Nouveaucabulary
Acknodded – to acknowledge someone by nodding one’s head in the direction of the individual being greeted (rather than a wave or hello)
Artifake – something that appears, at first glance, to be an artifact (e.g., when you find a piece of pottery that turns out to be a rock sliver)
Benitization – after Benito, the
B3 – Buddha cubed
Canyonette – a small canyon
Cavortium – area of activity where a group of people are cavorting
Cowboy cairn – a rock on top of a Coor’s can, or vice-versa
Flateau – a small, flat spot
Geologer – an individual who studies geology, (e.g., Wayne Ranney)
Gourmasian – fine, Asian cuisine
Heartwork – homework that involve heart lessons
Hysterical marker – a fictitious highway marker substituted for Historical markers
an “Itsmy” tern – a selfish bird
Laisical – lazy and lacksadaisical
Mini-Mesa – a small mesa, derived from “Mini -Me” in the Austin Powers movies
Metamorphart – a fart that changes from it’s original inocuous form…to worse
Operational medium – the type of ground that is therapeutic to a recent surgery or operation
Overnoxious – overbearing and obnoxious; or when ya got bad gas
Peripheral knowledge – a sixth sense that provides information from the unconscious
Picturine – picturesque
Predecestor – people who came before us
to “Roget” someone – use vocabulary that is above someone’s knowledge
Santa-fake – SantaFe-style houses that are not truly adobe; rather, plywood and plaster
Stormlet – small, local storm
Swamplet – a low, wet area; small swamp or big puddle
Undercake – whatever is underneath (e.g., a t-shirt under a dress shirt; an underlying layer of rock