annish

And if the remainder of the March ish is as good as it begins, it'll be something! There will be two -- at least -- new columns inaugurated in the Third Annish -- plus some BNF's contribbing other items to the lineup.

1950 February, Art Rapp, “Timber!”, in Spacewarp, number 35, page 2:

On January 1st, 1952 (past history to you readers) I expect to put out Volume 1, Number 1 of OOPSLA, my own fan mag. Sub rates are 10c per copy, 60c a year at a bi-monthly schedule. At that price goes the possibility of an annish.

1952 April, Gregg Calkins, Famous Fantastic Mysteries, volume 13, number 3, page 12:

Professor rich brown has recently promulgated a theory of the Conservation of Egoboo, which postulates that the amount of egoboo resulting from any given piece of fanac is constant. He points out that Nydahl is now as famous for his gafia as he would have been if his annish had received the acclaim he expected.

1986 November, Walt Willis, “The Harp That Once or Twice”, in Science-Fiction Five-Yearly, number 8, page 6:

(dated, fandom slang) Issue of a periodical that marks the anniversary of its first publication.


thish

Much thanks to those of you who were going to write for thish, but failed to make the deadline. Deadline nextish is July 1966...

1961 November-December, Lee Hoffman, Science-Fiction Five-Yearly, number 3, page 30:

I was simply too stressed to sit down and work on this zine. That I finally got around to publishing thish is not, alas, due to my problems being resolved but rather to a sudden determination on my part to lose myself in the task and thus escape from all that dogs me, if only for a little while.

1996 March, R. Graeme Cameron, “Editorial”, in The Space Cadet Gazette, volume 3, number 1 (whole number 5), page 2:

(dated, fandom slang) A self-reference to the current issue of a periodical.


graysexual

/ˌɡɹeɪˈsɛk.ʃuː.əl/

Blend of gray + asexual, coined by user asexualityrocks in 2008 on the forums of the Asexual Visibility and Education Network about two years after the advent of gray-A and gray asexual.

But then I remember: the whole ethos of sex-positivity is predicated on a belief that everyone—sexual, asexual, or gray-sexual; monogamous, polyamorous, or something in-between; LGBTQ or as hetero as the Romneys—is entitled to pleasurable and safe sex.

2013, M. M, "sex-pos", Post- (Brown University), Volume 14, Issue 13, 21 February 2013, page 7

Some aces are gray-sexual (or gray-A), meaning that they fall somewhere on a spectrum between asexual and sexual.

2014 February 19, Tess Banta, “The 'A' Stands for Asexual”, in The Amherst Student, volume 143, number 16, Amherst College, page 7:

Do you feel sexual attraction sometimes, but only rarely? You may be graysexual,* and you’ll have a lot in common with asexual people if you are.

2014 June 18, Julie Sondra Decker, “How to Tell If You Are Asexual”, in Time:

(neologism) Intermediate between sexual and asexual; sometimes, but not usually, experiencing sexual attraction and desire.


theodrenaline

noradrenaline theophylline, a cardiac stimulant


overguesstimate

en-verb

overguesstimate (third-person singular simple present overguesstimates, present participle overguesstimating, simple past and past participle overguesstimated)

overguesstimates (present singular third-person)
overguesstimating (participle present)
overguesstimated (participle past)
overguesstimated (past)


underguesstimate

underguesstimate (third-person singular simple present underguesstimates, present participle underguesstimating, simple past and past participle underguesstimated)

underguesstimates (present singular third-person)
underguesstimating (participle present)
underguesstimated (participle past)
underguesstimated (past)


Redditor

/ˈɹɛdɪtə(ɹ)/

From Reddit + -or, or as a blend of Reddit + editor.

Because of Reddit's voting system, the visibility of content is dependent on how the content resonates with Redditors.

2013, Darin Jewell, Conrad Jones, Publish and Promote Your Ebook in a Day, page 140:

/u/RemindMeBot can be invoked by a Redditor to remind them of a thread or comment after a certain period of time.

2016, Robert W. Gehl, Maria Bakardjieva, Socialbots and Their Friends:

The Reddit amateurs may be gloating about their victory over elite hedge funds now, but in the casino of Wall Street the house always wins, and many Redditors may be flirting with financial catastrophe.

2021 February 3, Farhad Manjoo, “Can We Please Stop Talking About Stocks, Please?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

A contributor to Reddit, a news and discussion website.


borophene

From boro- + graphene. Blend of boron + graphene.

an allotrope of boron, the class of quasiplanar and planar one-atom-thick molecular sheets of boron atoms, similar to carbon's graphene structure


netpicker

(Internet slang, fandom slang) One who engages in netpicking.


Charlieplexing

Blend of Charlie + multiplexing. It was proposed in early 1995 by Charlie Allen at Maxim Integrated.

A technique for driving a multiplexed display in which relatively few I/O pins on a microcontroller are used to drive an array of LEDs. It is based on tristate logic.


cocamide

A mixture of amides of the fatty acids obtained from coconut oil, used in many surfactants.


flexisexuality

Dr D’Felice admitted flexisexuality had become fashionable as a result of its recent celebrity endorsement, but said it had always existed.

2010 November 27, Louise Eccles, “Dawn of the flexisexual: The new word for the women who refuse to play it straight”, in Daily Mail:

Often, it begins in the enlightened college cocoon, where women can explore their sexuality, though a recent ABC report from San Antonio, Texas, said flexisexuality is also part of the high school culture.

2011 February 23, Susan Donaldson James, “Flexisexual: Girls Who Kiss Girls, But Like Boys”, in ABC News:

In fact, a growing proportion of Londoners are overturning the yoke of old-school monogamy and instead investigating the worlds of flexisexuality, of open or group relationships, of Living Apart Together (LAT), mono/non-mono and mono-gamish.

2014 March 14, Rebecca Newman, “Sex? Love? Commitment? The changing face of modern relationships”, in London Evening Standard:

(neologism) The state of having a flexible sexual orientation or pattern of sexual expression.


Lovatic

Her performances on this tour have been affirming but unpredictable, and the Lovatics — the name for her throngs of fans — totally relate.

2011 November 23, Kent Szlauderbach, “Teenage Dream”, in The Pitch, volume 31, number 20, page 17:

While making small talk with the audience, Demi's greetings were reciprocated with loud screams from the Lovatics.

2013, oan Kwek, “A Special Night with Demi Lovato”, in ArtJam, number 33, Nanyang Technological University Cultural Activities Club, page 31:

This is the fourth album for Demi, which she has dedicated to all her Lovatics.

2013 August, “Demi - Demi Lovato”, in TeenZone Magazine, number 117, page 48:

(music slang) A fan of American actress and singer Demi Lovato.


Glambert

So I surmise that the popular popster will bring the Glamberts out en masse when he performs here on his Glam Nation tour, […]

2010 July 14, Amy Atkins, “Adam Lambert at the Morrison Center”, in Boise Weekly:

[Adam Lambert:] That's part of the fun for the Glamberts; they've given themselves permission within that community to be kind of insane.

2012 June, Chris Azzopardi, “The Trouble with Adam Lambert”, in GayCalgary Magazine, number 104, page 47:

“Clearly, Adam Lambert was the highlight of the week. It was truly an honor to have such an A-lister want to be a part of our Pride. We had 'Glamberts' staking out their front-row positions at 8 a.m. that morning. […]

2013, Jason Parsley, "Adam Lambert Talks Love & Life", The Mirror, Volume 2, Issue 2, Summer 2013, page 40

(slang) A fan of American singer Adam Lambert.


techonomic

Blend of technology + economic, with -o- interfix to ease pronunciation.

The most advanced models of neoreactionary social order on earth work like this (Hong Kong and Singapore), combining resilient ethnic traditions with super-dynamic techonomic performance, to produce an open yet self-protective, civilized, socially-tranquil, high-growth enclave of outstanding broad-spectrum functionality.

involving both technology and economics as constituents


Wholigan

My girl's dad is a Who fan but she never really was interested until she started dating me. Now I've turned her into a Wholigan. :-)

2001 November 18, Sameer Barua, “Re: um. am i the only girl in here?”, in alt.music.who (Usenet):

Bass players, or any musicians really, will appreciate the mechanics far more, but I suspect any moderate to desperate-level Wholigan will want this DVD in his collection, it's a lovely reminder of that awesome talent who was taken from us years too soon.

2006 June 21, DGDevin, “John Entwistle: Bass Master Class DVD”, in alt.music.who (Usenet):

The Japanese Wholigan may rate “Out in the Street” as her favorite Who hit.

2014, Mike Segretto, The Who FAQ, Backbeat Books, →ISBN:

(slang) A fan of the English rock band The Who.


croggle

croggle (third-person singular simple present croggles, present participle croggling, simple past and past participle croggled)

croggles (present singular third-person)
croggling (participle present)
croggled (participle past)
croggled (past)

Blend of crush + goggle, or blend of crush + boggle. Coined by Dean Grennell.

CROGGLE (Grennell) Roughly meaning shocked into momentary physical or mental paralysis; a portmanteau-word, apparently, combining "crushed" and "goggled", and usually passive or reflexive in application.

1959, Richard "Dick" Harris Eney, Fancyclopedia II, Croggle:

Hope you're no longer croggled by all the mundanes in 'Frisco.

1988, Sharyn McCrumb, Bimbos of the Death Sun:

(transitive, dated, fandom slang) To shock so much as to cause brief paralysis; to stun; to startle.


Instagram

/ˈɪnstəɡɹæm/

Trade name. Blend of instant + telegram. By surface analysis, insta- + -gram.

According to a survey commissioned by the credit card company Barclay, 9 percent of shoppers in Britain admitted to buying clothes online for Instagram. After posting pictures of themselves wearing the item online, they return it.

2019 September 25, Kendra Pierre-Louis, “How to Buy Clothes That Are Built to Last”, in New York Times:

Carla's got a boyfriend / I spotted him on Instagram / Followed him about a bit

2020, “Carla's got a boyfriend”, in The Night Chancers, performed by Baxter Dury:

(Internet) An online photo- and video-sharing social networking service, originally designed to mimic old-fashioned instant cameras.

insta-

instant; long predates Insta; likewise productive of compounds, and ultimately cognate, but essentially homonymic


snatiation

(rare) A medical disorder characterized by uncontrollable bursts of sneezing brought on by fullness of the stomach.


Israhelli

en-adj

Israhelli (comparative more Israhelli, superlative most Israhelli)

more Israhelli (comparative)
most Israhelli (superlative)

Blend of Israeli + hell or Israhell + -i.

I had only ONE unfortunate ebay transaction.....There was fraud and manipulation committed on me. guess what the guy was a Jew. very very Israhelli first and last Name. I admit he made good of himself, but how many other people did he ripp off without having to take reponsibilities.

2003 December 31, Warhol, “Again PF CK YOU ...you... and PF CK YOU !>>>Got It?”, in soc.culture.iraq (Usenet):

it was israhell and the dual-israhelli citizens that wormed their way into our government

2012, T. J. Chaney, How Dare I - Collected Essays on the Destructive Force of Judaism, page 187:

Albert Einstein's letter to Shepard Rifkin on Israhelli Terrorists / One of the best minds in history, a great physicists and a Jew himself, Albert Einstein criticized the creation of Israhell by Zionist terrorists and called it a possible reason for future catastrophe for Jews.

2013 January 6, M.Ghazi Mujahid, “Albert Einstein's letter to Shepard Rifkin on Israhelli Terrorists”, in BTvolunteer (Google Groups):

4. Belgium sets a date for discussing the human rights of Palestinians under IsraHelli apartheid and is attacked by ISIS.

2016 March 26, NUR, “What will satisfy Jihadis?”, in talk.religion.bahai (Usenet):

(uncommon, slang, derogatory, offensive) Israeli.


