turducken

turducken (countable and uncountable, plural turduckens)

The main attraction at dinner this week is called "turducken." To make it, [Paul] Prudhomme stuffs a boneless chicken with a reddish sausage stuffing; the stuffed chicken is then stuffed into a boneless duck with cornbread stuffing; finally, the chicken and the duck are stuffed into boneless turkey with greenish oyster stuffing. When sliced, you have three birds and a rainbow of stuffings.

1982 November 29, Charles Michener, Linda R. Prout, “Glorious Food: The New American Cooking”, in Newsweek, volume 100, New York, N.Y.: Newsweek, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 92, column 2:

Turducken is a true niche item; a product that has its roots firmly established in Cajun country and is growing in popularity [...] Skip Shensky, managing partner of the All Cajun Food Co., says his company sold 1,500 turduckens this year. […] Broussard’s experience with the product is a little different. He and his brother grew up eating turducken.

1999, Meat and Poultry, volume 45, Mill Valley, Calif.: Oman Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 26:

Although I may never eat turducken [“Birds of […]

Now, I will admit that when it came time to lay knife on turducken, with everybody gathered around in avid anticipation, the result was horrifying. Instead of freeing a beautiful slice of marbled meat, my knife unleashed a steaming avalanche of something brown and granular onto the platter.

2003 January 4, Jim Kershner, “Happy Turducken Day”, in The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.: Cowles Publishing Company, →ISSN, →OCLC; republished in Shaun O’L. Higgins, editor, Mountain Goats are My Weakness: And Other Tales of Life in the Northwest (A Spokesman-Review Book), Spokane, Wash.: New Media Ventures, 2004, →ISBN, page 46:

In his black Armani tuxedo, Dad set the first slice of turducken on one of the expensive china plates in a tall stack beside him and held it up.

2008, S. A. Bodeen, The Compound, Square Fish, published 2009, →ISBN, pages 103–104:

We eat turducken: a duck stuffed inside a chicken stuffed inside a turkey. The whole thing deep fat fried.

2009, Rebecca Wolff, editor, A Best of Fence: Fiction & Nonfiction, Fence Books, →ISBN, page 385:

LET’S EAT TURDUCKEN! Uh … Let’s not. It’s stuffed with a chicken … it’s stuffed with a duck …

RICARDO: [...] And is it the final stage of understanding what black matter and dark energy is that holds our turkey together for Thanksgiving, for instance? / CARROLL: That's – it's a great point because we live in a turducken universe. There's all sorts of different ingredients that are involved in the list of what goes into the cosmos we observe. There's dark energy. There's dark matter. There's ordinary matter. The Higgs boson is the final piece of the ordinary matter puzzle.

2012 November 16, Sean [Michael] Carroll, “Talk of the Nation: Searching for ‘The Particle at the End of the Universe’”, in NPR, archived from the original on 2014-04-17:

Bob: Listen, I figured out how to have our own Thanksgiving, stuffed inside Fischoeder's Thanksgiving, like a turducken. / Gene: A poultry within a poultry. It's like Inception with meat.

2012 November 18, Lizzie Molyneux, Wendy Molyneux, “An Indecent Thanksgiving Proposal”, in Bob’s Burgers, season 3, episode 5:

PAULA'S GUILT-FREE® TURTURTURDUCKDUCKENDUCKEN [...] DIRECTIONS: Stuff a turducken in a turducken in a turducken.

2014 November, Megan Amram, “Paula Deen’s Health-food Cookbook”, in Science… for Her!, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, →ISBN, page 35, column 2:

While straining to wedge a fresh slice of turducken into your gaping maw you choke to death on a stray bone and the irony of your untimely demise.

2016, John C. Havens, Heartificial Intelligence: Embracing Our Humanity to Maximize Machines, Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, →ISBN:

Can’t decide? Then eat turducken. That’s a chicken stuffed into a duck stuffed into a turkey.

2020, Julia Fowler, Embrace Your Southern, Sugar!, Gibbs Smith, →ISBN:

Significantly, the explanation of the TDK’s true purpose is provided while the man stands above a test room containing an American family: mother, father, and son are each obese, and they sit on a couch staring at a television screen and eating turducken sandwiches.

2020, Kelli Wilhelm, ““Where’s the pie?” Nostalgic and Apocalyptic Foodways in Supernatural”, in Lisa Macklem, Dominick Grace, editors, Supernatural Out of the Box: Essays on the Metatextuality of the Series, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, Inc., →ISBN, part three (“Our lives are not for public consumption”), page 115:

(US, cooking) A dish, usually roasted, consisting of a deboned turkey stuffed with a deboned duck that has been stuffed with a small deboned chicken, and also containing stuffing.

火鴨雞

dish consisting of a deboned turkey stuffed with a deboned duck that has been stuffed with a small deboned chicken


restauranteur

(sometimes proscribed) Alternative form of restaurateur


cama

A hybrid animal produced by breeding a camel and a llama.


Cool Britannia

Punning blend of cool and Rule, Britannia!, a British patriotic song.

A series of images taken by Corinne Day of the teenage Kate Moss helped define the 90s, capturing a hedonistic early stage of Cool Britannia.

2023 November 18, Jess Cartner-Morley, Chloe Mac Donnell, “40 outrageous photos that changed fashion, from teenage Kate Moss to Twiggy in a mini and Lady Gaga’s meat dress”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

A period of increased pride in British culture during the late 1990s, closely associated with the election of the New Labour government in 1997.


spammer

(computing, Internet) Someone who sends spam.


Pictionary

/ˈpɪkʃənɛɹi/

A board game in which players advance by successfully identifying the words represented by pictures drawn by other players.


outro

Blend of out + intro, an analogy using out as the opposite of in.

[…] talking over the intro of a record and off the outro, weaving back and forth between two records spinning […]

1977, Claude Hall, Barbara Hall, This business of radio programming:

Find the spot in the script where you want the outro to start fading up.

1992, Bruce Bartlett, Jenny Bartlett, Practical recording techniques:

2009, 24 September, Jude Rogers in The Guardian, The trouble with remastered records
But then something happens on I Want You (She's So Heavy), two minutes into the song's intense outro, when a cloud of white noise comes in, […]

(music, informal) A portion of music at the end of a song; like an intro, but at the end instead of the beginning.

Having gone through the intro and stopped, the next click plays the outro of the current section and then hits the following script at the end of the outro animation:

2007, Rich Shupe, Zevan Rosser, Learning ActionScript 3.0: a beginner's guide:

(informal) The closing sequence at the end of a film, television program, video game etc.


manpanzee

Coordinate term: chuman


stemme

A lesbian, chiefly African-American, exhibiting both stud and femme traits.


Goldendoodle

Now there are dozens of mixes, most of which are a poodle blend. There is the goldendoodle, labradoodle, maltipoo, schnoodle, shihpoo, and the puggle, a mix of a pug and a beagle.

2007, Earl Mindell, Elizabeth Renaghan, Dr. Earl Mindell’s Nutrition and Health for Dogs, Basic Health Publications, Inc., →ISBN, page 117:

Pretty soon, with poodles as the go-to sire dog, there were goldendoodles, cockapoos, Airedoodles, bich-poos, bassetoodles, shih-poos.

2013, Sue Halpern, A Dog Walks into a Nursing Home: Lessons in the Good Life from an Unlikely Teacher, Riverhead Books, →ISBN:

(cynology) A mixed breed dog that is a cross between the Golden Retriever and the poodle.


reprography

en-noun

reprography (usually uncountable, plural reprographies)

the reproduction, reprinting and copying of graphics, especially using electromechanical or photographic methods


elevon

(aviation) A movable surface at the trailing edge of a tailless airplane (such as the space shuttle) that provides pitch and roll control.


electret

(physics) A solid dielectric having a quasi-permanent charge; usually a metallized film; used in electroacoustic and electromechanical transducers and in air filters.


epigenetics

/ˌɛpɪd͡ʒəˈnɛtɪks/

Blend of epigenesis + genetics; coined by C. H. Waddington in 1942.

(genetics) The study of heritable changes caused by the activation and deactivation of genes without any change in DNA sequence.


freegan

A person who salvages and consumes food that has been thrown away, especially one who wishes to protect the environment and challenge consumerism via waste reduction.


nouse

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

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

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


rebar

rebar (countable and uncountable, plural rebars)

The floor and walls for Copthall tunnel have already been constructed using formwork into which rebar (reinforcing bar) was placed, and then concrete poured.

2023 August 23, Chris Howe, “Green screen: HS2's route through the shires”, in RAIL, number 990, page 35:

(countable) A steel reinforcing bar in a reinforced concrete structure.

The hash mark of rebar or the curve of a hubcap will create curious shapes to be decoded; even, perhaps, entire subway trains and lengths of tracks will remain.

2020, David Farrier, “Thin Cities”, in Footprints, 4th Estate, →ISBN:

(uncountable) A grid-shaped system of such bars.


rebar

en-verb

rebar (third-person singular simple present rebars, present participle rebarring, simple past and past participle rebarred)

rebars (present singular third-person)
rebarring (participle present)
rebarred (participle past)
rebarred (past)

(transitive) To reinforce with bars of this kind.


electrocute

electrocute (third-person singular simple present electrocutes, present participle electrocuting, simple past and past participle electrocuted)

electrocutes (present singular third-person)
electrocuting (participle present)
electrocuted (participle past)
electrocuted (past)

electrocutar

to cause death from immediate complications resulting from electric shock

уби́ть то́ком

to kill with the electric current, accidentally or deliberately

Her hairdryer fell into the tub while she was bathing, and she was electrocuted.

The executioner threw the switch on Old Sparky, and the condemned prisoner was electrocuted for his crimes.

(transitive) To execute by electric shock, often by means of an electric chair.

(transitive, proscribed, informal) To inflict a severe electric shock (not necessarily fatal) upon.

電擊

to inflict a severe electric shock, not necessarily fatally


docudrama

/ˈdɒkjʊˌdɹɑːmə/

Coordinate term: docufiction

In other words, docudrama covers an amazing variety of dramatic forms, bound together by two things. They are all based on or inspired by reality, by the lives of real people, or by events that have happened in the recent or not too distant past. Furthermore, they would seem to have a higher responsibility to accuracy and to truth than does fiction.

1999, Alan Rosenthal, editor, Why Docudrama?: Fact-fiction on Film and TV, SIU Press, →ISBN, page xv:

And docudramas would be the perfect epitaph because, though Norman Kingsley Mailer dreamed of being the monarch of the American novel, he was finally the king of faction, the man whose greatest books, a nightmare for any librarian hoping neatly to classify as fiction or non-fiction, consolidated the now standard view that reporting is as important to storytelling as invention.

2007 November 12, Mark Lawson, “The king of faction”, in The Guardian:

“Docudrama” is by its nature a confusing genre—neither fish nor fowl, and thus lacking either taste or substance.

2008 December 30, Bob Sommer, “The Education of David Frost”, in CounterPunch:

Fenny Compton featured in the recent TV docudrama Mr Bates vs The Post Office. It was where the first meeting of postmasters took place in 2009, organised by sub-postmaster Alan Bates to begin mounting a fight for justice in the now well-publicised Post Office scandal.

