cleanfluencer

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

Instagram 'cleanfluencer' Mrs Hinch says cleaning helped her tackle her anxiety.

2019, Laura Jane Williams, The Life Diet: How to Let in What Makes You Happy, and Let Go of Everything Else, unnumbered page:

He will never understand the joy I feel at being a cleanfluencer, nor feel the buzz I get when tens of my followers contact me to tell me how I've encouraged them to organise their clutter.

2020, J. A. Andrew, Behind Her Smile, unnumbered page:

In comparison to the Zoflora-scented cult that's grown up around @mrshinch, Lynsey Crombie, aka @lynsey_queenofclean, a blonde 40-year-old cleanfluencer from Petersborough, offers a cosier roster of domestic aphorisms.

2020, Sally Howard, The Home Stretch: Why It's Time to Come Clean About Who Does the Dishes, unnumbered page:

(neologism, rare) An influencer who gives advice on housekeeping and cleaning products.


sharent

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Back-formation from sharenting. Analyzable as blend of share + parent.

If you're not one yourself, you've probably come across one, perhaps even taken advantage of apps such as Unbaby.me, which helpfully replaces the endless feed of baby pictures with images of cats or, if you prefer, bacon. Because sharents have a tendency to get a little … carried away.

2013 May 18, Nione Meakin, “The pros and cons of 'sharenting'”, in The Guardian:

During the interview, Maya told me that she was a passionate sharent; she loved to post about her son and tell stories about his life.

2020, Veronica Barassi, Child Data Citizen: How Tech Companies Are Profiling Us from Before Birth, page 134:

Through YouTube channels, blogs, Instagram accounts, and other digital platforms, commercial sharents use their families' everyday experiences to create revenue-generating content that is available to the public.

2020, Leah A. Plunkett, Sharenthood: Why We Should Think Before We Talk About Our Kids Online, page 55:

(neologism) A parent who documents their child's upbringing on social media, typically by posting photos, videos, etc.


sharent

en-verb

sharent (third-person singular simple present sharents, present participle sharenting, simple past and past participle sharented)

sharents (present singular third-person)
sharenting (participle present)
sharented (participle past)
sharented (past)

If you are going to sharent, it's worth being careful about the privacy settings you establish.

2016, Suzie Hayman, John Coleman, Parents and Digital Technology: How to Raise the Connected Generation, page 46:

Adults are sharenting because the structure of the online world makes it very easy to do and even encourages it.

2020, John Palfrey, forward of Leah A. Plunkett, Sharenthood: Why We Should Think Before We Talk About Our Kids Online, page X

Thus, this study aimed to ascertain how Australian parents are sharenting on social media, and to understand both their awareness of risk, and their perceptions of their children's rights to privacy.

2021, Anna Potter, Renee Barnes, “The 'Sharent' Trap: Parenting in the Digital Age and a Child's Right to Privacy”, in Catherine Archer, Donell Holloway, Francesca Stocco, Karen Murcia, Michele A. Willson, editors, Young Children's Rights in a Digital World: Play, Design and Practice, page 286:

(neologism) To document one's child's upbringing on social media, typically by posting photos, videos, etc.


Rocketman

Coined by Donald Trump in September 19, 2017 for a United Nations speech, in reference to Kim's launch of military rockets.

coined

Rocketman is on a suicide mission for himself and his regime.

Little Rocketman has totally misrepresented denuke plan we offered. Deals can't get made when there is no trust! Fat kid blew it and will be sorry. Sad!
[…]
Rocketman's sister IS NOT North Korea's IVANKA. Ivanka is 6 feet tall. She's got the best body. Rocketman's sister is flat as a board!

2018 August 7, Dr Jeffrey Lewis, The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against The United States, Random House, →ISBN, →OCLC:

It wouldn't surprise me. I thought Trump was using Bolton as the "bad cop" in
North Korea, and would use him to annoy Rocketman, then fire him and be the
"good cop".

2019 October 2, Rick Sabian, “THE WHISTLE BLOWER IS”, in alt.checkmate (Usenet):

Today in North Korea we see the lasting Karma of those events where the Japanese mutilated millions for the sheer lust of it. And North Korea's Rocketman wins the fearful adoration of his peoples in consequence.

2019 October 23, RANCE DEWITT, AMAZON COVENANT 2020 TRUMP and BOLSONARO, Lulu.com, →ISBN, →OCLC:

(slang, humorous, derogatory, neologism) North Korean politician Kim Jong-un.


xenofeminism

From xeno- + feminism. Coined by the collective Laboria Cuboniks in their 2015 manifesto The Xenofeminist Manifesto: A Politics for Alienation.

Even if they were to incorporate feminist perspectives, however, tensions remain between the desire to use technology for change, as in feminist posthumanism and xenofeminism, and the recognition of its embeddedness within both militarism and capitalism.

2018, Emily Jones, Sara Kendall, Yoriko Otomo, “Gender, War, and Technology: Peace and Armed Conflict in the Twenty-First Century”, in Australian Law Journal, volume 44, number 1, page 5:

Xenofeminism sees the rising wave of technocracy but instead of searching for a buoy, it wants to catch the surf.

2019, Bogna M. Konior, “Automate the Womb: Ecologies and Technologies of Reproduction”, in Parrhesia, number 31, page 232:

Rejecting the claim that science and technology are inherently masculine or patriarchal, Xenofeminism looks at attempts to repurpose technology to liberate women.

2019, Jordi Vallverdú, Sarah Boix, “Ectogenesis as the Dilution of Sex or the End of Females?”, in Janina Loh, Mark Coeckelbergh, editors, Feminist Philosophy of Technology, page 113:

(neologism) A branch of feminism which rejects naturalism and posits the abolition of gender and/or gendered oppression through the posthumanist embrace of technology.


xenofeminist

en-adj

xenofeminist (comparative more xenofeminist, superlative most xenofeminist)

more xenofeminist (comparative)
most xenofeminist (superlative)

Highlighting how feminist theory and feminist posthumanism in particular has generally taken an antimilitarism stance, Jones notes that the xenofeminist manifesto is silent on the topic of militarism, and argues for reclaiming anti-militarism for the xenofeminist project, illustrating how that approach can be useful for critiquing the uses of autonomous weapons systems.

2018, Emily Jones, Sara Kendall, Yoriko Otomo, “Gender, War, and Technology: Peace and Armed Conflict in the Twenty-First Century”, in Australian Law Journal, volume 44, number 1, page 6:

Nature's waters are subverted to turn against its guests, complementing a xenofeminist commitment to an anti-naturalism that also entails dismantling nuclear domestic spaces.

2020, Jennifer Cooke, “Feminist Manuals and Manifestos in the Twenty-first Century”, in Jennifer Cooke, editor, The New Feminist Literary Studies, page 196:

The alternative, in this case, is the possibility that highly automated and autonomous technologies could be leveraged as the technomaterialist infrastructure of a postcapitalist, xenofeminist world.

2021, Christopher M. Cox, “Estranged World: Tenets of Xenofeminism and Tropes of Automated Alienation in Contemporary Alien Films”, in Nathan Rambukkana, editor, Intersectional Automations: Robotics, AI, Algorithms, and Equity, page 223:

(neologism) Espousing, characteristic of, or relating to xenofeminism.


xenofeminist

Rather, the xenofeminists note the need to politicise the techno. Technology, to the xenofeminists, is a tool for revolution: […]

2019, Emily Jones, "Feminist Technologies and Post-Capitalism: Defining and Reflecting Upon Xenofeminism", Feminist Review, Issue 123, Issue 1, page 128

These accelerationists, xenofeminists, and inhumanists take up Landian ideas and concepts in various ways, but there is minimal textual exegesis of Land’s own writings.

2019, Vincent Le, "Slave, Sister, Sexborg, Sphinx: Feminine Figurations in Nick Land's Philosophy", Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, Volume 34, Issue 2, Spring 2019

This impulse to simultaneously dismantle and build the world can also be found in the anti-naturalist work of xenofeminists and trans and queer activists—those who want to disrupt futurities that are based on heteronormative reproduction, […]

2020, Jilly Boyce Kay, Gender, Media and Voice: Communicative Injustice and Public Speech, pages 182–183:

(neologism) A proponent of xenofeminism.


protestware

Commenting on the malicious code added to the “Vue-cli” application, GitHub user “nm17” said a continued expansion of protestware would erode public trust in open-source software.

2022 March 17, Brian Krebs, “Pro-Ukraine ‘Protestware’ Pushes Antiwar Ads, Geo-Targeted Malware”, in Krebs on Security:

In January, two other popular modules called colors and faker were intentionally sabotaged by their maintainer. Is protestware going to become a common problem?

2022 March 19, Lucian Constantin, “Developer sabotages own npm module prompting open-source supply chain security questions”, in CSO Magazine:

In fact, what we've seen over the last week is something called “protestware”, and that is some damaging and non-damaging code put into open source projects, specifically focused on organizations in Russia and Belarus. Now, they are making a statement, and that falls under what we call “hacktivism”.

2022 March 21, “CNN Follows Marines Fighting to Take Back Kherson from Russia”, in CNN International First Move with Julia Chatterley, spoken by George Kurtz:

developers and project maintainers themselves sometimes engage in this activity as a form of protest or advocacy for their beliefs. This form of hijacking, often referred to as protestware is a concerning trend because it can be difficult for an organisation to recognise it before it’s too late.

2024 January 22, “DevSecOps risks: How can Indian tech mitigate software hijacking”, in Express Computer, Mumbai:

The roots of protestware date back to the early days of computing. However, recent events in the Russo-Ukrainian war has^([sic]) sparked a new wave of protestware.

2024 September 30, Tanner Finken, Jesse Chen, Sazzadur Rahaman, “An Investigation into Protestware”, in ArXiv:

(computing, neologism) Software subverted to serve the ends of a political protest, for example by deleting files or displaying propaganda messages.


deputinization

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(neologism, politics) The process of the removal of the influence of Vladimir Putin from politics.

deputinizasiya

the process of the removal of the influence of Vladimir Putin from politics


klyukva

From Russian клю́ква (kljúkva, “cranberry, tall tale”). See also разве́систая клю́ква (razvésistaja kljúkva, “highbrush cranberry”), an idiom that means "a tall tale".

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2021, Fred Weir, Christian Science Monitorhttps://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/Movies/2021/0715/Russians-say-Marvel-s-Black-Widow-is-klyukva.-That-s-not-flattering
Russian moviegoers have a special term for films whose storyline or atmosphere just does not ring true. It’s klyukva, or “cranberry.” Reviews of “Black Widow” bristle with that term.

(Russia, neologism) Stereotypes about Russia and Russian people.

Vanya

placeholder names used for stereotypical Russians

sharovarshchyna

stereotypical depictions of Ukrainian people


neuroqueerness

For Rekers and Lovaas, the etiologies of childhood gender variance or autism were insignificant, for they believed that modifying social conditions by means of behavioral control would mask any traces of neuroqueerness.

2018, M. Remi Yergeau, Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness, unnumbered page:

Neuroqueer(ness) represents an array of relationships between neurology and queerness including being both neurodivergent and queer, actively choosing to embody one’s neurodivergence, or queering ones cognitive processes (Walker, 2015).

