doculect

Blend of document + -lect, coined by American linguist Jeff Good in 2006.

coinage

This is not the whole explanation why these Mayan doculects have an exceptionally high token frequency, but it explains part of the deviation.

2012, Andrea Ender, Adrian Leemann, Bernhard Wälchli, Methods in Contemporary Linguistics, →ISBN, page 78:

However, for the present study these texts are considered to be specific doculects, which might, or might not, be the 'same' language as described in other resources (e.g. grammars or spontaneous text collections).

2014, Silvia Luraghi, Heiko Narrog, Perspectives on Semantic Roles, →ISBN, page 26:

The most extreme case is illustrated by the doculect of McDonald and Wurm (1979), in which their consultant was being interviewed for materials in Garlali, but he preferred to speak Punthamara, so that is what he gave them.

2015, Claire Bowern, Linguistic Fieldwork: A Practical Guide, →ISBN, page 100:

(linguistics) A languoid that has been documented in any way, including raw data such as sound files, primary data such as transcribed text, or secondary data such as a grammatical description.


dimeback

Blend of dime + cornerback. Modelled on quarterback: both the quarter (“25 cents”) and the dime (“10 cents”) are American coins, though quarterback was not named for the coin. Coined due to the dimeback being one additional defensive back more than the nickelback, since the 10-cent dime is more than the 5-cent nickel. See more at nickelback.

(American football) A sixth defensive back (in addition to two cornerbacks, two safeties and a nickelback) who is deployed for additional pass coverage.


nickelback

Blend of nickel + cornerback. Modelled on quarterback: both the quarter (“25 cents”) and the nickel (“5 cents”) are American coins, though quarterback was not named for the coin. Coined due to the nickelback's role as the fifth defensive back on the field, thus the connection to the 5-cent nickel.

(American football) A fifth defensive back (in addition to two cornerbacks and two safeties) who is deployed for additional pass coverage.


feminasty

As I walked out of the court I recollected having read somewhere that the Honourable Sally Boucaut was the President of this group of legal feminasties.

1997, Gerald Paul James McGinley, True Counsel, page 17:


electrickery

Yez can't expect, soshallism to work hand in hand with flyin' machines, electrickery, an' all th' other various an' many infernal inventions what have come about in this age of nervous' an' high-tenshioned fackadoodalums.

1910 May 28, The Newcastle Herald and Toodyay District Chronicle, WA, page 7, column 1:

"Why did we return to this time, Touchwood?" Catweazle asked the toad. "Why did we leave the world of electrickery?"

1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 8:

(humorous) Electricity, or the technological advances that it underpins.


spoetry

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

Irreverent poetry constructed from the subject lines of spam e-mail messages.


corright

en-adj

corright (comparative more corright, superlative most corright)

more corright (comparative)
most corright (superlative)


FaceSpace

A blend of the names of the well-known social networks Facebook and Myspace.

He could contact the administrators of FACEspace to have the page removed and he could also contact the police to have them deal with the situation.

2010, Bullying in a Cyber World :-), volume 4, R.I.C. Publications, →ISBN, page 24:

This fast-paced video gives you a glimpse of office workers using smartphones, computers, and other technologies on the job.[…] Who is using “FaceSpace” and why?

2012, Mary Ellen Guffey, Dana Loewy, Essentials of Business Communication, Cengage Learning, →ISBN, 9, pages 136-137:

Like everyone else, I’ve been on FaceSpace for a while. Seems like everyone’s having fun.

2013, Adrian Chamberlain, FaceSpace: Orca Currents, Orca Book Publishers, →ISBN, page 1:

No more facespace. No more texting or tweeting.

2014, Elisabeth Sheffield, Helen Keller Really Lived, University of Alabama Press, →ISBN, page 201:

social networking
social networking#English


phudnik

A not-too-serious example: What if a student or someone else who has attended one of my lectures says, "What a bore; a phudnik if ever I heard one."

2000, James Frush, Kind Hearts: Self-Esteem and the Challenges of Aging, page 82:

(colloquial, derogatory, humorous) A nudnik who holds a Ph.D.


glasma

(physics) A hypothetical precursor to quark–gluon plasma, in which the particles are condensed into a glassy or amorphous state.


astronautte

Blend of astronaut + -ette (feminine suffix).

In 1960 Jerrie Cobb was the first woman chosen (from a dozen tested) to qualify for NASA's new astronaut program. Newspapers called her an "astronautte," and "America's answer to the Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova."

1993, Blanche Linden-Ward, American women in the 1960s: changing the future, page 153:

Administrators also argued that hundreds of women would have to be more rigorously tested to determine if women were capable of sustaining sustaining spaceflight. In response, the press rallied in support of the FLATS, dubbing them astronauttes, astronettes, and astronautrixes.

1999, Anne Commire, Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia:


kidcom

(informal, television) A sitcom designed for children.


fauxgressive

/fəʊˈɡɹɛsɪv/

“Bill de Blasio is an elitist, New York City corporate Democrat fauxgressive, masquerading around South Carolina as a progressive,” said John Samuelson, president of Transport Workers Union.

2019 March 8, Carl Campanile, quoting John Samuelson, “Transit union blasts de Blasio as ‘fauxgressive’ ahead of primary season”, in New York Post:

(politics, derogatory) An alleged progressive person, but who actually acts like a conservative.


fauxgressive

fauxgressive (comparative more fauxgressive, superlative most fauxgressive)

more fauxgressive (comparative)
most fauxgressive (superlative)

/fəʊˈɡɹɛsɪv/

In many spaces, the term functions now as performative fauxgressive politeness—as one of the many buzzwords such as intersectionality or systemic that one can drop, with little understanding, to display her wokeness.

2019 February 13, Rachelle Hampton, “Which People?”, in Slate:

With their fauxgressive covers officially blown, Twitter is blowing up with stories about the disturbing new dating trend.

2020 July 30, Ben Cost, “Wokefish’ dating trend: Shady men are pretending to be progressive on apps”, in New York Post:

(politics, derogatory) Allegedly, but not actually, progressive.


mainsleaze

(Internet slang, derogatory) spam posted by or on behalf of a mainstream organization


beasterly

beasterly (comparative more beasterly, superlative most beasterly)

more beasterly (comparative)
most beasterly (superlative)

Yesterday I completed, with Emily's assistance (which nearly drove me mad) that packing of the great huge chest of books, boxes, etc., and she and I walked together, but it was bitter cold and ungenial, regular beasterly wind.

1882, Fanny Kemble, Records of Later Life - Volume 2, page 288:

The ordinary English bee is generally tolerably well-behaved, but not always so, and is occasionally perfectly furious, especially if the wind is "beasterly."

1886, The Gardeners' Monthly and Horticulturist - Volume 28, page 345:

I'm afeard 'tis a horrid beasterly wind, father.

1898, Religious Tract Society (Great Britain), The Sunday at Home - Volume 46, page 603:

The wind is easterly, The weather is beasterly.

1936, Philological Papers - Volumes 1-3, page 68:

Landsmen can seldom tell you the direction of the wind, unless it happens to be easterly and beasterly, neither is it any longer a matter of vital importance to seamen.

1953, Basil Lubbock, The Last of the Windjammers - Volume 2, page 213:


servibar

From a trademark, ServiBar, presumably Blend of service + bar.


televangelical

televangelical (comparative more televangelical, superlative most televangelical)

more televangelical (comparative)
most televangelical (superlative)


pawdicure

en-noun

pawdicure (countable and uncountable, plural pawdicures)

(humorous) Pedicure on the paws of an animal.


Sanderista

From Sanders + -ista. Blend of Sanders + Sandinista. Coined in reference to the Sandinistas.

7/83 Space Wars; Micronesia vs. nukes; Green Party & Sanderistas; also Spring Books Pt. 2

1983, WIN: Peace and Freedom Through Non-violent Action, volume 19, Workshop in Nonviolence Institute, page 38:

A special approach of the Sanderista coalition has been to mobilize this complex of popular groups into an independent political force.

In other cases, groups fostered the creation of current organizations and movements, for example, PACT (tenants' rights) in Burlington, Vermont, laid the groundwork for the Sanderistas.

2012, Joan Roelofs, Foundations and Public Policy: The Mask of Pluralism, page 152:

Call it what you will—a Sanderista cult, a brand, a following—Vermonters responded to Sanders.

2015, Harry Jaffe, Why Bernie Sanders Matters:

During the war that continued for the rest of the 1980s, Burlington's Progressives identified strongly with the FSLN, to the point of earning for themselves the nickname "Sanderistas."

2015, Janet Biehl, Ecology or Catastrophe: The Life of Murray Bookchin, page 223:

(US politics, colloquial) A supporter of Bernie Sanders or his political philosophy.


fibershed

Blend of fiber + watershed, coined by Rebecca Burgess in 2011.

Like a foodshed, a fibershed is a small geographical landscape, or bioregion, where artisans produce goods using natural dyes, materials and farms located within 150 miles of their front door. Whereas some fibersheds focus on creating sustainable clothing, Livingston said the Los Angeles event is about educating the community through "re-skilling" classes like spinning, lap loom weaving, knitting, sewing and dyeing.

2014 March 18, Lisa Boone, “Fibershed L.A. pop-up features locally sourced crafts, artisans, farms”, in Los Angeles Times:

However, don't get it confused with a watershed, warns Burgess, because a fibershed must necessarily cross multiple topographic boundaries to work ecologically and economically. Right now, that means stretching the definition of "local" way out -- at least until sustainable fiber production takes off.

2015, Courtney White, Two Percent Solutions for the Planet, →ISBN, page 113:

In recognition of Sonoma County's ranching heritage, thriving fibershed, and the Year of the Sheep in the Chinese zodiac, this year's poster boy and "rambassador" is Famous Ramus.

2015 July 1, “12 Facts About the Gravenstein Apple Fair in Sebastopol Ragle Park August 8 and 9”, in Sonoma County Gazette:

A fibershed (a term Burgess coined) is a “geographical landscape that defines and gives boundaries to a natural textile resource base, engendering appreciation, connectivity, and sensitivity for the life-giving resources within our homelands.”

2015 October 8, Gabrielle Saulsbery, “You Know Slow Food? Check Out Slow Fashion”, in Modern Farmer:

The geographic region from which come all of the resources to make an article of clothing.


masculinazi

> So women should be seen and not heard? Men are the alpha and the omega? Anyone writing
>anything similar but about MEN would have been labeled a FEMINAZI by you,
>T.
And rightly so. However, those who write it about women are
MasculiNazi's^([sic]) as well.

1996 May 2, Matt, “"Church Referendum"”, in tnn.religion.catholic (Usenet):

Boy, I hope your wife really put her foot down with you and made you get a
vasectomy! Men have no damned right to determine their own lives; the idea
that they do is ugly anarchic propoganda^([sic]) put forth by masculinazis.

1997 August 16, Frenchy, “Butchslapped ;)”, in alt.brother-jed (Usenet):

I don't give ear to fringe from either side of the argument...Feminazis or
Masculinazis....

2003 September 24, Jude, “definition of evil according this this ng”, in alt.feminism (Usenet):

You might be a Masculinazi if . .
- You think females have it "easier" than males
- You presume that no woman is strong enough to serve in military combat[…]

2004 January 3, ²“S&*^*%$@iŽ%$&&*@bbacnews.bccacanada ¡O.otrBBACNEWS ², “KKKarel is not a racist .....”, in van.general (Usenet):

'Don't be such a MasculiNazi,' Ella said if he ever said anything. He hated it when she called him that. But it's important that we get more men out of prostitution, he'd been saying; that we get more men into Parliament.

