Introducing "Sangrous"

I invented a word while I was writing today: Sangrous.  It needed to be invented.  There was a gap in the English language that had to be filled.  So I filled it.

This might seem tenacious or brash of me, but hey, Shakespeare did it all the time.  When he couldn't find a word that exactly fit his intentions, he didn't bothering settling.  Instead, he created.  He created 1,700 times, in fact!  Here are some of his contributions to our language today:


amazementapostropheassassinationbaselessbloodybumpcastigatecontrol (noun)countlesscourtshipcriticdexterouslydisheartendislocatedwindleexposurefrugalgenerousgloomygnarledhurryimpartialindistinguishableinvulnerablelapselaughablelonelymajesticmisplacedmonumentalmultitudinousobscenepalmyperusalpiouspremeditatedradiancerelianceroadsanctimonioussubmergesuspicious
Incredible, right?  He was the first one to use the word gloomy?  Or obscene?  What was the world like before Shakespeare talked about gnarled hands and bloody corpses?  No less interesting, probably, but a lot more difficult to describe.  So, thank you, Shakespeare for giving me the courage to invent a word and throw it into my novel.

Sangrous: Of or relating to blood; heavy with blood; laden with blood.

Here is where it appears in my book:


"But she cannot help me.  The smell has reached her too.  She is doubled over, coughing and sputtering, strings of saliva hanging from her bottom lip.  I try to touch her, but I cannot.  I am paralyzed by the sangrous, nauseating air.  It is not the smell of death, exactly.  It is the smell of life ripped away from flesh.  Through the air, I hear Camaro speak..."


Stay tuned!  My next book will be completed shortly.