Obamunism

Both are interesting choices as poster children for corporate American promoters of Obamunism.

2010, Chris Horner, Power Grab: How Obama's Green Policies Will Steal Your Freedom and Bankrupt America, page 142:

More recently, Patrick Michaels, a longtime critic of climate science and policy scholar at the Cato Institute, criticized plans for a cap and trade system to control greenhouse gases as “Obamunism.”

2010, Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming, page 253:

It's amusing to listen to the moonbats continue to blame Bush for everything wrong now in the second term of Obamunism.

2013, Jay Kennedy, "Bush admin. had nothing to do with 'fast & furious', look it up" (letter to the editor), The Laconia Daily Star (Laconia, NH), 14 May 2013, page 5

(neologism, derogatory) The economic or political policies of the Obama administration, viewed as socialism, communism, or government overreach.


ObamaCare

/oʊˈbɑ məˌkɛəɹ/

Blend of Obama (“Barack Obama”) + healthcare or Medicare and perhaps influenced by earlier HillaryCare.

blend

For some reason, Obama's senior economist, Austan Goolsbee, chooses not to believe this about Obamacare, possibly because he figures the private-but-regulated health-care plans in Obama's National Health Insurance Exchange would be more generous than Obama's public health-care plan.

2007 July 5, Timothy Noah, “Edwardscare: A Trojan Horse, in Slate Magazine”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):

This is a trick. This is a trick that's going on here. This idea that, that whether it's HillaryCare, or ObamaCare, or EdwardsCare, that idea that it's not socialized medicine is a trick. It's a massive growth in government control of medicine.

2007 September 26, Rudy Giuliani, address to the New Jersey Republican Party (about 12 minutes 30 seconds in)

Those who designed ObamaCare were willing to sacrifice marriage for the sake of seeming to be “progressive and equitable,” even though social science research reveals a clear link between single motherhood and poverty.

2010, Richard McKenzie Neal, We the People: A Christian Nation, page 161:

This book will tell you what is right and wrong with Obamacare and will offer solutions to improve healthcare in our country so that it remains of high quality and sustainable financially in the future for all Americans.

2011, Tony Maglione, Obamacare: A Doctor's Guide to Saving Healthcare:

Of course ObamaCare is socialism. It has been designed along explicitly socialist lines[…]

2011, Kevin Williamson, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Socialism, page 237:

Tonight, for our main story, we’re going to look at Obamacare. Basically, the opposite of this photo which is more “Obama don’t give a fuck”!

2017 March 12, “American Health Care Act”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 4, episode 5, John Oliver (actor), via HBO:

(US, neologism, originally derogatory) Any of various healthcare plans seen as associated with Barack Obama before or during his tenure as U.S. President; especially, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (H.R. 3590): a healthcare reform plan that was passed in 2010 and signed into law by him.


qubitope

(physics, neologism) A generalization of a chirotope involving qubits


teabagger

(neologism, often derogatory) An affiliate of the Tea Party movement, or a supporter of its protests and/or ideology.


lolspeak

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

The standards are still being fract^H^H^H^H^Hwritten for the language, but the availability of Suitable Wordings from lolspeak verges on the frightening at times.

2007, David DeLaney, “Re: As Others See Us, in this case the DHS”, in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet):

Study the lolcat version of the book of Genesis, accessible as nltk.corpus.genesis.words('lolcat.txt'), and the rules for converting text into lolspeak at http://www.lolcatbible.com/index.php?title=How_to_speak_lolcat. Define regular expressions to convert English words into corresponding lolspeak words.

2009, Steven Bird, Ewan Klein, Edward Loper, chapter 3, in Natural Language Processing with Python, →ISBN, page 127:

Now, in this first ever feline gospel, they retell 50 popular Bible stories in LOLspeak.

2010, Martin Grondin, LOLcat Bible: In Teh Beginnin Ceiling Cat Maded Teh Skiez An Da Urfs N Stuffs, →ISBN:

Of course, for every feature of LOLspeak we discuss, it is likely that you will find numerous counter examples, as such is the nature of language play. LOLspeak is nothing if not creative.

2011, Lauren Gawne, Jill Vaughan, “I can haz language play: The construction of language and identity in LOLspeak”, in M. Ponsonnet, L. Dao, M. Bowler, editors, Proceedings of the 42nd Australian Linguistic Society Conference, →ISBN:

(Internet slang, neologism) The speech of lolcats, consisting of spelling variations of English, imitating the speech of children and some regional accents.


philanthrocapitalism

At its best, philanthrocapitalism reinforces and amplifies the time, money, skills, and gifts given every year by people who are not rich, and it informs and enhances government policies.

2009, Matthew Bishop, Michael F. Green, Bill Clinton (foreword), Philanthrocapitalism: How Giving Can Save the World, Bloomsbury Press, →ISBN, Foreword, page viii:

"Philanthrocapitalism", as it has been called, veers towards tackling symptoms of poverty and distress rather than underlying causes.

2010 August 5, Peter Wilby, “The rich want a better world? Try paying fair wages and tax”, in The Guardian:

(neologism) The philosophy of applying capitalist style objectives and criteria to directing philanthropic enterprises.


bullshot

Blend of bullshit + screenshot, coined in 2005 in the webcomic Penny Arcade.

Exhibit A is a textbook example of a bullshot, an image ginned up by marketing and foisted on people who don't know any better.

2005 September 12, “Potent New Lingo”, in Penny Arcade, retrieved 2012-06-15:

Even the world's most technically proficient game-makers — industry leaders in graphical and gameplay innovation — seem shy to release actual screenshots of their forthcoming games, preferring instead to unleash super-scaled bullshots, or enhanced videos.

2009 August 15, Richard Leadbetter, “Media Manipulation: the "Bullshot" phenomenon”, in Eurogamer, retrieved 2012-06-15:

Sometimes they’ll fall under the ambiguous label of ‘visual target renders’, the small-print description of bullshots at the highest level.

2012 March 19, Ryan King, “7 Marketing Trends That Need To Stop”, in Play, →ISSN, retrieved 2012-06-16:

(neologism, video games) A phony screenshot created for promotional purposes.


cinnamon roll

cinnamon + roll. In reference to the character, derives from a headline in The Onion satirical newspaper, "Beautiful Cinnamon Roll Too Good for This World, Too Pure" (23 January 2014) https://web.archive.org/web/20200306125704/https://local.theonion.com/beautiful-cinnamon-roll-too-good-for-this-world-too-pu-1819576048/amp.

2016, Alexandra Petri, ComPost • Opinion (satire), The Washington Post
Obama: Merrick Garland is a beautiful cinnamon roll, too good for this world, too pure

Even as a 9-year-old girl, I had a thing for sweet, innocent cinnamon rolls – fictional characters who are too good for this world, too pure.

2016, Crystal Bell, “Daisy Ridley Is the Hero I've Been Looking For”, in MTV News:

(slang, neologism) A person perceived as good, gentle and kind, often a fictional character who undergoes emotional suffering.


intexticated

en-adj

intexticated (comparative more intexticated, superlative most intexticated)

more intexticated (comparative)
most intexticated (superlative)

Mr. Sweeney almost paid a price for, as the saying goes, driving while “intexticated.” About a year ago, he said, he almost got into a collision as he was text-messaging while driving.

2008 March 16, Dave Caldwell, “With Text-Messaging Ban While Driving, Legislators Play Gizmo Catch-Up”, in The New York Times:

What about driving while intexticated?

2009 February 25, The Citizen, “Re: {OP-ED} The punishment for DUI is way too harsh”, in rec.sport.pro-wrestling (Usenet):

(slang, rare, neologism) Distracted by text messaging; said of someone driving poorly for this reason.


bioneer

Blend of biological + pioneer or biological + engineer, possibly coined by Kenny Ausubel.

A high environmental impact of an industry significantly reduces the likelihood of a firm to be classified as a bioneer or ecopreneur.

2009, Gary D. Libecap, Frontiers in Eco-Entrepreneurship Research, →ISBN, page 140:

(neologism) A biological pioneer, an inventer of environmental solutions and biotechnology; a crafter of creative solutions to environmental and sociocultural problems.


bioneer

en-verb

bioneer (third-person singular simple present bioneers, present participle bioneering, simple past and past participle bioneered)

bioneers (present singular third-person)
bioneering (participle present)
bioneered (participle past)
bioneered (past)

The only thing you can truly say, and I think this is a very safe statement, is if you can't figure out how to bioneer, bioneer with a b, you're not going anywhere.

2006, John Logan, NASA physician, at the Space Frontier Foundation's "New Space Return to the Moon Conference" (2006): Panel SFF1484 at 1:15:25


seal dribble

Seals (the animals, not the stamp) can be trained to balance a ball on their nose.

(neologism, soccer) In soccer, a move where the player bounces the ball on their head while running at the opponent.


GINO

From the construction of RINO and DINO, using -INO in conjunction with "G" for Galactica.

(neologism, fandom slang) Acronym of Galactica in name only—a derogatory term used by partisan fans of the original Battlestar Galactica to refer to the reimagined Battlestar Galactica


megagift

“These megagifts are beginning to show up in a way they haven’t before,” Mr. Jolly said.

2007 June 25, Stephanie Strom, “Absence of Major Disaster in ’06 Affected Giving”, in New York Times:

(neologism) A donation to charity of millions of dollars.


santorum

Campaign for the neologism "santorum"
Dan Savage
Rick Santorum

From the surname of former US Senator Rick Santorum (born 1958). After Santorum made statements comparing homosexuality to bestiality and opining that mutually consenting adults do not have a constitutional right to privacy with respect to sexual acts, US columnist Dan Savage gathered input from his readers and held a contest for definitions to "memorialize the scandal". Savage set up a website which defined the term, and helped to promote it. See Campaign for the neologism "santorum" for further information.
Rick Santorum's surname, in turn, comes from Italian; see Santorum for more.

She wads up the t-shirt, uses it to wipe a trickle of santorum from her ass, and throws it under the cot.

2005, Jack R. Dunn, Hard, archived from the original on 2011-09-12, page 134:

In the “for what it's worth” department, the frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex is called santorum.
Safety Warning #6: Be particularly cautious where this santorum goes. As previously noted, you don't want to get any fecal matter in the vaginal area. Bad safety risk.

2007, Robert J. Rubel, Squirms, Screams and Squirts: Now you can turn great sex into extraordinary sex, Nazca Plains, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 65:

Then, one of them broke ranks and rammed his blood-lubed fist straight up my ass and twisted hard, pulled it out and licked the santorum clean.

2008, Richard J. Polney, “A Horrible Night of Research and Erudite Bloodletting”, in Christopher Pierce, editor, Men on the Edge: Dangerous Erotica, Hemdon: StarBooks, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 38:

Any residents not burned alive in the fires or drowned in the flood will be made to drink a mixture of bodily fluids typically deposited in on the streets during Mardi Gras until death. The mixture should consist of (but is not limited to) sweat, snot, urine, saliva, tears, vomit, sexual fluids, and feces and santorum.

2008, Austen James, Hate Starve Curse: A Disagreeable Man's Search for Nothingness in the Face of Everythingness, 1st edition, Broken Science, →ISBN, →OL, page 30:

I'll fuck you till my dick's dry / Squirt santorum in my eye

2011 April 1, “Booty Sex”, in Icemilk (music), Sofa King Delicious, ASIN B00510PZO0:

(neologism, sex, slang) A frothy mixture of lubricant and fecal matter as an occasional byproduct of anal sex.

a lying sack of santorum.

