nelfie

Before the young woman took the perfect mirror nelfie (nude mirror selfie, y’all), she made sure to have the right props and proper location.

2014 September 24, Chantal Waldholz, “Tallulah Willis Responds to Sister Rumer’s Sexy Photo Shoot by Posting Her Own Nude Instagram Photo Because Duh”, in Life & Style, retrieved 2018-08-29:

Next to the nelfie (nude selfie, I just made that up, I wonder if it will catch on? Hopefully not), Kim wrote: “First they say I’m too skinny so I have to be faking it... Now they say I’m too big so I have to be faking it... SMH!

2015 August 15, Holly Carpenter, “Pregnant Kim’s only option was to post a nelfie”, in The Irish Sun, retrieved 2018-08-29:

63-year-old Sharon Osbourne bares it all – in the name of being inspired by Kim Kardashian’s nelfie (nude selfie) and her fans are loving it!

2016 March 9, Bridgette Matjuda, “Sharon Osbourne Shares A Nelfie!”, in People, archived from the original on 2020-11-19:

Here’s how it works. Participants take a “nelfie” (short for “nude selfie”) and post it on social media. Although that sounds absolutely terrifying, it’s actually not that bad.

2016 December 1, “‘Nelfie’ wants you to take a nude selfie for charity”, in Philanthropic People, retrieved 2018-08-29:

Vikas, a freelance fashion photographer who regularly sexts and exchanges nelfies, says he takes them for his lover, who he doesn't see very often.

2019 February 17, Himanshi Dhawan, Ketaki Desai, “Is the nelfie the new good morning message?”, in The Times of India, New Delhi:

(uncommon, informal, neologism) An image, especially a selfie, of a nude or nearly nude person posted to social media.


pakodanomics

From pakoda + -nomics, referencing Narendra Modi's comment in January 2018 that street food vendors should be included in employment statistics.

(India, economics, neologism) The economic policies of Narendra Modi


wonut

Blend of waffle + donut. First popularized in 2014 at Waffles Cafe in Chicago by owner Alex Hernandez.

Wonuts are made with a two-step cooking process, and in that way they're similar to bagels.

2015, Ellen Brown, Donut Nation: A Cross-Country Guide to America's Best Artisan Donut Shops:

(neologism) A type of waffle that uses a mix of waffle and doughnut dough, and is deep fried and decorated like a doughnut.


enbyfriend

From enby + friend, modeled after girlfriend and boyfriend.

She felt a surge of hope, of warmth, that her beautiful enbyfriend could still pull this off, even compromised by Cryos.

2017, Irene Wendy Wode, How to Train Your Mafia, page 62:

While many of the interviewees mentioned having a boyfriend, girlfriend, or enbyfriend (nonbinary significant other), we heard over and over again that romantic relationships had to be approached with caution, given their potential to interfere with life and work.

2021, Roberta Katz, Sarah Ogilvie, Jane Shaw, Gen Z, Explained: The Art of Living in a Digital Age, page 138:

A person who's on good terms with their exes is probably a better human being and a better potential boyfriend/girlfriend/enbyfriend than someone who hates all their exes.

2021, Dan Savage, Savage Love from A to Z: Advice on Sex and Relationships, Dating and Mating, Exes and Extras, page 139:

(slang, neologism) A non-binary partner in an unmarried romantic relationship.


missing stair

Coined by blogger Cliff Pervocracy (a pseudonym) in 2012. In analogy to a stairway missing a step, with guests expected to overcome or bypass the obstacle rather than it being fixed.

"Oh yeah, I almost forgot to tell you, there's a missing step on the unlit staircase with no railings. But it's okay because we all just remember to jump over it." Some people are like that missing stair.

2012 June 22, Cliff Pervocracy, “The missing stair.”, in The Pervocracy (blog), retrieved 2018-09-21:

Many groups, whether they may be families, workplaces, organizations, or groups of friends will have what is sometimes called a “missing stair.”

2015, Julie Still, Managing Your Brand: Career Management and Personal PR for Librarians:

(neologism, idiomatic) A member of a community who is widely but privately known within that community for abusiveness or other harmful behavior that has not been addressed.


retpoline

(programming, neologism) A code construct that uses return operations to prevent speculative execution.


hasbarable

en-adj

hasbarable (comparative more hasbarable, superlative most hasbarable)

more hasbarable (comparative)
most hasbarable (superlative)

Coined by Israeli ambassador and diplomat Yohanan Meroz, from hasbara + -able.

coinage

Many were busy, and others just simply find excuses to skip any possible controversy. Some things are just not "hasbarable".

2012, Natasha Mozgoyava, “Making Israeli Settlements 'Hasbarable'”, in Haaretz:

[Israel] prioritizes making settlements “hasbarable.” Doing so substitutes for addressing issues responsibly.

2013, Stephen Lendman, “Understanding Israeli Settlements”, in MintPress News:

'Hasbara' is the Israeli euphemism for propaganda, and there are some things, said the late ambassador Yohanan Meroz, that are not hasbarable. One of them is Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians.

2015, Gideon Levi, “Israeli Propaganda Isn't Fooling Anyone – Except Israelis”, in Haaretz:

(neologism, Israel) Of an Israeli government policy or action, able to be portrayed in a positive light.


volunpeer

Blend of volunteer + peer, coined by Meghan Ferriter of the Smithsonian Transcription Center.

Ferriter shows her respect for the volunteers when she refers to them as “volunpeers.” Ferriter said, “‘Volunpeers’ indicates the ways unit administrators and Smithsonian staff experience the TC along with volunteers.[…]”

2016 December 21, Mike Ashenfelder, ““Volun-peers” Help Liberate Smithsonian Digital Collections”, in The Signal:

After they have registered on JMB’s homepage, reviewers, or “Volunpeers” are alerted to new manuscripts matching their expertise (and only when this is the case). If they see something they like, the Volunpeers can respond to “book” the article for their review.

2018 January 9, Christopher Tancock, “Innovation in peer review: introducing “volunpeers””, in Elsevier Connect:

(neologism) A skilled volunteer working at a professional level.


hypebeast

Steve loved sneakers, knew hypebeasts, and was good with money.

2013, Eddie Huang, Fresh Off the Boat, page 221:

Channels such as Louis Vagon and Demohot produce videos with hypebeasts that generate hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of views and frequently appear on the trending section of YouTube.

2018, Kris Bramwell, Igor Sazonov, The hypebeasts of Russia, popular at what cost?, BBC Trending:

A freelancer pitched a piece about Indian hypebeasts—whether companies like Nike and Adidas can connect with them locally, as all the hypebeasts in India are buying their Supreme and Palace and, you know, Nike Air Jordans online from overseas.

2022, Sarah Shannon, quoted in Johannes Reponen, "A Wealth of Feedback: Interview with Sarah Shannon, Editorial Director of Vogue Business", in Insights on Fashion Journalism (eds. Johannes Reponen & Rosie Findlay), page 54

(neologism, slang) A person obsessed with acquiring fashionable items, especially clothing and shoes.


frings

Side orders of Caesar salad, french fries, onion rings, frings (fries and rings), or chili fries ($2-4).

2001, John Penisten, Kaua'I - The Garden Island: Making the Most of Your Family Vacation:

Hefty patties stacked high with fresh toppings are accompanied by a basket of “frings”–fries and rings.

2015, DK Eyewitness Travel Guide USA, page 713:

(slang, neologism) A combined portion of fries and onion rings.


CCAV

Blend of CCTV (“China Central Television”) + AV (“adult video”).

blend

(China, neologism, slang, derogatory or humorous) China Central Television (CCTV).


anicom

Development of the 'anicom' "The Simpsons" and a number of other 'anicoms' differ from other forms of television […]

2001, Animation Journal, volumes 9-12, page 85:

[…] teen soaps (Hollyoaks), anicoms (The Simpsons), police psychological thrillers (Cracker) and so on.

2006, Tony Purvis, Get Set for Media and Cultural Studies, page 65:

(neologism) A sitcom that uses animation rather than filmed actors.


plogging

Borrowed from Swedish plogging, coined in 2016 as blend of plocka upp (“to pick up”) and jogging (“jogging”). From there the practice has spread to other countries.

Since 2016, across Europe, plogging groups have appeared in Scandinavia, Germany, and beyond.

2019, David L. Edgell Sr, Managing Sustainable Tourism, Routledge, →ISBN:

(neologism) jogging and picking up litter


theyby

There's an article on The Cut right now titled, “It's a Theyby! Is it possible to raise your child entirely without gender from birth? Some parents are trying.”

2018 April 14, David Hartung, “More "progressive" idiocy”, in alt.fan.rush-limbaugh (Usenet):

'Boy or girl?' Parents raising 'theybies' let kids decide

2018 July 19, Mack A. Damia, “Isn't This a Bit Silly?”, in alt.usage.english (Usenet):

The Cambridge, Mass., couple represent a small group of parents raising "theybies" - children being brought up without gender designation from birth.

2018 July 20, BurfordTJustice, “Hot New Moonbat Trend: Raising "Theybies" - Kids Who Can Choose Their Own Gender.”, in alt.home.repair (Usenet):

Meanwhile the theybies hit piece from Carlson is an embarrassment to journalism.

2018 July 23, Carbon, “A Theory of Trump Kompromat”, in rec.sport.golf (Usenet):

All those millennial mommies who read their theybies that insufferably stupid kiddie book The Giving Tree implanted the dual notions of entitlement and economic illiteracy into their useless spawn.

2018 July 30, Joe Cooper, “Millennial Socialism: Stupid, Evil, or Both?”, in soc.culture.usa (Usenet):

(neologism) A baby that is raised in a gender-neutral manner.


clusterbùrach

Blending of English cluster (from clusterfuck) and Scottish Gaelic bùrach (“mess, shambles”).

I have been arguing hard that Brexit should be treated not just as the clusterbùrach it undoubtedly is, but also as a watershed for Scotland’s relationship with the rest of the UK.

2017 February 10, Kenny Farquharson, "Canvas of Brexit is best viewed by squinting", The Times (Scottish edition)

The named person scheme jeopardised that contract of trust. ... Some changes have been made but I worry the damage has been done. ... Some might pin the blame for named person on Mr Salmond ..., given that it was conceived on his watch. To my mind, however, it is a clusterbùrach entirely of Ms Sturgeon’s own making.

2018 January 3, Kenny Farquharson, "Ban on smacking will struggle for support", The Times (Scottish edition)

it is now all reduced to the fact that this is a complete bùrach—it is, to use a word coined by my friend Hugh Dan MacLennan, a clusterbùrach.

2018 December 5, Michael Russell, "Meeting of the Parliament: European Union Withdrawal Agreement and Political Declaration" Chamber Official Report, Scottish Parliament

What the heck is going on? This is a complete and utter clusterbùrach.

2018 December 10, Hannah Bardell, "Exiting the European Union" Hansard HC vol 651 c44, UK Parliament

(Scotland, informal, neologism) A total mess, catastrophic failure, fiasco.


Spygate

(neologism, US, politics) A conspiracy theory claiming that Barack Obama's administration planted a spy in Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.


Chimerica

Blend of China + America, coined by British historian Niall Ferguson and German economist Moritz Schularick, with reference to chimera.

