furniture poverty

People affected by furniture poverty often get caught in a cycle; they're up against a wide range of barriers to securing stable income. Compared to rent, utilities, and food, furniture just isn't a priority. But the cost of going without it is great, too: it can lead to insecurity, social exclusion and isolation. Furniture poverty is more than a state of financial hardship – there's an emotional and physical toll that comes along with it.

2018 April 11, Brian Scudamore, “Donating used furniture can turn your 'junk' into a better future for someone in need”, in The Globe and Mail, Toronto, O.N.: The Woodbridge Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-02-01:

There are no official figures for the number of people living in furniture poverty, but research done before the pandemic by the charity Turn2us suggested 4.8 million were without at least one essential household appliance such as a cooker or a fridge, and the problem is getting worse.

2022 February 20, Hilary Osborne, “Furniture poverty: the price of moving in to an empty house”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-03-16:

Chief executive Marion Kenyon said furniture poverty should be talked about in the same way as other cost-of-living issues.

2023 March 6, “Furniture poverty as key as food poverty - charity”, in BBC News, archived from the original on 2023-05-30:

(neologism) The state of being unable to afford basic items of furniture.


jalt

Coined by Israeli-American author Yochai Benkler in 2002 (see first quotation), from a shortening of jealousy + altruism.

coinage

Another form of appropriation that could affect valuation of participation is simple commercialization for private gain. The primary concern is that commercialization by some participants or even by nonparticipants will create a sucker's reward aspect to participation. This is the effect I introduced into the abstract statement of diverse motivations as the jalt factor—the effect of monetary rewards for others on the perceived value of participation.

2002 December, Yochai Benkler, “Coase's Penguin, or, Linux and The Nature of the Firm”, in Yale Law Journal, volume 112, number 3, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 440:

The role of this new built-up paid executive staff itself is of concern. This is something identified in open source projects as jalt—the jealousy altruism factor, of whether people get paid differently for participating.

2009, Andrew Lih, The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia, New York, N.Y.: Hyperion, →ISBN, page 226:

Though it is seldom discussed in that context, jalt has become one of the most powerful factors shaping the behavior of a number of the most active participants on Wikipedia. Jalt is a natural, understandable impulse. After all, if you're a pizza delivery guy or IT help desk employee who has contributed thousands of unpaid hours to Wikipedia, it's natural to get a little annoyed when Jimmy Wales gets to honeymoon on Richard Branson's private island.

2019 July 2, Robert Fernandez, “The Limits of Volunteerism and the Gatekeepers of Team Encarta”, in Wikipedia @ 20, archived from the original on 2022-12-26:

(neologism) A feeling of resentment felt by volunteers towards individuals who profit from their work.


do-ocratically

en-adv

do-ocratically (comparative more do-ocratically, superlative most do-ocratically)

more do-ocratically (comparative)
most do-ocratically (superlative)

Citizen engagement occurs do-ocratically in an environment without economic and administrative limitations to encourage creative productions that are interactive and gifted for public enjoyment.

2013 May, Kerry D. Rohrmeier, Welcome Home to Black Rock City: Urban Geography of the Burn (thesis), Reno, N.V.: University of Nevada, Reno, page i:

(technology, neologism) In the manner of a do-ocracy ("an organization in which power is held by those who do the most work").


do-ocratic

en-adj

do-ocratic (comparative more do-ocratic, superlative most do-ocratic)

more do-ocratic (comparative)
most do-ocratic (superlative)

Specifically, I propose that frictions in hacker- and makerspaces relate to competing values such as inclusivity and fairness versus "do-ocratic" tendencies. The notion of "do-ocracy" refers to the (explicit or implicit) assumption that expertise is decisive for agency within a community. In examining how hacker-/makerspaces negotiate values and rules, I shed light on tensions emerging between two main sets of values and related dynamics: efforts aimed at facilitating inclusivity and ultimately diversity are negotiated and occasionally collide with do-ocratic principles.

2022, Aagje Swinnen, Amanda Kluveld, Renée van de Vall, editors, Engaged Humanities: Rethinking Art, Culture, and Public Life, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 109:

(neologism, technology) Relating to or involving do-ocracies ("an organization in which power is held by those who do the most work").


do-ocracy

en-noun

do-ocracy (countable and uncountable, plural do-ocracies)

We'll make it a 'do-ocracy.' That is, you will be rewarded for actually achieving results.

2014, Aneesh Chopra, quoting John Halamka, Innovative State: How New Technologies Can Transform Government, New York, N.Y.: Atlantic Monthly Press, →ISBN, page 151:

"Wikipedia is a do-ocracy," said Dr. James Heilman, an emergency room doctor from British Columbia, Canada, who leads the Wikiproject Medicine that keeps close watch on the most important public health articles, like Ebola Virus Disease. "Those who do the most, do have a greater influence."

2014 October 27, Noam Cohen, “Wikipedia Emerges as Trusted Internet Source for Ebola Information”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-05-10:

The Anonymous do-ocracy was already in place, but it was radically different from the other do-ocracies of the Internet era (think Wikipedia or Linux).

2021 July 3, Quinn Norton, “How Anonymous Picks Targets, Launches Attacks, and Takes Powerful Organizations Down”, in Wired, San Francisco, C.A.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-05-10:

Communities form around software applications to trouble-shoot code, giving rise to 'do-ocracies' – systems of merit that privilege active positive contributions for the benefit of the community.

2023 January, Susan Carter, Cecily Andersen, Adrian Stagg, Lorraine Gaunt, “An exploratory study: Using adapted interactive research design and contributive research method”, in The Journal of Academic Librarianship, volume 49, number 1, Elsevier, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1:

(neologism, technology) An organization in which power and responsibility are held by those who do the most work.


Sumain

From Spanish su (“your”) + French main (“hand”).

Growing up I lived as "passing as a hearing-identified person" who was taught the English language through speech training. Upon discovery of ASL and the DEAF-WORLD, the ease of conversations changed my life. Nowadays, I'm a Sumain; "a coined word from two languages - Su - your; main - hands which as a group connect with each other using our hands."

2015 January 9, Marla Berkowitz, quotee, “A Conversation with Marla Berkowitz, ASL Senior Lecturer”, in OSU Center for Languages, Literatures and Cultures, archived from the original on 2023-06-06:

I would love, love (but doubt) to see this video go into a really, actually diverse set of cultures. I want to see how human psych and understandings can be seen through a Haudenosaunee lens, through an Inuit lens, through a Viittomakielinen lens, through a Sumain lens, through a Sḵwx̱wú7mesh lens, through... beyond language/culture (which shapes humans so deeply), also traumas inflicted I would be curious to see about.

2018 May 15, “An Open Letter of things I must say”, in Reddit, r/kurzgesagt:

There were no respondents who identified as DeafDisabled, although one participant in their "other" comment mentioned that they had an additional disability, but felt it was "a less prominent factor." Eight respondents used the "other" option to list their hearing identification; visually impaired (hearing), CODA (Children of Deaf Adults; 2 respondents), TBI [Traumatic Brain Injury] survivor, Sumain, hard of hearing and Deaf, DeafBlind disabled, not sure yet, and maybe deaf.

2019 December 27, Kimberly K. Pudans-Smith, Katrina R. Cue, Ju-Lee A. Wolsey, M. Diane Clark, “To Deaf or not to deaf: That is the Question”, in Psychology, volume 10, number 15, Irvine, C.A.: Scientific Research Publishing, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2097:

(Deaf culture, neologism, uncommon) Someone who communicates primarily using a sign language.


mangagement ring

mangagement ring (plural mangagement rings)

Most men, jewelers find, move their first ring to their right hand in lieu of the stacking that is traditional for most women. Others may simply allow the mangagement ring to play both roles and have it polished up for the big day.

2014 February 14, Samantha Zabell, “The Rise of the Man-gagement Ring”, in The Atlantic:

“As a feminist I actually quite like the idea of mangagement rings, as otherwise it's like we are property of men with the ring ‘branding’ us, while they are free to skip around appearing unengaged,” 30-year-old Helen explained to The Independent.

2017 August 30, Rachel Hosie, “Why millennial men are wearing engagement rings”, in The Independent:

(neologism) An engagement ring worn by a man.


cisgendering

Soccer and MMA, like the space of fitness practice, are rendered as terrains of masculine mastery, feminine marginality, and erasure of subjects that do not conform to the cisgendering of society.

2022, Daniel F. Silva, Embodying Modernity: Race, Gender, and Fitness Culture in Brazil, Pittsburgh, P.A.: University of Pittsburgh Press, →ISBN:

(neologism, rare) The process of making something suitable for cisgender people.


pink flag

Singletons have become 'pickier' about their potential partners following the pandemic, one dating expert has claimed - insisting they are now even more concerned about the 'pink flags' that could lead to 'red flag scenarios'.

2021 December 12, Jessica Green, “The subtle signs YOUR relationship is set to fail: Relationship expert reveals the 'less-obvious' warning signals - including watching TOO much TV and not taking photos together”, in Daily Mail, London: DMG Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-12-19:

For the most part, pink flags just become something you end up accepting, especially when you're not looking for a relationship or are happy to keep things casual enough that these things don't really bother you. Where they become an issue is when we reach the stage when it's either time to ride it out or take an exit route.

2022 March 20, Pema Bakshi, “What Are Pink Flags In Dating & Are They Deal-Breakers?”, in Refinery29, archived from the original on 2023-06-23:

She noted that this should be reciprocal in all relationships, whether between friends, family members or romantic partners. Anything that reduces a sense of emotional safety can be a pink flag.

2022 July 14, “10 'Pink Flags' To Pay Attention To In Relationships”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on 2023-03-31:

(neologism) A subtle sign of incompatibility of dating partners; a minor red flag.


delie

en-verb

delie (third-person singular simple present delies, present participle delying, simple past and past participle delied)

delies (present singular third-person)
delying (participle present)
delied (participle past)
delied (past)

Joe Biden continues to delie about his business dealings with son Hunter.

(neologism, nonstandard) to deny and lie simultaneously


Orkxit

Blend of Orkney + exit. Modelled after Brexit, Grexit, Quexit, etc.

You've heard of Brexit, maybe even Scexit - now the UK might have to prepare for Orkxit. ¶ The Orkney Islands, which lie 20 miles north of the Scottish mainland, have voted to explore "alternative governance" which could include leaving the UK and returning to its Scandic roots with Norway.

2023 July 4, Gina Davidson, “Orkney votes to explore ways to leave UK”, in LBC:

This matters because after the tragicomedies of Brexit and Grexit, the world has been enjoying the spectacle of “Orkxit”. This month it was suggested that the Orkney Islands might like to secede from Britain and become a self-governing territory of Norway.

