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New word coined!
Fellow word-users, rejoice! I have developed a new word to use in the following context: you wish to describe someone who habitually dances around the actual issue; someone who, as modern slang tells it, "pussyfoots" around, rather than saying what he or she means. That someone can now be described as a
Enjoy.
Posted by Jason Torchinsky on 08/08/2006 | Permalink
Comments
I like it.
I feel the need to English-ise it though.
(gy)NOPED (with a silent gy, pro: 'Nopt')
Posted by: tch | Aug 9, 2006 7:52:00 AM
Proposed second definition: Newspaper commentary on reproductive rights.
Posted by: Nassassin | Aug 9, 2006 12:36:17 PM
As in, guy-nopt, or guy-no-ped? I'm going to use the latter, but tch's NOPED would sound like the former.
Posted by: Brock | Aug 9, 2006 2:12:09 PM
haha, i think i prefer (gy•no•ped)
Posted by: claytron | Aug 10, 2006 9:20:22 AM
sure though this word needs to sound like it's used in past tense?
If you say someone nopt around it sounds like they've done something. Saying they gn-no-ped around sounds more akin to a moped.
Or am i being pendantry?
Posted by: tch | Aug 13, 2006 9:57:47 AM
Actually, I was thinking of the word as a noun, so that's why I prefer gy•no•ped. So, sorry, tch, I'm officially saying no to 'nopt'. Here's a sample sentence:
I wish that numbnuts would just come out and say what he means; I'm sick of him being such a GYNOPED.
I hope this helps and thank you all.
Posted by: Jason Torchinsky | Aug 15, 2006 2:07:29 PM
In which case, spot on ;)
Posted by: tch | Aug 17, 2006 3:13:14 PM
Wow, this is totally offensive. The word "pussyfoot" refers to CATS, not women. Unless this is somehow supposed to be a joke, I'm really not pleased to see Stay Free condoning the arbitrary sex stereotyping that I see this coinage as encouraging.
And even if it's supposed to be a joke? I still don't like it.
Posted by: Rose | Sep 2, 2006 5:07:09 PM
