bleachorexia

People who want teeth whiter than nature intended, reaching repeatedly for the peroxide, suffer from "bleachorexia," a word coined by the American Dental Association.

2009 September 24, Deirdre Kelly, “Price choppers: Get pearly whites for 99 bucks”, in The Globe and Mail:

An unhealthy obsession with whitening one's teeth.


bikelash

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There's a feeling among many drivers that cyclists, either by their ignorance of the law or by their blatant disregard for it, are asking for trouble. […] In one sense, the so-called bikelash has little to do with transportation modes.

2011 February 16, Thomas Vanderbilt, “Rage Against Your Machine”, in Outside:

I bicycled in for Bike to Work Day last week, and I saw no bikelash on such a pleasant day. But the Seattle Weekly's Nina Shapiro emailed me that the day before, she watched as a "beefy guy" driving a Buick got out, pushed a bicyclist against a wall and then picked up the bike and heaved it at him.

2011 May 21, Danny Westneat, “Getting a handle on latest 'bikelash'”, in Seattle Times:

All are on the frontlines of what's been called the "bikelash", brave fighters willing to stand firm against the growing popularity of cycling across north America.

2013 April 11, Oliver Burkeman, “Pedalling myths: the anti-bike lobby is flat out of plausible arguments”, in The Guardian:

(informal) Negative or hostile reaction to cyclists, especially from motorists or law enforcement.


blizzaster

Because of a last-minute double-booking with a rescheduled debate sponsored by the Chicago Defender (who had canceled their previous engagement due to the blizzaster earlier in the month), all of the candidates scrambled in their attempts to make both events, with Emanuel, Braun and del Valle ultimately doing so.

2011 February 16, Joseph Erbentraut, “Race for mayor, the gay vote: mayoral mania wrap-up”, in GoPride.com:

(slang) A usually severe snowstorm or series of snowstorms.


boomsayer

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The year 1976 began with high hopes. The stock markets took a euphoric upswing on January 1. But by the end of April, uncertainties began to obtrude, and for the rest of the year, it has been a battle between the doomsayers and the boomsayers. Who will win out?

1976, Alan Chalkley, "The swing to the right — a refreshing wind of change", Asian Finance, Volume 2, Number 8, November/December 1976

A person who makes optimistic projections about the future, especially with regard to economic prosperity and growth.


blogebrity

en-noun

blogebrity (countable and uncountable, plural blogebrities)

It's been quite a turnaround for Hilton, who said that before becoming a blogebrity he had been in a deep depression and last year filed for bankruptcy and was fired from a job at a celebrity weekly magazine.

2006 November 6, “Perez Hilton says he's an 'outsider'”, in USA Today:

(Internet, informal, countable) A well-known or popular blogger.

Given that there are more than 80 million blogs out there, according to the Web-tracking site Technorati, with roughly 15.5 million of them active, "blogebrity" is quite a bizarre phenomenon anyway.

2008, “Introduction”, in Sarah Boxer, editor, Ultimate Blogs: Masterworks from the Wild Web, Vintage Books, →ISBN, page xii:

(Internet, informal, uncountable) The state or phenomenon of fame achieved through blogging.


brandalism

It is, effectively, the opposite of so-called "brandalism" which is where advertisers have no control over how, where and when their branded communication is sabotaged.
For example, billboards in New York for Apple's iPod music player were defaced by one disgruntled customer with the words "iPod's unreplaceable battery lasts only 18 months" after he discovered it would cost more to buy a new battery than to purchase a new iPod.

2005 February 1, Steve Hemsley, “How to sabotage an ad campaign”, in MediaWeek:

The deliberate defacement of corporate iconography, generally for purposes of protest, parody, or social commentary.


bustaurant

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But when Mr. Schick and his business partner, Blake Tally, decided to open Le Truc, a San Francisco "bustaurant," with a gourmet kitchen and dedicated seating area inside a converted school bus, the two quickly learned that the kitchens in food trucks are very different from their brick-and-mortar equivalents.

2011 January 14, Todd Lappin, “The Vehicle of Street Food Is Getting an Overhaul”, in The New York Times:

An eat-in restaurant situated inside a converted bus.


brandscape

Blend of brand + landscape. Anthropologist John Sherry is credited with coining term in 1986.

By now it should come as no surprise that the targets of these influential campaigns are three of the most familiar and best-tended logos on the brandscape: the Swoosh, the Shell and the Arches.

2000, Naomi Klein, No Logo, Vintage Canada, →ISBN, page 365:

The range of brands available in the market or a specific market segment, especially considered collectively as a cultural phenomenon.


brandwidth

The level of brand recognition or market share enjoyed by a product, service, or company.


camikini

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A swimsuit consisting of a thin-strapped camisole top and a bikini bottom.


halterini

A swimsuit consisting of a halter top and a bikini bottom.


skirtini

A two-piece swimsuit consisting of a bikini or other style top (halter, tank, etc.) and a short, skirted bottom.


bandikini

It now includes the camikini (camisole top) and bandikini (tube top).

1999 June 3, Anne Bratskeir, “Tanks a Lot”, in Newsday:

A swimsuit consisting of a generally strapless bandeau top and a bikini bottom.


bandkini

"The bandkini is very popular," said Shawn Smith, owner of Tropic Trader on Hilton Head. "It has a band-style top with detachable straps and bikini bottoms."

2001 June 10, Erin Becker, “Summer fashions hit area beaches”, in The Island Packet:


bandini

The new concept in two-piece swimwear, along with sister suits -- the camisole-strapped camikini and the bandeau-topped bandini, will be the dominant silhouettes for spring/summer '99.

1999 February 18, Polly Rayner, “The two-for-one suit”, in Morning Call:

Elisabeth Filarski's name may be a distant memory, but her legacy is extending far beyond the Australian Outback. Among the popular swimsuit styles you'll find across Middle Georgia this summer is the one the footwear designer of "Survivor" fame wore on that TV show: the bandeau bikini, or bandini, which features a tubelike top.

2001 May 27, “Suit Yourself”, in Macon Telegraphy:

Paula Hermanny for VIX continues the wave of beads and sequins on this "bandini," $140, with bandeau/tank top and "scoop" bottom in grape, […]

2006 May 7, “Well-suited”, in Sarasota Herald-Tribune:


camouflanguage

"Right, but where is it taking us? This is camouflanguage you're using, distorting the truth to fit your own ideal. What does it mean?"

2001, Grant Guimont, Carousel of Sorts: The Cynic's Secret Guide to Ultimate Happiness, Writers Club Press, →ISBN, page 234:

(rare) Language that uses jargon, euphemism, vagueness, and other phrasal devices to obscure the actual or intended meaning of a statement; newspeak.


tonguage

From tongue + -age modelled after language; or a blend of tongue + language.

Any activity involving the tongue; tonguing.

Whether the ideas underlying them are expressed and conveyed by eyeage or by tonguage is a detail that matters nothing.

1890, Samuel Butler, Essays on Life, Art, and Science:

I like the French now but can't get on with the Italian tonguage (good word).

1956, Edward Elgar, Percy Marshall Young, Letters of Edward Elgar and other writings:

In all the districts of Maharashtra except Aurangabad and Bhandara, the number of persons who returned Hindi as a subsidiary language outnumber those with Hindi as mother tonguage.

1961, India. Office of the Registrar General, Census of India, 1961: Maharashtra:

We have a language of social relations, even though we're not thoroughly aware of it— but it isn't all "language" in the sense of "tonguage."

1973, Howard Paul Becker, Man in reciprocity:

(nonstandard, rare) Language; spoken language, as opposed to other forms of language (body language, written language, etc.).


carborexia

A focus on cutting down one's energy consumption and reducing one's carbon footprint that is deemed irrational, excessive, or unhealthy.


carcoon

en-verb

carcoon (third-person singular simple present carcoons, present participle carcooning, simple past and past participle carcooned)

carcoons (present singular third-person)
carcooning (participle present)
carcooned (participle past)
carcooned (past)

To treat a car as an extension of one's home and work environment, attempting to maximize comfort and productivity by using it to do things commonly done off the road, such as eating, making phone calls, and consuming entertainment.


ascidiozooid

(zoology) One of the individual members of a compound ascidian.


crotonylene

(organic chemistry) A colourless, volatile, pungent liquid, C₄H₆. It is produced artificially.


leuconic acid

(organic chemistry) A complex organic acid, obtained as a yellowish-white gum by the oxidation of croconic acid.


civilogue

Blend of civil + dialogue. By surface analysis, civil + -logue. Coined by Jeffrey Weiss of the American political news website Politics Daily.

President Obama is to be commended for insisting on greater “civilogue” in this country in his State of the Union address.

2011 January 27, Erica Brown, “Calculations of the Spirit”, in Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly:

A civil discussion, especially one in which participants avoid insults, hostility, and negative characterizations of those with whom they disagree.


sharrow

Blend of share (verb) + arrow, coined by Oliver Gajda of the City and County of San Francisco Bicycle Program; see the 21 July 2004 quotation.

If you are referring to the http://www.humantransport.org/bicycledriving/index.html website, I don't believe we have a picture of what has been called the "Sharrow," the Shared-Use Arrow. ... Some of us on another list are in discussion about the Sharrow. Our conclusion seems to be that it is preferable to bike lanes, but should be laterally located in the center of the lane so as to NOT mis-communicate to either party expected bicyclist lateral location.

2004 March 27, Wayne Pein, “Re: LAB?”, in rec.bicycles.misc (Usenet), retrieved 2018-06-14, message-ID <4065D06D.ABC65A8A@nc.rr.comnews>:

As to the SHARROW Study (E1) Mr. Gajda reminded the BAC that colors have to be approved along with everything else and without CTCDC approval the City would be legally exposed. The BAC has the opportunity to advise the Board of Supervisors of our preferences and the Board can then inform the DPT. After being asked of how SHARROW placement decisions are made Mr. Gajda responded that the first work is done on bike routes that do not have a bike lane. Class three roadways. Volumes, speeds, width, collisions, especially dooring. Mr. Gajda warned that the date is based on citations in collision data base which leaves out all unreported accidents. After being asked about what items in the report DPT recommends action by the BAC Mr. Gajda responded that BAC take action on Policy, Grants, and Funding Legislation. Jerry Ervin (District 8) requested a specific list of where the BAC could expect requests for action from DPT. Mr. Gajda responded: SHARROW, Howard Street, Folsom Street, Octavia, Street Surface Conditions, Bicycle Parking, Baby Bullets, BART Bike Station, Funding.

2004 July 21, San Francisco Bicycle Advisory Committee (BAC), “Regular Meeting Minutes”, in City and County of San Francisco, archived from the original on 2018-06-14:

The principal American road-sharing treatment is sharrows ("shared lane arrows"), a bicycle silhouette topped by a double chevron, usually marked every 200 feet (65 m) in the middle or right third of a travel lane in order to encourage cyclists to ride at a safe distance from parked cars. Sharrows are used on both two-lane and multilane roads. [...] Although some cyclists feel that sharrows given them legitimacy when controlling the lane, there is a danger that sharrows will become a cop-out, a way for the city to claim that it's created bike routes without really doing anything to improve bicycling conditions.

