criminigger

Obama set the thug spook Damarlon Thomas free on 11/22.
Dumb nigger barely made it 8 weeks before it assumed room temperature.

2017 January 30, Rick Mathers, “Obanga Pardoned criminigger gets ventilated”, in soc.culture.african.american (Usenet):

What's scary is that these niggers are just starting their careers, and
there are many felonies ahead- sooner rather than later if some lib
judge turns them loose.

2017 February 14, Rick Mathers, “Master criminiggers kill 92 year old black female- net $70”, in alt.atheism (Usenet):

Seriously, it's not the catch and release nigger's fault that he keeps
getting 2nd chances. It's the fault of his Lib Coddlers, and they are
as much at fault, if not more, than the POS CrimiNigger.

2017 April 5, Rick Mathers, “Will the 55th strike finally be enough to cage this beast for life?”, in comp.os.linux.advocacy (Usenet):

In Cleveland horsenostril nigger Manson Bryant, a career
catch-‘n-release criminigger, was facing up to 28 years for a home
apevasion and a laundry list of charges.

2019 March 20, Robert Wolfe, “Nigger’s courtroom chimpout = 28 yrs. in Nigger University from judge”, in alt.checkmate (Usenet):

Making a hero out of a filthy stinking feral idiot piece of shit criminigger is repulsive!

2021 May 24, SynCity, “SH*T-FOR-BRAINS JOE TO HOST THE GEORGE FLOYD 'FAMBLY' AT THE WHITE HOUSE”, in soc.culture.african.american (Usenet):

(US, slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) A black criminal.


prebunking

The practice of countering potential misinformation by warning people against it before it is disseminated.


blanet

2020 August 7th, Anton Petrov, Massive Blanets - Black Hole Planets - Could Be All Over the Place, YouTube:

(astronomy) A planet that orbits a black hole.


Phinabella

I could have been your girlfriend / I could have been your fella / We might have been an item / They would have called us "Phinabella"

2015 February 20, “Act Your Age”, in Phineas and Ferb, season 4, episode 47:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Phineas Flynn and Isabella Garcia-Shapiro from the animated television series Phineas and Ferb.


earthberg

In some senses, a blend of earth + iceberg; in other senses from earth + berg.

The landscape of the Elemental Chaos is broken up by rivers of lightning, seas of fire, floating earthbergs, ice mountains, and other fantastic terrain features.

2008, Jennifer Clark Wilkes, Wizards Presents Worlds and Monsters, page 16:

Marrec mentally labeled the floating islands 'earthbergs.' He saw a few perfect cubes, each face a mirror, tumbling through the darkness.

2010, Bruce R. Cordell, Lady of Poison: The Priests:

All land is floating islands, like icebergs of earth, or “earthbergs,” honeycombed with caves.

2019, Mike Pritchard, A Player's Guide to Strinrath, page 26:

(fantasy) A mass suspended or floating in water, similar to an iceberg, but consisting of earth (dirt, soil, etc.).


Apefrica

An FDNY EMT has been arrested for allegedly choking and raping a 10-year-old girl in Queens, cops said. Frantz Petion was busted around 3:20 a.m. Sunday and accused of strangling and sexually assaulting the girl. This is just a remnant from its ancestors' days in Apefrica where muh dik was used to cure a range of maladies.

2017 March 16, Dindu Nuffin, “Rape Ape EMT Frantz Petion Muh Diks 10-year old”, in soc.culture.african.american (Usenet):

(derogatory, slang, ethnic slur, US) Africa.


Washminster

Blend of Washington + Westminster. Coined by political scientist Elaine Thompson in 1980.

Having read Graham Maddox I can no longer complacently describe the Australian system as a Washminster mutation, nor as a successful system of representative democracy government, as I have in the past.

2005, A Passion for Politics: Essays in Honour of Graham Maddox:

This has caused speculation that New Zealand is moving from a classic Westminster parliamentary system to a more parliamentary-congressional 'Washminster' hybrid.

2007, Stephen I. Levine, Nigel S. Roberts, The Baubles of Office: The New Zealand General Election of 2005:

The move toward the "Washminster" model identified in the early 1980s may be measured by shifts in several of these indicators.

2017, Jong S. Jun, Development in the Asia Pacific: A Public Policiy Perspective, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, →ISBN, page 479:

(politics) A political system which has elements of both the Westminster system and the United States' political system ("Washington").


makeaway

Thousands of venues are offering “makeaways” – a part-cooked takeaway that you finish off or reheat – so that you can enjoy fine dining in the comfort of your own home.

[2021 February 6, Sarah Rainey, “Bring l'amour to your door”, in Scottish Daily Mail, page 53:

Recreate your favourite meat-free dishes with these DIY ‘makeaway’ kits

2021 February 8, Kayleigh Rattle, “10 best vegan restaurant meal kits for you to make at home”, in Independent:

Even the most well thought-out Makeaway or Finish At Home menu kits come with a degree of preparation and pots and pans.

2021 May 23, Julie Scrumptious, “Crumbs up for chocolate treat; Broken up Rich Tea biscuits elevate this choccy cake to a dessert status”, in Daily Record and Sunday Mail, page 19:

Local pub group, Oakman Inns, have recently launched their exciting new “Makeaway” meal boxes, Oakman At Home. […] This year, with their pubs still closed, their award-winning Chef Director, Ross Pike, and his team have created a special three-course Mother's Day Makeaway Feast to deliver direct to your door.

2022 February 15, Jupiter International Pty, “Oakman Inns & Restaurants: When The Local Really Means Local”, in News Bites Finance:

(UK) A kit containing the ingredients for a meal, delivered by a restaurant to the diner's home for them to cook.


strollout

Opinion polls were showing that Morrison had been personally damaged by the government's perceived failures on vaccine supply – the 'strollout' – and the brawls with state leaders over who was to blame for lockdowns during Delta.

2022, Simon Benson, Geoff Chambers, Plagued: Australia's two years of hell — the inside story:

(Australia, informal) The rollout of COVID-19 vaccines at a relatively slow pace.


dartchery

Among the most courageous—and successful—darts players are Australian, paralysed in the lower limbs and part of the trunk, who try their hands at dart-archery (often called dartchery).

1971, Jack Pollard, Ampol's Sporting Records, page 269:

Dartchery is also part of the archery game. Competitors, meeting in pairs, shoot at a dart archery target at 15 yards.

1972 May, Rehabilitation Record, volumes 13-14, page 27:

Two gold medals were awarded to Mary for her competition in intermediate archery and mixed dartchery.

1973, Sigma Signs, Delta Sigma Omicron Alpha Chapter, page 19:

A sport that is a combination of darts and archery. It was played at the Paralympics.


cister

Support all your sisters, not just your cisters!

So let the show begin, black femme cisters, unleash your pinks and let the show begin!

2018, Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley, Ezili's Mirrors: Imagining Black Queer Genders, unnumbered page:

I feel like sometimes, in our need to prove our worth we forget to tell our "cisters" how much they matter to us.

2018, Ariadni Tzounakou, “From Woman to Woman”, in Fliqped Magazine, number 11, page 23:

As I write, I see and hear the many sister (not cister) friends and colleagues and comrades who have been a part of this conversation.

2021, Zillah Eisenstein, Abolitionist Socialist Feminism: Radicalizing the Next Revolution, page 21:

(LGBTQ, neologism) A cisgender woman, especially one that is part of a community that includes trans women.


nociplastic

Blend of nociceptive + neuroplastic, or perhaps noci- + plastic.

Patients with rheumatic conditions often have mixed pain states, with varying degrees of nociceptive, neuropathic, and nociplastic mechanisms, which exist on a continuum. When individuals with any chronic pain have a nociplastic component to their symptoms, they are less likely to respond to treatments (eg, injections, surgery, biologics, and opioids) that work better for acute or purely nociceptive pain.

2021, Deeba Minhas, Daniel Joseph Clauw, “Pain Mechanisms in Patients with Rheumatic Diseases”, in Maripat Corr, editor, Pain in Rheumatic Diseases, Elsevier, unnumbered page:

Pain can be classified as nociceptive, neuropathic, or nociplastic as per the International Association for the Study of Pain [6, 7]. Fibromyalgia falls within the nociplastic classification.

2023, George Deng, “9: Fibromyalgia”, in Brian W. Blakley, Joan E. Blakley, editors, Functional Illness of the Head and Neck, Springer, page 75:

Peripheral sensitisation of nociceptive neurons can enhance or prolong the pain experience, even without sensitisation of central neurons (i.e. nociplastic or central sensitisation).

2024, Elaine Atkins, Emily Goodlad, Sharon Braddock, A Practical Approach to Musculoskeletal Medicine, 5th edition, Elsevier, page 5:

central nervous system
central nervous system

(physiology) Of, pertaining to, or resulting from plasticity, of a kind analogous to neuroplasticity, in parts of the central nervous system concerned with nociception.

nociplastique

pertaining to or resulting from plasticity in the central nervous system


snownado

en-noun

snownado (plural snownados or snownadoes)

(informal) A tornado that touches down over a snow covered area, such as a field or mountain, and draws snow up into its vortices.


tritoon

A type of boat with three parallel pontoons.


documercial

/ˌdɒk.jʊˈmɜːʃəl/

A documentary formatted and used to sell products.


modmin

Instead of alerting the officials, users are told to tag a modmin, who will quickly review the situation and do what needs to be done so that the group can continue to function.

2019, Jessica Reyman, Erika M. Sparby, Digital Ethics: Rhetoric and Responsibility in Online Aggression:

As soon as I set up a course page with my CRs as my fellow modmins, my course students immediately joined the page and within a week I started lectures.

2020 June 7, Naira Khan, “OP-ED: The online pivot in Bangladesh”, in Dhaka Tribune:

As those needs come, Williams and her team of modmins remain more dedicated than ever to keeping their Buy Nothing Group as welcoming and safe a space as possible in order to both provide – and create – community.

2021 June 1, Olivia Monahan, “How a Sacramento ‘Buy Nothing’ Facebook group helped a community thrive in 2020”, in The Sacramento Bee:

Having moderators and administrators (modmins) who are very active can go a long way to knowing who is in your community, what’s happening in your community, and ensuring everyone feels comfortable in the space you’ve created.

2021 July 3, Kiesha Richardson, “How to Create Safe Communities in the Gaming Industry”, in GNL Magazine:

A user on social media who is either a moderator or an administrator.


apronym

If the acronym spells a word that suits the message (e.g. MAMA for Mothers Against Male Aggression) it is known as an apronym. Motivational speakers often use acronyms or apronyms because they are so easy to remember.

2018, Simon Lancaster, Speechwriting: The Expert Guide:

SWIFT was an apronym, an acronym that spelt a contextually meaningful word. It was meant to be fast. Indeed, SWIFT messages are literally lightning fast, travelling over wire at the speed of light, basically instantaneous.

2020, Nikesh Lalchandani, Payments and Banking in Australia:

An acronym or backronym that spells out another word or phrase relating to the meaning of the phrase that it abbreviates.


noodlewhore

Blend of noodle + whore, referencing the stereotype of noodle-based dishes as a staple of East Asian cuisines.