2011 May 19, John Freeman, Granta 115: The F-Word, Granta Books, →ISBN, →OCLC:

(derogatory, rare) A person who is aggressively masculinist.


unlax

en-verb

unlax (third-person singular simple present unlaxes, present participle unlaxing, simple past and past participle unlaxed)

unlaxes (present singular third-person)
unlaxing (participle present)
unlaxed (participle past)
unlaxed (past)

Episode or segment titled "Check and double check (Don't hold your breath, unlax)." (ref. "Black Radio: Telling it Like it Was", Indiana University Archive, Collector's No. BROS0429, Shelf No. cass 1696; http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/findingaids/view?doc.view=entire_text&docId=VAC0316 retrieved 2017-02-09)

Inside the dollhouse they unlaxed and had a drink.

2003, Alice Denham, My Darling from the Lions, page 164:

“Unlax, Doc. Remember when Phil was having that squirrel problem with his cedar siding? The little bastards ate a couple of holes in his eaves and built a nest in his attic. I'm just going to ask him if he still has that problem, Sam.”

2010, Harrison Lee Rodebaugh, Gently Into The Night, page 60:

There's one neighborhood tavern where the regulars and irregulars go after a hard day to unlax and rewind, throw back a few, and just hang out - you know the one.

2015, Brian Cook, Hands Across The Sea, page 190:


beerage

Blend of beer + peerage, coined in the late 19th century in response to the awarding of honours to brewers.

(UK politics) The influence of the brewing industry within the British political system.


meninist

The mainstream is being challenged by everything that isn't itself. Feminists, meninists, animal rights campaigners, anti-corruption activists in Romania, ultra-nationalists in Russia—there seems to be no one particular political direction that has benefited more from the internet.

2018, Carl Miller, chapter 5, in The Death of the Gods […] , William Heinemann, →ISBN:


pericombobulation

en-noun

pericombobulation (countable and uncountable, plural pericombobulations)

/ˌpɛɹɪkəmˌbɒbjʊˈleɪʃən/

Blend of peri- + discombobulation. From a 1987 episode of the British television comedy Blackadder, in which Dr. Samuel Johnson boasts about his newly completed dictionary containing every word in the English language. Blackadder subsequently uses a number of newly-invented words to perplex him: "I'm anaspeptic, frasmotic, even compunctuous to have caused you such pericombobulation."

Because we have cultured, Euro accents and enunciate properly, we try and slip made up words into our meetings and watch the USers eat them up because like the saying about the bigger the lie, the more people believe it, the more syllables a word has the more readily they will accept it.
Example: "We have identified an anuspeptic, some would say phrasmotic, phased paradigm shift in the market of interphrastic proportions. It's causing much contrafribbilarities^([sic]) and indeed much pericombobulation in the ABC1 sector. Frankly, we're Donald Ducked."

1997, har...@hotmail.com, “Why People World-Wide Hate Americans.”, in aus.flame (Usenet):

Oh come now, I for one am quite phrasmotic for the pericombobulation Paul has suffered, and can only wish that in future he will have the sense to complete his assignments more interphrastically.

2000, Steven Megson, “[I] Book Review”, in alt.fan.pratchett (Usenet):

I hope this is not causing the poster any pericombobulations.

2005, Geoff Lane, “Re: Welcome to Hell”, in alt.sysadmin.recovery (Usenet):


webfolio

(Internet) An e-portfolio published on the World Wide Web.


floofy

en-adj

floofy (comparative floofier, superlative floofiest)

floofier (comparative)
floofiest (superlative)

“Make it floofier,” Meghan told Stevie, who was spraying Gotta-Be-Glued hairspray onto her bangs.

2010, Kate Messner, Sugar and Ice, Walker Books for Young Readers, →ISBN:

Look, I get it. I'm like one of those nice ladies in a long skirt with wildflowers in her floofy hair who prattles about magic and Mother Earth and spiritual guides and who are tolerated because they seem harmless enough in their obviously crazy way. Except I don't own any skirts and my hair's only floofy right when I get up.

A well-prepared bed can supply asparagus for years and years. Then comes the bonus— in the fall, the wispy stems called “fern” become a blaze of yellow, floofy, feathery stems.

2012, Joy Bossi, Karen Bastow, The Incredible Edible Landscape, →ISBN, page 15:

She'd always been stuck with naturally curly hair, but now the loose springy curls were doing whatever they wanted.To her, it was starting to look hopelessly floofy.

2012, Jennifer Greene, Rock Solid, →ISBN:

Do you love birds with floofy, profuse feathering?

2014, Lissa Lucas, Traci Torres, My Pet Chicken Handbook, →ISBN:

The more wrapping you can do here the floofier your pompom will be.

2020, Marna Gilligan, Cat Knits: 16 Pawsome Knitting Patterns for Yarn and Cat Lovers, David and Charles, →ISBN:

The first song’s album artwork pops up on my phone, showing a blond woman with the floofiest bangs and bouffant you ever did see.

2021, Kathryn Ormsbee, Candidly Cline, Harper, →ISBN:

She was so grateful to have a best friend who really understood her, beneath all the floofy fur. And speaking of that floofy fur—Lulu knew it was a bit floofier than usual. She needed a trim.

2021, Rachel Wenitsky, David Sidorov, Good Dogs with Bad Haircuts, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →ISBN, page 61:

(informal) Feathery; puffy, light, airy or windswept.

By “complicated food,” we mean “floofy food.” It's doing far more to our food than is necessary.

2006, Rick Burgess, Bill Bussey, Rick and Bubba's Expert Guide to God, Country, Family, and Anything Else We Can Think Of, →ISBN:

This book is for those wonderful, irreplaceable people who feed me chocolate and floofy drinks when I'm miserable and depressed, and celebrate with chocolate and floofy drinks when things go well for me.

2010, Nina Harper, Succubus In The City, →ISBN:

I felt most strongly in that moment was that American culture had lost its respect—and maybe even need—for innovation. Not creativity, which seemed dilettante and floofy to me here, something I might comment on in a well-decorated home.

2014, Anne Moore, Cambodian Grrrl: Self-Publishing in Phnom Penh, →ISBN, page 71:

And I get it: for many of us, poetry is esoteric and daunting and floofy and frankly not very interesting.

2015, Karen Dabaghian, A Travelogue of the Interior, →ISBN, page 24:

(colloquial) Elaborate, frilly, fussy or overwrought in a silly or purely decorative way.

Well, to be frank, Madame, when Mademoiselle Leocadia Gardi entered my cafe the first time, I must confess ... I just went all floofy!

2000, Jeffrey Hatcher, To Fool the Eye, →ISBN, page 30:

In personality, though, she did seem a little...floofy.

2012, Jennifer Greene, Blame It On Cupid, →ISBN:

It took many years to get that tough and I'm not letting my armor down for some floofy executive from the top who sends in his teams of experts.

2007, Kellyann Curnayn, A Good Day in Hell - The Flatlining of Nurses Across America, →ISBN, page 74:

(colloquial) Fluttery; emotional, worked up, especially over inconsequentials.


futch

For me, being futch is not about living in a single spot, in a precise middle ground wherein I can be androgynous and ambiguous […] “I'm not a femme. I can use tools.” “C'mon, it doesn't hurt that much. Butch up.” My feminist futch self finds journeying through these expectations unpleasant.

2011, Ivan Coyote, Zena Sharman, Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme, arsenal pulp press, →ISBN, pages 240–241:

Exhibiting qualities of both femme and butch identities.


futch

A moment's thought tells us that a futch, femme, or butch can't be spotted by behaviour alone […]

2011, Ivan Coyote, Zena Sharman, Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme, arsenal pulp press, →ISBN, page 241:

A person who exhibits traits of both a femme and a butch.


singspiration

/ˌsɪŋ.spəˈɹeɪ.ʃən/

Very early in the camp life a Young People's Church Committee was organized, and it in turn sponsored Friday night singspirations. Kenzo Yoshida was the chairman of the committee and Gladys Onoye was the pianist […]

1979, Lester E. Suzuki, Ministry in the assembly and relocation centers of World War II, page 87:

Singspirations were group singing of gospel choruses: "Hallelu, hallelu, hallelu, hallelujah! Praise ye the Lord!"

1994, Jane Piirto, A Location in the Upper Peninsula: Essays, Poems, Stories, page 8:

American youth collections, such as Youth Favorites, supplied the English songs for youth fellowship singspiration time of some churches.

2006, Myrleene Grace Chiew Yap, The Development of Congregational Song Among Chinese Churches in the Philippines (1903–2003) (dissertation), page 50:

Another intern was Chris Conway from Converse, Indiana, who worked with the youth choir and helped with the younger children so they could sing special songs for singspirations.

2012, Madonna Burget Spratt, Eleanor Daniel, Who Am I, page 300:

(Christianity) A worship service, or sometimes a part of a service or any other church activity, involving the singing of hymns.


minigarch

Financial and economic groups, which emerged as a result of the Yushchenko-inspired boom with an average growth rate in the gross national income of 9 percent since the year 2000, had created a new generation of “minigarchs.” They resented rampant corruption in tax administration and government and were angry at the plunder of the country by a narrow group of oligarchic billionaires backing the incumbent power elite and its candidate, Yanukovych.

2006, Adrian Karatnycky, “The Fall and Rise of Ukraine’s Political Opposition: From Kuchmagate to the Orange Revolution,” in Anders Åslund, Michael McFaul, eds., Revolution in Orange: The Origins of Ukraine’s Democratic Breakthrough, Washington DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, p 37

One person familiar with the Moscow business world said of Povarenkin: “He’s a typical ‘minigarch’ guy who managed to cobble together a bunch of assets, deploying the typical Russian means of doing it.”

2018 June 15, Luke Harding, Dina Nagapetyants, “UK visa of Russian oligarch who met Arron Banks under review”, in The Guardian:

(chiefly concerning the former Soviet Union) A petty oligarch, one with somewhat less money or power.


stopout

(education) A student who leaves an academic institution but later returns to continue studying.


glocalize

en-verb

glocalize (third-person singular simple present glocalizes, present participle glocalizing, simple past and past participle glocalized)

glocalizes (present singular third-person)
glocalizing (participle present)
glocalized (participle past)
glocalized (past)


multislack

multislack (third-person singular simple present multislacks, present participle multislacking, simple past and past participle multislacked)

multislacks (present singular third-person)
multislacking (participle present)
multislacked (participle past)
multislacked (past)

(informal) To waste time in multiple ways at once.


digizine

Digizines are print magazines that have been translated into a digital format. Digizines usually include access to an expanded set of information and often include more multimedia than most zines.

1998, Calleen Coorough, Getting started with multimedia, page 16:

The evolution of the digizine is highlighted in the New Media box on page 488. Over 250 magazines now offer their titles in a digital version. There are several advantages of the digizine format for both the publisher and the subscriber.

2000, Thomas C. O'Guinn, Advertising, volume 1, page 485:

A magazine published in an electronic format; an e-zine.


calfdozer

Blend of calf + bulldozer, since a calf is the young animal corresponding to a bull.


spankavision

Print on the wall, earth tones on the bed, data port on the phone, fifty-five channels on the TV, including E! and Bravo: the modern secular hotel in perfect replica, except for the fact that there's no Spankavision and no minibar.