2004 February 5, Ian S., “Re: If Bush Wasn't A Deserter, What Was He?”, in alt.politics.democrats (Usenet), message-ID <tijUb.2347$Yj.960@lakeread02>:

I think this is a load of santorum.

2005 June 29, Chris Linthompson, “Re: New word, "martinize"”, in talk.origins (Usenet), message-ID <1120058301.549994.211740@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>:

What a bunch of santorum.

2006 January 18, "leftie", “Re: Hey Julia!”, in rec.music.gdead (Usenet), message-ID <dqmpqs$2mpp$1@agate.berkeley.edu>:

Those freakin' Devil's Advocate Moderators have no sense of decorum— They're just like a bunch of hungry predators... totally fuckin' full of fuckin' santorum!

2009, Jacques TwisT, Lady MaMarazz' "Ain't No Shame like the Fame Game", →ISBN, page 146:

(neologism, slang, derogatory) Shit: rubbish, worthless matter, nonsense, bull.


mald

en-adjective

mald (comparative malder, superlative maldest)

malder (comparative)
maldest (superlative)

Blend of mad + bald. See malding for further etymology.

So bald, so mald.

(Internet slang, neologism, Twitch-speak) Extremely angry, especially as a result of losing a video game.


mald

en-verb

mald (third-person singular simple present malds, present participle malding, simple past and past participle malded)

malds (present singular third-person)
malding (participle present)
malded (participle past)
malded (past)

He's actually malding.
He is so mad that his hair is legitimately falling out.

In his "hardest game" series, he plays malding games, named for the rage they provoke in those who play them.

2021 May 24, Charlie Pugh, “The art of misery: how Ludwig made a career from failing”, in The Courier, number 1414, Newcastle upon Tyne, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 30:

[…] “Coomers malding PepeLaugh,” […] The second comment, written by HarleyJ, insinuates that “coomers” (a term used to refer to an individual that overly sexualizes things) are angered by her actions, […]

2021 August 10, Dylan Maroney, quoting a comment by HarleyJ, Livestreaming Vico: Imagination and the Ecology of Literacy in Online Gaming, Georgia State University, page 36:

I make money in my sleep, got you hatin' on me
Malding in my chat while you're tryna take a peep

2022 January 16, Amouranth (lyrics and music), “Down Bad”:

It reminds me of how people in the alpha for WoW malded that the game penalized them for playing the game too much with a 50% XP penalty if their character was exhausted, so instead Blizzard decided to nerf all XP gains by 50%, and then give you a “bonus” (rested XP) that doubled your XP gains back to its original amount, and people praised it.

2022 July 18, Sentenzà, “I think Jailer heroic was nerfed too hard”, in Blizzard.com:

(Internet slang, neologism, Twitch-speak) To become extremely angry, especially as a result of losing a video game.


placeblog

In the past year, the word Bloglyn has been cropping up a lot, a reflection of the fact that Brooklyn, particularly brownstone Brooklyn, has emerged as possibly the center of the placeblog world.

2007 July 8, Gregory Beyer, “Cracker-Barrel 2.0”, in New York Times:

(Internet, neologism) A blog dealing with the news and daily life of a community, written by its inhabitants.


ecoanxiety

Where there is ecoanxiety, of course, there are ecotherapists.

2008 February 16, Patricia Leigh Brown, “For ‘EcoMoms,’ Saving Earth Begins at Home”, in New York Times:

“When people start to be worried about the planet, they don’t know that they have eco-anxiety,” he said. “When they see this thing has a name, then they understand what to call it.”

2023 September 16, Jason Horowitz, quoting Dr. Paolo Cianconi, “How Do We Feel About Global Warming? It’s Called Eco-Anxiety.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(neologism) Anxiety about damage to the ecosystem.


drunkorexia

The latest entry in the lexicon of food-related ills is drunkorexia, shorthand for a disturbing blend of behaviors: self-imposed starvation or bingeing and purging, combined with alcohol abuse .

2008 March 2, Sarah Kershaw, “Starving Themselves, Cocktail in Hand”, in New York Times:

(neologism) A combination of anorexia or bulimia with alcohol abuse.


sexship

Because the focus is often on temporary physical gratification, very few sexships progress into long-term, committed, quality relationships.

2009, Chris Jackson, The Black Christian Singles Guide to Dating and Sexuality:

(slang, neologism) A relationship based purely on sex.


upsolve

upsolve (third-person singular simple present upsolves, present participle upsolving, simple past and past participle upsolved)

upsolves (present singular third-person)
upsolving (participle present)
upsolved (participle past)
upsolved (past)

(competitive programming, neologism) To solve a problem after the end of a contest.


noded

The noded philosophy is also about flexibility and efficiency in collaboration, especially among people who are geographically far apart.

(neologism) Pertaining to a group of individuals, possibly geographically separated from each other, that form temporary or recurring project teams.


weisure

Blend of work + leisure, coined by American sociologist Dalton Conley.

I call how we spend our time (I would say "free" time, but that would obscure the point that this once hallowed bounary has broken down) instrumental leisure or weisure (i.e., work and leisure combined), since the info-economy puts a premium on quk, shrt trms tht cn b txtd fst & rmmbrd easily.

2009, Dalton Conley, Elsewhere, U.S.A.: How We Got from the Company Man, Family Dinners, and the Affluent Society to the Home Office, BlackBerry Moms, and Economic Anxiety:

Workers choose the weisure lifestyle when they monitor the BlackBerry while on vacation or post pictures to Facebook between business meetings. The blending of leisure and work is a creative and ubiquitous lifestyle choice[…]

2010, Vincent R. Waldron, Jeffrey W. Kassing, Managing Risk in Communication Encounters, page 222:

Sociologists have been throwing around the concept of weisure a lot in the past few years. Weisure, the blurring of work and leisure, was directed at the encroachment of work into rest.

2015, Darrin Patrick, Amie Patrick, The Dude's Guide to Marriage: Ten Skills Every Husband Must Develop to Love His Wife Well:

New communication technologies have enabled us to complete private issues during working time and vice versa, leading to phenomena coined as weisure.

2018 April 13, “Let’s go out for a drink after work! The relation between leisure time spent with colleagues and employees’ life satisfaction”, in Journal of Workplace Behavioral Health, volume 33, number 1:

(neologism) The merging of work and leisure activities.


blognoscenti

The blognoscenti were quick to note after the Uniform Project site started making the rounds that earlier projects have played with the one-dress idea.

2009 July 12, Rob Walker, “This Year’s Model”, in New York Times:

(informal, neologism) Intelligent, discerning bloggers.


bestshoring

In the past several years, I've watched as companies have become highly skilled at performing what I call supply chain gymnastics — outsourcing, subcontracting, partnering, offshoring, bestshoring, and all the rest, primarily in China.

2008, George Stalk, John Butman, Five future strategies you need right now, page 8:

The important aspect is to do bestshoring.

2010, Franz Ammon, The Eastern European Expansion of the EU, page 13:

(business, neologism) The process of identifying the best location to which to move manufacturing or other industrial facilities.


clocksucker

From clock + sucker, perhaps referencing cocksucker.

(neologism, rare, derogatory) A time-waster.


knobtwat

(UK, neologism, vulgar, informal, derogatory) A stupid or contemptible person.


fucktwat

(neologism, vulgar, informal, derogatory or offensive) A stupid or otherwise undesirable person.


tweetable

en-adj

tweetable (comparative more tweetable, superlative most tweetable)

more tweetable (comparative)
most tweetable (superlative)

(Internet, neologism) Capable of, or deserving of being tweeted (“sent as a message on the Twitter microblogging service”).


entention

...when referring to all such phenomena in general, I will use entention to characterize their internal relationship to a telos — an end, or otherwise displaced and thus non-present something, or possible something.
...at the very moment this lion popped into existence, before even one beat of its heart, at that instant these tendencies were present and the entention was present as well, if these processes are poised to begin and proceed in a way that preserves the whole lion.

Terrence W. Deacon in Incomplete Nature 2012

(neologism) Reference to something not necessarily present; as a book might discuss mathematics without presenting any mathematics in the text, or a tool might be manufactured for dealing with objects not present at the time of manufacture; DNA encodes information for dealing with processes that are not underway at its formation.


tutulemma

Blend of Turkish tutulma (“eclipse”) + English analemma.

(neologism) A photographed analemma that includes an image of a solar eclipse.


Dobbs

en-proper noun

Dobbs (countable and uncountable, plural Dobbses)

From a medieval diminutive form of the given name Robert + the patronymic suffix -s.

By overturning Roe v. Wade, Dobbs is sure to go down as one of the most consequential Supreme Court decisions, undoing a constitutional right that’s been in place for nearly half a century and delivering a decisive victory to the anti-abortion movement.

2022 June 24, “‘Abortion Is Just the Beginning’: Six Experts on the Decision Overturning Roe”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-07-01:

What makes Republicans and progressives come together? “It was honestly Dobbs,” Ms. Watson-Whittaker said. “The decision brought everybody together.” In Michigan, at least, that togetherness seems to have paid off for Democrats.

2022 November 19, Amy Littlefield, “Democrats Need to Realize How Much Dobbs Mattered”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-12-11:

Dobbs demolished a federal right to abortion, and its legality currently rests with each state. This has created a patchwork of laws that have made legislation designed to stop abortions less effective in some parts of the country.

2023 July 6, Sarah Boden, “A year after victory in Dobbs decision, anti-abortion activists still in fight mode”, in NPR, archived from the original on 2023-07-07:

“People who reported using more substances or having more mental health conditions were more likely to report a policy-related barrier to obtaining an abortion,” Roberts said. In the aftermath of Dobbs, she said, “There’s no reason to believe that things would have become easier.”

2023 October 26, Nada Hassanein, “Medical exceptions to abortion bans often exclude mental health conditions”, in USA Today, online edition:

w:en:Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization

unenumerated right
unenumerated right#English

(US, law, US politics, informal, uncountable, neologism) Ellipsis of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, a 2022 U.S. Supreme Court ruling which stated that access to abortion was not a constitutionally protected right, overturning the earlier Roe ruling which established this unenumerated right.


RomneyCare

Blend of Romney (“Mitt Romney”) + healthcare or Medicare and likely influenced by the term ObamaCare. Although the 2006 Massachusetts Law signed by then-governor Mitt Romney predated the 2010 United States Federal Law signed by President Barack Obama, the term RomneyCare was not commonly used until after the term ObamaCare was in wide use.

blend

(US politics, neologism, chiefly derogatory) Healthcare plans instituted by the state of Massachusetts under the governorship of Mitt Romney, which provided for complete coverage of all citizens of the Commonwealth, and included an individual mandate to purchase health insurance for those able to pay.


gayelle

From gay + French -elle (“feminine suffix”).

"By choosing gayelle, the feminine factors in “the equation of who is gay and who is not” can reassert their interest in the word gay, as well as, assert a displeasure for the word lesbian," the website reads.

2008 January 25, “Lesbians turn "gayelle"”, in The Daily Telegraph:

Geri Jewell, who played Blair Warner's cousin Geri for a few seasons, has fully come out as a labia-loving lesbian in her new memoir!!! Cousin Geri not only talks about being a gayelle, but she also writes about being the first person with a disability to play a recurring character on TV and how she hit rock bottom when she got into the bad shit.