[…] Indian and Asian women are hated the most (“Ethnik Indian and noodlewhores are the worse of the worst”) because they are said to prefer only white men, […]

2019 November, Sylvia Jaki, Tom De Smedt, Maja Gwóźdź, Rudresh Panchal, Alexander Rossa, Guy De Pauw, “Online hatred of women in the Incels.me forum: Linguistic analysis and automatic detection”, in Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict, volume 7, number 2:

(incel slang, ethnic slur) A woman of East Asian (especially Japanese) heritage.


mangorita

/ˌmæŋɡəʊɹˈiː.tə/

/ˌmæŋɡoʊˈɹi.tə/

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cidiot

Probably one of them cidiot hunters fooling around, firing off pot shots any which way.

2013, Robin Timmerman, Season of Deceit, page 51:

Not a typical cidiot, he was self-employed and thinking of relocating here to be closer to her.

2015, Deb Loughead, Rise of the Zombie Scarecrows, page 1412:

Only an idiot, like this roofer from the city, would drive his truck out on the ice. A cidiot.

2019, Carol Rose GoldenEagle, Bone Black:

A 'cidiot,' I believe we're called by the locals?

2020, Aimee Molloy, Goodnight, Beautiful:

“Hey, watch it buddy, technically I'm a cidiot.” “Present company excluded. You may be from the city but I'm sure you don't act like the rest of the city idiots."

(colloquial, derogatory) An idiot from the city.


sleepcation

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(I know moms who live for their “sleepcations”—they either hit a hotel for a night or just wait for the kids to be away at Grand-ma's or a slumber party, then they climb into bed at eight p.m., […]

If your debt is over 40 hours, a “sleepcation” could change your life. This is where you check into a hotel for three nights, dim the room as much as possible, avoid stimulants, and let yourself sleep day and night.

2014, Alan Christianson, The Adrenal Reset Diet, page 104:

I spend a lot of time in my clinic telling couples it is okay to sleep apart sometimes. I have dubbed this a "sleepcation".

2017, W. Chris Winter, The Sleep Solution:Why Your Sleep is Broken and How to Fix It, Penguin Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 115:

(informal) A break from ordinary activities in order to catch up on missed sleep.


Endia

(Pakistan, derogatory, offensive, slang) India.


chocolatini

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shoffice

This spring, is your fancy turning towards a delightful garden room? Whether it’s a place to hang out (or hide from the family), an art studio, a gymnasium, a home office or shoffice, or even occasional accommodation for visitors, these stylish domestic add-ons have never been so popular.

2019 February 22, Jayne Dowle, A pod, a ‘shoffice’ or a garden room:

Cropping up at the bottom of gardens up and down the UK is the latest trend among the country’s home workers – the “shoffice”, an office in a shed.

2021 May 30, Joanna Partridge, Home working drives demand for ‘shoffice’ space in UK gardens:

(British, informal) A small building, located in a garden, serving as a home workspace.


preighter

(aviation) A freighter converted from a passenger aircraft.


finfluencer

→ German: Finfluencer, Finfluenzer

→ Macedonian: финфлуенсер (finfluenser)

desc

финфлюе́нсер

финфлюэ́нсер

→ Russian: финфлюе́нсер (finfljujénser), финфлюэ́нсер (finfljuénser)

→ Serbo-Croatian: fincluencer／финфлуенсер

(informal, social media, marketing, neologism) An influencer who gives advice on financial investments.


kidfluencer

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

In December, a 9-year-old kidfluencer known as Txunamy shared a photo on Instagram and asked her more than two million followers to comment on it and share their ages.

2019 January 3, Sapna Maheshwari, “Online and Earnings Thousands, at Age 4: Meet the Kidfluencers”, in The New York Times:

Putting aside the obvious questions regarding infant privacy, just who exactly are these kidfluencers supposed to be kidfluencing?

2019 January 3, Jack Morse, “So it's come to this: An unborn baby 'kidfluencer' has 112,000 Instagram followers”, in Mashable:

As a result, most “Kidfluencers” parents manage their accounts in order to sustain their online presence.

2021 February 23, Vanessa Cezarita Cordeiro, ““Kidfluencers” and Social Media: The Evolution of Child Exploitation in the Digital Age”, in Humanium:

Even though only a small number of kidfluencers are this successful, the prospect of earning a steady income has attracted many families to participate in the trend.

2022 September 6, “What are 'kidfluencers'?”, in INHOPE:

(informal, social media, marketing) A child who is an influencer.


sharbing

(gambling, informal) The use of a betting shop's coupons and a betting exchange to create an arbitrage position.


blucket

Blend of blade + bucket; the use of bucket here refers to the inner, turbine portion of the blade.

mechanical engineering
mechanical engineering

(aviation, mechanical engineering) A type of turbine blade where the inner portion of the blade is driven by expanding exhaust gases from the engine core, while the outer portion extends into the bypass duct and serves as a fan blade; used on a few turbofans with rear-mounted fans.


beetloaf

en-noun

beetloaf (countable and uncountable, plural beatloaves)

Father had a bit more success with his beet experimentation, inventing such delicacies as beetloaf, Sunday morning succotash surprise and beet omelets.

1999 February, Maria M Gillan, Jennifer Gillan, Identity Lessons: Contemporary Writing About Learning to Be American, New York: Penguin Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →ISBN:

[…] eggsalad made with eggs laid by those local chickens, ham and cheese, meat loaf, and spectacularly succulent meatless beetloaf.

2017 March, Jane Stern, Michael Stern, Roadfood, 10th Edition: An Eater's Guide to More Than 1,000 of the Best Local Hot Spots and Hidden Gems Across America, New York: Clarkson Potter, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 159, →ISBN:

A vegetarian meatloaf substitute made with beets.


queerantine

queerantine (countable and uncountable, plural queerantines)

Or, as another user put it in a post that invited members to a WhatsApp chat: “JOIN US IN QUEERANTINE. Self isolation need not be so lonely.”

2020 March 18, Penelope Green, “‘Join us in queerantine’: a dating app builds a community”, in New York Times (online):

This is my winged eleganza best costume for today! #goforthegold #billyporterfashionchallenge #theebillyporter #diydiva #queerantine #quarantinebutmakeitfashion

2020 March 27, Celia Fernandez, quoting Tony Elder (@forgotten_fabric), “Billy Porter asked fans to recreate his Met Gala look, and they delivered”, in Insider, archived from the original on 2020-06-29:

Olly has been hosting weekly Queerantine parties since March. Having started out via Instagram Live, the Saturday club nights have now transferred over to Zoom.

2020 June 14, Adam Maidment, “Queerantine parties bring Gay Village into living rooms”, in Manchester Evening News, Glasgow, page 10:

The present study aims to address this need through analysing data from the Queerantine study (a portmanteau of queer and quarantine), a web-based survey that assesses how LGBTQ+ adults are experiencing the coronavirus pandemic. In the present paper, we examine extent to which respondents to the Queerantine survey experienced forms of sexuality or gender-based discrimination, including harassment and exclusion, during the coronavirus pandemic.

2021 June 25, Kneale, Dylan, and Laia Bécares, “Discrimination as a predictor of poor mental health among LGBTQ+ people during the COVID-19 pandemic: cross-sectional analysis of the online Queerantine study”, in BMJ Open, volume 11, →DOI, page 3:

(humorous) A quarantine experienced by one or more queer (sexually unconventional) people during the COVID-19 pandemic.


yummylicious

en-adj

yummylicious (comparative more yummylicious, superlative most yummylicious)

more yummylicious (comparative)
most yummylicious (superlative)

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Cutting-edge humor and a raw seductive hero make Don't Talk Back to Your Vampire a yummylicious treat.

2010 September 7, Michele Bardsley, Cross Your Heart: A Broken Heart Novel (Fiction), Penguin Publishing Group, →ISBN, →OCLC, →ISBN:


Johnsonomics

Blend of Johnson + economics, equivalent to Johnson + -nomics.

With interest on the national debt at $100 billion annually, and the total debt at $1 trillion, these figures are not Reaganomics but Johnsonomics coming home to roost with an assist from Richard Nixon, Jerry Ford and Jimmy Carter.

1981 December 4, James H. Bolling, “Lundy column needs refuting”, in Tallahassee Democrat, number 338, Tallahassee, Fla., page 4A, columns 4–5:

This has been the going rate for as long as I can recall, and that goes back long before Reaganomics or Johnsonomics, or just about any nomics that can be mentioned.

1982 July 18, Jim Fox, “Weatherbird Is A Tradition That’s Hard To Buck”, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch, volume 104, number 196, St. Louis, Mo., page 1C, column 1:

The Eagle quotes Professor Shapiro as being “infuriated by Reagonomics.” Would he be less infuriated by Trumanomics or Johnsonomics, with another nice little war to drive the suicide rate down?

1982 November 2, John S. Kebabian, “Statistics on suicide”, in The Berkshire Eagle, volume 90, number 149, Pittsfield, Mass., page 8, column 5:

“Reaganomics and its failure is the same as Carteronomics, Johnsonomics and Nixonomics,” David W. Ring said at an hour-long faculty seminar at the college’s Hunt Union yesterday afternoon.

1983 April 14, Diane Boyer, “Reaganomics dubbed trend, not turnabout”, in The Evening Press, Binghamton, N.Y., page 1B, column 2:

I don’t understand Reaganomics and never have. Of course I never understood Carternomics, Fordonomics, Nixonomics, Johnsonomics, or Kennedynomics either. The best I have been able to figure out is that you just send all you can to Washington and hope to get a little in return.

1992, Bo Whaley, “Things I Just Don’t Understand”, in Why the South Lost THE War ...and Other Things I Don’t Understand, Nashville, Tenn.: Rutledge Hill Press, →ISBN, section “A Few Things I Don’t Understand”, page 20, column 2:

(US politics, rare) Economic policies associated with the administration of Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963–1969.


Trumanomics

Blend of Truman + economics, equivalent to Truman + -nomics.

WHY, in all the recent talk about the Man from Independence, didn’t we hear anyone mention Trumanomics?

1984 May 15, William D. Tammeus, “Starbeams”, in The Kansas City Star, Kansas City, Mo., page 10A, column 4:

When Dewey told Eisenhower that he wanted to limit the role of the federal government to merely underwriting the cartels, he was calling for the stabilization of Trumanomics: the preservation of the separation of government, the cartels, and the economy.

1986, H.R. Shapiro, Democracy in America: A Political History of the United States, 1620-1789/1984, page 456:

A closer look at Trumanomics is in order, since Kuttner praises the “crusty populist” and his economic adviser Leon Keyserling as friends of full employment and economic planning.

No, go for Trumanomics

1996 August 13, David Chaffey, “Letters”, in The Modesto Bee, Modesto, Calif., page A-9:

(US politics, rare) Economic policies associated with the administration of Harry S. Truman, 1945–1953.


narluga

(zoology) A hybrid whale, resulting from the crossbreeding of narwhal and beluga whales; but which feed on different prey than either parent species.


warsuit

“He won’t be waging wars all the world ― he’ll be waging ‘warsuits,’” Noah said. “Droning people with subpoenas all over the globe.”

2016, David Moye, “Trevor Noah: If Trump Is Elected, He’ll Wage ‘Warsuits’”, in Huffington Post:

An unjust lawsuit that is used to intimidate a target.


Radelaide

(Australia, informal, humorous) A nickname for Adelaide. (city in South Australia)


Porkistan

Blend of pork + Pakistan. Consumption of pork is forbidden in Islam, Pakistan’s predominant and official religion. By surface analysis, pork + -i- + -stan.

Coordinate term: Endia

(derogatory, offensive, slang) Pakistan.


shitoris

Can you reach my shitoris with your tongue, Chuck?

