sexpo

Though most sexpo exhibs were reluctant to talk last week, it's clear that porno jitters are again vibrating in Manhattan, this time generated not by threatened police action, but by a series of anonymous bomb threats which gained sudden credibility last Tues night (9) when two pipe bombs exploded during performances at the Doll Theatre at Seventh Ave. at 48th St. and at Hollywood Twin Theatre on Eighth Ave. near 48th.

1971, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Criminal Laws and Procedures, Reform of the Federal Criminal Laws: Hearings, Ninety-second Congress, First Session [-Ninety-seventh Congress, First Session], Part 11, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 6894:

3:45-5:45pm - there's a sexpo. dildos, vibrators, costumes, plastic vaginas, whips, cuffs, sex games, […]

During one of my mother's recent visits to Australia to see me, I suggested we go to the sexpo exhibition. She agreed, although without knowing exactly what she was agreeing to.

2016 August 1, Maria Katsonis, Lee Kofman, Rebellious Daughters, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

Some surgeons in Australia promote their practices at annual sexpo exhibitions held in the main cities. Breast and buttock augmentation and female genital cosmetic surgery, the latter often advertised as a “designer vagina,” predominate at such events, with photographs of the various body parts labeled with phrases such as “enhance your pleasure” (for genital cosmetic surgery), “enhance your assets,” and “tighten yout tush.”

2021 May 4, Lindy McDougall, The Perfect Vagina: Cosmetic Surgery in the Twenty-First Century, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 72:

An exhibition of sex toys or other sexual goods and services.


snoregasm

en-noun

snoregasm (countable and uncountable, plural snoregasms)

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Blend of snore + orgasm, or snore + -gasm.

That night I have a snoregasm. I might have dreamt about Irene. I don't want to throw my underpants in the laundry, because she might see the dried stain.

2014 August 7, Jakob Ejersbo, Liberty, Quercus Publishing, →ISBN:

Both parents were still in bed, the mother as quiet as a corpse, the father snoring so loudly that anyone listening might have thought he was having a “snoregasm.” Clifford wrote his parents a note: “I have left to explore Tucumcari while the weather is cool.”

2014 November 14, Anthology, Tremors - Short Fiction By California Writers, Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN, archived from the original on 2023-07-02:

Or episodes where the sleeper has sex without waking up: sexsomnia – or, as some call it, snoregasm. This is not the same as a wet dream, which is not classified as a sleep disorder. Parasomnic episodes may seem dramatic but they are almost always harmless.

2020 September 24, Anders Bortne, Sleepless: A Thousand Wakeful Nights, One Solution, Sandstone Press Ltd, →ISBN:


Orkxit

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


celebrappeal

(cricket) An overenthusiastic appeal in the form of a celebration, without waiting for the umpire to give the batter out.


wood wide web

Precisely what is passing between plants through fungal networks is a thorny question for all researches investigating wood wide webs.

2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 184:

In the forest, there is a “wood wide web” of mycorrhizal fungi that run underground, connecting the trees in a forest, helping them grow and communicate.

The portrayal of fungi-forest symbioses as a 'wood wide web' is in itself a technological image which, as Woods analyses in his contribution to this volume, often hides the mycelium behind the tree: he agrees in this with Jedediah Purdy, who has satirized the inevitability with which, 'after centuries of viewing forests as kingdoms, then as factories (and, along the way, as cathedrals for Romantic sentiment), the 21st century would discover a networked information system under the leaves and humus'.

2022, Liliane Campos, Pierre-Louis Patoine, Life, Re-Scaled:

(ecology) A mycorrhizal network; a network of fungal hyphae that connect the plants in a region.


fungus comb

This enzyme might be responsible for the degradation of phenolics in the fungus comb.

2006, Helmut König, Ajit Varma, Intestinal Microorganisms of Termites and Other Invertebrates, page 346:

The sexual stage of the fungus, the basidiocarp, arises as a pseudorhiza from a fungus comb and continues as a stipe, terminating in a cap with a prominent umbo or perforatorium.

2012, Bozzano G Luisa, Insect-Fungus Interactions, page 74:

Fungus comb also serves as food source, especially in adverse climatic conditions or when food is scarce.

2018, Omkar, Pests and Their Management, page 928:

The termites chew wood into a slurry which they regugitate in fungal gardens, known as the 'fungus comb', by contrast with bees' honeycomb.

2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 211:

A slurry of masticated or partially digested wood that termites create which is subsequently digested by white rot fungus to produce a byproduct that the termites can eat.


Comcar

Collapsing of Commonwealth Car Service, the service's original name. Formally a blend of Commonwealth + car.

It's an excellent story. Turnbull is telling it in a Comcar, which is driving us from Launceston (where he addressed a Jobs Forum) to Hobart (where he is due to address a dinner).

2009, Annabel Crabb, “Stop at Nothing: The Life and Adventures of Malcolm Turnbull”, in Quarterly Essay, number 34, page 15:

The role played by political families in the party, and the inheriting of front-bench seats, has led to gibes that the best way to get ahead in the party is to 'get born in the back of a Comcar'.

2013, Marian Sawer, Gianni Zappalà, “Introduction: Representation in Australian Politics”, in Speaking For The People:

(Australia) One of a fleet of cars, with drivers, maintained by the Australian Government for the transport of politicians and senior officials.


Joever

en-adj

Joever (comparative more Joever, superlative most Joever)

more Joever (comparative)
most Joever (superlative)

/ˈd͡ʒəʊ.və(ɹ)/

Blend of Joe + over, in reference to 46th president of the United States Joe Biden. Initially appeared in a 4chan post published October 14, 2020, shortly before the 2020 United States presidential election, to signify the perceived defeat of Joe Biden. Popularized in late 2022 in various memes on Twitter. Repopularized after Joe Biden withdrew from the 2024 Presidential race.

here's a prediction for you
it's joever

2020 October 24, anonymous author, 4chan, /pol/:

“It’s Joever,” joked one fan with an attached image of a forlorn President Joe Biden.

2022 December 22, DJ Byrnes, “NFL world reacts to major Russell Wilson change”, in The Comeback, archived from the original on 2022-12-30:

It's Joever. On Saturday, Entertainment Tonight dropped the bombshell news that Taylor Swift and her boyfriend of more than six years, Joe Alwyn, broke up "a few weeks ago," which was subsequently confirmed by People, Page Six, and CNN.

2023 April 10, Brendan Morrow, “The daily gossip: Taylor Swift and Joe Alwyn were 'talking about marriage' before reported split, Kim Kardashian cast in American Horror Story, and more”, in The Week, archived from the original on 2023-06-19:

The 27-year-old streamer tweeted out a meme collage for the announcement of his new world record, while also tagging Forsen. He shared the meme quote “It’s Joever,” along with his time for the speed run of 16 minutes and 38 seconds.

2023 May 7, Ajitesh Rawat, quoting xQc, “xQc Flexes on Forsen After Taking Back the Crown of Minecraft Record Holder”, in EssentiallySports, archived from the original on 2023-07-20:

Over on Twitter, someone immediately posted, "They even added complicated armor layouts to the alien flesh suits its joever".

2023 May 25, James Troughton, “Gamers Are Divided Over Spider-Man 2's Symbiote Suit”, in TheGamer, archived from the original on 2023-06-03:

'Honestly heartbroken babes... Go collect your brother, after this is done... You might want to log out tonight sis... it’s joever for your brother i fear... Your brother is giving LOSER ENERGY. So disrespectful... Tell him sis'.

2023 June 12, Ciara Farmer For Mailonline, “Snoochie Shy rages over Love Island star brother Zachariah's cruel treatment of Catherine... leaving fans urging the DJ to 'go collect her loser sibling'”, in Daily Mail, London: DMG Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-06-13:

Ah shit, it’s Joever.

2024 February 26, Smii7Yplus, 19:47 from the start, in Worms Moments that End in Disaster:

It’s finally Joever: On Sunday, President Joe Biden announced he's stepping down from the Democratic presidential ticket with a letter to his "fellow Americans," posted on Twitter.

2024 July 21, Kylie Cheung, “It's Joever”, in Jezebel, archived from the original on 2024-07-21:

(Internet slang, humorous) Done for, finished, cooked.

Withdrawal of Joe Biden from the 2024 United States presidential election


fabtastic

fabtastic (comparative more fabtastic, superlative most fabtastic)

more fabtastic (comparative)
most fabtastic (superlative)

A big thank you to all the contributors and hope you fabtastic readers out there enjoy the book.

2005, Cathy Hopkins, “A Note From Us”, in Mates, Dates Guide to Life (Mates, Dates), London: Piccadilly Press, →ISBN, page 2:


rockaire

(astronautics, aviation, dated) An air-launched rocket

(astronautics, dated) An airplane-launched space rocket

An air-launched rocket
An airplane-launched space rocket


placial

The Philosophy and Geography Conferences have been designed to promote interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary conversations on the basis of the spatial/placial component that pervades all landscapes.

2003, Gary Backhaus, John Murungi, Tensional Landscapes: The Dynamics of Boundaries and Placements, page IX:

In other words, there is a potential for places and placial beings to express the limitless space.

2021, Timothy Tambassi, Marcello Tanca, The Philosophy of Geography, page 111:

(sociology, geography) Relating to places, or to conceptions of place.


Haylor

Though their relationship was brief, Haylor was all anyone who was chronically online during the era of One Direction could talk about for the four months these two were dating.

2023 July 8, Naydeline Mejia, “Taylor Swift And All Of Her Ex-Boyfriends' Body Language, Explained”, in Women's Health:

(slang) The couple consisting of English singer-songwriter Harry Styles and American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, together briefly in 2012.


Blackademic

We all have pursued successful careers and are active as academics/aka “Blackademics” (scholars and researchers), musicians (performers, composers and arrangers), media personalities, writers, and teachers, often functioning in more than one of these capacities.

2010, Leonard L. Brown, “Preface”, in Leonard L. Brown, editor, John Coltrane and Black America’s Quest for Freedom: Spirituality and the Music, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page ix:

In the next section I will discuss my experiences being a Blackademic at a historically white institution in the Sociology department.

