cinemaddict

Even a cinemaphobe operaphile ought to score twenty or more. A true cinemaddict can extend his/her score to a possible one hundred points by naming in addition the fifty actors who played the characters capitalized in the scene descriptions.

1986, “Quarterly Quiz: I Heard It At The Movies”, in The opera quarterly, volume 4, numbers 1-2:

These works have their roots in Lowry's vast, lifelong experience as "cinemaddict," roots that were set when as a child he saw the early epics of D.W. Griffith, roots that were nourished in the 1920s by the important contemporary films of European and Russian directors and, later, by films such as Orson Welles' Citizen Kane.

1986, Eugene P. Walz, Flashback: People and Institutions in Canadian Film History, page 65:

By the time she left Iowa, she was a movie fan—or as Harper's magazine described it in 1907, a “cinemaddict."

2005, Samantha Barbas, The First Lady of Hollywood: A Biography of Louella Parsons, →ISBN, page 26:

"While 11,500,000 cinemaddicts sit in their favorite cinemansions of an average Sunday, 34,000,000 radio fans listen to Jack Benny on the air. On an average Monday 5,428,000 go to the movies; 26,000,000 stay at home to hear the Lux Radio Teatre program," Gallup noted.

2017, Kathryn H. Fuller-Seeley, Jack Benny and the Golden Age of American Radio Comedy, →ISBN, page 246:


cinemansion

We are more the suburban type, content with an occasional movie at the local cinemansion where we can nod to our friends across the loge section during the brief intermission between performances.

1934, Northern Michigan College of Education, Peninsulan, page 9:

Less than 10 per cent of the student body dance, but they do not dance at the "White Palace" because the cabaret is owned and operated by the Japanese; about 10 per cent of them go to the shows, but they do not go to Capitol Theatre (no matter Greta Garbo or Robert Taylor) because the cinemansion is Japanese-owned now.

1938, China Monthly Review - Volume 85, page 434:

The usual sureseater formula is simple: give moviegoers what they rarely get in standard cinemansions — a single feature, no popcorn, well-behaved next-seat neighbors, super-comfortable seats and, most important, high-quality pictures from Britain, Fance, Italy, and sometimes even Hollywood.

1949, Briton Hadden, Henry Robinson Luce, Time - Volume 54:


Whasian

(slang) Encompassing both white and Asian (particularly European and East or Southeast Asian) ancestry.


snowbow

An atmospheric phenomenon resembling a rainbow but associated with snow.


icebow

An atmospheric phenomenon resembling a rainbow but associated with ice crystals.


vaporium

From vape + -orium or vapor + -ium, or in sense 3, possibly a blend of vape + emporium.

The flues for conveying the warm water into the sweating room, and the fireplace, were also found in a pretty perfect state, as well as a tesselated floor laid over hollow bricks planted round the circular vaporium.

1859, Whellan T. and co, History and topography of the city of York:

According to him, although Bareges and Luchon are in this category, they are much inferior to Aix, where one has a vaporium of 40° to 45° C. (104° to 112° Fahr.), and so large a quantity of water that the different bathing operations can be varied to any extent.

1877, Francis Bertier -, The Spas of Aix-les-Bains and Marlioz, Savoy, page 10:

In the west wing is the bathing establishment, consisting of anteroom with privies, the apodyterium, the semicircular basin, reached by three steps, the vaporium with heating pipes for warm and hot baths, and the boiler-room with vaulted furnace.

Employed already in the times of remote antiquity in the vaporia and tepidoria of the ancients, it has to-day acquired novel attractions, since the firewood of bygone days and the alcohol of our forefathers have been replaced by gas and electricity; and especialliy since those famous hot air boxes, manufactured abroad and imported here, appeal to the patient by reason of their magnificent high degress of heat.

1910, Pitts Edwin Howes, Journal of Therapeutics and Dietetics - Volume 4, page 157:

A steam bath (room for taking steam baths).


womban

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


clipnosis

(informal) The pacification of a domestic cat by pinching its scruff with a clip or clothespin.


hick-hop

A genre that combines country and hip-hop, often equated with country rap.


symbiome

Blend of symbiont + biome or from sym- + bio- + -ome.

A biome of the symbiotic relationships between species


glampsite

Blend of glamorous + campsite, based on earlier glamping.


gwolla

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

Probably a blend of gwop + moola, like scrilla.

I’m chasin gwolla while they plottin, I can’t let that stop me

2017, “Mansion Flow”, in G Herbo (lyrics), Welcome to Fazoland 2:

Remember the days I was brokin my arse and I didn’t even have me a nickle
Now remember the days I was brokin my arse and I didn’t even have me a dollar
Remember the days just trap trap trap or splash splash splash and get that gwolla

2017, “40 Attack”, (40) Samurai X AT (lyrics):

Better have my guap, gwolla [12 times in a row]

2018, “Vamonos”, Haviah Mighty (lyrics):

(African-American Vernacular, MLE) Gwop, skrilla, moola, money.


venome

Blend of venom + proteome or from venom + -ome.

(biochemistry) The proteome of a snake venom


grounation

(Rastafari) A Rastafarian meeting for the discussion of religious, social, and political topics.


anarkid

It is politically more costly to club a clown on camera than a demonstrator. Or a masked black bloc anarkid.

2016, Larry Bogad, chapter I, in Tactical Performance: Serious Play and Social Movements, London and New York: Routledge, →ISBN, page 137:

(derogatory, informal, politics) An immature or uninformed anarchist.


Trumperor

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Trumperor.

(US politics, informal, derogatory) U.S. president Donald Trump, seen as a tyrant.


Hitlery

Given the perverted acts of her "husband", there were in January 1998 two alternate dramatic ways Hitlery could establish her legacy as America's Top Feminist: […]

1998 September 20, Reynmeistr, “The Legacy of HITLERY”, in alt.current-events.clinton.whitewater (Usenet):

It looks as if Hitlery Clinton went to visit some wives, of Marines that are getting ready to ship out to go kick Sadam's ass. To bad for Hitlery that most of those wives did not want Hitlery to be anywhere around them.

2003 January 26, Alvin Valkenheiser, “HITLERY CLINTON IN UPSTATE N.Y.”, in nyc.politics (Usenet):

Hitlery’s most recent rhetoric about guns are the usual boiler-plate Democrat talking points: close the online and gun show loophole, ban guns for those on the no fly list, etc.

2015 December 30, Roddy D. Riggs, “Letters to the Editor: Gun Blather is Usual Rhetoric”, in Belleville News-Democrat, volume 158, number 364, Belleville, Ill., page 2C:

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


barcalounger

Genericization of the trademark BarcaLounger, from Barcalo (“the manufacturer”) + lounger, named after Edward J. Barcalo (1870–1963).

named-after

With a little marketing, these could easily replace barcaloungers and lazy boys.

2004, Bradley G. Richardson, Daddy Smarts: A Guide for Rookie Fathers:

(Canada, US, dated) A plush stuffed recliner armchair.


threenager

All of these are simply weapons in the battle with threenagers — not for control over clothing choices but for our children’s character and soul and the adults they will become.

2016 August 17, Lindsey M. Roberts, “Navigating the choppy waters of life with a ‘threenager’”, in Washington Post:

There is something disgusting about pretending your child is older than his actual age. Your toddler isn't a teen or a fucking threenager.

2018, Jim Florentine, Everybody Is Awful: (Except You!), →ISBN:

It was my inability to deal with my firstborn behaving like a 'threenager' that led to me quitting a successful career as a radio announcer and going to university for nearly a decade to learn how to dad better.

2018, Justin Coulson, 10 Things Every Parent Needs to Know, →ISBN:

Whatever motherhood might look like for you through pregnancy, surrogacy, fostering, adopting, or mentoring, through infancy, toddlerhood, threenagers, and teenagers, it is all a process of letting go.

2018, Jamie Sumner, Unbound: Finding Freedom from Unrealistic Expectations of Motherhood, →ISBN:

A rebellious and strong-willed three-year-old.


ludomusicology

Blend of ludology (“the study of games”) + musicology (“the study of music”). Coined circa 2007.

blend

[…] the discipline of ludomusicology might emerge as a way to bring insights yielded from studying musical performance to bear on how ludic experiences are constructed and represented […].

2013, Nicholas Cook, Richard Pettengill, Taking It to the Bridge: Music as Performance, University of Michigan Press, page 304:

Having spent seven years researching video game music, I admit I increasingly find myself wondering these days whether a different kind of ludomusicology is possible […].

2016, Michael Austin, Music Video Games: Performance, Politics, and Play, Bloomsbury Publishing USA:

The swell of film musicological scholarship in the past twenty years (and the more recent surge in music–video studies and ludomusicology) has brought with it a corresponding profusion of music analysis, some informal, some extremely meticulous.

2017, Miguel Mera et al., editors, The Routledge Companion to Screen Music and Sound, Taylor & Francis, page 497:

The scientific study of video game music.


Moon buggy

Blend of Moon + dune buggy.
Coined in analogy to the dune buggy, for a vehicle roving on the sands of the Moon.

A manned wheeled vehicle used to traverse the surface of Earth's Moon. It was used in Apollo 15, 16 and 17.


Suffrajitsu

All regularly accredited members of the English militant organisation are required to take a regular course in suffrajitsu.

1914, (appeared in an article reprented in several British and American newpapgers):

(see title)

2015, Tony Wolf, Joao Viera, Suffrajitsu: Mrs. Pankhurst's Amazons:

The term "suffrajitsu" soon came into common use. (also see title)

2015 October 5, Camila Ruz, Justin Parkinson, “'Suffrajitsu': How the suffragettes fought back using martial arts”, in BBC News Magazine:

One or two braver souls amonst them standing firm, flexed their arms slightly in readiness for, I suspected, an actual attempt at Terry's 'suffrajitsu castration movement.'

2018, Pat McDonald, A Bad Penny, →ISBN, page 167:

(historical) The martial art of jujitsu as used as a means of self-defence by suffragettes.


broaster

Blend of broiler + roaster, originally a trademark, see broast.

A deep-frying pressure cooker used for broasting food.


broast

Blend of broil + roast, originally a trademark (broaster and broasted) established in the 1950s by the American inventor of the process, L. A. M. Phelan.


Shrubya

If I believed Shrubya could learn from experience, and take correction, I wouldn't be as worried about the meanspirited manipulative rat being the Republicratic nominee.

2000 September 13, STella, “Re: Bush vs.Subliminable Messages”, in rec.arts.tv (Usenet):

Clinton worked hard and did some good things. To his detractors: he’s gone folks, get over it. Your “Shrubya” was appointed by the U.S. Supremes. So the rich get richer, the economy heads south, public schools may begin Bible study, Roe v. Wade’s days are numbered, and the environment is secondary to corporate profits.

2001 February 21, John R. Love, “Letters to the editor: The blame game”, in Idaho Statesman, volume 137, number 210, Boise, ID, page 14:

President Shrubya expressed shock and dismay today over the fact that his energy policies have brought exploding gas prices and huge new profits to his friends in the oil industry.

2001 May 18, Doug Robarchek, “Shrubya taking big oil profits mighty hard, sources claim”, in The Charlotte Observer, volume 132, number 138, Charlotte, NC, page 13B:

Years ago, in response to some political bullshit heaved by Shrubya and his ignoble Cabal of Curs, I remember seeing long lines of people outside Mexican consular offices waiting to get a Matricula Consular card.

