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Home / Etcetera / PROMPTUESDAY #73: Silliloquy*

PROMPTUESDAY #73: Silliloquy*

Etcetera, PROMPTuesdays

After a recent evening out, The Rock and I arrived home at 12:06AM and wondered aloud what to pay the babysitter. She’d arrived at about 7PM and since we were between hours, the payment protocol was all off. Should we pay her from 7PM to 12AM? Or, 7PM to 12:30AM? Or 7PM to 12:15AM? And what would that be exactly?

 

These questions plague us.

 

Usually we opt for payment on the half hour, but sometimes if we’re just a few minutes past the hour, it gets confusing. Then maybe the sitter is late, so do we pay her for the time she was supposed to be there? Or the time she actually showed up?

 

It all gets so sticky in the head.

 

Either way, as we were racking up even more clock time trying to figure out what to pay our sitter, The Rock suddenly blurts out, “SITCULATE!”

 

I looked at him, horrified. Had his brain exploded from all the money figuring? I’d just begun to apply head gauze, when he simply said: “It’s a sniglet I made up.”

 

And then I fell in love with him all over again.

 

True story.

 

So Sniglets.

 

Remember them? Described as “words that don’t appear in the dictionary but should,” sniglets defined my generation. And when The Rock reminded me of them once again, I very nearly loosened his belt because he gets me, you know?

 

For the record, “sitculate” is the act of tabulating how much you owe the sitter.

 

Now it’s your turn. Make up some sniglets! Here’s some inspiration from here:

 

Bazookacidal Tendencies (bah zew’ kuh sy dal ten’ den seez) – n. The overwhelming desire of most individuals to reach out and pop the gigantic gum bubble billowing from someone’s mouth;

 

Gleemites – n. Petrified deposits of toothpaste found in sinks;

 

AlzIMers n. forgetting who you’re talking to and typing in the wrong IM window

 

Now go, you!

Please post your submission in the comments OR post in your blog and leave a link to your blog in the comments.

 

First time to PROMPTuesday? Read a bit about it here.
Want to see what’s been written in the past? Catch up on the PROMPTuesdays archive here.

 

*“Silliloquy”

Pronunciation: \si-ˈli-lə-kwē\

Etymology: Late San Diego Mommaese from the Latin, meaning to speak to oneself sillily

Formal Definition:

1 : the act of talking to oneself in a ridiculous manner

 

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  1. Laurie Ann says

    September 15, 2009 at 11:20 am

    I love Sniglets. Mine are inspired by the Mrazification of the male population.

    Fedorka: One of the enumerable young men who have taken to wearing Fedoras but can’t quite pull it off.

    Self Hatification: The smug feeling a Fedorka gets when he steps out in public.

    Hattitude: The jaunty manner in which one wears one’s hat.

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  2. Myra says

    September 15, 2009 at 3:59 pm

    I have missed sniglets so! I seem to be the only one I know who remembers them so well. Of course you would remember. Now off to write some…

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  3. Cheri @ Blog This Mom! says

    September 16, 2009 at 4:13 am

    Lambergasm.

    Best served with a generous portion of guyliner.

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  4. Danielle says

    September 16, 2009 at 8:08 am

    I have a lot of them too but being put on the spot to tell you them, I am drawing a blank. Damnit. I’m going to pretend you didnt’ ask and then I’ll tell you.

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  5. Nej says

    September 17, 2009 at 5:09 am

    I make em up all the time, but never remember them later. I really need to start writing them down! :-)

    I could only remember one……

    http://kayaknej.blogspot.com/2009/09/promptuesday-73-snigletwasnt-he-friend_17.html

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  6. Crystal says

    September 17, 2009 at 9:18 am

    Hmmm…

    We use “duncher” for when we’re having a lunch-type meal for dinner (like soup and sandwiches)

    And I know we have more, but you put me on the spot and I now I’m having a brain fart. ;)

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  7. De says

    December 13, 2009 at 12:15 pm

    Ohh! I got one today!

    Mischiefied: What I am when my kids are so bad my head is spinning.

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