(slang, LGBTQ) Prostate gland in the context of sexual stimulation.


digitextuality

Blend of digital + intertextuality, coined by Anna Everett.

[…] and problematize this seemingly reified sublation of body to mind, especially in digital culture and in practices of digitextuality.

2010, Pramod K. Nayar, The New Media and Cybercultures Anthology, page 37:


librandu

(India, derogatory, politics, slang) An ardent supporter of the Indian National Congress or its leader Rahul Gandhi.


suifuel

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The ‘blackpills’ (read: hopeless nihilists) amongst them share ‘suifuel’ (suicidal rant) posts stating there’s no hope, and encouraging fellow incels to kill themselves.

2020 February 19, Jake Hall, “Investigating the insidious rise of the gay incel”, in Dazed:

i went through one of my chad coworker’s social media. Worst decision of my life, absolute suifuel. 500 likes on every picture.

2020, anonymous, quoted in Emma Nyström, "'What becomes of the broken-hearted?': En socialantropologisk studie om männen som kallar sig incels", thesis submitted to Lund University, page 28

For me it is pure suifuel when I meet girls in my age group. Knowing that I have no chance with them makes me really sad. Hopefully my upcoming nose surgery will change that, let's hope so.

2020, anonymous, quoted in Kirsti Sippel, "'Tuhoutukoot naiset maailmani mukana': Incel paineen varaventtiilinä, ideologiana ja yhteiskunnallisena ilmiönä", thesis submitted to the University of Turku, page 36

(incel slang) Something which causes or intensifies suicidal ideation and feelings of hopelessness.


hycean

With densities between those of rocky super-Earths and more extended mini-Neptunes, Hycean planets can be optimal candidates in the search for exoplanetary habitability and may be abundant in the exoplanet population.

2021 August, Nikku Madhusudhan, Anjali A. A. Piette, Savvas Constantinou, “Habitability and Biosignatures of Hycean Worlds”, in Astrophysical Journal:

It's thought that the new classification could accelerate the search for life outside our Solar System for one simple reason: planets that fulfil the criteria to be "Hycean" already dominate the known exoplanet population, which is approaching 4,500.

2021 August 25, Jamie Carter, “Is Alien Life Hiding In Plain Sight? New Class Of 'Hycean' Planet Is Where We Should Look, Say Scientists”, in Forbes:

And learning more about Hycean planets could help scientists find biosignatures, or signs of life, outside of our solar system in the near future.

These hydrogen-rich ocean worlds, or hycean worlds, may be habitable.

2021 September 2, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, James Cooney, “Hycean Worlds and Nudging Asteroids”, in Walkabout the Galaxy:

TOI-2136b is a sub-Neptune transiting a nearby and bright star (J=10.8) and is a potential hycean planet, making it an excellent target for atmospheric studies to understand the formation, evolution, and habitability of the small planets.

2022 February 21, K KawauchiF MurgasE PalleN NaritaA Fukuiet al., “Validation and atmospheric exploration of the sub-Neptune TOI-2136b around a nearby M3 dwarf”, in arXiv.org, →DOI:

While LTT 1445 Ab is not in the traditional habitable zone of its star (Winters et al. 2019), it is considered as a candidate Hycean world where a liquid ocean may exist underneath a H₂-dominated atmosphere.

2022 September 26, Caprice Phillips, Ji Wang, Billy Edwards, Romy Rodriguez Martinez, Anusha Pai Asnodkar, B. Scott Gaudi, “Is LTT 1445 Ab a Hycean World or a cold Haber World? Exploring the Potential of Twinkle to Unveil Its Nature”, in arXiv, →DOI:

(astronomy, planetology, of a planet, neologism) Having a water-based ocean that covers the entire planet, and an atmosphere rich in hydrogen.


soycuck

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Guys today are either soycucks, limp pussy-whipped foid worshippers or violent impulse lunatics that don’t understand the term restraint.

2020, anonymous, quoted in Angus Charles Lindsay, "Swallowing the Black Pill: A Qualitative Exploration of Incel Antifeminism within Digital Society", thesis submitted to Victoria University of Wellington, pages 70-71

It is only jealous older roasties and soy cucks, who complain about men fucking younger females (Especially if it is an ugly man).

2020, anonymous, quote in Katri-Maaria Kyllönen, "'The Incel Rebellion Has Already Begun!': Diskurssianalyysi vihan oikeutuksen representaatioista Incels.co -palstan keskusteluissa", thesis submitted to the University of Lapland, page 65

Fifth, it pisses off normies, soycucks and feminists.

2020, Brian Whitney, The "Supreme Gentleman" Killer: The True Story of an Incel Mass Murderer:

(incel slang, derogatory) A weak or effeminate man; a beta male.


Finnrey

People have started to look at fandom through a social justice lens, so there are now progressive/good ships (Finnrey = interracial, good) and regressive/bad ships (Reylo = white, racist, abusive and sexist = bad).

2020, Shuang, quoted in Adrienne E. Raw, "Fandom Discussion: Knowledge, Intersections, and Tensions of Self, Community, and Social Justice", dissertation submitted to the University of Michigan, page 280

FinnRey fan art

2020, Abigail Reed, "Interpretations and Receptions of Alternative Subjectivities in the Disney-Produced Star Wars Films", dissertation submitted to Florida State University, page vi

I've been following "Finnrey" a lot, which is a dark horse in the realm of shipping. Even people who don't love Finnrey recognize that the first movie did set up that Finn (played by black actor John Boyega) and Rey (white actor Daisy Ridley) had a deep emotional connection that producers later dropped.

2021, Greg Carter, quoted in "UWM historian takes on race, relationships, and representation", In Focus (University of Wisconsin-Millwaukee), January 2021, page 11

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Finn and Rey from Star Wars.


Catradora

I'm firmly on team Catradora, I mean, are they blind to each other or something?

2019, Erik Schubach, The Pike: New Beginnings, unnumbered page:

From Charlize Theron kicking *ss in The Old Guard to the final season of She Ra and The Princess^([sic]) of Power finally giving us Catradora.

2020 August, Jamal Grootboom, “Cursed”, in TV Magazine, South Africa, page 19:

While many comparisons have now been made between “Korrasami” and “Catradora,” in light of the critical success of She-Ra's final season and its open depiction of Catra and Adora's love, […]

2021, Lauren Chochinov, “'What's Going On with You Two?': Queerness, Fandom, and Adaptation in The Legend of Korra Franchise”, in Reginald Wiebe, editor, Polyptych: Adaptation, Television, and Comics, page 131:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Catra and Adora (She-Ra) from the animated series She-Ra and the Princesses of Power.


Lincolnomics

Blend of Lincoln + economics, equivalent to Lincoln + -nomics.

It’s little wonder the Republicans are always so anxious about midterm elections. They lost ground in the very first one — when Abraham Lincoln was in the White House, in 1862. The Democrats picked up 38 House seats in that election, and they might have won more if President Lincoln hadn’t used federal troops to intimidate the opposition in some of the border-state contests. Democrats even won a majority of the House seats from Lincoln’s home state of Illinois. Was it a signal to Washington that Lincolnomics had failed? Not at all.

1982 November 14, “The missing message”, in Craig Klugman, Larry J. Hayes, editors, The Journal~Gazette, Fort Wayne, Ind.: Richard Inskeep, column 1:

THE LITTLE boy next door reports that his class now is studying the Civil War and Lincolnomics.

1982 December 8, William D. Tammeus, “Starbeams”, in The Kansas City Star, volume 103, number 69, Kansas City, Mo., page 16A:

1984, John H. Hotson, Rooseveltonomics, Reaganomics, and Lincolnomics, or, How Come the Bankers Are Charging Ron 10 Percent, when FDR Got His Money at 2 Percent, and Honest Abe Got His for Nothing?, Waterloo, Ont.: Department of Economics, University of Waterloo, →OCLC

The only people practicing Lincolnomics these days are the Soviets, which may be why they can afford more missiles and tanks than we can despite a much smaller economy.

1987 February 2, Charley Reese, “Today’s civil-rights and welfare groups would jump on Lincoln”, in The Orlando Sentinel, Orlando, Fla., page A-10, column 2:

(US politics, rare) Economic policies associated with the administration of Abraham Lincoln, 1861–1865.


runcicantitruncation

Blend of runcination + cantellation + truncation

blend

The simultaneous state of runcination, cantellation and truncation.


runcitruncation

The simultaneous state of runcination and truncation.


runcicantellation

(geometry) The simultaneous state of runcination and cantellation.


cantitruncation

The simultaneous state of cantellation and truncation.


BreadTube

Blend of bread + YouTube, in reference to the 1892 book The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin, often considered a foundational text of political anarchism. By surface analysis, bread + -Tube.

Holonym: LeftTube

The community of videobloggers (particularly YouTubers) who tend towards left-wing perspectives.


Apefrican

Blend of ape + African or Apefrica + -an

Leave apefricans to themselves and let nature take its course!

2015 May 15, Fred Oinka, “If whites had not interfered, blacks would be extinct by now”, in alt.fan.rush-limbaugh (Usenet):

Apefricans have just evolved from eating Mud Cookies to eating
BBQ rat.

2019 December 26, KWills Shill #2, “Traditional Africoon Food”, in alt.atheism (Usenet):

I hate the mall because there are too many unemployed apefricans and mudsharks.

2021, Innocent Chiluwa, Discourse and Conflict: Analysing Text and Talk of Conflict, Hate and Peace-building, Springer Nature, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 125:

(slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) An African.


biorg

Blend of biological + organism(?), modelled on cyborg, which is from cybernetic + organism.

In this case, the story concerns three pets who have gone missing—a dog named Bandit, a cat named Tinker, and a rabbit named Pirate. These pets have been transformed by the US Air Force into computer-enhanced "biorgs," as part of an army of "efficient animal slaves" designed to take the place of humans […]

2018, David Herman, Narratology beyond the Human: Storytelling and Animal Life:

Biorgs are both cyborgs and companion animals, […] Vint's reading of the biorgs' speech underscores how the comic blurs the division between nature and culture as well as between human and non-human animals. The biorgs may not speak exactly like humans, but their speech communicates […] While canine biorgs' speech […]

2020, Sidney I. Dobrin, EcoComix: Essays on the Environment in Comics and Graphic Novels, McFarland, →ISBN, pages 71–72:

Metaphorically a biorg witch with flowers in her hair, I am presently a doctoral student […]

2021, Florence Ashley, "'X' why? Gender Marks and Non-binary Transgender People", in Isabel Cristina Jaramillo Vélez, Laura Carlson (editors), Trans Rights and Wrongs: A Comparative Study of Legal Reform Concerning Trans Persons, Springer Nature, pages 33-34

(neologism, science fiction, rare) A non-human animal cyborg.


typoglycemia

(humorous) The disputed idea that readers can easily comprehend text even when it is full of spelling errors and misplaced letters.


Murderapolis

Blend of murder + Minneapolis, with reference to its crimewave of the 1990s, during which many homicides were recorded.

(US, slang, derogatory) The city of Minneapolis, Minnesota.


brandwagon

Blend of brand + bandwagon; see jump on the bandwagon.

Because they don't want their (stupid, chicken, technophobic) competitors to wake up and get on the bandwagon, or should I say, brandwagon […]

2011, Jeffrey H. Gitomer, Social Boom!, page 67:

Through online relationships, current loyal customers can possibly persuade new customers to jump on the brandwagon.