1999, Esquire: The Magazine for Men, volume 131, page 96:

If he needs some spankavision to get him through those nights, he needs to visit us. We'll provide DVD's for him!

1999, Bill, “I will provide Howard with DVD's!”, in alt.fan.howard-stern (Usenet):

and for the record, cable modems download pron^([sic]) at speeds of over 100 times faster than regular modems. its^([sic]) total spankavision. i love it.

1999, Yokes, “[bst] testing”, in alt.music.nin (Usenet):

“Do you at least have some good spankavision?” Ben asked. Mike blushed. “I've got a kid in the house, so no, I don't have any spankavision.”

2012, Kaya McLaren, How I Came to Sparkle Again:

(slang) audiovisual pornographic material


snackadium

(informal) A party platter with various snack items arranged in the shape of a football stadium.


commognition

Blend of communication + cognition, coined by Anna Sfard.

A theory that regards thinking as a form of internal communication rather than an entirely different operation.


Motability

(UK) A scheme in the United Kingdom enabling disabled people and their families and carers to lease a vehicle or powered wheelchair using an allowance from the government.


Milkomeda

(astronomy) The galaxy that would result from the predicted Andromeda–Milky Way collision.


washugyu

Blend of Washington + wagyu, after the US state.

The austere appearance of Japanese Premium Beef’s first retail outlet belies the richness of what it purveys: beef called washugyu, a Black Angus/wagyu cross raised in Oregon.

2009 June 10, Florence Fabricant, “An Oregon Trail for Beef”, in New York Times:

Wagyu cattle crossbred with Black Angus to make them hardier.


fissban

A ban on the production of fissile material.


disinfotainment

The prospect of CBC Newsworld adopting the style and substance of CNN, and thus joining fully the world of "disinfotainment," is as depressing as it seems inevitable.

2009 August 7, “Stand up for intelligent news gathering”, in Toronto Star:

(derogatory) infotainment based on incorrect or misleading information


wisdumb

Upon my glorious ISP homepage is a wonderful piece of wisdumb […]

2008, Allan A. Zarbock, The Emperor is Naked, page 58:


gourmania

Sliced any way, however, gourmania means big business.

1970, Business Week, numbers 2114-2121, page 284:

Writer Judith Moore remembers "gourmania" sweeping her Oregon college town in the 1970s as adventurous gourmets strove to outdo each other with Greek or Provençal menus, complete with home-butchered rabbit.

2009 October 6, Amy Pataki, “Foodies mourning Gourmet”, in Toronto Star:

Enthusiasm for preparing and/or eating good food.


infoxication

information overload
information overload


squadrol

Blend of squad + patrol, as in patrol car.

My story--hippie-rad editor turned journalism professor--and Michael's--he rocked a squadrol on Michigan Avenue, now he owns a business in Rogers Park--are typical enough to merit coverage.

1988 September 23, Abe Peck, “'68 Sources”, in Chicago Reader:

A squad car that also serves as an ambulance.


fancast

A video and/or audio broadcast produced by fans of a work or subject.


vook

Jude Deveraux, a popular romance author who has written 36 straightforward text novels, said she loved experimenting with “Promises,” an exclusive vook set on a 19th-century South Carolina plantation in which the integrated videos add snippets of dialogue and atmosphere.

2009 October 1, Motoko Rich, “Curling Up With Hybrid Books, Videos Included”, in New York Times:

A digital book that combines text with video and Internet material.


plabic

Of course, as illustrated in the example above, merely reordering the face variables of a fixed plabic graph by an odd permutation will change the orientation of the resulting volume-form.

2016, Nima Arkani-Hamed, Grassmannian Geometry of Scattering Amplitudes, page 116:


rocktronic

Now we have Tweekend, where CM furthers its rocktronic hand, assisted by guests like Tom Morello and Scott Weiland.

2001, CMJ New Music Monthly, number 96, page 68:

Blending elements of rock 'n' roll past into his futuristic rocktronic soundscapes, Humphrey works each of his songs with its own personality, creating through his catalog a sonic reality unto itself, impossible to recreate […]

Blending elements of rock music and electronic music.


Becrux

Abbreviation of Beta Crucis. A star in the constellation Crux, the Southern Cross.


Acrux

Abbreviation of Alpha Crucis. A star in the constellation Crux the Southern Cross


TypeScript

Blend of type (“value constraint”) + JavaScript.

blend

programming language
programming language

(scripting language) A scripting programming language that is a strongly-typed superset of JavaScript.


buckyonion

Blend of buckminsterfullerene + onion, modelled on earlier buckyball, with reference to the concentric layers of an onion.

Detections of C60 and C70 fullerenes in planetary nebulae (PNe) of the Magellanic Clouds and of our own Galaxy have raised the idea that other forms of carbon such as hydrogenated fullerenes (fulleranes like C60H36 and C60H18), buckyonions, and carbon nanotubes, may be widespread in the Universe.

2016, J. J. Díaz-Luis, D. A. García-Hernández, A. Manchado, F. Cataldo, “A search for hydrogenated fullerenes in fullerene-containing planetary nebulae”, in arXiv:

(chemistry) A concentric multishell fullerene structure.


womanipulation

The Rules is a veritable compost heap of do's and (mostly) don't's for a woman—oops, girl—who wants to master the fine art of womanipulation. It's a how-to book: how to make a man desperate to marry a girl […]

2010, Ellen Goodman, Paper Trail: Common Sense in Uncommon Times:

Unmasterful in her personal relations with women, the female attains to general masterfulness by the womanipulation of money and of everything and everybody controlled by money, in other words, of everything and everybody.

2013, Mark Leach, SCUW Womanifesto, page 7:

(rare) manipulative behaviour by a woman


prostasphere

Three-dimensional culture studies showed that trabectedin reduced the number and diameter of spheroids of DU145 and PC3 CSCs. Furthermore, we have found that trabectedin disrupted cell-cell interactions via E-cadherin in prostasphere of DU-145 and PC-3 CSCs. Our results showed that trabectedin inhibits cellular proliferation and accelerates apoptotic events in prostate CSCs; and may be a potential effective therapeutic agent against prostate cancer.

2015 October 21, “Enhanced G2/M Arrest, Caspase Related Apoptosis and Reduced E-Cadherin Dependent Intercellular Adhesion by Trabectedin in Prostate Cancer Stem Cells”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

A spherical cluster of prostate cancer cells


womanager

Blend of woman + manager. The word was coined by Horace Walpole, an English writer, art historian, man of letters, antiquarian, and Whig politician.

(rare, informal, humorous) A female manager.


Bremain

Blend of Britain + remain, by analogy with Brexit.

"We want Britain to remain in the EU. We want not "Brexit" but "Bremain"."

2015 June 22, David Milliken, “U.S. and EU face 'heavy lift' to get trade deal: EU ambassador”, in Reuters:

Like the old Tory trouper Michael Heseltine, I think we can rule out him leading the “Outers.” For Brexit, read Bremain.

2015 October 8, Paul Routledge, “Europe referendum is the big political issue – but where do the parties stand?”, in The Mirror:

Brexit or Bremain? That is the question British voters may have to answer in just five months’ time on 23 June, if David Cameron’s renegotiation ends with a deal at the EU summit in February.

2016 February 21, Timothy Garton Ash, “Whether Brexit or Bremain, fear will triumph over fear”, in The Guardian:

But today the disconnect was heightened further as London's army of Bremain-backing resident called on the city's new mayor Sadiq Khan, to declare Greater London and its nine million population an independent state.

2016 June 25, Jon Austin, “Could London become an EU state? Calls for independence after capital votes to Bremain”, in Express:

(UK politics) The fact of the United Kingdom remaining in the European Union.


Bremain

en-verb

Bremain (third-person singular simple present Bremains, present participle Bremaining, simple past and past participle Bremained)

Bremains (present singular third-person)
Bremaining (participle present)
Bremained (participle past)
Bremained (past)

Bremaining is perceived as a young person’s interest, with Brexiting supposedly the preserve of grumpy oldsters who are moreover more schooled in the tiresome pencil-and-paper business of voting, as opposed to liking, RT-ing, etc.

2016 June 8, Steve Richards, “Harry Potter play exposes the social apartheid in our theatre”, in The Guardian:

Hitzig, who voted to Bremain, now works in fundraising for the City of London Sinfonia and is worried that the arts sector will suffer if corporate donors leave, putting her job at risk.

2016 June 24, Sunny Freeman, “Brexit closes gateway to Europe for Canadian companies”, in Toronto Star:

If England were to finally end 50 years of hurt in Paris on 10 July, would we be happy to have Bremained, or sad to have Brexited?

2016 June 9, Steve Busfield, “Euro 2016: Bloated, protracted and boring - why the summer tournament could be the worst yet”, in International Business Times:

(of Britain) To remain in the European Union.


Softail

Blend of soft + tail, coined as a trademark by the Harley-Davidson company, and modelled on hardtail.

A bicycle or motorcycle featuring a hidden rear suspension system with springs or shock absorbers.


Tribonacci

Elite uses a pseudorandom number generator based on Tribonacci numbers. Unlike Fibonacci numbers, where the nth term in the series is based on the previous two terms, Tribonacci numbers use the previous three terms: […]

2016, John Aycock, Retrogame Archeology, Springer, →ISBN, page 113:

(mathematics) A variant of the Fibonacci sequence in which the preceding three terms, rather than the preceding two, are summed at each iteration.


Cubanadian

Someone who is of both Cuban and Canadian descent.


Czexit

“So far in the Czech Republic this is proposed only by fringe parties with minimal public appeal — but if Brexit happens, it would be much more attractive to propose a Czexit for parties like Civic Democratic Party [ODS] (ex-party of former president Václav Klaus) or for the communists,” Prouza said.

2016 February 23, Tara Palmeri, “Brexit ‘could lead to Czexit’”, in Politico:

Czech PM Bohuslav Sobotka has caused an all-EU debate on Czexit by his warning against the gloomy effects of Britain's EU departure on Czechs, in consequence of which the rest of the EU may part with the Czechs prematurely, Tomas Menschik writes in weekly Tyden out on Monday.

2016 March 1, “Týden: PM's hint at Czexit may backfire on Prague, oust it from EU”, in Prague Daily Monitor:

But there has already been an attempt to hold a Czexit referendum.

2016 June 25, Rebecca Perring, “MAPPED: Czexit, Pexit, Frexit - EU referendum CONTAGION sweeps Europe amid political quake”, in Express:

Mr Babiš insists he won’t seek a Czexit if he becomes prime minister.

2017 October 14, Tim Gosling, “Anti-establishment billionaire leads race to become Czech prime minister”, in The Telegraph:

(politics) The possible act of Czechia leaving the European Union.


stupidstitious

en-adj

stupidstitious (comparative more stupidstitious, superlative most stupidstitious)

more stupidstitious (comparative)
most stupidstitious (superlative)

My dear Daughter is what I call a little stupidstitious in her religious observances', he wrote shortly after his ninety-second birthday.

1982, Dewey Ganzel, Fortune and Men's Eyes: The Career of John Payne Collier, page 393:

Recently this view was shared by someone who offhandedly commented to me that the great number of people interested in reading ghost stories in Hawai'i illustrated how "stupidstitious" islanders could be!

