this is a book filled with words that should exist, but do not. yet. for example, Bitrayal which is a perfect word for the Emotion occasioned by biting into a foodstuff you thought was another flavor. this is a word we are not likely to need often, but when we need it, we NEED it.
in order to help reboot the english language and ensure that it doesn’t become a dead language anytime soon, i am going to begin peppering my speech with words learned from this book. like so:
not to be Lostentatious, but after my recent Cubicull, i have been filling my days with Shoverdosing on friday night lights and trying not to fall into Pagita as i look at my stacks of BEA books and other book-promises i have made because i am a Canvict, and trying not to stress out over all my Chorespondence and the Flagony to which i am so susceptible. i’m trying to take this time to just chill out and get my head in order before i figure out what to do in terms of rejoining the working world.
because it’s dispiriting, right? it’s hard not to feel a little Slumbrage. i loved my job, and i was very good at it. i’m a very Choreful person; a hard worker who has never fallen prey to the Faultitask, cheerfully carrying out all Obligrations, and even willing to Plabor because go team. so it’s hard to accept that i got laid off when i know how often i worked myself into Exhaustence with insomniac Chorement, and how frequently i would Storbear my Dronely feelings when i saw other people yukking it up in the workplace. i keep reminding myself that it’s not like i did anything wrong, just luck of the draw or whatever, and it’s not like i have anything to feel bad about — this is no Gafftermath. and yet, i’m filled with Poutrage when i think «why me?» but then it kind of mellows into Doubtrage because — maybe this is an opportunity, as they say. maybe there is something better out there for me, even though i thought this was my dream job — maybe it was a Relashionship in disguise.
i’m trying not to become a Saddict and fall into the Recritivism trap, but not having a job has made me more susceptible to Slowth. i am having more Slocab moments, and sitting around Chowsing all day has made me a little chubby. which is fine, since it’s okay to Faternize when grieving; i feel complete Flabsolution and i’ve never been a Bitemizing kinda girl — no Deniets here!! besides — there are still some fans of my weekly AIFAFs out there — i can’t let them down! i just need to be a little cash-careful and not try to be a Niblesse. but the AIFAFs must continue! where would internet be without all my Supdates; all the photos of greg being Fidgital, all the Gleevil things i do to his food while he’s in the bathroom, all the Pestioning by me when i get Implatient, the Imparious way i forge into new environments?? greg would miss me and how i am always Chronstant (except for those times when i am Stardy), and how l always Tabdicate, and will never be one of those Reliabails. and that is why HE will never be my Palbatross! but yeah, so — job.
it’s weird being in this floaty period. to not know what’s going to happen on the horizon. and i don’t want to Canticipate or be Deprescient, but the whole process of looking for work is a drag. i hate writing resumes. i’m not someone who enjoys Dronanism, and the whole «selling oneself» to prospective employers feels awkward and Pomplicated. interviews are so stiff and fake-seeming; it’s all Autoprylot questions on one side and Blitzcreed on the other, and Wordure desperately filling in the gaps. there should just be a blood test for «good work ethics/habits» so i don’t have to go through that first date rigamarole or ever be Snoopervised once i do get the job. and i will. because i am good at things. i am Crambitious!! i’ll even take a Povertunity at this point.
but i won’t lie — it IS nice to not have to experience that Dready feeling every day over the summer-subway commute. i get to avoid the odors, the Germament, the Invertebrats, the overhearing of the details of strangers Boudwars turning me into a Dumpire, the fun game of «what’s the Stinkubus?» the heat is kind of paralyzing to me in general, and i hate the street/subway/street/office Sweather, so i feel a small sense of relief that i’m not forced to head into it every day, sweating onto fellow-commuters while fantasizing about Frostage. and i’m avoiding all the other annoyances of the urban jungle — the Sloglers, the Stewage, the Clogins. in a way, i kind of Loave my current situation — it’s a much-deserved break, but is hard for me. i’ve never been good at Pleisure. Plassitude does not come easy to me, and Oughty would make me feel naughty — my sense of industry rears up.
