Friday, June 09, 2006

Scrumple

Is "scrumple" a word?

To scrumple a piece of paper is to screw it up into a ball.

I just looked it up on dictionary.com and it wasn't there! Maybe it was one of those words from my childhood that don't mean anything to most people?

Or maybe I am doped up on painkillers and am imagining things... :|

(I have a very sore back. We got a new IT system at work and it's not agreeing with me; the default resolution is really crappy. I might have to turn into one of the Chair People and get an OH&S assessment.)

Comments:
I use scrumple. And I am proud to do so.

As Black adder would say

"Allow me to be the first to offer Dr. Johnson my most sincere contrafibularities! I am anaspeptic, frasmotic, even compunctuous to have caused him such pericombobulation."


Contrafibularities: Obviously from contra, against, + fibula, the smaller of the two bones in the lower leg. Means 'pulling one's leg'.

Anaspeptic: From ana. back or up, + peptic, pertaining to the stomach. Obviously refers to some form of upchuck.

Frasmotic: Possibly a portmanteau word, frazzled + spasmodic. So frazzled that one goes into a spasm.

Compunctuous: A variation of compunctious, slightly influenced by contemptuous. Having a bad conscience because one has harmed somebody one really despises.

Pericombobulation: From peri-, around, + discombobulation. Disturbance and confusion because someone has been running circles around one.
 
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