The last contest was so much fun that I had to do another one. So, here we go….
The Prize up for grabs this time, is a $25 dollar gift card from Amazon.com
The Winner will be announced on the 15th of March.
Here’s what you gotta do:
Nonsense words:
The following list of words are nonsense words. In order to enter the contest, you must choose five of these nonsense words. Then, you will decide on a part of speech, a definition for them and use each of them in a sentence. Leave me a comment below with your entry:)
dumbubble
Buggernimble
flaxsot
Rungleroot
Ungdunter
Bruttelby
Pupples
Asserbyrd
butterorepeans
Tropurkey
apecniant
Queekant
Quarbogized
Yorkhoeness
Respicing
Ratterize
Gassly
Booses
Blurnfert
Mothuscule
Cushify
Flubprophy
I look forward to seeing your responses:)
buggernimble adj. A person who is extraordinarily agile.
She almost tripped over the skateboard on the stairs but she managed to avoid it because she is buggernimble.
gassly adj. Used to describe a person who has partaken of a large variety of flatulence causing foods.
After eating beans, broccoli, and cabbage for dinner, Jim was gassly.
tropurkey n. A type of turkey grown in the tropics and fed only tropical fruits such as pineapples and coconuts. which gives it a fruity flavor.
Jean wasn’t sure whether to roast the tropurkey or make fruit salad with it.
ratterize v. The act of turning a seemingly reasonable man into a raving lunatic by hiding his remote control.
Bob was in a great mood until his wife ratterized him just before the big race.
cushify v. That art of being able to take a difficult job and make it easy by delegating most of the duties to others.
Tiffany thought, I’m never going to be able to do this job unless I cushify it.
Thank you so much for entering! This is wonderful, I particularly like tropurkey!
Dumbubble – Adjective: (Preferred) To describe a type of malfunction on an interstellar telescope. (Secondary) To describe the pink sticky stuff on the nose after using gum that has collapsed. Sentence: Mission control has been advised that we have a dumbubble flair on the Hubble causing a blackout
Flaxsot – Noun: (Preferred) The name of the sticky spot left after killing a flax. (Secondary) The condition name of the results of drinking too much flax. Sentence: The carpet was replaced when the technicians could not remove the flaxsot
Butterorepeans – Noun: The genus name of seed pods that produce butter. Sentence: The butterorpeans must be cleaned, cracked and pressed before the contents are ready for the toast.
Tropurkey- Adjective (Slang) To describe an individual who is too happy. Sentence: Mary’s friends grew tired of her tropurkey attitude
Queekant – Adjective: The sound description that new shoes make in use. Sentence: He was trying to sneak into the house and decided to take off his shoes to avoid queekant disruption.
Dumbubble is the best! I think we need to make that an official word!
Reblogged this on Wyndy Dee and commented:
Sounds fun!
Thank you!
Pupples – Noun – Advanced breed of dog in which the puppies take the shape of an apple and their urine smells and tastes like apple juice.
Sentence: My son brought home an adorable pupple for our family.
Mothuscule – Adjective – Something that is annoyingly small and fluttery.
Sentence: There was a mothuscule leaf flying around my head which made it very hard to concentrate.
Cushify – Verb – The process of making something easier for everyone involved.
Sentence: We decided as an upper-management team that it was time to further cushify our jobs.
Flaxsot – Adjective – A vulgar expletive.
Sentence: Get the flaxsot away from me!
Rungelroot – Noun – A root grown in Madagascar that is in the shape of a ladder rung. They are sold worldwide and are very popular in high class home improvement projects.
Sentence: I finally got my son a Rungleroot ladder for his bunk bed.
Love the definition for cushify! Thank you for entering:)
When is the deadline for this fun contest? I think I want to try it out…
I’m still accepting submissions until Friday, I would love to see more entries!
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Dumbubble – n. Salivary product produces by a person in a semi-conscious or sleeping state. “He snored prodigiously, and every morning his pillow was drenched with dumbubbles.”
Buggernimble – v. The act of blowing your nose so hard the Kleenex bursts and you over-shoot it. “Yuck! I just buggernimbled onto my computer screen!”
Pupples – n. Canine pets that are treated like members of the family. “We have to sit on the floor when we watch TV because our pupples hog the couch!”
Ratterize – adj. To tatter something. “The book had been read and re-read until it was completely ratterized.”
Mothuscule – adj. Refers to the size of holes, larger than “miniscule,” made in clothing by moths. “The mothuscule hole in the wool suit was right on the lapel, rendering it useless for business wear.”
This was fun! Thanks for exercising my brain!
Buggernimble!
Yay! I missed this post initially. Here’s my entry:
Rungleroot – n. an herb that heals shifters than have gone mad from bloodlust, very rare and hard to find
The Shifter Council had hidden the last none stash of rungleroot.
dumbubble – v. the act of rambling talk when drunk on champagne.
Elisa dumbubbled about the stupidest things after the wedding.
queekant- adj. meek, mild-mannered shy
The queekant girl blushed when the man glanced her way.
pupples – n. fairies that show up when bubbles are being blown
The little girl was blowing bubbles and got so excited when the magical pupples started showing
cushify – v. the act of cushioning something without cushion.
I just had to cushify the hard bench after sitting there for over an hour.
Rhonda D
slinkydennis @ Yahoo.com
love the dumbubble:)
Thanks! I am full of fun today. It’s my bday so I decided to have fun with it.
Happy Birthday or rather belated birthday now:)
Buggernimble: verb. To move with quick, but graceless contortions, especially through obstacles.
Her child’s room was so disorderly she had to buggernimble to the window.
Blurnfert: noun. One who is absent minded.