2013, Barbara E. Kahn, Global Brand Power: Leveraging Branding for Long-Term Growth, page 17:

(marketing, informal) A trend or craze relating to a marketed brand.


crisitunity

Blend of crisis + opportunity; introduced as a gag in the animated television series The Simpsons (season 6, episode 11, "Fear of Flying", first broadcast on 18 December 1994):
* LISA: Look on the bright side, Dad. Did you know that the Chinese use the same word for "crisis" as they do for "opportunity"?
* HOMER: Yes. "Crisitunity"! You're right.

Would it help to say that we misunderestimated the effects of Frankenfood and mutagenic smog, to speculate that amid all our infornography and anticipointment, some crisitunity slumbered unnoticed in a roadside motel?

2010, Nick Lantz, The Lightning That Strikes the Neighbors’ House, page 25:

Communicate the “crisitunity.” Originally coined by Homer Simpson, a “crisitunity” is the moment when crisis meets opportunity—and it has a slightly better ring than “opporisis.” Regardless of the word choice, the principle is straightforward: by communicating a time-sensitive problem your organization faces, along with how your online community can help solve the problem, people will be motivated to act.

2011, Darian Rodriguez Heyman, Nonprofit Management 101, page 267:

On lost crisitunities, vanishing post-Soviet and decolonization of thinking, being and perception.

2017, Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo of Zimbabwe: Politics, Power, and Memory, page 147:

In addition to the challenges of Chinese lending raised above, the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) presents another possibility for crisitunity (crisis-opportunity) in Africa.

2021, Gorden Moyo, African Agency, Finance and Developmental States, page 116:

(informal, rare) A crisis from which some good may come, and which may therefore be perceived as an opportunity.


semitarian

<i class="Latn mention" lang="en">semi-</i> +

It's fine. I think I could be ... semitarian, maybe? Half vegetarian? It's a thing,' he adds, a little defensively

2020, Sophie Kinsella, Love Your Life, Random House:

semi-vegetarian, a person who is sometimes vegetarian


sploot

en-verb

sploot (third-person singular simple present sploots, present participle splooting, simple past and past participle splooted)

sploots (present singular third-person)
splooting (participle present)
splooted (participle past)
splooted (past)

Uncertain. Perhaps a blend of splay + scoot. Compare also splat.

Four of the dragons sploot flat instead of sitting — a gesture they must have picked up from their time being Frank’s corgi.

2019, March 5, Amber Royer, Pure Chocolate, Watkins Media, unpaged

Squirrels in the U.S. are 'splooting' in an attempt to stay cool and close to the ground as the heat blazes across the country

2020 August 20, Matthew Wright, DailyMail.comhttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8648567/Squirrels-U-S-splooting-attempt-stay-cool-close-ground.html

With his front paws tucked underneath his chest and his hind legs splayed behind him in a splooting pose, he didn’t appear to have a care in the world.

2020 September 21, Paige Sleuth, Arrested in Cherry Hills, Amazon KDP, chapter 6, unpaged

Not many big dogs do the sploot, but Pooh Bear will sploot just about anytime and anywhere. She even splooted in the middle of the mall while waiting to see Santa!

2020 November 3, Tama Fortner, “Homecoming Tales”, in 15 Inspiring Stories from Old Friends Senior Dog Sanctuary, Thomas Nelson, page 82:

(slang) To lie flat with hind legs extended.


lexpionage

(informal) The process of looking for new words and/or phrases.


ANZUS

Blend of AUS (“Australia”) + NZ (“New Zealand”) + US (“United States”).

blend

(geopolitics) A security treaty between Australia, New Zealand, and America for the Pacific region; particularly in naval affairs.


AUKUS

Blend of AU + UK + US; Acronym of Australia + United Kingdom + United States of America.; Coined in 2021

acronym of

And so, friends, AUKUS is born — a new enhanced trilateral security partnership between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. AUKUS: a partnership where our technology, our scientists, our industry, our defense forces are all working together to deliver a safer and more secure region that ultimately benefits all.
AUKUS will also enhance our contribution to our growing network of partnerships in the Indo-Pacific region: ANZUS; our ASEAN friends; our bilateral strategic partners, the Quad; Five Eyes countries; and, of course, our dear Pacific family.
The first major initiative of AUKUS will be to deliver a nuclear-powered submarine fleet for Australia.

2021 September 15, Scott Morrison, “Remarks by President Biden, Prime Minister Morrison of Australia, and Prime Minister Johnson of the United Kingdom Announcing the Creation of AUKUS”, in White House:

Although Australia, the UK, and US partnership, AUKUS, sounds strange with all these acronyms but it's a good one, AUKUS, our nations will update and enhance our shared ability to take on the threats of the 21st century just as we did in the 20th century: together. Our nations and our brave fighting forces have stood shoulder to shoulder for literally more than one hundred years. Through the trench fighting in World War I, the island hopping of World War II, during the frigid winters of Korea and the scorching heat of the Persian Gulf, the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom have long been faithful and capable partners, and are even closer today. Today we take another historic step to deepen and formalize cooperation among all three of our nations, because we all recognize the imperative of insuring peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific over the long term.

2021 September 17, Joe Biden, Australia's decades-long balancing act between the US and China is over. It chose Washington, CNN:

On Sept. 15, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia unveiled a new security partnership, with the less-than-euphonious acronym AUKUS. The three states are close allies of long standing, but the headline item in the new arrangement is a joint effort to equip Australia with a fleet of advanced nuclear-powered submarines. U.S. President Joe Biden, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson also announced plans for more extensive cooperation on cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and quantum computing.
Those basic facts about AUKUS are pretty straightforward. But why it came together—and what it means—is more complicated and far more revealing about where the world is heading.

2021 September 18, Stephen M. Walt, “The AUKUS Dominoes Are Just Starting to Fall”, in Foreign Policy:

AUKUS envisages a wide range of diplomatic and technological collaboration, from cybersecurity to artificial intelligence, but at its core is an agreement to start consultations to help Australia acquire a fleet of nuclear-propelled (though not nuclear-armed) submarines. One consequence of this is Australia cancelling a contract, worth tens of billions of dollars, signed in 2016 with France for diesel-electric submarines. In announcing AUKUS on September 15th with the prime ministers of Australia and Britain, Scott Morrison and Boris Johnson, President Joe Biden stressed that it was about “investing in our greatest source of strength—our alliances”.

2021 September 19, “The strategic reverberations of the AUKUS deal will be big and lasting”, in The Economist:

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was in the US to help announce the landmark AUKUS pact in San Diego this morning.

2023 March 14, “AUKUS deal: Jim Chalmers announces $8 billion HMAS Stirling naval base expansion”, in ABC Premium News (wire feed), Sydney:

(geopolitics, neologism) A security treaty between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States; for the construction of nuclear submarines in Australia, and cooperation on cybersecurity and espionage technology; to contain the rise of China in the Indo-Pacific region.


chocotini

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


shamdemic

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

They waved signs that read “Stop the shamdemic” and “the coronavirus is a hoax.”

2020 May 4, CST Editorial Board, “America’s road back from COVID-19 must begin with an end to the politics of division”, in Chicago Sun Times:

Do please go back and REVIEW the swine flu shamdemic of 1976, which i witnessed. And the 2009 Swine Flu SHAMDEMIC. […]

2021 March 4, Robert Turner, “We Call Out Reiner Fuellmich as a Fraud. The Covid Conspirator Investigated”, in Medika Life:

Even though he [Joe Biden] says that America is improving from the shamdemic, including economically [some how], […]

2021 September 9, Jacob M. Thompson, ““This Is Not About Freedom”: Biden To Require All Large Employers And Federal Workers To Get Vaccinated. *UPDATE*”, in Wine Press:

(informal, derogatory, neologism) Synonym of scamdemic.


cadmopone

en-noun

cadmopone (countable and uncountable, plural cadmopones)


Encyclopedia Galactica

Blend of Encyclopedia Britannica (“Encyclopaedia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica”) + galactic

blend

(science fiction) A compendium of all knowledge, or most of the important knowledge, an encyclopedia for a galaxy-spanning civilization.


groyper

Unclear overall. First attested in c. 2015.
A common hypothesis seems to be a blend of goy ("Gentile") + groper ("sexual assaulter"), probably in reference to the illustration's (later) associations with the political group. Other conjectures include an alteration of groper alone, as well as being based on names apparently befitting an amphibian, such as Frogger, the root *groyp- being onomatopoeia for a toad's croak (compare Italian gracidare (“to croak”), Bulgarian кря́кам (krjákam, “croak, etc.”)). Or possibly a nonsense term; multiple elements may be combined here.
The first attestations (almost always accompanied with a distinct Pepe the Frog illustration, on 4chan) predate associations with Nick Fuentes, so it is unclear if the first is a case of folk etymology.

noncog

(Internet slang) A large, green, cartoon toad with a strange mischievous expression, similar to Pepe the Frog.

Alternative letter-case form of Groyper (“member of certain political groups”)


infinifat

en-adj

infinifat (comparative more infinifat, superlative most infinifat)

more infinifat (comparative)
most infinifat (superlative)

Superfat and infinifat women live in bodies that, even in a somewhat fat-positive environment, do not perform fatness in the “right way” either because they are perceived as too large altogether or their shape does not conform to the hourglass or pear ideal of a large and perky bust, small tummy and waist, and thick thighs and bottom.

2020, Jennifer Jolie, "Body Positivity as Public Pedagogy?: The Case of the #effyourbeautystandards Movement on Instagram", thesis submitted to Lakehead University, page 54

For superfat and infinifat people, fatphobic culture is even more traumatizing.

2020, Crystal Kotow, "Big, Beautiful Affect: Exploring the Emotional Environment of BBW Social Events and Its Relationship to Fat Women's Embodiment", dissertation submitted to York University, page 224

Further, those who are categorized as infinifat face intense institutional sizeism, with size accessibility interfering with every aspect of daily life.

2021, Rhiannon Sian Downey, "The Commodification of Body Positivity: Constructing a Neoliberal Fat Citizenship", paper submitted to Ryerson University, page 40


infinifat

Because they can be a lot to remember, throughout this book I use "smaller fat people" to refer to small and mid-fats and "very fat people" or "larger fat people" to refer to superfats and infinifats.

2020, Aubrey Gordon, What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat, pages 9–10:

Indeed, it is important to consider here that there are a wide variety of fat bodies, many of whom are excluded from body positivity conversations, namely transgender women and “super fats” or “infinifats” (sizes 26+, which I will discuss more fully in my literature review).

2020, Jennifer Jolie, "Body Positivity as Public Pedagogy?: The Case of the #effyourbeautystandards Movement on Instagram", thesis submitted to Lakehead University, page 12

As images and videos circled social media in the days following the event, some spoke out in anger that so many from within the community—particularly top industry names—publicly supported a brand that left out super- and infinifats (though the attendees did reflect a wide spectrum of bodies).

2022, Gianluca Russo, The Power of Plus: Inside Fashion’s Size-Inclusivity Revolution, Chicago Review Press, →ISBN:

To lose 40 pounds is no small feat, especially when one is working to achieve a healthy, neutral relationship to one’s body, but for fat people on the other end of the fat spectrum, “super-fats” and “infinifats,” gender affirming surgery might be out of the question entirely.