2012, Peter G. Furth, “Bicycling Infrastructure for Mass Cycling: A Transatlantic Comparison”, in John Pucher, Ralph Buehler, editors, City Cycling (Urban and Industrial Environments), Cambridge, Mass., London: The MIT Press, →ISBN, page 130:

If there is not enough room to stripe separate bicycle lanes, perhaps motor-vehicle speeds could be reduced through traffic calming, with sharrows installed in the middle of the traffic lanes. This is not a perfect solution for bicyclists, but perhaps it will meet the minimum service threshold.

2012, Jeffrey Tumlin, “Measuring Success”, in Sustainable Transportation Planning: Tools for Creating Vibrant, Healthy, and Resilient Communities (Wiley Series in Sustainable Design; 16), Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 276:

As of this writing, the city has 78 miles of bike lanes, 47 miles of bike trails, and 92 miles of sharrows (streets marked to remind motorists that bicycles have a right to the road).

2014, Gene Bisbee, “Seattle”, in Best Bike Rides Seattle: Great Recreational Rides in the Metro Area (A Falcon Guide; Where to Ride Series), Guilford, Conn.: FalconGuides, Globe Pequot Press, →ISBN, page 1:

(quoting Nicholas Ferenchak and Wesley Marshall) It is time that sharrows are exposed for what they really are, a cheap alternative that not only fails to solve a pressing safety issue, but actually makes the issue worse through a sense of false security.

2016 February 5, Eric Jaffe, “Some Bike Infrastructure Is Worse Than None at All”, in Bloomberg CityLab:

(US, Canada) A marking (often consisting of an image of a bicycle with two inverted V shapes either above or below it) on the surface of a paved road shared by both bicycles and other vehicles indicating a portion of the road that cyclists may use.


thilk

From Middle English thilke, equivalent to a blend of the + ilk.

I loue thilke laſſe, (alas why do I loue:) / And am forlorne, (alas why am I lorne:) / Shee deignes not my good will, but doth reproue, / And of my rurall muſick holdeth ſcorne.

1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Ianuarie. Aegloga Prima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], →OCLC, folio 2, recto:

(now archaic, regional) That same; this; that.


vomitoxin

Blend of vomit + toxin, named for the emesis it causes in livestock which eat contaminated grain.

A mycotoxin, a type B trichothecene that occurs predominantly in grains.


commemorabilia

By the time the wedding date rolled around on July 29, 1981, her face and his were on most of the 971 "items of commemorabilia" that somebody counted for sale across the country.

1997 September 7, “Fairy-Tale Princess”, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch:

Items created especially to honour or memorialize something, particularly an event, person, or institution.


iodhydrin

(organic chemistry) One of a series of compounds containing iodine, and analogous to the chlorhydrins.


cutensil

Take the popularity of "cutensils" — kitchen utensils that have been given personality implants. Open the drawer in an American or European home and you'll likely find a bottle opener that looks like a smiling cat, a spaghetti spoon that grins at you and the pasta, or a vegetable brush with googly eyes and spindly legs.

2006, Daniel H. Pink, A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule The Future, Riverhead Books, published 2006, →ISBN, page 80:

A functional object with a cute or novelty design.


resorcin

en-noun

resorcin (usually uncountable, plural resorcins)

Blend of resin + orcin, so called because in its higher homologue it resembles orcin.

(organic chemistry) Synonym of resorcinol


abilitude

When it is remembered that Mrs. Pankhurst and her daughters…were members of the Labour movement before they were Suffragists, their abilitude in the Labour vocabulary is natural.

1912 August 22nd–29th, Alfred R. Orage, “The New Age” in Political and Economic Writings (1977), page 18

All of this pointless discussion…was just a simple exercise for me to display…my…abilitude to show inarguable facts in the face of bluffery.

2004 September 10th, John Lucas, alt.music.michael-jackson, “Re: Repost for the benefit of those who missed it the first time – Idiot John Lucas”, message 19

(rare) ability, capacity; aptitude, competence


qudit

Blend of quantum + dit. Compare qubit, qutrit.

(quantum computing) A quantum dit; the unit of quantum information described by a superposition of d states, where the number of states is an integer greater than two.


e-conomy

In just 12 months, the niche market of e-business has exploded into the e-conomy, a new economy that uses the Internet to move materials and cash at lightning speed.

2000, Network World, volume 17, number 31:

This classification suggests that consumers see only the tip of the iceberg of the e-conomy.

2004, Francis Gerard, E-business revolution and the new economy:

The economy associated with the Internet and e-commerce.


cliterati

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Its first meeting, held at Eve Ensler's apartment, was a who's who, as Cuomo puts it, of "the New York cliterati," including Urvashi Vaid, Laura Flanders, Sarah Schulman and other notables.

2004, Laura Flanders, The W effect: Bush's war on women, Feminist Press at the City University of New York, page 248:

Significant figures in the feminism movements.


mathemaku

mathemaku (countable and uncountable, plural mathemaku)

/ˌmæθəˈmækuː/

Coined by Bob Grumman, who invented the genre, and first attested in 1988; formed as a blend of either mathema(tics) or mathema(tical) with (hai)ku.

1988, Bob Grumman, Mathemaku II, main title

Each mathemaku’s math was central to it, not just an ad hoc ingredient in a some section of it. [¶] I was quite pleased with what I’d accomplished, but for some reason was only able to add a single unfinished mathemaku to my mathe-poetic oeuvre over the next twenty years or so.

1996, Joyce Nakamura, Contemporary Authors: Autobiographical Series, XXV, page 175:

Mathemaku for Beethoven

1999, The New Orleans Review, XXV, page 47, section title:

Poet/critic Bob Grumman…[is] best known as a poet for his hybrid of haiku and mathematics, the “mathemaku.”

2005, Betsy Franco, Conversations with a Poet, page 210:

(rare) A genre of pseudohaiku which combines a very short poetic structure with elegant mathematical expression; also, an example of this genre.


fertigation

Blend of fertilize + irrigation or similar.

(agriculture) The application of fertilizers or other water-soluble products through an irrigation system.


phloramine

(organic chemistry) A basic amido derivative of phloroglucin.


swapportunity

He looked up at the Club's chaotic Hopscotch Board, aglow with swapportunities, people wanting to rent a muscular body for a few days of hard labor, old men and women willing to pay for a week's vacation in a young and healthy physique, the usual sex ads searching for a two-night stand, once as a male, once as a female, or a blur of alternations before, during, and after.

2002 January 29, Kevin J. Anderson, Hopscotch, Bantam Spectra, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 1–2:

A “Swapportunity” is an opportunity to swap
something bad for something that is good.
A Swapportunity is an opportunity to stop
doing bad things and to do things we should.

2009 May 7, Symphony, “Humor in Truth.01”, in alt.philosophy (Usenet), message-ID <ea5e904f-1e9a-4785-976c-81834fbd1f63@z7g2000vbh.googlegroups.com>:

(informal) an opportunity to make a swap


carboxide

potassium carboxide

(organic chemistry) A compound of carbon and oxygen, such as carbonyl, with some element or radical.


tractioneer

From traction + -eer; Blend of traction engine (“tractor”) + engineer (“steam engine operator”).

blend

(obsolete, agriculture) An operator of a farm tractor (steam tractor or gas tractor).


furile

(organic chemistry) A yellow crystalline substance, (C₄H₃O)₂.C₂O₂, obtained by the oxidation of furoin.


vegangelical

en-adj

vegangelical (comparative more vegangelical, superlative most vegangelical)

more vegangelical (comparative)
most vegangelical (superlative)

Many vegan activists recommend that we be vegangelical with our loved ones and friends, taking every opportunity to point out why their flesh food is hurting their health[…]

2009, Alexandra Jamieson, Living Vegan for Dummies, page 100:

And while it still holds true that you shouldn't be the vegangelical asshole to your friends, sometimes you can go a little further in explaining the whys of your veganism to your friends than you can with your family.

2010, Bob Torres, Jenna Torres, Vegan Freak: Being Vegan in a Non-Vegan World, page 135:

[…] easing into the specifics as they ask more is going to get you a better response than being vegangelical about it and preaching about battery cages and bolt guns.

2011, Claire Askew, Generation V, page 44:

(informal) Inclined to preach about the benefits of a vegan diet.


vegangelical

(informal) A person inclined to preach about the benefits of a vegan diet.


tottle

en-verb

tottle (third-person singular simple present tottles, present participle tottling, simple past and past participle tottled)

tottles (present singular third-person)
tottling (participle present)
tottled (participle past)
tottled (past)

It may be that the days o' fine follow ane anither fast; or that the foul times linger likewise. But in the end, the figures of fine and foul tottle up, in accord wi' their ordered sum.

1902, Bram Stoker, The Mystery of the Sea, page 38:

(archaic, dialect) To add up; to sum to a total.


lactimide

(organic chemistry) A white crystalline substance obtained as an anhydride of alanine, and regarded as an imido derivative of lactic acid.


threonucleic

(biochemistry) Pertaining to a cell nucleus and being based on threose.


hackaround

Just hafta remember to switch out of the always-on program before turning the Palm off. Or is there a hackaround for this inconvenience?

2000, Harold Rabbie, “Always-on programs”, in comp.sys.palmtops.pilot (Usenet):

If and when the EWG closes those holes with better language extensions, the library hackarounds can be refined or abandoned.

(computing) A hacky workaround; an unattractive but expedient solution.


pegacorn

It was a flying horse — no, a unicorn — or a pegacorn? — feathery wings outstretched.

2006 July 11, Alea Bushardt, Cloud Filly, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 42:

Pegacorns have grown in both popularity and population since their worldwide introduction during the 1980s. While they had existed for eons prior, few unicorn farmers wished to voluntarily care for both the temperamental nature of the Pegasus and the attention-craving disposition of the unicorn. However, when those farmers had the opportunity to soar high and fast into the clouds on the Pegacorn, they had an abrupt change of opinion.

2011 August 18, Jessica S. Marquis, Raising Unicorns: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Starting and Running a Successful — and Magical! — Unicorn Farm, Adams Media, →ISBN, →OL, page 18:

At the end of each episode of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, one of the show's cartoon ponies dictates a letter to the pegacorn Princess Celestia, telling her what she's learned about friendship.

2012 January 15, Lauren Davis, “GlaDOS reads her letter to Princess Celestia”, in io9, archived from the original on 2012-02-04:

(informal) A horned Pegasus or a winged unicorn.


sexpionage

(slang) espionage using sex or sexual allure


glutaconic acid

(organic chemistry) The unsaturated aliphatic dicarboxylic acid pent-2-enedioic acid


plutodemocracy

The old ruling classes were no longer the major obstacles to the development of plutodemocracy; they were replaced by the new oppressed class, the proletariat, which was beginning to become sufficiently powerful to threaten capitalism.

1974, Maurice Duverger, Modern democracies: economic power versus political power:

It can no more survive as a plutodemocracy than it could, before the Civil War, survive half slave and half free.

1977, Harold Joseph Laski, The American democracy: a commentary and an interpretation:

If the people are the basis of money politics, then Japan must be a plutodemocracy.

1992, Asahi Shinbunsha, Japan quarterly: Volume 39; Volume 39, link:

Reds, sweeping aside the garbage of plutodemocracy, and dissolving the bourgeois parties, I remained stuck in France.

2010, Jonathan Littell, The Kindly Ones: A Novel, page 506:

(politics) A deceptive pseudodemocratic government that is in fact a hypercapitalist plutocracy.

