New Words

The Washington Post's Style Invitational asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting or changing one letter, and supply a new definition. Here are some of the winners:

Adulatery:
Cheating on your wife with a much younger woman who holds you in awe.


Deifenestration:
To throw all talk of God out the window.


DIOS:
The one true operating system.


Doltergeist:
A spirit that decides to haunt someplace stupid, such as your septic tank.


Dopeler effect:
The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.


Foreploy:
Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.


Giraffiti:
Vandalism spray-painted very, very high, such as the famous "Surrender Dorothy" on the Beltway overpass.


Glibido:
All talk and no action.


Hipatitis:
Terminal coolness.


Ignoranus:
A person who's both stupid and an asshole.


Imargination:
The fantasy of being liminalized.


Impotience:
Eager anticipation by men awaiting their Viagra prescription.


Inoculatte:
To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.


Intaxication:
Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.


Karmageddon:
It's like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's, like, a serious bummer.


Manufracture:
To produce items which break after little use.


Osteopornosis:
A degenerate disease.


Reintarnation:
Coming back to life as a hillbilly.


Sarchasm:
The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the recipient who doesn't get it.


Taterfamilias:
The head of the Potato Head family.


Tatyr:
A lecherous Mr. Potato Head.


Telegant:
Looking good on tv.


Writer's tramp:
A woman who practices poetic licentiousness.