New Words
Posted By Caulimovirus on August 4, 2006
“Words for Common Items, Events, or Descriptors”
.: Douglas Adams and John Lloyd published a book titled “The Deeper Meaning of Liff” wherein they had definitions for words that they felt needed to exist. For instance, a haxby (n.) is “any gardening implement found in a potting-shed whose exact purpose is unclear.” The words for these new definition were taken from city names in Britain, but there were some exceptions, like malibu (n.): “The height by which the top of a wave exceeds the height to which you have rolled up your trousers.”
.: Recently I’ve noticed quite a few situations which I believe deserve their own words. Today I found two, and I would like to share them with you:
Brady
(n.) 1. a. An undesirable flavor that accumulates in a container of sweets as other flavors are eaten. b. Most common brady is lemon, or “yellow.”
2. A single representative of the undesired flavor.
“Dude, what’s left in your bag?” “Oh, mainly bradies and some reds.”
Luling
(n.) Any slim or flattened object, usually a bookmark but occasionally a photograph, found between the pages of a book purchased from a used bookstore.
“Check out this weird luling I got from Bob’s Paperback Exchange”
.: Here are some pictures to help you visualize these new words:
Bradies
A luling
.: Borrowing from Adams and Lloyd’s method, I have used names of cities in my native state of Texas: Brady, TX and Luling, TX.
I like “brady” as a word better. That said, someone left a luling in a book I swiped from a school booksale, talking about the historical Arthur of the Britons on one side, and pointing towards some questions on pg. 56 of the book it’s in on the other.
I believe I had more than one occasion to use both of those words this summer. Why don’t you like lemon? Who doesn’t like lemon?