2023 July 13, “Why the Orkney Islands are considering joining Norway”, in The Economist:

There’s a move in the islands to secede from Britain and join Norway or even Denmark — an Orkxit to follow Brexit.

2023 July 21, “Dinner Party Intel: Gray Lady blows the final whistle”, in Financial Mail:

(UK politics, neologism) The potential transfer of the Orkney Islands from the United Kingdom and Scotland to Norway, reversing its annexation by Scotland in 1472.


adronitis

Coined by American author and neologist John Koenig, creator of The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, with reference to Latin andronitis, described by him as a "hallway connecting the front part of the house with a complex inner atrium" in Ancient Roman architecture. According to Koenig, "one quirk of Roman houses" is that front rooms generally have Greek names while back rooms have Latin names, something he saw as characteristic of "your outer self and your inner self […] speaking in completely different languages."

coin

Still, he contained^([sic]) his silent streak and finally, I just hung up with a feeling of adronitis.

2019, Jonna Wahl, Bloody Bloom, unnumbered page:

The more I learn
The more different I become
I begin to to^([sic]) feel mauerbauertraurigkeit
On top of adronitis

2019, Quashon Mayes, “Chilly Log Cabin Vibes”, in Geniuses Don't Belong In The Hood, unnumbered page:

Adronitis makes me not want to communicate with people.

2019, Zaffa Khalid, Deep Thinking, page 5:

(neologism, rare) Frustration with the amount of time required to become truly familiar with someone.


occhiolism

Coined by American author and neologist John Koenig, creator of The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, from Italian occhiolino (“little eye”), the name given by inventor Galileo to a prototype microscope in the early 1600s, + -ism.

I've never been consumed by so much occhiolism, I was so small so insignificant.

2015, Johnny Close, Eco-Lonely, page 186:

Willow is a building site when I reach the top. It's barely recognisable as the place I had held a vimto-coke in one hand and an optimistic sense of occhiolism in the other merely 24 hours ago. The same people who served me several shots at the now dismantled bar are busying themselves with tearing up the carpet (there was a carpet!?) and in among them all is Tommy Fong, watching over the scene.

2015 September 29, Tom Butler-Roberts, “Tommy Fong's Final Farewell”, in York Vision, The University of York, page 11:

Increased depth in a scene, with the subject in the distance, can make a viewer feel as though the space is vast and provide a sense of occhiolism, while increased depth with the subject and environment filling up the scene can create a sense of claustrophobia.

2018, Shannon Benna, "Systems and Practices to Produce Stereoscopic Space on Screen", in Image – Action – Space: Situating the Screen in Visual Practice (eds. Luisa Feiersinger, Kathrin Friedrich, & Moritz Queisner), page 143

(neologism, rare) The awareness of the small scope of one's own perspective and the way it limits one's ability to fully understand the world.

Galileo
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
Timeline of microscope technology


kenopsia

Coined by American author and neologist John Koenig, creator of The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, from Ancient Greek κενός (kenós, “empty”) and the modern English suffix -opsia, itself from the Ancient Greek -οψία (-opsía, “sight”).

Many of the places we visited have the distinct feel of kenopsia, which is that eeriness of places left behind or once teeming with people but now quiet, save for the wind blowing through open windows.

2019, Ellen Klinkel, Nick Gerlich, A Matter of Time: Route 66 through the Lens of Change, page 5:

WHO calls it a global pandemic,
Earth's population lost in kenopsia.

2022, Uboho Bassey, “Coronavirus”, in Times and Seasons: A Collection of Poems, unnumbered page:

The other difference I noticed from '42 was the sharp drop in oyster farmhands, from hundreds to only three today. Looking around, I felt a touch of kenopsia; the canal seemed much emptier.

2022, David Moscow, John Moscow, From Scratch: Adventures in Harvesting, Hunting, Fishing, and Foraging on a Fragile Planet, unnumbered page:

(neologism, rare) The haunting quality of seeing a location typically full of people in a state of emptiness or abandonment.


liberosis

Coined by American author and neologist John Koenig, creator of The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, from Italian libero (“free”) and the modern English suffix -osis, referencing the libero position in volleyball and its ability to "move at greater liberty than other players."

I was cursed with liberosis, the desire to care less about everything. I am a skid mark on the lingerie of life; the only concern for its presence is to vanish.

2015, Johnny Close, Eco-Lonely, page 163:

“Any excuse to have a libation in this heat and indulge in the liberosis,” Francesca said joyfully.

2015, Gustaf Vonsheilds, Palm Springs Whispers, page 56:

Adults experience liberosis when life's worries make them miss the carefree days of their childhood.

2023, Jana Louise Smit, How to Kill an Earworm: And 500+ Other Psychology Facts You Need to Know, page 146:

(neologism, rare) The longing to feel a blissful childlike state of indifference and to experience life's joys without being burdened by its cares.

The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
Volleyball#Libero


monachopsis

Coined by American author and neologist John Koenig, creator of The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, from Ancient Greek μοναχός (monakhós, “single, solitary”) + ὄψις (ópsis, “view, sight”).

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My cliche teenage romance that every girl secretly craves deep down. […] He resolved my monachopsis with a warm vibe that I craved to be near.

Not being able to settle down and living on the edge send these women into monachopsis where the persistent feeling of being unbelonged and out-of-place looms over them constantly.

2020, Sharon Ee Ling Quah, Transnational Divorce: Understanding Intimacies and Inequalities from Singapore, unnumbered page

This frightful and empty sensation of feeling maladapted to your surroundings is known as monachopsis. For most people, including me on day one at my new schools, monachopsis is temporary and diminishes when the unfamiliar becomes familiar and new routines and unknown faces become norms.

2022, William Nippard, I Hate My Job: The Cure For The 9- 5 Syndrome, page 283:

(neologism, rare) The persistent sense that one is out-of-place or otherwise does not belong.


lachesism

Coined by American author and neologist John Koenig, creator of The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, with reference to the Ancient Greek goddess Lachesis, the Fate responsible for alloting the span of each mortal's life.

I'd always been fascinated by lightning and had always had an unexplainable lachesism. I'm not sure why I had this desire to be struck by disaster and survive, to be struck by lightning in fact, […]

2015, Johnny Close, Eco-Lonely, page 110:

"What if I become just another flower on the side of the road?" I looked to him, shaking uncontrollably yet strangely calmed by an underlying sense of lachesism.

In that sense, we can probably say that the Covid-19 pandemic, which put the world on hold for over a year, satisfied our collective lachesism.

2021, "Sketching", The Designing Linguist, Issue #1 (2021), page 5

(neologism, rare) The yearning for the clarity or reprioritisation afforded by surviving a disaster.

Fates
Lachesis
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chrysalism

From chrysalis (“butterfly or moth pupa”) + -ism. The thunderstorm sense was coined by Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows creator John Koenig.

suffix

Chrysalism overcame me, the feeling of amniotic tranquility you get when experiencing a thunderstorm from indoors.

2015, Johnny Close, Eco-Lonely, page 113:

The cavern was large, dark, and comfortable in the sense of a spring thunderstorm rolling above. Chrysalism, the amniotic tranquility of being indoors and safe; located a mile underground.

2020, James Qualls, A Resolution of Dreams, page 160:

But the pattering of the rain against the glass door of the balcony was so intense and unsettling that for a brief moment, I experienced chrysalism.

2021, Nishita Patil, Meet Yourself, page 12:

(neologism, rare) The sheltered tranquility of being indoors during a thunderstorm.


exulansis

Coined by American author and neologist John Koenig, creator of The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, from Latin exulāns (“exiling; exile, wanderer”) + -sis (suffix forming nouns of condition).

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I am constantly struck by overwhelming feelings of exulansis—the inability to properly articulate one's reasons and feelings—when I try to convince friends or strangers that I objectively experienced noteworthy sufferings at a young age[…]

2019 August 22, Sara Beam, Emily Dial-Driver, Rilla Askew, Juliet Evusa, Voices from the Heartland: Volume II, University of Oklahoma Press, →ISBN, page 154:

[…] This unloved giving-in to exulansis behaves as[…]

2021 March 1, Engin Yurt, From Phenomenon Labyrinths To Midnights of Zugzwangs Or Missing Apparitions in Yūgen Recordings I, Elya Yayıncılık, →ISBN, page 81:

This frustration, which is called “exulansis,” happens when you talk to someone about an important experience but then realize that they cannot relate to or understand what you went through. Most people at the receiving end of exulansis[…]

2023 April 18, Jana Louise Smit, How to Kill an Earworm: And 500+ Other Psychology Facts You Need to Know, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 149:

(neologism, rare) Resignation to stop talking about an experience, because others cannot relate to it.


girl dinner

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According to TikTok, where the trend has more than 30 million views, girl dinner is akin to an aesthetically pleasing Lunchable: an artfully arranged pile of snacks that, when consumed in high enough volume, constitutes a meal.[…]”

2023 July 8, Jessica Roy, “Is It a Meal? A Snack? No, It's 'Girl Dinner.'”, in The New York Times, retrieved 2023-07-10:

“Girl dinner can look like many things,” [Olivia Maher] says, depending on what your needs are and what you had earlier in the day, “But what matters is the feeling it evokes."[…]"

2023 July 7, Heather Martin, “What is ‘girl dinner’? New TikTok trend is courting controversy”, in Today, retrieved 2023-07-10:

Though based on my thorough sampling of the trend, cold pork pies are tragically absent from girl dinner plates.[…]"

2023 July 10, Alyx Gorman, Yvonne C Lam, “Explain it to me quickly: What is a TikTok ‘girl dinner’ and should I eat one tonight?”, in The Guardian, retrieved 2023-07-10:

TikTok dwellers will recognise picky plates as an update on last year’s “girl dinner”, another social media trend denoting what is, politely, a random assortment of snacks (to which “dregs from the salad drawer” would also apply).

2024 August 21, Charlotte Lytton, “Picking at your food like that is ruining dinner for everyone”, in The Independent, London, page 19:

Want to inject some chutzpah into your “girl dinner” for one or maybe you’re entertaining some like-minded fun-loving friends? Laetitia Rouget’s tableware features tongue-in-cheek statements like “Dodgy Business” or “Mussels from Brussels.”

2024 August 23, Mary Cate Smith, “Wish List: Eight amazing picks for our home interiors”, in Irish Examiner:

(neologism, Internet slang) A meal composed of many snacks prepared for one person, often using no dishes.


-fish

"As long as men height-fish, income-fish, marital status-fish, I will keep hood fishing!!!!" said another.

2024 August 10, Deirdre Bardolf, anonymous quotee, “What is ’hoodfishing’? The sneaky new trend singles are trying to cast a wider net in NYC”, in New York Post, New York, N.Y.: News Corp, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-09-17:

According to Jared Freid, a 39-year-old comedian and co-host of the dating podcast "U Up?," this is known as hoodfishing, a coinage — though not his own — referring to people claiming to be from the city they are dating in but really are living somewhere else entirely.

