Introduced in the 1980s TV comedy series Not Necessarily the News, sniglets were generated and published in significant numbers, along with submissions by fans, in several books by Rich Hall, beginning with his Sniglets, Sniglets for Kids, and More Sniglets in the mid-1980s.

1992年3月3日 · The following is a complete list of sniglets that have appeared on this newsgroup so far, with a few additions: Sniglet = Any word which should be in the dictionary but isn't. SNIGLETS ABOUT...

2020年2月12日 · Sniglet has been defined by American comedian Rich Hall as "a word that doesn't appear in the dictionary but should." Hall coined the term while performing in the HBO series Not Necessarily the News (1983-1990) and between 1984 and 1990 compiled several volumes of sniglets. Here are some of the original sniglets coined or collected by Rich Hall:

While working on the TV comedy series, Not Necessarily the News (1986-88), he began reading Sniglets, "words that should appear in dictionaries, but don't." The feature was so popular that he wrote a book of Sniglets that sold over 2 million copies.

1985年5月14日 · On the same day I received letters from two readers calling my attention to a new kind of word called a sniglet. A sniglet is succinctly defined as “any word that doesn’t appear in the...

The term was created by writer/actor/comedian Rich Hall, who first created a series of Sniglets while he was a performer on the 1980s HBO comedy series Not Necessarily the News. Each episode of the...

Here are some of the original sniglets coined or collected by Rich Hall: doork, a person who pushes on a door marked "pull." flirr, a photograph that features the camera operator's finger in the corner. lotshock, the act of parking your car, walking away, and then watching it roll past you.

2011年11月12日 · From "Not Necessarily the News," this is an early Sniglets segment from 1983 with Rich Hall. Words coined here include spratchetts, speraws, squimmets, mots...

Halloscuse—the convoluted excuse one gives for not wearing a costume on Halloween Hoodlgig—when the end of the plug becomes bent just enough that it no longer easily connects to the

Top 8 Sniglets of 2007 • Electile Dysfunction—The inability to become aroused by any of the candidates in an election (cf. the Republican primaries 2012). • Mouse Arrest— Forbidden the use of the computer. • Googlegänger— A person with your name who shows up when you google yourself. (American Dialect Society)