some components of my personal vocabulary

aerodrome, brolly

I prefer the proper British term for the Flugplatz. I also favour their slang term for umbrellas, somehow derived from bumbershoot.

a BFT

about fuckin' time

blivet n.

Disparaging term used by a high school gym coach (and others, I've since learned) who'd left the scene just before my arrival -- supposed meaning, "ten pounds of shit in a five-pound bag" -- used to characterize fat, dumpy guys.

crusty n.

Like my nickname, a word whose etymology can be found in my high school/college gang. This one came out of the summer of 1973, when many of us (including me) got summer work in construction. It means a contractor or a laborer -- someone in the building trades, a "hardhat" or out-of-doors blue-collar worker.

da'aheem,
dusheek,
dashee'el,
dooheap

Arabic-sounding oaths I utter in times of trial or triumph. If you know definitions for any of these words, please tell me the language and meaning -- as far as I know, I made them up.

the Director's Chair

(after a once-common premium offering) -- any pledge-break interuption in public broadcasting

doo-heater n.

not sure what this is, but I sure say say it a lot, in private

drain v.

to urinate

eelectweest v.

electricity -- an invention from my proto-adolescence, when I modified many common expressions and utilized them in my vocabulary as a way of feeling unique.

erect adj.

When served pizza, I'm disappointed when it's not. My test is simple -- grasp a slice by its curved outer edge of crust, and lift it from the tray -- if it sticks straight out, I'm pleased; if the slice droops, it's not erect. And if all the cheese & sauce starts sliding off, I'm disgusted -- why was I served partially-cooked food?

freakin'

Not part of my vocab. This phoney, stupid-sounding word (adapted by the young, along with friggin' or even fricken) is meant to be code for the vulgar "fuckin." When the impact of the F-word is required, I use the F-word -- but those instances are rare, and I don't have Tourette's.

fweepers

A word whose etymology can be traced, like many in this list, to my high school/college buddies (sometimes known as 'the droogs') but the precise source remains obscure. Like "hinky" (see below) the definition is hard to pen down, but you know one when you see one. They usually protrude, and often come in pairs (except when they don't); but they're inorganic: for example, breasts are not fweepers (unless perhaps they're especially fweepy).

non-intuitive, compound extension:
fweep out -- burn out, go dead (like an appliance), die

"goldfish" gift or (more commonly) goldfish present

An invention from family infancy: present given to another familiy member, from one who desires use of the object. (Source: the original gift-object.)

le hadjio n.

Spoken in a grunting, nasal manner; another invention from my proto-adolescence, a garbled interpretation of the French pronunciation of "radio" (and that's what it means). I've since learned this is how Japanese say it.

hincky (rhymes with "stinky")

Many people ask what this very useful adjective means. It's not my invention -- often my answer is, "That's what Tommy Lee Jones said, when he heard an underling use it in 'The Fugitive' movie." (And since his explanatory response was unsatisfactory, I'm giving it a go, here.) Sometimes, I've observed it spelled with a 't' (hincty) (but if that's the correct spelling, the 't' is silent, at least in my usage). So -- What is hincky? Something silly, infantile, unmanly; possibly something you used to do, or be into, but don't anymore because the hip kids would never. (Ideally, you've outgrown the thing on your own, rather than abandoning the thing due to peer pressure.) Example from my own experience, growing up: Although "Lost in Space" was still in the prime-time schedule, winding down its final season; as the clearly superior "Star Trek" was in its first season, "Lost in Space" had become hincky by 1967 (although the earlier program was definitely cool when it first began). Maybe that's a definition of hincky -- the opposite of "cool." Under many conditions "sissy" would be a close relative.

Hoyim!

Another made-up word, sounding Levantine to my ears -- it's a greeting equivalent to Edgar Rice Burroughs' Barsoomian "Kaor!"

intweestification

An object of interest (another archaic proto-adolescent invention)

the Knubby

area(s) in/of the woods between/around/adjacent to the suburban neighborhoods of my youth; which have now been developed into oblivion (the Snatchel was the first to go). Stepping On The Cracks is a book by Mary Downing Hahn set in the original Knubby, down across the train tracks near what was once Erco Field. My gang occasionally referred to ourselves as the "Knights of the Knubby" -- we even designed a flag, forward and backards "K"s on either side of a pentagon containing a marijuana leaf. The pentagon represented the crude, fived-sided structure we built back in there in the early 70s, from 4 by 4 inch beams and 4 by 8 foot sheets of plywood: the Knubby House, floored with the slate we stole that night, and rebuilt after the hated minibikers (or whoever) destroyed the first one.

Krindau!

A word Tim heard (or thought he heard) in some martial-arts movie, which we now exclaim as reaction to anything Oriental and exceptional.

Masculine Delight

a beer

(Molly) Maypops

Elitist, disparaging term from Jr High School for non-name-brand athletic shoes -- specifically, anything except Converse "Chuck Taylors" (which are only referred to as "Chucks")

Mother Hunch!

Another oath, uttered in times of aggravation or pain.

NFW

no fuckin' way (often articulated as the abbreviated "en-eff-dub")

nummy

my variant of "yummy." The source is an episode of "Gomer Pyle" where Sgt. Carter confessed that his mother used to call him "Num-Num"

Pic-twa n.

picture. A phoneme from my private pre-adolscent language channeled through "Brideshead Revisited"s Anthony Blanche.

Pookie (fem), Pooter (masc)

nickname for you which I might vocalize in an unguarded moment, taken from movies -- the former, from "The Sterile Cuckoo," and the latter, from "Cooley High"

Puty-footies n.

What Tim calls feet and/or shoes.

quava n.

A cat. Etymological source: allegedly, an old cartoon I never saw.

schtümpfen n.

This Germanic-sounding word is meaningless, as far as I can tell; although it's similar to a rare family name in the Fatherland. Many years ago I sorta dreamed it up, and I use it as a nebulous term associated with a momentarily or terminally foolish person.

"skritz" toast

Another family invention from infancy: burned toast that has been salvaged, by scraping away the black.

stuncky

human feces (the oldest term in this listing, from my earliest speech, barely post-toddler, never used today)

tubehead n.

Somebody who watches too much television (and more than a couple hours a week, or even a month, is too much). At its most extreme, the first syllable is verbalized in a falsetto, at least an octave higher than the second.

Two Wheels Good n.

a bicycle (from Animal Farm, obviously). Also, spidery machine -- a ten-speed.

whoopietrash

Another invention from my proto-adolesence, meaning rubbish, or something nebulous. Never would be spoken now in public, although used mentally upon occasion (usually preceeded with the meaningless but amusing-sounding 'hooteresque' modifier). "Whoopie" can also be used as a modifier with unexpected results: whoopiehead, whoopiestuff, whoopyism, etc -- but again, this is archaic, never used today, included here just for completeness.

the Zone n.

Sometimes (usually) "The Twilight Zone" (which would only refer to the original TV series); other times, Barry Sears' "Zone" diet, among other things -- you have to figure it out by context.