AZ

Risks? Suck it up buttercup. The risk of death by Covid is real and so many others of your age had AZ with limited ill or side-effects.

2021 July 2, The NT News, Darwin, page 22, column 3:

(neologism) Abbreviation of AstraZeneca, a COVID-19 vaccine made by the AstraZeneca company.


brat

en-noun

brat (countable and uncountable, plural brats)

Early Modern English (c. 1500) slang term meaning "beggar's child". Possibly from Scots bratchet (“bitch, hound”). Another possibility is that it was originally a dialectal word, from northern and western England and the Midlands, for a "makeshift or ragged garment," from Old English bratt (“cloak”), which is from a Celtic source (Old Irish brat (“cloak, cloth”)). In the sense "characteristic of a confident and assertive woman", coined by English singer and songwriter Charli XCX in her 2024 album Brat.

coinage

Here are the people and the styles at the DNC that embodied the brat ethos.

2024 August 23, Lauren Bulbin, Annaliese Nurnberg, “The best brat styles of DNC”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-08-23:

Brat is being lazy until 10 P.M., at which point you construct a château using discarded scraps of pleather, finish it by morning, and immediately win the Pritzker Architecture Prize.

2024 August 26, Lena Dunham, “A Guide to Brat Summer”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-08-27:

My favorite touch is how each of her Nike shoes has its own little bow, which is just the perfect amount of brat.

2024 August 27, Brooke LaMantia, “Naomi Osaka Is Having a Brat U.S. Open”, in The Cut, archived from the original on 2024-08-28:

(uncountable, neologism) The qualities possessed by a confident and assertive woman.


brat

en-adj

brat (comparative more brat, superlative most brat)

more brat (comparative)
most brat (superlative)

kamala IS brat

2024 July 21, @charli_xcx [Charli XCX], Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-07-24:

Starmer's Tory predecessors Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss were identified as brat by 15 percent each of those asked.

2024 August 13, Noah Keate, “It's official: Boris Johnson is brat”, in Politico, archived from the original on 2024-08-15:

Kamala Harris herself was anointed as "brat" the moment that Joe Biden stepped down, but already Harris's mother – who had Indian heritage and raised Harris as a single parent – has been declared the uberbrat, more brat than even her daughter.

2024 August 26, Nesrine Malik, “'Brat' Kamala or 'dragon mother' Pelosi? This meme machine is a risky strategy in a high-stakes election”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-08-27:

(neologism) Characteristic of a confident and assertive woman.


queer

en-verb

queer (third-person singular simple present queers, present participle queering, simple past and past participle queered)

queers (present singular third-person)
queering (participle present)
queered (participle past)
queered (past)

Attested since about 1510, at first in Scots. Usually taken to be from Middle Low German (Brunswick dialect) queer (“oblique, off-center”) or the related German quer (“diagonal”), from Old Saxon thwerh, from Proto-West Germanic *þwerh, from Proto-Germanic *þwerhaz, from Proto-Indo-European *terkʷ- (“to turn, twist, wind”); compare Latin torqueō, and see more at thwart. The OED argues against this due to the semantic differences and the date at which the word appears in Scots.
Began to be used to describe gay people in the late 1800s, see usage notes for more.

der

(slang, LGBTQ, neologism) To make a work more appealing or attractive to LGBT people, such as by not having strict genders for playable characters.


milkshake

en-verb

milkshake (third-person singular simple present milkshakes, present participle milkshaking, simple past and past participle milkshaked)

milkshakes (present singular third-person)
milkshaking (participle present)
milkshaked (participle past)
milkshaked (past)

A politician was milkshaked during the protest.

Indeed, the day before Farage was milkshaked, Leave EU issued an unauthorised, and now withdrawn, re-edit of a Beastie Boys video, showing him and Ann Widdecombe pouring beer over their political opponents.

2019 May 26, Stewart Lee, “Are milkshakes the new politics of resistance?”, in The Guardian:

(transitive, informal, neologism) To throw a milkshake at (a person).


television

television (third-person singular simple present televisions, present participle televisioning, simple past and past participle televisioned)

televisions (present singular third-person)
televisioning (participle present)
televisioned (participle past)
televisioned (past)

/ˈtɛlɪˌvɪʒən/

/ˈtɛləˌvɪʒən/

/ˌtɛlɪˈvɪʒən/

/ˌtɛləˈvɪʒən/

From tele- + vision; first attested in 1900, probably influenced by French télévision from Constantin Perskyi's 1900 paper that was unpublished but presented at a Paris conference.

(neologism, informal) To watch television.


tau

Hospital Brothers of Saint Anthony
Trần Thanh Vân

From Middle English tau, taue, from Latin tau, from Ancient Greek ταῦ (taû) and Hebrew תָּו (tav).
Sense 6 (“mathematical constant equal to 2π”) was used by Joseph M. Lindenberg in 1991, and popularized by the American educator and entrepreneur Michael Hartl in a 2010 paper which explains that τ resembles π; and that τ is the Greek equivalent of t, the first letter of turn, and 2π corresponds to one turn of a circle with a radius of one unit.
Sense 8.1 (“short for tau lepton or tau particle”) was coined by the American physicist Martin Lewis Perl (1927–2014) after the first letter of Ancient Greek τρίτον (tríton, “third”), since the tau lepton or tauon was the third charged lepton discovered.

sequence box

Ancient Greek Alphabet

<big>Τ τ </big>
Ancient Greek: ταῦ

croix en tau

Saint Anthony’s cross — see also Saint Anthony's cross

(mathematics, neologism) Chiefly written τ: an irrational and transcendental constant representing the ratio of the circumference of a Euclidean circle to its radius, equal to twice the value of pi (2π; approximately 6.2831853071).


public

Semantic loan from Russian па́блик (páblik) and Ukrainian па́блик (páblyk), па́блік (páblik, “public webpage on a blog or on social media”), both borrowed from English public: see etymology 1.

semantic loan

Russian publics report that the fighters of the Wagner group have already practically taken possession of Soledar, there are fights on the outskirts, where the Vushniks are trying to fight back in the salt mines.

2023 January 7, Alexander Grigoryev, “Russian public: PMC "Wagner" fighters report that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are using unidentified chemical weapons in Artemovsk”, in Military Review:

Complex inductions are unconscious powerful components of influence. They include the following varieties:
[…] 4) Truisms. The term comes from the English word "true", which means "truth". Therefore, under truism it is accepted to understand banal truths, i.e. something that in principle does not require confirmation, but it is so banal and common knowledge that it is rather strange to base on it, but here again there is a "but". In our subconsciousness we perceive it as a certain axiom, and this axiom is interpreted by our subconsciousness itself. As an example, the phrase "In matters of war, Russia is Russia, and Ukraine is Ukraine" was repeatedly encountered in Russian publics. In principle, there is no sense in this phrase, because not a single fact is given. However, each of the readers interpreted it for himself, and putting the word "Russia" in the foreground makes a hint that Russia is stronger than Ukraine in military terms, but the phrase itself does not express such a meaning extra-linguistically.

2023 December, Iryna Rudia, Vaiva Zuzevičiūtė, Olena Gogorenko, Public Security and Public Order, number 34, Kaunas: Mykolas Romeris University, →DOI, pages 219 of 218–225:

(non-native speakers' English, neologism) An internet publication.


super

For quotations using this term, see Citations:super.

(neologism) Short for supernaturalist, especially as distinguished from bright.


cult

Derived from French culte, from Latin cultus (“care, adoration; cult”), from colō (“cultivate; protect”).

(neologism, music) Alternative form of kvlt.


fever

en-noun

fever (countable and uncountable, plural fevers)

From Middle English fever, fevere, from Old English fefer, fefor (“fever”) and Old French fievre (“fever”), from Latin febris (“a fever”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- (“to burn”). Replaced native Old English hriþ (“fever”). Compare also Saterland Frisian Fiewer, German Fieber, Danish feber, Swedish feber.

koors

state of excitement (of a person or people)

severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome

Foshay-Mollaret cat-scratch fever syndrome

On the way back to the mainland the boat passed over a fever of stingrays, and the sight of them through the glass was enough to colour everything else, and outstrip it.

2011, Julianne Schultz, editor, Griffith REVIEW 34: The Annual Fiction Edition:

They move like thoughts, like memory, like a Wes Anderson diorama of earthly delights: lionfish, an albacore, a fever of stingrays—and then like a wound, a sea turtle at eye level.

2020, Lindsay Illich, “sea turtle”, in rile & heave (everything reminds me of you): Poems:

She threw up her hands in excitement and the ball of water flew right into the pathway of the fever of stingrays.

2020, Sarah Elizabeth, Secrets of the Past: Ocean Academy Year 1:


firehose

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2015, Ismail Khalil, Erich Neuhold, A Min Tjoa, Li Da Xu, Ilsun You, Information and Communication Technology: Third IFIP TC 5/8 International Conference
The programmer must override the method on_data(), which processes each tweet that is taken from the firehose.

(Internet, neologism) Access to the social media data sold to the third parties, or such data stream.


hire

en-verb

hire (third-person singular simple present hires, present participle hiring, simple past and past participle hired)

hires (present singular third-person)
hiring (participle present)
hired (participle past)
hired (past)

From Middle English hiren, hyren, from Old English hȳrian (“to hire”), from the noun (see above). Compare West Frisian hiere (“to rent, lease”), Dutch huren (“to rent, lease”), Low German hüren (“to rent”), Danish hyre (“to hire”).
Eclipsed Middle English souden (“to hire, employ, enlist”), borrowed from Old French souder, soudre, souldre (“to take into employ, pay”); see English sold (“salary, military pay”).

noncog

They hired a milkshake.

(transitive) (neologism) (in the Jobs-to-be-Done Theory) To buy something in order for it to perform a function, to do a job


fib

(neologism) A kind of experimental poem where the number of syllables in each line is the next succeeding Fibonacci number.


nullification

en-noun

nullification (countable and uncountable, plural nullifications)

/ˌnʌlɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/

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(neologism) Surgical removal of genitals (and sometimes nipples) as a form of body modification; a person who has undergone this surgery is a nullo.


core

From -core, ultimately from Etymology 1.

non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger

Some of the most popular "cores" at the moment—according to the Wiki's "trending pages" list—are cottage and goblin and trauma and angel. If the last one sounds appealing, you can participate by eating more meringues and buying a pet dove.

2021 February 5, Kaitlyn Tiffany, “Cottagecore Was Just the Beginning”, in The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-02-05:

The rise of micro-cores coincides with the rise of hyper-specific internet aesthetics. There's even an Aesthetics Wiki that chronicles all the possible cores online, including, but not limited to, bubblegumbitchcore, cottagecore, and fairycore.

2022 July 27, Sarah Spellings, “Core Is the New Chic”, in Vogue, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-05-15:

It's more than okay to let a microtrend be just that. Naming it as a "core" turns the clothing into a social media movement, and more often than not, the title is an overcomplication for rather basic color choices or fabric selections.

