Alternate Word Descriptions

Plateosaurus

Here's another one of these threads where you write something down and describe it, but for words or phrases.

EDIT: Its no longer those. You can freely write down them as you want.

Tretch - A disloyal or untrustworthy person, derived from Treachery/Treacherous. The word was created for the 2004 film Clique, a high school dramedy adaptation of Richard III (with some elements of Julius Caesar) about a high school jock who takes over his high school's student body, promoting ideology which promotes extreme loyalty to one's social group.

Crapton
 
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P L Richards

P L Richards

Archerian - adj. gently nostalgic for a rural or semi-rural way of life that perhaps never existed. n.- a person who is nostalgic in that way (from The Archers, a long-running BBC radio soap opera first broadcast in 1950 about rural life, still popular today)
 

Ferd42

P L Richards said:
Archerian - adj. gently nostalgic for a rural or semi-rural way of life that perhaps never existed. n.- a person who is nostalgic in that way (from The Archers, a long-running BBC radio soap opera first broadcast in 1950 about rural life, still popular today)
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It can't be coincedence that you posted this will the archers are on.
 
P L Richards

P L Richards

Mangalicious - adj. (as applied to art, drawings, esp. comics and graphic novels) - enjoyable because in the style of or apparently influenced by Japanese manga or anime. 'John Smith's pictures are mangalicious'
(For all I know this word might actually be in use)

Not to be confused with Arumacious -adj. cute, pretty, sexy as applied to a young woman of east asian origin. e.g. 'Kim Sun-ok is an arumacious Korean actress'. (from Korean 'areum' - beauty)
 

NiGHTS

Byzantine
The word used to describe acts of extreme violence. Derived from Byzantine, which is what the Greeks called themselves as they "purified" Istanbul and eastern Turkey.
 

NiGHTS

Spish
A derogatory term used by the British to refer to the Spanish, with whom they shared a mutual enmity so bad that it would come to overshadow the Anglo French enmity in shaping continental European politics
 
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Aurantiacis

Aurantiacis

Gone Fishin'
Yi-zo-ya (YZYs) [1]: Abbreviation for 阴中阳 (Ying Zhong Yang), YZYs are the building blocks of all things on Earth. There are currently 121 types of YZYs (called Su [2] ) and are arranged in the Fundamental Code of Su [3]. One YZY consists of yin particles and yeunghe [4], which includes the zhong and yang particles. Proposed of its existence by Chinese physicist Sao Chai in 1803, the YZY would be extensively researched by the Qing Empire in the name of development and science. He Dongyang, a Taiwanese scientist, proposed that the zhong and yang particles exist in a small hub in the middle of the YZY, and in 1857 Chinese researcher Nu Yi and Jesuit physicist Bartholomew Chevrolet chalks up the first iteration of the Fundamental Code of Su. Today, the YZY can be harnessed to create yeunic energy [5], a power mankind has not fully comprehended yet.

[1] Atom
[2] Element
[3] Periodic Table
[4] Nucleus; ying is the electron, zhong is the neutron, yang is the proton
[5] nuclear power
 
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P L Richards

P L Richards

(No one took me up on this one, so...)
Bedrazzled
Damp and confused as if by bright lights [blend of bedraggled, (be)dazzled and drizzle]

Murgy (NB hard 'g')
adj. bovinely contented with life; n. a person (often female) who is bovinely contented with life [from Murgatroyd, a children's cartoon character]
 
The Professor

The Professor

P L Richards said:
(No one took me up on this one, so...)
Bedrazzled
Damp and confused as if by bright lights [blend of bedraggled, (be)dazzled and drizzle]

Murgy (NB hard 'g')
adj. bovinely contented with life; n. a person (often female) who is bovinely contented with life [from Murgatroyd, a children's cartoon character]
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Forgot to post, sorry!
My definition would have been roughly the same.

Anyways, in recompense a new definition and new challenge.

Junefed:
Raised in excessively joyful and optimistic circumstances to the point that reality is often ignored.
Modelled on "spoonfed" and allegedly based on the characters of June Whitfield who tended to be this.

Plink
 

NiGHTS

Maldits
The English word for "zombie" in another world. Basically, Spanish is a highly influential language, and in a Spanish language movie featuring the undead, the first of its kind, people go on to call the undead, the "cursed" or "los malditos", which gets Anglicized into Maldits.
Exifan
Based on the Spanish abbreviation of "fantastic existence". This term and its variants spread worldwide as TTL's version of the word for virtual reality, as the pioneers of that idea are Spanish speakers.

In a sentence: You're about to have an exifan of experiences. I am in an exifan. Welcome to the exifan world.

Ina
The word for radio in a world in which it was developed by the Hispanosphere. Derived from the Spanish word for wireless, "inalámbrico".
 
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The Professor

The Professor

NiGHTS said:
Maldits
The English word for "zombie" in another world. Basically, Spanish is a highly influential language, and in a Spanish language movie featuring the undead, the first of its kind, people go on to call the undead, the "cursed" or "los malditos", which gets Anglicized into Maldits.
Exifan
Based on the Spanish abbreviation of "fantastic existence", this is term and its variants spread worldwide as TTL's version of virtual reality.
In a sentence: You're about to have an exifan of experiences. I am an exifan. Welcome to the Exifan world.
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You forgot to explain Taloollabash and set your own challenge!
 

Plateosaurus

Putolemic (alt. Putolemy) - A adjective and verb denoting when someone is or proven wrong to a huge magnitude. Coined by an andalusian writer after the Greek king Ptolemy, who decreed the Earth flat and everything in the Universe revolved around it, playing on Puto also meaning ass in spanish.
("You really putolemied the test, Joel.")
Thinks Bumblebees Can't Fly - A midwestern US phrase meaning to cling to something (typically a belief or theory) proven wrong because it gives one comfort, in reference to the anti-intellectual myth scientists "proved" bumblebees can't fly according to the laws of physics.
("Still thinking bumblebees can't fly, are you, Bart?")
 
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