but i don’t want to Mopine. for now, i’m just going to distract myself, mask myself in Morosy, work on my Perseveerance, ignore the Bangst. maybe find some Comreads, use this free time to tackle some Stressipes (and not share with anyChewsy Feditors who perform Ingestigations on everything they are served — looking at YOU, connor!), and to just think about my options and who might want to give me the perfect Mespoke job.
so to all of you Theratroopers who have emailed me with your Chumbrage, i appreciate it. and i know i’m going to be okay — there will be no Pleasurrection; i’m just resting. and i apologize for being so Wordant — i’m actually experiencing a little Commentwary Sharanoia right now, but i think we all learned something here about vocabulary and about how someone should hire me because i am adorable.
GLOSSARY
Lostentatious — Overly public about one’s downfall.
Cubicull — Laying off of staff.
Shoverdose — To binge-watch a TV series.
Pagita — The stress of the unread.
Canvict — One imprisoned by inability to say no.
Chorespondence — Mail you don’t want to deal with.
Flagony — Guilt over unanswered important emails.
Slumbrage — slow-to-grow anger.
Choreful — Way too happy to work. (as in «David found his choreful sister bizarre, though he was happy to let her sweep up and load the dishwasher after dinner.» not «i am too happy to do any work today!»)
Faultitask — Mess up by trying to do too many things at once.
Obligration — Annoying task.
Plabor — Working while on vacation.
Exhaustence — The state of always being tired.
Chorement — Being haunted by to-dos.
Storbear — To sustain aggrievement.
Dronely — Having to finish something entirely by yourself.
Gafftermath — Fallout from a scandal.
Poutrage — Anger by way of whining.
Doubtrage — Uncertainty about whether one should be mad.
Relashionship — Bad romance you can’t leave.
Saddict — One who thrives on misery.
Recritivism — Torturous preoccupation with long-ago mistakes.
Slowth — Ever-increasing lassitude.
Slocab — The words you can’t think of.
Chowse — Absentmindedly eat the food in one’s vicinity.
Faternize — Hang out with other unhealthy eaters.
Flabsolution — Self-forgiveness for weight gain.
Bitemize — Count calories.
Deniet — Lie about cheating on regimen.
Niblesse — Those who eat only exorbitantly priced foods.
Supdate — Food-related posting.
Fidgital — Excessively checking one’s devices.
Gleevil — Happily disobedient.
Pestion — To ask something over and over.
Implatient — Edgy for food to get on the table.
Imparious — Confidently leading in the wrong direction.
Chronstant — Always on time.
Stardy — Setting off late.
Tabdicate — Let someone else figure out the check.
Reliabail — Always canceling.
Palbatross — A friend you’d like to drop.
Canticipate — To visualize negative events or consequences.
Deprescient — Imagining the worst will happen.
Dronanism — Love of hearing oneself talk.
Pomplicate — To create unnecessary confusion with formality.
Autoprylot — Perfunctory questioning.
Blitzcreed — Trumpeting one’s beliefs.
Wordure — Statements full of shit.
Snoopervise — Secretly monitor employees.
Crambitious — Taking on an excessive workload to advance in one’s career.
Povertunity — A job with more status than salary.
Dready — Always prepared for disaster.
Germament — The o’erhanging galaxy of contagions.
Invertebrat — Annoying offspring of clueless parents.
Boudwar — An argument originating in the bedroom.
Dumpire — Person who has to hear both sides of a fight.
Stinkubus — Source of a mysterious stench.
Sweather — Days that swing back and forth between hot and cold.
Frostage — Imprisoned by cold.
Slogle — Reduce one’s speed in order to catcall.
Stewage — Garbage left out in heat.
Clogin — Person who blocks the way while checking device.
Loave — To love and hate in equal proportions.
Pleisure — Joy of doing nothing.
Plassitude — Laziness without guilt.
Oughty — Guilty but lazy anyhow.
Mopine — Muse on source of discontent.
Morosy — Concealing sadness with cheer.
Perseveerance — Procrastination via performing other tasks.
Bangst — Stress over diminishing funds.
Comreads — People who read a book at the same time.
Stressipe — A dish that’s more trouble to cook than it’s worth.