2011 January 26, tootie, “More labia-loving lesbos cumin' out in Hollywood”, in soc.culture.usa (Usenet):

Cate Blanchett, whose leather and velvet and satin wardrobe was handed down from Lesbian Jesus specifically for the enjoyment of gayelles everywhere!

2018 June 11, Simon Abrams, Alex de Campi, “The Pros and Cons of 'Ocean's 8'”, in Hollywood Reporter:

(neologism, rare, nonstandard) A lesbian.


-x-

(neologism) Used to replace a gendered element or reduce perceived genderedness, such as in Mixter, mxn, womxn, etc.


proctocracy

/pɹɒkˈtɒkɹəsɪ/

First attested in March 2002; formed as procto- (“anus”) + -cracy (“rule”); equivalent to a hypothetical Ancient Greek etymon of the form *πρωκτοκρατία (prōktokratía), from πρωκτός (prōktós, “anus”) + κράτος (krátos, “dominion”, “power”).

Come the Revolution we’ll have other Ass-holes ruling us.
Long live the Proctocracy.

2002 March 2nd, “ZONTAR JOHNSON”, alt.radio.oldtime, “REQ Stoopnagle and Budd TIA”, Message ID

It was instinctive dealing with the US proctocracy and its blinkered cheer-squad!

2006 December 11th, “Catherine Deschevaux”, alt.quotations, “Re: Privatizing -er, Profitizing War”, Message ID

A more recent workplace use of the same root is the notion of labouring under a proctocracy, defined as ‘rule by assholes’.

2007, Tony Thorne, “proctoheliosis”, in Shoot the Puppy:

(humorous neologism, rare) Government or management by “arseholes” (i.e., inconsiderate, obnoxious, or otherwise highly objectionable people).


terrorist fist jab

en-noun

terrorist fist jab (plural terrorist fist jabs)

terrorist + fist + jab, coined by Fox anchor E. D. Hill upon seeing US President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle Obama perform the gesture.

A commentator on Fox described it as a “terrorist fist jab.” Around the same time, Fox, in its crawl at the bottom of the screen, referred to Michelle as Obama's “baby mama,” as if this accomplished woman and committed parent were no more than a ghetto girlfriend.

2008, Liza Mundy, Michelle: A Biography, Simon & Schuster, page 194:

In hindsight, I regret not giving him a terrorist fist jab or the Islamist secret handshake. I hear he's quite adept at those.

2009, Nathan Rabin, The Big Rewind: A Memoir Brought to You by Pop Culture, Scribner, page 222:

Obama and Robert Gibbs had a ritual after every debate. When Obama came off the stage at the end, Gibbs would give him a fist bump to signify that he had done well, not "the terrorist fist jab" of Fox News's fevered imagination, just a nice tap. After the Nevada and New Hampshire primary debates, where Obama had not done well, there was no bump. But when Obama finished his first debate with John McCain at Ole Miss, Gibbs was so happy that he gave him a two-fisted bump.

2010, Jonathan Alter, The Promise: President Obama, Year One, Simon & Schuster, page 34:

Before introducing an expert on body language, Hill would imply that viewing this as a "terrorist fist-jab" was as reasonable an interpretation as any other.

2011, Michael Waltman, John Haas, The Communication of Hate, Peter Lang Publishing, page 119:

Later, during the presidential campaign, one Fox commentator flippantly suggested Barack and wife Michelle had greeted each other with a "terrorist fist jab". The commentator later apologised, as did another Fox commentator who had joked about assassinating Obama and Osama bin Laden after supposedly muddling their names.

2012 January 28, David McKnight, “How an unpretentious charmer became fixated on a conspiracy of liberals”, in The Age, archived from the original on 2012-01-30:

(derogatory or humorous) The touching together of two people's fists, often in celebration of an accomplishment; more commonly known as a fist bump.


Outer Manchuria

From outer + Manchuria.
The 21st century sense referring to territories ceded by China to Russia in the 19th century seems to have been popularized with the May 2004 creation of a Wikipedia article for Outer Manchuria; it may be an instance of citogenesis. The same article may also be the source of Inner Manchuria referring to Manchuria (all northeast China).

In particular, Elliot found himself confronted by a redoubtable opponent in Count Nikolai Pavlovich Ignatyev, the Russian Ambassador to the Sublime Porte. Ignatyev was cunning, agile and bold. He had had adventures aplenty and narrow escapes in Central Asia, where he had sought to build Russian influence. A particularly nimble piece of diplomacy had led to his acquiring Outer Manchuria from the Chinese Emperor.

2009, Christopher Meyer, Getting Our Way: 500 Years of Adventure and Intrigue: The Inside Story of British Diplomacy, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, page 181:

Two years later, Czar Alexander II went a step further and coerced the Chinese into signing the Treaty of Peking, thereby adding another slice of Outer Manchuria—what is now Primorye and southern Khabarovsk Territory—to the Russian empire. In the mid-1960s, it seemed as if Mao might try to get them back.

2010, John Vaillant, “Markov”, in The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival (Adventure/Nature), →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 59:

For these services Moscow exacted a staggering territorial price: a broad swath of territory in so-called Outer Manchuria along the Pacific coast, including the port city now called Vladivostok.¹⁴ In a stroke, Russia had gained a major new naval base, a foothold in the Sea of Japan, and 350,000 square miles of territory once considered Chinese.

2011, Henry Kissinger, “From Preeminence to Decline”, in On China, New York: Penguin Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 68:

Russian settlers took possession of the fringes of the Chinese world, de facto annexations that were ratified by a series of “unequal treaties” [8], the Treaty of Aigun of 1858 and the Russo-Chinese Convention of Peking of 1860, which established the easternmost part of the present-day border between China and Russia [9].

2012 February 21, Frank Jacobs, “Manchurian Trivia”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-07-29, Opinion Pages:

After praising the border agreement, Deng led the Soviet foreign minister into a room where a map of China lay on the table. The map showed Outer Manchuria, which forms the Russian Primorsky Krai province, as Chinese, not Russian, territory.

2019 February, Angela E. Stent, Putin's World: Russia Against the West and with the Rest, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page https://archive.org/details/astentputinsworld/page/n232/:

Third, after Ukraine wins its war with Russia, we must aim to split the Russia-China axis. Moscow’s defeat could unseat Mr. Putin’s regime. What comes next is a government of unknowable composition. New Russian leaders may or may not look to the West rather than Beijing, and might be so weak that the Russian Federation’s fragmentation, especially east of the Urals, isn’t inconceivable. Beijing is undoubtedly eyeing this vast territory, which potentially contains incalculable mineral wealth. Significant portions of this region were under Chinese sovereignty until the 1860 Treaty of Peking transferred “outer Manchuria,” including extensive Pacific coast lands, to Moscow. Russia’s uncontrolled dissolution could provide China direct access to the Arctic, including even the Bering Strait, facing Alaska.

2023 April 12, John Bolton, “A New American Grand Strategy to Counter Russia and China”, in The Wall Street Journal, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-04-29, Opinion:

China did eventually regain Harbin and, much later in 1997, Hong Kong. However, big parts of Manchuria, which China lost along with Hong Kong, still belong to Russia. Outer Manchuria, as the Russia-controlled region is known, has great strategic value, abundant natural resources and game-changing potential. Important cities and military harbors were built on these lands. But in Russian hands, this gigantic area of almost 400,000 square miles — roughly equivalent to a tenth of China — remains underpopulated and underdeveloped.
In 2016, shortly after the annexation of Crimea, the Russian government issued a law that encouraged settlement in the Far East, including Outer Manchuria, promising each adventurous migrant a hectare (0.4 acres) for free.

2023 April 20, Alexander Etkind, “Putin Is Opening A Door For China”, in Noema Magazine, archived from the original on 2023-04-20, Geopolitics & Globalization:

(neologism) The part of Russia near northeastern China (including Primorsky Krai and other nearby areas) which was annexed by the Russian Empire in the mid 19th century understood as part of Manchuria; similar or equivalent to Russian Manchuria.


webutation

Have you seen what that person is saying about you online? They are destroying your webutation.

(Internet, neologism) A person's or company's reputation on the World Wide Web.


peaknik

Many of the new, nontraditional preparedness converts are “Peakniks,” Mr. Rawles said, referring to adherents of the “Peak Oil” theory. This concept holds that the world will soon, or has already, reached a peak in oil production, and that coming supply shortages might threaten society.

2008 April 6, Alex Williams, “Duck and Cover: It’s the New Survivalism”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(neologism) One who believes that the peak oil point is approaching.


Googlenope

2007, Gene Weingarten, "Zero-Based Journalism", The Washington Post, 27 May 2007: When a phrase cannot be found on Google, I call it a Googlenope. Once a Googlenope is discovered and written about, it is no longer a Googlenope.

2007, Emma Cowing, "Time to acknowledge 'No' really means 'No'", The Scotsman, 14 August 2007: Amusingly, googlenope was itself a googlenope, until some bright spark - the writer Gene Weingarten - came up with the word.

2009, "Leave nothing unsaid", The Hindu, 4 July 2009: Gene had many Googlenopes on that day: Queen Elizabeth’s buttocks; I believe dust mites have souls; […]

2012, Michael Kesterton, "Googlenopes - phrases that return no results - celebrate the unlikely", The Globe and Mail, 22 November 2010: Invented by Gene Weingarten of The Washington Post, googlenopes such as "Laura Bush's secret tattoo" and "The sensual feel of the speculum" are celebrations of the unlikely.

A phrase that returns no results when entered between quotes into Google.


CAC

CAC (countable and uncountable, plural CACs)

(US, slang, derogatory, ethnic slur, neologism, offensive) Initialism of Cracker-ass cracker.


cockfag

Annoyed at the cockfags who decided it would be funny to throw a whole heap of drawing pins on the road just out of sorrento.

2006 October 17, Craig Strong, “Re: Atb”, in aus.bicycle (Usenet):

I'm sure you believe posting crappy song lyrics to me will endear you to me, but in reality, you're just a daft, frightened, silly little cockfag.

2007 June 26, Erwin Hessle, “Re: Update from LaBlueGirl”, in alt.magick (Usenet):

You're an arrogant cockfag who thinks he's a lot cleverer than he is.

2008 June 18, parris_k, “Re: Question:Are The Holocaust Deniers a small Minority?”, in alt.revisionism (Usenet):

(neologism, vulgar, offensive, slur) An extremely contemptible person.


poorism

While some may view poorism tourist options as exploitation (and indeed they are), such exploration helps uncover the stark reality of human resilience[…]

2012, P. H. Liotta, James F. Miskel, The Real Population Bomb, page 136:

(neologism) slum tourism; recreational visits to impoverished areas


outformation

outformation (countable and uncountable, plural outformations)

Blend of out + information, as though the latter began with English in.

Phobos' lack of the classic red color of Mars further suggests it was not originally a Martian outformation as a natural satellite, and therefore was probably a captured chunk from another extraterrestrial formation.

