shoujo ai

Two connected etymologies. Either interpreted as a loan translation of Japanese 少女愛 (shōjo ai), or a specialized neologism created in analogy to shounen ai (少年愛; shōnen ai) using Japanese vocabulary.

(neologism, anime, manga) Anime and manga that explore emotional, but largely platonic, homoerotic relationships between women.


fucktwit

(neologism, derogatory or offensive, vulgar) An extremely foolish person.


transmisogynist

en-adj

transmisogynist (comparative more transmisogynist, superlative most transmisogynist)

more transmisogynist (comparative)
most transmisogynist (superlative)

Ropchan's assessment of the situation displays transmisogynist bias in the intentional misuse of the pronoun 'he,' […]

2012 April 4, Jil Jorgensen, Alexa DeGagne, “University must do more for transgendered people”, in The Gateway, volume 102, number 28, University of Alberta, page 10:

Well, speaking for myself as a trans woman: Certainly it's hard to argue that it doesn't repeat and reinforce all sorts of tired transmisogynist tropes, or that the song doesn't have a nasty hetero-cis sneer underneath it.

2012, Rachel Zall, quoted in Andrew Hickey, Preservation: The Kinks' Music 1964-1974, Lulu.com (2012), page 137, published 2 September 2012

Transwomen grow up in an incredibly transmisogynist culture, where we receive relentlessly negative messages about our identities, […]

2013, Leela Ginelle, "Parker Marie Molloy Elaborates on 'Gay Dudes, Can You Just Not?'", PQ Monthly, Volume 2, Number 12, December 2013/January 2014, page 12

(feminism, LGBTQ, neologism) Relating to, characteristic of, or exhibiting transmisogyny.


transmisogynist

(feminism, LGBTQ, neologism) One who exhibits transmisogyny.


transmisogynistic

transmisogynistic (comparative more transmisogynistic, superlative most transmisogynistic)

more transmisogynistic (comparative)
most transmisogynistic (superlative)

[…] the same masculinity at the heart of the military’s pervasive homophobia, tolerance of sexual assault, and transmisogynistic practice of court-martialing transfeminine soldiers for “cross-dressing.”

2011, "An open letter to the organizers of TEDxMiddlebury", The Middlebury Campus (Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont), Volume 110, Issue 8, 10 November 2011, page 11

But I am asking us to examine a comedic device that not only degrades women but also reinforces the absolutely incorrect and harmfully transmisogynistic idea that trans women are really just "men in dresses."

2014 November 4, Morgan Philley, “Dressing down the gender binary”, in The Daily Mississippian, volume 103, number 49, University of Mississippi, page 2:

As far as I'm concerned, Leelah's death wasn't suicide – it was murder at the hands of a transmisogynistic society.

2015, Casey Aldridge, "To the Charlotte Christian community after Chapel Hill", Niner Times (University of North Carolina at Charlotte), Volume 27, Issue 19, 17 February 2015 - 23 February 2015, page 8

(LGBTQ, neologism) Relating to, characteristic of, or exhibiting transmisogyny.


racenicity

Blend of race + ethnicity, coined by Pepi Leistyna in a paper published in 1999.

(sociology, rare, neologism) A social construct combining race and ethnicity.


deadname

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From dead + name, because the old name is dead (“no longer used”). Attested since at least 2010 as a noun and 2013 as a verb by the OED.

And when people constantly refer to you as your deadname [a name that you previously went by], or use the incorrect pronouns, it really is like getting slapped with a wet fish.

2014, Natalia Moorin, “My Illness Is Not Your Inspiration”, in Damsel, University of Western Australia, page 21:

One of the articles in our last issue contained a major error: we referred to a transgender student by their deadname.

2018 February 27, Amy O'Kruk, “Apology to readers”, in Western Gazette, Western University, page 2:

“My deadname is everywhere because of my ID card, and not only do I have to look at it but lots of other people get to see. […]

2018, Alex McFadden, quoted in Noni Cole & Ruby Perryman, "The Unfair University ID Card", Farrago (University of Melbourne), Edition Three (2018), page 7

(neologism, especially LGBTQ) A previous name of a person (especially a transgender person) who has since changed their name.


sliving

sliving (comparative more sliving, superlative most sliving)

more sliving (comparative)
most sliving (superlative)

Coined by celebrity Paris Hilton in 2019 as a blend of slaying (“amazing, stunning, excelling”) + living (“making the most of life”).

blend

That said, we're definitely going to keep our eyes peeled for some "sliving" merch very, very soon.

2019 December 17, Sandra Song, “Paris Hilton Invents 'Sliving' While Interviewing Kim Petras”, in Paper Mag, archived from the original on 2022-08-18:

And soon cooking is about to get a lot more sliving, now that Cooking with Paris, a 6-part series, is coming to Netflix this August.

2021 July 27, Tammie Teclemariam, “What Does Paris Hilton Mean By Sliving?”, in Gawker, archived from the original on 2023-02-02:

Take her famous "sliving lasagna," for example. It's a family recipe, passed down from her grandmother Kathleen, "an amazing cook."

2021 August 6, Alex Zaragoza, “Paris Hilton's 'Cooking With Paris' Is Both Charming and Relatable”, in VICE, archived from the original on 2022-12-15:

She's almost always wearing "sliving gloves" — lacy or bejeweled fingerless numbers she's named after a catchphrase that seems to combine "slaying" with "living your best life" — that constantly get smeared with whatever she's making.

2021 August 10, Emily Heil, “Paris Hilton's new cooking show gets everything wrong about cooking”, in The Washington Post, archived from the original on 2022-03-12:

Paris Hilton's bodyguard isn't "sliving" even if his client is.

2022 April 25, Nardine Saad, “Paris Hilton's bodyguard goes viral after Coachella moment”, in Los Angeles Times, archived from the original on 2022-07-15:

Congratulatory messages flowed in from fans, many of whom deemed Nicky to be "beautiful" as one wrote: "Picture perfect." Another said: "Most sliving aunt out there," with a third adding: "So awesome congratulations!!! That's Hott," and one commenting: "Wonderful photos, you're all so graceful."

2022 May 28, Hannah Hargrave, “Paris Hilton models monochrome beachwear in stunning vacation photo”, in Hello Magazine, archived from the original on 2022-10-17:


mall walker

(US, neologism) A person who walks in a mall as a form of exercise


cuckservative

Blend of cuck + conservative. A neologism created by Internet users.

Use of the cuckservative hashtag peaked toward the end of last month, when it was used more than 5,000 times in one day, according to data from Topsy, a social media analytics tool.

2015 August 13, Alan Rappeport, “From the Right, a New Slur for G.O.P. Candidates”, in The New York Times:

Her shtick has always involved cultivating an extreme online persona, and lately that seems to mean deliberately stoking the cuckservative-obsessed crowd, only to distance herself ever-so-slightly when the Twitter fur flies.

2015 September 18, David French, “‘Cuckservative’ Has Got to Go”, in National Review, retrieved 2022-02-10:

“Hey Reddit, I’m Corey Stewart. Republican Candidate for Governor of Virginia and former State Chair for Donald Trump for President,” he began. “The primary election is June 13th. I am opposing the establishment's handpicked candidate, former Bush guy, RNC chairman, and cuckservative, Ed Gillespie.”

2017 March 24, Laura Vozzella, “GOP Chair Slams Va. Gubernatorial Contender for Calling Rival a ‘Cuckservative’”, in The Washington Post:

Nothing captured the alt-right mentality better than cuckservative, with its taunt that moderation is unmanly and certain conservative males are cuckolds.

[2017 December 22, Dominic Green, “Are You Sufficiently Woke?”, in The Weekly Standard, Washington, retrieved 2022-02-10:

(US politics, slang, derogatory, neologism, politics) A weak-willed political conservative politician who is willing to capitulate to other political stances.


velfie

There are duckface selfies, velfies, melfies, and what have you.

March 2015, Digit, Siddharth Parwatay, "From Selfies to Selflessness", p. 3

Move over selfie, India is embracing the "velfie" with Bollywood stars, sporting heroes, and even politicians taking and posting videos of themselves online using a range of new mobile apps.

7/10/2015, Voice of Asia, Peter Hutchison, "When a selfie is not enough: India abuzz over 'velfie' craze", p. 14

In the winter of 2014 the writer and ad filmmaker had spun off the first Indian velfie (video selfies) movement with a three-minute film titled Pause that compared the Indo-Pak boundaries to walls between homes and led to a movement called Dear Neighbour that is currently on the trending charts with a spate of #ProfileForPeace messages on its wall.

10/26/2015, Pakistan Today, "Peace call goes viral", p. 2

(neologism, chiefly India) A video selfie.


dragonkin

In October 2003, a dragonkin by the calling Starblade created a thread on otherkin in a Livejournal community for debates. The thread began with Starblade giving his personal views of being a “dragon spiritually” and so thus would fit under the term otherkin which then spawned a large debate over otherkin.

2014, House of Chimeras, “History of the Draconic Community - 2001 - present”, in The Chimeras Library, published 2015:


phagraphene

Contraction of penta-hexa-hepta-graphene.; Blend of penta- + hexa- + hepta- + graphene from the ring structures of phagraphene, having five-, six-, and seven-sided rings in the macromolecular structure.

(neologism) A two-dimensional form of graphene, the allotrope of carbon found in graphite, with 5/6/7-sided rings instead of just the 6-sided ones found in conventional graphene.


microfear

en-noun

microfear (usually uncountable, plural microfears)

And he told The New York Times that when he recently looked over Katie Couric's 2007 60 Minutes interview with Yankee infielder Alex Rodriguez, in which he denies using performance-enhancing drugs, Ekman spotted a hint of "microfear" around Rodriguez's lips when Couric asked if he was ever tempted to use illegal drugs.

2009 February 21, Hannah Hoag, “Reading the fine print of the human face”, in Toronto Star:

(informal, neologism) A small amount of fear.


Liberland

From Liber (denoting liberty or libertarianism) + -land. Created in April 2015.

Within a couple of months 200,000 people applied online for Liberland citizenship, many of whom said they'd move there as soon as possible.

2017, Jamie Bartlett, chapter 8, in Radicals, William Heinemann, →ISBN:

(neologism) A libertarian micronation (self-declared a sovereign state), located at Gornja Siga, in the border between Serbia and Croatia near the Danube river.


Piggate

(neologism) The British scandal wherein Prime Minister David Cameron was reported to have inserted his penis into the mouth of a dead pig as part of an initiation ritual during his university years.


rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock

rock paper scissors
rock paper scissors#English

(neologism) An extension of the children's game of rock paper scissors, with two additional handshapes: lizard and Spock.


juvenoia

/ˈd͡ʒuːvənɔɪə/

Coined by David Finkelhor in 2010, from a blend of juvenile + paranoia.

(neologism) The fear or hostility directed by an older generation toward a younger one, or toward youth culture in general.


Hunger Games

From the titular fictional gladiatorial contests in The Hunger Games, first published in 2008.

2012 December 28, “Jockey James Winks falls prey to the Hunger Games of riding”, in news.com.au, archived from the original on 2012-12-28:

If the term “daytime TV” used to be synonymous with slightly ramshackle, undemanding programming attuned to the languid circadian rhythms of hungover students and the retired, it’s now a hyper-competitive arena of mechanical oneupmanship, a Hunger Games for image and sound editors.

