Sometimes the perfect word hasn’t yet been invented, so you have to do it yourself. Writer Lizzie Skurnick has written a new book of words she’s coined, including woogle, slumbrage, and crambitious. Tom Hall finds out what they mean.
The book is called That Should Be a Word: A Language Lover’s Guide to Choregasms, Povertunity, Brattling and Other Much-Needed Terms for the Modern World.