Jate

For example, a Jate shipper would say that “Jack and Kate are my OTP.”

2008, Jon Lachonis, Amy J. Johnston, Lost Ate My Life: The Inside Story of a Fandom Like No Other, unnumbered page:

Of course, 'Jate' fans may hope that she is destined to marry Jack, and become the 'Shephard' listed on the wall.

2010, Robert Dougherty, Lost: It Only Ends Once: An Unofficial Last Look, page 44:

I really enjoyed this episode – Jack and Kate get caught in a net (Loved the Jate this episode.)

2012, Erin Leslie, Lost After Lost, page 67:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Jack Shephard and Kate Austen from the television series Lost.


Suliet

The Suliet and Skate “shippers” (those who want to see Sawyer and Juliet or Sawyer and Kate together) went to war about whether Juliet was right or not.

2009, Nikki Stafford, Finding Lost, Season Five, unnumbered page:

If you’re a Suliet fan, then the defining moment is probably the dock scene from “LaFleur,” when Sawyer — using all his impossible powers of charm — convinces Juliet to stay on the island for just two more weeks.

2013 March 22, Darren Franich, “'Lost': Sawyer, Kate, and Juliet - Best TV Couple of All Time?”, in Entertainment Weekly:

But her heartfelt proclamation of love for Sawyer and his reaction to her imminent demise made many of us dig Suliet for the first (and last) time.

2015, James O'Ehley, Erin Willard, editors, The Take2 Guide to Lost: The Ultimate Compendium, unnumbered page:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters James "Sawyer" Ford and Juliet Burke from the television series Lost.


mayhole

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[…] held an annual Mayhole Celebration, "a feminist takeoff on the maypole"; […]

1996, Harper's, volume 292, numbers 1748-1753, page 72:

Andreja Novakovic and Betty Draper used to dance around the “mayhole” in white dresses every spring […]

2010, James B. South, Rod Carveth, Mad Men and Philosophy: Nothing Is as It Seems:

(rare) A hole dug in the ground for dancing around on May Day, a feminist alternative to the supposedly phallic maypole.


cursorjacking

Blend of cursor + hijacking; compare clickjacking.

(Internet, neologism) The malicious practice of tricking a user into clicking a visual element they did not intend to click, by manipulating the cursor's apparent location.


anex

A comprehensive range of China's products, from machine tools and computers to jade ornaments and fireworks, is displayed in the gray, 10-story block building in Central Canton and in two nearby anexes.

1971 May 5, “Chinese Lead Deals At Own Trade Fair”, in The Baltimore Sun, via Newspapers.com, page A2:

Social Serv. Ofcs., Court House Anex, Scranton

1975 May 18, Lackawana County Commissioners, “You've Got Our New Number (advertisement)”, in The Scranton Times-Tribune, Scranton, Pennsylvania, via Newspapers.com, page A-8:


impeachy

en-adj

impeachy (comparative impeachier, superlative impeachiest)

impeachier (comparative)
impeachiest (superlative)

Blend of impeach + peachy, equivalent to impeach + -y.

(politics, humorous) Relating to impeachment.


maskhole

I did not mean Masshole. I meant Maskhole a virtue-signaling, white-privilege 'progressive' who knows nothing about COVID, but believes he does and also believes he has some inherent right to tell everyone else how to live their lives on account of COVID.

2020 May 15, Ed Mosca, “Don’t be a #Maskhole”, in Granite Grok, Newstex blogs:

Well, look, I wear a mask, I try not to be a maskhole about it. If I see — if I see somebody who doesn't have a mask, I don't call 911.

2021 March 18, John Kennedy, quotee, “SEN. JOHN KENNEDY (R-LA) IS INTERVIEWED ON FOX NEWS”, in Political Transcript Wire, Lanham:

Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene described House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as “speaker maskhole,” as she revealed that she has now been sent two warning letters for not wearing a face mask in Congress.

2021 May 21, James Crump, “Marjorie Taylor Greene Calls Nancy Pelosi ‘Speaker Maskhole’ Over House Fines”, in Newsweek:

(slang, derogatory) A person who harasses others for not wearing a face mask.


NCTzen

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NCTzens have made it their mission to get these boys to the top no matter what the cost.

2017 November, Andrea Cervantes, “Kpop 4 Dummies”, in Slick Magazine, page 37:

Then, K-pop fans, majority^([sic]) of whom are NCTzens who wielded their neon green light sticks, went extra wild when NCT Dream was called upon and conquered a Manila stage for the first time.

2019 March 24, Carla Mortel Baricau, “K-Pop Acts, Local Band Conquer Free-Concert Stage”, in BusinessMirror, page 4:

Says member Haechan: “We'll keep on working hard to meet the expectations” of the group's devoted fan army, NCTzens.

(fandom slang) A fan of the K-pop boy band NCT.


sturddlefish

For quotations using this term, see Citations:sturddlefish.

A fish that is a cross between a Russian sturgeon and an American paddlefish.


phygital

/ˈfɪd͡ʒɪtl̩/

(neologism, marketing) A sales method that integrates a physical point of sale and digital tools.


brick venereal disease

Blend of brick veneer + venereal disease

blend

(Australia, informal, derogatory) The homogeneous presence of brick veneer in suburban housing developments.


plandemic

At the end of the day, though, it all comes down to implementation and execution. Yet currently we are experiencing a “plandemic”—a proliferation of plans. Unless and until the focus shifts to competent execution, the nation’s preparedness posture will not be solidly grounded.

2006, Frank J. Cilluffo, “Biodefense and Pandemic Influenza”, in Hearing Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations. Special Hearing: May 23, 2006—Washington, DC (United States Senate, One Hundred Ninth Congress, Second Session), Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, pages 22–23:

Does it justify the "plandemic" of plans that have consumed our society over the last year? Everyone now seems to have a pandemic plan – governments, businesses, schools, churches, universities. There are more pandemic plans in the world than there are human cases of bird flu.

2006 July 11, Peter Curson, “Beware the pandemic of hysteria”, in The Sydney Morning Herald:

In hospital, ventilators were bought, stocks were piled and thousand of man-hours were spent sitting on committees and drafting doomsday plans. Result? No pandemic but a national plandemic.

2010 April, “Lemmingaid: they say it's painless”, in JICS, volume 11, number 2, →DOI:

(informal, neologism) A proliferation or overabundance of plans, especially plans for a pandemic.


bossware

From boss + -ware, or blend of boss + malware.

Our organisation sent us laptops to work from home, but it has some very intrusive bossware installed on it.

2020, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Inside the Invasive, Secretive “Bossware” Tracking Workers, While aimed at helping employers, bossware puts workers’ privacy and security at risk by logging every click and keystroke, covertly gathering information for lawsuits, and using other spying features that go far beyond what is necessary and proportionate to manage a workforce.

(informal) Software installed on employees' computers for the purpose of allowing a manager to track their working time and activity.


Hiddleswift

With those earnings, it's nothing but the best for “Hiddleswift” as they canoodle around the world in a private plane.

2016 July 12, Maria Puente, “For Taylor Swift, it's a cash advance”, in Lawrence Journal-World, page 7B:

Due to work commitments the honeymoon period finally came to an end and Hiddleswift were forced to spend time apart.

2017, Naimi Corsani, Tom Hiddleston - The Biography:

Could this be referring to Hiddleswift's short-lived romance?

2017 November 29, Falin Hakeem, “Taylor Swift cements her bad girl status in 'Reputation'”, in The Oakland Post, Oakland University, page 15:

(slang) The romantic relationship between English actor Tom Hiddleston and American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift (together briefly in 2016).


informance

Informances may occur in the evening on a traditional stage, or during the school day in the class or rehearsal room.

2011, Scott Watson, Using Technology to Unlock Musical Creativity, page 30:

A stage or musical performance with educational elements.


bruncheon

en-noun

bruncheon (countable and uncountable, plural bruncheons)

(humorous) Synonym of brunch (“meal eaten between breakfast and lunch times”)


glam-ma

I've often been told that I'm a Glam-ma, but even Glam-mas are allowed to make fashion mistakes.

2018, Newmark, Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Wonder of Christmas:

And....let all the 'Glam-mas' say AMEN! My daughter had wanted to deliver naturally. Such a wonderful thought! But when Olivier was non-cooperative, she decided upon an epidural!

2017, Rhonda Wilson-Dikoko, Release the Dove Workbook, page 54:


Uncle Tomahawk

They criticized the old leaders as “Uncle Tomahawks.”

1994, David De Leon, Leaders from the 1960s, page 4:

The supposed “Uncle Tomahawks” included the leadership of the Five Tribes, and the Chicago conference and subsequent NIYC rhetoric alerted the more-conservative Five Tribes leaders of potential challenges to their rule […]

2013, Mark Edwin Miller, Claiming Tribal Identity, page 110:

(derogatory, ethnic slur) A Native American who is subservient to white authority.


Bluerina

(historical) A variety of Amberina glassware with blue coloration.


ammonitrate

(agriculture) A nitrogen fertilizer based on ammonium nitrate.


Floridiot

(slang, derogatory) A native or resident of Florida; a Floridian.


bonnet ripper

Blend of bonnet + bodice ripper. From being a genre of romance having women wearing bonnets, and frequently shown on the covers wearing such; whose characters harken back to the historical settings of bodice rippers.

[…] or you're reading a bonnet ripper about Jebediah the Amish farmer casting his steely gaze at Abigail the spinster, […]

2018, “How to Be a Perfect Christian: Your Comprehensive Guide to Flawless Spiritual Living”, in The Babylon Bee, Crown Publishing Group:

The bonnet-ripper usually features a female protagonist who comes from an Amish or Mennonite background.

2017, Bernice M. Murphy, Key Concepts in Contemporary Popular Fiction, Edinburgh University Press:

In her article in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Valerie Weaver-Zercher, author of Thrill of the Chaste: The Allure of Amish Romance Novels, educates readers on the phenomenon of the bonnet ripper.

2015, Jack Holmes Jr., New in Anabaptist Studies, Johns Hopkins University Press:

The dubious appeal of the bonnet-ripper: "His warm, gentle lips moved over hers, and she returned the favor, until Hannah thought they might both take flight right then and there. Finally desperate for air, they parted."

2009, Michelle Legro, “Semi-sweet Wallace Shawn, Dining with John Irving”, in The New Yorker Magazine:

What do you get when you cross bodice rippers with Amish fiction? That’s right, bonnet rippers.

2013, Husna Haq, “'Bonnet rippers'? Amish romances are only gaining in popularity”, in Christian Science Monitor:

Bonnet Rippers. I LOVE it. An update on the bodice ripper, but so much more chaste.

2013, Rebecca Armstrong, “Bonnet rippers: a new kind of romantic fiction”, in The Independent:

A work in a genre of romantic fiction and Christian fiction that presents chaste representations of romantic love, where the most intimate action may be the removal of a bonnet or other similarly chaste actions. The genre is aimed at conservative devout Christian women, and frequently feature protagonists who are Amish, Mennonite, Quaker, Shaker, Puritan, or similar.


hipsterati

(informal) People who are considered the elite in the hipster subculture.


arterati

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(informal, art) People who are considered the elite in the world of art.


jazzerati

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Burns and Ward see their work as an attempt to reach beyond the factional discord of the “jazzerati” to introduce nonaficionados, and particularly younger Americans, to the story of one of the nation's most distinctive musical traditions.

2000, U.S. News & World Report, volume 129, page 178:

(informal) People who are considered the elite in the world of jazz music.


cyberati

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But the opening of the first cutting-edge hotel, aimed at the young and newly affluent cyberati who seem to be taking over the planet, is a sign of the steamy new Zeitgeist.

