On the Greek joke blog I found a couple of days ago, I just saw the word καουμπόυδες, and it amused me greatly—the combination of an English loan word (which I would have expected to be indeclinable) with the neo-Greek -δες ending as in καφέδες, μαϊμούδες, -τζήδες.
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