პლუტოდემოკრატია

pseudodemocracy that is in fact a hypercapitalist plutocracy


chemiloon

(US) A garment for women, consisting of chemise and drawers united in one.


bumder

Blend of bummer + bender, both derogatory terms for a male homosexual.

oh you rigth what a bumder

1999 May 9th, SHS, 3dfx.products.voodoo3, “Re: Oh Well…” (see the original message)

Will McKenzie: Oh, you’d like my lip, wouldn’t you? Right round your bell-end! If Mr Chippy doesn’t get there first! What’s he gonna knock up? A closet for you to hide in? You… bumder!

2008 May 1, Damon Beesley, Iain Morris, The Inbetweeners, I:ii: “w:Bunk Off”, 11:35-11:45:

(UK, rare, derogatory slang) A male homosexual.


yamogenin

(organic chemistry) A sapogenin found in fenugreek and yams.


clopenthixol

(pharmacology) A typical antipsychotic drug of the thioxanthene class.


ricinelaidic acid

(organic chemistry) The trans isomer of the fatty acid ricinoleic acid.


teleportal

(science fiction) A teleporter; a device for instantaneous travel.


misle

misle (third-person singular simple present misles, present participle misling, simple past and past participle misled)

misles (present singular third-person)
misling (participle present)
misled (participle past)
misled (past)

I know a woman of fashion, who is perpetually employed in remarks upon the weather, who observes from morning to noon, that it is likely to rain, and from noon to night, that it spits, that it misles, that it is set in for a wet evening; and, being incapable of any other discourse, is as insipid a companion and just as pedantic as he who quotes Aristotle over his tea, or talks Greek at a card-table.


witsec

(by extension) Any witness protection program.


bromoil

en-noun

bromoil (countable and uncountable, plural bromoils)

(photography) An early photographic process that starts with a normally developed print exposed onto a silver-bromide paper that is then chemically bleached, hardened, and fixed.


ampersat

Two weeks ago, Tim Nott asked what the @, the hub of the e-mail address, should be called. […] In the UK, Tim Gowens offered the highly logical "ampersat" and the art historian Frances Marks suggested "Van Gogh's ear".

[1996 February 5, David Bowen, “bits & bytes”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-10-07:

[…]there are users out there on the Internet right now who think that they possess an e-mail address containing neither an at-sign (@ often known as an "ampersat") nor a domain name.

[2000, Wankyu Choi, Allan Kent, Chris Lea, Beginning PHP4, page 249:

From his Twitter feed I have learned that Darnielle is interested in politics, feminist activism, professional boxing (he sometimes live-tweets exciting bouts), vegan cooking, and his infant son. He engages eagerly with fans—his homepage is a flurry of ampersats from his back-and-forths with followers.

2011 November 18, L.V. Anderson, “Follow Friday: The Internet’s Wittiest Angst-Ridden Folk Musician”, in Slate, New York, N.Y.: The Slate Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-08-30:


Linsanity

(US, basketball, slang) Enthusiasm and excitement about the sudden rise of Jeremy Lin (then of the NBA's New York Knicks) to basketball stardom in 2012.


jihobbyist

Blend of jihadist + hobbyist. Coined by Jarret Brachman in Global Jihadism: Theory and Practice (2008).

One who supports jihad and radical Islam despite not being a member of any violent jihadist organization.


blobject

A designed product, often a household object, distinguished by smooth flowing curves, bright colours, and an absence of sharp edges.

1. There really is just one concrete particular, viz., the whole universe (the blobject).
2. The blobject has enormous spatiotemporal structural complexity, and enormous local variability, even though it does not have any genuine parts.

2000, Terry Horgan, Matjaž Potrč, “Blobjectivism and indirect correspondence”, in Facta Philosophica, page 249:

But nihilism is also compatible with existence monism—the thesis that there is a single, all-encompassing simple (the cosmos, a.k.a. “the blobject”)—as well as the extreme nihilist thesis that there are no objects whatsoever.

2016 February 26, Daniel Korman, “Ordinary Objects”, in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy:

Brentano’s universe[…] like this ball it does not host any independent things or objects, but instead seems to be a single unitary ‘blobject’ that simply exhibits a certain (spatial and temporal) qualitative structure.

2016, Uriah Kriegel, “Brentano’s Latter-day Monism”, in Brentano Studien, page 70:

(metaphysics, monism) The entire universe viewed as a single entity featuring internal variability but not containing discrete parts.


webutation

Have you seen what that person is saying about you online? They are destroying your webutation.

(Internet, neologism) A person's or company's reputation on the World Wide Web.


homocon

(US politics, often derogatory) A gay conservative.


outhale

en-verb

outhale (third-person singular simple present outhales, present participle outhaling, simple past and past participle outhaled)

outhales (present singular third-person)
outhaling (participle present)
outhaled (participle past)
outhaled (past)

"Inhale, outhale," a skinny black man in a dirty white T-shirt chants. "Inhale, outhale."

2002, Jana Abrams Karam, Into the Breach: A Year of Life and Death with EMS, page 237:

How it worked was, for those few brief seconds, you stopped thinking "inhale, outhale" and instead you thought, "Dig it! That sure is a groooooooovy tune!"

2006, Vaguen, Chris Gibbs, T. J. Dawe, The Power of Ignorance: 14 Steps to Using Your Ignorance, page 27:


tinygram

Too many tinygrams can congest a network connection.

(networking, informal) A very small packet of data.


glycoproteome

(biochemistry, genetics) The complete set of glycoproteins encoded by a particular genome.


mitophagy

(microbiology) The removal of damaged mitochondria from a cell prior to cell death


technostalgia

This isn't just technostalgia or a diatribe against what Nicholas Negroponte calls "digital obesity." The upbeat message is that the search for simplicity is a golden opportunity for IS managers.

1997 June 16, Computerworld, volume 31, number 24:

Technostalgia is about the ways in which, in the past, the future was imagined.

2006, David Bell, Science, technology and culture:

Fond reminiscence of, or longing for, outdated technology.


antigram

Blend of anti- + anagram, equivalent to anti- + -gram.

Either of a pair of anagrams with opposite meanings.


gravatar

Blend of globally + recognized + avatar; a marketing coinage.

(Internet) An image (avatar) that registered users can use automatically on various blogging sites.


cyberchondria

[Sam] Altman’s mother, a dermatologist named Connie Gibstine, told me, “Sam does keep an awful lot tied up inside. He’ll call and say he has a headache—and he’ll have Googled it, so there’s some cyber-chondria in there, too.

2016 October 3, Tad Friend, quoting Connie Gibstine, “Sam Altman’s Manifest Destiny”, in The New Yorker:

Using “Dr Google” for health purposes is controversial. Some have expressed concerns that it can lead to inaccurate diagnoses, bad advice on where to seek treatment (triage), and increased anxiety (cyberchondria).

2021 March 29, Natalie Grover, “Looking up health symptoms online less harmful than thought, study says”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

Anxiety concerning one's health, caused by visiting medical websites.


cyclopentannulated

(organic chemistry) Modified by the addition of cyclopentadiene, or by cyclization, to form a cyclopentane ring


cyclohexannulated

(organic chemistry) Modified by the addition of, or by cyclization to form, a cyclohexane ring


cyclopropannulated

(organic chemistry) Modified by the addition of, or by cyclization to form, a cyclopropane ring


cyclobutannulated

(organic chemistry) Modified by the addition of, or by cyclization to form, a cyclobutane ring


cycloheptannulated

(organic chemistry) Modified by the addition of, or by cyclization to form, a cycloheptane ring


cyclopentannulation

en-noun

cyclopentannulation (countable and uncountable, plural cyclopentannulations)

From Blend of cyclopentane + annulation.

(organic chemistry) Modification by the addition of, or by cyclization to form, a cyclopentane ring.


cyclobutannulation

(organic chemistry) Modification by the addition of, or by cyclization to form, a cyclobutane ring


cyclooctannulation

(organic chemistry) Modification by the addition of, or by cyclization to form, a cyclooctane ring


cyclohexannulation

(organic chemistry) Modification by the addition of, or by cyclization to form, a cyclohexane ring


cycloheptannulation

From Blend of cycloheptane + annulation.

(organic chemistry) Modification by the addition of, or by cyclization to form, a cycloheptane ring


benzannulated

(organic chemistry) Modified by the addition of, or by cyclization to form, a benzene ring


cyclooctannulated

(organic chemistry) Modified by the addition of, or by cyclization to form, a cyclooctane ring


vab

en-verb

vab (third-person singular simple present vabs, present participle vabbing, simple past and past participle vabbed)

vabs (present singular third-person)
vabbing (participle present)
vabbed (participle past)
vabbed (past)

So yall be #vabbing like seriously?

2022 July 9, Eurelda Nneka (@Eurelda29), Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-07-09:

In one of the first videos detailing the trend – which has since been deleted – TikTok user and influencer Mandy Lee hailed vabbing as the latest dating hack for women, purporting that it helped her to land dates.

2022 August 7, Olivia Petter, “The disgust over ‘vabbing’ is just another way to demonise women’s bodies”, in The Independent:

(slang, intransitive) To wear one's own vaginal fluid as perfume, as a purported aphrodisiac.


glycide

(chemistry) A colourless liquid obtained from certain derivatives of glycerin, and regarded as a partially dehydrated glycerin; glycidic alcohol.


cyclopropannulation

From Blend of cyclopropane + annulation.

(organic chemistry) Modification by the addition of, or by cyclization to form, a cyclopropane ring


coffice

The coffee shop down this street is my coffice for three hours every day.

A coffee shop used as if it is one's office.


trialogue

Blend of tri- + dialogue, reinterpreted as di- (“two”) + -alogue, though actually from Ancient Greek διάλογος (diálogos, “conversation, discourse”), from διαλέγομαι (dialégomai, “to converse”), from δια- (dia-, “through”) + λέγω (légō, “to speak”).
Note that official documents of the European Union use the spelling trilogue (perhaps influenced by the French spelling).

der

(European Union) An informal tripartite meeting attended by representatives of the European Parliament, the Council of the European Union, and the European Commission.


purinoceptor

(biochemistry) Any of a family of plasma membrane substances involved in cellular functions such as vascular reactivity, apoptosis and cytokine secretion


alcotest

These include provisions requiring the driver to submit to an alcotest or a breath analysis and provisions aiding proof of a positive result of the alcotest or breath analysis.

2002, Adelaide Law Review, Volumes 23-24:

(Australia) An alcohol test; the measurement of the blood alcohol level.


galactoxyloglucan

From Blend of galactose + xylose + glucan.

(biochemistry) An amyloid glucan, from seeds of Mucuna etc., that contains galactose and xylose.


minheap

Minheaps are often used to implement priority queues.

(computing theory) A heap data structure with a "greater than or equal to" comparison function.


trichloromethyl

(organic chemistry, especially in combination) The univalent radical CCl₃- obtained by substitution of every hydrogen in methyl with chlorine atoms


zir

For quotations using this term, see Citations:zir.

A large clay jug for storing water, common in Egypt and the Sudan since ancient times.


unipeg

The balck^([sic]) and silver unipeg lands and folds his wings remebering^([sic]) the big earth drac.

1999 January 27, Twyligtsky, “Re: the inn”, in alt.mythology.mythic-animals (Usenet), message-ID <19990126223406.16200.00003652@ng126.aol.com>:

But, I think it will be too risky to try and steal horses, unipegs, pegasi, or unicorns. There are spells cast on the animals to keep track of them.