2019, Robin Roscigno, “Neuroqueerness as Fugitive Practice: Reading Against the Grain of Applied Behavioral Analysis Scholarship”, in Educational Studies: A Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, volume 55, number 4, page 406:

Neuroqueerness unsettles deficit discourses of autism and dis/ability, which reduce the storying of varied individual experiences into a single clinical narrative.

2020, Monica C. Kleekamp, “'No! Turn the Pages!': Repositioning Neuroqueer Literacies”, in Journal of Literary Research, volume 52, number 2, page 115:

(neologism) The state or quality of being neuroqueer.


neuroqueer

en-adj

neuroqueer (comparative more neuroqueer, superlative most neuroqueer)

more neuroqueer (comparative)
most neuroqueer (superlative)

Whether discussed in clinical journals or in media accounts, ABA purports to change neural pathways, rewire neuroqueer brains, and ford synapses.

2018, M. Remi Yergeau, Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness, page 123:

Neuroqueer perspectives challenge typical understandings of identity categories through disidentification processes. A neuroqueer project not only questions typical conceptions of gender but also pivots away from normative gender categories altogether.

2019 February, Justine E. Enger, “'The Disability Rights Community Was Never Mine': Neuroqueer Disidentification”, in Gender & Society, volume 33, number 1, page 124:

My conceptualization of neuroqueer technoscience is also strongly influenced by 3 my own experiences as a multiply neurodivergent queer femme.

2022, Jessica Sage Rauchberg, “Imagining a Neuroqueer Technoscience”, in Studies in Social Justice, volume 16, number 2, page 372:

(neologism) Belonging to, characteristic of, or related to the intersection of neurodivergence and queerness, particularly autism and LGBT identities.


neuroqueer

en-noun

neuroqueer (countable and uncountable, plural neuroqueers)

Neuroqueer is a queer/crip response to normative discussions about gender, sexuality, and disability as pathology.

Autistic rhetoric scholar Melanie Yergeau theorizes neuroqueer as a kind of “asocially perverse” motioning.

2021, Ryan Lee Cartwright, Peculiar Places: A Queer Crip History of White Rural Nonconformity, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 188:

For a primer on the issue of neuroqueer and its roots in multiple discourse fields from queer aversion therapy to antiautistic hate speech, see Yergeau 2018.

2022, Peter Kuppers, Eco Soma: Pain and Joy in Speculative Performance Encounters, unnumbered page:

(neologism, uncountable) The state or quality of being neuroqueer.

In this regard, the potential of a prosthetic, specialized environment is the always-now —any change could result in neuroqueers backsliding into neuroqueerity.

For those of us who inhabit the spaces between the cracks, the neuroqueers who wander outside a prescribed notion of “cognitive normalcy,” we know things are not that simple.

2019, Nadia Erlam, “Cognitive Dispossession: Ecofeminism, Entheogens, and Neuroqueering Drug Policy”, in Chiara Baldini, David Luke, Maria Papaspyrou, editors, Psychedelic Mysteries of the Feminine: Creativity, Ecstasy, and Healing, unnumbered page:

We affirm that there is nomore important queer project than for neuroqueers, crips, and non-normates more generally to survive with an essential flourish (Peers, 2018) in the face of that which would render our most basic needs undesirable, untenable, unreasonable, or “special.”

2020, Lindsay Eales, Danielle Peers, “Care haunts, hurts, heals: The promiscuous poetics of queer crip Mad care”, in Journal of Lesbian Studies, volume 25, number 3:

(neologism, countable) One who belongs to the neuroqueer community.


neuroqueer

en-verb

neuroqueer (third-person singular simple present neuroqueers, present participle neuroqueering, simple past and past participle neuroqueered)

neuroqueers (present singular third-person)
neuroqueering (participle present)
neuroqueered (participle past)
neuroqueered (past)

I believe in the potentialities of autistic stories and gestures, of neuroqueering what we've come to understand as language and being.

King’s video neuroqueers the dominant popular cultural image of autistic people always having great powers of visual memory by showing a different version of this.

2018, Anna Reading, “Neurodiversity and Communication Ethics: How Images of Autism Trouble Communication Ethics in the Globital Age”, in Cultural Studies Review, volume 24, number 2, page 120:

Listening to autistic narratives reveals possibilities for neuroqueering interpersonal communication theory.

2021, Kristen L. Cole, “Neuroqueering interpersonal communication theory: listening to autistic object-orientations”, in Review of Communication, volume 21, number 3:

(neologism) To make or become neuroqueer.


autigender

en-adj

autigender (comparative more autigender, superlative most autigender)

more autigender (comparative)
most autigender (superlative)

Specifically, nonbinary and autigender people were more likely to use gender-neutral terms like “kid” or “person” instead of gendered terms like “boy” or “man.”

2021, Kelly L. Coburn, "Spoken Narratives by Autistic Adults of Under-Represented Genders", dissertation submitted to Pennsylvania State University, pages 123-124

Yeah...I'm autistic and my experience of my gender is linked to my experience of autism, and so I identify as autigender.

2021, Sabrina Symington, Coming Out, Again: Transition Stories, unnumbered page:

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

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

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


clotshot

(medicine, slang, derogatory, neologism) An administration of a COVID vaccination, resulting in unexpected and untimely blood clots.


tech-bro

(informal, neologism) Alternative form of tech bro


zwastika

From Russian Z + swastika, comparing the Russian nationalist usage of the Z letter to the Nazi German swastika as a symbol of war against Ukraine. See the Russian section on Z for more information.

(slang, neologism, derogatory) A Z letter used by Russian nationalists, usually to support Vladimir Putin or the Russian invasion of Ukraine.


Ruscism

Borrowed from Russian раши́зм (rašízm) or Ukrainian раши́зм (rašýzm), blend of Ра́ша (Ráša, “Russia (chiefly derogatory)”) + фаши́зм (fašízm, “fascism”), the first an unadapted borrowing from English Russia. Compare Russian Росси́я (Rossíja, “Russia”) or Ukrainian Росі́я (Rosíja, “Russia”).

blend

Pro-Ukrainian commentators also used the word Rashizm. Derived from Rasha (from the English “Russia”), combined with the Russian fashizm, and perhaps best translated as “Ruscism,” this term is . . .

2015, Elizaveta Gaufman, “Memory, Media, and Secularization: Russian Media Framing of the Ukrainian Crisis,” in Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society (→ISSN), v 1, n 1, pp 160–61

Pro-Ukrainian commentators have also used the word ‘Rashism’ (conflation of ‘Russia’ and ‘fascism’) to emphasize the aggressive intentions of Russia.

2016, Elizaveta Gaufman, “Security Threats and Public Perception: Digital Russia and the Ukraine Crisis” (New Security Challenges series), Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, p 107

On the other side, a large segment of the Ukrainian press has been presenting the Putin regime as fascist: commentators have coined the nickname Putler (Putin + Hitler) and the term Rashism, which conflates Russia and fascism.

2020, Marlene Lurelle, “Reductio ad Hitlerum as a New Frame for Political and Geopolitical Conflicts,” in Eric Shiraev, Jennifer Keohane, Martijn Icks, and Sergei A. Samoilenko editors, Routledge Handbook of Character Assassination and Reputation Management, New York and Abingdon: Routledge, p 315

[…] science, and science-based ultramodern technologies (AI) invented for progress have transformed into cynical means of conducting the third world war by immoral intellect of the ideologists of Ruscism [4].

2020 April 27, Actual problems of science and practice, International Science Group, →ISBN, page 175:

“We have beat fascism, and we will defeat Ruscism,” said Pavel Kirilenko, governor of the Donetsk region, who arrived with heavily armed guards to lay flowers at the monument.

2022 May 10, Michael Schwirtz, “Invasion upends a shared World War II history with Ukraine”, in The Boston Globe, volume 301, number 130, page A8:

(politics, neologism, slang, derogatory) Russian fascism, Russianism, Great Russian chauvinism; the ideology of Russia, seen as fascism or as fascist.


GAWA

Unclear. May have been coined by alt_right_united on Instagram as a made-up dog whistle for white supremacy and alt-right groups. Many backronyms exist including "Groyper And White Army", "Gmake America White Again" (a play on MAGA) and "God Always Wins, Allelujah".

If Trump doesn't win in 2024 it must have been rigged. GAWA!

(white supremacy, neologism) An exclamation of support for alt-right groups.


russist

en-adjective

russist (comparative more russist, superlative most russist)

more russist (comparative)
most russist (superlative)

From Ukrainian раши́ст (rašýst), itself a blend of Ра́ша (Ráša, “Russia”) (derogatory) + фаши́ст (fašýst, “fascist”).

blend

(politics, neologism, derogatory) Of or relating to Ruscism (“Russian fascism”).


russist

(politics, neologism, derogatory) A follower of the ideology of Ruscism (“Russian fascism”).


Slapgate

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Slapgate.

(informal, neologism) The controversy around the 94th Academy Awards on March 27, 2022, when actor Will Smith walked onstage and slapped comedian Chris Rock during Rock's presentation for Best Documentary Feature, in response to Rock making an insulting joke about Smith's wife.


Beergate

From beer + -gate; politicians were photographed with beer and takeaway food.

(UK politics, neologism) The political controversy in response to an alleged breach of COVID-19 pandemic legal restrictions at a gathering in a Labour Party office in Durham, England, on 30 April 2021.


algospeak

Black and trans users, and those from other marginalized communities, often use algospeak to discuss the oppression they face, swapping out words for “white” or “racist.”

2022 April 8, Taylor Lorenz, “Internet ‘algospeak’ is changing our language in real time, from ‘nip nops’ to ‘le dollar bean’”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN:

By recognizing that keywords can be used to filter content, internet users have resorted to algospeak, the consensual substitution of censored terms with uncensored terms in order to evade censorship (Lorenz, 2022).

2022 June 24, Jordan Richard Schoenherr, “3.6.2 Microtargeting, Nudging, and Social Influence Campaigns”, in Ethical Artificial Intelligence from Popular to Cognitive Science: Trust in the Age of Entanglement, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page unknown:

If you’ve noticed the use of newly invented words cropping up on digital platforms or words used out of context or misspelled, it’s not a new kind of social media slang—it’s algospeak.

2022 October 31, KC Ifeanyi, “Decoding what algospeak really means for content creators”, in Fast Company:

A new vocabulary — a little fun, a little dystopian — has emerged on the social video platform, as creators try to get around algorithms and strict content moderation. They call it algospeak. […] Alessandro Bogliari, the chief executive of the Influencer Marketing Factory, said the moderation systems are clever but can make mistakes, which is why many of the influencers his company hires for marketing campaigns use algospeak.

2022 November 19, Melina Delkic, “Leg Booty? Panoramic? Seggs? How TikTok Is Changing Language”, in The New York Times:

Typically, such codes have been employed by small groups. Given the reach of social media, however, algospeak has the potential to more broadly influence everyday language.

2023 April 13, Roger J. Kreuz, “What is ‘algospeak’? Inside the newest version of linguistic subterfuge”, in The Conversation U.S., Boston:

(social media, neologism) A form of cant for evading social media content filters.


Hindumisia

From Hindu + -misia (as in misogyny or misotheism). Sometimes used as an alternative to the word Hinduphobia, to point out hatred towards Hindus or Hinduism as opposed to being afraid of Hindus or Hinduism.

