“I made a great thwop for you today!”
Terms of Silliness
- thwop1 n.
- A three word puzzle.
- thwop2 v.
- To send a three word puzzle to another person.
“I just thwopped you. Thwop me back!”
“I am adamant about not doing word puzzles. Don’t try to thwop me!”
- thwopper n.
- One who creates three word puzzles.
“That’s a real show thwopper.”
“I don’t know who sent this to me — must be a mystery thwopper.”
- thwopped1 adj.
- Unsure what the answer is to a three word puzzle.
“I’m thwopped on this clue.”
- thwopped2 v.
- Past tense of thwop.
“I thwopped him ten times in the last hour, but he hasn't thwopped me back yet.”
- thwop meet n.
- A group chat consisting mostly of thwop links.
“Are you joining the thwop meet today?”
- thwopulation n.
- A count of the entire group of thwoppers around the world.
“It seems the world thwopulation has been growing this past month.”
- thwopportunity n.
- A set of nine words where there is an obvious connection, making the clue word easy.
“I understand this is a rare thwopportunity.”
- thwopical adj.
- Relating to overheated mental conditions which result from solving a thwop.
“Water can be used to dampen the brow when working on a thwopical name forest.”
- thwop swap n.
- An exchange of thwops between two people.
“After receiving her thwop, he thwopped her back, completing their thwop swap.”
- thwoppler effect n.
- The phenomenon where thwops seem to arrive closer together than when you send them to others.
“You can accentuate the thwoppler effect if you make several thwops ahead of time and then share them one right after the other in a group chat.”
- thwoptional adj.
- Not required to solve.
“I want you to finish these two thwops, but the third is thwoptional.”
- quadthwopter n.
- Someone who creates four thwops in a row.
“Watching my feed, I saw a quadthwopter fly through.”
- thwopaholic n.
- One who creates three word puzzles regularly, providing their friends a long list of thwop links.
“I am a confirmed thwopaholic, but I can quit any time.”
- thwopic n.
- Category or theme of a clue.
“You can clue what you know; everything else will just be off-thwopic.”
- thwopposite adj.
- Getting all three words wrong in a thwop.
“I thought I understood the clue, but in fact it was just the thwopposite.”
- thwopping spree n.
- Creating or solving a large number of thwops in a row.
“While not a thwopaholic, she occasionally goes on a thwopping spree.”
- thwopulent adj.
- Possessing a great wealth of thwops.
“His lavish use of vocabulary demonstrated his thwopulent taste.”
- covert thwops n.
- Solving a thwop during school or work hours.
“A thwop team may engage in covert thwops.”