My favourite made-up word is "cretinaceous", coined by my vet about a
particularly loathesome, pompous, ignorant horse owner and her equally
loasesome horse (the only horse I 've ever found that I didn't like). Th vet
said that she'd had to visit this "cretinaceous woman and her cretinacous
horse".
Yes I know "cretin" is a noun for a mentally retarded, deformed person
usually as a result of a thyoid deficiency, but it's also used for a stupid
person. The correct adjective is "cretinous", but the vet didn't think that
went far enough in describing this woman and lengthened it to "cretinaceous"
which added to the descriptiveness of it as it applied to this woman.
Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK
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