huppie

"Look who's talking." "Hippie, huppie, baldy," screamed a voice. "Oh my gosh, it's Annabel again."

1993, Delia Ephron, The Girl who Changed the World, page 92:

He accused the well-intentioned folks who sell Fair Trade coffee of "cultural imperialism," blasting those who blend "suffering, pain, and humiliation" into the beans they sell to "the affluent but guilt-ridden, Birkenstock-shod, politically correct, myopically naive creature known as the huppie”—whom he defined as a combination hippie-yuppie.

2010, Mark Pendergrast, Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World, →ISBN, page 347:

To be a huppie, you have to know how to make a little money. You want to live well, but keep in touch with the real world.

2010 June 8, Jason Sheftell, “East Side story: Off Avenue D, The Flowerbox is the best building you've never seen”, in New York Daily News:

(slang) An affluent professional with stereotypical left-wing social and political views or lifestyle.


meninism

As a man whose primary interests include neither beer nor bacon, I strongly object to the suggestion that these are issues which would define "the concepts and ideals of meninism." Furthermore, the idea of "meninism" does not currently exist as a movement because men's issues are in no way underrepresented in mainstream culture.

1996, Patrick Warren, "Stick to bacon, Todd" (letter to the editor), Imprint (University of Waterloo), Volume 19, Number 5, 28 June 1996, page 9

The really great thing about feminism, or meninism, is that as we become more and more egalitarian, there will be less of a need for either.

1997 December 28, Carol Ann Hemingway, “Re: FEMINISM IS IRRELEVANT”, in soc.men (Usenet):

One question to ask, however, is if meninism could be taken seriously, or if it really is just an online joke.

2015, Jay Woofter, "#Meninists Twitter trend reacts to feminism", The Collegian (Kansas State University), Volume 120, Number 82, 29 January 2015, page 3

A movement or philosophy, often presented satirically, in favour of the rights and interests of men.


businesscrat

Blend of business + Democrat coined by Gerald D. Nash and popularized by Louis Galambos in Competition and Cooperation: The Emergence of a National Trade Association (1966)

"Businesscrats" had staffed the war agencies and they returned to private life at the end of the conflict.

1986, Frank Dobbin, The institutionalization of the state:

Existing federal bureaucracies were not prepared to mobilize human resources and coordinate the industrial economy for war, so emergency agencies were thrown together for the occasion, mostly staffed by professional experts and "businesscrats" temporarily recruited from the corporate capitalist sector.

1995, Kenneth Finegold, Theda Skocpol, State and Party in America's New Deal, →ISBN, page 55:

Put a business executive up for senator as a Democrat, and you've got a Businesscrat. Maybe also an endangered species.

1996, Lee Walczak, Gail DeGeorge, “PRATFALLS DREAM CANDIDATES' RUDE AWAKENING”, in Business Week:

Second, multiple variants of a “businesscrat” — “a twentieth- century breed of businessman who spends a significant part of his life working as a government bureaucrat (Galambos, 1966, 205, fn 3)”

2013 July, Maria N Ivanova, “The Great Recession and the state of American Capitalism”, in Science & Society, volume 77, number 3:

(US) A person whose career includes acting both as a business executive and a government bureaucrat in the Democratic Party in the United States.


anolyte

The portion of an electrolyte near an anode, especially in a cell in which the cathode and anode are in separate compartments


Musketeer

This was the rock that Musk and his Musketeers planned to build their company on.

2014, Charles Morris, "The early days of Tesla", Charged: Electric Vehicles Magazine, Issue 14, June/July 2014, page 62

Mr Vance comes across as a “Musketeer”, someone who believes in Mr Musk’s power to reshape the world.

2015 July 4, “Fortune favours the brave”, in The Economist:

(informal) A fan, supporter or partisan of Elon Musk.


catholyte

The cathode electrodes were only partly submerged in the catholyte to allow for an ‘air-wicking’ aerobic configuration.

2015 July 15, “Anditalea andensis ANESC-S T - An Alkaliphilic Halotolerant Bacterium Capable of Electricity Generation under Alkaline-Saline Conditions”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

The portion of an electrolyte near a cathode, especially in a cell in which the cathode and anode are in separate compartments


Obamacan

“About twice as many Democrats support McCain as Republicans support Obama, and about three times as many Democrats support McCain as Republicans support Clinton,” Rove said. “The media is all wired up about these ‘Obamacans’ … but the real story of this election is the ‘McCainocrats.’ ”

2008 April 21, John Heilemann, “Is John McCain Bob Dole?”, in New York:

However, it became increasingly bleak for Senator McCain's campaign as many of Senator Obama's endorsements came from "Obamacans."

2010, Clinton L. Sprauve, All Hail the "Messiah": Why Fox News Channel and the Conservative Clan Couldn't Crucify Him!, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, pages 49–50:

To my knowledge, there were no “Obamacans” in my family; all of the Republicans were sticking with Senator John McCain.

2012, Joan Walsh, What's the Matter with White People: Why We Long for a Golden Age That Never Was, John Walsh, →ISBN:

(US politics, slang) A member of the U.S. Republican Party who supports or supported the election of Barack Obama as president.


endoleak

The 30-day mortality, stent patency, and the incidences of endoleaks and ischemia of the buttocks and lower limbs were compared.

2015 July 21, “8-Year Long-Term Outcome Comparison: Two Ways to Exclude the Internal Iliac Artery during Endovascular Aorta Repair (EVAR) Surgery”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

A leak into the aneurysm sac after endovascular repair.


Sheriarty

The Empty Hearse club member goth girl who came up with the romantic Sheriarty solution to Sherlock’s fake suicide is played by Scottish actress Sharon Rooney, star of the British dramedy “My Mad Fat Diary.”

2014 January 19, Lori Rackl, “Answers to your ‘Sherlock’ questions — because you know you’ve got ‘em”, in Chicago Sun-Times:

The Sheriarty and Jimlock fans believe the two men are struggling in a love-hate relationship, while WH is a gay “couple” beloved by most fans.

2014 January 25, Qu Zhi, “Sherlock China’s new sex god”, in Shanghai Daily:

Having exhausted what meager supply of Sheriarty fic there was, I ended up reading a Mormor (Moriarty/Moran) story – and ended up loving it.

2015, Kee Lundqvist, "Stories of Significance: The Process and Practices of Sense-Making in the Sherlock Fan Community", thesis submitted to Uppsala University, page 77

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Sherlock Holmes and Jim Moriarty from the television series Sherlock.


Sherlolly

To exemplify, 16magnolias' Lessons in Love is described as containing 'sweet, slow Sherlolly' […]

2016, Maria Lindgren Leavenworth, “Paratextual Navigation as a Research Method: Fan Fiction Archives and Reader Instructions”, in Gabriele Griffin, editor, Research Methods for Reading Digital Data in the Digital Humanities, page 62:

Where there are undoubtedly some within the Sherlolly fandom who are attracted to the pairing because of the sexuality and charisma of Benedict Cumberbatch's portrayal, there is a large and vocal section of fans who are inspired and encouraged by the characterization of Molly herself.

2018, Jennifer Phillips, “A Woman in a Man's (Fictional) World: Considering the Importance of Dr. Molly Hooper in the BBC's Modern Adaptation of Sherlock”, in Ashley Lynn Carlson, editor, Women in STEM on Television: Critical Essays, page 180:

The Sherlolly writing challenge specifies that authors must bring Sherlock and Molly together in a relationship by the happy ending.

2018, Jennifer Wojton, Lynnette Porter, Sherlock and Digital Fandom: The Meeting of Creativity, Community and Advocacy, page 151:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Sherlock Holmes and Molly Hooper from the television series Sherlock.


veganarchism

(politics, economics) A philosophy combining anarchism and veganism, advocating animal rights through the abolition of the state.

veganarşizm

the combined philosophies of veganism and anarchism


hungarumlaut

The "regular umlaut" with the dieresis dots originated from a form with two vertical or slanted strokes (not unlike the "hungarumlaut" speaking in typographical terms).

2003 July 12, Andreas Höfeld, “Re: middle age font”, in comp.fonts (Usenet):

For example, the small o with tilde, õ, has been displayed instead of o with the double acute accent (also known as the Hungarumlaut), ő, which is a different character.

2014, Leslie Sikos, Web Standards: Mastering HTML5, CSS3, and XML, page 48:

Many accents are specific to certain languages; the double acute, for instance, is used solely in Hungarian and is sometimes referred to as the Hungarumlaut.

2017, Gavin Ambrose, The Visual Dictionary of Pre-press and Production, page 19:

(typography, very rare) The double acute accent (˝), a rare diacritical mark made up of two acute accents, chiefly used in the Hungarian language.


wreader

Blend of writer + reader, coined by George Landow (professor).

A reader who interacts with a work of hypermedia so as to take on some of the functions of a writer.


liliger

For quotations using this term, see Citations:liliger.

An animal born to a male lion and a ligress (female liger).


renovict

en-verb

renovict (third-person singular simple present renovicts, present participle renovicting, simple past and past participle renovicted)

renovicts (present singular third-person)
renovicting (participle present)
renovicted (participle past)
renovicted (past)

The apartment is smaller than one she had previously, from which she says she was renovicted, or forced to move so the landowner could renovate.

2014 January 29, Andrew MacLeod, “High BC Housing Costs Weaken Economy, Drive Inequality”, in The Tyee:

“That’s a very large increase from 2011,” Mr. Robertson told reporters at a briefing about the release of preliminary numbers, noting it has been driven by such factors as delayed social-housing projects and lower shelter capacity due to less money from the province, as well as people “renovicted” from single-room-occupancy housing.

2014 April 23, Ian Bailey, “Robertson calls five per cent rise in Vancouver homeless 'frustrating'”, in The Globe and Mail:

If I were to be renovicted I would have to think about where I am going to live," she said.

2014 November 4, “Terrace city council candidate: Lucy Praught”, in Terrace Standard:

It's one of the main reasons why Vancouver had the highest homeless count it's ever had last year – because people are being renovicted from SROs.

2015 June 19, Justin McElroy, “Renoviction roller coaster for Vancouver man ends with Pyrrhic victory”, in Global News:

(British Columbia) To evict (a tenant) on the grounds that a large-scale renovation is planned.


cuckservative

Blend of cuck + conservative. A neologism created by Internet users.

Use of the cuckservative hashtag peaked toward the end of last month, when it was used more than 5,000 times in one day, according to data from Topsy, a social media analytics tool.

2015 August 13, Alan Rappeport, “From the Right, a New Slur for G.O.P. Candidates”, in The New York Times:

Her shtick has always involved cultivating an extreme online persona, and lately that seems to mean deliberately stoking the cuckservative-obsessed crowd, only to distance herself ever-so-slightly when the Twitter fur flies.

2015 September 18, David French, “‘Cuckservative’ Has Got to Go”, in National Review, retrieved 2022-02-10:

“Hey Reddit, I’m Corey Stewart. Republican Candidate for Governor of Virginia and former State Chair for Donald Trump for President,” he began. “The primary election is June 13th. I am opposing the establishment's handpicked candidate, former Bush guy, RNC chairman, and cuckservative, Ed Gillespie.”

2017 March 24, Laura Vozzella, “GOP Chair Slams Va. Gubernatorial Contender for Calling Rival a ‘Cuckservative’”, in The Washington Post:

Nothing captured the alt-right mentality better than cuckservative, with its taunt that moderation is unmanly and certain conservative males are cuckolds.