(India, neologism, rare) Hatred of Hinduism and Hindu people.


Hindumisic

en-adj

Hindumisic (comparative more Hindumisic, superlative most Hindumisic)

more Hindumisic (comparative)
most Hindumisic (superlative)

(India, neologism, rare) Showing hostility and hatred against Hinduism and Hindu people.


delebrity

The licensing of names and images of dead celebrities can be very big business. Need more proof? Dead celebrities, or "delebrities," were everywhere at the 2017 Licensing Expo, which took place last week in Las Vegas. John Wayne and Bela Lugosi even had their own booths on the show floor.

2017 June 2, Ben Arnon, “'Delebrities' (Dead Celebrities) Are Very Big Business”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on 2023-06-01:

(neologism) A dead celebrity, particularly one whose image is used for promoting a product.


Oprahization

(neologism, sociology) Synonym of Oprahfication


harbinge

en-verb

harbinge (third-person singular simple present harbinges, present participle harbinging, simple past and past participle harbinged)

harbinges (present singular third-person)
harbinging (participle present)
harbinged (participle past)
harbinged (past)

/ˈhɑːbɪnd͡ʒ/

/ˈhɑɹbɪnd͡ʒ/

(rare, neologism) To be a harbinger; to presage.


skimpflation

We propose a new word to describe this stealth-ninja kind of inflation: skimpflation. It's when, instead of simply raising prices, companies skimp on the goods and services they provide.

2021 October 26, Greg Rosalsky, “Meet skimpflation: A reason inflation is worse than the government says it is”, in Planet Money:

Some economists have pegged a new word to this phenomenon where, rather than raise prices, companies cut services previously provided: skimpflation. Skimpflation could mean reduced staff, thus longer lines or phone hold times.

2022 March 17, Sally French, “One of the most basic hotel amenities is disappearing”, in Honolulu Star-Advertiser:

Companies face an appalling dilemma, said Laith Al-Khalaf in The Sunday Times – pass on increased costs to consumers “and risk losing them to rivals”, or “absorb the hit”. No wonder many are opting for a third path: “skimpflation”. The trick is to erode “the quality of their goods” – say, by “menu engineering” to focus on cheaper foods – in the hope that “hoodwinked” consumers either don't notice or don't care.

2022 April 30, “Netflix et al.: the great cancellation”, in The Week, Bath, page 41:

Sadly it's a sign of the times, and consumers will have to get used to this practice of skimpflation, where brands reduce the value of their services to remain profitable.

2022 September 2, Nicholas Dawson, quoting David Beard, “Blow for Sainsbury's Bank customers with huge Nectar points change - 'really unfair!'”, in Express:

"This is now called Skimpflation, which means a manufacturer has reformulated one of its products, usually with cheaper ingredients," says Dworsky, a former Massachusetts Assistant Attorney General in consumer protection.

[2022 November 2, Leslie Gaydos, quoting Edgar Dworsky, “Skimpflation: Brands May Be Changing Their Recipes to Cut Costs – But It's Hard to Tell”, in NBC Boston:

How To Be A Savvy Shopper Amidst Skimpflation […] And while it might require a little more time and energy in the aisles, there are ways to prevent your diet from suffering amidst inflation.

2022 November 9, “How Skimpflation May Be Affecting Your Diet”, in Henry Ford Health:

(economics, informal, neologism) The practice of reducing the quality of products while continuing to market them at the same price.


Cancún Cruz

Referring to Ted Cruz going on vacation to Cancún, Mexico, during the 2021 Texas power crisis.

Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., said the senator shouldn’t have apologized, and the president’s son Donald Trump Jr. complained that people were trying to “cancel Cancún Cruz” — a defense wrapped in a classically Trumpian insulting nickname.

2021 February 19, Lisa Lerer, “How Ted Cruz Became the least sympathetic politician in America”, in New York Times:

You'd think they'd be ashamed of the shenanigans they try / But never Cancun Cruz or Lady G

2021 April 5, “Ted and Lindsey”, Randy Rainbow (lyrics):

Ken dressed up like Cancun Cruz and sang "Margaritaville." When he got to the chorus, everyone joined in and sang, "I tried to say that my kids were to blame, but I know it was my own damn fault."

2021 October 6, Joe Lovato, Blood, Love and Justice, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN:

We have all read about “Cancun Cruz,” and how he blamed his poor decision to travel to Cancun during Texas’ winter freeze on his daughters.

2022 April 4, “Cruz's actions display a lack of maturity, poor decision-making”, in Austin American-Statesman, page A8:

(US politics, derogatory, neologism) U.S. senator Ted Cruz.


recipromantic

en-adj

recipromantic (comparative more recipromantic, superlative most recipromantic)

more recipromantic (comparative)
most recipromantic (superlative)

(Example: If you are recipromantic, you might form crushes on people whom you discover have a crush on you.)

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

In terms of attraction, Hyourin is asexual, idemromantic, and recipromantic.

2016, Christine Feraday, "For Lack of a Better Word: Neo-Identities in Non-Cisgender, Non-Straight Communities on Tumblr", thesis submitted to Ryerson University, page 54

Lily who is white, gray-ace, recipromantic, and nonbinary said “[in the] classes I have [it] doesn’t normally come up, ‘cause it’s all science. I just try to stay on topic to get the work done.”

2018, Elijah G. Stucki, "Compulsory Sexuality and Amatonormativity in Higher Education: A Photovoice Study with Asexual and Aromantic Students", thesis submitted to Oregon State University, page 114

(neologism) Experiencing romantic attraction only to people known to reciprocate one's feelings.


WTFromantic

WTFromantic (comparative more WTFromantic, superlative most WTFromantic)

more WTFromantic (comparative)
most WTFromantic (superlative)

Lee, who is white, asexual, wtfromantic, agender, and has disabilities said that “resilience [is]...showing love for yourself.”

2018, Elijah G. Stucki, "Compulsory Sexuality and Amatonormativity in Higher Education: A Photovoice Study with Asexual and Aromantic Students", thesis submitted to Oregon State University, page 128

Others yet find it core to their identities to provide thick description around what it means to experience platonic attraction (or, in some cases, queerplatonic or wtf'''romantic attractions).

2018, M. Remi Yergeau, Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness, unnumbered page:

For example, Ayelet (18, gray-a, biromantic and WTFromantic) says she sees no difference between the two, aside from the expectation for exclusivity in romance.

2020, Gaia Steinberg, "The Relational Matrix: Sexuality, Romance and Coupledom in the Lives of Asexual Individuals", thesis submitted to The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, page 47

(vulgar, humorous, neologism) Unable to distinguish romantic attraction from platonic attraction in oneself.


quoiromantic

quoiromantic (comparative more quoiromantic, superlative most quoiromantic)

more quoiromantic (comparative)
most quoiromantic (superlative)

Learned borrowing from French quoi (“what”) + romantic. Coined as a non-vulgar synonym of WTFromantic.

lbor

They listened to me and didn't talk about my gender and sexuality issues when I didn't bring it up. They also never said anything rude or judged me for the alternative or feminine clothes I started to wear. (16, agender/man, grey-asexual/sensual, grey-aromantic, demisexual/sensual, demiromantic, sapiosexual/sensual, sapioromantic, lithsexual/sensual, lithromantic, quoiromantic.)

2017 February, Paul Byron, Sophia Rasmussen, Dani Wright Toussaint, Roanna Lobo, Kerry Robinson, Brett Paradise, ‘You learn from each other’: LGBTIQ Young People’s Mental Health Help-seeking and the RAD Australia Online Director, Sydney: Western Sydney University Young and Well Cooperative Research Centre, →DOI, →ISBN, page 31:

For a while, I thought I might be quoiromantic because of the frustration and confusion I felt about how subjective romantic attraction is.

2018, Christina Lang, Intimacy and Desire Through the Lens of an Aro-Ace Woman of Color, Bates College, page 69:

These participants identified on the asexual spectrum, including identities such as asexual (Miranda), demisexual (Desi), and quoiromantic (Jackie).

2018 May 20 – June 30, Ryan A. Miller, “Toward Intersectional Identity Perspectives on Disability and LGBTQ Identities in Higher Education”, in Journal of College Student Development, volume 59, number 3:

(rare, neologism) Unable to distinguish romantic attraction from platonic attraction in oneself.


ASMRotica

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When it comes to traditional ASMR, every view, take or comment comes with the same question: is this sexual? Should I be turned on? ASMRotica makes it easy: yes.

2015 August 15, Kathryn Lindsay, “Inside the Sensual World of ASMRotica”, in VICE:

However, this couldn't be further from the truth, and ASMRotica makes up only a tiny piece of the ASMR community.

2019 February 12, Mark Andrew Choi, “Sucks to your ASMR”, in The Arrow, Westlake High School, Westlake, CA, page 16:

Where mainstream ASMRtists don’t appreciate comments that refer to sexuality in any way, the ASMRotica subgenre welcomes these kind of viewers (Lindsay 2015: online).

2019, Maria Isabel Bode, "Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) as a marketing tool: An examination of the online phenomenon’s potential in the promotion mix of slow tourism destinations", thesis submitted to The City University of Applied Sciences, page 25

(neologism) A subgenre of ASMR content intended to be sexually stimulating or appealing.


fusion center

(US politics, neologism) An American government institution for centralizing intelligence between law enforcement agencies.


misogynoirist

Narrators demonstrated resistance coping techniques through direct confrontation with aggressors, such as racists, sexists, homophobes, elitists, and misogynoirists.

2022 December 6, LeAnna T. Luney, “Like our foremothers survived: Self-education, direct confrontation, and humor as resistance coping in Black womxn and femme college student being”, in Frontiers in Education, volume 7, →DOI, page 10:

(neologism) A person who exhibits misogynoir.


misogynoirist

(neologism) Relating to or exhibiting misogynoir (the hatred of black women).


booba

Coined by 4chan in 2020, most likely as a typo, in response to an image of American actress Elizabeth Olsen, which then developed into an Internet meme.

(Internet slang, humorous, neologism) Deliberate misspelling of boobs.

(Internet slang, humorous, neologism) Deliberate misspelling of boba.


Carriegate

What are we to make of the tawdry saga of what we must now, with grim inevitability, learn to call “Carriegate”? […] the headline that appeared in the first edition of last Saturday’s Times: “Johnson tried to give Carrie top Foreign Office job during affair”.

2022 June 20, Sean O'Grady, “‘Carriegate’ is just another classic Johnson scandal”, in The Independent:

(UK politics, neologism) A British political scandal of 2022 around allegations that prime minister Boris Johnson, during his time as Foreign Secretary, had recommended Carrie Symonds, then his mistress, as a candidate for a high-paying job as chief of staff in the Foreign Office.


ingame

(humorous, Internet slang, neologism) Used as a protective measure to avoid legal liability for making a statement that could be interpreted as a threat.


genderspecial

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(slang, derogatory, neologism) A person who affects an unusual or marginalized gender identity for perceived social benefit.


fakeclaim

en-verb

fakeclaim (third-person singular simple present fakeclaims, present participle fakeclaiming, simple past and past participle fakeclaimed)

fakeclaims (present singular third-person)
fakeclaiming (participle present)
fakeclaimed (participle past)
fakeclaimed (past)

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People are quick to respond to these videos, turning to Reddit and YouTube to “fakeclaim” – call out – those that they believe are faking disorders online.

