Perfectly Cromulent Word: Difference between revisions

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* Koodo Mobile's newest ad campaign centers around made-up words of varying levels of cromulence, such as "Thumbactionist", "Tabrific", "Bigbillification", and other things that sound like they came out of an ad campaign in [[Nineteen Eighty-Four|1984]].

** A few years ago, a car ad in the UK was very similar, but exclusively picked two (often opposed) words, and mashed them together- "Sporty" and "Safe" became "Spafe", for instance. [[Top Gear|Richard Hammond]] deemed this to be a load of [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|shiny and bright]].

* A recent [[Green Lantern (film)|Green Lantern]] themed cell phone commercial describes its internet surfing as "faster-er."

{{quote|"That isn't a real word!"

"It came out of my mouth, didn't it?" }}

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** In a joking [[Take That]] at his critics, Bush and other members of his administration continued to drop the word "strategery" into public statements, and it was used as the title of a book about the President which depicted a disconnect between his shrewd political savvy as represented in the book, and his bumbling buffoonery as represented by his enemies.

* ''[[Just Shoot Me]]'': Finch and Eliot replace Nina's word-a-day calendar with one filled with Perfectly Cromulent Words right before she goes for a radio interview, in which she uses them all. [http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/c7645a62ec/just-shoot-me-ninas-wordaday-calendar-from-thaffner Link here].

** The word "ass-tastic" is apparently common in their magazine.

* ''[[Look Around You]]'': Spoofs the wealth of jargon found in the world of science by making up a host of new words, including fictitious chemicals ("bumcivilian", "segnomin"), laboratory equipment ("Besselheim plate", "gribbin"), units of measurement ("billigram", "quorums per second") and many more.

* ''[[Not the Nine O'Clock News]]'': Gerald, the Talking Gorilla. Uses term 'Flange' for the collective noun of baboons. This one made it to the [http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/collective/b/?view=uk Ask Oxford website].

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** Also, wikiality: the concept that something is taken to be true if enough people think it is.

* On ''[[The Cosby Show]]'', Rudy invented the word ''zrbrt'': to kiss someone on the cheek while blowing a raspberry.

** Rudy invented the spelling (at random). Cliff invented the definition.

* ''[[Deadliest Catch]]'' gives us [[Incredibly Lame Pun|''Crabalanche'']] which is what you get when you dump a freshly retrieved container filled with crab onto the sorting table.

* ''[[You Have Been Watching]]'':

{{quote|'''Charlie Brooker''': I used up every negative word known to man to describe John Barrowman's 'Tonights the Night' so when 'Totally Saturday' came along I was forced to invent the word 'Shittifying'}}

* In the ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' episode ''The Fifth Race'', Jack begins using seemingly made-up words, albeit without realizing he is doing so. As it turns out, {{spoiler|he's speaking Ancient.}}

* [[30 Rock|Jack Donaghy]] recently coined the term "innoventually" during 24 straight hours of successful problem-solving (referred to, by him of course, as "Reaganing"). Of course, at the very last moment, his Reaganing (which would have been rewarded with a shower of lavish gifts) was rendered moot by his inability to solve Liz Lemon's intimacy problem...at least not until after the 24 hours had elapsed. [[It Makes Sense in Context]]...the Reaganing, not "innoventually".

** Also, "[[Getting Crap Past the Radar|Whuck...?]]" from Liz.

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* On ''[[Mr. Show]]'', a character was introduced as "Edmund Premington is a hunter, an explorer, a novelist, and an adventurer; a travelliare, an explorist, and a noveller."

* On ''[[The Sarah Silverman Program]]'', in the episode "Kangamangus", Sarah tries to coin a new word and comes up with "ozay" (hard to define, but when you just feel...ozay). Her attempts to popularize it pale next to the organic spread of "dotnose", which Brian comes up with accidentally when Steve is so stubborn that he won't acknowledge a marker dot on his own nose despite everyone mentioning it. Others find "dotnose" offensive for no particular reason (other than that it sounds insulting), and at a dictionary induction ceremony, Brian and Steve are threatened with the "kangamangus" (a very specific physical retribution).

* On an episode of ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'', Marshall says he's been using made up words to avoid lying to Lily. "Are you going to quit and work for the NRDC?" "Absatively!"

* In the Escape Slide Parachute episode of ''[[Myth Busters]]'', the word "criminy" (uttered by Adam) gets this treatment by the narrator, who assumes that Adam just made the word up. ("[http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/criminy Criminy]" ''is'' an actual word, if rather old.)

** The narrator would have known this if he had watched a single episode of ''[[Hey Arnold!]]'', where Helga said this word so frequently as to really make it [[Catch Phrase|her own]].

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== Music ==

* The [[Steve Miller Band]] speaks of the [[wikipedia:Pompatus|pompatus]] of love in "The Joker."

** Interestingly, the term may have been borrowed from The Medallions' "The Letter", which mentioned "the ''puppetudes'' of love" (and also coined the term "pizmotality").

* Lampshaded as [[MC Frontalot]] acknowledges that "possibleness is not a cromulent word" in "Nerdcore Rising."

* [[Bon Iver]] has the title of "Flume" (which is an obscure word referring to a river or waterfall) as well as 'fide' and 'fane' from "Perth."

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** And the gaming industry practice that they describe as the [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/09/12 bullshot].

** Gabe stumbles into a cromulent word while [http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/06/18 trying to cheat at Scrabble on his smartphone.]

* [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2005/06/23/episode-567-paralinguistics/ This] ''[[~~8-Bit Theater (Webcomic)|~~8-Bit Theater]]'', which comes complete with the definition of one of the words.

* [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2005/06/23/episode-567-paralinguistics/ This] ''[[8-Bit Theater]]'', which comes complete with the definition of one of the words.

* Yeager in ''[[Nodwick]]'' managed to invent an Eighth Deadly Sin - which he duly termed Blasphotrociterra-o-rama.

* [http://xkcd.com/739/ Malamanteau] is a perfectly cromulent word, though ''[[Xkcd]]'' disagrees.

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* An old joke: "Be alert! Your country needs lerts!"

** Another Joke: "Boy to girl: Do you like Kipling? Girl to boy: I don't know, I've never kippled"

* The word "quiz". A man made a bet that he could invent a word and get it into the local lexicon very quickly. He then went on to scrawl the nonsense word "quiz" on various walls and alleyways around the town (possibly [[In Dublin's Fair City|Dublin]]). Supposedly, the people who had seen it assumed they were being tested for something or another. [[The Other Wiki]] claims this is largely apocryphal.

* An accidental example was the word [http://www.fun-with-words.com/websters_dord.html "dord"] (supposedly meaning "density"), which appeared in ''Webster's Third New International Dictionary'' from 1934 to 1939. It was a based on a card reading "D or d/ density", but was not spaced properly.

** This has also appeared in an anecdote about a girl who said to her boyfriend, "How does it feel to be adored?" To which he replied, "What's a dord?"