1999, Glen Grant, Obake Files: Ghostly Encounters in Supernatural Hawai'I, page xix:

>>> Do you think maybe some of these players get superstitious? Like wearing the same socks they wore when they got the first slam or something? :) <<< / There is a fine line between stupidstitious behavior and having all conditions the same so that there is no doubt in the response of your equipment, clothing, racquets, shoes, etc. I grew up in baseball and became anti-stupidstitious due to all the goofy shenannigans players pulled it trying to keep everything 'the same'.

2002 August 20, Bill Smith, “Changing Rackets - sex equivalency”, in rec.sport.tennis (Usenet):

But Duke – he has blue eyes, the kind with tiny black pupils that disappear when he's mean-mad, the kind that stupidstitious people wear a blue bead against.

2007, D. H. Melhem, Stigma and the Cave: Two Novels, page 105:

I tell you son, ancient and medieval people were superstitious, but today's people are stupidstitious.

but this is dangerous politics. They want a republic that is not a republic. This is stupid politics. It is stupid belief or stupidstitious (don’t use dictionary you won’t find this word)!

2019 July 27, Prisca Mupfumira, “The Saturday Column: From best hotels in London to police cells in Harare”, in The Herald:

(informal, derogatory) Having superstitions that are especially stupid or being stupid enough to believe superstitions.


libshit

(derogatory, vulgar, politics) Synonym of liberal.


parapinopsin

We previously reported that parapinopsin is an ultraviolet (UV)-sensitive opsin that underlies hyperpolarization of the pineal photoreceptor cells of lower vertebrates to achieve pineal wavelength discrimination.

2015 October 23, “Activation of Transducin by Bistable Pigment Parapinopsin in the Pineal Organ of Lower Vertebrates”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

(biochemistry) Any of a group of opsins in the parapineal gland of some fish


sysplex

When an enclave spans a system boundary in a sysplex, it is called a multisystem enclave.

2010, Mike Ebbers, Dino Tonelli, Jason Arnold, Co-locating Transactional and Data Warehouse Workloads on System z, page 245:

(computing) A group of connected IBM mainframe systems that share resources.


ringle

Blend of ringtone + single. Coined by Sony BMG Music Entertainment.

The ringle is expected to contain three songs—one hit and maybe one remix and one older track—and one ringtone, on a CD with a slip sleeve cover.

2007 September 15, Ed Christman, “Ringles In, List Price Out?”, in Billboard, volume 110, number 37, page 21:

Meanwhile, label profit margins for the format are considered slim. The majors are gambling that the ringle can instill in consumers the mind-set to connect to the Internet via the CD.

2007 October 10, “Music industry betting on 'ringle' format”, in CNET, archived from the original on 2024-06-16:

The ringle is a physical CD that contains three songs — a hit, a remix and an older track by the artist—and a mobile phone ringtone. Both Sony/BMG and Universal Music Group are releasing ringles into the market in time for Christmas sales. Sony/BMG is experimenting with the release of 50 ringles, while Universal is releasing up to 20 during the same period.

2009 April 20, Proceedings: The 84th Annual Meeting 2008, number 97, National Association of Schools of Music, page 78:

(music, uncommon) A CD single which includes a shortened ringtone version.


Wakaliwood

(slang, neologism) The developing film industry in Wakaliga, a slum in Kampala, Uganda.


tanorexic

tanorexic (comparative more tanorexic, superlative most tanorexic)

more tanorexic (comparative)
most tanorexic (superlative)

Relating to, or suffering from, tanorexia.


vaginamony

(slang, derogatory) Alimony, when paid by a man to a woman. Popularized (and possibly coined) by Tom Leykis ("an annuity paid for past use of a vagina").


snowscoot

A kick scooter-like device for travelling over snow on an alpine ski run, with handlebars and a frame that connects two skis that are similar to a snowboard split in two, allowing the front portion to turn while the rider stands on the rear portion.


Dhimmicrat

(derogatory) Democrat (a member of the US Democratic Party), seen as submissive to Islamist interests.


prevenge

/pɹɪˈvɛnd͡ʒ/

Anticipating Wally's inevitable sarcasm, Boris let fly with a few cutting remarks in a stunning act of prevenge.

Prevenge: the act of getting one's retaliation in first.

2007, Susie Dent, The Language Report, Oxford University Press, page 140:

They would go for what was jokingly tagged 'pre-venge'.

2008, Duncan Campbell-Smith, Follow the Money: a History of the Audit Commission, Penguin UK (pages not numbered)

You aren't planning prevenge, are you? . . . You know, prevenge, the state of creating revenge before the need exists.

2013, Jeff Ayers, Long Overdue, StoneHouse Ink, Chapter 3 (pages not numbered)

Excess is exhibited in these shows: by unruly woman Max and her "prevenge" rather than revenge logic . . .

2015, Wendy A. Burns-Ardolino, TV Female Foursomes and Their Fans, McFarland, page 25:

Obama also had to make amends as much as possible for Bush's aggressive philosophy of preemption, which really amounted to "prevenge"—getting back at someone he feared might even think about harming our nation before they could act.

2016, Michael Eric Dyson, The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, page 142:

(humorous) The act of taking, or an action taken against someone or something, ostensibly in retaliation for another act that has not yet been committed; pre-emptive action characterized as revenge.


Nihonglish

(rare) A pidgin or blend of Japanese and English


investomer

Brian Bellardo, General Counsel of StockPower Inc., described how companies can use their web sites to distribute stock to their customers, creating new "investomers" who will bring more loyalty and revenue to the company. He explained that investomers are both long-term investors and loyal customers who, according to his company's research, spend more and visit the company's web site more frequently.

2000, Corporate Secretary's Guide Corporate Directions:

In some cases, of course, customers are owners, too. Examples include the members of associations, cooperatives, and credit unions as well as the shareholders of companies that are deliberately setting out to create "investomers."

2009, Caroline Oliver, Getting Started with Policy Governance, →ISBN:

Unlike Kickstarter, the local operation forgoes donations and seeks “investomers,” company lingo for investors who'll ideally become regular customers, thanks to credits they receive when the business opens.

2015 December 9, Anna Spiegel, “New Details on Morris, Spike Mendelsohn's Upcoming Shaw Cocktail Bar”, in Washingtonian:

A customer who also owns shares in the business.


enemedia

No, in the UK, the enemedia and political quislings use the word 'Asian' for Muslim. In France, they use 'youth.' In Denmark, Sweden and Germany, they use 'immigrant' for Muslim (even if the jihadists are second or third generation).

2013, Frederick William Dame, The Muslim Discovery of America, page 328:

(derogatory, of mainstream media) Political propaganda veiled as facts that conflate, obfuscate, and oppose any and all centrist or conservative political positions.


bleisure

(colloquial) Travel or another activity that combines business and leisure.


Ziocon

(informal, derogatory) A neoconservative Zionist


Acroyoga

Trademark from late 20th century. Blend of acrobatics + yoga.

A physical practice that combines yoga and acrobatics.


Calimyrna

A fig (fruit) of a certain variety grown in California.


Ramadamadingdong

(slang, derogatory, offensive) Alternative form of Ramalamadingdong


peptibody

Moreover, administration of the anti-MSTN peptibody suppressed muscle wasting in a mouse model of CKD [5 ].

2015 October 27, “Relationship between Blood Myostatin Levels and Kidney Function:Shimane CoHRE Study”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

A material containing peptides that act somewhat like antibodies


TWENEX

Blend of twenty + TENEX, the latter (derived from ten extended) being an earlier operating system for the same machine.

(computing, informal) The TOPS-20 operating system for the PDP-10 mainframe computer.


Fenglish

We laugh in Persian, and this is always the language for jokes, which sometimes causes difficulties for American girlfriends. But if we take a closer look, things are more complicated, as diglossia – Penglish or Fenglish – is spreading […]

2015, Fariba Adelkhah, The Thousand and One Borders of Iran: Travel and Identity:

(informal) A language that combines Farsi and English.


clausarin

(organic chemistry) A coumarin isolated from the roots of Clausena pentaphylla.


spinasterol

(organic chemistry) A phytosterol found in a variety of plant sources including spinach.


purrsuasive

purrsuasive (comparative more purrsuasive, superlative most purrsuasive)

more purrsuasive (comparative)
most purrsuasive (superlative)

Cats have served as expert sales-creatures of everything from pet food to whiskey and tobacco. Be it in print or on television, they are undeniably purrsuasive.

(humorous, said of a cat) Alternative form of persuasive


chigga

(slang, offensive, ethnic slur) A vulgar insult for a contemptible East Asian man.


tricklining

A form of slacklining involving tricks and stunts.


skinbow

Blend of skin + rainbow, coined in 2016 in a paper by C. H. Chen et al, Multicolor Cell Barcoding Technology for Long-Term Surveillance of Epithelial Regeneration in Zebrafish.

genetically engineered
genetically engineered

(neologism) Of a zebrafish: having been genetically engineered to have a skin of many colours, to aid in the visualization of changes in its cells.


Mormondumb

> I think the Eastern side of the world has it up on us westerners in this respect. They do not believe they can actually BECOME Gods. They already are such, but just don't recognize it sometimes.
I think I'll go with that, then. That kina beats out Mormondumb, as you say.

2000 June 19, Xristos, “LDS with reservations”, in alt.religion.mormon (Usenet), retrieved 2022-08-22:

For those like myself who have discovered, after hard search, the falsehood and hypocrisy of mormondumb and christianity the Satanic Bible is now available online at
http://www.bow.org/

2000 December 28, Mormo Pan, “Satanic Bible now online!”, in alt.religion.mormon (Usenet), retrieved 2022-08-22:

That's true. But not once in my 35 years of Mormondumb did I give a bishop the finger, nor did anyone give me one. I guess times are a' changin' down at the Mochurch.

2001 July 10, TheJordan6, “Why are there locks in mormon temples?”, in alt.religion.mormon (Usenet), retrieved 2022-08-22:

Yeah right, as long as you play by your pastor's rules, whatever they happen to be at the time. And don't make too many waves in the congregation. Of course, if you don't get along with a particular church you can just pick another one from the Yellow Pages. (Mormondumb still sux BTW).

2002 April 23, exmo, “Makes No Sense to become a mormon”, in alt.religion.mormon (Usenet), retrieved 2022-08-22:

Yeah, but what could be scarier than the Satanic pagan mind-fuck kult of Mormondumb?

2006 November 3, choking hazard, “INFORMATION ON MORMON UNDERWEAR!”, in alt.religion.mormon (Usenet), retrieved 2022-08-22:

@JesusWife To scare the bejeezus out of treat-or-treaters here in the Mecca of Mormondumb, I'm gonna open the door wearing this t-shirt.

2016 October 31, yanquetino, Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-08-26:

The actions led by Charles Manson was mere child's play when compared to the atrocities carried out by "The Faithful" under the direction of Brigham Young. And this sick fuck is highly revered in Mormondumb. It disgusts me! I'm gonna slap the next motherfucker I see in a Y hat 😈

2021 June 4, h3llakitty, Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-08-26:

Don't tell anyone but underneath the white sheet is Kristin Oaks and underneath the red sheet is Sheri Dew. These thee are the true and living Super Heroins of Mormondumb. This image also captures Wendy Whatsup Nelson drunk on dogma two sheets to the wind.

2022 February 13, HeberSeeGull, “Mormon Female Godhead To Be Revealed At April General Conference Women's Saturday Session”, in Reddit, exmormon, archived from the original on 2022-08-22:

Too funny. I love the way these Mormon cultists refer to the devil, aka Satan, aka Lucifer as “the Adversary”! It’s Mormon-speak. It is the only proper way in Mormondumb. The invisible bogeyman. Christ! If they could only look from the outside at how stupid they look.

