Create a Nonsense Word: Gabblerdictum

[wolram]

Have you a nonsense word to describe someone? mine is gabblerdictum
for a chatter box.

 

[honestrosewater]

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.

 

[wolram]

Or something, thingumajig," uncertain contraption".

 

[honestrosewater]

Or something, thingumajig," uncertain contraption".

Or athingumanajig- what a drunk says when he wants to dance.

 

[Soilwork]

yeah I use thingymajig haha.
Apart from that I'm about as creative if not more creative than honestrosewater when the mood hits me ;)

 

[wolram]

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious,

One my daughter used to use, try saying it when you have had a few.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

I always appreciate a little self defecating humor.

 

[wolram]

I always appreciate a little self defecating humor.

 

[cragwolf]

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.

 

[Moonbear]

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.

 

[Huckleberry]

pantywaist, milktoast, scuttlebut, dolittle, huckleberry, clingon, googler, bamboozler.
Just whatever comes to mind at the moment and feels right.

 

[wolram]

Nice one Moonbear, Doomaflinky

 

[Huckleberry]

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.

 

[Evo]

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.

 

[JamesU]

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

 

[zoobyshoe]

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

 

[Echo 6 Sierra]

On Friends one time I heard the character Phoebe use the words "squinky" and "floopy". No, I'm not a fan.

 

[countryboy]

Gabberflasted=confused
puzzlement=mystery
okeydoke=fine and dandy

 

[JamesU]

isn't it flabbergasted?

 

[Moonbear]

isn't it flabbergasted?

Not if you're confused. I like gabberflasted!

 

[JamesU]

stop gabberflasting and admit that it's flabbergasted

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Hoover Vacuum Cleaners declared long ago that the rotating brush roll on a vac is called the disturbulator.

 

[Pengwuino]

Nonsense words? Half of every british persons post? ;)

 

[matthyaouw]

eeh-up lad, aahl 'ave ye know t'yorkshire accent be as proper as any o' yur english. Nah shurrup or aahl bray ye!

 

[Ivan Seeking]

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.

 

[Danger]

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.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

MB and I agree that galumphing is a form of locomotion that lands between a trot and a canter. Large, awkward dogs often galumph.

 

[icvotria]

Nonsense words? Half of every british persons post? ;)

What gobbledygook!

 

[JamesU]

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

 

[countryboy]

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."

 

[Moonbear]

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!

 

[BobG]

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.

 

[JamesU]

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

 

[Ivan Seeking]

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

The brilliance of Lewis Carroll?

 

[Felixiass]

The brilliance of Lewis Carroll?

Ivan please...

 

[Danger]

"I done retch my point of pisstification."

 

[Moonbear]

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

Someone's going to have to ask Greg or Chroot about that one. Some programmer must have been a fan of Lewis Carroll.

 

[Moonbear]

MB and I agree that galumphing is a form of locomotion that lands between a trot and a canter. Large, awkward dogs often galumph.

But, is that a nonsense word? I mean, both of us use it to mean the same thing and we never knew each other before we started using it, and we live on opposite ends of the country, and move in different circles, so surely it's a word in common usage for us both to know it, right?

Oh, apparently our high school had its own language since I've never found anyone from anywhere else who uses this same word...ginkers were the kids who dressed in the heavy metal band black t-shirts, torn jeans, chain on their wallet, leather or denim jacket, long hair (think 80s hair band type hair), usually found out on the corners near the school smoking and cutting classes (they were especially good at standing near the hole in the fence at the back of the school property, and stepping through onto school ground when the truancy officer came around and slipping through onto the street side if a teacher came around...somehow the teachers and truancy officer never managed to coordinate their efforts to round up those kids.

 

[Adrian Baker]

How about sayings?

My favourite, used by a family I know well, is "not on pen". This refers to the way infants in school use pencils to write with until they have enough ability to use a pen. There are always a few slow kids in every class that are 'not on pen'.

A real cutting comment, that as far as I know is only used by a few people!
Great stuff.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

When I was a kid, the neighbor kid's dad was always at "Union meetings". Even by age nine or ten we all knew that the union hall was the local bar.

