outroduction

Blend of out + introduction, after outro.

And I well remember that when I visited Elizabeth in her German Garden, during the early years of the April, May, and June babies, those charming young persons were in the habit of writing not only introductions but "outroductions" to their own manuscript novels. Perhaps they may as well furnish an "outroduction" to this essay.

Include an introduction and an “outroduction” (the graceful closing, wrap—up remarks).

1996, David K. Dunaway, Willa K. Baum, Oral History: An Interdisciplinary Anthology, →ISBN, page 317:

It's my hope that by sharing those difficulties and frustrations here at the end of the book, in my "outroduction," that I can not only provide the vision that precedes this section with some context, but that I can give wings to the project of changing the way marketing is done by showing you a slice of the alternative.

2013, Said Aghil Baaghil, The Power of Belonging: A Marketing Strategy for Branding, →ISBN, page 139:

(rare) The closing remarks made at the end of a book, story, performance, etc.


psycho-biddy

Charles Busch has always been able to wear the hell out of a wig, but it's his twisted penchant for bygone Hollywood genres, from beach-party flicks to psycho-biddy thrillers, that brings the house down, show after show.

Atmospheric Southern gothic, and a “psycho-biddy” (old people in peril) classic.

2011, Paul Simpson, Movie Lists: 397 Ways to Pick a DVD, →ISBN, page 148:

Similar methods were later reused to propagate other movies belonging to the psycho-biddy genre.

2014, Justyna Stępień, Redefining Kitsch and Camp in Literature and Culture, →ISBN, page 48:


Bushlicker

Mike is such a Bushlicker; I spoke out against Bush's position on marijuana and he said, "How DARE you question our president's position on drugs after 9/11!"

Why the hell've you gotta be such a big Bushlicker? The way you say we should be "rallying around" him couldn't make me sicker

2003 August 24, savegra...@yahoo.com, “Funny song: Bushlicker”, in alt.impeach.bush (Usenet):

Pass-the-buck Bush after the bankruptcy predictably claimed that he barely knew Kenny-Boy; this lie even the most fawning Bushlicker couldn't buy.

2004, Robert Sterling, 50 Reasons Not to Vote for Bush, →ISBN, page 76:

Tell us how you are proud to be a Bushlicker.

2006 April 20, Ryd, “Is T-Bone the Biggest Bushlicker On Usenet?”, in alt.politics (Usenet):

(informal, derogatory) A person who acted or spoke sycophantically towards the authority of former U.S. president George W. Bush.


transmisogynoir

/ˌtɹænz.mɪˈsɑd͡ʒ.ɪˌnwɑɹ/

Blend of transmisogyny + misogynoir, from trans- + misogyny + French noir (“black”); coined on the site Gradient Lair in 2014.

When Black American transgender women contend with these dynamics, they experience transmisogynoir, the interactive product of anti-Blackness, transphobia, and sexism.

2017, Kevin L. Nadal, The SAGE Encyclopedia of Psychology and Gender, SAGE Publications, →ISBN:

(neologism) Hatred of, contempt for, or prejudice against black trans women.


Grande Dame Guignol

Lange and fellow returning cast members Sarah Paulson, Frances Conroy and Lily Rabe are joined this season not just by Angela Basset but also Kathy Bates, Christine Ebersole and Patti Lupone for what looks like the kind of big shouldered, Grande Dame Guignol scene-stealing and set chewing celebration of the grand bitch diva goddess (make that "grand witch") that only a gay man could helm.

2013 October 8, “9 Reasons to Get Excited for the American Horror Story Coven Premiere Wednesday”, in KQED:

It's worth noting that Hepburn never joined in on the popular 1960s fad of Grande Dame Guignol Horror (aka “Hag Horror”) that her peers Bette Davis, Joan Crawford and Olivia de Havilland all participated in.

2014 August 17, Nathaniel Rogers, “Gay Cinema Touchstones: Suddenly Last Summer”, in Towleroad:

A gloriously sensational "Grande Dame Guignol" about feuding siblings and fading stardom, the film united the two rivals, who were by then well into middle age and long past their heyday, to play the disabled Blanche Hudson (Crawford) and her sister/terroriser, the demented former child star Baby Jane (Davis).

2017 July 2, Rebecca Hawkes, “Feud: when Bette Davis went to war with Joan Crawford”, in The Telegraph:


Frankenstorm

A powerful storm that occurs on or around Halloween


KKKanada

So sorry for violating your god-given right to dehumynize^([sic]) others. Morlock Chlorophyll / PO Box […] / Vancouver, BC / V5T-1W5 / KKKanada.

To keep the public in perpetual fright / KKKanada forgets that being colour-blind / Means she can only see black and white

2004, Steven Green, Karen Richardson, T Dot Griots: An Anthology of Toronto's Black Storytellers, page 124:

It was not as bad as in KKKanada, for example. In the 1930s, Toronto's public schools would not hire Jewish teachers, no Jews were allowed at St. Michael's and Trinity Colleges.

(derogatory, slang) Canada (understood as being dominated by white supremacy)


procrastibaking

I am not suggesting that all change is for the worse. I was recently introduced to procrastibaking: a portmanteau word to describe the process of baking for the sole reason of avoiding other tasks. This seems far more like change we can believe in. Like the addition of foreign words to our language centuries ago, procrastibaking provides a word for a concept for which we did not have one previously. ¶ Our language will undoubtedly grow and change over time, but we must determine whether all change is for the better. Though neither seems like an overly productive activity, for our language's sake we need more procrastibaking and less LOLing.

18 May 2011, Julian Fernando, “Little gain in lazy English mangling”, in The Age:

"I was recently teaching a class about the signs and symptoms of stress and burnout, and asked them to think about the 'red flags' in their lives that let them know when they were feeling stressed," writes Dr Jane Clark of Armidale. "One student told me that her red flag was when she started 'procrastibaking' - cooking dozens of scones and Anzac biscuits to avoid her assignments." Simone Chin is one such procrastibaker. "It's a quite common among distracted students trying to waste time just before an exam," she writes.

1 September 2012, “Column 8”, in Sydney Morning Herald:

We all know that feeling when you have something you REALLY need to do - but what you actually want to do is stuff your face with cake. ¶ Well, now there’s a trend for doing just that: procrastibaking. ¶ In case it’s not totally clear, procrastibaking is the art of putting more important work aside in order to bake delicious treats.

2018 May 17, Ashitha Nagesh, “#Procrastibaking is the new way to avoid all that stuff you need to do”, in BBC:

The action of procrastinating by baking.


brainbow

A graphical representation of parts of the brain in which neighbouring neurons are variously coloured with fluorescent dyes.


Blaxit

Blend of black + exit or blend of blax + exit. Coined by human rights consultant Ulysses Burley III, modelled on earlier words like Brexit, Grexit, etc.

coin

The Covid pandemic and the racial reckoning in the wake of the murder of George Floyd led some Black Americans to seek a different way of life abroad, in a movement that some are calling Blaxit.

[2024 February 16, Colette Coleman, “Blaxit: Tired of Racism, Black Americans Try Life in Africa”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:

A social movement promoting the migration of black people to sub-Saharan Africa from the United States to pursue adventure, career opportunities, etc.


Sacratomato

Blend of Sacramento + tomato, in reference to the local tomato industry.


Swedey

Blend of swede + Sweeney, the latter being Cockney rhyming slang (Sweeney Todd) for the Flying Squad, and the former a reference to agriculture, since the investigators were drawn from rural police forces.

(UK, slang, derogatory, historical) The Operation Countryman team, who led an investigation into police corruption in London, England in the late 1970s.


vehophobia

A driving phobia, or vehophobia, is not entirely uncommon
For some people vehophobia may mean that you hate driving and try not to do it, but will if you must.

2017, Terri Coles, “How To Overcome Your Fear Of Driving”, in Huffington Post:

Between his flaring vehophobia and Eaves' veiled threat of blackmail, this was the best he could do without causing a six-car pile-up.

2018, Richard Brewer, Culprits: The Heist Was Just the Beginning:


loctician

Consultation with a natural hair specialist or dreadlocks specialist (loctician) is recommended prior to starting the locking process.

2016, Crystal Aguh, Ginette A. Okoye, Fundamentals of Ethnic Hair: The Dermatologist's Perspective, page 44:

Of course, there are more informal ways to get and maintain dreadlocks than to book a more or less professional loctician.

2021, Maja Tabea Jerrentrup, A Twisted Style, page 68:

A hairdresser who styles the hair into dreadlocks.


dipshidiot

(derogatory, slang, vulgar) An extremely stupid, foolish, and undesirable person with low intelligence.


Australorp

A chicken of an Australian breed developed for egg-laying.


cultipacker

(agriculture) A piece of agricultural equipment that crushes dirt clods, removes air pockets, and presses down small stones, forming a smooth, firm seedbed.


cricketainment

(India) The promotion of the sport of cricket as a glamorous entertainment event.


Afrabia

Africa (or the parts of Africa with ties to Arabs) and Arabia, grouped together on the basis of historical ties.


waterfrontage

en-noun

waterfrontage (countable and uncountable, plural waterfrontages)

The space or land that makes up a waterfront; territory adjacent to, and facing, a body of water.


epicurve

(pathology) A graphical representation of the number of cases at the start of an epidemic


Caucasity

Blend of Caucasian + audacity. Apparently popularized by The Kid Mero who has also claimed to have coined it. Variation in spelling may be the result of cross-pollination between senses, different interpretation of where the two parts of the blend meet, and respelling to match pronunciation.

@sodamichelle oh oh your caucacity is showing..

2009 June 18, @catteadams, Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-01-20, retrieved 2022-01-19:

STANDOUT TRACK: YO THIS NIGGA HAD THE CAUCACITY TO GIVE ALL THE JOINTS ON THIS SHIT THE SAME NAME. *SWIFTLY ROUNDHOUSES THIS NIGGA IN THE THORAX*

2012 November 22, The Kid Mero [Joel Armogasto Martinez], “Brian Eno's "Lux" Is Full Of Caucacity In A Mostly Good Way”, in Vice, retrieved 2022-01-19:

Our real pain is often meant for non-Black people to enjoy as they watch from behind a screen. The caucasity.

2022 January 20, Oludara Adeeyo, Self-Care for Black Women: 150 Ways to Radically Accept & Prioritize Your Mind, Body, & Soul, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 72:

(slang, especially African-American, humorous or derogatory) Stereotypically white (Caucasian) behaviour, especially arrogance or entitlement.


fakestream

(informal, derogatory) The mainstream media, seen as propagating lies or misinformation.


MOzarks

Blend of MO (“postal abbreviation of Missouri”) + Ozarks

blend

The area of Missouri that contains a portion of the Ozark Plateau.


anilinguistic

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

Blend of anilingus + linguistic. See also cunnilinguistic.

And her— Her Grace— barricaded in the bedroom, listening to fado on the wireless, and tormenting her vicious dewlaps while practicing her anilinguistic skills on various and sundry of the dreamy, sloe-eyed help.

1993, James McCourt, Time remaining, page 110:

listen, it is enough for you to project your own cravings for your coprophiliac and anilinguistic habits and fetishes onto the environmental community, which does in green what you personally so intensely yearn for as you have posted in these 5 examples where you are truly gorging in your own "Awe Shit" environment

2005 November 17, hanson, “Mao-Mart Controversy Heats Up Nationwide”, in alt.fan.rush-limbaugh (Usenet):

You are so anilinguistic.

