madeupical

Ah, what do they know, uselessness? ;-> Yarb, I can't believe you dreamed about madeupickal in its variant 19th-century spelling! You must be wordieing too hard.

Haha! I actually got the opportunity to use madeupical in a business meeting yesterday... unfortunately my coworkers didn't exactly get the reference. :-P

The other night I dreamt I was reading an obscure novel from nineteen-o-something. In a footnote of this novel, or it might have been non-fiction a la William James, I saw the word "madeupickal", and thought "a-ha! This will be a killer citation!" Then I woke up.

Got that right. :-)

Particularly hilarious ones.

Don't worry about it; misunderstandings just happen sometimes.

Ah, mock-seriously, you say! Now I understand. Apologies if I came off sounding snippy. :-)

Yes, I know you were joking; and I was taking it mock-seriously. Maybe I should use more emoticons, but on this of all sites...

The originator is me. Uselessness is correct. And I was just joking. See the wink down there? ;-)

And Cthulhu had nothing to do with it; believe me.

There we are: it can be done. Cheers. (Though I do like the Hellenic-sounding one.)

"Made. Up. Ickle." :-P

Consult the originator?

How can you not have a pronunciation guide for a word? Even if it's 'uncertain', on the model of Cthulhu, that's still information that permits a guide.

But it's a madeupical word, VanishedOne--how can we have a pronunciation guide for a madeupical word? ;-)

We need a pronunciation guide: this is my first time looking at this page, and I'd expected the pronunciation to be mad-yuu'pi-cal.

I think sniglets were "invented" (maybe not) by Rich Hall, a 1980s-era comedian who used to be on Saturday Night Live. He put out a bunch of books of sniglets and stuff. Some of my favorites (that I still remember) were:
motspur--the one wheel on a shopping cart that won't go the right way
essoasso--a person who avoids a red light by cutting through a corner gas station
blurfle--to be speaking loudly over music, as at a dance club, only to have the music stop suddenly just as you're saying something like "... testicles laminated!"

I just learned the word sniglet, which is a synonym for madeupical, and equally fun to say.

Archive note: the very first mention of madeupical is at nounal. So in ages hence, all will see our brilliance.

Of course it's real! After all, we made it up, and we're real! Case closed.

Besides, no one ever puts madeupical words on Wordie. Ever.

Because we've all been saying this word, and nobody had it listed. It's totally real, by the way.