ChrispenEvan said:

superbity

PRONUNCIATION:
(soo-PUHR-buh-tee)

MEANING:
noun: Pride; arrogance.

ETYMOLOGY:
From Middle French superbité, from superbe (superb). Earliest documented use: 1450.

USAGE:
“If there is a key to Gore Vidal’s public character it has something to do with his towering immodesty, the enjoyable superbity of his self love.”
Martin Amis; The Moronic Inferno; Jonathan Cape; 1986.

The one I wanted most to draw your attention to is “Epiphanot”

The one I wanted most to draw your attention to is “Epiphanot”

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“Epiphanot”
An idea that seems like an amazing insight to the conceiver, but is in fact mundane, pointless, stupid or incorrect.

I know you can think of many examples, but have you yourself ever had an epiphanot?

Other nonce words are: “chairdrobe”, “internest”, “textpectation” and “unkeyboardinated”.

mollwollfumble said:

The one I wanted most to draw your attention to is “Epiphanot”

Backspace key on thread title causing premature submission again.

“Epiphanot”
An idea that seems like an amazing insight to the conceiver, but is in fact mundane, pointless, stupid or incorrect.

I know you can think of many examples, but have you yourself ever had an epiphanot?

Other nonce words are: “chairdrobe”, “internest”, “textpectation” and “unkeyboardinated”.

A nonce word is a lexeme, the Internet tells me.

I thought a nonce was was a convicted paedophile, but that probably comes from too much watching of The Bill.

mollwollfumble said:

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Yeah, I have that problem, too.

“:Ephiphanot”

The Rev Dodgson said:

I thought a nonce was was a convicted paedophile, but that probably comes from too much watching of The Bill.

Famous nonce words include Jaberwocky and words from there.
Supercalifragilistic – you know the rest.
Cromulent and embiggen.
Bootylicious.

But nonce words can be for serious purposes as well. And there are more nonce words in English than dictionary words.

Some people are just walking epiphanots.

I had a visitor here, cousin of mrs m, who is sure that all Australia’s frogs are being killed off by aeroplanes.

Need I mention Zarkov?

mollwollfumble said:

Some people are just walking epiphanots.

I had a visitor here, cousin of mrs m, who is sure that all Australia’s frogs are being killed off by aeroplanes.

Need I mention Zarkov?

Or religious nutters.

mollwollfumble said:

Some people are just walking epiphanots.

I had a visitor here, cousin of mrs m, who is sure that all Australia’s frogs are being killed off by aeroplanes.

Send him round to our back yard (under the Sydney flight path) any springtime night. Tell him to bring ear protectors (and not for the aircraft noise).

The Rev Dodgson said:

mollwollfumble said:

Some people are just walking epiphanots.

I had a visitor here, cousin of mrs m, who is sure that all Australia’s frogs are being killed off by aeroplanes.

Send him round to our back yard (under the Sydney flight path) any springtime night. Tell him to bring ear protectors (and not for the aircraft noise).

Will do.