2024 April 3, Stephen Roberts, “Bradshaw's Britain: destination Harrow”, in RAIL, number 1006, page 57:

A type of drama (a film, a television show, or a play) that combines elements of documentary and drama, to some extent showing real events and to some extent using actors performing recreations of documented events.

dokudraama

drama that combines elements of documentary and drama


inimicable

en-adj

inimicable (comparative more inimicable, superlative most inimicable)

more inimicable (comparative)
most inimicable (superlative)

Apparently a confused Blend of inimical + amicable.


contrail

An artificial cloud made by the exhaust of jet aircraft or wingtip vortices that precipitate a stream of tiny ice crystals in moist, frigid upper air.


contrail

en-verb

contrail (third-person singular simple present contrails, present participle contrailing, simple past and past participle contrailed)

contrails (present singular third-person)
contrailing (participle present)
contrailed (participle past)
contrailed (past)

To produce an artificial cloud of this kind.


Japanglish

English words that have been co-opted into Japanese vernacular, often incorrectly.

English terms or names that have been localized for Japanese use.


Doxbridge

Which university did you go to? ... Doxbridge – well, Durham, if you must know

2012 February 19, Iain Hollingshead, “How middle-class are you? Take this quiz”, in The Daily Telegraph:

(rare, British) The universities of Oxford, the Cambridge and Durham collectively.


sticktion

the temporary adhesion between a tribometer and a test surface that causes unrealistically high slip resistance readings


whigger

1999, James Ryan, Race and Ethnicity in Multi-Ethnic Schools, Multilingual Matters, →ISBN, page 144,
Students’ peers exert considerable pressure on them to stay within their groups and to avoid others who are not part of the group. […] individuals who stray from what some of their fellow students believe to be their appropriate peer group may be subject to penalties. Agnes, for example, an Anglo of European background, has been called a ‘whigger’ by White students for associating with students of African heritage.

2003, February 8, I. M. White, "Re: 'Phantom Ryder' -- proven liar, watch it run away...", alt.revisionism and alt.flame.niggers, Usenet,
Your inability to refute the facts that I have posted against the NIGGERS is so noted. ¶ Enough said, whigger-boy.

"I remember one time one of them white guys in our high school called her a whigger. A white nigger, can you imagine that, Barbara?"

2006, Therone Shellman, Love Don't Live Here:

Ashley hates the guy that Momo is dealing with; she calls him a Whigger.
"This guy is a wannabe rapper and a real jerk..."

2006, Assuanta Collins, Until the Next Time:

(derogatory, offensive, slang) Alternative spelling of wigger


folksonomy

en-noun

folksonomy (countable and uncountable, plural folksonomies)

(Internet, uncountable) The spontaneous cooperation of a group of people to organize information into categories; the practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content.

We imagined a microlibrary which would be a well organized digital collection of resources, focused specifically on our project, and employing both traditional library cataloging and organization, and the folksonomy made possible by user-generated tagging.

2011, Charles Wankel, Educating Educators with Social Media, page 291:

(Internet, countable) A user-generated taxonomy.


goosander

Blend of goose + gander. The oldest known use is by Drayton (1622).

As they above the rest were Lords of Earth and Ayre.
The Gossander with them, my goodly Fennes doe show
His head as Ebon blacke, the rest as white as Snow,

1622, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 25 p. 106:

Mergus merganser
Mergus merganser#Translingual

A merganser, Mergus merganser, of the northern hemisphere. They eat fish and are common on lakes and rivers.


beefaroni

(US) a baked dish of macaroni, ground beef, cheese and tomato sauce


chemisorb

en-verb

chemisorb (third-person singular simple present chemisorbs, present participle chemisorbing, simple past and past participle chemisorbed)

chemisorbs (present singular third-person)
chemisorbing (participle present)
chemisorbed (participle past)
chemisorbed (past)

(transitive, physical chemistry) To adsorb a substance on the surface or another by chemical bonding.


chemosorb

chemosorb (third-person singular simple present chemosorbs, present participle chemosorbing, simple past and past participle chemosorbed)

chemosorbs (present singular third-person)
chemosorbing (participle present)
chemosorbed (participle past)
chemosorbed (past)

Blend of chemo- (“chemical”) + adsorb, from Latin sorbere (“to suck”)


permaculture

en-noun

permaculture (countable and uncountable, plural permacultures)

Blend of permanent + agriculture, coined by Bill Mollison and David Holmgren in 1978. For a long time Bill Mollison claimed to have copyrighted the word; this was never the case, as copyright law is not applicable to single words.

The design, installation and maintenance of indefinitely sustainable human communities set in balanced ecologies, both urban and rural.


avoision

"Avoision" is how I referred to the panoply of questionable conduct about whose status as either avoidance or evasion we couldn't make up our minds.

1996, Leo Katz, Ill-Gotten Gains, University of Chicago Press, page 52:

"Seldon (1979) coined the term 'Avoision' to indicate 'the blurring between tax avoidance and evasion that arises from the looser connection between the legal and the moral'"

2008, Alan Lewis, editor, The Cambridge Handbook of Psychology and Economic Behaviour, Cambridge University Press, page 306:

(taxation, law) Nonpayment of tax that cannot clearly be seen as either tax avoidance, which is legal, or tax evasion, which is illegal.


Sloane Ranger

Blend of Sloane Square + Lone Ranger. Popularized by Ann Barr and Peter York in The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook (1982).

Come summer, the brasserie terraces teem with stereotypical blonde Sloane Rangers sipping rosé; an artier crop of whatever's stylishly edgy will have taken up residence outside the Royal Court Theatre.

2012, Time Out Shortlist London 2012 […] , Random House, →ISBN:

(British, informal) A fashionable young woman of the London upper classes.


dramedy

dramedy (countable and uncountable, plural dramedies)

(uncountable) A genre of film or television that lies somewhere between drama and comedy.

”Fleabag,” Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s critically acclaimed British dramedy, featured a young woman whose strongest character trait — being horny — was decidedly not male.

2019 December 13, Tracie Egan Morrissey, “The Year Women Got ‘Horny’”, in New York Times:

(countable) A film or television programme belonging to this genre.


lorikeet

Any of various small, brightly coloured parrots native to Australasia. They are usually classified in the subfamily Loriinae.


dumbfound

en-verb

dumbfound (third-person singular simple present dumbfounds, present participle dumbfounding, simple past and past participle dumbfounded)

dumbfounds (present singular third-person)
dumbfounding (participle present)
dumbfounded (participle past)
dumbfounded (past)

A bunch of nice, middle-class women debated on how to "rescue" prostitutes from their "terrible" fate. By invitation, the conference was attended by a number of prostitutes, who dumbfounded those nice, bourgeois ladies by making it clear that they had no desire whatever to be "rescued"

1989 December 3, Franklin Kameny, “Prostitution: Good, Right, And Desirable”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 21, page 5:

(transitive) To confuse and bewilder; to leave speechless.


mockumentary

Perlman devised a format inspired by the seminal mockumentary Spinal Tap, where the spot started with an ESPN announcer speaking to camera in a serious, straight voice, framing the story as “real” documentary.

2010, Douglas Holt, Douglas Cameron, Cultural Strategy: Using Innovative Ideologies to Build Breakthrough Brands, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 345:

The resonances between This is Spinal Tap and other documentary and mockumentary texts is pervasive, […]

2018, Richard Wallace, Mockumentary Comedy: Performing Authenticity, Springer, →ISBN, page 87:

(film) A film or television programme presented as if it were a documentary but that is not factual and often a parody or satire.


bleen

Blend of blue + green; coined by American philosopher Nelson Goodman in 1955 to illustrate concepts in the philosophy of science

coinage

(philosophy) Of an object, blue when first observed before a specified time or green when first observed after that time.


shoat

A sheep–goat hybrid (whether artificially produced or the result of animals from these species naturally intermating).


bioroid

genetically engineered
genetic engineering

(science fiction) A genetically engineered humanoid-like organism created for the purpose of enslavement.


alphagram

/ˈæl.fəˌɡɹæm/

Apparently a blend of alphabetical + anagram; see also -gram.

The letters of a word, or any other set of letters, arranged in alphabetical order.


spamvertise

en-verb

spamvertise (third-person singular simple present spamvertises, present participle spamvertising, simple past and past participle spamvertised)

spamvertises (present singular third-person)
spamvertising (participle present)
spamvertised (participle past)
spamvertised (past)

Based on your arguments you must believe that C&S should be allowed to spamvertise.

1994 May 12, Stefan Chakerian, “Re: Appropriate cancels (Was Re: `Serdar Argic': Racist remarks?...)”, in news.admin.policy (Usenet), retrieved 2008-03-19:

I am also considering writing form pages where people can submit fake orders at the click of a mouse for sites that spamvertise to me.

2003 September 14, "Myob", “Guerilla spam fighting”, in alt.stop.spamming (Usenet), retrieved 2008-03-19:

These e-mail viruses are being develoepd by spammers to spamvertise better to you.

2003 September 19, Kristen Bayes, “New Virus”, in alt.buddha.short.fat.guy (Usenet), retrieved 2008-03-19:

(Internet, slang, intransitive) To engage in spamvertising.

the variety who thinks it's "k-rad kewL" to spamvertise AOHell's trashy little HTML hole-in-the-wall with every post.

1997 March 14, "~*Spark The Heretic", “Re: is this stuff for real?/nora peal”, in alt.fan.karl-malden.nose (Usenet), retrieved 2008-03-19:

I vote for #3. These guys probably also spamvertise G*e*n*e*r*i*c V*i*a*g*r*a and P*e*n*i*S P*i*l*l*S. They're scum.

2003 December 18, "Tegger®", “Re: Sludge-Maintenance manual interval changes”, in alt.autos.lexus (Usenet), retrieved 2008-03-19:

If I hijack your account/server and spamvertise my domain name why would the registrar care (or even know)?

2004 October 23, "SPAMJAMR", “I need everyone's help”, in news.admin.net-abuse.email (Usenet), retrieved 2008-03-19:

(Internet, slang, transitive) To use spam to advertise.


flaperon

(aviation, aeronautics, aircraft) An aircraft control surface at the trailing edge of a wing that acts as an aileron (controlling movement around the longitudinal axis) and a flap (changing the chord line of the wing, thus affecting the angle of attack).


avgas

en-noun

avgas (countable and uncountable, plural avgases or avgasses)

Cylinder cracks are nothing new, however, and there is no reason to expect autogas-burning engines to have a higher incidence of head cracking than avgas-users

1988, Kas Thomas, Fuel and oil systems: basic and advanced light plane maintenance:

In the area of autogas volatility, a Reid vapor pressure of 9.0 to 15 is very common, compared to the vapor pressure of avgas, which is 5.5 to 7

1994, Michael J. Kroes with Thomas W. Wild, Aircraft powerplants:

Autogas can be obtained for a fraction of the cost of avgas, but its use is not without controversy.

2006, Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, The AOPA pilot: voice of general aviation, volume 49:

(aviation) Gasoline fuel for piston-engined aircraft.


grapple

From Middle English *grapple, *graple, from Old French grappil (“a ship's grapple”) (compare Old French grappin (“hook”)), from Old French grape, grappe, crape (“hook”), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *krappō (“hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *grep- (“hook”), *gremb- (“crooked, uneven”), from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to turn, bend, twist”). See further at grape. Influenced in some senses by grapple (“seize”, verb) (see above).

derived

A tool with claws or hooks which is used to catch or hold something.

