bubblegut--(n.) a gassy belly
Nathan came up with this word one day when he heard me talking to Noah. He thought I said it, but he had misheard me. In any case, we decided that it's the perfect word for, well, gassy situations. For example, we can say, "Hey, Buddy, does your tummy hurt? Do you have a bubblegut?"
This comes out of a great tradition of making up words, begun by Mark and Nathan in college. Here are a couple more for you to add to your dictionary:
neveryday--(adj.) when something never happens; Going to my Physics 101 class? That's a neveryday occurrence.
Shawshank--(v.) to get out of a situation; You really Shawshanked your way out of that one!
Do any of you clever people have any more to add?
5 comments:
Why did it have to be Physics??
--Papa B
Ha! Because Physics was the class that Mark really did always skip. Apparently it was so cold he would take a blanket when he DID go, which he didn't often do since he taught himself the material from the textbook.
Mark was definitely a class-skipper. He gave it up one year for Lent.
Gave up what, class or skipping? :P
Nice post, except for one thing. It reminds me of the worst.commercials.ever. (Sonic). I have a word for them, asinine, and that wasn't made up :).
There are a couple of expressions that are not made up that I have to keep explaining to my younger (and northern) colleagues:
tump--to overturn. It is sort of a combination of tip and dump. Buckets of water can tump over. Canoes can tump. Unsecured swingsets can definitely tump over. (Southern)
tumble to--to come to understand, to catch on. It is the 6th definition to "tumble" in my old Merriam-Webster dictionary, so I presume it's been around awhile (and it is not marked as a regional expression).
--Papa B
formationing (adj)-used to describe a marching band who is transitioning from one formation to another OR to describe a marching band who does not ever really hit a formation, but just does amoeba like shapes on the field. This can also be used in non-marching band situations-like for example, when a teacher tells her class of squirmy kindergarteners to get in a straight line.
And Papa B-the other "southern" term I have had to explain is "fixin' to" which of course means "about to"-I am fixin' to go to the store.
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