2014 September 10, Graeme Virtue, “Who’s Doing the Dishes? is the best daytime TV in years”, in The Guardian:

Not playing the hunger games of success, not undergoing the mechanical hoopla of PR, he could go on stubbornly being Kent Haruf, doing his job.

2015 May 27, Ursula K Le Guin, “Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf review – happiness at the end of life”, in The Guardian:

“[Registration week] always been The Hunger Games of scheduling,” Valdez said. “You ultimately get in based on timing and luck.”

2015 November 9, Nicholas Da Silva, “Registration Week: May the Odds Be Ever in Your Favor”, in The Montclarion, archived from the original on 2016-03-04:

(neologism) A vicious contest, especially one that is winner-take-all.


rubatosis

Presumably rubato + -osis. Coined by American author and neologist John Koenig in 2012 as part of his The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows project.

coin

Amador rocked me slowly in that amniotic tranquility and I started to get sleepy. I could hear the unsettling rubatosis of my beating heart.

2015 September, Gustaf Vonsheilds, Palm Spring Whispers, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 105:

Avis stopped in his tracks and wheeled around, thinking something had gone wrong—a moment of rubatosis.

2016, Asif Anwar, Fainting Pulse: ICU Chronicles, →ISBN, page 113:

My skin brushed up against his soft hand, sending lightning throughout my body and a strong feeling of rubatosis.

(neologism) The unsettling awareness of one's own heartbeat


dronist

Fred and the Haitian dronists crew work has been pioneer in drone uses in real crisis response work and at community level and held as a reference by domain experts (UNOSAT etc, Fred can provide materials)

2016 April 28, nicolas chavent, openstreetmap (Usenet):

Here's a stunning picture of Bogata Forest, Romania, taken by Bucharest-based dronist Calin Stan.

2017 January 6, Maggie Hiufu Wong, “20 coolest drone photos of 2016”, in CNN Travel:

By Admir, pharmacist by profession and hobby dronist by passion.

2017 February 25, Simon Cocking, “Dronalism and The New Media”, in Irish Tech News:

We all look forward to seeing how drone photography has evolved. It’s time for Dronists from all around the world to prove that we are at the beginning of a revolution!

2017 June 7, Kelley Roberts, “2017 International Drone Photography Contest supported by National Geographic”, in UAV Expert News:


BLMer

(neologism) A supporter or member of the Black Lives Matter international human rights movement.


aquafaba

en-noun

aquafaba (usually uncountable, plural aquafabas)

/ˌɑːkwəˈfɑːbə/

/ˌækwəˈfɑːbə/

Coined by US software engineer Goose Wohlt in 2015, from Latin aqua (“water”) + faba (“bean”).

coinage

Chefs, both vegan and omnivore, are using aquafaba in everything from pancakes to purées. This month, Sir Kensington’s, a New York condiment company, is introducing the first commercial product using aquafaba, a vegan mayonnaise called Fabanaise.

2016 May 9, Jane Black, “Vegans Whip Up a Secret Weapon: Aquafaba”, in New York Times Magazine, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr.:

To make the kiwi pistachio mousse: Put the aquafaba in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment and beat the liquid on medium speed until foamy. Raise the speed to high and beat until the mixture has expanded considerably and forms peaks, about 15 to 20 minutes.

2016 July 15, Jackie Sobon, Vegan Bowl Attack!: More Than 100 One-Dish Meals Packed with Plant-Based Power, Fair Winds Press, →ISBN, page 184:

Aquafaba was recovered from 10 commercial canned chickpea products and correlations among aquafaba composition, density, viscosity and foaming properties were investigated. Proton NMR was used to characterize aquafaba composition before and after ultrafiltration through membranes with different molecular weight cut offs (MWCOs of 3, 10, or 50 kDa).

2018 October 3, Youn Young Shim, Rana Mustafa, Jianheng Shen, Kornsulee Ratanapariyanuch, Martin J. T. Reaney, “Composition and Properties of Aquafaba: Water Recovered from Commercially Canned Chickpeas”, in Journal of Visualized Experiments, volume 132, →DOI, →PMID:

Soybean and chickpea aquafabas are particularly thick (think about the goo in canned chickpeas), but any bean water.

2019, Kirsten K. Shockey, Christopher Shockey, Miso, Tempeh, Natto & Other Tasty Ferments:

(cooking, neologism) The liquid left over from boiling chickpeas or similar beans, or from a can of chickpeas.


podcastable

en-adj

podcastable (comparative more podcastable, superlative most podcastable)

more podcastable (comparative)
most podcastable (superlative)

(Internet, neologism, rare) Capable of being podcasted.


intersexphobia

Although there is overlap in ways that binary gender norms are imposed on trans* and intersex students, athletes, and staff, we feel it is important to understand how transphobia and intersexphobia work as different forms of discrimination.

2016, Heather Sykes, Christopher Smith, “Trans*, Intersex, and Cisgender Issues in Physical Education and Sport”, in Daniel B. Robinson, Lynn Randall, editors, Social Justice in Physical Education: Critical Reflections and Pedagogies for Change, page 275:

However, Turner said the bear community still has a way to go when it comes to greater diversity and acceptance, as he's faced both intersexphobia and biphobia from within its ranks.

2016 September, Matthew Wade, “Something To Growl About”, in Star Observer Magazine, page 13:

In fact, I believe that it is this fear of bodily difference, akin to homophobia, intersexphobia if you will, that drives some doctors to recommend, and parents to agree to, medically unnecessary surgery on intersex children and infants.

2020, Kimberly M. Zieselman, XOXY: A Memoir (Intersex Woman, Mother, Activist), page 205:

(neologism) Fear, dislike, or hatred of intersexual people and/or intersexuality.


GSRM

(neologism) Initialism of gender, sexual, or romantic minority.


Wakaliwood

(slang, neologism) The developing film industry in Wakaliga, a slum in Kampala, Uganda.


skinbow

Blend of skin + rainbow, coined in 2016 in a paper by C. H. Chen et al, Multicolor Cell Barcoding Technology for Long-Term Surveillance of Epithelial Regeneration in Zebrafish.

genetically engineered
genetically engineered

(neologism) Of a zebrafish: having been genetically engineered to have a skin of many colours, to aid in the visualization of changes in its cells.


rapefugee

Soon, even the most routine visit to a gas station or grocery store becomes a miserable experience, with robbers, aggressive panhandlers, rapefugees, and impromptu parking lot dance parties with ghetto themes […]

PI-News, however, has already made use of the fear with a logo, which can be downloaded from their homepage stating “Rapefugees not welcome”.

2016, Enes Bayraklı, Farid Hafez, European Islamophobia Report 2015, page 194:

(derogatory, neologism, offensive) A refugee, regarded as being prone to raping people.


oleogustus

Coined in 2015 by researchers at Purdue University, Indiana, USA, from oleo- (“oil”) and Latin gustus (“taste”).

2015, C. A. Running, B. A. Craig, R. D. Mattes, Oleogustus: The unique taste of fat, Oxford University Press:

(biochemistry, neologism) A proposed basic taste sensation triggered by fatty acids.


ecospace

(ecology, neologism) The ecological space that an organism occupies as part of its habitat.


Filipin@

The at-sign (@) resembles both the feminine ending/element a and the masculine o. From Filipino and Filipina, from Spanish filipina+filipino, from the Filipinas (“Philippines”), from Felipe (“Philip”), from Philip II of Spain.

-a-o-@

(neologism) A Filipino (“m”) or Filipina (“f”).


trapezocracy

Neologism, from Greek τράπεζα (trápeza, bank) + -cracy. Attested in 2011 in the writings of Yanis Varoufakis. Saw increasing Internet usage during and after the Occupy Wall Street protests.

Hope may not, currently, shine brightly. The light on the hill may be dim, imperceptible. But if there is a light, it comes from the original idea of democracy as the only possible antidote to trapezocracy and to the calamities that it has in store for us.

2011, Y. Varoufakis, J. Halevi, N. Theocarakis, Modern Political Economics: Making Sense of the Post-2008 World, Routledge:

(politics, neologism) political domination by banks; bankocracy.


amatonormativity

A compound of Latin amātō or amātus and normativity, modeled on heteronormativity and coined by philosophy professor Elizabeth Brake in 2011.

coinage

Amatonormativity is oppressive when it privileges members of one form of caring relationship at the expense of noncomformists, whose opportunities are thereby significantly worsened.

2011, Elizabeth Brake, Minimizing Marriage: Marriage, Morality, and the Law, page 98:

Casual amatonormativity is routine even in scholarly research.

2017, Carrie Jenkins, What Love Is: And What It Could Be, unnumbered page:

"I dislike [Valentine's Day] because I'm aromantic and it's very symbolic of the culture of amatonormativity," thesis student Aiden Juge commented.

2020 February 12, Sophia Brown, “Redefining Valentine's Day culture on campus”, in The Catalyst, New College of Florida, page 9:

(neologism) The assumption that all human beings pursue love or romance, especially by means of a monogamous long-term relationship.


bathroom bill

His goal, he emphatically clarified, was to enact “an anti-discrimination bill,” “not a bathroom bill.”

2020, Alexander K. Davis, Bathroom Battlegrounds: How Public Restrooms Shape the Gender Order, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 6:

Legislation concerning the use of public bathrooms.

(Canada, US, neologism) In particular, legislation concerning the use of public bathrooms by transgender individuals.


Remainiac

Though no Remainiac, I will vote in.

2016 June 11, Rachel Johnson, “RACHEL JOHNSON: Just stop picking on my big brother! (But, sorry Boris, I'm still voting In)”, in The Daily Mail:

Nevertheless, given that my proxy vote is safely secured back in Blighty, an international festival for creativity provides perfect context to ask the question, 'If the EU referendum were a competition in branding, which camp would win?’ Who gets your branding vote, Brexiteer or Remainiac?

2016 June 23, Greg Taylor, “If the EU referendum were a competition in branding, which side would win?”, in The Drum:

2017 August 2, Chris Campbell, “What was the point? Ferrari slates Remainiac in Brexit row for trying to ruin the Proms”, in Daily Express:

Together, they’ve conquered Middle England and seen of the Remainiacs.

2017 August 14, Julia Rampen, “5 unmissable Nigel Farage scenes from Bad Boys of Brexit: The Movie”, in New Statesman:

(UK politics, slang, neologism) One who opposes the idea of Brexit and wishes the United Kingdom to remain a member of the European Union.


sharenting

desc

Russian: ше́рентинг m (šérenting, “sharenting”)

Blend of share + parenting, coined by researchers at the University of Michigan.

Others feel that the advantages of sharenting far outweigh any negatives. In an increasingly fragmented society, social media allows us to stay connected to friends and family, and get support that for many is not easily accessible.

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

Then there’s “sharenting.” Today, many children’s social media presence starts with a sonogram, posted, obviously, without consent.

2019 June 5, Anya Kamenetz, “The Problem With ‘Sharenting’”, in The New York Times:

On a philosophical level, sharenting exposes children to the larger digital world without their consent, robbing them of a kind of agency.

2019 September 11, Hua Hsu, “Instagram, Facebook, and the Perils of 'Sharenting'”, in The New Yorker:

(neologism) The practice of parents documenting their child's upbringing on social media, typically by posting photographs, anecdotes, etc.

the practice of parents documenting their child's upbringing on social media, typically by posting photographs, anecdotes, etc.

szülői túlposztolás (from túl- and posztol)


usie

(neologism) A selfie of a group of people.


throuple

The Air Force veteran fatally shot by police during last week’s US Capitol riot had been in a “throuple” with her husband and their live-in girlfriend, according to reports.

