If “Bangalored” can become a word in the English dictionary because of outsourcing, surely the nataka in Karnataka of the last few months should inspire lexicographers to come up with a few new words?
As a public service, churumuri.com is pleased to make this humble linguistic contribution.
Please feel free add to the list.
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Datta: a rare species of parrot that travels only by autorickshaws. As in, “I gifted my toddler a datta on her birthday, but the auto driver said he couldn’t come to Rajajinagar without his owner’s permission.”
Bellaried: striking it rich quickly. As in, ‘When my chikkappa became chief minister for seven long days, our family bellaried till the JCBs came home.”
Chennamma: patience, Holenarsipur style. As in, “despite my kapi cheshte, my mother was chennamma personified.”
Drama vaasthavya: living in a world of make-believe. As in, “The Congress’s drama vaasthavya programme of forming a government has been a roaring success.”
Empire: originally a kingdom, now just a restaurant. As in, “My grandson conquered the Empire in the wee hours of the morning in a Porsche while the waiters were fast asleep.”
Gowdagiri: everything opposed to Gandhigiri. As in, “In a fit of gowdagiri, the former prime minister told his sons he would title his memoirs, ‘Nimmoppan Experiments with Untruths’.”
Hoogared: to keep going on and on. As in, “There was no news, but to fill the airtime, the correspondent hoogared and hoogared till the commercial break.”
Kumar (noun, pronounced ku-maara) (verb kumared): to strike badly, (slang) to screw badly. As in, “We were banking on him all along, but he kumared us completely.” Can be used in other languages with minor variations of spelling. As in, “Avanu nammanna chennagi kumarsbitta kano.” Or, “Sala, usne mujhe kumaar diya yaar.” Can be used for JDS and Congress.
Lad: young boy. As in, “To fight the Bellary elections against Sonia Gandhi, Sushma Swaraj surrounded herself with some rich lads.” (see Reddy)
Live band: chorus boys, not dancing girls. “The former chief minister was accompanied by his usual live band of Cheluvaraya Swamy and Zameer Ahmed.”
Mouna: silence between interviews. “Disgusted with being misquoted and misreported, the warring politicians vowed to observe mouna till the next television crew arrived.”
National Travels: Originally a bus company, now a shuttle service between various resorts and Raj Bhavan with request stops in Padmanabhanagar and Dollar Colony.
Ragi: hypothetical humble beginnings. As in, “Ours is a ragi to riches story.”
Radhika: originally Radha Ravi‘s sister, soon Radha‘s or Ravi‘s mother.
Reddy: local bank. As in, “To fight the Bellary elections against Sonia Gandhi, Sushma Swaraj surrounded herself with some rich lads and went to Reddy often.” (see Lad)
Revu (pronounced revoo): to pick the nose with one hand and scratch the crotch with the other, both at the same time, in public. As in, “Business worth crores hung in the balance, but he revued endlessly while his foreign hosts looked on and looked away in embarrassment.”
Resort: Any establishment (bar attached) able to accommodate and entertain 40-80 legislators for between four and eight days without slapping a bill in return.
Sadanandness: A delirious state of happiness come what may. As in, “Everybody was aghast at the latest turn of events, but the party chief was in inexplicable state of sadanandness.”
Shobha Yatre: Any journey taken in the anticipation of pleasure or profit or both. As in, “The party leader went to bed threatening to undertake a short shobha yatre.”
Somayajied: Take for a ride. As in, “My horse ‘Onnu, onnu, onnu‘ was doing well till it was Somayajied by our family astrologer.”
Yedy: The abominable show man. Now you see him as chief minister, now you don’t.
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Also read: Boosa, kuule, matash, woost: a short dictionary
churumuri 
Prakashed – When they thought there would be light it became pitch dark. Enen butter is black in this case. Kappu BeNNe. Jumping to the other side. When in power Prakash, when out of power Prakashed….because the generator was in Delhi to get high voltage. Polished Prakash.
