Saturday, March 01, 2008

Word of the week: Dreadhawk

Dreadhawk [dred-hawk] [] noun -
  1. a hairstyle consisting of dreadlocks shaped into a mohawk.

Taken from http://www.fauxlogism.com/,
Fauxlogism is "an ongoing project to document false words. It appears to be heading mostly in the direction of portmanteaus, but all fraudulent or phony words are acceptable.

Why is any given new word a fauxlogism and not a neologism, you might ask? There’s no good answer to that question so let’s just shuffle our feet a little, tug at our collars, and move on...."

2 comments:

Tropical Ties said...

Are you thinking of growing a dreadhawk Steve? Gosh Dominicans would fill up the fauxlogism database. I'm sure I saw "policerise" in an article the other day

Unknown said...

No, but I was toying with the idea of how Mo-locks would look in my hair!