(nautical) A device consisting of iron claws, attached to the end of a rope, used for grasping and holding an enemy ship prior to boarding; a grappling iron.


Mummerset

Blend of mummer (“actor in a pantomime”) + Somerset (“county in the west of England”).

Mummersetin murre

(often theater) An invented English-language dialect used by actors that mimics a stereotypical West Country rural accent.


webisode

Blend of Web + episode, coined to describe Scott Zakarin's The Spot (1995–1997).

2012, J. C. Calciano, quoted in 2012, Suzanne Lyons, Independent Film Producing: The Craft of Low Budget Filmmaking, unnumbered page,
I've build a fan-base on the Internet to market my movies through my webisodes. I started the webisode a year before my first movie, and within two years, each of my webisodes average between 20,000 to 50,000 views a day.

Webisodes such as the '6 beers of separation' described in the IMC Challenge at the start of the chapter are online episodes or chapters of an ongoing story. One of the best early examples is the BMW webisode where well-known people such as Guy Ritchie tell engaging stories involving BMW cars.

2012, Nigel Barker, Michael Valos, Terence A Shimp, Integrated Marketing Communications, page 230:

A short audio or video presentation on an Internet site.

With the pilot webisode Fault Effect done and the additional character concepts prepared, it was time to start laying the groundwork for the initial batch of future webisodes.

2010, Michael Scaramozzino, Creating a 3D Animated CGI Short: The Making of the Autiton Archives: Fault Effect - Pilot Episode, page 524:

Overall, through an analysis of the structure, content, and context of these Web series, this chapter assesses the power of the webisode as a tool for the expression of Black voices, as empowerment for Black creative forces, and as a potential site for creating Black community.

2013, Christine Acham, “4: Blacks in the Future: Braving the Frontier of the Web Series”, in Beretta E. Smith-Shomade, editor, Watching While Black: Centering the Television of Black Audiences, page 65:

An episode of an Internet-based movie etc.

n most cases, what was referred to as an episode or a webisode wasn't even a complete scene but instead an unfinished thought. A typical Seventh Portal webisode would set up its characters and present a conflict. Then, just as the conflict arose, the webisode reached its designated time limit and the audience was left hanging, rubbing its collective head and wondering, what the heck was that?

2002, Ibis Fernández, Macromedia Flash Animation & Cartooning: A Creative Guide, page 346:

The webisodes made clear: Jammer betrayed the Resistance.[…]The webisodes reveal not only character details, but aspects of the narrative arc of the series as well. In Webisode Five, Viper pilot and new husband Duck cries when his wife is killed in a Cylon raid on New Caprica.

2013, Paul Booth, “2: Frak-tured Postmodern Lives, Or, How I Found Out I Was a Cylon”, in Josef Steiff, Tristan Tamplin, editors, Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy: Mission Accomplished or Mission Frakked Up?, unnumbered page:

An episode of a television show that is only aired online.


prissy

en-adj

prissy (comparative prissier, superlative prissiest)

prissier (comparative)
prissiest (superlative)

1895, either an alteration of precise, blend of prim + sissy, or a blend of prim + fussy; first attested in American writer Joel Chandler Harris.

She was a small, neat, rather prissy-looking girl with primly smooth brown hair and rimless glasses […]

1949, Raymond Chandler, The Little Sister:

22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club Cabin Boyhttp://www.avclub.com/articles/cabin-boy,71269/
As Nathanial Mayweather, heir to the Mayweather Hotel fortune, Elliott doesn’t disdain the hoi polloi so much as he considers everyone, even the faculty and headmaster at the prissiest private school in existence, to be part of it.

European languages like English are just prissier about getting that pronoun in there.

2014, John H. McWhorter, The Language Hoax:

Excessively prim, proper, particular or fussy.

превзет

excessively prim, proper, particular or fussy

As women post en masse over the course of the day and long into the night, the mood changes: The daylight crowd tends to be prissier; the night crowd rowdier (and drunker); the late-night crowd surrealistic and unpredictable, made up of the extremely sleep deprived, from mothers of newborns to insomniacs in the midst of a divorce.

2007, Steven Levy, The Best of Technology Writing 2007, page 48:

You drive like one of those prissy ladies at lunch who won't take the last cookie in case somebody else wants it.

2010, J. D. Robb, Visions In Death, page 19:

I may – I forget now – have suffixed it slightly; with a well-rounded 'Stuff you!' or 'But my car, you bastard!'. But then again, surely not. This was my boss, after all. More likely I would have said something more prissy, like 'Oh, really It may be only a car to you,' etc., before dissolving, which was what I actually did, into a flurry of impotent fury and tears.

2014, Lynne Barrett-Lee, One Day Someday:


prissy

1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
I really like Beau. He sure enjoys being admired & lusted over. He just lays back like a king & enjoys. What a prissy!

(rare) A person who is excessively prim, proper, particular or fussy.


assicon

(Internet slang) An emoticon that takes the form of buttocks.


snazzy

snazzy (comparative snazzier, superlative snazziest)

snazzier (comparative)
snazziest (superlative)

Unknown but perhaps a blend of snappy + jazzy, or from Irish snas (“polish; good appearance”).

Those Friday afternoon dances in the gym are really snazzy.

1938 April 17, Jane Murdock, “Friday Afternoon Dances”, in Washington Post, page PY8:

Of those migrating to the iPhone from other devices, a good number of them are former Treo users who found Apple's device to be a souped-up, snazzier and even easier-to-use version of the Treo.

2009 January 8, Suzanne Choney, “Palm looks to regain place in smartphone race”, in msnbc.com, archived from the original on 2009-01-21:

(informal) Excellent; clever, ingenious, or adept in behavior, operation, or execution.


intervise

en-verb

intervise (third-person singular simple present intervises, present participle intervising, simple past and past participle intervised)

intervises (present singular third-person)
intervising (participle present)
intervised (participle past)
intervised (past)

(transitive) To televise over the Internet.


Labradoodle

Now there are dozens of mixes, most of which are a poodle blend. There is the goldendoodle, labradoodle, maltipoo, schnoodle, shihpoo, and the puggle, a mix of a pug and a beagle.

2007, Earl Mindell, Elizabeth Renaghan, Dr. Earl Mindell’s Nutrition and Health for Dogs, Basic Health Publications, Inc., →ISBN, page 117:

Participating pooches must be between 12-20 weeks old at the time of taping. This year, two labradoodles, a pomsky and a corgi are among members the Central Florida contingent.

2023 January 27, Patrick Connolly, “Meet the Orlando rescue dogs playing in Puppy Bowl XIX”, in Orlando Sentinel:

A dog that is a cross between a Labrador and a poodle.


Hinglish

English still has a place, though usually in the form of Hinglish, a blend of Hindi and "the sort of language used by Rex Harrison and David Niven".

1997 August 16, Sue Gaisford, “Radio: The soul of a nation finds utterance at last”, in Independent, UK, retrieved 2018-01-18:

"Today, young Indians in the new middle class think of English as a skill." . . . Many mix Hindi and English—Hinglish, it is called—often switching in midsentence.

2003 December 14, Amy Waldman, “In India, a New Heyday for English (the Language)”, in New York Times, retrieved 2018-01-18:

However, a small band of writers is creating a niche for prose in everyday spoken Hindi and Hinglish, with contemporary themes and characters who are ambitious, bold and tech-savvy.

2014 January 19, Shobita Dhar, “Hindi fiction writes a new story”, in Times of India, retrieved 2018-01-18:

A variety of English spoken by native Hindi speakers, using many Hindi words or constructions.


Tribeca

Blend of triangle + below + canal (“Canal Street, New York”)

blend

A region of lower-west Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States; the Triangle Below Canal Street.


starquake

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Astronomers call the sudden changes in the neutron star starquakes. The energy released in a starquake is enormous and flows out from the star into the space surrounding it. After the 1969 starquake on the Crab pulsar, a wave of energy was seen to flow outwards, rippling through the centre of the Crab Nebula.

1985, Paul Murdin, Lesley Murdin, New Astronomy, page 131:

2000, Richard I. Epstein, Bennett Link, Starquake-Induced Glitches in Pulsars, Kwong-Sang Cheng H, F, Chau, K. L. Chan, K. C. Leung (editors), Stellar Astrophysics: Proceedings of the Pacific Rim Conference, page 96,
Starquakes in slowing neutron stars drive matter toward the magnetic poles, distort the star's shape, and excite precession.

2000, Carl Sagan, Jerome Agel, Carl Sagan's Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective [new edition of 1973, The Cosmic Connection], page 260,
Should the core be solid, starquakes are expected — a shifting of the matter under enormous stress in the interior of the star. Such starquakes should produce a discontinuous change in the period of rotation of the neutron star. Such changes, called "glitches," are observed.

(astronomy) A violent tremor or quake that occurs on or near the surface of a star, especially a collapsed star.


anecdata

en-noun

anecdata pl (normally plural, singular anecdatum)

Blend of anecdotal + data; also compare this to the plural of anecdote is not data, upon which this term likely plays.
Equally, analysable as a blend of anecdote + data.

A handful of stores, just one mall, not what you'd call a statistically significant sample. In fact, the most recent government report was that retail sales rose in January, which just goes to show why the journalist's approach to reality, what you might call "anecdata," may be the flimsiest form of forecasting.

1992 March 6, “Guessing Game [show #4285]”, in The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, Paul Solman (actor):

Anecodotal evidence strongly suggests that this is just the high profile expression of a much larger problem of misogynistic violence. / Ah, yes. Anecdata. Fortunately, real honest studies which are peer-reviewed and critiqued suggest otherwise.

1997 October 2, Chris Doherty, “Re: Take Back the Night 1997”, in uw.general (Usenet), message-ID <EHFr1r.CpH@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>:

That is one of those stories that I call “anecdata”—these horror stories over which we try to construct theories about how something is or is not working in IP law and policy.

2003, Justin Hughes, “Legal Pressures in Intellectual Property Law”, in Julie M. Esanu, Paul F. Uhlir, editors, The Role of Scientific and Technical Data in the Public Domain: Proceedings of a Symposium, Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press, →ISBN, page 97:

I have read interviews with people (yeah, I know, anecdata) who have said that they wanted an apology for a mistake being made and ended up going to court over it. And invariably winning.

2005 July 18, Lindsay Endell, “Re: Roy Meadow”, in uk.misc (Usenet), message-ID <dbfuq1$29gg$1@godfrey.mcc.ac.uk>:

Metcalfe notes the same general pattern, though he gives no anecdata to support his contention.

2017, Kory Stamper, Word By Word, Vintage, published 2018, →ISBN, page 213:

(usually humorous or derogatory) Anecdotal evidence.


blaccent

He's black, but doesn't have a trace of a blaccent.

2003 January 5, Eric Stewart, “the people's kitchen”, in misc.activism.progressive (Usenet):

Timberlake has long sought to overcome his whiteness to perfect a "blaccent", as the kids call it these days, and the McDonald's ad campaign explicitly relies on a hiphop idiom.