2013 December 11, The Revd, “The gook PIG is Oinking, again! LOL”, in soc.culture.greek (Usenet):

(rare) Anilingual, relating to anilingus.


Pikaclone

(fandom slang) A Pokémon that resembles, or is seemingly inspired by, Pikachu.


hip hopera

(music) A rap or hip hop musical piece or album which takes an operatic form.


byrlady

Ayoong Heyre […] falles in a quarrelling humor with his fortune, because she made him not King of the Indies, and sweares and stares after ten in the hundreth, that nere a such Pesant as his Father or brother shall keepe him vnder, hee will to the sea and teare the gold out of the Spaniards throats but he will haue it, byrlady when he comes there[…]

1592, Thomas Nash, Pierce Penilesse his Supplication to the Diuell:

Byrlady, a shrewd business and a dangerous!

1657, Thomas Middleton, More Dissemblers Besides Women, act 3, scene 2; republished in The Works of Thomas Middleton, volume 3, London: Edward Lumley, 1840, page 600:

(obsolete) Used as an exclamation of surprise or anger.


spinfection

Alternatively, cell and lentivirus mixtures may be centrifuged together at a low speed (300–1600 g for 30–90 mins), a process known as “spinfection” or “spinnoculation”.

2019, Comprehensive Biotechnology, page 388:

Viral infection by means of centrifugation.


oiligarchy

(informal, derogatory) An elite group that obtains its power from control of the oil industry.


crimmigration

en-noun

crimmigration (usually uncountable, plural crimmigrations)

Blend of criminal + immigration. Coined by Juliet Stumpf in 2006.

This use of membership theory places the law on the edge of a crimmigration crisis. Only the harshest elements of each area of law make their way into the criminalization of immigration law, and the apparatus of the state is used to expel from society those deemed criminally alien.

2006, The Crimmigration Crisis: Immigrants, Crime and Sovereign Power, American University Law Review, volume 56, issue 2, article 3

In the last decade, legal scholars have noted with alarm the increasing alignment between immigration enforcement and the goals and methods of the criminal justice system, terming this alignment "crimmigration." Although discussions of race and nativism have played a large part in this analysis, the same cannot be said for the connection between crimmigration and gender.

2012, Commentary: Gendering Crimmigration: The Intersection of Gender, Immigration, and the Criminal Justice System, Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice, volume 27, issue 1, article 1

The first part considers how the rise of crimmigration law complicates the question of whether deportation constitutes criminal punishment in US law.

2013, The Borders of Punishment: Migration, Citizenship, and Social Exclusion - Chapter 4 - The Process is the Punishment in Crimmigration Law:

(slang, chiefly derogatory) Illegal immigration.


crimmigrant

This Criminal Law of the Crimmigrant may already be taking root in the crim-migration enforcement as criminal law becomes strongly imbued with strict irregular immigration control measures, and the reinforcement of securitisa-tion measures, which have recently been adopted to allow an increase in penal-ties for immigrant-related behaviour, serve as crime prevention mechanisms.

2012, Maria João Guia, “Crimmigration, securitisation and the criminal law of the crimmigrant”, in Social Control and Justice:

Their apparent acceptance of this role, compared with an earlier reluctance to be involved in the enforcement of immigration law per se (Weber and Bowling 2004), may be due to the crimmigrant status of the targeted groups.

2013, Leanne Weber, Policing Non-Citizens, page 187:

Opposite to crimmigrants, bona fide travellers experience the luxury of sped up process at border crossings, making travel a seamless experience (Aas, 2011).

2013, Matthew Wei, “Securing the Canadian Border:The Banopticon, Governmentality, and Biopolitics”, in Sojourners: Undergraduate Journal of Sociology (Queen’s University at Kingston):

We can see patterns between positive and negative mobility governance and in the treatment of the tourist and the crimmigrant, and in the facilitation of transnational mobility based on differentiated categories of labour and wealth.

2018, Jessica Roher, Nicola Guarda, Maryam Khalid, Transnational Crime: Law, Theory and Practice at the Crossroads:

(slang, chiefly derogatory) Someone who immigrates illegally.


flymph

(fishing) In fly fishing, a lure imitating an insect that is not yet a fly but no longer a nymph.


mammophant

However, several generations of “mammophant” breeding would be necessary before it would be possible to sire a genetically “pure” mammoth.

2002, Allen A. Debus, Diane E. Debus, Dinosaur Memories, page 186:

Herds of mammophants pining for the fjords aren’t quite within the realm of what’s possible.

2017 February 22, Mark Carnall, The Guardian:

Church and his team plan to create the mammophant by endowing the egg cell of an Asian elephant with the genes for red blood cells that operate efficiently at low temperature, an enhanced fat layer under the skin, and a luxuriant covering of hair and fur - all from the woolly mammoth genome.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 309:

A (hypothetical) cross between a woolly mammoth and an elephant.


cuteful

en-adj

cuteful (comparative more cuteful, superlative most cuteful)

more cuteful (comparative)
most cuteful (superlative)

Partly a blend of cute + beautiful, and partly from cute + -ful.

Graham fluffled his fur and gave Baggly a weak smile. “We did need to be change'n ourselves aunty Baggly. We did be make'n ourselves to be smaller and more cuteful, and of course, we did be need'n to change our throats so that we could be learn'n to be speak'n with our mouths. […]”

2013, Tony Beck, The Quest of Millie Blackbeard, page 69:

(informal, rare) Characteristically cute; full of cuteness


Shillary

Blend of shill + Hillary, likely to invoke the view that Hillary Clinton serves corporate interests, lobbyists, etc. over the voters she represents.

If Shillary gets the Nomination theres^([sic]) still a chance to win via write in candidates. And even if Bernie "looses"^([sic]) the number of votes taken from Hillary will make it quite apparent that she does NOT have the support of the progressive base. I WILL NOT VOTE FOR HER.

2015, §nühw¤Łf, “Re: Shillary wants your emailz”, in alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk (Usenet):

Yes, please tell me how Shillary is the nicest corporate oligarchical servant, and how she will lovingly sell out the people who voted for her to her banker masters, with a twinkle in her fellating eye.

2016 February 13, Gene Lyons, anonymous quotee, “Understanding the 'Bernie Bros'”, in The Daily Journal, volume 83, number 37, page A11:

Idiot Trump is going to beat up Idiot Joe so viciously that it will be almost as satisfying as when Idiot Trump ended Shillary's career.

2020 April 18, Uchena Shorey, “Our demise”, in Daily News, volume 101, number 298, Voice of the People, page 19:

(US politics, derogatory) Hillary Clinton (born 1947), American politician and diplomat, former first lady (1993–2001) and secretary of state (2009–2013) of the United States.


meteotsunami

These surface waves are associated with two ma- jor sources of forcing: seismic activity (tsunamis) and atmospheric disturbances (meteotsunami).

1998 June 15, S Monserrat, “On the reconstruction of the transfer function for atmospherically generated seiches”, in Geophysical Research Letters, volume 25, number 12, page 2197:

(oceanography, meteorology) A tsunami-like wave of meteorological origin.


Hashitoxicosis

Blend of Hashimoto (as in Hashimoto's thyroiditis) + thyrotoxicosis.

blend

as in <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">Hashimoto's thyroiditis</i>

A T₃:T₄ ratio > 20 is seen in the hyperthyroidism due to autonomous thyroid over production such as Graves' disease, toxic adenoma, toxic multinodular goiter, or Hashitoxicosis; it can also be seen in iodine deficient states and in patients taking a T₃ preparation.

1997, Robert F. Dons, Endocrine and Metabolic Testing Manual, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 7:

To complicate the discussion, silent thyroiditis or Hashitoxicosis occurs commonly in the postpartum period.

2009, Fredric E. Wondisford, Sally Radovick, Clinical Management of Thyroid Disease E-Book, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, page 175:

Though fire flares are described in cases of Hashitoxicosis, it should be remembered that their mere presence does not reflect Hashitoxicosis.

Occasionally, this entity can be accompanied by the formation of thyroid lymphocytic nodules, in which case Hashitoxicosis needs to be clinically differentiated from a hyperfunctioning adenoma.

2012, Kyriakie Sarafoglou, Georg F. Hoffmann, Karl S. Roth, Pediatric Endocrinology and Inborn Errors of Metabolism, McGraw Hill Professional, →ISBN:

Hashimoto's thyroiditis
Hashimoto's thyroiditis

(medicine) A transient thyrotoxicosis caused by destructive inflammation of the thyroid follicles due to Hashimoto's thyroiditis.


combolin

Blend of combination + mandolin? One of the early combolins was a combined mandolin and guitar.

(music) Any of a series of unusual musical instruments combining various other instruments, first created in the 1960s.


conservatarian

(politics) A person whose political opinions combine traditional social conservatism with political and economic right-libertarianism.


reddiquette

(Reddit) Proper conduct to be followed on the website Reddit.


spect-actor

Blend of spectator + actor, coined by Augusto Boal.

A member of the audience in the Theatre of the Oppressed, regarded as being on an equal footing with the performers, and not merely a passive observer.


wildmat

Blend of wildcard + match or Blend of wildcard + format

(Internet) A pattern matching library for matching strings with certain wildcards, used in NNTP. Also refers to its own format.


slantendicular

en-adj

slantendicular (comparative more slantendicular, superlative most slantendicular)

more slantendicular (comparative)
most slantendicular (superlative)


competimer

(biochemistry) A primer that competes with another for a binding site


cheftender

A short-order chef who also acts as a bartender.


soundome

Part of a fishfinder system, a dome that contains the sonar transducer.


grudgement

en-noun

grudgement (countable and uncountable, plural grudgements)

From grudge + -ment. Perhaps also as a blend of grudge + judgement.

(nonstandard) The act or result of holding a grudge


hoejabi

Blend of hoe + hijabi. Attested online since at least 2011.

Some Muslims may argue that girls of our faith who don't wear a hijab aren't as religious. But I beg to differ. Hoejabis do exist — so never judge a book by its cover.

2016 August 21, Nexus, number 18, page 23:

“Are you a Hijabi or a Hoejabi?” she wrote. “Hijabi: A Muslimah who is fully covered head to toe, as her Lord commanded. Hoejabi: A hybrid between a whore and a hijabi.”

2017, Malcolm Nance, Christopher Sampson, Hacking ISIS: How to Destroy the Cyber Jihad, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 36:

Taken literally, the term “hoejabi” (not my coinage) refers to women who see themselves at the crossroads of being “hoes” and “hijabis.”

2018, Romaissaa Benzizoune, How to Be a Hoejabi, The New York Times

(slang, derogatory) A sexually promiscuous woman who wears a hijab.


McShittles

Blend of McDonald's + shit (omitting the apostrophe).

Plans include a skithru McShittles, a skithru hummer shack, a skithru sushi bar, a warp speed funicular, a skithru virtual reality ski-arcade. You'll love it. Buy now and save.

1997, M. Drazen, “Killington purchase?”, in rec.skiing.alpine (Usenet), retrieved 2018-07-13:

The Chip and the French Fry are nouns to denote very different things. On one hand the French Fry (especiallyu^([sic]) from McShittles) has a fried outside and nothing of consequence inside, whilst the Chip has both a fried outside, and as consequence of having less surface area to mass, has cooked potatoe^([sic]) inside.

2000, Alistair Mann, “BNP censorship”, in soc.culture.british (Usenet), retrieved 2018-07-13:

When you stop working at McShittles then you can try to spar mentally with me.