[2017 December 22, Dominic Green, “Are You Sufficiently Woke?”, in The Weekly Standard, Washington, retrieved 2022-02-10:

(US politics, slang, derogatory, neologism, politics) A weak-willed political conservative politician who is willing to capitulate to other political stances.


manganpyrosmalite

en-noun

manganpyrosmalite (usually uncountable, plural manganpyrosmalites)


hunty

"What? Oh, I...no," Alan replied. "Fine. I'm fine. This is fine."
"Spit it out, hunty."

2014, Brian Olsen, Caitlin Ross and the Commute from Hell, unnumbered page:

Gay culture equips its practitioners with a way of reading the world, each other, and themselves (and I do mean reading, hunty).

2014, W. C. Harris, Slouching Towards Gaytheism: Christianity and Queer Survival in America, State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 205:

Excuse me? I thought that you were completely and totally in love with your Seanie Poo! That delicious specimen of a man is for the gods, hunty! Yeeesss!

2015, Yoshe, Crazy in Love 2, Urban Books, LLC (2015), unnumbered page

term of endearment
term of endearment#English

(LGBTQ slang) An irreverent or sarcastic term of endearment.


glip

en-verb

glip (third-person singular simple present glips, present participle glipping, simple past and past participle glipped)

glips (present singular third-person)
glipping (participle present)
glipped (participle past)
glipped (past)

Received a DUC for developing and using a special (glip) bombing technique against enemy bridges in French Indochina.

1961, Office of Air Force History, Air Force Combat Units of World War II, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 220

To successfully 'glip' a bridge, a deliberate passage through the concentration of small arms, machine gun and automatic weapons fire, and often blossoming, white puffs of time-fused mortar shells, was essential.

2000, James Vesely, Unlike Any Land You Know: The 490th Bomb Squadron in China-Burma-India, iUniverse, page 102:

(military, transitive) To bomb a bridge, particularly with a technique developed by the 490th Missile Squadron during World War II.


gonyautoxin

Blend of Gonyaulax + toxin, Gonyaulax being the genus name of dinoflagellate plankton.

Any of a family of paralytic shellfish poisons used in the treatment of anal fissures


mirdle

The Wall Street Journal has reported on the burgeoning market for "support boxers" to lift and firm the backside and "waist eliminators" to tame the gut. If your man wears a mirdle, then surely you should, too?

2009, Mimi Spencer, 101 Things to Do Before You Diet: Because Looking Great Isn't Just about Losing Weight, Rodale, →ISBN, page 57:

She knows about bras, body slimmers, boy shorts, and the new contraption: a mirdle for the guys!

2011, Sasha Charnin Morrison, Secrets of Stylists: An Insider's Guide to Styling the Stars, Chronicle Books, →ISBN, page 138:

In the early 2010s, shape underwear for men—modeled after the success of shape underwear for women—provided males with the opportunity to reshape their body using a variety of products, including mirdles or male girdles, compression shorts, waist eliminators, "bubble butt" enhancers, […]

2014, José Blanco F., “Underwear,”, in Michael Kimmel, Christine Milrod, Amanda Kennedy, editors, Cultural Encyclopedia of the Penis, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 227:

(informal) An abdominal support garment (girdle) designed for and/or marketed to men.


velfie

There are duckface selfies, velfies, melfies, and what have you.

March 2015, Digit, Siddharth Parwatay, "From Selfies to Selflessness", p. 3

Move over selfie, India is embracing the "velfie" with Bollywood stars, sporting heroes, and even politicians taking and posting videos of themselves online using a range of new mobile apps.

7/10/2015, Voice of Asia, Peter Hutchison, "When a selfie is not enough: India abuzz over 'velfie' craze", p. 14

In the winter of 2014 the writer and ad filmmaker had spun off the first Indian velfie (video selfies) movement with a three-minute film titled Pause that compared the Indo-Pak boundaries to walls between homes and led to a movement called Dear Neighbour that is currently on the trending charts with a spate of #ProfileForPeace messages on its wall.

10/26/2015, Pakistan Today, "Peace call goes viral", p. 2

(neologism, chiefly India) A video selfie.


Manglish

A mixture of the Maltese and English languages.


hiplife

Up the block at Nananom, a tiny music and sundries store, all the hiplife CDs were sold out.

2015 August 6, Liz Robbins, “Hiplife, a Sound Imported From Ghana, Arrives on a New York Stage”, in New York Times:

A Ghanaian style of music that fuses highlife and hip-hop.


plench

The plench produces sufficient torque to move a nut, but doesn't pass on torque to the astronaut. External torque to move socket wrench is produced by squeezing the handles.

A tool combining features of pliers and wrench, for use in microgravity.


pixilation

en-noun

pixilation (countable and uncountable, plural pixilations)

A stop-motion technique where live actors are used as a frame-by-frame subject in an animated film, by repeatedly posing while one or more frame is taken and changing pose slightly before the next frame or frames.


Giftmas

(humorous or derogatory) Christmas, regarded as a consumerist event for the purchasing of gifts


PETSCII

Why is the order of graphical characters in the PETSCII table so seemingly haphazard? The answer is that arrangement was dictated by the PET keyboard design, a hardware-driven decision.

2014, Nick Montfort et al., 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 225:

(computing, historical) The character set used by the Commodore PET and related computers.


tagball

(sports, games) a game/sport similar to paintball, where one tags out opponents with rubber balls fired from air pistols or paintball guns, without the mess of paint, akin to dart tag


quad rugby

Blend of quadriplegic + rugby from official players of this sport needing to be affected by some form of quadriplegia or equivalent missing limbs.

wheelchair rugby
wheelchair rugby#English

(US) Synonym of wheelchair rugby (US regional name and American English vernacular name)


wheelchair rugby

Blend of wheelchair basketball + rugby from its development from wheelchair basketball for play by quadriplegics, instead of paraplegics; and its rough aggressive play reminiscent of rugby.

(sports) A variation of rugby played by players in wheelchairs, primarily players with some disability. It is a full-contact sport and is played on a hardwood court with a ball similar to a basketball.

pyörätuolirugby

the variation of rugby played by players in wheelchairs


digitron

Such displays may be built using cathode ray tubes with electronically generated characters or by using arrays of digitrons and alphabet tubes, or by using electro-magnetic indicators.

1961, British Communications and Electronics - Volume 8, Part 3, page 683:

In digit indicator lamps (digitrons), (one of which, type HH-1, is shown in the photograph in Fig. 1.15) the cathodes are made of nichrome wires shaped as the first ten digits and arranged one after the other along the lamp axis about one mm apart.

1964, Izrailʹ Lʹvovich Kaganov, Electronics in industry, page 50:

The time is displayed to 0.0001 second in digital form by means of digitrons (nixie tubes).

1970, COSPAR Transactions - Issue 7, page 173:


Drainbow

To come to a Gathering and not work, to be a Drainbow, is to miss the point of the Gathering.

1997, Michael I. Niman, People of the Rainbow: A Nomadic Utopia, University of Tennessee Press, published 2003, →ISBN, page 90:

He jogs and catches up with Burley Bear while Skip, not daring to return to the tipi, shouts "Drainbows!" at their back.

2002, Lawrence McGuire, The Gathering at Big Sur, Virtualbookworm.com, →ISBN, page 82:

You will be outfitted from a pile of donated clothes and gear, fed at the free kitchens, and unless you are a complete Drainbow you will gladly give some free labour in return.

2003, Richard Grant, Ghost Riders, Hachette, →ISBN:

(slang) A person who benefits from a Rainbow Gathering without doing their share of labour.


cathelin

Blend of cathepsin L + inhibitor, as coined in 1989.

Altogether, cathelicidins comprise an N-terminal cathelin domain and a C-terminal cationic antimicrobial domain, which is activated upon cleavage.

2015 April 2, Babatunji Emmanuel Oyinloye et al., “Reactive Oxygen Species, Apoptosis, Antimicrobial Peptides and Human Inflammatory Diseases”, in Pharmaceuticals, volume 8, →DOI:

(biochemistry) The highly-conserved domain in all cathelicidin peptides


hipoisie

This future eatery, Mom’s, is a combination bistro, hair salon, art gallery and homey retreat for the hipoisie.

2015 August 13, Stephen Holden, “Review: ‘Mistress America,’ a Noam Baumbach Comedy on Getting By in a Backbiting World”, in New York Times:


rapalogue

Blend of rapamycin + analogue. By surface analysis, rapamycin + -logue.

However, despite initially promising preclinical and clinical data in renal cell carcinoma, studies now suggest that as single agents, the activity of rapalogues is modest and sporadic in other solid tumors.

2015 August 6, Tracey R. O’Donovan et al., “Lithium Modulates Autophagy in Esophageal and Colorectal Cancer Cells and Enhances the Efficacy of Therapeutic Agents In Vitro and In Vivo”, in PLoS ONE, volume 10, →DOI:

(medicine) Any of several synthetic drugs that are analogues of rapamycin


skyaking

Daisher created “skyaking.” It's skydiving while sitting in a kayak. A kayak is a small boat. He does tricks in the air. He lands in water.

2015, Virginia Loh-Hagan, Extreme Base Jumping, page 27:

The extreme sport of skydiving in a kayak, so as to land on the water.


carnapper

(Philippines, sometimes UK) One who engages in grand theft auto; one who steals an automobile.


carnapping

Blend of car + kidnapping, from the 1970s

(Philippines) Grand theft auto; the theft of a motor vehicle.


utopistic

en-adj

utopistic (comparative more utopistic, superlative most utopistic)

more utopistic (comparative)
most utopistic (superlative)


zompire

He'd wanted to clear each casino out from the zompire infestations, but knew he'd never be able to do it alone.

2012, Alexia Purdy, Disarming, Lyrical Lit. Publishing (2012), unnumbered page

“Who knows? I've never actually dealt with zombies before. If I get bit ... it might turn me into a zompire!” he said, only half jokingly.

2013, Lorraine Kennedy, Skinwalkers: Song of Wolves: Volume 1, unnumbered page:

Behind her, ten other zompires snarled at me, baring their own thorny fangs.

2015, James Leck, After Dark, Kids Can Press, →ISBN, page 198:


womanhandle

en-verb

womanhandle (third-person singular simple present womanhandles, present participle womanhandling, simple past and past participle womanhandled)

womanhandles (present singular third-person)
womanhandling (participle present)
womanhandled (participle past)
womanhandled (past)

They womanhandled him down the hallway without any trouble at all. His feet, bumping him over the stone floor, were getting hurt. He had just decided it would be better to cooperate when, without any warning, they let him go. He fell face first […]

2006, Hugh Cook, The Wordsmiths and the Warguild, page 121:

(transitive, rare, humorous) To manhandle or treat roughly (when done by a woman).


offensensitivity

Blend of offense + sensitivity, coined by Berkeley Breathed

(Several characters) My gosh...life is offensive!! Aaaiggh!! (Opus the penguin) Offensensitivity.

1982 November 14, Berkeley Breathed, Bloom County:

The contents, ideas, methods, thought patterns and anything else in here including the notion of offensensitivity about this source are not in any way related to Oregon State University or any of its employees, the Oregon State System of Higher Education, or anyone else you care to hassle.

1994: Tony Abbott (ed.), Internet World's on Internet (Mecklermedia, 1994), p.362

2001: Mary Malmros, "MA Medical Insurance without an employer?" (2001-06-19) ne.general <58IX6.1648$iH6.171595@news.shore.net> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/ne.general/8-x8Za9kd3o/MCJFTx8l9XEJ
IMO, he didn't insult you at all, despite your volumes of "j'accuse!". It sounds like you're suffering from offensensitivity.

