The 2013 Broadway University Final Exam

Throughout your scholastic career, you were often asked to give one-word answers on tests. Well, for our 2013 Broadway University Final Exam, we instead will offer you one-word questions.

Many musicals contain invented words. Quite often, lyricists conceive words simply to get rhymes. Other times, they enjoy coining new words just for the fun of it. Many others are not above adding a syllable or two to a word in order to fit the music.

So here are 50 distinctive words that you’ll probably find in few if any other places than in their musicals’ scripts or original cast albums. What may help: all the shows from which these lyrics and lines come are listed in chronological order, referencing their New York debuts from 1936 to 2008.

All answers are due by June 1. You know where to find me.

1. Tin-Pan-tithesis

2. Swellegant

3. Sellivant

4. Debutramps

5. Actory

6. Rockerfellative

7. Wyomink

8. Shuberty

9. Chinchilly

10. Essel

11. Brotherwood

12. Pacif

13. God-ka

14. Absobloominlutely

15. Lookawise

16. Prouderer

17. Up-kee

18. Unbatched

19. Davenportship

20. Uggabuggaboo

21. Beelzebubble

22. Ambi-dex

23. Risk-al

24. Aloofer

25. Use-a-bell

26. Calown

27. Hallelu

28. Digguh

29. Danubey

30. Rhodadandy

31. Way-way-upness

32. Ridickelus
 
33. Micier

34. Succotashed

35. Emancimothafuckinpator

36. Hesh

37. Sads

38. Mal-de-merable

39. Brummelly
 
40. Scroop-Holes

41. Walkerman

42. Jill-ian

43. Sondheimlich

44. Alber-cue-cue

45. Limb-ovich

46. Gommorrah-ble

47. Rejoicify

48. Daddily

49. Plumble

         — Peter Filichia