2020, Chaddrick James-Gallaway, “[Scratching and Surviving: Critical Race Theory and Being a “Blackademic” in the Academy] Stressing Racism’s Permanence Despite Programmatic Resistance, Chaddrick’s Story”, in Vernon Lee Farmer, Evelyn Shepherd W. Farmer, editors, Critical Race Theory in the Academy, Charlotte, N.C.: Information Age Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 346:

Next, the first part, Black Lives Matter: Research and Reflections, is a collection of writings about the #BlackLivesMatter movement, digital activism, education, race-based stereotypes, and the personal experiences and stories of Blackademics.

2022, Sarah Jane Blithe, Janell C. Bauer, “Introduction”, in Sarah Jane Blithe, Janell C. Bauer, editors, Badass Feminist Politics: Exploring Radical Edges of Feminist Theory, Communication, and Activism, New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, page 8:

Female “Blackademics” and Presentation of Self in the Academy: Managing Role Stressors, Navigating Roadblocks, and Managing Impressions Along Career Trajectories

2022, Jennifer T. Butcher, editor, Black Female Leaders in Academia: Eliminating the Glass Ceiling With Efficacy, Exuberance, and Excellence: Eliminating the Glass Ceiling With Efficacy, Exuberance, and Excellence (Advances in Educational Marketing, Administration, and Leadership), IGI Global, →ISBN, page 73:


blackademic

Nick wasn’t what he’d had in mind for Billie. He’d planned on a blackademic just like himself. Herbert was the son of teachers who had instilled their deep love of education into him.

2009, Carleen Brice, Children of the Waters, One World Books, →ISBN, page 44:

It’s about an untenured black professor, a “blackademic,” obsessed with Edgar Allen^([sic]) Poe’s novel “The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket” and the possibility of finding a remote island of pure blackness—the last bastion of the African diaspora—in Antarctica.

2012 March 4, “He’s reading at Writers House”, in Sunday News, 89 years, number 25, page E4:

My uncle, Kevin Gaines, first demonstrated what being a blackademic meant. He wrote aspirational scholarship, introduced me to his colleagues, read and graciously critiqued my work, and answered all my questions about the professoriate.

2017, Alisha Gaines, “Acknowledgments”, in Black for a Day: White Fantasies of Race and Empathy, Chapel Hill, N.C.: The University of North Carolina Press, →ISBN, page xiii:

Alternative letter-case form of Blackademic.


national serviceman

en-noun

national serviceman (plural national servicemen)


through the wazoo

Probably a blend of through the roof + out the wazoo.


bottleham

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Blend of bottle + Tottenham, due to the team seeming to always bottle when they have a good chance of winning something (e.g. trophies or matches) in the eyes of fans.

Bottleham have bottled it again, having lost to Diogo Jota’s late 94th minute winner.


Angeball

Blend of Ange (Postecoglou) + (foot)ball

The style of football (soccer) associated with renowned Greek-Australian coach Ange Postecoglou.


momarazzi

Her mother was snapping pictures with wild abandon. When Cindy apologized for the "momarazzi," Night saw again the real Cindy—the one who needed to act, not just for the pay, but for others to hear her.

2006, Michael Bamberger, The Man Who Heard Voices, Gotham Books, →ISBN, pages 129–130:

The momarazzi describes moms who take so many pictures of their kids that they have a new album for every day, week, or month of their lives. They're documoms who specialize in photos of everyday life, like bath time or playtime or naptime. Momarazzis can't even determine which pictures are worth posting on Facebook anymore because they have hundreds and hundreds to choose from.

2013, Blair Koenig, STFU, Parents: The Jaw-Dropping, Self-Indulgent, and Occasionally Rage-Inducing World of Parent Overshare, New York, N.Y.: Pedigree Books, →ISBN, page 186:

I'd made a mental note to step my fashion game up a notch moving forward, and bought a cute new chevron-print blouse before I left the store with my order in hand. All I needed was a few more hot stores like that—especially ones the Main Line momarazzi frequented—and I'd be set.

2015, Kristin Contino, The Legacy of Us: A Novel, Tempe, A.Z.: SparkPress, →ISBN, page 171:

And later, Ross glaring into the camera, impatient with me, the Momarazzi—Enough with the pictures!—a string of pink taffy hanging out of his mouth.

2017, Claudia Hunter Johnson, Hurtling Toward Happiness: A Mother and Teenage Son's Road Trip From Blues to Bonding in a Really Small Car, New York, N.Y.: Arcade Publishing, →ISBN, page 66:

"We call her the momarazzi because she takes too many photos, and I really thought we were going to get busted," Wilson continues. "Like someone was going to report us for just like driving really slowly up to kids and taking their photo, but we're just two Australian chicks wanting to learn about trick-or-treating."

2018 October 31, Paige Gawley, “Ellen DeGeneres Deserves the Final Rose for Her 'Bachelor' Contestant Costume”, in ET Online, archived from the original on 2023-03-24:

(humorous) A mother who takes an excessive amount of photos of her children.


Blend of chick (“woman, female”) + hax0r (“hacker”).

Coordinate term: hax0r

It’s only natural that a healthy young man would want to be liked by a hot chix0r like her.

2015, Kamiya Yuu, translated by Daniel Komen, No Game No Life, volume 1:


Barbenheimer

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

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

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


disleading

en-adj

disleading (comparative more disleading, superlative most disleading)

more disleading (comparative)
most disleading (superlative)

The geographers map is the exaggeration of certain scientific facts that are apt to prove disleading to the unskilied eye.

1897, The Atlanta Constitution 1897-10-17: Vol 30, page 27:

A seed is misbranded if the package or label bears any statement, design or device which is false or disleading in any particular.

1913, Annual report of the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station, page 425:

Direct Service and Trackage Oil is charged with disleading advertising.

1935, National Petroleum News 1935-10-23: Vol 27 Iss 43, page 23:

Bordo maintained the word ‘partisan’ in the second clause of the resolution was unnecessary and disleading because the stands taken by CUS were political in the sense that every organization takes political stands.

The problem is an epidemic of mis- and disleading content made to scam your attention {...} for monetary gain alone.

2023, Kyle Hill, 12s from the start, in YouTube’s Science Scam Crisis:

(nonstandard, malapropism) Alternative form of misleading.


Kravis

Megan described Kravis’s vibe to Glamour, saying, “They’re magnetic. So nobody’s really interacting with them too much, because they’re just stuck. They’re stuck together like this.[…]”

2022 April 27, Mehera Bonner, “Megan Fox Explains Why She and MGK Don’t Have Many Double Dates With Kravis”, in Cosmopolitan:

(slang) The couple consisting of American musician Travis Barker and American media personality Kourtney Kardashian, married in 2022.


poonami

This is referred to as a number three, or a poonami. During your darkest days of toilet training, hold onto the memory of this, because nothing could be as bad as this, right?

2019, N. Taylor, Parenting Uncut, Lulu.com, page 55:

(informal) An act of defecation in which an infant produces a large amount of excrement, especially one that causes a nappy or diaper to overflow; a blowout.


NazLib

No, random yt online anon, I'm not watching your favorite nazlib video. My politics are informed by the Black radical tradition. Not breadtube.

2021 May 5, @SixTenSocialist, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-07-22:

your average nazlib literally believes that people who think Trump is funny are worse than hitler and mussolini combined but militias in Ukraine with swastika tattoos carrying out violent pogroms against Russians are tolerant democratic liberals you can't make this shit up

2022 June 21, @StalinismUSA, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-07-22:

they did this to me too. i defended my mother country of iran and these racist nazlibs said i was not a real iranian. leftists will drop their wokeism and become white supremacists to any minority that does not fall in line with globalism. it's a façade.

2022 September 25, @ComradeCena99, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-07-22:

It's interesting how anti Semitic behavior is denounced automatically rightfully so because the Holocaust happened but Russophobia is considered a joke by Nazlibs even though Russia lost 27 million people to the nazis. Interesting.

2022 November 4, @americas_putin, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-07-22:

Reagan and North are NazLibs who brought Yaroslav Stetsko to the White House and celebrated him as the "last premier of a free Ukrainian State".

2022 December 30, u/Express-Guide-1206, “Oliver North reassuring us about Ukraine”, in Reddit, r/TrueAnon, archived from the original on 2023-07-22:

Banderites didn't get started in 2022, dumbass. They've been in power since the 2014 Maidan coup where they were killing protesters with snipers. Even back in 2008 one of the early pro-NATO NazLibs commemorated Bandera as "Hero of Ukraine". Your mental gymnastics are historical revisionism

2023 June 4, u/RequirementRemoteB, “74% Of Ukrainians Hold Favorable View Of Stepan Bandera According To Ukrainian Research Org.”, in Reddit, r/stupidpol, archived from the original on 2023-07-22:

(Internet slang, politics) Someone who calls themselves a liberal, but espouses far-right beliefs.

scratch a liberal and you'll find a fascist


kismesis

en-noun

kismesis (countable and uncountable, plural kismeses)

Blend of kismet (“fate, destiny”) + nemesis. Coined by American author and webcomic artist Andrew Hussie in Homestuck.

coin

For quotations using this term, see Citations:kismesis.

(Homestuck fandom slang) A person with whom one shares an intense but adversarial connection; a nemesis; a rival.


greycing

Shorter working hours, the modern semi-detached house, cinema, television, motor-coach tours, greycing, the pools, all these he desires.

1955, Federation News - General Federation of Trade Unions (page N-10)

The greyhound was formerly used in the chase, but is now mainly associated with greyhound racing, or 'greycing'.

2006, Dictionary of Pub Names, page 174:

Greyhound racing
greyhound racing#English


thugsta

This here ain't no romance / It's an urban erotic tale / Hood life, gats, stacked papers / Set a thugsta up to fail

2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, unnumbered page:

In an industry dominated by men and images of "thugsta" rappers in the late 1990s and early 2000s with gold grills, tattoos, platinum chains, and dark clothing, bubblegum-chewing [Missy] Elliott popularized a hip-hop wardrobe for urban women that included contemporaneously fashionable unisex athletic gear and oversize clothing in soft, "girlie" colors, as well as de rigueur enormous monogrammed hoop earrings and perfectly manicured fingernails.

2013, Jonathan C. Friedman, editor, The Routledge History of Social Protest in Popular Music, New York, N.Y., London: Routledge, →ISBN, pages 177–178:

(African-American Vernacular, slang) Someone who is both a thug and a gangsta.


autobesity

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Hetlor

If you know anything about Swiftdom, it may not surprise you that there are two camps that are having it out over this particular song currently. These are the Hetlors ("het" as in heterosexual), who are fans that affirm Taylor Swift's straightness and frown upon queer interpretations of her lyrics, and the Gaylors, who are, well, the opposite.

