If Google can be added to the dictionary, could this word also make it past the Oxford scholars?
Foobs are everywhere today. You see them on the street, in magazines, on television. They are in the minds of everyone (male and female) whether it be for entertainment or self interest.
This word came to me by way of a co-worker of my wife’s. He, Carson is his name, is a very jovial fellow who is always cracking jokes (albeit most of them only worth a chuckle of 5). But this time he has hit upon, at least in my opinion, solid gold. So now onto the definition:
Foobs (n): Commonly, a woman’s breasts that have been enhanced through surgical means; often by implants or fat tissue relocation. Example: “Bill commented on her lovely foobs.”
Foobs (adj): Describing someone as fake, unnatural, or comprised of soft squishy tissue. Example: “You are such a foob.”
Foobs is a contraction of the words “fake” and “boobs”. Why “foobs”? Because “feasts” is too commonly mistaken for a large meal. That, and its sounds just plain stupid when you say it as “fests”.
Anyways, I’m currently working on obtaining the rights to use the word on t-shirts. I think that I owe Carson that much as it is a great word (as long as it doesn’t exceed $50) so hopefully it will go well.
So, now that you know the definition of Foobs, what do you think? Should it be added into the next printing of the dictionary? Do you think me mad for buying a silly word? Are you mad because you didn’t think of it first?
-Cheers
No, I’m not mad you thought of it first. I’m glad. Nor do I get even. I get odd.
According to one source*
“To be included in a dictionary, a word must be used in a substantial number of citations that come from a wide range of publications over a considerable period of time.”
Qualifying your word may not be difficult at all. I suggest you start by submitting a few jokes using the word to Readers Digest, say about one joke per month. Perhaps submit the definition you gave above to ‘Quotable Quotes’. (You might get $100 in the process!) Then, ask your friends and family to include the word whenever they are writing for the Editorial/Opinion section of a major news publication. It’s easy to use ‘foob’ and ‘politician’ in the same sentence. (Shame them into writing letters to the press if they don’t do this already with such statements as, “Don’t take your freedom to choose foobs for granted!”) Finally, create a website that lists celebrities with foobs. If you include tell-tale pictures the PageRank should be 8/10 or better in no time. A few properly placed Ad-Sense links can make a lot of money here, too!
Those are some ideas to qualify your word for the dictionary. Don’t forget to cheap copyright it first. Mail the word to yourself in several envelopes and don’t open the envelope until you need to enforce the copyright. The timestamp on the envelopes is valid evidence in court.
On second thought, you might want to look into registering it as a TradeMark! It might be goldmine. That’s just my idea, which might be unnaturally inflated.
*http://www.ideafinder.com/features/everwonder/won-words.htm