2022, Bek J. Orr, “Trans/fat: an autoethnographic exploration of becoming at the intersection of trans and fat”, in Fat Studies, →DOI:


murdercide

en-noun

murdercide (countable and uncountable, plural murdercides)

A murder that has been disguised as a suicide.


rinsta

Teen girls tell me that they have public “rinsta” or real Instagram accounts for all followers and then private “finsta” Instagram accounts for their "closest" friends.

2017, Ana Homayoun, Social Media Wellness: Helping Tweens and Teens Thrive in an Unbalanced Digital World, page 31:

Her “rinsta” is based on her full name and it is the picture of a perfect middle schooler.

2018, Carrie Kerpen, Work It: Secrets for Success from the Boldest Women in Business, page 78:

There were the Finstas and the Rinstas—the fake and the real, the accounts that your parents could see, where every kid posted things about school and new haircuts and cute dogs on the street, and the accounts where you could see more bare skin and some authentic teen misery.

2020, Emma Straub, All Adults Here, page 110:

(informal) A primary personal Instagram account on which one posts publicly (typically under their real name).


greenflation

But in the wake of so much publicity, are we now undergoing a wave of “greenflation,” where the term “green” is used to justify almost everything and anything, as long as it can make the claim of lowering carbon?

2007 December 26, James Kanter, “Does Too Much Green Lead to “Greenflation”?”, in Green: Energy, the Environment and the Bottom Line, New York Times blogs:

While decarbonizing our homes can lead to price stability and significant savings — my family, for example, cut our monthly utility bill by more than 75 percent in a recent renovation — we must also prepare for what Dr. Schnabel calls “greenflation,” the higher prices and labor crunches that come with the green transition.

2022 August 12, Gernot Wagner, “Greening Your Home Will Be Cheaper, but Expect Growing Pains”, in The New York Times:

(economics) A rise in energy prices as a result of shifting from fossil fuels to sustainable energy sources.


Fraturday

We're just lucky he's so determined to keep his entire weekends free for his family, or we'd all be spending Fraturdays together.

2014, Amy Finnegan, Not in the Script, page 105:

(informal) A period of time that runs from Friday into Saturday, for example because of an intense work schedule.


Puertopia

[…] to "crypto-currency" traders building their own version of a libertarian, tax-free "Puertopia" built on Bitcoin.

2018, Mimi Sheller, Mobility Justice: The Politics of Movement in an Age of Extremes, unnumbered page:

Their arrival came as residents of the island struggled from the devastation wreaked by Hurricane Maria, but the young millionaires—some of them were billionaires—had another priority: creating "Puertopia."

2020, Jeff John Roberts, Kings of Crypto: One Startup's Quest to Take Cryptocurrency Out of Silicon Valley and Onto Wall Street, unnumbered page:

Puerto Rico has become a hotbed for this virtual currency as ultra rich advocates, such as Brock Pierce, flocked to their Caribbean “Puertopia” to evade taxes and to maximize their blockchain profits.

2021, Catalina M. de Onís, Energy Islands: Metaphors of Power, Extractivism, and Justice in Puerto Rico, page 210:

(cryptocurrencies slang) Puerto Rico as a cryptocurrency tax haven.


sophisti-pop

Blend of sophisticated + pop, coined retrospectively.

The fact that the intellectual Green [Gartside] was also a friend and protégé of leading post-structuralist scholar, Jacques Derrida, served further to hype the postmodern playfulness of his sophisti-pop.

2012, Iain Ellis, Brit Wits: A History of British Rock Humor, Intellect Books, →ISBN, page 102:

(music) A subgenre of pop music that emerged during the mid-1980s in the UK.


BernieCare

Blend of Bernie + healthcare, after the pattern of ObamaCare, HillaryCare, etc.

2016 February 3, Paula Dwyer, “BernieCare Looks to Europe; Americans Don't”, in Liberal Opinion Week, page 8:

Senator Lindsey Graham summed up the current situation with precision when he said his main concern is that "Obamacare" is a placeholder for BernieCare."^([sic])

2017 September 29, Star Parker, “Collins irresponsibly blocks health reform”, in The Daily Corinthian, page 4A:

Now, BernieCare wants to put a lot of power and authority into the hands of the government, which has historically lead to corruption and a whole host of other problems.

2018 August 31, Eric Kim, “Why Healthcare Must Be an Exception to the Capitalist System”, in The Amherst Student, Amherst College, page 5:

(US politics) The 2017 Medicare for All bill or any other healthcare reform supported by Bernie Sanders.


oddvertisement

Blend of odd + advertisement. From oddvertising.


vulture capitalism

(informal) The practice of acquiring distressed firms in the hopes of making them more profitable so as to sell them for a profit.


lesbiflexible

In recent years, bisexuality has become only one of various orientations identifying with attraction to more than one gender. Eisner (2013) reviews the growing list of identities within the bi-spectrum of "under one umbrella" that include, but are not limited to: pansexual/omnisexual, polysexual, queer, fluid, heterofexible, homoflexible/lesbiflexible, and bicurious.

2017, Gerald P. Mallon, Social Work Practice with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People:

2018, Charlotte A. Archer, The Hierarchy of Rights and the Expression of Values in the LGBTQ+ Rights Movement (master's thesis submitted to Middle Tennessee State University), table 5, sexual orientation: Heteroflexible 2.0% 1 Homoflexible 0.0% 0 Lesbiflexible 0.0% 0

lesbiflexible: describing a woman who identifies as predominantly lesbian but is open to relationships and sexual encounters with men or gender nonconforming partners.

2021, Chloe O. Davis, The Queens' English, The LGBTQIA+ Dictionary of Lingo and Colloquial Phrases, page 196:

(LGBTQ, neologism) Primarily lesbian, but with a limited amount of attraction to men, or a limited desire to partake in romantic or sexual activity with a man.


Bjelkemander

Blend of Bjelke + gerrymander, named after Australian politician Joh Bjelke-Petersen.

named-after

(Australian politics) The intentional malapportionment of votes in Queensland in the 1970s and 1980s.


transgenderal

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-der.
Proto-Italic *trānts
Latin trāns
Latin trans-bor.
English trans-
Latin sexus
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Latin sexuālisbor.
English sexual
English transsexualblend.
Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁os
Latin genus
Old French gendrebor.
Middle English gendre
English genderblend.
English transgenderal
Blend of transsexual + gender. Coined by American transgender activist Virginia Prince in 1969 in order to distinguish between transgender people who have undergone medical treatment to change their sex and those who have not (see first quotation).

etymon

transsexual>having a gender different from one's assigned sex

coinage

Virginia Prince talks about a person who is merely transgenderal. She sees no reason to change her sex organs just because she happens to like a different gender role.

1972, John Money, Archives of Sexual Behavior:

However, most are transgenderal, occurring within the framework of the man-woman role known to observers as berdache. The term berdache apparently comes from the Arabic word bardaj, meaning a boy slave kept for erotic purposes[…]

1995, William A. Young, The World's Religions: Worldviews and Contemporary Issues, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, →ISBN, →OCLC:

[…] that their macho 'real men' clients want to be the receptive partner. In many cultures same-sex sexualities are 'transgenderal' in that they put gender identity in question. […]

2007, Vanessa Baird, The No-nonsense Guide to Sexual Diversity, New Internationalist, →ISBN, page 19:

(dated, uncommon) Of a person, transgender (having gender which is different from one's assigned sex).

Greenberg's second common form of sexual and erotic relationship is transgenderal. Here, partners are different genders or play different gender roles, although they are not necessarily different sexes.

2000 August 31, Michael R. Kauth, True Nature: A Theory of Sexual Attraction, Springer Science+Business Media, →ISBN, page 88:

Women found advantages in taking on a man's name since it was easier for a man to publish his work than for a woman. However, women did not monopolize transgenderal pseudonymity because, interestingly, men also adopted female pseudonyms.

2002, Jared C. Calaway, “Benjamin Franklin and Transgenderal Pseudonymity”, in Constructing the Past, volume 3, number 1:

(dated, uncommon) Of a person, expressing a different gender role.


globohomo

Uncertain; often given as a blend of global + homogenization, globalist + homosexual, among similar terms. This term has origins from anti-Semitism and anti-LGBT rhetoric.

the globohomo agenda

Republicans are aftraid to take true right wing stands on most issues. Rather than provide a real alternative to the cosmopolitan, GloboHomo agenda of the Democratic Party, they offer Liberalism Lite; basically all of the same stuff but with a tax cut.

2019 June 28, College Republicans @ UW, Twitter, archived from the original on 2019-06-29:

In a number of posts about globohomo, it seemed like a generalized reference to contemporary economic life—there were references to "globohomo megacorporations," "globohomo materialism," and a longing for "the upcoming post-globohomo, techno-feudalistic ages of revenge and strife." The term homo is usually used as derogatory shorthand for homosexuals, but in this context served two purposes: It also meant “homogenization,” the increasing sameness of everything worldwide.

2020 October 13, Talia Lavin, Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy, Legacy Lit, →ISBN:

At that point, Cornero appears to have completely drifted away from screenwriting, having been kicked out of writer Facebook groups after demanding on Gab that “globohomo”-infested (a portmanteau of “globalized homosexual”) Hollywood be burned to the ground.

2021, Mike Rothschild, The Storm Is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy:

I hate Jews enough that my natural reaction to all the fighting is to laugh, but I know there is a schism between globalist and Zionist jews, and I'd rather have all of them in Israel, rather than the globohomo ones trying to found their new Zion in North America (likely the endgame of globohomo)

2021 May 24, ADL, quoting social media posts, “Antisemitic Language Surges on 4chan During Israel-Hamas Conflict”, in Anti-Defamation League:

(alt-right, anti-LGBTQ slur, Internet slang, 4chan, derogatory) The supposed promotion of homosexuality, neoliberal economics, and progressive values coupled with the paternalistic curtailment of freedoms by corporate and political interests.


momfluencer

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

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

Feeling overwhelmed and maybe a bit underappreciated, we moms gravitate toward the insistence of well-meaning momfluencers who tell us what we "deserve” — we "deserve" a break. Praise. Recognition.

2020 August, Allie Beth Stuckey, You're Not Enough (And That's Okay), page 43:

The everchanging expectations voiced by an endless stream of “experts” (and the momfluencer with 12K followers and the gingham filter for that perfect orange-y skin glow) makes it impossible to feel like you're succeeding at motherhood.

2020 September, Maggie Combs, Motherhood Without All the Rules:

And now, some of the first Insta Stories I watch as I nurse my baby at 6:23 a.m. are by Hannah of @ballerinafarm, a new face to the momfluencer stratosphere, but one of many conventionally beautiful, straight, white women who perform a version of motherhood that feels like pioneer cosplay hit with a dash of Brooklyn hipster aesthetics.

2021 January 28, Sara Petersen, “Momfluencer Content Enrages Me. Why Can't I Look Away?”, in Harper's Bazaar:

The soul of this community is local queen bee Sherry Conrad (Search Party alum Shalita Grant, the season’s MVP), an officious, controlling momfluencer with a knack for stealing the spotlight.

2021 October 17, Judy Berman, “You Season 3 Is the Best Installment Yet—and a Brilliant Send-Up of Suburbia”, in Time Magazine:

(Canada, US) Alternative form of mumfluencer.


breadpill

en-verb

breadpill (third-person singular simple present breadpills, present participle breadpilling, simple past and past participle breadpilled)

breadpills (present singular third-person)
breadpilling (participle present)
breadpilled (participle past)
breadpilled (past)

Blend of bread + red pill, in reference to the 1892 book The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin, often considered a foundational text of political anarchism.

