Fake Word of the Day

Scalvage--to find a discarded item and put it to your own use.

"I scalvaged this folding chair at the end of last year's festival."

Flustrated. A major pet peeve of mine.

Hangry--when you get irritable because you are hungry

This should be a real word, and soon may be. There are a number of real words that started this way, and now they enter the language faster due to faster, broader communication such as by social media. There's a name for it (per wiki):

A neologism (/niːˈɒlədʒɪzəm/; from Greek νέο- néo-, "new" and λόγος lógos, "speech, utterance") is a relatively recent or isolated term, word, or phrase that may be in the process of entering common use, but that has not yet been fully accepted into mainstream language.[1] Neologisms are often directly attributable to a specific person, publication, period, or event. In the process of language formation, neologisms are more mature than protologisms.[2]

reintarnation: when you die and come back to earth in the form of a hillbilly.

Aquadextrous - adj. Possessing the ability to turn the bathtub faucet on and off with your toes.

Basically. Perhaps they should be divided between those that are made up just for the comedic effect, like in toilet tank books, and those (like "hangry") that have appeared in usage and may become a neologism and eventually accepted word.

Lots of sniglets, like those in the clip, have no connection with the subject--and probably won't last. Others ("ohnosecond" "hangry") are puns, combinations or variants of legit words.

When Rich Hall kicked off the "sniglet" thing, people made them up and submitted them; several books were written. But similar fake words came from contests like those found in the NY Times ("reintarnation") or lists made for particular jobs or trades ("ohnosecond" like "pebkac" from computer users and techs). They used to be circulated by fax, old timers will recall.

It's interesting to see which ones stick, and why. Well, maybe not interesting to everyone but just to word people and language guys (must be a word for them).

Embarasteroid: the string of toilet paper stuck to your shoe when you come out of the rest room.

OB'd

Quarantivities--things you do to pass the time while quarantined.

The next pandemic movie will be written and directed by Tentin Quarantino...