2006: LNER, "FBOWF Jan 19" (2006-01-26) rec.arts.comics.strips <1138313162.700569.181050@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.arts.comics.strips/SJgXB5Hd1ps/cRkBXfzQsucJ
Now how about we all turn down the damned offensensitivity settings, folks?

2009: Firelock, "Alternative Jewish Stereotypes" (2009-05-20) soc.history.what-if <3813670e-fc00-4035-ad77-75e86e41c12c@g19g2000vbi.googlegroups.com> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/soc.history.what-if/Eaq-sBJjd1E/u6d77jBcc1EJ
Dude, crank down the offensensitivity a notch or two.

Inappropriately high sensitivity to perceived offense.


e-volution

The evolution or development of a system or practice as a result of computer technology.


nagavator

"Why would I need a system with radar when I've got the Nagavator?" he chuckled.

2008, Doreen Orion, Queen of the Road: The True Tale of 47 States, 22,000 Miles, 200 Shoes, 2 Cats, 1 Poodle, a Husband, and a Bus with a Will of Its Own, page 128:

Sometimes we'd rather be our husband's “nag'''avator” through the journey of life rather than trusting God to guide his steps.

2000, Lysa M. TerKeurst, Living Life on Purpose: Discovering God's Best for Your Life:

(rare, humorous) The person inside the vehicle who gives directions to the driver.


perillaldehyde

Molecular dynamics simulations have shown that essential oil constituents like perillaldehyde or perillyl alcohol carrying more hydrophilic groups require more energy to traverse the membrane and have a 700-fold slower flip-flop rate than the nonpolar constituent limonene (Witzke et al., 2010).

2015 July 28, Morten Hyldgaard et al., “Isoeugenol has a non-disruptive detergent-like mechanism of action”, in Frontiers in Microbiology, volume 6, →DOI:

perilla aldehyde: a natural organic compound found most abundantly in the annual herb perilla, but also in a wide variety of other plants and essential oils. It is a monoterpenoid containing an aldehyde functional group.


coxarthrosis

en-noun

coxarthrosis (countable and uncountable, plural coxarthroses)

After providing informed consent a group of 456 patients with symptomatic coxarthrosis will be randomized to receive a THA either with care as usual, i.e. receiving postoperative restrictions including the advice to sleep in a supine position for the first 8 weeks postoperatively, or reduced restrictions with no recommendations regarding the position during sleeping.

2015 August 18, Anil Peters et al., “Reduced patient restrictions following total hip arthroplasty: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial”, in Trials, volume 16, →DOI:


compomer

(dentistry) A restorative material that is a hybrid of dental composites and glass ionomer cement.


geofact

A natural stone formation that is difficult to distinguish from a man-made artifact.


crafternoon

En masse, they hurried from the crafternoon room, down the hall to the main part of the library.

2013, "Amber", quoted in Lucy H. Pearce, The Rainbow Way
Crafternoons have been a way to connect with my crafty womenfolk once a month that is both nurturing for the spirit as well as for the creative mama in all of us.

An afternoon gathering dedicated to crafts, or other hobby activities.


slimplectic

We discuss several example systems, including damped harmonic oscillators, Poynting-Robertson drag, and gravitational radiation reaction, by utilizing our new publicly available code to demonstrate the slimplectic integrator algorithm.

2015, David Tsang, Chad R. Galley, Leo C. Stein, Alec Turner, “Slimplectic Integrators: Variational Integrators for General Nonconservative Systems”, in arXiv:

(mathematics) symplectic in a more generalised manner


treap

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

(computer science) A type of randomized binary search tree where nodes are labelled with randomly chosen priority values and which is simultaneously a heap on those priorities


DX-pedition

An amateur radio operators' expedition to a remote or unusual place.


sparsistency

Its implementation can be done with available packages under a variety of models and, in the linear regression model, we show it is sparsistent under conditions similar to those ensuring sparsistency for an oracular version of the reference stratum strategy.

2015, Edouard Ollier, Vivian Viallon, “Regression modeling on stratified data: automatic and covariate-specific selection of the reference stratum with simple L_1-norm penalties”, in arXiv:

(statistics) Let mathbf b be a vector and define the support operatorname supp( mathbf b)=i: mathbf bᵢ≠0 where mathbf bᵢ is the ith element of mathbf b. Let ̂mathbf b be an estimator for mathbf b. Then sparsistency is the property that the support of the estimator converges to the true support as the number of samples grows to infinity.


Dymaxion

Coined by Buckminster Fuller as a blend of dynamic + maximum + tension.

A structure or device that is dymaxion in nature.


cookie pop

Blend of cookie + lollipop. Compare cake pop.

A confection consisting of a cookie stuck on a stick in the manner of a lollipop.


pizzly bear

A hybrid of the polar bear and the grizzly bear.


evilutionary

(informal, derogatory) Relating to evilution or evilutionists.


handicamp

A camp (recreational event held in temporary accommodation) for disabled people.


Floribbean

Describing a type of cuisine which blends Floridian and Caribbean elements.


hopenosis

Blend of hope + hypnosis, in reference to the Barack Obama "Hope" poster.

But what should the Obama Cult do now? The man has turned off the switch on the "Hopenosis" and has revealed the "Change Brigade" for the useful idiots they were.

2009 January 22, Alex Knepper, “Obama's cabinet appointments contradict with message”, in The Mirror (Fairfield University), volume 34, number 15, page 3:

they've all by ^([sic]) hopenotized by the hopenosis of the obamanation.

2009 February 27, AllEmailDeletedImmediately [username], “Re: What's Up With Food Prices?”, in misc.consumers.frugal-living (Usenet):

(US politics, slang, rare, derogatory) Credulous political enthusiasm for Barack Obama.


Michigoose

Blend of Michigander + goose, because the counterpart of a gander (“male goose”) is a goose (“female goose”).

Where is the little Michigander or Michigoose who is plugging along, so contentedly ensconced in his bi-valve surroundings as not to be touched by even an echo of the great state meeting of his profession?

1916, Moderator-topics, volume 36, page 165:

From Dale E. Pasco of Owosso: "My parents were both one room school teachers and they taught it this way: I'm a Michigander, my wife is a Michigoose, our kids are Michigoslins, so what is the use."

1982, Michigan Natural Resources Magazine, volumes 51-52, page 77:

(uncommon, humorous) A woman from Michigan, contrasted with a Michigander (“man from Michigan”).


selectorate

(UK) The members of a political party with voting rights.


batcorder

A device that detects and records the call of bats


henipavirus

Blend of Hendra virus + Nipah virus which became the name of their genus.

Any member of the virus genus Henipavirus.


gaytarded

en-adj

gaytarded (comparative more gaytarded, superlative most gaytarded)

more gaytarded (comparative)
most gaytarded (superlative)

(slang, derogatory, offensive) Both gay and retarded; very lame or stupid.


clicktivist

[…]although it was just as often dismissed: what use were a group of cultish, Trotskyist-infused Corbynista clicktivists, hopelessly out of touch with normal people, when it came to the crunch?

2017 June 1, Rachel Shabi, “What use is a group of cultish, Corbynista clicktivists? Quite a lot, actually”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(derogatory) A person who participates in clicktivism.


Walrussia

Blend of walrus + Russia; a mocking name coined at the time the territory was purchased by the United States from Russia.


dulcijo

(music) A type of three-stringed clawhammer banjo that is tuned diatonically, like a dulcimer, with a shortened third string and a drum resonator.


pop fly

(baseball, slang) A pop-up; a fly ball to the infield or the shallow outfield.


glasshole

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

Blend of glasses (“specs”) + asshole. From the behaviour of Google Glass users, and similar spec-based camera-equipped PDAs with eye displays.

2013, Molly Klinefelter, Don’t Be a Google Glasshole: 10 Etiquette Tips, Laptop Magazine
Put another way, there could be a lot of “Glassholes” out there.

No one likes a Glasshole because they are usually unpredictable in their actions.

2014, Vamien McKalin, Hate Glassholes? Now you can jam their Wi-Fi connection and expose them, TechTimes:

Do “explore the world around you,” Google exhorts its users; on the other hand, don't “be creepy or rude (aka a 'Glasshole').” That Google recognizes the pejorative slang term “Glasshole” in its own documentation is telling, for it shows that […]

2015, Tom Bruno, Wearable Technology: Smart Watches to Google Glass for Libraries, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 97:

[…] and create a technology you wear like glasses—without looking like a glasshole […]

2015, Rob Enderle, How the Windows Phone Could Rise Up and Dominate, Tech News World:

Google Glass became a status symbol too – of a rather different sort. The company’s “glassholes” probably put the field back by half a decade, as a status symbol inside tech became a red flag to passersby outside it.

2023 June 6, Alex Hern, “TechScape: Is Apple’s $3,500 Vision Pro more than just another tech toy for the rich?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(derogatory, slang) A person who wears spectacle frames equipped with PDAs (especially with cameras) that display into the user's eyes, and who acts like a jerk or films inappropriately.


Blasian

He referenced Neal Stephenson’s sci-fi novel Snow Crash as an example. It contained these themes, but also had a sympathetic Asian and Black, or “Blasian,” protagonist.

2020 December 8, George Yang, “Orientalism, 'Cyberpunk 2077,' and Yellow Peril in Science Fiction”, in Wired, →ISSN:

(informal) Encompassing both black (particularly sub-Saharan African) and Asian (particularly East/South and Southeast Asian) ancestry.


phagraphene

Contraction of penta-hexa-hepta-graphene.; Blend of penta- + hexa- + hepta- + graphene from the ring structures of phagraphene, having five-, six-, and seven-sided rings in the macromolecular structure.

blend

(neologism) A two-dimensional form of graphene, the allotrope of carbon found in graphite, with 5/6/7-sided rings instead of just the 6-sided ones found in conventional graphene.


glamazonian

en-adj

glamazonian (comparative more glamazonian, superlative most glamazonian)

more glamazonian (comparative)
most glamazonian (superlative)

She turned every public appearance into a media event and undeniably became a sex goddess of the Glamazonian kind.

2008, Tom Lisanti, Glamour Girls of Sixties Hollywood, page 231:

She once watched almost eight hours straight of Project Runway, even though she wasn't the least bit interested to start with – but by hour three she was desperate to know who was next going to be auf wiedersehened off the show by the glamazonian Heidi Klum.

But the real star of the night was not a glamazonian drag queen or a muscled go-go dancer.

2015 September 2, Michael Musto, “A Dancer Not Short on Moves”, in New York Times:


pignapper

He bounded out of bed, grabbed his gun, aimed at a shadowy figure climbing out of the pen and fired. The pignapper fell to the ground. Rushing out to the pen, the gentleman placed the squealing piglet back in the pen and examined the thief.

2003, Herbert Lockwood, San Diego's Hysterical History, page 177:

Surely the pignappers must realize Belinda's worth a great deal more as a breeder than as a barbecue.

2014, Charlotte MacLeod, The Luck Runs Out:


jazzical

From the smoothest symphonic dance pieces to the most highly seasoned jazzical eccentricities runs the range; there is a spiced variety of good things for every taste.

1995, Mark Tucker, The Duke Ellington Reader, page 34:

(music, informal) Combining elements of jazz and classical music.


guitjo

(music) A banjo-like string instrument, with fourteen strings in seven courses, tuned like a guitar and having a guitar-like neck.


tenor guitarist

en-noun

tenor guitarist (plural tenor guitarists)

Analyzable as tenor guitar + -ist or as a Blend of tenor guitar + guitarist.


mirabolic

We also give an analogue of our main theorem in the setting of mirabolic D-modules.