2004 February 19, Ben Zimmer, “Is the slogan grammatical?”, in sci.lang (Usenet):

2005 November 15, “Eli” of Michigan, “Lord of The Dance”, The Life of a Swordfish, at swordfish22.spaces.live.com http://swordfish22.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!3E0970E9C37CD8E0!497.entry
She spoke with a very thick blaccent...as she screamed "C'mon B!, C'mon B! C'mon B!" (she was quite persistent with this phrase, and used the actual word) "I betta neva see yo A out eating sub sammiches eva again!".

2006 February 8, “Drew” of Philadelphia, “The moral's I'm immortal ”, Trapper Juan, at trapperjuan.blogspot.com https://web.archive.org/web/20061027173921/http://trapperjuan.blogspot.com/2006/02/morals-im-immortal_08.html
Rothlisberger...speaks with a blaccent, which in reality is not that uncommon. The problem is his inconsistency. Sometimes, he lays it on thicker than J. Will haggling at a swap meet

The sad thing is that for many people, the blaccent connotes lack of intelligence.

2009, John McWhorter quoted on, The World:

(Mr. McClelland notes the existence of various Midwestern “blaccents,” though he doesn’t explore them.)

2016 December 4, Jennifer Schuessler, quoting Edward McClelland, “‘How to Speak Midwestern,’ a Heartland Dialect Guide”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Black earnings decrease to the extent that one has a perceptible “blaccent.”

2020 July 21, John McWhorter, “The Biases We Hold Against the Way People Speak”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

The term is making headlines this week after comedian, actress and rapper Awkwafina addressed criticism that she’s used a “blaccent,” or Black accent, and other elements of African American language and mannerisms during her career.

2022 February 8, “What a ‘blaccent’ is, and why it's wrong”, in CNN:

(US) An accent characteristic of African-Americans (black Americans).


quadratic integer

quadratic integer (plural quadratic integers)

Blend of quadratic + algebraic integer. The idea of integer here is that if the coefficient of the x² term is set to 1 (i.e., if the polynomial is made monic), the other coefficients are integers.

(mathematics) A number (real or complex) which is a solution to an equation of the form x²+Bx+C=0 for some integers B and C. For example 42, or 2+3i, or 1+√/2.


magnetar

Blend of magnet + pulsar. Analyzable as magnet + -ar.

This signal could be detected with Advanced LIGO-class detectors up to the distance of the Virgo cluster, where ≥ 1 yr⁻¹ magnetars are expected to form.

2007, S. Dall'Osso, L. Stella, “Newborn magnetars as sources of gravitational radiation: constraints from high energy observations of magnetar candidates”, in Silvia Zane, Roberto Turolla, Dany Page, editors, Isolated Neutron Stars: From the Surface to the Interior, page 119:

2008, W. Becker, F, Haberl, J Trümper, 14: Pulsars and Isolated Neutron Stars, Joachim E. Trümper, Günther Hasinger (editors), The Universe in X-Rays, page 193,
The radio-silent neutron stars include anomalous X-ray pulsars (AXPs), soft gamma-ray repeaters (SGRs), and “quiescent” neutron star candidates in SNRs. There is growing evidence that AXPs and SGRs are indeed magnetars (see [109] for a review).

One of most mysterious feature[s] of magnetars is their X-ray luminosities, which always exceed the rotational energy loss. Thus, the energy source of the radiation of magnetars is a mysterious question.

2011, Yukikatsu Terada, Tadayasu Dotani, “The International X-ray Observatiry and other X-ray missions, expectations for pulsar physics”, in Nanda Rea, Diego F. Torres, editors, High-Energy Emission from Pulsars and Their Systems: Proceedings of the First Session of the Sant Cugat Forum on Astrophysics, page 576:

(astronomy) A neutron star or pulsar with an extremely powerful magnetic field, especially those on which starquakes occur, thought to be the source of some gamma-ray bursts.


bluejack

en-verb

bluejack (third-person singular simple present bluejacks, present participle bluejacking, simple past and past participle bluejacked)

bluejacks (present singular third-person)
bluejacking (participle present)
bluejacked (participle past)
bluejacked (past)

My friend's mobile keeps getting bluejacked - it's really quite annoying.

(transitive) To send messages to (a device) anonymously using Bluetooth.


Winterval

(UK) A period of holidays in midwinter, including both secular and religious holidays (i.e. not just the specifically Christian and Western festivals of Christmas and New Year's Day).


thrill

thrill (third-person singular simple present thrills, present participle thrilling, simple past and past participle thrilled)

thrills (present singular third-person)
thrilling (participle present)
thrilled (participle past)
thrilled (past)

From Old English þȳrlian (“to pierce”), derived from þȳrel (“hole”) (archaic English thirl). Doublet of thirl (verb).

The cruel word her tender heart so thrilled, / That sudden cold did run through every vein.

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 37:

1854, Matthew Arnold, Preface to Poems
vivid and picturesque turns of expression […] which thrill the reader with a sudden delight

One love / That has possessed me; / One love / Thrilling me through

1937, Frank Churchill, Leigh Harline (lyrics and music), “One Song”, in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Walt Disney:

(ergative) To suddenly excite someone, or to give someone great pleasure; to (figuratively) electrify; to experience such a sensation.

вълнувам

suddenly excite someone, or to give someone great pleasure; to electrify

(ergative) To (cause something to) tremble or quiver.


thrill

She mixed furniture with the same fatal profligacy as she mixed drinks, and this outrageous contact between things which were intended by Nature to be kept poles apart gave her an inexpressible thrill.

1935, George Goodchild, chapter 1, in Death on the Centre Court:

A trembling or quivering, especially one caused by emotion; a frisson.

тръпка

(medicine) A slight quivering of the heart that accompanies a cardiac murmur.


thrill

(machining) To drill and thread in one operation, using a tool bit that cuts the hole and the threads in one series of computer-controlled movements.


futilitarian

en-adj

futilitarian (comparative more futilitarian, superlative most futilitarian)

more futilitarian (comparative)
most futilitarian (superlative)

Blend of futility + utilitarian c. 1830.

In America the silence was more oppressive than the ignorance; but perhaps elsewhere the world might still hide some haunt of futilitarian silence where content reigned—although long search had not revealed it—and so the pilgrimage began anew!

1918, Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams:

Having the opinion that all human activity is futile.


futilitarian

It is in the region of the Island that most of the battles take place between organized labour and the apostles of free labour. Let there be any industrial trouble of any kind, and down upon the district swoop dozens of fussy futilitarians, to argue, exhort, bully, and agitate generally.

1918 [1915], Thomas Burke, Nights in London, New York: Henry Holt and Company:

A person believing that all human activity is futile.

A person devoted to profitless pursuits.


meeple

Blend of my + people. Coined in November 2000 by Alison Hanselhttps://web.archive.org/web/20010207230727/http://www.gis.net/~dber/SessionReport/25Nov2000.htm during a game of Carcassonne on the South Shore of Massachusettshttps://web.archive.org/web/20010207194147/http://www.gis.net/~dber/gameclub.htm.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:meeple.

A small person-shaped figure used as a player's token in a board game.

米寶

wooden token with a human shape used by a player in a board game


pulsar

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Blend of pulsating + (radio) star, patterned after quasar. Coined by British astronomers Antony Hewish and Jocelyn Bell in 1968, and first used in print in The Daily Telegraph. Analyzable as pulse + -ar

coin

(astronomy) A rotating neutron star that emits radio pulses periodically.

Antony Hewish
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
The Daily Telegraph
en:pulsar


low bono

(US, law) Of legal work: offered at a discounted rate, especially to underrepresented communities.


Silicone Valley

Remember, be cool. There's no faster way to tip off everyone to the fact that you're not reading Behind The Screens than to say “Silicone Valley” when you mean “silicon”.

[1984 July 23, Steve Gibson, “Stenils and Spray Paint”, in InfoWorld, volume 6, number 30, page 43:

Joan had returned from San Francisco, that fucking town of overrated nightlife, hippies, and silicone valley yuppies breeding like cockroaches, and I dialed her number as soon as I heard she had gotten back.

2006, Tony O'Neill, Digging the Vein, Contemporary Press, →ISBN:


movieoke

an entertainment in which someone acts out a scene from a movie, against a silent version of it as background


fauxlex

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fauxhemian

A far cry from the tie-dyed life I pictured for him, squeezing out the last drops of the long-depleted Woodstock spirit with a bunch of fauxhemians a third his age who want to touch the hem of his garment (or, more likely, smoke him out) because he used to hang with Dylan.

2006, Kevin Shay, The End As I Know It, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 140:

The bar where we're playing — a dank little hole in Manhattan's East Village that attracts a following every three years or so when some young fauxhemian "discovers" the place and writes about it for Time Out New York or The Village Voice, usually under a catchy headline like "Dives We Love" — is quiet, almost empty if you don't count the regulars.

2007, Heather Byer, Sweet: An Eight-ball Odyssey, Riverhead Books, →ISBN, page 2:

By then many of the artists and writers who had generated all this interest had fled the Village and North Beach, abandoning them to the tourists and fauxhemians.

2013, John Strausbaugh, The Village: 400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues, a History of Greenwich Village, Ecco, →ISBN:

Someone who adopts some aspects of a Bohemian lifestyle while staying within social conventions.


fauxhawk

An imitation of the Mohawk hairstyle in which a central tuft is created using gel without having to shave the sides of the head.


cumec

A measure of the rate of flow of fluid, especially through a pipeline, equal to one cubic metre per second (m³/s).


cusec

If the flow is between 70,000 cusecs - 75,000 cusecs (expected during the first ten days of March and the second ten days of May), Bangladesh receives 35,000 cusecs, and India the rest.

2004, M. Monirul Qader Mirza, The Ganges Water Diversion: Environmental Effects and Implications:

A measure of the rate of flow of fluid, especially through a pipeline, equal to one cubic foot per second.


militainment

A form of entertainment that features or celebrates the military.


gleek

(slang) A geek who is involved in a glee club, choir, or singing.


netiquette

en-noun

netiquette (countable and uncountable, plural netiquettes)

Top-posting and spamming are considered poor netiquette on a newsgroup.

I would like to propose a netiquette rule, but I don't know where to post it.

1990 November 5, Dave Jones, “netiquette suggestion”, in news.misc (Usenet), message-ID <14434@goofy.megatest.UUCP>:

Manners count. On Usenet, the term is netiquette, and in the soap-opera group that Ms. Baym studied, it resembles professional courtesy.

[1992 December 1, William Grimes, “Computer as a Cultural Tool: Chatter Mounts on Every Topic”, in The New York Times, page C13:

I have bad netiquette. Every week this column ends with information on how to write to me. And, every six to 12 weeks, I get around to checking my e-mail.

2010 May 5, June Casagrande, “A Word, Please”, in Burbank Leader:

(Internet) Conduct while online that is appropriate and courteous to other Internet users, and may be expected or enforced by others.


televangelist

Pastor Walton had spent several years learning from the televangelist host of Success-N-Life, Robert Tilton, at his Bible school in Texas.