2021 November 22, Madison Malone Kircher, “Taylor Swift Has Led Her Fans Down Another Gay Rabbit Hole”, in Slate, archived from the original on 2023-06-02:

Several Gaylors used TikTok and Reddit to express their disappointment, triggering backlash from Hetlors and others who argued a celebrity's sexuality shouldn't be a topic for public debate.

2022 October 17, Nell Geraets, “Queer as Folklore: Why are fans arguing over Taylor Swift's sexuality?”, in The Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney: Nine Entertainment, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-06-30:

"Gaylors, hetlors, normalors need to come together and not step off matty healy's neck until they break up," one Swiftie wrote on Twitter.

2023 May 24, Dani Di Placido, quoting @repromantic, “Taylor Swift's Matty Healy Controversy, Explained”, in Forbes, New York, N.Y.: Forbes Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-07-24:

Many face harassment from a hostile cohort of Swifties known as Hetlors, notorious for a queerphobic insistence that Taylor is straight. Bullying from Hetlors has driven some Gaylors to go dark and wipe their social accounts, which explains why most here at Camp Gaylore have asked that Cosmo publish their first names only.

2023 August 31, Frankie de la Cretaz, “Postcard from Camp Gaylore”, in Cosmopolitan:

(fandom slang) Someone who opposes the Gaylor theory.


climigrant

A person who has migrated as a result of climate change.


climigration

The movement of people away from increasingly harsh or unliveable climates resulting climate change.


dayjamas

Canada, Midland US, Northern US, Western US

DAYJAMAS FOR CASUAL AND LEISURE CLOTHING FOR MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN, NAMELY, SHIRTS, PANTS, SHORTS, SOCKS, SWEATERS AND JACKETS (U.S. CLS. 22 AND 39).

1996 December 17, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office: Trademarks, U.S. Department of Commerce, Patent and Trademark Office, page 257:

In its 2012 resort collection, Louis Vuitton gave model Arizona Muse a Coco Chanel look, but traded the immortal mademoiselle’s tweed and ivory silk for “dayjamas” with blue leopard spots and a fuddy-duddy cardigan. The old menswear classic was accessorised with a matchy-matchy helmet and Prince Albert slippers.

2012 May 27, “Pajamas wake up to the party scene”, in The New Indian Express, archived from the original on 2020-10-26:

What are DayJamas? DayJama /dā•jämə/ noun: Comfortable enough to sleep in, but chic enough to wear all day. Mix and match effortless designs with and easy fit in a super soft material.

2021, “Mer Sea Fall 2021”, in Harper Group, Fall/Winter edition, archived from the original on 2023-07-30, page 23:

The “inclusive and nonbinary” collection consists of slipdresses, dayjamas, tops and bottoms, and robes in luxurious silk.

2022 July 28, Christian Chensvold, “Roy G. Takes Tie-Dye to the Next Level”, in California Apparel News, archived from the original on 2023-06-11:

There are three different categories that feature silk material in slip dresses (mini too), dayjamas, and robes. The color schemes are very loud and peaceful with a combination of excitement.

2022 August 15, Luke Drew, “SILKY SMOOTH COMFORT FROM ROY G.”, in The Garnette Report, archived from the original on 2023-07-30:

Pajama-like clothing worn as daytime-appropriate apparel.


dip hop

Blend of deaf + hip-hop; coined by artist Warren "Wawa" Snipe in 2005.

Using hip hop as a foundation, dip hop emplys low frequency bass patterns for its beats and sign language for its lyrics, creating a flow between the two that is both visual and tactile.

2016, Knut Holtsträter, Michael Fischer, Lied und populäre Kultur / Song and Popular Culture 60/61 (2015/2016): Jahrbuch des Zentrums für Populäre Kultur und Musik 60./61. Jahrgang - 2015/2016. Musik und Protest Music and Protest, Waxmann Verlag, →ISBN, page 73:

Other practitioners of dip hop, particularly grassroots rappers and dip hop groups, perform primarily for Deaf audiences and do not incorporate the use of oral language or bimusical elements.

2021 November 30, Marko Kölbl, Fritz Trümpi, Music and Democracy: Participatory Approaches, transcript Verlag, →ISBN:

Rather than trying to correct deafness with hearing aids or cochlear implants, the Deaf community embraces new forms of communicating and experimenting with artistic practices. Movements such as Dip-Hop, or Deaf Hip-Hop, were born with the idea of a connection between languages[…]

2023 March 31, Iva Nenic, Linda Cimardi, Women's Leadership in Music: Modes, Legacies, Alliances, transcript Verlag, →ISBN, page 89:

(music) a genre and broader subculture combining hip-hop with Deaf culture.


tantoo

Using Sun for Profit Recommended as a natural for beaches and carnivals are "sun tantoo" designs offered by Great-Circle Products,. Inc., New York. The tantoo designs are simply placed on the body and the sun does the rest.

1944 July 15, The Billboard, volume 56, number 29, Nielsen Business Media, Inc., →ISSN, page 50:

A TANTOO Fanbo REPELLENT CREAM SUMMER COMFORT REPELS INSECTS PREVENTS SUNBURN AIDS NATURAL TAN In large handy tube

1947, Canadian Forestry Association, Forest and Outdoors, Canadian Forestry Association, page 194:

“Let's get a tantoo,” says Jil when we finally calm down. “I don't want a tattoo.” “Not a tattoo. A tantoo. You go to a tanning salon, to get a suntan, but you pick out a sticker that will cover part of your skin so you're left with a white patch that's shaped like a skull or a butterfly or something.”

2015 April 14, Betty Hicks, Get Real, Roaring Brook Press, →ISBN:

A tan line planned in the style of a tattoo.


shamboo

en-noun

shamboo (countable and uncountable, plural shamboos)

Locklear was glad of her absence; it gave him time to finish a laminated shamboo handle for his blade, bound with thread, and to collect the thickest poles of shamboo he could find. The blade was sharp enough to trim the poles quickly, and tough enough to hold an edge.

1990 April 1, Dean Ing, chapter 3, in Cathouse, Baen Books, →ISBN, page 60:

The cargo bay contained a number of large crates, woven shamboo strips on a framework of larger stems. He emptied four and began methodically packing.

2010 April 27, S.M. Stirling, The Sky People, volume 1, Tom Doherty Associates, →ISBN, page 154:

Higher skids off the ground, so he could work beneath the raft; a better method for winding that weight up and down; and a sturdy shamboo mast for his single sail—better still, a two-piece mast bound in a narrow Aframe to those […]

2013 June 15, Larry Niven, Stephen Hickman, Poul Anderson, Dean Ing, The Man-Kzin Wars: 25th Anniversary Edition, 25th edition, volume 1, Baen Publishing Enterprises, →ISBN:

The giant cage with shamboo bars surrounded an artificial pond, and there in that place, Aaron and his acolytes were doing something that no one believed could be done: they were taming grendels.

2020 April 7, Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Steven Barnes, Starborn and Godsons, Baen Books, →ISBN:


dramastic

en-adj

dramastic (comparative more dramastic, superlative most dramastic)

more dramastic (comparative)
most dramastic (superlative)

The latest European and English and Irish plays, not forgetting American, are played, both in English and in Japanese versions in which their fathers would hardly recognise their dramastic children.

1920, Asian Review: The Only English Monthly in Japan on Politics, Economy, Arts, Etc. of Asia, Managed and Edited by Japanese, volume 1, Kokuryukai., page 494:

A DRAMASTIC THING HAPPENED! Let me answer your first question right away. No the title is not a mistake, well... yes it was a mistake, but it's not anymore.

2008 February 1, Russ Lawson, Stories to Touch the Heart, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 87:

Kenneth Burke: ‘the dramastic pentad’ An example of such a technique is ‘the dramastic pentad’, another aspect of Kenneth Burke's theory.

2009, Market Research Society, International Journal of Market Research: The Journal of the Market Research Society, volume 51, numbers 4-6, NTC Publications Limited, page 442:

“Las Vegas?” said Gert, shaking her tiny head. “This is all very dramastic.” “Dramastic?” said Bert. “That's not a word, Gert.” “Are you making up words again?” Bert asked. Gert smiled. “It should be. Dramatic plus drastic. Dramastic!”

2014 April 8, Kate Klise, M. Sarah Klise, The Show Must Go On!, illustrated edition, volume 1, Algonquin Books, →ISBN, page 24:

It was an intense few minutes of basketball in a meaningful game, and Pippen said so after this game. Or at least I think he did. What he said was that the last five minutes of the game were “dramastic.” That's right. It's a combo word, putting together the word “dramatic” with the word “drastic.” Had it been intentional, it would have been genius. I don't think it was intentional. But “dramastic” should be a word.

2014 October 1, Kent McDill, Bill Cartwright, chapter 56, in If These Walls Could Talk: Chicago Bulls: Stories from the Sideline, Locker Room, and Press Box of the Chicago Bulls Dynasty, Triumph Books, →ISBN, page 167:

In a large collection of more than 1,018 formations, Reischer (2008) finds that nouns are the most frequent output category of blends in English (almost 80 per cent, e.g. brunch, buffeteria, diagnonsense), followed by adjectives (11 per cent, e.g. bleen ◇ blue + green, dramastic ◇ dramatic + drastic, and verbs (4 per cent, guesstimate).

2015, Laurie Bauer, Rochelle Lieber, Ingo Plag, chapter IV, in The Oxford Reference Guide to English Morphology, illustrated, reprint edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 459:

It's a bright and sunny Saturday just waiting for you to enjoy,” he said. “Everyone up; rise and shine. Breakfast is awaiting you in our beautiful and dramastically renovated dining hall. Is dramastic a word? Or did I just make that up?”

2016 July 29, Christian Drennen, Through Fire and Flame, Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN, archived from the original on 2023-08-03:


skinema

en-noun

skinema (countable and uncountable, plural skinemas)

On the whole, it's really a very exciting picture, but it's not art — as, indeed, what is in this world of the skinema!