2022, Natalie Foos, “Faking Health Disorders Online”, in Parent Zone, archived from the original on 2022-08-08:

I am constantly scared to text my friends while I front because a lot people were telling me that fictives especially from dsmp/genshin aren't valid. That makes me genuinely sad, I am afraid to receive any form of hate from my friends or even get fakeclaimed. :(

2022 June 23, lm2t, “Fictives Get So Much Hate”, in Reddit, archived from the original on 2022-06-29:

(Internet slang, transitive, neologism) To call out (a person) on social media for allegedly faking a disorder.


blorbo from my shows

en-noun

blorbo from my shows (plural blorbos from my shows)

From a December 2021 post by Tumblr user thelustiestargonianmaid complaining about enthusiastic reblogs: "Bitches will be like 'prev tags omg' on my post and I check the preg^([sic – meaning prev]) tags and it's like ‘blorbo from my shows.'"

no one can make me feel bad for talking excessively about blorbo from my shows

2022 January 7, Turner (@shiraseceo), Twitter:

my fatal flaw is that i can’t live my life without depending on blorbos from my shows for serotonin

can’t talk right now, gotta meticulously curate a playlist for blorbo from my shows

2022 March 28, eerie indiana (@indybree), Twitter:

(fandom slang, endearing, neologism) A fictional character or celebrity of whom one is especially fond.


blorbo

i love it when fictional characters have their birthdays established it literally serves no purpose. there is no reason. nothing but joy of "oh today is my little blorbo's birthday" and saying birthday wishes into the void

2022 January 27, lesbians for edelgard (@C0REZI), Twitter:

Waiting for my blorbo to return to my screen like a WWII housewife waiting for her husband

2022 February 27, Sarah Z (@marysuewriter), Twitter:

love it when a hockey twitter blorbo gets traded and I find out that he's not nearly as good as I just assumed he was

2022 March 15, Beata (@CBeataE), Twitter:

Of course, all your blorbos are back for the big magical confrontation between those who crave power and those who defend against its abuses.

2023 October 31, Olivia Waite, “A Handful of Luscious, Soapy, Sexy Romance Novels”, in The New York Times:

blorbo from my shows
blorbo from my shows#English

(fandom slang, endearing, neologism) Ellipsis of blorbo from my shows.


anthropulse

Spikes in human mobility seem likely, as people attempt to ‘make up’ for missed work and recreational travel in 2020–2021, but it remains to be seen if the situation will escalate into a full-scale anthropulse.

2022 March, Christian Rutz, “Studying pauses and pulses in human mobility and their environmental impacts”, in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, volume 3, number 3, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 157–159:

Those shifts could be especially important to consider as the human world roars back to life and summer travel surges, potentially generating an “anthropulse” of intense activity.

2022 July 16, Emily Anthes, “Did Nature Heal During the Pandemic ‘Anthropause’?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(neologism) A burst of human activity following an anthropause.


Ruzzia

Neologism following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. At first a blend of Russia + Nazi, after 2022 a blend of Russia + Z, using the military Russian Z symbol of Russian propaganda to mock the Russian invasion of Ukraine. See Z for more information. Compare with Russian РоZZи́я (RoZZíja) and Ukrainian РоZZі́я (RoZZíja).

A third user, @Ni79Mo wrote: "See what happens when you hang out with RuZZia too much? You start creating your own realities as well."

2022 June 8, Millie Cooke, “'No shame!' Olaf Scholz sensationally claims Germany gives MORE support to Ukraine than UK”, in Daily Express:

Shayk was accused of being a "supporter of the terrorist state Ruzzia and genocide of Ukrainians."

2022 July 15, Will Stewart, Liam Buckler, “Supermodel accused of 'backing Putin’s war' after using 'Z' symbol in Instagram caption”, in The Mirror:

Because one way to fight a proxy war is to flood the market with cheap oil and that’s what the US is doing in its support of Ukraine against what the late Senator John McCain called Ruzzia: "a petrol (gas) station, run by a Mafia, masquerading as a country"

2022 September 8, Chris Becker, “Crude oil prices tank as US floods market”, in MacroBusiness:

I received a letter that instilled in me feelings of rage and pain- my assigned roommate is going to be a competitor from the terrorist-country, from a country that lost all laws and order, from the despot-country, from the disgusting and deceitful stain on the body of our beautiful planet, from ruzzia^([sic]).

2022 October 5, Charles Wade-Palmer, “Ukraine beauty queen slams pageant officials for rooming her with Russian rival”, in The Daily Star:

(slang, derogatory, neologism) Alternative spelling of Russia.

orc

another neologism; a derogatory term for a Russian soldier


fauxtomation

Blend of faux + automation, coined by Astra Taylor.

In its more harmless form, fauxtomation is merely a marketing ploy, a way to make pointless products seem cutting-edge.

2018 August, Astra Taylor, “The Automation Charade”, in Logic Magazine, number 5:

Fauxtomation does not directly replace human labor; rather, it relocates and disperses it in space and time.

2021, Kate Crawford, chapter 2, in Atlas of AI […] , →ISBN:

(neologism) Processes or products that are not fully automated, but are marketed or sold as such.


quadball

quadball (countable and uncountable, plural quadballs)

International Quadball Association
J. K. Rowling

From quad- (“four”) + ball or quad + ball. The sport sense was introduced in 2022 by the International Quadball Association, formerly the International Quidditch Association, with quad- chosen in reference to the number of balls and positions in the game. The IQA cited concerns over the trademarked status of Quidditch and a wish to distance itself from the "anti-trans positions" of J. K. Rowling.

“This is an important moment in our sport’s history,” said Chris Lau, chair of the IQA board of trustees, in a statement. “We are confident in this step and we look forward to all the new opportunities quadball will bring.”

2022 July 20, Adela Suliman, “Quidditch is now quadball, distancing game from J.K. Rowling, league says”, in The Washington Post:

Major League Quidditch and US Quidditch will now be known as Major League Quadball and US Quadball respectively.

2022 July 20, “Quidditch changes name to quadball after JK Rowling’s trans statements”, in The Guardian:

Quidditch, the sport of boarding school wizards riding broomsticks in “Harry Potter,” will become “Quadball” to the humans who play the game in real life, its leading organizations said on Tuesday.

2022 July 20, Alex Traub, “Quidditch Becomes ‘Quadball,’ Leaving J.K. Rowling Behind”, in The New York Times:

Love Harry Potter? Then check out the quadball championship that combines elements of rugby, basketball and dodgeball. The MLQ Championship is the league’s signature event

2023 August 24, Susan Stapleton, “Plan your weekend: This weekend offers quadball, World Food, Music Fest and more”, in Des Moines Register, page D.1.:

(sports, uncountable, neologism) A co-ed contact ball sport created as a ground-based adaptation of Quidditch, featuring the same positions, balls, and goals as the fictional sport, but with the players clutching broomsticks and a human "snitch runner" carrying the snitch (an autonomous magical device in the Harry Potter novels).


de-extinct

en-verb

de-extinct (third-person singular simple present de-extincts, present participle de-extincting, simple past and past participle de-extincted)

de-extincts (present singular third-person)
de-extincting (participle present)
de-extincted (participle past)
de-extincted (past)

In 2012, Australian researchers briefly de-extincted an amphibian they dubbed ‘the Lazarus frog’ (Rheobatrachus silus), an unusual creature with one hell of a party trick (to find out what it was, you’ll have to read Chapter 5).

2016, Helen Pilcher, Bring Back the King: the new science of de-extinction, Bloomsbury Sigma, →ISBN, page 16:

From a technical perspective, de-extincting a Neanderthal would be the easiest task of all, for human reproduction is extremely well understood, and the Neanderthal genome is known.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 308:

Revive & Restore, a branch of the Long Now Foundation, is currently attempting to de-extinct the passenger pigeon in a project called The Great Comeback.

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

(biology, neologism, transitive) To return an extinct species back into the world.


cisbi

I’m married, my husband is cishet but I’m always going to be cisbi.

2019 December 29, amanda (@rarityfirefly), Twitter:

Cisbi married couples elbow each other in the yogurt section when the young assistant manager with suspenders and Buddy Holly glasses walks by.

2021 December 16, Elizabeth (@EMK55102), Twitter:

I've seen it from cishet and cisgay people. But all my cisbi friends and my cisbi fiancée are as chill as can be.

2022 April 19, Joey (@AutumnBreezeOff), Twitter:

(LGBTQ, informal, neologism) Cisgender and bisexual.


cisbi

As a cishet married to a cisbi this doesn’t make her less bi for being in our relationship.

2020 January 1, RPGHour Studios (@RPGHour), Twitter:

The way cisgays gatekeep cisbis from the LGBT lunch table, telling them that they cannot sit with us and are too cishet for team rainbow

if a cisbi comes into queer spaces where we’re taking about our tangible oppression & they start yelling about not feeling *included* bc they’re in a straight passing relationship, sorry, but we aren’t even having the same convos, so there’s no point in trying to talk with them.

2022 June 7, sunglasses cryptid (@railroadlesbian), Twitter:

(LGBTQ, informal, neologism) A cisgender and bisexual person.


greedflation

Echoes her colleague Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.): “The problem is not inflation. The problem is corporate greed.” Their evidence for the greedflation theory was that prices companies charge had risen faster than input costs, which meant (at least for a while) that profits were growing.

2022 June 14, Catherine Rampell, “Greed is dead. Long live greed!”, in Washington Post (subscription required):

In fact, evidence of ‘greedflation’ in food retail in Canada is weak at best. But prices in some food categories have behaved unreasonably in recent years, so we shouldn't think greedflation doesn't exist.

2022 July 13, “Has ‘greedflation’ driven up Canadian food prices? Evidence of ‘greedflation’ is weak at best”, in Thunder Bay Chronicle Journal:

Excuseflation is also known as greedflation.

[2023 March 24, Daily Mail City, Finance Reporter, “INVESTING EXPLAINED: What you need to know about Excuseflation – a ploy by companies to hike prices, also known as greedflation”, in Mail Online:

The “greedflation” thesis is in part a reaction against another common explanation for inflation: that it is driven by fast-growing wages.

2023 July 6, ““Greedflation” is a nonsense idea”, in The Economist, →ISSN:

If a company could manage to raise its price by a big percentage and have its volume go down by only a small percentage, it would increase its revenue, offsetting its higher costs. Some people called that profiteering or greedflation, but to Rines it was just good business.

2023 July 26, Peter Coy, “Companies Aren’t Eager to Cut Their Prices as Costs Fall”, in The New York Times, Peter Coy Newsletter:

(economics, neologism) Price gouging by corporations during an inflationary period, especially when the underlying cost of production has not risen accordingly; price increases ostensibly inflated solely by underlying fundamental factors but really in excess of that level.


Predditor

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Blend of predator (“sexual predator”) + Redditor.

blend

(Internet slang, neologism) An online groomer on Reddit; a child predator who frequents Reddit.