Israhelli

Thankfully Canadians are healthier than the Israhellis and are rejecting the sociopath Harper.

2006 September 15, DetectorTHX23:59:01, “Psychopathology of Power -Epidemic”, in alt.politics.british (Usenet):

srahellis were also warned in advance on 77 in London. It was in the news all over the world that Scotland Yard warned Netanyahu in advance, but now it's totally memory holed. Israhellis also ran the security system in the London Underground on 77, just as they did all the 911 airports, and again no security camera images. Another one where Israhellis got warned in advance was the "Arab" terror attack bombings in Jordan in 11/05 where all the Jews evacuated before, and this was even in the Israhelli news, but now it too is totally memory holed.

2009 September 7, Warhol, “NY Daily News - part of the 9/11 COVERUP!”, in nyc.politics (Usenet):

Why didn't you use SAS?, they let Israhelli terrorists who kill women & children on a daily basis in their country, I think Israhellis begged Kenya to let them save the hostages in order to tell us that they are not terrorist, & Palestinian & Lebanese women & children killed themselves! Zionist vultures & scumbags!

2013 September 23, dav...@agent.com, “Indeed Odd! Israeli troops enter Nairobi mall”, in soc.retirement (Usenet):

(uncommon, slang, derogatory, offensive) An Israeli.


baquote

BAQUOTE A quote on the bacover, nacherly.

1959, Richard "Dick" Harris Eney, Fancyclopedia II, Baquote:

Hyphen always arrives with a postal baquote added to the certified Willis-picked ones. This time it is, "Belfast addresses NEED a district number." I don't see the humor in it; in fact I suspect the postal clerks have failed to get the idea and think any sort of remark is acceptable as a baquote. I had a little more hope for them some time back, when they used: "Correct addressing--what a blessing--saves us guessing." This at least had some promise. But they showed themselves up by using it also on the next two or three issues.

1965 February, Tom Perry, “Postscripts”, in Hyphen, number 36, archived from the original on 2013-03-17, page 15:

(dated, fandom slang) A quotation printed on the back cover of a book, magazine or similar medium.


bacover

Gleefully we perused those two copies, noting such achievements as a five-color bacover (counting black).

1951 November, Lee Hoffman, “The Ether Jiggles”, in Science-Fiction Five-Yearly, number 1, page 3:

They are a sort of bacover-quote, a lot of "-actual incredible things fans have said to one another."

1959, Richard "Dick" Harris Eney, Fancyclopedia II, Eavesdroppings:

(dated, fandom slang) Back cover of a book, magazine or similar medium.


Isratine

(rare) A hypothetical joint state of Israel and Palestine.


corflu

Blend of correction + fluid, or clipping of correction fluid.

Of them who have not breathed corflu, never was one knighted to St. Fanthony.

1960, John Bristol Speer, “Novus Ordo Fandorum”, in Fancestral Voices, page 190:

She could smell a faint aroma of machine oil and corflu emanating from the man cradling her worn (but not worn enough) form.

1983, Cathy Ball, “Love's Prurient Interest”, in Bug-Eyed Monsters and Bimbos, published 2011, →ISBN, page 159:

(dated, fandom slang) Opaque fluid used to mask textual errors, especially on mimeograph stencils or typewritten pages of fanzines.


goshwowboyoboy

goshwowboyoboy (comparative more goshwowboyoboy, superlative most goshwowboyoboy)

more goshwowboyoboy (comparative)
most goshwowboyoboy (superlative)

Blend of gosh + wow + boy + oh boy. Derived from a caption ("Gosh! Wow! Boyohboy! The mosta and the besta!") used in the July 10, 1939 issue of Time magazine, reprinted from a letter in the August 1939 issue of science fiction pulp magazine Thrilling Wonder Stories, in an article about the first World Science Fiction Convention, aka Nycon I, held in New York in July 1939.

I am one of the few fans that still have a copy of Spacewarp, No. 1, Vol. 1. As a first issue it was about as sickly a mag as you could ask for, and the fellow that was editing it sounded like the ultimate in "goshwowoboyoboy" new fans. I frankly expected it to be the last issue, and didn't subscribe.

1950 September, Rick Sneary, “The Editorial”, in Spacewarp, volume 7, number 6 (whole number 42), page 2:

The names you cite are as familiar to me as they are to you, and as fondly remembered. But I also remember the crap, and the naive goshwowboyoboy attitude of fellow neo-phans. I remember it well because I suffered from it.

1999 September 18, Reed Andrus, “Re: *New Online Literary Journal! (In which Pelan invokes Sturgeon's Law...)”, in rec.arts.horror.written (Usenet), message-ID <37E2E6DD.E4B68042@home.com>:

I'm letting one of the plot kittens out of the bag, but the book is such a delight that it'll do no serious harm if I tell you that it concerns a pulp science fiction editor who finds himself in a rip-roaring alien-plagued super-hero naked-heroine universe that exists in the mind of one of his goshwowboyoboy teen-aged readers.

2003, Mike Resnick, “Forgotten Treasures”, in Resnick at Large, →ISBN, page 56:

(dated, fandom slang, derogatory) Of or pertaining to a juvenile overenthusiasm; naive; uncritical.


grolar bear

A hybrid of the grizzly bear and the polar bear.


muzrat

But it would be better if we avoided them dirty turbans and muzrats and invaded Jamaica instead.

2014, Reynolds Alexander, Convict Land: Undercover in America's Jails, →ISBN:

Don't forget China, which is Hell on Earth for muzrats.

2015 November 18, Marti van Lin, “Terror attacks in Paris”, in comp.os.linux.advocacy (Usenet):

its time as a nation we made a stand and stop this madness before our country is taken over by these extremist rats if we was^([sic]) over there country building curchs^([sic]) and reading the bible we would be dead we need to stop these muzrat towl^([sic]) heads before its to late and at the same time get rid of this bullshit goverment^([sic]) THIS ENGLAND THIS OUR STREETS WE NEED TO TAKE THEM BACK. (Facebook user 21) Here we can identify the customary threat frame, whereby the “other,” regarded as inherently violent, was perceived to be moving closer to the precipice of taking over the nation. The user utilises the notion of “muzrat,” a not-uncommon expression within the networking sites.

2016, Graham Edward Geddes, Keyboard Warriors: The Production of Islamophobic Identity and an Extreme Worldview within an Online Political Community:

“If this plan involves smacking some fucking muzrats up, I'm well up for it” Joe called out from the sofa.

(slang, offensive, religious slur) A Muslim.


Romione

Ask her about her favorite ships. Does she like Dramione, or Romione? Ask her why, and if she's written fanfics about them.

2012, Krixia Subingsubing, "Date A Girl Who Writes", The Sword (St. Paul College of Makati), Volume 18, Number 1, June 2012-January 2013, page 14

The fans who believed in the canonical pairing were outraged that Rowling would say such things about their beloved Romione.

2014 February 10, Rebecca Godwin, “Romione vs. Harmony: Why do we even care?”, in The Michigan Daily, page 8A:

2014, J. Cibelli, "J. K. Rowling reflects on Romione romance", The Quinnipiac Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 18, 12 February 2014, page 11 (used in title only)

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger of the Harry Potter series.


Harmony

A number of places in the United States:

An unincorporated community in Johnson County, Arkansas.

San Luis Obispo County
San Luis Obispo County#English

An unincorporated community in San Luis Obispo County, California.

An unincorporated community in Osceola County, Florida.

Jefferson County
Jefferson County#English

An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Illinois.

census-designated place
census-designated place

A census-designated place in McHenry County, Illinois.

A town in Van Buren Township, Clay County, Indiana.

An unincorporated community in Caroline County, Maryland.

An unincorporated community in Middletown Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey.

An unincorporated community in Jackson Township, Ocean County, New Jersey.

An unincorporated community in Quinton Township, Salem County, New Jersey.

A township and census-designated place therein, in Warren County, New Jersey.

Chautauqua County
Chautauqua County#English

A town in Iredell County, North Carolina.

An unincorporated community in Clark County, Ohio.

An unincorporated community in Atoka County, Oklahoma.

A borough and historic district in Butler County, Pennsylvania.

Providence County
Providence County#English

A village and census-designated place in Providence County, Rhode Island.

Nacogdoches County
Nacogdoches County#English

An unincorporated community in Nacogdoches County, Texas.

An unincorporated community in Roane County, West Virginia.

Marinette County
Marinette County#English

An unincorporated community in Grover, Marinette County, Wisconsin.

An unincorprated community in Albany County, Wyoming.

A number of townships in the United States, listed under Harmony Township.


Connecticunt

(slang, vulgar, derogatory) A Connecticuter.


halfalogue

Blend of half + dialogue. By surface analysis, half + -logue.

(colloquial) half of a telephone conversation, overheard by a listener at one end


fratire

It is up to you to prove that guy did not use mathematics in his livelihood. he wrote a comedy/fratire book.....that doesn't require mathematics to do.

2013, Michael Press, “Re: maybe this is how I should have gotten married....”, in rec.sport.football.college (Usenet):

For those who have never encountered Maddox before: This is the website of a man who made himself successful in the early 200X's by writing a kind of vitriolic, shouty, bro-lit/fratire. Particularly famous is his fan mail response where he mocks children's artwork […]

2013, Alec Zorab, “Re: [scala-functional] Re: Math doesn't suck, you do.”, in scala-functional (Usenet):

politically incorrect
politically incorrect

A politically incorrect and overtly masculine style of non-fiction written for and marketed to young men.


yakow

An animal that is a hybrid of yak and cow (domestic cattle).


Batmaniac

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

The DC comic book recently ran a two-day telephone poll asking Batmaniacs whether they wanted Robin, who was seriously injured by an explosion at the end of one issue, to live or die.

1988, Raymond Moley, Malcolm Muir, Joseph Becker Phillips, Newsweek, volume 112, numbers 19-26, page xxxi:

(informal) A fan of the Batman fictional franchise.


divershitty

(slang, derogatory, vulgar) Diversity; multiculturalism.


utopographer

/ˌjuːtə(ʊ)ˈpɒɡɹəfə/

Blend of utopia + topographer, probably coined by English writer Herbert George Wells (1866–1946) in his 1927 novel Meanwhile: The Picture of a Lady: see the quotation.

refn

From the collection of the Wellcome Library in London, England, UK.

Mr. Plantagenet-Buchan knitted his brows. "Utopographer? Or was it a Utopologist? Or Utopolitan? Not a bad word, Utopolitan. No—it was Utopographer. I read it in one of the weeklies downstairs, the Spectator or the Nation or the Saturday. We might lead the talk rather carelessly towards Utopias and see what happened."

1927, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “Book the First. The Utopographer in the Garden.”, in Meanwhile: The Picture of a Lady, London: Ernest Benn, →OCLC; republished as Meanwhile: (The Picture of a Lady), New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, August 1927, →OCLC, § 1, page 19:

Whether or not this guidance was useful we cannot judge, but in any event no short cuts for skippers are possible in Mr. Wells's latest book, which is supposed to be the picture of a lady, but is in reality the portrait of a gentleman bent on reforming the world—a Utopographer, the author calls him—by name Mr. Sempack.

1927 July 30, The Spectator, volume 139, London: F. C. Westley, →OCLC, page 193:

What holds all these disparate forces together, along with such latter-day utopographers as [Burrhus Frederic] Skinner and Aldous Huxley (in Island, not in his earlier satire of the positive utopia, Brave New World), is faith.

1998, W[alter] Warren Wagar, “Dreams of Reason: Bellamy, Wells, and the Positive Utopia”, in Daphne Patai, editor, Looking Backward, 1988–1888: Essays on Edward Bellamy, Amherst, Mass.: University of Massachusetts Press, →ISBN, page 108:

Unlike utopographers who describe the future world as static and readymade, [Vladimir] Lenin shows the process and the mechanism through which "imperfect" socialists may move towards "perfect" communism: not by rocket, space ship, or time machine, but by long economic development under the auspices of socialist organizations.