2024 August 29, Gina Cherelus, “The Irresistible Urge to Change Your Location on a Dating App”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-09-18:

(neologism) Forming terms denoting disingenuous ways by which people seek to attract attention, especially on a dating app.


Barbenheimer

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Though unions with workers in digital media or with companies that offer online shopping have invoked the idea of a digital picket line, the actors’ and writers’ unions have not called on consumers to stop watching television and movies on streaming services or to cancel their “Barbenheimer” tickets.

2023 July 19, Claire Moses, “Can I Watch ‘Barbenheimer’ Despite the Hollywood Strikes?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-07-24:

(humorous, neologism) The simultaneous theatrical release on July 21, 2023 of two blockbuster films of contrasting genres: Barbie, a fantasy comedy about the eponymous fashion doll, and Oppenheimer, a biographical thriller about physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project.


enshittify

en-verb

enshittify (third-person singular simple present enshittifies, present participle enshittifying, simple past and past participle enshittified)

enshittifies (present singular third-person)
enshittifying (participle present)
enshittified (participle past)
enshittified (past)

From en- + shittify. Coined by Canadian-British-American blogger, journalist, and science fiction author Cory Doctorow in 2022 along with enshittification.

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For quotations using this term, see Citations:enshittify.

(technology, neologism) To make an online platform worse by enshittification ("the phenomenon of online platforms gradually degrading the quality of their services, often by promoting advertisements and sponsored content, in order to increase profits").


autobesity

He said the aim was "to focus on an absurdity: auto-besity ... the inexorable growth in the weight and size of vehicles circulating in our cities, and particularly in Paris".

2023 July 11, Kim Willsher, quoting Frédéric Badina-Serpette, “Paris to charge SUV drivers higher parking fees to tackle 'auto-besity'”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-07-24:

Health authorities have waged a war on obesity for years. Now, in an effort to curtail the rise of big cars such as S.U.V.s and cut down on pollution, Paris has declared a war on "auto-besity." Its first step is to charge drivers more to park the vehicles — a move that could eventually hit car companies.

2023 July 15, Ephrat Livni, Bernhard Warner, Ravi Mattu, Michael J. de la Merced, “Why Deep-Sea Mining Is the Next Battleground in the Energy Transition”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-07-23:

I fear we are not as smart as the French. Do not be surprised if the next trend in autobesity coming from the USA is people buying tanks. A mammoth machine equipped with a big gun, just what monster SUV owners dream of.

2023 July 21, David Lovejoy, “Editorial: Tackling autobesity”, in Byron Shire Echo, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-07-24:

(neologism) The situation of cars being too big and heavy, taking too much space and causing road safety and pollution problems.


goddexx

You can also ask the moon, like any goddexx, god, or goddess, what it wants or what it would like.

2020, Sarah Faith Gottesdiener, The Moon Book: Lunar Magic to Change Your Life, unnumbered page:

Whether you pray to a god, goddess, goddexx, or not, spirituality can play a significant role in your vaginal and pelvic well-being.

2020, Taq Kaur Bhandal, Self-Care Down There: From Menstrual Cups and Moisturizers to Body Positivity and Brazilian Wax, a Guide to Your Vagina's Well-Being, page 78:

And instead of bringing shame to it, we should be bringing compassion and—goddexx forbid!—some humor to our erotic lives.

2021, Lucie Field, Trans Sex: Clinical Approaches to Trans Sexualities and Erotic Embodiments, unnumbered page:

(neologism) Alternative spelling of goddex.


instalove

These women didn’t have time to fall in love. As soon as they met a guy who was Good Enough, they pushed a little button somewhere and were imbued with InstaLove.

2007 March 23, John Blesso, “Raw Oysters and Steak Tartare”, in Sharehouse Confidential: Sex, Drugs and the Single Life Inside an Epicurean Beach House: a memoir, New York: Silk City Press, →ISBN, page 205:

We desperately wanted their relationship to develop naturally and not be a case of instalove.

2018, Piper Rayne, Birth of a Baby Daddy, unnumbered page:

I've never given much creed to the idea of instalove or soulmates, but damn if I didn't just feel something instinctual about her in the deepest part of me.

2020, Kathryn Andrews, Blue Horizons, unnumbered page:

Realizing the tuxedo kitten was an orphan like me, I scooped her up and brought her inside. It was a story of instalove.

2023, Tara Conrad, Real Life Romance: Duke and Percy, unnumbered page:

(informal, neologism) Quick or instantaneous affection.


Faucism

Blend of Fauci + fascism, referencing Dr. Anthony Fauci, one of the chief figures in the White House Coronavirus Task Force, who emphasized the urgency of pandemic countermeasures. Coined by Governor of Florida since 2019 Ron DeSantis during the COVID-19 pandemic who used the slogan "Freedom over Faucism".

coinage

This is Faucism distilled down to its very essence. For the government health bureaucrats who have given themselves sole authority over vast sectors of American life—from travel to education to entertainment to housing—it doesn't matter what the CEOs of these companies think.

2021 December 20, Robby Soave, “Against Faucism”, in Reason, Los Angeles, C.A.: Reason Foundation, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-12:

Woke capital, COVID-19 tyranny, and abortion are all topics that matter deeply to Republican primary voters, and Trump is asking his supporters to abandon their convictions and back him against a man, DeSantis, who has been correct on all of these subjects. The Florida governor refused to go along with Faucism, signed a six-week abortion ban, and is taking Disney to task.

2023 April 27, Brady Leonard, “Trump demands that you vote against your own interests”, in Washington Examiner, Washington, D.C.: MediaDC, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-06-04:

(neologism, derogatory) The belief in or support of restrictive measures, such as lockdowns and mask mandates, in order to contain the COVID-19 pandemic.

Anthony Fauci
The Independent
The New York Times
The New York Times Company
White House Coronavirus Task Force


vaxhole

Blend of vax + asshole. Emerged in February 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic.

(derogatory, neologism) A person who has been vaccinated for COVID-19 and brags about it.


vaxxhole

(derogatory, neologism) Alternative form of vaxhole


go fash, lose cash

Coined to oppose the earlier phrase get woke, go broke.

(informal, neologism, politics) Businesses who focus on catering to right-wing politics, especially extremists, are liable to lose customers.


gymfluencer

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

"I just want to help you Row-land!" as his loyal friend Janet said. Overweight, bespectacled misfit Roly suffered horrific bullying at the hands of hardnut Norman "Gripper" Stebson. He later slimmed down, took up triathlons, became an online "gymfluencer" and has written a self-help book about how to reverse Type 2 diabetes.

2019 November 21, Michael Hogan, “What kind of parents will the kids from Grange Hill make?”, in Chris Evans, editor, The Daily Telegraph, London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-01-06:

My skincare (and food) diet went out of the window in December, and as a result I'm feeling sluggish and my complexion is up in arms: dry patches, dullness, blemishes, the works. The last thing I feel like is squeezing into Lycra and standing next to smug matcha-drinking gymfluencers.

2020 January 12, Sarah Jossel, “Six beauty products to use while exercising”, in The Times, London: News UK, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-12-29:

If eyes are the window to the soul, selfies are an insight into how we want the world to see us. Are you a gymfluencer or a pastel-pink VSCO girl? Are you a bougie London literary woman or a wellness freak?

2020 February 7, Zing Tsjeng, “People Show Us Their Favourite Selfies of Themselves”, in VICE, archived from the original on 2023-06-03:

Every so often, a viral GymTok clip would make the rounds on the platform – and sometimes it's ugly. Some clips show TikTokers mock an unsuspected gym-goer for their form. Others show gymfluencers get frustrated because a person unintentionally 'ruins their video'.

2022 March 18, Becca Monaghan, “'This one absolutely disgusted me:' Man puts gym influencer on blast”, in Indy100, archived from the original on 2022-12-03:

No matter if you are a gymfluencer, a professional sports person, or just a regular bum-owner, having strong glutes will keep you in good stride.

2022 November 8, Charlotte Ganderton, Adam Semciw, Matthew King, “Glute force: why big, strong bum muscles matter for your overall health”, in Stuff, archived from the original on 2022-11-08:

The gymfluencer has previously shared clips of her doing the exercise successfully, and regularly shares workout routines with her followers on TikTok and Instagram.

2023 February 3, Elena Salvoni, “Squat a disaster! Watch as gym lover takes dramatic tumble while attempting a risky exercise with a massive weight”, in Daily Mail, London: DMG Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-02-05:

"A lot of their content has become, 'Let me get likes and attention at the expense of someone else,'" he [Joey Swoll] said of gymfluencers.

2023 February 23, Kirsten Fleming, “Bodybuilder Joey Swoll is ’standing up’ for victims of gym ’shaming’”, in New York Post, New York, N.Y.: News Corp, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-05-22:

We've had skinfluencers (dermatologists) and gymfluencers (PTs) but now there is a new breed of social-media savvy experts to follow. Enter the scentfluencers, a group of fragrance enthusiasts who are demystifying the, frankly often very wafty, world of scent.

2023 August 6, Verity Clark, “Would you wear a cauliflower-based perfume?”, in The Times, London: News UK, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-06:

(social media, neologism) An influencer who primarily creates content related to fitness or bodybuilding.


doomposting

From doom + posting; and see also doomscrolling. Apparently invented in late 2020 when the Covid pandemic seemed to determine society for months already.

(informal, neologism) The practice of continually commenting on Internet news while magnifying disagreeable outcomes.


digital mind

"A digital mind is a mind that runs on a computer."

2012, Kaj Sotala, “Advantages of artificial intelligences, uploads, and digital minds”, in Machine Intelligence Research Institute:

"I use the term digital mind to refer to an artificial entity with mental faculties."

2023 March 6, Jacy Reese Anthis, “Key Questions for Digital Minds”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):

(neologism, futurology) A synthetic mind designed to run on a computer.

"The digital mind is a shorthand designation for the ways digital computing generally and microprocessing technology specifically have altered not so much what we think but how we think and, subsequently, how we act."

2023 January 11, Brian L. Ott, “The Digital Mind: How Computers (Re)Structure Human Consciousness”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):

(neologism, psychology) A human mind, as affected by digital technology.


shis

(rare, neologism, gender-neutral) Belonging to them; their.


hurriquake

Blend of hurricane + earthquake. First attested in 1999 as a nonce word.

The year of the hurriquake?