2022 December 23, Dylan Kelly, “Can 2023 Be the Year of "Nothingcore"?”, in Hypebeast, archived from the original on 2023-06-01:

The aesthetic makes a convincing case for finding joy in fashion and experimenting with personal style rather than chasing every new 'core' that comes along. It encourages real excitement about getting creative with the clothes you already have in your wardrobe and therein lies the thrill of it.

2023 March 2, Sophie Lou Wilson, “Cluttercore: Why The 2010s Blogger Aesthetic Is Back In Style”, in Refinery29, archived from the original on 2023-07-06:

(neologism) An aesthetic ending in the suffix -core, such as cottagecore, normcore, etc.


Türkiye

Unadapted borrowing from Turkish Türkiye. First adopted in 2020 by the Turkish Exporters Assembly and then by the Turkish government in December 2021 to replace the exonyms of Turkey in other languages. In English, the change has been attributed to confusion with the noun senses of the homonym turkey. In June 2022, the United Nations accepted the country's request to change its official name there.

ubor

THE IRAQI ASYLUM SEEKERS AND TÜRKİYE

1992 January, The Iraqi Asylum Seekers and Türkiye (1988-1991), Ankara: Tanmak Publications, →ISBN, title page:

Türkiye is going to commemorate March 18th Çanakkale Victory and Martyrs’ Day and 105th anniversary of the Çanakkale Land Battles held at Gallipoli Peninsula in Çanakkale on March 18th.

2020 March, “March 18th to be commemorated together with Anzac descendants”, in The Turkish Perspective, number 80, Turkish Exporters Assembly, page 7:

The two Ministers welcomed the close relations between Türkiye and Hungary, and affirmed their determination to further develop them in line with our strategic partnership.

2021 December 21, “Participation of Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu in the 6th Meeting of the Foreign Ministers of Visegrad Group + Türkiye, 21 December 2021”, in Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Turkey):

This year, Somalia celebrated the 10th anniversary of its special relationship with Turkiye.

2021 December 24, “Why is 'Istanbul' a common female name in Somalia?”, in TRT World:

Dorce is one of the leading companies in emergency settlement field globally, he said, adding that the firm is trying to meet all the vital needs of more than 100,000 people in the modular prefabricated integrated living spaces in different regions of Turkiye.

2022 January 1, “'Modular, prefabricated construction sector to thrive in 2022'”, in Anadolu Agency, archived from the original on 2022-05-26:

Republic of Türkiye
Republic of Türkiye#English

(neologism, official, uncommon) A country located in eastern Thrace in southeastern Europe and Anatolia in southwestern Asia. Official name: Republic of Türkiye. Capital: Ankara


cancel

en-verb

cancel (third-person singular simple present cancels, present participle cancelling or (US) canceling, simple past and past participle cancelled or (US) canceled)

cancels (present singular third-person)
cancelling (participle present)
canceling (US participle present)
cancelled (participle past)
cancelled (past)
canceled (US participle past)
canceled (US past)

→ German: canceln

→ Gulf Arabic: كنسل (kansal)

→ Welsh: canslo

From Middle English cancellen, from Anglo-Norman canceler (“to cross out with lines”) (modern French chanceler (“to stagger, sway”)), from Latin cancellō (“to make resemble a lattice”), from cancellus (“a railing or lattice”), diminutive of cancer (“a lattice”).

der

kanzellieren (obsolete or translationese)

Bill Gates is canceled. Gwen Stefani and Erykah Badu are canceled. Despite his relatively strong play in the World Cup, Cristiano Ronaldo has been canceled. Taylor Swift is canceled and Common is canceled and, Wednesday, Antoni Porowski, a “Queer Eye” fan favorite was also canceled. Needless to say, Kanye West is canceled, too.

2018 June 28, Jonah Engel Bromwich, “Everyone Is Canceled”, in The New York Times:

We Spoke to Joan Cornellá, the Artist Who Really Should Have Been Cancelled By Now [title]

2019 May 17, Christopher Hooton, “We Spoke to Joan Cornellá, the Artist Who Really Should Have Been Cancelled By Now”, in VICE:

You may have never heard the term "cancel culture," but you certainly know some of the faces who have been canceled. Everyone from Cosby to Matt Lauer.

2020 February 5, Russell Haythorn, “An explanation of ‘cancel culture’ and why it's become such a popular phenomenon”, in The Denver Channel:

To attempt to cancel the founding generation is an attempt to cancel our own freedoms.

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

So this is my answer: If I am being canceled, I want my friends — and this includes not only my closest associates but any people who consider themselves friendly to me — to stand by, remain silent and do nothing. If you care about me, let them eat me alive.

2022 June 21, Agnes Callard, “If I Get Canceled, Let Them Eat Me Alive”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(transitive, neologism) To cease to provide financial or moral support to (someone deemed unacceptable); to disinvite. Compare cancel culture.


ratio

/ˈɹeɪ.ʃi.əʊ/

/ˈɹeɪ.ʃiˌoʊ/

Borrowed from Latin ratiō. Doublet of ration and reason.

L + ratio

"Ratio. YoungBoy is better." "What?" "Make better music. You fell off."

(neologism, Twitter) Indicates disagreement with a post the user disagrees with or dislikes.


baddie

Aside from all of the abstract aspects (things we cannot see), you do not have to be an Instagram model/baddie to be a bad bitch.

2020, Kenshi Hayabusa, The Road to Becoming a Bad Bitch: How I Overcame Low-Self Esteem and Negativity, Hayabusa Publishing, →ISBN, page 56:

All day long, she can immerse herself in the world of crop tops and contour and IG “baddies” that do not look like any Indian girl she knows.

2021, Priya-Alika Elias, Besharam: On Love and Other Bad Behaviors, Chicago: Chicago Review Press, →ISBN:

Miriam noted that Instagram had “Insta baddies,” who made names for themselves by posing “with scandalous clothes on and maybe they'll have a bunch of makeup on.”

2021, Shauna Pomerantz, Miriam Field, “A TikTok Assemblage: Girlhood, Radical Media Engagement, and Parent–Child Generativity”, in Fiona Blaikie, editor, Visual and Cultural Identity Constructs of Global Youth and Young Adults: Situated, Embodied and Performed Ways of Being, Engaging and Belonging, Abingdon, England: Routledge, →DOI, →ISBN:

On Instagram, baddies and models of every ethnicity rock fashion and beauty trends that Black women either created or popularized: cornrows, oversized door knocker earrings, long, intricately designed acrylic nails, artfully sculpted baby hairs.

2021, Zeba Blay, Carefree Black Girls: A Celebration of Black Women in Popular Culture, New York: St. Martin's Griffin, →ISBN:

(neologism, slang) An attractive, confident woman, especially one who is a social media influencer.


deplorable

/dɪˈplɔːɹəbl̩/

PIE word
 *de
The adjective is borrowed from French déplorable (“lamentable, regrettable”), or from its etymon Late Latin dēplōrābilis + English -able (suffix meaning ‘relevant to, suitable to’). Dēplōrābilis is derived from Latin dēplōrō (“to bemoan, complain about; to bewail, lament, deplore”) + -ābilis (suffix meaning ‘able or worthy to be’); while dēplōrō is from dē- (intensifying prefix) + plōrō (“to cry out; to complain; to lament, deplore”) (possibly from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₃(w)- (“to flow; to swim”)). By surface analysis, deplore + -able.
The noun is derived from the adjective. Sense 2 refers to a campaign speech by the American politician and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton (born 1947) during the 2016 United States presidential election calling half of the supporters of her Republican opponent Donald Trump (born 1946) a “basket of deplorables”.

der

He [Donald Trump] did not say who “the guys” were—but [John Maguire] Dowd knew he meant the Trump base, the crowds at his rallies, the Fox News watchers, the deplorables.

2018, Bob Woodward, Fear: Trump in the White House, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 355:

Trump's fate, [Steve] Bannon declared, rested with the deplorables, who had to be brought to the kind of fearful emotional pitch that would get them to the polls.

2019 June 4, Michael Wolff, “McCain, Woodward, Anonymous”, in Siege: Trump Under Fire, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN:

The self-image of the deplorables is that of the honest, hardworkin' people of the Christian American heartland and South who have been screwed by Washington, D.C., and the coastal elites since the dawn of time.

2020, Rick Wilson, Running against the Devil: A Plot to Save America from Trump—And Democrats from Themselves, New York, N.Y.: Crown Forum, Crown Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 265:

(specifically, US politics, derogatory, neologism) A supporter of Donald Trump.


panphobia

I would say that I’ve probably encountered more disbelief/disrespect/panphobia from the queer community than from my straight friends, which I think is really interesting.

2013, anonymous, quoted in Ayisigi Hale Gonel, "Pansexual Identification in Online Communities: Employing a Collaborative Queer Method to Study Pansexuality", Graduate Journal of Social Science, Volume 10, Issue 1 (2013), pages 51-52

Panphobia has arisen via accusations they're trying to 'one up' bisexuals, […]

2016 February 15, Zoe Godden, “What Is Pansexuality?”, in The Courier, Newcastle University, page 13:

Biphobia / panphobia is still very real and alive today. As a pansexual woman, my identity and experiences have been denied many times […]

2020, Hope, quoted in Queerfully and Wonderfully Made: A Guide for LGBTQ+ Christian Teens (ed. Leigh Finke), page 197

(neologism) Fear, dislike, or hatred of pansexual people and/or pansexuality.

panphobie

fear, dislike, or hatred of pansexual people


mierda

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Directly from Spanish mierda, from Latin merda. Doublet of merde.

(Canada, US, neologism, vulgar, in Spanish contexts) Shit.


QPR

(neologism) Initialism of queerplatonic relationship.


Latine

Borrowed from Spanish latine (“Latine; Latino or Latina”). Gender-neutral -e replaces the gendered endings/elements -a and -o.

-a-o-e

(gender-neutral, neologism) Someone of Latin American descent; a Latino or Latina.


Latine

(gender-neutral, neologism) Hispanic; Latino or Latina.


hu

head

hu (third-person singular, nominative case, reflexive huself)

Clipping of human, first offered for usage by Mikhail Epstein, professor of cultural theory at Emory University (in 2003).

Hu is fond of enigmas, of conundrums, of hieroglyphics; exhibiting in hus solutions of each and all a degree of acumen which appears to the ordinary apprehension preternatural.

2002 January 3, Bryan T. McMahon, quoting Sasha Newborn, “A terrible book”, in The Ponchatoula Times, page 7:

When the lecturer arrives, hu will be speaking on the topic of anonymity.

2003 October 14, Mikhail Epstein, “"Hu," from "human," as a gender-neutral pronoun”, in (Usenet), message-ID <f732cdb7.0310141153.6c715df8@posting.google.com>:

It's the vice-president's job to support the president and take hus place when hu is away.

2007 November 29, Mikhail Epstein, “hu”, in International Society for Universal Dialog, archived from the original on 2012-01-02:

Maybe, but if his/herstory's any guide, hu has hu work cut out for hu.

2008 March, Christoph Hitz, “Hu, Me?”, in Mother Jones, →ISSN:

(neologism) they (singular). Gender-neutral third-person singular subject pronoun, coordinate with gendered pronouns he and she.