1989, Richard Stites, “Revolution: Utopias in the Air and on the Ground”, in Revolutionary Dreams: Utopian Vision and Experimental Life in the Russian Revolution, New York, N.Y., Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN:


Chiweenie

A dog that is a crossbreed of Chihuahua and dachshund.


diflucortolone

(pharmacology) Alternative form of difluocortolone.


no-brow

en-adj

no-brow (comparative more no-brow, superlative most no-brow)

more no-brow (comparative)
most no-brow (superlative)

Blend of no + lowbrow. Popularized by writer John Seabrook in Nobrow: the culture of marketing, the marketing of culture (2000).

The Simpsons is pure Nobrow, able to slide as effortlessly as Bob himself from slide-whistling slapstick to talk of Susan Sontag, and ultimately oblivious to any prejudicial classifications. It's not such much that lowbrow bludgeoned highbrow to death with a dozen rakes; it's that both of them have been subsumed into the one-stop-shopping megamall of pop.

2005, Chris Turner, Planet Simpson […] , Ebury Press, →ISBN, page 140:

Located outside the traditional taste hierarchy, blending highbrow, middlebrow, and lowbrow.


evilutionist

In several large cities I was asked to address secret midnight meetings of high school teachers who feared to lose their jobs if seen consorting with an "evilutionist."

1951, Charles Francis Potter, The Preacher and I: An Autobiography, page 319:

Originally seen as a great opportunity to do irreparable damage to religious modernists and "evilutionists," the fundamentalists found, instead, that it was they who were injured by the Scopes trial.

1978, James Edward Sayer, Clarence Darrow: public advocate, page 64:

I is^([sic]) suspicious that many contemporary evilutionists cling to their theory with such tenacity because they don't want to deal with the Ultimate Reality or Truth.

2000, Ron Carlson, Common Sense, Nonsense, Or Church Sense, page 112:

The Christian Right too must have felt quizzical gratitude for this 'evilutionist' who, as they did, said man did not come from monkeys.

2002, Brian Regal, Henry Fairfield Osborn, page 173:

(rare, nonstandard, derogatory) A supporter of the theory of evolution, regarded as an enemy of religion.


Ameritard

Basic logic has gone out the window for video-game addicted Ameritards.

2003 February 7, Gad Fly [username], “brainwashed illiterates justify war”, in alt.fan.rush-limbaugh (Usenet):

The alternative is getting rid of Mr. Bush and the brainless jingoism's^([sic]) of Ameritards like yourself.

2003 February 13, raph [username], “Re: What Happens if the US backs down now?”, in alt.arts.poetry.comments (Usenet):

I can't wait for all the Koran burning levels to be unleashed by irate Ameritards.

2008 October 27, Kullrad [username], “Re: Wrong froup”, in uk.sport.football (Usenet):

[…] incels often feel misrepresented in the media, being framed as white conservatives: “I’m sick of these Ameritards trying to label us all as white and right wingers. […]”

2019 November, Sylvia Jaki et al., “Online Hatred of Women in the Incels.me Forum: Linguistic Analysis and Automatic Detection”, in Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict, volume 7, number 2, →DOI:

(slang, derogatory) A stupid or ignorant American.


broseph

"Come on, broseph," he calls back to Lucas, grinning wildly. "Let's spy on them!"

2007, Rick Barba, The Shrieking Shadow, Aladdin Paperbacks, published 2007, →ISBN, page 15:

Anybody who walks into your room knows immediately that you get blasted, broseph, and that most of your pride, social standing and self worth are derived from your ability to drink litres upon litres of spiced rum.

2010, Jonny Wakefield, Bryce Warnes, & Anna Zoria, "What's on you wall?", The Ubyssey (University of British Columbia), Volume 92, Number 11, 7 October 2010, page 4

“That I am, broseph. That I am.”

2014, John Hornor Jacobs, The Shibboleth, Carolrhoda Lab, published 2014, →ISBN, page 312:


scanxiety

Even now, almost nine years after Dr. Jablons declared me cured, when I have a "scanxiety" attack or see a frightening cancer headline, I replay his words in my mind and remind myself that I will likely live to play with my son's children and maybe even spend my retirement savings.

2011, Lori Hope, Help Me Live: 20 Things People with Cancer Want You to Know, Celestial Arts, →ISBN, page 163:

Nevertheless, we both experienced the usual "scanxiety" — the nervous feeling one gets at the approach of a scan date.

2012, Jai Pausch, Dreaming New Dreams: Reimagining My Life After Loss, Crown Archetype, →ISBN, page 78:

“It’s an amazing step in our healing journey, as it can be nerve wracking to go through the ‘scanxiety’ every six months,” says Teicher.

2014 April 25, Erin Ellis, “Mother finds unique way to share her cancer story with others”, in The Vancouver Sun:

(informal) Anxiety experienced while waiting to undergo a medical scan or receive the results of one.


brosephine

Blend of bro + Josephine, after the pattern of broseph.

in other words, ROCK ON, BROSEPHS (and brosephines)!!!

2003 October 5, Emomakesmefart [username], “Jables on SNL”, in rec.music.phish (Usenet):

First of all, good luck finding anyone willing to play beer pong in a wood-paneled rec room, say goodbye to fist-bumping with your brosephines while watching Dane Cook on if Dad's got the remote during an Everybody Loves Raymond marathon, […]

2007, Jake Martin, "Ask Jake", Rose Hill Magazine (Fordham University), Spring 2009, page 7

But in the other no-less-important stylistic sense, these guys are doing the Lord's work for bros and brosephines everywhere.

2014, Eddie Alterman, "Two Big Shows" (editor's letter), Car and Driver, Volume 59, Number 8, February 2014, page 9


sidegrade

en-verb

sidegrade (third-person singular simple present sidegrades, present participle sidegrading, simple past and past participle sidegraded)

sidegrades (present singular third-person)
sidegrading (participle present)
sidegraded (participle past)
sidegraded (past)

(computing, transitive, intransitive) To switch to a different but equivalent product.


cinnamedrine

(pharmacology) The psychostimulant 2-[methyl-[(E)-3-phenylprop-2-enyl]amino]-1-phenylpropan-1-ol.


avantpop

An American artistic movement which derived from postmodernism in the 1990s, characterized by the reuse of existing mass media materials (cinema, pop music, television, etc.) in an avant-garde manner.


restobar

(Philippines, some other countries) an establishment resembling both a bar and a restaurant.


phirotope

(physics) A generalization of oriented matroid chirotopes for complex point configurations.


Tae Bo

That means I fly rough early, plus, I know Tae Bo / That means I'm new-school, pop pills and stay in beef

2001, “Girls, Girls, Girls”, in The Blueprint, performed by JAY-Z:

A martial art invented in the United States based on taekwondo.


orature

en-noun

orature (countable and uncountable, plural oratures)

Blend of oral + literature, said to have been coined by the Ugandan linguist and literary theorist Pio Zirimu (died 1977): see the 1972 quotation.

/ˈɔɹəˌt͡ʃʊ(ə)ɹ/

It is because of this that Mr Pio Zirimu, a Ugandan linguist and literary critic, has coined the word ‘orature’.

[1972, Wa Thiong’o [i.e., Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o], Homecoming: Essays on African and Caribbean Literature, Culture and Politics, London, Ibadan, Nigeria: Heinemann, →OCLC, page 70:

The decolonization of the African mind and imaginagion is a job that must be done. It is a job that requires that our perceptions, our imaginations, and our literary devices be fertilized by the past literatures and oratures of the Pan-African world, and by the literatures and oratures of other lands besides Europe.

1978, Okike: An African Journal of New Writing, Enugu, Nigeria: Okike Magazine, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1:

As it were, Literature is often seen as a branch of Language Arts. Orature is a branch of Literature and hence inevitably falls within Language especially in as far as Language is basically oral. […] Inevitably, a good stock of the words within Orature are taken from written Literature. The text hopes to establish the interrelationship of these branches of Literature and through definition to show the specific application of these terms in Orature.

1990, Leteipa Ole Sunkuli, Simon Okumba Miruka, “Introduction”, in A Dictionary of Oral Literature, Nairobi, Kenya, Kampala, Uganda: East African Educational Publishers, published 2008, →ISBN, page ix:

In the chapter on Aidoo, I note that certain genres of the orature, particularly the dilemma tales, have unresolved endings which call for community response; this is evident in the ending of Song as well.

1992, Gay [Alden] Wilentz, Binding Cultures: Black Women Writers in Africa and the Diaspora (Blacks in the Diaspora), Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, →ISBN:

There is much at work in this discussion of canon and orature. As a starting point, it is worth noting that the academic discipline of English developed in the colonial era, and it should be equally patent that Eurocentric attempts to define a canon since the 19th century have been "less a statement of the superiority of the Western tradition than a vital, active instrument of Western hegemony." Limiting consideration or admission to the canon to orature is a way of continuing colonialism. It once again keeps American Indians from entering the 20th century and denies to Native literary artists who choose other media any legitimate or "authentic" Native identity.

1997, Jace Weaver, “Native American Literatures and Communitism”, in That the People Might Live: Native American Literatures and Native American Community, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 23:

Blue Marrow by the Cree poet Louise Bernice Halfe has an intriguing textual history. […] Of the changes made to the revised edition, the completely rewritten narrative frame is particularly interesting, especially given the relevance of opening and closing frames in Aboriginal oratures and in oral traditions around the world more generally[…].

2012, Mareike Neuhaus, “What’s in a Frame?: The Significance of Relational World Bundles in Louise Bernice Halfe’s Blue Marrow”, in Susan Gingell, Wendy Roy, editors, Listening Up, Writing Down, and Looking Beyond: Interfaces of the Oral, Written, and Visual, Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, →ISBN, page 221:

This book takes readers into the hitherto unexplored undercurrents of one of the so-called minor genres of African orature—riddles.

2015 April, Akíntúndé Akínyẹmí, “Introduction”, in Orature and Yorùbá Riddles, New York, N.Y.: Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 1:

The oral equivalent of literature: a collection of traditional folk songs, stories, etc., that is communicated orally rather than in writing.


facekini

Blend of face + bikini, calque of Chinese 臉基尼／脸基尼 (liǎnjīní), equivalent to face + -kini.

In the summer, look out for the armies of brides and bridegrooms using the beaches for their wedding photos, and look out for another more recent phenomena: the facekini.

A desire to protect the whiteness of the skin when no parasol is at hand has given rise to the “facekini.”

2018, Sophia Camille Erickson, The China Option: A Guide for Millennials: How to Work, Play, and Find Success in China, unnumbered page:

Europeans are depicted enjoying the beach environment in Rhodes, Greece, and Chinese citizens using floatation devices and covering up with the facekini and bodysuits are portrayed in Hainan island, China.

2019, Tingzhen (Jane) Chen & Philip L. Pearce, "Chinese Tourists and the Sun: Implications for Design Experiences", in Delivering Tourism Intelligence: From Analysis to Action (eds. Philip L. Pearce & Hera Oktadiana), pages 183-184

In scorching Beijing, “facekinis” are the hottest new fashion as surging temperatures shatter records.

2023 July 21, Reuters, “‘Facekinis’ become popular in China as temperatures soar”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

A balaclava-like swimwear face mask which completely covers the face except for holes for the eyes, nose, and mouth, worn as protection from sun and irritants.


wrock

There are, at present, dozens of these “wizard rock” or “wrock” bands, some of which tour nationally and internationally performing at small clubs, libraries and Harry Potter conferences and other special events.

