warphan

In addition, the following organizations act as the Association's agencies in caring for warphans.

2½ cents per meal will support a warphan and also provide educational and vocational training.

1940, Federal Council Bulletin, volumes 23-25:

A WARPHAN COMES OF AGE

1944, China Magazine, volumes 12-13, page 26:

Adopt a warphan for a month!

2005, K. Scott Wong, Americans First: Chinese Americans and the Second World War, page 94:

(US) An orphan whose parents died due to war, especially in 20th-century China.

sotaorpo

orphan due to having lost one's parents in war


frostbow

A white arc or circle in the sky during frosty weather, formed by reflection of sunlight from ice crystals floating in the air.


lettergram

(historical) A telegram longer than an ordinary message and sent more cheaply and with a lower priority.


Gaystapo

Probably intimidated into a mandatory round of the Gaystapo's "Homosexuals are People, Too!" re-education programs.

2001 September 25, hgr999 [username], “Re: MORE Facts to Surface”, in alt.true-crime (Usenet):

It looks like the Gaystapo is really up in arms over my recent series of articles on Cisco’s firing of Frank Turek.

2011, Mike Adams, "A Queer and Present Danger", Townhall.com, 13 July 2011 (archived on Usenet)

But the hidden hegemonic ambitions of the Gaystapo have been exposed recently by their plans to annex and redefine ‘marriage’.

2011 October 28, Alan Craig, “Confronting the Gaystapo”, in Church of England Newspaper, number 6098, page 9:

(informal, derogatory) Gay activists viewed as a militant and oppressive force.


growlf

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

(Internet, furry fandom) Expressing mild aggression or irritation.


crocoduck

Blend of crocodile + duck; proposed by creationists Ray Comfort and Kirk Cameron.

An imaginary hybrid animal with the head of a crocodile and the body of a duck, described in an attempt to discredit evolution in favour of creationism.


firmographics

The use of sets of characteristics to segment commercial organizations, analogous to demographics for people.


Klaroline

The flirtatious energy was fun, and we made a very conscious effort to evoke some of the "Klaroline" energy from previous seasons.

2014, Crissy Calhoun, Heather Vee, Love You to Death - Season 5: The Unofficial Companion to The Vampire Diaries, ECW Press, →ISBN:

We caught up with Candice Accola to get some information about just how bad Markos is, and what she thinks about Steroline, Klaroline, and more: […]

2014, Samantha Highfill, "'The Vampire Diaries': Candice Accola on Steroline's 'raw' moment, Markos' arrival, and her road trip with Enzo", Entertainment Weekly, 17 January 2015

Morgan also addresses the passionate fans of one massively shipped couple (hint: Klaroline) whose supporters may be the most vocal and opinionated in the Vampire Diaries universe.

2015 April 2, Amanda Michelle Steiner, “The Originals' Joseph Morgan on Klaus's 'Crazy and Irrational' Return and Why He's 'Proud' of the Show's Passionate Fandom”, in People:

(fandom slang) The romantic pairing of the characters Niklaus Mikaelson and Caroline Forbes from the American television series The Vampire Diaries.


photographone

(dated) A device, consisting essentially of an electric arc and a camera, by which a series of photographs of the variations of the arc due to sound waves are obtained for reproduction by means of a selenium cell and a telephone.


cyburban

From blend of cyber + suburban, and/or equivalent to cyber- + urban.

Just as early malls commodified public life under the rhetoric of community building, then, the owners of cyburban space could do the same.

1996, Pion, Environment and Planning: Society & space:

Outside these carefully managed and massaged sites, the Internet is becoming a cyburban nightmare pervaded by blog dialogues hijacked by foul-mouthed mischief makers, Facebook ‘friendships’ much shallower than conviviality from an earlier epoch, and mindless multitasking by teens distracted by gaming, texting and sexting in the nonstop video mental universe.

2010 April 1, John Trumpbour, “Labor in the information age”, in Labor History:

New knowledge, however, hinges on new ways of seeing, and thus on the recognition of the overlooked, silenced, marginal, and on the intentional agency of individual actors that are actively remixing their everyday lives in their cyburban place-worlds.

2014, Peter Marolt, David Kurt Herold, China Online: Locating Society in Online Spaces, →ISBN:

Related to online communities or cyberspace.


feelpinion

It turns out that this distinction isn't exactly a feelpinion based on anecdotal evidence of Paris's café culture: despite the quantity the French drink, their drinking pattern is rated by the World Health Organisation as one of the least risky in the world.

2013 September, Chad Parkhill, “Booze: What's culture got to do with it?”, in The Lifted Brow, number 19:

It is the era of feelings. Feelpinions require no facts, no research, they aren’t required to make sense, or be logical, and they thunder around the internet and cable television around the clock.

2014 January 29, Katharine Murphy, “In the case of the Coalition v the ABC, 'feelpinions' have become evidence”, in The Guardian:

On the evidence, as opposed to the feelpinions of Hal's publishers at Quadrant, it seems Australian factory workers in the Second World War were more likely to impede the march to victory by working too hard, ignoring the rudimentary occ health and safety regs of the day, and getting themselves injured and mangled in their machinery.

2014 December 13, John Birmingham, “Beware the pumas of Lima”, in The Sydney Morning Herald:

An uninformed opinion based on one's feelings rather than known facts.


parcelcopter

Utilising a remotely controlled quad-copter drone, DHL's new service will send its parcelcopters to the small German island of Juist, while flying 50 metres above ground to avoid any air control regulations.

2014 October 8, “DHL's parcelcopter drone taking to the air”, in TechSmart Business:

And, in Germany, DHL launched an experimental drone delivery service called “parcelcopter” in December 2013, carrying small parcels to the small island of Juist (population 2,000).

2015 February 18, Chris Morris, “Where can Amazon legally fly its drones?”, in Fortune:

Express delivery Parcelcopters could deliver packages and pizzas to your door!

2015, Susan Hayes, Really? Robots, page 17:

A small-scale unmanned aerial vehicle used to promptly transport a package.


tweeb

Victoria Balfour's recent "Rock Wives", for instance; Bebe, irritated by it, says it falsely depicts her as a tweeb living in seclusion moaning over lost loves.

Same couple tweebs slurping their coffees.

2000, Michael Piedmonte, Split Land of Liberty, →ISBN, page 56:

Faisal Al-Marzougi, a regular columnist and a famous tweeb on Twitter, is yet another example.

2016, M. Evren Tok, Lolwah R. M. Alkhater, Leslie A. Pal, Policy-Making in a Transformative State: The Case of Qatar, →ISBN, page 109:

(slang) A person who constantly uses technology, e.g. cell phone or tablet.


bromidiom

(informal, dated) A conventional comment or saying; a bromide.


slackpack

en-verb

slackpack (third-person singular simple present slackpacks, present participle slackpacking, simple past and past participle slackpacked)

slackpacks (present singular third-person)
slackpacking (participle present)
slackpacked (participle past)
slackpacked (past)

Some hikers choose to slackpack when they want credit for hiking the miles but do not want to carry full packs over difficult terrain.

2012, Paul Stutzman, Hiking Through: One Man's Journey to Peace and Freedom on the Appalachian Trail, →ISBN:

Early on in my hike I ran into Sloop hiking south on the Trail. He was slackpacking. When we made eye contact, he looked down and very softly said, "You caught me."

2009, George Sandul, The Road to Damascus... and Beyond, →ISBN, page 199:

To hike on a multi-day trail without carrying a backpack. Typically, this is accomplished by having another person transport the backpack using a vehicle.


fastpack

fastpack (third-person singular simple present fastpacks, present participle fastpacking, simple past and past participle fastpacked)

fastpacks (present singular third-person)
fastpacking (participle present)
fastpacked (participle past)
fastpacked (past)

In 1987, with fellow runner Will Uher, John fastpacked the 211-mile John Muir Trail in the Sierra Nevada in 8 1/2 days, carrying a 30-pound pack.

2011, John Vonhof, Fixing Your Feet: Prevention and Treatments for Athletes, →ISBN, page 361:

To run while carrying a backpack on a multi-day trail.

It was slowing her down in adventure races, and it was complicating her plans to fastpack a bunch of trails in New Zealand.

2004 May, Katy Schafer, “The Challenge”, in Backpacker, volume 32, number 156, page 87:

To to backpacking with the goal of maximising the distance traveled every day.


Steroline

(fandom slang) The romantic pairing of the characters Stefan Salvatore and Caroline Forbes from the American television series The Vampire Diaries.


Duchovbot

The duchovbots had nothing to do with it. Season 8 stunk big time. Not even David could make it any better.

2001 July 29, Marlene Steinberg, “Re: Short XF Season Survey!”, in alt.tv.x-files (Usenet):

The Duchovbots seem to be waaay to^([sic]) eager to forget that the *only* reason we ever got Doggett was cuz DD wanted out.

2002 May 21, spookycc [username], “Re: The Truth From The Gut”, in alt.tv.x-files (Usenet):

If it had taken a ratings dive, Fox would never have renewed the show for Season 9 because all FOX cares about is making money. I realize the Duchovbot spinmeisters compared the show from Season to Season but that's not how the game is played.

2004 March 24, Laura Capozzola, “Re: Question Season 8 + 9, Possible spoilers”, in alt.tv.x-files (Usenet):

(X-Files fandom slang, derogatory) A fan of The X-Files who stopped watching or enjoyed the series less after actor David Duchovny's departure.


silundum

Blend of silicon + corundum. Originally a trade name, in imitation of carborundum.

A hard form of silicon carbide with high electrical resistance.


friendshipper

From friendship + -er, or a blend of friendship + shipper.

This is an MSR, all friendshippers beware.

1997 May 23, TempusX [username], “NEW: After The Louvre - 1/1 (MSR/NC-17)”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):

Some of us are friendshippers, some of us are relationshippers of one variety or another -- some of us want to see a Mulder/Scully relationship occur during the course of the series, while some of us prefer to maintain the slow seduction until the series' end -- but we are all captivated by the intense and uncommon TRUST displayed between the characters.

1998 July 2, JLangly, “Shippers have SAVED The X-Files!!!”, in alt.tv.x-files (Usenet):

Ok do any other shippers out there just feel like becoming a friendshipper. Mulder has turned into the Ass Hole^([sic]) of the year, and I wouldn't want Scully to take him if he cam^([sic]) knocking on her door with a dozen red roses, and Diana's head in a box.

1999 February 15, SoulM E MS [username], “Shipper?”, in alt.tv.x-files (Usenet):

(X-Files fandom slang) A person who would prefer Fox Mulder and Dana Scully's relationship to remain platonic.


Bangel

My only hope at this point is that SMG refuses to appear on Angel in the future, thus saving us from the inevitable Bangel ending for that series.

2003 May 14, Chris Zabel, “Re: How Does Joss Whedon Feel...”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet):

She never seemed to have any trouble writing Bangel or Spuffy scenes.

2004 November 1, EBailey140 [username], “Re: What is it about Riley...”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet):

And we get Andrew's definitive judgement on the Bangel versus Spuffy controversy, […]

2009 March 13, Stephen Tempest, “Review of BtVS 8.23 'Predators and Prey”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet):

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


massifier

Blend of mass + classifier, or massify + -er.

(linguistics) A kind of classifier that results in a mass noun rather than singling out a discrete unit.


Spuffy

In contrast, the Spuffy 'shipper may be an older, more highly-educated career professional, but she must use the Internet to access the fanfiction she desires to read, because it is not available anywhere else.

2013, Mary Kirby-Diaz, “Ficcers and 'Shippers: A Love Story”, in Jennifer K. Stuller, editor, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Intellect Books, →ISBN, page 44:

Spuffy—as Spike/Buffy are often called—changed all that.

