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terpkristin
10-17-2005, 08:09 PM
From this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons) Wikipedia page.
An interesting Wiki entry about words made up in "The Simpsons," many which have become mainstream words in the English language. Guess it wasn't only Shakespeare who could invent words, eh?




1 Assal Horizontology (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Assal_Horizontology)
2 BBBQ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#BBBQ)
3 Beginulate (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Beginulate)
4 BiMonSciFiCon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#BiMonSciFiCon)
5 Bloodening (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Bloodening)
6 Blurst (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Blurst)
7 Boneis Eruptus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Boneis_Eruptus)
8 Boo-urns (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Boo-urns)
9 Bort (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Bort)
10 Buh (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Buh)
11 Car Hole (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Car_Hole)
12 Cheese-eating Surrender Monkeys (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Cheese-eating_Surrender_Monkeys)
13 Chester A. Arthritis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Chester_A._Arthritis)
14 Chocobots (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Chocobots)
15 Chocotastic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Chocotastic)
16 Clouseauesque (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Clouseauesque)
17 CompuGlobalHyperMegaNet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#CompuGlobalHyperMegaNet)
18 Craptacular (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Craptacular)
19 Cromulent (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Cromulent)
20 Dash Hole (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Dash_Hole)
21 Debigulator (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Debigulator)
22 De Fault (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#De_Fault)
23 Diddly (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Diddly)
24 Dickety (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Dickety)
25 Donder-Blitzen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Donder-Blitzen)
26 Dorkus Malorkus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Dorkus_Malorkus)
27 Double-Bacon Geniusburger (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Double-Bacon_Geniusburger)
28 Drunkening (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Drunkening)
29 Dumbening (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Dumbening)
30 Embiggen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Embiggen)
31 Fishbulb (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Fishbulb)
32 Fit (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Fit)
33 Flupid Bloroplope (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Flupid_Bloroplope)
34 Flunjers, Capdabblers, Smendlers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Flunjers.2C_Capdabblers.2C_Smendlers)
35 Frinkahedron (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Frinkahedron)
36 Frogurt (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Frogurt)
37 Führerific (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#F.C3.BChrerific)
38 Funzo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Funzo)
39 Gamblor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Gamblor)
40 Garbagewater (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Garbagewater)
41 Glayvin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Glayvin)
42 Groin-Grabbingly Transcendent (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Groin-Grabbingly_Transcendent)
43 Hoaxiscope (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Hoaxiscope)
44 Homersexual (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Homersexual)
45 Hoyvin-Mavin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Hoyvin-Mavin)
46 I, for one, welcome our new (insert word) overlords (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#I.2C_for_one.2C_welcome_our_new_.28insert_word.29_overlords)
47 Interslice (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Interslice)
48 Jebeditis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Jebeditis)
49 Jebus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Jebus)
50 Jerkass (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Jerkass)
51 Jerkface (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Jerkface)
52 Klauh Kalesh (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Klauh_Kalesh)
53 Knowitallism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Knowitallism)
54 Kwyjibo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Kwyjibo)
55 Learnding (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Learnding)
56 Lupper (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Lupper)
57 Malk (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Malk)
58 Malparkage (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Malparkage)
59 Meh (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Meh)
60 Milpool (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Milpool)
61 Mmm, (gummi beers, chocolate, floor pie etc.) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Mmm.2C_.28gummi_beers.2C_chocolate.2C_floor_pie_etc..29)
62 Momato (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Momato)
63 Monsterometer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Monsterometer)
64 Nuclear Panner Plant (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Nuclear_Panner_Plant)
65 Nucleon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Nucleon)
66 Nucular (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Nucular)
67 Ovulicious (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Ovulicious)
68 Panaphonics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Panaphonics)
69 Poindextrose (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Poindextrose)
70 Possi-bligh (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Possi-bligh)
71 Posturologists (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Posturologists)
72 Pull a Homer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Pull_a_Homer)
73 Quetzlzacatenango (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Quetzlzacatenango)
74 "Radioactivity" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#.22Radioactivity.22)
75 Rebigulator (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Rebigulator)
76 Re-Deadening (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Re-Deadening)
77 Redorkulated (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Redorkulated)
78 Retirony (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Retirony)
79 Sacrilicious (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Sacrilicious)
80 Saxomophone (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Saxomophone)
81 Scrabbleship (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Scrabbleship)
82 Scientician (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Scientician)
83 Scotchtoberfest (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Scotchtoberfest)
84 Screamapillar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Screamapillar)
85 Shazbot (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Shazbot)
86 Shinning (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Shinning)
87 Shirkaday (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Shirkaday)
88 Skittlebrau (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Skittlebrau)
89 Smarch (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Smarch)
90 S-M-R-T (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#S-M-R-T)
91 Snacktacular (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Snacktacular)
92 SNUH (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#SNUH)
93 Sophistimacated Dowhackey (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Sophistimacated_Dowhackey)
94 Speedholes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Speedholes)
95 Spirakeet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Spirakeet)
96 SSCCATAGAPP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#SSCCATAGAPP)
97 Steamed Hams (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Steamed_Hams)
98 Superliminal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Superliminal)
99 Supernintendo Chalmers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Supernintendo_Chalmers)
100 Thrillho (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Thrillho)
101 Tomacco (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Tomacco)
102 Tramapoline / Trabopoline (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Tramapoline_.2F_Trabopoline)
103 Tunk (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Tunk)
104 Unblowuppable (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Unblowuppable)
105 Unpossible (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Unpossible)
106 Vegetabletarian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Vegetabletarian)
107 Worst (insert word) Ever (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Worst_.28insert_word.29_Ever)
108 Woozle Wuzzle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Woozle_Wuzzle)
109 Xtapolapocetl (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Xtapolapocetl)
110 Yoink! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Yoink.21)
111 Yvan Eht Nioj (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Yvan_Eht_Nioj)

FWIW, the stupid Yvan Eht Nioj song has been in my head all weekend, completely unrelated to this entry.