2013, Kate Bowler, Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 4:

A religious minister (often a Christian priest or minister) who devotes a large portion of his or her ministry to television broadcasts to a regular viewing audience.


tomacco

A hybrid of the tomato and tobacco plants.

A tomato plant grafted onto a tobacco plant.


swaption

(finance) An instrument granting the owner an option to enter an interest rate swap.


digerati

/dɪdʒɪˈɹɑːti/

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Blend of digital + literati, modeled after glitterati.

The digerati Wired reader is a demographic dream: a 34-year-old man in upper management with a household income of more than $80,000 and a job that includes recommending or actually buying expensive digital equipment.

1995 May 21, Paul Keegan, “The Digerati!”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(colloquial) People who are considered the elite in using computers and the Internet.


vingle

A music video that can be mixed by a VJ in a similar manner to the mixing by DJs of music singles.


docusoap

Blend of documentary + soap (for soap opera); equivalent to docu + soap.

The latest of a venerable franchise of docu-soaps, it opens, like its predecessors, with a voiceover giving the audience the lay of the promised land.

2010 October 21, Troy Patterson, “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills”, in Slate:

Nigel [Farrell] and Paul Sommers created the docusoap genre of programmes almost 20 years ago, applying the cliffhanger endings and multi-character storylines of soap operas to series such as The Village and Country House.

2011, Tim Oglethorpe, “A slice of paradise: Hectic Christmas? Try a change of pace with the sixth series of gentle documentary An Island Parish,” The Daily Mail, 30 December, 2011,_(http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2080168/An-Island-Parish-Hectic-Christmas-Try-change-pace-gentle-documentary.html)

A form of reality television in the style of a documentary in which an apparent plot is constructed by intention or editing in order to make programmes in this genre resemble soap operas.


Cocacolonization

Blend of Coca-Cola + colonization The word was first documented in 1949 in Australia and France.

(colloquial, often pejorative) Globalization or cultural colonization likened to westernization or Americanization consisting of the importing of western or American goods or cultural values to the detriment of local goods or values.


mimsy

en-adj

mimsy (comparative mimsier, superlative mimsiest)

mimsier (comparative)
mimsiest (superlative)

’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimble in the wade^([sic – meaning wabe]); / All mimsy were the borogoves, / And the mome raths outgrabe.

1871, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, “I. Looking-Glass House”, in Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There:

Down he sank in a chair—ran his hands through his hair— / And chanted in mimsiest tones

1876, Lewis Carroll, The Hunting of the Snark […] , London: Macmillan, Fit the Seventh. The Banker's Fate:

(nonce word) A nonce word in Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky


jazzercise

Blend of jazz + exercise, a trademark of the 1960s.

I don't know when the hearse is gonna be ready, and Mama has her Jazzercise on Mondays.

2004, Karin Slaughter, A Faint Cold Fear: A Novel, page 107:

Probably because when she got her period, her father had been so completely freaked out he'd left her in the bathroom, bleeding onto wadded-up toilet paper, for three hours, until Sydelle returned from her Jazzercise class with a box of sanitary napkins.

2002, Jennifer Weiner, In Her Shoes: A Novel, page 136:

Denise reports that one of the members of her Jazzercise class works for City Hospital, where the nurses also are organized.

1983, Belinda E. Puetz, Linda J. Shinn, Networking for Nurses: Intra and Interprofessional Relations, page 148:

A form of aerobic exercise based on jazz dance.


caplet

A smooth-coated tablet (pill, as in medicine) shaped like a capsule, used as a tamper-resistant alternative to a capsule, or an easy-to-swallow alternative to regular tablets.


posistor

negative temperature coefficient thermistor

A thermistor whose resistance increases with temperature.

positive temperature coefficient thermistor


Silastic

Blend of silicone + plastic. Originally a brand name.

A type of flexible, inert silicone rubber, used especially in prosthetic medicine to make devices such as shunts to control hydrocephalus, artificial heart valves and breast implants.


Rolodex

en-verb

Rolodex (third-person singular simple present Rolodexes, present participle Rolodexing, simple past and past participle Rolodexed)

Rolodexes (present singular third-person)
Rolodexing (participle present)
Rolodexed (participle past)
Rolodexed (past)

Blend of rolling + index; a brand name, originally part of a range including other items such as the Autodex and Clipodex.

I was already mentally Rolodexing through viable excuses.

2017, Jaime Primak Sullivan, The Southern Education of a Jersey Girl, page 50:

To index, or scan through, in the manner of a rotating file index.


frabjous

en-adj

frabjous (comparative more frabjous, superlative most frabjous)

more frabjous (comparative)
most frabjous (superlative)

/ˈfɹæbd͡ʒəs/

Audio (US)

Originally a nonce word in Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky; probably a blend of fair, fabulous, and joyous.

“[…] / O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!” / He chortled in his joy.

[Owl, deluded his candidate was elected:] My dark horse!... Oh, frabjous day!

1960 November 15, Walt Kelly, Pogo, comic strip, →ISBN, page 198:

"Tomorrow there'll be so much to do," as the Dixie Chicks remind us, "so tonight I'll drift in a dream with you." I want her life to be frabjous, not weighed down with mimsy.

2012 March 15, “To Be a Fully Developed Person (and Leader), You Need to Dream”, in Minneapolis Star Tribune:

Beginning in the final months leading up to the bombing of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, and ending in 1953, “Barefoot Gen” takes us inside war from the civilians’ view with none of the propaganda and all of the flawed and frabjous potential of humanity.

2016 January 23, Kris Kosaka, “Barefoot Gen”, in The Japan Times:

It's the sugar rush that quickens the pulse. It's the headlong chocolate-dopamine surge that excites. It's the frabjous joy of tearing into a well-wrapped bar. It's love, love, love.

2017 January 31, Jim Myers, “Nashvill'es Best Candies for Valentine's Day”, in Tennesseean:

O frabjous day! We are all bored out of our minds with Brexit when a demented looking gnome is pulled out of the Ecuadorian embassy by the secret police of the deep state. Or “the met” as normal people call them.

2019 April 12, Suzanne Moore, “Wikileaks was the future once. Then it became Julian Assange”, in NewStatesman:


chloral

en-noun

chloral (usually uncountable, plural chlorals)

‘They say there is a skeleton in every cupboard,’ Rossetti said quietly, ‘and that's mine; it's chloral.’ Caine was shocked but forbore to comment.

1997, Vivien Allen, Hall Caine: Portrait of a Victorian Romancer, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 100:

A colourless narcotic liquid, trichloroacetaldehyde, CCl₃CHO, obtained at first by the action of chlorine on alcohol and that, when treated with water, produces chloral hydrate.


galumphing

From Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky; perhaps a blend of galloping + triumph.

(nonce word) Galloping in a heavy and inelegant manner.


blix

(photography) In color photography, a combination of bleach and fixer, which removes both the silver crystals and silver halides, leaving behind the color dyes, which form the negative image.


artivism

The practice of promoting a political agenda through acts considered to be art, such as the defacing of advertisements.


anacronym

Perhaps blend of anachronism + acronym but perhaps an- + acronym, in either case indicating an acronymic word that has lost much of its acronymic identity because people usually no longer focus on the etymonic origin when using the word.

When you write about using a waterproof laser pointer while scuba diving, you probably aren’t going to write about “a L.A.S.E.R. pointer for S.C.U.B.A. diving”, and you certainly aren’t going to write about “a light-amplification-by-stimulated-emission-of-radiation pointer for self-contained-underwater-breathing-apparatus diving”, because the words laser and scuba are anacronyms.

An acronym that is no longer seen as such, but instead treated as a regular word and styled in lowercase despite its etymological origin.


subvertising

The use of parodies of corporate and political advertisements in order to make an ironic statement.


ecotage

/ˈiːkəˌtɑːʒ/

Coordinate term: ecoterrorism

Pro-conservation, pro-guns and extremely pro-booze, anti-mining, anti-tourism and extremely anti-dams, Hayduke appoints himself protector of the remaining desert regions of the American southwest, and becomes a pioneer in the art of "eco-tage", also known as "monkey wrenching" – using the tools of industry to demolish the infrastructure of industry in the name of the biosphere.

2009 September 25, Robert Macfarlane, “Robert Macfarlane on The Monkey Wrench Gang”, in The Guardian:

As Abbey notes, in denouncing terrorism but defending ecotage, ‘sabotage is violence against inanimate objects: machinery and property. Terrorism is violence against human beings. […]’ (Dowie 1996, p. 210).

2013, Elizabeth Bomberg, David Schlosberg, editors, Environmentalism in the United States: Changing Conceptions of Activism, Routledge, →ISBN:

Like Antifa groups, some environmental groups advocate violence or “ecotage” to protect the environment. Some ecotage advocates compare it to protection of minority rights among humans, only in this case, all plants and animals must be protected, sometimes, by violent or disruptive acts.

2018, Joel Spring, Global Impacts of the Western School Model: Corporatization, Alienation, Consumerism, Routledge, →ISBN:

The commission of usually illegal acts of sabotage motivated by environmentalism.


hacktivist

Blend of hack + activist, a portmanteau coined in 1994 by a member of the Cult of the Dead Cow hacker collective.

One type of badvocate, sometimes identified as a troll, is a hacktivist..

2014, Deborah Gonzalez, Managing Online Risk: Apps, Mobile, and Social Media Security, page 66:

However, there remain many cybersecurity concerns about the railways. For example, and perhaps more pertinently, 'hacktivists' - hackers with a political rather than a financial motive - in Belarus were reported to have taken breached computers that control rail movements in the country in an effort to delay Russian supplies to their front line in the early stages of the war against Ukraine.

2023 March 22, Christian Wolmar, “Cybersecurity concerns highlight a range of potential risks”, in RAIL, number 979, pages 32–33:


hacktivism

Blend of hack + activism, a portmanteau coined in 1994 by a member of the Cult of the Dead Cow hacker collective.

Hacktivism is a form of activism for social change that appropriates computers and electronic networks for this purpose. Also called electronic civil disobedience, hacktivism is geared to political ends.

2010, Pramod K. Nayar, An Introduction to New Media and Cybercultures, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 102:

My aim will be to identify and highlight the potential problems of the existing approach that is followed when dealing with hacktivism and its impact on user rights, protesters, and overall cybersecurity.

2018, Vasileios Karagiannopoulos, Living With Hacktivism, Springer, →ISBN, page viii:

(Internet) The practice of promoting a political agenda by hacking, especially by defacing or disabling websites.


peekapoo

Blend of Pekingese + poodle; formed as a pun on peekaboo.

A crossbreed dog resulting from the breeding of a Pekingese and a poodle.


dorgi

This wasn't the first time that one of the Queen's pets had been a victim; in 1989 her dorgi Chipper was killed by the Queen Mother's Corgi Ranger.

2007, Karen Bush, Everything Dogs Expect You to Know, page 69:

Back when the dorgi had been a small puppy he had ignored the more serious lessons and only seemed to be interested in the darker animal myths and legends.

2014, Aby King, Lupo and the Secret of Windsor Castle, Book 1:

A crossbreed dog resulting from the breeding of a dachshund and a corgi.


sporgery

sporgery (countable and uncountable, plural sporgeries)

Blend of spam + forgery; coined by Tilman Hausherr in 1999 on the alt.religion.scientology newsgroup.