As in all good marriages, the differences between the two halves of Chimerica are complementary. He concluded by saying "Chimerica, despite its name, is no chimera." In conclusion, shouldn't we view China's ascendancy as an opportunity […]

2007, Sheng-Wei Wang, China's Ascendancy: An Opportunity Or a Threat? : what Every American Should Know about China, →ISBN:

The losers were countries like Indonesia and Brazil, whose real trade-weighted exchange rates appreciated between January 2008 and November 2010 by, respectively, 18 per cent and 17 per cent. No doubt, Chimerica has passed its prime […]

2011, Niall Ferguson, Civilization: The West and the Rest, Penguin UK, →ISBN:

G-2 suggests that China and the United States are deeply intertwined in their strategic interests, and should work out solutions to global problems together. The term Chimerica was invented by historian Niall Ferguson and economist Moritz […]

2014, Janet Hoskins, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Transpacific Studies: Framing an Emerging Field, Asian and Pacific American Tra:

(neologism, economics) The symbiotic relationship between China and the United States.


BIPOC

Adaptation of POC. Appeared on social media circa 2013.

While BIPOC come disproportionately from immigrant, lower income social experiences, this cannot account for all people. […] The idea that all BIPOC know “what whiteness is about” presumes that all of us go through institutions in the same way and are aware in the same way.

2015, Alyssa Teekah, This is What a Feminist Slut Looks Like, Demeter Press, →ISBN:

Keep yourself educated on the issues, follow BIPOC, LGBTQIA, and other marginalized groups' pages.

2017, Libby Chamberlain, Pantsuit Nation, page 149:

There’s also a roughly 29 percent brand deal pay gap between white and BIPOC influencers, and that number expands to 35 percent when you look at just white and Black creators.

2022 December 15, Madeline Howard, “The Influencers Are Not Alright”, in Women's Health:

(neologism) Acronym of black, indigenous, or (other) person of color (singular) or black, indigenous, and (other) people of color (plural).


Zomia

Coined by Dutch historian Willem van Schendel in 2002 on the basis of the Kukish roots zo ‘hill’ and mi ‘person’.

coin

(neologism) Highland areas of the Indochina region of peninsular Southeast Asia that are historically outside the control of governments based in the population centres in the lowlands.


squad goal

(informal, neologism) A life aspiration held in common with one's group of friends.


gaycist

en-noun

gaycist (countable and uncountable, plural gaycists)


gaycist

en-adj

gaycist (comparative more gaycist, superlative most gaycist)

more gaycist (comparative)
most gaycist (superlative)


cancel culture

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With roots in Black Twitter, cancel culture is an unavoidable mainstay of our infotainment age. In an era of too much everything—TV, opinions, news—we’ve come to rely on a vocabulary of consolidation: likes, tweets, emoji. Cancel culture is one of these argots—a governor, a self-regulatory device I have come to wield with pride (if infrequent recklessness). In the collective, the gesture is absolute: we can’t. We’re done. And so we asphyxiate support from a notable cause or figure. Roseanne Barr referred to Valerie Jarrett as an ape? Cancelled. Harvey Weinstein was outed as a sexual predator? Cancelled.

2018 October 5, Jason Parham, “The Devolution of Kanye West and the Case for Cancel Culture”, in Wired:

In the past, we dismissed people and institutionalized doing so as law and unwritten laws. Today, I fear that we are making dismissing people the cool thing to do with “cancel culture.”

2019, Tayo Rockson, Use Your Difference to Make a Difference:

An unfair journalistic hit has now cost a capable attorney his job. It’s absurd. Cancel culture has reared its ugly head ... again.

2019 September 3, David French, “Here’s One Way to Stop Cancel Culture — Stop Canceling”, in National Review:

"[…] Many students have adopted the posture of cancel culture, preventing people they don’t agree with from speaking,” Mr. Finkielkraut told me last month.

2020 February 6, Mattia Ferraresi, “Cancel Culture Comes to France”, in Wall Street Journal:

One of their political weapons is cancel culture, driving people from their jobs, shaming dissenters, and demanding total submission from anyone who disagrees.

2020 July 3, Donald Trump speech at Mount Rushmore transcribed by C-SPANhttps://www.c-span.org/video/?473617-1/president-trumps-remarks-mt-rushmore-salute-america-event&live=&beta=&action=getTranscript&transcriptType=cc&service-url=/common/services/programSpeakers.php&appearance-filter=&personSkip=0&ccSkip=0&transcriptSpeaker=

In a statement condemning “cancel culture,” Stewart warned taking down the monument would set a bad precedent.

2020 December 17, Don Stacom, “Condemning ‘cancel culture,’ New Britain Mayor Erin Stewart vetoes council vote to remove city’s Columbus statue”, in Hartford Courant:

(neologism, often derogatory) The cultural phenomenon of publicly shaming, rejecting, and ceasing to provide support to people, companies, stores, etc. that are deemed unacceptable, and calling on others to boycott them.

kitagadás

“ban, banishment”; only with appropriate context or specification


`num`MeToo

Alyssa Milano
MeToo movement
Tarana Burke
Twitter

From the phrase me too, first used in this context by American activist Tarana Burke in 2006 and popularized as a hashtag by American actress Alyssa Milano on Twitter in October 2017.

These bizarre results, first spotted by the NBC reporter Ben Collins, are not the result of the latest #MeToo era investigation reporting.

2018 July 31, Julia Carrie Wong, “What is QAnon? Explaining the bizarre rightwing conspiracy theory”, in The Guardian:

I wouldn’t publish ‘Lolita.’ What’s different today is #MeToo and social media — you can organize outrage at the drop of a hat.

2021 March 2, Emily Mortimer, quoting Dan Franklin, “How ‘Lolita’ Escaped Obscenity Laws and Cancel Culture”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Furthermore, he says, “in this #MeToo and post-Roe era [with the rollback of reproductive rights]^([sic]) we find ourselves in, the perceived risks associated with sex are higher, particularly for women.[…]

2023 April 26, Emine Saner, quoting Justin Lehmiller, “The rise of voluntary celibacy: ‘Most of the sex I’ve had, I wish I hadn’t bothered’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

McDonald's faces Me Too moment: Fast food giant is hit by allegations of sexual assault, racism and bullying as more than 100 staff including workers as young as 17 claim they are groped and harassed at branches across the country

2023 July 18, Eirian Jane Prosser, “McDonald's faces Me Too moment: […]”, in Daily Mail, London: DMG Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-07-18:

(neologism) A feminist movement against sexual harassment and sexual assault.


`num`MeToo

en-verb

#MeToo (third-person singular simple present `num`MeToos, present participle `num`MeTooing, simple past and past participle `num`MeTooed or #MeToo'd)

# MeToo (canonical)
`num`MeToos (present singular third-person)
`num`MeTooing (participle present)
`num`MeTooed (participle past)
`num`MeTooed (past)
#MeToo'd (participle past)
#MeToo'd (past)

→ Chinese: 米兔 (mǐtù)

Amazing news. The grand marshal for today's parade just got #MeToo'd, and they need me to fill in.

2018, “I Love a Parade”, in Modern Family, season 10, episode 1 (television production), spoken by Jay Pritchett (Ed O'Neil):

Finish that sentence, and I'll MeToo you the fuck out of this building!

2020, Parliament, season 1, episode 3 (television production), spoken by Rose (Liz Kingsman):

(transitive, slang, neologism) To cause (someone) to lose their job by making an accusation of sexual harassment, as part of the #MeToo movement.

(transitive, neologism, slang, extended use) To make an accusation of sexual harassment towards (someone).


sponcon

Blend of sponsored + content, coined in 2015.

Shilling #sponcon for all it’s worth? It’s an interesting thing to consider, for sure.

2018 December 5, “Here's a comprehensive list of all the #sponcon Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra had for their wedding”, in The Daily Edge:

“Toy companies look to YouTube and its army of influencers to spread the word about their products, sometimes paying them top dollar for sponcon and, at the minimum, sending them toys for free.”

2019 March 22, Chavie Lieber, “Toy unboxing videos have taken over YouTube. Some experts say they exploit kids.”, in Vox:

And despite a million followers on Instagram, her page is surprisingly bereft of stereotypical captions or sponcon (sponsored content).

2020 June 16, Sarah Manavis, “The queen of quarantine: How Grace Beverley built an at-home fitness empire”, in New Statesman:

Seven years in, the show is an international, BAFTA-winning phenomenon that has produced marriages, children, and enough Instagram sponcon to provide intergenerational wealth.

2022 June 2, Anna Peele, “Inside ‘Love Island,’ From the Tragic Suicide Deaths to New Mental Health Protocols”, in Vanity Fair:

(informal, marketing, neologism) Advertisements, particularly in social media, misleadingly styled or presented similarly to non-advertising content such as editorials or magazine articles.


riot boosting

"‘Riot boosting’ is an unusual and new term. You might be asking yourself what that means, and I think protesters will too," said Vera Eidelman, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union who has tracked the bills. "I think it poses a unique threat to speech and appears to be targeted at protests. It uses words like 'encouraging' and 'advising' that are very broad and refer to a category of protected speech."

2019 March 28, Nicholas Kusnetz, “More States Crack Down on Pipeline Protesters, Including Supporters Who Aren’t Even on the Scene”, in Inside Climate News, archived from the original on 2020-06-04:

The law allows state, and local governments to seek civil damages from activists or groups engaging in "riot boosting", a term which the state defines as someone who "does not personally participate in any riot but directs, advises, encourages, or solicits other persons participating in the riot to acts of force of violence."

2019, Larry J. Schweiger, The Climate Crisis and Corrupt Politics, page 109:

A judge found parts of last year’s “riot boosting” laws to be unconstitutional, in part because they were aimed at demonstrations against the Keystone XL pipeline.

2020 February 19, Stephen Groves, “House passes ‘riot boosting’ bill amid protests”, in AP News:

South Dakota has adopted a law that holds a person liable for civil damages if he or she engages in “riot boosting,” defined to include a person who “advises” or “encourages” another to engage in violence, even if the individual did not even participate in the […]

2020, Ashutosh Bhagwat, Our Democratic First Amendment, page 152:

A third banner said “Kristi Noem, we are not a riot” and “We defeated it once, we’ll defeat it again” — a reference to the current “riot boosting” law that was created after a federal judge said parts of the old law were unconstitutional.

2020 August 19, Arielle Zionts, “Group protests Philip KXL pipeline work camp opening in September”, in Rapid City Journal:

(US, neologism, law) Protest activities that encourage rioting.


Xicanx

From Xicano. The gender-neutral suffix -x replaces the gendered Spanish suffixes -a and -o..

-a-o-x

(neologism) Chicano or Chicana (and of any gender).


Xicanx

(neologism) A Chicano or Chicana (of any gender).


cashtag

(Internet, finance, neologism) A kind of hashtag that links to a stock quote.


TERFy

en-adj

TERFy (comparative TERFier, superlative TERFiest)

TERFier (comparative)
TERFiest (superlative)

Usually when I jump into the conversation it’s me defending trans* women against cis women who are acting a little bit TERF-y […]

2016, "Peter", quoted in T. J. Jourian, "'My Masculinity Is a Little Love Poem to Myself': Trans*masculine College Students’ Conceptualizations of Masculinities", dissertation submitted to Loyola University, page 238

I assumed they were straight and cis, because otherwise they would have known about TERFy women’s lands or at least about the drama of Michfest.

2018 October 18, Tori Truscheit, “The Rage of All Women”, in Slate:

After years of being shamed for their bodies, is celebrating their monthly moons and the power of their uterus inherently TERF-y?

2020, Quinn McGlade-Ferentzy, "Heterosexist Suspicion of a Queer Outsider", thesis submitted to the University of Guelph, page 46

(informal, neologism) Resembling, characteristic of, or related to trans-exclusionary feminism or those who hold such views.