(transitive, slang) To influence (a person) to support leftist and anarchist ideology.


manterruption

It was perhaps the most public example of the “manterruption” – that is, a man interrupting a woman while she’s trying to speak (in this case, on stage, by herself, as an award honoree) and taking over the floor.

2015 January 20, Jessica Bennett, “How Not to Be 'Manterrupted' in Meetings”, in Time:


manterrupt

manterrupt (third-person singular simple present manterrupts, present participle manterrupting, simple past and past participle manterrupted)

manterrupts (present singular third-person)
manterrupting (participle present)
manterrupted (participle past)
manterrupted (past)

Blend of man + interrupt, after mansplain.

(informal, derogatory) To interrupt condescendingly (a female interlocutor), presuming that the woman's word have little merit merely because she is not male.


Kanglish

A crossover of Kannada and English language.


Benglish

A hybrid of the Bengali and English languages.


Hindlish

A crossover of Hindi and English language.


Bonglish

(uncommon) A crossover of Bengali and English language.


Tenglish

A crossover of Telugu and English language.


Hindish

Blend of Hindi + English. More commonly known as Hinglish.


Tamlish

A crossover of Tamil and English language.


Urdish

A crossover of Urdu and English language.


Apelanta

A few months ago here in Apelanta a similar incident occurred when a lowlife
'boo jumped up and shot to death 4 of his longtime friends during an
argument over a basketball game.

2003 August 24, Work Work Work, “With negro friends like these....”, in soc.culture.african.american (Usenet):

Remember, there are quite a lot of dumb, violent negroes here in Apelanta (a
murder a day). Stay as far away from the stupid beasts as possible.

2004 February 19, Bull Connor, “Tourism in Atlanta area”, in alt.atlanta (Usenet):

30 years of living in apelanta will open the eyes of even the most staunch
NIGGERphile.

2005 November 1, I. M. White, “Re: New Orleans Police Department Fire 51 Cops for Desertion”, in uk.politics.guns (Usenet):

What a waste of a perfectly good nuke.
They should have at least taken out Detroit or Apelanta.
Either that or they should have fileld^([sic]) that underground testing space
with niggers first.

2006 October 9, abc, “Re: FLASH: North Korea Claims Test of Nuclear Weapon”, in soc.culture.african.american (Usenet):

When Somalian dunecoons learned that their blue-gummed Bantu slaves
were too stupid to be productive, they dumped the useless critters
onto the laps of Clitonista "Diversity" nitwits. These dippy shits
brought a whole tribe of the Africoon savages to Apelanta thinking
that all niggers were the same species and would blend into the local
herd.

2007 October 20, \/\/0RD@trwe.nug, “Re: Darwinism Showing Its True Face: "Black People Are Less Intelligent Than Whites" Claims One Of The World's Most Eminent Darwinists”, in talk.atheism (Usenet):

Watch out for "slippery slope" martial law. First Baltimorgue, then
Shitcago, Apelanta, Detoilet, Milwaukee, Ferguson, and Los Angeles? Where
will it stop? Probably after all the shit-colored apes have been liquidated.

2017 November 24, Byker, “Re: ANOTHER Detroit!!!”, in alt.law-enforcement (Usenet):

(derogatory, slang, ethnic slur) Atlanta, with reference to its African-American population.


schlockey

Punning blend of schlocky + hockey. From being an inferior variant of ice hockey.

(Canada) A box game variant of ice hockey, for two players, with two blade-less "schtick" sticks, a puck, a wooden box with two, three, or five slotted dividers, representing pass/shot opposition for the (possible) middle divider(s), and the goal slots for the two end dividers.


seagan

We've gathered three weeks' worth of seagan menus to take the guesswork out of eating well.

2016, Amy Cramer, Lisa McComsey, Seagan Eating, page 54:

The technical term for someone following such a diet would be “pescetarian,” though it has also been dubbed a “seagan” diet, meaning a diet that is wholly plant-based, except to include seafood.

Originally created in 2016 by food writers and the team behind The Vegan Cheat Sheet, Amy Cramer and Lisa McComsey, the Seagan diet is being touted as a possible contender. Combining the plant-based regimen of the vegan lifestyle, the Seagan diet espouses the benefits of a few sustainably sourced seafood meals each week.

2019 March 13, Sean Murphy, “What is the 'Seagan' diet and is it the next big food trend?”, in The Scotsman:

moules mariniere, a sustainable seagan treat.

2019 November 7, Dale Berning Sawa, “Fishy business: should we all be seagans?”, in The Guardian:

So, while some consumers fully embrace the plant-based trend, others are looking for that 'seagan' combination of seafood and plant-based dishes, which is an area where we're seeing a great deal of menu innovation from customers and have also been building our own online recipe bank.

2020 January 23, Alice Leader, “What food do pub-goers want to see on menus in 2020?”, in Morning Advertiser:

Being or relating to a plant-based pescetarian diet in which some seafood (in essence, finned fish and shellfish) is incorporated into an otherwise vegan diet.


locktail

(humorous, neologism) A cocktail partaken of by people in COVID-19 lockdown.


Turd Reich

GOEBBELS: ‘…Gone ist zer goose-step…in comes ze new Swingen Turd Reich - Under der Linden Plattz Von-step.’.

2012, Spike Milligan, ’Rommel?’’Gunner who?’: A Confrontation in the Desert:

…and his glorious Third Reich (or as our men called it, the ‘Turd Reich’).

2014, Sidney Litherland, The Junak King: Life as a British POW, 1941-45:

In Johnny Canuck, a Nazi guard says: “Look, gentlemen of der turd reich. Ve haf captured Johnny Canuck and all his friends.”

2016, Sara Buttsworth, Maartje Abbenhuis, War, Myths, and Fairy Tales - Page 103:

(slang, derogatory, historical) The Third Reich; used to represent a stereotypical German pronunciation of the phrase, or to liken Nazis to excrement.


Turd World

Blend of turd + Third World, in reference to the unsanitary conditions in the Third World. First use appears c. 1971-1972 in the Alternative Press Index.

(slang, offensive, humorous) The Third World.


Chimpcago

But wait! It wasn’t Negro violence, it was “gun violence.” Yes, steel
objects must be banned!

2015 July 7, rebcar...@gmail.com, “Blacks Kill Blacks in Chimpcago”, in soc.culture.israel (Usenet):

A 72 year old silverback spook sexually assaults a female paramedic in
a Chimpcago amberlamps.

2017 January 18, Rick Mathers, “Silverback attempts Muh-Dikking in da amberlamps!!”, in soc.culture.african-american (Usenet):

Black babies yet unborn will
scream for their share as soon as they can speak ,,, And I think we can
all imagine, the homicides in Chimpcago are not going to decrease even
with a city full of sudden democrat welfare millionaires.

2019 June 20, JeSSe, “Dems campaign on mass handouts to blacks”, in uk.current-events.terrorism (Usenet):

Since it's Chimpcago, this is to be expected. Truck drivers are also
not wanting to drive into most of these nigger-infested cities, so I
could imagine the availabilities of supplies of 'gibs me dat' will be
much lower now.

2020 August 13, KWills, “Janithor's flag”, in alt.checkmate (Usenet):

(slang, offensive, derogatory, ethnic slur) Chicago, with reference to its African-American population.


emojipasta

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That poster’s favorite emojipasta, he said, is the one that takes a chunk of dialogue from Todd Phillips’s Joker and fills it in with clowns and squirt guns.

2020 January 24, Kaitlyn Tiffany, “The Divine Origins of the Horny Chain Text”, in The Atlantic:

This style is now heavily associated with “cringe culture” and, like emojipasta, can signal a mocking style through its presence alone.

2022, Sara Haskin Rosenau, "Mock Koreaboo: Appropriating Appropriation", thesis submitted to the University of Colorado, page 15

(Internet slang) A block of text containing random or excessive emoji.


Colemak

Blend of Coleman + Dvorak, from the name of its inventor, Shai Coleman, and in reference to the earlier Dvorak keyboard layout.

(computing) A keyboard layout for Latin-script alphabets, somewhat similar to the QWERTY layout, but placing the most frequently used letters of the English language on the home row.


Halloweekend

Even if you've missed the Halloweekend memo, putting together a last-minute costume can still be easy and cheap.

2011 October 27, Nissa Ostroff, “Last minute costume ideas”, in The Vanderbilt Hustler, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, page 6:

As it nears “Halloweekend,” we tend to find ourselves scrambling for cheap, last-minute Halloween costumes and if you're currently engaged in some type of partnership, you may find yourself dressing for two.

2015 October 29, Nebraska Lucas, “WU-approved costumes for budgeting couples”, in Willamette Collegian, page 4:

Despite this year's restrictions on social gatherings, Halloweekend was still a great time to have fun while staying within pods.

2020 November 12, Sydney Olinger, “Friars Celebrate Día de los Muertos”, in The Cowl, Providence College, Providence, RI, page 2:

The weekend where Halloween falls on a Friday, Saturday, or Sunday; or a weekend before or after Halloween, when Halloween festivities are celebrated, if Halloween does not fall on a weekend.


politicore

Blend of politico- + -core, or political + -core.

F.U.A.L. / ($7) truely^([sic]) great politicore from North Ireland

1990, Profane Existence, number 3, unnumbered page:

As far as I’m concerned, faster-than-you politicore like this is a hell of a lot more dangerous to individual thought than George Bush or a handful of Nazi skinheads will ever be.

1991, Jersey Beat, number 41, unnumbered page:

Politicore from Pennsylvania. Philosophically, this is pretty right on, calling for a “socialist/collectivist world-state.”

1997, Punk Planet, number 20, unnumbered page:

You will be billed later, shading within a garment may occur, shamelessly hamhanded politicore, sharp as a stick but not small in stature, […]

Austin politicore thrasher Beyond Gods and Empires

2013 August 9, The Austin Chronicle, page 60:

(music, uncommon) A subgenre of punk with overtly political themes.


Halloweek

For a full “Halloweek,” Buzz Lightyear and his Space Rangers battle the ultimate cavalcade of monsters, including the space incarnations of Dracula (“NOS-4-A2,” an energy vampire); the Wolfman (“Wirewolf,” a human who becomes a wolf-like, energy-thirsting creature after being nipped by NOS-4-A2); the Frankenstein monster (“XL,” a self-made robotic monster comprised of stolen parts) and the Mummy (“Ancient Evil,” an entombed “mummy” capable of draining a human's lifeforce); as well as an episode (“Revenge of the Monsters”) featuring the entire quartet of monsters as organized by NOS-4-A2.

2001 October 16, “‘Disney/Pixar’s Buzz Lightyear of Star Command’ Celebrates ‘Halloweek’ On UPN & Syndication”, in PR Newswire:

One of the few times of the year when students are encouraged to pretend to be someone – or something – they are not, Halloweek will feature both on- and off-campus celebrations and attempts to best their peers with creative attire and trickery.

2013 October 31, Corinne Sejourne, “Halloweek haunts College Hill”, in The Brown Daily Herald, Brown University:

Throughout the hair-raising ‘Halloweek,’ bold adventurers can also visit Camel Creek\xE2s scariest residents at the Reptile House and Crocodile Corner and face their fears in the House of Horrors Scare Zone.