2021 January 14, Tamar Lapin, “Ashli Babbitt, Air Force vet killed at Capitol, was in a ‘throuple’”, in New York Post, retrieved 2021-07-22:

Nearly a year ago, I began dating two friends — I’ll call them Rachel and Dave — who were already themselves in a relationship. We all had no experience with polyamory. The throuple ended fairly quickly, with no one being at fault; the other two continued to date but broke up not too long afterward.

2023 April 21, Kwame Anthony Appiah, “Our Throuple Fell Apart. What Are the Rules of the Breakup?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

But among all the throuples, polycules and nesting partners, there exists another category of polyamory that still throws many for a loop: solo polyamory, or having concurrent intimate relationships while maintaining independence.

2024 August 2, Gina Cherelus, “You’re ‘Solo Poly’? So … You’re Single?”, in The New York Times:

“Honeybee, if you stare at that dividend check any harder, we're gonna officially be a throuple.” [chuckles] “I'm in.”

2024 May 17, Thomas Reyes, “The Mighty Pucks Adventure” (0:35 from the start), in The Great North, season 4, episode 6, spoken by Wolf Tobin (Will Forte):

(neologism) Three individuals engaged in a romantic or sexual relationship.


Corbynmania

As Corbynmania took off, a paper cup he had drunk from at a rally was sold on eBay for £51.

2016, Rosa Prince, Comrade Corbyn: A Very Unlikely Coup:

Neither he, nor anyone else, had counted on 'Corbynmania' sweeping the Labour ranks as a growing base of young activists got fired up by an antiausterity message and the unassuming, authentic character promoting it.

(UK politics, neologism) Enthusiasm for Jeremy Corbyn (born 1949), British socialist politician elected leader of the Labour Party in 2015.


Tumblrina

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

From Tumblr with feminine suffix as in ballerina.

Coordinate term: Tinderella

social justice warrior
social justice warrior

(derogatory, Internet slang, neologism) A female user of the Tumblr microblogging service, typically stereotyped as a social justice warrior.


Gamergater

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He credits GamerGaters with organizing a revolt against a deeply unsatisfying marketplace by loyal consumers who deserve better.

2016, Alison Novak, Defining Identity and the Changing Scope of Culture in the Digital Age:

Gamergaters have hurt people, and they've driven people out of games.

2016, Dan Golding, Leena van Deventer, Game Changers:

"But the cultural conflict between these two post-revolutionary styles — between frat guys and feminist bluestockings, Gamergaters and the diversity police, alt-right provocateurs and 'woke' dudebros, the mouthbreathers who poured hate on the all-female 'Ghostbusters' and the tastemakers who pretended it was good — is likely here to stay."

2016 August 14, Ross Douthat, “A Playboy for President”, in The New York Times:

Harassment campaigns using the hashtag #GamerGate claimed, in part, to be a response to ethical shortcomings in games journalism; many Gamergaters criticized what they call “social justice warriors” in the gaming industry […]

2016, Rebecca Ann Lind, Race and Gender in Electronic Media: Content, Context, Culture:

(neologism) A person involved in the Gamergate harassment campaign.


alta-male

From alta + male. From Latin alta. Coined in 2016 by Coach Magazine and Idea Motel to describe a man who prioritises balance, commitment and happiness over the more traditional signs of success.

One of Coach's favourite people, the alta-male, has has been known to value experiences above status symbols. If that sounds like someone you’re buying for, here’s your guide.

2016 November 30, Tom Bailey, “The 20 Best Experience Gifts For Christmas 2016”, in Coach:

Alta-males want to engineer a rewarding work/life balance in which they play an active role in their children's upbringing rather than communicating through hard cash.

2016 July 21, Madlen Davies, “Rise of the 'alta-male': He runs, counts calories and KNITS rather than going to the pub. And this test reveals who makes the grade”, in Daily Mail:

With the birth of the 'alta-male', researchers argue that traditional masculinity, associated with strength, toughness and career ambition, has been replaced by an emphasis on kindness, intelligence and empathy.

2016 July 20, Guy Kelly, “Rise of the 'alta-male': The new priorities of men in 2016,”, in The Daily Telegraph:

The Alta-male would even be open to changing his career if it meant he could spend more time with his family.

2016 July 19, Ed Needham, “Who is the Alta-Male and What Does He Want?”, in Coach:

A man who values personal realisation over more conventional measures of success.


alta-male

en-adj

alta-male (comparative more alta-male, superlative most alta-male)

more alta-male (comparative)
most alta-male (superlative)

Of or relating to an alta-male or the alta-male lifestyle.


no parking whitebeam

en-noun

no parking whitebeam (plural no parking whitebeams)

The first such tree to be found was in North Devon, England, with a "no parking" sign nailed to it.

(neologism) Karpatiosorbus admonitor, a species of whitebeam tree.


Chicanx

/t͡ʃɪˈkæŋks/

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

-a-o-x

Coordinate term: Latinx

By reframing the archive through a rereading (or reinterpretation) of The Conquest, Sara enables Chicanx collective memory to provide an entirely new context (Chicanx and Latin American) that the creators of the archive never imagined[.]

2016, Roberta Rice, Gordana Yovanovich, Re-Imagining Community and Civil Society in Latin America, →ISBN:

We can now legitimately look to the Americas, to the indigenous, to the African American, to the Chicanx, or to the Puerto Riqueña to inform new understandings of rhetorical functions and histories.

2016, Iris D. Ruiz, Reclaiming Composition for Chicano/as and Other Ethnic Minorities, →ISBN:

Chicanx and Latinx

2016, Dána-Ain Davis, Christa Craven, Feminist Ethnography: Thinking through Methodologies, Challenges,..., →ISBN:

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


Chicanx

Spanish: chicanx

/t͡ʃɪˈkæŋks/

Coordinate term: Latinx

2015 December, Hasta Mas alla De Los Gritos, page 4: It was seen as negative until Chicanxs took it back.

In California, Chicanxs/Latinxs high school graduares are rising …

2015 Fall, City on a Hill Press-Primer, page 30

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


ASMRtist

It's still a business, particularly for ASMRtists who hold to a strict programming schedule, solicit PayPal donations or offer one-on-one Skype sessions for a fee.

2014 December 15, Caitlin Gibson, “A whisper, then tingles, then 87 million YouTube views: Meet the star of ASMR”, in The Washington Post, archived from the original on 2017-11-14:

You might say [Bob] Ross was the first ASMRtist, as those who produce ASMR videos like to be called.

2015 April 21, Tanis Fowler, “Relax, you may have ASMR: YouTube videos sparking pleasurable, hypnotic-like sensation result in millions of views”, in Toronto Star, archived from the original on 2017-06-29:

Some ASMRtists, such as Maria, report that they began producing videos after perceiving their own psychological benefits from viewing the videos of other producers […]

2016, Marisa A. del Campo, Thomas J. Kehle, “Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) and Frisson: Mindfully Induced Sensory Phenomena that Promote Happiness”, in International Journal of School & Educational Psychology, volume 4, number 2, →DOI, pages 99–105:

(informal, neologism) A person who creates ASMR audiovisual material.


webside manner

Blend of web (“the World Wide Web”) + bedside manner (“ability of a healthcare professional to interact with their patients”).

blend

But more important than the technology, he says, is what clinicians in the field have taken to calling "webside" manner. It's a modern twist on bedside manner—a physician's ability to relate with a patient and convey their desire to help. […] "Look, there's variation whether you see a clinician in person or whether you see them online, so I'm not saying in any way that telemedicine is less helpful than in-person visits, or that webside manner is worse than bedside manner," says UCSF pulmonologist Adams Dudley. "But webside manner definitely requires more cooperation, and a different kind of cooperation, than bedside manner."

2017 October 26, Robbie Gonzalez, “Telemedicine is Forcing Doctors to Learn ‘Webside’ Manner”, in Wired, San Francisco, Calif.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-11-07:

In today's digital revolution and growing telehealth practice, good webside manners are equally important during virtual clinical visits. The same principles apply except physically touching the patient is not possible. Most doctors who have good bedside manners will also have equally good webside manners.

2019, “The Science of Medicine and the Art of Bedside Manners: Two Sides of the Same Coin”, in K. K. Pareek, editor, Medicine Update 2019, volume 29, New Delhi, London: Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers, →ISBN, page 1309, column 2:

Developing a "webside manner" increasingly is recognized as central to medical education. As it requires a different skill set than in person communication, specific programs are being developed to teach students how to conduct clinical examinations via videoconferencing, monitor data from wearable devices, and understand how to effectively engage patients.

2020, James O. Woolliscroft, “Communication”, in Implementing Biomedical Innovations into Health, Education, and Practice: Preparing Tomorrow’s Physicians, London, San Diego, Calif.: Academic Press, →ISBN, part II (Constants in Medicine), page 64:

Webside manners are synonymous with bedside manners and refer to the verbal and nonverbal body language cues utilized during [a] telemedicine patient encounter.

2021, Lakshmi Digala, Garima Singh, Kunal Malhotra, “Webside Manners and Ethical Issues”, in Swathi Beladakere Ramaswamy, Sachin M. Bhagavan, Raghav Govindarajan, editors, Leaning Teleneurology Basics: A Case-based Approach, Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature, →DOI, →ISBN, page 55:

High-resolution web cameras and other home equipment were provided, and staff were given "webside" manner training.

2021, Don L. Goldenberg, “Telemedicine”, in COVID-19’s Impact on Health and Healthcare Workers, Oxford, Oxfordshire, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 93:

(neologism) The manner in which a healthcare professional interacts with patients remotely in telehealth or telemedicine.


Sorkinism

en-noun

Sorkinism (countable and uncountable, plural Sorkinisms)

A comical pitch of unchilled Sorkinism is reached at one point in Twenty Minutes, when he once again resorts to “asshole,” albeit under his breath, after being bumped by two buggy-pushing, cellphone-yakking moms in SoHo.

2015, Mark Kingwell, Measure Yourself Against the Earth: Essays, page 49:

He did better with The Newsroom, which, instead of being about theater, is really about news, and therefore is practically about politics, the field which best answers Sorkin's theatrical instincts. My whole family has binge-watched all three seasons at least once each, and Claerwen finds it an honorable development in Sorkinism. So, after a long pondering, do I, but I still think that the key man is the weak link.

2016, Clive James, Play All: A Bingewatcher's Notebook, page 77:

(neologism) The characteristic style of Aaron Sorkin (born 1961), American screenwriter, producer, and playwright, known for rapid-fire dialogue and extended monologues.


shoefie

Daisy, Maria and Jo – I have such fond memories of taking my first shoefies with you guys in the sixth form common room.

2015, Hannah Rochell, “Acknowledgements”, in En Brogue: The Trainers Guide, London: Saltyard Books, →ISBN:

I grab my umbrella and swagger to the garage door, stopping long enough to turn around and say, "Oh, Mom. I borrowed your shoes. I hope that's okay." / She nods dazedly. / "Aren't they bitchin'?" I ask Hadley, staring down at my feet. I pull out my phone and take a quick picture. "Shoefie!"

2016, Jessica Brody, “Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag”, in A Week of Mondays, New York, N.Y.: Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers, →ISBN, page 242:

When we swung open the door to the stairwell, Selfie was sitting on the stairs holding her phone at different angles near her foot. As I got closer, I realized she was photographing one of her high-heeled boots. Prezbo looked puzzled. "Oh, hi." She glanced up at us. "I'm taking a shoefie."