2022 May 8, Bacchanalia20, Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-08-26:

(rare, informal, derogatory, offensive) Mormondom, regarded as stupid.


beditation

(informal) Meditation performed on a bed.


Snapchat

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

(Internet, social media) A mobile photo-messaging application, introduced in 2011.


Snapchat

(Internet, social media) A user account on Snapchat.

“I just got out of the shower,” I explained. Will pointed down, asking playfully, “Pics or it didn't happen.” “No pics,” I snorted. “No Snapchats, no video. Sorry.”

2014, Jessa Holbrook, While You're Away, Penguin, →ISBN:

(Internet, social media) A visual message sent through the Snapchat application.


Snapchat

en-verb

Snapchat (third-person singular simple present Snapchats, present participle Snapchatting, simple past and past participle Snapchatted)

Snapchats (present singular third-person)
Snapchatting (participle present)
Snapchatted (participle past)
Snapchatted (past)

She Snapchatted me all the details from the hairdresser, including a selfie of her crying when the job was totally done.

2017, Norah Olson, “5/6, afternoon”, in Before Now, New York, N.Y.: Katherine Tegen Books, HarperCollins Publishers, →ISBN, page 162:

He was probably still awake up there, Snapchatting by the light of the silvery moon.

2019, Kate Atkinson, Big Sky, →ISBN, page 100:

(Internet, social media, ditransitive, intransitive) To send a message on Snapchat.


malvertisement

(computing) An advertisement, published on the Internet, that is infected with malicious code aiming to hijack the viewer's computer.


Frobenioid

Blend of Frobenius + monoid, since certain Frobenius morphisms between Frobenioids are analogues of the usual Frobenius morphism.

(arithmetic geometry) A category with some extra structure that generalizes the theory of line bundles on models of finite extensions of global fields.


statite

A hypothetical type of artificial satellite that uses light sails to maneuver.


EUSSR

ЕСССР

European Union — see also EU, European Union


Blatcherism

The conservative political ideologies of British prime ministers Tony Blair and Margaret Thatcher, where the former is viewed as a continuation of the latter.


salicide

Composite: Self-aligned silicide/poly Si gate (salicide) (label on Figure 7d)

1983 November 11, T. Paul Chow, Andrew J. Steckl, “Refractory Metal Silicides: Thin-Film Properties and Processing Technology”, in IEEE Trans. on Electron Devices, volume ED-30, number 11, November 1983, pages 1480–1497:

1993, Khalid Sheergar, Platinum salicide process for BiCMOS applications, thesis, Carleton University:

1995, Wlodek Kaplan, Titanium SALICIDE Process for VLSI Device Application, Royal Institute of Technology:

2007, T. Yamaguchi et al., A Novel Low Leakage-Current Ni SALICIDE Process in nMOSFETs on Si(110) Substrate, 2007 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting:

2010, Yi-Wei Chen et al., Advances on NiPt SALICIDE process optimization for 28nm CMOS manufacturing, 2010 International Symposium on Semiconductor Manufacturing (ISSM):

(silicon microelectronics) An electrical contact made from a silicide whose formation does not require lithographic patterning processes, i.e. it is "self-aligned"


rauding

Blend of reading + auding, coined by Ronald P. Carver.

(linguistics) The combination of reading and auding.


rapefugee

Soon, even the most routine visit to a gas station or grocery store becomes a miserable experience, with robbers, aggressive panhandlers, rapefugees, and impromptu parking lot dance parties with ghetto themes […]

PI-News, however, has already made use of the fear with a logo, which can be downloaded from their homepage stating “Rapefugees not welcome”.

2016, Enes Bayraklı, Farid Hafez, European Islamophobia Report 2015, page 194:

(derogatory, neologism, offensive) A refugee, regarded as being prone to raping people.


cardistry

/ˈkɑːdɪstɹɪ/

The performance of card flourishing; visually impressive cuts, displays, fans, patterns and sequences with playing cards.


leishporin

Based on our findings that Leishmania have a pore-forming cytolysin that we call leishporin, we have been proposing that amastigotes egress from the macrophages is mediated by pore formation on the parasitophorous vacuole and the plasma membrane.

2015 October 30, “Distinct Macrophage Fates after in vitro Infection with Different Species of Leishmania : Induction of Apoptosis by Leishmania (Leishmania) amazonensis, but Not by Leishmania (Viannia) guyanensis”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

(biochemistry) A porin isolated from species of Leishmania


Heartbleed

Blend of heartbeat (“periodic signal generated to indicate normal operation of hardware or software”) + bleed

blend

(computing) A security bug in OpenSSL, where more data can be read than should be allowed, which was disclosed and fixed in April 2014.


Bobert

Bobert gave the audience a coy glance.

2001, Bart Wheeler, Barn-Like Rome, →ISBN, page 186:

Bobert guided her into the opening of the barn.

2014, Barbara D. Gaylor, Hammock Bound, →ISBN:

Flooded with relief, I waited as Bobert took out a notepad and pen.

2016, Darynda Jones, The Dirt on Ninth Grave, →ISBN:


mithralog

A promising mithralog with improved therapeutic window, named DIG-MSK (demycarosyl-3D-ß-D-digitoxosyl-mithramycin SK; EC-8042) has been reported (Fig 1 ).

2015 November 5, “Pleiotropic Anti-Angiogenic and Anti-Oncogenic Activities of the Novel Mithralog Demycarosyl-3D-ß-D-Digitoxosyl-Mithramycin SK (EC-8042)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:


racecation

A vacation consisting mainly of visiting race venues.


scenius

en-noun

scenius (countable and uncountable, plural sceniuses or scenii)

Blend of scene + genius (with scene in the sense of subculture).

Intelligence of a whole operation or group of people.


artistamp

A small piece of art resembling a postage stamp, usually affixed to mail along with the legitimate stamps.


virokine

(biochemistry) Any of a group of proteins, similar to cytokines, that are produced by the action of some DNA viruses


fertaric acid

Blend of ferulic acid + tartaric acid, since it is an ester formed from those two compounds.

hydroxycinnamic acid
hydroxycinnamic acid

(organic chemistry) A hydroxycinnamic acid found in wine and grape.


coutaric acid

Blend of coumaric acid + tartaric acid, since it is an ester formed from those two compounds.

hydroxycinnamoyltartaric acid
hydroxycinnamoyltartaric acid

(organic chemistry) A hydroxycinnamoyltartaric acid found in wine, pomace, and grape.


Tealiban

2013 October 20, Abraham Todd, “Re: The same business interests who created the Tealiban to fight against Obama the Socialist are now lining up to destroy the Tealiban”, in alt.politics.liberalism (Usenet):

2013 October 24, Kickin' Ass, Takin' Names, “No doubt about it -- the Tealiban and GOTP are a resurrected Confederacy, complete with return to slavery”, in alt.politics (Usenet):

2013 November 7, Claudette Latosha Duffy, “Re:Tealiban loser in Alabama shows how not to give a concession speech . . . at the same time, shows how and why the Tealiban loses”, in alt.politics.democrat (Usenet):

The American Tealiban will make sure that Sharia, erm, Biblical law governs us again, and we will keep our military as strong as possible so we can go on Crusades against the infidels in Muslim lands, and we will, naturally, liberate the Holy Land from the nasty Muslims (and maybe the dirty Jews, as long as we're there anyway).

2014 July 2, Tom McDonald, “Re: IRS caught LYING”, in alt.atheism (Usenet):

(derogatory) The Tea Party party movement in twenty-first-century American politics, when considered to be a conservative religious movement similar to the Taliban.


alphenal

5-allyl-5-phenylbarbituric acid, a barbiturate derivative formerly used to treat epilepsy and convulsions.


mobilecasting

The broadcast of live audio or video material from a mobile device such as a smartphone.


smombie

Some cities have now dedicated pedestrian lanes for people using smartphones, have embedded traffic signals in the pavement where smart phone users are more likely to see them, preventing their unwitting stepping out into traffic, and have erected smombie warning signs.

2018, Leslie Paul Thiele, The Art and Craft of Political Theory, Routledge, →ISBN:

Smombies are traffic hazards, prompting Augsburg, a city northeast of Munich, to embed warning lights in sidewalks to alert smombies of approaching streetcars.

2020, Nicole Aschoff, The Smartphone Society: Technology, Power, and Resistance in the New Gilded Age:

(slang) A walking person using a cellphone who is oblivious to the world around them.


donkra

2011, unnamed reporter, What's black and white and kicks like a mule? (in The Daily Mail, 4 July 2011) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2010968/Whats-black-white-kicks-like-mule-Meet-baby-donkra--donkey-crossed-zebra.html
This donkra was born on Sunday morning to the only zebra in the park.

(rare) A hybrid animal, the offspring of a donkey sire and a zebra dam.


Dynamation

(film, historical) A stop-motion technique involving animated models integrated into live-action scenes.


folkadelic

en-adj

folkadelic (comparative more folkadelic, superlative most folkadelic)

more folkadelic (comparative)
most folkadelic (superlative)

The material ranges from folkadelic pump to post-core guitar-rant, and this is a fairly necessary thing to own.

1989, SPIN, volume 5, number 5, page 85:

The Velvets melded folkadelic songcraft with a wall-of-noise aesthetic that was half Phil Spector, half La Monte Young — and thereby invented dronology, a term that loosely describes 50 per cent of today's post-rock activity.

2004, Christoph Cox, Daniel Warner, Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music, page 359:

Having elements of folk music and psychedelic music.


VORTAC

(aviation) A radiobeacon consisting of a colocated VOR and TACAN installation.


twincestuous

twincestuous (comparative more twincestuous, superlative most twincestuous)

more twincestuous (comparative)
most twincestuous (superlative)

(rare, informal) Pertaining to or engaging in twincest.


corrgram

The correlation coefficient by corrgrams indicates a positive correlation (blue colour) and negative correlation (red colour) with the colour intensity indicative of the strength of the correlation.

2016 February 13, “Metagenomic Sequencing of the Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Upper Bronchial Tract Microbiome Reveals Functional Changes Associated with Disease Severity”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

A colour-mapped matrix of correlation strengths in multivariate analysis.


cherpumple

(US) A novelty dessert consisting of cherry pie, pumpkin pie and apple pie stacked inside various flavors of cake.


chocolicious

chocolicious (comparative more chocolicious, superlative most chocolicious)

more chocolicious (comparative)
most chocolicious (superlative)


fagmo

(derogatory, slang, vulgar) Synonym of gay


femicommie

(derogatory, rare) A feminist with left-wing leanings.


death 'n' roll

A musical subgenre of death metal with hard rock elements.


bruncle

(informal, rare) One who is both an uncle and a brother.


maxout

Blend of maximum + dropout; coined in a 2013 paper by Ian J. Goodfellow et al.

On the acoustic side, we use a score fusion of three strong models: recurrent nets with maxout activations, very deep convolutional nets with 3x3 kernels, and bidirectional long-short term memory nets which operate on bottleneck features.

2016, George Saon, Tom Sercu, Steven Rennie, Hong-Kwang J. Kuo, “The IBM 2016 English Conversational Telephone Speech Recognition System”, in arXiv:

A certain approach to neural networks that attempts to improve on the dropout technique. Its activation function is the maximum of the inputs.


satellect

There is reason to suspect that since this over-generalization is done by one satellect (i.e., HC), it must be a fundamental phenomenon of all satellects.

