The Official List of Twitter-friendly Words

Cogent and pithy. Many of them come from our ever-neologistic hacker crowd, who loves nounizing verbs and verbizing nouns, to fit the situation. Here they are:

amazonned–instead of ‘lost a significant chunk of your business to a dot-com’
animus
andante–instead of ‘at a walking pace’
argot–instead of ‘his special vocabulary’
avatar
cancelmoose–instead of ‘wage war against spamm’
canted–instead of ‘slanted’
cryppie–instead of ‘a hacker who penetrates cryptographic software’
debbie–instead of ‘someone newer than a newbie’
edress–instead of ‘electronic addresses, such as your e-mail address or your IM address’
gonk–instead of ’embellish the truth beyond reasonable recognition’
mien–instead of ‘demeanor’
modicum–instead of ‘slightest bit’
moxy–instead of ‘courage’
nadir–instead of ‘the lowest point’
playground–instead of ‘techie workspace’
proxy–instead of ‘replacement’
salmon day–instead of ‘spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed in the end’
schadenfreude–instead of ‘malicious satisfaction from the misfortunes of others’
Sitzfleisch–instead of ‘ability to sit patiently for hours doing one thing when you could be doing a million others things’
Sorrel–instead of ‘reddish brown color’
sprachgefhl–instead of ‘an intuitive understanding of language’
supinate–instead of ‘rotate hand or foot so palm or sole is upward’
tarradiddle–instead of ‘a petty falsehood’
tech neck–instead of ‘sore neck from sitting in front of a computer all day’
termagant–instead of ‘a scolding, nagging, bad-tempered woman’
triskaidekaphobia–instead of ‘morbid fear of number 13’
vestigial–instead of ‘not fully developed’
vulcan nerve pinch–instead of ‘keyboard commands that tax the hand’s ability to reach all appropriate keys’
xerophyte–instead of ‘a plant that will thrive in desert conditions’
Zeitgeist–instead of ‘spirit of the time’
zenith–instead of ‘the point directly above the observer’