2007, Racheline Maltese, The Book of Harry Potter Trifles, Trivias & Particularities, Volume 1, Sterling & Ross Publishers, →ISBN, page 175:

Not all wrock is punk wrock. There's plenty of stylistic diversity in the scene, which ranges from the electric girl pop of the Parselmouths to the darkly gleaming hip-hop of Swish and Flick.

2009 July 20, Lev Grossman, “The Boy Who Rocked”, in Time:

The phenomenon of wrock (wizard rock) within Harry Potter fandom has not yet produced mainstream crossovers.

2011, Aaron Schwabach, Fan Fiction and Copyright: Outsider Works and Intellectual Property Protection, Ashgate, →ISBN, page 78:

(fandom slang) A genre of music produced by fans of the Harry Potter series, characterized by costumed performances and humorous lyrics about characters, settings, and plot elements from the series.


Transfan

I love reading about the Transfans who now buy TF's for their kids in much the same way that others of a previous generation bought GIJoes for theirs, and continue to do. It's just a warm fuzzy feeling; we're building a community, one Transfan at a time...ain't it something?

2003 October 8, Downtown Torpedo [username], “Re: How Old Are You All?”, in alt.toys.transformers (Usenet):

But I really don't care where they'll end after I go - it's good enough if they make it in my lifetime (a fellow Transfan recently lost his collection in a fire, and the general cheer up was "they can be replaced", which is ultimately true).

2006 January 14, Cappeca [username], “Re: Thoughts on AFA and MISB TFs”, in alt.toys.transformers (Usenet):

As a Transfan since 1985 and an ATTer since around 1997, the online face of Transfandom has definitely changed.

2006 July 24, Chad Rushing, “Re: Wow - is this ATT?”, in alt.toys.transformers (Usenet):

(informal) A fan of Transformers, a toy and entertainment franchise dealing with factions of alien robots who can change their form.


nakie

en-adj

nakie (comparative more nakie, superlative most nakie)

more nakie (comparative)
most nakie (superlative)


Fannibal

I consider myself to be a “Fannibal.”

2013 June 20, Julien Fielding, “What’s on TV: ‘Hannibal’ gives a better backstory to Dr. Lecter”, in The Daily Nonpareil, Council Bluffs, Iowa, page 9A:

“There was a tremendous groundswell of support from the Fannibals,” Fuller told The News, […]

2014 March 11, Scott Neumyer, “NBC's 'Hannibal' returns with higher ratings”, in New York Daily News:

We can see why even the actors would get freaked out making Hannibal – it features some of the most disgusting corpses this side of The Walking Dead, which ‘Fannibals’ refer to as ‘tableaus’ because of their arty arrangements.

2014 July, “Blood work”, in Total Film, page 25:

(fandom slang) A fan of the American television series Hannibal and/or of the fictional character Hannibal Lecter.


bugly

bugly (comparative more bugly or buglier, superlative most bugly or bugliest)

more bugly (comparative)
buglier (comparative)
most bugly (superlative)
bugliest (superlative)

She has immense white teeth that snap, and a bugly bonnet, with one dismal ostrich feather wobbling sternly on end.

1896, David Macbeth Moir, Conjugal Amenities:

I have never seen such a bugly guy in my life!

2000, Richard Spears, NTC's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions:

“For every ugly there's a bugly.” She smiled.


Trock

Blend of Time Lord + rock, after the pattern of wrock.

Allegra is more of an indie upstart, "though (she's) one of the people who always comes up when you talk about Trock," says Perry Michael Simon, who edits "The Nerdist," comedian Chris Hardwick's popular, geek-centric website.

2011 December 14, Christopher Borrelli, “Allegra Rosenberg is all plugged in, ready to Trock”, in Chicago Tribune:

One of the more interesting activities is the writing of “Trock,” or Timelord rock, a genre of music well known among the show's fans that celebrates the show and its characters.

2012 December 26, Veronica Austin, “New club celebrates science fiction”, in The Issaquah Press, page B6:

The originators of the Trock phenomenon, Chameleon Circuit's ode to the TARDIS is a delightfully retro-eighties-sounding jaunt, Gary Numan with an even more one-track mind than the original.

2013, Dave Thompson, Doctor Who FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the Most Famous Time Lord in the Universe, Applause Theatre and Cinema Bokos, →ISBN:

(fandom slang) A genre of music produced by fans of the British science-fiction television series Doctor Who, characterized by lyrics about its characters, settings, and plot elements.


apartelle

Blend of apartment + hotel using apartment + -elle.


Maniloony

The studio audience, packed with his diehard fans, the "Maniloonies," went wild.

1998, George Mair, Rosie O'Donnell: Her True Story, Carol Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 223:

“A fellow Fanilow!”
“Look how young she is! A mini Maniloony!”

2009, Megan McCafferty, Perfect Fifths, Crown Publishers, →ISBN, page 35:

I don't like everything he does, I'm not one of Barry's 'Maniloonies', and neither is Nell, but I think everyone agrees that 'Could It Be Magic?' is a great song.

2012, Graham Rawle, The Card, Atlantic Books, →ISBN:

(fandom slang) A fan of American singer-songwriter Barry Manilow.


Fanilow

I am a huge Fanilow and had the good fortune of meeting and spending a little time with Barry a few years ago.

2011, Elise Ballard, Epiphany: True Stories of Sudden Insight to Inspire, Encourage, and Transform, Harmony Books, →ISBN, page 233:

You don't have to be one of the almost obsessive “Fanilows” to be totally won over by Barry Manilow's latest Vegas show at Paris Las Vegas.

2011, Rick Garman, Las Vegas for Dummies, Wiley Publishing, →ISBN, page 248:


sexploiter

[…] it had first opened as the Ideal Theater, later to go through numerous name changes and booking policy shifts that saw it screen Italian and Russian films and “girlie” sexploiters in the 1950s.

2010, John Cline, Robert G. Weiner, From the Arthouse to the Grindhouse:


flexitank

From a brand name. Blend of flexible + tank.

We have flexitanks, which are ideal for one-way shipment of non-hazardous liquids: and up to 30 flexitanks can be stowed in a standard 20ft box for empty return at minimal cost.

The military has long been one of the largest purchasers of flexitanks, employing them for (among other things) water storage during deployments. But that's by no means the only application.

2006, Industrial Fabric Products Review:

A liquid storage container made from flexible material such as polyurethane.


gaytheist

Once a high-profile religious leader, Fernando wants to use this book to come out as both Humanist and gay—“gaytheist”—to help strengthen a national narrative of understanding, tolerance, and acceptance.

2015, Fernando Alcántar, To the Cross and Back: An Immigrant's Journey from Faith to Reason:

(LGBTQ, slang) Someone who is both gay and atheist.

(slang, offensive, derogatory) An atheist.


Twimom

For "Twilight" fans, the Runaways' iconic power may be difficult to grasp. (And for many of those girls' Twimoms, it may be difficult to remember.)

2010 April 9, Ann Hornaday, “Kristen Stewart has style and substance in hard-rocking 'The Runaways'”, in The Washington Post:

The next six hours consisted of 40-something-year-old TwiMoms who couldn't wait to get a glance of Carlisle, rude people trying to cut in line, and an insane lady bringing her fussy baby who wouldn't stop crying.

2012, Julith Perry, "'Breaking Dawn' renews series", The Mentor (Manhattan High School, Manhattan, Kansas), Volume 100, Issue 11, 27 November 2012, page 6

Even though we're writing legal teens doing legal things, we did get our fair share of shit for being “TwiMoms” writing “TwiPorn.”

2013, Anne Jamison, Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World, BenBella Books, published 2013, →ISBN:

(fandom slang) A mother who likes Stephenie Meyer's Twilight book series or the associated films.


strawpedo

en-verb

strawpedo (third-person singular simple present strawpedoes or strawpedos, present participle strawpedoing, simple past and past participle strawpedoed)

strawpedoes (present singular third-person)
strawpedos (present singular third-person)
strawpedoing (participle present)
strawpedoed (participle past)
strawpedoed (past)

(slang, transitive) To drink in this manner.


beertail

Bartenders have long known that mixing beer and liquor makes for chemically complex concoctions, but tipplers have just begun elevating beertails beyond their fraternity party reputation. Beer cocktails—or beertails—combine the best qualities of the craft beer and craft cocktail movements […]


fanpire

The self-proclaimed fanpires gawked, squealed and begged for autographs and photos with the stars.

2008 November 18, Derrik J. Lang, “Fans flock to 'Twilight' premiere in Los Angeles”, in USA Today:

Have you devoured the "Twilight" books? Are you obsessed with Edward? Can you recite the entire "Twilight" movie? Do you have Bella on the brain? Then you just might be a "Twilight" fanpire.

2009 July 16, “An event to sink your teeth into”, in The Charleston Gazette:

That their emotional relationship is foregrounded over sex may also explain why the mothers of Meyer's “fanpires” are great enthusiasts of the books, too.

2012, Victoria Nelson, Gothicka: Vampire Heroes, Human Gods, and the New Supernatural, Harvard University Press, published 2012, →ISBN, page 136:

(fandom slang) A fan of Stephanie Meyer's Twilight book series or the associated films.


Twifan

Naff ending and slow pacing notwithstanding, you can't really call this swoonfest a terrible movie (unless you want to be tweeted to death by Twifans).

2010 April 8, “To tide over the Twi-hards”, in Daily News, South Africa:

There are even goodies, too, for Twifans whose love of cooking is just as strong as their love for vampires and werewolves.

2010, Amanda McGuire Rzicznek, "'Twilight' cookbook adds spice", The BG News (Bowling Green State University), Volume 104, Issue 159, 7 July 2010, page 8

As any Twifan could tell you, long before Snowqueens Icedragon changed some names in her popular fic “Master of the Universe” and published it as Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James, the wank surrounding her, her attitudes, and her relationship to the fandom had already reached epic proportions.


Homocaust

Blend of homosexual + Holocaust. Possibly coined in 1986 in the pseudoacademic, Holocaust-denial-focused Journal of Historical Review; possibly attested already by the 1970s.

1991 (English translation), Massimo Consoli (original author), Homocaust: From the Reform of Soviet Codes in 1934 to the Slaughter in Nazi Fields: Persecution of Homosexuals in Russia Under Stalin and in Germany Under Hitler (originally in Italian: 1984, Massimo Consoli, Homocaust: il nazismo e la persecuzione degli omosessuali)

Much of lesbian/gay history claims that the Nazis pursued a campaign against homosexual men, similar to the mass murder of Jews, which lead^([sic]) to a Homocaust, the systematic extermination of homosexual men. In an article published in 2002, Jim Steakley, an American activist and historian, looks back self-critically at how he and others contributed to the myth of a Homocaust in the early 1970s (Steakly 2002: 55, also Jellonek and Lautmann 2002: 12).

2013, Queer Futures: Reconsidering Ethics, Activism, and the Political, →ISBN:

(rare) The persecution of homosexuals which occurred in Nazi Germany, when seen as constituting systematic destruction of them.

Persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust

homocaust

mass murder or persecution of homosexuals


pizzly

This means that ʽPizzlies’ (as recent polar bear/brown bear hybrids are known), are not a new phenomenon, but have been produced for hundreds of thousands of years.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 155:


purrfect

en-adj

purrfect (comparative more purrfect, superlative most purrfect)

more purrfect (comparative)
most purrfect (superlative)

but often with greater emphasis on the first syllable

Obligatory cat pun coming up . . . this book is a purrfect gift for the cat lady or cat dude in your life.

2013, NPR book review, quoted on the praise page of John Bradshaw, Cat Sense: How the New Feline Science Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet, Basic Books (2013), unnumbered page

For a “purrfect” Halloween costume, I make a black tail and pin it to the back of my dress, glue two black felt ears onto a hair band, and draw little black whiskers below my nose that I've rouged slightly pink.