1971, Working Papers in Linguistics - Volume 3, Parts 3-4, page 24:

In Day (1971), I proposed that in doing so, the creole (or, in the terminology used in that paper, the satellect), could demonstrate the reverse of natural language development. That is, instead of language change through a process of rule simplification, re-ordering, and deletion (cf. King 1969; Kiparsky 1968a), the satellect could change by some of its rules becoming more restrictive, less simple.

1972, Richard R. Day, Patterns of variation in copula and tense in the Hawaiian post-creole continuum (Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Hawaii), page 14:

If one parent remains culturally dominant, however, the creole becomes a satellite ('satellect' or 'acolutholect') to that dominant language, which may be termed the 'matrilect'. In time, the creole normally begins recreolizing with the matrilect by borrowing from it. The different degrees in which the matrilect has been mixed into the creole consititute a 'gradatum' of overlapping systems in which the farthest from the matrilect at any moment is termed the 'basilect' by William Stewart.

1974, David De Camp, Ian F. Hancock, Pidgins and Creoles: Current Trends and Prospects, →ISBN, page 89:

A creole that exists within a culture where one of the parent languages remains the dominant local language.


Batusi

Blend of bat + watusi, first appearing in the TV series Batman.

(preceded by definite article) A style of go-go dance from the early 1960s in which the hands are drawn across the eyes with the index and middle finger held in a vee (in imitation of Batman's mask).


bisociation

en-noun

bisociation (countable and uncountable, plural bisociations)

Blend of bi- + association; coined by Hungarian-British author Arthur Koestler in his 1964 book The Act of Creation.

coin

Arthur Koestler's concept of bisociation was introduced in the last chapter to explain how associating two absurd or ridiculous ideas gives rise to humour. Koestler goes on to describe how bisociation may be the key to creativity.

1995, Mike Baxter, Product Design, page 68:

In Memoirs of a Woman Doctor, images of confinement merge with family images. One of the most memorable of these bisociations is that involving the mother's "imprisonment" of the first-person narrator's hair in braids.

1995, Fedwa Malti-Douglas, Men, Women, and God(s): Nawal El Saadawi and Arab Feminist Poetics, page 167:

Bisociation is the contact of two operative fields.[…]The junctional concept which connects the ideas of two operative fields, is the bisociative concept, and the combination of two mental associations which are logically unrelated in bisociation.

2008, J. Nazareth, The Psychology of Military Humour, unnumbered page:

2010, Marc Segolt, Christian Borgelt, Selecting the Links in BisoNets Generated from Document Collections, Paul R. Cohen, Niall M. Adams, Michael R. Berthold (editors), Advances in Intelligent Data Analysis IX: 9th International Symposium, IDA 2010, Proceedings, Springer, LNCS 6605, page 197,
Several famous scientific discoveries are good examples of bisociations, for instance Isaac Newton's theory of gravitation and James C. Maxwell's theory of electromagnetic waves.

In 1964, Arthur Koestler proposed a theory of general creativity wherein he outlined the process of bisociation and explained its importance with respect to originality. The phenomenon of bisociation involves the intermingling or bringing together of two or more unconnected matrices of thought.

2014, Naresh N. Vempala, “Creativity, Theories of Musical”, in William Forde Thompson, editor, Music in the Social and Behavioral Sciences: An Encyclopedia, page 276:

(psychology) A blending of elements drawn from two previously unrelated patterns of thought into a new pattern.

Gilles Fauconnier
Mark Turner (cognitive scientist)
The Act of Creation
conceptual blending


pigger

Charging documents say James threw a fist-sized portion of concrete at
Detective Stevenson, hitting his head. He was taken to Johns Hopkins
Bayview and pronounced dead just 35 minutes later.

2010 October 19, Kay, “Spook kills pigger over parking spot”, in alt.sports.baseball.sd-padres (Usenet):

Chicago - Domestic violence charges have been re-filed against Des
Plaines Police Sergeant Matthew Hicks.
Hicks, 46, is accused of beating his wife in their home last April.

2011 January 7, Harvey Daye, Jr, “Pigger charged with beating his ho”, in alt.support.childfree (Usenet):

A perverted former New York police officer who is dying of cancer was
jailed for almost 22 years today in a hospital bedside sentencing.
Trent Young, 42, pleaded guilty to transporting three underage girls -
two as young as 14 - across state lines for sex.

2011 March 13, Lady Veteran, “Pigger who diddled 14 year old girls goes to hell”, in 24hoursupport.helpdesk (Usenet):

CINCINNATI -- A grand jury indicted a Cincinnati police officer accused
of breaking into a home and choking a woman inside.
Ronald Kiner was indicted Friday on two counts of aggravated burglary,
two counts of menacing by stalking and one count of burglary.

2012 January 28, Eva, “Pigger breaks into woman's home and chokes her”, in alt.support.autism (Usenet):

(ethnic slur, offensive, US) A black police officer.


womansplaining

Blend of woman + explaining, modelled on mansplaining.

The War on Women perpetrators keep trying to tell us that government not funding something equates to government banning something. That must be womansplaining, I guess? Except I’m not willing to have women made out to be idiots. So maybe “liberalsplaining.”

2015, Joy Pullmann, quoted by "David C Kifer", Tolerance (on newsgroup alt.quotations)

2015, "Chris Davis", quoted by Emily Crane, The moment that left the new Prime Minister scratching his head: Tanya Plibersek accuses Malcolm Turnbull of 'mansplaining' during Question Time… but what does it mean? (in Mail Online) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3237538/Tanya-Plibersek-accuses-Malcolm-Turnbull-mansplaining-question-time-does-mean.html
Womansplaining: When a woman incorrectly explains something, but you're not allowed to tell her without being accused of mansplaining.

The minister took offence with the accusation, saying he'd be judged much more harshly if the tables were reversed and he accused a woman of womansplaining.

2016, Daniel Peters, “Minister accused of MANSPLAINING by a female senator calls her a 'hypocrite' as boring parliamentary committee hearing turns into a fight about hipster language”, in Mail Online:

Andrea’s righteous womansplaining of Pink Floyd to Richie is worth repeating in full: “Your point-of-sales strategies are archaic. Your marketing makes you look like a vacuum-cleaner company. Dark Side of the Moon doesn’t even have a single on it and it’s a blockbuster! […]

2016, Dan Martin, “Vinyl recap: episode five - the high-end soap that's proving lovably trashy”, in The Guardian:

She offered her own story to warn me about what can happen when a Christian invests too much in her work and too little in finding a spouse. It was a bad case of womansplaining.

2016, Katelyn Beaty, A Woman's Place: A Christian Vision for Your Calling in the Office, the Home, and the World:

Many men have reported a drastic rise in womansplaining.

2017 December 19, “The Rise Of The 'Feminazis'”, in Youth Ki Awaaz:

(informal, derogatory) Condescending explanation of something by a woman, particularly to a man.


cyclogaine

en-noun

cyclogaine (usually uncountable, plural cyclogaines)

A form of rogaining in which participants are allowed to ride bicycles.


snogaine

A form of rogaining held in a snowy environment, with participants allowed to use skis or snowshoes.


metrogaine

A form of rogaining held in an urban area.


Peterloo

Blend of Peter + Waterloo, in an ironic comparison to the Battle of Waterloo, which had taken place four years earlier.

(historical) The events of 16 August 1819, when cavalry charged into a large crowd that had gathered in St Peter's Field, Manchester, England, to demand the reform of parliamentary representation, killing fifteen and injuring hundreds more.


multicultist

(often derogatory) One who is in favor of multiculturalism


cheluviation

eluviation caused by the chelating action of acids in the environment


anternet

Blend of ant + internet
Coined by Balaji Prabhakar, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Stanford University.

Long before researchers invented the Internet, ants invented something kind of like an anternet, and the two networks work pretty much the same way.

2013, Stanford course explores social networking in the 18th century – and in nature, Stanford News
She and Balaji Prabhakar, a professor of electrical engineering and of computer science, last year published a paper showing that the ants' "anternet" algorithm follows the same rules as the protocols that regulate data traffic congestion on the Internet.

The means by which ants communicate with each other, analogous to the TCP/IP algorithm that the internet uses to control the flow of data.


chaordic

(Of a system, process or organization) Governed by or intentionally organized around a blend of chaotic and ordered elements or influences.

Of a system; process or organization; Of a system; process or organization


p-hacking

Blend of p-value + hacking, from "p" for probability. Coined by researchers Uri Simonsohn, Leif D. Nelson, and Joseph P. Simmons in 2014.

coinage

Cherry-picking promising findings, also known by such terms as data dredging, significance chasing, significance questing, selective inference, and “p-hacking,” leads to a spurious excess of statistically significant results in the published literature and should be vigorously avoided.

[2016, Ronald L. Wasserstein, Nicole A. Lazar, “The ASA Statement on p-Values: Context, Process, and Purpose”, in The American Statistician, volume 70, number 2, →DOI:

statistically significant
statistically significant#English

(sciences, statistics) The practice of reanalysis of data until a desired result is obtained which is statistically significant


succubitch

(fiction, rare, derogatory) A succubus who is a bitch (an irritating, disagreeable woman).


steez

Blend of style + ease, respelled phonetically.

You know my steez / Let em know, do your thing, God

1998, “You know my steez”, in Moment of Truth, performed by Gang Starr:

Gun in my sleeve 'cause nowadays homicide is my steez.

2006, “Battle Cry”, in The Torture Papers, performed by Army of the Pharaohs:

Are you gay for Steve? I think you may be, and that would be alright. But let a bitch know just what your steez is, so I know if I should shave tonight.

2011, “You, Me, and Steve”, in All Over Your Face, performed by Garfunkel & Oates:


Remainiac

Though no Remainiac, I will vote in.

2016 June 11, Rachel Johnson, “RACHEL JOHNSON: Just stop picking on my big brother! (But, sorry Boris, I'm still voting In)”, in The Daily Mail:

Nevertheless, given that my proxy vote is safely secured back in Blighty, an international festival for creativity provides perfect context to ask the question, 'If the EU referendum were a competition in branding, which camp would win?’ Who gets your branding vote, Brexiteer or Remainiac?

2016 June 23, Greg Taylor, “If the EU referendum were a competition in branding, which side would win?”, in The Drum:

2017 August 2, Chris Campbell, “What was the point? Ferrari slates Remainiac in Brexit row for trying to ruin the Proms”, in Daily Express:

Together, they’ve conquered Middle England and seen of the Remainiacs.

2017 August 14, Julia Rampen, “5 unmissable Nigel Farage scenes from Bad Boys of Brexit: The Movie”, in New Statesman:

(UK politics, slang, neologism) One who opposes the idea of Brexit and wishes the United Kingdom to remain a member of the European Union.


produsage

Blend of production + usage, coined by Australian media scholar Axel Bruns.

User-driven content creation taking place over computer networks and blurring the traditional boundaries between consumption and production.


Hughligan

(historical, colloquial) A political supporter of Hugh Cecil, 1st Baron Quickswood.


purranormal

[See "purranormal" in the book title.]

