I love the suffix -orama, hence my tacky WordPress website address. Laundorama, for example is such a cool word. The Oxford English Dictionary online describes it as such….
[< -orama (in PANORAMA n. and DIORAMA n.).
Orig. in terms for exhibits devised mostly during the first half of the 19th cent., such as COSMORAMA n., CYCLORAMA n., GEORAMA n., MYRIORAMA n.,
and added to initial elements of ancient Greek origin. From the mid
20th cent. onwards added to English initial elements: an early example
is MOTORAMA n.
The
following quotation attests a 19th-cent. fashion (perh. mainly French)
for adding the element to any word as a meaningless particle:
1896 E. MARRIAGE tr. Balzac Old Goriot 54 The diorama, a recent invention,..had given rise to a mania among art students for ending every word with rama... ‘Well, Monsieur-r-r Poiret,..how is your health-orama?’]
b. Forming nouns
(mostly nonce-wds.) designating a display, event, etc., usually of
considerable size or expanse, the nature of which is indicated by the
first element.
Junk-o-rama is apropos of my collecting habits and the amount of it I have stored in my basement stacks. I consider all that stuff my retirement nest egg.