TERFdom

Only do one better than Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie—whose speech was sampled for that song and who was called out for TERFdom and transphobia—and move that logic beyond the sexes.

2018 July 10, Alex Zaragoza, “No time for TERFdom”, in San Diego City BEAT, page 8:

One of the things that snapped me out of it finally was a video by Natalie Wynn, aka [Youtuber] ContraPoints, titled “Gender Critical”, and she concludes that TERFdom is about the flimsiest cloak of feminist platitudes draped over disgust and hate.

2019, Philip Matthews, quoted in Tess Nichol, "TERF wars: Adopting - then abandoning - a 'cult-like' movement", Metro (Auckland), 7 November 2019

For a large number of us trans folk, Rowling's descent into the bowels of TERFdom has been distressing to watch.

2020 January, Anna Piper Scott, “JK Rowling Comes Out... As Transphobic”, in Melbourne Star Observer, page 17:

(neologism) The state or quality of holding trans-exclusionary feminist views.


sneckdown

Blend of snow + neckdown, coined in 2014 by Aaron Naparstek on Twitter.

(neologism) A natural neckdown (curb extension) caused by snowfall.


snaughle

en-verb

snaughle (third-person singular simple present snaughles, present participle snaughling, simple past and past participle snaughled)

snaughles (present singular third-person)
snaughling (participle present)
snaughled (participle past)
snaughled (past)

“The attic.” She was looking at the menu board when she heard a snort beside her. “The attic?” It wasn't just a snort. It was a laugh and a snort. Nancy was snaughling at her. “Who in the world cleans an attic? That's like vacuuming a shed.”

Go ahead, make me laugh and snaughle!

2017 June, Caroline Craven, “Peeing One's Pants - Really?”, in Girl with MS:

Its what I do when something is funny, and all my friends R so damn funny that I snaughle a lot,” she posted to her WhoSay.

2019 July 19, Nina Dobrev Keeps Her Costume Simple for First Halloween Party, Just Jared:

(neologism, informal, intransitive) To (repeatedly) snort while laughing; snort and laugh at the same time.


newsgame

(video games, neologism) A video game designed on journalistic principles and serving a documentary or explanatory purpose.


misnegation

en-noun

misnegation (countable and uncountable, plural misnegations)

(neologism, informal linguistics) The unintended combination of semantic and grammatical negation such that the resulting statement actually means the opposite of what is wanted.


technofossil

Metros are part of the evolving body-fossil, technofossil, trace fossil, and chemical record of the genus Homo that extends back some 2.8 million years in Africa (Villmoare et al., 2015), and is underpinned by a technofossil record of stone tools that is shared with hominins other than Homo (Harmand et al., 2015).

2019, Craig Benjamin, Esther Quaedackers, David Baker, editors, The Routledge Companion to Big History, Routledge, →ISBN:

(neologism) A fossil formed from an industrial man-made object or material.


blerd

Thanks to the blerds at Black Girl Nerds and to the founder, Jamie Broadnax.

2015, Shelly Ellis, The Best She Ever Had:

[…] a growing collection of images of black nerds, or “blerds,” has begun to emerge in American television and film. While the flooded pants, suspenders, and bow-ties of Jaleel White's Steve Urkel might be the most recognizable example of the blerd in popular culture, others include […]

2017, Kathryn E. Lane, Age of the Geek: Depictions of Nerds and Geeks in Popular Media:

(slang, neologism) A black person who is a nerd.


femonationalism

femonationalism (usually uncountable, plural femonationalisms)

Coined by Sara R. Farris. Blend of feminism + nationalism, with the "o" patterned after homonationalism.

In similar ways, femonationalism describes the attempts of European right-wing parties, among others, to co-opt feminist ideals into anti-immigrant and anti-Islam campaigns.

2012, Sara R. Farris, "Femonationalism and the 'Regular' Army of Labor Called Migrant Women", History of the Present, Volume 2, Number 2, Fall 2012, page 187

Femonationalism thus operates from a place of cynicism, presenting itself as liberating Muslim women while doing the exact opposite.

2017, Edna Bonhomme, "The Disturbing Rise of ‘Femonationalism", The Nation, 7 May 2019

The case of Switzerland is of particular interest to furthering the understanding of femonationalism, we argue, because contrary to the case studies presented by these other authors, Switzerland was never a colonial state.

2020 July, Dina Bader, Véronique Mottier, “Femonationalism and populist politics: The case of the Swiss ban on female genital mutilation”, in Nations and Nationalism, volume 26, number 3:

(neologism) The association of a nationalist ideology with feminism, especially when having xenophobic motivations.


feminationalism

I claim that women were closely engaged in combining the feminized body with national politics, a feminationalism.

2015, Cristina Devereaux Ramírez, Occupying Our Space: The Mestiza Rhetorics of Mexican Women Journalists and Activists, 1875–1942, →ISBN:

This rhetoric of Norwegian exceptionalism did not only work to strengthen already well-established forms of what Nazila Kivi (2015) has termed “feminationalism” in Norway, where feminist rhetoric is used to buttress nationalist politics and self-understandings in ways that figures other geographies and populations as always already “backwards.” The framing of the anniversary also seemed to suggest that feminism is nothing but history in Norway, and that the job ahead is to export the Norwegian model of feminist equality to so-called less developed countries.

2016, Mathias Danbolt, “Breaking the Waves. Tuning into Queer History with Frank’s Voluspå”, in Föreningen Lambda Nordica:

Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez also introduced the notion of a “post-’Fifty Shades of Grey’ patriarchal heterosexuality” which combines feminationalism, homonationalism, white supremacist notions, ideas of eurocentric superiority and erotic capitalism.

2017, Mark B. Bibbert, Elisabeth Hill, Multiple Modernities–Multiple Gender Cultures, page 83:

In countries such as Denmark and Italy, xenophobic campaigns have taken on the form of ‘feminationalist’ rhetoric which claims that migration is undermining the rights and freedoms of the women in the destination countries. The discourse of ‘feminationalism’ is closely related to homonationalism in which the xenophobic right is claiming that migration is a threat to the rights of the LBGT community.

2017, Alison Treacher, “A feminism for the 21ˢᵗ century”, in Socialist Resistance:

We now see a kind of racism that argues that Christian/Western values are civilized and a basis for democracy, while ’their’ values are reactionary and undemocratic. In the same way, femonationalism and homonationalism have evolved, where it is claimed that the oppression of women and LGBT people only exists amongst ’foreigners’ (the muslims). Feminationalism does not imply a common struggle for freedom, but sees the state as a protector of ’poor’ women from ’foreign’ men.

2018, Socialistisk Arbejderparti (Denmark), “Global Migration”, in International Viewpoint:

(neologism) The association between a nationalist ideology and some feminist ideas, specially when having xenophobic motivations.


neurogender

en-adj

neurogender (comparative more neurogender, superlative most neurogender)

more neurogender (comparative)
most neurogender (superlative)

If you know someone else who is neurogender, or another gender you've never heard of, or simply autistic plus trans of any kind, believe them when they tell you who they are.

2020, endever corbin, “I'm trans and autistic, and yes (for me), they're related”, in Maxfield Sparrow, editor, Spectrums: Autistic Transgender People in Their Own Words, page 86:

Neurogender and autigender people are often met with anger and prejudice, even by some T/GE people who view such new forms of gender identification as threatening to trans respectability.

2022, Sarah Cavar, Alexandre Baril, “Disability”, in Laura Erickson-Schroth, editor, Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource by and for Transgender Communities, page 85:

(neologism) Having a gender identity linked to one's neurodivergence (particularly autism).


demiboy

Polk also identifies as a genderqueer demiboy and uses the pronouns ze/hir (in place of he or she one would use “ze” and in place of him or her one would use “hir”).

2015, Kerri McNair, "A Broader Definition of Gender", InfUSion (University of Georgia), Volume 12, Issue 2, Spring 2015, page 52

“A member of our family is a Demiboy,” I murmur.

2017, Live Love Laugh Ranting, Come As Yourself: Volume One, →ISBN, page 62:

Jinokimijin had chosen an androgynous male form tonight: not a demiboy, which would typically blend neuter with male, but a femboy, a masculine shape with some feminine elements.

2017, L. Rowyn, The Sun Etherium: An Etherium Novel, #2, →ISBN, page 139:

(neologism) A person who identifies as partially, but not completely, male.


demiboy

demiboy (comparative more demiboy, superlative most demiboy)

more demiboy (comparative)
most demiboy (superlative)

(neologism) Identifying as partially, but not completely, male.


teatox

Perhaps the most dangerous aspect of the teatox craze is the glamour being sold along with the product.

2018, Megan Jayne Crabbe, Body Positive Power:

(informal, neologism) An attempt to remove harmful toxins from the body by consuming tea.


get woke, go broke

Attributed to American author John Ringo.

According to Ringo, the convention then pushed its conservative members out of its planning committee, attendance dropped over years, and it’s now defunct. “Get woke, go broke,” he says of any organization who bows to SJW pressure.

2018 April 17, Jon del Arroz, “Author John Ringo Responds to SJW Assault That Led to Sci-Fi Convention Ban”, in Dangerous, archived from the original on 2018-04-17:

Get woke, go broke isn’t just about money, it’s about credibility and truth. These people have been broken by their own pride, their sense of entitlement, and their own disdain of anyone who does not agree with them.

2018 May 19, David Prentice, “Code Red: The Coming Eruption”, in American Thinker:

This led to the biting critical slogan “Get woke, go broke” to characterise the commercial failure of “woke” (“politically enlightened”) policies in an open marketplace.

2019, Alexander Adams, Culture War: Art, Identity Politics and Cultural Entryism:

(informal, neologism, politics) Businesses that focus on social activism to align themselves with social justice are liable to lose customers.

éveillé mais fauché

businesses that attempt to align themselves with social justice causes are liable to lose customers

trop de politiquement correct c’est économiquement incorrect


insectageddon

(informal, neologism) A hypothetical worldwide disaster that would happen due to many insect species going extinct, as for example if the Holocene extinction remains unchecked.


techlash

2013, blend of tech + backlash, coined by Adrian Wooldridge; popularized 2018.

The coming tech-lash [title]

2013, Adrian Wooldridge, “The coming tech-lash”, in The Economist:

The techlash against Amazon, Facebook and Google—and what they can do [title]

2018 January 20, Eve Smith, “The techlash against Amazon, Facebook and Google—and what they can do”, in The Economist:

Vestager was once criticised by Barack Obama who suggested her actions were the result of Europe's tech-envy because they ‘can't compete’ with Silicon Valley. But, as the ‘tech-lash’ continued in the wake of election shocks and Facebook scandals, she has been more often cited as a role model for much bigger interventions.

2018, Tom Baldwin, Ctrl Alt Delete: How Politics and the Media Crashed Our Democracy, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 290:

What’s offered is less class analysis than psychoanalysis. It is the psychoanalytic inflections that elevate this book above so much recent “techlash” literature.

2019 August 8, William Davies, “The Twittering Machine by Richard Seymour review – escape from dystopia”, in The Guardian:

It was July 2017, and the techlash was burgeoning; ordinary people were worried about AI coming for their jobs and unscrupulous tech companies misusing their data.

2020, Wendy Liu, Abolish Silicon Valley:

(neologism) Backlash against technology.


slofie

(neologism) A short video of oneself taken in slow-motion taken with the front facing camera.


hime cut

From Japanese 姫カット, literally "princess cut".