1999 September 30, Old Curmudgeon, “1999 year of the Quake? Or Hurricane?”, in alt.obituaries (Usenet):

2011 August 30, Jason Samenow, “Hurriquake: Footprint of Hurricane Irene and earthquake onslaught in Washington, D.C. region”, in The Washington Post

HURRIQUAKE 2011 ¶ The week of August 22, 2011 may go down in weather history as one of the strangest in the Washington, DC area : On Tuesday, August 23, our area was hit with a magnitude 5.8 earthquake. […] ¶ […] The following Saturday night, Hurricane Irene passed just east of the area.

2011 November 16, ARRL Web site, “The ARES E-Letter for November 16, 2011”, in rec.radio.info (Usenet):

Push notifications began to warn Southern California residents of the risk of flash flooding just a few hours before alerts about the earthquake arrived. Memes began to circulate instantly, as well as a T-shirt that read: “I Survived Hurriquake Hilary.”

2023 August 22, Laura J. Nelson, “What happened when a ‘hurriquake’ struck Ojai? Little damage, plenty of weird vibes”, in Los Angeles Times:

"Like most of my peers, I did not expect a 'hurriquake' to start off the year," said senior Peter King of Lenexa, Kansas.

2023 August 24, Gina Christian, “'There's no knocking down God': Catholic college students weather 'hurriquake' with faith”, in Detroit Catholic:

(neologism) An incidence of a hurricane and an earthquake occurring in quick succession.


MrBeastification

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From MrBeast (“an American YouTube personality”) + -ification. Coined on 30 July 2022 by YouTuber Orr "Pinely" Piamenta.

suffix

YouTube is knee-deep in "MrBeastification."

2022 September 6, dannymcmahon, Twitter:

But I think specifically with MrBeastification, it was really the first time where a thumbnail style and a format became oversaturated on the platform.

2022 December 13, “Year in Review: Analyzing YouTube's Top 10 moments of 2022”, in The Colin and Samir Show:

dream dropping his 45 minute vlog during the peak mrbeastification of youtube

I don’t support the mrbeastification of any YouTubers videos. Videos that are around 20-30 minutes will always be better than these short videos people are pumping out now

the mrbeastification of karl jacobs has started

Due to this MrBeastification of content, there’s this very heavy desire for people to really get caught up in the stats.

2023 December 20, Vaibhav Singh Tomar, quoting Anthony Padilla, ““Beastification of Content”: Smosh Creators Talk About the Impact of MrBeast on the Creator Community”, in MSN:

(Internet slang, neologism) On the video-sharing website YouTube, the trend of videos having increasingly shorter runtimes, larger budgets, faster pacing, louder audio and attention-grabbing editing styles and oversaturated thumbnails for greater viewer retention, especially through replicating the ideas and format of American YouTuber MrBeast.


whorenalist

(neologism, derogatory) A reporter or journalist whose viewpoints change frequently.


heutagogy

From Ancient Greek εὑρίσκω (heurískō, “I find, discover”) + -agogy.

der

(education, neologism) The study of self-determined learning.


Karenism

(neologism, derogatory) A quality, expression or mannerism of being a Karen (“a middle-aged white woman exhibiting a sense of entitlement or white privilege”).


m-spec

From m (from multisexual) + spec, a clipping of spectrum. Probably modelled on the slightly earlier a-spec (“on the asexual spectrum”).

For quotations using this term, see Citations:m-spec.

(neologism) On, or relating to, the multisexual spectrum (bisexual, pansexual, etc).


cheug

Yet, to the majority of my fellow millennial friends, the cheug life seems an unknown path.

2021 May 10, Mary Frances Knapp, “The Three Tiers of Cheuginess, Explained”, in Vice:

(Internet slang, neologism) A person who is cheugy.


cheuginess

However, if you’re still unsure about what counts as cheugy and what doesn’t, allow us to explain. Here are fashion, beauty and lifestyle examples of cheuginess.

2021 August 6, Therese Marie Lim, “You’re Probably Cheugy. Here’s What That Means”, in TheBeauLife:

(Internet slang, neologism) The state of being cheugy.


koinophobia

Coined by American author and neologist John Koenig, creator of The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, from Ancient Greek κοινός (koinós, “common, general”) and the modern English suffix -phobia, itself from the Ancient Greek -φοβία (-phobía, “fear”).

(neologism, rare) The fear of having lived an ordinary life.


vibe shift

Coined in a Substack post in June 2021 by trend forecaster Sean Monahan.

[Sean Monahan] thinks the new vibe shift could be the return of early-aughts indie sleaze.

2022 February 16, Allison P. Davis, “A Vibe Shift Is Coming – Will any of us survive it?”, in New York, →ISSN:

(slang, neologism) A major change in the current zeitgeist.


basorexia

From Latin bāsium (“kiss”) + ὄρεξις (órexis, “appetite”). The term is not recorded in other major dictionaries and is likely a neologism.

Miles's fingers pressed into the small of my back. "Basorexia," he mumbled.

2015, Greenwillow Books, Made You Up, New York, N.Y.: Greenwillow Books, →ISBN, page 273:

Savannah turned her attention back to Emma, pressing her forehead against the seat only a few inches from Emma's forehead, just like Oliver was doing to Caroline. "Looks like they're having a bad case of basorexia."

2016, Lindsey Rosin, Cherry, London: Hot Key Books, →ISBN, page 182:

'You don't know everything, Lux,' he says. 'Anyway, right now I've got a serious case of basorexia that I'm hoping you can assist me with.'

2017, Lydia Ruffles, The Taste of Blue Light, London: Hodder Children's Books, →ISBN, page 156:

Just beware of basorexia — the sudden urge to kiss someone.

2017, How Your Brain Works: Inside the Most Complicated Object in the Universe, London: John Murray Learning, →ISBN, page 85:

(neologism, rare) An overwhelming urge to be kissed.


apodyopsis

From Ancient Greek ἀποδύω (apodúō, “strip off, undress”) + ὄψις (ópsis, “sight”). The term is not recorded in other major dictionaries and is likely a neologism.

Deirdre is also a very attractive woman with nicely large breasts and a nicely large butt. She has long brown hair that she sometimes colors a lovely auburn and green eyes. She is sexy woman in a pretty way. I often wish that her style of dress would lend itself more to apodyopsis.

2006 April 3, Esu Migabe, “{ASSM} {REVIEW} Write Club Duel”, in alt.sex.stories (Usenet):

He sauntered over to her. He had a pot-belly and piggy eyes and clearly had had enough of performing apodyopsis, wanting more. "You turning tricks?" He asked in a regional accent and Sarah screwed up her face.

2012 May 27, John D, “{ASSM} Growing Pains: Broken Promises (MF, teen, exhib, flirt, f-solo, toys)”, in alt.sex.stories (Usenet):

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The cosmos is granting you a poetic license to practice the art of apodyopsis with great relish. You know what apodyopsis is, right? It refers to the act of envisioning people naked — mentally undressing them so as to picture them in their raw state. So, yes, by all means, Pisces, enjoy this creative use of your imagination without apology.

2013 September 26, Rob Brezsny, “Free Will Astrology”, in Eugene Weekly, volume XXXII, number 37 (syndicated column), Eugene, O.R.: What's Happening Inc., →OCLC, page 34:

She had been naked before him before plenty of times when he rehearsed apodyopsis, but her body was even more stunning live amd^([sic]) not trapped in his imagination.

2014, Ryan Patrick Sullivan, Mrs. O'Leary's Cow, Bloomington, I.N.: Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, pages 210–211:

Our fulfillment in life lies within those dark moments. It is like an act of apodyopsis, one of those mentally stimulating realities of seduction.

2015, Victor Counted, From A Weakspot To A Hotshot: Life Changing Insights on How to Lead & Live a Complete Life!, Cape Town: Hubb Publishing, →ISBN, page 221:

(neologism, rare) The act of gazing at a person and imagining them naked; a mental undressing.


countryhuman

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Compound of country + human, by analogy with countryball.

countryhumans fucking sucks but hey at least this new generation of weebs is gonna be real educated on world history

18h of a man reading the ego and his own while I draw cursed Jreg countryhumans is the peak of my existence

i swear when i first saw an image of ruv from that fnf mod i thought he was a countryhuman or something

I swear I left the countryhuman fandom months ago but my first thoughts were people drawing america

That is so cute. Finally a Russia countryhuman that is actually nice to Ukraine

2023 October 11, sheinaragners, Twitter:

(Internet slang, neologism, fandom slang) Artwork of countries personified as humans with spherical heads: often their heads or bodies are coloured in said country's national flag.


network state

Coined by Balaji Srinivasan in The Network State (2022).

(neologism) A hypothetical community of common interest on the Internet that digitally crowdfunds physical territory around the world, eventually becoming large enough to be legally recognized as a sovereign entity.


vibecession

Blend of vibe (“an atmosphere or aura”) + recession. Coined by content creator Kyla Scanlon in a June 2022 article.

blend

The concept of a vibecession may feel like a cop-out. But it’s a good starting point for understanding where we’re really at.

2022 August 13, Kevin T. Dugan, “Are We in a Recession or a Vibecession?”, in Intelligencer, New York, N.Y.: New York Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-10-03:

So, this is my favorite theory: The vibecession prevented the real recession. In medicine, weaker versions of a virus, like the flu, inoculate people against the real thing. By analogy, Fed Chair Jerome Powell and his melancholy minions essentially administered an injection of mostly safe gloom into the economic bloodstream, which seems to have triggered just the right level of macroeconomic immune response to reduce inflation without causing a downturn.

2023 August 3, Derek Thompson, “How the Recession Doomers Got the U.S. Economy So Wrong”, in The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-10-12:

Americans are gloomy about the state of the economy. Since the covid-19 pandemic began, consumer sentiment has been in the doldrums, hitting its lowest level ever in June 2022. Such negativity has prompted claims that the country is suffering a "vibecession"—although the market appears healthy, good vibes are lacking.

2023 September 7, “The pandemic has broken a closely followed survey of sentiment”, in The Economist, London: The Economist Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-11-10:

"I think people have gotten angrier," she said. "I think we're actually in a worse vibecession now."

2023 November 17, Jeanna Smialek, Jim Tankersley, quoting Kyla Scanlon, “Biden Faces Economic Challenges as Cost-of-Living Despair Floods TikTok”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-12-05:

(neologism) A general state of societal pessimism about the economy.


climate criminal

en-noun

climate criminal (plural climate criminals)

There's no prison (yet) for climate criminals, but if there was, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro would have a spider-infested cell all to himself.

2021 June 9, Jeff Goodell, “What to Do About Jair Bolsonaro, the World’s Most Dangerous Climate Denier”, in Rolling Stone, New York, N.Y.: Penske Media Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-12-05:

(neologism, derogatory) Someone whose actions contribute significantly to climate change.


Swiftonomics

From Taylor Swift + -onomics. Coined by reporter Augusta Saraiva in a 2022 article, although isolated use exists earlier (see quotations below).

