There are words. There neologisms. Then there's blogspeak, the language developed by bloggers, particularly political bloggers.

One of the funnest things about being a blogger is to coin the neologism of the day. Many bloggers try as they may to make their linguistic mark by creating words that describe a moment in political time. Sometimes it is produced by the mash-up of two words as with the word 'snark'. Other times is by the 'verbing' of a noun as in the use of the term 'swiftboating'.

So I thought I'd give you a little sample of the linguistic awesomeness dished daily by my peers in the blogosphere :

1. Billary is "The Twofer", the political union of Bill and Hillary Clinton. To supporters, Billary is a panacea. To detractors, it is a two-headed political monster that will ultimately destroy the Democratic Party. To me? The way it has been played out, it's a sign of weakness.

2. Chicken Hawk is a political epithet or insult usually directed to a member of the Republican Party who supports the war on Iraq but has never served time in the U. S. Armed Forces. It is synonymous to coward.

3. Chicken Dove is the opposite of Chicken Hawk and is being put to good use in a newly minted article by Matt Taibbi over at Rolling Stone Magazine : Rather than use the vast power they had to end the war, Democrats devoted their energy to making sure that "anti-war activism" became synonymous with "electing Democrats." Capitalizing on America's desire to end the war, they hijacked the anti-war movement itself, filling the ranks of peace groups with loyal party hacks. Anti-war organizations essentially became a political tool for the Democrats -- one operated from inside the Beltway and devoted primarily to targeting Republicans. Go read the whole thing!

4. DINO - An acronym for "Democrat In Name Only". The Republican Party equivalent would be a RINO.

5. Doughboy is the well-earned epithet of right wing pundit Jonah Goldberg, author of a waste of dead trees called Liberal Fascism.

Falafel is probably my all time favorite code word in the blogosphere. Bill O'Reilly is one of those interesting political phenomena that were meant to fill up time in cable news shows. The man is ... well ... a shrill for the Republican Party's theocratic faction. So it was with great irony and glee that left-leaning bloggers received the news of O'Reilly's sexual harassment lawsuit. One of his former producers not only sued him for sexual harassment but had emails, letters and recorded phone calls to prove it. And in the deposition of one of those tapes we get to know all about Mr. O'Reilly's FALAFEL FESTISH (which is totally NSFW or not safe for work). The best part of the whole fracas? Keith Olberman's christening of O'Reilly as "Falafel Guy" and using the lawsuit as a source for his never ending skewering of his cable news and political arch nemesis,.

7. The Tweety Effect was mentioned first by blogger Pam Spaulding in her analysis of Hillary Clinton's primary win in New Hampshire. Bloggers on both the left and the right had noticed not just the bias against Hillary Clinton, but the almost concerted campaign set up by MSNBC's Chris Matthews. Out of disgust people started calling the news show bobblehead, Tweety: His hyper bleached hair and somewhat yellowish makeup makes him look like a live action version of the Warner Bros cartoon character.

Yet it wasn't until the eve of the New Hampshire primary that the pundit's venom wasn't fully unleashed. And then there was the tear heard across the world. As Pam and other bloggers notes, Clinton's campaign was given a win by the angry majority of women who went to the polls in New Hampshire, in a backlash to the misogyny of Chris Matthews and his ilk. Days later, Matthews had to go on air and apologize for his behaviour. It was definitely history in the effing making.

And there you have it, seven good and chunky new words created by bloggers from the United States' political blogosphere.

How about you? Do you have any favorite ones? What about our international readers? Are there any cool words from your blogospheres?