Since February the poetry-bot has dominated the discussions, forging the names of legitimate human posters and blindly countering every argument-- pro or con-- with such succinct rebuttals as "Above no cough at no writer every considerate profit addressed," and mind-bending riddles like "Why is another horseman either cytoplasm enchantingly?" Usenet defenders are countering the assault with automation of their own, crafting programs that kill the "sporgeries" -- a term coined by ARS's Tilman Hausherr "because it's both spam, and forgery."

1999 May 6, Kevin Poulsen, “Attack of the Robotic Poets”, in ZDnet:

Nobody's going to mistake any of the fakes for the real you once they hear a few words, of course, but there's no easy way for them to tell which is which without listening to them all in turn. Which means, in all likelihood, that many of them will never find the real you. If it happens often enough, sooner or later everyone's going to just give up and go home, and newcomers will be both mystified and discouraged. This extraordinary state of affairs is happening right now on Usenet [and yes, it is to a first approximation still happening in late 2006], and it's called "sporge". Sporge is a neologism coined by German software developer Tilman Hausherr; it's a contraction of "spammed forgery". "Spam" is here used in its original meaning; not unsolicited commercial e-mail, but irrelevant or inappropriate messages posted to Usenet, which were annoying people - though far fewer people - long before Amazing Business Opportunities and come-ons for porn sites started routinely cluttering up e-mail in-boxes.

1999 September 16, Daniel Rutter, “Gibbering clones the future of Usenet?”, in Australian IT:

Tilman Hausherr, a daily contributor to alt.religion.scientology, coined the word 'sporgeries' (spam-forgeries), and promoted software to kill the unwelcome messages.

2005, M. Hojsgaard, Religion and Cyberspace, Routledge, →ISBN, page 111:

Sporgery - This is the act of sending a flood of posts with fake article headers that make them appear to have been sent by other newsgroup regulars (the word is a composite of spam and forgery). It's a good way to discredit other users by making it seem like they are sending offensive posts.

2007, Michael Powell, Forbidden Knowledge: 101 Things NOT Everyone Should Know How to Do, Adams Media, →ISBN, page 252:

(Internet) The disruptive act of posting a flood of articles to a newsgroup, the article headers having been falsified so as to make the articles appear to have been posted by people other than the true poster.


artivist

Compared to […], the New York-based collective known as Queers for the Climate more explicitly articulates an environmentalist agenda. In this section, I examine three of the "artivist" performances associated with the collective: a viral campaign centered around the hashtag "It Gets Wetter," a short quasi-documentary titled "Climate Change Ground Zero: Fire Island Pines," and a series of memes.

2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 140:


Hongcouver

(informal, somewhat derogatory) Vancouver; referring to the large-scale Chinese Canadian immigration to that city in the 1980s and 1990s, particularly from Hong Kong.


brouter

(computing) A network device that acts as both a bridge and a router by routing packets for known protocols and forwarding all others, as a bridge would.


vog

vog (countable and uncountable, plural vogs)

[…] where fluidal textures can be clearly noticed as well as abundant vogs formed by escaped gases […]

1992, Geological-Mining Monograph of the State of Queretaro, page 82:

You are permitted to inspect the current eruption [from Kiluea, Hawaii] from a safe distance. […] On humid days water vapour combines with the sulphurous emanations to produce an acrid mist known as vog.

2004, Richard [Alan] Fortey, “Island”, in The Earth: An Intimate History, London: HarperCollins, →ISBN; Earth: An Intimate Portrait, 1st Vintage Books edition, New York, N.Y.: Vintage Books, November 2005, →ISBN, pages 42–43:

The ongoing eruption of Kiluea's east rift zone (which began in 1983) has put a huge amount of natural pollutants, including sulfur oxides, into the air. Introduced vegetation, such as Kona coffee plants, can be scorched, and downwind of Kiluea, only native species, tolerant of the natural acid rain, survive. The two images compare atmospheric clarity between a volcanic-smog (vog)-free day (A) and a heavy-vog day (B).

2012, Joanne N. Feldman, Robert I. Tilling, “Volcanic Eruptions, Hazards, and Mitigation”, in Paul S[tuart] Auerbach, editor, Wilderness Medicine, 6th edition, Philadelphia, Pa.: Elsevier Mosby, →ISBN, caption of figure 15.37, page 330.e1:

On the Islands, fog is a rare occurrence, but there can often be "vog," an airborne haze of gases released from volcanic vents on the Big Island. During certain weather conditions such as "Kona winds," the vog can settle over the Islands and wreak havoc with respiratory and other health conditions, especially asthma or emphysema.

2013, Karen Anderson et al., Fodor’s 2014 Hawaii, New York, N.Y.: Fodor's Travel, →ISBN:

Air pollution caused by substances (such as sulphur dioxide) emitted by a volcano.


cuckquean

Blend of cuckold + quean (“disreputable woman”).

blend

Ye make hir a cookqueane.

1562, John Heywood, The Proverbs and Epigrams of John Heywood (A.D. 1562), Reprint edition, Spenser Society, published 1867, page 62:

Yes, that's her name! His cuckquean she is; his wife she is not and never shall be!

1897, William Kirby, “Weird Sisters”, in The Golden Dog, Reprint edition (Fiction), Echo Library, published 2009, →ISBN, page 289:

A formidable woman of real power and prestige, she emerged from the Monica affair much more cuckold than cuckquean. Her husband’s perfidy did, in a sense, disturb the natural order of things; in the post-feminist age, ...

2007 September 13, Judith Warner, “Horned and Scorned”, in New York Times, retrieved 2012-09-12:

The rumors about his serial philandering had been out there for years, but a friendly liberal press had not tried very hard to confirm the allegations, and the missus was apparently resigned to the role of a stoic cuckquean.

2010, Robert K. Tanenbaum, Betrayed, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 4:

(fetish) A woman who is attracted to or aroused by the sexual infidelity of a partner.


cuckquean

en-verb

cuckquean (third-person singular simple present cuckqueans, present participle cuckqueaning, simple past and past participle cuckqueaned)

cuckqueans (present singular third-person)
cuckqueaning (participle present)
cuckqueaned (participle past)
cuckqueaned (past)

(transitive) To make a woman into a cuckquean.


corn dog

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

A hot dog coated in cornbread batter and deep-fried in hot oil.


dup

dup (third-person singular simple present dups, present participle dupping, simple past and past participle dupped)

dups (present singular third-person)
dupping (participle present)
dupped (participle past)
dupped (past)

From Middle English don up (“to open”), equivalent to a blend of do + up. Compare don, doff, dout, dub.

Then up he rose and donned his clothes, / And dupped the chamber door;

c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]:

He had seen, that Maundy Thursday afternoon, dupping their chamber door in all maaaaaaa innocence.

1964, Anthony Burgess, Nothing Like the Sun:


spamdexing

(SEO) The inclusion of deliberately misleading terms on a website in order to manipulate its ranking in a search engine.

spamdexing

deliberately manipulating search engines


texel

Blend of texture + element, by analogy with pixel.

(computer graphics) An image representing the smallest unit of a texture that may be repeated to tile a region of the display.


ecycle

ecycle (third-person singular simple present ecycles, present participle ecycling, simple past and past participle ecycled)

ecycles (present singular third-person)
ecycling (participle present)
ecycled (participle past)
ecycled (past)

Blend of electronic + recycle or blend of electrical + recycle.

To recycle or re-use electronic or electrical waste.

To break down and reuse component materials or parts of electronic or electrical equipment.

To reuse equipment as a whole, following data cleansing and reconfiguration.


blotch

Uncertain. Perhaps a blend of blot + botch.

1711, Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, The Spectator, London: J. & R. Tonson, 12th edition, Volume I, No. 16, p. 68,
[…] in healing those Blotches and Tumours which break out in the body […]

Since the day in which this reformation began, by how many strange and critical turns has it been perfected and handed down, if not, entirely without spot or wrinkle,—at least, without great blotches or marks of anility.

1768, Laurence Sterne, Sermon VI, The Sermons of Mr. Yorick, volume 3, London: T. Becket & P.A. De Hondt, pages 182–183:

Snow lay on the croft and river-bank in undulations softer than the limbs of infancy; […] it clothed the rough turnip-field with whiteness, and made the sheep look like dark blotches;

1860, George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, Book II, Chapter 2:

1921, Wallace Stevens, Sur Ma Guzzla Gracile, Palace of the Babies, in Poetry, Volume 19, No. 1,
The disbeliever walked the moonlit place,
Outside the gates of hammered serafin,
Observing the moon-blotches on the walls.

An uneven patch of color or discoloration.


wuss

wuss (third-person singular simple present wusses, present participle wussing, simple past and past participle wussed)

wusses (present singular third-person)
wussing (participle present)
wussed (participle past)
wussed (past)

Probably a blend of wimp + puss. Compare later wussy.


Virgin Mary

Blend of virgin + Bloody Mary, from non-alcoholic drinks being labelled "virgin".

A drink made with tomato juice and spices, resembling a Bloody Mary, but without alcohol.


grungy

en-adj

grungy (comparative grungier, superlative grungiest)

grungier (comparative)
grungiest (superlative)

Probably a blend of grunt + dingy, influenced by grimy.


orgone

en-noun

orgone (countable and uncountable, plural orgones)

Blend of organism + hormone, after German Orgon.

In the present report I shall describe the methods of quantitative measurement of the orgone by means of the electroscope and the thermometer.

1944, Wilhelm Reich, “The Discovery of the Orgone, part 2”, in Theodore P Wolfe, transl., International Journal of Sex-Economy and Orgone-Research, volume III, number 1:

So, boys, when those hot licks play over your balls and prick and dart up your ass like an invisible blue blow torch of orgones, in the words of T. J. Watson, Think.

1962 [1959], William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, New York: Grove Press:

In the psychoanalytic theory of Wilhelm Reich, a form of sexual energy or life force distributed throughout the universe and available for collection, storage, and further use.


hypercharge

hypercharge (countable and uncountable, plural hypercharges)

hyperonic charge
hyperonic charge#English

(physics) Short for hyperonic charge: a quantum characteristic of a group of subatomic particles governed by the strong force that is related to strangeness and is represented by a number equal to twice the average value of the electric charge of the group.


crossgrade

en-verb

crossgrade (third-person singular simple present crossgrades, present participle crossgrading, simple past and past participle crossgraded)

crossgrades (present singular third-person)
crossgrading (participle present)
crossgraded (participle past)
crossgraded (past)

Also if you are “crossgrading” from another platform such as Apple Logic, Mark of the Unicorn (MOTU) Digital Performer, or Steinberg Cubase, you may be looking for features or trying to use keyboard commands that you are used to and wondering where these are in Pro Tools.

2009, Mike Collins, Pro Tools 8, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 7:

(computing, transitive) To upgrade (a software application) so that it is able to run on a different platform.

(business, transitive) To switch from an existing subscription to one at the same price or service level.


crossgrade

If you install the upgrade or cross-grade first and then perform your migration, you may accidentally wind up with corrupted application settings.

2009, Elna Tymes, Charles Prael, Switching to Microsoft Windows 7, Que Publishing, →ISBN:

(computing) An upgrade of a software application that enables it to run on a different platform.