1939, Lowell Thomas, Francis Rufus Bellamy, editors, The Commentator, Volume 4, volume 4, Payson Publishing, page 123:

Therese and Isabelle is appearing in the same kind of neighborhood art house that in better days showed films by Antonioni and Godard. In short, the old skinema is putting on airs and is making a bid for the middle-class matron in the afternoon and the middle-class couple at night. Pioneer of the pseudo-respectable porno picture was I, a Woman [FF '66], a cheap, Swedish-made study of nymphomania. It seemed destined for the grind-house […]

1968, Filmfacts, Volume 11, volume 11, page 181:

In an esoteric new epic called Roseland, director Fredric Hobbs supersedes every skinema film ever made, not only by stuffing the screen to the edges with exposed epidermis, but by unveiling his masterstroke, the largest simulated dong in the civilized world today.

1971, Penthouse, Volume 6, Issues 1-6, volume 6, numbers 1–6, Penthouse International:

It was filled with hard-core details on stuff from skinema to incest and orgies, and a lot of ministers were appalled by the handbook's contents. It may be banned as pornography.

1975, New Times, Volume 4, volume 4, New Times Communications Corporation, page 8:

To overlook such a well-known and celebrated skin-chievement would render any guide to definitive skinema sexiness incomplete.

2005, Mr. Skin, Mr. Skin's Skincyclopedia: The A-to-Z Guide to Finding Your Favorite Actresses Naked, illustrated edition, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 8:

(see title)

2007, Chris Nieratko, Skinema, illustrated edition, powerHouse Books, →ISBN:

We're talking about one of the greatest pornographic works in the history of skinema.

2017 October 20, Jess Dweck, Victor Quinaz, “Sleepover: A Harrowing Ordeal of Emotional Brutality” (10:53 from the start), in Big Mouth, season 1, episode 4, spoken by Val Bilzerian (Mark Duplass):

It was oval, and shockingly red with ruby colored carpeting meeting walls of glistening claret. She expected an assortment of Skinema posters or photos of topless screen sirens, but the walls were bare. At the top of the oval, sat Dagwood behind an oddly shaped desk. Realization struck. That's why all the red. What a douche! He's seated at what's meant to be a clitoris. And I'm standing inside a mock vulva!

2020 May 19, Thomas O'Callaghan, No One Will Hear Your Screams: A Novel, WildBlue Press, →ISBN:


Mattel

Portmanteau word, blend of the names of founders Harold Matson and Elliot Handler.

An American toy and entertainment company founded in 1945.


Jewlatto

Jewlatto (plural Jewlattos or Jewlattoes)

A person of mixed Jewish ethnicity or heritage, especially half.


penultimatum

penultimatum (plural penultimatums or penultimata)

penultimatums (plural)
penultimata (plural)

Blend of penultimate + ultimatum, equivalent to pene- + ultimatum.

1796 French Laurence in correspondence with Edmund Burke
To what point of degradation ministers can yet sink, I cannot guess. Far be it from me to limit their genius for the bathos of diplomacy. It is said, however, in some of their papers, that they have sent final instructions. I fear they are like a set of strolling players: "The last night," — "positively the last night," — "the very last night,” — “the last night without fail;" — creeps on with petty pace from day to day. Ultimatum follows ultimatum; till, by and by, you get to a penultimatum, and that leads to the beginning of a negotiation.

(diplomacy, chiefly humorous) A statement of terms or conditions made by one party to another, commonly expressed as an ultimatum in the hopes of compelling immediate compliance with demands, but that then is superseded by more negotiation instead of actual dire consequences.


Kopino

Coordinate term: Kopina

(informal) Korean Filipino (a Filipino with Korean descent; usually one of mixed descent, and especially one who identifies as such)


leadzyme

Blend of lead + ribozyme, as originally discovered in a study relating to the presence of lead; but it has since been found in other environments.

(biochemistry) A small ribozyme that catalyzes the cleavage of a specific phosphodiester bond.


fanlation

fanlation (countable and uncountable, plural fanlations)

I liked his catch of the clever combination of "fan" and "Android" to describe staunch defenders of the Google operating system for smart phones. I especially liked it because I had just suggested that we use a new term for the kind of crowdsourced translation that the likes of Twitter and Facebook do when they engage hordes of enthused users to translate their products: fanlation. Though this may be not as clever as fandroids, it might still serve a very noble purpose: to separate professional translation from the eager-beaver fanlation efforts of passionate users.

2010 January 15, Robert Ewing Finnegan, “ENC: The 157th Tool Kit - Standard Edition”, in Google Groups (TRADNORTE), archived from the original on 2023-08-06:

519. Thinking Fanlation / 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Michigan B, Sheraton Chicago / Program arranged by the Discussion Group on Translation and the Division on East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900.

2013 November, Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, volume 128, number 5, →ISSN, page 1200, column 2:

Fanlation is influencing the way translation studies moves towards. This paper will discuss the following two issues concerning fanlation: creative rewriting and intellectual property infringement.

2015, 廖佳慧(Chia-Hui Liao), “Fanlation in the Digital Age”, in SPECTRUM: NCUE Studies in Language, Literature, Translation, →DOI, pages 39–62:

Fan translation or “fanlation” started in the 1990s on the Internet.

2023, Jieun Kiaer, Ben Cagan, “[Fan Translation] What Is Fan Translation?”, in Pragmatics in Korean and Japanese Translation (Routledge Studies in East Asian Translation), Routledge, →ISBN, page 99:

(fandom slang, uncountable) Translation by fans.

Some publishers have expurgated manga for the American market. But they run the risk of outraging fans, many of whom buy the books in the original Japanese and find fan translations online (known as “fanlations”) to make sure they’re getting their manga pure.

[2005 September 18, Sarah Glazer, “Manga for Girls”, in The New York Times Book Review, page 17, column 1:

And I've heard that once they finish the "Read or Die" manga they'll start "Read or Dream" so we'll get the Paper Sisters story too (I have some fanlations of the first volume; it's kinda cute).

2006 June 6, sp...@deathquaker.org, “Happy B-day to the Best, Broody, Blue-eyed, Bishounen Bad Boy”, in alt.fan.utena (Usenet):

There have been at least a couple of fanlations, one of which was available online until a couple of months ago, taken down at the request of the Tezuka company. Does this indicate that something commercial may be developing for English language readers? I haven't heard.

2006 August 8, KimbaWLion, “10 years behind.”, in alt.fan.furry (Usenet):

I've read the novel fanlations though and if anything the anime padded out the ending a bit.

2006 October 24, Damien Sullivan, “Good Anime. Bad Ending.”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet):

While the link name itself looks kinda bad, I assure you, there's nothing on this section of the website but good, clean Ranma manga scans and fanlations.

2007 August 8, Kaoru Shimitsu, “The Ranma 1/2 Manga Scan Project”, in Google Groups (The Ranma 1/2 Mailing List), archived from the original on 2023-08-06:

I am citing from a “fanlation” and commentary on Sadamoto, accessed July 18, 2007, at http://eva.onegeek.org/pipermail/evangelion.2006-November.

2009, Thomas LaMarre, “[Notes] 15. Full Limited Animation”, in The Anime Machine: A Media Theory of Animation, Minneapolis, Minn., London: University of Minnesota Press, →ISBN, page 342:

Death Note has been retold in published translations and fanlations; […]

2015, Beverley Curran, “Death Note: Multilingual Manga and Multidimensional Translation”, in Beverley Curran, Nana Sato-Rossberg, Kikuko Tanabe, editors, Multiple Translation Communities in Contemporary Japan (Routledge Advances in Translation Studies; 10), New York, N.Y., London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 3:

Self-published spin-offs of actual series, fanlations¹⁴ into English or other languages, circulate freely, are negotiated by fans, looked at, scrutinised.

2015 winter, Griseldis Kirsch, “Japan in the Global Context- (Some) Challenges in the 21st Century”, in Romanian Economic and Business Review, volume 10, number 4, pages 205–206:

The official subs and translations will also likely be of a much higher quality than what was found on KissAnime, where oftentimes "fanlations" were stolen from other groups.

2020 September 5, Timothy Donohoo, “Crunchyroll’s New Tiered Membership Is a BIG Step Forward to Combat Piracy”, in Comic Book Resources, archived from the original on 2022-09-24:

(fandom slang, countable) A translation made by a fan or fans.


Kangla

An ancient capital city of the Kangleipak realm.


Kangla

Blend of Hindi कंगाल (kaṅgāl, “poor, pauper, destitute”) + Bengali বাংলা (baṅla, “Bengal, Bengali language”).

blend

(India, derogatory, offensive, slang, ethnic slur) A Bangladeshi.


Barbillion

(informal) The attainment of 1 billion US dollars in global ticket sales for the 2023 film Barbie.


Faucist

Blend of Fauci + fascist. Coined during the COVID-19 pandemic and named after Dr. Anthony Fauci.

(derogatory) One who believes in or supports restrictive measures, such as lockdowns and mask mandates, in order to contain or eradicate a virus; one who supports Faucism.


climateer

Perhaps from climate + -eer, or a blend of climate + volunteer.

[see title]

2016 December 27, Holman W. Jenkins, Jr., “Climateers Can't Handle the Truth”, in Wall Street Journal:

Let me tell you something about the vegan and the climateer. Well, they love looking into the future, but they don't care about the past, because they don't look too noble back there.

2020 July 20, “Happy Animals”, in I May Destroy You, a male voice (actor):

Climateers adopt the rhetoric of the Apocalypse even as they consume fossil fuels as before because they know modern society and development require it. The world's climateers could do everyone, including themselves, a favor if they stopped pretending they can alter the climate and thought more about adaptation and energy innovations.

(sometimes derogatory) A climate activist; one who makes stabilization of Earth's present climate a political priority.


Faucism

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

coinage

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

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

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

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

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

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


Wiknic

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"Basically, we tried to encourage people in each local area to do their own thing," says Richard Knipel, who has been heavily involved with New York area Wiknics on which the national effort, planned for 18 cities around the United States, is based.

2011 June 24, Monica Hesse, “A Wiki-Picnic for online encyclopedia editors”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-07-28:

I find it regrettable that these events are only in the U.S. There are plenty of excellent Wikipedia contributors all around the world, and there are provisions for "Start[ing] an event for your city" (see the main Wiknic article), so I hope people from other countries will schedule local Wiknics soon.

