telestration

The process of sketching with a telestrator.


fang job

Damian took Mara's hand and pulled it to his lips to give her a fang job. Never let it be said that he wasn't an equal opportunity letch. “Damian Sabatini, Mrs. MacTavish.” “You fang me again, demon, and I'll knock your choppers down your throat.” She jerked her hand back to her side.

2008, Gerry Bartlett, Real Vampires Have Curves, page 113:

"On prom night, on the stage of the not especially private gazebo in the public gardens, he teeters right on the brink of a fang job, and then brings all of her trembling to a dead standstill.” So many followers of the stories were eager to see Bella and Edward consummate their marriage […]

2012, Roger Ebert, Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition, Andrews McMeel Publishing, page 715 (quoting himself)

“Give each other fang jobs?” “Yes.” “All the time,” he said, nodding.

(slang) A sexual envelopment (of someone's neck, hand, etc) into the mouth of someone with fangs.


Porki

Blend of pork + Paki, by surface analysis, pork + -i.

(derogatory, offensive, slang, ethnic slur) A Pakistani.


barococo

Blend of baroque + rococo, coined by musicologist H.C. Robbins-Landon.

(music, derogatory) Of or relating to a style of easy listening music that originated in the Baroque and pre-Classic periods, associated with the emergence of LP records and the ability to listen repeatedly to recordings without paying attention to structure etc.


lupper

en-noun

lupper (countable and uncountable, plural luppers)

Working a 12:30 pm. to 9:00 pm. work shift raises the question: How can you tell the difference between the meals “linner” and “lupper?” Well, “linner” is closer to the normal lunch hour, and “lupper” is closer to supper.

2004, Rolland E. Stroup, Distilled Lincoln Anecdotes:

“It's not lunch time or dinner time,” she said. It was almost four o'clock. “Have you eaten lunch?” She shook her head no. “Do you have plans for dinner?” Again. No. “Good. We'll have lupper.” “Lupper?” “Lunch and supper. […]

2012, Naomi Gayle, Landscapes in August, page 168:

All I wanted to do was get out of my wet clothes, catch a little lupper and get some much-needed rest. In case you don't know what lupper is, it's the same thing as brunch only later in the day. Lunch and supper combined equals lupper.

2012, R. M. Singhose, Living the Dream: Harley Woman: Tales from the Open Road, page 200:

(slang, humorous) A meal or snack eaten between the normal times for lunch and supper.


bustitute

en-verb

bustitute (third-person singular simple present bustitutes, present participle bustituting, simple past and past participle bustituted)

bustitutes (present singular third-person)
bustituting (participle present)
bustituted (participle past)
bustituted (past)

(transitive) To substitute (a rail service) with buses or a bus service, either temporarily or permanently.


Maymester

(education) A very short semester or term offered at some colleges that lasts at least a portion of the month of May, and sometimes also June.


machoflops

(computing, slang) A deceptively inflated measure of the speed of a computer, as used in marketing materials.


fashwave

Blend of fascist + vaporwave, equivalent to fash + -wave. Compare synthwave, darkwave, new wave.

“The Jew-owned Buzzfeed^([sic]) blog has done an article about how fashwave has become the musical soundtrack of the alt-right,” the piece said.

2016 December 14, Michael Hann, quoting Reggie Ugwu, “'Fashwave': synth music co-opted by the far right”, in The Guardian:

In fashwave, as in all fascist art (yes, that’s what the “fash” part stands for), the far right’s insecurities and apocalyptic death wish are chiefly on display.

2018 January 13, Jack Smith IV, “This is fashwave, the suicidal retro-futurist art of the alt-right”, in Mic:

Vaporwave music and art with fascist themes.


edjewcation

(informal, derogatory) Education, seen as controlled by Jewish interests.


bump stock

(firearms) An attachment on a gun used to make it fire repeatedly by using the gun's recoil to pull the trigger, modifying it to function in a similar way to a machine gun.


nonebrity

(informal, derogatory) A celebrity who has done nothing noteworthy to achieve their fame.


vanbulance

A compact ambulance in the form of a van.


hugantic

en-adj

hugantic (comparative more hugantic, superlative most hugantic)

more hugantic (comparative)
most hugantic (superlative)


Mactel

(computing, informal) Apple–Intel architecture.


swooshtika

(slang, derogatory) The swoosh logo of American athletic shoe and clothing manufacturer Nike, Inc.


autocutie

The professionals agreed that Dermot got it all pitch-perfect.
'He's cute, but he's not just an auto-cutie,' was how one BBLB staffer put it.

2012, Neil Simpson, Presenting Dermot O'Leary - The Biography:

Then I'd look at the calendar and see that August was already well under way, and I'd plan my murderous revenge on the Met Office and their band of smiley autocutie propagandists […]

2012, Mike Carter, One Man and His Bike:

I presented my last programme less than seventy-two hours ago, and India the autocutie is already staking her claim on my chair behind the presentation desk. How many blow jobs did she have to give?

(informal, derogatory) An attractive television presenter.


spamference

(informal, derogatory) A junk conference publicised through spam (unsolicited electronic mail or online postings).


relfie

(slang) A self-taken photograph of PDA (public display of affection).


prostibot

(science fiction, slang) A sexbot hired out as a prostitute.


diplobrat

Blend of diplomat + brat; compare army brat.

(slang) A person who had a parent working as a diplomat and thus travelled around as a child.


twofie

Prior to that, the actress retweeted a "twofie" photo posted by "The Flash" actor Grant Gustin, who is also a "Glee" alum like her.

2016 February 15, “'Supergirl' Season 1 Spoilers: Melissa Benoist posts Blake Jenner date, Chyler Leigh proud of superhero series”, in International Business Times AU:

THE duck face selfie is passe and the fish gape pose so yesterday — now it's all about the twofie, threefie, wefie or usie.

2017 November 4, “Forget the selfie, it's now all about the wefie: Here’s what it says about society’s changing attitudes”, in The Advertiser:

[C]hildren make twofies not only with their parents or friends but also with objects, like a mushroom or a glass with ice cream.

2018, Julia Eckel, Jens Ruchatz, Sabine Wirth, Exploring the Selfie: Historical, Theoretical, and Analytical Approaches to Digital Self-Photography, page 345:

(informal) A smartphone-taken picture of two people, or one person and an object.


pedosaur

Just cause the guy has shit for musical taste doesn't mean he dresses up as a purple pedosaur.

1996 March 20, mike_s._medintz, “Will this even get there?”, in alt.pave.the.earth (Usenet):

I may be big and fat, but I'm not a fscking purple pedosaur.

1998 October 18, Iain Bowen, “Scottish Chat Groups”, in uk.gay-lesbian-bi (Usenet):

I have no qualms about turning the tables on you, pedosaur.

2000 January 26, Paragon, “Professor: portrait of a fucking idiot already insane”, in alt.fan.prettyboy (Usenet):

(derogatory, humorous) A dinosaur who is a pedophile.


carfie

Long time since I took a carfie.

Whether she’s walking the red carpet of her movie premieres or sitting in the front rows of award shows or simply clicking a carfie (car selfie), Mahira always offers an effortless take on dressing.

2018 March 22, Sanya Panwar, “Mahira Khan has effortless style: Her pics will give you outfit inspo for days”, in Hindustan Times:

Priyanka Chopra looks absolutely flawless in this sun-kissed carfie from San Francisco

2018 September 13, “Nick Jonas won't let go of Priyanka Chopra and these photos are proof”, in Times Now:

(informal, India) A smartphone-taken picture of oneself in a car.


Demopublican

"We are finding it increasingly difficult to get people whose legitimate interests are not being addressed to register and vote for Demopublicans," he said.

1998, Robert Shogan, The Fate of the Union: America's Rocky Road to Political Stalemate:

No matter whom you vote for, you are voting for the Demopublican Party. Again, if one were inclined to be impolite, he might go so far as to say that the so-called two-party system in this country is a sham.

