When words fall short, we have no choice but to fill the spaces left.
Flimp is not a word you meet every day, and thank god for that. Imagine being mugged by two people, one jostling your body, the other hoisting your phone and bag. Congratulations – you’ve just been flimped.of 1873, a colloquial bible now online. The entry reads “to hustle or rob”. Adding to the picture,says: “to steal, esp. watches, by snatching items from their owners , often using violent means”.
As a noun, flimp or flimper is the felon, or the jostler who diverts your focus, allowing his accomplice to fleece the goods. Which proves there are words we don’t know that identify things we know. Like philtrum, the groove below your nose, or pandiculate – to stretch and yawn at once.Then again, there are things we do, and know, and feel, that go nameless. Not every tittle or aglet will be tagged.
Reverse scurryfunge, however, is when I offer you a human moment, a familiar action, one craving to be christened. Like your current fatigue, two weeks from Christmas, which might be called exClaustion, jingle-jangled, tinsellitis, Christmalaise or Yuletiredness, according to creative listeners. While someone who shares your birthday is either a birthling, datemate, chrony, twinager or doppeldayer.
Even named things may cry out for a new name, like a better one than gastropub. Sad to say, but that monstrous coinage conjures a loo spell rather than a cordon bleu meal. Henceforth, consider other options as cellary, grub pub, cuisinn or Munchhausen.Then there’s that mix of expectation and mild angst as you await the next song on a shuffle stack. Neither hope nor dread, the pause can now be called audicipation, songxiety or tenterskyhooks, playing Spotluck before you hear the next opportune.
Fair enough, yet no dictionary I browsed could pinpoint that weird summer dance we do when our foot is jabbed by a bindi-eye. Hence, the salvation of prickle polka, bindi-hop or The Grasshopper. Just as frop is now that action of tree-shaking to dislodge a snack, as much as flimp is to shake and steal. Because if we can’t rob other languages to seal our semantic gaps, then we’ll just have to jostle our own imaginations.
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