2000, Elle, numbers 176–178, page unknown:

(informal) People who are considered the elite in the world of technology and computers; the digerati.


trumpophone

(music) A musical instrument combining a trumpet and a saxophone, especially a trumpet played with a saxophone mouthpiece.


assmosis

Blend of ass + osmosis. Compare ass-kissing and ass-licking.

On the professional end, some teachers can become disillusioned by the political game playing in public schools (you know, how certain teachers get promotions by "assmosis" rather than hard work).

1999 January 8, jnrbaer, “Re: Beware of Trivial Progress”, in bit.listserv.autism (Usenet):

(vulgar, slang) The act of gaining favour or advantage through sycophancy.


homecation

Vaction time has come to this fair land but with the price of gas and the dismal prospects of flying (airlines will soon be taking out all the seats in a plane, giving poles to passengers so they can shove them up their rearends and sit anywhere or beat each other up with them enroute), it is time to consider a homecation.

2008 June 15, flanier, “'Homecations'”, in alt.radio.talk.dr-laura (Usenet):

(informal) A vacation spent at home or close to home; a staycation.


sport truck

A type of street truck and lifestyle truck, a high-speed high-performance high-powered pickup truck, frequently with lowered suspension and lessened cargo capabilities.


wokefish

wokefish (plural wokefish or wokefishes)

Couple this with the apparent nationwide divide over issues ranging from George Floyd’s death to wearing coronavirus masks, and you’ve got the ideal environment for the wokefish to thrive.

2020 July 30, Ben Cost, “Wokefish’ dating trend: Shady men are pretending to be progressive on apps”, in New York Post:

“A wokefish may at first present themselves as a protest-attending, sex-positive, anti-racist, intersectional feminist who drinks ethically sourced oat milk and has read the back catalogue of Audre Lorde, twice.” However, in actuality, these practitioners of false identity politics couldn’t care less.

2020 August 1, 'Wokefish' dating trend sees people pretending to be progressive on apps, in Fox News

When is a wokefish not a wokefish?

2021 January 8, Marianne Eloise, “A guide to spotting and avoiding 'wokefishing' in dating”, in Cosmopolitan:

You’re also a monumental wokefish.

2021 May 26, Georgia Mooney, “What your choice of Crocs colour says about the type of person you are”, in The Tab:

If you find yourself dating a “wokefish,” it can be a lot trickier to identify than your garden variety catfish.

[2021 August 4, Molly Longman, “‘Wokefishing’ Is A Uniquely 2021, Uniquely Terrible Dating Trend”, in Refinery 29, Vice media group:

(Internet slang) Someone who pretends to be woke and in favour of progressive political ideologies on a social media or dating platform.


wokefish

en-verb

wokefish (third-person singular simple present wokefishes, present participle wokefishing, simple past and past participle wokefished)

wokefishes (present singular third-person)
wokefishing (participle present)
wokefished (participle past)
wokefished (past)

Wokefishing notwithstanding, Layla told Vice she isn’t optimistic about the prospects of dating outside of political bubbles.

2020 July 30, Ben Cost, “‘Wokefish’ dating trend: Shady men are pretending to be progressive on apps”, in New York Post:

Smith, from Leeds, claims she herself was a victim of wokefishing, as her former partner had lured her in believing the pair had similar beliefs, but revealed his true self when she decided to become vegan, sending her patronising texts with derogatory language.

2020 August 6, Bridie Pearson-Jones, “Have YOU been wokefished? New dating trend sees singles pretending to be more progressive than they are to attract sexual partners including a neo-Nazi who claimed to long for diversity”, in Daily Mail:

If someone says that they’re vegan but you find out that they occasionally eat a box of fried chicken when they’re very drunk or very sad, they’re not necessarily wokefishing you - they’re just human.

Like catfishing – where someone pretends to be another person in order to attract more attention on dating apps – wokefishing is a similar kind of deception.

2021 April 4, Natalie Morris, “Black Lives Matter hashtags are making dating apps even more complicated”, in Metro:

People have even been known to “wokefish”: to pretend they're progressive in order to get a date.

2021, F.H. Buckley, Curiosity: And Its Twelve Rules for Life:

(Internet slang, transitive, intransitive) To pretend to be woke on an online platform to deceive (someone).


faitheism

(slang, neologism) Atheism, with a belief that faith should not be criticized.

(slang, neologism, derogatory) Atheism that derives from faith.


mythinformation

(neologism) False information, when seen as having its own mythology or being believed in like a myth would be.


Cincitucky

(slang) Northern Kentucky, the metropolitan area close to Cincinnati.


Outremount

Blend of Outremont + mount. Calque of French Outremount. From a corruption of French Outremont, substituting the English + -mount for the French -mont, while treating "Outre" (outre) as a base name.


Joy plot

Blend of Joy Division + plot, from a plot that was made famous by the band Joy Division, who used the plotting of a signal from pulsar CP1919 as the cover image for their 1979 album Unknown Pleasures.

Joy plot depicting the fuzzification before normalization to 1 obtained by assigning one fuzzy set to each severity category.

2018, Davide Ciucci, Gabriella Pasi, Barbara Vantaggi, Scalable Uncertainty Management: 12th International Conference, SUM 2018, Milan, Italy, October 3-5, 2018, Proceedings, Springer, →ISBN, page 70:

(neologism) A plot of a repetitive signal, by repeatedly plotting each period on a separate line one under another, to create a pseudo-3D image that appears like a mountainous ridge.


telecording

en-noun

telecording (countable and uncountable, plural telecordings)

The tendency is towards more and more pre-recorded material, employing either telecording or video recording, and whatever one's views may be towards this trend it is more often than not a necessity in the field of agrarian information.

1962, EBU Review: Programmes, Administration, Law, volume 71, page 24:


bisexy

en-adj

bisexy (comparative more bisexy, superlative most bisexy)

more bisexy (comparative)
most bisexy (superlative)

From reception, I was ushered up by some young secretary, cropped and trousered and sexy, perhaps even bisexy—who could tell? I wouldn't have put Sappho past her, […]

2000, Paul Golding, The Abomination, page 317:

Lestat's Coffee House. Yep, the name's a nod to one of the bisexy bloodsuckers in Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire, […]

2001, Access Guide to Gay USA, page 325:

So it would be, like, hella Julie Cooperish of us to suggest that the show is desperately trying to revive its shockingly slumpy sophomore season by sending boozy Marissa (Mischa Barton, right) into the bisexy arms of Alex (Olivia Wilde)?

2005 March 15, “O. C. Oh, puh-leeze”, in The Advocate, page 22:

(slang) Bisexual in an appealing manner; equally sexually attractive to men and women.


whorendous

whorendous (comparative more whorendous, superlative most whorendous)

more whorendous (comparative)
most whorendous (superlative)

Office97 is a whorendous resource pig. It contains many useless features that seem to be designed for no other purpose than to induce you to buy a high end machine.

1998 March 22, Byron Bodo, “Re: How to boost speed of the computer”, in microsoft.public.win95.general.discussion (Usenet):

On Twitter, Eric Trump, one of the president’s sons, favorited a tweet, which was later deleted, that referred to Ms. Harris as a “whorendous pick.”

2020 August 12, Annie Karni, Jeremy W. Peters, “Her Voice? Her Name? G.O.P.’s Raw Personal Attacks on Kamala Harris”, in The New York Times:

(slang, vulgar) Horrendous, awful, terrible.


Voluntown

Blend of volunteer + town. Named after the English volunteers in King Philip's War (1675–1678).

New London County
New London County#English

A town in New London County, Connecticut, United States.


lesbigaytrans

lesbigaytrans (comparative more lesbigaytrans, superlative most lesbigaytrans)

more lesbigaytrans (comparative)
most lesbigaytrans (superlative)

Blend of lesbian + bisexual + gay + trans, probably modeled after lesbigay.

blend

I thought you might like to hear about how the bombing of the Otherside, a lesbian bar, in Atlanta is affecting us. It is a strange time, full of meetings with the various parts of the lesbigaytrans community.

1997, Feminist Bookstore News, volume 20, page 22:

(LGBTQ, informal) Of or relating to lesbian, bisexual, gay, and transgender/transsexual people or the LGBT community.


Trumpolini

Blend of Trump + Mussolini. Referring to Benito Mussolini (1883–1945), Italian politician and the founder of fascism.

“[…] I don't know if you know about Mike Judge's movie Idiocracy, but Idiocracy is the movie Devo should've made—and I think we would've made it better. […] And now with the world the way it is, and this ridiculous unqualified Trumpolini guy, who is anathema to democracy, what we have is beyond Idiocracy.”

2018, Garin Pirnia, Rebels and Underdogs: The Story of Ohio Rock and Roll, Bloomington, IN: Red Lightning Books, →ISBN, page unknown:

(US politics, informal, derogatory, offensive) Donald Trump (born 1946), the 45th president of the United States, regarded as a fascist.


proptech

The amounts involved on the investment side are significant across many proptech startups. Property tech venture capital platform PiLabs launched in 2014 and has already spent £113m backing 47 founders in the sector; […]

2017 May 8, Jon Card, “Proptech: the businesses transforming the housing market”, in The Guardian:

“Lisbon has several ingredients making it a unique and efficient tech ecosystem,” says Suharev, CEO of proptech company CASAFARI, listing factors such as quality of life, governmental programs designed to attract foreign entrepreneurs, and its Silicon Valley-like business mindset.

2022 October 7, “The Hottest Startups in Lisbon”, in Wired UK, →ISSN:

information technology
information technology

The application of information technology to real-estate markets.


sheconomy

en-noun

sheconomy (countable and uncountable, plural sheconomies)

Blend of she + economy, popularized by a 2019 Morgan Stanley report titled “The Rise of the SHEconomy”.

In terms of Sheconomy, debt falls into three categories – the good, the bad and the just plain ugly.

2013, Karen J. Pine, Simonne Gnessen, Sheconomics, Headline, →ISBN:

This seems to be primarily in response to my simply citing the proven facts that many of the key changes in modern society, and modern marriages, have come as an outgrowth of the fast-breaking "liberation" of America's women and the attendant rise of the "Sheconomy."

2017, Bradley A. Coates, Divorce with Decency, University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN, page 150:

A "sheconomy" is booming in China, driven by a seismic shift in younger women's spending habits.

2019 May 3, Dawn Liu, “China's $670 billion 'sheconomy' is growing like crazy”, in CNBC:

I also find it a little bizarre that, in 2019, we are still seeing reports with names like “Rise of the SHEconomy” which point out that investing in female-focussed brands is probably a good idea. No SHEeet Sherlock!

[2019 August 31, Arwa Mahdawi, “All the single ladies have been an economic force for a long time – marketers are just noticing”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

The trend whereby women are gaining economic power, and living increasingly consumerist lifestyles, particularly when it comes to spending on fashion, food, cars, and apartments.


pawrent

Whether you are a parent with little ones or "pawrent" with furry ones, a culture buff looking for a sensorial feast or a gourmand hoping to feast on artfully plated creations, there is a staycation offer out there just for you.

2020, The Straits Times, More than just a hotel stay:

(informal) The owner of a pet dog or cat.


cockfish

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Spawning fish on the redds. A henfish will often be attended by two or three cockfish – whilst displaying ritual combat between themselves, one cock will mate, others may follow [image caption]

2005, Roderick Sutterby, Malcolm Greenhalgh, “Life in the Nursery”, in Atlantic Salmon: An Illustrated Natural History, Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, →ISBN, page 23:

A male fish, especially a salmon or trout.

