Dialect or gnomi-lect?

[gnomi]

As I used it in a comment in a friend's locked post, I wondered: am I the only one that uses "cranking" to mean "expressing my crankiness," as in "I was cranking to mabfan this morning about the appearance of Halloween ads in August."

I know there are words in my idiolect that are solely mine (or, if they're used by others, they got it from me): obnoxia (the noun form of obnoxious: "I can't believe that guy's obnoxia!" (pronounced "ob-nausea")), snacquisition (the acquisition of snacks), and procrastikniting (knitting in order to avoid another project) are just three examples. So if it is just mine, I would completely believe it. I'm just curious.

Comments

[elrhiarhodan]

There are some interesting "urban" definitions for cranking, and none of them have to do with expressing a foul mood. ;-)

But I adore your neologisms. I'm officially borrowing procrastikniting and reinventing it as procrastificcing (writing fan fiction to avoid other, more pressing duties).

And sacquisition is just flailworthy.

[twitch124.livejournal.com]

Yeah, about when it started meaning "taking Meth" in the 90s all the other meanings seemed to fall out of use.