Dictionarese: (n.) The kind of language employed by schoolkids, managers, and bureaucrats trying to sound impressive, marked by long words and pompous phrasing, as in "every email I get from them is written in Dictionarese. The last one begins "It is our endeavor to provide delight to our customers (employees)...We thank you for being our valuable customer and seek your continual support for this arduous yet fulfilling journey towards excellence and growth." and all I could think was that I am soooooo not delighted."

Note: Dictionarese is the common language of college application essays and is rampant during SAT/GRE season.

Notwork or Nyetwork: (n.) An unreliable network that does not allow you to complete your work, as in "I'd have finished the project a day earlier if I hadn't had to deal with the stupid nyetwork they have in my office." "I spent more time waiting for that stupid notwork than I did doing the actual work."

Soul-maggot: (n.) Someone or something that slowly eats away at your soul in small ways, as in "You should get out of that soul-maggot of a job before you turn into another one of the zombies."

Related: Sanity-maggot: Someone or something with a similar effect on your sanity, as in "Sally is such a sanity-maggot - working for her was like being slowly sucked into her bizarro universe until you started thinking it was real."

Sleap: (n.) The leaps time takes as you doze in the morning, as in "I had the worst sleap this morning...it felt like one minute it was 6:30 and the next it was nearly 9!"

(v.) To doze, wake up, look at the clock, and doze again, as in "I spent the whole morning sleaping."

Var. Asleap: Dozing, as in "I wasn't asleep...I was asleap!"

Keauxl: (adj.) Pronunciation: \ˈkül\ The coolest cool. What ice aspires to be. So much better than "kewl." Cooler than anything. Keauxl.


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