2004, Myles Brandon Hibbett, Zephyr Spheres and the Lost Spell, Lincoln: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 49:

As she whistled the horse, which Aries said was a Unipeg, which was a combination of a Pegasus and a unicorn landed right there smack in front of Mary it just landed and stared her right in the eyes.

2011 October 24, Mercedes Burgos-Diaz, Meenah, the Mystical Princess of Zantel, Bloomington: iUniverse, →ISBN, →OL, page 20:


slowth

Slowth lies behind the difficulties each of us faces in achieving the standard of living we desire.

1980, Martin Kupferman, Maurice D. Levi, Slowth, the changing economy and how you can successfully cope:

Unfortunately, with slowth it becomes progressively more difficult to escape from the rigours of scarcity

1984, George Lermer, Thomas J. Courchene, Probing leviathan: an investigation of government in the economy:

it is realized that the slowth context is making that activity less than might be considered desirable.

1985, Lee H. Radebaugh, Earl H. Fry, David M. Kennedy, Canada/U.S. trade relations: problems and prospects:


softlifting

(software) The purchasing of a single licensed copy of a software program and the loading of it on several machines, contrary to terms of agreement.


artotype

Blend of art + autotype, possibly originally a trademark.


mimotannic acid

(chemistry) A variety of tannin or tannic acid found in acacias, Mimosa, etc.


unisus

Unisi are unicorns with pegasi wings, the result of crossbreeding between the two species. A single such creature is called a unisus.

1993 February, Michael John II Wybo, “Unique Unicorns”, in Dragon Magazine, number 190, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OL, page 92:

As for her horse, it was Spirit when she was Adora, and Swift Wind the flying unicorn (unisus?) when she was She-Ra.

1995 July 30, pteryx, “He-man. she-ra's horse's”, in rec.arts.animation (Usenet), message-ID <9507301040.0EZSC00@acornbbs.com>:

Heat was a unisus and Mich's best friend. He had once belonged to a huge herd of unisi that lived in the sky, above the clouds.

1998 November 15, Piers Anthony with Julie Brady, Dream a Little Dream: A tale of myth and moonshine, Tor, →ISBN, →OL, page 19:

The beauty of the Unisus was simply extraordinary. Its silver-feathered wings stretched across the room, fifteen feet in length. Its glorious, glowing white fur was so pure that it would be invisible in the snow.

2006 September 8, Jacob Cortez, The Legend of the Teenage Sages, Central Milton Keynes: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, →OL, page 267:


poorism

While some may view poorism tourist options as exploitation (and indeed they are), such exploration helps uncover the stark reality of human resilience[…]

2012, P. H. Liotta, James F. Miskel, The Real Population Bomb, page 136:

(neologism) slum tourism; recreational visits to impoverished areas


fourgie

I've heard you've had a fourgie with the Stern Brothers.

1997, Bruce LaBruce, Bruce LaBruce: ride, queer, ride!, link:

Homoeroticism glistened across the screen: nude rugby scrums, gorgeous gym queens crunching their abs in the gym and sailors in Gaveston's bed engaged in some sort of threesome or fourgie.

2009, Niall Richardson, The queer cinema of Derek Jarman: critical and cultural readings, link:

(slang) An act of group sex between four people; a foursome.


malamic acid

(chemistry) An acid intermediate between malic acid and malamide, known only by its salts.


stethal

(chemistry) One of the higher alcohols of the methane series, homologous with ethal, and found in small quantities as an ethereal salt of stearic acid in spermaceti.


gayby

2005, No. 685, The Advocate - Jul 11, 1995, link
Much to my surprise I find out that I am part of the "gayby boom."

Hollywood's gayby boom As my partner and I watch our friends dive into child rearing with the abandon previously held only for screenplay writing...

2002, The Advocate - No. 864, Hollywood's Gayby Boom - May 28, 2002, page 55:

The “gayby boom” children have two moms, two dads, or one of a combination of numerous queer parents.

2009, Abigail Garner, Families Like Mine, link:

“I was born a gayby.” “Aww, you were a gayby?” Lucy gushed. “I seriously was,” Marshall said. “I was allergic to breast milk.” Everyone laughed.

(LGBTQ) The baby of a gay person or couple.


micronometer

An instrument for noting very short periods of time.


Cal-Mex

(chiefly attributive) A Californian style of Mexican food.


tenderoni

/ˌtɛndəˈɹəʊni/

Blend of tender + macaroni, a former trademark in the United States for a brand of quick-cooking macaroni introduced in the 1930s.

Sweet tenderoni, a man should never be lonely / Sweet tenderoni, girl if I could only / I got my eye, I got my eye on you, ah you

1976 September, Allan Felder (lyrics and music), “Sweet Tenderoni”, in Goin’ Up in Smoke, performed by Eddie Kendricks:

Tenderoni, you've got to be / Spark my nature, sugar, fly with me

1983 September 19, James Ingram, Quincy Jones, Michael Jackson (lyrics and music), “P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)”, in Thriller, performed by Michael Jackson:

Only tenderonis can give a special love / A special kind of love that makes you feel good inside

1988 December 27, Babyface, Darnell Bristol (lyrics and music), “Roni”, in Don’t Be Cruel, performed by Bobby Brown:

I must admit to having been somewhat taken back by the question posed to me by the young tenderoni. "Are you desperately lonely?" he had asked a few minutes after we had pulled up in front of his dwelling, after having shared an intimate spell together and then grabbing a fast-food combo.

2008 June, Nina Tracy, “Prologue: Lonely?”, in Twenty-Eight Days, West Babylon, N.Y.: Urban Soul, →ISBN, page 3:

(originally African-American Vernacular, slang) A younger (often female) love interest.


slimsy

en-adj

slimsy (comparative more slimsy, superlative most slimsy)

more slimsy (comparative)
most slimsy (superlative)


toluric acid

(chemistry) Any of three isomeric crystalline acids, C₉H₁₀ON.CO₂H, which are toluyl derivatives of glycocoll.


shiesty

shiesty (comparative shiestier or more shiesty, superlative shiestiest or most shiesty)

shiestier (comparative)
more shiesty (comparative)
shiestiest (superlative)
most shiesty (superlative)

Green's Dictionary of Slang
Language Log
Mark Liberman
Pooh Shiesty

Probably from shyst(er) + -y. Green's Dictionary of Slang suggests that the word is a blend of shit + feisty or shicer (“a worthless person”) + feisty. The noun sense is a reference to the rapper Pooh Shiesty, known for wearing ski masks on stage.

The same sheisty cats that you hang with and do your thang with / Could set you up and wet you up nigga, peep the language

1998, “Moment of Truth”, in Moment of Truth, performed by Gang Starr:

Muddah had been smart to warn me to flip my bank. My baby had never trusted his ass. I knew she would die before she let this shiesty niggah get his grimy fingers on a single dime of my money.

2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 301:

(US, slang) Shifty, untrustworthy, unscrupulous.


sensori-volitional

The centres of these systems are brought into closer structural relation with that of the sensori-volitional system as we ascend the scale of Invertebrated Animals

1839, William B. Carpenter, Inaugural Dissertation on the Phsiological Inferences to be Deduced from the Structure of the Nervous System in the Invertebrated Classes of Animals:

(biology) Involved in both sensation and volition; applied to certain nerve fibers that pass to and from the cerebrospinal axis.


outformation

en-noun

outformation (countable and uncountable, plural outformations)

Blend of out + information, as though the latter began with English in.

Phobos' lack of the classic red color of Mars further suggests it was not originally a Martian outformation as a natural satellite, and therefore was probably a captured chunk from another extraterrestrial formation.

2008, M. Don Schorn, Elder Gods of Antiquity: First Journal of the Ancient Ones, page 108:

(neologism) Something that is sent out or broadcast from the source that formed it.


daycation

You'll want a back-pocket, getaway idea to pull out when you have a free afternoon and the itch to take off for a while. Our "daycations" are just the ticket to satisfy mini wanderlust.

1986 June, Linda Pender, “Daycations”, in Cincinnati Magazine:

(Canada, US) A single-day excursion or retreat.


democrazy

democrazy (countable and uncountable, plural democrazies)

This is crucial if we recognise that the crux of the democratic stateform is the constitutional right of the people to influence and determine how they are governed; how their representatives are chosen, and how that process can be conducted at intervals without fraudulent interference with the right of the people, without turning democracy into democrazy; into a chaotic and unruly form of government.

1986, Arthur Nzeribe, Nigeria: The Turning Point, Fourth Dimension, →ISBN, page 12:

A democratic system or state considered to be inauthentic or inherently flawed; democracy that has descended into corruption, injustice, or absurdity.


deskfast

deskfast (countable and uncountable, plural deskfasts)

The default deskfast, the cereal bar, arrived in Britain from America in the late 1990s and within five years accounted for about a fifth of the total breakfast cereal market.

2007, Joe Moran, Queuing for Beginners: The Story of Daily Life from Breakfast to Bedtime, Profile Books, published 2008, →ISBN, page 19:

Breakfast eaten at work, particularly while sitting at a desk.


digilante

Other computer wizards have become cult figures after rushing to defend their idea of Internet purity, for example, when several hacker "digitantes" sabotaged Cyber Promotions, Inc., one of the most hated e-mail advertisers, or "spammers."

1998, David Brin, The Transparent Society: WIll Technology Force Use to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom?, Perseus Books, →ISBN, page 164:

A person who engages in vigilantism on or through the Internet.


dramality

dramality (countable and uncountable, plural dramalities)

Blend of drama + reality. Coined by Survivor creator Mark Burnett in 2000.

Minnie had come up with the brilliant idea of spoofing a dramality show of Paris Hilton, Britney Spears, and Lindsay Lohan doing "hard time" in a primadonna version of prison, complete with diamond-studded ankle cuffs.

2008, Kate Harmon, The Formal, Speak, →ISBN, page 53:

(uncountable) A genre of television programming that blends reality TV with elements of drama.


emotag

Blend of emotion + tag, likely by analogy with emoticon.

Coordinate term: emoticon

(Internet slang) A mock HTML tag incorporated into writing to express a state of mind.


entreprenerd

He [Bill Gates] is Jobs's opposite. A virtuoso software engineer with virtually zero charisma, he is the ultimate entreprenerd.

1988 October 24, John Schwartz, “Steve Jobs Comes Back”, in Newsweek:

(informal) A person who builds a business around their technical skills or expertise.


minicorder

The three big networks alone had more than 1000 people on the job, along sith a vast assortment of tape recorders, bind mikes, minicorders, walkie-talkies, peepie-creepies and periscopes[…]

The most interesting artifact left in the wake of Michael Enslin's brief stay (it lasted about seventy minutes) in room 1408 was the eleven minutes of recorded tape in his minicorder, which was charred a bit but not even close to destroyed.


fakeaway

Forget fine dining: even fairly foul dining courtesy of the humble takeaway will seem extravagant. Hence the arrival of the fakeaway.

2009 January 5, Jasper Gerard, “Eating out in 2009: the highs and the lows”, in The Telegraph:

(UK, Australia, informal) A homemade meal intended to replicate takeaway food ordered from a restaurant.


fictomercial

A work of fiction featuring product placement or commissioned to promote a product.


familymoon

“We didn't want Conner to feel excluded,” said New Yorker Craig Linden, whose 5-year-old stepson joined the couple for their wedding and honeymoon in Hawaii. “It was a familymoon.”

