Neologisms

rjsterry

Sort of inspired by the news a few weeks back about new entries to the OED, and the success of the Songbook thread, I thought it might be fun to try and invent some new words. Alright, we might be lucky to get a listing on Urban Dictionary, let alone the OED, but I'm sure it'll waste some time. We already have a couple of commuting related ones that are commonly recognised, e.g. nodder, fakenger.

So far, I've come up with
Clutterf**k
noun - a state of great untidiness, applied to a desk or whole room, particularly involving large piles of loose paper or other small objects : I can't find the letter; my desk is a complete clutterf**k at the moment

Also spotted in another post: thinkness. Not sure what the definition would be, perhaps a measure of intelligence, but it sounds like it needs to be a word.

walkingbootweather

Hybridation - the state that a first C2W bike is left in after the initial enthusiastic rides, but before it gets sold on ebay.

Cycling legend - the bit that clips into the pedal.

Pedantic - the antics of a pedestrian

Pedalling filth - riding a really dirty bike

Single speed - slow

SteppenHerring

Of course on ISIHAC, it's known as Uxbridge English Dictionary. The finest example was given by Stephen Fry:

Countryside: Killing Piers Morgan.

rjsterry

SteppenHerring wrote:

Of course on ISIHAC, it's known as Uxbridge English Dictionary. The finest example was given by Stephen Fry:

Countryside: Killing Piers Morgan.

Often quoted, but rightly so.

rick_chasey

Glass cranking? ;-)

jonny_trousers

To be a complete and utter DDD?

rjsterry

Rick Chasey wrote:

Glass cranking? ;-)

Nope, not getting that one. Any chance of a clue for the hard of thinking?

Kieran_Burns

rjsterry wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

Glass cranking? ;-)

Nope, not getting that one. Any chance of a clue for the hard of thinking?

soft pedalling I would think.... just spinning the cranks, not really putting any pressure on

jonginge

Kieran_Burns wrote:

rjsterry wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

Glass cranking? ;-)

Nope, not getting that one. Any chance of a clue for the hard of thinking?

soft pedalling I would think.... just spinning the cranks, not really putting any pressure on

Yep. Term's been around for a while:

http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/lat ... m-all.html

rubertoe

Rick Chasey wrote:

Glass cranking? ;-)

Cockney Rhyming?

UndercoverElephant

Communter

com·mun·ter [kuh-mun-ter]

noun
1.
an extremely ugly person who commutes, especially between home and work.
2.
the extremely ugly bike ridden by an extremely ugly person who commutes, especially between home and work.

jonginge

UndercoverElephant wrote:

Communter

com·mun·ter [kuh-mun-ter]

noun
1.
an extremely ugly person who commutes, especially between home and work.
2.
the extremely ugly bike ridden by an extremely ugly person who commutes, especially between home and work.

3. Resident posters within the Commuter section of BR as referred to by Cake Stop denizens

rick_chasey

Have had mates refer to nasty descents as "trouser browners"

rick_chasey

I've always referred to people who jump from wheel to wheel, whichever is fastest, but never take a turn and have no concern for other riders as fleas.

Kieran_Burns

I think this is meant to be new words, not new meanings for old ones.

I have been regularly using "borkage" recently

borkage = degree of borkidness
borkidness = how utterly cluster-f*cked a piece of technology is

CiB

I do have a fondness for 'pfffft' with variations on the f count according to the dismissiveness required; equally twunt was a surprisingly good word that I first encountered on here, being a compound word (not quite a portmanteau sadly; that is a good word) made up of its obvious roots to describe someone who is a mix of those two objects. Or should that be abjects?

walkingbootweather

pfffffter - someone with a fondness for using the expressive pfffffft

rjsterry

Kieran_Burns wrote:

I think this is meant to be new words, not new meanings for old ones.

I have been regularly using "borkage" recently

borkage = degree of borkidness
borkidness = how utterly cluster-f*cked a piece of technology is

Yes. Although glass pedalling is quite a good image.

@CiB: a good portmanteau is always nice way to finish a meal. Quite fond of Tmesis as well, as in abso-bloody-lutely

rick_chasey

Ah apologies.

Wrath Rob

Stravation - Condition brought about by the lack of ability to upload rides to Strava to see how slow you really are

UndercoverElephant

Wrath Rob wrote:

Stravation - Condition brought about by the lack of ability to upload rides to Strava to see how slow you really are

Stravapointed - Condition brought about by the ability to upload rides to Strava and seeing how slow you really are.

veronese68

In a similar vein to twunt, I rather like phucktard.

rjsterry

Just found this:

Unappalin’ – Adjective used to describe a person with a combination of physical attractiveness, ruthless ambition and limited mental capacity.

rubertoe

Addison

Adjective - used to describe someone who drives like a completed phucktard.

ShandyH

Tanker - A cyclist who deliberately rounds everyone at the lights regardless of any assessment of the potential speed of those he or she has circumvented and then takes off with the speed of a tanker from port, blocking all and sundry.

tailwindhome

This may be a recognised word - I've just encountered it for the first time....


Clickbait - a Daily Mail article on cycling

rjsterry

TailWindHome wrote:

This may be a recognised word - I've just encountered it for the first time....


Clickbait - a Daily Mail article on cycling

Now that, I like.

Another non-cycling, but rather nice, one I saw was the collective noun for a group of surfers: multidude