2004, Roger Morgan, “WHY DO NIGGERS CHASE WHITE CHICKS?”, in soc.culture.african.american (Usenet), retrieved 2018-07-13:

(vulgar, derogatory, informal, rare) McDonald's (the fast food restaurant chain).


wikistorming

Blend of wiki + brainstorming or wiki + storming.

Wikistorming brings knowledge from campus libraries and translates it to the Web.

2014, The War on Learning: Gaining Ground in the Digital University, page 232:

Working collaboratively and creatively in wikistorming sessions, many writers involved with technology, science and feminism have designed a "shared pedagogical activity" to help contribute to Wikipedia.

2015, Wei Zhang, Cheris Kramarae, “Bold Ideas for Creative Social Networking: An Invitational Discussion”, in Handbook of Research on Digital Media and Creative Technologies, →ISBN:

Feb 2016 Wikistorming to raise women artists’ Wikipedia presence with public's help

Dec 2016 Together Apart: FemTechNet and Feminist Online Collectives
Using the concept of “boundary objects,” students participating in FemTechNet have engaged in shared learning projects like “wikistorming,” in which students edit Wikipedia to improve the representation of women and people of color on the site

Two notable assignments were a maker project, in which the students had to build something, and “Wikistorming” in which participants created and revised Wikipedia articles on and about women as well as interrogating the processes and gender bias of Wikipedia editing ("feminist wiki-storming," 2016).

2016, Elizabeth A. Monske, Kristine L. Blair, Handbook of Research on Writing and Composing in the Age of MOOCs, →ISBN:

(Internet) A collaborative effort to inject a certain viewpoint (such as a feminist perspective) into a wiki website.


shituation

…in thish corner of Shomershet, it has become an imposhible shituation.

2007, David Nobbs, The Complete Pratt, p.213:

Is thish the shituation where I’m shupposed to offer a third option, ‘Or how about me?’.

2017, Takashi Kajii, My Little Sister Can Read Kanji:Volume 3 - Chapter 5:

…Ruth was describing her Home Management teacher’s false teeth, which slid and clicked whenever she said ‘shervant shituation’.

2019, Kerry Greenwood, Murder on a Midsummer’s Night:

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling


stoperator

(genetics) An operator in a genome that stops transcription


precrastination

precrastination (usually uncountable, plural precrastinations)

/pɹiːˌkɹæstɪˈneɪʃə̆n/

My colleagues and I called this tendency “precrastination.” The term was meant to connote the opposite of procrastination, the tendency to put off until later what you can do right away. Pre-crastination is the tendency to do too soon what might be better done later.

2017, David A. Rosenbaum, Knowing Hands: The Cognitive Psychology of Manual Control, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 234:

Lanyun Gong and Cory Potts, the two students with whom I did this work, and I conducted a number of experiments to check our precrastination interpretation.

It is foreseeable that if we do not enjoy the process involved in completing a task, we will choose procrastination or precrastination to minimize the time we need to spend to do a task.

2017, Wasif Haq, Interpreting Procrastination; Key to Success, Happiness and Wellness, Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN, page 81:

The precrastination effect is the finding that individuals complete actions earlier to "get it out of the way" (Rosenbaum, Gong, & Potts, 2014). In the current study, we tested precrastination with a prospective memory (PM) paradigm to determine if this phenomenon generalizes to PM tasks that can be completed at a time chosen by the participant.

2018, Rachel VonderHaar, “Pre-Crastination Effects in a Prospective Memory Task”, in Illinois State University Research Symposium, volume 155:

(psychology) The completion of a task too quickly or too early for the optimal outcome; the compulsion to act in this way.


evogram

An important systematic account with illustrations of Shaw's tephigram, the emagram, Refsdal's aerogram, Schinze's thetagram, Robizach's diagram, evogram, and Rossby's diagram.

1951, Meteorological and Geoastrophysical Abstracts - Volume 2, page 307:

Teachers can facilitate such learning by incorporating cladistics and tree-thinking into the curriculum and using evograms to focus on important evolutionary transitions.

2009 June 20, LS Mead, “Transforming our thinking about transitional forms”, in Evolution: Education and Outreach, volume 2, number 2, page 310:

Providing the basics for tree reading suggests that the use of evograms (evolutionary diagrams integrating different lines of evidence) reflects more accurately and integratively how scientists know what they know about the major changes in evolution.

2012, E Torrens, A Barahona, “Why are some evolutionary trees in natural history museums prone to being misinterpreted?”, in Evolution: Education and Outreach:

Remember, a cladogram or evogram is a branching, treelike diagram in which the endpoints of the branches represent specific species of organisms.

2013, Stephen T. Blume, Evo-illusion, page 189:


inflammaging

(pathology) chronic inflammation as a side-effect of aging


viriome

Blend of virus + biome or from virion + -ome.

(biology) The collection of viruses in an organism or location


Filthadelphia

On the East Coast, Ed Rendell made his early mark as mayor of "Filthadelphia" by literally scrubbing city hall, while quality-of-life issues shaped not only the 1993 mayoral races in Boston and New York but many local elections.

1997, Frederick F. Siegel, The Future Once Happened Here:

We love this city. Please visit soon and please go to South Philly and tell those folks they're scum. Tell us how you make out.

2003, ROBW, “Filthadelphia has Crime out the Ass”, in alt.politics.gw-bush (Usenet):

About seven o'clock that evening, Angelo approached the corner of Camac St. and Oregon Ave. in beautiful south “Filthadelphia.” As He inched up the broken concrete stairs, the putrid smell of garlic and broccoli rabe wafted through the screen door of the small row home and punched Him in the nose.

2006, A. J. Macherone, Sea of Angels: A Tragically Short Story, page 102:

(slang, derogatory) Philadelphia, depicting the city as a filthy place.


apefly

A small lycaenid butterfly native to South- and Southeast Asia, Spalgis epius, whose pupa is said to look like a monkey's face.


poptail

Combining classic cocktails with the fun of popsicles, poptails are the latest trend to take foodies by storm.

Nothing is set in stone – you can use virtually any freezable hygienic container you can get your hands on to make a poptail.


Floyder

en-verb

Floyder (third-person singular simple present Floyders, present participle Floydering, simple past and past participle Floydered)

Floyders (present singular third-person)
Floydering (participle present)
Floydered (participle past)
Floydered (past)

From the actions of the Disney animator Floyd Norman.
Coined by colleagues at Walt Disney Studios in 2008, as a blend of Floyd + loiter. Popularized by the 2016 documentary film Floyd Norman: An Animated Life.

Floyd continues to work for Disney on a freelance basis (as he prefers it) and can still be found Floydering around the Disney Animation campus.

2015 September 2, Jamie Greene, “Great Big Beautiful Podcast: Episode 26 - Floyd Norman”, in geekdad.com:

2016 - Will Ashton, Cut Print Film, Floyd Norman: An Animated Life
His years of “floydering” (a verb coined by his non-employees) barely hold a candle to his vast professional accomplishments, especially within Disney’s historic walls. Will Ashton (2016 August 25) “Floyd Norman: An Animated Life”, in cutprintfilm.com, retrieved 2018-07-31

"I decided I didn't want to work at home," he says. "I missed the camaraderie of the big studio. I missed talking to people. I miss being around the action. And so ... I found an empty office and I moved in. I was probably in violation of some rule or law or whatever, but there I was." He continued to work in the office, and his colleagues affectionately coined the term "Floydering" — it rhymes with loitering — in his honor.
NORMAN: So I guess my position is somewhat unique. I don't know what you would call me. Maybe I continue to floyder (ph) at Disney (laughter). Noor Wazwaz (2016 August 26) “"At 81, Disney's First African-American Animator Is Still In The Studio"”, in NPR.org, retrieved 2018-07-31

At 81 years old, Norman continues to “Floyder” by freelancing for Disney as a consultant and storyboard artist.

2017 February 15, Monique Jones, “How The First Black Animator At The Disney Studios Became A Legend”, in Birmingham Times, Birmingham, Alabama:

To stroll around aimlessly as an aid to creativity.


enchirito

In which case, here, allow me to email you a complimentary enchirito.

2000 January 5, P Nielsen Hayden, rec.arts.sf.fandom (Usenet):

An olfactory nightmare develops as four gastrically challenged friends wash down a beef and bean enchirito dinner with a case of Pabst Blue Ribbon Light, unleashing a wind that is mighty indeed.

2003 April 22, lowtempcivics, rec.music.phish (Usenet):

The menu itself is an absolute blast. Should we get a dozen tacos, mix in a few steak burritos, throw in an enchirito or two, […]

2012, Jeffrey Tucker, A Beautiful Anarchy:

Yesterday, I hiked the three-mile route around Tarlton. Afterwards, I went to Taco Bell and purchased food for my father and myself. I purchased two tacos and an enchirito for my father […]

2012, Daniel Graham, Sr., Voyages of the Dawn Treader, volume 1, page 85:

An enchilada combined with a burrito becomes an enchirito according to Freeman.

2017 September 7, “South Park: The Fractured But Whole Preview – Unreservedly crude, irresistibly hilarious”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):


cementochronology

(anthropology, paleodemography, criminology) A method for assessing age at death and determining season at death based on the annulation (formation of rings) in tooth cementum.


Jer-bear

Blend of Jeremy + bear, chosen for the rhyme, which echoes the precedent of Care Bear.

"Sorry about that, Jer-bear." She gave his shoulder a squeeze, picking up a large brown envelope tucked in the back of the book.

2002, Cora Taylor, Ghost Voyages, Coteau Books, →ISBN, page 6:

Jeremy DeLongpre: Are you okay? Richard DeLongpre: I'm sorry. Come here. No, no, pop up here, Jer-bear.

2011 Allen Gregory, "Pilot" (season 1, episode 1)

I wish you could relent.” “Just love the early morning sunshine, Jer-bear.” His face clouds. “Please explain this name to me. 'Jer-bear'?” “Well, there's this cartoon and there are these bears, right?” “Okay. That explains part of it.”

2014, John Hornor Jacobs, The Shibboleth, Carolrhoda Lab ™, →ISBN, page 147:

(informal) An affectionate nickname for someone named Jeremy.


Christianne

Blend of Christian + Anne, coined as a feminine form of Christian.


slumburb

And in New Jersey today, there is still no official word on the shooting that occurred in South Orange, a slumburb of Essex.

1995, J. R. Dunn, This Side of Judgment, →ISBN:

There is a likelihood that there will be an explosion of "slumburbs," as cities will be unable to provide basic services, much less information-related services.

2000, Patrick J. DeSouza, Economic Strategy and National Security: A Next Generation Approach:

Theirs is not a complete vision by any means, with the multiple ethnicities and races of actual suburbs conspicuously absent, but it does suggest that we challenge rather than accept slumburb imagery.

2016, Carl Abbott, Imagining Urban Futures, →ISBN:

A poor municipality on the outskirts of a city, often the result of gentrification driving the urban poor to move far from the city center.


dynafocal

Blend of dynamic + focal. Genericised from the product name "Dynafocal Suspensions" from Lord Corporation in 1939, earlier called "Dynamic Suspensions".

This alternate method for installing a dynafocal mount is preferred by some builders.

1992, Sport Aviation, volume 41, page 80:

(aviation) Of or pertaining to a particular kind of aircraft engine mount that gives directional support to a radial engine to reduce vibration.


frogamander

This amphibian Abraham, aka the frogamander, lived during the early Permian but was only discovered in 2007, a fossil in Don's Dump Fish Quarry in Baylor County, Texas.

