in honour of bollywood*

here is a list of modern causal suffixes and what they have come to mean:

• -aholic: an addiction (or exaggerated fondness for) (from alcoholic)
• -athon: any type of repetitive endurance activity (from marathon)
• -gate: a scandal, usually political in nature (from watergate)
• -nik: adds an ironic connotation to an agent noun (made popular by sputnik)
• -ollywood: a location associated with the film industry (from hollywood)
• -tini: a mixed drink (from martini)
• -wad: a pejorative suffix (probably from dork wad, but the o.e.d. is not totally clear on the etymology)

now go forth and neologise.

*each post on the ragbag today will be in honour of the one before it.