2010, Robert Ringer, Restoring the American Dream:


Kamiltonian

Blend of K + Hamiltonian; apparently popularised by a jocular comment in the textbook Classical Mechanics by Herbert Goldstein (first published 1950).
"It has been remarked in a jocular vein that if H stands for the Hamiltonian, K must stand for the Kamiltonian! Of course K is every bit as much a Hamiltonian as H, but the designation is occasionally a convenient substitute for the longer term "transformed Hamiltonian""

[…]gives the transformed Hamiltonian (the Kamiltonian)[…]. However, it is clear that (2.108) are not the canonical equations corresponding to the Kamiltonian (2.111).

2006, Henderson Douglas, Plaschko Peter, Stochastic Differential Equations In Science And Engineering, World Scientific Publishing, page 83:

(physics, Hamiltonian mechanics) A second Hamiltonian, denoted by K, resulting from the canonical transformation of a given Hamiltonian.

Classical Mechanics (Goldstein book)
Herbert Goldstein


frathole

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(US, slang, derogatory) An obnoxious frat boy.


Catalexit

Blend of Catalonia + exit, modelled on earlier Brexit, Czexit, etc.

Spain has been its own worst enemy as the controversy over “Catalexit” intensified.

2017 October 20, “EU must intervene in Spain's 'Catalexit' crisis”, in The Boston Globe:

Everybody in Catalonia admits that the possibility of losing the condition of member of the EU would constitute a great problem in the case of Catalexit from Spain.

2017, Gabriel Tortella, Catalonia in Spain: History and Myth, page 270:

So a Catalexit would mean leaving the EU, just like Scotland would have left the EU if the 2014 referendum had succeeded and independence would have been negotiated and obtained from the UK.

2019, Miguel Beltrán de Felipe, Myths and Realities of Secessionisms, page 70:

The (possible) act of Catalonia gaining independence from Spain (and, as a consequence, leaving the European Union).


Millimetternich

Borrowed from German Millimetternich, in reference to Dollfuss's diminutive stature. Equivalent to a blend of millimetre + Metternich.

(derogatory) Nickname for Engelbert Dollfuss, Austrofascist dictator of Austria.


phthalamide

en-noun

phthalamide (countable and uncountable, plural phthalamides)

(organic chemistry) The amide of phthalic acid


honeyfund

What is not emotionally rewarding is a honeyfund. There are few things that I have more ideological problems with than the concept of the “honeyfund.” Hear me out: I love the idea of giving my newly married friends a meaningful present. But I don't love being asked to be an investor in a crowd-funded honeymoon.

2016, Mindy Kaling, Why Not Me?, →ISBN, page 25:

If you'd rather give a more traditional gift, ask someone close to the couple if they also have a registry with an online or brick-and-mortar store; it’s likely they do. “We recommend… at least one store registry in addition to their honeyfund to give wedding guests a wide range of options,” said Sara Margulis, CEO and co-founder of Honeyfund.com.

2016 June 14, Martha C. White, “Do I Have to Contribute to Their 'Honeyfund?' and Other Wedding Etiquette Questions Answered”, in Money Magazine:

GoFundMe started as a bootstrapped operation that found its audience in the heartland by embracing virtually any personal cause, from honeyfunds to memorials.

2017 February 13, Ainsley Harris, “How Crowdfunding Platform GoFundMe Has Created A $3 Billion Digital Safety Net”, in Fast Company:

A fund, made up of wedding gifts of money, that pays for the honeymoon.


science fantasy

science fantasy (countable and uncountable, plural science fantasies)

(chiefly uncountable) A hybrid genre of science fiction and fantasy, typically with settings combining futuristic and supernatural or magical elements.


sickular

en-adj

sickular (comparative more sickular, superlative most sickular)

more sickular (comparative)
most sickular (superlative)

'Sickular bigscreen operator!' screamed another, shaking his fist in the direction of the Congress dugout. Modi moved.

(India, derogatory, slang) Leftist; in Indian politics, a supposed secularist partaking in tokenism, or opposed to Hindu nationalism.


sickular

(India, derogatory, slang, politics) A leftist; in Indian politics, a secularist, either partaking in tokenism, or opposed to Hindu nationalism.


astronette

Blend of astronaut + -ette (feminine suffix).


Texpatriate

(humorous) A person who has moved away from Texas.


racism of low expectations

en-noun

racism of low expectations (uncountable)

Blend of racism + soft bigotry of low expectations.

blend

The West tends to respond to the social failures of Muslim immigrants with what can be called the racism of low expectations. This Western attitude is based on the idea that people of color must be exempted from “normal” standards of behavior.

2010, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Nomad: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations:

The presence of just one positive, supportive teacher who pays attention, has high expectations and nurtures a child can have a remarkable impact, even amid the routine racism of low expectations and heightened surveillance faced by Black children in contemporary schools and society.

2014, Nicola Rollock, David Gillborn, Carol Vincent, The Colour of Class:

The pain and suffering that racism, including the unconscious and thus insidious racism of low expectations has historically caused and continues to cause, in the lives of Americans of Color […]

2014, Lauren Joichin Nile, RACE: My Story & Humanity's Bottom Line, page 102:

A form of racial discrimination where certain racial groups are held to lower standards because of an implicit belief that they are less capable.


xennial

I was born in 1980. According to some sources, this makes me a Gen Xer. According to others, I’m a Millennial. That makes me what then, a Xennial? I take online quizzes, like Pew Research Center’s “How Millennial Are You?”, and land dead between Gen X and Millennial due to my personal habits, body piercings, and so many more reasons.

2014 September 25, Sarah Stankorb, “Glad to be a Xennial”, in GOOD:

Xennial is a term that I first used in a 2014 story for GOOD magazine, following on the heels of writers like Doree Shafrir, who in 2011 called this cusp generation’s pop-cultural misfit status Generation Catalano, after crowdsourcing the My So-Called Life–inspired term from Danielle Nussbaum on Twitter.

2017 July 6, Sarah Stankorb, “I Made Up Xennial 3 Years Ago, So Why Is a Professor in Australia Getting All the Credit?”, in Vogue:

But there's this new group, you may know them — that microgeneration sandwiched between — who feel like they don't really belong to either group […] Love it or hate it, there's a newish name for these lost souls: the "xennials" (pronounced ZEE-knee-als).

2017 November 10, Dwight Adams, “You're a xennial — if you're caught between Generation X and millennials”, in Indianapolis Star:

I’m a reluctant millennial myself (or possibly — God forbid — an xennial), stuck in the pretty common category of not identifying with my so-called generation.

2023 April 20, Casey Schwartz, “Jean Twenge is ready to make you defend your generation again”, in The Washington Post:

Oregon Trail Generation
Oregon Trail Generation

(informal) A person born late in Generation X or early in Generation Y, that is, sometime in the late 1970s or early 1980s; a member of the Oregon Trail Generation.


Floribama

I lived in Anchorage Alaska for 15 years prior to my moving to Floribama.

2002 February 26, Joshua Buker, “Re: C'mon Break-Up!”, in rec.autos.makers.saturn (Usenet), retrieved 2017-11-11:

We were on Cape San Blas (or was it St. George's Island?) in the Floribama Panhandle.

2003 September 29, Lyra Belacqua, “Re: Me so horny, matey”, in alt.buddha.short.fat.guy (Usenet), retrieved 2017-11-11:

Mr. Roxy, veteran of Anti-Dispatcher Riots of the '20s, was picked up by Mobile Unit at his home in Floribama after shooting off his right foot accidentally with obsolete souvenir compressor pistol.

1970, Keith Laumer, The frozen planet and other stories, page 110:

“Step right up, folks, the Loch Ness Monster of Floribama's Perdido Shores!” I clowned.

