Actually, I quite like it: 'horrorified' - for when 'horrified' just isn't enough.
(cute infant story alert - sorry!)
The Urchin at 4 coined the portmanteau expression 'hurrived' - an amalgam of hurry and arrived - which has become a staple in family parlance for when you turn up late in a slightly dishevelled and breathlesss state.
The luxurbeautious 'horrorified' and 'hurrived' would have been super contenders at the last Oxford Dictionary review. In default of real competition, the panel were committed to accepting 'gaydar' and 'muggle' in order to justify profligate luncheons.
"... 'hurrived' - an amalgam of hurry and arrived - which has become a staple in family parlance for when you turn up late in a slightly dishevelled and breathlesss state."
:D
".. but it's definitely in the George W Bush edition of Merriam-Webster. "
Heh! Indeed!
But, for all his word-mangling, I bet the Yanks would like him back, having had a taste of Obama.
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Actually, I quite like it: 'horrorified' - for when 'horrified' just isn't enough.
(cute infant story alert - sorry!)
The Urchin at 4 coined the portmanteau expression 'hurrived' - an amalgam of hurry and arrived - which has become a staple in family parlance for when you turn up late in a slightly dishevelled and breathlesss state.
The luxurbeautious 'horrorified' and 'hurrived' would have been super contenders at the last Oxford Dictionary review. In default of real competition, the panel were committed to accepting 'gaydar' and 'muggle' in order to justify profligate luncheons.
Come to think of it, it rather reminds me of this from Pratchett's 'Witches Abroad':
'Nanny Ogg knew how to start spelling 'banana', but didn't know how you stopped.'
Hence her recipe for 'Bananana Soup Surprise' - in fact, in terms of preoccupations, Nanny Ogg and the Mail have more than a little in common...
Horrorify? Perfectly good word. Not common in British English usage, for sure, but it's definitely in the George W Bush edition of Merriam-Webster.
Or is that "definately"? I can never be sure, these days.
"... 'hurrived' - an amalgam of hurry and arrived - which has become a staple in family parlance for when you turn up late in a slightly dishevelled and breathlesss state."
:D
".. but it's definitely in the George W Bush edition of Merriam-Webster. "
Heh! Indeed!
But, for all his word-mangling, I bet the Yanks would like him back, having had a taste of Obama.
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