2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 14:

The “frogamander” is still full of mystery as scientists work to figure out how and where it fits in the amphibian family tree.

2016, Melissa Shofner, Mariel Bard, Amphibian Fossils, page 21:

(paleontology) The extinct amphibamid Gerobatrachus.


Chimperor

Blend of chimp + emperor, compare Chimpy.

Now, pulling out a goodly number of troops and replacing them with international soldiers, plus forfeiting the "leadership" position to the UN sounds like a good deal. Fat chance the Chimperor will let that happen.

2004 April 23, Max O., “Re: Why Bush's war has already failed”, in nashville.general (Usenet):

The Chimperor lets water supplies get diluted with mercury and arsenic, led Texas to have one of the WORST water and air quality scores during his tenure as gubnor...

2004 October 9, DaveNOSPAM, “"Culture of Life" ??????? WTF?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!”, in rec.sport.pro-wrestling (Usenet):

Could be a modern day indictment against the Chimperor. Especially the "I tell you one and one makes three" part. Time to overthrow those damned activist mathematicians!

2006 May 31, Jason Todd, “Re: On the cover of National Review: 50 Greatest Conservative Rock Songs”, in alt.punk (Usenet):

(US politics, derogatory) George W. Bush (born 1946), the 43rd president of the United States (2001–2009), seen as a tyrant.


linner

A meal or snack eaten between the normal times for lunch and dinner.


Hislam

Eighteen
Islam, Not “Hislam”
On Muslim Feminists
Women are the twin halves of men. God enjoins you to treat women well, for they are your mothers, daughters, and aunts. The rights of women are sacred. [...]

2014, Ranya Idliby, Burqas, Baseball, and Apple Pie: Being Muslim in America, →ISBN, page 177:

2017, Susan Carland, Fighting Hislam: Women, Faith and Sexism, →ISBN:

(derogatory, uncommon) Islam which reinforces masculinist attitudes or ideas or downplays women's issues.


deepfake

Blend of deep learning + fake. Coined in 2017 by Redditor u/deepfakes (account created on September 26, 2017), who had created a technique which could convincingly swap someone's face in a video using deep learning. The r/deepfakes subreddit was created on November 2, 2017. The word was first used as a noun and verb around December 2017.

Did you see that leaked sex tape with the actress? It turned out to be a deepfake, but it looked so realistic!

The thing is that normal people might try to use to harass other people, specially women, but I don't think this technology will be so advanced that you won't be able to recognize it's a fake video, so the majority of people who try to say a deep fake is real will be looked as an idiot, a pervert and probably reported.

2017 December 17, u/randint2220, “Is this all even legal?”, in Reddit, r/deepfakes, archived from the original on 2023-01-13:

These deepfakes went in a completely unexpected direction

2018 January 1, u/viperex, “Wall”, in Reddit, r/gifs, archived from the original on 2023-04-18:

I've completed a desktop app /w GUI to create deepfakes. Here is a what it looks like. For anyone unfamiliar with this subreddit, deepfakes are neural network-generated faceswap videos created with a machine learning algorithm designed by /u/deepfakes.

2018 January 8, u/deepfakeapp, “FakeApp: A Desktop Tool for Creating Deepfakes”, in Reddit, archived from the original on 2018-01-25:

For example, images of the actress Scarlett Johansson have been used to create a number of deepfake pornographic videos, one of which had been viewed over 1.5 million times on a popular SEIM site by the end of 2018 (Harwell, 2018).

2019, Richard Joseph Behun, Eric Owens, Youth and Internet Pornography: The impact and influence on adolescent development, Routledge, →ISBN:

By banning deepfakes before the technology becomes widespread, Facebook is trying to calm lawmakers, academics and political campaigns who remain frustrated by how the company handles political posts and videos about politics and politicians.

2020 January 7, David McCabe, Davey Alba, “Facebook Says It Will Ban ‘Deepfakes’”, in New York Times:

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence

(technology, neologism) A convincingly realistic but fake image, video, or audio created with the use of artificial intelligence, especially one that imposes the face of one person onto the body of someone else.

diep vervalsing

photograph or video created using artificial intelligence


deepfake

deepfake (third-person singular simple present deepfakes, present participle deepfaking, simple past and past participle deepfaked)

deepfakes (present singular third-person)
deepfaking (participle present)
deepfaked (participle past)
deepfaked (past)

He deepfaked himself, no one suffered demonstrable harm from it and he admitted it when confronted.

2021, Michael Grothaus, Trust No One: Inside the World of Deepfakes, Hachette, →ISBN, page unknown:

Currently, few laws around the world pertain to deepfaked porn.

2022 September 2, Kyle Wiggers, Amanda Silberling, “AI is getting better at generating porn”, in TechCrunch:

(transitive) To create or turn into a deepfake; to impersonate someone with a deepfake.


atelectrauma

(medicine) A form of ventilator-induced lung injury where alveolar damage results from transient and repeated closure and reopening of alveoli during the respiratory cycle.


privish

privish (third-person singular simple present privishes, present participle privishing, simple past and past participle privished)

privishes (present singular third-person)
privishing (participle present)
privished (participle past)
privished (past)

To publish a book only to have its distribution fully and intentionally cancelled.


keezer

A kegerator made from a converted chest freezer.


Leftbook

(Internet slang, sometimes derogatory) The leftist groups and communities on Facebook.


salutogenesis

The production and maintenance of health or wellbeing


reducetarian

Reformists and reducetarians claim that “abolitionists” are asking for too much and certainly asking for it too soon, that “baby steps” are necessary incremental steps, and the alleged abolitionist “all-or-nothing” approach is unworkable and off-putting to the very people the movement is trying to influence.

2017, David Nibert, Animal Oppression and Capitalism, page 306:

A person who for ethical reasons attempts to reduce the amount of meat in their diet.

lihan syömistä vähentäjä

person who attempts to reduce meat in their diet


typestract

A kind of visual poem created using a typewriter.


kangatarian

/kæŋ.ɡəˈtɛə.ɹɪ.ən/

As a vegetarian for the past 10 years, I'm an unlikely candidate for a hunting party. But considering my plans, shouldn't I take a look for myself at how these animals are slaughtered? You see, I'm thinking of becoming a kangatarian – someone who eats no meat apart from kangaroo. One reason for the dietary switch is personal. After a long battle with anaemia that is hard to combat with iron tablets, I feel that what my body really needs is the occasional hunk of red meat.

2010 October 6, Wendy Zukerman, “Eating Skippy: Is Kangaroo the Kindest Meat?”, in New Scientist, volume 108, number 2781, London: Reed Business Information, published 9 October 2010, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-12-08, page 42:

If the only meat you eat is kangaroo, you are a kangatarian. And kangatarians are multiplying, although not as quickly as the marsupials they feast on. […] Most kangatarians are driven by environmental and ethical issues, while some are attracted by the healthier fat profile of the meat.

2012, Joe Schwarcz, “Weird and Wonderful”, in The Right Chemistry: 108 Enlightening, Nutritious, Health-conscious and Occasionally Bizarre Inquiries into the Science of Everyday Life, Toronto, Ont.: Doubleday Canada, →ISBN, page 203:

Kangatarians (vegetarians who eat only kangaroo meat) regard it as a healthy food – extremely lean, low in saturated fats, full of iron, free-range and organic. Kangaroos are well suited for kangatarians, who are seriously concerned about the environment and ethics.

2017 July 7, Bernie Ascher, “Going Bananas over Chess”, in Everything is Chess, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, published 2018, →ISBN, page 199:

I'd like to ask animal rights campaigners whether they are aware of the unintended consequences of their activities. I'd like to encourage vegetarians to become "kangatarians".

2018 January–February, George Wilson, “Kangaroos can be an Asset rather than a Pest”, in Australasian Science, volume 39, number 1, Doncaster, Melbourne, Vic.: Control Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-17:

A non-vegetarian who, for ethical reasons, does not eat meat from animals other than kangaroos, because they are sourced from the wild and not farmed.

non-vegetarian who does not eat meat from animals other than kangaroos

henkilö, joka ei syö muuta lihaa kuin kengurunlihaa


dogmonaut

(humorous, rare) A dog sent to space by the Soviet space program.


permacath

internal jugular vein
internal jugular vein

(medicine) A long-term haemodialysis catheter which achieves venous access most commonly through the internal jugular vein.


predophile

[T]he alliance concluded that education, not filtering, is the most effective method for protecting children from pornography and predophiles[…]

1997, Information Retrieval & Library Automation, volumes 33-35:

2018, “Chrissy Teigen, John Legend news: Couple respond to their alleged involvement with Pizzagate Predophile ring conspiracy”, in Christian Today:

A pedophile who is predatory; a predator who is pedophilic.


nelfie

Before the young woman took the perfect mirror nelfie (nude mirror selfie, y’all), she made sure to have the right props and proper location.

2014 September 24, Chantal Waldholz, “Tallulah Willis Responds to Sister Rumer’s Sexy Photo Shoot by Posting Her Own Nude Instagram Photo Because Duh”, in Life & Style, retrieved 2018-08-29:

Next to the nelfie (nude selfie, I just made that up, I wonder if it will catch on? Hopefully not), Kim wrote: “First they say I’m too skinny so I have to be faking it... Now they say I’m too big so I have to be faking it... SMH!

2015 August 15, Holly Carpenter, “Pregnant Kim’s only option was to post a nelfie”, in The Irish Sun, retrieved 2018-08-29:

63-year-old Sharon Osbourne bares it all – in the name of being inspired by Kim Kardashian’s nelfie (nude selfie) and her fans are loving it!

2016 March 9, Bridgette Matjuda, “Sharon Osbourne Shares A Nelfie!”, in People, archived from the original on 2020-11-19:

Here’s how it works. Participants take a “nelfie” (short for “nude selfie”) and post it on social media. Although that sounds absolutely terrifying, it’s actually not that bad.

2016 December 1, “‘Nelfie’ wants you to take a nude selfie for charity”, in Philanthropic People, retrieved 2018-08-29:

Vikas, a freelance fashion photographer who regularly sexts and exchanges nelfies, says he takes them for his lover, who he doesn't see very often.

2019 February 17, Himanshi Dhawan, Ketaki Desai, “Is the nelfie the new good morning message?”, in The Times of India, New Delhi:

(uncommon, informal, neologism) An image, especially a selfie, of a nude or nearly nude person posted to social media.


monorepo

From mono- + repo or a blend of monolithic + repo.

As with central deployments, we can look into two different scenarios here too: either using a monorepo as a code base or starting with individual repositories to have dedicated pipelines.

2021, Florian Rappl, The Art of Micro Frontends, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 40:

software engineering
software engineering

(software engineering) A monolithic repository, where core code and its dependencies are included in the same repository.


superheroics

As the World Trade Center disaster changed global politics and the world's conception of America irrevocably, so The Authority had violently changed superheroics—and a lot of creative people with egos had their livelihood—or at least their relevancy—threatened as a result.

2007, Jeffery Klaehn, Inside the World of Comic Books, Black Rose Books Ltd., →ISBN, page 153:

That is to say, it's not supervillainy that's the opposite of superheroics[,] but pacifism. Thus, The Nail confirms the greatness of superheroics by having the greatest superhero of all explicitly repudiate nonviolence.