2004, Jack Beach, Without A Net: Stories of Our Risky Flights Towards Love, Loss, and Home, →ISBN, page 168:

I will always be a country boy at heart and I'm proud to call the South my home. Thank you to Pensacola Beach, Lobster Fest, Floribama and the Redneck Riviera!

2006, N O Slak, The American Nutcracker: Time for Some Old School Crackiny, →ISBN, page 85:

Back then we lived in a tiny burg in the Florida panhandle—an area not named Floribama without reason.

2017, Tera Lynn Childs, Straight Stalk, →ISBN:

BBQ in Floribama ain't all that bad either. (Wuz there again last week.)

2007 May 21, Tinman, “Re: Ginos or Pats?”, in rec.motorcycles.harley (Usenet), retrieved 2017-11-11:

We were there this past summer ... that part of Floribama is nice.

2007 October 3, pseudomodo, “Re: Wanna watch me lampoon myself & overact?”, in alt.buddha.short.fat.guy (Usenet), retrieved 2017-11-11:

Up here in Florgia & Floribama it's a bit colder but we've cut our heating bill by 90%.

2011 January 13, beerlet dhiblang, “Re: It's SOOO Cold Outside...”, in alt.buddha.short.fat.guy (Usenet), retrieved 2017-11-11:

The panhandle area of Florida, which borders on Alabama and has cultural similarities to Alabama.


videoke

en-noun

videoke (countable and uncountable, plural videokes)

Blend of video + karaoke. First attested in the 1990s.

“Generously coated in candy-colored skulls and psychedelic scenes of suffering,” the videoke machine, as Manila-based pop critic Alice Sarmiento describes it, plays a loop of a “muzak rendition” of Sinatra's anthem, its lyrics superimposed over video and tabloid headlines about the killings "with the words going up in flames as the song played."

2016, Christine Bacareza Balance, Tropical Renditions: Making Musical Scenes in Filipino America:

instrumental version
instrumental version

(Philippines) A karaoke; a form of entertainment popular in clubs, at parties, etc, in which individual members of the public sing along to pre-recorded instrumental versions of popular songs, the lyrics of which are displayed for the singer on a screen in time with the music.


aerogami

Aerogami - construction of paper flying "things," is also popular.

“The art is as old as paper,” says Karthik adding, “so far, we have tried modular, tessellation, crumpling, sculpture, wet folding and aerogami techniques.

2013 February 13, Anusha Parthasarathy, “Creativity in every fold”, in The Hindu:

The activities lined up this month at MyTown includes aerogami workshops, meeting Santa Claus up close and personal, and a “Jolly Hunt” where participants will have to find clues of mystery “selfie” spots in the Christmas exhibit area on the ground floor.

2018 December 17, “A Christmas homecoming”, in The Sun Daily:


Blajorism

He added: ‘Commentators say that the Tories and Labour have merged in the middle into Blajorism but that is far too kind to Labour. Blair is adrift in a sea of fudge.’

1994 September 23, John Arlidge, The Independent:

New Labour leader Tony Blair was described as an advocate of ‘Blajorism’ in recognition of Labour's policy similarities with Major's Conservatives.

2002, Peter Lynch, SNP: The History of the Scottish National Party, page 216:

In short, the characters played by Robert Carlyle had been disenfranchised by the political rush for the centre ground of Blajorism.

2013, Alwyn W. Turner, A Classless Society, Aurum Press, published 2014, page 449:

(UK politics) The policies of Conservative Prime Minister John Major and his successor, the Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair, seen as representing one indistinguishable social and economic outlook.


Talsinki

Blend of Tallinn + Helsinki, coined in 1992 by the Estonian writer Jaan Kaplinski.

The cities of Helsinki (in Finland) and Tallinn (in Estonia), which share elements of their society, culture, and economy.


Texoma

The area on either side of the border between the US states of Texas and Oklahoma.


Texhoma

Either of a pair of twin cities on the border of the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles.


desknote

With its eye-popping 17-inch display, superfast Intel Hyper-Threading CPU, and versatile DVD/CD burner, the HP Pavilion zd7001 is one of the best desknotes you can buy.

(computing) A notebook computer equipped with the greater power and features of a desktop computer.


truggy

A truggy is a cross between a truck and a buggy. A truggy has many of the characteristics of an off-road truck.

The most popular nitro cars by far are the 1/8 scale trucks, buggies, and truggies.

2006, Robert H. Schleicher, The R/C Car Bible, page 52:

A racing vehicle that combines the closed cab of a truck with the suspension of a buggy.


transflection

transflection (countable and uncountable, plural transflections)

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Clearly, A", B", C" are not images of A, B, C, under either a translation, rotation, or reflection. Hopefully, it will be possible to find a unique transflection which does the job.

1968, Myron Frederick Rosskopf, Joan L. Levine, Bruce Ramon Vogeli, Geometry; a Perspective View, page 236:

During the sequence of considering translations, rotations, reflections, and transflections of a plane α, we show that ...

1972, Merlyn J. Behr, Dale G. Jungst, Fundamentals of elementary mathematics; geometry, volume 2, page 261:

Visualize these operations by considering the simple screw and transflection. Transflection can be imagined as seeing yourself in a mirror even as the mirror is being moved parallel to itself.

2015, C. S. Sunandana, Introduction to Solid State Ionics: Phenomenology and Applications, →ISBN:

(geometry) A transfiguration consisting of reflection about a line combined with translation along the same line.


pluriversity

This inquiry is carried on most effectively through academic specialties. They create the modern pluriversity, and in that pluriversity the unity of knowledge is lost.

1978, International Cultural Foundation, The search for absolute values in a changing world, →ISBN:

Besides these features, Rutler looks forward to a new union of religion and politics, and of theology and science, and thereby to a transformation of the pluriversity back into a university.

1989, David Ray Griffin, William A. Beardslee, Joe Holland, Varieties of Postmodern Theology, →ISBN, page 5:

If the multiversity was a supermarket in which members of the same community browsed for various brands of similar goods, then the pluriversity is like a shopping mall on the outskirts where customers from different parts of town shop for wildly differing specialties in postmodern paternlessness.

1995, Ed Block, Ideas for the University, page 77:

Contrary to the university knowledge described in the preceding paragraph, pluriversity knowledge is a contextual knowledge insofar as the organizing principle of its construction is its application.

2006, Robert A. Rhoads, Carlos Alberto Torres, The University, State, and Market, →ISBN, page 74:

A university, viewed as an institution of tertiary education that is segmented into specialties which do not interact, especially specialties that focus on applications for external organizations.


Weimerica

United States of America
United States of America

The United States of America, with the implication that it has undergone Weimarization.


nigtard

No, nigtard. You're the one who claimed that my college used "ten-year-old technology." I simply pointed out your error.

2005, Nigger News Service, “Re: Stupid Negress in the library”, in soc.culture.african.american (Usenet):

Go ahead, defend an obvious nigtard!

2014, Fred Oinka, “Re: Another politician who is unqualified for her office!”, in alt.fan.rush-limbaugh (Usenet):

Around here the Cubans as well as the nigtards go crazy over big fat asses. There are way too many women who think their big fat asses are hot.

2016, Sir Gregory Hall, Esq., “Re: Scratched camera lens cover on my Galazy^([sic]) S5”, in alt.usenet.kooks (Usenet):

(slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) A stupid black person.


internerd

(slang) An obsessive user of the Internet.


bioboy

"I'm afraid I'll disappoint her by not being enough like a bioboy." Raymond was not talking about sex. He was finding it difficult to navigate issues such as, "Is she expecting me to hold the door for her?"

2007, Reid Vanderburgh, Transition and Beyond: Observations on Gender Identity, →ISBN, page 143:


refugitive

Defeated in 1836, a rebel and a refugitive in 1837, an exile struggling with misfortune and, at the best, uncongenial conditions for a long term of years, Mackenzie was not only restored to Canada, but again had a constituency at his back and ...