2013 June 20, Berkeley Brett, “Wikipedia's own Manual of Style”, in alt.usage.english (Usenet):

On a recent Sunday, some members of the Wikimedia D.C. chapter — an eclectic mix of 50 or so area academics, professionals and all-around geeks — met up in Meridian Hill Park, not far from the White House, as part of the nationwide "Great American Wiknic." The group picnic, like the encyclopedia itself, was potluck.

2013 July 16, “The Great American Wiknic [edit]”, in NPR:

(Wikimedia jargon) A picnic organized by Wikimedians.


Pessi

All they need is one crumb of ammunition and they'll go for miles. Such is how the nickname "Pessi" was born. As fans on Twitter look for any possible way to reduce Messi's incredible career to a punchline, they've come up with a reductive way to pretend that he's not one of the best players to ever step on a football pitch.

[2022 December 19, Kyle Bonn, “Why Lionel Messi is called Pessi”, in The Sporting News:


murdelize

en-verb

murdelize (third-person singular simple present murdelizes, present participle murdelizing, simple past and past participle murdelized)

murdelizes (present singular third-person)
murdelizing (participle present)
murdelized (participle past)
murdelized (past)

(US, slang, figuratively) To defeat soundly; to trounce.


vaxhole

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

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


deboonker

(Internet slang, derogatory) A debunker or fact checker.


griddler

If you have used the above techniques you will have made some inroads into solving a Griddler puzzle.

2002, “How To Solve Griddlers”, in puzzle museum:

(see title)

2006, “Griddler of the Day”, in griddlers logic puzzles:

(see title)

2020, Just Puzzles, Griddler Puzzles For Beginners:

(games, puzzles) A puzzle in which cells of a grid must be filled or left blank, according to sets of numbers given at the side of the grid, to reveal a hidden picture.


Kangladesh

/ˌkæŋ.ɡləˈdɛʃ/

/ˌkɑːŋ.ɡləˈdɛʃ/

Blend of Hindi कंगाल (kaṅgāl, “poor, pauper, destitute”) + Bangladesh.

blend

(Bangladesh, derogatory, offensive, slang) Bangladesh.


chestfeeder

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A nursing father, one who chestfeeds (suckles a baby).


jaglion

For instance, the jaguar's optic nerve contains two lion genes, which means a fertile jaglion once existed in the wild.

2022, Jeff Campbell, Glowing Bunnies!?, Lerner Publishing Group, →ISBN:

Maybe he should leave her there until she could hold no and fall to the ground into the jaws of one humongous jaglion.

2021, Tezi Beach, Battle of the Cherubs, Christian Faith Publishing, Incorporated, →ISBN:

Businesses he wants to invest in when Grandma Lorna dies and makes him rich: Jaglion hybrids, ostrich farming to produce eggs with low cholesterol, Nap World where business people can power nap, and rocketry to thrust garbage barges into outer space for quasars and solar flares to fry.

2007, Matthew Limpede, Carve Magazine 2007 Anthology, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 73:

An animal born to a female lion and a male jaguar.


mudeo

Johnnie Barber was hero of Cal Tech's annual freshman-sophomore "Mudeo" at Pasadena on Nov. 10. Chief event of the "Mudeo" is a tire derby in which rival classmen battle to carry tires across others' goal line. Sophomore Barber bore four.

1938 December 5, Life, volume 5, number 23, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 83:

The Mudeo will be held at 2:30 p.m. at the south end of Caltech athletic field, formerly Tournament Park.

1952 October 26, “Annual Mudeo at Caltech Set for Tuesday”, in Los Angeles Times, volume LXXI, Los Angeles, C.A.: Times-Mirror Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 25, column 3:

University of Colorado students opened a two-day spring fun festival with a "Mudeo." The point of the contest was vague to spectators but a score of jeans-clad coeds and students, representing two teams, covered each other with the stuff. A few unwary spectators were dragged into the mire, too.

1955 May 7, “Students Stage 'Mudeo' Frolic”, in The Lincoln Star, →OCLC, page 2:

On the following day there was going to be a schoolwide freshman versus sophomore mudeo (various forms of wrestling and tug of wars that take place in the mud). Late in the evening, into our fraternity comes a whole bunch of sophomores—some from our fraternity and some from outside—and they kidnap us: they want us to be tired the next day so they can win.

1985, Richard P[hillips] Feynman, edited by Edward Hutchings, "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character, New York, N.Y., London: W. W. Norton & Company, published 1997, →ISBN, pages 32–33:

(university slang, dated) An event involving various types of wrestling or tug of war in the mud.


Porkistani

Blend of pork + Pakistani, or from Porkistan + -i.

(India, derogatory, offensive, slang, ethnic slur) A Pakistani.


Kangladeshi

Blend of Hindi कंगाल (kaṅgāl, “poor, pauper, destitute”) + Bangladeshi.

(Bangladesh, derogatory, offensive, slang, ethnic slur) A Bangladeshi or Bengali.


beeball

“Anyone want to see a good beeball game? My old alma mater, Ryderling High, is playing Sunset.”

2001, John Bateson, Chocolate and Bombs Forever, page 59:

“Bee-ball?” Mike asked. “I got an hour.”
[…] It was looking to both of them that there might be no game today; just shots and dribbles and conversation.


cream puff piece

en-noun

cream puff piece (plural cream puff pieces)

In some cases, that was true; they thought I was just another beauty or fashion editor who would do a cream-puff piece about their products .

1995, Paula Begoun, Miriam Bulmer, Don't Go Shopping for Hair Care Products Without Me, Beginning Press, →ISBN, page 17:

This week includes criticism of our story on Laura Bush as a "cream puff piece" and praise for the new invention we featured which turns off other peoples' televisions, called TV-B-Gone.

2004 October 21, “Letters: Laura Bush, and TV-B-Gone”, in NPR:

While he was a player with the Florida Marlins a writer did a “cream puff piece” on him where Renteria told him his family calls him Ricky instead of Rich.

2012 December 6, Jesse Rogers, “Cubs Notes: No Rule 5 pick”, in ESPN:

(journalism, publishing, informal) A positive article or review that is largely based on opinion.


melofarce

melofarce (countable and uncountable, plural melofarces)

(rare) A work or genre combining elements of melodrama and farce.


gymfluencer

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


maiding

Blend of maiden + -ing, through misapprehension of maiden as a case of g-dropping.

At this season o' the year valentines is exceedin prolific, and the arrival of the postman is eagerly watched for by many a maiding o' tender years.

1887 February 25, The Alexandra and Yea Standard, Gobur, Thornton and Acheron Express, Victoria, page 2, column 7:

How in the town of Coventree, a young chap he was fined, for kissing a maiding when she didn't feel inclined.

1900 January 26, The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express, page 22, column 4:

When on the quarter-deck was seen / A maiding fit to be a Queen[.]

1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 84:

(obsolete) A young woman; representing a mispronunciation of the word "maiden".


sexcation

A sexy vacation or a sexcation. There were not to be any feelings involved, or at least no feelings that could end with her nursing a broken heart. A broken heart was the reason she needed a sexcation in the first place, […]

2020, That's The Way The Christmas Cookie Crumbles, Emma Lea:

I know how you're feeling, but maybe it's time to give up on this fairy tale. It's doing you more harm than good. Try a sexcation instead.

2023, Mallory Black, How To One-Night Stand:

During the rest of my week-long sexcation with Étienne, he pretty much went back to being a stereotypical dominant male in the bedroom.

2024 October 2, Kit Jannar, “My Hetero Hunk of a French Lover Asked Me to F*ck Him Like a Woman”, in Cosmopolitan:

(informal) A vacation taken for the purpose of engaging in sexual activity.


meatfluencer

And, as it turns out, the organ meat lifestyle—consuming liver, kidneys, intestines, hearts, testicles, and other edible animal organs—is a passion that’s now uniting the anti-vaccine world, Joe Rogan’s audience, the so-called alt-right, conservative outlets like Evie, and, overall, a new and presumably somewhat constipated brand of meatfluencer.

2022 June 23, Anna Merlan, “Why Are the Weirdest People Online Obsessed With Organ Meats?”, in Vice:

She’s joined in the business by Bella – known by the online persona Steak And Butter Gal, who has a whopping 120K YouTube subscribers and over two million likes on TikTok – and also names women ‘meatfluencers’ Kelly Hogan and Mikhaila Peterson as a ‘huge resource of information’.

2023 February 6, Sian Bradley, “‘Meatfluencers’ are taking over social media, with women leading the charge”, in Metro:

Likewise, meatfluencers say the livestock industry has no significant impact on the climate crisis despite abundant evidence suggesting otherwise.

2024 January 19, Dean Russell, Ben Brock Johnson, Emily Jankowski, “How social media sells the all-meat diet”, in WBUR:

An influencer on social media who promotes a carnivorous diet.


approximeeting

(rare) The practice of people vaguely agreeing to meet and later finalizing the details through mobile phone communication.


dadchelor party

dadchelor party (plural dadchelor parties)

(informal) A party for a man whose partner is expecting a child, similar to a baby shower.


Buffyatric

I'm Harper. Resident breadbaker, librarian, Buffyatric, occasional pirate wench, and quondam Irish harper.

1997 October 28, SjPete, “Stranger enters, goes to corner table”, in alt.pub.coffeehouse.amethyst (Usenet):

Uh-oh, better be careful what you say in that regard. I made the same point here just a few weeks ago and got flamed by one of the posting board's "Buffyatrics" (which group actually doesn't seem distinguishable from the younger set, at least not according to some of the items posted at their website).

1998 October 4, David Samuel Barr, “Joss Answers Questions — Spoilers”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet):

The word "gay" has been adopted as a generic term to cover both male and female homosexuals (aka lesbians). Even *I* know that and I'm an ageing Buffyatric!

2004 April 1, Dave K, “BtVS on new gay channel”, in uk.media.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet):

(fandom slang) An elderly fan of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003).


proplifting

proplifting (countable and uncountable, plural propliftings)

/ˈpɹɒpˌlɪftɪŋ/

Blend of propagation + shoplifting, invented on Reddit 2017 before opening a subreddit the same year under the term, continuing previous online communities flaunting their shoplifting; prop is also used to refer to parts of plants used for propagation within that community.

(uncountable) The action of disseizing a plant nursery or similar of discard plant material to propagate one's own plants.


homiesexual

en-adj

homiesexual (comparative more homiesexual, superlative most homiesexual)

more homiesexual (comparative)
most homiesexual (superlative)

(Internet slang, of a man) Acting homosexual with one’s male friends.