One of his favorite metaphors for the historian, drawn from the "Preface" to Hegel's Philosophy of Right, likens hu to the owl of Minerva, whose flight at dusk provided the setting for mature reflection on the day that had passed.

2006, Perry Anderson with Glenn Burgess, edited by D. N. DeLuna, The Political Imagination in History: Essays Concerning J.G.A. Pocock, Owlworks, →ISBN, page 175:

(neologism) them (singular). Gender-neutral third-person singular object pronoun, coordinate with gendered pronouns him and her.

Now, however, the editorial writer has a new weapon in hu arsenal.

2006 October 1, “He said, she said, hu said”, in Los Angeles Times:

If hu doesn't do hu homework, I will fail hu.

2006 November 17, Rob Kyff, “Hu Joins Heesh As Neutral Pronoun”, in Hartford Courant, archived from the original on 2016-03-05:

(neologism) their (singular). Gender-neutral third-person singular possessive adjective, coordinate with his and her.


plagiarhythm

(slang, neologism) The act of taking illegitimately-obtained (typically downloaded) musical content and using it in new works.


sed

en-verb

sed (third-person singular simple present seds, present participle sedding, simple past and past participle sedded)

seds (present singular third-person)
sedding (participle present)
sedded (participle past)
sedded (past)

Can you sed out those trailing spaces, please?

(neologism, slang) To edit a file or stream of text using sed.


aro

en-adj

aro (comparative more aro, superlative most aro)

more aro (comparative)
most aro (superlative)

Clipping of aromantic. Coined on the Internet in the 2010s.

For ace and aro people, the possibilities for diverse relationships are endless, despite how pop culture often brands our identity as restrictive and confined.

2016, Laura Chan, "My sexual preference is nope", Dalhousie Gazette (Dalhousie University), 12 February - 18 February 2016, page 16

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

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

This provides a home base for people looking to learn more about ace and aro identities.

2018 November 29, Alexis Stark, “A-spectrum student experiences on MSU's campus”, in The State News, Michigan State University, page 5:

(slang, neologism) Aromantic (not experiencing romantic attraction).


aro

While aces and aros can often be a misunderstood demographic in the queer community and outside of it, information about our identities is making its way into more conversations.

Now most of my social circle is made up of other aces and aros.

2018 October 19, Isabel Nathan, “Asexuals, you are not alone”, in Washington Blade, page 20:

Building off from this calling card, aros have a more obscure variation of this where they don white rings.

2019 October 24, Chelaine Kirsh, “Let's talk about aces, baby”, in The Sheaf, University of Saskatchewan, page 11:

(slang, neologism) A person who is aromantic.


goon

en-verb

goon (third-person singular simple present goons, present participle gooning, simple past and past participle gooned)

goons (present singular third-person)
gooning (participle present)
gooned (participle past)
gooned (past)

Alice the Goon
Peter Sellers
Popeye
Spike Milligan
The Goon Show

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeǵʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *-ōm
Proto-Indo-European *dʰéǵʰōm
Proto-Indo-European *-ō
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰmṓ
Proto-Germanic *gumô
Proto-West Germanic *gumō
Old English guma
Middle English gone?
English gooney
English goon
Shortened from gooney, from obsolete gony (“simpleton”), used circa 1580, of unknown origin. Perhaps a familiar term derived from Middle English gone, a variant of gome (“man, person”). Gony was applied by sailors to the albatross and similar big, clumsy birds (circa 1839). The term goon first carried the meaning "stupid person" (circa 1921). Compare Scots goni, guni (“a bogey, bugbear, hobgoblin”), dialectal Swedish gonnar (“elves, goblins”, plural).
* Sense 1 ("hired thug"; circa 1938) is largely influenced by the comic strip character Alice the Goon from the Popeye series.
* Sense 2 ("fool") was reinforced by the popular radio program, The Goon Show, starring Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers.
* Sense 4 ("guard") was influenced by both sense 1 and sense 2, though not by The Goon Show reference, which arose about 10 years after WWII.

unk

unknown

cog

Owen Jenney, Ms. Hamburger's son, got gooned, though he said his goons turned out to be "really nice guys, actually." He is 19 now, a freshman in college, and he remembers arriving in the wilderness frightened and confused, angrily convinced that sending him across the country to Oregon was "way out of proportion" to the situation.

2016 October 20, Laura Collins-Hughes, “Therapy Becomes Theater in 'Wilderness'”, in New York Times:

Some described being "gooned" in the middle of the night by strongmen hired by their family to forcibly transport them to camp.

2022 November 14, Nicolle Okoren, “The wilderness 'therapy' that teens say feels like abuse: 'You are on guard at all times'”, in The Guardian:

He was soon bungled out of the Patterson family’s California home and into a taxi on the way to the airport. He was being "gooned" - forcibly transported to a place aimed at correcting naughty children's behaviour.

2022 October 9, Rozina Sabur, “Troubled US teenagers 'snatched' at their parents' request”, in The Telegraph:

(neologism) To legally kidnap a child and forcibly transport them to a boot camp, boarding school, wilderness therapy, or a similar rehabilitation facility.


aprium

A three-quarter apricot is an aprium, which is very apricotlike in tree type and fruit. Plumcots are extremely flavorful fruits that tend to bear poorly for the first few years.

2007, The home orchard: growing your own deciduous fruit and nut trees (ISBN-10: 1-879906-72-4), page 33

For an excellent plain Aprium jam, you may omit the almonds.

2010, Rachel Saunders, Sara Remington, The Blue Chair Jam Cookbook, page 140:

When the puppet is finished, we wander through the farmer's market and stop at the local foods booth, where our friend Aaron lets us sample farm-direct apriums. Amy spots a bevy of belly dancers and says she wants to watch.

2010, Michael Perry, Coop: A Family, a Farm, and the Pursuit of One Good Egg, page 216:

(neologism) A plum-apricot cross, with characteristics of both fruits.


nouse

Our noses are no longer just for smelling things, but can be used for moving things too in operating a nouse, a device which has the same pointing function as a computer mouse but is controlled by movements of the nose.

2007, Kerry Maxwell, Brave New Words: A Language Lover's Guide to the 21st Century, page 128:

(computing, neologism) A form of computer mouse operated with the nose.


technosexual

From techno- + -sexual. First attested (as techno-sexual) in the 18 May 1970 edition of New York Magazine. Not attested again until the late 1990s, as technosexual.

Metrosexuals have opened the door to close kin such as technosexuals (basically, metrosexuals who like gadgets).

2006, Business Venezuela, issues 275-279 (Venezuelan-American Chamber of Commerce)

But fast forward to today and it seems Mr. Joe has become a full-blown technosexual icon […]

2007 May 9, Samantha Brett, Sydney Morning Herald, "Ask Sam TV Ep 10 - What women want next: the technosexual?" https://web.archive.org/web/20120402204111/http://blogs.smh.com.au/lifestyle/asksam/archives/2007/05/sam_and_the_tv_ep_10_what_wome.html

The technosexual fucks the network (this is not rape, for the network is receptive by design), ejaculating signs, creating a form of pornography aligned with his or her desire (this is not always an act of conscious exhibitionism); […]

2010, Eric Freedman, Transient Images: Personal Media in Public Frameworks, page 166:

(neologism) A person, especially a male metrosexual, who expresses himself or herself (including in terms of sexuality) through technological devices.


-x

From the use of x as a neutral or nonspecific placeholder.

(neologism) Used to replace a gendered suffix, such as in alumnx, Chicanx, Latinx.


swift boat

en-verb

swift boat (third-person singular simple present swift boats, present participle swift boating, simple past and past participle swift boated)

swift boats (present singular third-person)
swift boating (participle present)
swift boated (participle past)
swift boated (past)

John Kerry
Swift Boat Veterans for Truth

From a 2004 campaign by political group Swift Boat Veterans for Truth to challenge the legitimacy of each combat medal awarded by the U.S. Navy to presidential candidate John Kerry, and the disposition of his discharge.

“There is simply the desire to paint an entire religion as the enemy,” he said. Referring to Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the founder of the proposed Muslim center near ground zero, “What they did to Imam Feisal was highly strategic. The signal was, we can Swift Boat your most moderate leaders.”

2010 September 6, Laurie Goodstein, “American Muslims Ask, Will We Ever Belong?”, in New York Times:

Swift-boating is the new term used to describe a dirty campaign that tries to paint a war hero as unpatriotic.

2007, Lee Iacocca, Where have all the leaders gone?:

Swift-boating's essence is a particular kind of dishonesty, or rather a particular combination of shadowy dishonesties. It usually involves a complex web of facts, many of which may even be true.

2008, Michael Kinsley, “To Swift-Boat or Not”, in Time:

(US, neologism, derogatory, transitive) to put forth sensational negative stories about a political figure as part of a smear campaign against them, especially regarding their military record


boi

For example, “queer” would include self-identified lesbians and gays who also have sex with the “opposite sex,” sexual practices and relationships that include kink, s/m, polyamory, and pansexuality, gender play and fuck including femmes and those feminine of center, butches and those masculine of center, queens, femboys, gurls, bois, sissies, tomboys, crossdressers, drag queens and kings, and genderfluid people.

2016, Cindy I-Fen Cheng, The Routledge Handbook of Asian American Studies:


involution

en-noun

involution (countable and uncountable, plural involutions)

(neologism) A state of increased competition for limited resources, requiring great effort to stay ahead.

內卷

a state of increased competition for limited resources, requiring great effort to stay ahead


deactivate

en-verb

deactivate (third-person singular simple present deactivates, present participle deactivating, simple past and past participle deactivated)

deactivates (present singular third-person)
deactivating (participle present)
deactivated (participle past)
deactivated (past)

(Internet, euphemistic, neologism) to commit suicide


exopolitics

Constructed from Ancient Greek: exo- (“outside; extrasolar”) + politics.

McGill University -- Kirk's Alma Mater and home of the "Shatner" building, now offers, through its Political Science program, a graduate Exopolitics program.

1996 May 31, “Coyote” from lair.net, “McGill University offers: Exopolitics Program!!!”, in alt.startrek.tos.trekmuse (Usenet):

1999 April, Paris Arnopoulos, Exopolitics: Polis - Ethnos - Cosmos, Classical Theories and Praxis of Foreign Affairs, Nova Science

2003 January, Michael E. Salla, Ph.D., “The Need for Exopolitics: Implications for Policy Makers and Global Peace”, as quoted by John H. Brand, America Speaks Out: Collected Essays from Dissident Writers (2004 March), page 275, Dandelion Books
Exopolitics provides an opportunity for understanding how humanity can better share and manage the resources of this planet with other species, both terrestrial and extraterrestrial

In the Exopolitics model, life-bearing planets such as Earth are members of a collective Universe whole that operates under universal law.

2005 April, Alfred Lambremont Webre, Exopolitics: Politics, Government and Law in the Universe, Universbooks, page 5:

(neologism) The art or science of government as concerned with creating or influencing policy toward extraterrestrial phenomena and extraterrestrial beings.

(neologism) The art or science of government as concerned with creating or influencing policy towards beings and phenomena from other universes and dimensions.

