New word order

In Competition No. 2549 you were invited to find a gap in the language and plug it, explaining the etymology of your coinage.

There is a word, ‘sniglet’, created by the American comedian and writer Rich Hall, which describes ‘any word that doesn’t appear in the dictionary but should’.

There were some fine sniglets in the postbag this week. Frank McDonald’s ‘carcophonist’ — ‘a driver, usually a young male, who is keen that everyone should hear the music he’s playing in his car’ — is a useful insult to hurl at offending motorists though it’s unlikely that they’ll hear you. Carolyn Beckingham’s ‘yoofemism’ is ‘any word or expression used in order to avoid saying or writing anything derogatory about any aspect of youth culture’; and William Danes-Volkov gives us ‘barbista’, ‘a devoted and aggressive lover of Bar-B-Queues. Insists on filling the evening air with the smell of lighter fluid, burnt chicken and highly spiced and e-numbered sauce.