I remember it was used on a regular show on HBO back in the 1980s(?). The show invented words to describe human activities that didn't actually have words to describe them as Douglas Adams did with the "word" throck. Usually, those words were an onomatopoeia of the action described, i.e. throck is similar to the sound that's made when you push the handle of a toaster down.
I remember it was used on a regular show on HBO back in the 1980s(?). The show invented words to de
That would be Not Necessarily the News which had among its comedy sketches a long-running and popular segment created by comedian Rich Hall's featuring sniglets – words that aren't in the dictionary but should. A majority of the sniglets, in the show, in the subsequent books, and in other material, were submitted by viewers and fans. As I've seen a few in a book on words that families invent, some of these words likely go back years or decades before the '80s.
As for Douglas Adams, he wrote the first version of The Meaning of Liff about a year or so before NNtN in which he basically took a bunch of place names and attached meanings to them as if they were sniglets. He eventually expanded the book which was later reprinted in an anniversary edition. He inspired another book by co-author John Lloyd as well as a couple of spin-offs by other authors.
I've found a handful of other books and articles in a similar vein, using "sniglet" as an umbrella tag for them all regardless if they were part of Hall's material or not.
That would be Not Necessarily the News which had among its comedy sketches a long-running and popul