BlueAnon

Blend of blue + QAnon. From blue, the color associated with the Democratic Party and QAnon, another prominent conspiracy theory. First coined by conservatives in March 2021.

The Blue Anon listing also describes its advocates as those who believe right-wing extremists are going to "storm Capitol Hill any day now and 'remove' lawmakers from office, hence the need for the deployment of thousands of National Guard stationed at the U.S. Capitol."

2021 March 9, Ewan Palmer, “What is Blue Anon? Urban Dictionary Restores Phrase For 'Left-Wing Conspiracy Theories'”, in Newsweek:

The phenomenon of left-leaning or anti-Trump accounts posting conspiracy theories on social media platforms, referred to as BlueAnon, came to prominence earlier this year in the wake of the assassination attempt on Trump’s life in July.

2024 November 6, David Gilbert, “Election Denial Conspiracy Theories Are Exploding on X. This Time They’re Coming From the Left”, in WIRED:

(US politics) The collection of alleged conspiracy theories held by left-wingers.


Gaychester

(UK, informal, historical) The gay (homosexual) subculture of Manchester, England, around the early 1990s.


soygurt

en-noun

soygurt (countable and uncountable, plural soygurts)

While some old-school food scientists still relished plans for soygurt, fish hot dogs, reconstituted beef, surimi, and high-fiber barley bars (the stuff of “scientific eating”), reporters often dismissed such fabrications as too “good for you”—a clear turnoff for those who held health and taste to be irreconcilable.

2006, Warren Belasco, Meals to Come: A History of the Future of Food (California Studies in Food and Culture; 16), Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 236:

Most of the time, the snacks are not vegan or even healthy, so I always bring my own snack food (just in case), but I do still check what the airline has to offer. I once had a flight to Toronto where the snack-pack had soygurt, fresh fruit, and sunflower butter with crackers.

2008, Sarah Kramer, Vegan á Go-Go!: A Cookbook & Survival Manual for Vegans on the Road, Vancouver, BC: Arsenal Pulp Press, →ISBN, page 25:


wo/man

[title]

1980, William E. Phipps, Influential Theologians on Wo/man, University Press of America, →ISBN:

The Complete Woman/Man Seminars wants to assure you that God is an intricate part of every complete wo/man’s life. He desires to have an intimate relationship with every wo/man who wants a relationship with Him.

2002, Marcia B. Armstead, “Interpersonal Relationships”, in Olson Perry, Billy E. Wright, editors, The Complete Wo/Man: An Index to the Heart, TEACH Services, Inc., →ISBN, page 18:

The kosmopolis is the imaginary site of the ekklēsia of wo/men, where wo/men citizens gather for feminist religious “world making” for the “democracy to come.”

2016, Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, Congress of Wo/men: Religion, Gender, and Kyriarchal Power, Eugene, Ore.: Wipf & Stock, published 2021, →ISBN, page 108:

The wo/man is the measure of all things / After Protagora’s “Man is a measure of all things” […] They share the same conviction that the theater is a collaborative, multicultural art which stands as a heartbeat of the community trying to find relevant answers to the fundamental question of our existence: “what a piece of work is a wo/man?”

2017, Naum Panovski, “Prologue”, in Meetings with Remarkable Wo/Men: On a Long Journey to Theatre, Bloomington, Ind.: Archway Publishing, →ISBN:


shis

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


hurriquake

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

The year of the hurriquake?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


lawn jart

Blend of lawn dart + jart, a brand of lawn dart.


turmite

Blend of Turing + termite. Coined by Canadian mathematics writer A. K. Dewdney in 1989.

coinage

(computing theory) A two-dimensional variant of a Turing machine in which the head has an orientation in addition to a position and state.


hican

A tree that is a hybrid between a species of hickory (genus Carya) and the pecan, Carya illinoinensis.


folf

On-campus folf consists of making your own course using landmarks, such as statues, buildings and the like as goals. Off campus, there are organized folf courses, such as the one at Riverview Country Club.

2004 July 4, Chris Dreyer, “'Folf': New, improved golf game putts around”, in The Gonzaga Bulletin:


folf

en-verb

folf (third-person singular simple present folfs, present participle folfing, simple past and past participle folfed)

folfs (present singular third-person)
folfing (participle present)
folfed (participle past)
folfed (past)


folf

Dogs and big cats never go out of style, though hybrids like “folves” (fox + wolf) and “drynx” (dragon + lynx) are catching on.

2016 April 2, Kim Wall, “It's not about sex, it's about identity: why furries are unique among fan cultures”, in The Guardian:


Bayou of Pigs

Blend of bayou + Bay of Pigs, a punning allusion to the failed 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion.

(historical) A military filibustering plot attempted in 1981 by Canadian and American citizens, largely affiliated with white supremacist and Ku Klux Klan groups, to overthrow the government of Dominica and restore former prime minister Patrick John to power.


harrier carrier

en-noun

harrier carrier (plural harrier carriers)

Blend of harrier + aircraft carrier. From the Hawker-Siddeley Harrier GR.1/2/3 & AV-8A and the McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II, the Harrier jump jet named after the harrier bird.

aircraft carrier
aircraft carrier#English

(nautical, military, aviation, slang) A small light fast aircraft carrier specialized in operating VTOL aircraft, used for controlling sea lanes, convoy escort, and anti-submarine patrol (ASW).

en:Hawker-Siddeley Harrier
en:McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II


lightning carrier

lightning carrier (plural lightning carriers)

From Blend of lightning + aircraft carrier. From the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II, the Lightning II jump jet, itself named after WWII Lockheed P-38 Lightning I, in turn, named after the lightning bolt and lightning.

(nautical, military, aviation, slang) A small light fast aircraft carrier specialized in operating VTOL aircraft, used for controlling sea lanes, convoy escort, and, anti-submarine patrol (ASW)

en:Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II
en:Lockheed P-38 Lightning


trifficult

en-adj

trifficult (not generally comparable, comparative more trifficult, superlative most trifficult)

more trifficult (comparative)
most trifficult (superlative)

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Blend of tricky + difficult. Alternatively, blend of triple + difficult, from the analogy of di- + fficult.
The Rice University Neologisms Database listed the term since as early as 10 June 2008 as a blend of trying + difficult. Later popularised by a 2020 episode of the 2018 Australian animated children's TV series Bluey.

its very trifficult living with out internet. I do get to see lots of lovely cafés for their wifi though...

Minimum 3 & 1/2 hours drive tomorrow. Which is fine, as I predict that walking will be trifficult! :/

2014 September 24, DigiDaughter, Twitter:

Bluey: [voiceover] Bingo was trying to eat cherry tomatoes with her fork.

2020 March 23, "Favourite Thing", season 2, episode 7 of Bluey

(Internet slang, humorous) Of considerable difficulty.


for real life

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Perhaps a blend of for real + real life. Popularised by the 2018 Australian animated children's TV series Bluey, but attested earlier.

Sure, letting the neighbourhood kids set up a doctor's surgery in your loungeroom can end in chaos and crocodile attacks (as in the episode, The Doctor). But when Bingo goes to hospital for real life, the neighbours are at the ready with healing help (episode: Bumpy and the Wise Old Wolfhound).

2020 January 17, Mary Bolling, “What parents can keep learning from Bluey”, in Australian Broadcasting Corporation:

(originally Bluey fandom slang, informal) Synonym of in reality, occurring in real life as opposed to play or make believe.


croffle

A blanket of croffles (hollow polythene or polypropylene balls) is an effective way of covering the surface of liquid in the tank. The croffles have a raised seam so that they interlock and do not rotate which would otherwise expose a wetted surface to the tank roof space.

2002, Ian Smallwood, Solvent Recovery Handbook, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 58:

(usually in the plural) A small hollow polythene or polypropylene ball used in various technical applications.


Bernedoodle

Bernese mountain dog
Bernese mountain dog

A dog that is a cross between a Bernese mountain dog and a poodle.


800-pound gorilla in the room

Blend of 800-pound gorilla + elephant in the room.

blend

gorilla in the room
gorilla in the room#English


burroti

Tava Indian Kitchen, a chain in San Francisco known locally as the "Indian Chipotle," offers "burroti." In this Indian burrito, traditional ingredients such as fresh paneer cheese are coated with a choice of Indian sauces and rolled with brown rice in a foil-wrapped roti.

2016, Sarah Lohman, Eight Flavors: The Untold Story of American Cuisine, New York, N.Y. […]: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 115:

Customers can create their own bowls or build their own 'burroti', a roti-style burrito, or build a plate if they're feeling extra snacky.

2023 July 14, Jen Zielinski, “Different and delicious Indian restaurant descends on Kelowna”, in The Vernon Morning Star, Vernon, B.C.: Black Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-07-19:

A fusion dish based on the popular Mission burrito, but prepared using Indian ingredients.


gaycation

(informal) A vacation/holiday tailored to gay (homosexual) people, or based around gay subculture.


Chinada

For the tiny 35-million population of Canada, including some selfish former Hongkongers who landed shortly after the Tiananmen massacre in June 1989, it would be a nightmare to witness the country that they love transform into a Chinada.

2014 February 20, “Canada Says No To Chinada”, in South China Morning Post, Hong Kong: South China Morning Post Publishers Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-09-11:

In recent years, a reverse brain drain has seen Canadian-born Chinese moving back to Hong Kong and China in search of better job opportunities (there are up to 300,000 Canadian passport holders in Hong Kong). ¶ They've been replaced by a new wave of Chinese arrivals, this time from the mainland. As one commentator puts it: "Forget Hongcouver, here comes Chinada!"

2017 June 29, Simon Ostheimer, “World's best Chinatowns”, in CNN, archived from the original on 2023-07-27:

Unsurprisingly, Skelly and his team are already painting what happened away as simple corruption. Skelly laid the groundwork for this in his morning blog, writing "the Crown will rely on procedural BS or a biased judge." Afterwards on Twitter he wrote, "welcome to Chinada."

2021 June 28, Mack Lamoureux, quoting Adam Skelly, “BBQ Bro Who Raised $350K to Fight Lockdowns Defeated by His Lawyer's Paperwork”, in VICE, archived from the original on 2023-05-15:

At the Dec. 15 event, which The Gazette attended, Pawlowski told the crowd "we are in the middle of tyranny," comparing COVID-19 public health measures to his childhood in Poland under a communist government. ¶ [Artur] Pawlowski also said he calls Canada "Chinada" because of the fines and charges he has faced for breaching pandemic-related health measures.