2017, Holly Kowitt, The Principal’s Underwear is Missing, New York, N.Y.: Feiwel and Friends, Macmillan Publishers, →ISBN, page 137:

(photography, slang, neologism) A photograph that one takes of one's own shoes while one is wearing them.


crimance

I like the way Brant herself describes the book as crimance... a perfect genre description.

2003, Lucinda Brant, Deadly Engagement: A Georgian Historical Mystery:


romaction

Let's combine the action and the romance and make a romaction story.

2008, 52:48 from the start, in Bedtime Stories:

One wag has already named the offspring of this shotgun wedding: romaction.

2010 July 6, “How movies became love, camera, action”, in The Sydney Morning Herald:

Like the “romaction” genre that fuses relationships and car crashes (think “Date Night” and “Knight and Day”), hard-R comedies like “The Hangover,” “Bad Teacher” and last year’s “Ted” appeal both to young women and their male companions, a “two-quadrant” win that made studio suits swoon.

2013 June 20, Ann Hornaday, “Why the rom-com is almost extinct”, in The Washington Post:

They reject his suggestion, asking instead to hear a story of action and romance. Skeeter then tells them a "romaction story" about Ancient Greece featuring Skeetacus, the inventor of the X Games.

2013, Amie A. Doughty, "Throw the book away": Reading versus Experience in Children's Fantasy:


thrillmance

/ˈθɹɪlˌmæns/

Psycho-logic, an eight minute Hitchcock-type part-thriller-part-love story (which we’ve dubbed ‘thrillmance’), tells the story of a young woman finding her ultimate fantasy at the new Hollywood Louboutin store, and sees the supreme shoe sire make a cameo appearance alongside Elisa Sednaoui.

2009 September 28, “Christian Louboutin, film director?”, in – My Fashion Life:

This film is a romance, suspense and thriller all rolled into one. A thrillmance!

2013 February 19, “Film Review – Safe Haven”, in 4 Manchester Women:

(informal, film, rare, neologism) romantic thriller


technoromanticism

From techno- + romanticism, coined by Stéphan Barron between 1991 and 1996.

(neologism) The theory of links between art and new technologies, within the context of the threats posed to nature by technoscience and economic development.


species dysphoria

(neologism) The experience of dysphoria associated with the feeling that one's body is of the wrong species.


virtue signaller

virtue signaller (plural virtue signallers)

/ˈvɜɹtʃu sɪɡnələɹ/

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(neologism) Somebody who engages in virtue signalling.


anti-GG

en-adj

anti-GG (comparative more anti-GG, superlative most anti-GG)

more anti-GG (comparative)
most anti-GG (superlative)


regressive leftist

regressive leftist (comparative more regressive leftist, superlative most regressive leftist)

more regressive leftist (comparative)
most regressive leftist (superlative)

(neologism, derogatory, politics) Characteristic of the regressive left.


regressive leftist

en-noun

regressive leftist (plural regressive leftists)

(neologism, derogatory, politics) A member of the regressive left.


winggirl

From wing + girl, modelled off of earlier wingman.

(neologism) A wingwoman, especially a young one.


weblication

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The rapid growth of weblications—application-oriented software delivered as a service over the Web—has revealed a lack of effective guidelines for their design and implementation

2007, Norshuhada Shiratuddin, Zanariah Idrus, Web Form Design Checklist Based on the Three-Layer Model:

weblication : Jargon for "web application." Do not use. It could be confused with "web publication."

2012, Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft Manual of Style, Pearson Education:

(neologism) A computer application served on the World Wide Web.


shrinkflation

Blend of shrink + inflation. Popularized by economist Pippa Malmgren.

Chocolate bars are just the thin end of the wedge, though, and shrinkflation is happening in products right across the board.

2016, Andy Dawson, Get in the Sea!: An Apoplectic Guide to Modern Life, page 106:

According to the UK Office for National Statistics (ONS), shrinkflation most commonly affects food, drink and household products such as toilet rolls, nappies, tissues and washing-up liquid.

2021, Rosalind Masterson, Nichola Phillips, David Pickton, Marketing: An Introduction, page 489:

Major cereal brand Kelloggs has also been accused of shrinkflation. Since 2019, the company had moved from selling 670 gram Crunchy Nut boxes for $6 to selling 640 gram boxes at $9 a pop, Choice found.

2022 May 18, Caitlin Cassidy, “Shrinkflation bites: popular food brands quietly downsize while charging same price or more”, in The Guardian:

Consumer groups say shrinkflation is a widespread practice, which supermarkets like Carrefour are also guilty of in their own-label products.

2023 September 14, “Carrefour puts ‘shrinkflation’ price warnings on food to shame brands”, in The Guardian, sourced from Reuters, →ISSN:

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


wackaging

Laidback labelling is here to stay. However normalised "wackaging" becomes, I just can't shake the feeling that talking food is best left to toddlers. Lucie Bright of Innocent is probably right that this cultural lightening up is, broadly, a good thing. But must we label food in such a self-consciously crazy way?

2014 March 25, Sophy Grimshaw, The Guardian:

A mash up of wacky and packaging, wackaging is a way of marketing which makes everything 'such fun'! Or, in the case of dog food marketing, such natural, wholesome, everything-in-the-garden-is-rosy fun. That can of food you're serving up? From the picture on the side, you'd think it was lovingly prepared by the WI in a church hall kitchen.

2016, Kate Bendix, The Dog Diet: Eight weeks to a happier, healthier dog:

(informal, neologism) Product packaging that uses quirky and eye-catching text or images to attract the buyer.


Islamo-leftism

(politics, neologism) A political alliance between leftists and Islamists.


tulpamancy

(neologism) The culture and practice of talking to tulpas (autonomous thoughtforms).


tulpamancer

They also felt the tulpamancer's belief in them helped them grow quickly.

2015, Emily Steinbach, The Tulpamancer's Toolbox: 50 Practical Tips For Tulpa Creation Success!:

(neologism) One who practices tulpamancy; a person talking to tulpas (autonomous thoughtforms).


drelfie

You see, whether you've taken a selfie, felfie, delfie, helfie, welfie, drelfie, purrfie, shelfie, bedsie, dronie, freebie, groupie, or the donkey shot […]

2017, Carrie Keagan, Dibs Baer, Everybody Curses, I Swear!: Uncensored Tales from the Hollywood Trenches, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 168:

(neologism, slang) A self-taken photograph of oneself while intoxicated.


Gloriagate

(Philippine politics, neologism, colloquial) A 2005 electoral scandal in the Philippines involving leaked telephone conversations between former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and a commissioner of the Commission on Elections, the two allegedly conspiring to rig the results of the presidential election.


treeconomics

(neologism) The economics of trees or forestry.


deoffshorization

(neologism, rare) The policy of combating the relocation of capital or business interests to offshore accounts, in foreign countries that are known to be tax havens.


Facebook slut

I have been a Facebook slut from the beginning.

2013, Thomas A. Gavin, Laurie Murphy, Life at DrTom's: Mostly Humorous Anecdotes by a Mostly Retired Cornell Professor:

(neologism, slang, derogatory) A person who is addicted to the social-networking website Facebook.


Trumpification

Donald later tells me about the Trumpification of all that he surveys.

2005, Timothy L. O'Brien, TrumpNation: The Art of Being The Donald:

The Trumpification of Republican politics during the summer of 2015 provided gaudy confirmation that something is amiss.

2016, E. J. Dionne, Why the Right Went Wrong, page 2:

The Trumpification of the Latin American Right

2018 April 16, Omar G. Encarnación, Foreign Policy:

But getting rid of Modly will only slow, not stop, the growing Trumpification of the military.

2020 April 7, Max Boot, “Capt. Crozier’s firing shows the growing Trumpification of the military”, in The Washington Post:

(US politics, neologism, originally derogatory) The implementation of Donald Trump's political ideas or influence.


Trumpmania

Even Fox News couldn't seem to make a dent in Trumpmania.

2015, McKay Coppins, The Wilderness: Deep Inside the Republican Party's Combative, Contentious, Chaotic Quest to Take Back the White House:

Trumpmania, on the other hand, was still going strong after five years from the time he declared his presidential candidacy in June, 2015.

2020, Michael Maccoby, Ken Fuchsman, “Conclusion”, in Psychoanalytic and Historical Perspectives on the Leadership of Donald Trump, →ISBN:

(US politics, neologism, originally derogatory) Strong attachment or commitment to Donald Trump.


TrumpCare

Blend of Trump (“Donald Trump”) + healthcare influenced by earlier ObamaCare.

blend

If he got elected, you could sign up for Trumpcare and feel manly too.

2016, Arlie Russell Hochschild, Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right:

(US, neologism, originally derogatory) The possible replacement of ObamaCare that would be introduced by Donald Trump.


de-Trumpification

From de- + Trumpification. In the political sense used by opponents of Trump, possibly influenced by denazification and de-Baathification.

De-Trumpification has already begun at the Taj.

2016 October 7, “Trump’s name officially exiting a beleaguered Atlantic City”, in Associated Press:

(neologism) Opposite of Trumpification.
Removing the Trump brand name.

If we expect America to ever again be more than a squalid kleptocracy, we’re going to need a comprehensive plan of de-Trumpification, including wide-ranging investigations and legal reforms.

2018 February 23, Michelle Goldberg, “The De-Trumpification Agenda”, in New York Times:

Once President Trump leaves office, a “de-Trumpification” process will have to course through the Republican Party’s veins if it is to again be a worthy part of the American experiment in self-government.

2019 January 30, Chris Stevenson, “After Trump, the Republican Party will need to do some soul-searching”, in The Washington Post:

Listening to a podcast about the Iran-Contra scandal in 2020 doesn’t provide the frisson of excitement that listening to a podcast about Watergate did in 2017, when the Trump Administration was new, our stress was primal, and the show’s dominating conceit—Watergate took longer to reach a breaking point than we might have realized—seemed to portend a comforting, if distant, de-Trumpification.

2020 March 13, Sarah Larson, “The podcasts to listen to while you're social-distancing”, in The New Yorker:

(US politics) Removing Trump from power or undoing the effects of his presidency.


noocracy

From Ancient Greek νόος (nóos, “mind”) + -cracy.

(neologism, rare) Rule by intellect; a government which weds power with intelligence.


volcel

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Blend of voluntary + celibate by analogy with incel; also voluntary + -cel.

All of these subsets have a shared loathing of “volcels,” otherwise known as voluntary celibates.

2018 October 30, Judah Weinerman, “Meet incels, the internet's resident anti-women hate brigades”, in The Justice, Brandeis University, page 11:

If you are good-looking, or not ugly enough, you are a volcel, a voluntary celibate.

2019, Thea Høiland, "Incels and the stories they tell: A narrative analysis of Incels’ shared stories on Reddit", thesis submitted to the University of Oslo, page 89

One commenter explained he was “a tiny bit of a volcel” since he did not like women from his country because of their personalities.