2021 October 11, Ryan Morwood, “Family attraction’s spooky ‘Halloweek’ of activities kicks off next Saturday”, in Falmouth Packet:


furversion

en-noun

furversion (countable and uncountable, plural furversions)

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And _if_ furversion is a mental illness, would you want it to be cured? (Personaly,^([sic]) I wouldn't, I'm having too much fun in my dreams...)

1994 April 5, Lycan, “Re: Fox Addiction...”, in alt.fan.furry (Usenet):

While poking through the discount videos rack at Wal-Mart, what should I find but 'Kimba the White Lion'! For you younger Furries, this was a series that played afternoons in the mid 60s. It's one of the things that led to my Furversion, or so I've always believed.

1996 March 12, Marshall Anthony Woods (quoted by Timothy Fay), “KIMBA!!!”, in alt.fan.furry (Usenet):

So, these are the confessions of a furry toonophile. Our furversion may be less graphic and spoogey than others', but vive le difference, non?

1996 March 24, Lontra (quoted by D.M. Quozl Falk), “confessions of a furry toonophile”, in alt.fan.furry (Usenet):

(furry fandom) Sexual interest in furry media and/or the furry subculture.


Shitney

(Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Singapore, colloquial, vulgar, humorous) The city of Sydney, Australia.


potomato

Synonym of pomato (“potato-tomato hybrid”)


MerDer

With Izzie Stevens' treatment going on and MerDer's wedding looming, there's going to be lots of drama at Seattle Grace in the last few episodes of the fifth season.

2009 April 16, CeCe Brooks, “Summer TV GUide”, in Old Black & Gold, Wake Forest University, page B5:

With the MerDer drama heating up and Meredith's job on the line, the two-hour season premiere is looking at keeping viewers glued to the screen from beginning to end.

2011 August 31, Ashley Hite, “Fall returning television series provide relief, relaxation from studies”, in The Daily Athenaeum, West Virginia University, page 9:

But then they had to go and create a montage of MerDer's relationship and it suddenly got very real.

2015 May 7, Danielle S. Tepper, “Derek Deserved Better”, in Town & Country Gazette, page 40:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Meredith Grey and Derek Shepherd from the television series Grey's Anatomy.


Kadena

Even so, the show succeeds in establishing the Kadena connection with heartfelt love and deep respect.

2017, Melissa Lee, “The Bold Type Big Buzz”, in F-Yeah, volume 1, page 5:

During the first two seasons while the Kadena relationship develops onscreen, the pair dominated fanfiction writing.

2020, Jessica Doble, "Reading Fandom: Fandom as Reception and Creative Authority", dissertation submitted to the University of Lousiana at Lafayette, page 231

While the show has had issues when it comes to diversity […], Kadena never fails to make our gay hearts happy.

2021 July, Roxy Bourdillon, “Get The Look: The Bold Type”, in Diva, page 22:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Kat Edison and Adena El-Amin from the television series The Bold Type.


Vauseman

Note: If you don't ship 'Vauseman' by the end of the season, then I'm judging you.

2014, Jenna Benson, in "Reviews", Blitz Mag (University of New South Wales), Session 2, Week 3 + 4 (2014), page 34

However, Clexa (Clarke Griffin and Lexa) from The 100 (2014-), Vauseman (Alex Vause and Piper Chapman) from Orange is the New Black (2013-) and Karmy (Karma Ashcroft and Amy Raudenfeld) in Faking It (2014-2016) are further examples.

2016, William Patrick Bingham, "Queer Fan Practices Online: Digital Fan Production as a Negotiation of LGBT Representation in Pretty Little Liars", thesis submitted to the University of East Anglia, page 6

I will delve into the ways Vauseman both upholds and subverts the expectations of a couple involved in a traditional marriage plot.

2019, Alexis Constantine, "'I wanna be your prison wife': Nice Blonde Ladies, Broken Rules, and Subversive Marriage Plots in Jenji Kohan’s Orange is the New Black", thesis submitted to Middle Tennessee State University, page 13

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Alex Vause and Piper Chapman from the television series Orange Is the New Black.


Paily

Commenters are generally supportive of the possibility of a Paige and Emily coupling, either expressing surprise or that they had been expecting this, with one commenter even expressing her love for “Paily” (Emily and Paige’s relationship name) (ABC Family, 2011).

2013, Caitlin Campisi, "Homonationalism on TV?: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Queer and Trans* Youth Representations on Mainstream Teen Television Shows", thesis submitted the University of Ottawa, page 98

They can explore female queerness by reblogging posts about ‘Paily’.

2015, Alexandra Louise Elizabeth Simpson, "Shipping The Margin To The Centre: Excavating Tumblr; Filling In The Self", thesis submitted to Texas A&M University, page 74

Strategies which fanfiction authors use to create fanfiction, such as closely analysing homoerotic moments in the source text, are investigated through analysing similar trends investigated in section one and by employing the same method outlined above but are applied to Paily fics instead of the slash texts explored in section one.

2016, William Patrick Bingham, "Queer Fan Practices Online: Digital Fan Production as a Negotiation of LGBT Representation in Pretty Little Liars", thesis submitted to the University of East Anglia, page 100

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Paige McCullers and Emily Fields from the television series Pretty Little Liars.


Naomily

In the case of Naomily however, the relationship is endorsed within the official text by the end of Series 3, and by Series 4 they are unambiguously presented and recognized as a couple.

2012 February, Deborah F. Hunn, “'The dark side of Naomily': Skins, fan texts and contested genres”, in Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, volume 26, number 1, page 93:

There was no difference between the handling of Naomily and that of other couples on the show because it was a story about falling in love—the fact that the lovers happened to be a pair of schoolgirls was incidental.

2020, Ann-Marie Cook, “Just a Queer Little Love Story: Skins and the Naomily Phenomenon”, in Stefano Ramello, editor, Fascination of Queer, page 173:

The details of their romance are lovingly expanded upon, developing the Naomily narrative in multiple ways.

2020, Kate McNicholas Smith, Lesbians on Television: New Queer Visibility & The Lesbian Normal, unnumbered page:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Naomi Campbell and Emily Fitch from the British television series Skins.


Karmy

Fans rooting for "Karmy" – the official couple name for the two of them – may still have hope.

2014, Sophia Kaufman, "'Faking It' midseason finale forgoes subtlety", The Michigan Daily (University of Michigan), 3 December 2014, page 5A

But despite the show’s depiction of Karma as presumably straight, fans latched onto the “Karmy” pairing.

2018, Annemarie Navar-Gill, “From Strategic Retweets to Group Hangs: Writers’ Room Twitter Accounts and the Productive Ecology of TV Social Media Fans”, in Television & New Media, volume 19, number 5:

Fans were especially disappointed when Covington revealed to the Hollywood Reporter, “It was always my intention to make ‘Karmy’ happen during our final season. Karma would finally realize that her possessiveness of Amy might be a sign of deeper feelings for her best friend.”

2019, Carter Covington, quoted in Francesca Petronio, "Raised on TV: A Queer Teen's Guide to Syndicated Sexualities", thesis to The City University of New York, page 42

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Karma Ashcroft and Amy Raudenfeld from the American television series Faking It.


GQP

Blend of GOP + QAnon.
The GOP stands for "Grand Old Party", the Republican Party of the United States of America, a conservative political party. The usage of "Q" refers to Republican politicians either supporting the QAnon conspiracy theories, or becoming closer to extremism and fascism, represented by the more militant members of the QAnon groups.

(US politics, slang, derogatory) The Republican Party, especially politicians and members who align themselves with militant extremism.


Qaren

Blend of QAnon + Karen. It was first used in a viral video on Twitter posted on 2020, mocking a woman who got angry at a doctor for not administering hydroxychloroquine to treat a COVID-19 infection.

(US politics, slang, derogatory) A supporter of QAnon, especially female, who has a hostile and irrational attitude.


Kataang

Are you a supporter of Katara and Aang’s relationship? Then you’re a member of the Kataang club.

2006, "United Nations: The Fans of Avatar", Nick Mag Presents, Winter 2006, page 40

I still prefer Kataang, because I can't imagine Aang and Katara ever drifting apart when Katara is the one person he could not let go and Katara's life truly began because she met him and he is basically the light and joy in her life.

2014, "paulina101", quoted in Rincke de Bont, "The Appreciation of Storybending: An Exploration of Reviewing Practices in Online Avatar Fan Fiction", thesis submitted to Tilburg University, pages 98-99

Konietzko, for his part, suggests a great awareness: “There were plenty of Makorra shippers out there, so if we had gone back on our decision and gotten those characters back together, would that have meant we caved in to those fans instead?....Trust me, I remember Kataang vs. Zutara.”

2017, Jake Pitre, "Rated Q for Queer: The Legend of Korra and the Evolution of Queer Reading", Reader Feather Journal, Volume 8, Number 2, Fall 2017, pages 29-30

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Katara and Aang from the animated television series Avatar: The Last Airbender.

Aang
Katara (Avatar: The Last Airbender)


Fawnlock

Certainly it would be hard to guess why individuals dressed as humanoid woodland animals would be at a Holmes convention if you weren’t familiar with Fawnlock stories and art, in an Alternate Universe where Sherlock is a deer-like creature with antlers and fur.

2014, Lynne Stephens, "The Game Is Never Over: A 221B Con Review", Canadian Holmes: The Journal of the Bootmakers of Toronto, Volume 36, Number 4, Summer 2014, page 4

One of my oldest informants, adagio, confirms this in an e-mail interview and admits to sometimes feeling as if fandom is deviating too far from the story told on the show: "I don‘t really see the point when the names is all that‘s left. I don‘t get things like fawnlock or tunalock at all, but I guess it‘s amusing. … Sometimes I think the internet has made it too easy to publish stories."

2015, "adagio", quoted in Kee Lundqvist, "Stories of Significance: The Process and Practices of Sense-Making in the Sherlock Fan Community", thesis submitted to Uppsala University, page 76

Sometimes the thematically focused groups are a clear subset of shippers, such as teenlock, femlock, vamplock, or fawnlock (respectively describing John Watson/Sherlock Holmes as teens, women, vampires, or young deer).

2017, Kristina Busse, Framing Fan Fiction: Literary and Social Practices in Fan Fiction Communities, page 112:

(Sherlock fandom slang) A subgenre of Sherlock fan fiction and fanart portraying Sherlock Holmes as an anthropomorphic deer-like creature.


Femlock

As the fandom of BBC Sherlock, English and Japanese alike, is predominantly female, it comes as no surprise that a lot of fans have taken this matter upon themselves by cosplay. Thus, this makes up for a big part of the Femlock content available online.

2017, Carolina Lindström, "'The power of characterization': A comparative analysis of the transformative works created by the English-language and Japanese-language fandoms of BBC Sherlock", thesis submitted to Stockholm University, page 31

Fan-created versions of characters like 'Femlock' (female Sherlock) allow adolescent girls to create a world where they can incorporate all the atavistic traits of 'boy heroes' into female characters.

2021, Emma Byrne, How to Build a Human: What Science Knows About Childhood, unnumbered page:

(fandom slang) A female version of the fictional character Sherlock Holmes, especially from the television series Sherlock.


greynaissance

A revival in interest in the needs of older people.


wokelash

A “wokelash”, I called it, a backlash designed to denounce Friends’s ageing values. I was scathing about this wokelash at first: all those youngsters raising their voices in condemnation, so confident that the things they thought and said, felt and believed wouldn't seem preposterously outdated 25 years hence too… but then I realised you only judge a cultural property by today's values if it is still relevant according to today’s standards and habits.

