phrase you yourself invented

I wish I had made up a word, but instead I'm just good at stealing and using other people's made up words.

Cupcake as a term of affection. I must have picked it up from somewhere though, because it's just implanted itself in my mind and I can't shake it even though I'm aware of it sounding daft.

Previous ones have been sweetpea, babycakes (which must have come from Armsted Maupin) and pumpkin. I am the queen of twee terms of endearment, but it is not a role I relish.

If I was reading this about a smaller country I'd be thinking "ha that's so odd, bless them" aswell.

Me and my friends use the word "mule" to mean various things. Eh....I'm not sure how it started but "mule" can be (a)an idiot "he's a total mule", (b)an acquaintance "yeah just me and some mules". And "muled" means drunk or high or something along those lines.

Eh......that was an embarassing confession........

eh......I don't expect you all to understand.

Gribbly! Any relation to Alan the Gribbly in Jacaranda Jim? He's great! He has his own copy of Norton Utilities, y'know. Invoices! Heh. Yay Jacaranda Jim! The big anti-virus company the godlike Graham Cluley now has some very important post in is based near here, maybe one day I'll arrive on his doorstep and froth fangirlishly at him and ask if I can still register JJ and Humbug and the ace T-Zero (not by him, but he was in charge of UK registration for it) and generally scare him and be escorted away by the police. He rocks. I love 12-year-old text adventures...

*pauses for breath* *is stared at* *crawls under stone*

Erm, anyway. I fondly remember many words and phrases I thought were invented by the people I shared a house with a year ago, but then I discovered IL* and Starry Sarah seemed to use half of them too, even the ones we thought were OURS. Freaky mind-meld or one of those subconscious adoption from elsewhere things? Hmm. I guess the latter happens quite a lot. I remember meeting some people from a different school when I was 5 and being surprised when they said "shit" because I thought it was slang exclusive to my school (being sweet and innocent enough not to have heard anyone outside my class say it).

We tend to say he/she is on insert name of boyfriend/girlfriend duty.

Then I was the guy wandering through at night pissing on your lawns. And would you want that?

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lorenzo lamas is a total crisp

I invented "co's before hoes," which is used in the scenario when you want a cousin to hang out with you but he wants to crash a high school party and "clown on some fools," in his words.

Some highly restricted useage issues there.

Chesticles, I SWEAR DOWN I did, I even can document it because I was 'passing a note' (this is a bad story) and I wrote that down for reasons unknown. Also I think I did come up with asspie too (on these boards!).
Oh and 'show ponys'...for people who were overly PDA.
Shugly which is actually a horribly insulting term about Sheffield and its fine, fine people so I won't go into it.

I also invented the phrase "as dead as a whippet on a pikestaff" to desribe something that is dead.

Oooh, I have one! In high school lots of the gino girls called guys "solid," so we used to call them variances on "house" because houses are solid. So there'd be a guy who was a total condo, a basement apartment, a mansion, etc etc. We had lots of boyfriends, FYI

"I have to drop the kids off at school" - aka take a crap

i can't remember if i made this up or not, but "gunge" is a good way to refer to what used to be called "grunge" before "grunge" became the name for a genre of music/fashion/'tude. like "dude, scrape that gunge off your shoe before you come in here!! 'shaa!"
-- Tracer Hand, Friday, 15 March 2002 Bookmark Link

Tracer, gunge is even in my dictionary you crazy cat. It doesn't credit you in the etymology.
-- N., Friday, 15 March 2002

"i can't remember if i made this up or not" !!!!

I mean, really - the word was GUNGE!

funny to revisit the Rorty discussion above (which I had entirely forgotten), and remember that Terry Eagleton wrote in 1990 that Rorty actually happened to mean 'clubbable'.

didn't invent it but just came up with "JESUS FUCKING DAMN" which felt v. good indeed

I invented the terms "grindie" and "nu rave"

I invented the term 'god-sozzled' to describe people drunken with religion.

My friend and I always say "juste en case" pronounced zhoost on koss, because it sounds French for "just in case". It's not.

Grogus. Gross (or grody) and bogus.
But my friend invented it, I think.

My friend said "taking a digger" to mean "falling off your bicycle", which I insisted I'd never heard in my life and that the real definition of "taking a digger" is "pooping in the woods". But then all my friends insisted I was crazy and that they had never heard that in their lives and that I must have made it up.

Did I invent this usage?

My son Rufus invented the phrase "like a crow for"
In his usage:
"I'm like a crow for cheetos"
"I'm like a crow for corns"
"Today at daycare, Jason was like a crow for the hamburgers people didn't want to eat."

coins not corns

I'm with your friends there Rabies.

But you definitely had a lot to deal with there!

All of which was grogus.

karachi handshake

I am definitely adopting "Like a crow for.." in my day to day conversation.
I'll preface it: "Like they say, I'm a crow for your hamburgers."

Golf is pedestrian.

(Sorry, I guess I ignored the "phrase" part of the question.)

Also I think I did come up with asspie too

WTF. OK maybe you came up with that misspelling?

I invented the phrase 'fossil dong' about two minutes ago. I expect some sort of use for it will emerge eventually.

Let's hope it doesn't apply to you!

polo is equestrian

Unless it is water polo.

As for the self-applicability of fossil dong, only time will tell. (I too hope not.)

'de-plugatize' meaning to unplug and electrical appliance.

alone together

for fuck and shame

oh yeah

"I kill you now ;-)"

(although that was obviously *inspired* by someone else)

In it's classic form would that not be, "Heavens! I kill you now." ??

>"I have to drop the kids off at school" - aka take a crap

c'mon! that's just a variation on "drop the kids off at the pool", which is old as the hills!

well it is a new variation

Sunday NYT magazine just invented gringe - grin and cringe.

Shroud of Urine - please pause card game while I go for a piss.

I invented CBATG, as a shorthand for lazy bloggers.

Captain Beaky at the Guardian?

(it's just a guess, I couldn't be arsed to Google it...)

Cannot be arsed to google?

Ha - just Googled you and I'm right. Perhaps I saw your blog before and it slipped into my unconscious. GOOD BRAIN.

Oh dear - I just saw Marcello's post above. Perhaps it was that that slipped into my unconscious...

i just described my friend's poetry as Gothomoric because it was gothic and quite sophomoric.

According to google it's a brand new word. No matches! Nothing for "Gothomore" either, which is silly because what else is there to call a Goth Sophomore??

Anyway, how do i contact the dictionary people to claim my award?

when i was a teenager i thought i invented that high-pitched "whoooooooo!!!" people do at rock concerts when a great song has just finished

I invented the phrase "vital skull custard". It may be freely applied to any custard-like substance existing in the head, giving it a notable versatility that other phrases often lack.

Freeness Envy, for that feeling when you're going to work, and observing retired/homeless/etc people in the park.

The Satan Growl, that vocal style common to Death Metal singers.

And it looks like Dan Perry invented the latter, although I do remember using it and thinking I invented it.