2001 August 19, Eileen Ogintz, “Encore brides include their children and his in honeymoon plans”, in Ventura County Star:

These familymoons can be a valuable transition time for merging families Brady-Bunch style, and they're a powerful way of conveying to all that life is about to become a joint venture.

2005, Marcy Blum, Laura Fisher Kaiser, Wedding Planning For Dummies, unnumbered page:

Although most families see quality bonding time as important, most are also limited in the amount of financial resources they can devote to a vacation or familymoon.

2005, David Frisbie, Lisa Frisbie, Happily Remarried, page 105:

2007, Travel & Leisure, Volume 37, American Express Publishing, page 92,
Thinking of planning a familymoon or babymoon? Couples celebrating second marriages and honeymooning with kids enjoy the luxuriously spacious suites of the oceanfront ResortQuest Waikiki Beach Tower.

A honeymoon in which the newlywed couple bring along their children.


filmanthropy

Filmmaking that aims to raise awareness of an issue and/or money for a charitable cause.


fiscalamity

(informal) An economic or budgetary crisis, especially one attributed to poor fiscal management by a government.


floordrobe

/ˈflɔːdɹəʊb/

Pity about the suit being covered in cat fur when I retrieved it from the floordrobe, but it was dark anyway.

2002, Gideon Haigh, The Vincibles: A Suburban Cricket Season, Victory Books, published 2009, →ISBN, page 127:

(humorous) Clothing strewn on the floor.


foodoir

These foodoirs have become a successful subset, one part chick lit mixed with one part chicken lit.

2009 December 3, Christine Muhlke, “Kiss the Cook”, in The New York Times:

A memoir that focuses on food or includes recipes.


flunami

The H1N1 flunami crested in Lincoln late last month, according to Friday's weekly report.

2009 November 6, Mark Andersen, “Flu activity declining in Lincoln after peak”, in Lilcoln Journal Star:

(informal) An extreme influenza outbreak.


frohawk

Thousands of black rock fans use Afropunk.com’s message boards to discuss bands, commiserate about their outsider status and share tips on how to maintain their frohawk hairstyles.

2007 January 28, Jessica Pressler, “Truly Indie Fans”, in The New York Times:

A Mohawk hairstyle worn by someone with afro-textured hair, with the crest generally standing up naturally.


funemployment

Aubrey Howell, who'd tweeted about funemployment shortly after being laid off as the manager of a Nashville tea shop in 2009, and was featured in a Los Angeles Times story soon afterward, told me half a year later that she initially saw the layoff as an opportunity to clear her head, refocus, and "go after what I'm really passionate about" — music and graphic design.

2011, Don Peck, Pinched: How the Great Recession Has Narrowed Our Futures & What We Can Do About It, Crown Publishers, →ISBN, page 72:

A period of unemployment spent pursuing recreational activities or hobbies.


globesity

Blend of globe + obesity. Coined by the World Health Organization in 2001.

"Globesity" has consumed much of the planet, with more than 1 billion adults overweight or obese.

2010 March 13, Claudia Kalb, “Culture of Corpulence”, in Newsweek:


godcasting

By then, hundreds of pastors, priests, and rabbis were routinely distributing their sermons via iTunes in a phenomenon someone dubbed "godcasting."

2006, Steven Levy, The Perfect Thing: How the iPod Shuffles Commerce, Culture, and Coolness, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 247:

The distribution of sermons and other religious audio content in podcast format.


godcast

en-verb

godcast (third-person singular simple present godcasts, present participle godcasting, simple past and past participle godcast)

godcasts (present singular third-person)
godcasting (participle present)
godcast (participle past)
godcast (past)

Steve Baker, the Philadelphia director of Campus Crusade for Christ and overseer of the university's division, says he godcasts and finds godcasting useful.

2006 October 18, Joyce Eng, “The good word for generation-iPod”, in The Review, University of Delaware:


sternebra

(anatomy) One of the segments of the sternum.


Godcasting

Or consider the fad du jour in the faith markets, Godcasting. Godcasting is downloading sermons or church messages to the faithful via iPods.

2007, James B. Twitchell, Shopping for God: How Christianity Went from In Your Heart to In Your Face, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 285:


Godcast

Godcast (third-person singular simple present Godcasts, present participle Godcasting, simple past and past participle Godcast)

Godcasts (present singular third-person)
Godcasting (participle present)
Godcast (participle past)
Godcast (past)

Brisbane churches are "Godcasting" to the masses, streaming their services by podcast and webcast for those who can't get to church.

2009 February 8, Anooska Tucker-Evans, “Churches podcast, webcast services for non-attendees”, in The Sunday Mail:


grocerant

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

This is the grocerant concept in shopping and dining that was introduced by Jaya Grocer in its latest outlet at the Empire Shopping Gallery, the new mall in Subang Jaya.

2010 June 27, Aida Ahmad, “A spot of convenience”, in The Star, Malaysia:

A grocery store that sells prepared meals, either for eating on site or taking home.


workcation

(Canada, US, informal) A vacation that one spends getting work done.

trabacaciones

a vacation that one spends getting work done


vomitrocious

en-adj

vomitrocious (comparative more vomitrocious, superlative most vomitrocious)

more vomitrocious (comparative)
most vomitrocious (superlative)

Her mother always embarrassed her to death. She'd linger by the Pepto-Bismol display, or she'd buy tons of cans of something vomitrocious like corned beef hash.

1997, Jamie Suzanne, Big Brother's in Love Again, Random House, →ISBN, page 11:

(slang) Causing a desire to vomit; disgusting or gross.


carnivoracity

April 18, 1730, Alexander Pope, letter to Mr. Gay
Mr. Cleland always speaks of you: he is at Tunbridge, wondering at the superior carnivoracity of our friend: he plays now with the old Duchess, nay dines with her, after she has won all his money

(obsolete, humorous) greedy appetite for meat


sexposition

Blend of sex + exposition, coined in 2011 by Myles McNutt to describe the numerous scenes in the fantasy TV series Game of Thrones in which characters talk while they have sex with prostitutes or watch them having sex.

There were similar grumbles about season GAME OF THRONES eps, but it always had the Dinklage turning in reportedly great performances--including a redefinition of, ahem, "SLAPschtick"--and its infamous sexposition[…]

2012, Ken from Chicago, “HBO's "Luck" has few viewers”, in rec.arts.tv (Usenet):

(film) (The practice of providing) exposition against a backdrop of sex or nudity.


dunder

Compare Spanish redundar (“to overflow”).

The use of dunder in the making of rum, answers the purpose of yeast in the fermentation of flour.

1793, Bryan Edwards, The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies, Dublin: Luke White, Volume II, Book V, Chapter 2, p. 231:

(Caribbean) The lees or dregs of cane juice, used in the distillation of rum.


notpology

A short time later, Bush, who is certainly not known for contrition, went further in the notpology direction and lashed out at detractors of Gonzales, whose "good name was dragged through the mud for political reasons," he said.

2007 August 31, Gil Kaufman, “Michael Vick, Senator Craig Prove That Sometimes 'Sorry' Really Is The Hardest Word”, in MTV News, archived from the original on 2012-04-12:

Prior to the notpology, at least half a dozen companies had pulled their ads from the show.

2012 March 6, “Limbaugh Losing Advertisers”, in orlandobulletin.com:


bluenette

A girl with pale blue hair and a translucent dress wears see-through underwear (she's not a natural bluenette).

2000 November, B. Werde, “The Love”, in CMJ New Music Monthly:

(slang) A person with blue hair, especially a woman.


Senegambia

(historical) The Senegambia Confederation, a loose confederation between the West African countries of Senegal and the Gambia.

The Senegal-Gambia region; the basins of the Senegal and Gambia rivers.


hijabista

With the rise of Muslim fashion blogs, hijabistas asserting their tastes, and Muslim women designers making their mark, Muslimahs nowadays have more fashion and style choices than ever before.

2011, Adline A. Ghani, "Asian Muslim Women's Fashions of the Past", Aquila, May/June 2011

A Muslim woman or girl who dresses stylishly while conforming to the Islamic modesty code (hijab).


fatshionista

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

If fatshionistas are willing to pay for luxury goods, why won't the industry make them for them? It's not like those companies are rolling in it right now.

2009 June 25, Amy Odell, “‘Fat-shionistas’ Band Together for Full-Figured Fashion Week”, in New York Magazine:

An overweight person interested in fashion; a plus-size fashionista.


ethionic acid

(organic chemistry) The unstable sulfonic acid 2-sulfooxyethanesulfonic acid


dripple

en-verb

dripple (third-person singular simple present dripples, present participle drippling, simple past and past participle drippled)

dripples (present singular third-person)
drippling (participle present)
drippled (participle past)
drippled (past)

From drip + -le (frequentative suffix) or a blend of drip + dribble.

(intransitive) to dribble briskly; to drip with wet


mystorical

en-adj

mystorical (comparative more mystorical, superlative most mystorical)

more mystorical (comparative)
most mystorical (superlative)


mystory

en-noun

mystory (countable and uncountable, plural mystories)

Blend of my + history. Coined by Gregory Ulmer in Teletheory (1989).

(philosophy) A pedagogical genre encouraging the exploration of history as an open-minded individual rather than an analytical historian following institutional norms.


handicapitalism

The marketing of products and services to disabled people, particularly products and services that are designed to meet these consumers' unique needs.


soylent

Blend of soy + lentil, coined in Harry Harrison's 1966 Make Room! Make Room!

The soylent steaks were sitting like lead in his stomach and twice he had to go back to the dark and miserable toilet in the rear of the building.

1966, Harry Harrison, Make Room! Make Room!, published 1973, →ISBN, →OL, page 26:

It is decided that the product will be composed of three elements — soylent green, red, and blue. Each pound of the final product must contain at least 2000 calories of energy and 1000 units of vitamins.

1976, Roger C. Pfaffenberger, Mathematical Programming for Economics and Business, Ames: Iowa State University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN:

“Today's selection is Superaide with a choice of soylent yellow or soylent red,” the servodroid said.

2008, Shane Berryhill, Chance Fortune and the Outlaws, New York: Starscape, published 2011, chapter 8:

An undesirable, lackluster, and artificial foodstuff, as a substitute for real meat.


hathos

Blend of hate + pathos. According to journalist Alex Heard, this word was coined in 1985 when he was searching for a word to describe the "cringe-y feeling you get when celebs go AWOL" and attended a Super Bowl party where he and another guest, then-Bob Dole press aide Scott Richardson, exchanged ideas until they came up with "hathos." The word's first apparent use in print was in an essay by Heard, published in The Washington Post on May 17, 1987.

The patron saint of hathos connoisseurs, H.L. Mencken, was a brave soul, but even a fellow as sturdy and unstinting as he might have been struck dumb in the presence of the extravagantly hathotic Kathie Lee Gifford.

1996 January 7, Rod Dreher, “Hate it, Love it”, in Sun-Sentinel:

Enjoyment derived from hatred of a person or thing.


haycation

In a world where small farmers need to diversify to keep their fields afloat and city dwellers are more desperate than ever to learn where their food comes from, a "haycation" for about the price of a nice hotel room in Manhattan didn’t seem like such a far-fetched idea.