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Guys and Gals at Churumuri
Nice one! Just like Kasturi’s Anartha Kosha:)
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mission impossible: barakilla saar
mission impossible-2: barakilla saar double aaythade
mission impossible-3: thirDe, heLadre artha aaykilva, barakilla andre brakilla, en maaDkothiyo maaDko hogu …
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Lol…At least one achievement of Recent Karnataka politics , these new words!!
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vimAna biDu lie profusely , this is superlative to earlier kannada phrase “railu biDu”.
Origin: Whenever governments fall in Karnataka, Devegowda will be seen traveling to Delhi and upon landing in Delhi, Devegowda feigns ignorance on why government fell.
Use: Devegowdarige En kELOdu, avaru vimAna bidaTare
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been-laden: being shortchanged by a cartel.
osimama bin laden those third parties who benefit from such cartels.
our own history has been ladened by eurocentric ideas while osimamas within us look on.
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Nice list. I would like to add my own humble words to this lexicon.
humble – redefined to mean important (stated with lot of self importance) as in “I am a humble farmer.”
Twelve condition – introduce deal breakers at the last minute. as in “The agreement failed in spite of intense negotiations because so-and-so twelve conditioned it.” Or in Connexion Kallapa’s language “Yen Sawkarre, avanu nimage 12 condition itbitnalla.”
revannise – pacify or placate as in “The father tried to revannise his favorite son by offering him chairmanship in his company.”
yeddyur – to be in a state of ever-hoping, hoping against hope. “He remained so yeddyur that I didn’t feel like breaking his heart.”
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My 2-paise contribution…
devegowda–to grab everything the opponent has–equivalent to checkmate–also means a fully shaven head = mundaisodhu
Anand did a devegowda on Kasparove in just 12 moves!
“Awaru avanige devegowda madbittru!”
“hathra bandrey devegowda madtheeni”
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Some more…
devegowda–offer frivolous objections in the extreme sense–like “nobody cared to courtesy visit me from BJP despite me being a ex-PM, leader of a great party called JD(s) and so on.”
“He offered devegowda in return for their reasonable proposals”
“When faced with reality, he bowled a devegowda to get out of the tight spot.”
“Wife did a devegowda on the husband”
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Follow the terms from the context…
“When it came to returning the bank’s money, he did a devegowda.”
Once out of his house, he spotted another woman and carried on a devegowda with her. When the wife came to know about his devegowda, he did a devegowda on a new girl and so on it went, serial fashion.
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Not only new words, but new meanings to old words/phrases.
“Man of letters” => Deve Gowda (thanks to Deccan Herald).
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Awesome, haha Radika is a master stroke.
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Bangalored (Old meaning) – To be outsourced.
Bangalored (New meaning) – To die of a cardiac arrest, in a software company bus, stranded in a traffic jam while a helpless ambulance wails in the same traffic a kilometer behind. (TRUE Story).
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Paraphrasing Faldo’s 12 condition… I have
“Hanneldaane” = impossible to achieve conditions
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Brilliance!! Sheer brilliance !! ROFLMAO!!
– Randomly stumbled by.
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DB,
you mean devegowda is the new fuk?
dgin awesome.
time to get the dg out of here.
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Yedi- Make a fool or an ass of someone- He did a Yedi on him
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Excellent.. Revu, Sadanandaness too good :D
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excellent..
instead of Ravana we have Revanna
Yeddi to Yeddy (as in Kannada Crab) transformed to an ET now.. He is the only extra terrstrial in BJP now..
Gowdara Gaddall has been reiterated with bang
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‘ananth’ad: prod someone in using words, as in ” in the press conference , the Ex- CM was being continuously ananthad in using chaddi friendly language’
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How about this…
Suryange torcha?
Devegowdarige biscuit tta?
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fantatic guys.. can someone explain what ‘datta’ meant.. I didnt get any of it
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ayyo, datta andare daDDa. meaning crying at the top of the voice to tell you that whateverDeGow utters is truth and nothin g but truth as you take oath in the court. BuruDe BiDu. Thinking otheres will always believe you. Dattauvacha means DaDDauvuvacha.