2017, Noah Berlatsky, Wonder Woman: New Edition with Full Color Illustrations, Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, page 77:


tweezertrodes

tweezers that also function as electrodes


kimslaw

en-noun

kimslaw (countable and uncountable, plural kimslaws)

4Fingers offers free-range chicken that’s free of antibiotics and hormones, as well as freshly baked burger buns and kimslaw (kimchi coleslaw) that’s fermented onsite.

2017 June 26, “Singapore’s favourite chicken joint has arrived in Brisbane”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), Bmag, archived from the original on 2019-03-19:

Jamie also puts together kimslaw (a salad pickle).

2011 February 6, “Jamie's 30 Minute Meals: Thai Green Curry”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), Throng, archived from the original on 2015-05-04:

Also worthy of a mention are the Hokkaido Milk Buns, which come filled with either bacon, egg, cheese and “kimslaw” or a vegie version with mushrooms instead of bacon.

2016 July 27, Alex Grieg, “Sydney Cafés Turning the Traditional Poached, Fried or Scrambled Breakfast on Its Head”, in Travel Insider, Qantas, archived from the original on 2018-04-19:


hoonigan

(rare, slang) someone who hoons, that is, drives in a reckless manner.


Chindian

en-adj

Chindian (comparative more Chindian, superlative most Chindian)

more Chindian (comparative)
most Chindian (superlative)


Koreaboo

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

These “koreaboos” idealize my culture and cast me as a player in their K-drama fantasies, expecting me to look and act as such.

2016, Jenn Do, "Baggage Claim", Aline, Spring 2016, page 25

I wanted to feel superior to the Kpop-obsessed koreaboos at camp who held up double Victory signs in all their pictures.

2018 December, Julia Hedges, “Hopefully You've Learned Korean By Now”, in The New Journal, Yale University, page 24:

South Korean actor Ji Soo makes his way to capture the hearts of Filipino koreaboos as the newest member of Team Penshoppe.

2020 March 14, “K-Drama actor Ji Soo joins Team Penshoppe”, in Manila Standard, page C3:

(slang, often derogatory) A non-Korean person who is obsessed with Korean culture (especially K-pop or K-dramas).

egg

white person who is too obsessed with Asian culture


lootocracy

en-noun

lootocracy (usually uncountable, plural lootocracies)

Blend of loot + plutocracy, or pluto- + -cracy.

(derogatory) A corrupt political system in which the elite fraudulently help themselves to money or resources intended for other purposes.


hashflag

Blend of hashtag + flag, coined during the 2010 FIFA World Cup by Twitter when national flags were added to the end of three-character national abbreviation hashtags (e.g., #rsa or #jpn)

After posting a tweet about Wombat Strike Six, an upcoming videogame she was excited about, Monique noticed that the hashtag #wombatrevenge had an associated hashflag depicting a small, furious wombat.

Hashflags also don't last forever: Twitter turns them off, when the hashtag stops trending, I guess.

2015 September 28, Alissa Walker, “Twitter's Hashflags Are an Abomination, and They Must Be Stopped”, in Gizmodo, archived from the original on 2018-02-14:

While some hashtags are so specific as to render unlikely the chance that a hashflag will appear out of context (e.g., #turkishairlinesopen2017), there are numerous examples of hashflags being attached to hashtags with multiple meanings and applications.

2018, Tim Highfield, “Emoji hashtags // hashtag emoji: Of platforms, visual affect, and discursive flexibility”, in First Monday, volume 23, number 9, →DOI:

Despite the record-breaking number of #MahsaAmini tweets, the hashtag remains flagless. Hashflags are custom emojis specific to Twitter that help boost a particular hashtag on the platform and draw attention to a movement. By introducing a hashflag, Twitter would also make it less likely that misleadingly similar hashtags for #MahsaAmini will divert attention.

2022 September 30, Mahsa Alimardani, Kendra Albert, Afsaneh Rigot, “Big Tech Should Support the Iranian People, Not the Regime”, in The New York Times:

(Internet) A non-Unicode pictogram, similar to an emoji, automatically appended to a trending and often branded hashtag in a tweet.


barcade

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

Blend of bar + arcade. A chain of arcade bars by this name first opened in Brooklyn in 2004.

Glen “Hooping Cough” Hodges is proprietor and manager of Nine Chakras, the new retro gaming barcade in town.

2019, Darren Johnson, Darren Johnson's Best Short Stories of 2018:

For a good time in the evening, hit up a barcade, a nightspot that's puntastically exactly what it sounds like — a bar with a ton of old-school coin-operated pinball and arcade cabinets (I'd bet my quarters there's one near you).

2020, Sam Maggs, The Fangirl's Guide to the Universe: A Handbook for Girl Geeks, page 42:

Gaming itself becomes a destination event, taking place at barcades and board game cafes.

2020, Terri Toles Patkin, Matthew Wilhelm Kapell, Who's in the Game?, page 27:

A bar (drinking establishment) equipped with video arcade games.


-azolam

(pharmacology) Used to form names of diazepam derivatives.


globalitarian

Since many of the kinds of intervention traditionally thought to be within the purview of governments are less easily achieved or simply impossible today, globalitarians conclude that the state has declined.

2001 February, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, “The anthropology of the state in the age of globalization: Close encounters of the deceptive kind”, in Current Anthropology, volume 42, number 1:

Like any globalitarian, Tamburlaine is fascinated by geography and cartography.

2006, Mihai I. Spariosu, Remapping Knowledge: Intercultural Studies for a Global Age, page 83:

While human rights can be viewed as part of the globalising process, 'globalitarians' focus largely on the economic and social, favourably contratsting global 'capital, space, history and power to transform' with the local values and sites of 'labour, tradition and, not infrequently, women, indigenous people, peasants and others who are still attached to "place"'.

2013, Patrick Thornberry, Indigenous Peoples and Human Rights, →ISBN:


geofront

Recently, intense interest has been shown in new frontier space development, such as waterfront and geofront, as underground space is called in Japan.

1996, International Journal of Offshore and Polar Engineering:

The tours covered a wide spectrum of subjects and places, including a geofront project, the Yokohama Exotic Showcase exposition, Sakaki town in Nagano.

To achieve the role of one of the world's leading international cities by the beginning of the 21st century, Tokyo must move quickly to liberate its skyfront and waterfront areas to create more living and office space, improve its infrastructure by developing its subterranean geofront, and construct the facilities necessary for an international city, especially a 24-hour airport.

1990, Journal of Japanese Trade & Industry - Volumes 9-10, page 14:

However, as has been recently discussed as a topic in terms of geofront and waterfront developments, tunnelling of larger diameters and at greater depths is predicted to be necessary, so that the need for further automation and robotization is increased for the purpose of safety and improvement in productivity.

1991, Advanced Robotics: The International Journal of the Robotics Society, page 430:

I figured you two had probably seen something like that before, but I've never even heard of these geofronts existing.

2015, Maddy Koller, Star Maiden, page 81:

An underground urban area built to expand a city that is geographically limited.


sysape

(computing, slang, derogatory) An incompetent sysop.


helplessdesk

(computing, slang, derogatory) An incompetent helpdesk.


himpathy

But this isn't because the problem of himpathy is rare. On the contrary -- it's so common that we regard it as business as usual.

2017, Kate Manne, Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny, →ISBN, page 196:

For too long we have clung to the idea of “himpathy”, as Washington Times journalist Irin Carmon so perfectly described it at the writers' festival.

2018 May 13, Helen Pitt, “Drop the 'himpathy': Clarion call of Sydney Writers' Festival's #MeToo moment”, in The Sydney Morning Herald:

Examples of “himpathy” abound. Cosby was buoyed by public support for decades, even as more than 60 women accused him of sexual assault.

2019 December 18, Anne Kingston, “Will Harvey Weinstein's big show produce ‘himpathy’?”, in Maclean’s:

(feminism) Inappropriate sympathy given to men or boys, especially those who are guilty of sexual transgressions.


Octopolis

(informal) An area of Jervis Bay, New South Wales, Australia, where octopuses are known to congregate.


wonut

Blend of waffle + donut. First popularized in 2014 at Waffles Cafe in Chicago by owner Alex Hernandez.

Wonuts are made with a two-step cooking process, and in that way they're similar to bagels.

2015, Ellen Brown, Donut Nation: A Cross-Country Guide to America's Best Artisan Donut Shops:

(neologism) A type of waffle that uses a mix of waffle and doughnut dough, and is deep fried and decorated like a doughnut.


humaniac

By her own description, Berger was "an incredible humaniac" who tended to "see animals as individuals."

She wasn't what you'd call a humaniac. She was eighty-something and generally comported herself in good taste, mostly she wrote lots of letters.

2001, Robert Armstrong, Index of Suspicion, →ISBN, page 145:

Scoundrel just wished that this raving humaniac would get out of his way.

2012, Janice Zalewski, The Unraveling . . . of the Rug Merchants, →ISBN, page 168:

2013, Richard Stratton, Bulldog Edition, Stratton, Richard. (2013). Bulldog Edition. (Page 113.) Your Friend and Mine Press. Page 113, Your Friend and Mine Press.
I was sort of proud when the word "humaniacs" that I have used in my books to refer to overzealous animal welfare people, was picked up and used in the press.

By mixing advanced and beginner techniques, and by being contentious (if you don't like him) or too honest (if you do), Bill offered his “humaniac” adversaries a big, fat target.

2013, Donald McCaig, Mr. and Mrs. Dog: Our Travels, Trials, Adventures, and Epiphanies, →ISBN:

(derogatory, slang) A person with overzealous views in support of animal welfare.


grassoline

Using cellulose from native rather than from cultivated plants (“grassoline”) does not require fertilizer or the petroleum-using machinery to spread it.

2011, Harvey Blatt, America's Environmental Report Card: Are We Making the Grade?:

This could translate to more than 100 billion gallons (379 billion L) of “grassoline,” or cellulosic biomass fuel derived from woods, grasses, inedible plant stalks, and other potential sources.

2013, Carol Hand, Biomass Energy, page 98:

If the lab could find these cutting enzymes and identify their genes, they might be helpful for the greater project of making grassoline.

2018, Lisa Margonelli, Underbug: An Obsessive Tale of Termites and Technology:


gyradius

1966, Bruce Jennings Muga, Experimental and Theoretical Study of Motion of a Barge as Moored in Ocean Waves, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Illinois, page 17,
It should be noted that the vertical center of gravity (VCG), the longitudinal gyradius, and the natural pitch period do not agree with those required to simulate the full-scale prototype.

The roll, pitch and yaw gyradii (k₄₄, k₅₅ and k₆₆) were determined using the pendulum method by swinging the model in the air.

1999, J. de Kat, W. Thomas III, “Extreme Broaching, Rolling and Capsizing-Model Tests and Simulations of a Steered Ship in Waves”, in Twenty-Second Symposium on Naval Hydrodynamics, National Academy Press, page 363:

Weight distribution may be considered in any desired plane, usually in longitudinal and transverse senses. It is measured by the moment of inertia and is usually expressed as the gyradius which relates the moment of inertia to displacement.[…]Thus a large gyradius, longitudinal or transverse, tends towards easy motion and is desirable in terms of comfort. In passing it might be observed that the need for a very minimum longitudinal gyradius has become an article of faith among racing sailors.

2008, Peter Bruce, Adlard Coles' Heavy Weather Sailing, 6th edition, McGraw-Hill, page 8:

(physics, engineering) Radius of gyration.


Boraga

It is a suburban village, secluded, that prizes peace and quiet, to the occasional dismay of its children. Some poke fun at "Boraga."