2020, December Maxwell, Sarah R. Robinson, Jessica R. Williams, Craig Keaton, “'A Short Story of a Lonely Guy': A Qualitative Thematic Analysis of Involuntary Celibacy Using Reddit”, in Sexuality & Culture:

(neologism) A person who is voluntarily celibate, i.e., who chooses to avoid sexual activity with other people.


winternship

(neologism) An internship during the winter break in the school year.


herbivore man

Calque of Japanese 草食男子 (sōshoku danshi, “herbivorous/grass-eating male”). Original term coined by Maki Fukasawa in an article on the website Nikkei Business Online on 13 October 2006.

calque

These “herbivore men,” as they are known in English, are said to be ambivalent about pursuing either women or conventional success.

2018 November 13, Kate Julian, “Why Are Young People Having So Little Sex?”, in The Atlantic:

(neologism) A man, especially a Japanese man, who eschews romantic relationships.


starboy

Look what you've done / I'm a, I'm a, I'm a motherfucking starboy

2016, The Weeknd, Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, Thomas Bangalter, Doc McKinney, Cirkut, DaHeala (lyrics and music), “Starboy”:

For quotations using this term, see Citations:starboy.


platform capitalism

Some prominent critics even speak of “platform capitalism” – a broader transformation of how goods and services are produced, shared and delivered.

2015 June 6, Evgeny Morozov, “Where Uber and Amazon rule: welcome to the world of the platform”, in The Guardian:

At the heart of platform capitalism is a drive to extract more data in order to survive.

2017 August 30, Nick Srnicek, “We need to nationalise Google, Facebook and Amazon. Here’s why”, in The Guardian:

The last 20 years has seen a decline in socialising[…] We are living in the era of platform capitalism, where you can do just about anything without leaving your home, and are in fact encouraged to do so.

2020 October 8, James Greig, “The pain of cinema closures isn’t just economic”, in The Guardian:

(business, neologism) A way of doing business that involves recruiting large numbers of people who work for themselves using the company's platform; for example, by facilitating ridesharing.


manospherian

neo colonialists,
meatheads,
juicers,
manospherians
and all the rest.

2016, Brandon Adamson, “The Swinging Nationalist”, in Beatnik Fascism, page 41:

Like Donovan, many manospherians invoke evolutionary psychology to bolster claims that traditional gender roles are inherent in human nature, and many of them emphasize male bonding as a key part of reasserting men's power.

2019, Matthew N. Lyons, “Jack Donovan and Male Tribalism”, in Mark Sedgwick, editor, Key Thinkers of the Radical Right: Behind the New Threat to Liberal Democracy, page 249:

Framing femininity in terms of immaturity and dependence is one of the characteristics of the manospherian discourse (Lilly, 2016).

2019, Zhané Hunte, "'Female Nature, Cucks, and Simps': Understanding Men Going Their Own Way as part of the Manosphere", thesis submitted to Uppsala University, page 24

(Internet slang, neologism, sometimes used attributively) One who participates in online communities associated with the manosphere.


enby

→ German: Enby

The noun is a pronunciation spelling of NB, an initialism of non-binary. The word was coined by the Tumblr user “revolutionator” in 2013 as “an nb equivalent to words like boys and girls”: see the quotation.
The adjective is derived from the noun.

coinage

i wish there was an nb equivalent to words like boys and girls / nb / enby / enbies

[2013 September 10, “revolutionator” [pseudonym], “02348294832908091 [page title]”, in Tumblr, retrieved 2021-05-21:

I doubt most wedding fair vendors would recognise an enby even if you carried an explanatory sign.

2017 October, Will McCreath, “My Non-binary Wedding”, in Carrie Lyell, editor, Diva, London: Twin Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-02-28, page 18, column 3:

So, boys and girls and enbies, if the sex isn't good at or very near the beginning, the passage of time and/or muttering of vows isn't going to fix it.

2018 June 27 – July 3, Dan Savage, “Savage Love”, in Julie Ann Grimm, editor, Santa Fe Reporter, volume 45, number 26, Santa Fe, N.M.: Santa Fe Reporter, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-06-18, page 28, column 1:

'Ladies and enbies,' she said, the five foot three height requirement for pilots continued to mean that nearly all the human fighter pilots she had ever met were women or enbies. She could see no evidence before her that anything had changed. 'You might have heard of me, my call sign is Romeo,' she paused while the pilots giggled and sniggered.

2019, Claire G. Coleman, chapter 8, in The Old Lie, Sydney, N.S.W.: Hachette Australia, →ISBN:

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling

(neologism, informal) Pronunciation spelling of NB: a non-binary person; a person whose gender identity is not strictly female or male; one who is outside of the gender binary.


enby

For non-binary-identified (or, to use my current favourite term, enby) people, this is magnified by the fact that while most of everyone except Germaine Greer and Donald Trump are prepared to recognise that trans people do exist these days, the enby population is still struggling up that hill with our glitter in the one hand and our neckties in the other.

2017, S. Bear Bergman, Meg-John Barker, “Non-binary Activism”, in Christina Richards, Walter Pierre Bouman, Meg-John Barker, editors, Genderqueer and Non-Binary Genders (Critical and Applied Approaches in Sexuality, Gender and Identity), London: Palgrave Macmillan, Springer Nature, →DOI, →ISBN, part I (Societies), page 43:

You've campaigned for non-binary and gender non-conforming people at Newcastle for a while now, including winning Campaign of the Year last year for your Beyond The Binary Week when you served as Marginalised Genders Officer, and appearing on BBC3's web shows. Would you consider yourself an enby BNOC [big name on campus]?

2018 May 14, Zoë Godden, “Interview: Saffron Kershaw-Mee”, in James Sproston, editor, The Courier, number 1370, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear: Students’ Union, Newcastle University, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-27, page 23, column 2:

"As an enby transgxrl, and an enbie lesbian, the lesbian community needs to show [more] validation towards those who are both non-binary and lesbians. […] I know that I am valid as a lesbian so I just don't let those views affect me, and the enby community needs to be welcoming of nb lesbians a[s] well," says Evee Sams, a lesbian, polyamorous, agender, trans gxrl.

2018 August, Peach Delosreyes-Yu, “A Stream of Consciousness on Self-Acceptance”, in Leif Tobias Gifford, editor, ENBY Magazine, number 2, [Canada]: ENBY Magazine, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-05-15, page 7, column 2:

(neologism, informal) Pronunciation spelling of NB: non-binary; having or pertaining to a gender identity that is not strictly female or male, that is, outside of the gender binary.

muusu-

having or pertaining to a gender identity that is not strictly female or male — see also non-binary


wannarexia

(neologism) Anorexia yearning in a nonanorexic individual.


leaktivism

(neologism) Activism through the release of confidential information to the public in the form of leaks.


dickture

> If you are going to use a pic in your profile, use a poorly lit
> close-up of your penis - with hard-on, of course.
>
Yes. Nothing like the dickture to bring on the ladies.

2006 December 13, "Tyr" replying to "IrishWinks", in Re: A Modest How-To on Personals Ads, in soc.sexuality.spanking, Usenet

(slang, neologism) A picture of a penis.


text door neighbour

en-noun

text door neighbour (plural text door neighbours)

(slang, neologism) The person whose telephone number is the same as one's own, but with the final digit increased or decreased by 1; sometimes called as a prank or in an attempt to make friends.


extraterrestrialization

(neologism) The process of making extraterrestrial.

(neologism) The process of displacing from the Earth; decentralization of the Earth.


amatonormative

en-adj

amatonormative (comparative more amatonormative, superlative most amatonormative)

more amatonormative (comparative)
most amatonormative (superlative)

Amatonormative discrimination is widely practiced. Its existence is not controversial. What is controversial is the claim that it is wrongful discrimination and not simply justified differential treatment—that it is arbitrary and hence, at least in law, unjust.

2011, Elizabeth Brake, Minimizing Marriage: Marriage, Morality, and the Law, page 94:

Both friends explicitly reject the amatonormative assumption that they are potential romantic partners.

2017, Matthew A. Hoffman, Sara Kolmes, “When Clark Met Diana: Friendship and Romance in Comics”, in Jacob M. Held, editor, Wonder Woman and Philosophy: The Amazonian Mystique, page 87:

This is in direct opposition to amatonormative ideas about the "right" way to start a family.

2020, Constance Wilde, “What does it mean to be asexual in an increasingly sexualised world?”, in Lot's Wife, Edition 1 (2020), page 28:

(neologism) Privileging or valuing romantic relationships as fundamental or natural.


consanguinamory

From Latin consanguinitas (“blood-relationship”) + amor (“love”) + -y, coined by activist Cristina Shy.

Most US states still have laws against consensual incest (consanguinamory), and in most of them, people do continue to be prosecuted for simply loving each other. Laws against gay sex have been struck down by the Supreme Court. So, gay sex is legal nationwide, consanguinamory isn't.

2012 September 11, “Hollywood director places incest alongside gay marriage”, in San Diego LGBT Weekly:

Consanguinamory (consensual adult incest) is not a crime in the US states of New Jersey and Rhode Island and there has been no problem as a result.

2015 August 17, Endrik Wilhelm, “Lawyer: 'Legalize incest!'”, in Deutsche Welle:

"Consanguinamory," is Shy's term for incestuous relationships, which she says should be legalized and recognized as "marriage."

2016 August 18, James B., “Mother Willing to go to Jail in Fight For Sexual Relationship With Son”, in The Christian Post:

Their founders call themselves advocates and use the word "consanguinamory" to name what they argue is a sexual orientation. They're very up-front about their goal. They want to normalize what they call "consensual" incest and even speak as if their plight were the same as that of other groups who have historically been marginalized for their sexual identity. One day they'll have a float at Pride, or at least they deserve one. They write as if they were sexual minorities who need law and culture changes to protect their marginalized desire, and in forums members adapt language from LGBTQ activism: think "consang-positive," "love is love," and "equal rights".

2022, Finding Normal: Sex, Love, and Taboo in Our Hyperconnected World, St. Martin's Publishing Group, →ISBN:

Still in the dark fringy margins are the other two groups who, like polyamorists, have their own spanking new euphemistic names. Those who are in sexual relationships with close relatives have renamed incest "consanguinamory."

2022 February 4, “Incest and Pedophilia Comin’ to Town”, in Family Institute lIlinois:

(neologism, euphemistic) consensual adult Romantic and/or sexual love between family members; consensual adult incest.


pretotype

Clipping of pre-prototype, from pre- + prototype, patterned after prototype.

If, however, you built something inexpensive—a pretotype, in Savoia's parlance—and proved viability, there was still a lot of money on the table.

2013, Bob Sullivan, The Plateau Effect: Getting from Stuck to Success:

Whether you call them pretotypes or rapid prototypes, the goal is the same: low-cost ways of making sure that you are solving a real problem and that your solution is the right one.

2014, Austina De Bonte, Drew Fletcher, Scenario-Focused Engineering: A toolbox for innovation and customer-centricity:

ILI's provide feedback used to create improved iterative versions of the pretotype for repeated testing.

2015, Ajay Das, An Introduction to Operations Management: The Joy of Operations, →ISBN:

In the earliest stages, this could take the form of a sketch or simple cardboard pretotype.

2016, Michael H. Morris, Eric Liguori, Annals of Entrepreneurship Education and Pedagogy, →ISBN:

A pretotype, on the other hand, comes much earlier in the development process, before a decision to proceed has been made.

2017, David Robertson, The Power of Little Ideas: A Low-Risk, High-Reward Approach to Innovation:

(neologism) A model of product using the smallest possible amount of resources.


pretotype

en-verb

pretotype (third-person singular simple present pretotypes, present participle pretotyping, simple past and past participle pretotyped)

pretotypes (present singular third-person)
pretotyping (participle present)
pretotyped (participle past)
pretotyped (past)

They were sending me examples of their pretotypes, asking me for suggestions on how to pretotype their ideas and were even lobbying with their colleqgues and managers to pretotype ideas before building them.