2015, Gwyn Bellamy, Travis Schedler, “Kostka polynomials from nilpotent cones and Springer fiber cohomology”, in arXiv:

(mathematics) Being or relating to a subgroup of the general linear group GLₙ(k) that consists of automorphisms fixing a given non-zero vector in kⁿ. Its image in the projective general linear group is a parabolic subgroup consisting of all elements fixing a given point of projective space.


catskinner

Blend of cat (“tracked vehicle”) + muleskinner

blend

(slang, US) One who drives (or operates) a tracked vehicle.


casamino acid

(biochemistry) Any of a mixture of amino acids and peptides obtained from acid hydrolysis of casein, typically used in microbial growth media.


polkabilly

(music) A music genre that combines polka with punk, rockabilly and other genres of rock music.


Cinderfella

Keaton's new wife takes him home to her father and brothers, who all mistreat him terribly. His would be the lot of an overworked "Cinderfella" had the father not found the misappropriated letter, opened it, read of an inheritance, and assumed his son-in-law to be the beneficiary.

2007, Lisa Trahair, The Comedy of Philosophy: Sense and Nonsense in Early Cinematic Slapstick, State University of New York Press, Albany, →ISBN, page 59:

All my life I was an underdog who was now finally living out my Cinderfella story.

2011, Karsheem White-Holman, It Is What It Is: Daze in Da Life of Mr. Can't Get It Right, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 203:

Of course I felt dreadful about using him, but still I somehow explained to Marty as we stood on the noisy sidewalk that I needed him to pose as my date for the night, and then like Cinderfella he would leave at midnight and go home like nothing had ever happened, although I suspected he had other plans.

2014, S. N. Weddle, It Starts With a Kiss, Mereo Books, Mereo Books, →ISBN, page 92:

(informal, sometimes used attributively) A man or boy who shares qualities with the character Cinderella.


tricine

(organic chemistry) An organic compound used in buffer solutions.


Suethor

Flames can also address characters being "out of character" or "out of canon" (both labeled "OOC"), whether or not the fanfic is a Mary Sue (composed by a "Suethor"), […]

2005, Molly Wright, "Imitation, Not Limitation: Fan Fiction In The Classroom", thesis submitted to Columbus State University, page 27

Lastly, a survey was distributed both in 2005 and 2009 to solicit Mary Sue readers' and writers' opinions, and their answers have contributed towards an understanding of why Suethors choose to knowingly write Mary Sues, and how they have reacted when confronted with accusations that their characters are Mary Sues.

2009, J. M. Frey, "Water Logged Mona Lisa: Who Is Mary Sue, and Why Do We Need Her", thesis submitted to Ryerson University/York University, page 32

Another one labels the writer a “Suethor,” a term used by^([sic]) writers who portray Mary Sues in their texts and tells her in very harsh terms to delete her story and dream instead of writing.

2015, Sanna Lehtonen, “Writing Oneself into Someone Else's Story – Experiments with Identity and Speculative Life Writing in Twilight Fan Fiction”, in Fafnir, volume 2, number 2, pages 12–13:

(fandom slang, usually derogatory) An author who creates Mary Sues, writes fiction featuring Mary Sues, or both.


Spander

And lord knows, if you want there's plenty of Spuffy and Spander to last a lifetime.

2004 April 29, Kathryn Burlingham, “Re: You want fries with that?”, in soc.motss (Usenet):

Yeah, the Spander shippers really got off on that one.

2006 September 10, Don Sample, “Re: AOQ Review 7-2: "Beneath You"”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet):

Spander 'shippers prefer long NC-17 rated stories, regardless of genre.

2013, Mary Kirby-Diaz, “Ficcers and 'Shippers: A Love Story”, in Jennifer K. Stuller, editor, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Intellect Books, →ISBN, page 46:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Spike and Xander Harris from the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.


Spillow

Well, I'm beginning a campaign for Spike and Willow in 02. Wanna join for Spillow?

2002 October 10, Stephen Weick, “Re: The Bright side of Deep Down.”, in alt.tv.angel (Usenet):

Spillow is best. Spillow the drinkin' & gal-chasin' pair. They won't put Willow with a man romantically, I promise you that.

2002 October 10, Rose, “Re: Spike and Willow (spoilers for Same Time)”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet):

You're all forgetting Spillow

2005 July 16, Yelps [username], “Re: What Happens When Buffy Is Done Baking?”, in alt.tv.angel (Usenet):

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Spike and Willow Rosenberg from the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.


tragifarce

en-noun

tragifarce (countable and uncountable, plural tragifarces)

The latter is, according to its director, "a tragic phantasmagoria, a grotesque tragicomedy, or perhaps a lyrical tragifarce," as well as a political allegory, and only has a few moments of percussive pop music (along with quotes from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and Shakespeare's 66th sonnet).

1988 May 6, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Social Criticism”, in Chicago Reader:

A dramatic work that combines elements of tragedy and farce.


bussy

Blend of boy + pussy or butt + pussy. See also the suffix -ussy.

(gay slang, LGBTQ, by extension) Any anus, in general.

(gay slang, LGBTQ, sometimes derogatory) The vulva or vagina of a trans man.


diplolingo

Another McCain linguistic thrust: in diplolingo, realist was a word adopted a few years ago by foreign-policy wonks tired of being called accommodationist by Kissingerian exponents of tough-minded realpolitik.

2008 April 13, William Safire, “Revanche Is Sweet”, in New York Times:

(colloquial) The jargon used by diplomats.


terminotics

Blend of terminology + informatics, or else coined from terminology + -ics (possibly influenced by informatics).

Terminography is the methodology-based practice of collecting, describing, and processing specialized terms, while terminotics refers to the practice of terminography assisted by computer tools and technologies, such as those designed for term extraction and parallel corpora creation.

c. 2011 "Terminology Studies," Translation Romani (website) (accessed 20 September 2015)


glibertarian

However, Ken completely ignores all other taxes, per the custom of the glibertarian.

2009 December 17, Chris Bellomy, “Re: Was Pitts right?”, in rec.sport.golf (Usenet):

The State of California is following Colorado Springs into the glorious future envisioned by Ayn Rand-addled glibertarians!

2010 April 20, Spartakus [username], “Re: CA's Budget Crisis Harbinger of Things to Come on National Scale”, in alt.politics.conservative (Usenet):

It's these guys versus all of us, yet half the people being rogered (Republicans and glibertarians and hell, half the Democrats) have been convinced the other side is a bigger threat to their well being than the people with all the power, money, and resources.

2011 February 11, Yankee Doodle Dandy [username], “Former Wingnut John Cole”, in alt.fan.rush-limbaugh (Usenet):

(US, slang, derogatory) A disingenuous libertarian.


Mobot

Blend of Mo (“nickname for Mohamed”) + robot (“dance move”)

blend

In 2012, the Foundation started up the “do the Mobot” campaign, encouraging everyone to do a Mobot dance in order to raise £100,000 towards the Mo Farah orphanage & sports academy.

2013, Michael Hurley, Mo Farrah, Raintree, →ISBN, page 22:

A rare break in proceedings before 'Song 2' brought yet another surprise, as Damon successfully got an entire field of revellers to do the 'Mobot' in honour of track star and double-goldwinning medallist Mo Farah.

2013, Martin Power, The Life of Blur, Music Sales Group, →ISBN:

I felt like a balloon, floating above all this mayhem, looking down on someone who looked like me doing the Mobot with Mo Farah (he thanked me for inventing it, by the way).

2014, Clare Balding, Walking Home: My Family and Other Rambles, Penguin UK, →ISBN:

A celebratory dance where the arms and hands form an "M"-shape over the head, associated with runner Mo Farah.


libertardian

(derogatory, offensive) A rightist libertarian.


coeloconic

In particular some of the antennal OSNs in the coeloconic sensilla of I.

2015 August 26, “Scent of a Dragonfly: Sex Recognition in a Polymorphic Coenagrionid”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:


bronde

en-noun

bronde (countable and uncountable, plural brondes)

Blend of brunette + blonde or brown + blonde, popularised from circa 2010.

Coordinate term: blorange

What happens when beach blonde meets a rich brunette? You get a 'bronde'. A colour that is somewhere between the two extremes, bronde brings in the best of both worlds.

2017, "Hair Colouring", The Times of Oman 100, Summer 2016, page 33

(uncountable) A hair colour intermediate between brown and blond.

I'm a bronde.

(countable) A person having this hair colour.


bronde

Singer Taylor Swift changes up her long lob with an added fringe, in a bronde tone at the Billboard Music Awards on 17 May.

2015, “Celeb Hair We Love”, in Canberra Weekly Magazine, page 55:

Olive skin tones look great with a bronde colour, so mixing a chocolate brown with honey highlights would be a great option.

2021, Jenna Engel, quoted in Veronica Boodhan, "Finding The Perfect Match", Salon, May 2021, page 35

(informal) Having or relating to a bronde colour.


rectenna

rectenna (plural rectennas or rectennae)

This leads to highly efficient photon-to-electron conversion, orders of magnitude larger than conventional rectennas.

2015, Pai-Yen Chen, Mehdi Hajizadegan, Maryam Sakhdari, Andrea Alù, “Giant Photoresponsivity of Mid-Infrared Hyperbolic Metamaterials in the Quantum Regime”, in arXiv:

A special type of antenna that converts microwave energy into direct current electricity.


morbimortality

Nevertheless, AHSCT continues to have a significant morbimortality rate.

2015 September 23, “Assessing the Influence of Different Comorbidities Indexes on the Outcomes of Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation in a Developing Country”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:


Noogler

TEMs can view the resume and interview scores of a Noogler and place a "bid" on the allocation. In heavy hiring seasons, there are generally multiple candidates to be allocated to multiple projects. Competing bids are the norm […]

2012, James A. Whittaker, Jason Arbon, Jeff Carollo, How Google Tests Software, page 190:

As an experiment, we added a fifteen-minute segment to Noogler orientation for some people that explained the benefits of being proactive, provided five specific actions Nooglers could take to find the things they needed, and reiterated how this behavior fits with Google’s entrepreneurial mindset:[…]

2015, Laszlo Bock, Work Rules!, Twelve, →ISBN, page 298:

(informal) A new employee of the Google corporation.


athleisurewear

Blend of athletics + leisurewear, equivalent to athleisure + -wear.

The style in “athleisurewear”—those sportsy/outdoorsy-looking slacks, shorts, shirts, and jackets—was the soft, cool feel of all-cotton.

1986 May, Jim Chase, Backpacker, page 46:

Marketers may call this comfy stuff "athleisurewear," but the boyfriend who spots you on Saturday morning at Whole Foods will be glad to simply call you an ex.

2005, Shelly Branch, Sue Callaway, What Would Jackie Do?, page 60:

When you think about it, the Missoni stretch knit was athleisurewear before athleisurewear was invented.

2015 September 28, Vanessa Friedman, “Armani and Missoni: In the Shadow of the Supermoon”, in New York Times:


clausmarin

Here, we investigated the likely mechanism of clausmarin A action in yeast and Jurkat T-cells.