[2022 December 26, Jack Farrell, “Arden rental policies under scrutiny after controversial event”, in St. Albert Gazette, St. Albert, A.B.: Great West Newspapers, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-12-29:

People's Republic of China
People's Republic of China#Proper noun

(usually derogatory) A version of Canada influenced or politically dominated by the People's Republic of China.


helitack

A member of a team of wildland firefighters who are transported by helicopter to fight a fire.


playcare

I think I'll let Liz go back to playcare tomorrow, Annie. She's better now. Still, I'd hate to let her spread that virus around the day care center!

1984 June 6, Lynn Johnston, For Better or for Worse (comic):

A daycare for small children structured around play activities; daycare in general as contrasted with typically more structured preschools.


Bugthesda

(derogatory) Bethesda (video game developer and publisher)


Blissymbolics

Blissymbolics has been used to assist people who are suffering from aphasia, a medical condition that hinders them in using, reading, or understanding written verbal languages.

2009, Constantine Stephanidis, The Universal Access Handbook, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 2:


death by a thousand paper cuts

Blend of death by a thousand cuts + paper cut. The "thousand cuts" of the original phrase are now inflicted by paper, a metonym for bureaucracy.

(idiomatic) An ultimate negative outcome, such as the failure of a project, brought about by an excessive number of bureaucratic hurdles.


Cotai

Blend of Coloane + Taipa, the areas immediately south and north of the area.

The first phase of the project in Macao's Cotai area, set to open in 2007, will feature seven resort hotels with more than 10,000 rooms, casinos and eight entertainment theaters as well as a convention center, said the Las Vegas Sands chairman, Sheldon G. Adelson.

2005 March 19, “World Business Briefing Asia: China: Casinos In Macao Deal”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-05-29, Business Day:

Wynn Macau , a unit of Wynn Resorts Ltd , said on Monday it would pay $193.43 million to the Macau government for use of land to develop its resort project in the Cotai area.
In a filing to the Hong Kong stock exchange, Wynn Macau said it formally accepted the terms and conditions of a land concession contract from the Macau government regarding about 51 acres of land in the Cotai area for development into a resort containing a five-star hotel, gaming areas, retail, entertainment, food and beverage, spa and convention offerings.

2011 September 11, Donny Kwok, “Wynn to pay $193 mln to Macau for Cotai project development”, in Muralikumar Anantharaman, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2016-08-19, Market News:

The core of Macau's gaming industry is moving to Cotai, which is already home to Galaxy Entertainment, Sands China and Melco Crown Entertainment.

2012 May 9, “Wynn's profits rise but game plan is for Cotai”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-09-16:

Galaxy shares soared 129 percent in 2013 as Lui and his son Francis expanded their biggest property, Galaxy Macau, in the city's Cotai area to capitalize on record visits by gamblers from China.

2014 January 10, Matthew G. Miller, Peter Newcomb, “Bloomberg Billionaires Index: The rich got $524 billion richer in 2013”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2014-01-10:

As he flew in, he saw his new casino towering over Cotai, its structural work finished months before, ready to open as soon as the workers installed beds and furniture and of course the baccarat tables. He realized he was looking at the perfect four-billion-dollar excuse.
Cheung had bitten. Now Duberman stood on the roof of the Sky, looking at the bridges that connected Cotai with the old Macao.

2016, Alex Berenson, The Wolves (Fiction), Wheeler Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 380:

Taipa was once two islands that were slowly joined together by silt from the Pearl River. A similar physical joining has happened to Taipa and Coloane because of land reclamation from the sea. The new strip of land joining the two islands is known as Cotai (from Coloane and Taipa).

2017 May, Emily Matchar, Piera Chen, “Macau”, in Hong Kong (Lonely Planet), 17th edition, Lonely Planet Global Limited, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 192:


quabla operator

From quabla (blend of quantum + nabla) + operator.

compound

d'Alembert operator
d'Alembert operator#English


whorenalist

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


painal

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(pornography) Painful anal sex; specifically, heterosexual anal sex that causes pain to the woman.


ewphoria

en-noun

ewphoria (usually uncountable, plural ewphorias)

Jacey felt a surge of ewphoria at the bar when a couple of drunken old men leered at her.

I got hassled by protestors outside planned parenthood a couple times before they banned that and it was definitely some r/ewphoria how they hassled me to “save the life inside you” or whatever, yay I passed but also go away please

2023 April 3, Throwaway__3939, “Archived copy”, in Reddit, r/MtF, archived from the original on 2024-06-11:

This is so relatable, but also kinda good for me sometimes? Like the one time I got catcalled in girlmode and it was actually weirdly euphoric. Ewphoria, as it were.

2023 September 25, Not-Jesus666, “Archived copy”, in Reddit, r/TwoSentenceHorror, archived from the original on 2024-06-11:

I'm not even entirely sure whether it was genuine or just a prank. But him talking over me and telling me about something I've personally experienced and then telling me I'm just confusing things really gave me the most confusing mix of annoyance and ewphoria I've experienced so far.

2024 May 19, Torn_wulf, “I really wasn't expecting to deal with mansplaining this soon and especially not from a trans man.”, in Reddit, r/ewphoria, archived from the original on 2024-06-11:

(chiefly transgender slang) A combination of gender euphoria with feelings of disgust, revulsion, or discomfort, resulting from one's gender identity being affirmed by bigoted, creepy, or predatory behavior by others.


Zoogler

The recent influx of Zooglers — those are Zurich's Google employees to you and me — has helped the city up the style ante.

2009, Condé Nast's Traveler, volume 44, page 80:

(informal) An employee of the Google corporation who is based in Zurich, Switzerland.


hydraucone

Blend of hydraulic + cone? Coined by William M. White, who obtained a U.S. patent for it in 1917.

A form of draft tube used with a hydroturbine, having a bell-mouth shape and a flat plate deflector near the mouth.


Schrödinger's douchebag

Schrödinger's douchebag (plural Schrödinger's douchebags)

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"Schrödinger’s douchebag" [i]s someone who makes an unacceptable remark and then waits to see the reaction before declaring retrospectively whether they meant it for real or were "just joking".

2016 August 27, Mark Thompson, “From Trump to Brexit rhetoric: how today's politicians have got away with words”, in The Guardian, retrieved 2023-09-24:

Schrodinger's douchebag refers to someone who tests what they say before taking responsibility for what they've said.

2019 August 14, Gyles Brandreth, Have You Eaten Grandma?: Or, the Life-Saving Importance of Correct Punctuation, Grammar, and Good English, →ISBN, retrieved 2023-09-24, page 218:

Vivek Ramaswamy is an American politician capturing conservative and immigrant hearts but stuck in a high school persona: a Schrodinger's douchebag.

2023 September 18, Neil Mahto, “Vivek Ramaswamy has no platform”, in The Johns Hopkins News-Letter, retrieved 2023-09-24:

(Canada, US, slang, derogatory, vulgar) A person who makes offensive or inflammatory remarks and characterizes these statements as either sincere or joking based on the reactions of others.


kikesucker

Lay off the booze and the grass and get back to me when you are willing to be better than a lying, boozing kikesucker.

1996 December 22, Tickle Me Grabner, “Re: Some Holocaust Facts”, in alt.revisionism (Usenet):

It is not my bigotry you fecal-minded kikesucker, it is the CIC's own words.

2008 May 7, Anarchore, “Re: PROOF: Canada Really is like pre-Nazi Germany”, in de.soc.politik.misc (Usenet):

Cuz he and Harper are doing the work for the Kikes so well. I love how the Big Jewry banking scams are ruining you Kikesuckers! Maybe some time on the streets will fully revise your worldview.

2008 December 19, horo...@instruction.com, “Re: Why doesn't Harper fire Flaherty?”, in can.politics (Usenet):

(slang, ethnic slur, vulgar, offensive) An individual who is groveling or sycophantic towards Jews or Jewish interests.


Dimes Square

Blend of Dimes + Times Square, after the Dimes restaurant located at the intersection of Canal Street and Division Street.

(US, informal) A microneighborhood of Manhattan, roughly located between Chinatown and the Lower East Side neighborhoods of New York City.


digraphoid

Blend of directed + graphoid, after digraph (“directed graph”). Coined by American mathematician George J. Minty in a 1966 article.

coinage

We now wish to consider what part of the theory of directed graphs can be built up in the wider context of graphoids/matroids. To this end, we shall introduce the concepts of digraphoid (short for “directed graphoid”) and orientable graphoid. […] A digraphoid is a structure consisting of: (1º) a graphoid, and (2º) a partitioning of each circuit and cocircuit of the graphoid, each being partitioned into two sets; this partitioning is to satisfy the axiom: […]

[1966, George J. Minty, “On the Axiomatic Foundations of the Theories of Directed Linear Graphs, Electrical Networks and Network-Programming”, in Journal of Mathematics and Mechanics, volume 15, number 3, →JSTOR, pages 506–507:

(combinatorics) A dual pair of regular matroids.


maingaining

(bodybuilding) Maintaining a similar body fat percentage while gradually increasing muscle mass over time.


bandango

en-noun

bandango (plural bandangoes or bandangos)

Asimina triloba
Asimina triloba#Translingual

(US, colloquial) A pawpaw (Asimina triloba).


geomorphosite

A specific location or area on Earth's surface characterized by distinctive and significant landforms, geological features, or geomorphological processes.


sportsfinder

(photography, historical) A kind of camera viewfinder made from wire rectangles, including a smaller one nearer the eye and a larger one further away, with no optics. The smaller rectangle was centered in the larger, which would then give an indication of what would be included in the photograph.


maingain

en-verb

maingain (third-person singular simple present maingains, present participle maingaining, simple past and past participle maingained)

maingains (present singular third-person)
maingaining (participle present)
maingained (participle past)
maingained (past)

(bodybuilding) To increase muscle mass while maintaining one's current body fat percentage.


semigration

Semigration – where South Africans move between provinces - has overtaken emigration as a key driver for house sales in SA's largest metros, according to property data compiled by FNB.

