words really satisfy

11 THINGS: Words Really Satisfy

Thursday, September 7, 2006

1. Nougatocity: Nougat + toxicity, or maybe atrocity. We're on the first word and we already have some deeply seated reservations about Snickers. Sentence usage: The gunk on the back seat of the 14 bus had a certain unpleasant air of nougatocity about it.

2. Peanutopolis: Peanut + metropolis. We're assuming Snickers is satisfied that we're doing this. We're also assuming Snickers is really satisfied with the fact that we're wondering why we're doing this as we're doing it. Sentence usage: For better or worse, Jimmy Carter is the president of Peanutopolis.

3. Satisfectellent: Satisfy + confection + excellent, or maybe insect repellent. Sentence usage: Watching Billy crush that big black bug with his Snickers bar was disturbingly satisfectellent.

4. Substantialicious: Substantial + malicious ... I mean delicious. I mean nutritious. I mean salacious ... I mean come on, already! It's a candy bar that looks like poop. Sentence usage: There was a substantialicious amount of laughter during that "Caddyshack" scene where Bill Murray plucked the candy bar from the bottom of the pool.

5. Goondoggle: Googol + boondoggle. Googol: A number that is equal to 1 followed by 100 zeros and expressed as 10{+1}{+0}{+0}. Boondoggle: A project funded by the federal government out of political favoritism that is of no real value to the community or the nation. Sentence usage: Military spending has become a major goondoggle.

6. Phobophobia: Fear of phobias. Sentence usage: His phobophobia was nothing compared with his hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia (fear of long words) or his coprastasophobia (fear of constipation).

7. Exhaustipated: Being simultaneously tired and constipated. Sentence usage: It was 4 a.m. and he was simply too exhaustipated to get out of bed and go to the bathroom.

8. Scrumpdili-icious: Tasty delicious crumping. Sentence usage: You see that kid's dance moves in the Dairy Queen parking lot the other day? Downright scrumpdili-icious!

9. Supercalifragalisticexpialadocious: The 34-letter song title from the 1964 Disney film "Mary Poppins." Sentence usage: Mary Poppins? What the hell am I talking about?????

10. Antidisestablishmentarianism: (28 letters) Opposition to the withdrawal of state support or recognition from an established church, especially the Anglican Church in 19th century England. Sentence usage: Antidisestablishmentarians tend to be pro long words.

11. Floccinaucinihilipilification: (29 letters) The action or habit of judging something to be worthless. Sentence usage: The floccinaucinihilipilification of attempting to actually spell floccinaucinihilipilification made him feel seriously exhaustipated.

Tim Sullivan, tsullivan@sfchronicle.com

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