(neologism) An Asian hairstyle consisting of straight, usually cheek-length sidelocks and a frontal fringe. The rest of the hair is usually worn long and straightened.


wokescold

Compound of woke (“aware of social-justice issues”) + scold.

com+

Wokescolds are the new representatives of moral panic.

2019 January 10, Ben Shapiro, “2019: The Year Of The Wokescolds”, in The Cocheco Times, page 6:

Like Pope Urban VII, the self-righteous wokescolds seek to impose their questionable views and shifty standards on the rest of society by silencing dissenters with labels.

2019 November 6, Jason O'Day, “Obama isn't feeling 'woke'”, in The Daily Iowan, University of Iowa, page 4:

When it was announced that David Mamet's American Buffalo was returning to Broadway, cranky theater wokescolds protested.

2020, Dana Loesch, Grace Canceled: How Outrage is Destroying Lives, Ending Debate, and Endangering Democracy, unnumbered page:

(neologism, informal, derogatory) A person who criticizes or shames others for being insufficiently woke, or not supporting social justice causes.


wokescold

en-verb

wokescold (third-person singular simple present wokescolds, present participle wokescolding, simple past and past participle wokescolded)

wokescolds (present singular third-person)
wokescolding (participle present)
wokescolded (participle past)
wokescolded (past)

He then proceeded to wokescold the woman for not changing her pfp like everyone else had recently done.

(neologism, informal, derogatory) To aggressively chastise or berate somebody for holding insufficiently left-Liberal political or social views, or for behaving in a manner antithetical to such views.


gender-critical

en-adj

gender-critical (comparative more gender-critical, superlative most gender-critical)

more gender-critical (comparative)
most gender-critical (superlative)

As a gender critical feminist and an attorney, I have been analyzing the legal and medical conflation of gender with sex for years.

2013 August 2, Elizabeth Hungerford, “Sex Is Not Gender”, in CounterPunch, retrieved 2022-12-06:

I don’t believe that all, or even most, ‘gender-critical’ editorials genuinely set out to make our lives harder: more that their writers don’t realise the impact they can have in the structure outlined above.

2014 August 6, Juliet Jacques, “On the ‘Dispute’ Between Radical Feminism and Trans People”, in New Statesmen, London, retrieved 2022-12-06:

This sort of mistreatment reflects the ideologies of trans-exclusionary radical feminism, popular amongst certain gender-critical lesbian groups.

2016 June 29, Polly Anna Rocha, “Pride & Prejudice”, in San Antonio Current, San Antonio, Texas: Euclid Media Group, retrieved 2022-12-06, page 32:

Selina Todd, professor of modern history at Oxford University, agrees. Recently one delegate cancelled their place at a humanities conference she was due to speak at when they saw her name on the agenda. “It was because the person was concerned that ‘transphobic’ views would be expressed. I assume that this referred to my gender-critical stance.”

2018 October 30, Anna Fazackerley, “UK Universities Struggle to Deal with ‘Toxic’ Trans Rights Row”, in The Guardian, London, retrieved 2022-12-06:

Maya Forstater, a former researcher and writer for a thinktank, is likely to appeal against a ruling that her gender-critical feminist beliefs could not be protected, Chilton suggested.

2020 January 3, Damien Gayle, “After Tribunal’s Ethical Veganism Ruling, What Is a Protected Belief?”, in The Guardian, London, retrieved 2022-12-06:

gender-critical feminism
gender-critical feminism

(originally UK, neologism) Espousing, characteristic of, or relating to gender-critical feminism.


Filipinx

The gender-neutral suffix -x replaces the gendered Spanish suffixes -a and -o of Filipina and Filipino, which are from Spanish filipina and Spanish filipino, both from Spanish Filipinas (“Philippines”), from Felipe II de España (“Philip II of Spain”), from Felipe (“Philip”).

-a-o-x

(US, neologism) A Filipina or Filipino (of any gender).


acephobic

en-adj

acephobic (comparative more acephobic, superlative most acephobic)

more acephobic (comparative)
most acephobic (superlative)

“Cold” and “emotionless” are simply acephobic and ignorant.

2015 July 5, George Norman, “Reclaiming celibacy”, in The Yorker, University of York, page 16:

The relationship between these two parts of me is underpinned by homophobic and acephobic assumptions.

2017 February 3, “Plus”, in Varsity, page 18:

Even those in the LGBTQ+ community can be acephobic.

2019, Samantha Billingsly, “The Gray Area: Another ignored minority”, in Sonoma State Star, 29 January - 4 February 2019, page 3:

(neologism) Characteristic of or exhibiting acephobia.


zigger

Ukraine breaking away from Russia's sphere of influence and joining Europe and the West is based. Russia is a zigger shithole.

2023 June 14, Anglospherist 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇨🇦🇦🇺🇳🇿🇫🇰🇮🇪🇮🇲🇬🇮, Twitter:

Pakis may be annoying, but at least they're Muslim and actually like Turkey. Ziggers move there and still paint Zs on their cars.

It's so insane how ziggers will completely deny anything bad about Russians.

2023 June 24, Emirhan Niyazi Ozanich, Twitter:

Fuck me, there's actually more ziggers on telegram than there are here on twitter 😒.

2023 June 29, Zelenskyy (now banned), Twitter:

Why are they dancing?!?!? Don't they know ziggers are complaining and posting Strelkovisms on twitter!?!?!

2023 July 15, Л?берал_𝙈𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙧𝙘𝙝 🧠🎮, Twitter:

(slang, derogatory, vulgar, offensive, neologism, politics) Someone who supports the policy or doctrine of the Kremlin and the Russian invasion of Ukraine (2022).


chaffle

(neologism) A low-carb or keto-style waffle, made from cheese and eggs rather than from traditional waffle batter.


ploonet

Blend of planet + moon.
Coined in 2019 by the research team of Mario Sucerquia, Jaime A Alvarado-Montes, Jorge I Zuluaga, Nicolás Cuello, Cristian Giuppone (see quotations below).

This paper explores the scenario where large regular exomoons escape after tidal interchange of angular momentum with its parent planet, becoming small planets by themselves. We name this hypothetical type of object a ploonet.

2019, Mario Sucerquia, Jaime A Alvarado-Montes, Jorge I Zuluaga, Nicolás Cuello, Cristian Giuppone, “Ploonets: formation, evolution, and detectability of tidally detached exomoons”, in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, volume 489, number 2, page 2313:

The researchers, who used simulations to explain the same, found that the simulated Ploonets were quite short-lived, crashing into the star or their parent planet in 0.5-1 million years.

2020, Varsha M, “Ploonets: Runaway Moons”, in Waves, archived from the original on 2020-06-06, page 2:

For now, such leftover debris fields may be the best chance for astronomers to infer the existence of ploonets. After all, even if astronomers detect a runaway ploonet orbiting its host star, it would be hard to distinguish it from normal planets.

2021 April, Randall Hyman, “The galaxy's marvelous rogues and misfits”, in Astronomy, page 22:

(astronomy, sciences, neologism) A theoretical planetary body that formed as a moon orbiting a planet, but which has become tidally detached, so that it enters orbit about its star, separated from its parent planet.

brown subdwarf

a planetary mass object which forms in the manner of a star

sub-brown dwarf

a planetary mass object which is not part of a star system, wandering interstellar space without a star

rogue planet

a planet that has been ejected from its star system, to wander interstellar space without a star

dwarf planet

a planetary mass object whose orbit about a star is strewn with comparable or larger mass objects

moonlet

a small moon, shepherding ring debris to keep a planetary ring in shape, as part of the ring


mumfluencer

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Blend of mum + influencer, equivalent to mum + -fluencer.

She'd spent the weekend replying to the PRs offering money for branded content, setting up meetings and feverishly researching the 'mumfluencer' thing.

She is a UN Global Ambassador for Gender Equality, writes a column for Mother & Baby magazine, and was recently crowned the Number 1 Mumfluencer in the magazine.

(UK, informal, neologism) A mother who is an influencer on social media, typically using this platform to promote consumer products, offer parenting advice, or document her child's upbringing.


robo-advisor

The flow of funds into robo-adviser accounts is expected to accelerate because of new federal regulations, which require all financial professionals to put their customers’ interests first, at least when providing advice on their tax-advantaged retirement accounts.

2016 April 29, Tara Siegel Bernard, “The Pros and Cons of Using a Robot as an Investment Adviser”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

He suggested using Betterment, a roboadviser that automates the investing process with long-term portfolios.

2021 April 28, Tara Siegel Bernard, “Trading Stock Tips on TikTok, Newbies Are Deeply Invested in Learning”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(finance, neologism) An automated investment manager.


transmisandry

From trans- + misandry, modeled on the earlier transmisogyny.

Coordinate term: transmisogyny

A Black trans-of-color critique shows that we need theories not only for thinking about how trans women of color navigate but also for racialized transmisandry, to explain the ways in which Black trans masculine persons live in a sphere of literal and discursive policing […]

2017, E. C. Krell, “Is transmisogyny killing trans women of color? Black trans feminisms and the exigencies of white femininity”, in Transgender Studies Quarterly:

Transmisogyny and transmisandry are asymmetrical types of violence. Any claim of transmisandry which is used to vilify trans women and other assigned male at birth trans people should be heavily interrogated if not simply dismissed outright.

2019, Morgan Lev Edward Holleb, The A-Z of Gender and Sexuality: From Ace to Ze, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 277:

(LGBTQ, neologism) Hatred of or contempt for trans men.


sadboi

(informal, neologism) A young man who is open about his emotions, especially his feeling sad about failed relationships and unrequited love, and channels his sadness artistically.


mestiz@

The at-sign (@) resembles both the feminine ending/element a and the masculine o.


Mestizx

The gender-neutral suffix -x replaces the gendered Spanish suffixes -a and -o.

(neologism) Mestizo or Mestiza (and of any gender).


Mestizx

(neologism) A Mestizo or Mestiza (of any gender).


hangxiety

(neologism) An unpleasant state of mental uneasiness, nervousness, apprehension, remorse, and/or obsessive concern about some uncertain event, which may be experienced during the day(s) following a bout of alcohol drinking. It however can also refer to one of the classic symptoms of alcohol’s rebound effect, which is a physiological mechanism, rather than a psychological regret.


femtech

From fem- (“feminine/female”) + tech, coined by Ida Tin in 2016.

As well as companies selling menstrual protection, the femtech sector includes fertility apps, maternal health and sexual wellbeing products.

2018 November 9, Nina Jones, “Women's health start-ups bloom with no blushes”, in Financial Times:

The current major players in the femtech industry - period apps - have demonstrated that it is profitable to target women and gather their data.

2019 November 27, Maria Mellor, “Fitness trackers and wearables are ignoring a $50bn market: women”, in Wired:

With $800m of funding going to the femtech startups in 2019 alone, there couldn’t be a better time for ohne to enter the market.

2020 February 20, Bianca Barratt, “Period Product Brand Ohne Takes Femtech To New Heights - Can Investors Do The Same?”, in Forbes:

The scientific study of perimenopause has been going on for decades, and the cultural discussion of this mind and body shift has reached something of a new fever pitch, with several books on the subject coming out this spring and a gaggle of “femtech” companies vowing to disrupt perimenopause.

2021 April 29, Jessica Grose, “Why Is Perimenopause Still Such a Mystery?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(neologism) Technology oriented towards women, especially health and reproductive technology.


