bunkum: ecela

It’s been a while since we’ve Bunkumed around here. Here’s how it works:

  • For the made-up word above yours in the comments, post a definition and/or use the word in a sentence.
  • Then leave a made-up word for the next person. Come back to chime in as often as you’d like!

Starter word: ecela (compliments of @ngie)

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  1. Ecela (noun):

    One who accidentally trips over their own two feet, then tries to find what they tripped on.

    Example: The ecela tripped yet again, much to the annoyance of her peers.

    Vertapbro

  2. Heidi says:

    vertabro- (noun)

    A device that holds up man’s sags

    Example:

    Good lookin vertabro dude!!!

    misdinko

  3. misdinko (adj)

    to describe a word as being lost in translation.

    fality

  4. @ngie says:

    fality (n.): A close call with a kitchen utensil.

    ex: Mary Jane breathed a sigh of relief after the fality of almost grating her knuckles when preparing mozzarella for the lasagna.

    phrostling

  5. Heidi says:

    Phrostling (adverb)

    the satifaction of licking a frosting spoon

    I frostling over that spoon last night.

    impny

  6. @ngie says:

    impny (n.): the state of having a numb appendage.

    ex: The impny in the job applicants entire right leg caused by sitting so long in the front office resulted in an extremely unbalanced gait upon entry to the interview and made the hiring committee think he was drunk so they didn’t hire him.

    scarfety

  7. @ngie says:

    [@Andrew... great starter. :-) Made me smile.]

  8. scarfety: to be covered in scarves.

    unsotelia

  9. jon mark says:

    unsotelia (n) : a bird that is only found in the southern regions of Antarctica best known for their head which resembles a telephone receiver

    forthastinum

  10. @ngie says:

    forthastinum (n.): a rare flowering plant found in arid sandy regions whose medicinal properties include relief from foot-in-mouth syndrome.

    prestidigitonium

  11. Kelly says:

    prestidigitonium (adj.): A wild running amuck of prestigious college professors in pursuit of ketchup.

    ex. It was sheer prestidigitonium in the cafeteria this afternoon when all the profs realized they were 45 minutes late for lunch.

    gunamum

  12. Char says:

    gunamum (n.) special chewy substance found in the bush of Zambia. It is not consumable by humans, but does feed some small insects. When mixed with the spit of a mother can become suddenly explosive and has historically been used in tribal wars.

    ex. The matriarch spit on the gunamum and started a domestic disturbance when she threw it at her husband and it exploded in his face.

    miskontrival

  13. miskontrival (n): a wildly colored drum from indonesia.

    ex: alece played the miskontrival for Niel, while singing “somewhere over the rainbow”…

    donusimus

  14. donusimus (verb) the manner in which the hair becomes disarrayed upon the putting on of clothing.

    igporth

    FYI – you have no idea how much my brain hurts right now! LOL

  15. @ngie says:

    [@Char - that was hilarious!]
    [@Mandy - is there an inside joke somewhere in there? Somewhere over the rainbow???]

    igporth (n.): the dental fitting designed for creating a lisp, especially used by actors.

    gingishu

  16. [nope! just went with the definition of a colorful drum]

    gingishu: um… what?

    gingishu

  17. @ngie says:

    what do you mean ‘what’? It’s a made up word that someone else will bestow with a meaning…

  18. LOL!!!! & who’s that someone else!?

  19. abigailmstall says:

    gingishu: a green dye used in staining bamboo carpet.

    maraway

  20. Heidi says:

    maraway
    (noun)

    An African candy bar.

    Give me that Maraway would ya sister!!!

    kityneener

  21. [thank you abigail! i knew SOMEBODY would know what that was!]

  22. Kityneener (noun)

    One of those really, really old widows who owns like 20+ cats.

    Example: I heard that Mrs. Freeman is a kityneener!

    Hutoma

  23. 1godsgal says:

    Hutoma: Bruising caused by clicking elbows together….

    Blagster

  24. faithstart says:

    blagster
    The correct term for cats sniffing each others butts.
    “the cats greeted each other first by sniffing noeses then by blagstering.”
    muffkin

  25. Heidi says:

    muffkin (noun)

    The rare occasion that your husband brings you breakfast in bed

    ex: Oh Mufkin!!!

    zlapper

  26. tam says:

    zlapper

    zippers on the legs of your pants, the thigh area “the lap”. (ok, bad definition)

    gooblish

  27. edfromct says:

    Zlapper – the piece of velcro attached to the sole of a slipper to keep them from falling off.

    ex- “What the heck happened to the zlappers!” she cried, after tripping on her slippers and falling face down in her cats litter box.

    museckling

  28. @ngie says:

    So zlapper is a homograph!

    That is a first (I think) here on Bunkum

    Awesome!