2013, Michelle Sagara West, “For The Love Of Riley”, in Glenn Yeffeth, editor, Seven Seasons of Buffy: Science Fiction and Fantasy Authors Discuss Their Favorite Television Show, BenBella Books, →ISBN, page 71:

Relations between these viewers – who had come to self-identify as 'Spike-Buffy relationship fans' or 'Spuffy shippers' for short – and the writers of the show reached their nadir at the end of season six, when the writers decided to show the Spuffy shippers just how wrong they were by writing a scene in which Spike attempts to rape Buffy: […]

2014, Joseph Crawford, The Twilight of the Gothic?: Vampire Fiction and the Rise of the Paranormal Romance, University of Wales Press, →ISBN, pages 129–130:

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


Repugnantcan

(US, slang, derogatory) A member or supporter of the Republican Party of the United States.


facestalking

I guess it is stalking, only the modern day equivalent (now termed Facestalking), albeit it without you having to hang out by the dumpster behind your intended's building to sift through her garbage for old underwear or loose strands of hair.

2014, Travis J. Hawke, Claire Bradshaw, The Bachelor Life, →ISBN:

Who's facestalking my favs on Facebook?

2014, Joseph Maverick Nyambu, Sparkling Mortal Passions, →ISBN, page 31:

No, not like you “check up” on your ex and his new girlfriend Facestalking, but actual stalking–in the bushes with binoculars stalking.

2012 May 4, “I Regret: Dating A Criminal”, in The Gloss:

He didn't realize she was facestalking him until she saw that he had a new girlfriend from his postings.

2015 April 30, Virginia Sullivan, “Ahhh Facebook, You Are a Cruel Mistress”, in Huffington Post:

There's no need to feel naughty about facestalking would-be dates on social media before agreeing to meet up, new research says nine in 10 NZ women do it.

2014 May 24, “Facestalking' would-be dates on social media is normal, research says”, in TVNZ OneNews:

The practice of obtaining information about someone without their knowledge using Facebook or other social media.


on fleek

term-label

(African-American Vernacular, Gen Z, slang)

Lexico
Newsweek
The Fader
Urban Dictionary

Origin unknown. Early entries for fleek in the Urban Dictionary date to 2003 (defined as “smooth, nice, sweet”) and 2009 (“awesome”); perhaps as a blend of fly (“well dressed, smart in appearance; in style, cool”) + sleek. The term was popularized by a video posted on the online video-hosting service Vine on June 21, 2014 by Chicago-area teen Kayla Newman, under her username “Peaches Monroee”, in which Newman, who had just had her eyebrows done for the first time, proudly declared “eyebrows on fleek”. She claimed that the term “just came to [her] out of the blue”. Lexico suggests it is “apparently an arbitrary formation”.

blend

"This media we call social," the poem says, "is anything but." There is nothing wrong with wanting to document good times, on-fleek outfits and maybe even a particularly scrumptious Starbucks order. Just don't make it a priority.

2015 January 20, Abagail Kruise, “Don’t make social media a top priority, spend some time offline with loved ones”, in Cameron Teague Robinson, editor, The BG News, volume 94, number 54, Bowling Green, Oh.: Bowling Green State University, →OCLC, page 4, column 5:

Your coat has to really be on fleek to be dope in New York. Your outerwear just has to be on point at all times. That's really the first thing people see.

2015 February, Dio Anthony, quoting Xosha Roquemore, “Xosha Roquemore: The Realist”, in Aleksandar Tomovic, editor, Bello, West Hollywood, Calif.: Bello Media Group, Image Nation Studio, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 92, column 3:

After several costume changes, I settled on an acceptably less-crazy dress and boots. It's just that I was so damn excited about my first trip to The Grey and I needed my look on fleek, OK?

2015 February 4–10, Jessica Leigh Lebos, “Catching shades of Grey”, in Jim Morekis, editor, Connect Savannah: The News, Arts & Entertainment Weekly, Savannah, Ga.: Morris Multimedia, page 10, column 1:

No wonder her fashion choices are on fleek.

2017 December 6, Anna Murphy, “A bustier is still a killer way to power-dress”, in The Times, London: News UK, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-03-10:

(slang, of an article of clothing or outfit) Stylish and perfectly chosen or put together.


serpopard

(Egyptian mythology, Mesopotamian mythology) A mythical animal resembling a serpent-necked leopard, known from Ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamian depictions.


skapri

Blend of skirt + capri pants. Compare skort.

The "skapri" (AAAAHHHHHH worst term ever) is essentially the skirted swimsuit of the running world. It says, "I want to wear fitted capris, but my thighs are too large to be inflicted upon the world without being covered."

2010 September 28, “A few things...”, in Go Tracy Go:

2013, April 17 Center Court Catwalk Amy Turek "What the heck is a skapri?"
Behold: The “Skapri.” That’s right, the “skapri.” For those of us familiar with tennis skirts, we know that many of them come with shorts built in underneath. But these…oh no. These come with cropped leggings underneath.

An exercise garment combining leggings with a short skirt


Trinbagonian

A native or inhabitant of Trinidad and Tobago.


athleisure

/ˌæθˈliː.ʒɚ/

Of course, the athleisure category—infusing seemingly sporty clothes with a wear-it-all-day premise—has been booming for a while now.

2020 June 22, Flora Tsapovsky, “Once a WFH Staple, Athleisure Gets Down to Business”, in Wired:

“The athleisure and the dogs are taking over, and that’s really unfortunate,” Sevigny said. “Everybody’s in Lululemon and has a fucking dog and it’s driving me crazy. I’m sorry, dog lovers. There are too many of you.”

2024 February 2, Alaina Demopoulos, quoting Chloë Sevigny, “‘I’m annoying, to some degree’: New York’s dog owners debate Chloë Sevigny’s anti-pup take”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(attributive) Clothing that is appropriate for both athletic and leisure pursuits.


stanine

a method of scaling test scores on a nine-point standard scale with a mean of five and a standard deviation of two


Yidglish

A variety of English, influenced by Yiddish, spoken by the Jewish population of New York


wenis

The exact origin of the term is unknown, although it likely originated in the 1990s or earlier as a humorous corruption of the word penis, or perhaps as a blend of wiener + penis.

unk

unknown

“Did you know your wenis is showing?” “My what?” “Your wenis!” How hilarious. This joke — which I didn't get — was on me. “You got punk'd, girlfriend!” squealed Caitlin when I told her. Kitch had heard that one before. “Wenis is the medical term for the flabby skin on the elbow,” he said. I stood in front of the mirror, fingering my wenis. Flabby, was it?

2010, Tilda Shalof, Camp Nurse: My Adventures at Summer Camp, page 94:

“[…] Or know that this”—he tickled her elbow—“is the sexiest wenis I've ever seen.”

2011, Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi, A Shore Thing, page 136:

I learned to appreciate skin where skin didn't matter before. Like the wenis of an elbow.

2016, Amber L. Johnson, Critical Autoethnography: Intersecting Cultural Identities in Everyday Life, page 92:

(slang) The skin on the outside of the elbow.


brohawk

Your brohawk.

2004, Andrew Schwab, It's All Downhill From Here: On The Road With Project 86, Relevant Books, →ISBN, page 193:

Other fighters started filing in: tribal-tattooed, creatine-slamming, brohawk-sporting dudes; […]

2009, Christopher Curtis, "Stop, drop and fight", The Link (Concordia University), Volume 30, Issue 16, 1 December 2009, page 22

Residents of the third floor of Memorial Hall and their “brohawks.”

2011, Noah Walker, "'Bro Night' in Memorial", The Collegian (Grove City College), Volume 72, Number 9, 11 November 2011, page 4 (image caption)

(slang) A Mohawk hairstyle worn by a bro.


brodeo

Dude! The hottest chick just walked in. The ratio just got a bit better, but this party is still a brodeo.

2007, Robert Morris, "This punch is way better, bro", Texas Travesty (University of Texas), Volume 9, Issue 6, September 2007, page 14

It's Jell-O shots, beer pong, backwards baseball caps and a full-on brodeo every day of the week in this three-barred behemoth. It's a club for the sports-bar set.

2010, "10th Annual Coldest Beer", Boise Weekly, Volume 20, Issue 1, 29 June 2010 - 5 July 2010, page 35

Chillin' with the Chet-meister waiting for the rest of the brodeo to show up so the foosball tournament can begin.

2014, "What Did You Give Wee Baby Jesus For Christmas?", The Black Sheep (University of Kentucky), 11 December 2014, page 16

(slang) A gathering featuring or primarily appealing to men.


brodown

After a few false starts I finally meet the Swiss French snowboarder at Europe's winter sports brodown Babylon.

2009, Gemma Freeman, "Just A Girl?", Huck, Issue 14, April/May 2009, page 53

“Probably the same old thing—another Saturday-night brodown.”
Becka laughed. “A brodown, huh? Sounds fierce. What do you boys do? Play video games and burp a lot?”

2012, James Preller, Before You Go, Feiwel and Friends, →ISBN:

All these developments are a sign of the times ahead: the drink, mostly associated with brodowns, is slowly but surely making its way onto the fancy part of the menu.

2013, Nick Green, "A year in beer", City Bites, Issue 49, November/December 2013, page 6

(slang) A gathering featuring and/or appealing primarily to men.


brohemian

Celebrity brohemians abound. The Strokes, the Hives, and any group lumped into that nouveau rock thing MTV's so in love with right now – all brohemian.

2003, Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture, page 56:

Instead he evens the selections out with classics from brohemians like Del tha Funkee Homosapien and Blackalicious

2006, The Fader, numbers 40-41, page 182:

We figured it was probably time to give you some tips on how to tell if the individual you are dealing is simply a ”brohemian” who will just steal your weed, or a gypsy who will take you for everything you are worth.

2014, Brooke Geery, "Snow Boarder Or Gypsy?", Yobeat, Winter 2014/2015, page 46 (approx.)

(slang) A bro who has adopted or affects a Bohemian lifestyle.


Indish

(India, colloquial) Any of various varieties of English spoken in India.


snice

(rare) Frozen water with physical characteristics intermediate between snow and ice, especially when used in constructing buildings (such as ice hotels) out of ice.


momtrepreneur

2018, Kristen Luciani, Venture Forward, Sand Hill Romance LLC
Kristen Luciani is a USA Today bestselling romance author and momtrepreneur with a penchant for stilettos, Silicon Valley, plunging necklines and grapefruit martinis. As a deep-rooted romantic who prefers juicy drama to fill the lives of […]

(US, informal) A mother who runs a business out of her home, implicitly to earn extra income outside of traditional employment.


Devonwall

"The Highlands and Islands" phenomenon is the Scottish equivalent of "Devonwall" and all efforts must be made to challenge the creation of any more "Highlands and Islands" institutions which bring together the Highlands and the Northern Isles.

2000, Celtic League, Carn, volumes 108-117, page 4:

A conference at Newquay in November 1987, called at the behest of the Duke of Cornwall, allowed the proponents of 'Devonwall' to come up with a proposal for a Devon and Cornwall Development Company.

2003, Bernard Deacon, Garry Tregidga, Mebyon Kernow and Cornish Nationalism:

A new power to cross previously sacrosanct English county boundaries will arouse deep controversy in some parts, most notably in the far south-west of England where a 'Devonwall' constituency will become a reality and disappoint electors in both Cornwall and Devon.

2013, Justin Fisher, Christopher Wlezien, The UK General Election of 2010: Explaining the Outcome, Routledge, →ISBN, page 173:

Part and parcel of its involvement in such issues as industrial development, a Cornish university and the amalgamation of Cornish and Devonian public bodies (what became known as 'Devonwall') was a more public profile for its leaders.