(neologism) The relationship of terrestrial politicians to any future human colonies off the Earth, e.g. on the Moon, other planets, deep space and other star systems.


tomophobia

Tomophobia is the fear of surgical procedures or medical intervention.

2020 May 15, “What is tomophobia?”, in Tomophobia: When the Fear of Surgery and Other Medical Procedures Becomes a Phobia:

If you have tomophobia, it might be hard to get to the doctor at all; it’s the fear of surgical procedures and medical interventions.

2020 December 29, “Tomophobia: fear of medical procedures”, in Five common medical phobias:

Tomophobia refers to fear or anxiety caused by forthcoming surgical procedures and/or medical interventions.

2009 November 18, “Introduction”, in Tomophobia, the phobic fear caused by an invasive medical procedure - an emerging anxiety disorder: a case report:

Tomophobia is the fear or anxiety caused by forthcoming surgical procedures and/or medical interventions.

2021 February 16, Tomophobia - the fear that isn’t:

“Uncle, tomophobia is in your mind. Doctor is your friend. Trust them and let them give you anesthesia and after that you won't even feel a thing. And then Karan bhaiya will be present there too. How many people can boast of having a relative with them in the operation theater? You will be perfectly fine,” Rishabh said, like 50th time in the last hour that he was sitting in Raizada Mansion, but boy’s energy level refused to go down.

2015 March 22, Anamika G. K., Making Khushi Mine, volume 2, Indic Publication, Incorporated, →ISBN, page 236, →ISBN:

He wasn't keen on spiders and snakes, but his major one, the one that had always haunted and taunted him is referred to medically as tomophobia; the fear of surgical operations.

2015 February 11, Michael Foxx, Spiteful Jack 2: Vengeance, Paragon Publishing, →ISBN, page 111, →ISBN:

Don't you mean tomophobia? I mean, why use magic when there's a perfectly good scalpel at hand? :)

2003, Spuddie, “You read it first here”, in alt.penpals.forty-plus-yrs (Usenet):

(neologism, rare) An unusual fear of surgeries or medical procedures involving cutting.


vonu

Coined in the 1960s by the Association of the Free Isles libertarian organisation.

The legendary Rayo was a vonu pioneer. His writings are well worth reading for every libertarian and freedom seeker.

1986, Stewart Brand, editor, The Essential Whole Earth Catalog: Access to Tools and Ideas, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 143:

This is one of the best places to read about vonu, an idea that had a vogue in underground circles in the seventies.

1992, Mike Gunderloy, Cari Goldberg Janice, The World of Zines: A Guide to the Independent Magazine Revolution, Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 78:

In any case, the unorthodox approach taken by proponents of the "vonu" lifestyle would seem to indicate that the limited "sovereignty" it seeks to create is a primary goal of the association and that it is not particularly concerned with legitimacy in a traditional sense.

2009, Bennie Lee Ferguson, What is a Nation: The Micronationalist Challenge to Traditional Concepts of the Nation-state (Thesis), Wichita State University, page 174:

(neologism) The act of covertly residing in a secluded area (off the grid) and refraining from interaction with authorities, such as the government.


MGTOW

This is my command - to spread this Declaration to all MGTOW and never surrender it to outsiders for they have no knowledge or wisdom in living well and free forever.

2007 July 27, MCP [username], “Bachelor Declaration”, in soc.men (Usenet):

The MGTOW (Men Going Their Own Way) movement began as a way for desperate men to avoid exploitation by women.

2012 November 11, BetterOffSingle [username], “New Video: Why MGTOW is the new PUA!”, in alt.seduction.fast (Usenet):

Is Zed the Zenpriest still around, or has Mr. Elam permanently retired that persona in favor of its MGTOW philosophy of copping out from the real world?

2013 April 23, Revelations [username], “Re: The Victory (Over Semiramis) Is the Lord's”, in soc.men (Usenet):

... who gets a little too addicted to the kindred "broship" he gets from MGTOW blogs and subreddits. If you haven't already guessed, the manosphere does have a few female ecelebrities on board, some of whom exhibit confounding behavior, ...

2018, Eric W. Saeger, Russian Nazi Troll Bots!: The Busy Person’s Guide to How Trump’s Trolls Won the Internet, What’s Ahead, and What You Can Do, Metro Clarion Media, →ISBN:

Men Going Their Own Way
w:Men Going Their Own Way

(neologism, sometimes used attributively) Acronym of Men Going Their Own Way. (an anti-feminist movement)


fae

head

fae (oblique fae, possessive adjective faer, possessive pronoun faers, reflexive faerself)

fae (oblique)
faer (adjective possessive)
faers (possessive pronoun without-noun)
faerself (reflexive)

Vandikas' parents, for example, haven't yet fully embraced the concept. Faer mother once asked faer to help her understand how fae would like her to talk about faer. Fae was encouraged, but faer mother's use of the pronouns didn't last – maybe, fae said, because it was such a foreign concept to the older generation, "so I just said to myself, she's my mom, I'll deal with it."

2016 September 22, Kim Zarzour, “Language Matters”, in Parkdale Villager, Parkdale, Toronto, ON, page 15:

Fae had decked faerself in a modest amount of cheap jewelry, faer makeup inexpertly applied.

2022, Novae Caelum, The Truthspoken Heir: The Stars and Green Magics - Season One, unnumbered page:

Soul describes and shares part of the "I AM" poem which fae wrote for faer college application.

2022, Sherry Paris, You Can Make a Difference!: A Creative Workbook and Journal for Young Activists, page 24:

(rare, nonstandard, neologism) A gender-neutral third-person singular subject pronoun, equivalent to singular they, and coordinate with gendered pronouns he and she.


digital divide

As schools were closed, the digital divide meant that more affluent families with computers, iPads and good internet connections had a very different home educational (and informational, social and entertainment) situation than families without these amenities.

2020 April 17, Rebecca Solnit, “Coronavirus does discriminate, because that’s what humans do”, in The Guardian:

information technology
information technology

(information technology, sociology, neologism) The gap between those with regular, effective access to digital technologies (and the computer literacy to use them) and those without it.


orbiting

(slang, neologism, Internet, social media) The act or practice of ceasing communication with another person, but continuing to follow them or interact with them on social media.


champing

Blend of church + camping; a concept promoted by The Churches Conservation Trust, a British charity that protects historic churches. Registered in the UK as a trademark in 2015.

(neologism) The practice of camping overnight in historic churches as a novelty or part of a holiday.


gammon

en-noun

gammon (countable and uncountable, plural gammons)

Gained popularity in 2017 (in the phrase "Great Wall of Gammon", likening the referents' rosy complexions to gammon (“ham, bacon”)), although the metaphor was in use earlier: the BBC points to a 2016 use of "gammon face". Not related to the "gammon tendency" in Dickens' Nicholas Nickleby, where the word means "nonsense".

(neologism, derogatory, UK) A middle-aged or older right-wing, reactionary white man, or such men collectively.


defusion

defusion (countable and uncountable, plural defusions)

[…] acceptance involves deliteralization: the defusion of the derived relations and functions of events from the direct functions of these events.

1994, Steven C. Hayes, Content, context, and the types of psychological acceptance, Context Press, →ISBN, page 31:

(psychology, neologism) The separation of an emotion or behavior-provoking verbal stimulus from the unwanted emotional or behavioral response as part of a therapeutic process. A neologism meant to indicate the reversal of thought-emotion-action fusion.


peaty

en-adj

peaty (comparative peatier, superlative peatiest)

peatier (comparative)
peatiest (superlative)

From peat + -y.
Slang sense attested circa late 2010s at earliest, often apparently mildly tongue-in-cheek.

(neologism, Internet slang, sometimes humorous) Related to the dietary advice, research and data of Dr. Ray Peat (especially foods with high natural sugar content and lack of refined seed oils, or activities and habits claimed to boost metabolism, lifespan, inter alia).


neo-McCarthyism

political policies or ideology seen as a resurgence or continuation of McCarthyism after its heyday in the 1950s


propheteering

Blend of prophet + profiteering, as a pun.

Acting as a prophet in order to obtain money; making profit from prophecy.


Friedman unit

From Thomas Friedman's repeated use of the phrase "the next six months" as the time period when the outcome of the Iraq war will be resolved.

(informal, humorous, neologism) A period of six months


cushioning

en-noun

cushioning (countable and uncountable, plural cushionings)

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(slang, neologism, social media) The act or practice of someone entertaining other potential romantic options while the person is in a committed relationship.


colonizer

Don't scare me like that, colonizer!

2018 January 29, Ryan Coogler, Joe Robert Cole, Black Panther, spoken by Shuri (Letitia Wright):

"Howard University is supposed to be a safe space for black people and we don't need you colonizers infiltrating it," said Charlemagne, radio personality and the co-host of The Breakfast Club.

2019 April 25, Dream McClinton, “Dog walkers at Howard University infringe on 'black Mecca', students say”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 2021-11-06:

"Disgusted isn't even close to a word for it," they wrote. "How?? how is this okay?? she was a REAL LITTLE GIRL — to do this her, to us, over and over again… i am just at a loss. disgusting. does she not deserve rest? reclamation? honor? you colonizers make me vom," she wrote.

2022 March 9, Samantha Ibrahim, “Marvel switching 'King Conan' character after indigenous community backlash”, in New York Post, archived from the original on 2022-03-15:

Jokes and memes about colonizers' bland-ass food resonate, and not because of their originality or comedic genius; implicit in those quips is a declaration of allegiance with people whose ancestral lands were once plundered by colonial powers for spices and other riches.

2022 August 23, Jenny G. Zhang, “What We Talk About When We Talk About "White People Food"”, in Bon Appétit, archived from the original on 2022-12-14:

(US, Canada, slang, derogatory, neologism) A white person.


breadcrumbing

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(neologism, Internet, social media) The act or practice of pretending to be interested in pursuing or developing a sincere relationship with other users, while actually having no such interest.


bratty

en-adj

bratty (comparative brattier or more bratty, superlative brattiest or most bratty)

brattier (comparative)
more bratty (comparative)
brattiest (superlative)
most bratty (superlative)

Critics are increasingly examining their prejudice towards media that has been derided for its femininity, girlishness and brattiness – perhaps most notably, Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette, a film that is now praised for the bratty qualities it was derided for in 2006. Indeed, online music magazine Pitchfork "rescored" Charli's EP Vroom Vroom from a 4.5 upon its release in 2016 to a 7.8 in 2021.

2024 June 26, Lillian Hingley, “Brat by Charli XCX is a work of contemporary imagist poetry – and a reclamation of 'bratty' women's art”, in The Conversation, archived from the original on 2024-07-25:

I'm revisiting all my favorite Y2K trends, including slogan tees, trucker hats, wedge flip-flops, and barbed wire tramp stamps. Diesel and Miaou are two brands that feel particularly bratty to me, and I'm dreaming about this strawberry latex halter specifically.

2024 July 25, Meg Donohue, Dale Chong, “Same Same But Different: We're Feeling Bratty This Summer”, in Elle, archived from the original on 2024-08-27:

Tennis champion Naomi Osaka is back in the U.S. Open for the first time in two years, and she’s off to a spectacular start. Not only did she win her first-round match against No. 10 seed Jelena Ostapenko early on Thursday, but she stepped onto the court into one of the best (and brattiest) outfits we’ve seen in the past few years.