Morphology of the main digestive features of cockfish, Callorhinchus callorhynchus, is described and linked to feeding habits. […] The diet of the cockfish is compared with that of other holocephalans.

1996, Edgardo E. Di Gitlcomo, Maria Raquel Perier, “Feeding habits of cockfish, Callorhinchus callorhynchus (Holocephali: Callorhynchidae), in Patagonian waters (Argentina)”, in Marine and Freshwater Research, volume 47, number 6, →DOI, page 801:

A callorhinchid fish, Callorhinchus callorynchus, native to South America.

A cyprinid fish, Hypselobarbus dubius, native to India.


cockfish

en-verb

cockfish (third-person singular simple present cockfishes, present participle cockfishing, simple past and past participle cockfished)

cockfishes (present singular third-person)
cockfishing (participle present)
cockfished (participle past)
cockfished (past)

Blend of cock (“penis”) + catfish (“(to create) a fake online profile”).

blend

If you’re engaging in a flirtatious conversation with a new acquaintance, be cautious about exchanging explicit photos if you haven’t met them in person to avoid falling for this exploitative technique. Here are three reasons why people “cockfish” and tips to help you protect yourself.

2023, Mark Travers, “3 Ways To Not Fall Pray to Online 'Cockfishing', According To a Psychologist”, in Forbes:

(Internet slang, vulgar) To deceive others by using fake photos of one’s genitalia.


cockfish

So while a catfish might misrepresent their entire identity - including even stealing photographs from someone else's profile - a cockfish focuses on one specific body part.

2019, Lucy Devine, “‘Cockfishing’ is the latest misleading dating trend that’s even worse than catfishing”, in The Sun:

(Internet slang, vulgar) A person who cockfishes.


wingpit

The best character for prairie falcon is the overall paler color and the contrasting dark axillaries, the " wingpit."

2000, Bird Watcher's Digest - Volume 23, page 36:

With black, pick up and knit 9 sts from shoulder to “wingpit” by picking up in one half of each edge st every other row. Turn body over and pick up 9 sts from wingpit to shoulder on the other side—18 sts.

2011, Melanie Falick, Weekend Knitting: 50 Unique Projects and Ideas:

He gets such a kick out of his victory, that his foot gets stuck inadvertently in his wingpit. “There it is, written in black and white—printed, no less!” On account of his still-stuck foot, Owl relishes his triumph in a precarious balance on a branch.

The location under and at the base of the wing, where the axillary feathers are found (analogous to the armpit of an arm).


pibling

Blend of parent + sibling. Attested from the 21st century.

Coordinate term: nibling

For quotations using this term, see Citations:pibling.

(rare) Used especially as a gender-neutral term: the sibling or sibling-in-law of one's parent.


infohazard

Blend of information + hazard or info + hazard.

An information hazard; a piece of information which can be used to cause harm by one who knows it.


Booklr

Over the last few years, we've seen the booklr community grow as quickly as our shelves, […]

2016, K. A. Beestone, "Introduction to The Book Nest", The Book Nest, Spring 2016, page 4

Booklr user ladybookmad started #readthemargin, dedicating the month of December to reading books by marginalized authors.

2016 December, Jenna Kilpinen, “Bookternet and diversity”, in Contrawoman, page 18:

On YouTube, users who describe themselves as BookTubers are vlogging about books and reading, on Instagram we find posters using hashtags such as #bookstagram, while Tumblr has a sub-community Booklr.

2018, Dorothee Birke, Johannes Fehrle, “#booklove: How Reading Culture is Adapted on the Internet”, in Komparatistik, page 63:

(Internet slang) The community of book and reading-oriented blogs on Tumblr.


BookTube

Blend of book + YouTube. By surface analysis, book + -Tube.

By introducing BookTube to students studying literature, teachers may be able to inspire additional engagement in both the reading and the reports or other assignments that are based on it.

2014, Marohang Limbu, Binod Gurung, Emerging Pedagogies in the Networked Knowledge Society: Practices Integrating Social Media and Globalization: Practices Integrating Social Media and Globalization, page 96:

I started my own BookTube channel in 2014 as a way to review books and talk about my writing.

2019, Jen Campbell, "BookTube", in Giles Clark & Angus Phillips, Inside Book Publishing, page 271

Booktube is a small community in YouTube that has exploded during these past few years.

2019, Rose Brock, Young Adult Literature in Action: A Librarian's Guide, 3rd Edition, page 30:

The community of book and reading-related channels on YouTube.


Instapoetry

Literature itself is undergoing a similar transition. Indeed, as someone who once read a book a day for a whole year, the current wave of instapoetry, tiny tales, and Tumblr posts has introduced me to an interesting new dimension to storytelling and to engaging with one's audience.

2019, Shashi Tharoor, "Foreword", in Manoj Pandey, The Legacy of Nothing, unnumbered page

Meanwhile, The Washington Post considered the advent of Instapoetry to be a turning point for the art form—this was a new genre of poetry created for a global, online audience, and its legacy would be contingent on virality: […]

2019, Hussein Kesvani, Follow Me, Akhi: The Online World of British Muslims, page 146:

Moreover, she links Instapoetry to the #metoo movement speaking out against sexual harassment and exploitation, and sees in the new voices of the female Instapoets an outlet for the expression of the female sexual gaze.

2020, Bronwen Thomas, Literature and Social Media, unnumbered page:

A genre of short-form poetry, which emerged on Instagram in the late 2010s, and is typically presented in an aesthetically-pleasing manner.


Instaceleb

If you're an Instagram junkie (like me) you might better recognise Gracie under the name @pony_nuts because she's a bit of an Instaceleb in the equestrian world.

2018 July, Sophie Callahan, “Shoot of the Month”, in Absolute Horse, page 7:

The country ran shuttles and posted signs encouraging visitors to enjoy the display responsibly, but those precautions didn't prevent rattlesnake bites, twisted ankles, heat exhaustion, Instacelebs and other selfie-takers lying in or otherwise trampling the delicate blooms they'd come to see.

2019 July, Jeffrey Rindskopf, “The Costs of Instatravel”, in DOPE Magazine, page 90:

With nearly 200,000 followers, Men's Health fitness director EBENEZER SAMUEL is a bona fide Instaceleb.

2020 March, “Meanwhile, On Instagram...”, in Men's Health, page 12:

A famous user of the photo-sharing and social media platform Instagram.


Bookternet

I was inspired by all my newfound Bookternet friends—readers, writers, bloggers, booksellers, publishing world types, and fellow refugees.

2014, Maris Kreizman, “Publishing: A Story”, in Sari Botton, editor, Never Can Say Goodbye: Writers on Their Unshakable Love for New York, page 171:

Through Goodreads, I was drawn into the world of the “bookternet,” an internet subculture of book-geeks, mostly young women who may have started their reading fanaticism with Harry Potter.

2018, Rebecca Hill, “Read Another Book: Repeat When Necessary”, in Jonathan Chambers, Stephannie S. Gearhart, editors, Reversing the Cult of Speed in Higher Education: The Slow Movement in the Arts and Humanities, page 176:

To my whole Booktube, Bookternet family, ALL OF YOU: Thank you for being the best, kindest, most welcoming, most understanding, most supportive, gorgeous friends a girl could ask for.

2019, "Acknowledgements", in Christine Riccio, Again, but Better, page 376

The online community and subculture of book lovers.


Instapoet

Instapoets were 'responsible for poetry going viral at a time when the genre was alleged to be all but dead', Bustle magazine wrote in 2018, in a piece looking at whether new social media poets were undermining or reviving the art and traditions of literary poetry.

Currently, no Instapoet has a higher profile than Rupi Kaur, the Punjabi-born Sikh Canadian whom Rolling Stone has called the “queen of Instapoets” and Fashion Magazine the “pop star of poetry.”

2020, Mike Chaser, Poetry Unbound: Poems and New Media from the Magic Lantern to Instagram:

Popular Instapoets such as Indian-Canadian Rupi Kaur have parlayed their online success into multi-book contracts with print publishers.

2020, Simon Murray, Introduction to Contemporary Print Culture: Books as Media, unnumbered page:

A poet working in the Instapoetry genre.


Instafamous

en-adj

Instafamous (comparative more Instafamous, superlative most Instafamous)

more Instafamous (comparative)
most Instafamous (superlative)

You see, this isn't such a rare sighting when it comes to the bald-headed, ultra-bendy, Instafamous yogi queen we know as Chocolate Yoga (@chocolate_yoga).

2018 January, Marley Jeranko, “Bending the Rules”, in Cherry Creek Lifestyle, page 54:

Anyway, the point is, I'll get Instafamous one day.

2018, Zoe Stojanovic-Hill, "Editorial", Honi Soit (University of Sydney), Week 9, Semester 2 (2018), page 2

Ta Tat Eatery makes its Instafamous katsu sando with toasted brioche, and it's safe to say none of its devotees seem to be sad for the lack of levain.

2019 October, Lauren Bravo, “The Rise and Fall”, in Foodism, page 56:

(informal) Well-known or popular on Instagram.


Bookstagram

Some of the bigger Bookstagram accounts that I follow are @quoththebooklover who has 15.3k followers, […]

2017 March 30, Lottie Moulster, “The Rising Trend of 'Bookstagram”, in The Galleon, University of Portsmouth, page 13:

Blogging was already something I did, but then I indulged in writing book reviews, which was the start of my journey on Bookstagram.

2018 March, Vidhya Thakker, “Bookstagram Community”, in Unread, page 83:

Younger readers are passionate about new voices and new ideas but also about real, physical books and real, physical bookstores. They take photos of books. They create bookstagram accounts.

2019 May 1, Karen Schechner, “Q&Q with Mike Gustafson, Co-Owner of Literati Bookstore”, in Kirkus Reviews, page 124:

The community of book and reading-oriented accounts on Instagram, characterized by artful photos of books.


stroad

Blend of street + road, so named because the widths and speeds of such roads make them dangerous for pedestrians and cyclists, while their excessive number of intersections and driveways prevent them from being able to move vehicles safely and efficiently. Coined by American urban planner Charles Marohn in 2011.

coin

While Marohn came up with the neologism partly in a spirit of fun, he considers stroads a deadly serious problem. Not only are they dangerous and aesthetically repugnant, he argues that they are economically destructive as well.

2014 January 7, Sarah Goodyear, “Defining the Worst Type of Street Design”, in CityLab, Bloomberg:

The federal government pitched in $11.5 million for this stroad, so it requires this step before construction begins.

2017 June 30, David Sachs, “DPW Moves Forward With Making Quebec Street a Wide, Dangerous Stroad Instead of Prioritizing People Over Cars”, in Streetsblog Denver:

Roads I ride on: […] Very frequently, a four lane suburban stroad with 30,000 to 40,000 cars per day. 12 foot lanes. That's a tough one, because it's sort of sharable with a tiny car (Fiat 500, VW Beetle) if the driver is careful. But anyone else will be passing too close.

2019 January 27, Frank Krygowski, “AG: Lit Crit wanted”, in rec.bicycles.misc (Usenet), message-ID <q2lvot$tda$1@dont-email.me>:

A stroad has the driveways, intersections, and crosswalks (sometimes!) of a street, but the higher speed-limit of a road, perhaps 45 mph (70 kph) or more. Oh, and one more thing. The stroad has the multiple lanes of travel one might associate with an avenue (in Manhattan, say) or a limited access highway.