2014, Derek R. Williams, Following 'An Gof': Leonard Truran, Cornish Activist and Publisher, The Cornovia Press, →ISBN, page 14:

(chiefly derogatory) The merger of local government structures in Devon and Cornwall.


quarantini

Now she is planning to host weekly video chat happy hours to help moms “celebrate surviving another week of the Coronapocalypse” with a “quarantini.”

2020 March 21, Alanna Durkin Richer, quoting Emily Anderson, “Quarantini? Happy hours go virtual”, in Telegraph-Herald, Dubuque, Iowa, page C7:

What, exactly, is a quarantini other than something you drink during a quarantine? There are plenty of recipes floating around online, such as basic vodka martinis sipped from your sofa or more elaborate concoctions that add in items like emergen-c.

2020 March 31, “How to make a ‘quarantini’”, in The Province, Vancouver, BC, page A22:

MacKillop says the data are still being compiled and analyzed, but he won't be surprised if, at the end of the day, we learn that alcohol consumption in Ontario was lower during the pandemic. Among many populations in Europe, similar patterns are emerging.
So why did everyone take up the quarantini bender story as objective truth?

2021 July 6, “‘Quarantini problem’ may have been a myth”, in Toronto Star, page B9:

Recipes included things like "Fau-Cheesy Rice and Broccoli," "Peas Make-the-Corona-Virus-Go-Away Salad," and "Dirty Quarantini." Do you have a favorite?

2021 July 20, Randy Petersen, “Lake City’s Dick Boerger has recipe for success in Wall Street Journal”, in Post-Bulletin, Chicago:

(humorous, neologism) A martini-style cocktail popular amongst people in COVID-19 lockdown.


Mandelbox

(computer graphics) A multidimensional fractal with a box-like shape, defined in a similar way to the Mandelbrot set.


quackademic

Blend of quack + academic; see quackery.

(informal, derogatory) A quackish or pseudoscientific academic.


walkshed

Though the exact number or distance (sometimes referred to as a walkshed) may be a subject of debate, and may vary depending on the demographics and motivations of the walkers, one thing is abundantly clear: a driveshed is much large than a walkshed. This is not only because cars move much more quickly than pedestrians but also because driving is almost effortless compared with walking.

2009, Colin Ellard, You Are Here: Why We Can Find Our Way to the Moon, but Get Lost in the Mall, →ISBN:

However, premiums were notably higher for parcels within the 500 metre walkshed of the urban greenway entrance points than the freeway on-ramps.

2010, William Ascher, Corinne Krupp, Physical Infrastructure Development: Balancing the Growth, Equity, and Environmental Imperatives, →ISBN, page 195:

Picturing the city as a series of overlapping walksheds is an important start to understanding, conceptualizing, and mapping the city as a convivial place for pedestrians.

2013, John Rennie Short, Globalization, Modernity and the City, →ISBN, page 154:

(transportation planning, urban studies) The land area within a defined walking range of a specified location.

transportation planning; urban studies; transportation planning; urban studies


driveshed

He pushes the lawn tractor further out into the rain and angles it off to the side. Gets in the yellow loader and backs it out, turns it around in the gravel in front of the doors and drives it in to where the blade sits on its dolly at the back of the driveshed and points at the chain on the side wall.

2014, Peter Blendell, Jonagold, →ISBN, page 63:

A rural structure built for sheltering vehicles, farm machinery, and/or visitors' horses.


driveshed

(transportation planning, urban studies) The land area within a defined driving distance of a specified location.


warmedy

It preserves the blue-collar setting of The Flintstones, and the family constellations are similar, but the "warmedy" Flintstone world is turned on its ear.

2004, John Alberti, Leaving Springfield: The Simpsons and the Possibility of Oppositional Culture, →ISBN, page 144:

Another popular “warmedy” (warm family comedy) of the late 1980s was Family Ties, which starred Michael J. Fox as the eldest sibling in a close-knit family.

2005, James T. Patterson, Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore, →ISBN, page 220:

The "capitalization, dematerialization, and idealization" of this "warmedy" (an awkward term used by Budd, Steinman, and other critics to denote a "comedy overlaid with empathetic audience identification") extended even to the lives and celebrity status of the actors who played the show's universally loathed or much-loved characters...

2008, David Scott Diffrient, M*A*S*H, →ISBN, page 3:

(television) A warm-hearted comedy targeted at a family audience.


Cobainiac

(slang) A fan of American grunge musician Kurt Cobain and/or his band Nirvana.


fourtino

(informal, astronomy) Any astronomical object, on the edge of the Kuiper Belt, whose orbit has a 1:4 resonance with the planet Neptune.


pineberry

A white variety of strawberry with a pineapple flavour.


Swenglish

These American grandchildren of Scandinavia speak no Swedish; they don't even have "Swenglish", that blending of Swedish and English sometimes found in England.

1958, The American Swedish Monthly, page 18:

"Yesterday I said we must hold our leaders accountable and unfortunately said 'put them against the wall'," she wrote.
"That's Swenglish: 'att ställa någon mot väggen' (to put someone against the wall) means to hold someone accountable."

2019 December 15, “Greta Thunberg apologises for 'put leaders against the wall' comment”, in BBC News:

(colloquial) The English language as spoken with Swedish influences.


eugenocide

Practiced on an international scale, eugenocide will do much to prevent lingering, tortuous death by starvation, occasioned so often by overbrowse in underdeveloped nations.

1971, Intellectual Digest - Volume 2, page 286:

It was the "first of the modest schemes for the ecological conservation and harvesting of newborns, which we have come to know as the science of eugenocide."

1971, The Scriblerian - Volumes 4-5, page 99:

Wolfensberger (1981) refers to the particular effort to eliminate people with disabilities as eugenocide.

1994, Richard Sobsey, Violence and Abuse in the Lives of People with Disabilities, →ISBN, page 115:

The elimination of weak or defective people in an attempt to improve the gene pool.


wikiquette

(Internet) The etiquette dictating how one should behave when working on a wiki.


Texarkana

Texarkana metropolitan area
Texarkana, Arkansas
Texarkana, Texas

A city in Bowie County, Texas, adjoining Texarkana, Arkansas.


godzillion

The bastard has made a career out of filibustering my best legislation just because I screwed his wife and daughter at the same time in his own bed. He won't be able to refund the money, simply because there isn't any. We're a godzillion dollars in debt.

2001, James R. Keena, Insurrection Resurrection:

"Tony, what would you do if you had a godzillion dollars?"
 "A godzillion, huh? Oh, I don't know. Probably just keep fixing airplanes and give it to you."
 "Forget me," she said. "What would YOU do?"
 "I guess I could own a helicopter then, couldn't I?"

(slang, hyperbolic) An unspecified large number (of).


emulsoid

A colloid solution consisting of a suspension of liquid particles in a liquid.


radiobe

(biology, historical) A peculiar formation, possibly a crystal, formed in gelatin submitted to the action of radium, once thought to be a transitional form between a crystal and a living microbe.


Eurocracy

(informal, derogatory) The bureaucracy associated with the European Union.


Taxachusetts

Blend of tax + Massachusetts, referring to its high income tax.


fuctuplets

Blend of fucked up and the nonce suffix -tuplet, taken from septuplet, octuplet, etc.

Why is it NOT okay if a smoker gets sick because of his/her CHOICE to smoke and racks up $100,000 in hospital bills, but it IS okay if a couple CHOOSES to recklessly and irresponsibly pop out a litter of fuctuplets and rack up over 2 million dollars (SO FAR) in hospital bills?

1999 April 3, Patrice, “Re: Fertility drugs should be banned (was Re: Midway thru the broadcast)”, in alt.support.childfree (Usenet):

The Chukwu fuctuplets are about to turn 1, and the eyes of the media will be turning toward Texas.

1999 December 2, Gutterboy [username], “The octopi turn one year old”, in alt.support.childfree (Usenet):

I'd like to know more about those kids' health status, especially compared to the McCaughey fuctuplets.

2002 October 1, Stella Hackell, “Re: News: Mother of Texas octuplets gives birth again”, in alt.support.childfree (Usenet):

(slang, vulgar, derogatory) A set of higher-order multiples, especially one produced through fertility treatments.


Milifandom

Abby says the Milifandom, which started last week, is “a movement against the distorted media portrayal of Ed”.

2015 April 21, Rebecca Ratcliffe, “Milifandom soars with Twitter backing for Labour leader Ed Miliband”, in The Guardian:

The student, who describes the 'Milifandom' as 'a movement against the distorted media portrayal of Ed', started the unlikely cult-following of Miliband in the run-up to the May election.

That, Ed Miliband told the Evening Standard, was his wife Justine's reaction to the news that her husband had a fandom. Milifandom.

2015, Iain Watson, Five Million Conversations: How Labour lost and election and rediscovered its roots:

So I jokingly suggested to an excolleague at BuzzFeed via Twitter that this could be her next piece, since she'd been the first to uncover the 'Milifandom' (the band of teenage girls who had developed swooning, semiironic crushes on Labour leader Ed Miliband during the 2015 eelection campaign).

2016, Robert Colvile, The Great Acceleration: How the World is Getting Faster, Faster:

A teenager has taken Milifandom to a whole new level by getting Ed Miliband's face tattooed on her thigh.

2016 January 12, Dan Bloom, “Milifandom taken to whole new level as teen fan gets Ed Miliband's face tattooed on her thigh”, in The Mirror:

And after Milifandom signally failed to shift votes in places like Nuneaton, the PM told last year’s post-election party conference ‘Britain and Twitter are not the same thing’.

2016 June 22, Paul Waugh, “How The ‘Ground War’, And Digital Targeting, Will Decide The EU Referendum Result”, in The Huffington Post:

(colloquial, UK politics) An Internet-based youth movement in support of Ed Miliband, then leader of the British Labour Party.


oldcomer

If not, if you are not going to protect the business that has earned some by competition, then there is going to be no protection for anyone at any time, unless you are going to shoot craps for all licenses, not even a newcomer who wants to become an "oldcomer."

1948, United States. Congress. Senate. Small Business Enterprises, Problems of American Small Business, page 3388:

This profession has an important role to play in easing the tensions which often arise when newcomer meets oldcomer.

1956, Educational Leadership - Volume 14, page 217:

The challenge of the latter way of joining a subgroup arises when the newcomer does not have an oldcomer willing to help her navigate the reified resources of the current community.

2013, Jessicah Krey Duckworth, Wide Welcome, page 82:

One who has been acquainted with something for a long time; an established member of a group who is familiar with the group culture and resources.


guncle

It could have been worse. Vince had been debating whether to have Buddy call her Guncle (Gay-Uncle) Lisa.

2012, Mari SanGiovanni, Camptown Ladies, →ISBN, page 264:

The major upside of all this, for me anyway, was that these Broadway guys became my guncles, or gay uncles, and had a strong hand in teaching me lots of adult lessons—particularly one guncle named Chris.

2013, Melissa Joan Hart, Melissa Explains It All: Tales from My Abnormally Normal Life, →ISBN:

"If we killed him, the Dev would be the next king and your baby would be a prince. Power. I like it. He'll need his guncle to advise him.” Zack and I laughed, but Lee looked a bit lost. “Gay uncle,” Zack provided.


dildonics

From Blend of dildo + electronics. Attributed to American information technologist, philosopher, and sociologist Ted Nelson.

coin

Donna doesn't have to be too explicit, not like it's the real thing. Reeb can shoot a few limb movements tomorrow, some dildonics the next day; the software overdubs stock effects.