2008, M. Don Schorn, Elder Gods of Antiquity: First Journal of the Ancient Ones, page 108:

(neologism) Something that is sent out or broadcast from the source that formed it.


redneckism

(neologism) The beliefs or behaviours of rednecks.


apprecihate

en-verb

apprecihate (third-person singular simple present apprecihates, present participle apprecihating, simple past and past participle apprecihated)

apprecihates (present singular third-person)
apprecihating (participle present)
apprecihated (participle past)
apprecihated (past)

(neologism, humorous, rare) To dislike, to resent.


fakirism

en-noun

fakirism (countable and uncountable, plural fakirisms)


ringxiety

/ɹɪŋzˈaɪəti/

I reach for my cellphone, only to discover that it's not ringing.
"Damn it, this has been happening all week. Maybe I do have ringxiety."

2011, Lynn Schnurnberger, The Best Laid Plans, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 71:

(neologism, informal) The anxiety resulting from the mistaken belief that one's cell phone or mobile is ringing or vibrating.


semisomnia

From Latin semi- (“half”) + somnus (“sleep”) + -ia. Compare with insomnia. Coined by British sleep expert Neil Stanley in 2007.

Like many people, Heidi is suffering from the effects of modern society's non-stop nature, and she is also struggling to separate her work and home life - what I call the "Blackberry-Bushed" cause of semisomnia.

2007 December 7, Catherine Vonledebur, “Too tired to get night's sleep”, in Coventry Evening Telegraph:

(neologism) A chronic state of low-grade exhaustion caused by too little or fitful sleep.


likejacking

Blend of like + hijacking; compare clickjacking.

On Facebook, the form this takes has been dubbed Likejacking, because the object of the scam is to get you to click a hidden Like button, sending out a News Feed story saying that you Liked a Page or a link that you haven't, in fact, Liked.

No risk of "likejacking", "clickjacking", spammy apps or anything else that's so prevalent these days.

2011, Sycho, “Insurgents Intercept Drone Video in King-Size Security Breach (Updated, with Video)”, in alt.2600 (Usenet):

(Internet, neologism) The malicious practice of tricking users of a social networking website into "liking" something they did not intend to like.


twimmolation

twimmolation (usually uncountable, plural twimmolations)

No, Weiner is not the first person to be taken down by twimmolation, nor will he be the last.

2011 December 7, Allie Townsend, “The Top 10 Everything of 2011”, in Time:

(neologism, Internet) Public censure brought upon someone by an offensive or otherwise inadvisable Twitter post.


forda

Compound between English words for, and the in informal speech. From the early 2020s.

(Philippines, slang, neologism) down (comfortable [with]) for something


aphobia

a- + (from asexual or aromantic) + -phobia

Where aphobia goes wrong is that it assumes that some ace people 'pass' as straight, and therefore experience no discrimination.

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

Pathologizing non-conformity to sexual norms and medicalizing the distress caused by aphobia are harmful and oppressive practices.

2017, Eléa, "Anything but lacking: How asexuality can disrupt sex-normativity", The McGill Daily (McGill University), 20 November 2017, page 14

Amatonormativity—or the assumption and expectation that everyone seeks romantic love (which is generally, incorrectly, assumed to involve sexual desire by default) and prioritizes romance over other forms of intimacy—fuels aphobia.

2019, Morgan Lev Edward Holleb, The A-Z of Gender and Sexuality: From Ace to Ze, page 30:

(neologism) Fear, dislike, or hatred of asexual and/or aromantic people.


truel

(neologism) A conflict between three contending groups or ideas.


Party of No

Coined in United States political commentary since 2008.

(neologism, derogatory, US politics) The Republican Party of the United States.


umbworld

From umb- (“around, about”) + world, a calque of German Umwelt (early 19th c.). Compare Dutch omwereld, Swedish omvärld, etc., also from the German.

Religion has grown out of our folk knowledge, out of our group explanations of the how’s and why’s of the umbworld.

2009, Nature and World Cultures, Religious Ritual and Dissociation:

The meanings we generate can definitely be maladaptive and/or destructive. I think the only thing that has saved Homo sapiens so far is that the mathematical averages have been on our side, so that, so far, the meanings we’ve created have been local and contained. Globalization may indeed give us a broader umbworld where our maladaptive ideas could result in the death of us all.

2010, Becoming Jewish, Finding Meaning in Evolution…Maybe:

The evolutionary process is far more complex than that (as organisms interact with their umbworld); it is always best to remember to have a parsimonious approach to any and all claims to adaptability or evolutionary function of a trait.

2010, Further Light and Knowledge, evolutionary benefit of homosexuality?:

[…] as well as chemicals (potentially toxic) used in daily routine in research and educational institutes, industries (e.g., carcinogenic, mutagenic and teratogenic) and in household that may confer danger to the living beings if discharged in the umbworld.

2018, Pankaj,, Sharma, Anita, Microbial Biotechnology in Environmental Monitoring and Cleanup, page 176:

The use of chemical nematicides is being limited, given the growing concern for the umbworld and health of human being that has led to its ban.

2021, Heba I. Mohamed, Hossam El-Din Saad El-Beltagi, Kamel A. Abd-Elsalam, Plant Growth-Promoting Microbes for Sustainable Biotic and Abiotic Stress Management:

The cosmos knew a soul parted. But I wasn't alone, the umbworld too shed tears with me.

2022, Dhruv Shah, Quill It Out, page 38:

(neologism) The surrounding world; the world or sphere about one; the environment.


homonationalism

homonationalism (countable and uncountable, plural homonationalisms)

Coined by Jasbir Puar. From homo- + nationalism.

(neologism) The favourable association of LGBTI people and/or LGBTI rights with a nationalist ideology.


faitheist

Those are all appeals made either to the assumptions that Dennett shares with the belief-believers (or “faitheists”) or to their own priorities in ways that challenge their essential reasons for believing in belief.

2009 July 26, Daniel Fincke, “On The Alleged Intolerance Of The New Atheists Towards “Faitheists””, in Camels With Hammers, retrieved 2012-10-24:

I see the "faitheists" as parallels to the quietly closeted gays who cringed at the tactics of Act Up or the sit-in counter veterans who shook their heads at Malcolm X.

2009 August 19, dofang, “Distortions of the New Atheists prevent substantive debate about their impact (comment)”, in Examiner.com, retrieved 2012-10-24:

You're Not Helping is a blog started by a faitheist; that is, an atheist who sees value in faith or, at least, that some respect for their beliefs is in order. Even more particularly, a faitheist thinks that some atheist behaviour (typically labelled 'new atheist') is driving a wedge between 'moderate' theists and the rest of rational society.

2010 June 28, Mark Jones, “You Really Aren't Helping”, in Good Grief, Linus, retrieved 2012-10-24:

(slang, neologism) An atheist who thinks faith should not be criticized.

(slang, neologism, derogatory) An atheist who takes the nonexistence of gods on faith.


multishirk

en-verb

multishirk (third-person singular simple present multishirks, present participle multishirking, simple past and past participle multishirked)

multishirks (present singular third-person)
multishirking (participle present)
multishirked (participle past)
multishirked (past)

From multi- + shirk by analogy to multitask.

But in reality you are doing what one Dilbert reader calls multishirking, i.e., doing two nonwork activities at once.
Multishirking is not only fun; it doubles the odds that an observer will think you're doing at least one work-related activity.

1999 September 8, Scott Adams, The Joy of Work: Dilbert's Guide to Finding Happiness at the Expense of Your Co-Workers, Harper Paperbacks, →ISBN, →OL, page 53:

Sometimes those office workers with a basic grounding in drama will find it easier to multishirk while giving all the outward appearances of working diligently. Multishirking is, of course, preferable to multitasking, which generally means you do two jobs instead of one, for the same money.

2005 October 1, Karen Farrington, The Law of the Office: A Guide to the Culture of Working Nine to Five, London: Robson Books, →ISBN, →OL, page 86:

(slang, humorous, neologism) To do more than one non-work activity at once.


Cavuto

Coined by Jon Stewart during an episode of The Daily Show in reference to Fox News Channel correspondent Neil Cavuto.

(neologism, derogatory) A question mark used at the end of an unsubstantiated news headline.


teahadist

Figures a teahadist would define jingoism as love of country.

2011 August 1, Bill Baker, “Re: Haskell Breaks His Hand”, in alt.fan.rush-limbaugh (Usenet):

The anti-American teahadist screeches in outrage that Obama dares to cut taxes in order to help veterans.

2011 August 6, Ray Fischer, “Re: More Obama Spending Won’t Do It and Stocks Know It”, in alt.politics.liberalism (Usenet):

2011 September 20, REDRUM KILGORE [username], “Re: More Funny Stuff From The Obama White House? It's good to see President Obama finally giving up on any attempt at compromise with teahadists!”, in alt.fan.howard-stern (Usenet):

(neologism, derogatory) An affiliate of the Tea Party movement, particularly an overzealous one.


bitpop

From bit + pop; see bit (“binary digit”) and pop music; and punning on Britpop.

(neologism) A genre of electronic music based on the sound chips of older (8-bit or 16-bit) computers, but often combined with modern equipment and vocals.


meggings

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

Blend of man + leggings; compare treggings, jeggings.

On the catwalk, in magazines, on the legs of industry "muses" such as Jethro Cave (son of Nick), meggings are everywhere.

2009 March 9, Jonathan Heaf, “Coming your way: leggings for men”, in The Guardian:

Uniqlo is already selling Meggings on its British website, and their success in New York is seen as an indication they will also prove popular here.

2012 December 9, Tom Teodorczuk, “Men in tights: how ‘meggings’ are taking fashion by storm”, in Telegraph:

(neologism, informal) tights or leggings for men.


websurf

websurf (third-person singular simple present websurfs, present participle websurfing, simple past and past participle websurfed)

websurfs (present singular third-person)
websurfing (participle present)
websurfed (participle past)
websurfed (past)

(Internet, neologism) To browse or peruse websites.


phablet

@JGallo02 With that device it would be worth getting a pay as you go account just for that phablet. I can't wait for them to ship here

2009 September 3, Sloan Bowman, tweet https://twitter.com/sloanb/status/3725657504, Twitter

@sloanb phablet? dude, it's an uber-smart-phone with a sick open operating system called #maemo5 #n900 rocks

2009 September 3, Joe Gallo, tweet https://twitter.com/JGallo02/status/3725692942, Twitter

@JGallo02 You guys are marketing it as a internet tablet at all? phablet = Phone/Tablet. And I agree I love Maemo especially V.5

2009 September 3, Sloan Bowman, tweet https://twitter.com/sloanb/status/3725777613, Twitter

(neologism) A mobile device intermediate in size between smartphone and tablet.


seapunk

en-noun

seapunk (countable and uncountable, plural seapunks)

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

From sea + -punk; compare earlier cyberpunk, steampunk. Coined by Brooklyn-based DJ Lil Internet, who tweeted about a surreal dream he had in June 2011 ("Seapunk leather jacket with barnacles where the studs used to be"), and later popularized as a Twitter hashtag.

(aesthetic, uncountable) A fashion and visual art style, characterized by aquatic themes and colours, rave culture, and the digital aesthetic of the 1990s.

(neologism, countable) A follower of the seapunk style.


mommy porn

Now, as she turned the page of her book, a “mommy porn” title on every national bestseller list, she sneaked a peek at her in-flight neighbor's face.

2012, Emily Ryan-Davis, Tangled & Bound, Ellora's Cave Publishing, published 2012, →ISBN:

The sadomasochistic antics in EL James's 'mommy porn' book Fifty Shades of Grey have made it a phenomenon, despite the appalling writing.

