems that now more than ever, we’re hearing new words and hybrid terms people have created — especially from our kids. And since, as parents, our perpetual mission is figuring out how to communicate with our offspring, having a few made-up words in your back pocket may prove pretty darn useful. Yep, we’ve reached the season of life where we have to ask, “Isn’t that what the kids are saying these days?” But even if you don’t have a tween or teen obsessed with TikTok terminology, made-up words can be a super fun topic to discuss around the dinner table with younger kids.

So, with that in mind, keep reading for a whole bunch of made-up words you can use to strike up a conversation with your family. Some of these terms people use in everyday life, but many of them might be entirely new to you. Go ahead and try them out! After, if you want to pad your ever-expanding vocabulary even more — and, by proxy, your kids’ — carve out a few minutes to learn some cool travel words, descriptive nature words, or, for the foodie families out there, interesting words to describe food.

Common and Famous Made-Up Words

You’ve probably heard these words before and might not realize that they are totally made up. And some of them were so popular when they came out that they will probably never leave our minds again.

1. Dinglehopper

The dinglehopper was a fork from a sunken ship that Disney’s Ariel and Flounder explored in The Little Mermaid. She didn’t know the term fork, so her prized possession was called a dinglehopper. You can use it today for anything you don’t know the name of.

Example: “Suzie, can you come by and give me a hand. I don’t have a clue how to get this motor going. I fiddled with the dinglehopper and everything!”

2. Californication

After writing the hit song and album with the same name, LA-based band Red Hot Chili Peppers made the word Californication trendy. But a fun fact is they didn’t actually invent that word. A combination of California and fornication, the word appeared on a 1966 cover of Time magazine describing “the haphazard, mindless development that has already gobbled up most of Southern California.”

Example: “I’m watching so much TMZ lately. I’m getting sucked in by Californication.”

3. Irregardless

Those who use this word often mean to say “regardless.” Regardless is already a negative, and adding “ir” makes it a meaningless double negative. Also, there’s a general preconception that people who use the word irregardless are trying to sound more intelligent.

Example: “Irregardless of your opinion, the fact is that you’re wrong.”

4. Misunderestimate

George W. Bush accidentally termed this word. It essentially means to underestimate by mistake. While you can underestimate and misestimate, misunderestimate is not a “real” word, despite its usage.

Example: “Don’t misunderestimate me!”

5. Nom

A word made famous by the legendary Cookie Monster, noms as a noun means “food.” It’s derived from nomnom, which references pleasurable eating noises we make while eating something tasty (like cookies!). Nom can also be used as a verb.

Example: “Candy! Nom nom nom!” or, in verb form, “I nommed the whole pizza!”

6. Snozzwangers

This word comes from the creative mind of Roald Dahl. They are predatory animals that live in Oompah Loompa Land. They have three feet and are known to eat Oompah Loompas.

Example: “When the Snozzwangers became hungry, they hunted for Oompah Loompas.”

7. Snark

To criticize indirectly and sarcastically.

Example: After the boy lost the game, he said snarky remarks to the other children.

Phony Phrases That Sound Cool

These made-up words sound so cool you’ll want to start using them right away.

1. A Crapella

No matter how good you think you sound when you’re rocking out with your headphones on, let’s be real — it isn’t always pretty. A crapella describes that headphone-listening-type-of-singing.

Example: “What’d you say? I couldn’t hear you over my own a crapella.”

2. Air Stair

Have you ever walked down a flight of stairs and suddenly stepped down heavily on a step that isn’t there? You just found an air stair.

Example: “I hit the air stair so hard I thought I broke my foot.”

3. Blamestorming

You know when you catch your kids in a foiled attempt to do so, and the litany of finger-pointing explanations begin? Like, “This wouldn’t have happened if [insert sibling’s name] had just done what they were supposed to do!” That’s blamestorming.

Example: “They were too busy blamestorming to come up with a decent solution.”

4. Carcolepsy

As a parent, you might not know this term — but you’ve likely taken advantage of the phenomenon. It describes someone’s propensity to pass out as soon as the car starts moving. (Remember all those rides around the neighborhood when your kid was little because they’d only sleep in their car seat?)

Example: “Baby needs a nap, so I’m gonna drive around the block a few times and let carcolepsy do the heavy lifting.”

5. Nerdjacking

Sometimes a person takes over a conversation by introducing an obscure topic (or bringing up a common one) in excessive and often unnecessary detail. This is nerdjacking.