2017 March 24–30, Gustavo Arellano, quoting Gringo Wants to Play Bingo, “¡Ask a Mexican!”, in OC Weekly, volume 22, number 30, page 8:

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


Chimerica

Blend of China + America, coined by British historian Niall Ferguson and German economist Moritz Schularick, with reference to chimera.

As in all good marriages, the differences between the two halves of Chimerica are complementary. He concluded by saying "Chimerica, despite its name, is no chimera." In conclusion, shouldn't we view China's ascendancy as an opportunity […]

2007, Sheng-Wei Wang, China's Ascendancy: An Opportunity Or a Threat? : what Every American Should Know about China, →ISBN:

The losers were countries like Indonesia and Brazil, whose real trade-weighted exchange rates appreciated between January 2008 and November 2010 by, respectively, 18 per cent and 17 per cent. No doubt, Chimerica has passed its prime […]

2011, Niall Ferguson, Civilization: The West and the Rest, Penguin UK, →ISBN:

G-2 suggests that China and the United States are deeply intertwined in their strategic interests, and should work out solutions to global problems together. The term Chimerica was invented by historian Niall Ferguson and economist Moritz […]

2014, Janet Hoskins, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Transpacific Studies: Framing an Emerging Field, Asian and Pacific American Tra:

(neologism, economics) The symbiotic relationship between China and the United States.


Obummer

(derogatory, US politics) Nickname for Barack Obama, mostly used by conservative detractors.


fluidarity

en-noun

fluidarity (countable and uncountable, plural fluidarities)

Most importantly, he applies some concepts common in accounts of "postmodern" protest politics, such as affinity group, the rejection of representation, network culture, fluidarity, and the narrative structure of action.

2005, Åsa Wettergren, Moving and Jamming: Implications for Social Movement Theory, →ISBN:

It is also interesting that the people who embrace fluidarity are struggling against capitalist globalization.

2007, Rod Bantjes, Social Movements in a Global Context: Canadian Perspectives, →ISBN:

Much as McKim Marriott urged the replacement of the “solidarities” of European sociology (at least in the context of the understanding of India) with the “fluidarities” of Indian cultural realities, so the time now seems ripe to unsettle settled ideas of the relation of culture and materiality through the exploration of the pathways of fluid, wavy meaning that I have attempted to delineat in this paper.

2009, V. Agnew, J. Lamb, Settler and Creole Reenactment, →ISBN, page 78:

Yet when people think of friendships and their links with social movements, theories regarding social networks, weak ties, collective identity, and fluidarity tend to come to mind.

2015, Benjamin Shepard, Rebel Friendships: "Outsider" Networks and Social Movements, page 2:

Joint action toward a common goal that rejects collective identity.


slowbalization

(economics) The slowing of globalization, characterized by the slowing of global trade.


Veganuary

Around two-thirds of those who take part in Veganuary enjoy it so much that they choose to stay vegan at the end of the month, and almost everyone else chooses to become vegetarian or reduce their consumption of animal products.

2019, James Rice, Try Veganuary with Deliciously Ella, Hachette, →ISBN:

Veganuary has been blamed for poor performance in pubs and restaurants last month, with sales slumping after a strong Christmas.

2019 February 18, Oliver Gill, “‘Veganuary’ blamed for January pub hangover”, in The Telegraph, →ISSN:

Restaurants dropping meat dishes as costs rise and Veganuary grows more popular [title]

2023 January 21, James Trapper, “Restaurants dropping meat dishes as costs rise and Veganuary grows more popular”, in The Observer, Guardian Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, retrieved 2023-01-31:

A January in which people are encouraged to eat vegan food after the Christmas excesses.


brosmaid

A male bridesmaid. A male attendant to a female bride at a wedding.


rifamide

rifamide (countable and uncountable, plural rifamides)


phinary

Blend of phi + binary, in reference to the Greek letter phi (φ).

(mathematics, colloquial) A numeral system that uses the golden ratio as its base.


epoxygenated

(organic chemistry, of a double bond) Converted into an epoxide by oxidation


shitacular

en-adj

shitacular (comparative more shitacular, superlative most shitacular)

more shitacular (comparative)
most shitacular (superlative)

"...This right here is a nightmare.” I motioned around the room. “And you've all just made it that much more shitacular. ..."

2013, Aileen Erin, Becoming Alpha, →ISBN:

"I'm sorry. I'm not normally this rude”—she glared when Kyla snickered—“well, not immediately anyway, but it's been a shitacular day.”

Boy's bathroom, shitacular as you'd expect.

2017, Justin Jordan, Luther Strode, →ISBN, page 532:

Tomorrow, we drop the tape off with Dave, and we have only allotted him ninety minutes to edit it. My guess is it will be ruthlessly shitacular genius.

2018, Jessica Hopper, Night Moves, →ISBN, page 64:

(informal, vulgar) Extremely bad or disagreeable.


Ollywood

Blend of Odisha + Hollywood; compare Bollywood § Etymology.

(informal) The Odia-language film industry located in Odisha, India.


everblack

A visit to the Parks, to the Embankment gardens, or the smokiest of the suburbs, reveals the fact that among evergreens—evergreens by courtesy, everblacks in reality—those which have the thickest, glossiest leaves are, other things being equal, least affected.

1881, Gardeners Chronicle & New Horticulturist, page 820:

Vegetation of all kinds is scanty in the central parts of London, and evergreens merely degenerate into everblacks and die.

1894, Journal of the Royal Sanitary Institute - Volume 14, page 20:

For the Trolls and the Orcs, this was an irreversible descent, into a moral climate of all winter and a montonous landscape of everblacks.

A grey lid is bolted down to the mountaintops, arching from the forest of everblack trees on one slope to the everblack trees on the other.

2003, Jessica Mordsley, Ghosts of the Old Year: New Welsh Short Fiction, page 32:

And then its poor old vegetation didn't help much either. It was mostly of the everblack coniferous variety, lacking colour even in its fruits and flowers.

(informal) An evergreen tree that has very dark, colorless leaves or needles.


darty

As Americans toast Saint Patrick on March 17 in parades and darties (day parties), Ireland will celebrate the saint day in a much more holy fashion.

2019 March 17, Alex Scimecca, “Raise a Pint of Guinness on St. Patrick's Day With These Historical Photos”, in Fortune, New York, N.Y.: Fortune Media Group Holdings, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-12-06:

I love drinking during the day. We've written before about the virtues of using jam to make any booze morning-appropriate, as well as how to make the perfect backyard drink. You never know when a chill outdoor hang might transition into a full-on "darty" (day + party).

2022 June 22, Meredith Dietz, “How to Day Drink Without Overdoing It”, in Lifehacker Australia, archived from the original on 2022-12-13:

Pavel Beletski, videographer for the darties, feels it's the social element that has brought about the popularity of darties.

2023 March 2, Lauren Medeiros, “The Belfort parking lot holds the wildest darty around”, in The Western Gazette, archived from the original on 2023-03-27:

As thousands of students flock to darties, parties, and parades this St. Patrick's Day, colleges in Boston are warning their students to be wary of 'BORGs.'

2023 March 16, Eli Curwin, “Boston colleges warn students against 'BORGs' as St. Patrick's Day approaches”, in Boston.com, archived from the original on 2023-04-04:

(university slang, Canada, US) A party held in the daytime.


LaRouchebag

Your meaning was always clear. Equally clear is how adherance to LaRouche "philosophy" effectively negates one's ability to have a meaningful impact on most discussions, if for no other reason than others' inability to take a LaRouchebag seriously.

2003 August 21, Jamie, “#HOT! US deploys nuclear missiles in Israeli subs”, in talk.politics.misc (Usenet):

Larouchebag is a racist douche bag who was one of the originators of Urban mythology.

2005 November 14, George, “Many in Jordan See Old Enemy in Attack: Israel”, in soc.culture.usa (Usenet):

..., 29, is a follower of cultish, crypto-anti-Semitic pseudo-leftist Lyndon Larouche, also known as a LaRouchebag.

2010 August 9, Twitchell, “Crazy Town Hall Lady Wants To Win Barney Frank's Seat, Colonize Mars”, in alt.gossip.celebrities (Usenet):

(US politics, slang, derogatory) A political follower of Lyndon LaRouche.


Franckenstein

Blend of Franck + Frankenstein, named after their inventor Jack Franck.

(nuclear physics, colloquial, dated) One of the large, automated measurement machines used in the original bevatron.


copaganda

/ˌkɒpəˈɡændə/

/ˌkɑpəˈɡændə/

The movie had a clear example of copaganda when FBI agents were portrayed as good guys when they were clearly in the wrong.

Sick of all these Copaganda shows on TV. Are these the same cops that hide in vans every weekend and take 45 mins to respond to 999 calls?

2009 August 21, William McClymont, Twitter:

That David Simon could tell people with bricks in their hand to “go home,” and have no direct words of condemnation for the violence displayed by the police made me remember my friend Dashon — from Baltimore — who told me he would never watch The Wire because he believed it to be “copaganda,” since it was created not only by Simon but by longtime Baltimore police officer Ed Burns.

2015 May 4, Dave Zirin, “‘The Game Done Changed’: Reconsidering ‘The Wire’ Amidst the Baltimore Uprising”, in The Nation, archived from the original on 2019-02-15:

To counter this, police reform and police abolitionist activists on Twitter have invented a rather useful term: "Copaganda." Copaganda is any news story that uncritically advances a police department's image or helps undermine reform efforts. Here are eight of the most common forms of copaganda.

2016 February 23, Adam Johnson, “The 8 Most Popular Types of ‘Copaganda’: How the Police Play the Media”, in AlterNet, archived from the original on 2019-02-15:

However, while an article about Robert Downey Jr. visiting a child dying of leukemia doesn’t have an impact on the public perception of criminal justice, copaganda does.

2018 July 25, Brendan Gallagher, “Just say no to viral ‘copaganda’ videos”, in The Daily Dot, archived from the original on 2019-02-15:

(derogatory) Media that contains propagandistic pro-police messages.


throller

He threw a throller over the wall and rolled all the way to circle's edge.

(disc golf) A throw that begins flying through the air, but because of the angle it is thrown at, begins to turn 45° in order for it to descend and begin to roll, like a roller (a type of throw).


UEFAlona

UEFAlona win again, having been awarded two penalties in the last 20 minutes. Yeah, I don't smell corruption at all...

(humorous, derogatory, soccer) The football club F.C. Barcelona (viewed as being unrightfully favored by UEFA in terms of refereeing or other aspects).


dartist

Dartists stood grouped before the two boards in the public bar, the counter full of elbows, the tables crowded.

So while a "bull" (as the dartists term a bull's-eye) is nice, it is as difficult to hit the narrow red or green strips circling the board and that have different point values.

2003, Gerald Eskenazi, A Sportswriter's Life: From the Desk of a New York Times Reporter:

He'd assumed that the Hollow Head's dartists would all come from the area around the pub, or at least from somewhere in the borough of Cowden.


foodlegger

Blend of food + bootlegger. Attested since circa 1941.