2012 April 13, Laura Barnett, “Mommy porn?: Fifty Shades of Grey by EL James: review”, in The Telegraph:

Countless newspapers across the country reported on this “mommy porn” trend, since the majority of its audience seemed to be suburban housewives.

2013, Nicole Cammorata, Words You Should Know 2013: The 201 Words from Science, Politics, Technology, and Pop Culture That Will Change Your Life This Year, Adams Media, published 2013, →ISBN, page 101:

(informal, neologism) A genre of mainstream erotic literature that primarily appeals to the sensibilities of mothers and housewives.


social sharing

2012, social sharing, Oxford Dictionaries Online. Oxford University Press.
mobile technology and social sharing have reshaped the media industry in recent years

(Internet, neologism) The general practice of sharing content from the internet on social media websites or applications.


Ameritopia

Blend of America + utopia. Popularized by Mark R. Levin's 2012 book Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America.

Let's suppose we live in Ameritopia, where only the cops investigate child abuse on a criminal charge standard...sort of the dreamworld I've seen suggested here.

2005 October 21, 0;-> [username], “Gee, here's an interesting thought, douggieboy”, in alt.support.child-protective-services (Usenet):

The hypocrisy is in the Left's pretentious and fake allusion^([sic]) we live in Ameritopia where Political Correctness is a way of life.

2012 January 18, CB, “Re: Bill Maher: ‘If They Were Real Taliban… Not That Upset About Pissing On Them’”, in alt.politics.usa.republican (Usenet):

Unfortunately, the people who are voting democrat do not care about the constitution in any area where it limits their grand vision of Ameritopia.

2012 November 11, brent, “Re: OT: OBAMA WINS ANOTHER FOUR YEARS!!!’”, in sci.electronics.design (Usenet):

(neologism) A utopian or overly idealistic vision or version of the United States.


staycate

en-verb

staycate (third-person singular simple present staycates, present participle staycating, simple past and past participle staycated)

staycates (present singular third-person)
staycating (participle present)
staycated (participle past)
staycated (past)

On the other hand, when staycation arrived in the 2000s, for a 'stay-at home vacation', one concerned travel firm immediately introduced the slogan: Why staycate when you can vacate? Not all back-formations are immediately accepted.

2011, David Crystal, The Story of English in 100 Words:

I certainly won't make any kind of believer out of you if you are filling out auto insurance while you're trying to staycate.

2011, Dena Riegel, Official Maine Staycation Manual:

This was an exceptionally long journey beginning with the illustrious Thomas Cook (1840) and ending with the daring of Dennis Tito's fast flight on Soyuz (2001). I am fatigued, I must 'slow down' – relax or staycate for another trip.

2012, Tejvir Singh, Critical Debates in Tourism:

(neologism, rare, informal, intransitive) To vacation close to home; staycation.


panromantic

en-adj

panromantic (comparative more panromantic, superlative most panromantic)

more panromantic (comparative)
most panromantic (superlative)

As Jessica, a twenty-one year old white woman who self-identifies as a bi- or panromantic asexual describes, […]

2008 October, Kristin S. Scherrer, “Coming to an Asexual Identity: Negotiating Identity, Negotiating Desire”, in Sexualities, volume 11, number 5:

Neth, a 24-year-old from the West Country, describes herself as a "panromantic asexual".

2012 February 26, Rosie Swash, “Among the asexuals”, in The Guardian:

“I feel like it’s really important to say that anyone can be queer,” said Sonja Lund, a sophomore theatre major and panromantic lesbian on panel at the event.

2012, Katie Gossen, "Residence Life defies LGBT stereotypes", The Panther (Chapman University), 22 October 2012

(neologism, sexology) Romantically attracted to people regardless of sex or gender identity.


panromantic

(neologism) A person who is panromantic.


Zionistan

Blend of Zionist + -stan, equivalent to Zion + -i- + -stan

(neologism, rare, offensive, derogatory) The State of Israel, viewed as Zionist.


bi-asexual

bi-asexual (comparative more bi-asexual, superlative most bi-asexual)

more bi-asexual (comparative)
most bi-asexual (superlative)

Asexual people are often attracted to a specific gender just like sexual people are: you can be hetero-asexual, homo-asexual, or bi-asexual.

2006 April, “Asexuality 101”, in The Guide:

Similarly, Mona, a thirty year old white woman, said that she identifies as, “Bi-asexual. The things I find attractive, I find attractive in both sexes.”

There was a survey held in the English forum of AVEN (Asexual Visibility and Education Network), which is the longest running forum for asexual people and also claims the most members, according to which 23.7% of the users defined themselves as bi-asexual.

2011, Irina, "I am bi-asexual", Bijou, Issue 24, May 2011, page 36

(neologism) Romantically or aesthetically attracted to members of either sex, but not experiencing sexual attraction to others.


Facebooky

Facebooky (comparative more Facebooky, superlative most Facebooky)

more Facebooky (comparative)
most Facebooky (superlative)

(informal) Of or relating to the social network Facebook; resembling activity on Facebook.


exmo

A few weeks ago we announced to several of the Ex-mo lists that the Foundation had made a decision to fund and produce a documentary that would be viewable on our website, and also in DVD form.

2006 November 20, Sue Emmett, “Exmo Foundation Documentary - Interviews This Weekend”, in The Mormon Curtain, The Exmormon Foundation, archived from the original on 2007-02-03:

If Exmo boards are any indication, learning the new and expanded vocabulary of coffee is a real challenge for someone who grew up Mormon.

2019 July 30, Dave B., “Have a Cup of Green Tea. Or Not.”, in Wheat & Tares, archived from the original on 2020-09-23:

A disaffiliate of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a dominant Mormon religious organization.


transmisogyny

From trans- + misogyny. Coined by Julia Serano in her 2007 book Whipping Girl, who defined it as the intersection of traditional sexism (belief in women's inferiority) with oppositional sexism (belief in a rigid gender binary).

Coordinate term: transmisandry

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

2011, Diane Railton, Paul Watson, Music Video and the Politics of Representation, Edinburgh University Press, published 2011, →ISBN, page 146:

I talk about “transmisogyny” in my book, which is the intersection of being trans and experiencing misogyny. As a trans woman, I don't just experience how our culture devalues femininity—I'm treated as a fake woman.

2011, Julia Serano, edited by Jennifer Baumgardner, F 'em!: Goo Goo, Gaga, and Some Thoughts on Balls, Seal Press, →ISBN, page 199:

As to bisexual trans woman, in addition to all of the above, they are also subject to a whole other set of sexual harassment and violence as a result of transphobia and transmisogyny (this goes especially for trans women of color).

2013, Shiri Eisner, Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution, Seal Press, published 2013, →ISBN:

The state is unable to provide equal protection and non-discrimination to those within its borders because the state itself enshrines white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, and transmisogyny into its legal codes – a structure that operates through nonconsensual imposition, coercion […]

2017, Elizabeth Whalley, Colleen Hackett, “Carceral feminisms: the abolitionist project and undoing dominant feminisms”, in Contemporary Justice Review: Issues in Criminal, Social, and Restorative Justice, volume 20, number 4, pages 456–473:

Later in the text, the author speaks directly with a street sex worker, describing her as a “pretty transgender teenager”, giving a counterpoint to the language earlier in the text—however this occurs well after the transmisogyny of the introductory paragraphs (Wane 2011, 69) …

2020, G. L. E. Easterbrook-Smith, “'Not on the Street Where We Live': walking while trans under a model of sex work decriminalisation”, in Feminist Media Studies:

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

Sexism
Whipping Girl
oppositional sexism
transmisogyny


cisnormativity

The erasure of transpeople's experiences can be understood, at least partially, as a function of the hegemony of cisnormativity.

2012, Matthew Heinz, “Transmen on the Web: Inscribing Multiple Discourses”, in Karen Ross, editor, The Handbook of Gender, Sex and Media, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 336:

These are the bodily consequences of cisnormativity—the prevalent and presumptuous assumption that cissexuality is the only acceptable and legible form of gender identity—which show us why, when we engage in feminist activism and inquiry, we must be trans-inclusive in our efforts to ensure that every human being deserves decency and justice when wronged.

2012 Fall, Einar Ragnar Jónsson, “Why Feminism Needs to be Trans-Inclusive or: The Bodily Consequences of Cisnormativity”, in Bluestockings, page 41:

(LGBTQ, neologism) The assumption that all human beings are cisgender, i.e. have a gender identity which matches their biological sex.


cisnormative

cisnormative (comparative more cisnormative, superlative most cisnormative)

more cisnormative (comparative)
most cisnormative (superlative)

This erasure reflects the priorities, biases, and oversights of writers and publishers who function in a cisnormative system, one in which people are assumed to be cissexual.

2009, Greta R. Bauer, Rebecca Hammond, Robb Travers, Matthias Kaay, Karin M. Hohenadel, & Michelle Boyce, "'I Don't Think This Is Theoretical; This Is Our Lives': How Erasure Impacts Health Care for Transgender People", Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, Volume 20, Issue 5, September-October 2009, page 353

Cisnormative assumptions are tied in with discourses surrounding HIV and STIs.

2012 October, Jen Roberton, Emily Milton, “Cisnormative assumptions and queer sex”, in The Strand, volume 55, number 5,29, Victoria University, page 4:

In a cisnormative world, I could not comprehend the humiliation I felt, at eight years old, when I received a “girl” bike for Christmas, because everything around me reflected the experiences of people for whom the color of their bike somehow aligned with their genitalia.

2013 October 11, Bailey Dineen, “My Queer Rage”, in The Cornell Daily Sun, volume 130, number 34, Cornell University, page 7:

(LGBTQ, neologism) Of or pertaining to cisnormativity.


multisexual

From multi- + sexual, by analogy with bisexual.

'Bisexual' is a broad term. People who fall under the bisexual umbrella might have more specific identity labels, such as fluid, multisexual, non-monosexual, pansexual, polysexual, pomosexual, and omnisexual. People might use both ‘bisexual’ and a more specific label, or just one of the two.

2014, Sian Ferguson, "Bisexuality 101: Bisexual Visibility Week", Women24, 23 September 2014

(neologism) Sexually attracted to more than one sex or gender.


multisexual

(neologism) Someone who is sexually attracted to more than one sex or gender.


MexiCoke

en-noun

MexiCoke (countable and uncountable, plural MexiCokes)


Chrismukkah

Blend of Christmas + Hannukah, popularized by the US television series The O.C. in the 2000s. A similar formation can be found in German Weihnukka (from Weihnachten (“Christmas”)), and compare also Dutch Chanoeklaas, a merger of Hanukkah and the Dutch winter holiday of Sinterklaas which similarly involvies gift-giving.

Kimberly Duran of DallasNews.com, for example, referenced restaurants that served Chrismukkah foods in 2005 when Hanukkah and Christmas coincided.

2012, Joshua Eli Plaut, A Kosher Christmas: 'Tis the Season to be Jewish, page 147:

(neologism) The merged holiday of Christmas and Hanukkah.


manosphere

From man + -o- + -sphere, after the pattern of blogosphere.

The Manosphere essentially is the counterpoint to the feminist doctrine (that empowers women at the expense of men). It is a free form community consisting primarily of men on the internet sharing experiences and thoughts with the intention of educating, empowering and improving the state of men and boys.