2009 August 25, Kim Severson, “$300 a Night? Yes, but Haying’s Free”, in The New York Times:

A vacation stay on a farm, in which guests often help out with daily farm tasks.


hopium

Blend of hope + opium, as though it were a drug; likely modelled after copium; regarding the surface analysis as hope + -ium, see copium § Etymology.

Hopium can make you see potential in the grimmest set of circumstances.

2016, Tracy Schorn, Leave a Cheater, Gain a Life: The Chump Lady's Survival Guide, Hachette, →ISBN:

This way, we might avoid depression, panic, denial, and hopium for good or bad news, any of which renders us more unrealistic, unprepared, and unwell.

2020, Jack Adam Weber, Carolyn Baker, Climate Cure: Heal Yourself to Heal the Planet, Llewellyn Worldwide, →ISBN:

(colloquial, derogatory) A clinging to unreasonable or unfounded hopes.


mauvelous

At any rate, it's a mauve'''lous cover.

1949, Astounding Science-Fiction, volume 43, number 4, page 148:

Around the courthouse, things are simply “mauvelous,” as in a purple, violet or lilac color.

1987, John F. Nichols, “Clark County Report”, in Washington State Bar News, volume 41, Washington State Bar Association, page 35:

She is wearing the chalky pink lipstick. I am wearing the Mauvelous, and the shame shivers up around me like a sudden, unexpected chill.

2006 October 3, Dominique Paul, The Possibility of Fireflies, New York: Simon Pulse, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL, page 63:

These days I am proud to say that the colors in the box of my life now include Crayola's burnt sienna, mauvelous and purple heart.

2010 September 1, Johanna S. Kandel, Life Beyond Your Eating Disorder: Reclaim Yourself, Regain Your Health, Recover for Good, New York: Harlequin, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL, page 55:

Like a box of crayons, we are all born with an astounding range of color options, from Mauvelous to Tickle Me Pink.

2012 February 17, Chris Rodell, Use All the Crayons!: The Colorful Guide to Simple Human Happiness, Bloomington: iUniverse, page xiv:

(humorous or in brand names) The color mauve, or a specific shade of mauve


hectivity

hectivity (countable and uncountable, plural hectivities)

I headed from my apartment over to a corner diner for a late break fast^([sic]), and I don't recall the normal crush of people packing the New York streets or the usual hectivity.

2002, John Ridley, A Conversation with the Mann, Warner Books, published 2002, →ISBN:

(uncountable) A state of constant, frenzied, and typically stressful activity.


ignoranus

"Because it reminds me how much I hate ignoranus jocks."

2005, Alex Sánchez, Rainbow Road, Simon Pulse, →ISBN, page 62:

(slang, vulgar, derogatory) A person who is both stupid and rude; an ignorant asshole.


induhvidual

Blend of individual + duh. In 1995, Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams asked readers of the Dilbert Newsletter to come up with a "good derogatory nickname for non-DNRC [Dogbert's New Ruling Class, the official Dilbert fanclub] people" that "should sound harmless and endearing but have a clever double meaning", ultimately selecting "induhvidual" (submitted by "Heather of Beantown") as the winning entry. Issues of the newsletter since then have included a section called "True Tales of Induhviduals" featuring reader-contributed stories about people doing foolish things.

These are the same induhviduals who can't be bothered to pull their behemoths into the block-long bus zones fiercely defended by $250 fines.

1999 November 30, Kim L. Serkes, “Draconian Plan”, in The San Francisco Chronicle:

(slang, derogatory) A foolish person, especially one whose blundering creates difficulty for others.


puncept

Blend of pun + concept. Coined by Gregory Ulmer.

A new concept arising from, or named from, a pun on existing terms.


infoganda

GOP-TV, the television arm of the Republican Party, debuted in 1995 with the news magazine Rising Tide, a pseudo-news program (less "infotainment" than "infoganda") spreading the conservative gospel and raising money on some two thousand cable systems.

1999, Jeffrey Scheuer, The Sound Bite Society: How Television Helps the Right and Hurts the Left, Routledge, published 2001, →ISBN, page 31:

Journalistic content, particularly news, published or broadcast in the interest of advancing an ideological agenda.


irritainment

Because their volume interjects such an overwhelming ambiance to the party, make sure that your entertainers are the right ones. You want entertainment, not irritainment.

1997, Jaymz Bee, Cocktail Parties for Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 127:

Entertainment that annoys, embarrasses, or upsets more than or as much as it entertains, whether unintentionally or by design.

Like others, I followed Clinton's apologies on TV and in print and laughed at the "I'm Sorry Chorus" from the also-unclean GOP choir. I've said it before: This is "irritainment" - a macabre mix of irritation and entertainment. The nastiness is a crime scene right in front of us.

1998 September 26, Lewis W. Diuguid, “Changing channels on scandal”, in The Kansas City Star:

A media spectacle, particularly a scandal, that is simultaneously irritating and engrossing.


jeerleader

There are, it seems, too few cheerleaders in life — and too many jeerleaders.

1999, D. James Kennedy, Led by the Carpenter: Finding God's Purpose for Your Life!, Thomas Nelson,, →ISBN:

One who criticizes, disparages, or mocks.


jetiquette

A nice sense of when to speak, if ever, to the person beside one is a good part of airplane manners, or jetiquette.

1973, Peg Bracken, But I Wouldn't Have Missed It for the World!: The Pleasures and Perils of an Unseasoned Traveler, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, →ISBN, page 251:

The standard of acceptable behavior to be observed by passengers of an airplane.


hypospray

(chiefly science fiction) A kind of jet injector.


jumbrella

More pleasing - though hardly groundbreaking - is a small, decked beer garden out back, about half the size of the inside space, fringed by planting, covered by a jumbrella and scattered liberally with ashtrays, tables and chairs.

2008 August 7, Alex Eyre, “Bars & Pubs: Cask”, in Manchester Evening News:

A broad, canopy-like umbrella, generally used to cover the outdoor patio of a restaurant or bar, either on its own (if it is of sufficient size) or in combination with others.


kidfluence

Game makers found they didn't have to appeal to parents as buyers as they could activate the pressure of "kidfluence."

2002, Stephen Kline, Greig de Peuter, “Ghosts in the Machine: Postmodern Childhood, Video Gaming, and Advertising”, in Daniel Thomas Cook, editor, Symbolic Childhood, Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 266:

(marketing) The influence that children exert, both directly and indirectly, on the consumer decisions made by their parents.


kindergarchy

The kindergarchy was alive and well in the Carlyle household, with Alice centre stage and Mum and Dad both fretting about being reduced to the role of indentured servants.

2011, James Craig, London Calling, SohoConstable, →ISBN:

The state or phenomenon of children dominating, particularly in the context of children's needs, wishes, and preferences being accorded equal or greater status than those of adults.


sinapoleic acid

(organic chemistry, obsolete) An acid of the oleic acid series, said to occur in mustard oil.


apprecihate

en-verb

apprecihate (third-person singular simple present apprecihates, present participle apprecihating, simple past and past participle apprecihated)

apprecihates (present singular third-person)
apprecihating (participle present)
apprecihated (participle past)
apprecihated (past)

(neologism, humorous, rare) To dislike, to resent.


cookee

From cook + -ee (diminutive suffix). Sense of "cook's helper" may be a blend of cook + rookie, or cook + trainee, etc.

After about an hour and a half he broke out of the trees into a clearing, and in the clearing was a logging camp, and sitting on a block of wood in front of the cook-shack was a bald-headed cookee peeling potatoes.

1999, Robert E. Pike, Tall Trees, Tough Men, →ISBN, page 135:

The day for the cook and his cookee started about 3 o'clock in the morning or half past, when they would prepare the spread required to get a lumberman going: buckwheat pancakes (begun the night before with sour-dough starter and made on a girddle that covered the whole top of an eight-lid stove), oatmeal, hash, potatoes, fried salt port, beans, blackstrap molasses, fried cakes, and lots of black coffee sweetened with brown sugar.

2013, Harva Hachten, Terese Allen, The Flavor of Wisconsin: An Informal History of Food and Eating in the Badger State, →ISBN:

The cook's assistant, who was called the cookee, made a roaring fire in the stove. As soon as the fire was going strong, the cookee woke up the teamsters.

2015, John Zimm, John Nelligan: Wisconsin Lumberjack:

A cook's helper, especially in a logging camp.


mamarazzi

Blend of mama + paparazzi, interpreting the papa- part of paparazzi as papa (“father, daddy”).

(informal) A mother who takes many photographs of her child.


meanderthal

It takes 60 to 90 minutes to walk from the Eiffel Tower to the Marais, depending on how many slow-moving "Meanderthals" are in your way.

2000, Dan Levine, Paris: Insiders' Guide for Urban Adventurers, Empire Press, →ISBN, page 39:

(slang, derogatory) An aimless, slow-moving person.


manufactroversy

There is, however, a manufactroversy — a manufactured controversy — created by junk science, dishonest researchers, professional misconduct, outright fraud, lies, misrepresentations, irresponsible reporting, unfortunate media publicity, poor judgment, celebrities who think they are wiser than the whole of medical science, and a few maverick doctors who ought to know better.

2009 June 3, Harriet Hall, “Vaccines & Autism: A Deadly Manufactroversy”, in Skeptic:

The deliberate presentation of a largely uncontroversial matter as subject to substantive dispute in order to further a particular ideological or political agenda.


mallternative

en-noun

mallternative (countable and uncountable, plural mallternatives)

As the "over-the-counterculture'" has grown, as once cutting-edge alternative styles and products have become "mallternative," Newbury Comics has benefited from the market moving in its direction. Black leather biker jackets, body piercings, tattoos, and jarring hairstyles, which once could shock the counterculturally challenged, today are part of a lifestyle choice that barely raises eyebrows.

1997 August 24, Jim Sullivan, “Counter culture”, in The Boston Globe Magazine:

(uncountable, sometimes attributive, often derogatory) Any style or genre that is ostensibly counterculture or alternative, but actually mainstream enough to be encountered at a mall, or among the type of people who frequent a mall.

Although several energy-depleting surface parking lots remain, Mass Avenue's interesting mix of business and people is quickly turning it into a full-fledged window shopper's mallternative, full of energy.

2004, Kyle Ezell, Get Urban!: The Complete Guide to City Living, Capital Books, →ISBN, page 163:

(countable) An alternative to a mall, particularly an open-air urban shopping district.


menoporsche

menoporsche (countable and uncountable, plural menoporsches)

Some doctors believe that midlife crises often stem from men's waning testosterone levels. Dr. Harry Fisch, a New York physician and author of the "Male Biological Clock," drolly refers to the phenomenon as "menoporsche," noting that testosterone treatment may prove a better antidote for the condition than the purchase of a new sports car.

2005 March 14, Shari Rudavsky, “Manopause”, in Indianapolis Star:

(uncountable, informal) Male mid-life crisis or andropause, especially the type that manifests in attempts to reclaim lost youth, such as buying a sports car.


middlescence

Or was I a broken-down college professor living out a spasm of middlescence on the golden coast of Califomia?

1988, Josiah Thompson, Gumshoe: Reflections in a Private Eye, Fawcett Crest, published 1989, →ISBN, page 65:

The period or condition of middle age, especially as a time of transition comparable to adolescence.


momic

They should be called "momics," those housewives who climb comedy-club stages and tell jokes about their kids and dirty laundry.