Abbreviation of coronavirus disease + 19 from 2019, the year the virus was discovered. Coined by the World Health Organization on February 11, 2020. Intended to avoid stigma by not referring to a place, animal, career, or group of people.

diagnosed with COVID-19

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by a newly discovered coronavirus.

2020 January 11, “Coronavirus”, in World Health Organization:

This week, the FDA issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for a a monoclonal antibody combination for the treatment of mild to moderate COVID-19 in adults and pediatric patients

2021 February 12, “Coronavirus (COVID-19) update”, in U.S. Food & Drug Administration:

Indonesia reported a record daily number of 1,566 COVID-19 deaths on Friday, taking total fatalities to 80,598, data from the country’s COVID-19 task force showed.

2021 July 23, “COVID-positive man boards Indonesia flight disguised as wife”, in Aljazeera:

Most people infected with the COVID-19 virus will experience mild to moderate respiratory illness and recover without requiring special treatment.

As we enter the first months of 2021, increasing numbers of reports of variants of the COVID-19 virus mark a new development in the pandemic.

2021 February 5, “Redoubling public health measures needed due to COVID-19 virus variants”, in World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe, archived from the original on 2021-02-15:

(virology, metonymically) SARS-CoV-2 (virus that causes the COVID-19 disease)

Many diabetics have been dying, especially during COVID-19.

The pandemic has helped cement a view of the human as collective, prosocial, and sharing a common bond between all people. This shared experience of living (and dying) during COVID-19 has proved a unifying force.

2022, Paul Martin, Stevienna de Saille, Kirsty Liddiard, Warren Pearce, “Conclusion:Thinking about 'the Human' during COVID-19 Times”, in Stevienna de Saille, Paul Martin, editors, Being Human During COVID-19:

A second insight offered by our study is that several stresses apparent at the start of COVID-19, such as adapting to working from home, persisted during the pandemic, and new stresses emerged.

2022, Roland Duculan, Deanna Jannat-Khah, Xin A. Wang, Carol A. Mancuso, “Psychological Stress Reported at the Start of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Subsequent Stress and Successful Coping in Patients With Rheumatic Diseases: A Longitudinal Analysis”, in Journal of Clinical Rheumatology, volume 28, number 5, →DOI:

The COVID-19 pandemic which began in early 2020.


anemoia

Coined by American author and neologist John Koenig in 2012, whose project, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, aims to come up with new words for emotions that currently lack words. Constructed from Ancient Greek ἄνεμος (ánemos, “wind”) + νόος (nóos, “mind”), with reference to anemosis, the warping of a tree by high wind "until it seems to bend backward."

coin

Yet, from reboots to genre revivals, nostalgia remains a powerful force in pop culture. So does an associated phenomenon, called anemoia, which is essentially nostalgia for a past you’ve never experienced. Nostalgia and anemoia have been Broadway’s bread and butter for decades.

2015 November 15, Robert Trussell, “Awash in nostalgia”, in The Kansas City Star, volume 136, number 59, Kansas City, Mo., page 12D:

Goetzman (who also records his own own^([sic]) original music under the alias Raspberries and Rum) brought up another idea as a possible explanation for his Toto-based virality: anemoia. That’s the concept of a person feeling nostalgic for something they never experienced.[…]What I can say is this little video and its embedded nostalgia — or anemoia — seems to be bringing a little happiness to people all over the world.

2018 May 17, Shane Nyman, “Local guy’s ‘Africa’ remix perfects nostalgia”, in The Post-Crescent, volume 99, number 118, Appleton, Wis., page 6A:

A White Christmas is the perfect example of anemoia, nostalgia for a time we never knew.

2018, Trevor Harley, The Psychology of Weather, Routledge, →ISBN, page 102:

The theme of that YouTube chat was the idea of anemoia, a niche form of nostalgia that prompts a yearning for a historical time and place that you have never actually experienced. Photographs can be perfect anemoia triggers, and this one works by layering retro longing from several different eras.

2024 January 14, Tim Adams, “The big picture: layers of nostalgia on London’s Oxford Street”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(neologism, uncommon) Nostalgia for a time or a place one has never known.


Dutertenomics

(Philippines, neologism) The socioeconomic policies of former president Rodrigo Duterte that were significantly focused on the development of infrastructure and industry.


covidiot

Photoshop-skilled social media users altered the poster board to read as 'We have no idea what we're doing' and 'Trump is a Covidiot'

2020 March 15, “We have no idea what we're doing': Social media mercilessly mocks coronavirus test flowchart produced by Trump's crisis team”, in Daily Mail:

The aura of invincibility seemed to ooze off of these entitled covidiots, the term coined to describe those deciding to blissfully and willfully ignore measures put in place to mitigate the spread of the virus.

2020 April 1, John White, “Don't be a covidiot”, in Wetaskiwin Times Advertiser:

A Covidiot party attended by a large number of people was shut down by police in Clydebank.[…] A total of 37 Fixed Penalty Notices were issued for 'breaching Covid regulations'.

2021 March 19, Kathleen Speirs, “Scots cops bust Clydebank Covidiot birthday party as 37 fines handed out”, in Daily Record:

(derogatory, humorous, neologism) A person who is foolishly reckless with respect to avoiding contracting or spreading COVID-19.


Kremlebot

(neologism, derogatory) A person hired to make pro-Kremlin comments on social networks.

кремлебо́т

a Kremlin bot, a person hired to make pro-Kremlin comments on social networks or suspected in doing so; an online identity of such a perso


dead cat

Boris Johnson
Lynton Crosby
The Daily Telegraph

Introduced by former UK prime minister Boris Johnson in 2013 (at which point he was mayor of London) in a column for The Daily Telegraph.

The problem is that once the idea of the dead cat had been discovered, suddenly there were deceased felines everywhere. Everything was a dead cat—every policy, every interview, every gaffe. Everything existed only to detract attention from something else.

2019 November 19, Charlotte Lydia Riley, “Dear journalists: please stop calling everything a “dead cat””, in Prospect Magazine, archived from the original on 2023-01-06:

Boris Johnson looked strained as he entered the House of Commons at midday on Wednesday, hoping that a "dead cat" and an apology over Downing Street parties would dig him out of his latest political hole.

2021 December 8, George Parker, Jasmine Cameron-Chileshe, Jim Pickard, Sebastian Payne, “Boris Johnson bets on a 'dead cat' strategy to get him out of trouble”, in Financial Times, archived from the original on 2021-12-08:

But by Wednesday night, a massive dead cat was required to distract from a day of denied parties and prioritised pets, so Johnson banged plan B on the kitchen table, alienating backbench Covid sceptics.

2021 December 12, Stewart Lee, “More sacrifices for Boris, the fool king of pantomime Britain”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 2022-12-03:

(politics, neologism) A shocking or sensational announcement made in order to distract one's political base from existing problems and previous failures.


a-spec

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From a- (from asexual and aromantic) + spec, a clipping of spectrum.

A segment of Core could have been about solely the trans community, or the exclusion of bi, pan, and a-spec people from queer spaces […]

2017 December 7, Hayley Van Allen, "Where is the LGBTQ+ representation in Scripps core?", in The Scripps Voice, volume XXI, issue 04, page 4

However, this article isn’t about what it means, or how it feels to be a-spec: it’s about the erasure (A-rasure?) of a-spec identities.

2018 June 2, “A is Not for Ally: Spare a Thought for Invisible Identities this Pride Month”, in The Panoptic, retrieved 2020-04-06:

Jughead means a lot to aspec people

2017 March 31, “Jughead, Bughead, And The Need For Asexual & Aromantic Heroes In Comics”, in Comics Alliance, retrieved 2020-04-06:

We can and should recognize that there is plenty of room for a multitude of reactions from a-spec folks because, like any other identity, we are not a monolith and we carry with us a multitude of experiences, desires, limitations, and perspectives.

2020 March 12, “‘It’s Not You, It’s Not Me’ Centers Allosexual Feelings And Fails Asexual People”, in wearyourvoicemag.com, archived from the original on 2020-04-06:

In the context of asexuality, it has led to the infantilization of people who are aspec, and in a lot of cases has pressured ace people to have sex, simply because they didn’t think not wanting to have sex was an option.

2020 February 4, “Asexuality, Explained Through Cake”, in The Link, retrieved 2020-04-06:

While the SAM was initially created by a-spec people, it can easily be used by people who are not asexual or aromantic.

2018 October 27, “Explore the spectrum: Guide to finding your ace community”, in GLAAD, archived from the original on 2020-08-01:

Asexual representation in games is so sparse as to be virtually non-existent, and some of the few examples that there are reinforce incorrect beliefs about a-spec people.

2018 February 15, “Ace Jam created a space for games with asexual characters”, in Rock, Paper, Shotgun, retrieved 2020-04-06:

(neologism) On, or relating to, the asexual spectrum and/or aromantic spectrum.


TikTok

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How are these vaccine TikToks fooling so many people?

(neologism, informal) A small video that can be viewed online, particularly one hosted on TikTok.


TikTok

en-verb

TikTok (third-person singular simple present TikToks, present participle TikToking or TikTokking or TikTok-ing, simple past and past participle TikToked or TikTokked)

TikToks (present singular third-person)
TikToking (participle present)
TikTokking (participle present)
TikTok-ing (participle present)
TikToked (participle past)
TikToked (past)
TikTokked (participle past)
TikTokked (past)

There’s nothing worse, after all, than male mutton dressed as lamb; or an old-style peacock dressed like a TikTok-ing Gen Z.

2019 November 29, Jonathan Heaf, “Confessions of a hypedad”, in ES Magazine, London, page 56, column 2:

He got up and performed the first verse, and then walked through the door of the rotating, dioramic set — part Michel Gondry music video; part high school musical — and: It was BTS! Off they went: this black American whiz kid and these seven South Korean superstars TikTokked together.

2020 March 11, Wesley Morris, “Lil Nas X Is the King of the Crossover”, in The New York Times Magazine:

It’s not often that one sees a mayor TikTok-ing and Instagramming such random activities, ranging from ice-cream making, to exercising, to a mini magic show.

2020 April 8, “Kauai mayor takes to TikTok”, in Honolulu Star-Advertiser, Honolulu, Hi., page A8, column 1:

Despite some unfortunate mixed messaging so far, government officials say they are well aware that there is an information war they need to win in order to beat Covid — and like these TikTok-ing doctors, they believe that social media is the key.

2020 November 24, Libby Galvin, “Misinformation and fear is vaccine’s ticking time bomb”, in Evening Standard, London, page 7:

But thanks to pandemic-shuttered TikTok-ing teens, the anthem with an urgent pulse and message of longing for closeness reignited the Liverpool export’s profile.

2020 December 25, Melissa Ruggieri, “12 of the best songs of 2020”, in The Brownsville Herald, Brownsville, Tex., section “Banners, “Someone to You”, page B3, column 5:

(neologism, transitive) To upload a video of something to TikTok.

(neologism, transitive) To search for and view on TikTok.


ablesplaining

In fact, ablesplaining also encapsulates the fact that most people with disabilities are not seen as authorities about their own minds and bodies.

2016, Jay Dolmage, Dale Jacobs, “Mutable Articulations: Disability Rhetorics and the Comics Medium”, in C. Foss, J. Gray, Zach Whalen, editors, Disability in Comic Books and Graphic Narratives, page 26:

Jim's presumptive mansplaining (and ablesplaining) is insulting to Laura from both a disability studies and a feminist standpoint.