2014, Alex Peck, Average Married Dad's Guide to Health, Wealth, and a Sexy Marriage, page 84:

Incel is short for “involuntarily celibate”. The term rose to prominence because of its adoption by a subsection of the “manosphere”, a loose collection of movements united by misogyny that also includes some men’s rights activists, pick-up artists, and Mgtow/volcel – heterosexual men who refuse to have sex with women for political reasons.

2018, Alex Hern, Who are the 'incels' and how do they relate to Toronto van attack?, The Guardian:

The foundational tenet of taking the red pill is at the root of almost all the major manosphere groups we will look at in this book, including pickup artists, so-called Men's Rights Activists, and Men Going Their Own Way.

2020, Laura Bates, Men Who Hate Women: From Incels to Pickup Artists, the Truth about Extreme Misogyny and how it Affects Us All:

(Internet, neologism) The domain or totality of blogs and websites associated with the men's rights movement, the redpill movement or incels.


neurosexism

Neurosexism reflects and reinforces cultural beliefs about gender—and it may do so in a particularly powerful way. Dubious “brain facts” about the sexes become part of the cultural lore.

2010, Cordelia Fine, Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference, W. W. Norton, →ISBN, page xxviii:

(neologism) The use of neuroscientific research to support preexisting ideas about inherent sex differences.


queerplatonic

en-adj

queerplatonic (comparative more queerplatonic, superlative most queerplatonic)

more queerplatonic (comparative)
most queerplatonic (superlative)

At the end of a tough day, “just friends” might simply hug, whereas a queerplatonic couple is more likely to crawl right into bed together without thinking twice. Think Hannah and Marnie from Girls rather than Rachel and Monica from Friends. The former pair's friendship is an excellent example of a queerplatonic relationship, even if they might not label it that.

2012 November 15, Ashton Strait, “Beyond bffs: cozying up to queerplatonic relationships”, in Post, volume 14, number 8, Brown University, page 3:

Outside the romantic paradigm, some people form what they’re calling “queerplatonic” relationships. The word indicates nothing about the gender of the participants, but speaks to the desire to “queer” our understandings of platonic friendships. These are relationships of care — “life partnerships” that go quite beyond what most of us consider ordinary friendship. Many sexually ambiguous literary or onscreen relationships — think Frodo and Sam, Holmes and Watson, Thelma and Louise — can also be read as queerplatonic.

2013 February 14, Tracey Hickey, “Asexuality should be recognized as a legitimate sexual orientation”, in The Pitt News, University of Pittsburgh:

After feeling these concerns, I was happy to learn about squishes and queerplatonic partners (also known as zucchinis, for some reason unclear to me).

2013 September, anonymous author, “The 'A' in LGBT”, in Counterpoint, volume 35, number 1, Wellesley College, page 8:

(neologism, of a relationship) Not romantic and (usually) not sexual, but sharing a stronger emotional bond than typical in a friendship.

kvirplatona

not romantic, but stronger emotional bond than friendship


artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence#Noun

(neologism, technology) Used in applications relating to generative artificial intelligence.


Mosi-oa-Tunya

Borrowed from Tonga (Zambia) [Term?], meaning "smoke that thunders".

(neologism) a gold coin introduced in Zimbabwe in 2022 in the context of rising inflation.


nymwars

(Internet, neologism) Conflicts over policies mandating that users of Internet services identify themselves using their real legal names.


pluviophile

(neologism) One who loves rain; one who finds joy and peace of mind during rainy days


megamenu

The webOS version of Facebook uses a megamenu for streamlined navigation, avoiding the extra navigation found in a Springboard pattern.

2012, Theresa Neil, Mobile Design Pattern Gallery, page 27:

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(Internet, graphical user interface, neologism) A dropdown menu that expands into a relatively large and complex interface rather than a simple vertical list of commands.


allistic

From allo- + -istic, by analogy with autistic; compare allism.

As with the rest of the article, I am following the conventions of the disabled people I am discussing. Autistics prefer to be called "autistic" and perceive the term "people with autism" as an allistic (non-autistic) phrase.

2013, Corbett Joan O'Toole, "Disclosing Our Relationships to Disabilities: An Invitation for Disability Studies", Disability Studies Quarterly, Volume 33, Number 2 (endnote)

The ASMC, like A$, aims mostly at helping to ease the “burden” autistic children and family members place on their allistic relatives and caretakers.

2013, Ianthe M. Belisle Dempsey, "Autism Acceptance Month (And Why Autism $peaks Should Stop Talking)", Indy (Bloomington–Normal, Illinois), Volume 12, Number 10, April 2013, page 1

For those who don’t know, Autism Speaks has an executive board and leadership made entirely of allistic people, or people who are not autistic.

2014 April 28, Stormy O'Brink, “People with disabilities are not broken”, in The Northern Iowan, University of Northern Iowa:


twidiot

(Internet slang, neologism, derogatory) Someone who posts stupid remarks on the Twitter microblogging service.


graysexual

/ˌɡɹeɪˈsɛk.ʃuː.əl/

Blend of gray + asexual, coined by user asexualityrocks in 2008 on the forums of the Asexual Visibility and Education Network about two years after the advent of gray-A and gray asexual.

But then I remember: the whole ethos of sex-positivity is predicated on a belief that everyone—sexual, asexual, or gray-sexual; monogamous, polyamorous, or something in-between; LGBTQ or as hetero as the Romneys—is entitled to pleasurable and safe sex.

2013, M. M, "sex-pos", Post- (Brown University), Volume 14, Issue 13, 21 February 2013, page 7

Some aces are gray-sexual (or gray-A), meaning that they fall somewhere on a spectrum between asexual and sexual.

2014 February 19, Tess Banta, “The 'A' Stands for Asexual”, in The Amherst Student, volume 143, number 16, Amherst College, page 7:

Do you feel sexual attraction sometimes, but only rarely? You may be graysexual,* and you’ll have a lot in common with asexual people if you are.

2014 June 18, Julie Sondra Decker, “How to Tell If You Are Asexual”, in Time:

(neologism) Intermediate between sexual and asexual; sometimes, but not usually, experiencing sexual attraction and desire.


graysexual

/ˌɡɹeɪˈsɛk.ʃuː.əl/


gray-A

Coined in 2006 by the user KSpaz on the forums of the Asexual Visibility and Education Network for those in the "fuzzy" area that is the distinction between asexuality and sexuality.

The gray-A type of attraction discussed in asexuality communities addresses this issue of a variable like sex drive.

2012, Evelyn Deshane, "Asexuality: Media Depictions and Lived Realities", Absynthe (Trent University), February 2012, page 34

People who find themselves “somewhere in the middle,” or people who don’t feel that they’re the cut-and-dry definition of aromantic asexual, tend to identify themselves as gray-A. And demisexuality is but one shade of gray-A.

2013, Adrienne Smith, “Cultural Fascination”, in Elesia Askenazy, Melanie Yergeau, editors, Relationships & Sexuality, page 96:

"Sexuality is so fluid, and Gray-A presents more of a possibility to be unsure. I don't understand all the intricacies of myself yet, so this is the closest approximation I've come up with," said Chris Maleney, an 18-year-old Pennsylvania high school student who identifies as Gray-A.

2013, Dominque Mosbergen, "Asexual in a Sexual World", Huffington, Issue #63, 25 August 2013, page 47 (approx.)


gray-A

Gray-As or demisexuals fit somewhere between sexual and asexual; they may have very low sex-drives, or may only experience sexual attraction after a deep emotional connection exists.

2012, Marina Hale, "The Drop-Down Menu Identity Crisis", Glass Buffalo (University of Alberta), Spring 2012, page 51

Gray-A's, on the other hand, are people who identify more generally in the gray zone between asexuality and sexuality.

Graces, or gray-A’s, are people who experience sexual attraction infrequently or not very strongly; […]

2014 January 24, Bailey Dineen, “A Look Into My Sex Life”, in The Cornell Daily Sun, volume 13, number 74, Cornell University, page 7:

(neologism, informal) A graysexual person.


flexisexuality

Dr D’Felice admitted flexisexuality had become fashionable as a result of its recent celebrity endorsement, but said it had always existed.

2010 November 27, Louise Eccles, “Dawn of the flexisexual: The new word for the women who refuse to play it straight”, in Daily Mail:

Often, it begins in the enlightened college cocoon, where women can explore their sexuality, though a recent ABC report from San Antonio, Texas, said flexisexuality is also part of the high school culture.

2011 February 23, Susan Donaldson James, “Flexisexual: Girls Who Kiss Girls, But Like Boys”, in ABC News:

In fact, a growing proportion of Londoners are overturning the yoke of old-school monogamy and instead investigating the worlds of flexisexuality, of open or group relationships, of Living Apart Together (LAT), mono/non-mono and mono-gamish.

2014 March 14, Rebecca Newman, “Sex? Love? Commitment? The changing face of modern relationships”, in London Evening Standard:

(neologism) The state of having a flexible sexual orientation or pattern of sexual expression.


vatnik

Borrowed from Russian ва́тник (vátnik, literally “quilted jacket”). The sense of "unintelligent Russian patriot" was derived from the jackets worn by Soviet citizens and an online cartoon about a sentient jacket known by the same name.
The term was popularized in Russia in 2011 and re-popularized at large in 2022 during the Russian invasion of Ukraine to refer to supporters of the invasion, especially online users, even if they are not from Russia. Reflecting usage in Ukrainian and Russian, the term was later extended to refer to Russian soldiers who were involved in war against Ukraine.

bor

(derogatory, Internet slang, neologism, by extension) A supporter of Vladimir Putin, Russian nationalism, or the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine; a Putinist.

(derogatory, Internet slang, neologism, by extension) A soldier in the Russian armed forces involved in the invasion of Ukraine.


multitexting

From multi- + texting, presumably as a play on multitasking.

(neologism) The act of electronically text messaging several people at the same time.

(neologism) The act of electronically text messaging while doing other things, i.e. multitasking.


plantgating

From plant (“manufacturing facility”) + gate (“entrance”) + -ing.

affix

(politics, neologism) The act of a candidate who greets workers at the entrance to a factory, etc. in order to promote his/her campaign.


rUK

Alex Salmond is undoubtedly the most successful politician practising in these islands today. He has led Scots first to an SNP majority at Holyrood, now to the brink of a historic break with the rest of the UK ("rUK"?).

2014 September 8, Michael White, “Roll up, roll up! The Amazing Salmond will show a Scotland you won't believe”, in The Guardian:

(neologism) The rest of the UK not including Scotland (after proposed devolution in 2014)


Vimean

A place for Vimeans to post horror or thriller movies they like or created!

(Internet, neologism) A user of the video-sharing web site Vimeo.


dumbbutt

We don't need people with ambiguous agendas telling us how to deal with problematic owners/advocates of either the mucho dumbbutt or Pollyannaish variety.

1999 February 3, JFRCHRDSN, “Pit Bulls - what are they: beasts or beauties?”, in rec.pets.dogs.breeds (Usenet):

Why is Suntimes publishing Ebert's dumbbutt political opinions?

2000 November 13, MAN...an ancient race, “TRUTH ABOUT EBERT”, in talk.politics.misc (Usenet):

2002 December 28, but i'll tell ya why this LOR business is so dumbbutt., “why LOR sucks and probably Two towers too”, in rec.arts.movies.past-films (Usenet):

(Canada, US, slang, derogatory, neologism) Stupid.


fampool

(neologism) A carpool composed of members of the same family.