Foodleggers. One sinister development that aggravated the food situation was the rise in wartime Britain of a new kind of criminal: the food racketeer. Like gangsters who terrorized the U.S. under Prohibition, foodleggers have highjacked trucks ...

All branches of the retail industry agreed that the plan, far from being selfish on our part, would [provide] food in normal and equitably established channels, making food available for all types of stores without creating foodleggers and black markets.

1943, A Study and Investigation of the National Defense Program in Its Relation to Small Business: […] :

Recent price controls on butter are rapidly helping to make this item as popular as meat with "foodleggers," and the ceilings on fresh vegetables are an open invitation to black market operators to enter this field.

1950, David Hinshaw, Herbert Hoover: American Quaker:

An illicit foodseller, especially in a jurisdiction where food is subject to rationing.


Chimpy McHitlerburton

Blend of Chimpy McHalliburton (“George W. Bush”) + Hitler, comparing Bush to German dictator Adolf Hitler.

blend

I agree with you. I'm not sure why Jeff is trying to make it into one, other than his hate of Chimpy McHitlerburton.

2005 June 27, Matthew Hennig, “Bush League Private Property”, in rec.sport.football.college (Usenet):

No, no, no, can't you see? It was Chimpy McHitlerburton's fault! And global warming too!

2007 August 2, Fester, “Re: A bridge collapses in Minneapolis.”, in us.military.army (Usenet):

When George W. Bush suggested Iran’s acquisition of nuclear arms technology might be a catalyst for World War III, progressive-minded people took it as a sign that Chimpy W. McHitlerburton is off his neocon rocker.

2007 November 2, Jonathan Gurwitz, “Iran, the bomb and World War III”, in Times-News, volume 102, number 306, Twin Falls, ID, page A6:

The above tells me that you would rather have faith in the eeevilitude of Chimpy McHitlerBurton than deal with reality.

2008 December 29, Fred Stone, “Re: OT: Dan Rather $70M Suit To Hit Bush 'Legacy' Hard”, in alt.atheism (Usenet):


taliswoman

We stare into the bottomless laminated eyes of the Virgen de Guadalupe, Hector's taliswoman against Katrina and his own dead family, and now ours against the silencing of Gloria.

2012, Matthew Gavin Frank, Pot Farm, →ISBN, page 206:

When Beverly Allen left the Geary Street apartment for her family home in Oakland later that night, she gave Brautigan the painted Mexican doll (her “taliswoman”) as a keepsake.

2012, William Hjortsberg, Jubilee Hitchhiker: The Life and Times of Richard Brautigan, →ISBN:

She then scattered these taliswomen throughout The Birth of Venus, putting some in boxes, using others to line walls.

2017, Amy Sara Carroll, REMEX: Toward an Art History of the NAFTA Era, →ISBN, page 188:

'She's been with me through a lot,' he smiled. 'She's my taliswoman. Anyway. Cheers.'

2018, Rosie Walsh, The Man Who Didn't Call:

A talisman in the form of a female figure.


Francitan

Do not confuse Francitan with Franco-Provençal, an obsolescent name for Arpitan (see entry in chapter 2) or with Francique (Moselle Franconian) a variety of German spoken in Lorraine.

1992, Erik Gunnemark, Countries, Peoples and Their Languages: The Geolinguistic Handbook, Volume 1, Geolingua, page 141:

Rene Merle, the PCF's leading theorist on Occitan, pointed to Francitan as the real speech of the Midi.

1993, University of Southampton. Department of French, France: nations and regions, Department of French, University of Southampton, page 50

[…] he would occasionally intersperse his translation with Francitan terms […]

2005, Gaetano Cipolla, Siciliana: studies on the Sicilian ethos, Legas, page 247:


gaycist

en-adj

gaycist (comparative more gaycist, superlative most gaycist)

more gaycist (comparative)
most gaycist (superlative)


gospelypso

A musical genre combining calypso with gospel or a Christian message.


Runet

From Russian Руне́т (Runɛ́t) or blend of Russian + Internet.

The Russian-language community on the Internet and websites

Ռունետ

the Russian-language community on the Internet and websites


British California

Blend of British Columbia + California.
From the cultural similarities of the Lower Mainland in British Columbia and the Left Coast in California.

British Columbia
British Columbia#English


paytriot

Nothing illegal about any of this to my knowledge. Indeed, this is the very above-board racket of running an independent political committee. Everyone does it. Left, right, center and none of the above. And anyway, why shouldn't a true pay-triot get paid?

2013 May 15, Stephen Lemons, “Joe Arpaio's Fave Pay-triot John Philip Sousa IV Fires Back, Makes Bank Off Peddling Joe”, in Phoenix New Times, archived from the original on 2019-03-11:

He has been called out as a supposed “secret government agent,” labeled a parasitic “pay-triot,” and even laughed at for his “botched” suicide attempt (where one commentator suggested that if a Green Beret wanted to kill himself, he would certainly know how to do it).

2018, Jeanne M. Haskin, ‘When All Roads Lead to the Standoff: How Corporate Governance Fuels White Supremacy, Algora Publishing, page 110:

Many of them turned to Neon Revolt, one of the most popular Q bloggers and a "paytriot" (i.e. someone who's trying to make a living off of Q Anon). Neon Revolt is widely read and respected among qultists. He directed Redditors to go to Voat's new Q sub, v/TheAwakening, the one started by former Reddit GA admins. This of course angered Voaters, but had nothing on what was going to happen next.

2018 September 15, Plexipus (username), “‘The famous Q blogger and "paytriot," Neon Revolt, accuses v/GreatAwakening of being compromised in a poorly researched post. Huge drama BOOM on Voat. But could there be more to his story than he realizes?”, in Reddit, archived from the original on 2018-09-15:

(derogatory, rare) A right-wing activist (especially a supporter of the QAnon movement) who uses the movement to make money for themselves rather than to advance its goals.


pilk

pilk carnitas and pilk queso fresco

2022 June 7, Josh Scherer, “Cooking With The Internet's Worst Food Crimes” (1:02 from the start), in Mythical Kitchen:

2022 December 1, Danielle Wiener-Bronner, “Pilk and cookies: Pepsi wants you to drink soda mixed with milk this holiday season”, in ABC7Chicago:

Take “pilk” for instance – the stomach-churning mix of Pepsi and milk, which became a thing across the US when actress Lindsay Lohan appeared in a commercial for the American soda giant’s latest festive campaign.

2023 June 17, Nick Watkins, “Fish eye ice cream and pilk: Unusual food trends from around the world”, in The National News:


prestitial

(Internet, advertising) Of a webpage, usually carrying advertising: displayed when the user arrives on a site and before they are shown the desired content.


sponcon

Blend of sponsored + content, coined in 2015.

Shilling #sponcon for all it’s worth? It’s an interesting thing to consider, for sure.

2018 December 5, “Here's a comprehensive list of all the #sponcon Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra had for their wedding”, in The Daily Edge:

“Toy companies look to YouTube and its army of influencers to spread the word about their products, sometimes paying them top dollar for sponcon and, at the minimum, sending them toys for free.”

2019 March 22, Chavie Lieber, “Toy unboxing videos have taken over YouTube. Some experts say they exploit kids.”, in Vox:

And despite a million followers on Instagram, her page is surprisingly bereft of stereotypical captions or sponcon (sponsored content).

2020 June 16, Sarah Manavis, “The queen of quarantine: How Grace Beverley built an at-home fitness empire”, in New Statesman:

Seven years in, the show is an international, BAFTA-winning phenomenon that has produced marriages, children, and enough Instagram sponcon to provide intergenerational wealth.

2022 June 2, Anna Peele, “Inside ‘Love Island,’ From the Tragic Suicide Deaths to New Mental Health Protocols”, in Vanity Fair:

(informal, marketing, neologism) Advertisements, particularly in social media, misleadingly styled or presented similarly to non-advertising content such as editorials or magazine articles.


verdohemochrome

(organic chemistry) A form of hemochrome, that contains verdoheme instead of heme, that is an intermediate in the degradation of hemoglobin to yield the bile pigments


Shrillary

Blend of shrill + Hillary, likely to invoke the connotation of being loud, overbearing, and irrational that the word shrill may have when applied to women.

Given recent reporting on Shrillary’s alleged anti-Semitic comments a couple of decades ago, it’s quite notable that a Jew can be on the national ticket.

2000 August 9, James Young, “The ‘conscience’ of the Senate”, in Potomac News, volume 41, number 320, Woodbridge, Va., page A6:

When Shrillary wins in November, she will appoint the most left wing loony to the Supreme Court in modern history. Shrillary will then have some flunky sue some city government over a gun ordinance and that case will go to the Supreme Court.

2016 April 12, Rick Lamming, “Letters to the Editor: No Rights from Constitution”, in Belleville News-Democrat, volume 159, number 103, Belleville, Ill., page 2C:

“I’m not a Republican,” the driver says. “But I’m not a Democrat, either, that’s for sure. You wouldn’t never catch me voting for Shrillary.” He shudders, or mock-shudders. “If I was Bill, I’d cheat on her, too.”

2018, Curtis Sittenfeld, “Gender Studies”, in You Think It, I'll Say It: Stories, New York, NY: Random House, →ISBN, page 4:

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


Goracle

Will he use his green moment on the red carpet in black tie to snag blue states and win the White House? ¶ Only the Goracle knows the answer.

2007 March 1, Maureen Dowd, “Goracle needs to ponder near future, especially 2008”, in The Times-Tribune, volume 136, Scranton, PA: Times-Shamrock Communications, →ISSN, page A13:

The inconvenient truth that Al Gore laid out in his film and book already falls short of reality. When first dropped, his bombshell was a muffled rumble. […] But as the message sank in and momentum built, the Goracle got our attention.

2007 October, Mort Rosenblum, Escaping Plato's Cave: How America's Blindness to the Rest of the World Threatens Our Survival, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 83:

True believers in catastrophic man-made climate change have been waiting for Al Gore to lead them through the Valley of Climategate. This week, The Goracle spoke.

2009 December 12, Peter Foster, “The Goracle speaks on Climategate”, in National Post, volume 12, number 40, Don Mills, Ont.: National Post Inc., Financial Post, page FP21:

The film thus takes environmental issues out of the province of the expert and the elite and gives us an environmentalist hero who is more relatable than the so-called Goracle of An Inconvenient Truth, or, to take a fictional example, the paleoclimatologist of The Day after Tomorrow.

2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 69:

(informal, usually sarcastic) Al Gore (born 1948), the 45th vice president of the United States (1993–2001), especially when viewed as a prophet of environmental catastrophe.


speleobopper

People who treat caves with such little respect have come to be known as “speleoboppers.” They ruin caves by breaking off the formations for souvenirs and can prompt cave owners to prohibit all use of them by the public. Serious cavers would advise speleoboppers to visit commercial caves where guided tours are given.

1976 April 16, Steve Candelora, “Exploration of the Dark Unknown”, in The Review, University of Delaware, volume 99, number 48, page 12:

Speleoboppers apparently have little or no knowledge of caving techniques or safety, show little or no respect for the cave, and often act foolishly […]

1977, Ronald Edward Zuber, A Compendium of Components Relevant to Cave Resource Management, page 24:

Secondly, some of the caves were relatively close to large populations of “speleoboppers.”