1979, William Lesueur & McKillop, William Lyon Mackenzie, →ISBN, page 366:

'I don't want him for any good reason except to grab a cheque of twenty five^([sic]) millions^([sic]) dollar^([sic]) from president Bush's award as refugitive wanted by him for raising a Jihad against the american^([sic]) interest for oil in Middle East ?',said he and added further , 'do you know Monsieur Duval and I don't agree with their policy of violent and warmongering in an escalation instead of diplomacy and peaceful resorts for compromise as I had mentioned with Monsieur general Alexis and Mushraff also ?'.

2011, Mohammad Rafique-Al-Quraish, Dr. Bin Ladin, →ISBN, page 210:

She then continues with her own private reveries about being mistaken for African when she was in Canada and “them old slaves refugitives and them new African refugees” (34).

2016, L. King, Linda F. Selzer, New Essays on the African American Novel, →ISBN:

A fugitive who seeks refuge in another state or country.


romantopia

romantopia (usually uncountable, plural romantopias)

Blend of romance + utopia; originally coined by evolutionary psychologists Catherine Salmon and Donald Symons in their book Warrior Lovers: Erotic Fiction, Evolution, and Female Sexuality (2001; →ISBN) to describe the setting in romance novels.

But why, one might wonder, is there no commercial erotic genre that combines the ingredients of pornotopia and romantopia, thereby doubling the potential audience and the potential profit?

2001, Catherine Salmon and Donald Symons (2001), Warrior lovers: erotic fiction, evolution, and female sexuality (New Haven, Connecticut, USA: Yale University Press), page 68

The crucial difference between romantopia and intimatopia is that in intimatopia, intimacy is normally established before sexual interaction and is always maintained after it, whereas in romantopia, it is only established by sexual interaction and is frequently transitory.

2006, Elizabeth Woledge, "Intimatopia: genre intersections between slash and the mainstream", chapter 3 (pages 97–114) in Karen Hellekson and Kristina Busse, editors (2006), Fan fiction and fan communities in the age of the Internet: new essays, (Jefferson, North Carolina, USA: McFarland), page 106

In opposition to romantopia and intimatopia and their respective romance and intimacy foci, paratopia’s interest in the fantastic is more radical.

2009, Joseph Carl Linden Brennan (October 2009), I am your worst fear, I am your best fantasy: new approaches to slash fiction (PDF), BA honors thesis, Department of Media and Communications, University of Sydney (retrieved 2017-11-29; archived from the original 2017-11-29), page 66

A fantasy world which serves as an ideal setting for romance as typically imagined by women.


khakistocracy

Military rule of a country, often in collusion with the elite and business classes.


intimatopia

intimatopia (usually uncountable, plural intimatopias)

Blend of intimate + utopia; originally coined by literary scholar Elizabeth Woledge in her essay "Intimatopia: genre intersections between slash and the mainstream" (2006) to describe the setting in a certain subset of slash fiction.

Lovers in intimatopia are more than “just good friends” but also more than “just lovers” – the emotional, physical and spiritual bond between them is complex and multilayered (Woledge 102).

2007, Helena Štěpánová (2007), Slash fan fiction and the canon(PDF), BA thesis, Department of English and American Studies, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic (retrieved 2017-11-30; from the original 2017-11-30), pages 20–21

A fantasy world that serves as an ideal setting for sexually charged relationships involving a high degree of sustained emotional intimacy.


wantum

Then he have wongie along Sargint in office feller. White blackfeller wantum know 'bout old Sarah, an' Sargint he tellum she goodoh.

1998, Arthur W. Upfield, The Bone is Pointed, →ISBN, page 82:

Oh, ah — er — me wantum Chinkie just come in.

2003, Thomas Burke, More Limehouse Nights, →ISBN, page 126:

“You wantum eat? You wantum sleep? If you wantum eat you wakum up.”

2009, Richard M. Dixon, Choosing Sides, →ISBN, page 166:


tomax

Blend of tomahawk + axe. Dating from the 1750s, this is the first recorded portmanteau word in the English language.

As there is lately arrived from America a Mohawk Indian Warrior, one of General J ohnson's Guards who had distinguished himself at the Battle of Lake George, (where General Johnson beat the French) by his singular Valour in taking the French General, Monsieur Desseau, Prisoner ; and as the above-named Indian Warrior (for the Gratification of the Curious) is expos'd to public View, dress'd in the same Manner with his native Indians when they go to War, with his Face and Body painted, his Scalping-knife, and Tomax, or Battle-axe, and all the other Implements that are used by Indians in Battle, we imagine a Copper-plate Print of this extraordianry Person will be agreeable.

1759, Benjamin Martin, Miscellaneous Correspondence, containing a Variety of Subjects:

When Albion's safety would, how swift to save; (A deed for Gods !) he pitied, and forgave. Here he restrain'd the Indian's thirst of gore, And bid the murd'rous tomax drink no more.

A friendly tomax then like lightning driven, Released Oswego's soul—It flew to love and heaven!

1802, The Speech of Caunonicus, Or an Indian Tradition: a Poem, with Explanatory Notes, page 19:

...possibly be promoted by an unprovoked attack from an invisible foe, who, in the true spirit of Indian warfare, hurls his tomax, and aims his arrows from the covert of Concealment, and the ambush of Safety.

1810, Benjamin Moore, The Portfolio, page 76:

With this view, we immediately set about getting our water casks in readiness, and the next and two succeeding days, part of the crew were sent on shore to cut pine timber, and asist the carpenter in making it into yards and spars for the ship, while those on board were employed in refitting the rigging, repairing the sails, &c. when we proceeded to take in our wood and water as expeditiously as possible, during which time I kept myself busily employed in repairing the muskets, making knives, tomaxes, &c. and doing such iron work as was wanted for the ship.

1824, John Rodgers Jewitt, Richard Alsop, The Adventures and Sufferings of John R. Jewitt, page 24:

He grasps his tomax, strings his bow, And fearful looks his ire; His teeth are clenched, his eye balls glow With more than mortal fire.

1837, E. Battye, “The Red Indian”, in Giuliano de' Medici, and other poems:


Kwaussie

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Kwaussie.

(Australia, informal) A person who has both Australian and New Zealand citizenship or descent.


bonerific

en-adj

bonerific (comparative more bonerific, superlative most bonerific)

more bonerific (comparative)
most bonerific (superlative)


QueeNZlander

(informal, Australia) A New Zealander living in Queensland, Australia.


disasterpiece

With pro schedules never cast in granite even at season’s start, a team’s preseason string of games was a makeshift disasterpiece of mismatches.

2004, Neil W. Macdonald, “9. Picked Nines and the Pick of Nines”, in The League That Lasted: 1876 and the Founding of the National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs, McFarland, →ISBN, page 83:

When he did ultimately succumb to Myra Breckinridge’s abundant charms, Mike Sarne would end up making a celluloid disasterpiece that is to this day pilloried as one of the worst films ever made.

2008, Steven Daly, “Swinging into Disaster”, in Graydon Carter, editor, Vanity Fair’s Tales of Hollywood: Rebels, Reds, and Graduates and the Wild Stories Behind the Making of 13 Iconic Films, Penguin, →ISBN, page 242:

We sent two Slate writers who have never seen Tommy Wiseau’s disasterpiece to find out.

2017 December 1, Jeffrey Bloomer, Aisha Harris, “What It’s Like to Watch The Disaster Artist If You’ve Never Seen The Room”, in Slate, archived from the original on 2017-12-01:

(humorous) An anti-masterpiece; a complete disaster.


AFChick

I am an AFChick (female version of "average f*cking chump") who has been lurking, posting, dodging, and lurking again for a few months now.