2015 August 28, “Clausmarin A, Potential Immunosuppressant Revealed by Yeast-Based Assay and Interleukin-2 Production Assay in Jurkat T Cells”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

(organic chemistry) Any of a family of terpenoid coumarins found in citrus plants of the genus Clausena


fuck you very much

(vulgar) An ungrateful and dismissive remark.


anachronym

A term which is used in an anachronistic way, by referring to something in a way that is appropriate only for a former or later time. A type of misnomer. Misnomers are not necessarily incorrect; for example, chalk for a chalkboard is normatively called chalk despite it not being made of chalk.


slavenapping

A kidnapping for the purpose of making the victim a slave.


fanglomerate

(geology) A stratigraphic unit in which conglomerates that were deposited in an alluvial fan are common.


pornobilly

Inventor of pornobilly, Buck would come on stage dressed only in a “cowboy hat, pink cowboy boots and a toilet-plunger codpiece”.

2000, Brian Hinton, Country Roads: How Country Came to Nashville, Sanctuary, →ISBN, page 423:

If you like Buck Naked, check out Jon Wayne's 'Texas Funeral' if you haven't done so already. Not highly offensive pornobilly, but highly offensive in a drunken Texas way.

2004 September 26, REP [username], “Re: what's everyone listening to lately?”, in alt.support.childfree (Usenet):

Of course, there's a tendency to dismiss Buck and the Boys, pornobilly as a cheap novelty.

2005, Kim Cooper, David Smay, editors, Lost in the Grooves: Scram's Capricious Guide to the Music You Missed, Routledge, →ISBN:

A genre of rockabilly music with raunchy lyrics and stylings.


facturd

We can only give you some FACTURDS about their Lou, whose name is Lou Diamond Haeick, and let you be the judge.

2000 February 20, Go Onadiet Yaslob [username], “REPRINT: by request: Letters to the LouMaster”, in rec.gambling.sports (Usenet):

The smug pretentious know-it-all
Who posts facturds galore

2008 September 3, Ko-Ko [username], “Re: With a few slight sidelines.....”, in rec.music.opera (Usenet):

And on top of that, it's just a conspiracy facturd that she went onto the trunk to retrieve a piece of brain matter.

2011 August 10, Hank Sienzant, “Re: Jackie Onassis tapes (article)”, in alt.conspiracy.jfk (Usenet):

(slang, derogatory, mildly vulgar) A particularly dubious, distasteful, or irrelevant factoid.


aptasensor

The high sensitivity and specificity of the developed aptasensor suggests that this novel method is very promising for the detection and identification of C.

2015 September 4, “Detection of Cryptosporidium parvum Oocysts on Fresh Produce Using DNA Aptamers”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:


thrashabilly

thrashabilly (countable and uncountable, plural thrashabillies)

A music genre that combines thrash metal with rockabilly.


metalbilly

metalbilly (countable and uncountable, plural metalbillies)

(uncountable, music) A music genre that combines heavy metal with rockabilly.

(countable) A fan or musician of this genre.


mantrum

"My hubby's there with his kinsmen. He loathes girls' night out—throws a mantrum every week. So I suppose I could go relieve his misery."

2008, Kresley Cole, Dark Needs at Night's Edge, Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 219:

Sometimes mirroring the bully's behavior puts a stop to things. It certainly is worth a try. In the middle of one of his “mantrums,” mirror him back and watch what happens.

2010, Lillian Glass, Toxic Men: 10 Ways to Identify, Deal with, and Heal from the Men Who Make Your Life Miserable, Adams Media, →ISBN, page 192:

Before me, the turnover rate on his assistant's desk was about three months due to his daily mantrums.

2014, Danube Adele, Quicksilver Dreams, Carina Press, →ISBN:

(slang, derogatory) An emotional outburst by an adult man.


fandemonium

From their earliest days playing local Tulsa gigs, the boys inspired fandemonium.

1997, Jill Matthews, Hanson: Mmmbop to the Top, Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 29:

Three light-skinned, street-tough New York black girls, sisters Veronica (Ronnie) and Estelle Bennett and cousin Nedra Talley, they were the first female superstars of rock 'n' roll, touring with The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, causing fandemonium wherever they performed.

2002, Lucy O'Brien, She Bop II: The Definitive History of Women in Rock, Pop and Soul, Continuum, →ISBN, page 72:

The crowds of geeks, tech writers and Apple observers received it with love, whoops and fandemonium.

2013, Anders Sorman-Nilsson, Digilogue: How to Win the Digital Minds and Analogue Hearts of Tomorrow's Customer, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:


BookTuber

Blend of book + YouTuber, equivalent to book + -Tuber.

And last but certainly not least, to all the online book geeks (booktubers, tweeps, and bloggers), my sincere gratitude, as always, for your support and encouragement!

2012, "Acknowledgements," in Daniel Marks, Velveteen, Delacorte Press (2012), page 450

Thank you to the readers, librarians, booksellers, BookTubers, and bloggers who celebrate stories all over the world.

2015, "Acknowledgements," in Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows, Henry Holt and Company (2015), page 464

Booksandquills: Sanne Vliegenthart (yes, that is her actual name) is also a long-time BookTuber.

2015 September, Helga Pearson, “Book Tube: Video Killed the Blog Star”, in Authors Magazine, page 17:

(Internet) A YouTube videoblogger who reviews or discusses books.

booktuber

YouTuber personality who reviews or discusses books


exhaustipated

en-adj

exhaustipated (comparative more exhaustipated, superlative most exhaustipated)

more exhaustipated (comparative)
most exhaustipated (superlative)

Blend of exhausted + constipated, implying that one is too exhausted to give a shit (“care about something”).

2011. Sexton Sand. David J. Steele. Pg. 281.
It was finally dark, they were still a long way from Crescen waters, and Cedric was exhaustipated.

1994. The Tambootie Plays. Pieter Scholtz. Pg. 294.
But-tins is exhaustipated.

(slang) Too tired to care about anything.


sympitar

(music) A stringed instrument similar to a guitar with sympathetic strings like a sitar.


Stimpmeter

Blend of Stimpson + meter; it was designed by golfer Edward S. Stimpson, Sr. in 1935.

(golf) A device that measures the speed of a golf course's putting green by applying a known force to a golf ball and measuring the distance travelled.


oilgae

Algal biofuel, sometimes nicknamed oilgae by environmentalists, is a promising technology.

2009 July 14, Jad Mouawad, “Exxon to Invest Millions to Make Fuel From Algae”, in New York Times:


ELINT

en-noun

ELINT (countable and uncountable, plural ELINTs)

(a) Intelligence.—This includes SIGINT, ELINT and their Electronic countermeasures (ECM, ECCM, ECCCM and so on).

2002, Indian Journal of Strategic Studies, volume 23, page 163:

electronic intelligence
electronic intelligence#English

(espionage) Abbreviation of electronic intelligence.


ebrary

Our program creates an attached MFHD for each bibliographic record, populates it with information that includes a field indicating it is an ebrary title.

2011, Karin Wikoff, Electronics Resources Management in the Academic Library:

A library that provides electronic access to reference material.


hatinator

The fascinator is dead. Long live the hatinator. It’s the must have, this season. Apparently. Both have feathery things and a band around the head, but the hatinator also has a brim. Which makes it half a hat. There must be more to life.

2011 July 29, Miriam Lord, “Ladies Day punters spend like it's going out of fashion”, in The Irish Times:

"A simple hatinator suits everyone and it's not too heavy, but my best seller is a grey cloche. […]

2015 March 1, Janet Christie, “Leave Your Hat On”, in Scotland on Sunday:

Shoes of all hues, as well as the now ubiquitous hatinators add the finishing touches to your look.

2015 June 7, “These Are the Styles That Will Be Hot to Trot Down at the Down Royal Summer Festival”, in Belfast Telegraph:

A small, fascinator-like hat, typically featuring elaborate or extravagant decoration.


shwopping

However, perhaps the most interesting thing about shwopping was the attempt to engage the consumer. This non-product campaign incorporated a highly innovative social media strategy alongside other forms of media and PR activity.

2013, Nick Coad, Paul Pritchard, Leading Sustainable Innovation:

(retail) The practice of taking old items to a shop to be donated or recycled, while also buying new items.


blobitecture

A style of architecture in which buildings have an organic, amoeboid shape.


laplet

convertible laptop

a type of notebook computer or ultraportable which has a swivel screen that is swiveled around and folded down to cover the keyboard, with the screen facing outwards, becoming a tablet computer

(computing) A type of netbook or ultrabook that has a removable keyboard and where the internals are hidden behind the screen instead of below the keyboard.


stalkarazzi

stalkarazzi pl (normally plural, singular stalkarazzo)


sextual

en-adj

sextual (comparative more sextual, superlative most sextual)

more sextual (comparative)
most sextual (superlative)

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

Below is a short rundown of a few of the top locations for sextual feelings. It's no surprise why these resources are so popular, but at the same time, the ease of sexting can put us in compromising positions if we're not careful.

2013, Margo Strupeck, Seven Deadly Clicks: Essential Lessons for Online Safety and Success, Zest Books, →ISBN:

It was the work of the late conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart that helped to expose the sextual shenanigans of Representative Andrew Weiner, […]

2014, Timothy Stanley, Citizen Hollywood: How the Collaboration between LA and DC Revolutionized American Politics, Thomas Dunne, →ISBN, page 251:

We have heard tales of couples with awesome sextual chemistry, but no sexual chemistry.

2014, Lisa Winning, Carrie Henderson McDermott, He Texted: The Ultimate Guide to Decoding Guys, Gallery Books, →ISBN, page 156:

Of, relating to, or characteristic of sexting.


textident

It doesn’t take much for a driver to have a “textident,” according to Distractology 101, a hands-on tool to teach new drivers how texting, emailing, snacking or other distractions can lead to car accidents.

2011 September 6, Deborah Allard, “Crash course gets young drivers' attention”, in The Herald News:

The key is walking with a friend while you are texting. Any person will do as long as they have clear eyesight. While this may seem rude, you will have your own personal crossing guard to prevent textidents and possibly save your life.

2012, Katie Krall & Katie Kaminsky, "A Hawk's declassified school survival guide", Southwords (Maine Township High School, South), Volume 49, Number 1, 14 September 2012, page 10

Simulator instructor Robert Bliss told Zukowski the "textident" -- an accident caused by texting -- was inevitable.

2013 October 9, Dick Lindsay, “'Distractology 101' simulator teaches Lee students driving, texting don't mix”, in The Berkshire Eagle:

(informal) An accident caused by a driver or pedestrian focused on texting.


Hebonics

Yossi needed a drink; he was still nervous and a bit shaky after his narrow escape from the '"chood," as they liked to call it in "Hebonics."

2005, Hella Winston, Unchosen: The Hidden Lives of Hasidic Rebels, page 61:

(humorous) The Jewish dialect of English.


sheroic

sheroic (comparative more sheroic, superlative most sheroic)

more sheroic (comparative)
most sheroic (superlative)

The tragedy of Gatha's sheroic journey is that the actualization of her own importance is never considered "the prize" of her odyssey; hence, she never recognizes the personal and historic success of her journey.

1999, Janice Lee Liddell, “Voyages Beyond Lust and Lactation: The Climacteric as Seen in Novels by Sylvia Wynter, Beryl Gilroy, and Paule Marshall”, in Janice Liddell, Yakini Belinda Kemp, editors, Arms Akimbo: Africana Women in Contemporary Literature, University Press of Florida, →ISBN, page 36:

This sheroic choice eventually led her to testify compassionately on behalf of faceless and voiceless young girls still living under horrific conditions in the community she had escaped from.