1992, Louise D. Hose, “Secrecy: An Alternative and Successful Model for Cave Exploration”, in The NSS Bulletin, volume 54, number 1, page 20:

(informal, derogatory) A careless and inadequately prepared, often teenaged, caver.


trancestor

page 59: Lewis Reay coins the term 'trancestors' in a 2009 essay identifying (like Kolakowski) eunuchs as the biblical forerunners of today's transgender people, [...]. Of course, part of this may be pragmatic: if much of the existing work finding 'trancestors' in biblical texts has happened in a volume called The Queer Bible Commentary, then those seeking such figures will probably engage with it whether or not they consider transsexualism and transgender people to be socially queer phenomena.
page 120: This reclaiming of queer ancestors/trancestors (see below) has proven important for Wilson and others, with its assertion that homosexual people have existed at all points and times in history.

2011, Susannah Cornwall, Controversies in Queer Theology, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd, →ISBN:

Fortunately, because I did get a kick out of him, he liked me and would come over and share stories about working with Jackie Curtis, who is a personal hero of mine, and show me pictures of my trancestors in their youthful glory, when their courage, outrageousness, and heavy drug usage paved the way [...]

2014, Amy Scholder, Icon, The Feminist Press at CUNY, →ISBN:

Invoke your Trancestors of blood. Speak aloud, something like:
"Oh sweet, well and loving ones of my blood,
You who transcended the bounds of gender during your life,"

2018, Lee Harrington, Tai Fenix Kulystin, Queer Magic: Power Beyond Boundaries, Mystic Productions Press, →ISBN:

(rare) A forebear or forerunner to a trans person, or to modern transgender people in general.


playgan

(informal, derogatory) A person whose interest in paganism is shallow and lacking seriousness.


extrasolar system

en-noun

extrasolar system (plural extrasolar systems)

planetary system
planetary system#English

An extrasolar planetary system (“solar system”), a system of exoplanets beyond our Solar System.


lemoga

A luxury hotel in the Lake District has added “lemoga” to its wellness programme, for yogis keen to do the downward dog with a Madagascan primate.

2019 April 2, Josh Halliday, “'Lemoga': Lake District hotel offers yoga with lemurs as partners”, in The Guardian:

Armathwaite Hall hotel in Keswick, Cumbria, UK holds "Lemoga" classes.

2019 April 4, Rachel Hosie, “You can now do yoga ... with lemurs. Welcome to 'lemoga'”, in Stuff:

(see title)

2019 April 25, Kate Wills, “Lemur yoga: Doga is over, now it's all about lemoga,”, in The Times:

According to The Metro, the Armathwaite Hall Hotel and Spa, near the Lake District Wildlife Park in Keswick, England, is now offering “lemoga,” also known as doing yoga outdoors with lemurs.

2020 March 3, Andrea Romano, “You Can Do Outdoor Yoga With Lemurs at This Hotel in England”, in Parents:

The lemurs, from Lake District Wild Life Park, are able to wander around the mats and climb over yogis during the Lemoga lessons.

2020 October 22, Carly Stern, “Udderly relaxing! 'Cow cuddling' wellness trend sees people visiting farms to snuggle cattle in an effort to reduce stress”, in The Daily Mail:


scanography

Blend of scan + radiography or scanner + photography.

In some modern panoramic units, programs for scanography are available. A scanogram is an image of a restricted area obtained using a narrow collimated radiation beam and a moving image receptor, much the same as applied for the panoramic technique.

2013, Goran Koch, Sven Poulsen, editors, Pediatric Dentistry: A Clinical Approach, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 87:

(radiography) The production of radiographs by scanning with X-rays through a moving, thin slit.

In 2009, she had her first exhibition at Tashkeel in Dubai where she debuted work using scanography, a process of creating photographic prints from layered images captured with a flatbed scanner.

2023, Sabrina DeTurk, Women and Contemporary Art in the Gulf, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN:

(art) The process of capturing digitized images of objects using a flatbed scanner for the purpose of creating photographic prints.


Bushinator

Therefore, I’ve developed my own Presidential Candidate Rating System. The PCRS is based on the four candidates – Bigoted Buchanan, the Bushinator, Garish Gore and Nincompoop Nader – ranking them on an uncurved 100 point scale, based on the Florida Public School Grading Scale.

2000 September 17, Ronald Hsu, “Bush is best – or at least, lesser of 4 evils”, in Florida Today, volume 39, number 181, Melbourne, FL: Cape Publications Inc., →ISSN, The Verge, page 12D:

And this is why we should all be preparing to move to some oil free European, Asian or African nation. Let’s face it living in Fort McMurray can’t be safe with the Bushinator back in office for another four years.

2004 November 6, Jennifer Mills, “Election results depression”, in Fort McMurray Today, volume 8, number 44, Fort McMurray, Alta., page 6:

Maybe Labour will promise to have Howard tried for war crimes, but I think the US would invade us if that happened. It would nt^([sic]) do for the Bushinator's mates to get shipped off to the^([sic]) Hague.

2006 April 23, Roger, “Re: About all this ANZAC day stuff”, in aus.politics (Usenet):

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


philosopause

Blend of philosophy + menopause from Ancient Greek παῦσις (paûsis, “discontinuance”)

der

Too many of the characters here have entered the phase of their career that has been called "the philosopause." They have retired from the university or grown bored with lab work, and so have taken up professional cogitation.

JUNE 30, 1996, Natalie Angier, The Job Is Finished, New York Times:

This term, which is perhaps loosely derived from "menopause," was originally used specifically for neuroscientists, some of whom have tended, as they've grown older, to abandon science-based attempts to map the workings of the brain and have turned instead to more general speculations about the nature of consciousness... The term seems, however, to be taking on a new, broader life, ... in which it is applied to scientists of all stripes.

1999, Anne H. Soukhanov, Word Watch August 1999 Issue American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition.:

My own textbooks and review articles, and (after my philosopause, a change of life that afflicts laboratory biologists of a particular age, and makes them write pretentious books that address the Big Questions) my books ... have presented this alternative view, based in observations and generalisations but without the benefit of a rigorous theoretical model.

2003, Marcello Barbieri, The Organic Codes: An introduction to semantic biology, Cambridge University Press 2003, →ISBN:

The current norm of science is that research consists in the publication of peer-reviewed papers in specialist journals. As one nears retirement, it may be acceptable to switch to writing reflective what-does-it-all-mean review papers, and even a book or two: This is known as going through philosopause. Gould went through philosopause early, and Allmon attempts to explain why, connecting the form of Gould’s work as an essayist and book author with his humanism, his liberalism and his interest in exploring murky, large-scale questions.

2010, Kim Sterelny, Explicating Gould, American Scientist Volume 98, Number 2 Page 162 DOI:10.1511/2010.83.162:

..."It must be fun to philoso-pause at your age."
"What do you mean?"
"You know, philoso-pause, that's the jargon, kinda of talk philosophically after all the research work you've done."...
He looked up at the gray sky..."Screw it, philoso-pause was where creative ideas came springing like Venus from the half-shell."

2015, Fritz Wolf, The hidden German, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN:

The informally observed tendency of mature or elderly scientists, who apparently have outlived their most productive years of research and similar practical work, to discontinue or decrease their participation in such activity, in favour of pursuing, and often publishing, philosophical theories or speculations. Commonly the implication is that such works are beyond the authors' recognised field of competence, and, as a result, typically of disappointing value or standard.


alphasort

We solved the problem, for us, by starting every entry with an initial letter. So far, since upper or lower case can be of vital significance (e.g. MW, mW), we have had to accept the shortcoming inherent in the system, and have two alphasorts.

1985, Verónica Lawson, Tools for the trade: translating and the computer 5:

At the fastest reported sort rate of lGB per minute on the alphasort machine [NBC+ 94], re-computation of the cube for a data collection rate of 10GB a day would require roughly one day to sort 4 month data collection.

1997, Nick Roussopoulos. Yannis Kotidis, Mema Roussopoulos, “Cubetree: organization of and bulk incremental updates on the data cube”, in SIGMOD '97 Proceedings of the 1997 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data:

For example, in Spanish word lists the letter pairs ch and ll are normally sorted after c and l respectively. COCOA enables such a sorting order to be specified, so llano comes after luz rather than before it as would happen naturally with an English alphasort.

1998, Michael P. Oakes, Statistics for corpus linguistics, page 156:

The process of sorting in alphabetical order, especially when performed in an automated fashion.


Colorado clipper

en-noun

Colorado clipper (plural Colorado clippers)

Blend of Colorado low + Alberta clipper.
From being a class of storms originating in Colorado that move like Alberta clippers.

(Canada, meteorology) Synonym of Colorado low


peganism

The diet of pegans, eating organic, unprocessed foods, containing 75% fruits and vegetables; and 25% protein foods (seeds, nuts, other plant proteins); with 35% of calories coming from plant fats


synanagram

Blend of synonym + anagram, or from synonymous anagram.

(linguistics) An anagram that is also a synonym (or near-synonym); a synonymous anagram.


japow

(skiing slang) The low-humidity powder snow found in Japan's Snow Country


jayrun

en-verb

jayrun (third-person singular simple present jayruns, present participle jayrunning, simple past jayran, past participle jayrun)

jayruns (present singular third-person)
jayrunning (participle present)
jayran (past)
jayrun (participle past)

Blend of jaywalk + run. Attested since the 20th century.

Our appreciation of the manner in which the accident occurred was that plaintiff alighted from the bus on the uptown sidewalk of Canal Street, approximately sixty to one hundred feet removed from the corner of Baronne Street, walked around the front thereof and, probably because of the inclement weather, imprudently proceeded to rapidly “jaywalk” or “jayrun” through congested traffic intending to safely reach the neutral ground; […]

1955, Southern Reporter (second), West Publishing Company, page 769:

(US, Canada, transitive) To rapidly jaywalk (“violate pedestrian traffic regulations by crossing a street away from a designated crossing; to walk in the part of the street intended for vehicles”).


dogtective

I don't bark. I can bark, but I don't. Not that much.
I'm a dogtective.
Dog + detective = dogtective.
I have a real nose for mysteries; solve most of them from this spot on the family-room rug.

1995, Cactus Coyote and Other Stories of Animal Escapades, Highlights for Children, →ISBN, page 35:

Dex Dogtective: [talking to himself] Some dogtective you turned out to be.

(rare, humorous) A detective who is a dog.


Killary

Blend of kill + Hillary, inspired by conspiracy theories that allege Hillary Clinton was responsible for murders, especially in relation to Benghazi.

Just what do LIBs see in Killary?

2007 February 17, MANFRED the heat seeking OBOE, “Re:Is War A Drug For Delusional Bush?”, in alt.politics.republicans (Usenet), archived from the original on 2024-10-17:

President Obama is a foreign-born Muslim who wants to “steal everybody’s guns”; “Killary” Clinton is a murderer.

2016 November 4, anonymous author, “GOP: Can the party survive trump?”, in The Week, →ISSN, page 16:

Bringing up an old conspiracy theory, Joe accused “Killary” and her husband of eliminating threats to their political dynasty[.]

