what are words for?

Sniglets, for those of you who are too young to know the difference between 33 and 45 is a lot more than just 12, were "words that should be in the dictionary, but aren't." They were part of this really funny -- and very 80s -- show on HBO called Not (Necessarily) the News, which I just loved when I was a kid, even though most of their political satire flew like a flock of nuclear-war-triggering geese right over my young head

They were hit and miss, but when they hit, they were pretty funny. For example, a hit and a miss:

Cheedle: The orange residue left on fingers after eating Cheetos or some other cheesy snack (Hall 1984: 21)

Blivet: to flip your pillow looking for a cool spot (Hall 1984: 14)

Everybody get it? It's silly. Anyway, I just made up two Sniglets of my own:

UPExcitement (you-pee-excitement): The feeling of happy anticipation one gets upon hearing a UPS delivery truck speed down the street, because their package is finally being delivered.

UPEnvy (you-pee-envy): The feeling that same person gets when UPS does not deliver to their house, but instead drops a package with a neighbor.

I will now take the extraordinarily pretentious step of releasing my new Sniglets, which could earn me millions of dollars and buy me a mansion and a yacht, under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 License, with a badge and everything.



Sweet.