alumnesia (noun) : Inability to recall the name of a former classmate. <At the 20th high school reunion, he suffered so much from alumnesia that he had to peek in the yearbook before greeting former classmates.>

burquini (noun) : Modest swimwear (mostly for ladies) which covers the head and most parts of the body while swimming. A cross between a burqua and bikini. <The advent of the burquini has made swimming popular among conservative Muslim girls.>

buffer-stall (noun) : The empty stall in the restroom left unused when someone is using the stall next to it. <I was so upset when someone used the stall next to me; there needs to be a buffer-stall.>

coulda-woulda-shoulda (noun) : Something that could have, would have, or should have happened. <How do you fix a problem like Dow Jones? The company owns one of the world's best newspapers. . . .The company's coulda-woulda-shouldas of the past 15 years fill volumes. —Jon Fine, BusinessWeek, July 2, 2007>

deskercise (noun) : Exercise, usually stretching and calisthenics, that can be performed while someone is sitting at a desk at work. <I try to do at least 15 minutes of deskercise everyday in order to increase blood flow and alleviate stiff muscles.>

destinesia (noun) : A physical and mental condition that occurs when you arrive in a place but forget your purpose in traveling there. <She was overcome with destinesia when she reached the last step of the basement stairs and forgot where she was going.>

eurocrat (noun) [often capitalized] 1 : a member or a professional in the diplomatic or administrative staff of the European parliament. 2 : an official of a European government. <Britain's relations with America now controlled by some eurocrat who cannot possibly understand the historic relationships of Churchill and Roosevelt. —Irwin Stelzer, London Daily Telegraph, June 27, 2007>

fat finger (noun) : Tendency to always press the wrong button. <The system is not working because of your fat finger.>

folksonomy (noun) : User-generated taxonomy used to "tag" information on web pages, particularly interactive or collaborative ones where many people are sharing information. <So the user-created bottom-up categorical structure development with an emergent thesaurus would become a Folksonomy? —Thomas Vander Wal, July 24, 2004 in the IA Institute (then called the Asylomar Institute for Information Architecture)>

grumpelstiltskin (noun) : Someone who is easily agitated; an overly grumpy person. [named after Rumpelstiltskin, a character from a Brothers Grimm fairytale] <My dad can be a real grumpelstiltskin when my mom asks him to mow the lawn.>

Hinglish (noun) : A mix of Hindi and English that is commonly spoken in urban India. <The college students chatted comfortably in Hinglish.>

intoxitexting (verb) : Sending text messages while intoxicated. <Sorry if my last text didn't make any sense. I was intoxitexting at the bar.>

littlewig (noun) : An unimportant person. <He was just a normal guy, a littlewig.>

LSS (abbreviation) : Last Song Syndrome; a state wherein you keep on singing the last song you heard, whether from the radio or from someone else. <I got LSS and have kept singing 'I Ain't Got You' for five hours now.>

monotask (verb) : To perform a single task at one time. <I am not very good at multitasking . . . actually I'm not very good at monotasking either.>

o'dark-thirty (noun) : The time of day between midnight and five o'clock in the morning. <I would need to get up at o'dark-thirty to get from Baltimore to Charlotte by nine o'clock in the morning.>

one-downmanship (noun) : Verbal sparring over who has the worse tale of self-inflicted woe or the hardest luck of all. <When they started talking about their disastrous first days at the office, the one-downmanship became intense.>

pétanque (noun) : A game similar to bocce in which teams of players attempt to roll balls as close as possible to a smaller ball on a hard dust surface. <Local pétanque players also sometimes boule in the South End, at Hayes Park, but by and large Clemente Field is ground zero for the tidy, little-known French game. —Kevin Paul Dupont, Boston Globe, August 4, 2007>

rearchitect (verb) : To redesign the architecture of a computer program. <With version four, we went back to the drawing board effectively to rearchitect the system to cope with the huge increase in both the volume of data that clients are putting through the system, and also the rate at which these prices are updating. —Richard Gessing, quoted by Shane Kite, Securities Industry News, June 18, 2007>

sidejack (verb) : To intercept data in a WiFi environment from a computer user located in the same WiFi area who logs in to Web-based data without encryption protection. <Using a basic packet sniffer over a WiFi network and a proxy server to pass the information through, a determined hacker can easily "sidejack" the session information as his own by stealing session IDs straight out of the WiFi signal. —Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica, August 1, 2007>

textpert (noun) : Someone who is extremely skilled at text messaging. <Bob could text his reply so quickly because he was truly a textpert.>

ttyl (abbreviation) : Talk To You Later -- used in instant messaging. <Jamie said to Emma "I've Got To Go. ttyl">

varitarian (noun) : A not-so-firm vegetarian who occasionally eats meat when cravings overcome logic. <David showed his varitarian tendencies when he failed to resist the barbecued chicken at the neighbor's party.>

vidiot (noun) : One who languishes in front of a television screen watching videos or television programs continuously.

warm-transfer (verb) : To transfer calls from one person to another. <You warm-transfer the customer to the operation department.>

wheel of pain (noun) : Negative publicity intended to put pressure on someone to settle a law suit. <Now Roehm has hired Michael Sitrick, whose . . . public-relations firm is known for going atomic on opponents, using 'truth squads' . . . . "wheel of pain" tactics . . . and high-profile journalists. . . .> —Michelle Conlin & Robert Berner, BusinessWeek, June 25, 2007>

By the way, the Open Dictionary will soon be celebrating its second anniversary as a feature on Merriam-Webster Online. It now has received more than 11,000 submissions and includes entries for nearly 10,000 words of all kinds, from slang to technical, playful to serious, and from fanciful coinages to words that may indeed find their way into regular dictionaries. Anyone can join the fun: if you have a word that you think ought to be in the dictionary, we'd like to hear about it.