Chewsy — Likes or dislikes certain foods for texture alone.
Feditor — Someone who removes offending items from her meal.
Ingestigation — Close examination of repast; to examine thus.
Mespoke — Tailored to one’s lifestyle.
Theratrooper — Friend who swoops in to commiserate.
Chumbrage — Irritation on a friend’s behalf.
Pleasurrection — Gladness that one you thought was dead is alive.
Wordant — Spilling over with words.
Commentwary — Worried about posting in case a million people respond.
Sharanoia — Fear of what people are thinking of your posts.
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Finally there’s a word for it: Fidgital—excessively checking one’s devices. Martyrmony—staying married out of duty. Author of the highly popular “That Should Be a Word” feature in the New York Times Magazine, Lizzie Skurnick delights word lovers with razor-sharp social commentary delivered via clever neologisms. That Should Be a Word is a compendium of 244 of Skurnick’s wittiest wordplays—more than half of them new—arranged in ingenious diagrams detailing their interrelationships.
Complete with definitions, pronunciations, usage examples, and illustrations,
That Should Be a Word features words on our obsession with food: carbiter—one who asserts that someone else cannot be hungry. On social media, like twiticule—to mock someone in 140 characters. On the modern family, like brattle—to discuss one’s children at great length, which leads to words like spamily—Facebook or Twitter updates about kids—and spawntourage—a group of approaching strollers.
From highlighting the profound financial anxiety of a post-recession society (
bangst) to mocking the hyper-vain celebrity circle that abstains from anything of import (celebracy), That Should Be a Word delves deep into all the most humorous, and maddening, aspects of life in the 21st century.
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Lizzie Skurnick is an author, a columnist, and the editor in chief of Lizzie Skurnick Books, an imprint that brings back YA classics for teen-lit fans. She has also written ten books for teens. A contributor to NPR, The New York Times Book Review, and many other publications, she is the author of Shelf Discovery, a memoir of teen reading inspired by her “Fine Lines” column on Jezebel.com. She lives in Jersey City, New Jersey.
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Lizzie Skurnick is the author of «That Should Be a Word,» a compendium of words for the modern age, based on her New York Times Book Review column of the same name. She’s also the author of «Shelf Discovery,» a collection of essays on the best teen reading of her youth, based on her «Fine Lines» column on Jezebel.com, and the editor of Lizzie Skurnick Books, an imprint of Ig publishing, which reissues the best young adult books from the 30s to the 80s, including the popular «All-of-a-Kind Family» series. She lives in Jersey City, NJ.
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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 5, 2015
What is enjoyable in bite-sized portions (the author’s weekly word in the NYTimes magazine) grows a little tedious when s-t-r-e-t-c-h-e-d into book form. And a lot of these word combinations are a stretch in themselves — you can’t just slam two words together and then try to make them make sense by writing a nonsensical sentence using the made-up word. The author seems to have spent more time making up the proper names (apparently all unisex) of the subjects she uses in each sentence than in making sure her new word made sense. You’ll find a couple of these words are amusing, but most aren’t.
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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 11, 2016
Actually Sharynjeanne (my wife) bought this and she loves the book. The Spanish language creates words all the time and this book lets an English speaker know how to do the same.
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Wonderfully inventive — stimulates creative thinking
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 30, 2015
Are you guilty of being “Fidgital”, excessive checking of your electronic device? Or are you “Dready”, in a state of being always ready for the worst-case scenario? These are two examples of words that sound legitimate, but are the creation of Lizzie Skurnick author “That Should Be A Word, A Language Lover’s Guide to Choregasms, Povertunity, Brattling and 250 Other Much-Needed Terms for the Modern World”. It’s a fun read with humorous and entertaining examples of words that make sense and might one day be in the dictionary. Highly recommended.
I spoke with Lizzie Skurnick about her book and that conversation can be heard here:
http://dougmilesmedia.com/?p=1896
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 6, 2015
After overeating on a religious holiday, I have given myself flabsolution for my weakness. What better way to be lostentatious than to post it here — and to tell you that this book is every bit as good as the author I heard on NPR. Perfect gift for the wordsmith — or the overly fidgital.
