{"id":114,"date":"2006-04-10T14:23:10","date_gmt":"2006-04-10T19:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=114"},"modified":"2006-06-23T22:10:33","modified_gmt":"2006-06-24T03:10:33","slug":"neologism-new-word-hoot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=114","title":{"rendered":"Neologism (new word) Hoot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, The Washington Post has published the winning submissions<br \/>\nto its yearly <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neologism\">neologism <\/a>contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternate<br \/>\nmeanings for common words.<\/p>\n<p>The winners are:<br \/>\n1. Coffee (n.) the person upon whom one coughs.<br \/>\n2. Flabbergasted (adj.) appalled over how much weight you have gained.<br \/>\n3. Abdicate (v.) to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.<br \/>\n4. Esplanade (v.) to attempt an explanation while drunk.<br \/>\n5. Willy-nilly (adj.) impotent.<br \/>\n6. Negligent (adj.) describes a condition in which you absent-mindedly<br \/>\nanswer the door in your nightgown.<br \/>\n7. Lymph (v.) to walk with a lisp.<br \/>\n8. Gargoyle (n.) olive-flavored mouthwash.<br \/>\n9. Flatulence (n.) emergency vehicle that picks you up after you are run<br \/>\nover by a steamroller.<br \/>\n10. Balderdash (n.) a rapidly receding hairline.<br \/>\n11. Testicle (n.) a humorous question on an exam.<br \/>\n12. Rectitude (n.) the formal, dignified bearing adopted by<br \/>\nproctologists.<br \/>\n13. Pokemon (n) a Rastafarian proctologist.<br \/>\n14. Oyster (n.) a person who sprinkles his conversation with<br \/>\nYiddishisms.<br \/>\n15. Frisbeetarianism (n.) (back by popular demand):<br \/>\nThe belief that, when you die, your soul flies up onto the roof and<br \/>\ngets stuck there.<br \/>\n16. Circumvent (n.) an opening in the front of boxer shorts worn by<br \/>\nJewish men.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, The Washington Post has published the winning submissions to its yearly neologism contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}