2024, Jonathan Maskit, Bicycle, Bloomsbury, →ISBN:

(transportation planning, US, derogatory) A wide, fast road with a large number of intersections and driveways attached.


Cumberbaby

Benedict's longing for a batch of mini Cumberbabies appears to have influenced his interpretation of the Frankenstein tale.

2014, Joanna Benecke, Being Benedict Cumberbatch, unnumbered page:

On January 7, 2015, the internet crashed once again with the news that Cumberbatch and Hunter were expecting a Cumberbaby later that year.

2015, Nikki Stafford, Investigating Sherlock: The Unofficial Guide, page 23:

2017 March 28, “Cumberbatch welcomes a Cumberbaby”, in Express, US, page 27:

(fandom slang) The child of English actor Benedict Cumberbatch.


Mexipino

(US) A person of mixed Mexican and Filipino ancestry.


Mexipino

(US) Having mixed Mexican and Filipino ancestry.


Cumberlady

"The Cumberladies," he says, subbing in the word "lady" for his fans' cruder term. He grins: "The Cumberpeople."

2013 October 16, Andrea Mandell, “For Benedict Cumberbatch, film stardom is elementary”, in USA Today:

Be it at premiers, special events, or just on the street, you always have the time for your fans. Be they Cumberladies or even Cumbergents.

2015, Mila Hasan, My Continuing Letter to Benedict Cumberbatch, page 19:

The first images of Cumberbatch as the so-called 'Sorcerer Supreme' also look tremendously promising (and for the Cumberladies of the world, more than a little bit foxy.)

2016, Anneka Honeyball, "Doctor Strange", in "The Edge's Most Anticipated Films of 2016", The Edge (University of Southampton), January 2016, page 21

(fandom slang) A female fan of actor Benedict Cumberbatch.


epipen

Genericization of the trademark EpiPen, presumably a blend of epinephrine + pen, from being a pen-sized device used to inject epinephrine.

anaphylactic shock
anaphylactic shock#English

(medicine) An epinephrine/adrenaline autoinjector. A device designed to ease the symptoms of anaphylaxis/anaphylactic shock, so as to save the life of the victim of the extreme allergic reaction, by injecting a dose of adrenaline/epinephrine through a spring-loaded needle that punches into the tissue it is triggered against.


azaleamum

Blend of azalea + chrysanthemum, originally a trademark.

cushion chrysanthemum
cushion chrysanthemum

(horticulture) A kind of cushion chrysanthemum.


Amerenglish

A major impetus to the study of Black Amerenglish occurred in the decade of the 1960's, particularly after 1965.

1977, Paul Dickerson Brandes, Jeutonne Brewer, Dialect Clash in America: Issues and Answers, page 320:


freezoree

Blend of freeze + jamboree or Blend of freeze + camporee


docudramatize

en-verb

docudramatize (third-person singular simple present docudramatizes, present participle docudramatizing, simple past and past participle docudramatized)

docudramatizes (present singular third-person)
docudramatizing (participle present)
docudramatized (participle past)
docudramatized (past)

(transitive) To convert into the form of a docudrama.


cascode

A two-stage amplifier consisting of a common-emitter stage feeding into a common-base stage.


ecumaniac

(religion, derogatory) A person of excessively ecumenical views.


elastration

The removal of the scrotum or the tail of male livestock by cutting off the blood supply with an elastic ring.


fratority

(US) A social organization of students at a college or university, like a fraternity or sorority but accepting members of both sexes.


jazzetry

A performance of poetry recited to the accompaniment of jazz music.


petroil

A mixture of oil and gasoline used in certain types of vehicle engine.


hoolivan

Of course we played our part too and it's easy to look back with rose-tinted Armani shades but there was no two ways about it; the 'glory days' were over with CCTV, hoolivans, undercover Police operations, banning orders, jail sentences […]

A police van with surveillance equipment, used to monitor troublemakers at events such as sports matches.


rimbellisher

Blend of rim + embellisher, originally a brand name.

An ornamental ring for the hub of a car's wheel.


ringoal

A game for two players in which one uses two sticks to launch a hoop, the opponent attempting to catch it.


birthquake

It has 149 midwives, 129 beds for gynaecological cases, 314 maternity beds and a "birthquake" of 39,856 babies (more than 109 per day).

1976, Ray K. Tyers, Singapore, Then & Now, volume 2, page 449:

The presentation of this notion stimulated a birthquake of theoretical development and research in the field of urban sociology.

2013, Suzanne K. Steinmetz, Family and Support Systems across the Life Span, page 11:

(informal) An event involving a large number of births or creations.


Randlord

Pa had bought the staircase that used to stand in the entrance hall of a Randlord mansion in Johannesburg.

(South Africa) The person in charge of a goldfield in the Witwatersrand region.


Whitmania

(derogatory) Uncritical adulation for the poet Walt Whitman.


groceteria

In a groceteria, the bacon is already stripped of its rind, the steaks are boned and cut to the size of the family, and even six-pennyworth of marrow bones is wrapped up securely enough to be posted home.

1954, Ernest Watkins, Prospect of Canada, page 42:

(Canada, US, dated) A self-service grocery store.


Whitmaniac

(derogatory) A person who has uncritical adulation for the poet Walt Whitman.


dormantory

(science fiction) A cryogenic warehouse for storing people in suspended animation.


tobacconalian

en-adj

tobacconalian (comparative more tobacconalian, superlative most tobacconalian)

more tobacconalian (comparative)
most tobacconalian (superlative)


tobacconalian

It was immediately after breakfast, and I was seated in my room enjoying the unspeakable luxury of my first pipe, which, with me as with all confirmed tobacconalians, is a very serious event — what the French call a 'solemnity.'

1858 November, “The Little Giant”, in The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine:

(humorous) A person who is fond of tobacco.


sexposé

(informal) An exposé revealing sexual misconduct; a sex scandal.


tangemon

A fruit that is a hybrid of the tangerine and lemon.


diesohol

A fuel consisting of a mixture of diesel and alcohol.


feminar

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shamburger

My middle son, Matthew, then 10 years old, agreed to help me teach a vegetarian cooking class called 'Foods Kids Love.' Kids came to the class with a parent and learned to make 'shamburgers,' bean tostadas, Chinese egg rolls, […]

2002, Adventist Review, volume 179, numbers 27-52, page 988:

The herbs are from Julia's recipe for the sausage and I added them to the shamburger.

2015, Jim Henle, The Proof and the Pudding, page 159:

(informal) A hamburger made with vegetarian ingredients instead of meat.


mimbo

(derogatory, slang) Synonym of himbo (“a male bimbo”)


shitstem

I speak for the people through protest music because I am part of the downtrodden being oppressed by the shitstem.

The United States of Amerik.k.k.a is responsible for founding four unique shitstems of incarceration, according to Angela Y. Davis, […]

2012, Ralph C. Hamm III, Manumission: The Liberated Consciousness of a Prison(er) Abolitionist:

(Rastafari, vulgar, derogatory) An oppressive sociopolitical system.


alcoholiday

/ˌælkəˈhɒləˌdeɪ/

[N]ow you see we are out on a frolic, a spree,—on an alcoholiday. See it?

1883, Mrs. Charles H[enry] Fernald [i.e., Maria Elizabeth Fernald?], “A Temperance Frolic”, in Footlight Frolics: Entertainments for Home and School […], Boston, Mass.: Lee and Shephard; New York, N.Y.: Charles T. Dillingham, →OCLC, scene ii, page 118:

Before the American adventure Oscar [Wilde] had dealt indulgently with Willie [Wilde]'s weakness: "Oh, he occasionally takes an alcoholiday." But when his life became one long alcoholiday his younger brother, who hated to see people dirty, drunken and disreputable, ceased to be indulgent. "He sponges on everyone but himself," was Oscar's caustic summary.

a. 1901 (date spoken), Hesketh Pearson, quoting Oscar Wilde, “The Family”, in Oscar Wilde: His Life and Wit, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, published 1946, →OCLC, page 98:

In a short story that I have recently read, one of the characters, a "sport," speaks of the Christmas season as the alcoholidays.

1911 October–November, A[braham] A[rden] Brill, “Freud’s Theory of Wit”, in Morton Prince, editor, The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, volume VI, Boston, Mass.: Richard G. Badger, The Gorham Press, [for the American Psychological Association], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 280; republished in Sigmund Freud, translated by A. A. Brill, Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious, authorized English edition, New York, N.Y.: Moffat, Yard and Company, 1916, →OCLC, page 23:

There will be loss of time and loss of work on this account, and instead of half-holidays there will, too often it is to be feared, be half-alco'''holidays.

1920, International Brewers’ Journal, volume 56, London: William Reed, →OCLC, page 450, column 1:

A little festival in celebration of favours received—in anticipation of favours to come! An alcoholiday! Fill up my glass, Malachi!

1949, Vaughan Wilkins, “Uncle Richard’s Annual Alcoholiday”, in Once upon a Time: An Adventure, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, page 150:

I guess the charm of playing host to Westerners' pig-wild cheap Easyjet alcoholidays had worn off a bit.

2013, Geoff Berner, “Drunken Self-sabotage”, in Shannon Whibbs, editor, Festival Man, Toronto, Ont.: Dundurn Press, →ISBN, page 122:

[S]ome of them have Champagne flutes and still others with pint glasses of what appears to be Cognac, tumblers of Grand Marnier and jorums of Kahlua; oh my but they will enjoy this alcoholiday tonight, […]

2021, RayMan Ramsay, “What to Do until the Band Goes Away!”, in Promo Monkey: Monkey See, Monkey Two: Personas & Prima Donnas, Victoria, B.C.: FriesenPress, →ISBN, page 170:

A holiday or leisure time spent drinking alcohol.

ryyppyloma

For skin disorders, we sometimes fix the diet by ordering the patient off the Seven Deadly C's—cocktails, coffee, chocolate, condiments, carbohydrates, cigarettes, and cheese. We often add an admonition to take an alcoholiday.

1942 September, Lemuel P. Ereaux, “The Bare Facts”, in Leland D. Case, editor, The Rotarian, volume XLI, number 3, Chicago, Ill.: Rotary International, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 43, column 3:

(rare) A period of time during which one intentionally abstains from drinking alcohol.


Brabanditti

(historical, derogatory) The soldiers of General Edward Brabant, British military commander in colonial South Africa.


Dacula

A city in Gwinnett County, Georgia, United States.


scribaceous

scribaceous (comparative more scribaceous, superlative most scribaceous)

more scribaceous (comparative)
most scribaceous (superlative)


skinfluencer

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

There's a growing breed of male skincare influencers – or ‘skinfluencers’ – who promote skincare regimens for men to have flawless visages. […] Regardless of why they come to skincare, retailers are taking notice, capitalising on the work from male skinfluencers and bringing in more of these male-focused skincare lines into stores.

2019 August 17, Sarah Manavis, “Male ‘skinfluencers’ are making bank recommending you moisturisers”, in GQ:

I scrolled through the Reddit SkincareAddiction forum (what an apt name) for hours, and used my “emergency” credit card to buy products I couldn’t actually afford. I watched YouTube videos of dewy, glowing “skinfluencers” to learn the molecular differences between an essence and a toner.

2020 September 4, André-Naquian Wheeler, “I Have Clear Skin, Now What? Confessions From the Other Side of Adult Acne”, in Vogue:

mr. yarbro’s ascent to skinfluencer fame began right when people started to quarantine. Real clothes and makeup went the way of indoor dining, and interest in skin care and in-home self-care soared.

