Porcelator

[jack]

In a comment to angoel, I looked up for another word for the overflow in a sink/bath, and wikipedia lists porcelator, supposedly american. However, it's *not* in the dictionary.

Either it's a recent coinage, or someone spoofed it onto wikipedia, I can only imagine. But which? There were other hits, but maybe it was a *good* spoof. How do you tell? :) *Had* anyone heard it before?

Comments

[megamole.livejournal.com]

Did they take "percolator" and swap the letters round?

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

That was my guess :)

[hmmm-tea.livejournal.com]

Even if it is a spoof, if the word then comes into common usage then surely that would then make the wikipedia entry correct in the end...

[cornute.livejournal.com]

http://www.bovilexics.com/sniglets-p.html

A "sniglet," of course, is a word created because it "should be in the dictionary, but isn't."

So it's a recent coinage.

kkk

[(Anonymous)]

lol