To ease us into a new week’s worth of work, here are a few of my favourite made-up words …

  • schmoegel (n): a little bit
    Won’t you just cut me a schmoegel of that cake?

  • nana (n): fool
    Good Lord (insert name here)! Must you always be such a nana in front of my colleagues?

  • bizarro (a): upside-down, opposite
    It was as if she had woken up into a bizarro world, where all that she knew was not only no longer true, but entirely inverted.

  • yoinks (?): exclamation of surprise
    And then all of a sudden, yoinks! There was no electricity.

    Try them out. Guaranteed to make your daily conversation more colourful.

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    Bridget McNulty

    Bridget McNulty

    Bridget McNulty is a writer, content strategist and creative director. She is the editor of Sweet Life diabetes lifestyle magazine (www.sweetlifemag.co.za) and...

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