Talking About Stuff, with Mike and Christiana

Today, I found myself attempting to describe something as simultaneously tiresome and tedious. Though the two words are similar, they are subtly different. The former suggesting that the thing is irritating/exhausting, the latter suggesting that the thing is boring and repetitive.

I began to wonder if there is a single word that could convey both subtle meanings, and I was unable to find one.

As such, I hereby propose the creation of a new word:

Tirious (Teye-ree-us)

I find that combination superior to something like "tedisome", because of the possibility that the word would be confused with "teddy" which suggests all the wrong images, or with "tedium" which, of course, would only convey the aforementioned boredom/repetition without the irritating/exhausting.

It has the additional advantages of sounding simultaneously sophisticated (Probably the Latin-sounding -us ending) and childish (Tiry evokes a toddler's droopy-eyed proclamation). Furthermore, I assert that it is fun to say.

Tirious: As in: "Wading through hundreds of industrial glass-washer program cycles in order to document each parameter is very tirious. Can I go home now?"

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