1997 May 25, Don McCormack, “Moraga: Small, and proud of it”, in San Francisco Chronicle:

Please tell me what you think of Boraga.com and Borinda.com (unless you live in Moraga or Orinda, California, most of the content doesn't apply to you).

2001 February 7, JunkMailMan, “Boraga.com and Borinda.com”, in alt.html (Usenet):

(Title)

2002 October 18, Demian Bulwa, “Young skateboarders want to spice up 'Boraga' with a new park”, in San Francisco Chronicle:

LaBORinda; BORaga; BORinda. Lamorinda teenagers have long bemoaned the lack of nearby entertainment and recreational opportunities.

2009 September 30, Guy Dotan, “Battle of the Bands”, in Lamorinda Weekly:

I remember when Kymberleigh could not wait go to college and get out of “Bor-aga.”

2016 October 5, Roberta Thomas, “Letters to the Editor”, in Lamorinda Weekly, page A14:

(derogatory) The town of Moraga, California.


footbrawl

(informal) The sport of football when regarded as violent.


lensatic

Being or relating to a form of compass with a lens (for alignment with landmarks) and a dial instead of a needle.


Rustacean

/ɹʌsˈteɪʃən/

New Rustaceans commonly get stuck on strings for a combination of three reasons: […]

2019, Steve Klabnik, Carol Nichols, The Rust Programming Language, page 137:

We covered a whole lot of ground here in a subject that's probably the heaviest to grasp for a new Rustacean.

2019, Rahul Sharma, Vesa Kaihlavirta, Mastering Rust, page 210:

You'll find that the Rust community loves to track the progress of a certain area using their “Are We X Yet” sites. This is a tradition from the Mozilla community, which many Rustaceans are also involved in.

2020, Shing Lyu, Practical Rust Projects, page 154:

programming language
programming language

(programming, informal) A user of the Rust programming language.


legiterally

en-adv

legiterally (comparative more legiterally, superlative most legiterally)

more legiterally (comparative)
most legiterally (superlative)

/ləˈd͡ʒɪtəɹəli/

At a friend’s encouragement, I recently tried, and am now legiterally hooked on, infrared Baptiste Yoga.

2017 November 6, Carly Terwilliger, “How Do You Crush Winter Doldrums?”, in SGB Media, archived from the original on 2018-09-22:

“She legiterally has millions of subscribers! She's famous!”

2020, Bethany C. Morrow, A Song Below Water:

(degree, informal, humorous) An intensifier. Used similarly to literally (sense 2).


retpoline

(programming, neologism) A code construct that uses return operations to prevent speculative execution.


slitch

From Middle English sliche, slicche, slycche, from Old English *slīċ, from Proto-West Germanic *slīk, from Proto-Germanic *slīką, from Proto-Indo-European *sleyg- (“to be slick; slide, slip”).

der

This would be the properest Manure for their Sandy Land, if they spread it not too thick, theirs being, as I have said, a shallow sandy Soil, which was the Reason I never advis'd any to use Lime, […] But as most Lands have one Swamp or another bordering on them, they may certainly get admirable Slitch, wherewith to manure all their Up-Lands.
DeBow's Review (James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, Edwin Bell, 1858), volume 25, page 206, quotes this and glosses slitch as "marsh-mud"

1722, The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Abridged, volume 3, page 587:

With respect to the mud and slitch, which must gather in a wet dock, both from the fresh of the river, and the sea flowing in, a reservoir of water is necessary to scour it away. […] Any of the other wet docks must be liable to have slitch and mud in them, […]

1787, John Scougall, A Letter to the Lord Provost, and Magistrates of Edinburgh: Respecting a Plan for Enlarging the Harbour of Leith, page 10:

Lime is chiefly used as a manure, with clagg or slitch, as the farmers call it, being the wreck left by the tide on the shore.

1794, Hutchinson, Hist. Cum., I. 564, quoted in the EDD

The remainder of the essay is chiefly concerned with means of increasing fertility by the use of sea weed, leaves raked together by poor children, slitch carted from swamps, and sea salt.

1928, Rodney True, quoted in Agricultural History, volumes 1-2, page 206

(now chiefly dialectal, rare) Fine mud; silt; slake.


algorave

In London, the music veers between the sublime and the cacophonic; at the end, one audience member—and she's entirely serious—shouts: “Play something good!” Algorave is messy, but that's partly the point: these are not the pristine algorithms that fetch your search results on Google; they're built live, for a crowd.

2013 August 29, Tom Chesire, “Hacking meets clubbing with the ‘algorave’”, in Wired UK, →ISSN:

An event where people dance to music generated from algorithms, often improvised on the spot.


biomythography

Blend of biography + mythography, coined by feminist Audre Lorde.


oddvertising

Other responses included: adverts which passed themselves off as art works; the growth of 'oddvertising' (Berger 2001) using surreal and irrational images and narratives; the inclusion of the iconography of political dissent; […]

2007, Rosalind M. Gill, Gender and the Media, page 83:


demsoc

en-noun

demsoc (countable and uncountable, plural demsocs)

democratic socialist
democratic socialist


homocapitalism

A blend of homosexual + capitalism or an affixation of homo- + capitalism.

Capitalist appropriation and assimilation of sexual diversity, especially pertaining to the gay, cisgender, western, white, and upper middle class men.

gaipitalisme

capitalist appropriation and assimilation of sexual diversity


socdem

socdem (countable and uncountable, plural socdems)


brotox

Brotox is becoming popular among men.

2016 February 1, Byker, “Islam LOVES Political Correctness”, in uk.politics.misc (Usenet):

Tim O'Reilly, a 32-year-old building inspector from Kirribilli, New South Wales, has been getting 'brotox' regularly for the past two years, and he doesn't have any plans to stop.

2018 March 22, Emilia Mazza, “The rise of BROTOX: Building inspector, 32, spends $2,000 on cosmetic treatments over two years and has no plans to stop - despite his mates mocking him for 'being a girl'”, in The Daily Mail (Australia):

And now, the next frontier is here with some barbers offering “brotox” – or Botox – for men.

2018 June 5, Ashleigh Austen, “Barbershops are now offering 'brotox' injections”, in The New York Post:

(see title)

2018 August 22, Raquel de Brito, “'Brotox' on the rise”, in The West Australian:

(informal) The use of Botox treatments by men.


cognitariat

cognitariat (countable and uncountable, plural cognitariats)

(sociology) A social group formed by people with high academic training, who receive a low salary not in accordance with their educational level.


kapoof

Blend of kaput + poof. Perhaps influenced by the ka- prefix (which is a variant of ker-).

Not long after childhood his acting career suddenly went kapoof.

(informal) The sound of something disappearing, or going up in smoke.


Westralian

en-adj

Westralian (comparative more Westralian, superlative most Westralian)

more Westralian (comparative)
most Westralian (superlative)

Blend of western + Australian or Westralia + -an


transparisteel

Blend of transparent + steel. Apparently coined by Brian Daley in 1979.

His gaze went to Hirken, who stood gloating behind invulnerable transparisteel.

1979, Brian Daley, Han Solo at Stars’ End:

Ignoring the familiar discomfort, he padded barefoot across the thick white carpet toward the heavy curtains that lined the richly appointed bedroom’s wide transparisteel window.

2007, Andy Mangels, Michael A. Martin, Star Trek: Enterprise: The Good That Men Do:

The cockpit was located underneath the body, a down slanted oval of transparisteel.

(uncountable, science fiction) a fictional hard transparent metal used instead of glass in windows


motarded

motarded (comparative more motarded, superlative most motarded)

more motarded (comparative)
most motarded (superlative)

(US, military, slang) Like a motard; obnoxiously overenthusiastic.


horngry

horngry (comparative more horngry, superlative most horngry)

more horngry (comparative)
most horngry (superlative)

(dated) Pronunciation spelling of hungry.


volunpeer

Blend of volunteer + peer, coined by Meghan Ferriter of the Smithsonian Transcription Center.

Ferriter shows her respect for the volunteers when she refers to them as “volunpeers.” Ferriter said, “‘Volunpeers’ indicates the ways unit administrators and Smithsonian staff experience the TC along with volunteers.[…]”

2016 December 21, Mike Ashenfelder, ““Volun-peers” Help Liberate Smithsonian Digital Collections”, in The Signal:

After they have registered on JMB’s homepage, reviewers, or “Volunpeers” are alerted to new manuscripts matching their expertise (and only when this is the case). If they see something they like, the Volunpeers can respond to “book” the article for their review.

2018 January 9, Christopher Tancock, “Innovation in peer review: introducing “volunpeers””, in Elsevier Connect:

(neologism) A skilled volunteer working at a professional level.


medicane

Mediterranean tropical-like storms (the “medicane” term has been proposed for these storms) evolve under significantly different environmental conditions compared with the tropical ones.

[2007 January 15, L. Fita, “Analysis of the environments of seven Mediterranean tropical-like storms using an axisymmetric, nonhydrostatic, cloud resolving model”, in Natural Hazards and Earth System Science, volume 7, page 41:

The methodology is presently transferred to the analysis and projection of North Pacific polar low statistics and that of medicanes, vigorous below synopticscale cyclones in the Mediterranean (The word medicane is a hybrid of Mediterranean and hurricane).

2013, A. Surjalal Sharma, Extreme Events and Natural Hazards: The Complexity Perspective:

Thus, it is essential to study medicanes and calibrate the numerical weather prediction models in order to simulate them adequately.

2016, Theodore Karacostas, Perspectives on Atmospheric Sciences, page 115:

After pounding parts of western and central Greece meteorologists have predicted a rare Mediterranean hurricane-like storm, or medicane, is headed south towards the island of Crete.

2020 September 19, Helena Smith, “Medicane Ianos turns towards Crete after sweeping across Greece”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

The flash flood that has killed thousands of people in Libya this week followed a “medicane”, a rare but destructive weather phenomenon that scientists believe will intensify in a warming world.

2023 September 15, “What are medicanes? The ‘supercharged’ Mediterranean storms that could become more frequent”, in The Guardian, sourced from Agence France-Presse, →ISSN:

(meteorology, informal) A hurricane-like storm that forms in the Mediterranean Sea.


comatoast

(slang, humorous) Unresponsive as a result of drug use.


hieropathic

hieropathic (comparative more hieropathic, superlative most hieropathic)

more hieropathic (comparative)
most hieropathic (superlative)


rolex

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

Blend of rolled + eggs. The name rolex comes from its method of preparation, with the chapati and the egg omelette rolled together.

Rolex is a chapati roll with fried eggs stuffed in, accompanied with fresh vegetable salad.

2008, A Visitor's Guide to Uganda: 2008/2009, Tourguide Publications:

All this time our rolex has always been a humble meal; a taste best savoured around suburbs by those who, if not out of time to prepare a decent meal, are out of money to do as much. […] To spice up the event, a dish of well-manicured and half-piece (half-piece!) rolexes was ushered in.

2016 August 20, Peter Kagayi, “The curious case of the rolex”, in Daily Monitor:

A welcome, if humble, addition to Kampala's edible offerings is the 'rolex'. This is nothing more (or less) than a freshly cooked chapati enhanced by a fresh omelette, chopped onions, green peppers and finely sliced cabbage.

An omelette fried and rolled up in a chapati (Indian flatbread), rolex is excellent food on the go, and a firm breakfast favourite on the streets of Kampala, where it's often still served in a roll or cone of newspaper.

