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 Sedona street samurai of 2000-2001, and his weird, improvised words”
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”
Forest cerveza – “ the Forest Service”
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)”