1999 December 28, Janice Graham, “Does saying belowme really work?”, in soc.men (Usenet):

I figured that I wasn't going to ever break out of AFChick status unless I beared^([sic]) a little constructive pain and stuck with it.

2000 January 6, The Fair Penitent, “Smelling funny? (Re: interesting airplane ride... )”, in alt.seduction.fast (Usenet):

One of them is already for a long time member of the lesbian/feminazi scene here, and for I can tell most of them are way beyond the AFChick stage and hearing about some of them trying to act like an "alpha female" was sooooo pathetic...

2000 February 13, Boris, “Women as AFChicks”, in alt.seduction.fast (Usenet):

average frustrated chump
average frustrated chump

(seduction community, slang) A female average frustrated chump.


Melason

(Philippines, slang) The couple consisting of Filipino actors and reality show contestants Melisa Cantiveros and Jason Francisco.


KathNiel

(Philippines, slang) The loveteam of Filipino actors Kathryn Bernardo and Daniel Padilla.


LizQuen

(Philippines, slang) The loveteam of Filipino actors Liza Soberano and Enrique Gil.


Indoasia

If the harvest of 1930-1931 is as good as that of 1929-1930 is proving to be, we can expect the market price to fall below the cost of production throughout the Philippines, for Indoasia will also carry over large stocks because of the diminished purchasing power of Chinese brought about by the fall of silver and the exchange rate.

1930, American Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines, Journal - Volumes 10-11, page 27:

Aid to a developing country like India or Indoasia is based on certain geostrategic calculations.

1995, Rachna Chaitanya, The New World Order, page 39:

Turkey is one of the regional actors with ambitions to influence regional developments in Indoasia, which is geographically a large substantial land mass between Indian Ocean and China.

2014, Piotr Dutkiewicz, Richard Sakwa, Eurasian Integration – The View from Within, Routledge, →ISBN, page 226:

This bureaucratic security-minded elite has invariably weathered changes in government by maintaining the personal ties that continue to dominate political life in the newly independent states. Political patronage continues to thrive in Indoasia.

2017, The Newly Independent States of Indoasia: Handbook of Former British Republics, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 297:

Alternative form of Indo-Asia
Geopolitical region.


robolution

The design and manufacture of revolutionary forms of robots.


scrumpy and western

(UK, humorous, music) A genre of comical folk songs from England's West Country.


Suellen

Blend of Sue + Ellen. Abbreviation of Sue-Ellen/Sue Ellen.


mansome

mansome (comparative more mansome, superlative most mansome)

more mansome (comparative)
most mansome (superlative)

Apparently from man + -some, perhaps also formed as a blend of man + handsome.

"[…] The notes were from a man-some old friend of his named 'Ford'." I was so jealous.

"I'll take him," exclaimed a pale-faced, blue eyed, blonde haired little girl, sending Simon's mind into a small whirlwind of panic. "He's mansome."

2016, Rose Gordon, Passions of a Gentleman:

(rare) Attractive in a manly or masculine way


misnominal

Blend of misnomer + nominal, or mis- + nominal.

.For a similar reason many of the peninsulas are named islands. Is not this feature peculiar to Irish nomenclature? By no means. "Portland Isle" in Dorsetshire (South England) is no island at all: and ''gulf," in the nomenclature of southern Europe, is frequently a misnomer of this description. Every language has little misnominal vagaries […]

1859, John Henneberry Greene, William Doyle (printer, Cincinnati.), A Catechism of Irish Geography and Topography: Physical, Social, Historical and Biographical, for Schools and Families, page 14

The varied enumeration of these Official titles is either fallacious or misnominal.

1918, Problems in Historical Method and Source Analysis in the Antecedents to the Ides of March, 44 B.C.:

However, since the substance is not derived from a rice plant, the court acknowledged that the use of the word "rice" in connection with it could be considered misnominal.

1962, United States Customs Court Reports: Cases Adjudged in the United States Customs Court:


buffalypso

If we were able to substantially increase the size of Trinidad and Tobago's buffalypso herd, we would have an extremely valuable export commodity.

1984, New Zealand Veterinary Association: Dairy Cattle Society, Proceedings of the Seminar, page 127:

These techniques would also promote the exploitation of unique material, such as the buffalypso of Trinidad and Tobago and blackbelly sheep of Barbados.

1989, Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture, Strategy of Action for Reactivation of Agriculture in the Caribbean Countries, page 44:

Driving south from Port of Spain along the Uriah Butler highway, you will see sugar, citrus and rice fields, maybe a few buffalypso (buffaloes which have been selectively bred for meat), and Hindu temples and mosques.

2014, Sarah Cameron, Trinidad and Tobago Footprint Focus Guide, →ISBN, page 58..:

Bubalus bubalis
Bubalus bubalis#Translingual

A variety of water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis), developed in 1949 by Trinidad veterinarian Stephen Bennett for meat and haulage.


Jonagold

An apple cultivar, a cross between Golden Delicious and Jonathan.


Kemite

Blend of Kemet + -ite; perhaps in analogy with Semite.

Ancient Egyptian
Ancient Egyptian#English

Synonym of Ancient Egyptian (an inhabitant of Ancient Egypt)


autard

I love Autards. There was this one at an ultrasound manufacture who was one of their engineers--obviously brilliant. I watched him at the coffee station:
"Get some coffee...get some coffee...need a cup a cup a cup. Get a cup for coffee cup for coffee. Rinse with water rinse with water. Pulling the valve pulling the valve. Sugar sugar sugar pack of sugar pack of sugar..."

2000, Flatus M, “Autism and genius (was Re: Proposal: Y2K Apeshit Pool)”, in alt.tasteless (Usenet):

Thunderbird is one of the small mercies of the internet: it reserves functionality for only the people that actually deserve to be on the internet in the first place. (That basically rules out all autards, motards, gloids, retards, leftwing whining idiots, and all the other assorted Windows users - like Tarla - that own the 'internet' for no more reason than they do a toaster or clockradio.)

2005, Graham, “Re: Thunderbird killfile help”, in nz.general (Usenet):


diskazine

Although none of the diskazines states on its cover that it requires a color monitor, the games in one we looked at would not run without one.

Video "brochures," in the form of videotaped presentations in cassette form about new computer software programs that are being sold in computer stores. "Diskazines" or "magazettes," which are nothing more than magazines on floppy disks.

1990, E. W. Brody, Communication tomorrow: new audiences, new technologies, new media:


magazette

Personal computer users can also subscribe to bimonthly or monthly magazettes — diskettes that contain articles, […]

1985, Marjorie Leeson, Computer Information: A Modular System, page M-41:

It's now part of a new publishing genre called "diskazines" or "magazettes." […] At their most basic, they're a collection of inexpensive software on disk; at their most advanced, they're like traditional magazines — except that you turn the pages with a PgDn key.


cumrade

(Internet slang) A participant of No Nut November.

(slang) a partner for casual sex, see fuck buddy


sextremism

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Femen is originally a Ukrainian women's group that applies "sextremism" to draw attention to equality and democracy issues.

2013, vivapa...@aol.com, “Topless Femen Activists Target Swedish Mosque”, in alt.politics (Usenet):

The activist group, which says that it is based on "sextremism, atheism and feminism," was apparently trying to protest against patriarchy and the Vatican's pro-life views. According to EuroNews.com, the woman was identified as 20-year-old philosophy student Josephine Witt.

2013, GLOBALIST, “Here is how mature adult women demonstate their political believes-they rub your face into their vaginas.”, in soc.retirement (Usenet):

Sextremism is the main new form of feminist activism developed by Femen. Sextremism is female sexuality that has risen up against patriarchy by embodying itself in extreme political acts of direct action.

Their ideology centers around "sextremism" and feminism.