2015, Nancy D. O'Reilly, Leading Women: 20 Influential Women Share Their Secrets to Leadership, Business, and Life, Adams Media, →ISBN, page 84:

However, in the same vein, she also bemoans that following each of these campaigns, amnesia sets in wherein society tends to conveniently forget about the sheroic lengths to which its women have uniformly performed and without whom the military's successes could not have been achieved.

2015, G. L. A. Harris, Living Legends and Full Agency: Implications of Repealing the Combat Exclusion Policy, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 37:

(feminism) Heroic in a female or feminist context.


chairmanager

Notoriously, Barry Fry spent nine years from 1996 to 2005 as chairmanager of Peterborough United, presiding over one promotion and two relegations.

2015 October 21, John Ashdown, “Football’s unbreakable records and the teams who can’t play each other”, in The Guardian:

(informal, soccer) A person who (temporarily) holds the position of both chairman and manager of a club


Fayettenam

Blend of Fayetteville + Vietnam, in reference to the city's large military base and high crime rate.

(derogatory) Fayetteville, North Carolina and its surrounding area, which includes a large military base.


microtainer

At every time point, a 500-μL sample of whole blood was taken from each participant in to a microtainer coated with K 2 EDTA (Becton Dickinson ref: 365974).

2015 September 18, “The Impact of Sleep Restriction and Simulated Physical Firefighting Work on Acute Inflammatory Stress Responses”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

A very small container for biological material.


lysopine

On the other hand, since not only L-arginine, but also L-ornithine and L-lysine inhibited activity, octopinic acid and/or lysopine, also found in crown gall tumor tissues [2 ], may be the active substrate(s) (Fig 1A ).

2015 September 19, “Characterization of Flavin-Containing Opine Dehydrogenase from Bacteria”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

(organic chemistry) An amino acid, carboxyethyl-lysine, that is the lysine analogue of octopine


ecosan

ecological sanitation (reuse of excreta for agriculture)


monoverse

(astronomy) A single universe of the multiverse.

(astronomy) A stand-alone universe; an autonomous universe.


snuzzle

en-verb

snuzzle (third-person singular simple present snuzzles, present participle snuzzling, simple past and past participle snuzzled)

snuzzles (present singular third-person)
snuzzling (participle present)
snuzzled (participle past)
snuzzled (past)

"I slunk down in the seat, making myself as small as possible, and snuzzled my shoulder into his armpit."

2001, Norris Church Mailer, Windchill Summer - Page 142:

(transitive, intransitive) To touch cozily and comfortably; to nestle, to snuggle.


hate-on

I remember the captain had the mother of all hate-ons for the guy.


stuffaroni

"I couldn't imagine how he could know his roommate was messy, but then I could and told him my Marx Brothers idea of two blind roommates—shaving cream on the spaghetti, slipping on spilled stuffaroni, etc."

2015, Lucia Berlin, Homesick: new & selected stories:


Sheng

A Kenyan cant based on Swahili and English.


cannabusiness

en-noun

cannabusiness (countable and uncountable, plural cannabusinesses)

He did everything he was supposed to do when starting his cannabusiness and still ended up facing prosecution and going to jail.

2009, Scott Rosenfeld, How to Open A Medical Marijuana Dispensary, page iv:

And as long as cannabusiness remains highly profitable to the criminal underworld, the battle will continue.

The business of selling cannabis, or a specific business that does so.


iodozone

An iodine and ozone compound, historically used as an antiseptic.


blacktivist

July 29: Judge George Shindler presiding over the trial of blacktivist Kuomba Balogun at the Inner London Crown Court clashed with defence counsel, Patrick O'Connor.

1988, The New Law Journal (volume 138, part 2, page 568)

A black activist, chiefly in matters of race or civil rights.


Bucyrus

A city, the county seat of Crawford County, Ohio, United States.


veganniversary

I can't think of a single dessert I love more. I made these cupcakes for my first veganniversary, and they still remain one of the most popular recipes on my website.

2011, Lindsay S. Nixon, The Happy Herbivore Cookbook, →ISBN:

I've just gone past my one year veganniversary.

... the most delicious vegan cupcakes on my birthday and one month "veganniversary."

2015 November/December, Sprouted, page 7

(rare) The anniversary of someone becoming a vegan.


pedo-stache

Exception to the rule: the pedo-stache, or more recently known as the Crosby-stache. It covers nothing, and qualifies you instantaniously to be on a child offenders list.

2010, "Single Guy", "Dating Advice From the Single Guy", mathNEWS (University of Waterloo), Volume 114, Issue 1, 24 September 2010, page 9

However, if you are a young male with a pedo-stache like M, sitting in a café while small children run around your legs is enough to make you feel like Stanley Tucci in “The Lovely Bones.”

2013 July 29, M & G, “Otago Museum Café”, in Critic, number 17, University of Otago, page 37:

With his pedo-stache firmly penciled on, Kline nails the accent, the affectations and the alcoholism.

2014 September 10, Meg Elison, “Dakota Fanning’s latest flaccidly flops”, in The Daily Californian, University of California, Berkeley:

(slang) A moustache that resembles one from a stereotypical depiction of a male pedophile in the media.


Pretendolino

But let's not forget that loco-hauled trains are regularly operated by Arriva in Wales, First Great Western and Northern Rail (Workington to Maryport) and even Tim's beloved Virgin Trains has the Pretendolino set that runs regularly on the WCML, and the Pendolino drag to/from Holyhead.

2010 January 25, Bruce, “Re: EMT Frustration”, in uk.railway (Usenet):

Tonight the Pretendolino is due to work it's regular route, but I saw it working the Birmingham loop of the WCML yesterday, usually when this happens the EUS-PRE service is booked with a 390 or 221, does anybody know which unit is working it tonight?

2010 July 30, Tom, “Pretendolino Workings 30/07/10”, in uk.railway (Usenet):

It is seen here satback at Preston, awaiting departure while working the 5Z41 Kilmarnock–Wembley InterCity depot, dragging the Virgin 'Pretendolino' stock which has been contracted to be moved back south by DRS after maintenance at Hunslet-Barclay.

2015, Ross Taylor, Lancashire Traction, Amberley Publishing Limited, →ISBN:

(rail transport, UK) A British Rail Class 90 train with Mark 3 coaching stock formerly used on services normally operated by Pendolinos.


juvenoia

/ˈd͡ʒuːvənɔɪə/

Coined by David Finkelhor in 2010, from a blend of juvenile + paranoia.

(neologism) The fear or hostility directed by an older generation toward a younger one, or toward youth culture in general.


cohog

Blend of co-ed + quahog; the quahog is indigenous to the area.

(US, Dartmouth College, 1970s, slang, derogatory) A co-ed.


douchebro

Zuckerberg was on NPR today, being smarmy and disingenuous. He's a total douchebro. I hate myself for supporting his business model.

2010, "Valkyrie607", quoted in Metro (Silicon Valley), Volume 26, Number 12, 2 June 2010 - 8 June 2010, page 12

But then all that doesn't matter, because a couple of douchebros saunter up behind the two of them, hands reaching out and touching the smalls of their backs, gentle, but insistent; […]

2014, Chuck Wendig, The Cormorant, Angry Robot/Osprey Publishing, →ISBN:

It's gotta suck...existing solely to be some douchebro's fapping fodder....!

2015, Adam Warren, Empowered Unchained Volume 1, Dark Horse Books, →ISBN:

(vulgar, slang, humorous) A rude, obnoxious, or contemptible man, especially one who exhibits sexism or homophobia.


brocialist

My experience is that ‘brocialists' don’t openly embrace patriarchy; they deny it’s a problem.

2013, Richard Seymour, quoted in Laurie Penny, "Laurie Penny on Brand, iconoclasm, and a woman's place in the revolution", New Statesman, 2 November 2013

Often, brocialism manifests at left-wing powwows. Someone raises a feminist grievance. The brocialist instructs her that she is distracted from the paramount issue, namely class.

2014 January 8, Marc Tracy, “How to Talk to a 'Brocialist'”, in New Republic:

Pin them down, and the brocialists defend their blokeishness by saying that gender issues are essentially a second-order of importance, that there are bigger struggles which define our politics today.

2015 September 14, Cathy Newman, “Welcome to Jeremy Corbyn's blokey Britain - where 'brocialism' rules”, in The Telegraph:

(slang, derogatory) A male socialist, leftist or progressive accused of downplaying women's issues, or displaying an alleged misogynistic or macho attitude.


brocialism

I think part of the answer might perhaps lie in the nature of the hard left politics which Mr Corbyn embraces. He's been accused of brocialism or bro-socialism if you're struggling to spit that one out. And however much you may choose to ignore it, there does often appear to be something blokey about the new movement he says he's creating.

2015 September 14, Cathy Newman, “Welcome to Jeremy Corbyn's blokey Britain - where brocialism rules”, in The Telegraph:

(slang, derogatory, British) Any form of socialism characterised by blokeishness.


spornosexual

Blend of sport + porn + metrosexual. Coined by journalist Mark Simpson in 2014 (who also coined metrosexual).

coin

But unlike Beckham's metrosexual ads of old, in which his attributes were possibly artificially enhanced, today’s spornosexuals have photoshopped themselves in real life.

2014 June 10, Mark Simpson, “The metrosexual is dead. Long live the 'spornosexual'”, in The Telegraph:

More than shirts and suits, the spornosexual's body is the ultimate commodity.

2015 March 1, Gurveen Kaur, “The rise of the spornosexual, the more hardcore, body-obsessed version of metrosexuals”, in The Straits Times:

Then came about the well-groomed, fashion-conscious metrosexual in the ’90s and, more recently, his waxed, tanned, athletic cousin: the spornosexual.

2015 September 15, Sam Rowe, “Lebowski Fest: why the Dude is the perfect male role model”, in The Telegraph:

A man concerned with personal appearance, but who places more emphasis on having a fit, toned, virile body than on grooming or fashion.


brogressive

You may recall the newest darling of brogressives — Thanks, Addie Stan — on the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

2013 March 13, Charles P. Pierce, “Rand Paul Gives His Musings On Gay Marriage”, in Esquire:

The American Brogressive has found his next target, one who will presumably be saved from herself, along with everyone else, by learning to obey him.

2013 July 15, Sady Doyle, “Ecce Homo Sorkinia”, in In These Times:

Election work and party involvement is increasingly seen as the unhip, uncool, morally compromised province of social climbers and “brogressives” not truly committed to the supposedly “real work” of social justice engagement by non-electoral means.

2015 October 3, David Atkins, “The Left’s Failure to Enact Gun Control Exposes Its Tactical Weakness”, in Washington Monthly:

(slang, derogatory) A male progressive, socialist, or leftist who downplays women's issues or displays a macho or patriarchal attitude.


latensification

en-noun

latensification (countable and uncountable, plural latensifications)

The uniform pre-exposure of a photographic film.


sinthomosexual

Having no personal interest in the future of humanity because of one's (non-heterosexual, therefore non-reproductive) sexual orientation


sinthomosexual

One who has no personal interest in the future of humanity because of his/her own (non-heterosexual, therefore non-reproductive) sexual orientation


Evernet

A hypothetical future Internet that is ever-present and always available.


social notworking

Blend of social networking + not working

blend

(Internet, humorous) The use of social networking web sites in the workplace, when one is supposed to be productively working.


wikitorial

Blend of wiki + editorial, coined by the Los Angeles Times to describe an experiment of this kind that they attempted in 2005.