2020 December 6 [2020 July 16], Kristen Erichsen, Douglas Schrock, Benjamin Dowd-Arrow, Pierce Dignam, “Bitchifying Hillary: Trump Supporters’ Vilification of Clinton during the 2016 Presidential Election”, in Social Currents, volume 7, number 6, Southern Sociological Society, →DOI, →ISSN, page 536:

(derogatory, US politics) Nickname for Hillary Clinton, chiefly used by American conservatives.


deagle

deagle (third-person singular simple present deagles, present participle deagling, simple past and past participle deagled)

deagles (present singular third-person)
deagling (participle present)
deagled (participle past)
deagled (past)

Someone from the FortniteBR subreddit recently posted a short clip of his gameplay where his character deagled another player in the head.

2018 April 16, Erwin Cruz, “'Fortnite:' Epic looking on hit reg changes; Meteor showers spotted”, in Blasting News:

Don’t say stupid things because you got deagled in a scrim.

2019 February 15, Alan Bernal, quoting Nick ‘NICKMERCS’ Kolcheff, “NICKMERCS hits out at Fortnite PC players for bashing console players”, in Dexerto:

(transitive, slang, video games) To shoot with a Desert Eagle.


pipehawk

Synonym of pipe tomahawk (a smoking pipe and tomahawk axe)


killfie

(informal) A selfie taken in an extremely dangerous situation, possibly resulting in the death of the selfie taker.


precrastinate

precrastinate (third-person singular simple present precrastinates, present participle precrastinating, simple past and past participle precrastinated)

precrastinates (present singular third-person)
precrastinating (participle present)
precrastinated (participle past)
precrastinated (past)

Back-formation from precrastination, as a blend of pre- + procrastinate.

It can also “precrastinate,” that is, engage in a series of tasks too early, in a way that results in serious and unnecessary burdens and costs.

2015, Cass R. Sunstein, Choosing Not to Choose: Understanding the Value of Choice, →ISBN, page 12:

You know me. I never procrastinate. I do the opposite. I precrastinate.

2015, Joseph Muratore, Rise of a Terrorist, →ISBN:

Because of the general application of precrastination, it was picked up by the media (eg, Richtel, 2014) and even led to the suggestion that people who precrastinate sacrifice creativity because they don't leave enough time for incubation (Grant, 2016).

2019 February, Lisa R. Fournier, Emily Coder, Clark Kogan, Nisha Raghunath, Ezana Taddese, David A. Rosenbaum, “Which task will we choose first? Precrastination and cognitive load in task ordering”, in Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, volume 81, number 2:

(intransitive) To engage in precrastination.


COMINT

Blend of communications + intelligence. Compare HUMINT etc.

communications intelligence
communications intelligence#English

(espionage) Abbreviation of communications intelligence.


gloeorhodopsin

(biochemistry) A form of rhodopsin present in Gloeobacter violaceus


honeygar

A mixture of honey and apple cider vinegar, similar to switchel, claimed to have health benefits.


fetchy

en-adj

fetchy (comparative more fetchy or fetchier, superlative most fetchy or fetchiest)

more fetchy (comparative)
fetchier (comparative)
most fetchy (superlative)
fetchiest (superlative)

Children, too, were said to be naturally drawn to the "fetchy, catchy poster."

2001, Hans Krabbendam, Marja Roholl, Tity de Vries, The American Metropolis, page 80:

You're going to show them what you're made of. That your fluff is fluffier than the fluffiest. That your fetching skills are fetchier than the fetchiest.

Characterised by fetching; (by extension) alluring, attractive, good looking


ememe

In Reference 49, the word was chosen as the smallest possible, meaningful emotional unit (named ememe along the same lines as phonemes and sememes) […]

2014, Amit Konar, Aruna Chakraborty, Emotion Recognition: A Pattern Analysis Approach, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 244:

An ememe can be any language which can be culturally used to convey an emotion. Even 'Ok'or 'How are you' can be examples of ememes.

Any emotional message implied or inferred (metamessage) contained within communication, which is commonly recognised within a specific group of people or culture.


twistronics

(physics) The study of any of various electronic, optical and mechanical characteristics of two-dimensional materials (such as graphene) associated with a twist introduced between successive layers


cubitainer

Blend of cubical + container or similar, 1950s marketing coinage by its inventor, Hedwin Corporation, Maryland.

Cubitainer holds liquids, powders, grains & anything else that pours. Stacks compactly and stores more economically than other containers.

1968, Modern Packaging, volume 41, Morgan-Grampian, page 70:

A semirigid cubical plastic container, typically used within a cardboard box.


peninitial

/ˌpɛnɪˈnɪʃəl/

Blend of penultimate + initial, treating pen- (from Latin paene (“almost”)) as a prefix.

In examples (81) and (82), the postpositive possessives do not occupy the peninitial position in the clause, nor the peninitial position of the NP.

2009, Stéphanie J. Bakker, The Noun Phrase in Ancient Greek: A Functional Analysis of the Order and Articulation of NP Constituents in Herodotus (Amsterdam Studies in Classical Philology), Brill, →ISBN, page 74:

Because the factors conditioning edge repulsion of the pitch peak are relatively weak at the left edge, it is not surprising that peninitial prominence is rare cross-linguistically.

2014, Matthew Gordon, “Disentangling stress and pitch-accent: a typology of prominence at different prosodic levels”, in Harry van der Hulst, editor, Word Stress: Theoretical and Typological Issues, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 109:

I have empirically established that there were two canonical constructions available in IE languages: a head initial and a head peninitial one, the latter with the two mono- and polysydentic subtypes.

2018, Moreno Mitrović, “Configurational change in Indo-European coordinate constructions”, in Word Order Change (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics), volume 29, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 36:

(chiefly linguistics) Falling in the position after initial position; second.


Revenge of the Sixth

Blend of Revenge of the Sith + sixth.
From the name of the Star Wars movie Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, and a day of the month of similar sound to "Sith".

Revenge of the Fifth
Revenge of the Fifth

(Star Wars fandom slang) The Sixth of May (May 6). The third Star Wars Day, the second day after Revenge of the Fifth (May 5). Sometimes used to celebrate the Dark Side, when May 4 is used to celebrate the Jedi.

en:Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith


Revenge of the Fifth

Blend of Revenge of the Sith + fifth.
From the name of the Star Wars movie Episode III – Revenge of the Sith and a day of the month most similar sounding to "Sith".

(Star Wars fandom slang) The Fifth of May (May 5). The second Star Wars Day, the day after May the Fourth (May 4). Sometimes used to celebrate the Dark Side, when May 4 is used to celebrate the Jedi.


fangaroo

(informal) An extinct fanged kangaroo, Balbaroo fangaroo.


entreprenertia

(business, informal) The situation where a company has settled into established habits and bureaucracy to the extent that fresh ideas and risk-taking are no longer possible.


capernosity

Coined by Brendan Behan, using the learned suffix -osity. Augustine Martin suggests Blend of capability + generosity. Barry Baldwin suggests a link with Scots capernoity (“befuddled”) or Latin caper (“goat”).

(humorous, literary, Ireland) The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:

Besides, my grandmother, who lived at the top of the next house, was a lady of capernosity and function. She had money and lay in bed all day, drinking porter or malt, and taking pinches of snuff, and talking to the neighbours that would call up to tell her the news of the day.

1953 Easter, Brendan Behan, "The Confirmation Suit"; in The Standard p.5; reprinted in Brendan Behan's Island; An Irish Sketchbook, Hutchinson, (London), 1962, page 148

… in Howth they have a paper of their own, in which is reported the wedding of a girl from the Hill. The affair was carried out with function and capernosity, by all accounts …

1955 June 4, Brendan Behan, "It's Torca Hill for beauty" The Irish Press, reprinted in Hold your hour and have another (1963), pages 142-3

Myself and my brothers joined in this [singing], with function and capernosity, as true little Republicans …

1955 September 3, Brendan Behan, "Nuts from the Crimean War" The Irish Press, reprinted in Hold your hour and have another (1963) page 70

I would have liked to have helped him for he was a good skin and I knew his mother and father, brothers and sisters as well as I knew my own, and we fought the same battles together, on the playground and elsewhere, with great function and capernosity.

1965, Brendan Behan, Confessions of an Irish Rebel, Lancer, New York, page 60:

It is bad enough to listen to his putative successor and having serious doubts about him ... but to listen to a pretender from the Opposition benches must be frightful on the Taoiseach. [...] A man of his “capernosity” and function must be horrified to have to put up with me.

1990 January 31, Michael Noonan, “Financial Resolutions, 1990. - Financial Statement, Budget, 1990”, in Dáil Éireann Debates:

I knew if ever I was underneath I'd get it from you — it's the red hair and the awkward loins gúngaire they called us at home, the man with the flange in his hips but by the ghost of Mick Collins there's more function about me than capernosity!

1991, Sydney Bernard Smith, Flannery, Brandon, published 2004, →ISBN, page 47:

Full of capernosity and function at 6 p.m. Homeless at 8 p.m. And no insurance.

2004, Bryan MacMahon, Hero Town, page 137:

Ragged embers, horn of an anvil, hovering bellows, a tongs of function and capernosity.

2008, Tom MacIntyre, Find the Lady, page 18:

'And other forms of complaint more pernicious—'
'Deleterious—'
'More capricious—'
'Meretricious—'
'And if not done with capernosity and function, is it worth doing at all?'

2017, Neil Jordan, Carnivalesque, Bloomsbury USA, →ISBN, page 166:


mycotecture

Researchers at NASA have taken an interest in 'mycotecture' and its potential role in growing structures on the Moon.

2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 215:

(architecture) experimental architectural structures grown out of mushrooms


Batfleck

Blend of Batman + Affleck, from the actor Ben Affleck.

The man under the batsuit in Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice is actor Ben Affleck, a casting decision that had been loudly critiqued as out of step with Batman's character. With reservations about “Batfleck” already resonant, Snyder's photo was an apt target for a flurry of memetic reappropriation.

2016, Ryan M. Milner, The World Made Meme: Public Conversations and Participatory Media, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 55:

Chloe holds up her cell, showing me the text I'd sent of Ben Affleck in the Batman costume. “You sent us Batfleck.”

2018, Elyssa Patrick, With Me Boxed Set Books 1 - 4, page 1711:

Sure, in the early 1960s, Superman was lean and toned, but at that time he lacked the hyperbolic, indeed, comic musculature that came to mark so many other entries into the superhero genre. (Yes, I'm talking about you, Batfleck.)

2019, Douglas E. Cowan, Magic, Monsters, and Make-Believe Heroes: How Myth and Religion Shape Fantasy Culture, Univ of California Press, →ISBN, page 11:

(fandom slang) A nickname for the version of Batman interpreted by Ben Affleck, which debuted in the film Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) from the DC Extended Universe.


zetabetical

Whether the reader wants to know what a googol is (it's an extremely large number, written out in full: one, followed by one hundred zeros); something about game theory; about serendipity; series; stochastic processes; Z charts or zetabetical sequences (in reverse alphabetical order) - or countless useful bits of statistical and business mathematical information, they are all to be found here.

1974, Accountancy - Volume 85, page 120:

The stories might be arranged in alphabetical (or zetabetical!) order.