2013, Sandra Magsamen, Living Artfully: A Heart-full Guide of Ideas and Inspirations That Celebrate Life, Love, and Moments That Matter, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN:

Now, Oscar was the most wonderful pet; attentive, affectionate, strangely thoughtful for a cat, a purrfect cat.

2015, Marty Whelan, That’s Life, Gill & Macmillan, →ISBN:

(colloquial, humorous) Perfect, in contexts relating to cats.


reflexicon

(rare) A word list that describes its own letter frequencies.


geomagic square

en-noun

geomagic square (plural geomagic squares)

Blend of geometric + magic square. Invented by Lee Sallows.

A geometric magic square: one containing distinct geometric shapes rather than numbers, and where those appearing in each row, column, or diagonal can be fitted together to create an identical target shape.


Humpdashian

With Humpdashian reportedly seeking but not receiving a $30,000 appearance fee from Life Time Fitness at the Grand Hotel to make stops there, it's assumed that Seven paid.

2011 July 5, C. J., “Humpdashian tardy to party. First, a little melon-drama?”, in Star Tribune:

Since the August wedding, Americans have had everything “Humpdashian” (Kris Humphries and Kim Kardashian) shoved down their throats until they were brainwashed into idolizing the perfect couple.

2011, Lauren Gross, "Kim and Kris: Humpdashian No More", The Spotlight (Southern Lehigh High School, Center Valley, Pennsylvania), Volume 55, Issue 2, November 2011, page 13

Then the Humpdashian split.

2011 November 11, Paul Kockler, “Society is captivated by the Kardashians”, in The Northern Iowan, volume 108, number 22, University of Northern Iowa, page 15:

(slang) The couple consisting of celebrity Kim Kardashian and basketball player Kris Humphries, together from 2010 to 2011.


autopia

Blend of auto + utopia, name of a Disneyland amusement park ride, applied to urbanism by Rayner Banham

An urban landscape designed for use by the automobile.


azuresin

A complex of the azure dye 3-amino-7-dimethylamino-phenazathonium chloride coupled with carbacrylic cationic exchange resin.


Republocrat

The dominant Republocrat spectrum is sharply skewed to the right.

1986, Holly Sklar, Reagan, Trilateralism, and the Neoliberals, page 12:

I am often amazed to learn of apparently sensible people solemnly taking in the soothing platitudes of politicians, whether Republocrat or Demopublican.

1999, Peter J. Boettke, The Legacy of Friedrich Von Hayek: Philosophy, page 435:

Even the conservative comic Bob Hope described himself as a ˈRepublocratˈ on being received in 1944.

2013, Mark Wheeler, Celebrity Politics, page 43:


koranimal

(slang, offensive, derogatory, religious slur) A Muslim.


Sonomarin

The region of Sonoma and Marin Counties in California.


Muslime

They were Christians sent to a third world country to help... They were taken
hostage by muSLIMES.... and now one is dead at the hand of the muSLIMES.....

2002 June 7, PiggyAllaaaah, “Missionary killed in the Philippines by muSLIMES!.”, in soc.culture.israel (Usenet):

All pukistani muslimes are TERRORISTS. The whole world despises and
hates all pukistani muslimes. Nobody in the world respects the
pukistani muslimes and finger print all pukistani muslimes in
airports. Pukistani muslimes run across the canadian border like pigs.

2004 March 30, Shripathi Kamath, “Pukistani muslimes are terrorists, jihadis and pigs”, in rec.sport.cricket (Usenet):

As a Muslime I'm bound by the Quran, the Word of a dog, and the Sunnah,
the way of the Fake Prophet, and not by any other human being.
All sewage is due to Allah

2006 June 26, Dr Vineharberg, “As a Muslime I'm bound by the Quran”, in uk.religion.islam (Usenet):

How does someone become a Muslime?
Simply by saying 'there is no god apart from God, and Muhammad Pedophile.'

2007 December 26, Deport-Muslims, “How to become a muslime”, in aus.religion.islam (Usenet):

All the difference in the world, since it's the Muslimes who are causing all the problems in the Middle East now.

2014 August 1, fred1...@gmail.com, “The only thing Israel is good for is pedding the myth of God.”, in alt.atheism (Usenet):

Why quite rightly? Is there something about Muslimes fucking little kids
that you would like to hide?
Johnston Press are noted for removing reports regarding Muslimes.

2017 April 14, Mr Pounder Esquire, “Ping Harry: Protests outside court as 29 face 170 child sex charges”, in uk.legal (Usenet):

He is of course correct to say that Muslimes cannot be English.

2020 November 20, KKKernal Corn, “lol fabricant (whatwhig?) says muslims can't be british... but jews can eh! (yes under the blonde wig he's a jew...)”, in uk.politics.misc (Usenet):

(slang, derogatory, offensive, religious slur) Muslim


computerlore

From computer + lore, and/or possibly from a blend of computer + folklore.

Modern communication methods have already produced a whole body of 'screenlore' or 'computerlore' and 'Netlore'.

This lack of motivation in studying the use of folklore in burgeoning technology could conceivably rest within the ideologies bestowed upon folklore trainees prior the advent of the Internet and computerlore.

2014, Trevor J. Blank, Toward a Conceptual Framework for the Study of Folklore and the Internet:

The knowledge, teaching, study, science, or legend surrounding computers.


envowel

en-verb

envowel (third-person singular simple present envowels, present participle envowelling or envoweling, simple past and past participle envowelled or envoweled)

envowels (present singular third-person)
envowelling (participle present)
envoweling (participle present)
envowelled (participle past)
envowelled (past)
envoweled (participle past)
envoweled (past)

Blend of embowel + vowel with assimilation the m of embowel to the following v of vowel. Compare to disenvowel.

In this dress I intend to abuse the *** and the ***; I intend to lash not only the m―stry, but every man who hath any p―ce or p―ns―n from the g―vernm―t, or who is entrusted with any degree of power or trust under it, let his r―nk be ever so high, his f―rt―ne never so great, or his ch―r―cter never good. For this purpose I have provided myself with a quantity of Italian letter, and asterisks of all sorts. And as for all the words which I embowel, or rather envowel, I will never so mangle them but they shall be as well-known as if they retained every vowel in them. This I promise myself, that when I have any meaning they shall understand it.

1747-1748, Henry Fielding, the Jacobite's Journal:

(dated, transitive, humorous, rare) to replace a portion of a person's name with a dash in printing, in order to avoid libel.


Muslamic

en-adj

Muslamic (comparative more Muslamic, superlative most Muslamic)

more Muslamic (comparative)
most Muslamic (superlative)


faned

Sample fanzine advertisement attached; same obtainable free from B.T. for any fan-ed wishing to run them.

1946 April, Wilson "Bob" Tucker, Bloomington News-letter, page 1:

This British peculiarity, this psychopathic abhorrence for open spaces in fanzines, has been remarked on by many people but until this moment nobody has explained the real reason for it. It is not meanness, nor the high cost of paper, nor any obvious cause like that. It is simply that every British faned walks in the shadow of fear, knowing himself to be a hunted man, a law-breaker, an enemy of society. He is the victim of a guilt complex that compels him to shun the free wide spaces beloved of US faneds and to crowd his materiel into a confined space as if huddling together for protection.

1961 August, Walter Alexander Willis, “Black Mail”, in Willis Papers:

A lot of crap passes through here that no decent faned would pub, while some of the traffic is meant to be playful or argumentive in a high volume, rapid turnover way, what you might call ephemeral, entertainment today, written over tomorrow.

1995 September 11, Lindsay Crawford, “Re: All Knowledge Is Cont”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom (Usenet), message-ID <9509101936014156@emerald.com>:

(dated, fandom slang) The editor of a fandom publication, most commonly a fanzine.


Retardican

They're keeping him under wraps so nobody has time to rig the polling machines. They'll pop him out two days ahead of the elections. The typical Retardican will hear just one thing: Reagan. They'll vote for him automatically and mindlessly, in the same way they react (negatively, as trained) to news about stem cell research.

2004 June 28, Doug Kanter, “Re: OT: Ron Reagan”, in rec.boats (Usenet):

All across the world, families came together and most people agreed, Retardican and Homocrat alike, it was a beautiful time to be alive on the planet Earth, wars or no wars, end or no end.

2006, Michael Soltys, The Grass is Green, page 244:

The Demoncrats versus the Retardicans. Nothing is more bizarre than the body swapping of the Democrats and Republicans.

2020, Steve Madison, What's Eating You? How the World Is Screwing You Up:

Republican Party
w:Republican Party (United States)

(US politics, slang, derogatory) A Republican (a member or supporter of the Republican Party of the United States), seen as having no intelligence.


Retardican

Did you notice how the real mouthpiece of the Retardican plutocrat fascists, Dr. Arm(tm) has nothing to contribute to this thread now that the discussion does not invove heavy breathing and name calling?

2000 December 28, Douglas King, “Oil Exploration.... more side chatter”, in alt.sailing.asa (Usenet):

Has anyone besides Drudge (and his followers) reported this story? I think you can file it with last month's Kerry-banged-an-intern story. Can't wait to see what you Retardican clowns come up with next.

2004 March 23, Plankton, “Re: The arrogance of Kerry”, in alt.fan.howard-stern (Usenet):

Amazing how these Retardican tools, who preach distrust and hatred of ALL government, think it's religious to believe everything the Nixonite Retardican Dumbya government says...except when that same government utters an official discouraging word against Herr Bush.

2006 January 17, trim...@dc.net, “Re: Here you go, GOP Shills!”, in dfw.politics (Usenet):

(US politics, slang, derogatory) Republican (of or pertaining to the Republican Party of the United States).


Rethuglican

I have often said that it is the intent of the Rethuglicans to bankrupt the system so that there is no money for social programs!!!

2002 June 16, John H. Fisher, “Re: Rats up to old same ole' tricks again.”, in alt.politics.democrats (Usenet):

Whever^([sic]) you read something written by a Neocon/Rethuglican, remember, they may brag about how great they are, but they ain't in Iraq.

2005 January 11, NoSpamAllowed [username], “Re: Foolish, Naive American Politicians Will Receive No Muslim Gratitude For Tsunami Aid”, in alt.politics.democrats (Usenet):

Never as many as you ChickenHawk Rethuglicans, who send other people's kids off to do what you were too scaredy-cat to do yourselves.

2009 January 20, Iarnrod [username], “Re: Most Of American Military Suspicious Of Obama AsCommander-In-Chief”, in alt.politics.democrats (Usenet):

(US politics, slang, derogatory) A member or supporter of the Republican Party of the United States.


crifanac

Blend of critical + fan + activity. From fanac. Coined by Charles Burbee.

Come to think of it, I certainly don't envy you all the work involved. Gad, you must be superhuman, or at least superdevoted to crifanac!

1955 January, Art Rapp, “Through Rain”, in Abstract, number 9:

This is a matter of degree, and depending on the extent to which a given fan indulges in anything more than local club activity he may be distinguished as an actifan (as opposed to passifen); stress on crifanac rather than congoing, among actifans, is the chief extensional distinction between trufans and confans.

1959, Richard Emey, Fancyclopedia II, Fan:

The state of Wisconsin, once one of the cooler hotbeds of faanish endeavor, today lies fallow, barren and all but devoid of the faintest crepitance of crifanac.

1966 November, Dean Grennell, “A Pilgrim in Never-Never Country”, in Science-Fiction Five-Yearly, number 4, page 19:

It may still be a little bit before I can add a.f.i-m back into my list of online crifanac, but I do hope to be back before too long.

1998 August 9, Dave Locke, “Re: Critical Mass (and where in the world is Dave Locke???)”, in alt.fan.inspector-morse (Usenet), message-ID <35cd9d1a.55797347@news.pipeline.com>:

(dated, fandom slang) Urgent, high-priority fan activity.


