Entries in the Uxbridge English Dictionary

I was first introduced to the practice of writing new entries for the Uxbridge English Dictionary on cohost by Luna, who has written a summary of the origins of this particular bit, as well as offering her own archive of past contributions to the dictionary's growing collection.

agnomen
(ag·no·men)
Misogynist's lament.

anthropolatry
(an·thro·pohl·try)
A contagious condition among chickens, spread through pecking, that causes a fowl to become human when the moon is full.

apartment
(a·part·ment)
A state of feeling separated from oneself; lacking togetherment.

apropos
(a·prop·oh·ess)
A simulacrum of a fictional operating system, for use in visual media.

baccarat
(back·a·rat)
Invest in rodent venture capital.

bunyips
(bun·yips)
plural noun, Biology. Sudden and unexplained loss of one's ability to execute skills characteristic of a rabbit.

celery
(sell·err·ee)
Analog compositing system used in traditional animation.

cohost
(co·ho·est)
Silver salmon at the top of the dominance hierarchy within its school. Superlative of cohoy and cohoer.

cryptid
(crypt·id)
Source of unconscious thanatotic urges to do such bitter business as the day would quake to look on.

definite
(dee·fine·ite)
To take something finite and make it infinite instead.

deific
(dee·ee·eye·fic)
Stories intended for everyone, written by amateur authors.

DIFF
(diff)
Computing. Abbreviation for "Dagged Ibage File Forbad," a format to be used when suffering from severe nasal congestion.

epigone
(ee·pig·one)
Title held by the Internet's top-ranked porcine anthro VTuber.

fantasm
(fan·tas·um)
Sexual climax with a twist of orange.

goaltender
(goal·tender)
Breaded slice of chicken breast awarded to a player scoring a goal in ice hockey. Currently limited to AHL and NHL regulation play.

hardline
(hard·line)
Music. Vocal part that is difficult or impossible to perform without technological assistance or outright simulation.

interest
(in·ter·est)
adjective. In a grave containing at least three bodies, the condition of being interred at the greatest depth.

justice
(just·ayce)
What remains in America when a cold beverage is consumed too quickly.

justles
(just·less)
What remains in Europe when a beverage is parrially consumed.

knoll
(kh·nohl)
A gnoll who has awakened to the mysteries, and who thus possesses an avatar that enables them to perform magick.

Lice
(lice)
Plural of lie. Formerly archaic, but recently repopularized by Fleetwood Mac's 1987 single, "Little Lice."

metaphor
(meh·tah·for)
A simile.

MONOCLE
(mon·uh·cuhl)
One half of a BIONICLE.

negate
(neh·git)
A variegated, banded chalcedony from the parallel dimension in which everything is villainous. Often mistaken for an agate by those who miss such telltale signs as an eyepatch, domino mask, or goatee.

ondogram
(on·dog·ram)
Contents of canine short-term memory.

opsec
(ops·eh·cherr·ah)
Additional deliberately hidden and surprising things that continue a sequence or list. Abbreviation of the Latin ops eccera.

pantheist
(pant·heist)
1. A robbery for the purpose of stealing trousers.
2. British. A robbery for the purpose of stealing undergarments.

pervert
(per·vert)
Unit of measurement for rate of change from one point to the next adjacent point. Commonly abbreviated dx.

philately
(fie·late·lee)
Computer Science. Finite approximation of the golden ratio φ, resulting from a limit in floating-point precision.

polyester
(pole·yester)
noun, Plural pols·yester.
1. Policy opinion that was once, but is no longer, broadly popular.
2. Archaic: Former elected official.

psychosurgeons
(sie·ko·sur·juns)
They did the monster M*A*S*H.

quietus
(key·ey·tus)
Inquisitive greeting. From the Middle French, "qui et tus?" meaning "who are you?" Considered rudely familiar in modern usage.

rhino
(ree·noh)
The letter rho (Ρ ρ), only smaller (Ρ ρ).

simile
(sim·ih·lee)
Like a metaphor.

sneer
(sneer)
Exclamation upon seeing an object as it approaches.

trespassing
(tres·pass·ing)
Half-heartedly watching a 3-hour video essay about a niche and unfamiliar subject as a means of killing time.

underplay
(un·der·play)
Pig Latin. The spoils of banditry or piracy.

undies
(un·dyes)
YouTube slang. Resurrects oneself.

vexed
(vekst)
Having experiencing a romantic relationship end in an extreme and dramatic way; contraction of "very exed."

waspier
(wass·peer)
Stormy day along the coast, that's a wet-ass pier.
Wear your boots that grip the most on this wet-ass pier.

xylotheque
(zai·lo·tek)
Dance venue featuring live music played on plant-fiber percussions instruments, such as marimbas and balafons.

yonder
(yon·dair)
Comes across as sweet an affectionate from a distance.

zeroes
(zee·rows)
Horizontal coordinates in a matrix, which allow identification of specific entries when cross-referenced with zecolums.