(Internet) An editorial that can be edited by users in the manner of a wiki.


pumpking

Blend of pumpkin + king, anecdotally from the use of a stuffed pumpkin toy that was handed between employees as a token of permission to make changes, ensuring that only one person could make changes at any particular time.

In addition, various people are pumpkings for different areas. For example, Andy Dougherty and Jarkko Hietaniemi share the Configure pumpkin, and Tom Christiansen is the documentation pumpking.

1999 winter, Nathan Torkington, “Hacking the Perl Core”, in The Perl Journal, volume 4, number 4 (number 16 overall), Boston, Mass.: Readable Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-10-31:

Releases are coordinated by a ‘patch pumpkin holder’, or ‘pumpking’ – a quality controller who, with help from Larry [Wall], decides which contributions make the grade and when and bears the heavy responsibility of releasing a new Perl.

2000, Simon Cozens, with Peter Wainwright, Beginning Perl, Birmingham, West Midlands: Wrox Press, →ISBN, page 24:

Each release of Perl is assigned a "pumpking." This person controls all changes to the actual source code of the language itself. The pumpking for 5.6 was Gurusamy Sarathy, and the pumpking for 5.8 is Jarkko Hietaniemi.

2002, Clinton Pierce, “Basic Perl”, in Charlotte Clapp, editor, Perl Developer’s Dictionary, Indianapolis, Ind.: Sams Publishing, →ISBN, page 6:

Thanks to Doug Miles, the Phoenix Perl Mongers Pumpking, for his tireless dedication to the Phoenix Perl community, which he brought together. Writing Perl in the valley would be a lot lonelier without his hard work.

2005, Scott Walters, Perl 6 Now: The Core Ideas Illustrated with Perl 5 (Expert’s Voice in Open Source), Berkeley, Calif.: Apress, →ISBN, page xxii:

(programming, slang) A Perl user working on shared source code who has been temporarily designated as the only person who is allowed to make changes.


wobbulator

An electronic device primarily used for the alignment of receiver or transmitter intermediate frequency strips, often in conjunction with an oscilloscope; a swept-output RF oscillator; a variable capacitor driven by a voice coil; a main component of a FM circuit.

Wobbelgenerator

electronic device primarily used for aligning intermediate frequency strips


copstache

(slang) A mustache in the style commonly worn (or perceived as such) by a police officer.


pultrusion

During pultrusion, a collection of fibres are pulled through a resin bath and then through a heated die to cure the resin.

2000, C. D. Rudd, Composites for Automotive Applications, page 18:

A continuous process for manufacture of composite materials with constant cross section.


Talmudvision

(derogatory) Television programming, regarded as dominated by Jewish interests.


Utahrd

The Utahrds are a little bitter about that, especially since they're severely water-rationed themselves up in the mountains where you aren't even permitted to drill a well on your own property.

2004, The Real Bev, “wish I could.....”, in misc.consumers.frugal-living (Usenet):


paraptosis

Cytoplasmic vacuolisation is a prominent feature of paraptosis, which includes cytoplasmic vacuolisation, mitochondrial swelling and endoplasmic reticulum stress and annexin V binding to membranes.

2015 September 22, “Aberrant Apoptotic Response of Colorectal Cancer Cells to Novel Nucleoside Analogues”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

programmed cell death
programmed cell death

(biology) A particular form of programmed cell death, defined by cytoplasmic vacuolation, independent of caspase activation and inhibition, and lack of apoptotic morphology.


crybully

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

Lindros would rather jab a stick at someone retaliating for a fair hit than to wait his turn to get his own in ... Eric is just a bleeping crybaby ... a big bully and like most bullies just can't take it ... likes to dish it but can't take it ... geesh a little guy like Stock gets his goat ...Go in the corner and cry with your crybully with an attitude ...

1999 October 24, SNUMBER6 [username], “Re: Lindros...”, in alt.sports.hockey.nhl.ny-rangers (Usenet):

This is the age of the Cry-Bully, a hideous hybrid of victim and victor, weeper and walloper. They are everywhere, these duplicit Pushmi-Pullyus of the personal and the political

2015 April 21, Julie Burchill, “Meet the Cry-Bully: a hideous hybrid of victim and victor”, in The Spectator:

a cry-bully is someone who will (relentlessly) bully someone but as soon as their victim stands up or slightly resists they will seek out authority with tears in their eyes and a sob story on their lips and just use that to get the authority to punish their victim.

2015 August 18, “Cyber victim or Cyberbully?”, in Crime and Federalism:

The crybully, who has weaponized his coveted status as a victim, was first sighted in the mid-2000s.

2015 November 13, Roger Kimball, “The Rise of the College Crybullies”, in The Wall Street Journal:

Within hours of the Paris attacks, some of the crybullies behind the recent University of Missouri chaos and the resultant nationwide spate of college protests had vented on Twitter about how their drummed-up, phony-baloney "cause" was more important than Paris.

2015 November 16, Joe Cooper, “Liberals Still Bowing to Islam After Paris Attacks”, in soc.culture.usa (Usenet):

(derogatory) A person who engages in intimidation, harassment, or other abusive behaviour while claiming to be a victim, often using the perceived victimization to induce others to engage in bullying of the intended victim.


crybully

en-verb

crybully (third-person singular simple present crybullies, present participle crybullying, simple past and past participle crybullied)

crybullies (present singular third-person)
crybullying (participle present)
crybullied (participle past)
crybullied (past)

To engage in behaviour characteristic of a crybully; to intimidate, harass or abuse another person or group of people while claiming to be a victim.


Babyflot

(aviation, informal, historical) Any of the airlines in the former Soviet Union created from the dissolution of the Soviet airline monopoly Aeroflot in the early 1990s.


Hannigram

"I know there's a lot of Hannigram shipping out there," Gamier said, referring to the Lecter-Graham pairing. "That's not my bag, but I get it and respect them. I am more of a Hannigail or Hannibloom shipper."

2014 February 21, Dana Hayes, “Hannibal's Hungry Tumblr Fandom”, in Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting:

Aja Romano, writing for The Daily Dot during the series' first season in 2013, observed that “slashers,” fans who “ship” (imagine or write relationships) between same-sex characters, “are already coming out in droves for Hannibal/Graham, or 'Hannigram,' as fans have dubbed the obligatory ship portmanteau.”

2015, Jeff Casey, “Queer Cannibals and Deviant Detectives: Subversion and Homosocial Desire in NBC's Hannibal”, in Quarterly Review of Film and Video, volume 32, number 6:

Perhaps this is part of the reason why Hannibal, though it has an extremely devoted, practically religious fanbase (including a sizeable contingent of “Hannigram” shippers), has failed to achieve quite the level of widespread success attained by similarly lurid series like American Horror Story or The Walking Dead.

2015 June 3, Eric Thurm, “Hannibal showrunner: 'We are not making television. We are making a pretentious art film from the 80s'”, in The Guardian:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Hannibal Lecter and Will Graham from the television series Hannibal.


Twific

Finally, in the third section, we discuss Bella's enhanced agency in Twifics in which authors give her a desiring gaze that is not limited to Edward.

2011, Malin Isaksson, Maria Lindgren Leavenworth, “Gazing, initiating, desiring: Alternative constructions of agency and sex in Twifics”, in Mariah Larsson, Ann Steiner, editors, Interdisciplinary Approaches to Twilight: Studies in Fiction, Media and a Contemporary Cultural Experience, Nordic Academic Press, →ISBN, page 128:

Regarding to a huge number of Twifics, it is impossible to make some general claims about them because the genre and the level of originality depend on the skills and age of an individual writer.

2012, Eva Strýčková, "How the Vampire in a Volvo Ran Over the Prince on a White Horse: The 'Twilight Saga' and its Influence on the Phenomenon of Vampires", thesis submitted to Tomas Bata University, page 40

Shades obviously riffs on that story as well as on other popular Twifics.

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

(fandom slang) A fanfic based on the Twilight novel series and the associated films.


robomb

[…] to provide 30,000 temporary emergency houses for war workers in war production areas in England. These will help replace some of the 500,000 houses estimated to have been completely destroyed by the Luftwaffe and robombs.

1944, United States. President, Report to Congress on Lend-lease Operations, page 40:


midshipmite

CHAPTER VII. In which our hero and Gascoigne ought to be ashamed of themselves, and did feel, what might be called midshipmite compunction.

1836, [Frederick Marryat], “In which our hero and Gascoigne ought to be ashamed of themselves, and did feel, what might be called midshipmite compunction”, in Mr. Midshipman Easy […], volume III, London: Saunders and Otley, […], →OCLC, page 127:

(nautical, slang, archaic) A little or petty midshipman.


Vansterdam

Blend of Vancouver + Amsterdam from the cannabis drug culture found in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, being comparable to Amsterdam in the Netherlands.

(US, Canada, slang) Synonym of Vancouver (“city in British Columbia”)


Chiraq

Blend of Chicago + Iraq, coined by South Side rappers comparing the frequency of shootings in Chicago and in Iraq.

Seeing too much of anything in Chiraq streets could be hazardous to anyone's health

Welcome to Chiraq
Chitown
My town

2015, Jimmy Chan, Don't Kill the Messenger 69...The Chronicles of Fo:

When the south and west sides of Chicago are covered in the media, for instance, they are often described using infamous terms such as Chiraq and food deserts. Chiraq, a portmanteau of Chicago and Iraq, is used as code to refer to the violence and poverty of these neighborhoods.

2017, Steve Ventura, Martin Bailkey, Good Food, Strong Communities, page 235:

He met his wife and never thought about moving back to Chiraq.

2018, Shatiera Holman, Equality Ain't Equal:

(US, slang, derogatory) Chicago, especially those parts in the South Side subject to a large amount of violence.


KKKonfederate

(US, slang, derogatory) Confederate (with implications of white supremacist leanings)


yestermorrow

If we fail to take into consideration the works of these interpreters of “yestermorrow,” we will be failing to monitor the pulse of contemporary thought and feeling.

1963 October, Harley W. Parker, “The museum as a communication system”, in Curator: The Museum Journal, volume 6, number 4:

This sets up an important guide in studying management history and one which could serve as a real beacon—"yestermorrow" —the idea of yesterday, today and tomorrow, a continuum of behavior.

1973 August, RJ Whiting, “Management History: Goals and Rationale”, in Academy of Management Proceedings:

People are the ultimate core resource required to bridge from past success to future success — or "yestermorrow."

1992, RJ Bruno, “The evolution to market-driven quality”, in Journal of Business Strategy, volume 13, number 5:

I'll just put it back when I get home,” he thought, not at all suspecting it might be many long yestermorrows again before that might be so.

2014, Doug Cariou, Once Upon an Island, →ISBN:

A day in the sequence of days from past to future, emphasizing the connection between past and future events.

Conceived in that journey, I was born in space. A child so birthed in desolations, homeless between yestermorrow and noon's midnight must have a proper name.

1970, Ray Bradbury, Reflections from the Man Who Landed on the Moon in 1929:

sombre lustre augers yestermorrows nowwhens in some other tense - future present past perfect

1997, Carol Lee Sanchez, From Spirit to Matter: New and Selected Poems, 1969-1996, page 106:

Susan Platz had always had the most distinctive voice - smoky and raspy one minute like her role in Who's That Bitch?, and then sometimes it would sound tender, like in The Zone of Eternal Yestermorrows, then it might sound old, then young, like in The Space-time Straddler.

2013, Oliver Neale, Electronic Sue, →ISBN, page 241:

A time outside of time; A time that cannot be fit into the normal timeline, possibly due to relativistic effects.


yestermorrow

“Father,” she faltered, in a low, shyvoice, “I heard you preach here yestermorrow.”