1989, Virginia A. Arnold, Connections: language arts/reading - Volume 1, →ISBN, page 32:

I'd cleaned the bathroom and washed the kitchen floor, taken out the recycling and arranged all the tins in the cupboard so that the labels were facing forwards in zetabetical order.

2017, Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, →ISBN, page 96:


woodcrete

A building material made from sawdust and lime, typically used to make nestboxes


clearomizer

Blend of clear + atomizer, because of the transparent reservoir.

RTAs are similar in design to clearomizers in that a wick transfers the liquid from the tank to the coil.

2016, Konstantinos E. Farsalinos, Analytical Assessment of e-Cigarettes: From Contents to Chemical and Particle Exposure Profiles:

The reservoir and atomizer of an e-cigarette.


ypsigon

Blend of ypsilon (“referring to the y-nauplius and y-cyprid larvae”) + kentrogon or vermigon (“similar forms of other crustaceans”).

blend

The amorphous post-larval stage of the crustacean Hansenocaris, a parasite whose host is unknown.


xaser

If we could produce a 'Xaser', could we also produce an image of a crystal structure?

1970, Henry Lipson, Crystals and X-rays, page 190:

Perhaps some day there will be an x-ray system — a xaser — although it will probably self-destruct on each operation.

1978, Laser Focus, volume 14, numbers 7-12, page 57:


hotsilog

(Philippines) a meal of hot dog with fried rice and fried egg


miniac

Like other miniacs, he works in 1:12 scale, which is the traditional ratio for miniatures, dollhouses and dioramas.

A producer or collector of miniatures, being small-scale replicas of contemporary or historical objects, such as might be used in a dollhouse.


Jebya

Jebya caves to his ultra-rightwing do-gooders without a clue yet fails to meet the needs of the vulnerable children of his state.

2003 October 22, Tom Jefferson, “GOP supports right to live without hope, but fights healthcare for those who can use it.”, in alt.politics.bush (Usenet):

Obviously the religious nuts have already decided that Dubya's God anointed one. They were screaming for Dubya and Jebya to throw out the rule of law and use their divinely ordained power to raise Terri Schiavo from the dead.

2005 April 4, Pete, “Re: Bush fooled by Hussein”, in soc.politics (Usenet):

Bush would've told Murkins they were traitors for not wanting his bailouts, CEO Bonuses, Wars, Cheney and Jebya's conflicts of interests and exposing spies who refused to lie for Chimpy.

2010 January 12, Palin On Beaver News, “Nobody Voted For it. Nobody Wants it. He campaigned AGAINST it.”, in talk.politics.misc (Usenet):

(US politics, often derogatory) Jeb Bush (born 1953), the 43rd governor of Florida (1999–2007) and brother of former US president George W. Bush.


polycule

Blend of polyamory + molecule. Coined around the 2010s.

Our polycule doubled in size when my spouse started seeing Boris, whose husband has six other partners.

The five of us started calling ourselves a "polycule" back in the fall of 2012, when our relationships and sexual lives were so thoroughly entangled with one another that we looked like several relationship atoms often sharing orbits together.

2015, Julie Fennell, “Polyculous bonds”, in Elisabeth Sheff, editor, Stories from the polycule: Real life in polyamorous families, Portland, OR: Thorntree Press, →ISBN:

While nonmonogamy doesn't always mean having multiple partners, Ezra's polycule comprises multiple sexual partners.

2018 November 16, Josephine Yurcaba, “Ezra Miller Discussed Polyamory and Past Abuse”, in Teen Vogue, archived from the original on 2019-05-28:

Unbeknownst to him, Janice had, some three weeks prior, broken up with one of her partners from a polycule in Colorado.

2018, T. J. Thomson, “The Evolution of Story: How Time and Modality Affect Visual and Verbal Narratives Quarterly”, in Visual Communication, volume 25, number 4, →DOI, page 204:

The duo and eight others comprising the financial whiz’s inner circle shared a tony penthouse in the Bahamas, a living arrangement that some, including tech mogul Elon Musk, reportedly described as a “polycule”– that is, “a connected network of people and relationships, all of whom are in some way involved emotionally, sexually, or romantically with at least one other person”.

[2023 September 30, Victoria Bekiempis, “‘Dark’ donations, free love and the fall: the Sam Bankman-Fried trial is here”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

Sarah is more reserved, especially when it comes to sharing details about “tender” situations, and she’s also protective of the other members of her polycule. What one part of the polycule says about another could have huge, messy ripple effects throughout the whole group.

2024 January 16, Allison P. Davis, “What Does a Polycule Actually Look Like?”, in New York Magazine:

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:

A polyamorous group of indivuals connected by their overlapping romantic, sexual, or platonic relationships.


becurtovirus

Any plant virus of the genus Becurtovirus


exvangelical

(US, informal) Formerly evangelical, having left evangelicalism.


freedom gas

Blend of freedom + natural gas. Coined by the U.S. Department of Energy in or around May 2019. Compare freedom fries.

Increasing export capacity from the Freeport LNG project is critical to spreading freedom gas throughout the world by giving America’s allies a diverse and affordable source of clean energy.

2019 May 28, [US] Department of Energy, “Department of Energy Authorizes Additional LNG Exports from Freeport LNG”, in Energy.gov:

“Freedom gas? Freedom is generally good, but freedom from glaciers, freedom from clean air, freedom from healthy forests that aren't on fire, and freedom from the world we know and cherish is not what we seek,” Inslee said in a Twitter post.

2019 May 29, Josh Siegel, quoting Jay Inslee, “Trump administration boasts of promoting 'freedom gas' and 'freedom molecules'”, in Washington Examiner:

Touted as “freedom gas” by the Donald Trump administration, LNG has quickly turned into a major export commodity for U.S. energy companies.

2020 January 27, Irina Slav, “The True Cost Of ‘Freedom Gas’”, in Oilprice.com:

Remember “freedom gas?” U.S. drillers facing a yearslong glut at home relished the opportunity to export the heating and generation fuel, but the global pandemic’s effect on demand is punishing them.

2020 June 4, Jinjoo Lee, “America’s Natural-Gas Woes Are Imported”, in Wall Street Journal:

liquefied natural gas
liquefied natural gas#English

(US, politics) Exported natural gas, particularly liquefied natural gas (“LNG”), from the United States.


beachkeeper

Soldiers from both peacekeeping missions were referred to by locals as “beachkeepers” because of the time they spent at the beachfront bars in Freetown.

2013, Janie L. Leatherman, Sexual Violence and Armed Conflict, →ISBN, page 20:

The peacekeepers failed to convince both civilians and rebels of their authority in the country. UNAMSIL was referred to as “U-nasty” and peacekeepers were called “beachkeepers” because cohorts could often be found enjoying the country's beaches.

2015, Megan H. MacKenzie, Female Soldiers in Sierra Leone, →ISBN:

With hardly any other option than becoming a ‘beachkeeper, they emphasize the value of humanitarian assistance, travel and cultural exchange to become a competent soldier.

2019, Eva van Roekel, “Inaction as only alternative. Contemporary Argentinian peacekeepers in search of respect”, in Program and abstracts 15th Biennial Conference of ERGOMAS To be held at Lisbon Portugal, page 105:

(derogatory) A soldier on a peacekeeping mission who spends a lot of time at the beach.


entropology

Coined in 1955 by Claude Lévi-Strauss as Blend of entropy + anthropology

Surely under such inclusive circumstances, the erstwhile frightening prospect of a grimly reductive "entropology" (Levi-Strauss, 1955:397) seems far less ominous.

1974, Ino Rossi -, The unconscious in culture:

Thus, anthropology is 'entropology', the science of the running down of things.

2003, Wes Sharrock, John A Hughes, Peter J. Martin, Understanding Modern Sociology, →ISBN:

Both of these approaches began by challenging Lévi-Strauss's central conception of the relation of nature and culture, and of its role as the frame of his vision of anthropology as “entropology”, the reduction of culture to the status of an epiphenomenon of nature.

2009, Terry S. Turner, “The crisis of late structuralism. Perspectivism and animism: rethinking culture, nature, spirit, and bodiliness”, in Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America, volume 7, number 1, page 10:

The study of human actions that lead to the disintegration and increasing disorder of highly evolved social systems.

The kind of agency I though I had—and the ethnocentric bias that led me to it—is symptomatic of the narrative motif of entropology. Make no mistake—entrolpology is real.

2012, Kathleen Glenister Roberts, Alterity and Narrative, →ISBN, page 158:

In any case, the economic relationship between entropology and money in the last 250 years has to be studied in more scientific depth, but our methodical intuition points to an enigmatic monetary mechanism, concerning the entropy of our human economy.

2013, Stephen I. Ternyik, Global Wave Energetics, →ISBN:

The poem thematizes more than it enacts entropology, a contemplation of materials in process over time.

2018, Angela Hume, Gillian Osborne, Ecopoetics: Essays in the Field, →ISBN, page 83:

(by extension) The tendency of social systems to disintegrate.


trimnasium

Any of various types of gymnasium equipment used in fitness training


eggsperience

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling

Pronunciation spelling of experience, representing a nonstandard pronunciation of English.


litRPG

en-noun

litRPG (countable and uncountable, plural litRPGs)

Blend of literary + RPG (“role playing game”)

blend

(uncountable) A genre of fantasy fiction, which is set in a world resembling that of a role-playing game (RPG), complete with levelling up, points statistics and game systems; frequently featuring the fantasy races found in RPGs. The protagonists in this genre are commonly awakened/reincarnated/transported/summoned into the game world, or are unable to log-off of a virtual reality (VR) RPG game.


bullgine

Undoubtedly they were leaning far out of the windows, peering for signals, in momentary relaxation from the strain of nursing the slipping "bullgines" up the hill.

1929, The Conductor and Brakeman, volumes 46-47, page 425:

(US, slang, obsolete) A steam locomotive.


cashtag

(Internet, finance, neologism) A kind of hashtag that links to a stock quote.


flextension

Some E.U. policymakers have argued for a “flextension” that would set a date for Britain’s E.U. exit far in the future but allow Britain to leave as soon as it comes up with a viable plan.

2018 November 15, “What's up with Brexit? A guide to emergency summits, flextensions and more.”, in Washington Post:

The problem with flextensions is that, just as has occurred with Brexit, they don't address the underlying problem.

2019 April 5, Jim Collins, “3 'Flextensions' Very Evident in This Market: Tesla, Oil and Bonds”, in The Street:

He has proposed a ‘flextension’ – another new word to add to the Brexit lexicon – in which he proposes a year-long delay with the proviso that the UK can leave the EU as soon as Parliament agrees a deal.

2019 April 6, “The Yorkshire Post says: Brexit flextensions and the uncompromising Jacob Rees-Mogg”, in Yorkshire Post:

On the one hand, it is unwise, by granting ‘flextension’, for the European Council to allow itself to be blamed for trapping the UK inside the Union against the expressed will of the British people to leave it.

2019 April 24, Zsolt Darvas, “Brexit: Losing control. EPC Discussion Paper”, in Archive of European Integration, page 4:

The extension of a deadline that allows a flexible final date (originally used to refer to Brexit, but subsequently extended to other contexts).


teqball

A game or sport in which a spherical round ball (like a football, similar to or the same as a soccer ball) is passed from one side of a curved table (similar to a table tennis table) to the other.