2011, Alberto Savoia, Pretotype It: Make sure you are building the right it before you build it right, page 19:

Most, if not all, ideas can be prototyped (or pretotyped),

2014 April 20, James Green, “Should You Leave a Stable Job to Start Your Own Company?,”, in Mashable Australia:

An inert mockup can be used to pretotype just about any kind of carry-with-you device – would you/other people put up with having such a thing in your pocket/purse/handbag, all day long?

2016, Tim Vang, From Holy Grail to structured fail:


pretotyping

Pretotyping differs from prototyping in that the main objective of prototyping is to answer questions related to building the product: Can we build it? Will it work as expected? How much will it cost to build? The purpose of pretotyping is to answer questions about the product's appeal and usage: Would people want this product? Will they use it as expected?

2013, Penny Pullan, James Archer, Business Analysis and Leadership: Influencing Change, →ISBN, page 129:

With pretotyping, you never have to say "Sorry, it's not worth experimenting with that idea," because there are hardly any barriers to entry.

2014, Hugh Thompson, Bob Sullivan, Getting Unstuck: Break Free of the Plateau Effect, →ISBN:

Different techniques can be used to crash-test software when the product is not yet finalized (this comes from the pretotyping approach by Alberto Savoia [Savoia12]):

2014, Nicolas Gouy, Agile with Guts, →ISBN, page 90:

(neologism) The process of building pretotypes to test the viability of a product before attempting to actually prototype it.


dialytrauma

(neologism, medicine) A collective term for all complications associated with the use of renal-replacement therapies, including dialysis and haemofiltration.


pharmacoterrorism

(neologism) The commission of terrorist acts while under the influence of psychoactive substances.


steamsona

My 'steamsona' has a backstory based on alternative historical Indochina, […]

2012, Diana M. Pho, quoted in Jeff VanderMeer & S. J. Chambers, The Steampunk Bible: An Illustrated Guide to the World of Imaginary Airships, Corsets and Goggles, Mad Scientists, and Strange Literature, page 152

Many steamsonas are created around professions or are derived from trades.

2013, Katherine Gleason, Anatomy of Steampunk: The Fashion of Victorian Futurism, page 171:

So choose your persona, or steamsona, as it is known, and let's do a little shopping: […]

2014, Paul Roland, Steampunk: Back to the Future with the New Victorians, unnumbered page:

(fandom slang, neologism) A persona developed to be used within the steampunk subculture.


titushky

2014, Ukrainian тіту́шки pl (titúšky), тіту́шка sg (titúška) and Russian титу́шки pl (titúški), титу́шка sg (titúška), from the surname of mixed martial artist Vadym Titushko, Russian Вади́м Титу́шко (Vadím Titúško), Ukrainian Вади́м Тіту́шко (Vadým Titúško)

cog

Вади́м Титу́шко

Вади́м Тіту́шко

They were titushky, mercenary agents who supported the Ukrainian police during President Yanukovych’s administration, who were now in desperate need of a paycheck, one Guimond had arranged.

2017, Rick Campbell, Blackmail, New York: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, pages 102–3:

We see typically dressed titushky. One of them had a head injury and was bleeding a lot. Titushka or not, he’s a human being.

2016: Olesya Khremeychuk, “Sexuality and Revolution in Post-Soviet Ukraine: Human Rights for the LGBT Community in the Euromaidan Protests of 2013–2014,” in Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society, v 2, n 1, p 26

The so-called titushky contributed greatly to the escalation of violence. They were young men from the provinces, often members of local athletic clubs, hired by the Party of Regions to pose as anti-Maidan protesters. The name refers to one Vadym Titushko, a paid thug from the city of Bila Tserkva, who had been convicted of physically assaulting journalists in 2013, before the EuroMaidan. Although they did not carry firearms, titushky freely employed violence and coordinated their actions with the police.

2015, Serhy Yekelchyk, The Conflict in Ukraine: What Everyone Needs to Know, New York: Oxford University Press, page 109:

[Taras Kuzio, “Vigilantes, Organized Crime, and Russian and Eurasian Nationalisms: The Case of Ukraine,” p 59] During the Euromaidan, over 100 unarmed protesters were murdered by vigilante skinheads (the so-called titushky named after Vadym Titushko who attacked journalists in Kyiv in May 2013) and the security forces.
[William Risch, “EuroRevolution: A Historian’s Street-Side Observations,” p 111] Then we started talking with so-called “titushky” who were camped out at the anti-Maidan. [note] Titushky is a term for mercenaries, mostly hooligans, who supported the Ukrainian police during Yanukovych’s presidency.
[p 118] While warming up with some coffee, Yevhen and I saw on Facebook that one of the sections had met in a church, and that titushky had broken in and thrown a tear gas canister at the attendees.

2015, David R. Marples, Frederick V. Mills, editors, Ukraine’s Euromaidan: Analyses of a Civil Revolution, Stuttgart: Ibidem Press:

I was actually more worried about the gangs of government thugs – the so-called titushki – who were randomly roaming the streets and who, by that point, were out of control and prone to simple theft and violence.

2014, Andrew Wilson, Ukraine Crisis: What It Means for the West, New Haven: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page vi:

The main characters of stickers are peaceful and romantic Ukrainian boy and girl who want peace most of all, even with “titushkos”.

2014, Natalia Usenko, “Political Issues in Contemporary Art of Ukraine”, in Journal of Education Culture and Society, number 2, Wrocław, page 185:

(neologism) Hired thugs used for violence and intimidation against protestors by the Ukrainian government during the Euromaidan revolution; (by extension) pro-government vigilantes attacking picketers, protesters in the ex-USSR

տիտուշկա

a violent pro-government vigilante involved in cracking down on popular protest


Pin@y

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

-a-o-@

To Miles and Ella, my little Pin@ys and JAs in Hawai'i who give me perspective and inspiration, […]

2015, Roderick N Labrador, Building Filipino Hawai'i, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN:

(neologism) A Pinoy or Pinay; an ethnic Filipino.


clickocracy

From click + -ocracy, a neologism in the form of democracy.

Owing to the 'clickocracy' of the Internet, a Web site can set up shop with a miniscule^([sic]) budget and end up competing with the big guns.

2002, Matt Haig, How Come You Don't Have an E-business Strategy?: The Essential Guide to Online Business, Kogan Page Publishers, published 2002, page 3:

Like it or not, we now belong to a clickocracy -- one nation under Google, with video and e-mail for all.

2008 April 1, Jose Antonio Vargas, “Campaign.USA: With the Internet Comes a New Political 'Clickocracy'”, in Washington Post:

To be sure, algorithmic media also require audience participation—but only in an automated, aggregated clickocracy.

2012, Michael Schudson and Katherine Fink, "The Algorithm Method: Making news decisions in a clickocracy," Columbia Journalism Review, January/February 2012

Also, and rather critically, in the new world of clickocracy, "my vote doesn't make a difference" makes the erroneous assumption that voting is the only expression of political will now available to us.

2013, Justin Cash, The Rise of Clickocracy: Politics for a Digital Age, Lulu, page 143:

(neologism) the role of the internet and algorithmic media in elections and governance.


beta orbiter

... who, despite his money, spends most of his time as beta orbiter to a woman named Daisy whom he met in Army training. Gatsby spends his money on lavish parties he doesn't attend at a house he bought across from Daisy's ...

2018, Felix Biederman, Matt Christman, Brendan James, Will Menaker, Virgil Texas, The Chapo Guide to Revolution: A Manifesto Against Logic, Facts, and Reason, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 216:

(slang, derogatory, seduction community, neologism) A person who accommodates or mingles with others in the hope of eventually getting sex.


hodl

en-verb

hodl (third-person singular simple present hodls, present participle hodling, simple past and past participle hodled)

hodls (present singular third-person)
hodling (participle present)
hodled (participle past)
hodled (past)

Originally a mistyping of hold, appearing in a forum post on December 18, 2013. The backronym "Hold On for Dear Life" is sometimes used.

Bitcoin price continues decline. If you're hodling, bite your government passbook.

2016 July 22, Venzen Khaosan, “Bitcoin Price Decline 100% Confirmed”, in Cryptocoins News:

I believe that the individuals who have the fortitude and insight to be hodling onto their coins deserve to be rewarded for their risk. It is also my hope that I am hodling more coins if/when the price skyrockets.

2017 April 22, “Bitcoin Is Not Immune to All Fiat Problems”, in The Merkle:

Cryptocurrency veterans love to “hodl,” aka store their virtual loot as a long-term investment. But digital currency wasn't only made for hodling.

2017 November 10, Leigh Cuen, “Cyber Monday Guide: How To Buy Christmas Presents With Bitcoin”, in International Business Times:

Buy and hold strategies for Bitcoin ("hodling" as it called) is likely to have far lower returns, even if the future is positive, and traders will lose the volatility that has made Bitcoin trading so profitable.

2017 November 26, Lynn Sebastian Purcell, “Why Futures Spell The End Of Bitcoin Mania”, in Toronto Star:

But even those with the stomach for hodling must avoid an even bigger issue — hacking.

2021 April 25, Erin Griffith, “We’re All Crypto People Now”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(neologism) To hoard a kind of cryptocurrency, especially bitcoin.


witch house

Inspired by early rave and dream-pop, witch house also takes its cue from the "chopped and screwed" remix technique so prevalent in early 90s hip-hop.

2010 September 25, Tim Jonze, “Witch house and the musicians taking us back to the future”, in The Guardian:

(music, neologism) A style of music characterized by chopped and screwed hip-hop soundscapes, industrial and noise experimentation, and the use of synthesizers, drum machines, obscure samples, droning repetition and heavily altered, ethereal, indiscernible vocals.


Elsagate

From Elsa + -gate, after the protagonist of Disney's 2013 animated film Frozen whose likeness often appears in the videos.

Just a few months after the Pizzagate debacle, Elsagate was formed with a very similar playbook: a group of amateur sleuths using open-source intelligence to fight a hazily defined evil threatening helpless children.

2017 December 8, Russell Brandom, “Inside Elsagate, the conspiracy-fueled war on creepy YouTube kids videos”, in The Verge, archived from the original on 2017-12-08:

Videos that are in the Elsagate category are not hard to identify. Typically, they feature Spiderman^([sic]) and Elsa together and are extremely low-budget videos without much structure or plot.

2019 August 2, Sherri Gordon, “Keeping Your Child Safe on YouTube After Elsagate”, in Verywell Family, archived from the original on 2020-03-22:

(Internet, neologism) The controversy surrounding supposedly child-friendly videos posted on the Internet that contain themes inappropriate for children, such as violence and sexual situations.


broflake

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Netflix dropped the first trailer for its new comedy series Dear White People today, and already broflakes (what I’ve decided to call MAGA hat-wearing dudes who complain about “snowflakes” but are themselves overly sensitive) are cancelling their accounts.

2017 February 9, Christopher Hooton, “The first trailer for Netflix's 'Dear White People' is upsetting broflakes everywhere”, in The Independent:

Yesterday, actress Amber Tamblyn published a New York Times op-ed stemming from her Twitter feud with actor/broflake James Woods.