Swiftonomics: How Taylor Swift is Destroying the Music Business

[2013 February 13, stu, “(post title)”, in thiswontendwell.com, archived from the original on 2013-06-03:

Skyrocketing demand, limited supply, price gouging and monopoly accusations. And a customer willing to pay almost anything. ¶ Welcome to Swiftonomics.

2022 November 23, Augusta Saraiva, “Welcome to 'Swiftonomics': What Taylor Swift Reveals About the US Economy”, in Bloomberg, New York, N.Y.: Bloomberg L.P., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-05-19:

In Toronto, where the singer-songwriter will perform six shows at the Rogers Centre in November 2024, cultural and tourism experts say Swift could provide a much-needed boon to the city and a hospitality sector still recovering from the pandemic. But the "Swiftonomics," as the Swift-induced economic boost has been dubbed, could also bring some eye-watering price increases — and accusations of price gouging — for locals and tourists alike.

2023 August 9, Joshua Chong, “'Swiftonomics': Here's how Taylor Swift's Toronto concerts will impact the local economy”, in Toronto Star, Toronto, Ont.: Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-12:

Others concern themselves with Swiftonomics: where Taylor steps, businesses grow and bloom.

2023 September 30, Martha Gill, “When Taylor Swift reaps country-sized riches, other artists are squeezed out”, in The Observer, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-11-24:

(neologism) The boost to local businesses caused by Taylor Swift concerts.


Fanum tax

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After a habit of the Twitch video game streamer Roberto "Fanum" Gonzalez.

Pat says some of the lyrics in the slang parody song on TikTok, such as “You're so skibidi; You're so Fanum tax” – don't make a lot of sense. “It's just a mash-up of really cringey catchphrases into one song.” […] Fanum tax is a gag referring to YouTube creator Fanum, who “taxes” people by stealing their food.

[2023 November 19, “Your guide to Generation Alpha slang: Bruh, What's a Fanum Tax?”, in Sun-Herald, Sydney, page 14:

Skibidi Toilet, Fanum tax, the rizzler — I won't debase myself by pretending to know what these memes are, or what their appeal is, but I know that zoomers seem to love them. Or, at any rate, I can verify that they love using them to confuse and alienate middle-aged millennials like me.

[2023 December 31, Max Read, “The Year Millennials Aged Out of the Internet”, in New York Times, page 6:

(Internet slang, humorous, neologism) The taking of a portion of food from a friend without asking first.


glass child

On the other hand, TikTok users are sharing their guilt after learning their siblings were the glass child because of them.

2023 March 23, Georgia Mooney, “Young people on TikTok are sharing what it means to be a glass child and their experiences”, in The Tab, archived from the original on 2023-05-29:

Missud said the pressure that glass children put on themselves to "keep the peace, be overly self-sufficient and remain the unproblematic 'golden child'" can be extremely challenging to unlearn.

2023 September 30, Soo Kim, “I Was A 'Glass Child'—It Made Me an Anxious Adult”, in Newsweek, New York, N.Y.: Newsweek Publishing LLC, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-12-17:

(neologism) A child who feels "invisible" to their parents due to having a sibling with a serious health condition or disability who occupies a disproportionate amount of their parents' attention.


de-Google

en-verb

de-Google (third-person singular simple present de-Googles, present participle de-Googling, simple past and past participle de-Googled)

de-Googles (present singular third-person)
de-Googling (participle present)
de-Googled (participle past)
de-Googled (past)

Murena is in the business of deGoogling Android smartphones in the name of privacy.

2023 September 5, Natasha Lomas, “A closer look at e/OS: Murena's privacy-first 'deGoogled' Android alternative”, in TechCrunch, archived from the original on 2023-09-06:

(intransitive, transitive, technology, neologism) To remove all Google products and software from (something).


de-Googled

I bought a de-Googled smartphone so Google doesn't have access to all my data.

And some things still are extremely difficult, like removing Google services from my Android devices. To that end, I had originally purchased a OnePlus 3T several years ago with the intention of installing the de-Googled LineageOS variant of Android on it, but perhaps due to a lack of confidence in not bricking the $400 device during the installation procedure I could never quite bring myself to wipe the phone clean of its factory-installed operating system.

2021 September 2, Bryan Cockfield, “Pining For A De-Googled Smartphone”, in Hackaday, archived from the original on 2023-09-23:

The /e/ Foundation's de-Googled version of Android 10 has reached the market in a range of smartphones aimed at the privacy-conscious.

2022 June 2, Liam Proven, “Murena and /e/ Foundation launch privacy-centric smartphones”, in The Register, archived from the original on 2023-09-26:

Murena can even sell you a deGoogled (Google) Pixel which comes purged of the usual Google services — with no Play Store, Chrome browser, Google Maps etc — and running its alternative /e/OS, rather than mainstream Android.

(technology, neologism) That has had all Google products and software removed.


Canadian healthcare

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From Canadian + healthcare. In reference to the promotion and promulgation of euthanasia in Canadian medicine.

(euphemistic, neologism, nonstandard, Internet slang) Suicide.


cheapfake

Compound of cheap + fake, modelled after deepfake.

"Cheapfakes" rely on free software that allows manipulation through easy conventional editing techniques like speeding, slowing, and cutting, as well as nontechnical manipulations like restaging or recontextualizing existing footage that are already causing problems.

2019 June 12, Joan Donovan, Britt Paris, “Beware the Cheapfakes”, in Slate, New York, N.Y.: The Slate Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-09-19:

Now that global superpowers are openly sharing cheapfakes on social media, what's to stop them (or any other actor) from deploying more sophisticated visual disinformation as it emerges?

2020 December 22, Nina Schick, “Don't underestimate the cheapfake”, in MIT Technology Review, Cambridge, M.A.: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-06-04:

Aciman also noted that "cheapfakes" and other manipulated media may still be removed if it violates the platform's other policies around, say, misinformation or hate speech.

2023 December 18, Vittoria Elliott, “Worried About Political Deepfakes? Beware the Spread of ’Cheapfakes’”, in Wired, San Francisco, C.A.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-12-27:

(neologism, technology) A fake or misleading piece of media (such as a video clip or image) created using conventional methods, as opposed to AI deep learning algorithms.


shallowfake

Compound of shallow + fake, modelled after deepfake. Coined by AI and human rights researcher Sam Gregory.

coinage

The technology industry has a unique opportunity to tackle "deepfakes"—the problem of fake audio and video created using artificial intelligence—before they become a widespread problem, according to human rights campaigner Sam Gregory. ¶ But, he warns, major companies are still a very long way from tackling the pervasive and more damaging issue of cruder "shallowfake" misinformation.

2019 March 25, Bobbie Johnson, “Deepfakes are solvable—but don't forget that "shallowfakes" are already pervasive”, in MIT Technology Review, Cambridge, M.A.: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-12-04:

Facebook last week banned deepfake videos that are likely to mislead viewers into thinking someone "said words that they did not actually say", in the run-up to the 2020 US election. However, the policy covers only misinformation produced using AI, meaning "shallowfakes" (see below) are still allowed on the platform.

2020 January 13, Ian Sample, “What are deepfakes – and how can you spot them?”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-12-25:

Hundreds of articles have focused on these and hypothetical deepfake scenarios and what they mean for the future of video and trust. But despite all this attention, shallowfakes — videos shared with misleading contexts or small edits — are far more widespread and easier to produce.

2022 August 26, Sam Gregory, “Shallowfakes are rampant: Tools to spot them must be equally accessible”, in The Hill, Washington, D.C.: Nexstar Media Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-23:

(neologism, technology) A misleading or slightly edited piece of media (such as a video clip or image) created using conventional methods, as opposed to AI deep learning algorithms.


morning bean

Coined by Reddit user u/skeyer in 2018 (see quotation below).

I've always called it morning bean

[2018 June 10, u/skeyer, “TIL: The female version of morning wood (or morning glory in Australian,) is "nocturnal clitoral tumescence."”, in Reddit, r/todayilearned, archived from the original on 2023-12-29:

It can be confusing for women, and the more we understand our bodies, the more reassuring it is that what we're experiencing on a day-to-day basis is completely healthy and normal. It's just your morning bean saying hello.

2018 June 28, Sophie Aubrey, “What you didn't know about what happens to your vagina when you sleep.”, in Mamamia, archived from the original on 2023-11-01:

Apparently women can get 'morning bean'.

2023 May 12, Sarah-Louise Kelly, “Yes Really – Women Get Morning Wood Too”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on 2023-12-21:

As opposed to the penis, most of the clitoris is internal – it's about four inches long on average – so most of the morning bean is not visible.

2023 May 23, Jade Biggs, quoting Karan Raj, “What is 'morning bean'? TikTok doctor explains why you might wake up with it...”, in Cosmopolitan, New York, N.Y.: Hearst Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-12-26:

I was never aware of having morning bean before so if it's happening now, I am not aware

2023 November 7, u/yammymaam, “Female members, do you still experience nocturnal clitoral tumescence?”, in Reddit, r/PSSD, archived from the original on 2023-12-29:

(neologism) A spontaneous swelling of the clitoris during sleep or upon waking up.


Build, Build, Build

People would often ask - what is Build, Build, Build? it Is a springboard, a chance to turn a dream of connecting Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao into a reality. It means connecting 81 provinces, 146 cities, and 1,489 municipalities.

2021 March 26, Anna Mae Yu Lamentillo, “10 things to know about the plan to connect Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao”, in Manila Bulletin:

In the past six years, the Filipino people have seen and experienced the impact of the Philippines' Golden Age of Infrastructure. The Build, Build, Build program of the government resulted in the creation of hundreds of ports, thousands of roads and bridges, and millions of jobs. As the country welcomes a new administration, it is important to keep the momentum going by uniting behind this advocacy and bringing it to new heights not only for us but also for the generations to come.

2022 July 14, Mark Villar, “Bill proposes 30-year timeline for infrastructure projects”, in Business World:

(Philippines, neologism) Any of the various infrastructure policies and programs in the Philippines implemented during the Administration of Rodrigo Duterte.


vlogpology

Blend of vlog + apology. Popularised in a January 2020 study of YouTuber apology videos by data visualisation website The Pudding, but attested earlier (see quotations).

fucking RUINED this guy myers needs a vlogpology without hte^([sic]) mask ...SHOW YOURSELF MYERS !

And this is what he was trying to do. A vlog apology. Vlogpology. 👌

vlogpology (noun): when a famous YouTuber becomes embroiled in a controversy, makes headlines, and releases an apology video.

2020 January 20, Arjun Kakkar, Russell Samora, “The Aftermath of a YouTube Apology”, in The Pudding:

My findings also show that vlogpologies are often created when the vlogger is under extreme duress and may be uncomfortable with being told to apologise, which can result in non-apologetic language and seem insincere.