1995, Pamela Sargent, Women of Wonder: The Contemporary Years: Science Fiction by Women from the 1970s to the 1990s:

[…] NeuraLove suit is a combination of state-of-the-art wireless technology, nanotechnology, sensors and dildonics”— “Dildonics?” Lauren repeated. She'd bet that wasn't in Webster's.

2005, Shannon Hollis, On the Loose, Harlequin Books, →ISBN, page 129:


zoodles

With their mild taste and excellent slurpability, zoodles are an amazingly adaptable stand-in for pasta, soaking in the flavors of your favorite sauces and broths.

2013, Michelle Tam, Henry Fong, Nom Nom Paleo: Food for Humans:

To enjoy zoodles throughout the week, prepare a double or triple batch of spiral-sliced zucchini by completing Steps 2 and 3.

2016, Maria Emmerich, Quick & Easy Ketogenic Cooking: Meal Plans and Time Saving:

(colloquial) Zucchini sliced into thin strips so as to resemble noodles.


Texpat

Blend of Texas + expat; compare Mexpat, which reverses origin and residence.

But The Brooklyn Inn did not choose the beer out of nostalgia for Texas or to cater to a Texpat clientele.

2014 May 31, Adam Chandler, “Texas Beer Finds Home in the Heart of New York”, in New York Times:

A Texan (native or former resident of Texas), now living elsewhere.


cabrewing

While “cabrewing” — consuming alcohol while canoeing — has become a popular pastime among Miami University students, it doesn't go without consequences that could include a night in jail and a DUI.

2010, Hunter Stenbeck, "Morgan's Canoe enforces alcohol rules", The Miami Student (Miami University, Oxford, Ohio), Volume 138, Number 8, 17 September 2010, page 1

After everyone left around one or two in the morning, we would crash for the night, get up in the morning to do something like “cabrewing” where we would take the remaining beers out in a boat, only to stop drinking for an hour or two before getting cleaned up to go to work.

2013, AnnE O'Neill, If You Want the Rainbow, Welcome the Rain: A Memoir of Grief and Recovery, Balboa Press, →ISBN, pages 63–64:

"Oh, man. I wish you guys could come to Hocking Hills this year. It's such a blast. My friends in Columbus go every summer. It's our annual 'cabrewing' trip."

2013, Jake Warner, The Landlord's Shadow, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 231:

(Ohio, slang) The practice of consuming alcohol while canoeing.


shootie

SHOOTIES Gift Shooties A friend friend in need is a friend to heed, And comfy feet are friends indeed! When they're tired and weary and warmth is nil, Goosedown Shooties reign king of the hill. When winter drafts chill.

1987, Climbing, Issues 103-105, numbers 103-105, B. Dunaway, page 68:

SHOOTIES - solid black, red, royal or teal. Sizes XS, S, M, L, XL $35.00 (postage and handling incl.) HOT SHOOTIES - Our fun "Zydeco" print on electric blue, black or purple. Sizes XS, S, M, L, XL. $37.00 (postage and handling incl.)

1989 November 27, Harold Wallace Ross, Katharine Sergeant Angell White, editors, The New Yorker, Volume 65, Issues 40-45, volume 65, numbers 40-45, F-R Publishing Corporation, page 146:

Another modern shoe style that gets its look from the '20s is the shootie. Shootie is a combination of the word shoe and boot. Modern shooties come up the foot all the way to the ankle. Vintage ones aren't quite as tall. But they all give a fantastic flapper feel.

2014, Rebecca Langston-George, Allison Crotzer Kimmel, Lori Luster, Liz Sonneborn, “All Dolled Up”, in Fashion Forward: Creating Your Look with the Best of Vintage Style, Capstone, →ISBN, page 30:

But ever since last Sunday, when Roxanne showed up in her cute red shooties and cute red convertible, Stephanie had wondered what kind of woman Roxanne Hunter was.

2015 November 11, Karen Tomsovic, Spare Me the Drama: A Novel, Karen Tomsovic:

She was wearing her newest shooties, but to take them off meant tearing her feet up on the exposed sharp edges of the coral rock below. She tentatively backed away from the streetlights and went into the dark. Actually, she was very proud of her new shooties—they were quite fashionable—as she was also proud of her new hairdo.

2016 November 30, Lois Richman, chapter 22, in Key West Interlude: Paulette Marshall Mystery Series, AuthorHouse, →ISBN:

“Ooh, look at those shooties.” “What are shooties?” “You know, they're like if a shoe and a boot had a baby. They're so cute.”

2021 March 14, Holly Schlesinger, “Mr. Lonely Farts” (9:47 from the start), in Bob's Burgers, season 11, episode 14, spoken by Linda Belcher (John Roberts):

A kind of shoe with a high ankle resembling that of a boot.


playshop

Blend of play + workshop, from the contrasting meanings of "work" and "play".

An informal workshop (interactive group session).


crunk&B

A music genre combining elements of crunk and R & B.


Brexit

Blend of Britain + exit, formed by analogy with Grexit.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the earliest attested use is on 15 May 2012 in a Euractiv blog post by Peter Wilding titled “Stumbling towards the Brexit”, formed by analogy with Grexit, coined on 6 February 2012.

Unless a clear view is pushed that Britain must lead in Europe at the very least to achieve the completion of the single market then the portmanteau for Greek euro exit might be followed by another sad word, Brexit.

2012 May 15, Peter Wilding, “Stumbling towards the Brexit”, in EurActiv, archived from the original on 2016-06-24:

The business community began to take the idea of Brexit seriously. Three major American banks, the Bank of America, Citibank and Morgan Stanley, revealed they were working on contingency plans to relocate from London to Dublin […]

2015, Denis MacShane, Brexit: How Britain Will Leave Europe, London: I.B. Tauris, →ISBN, page 6:

David Cameron has resigned as Prime Minister after Britain voted to leave the European Union. It followed a turbulent night with Remain campaigners quietly confident until the early hours when results from Newcastle and Sunderland showed better than expected returns for the Brexit camp. A surprise victory for a Brexit in Swansea, which was expected to vote to Remain, did little to dampen concerns despite Scotland overwhelmingly backing staying in the Union.

2016 June 24, Kate McCann, “EU referendum live: David Cameron resigns after UK shocks the world by voting for Brexit”, in The Daily Telegraph, archived from the original on 2016-06-24:

The pensions of British Eurocrats are shaping up to be one of the most politically poisonous points in the UK’s Brexit talks, as the EU and London prepare to clash over liabilities running to several billion euros.

2016 August 1, Alex Barker, Jim Brunsden, “Eurocrats’ pensions shape up to be flashpoint in Brexit talks”, in The Financial Times, London:

We must lift the uncertainty caused by Brexit.

2017 June 19, Michel Barnier, “Brexit Negotiations: David Davis says ‘Promising Start’ Made”, in BBC News:

[Donald] Tusk said: “Our agreement will not make trade between the UK and the EU frictionless or smoother. It will make it more complicated and costly than today, for all of us. This is the essence of Brexit.”

2018 March 7, Daniel Boffey, Jennifer Rankin, “EU scorns UK’s ‘pick and mix’ approach to trade post-Brexit”, in The Guardian, London:

Meanwhile, The Sunday Times revealed that civil servants had warned of a “Doomsday Brexit” if no agreement is reached, creating shortages of medicine, fuel and food.

2018 June 5, “Brexit poll reveals record number of voters think decision to leave EU is wrong”, in The Independent, London:

“It’s all incredibly unhelpful and what we need to do now is to get closer with our European partners and work out what a realistic, pragmatic Brexit is that works for both sides, the EU and ourselves.”

2018 June 23, “Brexit: Theresa May ‘not bluffing’ in threat to leave EU without a deal, Tory minister Liam Fox says”, in The Independent, London:

A further referendum is not just a way for voters to decide whether to incur the economic and social cost of a final Brexit deal.

2019 March 5, David Miliband, “As foreign secretary I argued against an EU referendum. Now I back one”, in The Guardian:

The EESC also considers that the €5.4 billion reserve will not be sufficient to mitigate the negative effects of Brexit and asks the co-legislators to increase the proposed ceiling.

2021 November, Christiaan van Lierop, European Parliamentary Research Service:

Brexit has also made it harder for the UK to deport migrants back to the EU as the country has left the bloc’s asylum scheme.

2021 December 2, “Frontex plane arrives in northern France to help fight people smuggling”, in Euronews, sourced from AFP:

Thanks to Brexit, many ferry companies now run direct from Ireland to the EU mainland, bypassing UK ports such as Fishguard, with an impact on traffic.

2022 November 16, Paul Bigland, “From rural branches to high-speed arteries”, in RAIL, number 970, page 52:

Even the BBC, long prevaricating on the issue, has started properly reporting the Brexit catastrophe, particularly its impact on the cost of living, NHS staff shortages and projections of weak future economic growth.

2023 February 2, Andrew Adonis, “Sooner or later, re-entry to the customs union and single market is inevitable”, in Prospect:

Biden’s irritation with London’s inability to solve its “Irish question” after Brexit has also played a role.

2023 August 7, Jo Harper, “UK–US: What’s happened to their free trade deal?”, in Deutsche Welle:

The mayor of London has urged EU citizens to “choose London” over other European cities, promising to make the UK capital a better place to live and work despite Brexit.

2023 October 6, Heather Stewart, “‘Choose London’: Sadiq Khan steps up efforts to lure EU citizens post-Brexit”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

The Brexit referendum seemingly heralded such a moment but other than the negative sentiment of leave, the more positive agenda of what to do with the UK’s newfound status has been found wanting.

2023 November 3, Tim Olivier, “Brexit: a critical juncture in the UK’s international relations?”, in UK in a Changing Europe:

The Brits have been uniquely incompetent in wallowing in narcissistic irrelevance ever since the Brexit vote. They’ve refused to admit that the only path forward for them is a crippling deal with the United States that will give them access to the NAFTA system but at the cost of any kind of economic sovereignty.

2023 November 23, Peter Zeihan, “Ireland Needs a New Game Plan || Peter Zeihan”, in Zeihan on Geopolitics, sourced from YouTube, 2:55–3:14:

Brussels has warned the UK that it must fully apply the existing Brexit deals on EU citizens and Northern Ireland before it will entertain a reset in the relationship with London.

2024 August 1, Lisa O'Carroll, “UK must apply existing Brexit deals before any reset in relations, says EU”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), sourced from The Guardian:

(UK politics) Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union.

بِرِكْزِت

withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the EU

イギリスの欧州連合離脱

イギリスのおうしゅうれんごうりだつ

خروج بریتانیا از اتحادیه اروپا

xoruj-e beritâniyâ az ettehâdiye-ye orupâ


Hissian

Accordingly two of the club went out and shortly after returned with a Hissian, a cant word with the soldiers, for a goose.


Mexpat

Blend of Mexico + expat; compare Texpat, which reverses origin and residence.

This site is geared toward young foreigners living in Mexico, especially el DF. Check out their forum and chat with other Mexpats about where to go, what to do, and what’s hot now.

An expat (typically American) living in Mexico.


monster-in-law

So when we belatedly celebrated Caspar's third anniversary the following weekend, I was notably frosty towards her. But this is not a typical tale of monster-in-law woes.

2011 April 22, Anna Maxted, “Why I love my mother-in-law”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(colloquial, humorous) A very unpleasant mother-in-law (spouse's mother).


Talibangelical

It makes perfect sense, if you are a hypocritical far right wing Talibangelical. Having a totally heterosexual military is *far* more important than keeping the troops alive.

2006 January 30, Gregory Gadow, “Re: Military discharges hundreds of medics under gay ban”, in alt.atheism (Usenet):

Change the channel and the TV Talibangelical proclaims,
That Hurricane was the Hand of God!

