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This was passed on without attribution, but from the preponderance of Canadian entrants we’d guess it was a contest in a Canadian periodical. The challenge was to add one
letter to a common word and define the result. A bumper cropof entries was received; more will appear later.
The winner is Chris Robson of Vancouver with:
Overbatim: more than what was said.
Glibido: shallow yearnings.
Other entries:
Aeroticism: sexiness in space. (Anne Roney, London, Ont.)
Barithmetic: figuring out who owes what for drinks. (Rene Jamieson, Winnipeg)
Bidiocy: buying an overpriced antique at auction. (Irma Coucill, Toronto)
Billiterate: how we all feel at tax time. (Judith L. Fraser, Toronto)
Carthritis: how one’s hands feel about holding the steering wheel too tightly. (Kam Shojania, Vancouver)
Computter: to idle away time on-line. (Alanna Little, Toronto)
Debtutante: a young woman who maxed out her credit cards to pay for her coming-out party. (Meg Sullivan, Potomac, Md.)
Dinjury: hearing loss from loud noise. (Tom Morrison, Waterloo)
Flashionable: describes a celebrity’s glittery, physics-defying gown.
Flinguine: a romance conducted in an Italian restaurant. (Alison White, London, Ont.)
Foreslight: getting your witty insult in first.
Funerall: mass burial.
Gabolition: monastic silence. (Glen Acorn, Edmonton)
Gapocalypse: the dire result if your teenager doesn’t get the outfit all the other kids are wearing.
Gaspoline: overpriced fuel. (Juliet Smith, Westbank, B.C.)
Hindslight: the retort you wish you had thought of. (J.E. Donnelly, Calgary)
Jambiguity: a homemade jam of wild berries picked by children. (J.A. Forbes, Edmonton)
Kinventory: a family tree. (Frieda Van der Ree, Gambier Island, B.C.)
Listerati: people who know all the bestsellers without actually having read them.
Lobserve: easy tennis shot.
Loutcry: the clamour of a distressed soccer crowd. (Sheila Laing, Whitehorse)
Noctopus: a date who sprouts eight arms as soon as night falls.
Origasmi: pornographic paper-folding. (Paul Davy, Parry Sound, Ont.)
Pecstasy: the feeling one gets looking at a gorgeous body-builder. (Linda Lumsden, Peterborough)
Pepidemic: way too many perky people on TV. (B. Yamashita, Ottawa)
Ployal: swearing allegiance, but with a hidden plan. (Meg Bernhardt, Paris, Ont.)
Poligarchy: household ruled by a bossy parrot. (Cherry Watson, Waterloo)
Pregret: remorse about something you have not done yet. (Colin Eyssen, Toronto)
Puniversity: a really, really small college. (C.R. Johnston, Kelowna, B.C.)
Reeferendum: a nationwide vote on marijuana legalization. (Joe Wallace, Rothesay, N.B.)
Relopement: second try at a botched runaway marriage.
Rumbrella: that little paper parasol decorating a tropical cocktail. (Patricia Walberg-Anhorn, Vancouver)
Servoices: the din of the waiters’ idle chatter while you wait for someone to take your order. (Brett Tremblay, Toronto)
Sexpedition: a heavy date. (Gary E. Miller, Richmond, Ont.)
Sexport: where sailors want to go.
Sexpress: a drive-through brothel. (Richard Samuelson, Montreal)
Shovercraft: a boat that you have to push. (Deborah Watt, Chelsea, Que.)
Sindex: a list of one’s vices. (Flora Nicholson, Hamilton)
Skuldruggery: dealing in contaminated narcotics. (L.J. Koh, Palo Alto, Calif.)
Slottery: a bunch of one-armed bandits. (Tony Chandler, Sidney, B.C.)
Sneasoning: a heavy dose of pepper.
Sourprise: small grapefruit originally thought to be an orange. (Frank W. Morgan, Kitchener)
Spinprick: a mildly negative attack on a political opponent.
Splatoon: like a spittoon, only bigger.
Squibble: an argument between nitpickers.
Subwary: fearful of public transit.
Trice: instant rice. (David Owen, Canmore, Alta.)
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