2024 August 27, Brooke LaMantia, “Naomi Osaka Is Having a Brat U.S. Open”, in The Cut, archived from the original on 2024-08-28:

(neologism) Characterstic of brat (the qualities possessed by a confident and assertive woman).


compersion

/kəmˈpɜːʒən/

Coined by Kerista Community in the 1970s, probably following the model of dispersion. Less likely a derivation from the root of the Latin verb partior (“to divide, to share”) + prefix com- (“with”).
Another hypothesis that it may be derived from French compère (“partner”) + -sion, based on an earlier use of the French compérage to denote the practice of brothers-in-law sharing wives observed among Tupi people of the Brazilian Amazon, is less plausible: not only does it not correspond to any known morphological process, but a website run by former members of the community clearly states that neither the word compérage nor Lévi-Strauss's book were known to them at the time.

coin

A major component of jealousy, for many people, is the suspicion or resentment of the rival. In Kerista, on the other hand, the relationship that every man had with the other men and that every woman had with the other women elicited what they called “compersion” rather than jealousy.

1998, Ayala Malach Pines, Romantic Jealousy: Causes, Symptoms, Cures, Routledge, →ISBN, page 140:

There is nothing either magical or wrong with sex with more than one person at the same time. […] The beautiful thing about this dynamic is that it offers opportunities for compersion (the opposite of jealousy) and is symbolic of the expansiveness and unity we can feel in our love for each other.

2003, Mystic Life, Spiritual Polyamory, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 46:

I think this is the easiest way to teach compersion, to immerse oneself in the unconditional approval of another person’s pleasure.
We usually seek compersion in the context of our lover being sexual with another person, which can be very beautiful, but equally scary.
Compersion is the coveted secret elixer of emotions because it promises to turn the pain of jealousy into an ecstatic calm, or ecstatic release.

2005, Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio, editor, Plural Loves, Haworth Press, →ISBN, page 174:

Some polyamorous people experience compersion, which means feeling joy that one’s partner is sharing closeness with another person (Keener, 2004; Polyamory Society, 1997). Keener’s (2004) study participants noted an absence of worry as to whether their partners might be cheating […]

2006, Ronald C. Fox, Ph.D. (editor), Affirmative Psychotherapy with Bisexual Women and Bisexual Men, Haworth Press, page 140

(neologism) Vicarious joy associated with seeing one's partner have a joyful romantic or sexual relation with another.

myötäilo

joy about partner's relation with another


patterning

en-noun

patterning (countable and uncountable, plural patternings)

From pattern + -ing.
The “filmed assault” sense dates from the 2020s. Its origin is uncertain but may relate to social patterning (“a pattern of social behavior”). Compare Multicultural London English pattern up (“to bring (someone) into line; to inflict violence (upon someone)”).

Coordinate term: happy slapping

It was a video posted on Snapchat showing an attack called "patterning" that was the catalyst in a chain of events that led to Olly losing his life.
Thames Valley Police explained that patterning is the humiliation of a young person which is filmed or photographed and then shared on social media. It's forwarded on and on, shared across different social media sites, multiplying the embarrassment for the victim.

2022 June 20, Marianna Spring, A social media murder: Olly's story:

Filming such violence and humiliation, and then sharing it online, has become known by the term "patterning" - with the aim of embarrassing victims even further by forwarding the videos across the web.

2022 September 1, Ed Thomas, Child assaults: ‘If the police won’t do their job, we’ll do it for them’:

‘Patterning’ is an extension of bullying by individual bullies and / or gangs seeking power and attention who, by using social media, are able to publicly ridicule victims beyond the confines of the playground to national and international audiences. Patterning is seen as ‘sport’, an amusement for the perpetrators without any consideration of the impact sharing such footage has on their victims.

2023 May 23, Sara Spinks, “The Dangerous Craze of ‘Patterning’”, in SSS Learning:

(UK, slang, neologism, uncountable) An assault or act of humiliation that is deliberately filmed to be shared on social media.


litrebike

From litre + bike or blend of litre + motorbike.

(slang, neologism) A motorcycle with an engine displacement of 1000cc or greater.


slugging

slugging (countable and uncountable, plural sluggings)

(slang, neologism, cosmetics) The practice of smothering one's face with vaseline in order to moisturize it.


bioconformatics

(neologism, biosciences) The study and engineering of protein folding, especially alternatively folded forms (or conformers).


locavore

From loca(l) + -vore. Coined by Jen Maiser, Jessica Prentice, Sage Van Wing, and DeDe Sampson, co-founders of the “Locavores” web site in 2005.

So I do think that there is a wonderful opportunity for us to find a carbon-neutral energy source where it is not only a beneficial model environmentally but we are sort of becoming forest and energy locavores, if you will, and so that is what we are trying to establish through this idea of a community wood energy program where we would be using, you know, town forests to actually supply town energy needs so that people can actually see the costs and the impacts of where their energy is coming from.

2007 March 12, U.S. Government Printing Office, quoting James Daley, 2007 Farm Bill Opportunities for Vermont and the Northeast: Hearing before the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, United States Senate, One Hundred Tenth Congress, First Session, →ISBN, Statement of James Daley, Campaign Director, Northern Forest Alliance, Stowe, Vermont, page 33:

They are a locavore’s (someone who eats food produced within 100 miles of he lives) paradise.

2007, Brenda Berstler, Home Plate: The Culinary Road Trip of Cooperstown: A Guidebook for the Discerning Visitor, Savor New York, →ISBN, page 243:

Become a Locavore
Try to eat foods grown close to your home, which helps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from transport as well as supporting your neighbors. […]

2007, Leslie Garrett, The Virtuous Consumer: Your Essential Shopping Guide for a Better, Kinder, Healthier World (and one our kids will thank us for!), New World Library, →ISBN, page 54:

Its mottled green skin conceals a creamy yellow pulp that tastes of banana and mango; locavore-minded chefs alchemize it into ice cream, beer, bread and tasting-menu fodder — that is, when it’s not simply eaten raw with a spoon.

2023 September 29, Molly Fitzpatrick, “He’s the Pawpaw King of Brooklyn. (What’s a Pawpaw?)”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(cooking, neologism) One who tries to eat only locally grown foods.


petro-

* From Latin petra (“stone, rock”), from Ancient Greek πέτρα (pétra, “stone, rock”).
* Clipping of petroleum.

der

(neologism) oil export, sometimes as a source of funding


secular progressivism

(neologism) An alleged movement in the United States with the ostensible goal of removing religion from the public sphere.


nullo

This public presentation of the mutilation of the penis is not obviously very different from the forms of disassembly of the penis engaged in by male body modifiers – particularly nullos and transgenders – on the Body Modification Ezine website.

2014, Sheila Jeffreys, Gender Hurts, page 70:

(neologism) A person who has their genitals (and sometimes nipples) surgically removed (nullification) as a form of body modification.


gwan

(neologism, rare) A hybrid between a goose and a swan, especially the offspring of a gander (male goose) and a pen (female swan).


hoster

Make sure your hoster provides fast FTP access to your files.

Microsoft sues Web hoster over spam

2004, Reuters news item at CNet News, 25 September 2004

(computing, Internet, neologism) A provider of online hosting, especially web hosting.


lolcat

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(Internet, neologism) An image macro of, usually, a kitten or a cat with a humorous caption.

lolcat

image macro of a kitten or cat with a humurous caption

(uncountable, Internet, neologism) The deliberately misspelled and grammatically quirky form of English associated with such images' captions.


live blog

They were covering the press conference on a live blog.

(Internet, neologism) A blog that gives up-to-date information about a progressing current event.

лайвбло́г

a blog which gives up-to-date information about a progressing current event


live blog

en-verb

live blog (third-person singular simple present live blogs, present participle live blogging, simple past and past participle live blogged)

live blogs (present singular third-person)
live blogging (participle present)
live blogged (participle past)
live blogged (past)

I am going to be live blogging the press conference and I will keep you updated on any big news.

(Internet, neologism) To keep track of a current event in real-time online using a blog or other website.


Scouserati

From a blend of Scouser (“person from Liverpool”) + literati (“well-educated people, intellectuals”).
Usage is noted in 2007, then gained acceptance by a supplement to the Liverpool Echo newspaper on 1 January 2008, the day Liverpool began its year as European Capital of Culture. The supplement listed 366 people as "The Scouserati - the 366 most influential Scousers on the planet".

blend

(UK, colloquial, neologism) Notable or influential people whose place of birth or residence is in the city of Liverpool or its surrounding region.


palooza

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From Lollapalooza, a music festival, from lallapalooza, or from other events ending in -a-palooza which were named based on those two words.

It was not a rumor, not merely news item, or talk, or fad. It became a palooza beyond even Johnnie Gold’s desires—a wonderment scattering far and wide out of the spacious mouth of the sky, billowing everywhere and expanding forever.

2002, Darin Strauss, The Real McCoy: A Novel, Dutton, →ISBN, page 97:

True, most of our competition did anything and everything to thwart every concert and promotion we were involved with over the summer months...especially Buzzard-Palooza (which was actually our turning point—when we began to attract our new audience).

2003, Mike Olszewski, Radio Daze: Stories from the Front in Cleveland's FM Air Wars, Kent State University Press, →ISBN, page 434:

That’s a palooza, in a nutshell: flexing your creative muscles to make your own fun. So have a go at one or all of these, and don’t say I didn’t warn you—once you get a taste of doing a palooza, you’ll go from wondering what you’re going to do all day to wondering where all the time went!

2005, John Lithgow, “Boredom Blasters”, “Rainy Day Fun Edition”, Running Press, page 5

Now, we’re gonna start you off this week with a special edition of Carl Kasell’s Countdown. We’re calling it “Super Tuesday Palooza”.

2008 February 9, Peter Sagal, “Wait, Wait...Don’t Tell Me!”, in National Public Radio:


spokesdog

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By analogy to spokeswoman, spokesperson, etc., formed with dog.

2008 January 19, Peter Sagal (host), Wait, Wait...Don’t Tell Me!, National Public Radio
The scientists were thrilled, but a spokesdog for the dog community said the program was inadequate.


spokescat

By analogy to spokesman, spokeswoman, spokesperson, etc., with cat.

Superstar Arthur was the spokescat for a large cat food manufacturer until the cat food company decided to have Arthur's teeth removed.

2005, Alexandra Powe Allred, Cats' Most Wanted: The Top 10 Book of Mysterious Mousers, Talented Tabbies ..., page 174:


queen of spades

en-noun

queen of spades (plural queens of spades)

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(slang, neologism) A non-black woman with a sexual preference for black men.


fatherfucker

1991, Keith Allan, Kate Burridge, Euphemism & dysphemism: language used as shield and weapon, page 134:

(neologism, literally, vulgar) One who engages in incestuous sex with their father.


snazztastic

en-adj

snazztastic (comparative more snazztastic, superlative most snazztastic)

more snazztastic (comparative)
most snazztastic (superlative)

"How are you feeling?" "Snazztastic!"