2008, Raymond McNiece, “And The Jazz Plays On...Part 2”, in Greatest Hits 1987–2007, Pudding House Publications, →ISBN, page 34:

If this country continues to elect Talibangelicals like Paul Broun, this country is doomed!

2013 June 13, “Whineline”, in The Metro Spirit, volume 24, number 24, page 2:

(US, slang, politics, derogatory) An overzealous evangelical Christian, especially one who espouses strong right-wing views.


engma

The velar nasal (engma) is transcribed as /ng/.

1985, James Joseph Errington, Language and Social Change in Java: Linguistic Reflexes of Modernization in a Traditional Royal Polity:

We kept some of the foreign alphabet symbols such as the accented and umlauted vowels and Greek letters and used the rest of the space for more esoteric linguistic symbols such as "barred-l," and "engma."

1989, Elizabeth A. Edwards, “A Computer Column for All Seasons”, in Margaret S. Boone, editor, Practicing Anthropology, volume 11, number 2:


avigation

The “highs” and “lows” familiar to the meteorologists—the areas of high and low barometric pressure—are forever playing tag with each other, the air from one area flowing in upon the other much as water seeks its own level, creating fair weather and foul, and offering interesting problems to the students of avigation, not to mention variegated experiences to the flyer himself.

1928, Amelia Earhart, 20 hrs. 40 mins. Our Flight in the Friendship, page 227:

The purpose of this book is to give the pilot a clear understanding of avigation by dead reckoning, the system used by Colonel Lindbergh in his memorable flight.

1929, Ienar Ewald Elm, Avigation by Dead Reckoning, page 10:

Another reason for the neglected status of avigation is the fact that in the past there has been only slight and spasmodic need for the new science.

There are four more or less distinct methods of avigating, all of which are somewhat interrelated. These comprise: Piloting, Radio Avigation, Dead Reckoning, and Celestial Avigation.

1940, Hilton Frank Lusk, General Aeronautics, page 361:


transbian

Our trans meeting at the clinic breaks up, after a discussion about transbians.

2010, Red Jordan Arobateau, Autumn Changes: Part III, page 930:

To give an opinionated answer, I'd say no, I do not think that there is a trend toward all transsexuals becoming transbians.

2011, Shannon Leigh O'Shea, Blue Life, Pink Hair: What It's Like Being The Pink Sheep Of The Family, page 186:

“So, I'm a butch transbian, so by most standards I'm literally just a cis-het dude-”

2018 March, Valerie Pleasant, “Women Problems”, in Montréal Writes, page 16:


Shitler

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

(informal, vulgar, derogatory, sometimes humorous) Adolf Hitler.


gypcrust

(soil science) A duricrust composed almost wholly of gypsum.


slimnastics

The more aesthetic want no part of slimnastics but want to express themselves in movement provided by Mime and Movement or Modern Dance classes.

1952, Sara A. Bruce, “The YWCA in the Nation's Capital”, in Journal of Health, Physical Education, Recreation:

A form of athletic exercise intended to promote weight loss.


gypcrete

en-noun

gypcrete (countable and uncountable, plural gypcretes)

A sedimentary rock, a hardened deposit of gypsum, capable of cementing together with other materials.


dolocrete

dolocrete (countable and uncountable, plural dolocretes)

(geology) A calcrete where the calcium carbonate partially or fully replaced by dolomite.


manshake

(slang, neologism) An aggressively strong handshake.


leopon

A hybrid animal, the offspring of a lion and a leopard.


monstrocious

en-adj

monstrocious (comparative more monstrocious, superlative most monstrocious)

more monstrocious (comparative)
most monstrocious (superlative)

Blend of monstrous + ferocious, or blend of monstrous + atrocious; or back-formation from monstrosity after ferocity, atrocity.

"Ef he ain't de beatenest chil' !" she wheezed; "namin' dat monstrocious dawg after de Jedge !"

1938, Chambers's Journal, volume 7, page 271:

MLB’s opening day is officially here, and we’re celebrating here at Foodbeast by highlighting some of the most monstrocious food that is being introduced around Major League ball parks.

2012 April 4, Isai Rocha, “MLB Opening Day: Craziest Eats From Ballparks Across the Nation”, in Foodbeast:

(informal) enormous; frighteningly or impressively large


femmunist

(derogatory) A person with feminist and communist beliefs.


beetball

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

A spherical food made from mashed beets, used as a vegetarian substitute for meatballs.


veganic

Of or relating to a form of agriculture that uses no animal products.


comma queen

(slang) A person who is obsessed with fixing grammatical errors.


raptivist

The participants (rhetors) included ”raptivist" Sister Souljah, as well as some older, more traditional male leaders from the African-American community and one white, female sociologist.

1995, Peter J. Caulfield, “Teaching Rhetoric as a Way of Knowing”, in Karen Fitts, Alan W. France, editors, Left Margins: Cultural Studies and Composition Pedagogy, State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 163:

Born in a Peruvian military hospital and raised in Harlem, Immortal Tech is a fatigues-rocking raptivist who humanizes his left-wing-nut conspiracy spiels by filtering them through a past that includes time served at a Pennsylvania jail.

2004 March, Jon Dolan, “More New Music to Hear Now”, in Spin, page 35:

As legendary raptivist KRS-One remembers about the older generation's position on the emerging culture, “Our own people prevented our voices from being heard. And that's the real politics that need to be addressed.”

2009, M. K. Asante, Jr., It's Bigger Than Hip Hop: The Rise of the Post-Hip-Hop Generation, St. Martin's Griffin, →ISBN:

(slang) A rapper who is involved in political and/or social activism.


dot-coma

The lackluster debuts were part of an overall dot-coma that hit the Internet sector in trading yesterday. Amazon.com, RealNetworks, Go2Net, InfoSpace.com and many other of the area's Internet stocks each dropped a few dollars by the close of trading.

1999 July 31, Helen Jung, “Two Strikes For Net Ipos -- Tech Investors Can't Count On A Home Run”, in The Seattle Times:

Clearly, eSpeed's connection to Cantor is a unique insurance policy, assuring it won't end up in a dot-coma.

2001, Business Week, numbers 3744-3750, page 360:

And if Sweden is coming out of its dot-coma, then so should the rest of the high-tech world.

2002 May 12, “Out Of The Dot-Coma”, in Newsweek:

(slang) The collapse of a dot-com or of the dot-com bubble.


hoffice

The spread of hoffices is really representative of a deeper change which the work-at-home movement is producing.

1991, Jeffrey P. Davidson, Marketing to Home-Based Businesses, Business One Irwin, →ISBN, page 274:

In designing her hoffices, Vassa makes sure there is adequate lighting, always on dimmers.

1991 October 6, Elaine Markoutsas, “Updated Furnishings Helping To Bring The Office Home”, in The Seattle Times:

Related to this is the response by business to the reality of worker commutes to far-flung suburbs and the rise of telecommuting and "hoffices," home offices.

1997, F. Byron Nahser, Learning to Read the Signs: Reclaiming Pragmatism in Business, Butterworth-Heinemann, →ISBN, page 164:


diffability

Blend of different + ability, as a play on disability intended to remove the term's negative connotations.

However, accepting my diffability as part of the package I come in, makes my life much easier to deal with. I'm not suggesting that we use Asperger's Syndrome as an excuse for not doing things, just that we aim at being 'inclusive' towards ourselves, as well as towards others.

2003, Wendy Lawson, Build Your Own Life: A Self-Help Guide For Individuals with Asperger Syndrome, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 138:

It is not so much a disability as a diff'''ability. People with AS are often brilliant in some respects, but they may display different social and emotional responses than what is considered the norm.

2009, Rudy Simone, 22 Things a Woman Must Know If She Loves a Man with Asperger's Syndrome, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 13:

Nick Pentzell is a college student and “diffability” advocate for people on the autism spectrum.

2013, “Contributors”, in Jami L. Anderson, Simon Cushing, editors, The Philosophy of Autism, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 208:

(uncommon) A psychological condition, such as Asperger's syndrome, viewed as a natural neurological variation rather than a disability or disorder.


dot-carnage

The dot-carnage extends even to Internet companies still in business.

2002 December 29, John Moran, “Hot sales, sour stocks and other technology highlights of 2002”, in The Spokesman-Review:

Given the dot-carnage of the past few years, it's only natural that runs like those, when connected to companies associated with the Net, would leave investors pondering the dreaded B word: bubble.

2003 September 1, Yuval Rosenberg, “E-Stocks Rise Again After a stomach-turning descent, Internet stocks have come racing back--this time with profits. We've found three that can go higher.”, in Fortune:

Mika Salmi's atomfilms.com survived the dot-carnage and is thriving on broadband

2006, Business Week, numbers 3974-3981, page 115:

(slang) The results of the dot-com bubble collapse, which included the closure of many Internet-based businesses, and significant financial losses for others.


hiss-and-tell

But Miller's tale is as notable for what it isn't as for what it is. It is not a hiss-and-tell attempt to settle scores and mold history like Donald Regan's For the Record, a spin-doctored account of his time as President Reagan's chief of staff.

1989 April 23, Laura Green, “The Washington years: A positive view from inside”, in Chicago Sun-Times:

What is clear from this hiss-and-tell diary is that Hoddle feels immune to any downward glances, any disapproving charge from his bosses at the FA.

1998 August 12, Rob Hughes, “Spoiled Soccer Fraternity Sets Poor Example: Hoddle Hiss-and-Tell Tells a Tale of Greed”, in The New York Times:

Maybe that's what this hiss-and-tell book is all about, therapy for McEnroe's battered psyche, a nightmare marriage, a splendid career best remembered for screeching on-court tantrums.

2002 June 27, Stan Hochman, “John McEnroe's book provokes strong response from Tatum O'Neal”, in Philadelphia Daily News:

Disclosing private information in a hostile manner.


dot-commiserate

en-verb

dot-commiserate (third-person singular simple present dot-commiserates, present participle dot-commiserating, simple past and past participle dot-commiserated)

dot-commiserates (present singular third-person)
dot-commiserating (participle present)
dot-commiserated (participle past)
dot-commiserated (past)

An Internet marketing firm called Thehiredguns.com sponsors pink-slip parties where casualties can get together and "dot-commiserate."

2000 August 20, Abby Ellin, “If at First You Don't Succeed, Celebrate!”, in The New York Times:

Failure became a buzz word when the dotcom bubble burst in the late Nineties. Many paper millionaires instantly became part of the "90 per cent club" (people who had lost 90 per cent of their wealth, or more). The casualties got together and "dot-commiserated".

2003 July 29, Helen Kirwan-Taylor, “Rock bottom? We're on a high”, in The Telegraph:

(The original, ancestral pink slip parties date to 1910, but became known to modern-day workers in the late 1990s, when downsized tech sector employees got together to dot-commiserate.)

2009 April 1, Gendy Alimurung, “Pink Slip Parties in L.A.: Laid Off but Not Out”, in LA Weekly:

(slang, historical) To seek solace with other people left jobless by the dot-com bubble collapse.


demokkkracy

(informal, derogatory, very rare) A false democracy controlled by racist white people.


Butskellism

Blend of Butler + Gaitskell + -ism, after Rab Butler, the Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer 1951–55, and his Labour predecessor Hugh Gaitskell 1950–51.

The next few weeks will show whether the Opposition will seize this chance of golden silence; or whether, in a Brown fury, it is going to throw the opportunity for constructive Butskellism away.

And then there was a sort of sensation at the door and in came Margaret Thatcher. Rab’s shell crackled and contracted a little, as he tried to look flattered by the attention of his new leader: she whose whole purpose it was to cram Butskellism as harshly as possible into the WPB of history.

