From today's World Wide Words, online:
""failed" words: "accordionated", being
able to drive and refold a road map at the same time; "scrax", the
waxy coating that is scratched off an instant lottery ticket;
"pregreening", to creep forwards while waiting for a red light to
change; "precuperate", to prepare for the possibility of being ill;
"optotoxical", a look that could kill, normally from a parent or
spouse; "headset jockey", a telephone call centre worker. You may
now have a smidgen of "xenolexica", a grave confusion when faced
with unusual words, but it doesn't take a lot of "lexpionage", the
sleuthing of words and phrases, to work out that the words haven't
failed, but that the evidence to date suggests they aren't used
enough to meet the criteria for inclusion."
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