/tk

Pumpy Tudors
10-17-2005, 08:11 PM
I'd give that list a little more credit if I had ever heard more than 5 of them before. Have these words really become "mainstream"?

sabotai
10-17-2005, 08:15 PM
I say several words on that list all the time.

Bad-example
10-17-2005, 08:20 PM
Most of these words are perfectly cromulent.

miked
10-17-2005, 08:24 PM
Most of these words are perfectly cromulent.

You have embiggened that phrase...

Craptacular
10-17-2005, 08:54 PM
I think I've heard one of them.

TredWel
10-17-2005, 09:15 PM
I think it is interesting (and probably a bit scary) that I have actually used about half of these words in conversation.

CHEMICAL SOLDIER
10-17-2005, 10:18 PM
Dont forget Gwygibo (sp?): A balding north american ape.

sterlingice
10-17-2005, 10:26 PM
I think the sadder thing is that I know exactly in what context to use these words because I remember what scenes they are from :D

SI

sovereignstar
10-17-2005, 10:28 PM
Saxomophoooooooone

JeffR
10-17-2005, 11:13 PM
They missed the dreaded rear admiral.

Desnudo
10-18-2005, 12:34 AM
You have embiggened that phrase...

Bad-example's noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.

Pumpy Tudors
10-18-2005, 07:30 AM
Sorry, I'm not trying to troll here. I haven't watched The Simpsons in about 10 years, so I've never heard or don't remember most of these words. I just took the word "mainstream" to mean that you could hear these words from people even if you don't watch the show. Evidently, I just don't really know anybody who watches it, so that must be why I don't hear the words. I think I get it now.

Maple Leafs
10-18-2005, 08:15 AM
This seems like one of those lists that probably started with a half dozen really good choices, and then everyone started adding everything they could think of.

That said, some of those really are mainstream. I think it's just accepted now that whenever you take something (a pen, a donut, etc) you have to say "yoink".

finketr
10-18-2005, 09:42 AM
kwyjibo

JeeberD
10-18-2005, 09:45 AM
Dont forget Gwygibo (sp?): A balding north american ape.

Damn, you butchered that spelling...

Huckleberry
10-18-2005, 09:49 AM
Brad Lidge's craptacular hanging slider embiggened Albert Pujols' bat.

vtbub
10-18-2005, 10:19 AM
D'oh

kcchief19
10-18-2005, 10:53 AM
That said, some of those really are mainstream. I think it's just accepted now that whenever you take something (a pen, a donut, etc) you have to say "yoink". You know, "yoink" is probably the word on this list I use most frequently and it has become so ubiquitous that I forgot it had a Simpsons origin. And I am a complete Simpsons nerd.

There are plenty of other words on this list that are in my vocabular. Oddly, one word I use isn't on this list:

Lisa: You know, Dad, the Chinese have the same word for both crisis and opportunity.
Homer: Yes! Crisatunity!

kcchief19
10-18-2005, 10:55 AM
In an unrelated question, has looking up dorky information on Wikipedia become cool? It seems to be very prevalent lately, between this and the salute to Chancellor Palpatine.

Help me, Jebus!

Pumpy Tudors
10-18-2005, 10:59 AM
I've never said "yoink" in my life. I've never heard it before either. I must have a problem. :(

cuervo72
10-18-2005, 11:05 AM
I've never said "yoink" in my life. I've never heard it before either. I must have a problem. :(

Worry not Pumpy, I'm with you here.

sterlingice
10-18-2005, 11:20 AM
In an unrelated question, has looking up dorky information on Wikipedia become cool? It seems to be very prevalent lately, between this and the salute to Chancellor Palpatine.
I dunno- wikipedia's been "mainstream internet" for quite a while. I noticed it getting a bit more prevalent for looking stuff up when Trillian included wikiwords.

SI

3ric
10-18-2005, 04:05 PM
48 Jebeditis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Made-up_words_in_The_Simpsons#Jebeditis) = when Jeeber starts a post frenzy at FOFC?

Raiders Army
10-18-2005, 05:31 PM
D'oh
Yeah, where is doh!

st.cronin
10-18-2005, 06:31 PM
They got 'trampampopoline' wrong. They left out a syllable.

Maple Leafs
10-18-2005, 07:02 PM
They got 'trampampopoline' wrong. They left out a syllable.
Sadly, I can confirm that you are correct. My wife can't see a trampoline without shouting that out.

(Which is frustrating, because I point out trampolines to her all the time.)

Bad-example
10-18-2005, 07:11 PM
"Trampampoline" looks right to me.

CHEMICAL SOLDIER
10-18-2005, 10:04 PM
Damn, you butchered that spelling...
dont I always? ;)
Oh BORT, I believe isn't on the list.

kingfc22
10-18-2005, 11:18 PM
Yeah, where is doh!
doh, beat me to it

Kodos
10-26-2005, 01:17 PM
This seems like one of those lists that probably started with a half dozen really good choices, and then everyone started adding everything they could think of.

That said, some of those really are mainstream. I think it's just accepted now that whenever you take something (a pen, a donut, etc) you have to say "yoink".

I say it every time I take off the baby's socks. "Yoink!" He seems to enjoy it.

Ksyrup
10-26-2005, 01:20 PM
I was using "groin-grabbingly...." years before the Simpsons.

Maple Leafs
10-26-2005, 02:45 PM
I say it every time I take off the baby's socks. "Yoink!" He seems to enjoy it.
These slang terms for condoms are getting out of control.

Kodos
10-26-2005, 03:19 PM
Yoink!