1994, Christopher Hitchens, ‘On Spanking’, London Review of Books, volume 16, number 20:

Camerairism reflects a structural change more profound than Butskellism ever did.

2005 October 20, Timothy Garton Ash, The Guardian:

(UK politics, now historical) A centrist economic policy obtaining in post-war Britain, upheld by both Conservative and Labour Chancellors.


phub

Blend of phone + snub, coined by Adrian Mills at the McCann advertising agency as part of a campaign to promote the Macquarie Dictionary by creating a new word.

Researchers have found that phubs damage relationships and increase dissatisfaction and depression. About 25% of couples have fought over phubs (Goldberg, 2018).

2020, Patrick R. Steffen, editor, Mindfulness for Everyday Living: A Guide for Mental Health Practitioners, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 93:


lithalsa

A frost-induced raised landform in permafrost areas with mineral-rich soils, where a perennial ice lens has developed within the soil.


teknival

Blend of techno + festival; see Free tekno for notes on the spelling.

A large free countercultural party with electronic music, typically held in Europe in the summer.


camborthid

(geology) A type of orthid that has a type of cambic horizon


amphopropionate

(organic chemistry) Any amphoteric propionate, especially a salt of a propionic acid that has a basic substituent.


anthrapyrazole

(organic chemistry, medicine) Any of a class of compounds that have a pyrazole ring formed adjacent to two of the rings of an anthracene; many of them are cytotoxic, or have anticancer activity


Hotlanta

Blend of hot + Atlanta, referring to the hot climate.

(colloquial) Atlanta, capital of Georgia, USA


Jewniverse

When I was eleven years old my stepmother enrolled my heathen ass in Gan Israel, an Orthodox summer day camp run by the Lubavitchers, the Jewiest Jews in all of the known Jewniverse.

2009, Nathan Rabin, The Big Rewind: A Memoir Brought to You by Pop Culture:

What matters is how you feel about the Jewish world, the Jewniverse.

2008, Lisa Alcalay Klug, Cool Jew: The Ultimate Guide for Every Member of the Tribe, page xvii:

(humorous, colloquial) The entire Jewish world or culture.


fembitch

The whole notion of sexual harassment is a lie concocted by the fembitches.

1995 January 5, Gary Clark, “THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS SEXUAL HARASSMENT”, in soc.men (Usenet):

Again, you're so busy assuming that I'm a woman, therefore I'm a selfish fembitch, that you didn't read my posts. I *do* support C4M. It's just that I support it in the direction of the default being no-paternity-option-to-assume-it, than being paternity-option-to-deny-it.

1997 May 19, Laurel Halbany, “Re: Incomprehension of Paternal Abandonment”, in or.politics (Usenet):

Nothing like the howling and gnashing of teeth heard from the fembitches in response to the accusations made against Clarence Thomas. The same goes for the Democrats.

2000 September 7, Tony Bounds, “Re: Al Gore, man of honor”, in soc.men (Usenet):

(slang, vulgar, derogatory) An intolerant feminist, often used by anti-feminists to refer to a feminist in general.


tubax

A kind of modified saxophone, made compact by having more folds in the tubing.


pagejacking

(Internet) The use of deception to redirect a user's web browser from one web page to another.


spamouflage

This message generated enormous curiosity and speculation on the web. Recipients didn't know what to make of it. Was it a bizarre hoax or joke? A deviously sophisticated form of spamouflage designed to trick them into buying something?

2010, Alex Boese, Hippo Eats Dwarf, page 123:

(Internet) Attempts to disguise spam as legitimate messages.


monthiversary

I might have expected you to forget. It's our first monthiversary!

1922, Courtney Ryley Cooper, The White Desert, page 301:

The Companies make a monthly deduction from the Policy's cash value on the Policy's effective date and on each monthiversary (the same day of each succeeding month as the Policy's effective date, or, if there is no comparable valuation, the next valuation date).

1999, United States Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC Docket, volume 69, page 861:

“Happy monthiversary.” “Wait... what?” “Today, it's exactly one month since we met. I kept count.”

2011, David N. Brown, Zombies Vs. Exotroopers, page ii:

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


Lostaway

At the end of the previous episode, the Lostaways discovered a crate full of food and supplies that seems to have literally appeared out of thin air, […]

2006, Nikki Stafford, Finding Lost: The Unofficial Guide, ECW Press, published 2008, →ISBN, page 284:

We get a little of that in the travel of a frame story, too, romantic or not–don't think there wasn't flirting going on even among the storytellers of the Decameron, and we've all seen the pairings, possible pairings, and former pairings of the Lost'''aways.

2006, Evelyn Vaughn, “Oceanic Tales: Have You Been Framed?”, in Orson Scott Card, editor, Getting Lost: Survival, Baggage, and Starting over in J. J. Abrams, Lost , BenBella Books, →ISBN, page 59:

The cumulative effect of this densely allusive atmosphere is insistent enough to suggest that when the Lostaways crashed on that creepy island, they became stranded in a kind of reality that is not altogether real, but one that is eerily continuous with the kind of reality found in fictional literature.

2011, Randy Laist, "Introduction", in Looking for Lost: Critical Essays on the Enigmatic Series (ed. Randy Laist), McFarland (2011), page 1

(fandom slang) One of the fictional characters stranded on the mysterious island on the television show Lost.


Mixter

Blend of mix + Mister or Mister + -x-, probably influenced by the earlier abbreviation Mx.

(uncommon) A gender-neutral title (coordinate with Mr. and Ms.), used especially for genderqueer/non-binary people.


Taiwanglish

Blend of Taiwan + English, after Chinglish etc.

The motherboard configuration is explained in a tiny 25-page pamphlet, written in classic “Taiwanglish.” For example, there is a rubber-stamped notice on the title page: “IBM PC, PC/XT, PC/AT are registeled trademarks of.”

1988, Alfred Poor, “The Cheapest ATs Ever” in PC Magazine VII, № 3, ‘786 Computer Systems: 786 Stanford Systems 286‒10’, page 160/3

Maybe he meant “Taiwanglish”, the barely comprehensible English that used to be common on manuals, instructions, etc., from Taiwanese and Japanese (Japanglish) products, although in recent years, I have noticed it to be a lot better.

1995, “Hung Michael Nguyen” (username), “Re: Calvin and Hobbes” in rec.bicycles.misc, Usenet

Eventually, after much reading of badly-translated taiwanglish ‘manuals’ I discovered that the Dallas 12887…had had its CMOS reset pin snipped off.

2006, “Jim Howes”, “Re: BIOS Flash Help”, in uk.comp.homebuilt (Usenet):

(rare) The form of broken English proverbially encountered in the user manuals and technical documentation accompanying electronic devices manufactured in Taiwan.

Also nonstandardly with an initial minuscule t


fragixeralf

(geology) A xeralf soil that has a fragipan


fusospirochete

A fusobacterium and spirochete acting together.


gnetifer

Any plant related to the Gnetales and the conifers.


Klaine

With the recent death of Glee's Cory Monteith, there wasn't much creators could do to make viewers feel better. Yet they found it: a reunion of gay couple "Klaine."

2013, "Tragedy Brings People Together After All, Doesn't It?", Watermark, 29 August 2013 - 11 September 2013, page 29

However Ryan Murphy gives fans a few rewards in Series 5 for sticking with the show (happy news for Klaine supporters), […]

2013, Heather Boyles, "The final curtain draws near", Seren (Bangor University), Issue 235, October 2013, page 25

Klaine fans and writers have lived in a culture where homosexuality has been mainstreamed, if not always accepted.

2014, Nicholas Alexander Hayes, “Glee Literally Means Glee: The Queer Art of Community's Parody”, in Michelle Parke, editor, Queer in the Choir Room: Essays on Gender and Sexuality in Glee, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 267:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Kurt Hummel and Blaine Anderson from the television series Glee.


Brittana

Never mind Finn and Rachel – I'm on Team Brittana now.

2009, Dorothy Snarker of AfterEllen.com, quoted in Amy Rickman, Gleeful!: A Totally Unofficial Guide to the Hit TV Series GLEE, Villard (2010), page 136

[…] there'd been such a fuss over the original Brittana kiss, & with Kurt kissing Blaine, […]

2012, Bruce Wagner, Dead Stars, Penguin, →ISBN:

However, the taste of happiness many viewers felt at Brittana's queer relationship quickly turned bitter when the label of homosexual continued to be thrust upon Santana by many of the show's straight characters as well as her own girlfriend.

2014, Taylor Cole Miller, “Forced out of the 'flannel closet': The Coming-Out-Gay Imperative”, in Michelle Parke, editor, Queer in the Choir Room: Essays on Gender and Sexuality in Glee, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 34:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Brittany Pierce and Santana Lopez from the television series Glee.


Finchel

Mercedes is dating someone new, and Finchel is going strong.

2011, Abby Bien, Grace Palmeri, & Neha Ramani, "How I met your gossipy new girl and her modern family at glee club", The Scarlette (West Lafayette High School), Volume 69, Number 2, 5 October 2011, page 4

Five bucks says it's going to be a totally adorable "Finchel" moment at the prom!

2012 April 10, “Selena Gomez getting the Glee treatment!”, in Post Noon, page 25:

After a long break from Glee this summer, waiting to see if Finchel got back together or if Puck decides to go to Los Angeles, I am more than ready to get back into my favorite show on Thursday nights.

2012, Natasha Walker, "Excitement for Glee's upcoming season", The Stampede (C. M. Russell High School, Great Falls, Montana), Volume 48, Issue 1, 13 September 2012, page 13

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Finn Hudson and Rachel Berry from the television series Glee.


twitticism

Jim Zulevic plays Viv's conformist brother ("The bohemian life is dicey" and "Life is thin," among his twitticisms).

1988 May 27, Lawrence Bommer, “Tom and Viv”, in Chicago Reader:

A stupid saying, characteristic of a twit


cisvestite

(rare) One who wears the clothing typical of their sex.


frightmare

Yes, that must have been the way it had happened, Gibby decided — just one long frightmare, part of it filmed in this bedroom.

1974, Fritz Leiber, The book of Fritz Leiber, page 17:

Wednesday morning, Jamie was pacing back and forth in the small kitchen when she decided that she didn't want to be alone after last night's frightmare.

2011, Fern Michaels, Late Edition, →ISBN, page 223:

I sure hope so, I think nervously—because between my too tight costume, this too tight dressing room, and High Priestess Abala's too spooky Vampire Spell, this whole thing is turning into a New York frightmare!

2014, Deborah Gregory, Hey, Ho, Hollywood!, →ISBN:

An extremely unpleasant and frightening experience.


plastisol

Trademark, presumably Blend of plastic + sol.

A liquid dispersion of plastic or resin that may be converted to a solid by heating


Shamy

And if Shamy ever does go their separate ways, Sheldon fans can be sure to see plenty of Zazzles lurking about.

2011 February 10, Angela Song, “TV for Two”, in The Harvard Independent, volume 42, number 14, Harvard University, page 9:

In “The Herb Garden Germination” (4-20) “Shamy” (Sheldon and Amy's given nickname) pretend to have had sex to test their theory on meme propagation.

2012, George Beahm, Unraveling the Mysteries of The Big Bang Theory: An Unabashedly Unauthorized TV Show Companion, Smart Pop (2014), page 86

Shamy has become one of TV's most loved couples, and this season is crucial to the development of this relationship.

2012 September 6, Sayantan Deb, “A Look at Fall T.V.”, in The Harvard Independent, volume 44, number 1, Harvard University, page 9:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Sheldon Cooper and Amy Farrah Fowler from the television series The Big Bang Theory.