2016, anonymous author, “'Victory of all feminists': FEMEN wins right to topless protest in France”, in alt.prophecies.nostradamus (Usenet):

According to FEMEN's website, sextremism is a: fundamentally new form of women's feminist actionism. [It] is female sexuality rebelling against patriarchy and embodied in the extremal political direct action events [...] Sextremism is the woman's mockery of vulgar male extremism and its bloody mayhems and a cult of terror.

2016, Helen Davies, Claire O’Callaghan, Gender and Austerity in Popular Culture:


Mithrasmas

/ˈmɪθɹəsməs/

Blend of Mithras + Christmas. In reference to one Roman Dies Natalis Solis Invicti associated with December 25 and unrelated to Mithraism. Sol Invictus was also conflated with or used as an epithet of Mithras, from where the confused misidentification arose. Apparently coined by Gwendolyn MacEwen.

‘Thank you, and a Merry Mithrasmas to you,’’^([sic]) I said.

1970, Gwendolyn MacEwen, “The Second Coming of Julian the Magician”, in Prism International, volume 9, number 3, page 105:

Christmas (Christian or secular holiday held on December 25), presented as linked to Mithras


anthrobot

Blend of anthro- + robot, or anthro- + -bot.

Coordinate term: xenobot

Scientists have developed tiny groups of human cells that can move on their own—and in a lab experiment, these so-called “anthrobots” inspired sheets of human neurons to repair themselves when damaged. The researchers hope the collections of cells could one day be used to treat diseases or aid with healing in humans, according to a statement from Tufts University. […] The study comes on the heels of earlier work from one of its authors, who produced tiny robots by stitching together frog embryo cells. These bots, known as “xenobots,” could assemble themselves, move across surfaces and travel through liquid, according to Scientific American’s Philip Ball. […] Since they’re not made from human cells, xenobots can’t be used to treat humans, writes Nature News’ Matthew Hutson. But the anthrobots in the new study could, theoretically. Each anthrobot started with a single cell from an adult human lung. It then grew into a multicellular biobot after being cultured for two weeks.

2023 December 15, Will Sullivan, “Tiny ‘Robots’ Made From Human Cells Show Wound-Healing Potential. The so-called “anthrobots” can self-assemble and move on their own, and they prompted damaged neurons to regenerate in a recent study”, in Smithsonian Magazine, retrieved 2024-01-20:


real-time attack

en-noun

real-time attack (countable and uncountable, plural real-time attacks)

(video games, speedrunning) The timing method itself used to time such speedruns.


broflake

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Netflix dropped the first trailer for its new comedy series Dear White People today, and already broflakes (what I’ve decided to call MAGA hat-wearing dudes who complain about “snowflakes” but are themselves overly sensitive) are cancelling their accounts.

2017 February 9, Christopher Hooton, “The first trailer for Netflix's 'Dear White People' is upsetting broflakes everywhere”, in The Independent:

Yesterday, actress Amber Tamblyn published a New York Times op-ed stemming from her Twitter feud with actor/broflake James Woods.

2017 October 17, Whitney Kimball, “Amber Tamblyn's James Woods Feud Inspires New York Times Op-Ed , But Woods Hates the Times, So There”, in Jezebel:

Specifically, the broflakes said they had experienced gender discrimination against them at some point.

2018 January 10, Shaun Nichols, “1 in 5 STEM bros whinge they can't catch a break in tech world they run”, in The Register:

Bring on the broflakes triggered by reading Lena Dunham's name.

2018 February 9, Lanre Bakare, “Lena Dunham to remake Julia Davis sitcom Camping for HBO”, in The Guardian:

But here’s the thing about quotas, or - to protect the political broflakes (a portmanteau of “bros” and “snowflakes”, thank you internet) - here’s the thing about “targets”: they work.

2018 March 9, Jacqueline Maley, “Coalition has a problem with women - and Peta Credlin wants to fix it”, in The Sydney Morning Herald:

(slang, derogatory, neologism) An overly-sensitive man or boy who is easily upset or offended, especially one upset about loss of male privilege.


witkey

witkey (countable and uncountable, plural witkeys)

Originated in China in 2005. Blend of wisdom + key, originally the name of a website.

(Internet) A Web-based system whereby users can exchange and purchase services and information, and share knowledge and experience, in order to save time and money.


avolatte

The Aussie cafe has decided to start serving avolattes — yes, avolattes.

2017 May 22, Danielle Valente, “Avocado Lattes Exist And Everyone's Confused”, in Elite Daily:

The troubling trend of serving coffee drinks in hollowed-out produce “cups” has been on the rise since late last month, when a cafe in Melbourne, Australia made headlines for serving lattes in avocado peels (“avolattes”), Newsweek reported.

2017 June 6, Christian Gollayan, “Coffee shops are ruining perfectly good lattes with vegetables”, in New York Post:

Given the United States’ current fetishization of a) superfoods like kale and quinoa, b) Mexican chains like Chipotle and Qdoba, and c) Instagram-worthy products like avolattes and avocado toast, DeLyser does not anticipate this “meteoric rise” in avocado consumption going away anytime soon.

2017 September 22, Sal DeFrancesco, “Guac Costs Extra”, in Harvard Political Review:

(neologism) A latte served in half a hollowed out avocado.


flawsome

en-adj

flawsome (comparative more flawsome, superlative most flawsome)

more flawsome (comparative)
most flawsome (superlative)

I believe that perfect is boring. Our "flaws" are what make us, us, and that's beautiful. That is what being Flawsome is really all about. Flawsome means, "Flaws + Awesome = Flawsome."

"When one is flawsome, they have the ability to recognize and acknowledge that we all have flaws and that we can still be good people."

2022, Gabrielle Bernstein, quoting Brian Mahan, Happy Days: The Guided Path from Trauma to Profound Freedom and Inner Peace, page 110:

The "flawsome" mindset is a powerful shift in perspective that encourages us to embrace our imperfections as part of our beauty and individuality.[…]When we adopt a flawsome mindset, we shift our focus from striving for perfection to accepting and celebrating our imperfections.

2023, Cassandra Fenyk, Embracing Imperfections: Unleashing Our Perfect Selves, page 166:

So many times, when I feel awkward or incompetent[…]my inside-self feels like reactor number two in Three Mile Island, circa 1979.
Over the years I have tried, tried, tried to change this aspect of myself. I want to be able to feel FLAWSOME, even when I fail.

2023, Joni B. Cole, Party Like It's 2044: Finding the Funny in Life and Death:

As a philosophy, kintsugi applies the same concepts to how we live our lives. How we grow through our mistakes and failures. And how we accept, repair, and value the resulting flawsome person we continue becoming – as well as the likewise imperfect people, places, objects, and events in our world.

2024, Tom Collins and Michele Molitor, I Am Perfectly Flawsome: How Embracing Imperfection Makes Us Better, page 6:

(neologism) Flawed yet awesome; capable of embracing one's imperfections.


culture-jack

en-verb

culture-jack (third-person singular simple present culture-jacks, present participle culture-jacking, simple past and past participle culture-jacked)

culture-jacks (present singular third-person)
culture-jacking (participle present)
culture-jacked (participle past)
culture-jacked (past)

We advise not to culture-jack a natural disaster or some national tragedy.

2013 June 14, Michele Cuthbert, “Funny Or Why? 5 Ways Your Brand Can Culture-Jack The Right Way”, in Fast Company:

With Oreo commenting on subjects from Gay Pride to the Mars Rover landing, this campaign not only captured the attention and acclaim of both consumers and the media but also laid the groundwork for the brand's culture-jacking of the Super Bowl.

2015, Matthew Britton, YouthNation: Building Remarkable Brands in a Youth-Driven Culture, →ISBN, page 160:

In Alleyne's (2000) work on cultural dilution in reggae, whose core elements Alleyne views as having undergone "commercially-motivated dilution” (19), the term is used in the sense of culture-jacking to the extent that practices can be hijacked or misappropriated, when groups of performers who are not dyed-in-the-wool reggae artists seize control of the commercial promotion of the art form and take it in alternate directions to attract new audiences.