(business) A switch from an existing subscription to one at the same price or service level.


blogography

(Internet, rare) A biography in blog format.


manimal

Standing naked against a wintry landscape, the figure became a screen for the projection of identities--beast, bigfoot, manimal, specter, even, to use a word Newkirk's work encourages one to use in all its dangerousness, spook.

2004 January 1, Christopher Miles, “Kori Newkirk; the project”, in Artforum International Magazine:

2006 February 1, Paul Z. Myers, Pharyngula, ScienceBlogs
President panders to anti-manimal lobby! Dr Moreau flees country in rage!

Two years ago we were going to Mars, and that sort of didn't happen...and now there's, like, manimal.

2006 February 4, Charlie Pierce, “Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!”, in National Public Radio:

(informal) A fanciful life form that is part human and part beast; a creature recognizable as human but possessing physical or primitive behavioral characteristics that are exclusive to animals.

2004 January 1, Michael Burnett, “Tumyeto army”, Thrasher, High Speed Productions, Inc.
Layton smacked his head hard on a front feeble, but bounced back up to get the make. That kid's a manimal.
"Oh, he's so on the team," Diego kept saying.

(slang, by analogy) A person compared to such a creature, especially an unkempt and uncivilized, or strong and sexually aggressive man.


pleather

en-noun

pleather (usually uncountable, plural pleathers)

Coordinate term: see pseudoleather § Hyponyms

From the black, belted fur vest and turban-style headgear on the left, to the perforated pleather jacket with gold studs in the middle, to the white shift and black caplet punctuated with ...

1983, Elizabeth Bucar, Pious Fashion: How Muslim Women Dress, page 168:


cozzer

Blend of copper + rozzer, both slang for British police.

(UK, slang, dated) A policeman, especially a detective; a rozzer.


femocrat

Despite working in a difficult environment, femocrats have made an important contribution to Australian politics over the past two decades.

1999, Elizabeth Van Acker, Different Voices: Gender and Politics in Australia, page 120:

2000, Jan Jindy Pettman, “Femocrats,” entry in Cheris Kramarae, Dale Spender (editors) Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women: Education: Health to Hypertension, page 847,
Femocrats also carry the burden of representation, if they are expected to speak for all women; or, alternatively, they are dismissed as “unrepresentative” of ordinary women and so not entitled to speak for them.

These moves were made by femocrats in part to avoid marginalization in women′s units, but in moving to new positions, old ones came up for grabs.

2006, Louise A. Chappell, Lisa Hill, The Politics of Women's Interests: New Comparative Perspectives, page 166:

(Australia) A female politician or senior civil servant; a female bureaucrat in an agency dealing with women's issues.


polocrosse

A team sport that is a combination of polo and lacrosse.


shambolic

en-adj

shambolic (comparative more shambolic, superlative most shambolic)

more shambolic (comparative)
most shambolic (superlative)

Perhaps from shambles + -o- + -ic + [Term?] (adjective), in which the interconsonantal -o- avoids the /mbl/ consonant cluster. Possibly influenced by symbolic.
Alternatively, and more likely, a blend of shambles + symbolic.

af

[O]ne must admit there were those among us who were somewhat on the shambolic side.

1952 April 20, The Tank, volume 34, number 396, London, page 231:

He said his club had coined a new word 'Shambolic,' which meant spending more time watching the weather than playing.

1958 December 5, “'Pavilion Would Help Clubs'”, in West Sussex County Times, Horsham, page 6:

The precautionary principle is a culturally framed concept that takes its cue from changing social conceptions about the appropriate roles of science, economics, ethics, politics and the law in pro-active environmental protection and management. As this book will reveal, it is a rather shambolic concept, muddled in policy advice and subject to the whims of international diplomacy and the unpredictable public mood over the true cost of sustainable living.

1994, Timothy O'Riordan, James Cameron, “The History and Contemporary Significance of the Precautionary Principle”, in Tim O'Riordan, James Cameron, editors, Interpreting the Precautionary Principle, London: Earthscan, →ISBN, page 12:

The pub was empty of all but the most dedicated drinkers, shambolic figures huddled over bottles.

2000, China Miéville, Perdido Street Station, London: Macmillan Publishers, →ISBN, page 24:

The shabby subterfuge surrounding Suez [the Suez Crisis], as much as its shambolic aftermath, have made it a symbol of the collapse of British global power in the post-war era.

2013, Philip Murphy, “Winds of Change and the Royal Family”, in Monarchy and the End of Empire: The House of Windsor, the British Government, and the Postwar Commonwealth, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 66:

During normal times, distribution of goods or services to over 7,000 islands [in the Philippines] is difficult, and the reality is that on a day-to-day basis, it's shambolic. There are too many examples of corruption and inefficiency.

2014 October 22, Graham Michael Barton, “Distribution”, in Show Me the Money: Where Did All the Aid and Money Go after Typhoon Yolanda in the Philippines November 2013, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 5:

New train introduction had become shambolic with extended delays - mainly due to repeated software issues, seriously late deliveries, and gauging problems.

2020 May 6, Sir Michael Holden, “Time for our industry's leaders to rise to the challenge”, in Rail, page 28:

Donald Trump’s tax returns illustrate the profound inequities of the tax code and the shambolic state of federal enforcement.

2020 September 28, New York Times Editorial Board, “The Picture of a Broken Tax System”, in New York Times:

(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) Chaotic, disorganised or mismanaged.


glitterati

en-noun

glitterati pl (normally plural, singular glitteratus)

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

Fifty Seven Fifty Seven—The country's entertainment-industry glitterati make themselves right at home at I. M. Pei's monumental dining room.

1997 June 2, “Restaurants”, in New York, volume 30, number 21, page 132:

“Where can we find a celebrity, and fast?” “Well, this is Staten Island, which is a veritable playground for the glitterati.”

2022 August 9, Ayo Edebiri & Shana Gohd, “Private School” (16:03 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 4, episode 5, spoken by Laszlo Cravensworth (Matt Berry):

Celebrities or people with a lot of money; the smart set.


cellophane

cellophane (countable and uncountable, plural cellophanes)

Genericized trademark. Blend of cellulose + diaphane.

Cellophane flowers of yellow and green towering over your head

1967, “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”, The Beatles (music):

Any of a variety of transparent plastic films, especially one made of processed cellulose.


splatter

en-verb

splatter (third-person singular simple present splatters, present participle splattering, simple past and past participle splattered)

splatters (present singular third-person)
splattering (participle present)
splattered (participle past)
splattered (past)

Uncertain. Emerged 1780s.https://www.etymonline.com/word/splatter Possibly a blend of splash + spatter.

He splattered paint onto the wall.

(transitive) To cause (something) to splatter.


gasohol

en-noun

gasohol (countable and uncountable, plural gasohols)

Gasoline mixed with ethyl alcohol (ethanol).


funtastic

en-adj

funtastic (comparative more funtastic, superlative most funtastic)

more funtastic (comparative)
most funtastic (superlative)

But mom! Can't I go to the fair? The others say it will be funtastic!

The game becomes more “funtastic” if the teacher not only calls out the name of a line or space but adds a novel way of getting there or something novel to do once the players arrive at the designated line or space.

1960, Eloise M. Jaeger, Harry Leighton, Teaching of Tennis: For School and Recreation Programs, Burgess Publishing, page 58:

Comedy: The comedy scene here is funtastic – check out Club Jongleurs and the Leicester Comedy Festival which is the biggest in Britain, attracting over 40,000 people a year.

2005, Ruth Bushi, Dan Jones, Anthony Leyton, The Push Guide to Which University 2006, Nelson Thomses, →ISBN, page 336:

I turned thirteen the week after school got out (and had a slumber party that even Fiona called “oh-so funtastic”).

2009, Sydney Salter, Jungle Crossing, Harcourt, →ISBN, pages 16–17:


Konglish

Korean pseudo-anglicisms; Korean coinages based on English roots.

He stands back and witnesses with awe the language’s myriad offshoots, like Manglish (Malay and English) and Konglish (English in South Korea).

2010 May 25, Dwight Garner, “English as a Juggernaut Conquers the World With Glee and an OMG”, in New York Times:

(derogatory) Any of various varieties of Korean English having distinctive lexis, syntax and phonology.


tyramine

en-noun

tyramine (countable and uncountable, plural tyramines)

(biochemistry) A compound which occurs naturally in cheese and other foods and can cause dangerously high blood pressure in people taking a monoamine oxidase inhibitor.


threequel

When last seen, the “Poseidon” had been blown into small pieces. With any luck, this means Mr. Allen can’t possibly make a threequel.

1979 May 25, Janet Maslin, “Inside a Floating Hulk”, in The New York Times:

On the contrary, last summer saw two jocular parodies of 1970’s blaxploitation films: the minor hit Undercover Brother and Beyonce Knowles’s portrayal of Foxxy Cleopatra, a character in the Austin Powers “threequel.”

1999 June 30, Katherine Anne Ackley, Perspectives on Contemporary Issues, Readings Across the Disciplines, Harcourt, fourth edition, Thomson Wadsworth (2006), page 267

This may be the year of the threequel, but not all the franchises will be successful, predicts Mr. Gray.

2007 January 5, Stephen Humphries, “At theaters in 2007, the year of the 'threequel'”, in The Christian Science Monitor:

THE biggest threequels to date have included some great films.
The third part of the original Star Wars trilogy, Return of the Jedi (1983), then Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005) were huge hits.

2007 April 16, Brian Mciver, “Return of the Threequel”, in The Daily Record:

(narratology) The chronologically third part of any series of works, especially a movie trilogy.


cobweb site

Blend of cobweb + website; from the idea of an abandoned room gradually becoming full of cobwebs.

(Internet slang, rare) A website that has not been updated for a very long time.


sunchoke

Jerusalem artichoke
Jerusalem artichoke#English

(chiefly US) Synonym of Jerusalem artichoke


battlecruiser

Blend of battleship + cruiser, from being a cruiser-like ship with battleship-like capabilities and possibly operating in the battleline.

US Navy hull classification symbol: CC (Only used for the cancelled Lexington-class)

(military, nautical) A fast warship with thicker armor and heavier guns than a typical cruiser, but with armor, armament, or both still inferior to that of a dreadnought battleship; designed to act as an advanced scout of the battle fleet and to destroy enemy cruisers.

(fiction) A warship of intermediate size and/or capability between a heavy cruiser and a (light) battleship.

So he'd effectively had to learn a new language; no longer would he order a pint at the 'battle cruiser' […]

2014, Steve Wilson, The Twelve Doors of Christmas Avenue, page 9:

Cockney rhyming slang
Cockney rhyming slang

(Cockney rhyming slang) A boozer; a public house.


teleplay

(authorship) A script formatted like a screenplay for cinema, but written to be made into an episode of a television show.


mack

“Nothing very special, sir. He had a mack or coat over his arm, and a trilby hat. He wore a tweed suit, sir, I think.”

1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 13, in Well Tackled!:


immittance

immittance (countable and uncountable, plural immittances)

(physics, electronics) Either the impedance or the admittance of an electrical network, considered as alternatives.


smaze

smaze (usually uncountable, plural smazes)

smog and various related phenomena listed there


racon

A beacon that, on detecting a radar signal, responds by transmitting a coded navigation signal.