թեքբոլ

A game or sport with a spherical round ball and curved table


tridem

Four-axle trucks with a conventional 9-ft overall spacing for the tridem axle would have a maximum GVW of 64,000 lb (limited by 44,000 lb on the tridem).

1990, Truck Weight Limits: Issues and Options, Washington, D.C.: Transportation Research Board, page 187:

The State bridge formula allows 42,000 lbs. on a tridem axle on non-Interstate highways.

2015 May 20, “Appendix A: State Truck Size and Weight Laws”, in Anthony R. Foxx, editor, Compilation of Existing State Truck Size and Weight Limit Laws, Washington, D.C.: Federal Highway Administration, retrieved 2019-06-25:

An arrangement of three objects arranged one behind the other.


chaosmos

Blend of chaos + cosmos. Coined by Irish novelist and poet James Joyce his in 1939 novel Finnegans Wake.

coinage

For me, there is nothing outside the chaosmos. However, that does not mean that the chaosmos is unified, totalized, or complete.

1999, Marcus A. Doel, Poststructuralist Geographies: The Diabolical Art of Spatial Science, →ISBN:

Which is worse, asks Kelly Hurley, 'London as a chaosmos–a space of meaningless noise, activity, sensation in which narratives indiscriminately crowd one another and no one narrative has any more significance than the next' or 'the paranoid network of deeply-laid and infernal designs'?

2013, Matthew Beaumont, Matthew Ingleby, G.K. Chesterton, London and Modernity, →ISBN:

This is an evocation of the messy multiplicity and ambiguity of consumers and outsiders, in the warm chaosmos and on the far fringes of Birdland.

2014, Douglas Brownlie, Paul Hewer, Mark Tadajewski, Expanding Disciplinary Space: On the Potential of Critical Marketing, →ISBN:

The world, viewed as a meaningless assemblage of infinite perspectives.


sneckdown

Blend of snow + neckdown, coined in 2014 by Aaron Naparstek on Twitter.

(neologism) A natural neckdown (curb extension) caused by snowfall.


snaughle

en-verb

snaughle (third-person singular simple present snaughles, present participle snaughling, simple past and past participle snaughled)

snaughles (present singular third-person)
snaughling (participle present)
snaughled (participle past)
snaughled (past)

“The attic.” She was looking at the menu board when she heard a snort beside her. “The attic?” It wasn't just a snort. It was a laugh and a snort. Nancy was snaughling at her. “Who in the world cleans an attic? That's like vacuuming a shed.”

Go ahead, make me laugh and snaughle!

2017 June, Caroline Craven, “Peeing One's Pants - Really?”, in Girl with MS:

Its what I do when something is funny, and all my friends R so damn funny that I snaughle a lot,” she posted to her WhoSay.

2019 July 19, Nina Dobrev Keeps Her Costume Simple for First Halloween Party, Just Jared:

(neologism, informal, intransitive) To (repeatedly) snort while laughing; snort and laugh at the same time.


cyberbole

Coined by Steve Woolgar as blend of cyber + hyperbole in Technology, Cyberbole, Reality (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2002).

The first step toward finding a way out of this place begins when we take a flamethrower to Newt Gingrich cum Alvin Toffler style laissez-faire futurism, which entrusts our collective fate to the tender mercies of the marketplace, or New Age cyberbole that would have us pin our hopes to a millennial blastoff.

2004, Geert Lovink, Uncanny Networks: Dialogues with the Virtual Intelligentsia, →ISBN, page 1742:

Regardless of whether one is wired or not, it is impossible to avoid the hype or cyberbole surrounding the Internet.

2005, Zaheer Baber, CyberAsia: The Internet And Society in Asia, →ISBN, page 57:

While some might claim that we can now declare the end of the 'cyberbole' (Woolgar, 2002), the aim of this collection is not to recap or evaluate these literatures and debates.

2013, K. Orton-Johnson, N. Prior, Digital Sociology: Critical Perspectives, →ISBN, page 1:

information technology
information technology

Exaggerated claims about what the internet and information technology will accomplish.


snitch up

snitch up (third-person singular simple present snitches up, present participle snitching up, simple past and past participle snitched up)

snitches up (present singular third-person)
snitching up (participle present)
snitched up (participle past)
snitched up (past)

Perhaps a blend of snitch (on) + fess up.

(transitive) To come forward and snitch on someone.


perlin

(falconry) A cross breed of a peregrine falcon and a merlin.


cybertype

Coined by Lisa Nakamura. Blend of cyber + stereotype or cyber- + type.

A racial stereotype as propagated through the Internet.


orthosomnia

Orthosomnia is a psychological condition recently identified by Baron et al. [3], who analyzed the behavior of fitness trackers users who used these devices to track their sleep.

2018 April, Linda Anticoli, Marco Basaldella, “Shut Up and Run: the Never-ending Quest for Social Fitness”, in WWW '18: Companion Proceedings of the The Web Conference:

Orthosomnia, the “perfectionistic quest for the ideal sleep in order to optimize daytime function”, is sadly becoming more prevalent, arguably due to increased sleep tracker use [73].

2018, Megan Roberts, Why Your Ketogenic Diet Isn't Working Part 2: Sleep and Circadian Rhythm:

In our view, this is an exercise of diminishing returns, and may actually impair quality of their sleep and cause orthosomnia, a condition where a person has a perfectionist quest to achieve perfect sleep. (Baron et al, 2017).

2019, Captain Allison Brager, Meir Kryger, A New Approach: Integrating Sleep Science and Consumer Wearables to Improve Access and Drive Greater Engagement, page 10:

(psychology) An unhealthy obsession with achieving the correct amount and type of sleep.


chronnectome

All the connections in the brain that change over time


extimate

Jacques-Alain Miller
Thomas Teo
Éditions du Seuil

From extimacy + -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Extimacy is a calque of French extimité (coined by the French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan (1901–1981) in 1959–1960), probably from a blend of French externe (“external”) + intimité (“closeness, intimacy”). The English word can be analysed as a blend of external + intimate.

coinage

Since [Edgar Allan] Poe is viewed by the critical tradition as simultaneously inevitable and dubious, we should strive to see him as neither in nor out of the central canon, but rather, to adopt one of [Jacques] Lacan's neologisms, as extimate with relation to it, "simultaneously the intimate kernel and the foreign body," as Mladen Dolar glosses the term succinctly. The extimate is, like the social limit I have been outlining, a fold or fissure within a conceptual and discursive structure, an internal limit.

1995, Jonathan Elmer, “Introduction: The Figure of Mass Culture”, in Reading at the Social Limit: Affect, Mass Culture, & Edgar Allan Poe, Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 26:

The romantic ‘fatal desire for mystical union’ emerges as a (non)relation to ‘some other’, to the ‘other’s alien life’[…]. In Lacanian terms this other functions like the extimate Thing, locus of the minimal difference in and more than the subject.

1999, Fred Botting, “Romance of the Machine”, in Sex, Machines and Navels: Fiction, Fantasy and History in the Future Present, Manchester, New York, N.Y.: Manchester University Press, →ISBN, page 210:

The notion of the extimate object as the cause of desire is used to denote that the most intimate and hidden aspect of the subject is also that which is most foreign and other to ourselves.

2000, Kalpana Seshadri-Crooks, “The Object of Whiteness”, in Desiring Whiteness: A Lacanian Analysis of Race, London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 68:

Actually, it is just this quality of being in public, in the outside world, that makes an extimate experience and an extimate desire substantially meaningul to you or me: "it is intimate to us while being exterior at the same time" […] Would it be imaginable that such extimate reflections and evaluations, doubts and sensible explorations would be an intrinsic part of public life?

2021, Holger Schulze, “The Intimate”, in Holger Schulze, editor, The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Anthropology of Sound, New York, N.Y., London: Bloomsbury Academic, →ISBN, part II (Sounding Flesh), page 160:

(psychology) In the works of Jacques Lacan: simultaneously external and intimate.


mumoir

(Commonwealth) Alternative form of momoir


cute-'em-up

It's a parody of Gradius (geddit?) and as such, is a fully-fledged “cute 'em up.” The hectic sideways-scrolling action is every bit as intense as its namesake, but instead of battling spaceships and futuristic hardware you have sunny levels filled with cartoon penguins, giant clowns, flying pigs and all manner of bizarre things.

Fantasy Zone was not a game meant to be taken as seriously as other shooters, and together with Konami's Twin Bee, it is credited by many for pioneering the cute shoot-'em-up, or “cute-'em-up sub-genre of shooters” (Kalata, “Spotlight”).

2018, Ken Horowitz, The Sega Arcade Revolution: A History in 62 Games, page 102:

(video games, slang) A shoot 'em up game with a cute, cartoonish aesthetic.


Britglish

Blend of British + English; coined by English author Anthony Burgess in 1973.


environmetrics

The use of statistics etc in the environmental sciences


Kenfucky

(slang, derogatory, vulgar, humorous) Kentucky.


Roblox

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

Blend of the platform's beta name DynaBlocks (blend of dynamic + blocks) with robot.

massively multiplayer online game
massively multiplayer online game

A massively multiplayer online game and creation system platform (introduced in 2004) in which users design and play video games.


Clorox

en-verb

Clorox (third-person singular simple present Cloroxes, present participle Cloroxing, simple past and past participle Cloroxed)

Cloroxes (present singular third-person)
Cloroxing (participle present)
Cloroxed (participle past)
Cloroxed (past)

From the Clorox brand; a blend of chlorine + sodium hydroxide, its two main ingredients.

(transitive, informal) To sanitize with chemicals; to remove dirt from a place or object by means of chemicals.


avant-pop

Pop music with experimental or avant-garde elements.


tridominium

A tripartite condominium (joint sovereignty over territory), one involving three sovereign powers.


shitcoin

But, against what many people shout about on Reddit, not every altcoin is a "shitcoin."

2017 December 12, Matthew Hrones, “Three Altcoins Crypto Investors Should Keep an Eye On”, in Bitcoinist:

There's bitcoin, and then there's shitcoin.

2019 July 18, Ben Brown, quoting Rep. Warren Davidson (R-OH), “'There's Bitcoin and Then There's Shitcoin (Libra)'. Congress Finally Gets It”, in Yahoo! Finance:

Crypto derivatives platform FTX has perhaps the most speculative and oddly-named futures index fund on the market: SHIT-PERP, or the Shitcoin Index Perpetual Futures.

2019 August 1, William Foxley, “Crypto Exchange Launches 'Shitcoin Futures Index,' Offering New Way to Short Alts”, in CoinDesk:

(derogatory, vulgar) A cryptocurrency of little or unclear value.


flash rob

(criminology) A form of organized theft in which a group of people enter a shop en masse and steal merchandise, while the employees are overwhelmed by sheer numbers.


dreadhawk

A Mohawk hairstyle with the hair in dreadlocks.


tagsonomy

An informal classification system based on user-generated tags.


special pleader

en-noun

special pleader (plural special pleaders)

Someone who uses special pleading; someone who argues that a particular case is an exception to a generally accepted rule, without justification or without a relevant basis.


day-ager

A day-age creationist; a proponent of day-age creationism.


blerd

Thanks to the blerds at Black Girl Nerds and to the founder, Jamie Broadnax.

