The Meaning of Liff

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"The Meaning of Liff" by Douglas Adams is a satirical dictionary that uses made-up words (based on place names) to denote things for which no single word exists in the English language. Some of the entries I found particularly apt for Aspies:

Ballycumber (n.): One of the six half-read books lying somewhere in your bed.

Droitwich (n.): A street dance. The two partners approach from opposite directions and try politely to get out of each other's way. They step to the left, step to the right, apologise, step to the left again, apologise again, bump into each other and repeat as often as unnecessary.

Fiunary (n.): The safe place you put something and then forget where it was.

Great Wakering (participial vb.): Panic which sets in when you badly need to go to the lavatory and cannot make up your mind about what book or magazine to take with you.

Hove (adj.): Descriptive of the expression seen on the face of one person in the presence of another who clearly isn't going to stop talking for a very long time.

Sconser (n.): A person who looks around them when talking to you, to see if there's anyone more interesting about.

Shoeburyness (abs.n.): The vague uncomfortable feeling you get when sitting on a seat which is still warm from somebody else's bottom.

Worksop (n.): A person who never actually gets round to doing anything because he spends all his time writing out lists headed 'Things to Do (Urgent)'.

The whole book can be found at http://folk.uio.no/alied/TMoL.html

I particularly like 'Shoeburyness'

I notice you are in Switzerland, I am at UZH (Vetsuisse faculty).

Hah, finally a chance to spread around my brilliant new word!! ! I have transported the word "Tegli" into the English language. I saw that it was someone's last name, liked it, and made up a definition, as follows:

Tegli (noun):

1. A really fierce itch that hits you hard out of nowhere, the kind that makes your hand fly involutarily to the itchy spot and scratch like mad so people look at you like you're mental.

2. An desperate itch that you can't scratch yet because, for example, you're playing a game you can't pause and both hands are occupied; or the itch is on your foot, which is in your shoe, and you are driving.

P.S.- If Tegli is your last name, I apologize for the definition. It was the only thing I could thing of at the moment that didn't have a word yet.

sooo funny