2020 September 8, Rachel Strugatz, “The Content Creator Who Can Make or Break Your Skin Care Brand”, in The New York Times:

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:

(informal) A social media celebrity whose account focuses on skincare products.


twindemic

Tonight it is being called a potential ‘twindemic’, the flu season and COVID coinciding this fall with deadly results.

2020 August 21, “CDC urges all Americans to get flu shots amid fears of ‘twindemic’”, in NBC:

This further exacerbated the diagnostic challenge posed by undifferentiated febrile illness during a “twindemic” of both COVID-19 and dengue, as both illnesses could potentially present with febrile syndromes.

2022 May 7, Liang En WeeEdwin Philip ConceicaoJean Xiang-Ying SimMay Kyawt AungAung Myat Ooet al., “Dengue and COVID-19: Managing Undifferentiated Febrile Illness during a ‘Twindemic’”, in Tropical medicine and infectious disease, →DOI:

Two pandemics happening simultaneously, such as flu and COVID-19.


carideer

The Nunivak Island game range in Alaska is the home of muskoxen, carideer (a cross between caribou and reindeer), and reindeer.

1943, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations, Interior Department Appropriation Bill for 1944: Hearings, volume 3, page 693:

The reindeer and carideer on Nunivak Island are superior animals in weight and size.

1963, L. J. Palmer, Charles H. Rouse, Muskoxen Investigations in Alaska 1930-35, page 13:

(rare) An animal that is a hybrid of caribou and reindeer.


mythistorical

mythistorical (comparative more mythistorical, superlative most mythistorical)

more mythistorical (comparative)
most mythistorical (superlative)


priestianity

(derogatory) Any practices of Christianity that place an excessive emphasis on the role of the priest.


mythistory

en-noun

mythistory (countable and uncountable, plural mythistories)

The phenomenon of mythistory has a continued tradition from Herodotus through Machiavelli to Scott, Burckhardt, Michelet and Kantorowicz, as the renowned historian Joseph Mali explains […]

2005, Andreas Gaile, Fabulating Beauty: Perspectives on the Fiction of Peter Carey, page 38:

In Mayan, Aztec, and Laguna mythistories, the world we presently inhabit is the Fifth; for traditional Hopis and Navajos, this is the Fourth World.

2006, Ernest Stromberg, American Indian Rhetorics of Survivance, page 220:

A history incorporating elements of myth.


bureaucrazy

bureaucrazy (countable and uncountable, plural bureaucrazies)

(informal, derogatory) pointless or illogical bureaucracy


Spangel

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Spike and Angel from the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.


tapespondence

Communications sent on tape between tapespondents.


motopia

Underground homes of varying size could be placed around the edge of the open spaces in a motopia area.

1967, Robert W. Prehoda, Designing the Future: The Role of Technological Forecasting, page 110:

As long as freeways function smoothly, this city is the closest thing to a motopia.

2012, Fumihiko Maki, Mark Mulligan, Nurturing Dreams: Collected Essays on Architecture and the City, page 103:

A city designed with automobile routes on top and pedestrian areas underground.


ruddervator

(aviation) A hinged control surface combining the functions of rudder and elevator.


screwmatics

(British, colloquial, dated) Rheumatism.


galvanneal

A hard form of steel made by galvanizing and then annealing


galvanneal

en-verb

galvanneal (third-person singular simple present galvanneals, present participle galvannealing, simple past and past participle galvannealed)

galvanneals (present singular third-person)
galvannealing (participle present)
galvannealed (participle past)
galvannealed (past)

(transitive) To prepare (steel) by this process.


Mardi Grass

(historical, US, sports) The artificial turf used as a playing surface at the New Orleans Superdome until 2003.


tofish

A vegetarian fish substitute made from tofu and seaweed.


epicurious

en-adj

epicurious (comparative more epicurious, superlative most epicurious)

more epicurious (comparative)
most epicurious (superlative)

Curious about food, especially wishing to try new dishes and cuisines.


Roexit

(politics) The potential act of Romania leaving the European Union.

Romanian withdrawal from the European Union


Huxit

Blend of Hungary + exit, modeled on Brexit.

Hungary may be resisting the decision-makers in Brussels, but, for now, nobody is talking about a "Huxit" – a Hungarian exit from the EU. The referendum is not legally binding, nationally or internationally.

2016 September 24, Adam Lebor, “Hungary likely to reject European Union refugee quota”, in The Independent:

When they joined the Union, Eastern European citizens thought they were finally safe from authoritarianism. In theory at least, that leaves more room for outsiders to pressure the government. An exit from the EU, or Huxit, is an empty threat, and Hungarians do not want to be the black sheep of Europe.

2017 May 20, Jan-Werner Müller, “Hungary: The War on Education”, in The New York Review of Books:

Neither law nor political theory can proceed on the basis of measures of popularity – but it is worth remembering that approval ratings for (and trust in) the EU remain among the highest in Hungary and Poland.³² Huxit or Poxit do not appear to be credible threats at this point.

2020, Jan-Werner Müller, “What, If Anything, Can the EU Do?”, in János Mátyás Kovács, Balázs Trencsényi, editors, Brave New Hungary: Mapping the “System of National Cooperation”, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 327:

(politics) The hypothetical withdrawal of Hungary from the European Union.


sqround

sqround (comparative more sqround, superlative most sqround)

more sqround (comparative)
most sqround (superlative)

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Shaped like a rectangular prism, but with a round top; (commonly said of bottles).


climate grief

Jennifer Atkinson, a professor of environmental humanities at the University of Washington in Bothell, will teach her second course on climate grief next semester. She offers the course to students in the environmental studies program to help prevent the burnout that can develop by confronting the problem daily.

2018 December 24, Avichai Scher, “'Climate grief': The growing emotional toll of climate change”, in NBC News:

Although it is not an official clinical diagnosis, the psychiatric and psychological communities have names for the phenomenon: “climate distress,” “climate grief,” “climate anxiety” or “eco-anxiety.”

2019 July 18, Victoria Knight, “‘Climate Grief’: Fears About The Planet’s Future Weigh On Americans’ Mental Health”, in Kaiser Health News:

I’ve guided workshops and given dozens of public lectures, especially in Finland, my home country. And I’ve met a lot of people with climate grief and eco-anxiety.

2020 April 2, Panu Pihkala, “Climate grief: How we mourn a changing planet”, in BBC Future:


climate despair

A lot of people think we don't know how to solve climate change. So we could go from climate denial to climate despair.

2015 March 24, Jonathan Mingle, quoting Durwood Zaelke, Fire and Ice: Soot, Solidarity, and Survival on the Roof of the World, St. Martin's Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 256:

It's impossible to know how many people like Ruttan Walker have experienced climate despair as a mental health crisis, but despair is all around us: in our own momentary but intense reactions to the latest bit of climate news, in pitch-black memes and jokes about human extinction, even in works of philosophy and literature.

2019 July 11, Mike Pearl, “'Climate Despair' Is Making People Give Up on Life”, in Vice:

There appears to be a fine balance for educators between safeguarding the mental health of students who might feel climate despair on the one hand, and inspiring students to take personal climate action on the other by presenting the facts of this unprecedented and existential threat to humanity.

2020 May 1, Christie Nicole Godsmark, “Inspiring climate action without inducing climate despair”, in The Lancet Planetary Health, volume 4, number 5, →DOI:

Depression caused by fear of climate change.


guestage

(historical) A person held against their will in Kuwait under the rule of Saddam Hussein.


proprietariat

Blend of propriety (“an owned object; a possession”) + proletariat


snam

en-verb

snam (third-person singular simple present snams, present participle snamming, simple past and past participle snammed)

snams (present singular third-person)
snamming (participle present)
snammed (participle past)
snammed (past)

Blend of snap + nam (“to seize, grab; chew, eat greedily”).

blend

I on'y meant fur to snam (rob) him, and on'y giv' him a tightener, when somethin' come dancing and shreeking down the road, and I vamoosed.

1880, Henry Spicer, Winged Words, page 144:

(transitive, UK, slang, obsolete) To rob (a person).


sacerdotage

(religion, derogatory) Excessive sacerdotalism; focus on priests to the exclusion of other aspects of religion.


poptimism

Rockism lost, and poptimism won. All cultural snootiness is now tedious.

2022, W. David Marx, chapter 10, in Status and Culture, Viking, →ISBN:

The belief that pop music is worthy of professional critique and interest.


succdem

Blend of succ (“intentional misspelling of suck, referring to fellatio”) + socdem (“social democrat”).

(Internet slang, politics, humorous, derogatory) Contraction of social democrat.

social democracy
social democracy#English

(Internet slang, politics, humorous, derogatory) Contraction of social democracy.


succdem

en-adj

succdem (comparative more succdem, superlative most succdem)

more succdem (comparative)
most succdem (superlative)

social democratic
social democratic#English

(Internet slang, politics, humorous, derogatory) Contraction of social democratic.


stockateer

A stockbroker who operates fraudulently.


vontouring

Surgical remodelling of the female external genitalia, especially the labia.


airbrasion

(dentistry) The delivery of a jet of sodium bicarbonate slurry at teeth in order to remove stains.


jetevator

(aerospace) A control surface used to redirect the exhaust from a rocket and thus change its direction of thrust.


Braford

A cross between a Hereford bull and a Brahman cow, or a Hereford cow and a Brahman bull.


anticer

Blend of anti- + ice + -er, originally a Dunlop trade name.

A test flight under heavy ice forming conditions was also made with a Gordon aeroplane fitted with anticers […]

1936, The Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society, volume 40, page 19:


squadrilla

One must lay down as a rule, and we here repeat the opinion expressed by famous aviators, that every attack, whether by a single machine or by a squadrilla, must always be carried out with the utmost vigour.

1918, René Louis Jules Radiguet, The Making of a Modern Army and Its Operations in the Field, page 36:

Commander Bragadin was, at the outset of the war, a reserve officer in command of a “squadrilla” of motor torpedo boats.

1957, Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute, page 897:

[…] with a squadrilla to meet the aviators, and as soon as the plane was visible from the shore, ship sirens and whistles blew and flags flew from every mast.

1958, Curtis Daniel MacDougall, Hoaxes, page 116:

(dated) A squadron, whether of boats or of airplanes.


skiddles

Probably you'd prefer playing Skiddles in such a way that there is a possibility of winning the game, or at least ending it! If that is so you'll have to change the real rules a little.

1934, Arthur H. Lawson, Homemade Games: How to Make and Play Indoor and Outdoor Games, page 83:

(dated) A game played on ice in which sticks are thrown at pins to knock them over.


Ancobar

Any of a breed of poultry developed by crossing an Ancona and a barred Plymouth Rock.


begincement

"Begin at th' begincement an' tell me all about it."
"Well, 'twas on Saturday mornin' after th' grand timperance blow-out," began Mr. Casey.

1902, The Wolverine, volume 2, number 6, page 10:

(archaic, nonstandard, childish or dialectal) The beginning.


solemncholy

solemncholy (comparative more solemncholy, superlative most solemncholy)

more solemncholy (comparative)
most solemncholy (superlative)

On the night of the 4th of February , Ailie wrote to her cousin elect—
“This is the maddest, merriest Sunday which any one of these, your five solemncholy English friends have ever spent. […]

1879, Kate Ross, A Sicilian Legacy, volume 2, page 230:

I wouldna deny it in front of such a number of sharp-eyed solemncholy gentlemen. I flung the stone that dropped Mr Crawford.