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That Should Be a Word : A Language Lover’s Guide to Choregasms, Povertunity, Brattling, and 250 Other Much-Needed Terms for the Modern World
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Lizzie Skurnick
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Kinnovator, Fidgital, Bangst. This isn’t gibberish. It’s the language of Lizzie Skurnick. NPR’s Rachel Martin talks to Skurnick about her new book, That Should Be a Word.
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST:
OK puzzle players, stay tuned because this next segment is right up your alley. Kinovator, a word for one who forms a nontraditional family. Fidgital, excessively checking one’s devices. Bangst, stressed over diminishing funds. This is the language of Lizzie Skurnick, the woman behind the former New York Times column «That Should Be A Word.» Her new book by that same title is a glossary of these innovative terms. When we spoke to her about the book, we started off with the pacifire, spelled P-A-C-I-F-I-R-E.
LIZZIE SKURNICK: That word was inspired by a ring of fire and coming through the ring of fire, which of course is birth-related.
MARTIN: For every word that you list in your book, you give a little explanation of how it should be used. And the one for pacifire is (reading) At six months, Allegra looked up and found herself showered, her child dressed and three bottles in the fridge. She had come through the pacifire.
SKURNICK: Yes.
MARTIN: Which makes complete sense to me.
(LAUGHTER)
MARTIN: All right, so I’m going to stay in this vein because you dedicate an entire chapter to words that have to do with parenthood. And another one struck me — the idea of brattling. Explain what it means to brattle?
SKURNICK: Brattle is to talk about your children, often at length. It’s brattle, but it’s also, you know, brat, to rattle on, to prattle on, a rattle and you know rat. You know, my words often have sort of internal words in them also. And that word, I think it had six or seven words.
MARTIN: So how did this start for you? Have you always done this, just made up words?
SKURNICK: Yeah. I — you know, I’ve always rhymed, semi compulsively, since I was young. You know, I remember in second grade, I used to hand in my book reports in metered verse because I couldn’t help it. (Laughter).
MARTIN: Wow.
SKURNICK: So I have always made up words. And I have also always made up analogies. And I think all of that came together, you know, the punning, the rhyming, the mania.
(LAUGHTER)
SKURNICK: Really, the mania.
MARTIN: Have you ever come across someone using one of your words, like a stranger at a coffee shop or something?
SKURNICK: No. I mean, I remember some website recently printed 10 of the words, and they’d chosen their favorite words. And I always google the words before I put them in the column because I want to make sure it’s not a word everyone has already made up.
MARTIN: Yeah.
SKURNICK: And so these were all words I had really vetted. (Laughter). And my favorite comment was, you know, I think I’ve heard all these before. But that was a compliment because it really means that the words sound like they already exist.
MARTIN: Yeah. Yeah. All right, so I’m going to give you a little test because this is your thing. What you’re good at is coming up with words. I’m going to give you a scenario, and it’s my personal bugaboo, which is the perpetuation of verbal tics. We all have them, everyone who does this kind of work. And I have a — I’m sure I have many, but there are a couple I know about. I say ‘so’ a lot to begin sentences. And I say ‘I wonder.’ So what is that, Lizzie? Is that a thing?
SKURNICK: I mean, for radio — OK, so I say this — I adore Terry Gross.
MARTIN: Fresh Air. Yeah.
SKURNICK: Fresh Air. But since she is probably the prime example of this, I might say that it’s — you’re being involunterry.
MARTIN: Oh, that is awesome.
SKURNICK: (Laughter).
MARTIN: That’s amazing.
SKURNICK: And I hope it’s really a complement to Terry.
MARTIN: Yes, I’m sure she’ll take it that way. I’m sure she doesn’t have any of these verbal tics. Lizzie Skurnick. Her new book is called «That Should Be A Word: A Language Lover’s Guide To Choregasms, Povertunity, Brattling and Other Much-needed Terms For The Modern World.» She joined us from our studios in New York. Lizzie, thank you so much for talking with us.
SKURNICK: Oh, thank you.
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