2016, Maryemma Graham, Wilfried Raussert, Mobile and Entangled America(s), →ISBN:

The tactic of culture-jacking (also, news jacking) can be employed to personify a brand as current, topical and in tune with the times.

2017, Ganesh Shermon, The Intellectual Company - Beyond Wisdom, →ISBN, page 459:

To appropriate aspects of popular culture for commercial purposes.


Camotint

Blend of camouflage + tint, coined by inventor Sidney Cotton.

Then an F.24 camera was installed in each wing, and the whole airframe painted in a pale duck-egg green 'Camotint' finish for 'invisibility.'

1980, Chaz Bowyer, Supermarine Spitfire, page 43:

But by the time it left Habbaniya it had been transformed into a civilian aircraft GAGAR and once again painted in the Camotint blue-green camouflage.

2011, Jeffrey Watson, Sidney Cotton: The Last Plane Out of Berlin:

Then Niven took off on September 1 in a single-engined Beech 17 which had been painted in Camotint, and photographed Wilhelmshaven once more.

2014, Dave Humphrey, Legends & Heroes - behind the lens, page 60:

(historical) Any of several pale camouflage colours used by the British Royal Air Force during World War II, especially Camotint green.


gorpcore

Originally coined by New York Magazine’s The Cut in late May 2017 as blend of gorp (“trail mix”) + normcore.

It might be the Vetements effect of ‘wear what you want, we just don’t care’ but designers have more than embraced gorpcore, whose key elements have been seen on runways for seasons now.

2017 June 1, Francesca Wallace, “Gorpcore is the new normcore: everything you need to know about fashion's newest phase.”, in Vogue Australia:

These days, fanny packs are being worn by rappers. By models. And soon, no doubt, by you. Why? Because gorpcore has brought them back into fashion.

2017 May 29, “'Gorpcore' is the new 'Normcore' and it's bringing bum bags back”, in Metro:

We scoured the site for things that are not often on sale, and stumbled on this great nubby Patagonia fleece that’s perfect for living out your gorpcore dreams in.

2017 November 27, Alexis Swerdloff, “If You're Going to Buy One Thing Today, Make It This Patagonia Fleece”, in New York Magazine:

A recent New York Times headline about warcore, the gorier sequel to gorpcore, squealed: “If you can get killed doing it, fashion wants it”.

2019 October 30, Priya Elan, “Gorpcore: why people who rarely go outside are wearing hiking gear”, in The Guardian:

And in this Milan show, some of the most extreme iterations of gorpcore felt like a step too far.

2020 January 13, “Giorgio goes gorpcore: Armani channels The Matrix in Milan”, in The Guardian:

A style of fashion characterized by functional outdoor wear such as fleece jackets, parkas, gore-tex jackets and pants, and many other utilitarian styles.


penopause

[…] whereas the production of offspring came to an end, I have not yet experienced what might be called the penopause.

1986, H. A. R. Barnett, “Presentation of an Institute Finlaison Medal to Mr Henry Arthur Rodney Barnett”, in Journal of the Institute of Actuaries, volume 113, number 1, page 8:

"Penopause" and Old Age

1989, CRC Handbook of Human Growth and Developmental Biology, volume 2, part A, →ISBN, page 332:

The physical symptoms of the penopause are often accompanied by worrying.

2000, Mels van Driel, The Secret Part: A Natural History of the Penis, →ISBN, page 156:


cyberformance

en-noun

cyberformance (countable and uncountable, plural cyberformances)


netprov

netprov (countable and uncountable, plural netprovs)

(art) A form of online theatrical improvisation acted out on social media.


Pestminster

Those following what has been dubbed “Pestminster” may nevertheless struggle to keep up with the Byzantine internal reporting structures, the range of accusations being levied and the sheer number of MPs involved.

2017 3 November, Julia Rampen, “A week in Pestminster”, in New Statesman:

Activists turned Westminster into “Pestminster” today to highlight a perceived lack of action over Parliament’s sexual harassment scandal.

2018 26 October, Kate Proctor, Ella Wills, “The next station is now Pestminster”, in Evening Standard:

It’s shocking that two years after the ‘Pestminster’ scandal, female MPs are fleeing politics.

2019 31 October, Catherine Mayer, “It’s shocking that two years after the ‘Pestminster’ scandal, female MPs are fleeing politics”, in The Telegraph:

(UK, informal) A scandal involving sexual harassment by members of the British parliament.


Nintendrone

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(slang, derogatory, video games) A slavish supporter of Nintendo's video games or consoles; a Nintendo fanboy


satellitesimal

The restudy of cosmological processes led to a new view as to the relations of the erratic elements of the solar system, the meteors, meteorites, and comets, to the normal elements, the planets, planetoids, planetesimals, satellites, and satellitesimals, to the effect that they were all formed by the same type of dynamic action, save that the former were given erratic orbits, while the latter were given concurrent orbits.

1921, Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, editor, The Journal of Geology, University of Chicago Press, →OCLC, page 408:


funspirational

en-adj

funspirational (comparative more funspirational, superlative most funspirational)

more funspirational (comparative)
most funspirational (superlative)


bi-dyke

Leanne is a bi-dyke living with her dog and cats in Montreal, spending too much time on the computer and too much time at the drawing table illustrating children's books for fun and profit, instead of drawing cartoons for fun and deficit.

2004, Robert Kirby, David L. Kelly, Boy Trouble:

(LGBTQ) A bisexual woman or nonbinary person who prefers female or femme partners to male or masc partners.


ceramer

(organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, physical chemistry) A crosslinked organic/inorganic polymer that has some properties of a ceramic.


fearthought

Blend of fear + forethought. Coined by Horace Fletcher as part of New Thought Movement at the turn of the twentieth century.

To assist in the analysis of fear, and in the denunciation of its expressions, I have coined the word fearthought to stand for the unprofitable element of forethought, and have defined the word 'worry' as fearthought in contradistinction to forethought. I have also defined fearthought as the self-imposed or self-permitted suggestion of inferiority, in order to place it where it really belongs, in the category of harmful, unnecessary, and therefore not respectable things.

1897, Horace Fletcher, Happiness as found in Forethought minus Fearthought (Chicago & New York: Stone), pp. 24–25

The “misery-habit,” the “martyr-habit,” engendered by the prevalent “fearthought,” get pungent criticism from the mind-cure writers ...

1902, William James, “Lectures 4 & 5”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC:

Excessive and unhealthy apprehensiveness; unnecessary fearfulness.


Mii

Blend of Wii + me. First introduced on the Wii, which was released in November 2006.

video game console
video game console#English

(video games) A customizable avatar used on several Nintendo video game consoles and mobile applications.


choreomusicology

A field of study concerned with the relationship between music and dance.


pomtini

And, boy, after the day I've had with my suppliers, those pomtinis are calling my name.

2015, Gemma Halliday, Homicide in High Heels: High Heels Mysteries book #8, Gemma Halliday Publishing, →ISBN:

And to tell him if I saw her, especially if she ordered a pomtini.

2018, J. D. Robb, Dark in Death: An Eve Dallas Novel, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN:


bedlock

He wants you an' me to fall dead in love, an' be j'ined in bedlock.

1882, John Alonzo Clark, A Young Disciple, page 362:

Not a single pleasure is risk-free; Who in his own wife's lap now lays a confident head? Neither in wedlock now nor in bedlock can we be.

2005, David Luke, transl., Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – Selected Poetry, Penguin Classics, page 30:

If Rose is having a tennis party it may make more sense to include Joe's steady tennis partner, Sue (with whom he has never had sex), than either his wife (from whom he has been separated for four months) or Dizzy (a current partner in bedlock whose most outstanding qualities are neither athletic nor intellectual).