2017 October 17, Whitney Kimball, “Amber Tamblyn's James Woods Feud Inspires New York Times Op-Ed , But Woods Hates the Times, So There”, in Jezebel:

Specifically, the broflakes said they had experienced gender discrimination against them at some point.

2018 January 10, Shaun Nichols, “1 in 5 STEM bros whinge they can't catch a break in tech world they run”, in The Register:

Bring on the broflakes triggered by reading Lena Dunham's name.

2018 February 9, Lanre Bakare, “Lena Dunham to remake Julia Davis sitcom Camping for HBO”, in The Guardian:

But here’s the thing about quotas, or - to protect the political broflakes (a portmanteau of “bros” and “snowflakes”, thank you internet) - here’s the thing about “targets”: they work.

2018 March 9, Jacqueline Maley, “Coalition has a problem with women - and Peta Credlin wants to fix it”, in The Sydney Morning Herald:

(slang, derogatory, neologism) An overly-sensitive man or boy who is easily upset or offended, especially one upset about loss of male privilege.


avolatte

The Aussie cafe has decided to start serving avolattes — yes, avolattes.

2017 May 22, Danielle Valente, “Avocado Lattes Exist And Everyone's Confused”, in Elite Daily:

The troubling trend of serving coffee drinks in hollowed-out produce “cups” has been on the rise since late last month, when a cafe in Melbourne, Australia made headlines for serving lattes in avocado peels (“avolattes”), Newsweek reported.

2017 June 6, Christian Gollayan, “Coffee shops are ruining perfectly good lattes with vegetables”, in New York Post:

Given the United States’ current fetishization of a) superfoods like kale and quinoa, b) Mexican chains like Chipotle and Qdoba, and c) Instagram-worthy products like avolattes and avocado toast, DeLyser does not anticipate this “meteoric rise” in avocado consumption going away anytime soon.

2017 September 22, Sal DeFrancesco, “Guac Costs Extra”, in Harvard Political Review:

(neologism) A latte served in half a hollowed out avocado.


flawsome

en-adj

flawsome (comparative more flawsome, superlative most flawsome)

more flawsome (comparative)
most flawsome (superlative)

I believe that perfect is boring. Our "flaws" are what make us, us, and that's beautiful. That is what being Flawsome is really all about. Flawsome means, "Flaws + Awesome = Flawsome."

"When one is flawsome, they have the ability to recognize and acknowledge that we all have flaws and that we can still be good people."

2022, Gabrielle Bernstein, quoting Brian Mahan, Happy Days: The Guided Path from Trauma to Profound Freedom and Inner Peace, page 110:

The "flawsome" mindset is a powerful shift in perspective that encourages us to embrace our imperfections as part of our beauty and individuality.[…]When we adopt a flawsome mindset, we shift our focus from striving for perfection to accepting and celebrating our imperfections.

2023, Cassandra Fenyk, Embracing Imperfections: Unleashing Our Perfect Selves, page 166:

So many times, when I feel awkward or incompetent[…]my inside-self feels like reactor number two in Three Mile Island, circa 1979.
Over the years I have tried, tried, tried to change this aspect of myself. I want to be able to feel FLAWSOME, even when I fail.

2023, Joni B. Cole, Party Like It's 2044: Finding the Funny in Life and Death:

As a philosophy, kintsugi applies the same concepts to how we live our lives. How we grow through our mistakes and failures. And how we accept, repair, and value the resulting flawsome person we continue becoming – as well as the likewise imperfect people, places, objects, and events in our world.

2024, Tom Collins and Michele Molitor, I Am Perfectly Flawsome: How Embracing Imperfection Makes Us Better, page 6:

(neologism) Flawed yet awesome; capable of embracing one's imperfections.


stochastic terrorism

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Coined by Gordon Woo. stochastic + terrorism

All of this fits with what the anonymous blogger G2G had to say in his expanded definition of stochastic terrorism: “you heat up the waters and stir the pot, knowing full well that sooner or later a lone wolf will pop up and do the deed. The fact that it will happen is as predictable as the fact that a heated pot of water will eventually boil. But the exact time and place of each incident will remain as random as the appearance of the first bubbles in the boiling pot."

2017, Clayton Delery, Out for Queer Blood:

How does stochastic terrorism unfold in the course of real-world events? We propose a practical description of stochastic terrorism as an interactive process between the originator of a message, its amplifiers, and one of more ultimate receivers.

2021 October, Molly Amman, J. Reid Meloy, “Stochastic Terrorism: A Linguistic and Psychological Analysis”, in Perspectives on Terrorism, →ISSN, page 3:

Trump is playing a dangerous game, and there is a name for it: Stochastic terrorism. The cries for vengeance and violent retribution from the leader of the MAGA movement aren’t a message to anyone in specific but rather a bat signal to everyone who can hear his voice, whether it’s armed and troubled young men like Martinez or the Jacksonville gunman, or the angry mob that responded on Jan. 6, 2021, after Trump tweeted, “Will be wild!”

2023, Will Bunch, “A MAGA gunman in New Mexico and ‘the end of politics’ in America”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer:

(neologism, sociology, social media) The use of mass public communication, usually against a particular individual or group, which

Incites or inspires acts of terrorism which are statistically probable but happen seemingly at random,

The joining of the two words, stochastic and terrorism, is originally attributable to machematician and catastrophist Gordon Woo, who used the term to suggest a quantifiable relationship between seemingly random acts of terrorism and the goal of perpetuating fear through mass media's coverage of the violence.

Perpetuates fear through coverage of seemingly random acts of terrorism.


levidrome

Coined by Levi Budd, from his name Levi + -drome by analogy with palindrome.

One classmate offered up "part" and "trap" as a levidrome on Friday.

2017 October 15, Jack Knox, “This Budd’s for you, and he loves a ‘levidrome’”, in Times Colonist, retrieved 2018-01-28:

She always says to him, ‘You got any good levidromes for me today?’ The other day he said, ‘Yeah, I got stressed and desserts. And drawer and reward.’”

2017 November 21, Camille Bains, “Six-year-old Victoria boy’s invented word gets support from William Shatner, Patricia Arquette”, in The Star:

Since then, the levidrome has been gaining traction around the world. The Budd family has been inundated with pictures of school projects where students find levidromes.

2018 January 29, “B.C. boy's invented word gaining traction, celebrity endorsements”, in CTV News:

Wherever sequential alphabets gained power, cultures became more transfixed by linear time. Change the order of the letters, and you get a new meaning: canoe is never mistaken for its anagram ocean. Map is not the same as its levidrome Pam.

2019 January 17, RJ Andrews, Info We Trust: How to Inspire the World with Data, page 53:

(neologism) A word with a different definition when the spelling is reversed.


situationship

/ˌsɪt͡ʃuˈeɪʃənʃɪp/

/ˌsɪtʃuˈeɪʃənʃɪp/

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From situation + -ship or a blend of situational + relationship.

Codependents don't have relationships, they have situationships.

2014, Marcia Newman, Five Gifts of Pro-Aging, Balboa Press, →ISBN, page 47:

The thing about being in a situationship – and this is a big thing – is that because you exist in that no-man's-land, the rules of engagement are not spelt out.

2016, Lerato Tshabalala, The Way I See It: The Musings of a Black Woman in the Rainbow Nation, page 110:

“Might you be pregnant?” I scoffed. “Listen Miss James, I know that you know that my personal life is a mess. There's no way I could be pregnant.” “Mark?” “What about Mark?” “Look, I know you're in a situationship with him...” I sighed, “Listen, Mark and I are friends. And anything that happens between us is very well secured against this.” Dawn shrugged, “Accidents happen.” “Not to me they don't,” I retorted.

2017, Jamila Jasper, The Situationship: BWWM Romance Novel, Publisher s23991

We just knew we wanted to be together. There was no one who could make me laugh quite the way Royal Blue did. We had so many good times together and he treated me like a queen whenever he could. Our relationship was built on love, trust and commitment, values that had been absent from many of my past relationships. In my situationships of the past, I had always found myself giving more than the other person.

2017, Kamaria G. Powell, WHAT THE F#@K IS ENLIGHTENMENT?, →ISBN, page 41:

“I needed a ‘situationship,’” said Ms. Stevenson, a 31-year-old comedian and writer in Los Angeles. “A person I can rely on and trust to hang out with once a week.”

2021 January 10, Valeriya Safronova, “True Stories of Hooking Up During Covid-19”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

This shift has given rise to the idea of the ‘situationship’ – a term that describes the grey area between friendship and a relationship. ... A situationship gives name to a hard-to-define stage of dating that experts say has skyrocketed in popularity among Gen Z.

2022 September 2, Casey Noenickx, “‘Situationships’: Why Gen Z are embracing the grey area”, in BBC Worklife:

friends with benefits
friend with benefits

(neologism, informal) A romantic or sexual relationship in which the parties involved do not clearly define their relationship as such, but for example consider it "complicated" or a friends with benefits-type situation.


foodomics

As can be deduced from the low number of proteomic applications in foodomics studies, it is expected that new innovations in proteomic technology will help proteomic profiling to also become a standard practice in foodomics.

2012, Noureddine Benkeblia, OMICs Technologies: Tools for Food Science, page 92:

(neologism) The use of omics as a tool in food science.


pelfie

Indeed, if 2013 has been the year of the selfie, our elected leaders have put their own fluffy spin on things with the “pelfie” (yep, I went there), unabashedly pimping out their pets for cheap RTs.

2013 December 26, Charlotte Lytton, “Bo and Sunny Obama Are Definitely The Leaders of the Political Pets”, in Daily Beast:

Buyagift has launched a nationwide competition to find the best "pelfie" – a pet selfie – all in the spirit of raising money for two animal charities – Angels Animal Rescue and Wood Green,

2014 June 30, Sophie Alexander, “Selfie, belfie, now it's the pelfie! Animals get snap happy for charity”, in Daily Star:

Even rural puppies on the other side of the world are apathetic when I try to take selfies with them,” he jokes of his pelfie in the Philippines.

2017 August 4, Kate Hogan, “30 Photos of PEOPLE's Pet Vet Dr. Evan Antin Cuddling with Puppies (You're Welcome)”, in People:

(neologism) A self-taken photograph of one's pet.


pelfie

Given that it's technically illegal to show an erect penis in movies, here's to assuming some poor production assistant was sent several pelfies (penis selfies? Does it work?) of Shia's floppy, non-erect penis.

2014 January 7, Dale Neuringer, “Shia Is the New Joey Tribbiani”, in Bustle:

And while we're on the subject of messaging, how many of us have sent or received a penis selfie? (A pelfie, if you will.)

2014 June 28, Emma Jane Unsworth, “A feminist's guide to dating”, in The Guardian:

Another argument for the growing trend for pelfies is the widespread availability of free porn

2017 December 17, “The rise and fall of the penis selfie”, in The Times:

Just 22% of men in the same age bracket admitted sending the racy shots, known as "pelfies".

2018 February 16, Alexander Brown, “Willy pics on the rise: Almost half young women get unwanted snaps”, in Daily Star:

(neologism) A self-taken photograph of one's penis.


bluecomb

"Blue comb disease" affected turkeys of all ages. In the authors' experience, mortality was 25-50% in young poults and 5-25% in "range" turkeys.

[1954, B. S. Pomeroy, “Bluecomb disease of turkeys.”, in Proceedings 90th Annu. Meet. Amer. vet. med. Ass., page 321:

The highly contagious disease bluecomb, also called transmissible enteritis and mud fever, affects the intestinal tract of turkeys of all ages, including breeding stock.