1996 March 2, Dick Kreck, “Everything wacky in 'Momville'”, in Denver Post:

(US, informal) A comedienne whose act focuses on her children and family life.


millionerd

With their entry into new high-tech industries, many nerds suddenly became millionerds.

1998 July 20, Franklin Foer, “Time to re-evaluate the nerd and the nebbish: who's the bigger loser?”, in The Baltimore Sun:

(slang) A wealthy nerd, especially one whose fortune was made in technology.


momoir

So-called momoirs, first-person accounts exploding some of the sentimentality about motherhood, include Andrea J. Buchanan's "Mother Shock" and Muffy Mead-Ferro's "Confessions of a Slacker Mom."

2006 December 17, Lizzie Skurnick, “Chick Lit, the Sequel: Yummy Mummy”, in The New York Times:

(Canada, US, informal) A memoir written by or about a mother.


naycation

Don't have much time off? Why don't you try a daycation? Don't deny yourself, even if time is short, though. There's nothing worse than a naycation.

2010 August 20, Mike Slizewski, “How you spent your summer 'cation”, in Siskiyou Daily News:

(slang) A vacation period during which no travel or paid leisure activities are done.


albinterferon

A recombinant fusion protein drug consisting of interferon alpha (IFN-α) linked to human albumin.


electracy

Blend of electrical + literacy. Coined by Gregory Ulmer.

The skill and facility necessary to exploit the potential of modern electronic media.


somaesthetics

Blend of somatic + aesthesis + -tics. Coined by the American philosopher Richard Shusterman.

(philosophy) A philosophical discipline involving the use, appreciation, and knowledge of one's own body.


optionaire

Don't you just get sick thinking about all those Silicon Valley optionaires who lost much of their fortune in the tech meltdown?

2001 May 1, Daniel Kadlec, “Options At Work”, in Time:

A person whose wealth consists of or was made through stock options.


pajamahadeen

Blend of pajamas + mujahadeen, from the notion that bloggers write at home in pajamas.

And recent scholarship on media criticism points to the importance of the "'pajamahadeen' bloggers who targeted CBS, CNN, and the Associated Press during 2004 and 2005" in Internet campaigns that effectively challenged the mainstream media's claims of fairness and accuracy in reporting […]"

2011, Ronald N. Jacobs, Eleanor Townsley, The Space of Opinion: Media Intellectuals and the Public Sphere, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 8:

(informal) Bloggers whose aim is to fact check and challenge the mainstream media establishment.


pedlock

"We're going to spend a pile of money widening the sidewalks a little bit and narrowing the streets a little bit," Mr. Haikalis said of city plans to ease pedlock — pedestrian congestion — in Times Square.

2008 April 6, Jeff Byles, “Taking Back the Streets”, in The New York Times:

The condition of an area being so crowded that it impedes the flow of pedestrian traffic.


pupperware

At a pupperware party, a pet consultant comes to your home and shows you and your guests a bevy of pet products available for purchase.

2006 April 22, “In-home sales parties extend a paw to pets”, in The Detroit News:

Dog products marketed through in-home parties.


politainer

Both [Jesse Ventura and Jerry Springer] are famous, populist politicians with a history of outlandish behavior. They are both "politainers."

2003 August 5, Gregory Korte, “Ventura won — could Springer?”, in The Cincinnati Enquirer:

A politician who is or used to be an entertainer.


pollutician

Here the polluticians and the developers carved up the cake with gusto.

2001, Peter Casey, 30 Days in Sydney: A Wildly Distorted Account, Bloomsbury, published 2008, →ISBN, page 211:

(derogatory) A politician who supports policies and initiatives that result in environmental damage.

Too many owners of factory chimneys have already capitulated to the negative attitude of the polluticians and have converted to smokeless fuels.

1971, Electroplating and Metal Finishing, volume 24:

(sometimes derogatory) A politician who supports policies and initiatives designed to reduce environmental pollution.

Indeed the Rastafarian brethren contend that the '"polluticians" [politicians] are selling us out' for their own self-serving interests.

2005, Jalani A. Niaah, “Absent Father(s), Garvey's Scattered Children and the Back to Africa Movement”, in Elísio Salvado Macamo, editor, Negotiating Modernity: Africa's Ambivalent Experience, Codesria, →ISBN, page 24:


precariat

precariat (countable and uncountable, plural precariats)

Blend of precarious + proletariat, popularized by economist Guy Standing in his book The Precariat (2011).

The global precariat is not yet a class in the Marxian sense, being internally divided and only united in fears and insecurities. But it is a class in the making, approaching a consciousness of common vulnerability.

2011 June 1, Guy Standing, “Who will be a voice for the emerging precariat?”, in The Guardian:

Professor [Stephanie] Luce characterized the protesters who had problems finding full-time work as part of an emerging demographic that some commentators call the “precariat” — educated people forced into unsteady or insecure jobs because little else is available.

[2013 January 28, Colin Moynihan, “In 'Occupy,' Well-Educated Professionals Far Outnumbered Jobless, Study Finds”, in New York Times City Room:

The American Precariat seems more hunkered down, insecure, risk averse, relying on friends and family but without faith in American possibilities. This fatalism is historically uncharacteristic of America.

2014 February 11, David Brooks, “The American Precariat”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

My first encounter with one group of the new nomads came in 2013, at the Desert Rose RV park in Fernley, Nevada. It was populated by members of the “precariat”: temporary laborers doing short-term jobs in exchange for low wages.

2017 December 2, Jessica Bruder, “Living in cars, working for Amazon: meet America's new nomads”, in The Guardian:

Second, there is the precariat. These are the young and educated voters caught in the gig economy, who see no career security ahead.

2019 December 13, David Brooks, “The Politics of Exhaustion”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(sociology, collective) People suffering from precarity, especially as a social class; people living a precarious existence, without security or predictability, especially job security.


budtender

"You can call me the bud tender," the white-coated Arrow said as he offered patients their choice of 13 different kinds of marijuana, in addition to such goodies as chocolate-flavored cannabis bars.

2004 Jul 2, Henry K. Lee, 'Medical pot users say they won't stop - Legal impact: Consensus is enforcement won't increase', San Francisco Chronicle (p. B5)

The so-called budtenders who work behind large glass display cases provide assistance in selecting the best strain. All of them are medical marijuana users, and they typically are medicated while working.

2005 June 15, Dean E. Murphy, “California Reins In Clinics Using Marijuana for Medical Purposes”, in The New York Times:

As a registered medical marijuana patient – for a chronic stomach condition – he has to show ID every time he goes into a dispensary, and fears he'd get special treatment if the "budtenders" knew they were serving the influential critic.

2013 May 17, Jenny Kleeman, “Cannabis: Colorado's budding industry”, in The Guardian:

Oak Peak is a “budtender” at the Giving Tree of Denver, a marijuana dispensary that sells such edibles as Karma Kandy.

2014 October 31, Lynd Bui, Dana Hedgpeth, “Marijuana-infused candy found in Prince George’s County”, in The Washington Post:

(informal) A recreational or medical cannabis dispensary worker who sells marijuana and is knowledgeable about various cannabis products.


chairoplane

A fairground ride, a variation on the carousel in which the chairs are suspended from the rotating top of the carousel.


limecrete

A form of concrete in which lime is used in place of cement.


netherverse

His death "created a netherverse, one which has temporarily absorbed your two universes."

2006, Mark Voger, Kathy Voglesong, The Dark Age:

The council believes whoever it is has been active for quite sometime mucking up the netherverse.

2007, Arthur Roberts, The Sorcerer's Song and the Cat's Meow:

When death seems to be grinning back at us from the netherverse, most meet his stare with fear, in their eyes.

(fantasy) A lower universe, realm, or region; underworld.


idele

Blend of ideal + element; coined by Claude Chevalley.

(mathematics) An invertible element of the adele ring.


Banglish

Bangla interspersed with English; a blend of Bangla and English.


smishing

Identity theft committed through a malicious link contained within a text message.


schlockumentary

The narrator of this 53-minute schlockumentary insists that "the public's appetite for seeing their favorite stars caught off guard... is insatiable."

1999 March 5, Troy Patterson, “Celebrities: Caught on Camera”, in Entertainment Weekly:

(derogatory) A documentary programme or film that is schlocky, typically due to its content being deemed sensationalistic, propagandistic, or factually inaccurate.


adele

Blend of additive + idele; coined by André Weil.

(mathematics) A member of a self-dual topological ring built on the field of rational numbers (or, more generally, any algebraic number field), and involving in a symmetric way all the completions of the field.


twistorian

This identification, using this resolution, first appeared in twistor theory in [30], before twistorians were aware of the full BGG resolution.

1989, Robert J. Baston, Michael G. Eastwood, The Penrose Transform: Its Interaction With Representation Theory:

It is noteworthy that the 'electro- weak' theory seems to offer so helpful a line of advance, and I would suggest that as well as taking twistor diagrams more seriously, twistorians might also take the 'standard model' of quantum field theory more seriously.

1981, Haim Brézis, Jacques-Louis Lions, Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations and Their Applications, →ISBN:

Twistorians were astounded that string theorists, of all people, had answers to the googly problem and other issues that had vexed them.

2015, George Musser, Spooky Action at a Distance, →ISBN:

(mathematics) A mathematician who specializes in twistor theory.


twistorian

That is why the twistorians are now attempting to rewrite the founders' own words, most notably in a recent Associated Press (22d February, 1998, Charlottesville _Daily Progress_) article with the ludicrous lying headline "Jefferson sought integrated schools."

1998 March 9, Kevin Alfred Strom, “Western Imperative Network”, in alt.california (Usenet):

But, then, what else should we expect from the Ginsu Twistorian other than slicing and dicing?

2000 January 1, cont...@my-deja.com, “Why don't Mormons believe in the trinity?”, in alt.religion.mormon (Usenet):

The same guy who is provably a Twistorian, the same guy who is known as the "Ginsu Historian"?

2000 January 30, RocknRollm, “Blood Sacrifices to Satan”, in alt.religion.mormon (Usenet):

Muhaammed's followers (so-called) were talking of muhammed being a nabi.. a paigamber.. a saint.. not an avtaar og [sic] god homsef [sic]... and now these foolish-rascals are trying to start the new film... avtaar muhammed... what nonsense...evevn a madman or a child could say .. "oh the king is naked" .. heheh... so much for islaam [sic] and its twistorians... ( who rape and mutilatre [sic] and twist history to their own whims and satanic ends... and fantasies)....and what of Vishnu and allah?

2006 February 21, ravi...@yahoo.com, “ALLAH vis-à-vis VISHNU, THE HINDU GOD => IN => BISMILLAHIR- RAHMANIR - RAHIM'”, in alt.religion.islam.shia (Usenet):

The "gas vans" have been debunked years ago and not even the official holohoax twistorians talk of them anymore.

2008 September 1, halle, “Dr. Erhard Wetzel on Gassing Vans”, in alt.revisionism (Usenet):

(slang, rare, derogatory) One who twists history to promote an agenda.


avant-metal

(music) A genre of heavy metal music characterized by experimental and unconventional elements.


pectose

(biochemistry) An amorphous carbohydrate found especially in unripe fruits. It is associated with cellulose, and is converted into substances of the pectin group.


teraconic acid

(chemistry) An acid obtained by the distillation of terebic acid, and homologous with citraconic acid.


clipmapping

(computer graphics) A method of clipping a mipmap to a subset of data pertinent to the geometry being displayed.


flerd

Dean M. Anderson, research animal scientist with USDA's Agricultural Research Service in Las Cruces, New Mexico, is bonding sheep to cattle into a cohesive unit termed a "flerd."