Caskett

But while it's great that Caskett finally happened, things didn't turn out so happily for one of "Castle's" other fan-favorite pairings.

2012, Jean Bentley, "'Castle' showrunner reveals what's in store for 'Caskett'", Chicago Tribune, 11 May 2012, Section 4, page 8

Is there a future for, er, Caskett? Or is this just a November sweeps romance?

2012 November 19, David Hiltbrand, “Same old 'Castle,' with a flirty twist”, in The Bulletin, page C2:

[…] and despite his claim to only watch the show for the police procedural, I know he's a secret Caskett 'shipper.

2013, Rene Webb, A White Hot Christmas, →ISBN:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Richard Castle and Kate Beckett from the television series Castle.


postpend

postpend (third-person singular simple present postpends, present participle postpending, simple past and past participle postpended)

postpends (present singular third-person)
postpending (participle present)
postpended (participle past)
postpended (past)

Recall that if asterisks are pre- and postpended they designate semantic information in f-structures.

1991, Kenneth Goodman, The KBMT Project, →ISBN:

In each run a random sequence is generated, prepended and postpended with short primers to separate the initiation and termination tasks from the reconstruction task.

2003, Algorithms in Bioinformatics, →ISBN, page 398:

A hybrid attack is used to find passwords that are a dictionary word with combinations of characters prepended or postpended to it.

2011, Dave Kleiman, The Official CHFI Study Guide (Exam 312-49), →ISBN:

(computing, transitive) To append at the end of a text string.


motorail

(rail transport) A train allowing passengers to take their automobile along with them on their journey.


mutein

Isoelectric focusing (IEF) of the muteins under nondenaturing conditions confirmed this prediction (19).

All of the muteins exhibited the expected apparent molecular weight of around 25 kDa.

1996, Protein & Peptide Letters - Aug 1996, page 237:

(biochemistry) A protein with an altered amino acid sequence.


homosexless

en-adj

homosexless (comparative more homosexless, superlative most homosexless)

more homosexless (comparative)
most homosexless (superlative)

For that nappy full of homosexless verse he dropped last year.

1988 March 25, Tom Valeo, “The Common Pursuit”, in Chicago Reader:

When Felicity joked that I should be called homosexless, I laughed because I thought it was funny.

2005, Michael Arditti, Unity: Reflections on the Personalities and Politics Behind Wolfram Meier's Legendary Lost Film, →ISBN, page 21:


softworks

As Macworld Expo neared last month, Word Perfect and Ann Arbor Softworks faced returning to the show without final versions of their eagerly awaited high-end Mac word processors.

Pacific Softworks was formed from the buy out of Network Research Corp.'s assets.

1993, Network World, volume 10, number 13, page 15:

Briggs Softworks' product sports powerful feature set

1997, InfoWorld, volume 19, number 18, page 118:

Best known for The Elder Scrolls games and its revival of the Fallout series, Bethesda Softworks was founded in 1986 by Christopher Weaver and takes its name from the location of its headquarters in Bethesda, Maryland.

2018, Sebastian Deterding, José Zagal, Role-Playing Game Studies: Transmedia Foundations:

(in company names) A company that produces software.


carabeef

It suggests that beef and carabeef, from animals of the same age and given a uniform feed, have indistinguishable eating quality.

1971, Philippine Journal of Animal Science - Volumes 8-10, page 74:

Buffalo meat, known as “carabeef,” is India’s most valuable agricultural export, recently beating out basmati rice by a slim margin.

2015 June 25, Max Bearak, “Indian Beef Workers Fight to Bring Back the Bull Market”, in New York Times:


needlestack

Blend of needle + haystack, from the metaphor of a needle in a haystack.

Unless their flag of a flower is waving, finding such plants is like finding a needle in a needlestack.

1988 April 15, James Krohe Jr., “Where Has All the Flora Gone?”, in Chicago Reader:

In those decades of European peace and unchallenged British ascendancy, this small number of ships was enough to keep watch on the French ports and the major sea routes of the world, but not to hunt for needles in needlestacks and make all slavers and pirates quake with fear.

2004, Dennis Rumley, Sanjay Chaturvedi, Geopolitical Orientations, Regionalism And Security In The Indian Ocean, page 43:

(figurative) A stack of needles. Represents the task of finding one thing among a large number of very similar things.


streetscaping

And his Planning Department increasingly pressured new office builders to provide better streetscaping, pedestrian ways, and other amenities.

1988 November 25, David Moberg, “One Year Without Washington”, in Chicago Reader:

Human scale can also be improved along landscaping and streetscaping interventions.

2014, Avi Friedman, Planning Small and Mid-Sized Towns, →ISBN, page 6-24:


TACAN

ultra high frequency
ultra high frequency

(military, aviation) Acronym of tactical air navigation beacon, an ultra high frequency electronic radionavigation system able to provide aircraft with continuous bearing and slant range information to a selected station.


hucow

So when we were talking with your friends the other night they mentioned human-cow or hucow, and I am wondering where that goes here?

2012, Joseph Santiago, Lina Clark, Life by Association: Getting Furry, →ISBN, page 101:

But after that, she was at a loss, so she did a little research with the help of short erotica and a fetish website.
Milking? People actually did that?
What was a hucow, exactly?
But the description sounded interesting to say the least, even though she was far past the ability to breast feed.

2015, Jennifer Willows, Strangers with Benefits, Siren Publishing, →ISBN, pages 75–76:

And they'd all be getting a good drink of Gina's milk, as her production continued to rise. She's a regular hucow, Dan thought, his dick getting really hard.

2015, S. Randy, Shemale Adventure: Milking, →ISBN:

(chiefly erotic fiction) A person who engages in lactation for sexual purposes.


blowbang

"Would that be so bad?" I say. "Don't you ever get jealous of those girls in pornos that get to be on their knees in the middle of all those dicks?"
"Are you fucking serious?" says Hector.
"Don't," says Joe. "This faggot is always asking stupid questions and giving stupid answers; he doesn't mean it."
"No," says Hector. "This faggot is serious." He's looking at me now, I can tell.
"Yeah," I say. "Don't you like the idea of an around-the-world blowbang?"

2010, James Franco, Palo Alto: Stories, Scribner, →ISBN, page 193:

That afternoon, I had arranged to shoot a five-man blowbang... quaint.

2011, Sam Benjamin, American Gangbang: A Love Story, Gallery Books, →ISBN, page 223:

I've used my work in porn to explore many firsts and share those experiences with my fans: sex with a woman, double penetration, group sex, double anal, a blowbang, a gangbang, or my first time with a Japanese woman who didn't speak English.

2012, Sinnamon Love, “A Question of Feminism”, in Tristan Taormino, Constance Penley, Celine Shimizu, Mireille Miller-Young, editors, The Feminist Porn Book: The Politics of Producing Pleasure, The Feminist Press, published 2013, →ISBN, page 102:

(slang, vulgar) A sex act involving one individual performing oral sex on more than one man; an orgy consisting primarily of acts of fellatio.


posynomial

(mathematics) A function of the form f(x_1,x_2,…,x_n)=∑ₖ₌₁ᴷc_kx_1^(a_1k)⋯x_n^(a_nk), where all the coordinates x_i and coefficients c_k are positive real numbers, and the exponents a_ik are real numbers.


graphon

This bound almost matches the known upper bound for graphs and, in a certain sense, is the best possible for graphons.

2015, Jacob W. Cooper, Tomáš Kaiser, Daniel Kráľ, Jonathan A. Noel, “Weak regularity and finitely forcible graph limits”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):

(mathematics, graph theory) The completion of the metric space of the set of finite graphs endowed with the cut metric.


eenamost

en-adv

eenamost (comparative more eenamost, superlative most eenamost)

more eenamost (comparative)
most eenamost (superlative)

Blend of e'en (“even”) + a'most (“almost”).

blend

I swanny if I ever felt so in my life ! I was so anxious about that long letter that I sent to them to get printed for you, that I was dreadful loth to go in, and eenamost made up my mind to turn about and make tracks for the sloop agin !

1843, Ann Sophia Stephens, High Life in New York, page 7:


sublebrity

Coordinate term: microcelebrity

After the screening, a large crowd filled the street outside the theater, playing spot-the-sublebrity with some of the film's prime characters, including Nirvana photographer Alice Wheeler and Love's estranged (and notoriously unhinged) father.

I wonder how many of today's sublebrities will ever achieve that degree of longterm adulation?

2012, Joan Collins, The World According to Joan, Hachette UK, →ISBN:

As I write this book, I have secured myself a place as a sublebrity in the pantheon of America's queer and postmodern subcultures.

2012, Kate Bornstein, A Queer and Pleasant Danger: The true story of a nice Jewish boy who joins the Church of Scientology, and leaves twelve years later to become the lovely lady she is today, Beacon Press, →ISBN:

But I could definitely consider a Shower List – a list of the biggest shower of horrors in any field at any given moment. First up, then: Britain’s Ghastliest Financial Sublebrities.

2018 January 15, Marina Hyde, “Britain’s ghastliest financial sublebrities – a who’s who”, in The Guardian:

(derogatory) A minor celebrity; someone famous for being famous.


spoofball

en-adj

spoofball (comparative more spoofball, superlative most spoofball)

more spoofball (comparative)
most spoofball (superlative)

The documentary traces the Foo Fighters’ ceaseless touring and chapters of internal drama that you’d hardly expect from a band that looked as though its members were having so much fun in their spoofball music videos.

2011 April 8, Chris Richards, “For Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters, a ginger look back before blasting forward”, in Washington Post:

In so many ways, Michael Showalter and David Wain’s spoofball, gross-out, sex-fuelled, rom-com, summer camp satire was a Wet Hot American Mess.

2015 July 3, Alan Evans, “Wet Hot American Summer is back – but did it typecast its comedy all-stars?”, in The Guardian:

Involving both goofy and spoofing behavior.


smize

en-verb

smize (third-person singular simple present smizes, present participle smizing, simple past and past participle smized)

smizes (present singular third-person)
smizing (participle present)
smized (participle past)
smized (past)

Blend of smile + eyes. Coined by Tyra Banks.

Through a ceiling to floor mirror that covers an entire wall, I “smize” at my stunning reflection, having easily mastered the come-fuck-me look that's going to sell me millions of CDs.

2010, Timothy McGivney, Zombielicious, MLR Press, →ISBN, page 5:

I remember once turning up and it was for a catalogue. Often catalogues were fine – you'd put on some lingerie and a couple of baby-dolls and that would be that. But sometimes they'd have a sex-toy section and the last thing I wanted was to be smizing sexily while holding a pair of fur-lined handcuffs.

2014, Kelly Brook, Close Up: The Autobiography, Sidgwick & Jackson, →ISBN:

Whenever I tried to “smize,” model-style, people asked if I'd been possessed by an ancient and evil spirit.

2015, Alexandra Petri, A Field Guide to Awkward Silences, New American Library, →ISBN:


findom

en-noun

findom (countable and uncountable, plural findoms)

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

This includes public humiliation, findom, blackmail, hardcore cock and ball torture, bloodletting, cutting, edgeplay and so on.

2008, Hardcore mistress, “****DOMINATRIX BUSTS YOUR BALLS WITH A ROCK**** 75162”, in alt.sex.telephone.alt (Usenet):

Your money is much better spent on a FinDom Phone Sex Goddess Taryn.

2011, Chris, “I will OWN you”, in alt.sex.femdom (Usenet):

“The kind of domination I'm looking for isn't spankings or boot licking,” Maxwell went on. “As my screen name indicated, the kind of control I'm looking for is something calling^([sic]) 'findom'. […] I get sexual gratification from having someone, a woman preferably, taking control of my finances and spending my money as she sees fit.

