Fictional Word Definitions/Etymologies

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Introduction

There are a lot of words in the English language. 470,000, in fact. In this blog, a select few words will be turned into words with different meanings and/or etymologies. Don't understand what I mean? You will ... hopefully.

Word Analysis

As stated before, here are some words that we are going to create new definitions and sometimes etymologies for words. So ... let's get started:

Sublime: This one is obvious. The prefix "sub-" means "under," so sublime clearly means "slightly less astonishing than if limes conquered the world." Come on, what did you think it meant?

Amazing: In the real world, this means essentially the same. But, now that limes are conquering the world, this also means something entirely different. The "mazing" part of it means "willing to go into a maze," in essence, and the prefix "a-" means "not," such as in the cases of atypical and atheism. Thus, amazing means "not able to partake in a maze," or something like that. Makes total sense, right?

Hypothermia: Whoever created this word was very clever and sneaky. "Thermia" sounds like it's descended from "thermal," which relates it to heat. But not in this case. Thermia is a genus of air-breathing land snails, and "hypo" is clearly just a way of masking "hyper," so, evidently, hypothermia means "the fateful attack of hyperactive land snails." Not the bogus definition that it's an "abnormally and dangerously low body temperature."

Sorry, I don't have more, but you must understand it is hard to find words to reinvent definitions for. There is strict criteria. So I humbly request that you suggest at least one word that I can recreate a definition for. Please do not comment on this blog without suggesting at least one word. Other than that, catch you next time!

Suggestions

Regression from MG17: One word describes this: difficult. In fact, I could do difficult if you wanted me to. But since we are focusing on regression, let's do this. The "gression" part of it is descended from the Latin root meaning "step," but that's booooooring; let's call it "grazing." "Re-" means to do again, so the word regression means "an act of grazing on grass that has already been grazed upon."

Proceed from PharaohsofAthens: This might be a letdown, since the word is very simple, but we shall still analyze it. "Ceed" is a Latin word meaning to go, and "pro" is short for professional. So, proceed means "to go in a very professional way."

Wikipedia from adillman23: I loved this suggestion. Let's break down why the website called itself this. For starters, "pedia" is obviously short for "pediatrician." Next, the "Wiki" part of it is descended from "wick," which we all know is a "strip of porous material in which liquid fuel is drawn by capillary action to the flame in a candle, lamp, or lighter." In other words, that thingamajig on a candle. So this noun means "a pediatrician operation used with a wick." Why did they choose this name? Wikipedia has a wide range of topics, so clearly they wanted to tell people that they have articles as bizarre as wick doctors. Weird? Well, now you know.

Rifle and basketball from turnbacktwo: I can tell there's going to be some unconventionality here, as if this wasn't unconventional enough already. Let's rearrange the letters to make fleir, which sounds like flare. Wait a second: this actually makes a tiny bit of sense, since technically rifles produce flares. This is unacceptable! If we anagram this again, we get filer. Filer is a city in Idaho. It is also a French word meaning "spin." And I made a new definition for it: someone who looks through files. So, rifle means a person who looks through files, spins, and is from Filer, Idaho. Perfect!

Meanwhile, basketball. I'm gonna be unorthodox again, like always. "Bask" essentially means to lay in the sun. We all know what a ball is, but we're going to use the definition of "a formal social gathering for dancing." And we should know that "et" means "and" en francais, so our end result is this: basketball is a formal social party where people dance and bask in the warmth of the sun. But what if it's raining? I don't know, I didn't invent the definition. Or did I ... don't think about that.

Gorgonzola from SirPhilippines: Let's confuse everyone! Doesn't that sound great? No, but I actually will try to explain this as best I can. Gorgons are Greek mythological creatures that have snakes for hair and turn people to stone, like Medusa. (Fun fact: "jellyfish" in Bulgarian is pronounced pretty much the same as "Medusa." Why did I say that? Don't ask me.) "Zola" . . . please don't get confused. In the Marvel Cinematic Universe (popular in the United States), there is a character known as Arnim Zola, who is a German scientist whose brain was attached to computers, making him essentially living as digital technology. If you understand all this, you'll understand that Gorgonzola cheese is named after the word meaning "An enhanced, intelligent, speaking computer with snakes as hair and the power to freeze people." Completely simple, I'm sure.

That's it! But wait, I had a change of heart. Ethaboo444 suggested to use the word a and what do you know, I refused. Gee, I wonder why. But maybe this is why he did not rank my blog as number one for his Blog Games! (I'm kidding, I don't actually think he should have done that.) So ... eureka! I have found it! Found the definition for the marvelous word a! So, I now present to you the definition of a! a (noun): an aromatic apple-assaulting alligator adjacent to annoyingly aggravated and aggressively artistic artichokes along the Andaman Sea. I hope you enjoyed!

Level 52

May 30, 2021

I heard there was gonna be a crazy hypothermia soon, and I'm sure it'll be pretty sublime. What do you think?

Level 52

May 31, 2021

Remember that after you submit a word, check later to see if I made a definition for it!

Level 65

May 30, 2021

Nah, bro, I agree with you. It'll be amazing.

Level 52

May 30, 2021

I figured. Snails don't usually partake in mazes, and if they did, it would take a few hundred years.