  29. @ngie says:

    I’ll take gooblish…

    the yellowish green color of mucus

    ex: the mother gagged as she cleaned up the unknown gooblish substance from the kitchen counter.

    And Nors word:
    museckling

  30. @ngie says:

    oops – not Nor!!! golly gee am I embarrassed! It was EDs word. forgive me please… :-(

  31. tam says:

    museckling

    is when moose “make out”

    shuppo

  32. @ngie says:

    shuppo is the sound that the disk makes when you are playing air hockey.

    barritole

  33. Heidi says:

    (tam.. so museckling is huggaboochin in moose?)

    Barritole- (noun)

    A vitamin for an old bear!!

    skeeterpansie

  34. skeeterpansie (noun): A new breed of mosquito infected with AIDS II (which is the second strain of the AIDS virus. It’s strikes twice as hard and twice as fast).

    Example: “I got attack by a skeeterpansie, and now I have AIDS II.

    Verp

  35. 1godsgal says:

    Verp: An african pygmy who insists on leaving the toilet seat up.

    Mellasquintence

  36. Mellasquintence: to stare at someone with a laser beam of hatred.

    The look she gave the man who overcharged her for her lemon puff was filled with mellasquintence.

  37. Oooops. New word:

    Farfullflunger

  38. Farfullflunger (otomatopeia):

    That sound someone makes when they first wake up and they realize that they have to go to the bathroom really, really badly.

    Zentraboopumonghia

  39. faithstart says:

    @ andrew
    Great now i’m even more afraid of mosquito’s! Thanks a lot!

  40. faithstart says:

    zentraboopumonghia

    when people go crazy about the turn of the century. Much like the y2k craziness only MUCH worse!

  41. faithstart says:

    verspis

  42. tam says:

    verspis

    an incurable std found only in ants.

    liboney

  43. @ngie says:

    [what is this with insect diseases!?!? :-) ]

    liboney (n.): a dish of minced lunch meat served on tiny pieces of bread commonly served at baby showers

    brackarick

  44. Brackarick: A game of chase played by poor english peasant students, in which the youngest is given a brick and told to hit the others with it. This game produced strength and endurance among the peasant clan, enabling some of the young boys to be knighted.

    doomangly

  45. Heidi says:

    doomangly (noun)

    A piece or strand of hair that the hairdresser missed

    Hey clip the doomangly dude

    moot

  46. faithstart says:

    moot: short for moo point.

    Joey on FRIENDS enplanes what this is.
    Its a cows opinion, it’s a moo point; it doesn’t count.

  47. faithstart says:

    caspis

  48. Heidi says:

    Caspis:

    the noise that the soda makes when open it.

    villenert

  49. villenert: the artistic sculpture made of mud, clay and unicorn poop that has since become a relic in most countries.

    tonconiphobia

  50. Tamara says:

    Hi…I’m here via cindybeall.com.

    Villenert: A village which seems to have been frozen in time, or rendered changeless by virtue of inertia

    Tropsophylia

  51. @ngie says:

    @Mandy! – Great def. for Brackarick. Too funny!

    @Tamara – Welcome to the game. :-) Your definition is perfect!

    @Cathi – I would like to see one of those relics…

    (Another homograph = villenert)

    So here we go with Tropsophylia. (Even though this sound like another great insect disease I am going to resist the urge.) :-)

    Tropsophylia (n.): a planet in the solar system Truglaphor located in Tratalie, the parallel dimension of the Milky Way galaxy.

    Tonconiphobia (n.): a deadly fear of toys that roll such as matchbox cars and tonka trucks.

    New word is:
    Happilous

  52. happilous: to live happily ever after.

    ex: they lived happilous. the end.

    blixy

  53. blixy: a strange wordpress theme that allows viewers to peer into the soul of the blogger. the format is similar to the wired-in consciousness of the “matrix” movie series.

    ex: using blixy, i will be able to blix alece while she’s having her tonsils removed.

    ex: dude… i’m so tired. i got totally blixed last night.

    FORTUNICATE

  54. [hahahahaha!!! sorry. i'm laughing at my own suggested word here. it's just so closely related to another word... dang. don't know where that came from!]

  55. alece says:

    on THAT note… let’s end this right here.

    —–COMMENTS CLOSED—–

  56. alece says:

    there were some awesome ones this round!

  57. hehehehehe!!!!!!

    so. i was just sitting here thinking: “dang. i can’t BELIEVE i actually met her!”

  58. roo says:

    I enjoyed reading through a few of these.
    I know you won’t mind too much, ‘Lecey… I’m going to be lurking for a while. Mkay, back to hiding.

  59. You’re lucky, Mandy, you MET her. I had to LIVE with her!

  60. Just kidding!

    Love you, Beece! See you in a few hours!!!!!

  61. Andrew: HA! GREAT point. as we say in the south: bless your heart.

  62. alece says:

    bless your mom’s heart.

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