2022 November 20, Bella Sampson, I'm Sorry You(Tube) Feel That Way: An Introduction to the YouTube Vlogpology Genre (Thesis), Auckland University of Technology, page 2:

(derogatory, neologism, very rare) An apology video; a video, typically uploaded to video-sharing service YouTube, in which an Internet celebrity/influencer apologises for, or addresses, public backlash, especially in an insincere manner.


Russophrenia

This is classic Russophrenia, believing that Russia is about to threaten the world while on fiscal life-support.

2015 June 30, Bryan MacDonald, “Russophrenia - an illness in need of a cure”, in RT:

In one astute observation, Western media exhibit a “Russophrenia” – “a condition where the sufferer believes Russia is both about to collapse, and take over the world.”

2018 July 18, Mikhail Molchanov, quoting Bryan MacDonald, “The Trump-Putin summit: Russophrenia explained”, in Asia Times:

In some psychiatric sense it is very close to the more specific Russophrenia phenomenon, where Russia is simultaneously about to collapse and about to overtake the US, and the combined West.

2019 April 9, Bill Totten, “Has the US Lost Its Military Supremacy Over Russia?”, in BillTottenWeblog (Google Groups):

The Russian FIMI ecosystem produced and distributed satirical videos attacking Western values and exposing the purported reasons why Russia is superior to Western democracies. The European External Action Service (EEAS) Data team detected this new trend, including a video highlighting the Western “Russophrenia” and supposed attempts to cancel Russian culture, an advertisement inviting EU citizens to move to Russia, and commercial videos mocking EU citizens on the energy crisis.

2022, Global Affairs Canada, G7 Rapid Response Mechanism Annual Report 2022, page 10:

(neologism, political science, geopolitics, derogatory) The belief or idea that Russia is simultaneously about to collapse, and also take over the world.


furspeech

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Furgot (verb): Slang alteration of the word, "forgot". This is an example of Furspeech (q.v.)

2000 October 7, Wanderer, “Furry dictionary-need contributions :-)”, in alt.fan.furry (Usenet):

When you're a Newfur looking up meanings to furspeech

2015 September 18, CoonyoteCrook, Twitter:

Furspeech itself is a constructed language, meaning that its phonology, grammar and vocabulary were invented as works of fiction as opposed to emanating naturally. While this type of language isn't typically used throughout everyday life, it has become increasingly popular through different online communities — in this case, the furry fandom.

2021 July 23, Stella Kotik, “Furspeech: The 'purrfect' constructed language of furries”, in The Daily Californian, archived from the original on 2021-07-23:

(furry fandom, neologism, uncommon) Slang used by the furry subculture.


cryofacial

Supposedly, these cryofacial products can eliminate puffiness and redness, minimize pores, stimulate circulation and oxygenate the skin. Some TikTokers have even claimed that certain frozen beauty pops cleared their stubborn acne.

2022 April 20, “Are Cryofacial Tools Safe To Use At Home?”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on 2023-12-18:

We have neuromodulators and fillers and cryofacials. Basically, nothing our Renaissance cousins did in the name of beauty would shock anyone on TikTok.

2024 January 2, Marisa Meltzer, “Book Review: ’How to Be a Renaissance Woman,’ by Jill Burke”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-01-06:

(neologism) A facial skin treatment in which a person's skin is rapidly cooled using liquid nitrogen.


controligarch

Blend of control + oligarch, coined by Seamus Bruner in 2023.

“It should come as no surprise that while the peasants are expected to eat fermented fungi, lab-grown meats and maggot milkshakes, the Controligarchs — with their private chefs — have no intention of doing the same,” Bruner writes.

2023 December 9, Lee Harding, “Book calls farmland buyer Bill Gates 'Controligarch'”, in Western Standard:

Bruner asks if the current global financial system, which is built upon an exchange network of national currencies backed by their respective governments, seems to work well. Why would one central entity need to control currency? The reason, as with many other Controligarch schemes, is that a centralised digital currency also is put forward as the solution to many nonfinancial problems— from climate change to cyberattacks to the rise of so-called disinformation.

2024 April 22, “BOOK REVIEW: Controligarchs”, in TheGeoPolity:

(economics, neologism) An oligarch who has a desire to control people's individual lives.


sleepunder

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From sleepover, with "over" replaced with its antonym "under".

In many households, it's lights out for the traditional sleepover. Instead, more families are opting for sleepunders - a surprisingly controversial phenomenon that has raised the eyebrows of some parenting experts even as sleep specialists rejoice.

2013 December 17, Lini S. Kadaba, “Is the sleepunder taking the party out of slumber party?”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia, P.A.: The Philadelphia Inquirer, LLC, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-12-28:

And perhaps no scenario tests a parent's vigilance more than the prospect of allowing their child to sleep at another family's home. For some parents, one solution to this is the "sleepunder" — also called a "lateover" — where children come to play, but they don't stay to sleep.

2024 January 11, Erin Sagen, “Sleepunders Are a Solution for Parents Who Are Anxious About Sleepovers”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-01-17:

The Texas-based company describes a sleepunder as a 'faux sleepover - where you do all the same 'really fun' activities that you would do at a typical sleepover, except when it's time to go to sleep everyone goes home.

2024 January 12, Martha Williams, “Death of the slumber party: Anxious parents are collecting children from 'sleepunders' at 2am or even staying with them to ensure they're safe”, in Daily Mail, London: DMG Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-01-12:

(neologism) A kind of playdate, similar to a sleepover, in which a child stays at their friend's house until relatively late and then returns home.


lateover

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From sleepover, with "sleep" replaced with "late". Equivalent to late + over.

Irrespective, if you are not comfortable with sending your child for a sleepover but do not want your child to miss out on all the fun and bonding, you can always allow them for what is a 'lateover', a not-so-new concept, where you allow your child to join the party but only up till 10pm or 11pm and then pick them up. ¶ Sleepovers/lateovers can be a lot of fun. They will give your child memories that will last a lifetime – cherished moments, which they will be able to recollect and smile at later in life.

2017 January 24, Samina Hossain, “The dilemma of sleepovers”, in The Daily Star, archived from the original on 2017-05-18:


oversharent

en-verb

oversharent (third-person singular simple present oversharents, present participle oversharenting, simple past and past participle oversharented)

oversharents (present singular third-person)
oversharenting (participle present)
oversharented (participle past)
oversharented (past)

Blend of overshare + parent. Equivalent to over- + sharent.

If you post pictures of your kids online every day, you might be oversharenting.

Readers, do you find yourself "oversharenting"? What limits do you set on your children's lives online.

2012 May 16, “Oversharenting: Parents Juggle Their Kids’ Lives Online”, in The Wall Street Journal, New York, N.Y.: Dow Jones & Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-02-04:

Whether you parent, rear your children, or (horror of horrors) oversharent, you are probably doing just fine.

2015 May 10, Britt Peterson, “The effects of 'parenting' on child-rearing”, in The Boston Globe, Boston, M.A.: Boston Globe Media Partners, LLC, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-28:

Does it matter? Am I oversharenting?

2017 May 4, Stacey Steinberg, “Growing up under the watchful eyes of his mother’s newsfeed”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-01-18:

But as the digital age has taken over from the family scrapbooks, and more of our lives are lived online, what digital legacy are you leaving your kids? Are you guilty of what's been called "oversharenting"?

2023 March 15, Amy Bell, “'Oversharenting': Are you giving away too much about your kids online?”, in CBC News, archived from the original on 2023-03-17:

(neologism) To overdocument one's child's upbringing on social media; to sharent excessively.


cryocrastinate

cryocrastinate (third-person singular simple present cryocrastinates, present participle cryocrastinating, simple past and past participle cryocrastinated)

cryocrastinates (present singular third-person)
cryocrastinating (participle present)
cryocrastinated (participle past)
cryocrastinated (past)

Longterm discounts help to some extent but do nothing to encourage younger members to join rather than to cryocrastinate.

2020, Michael Benjamin, Jerry D. Leaf, Max More, R. Michael Perry, “How to Sustain an Organization for Over a Century”, in Cryonics, volume 41, number 3, page 14:

[…] so in cryonics when you delay signing up for your membership we call it 'cryocrastinate.'

2022 April 19, Peter Ward, quoting Patrick Harris, “How To Pay For a Second Life” (chapter 4), in The Price of Immortality, United Kingdom: Melville House Publishing, →ISBN, page 70:

Why do people cryocrastinate? The most common explanation I’ve heard from intelligent people for not getting cryonics is that the money is better spent on some altruistic cause.

2009 July 22, AndrewH, “An observation on cryocrastination”, in lesswrong.com, archived from the original on 2024-01-21:

(intransitive, neologism) To put off making arrangements of having one's body cryopreserved upon old age.


phytanthrope

From phyto- (“pertaining to plants”) + -anthrope (“human”), by analogy with therianthrope (“someone with an intense spiritual or psychological identification as a non-human animal”).

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2020 August 13, u/sixbilliongods, “Phytanthrope/Plantkin pride flags!”, in r/otherkin, Reddit:

Yeah! There's phytanthrope/plantkin for people who feel they're plants, and objects usually just fall under objectkin!

Darahagh, the oak phytanthrope, in our system has been revamping his personal essay about his experiences. He's not done yet but its already over 14,000 words long. Good grief dude.

2022 February 11, HouseofChimeras, Twitter:

Phytanthropy is really interesting to me- how did you figure out you're a phytanthrope, if I may ask? I know a lot of therianthropes and otherkin figure it out from feelings and instincts, but does that apply to phytanthropy?

2023 October 5, u/zhenyuanlong, r/alterhuman, Reddit:

(neologism) Synonym of plantkin (“a type of otherkin that identifies as a plant”).


schwifty

en-adv

schwifty (comparative more schwifty, superlative most schwifty)

more schwifty (comparative)
most schwifty (superlative)

(Internet slang, fandom slang neologism) To lose all inhibition while having fun; to go wild, to go crazy.


millenopause

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some uterine fuckery lately (apparently a month now is 44 days long, who knew) made me think about some things, and I realized: ¶ when we all hit millenopause without ever having been culturally considered adults? things are gonna get weird.

2020 January 5, @slip_stitch, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-02-03:

The Millennial generation includes women born between 1981 and 2000 (depending upon which source you reference). That means the oldest Millennials are entering their 40s, well within the time frame when perimenopause can begin. It's time to reckon with "Millenopause."

2022 January 10, Angela Rosoff, “Millenopause – it's a thing”, in The C Word Mag, archived from the original on 2022-01-10:

Millennials have grown up. We've hit middle age, started to show signs of aging — even of aging out of the internet and into something called "millenopause." We now have to work harder than ever to stay culturally relevant, as Gen Z and (gasp) Gen Alpha seize the attention of marketing departments and the media.

