Dougtionary » Dougtionary Lesson http://dougtionary.com/blog "Doug is destroying the English language at an alarming rate." --Doug's high school English teacher. Tue, 08 Nov 2011 16:00:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Fake Word Of the Day: Podomy http://dougtionary.com/blog/2009/12/10/fake-word-of-the-day-podomy/ http://dougtionary.com/blog/2009/12/10/fake-word-of-the-day-podomy/#comments Thu, 10 Dec 2009 23:00:51 +0000 Doug http://dougtionary.com/blog/2009/12/10/fake-word-of-the-day-podomy/ pŏd’ə-mē

noun

The act of copulation with an iPod.

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name

An aspiring Russian musician who was better known for his sex toys.

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noun

Death by falling into a vat of chocolate, which occurred to a temporary worker at the Cocoa Services Inc plant in New Jersey, today.

chocolate-plant-NJ.jpg

This death was foreshadowed many years ago by the Smothers Brothers.

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Either way, you get the idea. Here’s a real example:

Cycle (noun)
Drop it in the Adjectivizer2000 and out comes:
Cyclical (adjective)

Go ahead and try it on your own.

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