2015, Shelly Ellis, The Best She Ever Had:

[…] a growing collection of images of black nerds, or “blerds,” has begun to emerge in American television and film. While the flooded pants, suspenders, and bow-ties of Jaleel White's Steve Urkel might be the most recognizable example of the blerd in popular culture, others include […]

2017, Kathryn E. Lane, Age of the Geek: Depictions of Nerds and Geeks in Popular Media:

(slang, neologism) A black person who is a nerd.


femonationalism

femonationalism (usually uncountable, plural femonationalisms)

Coined by Sara R. Farris. Blend of feminism + nationalism, with the "o" patterned after homonationalism.

In similar ways, femonationalism describes the attempts of European right-wing parties, among others, to co-opt feminist ideals into anti-immigrant and anti-Islam campaigns.

2012, Sara R. Farris, "Femonationalism and the 'Regular' Army of Labor Called Migrant Women", History of the Present, Volume 2, Number 2, Fall 2012, page 187

Femonationalism thus operates from a place of cynicism, presenting itself as liberating Muslim women while doing the exact opposite.

2017, Edna Bonhomme, "The Disturbing Rise of ‘Femonationalism", The Nation, 7 May 2019

The case of Switzerland is of particular interest to furthering the understanding of femonationalism, we argue, because contrary to the case studies presented by these other authors, Switzerland was never a colonial state.

2020 July, Dina Bader, Véronique Mottier, “Femonationalism and populist politics: The case of the Swiss ban on female genital mutilation”, in Nations and Nationalism, volume 26, number 3:

(neologism) The association of a nationalist ideology with feminism, especially when having xenophobic motivations.


feminationalism

I claim that women were closely engaged in combining the feminized body with national politics, a feminationalism.

2015, Cristina Devereaux Ramírez, Occupying Our Space: The Mestiza Rhetorics of Mexican Women Journalists and Activists, 1875–1942, →ISBN:

This rhetoric of Norwegian exceptionalism did not only work to strengthen already well-established forms of what Nazila Kivi (2015) has termed “feminationalism” in Norway, where feminist rhetoric is used to buttress nationalist politics and self-understandings in ways that figures other geographies and populations as always already “backwards.” The framing of the anniversary also seemed to suggest that feminism is nothing but history in Norway, and that the job ahead is to export the Norwegian model of feminist equality to so-called less developed countries.

2016, Mathias Danbolt, “Breaking the Waves. Tuning into Queer History with Frank’s Voluspå”, in Föreningen Lambda Nordica:

Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez also introduced the notion of a “post-’Fifty Shades of Grey’ patriarchal heterosexuality” which combines feminationalism, homonationalism, white supremacist notions, ideas of eurocentric superiority and erotic capitalism.

2017, Mark B. Bibbert, Elisabeth Hill, Multiple Modernities–Multiple Gender Cultures, page 83:

In countries such as Denmark and Italy, xenophobic campaigns have taken on the form of ‘feminationalist’ rhetoric which claims that migration is undermining the rights and freedoms of the women in the destination countries. The discourse of ‘feminationalism’ is closely related to homonationalism in which the xenophobic right is claiming that migration is a threat to the rights of the LBGT community.

2017, Alison Treacher, “A feminism for the 21ˢᵗ century”, in Socialist Resistance:

We now see a kind of racism that argues that Christian/Western values are civilized and a basis for democracy, while ’their’ values are reactionary and undemocratic. In the same way, femonationalism and homonationalism have evolved, where it is claimed that the oppression of women and LGBT people only exists amongst ’foreigners’ (the muslims). Feminationalism does not imply a common struggle for freedom, but sees the state as a protector of ’poor’ women from ’foreign’ men.

2018, Socialistisk Arbejderparti (Denmark), “Global Migration”, in International Viewpoint:

(neologism) The association between a nationalist ideology and some feminist ideas, specially when having xenophobic motivations.


teatox

Perhaps the most dangerous aspect of the teatox craze is the glamour being sold along with the product.

2018, Megan Jayne Crabbe, Body Positive Power:

(informal, neologism) An attempt to remove harmful toxins from the body by consuming tea.


Namerican

en-adj

Namerican (comparative more Namerican, superlative most Namerican)

more Namerican (comparative)
most Namerican (superlative)

What right had a storeful of greasy Namerican merchants to such a truth?

1963, Kenneth Bulmer, The Wizard of Starship Poseidon:

In Juchipila power to the whole community of thirty thousand evaporated as the supraheavy grid buried alongside the little mountain cantina siphoned energy from the entire west-central portion of the Namerican national power net.

2009, Alan Dean Foster, Montezuma Strip, →ISBN:

They kept odd hours, hence the three pm 'mornings,' but all cities were twenty-four hour propositions, so they had no trouble keeping normal lives even though they lived on a Namerican time schedule in Europa.

2012, M. Darusha Wehm, The Beauty of Our Weapons, →ISBN, page 15:

(fantasy, science fiction) North American.


inflammage

en-verb

inflammage (third-person singular simple present inflammages, present participle inflammaging, simple past and past participle inflammaged)

inflammages (present singular third-person)
inflammaging (participle present)
inflammaged (participle past)
inflammaged (past)

Back-formation from inflammaging, equivalent to a blend of inflammation + age.

Apparently, we are genetically programmed to age, and it appears even to inflammage.

2016, Dr. Jennifer Stagg, Unzip Your Genes:

(intransitive) To age or accelerate in age-like symptoms due to the effects of inflammation.


workamping

(US) The practice of combining part-time or full-time paid or volunteer work with RV or tent camping.


beeraholic

From beer + -aholic or blend of beer + alcoholic.

(slang, somewhat derogatory) An alcoholic who drinks an excessive amount of beer.


Amabot

Those who can take it become what's known within the company as “Amabots,” proud soldiers in Bezos's march to world domination. One former employee described the company's labor relations policy as “Purposeful Darwinism.”

2016, Doug Hill, Not So Fast: Thinking Twice about Technology, page 67:

Amabots are workaholics who seem to thrive on the relentlessly fast pace. One example is Dina Vaccari, who was charged to sell Amazon gift cards and used her own money, without approval, to pay for a freelancer […]

2016, Gareth R. Jones, Jennifer M. George, Mary Barrett, Contemporary Management:

Processing that much information puts a drain on morale. “If you are a good Amazonian, you become an Amabot,” one employee told the Times reporters.

2018, Viktor Mayer-Schonberger, Thomas Ramge, Reinventing Capitalism in the Age of Big Data:

And Amabots sacrifice: One employee reported not sleeping for four days straight (and once used her own money to hire a freelance worker in India to enter data so she could complete more work); […]

2018, Dennis K. Mumby, Timothy R. Kuhn, Organizational Communication: A Critical Introduction, page 327:

(informal) A particularly dedicated employee of Amazon.com, Inc..


dolime

Dolomitic lime, which is produced by heating (calcining) dolomitic limestone.


vacupuncture

Basically 300 μCi ⁵¹CrCl₃ contained in 10 ml sterile saline was injected into the jugular vein and the radioactivity and protein concentration of the plasma determined in samples of blood withdrawn by vacupuncture at 09.00 hours each morning for the following 5 d.

1986, D. P. Poppi, “Nitrogen transactions in the digestive tract of lambs exposed to the intestinal parasite, Trichostrongylus colubriformis”, in British Journal of Nutrition, volume 55, number 3, page 593:

A blood collection system involving aspiration through a capillary.


insectageddon

(informal, neologism) A hypothetical worldwide disaster that would happen due to many insect species going extinct, as for example if the Holocene extinction remains unchecked.


incendigel

(military) A mixture of petrol, benzene and polystyrene, used like napalm.


soft-on

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But at least there is a way to judge soft-core pornography. It gives you a soft-on.

1966, Paul Krassner, The Realist, numbers 64-85, page viii:

Later, Al [reported] how amazed he was to have had a second orgasm with a vibrator and a soft-on.

1989, Joani Blank, Good Vibrations: The Complete Guide to Vibrators, page 45:

At any point when the tide recedes and the man has a soft-on, he can maintain his partner's level of excitement in the orgasmic continuum by keeping her going.

1996, James R. Petersen, 365 Ways to Improve Your Sex Life: From the Files of the Playboy Advisor:

(slang, vulgar) The state of the penis being only partially erect.


needcessity

en-noun

needcessity (countable and uncountable, plural needcessities)


go-ped

internal combustion engine
internal combustion engine

A scooter powered by an internal combustion engine.


simjacking

Over the past year, we’ve seen reports of SIM-jacking, a particularly malicious attack hackers are using to assume control of victims’ digital and financial lives.

2018 October 17, Emil Hozan, “Everything Your Need to Know About SIM-Jacking”, in Secplicity:

Variously called sim splitting, simjacking, sim hijacking and port-out scamming, the fraud focuses on moving control of someone’s phone account from their sim card to one controlled by the criminal.

2020 September 13, Shane Hickey, “Sim-swap fraud is on the rise. How can you stop it happening to you?”, in The Guardian:

A social engineering technique in which a person poses as the owner of a mobile phone number and convinces the provider to transfer it to a new SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) owned by the fraudster.


spinson

Blend of spin (“property of a subatomic particle”) + person. Based on the idea that a person's opinion can be likened to the up or down spin of a quark. Coined by
Piotr Nyczka and Katarzyna Sznajd-Weron in 2013.

blend

The evolution of a spinson’s opinion is governed by two different processes: (i) independence and (ii) social and mass-media influence.

2018, Tomasz Weron, Anna Kowalska-Pyzalska, Rafał Weron, “The role of educational trainings in the diffusion of smart metering platforms: An agent-based modeling approach”, in Physica A, volume 505, →DOI, page 594:

The model proposed in this work belongs to the ‘rich feature agent’ or ‘complex agent’ categories, in contrast to the simplified ‘spinson’ models.

2018, Pawel Sobkowicz, “Opinion Dynamics Model Based on Cognitive Biases of Complex Agents”, in Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, volume 21, →DOI:

The initial version of the q-voter has N spinsons connected on a complete graph. Among this initial population of spinsons, a q-sized committee is picked at random to influence another randomly selected spinson called a voter. If the committee is homogeneous, then the voter assumes the same value as the spinsons from the lobby; otherwise, it changes its opinion with probability #x5C;epsilon.

2021, Jamil Civitarese, “External fields, independence, and disorder in q-voter models”, in Physical Review E, volume 103, number 1, →DOI:

(sociophysics) An agent in an agent-based model representing a person who holds one of two opposite opinions on a topic (for example, "for" or "against").


Smalltimore

(slang) Baltimore, Maryland when seen as culturally similar to a small town.


mantique

Put pretty simply, mantiques are any vintage item that makes a fifty-year-old guy remember what it's like to be a kid without any obligations and total freedom to run around having fun—whether his memories of times like that are of him at age five or twenty-five, mantiques help him create a space where he can flash back to a time when he had fewer responsibilities.

2011, Libby Callaway, American Pickers Guide to Picking:

Literally across Route 66 from Chris Hoagland's FMC motor coach graveyard was a sign that said Mantiques with an arrow pointing down a road.

2016, Tom Cotter, Route 66 Barn Find Road Trip:

An antique or collectible which appeals mainly to men.