As part of the editing process, the copyeditor who’s working on my book put together a list of uncommon words that I used that she wanted to make sure she styled consistently. It cracks me up. What a window into the weirdness of my book! Want to see?

abovewater
ack (exclamation)
alrighty
Amazon.com, Amazon
arugula

balls-out (adv.)
barefootedness
Beauty Industrial Complex
best man (all lowercase)
bleah
bling
breakbeat
bridentity (combo of “bride identity”)
bridesboy(s)
Bridezilla
buttload

cakey
Cantalini
cheeseball
Chicken Dance, the (dance)
code-speak
costumey
craftsy
Craigslist
cuppa (as in coffee)
cuz (short for “because”)

d’oh
Daaaaay (elongated “day”)
DaintyCore
designy
dirgey
djembes
DJing
Dobro (musical instrument, initial caps)
doozy
dotcom
dry-hump (v.)
dry-humpers
dumbass

eBay
ecoretreat
ecoretreat
eep (exclamation)
e-friends
eggy
Electric Slide, the (dance)
Elvin
erm (exclamation)
Evite.com
evite-mare(s)

fetishize(d)
flak (not “flack”)
foodie(s)
foofy
freakfest
Freakonomic
freak-out (n.)
freaky-deaky (adj.)
Frenchies
fuckup(s) (n.)

gah (exclamation)
glamourpuss
gloaty
godsister
goer-with-the-flow-er
goth
groomsgirl(s)
guyfriend(s)

higher-up (n.)
Ho-Hos
hoping
Hostess Ho-Hos
hula-hooping
humanure
hyperpoetic

Island, the (in reference to Bainbridge Island)
Islander (person from Bainbridge Island)

jamband
lordy

Macarena, the (dance)
maid of honor (all lowercase)
menfolk
meta-gifting
metrosexual
mohawk
Mugly, Muglies
My Little Pony

near-stranger
new-agey
nixed (past tense of “to nix”)
nookie
nuptial(s)

ol’
overhostessing

pair-bond (v.)
phat
photoblog(s)
piratey
plasticky
playlist(s)
pleather
poofy
Porta Potti
portabella
pouf (dresses)
princessy
Provence
‘puter

raver(s)
regifting
s’mores
Save the Date
scenesters
serger(s)
sicced (past tense of “to sic”)
skeeve(d) out
smarties
smooshing
snarked
squicky
subsect
Susan Anythingelse
swag

thank you cards (no hyphen)
thank yous (n.)
thingamajigger
thirtysomething
to-do list
tonguey
TP (toilet paper)
tsk-tsky

über-hostess
up-do
urbaphile(s)
urine-centric
URL
Utilikilt(s)

vs (no period)

Wandering Chicken of Pistoulet
Wedding Industrial Complex
wedsite (as a play on the word “website”)
whorepaint
wifed (as in “getting wifed”, getting married)
wiglet
winkingly

Yichud

zoinks (exclamation)