I have no idea where the word came from. I may have heard it anywhere, found it kind of shiny, and ferreted it away in my brain to have it pop up stripped of history for me to use later.
I may have put simply come up with it in the anarchic word-blender section of my brain.
(That’s the section that has decided that I, having actually learned most of the rules of the language, am allowed to stray from those rules for creative and expressive reasons - as opposed to those who stray because they never learned the basics in the first place.)
(Something of a linguistic elitist jerk, ain’t I?)
I’ve often thought the word “exhaustipated” when I felt massively fatigued. Every now and again I’ve even uttered the word in conversation. It never fails to incite odd looks flashed in my direction.
Finally, after years of having only an intuitive feeling for the word, I have formalized the definition
*Exhaustipated - a state of being so abysmally fatigued that you couldn’t possibly give a shit even if you actually felt the desire to do so”
I think I’ll submit the above to the Oxford English Dictionary for insertion into the language proper.
Hey, after literally destroying the efficacy of the word “literally,” I’m thinking they’ll approve and publish just about anything.
I wonder whether they’ll find earlier usages or if they’ll be forced to cite my brain in the etymology of the word.
*edit**
Well, damn.
I just did the obligatory web search (where a less smug brain might have started) and I find I’m not the originator of the word. I discover it defined several elsewheres. Apparently, it was just another case of magpie vocabulary building as I slightly suspected it might be.
Oh, well. I’m not so clever as I thought I were.
(Stated alternately, there are way too many smart-ass word coiners out there for me to feel anything like special in the ranks.)
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