In our family, "under the pig" meant to kiss a girl; well, for me at least. This was because the first time I ever kissed a girl was while under the big cement pig at nursery school. In the eight grade, while on a school field trip, I was caught in the bushes with Robin; which was much more fun than under the pig by the way. Anyway, at that point my mom lost her sense of humor about the whole thing and it never came up again.

 

[Gale]

well, its not really a nonsense word... but in my house, we always say er... well i can't spell it really... kapshida?.. (kahp-shee-dah) its korean i think. it means hurry up i think. We always say it right before dinner... like, instead of "come and get it!" we say "kapshida!" friends would come over and get really confused.

also, when i curse, i get very creative, because i try to be unnoffensive. i usually end up with strings of nonesensical words. like "sugar-coated-fishinger-snap-cuddle-buck-daster-crack! holy-mother-of-pease-cobble-shanny-milk-leaver-parson!"

that especially happens when i play video games, i'll just sit and play and the words just flow...

 

[BobG]

also, when i curse, i get very creative, because i try to be unnoffensive. i usually end up with strings of nonesensical words. like "sugar-coated-fishinger-snap-cuddle-buck-daster-crack! holy-mother-of-pease-cobble-shanny-milk-leaver-parson!"

that especially happens when i play video games, i'll just sit and play and the words just flow...

For awhile, my favorite curse word was "Pisarcik". It just sounded good. It also left just about everyone stumped about what that meant - even most of the guys. You had to be a pretty avid NFL fan to know Joe Pisarcik spent his entire career backing up some pretty mediocre quarterbacks.

 

[wolram]

well, its not really a nonsense word... but in my house, we always say er... well i can't spell it really... kapshida?.. (kahp-shee-dah) its korean i think. it means hurry up i think. We always say it right before dinner... like, instead of "come and get it!" we say "kapshida!" friends would come over and get really confused.

also, when i curse, i get very creative, because i try to be unnoffensive. i usually end up with strings of nonesensical words. like "sugar-coated-fishinger-snap-cuddle-buck-daster-crack! holy-mother-of-pease-cobble-shanny-milk-leaver-parson!"

that especially happens when i play video games, i'll just sit and play and the words just flow...

That makes you a JABERWOKY

 

[Danger]

My uncle, a mechanic, would occassionally twit a customer by referring to the ujocopivy of the perfilarious in his engine. (This, of course, was back in the 30's when engines still had such a thing. )

 

[cronxeh]

not really a nonsense word.. but i use noob a lot..

yeah..

 

[wolram]

not really a nonsense word.. but i use noob a lot..

yeah..

And noob is?

 

[wolram]

My uncle, a mechanic, would occassionally twit a customer by referring to the ujocopivy of the perfilarious in his engine. (This, of course, was back in the 30's when engines still had such a thing. )

I cannot believe a mechanic would be dishonest.

 

[cronxeh]

And noob is?

wow zoob you really don't know what it is? you such a noob

noob is a slang for newbie

 

[JamesU]

i try to be unnoffensive

ppfft! unoffensive, where's the fun in that

and noob is?

jeez, you're a n00b

 

[Danger]

I cannot believe a mechanic would be dishonest.

Not dishonest. He was very good. If someone really wanted to know what the trouble was, he'd tell them. Of course, it was always itemized properly on the bill. Most people just didn't know enough about cars to understand what he was talking about anyhow. There weren't an awful lot of them around here back then. At least half of the transportation was still horse-drawn. Even a lot of people who owned cars couldn't afford to drive them during the Depression. And there was no mechanics school at the time. He was self-taught, and in some cases didn't know the name of the thing himself. He sure knew if it wasn't working properly, though. It's about the same as if a computer tech said 'Ah, this here transflovian flux scrubber is fried. Just needs some new chips,' and proceeds to replace a faulty USB card. I see no harm in it if there's no fraud.

I don't know whether your post was serious or sarcastic, but the same answer applies either way.