Africanfuturism

en-noun

Africanfuturism (usually uncountable, plural Africanfuturisms)

Coined by science fiction and fantasy author Nnedi Okorafor in 2019, from African + futurism.

coin

Africanfuturism is similar to “Afrofuturism” in the way that blacks on the continent and in the Black Diaspora are all connected by blood, spirit, history and future. The difference is that Africanfuturism is specifically and more directly rooted in African culture, history, mythology and point-of-view as it then branches into the Black Diaspora, and it does not privilege or center the West.

2019, Nnedi Okorafor, “Africanfuturism Defined”, in Nnedi's Wahala Zone Blog:

Thompson’s Africanfuturism is both queer and decolonial at the same time, necessitating an approach to embodiment that does not look like white, Western performative queerness

2021, Jenna N. Hanchey, “'The self is embodied': Reading queer and trans Africanfuturism in The Wormwood Trilogy”, in Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, volume 14, number 4, →DOI, page 321:

Later this year, the highly anticipated sequel to Black Panther (2018), Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, releases. This will likely mark another big surge in wider public excitement and shared fan art depicting elements of Afrofuturism and Africanfuturism.

2022, Alyssa Shotwell, “The Key Differences Between Afrofuturism and Africanfuturism (With Examples!)”, in The Mary Sue:

(Africa, science fiction, neologism) An Afrocentric subgenre of science fiction that foregrounds familial, spiritual and historical connections among Black people, paying particular attention to African culture, history and mythology, and African perspectives, rather than those of the African diaspora in the western world.


straggot

Lex was creating videos on TikTok about pronouns, being non-binary, and questioning your identity, when they were confronted with members of "Straight TikTok" spreading transphobia. Other queers came to Lex's rescue in the comments, asking "How did the straggots ["straight faggots"] get here?"

2021, Gabby Unipan, Placemaking and Community-Building among [LBQ] Women and Non-Binary People during the Covid-19 Pandemic (thesis), Brunswick: Bowdoin College, page 23:

After you've successfully and metaphorically (or literally) put a leash on them comes the more immediate seduction: getting them back to your salt-lamp lit room to do it in a way my parents nor the straggot Peter Dutton could ever begin to imagine.

2022, Alexander Lane, “How to Seduce the Nonbinary in Your Class”, in Woroni, volume 72, number 5, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISSN, page 29:

(LGBTQ slang, derogatory, often humorous, neologism) A heterosexual person.


goddex

First off: to anyone feeling an iota of guilt for indulging your plant-loving inner green goddex during the pandemic—you stop that right now.

2020 November, Cheryl Rafuse, “Why You Should Quarantine (Your Plants)”, in Boston Compass, page 6:

These days, a Witch or pagan might welcome a warm summer wind as an inherently feminine blessing from a femme goddex, […]

2021, Elliot Director, "The Gender Evolution of Air", in Astraea Taylor, Air Magic, page 56

Thank God, or Goddess, or Goddex we failed and found each other.

2022, Monique Jenkinson, Faux Queen: A Life in Drag, unnumbered page:

(neologism) A genderless or non-binary deity; a deity whose gender is unknown.


fridge horror

Coined by TV Tropes in 2009, by analogy with fridge logic.

> How would you like to live forever, cut into little pieces? Seem like if we were immortal that or something equivalent would be the common fate. There is the Greek myth of someone who was granted the boon of immortality and just kept getting older and older.
>
Different types of immortality have different potential drawbacks, true. You described the Oz immortality which was always a source of Fridge Horror.

2011 October 21, Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor), “Arithmetic”, in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet), retrieved 2022-08-24:

It's possible that his expedition, unknowingly, was traversing the southernmost portion of the globe Oz and its surrounding lands and seas occupy... now THERE'S a crossover fanfic of body horror AND fridge horror (pun intended, don't look at me like that, you'd do it too) waiting to be written.

2015 June 5, David DeLaney, “HPL upside down in antarctica in At the Mts of Madness?”, in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet), retrieved 2022-08-24:

One, we canonically know that that portal doesn't go to Fastrack/SH's Earth, but to the Earth of GPF (which also raises an issue of fridge horror, in that THAT Earth has been in stasis for months).

2021 February 13, Chrysi Cat, “Safe Havens 2-6”, in rec.arts.comics.strips (Usenet), retrieved 2022-08-24:

(fandom slang, neologism) A seemingly innocuous detail in a story, which, upon further contemplation, carries disturbing undertones.


Peak TV

Coined by American television executive John Landgraf at a Television Critics Association event in 2015.

This isn’t the most important reason, of course, but with “Peak TV” in full swing these days, time is precious, and the less time a new piece of entertainment takes, the better.

2018 June 12, Andrew Husband, “Binge this now: Why you should watch Amazon's 'Goliath'”, in Metro, New York, NY, page 21:

Peak TV has meant a surfeit of shows for a growing but ever more fractured universe of consumers.

2020 June, Radhika Jones, “Editor's Letter”, in Vanity Fair, page 16:

And as a vital part of the long-tail economy that is Peak TV, shows from abroad have won over Americans who’ve dropped cable and now stuff their streaming queues with romantic Korean dramas or chilly Nordic thrillers or kinetic Japanese anime.

2021, Judy Berman, "A whole world worth watching", Time Magazine, 15 February 2021 - 22 February 2021, page 110

(television, neologism) A golden age of television generally held as beginning in the late 1990s and peaking in the 2010s, characterized by the proliferation of a large, diverse array of scripted shows coinciding with the rise of premium cable and streaming services.

Golden Age of Television (2000s–present)


SWERFy

en-adj

SWERFy (comparative SWERFier, superlative SWERFiest)

SWERFier (comparative)
SWERFiest (superlative)

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Maybe this year we stop saying brandwh*re? Maybe that slur doesn't belong to all of us?? Maybe we think about the SWERFy streak in our community??? Just some thoughts

2021 February 9, nifty nif (@nifty_nif), Twitter:

The most artistic SWers I know don’t want to make NFTs because they see how misogynistic, transphobic, racist and SWERFy the culture is.

2021 November 21, natrix (@crypt0natrix), Twitter:

I was in a panel today & pushed back against "public health" narratives that position people selling sex + using drugs as traumatized people first. This is actually a really SWERFy position to take.

2022 February 25, Raani Begum (@raanibegum), Twitter:

(informal, neologism) Resembling, characteristic of, or related to anti-sex work feminism.


in Roblox

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Almost certainly pattered after in Minecraft, not least because of the similarities and comparisons made between the game Minecraft and the game platform Roblox.

I’ll kill all of you … in Roblox!

(Internet slang, figurative, humorous, neologism) Used to keep oneself from becoming legally liable for making a certain statement that could be perceived as a threat, or that may otherwise pose a legal risk.


goblin mode

From modern fantasy depictions of goblins as filthy, brutish, cave-dwelling creatures, a departure from older folkloric traditions introduced by J. R. R. Tolkien in The Hobbit (1937). The term is first attested on Twitter in 2009, but gained popularity in 2022.

Mac and cheese, vodka soda, and 90 Day Fiancé. Truly my PEAK of goblin mode

2019 September 20, dr. ovi (@jirtenergy), Twitter:

Although many people tweeting about goblin mode have characterized it as an almost spiritual-level embrace of our most debased tendencies, Marnell says there is “healthy goblin mode and destructive goblin mode”. For her, it embodies a certain air of harmless mischief.

2022 March 14, Kari Paul, “Slobbing out and giving up: why are so many people going ‘goblin mode’ ?”, in The Guardian:

With employees prepping to flock back to the office amid easing COVID restrictions, many are faced with the same dilemma — how to switch off “goblin mode” now that they’re around other people.

2022 March 14, Ben Cost, “Workers face ditching slobbish ‘goblin mode’ as they return to office”, in The New York Post:

I have never once in my life heard someone say the phrase "goblin mode", or use it in a message. Not this year, not ever. Apparently, it originated in 2009... But if someone used it casually I'm not sure how I'd respond. Perhaps: why on earth are you talking like that?

[2022 December 8, Rachel Connolly, “Have some dignity, Oxford English Dictionary. No one says ‘goblin mode’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(slang, neologism) The state of being unapologetically lethargic, slovenly, and prone to odd and self-indulgent behaviour.


STEMinist

A self-proclaimed “STEMinist,” Imamura is looking forward to this new challenge as much to pave the way for others even as she completes her own education in the sciences.

2016 July, Dwain Hebda, “The Steminist Way”, in Savvy, page 25:

How can English teachers harness the power of nonfiction to inspire girls to be STEMinists?

2018, NCTE Annual Convention Program, page 66:

And most importantly, it shows that women in science come in all shapes and sizes, that we can become STEMinists at any age, and that STEM can be and should be an inclusive field.

2021, Chona VinceCruz-Abeledo, “STEMotivation”, in NatureVolve, number 9, page 32:

(neologism) A woman or girl who works in or is interested in a STEM field.


allocishet

allocishet (comparative more allocishet, superlative most allocishet)

more allocishet (comparative)
most allocishet (superlative)

It's frustrating that allocishet folks are often unable to grasp the nuances of queer sex.

2018, K. M. Szpara, quoted in Caroline M. Yoachim, "Interview: K. M. Szpara", Uncanny Magazine, July/August 2018, unnumbered page

I can't think of a single allocishet person taking the time to explain their identity to anyone.

2022, Saundra Mitchell, Out There: Into the Queer New Yonder, unnumbered page:

Black consumers who are beyond the allocishet “norm” must search harder, look deeper, to find their community .

2022, Jessica P. Pryde, “Introduction”, in Jessica P. Pryde, editor, Black Love Matters: Real Talk on Romance, Being Seen, and Happily Ever Afters, page xvii-xviii:

(LGBTQ, neologism) Allosexual, cisgender, and heterosexual.


STEMinism

"STEMinism" is necessary in order to overcome the current stereotype that boys are more suited for careers in hard sciences.

2017 March 3, Jessica Jen, “STEMinism: a step for gender equality”, in The Smoke Signal, Mission San Jose High School, Fremont, CA, page 3:

STEMinism places the onus on the individual student or scientist to succeed in STEM fields rather than interrogating and removing structural barriers to success.

2019, Kristen Myers, Courtney Gallaher, Shannon McCarragher, “STEMinism”, in Journal of Gender Studies, volume 28, number 6:

STEMinism campaigns are growing up but if these campaigns are promoted by only women the engagement will be more difficult [17-18].

2020, Sofia Scataglini & Estela Perez Luque, "Closing the Gender Gap in DHM", in DHM2020: Proceedings of the 6th International Digital Human Modeling Symposium, August 31 - September 2, 2020 (eds.D. Högberg, E. Brolin, & L. Hanson), page 409

(neologism) The movement to improve the representation of women in STEM fields, and to remove professional, academic, and social barriers to women's advancement.


arospec

arospec (comparative more arospec, superlative most arospec)

more arospec (comparative)
most arospec (superlative)

From aro (“aromantic”) + spec (“spectrum”).

After some research into various arospec (aromantic spectrum) identities, I found the term “wtfromantic” and a whole bunch of people who identified with that.

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

In fact, I've, uh... well, there's this forum for demisexual and other ace/arospec people, and I've been a member for a while.

2017, Talia Hibbert, That Kind of Guy, unnumbered page:

While there can still be a tendency for allosexual characters in YA science fiction to perform conscious and unconscious microaggressions against ace, acespec, aro and arospec characters, some recent novels manage to challenge the aphobic presumption of compulsory sexuality, and to ultimately create and sustain asexual-inclusive speculative worlds.