I like your snazztastic new hair cut!

Truthfully, I was kind of average until my life went from snooze to snazztastic in about sixty seconds.

(rare, informal, neologism) Exceptional; outstanding.


D-bag

Just get out of my life, you D-bag!

(neologism, slang, Canada, US) An idiot or jerk; a general-purpose moderate insult.


pluto

en-verb

pluto (third-person singular simple present plutos, present participle plutoing, simple past and past participle plutoed)

plutos (present singular third-person)
plutoing (participle present)
plutoed (participle past)
plutoed (past)

Originally coined in 2006 by the American Dialect Society, in reference to Pluto's demotion from planet status, defeating climate canary for Word of the Year.

2007 April 21, The Meerkat , OT:Catholic Church ditches Limbo, aus.tv, Usenet.
Limbo has been plutoed. No half way house any more. It's heaven or hell.

2007, Andrew Swift, The Daily Iowan - Opinion Column
Winter is dead. The break the university community has just returned from is ostensibly known as winter break. But those who stayed in the Iowa City area know the sad truth: The four seasons Midwesterners grew up with have been Plutoed.

2007, Richard Davis, Courier Press - Entertainment Column
I'm sure I looked really cool (or has that word been plutoed?) in my sneakers and old-fashioned Levis, next to jocks, Greek Life poster children, guys with Bluetooth headsets, and a young woman in ski boots and leotards that left little to the imagination.

2008 April 13, GET WISDOM! , GET WISDOM! Understanding, GET WISDOM!, Usenet.
As a result of...plutoing that class, I made room for another in-depth marketing class that will better serve me and you, my clients and readers.

(neologism) To demote or devalue something.


Rajneeshee

... terrorists who sought to incapacitate rather than kill a large number of people might use a non-lethal biological agent. In 1984, for example, the Rajneeshee cult in Oregon contaminated restaurant salad bars in the town of The Dalles with Salmonella typhimurium (food-poisoning) bacteria in a plot to sicken local residents and influence the outcome of a county election.

1999, Joshua Lederberg, Biological Weapons: Limiting the Threat, The MIT Press, →ISBN, page 292:

Although the U.S. government has expressed growing concern about potential biological terrorist attacks, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has documented only one successful incident of bioterrorism. In August and September 1984 a religious cult known as the Rajneeshees employed biological agents against the inhabitants of a small town in Oregon, sickening 751 people.

2000, Jonathan B. Tucker, Toxic Terror: Assessing Terrorist Use of Chemical and Biological Weapons, The MIT Press, →ISBN, page 115:

The single U.S. case involving the actual use of biological agents occurred in September 1984, when members of the Rajneeshee cult in Oregon poisoned salad bars with Salmonella typhimurium.

2001, Jessica Stern, The Ultimate Terrorists, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 67:

Terrorists have used bioweapons before. In 1984, the U.S.-based Rajneeshee cult used salmonella bacteria to poison citizens by spreading the bacteria via salad bars in restaurants in an Oregon town.

2002, Harvey W. Kushner, Encyclopedia of Terrorism, SAGE Publications, →ISBN, page 74:

The FBI had already had a brush with a cult group's hostile use of a pathogen. In 1984, the Oregon members of the Indian Rajneeshee cult covertly sickened 751 people by contaminating ten local salad bars and coffee stations with Salmonella typhimurium purchased from a US medical supply company.

2004, Jeanne Guillemin, Biological Weapons: From the Invention of State-Sponsored Programs to Contemporary Bioterrorism, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 158:

The first episode of bioterrorism in the United States occurred in 1984. The Rajneeshee cult was founded by an Indian guru named Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. Rajneesh was a master at manipulating people and was highly successful in attracting followers from the upper-middle classes as well as gaining vast amounts of money from donations and proceeds from sale of books and tapes.

2005, James R. Swearengen, Biodefense: Research Methodology and Animal Models, CRC, →ISBN, page 9:

A member of a countercultural sect, founded by Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, that combines elements of religion and Western philosophy


transpressionism

Blend of trans- + impressionism, coined by Guity Novin in the 1990s.

(neologism, art) A movement in art characterized by its emphasis on the role of observer in interpreting the artist's representation of collective memories of man which are manifested in myths and legends.


idiom blend

(rare neologism) A malaphor: an error in which two similar figures of speech are merged, producing a nonsensical result.


kitteh

Lolcat corruption of kitty, equivalent to kit + -eh.

You shud wership Ceiling Cat, teh God Kitteh ov Daniel.

2010, Martin Grondin, LOLcat Bible: In Teh Beginnin Ceiling Cat Maded Teh Skiez An Da Urfs N Stuffs, →ISBN, page 96:

Kittehs. ¶ Doggos. ¶ Domesticated danger noodles. ¶ The Internet belongs to your pets. Let's just admit that.

2020, Tee Morris, “The Part of Tens: Top Ten Ideas for Channel Topics”, in Discord for Dummies, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., →ISBN, page 249:

Now our social media feeds are full of heckin’ good doggos and puppers, cute kittehs and cattos.

2019 March 24, Linda Rodriguez McRobbie, “When bad pets happen to good people”, in Boston Sunday Globe, volume 295, number 83, page K4:

(Internet slang, neologism) A cat, chiefly in a lolcat-type picture.


giganto

en-adj

giganto (comparative more giganto, superlative most giganto)

more giganto (comparative)
most giganto (superlative)

it’s hard to order a small chicken salad at a fast-food restaurant if everyone else is getting the Giganto Cheeseburger Deal with a bushel of fries and a gallon of soda.

2004, Gretchen Becker, Prediabetes, What You Need to Know to Keep Diabetes Away, Marlowe & Company and →ISBN, page 112

It was a huge giganto embarrassment.

2006, Susan “Sue” Dunlap, A Single Eye, Carroll & Graf Publishers and →ISBN, page 94

Also, even with her giganto implants, Dani could get through a smaller opening than I.

2007, Susan Isaacs, Past Perfect, A Novel, Simon and Schuster and →ISBN, page 299

For some random reason, I think of the doctor at the Eye Guy holding those giganto clicky circles over my eyes when I needed new glasses.

2007, Susan R. S. K. Carlton, Lobsterland, Macmillan and →ISBN, page 76


shazam

en-verb

shazam (third-person singular simple present shazams, present participle shazamming, simple past and past participle shazammed)

shazams (present singular third-person)
shazamming (participle present)
shazammed (participle past)
shazammed (past)

Apparently coined by American comic book writer Bill Parker in February 1940, from the first letters of Solomon, Hercules, Atlas, Zeus, Achilles and Mercury.

(neologism, uncommon, transitive) To identify the artist or the name of a song using the Shazam application.


brokeback

From the title of Annie Proulx's 1997 short story "Brokeback Mountain"; popularised by the 2005 film of the same name.

I don't really think Frodo and Sam were gay, even if a couple of the scenes seemed a little brokeback to me.

You see, your words ain't worth no money, I ain't spoke back, bitch
All of you niggas hang together on some Brokeback shit

2023, “Talk'n That Shit!”, in Michael, performed by Killer Mike:

(slang, neologism) Homoerotic; homosexual, gay.

斷背

(slang) homoerotic — see also homoerotic


typonese

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(humorous, Internet, neologism) The writing of language with typographical errors, as though that were a language in its own right.


Obamanomics

Blend of Obama + economics, equivalent to Obama + -nomics. See Related terms below.

(US politics, economics, neologism) The economic policies of Barack Obama.


manscaping

From this perspective, manscaping with the motive for sexual appeal seems part of this ever-escalating effort of advanced capitalism to domesticate all dimensions of sexuality (and nature).

2010, Lisa Jean Moore, Mary Kosut, The Body Reader: Essential Social and Cultural Readings, →ISBN, page 297:

In addition to stacked-abs exercises, teeth whitening kits, and penile enhancement pharmaceuticals, manscaping is part of the ever-expanding list of tasks in the male body project.

2014, Lisa Jean Moore, Monica J. Casper, The Body: Social and Cultural Dissections, →ISBN:

I was also in charge of what I considered to be an important part of the dressing room etiquette: manscaping.

2016, Tie Domi, Shift Work, →ISBN, page 143:

Manscaping is one grooming technique often sought out by the metrosexual, young, urban men with disposable incomes who care deeply about their appearances.

2017, Erin Kenny, Elizabeth Gackstetter Nichols, Beauty around the World: A Cultural Encyclopedia, →ISBN, page 219:

Still, there is a certain taboo around manscaping. For the purposes of this article, I have spoken to men who get everything waxed, and men – one man, I love this man – who says he shaves his armpits so he doesn’t have to buy deodorant as often.

2024 August 29, Zoe Williams, “‘They handled me like a carcass!’: why are so many men now ‘manscaping’?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(neologism) The practice of, or results from, trimming or shaving a male's hair, typically other than the hair atop and behind his head. The term applies most frequently to facial hair, including that of the eyebrows, ears, and nostrils; somewhat frequently to shoulders and back; less frequently to buttocks and pubes; infrequently to arms and legs.


manscape

manscape (third-person singular simple present manscapes, present participle manscaping, simple past and past participle manscaped)

manscapes (present singular third-person)
manscaping (participle present)
manscaped (participle past)
manscaped (past)

Is it that hard to manscape? You know, get an electric razor, trim up your shrubbery, blow out your front yard a bit?

2007, Jen Lancaster, Bright Lights, Big Ass:

College News presents a working guide of the dos and don’ts of manscaping, taken from suggestions of college students themselves: Dos: […] / – Facial shaving/beard trimming / – […] – Controlling pubic hair / […] Embrace leg hair / Donts: – Excessive chest hair / – Long nose hairs / – Ear hair / – Adventurous shoulder and back hair / – Unibrows / – Wild beards […] / Follow these directions, and you’ll be making sure that the man in your life is properly manscaped.

2009 September 30, Sara DiRienzo, “The Art of Manscaping”, in College News:

Manscaping, otherwise known as the art of shaving, waxing and cleaning up the superfluous fur on a man […], is a must in this day and age.

2009 October 6, Molly Kissler, “How To: Manscape”, in State Press Magazine:

“I'm Jamie,” he said, reaching out to shake Ophelia's hand. “Nice to meet you. And I don't manscape. But Gabriel does.”

2012, Molly Harper, Nice Girls Don't Bite Their Neighbors, →ISBN:

Many tools can be used to “manscape” including a razor and shaving cream, cordless body trimmers, and even scissors.

2014, Mike Baldasarre, A Boy's Basic Guide to Puberty, →ISBN, page 15:

He manscapes, gets manicures, and I'm pretty sure he mansplains with the best of them, but when we're in the same room, the hairs on my arms rise.

2017, Sarina Bowen, Tanya Eby, Man Hands: Volume 1, →ISBN:

(neologism) To trim or shave a male's hair, typically other than the hair atop and behind his head. The term applies most frequently to facial hair, including that of the eyebrows, ears, and nostrils; somewhat frequently to shoulders and back; less frequently to buttocks and pubes; infrequently to arms and legs.


totalism

en-noun

totalism (countable and uncountable, plural totalisms)

To postmodernists, modernism gave the world science, reason, western civilization, Marxism, Freudianism, and other totalisms. Each of these totalisms tells a grand story that relates everything to everything else by using the system's universal principle as a theme.