2024 January 28, Joseph Bernstein, “Why Millennials Are Declaring Themselves Obsolete”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-01-31:

What gives us away — our hemlines, our hairstyles, our slang? Whatever it is, there is nothing more embarrassing, apparently, than a millennial. Especially a geriatric millennial, at the upper end of the 28-43 age bracket, fast approaching middle age, our "millenopause".

2024 January 29, Charlie Gowans-Eglinton, “Help! I am about to reach my ’millenopause’”, in The Times, London: News UK, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-01-29:

To go through menopause is to confront the truth that our bodies are machines that run on their own, finite timeline: once you've stopped menstruating, it's just a matter of time before you also stop breathing. To go through millenopause, on the other hand, is to hold your mortality at a cute, narrative remove. Menopause is existential dread; millenopause is a viral hashtag and a video of you taking your HRT out of a pastel-coloured subscription box.

2024 February 1, Kat Rosenfield, “Millennials are rebranding the menopause”, in UnHerd, archived from the original on 2024-02-01:

(neologism) Menopause or perimenopause, as experienced by those in the millennial generation (those born from the early 1980s to the mid 1990s).


-ussification

From -ussy (suffix denoting a type of pussy) + -fication.

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Although it has mostly died out by now, -ussification was once considered the peak of comedy.

In certain pockets of the internet, the -ussification of language is inescapable. Riffing off "bussy' (a portmanteau of "boy" and "pussy"), now everything is a cat or a cavity. A calzone is a pizzussy. A wine bottle has a winussy. Princess Fiona has an ogussy.

2022 January 26, Bethy Squires, “We Asked Linguists Why People Are Adding -Ussy to Every Word”, in Vulture, archived from the original on 2024-02-02:

Though "-ussy" took off as a meme in 2022, its origins date way further back in historussy. "Bussy" — a portmanteau of "boy pussy" — has been a queer slang term for years, showing up on Urban Dictionary as early as 2004. In 2017, -ussified words had a big moment thanks to Ditty videos. This year, the -ussification came to TikTok, particularly in the comment section before becoming all but inescapable all across the internussy. Even Lizzo sang about her Balenci-ussies.

2022 December 27, Julia Reinstein, Ikran Dahir, Steffi Cao, “The 41 Most Defining Memes Of 2022”, in Buzzfeed News, archived from the original on 2023-09-28:

In an academic paper from the University of Montreal, linguist Michael Dow used a more political example: Thatchussy, the -ussification of Margaret Thatcher. Dow deemed this class of words "pussy blends," a phrase that deserves its own place in historussy.

2023 January 13, Mia Mercado, “I Can't Shut Up About -Ussy”, in The Cut, archived from the original on 2023-03-12:

In 2022, rapper Lil Zas X^([sic – meaning Lil Nas X]) told Out magazine that he thought bussy should be added to the dictionary for Pride Month (Rude 2022), shifting -ussification into overdrive—so much so the suffix became ADS Word of the Year.

2023 November, Kelly E[lizabeth] Wright, Benjamin Zimmer, “Among the New Words”, in American Speech, volume 98, number 4, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 463:

(neologism) The phenomenon by which words are formed using the suffix -ussy.


cybertarianism

Blend of cyber- + libertarianism. Equivalent to cybertarian + -ism.

The illustrations gathered above—arbitrarily selected but emblematic of profound tendencies across theories, industries, and places—amount to a touching but maddening mythology: cybertarianism, the belief that new media technologies are obliterating geography, sovereignty, and hierarchy in an alchemy of truth and beauty. Cybertarianism promises libertarian ideals and forms of life made real and whole thanks to the innately individualistic and iconoclastic nature of the newer media.

2016, Toby Miller, “Cybertarian Flexibility—When Prosumers Join the Cognitariat, All That Is Scholarship Melts into Air”, in Michael Curtin, Kevin Sanson, editors, Precarious Creativity: Global Media, Local Labor, Oakland, C.A.: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 21:

(neologism) The application of libertarianism beliefs to the digital world.


cybertariat

Blend of cyber- + proletariat. Coined by researcher Ursula Huws in a 2000 essay (see quotation below).

It is apparent that a new cybertariat is in the making. Whether it will perceive itself as such is another matter.

2000, Ursula Huws, “The Making of a Cybertariat? Virtual Work in a Real World”, in Leo Panitch, Colin Leys, editors, Socialist Register, Working Classes, Global Realities, London: The Merlin Press, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 20:

On the eve of May Day, also known as International Workers' Day, all 50 volumes of the Marx and Engels Collected Works (MECW) were removed from the Marxists Internet Archive at Marxists.org at the request of the publisher, Lawrence & Wishart, igniting the cybertariat's fury.

[2014 May 2, Jordan Pearson, “Not Even Radical Communist Literature Is Immune to Copyright Battles”, in VICE, archived from the original on 2023-11-06:

The work of matching drivers to ride requests on ridesharing apps, scoring web pages for quality, correcting digital maps, tagging and annotating videos, double-checking virtual assistants' responses, correcting biases, and moderating social media postings all demands, to this day, a multitude of real humans in the loop. What stands beneath the fetish of AI is a global digital assembly line of silent, invisible men and women, often laboring in precarious conditions, many in postcolonies of the Global South. A new class of workers stands opposite the coding elite: the cybertariat.

2021 May 27, Jenna Burrell, Marion Fourcade, “The Society of Algorithms”, in Annual Review of Sociology, volume 47, San Mateo, C.A.: Annual Reviews, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 219:

(Marxism, neologism) A proletarian class who perform repetitive, unskilled, and low-paid digital labour (such as moderating online platforms or click farming).


cybertarian

I've been doing a lot of research particularly in India but in other Asian countries too on, if you like, the new cybertarians who are growing up working in an offshore call centers and software development and so on.

2011, Sasha Lilley, quoting Ursula Huws, Capital and Its Discontents: Conversations With Radical Thinkers in a Time of Tumult, Oakland, C.A.: PM Press, →ISBN, page 177:

Coders allied to cyber workers' rights also play a role, creating tools to aid cybertarians in information sharing and self-organizing. The ingenious Turkopticon, for example, is a web browser plugin that overlays features on the Amazon Mechanical Turk platform, helping workers who do pay-per-task clickwork to avoid poor quality jobs, delayed payment, and outright wage theft (Irani & Silberman 2013).

2021 May 27, Jenna Burrell, Marion Fourcade, “The Society of Algorithms”, in Annual Review of Sociology, volume 47, San Mateo, C.A.: Annual Reviews, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 221:

(Marxism, neologism) A member of the cybertariat class.


cybertarian

John Perry Barlow is a "cybertarian," a form of libertarian. In other words, he believes in bottom-up, decentralized solutions to the dilemmas that arise in cyberspace.

2002, Terry Halbert, Elaine Ingulli, CyberEthics, Mason, O.H.: West, →ISBN, page 22:

We're in the midst of fevered discussions about communications and security. Cybertarian campaigners want to stop collusion between corporations and governments to intercept citizen chat; attention-grabbing adolescents at Anonymous want to disrupt murderers who dislike mockery of their principal prophet and the gilt-edged grown-ups in national security services want to listen in on plans to revenge such blasphemy.

2015 January 23, Toby Miller, “How to deal with electronic waste? Make it a national security issue”, in The Conversation, archived from the original on 2024-01-30:

(neologism) Someone who applies libertarian ideology to the Internet; a follower of cybertarianism.


deinfluence

en-verb

deinfluence (third-person singular simple present deinfluences, present participle deinfluencing, simple past and past participle deinfluenced)

deinfluences (present singular third-person)
deinfluencing (participle present)
deinfluenced (participle past)
deinfluenced (past)

(social media, marketing, neologism) To post material that encourages people to consume less, as the opposite of an influencer.

(social media, marketing, neologism) To post material that draws attention to the downsides of a particular product or service and may recommend alternatives.


deinfluencer

(social media, marketing, neologism) One who deinfluences (posts material that encourages people to avoid a particular product or service, or to consume less in general).


polywork

polywork (third-person singular simple present polyworks, present participle polyworking, simple past and past participle polyworked)

polyworks (present singular third-person)
polyworking (participle present)
polyworked (participle past)
polyworked (past)

Have you been polyworking, by any chance?

2021 December 13, “Polyworking and Zoombies: welcome to the new home office jargon”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-23:

Those who work remote are most likely to polywork (81%) followed by those who work hybrid (79%).

2023 March 12, Tracy Brower, “Working Multiple Jobs: 5 Considerations For The Promise And Peril Of Polywork”, in Forbes, New York, N.Y.: Forbes Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-02-13:

Around half of the respondents said they plan to polywork indefinitely—and the older respondents were, the more likely they were to see juggling jobs as a long-term solution as opposed to a means to an end.

2023 March 20, Orianna Rosa Royle, “Gen Zers are now 'polyworking' because holding down just one job doesn't pay enough or give them the flexibility they want”, in Fortune, New York, N.Y.: Fortune Media Group Holdings, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-21:

(intransitive, neologism) To work multiple jobs simultaneously.


polyworker

Lately, it's been given a branding makeover: polyworking. In short, polyworkers don't aspire to a single job in their field. Usually, they aim for differing but often complementary professions.

2022 February 14, Stephen Moore, “Side hustle and 'polywork' culture is really just a desperate reflection of a low-paying job market”, in Business Insider, New York, N.Y.: Insider Inc., →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-01-30:

In the survey, when polyworkers were compared to those working only one job, they were more likely to feel burned out and stressed.

Overall, flexibility, additional income, and freedom were the biggest benefits cited among polyworkers.

Another polyworker, Pedro, 33, who also chose to remain anonymous for fear of potential repercussions, is employed by a union and also works as a video editor. Both are part-time jobs with fixed schedules, but he is only a registered worker in his union job — a fact that even he seems to forget as he sometimes corrects himself after calling his video editor job "a freelance gig."

2023 September 2, Facundo Iglesia, “Argentina's growing 'polyworker' scene: they already outnumber the unemployed”, in Buenos Aires Herald, archived from the original on 2023-10-02:

(neologism) Someone who polyworks, or works multiple jobs simultaneously.


prompt crafting

Apparently appeared at about the same time as prompt engineering, the two terms being interchangeable.

Guiding students in assessing AI-generated content instills discernment, while prompt crafting elicits original thinking.

2022, Sean Doyle, “Chapter 6: Augmenting Intelligence with Generative AI”, in Julia Nyberg, Jessica A. Manzone, editors, Practices That Promote Innovation for Talented Students, IGI Global, page 139:

2022, M. L. Ronn, Indie Author Confidential 11: Secrets No One Will Tell You About Being a Writer, Author Level Up, unnumbered page,
Non-artists don't want to go through the trouble of learning the nuances of prompt crafting, so they will rely on other people to do it, creating a new cottage industry […] .