He lost his glasses again because we was a hopeless blurnfert.
Apecniant: adjective. To be concerned only about reaching paramount success.
Her office was full of apecniant cutthroats.
Booses: noun. A dais for malevolent supernatural beings.
The most feared of all the monsters had an honored seat at the booses.
Ratterize: verb. To induct a new wererat into a rat nest.
As alpha wererat, it was his job to ratterize the newly bitten rats.
(Thanks for the excercise. That was fun!)
dumbubble–noun, a drinking fountain that does not work or is no longer in use
When she was thirsty, she was angry to learn that the drinking fountain was actually a dumbubble.
Queekant–adj, mentally unsound
He thought his mother-in-law was drunk, but his wife told him she was queekant.
Cushify–verb, to add yams
Mom will cushify the casserole so that it is more appropriate for Thanksgiving.
Flubprophy–verb, misuse of a condom
Because of his flubprophy, she got pregnant.
Pupples–noun, worthless investments that that grow for no apparent reason
Although she did nothing when most of her investments became worthless after 9/11, they were pupples by the time she retired.
I went with a Harry Potter theme, because when I think nonsense-words, I think HP!
Bruttelby: – noun A type of plant that gives off a rather unpleasant smell but, when added to a liquid, makes the drink taste like cinnamon. Side-effects of drinking bruttleby include a blue-tinge to the skin and a numb tongue.
ex. Many of the third-years left the greenhouse with a slight blue tint to their ears, which let Professor Sprout know that they had been stealing leaves from her bruttelby bushes again.
Ratterize: verb An enchantment that causes the receiver of the spell to stutter uncontrollably.
ex. Hermione looked particularly upset that she’d been ratterized, as it prevented her from answering the professor’s questions.
Ungdunter: 1. verb A player in the troll sport of Ungdunting, which involves chasing small children into caves. The ungdunter who captures the most children by the end of a pre-determined time is the winner of the game and gets first pick of the resulting meal.
2. slang A derogatory term used frequently among Quidditch players, implying that someone is a poor player, or particularly slow or dim-witted.
ex. “Did you see when Spinnet dropped the quaffle? What an ungdunter!”
Buggernimble: noun A particular type of sprite, usually found in swamps or wetland forests, who enjoy pestering humans for food.
ex. “Ron, give me your sandwich, I need it to distract the buggernimbles.”
Rungleroot: noun Cousin of the Venomous tentacula the Rungleroot is a member of the tentacula family– it’s thin, dry vines constrict and tangle around prey. The Rungleroot thrives in dry areas and needs direct sunlight to grow, but can be disarmed with water.
ex. Luckily, Neville kept a jug of water near his Rungleroot plant, so he was able to quickly fix the mishap.
Buggernimble and rungleroot do sound particularly Potterish don’t they?
Ungdunter (verb) – to putter around aimlessly
Teenagers are a relatively useless species, spending their days unduntering their lives away.
flaxsot (noun) – a putrid brown mosslike substance that grows in Madagascar.
In his hurry to hide from the hawk, the young lemur jumped into a growth of flaxsot, causing him to almost wish the hawk had eaten him.
Rungleroot (adjective) – fastidious, thorough to the point of redundancy
He was very rungleroot in his approach, which meant he was usually the last picked for group projects.
Queekant (noun) – a small species of garden gnome
I went to the garden to do some weeding, but it seemed the Queekants had beat me to it.
Blurnfert (adjective) – spotted, dirty, unclear
She had a Blurnfert complexion, but still had a certain appeal about her.
I could see how that would work for ungdunter!
I too, have just found your post. Hope I’m not too late with my entries;
apecniant – Means to be flexible
Once Sally had used a cake recipe a couple of times she became apecniant with the ingredients. The results were often eye raising!
Queekant – Wee folk from New Zealand. Queekant live in disused kiwi bird burrows, they are the fairy folk on that distant Isle.
Yorkhoeness – Means the way someone uses the traditional Yorkshire dialect to extremes ie ” Ey up, Our Stanley, Ow’s ‘t cow fairin now ‘t vetnary’s bee n ?” harold spoke in true Yorkhoeness style.
Respicing – pronounced Resp-icing. Used in displays where a cardboard cake is covered in icing decoration.
Gassly – pronounced Gar-slee. The Home Counties English word to describe a bad situation. “It’s simply Gassly, darling!”
Thanks for the competition.
Rosie
Love the Yorkhoeness! Thanks for the entry and the laughs.
dumbubble (noun): A thought or speech bubble that lacks any sign of intelligence. Can be used literally in reference to characters in the 2D world, or figuratively in real life. Ex. When Justin Bieber made a comment about being aboriginal and not having to pay taxes or gas, I thought I saw a bunch of dumbubbles coming out his head.
mothuscule (verb): To apply same treatment to clothes as a moth would to restyle garments in a grunge style. Ex. She mothusculed her t-shirt to wear to the Nirvana concert.
pupples (noun): Apples of a certain small size or degree of cuteness that create responses of “awww” that occur in the presence of puppies. Ex. I could just eat that pupple up, it’s so darn cute!
flaxsot (noun.): An alcoholic whose drinking results in frequent emptying of the bowels. Ex. Hey bartender, maybe you should stop serving that flaxsot drinks; he’s been back and forth from the washroom ten times already!
rungleroot (noun): A plant retrieved from deep underground used in the magical community that gives the ingester a sudden urge to run through a jungle. Ex. Harry Potter put some rungleroot powder into Dudley’s birthday cake so the Dursleys would move away to the Amazon and leave him alone.
Great contest idea – it’s a very creative writing exercise! I did the best I could, hope you like them!
I love it:) Flaxsot should be a real word.