2004, Personal Epistemology: The Psychology of Beliefs, →ISBN, page 220:

And ideologists pride themselves above all on what we might call their ‘totalism’. Georg Lukacs, for instance, regarded such totalism as the outstanding characteristic of Marxism: 'It is not the primacy of economic motives in historical explanation that constitutes the decisive difference between Marxism and bourgeois science, but the point of view of totality', writes Lukacs.

2011, Lewis S. Feuer, Ideology and the Ideologists, →ISBN, page 130:

(rare, countable) A philosophy, ideology or belief system that is total in its scope, one that covers everything.


doomer

From doom + -er. The more recent sense was popularized via a meme, “30 Year-Old Boomer”. The derivations of which are other words that end in -oomer, describing various personality types.

Doomers, meanwhile, are the nihilistic cousins of “Bloomers” and “Gloomers,” all three gradients of the same 20-something. Whereas Bloomers are well adjusted and Gloomers are depressed because they are not, Doomers have simply stopped trying. They are no longer pursuing friendships or relationships, and get no joy from anything because they know that the world is coming to an end.

2020 February 3, Kaitlyn Tiffany, “The Misogynistic Joke That Became a Goth-Meme Fairy Tale”, in The Atlantic:

Tim Joung, a 20-year-old student in New York, agrees with almost everything that so-called doomers believe: individual action makes little difference, and unscrupulous corporations are at fault for climate change.

2020 September 21, Alexandra Villarreal, “Meet the doomers: why some young US voters have given up hope on climate”, in The Guardian:

(neologism, sometimes capitalized) Someone who is apathetic or has a negative prospect towards the world.


transracial

For quotations using this term, see Citations:transracial.

(neologism, rare) Identifying as a member of a different race of people than the race that one was born into.


thalience

The concept was invented by Karl Schroeder in his novel Ventus (2000) and has been adopted by some members of the artificial intelligence community to describe the self-organizing properties of fine-grained distributed networks. The novel states that the word was deliberately chosen as an allusion to "silent Thalia", the muse of Nature. Entities are considered to exhibit thalience if they succeed in developing their own categories for understanding the world.

(neologism) The property, of an object, of knowing what and where it is, and being able to report that to every nearby object.


stargate

From star + gate. A science-fiction film of this title, Stargate, was released in 1994.

Find examples of stargates and wormholes in the ancient world […]

2000, David Hatcher Childress, Technology of the Gods:

Perhaps the first clear depiction of a stargate is to be found in Robert Heinlein's classic novel Tunnel in the Sky […]

2001, William R Alschuler, Howard Zimmerman, The Science of UFOs:

A stargate takes you to that star or constellation. […] The opening of a stargate requires the participation of the Archangel Michael […]

2002, Richard Leviton, The Galaxy on Earth: A Traveler's Guide to the Planet's Visionary Geography:

At some point it might be possible to devise a "stargate" such as depicted in the movies 2001: A Space Odyssey and Stargate […]

2003, Albert A Harrison, After Contact: The Human Response to Extraterrestrial Life:

With a stargate, travel is instantaneous. It is quite possible that the secret government either has a stargate or is trying to get one.

2004, Stephanie Relfe, The Mars Force Book 2:

(neologism, science fiction) A hypothetical device consisting of a traversable portal (typically a wormhole) that can send one to another location light years away nearly instantaneously.


Obamamania

Obamamania sweeps the nation as millions of voters find themselves deeply impressed by Obama's views, and the fact that he was on Oprah.

2007, Dave Barry, Dave Barry's History of the Millennium (So Far), G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, page 197:

(US politics, neologism) Fervent admiration of Barack Obama.


blatherstorm

2009, 6 March, The Guardian in TheSportBlog http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2009/mar/06/premierleague-tennis posted by Harry Pearson. "Good job Nadal doesn't play for Spurs".
Referees know the rules, but they don't know the game, is one of those phrases that keeps emerging from the blatherstorm that currently surrounds sport.

(neologism) A spate of commentary in various media about a current polemic topic in the news.


retrotort

Blend of retro- + retort, coined by Bernard Cooper.

(neologism) A witty remark that one thinks of when it is too late.


Web 3.0

Web 3.0 does not yet exist, but it shines forth in online cooperation. […] Web 3.0 technologies like wikis are not only communicative, but also cooperative.

2007, Christian Fuchs, Internet and Society: Social Theory in the Information Age, Routledge, →ISBN, page 126:

Stepping back to the Web topics, what are your thoughts on Web 3.0, the Semantic Web?

2008, Bradley L. Jones, Web 2.0 Heroes: Interviews with 20 Web 2.0 Influencers, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:

Even though Web 2.0 has not been fully implemented, there are talks of Web 3.0 and what the future may hold. Many predict it will be the Semantic Web where users will be able to request information rather than have to search for it.

2008, P. Candace Deans, Social Software and Web 2.0 Technology Trends, →ISBN, page 55:

Some people already think about what is happening with the Web 3.0, the semantic web, the Internet of things, for instance.

2009, Sigrid Baringhorst, Political Campaigning on the Web:

Web 3.0 refers to the third stage in the evolution of the Web that now has significant extension in the types of data, people, and interactions, along with heterogeneity and scale.

2013, Amit Sheth, Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Semantics Empowered Web 3.0 […] , Morgan & Claypool Publishers, →ISBN, page 5:

As the year unfolds, pay attention to the people who are talking about a new, decentralised internet – AKA Web 3.0 – and the possibility of data being returned to the control of the people who generate it.

2019 January 7, John Harris, “Together we can thwart the big-tech data grab. Here’s how”, in The Guardian:

Although not the Semantic Web envisioned by Berners-Lee, Web 3.0 is in many ways a return to his original web, where “no permission is needed from a central authority to post anything …^([sic]) there is no central controlling node, and so no single point of failure …^([sic]) and no “kill switch”!

2020 January 6, Charles Silver, “Council Post: What Is Web 3.0?”, in Forbes, retrieved 2021-04-22:

(Internet, neologism) The predicted third generation of the World Wide Web, usually conjectured to include semantic tagging of content and decentralized protocols.


YouTube

/ˈjʉː.tʃʉːb/

Website name, from a compound of you + tube (“North American colloquial term for television”), implying that users (you) may submit their own television (tube) content.

com+

None of this is to suggest that academic libraries should turn their websites into a YouTube or Facebook in which our user communities would create all the content,[…]

2007, Steven J. Bell, John D. Shank, Academic librarianship by design:

There is all kinds of stuff that people post there- some of it is entertaining, some is actually useful as a template for studying or for business...it is sort of like a YouTube for documents.

(neologism) Any website that allows users to upload content, particularly YouTube itself.

在線視頻網站

any website that allows users to upload content

Then it's a YouTube of some kid trying to play "Radar Love" on a cheap guitar using only his feet,[…]

2007, Andy Ihnatko, iPhone Fully Loaded:

Not too long ago, there was a YouTube of you two brawling. How did the musical collaboration happen?

2009 March, Valerie McQueen, “Bring me the Horizon”, in Revolver:

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


promnesia

Coined by philologist and psychical researcher Frederic W. H. Myers (1843-1901) from Ancient Greek προ- (pro-, “pre-, before”) + μνήμη (mnḗmē, “memory”) + -ία (-ía) on the model of amnesia, from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to think, mind”). Compare Greek προμνησία (promnisía).

der

(psychology, psychiatry, neologism) Déjà vu, a sense of having experienced some event before due to an imagined memory.


funemployed

Maybe you’re funemployed and you can go anytime?

2009 May 15, Bryce Longton, “Not another travel deal site”, in BlackBook, archived from the original on 2016-07-16:

Buoyed by severance, savings, unemployment checks or their parents, the funemployed do not spend their days poring over job listings.

2009 June 4, Kimi Yoshino, “For the ‘funemployed,’ unemployment is welcome”, in Los Angeles Times, archived from the original on 2016-05-07:

And the so-called millennial generation's "weirdly upbeat" word "speaks volumes" about how this well-fed, well-organized age group is dealing with the worst downturn since the 1930s—the "young and funemployed" are taking the time to relax and "find themselves," but many also volunteer or self-educate.

2009 June 5, “The recession and ‘funemployment’”, in The Week, archived from the original on 2016-07-16:

A world without rigid temporal boundaries gave some a rare chance to relax and regroup after many years of busyness. Some took advantage of this freedom by becoming, as one respondent cleverly put it, “funemployed.”

2016, Benjamin H. Snyder, The Disrupted Workplace […] , Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 144:

Instead of being employed and lamenting over the loss of employment, money, and opportunity, we're now expected to be “funemployed”!

2022, Whitney Goodman, Toxic Positivity […] , Penguin, →ISBN, page 52:

(neologism) In a state of enjoyable unemployment.


Google-fu

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From Google + -fu (suffix indicating expertise or mastery).

suffix

If you need to brush up on your Google-fu, check out Google Hacking for Penetration Testing from the talented and modest Johnny Long.

2006, Johnny Long, Max Moser, Penetration Tester's Open Source Toolkit, Syngress, →ISBN, page 107:

... they think they have all the Google-fu they'll ever need ...

2007, Eli Neiburger, Gamers... in the Library?!, ALA Editions, →ISBN, page 3:

Coworkers seek out my Googling abilities. My Google-Fu is strong.

2007, Ben Grabow, "Big Brother Is Watching You Google", Scripps Howard News Service, May 9, E. W. Scripps

... one thing that I did notice when I was doing a little google-fu on the issue is that there appears to be approximately 20 to 50 billion dollars spent by the federal government ...

2008 May 5, Kevin Drum, “Political Animal: Corporate Welfare in the Oil Patch”, in Washington Monthly:

Oh, dang, I blogged about this once and can't find my blog post now (anyone with better Google-fu than I want to help?)

2008 August 6, Robin Abrahams, “Miss Conduct Chat”, in The Boston Globe:

[Gary] Small suggests the inexperienced may register less brain activity because they haven't yet figured out the right strategies required to perform a successful search. In other words, their Google-fu is weak.

2008 October 16, Austin Modine, “Internet searches stimulate brain more than books: Assuming good Google-fu”, in The Register:

Kitty sighed. “It's worth looking into.” She pointed at the nearest computer. “Ed, I need your Googlefu.” Ed swung around and poised his fingers over the keyboard.

2015, Gretchen McNeil, Get Dirty, HarperCollins, →ISBN:

(informal) A skill in using search engines (especially Google) to quickly find useful information on the Internet.


Moneygeddon

/ˌmʌniːˈɡɛdən/

Coined by Danielle Ward and a public-relations think-tank for the first episode of the first series of Newswipe with Charlie Brooker, first televised on Wednesday 25 March in 2009 on BBC Four: money + -geddon, from Armageddon (“the end of the world”).

2009: “Graham Thurlwell”, alt.tv.farscape (Google group): Crisis – what crisis?, the 22ⁿᵈ day of May at 9:55pm
Meanwhile, The Minister For Women and Equality is busy banging on about how there aren’t enough women in the City and HMG should force companies to hire more women at the highest level because women wouldn’t have brought about Moneygeddon – no, honest they wouldn’t.