2018, Patricia A. Dunn, Angela Broderick, “What Does The Glass Menagerie and Its Discussion Questions Teach About Disability? And How to Undo It”, in Crag Hill, Victor Malo-Juvera, editors, Critical Approaches to Teaching the High School Novel: Reinterpreting Canonical Literature, page 141:

A few of them offered to connect me with their therapists and told me how they had already “groomed” them with “disability 101,” so I would not have to deal with ablesplaining.

2018, Chun-Shan (Sandie) Yi, "Res(crip)ting Art Therapy: Disability Culture as a Social Justice Intervention", in Art Therapy for Social Justice: Radical Intersections (ed. Savneet K. Talwar), unnumbered page

(neologism) The act of a nondisabled person condescendingly explaining disability, especially with the presumption that the disabled lack relevant understanding or authority, or are not in a position to speak for themselves.


ablesplain

ablesplain (third-person singular simple present ablesplains, present participle ablesplaining, simple past and past participle ablesplained)

ablesplains (present singular third-person)
ablesplaining (participle present)
ablesplained (participle past)
ablesplained (past)

The disability needs to be “ablesplained” by a medical authority—and these explanations often usurp the voice or perspective of the narrator and overwrite their identity in scientific and pathological terms.

2016, Jay Dolmage, Dale Jacobs, “Mutable Articulations: Disability Rhetorics and the Comics Medium”, in C. Foss, J. Gray, Zach Whalen, editors, Disability in Comic Books and Graphic Narratives, page 17:

'They just ablesplained their delay by using a disabled passenger as an excuse. And it's a disabled passenger I know. You truly cannot make this up.'

2017, Samantha Connor, quoted in April Glover, "Qantas pilot slammed for 'patronising announcement' blaming flight delay on wheelchair-bound passenger", Daily Mail, 15 June 2017

I’m so sick of able-bodied people trying to speak for us, and ablesplaining!

2018, Cushla Brooke Dares, "BEYOND the FORTRESS: Dis/ability, Community and Care", thesis submitted to the University of Canterbury, page 9

(neologism, of a nondisabled person) To explain something related to disability in a manner that is condescending or shows a lack of understanding, compassion, or respect for the disabled.


fansplain

fansplain (third-person singular simple present fansplains, present participle fansplaining, simple past and past participle fansplained)

fansplains (present singular third-person)
fansplaining (participle present)
fansplained (participle past)
fansplained (past)

I’ll even fansplain away the bizarre “We Love Moms” and “Thanks Dads!” teasers—for Peanuts, a property that famously did away with parents entirely—as non-essential marketing chum, the cost of doing business in a Minionized marketplace where every animated character must be a blank slate to which literally any sentiment can be affixed.

2015 July 28, Dan Kois, “Meghan Trainor’s People Interview About The Peanuts Movie Is a Total Disaster”, in Slate:

You can decide for yourself whether you want to search for YouTube videos that fansplain the character's full backstory before all 13 episodes of Marvel's Jessica Jones premiere November 20 #on Netflix.

2015 November 18, John Russell, “Jonesin' For A Hero”, in Next, volume 23, number 22, page 13:

It could have actually been great if only it wasn't obsessed with fansplaining details literally nobody was curious about.

2018 June, Ryan Syrek, “Wookie Rookie By The Bookie”, in The Reader, page 32:

(neologism) To explain something as a fan or in a fannish manner.


Disease X

Introduced as a placeholder name by the World Health Organization in February 2018.

(neologism) A hypothetical unknown pathogen that could cause a future epidemic.


WFH

WFH (third-person singular simple present WFH or (nonstandard) WFHs, present participle WFH or (nonstandard) WFHing, simple past and past participle WFH or (nonstandard, rare) WFHed)

WFH (present singular third-person)
WFHs (nonstandard present singular third-person)
WFH (participle present)
WFHing (nonstandard participle present)
WFH (participle past)
WFH (past)
WFHed (nonstandard participle past rare)
WFHed (nonstandard past rare)

Not everyone wants to 'WFH', and there's a clear drift back to the office.

2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 971, page 79:

(neologism) Initialism of work from home.


aro-ace

en-adj

aro-ace (comparative more aro-ace, superlative most aro-ace)

more aro-ace (comparative)
most aro-ace (superlative)

From aro (clipping of aromantic) + ace (clipping of asexual).

af

clipping of <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">aromantic</i>

clipping of <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">asexual</i>

However, when I came out as aro ace, my experience was one of being strongly 'othered'.

2017, Ariel Scott, “Stop Saying It's Asexual Because That's Not What It Means”, in ShOUT Zine, pages 11–12:

As an aro-ace college student, Sarah sometimes worries that her friendliness might be taken as flirtation.

2018 December 5, Miriam Francisco, “'Sounds Fake but Okay': Asexuality on Campus”, in The Michigan Daily, The University of Michigan, page 6B:

Vale turned over the rest of the way. "Ash, I'm aro-ace."

2019, Danika Stone, Switchback, unnumbered page:

(slang, neologism) Aromantic and asexual.


aro-ace

Stidham considers herself an "aroace," or an aromantic asexual.

2016 October 19, Megan Swett, “Celebrating Queertober and the LGBT+ community”, in The Journal, Springfield: University of Illinois, page 1 & 3:

“Oh no you fucking won't, if I don't want said virtue. You'll make yourself scarce, like a good sex-repulsed aroace.”

2019, Aidan Wayne, Play It Again, unnumbered page:

Walking through the world as an aro-ace, I experience a sense of isolation in my own feelings, or lack thereof, towards sex.

2019 August, Grace Christiansen, “Deadman's Hand”, in Debate, page 15:

(slang, neologism) A person who is aromantic and asexual.


autochorissexuality

Coined by Anthony Bogaert in 2012, from auto- + χωρίς (khōrís, “without”) + sexuality, for a rough meaning of "without-self-sexuality."

It is possible that some of our asexual participants are displaying paraphilic interest (including analloeroticism or autochorissexuality), although this should be investigated further in future research.

2017, Morag A. Yule, Lori A. Brotto, Boris B. Gorzalka, “Sexual Fantasy and Masturbation Among Asexual Individuals: An In-Depth Exploration”, in Archives of Sexual Behavior, volume 46, number 1:

Building on Bogaert’s (2012) notion of autochorissexuality, Morag Yule and her colleagues propose a further dimension: subjectivity/non-subjective.

2017, Paul L. Vasey, “Introduction to the Special Section: The Puzzle of Sexual Orientation: What Is It and How Does It Work?”, in Archives of Sexual Behavior, volume 46:

I’m sure as a researcher you are aware of autochorissexuality, that is, the lack of oneself in one’s fantasies.

2019, "Olivia", quoted in Thom Winter-Gray & Nikki Hayfield, "'Can I be a kinky ace?': How asexual people negotiate their experiences of kinks and fetishes", Psychology & Sexuality

(neologism) A sexual orientation characterized by a disconnect between the self and sexual arousal or fantasies, e.g. having sexual fantasies that do not involve oneself, or experiencing arousal without an active desire for partnered sexual activity.


autochorissexual

en-adj

autochorissexual (comparative more autochorissexual, superlative most autochorissexual)

more autochorissexual (comparative)
most autochorissexual (superlative)

Coined by Anthony Bogaert in 2012, from auto- + χωρίς (khōrís, “without”) + -sexual, for a rough meaning of "without-self-sexual."

It is possible that some asexual individuals will also be autochorissexual in that they are not sexually attracted to anyone or anything, but may nonetheless require explicit stimuli to facilitate masturbation to orgasm.

2014 August, Morag A. Yule, Lori A. Brotto, Boris B. Gorzalka, “Sexual fantasy and masturbation among asexual individuals”, in The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality, volume 23, number 2, page 93:

The fact that some asexuals masturbate, but separate this activity from images of themselves as sexual and from sexual fantasies, supports the notion that some asexuals might be autochorissexual (Bogaert, 2012).

2015, Parul Modi, "Do men and women with asexual identities show low category specificity in their patterns of sexual attraction and attention to male and female swimsuit models?", thesis submitted to California State University, Fullerton

For autochorissexual participants, kinks and fetishes were understood as part of an individual’s unique desires and fantasies, which were either undesirable – or impossible – to experience in real-life.

2019, Thom Winter-Gray, Nikki Hayfield, “'Can I be a kinky ace?': How asexual people negotiate their experiences of kinks and fetishes”, in Psychology & Sexuality:

(neologism, offensive) Experiencing sexual arousal or fantasies disconnected from oneself and/or without an active desire for partnered sexual activity.


autochorissexualism

Coined by Anthony Bogaert in 2012, from auto- + χωρίς (khōrís, “without”) + sexualism, for a rough meaning of "without-self-sexuality."

To test more formally some of these ideas on autochorissexualism and automonosexualism, more research needs to be done on the sexual fantasies of masturbating asexuals.

2015, Anthony F. Bogaert, Understanding Asexuality, page 120:

The qualitative data provided little support to the idea some asexual individuals in the ABDL community may display autochorissexualism.

2018, Brian D. Zamboni, Grace Madero, “Exploring asexuality within an adult baby/diaper lover community”, in Psychology & Sexuality, volume 9, number 2:

Whilst this response linked to autochorissexualism, Olivia described going further than being ‘identity-less’ and instead shifting their identity freely within a fantasy by playing a variety of roles.


zedsexual

zedsexual (comparative more zedsexual, superlative most zedsexual)

more zedsexual (comparative)
most zedsexual (superlative)

From zed + -sexual as a play on asexual, since the sexuality falls on the other side of the sexual spectrum from asexuality, as the letters "A" and "Z" are on opposite ends of the alphabet.

Most significantly, it was a time before zedsexual people started (en masse) appropriating ace educational materials and mainstream ace discourse to perpetrate and/or justify anti-ace sexual coercion and rape […]

2015, "Omnes et Nihil", "Situating This Zine & The Ace Sex Wars", F-ace-ing Silence, Issue 3, June 2015, page 5

But what about people who don't feel completely asexual or zedsexual?

2016, Ashley Mardell, The ABC's of LGBT, unnumbered page:

Both asexual and zedsexual (non-asexual) people tend to experience different attractions on a spectrum of intensity, from none ever to all the attraction all the time, with many different nuanced levels in between.

2019, Jo Teut, "Integrating Asexuality: A is for Asexual in LGBTQIA+", New Directions for Community Colleges, Winter 2019, page 96

(neologism) Not asexual; experiencing sexual attraction to others.


demigirl

Me: male-bodied demigirl with big black headphones and pink bow-headband in front of you on the bus to Ballard.

2015, anonymous, "I Saw U", The Stranger, Volume 24, Number 25, 18 February 2015 - 24 February 2015, page 51

Among the students planning to attend Lavender Graduation is senior Julia Heath, who identifies as an asexual non-binary demigirl.

2018 April 26, Rachel Fechter, “Lavender Graduation Ceremony to offer inclusive space for LGBTQ students”, in The Index, Truman State University, page 7:

Hamlet identifies as a demigirl, although the term is used here by her best friend, Rachel Yorick, […]

2019, Ariane M. Balizet, Shakespeare and Girls’ Studies, unnumbered page:

(neologism) A person who identifies as partially, but not completely, female.


demigirl

demigirl (comparative more demigirl, superlative most demigirl)

more demigirl (comparative)
most demigirl (superlative)

I've settled upon demigirl to describe my gender, a nonbinary identity meaning partially girl, partially something else.

2015 September, anonymous author, “Breaking the Binary”, in Counterpoint College, Wellesley College, page 10:

People who identify as demigirl may or may not have other gender identities too.

