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“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in rather

a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—

neither more nor less.” —Through the Looking Glass

By Bill Bouldin

from the del rio news-herald

THE BEST

MADE-UP

WORDS

EVER

I agree with Mr. Dumpty: Words have meaning. But surely we can

seize upon a meaning and then create a word to match it. The fol-

lowing words—some culled from the crowdsourced online dictionary

urbandictionary.com and others I’ve concocted myself—don’t exist

according to Merriam-Webster ... but should. I call them “worderfuls.”

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Illustrations by Jean-Michel Tixier