Wayleen

Whether Wayleen were aware of the showers or not, remains to be seen, as they travelled under tight security in vehicles with blacked-out windows to the venue.

2008 June 12, Corinne Abrams, Adam Sherwin, “Rain puts a damper on Wayne Rooney and Coleen McLoughlin wedding”, in The Times:

Whilst all appears well for the Wayleen partnership, it appears Wayne's dad, who's also called Wayne isn't having such good fortune.

2009 November 23, “And baby Roo comes too - Wayne Rooney's son enjoys his first visit to Old Trafford”, in Daily Mail:

If her family and strong Catholic upbringing in Croxteth has helped her through the 'Wayleen' sagas, Coleen goes into 2011 in the knowledge that while she is one half of a famous footballing couple, she has developed a lucrative brand identity in her own right and, this week, she fronts three magazine covers

2010 December 10, Bairbre Power, “Coleen -- still smiling despite Wayne's away games. . .”, in Irish Independent:

(UK, slang) The couple consisting of celebrities Wayne Rooney and Coleen Rooney (née McLoughlin).


Muslimaniac

Muslimaniac (comparative more Muslimaniac, superlative most Muslimaniac)

more Muslimaniac (comparative)
most Muslimaniac (superlative)

(informal, derogatory) Being an excessively zealous Muslim.


wankster

Blend of wannabe + gangster, and simultaneously also evocative of wanker.

He becomes a real-life version of the synthesized, ghetto-head wanksters that MTV parades as black males in their Real World shows.

2004, Rajen Persaud, Why Black Men Love White Women: Going Beyond Sexual Politics to the Heart of the Matter, Pocket Books, published 2009, →ISBN, page 82:

[…] that whiteboy wannabe wankster waste is so far behind he can't even dream of catching up.

2005, The Beloit Poetry Journal, Volumes 56-57, 48

The first prototype of what would eventually morph into Ali G was called MC Jocelyn Cheadle-Hume, whom Sacha describes as “a hip-hop journalist, a wankster reporter.”

2008, Kathleen Tracy, Sacha Baron Cohen: The Unauthorized Biography: From Cambridge to Kazakhstan, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 47:

(slang, derogatory) A person who pretends to be a member of an urban gang or affects hip-hop styles and attitudes; a gangster poseur.


wanksta

Blend of wannabe + gangsta, and simultaneously also evocative of wanker.

That was where the chickenheads and wankstas hung out, sporting Sean John, Rocawear, Enyce, and Phat Farm like ghetto-fab Italian suits.

2004, Eric Jerome Dickey, Naughty or Nice, New American Library, →ISBN, page 37:

And my heart's desire wasn't to be known as some fake wanksta or a spoilt little rich kid.

2008, Alex Wheatle, The Dirty South, Serpent's Tail, →ISBN, page 49:

Nearly two hundred years separate Jim Crow from Vanilla Ice, The (White) Rapper Show, Eminem, the Beastie Boys, and a legion of other wanksta wiggers.

2011, Miles White, From Jim Crow to Jay-Z: Race, Rap, and the Performance of Masculinity, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 125:


sanctimommy

I'm late for pediatrician appointments. I can't make straight parts in my girls' hair. I forget to send them in the snow with hats, as the kind sanctimommies of the neighborhood are delighted to point out with their eyebrows raised as far as Botox will allow.

2009, Liz Gumbinner, “Type B Mom”, in Beth Feldman, editor, See Mom Run: Side-Splitting Essays from the World's Most Harried Blogging Moms, Plain White Press, →ISBN, page 140:

She even has to endure the occasional judgments from sanctimommies—women who are much, much better mothers than Kelly and who sometimes wonder aloud, "Why can't her kids swim yet?" or "Why is she drinking a glass of wine at her daughter's birthday party?" (God no!)

2010, Colin Sokolowski, The Accidental Adult: Essays and Advice for the Reluctantly Responsible and Marginally Mature, Adams Media, →ISBN, page 104:

But Waldman’s reaction spoke for any vulnerable young mother holding a bottle subjected in public to a drive-by comment from the lactation police that “breast is best,” or, who, desperate for a few consecutive hours of sleep, let her child cry for ten minutes in her crib before settling, was made to feel as though she had subjected her offspring of child abuse, by one of the Bialik-style “sanctimommies.”

2012 November 26, Allison Kaplan Sommer, “Mayim Bialik: When an attachment parent detaches from her marriage”, in Haaretz:

(Canada, US, informal, derogatory) A mother who exhibits a superior attitude and openly judges others' parenting.


Tinderella

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

Coordinate term: Tumblrina

If I couldn't even get a harmless little interview on Tinder, then how could any Tinderellas out there expect to get a date?

2013 February, Melanie Stone, “New app not the answer to meeting someone special”, in The Daily Illini, volume 142, number 102,15, University of Illinois, page 4A:

A bit like meeting on Tinder these days and awkwardly mumbling how you met your Tinderella.

2014, Rebecca Dooley, "Peculiar pictorial pairings", The Courier (Newcastle University), Issue 1284, 10 February 2014, 10 February 2014, page 28

This will reflect how cool, casual and not-at-all-obsessed-with-you-I-swear you are to your prospective Tinderella or fella.

2014, Claire Dodson, "Five ways to make the most of Tinder", The Daily Beacon (University of Tennessee), Issue 3, Volume 127, 22 August 2014, page 4

(Internet slang) A female user of the dating app Tinder, especially as a romantic connection or potential romantic connection of another user.


Seconal

en-noun

Seconal (countable and uncountable, plural Seconals)

Blend of secondary + allyl; origin 1930s.

Nearly every pharmaceutical house has its own brands, sold in tablets, solutions or brightly-colored capsules, on which its “detail men” keep doctors informed. Probably the most popular successors to Veronal are Seconal (“red birds” to the bootleg trade) and Nembutal (“yellow jackets”).

1952 October 13, Richard L. Williams, “‘To sleep: perchance…’”, in Life, volume 33, number 15, page 110:

In spite of the seconal he was eaten up by his nerves. His face was covered with sweat.

1953, Raymond Chandler, chapter 29, in The Long Goodbye, New York: Ballantine, published 1971:

Each night she looked at the bottle of Seconals with affection. She never could do this without the dolls. She would have spent sleepless nights, smoking, worrying—and she would have lost her nerve.

1966, Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls, page 227:

Doctor, they can stand on the window ledge and threaten to splatter themselves on the pavement below, they can pile the Seconal to the ceiling—I may have to live for weeks and weeks on end in terror of these marriage-bent girls throwing themselves beneath the subway train, but I simply cannot, I simply will not, enter into a contract to sleep with just one woman for the rest of my days.

1969, Philip Roth, Portnoy’s Complaint, New York: Vintage, published 1994, page 104:

His horror of insomnia, compounded with a family history of compulsive worrying, caused him to down three or four Placidyls, Seconals, Quaaludes, or Tuinals almost every night—and often it was a combination of all four.

1985, Priscilla Presley, Sandra Harmon, Elvis and Me, Putnam, →ISBN, page 151:

(pharmacology) A barbiturate drug used as a sedative and hypnotic, a trade name of secobarbital.


thusfore

Thusfore I have been unable to substantiate whether there was a string of criminal incidents associated with the HK movies shown latenight at the mall theater, […]

2000 February 22, jffal [username], “Franklin Mills HK movies cancelled”, in alt.asian-movies (Usenet):

Question remains how long it would take the Barca faithful to understand Riquelme's superiority, and thusfore how long Rivaldo would be wasting their time... […]

2002 March 2, labas, “Re: Liverpool”, in rec.sport.soccer (Usenet):

That would be the easiest solution and thusfore not a real challenge.

2003 January 5, Martin, “Re: Contradiction in info shutting down client for Microsoft Networks???”, in microsoft.public.inetserver.iis (Usenet):


sexperience

sexperience (countable and uncountable, plural sexperiences)

This wasn't like Allegra; they had always told each other all their secrets and shared every step of the journey on the way to becoming experienced — 'our sexperiences', Allegra used to call them.

2010, Lulu Taylor, Midnight Girls, Arrow Books, →ISBN, page 154:

However, just like said bombs, your sexperiences as a fresher can leave you feeling happy one minute and confused the next.

2011, Kelly Holgate, "Bonking Mad", Fresh Direction, Autumn 2011, page 78

Today I would like to broaden your sexperiences and introduce you to the world of sex games.

2013, Steven Penaranda, "Let's play a love game", The Sandspur (Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida), Volume 119, Issue 14, 21 March 2013, page 5

(countable, slang) An individual sexual experience.

I had always prided myself on being creative, but in the sexperience department I was coming up dry.

2009, Jeremy Deutchman, “The Lifestyle”, in Jon Friedman, editor, Rejected: Tales of the Failed, Dumped, and Canceled, Villard, →ISBN, page 212:

As fourth year students we believe we have the sexpertise, the sexperience and the willingness for sexploration to revolutionise your love life!

2009, "The secret diary of a SEXAHOLIC", Bath Impact (University of Bath Students' Union), Volume 11, Issue 4, 2 November 2009, page 6

'She's doing it', one of the jazz fellows had said with a soft laugh, '... not just because she likes it, but 'cause all you horny little buggers need the sexperience', he ran the two words together so the meaning would not be lost.

2012, Desmond Fosbery, The Trouble with Charlie Foster, Lulu Books, →ISBN, page 198:

(uncountable, slang) One's practical experience with sex considered collectively.


twoosh

Intentionally trying to write a twoosh is almost as challenging as writing haiku, although twooshes do frequently occur on their own!

2010, Hollis Thomases, Twitter Marketing: An Hour a Day, Wiley Publishing, →ISBN, page 21:

On Friday, the administration also released some behind-the-scenes footage. It shows an aide, deputy director for online outreach Kori Schulman, complimenting the president for what she calls a “twoosh," or a perfect, 140-character tweet (a Twitter swoosh).
"Are you proud of me?" he asks.
“It was a record for twooshes," Schulman says.
"I'm the twoosh master," Obama says.

2012 May 25, Michael A. Memoli, “Obama declares himself a 'master tweeter'”, in Los Angeles Times:

5 a.m. Dubuque time: "Dear friends, I am pleased to get in touch with you through Twitter. Thank you for your generous response. I bless all of you from my heart." It was a twoosh, a Twitter term for a tweet of exactly 140 characters.

2012 December 13, Jim Winter, “OMG! Pope Sends Tweet”, in Telegraph-Herald:

(Internet, slang) A tweet which exactly meets the 280-character (previously 140) limit set by microblogging service Twitter.


fampool

(neologism) A carpool composed of members of the same family.


kiddiot

(computing, slang, derogatory) script kiddie


quickshaw

Shop-owners tried to entice us into their shops, but we caught a quickshaw or taxi and asked for the nuns' convent. Never have I been so scared as I was during the next twenty minutes. There are no traffic rules in Colombo […]

We went out together and hired a quickshaw (as the Ceylonese taxis used to be called) and I took him out for beer and lunch at my favourite Chinese restaurant.

1989, Jane Williams, Tambimuttu: bridge between two worlds:

We drove there in the one taxi in town, a large Brougham automobile of ancient vintage, whimsically called a quickshaw.


hasbarat

If you’ve come across a hasbarat, on-line or otherwise, you have learned that no amount of reasoned argument or intellectual maturity has any effect. That’s because hasbarats don’t care if they come across as ignorant, obnoxious, nasty or inane. All that matters for them is sabotaging criticism of Israel and support for Muslims

2009 Don Bailey, re: zionist trolls who infect the internet, talk.politics.mideast, Usenet

and anti-Jewish-Israels are always painted as anti-Semites...how convenient. Lie. Bernie Schwarz, still being a hasbarat disseminator for Shitrael?