(Uganda) An omelette served inside a chapati.


nervicited

nervicited (comparative more nervicited, superlative most nervicited)

more nervicited (comparative)
most nervicited (superlative)

Pinkie Pie trotted up to join them, a wide smile on her face and an extra bounce in her prance. “You're just nervicited!”

2014, G M Berrow, Equestria Girls: Through the Mirror, →ISBN:

TLC's new show will follow the Howe family's trip to their kingdom, and Grace explained that she's nervicited about the journey.

2015 September 17, Caitlin Flynn, “Who Is Grace Howe? The 'Suddenly Royal' Star Won't Let Her .Princess Status Go To Her Head”, in Bustle:

“Programming is one of my favorite things,” Lindsey Gard said, and she is “nervicited” – nervous and excited – about the competition.

2016 January 21, Laura Daniali, “Girl Scouts head to robotics, programming competition”, in Edmonds Beacon:

I'd been so nervicited about being with Brayden, I hadn't paid much attention before.

(informal) Simultaneously nervous and excited.


Lolocaust

(derogatory, offensive, slang) The Holocaust; a holocaust, seen as a humorous event.


Holocaustianity

It's not just a question of the sickness and guilt instilled in young whites by nonstop harangues about "slavery" and "apartheid" — and Holocaustianity too, it might be added

1993, Instauration, volumes 19-20, page 14:

This is a perfect description of the Buchanan Brigades' forum, which is replete with references to the "Holohoax" and "Holocaustianity."

2009, Why is Pat Buchanan's website playing host to Holocaust deniers?, New York Daily News:

These are the kind of disgusting and morbid, psychotic images which Jewish kids are exposed to constantly in the cinematic liturgy of Holocaustianity and for that matter, in the Talmud as well.

2011, From the Temple to the Talmud, page 175:

Typical of their modus operandi, the ADL scared off speakers for Freedompalooza by dropping the “holocaust-denial” bomb. “I’m tired of seeing white men kneeling down to the Holocaustianity myth,” said Topete

2013, Confronting the ADL's Campaign of Hate, American Free Press:

As the foundation for Christianity and Muhammadism we must not leave out criticism of the Jewish presence on the world stage because of the divisiveness of any supremacist, racist group based on unverifiable ancient texts and scientific error, at the risk of venturing into the intellectual arenas that have been forced out of public debate by constant barrage of victim status, Holocaustianity, preemptive defensive posturing and hypersensitivity through Jewish media and political discourse coupled with the fringe labeling of delusional conspiracy theorists of those who dare or actually are.

(offensive, used by Holocaust deniers) A belief system centered around Holocaust assertions.


Boxador

A dog that is a cross between a boxer and a labrador.


Labradane

A dog that is a cross between a labrador and a Great Dane.


canicross

Canicross is the sport of cross country running with dogs. Originating in Europe as off-season training for the mushing (sledding) community, it has become popular as a stand-alone sport all over Europe, especially in the UK.

2014, Guillaume de Lavigne, THE DRAFT DOG, past and present, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 163:

The sport of cross-country running with dogs that are harnessed to the runner's belt by a cord.


gnarlsome

gnarlsome (comparative more gnarlsome, superlative most gnarlsome)

more gnarlsome (comparative)
most gnarlsome (superlative)

When the winter swells roll across the Big O from our great white neighbor to the north, we receive some of the most gnarlsome wavage ever not to be seen […].

1987, Surfer - Volume 28, Issues 1-6, page 34:

The Martin-Logan Sequal^([sic]) Series II loudspeakers come as close as anything I've heard to succeeding at the gnarlsome enterprise of fusing a cone woofer with an electrostatic panel.

1990, The Absolute Sound - Volume 15, Issues 64-66, page 64:

Sure you are. Anyway, how goes your batch of the Simming? Mine is gnarlsome, raspulescent, grislesque.

2012, Iain M. Banks, The Hydrogen Sonata:

(rare, slang) gnarly and awesome at the same time


giraffiti

GIRAFFITI IS HIGHER UP THE WALL but you need a ladder […]

2005, Peter Haney, How to Climb an Elephant, →ISBN, page 108:

Graffiti on a high structure (on a heaven spot).


coordinome

(music) A punched tape based metronome for polymetric music.


coordinome

Blend of coordinate + genome or from coordinate + -ome.

Second, only in one pair (cMM17-MM17) the expression levels of most coordinome members were similar in melanocyte and melanoma cultures (Figs. 4 and 5).

2003, Cancer Research - Volume 63, page 4123:

The present results support the original suggestion that MHC-I and APM components act as a coordinome with core and peripheral (gene-specific) control features, and a hierarchy of control steps [41].

2012, Silvia Lorenzi, Matteo Forloni, Loredana Cifaldi, Chiara Antonucci, Arianna Citti, Renata Boldrini, Marco Pezzullo, Aurora Castellano, Vincenzo Russo, Pierre van der Bruggen, Patrizio Giacomini, Franco Locatelli, Doriana Fruci, “IRF1 and NF-kB restore MHC class I-restricted tumor antigen processing and presentation to cytotoxic T cells in aggressive neuroblastoma”, in PLoS One, volume 7, number 10:

(biochemistry) A DNA sequence that serves to coordinate the expression of two or more genes.


Republicant

"[…]I mean ... republicant's will use anything, even a person's own humanity against them, Just don't go out of your way to mention it at every campaign stop, If somebody asks, you can tell 'em if it's any of their business a' course."

2008, Ross Nicholson, Hillary's Angel: The McGovern Campaign in Dallas, Texas, 1972: What Happened to Hillary Clinton Thirty-Five Years Ago, page 141:

The Kennedy family has been an inspiration to all of humanity. As I write this, Ted is in my prayers as he battles a brain tumor. And for the record, I am not a Democrat (Demobrat) or a Republican (Republicant). I am a Godsurecan!

2009, Hippie Bob, Hippie Bob & the Chocolate Factory: A True Fairytale, page 63:

And that goes double and then some for them folks that strutted around the Republicant Convention wearing Purple Heart band aids and otherwise putting down everybody that has ever fought and died for our country.

2010, Terry P. Rizzuti, R. E. Armstrong, The Life and Times of Bubba Lee Boatbum, page 29:

Congress was an ineffective mix of "blue balls" and "blue-dog" Democrats, "Republi-Dems", and "Republicants."

2012, W.J. Reichertz, Purpose Beyond 2012: The Wisconsin Idea, Occupy Wall Street and Democracy's Future:

(US politics, slang, derogatory) A member, especially a politician, of the Republican Party (with an implication that they are unable to get things done).


tremordominant

(of a person with Parkinson's disease) Having tremors as the dominant symptom.


wingdom

A lion for the jungle or an eagle for all wingdom?

1947, Norman Corwin, Untitled, and other radio dramas, page 19:

While the earth we have mistakenly taken to be our kingdom to overuse and misadminister as we please begins to show the wear and tear of that, he has given us a brilliantly preserved wingdom.

2001, Birds in Art: An International Exhibition, page 14:

Here it seemed, then, that you could navigate according to the clouds' positions, and that the routes of birds had nothing to teach but life's confusion—which it would be like both weather and wingdom to deceive you into.

2013, Ivan Doig, The Sea Runners, →ISBN:


(Philippine politics) Rodrigo Duterte, president of the Philippines from 2016-2022.


frings

Side orders of Caesar salad, french fries, onion rings, frings (fries and rings), or chili fries ($2-4).

2001, John Penisten, Kaua'I - The Garden Island: Making the Most of Your Family Vacation:

Hefty patties stacked high with fresh toppings are accompanied by a basket of “frings”–fries and rings.

2015, DK Eyewitness Travel Guide USA, page 713:

(slang, neologism) A combined portion of fries and onion rings.


signcrypt

en-verb

signcrypt (third-person singular simple present signcrypts, present participle signcrypting, simple past and past participle signcrypted)

signcrypts (present singular third-person)
signcrypting (participle present)
signcrypted (participle past)
signcrypted (past)

Blend of sign + encrypt, from en- + -crypt, from Ancient Greek κρυπτός (kruptós, literally “hidden, concealed, private, secret”)


basebrawl

(informal) A fight that breaks out at a baseball game.


pollman

Blend of poll (“ordinary university degree”) + man. First part from Ancient Greek πολλοί (polloí, “the many, the masses”). Second part from Middle English man, from Old English mann m (“human being, person, man”).

der

Even the wretched pollmen cannot be expected to unravel the quirks and catches in their elementary papers with any degree of credit, unless they have been privately trained for the purpose.

1860 July 1, “IX. Cambridge University Reform”, in The British Quarterly Review, volume 32, page 227:

Nevertheless, it is tolerably clear, from various parts of their Report, that while they believe the best Harrow or Rugby boy to be equal to the picked scholars of their own schools, they are persuaded that the average Harrow or Rugby boy—one, for example, who goes from the fifth form to be a pollman at Cambridge or an officer in the army—knows less, and has received less intellectual training and intellectual stimulus, than a French boy of the same age.

1869 January 16, “A French View of English Schools”, in The Saturday Review, volume 27, number 690, page 92:

It is related of some Cambridge poll-man that he was once so ill-advised as to desert a private tutor.

(UK, historical, Cambridge University slang) One who takes an ordinary university degree, without honours.


psychill

Special thanks to my guitars for helping me regain movement, momentum, flow, and energy during each break, and thanks to musicians/artists Robert Rich and Shulman, the compilation album Space Forming, and all the wonderful psybient/psychill electronic artists as well as all the wide variety of music I listen to... all music to write a dissertation with!

2015, Jason Beers, From Entheogens to Psychotropics: A Metabletic Analysis of Plant-Human Alienation in Chemical Intervention (PhD dissertation, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology):

There will be six stages with diverse music for any state you might be in. From techno, psychedelic, deep house, jazz, ambient, live bands, cumbia, psychill and many other subgenres only the DJs know, relaxation and zen are in order here.

2016 June 19, Oana Vasiliu, “Top festivals in Romania to check out in July”, in (Romania) Business Review:

As at the previous edition, the event will have six stages featuring diverse music styles: techno, psychedelic, deep house, jazz, ambient, live bands, cumbia, psychill and many other subgenres.

2017 July 12, “Music festival kicks off in scenic Romania village”, in Romania Insider:

(music) A subgenre of psytrance that is influenced by reggae and psybient.


CCAV

Blend of CCTV (“China Central Television”) + AV (“adult video”).

blend

(China, neologism, slang, derogatory or humorous) China Central Television (CCTV).


psybient

Indeed, by the early 2000s, the music and cultures of psytrance (from psybient to darkpsy) was becoming entheogenically liminalised, a popular state of affairs from Europe to Israel, America to Australia and Brazil to South Africa.

2010, Graham St John, The Local Scenes and Global Culture of Psytrance, →ISBN, page 224:

Psybient artists include Shpongle, Entheogenic (2), Evan Bluetech, Yaniv Shulman, Kickbong, and some of the works of Younger Brother.

Shpongle was formed in 1996 and has been described by Posford as “like nothing you’ve ever heard before.” They have been noted for pioneering the “psybient” genre, which combines world music, such as Ram’s infamous flute, with synth-based electronic mixing, making a sound that has been a strong influence for so many groups since Shpongle’s inception.

2014 May 9, Isabel McCan, “Shpongle: One-Time Show with Live Band at Red Rocks”, in 303 Magazine:

The worldwide annual psychedelic festival for yoga, music, dance and nature lovers is again hosted lecturers, coaches, psychologists and healers along with 130 yoga workshops, seances and lectures, as well as a Psybient music festival with over 140 music artists and DJs performing on three stages.