2011, Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, K. B. Dundee, Spam Vs. The Vampire: A Purranormal Mystery, Gypsy Shadow Publishing, →ISBN, page 0 (cover):

(very rare, colloquial, humorous) Paranormal, involving cats.


twincestual

en-adj

twincestual (comparative more twincestual, superlative most twincestual)

more twincestual (comparative)
most twincestual (superlative)

For quotations using this term, see Citations:twincestual.


grolar

Blend of polar (“polar bear”) + grizzly (“grizzly bear”)

blend

Polar bears that spend more time on land as their sea ice habitat shrinks are coming into contact with grizzly bears that have wandered further north – resulting in “grolar” or “pizzly” bear hybrids.

2018 April 22, Oliver Milman, The Guardian:

A hybrid cross between a polar bear and a grizzly.


teleidoscope

A kind of kaleidoscope with a lens and an open view, capable of forming kaleidoscopic patterns from objects outside the instrument, rather than from items installed as part of it.


howlarious

en-adj

howlarious (comparative more howlarious, superlative most howlarious)

more howlarious (comparative)
most howlarious (superlative)

Jimmie Walker, star of television's howlarious Good Times, offering what makes a woman sexy to him: "I don't find tight clothes or revealing clothes to be sexy at all. The more that's left to my imagination the better."

1978, Jet, volume 54, number 24, page 32:

(slang) Extremely hilarious; funny enough to make one howl with laughter.


sharenting

desc

Russian: ше́рентинг m (šérenting, “sharenting”)

Blend of share + parenting, coined by researchers at the University of Michigan.

Others feel that the advantages of sharenting far outweigh any negatives. In an increasingly fragmented society, social media allows us to stay connected to friends and family, and get support that for many is not easily accessible.

2013 May 18, Nione Meakin, “The pros and cons of 'sharenting'”, in The Guardian:

Then there’s “sharenting.” Today, many children’s social media presence starts with a sonogram, posted, obviously, without consent.

2019 June 5, Anya Kamenetz, “The Problem With ‘Sharenting’”, in The New York Times:

On a philosophical level, sharenting exposes children to the larger digital world without their consent, robbing them of a kind of agency.

2019 September 11, Hua Hsu, “Instagram, Facebook, and the Perils of 'Sharenting'”, in The New Yorker:

(neologism) The practice of parents documenting their child's upbringing on social media, typically by posting photographs, anecdotes, etc.

the practice of parents documenting their child's upbringing on social media, typically by posting photographs, anecdotes, etc.

szülői túlposztolás (from túl- and posztol)


millionheiress

(rare, humorous) An heiress to a million units of currency or more.


sactibiotic

A sactipeptide with antimicrobial activity.


legalitarian

Beside the practical and legalitarian Socialism of Decurtins there is also among the Catholics a small party of philanthropic or sentimental Socialists, who, while they deplore and criticise as anti-Christian the present state of society, have nothing to oppose to it beyond nebulous statements and transcendental yearnings.

1895, Francesco Saverio Nitti, Catholic Socialism:

Still strenuously resisting legalitarian socialism as treason to the cause, he had abandoned the values of his Bakuninist youth without yet finding replacements for them.

2009, Richard Drake, Apostles and Agitators: Italy's Marxist Revolutionary Tradition:

In favour of legislation as a means of bringing about equality.


symlet

(mathematics) A kind of modified Daubechies wavelet with increased symmetry.


anthropornography

Blend of anthropomorphic + pornography or similar, coined by activist Amie Hamlin and popularised by Carol J. Adams' book The Pornography of Meat (2003).

The presentation of animals, especially those raised to be killed for food, in quasi-pornographic poses.


dogote

So I began researching coyote-dog crosses, typically called coydogs or dogotes.

2011, Sue Stauffacher, Hide and Seek, page 148:

A hybrid between a male dog and a female coyote.


trixel

(computer graphics) A triangle assigned a single color based on the colors of the pixels inside it, used in medical imaging systems.


hand wedge

(golf, slang, humorous) A golf player's hand, when used to cheat by surreptitiously moving the ball to a more advantageous position.


Conservadox

(Judaism) adhering to a form of Judaism that holds a middle ground between Orthodox and Conservative, chiefly in North America


metamediary

A new breed of intermediate institutions is emerging to inform and advise customers, and to simplify their dealings with product and service providers. These metamediaries dramatically improve the efficiency and effectiveness of transactions in the Networked Economy. Metamediaries also redraw the boundaries of markets by creating metamarkets, which have no parallel in the physical world.

2000 March 1, Mohandir Sawhney, “Making New Markets”, in Business 2.0:

A metamediary provides a multivendor, multiproduct marketplace. The metamediary also provides multiple services—such as payment settlement, fulfillment, quality assurance, and procurement management. The use of a metamediary is likely if recovery of products is managed by a number of independent firms --as oppoesed to the OEM (original equipment manufacturer).

2001, Mahendra Hundal, Mechanical Life Cycle Handbook, →ISBN:

The Knot (www.theknot.com) and Ceremonie (www.ceremonie.com) are metamediaries for the bridal market (all you need for organising a wedding ceremony).

2013, Jean-Jacques Lambin, Changing Market Relationships in the Internet Age, →ISBN, page 127:

A person or business that helps consumers obtain goods and services from suppliers within a metamarket, as well as offering services such as advice, financing, and so on.


throuple

The Air Force veteran fatally shot by police during last week’s US Capitol riot had been in a “throuple” with her husband and their live-in girlfriend, according to reports.

2021 January 14, Tamar Lapin, “Ashli Babbitt, Air Force vet killed at Capitol, was in a ‘throuple’”, in New York Post, retrieved 2021-07-22:

Nearly a year ago, I began dating two friends — I’ll call them Rachel and Dave — who were already themselves in a relationship. We all had no experience with polyamory. The throuple ended fairly quickly, with no one being at fault; the other two continued to date but broke up not too long afterward.

2023 April 21, Kwame Anthony Appiah, “Our Throuple Fell Apart. What Are the Rules of the Breakup?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

But among all the throuples, polycules and nesting partners, there exists another category of polyamory that still throws many for a loop: solo polyamory, or having concurrent intimate relationships while maintaining independence.

2024 August 2, Gina Cherelus, “You’re ‘Solo Poly’? So … You’re Single?”, in The New York Times:

“Honeybee, if you stare at that dividend check any harder, we're gonna officially be a throuple.” [chuckles] “I'm in.”

2024 May 17, Thomas Reyes, “The Mighty Pucks Adventure” (0:35 from the start), in The Great North, season 4, episode 6, spoken by Wolf Tobin (Will Forte):

(neologism) Three individuals engaged in a romantic or sexual relationship.


Spec-chum

Blend of spectrum + chum, introduced by Your Sinclair magazine.

In fact it's hardly surprising that plans for downloading it onto the Speccy were received with, erm, mirth to say the very least. I must admit that I myself thought something along the lines of "R-Type? Oh yeah?" Well, Spec-chums - let me tell you something: I've never been more wrong.

1989, Duncan Macdonald, R-Type (video game review in Your Sinclair issue 37, January 1989)

I don't *know* for sure, but I *believe* that hardware pseudo-random bit sequences like this one are often done using shift registers with feedback. Cue some more clued-up Spec-chum who can fill in the gory details...

2000, Robert J. Baker, “AY sound chip information”, in comp.sys.sinclair (Usenet):

YS3 is the essential read for the discerning Spec-chum. Available now, you can either browse online, or download a copy to read at your leisure.

2003, Nat Cross, “nostalgia here we go”, in comp.sys.sinclair (Usenet):

(slang, UK) A user or fan of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum computer.


blackstream

Blend of black + mainstream, coined by Elsa Honig Fine in her paper Mainstream, Blackstream and the Black Art Movement (1971).

(art) Conforming to the mainstream, with the exception of depicting people with black skin; not being a distinctively black style of art.


technetronic

Blend of technology + electronic, coined by Zbigniew Brzezinski in Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era (1970).

Relating to computers and communications technologies as a means of transforming society.


metaquotidian

en-adj

metaquotidian (comparative more metaquotidian, superlative most metaquotidian)

more metaquotidian (comparative)
most metaquotidian (superlative)

Blend of metaphysical + quotidian or meta- + quotidian

The theatre of a spiritual gesture — in memory of Helmut Kajzar — an exposition of a personal concept of acting; a history of co-operation with Kajzar; ..allowing myself to make so drastic confessions that I intended to be a metaphysical actor ... means that I've confirmed my organic relationship with the metaquotidian theatre".

1991, Notatnik teatralny - Volumes 1-4, page 221:

We live in the wind-chill, The what-if and what-was-not, The blown and sour dust of just after or just before, The metaquotidian landscape of soft edge and abyss.

But in every instance the commonplace thing is transformed by metaphor, the figure that moves the object toward the metaquotidian.

2009, Robert D. Denham, The Early Poetry of Charles Wright: A Companion, 1960-1990, →ISBN, page 65:

What appears to be second nature is made strange, as his cartographies of Locust Avenue and its environs turn the suburban “countryside” into a zone of dematerialized space, a metaquotidian map.

2015, DC Turner, “Made Things”, in The Oxford Handbook of the Literature of the US South:

Arising from and transcending everyday objects or practices; pertaining to the deeper meaning to be found in the ordinary.


mitotracker

TMRE was used in our study for mitochondrial staining instead of commonly used mitotracker dyes since we were interested in visualizing only the active mitochondria in the cells.

2015 December 15, “Collagen Promotes Higher Adhesion, Survival and Proliferation of Mesenchymal Stem Cells”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

(cytology) Any of a family of commercial fluorescent dyes used to stain mitochondria in living cells


chairdrobe

And to the left of it, and near the foot of a bed, is the chairdrobe (the old and elegant chair too fragile for anyone to contemplate sitting on) and to his left; a small bedside chest of drawers.

2013, Basil John, Sharing: An Imperfect Recollection, →ISBN:

This didn’t make it to the scholar’s mistress but I did find it on the chairdrobe, which gives you a little peek, if you ever wanted one, into the state of my bedroom.

2013 September 5, Nicholas Lezard, “The shame of waking up in bed with the succubus Mistress Motivator”, in New Statesman:

I noted the chairdrobe in almost every bedroom I entered thoughout university.

2014, Heidi Julavits, Leanne Shapton, Sheila Heti, Women in Clothes: Why We Wear What We Wear, →ISBN:

(slang) A chair on which someone stores clothing that has been worn but which is not yet too dirty to wear again.


margatini

A martini cocktail made and served like a margarita, with tequila as an ingredient.


oscnode

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

Three nodes may coincide as consecutive points of a curve of finite curvature, giving rise, not to a triple point, but to the singularity called an oscnode; this is, in fact, an osculation or three-pointic contact of two branches of the curve.

1879, George Salmon, A Treatise on the Higher Plane Curves, page 214:

Rhamphoid cuspidal lines possess two kinds of singular points which affect the class of the surface, and occur (i) when the rhamphoid cusp changes into an oscnode, (ii) when there are cubic nodes on the surface.

1908, A. B. Basset, “Singular liens and curves on surfaces”, in The Quarterly Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, volume 39, page 338:

A tacnode is defined to be a singularity equivalent to the origin in the curve y²-x²#x3D;0, that is, the union of two smooth arcs meeting with contact of order two. Similarly, an oscnode is a singularity equivalent to y²-x⁶#x3D;0, i.e., consisting of two smooth branched with contact of order three, and so on.

2012, Joe Harris, Algebraic Geometry: A First Course, page 262:

(geometry) A node of a plane curve where two branches meet with contact order 3.


mentastics

A set of movements to be performed with conscious attention as part of the Trager approach.


man-in-the-browser

(attributive, Internet) A form of Internet security threat, a proxy Trojan horse that infects a web browser and covertly modifies web pages or transactions.


yello

The phone rings a fifth time. Eddie pulls the phone from underneath the driver's seat and places it to his ear. “Yello?” The phone rings again.