1877, ES Holt, For the Master's Sake: A Story of the Days of Queen Mary:

Didst not see, she sent up sober sauce with the urchin yestermorrow ? "

1885, Emily Sarah Holt, The lord mayor, page 332:

(obsolete) In the recent past; the other day.


screenhouse

A building, protected from natural species, in which plants and fruits can be grown for study.


dreadmill

(colloquial) A treadmill (exercise equipment), regarded as an object of dread by one who does not enjoy exercising.


devilock

An alternative hairstyle where the sides and back are kept short while the front is kept long and combed forward.


fudgsicle

From a trademark: Blend of fudge + popsicle.


squipper

A third significant omission is due to the fact that large numbers of Chinook, Puma and Hercules aircrews [...] together with all the ' loadies', 'sooties', 'squippers' and ground crews that support them, continue, at the time of writing, to be heavily involved in Operation Safe Haven along the northern borders of Iraq.

1991, Charles Allen, Thunder & Lightning: The RAF in the Gulf : Personal Experiences of War, Stationery Office/Tso:

After stripping off all my other kit, I held my rubber- gloved hands behind me, the last bits still in the dirty zone, and the squipper peeled the gloves off.

1995, John Peters, John Nichol, Neil Hanson, Team Tornado: Life on a Front-Line Squadron, →ISBN:

Giving evidence to the inquest in Lincoln Cpl Morris, a Survival Equipment Fitter or “squipper” with the RAF, said he was not far from Flt Lt Cunningham’s jet at the time of the tragedy as the team prepared to fly to RAF Valley in Wales.

2014 January 20, “Red Arrows pilot inquest: Colleague tells how he watched tragedy unfold”, in Coventry Telegraph:

(UK, military, slang) A survival equipment fitter.


glambassador

Glambassador … Maria Sharapova off court. (photo caption)

2007 March 31, “Sharapova revisits her past as a child of Chernobyl”, in Sydney Morning Herald:

Ellie Anne's Aphrodite among aristocrats, a glambassador! She, Congress's darling, slipped from one man's arms to the next like she was doing the Samba with less sex appeal.

2010, Paige Johnson, Imperative Fate, →ISBN, page 46:

Dita Von Teese: I like to call myself a "glambassador." I believe in glamour and sensuality and using these tools in everyday life, not just to put on a show for men.

2015 February 11, Barbara Herman, “Dita Von Teese: What Turns On America's Queen Of Burlesque?”, in International Business Times:

The tea party, hosted by local Glambassador Persatuan Rakan Bestnye Sarawak (RBS) on Kuching Hilton Hotel's Penthouse Floor, offered an elegant yet casual atmosphere for prospective buyers to browse Hidaya's new Wanderlust collection, which was released six months ago in Peninsular Malaysia.

2015 September 7, “Hidaya showcases high-end 'abayas' collection for local Muslimah”, in The Borneo Post:

(informal) A glamorous public figure, especially a woman who uses her personal style and glamour to promote fashion.


Merkelvellian

en-adj

Merkelvellian (comparative more Merkelvellian, superlative most Merkelvellian)

more Merkelvellian (comparative)
most Merkelvellian (superlative)

This Merkelvellian approach has put the fear of god up everybody: everybody's worried about unemployment; everybody's worried about the housing market; everybody's worried about the banking system.

2013 May 7, Kiran Moodley, quoting Yogesh Dewan, “Why 'Merkelvellianism' Could Backfire for Angela”, in CNBC:

Disillusioned that her telephone diplomacy with Putin failed, she's poised to go for more, to push her reputation as a tough Merkelvellian with the gloss of Mutti, a mother.

2014 April 23, Suzanne Fields, “A Cold German Spring for Merkel and Putin”, in The Washington Times:

German pundits called her Merkelvellian when she outsmarted, isolated or just outlasted anyone who might mount a challenge to her.

2015 December 9, “Person of the Year: Angela Merkel”, in TIME:

(humorous) Pertaining to the tactics of German Chancellor Angela Merkel.


Frexit

Blend of France + exit, possibly as an adaptation of Brexit.

And while brexit is still on the agenda, after the European Parliament elections from May 22-25 it is quite legitimate to ask ourselves the question whether there is a danger of losing France - in other words is there a risk of a frexit?

2014 May 31, Adelina Marini, “Is It Time for a Frexit?”, in euinside:

The Front National won the French elections with calls for an immediate restoration of the franc and a referendum on Frexit.

June 2014, World Commerce Review, Vol. 8, Issue 2, p. 3

If Brexit happens can Frexit — France exiting the existing EU — be far behind?

2015, Denis MacShane, Brexit: How Britain will Leave Europe, page 9:

In France, opinion polls show that the far-right National Front, led by self-styled "Madame Frexit" Marine Le Pen, is now more popular than the center-right Republicans or ruling Socialists.

2015 November 9, Ian Bremmer, Time, volume 186, number 19, page 12:

It no longer advocates Frexit from the EU or leaving the euro currency.

2018 June 4, Maïa de La Baume, “Populist plan for 2019 election puts EU in crosshairs: The next European Parliament could well have more Euroskeptic voices. But can they work together?”, in Politico:

Her European policy is Frexit by stealth – unilaterally reducing payments to the EU budget and breaking EU laws she does not like.

2022 April 8, John Lichfield, “Get ready for a scary fortnight in French politics: a Le Pen presidency really is possible”, in The Guardian:

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


borgi

As a gesture of confidence, or perhaps resignation, she has provided Lissa and me early Christmas presents—in the form of a six-week-old Corgi (Lissa’s) and six-week-old half brother Borgi (corgi/Border Collie).

BORGI PUPPIES, (Border Collie X Corgi), M/F, shots, $250-$350.

2004 December 23, The Modesto Bee, page G -4:

Her home was filled with her own herd which she loved: horses, Border Collies, Corgis, Borgis, and cats.

2015 October 19, “Kellie Diane Stanley-Bennett: February 5, 1976- September 12, 2015”, in Merced Sun-Star, volume 127, number 191, page 6A:

A crossbreed dog resulting from the breeding of a border collie and a corgi.


popstream

Just as the gang peace movement desired to mainstream hardcore bangers into civic society, The Chronic wanted to drive hardcore rap into the popstream.

2011, Jeff Change, Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation, page 420:

Genuine remixers of sound and traditions, and typically estranged from the cultural popstream, each of these cultural brokers maintained vast collections of fresh material enabled by networks of exchange […]

2013, Simone Krüger, Ruxandra Trandafoiu, The Globalization of Musics in Transit:

The musical mainstream, as typified by pop music.


cablevision

A further closely related policy of the CRTC is that Canadian stations should have first call on cablevision channels, with which principle no one can argue save where a spurious application of the principle is threatened […]

1974, Canada. Parliament. Senate, Debates of the Senate: Official Report (Hansard):

When I came back Elaine had left on her date with the short-order cook, and Pam was watching Valley of the Dolls on cablevision.

1991, Gloria J. Kaufman, In Stitches: A Patchwork of Feminist Humor and Satire, page 16:

Brett's camped out on the couch, watching Mexican prize fighting on cablevision.

2007, Wayne Lee Gay, Short Stories, page 68:


deceleron

(aviation) A two-part aileron that can be deflected as a unit to provide roll control, or split open to act as an air brake.


dedentation

A new code block is recognized when the amount of indentation has increased, and its termination is signaled by a "dedentation," or a reduction of indentation matching a previous level's.

2011, Understanding FOSS Version 3.0i revised:

Again, as with every code subblock, indentation (and dedentation) are used to delimit blocks of code as well as to indicate which block of code statements belong to […]

2006, Wesley Chun, Core Python Programming:

(programming, informal, rare) The reversal of indentation, moving the text cursor back out from its indented position.


vaguebook

en-verb

vaguebook (third-person singular simple present vaguebooks, present participle vaguebooking, simple past and past participle vaguebooked)

vaguebooks (present singular third-person)
vaguebooking (participle present)
vaguebooked (participle past)
vaguebooked (past)

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

Coordinate term: subtweet

While watching that video of the 2012 New Year’s Eve party, both the president and first lady realize they have something to hold over their rival’s head. What it is, exactly, remains unclear. Which is maddening; these two talk to each other the way some people “vaguebook” on Facebook.

2016 March 8, Jen Chaney, “‘House of Cards’ Season 4, Episode 7: Rock Star Candidate”, in New York Times:

There. You’ve just had a taste of VAGUEBOOKing, a fabulous word that has been around for a while, but which makes its New York Times Crossword debut today as VAGUEBOOKS. If you have an active Facebook account, you undoubtedly have at least one friend who tends to do this.

2017 July 6, Deb Amlen, “Intentionally Mysterious Update”, in New York Times:

A less subtle way of navigating the relationship between the public and the obscure is found in subtweeting or vaguebooking (vague facebooking), the art of posting elliptically about a social situation without naming names.

2019, Gretchen McCulloch, chapter 6, in Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language, Riverhead Books, →ISBN:

(Internet slang, intransitive) To post deliberately cryptic statements on social media (particularly Facebook) so as to elicit attention or requests for detail.


corotron

Blend of corona + -tron; originally a trade name.

A gas-filled shunt regulator, usually containing small quantities of radioactive materials to ease ignition, the regulated voltage depending upon the gas or gases used and their proportions and pressure.


identicon

These images are sometimes known as identicons and can be used to identify users by providing a unique image generated from their username or IP address.

2015, Adrian Mouat, Using Docker: Developing and Deploying Software with Containers:

(computing) A graphical symbol, usually automatically generated, representing some entity for easy visual identification.


Amygist

(derogatory) Any of the imagist poets of the American school influenced by Amy Lowell (1874–1925).


pigloo

An igloo-shaped shelter for a guinea pig.


Amygism

Blend of Amy + imagism, coined by the poet Ezra Pound.

Many examples of what Pound called "Amygism" have permeated reference sources; besides the Britannica, they may be found in entries on "cadence" and "free verse" in the Merriam-Webster and Random House dictionaries, and under "Free Verse" in the venerable Thrall and Hibbard Handbook to Literature. These definitions continue to give the impression that free verse had a metric of its own, quite independent of accentual-syllabic prosody.

1998, H. T. Kirby-Smith, The Origins of Free Verse, page xii:

(derogatory) The American school of imagist poetry influenced by Amy Lowell (1874–1925).


anodium

From a brand name which is a Blend of anodized + aluminum.

This toughness is the result of a uniquely fine grain size imparted by vanadium to steel, anodium steels are readily cast, forged, and rolled.

1943, Product Engineering - Volume 14, Issues 7-12, page 251:

Terrazzo is not recommended as a wall covering but rather 12 in. by 8 in. tiles of a soft green colour particularly for the operating rooms where too, shelves may be of polished anodium covered with green rubber pad.

1945, Building Science Abstracts - Volumes 18-19, page 125:

Most of the items can be supplied in any of the following finishes : brass bronze, nickel silver, chromium, anodium, satin chrome.

1961, East African Trade & Industry - Issues 89-97, page 29:

External doors: mortice latch-locks, anodized anodium lever handles and 4 in. steel butts.

1963, Great Britain Ministry of Education, Youth Club: Withywood Bristol, page 59:

The ability to anodize at these high core densities is attributable to a novel method of transporting the electrolyte over the anodium surface in a direction opposite to the travel of the strip.

1967, Chemical Processing - Volume 13, Part 2, page v: