All you crosswalk gentimilade...

Did I ever tell you that I dreamed up a new word in my sleep a week or so ago? I was part of or passing by some tour group walking the streets of my town, as I overheard the tour leader, a pretentious older man with a heavy British sauce all over his voice, warn, "And all the crosswalk gentimilade will do well to watch for cars."

I knew in my head, right then, "Hey, Jenny, that's not a word. Nonsense in dreams, sure, but nonwords?" But I also knew exactly what his word meant. It came from the Spanish word gente, meaning people, and the tail end of remoulade, a sauce mixture containing several different elements. Hence...

gén·ti·mi·lade
n. A grouping or mixing of different kinds of people

My brain. Honestly, it needs to take a break.