2021, Patricia Kennon, "Asexuality and the Potential of Young Adult Literature for Disrupting Allonormativity", International Journal of Young Adult Literature, Volume 2, Issue 1 (link)

(neologism) Belonging or related to the aromantic spectrum.


acespec

acespec (comparative more acespec, superlative most acespec)

more acespec (comparative)
most acespec (superlative)

From ace (“asexual”) + spec (“spectrum”).

For the show to completely and utterly ignore this is huge since there are very few representations of aro and ace-spec people in media of any kind.

2017 October 26, Melissa Reph, “You might not like hearing this, but I don't like 'Riverdale'”, in The Muhlenberg Weekly, Muhlenberg College, page 3:

Be open to ALL acespec folx! No matter what other identities intersect with their acespec identity and no matter how they behave in whatever types of relationships they may have.

2020, Will, quoted in "Questions Of The Month", AVENues Newsletter, July-September 2020, page 23

(neologism) Belonging or related to the asexual spectrum.


aroness

people who believe gintoki's aroness can be 'fixed' really need to reevaluate themselves

2015 September 19, church (@gntmconfessions), Twitter:

While much more work is obviously needed on exploring Martin’s aceness and aroness, I want to suggest that Martin’s assertions suggest that while lesbian, Martin was also aromantic and asexual.

2021, Ela Przybyło, “Ace and aro lesbian art and theory with Agnes Martin and Yayoi Kusama”, in Journal of Lesbian Studies, volume 26, number 1:

Not every aro-spec person is going to experience aroness the exact same way as another.

2021 June 15, Glitter's Garden (@GlittersGarden), Twitter:

(slang, neologism) The state of not experiencing romantic attraction to others.


From J6 (“January 6 [United States Capitol attack]”) + -er.

suf

January 6 􂀿United States Capitol attack􂁀

Judges going easy on J6ers on grounds that a little bit goes a long way evidently haven't read a word of history: light sentences for fascists are a gift to them, easy time that to their followers equals instant martyrdom, readymade (read: faux) "authenticity."

2021 August 24, JeffSharlet, Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-09-06:

Former president Trump called all the J6ers to DC promising it’d be wild.

2022 January 20, Kevin Robbins, “Jan. 6 and BLM not the same”, in The Post-Star, volume 118, number 62, Glens Falls, NY, page A4:

A third fundraising site, the Patriot Freedom Project, lists Rehl as one of 34 detained “J6ers.” The site is “dedicated to bringing awareness to the plight of those being politically persecuted and supporting their families and friends,” it says.

2022 March 30, Laura Italiano, “How lagging prosecutions and long jail stays are fanning the flames of Jan. 6 extremism”, in Business Insider:

I pled guilty to a misdemeanor. And when you Google my name, and you look at this dossier that the government has compiled against me and every other J6er.

2023 January 19, Tucker Carlson Tonight, spoken by Brandon Straka, via Fox News:

Many of the J6ers had never been incarcerated before, and jail came as a shock. The difference, though, between them and the average person in the D.C. jail, or any American jail, is that they were going through hell together.

2024 September 16, Hanna Rosin, “The Insurrectionists Next Door”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN:

(US politics, neologism) A participant in the January 6 United States Capitol attack.


aro-allo

en-adj

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

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

It was always clear that my beliefs — that an aro-allo woman was independent while an aro-allo man was a fuckboy — were gendered stereotypes I should disavow.

2020, Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex, page 130:

It seems like aro-allo people often have distinct experiences and face distinct challenges.

2020 August 12, Transcendragon (@a_the_orange), Twitter:

Aroallo people are not automatically hypersexual, nor are we predators.

2021 October 12, Ian Stobaugh, “Experiences of an aromantic, not asexual”, in The Daily Eastern News, Eastern Illinois University, page 3:

(informal, neologism) Aromantic and allosexual.


aro-allo

stop treating aroallos like they're just shitty people for being interested in sex and not romance 2k19

2019 September 15, press y to honk (@ghostburritos), Twitter:

Harmful stereotypes about aroallos is that “they want sex all the time” and they’re “hypersexual” when that’s just not true.

2021 October 14, Ace Girl (@acegirleatscake), Twitter:

please start including aroallos more. i see a lot of people assuming all aros are ace, which is frankly untrue and are harmful to both communities. it’s very hard to find aroallos in media too

2022 June 1, keris (@keropiji), Twitter:

(informal, neologism) An aromantic and allosexual person.


McVeillance

Coined by Steve Mann, from surveillance and McDonald's (as opposed to sur (“over”) as in surveillance).

(neologism) Surveillance alongside banning people from sousveillance.


veillance

Coined by Steve Mann, back formation from surveillance and sousveillance and McVeillance.

(neologism) The recording of an activity.


special military operation

en-noun

special military operation (plural special military operations)

Calque of Russian специа́льная вое́нная опера́ция (speciálʹnaja vojénnaja operácija), a phrase used by Vladimir Putin upon launching an attack on Ukraine on February 24, 2022:
In this regard, in accordance with Article 51 of Part 7 of the UN Charter, with the approval of the Federation Council of Russia and in pursuance of the treaties of friendship and mutual assistance ratified by the Duma on February 22 with the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Luhansk People’s Republic, I decided to launch a special military operation.

cal

специа́льная вое́нная опера́ция

blockquote

By undermining the effectiveness of the sanctions regime being imposed on Russia, China clearly hopes to weaken the compliance mechanism that keeps that order working and under American control. Beijing probably also has an eye on blunting the effectiveness of this particular mechanism so that it can’t be effectively deployed against China in the event that Beijing feels compelled to conduct its own “special military operation” against Taiwan.

2022 March 25, Andrew Latham, “Three reasons why the China-Russia alliance is deepening”, in The Hill, archived from the original on 2022-03-25:

China could be planning its own Russia-style “special military operation” in Taiwan, an island that the Chinese Communist Party insists is Chinese territory, according to reports from China.

2022 June 17, Jack Buckby, “A Chinese Invasion of Taiwan Could Unleash an Economic Disaster”, in RealClearDefense, archived from the original on 2022-06-17:

China's "special military operation" will not take place now. Before that happens, China would have to carry out at least one major military maneuver with live fire in exercises that could end up taking place tomorrow according to a few posts ago highlighting the tuning between 2022 and 1995/1996.

2022 August 2, Suetham, “Fourth Taiwan Strait Crisis”, in SinoDefenceForum, archived from the original on 2022-09-08:

Medvedev cited these supposed “Western analysts” in order to propagate Russia’s colonial fantasy: envisioning Ukraine’s territory reduced to just the Kyiv region, while the remainder of Ukraine would be divided among Russia, Poland, Romania, and Hungary. Such a narrative recalls Putin’s February 2022 speech questioning Ukraine’s statehood and accompanies intensifying Russian calls to expand its “special military operation” to realize its imperial map.

2022 August 24, “Russia’s War on Ukraine: Six Months of Lies, Implemented”, in United States Department of State, archived from the original on 2022-08-24:

Beijing expresses understanding of reasons that made Russia begin the special military operation for protection of Lugansk and Donetsk People’s Republics, Russian Presidential Aide Yuri Ushakov told reporters Monday.

2022 September 5, “China expresses understanding of reasons behind Russia’s special military operation — aide”, in TASS, archived from the original on 2022-09-05:

When asked if Beijing considers a special military operation against Taiwan possible, Liu Xiaoming said that the Chinese government reserves the right to take all necessary measures to ensure the territorial integrity and sovereignty of the country.

2023 April 27, “CHINESE SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE LIU XIAOMING GAVE AN INTERVIEW TO TASS”, in Center for International Security and Strategy Tsinghua University, archived from the original on 2023-05-06:

Repeated clashes between the two warring parties would threaten more Chinese people and the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor if they expand, with displaced people fleeing toward the Chinese frontier. If that happens, Beijing could be forced to conduct its own “special military operation” in Myanmar’s territory to reestablish the buffer.

2024 January 10, Emanuele Scimia, “How multiple global challenges may limit Beijing’s options on Taiwan”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-01-10, Opinion:

(euphemistic, neologism) A military situation resembling a war.


bikefishing

(neologism) A crossover hobby combining bicycling into the wilderness and fishing in remote lakes or rivers.


kleptomnesia

Coined by Dan Gilbert in or before 1999.

Kleptomnesia happens due to a pragmatic, but peculiar, feature of how human memory is wired. When we encode information, we tend to pay more attention to the content than the source. Once we accept a piece of information as true, we no longer need to worry about where we acquired it.

2015 January 2, Adam Grant, “The Biggest Reason We Steal Other People’s Ideas”, in Time, archived from the original on 2016-03-20:

Chad Bauman has offered a great model for the “make your own religion” exercise, and I will engage in repeated acts of “kleptomnesia” in appropriating his ideas.

2016 January 5, CM Bauman, BAR Hege, R Kleckley…, “The “make your own religion” project”, in Teaching Theology & Religion, volume 19, number 1, pages 99–110:

It’s fair to say that psychologists haven’t exactly figured out a way around kleptomnesia, and maybe Melania Trump’s speech might instigate research into this fuzzy area.

2016 July 19, Tanya Basu, “Melania Trump's Speechwriters Apparently Suffer From Kleptomnesia”, in Inverse, archived from the original on 2021-10-01:

We're all vulnerable to “kleptomnesia”—accidentally remembering the ideas of others as our own.

2017, Adam Grant, Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World, New York: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 3:

Like every other author, I'm vulnerable to 'kleptomnesia' – accidentally remembering the ideas of others as your own.

2019, Andy Cope, The Little Book of Being Brilliant, Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 169:

I worry that I will wake up tomorrow in a cold sweat, having forgotten to thank someone who assuredly deserved it. Everyone is vulnerable to "kleptomnesia," or accidentally remembering the ideas of others as our own.

2021, Lisa Grossman Liu, The Transparent, Concurrent, and Collaborative Health Record (thesis), New York: Columbia University, →DOI, page xviii:

(neologism) The situation where a person comes up with an idea that they believe to be original, but which was in fact created by someone else and previously encountered by the person.


e-barrassment

yeah, it's e-barrassment. like e-mail.

2007 April 10, “1st place baby!”, in alt.sports.baseball.atlanta-braves (Usenet):

Email etiquette and the risky reply-all were highlighted as one Australian lawyer made a major email faux pas, leading to his sacking.

2012 March 3, “From the vault: Aussie lawyer's "e-barrassment" over email faux pas”, in Lawyers Weekly, archived from the original on 2022-09-20:

How to prevent 'e-barrassment'.

2015 June 23, Hayley Tsukayama, “Ever send an e-mail you wish you could take back? Now, in Gmail, you can.”, in Washington Post:

You know what the English language needs? A word for the hot, sickening feeling you get when you accidentally hit "Reply All," subsequently broadcasting a private message to a much larger group. Maybe we should call it e-barrassment. Or forwardboding. Or Sents insensibility.

2019 January 17, David Pogue, “How to Handle the Dreaded 'Reply All Moment'”, in New York Times:

(Internet, informal, neologism) Humiliation as a result of sending an email with embarrassing mistakes.


polycrisis

From poly- + crisis. Attested at least since the 2010s.