Kafirism

2007 Ranjit Matthews, Re: Senator calls for Mecca and Medina to be nuked in retaliation Group: soc.culture.indian
If it were, it would lose because you can't defeat a religion militarily. You can. Jahaliya was cleansed out of Arabia. More recently, Sufism was eliminated in the Hejaz. Kafirism was wiped out in Kafiristan (Nuristan).

2013 Satya D, Fwd: Muzaffarnagar: And this is what happened... Group: Stop Corruption Worldwide
Jats and Muslims have had a longstanding alliance in this region,= so it came as a big surprise to many of them that idea of anti-Kafirism ha= d entered into Western UP with such violence. First few days were a complet= e surprise for Jats as they faced these relentless attacks by organized mob= s with unheard of weapons.

1996 Hammad Awan, Look who's fool? Group: alt.religion.islam
Ahmadiyya is equivalent to Kafirism. If the Ahmadis had any sort of respect, they would stop using the name of Islam, and start using the name of their own little deviant religion to spread it.


chumpion

(rare, colloquial, neologism, slang) A gullible champion.


nerdify

en-verb

nerdify (third-person singular simple present nerdifies, present participle nerdifying, simple past and past participle nerdified)

nerdifies (present singular third-person)
nerdifying (participle present)
nerdified (participle past)
nerdified (past)

(neologism, transitive) to make or render nerdy


Soviet Jewnion

(derogatory, informal, neologism) the Soviet Union, viewed as being under the control and influence of Jews.


fuckbait

(neologism, slang, vulgar) Somebody who deserves or merits sex.

Buzz off, fuckbait, I'm not interested in your used-up cooter.

(neologism, slang, vulgar) A term of abuse.


homolover

(derogatory, neologism) One who likes or supports homosexual people.


granny chaser

(neologism, slang) Someone who is sexually attracted to elderly women.


acephobia

It’s important to talk about asexuality because it’s often an overlooked sexual identity, and acephobia – discrimination against asexual people – is experienced by many asexual people.

2013, Lee Thomas, "LGBTQrazy: A is for…", The Brunswickan (University of New Brunswick), Volume 147, Issue 7, 17 October 2013, page 10

I now give asexual workshops, screen the film (A)sexual with a postfilm discussion, and try to have conversations with my friends and colleagues about asexual identity and acephobia.

2014, Joelle Ruby Ryan, “On Being Asexual and Transgender: Notes on Identity, Visibility, and Empowerment”, in Laura Erickson-Schroth, editor, Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 367:

Closely linked to homophobia, biphobia, transphobia and acephobia.

2014, Nicole Wiesenthal, "Glossary of Asexual Terms", The Mirror, Volume 3, Issue 3, Fall 2014, page 19

(neologism) Fear, dislike, or hatred of asexual people and/or human asexuality.


de-extinction

en-noun

de-extinction (usually uncountable, plural de-extinctions)

Even this more limited ambition, however, speaks eloquently of the rapid progress being made in the area of de-extinction.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 309:

The concept of de-extinction is fascinating in much the same way that the dinosaurs of Jurassic Park and Jurassic World are.

2020, “Life Finds A Way”, in Jonathan Elmore, editor, Fiction and the Sixth Mass Extinction, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN:

(biology, neologism) The process of returning an extinct species back into the world.


social justice warrior

social justice warrior (plural social justice warriors)

社會正義戰士

online activist who zealously promotes social justice causes

Looking back, I was more of a cop than a social justice warrior, as people on Tumblr had come to think of me.

2021, Liat Kaplan, “I Was Your Fave Is Problematic”, in The New York Times:

(neologism, politics) A person who advocates for progressive views or attitudes, principally with regard to social justice.

How will your upper class social justice warrior cope with men swearing and pushing each other? Will she faint at the first sight of blood from a split lip? Or will she hike up her skirts, grab a hot soup spoon, and brain the first aggressor she can find?

2014, Krista D. Ball, Hustlers, Harlots, and Heroes: A Regency and Steampunk Field Guide, Tyche Books Ltd., →ISBN:

But the partisan liberals in the Obama adminstration think that the rules don't apply to them. They are blind to the dragon's teeth of division and mistrust that their social justice politics sows in the body politic. They honor and celebrate the "activist," the "community organizer" and the social justice warrior, whose proud life purpose is to "raise consciousness" of injustice and marginalization.

2014, Joe Cooper, “It's Not 'Unwisdom', It's Hubris -- Hubris often indicates a loss of contact with reality.”, in soc.culture.usa (Usenet):

2014, Thejendra B.S., Digital Wildfires: How to Become a Social Justice Warrior, Createspace Independent Pub, →ISBN:

Finally, social justice warriors always portray themselves—and seem to experience themselves—as actively suffering victims who need protection.

2015, Peggy Noonan, “The Trigger-Happy Generation”, in The Wall Street Journal, volume CCLXV, number 120:

It's the time you realize your son's school has turned into Social Justice Warrior boot camp, where English is “Gender Studies” and History and Geography are “Global inequality and the failures of capitalism.”

2016, Nick Adams, Retaking America: Crushing Political Correctness:

(neologism, derogatory, politics) An advocate for social justice views whose actions are deemed overzealous, performative, or insincere.


Twibel

The most notorious Twitter libel case, sometimes called Twibel cases, involved rocker Courtney Love.

2013, Robert Trager, Joseph Russomanno, Susan Dente Ross, The Law of Journalism and Mass Communication, page 154:

Twitter, for example, has a structure (maximum 140 characters) that encourage^([sic]) such [quick, thoughtless] statements, leading to “twibel” actions.

2015, Serap Kurbanoglu, Sonja Spiranec, Esther Grassian, Information Literacy, page 105:

(informal, neologism) libel in the form of postings on the Twitter microblogging service


brightsizing

(business, derogatory, neologism) Giving redundancy to (i.e. firing) the most intelligent employees of a company.


bye, Felicia

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-bye, Felicia.wav

A line from the comedy film Friday (1995), used to dismiss the character Felisha (not Felicia), who irritates people in the neighborhood by begging and borrowing.

(slang, neologism, African-American Vernacular) Used as an abrupt sarcastic dismissal of somebody who is present.


blitzar

Heino Falcke
Luciano Rezzolla
en:blitzar

Blend of blitz + star. Proposed in 2013 by Heino Falcke and Luciano Rezzolla. Analyzable as blitz + -ar.

fast radio burst
fast radio burst#English

(astronomy, neologism) A phenomenon that emits a fast radio burst.

(astronomy, neologism) The object type that generates the phenomenon which emits the burst.


misogynoir

/mɪˌsɒd͡ʒəˈnwɑː/

/məˌsɑd͡ʒəˈnwɑɹ/

Blend of misogyny (“contempt for, hatred of, or prejudice against women”) + French noir (“black”), coined by the African-American feminist activist and scholar Moya Bailey and first published in a 2010 online essay: see the quotation below.

coinage

My reorientation to the misogynoir ruling the radio took place when I tried to make the argument that “All the Way Turnt Up” was a great song because it didn’t objectify women. This was something I could get behind; a song simply extolling the youthful value of keeping the bass bumping in your vehicle. That was until I read the lyrics and found the choice lyric “three dike bitches, and they all wanna swallow.”

2010 March 14, Moya Bailey, “They Aren’t Talking about Me …”, in Crunk Feminist Collective, archived from the original on 2022-03-15:

Hip-hop feminist studies continues to tackle black sexual politics by discussing and challenging the persistence and prevalence of hip-hop "misogynoir" (the hatred of black women and girls), respectability politics, and compulsory heterosexuality within the music and the culture at large.

2013 spring, Aisha Durham, Brittany C. Cooper, Susana M. Morris, “The Stage Hip-Hop Feminism Built: A New Directions Essay”, in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, volume 38, number 3, Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 730:

Unfortunately, the idealization of white women is most often paired with the condemnation of black women, creating the intersectional problem of misogynoir: the combined racism and sexism black women face.

2014 September 24, Monica Cruz, “Someone Tell Kanye West to Stop Insulting Black Women”, in The Paper: Fordham University’s Student Journal of News, Analysis, Comment and Review, volume 43, number 6, Bronx, New York, N.Y.: Fordham University, →OCLC, page 9:

Drawing upon a history in which racism, heteropatriarchy, and inter-racial gender ideology rendered Black women invisible and marginalized, Pough compels Black feminists attempting to reject hip-hop feminism to revisit the historical record of Black women pushing back against Black male sexism and misogynoir in Black political, cultural, and social spaces.

2015 January, Treva B. Lindsey, “Let Me Blow Your Mind: Hip Hop Feminist Futures in Theory and Praxis”, in Urban Education, volume 50, number 1, Beverly Hills, Calif.: SAGE Journals, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-03-19, pages 57–58:

[A] Black woman as the arbiter of racialized sexism against a young Black girl is an example of misogynoir.

2016, Sonita R. Moss, “Beyoncé and Blue: Black Motherhood and the Binds of Racialized Sexism”, in Adrienne Trier-Bieniek, editor, The Beyoncé Effect: Essays on Sexuality, Race and Feminism, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 157:

To me, his words seemed a form of “misogynoir” – discrimination prejudice, and violence aimed specifically at women of colour.

2022 December 21, VV Brown, “The Sun will protect Jeremy Clarkson. Who will protect women who suffer violence every day?”, in The Guardian:

(neologism) Contempt for, hatred of, or prejudice against black women.

misogynoir

contempt for, hatred of, or prejudice against black women


spinquel

"Better Call Saul" is a spinquel to "Breaking Bad".

(informal, neologism) A spin-off taking the form of a prequel.


Chican@

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

-a-o-@

The history generated by those presuppositions—and, tautologically, the presuppositions that continue to be sustained through that history—is enmeshed with the cultural and political mobilization of Chican@s as an oppositional group ...

2010, Sandra K. Soto, Reading Chican@ Like a Queer: The De-Mastery of Desire, University of Texas Press, →ISBN:

One of the most beautiful things about Chican@s is that for those who become aware, there is truly no generation gap. Fathers and sons, mothers and daughters simply enjoy working together for the betterment of La Raza.

2011, Nephtalí De León, Chican@s: Our Background and Our Pride, Universitat de València, →ISBN, page 111:


tweetstorm

“The company sent a flood of tweets—actually, we ought to call it what it was, an epically disastrous tweetstorm—aimed squarely at journalist Nancy Jo Sales insisting that the app is about so much more than hooking up.”

2015 August 11, Julia Greenberg, “Tinder completely freaked out on Twitter”, in Wired:

(Internet) A series of tweets posted on the Twitter microblogging service in rapid succession.

(Internet) A storm of controversy arising from tweets posted on Twitter.


offshorization

On the domestic front, the existence of efficiency asymmetries—specifically, the existence of more efficient offshore intermediaries that only intermediate in dollars—induces dollarization through “offshorization” and by forcing domestic intermediaries to raise their peso margins so as to compensate for compressed dollar margins.

2005, Alain Ize, Financial De-Dollarization: Is It for Real?, page 12:

(neologism) The act of moving capital to offshore accounts, or relocating business to a foreign country with a more lenient tax regime.


Bourbon virus

Discovered in 2014 in a case in Bourbon County, Kansas by Olga Kosoy.

On the basis of limited information for our case-patient, health care providers might consider Bourbon virus as a potential infectious etiology in patients in whom fever, leukopenia, and thrombocytopenia develop without a more likely explanation and who have shown negative results for other tickborne diseases (e.g., ehrlichiosis, anaplasmosis, or Heartland virus disease) or have not responded to doxycycline therapy.