Example: “When we talked about the cast of the new Spider-Man movie, Sean started nerdjacking the conversation with facts from the comic book.”

6. Stallmate

Picture this. You and another person are in two toilet stalls next to each other. You’re both waiting for the other to make the first move/splash. You’re stuck in a stalemate.

Example: “We sat in complete silence for several minutes before my neighbor got so frustrated, she decided to end the stallmate by leaving the bathroom.”

7. Suckrifice

This noun means to do what you know is necessary, even though you really, truly don’t want to do it. So, you know, half of parenting. Welcome to the suck!

Example: “I’ve got to bake three dozen cupcakes for my daughter’s swim meet fundraiser. What a suckrifice.”

8. Caroma

This word is a combination of two words: car and aroma. It’s used to describe the smell of a car.

Example: “When I got into my sister’s car, it had a Caroma of goldfish crackers, baby wipes, and diaper powder.”

9. Cellfish

This is used to describe someone who pays more attention to their phone than the world around them.

Example: “My teenage daughter had turned into a complete cellfish. Her phone was practically glued to her hand.”

10. Chairdrobe

This is a chair that you put all your clothes on. It’s usually that pile of clothes in the corner of your room.

Example: “When I woke up in the middle of the night, I thought my chairdrobe was a person, which is definitely a sign to hang up my clothes.”

Phony Phrases That Sound Smart

Despite being totally made-up words, these sound like they could come out of the mouth of the smartest person in the room.

1. Destinesia

You suffer from destinesia when you forget where you’re going or the purpose of the journey once you get there.

Example: “Damn, I got destinesia. I completely forgot why I went down to the basement.”

2. Epiphinot

Sometimes we have an epiphany that changes the entire course of our lives for the better. And sometimes, we have one that turns out to be pointless, dumb, or incorrect. This is an epiphinot.

Example: “On Friday, I had an amazing idea to make big money that turned out to be an epiphinot when I crunched the numbers on Monday.”

3. Internest

You know when your teen curls up on the couch or in their bed, cocooning in a pile of blankets while they scroll TikTok for hours on end? That blanket cocoon is their internest. Get it? Internet + nest.

Example: “Willow, crawl out of your internest — it’s time for dinner!”

4. Preteentious

This one hits differently once your kid enters the double-digit era. What’s it mean? Well, it’s the level of histrionics only achievable by tweens.

Example: “My preteentious 12-year-old just rolled their eyes and said I ruined their life because I bought cinnamon Life cereal instead of regular.”

5. Ringxiety

Have you ever answered your phone only to realize it was a bird chirping outside or sound from the TV? Ringxiety is when we confuse the sound of a cell phone ringing with a sound similar to it. The term can also be used when you hear no sound at all but still imagine the sensation of your phone vibrating even when it doesn’t.

Example: “I keep hearing my phone vibrate in my purse even though my phone is off. Total ringxiety.”

6. Textpectation

Whereas ringxiety describes the feeling of imagining your phone is ringing or vibrating when it isn’t, textpectation describes another form of digital nervousness: the anticipation you feel waiting for a response to a text you’ve sent.

Example: “I texted Maria to ask if she wanted to switch carpool days, and she hasn’t responded. The textpectation is killing me!”

Gen Z Words

Wondering what the kids are talking about on TikTok? Here are some of the most common terms.

1. Cheugy

Cheugy is an adjective that describes millennials who try too hard to be in Style or trendy.

Example: “My mom tried doing a TikTok dance yesterday. She’s so cheugy.”

2. Ded/💀

As a surprise to many, ded means “lol” as if something was so funny it killed you.

Example: “That girl’s joke had me ded!”

3. Drip

For those of us still holding onto swag, this is essentially the same idea — it’s when someone has a cool, sexy sense of style.

Example: “Donald Glover has some serious drip.”

4. IYKYK

This acronym stands for “If you know, you know.” Use IYKYK to describe an inside joke or something that wouldn’t make sense to most people.

Example: “Last night was insane! #iykyk”

5. No Cap/Capping

In this context, cap means “lie.” When someone says “no cap,” it means they aren’t lying.

Example: “Coach said I’m starting in the game tomorrow, no cap.”

6. Basic

This isn’t a nice word to call your friends, but you can use it to describe someone or something unoriginal or mainstream.

Example: “I didn’t know what to wear to the party, so I got something vintage to avoid being basic.”

7. Bet

This is a short and super cool way of saying you agree.

Example: “Can you meet me at the house tomorrow?” “Bet.”

This article was originally published on November 24, 2021