Wack Words

Two newspaper editor friends forwarded the list from the Washington Post’s Mensa Invitational, a competition to combine words, creating new hybrids.

Stop me if you’ve heard this before:

Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, lasting only until one realizes it was your money to begin with.

Cashtration: The act of buying a home, rendering one financially impotent.

Bozone: The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating.

Sarchasm: The gap between the purveyor of a sarcastic wit and the guy who doesn’t get it.

Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously.

Glibido: All talk, no action.

Arachnoleptic: The frantic dance just after you’ve walked face-first into a spider web.

Beelzebug: Satan in the form of a mosquito that gets into your bedroom at night and cannot be cast out.

Another spin on the competition includes alternate meanings of words…

Coffee: The person upon whom one coughs.

Abdicate: To give up all hope of having a flat stomach.

Negligent: Absentmindedly answering the door in a negligee.

Lymph: Walk with a lisp.

Testicle: A humorous question on an exam.

Balderdash: A rapidly receding hairline.

Next week we’ll return to being really serious.