(nonstandard, dialect or humorous) solemn; serious


balloonacy

We live in an age of balloonacy. Only a few weeks ago I sent you the account of M. Nadar and his 'Géant,” “the greatest balloon in the world;” now M. Eugène Godard has built an 'Aigle,' by the side of which the 'Giant' is a mere dwarf.

Horace Walpole was severe on this new whimsy of balloonacy, which was only chilled, not extinguished, by De Rosière's catastrophe.

1865, Charles Robert Leslie, Tom Taylor, Life and Times of Sir Joshua Reynolds, page 479:

In the milder case of "balloonacy" the enthusiast proposes essentially a modernized Hindenburg (8 million cu ft). In the most virulent form of the disease, however, the victim calls for fleets of 100 million cu ft helium whales.

1975, Machine Design, volume 47, numbers 24-29, page 20:

(nonce word) An excessive mania for hot-air balloons.


Cleckhuddersfax

Blend of Cleckheaton + Huddersfield + Halifax.

blend

Picture the scene, if you can, at Josiah Arkwright's Shoddy Manufactury in Cleckhuddersfax. Josiah's only involvement with Brussels is to eat the green things on his plate at Christmas.

1998, The Solicitors' Journal, volume 142:

(UK, humorous) An urban area of West Yorkshire that encompasses Cleckheaton, Huddersfield, and Halifax.


Spock-marked

en-adj

Spock-marked (comparative more Spock-marked, superlative most Spock-marked)

more Spock-marked (comparative)
most Spock-marked (superlative)

Blend of Spock + pockmarked, in reference to the influential approach of Benjamin Spock (1903–1998), American pediatrician.

1970, Raymond Apthorpe, University of Sussex. Institute of Development Studies, People Planning and Development Studies: Some Reflections on Social Planning
Governments might, like those of America and Canada, produce cheap brochures explaining to parents how to bring up honest, unanxious, kindly, non-bed-wetting, co-operative children. And that in rich countries with high literacy levels such advice has its effect can hardly be doubted by anyone who has had recent contact in universities with the first Spock-marked generation of middle-class children trained in habits of autonomy from an early age. ('No, darling, it's up to you. At two and a half you are old enough to choose yourself whether to wear trousers or a skirt.')

Yet the fact remains that half-baked and half-digested ideas about the absolute necessity of leaving a child 'free' and 'happy' have produced what has come to be known as the 'Spock-marked child', […]

1971, Elizabeth Manners, The Vulnerable Generation, page 58:

[…] flood of child-rearing guides that had by now inundated Spock-marked middle-class parents […]

2003, Ann Hulbert, Raising America: Experts, Parents, and a Century of Advice about Children:

(derogatory) Spoiled by an overly permissive upbringing.


thrinter

(UK, dialect, obsolete) An animal three winters old.


churkey

Synonym of Naked Neck (“chicken of a breed without feathers on its neck”)


vestock

Dean wore his crushed silk vestock and starched linen collar, somewhat presumptuously with a large pectoral cross, made of nails.

A long clerical stock (piece of black cloth worn under a clerical collar) that reaches the waist.


trisociation

(psychology) A blending of elements drawn from three previously unrelated patterns of thought into a new pattern.


Tolstoevsky

The obvious effect is to create courses by popular demand, the most obvious being the Tolstoevsky combination: one semester Dostoevsky, the other, Tolstoy.

1973, Russkiĭ I︠a︡zyk, volumes 27-28, page 16:

But how Tolstoy felt about Dostoevsky is of less importance to the present chapter – which is not a study in Tolstoevsky – than what is revealed by how he managed those feelings.

1995, Michael C. Finke, Metapoesis: The Russian Tradition from Pushkin to Chekhov, page 109:

But, if Terra (be it our world, its portrayal in the novels of "Tolstoevsky," or the "Terrible World" of Blok) actually exists, why not also to assume that water has a language?

2006, The Nabokovian, numbers 56-59, page 62:

For all the attention that America's most important critics lavished on “Tolstoevsky,” Slavic experts were all but ignored.

2009, David C. Engerman, Know Your Enemy: The Rise and Fall of America's Soviet Experts, page 150:

(informal) The Russian novelists Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky.


perverb

A perverb splices the first half of one proverb, or saying, with the second half of another.

2012, John R. Taylor, The Mental Corpus: How Language is Represented in the Mind, page 272:

These perverbs are consistent with the cognitive view's emphasis on the theoretical import of idiosyncratic proverbs. When a perverb is used in public, and some are, the theoretical issues raised are as pressing as they are for any production P-task.

2013, Richard P. Honeck, A Proverb in Mind: The Cognitive Science of Proverbial Wit and Wisdom, page 186:

A statement humorously constructed by merging together two proverbs.


Xbot

(slang, derogatory, video games) A slavish supporter of the Xbox range of video game consoles; an Xbox fanboy


Friendsmas

Coordinate term: Friendsgiving

Few would have a greater mountain of unwanted Christmas gifts to climb than primary school teacher Kathleen Bevis, who splits her time between four Christmas's and one "Friendsmas" each year. […] "I couldn't get rid of it," Ms Bevis said. "I re-gifted it to a friend at Friendsmas, only to find it left behind."

2014 December 25, Eryk Bagshaw, “Unwanted Christmas gifts: $520 million worth of presents”, in The Sydney Morning Herald:

(informal) A Christmas celebration spent with one's friends.


nobodaddy

Blend of nobody + daddy; c. 1793, William Blake.

Likewise, Blake's God is not a Nobodaddy God, the Jehovah of the Bible, who himself was good but created in an evil universe. God and evil in Blake are not individuals but states.

1981, Charu Sheel Singh, The Chariot of Fire: A Study of William Blake in the Light of Hindu Thought, page 98:

Sylvia Plath had a Nobodaddy. Job had a Nobodaddy.

2010, John Rember, MFA in a Box: A Why to Write Book:

Had "ultimate concern" in fact transformed God into little more than a "nobodaddy?" Was this just "merely a familiar form of atheism with a new name?"

2010, Richard Lints, Progressive and Conservative Religious Ideologies: The Tumultuous Decade of the 1960s, page 194:

The code is transgressive. It violates the repressive orders of Nobodaddies: the tyrannies arresting us in single vision, in dark-satanic wheels, the flat-line experience of exploitation and cynicism, the temporary manipulations of monomaniacal political or ad campaigns.

2014, B. W. Powe, Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye: Apocalypse and Alchemy, page 244:

(derogatory) The anthropomorphic God of Christianity.


randem

Randem driving was something of a dare amongst the young bloods of the Regency days in England […]

1990, Thomas Ryder, The Carriage Journal, volume 27, number 4, pages 164–165:

Involving three horses harnessed one behind the other.


randem

Occasionally turnouts would be seen driven randem in circus parades.


randem

Some North American shows put on classes for randems in the days when there were many large stables showing harness horses.

1969, Tom Ryder, On the Box Seat: A Manual of Driving, page 87:

An arrangement of three horses harnessed one behind the other.


Westoxification

Blend of West + toxification; ultimately calque of Iranian Persian غربزدگی (ğarb-zadegi), coined by Iranian philosopher Ahmad Fardid and popularised by Jalal Al-e-Ahmad.

cal

The adoption of Western lifestyle (e.g. consumerism, materialism) and technology without the adoption of Western values such as equality of opportunity.


Generation XL

Blend of Generation X + XL (“extra large”).

blend

(informal) A notional generation or sociological group of people, especially children, who are overweight or obese.


himpathize

en-verb

himpathize (third-person singular simple present himpathizes, present participle himpathizing, simple past and past participle himpathized)

himpathizes (present singular third-person)
himpathizing (participle present)
himpathized (participle past)
himpathized (past)

Blend of him + sympathize, or of himpathy + sympathize.

As Manne (2017) and Solnit (2017) have shown, we tend to sympathize (or 'himpathize') too much with men and their standpoints, and not enough with women and their standpoints. This results in a tendency to downplay men's transgressions ...

2019, Michelle Ciurria, An Intersectional Feminist Theory of Moral Responsibility, Routledge, →ISBN:

... move in the political realm, particularly when they are challenging male authority. Female misogynists have made themselves visible in this era, being willing to exonerate, himpathize, and dismiss other women's concerns and accusations, were crucial to the outcome.

2019, L. H. Blumenfeld, Female Misogyny and Political Power, in Maria B. Marron, Misogyny and Media in the Age of Trump, Lexington Books, page 4

So here, as elsewhere, we ought to resist the pressure to himpathize. Incels have generated many headlines recently. It's easy to understand why, given the egregiously violent acts of misogyny some incels have committed.

2020, Kate Manne, Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women, Crown, →ISBN, page 30:

(feminism, rare) To exhibit himpathy; to inappropriately sympathize with men or boys, especially ones guilty of sexual transgressions.


himpathetic

Blend of him + sympathetic, or of himpathy + sympathetic.

Yet it would be a mistake to view them as on a different plane of moral obtuseness, as opposed to merely being on the extreme end of a himpathetic spectrum on which many of us lie. Brock Turner's defenders exhibited forgiving tendencies, ...

2017, Kate Manne, Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 200:

But in a himpathetic world view this does make sense because the question we are invited to ask is what does it mean for him? That Kavanaugh's (and, to an extent, Thomas's) privilege is such that his greatest fear is the loss of his name […]

2019, Karen Boyle, #MeToo, Weinstein and Feminism, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 113:

This was picked up and repeated by women in the media who were “himpathetic” to the idea. Trump's win “gives us an opportunity to reflect on how badly misogynist forces can distort our thinking and bias our reasoning” (Manne 2019, 250).

2019, Maria B. Marron, Misogyny and Media in the Age of Trump, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 98:

When a woman fails to give a man what he's supposedly owed, she will often face punishment and reprisal — whether from him, his himpathetic supporters, or the misogynistic social structures in [society].

2020, Kate Manne, Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women, Crown, →ISBN, page 11:

(feminism) Exhibiting or pertaining to himpathy; inappropriately sympathetic to men or boys, especially ones guilty of sexual transgressions.


scrolljacking

Blend of scroll + hijacking, perhaps also modelled on clickjacking.

(web development, somewhat derogatory) Controlling scrolling animation (using custom JavaScript) instead of relegating scrolling behavior to the web browser.


hubster

Probably from blend of hubby + roadster, teamster, etc., or equivalent to hub(by) + -ster.


brifter

(cycling) On a bicycle, a lever that combines brake and gear shifter functions.


nockies

I am shameless enough to sometimes speak of my "nockies".

1980, Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie's Little Black Bird Book, page 56:


Loxbridge

redbrick universities
red brick university

(British) The University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, and various universities in London collectively, in contrast to redbrick universities.


loglang

A blend of logical + language; compare conlang.

I think that NGL sounds like a loglang. (I confess I have not read the NGL thread.)

1997 November 19, Jack Durst, “NGL & the Gnoli triangle”, in alt.language.artificial.ngl:

For example, from 1955 the sociologist and science fiction writer James Cooke Brown invented a loglang called 'Loglan', created to test out the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis in linguistics[…]

2005, Keith Brown, editor, Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, →ISBN:

The most notable well-developed examples of loglangs are James Cooke Brown's Loglan (1960) and its derivative Lojban, which was developed between 1987 and 1997 by the Logical Language Group (Cowan 1997).

2020 August 12, “A Primer on Constructed Languages”, in Jeffrey Punske, Nathan Sanders, Amy V. Fountain, editors, Language invention in Linguistics Pedagogy, →ISBN, page 25:

A language designed to allow (or enforce) unambiguous statements; a logical language.


Warcrack

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

Blend of warcraft + crack, in allusion to the addictiveness of crack cocaine.

