| Made
Up Words and Inventions: |
| Adamantium is the strongest
metal in the Marvel Comic Book Universe |
| Assassinate - by William
Shakespeare |
| Borked - To be treated
as Judge Robert Bork, to relentlessly badger someone about reletively
benign, small details. |
| Brave New World - by
William Shakespeare |
|
Bumped - by William Shakespeare
|
| Carbonite - |
| Cromulent - the Simpsons
- meaning totally acceptable. "It is perfectly cromulent
to use embiggens in a sentence". |
| Dilithium Crystals are
used to power starships in the Star Trek Universe |
| Embiggens - the Simpsons
- meaning to make larger. "I can embiggen this sentence
by adding a big, cromulent word to make it larger".
|
| Flux Capacitor - The
device used by Doctor Emmett Brown, requiring 1.21 gigwatts
of power, to travel through time. |
| Force, the - |
| Foul Play - by William
Shakespeare |
| Google, Googled, Googling
(II) - one of the newest words to come about, meaning "searched
or searching on the internet". |
| Googling - Mark Twain
- oozing out. As he said "...like a jug that's googling
out buttermilk" |
| Infinite Improbability Drive
is the mechanism that allows |
| Kwyjibo - the Simpsons
- Bart Simpson's Scrabble word |
| Leftorium - the Simpsons
- Ned Flanders ' store featuring items for left-handed people |
| Neuralizer - the hand-held
flashing device that makes people forget things. |
| Normalcy - President
Warren G Harding |
| Obscene - by William
Shakespeare |
| Orgasmatron - |
| Oscillation Overthruster
- Buckaroo Bonzai's electronic device that makes it possible
to travel through matter |
| Pandemonium - John Milton,
in Paradise Lost |
| Pompitous
- "the pompitous of love" lyric is often credited
as coming from Steve Miller's song, The Joker. Many people
don't know that it was first used by The Medallions' 1954 R&B
almost-hit The Letter. |
| Positronic Brain - |
| Pragmatism - C. S. Pierce(1875) |
| pwned - |
| Robby the Robot starred
in films such as Forbidden Plant and televion's The Addams Family |
| Robot B9 - the official
name for the robot on Lost In Space |
| Squish - Mark Twain
To Squash something down. |
| Stargate - |
| Tardis (T.A.R.D.I.S)
- |
| Three Laws of Robotics
- |
| Transparent Aluminium
- |
| Transporter - |
| Tricorder - |
| Tycho is the crater
on the Moon, named after 16th century Danish astronomer, Tycho
Brahe where the monolith was found in 2001: A Space Odyssey. |
| Utopia - Sir Thomas
More |
| Vandellas - The background
singers for Motown singer Martha Reeves. |
| Wendy - J.M. Barrie
invented this word for the heroine of his story, Peter Pan. |
| Xerox - Once the world's
largest "copier" company, they lost the rights to
their trademarked name, XEROX, and became generic. Google may
want to watch out. |
| Zany - by William Shakespeare |