South Africa finds itself in a polycrisis in terms of dealing with economic development, to alleviate poverty, within water and energy constraints (see fig. 2).

2011, Y. Villacampa Esteve, C. A. Brebbia, Andrea Alberto Mammoli, Energy and Sustainability III, WIT Press, →ISBN, page 16:

The first implies an ethics of sufficiency and cooperation which undercut the capitalist values of individualism and crass materialism that are of little use when it comes to considering alternatives to the polycrises we now face.

2012, Mark Swilling, Eve Annecke, Just Transitions: Explorations of Sustainability in an Unfair World, United Nations Univ:

If cities are to have a sustainable future, are to respond to the poly-crises and are to provide the necessary opportunities for future populations, the governance roles in responding and adapting to all aspects demand a very different view of governance and leadership within the city.

2013 March 1, Bruce Frayne, Caroline Moser, Gina Ziervogel, Climate Change, Assets and Food Security in Southern African Cities, Routledge, →ISBN:

It should also be said that the economic sphere is increasingly understood to be intricately connected to the ecological – as two sides of the same coin – and in many ways community development, deeply influenced by the broader 'development literature', has been reconstructed by the ecological polycrises upon us […].

2016 February 17, Peter Westoby, Theorising the Practice of Community Development: A South African Perspective, Routledge, →ISBN:

In Palestine, polycrises constitute the everyday rhythm of life; cityscapes are saturated with colonial social relations across all scales; and othering and socio-spatial disconnects have become the channels through which economic exploitation, the furthering of dependencies, and the Israeli colonial project are enabled.

2021 August 9, Linda Peake, Elsa Koleth, Gokboru Sarp Tanyildiz, Rajyashree N. Reddy, darren patrick/dp, A Feminist Urban Theory for Our Time: Rethinking Social Reproduction and the Urban, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 187:

But the exchange feeds into an ever-more-common discourse: that the UK is facing “polycrisis” in almost every facet of life in Britain. From courts to the cost of living, transport to healthcare, environment to the asylum system – everywhere appears to be affected.

2022 December 30, Pamela Duncan, Carmen Aguilar García, Michael Goodier, “Inflation, waiting lists, strikes, rail chaos, climate emergency: the 2022 polycrisis”, in The Guardian:

(economics, neologism) A series of crises occurring at the same time.


clapter

A type of clapping or applause in comedy when a comedian delivers a joke with the purpose of making the audience applaud and agree instead of laugh.


kindom

From kin (“relatives”) + -dom as a more egalitarian or gender-neutral alternative to kingdom.

Jesus continued, "What does the kindom [KJV kingdome] of God resemble? To what will I liken it? […]

1994, Priests for Equality, The Inclusive New Testament, Altamira Press, →ISBN, Luke 13:18, page 126:

The assumption will of be that the concretization of God's kindom always involves an oikonomia or household.

2002, Michael Crosby, The Prayer that Jesus Taught Us, Orbis Books, →ISBN, page 97:

But this is not the Kindom of God that Jesus proclaimed. Let us consider the parables of the hidden treasure and the pearl of great price. The Kindom involves both search and surprise.

2019 July 20, Catherine Maresca, “The Pearl and the Hidden Treasure”, in Violence and Nonviolence in Scripture: Helping Children Understand Challenging Stories, Liturgy Training Publications, →ISBN, page 24:

(theology, neologism) A divinely-instituted egalitarian community.


Trussite

There are the Trussites, hovering over her Instagram posts in political adoration, and then there are others who consider her a menace who is about to be made Prime Minister in a sinister conspiracy by Brexiteers.

2022 May 11, George Trefgarne, “In defence of Liz Truss’s retro economics”, in The Spectator:

(UK politics, neologism) A political supporter of Liz Truss (born 1975), British Conservative politician and Prime Minister in September–October 2022.


Ruzzian

A neologism that appeared following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. At first a blend of Russian + Nazi, after 2022 a blend of Russian + Z, using the Russian Z symbol of Russian propaganda to mock the Russian invasion of Ukraine. See Z for more information. Analyzable as Ruzzia + -n.

One individual shared the clip via Twitter and said: "Wow Ruzzian state TV... Gets real".

2022 September 29, Reuters Fact Check, “Fact Check-Clip of Russian television presenter dubbed with fabricated satirical subtitles”, in Reuters:

Anton got custom lettering for the bumper of one of his cars: "Collector of corpses of Ruzzian soldiers."

2022 October 1, Isabelle Khurshudyan, “Searching for bodies with the Ukrainian captain collecting Russian corpses”, in Washington Post:

However, at one rally in Washington D.C., police restrained a woman who spat twice at officers, with a video of the "Ruzzian Karen", as she was quickly dubbed by social media users, going viral.

2022 October 12, Tom Norton, “Fact Check: Was Pro-Russian 'Karen' Jailed for Spitting at Secret Service?”, in Newsweek:

(slang, derogatory, neologism) Alternative spelling of Russian.


Ruzzian

Oh, God! To sound more RUZZIAN: it was exactly for Russiastan who had divided the world for two camps: for those who always support Putler and the rest – Nazzies, of course, according to Ruzzians. What personal opinion can you have if you’ve already been brainwashed to thank your Fuhrer for everything?

2016 May 18, Paweł Nowak, “Linguistic Image of the Conflict. Semantics and Pragmatics”, in Framing of the Ukraine–Russia conflict in online and social media, Riga: NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence, →ISBN, page 73:

"Ruzzians tried to hide some ammo in the forest but something went wrong. Belgorod. Filmed by drone with thermal camera," the user wrote while sharing the post.

2022 August 20, Diksha Rani, “Watch: Drone Footage Of Russian Ammunition Catching Fire In Forest”, in NDTV:

Ha Ha, ruZZians fleeing to Dan Christensens big foot home:

2022 October 6, Mostowski Collapse, “Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping donated Five Thousand each to Save the Ark:”, in sci.math (Usenet):

Not to mention her association with Ruzzians.

2022 October 27, Ken Olson, “Mid-Term Election Prediction”, in rec.sport.football.college (Usenet):

(derogatory, slang, neologism) Alternative spelling of Russian.


panvasive

en-adj

panvasive (comparative more panvasive, superlative most panvasive)

more panvasive (comparative)
most panvasive (superlative)

Blend of pan- + pervasive + invasive, coined by American law professor Christopher Slobogin in 2013.

coin

I suggest that we now face the moment in history when the elemental right to the future tense is endangered by a panvasive digital architecture of behavior modification owned and operated by surveillance capital, necessitated by its economic imperatives, and driven by its laws of motion, all for the sake of its guaranteed outcomes.

2018, Shoshana Zuboff, chapter 11, in The Age of Surveillance Capitalism:

He argues these panvasive activities look more like what administrative agencies do than the stuff of traditional order maintenance policing, and they should be governed accordingly.

2021, Rachel Harmon, The Law of the Police, Aspen Publishing, →ISBN, page 516:

(neologism, of surveillance) Massively invasive on a large scale.


flip smartphone

en-noun

flip smartphone (plural flip smartphones)

(neologism) A flip phone with more advanced features and greater computing capacity than those of the traditional featurephone variety; a smart flip phone.


puriteen

“Sorry to all the puriteens who will never know the unfettered joy of taking your top off inside the Stonewall Inn,” said one prominent activist on Twitter. “I hope you never know the pain of being beaten by a cop for standing up for queer rights.”

2021 June 14, EJ Dickson, “Are Sex-Negative ‘Puriteens’ Actually Taking Over the Internet?”, in Rolling Stone:

Young puriteens have recently been seen on social media moralizing about large age gaps in adult relationships and partaking in the perennial “No Kink at Pride” debate.

2021 July 30, Maddie Holden, “Gen Z Are 'Puriteens,' But Not For The Reasons You Think”, in GQ:

As one Twitter user put it rather succinctly: “The concept of the ‘puriteen’ is the most insane and perverted moral panic ever. Hundreds of 35-year-olds on the internet freaking out because they think teenagers are insufficiently horny.”

2022 August 6, Eleanor Halls, “This Is What The Sex Lives Of Gen Z-ers Are Actually Like”, in Vogue:

(slang, derogatory, neologism) A teenager or young adult (especially an LGBT or LGBT-supportive member of Gen Z) whose views on sexuality are seen as sex-negative or moralistic.


Zoom fatigue

A reference to Zoom, a video conferencing service which became popular at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic around early 2020. Attested from late 2019.

It might not cure Zoom fatigue, but it will free you of the burden of having to see yourself, yet again, for hours on end.

2020 April 2, Chloe Hadavas, “Tired of Seeing Your Own Face on Zoom? Hide It.”, in Slate:

Initially, pondering months of isolation from friends and family, people needed to feel connected. Now that quarantine is just how we will live for the foreseeable future, how do you disconnect? The Zoom fatigue has set in, and it’s time to learn to deal with it.

2020 May 20, Kathleen Walsh, “Zoom Fatigue: How to Politely Decline a Call During Quarantine”, in New York Times:

By now, you have no doubt heard of "Zoom fatigue," the range of maladies, including exhaustion and headaches, that are associated with hours and hours of virtual meetings.

2022 July 14, Arthur C. Brooks, “The Trouble With Zooming Forever”, in The Atlantic:

(neologism) A feeling of exhaustion resulting from spending excessive amounts of time in video conferences.


tang ping

From Mandarin 躺平 (tǎngpíng, “lie flat”); compare Cantonese 躺平 (tong² ping⁴), Teochew 躺平 (tang² bên⁵). Attested in English from 2021 (see quotations below).

The new trend, known as "tang ping", is described as an antidote to society's pressures to find jobs and perform well while working long shifts.

2021 June 3, “China's new 'tang ping' trend aims to highlight pressures of work culture”, in BBC News:

A growing number of Chinese youth want to “lie flat.” This is the literal translation of what the expression “Tang ping” means in Chinese. Since last year, the trend has resurfaced. The generation born after 1995 claims to be “Tang ping” and rejects the 10-hours-a-day, 6-days-a-week work model.

2022 February 22, “What is the ‘Tang ping’ movement started by young Chinese who are against overworking?”, in Malay Mail, Kuala Lumpur:

Images of Ji lazily “lying flat” on the sofa has become a viral internet meme, and even leading to the posture receiving a nickname “Ge You tang”, or Ge You-esque slouching, since 2016, when the “tang ping” culture was on the rise in China.

2023 April 1, Fran Lu, “‘Making money while lying flat’: Chinese movie star Ge You pockets US$1.1 million from hundreds of lawsuits over famous ‘tang ping’ TV character”, in South China Morning Post (Online), Hong Kong:

2022 November 2, Han-Yu Hsu, “How do Chinese people evaluate “Tang-Ping” (lying flat) and effort-making: The moderation effect of return expectation”, in Frontiers in Psychology, New York:

“Tang-Ping” (TP), referring to “lying flat” literally, has been a buzzword in China web media since 2021. As the opponent of effort-making (EM) behaviors which have both instrumental and purpose values in Confucian culture, TP has a negative moral implication in China and has been criticized by the state-owned media.

