Sunday, January 29, 2006

Wezumping


Announcing your engagement to friends, only for another couple to subsequently announce theirs AND an actual wedding date - thus nabbing the nuptial limelight

Sunday, January 22, 2006

whitmore


a cocky waiter who memorises your order instead of writing it down - leaving you with the nagging feeling that he's bound to get something wrong

purves


rogue over-the-shoulder seatbelts in a black cab that won't budge whether pulled forcefully, teased gently or sworn at

purving - to tug pointlessly at said seatbelt whilst hoping the driver doesn't bump into anything

Monday, January 16, 2006

fruitile


The inevitability that 90% of clementines in a brimming fruitbowl will end up being thrown away

Thursday, January 12, 2006

tubescence


the victorious feeling when an arriving tube comes to a standstill with its doors exactly where you are - giving you a clear run at the last available seat

Monday, January 09, 2006

half-butler

The joy at getting past the halfway point in a paperback

Sunday, January 08, 2006

Neolojism


a new rude word

Monday, January 02, 2006

Choc bottom


To reach that point where you have eaten so much bad food (esp. over xmas) that you finally get the motivation to go on a diet/start exercising

Sunday, January 01, 2006

loosing it

Annoyance at seeing lose invariably mis-spelt as loose

smessing up


Comic mis-spellings created by errant use of mobiles phones' inbuilt text dictionaries. e.g. I wolf you up this morning (woke)

Smessing up can be serendipitous - buffle is an improvement on cuddle, for example