Sinseriously? Readers coin new words, too

English is a remarkably flexible and protean tongue. If it needs a word, it'll take it from any source, or mash two words together, or chop one in half. But sometimes there are emotions or situations the language hasn't covered, and that's why we've featured new words here every Wednesday. When we asked readers for suggestions for the column, they had a plenitude of them — although no one came up with "snobbodork." (That would be someone who uses words like "plenitude.") Here's a sampling of the readers' favorites.
JAMES LILEKS

Absotively
Submitted by Dave Downey

Definition: A combination of absolutely and positively to mean totally and with certainty. (Alternative: posilutely)

Sample usage: "I'm absotively sure that I turned off the iron before we left home; it's the stove I'm wondering about."

Popularity: In the age of excessive hype, it's a natural fit.

Celebrissed
Submitted by Sharon Carlson

Definition: Celebrity + obsessed. Used to describe someone who name drops and goes on and on about how they know a friend, of a friend, of a friend, who took care of their dog.

Popularity: Should be limited to chats at the water cooler or in the break room.

Witt-e-banter
Submitted by Tim Dornfeld

Definition: A funny or amusing exchange of texts, tweets or other electronic messages.

Sample usage: "The reason I was laughing during the staff meeting was that I was exchanging witt-e-banter with my brother."

Popularity: Haven't seen it much.

Definition: Being lazy.

Sample usage: "Gloomy, rainy days leave me feeling do-less."

Popularity: Only heard my family use it, but they've been using it since the '50s.

Sinseriously
Submitted by Sid Korpi

Definition: Combines sincerely with seriously.

Popularity: I made it up and, so far, am the only person using it.

Irritainment
Submitted by Alan Rosendahl

Definition: Entertainment that is irritating but also so enticing that you can't stop watching.

Sample usage: "The new reality show about two drivers abandoned in a traffic circle and forced to find their way out without using a GPS is top-notch irritainment."

Popularity: As reality shows scrape even further into the bottom of the creative barrel, its use will only increase.

Definition: The phenomenon of going somewhere (a different room, the store, etc.) and realizing on arrival that you've forgotten why you went in the first place.

Sample usage: "I meant to have the oil changed, but when I got to the service station my destinesia kicked in and I had the tires rotated instead."

Popularity: With the baby boomers aging, it's likely to get quite a workout — at least until we reach the next stage, which is totally forgetting where you are, or "destimentia."

Intaxication
Submitted by Susan Krantz

Definition: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize that it was your money to begin with.

Popularity: Likely peaked in April.

Flabdominals
Submitted by Susan Lavasseur

Definition: An excess layer of fat that covers your stomach.

Sample usage: "Maybe if you ate fewer doughnuts and did more situps you could get rid of those flabdominals."

Popularity: The word might catch on, but doing more situps certainly won't.

Definition: Initially a student who lived on campus, the usage is expanding to refer to any student at a college or university.

Sample usage: "Both our kids are collegers, which is why we eat nothing but mac and cheese — the mac on one night and the cheese the next."

Popularity: Even collegers don't say colleger.

Intellectual interruptions
Submitted by Luanne Koskinen

Definition: A classier term for the mental lapses that are commonly called "senior moments."

Popularity: The high-tech nuance lends it a contemporary air.

Splawesome
Submitted by Matt Borgert

Definition: The marriage of splendid + awesome.

Sample usage: "That guy sure has some splawesome karate kick moves! I wonder if he's a ninja?"