(often humorous, neologism) The late-2000s world economic recession.

BBC Four
Danielle Ward
Moneygeddon
Newswipe with Charlie Brooker


nerdgasm

(slang, neologism) A feeling of great excitement or pleasure over something nerdy.

nerdgasme

a feeling of great excitement in a nerd or geek


jingle mail

"There's going to be a lot of jingle mail this winter," Barnes says of owners who will simply pop their house keys in the mail in lieu of a mortgage check.

However, all four states have had the most overheated mortgage markets and reportedly the highest incidence of jingle mail.

2008, OECD Economic Surveys: United States 2008:

Nouriel Roubini, one of Wall Street's most pessimistic seers, worries that the "forthcoming jingle-mail tsunami" could spawn $1 trillion-2 trillion of financial losses, creating a systemic banking crisis.

However, with all the jingle mail going on, there is a good chance you can sway the mortgage company with the correct psychology.

2009, Paul Stemborowski, How to Modify Your Loans: And Save Thousands of Dollars by Doing It:

(neologism) The practice of posting one's house keys back to the mortgage company because of negative equity or inability to pay mortgage investments.


confuzzling

en-adj

confuzzling (comparative more confuzzling, superlative most confuzzling)

more confuzzling (comparative)
most confuzzling (superlative)

(neologism, childish) confusing or puzzling.


unknome

(genetics, neologism) The totality of genes of unknown function in a genome


zoomer

From zoom + -er.
The sense of "active baby boomer" is influenced by the word boomer, and is attributed to Moses Znaimer.

A recent study released by the Conference Board of Canada states that the Zoomers (Baby Boomers who refuse to age), Gen X and Gen Y have more in common than we might think.

2010, Cheryl Cran, 101 Ways to Make Generations X, Y and Zoomers Happy at Work, →ISBN, page 15:

(neologism) A baby boomer with a very active lifestyle.


startupper

Of course, you could also rely on your own cash reserves, as many startuppers do with their second companies — Evan Williams, for example, used his windfall from selling Blogger to Google to buy out the investors in his new company, Odeo.

Coloring Outside the Lines: Confessions of a Digital Native (page 60)

(neologism) A person who is passionate and enthusiastic about the creation, development and preservation of startup companies.


protologism

/pɹəʊˈtɒləˌdʒɪzm/

Coined by Mikhail Epstein in 2003, from Ancient Greek πρῶτος (prôtos, “first”) + Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos, “word”) + -ism, by analogy with prototype and neologism.

compound

This word is so new-fangled that it hasn't yet been accepted as part of the language—which makes it not a "neologism" but a "protologism."

2007 April, William Skidelsky, “Will's words”, in Prospect:

The biophotonics hypothesis finds support from a completely different and unexpected angle: the protologism “epi-genetics” - or the “Biology of Belief” was coined by Dr. Bruce Lipton, who has also been a pioneer in applying the principles of quantum physics to the field of cellular biology.

2009, Heinz R. Gisel, “And Then There Was Light”, in In Foodture We Trust, →ISBN, page 123:

The linguistic invention-animation-based lectures (ABL) as a protologism was first used by us in 2009.

2009 December 12, Satendra Singh with Shikha Gautam, “Animation-Based Lectures in Renal Physiology: Transcendence into Metacognition”, in Journal of Educational Evaluation for Health Professions, volume 6, →ISSN:

Short Cuts examines a wide range of minimalist discursive genres as varied as the bank robber note, the oath of allegiance, the sniglet, and the Facebook profile, focusing on some, mentioning others only in passing (e.g., the pickup line and the protologism), and leaving others unmentioned.

2010 August, Alexander Humez et al., Short Cuts, A Guide to Oaths, Ring Tones, Ransom Notes, Famous Last Words, and Other Forms of Minimalist Communication, Oxford University Press, preface, unpaged

So, in many contexts, he will just go back to the use of words predating his own neologization and pitilessly abandon a ‘protologism’ with which he’s not comfortable.

2011, Hubertus Busche, Departure for Modern Europe: A Handbook of Early Modern Philosophy (1400-1700), Meiner Verlag, →ISBN, page 1221:

Attendees will be encouraged to try their hand at protologism (creating new words) and become the Shake-spears of Oceanside!

2013 July 12, “3rd annual ‘Write On, Oceanside’ — July 20”, “Community Notes” https://web.archive.org/web/20161220140306/http://laprensa-sandiego.org/stories/community-notes/community-notes-114/, La Prensa San Diego

Among the workforce and scholars, the abbreviation for the school's designation, CSKYWLA (pronounced seeskeeWAHlah), has been minted as a protologism to that this meaning has specified – to be sanctioned by grant, nonviolence, and communal change.

2014 October 7, Janet Kemp, The Star-Spangled Banner, 170 Success Secrets, Emereo Publishing, unpaged

Ėpštejn's projective dictionary should be a collection of protologisms, a protologism being a new word, coined to designate a new phenomenon or to fill in blank spaces and semantic voids in the lexical-conceptual system, as he proclaimed in 2003.

2015, Peter O. Müller, Word-Formation: An International Handbook of the Languages of Europe, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN:

(neologism) A newly coined word or phrase defined in the hope that it will become common; a recently created term possibly in narrow use but not yet acknowledged.

首造詞

a newly coined word or phrase defined in the hope that it will become common


blognovel

(neologism) A novel or book created from a blog.


sonder

Coined by American author and neologist John Koenig in 2012, whose project, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, aims to come up with new words for emotions that currently lack words. Inspired by German sonder- (“special”) and French sonder (“to probe”).

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I had a sonder, a realization that the random girl sitting next to me inside of Starbucks might have a fantastic life or she might be dealing with a very ill family member.

2012 December, John Buysse, “On 2nd thought, we do have linked lives”, in The Daily Illini, volume 142, number 68,5, University of Illinois, page 4A:

We need to have a "sonder" moment, where we realize that we aren't the only ones with feelings, dreams, regrets and hopes.

2013, Annie Cohen, "A Deeper Understanding", Panorama (Ladue Horton Watkins High School, St. Louis, Missouri), Volume 62, Issue 3, 14 October 2013, page 14

I knew the feeling of sonder my whole life. […] Every time I stopped what I was doing and just watched people, this feeling of breathlessness would wash over me.

2015, Emily Neiman, Sonder: Clara's Story, iUniverse, →ISBN:

(neologism) The profound feeling of realizing that everyone, including strangers passing in the street, has a life as complex as one's own, which they are constantly living despite one's personal lack of awareness of it.


logomania

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Ms. Silvarolli, a stylist and designer, was swathed from her chin to her calves in the company’s signature double FF logo. […] Logomania’s checkered past dates from the ’60s and ’70s, buoyed in those decades by an outpouring of licensed wares […]

2018 November 7, Ruth La Feria, “What Gives the Logo Its Legs: Logomania is an obsession with no end in sight. Here’s why.”, in The New York Times:

When the logomania trend hit its peak back in 2016, it felt as if everyone was obsessed with covering themselves in designer brand names from head to toe and making sure people knew it.

2022 November 2, Christian Allaire, “Logomania Has Gone Subtle This Fall (Yes, Really)”, in Vogue, archived from the original on 2023-01-22:

Whilst Toteme’s shirt features embroidery of the brand’s signature monogram logo, it’s subtle enough to look like an Art Deco pattern as opposed to anything remotely logomania.

2023 January 31, Peter Bevan, “Best work clothes for women: What to wear to the office”, in Evening Standard:

(neologism) Fashion design in which a brand's logo is conspicuously repeated across an article of clothing.


feku

Borrowed from Hindi फेंकू (phẽkū), from फेंकना (phẽknā, “to throw”).

(India, neologism, offensive) A person who keeps bluffing or does empty boasting


jeggings

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I remember first reading about jeggings (jeans+leggings) in 2009. How ridiculous it sounded then, a word that conjured up images of urinary infections and squished buttocks. Four years later, the M&S website devotes an entire section to this fashion hybrid.

2013 May 10, Rachel Braier, “The trouser is so now in the singular world of fashion”, in The Guardian:

(fashion, neologism) Denim leggings, or very skinny jeans.


pole fitness

(neologism) A program of exercise centered around a gymnastics performed on a pole.


zoomburb

(informal, neologism, urban studies) A very rapidly expanding suburb.


boomburb

(neologism, informal, urban studies) A rapidly expanding suburb.


incidentalome

From 2006, from incidental + -ome, after incidentaloma.

(neologism) Collectively, the incidental findings of a genome-wide test or study.


ratioed

(neologism, Twitter) Having significantly more replies than retweets or likes, indicating general dislike by the public.

(neologism, Twitter) Having received a reply that garnered more likes than the original tweet.


selfsome

en-adj

selfsome (comparative more selfsome, superlative most selfsome)

more selfsome (comparative)
most selfsome (superlative)

(neologism) of or characteristic of self or one's self.


hella-

Point your little browser toward The Official Petition to Establish ‘Hella-‘ as the SI Prefix for 10^27 if you want your storage space in 50 years to be measured in hellabytes and the universe’s weight in hellagrams. […] One hellameter would be something like a billion light-years, and the limit of the universe as we know it seems to be, well, a fraction of that. […] A hellasecond would be about a two and a half million times the age of our galaxy.

2010 February 20, Devin Coldewey, “Yes we can make "hellabytes" an SI-recognized term”, in TechCrunch:

The universe, he said, is 1.4 hellameters across. The sun's power is 0.3 hellawatts.

2010 August 10, Carlos Alcalã, “Physics student's prefix idea is 'hella' good”, in Phys.org:

Star Trek showed us a world where doors slid open as we approached, where we had small flip-open communicators that let us talk to anyone in the world, where we had wall-size screens and video communication, silver discs that stored hellabytes of data, universal translators, medical beds, desktop computers, tablets that gave us instant access to information, supercomputers that understood speech, and a lot of other technologies we’re still designing and building.

2012, Mark Clark, Star Trek FAQ: Everything Left to Know about the First Voyages of the Starship Enterprise, Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, →ISBN:

We are running out of words to describe how much data we have.[…]MIT’s Andrew McAfee and others have actually proposed that we settle on “hellabyte” – as in, “helluva lot of data,” to describe the next stage of the data deluge.

2013 October 25, Dominic Basulto, “Welcome to the hellabyte era, as in a helluva lot of data”, in The Washington Post:

Really I am sitting at a desk with beautiful reflecting glass I thought I would go through to see if there is something I can use, like in 2010, UC Davis student Austin Sendek started a petition to designate "hella" as the SI (International System of Units) prefix for one octillion (10²⁷). He gathered more than 60,000 signatures and a fair amount of press coverage, but the proposal was officially rejected. However, the prefix has been adopted by Google Calculator and WolframAlpha, where you'll find units like hellavolt and hellasecond.

2016 November 28, John Bloomberg-Rissman, In the House of the Hangman Volume 2, pages 881-882:

(informal, neologism) A proposed synonym for ronna- (10²⁷)