2019, Eva A. Mendes, Brian T. T. Harris, Gender Identity, Sexuality and Autism: Voices from Across the Spectrum, page 30:

I identify as demigirl but there are times when I fluctuate from agender to demigirl to female.

2019, Darcey Steinke, Flash Count Diary: Menopause and the Vindication of Natural Life, unnumbered page:

(neologism) Identifying as partially, but not completely, female.


coronapocalypse

If and when I survive the coronapocalypse I’m going to finally peel myself out of my home made biohazard suit […] and take a whole month off to just lie around the house touching and stroking my face.

2020 March 2, John Birmingham, “When the coronapocalypse is over, I’m never washing my hands again”, in The Sydney Morning Herald:

The coronapocalypse has been devastating for us adults, but its impact on teenagers is arguably far greater.

2020 April 6, Christopher Null, “The Reality of Covid-19 Is Hitting Teens Especially Hard”, in Wired:

Zoom meetings, handkerchief masks, toilet paper and beans might as well be the four horsemen of the coronapocalypse.

2020 April 17, Soleil Ho, “‘Two new cookbooks on beans perfect for coronavirus shelter-in-place cooking”, in San Francisco Chronicle:

When she lost her job as a social worker at the start of the pandemic, which Galbreath calls the "coronapocalypse," she began making and selling succulent gift arrangements.

2022 February 10, Morgan Sung, “A plant shop owner is fighting Nike over the name ‘Just Succ It’”, in NBC News:

(neologism) The COVID-19 pandemic and its resulting social, economic, and political turmoil.


COVIDian

COVIDian (comparative more COVIDian, superlative most COVIDian)

more COVIDian (comparative)
most COVIDian (superlative)

I contacted nearly 70 friends and colleagues in Sea to Sky before I wrote this column asking just that, and for their tips for sustenance—both real and metaphoric—to keep the COVIDian blues at bay.

2020 March 26, Glenda Bartosh, “Life in COVIDian times: What to do when you have to keep calm and not quite carry on”, in Pique Newsmagazine, volume 27, number 13, page 38:

They, the properly-cocked (cluey immunologists, epidemiologists, chief health officers, economists divining the Covidian impacts on the economy, and well-informed others) are the new actors on our stage.

2020 April 18, Ian Warden, “Australians all let us deJoyce”, in The Canberra Times:

The Covidian Age is a great time to be hemerophile. Just think of the raccoons of Toronto. Human activity is so reduced in urban centres that by the time things return to normal, raccoons will be empowered to demand rights for themselves, or seek seats on City Council.

2020 April 23, Barry Coulter, “World O’ Words: Hemerophiles, and a new era of synanthropization”, in Cranbrook Daily Townsman:

(neologism) Of, related to, or characteristic of COVID-19 or the 2019-20 coronavirus pandemic.


coronaphobia

And, as Weaver noted, there wasn't any toilet paper on the shelves—all due to what some are calling "coronaphobia".

2020 March 8, Charlie Smith, “B.C. MLA Andrew Weaver expresses his exasperation over a coronaphobia-induced run on toilet paper”, in Georgia Straight:

The global freezing (of economic activity) wrought by coronaphobia is shaking what has become an orthodoxy since the Global Financial Crisis that central banks are the new masters of the universe.

2020 March 16, Ben Ong, “The crash we have to have”, in Financial Standard, volume 18, number 5, page 28:

It came as a poll last week revealed two thirds of Brits were suffering from “coronaphobia” and were too scared to leave the house or return to work.

2020 May 3, Henry Holloway, “Lidl becomes ‘first supermarket to close a UK store due to coronavirus’ after staff struck down with bug”, in The Sun, UK:

If you think you might have coronaphobia, and one of your worries is that this problem is destined to be with you for life, keep this in mind: “Health anxiety can be transient,” Taylor says. “Just because you’re experiencing health anxiety during the pandemic doesn’t mean it’s going to become a long-term problem.” The key is to take steps now to manage it and prevent it from becoming entrenched.

2021 February 9, Stacey Colino, “‘Coronaphobia’: Covid anxiety has a name. Here’s how to cope.”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-01-10:

(neologism) Fear or hysteria caused by COVID-19 and the COVID-19 pandemic.


cissupremacist

cissupremacist (comparative more cissupremacist, superlative most cissupremacist)

more cissupremacist (comparative)
most cissupremacist (superlative)

The blog critic gudbuy t'jane is even more scathing in her condemnation of the video in arguing that the fact that Lady Gaga 'uses trans women and drag queens to exoticize her videos doesn't defer from the cissupremacist stance that women=vagina, and trans women are therefore not real women . . . This is transmisogyny.'

2011, Diane Railton, Paul Watson, Music Video and the Politics of Representation, page 146:

The concept originated during the cis-supremacist witch hunts which sought to systematically remove trans women from feminist organizations during the 1970s.

2012, “OWS Must Resist Cis-Supremacy and Trans-Misogyny”, in Amy Schrager Lang, Daniel Lang/Levitsky, editors, Dreaming in Public: Building the Occupy Movement, unnumbered page:

It's already hard as is for LGBTQIA+ people to navigate the heteronormative and cis-supremacist world we live in.

2015 March/April, King Chan, A Bi* Guy's Way of Queering up Bi* for our Queer World, in getoutlb, page 5

(LGBTQ, neologism) Exhibiting or relating to cissupremacy.


cissupremacy

From cis- + supremacy, by analogy with white supremacy.

To fight this systemic oppression — including transphobia, cis-centrism, cis-supremacy and trans-misogyny — it is essential we support the self-determination of all people oppressed by coercive, non-consensual gender assignments.

2012, “OWS Must Resist Cis-Supremacy and Trans-Misogyny”, in Amy Schrager Lang, Daniel Lang/Levitsky, editors, Dreaming in Public: Building the Occupy Movement, page 129:

Cisgender directors and writers cannot be the judge of what an authentic trans portrayal looks like because of their socialization in cissupremacy.

2015, Aryeh Conrad, "Towards a Truer Representation: Transphobic Casting Politics and the Cis-Gaze in Film", paper submitted to the University of Puget Sound, page 10

In that context where cissexism and cissupremacy are the oppressions in question, a cisgender woman would not count as a marginalized person.

2016, Nora Berenstain, “Epistemic Exploitation”, in Ergo: An Open Access Journal of Philosophy, volume 3, number 22, page 570:

(LGBTQ, neologism) Ideology that regards cis people as superior to other people (including trans people, nonbinary people, and genderfluid people), or diminishes the rights or interests of those who are not cis.


e-gnorant

e-gnorant (comparative more e-gnorant, superlative most e-gnorant)

more e-gnorant (comparative)
most e-gnorant (superlative)

/ˈiːɡnəɹənt/

Blend of e- (abbreviation of electronic) + ignorant, after the manner of words such as e-mail or e-card.

blend

abbreviation of <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">electronic</i>

Are they essentially all from programmers, or are there other users in the e-gnorant zone like me?

(neologism) Ignorant of how to use computers or other digital devices or software.


wishcycling

Blend of wish + recycling, said to have been coined by Bill Keegan, president of a recycling company.

Some new innovative packaging can’t be recycled, but nonetheless ends up in the single-sort bin through what Keegan calls “wish cycling.”

2015 September 19, Eric Roper, “Global shifts put squeeze on Twin Cities recycling”, in Star Tribune:

Not only that, but wishcycling is playing a big role in the current global recycling meltdown.

2019 August 30, Jackie Flynn Mogensen, “One Very Bad Habit Is Fueling the Global Recycling Meltdown”, in Mother Jones:

(neologism) Putting items out for recycling in the hope that they will be recycled, without being sure that they are recyclable.


Wu flu

“Wu flu?” jokes a BA steward. “No,” I say. “It's just the end of a cold I had in England before I left.” And it's true, it is. But wait.

2020 January 24, Giles Coren, “I’ve got nice clean hands for the flu apocalypse”, in The Times:

For all the budgeteers, DiNapoli had vital advice: “Spending decisions should reflect economic and fiscal realities.” That is: It’s no time for new initiatives or program expansions, except those for the WuFlu crisis.

2020 March 18, “New York’s coronavirus budget challenge: balance the books without doing more harm”, in New York Post:

So the nice travel agent Jacinda, has rung and offered us a one-time special to another island it's called Corona Island, that's an island just north of where we are, but your mothere isn't too sure about going there as she has heard they once had a bad outbreak of Wu Flu and she doesn't want to risk catching anything. nasty.

2020 April 18, “Your View: Letters with Love”, in Ashburton Guardian, page 14:

(informal, offensive, neologism) Clipping of Wuhan flu.


Zoombombing

en-noun

Zoombombing (countable and uncountable, plural Zoombombings)

From Zoom, a video conferencing service, and bombing. Coined in the year 2020.

(uncountable, neologism) Unwanted disruptive intrusion by a large amount of trolls into a video conference call.

“I went in terrified about a Zoombombing,” Mr. Leitschuh said. “I'd seen the same media coverage everyone else did.” But he said: “For this use case, I wasn’t aware of a better platform.”

2021 January 14, Steven J. Birenbaum, “How to Hold a Virtual Memorial Service”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(countable, neologism) An instance of Zoombombing.


COVID toes

Blend of COVID-19 + toe. From being first observed in children who tested positive for COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2 infection).

COVID toes usually begin with the patient noticing red or purple discoloration of the toes, and in some cases the skin can become raised or develop ulcerations.

2020 January 14, “COVID Toes”, in Precision Foot and Ankle, P.A.:

Doctors identified a new symptom of COVID-19, caused by the novel coronavirus, informally dubbed “COVID toes.” The presence of purple or blue lesions on a patient’s feet and toes puzzles infectious disease experts.

2020 April 21, Adrianna Rodriguez, “What are 'COVID toes'? Doctors discover symptom of coronavirus mostly seen in kids”, in USA Today:

Also known as pernio-like, pseudo-chilblain, acute acro-ischemia, and “COVID toes,” the pattern of acral lesions is described as erythematous to purple purpuric macules, papules, and/or vesicles.

2020 June 25, Hernandez, Claudia, and Anna L. Bruckner, “Focus on “COVID toes””, in JAMA dermatology, →DOI, page 1003:

Since April 2020 there has been a reported surge in the literature of chilblain-like lesions (CLL) coinciding with the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. This chilblain-like acral pattern, mainly affecting the toes, has been referred to as “COVID toes.”

2021 April 13, Kashetsky, Nadia, Ilya M. Mukovozov, and James Bergman, “Chilblain-Like Lesions (CLL) Associated With COVID-19 (“COVID Toes”): A Systematic Review”, in Journal of Cutaneous Medicine and Surgery, →DOI:

(pathology, informal, neologism) A PIIRS (“post-inflammatory infectious response syndrome”) associated with COVID-19, affecting mostly children, showing up as reddish or bluish swollen toes or fingers, with blisters or peeling skin.

PMIS

pediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome

HCoV-NH

a virus thought associated with Kawasaki disease


AANES

w:Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria

(neologism) Abbreviation of Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria.


antifaggot

(derogatory, neologism, offensive, politics, vulgar) An antifascist.


tech bro

Of tech + bro (“a frat boy or someone that espouses the fraternity bro culture”). Attested from 2010s (see quotations below).

Fort Mason, a renovated military post on the bay, has been nicknamed “Frat Mason” for the 20-something “tech bros” — tech company salespeople, marketing employees and start-up founders — who have moved into luxury apartments there and play bocce on the great lawn.