2012 Bill, Re: Last charge of the Churchill brigade, sci.military.naval, Usenet

In Israel groups called 'hasbarat' are even organised to manipulate Wikipedia, bulletin boards and create false flag racism.

2011, eunometic, Re: Some idiot faking Eunometic please read below on "false flag racism", alt.politics, Usenet


scientibook

1936 October, Mort Weisinger, “Scientibook Review”, in Thrilling Wonder Stories, volume 8, number 2:

(dated, fandom slang) A book in the genre of science fiction.


scientifilm

You will forgive me if the scientifilm-ending to ‘Mystery of the -/-’ seemed obvious to me before completing the story, being a Scientificinemologist by profession.

1935 October, Forrest J Ackerman, “Scientifilm News”, in Wonder Stories, volume 7, number 5, page 637:

(dated, fandom slang) A motion picture in the genre of science fiction.


recomember

en-verb

recomember (third-person singular simple present recomembers, present participle recomembering, simple past and past participle recomembered)

recomembers (present singular third-person)
recomembering (participle present)
recomembered (participle past)
recomembered (past)


vegeculture

en-noun

vegeculture (countable and uncountable, plural vegecultures)

(uncountable) The practice of cultivating vegetables


Islamocratic

en-adj

Islamocratic (comparative more Islamocratic, superlative most Islamocratic)

more Islamocratic (comparative)
most Islamocratic (superlative)

Of or pertaining to Islamocracy; pertaining to Islamist democracy.


Islamocracy

en-noun

Islamocracy (countable and uncountable, plural Islamocracies)

Blend of Islam + democracy. Coined by Amitai Etzioni.

A system of government that fuses Islam and democracy.


fanmag

Blend of fan (“admirer or aficionado”) + magazine.

blend

LeZ plans, in the future, to print these Cullings regularly, from foreign fanmags, or American mags of small circulation, in the belief that you might otherwise not see the material.

1940 April, Wilson "Bob" Tucker, “Cullings”, in Le Zombie, number 27, page 3:

Arthur Widner Jr., editor of the Strangers Club's FANFARE, is plugging the word "fanzines" to take the place of the Philadelphian's "fanag" and the usual "fanmag". Incidentally, FANFARE is the neatest, most legible, and cleanest of any hectographed fanzine I have yet seen. In two colors too, into the bargain.

1941 March, Leslie A. Croutch, “Clippings from Canada”, in Futurian War Digest, volume 1, number 6, page 4:

The first issue of a fanmag from the southern-most post of Australian science fiction is good.

1941 April 6, Futurian Observer, number 33, page 1:

The advertising value of fanzines to promags is negligible, for the simple reason that anyone in sufficient contact with STF to read fanmags knows all about the prozines.

1952 November, Algis Budrys, Planet Stories, volume 5, number 9, page 111:

People who put out worthless fanmags and try and soak the unwary fan 25¢ for them, people who sell back issue magazines at outrageous prices, people who put out offset, super-duper printed professional type fanzines ... all give me a large pain in the neck.

1955 January, Bob Stewart, “Abstractions”, in Abstract, number 9, page 38:

(dated, fandom slang) Magazine produced by amateurs for readers with a specific shared interest.


Euromerican

en-adj

Euromerican (comparative more Euromerican, superlative most Euromerican)

more Euromerican (comparative)
most Euromerican (superlative)

(rare) American and of European descent.


shitcom

I can only hope that someone up there at Fox has enough intelligence to yank this shitcom before mid-season, but given their track record it will probably become their next flagship show.

2006, Alexander Kern, Listen! Listen, Listen, Listen, Listen, Listen!!!: Selected Essays from the Best Blog No One Is Reading, →ISBN, page 203:

Games World was revamped for a second series, and a character from the competition night, Big Boy Barry, was given his own show, a sitcom. Or as it turned out, a shitcom.

2012, David Walliams, Camp David, Penguin, published 2013, →ISBN:

Ed opened the drapes and the sun revealed the grim scene, the filthy drool-stained pillow on the couch where he'd been sleeping, the TV blaring some horrible shitcom ever since he'd left the dial turned to any old thing, the dog food bag left open in the kitchen so Harry could help himself.

2013, Brad Vance, A Little Too Broken, →ISBN:

(slang, vulgar, derogatory) A low-quality or unfunny sitcom.


conreport

The reverberations of that Conreport of mine have been wringing in my ears for weeks.

1951 December, Walter Alexander Willis, “The Harp That Once or Twice”, in Quandry, number 16, archived from the original on 2011-06-07:

As various other conreports have indicated, the comments of the audience during this show were rich in fannish humour.

1952 October, Fred J. Robinson, “Contemplations, part 2”, in Straight Up, volume 1, number 5:

There are a few pages of fascinating letters and a short convention report by Walter Breen, apart from short articles by Charles Wells, John Baxter and James Blish. Look, don’t let that description of Breen’s conreport throw you. If you like detailed convention reports, this near-perfect blow by blow description of the ChiCon should delight you, no less, all forty odd pages of it.

1962 December 17, Ron Bennett, “Warhoon 17”, in Skyrack, number 48:

Oh, t'was a lovely con. I promise I'll finish the conreport soonest.

1997 March 13, Jette Goldie, “Re: Season 6 is a go!”, in alt.tv.highlander (Usenet), message-ID <33274b6b.24634312@news.ednet.co.uk>:

(fandom slang) A report on the events of a convention.


faith-lift

If your vision ever becomes cloudy, and you find yourself losing faith, your spiritual makeover suggests you treat yourself to a “faith-lift”!

2008, Diana Lynn, Soulutions: Your Spiritual Makeover, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 13:

They simply believe that we are not called to manage decline but rather to oversee the expansion of the Kingdom of God through the local church. I like hanging out with such people, simply because they give me a much-needed faith-lift.

2008, Mark Stibbe, Andrew Williams, Breakout: Our Church's Story of Mission and Growth in the Holy Spirit, Saffron House, published 2010, →ISBN:

Perhaps you don't fit either of these categories, but you simply need a booster-shot of faith. God's providence to Debbie and me has certainly bolstered ours, so our prayer is that these stories will give a faith-lift as well.

2013, David Stanford, "That's Not Odd … That's GOD!", WestBow Press, →ISBN, page xiii:

(informal) An act or instance of strengthening one's faith.


congoing

The gathering (brainstormed by John Newman) that marked the postwar revival of congoing in England.

1959, Richard "Dick" Harris Eney, Fancyclopedia II, Whitcon:

Over that time, the demographic of congoing has evolved, and many longer running cons have had to adapt.

1998 July 16, Andre Lieven, “Re: Why cons SHOULD NOT cost so much”, in alt.fandom.cons (Usenet), message-ID <6ol962$1t0@freenet-news.carleton.ca>:

The rest of it is very good and I wish I had had something of the sort available when I started congoing thirty years ago... ulp.

2005 December, Joseph T. Major, “The Fanivore”, in File 770, number 146, page 25:

(fandom slang) The action or hobby of attending a convention.


Zombocalypse

Alternative letter-case form of zombocalypse


zombocalypse

The makers of "Zombieland" disagree though, and their film is an excellent argument that even the zombocalypse can be funny.

2009, Nate Knife, "'Zombieland' awakens laughter", Clarion (University of Denver), Volume 116, Issue 19, 6 October 2009, page 12

"Dawn of the Dead," the second and arguably best in Romero's canon, depicts survivors that try to wait out the zombocalypse in a monument to consumerism.

2009, Mike Riechers, "Dawn of the Dead", in "Frightful, funny films for Halloween", The Daily Cardinal (University of Wisconsin-Madison), 30 October 2009 - 1 November 2009, page 6

So we all expect that post zombocalypse earth will see us ditch our smartphones, […]

September 2014, Terrence Jarrad, “Hotware”, in PC PowerPlay, number 231, page 78:

(slang, horror) The breakdown of society as a result of a zombie outbreak.


spendicitis

If you have spendicitis, put a padlock upon your purse, for it is better to starve to death than to live a spendthrift.

1904, Official Journal of the Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paperhangers of America, volume 18, page 493:

The way taxes, licenses and truck fees have been boosted in California the past year, it appears our representatives have been afflicted with a very bad case of spendicitis.

1949, We, the People: The Yearbook of Public Opinion, Paebar Company, page 174:

This can cause spendicitis. This disease warps your brain into thinking that if your credit card still clears a transaction, you'll probably have enough money to cover it . . . someday.

2006, Lyman Rose, Winning the War Againist Debt: Managing Your Personal Finances to Eliminate Debt, CFI, →ISBN, page ix:

(humorous) Excessive spending viewed as a medical disorder.


stovec

I think it is because if a garage get a stovec and no one claims it, they dont^([sic]) get paid, not only that, they have to pay AADL too.

2008 July 16, Chocolate boy, “Re: Heavy Recovery”, in PrisonOfficer.org.uk, retrieved 2014-10-26:

If there's a car on your drive when you get home, and you can't get onto the drive yourself, there's no obstruction as such. However, it would be worth a phone call to the police (non emergency number) as you never know, the car might be an outstanding stovec, in which case we will come, and it will be removed.

2010 March 4, Damsel, “Parked on a private driveway without permission”, in PoliceSpecials.com, archived from the original on 2014-11-22:

(UK, law enforcement) A stolen car, van, lorry or other motor vehicle.


mag book

(UK) A book in the format of a magazine.


NoHo

Acronym of north of Houston. (Houston is a street in Manhattan)


bootkit

Blend of boot (“startup process”) + rootkit.

blend

(computer security) A rootkit which works by replacing the boot loader and patching the kernel before it is starts executing.


Republicunt

He shot my husband a smirk, not letting me go. "Jesus, Dean, you married a feminazi?"
I smiled sweetly. "Beats a Republicunt."

2010, Cornelia Read, Invisible Boy, Grand Central Publishing, published 2010, →ISBN:

Speaking of money, ever since the Republicunts came back into office after Clinton in 2000, most people just do not have the extra money to see a Pro Domme like they used to.

2011, Davina Rhine (quoting Andi), Rebel Moms: The Off-Road Map for the Off-Road Mom, Rebellion Press (2011), page 573

“Dude, is that the president? Get that Republicunt off the TV, will you?”

2014, Scott Sigler, Pandemic, Crown Publishers, published 2014, →ISBN:

(US politics, slang, vulgar, derogatory) A member or supporter of the Republican Party of the United States.


reich-wing

en-adj

reich-wing (comparative more reich-wing, superlative most reich-wing)

more reich-wing (comparative)
most reich-wing (superlative)

Blend of Reich + right-wing, with the intent being to convey the view that the political right shares qualities with the Third Reich, being extreme, fascistic, etc.

I love the love and support of America; it is what sustains me through these very difficult times and the reich-wing smear campaign.

2005, Cindy Sheehan, Not One More Mother's Child, Koa Books, →ISBN, page 139:

So, you reich-wing HypoChristians might want to remove the beam from your own eye before attempting to remove the speck from your neighbor's eye.

2006 October 11, none [username], “Re: Neither Liberal Nor Hypocrisy”, in alt.society.liberalism (Usenet):

But the hidden costs of our overcompensatory hypermacho are worse, far worse, than a few politicians slimed by Reich-wing pundits or dirty-tricks campaigns.

2012, Mark Dery, I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts: Drive-By Essays on American Dread, American Dreams, University of Minnesota Press (2012) →ISBN, page 63


hypochristian

Just as the rabid fundamentalist nutcase hypochristians who bomb planned parenthood clinics are not representative of the average Christian, likewise the Islamic Jihad are a minority of all Muslims.