(video games, slang, humorous) The massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft.


compusex

One of the more bizarre aspects of America's love affair with the personal computer is the growing popularity of CompuSex. This is a new form of erotic entertainment in which consenting computer owners exchange X-rated messages over the telephone lines […]

1994, Julius Lukasiewicz, Ignorance Explosion: Understanding Industrial Civilization, page 71:

In one case, cited by several sources, a woman became so involved as Joan's compusex lover that she was on the verge of leaving her husband.

1984, Time magazine, cited in 1996, Rob Kling, Computerization and Controversy (page 540)

We now have cybersex, cyber-stalking, cyber-rape, cyber-victims, cyber-porn, cyber-voyeurism, compu-sex, sex chat rooms, sex newsgroups, sex bulletin boards, camcorder sex, virtual sex, cyborgs, blogs, MySpace, YouTube...

2007, Jeffrey Weeks, The World We Have Won: The Remaking of Erotic and Intimate Life:


camelestrian

In Khedive Avenue [Khartoum] […] is a statue by E. Onslow Ford, of General Gordon on an Indian camel. So far as I know this is the world’s only camelestrian statue.

1923, Frank George Carpenter, Cairo to Kisumu, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page, page 171:


waigon

Tooled up on the lurk for my prey
The waigons don't want me to eat

(MLE) A person which one does not trust and in turn wastes their life.


scamdemic

Blend of scam + pandemic. Coined by conspiracy theorists to describe the COVID-19 pandemic and the actions of governments and other organizations in response to it.

A similar protest in San Francisco drew about 40 people across the back entrance to City Hall, waving American flags and holding signs, saying things like “Scamdemic!” and “Newsom is a Dictator!”

2020 May 1, Alexei Koseff, Trisha Thadani, “CHP arrests protesters in Sacramento who defy shelter-in-place order to demand California reopen”, in San Francisco Chronicle:

“We are now at the stage where instead of having a pandemic it’s becoming a scamdemic. […]”

2020 June 1, Craig Farrell, Ann Mooney, “Coronavirus in Ireland – McGrath calls for end to ‘scamdemic’ as TDs demand lockdown eases to help kick-start economy”, in The Irish Sun:

"They all claim it's a 'scamdemic' and say the hospitals are empty.

2021 January 6, Amanda Devlin, “Piers Morgan furiously threatens to force Covid-deniers into coronavirus wards without PPE after getting sick abuse”, in The Sun:

Im^([sic]) sure ol’Barn [Barney Lerten] will chime in with the “truth” lol and keep pushing the KTVZ [a local news station] Leftist agenda.. THE SCAMDEMIC CONTINUES..

2021 September 9, Matt3rvrs [username], “Biden announces new vaccine mandates that could cover 100 million Americans”, in KTVZ, comments:

(informal, derogatory, neologism) A period of time where the idea of an ongoing pandemic is used to defraud the general public.

valepandemia

time when an idea of an ongoing pandemic is used to defraud the general public


melonal

en-noun

melonal (countable and uncountable, plural melonals)

From melon + -al. Blend of melon + heptenal. From melon heptenal, from melon aldehyde, from being a heptene-based aldehyde that smells like melons.

A melon-smelling scent compound found in nature and synthesized for perfuming, that in its pure form is a clear pale yellow liquid.

(countable) A fragrance or flavour additive based on the melonal chemical compound


sexcessory

2012, Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi, Gorilla Beach
The Pleasure Chest, a sexcessories boutique.

While Woody Allen's orgasmatron has never made it into production, many other sexcessories are gushing onto the market.

2018, Randy Malamud, The Importance of Elsewhere: The Globalist Humanist Tourist:


Helengrad

Blend of Helen + Stalingrad, named after New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark and first used in late 1999 or early 2000 to compare her policies to communism in the Soviet Union.

named-after

(New Zealand politics, colloquial) The government of New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark, or her seat of power in the capital Wellington.


plastiglass

(science fiction) A clear material combining the characteristics of plastic and glass.


theozyme

(computing, biochemistry) A theoretical enzyme constructed mathematically


wug

Pseudoword, coined by American psycholinguist Jean Berko Gleason in the 1950s as a word that children taking the test would not have heard before.

coin

(linguistics) An imaginary creature resembling a bird, used in the Wug Test to investigate the acquisition of the plural form in English-speaking children.


Bidencare

Blend of Biden (“Joe Biden”) + healthcare or Medicare and perhaps influenced by earlier ObamaCare.

blend

In spite of the plan’s detractors—including President Donald Trump who has characterized both Obamacare and Bidencare as “socialized medicine,” Biden’s plan may be a case of repackaging a plan that already exists.

2020 October 23, Robin Saks Frankel, “Is Bidencare The New Obamacare?”, in Forbes:

Even if Congress cannot pass Medicare for All – they are destined to make a serious effort in passing BidenCare – which is a “public option” where citizens can opt into Medicare.

2021 February 10, Gregg Lawrence, Patsy Writesman, “‘BidenCare’ endangers private health insurance and seniors’ health care”, in Tennessean, USA Today Network, Opinion:

Mr. Biden supports expanding the Affordable Care Act and creating a public option — a plan he has nicknamed Bidencare.

2021 December 14, Sydney Ember, “Where Does Joe Biden Stand on Major Policies?”, in New York Times:

(US, neologism) A healthcare plan created by Joe Biden and based on ObamaCare.


commic tern

Sterna hirundo
Sterna hirundo#Translingual

Sterna paradisaea
Sterna paradisaea#Translingual

(birdwatching) A tern that is either a common tern, Sterna hirundo, or an arctic tern, Sterna paradisaea.


sexpresso

It also boasts dress-up days such as Military Mondays, Cowgirl Tuesdays, Bikini Wednesdays, Schoolgirl Thursdays and Fantasy Fridays. Other coffeehouses in the area are also trying to capitalize on the “sexpresso” concept.

For instance, in February 2007 the Los Angeles Times ran an article that described the appearance of a new variety of coffee shop in the suburbs of Seattle, the “sexpresso” bar. Noting that “coffee, the famed Seattle obsession,” is now being combined “with sex, the fabled human obsession,” the paper discussed the success of establishments like the “Natte Latte and Bikini Espresso,” whose full-figured barristas^([sic]) serve customers while wearing baby doll nighties, halter tops, or negligees.

2012, Mark Walia, A Tale of Two Cultures:

(Canada, US, attributive, informal) The marketing trend of coffee shops staffed by scantily-clad female baristas.


camfecting

(computer security, Internet) The process of hacking (or attempting to hack) a webcam for illegal purposes, such as voyeurism.


Bulletmore

Blend of bullet + Baltimore, in reference to the high murder rate.

Even if I'm honest about my ignorance of the best show on TV, folks are thirsty to know if Bulletmore is really as criminally minded as it's portrayed on television.

2007, Felicia Pride, The Message: 100 Life Lessons from Hip-Hop's Greatest Songs, page 192:

Bulletmore's success rate of solving crime is only about 17%. This is a city where the National Guard could be used as target practice by the local B.G.F.

(slang, derogatory) The city of Baltimore, Maryland, United States.


WTFDYM

Alternative form: wtfdym

(Internet slang, text messaging, vulgar) Initialism of what the fuck do you mean?.


hypercane

Moreover, as Hecht reported, “The Sun’s ultraviolet radiation would act on stratospheric water droplets to form hydroxyl radicals. Together with chlorine from saltwater thrown up by the hypercane these radicals could destroy vast quantities of stratospheric ozone. UV radiation would then reach the Earth’s surface unhindered, killing organisms on land and in the upper layers of the ocean.

1940, Current Biography Yearbook, H. W. Wilson, page 181:

Hypercanes is a speculative attempt to explain mass species extinctions 245 million years ago. Computer models showed that continent-sized super-storms with winds averaging 600 kilometres per hour could be produced if oceans warmed to an incredible 45 to 50 degrees C. Such temperatures are impossible today barring a massive meteor strike or gigantic underwater volcano eruption.

2005 September 16, Stephen Leahy, “The Dawn of the Hypercane?”, in ipsnews.net/news, archived from the original on 2008-05-17:

True hypercanes require an ocean temperature of about 50 degrees C, which is 15 degrees hotter than the hottest temp ever recorded. I think they're only a thing after asteroid impacts in the ocean and supermassive underwater volcanoes.

2020 September 20, EricFromOuterSpace, GenghisKazoo, “Catastrophic Hurricanes Are the ‘New Normal,’ and They Will Cost Trillions”, in reddit.com:

(meteorology, very rare) An hypothetical class of an extremely severe hurricane with ocean temperatures reaching approximately 50 °C (122 °F) and formed by significant conditions, such as extensive global warming, having wind speeds exceeding 800 kilometers per hour (500 mph).


absofreakinglutely

Blend of absolutely + freaking. A tmesis, already attested in the 19th century.


fuelish

en-adj

fuelish (comparative more fuelish, superlative most fuelish)

more fuelish (comparative)
most fuelish (superlative)

People who were "fuelish" would learn to conserve, or simply do without.

1979, Environmental Design Research Association, EDRA. - Volume 10, Part 1979, page 433:

Driving fuel-efficient vehicles and using motorbikes when possible to replace or supplement vehicles are two of the ways Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks employees are attempting to become less fuelish and to lower transportation costs.

1980, Montana Outdoors - Volume 11, page 8:

For the moment, there is no energy crisis, no gasoline rationing, no collection of conservation tips from oil companies, no twinge of un-Americanism from driving a car big enough to fit into comfortably, and no such thing as being "fuelish."

1987, William Geist, The Zucchini Plague and Other Tales of Suburbia, page 91:

The fifty-five-mile-per-hour speed limit, the unreliable cars that had been reconfigured to meet fuel efficiency standards, the constant reminders not to be “fuelish” served as reminders that one of America's oldest freedoms—the freedom to waste—had been severely curtailed.

2009, Thomas Hine, The Great Funk: Falling Apart and Coming Together:

A heavy foot, aggressive driving in traffic, and other fuelish driving habits significantly reduce fuel economy and cost you dearly at the pump.

2010, Dan Chiras, Green Transportation Basics: A Green Energy Guide, page 40:

Consuming excessive amounts of fuel, especially fossil fuels.

Special arrangements will be made, we understand, to obviate the dire necessity of the costermonger having to consume his (s) moke! Smoke, it is admitted, is "sootable" for many purposes; but the wisest plan is virtually the most “fuelish", viz. to burn it as additional fuel.

"Spring is only three tons away." says the Harrisburg Patriot. "A fuelish way of measuring." comments a correspondant.

1921, Ax-I-Dent-Ax - Volumes 6-7, page 15:

What fuelish fancies! The crooks have wrung such abundant profits from the coupons that "no prison sentence could be long enough," as one courtroom bystander put it.

1981, The Current Digest of the Soviet Press - Volume 33, page 18:

Pertaining to fuel, especially in a manner that is considered silly.


millionennium

en-noun

millionennium (plural millionennia or millionenniums)

millionennia (plural)
millionenniums (plural)

These superstitions and traditions were all odd and strange beliefs, which mingled the materialistic and the spiritual most incongruously; but they were not so degrading, and they were not so far from truth as the “enlightened” ideas respecting our origin, circulated in costly volumes during recent years, by authors whose Adam and Eve were frogs, formed from slime by the action of the sun, with a dash of electricity, and in which, from gratitude for their descent, their progeny for centuries, millenniums, or millionenniums wallowed.