2013 November 24, Erica Goode, Claire Cain Miller, “Backlash by the Bay”, in New York Times:

“U.S.S. Callister” inverts this idea by having its tech-bro channel his resentment into fashioning his own personal matrix.

2017 December 30, James Poniewozik, “Free Your Mind? ‘Black Mirror’ Isn’t Too Hopeful”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Are Tech Bros, as one Redditor claimed, members of a “hyper technocratic, libertarian…boys club”?

2019 October, James Ross Gardner, “Who will mourn the tech bro?”, in Seattle Met:

A term that once mocked a particular Bay Area cultural phenomenon has become an all-purpose epithet. In the process, it has lost whatever analytic value and rhetorical punch it once had. If tech bros are everywhere, then they are nowhere.

2021 January 27, Gilad Edelman, “Stop calling everyone a tech bro”, in Wired:

(informal, neologism) A hypermasculine man employed in the tech industry and stereotypically located in Silicon Valley.


neumorphism

From new + skeuomorphism. A December 19, 2019 Medium posthttps://uxdesign.cc/neumorphism-in-user-interfaces-b47cef3bf3a6?gi=d16d78e27024 by Michal Malewicz credits the name to Jason Kelley (who spelled it Neuomorphism, on 3 December 2019https://medium.com/@jason_kelley/neuomorphism-2c4cbe84caae).

Unlike its predecessor, neumorphism makes use of very mild and subtle effects, and does not try to over represent objects in nature, but create a new form that appears like a clay render […] of mostly analog elements from the old world.

2020 January 21, David Ofiare, "Neumorphism the right way — A 2020 Design Trend" on Mediumhttps://medium.com/@artofofiare/neumorphism-the-right-way-a-2020-design-trend-386e6a09040a

When you boil it down, neumorphism is a focus on how light moves in three-dimensional space.

2020 June 25, Jack Koloskus, Apple, Big Sur, and the rise of Neumorphism:

Their work for clients like Tata AIG, where their UX team designed one of the first sites based on the Neumorphism model, the #GiftThoughtFully campaign for Home Centre where they handled the content & creative aspect, video directive for Saint Gobain and helping build the brand Alyte for Mahindra Logistics, right from its brand identity to planning a pan India launch, has received great reviews from customers and industry stakeholders, both.

2020 November 24, “The Minimalist onboards over 45 new clients, brings in new hires, appraisals, and incentives to motivate employees and adapt with new normal”, in Business Insider India:

Second, the Material design as the most recent UI design trends and the Neumorphism design were compared with the method of expression based on the definition and characteristics of Neumorphism design that we investigated. In this context, we also analyzed the possibility of Neumorphism becoming the new UI design trend.

2021 February, Park, Ji-Hye, Na-Yea Oh, and Jin-Wan Park, “A study on UI design trends analysis with neumorphism design”, in The Journal of the Korea Contents Association, →DOI, Abstract:

The problem arises because of its evident accessibility issues. Because of this, Neumorphism has hardly ever been implemented in final products.

2021 May 2, Rodrigo Osornio, “Tridimensionality: skeuomorphism, flat design, and neumorphism”, in UX Collective:

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(graphical user interface, neologism) A user interface style that is characterized by flat design, combined with soft shadows and highlights.


little space

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-little space.wav

(BDSM, ABDL, neologism) The state of mind a little enters when they are comfortable engaging in ageplay.

(psychology, neologism) The state of mind a little enters when regressing, often as a coping mechanism.


tranarchist

What follows is a distillation of hours of conversation with two of these women, Justine and Zoë, founding members of the "tranarchist" affinity group that has helped jump-start a movement that has swept the nation and the world.

2011 November 9, Gina Quattrochi, “When the System Itself is the Problem”, in Gay City News, page 10:

As Justine Tunney (27), self-described "tranarchist" and founder of the main OWS website (occupywallst.org) phrased it, "I believe that the hetero-normative, cis-normative, patriarchal, state-capitalist establishment is evil and must be destroyed."

2013, Mark Bray, Translating Anarchy: The Anarchism of Occupy Wall Street, unnumbered page:

Some noted with bemused incuriosity that Tunney, an avowed anticapitalist “tranarchist” (transgender anarchist), was at one time a prominent and divisive fixture of the Occupy Wall Street movement.

2018, Corey Pein, Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley, unnumbered page:

(neologism) A transgender person who espouses anarchist views.


covid-19 party

covid-19 party (plural covid-19 parties)

(neologism) A party where people come together to spread COVID-19 between each other to attempt to acquire temporary immunity and/or to accelerate herd immunity.


cursorjacking

Blend of cursor + hijacking; compare clickjacking.

(Internet, neologism) The malicious practice of tricking a user into clicking a visual element they did not intend to click, by manipulating the cursor's apparent location.


socially distant

en-adj

socially distant (comparative more socially distant, superlative most socially distant)

more socially distant (comparative)
most socially distant (superlative)

Social distancing is the act of curtailing public interactions.
What could be more socially distant than the automobile?

2020 March 18, Andrew Clark, “Driving in the time of COVID-19”, in The Globe and Mail, Online edition, Toronto:

[headline] Should I Bankroll my New, Socially Distant Girlfriend?

2020 April 9, Philip Galanes, “Should I Bankroll my New, Socially Distant Girlfriend?”, in New York Times, page ST 6:

Macron's first trip outside France since the coronavirus pandemic highlighted the new rules of socially-distant diplomacy as the normally tactile pair posed two metres apart for photos.

2020 June 18, Guy Faulconbridge, William James, “Brexit deadline looms over day of Anglo-French solidarity”, in The Guardian:

Churches are built for their acoustics, so when Tariro told our Narrative Projects team about these socially distant choirs, we wondered: What does that sound like?

2021 May 16, Marcelle Hopkins, “Lasers, a Drone and 31 Mics: How We Created a 3-D Experience of Hearing a Choir”, in New York Times, page A2:

(neologism) Maintaining a certain distance between at least two people to contain the spread of an infectious disease.


gendervague

Someone who is gendervague cannot separate their gender identity from their neurodivergence—being autistic doesn't cause my gender identity, but it is inextricably related to how I understand and experience gender.

2016, Lydia X. Z. Brown, quoted in Finn V. Gratton, Supporting Transgender Autistic Youth and Adults: A Guide for Professionals and Families (2019), page 15

[…] Julia Feliz—a gendervague, pansexual, Afro-Boricua (Puerto Rican)—created the flag design used in this image.

2019, "Acknowledgements", in Katie Steele & Julie Nicholson, Radically Listening to Transgender Children: Creating Epistemic Justice Through Critical Reflection and Resistant Imaginations, unnumbered page

Lei Wiley-Mydske is an autistic and otherwise disabled mom, […] activist, artist, and gendervague writer from the Pacific Northwest.

2021, “Contributors”, in Emily Paige Ballou, Morénike Giwa Onaiwu, Sharon daVanport, editors, Sincerely, Your Autistic Child: What People on the Autism Spectrum Wish Their Parents Knew About Growing Up, Acceptance, and Identity, page 204:

(neologism) Having a gender identity linked to one's neurodivergence (particularly autism).


deep clean

(neologism) Any thorough cleansing, especially one conducted in order to disinfect a place that has or may have been contaminated with a disease vector such as a virus, bacteria, etc.


deep clean

en-verb

deep clean (third-person singular simple present deep cleans, present participle deep cleaning, simple past and past participle deep cleaned)

deep cleans (present singular third-person)
deep cleaning (participle present)
deep cleaned (participle past)
deep cleaned (past)


doomscrolling

From doom + scrolling, from the practice of scrolling through timelines and news feeds on a computer or mobile device.

Step 1 is to acknowledge the burden that doomscrolling creates for our health, Dr. Gazzaley said. “You have to realize you don’t want to live your life in a hamster wheel of complete news consumption,” he said.

2020 July 15, Brian X. Chen, “You’re Doomscrolling Again. Here’s How to Snap Out of It.”, in New York Times:

I assured them that while doomscrolling was a difficult online pitfall, it wasn't one they needed to fall in to^([sic]).

2020, Tanya Goodin, My Brain Has Too Many Tabs Open: How to Untangle Our Relationship with Tech, page 167:

It would be easy enough to say just stop doing it, but with everything happening in the world right now, it’s impossible to completely avoid doomscrolling.

2021 January 24, Tallie Proud, “Twitter accounts to follow to break up the doomscrolling”, in Tallie Proud, archived from the original on 2021-05-20:

But this is 2021 and after a year and a half of COVID-19, of racial and socioeconomic unrest, viewers may be tuning in for a respite from doomscrolling daily news.

2021 July 30, “Editorial: Welcome to the 2021 Pandemic Games: Thrills, spills and COVID”, in Boston Herald:

Now doomscrolling is back in ways not seen since the beginning of the Covid pandemic.

2022 March 6, James Tapper, “Obsessed? Frightened? Wakeful? War in Ukraine sparks return of doomscrolling”, in The Guardian:

(informal, neologism) The practice of continually reading Internet news about catastrophic events.


gooning

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Hired by their parents, these people bring them, usually by plane, to the wilderness program. The official name for this is transporting. The slang term is gooning, as in taken by goons.

[2016 October 20, Laura Collins-Hughes, “Therapy Becomes Theater in 'Wilderness'”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-11-29:

Within what's known as the secure transport industry, it's called "gooning." Brawny men show up under the cover of darkness and force a teenager into a vehicle, taking them against their will to a boarding school, foster home or treatment center.

2022 September 27, Jim Salter, “Rep. Ro Khanna pushes rules for 'gooning,' taking troubled kids to care”, in The Mercury News, San Jose, C.A.: Digital First Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-11-29:

Experiences like his [David Patterson's] have prompted members of the US Congress to scrutinise gooning amid a push for more state regulation over the transporting of minors from their homes to correctional institutions.

2022 October 9, Rozina Sabur, “Troubled US teenagers 'snatched' at their parents' request”, in The Telegraph, London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-11-29:

wilderness therapy
wilderness therapy#Noun

(neologism) A form of legal kidnapping in which troubled teenagers are forcibly transported to boot camps, boarding schools, wilderness therapy, or similar rehabilitation facilities, often conducted by a group of intimidating men ("goons") under cover of darkness.


phygital

/ˈfɪd͡ʒɪtl̩/

(neologism, marketing) A sales method that integrates a physical point of sale and digital tools.


antimasker

From anti- + mask + -er. Likely influenced by anti-vaxxer.

On one side of the argument was a woman named Claire Newbourne, an anti-masker, a member of a group opposed to the government regulations on Marburg.

2017, Brian Falkner, Stubborn Seed of Hope:

Every time a citizen disobeys mask rules by not wearing one, or wearing it incorrectly, they endanger essential workers who have already risked their lives to service them in restaurant, store, and many other public settings. In an odd way, anti-maskers see this as being patriotic.

2020 September 22, Hope Moses, “Protecting essential workers must be a priority”, in The Marquette Tribune, volume 105, number 5, page 11:

Beightol, who is the administrator for several Facebook pages where public schools teachers can vent, said educators fall into three categories: vocal pro-maskers, vocal anti-maskers and pro-maskers who stay out of the line of fire.

2021 August 8, Francisco Alvarado, “‘I don’t see how it can be safe’: Florida schools on frontlines of state’s mask war”, in The Guardian:

(healthcare, politics, neologism) A person who is opposed to the practice or mandate of wearing masks.