2001 September 13, Larry Penoza, “Re: let me get this straight”, in rec.music.phish (Usenet):

“Hypochristians believe they will soil themselves if they associate with poor Christians or non Christians,” she said. “They huddle together at their Sunday Schools gossiping about each other, especially whoever didn't show up, somehow believing they will go to Heaven because of their self professed goodness. […]

2006, Curtiss De Vedrine, The Second Coming of Age: Liberty and Justice, Writers Club Press, →ISBN, page 185:

The Ted Haggard scandal is just one of numerous events involving what some refer to as hypochristians, those blustering crusaders for family values who fail miserably at living up to their own standards.

2008, Sterling R. Braswell, Crazy Town: Money. Marriage. Meth., Kallisti Publishing, →ISBN, page 221:

(slang, derogatory) A Christian who behaves contrary to Christian tenets or values.


Speidi

[…] The Washington Post's intrepid journalist Steven Goff tracked down Speidi in hiding at a hotel in Costa Rica, and was an eyewitness to "The Hills'" couple confessing they were just tossing back a few glasses of red wine and using a few rolls of toilet paper before heading back to the show site.

2009 June 4, Lisa de Moraes, “TV Column: Lisa de Moraes on Speidi's Defection From 'I'm a Celebrity . . .'”, in The Washington Post:

In November 2009, Speidi released their book (yes, a book), called How to Be Famous: Our Guide to Looking the Part, Playing the Press, and Becoming a Tabloid Fixture.

2013 November 29, Lydia Smith, “Heidi and Spencer's fifth anniversary - Speidi relationship as Heidi unveils her new body”, in The Mirror, UK:

Speidi might have faked a lot of drama on “The Hills,” but the reality couple said there was one line they wouldn’t cross.

2014 February 6, Kirthana Ramisetti, “Spencer Pratt claims ‘The Hills’ producers wanted him to ditch Heidi Montag on their wedding day”, in New York Daily News:

(slang) The couple consisting of celebrities Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag.


Spederline

We're just confused at the moment because, for all the media hype surrounding the birth of your little progeny, all the continuing speculation about what the Spederline offspring will be christened (US Weekly's call of PMS Federline sounds pretty good), no one is entirely sure why you're still here.

2005 September 18, Amanda Andrade, “In defense of Britney”, in The Michigan Daily, University of Michigan:

Between mandals with socks, Cheetos and Chaotic, you are so over Spederline.

2005 November, “International Cool Survey 2005”, in ELLEgirl, page 36:

However, last week the news of the Spederline Split provided a welcome respite from the endless gloating from the "Left" and the whining from the "Right."

2006 November 17, Mariel Blake, “What a difference a day makes: Britney Spears, Democrat victory”, in Virgin Islands Daily News:

(slang) The couple consisting of celebrities Britney Spears and Kevin Federline, together from 2004 to 2006.


Vaughniston

Perhaps watching the antics of TomKat, Brangelina, Vaughniston and LaLohan is our way of reverting to the world of high school drama.

2005 October 27, Rebecca Silver, “Pardon the 'Vanity Fair'”, in The Daily Princetonian, Princeton University:

Now, Vaughniston gets their turn in this decidedly “unromantic“ comedy about the dissolution of a relationship -- who gets the apartment, the friends, etc.

2006 May 25, Jane Louise Boursaw, “The Great Popcorn Explosion”, in Northern Express:

Rumours are abuzz that 'Vaughniston' aka Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston are back together once again.

2007 April 24, “Aniston and Vaughn back together again?”, in Hindustan Times:

(slang) The couple consisting of celebrities Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston, together from 2005 to 2006.


Vinnifer

Whether Vinnifer - or, as some wags are calling it, Jence - can conjure up the same degree of fascination as the ongoing public besotment with Brangelina remains unclear.

2005 October 23, “Jennifer's lusty lip-lock tells a rebound tale of post-Brad love”, in Irish Independent:

With TomKat, Brangelina and Vinnifer, the competition is steep, but this week's award goes to Jude Law and Sadie Frost, whom the Star says are comforting each other as their love lives crumble.

2005 October 26, “Is Katie Holmes sweet & naive, or just dumb?”, in Philadelphia Inquirer:

Brangelina monopolized the paparazzi. Vinnifer had the gossips geysering.

2007 January 19, Richard Corliss, “John Wayne: Still Tops”, in Time:


cuntservative

What a wonderful explanation of why cuntservatives needed the smear to fight clinton.

1998 November 19, Flykiller [username], “Re: More America bashing, can you believe it?”, in alt.rush-limbaugh (Usenet):

Well unlike cuntservatives I see everyone as a human being deserving equal rights a^([sic]) and due process under the law.

2003 November 19, David Smith, “Re: Marriage”, in alt.politics.liberalism (Usenet):

Of course we all know the real disease is all the ignorant, arrogant, self-righteous, paranoid, gun-loony, "compassionate" cuntservatives like you.

2004 January 14, johnny, “Re: ACLU comes to Limbaugh's rescue!?”, in alt.rush-limbaugh (Usenet):

(slang, vulgar, derogatory, politics) A person with right-wing political views.


craplication

(computing, slang, vulgar) A poor-quality application


chumpion

(rare, colloquial, neologism, slang) A gullible champion.


Cumberperson

In your quest to get a regular Sherlockfix, hundreds of thousands of 'Cumberpeople' have been switching over to Alibi on Thursday nights to watch repeats of the first series of Sherlock.

2013 May 24, Ellie Walker-Arnott, “Sherlock almost doubles Alibi viewing figures”, in Radio Times:

Who plays this epic villain? That would be one Benedict Cumberbatch, an English actor who refers to his ever-growing legion of fans as Cumberpeople. Well, sign me up, because I think I am a Cumberperson. I’ve tasted the Kool-Aid, and it’s good.)

2013, Sasha McBrayer, "Latest 'Star Trek' is otherworldly good", Coastal Courier (Hinesville, Georgia), 24 May 2013

He may be one of the most famous actors on the planet, with scores of fervent Cumberpeople in every port, but even Benedict Cumberbatch didn't get to where he is today without a significant amount of hard work.

2014 November 1, Guy Kelly, “7 Benedict Cumberbatch performances you haven't seen but should”, in The Telegraph:

(slang) A fan of actor Benedict Cumberbatch.


Soviet Jewnion

(derogatory, informal, neologism) the Soviet Union, viewed as being under the control and influence of Jews.


femcunt

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

Femcunts love to say that we men need to fight against rape, and it's true, we do. I'd fight against rape, I wouldn't fight rape alongside feminists, but I'd fight it. But where are the feminists fighting for victims of slander?

2007, MCP [username], “Feminists love to claim that of all rapes reported, only 5% end up in prosecution”, in soc.men (Usenet):

This is an excellent example of female supremacist femcunts using whatever shitty logic they can to gain as many advantages that^([sic]) they can.

2007 October 5, MCP [username], “Equality Means Only Help Girls - Says Feminist Report To EOC”, in soc.men (Usenet):

You femcunts are all alike lol

2008 March 7, Avenger [username], “Re: Boy Age 8 Passes Law School Exam (Hillary and Obama failed lol)”, in soc.culture.british (Usenet):

“Some bitch,” Political mumbled. “You should know. She's always on the news. Her and Ribit the Horrible. Flapping their lips about something. Never thought I'd say this, but your femcunts are worse'n ours.”

2010, Brock Barrack, Touch Wood, iUniverse, →ISBN, unnumbered page:

(slang, vulgar, derogatory) An intolerant feminist, often used by anti-feminists to refer to a feminist in general.


promag

The new pro mag, STARTLING STORIES lets itself in for a big time with the fast typers and hit and run spellers. 'NEW FANDOM' is the first, so far, to call it "STRATTLING STORIES", or words & music to that effect.

1939 January, Arthur Wilson "Bob" Tucker, “Fun Dept”, in Le Zombie, number 2, page 2:

I guess that intangible something is closeness to perfection which makes my favorite science-fiction promag so easy to take with nary a word.

1941 April, Joe Fortier, “Brass Tacks”, in Astounding Science-Fiction, volume 27, number 2, page 156:

Jackson's 'Still Small Voice' was 'worthy of a promag' thought NORMAN ASHFIELD

1950 Spring, Walter Alexander Willis, “On The Level”, in Slant, number 3, archived from the original on 2016-03-07:

(dated, fandom slang) A professionally published magazine.


Kenova

A city in Wayne County, West Virginia, United States.


YouPube

Recent viewing: Doug Stanhope on YouPube

2007 January 1, Hypodeemic Nerdle, “Festivities”, in uk.misc (Usenet):

just being looking around on youpube etc. jan hammer stuff and the Dx7...god i wanted one of those!!

2009 January 19, Jules, “dragon 32 + freecycle + stupid woman”, in uk.culture.nostalgia.1980s (Usenet):

Patrick Michael Sullivan of Nanaimo kept spamming YouPube links on usenet while owing $226,223.46 to other people

2010 August 27, The Patrick Michael Sullivan UCM Repost Project, “Patrick Michael Sullivan of Nanaimo kept spamming libel and drivel on usenet while owing $226,223.46 to other people”, in misc.invest.stocks (Usenet):

erm you mean arrange your will to include whoever finds your remains to post said video on youpube?

2012 April 30, JimK, “White spirit won't burn?”, in uk.d-i-y (Usenet):

(derogatory, Internet slang) The video-sharing site YouTube.


tandemocracy

Blend of tandem + democracy or tandem + -ocracy, a calque of Russian тандемократия (tandemokratija) originally in reference to the office-trading of Vladimir Putin and Dmitri Medvedev.

uder

тандемократия

Synonym of diarchy, especially involving alternation of offices in an allegedly democratic context.


Callafan

But when a friend accidentally let slip on Twitter the time and location of the event, many of Sam's 'Callafans' planned to come along at 5.30am to take a peek.

2013 June 21, Megan Tatum, “Charity skinny dip scrapped over indecent exposure fears”, in Essex Chronicle:

The Callafans at Heathcote preparatory school in Danbury have been backing Sam from the start and are looking forward to seeing the Great Totham singer-songwriter perform to millions of TV viewers when the public vote begins at the weekend.

2013 October 10, Will Watkinson, “Sam's Our Man: 'Callafans' at Star's Old School Show Support”, in Essex Chronicle:

Now his Inverclyde ‘Callafans’ will be hoping for a sneak preview of his new material when he performs live next month to kick-off the festive season with a Christmas cracker.

2014 October 10, Paul John Coulter, “X Factor finalist Sam Callahan to switch on Oak Mall Christmas lights”, in Greenock Telegraph:

(UK, slang) A fan of the English singer Sam Callahan.


circumfetishist

It's not my or the cirp site owners' fault that the vast bulk of proper medical and scientific papers, as opposed to the crap opinion pieces by US and religious circumfetishists, come down heavily against routine circumcision --as does every medical authority in the world including the American Academy of Pediatrics!!!!

2001 April 15, Maze chris, “BS was RE: debra series -PLEASE READ-”, in alt.fan.prettyboy (Usenet):

Countries around the world that only have about 1% circ rate have only a fraction of the HIV infection of the U.S. which back in the middle '70's had the highest rate of new infection in the world and at that time we had a total male circ rate of about 80%. To circumcise an infant, or for an adult male to get cut on the word of some "senior researcher" is just the dumbest thing in the world. These circumfetishists are telling an unsuspecting and uneducated public that they are bound to inevitably engage in some unprotected sex with promiscuous male or female partners.

2003 July 26, Maze [username], “Re: HIV and cirucmicision resolved?”, in alt.circumcision (Usenet):

EVEN IF every argument presented by circumfetishists were TRUE - cutting another person's genitals would still be wrong

2007 September 26, Darling Regan, “Phalluses and Fallacies: Some faulty ways of thinking that lead to circumcision”, in alt.circumcision (Usenet):

(by extension, derogatory) An advocate of routine male circumcision.


busjacking

en-noun

busjacking (countable and uncountable, plural busjackings)