2018 August 16, “Samsara Festival: In Nature We Escape – Photo Album!”, in Hungary Today:

(music) A musical genre that is a fusion of psytrance and ambient.


anicom

Development of the 'anicom' "The Simpsons" and a number of other 'anicoms' differ from other forms of television […]

2001, Animation Journal, volumes 9-12, page 85:

[…] teen soaps (Hollyoaks), anicoms (The Simpsons), police psychological thrillers (Cracker) and so on.

2006, Tony Purvis, Get Set for Media and Cultural Studies, page 65:

(neologism) A sitcom that uses animation rather than filmed actors.


amphoterrible

A few days later he was in the ICU candida growing out of everywhere. If it hadn' been for amphoterrible, he'd have been a dead duck.

1999 October 1, Steven B. Harris, “Re: Flu Shot Time Again”, in misc.health.alternative (Usenet):

Dr. Cheng said, “I want you to just nod or shake your head. If I can't understand you, we'll go to Fiona, alright? I want to know if I have your okay to take you off the pentam and the amphoterrible. That means we'd be officially starting hospice. And I want you on morphine.”

2018, Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers, Viking Press, →ISBN:

(informal, mildly humorous, pharmacology) The antifungal medication amphotericin B, known for its severe and potentially lethal side effects.


twoprov

After realizing on their first date that they were both comedians, Alissa and Juliette immediately formed a twoprov team together.

I know you do twoprov with your EmotiStyle partner, Molly Austin.

2014 February 20, Brittani Nichols, “Comedy Crush: EmotiStyle's Shamikah Martinez”, in Autostraddle, archived from the original on 2017-07-10:

Opening the night was We Know Each Other, a fitting name for a married couple. We Know Each Other is a twoprov group that blends silliness, emotionality, and quirky characters in each scene.

2016 June 25, Aly, “Twin Cities Improv Festival X”, in Say Entirely, archived from the original on 2016-07-16:

The solo improv parts are very entertaining and the twoprov parts are very fun because they really play off each others^([sic]) comedy very very well.

2018 July 17, Holly, “Funny At The Fringe – REVIEW – Christian Adore and Eaton Messe DragProv Revue, Edinburgh Fringe Preview”, in Phoenix Remix, archived from the original on 2018-07-19:

improvisational comedy
improvisational comedy#English

(comedy) Improv (usually improvisational comedy) performed by a duo.


Westlock

Blend of Westgate + Lockhart, surnames of the owners who owned the land where the settlement was built since 1912.
The original unincorporated community east of the present town, established 1902, is named Edson, after the Edgson family, who owned the settlement's land, but is renamed Edison by Irish immigrants after Thomas Edison, because it duplicated with another settlement along the Grand Trunk Railway.

A town in Westlock County, Alberta, Canada; formerly named Edson and Edison.


crawl control

(automotive) Slow cruise control for off-roading.


aquatectural

en-adj

aquatectural (comparative more aquatectural, superlative most aquatectural)

more aquatectural (comparative)
most aquatectural (superlative)

From aquatecture + -al, equivalent to a blend of aqua + architectural.

Cross Roads in the Sea examined the potential for floating 'aquatectural' structures to the advantage, of the nearness of the great majority of large urban centres to large bodies of water, in a world where transportation faces dilemmas of space ...

(architecture, rare) Pertaining to aquatecture, architecture designed to work with water (and e.g. rising sea levels).


aquatecture

I sent applications to all Aquatecture concerns I could locate, and surprisingly there were more than one or two. Obviously in the tropics aquatecture was important.

2014, Suzann Dodd, Planet Smudge: Firebird - Chapter Twenty Seven, →ISBN:

… landscape and engineering solutions used in aquatecture.

2016 July-August, Richard Coutts, in Building Surveying Journal

2017, Habitable Aquatecture, Volume I: Research:

(rare) Architecture designed to work with water (and e.g. rising sea levels).


dinosauroid

Blend of dinosaur + humanoid, coined by American-Canadian paleontologist Dale Russell in 1982.

coin

(science fiction) A hypothetical descendant of troodontid dinosaurs with human-like intelligence and physiology.


milkstache

(informal) The residual trace of milk left upon the philtrum (upper lip area) after drinking milk.


lieberal

(US, slang, politics, derogatory) Pejorative for liberal, as considered particularly prone to lying.


lieberal

(US, slang, politics, derogatory) Pejorative for liberal, as above.


cowtastrophe

As the reclining cow commonly rises first behind [...] with so close a shave upon a cow-tastrophe, I should not stand upon ceremony in the dark.

1859, Nathaniel Parker Willis, The Convalescent, page 24:

Adrian College students corral two cows in the college chapel, and were so chumpy as to be caught at it. Ten boys must face the faculty for this cowtastrophe.

1904, Moderator Topics, volume 25, page 736:

"Mother, you wouldn't call that a catastrophe, would you?" inquired Artie, who could use words "as long as himself" his father sometimes declared. ¶ "Huh, that was a cowtastrophe," Fred said placidly.

1925, Alice Dale Hardy, The Riddle Club at Sunrise Beach, page 50:

Earth faces a cow-tastrophe! The Earth could be on the brink of a death-dealing calamity — and belching cows are partly to blame.

1988 January 12, Weekly World News, volume 9, number 14, page 36:

(informal, humorous) A catastrophe involving cattle.


gnome-napping

en-noun

gnome-napping (countable and uncountable, plural gnome-nappings)

There has always been plenty of gnome-napping in Adelaide, but there were no ransom notes for our dog, and it didn't turn up in any obvious places such as on the university lawns.

1997, John Griffin, Back Yard: A Gardening Life, →ISBN, page 20:

Mayor Rosenbaum: Considering the seriousness of the situation—hehe, not to mention my impending reelection campaign—I'm setting up a task force to deal with the gnome-nappings. Officer Halcroft will get right on it.

1999, Mona the Vampire, "There's No Place Like Gnome" (season 1, episode 4b)

The front's activities are similar to "gnome-nappings" in Australia that David Hult detailed in 1988 and Jan Brunvand described again in 1989.

2003, Jeannie B. Thomas, Naked Barbies, Warrior Joes, and Other Forms of Visible Gender, →ISBN:

There is a clandestine international conspiracy behind these gnome-nappings, similar in scope and complexity to those organized to perform crop circle hoaxes and stage UFO sightings.

2004, Marcus Mennes, Gnome & Garden: A Gnovelty Kit, →ISBN, page 44:

In recent years the craze of “gnome- napping”. has been gathering pace.

2011 March 7, Julie Carpenter, “Gnome is where the heart is”, in The Express:

They also, in view of the fact that Inspector Tait had just rung in to report that Annabel Yardley knew nothing about any gnome-napping expeditions by her weekend guests, put another question-mark against the gnome.

2012, Sheila Radley, Fate Worse Than Death, →ISBN:

The gnome-napping continued unsolved for over a month, until one day, they were discovered in the soccer fields, lined up for a kickoff against a team of pink plastic flamingoes.

2015, Beverly Allen, For Whom the Bluebell Tolls, →ISBN:

A prank in which one steals a garden gnome and then either leaves it posed in a public place or photographs it in front of tourist locations.


entransy

entransy (countable and uncountable, plural entransies)

Blend of en[ergy] + trans[fer] + [abilit]y, introduced on 26 February 2007 by a research group at Tsinghua University led by Professor Guo as a basis for optimizing heat transfer processes (Guo, Zeng-Yuan; Zhu, Hong-Ye; Liang, Xin-Gang. Entransy—a physical quantity describing heat transfer ability International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, no. 50, pp. 2545–56, available online 26 February 2007). A descriptive concept of entransy, but without using the term ‘entransy’, was first proposed by Professor Guo's group in February 2003 as ‘heat transport potential capacity’.

blend

A new physical quantity, E#x5F;h#x3D;#x5C;frac#x7B;1#x7D;#x7B;2#x7D;Q#x5F;#x7B;vh#x7D;T [where Qᵥₕ = McᵥT is the heat stored in an object; M is the mass; cᵥ is the specific heat capacity at constant volume; T is the temperature], has been identified as a basis for optimizing heat transfer processes in terms of the analogy between heat and electrical conduction. This quantity, which will be referred to as entransy, corresponds to the electric energy stored in a capacitor.

2007, Zeng-Yuan Guo, Hong-Ye Zhu, Xin-Gang Liang, “Entransy—a physical quantity describing heat transfer ability”, in International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, number 50, page 2545:

The concept of ‘entransy’, a product of heat and temperature, originally called ‘heat transport potential capacity’, was introduced in 2003, as analogy to product of electrical charge and voltage, as well as other similar quantities. The concept has been extended to entransy property, as integral product of ‘stored heat’ and temperature, #x5C;frac#x7B;1#x7D;#x7B;2#x7D;Mc#x5F;vT² [where M is mass; cᵥ is specific heat capacity at constant volume; T is temperature], thus representing quantity and quality of stored heat, or thermal energy in isochoric processes without work interactions.

2017, Milivoje Kostic, “Entransy concept and controversies: A critical perspective within elusive thermal landscape”, in International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, number 115, page 340:

(thermodynamics) Half the product of internal thermal energy and temperature. For a given temperature difference, maximization of the entransy dissipation results in the maximum heat flux and thus corresponds to the optimal heat conduction performance.


brockage

(coin collecting) A type of error coin in which one side of the coin has the normal design and the other side has a mirror image of the same design impressed upon it due to being struck by a die cap.


gizmotronics

(informal) ingenious and complicated electronic devices collectively


Windvocate

(Internet slang, derogatory) A user who advocates the Microsoft Windows operating system.


open sourceror

Rather, just as a cracker can be an open sourceror and vice versa, so many of the identities I am about to outline can be taken up by the same person at the same time, or be passed through over different times.

2008, Tim Jordan, Hacking: Digital Media and Technological Determinism, →ISBN, page 70:

Whereas a free sourceror wouldn't be caught dead using anything other than (GNU) Linux, open sourcerors are happy to use whatever works.

2015 June 3, Mat Asay, “Open source vs. Apple: The holy war that wasn't”, in Tech Republic:

(informal, computing) A programmer who works only on open source programs.


theyby

There's an article on The Cut right now titled, “It's a Theyby! Is it possible to raise your child entirely without gender from birth? Some parents are trying.”

2018 April 14, David Hartung, “More "progressive" idiocy”, in alt.fan.rush-limbaugh (Usenet):

'Boy or girl?' Parents raising 'theybies' let kids decide

2018 July 19, Mack A. Damia, “Isn't This a Bit Silly?”, in alt.usage.english (Usenet):

The Cambridge, Mass., couple represent a small group of parents raising "theybies" - children being brought up without gender designation from birth.

2018 July 20, BurfordTJustice, “Hot New Moonbat Trend: Raising "Theybies" - Kids Who Can Choose Their Own Gender.”, in alt.home.repair (Usenet):

Meanwhile the theybies hit piece from Carlson is an embarrassment to journalism.

2018 July 23, Carbon, “A Theory of Trump Kompromat”, in rec.sport.golf (Usenet):

All those millennial mommies who read their theybies that insufferably stupid kiddie book The Giving Tree implanted the dual notions of entitlement and economic illiteracy into their useless spawn.

2018 July 30, Joe Cooper, “Millennial Socialism: Stupid, Evil, or Both?”, in soc.culture.usa (Usenet):

(neologism) A baby that is raised in a gender-neutral manner.