2023 August 13, Jan Cronje, “House sales: Semigration growth much stronger than emigration”, in News24:

Semigration to The Western Cape has become a South African trend and the reasons are all accumulating with a big momentum shift starting during Covid.

2023 April 17, “Semigration – the reasons why South Africans are relocating to the Western Cape”, in Cape Business News:

(South Africa) The movement of a person or persons within the same country or national region, for the purpose of permanent relocation of residence.


Ashkephardi

You, my friend, are a Sephardi, an Ashkenazi boundary crosser, the multicultural Ashkephardi, an ally to all … or just someone with a darn good vocabulary and possibly a belly to boot!

2008, Lisa Alcalay Klug, Cool Jew: The Ultimate Guide for Every Member of the Tribe, Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 65:

My children, unlike me, my parents and grandparents, are not fully Sephardi. As their father is an Ashkenazi Jew, Zara and Asher are ‘Ashkephardi’: part Sephardi, part Ashkenazi.

2012, Elana Benjamin, My Mother's Spice Cupboard: A Journey from Baghdad to Bombay to Bondi, Port Campbell Press, →ISBN, page 273:

Max Guttman (ze/zir/zirs) is a non-binary transgender and Ashkephardi Jewish educator, artist and writer.

2019, Freiya Benson, editor, Trans Love: An Anthology of Transgender and Non-Binary Voices, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 288:

(Judaism, rare) Being both Ashkenazi and Sephardi simultaneously.


MSDNC

Blend of MSNBC + DNC (“Democratic National Committee”).

blend

“[…] MSDNC (Comcast) & @CNN are doing everything possible to make the Caronavirus [sic]^([sic]) look as bad as possible,” President Trump tweeted on February 26, a sentiment he would repeat throughout the year.

2022, Donald Trump, quotee, edited by Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Democracy Amid Crises: Polarization, Pandemic, Protests, and Persuasion, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 118:

(Internet slang, politics, derogatory, humorous) The news channel MSNBC, regarded as having a bias in favor of the Democratic Party, the major centre-left political party in the United States.


purrito

2016, @cats_of_instagram, Cats on Instagram
Did someone order a purrito?

My cat is mad because: I made her into a purrito.

2020, Heloísa Nora, Reasons My Cat is Mad:

Dad bundled Studmuffin into a purrito with the blue towel, but my familiar had stopped purring.

2023, Maddy Savanna, Witchy Business Mysteries: Books 1-5:

(informal, humorous) A cat wrapped in a blanket or towel etc.


amidicity

en-noun

amidicity (countable and uncountable, plural amidicities)

(chemistry) A linear measure of the strength of an amide bond in an organic compound, based on the computed enthalpy of hydrogenation when compared to the reference compounds dimethylacetamide and azaadamantane-2-one.


screeno

It led to a drive against screeno as used in movie houses thruout the city.

(historical) A form of bingo played in American movie theaters during the Great Depression, with numbers displayed on the screen.


Locktober

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It's "Locktober" again, the month where men willingly lock their genitalia up in chastity devices in the hopes of making it "hands-free" for 31 days.

2018 October 25, Key Barrett [pseudonym], “What spending two weeks in a chastity device taught me about my sexuality and my marriage”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-08-09:

Male chastity describes the act of attaching a device to your cock that prevents you from masturbating or having sex–this can also be done by your lover or Dom/me in service to them or an event like Locktober. Most chastity devices stop you from being able to get an erection. That's half the fun.

2022 October 6, Demeter DeLune, “How to use a chastity cage (on you or your sub)”, in The Daily Dot, archived from the original on 2023-08-28:

Just as Halloween decorations at CVS have become the harbinger of fall, an uptick in conversations about male chastity can only mean October—or Locktober—is around the corner.

2023 September 30, Emell Derra Adolphus, “Locktober: How Giving Up Control of Your Penis Can Set You Free”, in The Daily Beast, archived from the original on 2023-10-05:

An event or challenge in which the participants wear a chastity cage around their penis for the whole month of October, with the key typically being kept by their partner.


swordography

Blend of sword + choreography. By surface analysis, sword + -o- + -graphy.

surf

Do you know what? I had so much fun. The swordography... you know, I think we needed more swordography, to be honest. Loved the sword fight.

2023, 31:26 from the start, in Strictly Come Dancing, season 21, episode 3, spoken by Zara McDermott:

(theater, dance) Choreography using (prop) swords.


Isn'treal

Blend of isn't real + Israel, referring to the speaker's belief in the illegitimacy of the state of Israel.

Jews demand that Isn'tReal be at least 80% Jewish, while everywhere else, Jews demand multiculturalism and diversity.

1998 December 30, anonymous author, “Re: arab black metal”, in alt.revisionism (Usenet):

You don't understand. Iran is not Turkey, Lebanon or Isn'treal. Even Iranian pop music is not openly sold. There is no way in hell that any Black Metal band is going to be emerging from that country any time soon.

1999 May 9, Zahhak, “Re: arab black metal”, in alt.music.black-metal (Usenet):

This is a great condemnation of not only the war criminals of the nation of Isn'treal, but of the rogue government (and its pussy supporters) that occupies the institutions of America.

2004 November 15, Turin, “Remembering Yasser”, in soc.men (Usenet):

(slang, offensive, derogatory) Israel, viewed as an illegitimate state.


weekiversary

The two, who are adorably celebrating their "weekiversary" in the shots, both snapped selfies by the beach, indicating they chose somewhere by the ocean to celebrate their first seven days as husband and wife (the lovebirds did not reveal the exact location of their getaway).

2014 July 2, Alyssa Toomey, “Newlyweds Jill Duggar and Derick Dillard Share Romantic Honeymoon Pics, Celebrate "Weekiversary"”, in E! News:

This couple celebrates their “weekiversary” every week, without skipping. Ever. […] The responses on their weekiversary posts have dropped from dozens of “You two!!” and “Cutest couple ahhhhh!!” comments in the early days of their relationship to just a single comment from one of their moms.

2018 March 24, Krista Burton, “Are You Really in Love if It’s Not on Instagram?”, in The New York Times:

(informal) A commemorative event like an anniversary, but taking place weekly rather than annually.


blacklash

Coordinate term: whitelash

This was the blacklash. The whitelash came, too, and blood flowed in the streets.

1970 January 20, John H. Britton, “Into age of sick seventies”, in Jet magazine, page 7:

Nor is this the only case of racial thinking in contemporary thought . A "blacklash" may partly motivate the Afrocentrist movement among African-American scholars.

1994, Dean Keith Simonton, Greatness: Who Makes History and Why, page 30:

Such thinking contributes to preexisting resentful attitudes towards lesbians and gay men and prompts what Gates calls a "blacklash" or a view that being lesbian or gay is a chosen identity and a mere inconvenience, whereas being black is to "inherit a legacy of hardship and inequity" (p. 42).

2000, Beverly Greene, Gladys L. Croom, Education, Research, and Practice in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered Psychology, page 21:

A backlash by black people against other ethnicities or groups.


seahabilitation

The afternoon of my arrival, for example, I was involved in an extended session in some shoulder-high zippers in front of my campsite, a form of "seahabilitation," as my commercial fishermen friends refer to time offshore, [and] its cure-all therapeutic effects. […] The seahab effect of that marathon surf session was just kicked in when […]

2002 September 16, Allan Weisbecker, In Search of Captain Zero: A Surfer's Road Trip Beyond the End of the Road, Penguin, →ISBN, page 7:

It's indeed a time for a much-needed replenishment: some seahabilitation, if you will. A cerebral douche-like flushing of neurotransmitters in my smoke-, booze-, and heartache-soaked brain. To make the world seem new again. We descend into the silence (and then crash) together. I glance[…]

2018 September 12, Sean Phelan, Saltwater Redemption: A Shore Memoir, iUniverse, →ISBN:

Sorry for the things I said when it was winter.. currently undergoing seahabilitation 🏝

2019 March 24, Hope Allen (@hopescope), Instagram photo

(colloquial) Emotional replenishment afforded by time spent at the beach (surfing, swimming, etc), viewed as therapeutic.


Pissrael

Time for Pissrael to give up ITS weapons of mass destruction.

2004 November 8, John Keller, “Re: ~ I'D LIKE TO SEE THE PUSSY U.S. SOLDIERS FIGHT AN ARMY! ~”, in alt.fan.howard-stern (Usenet):

I have as much right to hate Pissrael as you have to hate France. I have MORE RIGHT.

2006 July 22, slip_i...@yahoo.com, “Re: Pat Buchanan: No, This Is Not 'Our War'”, in alt.conspiracy (Usenet):

Actually Pissrael should be embargoed.

2006 September 9, Gary Renzetti, “Re: Gaza: The new Warsaw Ghetto”, in soc.culture.israel (Usenet):


USrael

Given the mass of U.S. power that is keeping the Jewish state in place, the right name for it is 'USrael', which will be used in the following text.

1999, G̲h̲ulām Ḥaidar, Pakistan, Some Notes, page 40:

The United States and Israel are preparing to attack Iran because of their alleged development of nuclear weapons, which Iran has denied on many occasions. Of the Iraqis who warned the United States that it was mistaken about the WMD, Saddam Hussein was executed, Tariq Aziz is awaiting execution. Which Iranian officials is USrael going to hang after their country is laid to waste?

2013, William Blum, America's Deadliest Export: Democracy—The Truth About US Foreign Policy and Everything Else, Black Point, NS: Fernwood Publishing, →ISBN, page 62:

It accompanies a distinct missionary fervour on the part of anti-Israeli activists that often results in the unsavoury combination of Israhell and USrael.

2020, Thomas Klikauer, Alternative Für Deutschland: The AfD - Germany's New Nazis Or Another Populist Party?, page 175:

(slang, derogatory) The United States and Israel, considered as a political unit.


Tasmaniac

No-one was terribly interested to hear about the findings of the Menzies Institute, which showed that Tasmaniacs have a lower rate of congenital malformation than the Australian average.

2004, Nicholas Shakespeare, In Tasmania, Harvill Press, p. 27

Irving was shocked that the Tasmaniac even knew that word.

2015, Stephen Ostrow, Magic Irving and His Magic Shoppe:

I need to recharge my batteries to have the energy to take on whatever surprise-challenge some ‘Tasmaniac’ has lined up for me.

2016, Miroslav Vesely, The Nude Kitchen Hand:

(colloquial, humorous) Someone from Tasmania.