2014, Helena Shaw, Maxed Out: A New Adult Billionaire Romance, page 17:

financial domination
financial domination#English

(BDSM, uncountable) Synonym of financial domination.

(BDSM, countable) A dominant who practices financial domination.


rectagraph

Such graphs are known to be halved graphs of bipartite rectagraphs, which are connected triangle-free graphs in which every 2-path lies in a unique quadrangle.

2015, Joanna B. Fawcett, “Locally triangular graphs and normal quotients of the n-cube”, in arXiv:

(graph theory) A triangle-free connected graph where any two vertices have 0 or 2 common neighbors.


headground

One Hollywood Flood-Lite was used, subdued to 20 amperes and screened by lowering the Lite back of a small headground, until detail in the composition was almost lost to the eye.

1922, Abel's Photographic Weekly - Volume 30, Issues 776-783, page 567:

But a card table was folded up and made as fine a headground as one could wish.

1927, American Photography - Volume 21, page 12:

(photography, dated) A background used for a headshot.


megalogue

Blend of mega- + dialogue. By surface analysis, mega- + -logue.

It started a few months ago when this megalogue finally prodded me into belated action.

2009 September 9, Madeleine Bunting, “My battle to cut carbon: a baffling, frustrating path to a more honest life”, in Guardian:

A simultaneous conversation involving a large number of people


etiopathology

etiopathology (countable and uncountable, plural etiopathologies)

Blend of etiology + pathology. By surface analysis, etio- + pathology.

However, more work is needed to determine whether methylation in this locus is involved in the etiopathology of mania.

2015 July 6, “Association of DNA Methylation with Acute Mania and Inflammatory Markers”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

(medicine) The determination or study of the cause of a pathology.


racenicity

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

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


proregression

A combination of progression and regression, cancelling each other out and leading to stasis.


commonsensible

en-adj

commonsensible (comparative more commonsensible, superlative most commonsensible)

more commonsensible (comparative)
most commonsensible (superlative)


WhatsApp

Blend of what's up + app, coined as a trademark.

Like many people, in the pandemic, my life digitized. My work shifted online; my friendships retreated onto FaceTime and WhatsApp; I used a dating app for the first time; I started doing online yoga.

2022 September 27, Barclay Bram, “My Therapist, the Robot”, in The New York Times:

An instant messaging service founded in 2009 and acquired by Facebook in 2014.


WhatsApp

en-verb

WhatsApp (third-person singular simple present WhatsApps, present participle WhatsApping, simple past and past participle WhatsApped)

WhatsApps (present singular third-person)
WhatsApping (participle present)
WhatsApped (participle past)
WhatsApped (past)

People often say pooping is taboo, but lately it seems more like a cultural fetish. There are poop emoji birthday parties for three-year-olds, people WhatsApping photos of their ordure to friends, TripAdvisor threads on how to avoid or avail yourself of squat toilets.

2018, Alex Blasdel, “Bowel movement: the push to change the way you poo”, in Guardian:


Jawaiian

Blend of Jamaica + Hawaiian (also referencing Jah).

(music) A Hawaiian style of popular music that combines native styles with reggae and other Caribbean influences.


intrabody

2006, Rebecca Grinter, et al. (editors), CHI 2006: Interact, Inform, Inspire: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Proceedings, Volume 1, Association for Computing Machinery, page 677,
An intuitive context aware service between two devices is possible using touch with the intrabody communication.

In the measurements of the transmission characteristics of the intrabody communication system RF transformers with terminals that are not symmetric to the ground are often used for galvanic decoupling and referred to as balun transformers.

2015, Željka Lučev Vasić, Igor Krois, Silvio Hrabar, Mario Cifrek, “On the Transformer Effects in the Measurements of Capacitative Intrabody Transmission Characteristics Using Grounded Instruments”, in Igor Lacković, Darko Vasić, editors, IFMBE Proceedings, Volume 45: 6th European Conference of the International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering, MBEC 2014, Springer, page 263:

2023, Isao Nakanishi, Tomoaki Oku, Souta Okasaka, Person Verification Based on Multipoint Measurement of Intrabody Propagation Signals, Abbas Moallem (editor), HCI for Cybersecurity, Privacy and Trust: 5th International Conference, HCI-CPT 2023, Proceedings, Springer, LNCS 14045, page 686,
The intrabody propagation signal is obtained by using intrabody communication technology [5,6], which utilizes the human body as a transmission path.

That exists, operates or occurs within a body (especially the human body).

(medicine, anatomy) That exists, operates or occurs within the vertebral body.


intrabody

Blend of intracellular + antibody, probably influenced by the above.

1998, Discover, Volume 19, Time Inc., page 36,
The T cells could now produce their own anti-Tat intrabody.

2006, HIV Molecular Immunology, Volume 2, Los Alamos National Laboratory (Theoretical Biology and Biophysics Group T-10), page 902,
Single chain antibodies, intrabodies, were engineered that can be stably expressed in the cytoplasm of mammalian cells […] .

2009, Laurence Guglielmi, Pierre Martineau, Intrabody Expression in Eukaryotic Cells, Robert Aitken (editor), Antibody Phage Display, Springer (Humana Press), page 196,
Even when aggregated, some intrabodies may retain the capacity to sequester the target antigen, preventing it from reaching its intended cellular location and thereby inhibiting its function (2–3).

(medicine) An antibody that exists inside and operates within a cell.


theragnosis

Our data provide an important platform for future investigations aimed to characterize the concrete roles of specific miRNAs and other regulatory smRNAs including piRNAs in penile cancer initiation, progression, invasion and also effective theragnosis.

2015 July 10, “MicroRNA Expression Profile in Penile Cancer Revealed by Next-Generation Small RNA Sequencing”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

The combination of diagnostic tests and therapy.


exitron

Therefore, in what ways might the processing and regulation of exitron splicing differ from that of conventional introns?

2015 July 7, Dorothee Staiger, Gordon G. Simpson, “Enter exitrons”, in Genome Biology, volume 16, →DOI:

On the basis of their exonic and intronic nature, here we name them exitrons (exonic introns [EIs]) and define them as alternatively spliced internal regions of protein-coding exons

2015 May 1, Marquez Y, Höpfler M, Ayatollahi Z, Barta A, Kalyna M, “Unmasking alternative splicing inside protein-coding exons defines exitrons and their role in proteome plasticity”, in Genome Research, volume 25, number 7, →DOI, pages 995–1007:

(genetics) One of a set of alternatively spliced internal regions of protein-coding exons.


orbitrap

A mass analyzer consisting of an outer barrel-like electrode and a coaxial inner spindle-like electrode that traps ions in an orbital motion around the spindle. The image current from the trapped ions is detected and converted to a mass spectrum using the Fourier transform of the frequency signal.


syringaldehyde

After 4 days of laccase treatment without mediator, the molecular mass of PSS did not decrease, suggesting that laccase alone has no effect on PSS. PSS degradation products with lowered M n values were formed when the natural mediators p-coumaric acid, syringaldehyde, and the synthetic mediator 1-HBT were additionally included, respectively.

2015 July 6, “Potential of Wood-Rotting Fungi to Attack Polystyrene Sulfonate and Its Depolymerisation by Gloeophyllum trabeum via Hydroquinone-Driven Fenton Chemistry”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

(organic chemistry) The aromatic aldehyde 4-hydroxy-3,5-dimethoxybenzaldehyde, related to syringic acid


retardical

en-adj

retardical (comparative more retardical, superlative most retardical)

more retardical (comparative)
most retardical (superlative)

Blend of retarded + rhetorical, or retard + -ical.

You need to take your retardical soap-box and wash your mouth out.

2005 July 1, owl, “Re: Choices for China”, in alt.global-warming (Usenet), message-ID <bl5cc1huojrrl8uj7kpmp8geh5rltliq94@4ax.com>:

WTF are you on you mentalistic retardical bastard.

2005 November 27, Phil Kyle, “Re: Argument!!!”, in alt.talk.bollocks (Usenet), message-ID <dmcr9v$lnt$8@blackhelicopter.databasix.com>:

"They were retardical questions."

2009 March 16, Lorraine Sommerfeld, “Sticks and stones, and other useful tools”, in Toronto Star:


linguicism

en-noun

linguicism (countable and uncountable, plural linguicisms)

The unfair treatment of an individual or community based on their use of language.


belfie

Butt looks great in a bikini? Take a 'belfie'.

2013 November 18, Aashta Atray Banan, “Eye, Me, Myself”, in Open, page 45:

Send him a belfie with the words 'kiss' and 'my' on each cheek, and good riddance to him.

2014 July 23, “Dear Dolly”, in Metro Herald, page D17:

Take several “before” pictures of your whole body and include a “belfie” (butt selfie) the day before you start the program. Do it from different angles — front, side, and back.

2015, Christmas Abbott (with Maggie Greenwood-Robinson), The Badass Body Diet: The Breakthrough Diet and Workout for a Tight Booty, Sexy Abs, and Lean Legs, HarperCollins (2015), unnumbered page, published 12 May 2015

(slang) A self-taken photograph of one's own buttocks.


Cubop

(jazz) A genre of Afro-Cuban jazz influenced by bebop.


seggae

(music) A genre of sega music that combines it with reggae and other non-native influences.


bhangramuffin

(music) A genre of raggamuffin dancehall influenced by bhangra or other music from the Indian subcontinent.


cadence-lypso

(music) A genre of popular dance music that combines cadence rampa with calypso.


wangst

And yes, on one level I accept that I was being a total dick – an ugly combo of Art Student ennui and “I'm so Goth I shit bats' pseudo-teenage wangst.

2009, Tim Clare, We Can't All be Astronauts, →ISBN, page 89:

Like some kind of Tim Burtonesque fever dream with a touch more wangst and a smidge less whimsy, Smoke & Mirrors is rollicking, intimate circus-cabaret that will charm your long stripy stockings right off and leave you gagging for more.

2011 January 11, Jack Teiwes, “Smoke & Mirrors | Sydney Festival 2011”, in Australian Stage Online:

I drew back from the brink of the impending wangst storm, though, because I know very well that neither Kaoren nor Tsur Selkie are stupid, and Kaoren faking a romance with me would be idiocy.

And I just read lolbabe's update and OMG! My ULife is all parental wangst and yours is all WHEEE DRUNKEN FUMBLING.

2013, Susie Day, Big Woo! My Not-So-Secret Teenage Blog, →ISBN:


huppie

Among the work he has been doing have been films such as “D.C. Cab” and this year’s “Quicksilver”, a Kevin Bacon Wall-Street-on-wheels vehicle, in which he played an aspiring huppie (Hispanic Urban Professional).

1986 August 20, Michael Spies, “Bilingual comic uses the language of laughter”, in Houston Chronicle:

Wiscovitch calls himself a “huppie”. Which, he translates, is a Hispanic Yuppie.

1989 March 3, Maurice Carroll, “Pols and Politics; Political Writers Ready for Show”, in Newsday (New Your):

The vato is a Huppie. HErbErt: What's a Huppie? ric: You know, a Hispanic Yuppie.

1997, Culture Clash, Life, Death and Revolutionary Comedy, →ISBN, page 52:

Mr. Munoz stresses that the crime rate has been dropping in Little Village and that he backs a tax-increment financing district in his ward — a controversial stance in other Hispanic areas. Because the neighborhood is improving, “folks like me — yuppies, luppies, huppies, whatever you want to call them — will be able to find homes here,” he says, referring to the Latino and Hispanic variations of young urban professionals.

1999 February 15, Greg Hinz, “Vying for Hot Hispanic Votes”, in Crain’s Chicago Business:

(slang) A Hispanic yuppie; an affluent professional of Latin American descent.