1860, “Traditions and Superstitions”, in Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume XXVII, Edinburgh: Sutherland & Knox; London: Partridge & Co., page 526, column 1:

What they should advocate, then, is, that the government should manufacture 65,000,000 greenbacks, each of one million dollars, and that one of these should be presented as a free gift to every one of our 65,000,000 people. Then every man, woman, and child in the country would be a millionaire, the currency would be sufficiently “expanded” to meet the demands of the most voracious, and wealth, contentment, and happiness would be universally diffused. In short, not merely the millennium, but the millionennium would have arrived. Just imagine it! a whole nation of millionaires!

1890, “Passing Notes”, in Belford’s Magazine, volume VI, New York: Belford’s Magazine Company; Chicago: Belford-Clarke Company, page 109:

An emmet is far more competent to discourse upon the figure of the earth than we are to say what future millennia and millionennia may have in store for physical theories, with the atomic theory and the theory of light not yet one sleepy century old.

a. 1914, Charles Sanders Peirce, quotee, “Elements of Logic”, in Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, Harvard University Press, published 1932, pages 81–81:

Miss Helen is the same kind er spender as her maw. I believe my soul them two would ruther buy than eat. Cook used ter say that Mis’ Carter an’ Miss Helen spent like we done come to the millionennium.

1917, Emma Speed Sampson, “Chapter III: The Problem”, in The Carter Girls’ Weekend Camp, published 2017:

After that the land was quiet for a long time, and the decimillenia passed and ran on into centilmillenna, and the centimillennia piled up into millionennia.

1951, George R. Stewart, Sheep Rock: A Novel, page 204:

If what has occurred during the past “millionennia” through the process of natural selection is so worth treasuring and preserving, […]

2000, James B. Reichmann, “Anthropocentrism, Biocentrism, Envirocentrism”, in Evolution, Animal ‘Rights’, and the Environment, Catholic University of America Press, →ISBN, pages 325–326:

> > The reason that I ask is that I'm developing a Science Fiction story / > > which incorporates this idea. I'm wondering what kinds of religions / > > would arrise from this kind of information. Surely there would not be / > > a single galactic religion, / Um, understatement of the... millionennium.

2002 July 24, Zeborah, “Re: How come Jean-Luc Picard is an atheist?”, in rec.arts.sf.composition (Usenet), message-ID <1ffuli5.1jnrg03twlaofN%zeborahnz@mac.com>:

Given that distortions of this sort (compression fractures, so to speak) are inevitable whenever the very closest comparanda across fossil records of any kind, linguistic or otherwise, are separated by millennia (in linguistic evolution) or even – to coin a useful term – millionennia (in biological evolution), how can we be so confident about our diachronic-linguistic activity in attempting to reconstruct details and overall structures of earlier language-states – as well as major changes in these – on the basis of arguably scanty textual evidence?

2003, Brian D. Joseph, Richard D. Janda, editors, The Handbook of Historical Linguistics, Blackwell Publishing, →ISBN, page 56:

[…] / to you, / who provided us / food, / drink, / and song / for a millionennium.

2013, James H. McGavran III, transl., Selected Poems, Northwestern University Press, translation of original by Vladimir Mayakovsky, →ISBN, page 246:

(rare) Synonym of mega-annum: a period of time consisting of one million years.


Y'all Qaeda

Talibundy

Taliban + the surname Bundy after Ammon Bundy who led the Occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge

(slang, derogatory, humorous) The right-wing extremist group that participated in the 2016 occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge


bromantically

en-adv

bromantically (comparative more bromantically, superlative most bromantically)

more bromantically (comparative)
most bromantically (superlative)


A-RNA

en-noun

A-RNA (countable and uncountable, plural A-RNAs)

From A + RNA. Blend of A-DNA + RNA. From being an RNA analogue of the previously discovered A-DNA.

(uncountable) A configuration of RNA, right-hand twisting double helix, that forms the default configuration of double-stranded RNA.


Z-RNA

Z-RNA (countable and uncountable, plural Z-RNAs)

From Z + RNA. Blend of Z-DNA + RNA. From zigzagging of the zigzag configuration RNA, an RNA analogue of the previously discovered Z-DNA.

(uncountable) A configuration of RNA, left-hand twisting double helix, that takes up a zigzagging form due to the natural right-hand twisting tendency of double-stranded RNA.


umbershoot

Blend of umbrella + parachute. Compare bumbershoot.

[Sees umbrella.] Hello, Smarden's forgot his umbershoot—ain't it a daisy.

1896, John Arthur Fraser, A Delicate Question: An Original Comedy Drama in Four Acts, page 37:

Then I saw a young fellow coming along with a nice large umbrella, and I thought if he was going as far as my house I would beg the shelter of [his] umbershoot.

1912 November 22, Judd Mortimer Lewis, "Try It Yourself Some Time", in "Tampering with Trifles" Houston Post, p.6. c.8

2011 Beverly Lewis, The Judgment (The Rose Trilogy Book #2) (Bethany House: Bloomington, Minnesota) →ISBN
“Sure looks like rain's comin',” Dat said, gawking toward the window, seemingly preoccupied with the weather. “It'll raise the water table, for sure.”
“Be sure and take an umbershoot,” Hen said, offering a smile.

(US, slang, humorous, obsolete) An umbrella


Waxit

Blend of WA (“Western Australia”) + exit, patterned after Brexit and Grexit.

blend

(Australian politics) The secession of Western Australia from the nation of Australia, forming a separate country.


jazz-hop

(music) A fusion subgenre of hip-hop and jazz music; jazz rap.


-nicline

Nicotinic cholinergic receptor
nicotinic acetylcholine receptor

(pharmacology) Nicotinic cholinergic receptor partial agonist/agonist.


freedumb

Blend of freedom + dumb. First use appears c. 1856 as free-dumb.

He lookt rather strocked, an he says: “Aint a man goin to hav no freedumb of speech?” I told him, “Of course, you’ll hav all the freedumb of speech you want—but you came up here from Connettycut an got a clerkship becaus you couldn’t get inter office at home, an you didn’t want ter bone down ter hard work.[…]”

1866 March 18, Tranquill [pseudonym], “Keep Cool! Keep Cool! Keep Cool!”, in S[imon] P[arker] Hanscom, editor, Daily National Republican, volume VI, number 90, Washington, D.C.: W[illiam] J. Murtagh & Co., front page, column 4:

Liberty is great. Even a man that can’t talk, loves his freedumb.

1918 November 11, C. Green, “Wavelets from the Deep”, in M. F. Hetherington, editor, The Lakeland Evening Telegram, number 9, Lakeland, Fla., page [4], column 2:

Otherwise they retain their freedom or independence at the expense of being unable to express their ideas in an ordered manner. "Freedumb" versus Freedom!

1946, The University of Michigan (publisher), Rubber Journal - Volumes 110-111, page 129:

We hear the cry freedom, freedom, on every side, but it seems some men spell it freedumb.

1964, Pennsylvania Home Rule Association (contributor), Pennsylvania Road Builder - Volumes 37-38, page 5:

... all but the local hill-habitators who are all out and bigod they won't have any more cow if they ain't got freedumb to leave tubercles in the milk.

1971, Ezra Pound, The Selected Letters of Ezra Pound, 1907-1941, page 265:

But whoever claims vociferously and advocates 100% freedom within themselves know that it is not so and is only 100% 'FREEDUMB'

1980, Institute of Traditional Cultures, Bulletin, page 83:

... Doob, following Pound's script, gives it as 'Freedumb Forum'.

1992, Jacqueline Kaye, Ezra Pound and America, page 27:

The freedom for free speech is rapidly becoming freedumb on all four feet.

2000, Norma E. Leary, For God's Sake, page 59:

But justice takes a stand / And releases us from the turmoil, / Freedumb rings from the hand / But not from the soil

2010, Maxine Y. Anderson, My Heart Aches So My Mind Bleeds - A Collection of Poetry, page 61:

But freedumb also tells us that we can do whatever we like, because we're free to ignore those who think they know better.

2011, Laura Penny, More Money Than Brains: Why School Sucks, College is Crap, & Idiots Think They're Right:

My first day of terrifying, amazing freedumb flew by in a stupor.

2016, Lucy Woodhull, 667 Ways to F*ck Up My Life:

The Mythos Trinity - free-market capitalism, Judaeo-Christianity, and freedumb and dumbocracy - is a ferociously difficult system to overthrow because it appeals so powerfully to so many people.

2018, Joe Dixon, The Intelligence Wars: Logos Versus Mythos:

Freedom or freedumb? Which do you choose?

2020, Mia Miata, The Goddess Code - Goddess in Womanifestation:

(slang, derogatory, US politics) Stupidity masquerading as love of freedom; an assertion of one's personal liberty which is perceived to be unreasonable or motivated by stupidity.


Carboloy

Blend of carbon + alloy. Originally (from 1928) a trademark of General Electric and its subsidiary GE Carboloy, the latter now a part of Seco Tools.

(trademark) A composite material consisting of tungsten carbide particles cemented into a cobalt or nickel binder, notable for its hardness and heat-resistance, used e.g. in cutters and machine tools.


Cinerama

Blend of cinema + panorama, a trademark of Cinerama, Inc.

A wide-screen movie filming and projection system, briefly in vogue during the 1950s, involving three synchronised standard-format films projected onto a wide, curved screen, providing a "wraparound" experience for cinemagoers.

cinérama

a wide-screen movie filming and projection system.


Finndian

(Canada, US) A person of mixed Finnish and Native American heritage.


flixel

Blend of floating + pixel. The origins may come from cinemagraphs in the fashion industry in the early 2010s.

Cinemagraph Pro: A professional graphics tool for creating “flixels”—combinations of video and photo.

2014 June 2, Roman Loyola, “WWDC: Apple Design Awards winners for 2014”, in Macworld:

Other than the above iOS apps, Apple also recognized the best Mac apps — journaling app Day One and photography app Cinemagraph Pro, which helps you create flixels.

2014 June 3, Kaylene Hong, “Apple honors Yahoo News Digest, Storehouse and other apps in its annual Design Awards”, in The Next Web:

armand dijcks created the pieces by manipulating ray collins’ still images in adobe after effects, before using flixel cinemagraph pro to complete the animation.

2017 May 12, Peter Corboy, “armand dijcks' enchanting cinemagraphs capture the raw power of the ocean waves”, in Design Boom:

An image, that combines a photo, and a video element that is looped to give the illusion of movement.

While all the patent filings mention the need for safety features, the manipulation of giant marionettes and droves of flying screens or "flixels" in close proximity to huge crowds of families seems like exactly the kind of use that might raise concerns from regulators.

2014 August 27, Andrea Peterson, “Disney filed a patent for ‘blimp-sized’ puppets controlled by drones. But that doesn’t mean they’ll be in parks soon.”, in The Washington Post:

I think Disney's clever idea to call them "flixels" is cool, though, and if they can pull together enough flixels to form an actual flying display, that would be seriously impressive, since even a basic flying display with a QQVGA resolution (160x120) would need 19,200 (!) individual flying robots.

2014 August 28, Evan Ackerman, “Disney Research Patents ETH Zurich's PuppetCopter”, in IEEE Spectrum:

Engineers working for Disney theme parks want to use drones as “flixels,” or flying pixels.

2015, Daniel R. Faust, Entertainment Drones, page 20:

The aerial display system makes use of the concept of a “flixel” or floating pixel (of a flying pixel object).

2020 November 19, C Wong, JA Stark, RS Trowbridge, Aerial display system with floating pixels, US Patent 20159169030:

An image that is projected into the air by a floating drone.