Create a Nonsense Word: Gabblerdictum

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In summary, the conversation is about nonsense words and phrases used for different situations. Some examples mentioned are "gabblerdictum" for a chatter box, "doomaflinky" for people or things, and "whozawhatsis" for when someone can't remember a name. Other words mentioned are "hornswaggle" for cheating, "squinky" and "floopy" for unknown objects, and "galumphing" for awkward movement. The conversation also includes the use of nonsense words in literature, such as "jabberwocky" from Lewis Carroll's poem.
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Have you a nonsense word to describe someone? mine is gabblerdictum
for a chatter box.
 
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Hm, I use *********er a lot. Oh, and mother****ing****ed****licking*******er. There's also ******ofa********inthe****ing****er******. I'm quite creative when the mood hits me. :approve:
 
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Or something, thingumajig," uncertain contraption".
 
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wolram said:
Or something, thingumajig," uncertain contraption".
Or athingumanajig- what a drunk says when he wants to dance.
 
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yeah I use thingymajig haha.
Apart from that I'm about as creative if not more creative than honestrosewater when the mood hits me ;)
 
  • #6
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious,

One my daughter used to use, try saying it when you have had a few.
 
  • #7
I always appreciate a little self defecating humor.
 
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I always appreciate a little self defecating humor. :yuck: :smile:
 
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Proactive. Touch base. Take ownership. Leverage. Incentivize. Add value. Knowledge transfer. Milestone. Out of the loop. Responsibility assignment. Sync up. Team.

Welcome to the absurd world of corporate lingo.
 
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I picked up a nonsense word from someone else. Doomaflinky is a good word for both people and things.

Then there's whozawhatsis for when I can't remember someone's name.

Once in a while I run into a Bleeping Bleepity Bleep Bleep though. :rolleyes:
 
  • #11
pantywaist, milktoast, scuttlebut, dolittle, huckleberry, clingon, googler, bamboozler.
Just whatever comes to mind at the moment and feels right.
 
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Nice one Moonbear, Doomaflinky
 
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Moonbear said:
whozawhatsis for when I can't remember someone's name.
I just say 'What's his face?' Never in that person's company though. It could be considered rude.
 
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I'm not sure how I'd spell it by I use medoobilah whenever I can't think of the word.

Some favorite words are phlegmwad and snard.
 
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My grandma, (who I've heard is a total redneck) uses "hornswaggle" as cursing something.

I don't know if I spelled it right, but it's pronounced horn-swog-ul
 
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yomamma said:
My grandma, (who I've heard is a total redneck) uses "hornswaggle" as cursing something.

I don't know if I spelled it right, but it's pronounced horn-swog-ul
To "hornswoggle" someone is to cheat them, to perpetrate a fraud upon them, to "con" them. See: Bamboozle
 
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On Friends one time I heard the character Phoebe use the words "squinky" and "floopy". No, I'm not a fan.
 
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Gabberflasted=confused
puzzlement=mystery
okeydoke=fine and dandy
 
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isn't it flabbergasted?
 
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yomamma said:
isn't it flabbergasted?
Not if you're confused. I like gabberflasted! :rofl:
 
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stop gabberflasting and admit that it's flabbergasted
 
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Hoover Vacuum Cleaners declared long ago that the rotating brush roll on a vac is called the disturbulator.
 
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Nonsense words? Half of every british persons post? ;)
 
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eeh-up lad, aahl 'ave ye know t'yorkshire accent be as proper as any o' yur english. Nah shurrup or aahl bray ye!
 
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Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"

He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought --
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.

And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.

Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
 
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Ivan Seeking said:
Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
I was wondering what you were on about until I re-read it and noticed 'chortled'. You're right; that is pretty silly.
 
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MB and I agree that galumphing is a form of locomotion that lands between a trot and a canter. Large, awkward dogs often galumph.
 
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Pengwuino said:
Nonsense words? Half of every british persons post? ;)
What gobbledygook!
 
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Ivan Seeking said:
Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"

He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought --
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.

And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.

Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
No matter how many times I read jabberwocky, I find it very hard to understand

that's not supposed to say javascript. it should say jab-er-wocky
 
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I used to work with a guy who could best be discribed as a "good ole boy."

He used to say when irritated--"I done retch my point of pisstification."
 
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matthyaouw said:
eeh-up lad, aahl 'ave ye know t'yorkshire accent be as proper as any o' yur english. Nah shurrup or aahl bray ye!

Well, what do you know! t'yorkshire accent be t'nerd pirate accent! :biggrin:
 
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countryboy said:
okeydoke=fine and dandy
That must be some ignorant country version of 'okee-dokee', a fine word which sounds as good backwards ('eeko-deeko') as it does forward.

:biggrin:
 
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does anyone know why When I tried to type jabber-wocky (without the hyphen) the post said javascript
 
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yomamma said:
does anyone know why When I tried to type jabber-wocky (without the hyphen) the post said javascript

The brilliance of Lewis Carroll?
 
  • #35
Ivan Seeking said:
The brilliance of Lewis Carroll?
Ivan :wink: please...
 

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