Yoin

Yoin: noun: the reverberating sensation after the initial stimulus has ceased.


Yoin is felt by everyone at some point in their lives. If you have ever had an excellent night out on the town, and then the next day had flashbacks to what happened, that's yoin. If you've ever met someone and they've caused massive ripples in your life that you would be different without, that's yoin too. My favorite part of this word is that it feels like a reverberation in the mouth. The /j/ starts out in the front, but then the /o/ pulls it back, and then the /i/ and /n/ pull it back forward for the reverberation. (Within the slashes is the International Phonetic Alphabet, sorry if you can't read it.)

Cuth

Cuth: adjective: well-known, excellent


English has the words famous and infamous, why not add another word to mean well-known? Cuth seems to fit the bill. English says when someone is well-known on a large-scale, but shouldn't there be a word that would say that the person is known in an apparent, excellent within a smaller community? Take my mom, for instance. She's definitely not famous, but she is very well-known within the Nashville social work scene for her dedication to teenagers and she's won many awards. If I had to say a word now for her, it would be well-known, but well-known doesn't have the positive connotations that I want to add to how my mom is thought of, so cuth scoots in and fits perfectly.

Wambo

Wambo: noun, verb, adjective: largeness, to enlargen, large


So I thought that I should come up with a fun word today. Wambo it the opposite of mini. It can be used as a noun, a verb, an adjective, or an object of study (Wambology, the study of wambo). I know it is neither part of a foreign language, nor has it ever existed as a part of English, but it is wayyy to good to pass up as a word. It pulls connotations from both Rambo and wham. It also seem to fit perfectly into English. It could definitely be the conversational form of gargantuan.

Here's the skit:
http://www. youtube.com/watch?v=p1LWNwZ1gCs&NR=1