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January 13, 2006
Not a day goes by
I am coining a new word and I want to document it here so that when it is added to the Oxford English Dictionary I am given proper credit. I am still miffed that my names for the 90's of the Deja Vu Decade never really caught on.
Frey, pronounced Fray, : to manipulate facts to benefit oneself, to memoirize, to lie
verb form- I really freyed on my taxes last year, the IRS will be hot for me.
adjective form- His freyic behavior makes it difficult to trust anything he says
adverb form- I was going so freying fast that the cops could never catch me, stupid cops.
noun form(or Gerund form, I love the word gerund) That's what she said, well understand it came from a frey.
Remember to put this word to use immediately and give credit where credit is due. By the way, this will hopefully be the last post on this subject, I am bored.
On another note, and there isn't a bit of frey in this. I was totally cut off by Senator Norm Colemans mobile office on the way to Starbucks this morning. Not that he ever had it, but he has completely lost my vote!
Posted by JimG at January 13, 2006 08:38 AM
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Mrs. Ginsburg would be sooo proud that you remember all about gerunds... all that sentence diagraming was not for naught! My daughter has coined the word fugiggly... She just repeats it randomly so I can't use it in a sentence. I will quiz her over the weekend.. maybe we can make that one happen. Oh, and just an observation, doesn't that tatoo look totally photoshopped on that boy?
Posted by: Maman at January 13, 2006 02:15 PM
Mrs. Ginsburg would be sooo proud that you remember all about gerunds... all that sentence diagraming was not for naught! My daughter has coined the word fugiggly... She just repeats it randomly so I can't use it in a sentence. I will quiz her over the weekend.. maybe we can make that one happen. Oh, and just an observation, doesn't that tatoo look totally photoshopped on that boy?
Posted by: Maman at January 13, 2006 02:16 PM
I would suggest doing a little research before trying to coin a word. Dictionary.com told me that Frey is already a word;
Frey ( P ) Pronunciation Key (fr) also Freyr (frâr)
n. Mythology
The Norse god who dispenses peace, good weather, prosperity, and bountiful crops; the brother of Freya.
I like the thought behind it. Better luck next time.
Posted by: Billy at January 13, 2006 02:59 PM
While Billy thinks you have not coined a new word, I say you at least have coined new meanings for an existing word. That is something to be proud of.
Posted by: Scott C at January 13, 2006 04:11 PM
The boy is so yummy-looking today that it looks like something tried to eat him up - literally.
Posted by: SparklesMpls at January 13, 2006 04:20 PM
I frey. I get drunk.
Posted by: Dave / higher powered at January 14, 2006 05:43 AM
I love the word, and yes the new meaning has much value! Think about the polysemy of the word chair, how many meanings does it have? I think Frey can have more than one meaning.
Posted by: Courtney C at January 14, 2006 09:00 AM
i fear that if this new word catches on, it will change too much that is dear to me. for example, will the eurithmics song's words change to, "would i frey to you, would i frey to you honey, now would i say something that isn't unfrey, i'm asking you honey would i freeeeeey to you?"
Posted by: lonestarsteve at January 14, 2006 09:13 AM
It's about time that we had a new F word =)
Posted by: Nicholas at January 14, 2006 11:12 AM
I don't think that making up words is such a hot idea. My friend tried it for a while. No matter how hard he tried he just couldn't get "fabulicious" to work.
Posted by: DJH at January 14, 2006 02:28 PM
Jim, you know have proper credit for the term "Deja Vu Decade" at Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990s
Posted by: Chuck at January 16, 2006 11:40 AM