2015 May 20, Olga I. Kosoy, Amy J. Lambert, Dana J. Hawkinson, Daniel M. Pastula, Cynthia S. Goldsmith, D. Charles Hunt, J. Erin Staples, “Novel Thogotovirus Associated with Febrile Illness and Death, United States, 2014”, in Emerging Infectious Diseases, volume 21, number 5 (in English), pages 760–764:

Rickettsioses caused by Rickettsia parkeri or by R. assiliae or the Bourbon virus disease caused by Bourbon virus, a new virus thought to be transmitted by ticks, serve as examples.

2015 August 25, World Journal of Clinical Infectious Diseases, volume 5, number 3:

And early last year, a new disease-causing virus, the Bourbon virus, was reported for the first time.

2016, Joy Xiaomin Su, Truth Vs Illusion: What Is Life About?:

A proportion of these viruses are zoonotic (severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome virus in China, the Heartland virus and the Bourbon virus in the USA) but the pathogenicity of many others is poorly documented.

2016 May 20, S. Moutailler, I. Popovici, E. Devillers1, M. Vayssier-Taussat, M. Eloit, “Diversity of viruses in Ixodes ricinus, and characterization of a neurotropic strain of Eyach virus”, in New Microbes and New Infections, volume 11, pages 71–81:

(pathology, neologism) A virus believed to be in species Dhori thogotovirus in family Orthomyxoviridae, a tick-borne virus discovered in 2014 that has caused at least one fatality in an otherwise healthy man


biromanticism

(neologism) The state of being biromantic.


polyromantic

en-adj

polyromantic (comparative more polyromantic, superlative most polyromantic)

more polyromantic (comparative)
most polyromantic (superlative)

From poly- + romantic. Compare polysexuality.

Romantic relationships are also found on a spectrum, ranging from non-romantic/aromantic to polyromantic, including homoromantic, heteroromantic, biromantic panromantic, et cetera.

2013 October 17, Lee Thomas, “LGBTQrazy: A is for . . .”, in The Brunswickan, volume 147, number 07, page 10:

Within the asexual communinity, one key distinction drawn is between those who experience romantic attraction (romantic asexuals) and those who do not (aromantic asexuals), with individuals in the former group commonly understood as heteroromantic, biromantic, homoromantic or polyromantic.

2014, Mark Carrigan, Kristina Gupta, Todd G. Morrison, “Introduction”, in Asexuality and Sexual Normativity: An Anthology, London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 1:

While most people match, being both romantically and sexually on the same section of the spectrums, this is not always the case, creating split-model attractions. Some examples of this are a biromantic heterosexual man, demi-homoromantic ace woman, or pansexual polyromantic non-binary individual.

2018, Jaimi S.T., Tales of Identity: Memories & Reflections, →ISBN, page 114:

(neologism) Romantically attracted to more than one gender.

Being polyamorous isn't inherently wrong. Neither is desiring threesomes or kinky sex. […] The other misconceptions, the ones that sexualize us, need to stop too, but in stopping those, we mustn't shame the bisexual folks who do prefer a polyromantic or sexually-explorative lifestyle.

2016 April 3, Zachary Zane, “Where Do "Messy Bisexuals" Fit Into the Bi+ Community?”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on 2022-06-07:

The American series You Me Her is being promoted as ‘TV’s first polyromantic comedy”, starring Amy Poehler’s brother Greg.

2017, Rosie Wilby, Is Monogamy Dead?: Rethinking Relationships in the 21st Century, Accent Press Ltd, →ISBN:

This is because the internalization of the model of monogamy forecloses a lot of self-discovery and self-knowledge. […] Quinn said, for example, “If you want to get really, really specific, I am a demi-polyromantic, polysexual, gender-queer individual.” Quinn defines themselves as “polyamorous and polysexual and polyromantic”: “but I usually just describe myself as queer because that’s so much easier, in addition to being a demi-romantic, which is on the aromantic spectrum.”

2018, Ann Travers, The Trans Generation: How Trans Kids (and Their Parents) Are Creating a Gender Revolution, New York, N.Y.: New York University Press, →ISBN, page 24:

(neologism) Romantically polyamorous; that is, having multiple romantic relationships.


panromanticism

(neologism) The state of being panromantic, i.e. romantically attracted to people regardless of genders.


transromantic

transromantic (comparative more transromantic, superlative most transromantic)

more transromantic (comparative)
most transromantic (superlative)

Often, however, asexual people will also identify with a particular sexual orientation, minus the sexual aspect, and may define themselves as heteroromantic, homoromantic, biromantic, transromantic or panromantic.

2009, Jennifer Byrne, "He's Just Not That Into Anyone, Pop Matters, 31 August 2009

(neologism) Romantically attracted to persons of variant or ambiguous gender, or to transgender persons.


Pastagate

(neologism) The 2013 scandal wherein an Italian restaurant was requested by the OQLF to use the French language on its menus. The incident was falsely believed to have been an attempt by Quebec to ban the word ‘pasta.’


sodcast

en-verb

sodcast (third-person singular simple present sodcasts, present participle sodcasting, simple past and past participle sodcasted or sodcast)

sodcasts (present singular third-person)
sodcasting (participle present)
sodcasted (participle past)
sodcasted (past)
sodcast (participle past)
sodcast (past)

From sod (“contemptible person”) + -cast, from broadcast. Possibly influenced by podcast.

Unlike American gangsta rap, which was well-produced and cinematic and had an element of exotic remoteness, grime was always going to remind non-converts, people from outside the scene itself, of hooded youths on the top deck of buses sodcasting tinny music at top volume out of their mobiles.

2010 January 20, Simon Reynolds, “Simon Reynolds' Notes on the noughties: Grime and dubstep – a noise you could believe in”, in The Guardian:

Rapper Giggs is said to be the most sodcasted artist, though quantifying this is very difficult.

2011 June 11, Alex Hudson, “Why do people play music in public through a phone?”, in BBC News:

Thou shalt not sodcast […] There’s a clear positive correlation between how awful music is and the likelihood of it being sodcasted - chewed-and-spat from a phone speaker; landing on your eardrums with all the clarity and soothing of mud splatter.

2014 September 22, Hannah Jane Parkinson, “Six steps to perfect mobile phone etiquette”, in The Guardian:

(UK, slang, derogatory, neologism) To play music on a mobile phone or other portable device in public, without regard for those around.


sodcasting

With mobile phones in many a teenager's pocket, the rise of sodcasting - best described as playing music through a phone in public - has created a noisy problem for a lot of commuters.

When times are good, a community can just about cope: lack of empathy leads to nothing worse than the rudeness of sodcasting on buses, the discharging of one’s nostrils on to a pavement, the casual dropping of a takeaway food container into the doorway of someone else’s flat.

2011 December 9, Graeme Archer, “Empathy has fled the inner city, and it’s time for me to follow”, in The Telegraph:

Take, for example, the following passage from Dan Hancox's blog post about sodcasting and note in particular how Hancox names a variety of technologies — from filesharing software limewire to mobile phones—and the way their traces seem to issue from the crunchy timbres and impoverished (bass) frequencies of the music itself, qualities which have come to periodize these recordings for the author and his cohorts.

2014, Wayne Marshall, “Treble Culture”, in The Oxford Handbook of Mobile Music Studies, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 61:

(UK, slang, neologism) Playing music on a mobile phone or other portable device in public, without regard for those around.


MFW

Overseas Filipino workers, known as O.F.W.s, are also returning to the country to earn crypto as M.F.W.s, or metaverse Filipino workers.

2024 March 18, Eli Tan, Jes Aznar, “What Meltdown? Crypto Comes Roaring Back in the Philippines.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Metaverse Filipino Worker
Metaverse Filipino Worker#English

(Philippines, neologism) Initialism of Metaverse Filipino Worker.


quarantini

Now she is planning to host weekly video chat happy hours to help moms “celebrate surviving another week of the Coronapocalypse” with a “quarantini.”

2020 March 21, Alanna Durkin Richer, quoting Emily Anderson, “Quarantini? Happy hours go virtual”, in Telegraph-Herald, Dubuque, Iowa, page C7:

What, exactly, is a quarantini other than something you drink during a quarantine? There are plenty of recipes floating around online, such as basic vodka martinis sipped from your sofa or more elaborate concoctions that add in items like emergen-c.

2020 March 31, “How to make a ‘quarantini’”, in The Province, Vancouver, BC, page A22:

MacKillop says the data are still being compiled and analyzed, but he won't be surprised if, at the end of the day, we learn that alcohol consumption in Ontario was lower during the pandemic. Among many populations in Europe, similar patterns are emerging.
So why did everyone take up the quarantini bender story as objective truth?

2021 July 6, “‘Quarantini problem’ may have been a myth”, in Toronto Star, page B9:

Recipes included things like "Fau-Cheesy Rice and Broccoli," "Peas Make-the-Corona-Virus-Go-Away Salad," and "Dirty Quarantini." Do you have a favorite?

2021 July 20, Randy Petersen, “Lake City’s Dick Boerger has recipe for success in Wall Street Journal”, in Post-Bulletin, Chicago:

(humorous, neologism) A martini-style cocktail popular amongst people in COVID-19 lockdown.


Trololo

Onomatopoeia of how Eduard Khil vocalized "Я очень рад, ведь я, наконец, возвращаюсь домой (Ja očenʹ rad, vedʹ ja, nakonec, vozvraščajusʹ domoj)".

(Internet, neologism, informal) Eduard Khil's vocalized recording of the song "Я очень рад, ведь я, наконец, возвращаюсь домой (Ja očenʹ rad, vedʹ ja, nakonec, vozvraščajusʹ domoj)" and its accompanying music video, which has risen into a meme.


manshake

(slang, neologism) An aggressively strong handshake.


phub

phub (third-person singular simple present phubs, present participle phubbing, simple past and past participle phubbed)

phubs (present singular third-person)
phubbing (participle present)
phubbed (participle past)
phubbed (past)

Blend of phone + snub, coined by Adrian Mills at the McCann advertising agency as part of a campaign to promote the Macquarie Dictionary by creating a new word.

Phubbing has been theorized to provoke conflict in romantic relationships because the partner being phubbed feels unimportant and deprioritized compared to the digital content delivered through their partner's mobile phone.

2018, Zizi Papacharissi, editor, A Networked Self and Love, Routledge, →ISBN:

Individuals who were phubbed during a conversation, felt less valued, less close, and less important to the individual who phubbed them.

2022, Lambert Deckers, Motivation: Biological, Psychological, and Environmental, Routledge, →ISBN:

(transitive, neologism) To ignore the conversation around oneself by focusing on one's smartphone.


djent

Onomatopoeia for a high-gain, distorted palm-muted, low pitch guitar sound; coined by guitarist Fredrik Thordendal (b. 1970) of the Swedish extreme metal band Meshuggah.

[…] they later evolved into a progressive technical metal band with elements of mathcore and djent.

2015, Brian Giffin, Encyclopaedia of Australian Heavy Metal, page 2232:

(neologism) A style of progressive heavy metal music characterized by rhythmic and technical complexity, and typically featuring heavily distorted, palm-muted guitar chords, syncopated, downtuned riffs, and polyrhythms alongside virtuoso soloing.