1971, Agriculture Handbook, number 393, page 60:

Particles morphologically similar to coronaviruses were found in bluecomb-infected turkey ceca, the bursa of Fabricius, and embryo intestines, but not in the same tissues of uninfected controls.

1973, AE Ritchie, “Electron microscopy of coronavirus-like particles characteristic of turkey bluecomb disease”, in Avian Diseases, volume 17, number 3, page 546:

(neologism) Coronaviral enteritis in turkeys.


pluridisciplinarity

(neologism, academia) Multidisciplinarity that involves collaboration to achieve a common goal.


cis privilege

(LGBTQ, neologism) The social advantage enjoyed by those who are cisgender or cissexual.


digisexuality

(neologism) Sexual attraction to sexbots or other technologically-enhanced sexual situations.


digisexual

No Thanks. I'm a digisexual now.

2013, Scott Adams, Your New Job Title Is "Accomplice": A Dilbert Book, →ISBN, page 67:

“The more we studied the emergence of what we call ‘second wave’ digisexual technologies ... the more we realized that digisexuals are going to emerge as a real community, and they are going to face resistance from the start,” McArthur says.

2017 November 29, “Future 'Digisexuals' Will Face Discrimination for Fucking Robots, Professors Warn”, in Broadly:

As these technologies advance, their adoption will grow, and many people may come to identify themselves as “digisexuals”–people whose primary sexual identity comes through the use of technology.

2017, Neil McArthur, Markie L.C. Twist, “The rise of digisexuality: Therapeutic challenges and possibilities”, in Sexual and Relationship Therapy:

(neologism) A person who is sexually attracted to robots or other technologically-mediated forms of sexuality.


dark kitchen

Formed in analogy to the term dark store (“online retail distribution center”), as this type of operation likewise serves outside customers through online ordering.

Coordinate term: dark store

“We were using some of our restaurant kitchens, but are now investing into more delivery-only or ‘dark’ kitchens, as we were not able to service the growing demand,” Jain said.

2015, Shonali Advani, “Mast Kalandar owner Spring Leaf Retail investing in delivery only kitchens to boost MK Dabbawala”, in Economic Times:

As a result of unfavourable market conditions for bricks and mortar restaurants, dark kitchens, also known as ghost restaurants, are becoming more common.

2018 June 5, Sarah Finch, “The rise of the dark kitchen”, in Disruption Hub, archived from the original on 2020-06-06:

Dark kitchens make huge sense for the burger brand Boo. Set up by Arif Palejwala and his brother-in-law in Leicester, they have reached three other cities without having to find premises or fork out.

2019 April 23, Rebecca Wearn, “Does your dinner come from a ‘dark kitchen’?”, in BBC News:

It is the success of online ordering players such as Uber Eats, Glovo, Just Eat and many more that paved the way for dark kitchens.

2020, Isabelle Hanet, “What is a dark kitchen?”, in Deliverect:

(appliance, neologism) A commercial kitchen where restaurant-style meals are cooked for delivery.


petroyuan

From petro- + yuan, modelled on earlier petrodollar.

(neologism, usually in the plural) Money (in Chinese yuan) earned from the sale of oil.


pangopup

(informal, neologism) A young pangolin; a scaly anteater pup.


you happy jiu OK

Intentional Chinglish rendering of the Chinese Internet catchphrase 你開心就好／你开心就好 (nǐ kāixīn jiù hǎo, “as long as you are happy”).

zh-l

(slang, neologism, Chinglish) Used to show snide disagreement.


transmisogynoir

/ˌtɹænz.mɪˈsɑd͡ʒ.ɪˌnwɑɹ/

Blend of transmisogyny + misogynoir, from trans- + misogyny + French noir (“black”); coined on the site Gradient Lair in 2014.

When Black American transgender women contend with these dynamics, they experience transmisogynoir, the interactive product of anti-Blackness, transphobia, and sexism.

2017, Kevin L. Nadal, The SAGE Encyclopedia of Psychology and Gender, SAGE Publications, →ISBN:

(neologism) Hatred of, contempt for, or prejudice against black trans women.


enbian

en-adj

enbian (comparative more enbian, superlative most enbian)

more enbian (comparative)
most enbian (superlative)

(neologism, of a non-binary person) Preferring mostly or exclusively non-binary people as romantic or sexual partners.

(neologism, of a romantic or sexual act or relationship) Between two people who are non-binary.


enbian

(neologism) A non-binary person who is sexually or romantically attracted to other non-binary people.


offendotron

On BBCR4 at 08.50 this a.m., there was a very good "Point of View" by Roger Scruton where he pissed all over the militant (or Millie Tant, as Viz would have it) feminists and other offendotrons who lurk around looking for anything to be offended by.

2015, Tim Streater, “Fucking bastards with more money than sense!”, in uk.d-i-y (Usenet):

The problem with the OED is that's it's not a comprehensive list of all possible offending combinations. I thing^([sic]) high time and only reasonable that offendotrons gave us the complete list of crimes and misdemeanours. They're only hurting themselves by keeping some offenses secret until they actually happen. So much grief could be nipped in the bud if everyone was forewarned.

2017, Julian, “Re: The Teflon Slur List”, in alt.buddha.short.fat.guy (Usenet):

The comedian and political commentator Pat Condell is one of the most doughty and effective campaigners against the left wing political architects of Europe's current Islam and migration disaster and he really is on top form in this video. This particular piece by Mr Condell, a piece that was banned by the 'Offendotrons' of You Tube but is now available on the censorship-free Bitchute platform, delves into the increasingly perilous conditions for women in those nations that have foolishly and naively accepted hordes of mostly Islamic 'refugees'.

2018, "Fahrenheit211", quoted in "D. Schlenk", Why are we giving human rights to inhuman, rape addicted savages ? (on newsgroup de.soc.weltanschauung.misc)

(neologism, slang, derogatory) A person who makes it their business to take offense wherever possible.


DoggoLingo

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(Internet slang, neologism) A form of English-language Internet slang related to dogs, using words such as doggo, woofer, bork, mlem, and heckin'.


sottocopy

en-verb

sottocopy (third-person singular simple present sottocopies, present participle sottocopying, simple past and past participle sottocopied)

sottocopies (present singular third-person)
sottocopying (participle present)
sottocopied (participle past)
sottocopied (past)

But pooh-poohed wrongs don’t make a right. The people knew better. Student groups issued statements of protest. A petition signed by more than 30,000 Filipinos demanded Sotto’s resignation. Tweets and Internet memes mocked his arrogant sense of impunity, ensuring that “sottocopy” and “sinotto” will forever be part of his legacy. All this led Sotto to paint himself a victim, of “cyberbullying,” and threaten his critics with the now-infamous cybercrime bill.

2012 November 9, Miguel Syjuco, “Something new to Sottocopy”, in Rappler:


Dutertard

From Duterte + retard. After Rodrigo Duterte.

But even then, what I saw in the Dutertards was the sincerity to fight for their presidential candidate.

2017 August 3, Antonio Contreras, “Inside the world of the Dutertards”, in The Manila Times, archived from the original on 2021-02-27:

(Philippine politics, neologism, derogatory) A fanatic of Rodrigo Duterte.


Sottogate

Long is the saga of Sottogate, yet allegations against Senator Tito Sotto continue.

2012 November 10, Miguel Syjuco, “Kennedy to Sotto: 'This is a clear case of plagiarism'”, in Rappler:

By the way, those of us who have been following “Sottogate” and the incidents of “Sottocopying” have read the letter written by Kerry Kennedy on behalf of The Robert Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights summarizing her dismay over Sen. Tito Sotto’s not only using her father’s words without proper credit, but also using them out of context. The senator has replied by saying translation to Filipino is not plagiarism and upon receiving this communication, suggested it was fake. (The veracity of the letter has already been confirmed).

2012 November 16, “Catching ‘Tiktik’; fearing contagious stupidity”, in Manila Times:

(Philippines, neologism) The series of plagiarism cases involving Philippine senator Tito Sotto.


endie

Based on formations like yuppie etc. Coined by UK political adviser Charles R. Leadbeater in 2014.

coin

If for London the 1980s was the decade of yuppies, now the capital finds itself home to the "endies" – Employed but with No Disposable Income or Savings. Feeling unloved, overworked and ignored, endies are becoming disillusioned with their lot, according to a report from the Centre for London that suggests there are now about a million modest earners in the capital.

2014 September 13, Jamie Doward, “‘Endies’: Employed with No Disposable Income are struggling in London”, in The Observer, →ISSN:

An Endie typically earns between £20,000 and £33,000 as an individual or a single parent, or between £20,000 and £33,000 as couples with dependent children. They have to shop at the supermarket – usually Lidl or Aldi – after 8pm when the produce that has reached its sell by date is reduced in price.

2014 September 15, Philip Ripley, “Meet the ‘Endies’ – city dwellers who are too poor to have fun”, in The Independent:

Endies live quiet and modest lives largely hidden from view for a simple reason: most cannot afford to go out. Life is an endless treadmill of work, commuting and recovering at home, often with the Internet for company and little other respite.

2016, Thomas Burgess, From Here to Prosperity, Shepheard Walwyn, →ISBN:

(neologism, uncommon, chiefly in the plural) One who is employed, but has no disposable income or savings.


deepfake

Blend of deep learning + fake. Coined in 2017 by Redditor u/deepfakes (account created on September 26, 2017), who had created a technique which could convincingly swap someone's face in a video using deep learning. The r/deepfakes subreddit was created on November 2, 2017. The word was first used as a noun and verb around December 2017.

Did you see that leaked sex tape with the actress? It turned out to be a deepfake, but it looked so realistic!

The thing is that normal people might try to use to harass other people, specially women, but I don't think this technology will be so advanced that you won't be able to recognize it's a fake video, so the majority of people who try to say a deep fake is real will be looked as an idiot, a pervert and probably reported.

2017 December 17, u/randint2220, “Is this all even legal?”, in Reddit, r/deepfakes, archived from the original on 2023-01-13:

These deepfakes went in a completely unexpected direction

2018 January 1, u/viperex, “Wall”, in Reddit, r/gifs, archived from the original on 2023-04-18:

I've completed a desktop app /w GUI to create deepfakes. Here is a what it looks like. For anyone unfamiliar with this subreddit, deepfakes are neural network-generated faceswap videos created with a machine learning algorithm designed by /u/deepfakes.

2018 January 8, u/deepfakeapp, “FakeApp: A Desktop Tool for Creating Deepfakes”, in Reddit, archived from the original on 2018-01-25:

For example, images of the actress Scarlett Johansson have been used to create a number of deepfake pornographic videos, one of which had been viewed over 1.5 million times on a popular SEIM site by the end of 2018 (Harwell, 2018).

2019, Richard Joseph Behun, Eric Owens, Youth and Internet Pornography: The impact and influence on adolescent development, Routledge, →ISBN:

By banning deepfakes before the technology becomes widespread, Facebook is trying to calm lawmakers, academics and political campaigns who remain frustrated by how the company handles political posts and videos about politics and politicians.

2020 January 7, David McCabe, Davey Alba, “Facebook Says It Will Ban ‘Deepfakes’”, in New York Times:

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence

(technology, neologism) A convincingly realistic but fake image, video, or audio created with the use of artificial intelligence, especially one that imposes the face of one person onto the body of someone else.

diep vervalsing

photograph or video created using artificial intelligence