2019 September 12, Polly Vernon, “I watched it at 22. I'm still watching it: Friends is the most-streamed show on Netflix, its jokes shared by today's teens”, in The Times, London, page 2:

His unguarded remarks about the state of comedy inspired a huge wokelash.

2019 October 4, Kyle Smith, “The Mob vs. Joker’s Director”, in National Review:

Over the past fortnight, in the background of the Sussex soap opera, it has often felt as though Britain has been enjoying what you might call a wokelash. The first royal of colour is quitting not just the firm but also the country, after only 18 months in the job, and the big question is who ought to feel bad about it. Much of social media, woke ground zero, has already decided that the answer to that question is racist newspapers and racist chat hosts, closely followed by their racist readers and viewers.

2020 January 21, Hugo Rifkind, “We're wrong to shout down cries of racism”, in The Times, London, page 23:

A backlash against media, speech, etc. deemed inconsistent with social justice principles, or viewed as perpetuating unwoke or reactionary ideas.

There is a solid demographic of people who are fed up with what they see as increasingly rigid progressive ideals who feel clamped by the modern liberal consensus. […] Liberal ideals are being subjected to a wokelash, and telling people what they should and shouldn’t culturally consume is not going to help build any bridges between divided factions.

2020 January 31, Catriona Stewart, “TV awards illustrate backlash against woke cultural snobs”, in The Herald, Glasgow, page 21:

Some centrist Democrats today say “woke” politics have gone too far and provoked the “wokelash” (causing Democrats to lose elections in 2021).

2021 November 30, Ibram X. Kendi, “TV awards illustrate backlash against woke cultural snobs”, in The Atlantic:

Fortunately, there’s early signs of a “wokelash” from institutions that won’t cower to this nonsense. When staff at publisher Hachette threatened to down tools because they regarded JK Rowling as a toxic transphobe for a tweet mocking “people” who menstruate instead of “women”, management pushed back saying they couldn’t refuse to work on a book because they disagree with the author’s views.

2021 November 20, Angela Mollard, “Gen Z cancelling musical Grease is disappointing”, in The Daily Telegraph, Surrey Hills, N.S.W:

A backlash against or mass rejection of wokeness, or of media, policies, etc. deemed woke or politically correct.


paxhole

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(slang, derogatory) A rude or disrespectful rideshare customer.


caremongering

Blend of care + scaremongering, coined in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic.

She designed the postcard, which enabled recipients to ask for help with shopping, collecting medical supplies, or a simple chat on the phone, and posted it on Facebook so people could download it and deliver it through their neighbours’ doors. This scheme, and many others like it, became part of a coronavirus “caremongering” movement that spread through towns, cities, villages and countries around the world as people came together to help one another in times of need.

While everyone practiced safe social distancing at home, the Crush team contracted a new viral trend: CAREMONGERING! We used our social media platforms to share positive stories, lighthearted memes, self care tips, and activities to keep the kids entertained.

2020 spring/summer, Crush Magazine, page 19:

From Buenos Aires to London and Madrid, the perils of social isolation affecting elder generations were confronted through solidarity and caremongering inspired actions by neighbors (EUROPA PRESS. 2020; BBC News. 2020).

2021, Fabián Echegaray, Valerie Brachya, Philip J. Vergragt, Sustainable Lifestyles after Covid-19:

In response, we have witnessed “caremongering,” communities mobilizing and forming systems of mutual aid to provide everything from childcare, to food and mobility access.

2022, Julian Agyeman, Kofi Boone, “The Black Commons: A Framework for Recognition, Reconciliation, Reparations”, in Jayne Engle, Julian Agyeman, Tanya Chung-Tiam-Fook, editors, Sacred Civics: Building Seven Generation Cities (Routledge Equity, Justice and the Sustainable City Series), Routledge, page 59:

The provision of help or the use of social media to offer everyday assistance and positive thoughts.


Westsylvania

Blend of west + Pennsylvania. The name was first used in 1776 in the early days of the American Revolutionary War, when the state was proposed.

(historical) A proposed state of the United States located in what is now West Virginia, southwestern Pennsylvania, and small parts of Kentucky, Maryland, and Virginia. It would have been the fourteenth state in the newly formed United States, had it been recognized.


waterdrome

Blend of water + aerodrome. May be analyzed as water + -drome.

(nautical, aviation) A facility for landing and launching aircraft, where the runway is the surface of a body of water.


birthaversary

The combined celebration of one's birthday and one's anniversary, especially when the two individual events are near each other in date.


fatshion

It is my ferocious tenacity in hunting for discounts, deals, and dragging heretofore unknown plus-size options from the caves of fatshion obscurity into the sunlight as a normal part of my endless hunt for fat style.

2012, Lesley Kinzel, Two Whole Cakes: How to Stop Dieting and Learn to Love Your Body:

Not only did the industry take note of the growing popularity and demand of plus size and “fatshion” but it also realised the significant impact of the body positive movement and size inclusive representation.

2021, Cat Pausé, Sonya Renee Taylor, The Routledge International Handbook of Fat Studies, page 118:

(informal) Clothing fashions designed for overweight people.


flagacious

en-adj

flagacious (comparative more flagacious, superlative most flagacious)

more flagacious (comparative)
most flagacious (superlative)

I hope Gentlemen, you will put all the Discountenance imaginable on that flagacious Crime of Pyracy, which is not only the worst sort of Robbery, but is, for the most part attended with the horrid Sin of Murder, which is a great aggravation of that odious Practice, detested by all the Civil Nations of the World.

1698 May 19: Richard Coote, 1st Earl of Bellomont, Votes of the House of Representatives for His Majesties province of New-York in America (New York: Printed by William Bradford)

If it be for some open immorality or flagacious crime, or some capital error, which overthrow's the foundation of our faith and hope, like the errors of Hymeneus and Alexander; then the delinquent must be immediately separated from the communion of the saints, as soon as the crime charged upon him can be proved against him

1775: Charles Whitfield, Part IV; Section IV; p. 222 The Form and Order of a Church of Christ (Newcastle upon Tyne)

In the debate therefore, which arose in the senate upon the merit of his negative, Cicero provoked to find so desperate a confederacy against him, rose up, and after some railery and expostulation with Mucius, made a most severe invective on the flagacious lives and practices of his two competitors, in a speech usually called in toga candida, because it was delivered in a white gown, the proper habit of all candidates, and from which the name itself were derived.
(the original (1756) edition has flagitious)

1811: William Duncan, Cicero's Select Orations, translated into English p. 269 footnote 37 (Sidney's Press, New Haven)

The present parliament has been packed with the aid of the most flagacious bribery to oppress and crush the Irish nation.
(Shaw's Authenticated Report of the Irish State Trials, 1844 p. 65 has flagitious)

1844: John Flanedy (ed.) A Special Report Of The Proceedings in the case of The Queen against Daniel O'Connell, Esq., M.P. ... in the Court of Queen's Bench, Ireland ... on an Indictment for Conspiracy and Misdemeanour. p. 144 col. 2 (Dublin: James Duffy)

The consequence of this is, there is no other possible mode of vacating the office thus protracted against the will of the officer during the session of the Senate, however flagacious and imperious his personal or official conduct may be except through the conditional process of impeachment.
(Louisville Daily Journal 13 August 1868 p. 1 col. 2 and Sacramento Daily Union, 28 August 1868 p. 1 col. 4 have flagitious)

1868 August 10, William M. Evarts, letter printed 13 August 1868 in "Letter from Secretary McCulloch; E. A. Rollins Writes a Letter; His Resignation" Evansville Journal p. 1 col. 3

(rare, obsolete) Alternative form of flagitious


Africunt

Just shot a rifle aimed at a boat full of Africunts :-)

2020, 3 June, @BrexitGaming on Twitter https://mobile.twitter.com/BrexitGaming/status/1268205637059608585

South Africunts elected looters in public offices, looting is allowed, and people don't even fear looting a moving truck.
Looting is out of hand in our country.

2022, 17 December, @alfred_cabonena on Twitter https://mobile.twitter.com/alfred_cabonena/status/1604136213992333313

(ethnic slur, derogatory, vulgar) An African.


Deutschbag

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Here's the special typewriter you requested, mein Führer
Eh-xcellent. Now I can start on my new opus.
[…]
Goebbels, you deutschbag, this is Arial! NOOOOOOOOOO!!!

2012, James Carr, Archana Kumar, Hipster Hitler, page 48:

Tell Fritz to stop being a Deutschbag.

(slang, offensive, derogatory, ethnic slur) A German person.


blorange

/ˈblɒɹɪnd͡ʒ/

/ˈblɒɹənd͡ʒ/

Coordinate term: bronde

I couldn't afford to have anybody else color my hair anymore, so I started doing it myself and it became various shades of blond and orange. Blorange, as they call it. It was pretty bad.

(informal) A pale reddish-orange hair color.


fursonality

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(fandom slang) The personality of an animal, or of a human who identifies with an animal.


transpoosion

Blend of transfusion + poo, coined c. 2012.


Qult

(derogatory) The cultlike following of the QAnon movement.


Qultist

Blend of Q (“QAnon”) + cultist, equivalent to Qult + -ist.

(derogatory) A cultlike follower of the QAnon movement.


get under one's goat

en-verb

get under one's goat (third-person singular simple present gets under one's goat, present participle getting under one's goat, simple past got under one's goat, past participle gotten under one's goat or got under one's goat)

gets under one's goat (present singular third-person)
getting under one's goat (participle present)
got under one's goat (past)
gotten under one's goat (participle past)
got under one's goat (participle past)

Uncertain. Perhaps a blend of get under one's skin + get someone's goat.

blend

Maybe you would have been warm when you died; You should not have gotten under my goat.

2013, Sherlyn Gajewski, Freedom of F-----g Speech Baby, page 105:

(transitive, figurative, nonstandard) To irritate or annoy someone; to bother.


wishcast

en-verb

wishcast (third-person singular simple present wishcasts, present participle wishcasting, simple past and past participle wishcast or wishcasted)

wishcasts (present singular third-person)
wishcasting (participle present)
wishcast (participle past)
wishcast (past)
wishcasted (participle past)
wishcasted (past)

Back-formation from wishcasting, equivalent to a blend of wish + forecast.

Since then, as [Chief Justice John] Roberts predicted and seemed to wishcast, there have been some signs of a thaw at One First Street NE [the address of the United States Supreme Court Building].

2022 December 30, Josh Gerstein, “How Justice Kagan lost her battle as a consensus builder”, in Politico:

To interpret information or a situation in a way that casts it as favorable or desired, despite the fact that there is no evidence for such a conclusion.


wishcasting

We have an incurious narcissist of a president who was warned over and over by his advisors about an imminent pandemic. He ignored them. Then he engaged in “one day it will just disappear” wishcasting instead of spearheading a coordinated federal response.

2020, Sarah Longwell, “What Did They Think Would Happen?”, in The Bulwark:

The act of interpreting information or a situation in a way that casts it as favorable or desired, although there is no evidence for such a conclusion; a wishful forecast.


anipal

Can't wait to see my anipals when I get home!

(nonstandard, chiefly in the plural) An animal that is a friend, to other mentioned animals or humans.


coffeetini

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cattlelog

(rare, nonstandard, play on words) A catalog about, or used in the context of, cattle.


choconutty

A biscuit made with cocoa and desiccated coconut