1996, Small Farm Today, Clark, Mo.: Missouri Farm Pub., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 35:

Flerds can help reduced coyote predation of small ruminants because cows will instinctively intimidate approaching canines. […] Even though dietary differences among flocks, herds and flerds remain similar on arid landscapes with abundant standing crop, animal distribution does differ.

2010, D[ean] M. Anderson, R. E. Estell, “Behavior – the Keystone in Optimizing Free-ranging Ungulate Production”, in Victor R. Squires, editor, Range and Animal Sciences and Resources Management (Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems), volume 1, [Oxford?]: Eolss Publishers, →ISBN, page 335:

Sheep and goats often co-graze with other animals, such as cows or horses. This grouping of species is sometimes called a flerd.

2015, Dina Rudick, Erik Jacobs, “Sheep & Goats”, in Barnyard Kids: A Family Guide for Raising Animals, Beverly, Mass.: Quarry Books, Quarto Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 81:

A mixed group of ruminants, such as sheep and cattle.

Adriaen van de Velde
Dulwich Picture Gallery


skimo

Ski mountaineering, especially competitive ski mountaineering.


Jockney

'It's a Jockney pub,' he explains, making me wonder whether my thoughts were on air too. Sure enough, I ended up in the Globe. It was like a visit to the old Barras. It was like a little Glasgow.

2002, T. C. Campbell, Reg McKay, The wilderness years, page 189:


Redfella

Blend of Red (“a Communist”) + goodfella.

blend

Maybe posted photos on the Internet so everyone would remember the Redfelllas were a force to be reckoned with.

2007, Linda Castillo, Overkill, Berkley Sensation, →ISBN, page 183:

(informal) A member of the Russian mafia.


cannular

(aviation, of the combustor of a jet engine) Having multiple individual burner cans within a single annular pressure vessel.


triniunity

As for terms of trinity, triniunity, […] and the like, they reject them as scholastic notions.

1673, John Milton, Of True Religion, Heresy, Schism, Tolreation […] :


renoviction

The city's blogs and online communities are filled with rants against so-called "renovictions," as landlords boot out long-time tenants to install hardwood floors and marble countertops in order to hike up rent or pay for things like security and safety upgrades.

2011 September 14, Erica Alini, “Vancouver—the most livable city?”, in Maclean's:

(chiefly British Columbia, Quebec) The eviction of all of a building's tenants on the grounds that a large-scale renovation is planned.


mansplain

en-verb

mansplain (third-person singular simple present mansplains, present participle mansplaining, simple past and past participle mansplained)

mansplains (present singular third-person)
mansplaining (participle present)
mansplained (participle past)
mansplained (past)

Blend of man + explain, equivalent to man + -splain.

But what's getting all of the attention in the bill is the part where legislators have banded together to mansplain the various shadings of the crime of "rape" to America.

2011 February 1, Jason Linkins, “What’s behind the drive to redefine rape in new and insane ways?”, in The Huffington Post, archived from the original on 2016-04-01:

There were some Occupy-style solutions: those whose voices dominate should “step back” for an entire meeting. […] Men should notice when they are “mansplaining” (this one got a thunderous ovation).

2012 May 18, Sarah Seltzer, “Can Occupy fight back against the war on women?”, in The Nation, archived from the original on 2013-08-14:

Positioning himself as the white guy mansplaining to a black woman what’s best for her, The New York Times’s John Caramanica argues that Rihanna’s attempt, on the album, “to make public art with the person who physically abused you is immature, pre-feminist, post-ethics.”

2015 February 27, Robin James, Resilience & Melancholy: Pop Music, Feminism, Neoliberalism, Alresford, Hants: Zero Books, →ISBN:

(informal, derogatory) To explain (something) condescendingly (to a female listener), especially to explain something the listener already knows, presuming that she has an inferior understanding of it merely because she is female.


ringxiety

/ɹɪŋzˈaɪəti/

I reach for my cellphone, only to discover that it's not ringing.
"Damn it, this has been happening all week. Maybe I do have ringxiety."

2011, Lynn Schnurnberger, The Best Laid Plans, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 71:

(neologism, informal) The anxiety resulting from the mistaken belief that one's cell phone or mobile is ringing or vibrating.


ruralpolitan

These "ruralpolitans" are willing to invest beaucoup bucks to pay for equipment to reap and sow organic vegetables; raise niche crops, such as herbs, grass-fed beef or organic pork; shear sheep or llamas for wool production; or harvest grapes for wine.

2007 March 25, Diane Wedner, “On a rural route”, in Los Angeles Times:

An urbanite who moves to the countryside, especially to start an agricultural venture.


stuckholder

I had too many shares and the trading volume was diminishing. I was no longer just a stockholder; I was now a "stuckholder."

2008, Barry Igdaloff, A Guest in a Nightmare, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 35:

(informal) A stockholder stuck with worthless or unsellable shares.


spillionaire

"Spillionaires" made as much as half a million dollars that spring operating cleanup boats.

1993, Janet Trowbridge Bohlen, For the Wild Places: Profiles in Conservation, Island Press, →ISBN, page 149:

(informal) A person who acquires a substantial amount of money by being paid to participate in the cleanup of an oil spill.


slackcom

"Slackcom," confesses Cheryl Taylor, commissioner for entertainment at Channel 4, "is a term we started bandying around because of the nature of a lot of the sitcoms we started receiving; proposals revolving around twenty- or thirtysomething non-professionals."

1999 September 6, Janine Gibson, “Spaced out”, in The Guardian:

(UK) A sitcom which revolves around a slacker or slackers.


stalkumentary

The result is slight, but sweet in this hybrid of stalkumentary and romantic comedy. The filmmakers didn't haunt either Barrymore's home or office, but rather contacted her through people she knew or worked with.

2005 August 5, Carrie Rickey, “His dream? Connecting with Drew”, in Philadelphia Inquirer:

(informal) A documentary film or programme which follows its subject around and/or intrudes upon their private life, particularly to a degree characterized as stalking.


sitcomedian

If you love Ray Romano -- and we know that "Everybody Loves Raymond" -- check out the latest Esquire, which profiles the successful sitcomedian.

2003 April 21, Tim Cuprisin, “Bits of ethnic radio are still available”, in Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel:


slanguist

"The inability of slow-witted censors to keep up with the implications of fast talk from "ultra-modern slanguists" made for a fun game of hide-and-seek between the hip and the hapless.

1999, Thomas Doherty, Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930-1934, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 181:

A person with an above-average familiarity with slang; one who studies, or loves to use, slang.


photomaton

Genericized trademark. Blend of photograph + automaton or similar.


schmooseoisie

Blend of schmooze + bourgeoisie. Coined by Boston College English professor Paul Lewis in 1992.

(humorous) The class of people whose livelihoods are dependent on talking.


skeptimistic

en-adj

skeptimistic (comparative more skeptimistic, superlative most skeptimistic)

more skeptimistic (comparative)
most skeptimistic (superlative)

Sen. John Lee, D-North Las Vegas, said he was "skeptimistic," both optimistic and skeptical, of any government plan that could bring back the construction industry.

2011 February 9, Ray Hagar, “Lawmakers hear about plight of unemployed construction workers”, in Reno Gazette-Journal:


skeptimist

Then there are those of us who are agonizingly ambivalent about a new ballpark for the Giants. Call us "skeptimists."

1996 March 24, Robert Rubino, “Questionable Support For New SF Ballpark”, in Santa Rosa Press Democrat:

One who is both skeptical and optimistic.


synthespian

Final Fantasy apparently took 200 digital artists four years to make; a whole year was needed just to perfect the 60,000 hairs on the head of the heroine, Dr Aki Ross, the first photo-realistic 'synthespian' to lead a movie.

2006, Daniel Frampton, Filmosophy, Wallflower Press, →ISBN, page 205:

A completely computer-generated character who appears in a film or similar work; a virtual actor.


femifascist

/ˌfɛmɪˈfæʃɪst/

Blend of feminist + fascist, perhaps coined as an alternative to feminazi to avoid the genocidal connotations of Nazi.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:femifascist.

(US, offensive, rare, derogatory) A radical or militant feminist who is intolerant of opposing views.


subvertisement

Another example is the famous 'subvertisement' which shows two cowboys riding together at sunset as if in a Marlboro ad but the caption reads, 'I miss my lung, Bob'.

2006, John Blewitt, The Ecology of Learning: Sustainability, Lifelong Learning and Everyday Life, CRC Press, →ISBN:


splurchase

And there is consensus that impulsive buying is on the rise, thanks to e-commerce and TV home-shopping, neither of which requires us to change out of our sweatpants and leave the house to make a splurchase.

2009, Lee Eisenberg, Shoptimism: Why the American Consumer Will Keep on Buying No Matter What, Free Press, →ISBN, page 248:


chromid

A large bacterial replicon that contains core genes outside of the main chromosome.


snoopervision

Some of the supervision of the past has been rightfully called "snoopervision" because it had as its chief concern the activities of the teachers.

1938, Floyd Tompkins Goodier, Administration of Town and Village Schools, Webster Publishing Co, published 1938, page 91:

Oversight deemed to be excessively invasive or prying.


strollerobics

Fitness trainer Kristen McAuliffe started "strollerobics" classes in May at a neighborhood park as an option for new moms who want to shape up and keep their babies nearby.

1997 June 29, “'Strollerobics' Classes Help New Mothers Shape Up”, in Los Angeles Times:

An exercise routine for new mothers which incorporates their babies' strollers.


cloop

The magic is in the big file called /KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX, an ISO9660 filesystem image compressed for the cloop device.

2005, Linux Journal - Issues 129-134, page 54:

Using cloop technology, you can more than double the amount of software and data you can get on a live CD.

2006, Chris Negus, Live Linux CDs: Building and Customizing Bootables, page 156:

Load a MyDSL extension (xchat.uci) to check that the cloop driver is working.

2007, Robert Shingledecker, John Andrews, Christopher Negus, The Official Damn Small Linux Book, page 239:

A compression technology for Linux files stored on a read-only block device that allows files to be decompressed on-the-fly.


stycerin

(chemistry) A triacid alcohol, related to glycerin, and obtained from certain styryl derivatives as a yellow, gummy, amorphous substance; phenyl glycerin.


adverticle

(informal) An advertisement masquerading as an actual news or feature article in a newspaper or magazine.


cinemuck

It only makes me wonder if there's any market at all for people who require only a clean theater - not too much cinemuck on the floors - that's not too far from home and doesn't make you wait in the cold too long to buy a ticket.

2003 March 10, “Where have all the Fort Wayne movie theaters gone?”, in Fort Wayne News Sentinel:

(informal) A sticky coating on the floor of a movie theatre caused by spilled beverages and dropped snack items.


caipivodka

en-noun

caipivodka (countable and uncountable, plural caipivodkas)

A caipirinha cocktail made with vodka instead of cachaca.


reprotoxic

en-adj

reprotoxic (comparative more reprotoxic, superlative most reprotoxic)

more reprotoxic (comparative)
most reprotoxic (superlative)

/ˌɹiːpɹəʊˈtɒksɪk/

(pharmacology, toxicology) Having a toxic effect on the process of reproduction