(China, neologism) A lifestyle and social protest movement in China beginning in April 2021, which is a rejection of societal pressures to overwork.


bachelorx party

bachelorx party (plural bachelorx parties)

"Replacing 'bachelor/ette' with 'bachelorx' welcomes the growing number of straight folks who aren't into the outdated idea surrounding these get togethers as their 'last night of freedom,'" Blattel says. "With that attitude, it's no shock that gendered bachelorx parties are seen as the last chance for fun."

2019 August 29, Louis Baragona, “What's a Bachelorx Party? The Binary-Breaking Way to Celebrate”, in The Knot:

(neologism) A party held for a couple about to be married; a bachelorette party or bachelor party open to all guests, rather than those of a specific gender.


bachelorx

From bachelor + -x (“used to replace a gendered suffix”).

suffix

One of my personal fave sex educators, Stella Harris, is your guide for this hilarious live, interactive game show, where contestants complete challenges to win a date with an eligible "bachelorx," and audience members are encouraged to forge love connections on their own!

2019 September 12, Steven Humphrey, “Where to See Portland's Best Sex Shows”, in Portland Mercury:

Nevertheless, we would like to take this opportunity to celebrate bi folks. Let’s start with a list of very eligible bachelors, bachelorettes, and bachelorxes.

2022 September 24, “50 of The Most Eligible Single Bi+ Celebrities”, in Gayety:

(neologism) Someone who has not yet married; a bachelor or bachelorette of any gender identity, especially one identifying as non-binary.

"You can celebrate a bachelorx any way you want," Blattel says. "Society historically hasn't made space for queer folks, and neither has the wedding industry."


Trussonomics

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Trussonomics.

(UK politics, economics, neologism) The economic policies and theories of former UK prime minister Liz Truss.


Sunakite

This is stupid politics from the Sunakites. It is akin to being 4-0 down in a football match in injury time and instead of accepting defeat gracefully going around elbowing opponents in the face and performing leg-breaking tackles.

2022 August 10, Patrick O'Flynn, “Why Rishi Sunak shouldn’t quit”, in The Spectator:

(UK politics, neologism) A political supporter of Rishi Sunak (born 1980), British Conservative politician and Prime Minister from 2022 to 2024.


pearlcore

Up first? Pearlcore, the lovechild of our obsession with all things Regency, Baroque and Rococo this year. Keep your grandma’s pearls on hand to clutch alongside your three-strand Vivienne Westwood choker because it seems like our love of this iridescent gem isn’t dying down just yet.

2021 December 7, Gladys Lai, “5 fashion trends that will define 2022, according to Pinterest”, in Vogue Australia:

No longer relegated to buttons, pearls are as chic as when Coco Chanel made them trendy in the 1930s. From pearl-themed bridal showers to pearl-detailed wedding receptions, the “pearlcore” trend is currently big in bridal.

2022 October 20, Ivy Manners, “What We Saw at New York Bridal Fashion Week”, in The New York Times:

The pearl anklet
For #pearlcore enthusiasts, here's a modern take on a strand of pearls, featuring glass pearls set between long gold beads.

2023 June 3, “Accessories”, in Toronto Star, page L 12:

(fashion, neologism) A fashion trend and aesthetic, popular in the 2020s, characterized by the use of pearl jewelry and similar iridescent items.


face diaper

(slang, derogatory, neologism) A surgical mask, particularly worn during the COVID-19 pandemic.


novid

(neologism) A person who has never had COVID-19, or believes so because they were asymptomatic when infected.


tripledemic

What’s more, COVID-19 isn’t the only sickness going around, as influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) cases are prevalent, creating a “tripledemic.”

2022 January 5, Janelle Randazza, Kaleb Brown, “Fight against the tripledemic with these KN95 masks for kids”, in USA Today, Money:

With few to no restrictions in place and travel and socializing back in full swing, an expected winter rise in Covid cases appears poised to collide with a resurgent influenza season, causing a "twindemic" — or even a "tripledemic," with a third pathogen, respiratory syncytial virus, or R.S.V., in the mix.

2022 October 23, Apoorva Mandavilli, “A 'Tripledemic'? Flu, R.S.V. and Covid May Collide This Winter, Experts Say”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 2023-01-05:

But experts told ABC News the country may now be facing the threat of a "tripledemic" as doctors see an early rise in other pediatric respiratory viruses, particularly respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV.

2022 October 26, Mary Kekatos, “Is the US facing a potential 'tripledemic' of flu, RSV and COVID-19?”, in ABC News, archived from the original on 2023-01-04:

Masking can feel like a thing of the past in the US, even in cities such as New York and Los Angeles that once embraced the precaution. But as healthcare facilities grapple with a "tripledemic" of respiratory viruses – with Covid, flu and RSV surging simultaneously – experts are once again urging the public to don face coverings.

2022 December 10, Matthew Cantor, “Masking could fight the 'tripledemic', experts say. Will anyone listen?”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 2022-12-28:

Even in the absence of a pandemic, an infection could take a serious toll on Addison, but this winter's uptick in the number of COVID, flu and respiratory syncytial viruses, or the “tripledemic,” has put families of children with chronic health conditions or compromised immunity on higher alert.

2023 January 29, Brinley Hineman, “‘Tripledemic’ keeps parents on alert: Even a common cold is serious for at-risk children”, in Newsday, page 6:

(virology, neologism) A combination of three pandemics (usually referring to Covid-19, influenza, and RSV).


holomics

From holo- + -omics (“a study of the totality of something”).

compound

In contrast to current predictive models, holomics includes all these different types of information to predict the likelihood of a patient responding to therapy, developing a certain disease, and so on.

2019 February 26, Irène Buvat (quoted), Mélisande Rouger, “Holomics: a trendy but complex topic”, in Healthcare-in-Europe:

(medicine, neologism) The concept of making therapeutic decisions for a patient by integrating data from many different sources.


grave-dancy

Perhaps for them, the Kiwi Starfruit Refresher had a bad rap. So even though - to channel Eminem - some might lose themselves in the grave dancy party if it is true that Kiwi Starfruit's close to postmortem, not everyone would find that news electrifying.

2022 May 3, A. C. Grimes, “Starbucks Baristas Are Celebrating The Possible Demise Of The 'Battery Acid' Refresher”, in Mashed:

Now, maybe you see this as sort of an obvious and opportunistic publicity play by a competing social-media service. Maybe it even seems crass to you—a little grave-dancy.

2022 November 18, Kaitlyn Tiffany, “Tumblr Gets the Last Laugh”, in The Atlantic:

(neologism) Celebrating the demise or downfall of something.


Boaty McBoatface

en-verb

Boaty McBoatface (third-person singular simple present Boaty McBoatfaces, present participle Boaty McBoatfacing, simple past and past participle Boaty McBoatfaced)

Boaty McBoatfaces (present singular third-person)
Boaty McBoatfacing (participle present)
Boaty McBoatfaced (participle past)
Boaty McBoatfaced (past)

BBC Radio Jersey
Sir David Attenborough
The Daily Telegraph
The Times

Coined by BBC Radio Jersey presenter James Hand in 2016 as a jocular response to an online poll held by the British government to name a new polar research ship. Despite the fact that "Boaty McBoatface" won decisively, receiving 33% of the overall vote (over three times as many as the second most favoured option), the organizers of the poll ultimately named the ship after British broadcaster and naturalist Sir David Attenborough. The name was instead given to one of the remote-controlled submarines (pictured) carried aboard the ship.
The name itself may be analyzed as boat + -y (“diminutive suffix”) Mc- (“a patronymic used to form common Irish and Scottish names”) + boat + face. Possibly influenced by "Hooty McOwlface", a name given to an adopted owl which went viral on the Internet in 2012.

compound

Trump is Boaty McBoatfacing the presidential election.

2016 May 3, @GeorgeWept, Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-12-13:

Mountain Dew got McBoatfaced when it asked the internet to name its new flavor. The internet — largely driven by members of the message boards Reddit and 4chan — obliged by naming the new flavor "Hitler Did Nothing Wrong."

2020 October 28, Jennifer Finney Boylan, “Trump and the Boaty McBoatfacing of America”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-10-01:

On this week's episode, Sonny Bunch (The Bulwark), Alyssa Rosenberg (The Washington Post), and Peter Suderman (Reason) ask if the Oscars made a big mistake by allowing a potential Boaty McBoatfacing situation by opening up voting to the Twitter-based masses.

2022 February 28, Sonny Bunch, “98: Is the Video Game Movie Curse Broken?”, in The Bulwark, archived from the original on 2022-12-07:

The Oscars got Boaty McBoatfaced and that's like, the sixth worst headline of the night, that's how bad the show was.

2022 March 28, Sarah Marrs, “The Chaoscars”, in Lainey Gossip, archived from the original on 2022-11-19:

Some of the time was ceded to "fan favourite" movies voted for by the public, but the segment was inevitably Boaty McBoatfaced by a handful of hardcore Zack Snyder zealots, which meant that Hollywood's most prestigious night had to grind to a halt so that everyone could watch the Flash enter the Speed Force.

2022 March 29, Stuart Heritage, “If it takes Will Smith's slap to make people watch the Oscars, is it doomed?”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-11-19:

There have actually been numerous other cases of McBoatfacing occurring since the original in 2016.

2022 November 11, Tristan McKeough, “Boaty McBoatface”, in The Abingtonian, archived from the original on 2022-11-19:

(neologism) To hijack or troll a vote, especially one held online, by supporting a joke option.


thinkfluence

Far from spelling the end of serious literature by people such as James Wood and Ian McEwan, this system finally gives us an objective measure for assessing their worth, which is a function not of originality but thinkfluence.

2015 January 4, Curtis Brown, “Plagiarism is the new pornography”, in Al Jazeera:

There are few things hotter in tech right now than artificial intelligence. You’ll hear people with titles like "chief experience officer" and "thinkfluence concierge" talk about "neural networks" and "machine learning" and "natural language processing."

2016 October 31, Brian Feldman, “Clippy Didn't Just Annoy You — He Changed the World”, in New York Magazine:

From Colorado Gov. Jared Polis to Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, the archetype is increasingly familiar in politics and in the online game of thinkfluence—but Palihapitiya has struck the most populist pose of all.

2021 February 10, Walker Bragman, “Billionaire Robinhood Hero Chamath Palihapitiya Is a Pushback on Progressive Democrats”, in Newsweek:

(neologism) The amount of influence or power that someone has over the public's thoughts or ideas.


thinkfluence

en-verb

thinkfluence (third-person singular simple present thinkfluences, present participle thinkfluencing, simple past and past participle thinkfluenced)

thinkfluences (present singular third-person)
thinkfluencing (participle present)
thinkfluenced (participle past)
thinkfluenced (past)

Do you long to become a "thought leader", thinkfluencing your way from TED talk to tech conference, lauded for your insights?

2014 April 5, Oliver Burkeman, “This column will change your life: interestingness v truth”, in The Guardian:

(title)

2016 March 17, Kaitlyn Tiffany, “How to make friends and thinkfluence people at SXSW”, in The Verge:

This is an attempt at thinkfluencing, being an ideas guy. Except no one respects ideas guys on Twitter.

2022 May 16, Elizabeth Lopatto, “Jeff Bezos is not a poster”, in The Verge:

(neologism) To exercise thinkfluence; to shape others' views and beliefs.