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TS,
That’s right! You are a dgin genius!
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Deve Gowda–Doddiyalli danagalillavo. Avella byaare kade ogave. Sumke attili kunthu, raagi mudde thindu manikko. Ildidre Devaru ninna sumke budakkilla.
Kumara Sammy–Cannot play it again, Sam. Another party at our expense? “Osa batte, ale mansa.”
Revanna–Nobody raves about him except Bhavani.
BJP–Bajarangigala pulti. Meke baayige mosaru oresakke hodre heege agodu.
INC–Never to be naitonalized Italian MNC
JDS–Janapriya Devegowda Sammelana, illiyavarege.
Kannadigaru–adigadige edavuva mandi. Ivarige topi haakada partiye illa. Saavirakkintha jaasthi enisakke baralla; adakke rajakaaranigalu kotigattale soore maadidaare antha ivarige artha aagalla. Namma Kannada Thai eega bichchole gowramma kanro. Nimage viveka bandaaga Bendre, Anakru, munthaadavara aathmakke shanthi. Maybe never.
Farmers in Karnataka–Not one has committed suicide to protest the way Devegowda and Kutumba have been treated by BJP and its leaders.
Datta–No better bitter example of misuse of literacy; just the kind of Brahmin that people have hated for centuries. The winivink shastri of JDS. He is also the reason why nobody in the Gowda family has felt the need to speak or write Standard Kannada ever.
Yediyurappa–Can the same gods and swamis bless both him and the Gowda supplicants and grant them contradictory wishes? He dissed Bhuvaneshwari in favor of Vaishno Devi.
Hard to feel sorry for him because almost everybody is slightly more gifted in the head than him; this includes our own Kannada mandi.
Prajavani–Suddenly a shining example of courage. Would the transformation have come about if the liquor lobby had not been defanged?
Deccan Herald: Yes, yes, what happens in our own Naadu is not terribly important. After all not a paper for Kanns.
Kannadaprabha–Still doesn’t know what to say, aside from creating third rate puns. “Kidi-Nudi,” where is your search for “Sathya?”
Sanjevani: We read you only because you show up first. Stop competing with the tabloids in creating gossipy material. Lankesh Patrike and Lankesh cornered the marke long ago. Hire somebody to clean up your grammar and spelling. B. S. Mani is no help. By the way, why did you choose to air a long clip of his Tamil sounding Kannada interview about what he has done for Kannada journalism? How did he get his Rajyothsava prashasthi?
Churumuri: Thumba olle kelasa maadthide. Aadre ellarigu sigadiddare enu prayojana?
Our intellectual leaders: Here is your chance to mint some new ideas and help create a new Kannadanaadu. Don’t write them in Sanskritized kannada and mystify us. Stop trying to sell us M. K. Gandhi and Marx. They have been murdered by their own followers. You achieve meaning only so long as we know who you are and what you have been saying. Ildidre ella kaadinalli thaledanda aadanthe. Subbamma heggadithigalaagabedi.
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DB & TS and others – great additions! Thanks for enhancing this list.
DB- hanneldaane sounds just so right.
BTW if one were to compile a dictionary it would have a special volume for DG.
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hoogared – Lol..Really good.Keeps talking even if he has got nothing to say.kelavomme helodakke tudi illa, buda illa
‘aitihaasika putagalalli seride’- he used to say this sentence everytime he opned his mouth on the day Yediyurappa govt fell.(or was it during BSY’s oath takingt ceremony?:-))
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One more…
Sisya & Dr. Ramesh–more fictitious than Super Man and Spider Man!
Sisya–an unflinching follower and supporter of devegowdaism–known famously among the web cognoscenti as the cyberputtar of devegowda!
Dr. Ramesh–the dentist who can perform a root canal surgery using devegowda’s promises as a pain reliever during operation–known to drill mercilessly into ‘knicker types’ and their bad teeth!
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super guru.fantastic.i just loved it.
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i think kp was referring to lakshman hoogar.. that tv9 reporter who keeeps on and on on on on saying everything and spoiling my head…
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