Muzak

The noun is a blend of music + the letters ak from Kodak, a well-known brand in 1934 when the word was coined by the American inventor, scientist, and soldier George Owen Squier (1865–1934), who developed the original technical basis for the service.
The verb is derived from the noun.

coinage

It dawned on her that he was talking about the Muzak. It had been seeping in, in its subliminal, unidentifiable way since they'd entered the place, all strings, reeds, muted brass.

1966 March, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 5, in The Crying of Lot 49, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, published November 1976, →ISBN, page 105:

There's no way I can change internal body functions. Only yogis can do that. Muzak, for example, can't change you. Aaron Copeland [i.e., Aaron Copland] calls Muzak 'the obsequious.' We're super-saturated with shitty music. [Originally published in New Times.]

1975 February 7, Michael Gross, quoting Tom Turicchi, “The Hits Just Keep on Coming”, in Robert Atwan, Barry Orton, William Vesterman, American Mass Media: Industries and Issues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, published 1978, →ISBN, part 3 (The Sound Media), page 320, column 2:

Some people, of course, have no trouble making that decision: they know they don't like Muzak. Critics charge that Muzak invades what could be pleasurable silence, disrupts conversation, or smacks of George Orwell's 1984. [Originally published in American Way.]

1983 November, Bill Hunter, “It’s Muzak through Your Ears”, in Robert Atwan, Barry Orton, William Vesterman, American Mass Media: Industries and Issues, 3rd edition, New York, N.Y.: Random House, published 1986, →ISBN, part 3 (The Sound Media), page 289, column 1:

(music, trademark) Recorded background music characterized by soft, soothing instrumental sounds which is transmitted by wire, radio, or recorded media (originally on a subscription basis) to doctors' offices, shops, and other business premises.


Muzak

The sound you make is muzak to my ears / You must have learned something in all those years

1971 September 9, John Lennon (lyrics and music), “How Do You Sleep?”, in Imagine:

[T]he supermarket is very crowded, because of course it's the time of day when all other people with jobs also try to squeeze in some grocery shopping, and the store is hideously, fluorescently lit, and infused with soul-killing Muzak or corporate pop, and it's pretty much the last place you want to be, but you can't just get in and quickly out.

2005 May 21, David Foster Wallace, This is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life, New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, published April 2009, →ISBN:

(music) Easy listening music, whether played live or recorded, especially if regarded as uninteresting.

hissimusiikki

easy listening music, especially if regarded as uninteresting

(figuratively) Something (such as speech) regarded as droning on and often boring, or soothing but undemanding.


Muzak

en-verb

Muzak (third-person singular simple present Muzaks, present participle Muzaking, simple past and past participle Muzaked)

Muzaks (present singular third-person)
Muzaking (participle present)
Muzaked (participle past)
Muzaked (past)

Willington had seen disco for what it was – the great Muzaking of rock and roll via a chintzy chorus, chintzy rotating mirror balls, and chintzy Arthur Murray twirling.

1984, Peter LaSalle, chapter 13, in Strange Sunlight: […], Austin, Tex.: Texas Monthly Press, →ISBN, page 115:

To adapt or reduce (a piece of music, etc.) to the status of Muzak.


dumpster

Genericized brand name, from blend of dump + Dempster. The original brand (and some associated things) are no longer trademarked, because the three trademarks involved have either expired or been cancelled. By surface analysis, dump + -ster.

[…]with the uncanny ability to always look like he just woke up in a dumpster

2020 December, Dave Barry, Year in review:

(Canada, US) A large, usually metal trash receptacle designed to be hoisted up by a garbage truck in order to be emptied.


abzyme

and the intensity and features of specific abzyme-driven response in MS patient's sera.

2003, Moncef Zouali, Frontiers in Autoimmunity:


nibling

Blend of nephew or niece + sibling, coined by the American linguist Samuel Elmo Martin (1924–2009) in 1951.

Aunts and uncles are concerned with the education of their niblings and may play a minor role in the ultimate arrangement of a marriage for the nibling.

1967, Ben J. Wallace, Gaddang Agriculture: The Focus of Ecological and Cultural Change (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation), Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin, →OCLC:

Very recently I heard an informant respond with cousin to my question about the “child of nibling” position.

1971, Journal of the Steward Anthropological Society, volume 3, Urbana, Ill.: Steward Anthropological Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 144:

In the following line we find Q¹P²; that is, child of a parent of a parent; this is the relation that nuncles (aunts or uncles) bear to niblings (nieces or nephews).

1974, Roger W. Shuy, Charles-James N. Bailey, editors, Towards Tomorrow’s Linguistics, Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, →ISBN, page 125:

She [Viola Edmundson Garfield] was close to her family, particularly her younger “siblings and niblings.”

1988, Jay Miller, “Viola Edmundson Garfield”, in Ute Gacs, Aisha Khan, Jerrie McIntyre, Ruth Weinberg, editors, Women Anthropologists: Selected Biographies, Illini Books edition, Urbana, Chicago, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, published 1989, →ISBN, page 112:

Kin selection was strongest for choices between sibling and friend, decreasing across sibling vs. nibling, nibling vs. friend, and nibling vs. cousin, [...]

1998 May, Daniel J. Kruger, “Male Relatives Benefit More from Kin Selecting Tendencies Enhancing Social Status”, in Daniel J. Kruger, PhD, University of Michigan, archived from the original on 2019-06-17:

Most distinctive of the system, therefore, were the two terms for parental siblings and for niblings, which occurred only among the Salish and neighboring Southern Nootkans.

1999, Jay Miller, “Body”, in Lushootseed Culture and the Shamanic Odyssey: An Anchored Radiance, Lincoln, Neb., London: University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 127:

But, it is my niblings who taught me how to love.

2005, Sean M. Theriault, The Power of the People: Congressional Competition, Public Attention, and Voter Retribution (Parliaments and Legislatures), Columbus, Oh.: Ohio State University Press, →ISBN, page x:

Cousins are informally referred to by the same terms used for siblings, but officially one has an aunt/uncle-nibling relationship with one's cousins.

2005 February, N. J. Enfield, “The Body as a Cognitive Artifact in Kinship Representations: Hand Gesture Diagrams by Speakers of Lao”, in Current Anthropology, volume 46, number 1, Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 51–81; quoted in N. J. Enfield, “Diagramming”, in The Anatomy of Meaning: Speech, Gesture, and Composite Utterances (Language, Culture, and Cognition; 8), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 2009, →ISBN, part II (Illustrative Components of Moves), page 161:

(originally chiefly anthropology, often in the plural) Used especially as a gender-neutral term: the child of one's sibling or sibling-in-law; one's nephew or niece.

George Murdock
Samuel Martin (linguist)
Ward Goodenough

pag-umangkon

gender-neutral term for child of one's sibling or sibling-in-law


gerrymandering

en-noun

gerrymandering (usually uncountable, plural gerrymanderings)

/ˈdʒɛɹiːˌmandəɹɪŋ/

/ˈdʒɛɹiˌmændəɹɪŋ/

Blend of Gerry + salamander. Named after American politician Elbridge Gerry who was associated with a constituency said to be shaped like a salamander.
Despite Gerry's surname beginning with a hard G (/ɡ/), gerrymandering is typically pronounced with a soft G (/d͡ʒ/), as a spelling pronunciation.

named-after

(politics) The practice of redrawing electoral districts to gain an electoral advantage for a political party.


Generica

/d͡ʒəˈnɛɹɪkə/

Chandler commanded a spotlight at the far end of the stage at Picker’s Supply Concert Hall downtown last Friday night. There, he was loudly ranting about a commercial wasteland he called the “United States of Generica.”

1994 November 3, Amy Satterthwaite, “In Their Own Words”, in The Free Lance-Star:

The valley areas are split up into regular grids of stores and restaurants, and you're never more than a five-minute drive from a Starbucks or Borders or Baby Gap, the building blocks of Generica.

1998, Michael Marshall Smith, One of Us, New York: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 48:

It is generica that plagues the outskirts of every medium-sized city with its strip malls and fast-food stops and traffic lights; it is generica that always persuades me to drive off quite confidently in the wrong direction.

1999, Helen Husher, Off the Leash, Countryman Press, →ISBN, pages 20–21:

Features of the landscape such as fire hydrants, letterboxes, fast-food chains, streets called "Main", etc., that are the same throughout the United States.


Afrihili

Blend of Africa + Swahili, coined in 1970.

constructed language
constructed language

A constructed language designed to be used as a lingua franca in all of Africa.


guyliner

I threaded my way through a crowd of Goths slouching against cars in guyliner and black pants[…]

2011, Joanna Pearson, The Rites and Wrongs of Janice Wills, page 29:

Trevor looks kind of emo, rail thin, dark hair, guyliner, wears black all the time.

(informal) Eyeliner when used on men; usually associated with the goth and emo subcultures.


porta-potty

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Blend of portable + potty, from the commercial name Porta Potti. Equivalent to porta- (“portable”) + potty.

So let’s talk about infrastructure tonight, and let’s begin with dams, because dams are amazing. They’re the most powerful device we have for holding back liquid aside from the idea of using a porta-potty. “I’ll wait. I’ll just wait forever. I cannot go in there.”

2015 Mar, Tim Carvell, Josh Gondelman, Dan Gurewitch, Jeff Maurer, Ben Silva, Will Tracy, Jill Twiss, Seena Vali, Julie Weiner, “Infrastructure”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 2, episode 4, John Oliver (actor), Warner Bros. Television, via HBO:

A portable toilet, (in UK, particularly) a chemical toilet comprising only the fixture rather than an entire enclosure.


motorcade

JFK was assassinated in a motorcade.

The aide rides, along with the president's physician, in the “control car,” third in line in the motorcade.

1994, Herbert L. Abrams, The President Has Been Shot: Confusion, Disability, and the 25th Amendment, Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 126:

A procession of cars carrying VIPs, especially political figures.


celtuce

en-noun

celtuce (countable and uncountable, plural celtuces)

A cultivar of lettuce harvested primarily for its 15- to 20-centimeter stem.


bacne

Blend of back + acne. Equivalent to back + -ne.


NAND

Blend of NOT + AND, by analogy with NOR reinterpreted as NOT + OR or negation + OR

(logic) A binary operator composite of NOT AND; negation of AND function.


Wenglish

(informal) A spoken mix of Welsh and English.

(informal) The dialect of the English language as spoken in Wales.

Other words frequently used in the Welsh language, or Wenglish - a hybrid of the languages typically spoken by some in the south Wales valleys - that are used in spoken Engish include cariad, bach and cwtch.

2010 September 1, Laura Chamberlain, BBC:

The word is said to be one of the nation's favourites and has been adopted by many in the cross-over language of Wenglish, particularly popular in the south Wales valleys.

(informal) The dialect of the English language as spoken in the South Wales valleys.


joggling

Before I could turn and seek the door, there came a really terrific shock; the ground seemed to roll under me in waves, interrupted by violent jogglings up and down, and there was a heavy grinding noise as of brick houses rubbing together.

The act by which something is joggled, or shaken up and down.