2023, Jason Brownlee, Adrian Tam, Matthew Mayo, Abid Ali Awan, Kanwal Mehreen, Maximizing Productivity with ChatGPT, MachineLearningMastery.com, eBook, page 33,
One way to improve your prompt crafting is to get ChatGPT involved.

When GPT-4 was tested by medical experts from Microsoft without any specialized prompt crafting, it exceeded the passing score on USMLE by over 20 points and outperformed earlier general-purpose models (GPT-3.5) as well as models specifically fine-tuned on medical knowledge (Med-PaLM, a prompt-tuned version of Flan-PaLM 540B) [13].

2023, Aravind Kumaresan, Lorna Udan, Shazad Ashaf, “Potential Role of ChatGPT in Healthcare in the Prevention and Management of Non-communicable Diseases”, in Lorna Uden, I-Hsien Ting, editors, Knowledge Management in Organisations: 17th International Conference, KMO 2023, Proceedings, Springer, page 432:

artificial intelligence
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prompt engineering
prompt engineering#English

(artificial intelligence, technology, neologism) Synonym of prompt engineering


bibliosmia

From biblio- (“book”) + -osmia (“smell”). Coined on 24 February 2014 by English lecturer and author Oliver Tearle in a now-deleted tweet, originally as “the act of smelling books”.

He [Evan Friss] approvingly considers the Instagram wall at Books Are Magic, the novelist Emma Straub’s shop in the Cobble Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn, and less so the eponymous bibliosmia fragrance bottled by Powell’s, the Portland, Ore., landmark.

2024 August 4, Alexandra Jacobs, “Browsing Is a Pleasure in This History of the Bookstore”, in The New York Times:

(literature, neologism) The pleasant smell and aroma of a new (or any) book, caused by the gradual chemical breakdown of the compounds used within the paper.


leaktivist

According to the leaktivist collective Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoSecrets) roughly 70 gigabytes of posts, private messages, profiles and plaintext passwords were obtained in the hack.

2021 March 1, Chris Mills Rodrigo, “Fringe social media platform Gab hacked”, in The Hill, Washington, D.C.: Nexstar Media Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-11-11:

Some comes from anonymous ‘leaktivists’, like the mole who released the Panama Papers in 2016, raising questions about the financial dealings of all sorts of people, from Putin’s friends and Xi Jinping’s brother-in-law to Mark Thatcher and several members of the Spanish royal family.

2022, Ian Shircore, Conspiracy: History’s Greatest Cover-Ups and Unsolved Mysteries, London: John Blake Publishing, →ISBN, pages 5–6:

Threat actors today include not only the old standbys—Russia and China—but also North Korea, Iran, Cuba, and almost certainly the Saudis, Israelis, Turkey, and many others hungry for an edge in dealing with the United States; non-state actors, such as the Lebanese Hezbollah, ISIS, and Al-Qaeda hoping to exploit American security weaknesses; transnational criminal organizations and ideologically driven entities, such as hacktivists, leaktivists, and public-disclosure organizations (think WikiLeaks); not to mention freelance secrets-brokers harvesting sensitive data and intellectual property to sell on the black market.

2022, Lis Wiehl, A Spy in Plain Sight: The Inside Story of the FBI and Robert Hanssen―America's Most Damaging Russian Spy, New York, N.Y., London: Pegasus Books, →ISBN, page 275:

(neologism) Someone who advocates for a political cause by leaking secret information to the public; a person who practices leaktivism.


bookshelf wealth

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In an interview, Ms. Newton said that she worried trends like bookshelf wealth encourage overconsumption. This year, she added, she is trying not to buy any new books.

2024 January 15, Madison Malone Kircher, “Do You Have ’Bookshelf Wealth’?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-02-27:

Bookshelf wealth is an interior decor aesthetic evocative of the warmth of a Nancy Meyers movie, with cosy yet classic furniture and most notably a floor-to-ceiling bookshelf that shows off the owner's vast collection.

2024 January 22, “What is bookshelf wealth? Inside the controversial new design trend”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-01-22:

Still, some commenters were quick to criticize the trend, arguing that bookshelf wealth simply indicates you have the financial means (and the space for a built-in) and that it can lean inauthentic.

2024 February 5, Angela Tafoya, “Is "Bookshelf Wealth" the Most Authentic TikTok Interiors Trend Yet?”, in Vogue, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-02-12:

(neologism) An interior design trend or aesthetic which promotes large bookshelves full of books.


Enyacore

From Enya + -core, referring to the work of Irish singer Enya (1961–).

But Enyacore leans away from the fussier Whimsigoth stylings of, say, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, and towards a more spartan, adult take on the esoteric.

2023 February 13, Mary Frances Knapp, “The Best Y2K Home, Style, and Decor Items Inspired by Enya”, in VICE, archived from the original on 2024-02-28:

So how do you get the Enyacore look? Check you're on the right track by asking yourself: "Is this an item that you could use to barter on the Silk Road?"

2023 February 14, “Enyacore: the 1990s revival absolutely no one saw coming”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-05-10:

When it comes to interiors, the Enyacore vibe is all about quirky curiosities and contrasting materials. Think wrought iron alongside sumptuous velvet, delicate objet d'art next to rustic wooden utensils; if it looks like it came from a century gone by, you're on the right track.

2024 March 2, Jessica Lindsay, “Enyacore interiors to give your home a hit of Orinoco Flow”, in Metro, London: DMG Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-27:

(neologism) An aesthetic incorporating historical (particularly medieval), ethereal, and fantastical elements, inspired by the music of Irish singer Enya (1961–).


whimsigothic

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Blend of whimsical + gothic, equivalent to whimsigoth + -ic. Coined by Evan Collins in 2020.

A whimsigothic outfit should look casual but like it's got a story to it; like you thrifted it to wear to a Renaissance Fair and decided you look better in everyday Shakespearian garb.

2022 April 13, Jessica Lindsay, “Earth tones, flowing fabrics, and Stevie Nicks: the whimsigoth aesthetic explained”, in Metro, London: DMG Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-01-12:

But it's not just a design aesthetic. It's a major fashion one, too. Whimsigothic fashion is heavily inspired by witches from pop culture, especially those from '90s movies and television.

2022 June 27, Molly Capobianco, “Which Iconic '90s Witch Are You?”, in BuzzFeed, archived from the original on 2023-05-28:

Grab your chainmail bra and get whimsigothic. The modern medieval look is back – inspired by the castle-dwelling icon Enya

(neologism) Relating to or involving the whimsigoth aesthetic.


mob wife

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Know Your Meme
The Godfather
The Sopranos

The aesthetic originates in videos posted by TikToker @thesweetpaisana beginning in October 7, 2022, and was popularized on TikTok around December 2023 and January 2024. The aesthetic was inspired by a typical depiction of a wife of a Mafia boss in media such as The Godfather (1972) and The Sopranos (1999–2007).

As Trivieri, who is of Italian descent, points out in her video, the mob wife aesthetic is a welcome pendulum swing away from what she calls the "clean girl aesthetic"—a minimal, Sofia Richie–esque beauty look and stealth wealth style. It also follows the rise in popularity of girlish aesthetics in general, from coquette to Barbiecore. The mob wife, by comparison, is a little more grown up. It's right there in the name: She's a wife! She's not a girl; she's a woman.

2024 January 23, “What Does the "Mob Wife Aesthetic" Actually Mean?”, in Harper's Bazaar, New York, N.Y.: Hearst Magazine Media, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-02-28:

When it comes to hair, J Lo frankly could have written the Mob Wife manual, so perfect are her honeyed lengths.

2024 February 27, Georgia Day, “J Lo Does Muted Mob Wife And We're Here For It”, in Vogue, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-02-28:

(neologism) A person exemplifying a fashion aesthetic characterized by gaudy and ostentatious clothing, such as fur coats, designer bags, platform heels, and animal print.


whimsigoth

Blend of whimsical + goth. The earliest known use of the term is a tweet posted on August 6, 2020 by Twitter user @KaiserBeamz (see quotation below), possibly as a back-formation from whimsigothic (itself from around April 2020). The aesthetic was originally referred to "Whimsical Mystical Gothic Celestial", a term which may have originated in an image posted on April 10, 2020, also by @KaiserBeamz.

Mall Gothic desired to return goth back to its roots after the overly-commercial Whimsigoth style of the 90s. Stark blacks, whites and reds, alongside inky, sketchy lineart, the popularity of nu metal and emo kept Mall Gothic alive for all of the 00s.

2020 August 6, @KaiserBeamz, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-03-02:

The whimsigoth of today emphasizes rich textures (velvet, lace, leather), bold colors (ruby reds, shimmering purples, cosmic blues), and plenty of jewelry, layering each element like brushstrokes in a Millais painting.

2022 September 13, Jake Smith, “Meet Whimsigoth, the Witchy Aesthetic That's Taking Over TikTok”, in Glamour, Greenwich, C.T., […]: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-01-18:

It merges Celtic and Medieval influences befitting of the star's signature style, proving a real hit with fans of whimsigoth and cottagecore.

2023 March 2, Jessica Lindsay, “Enyacore interiors to give your home a hit of Orinoco Flow”, in Metro, London: DMG Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-27:

The Queen's Gambit actor put her own whimsigoth spin on bridal fashion in a dreamy beige princess dress, custom-made by Dior.

2023 October 3, Rosa Sanchez, “Anya Taylor-Joy's Dior Wedding Dress Is a Dream for Whimsigoth Brides Everywhere”, in Harper's Bazaar, New York, N.Y.: Hearst Magazine Media, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-01-22:

(neologism) An aesthetic incorporating historical (particularly medieval), neo-Gothic, and mystical elements, influenced by modern neo-pagan movements such as Wicca.


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The game has been changed (or it’s about to be), according to the likes of expert dietician^([sic]) and NHS Clinical Lead, Catherine Rabess (who has a new book, The 30 Plan, dropping in February), ZOE's Dr Tim Spector, and high street health giants, Holland & Barrett – which recently launched its own food range with ‘plant points’ on the label, so you can know exactly how many each snack, sauce or sausage is worth.

2023 December 29, Jennifer Savin, “You’ve heard of ‘5 a day’ – but now? It's all about getting your ‘30 plants a week’...”, in Cosmopolitan:

[A]t Holland & Barrett we’ve fused the science with a practical solution and come up with Plant Points.[…] For example, one almond is one plant point.

2024 January 5, Lauren Clark, quoting Alex Glover, “Welcome to Plant Points: a simple way to make the most of your microbiome”, in The Guardian:

(nutrition, neologism, chiefly in the plural) A point awarded for each different kind of plant-based ingredient in a meal or diet, as a measure of balanced healthy eating.