Just when it seems she is ready to say something to Max, the phone rings again. This time she reaches quickly for the phone. “Yello?” acting like it is her own personal phone.

The phone rings twice before someone answers. “Yello?” It's Salter's unmistakable irascible voice.

2010, Carl Nichols, The Encounter: A Novel:

An informal greeting, especially when answering the phone


boreout

Unfortunately, it is burnout that always gets noticed and people with boreout usually don't do much about their state of despondency.

2016 June 17, “Boreout is the new age burnout!”, in The Times of India:

(informal) A malaise due to excessive boredom at work


guybrows

Once relegated to guybrows as men tend to have coarse hair, women are now choosing to wax their eyebrows than thread them more than ever.

2016 June 19, “Fashion goes high-brow”, in The Times of India:

(colloquial) Prominent eyebrows on a man


Sensex

MUMBAI: Dalal Street investors are readying for a lower opening of the sensex on Monday as a knee-jerk reaction to RBI governor Raghuram Rajan's decision to not continue in his post after his term ends early September.

2016 June 18, “Dalal Street expects lower opening of sensex following Rajan's decision”, in The Times of India:

A stock market index of 30 well-established and financially sound companies listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange in India.


hydrolock

hydrostatic lock
hydrostatic lock#English

Abbreviation of hydrostatic lock. (a condition affecting a compression device that compresses gases, having been infiltrated by an unsustainable amount of incompressible liquid, or, being unable to further compress gases, locking the device in place)


hydrolock

en-verb

hydrolock (third-person singular simple present hydrolocks, present participle hydrolocking, simple past and past participle hydrolocked)

hydrolocks (present singular third-person)
hydrolocking (participle present)
hydrolocked (participle past)
hydrolocked (past)

Abbreviation of hydrostatic lock. (to enter a hydrolock)


Lexit

And that is why – if indeed much of the left decides on Lexit – it must run its own separate campaign and try and win ownership of the issue.

2015 July 14, Owen Jones, “The left must put Britain's EU withdrawal on the agenda”, in The Guardian:

Others on the left call for a populist campaign for a “Lexit” – a leftwing exit from the EU.

2015 October 5, Mark Leonard, “What would a UK outside the EU look like?”, in The Guardian:

There is a push from the left in the UK for a ‘Lexit’ – a move away from the neo-liberal EU which stomped on an anti-austerity peoples’ movement in Greece and failed to respond to the refugee crisis.

2016 June 22, Ewa Jasiewicz, “Why I’m in: Pushing for Lexit won’t help migrants or the working class”, in The Independent:

Exasperated by the EU’s mixture of authoritarianism and economic failure, a segment of Europe’s left is now calling for a “break with the EU,” which would mobilize left-wing support for exit referenda across the continent. Their analysis has come to be known simply as “Lexit.”

2016 September 5, Yanis Varoufakis, “Europe’s Left after Brexit”, in Jacobin:

Popular Unity contested the general election that followed in September on a programme for a left exit – Lexit – from the euro but, falling 7,600 votes short of the 3% threshold to win representation, ended up with no seats.

2019 February 20, Clive Heemskerk, “Lexit is not enough”, in Socialism Today:

(politics) A leftist exit from the European Union.


womantic

en-adj

womantic (comparative more womantic, superlative most womantic)

more womantic (comparative)
most womantic (superlative)

“You say 'womantic comedy' [people] smile because they recognise that kind of relationship - they've been in one or they're mothers have or they know a womantic couple.” Alston says.

2010 October 23, Katherine Feeney, The Sydney Morning Herald:

It’s helped by a pair of delightful womantic leads, each lovable in their own way.

2012 August 30, “Review: For a Good Time, Call…”, in Crave Online:

The pair were spotted on a womantic dinner date at, errrrm, McDonalds^([sic]) following the GQ Men of The Year Awards on Tuesday night.

2013 September 4, Ashley Percival, “Rita Ora And Cara Delevingne Confirm They Are Very Much Still Wifeys With McDonalds^([sic]) Date After GQ Awards”, in HuffPost Entertainment United Kingdom:

This girlfriend talk is produced through a combination of womantic lexicon, therapy talk, and feminine consumption.

2013, A. Winch, Girlfriends and Postfeminist Sisterhood:

The comedies in the exhibition showcased Australian films as part of major international traditions, for example Jucy, Louise Alston's 2010 'womantic' comedy, has at its heart friendship between women in the tradition of Thelma and Louise (Ridley Scott, 1990) […]

2014, “The international reception of Australian women film-makers”, in Continuum, volume 28, number 5:


panstick

en-noun

panstick (countable and uncountable, plural pansticks)

Blend of pancake + stick, originally as the trade name Pan-Stik (introduced in 1947).

A form of pancake makeup supplied in a tube, like lipstick.


Fixit

In a statement on his official website, Vayrynen suggests that a Greek exit from the Eurozone would be an opportunity for Finland to 'Fixit' and potentially leave the EU common currency.

2015 June 24, “EU Decay: Grexit Paving the Way for a Brexit, Frexit and Fixit”, in Sputnik International:

We've heard of a "Grexit" and "Brexit" to refer respectively to the threat of Greece and Britain leaving the euro zone and European Union. But now there's a "Fixit" – a Finnish exit of the single currency.

2015 November 18, Holly Ellyatt, “A 'Fixit'? Finland to debate leaving the euro zone”, in CNBC:

Terho declined to say whether the Finns party would propose a "Fixit"-vote after Britons opted last week for "Brexit", but said it should be one of the main issues of the 2019 elections. "If the people back it, then we should have a vote if we'll stay or leave."

2016 June 27, “Finnish euroskeptics start talk of possible 'Fixit' vote”, in Reuters:

The (possible) act of Finland leaving the European Union.


Regrexit

Blend of regret + Brexit, said to have been coined on 24 June 2016 by one Carl Gardner in a Twitter post (see quotations) following the United Kingdom European Union membership referendum on 23 June 2016.

Labour has one chance now. To emerge within weeks as Britain's centrist "Regrexit Unionist" party. If it did that, even I might forgive it.

2016 June 24, Carl Gardner (@carlgardner), Twitter, archived from the original on 2016-11-02:

There are leave voters who confessed to reporters that they never thought their side would actually win, that their vote had only ever been intended as a protest, presumed to be safe because surely everyone else would vote the other way. […] A Twitter user came up with a new coinage for this rapid form of buyer's remorse: Regrexit. […] When some of those leave voters see that Brexit has not brought back the good jobs of old, that housing is still in desperately short supply and that a migrant family still lives round the corner, the Regrexit sentiment will grow.

2016 June 24, Jonathan Freedland, “For the 48%, this was a day of despair: Soon we will become little Britain. The signs of Regrexit are cold comfort for those of us who voted to remain.”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original on 2016-09-13, subtitle:

From reports, the UK is moving rapidly from Brexit to Regrexit.

2016 June 26, Abhidevananda <abhide...@sarkarverse.org>, “Re: Brexit”, in uk.philosophy.humanism (Usenet), message-ID <t9ybz.34812$LR2.4319@fx26.fr7>:

In the spirit of Brexit, these attitudes even have their own media-friendly nickname: Bregret or Regrexit.

2016 June 27, Adam Taylor, “Bregret? Regrexit? Don't bet on it.”, in The Washington Post, archived from the original on 2016-10-06:

There were many reasons for the Leave vote, and Regrexit is now gaining momentum.

2016 June 29, Anna Wallis, “Brexit lessons here”, in Wanganui Chronicle:

Within a few days, petitions to re-do the vote emerged with more than four million signatures, known as 'Regrexit.'

2017, Markus M.L. Crepaz, European Democracies, Routledge, →ISBN:

There's a chance, especially with the 'Regrexit' sentiment surfacing, that the U.K. will still be part of the EU in two years.

2018, Victor O. Okocha, Leadership and Development Crises in Africa: A New Approach to an Old Challenge, Dorrance Publishing, →ISBN, page 234:

(UK politics) A feeling of regret about Brexit taking place, or about having voted for it.


gasahol

gasahol (countable and uncountable, plural gasahols)


graphicate

en-adj

graphicate (comparative more graphicate, superlative most graphicate)

more graphicate (comparative)
most graphicate (superlative)


luncheteria

(US, dated) A cafeteria where lunch is served.


graphicacy

Blend of graphic + literacy or similar; compare numeracy.

The ability to comprehend information presented in graphical form, such as maps and charts.


vegaquarian

Blend of vegetarian + aquarian or similar.

Three years previously, at her insistence, the whole family had turned pescatarian or vegaquarian; call it what you will, we ate only fish and veges.

2008, Laura Solomon, Alternative Medicine, page 2:

I urge you to become a “vegaquarian” and mend your broken heart by following the Prevent a Second Heart Attack plant/fish protein philosophy.

2011, Janet Bond Brill, Prevent a Second Heart Attack: 8 Foods, 8 Weeks to Reverse Heart Disease:

I decided to continue to incorporate some meat, especially fish, into my diet on a semi-regular basis, thereby becoming what I describe as a “vegaquarian”—although all the cool kids are saying “flexitarian” these days.

2011, Charlotte Hilton Andersen, The Great Fitness Experiment: One Year of Trying Everything, page 135:

She has various animals including a flockette of pet sheep that are thankful for her vegaquarian habits.

2014 November 20, Pure Slush, volume 11:


tralse

In the instance of a scientific model or theory being falsified it is proposed to describe the predicate as tralse, ie true before time t and false thereafter.

1991, F.M. Akeroyd, “A practical example of Grue”, in The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, volume 42, number 4:

I mean what kind of a name for a band is Tralse, anyway? True and false at the same time? I can't believe I used to think that was clever.

Is there possibly something else / In the middle of true and false? / Could there be such a thing as / Tralse?

2012, Peter Worley, Thoughtings: Puzzles, problems and paradoxes in poetry to think with:

What we should really experience, then, is a fusion of the two, true and false, which we could more accurately record, and refer to, as tralse. The Liar paradox generates tralse, not true and false (which separately are all our minds are capable of handling), and tralse is a permanent state of the two with no oscillations, no variations.

2013, Micheal D. Winterburn, Secrets of the Paradox: Solving the Liar and other logical problems:

(very rare, nonce word) Both true and false.


freemail

Blend of free + email, or the compound free + mail.

Employees might start a freemail account to exchange off-color jokes or distribute their resumes.

1999, Microtimes, numbers 199-201, page 57:

In theory, you can establish a freemail account that will endure whether you change jobs or Internet service providers. But most freemail sites limit the amount of mail you can store, so delete old and unwanted messages […]

1999, Michael Shapiro, Internet Travel Planner: How to Plan Trips and Save Money Online:

Even if you have no intention of ever using a freemail account with Yahoo or Hotmail, it's worth opening one for this reason alone.

2004, Samantha Cook, Greg Ward, The Rough Guide to Travel Online, page 94:

(Internet, chiefly attributive) An email service provided free of charge to the public.


hashtivism

Promoting real civic engagement rather than slacktivism or hashtivism.

2015, Michael T. Rogers, Donald M. Gooch, Civic Education in the Twenty-First Century: A Multidimensional Inquiry:

(informal, derogatory) A form of Internet slacktivism based around the posting of messages that contain hashtags.