Ginormous Deal

So ginormous is now an acceptable word. Big deal. I've been using unacceptable words for years, and no one ever noticed. Aren't new innovations often ignored until the passing of an age? Only years later, after some child genius bites the dust, are such gems discovered.

"Cootie" is an example of child genius never given its just due. My whole first grade class knew what it meant: some yucky thing on girls that rubbed off on boys. We knew enough to run away from girls who had them. But adults never learned the word. Look in a dictionary and it says a cootie is a body louse. Maybe first grade girls did have body lice, I don't know, but my point is the true meaning of cootie hasn't been recognized. Modern definitions simply lack the intimate connection of cooties to girls, and boys running away from them. If first graders can invent words, why can't we? Think of something that will make you famous, then write it down:

Snargle (verb):
1) to express disturbing feelings (She snargled at her husband all day long)
2) to trip over one's feet on the way to the bathroom at nighttime (Why don't you put your shoes in the closet where they belong, so I won't snargle all the time?)
Synonyms: dunkdraggle.

Until later.