WARIFY — universeness

Good one.

I sometime explain away my obnoxious behaviour by saying I’m just being scraptious. I think it’s a combination of scrappy and captious.

I also use “falafel” to mean faff/hassle.

scraptious — Jamal

:grin: I like it. Sounds to me like it has some common ground with my 'warify.' 'A scrap' is often used as a phrase that can mean a fight, So scraptious gives me another image of being incited to violence. But why was 'a scrap' related to fighting? I always associated scrap with a metal that is available for recycling. :chin:
Do you know how it became associated with fighting?
I think new words demonstrate new/original human thinking, do you agree or do you think it's just recycled old thinking, like repurposed scrap? I don't want to sound 'scraptious' here! You know! Like scrap with a meaningful but threatening caption underpinning it! :lol:

Enpuddlement, or to be enpuddled, though I'm not sure how to give it the proper prefix without a professional linguist. Latin suggestions are instagni/instagnum.

Literally means getting stuck in or physically/mentally captured by a puddle. Elephants get stuck and die in sinkholes, as youtube shows us. Insects trapped in amber to be fossilized into gems have been enpuddled.

Philosophers are continually enpuddled by problems (puddles) they can't help stomping around in, like children stomping around in puddles.

Be careful stomping in a puddle. You never know how deep it is.

Never dive into a puddle assuming you've guessed its depth. The seemingly shallow can be deep and contrariwise.

For some unlucky organisms, to be enpuddled is to be annihilated/entombed.

I guess the term partially stems from the childhood fascination for being stuck in quicksand.