2009, Nicholas Johnson, What Do You Mean and how Do You Know?:

A relationship where an unmarried couple shares a bed; cohabitation.


drag boat

A powerboat or motorboat used for drag racing, particularly a purpose-built one.


biliblanket

Blend of bilirubin + blanket, originally a brand name, BiliBlanket, trademarked by General Electric's Datex Ohmeda subsidiary, coined in the early 1990s.

The advantage to the biliblanket is that the infant's eyes do not need to be covered as long as the biliblanket is shielded and continuous phototherapy is provided even when holding or feeding the infant.

1997, Wendy L. Votroubek, Julie Townsend, Pediatric Home Care, →ISBN, page 281:

Biliblankets are used as another way of giving a jaundiced baby phototherapy treatment.

2003, Nikki Bradford, Your Premature Baby: The First Five Years, →ISBN, page 28:

For more severe cases a biliblanket may be recommended. It's a special blanket that wraps around the baby and works like concentrated sunlight to break down the bilirubin.

2016, Andrea Purcell, Over 35 and Pregnant, →ISBN:

Any of various light-emitting blankets that are used for home treatment of jaundice in infants.


Menver

(informal) A nickname for Denver, in reference to its supposed large population of single men.


grandcestor

Blend of grand- + ancestor, with the first element evoking grandparent.

I thought 'twould give it a kind of flavor, if I polished up your grandcestor's old cover with the family cress, to put over it.

1906, Mrs. Burton Harrison, The Carlyles: A Story of the Fall of the Confederacy, page 4:

“Guardian dogs for some monastery in the Himalayas. Someone snatched them and came here. A couple of monks hired me to get them back.” “What, they don't have dog pounds in Tibet?” I shrugged. “The monks think their great-grandcestor was a divine spirit-animal ...”

2004, Jim Butcher, Blood Rites, Penguin, →ISBN, page 11:

Fancy knew that nose and those cheekbones. The woman looked the way Madda had when she was younger and less factory worn. The woman held out her arms. “It's been long since one of my own has seen me.” “Miz Cherry?” Fancy had to fight an insane urge to curtsy. Cherry shocked Fancy by taking her by the shoulders and kissing her cheek. Her touch was inhuman, cold and glassy like a porcelain doll, but after her initial flinch Fancy relaxed into her grandcestor's embrace.

2011, Dia Reeves, Slice of Cherry, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 128:

A serious charge back then when bigotry was as natural to Southern Democrats as breathing. As a matter of fact, in political attack ads (Yes, they existed back then), Southern Democrats made cartoon drawings depicting Lincoln as a Negro, nicknaming him, “Abraham Africanus the First”. This may seem trivial to us today, but in the 1850s, if your greatgreat-great-great-great-great-grandcestor had one teeny weenie drop of African blood, you were considered a black person!

2014, Kristina Townsend, FOX NEWS NUTS? (Unfair & Unbalanced for over 200 years), Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 12:

(humorous or nonstandard) A distant ancestor.


situationship

/ˌsɪt͡ʃuˈeɪʃənʃɪp/

/ˌsɪtʃuˈeɪʃənʃɪp/

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From situation + -ship or a blend of situational + relationship.

Codependents don't have relationships, they have situationships.

2014, Marcia Newman, Five Gifts of Pro-Aging, Balboa Press, →ISBN, page 47:

The thing about being in a situationship – and this is a big thing – is that because you exist in that no-man's-land, the rules of engagement are not spelt out.

2016, Lerato Tshabalala, The Way I See It: The Musings of a Black Woman in the Rainbow Nation, page 110:

“Might you be pregnant?” I scoffed. “Listen Miss James, I know that you know that my personal life is a mess. There's no way I could be pregnant.” “Mark?” “What about Mark?” “Look, I know you're in a situationship with him...” I sighed, “Listen, Mark and I are friends. And anything that happens between us is very well secured against this.” Dawn shrugged, “Accidents happen.” “Not to me they don't,” I retorted.

2017, Jamila Jasper, The Situationship: BWWM Romance Novel, Publisher s23991

We just knew we wanted to be together. There was no one who could make me laugh quite the way Royal Blue did. We had so many good times together and he treated me like a queen whenever he could. Our relationship was built on love, trust and commitment, values that had been absent from many of my past relationships. In my situationships of the past, I had always found myself giving more than the other person.

2017, Kamaria G. Powell, WHAT THE F#@K IS ENLIGHTENMENT?, →ISBN, page 41:

“I needed a ‘situationship,’” said Ms. Stevenson, a 31-year-old comedian and writer in Los Angeles. “A person I can rely on and trust to hang out with once a week.”

2021 January 10, Valeriya Safronova, “True Stories of Hooking Up During Covid-19”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

This shift has given rise to the idea of the ‘situationship’ – a term that describes the grey area between friendship and a relationship. ... A situationship gives name to a hard-to-define stage of dating that experts say has skyrocketed in popularity among Gen Z.

2022 September 2, Casey Noenickx, “‘Situationships’: Why Gen Z are embracing the grey area”, in BBC Worklife:

friends with benefits
friend with benefits

(neologism, informal) A romantic or sexual relationship in which the parties involved do not clearly define their relationship as such, but for example consider it "complicated" or a friends with benefits-type situation.


grool

Lucy removed her fingers from Margaret's pussy and brought them up for closer inspection, noticing the sticky grool coating them and seeping into the webbed crevasses between them.

2021, Angela White, Lesbian Taboo Stories, page 22:

Thick beads of grool were trickling from her pussy now.

2021, Zadie Black, Conquering the Barbarian Princess, Zadie Black, →ISBN:

I reach one big hand forward to catch the string of grool that's oozing from her pussy before lifting it to my mouth to taste her moisture. “Oh, it's definitely going to be with me, Miss Fillmore. With me, and no one else ever again[…]"

(Can we date this quote?), S.E. Law, His House, His Rules: A Forbidden Romance, S.E. Law Romance:

He grabbed my hand and dipped it in my pussy, then brought it to my mouth.[…] When I was finished lapping up my stringy strands of grool, he grabbed me and laid me down on the velvet rug in front of the Christmas tree.

2021 June 18, Nikita Storm, Free Use 2: Taken By The Boss Under The Christmas Tree, Nikita Storm:

(informal) Vaginal lubrication derived from sexual arousal.


Webagogy

Learning by means of the material available on the World Wide Web.


hatfish

en-verb

hatfish (third-person singular simple present hatfishes, present participle hatfishing, simple past and past participle hatfished)

hatfishes (present singular third-person)
hatfishing (participle present)
hatfished (participle past)
hatfished (past)

If you've never seen the top of your Tinder date's head, he may be hatfishing you.

2017 August 23, Ben Yakas, “Extra, Extra: Liam Gallagher Ranks His Own Haircuts”, in Gothamist:

So basically, if you've got a great job, then fucking hatfish all you want - doesn't matter, Jean will be up for it!

2017 October 24, Gary Ogden, “'Hatfishing' is yet another dating trend – are you guilty of it?”, in Shortlist:

Looks aren’t everything — until you get on this app, where looks just happen to be everything. Be yourself and be honest. Filters and angles can help you look your best, but catfishing and hatfishing are real things.

2018 February 10, Lady Marmalade, “Things you probably shouldn't mention on your Tinder profile”, in Gauntlet, page 41, column 2:

The inclination to hatfish makes sense, given how sensitive men can be about their hair.

2018 April 3, Brittany Wong, “If You're On A Dating App, Chances Are You've Been Hatfished”, in Huffington Post:

You know he ain't hatfishing – there's a glorious grey mane under that woolen number.

2018 December 5, “'Fuckboy' Daniel Day-Lewis is a late entry for best look of 2018”, in Dazed:

To hide one's bald spot or bad hair under a hat in a profile picture for online dating.


Vietnamatta

(slang) The Sydney suburb of Cabramatta, known for its large Vietnamese population.


Chatswong

(slang) The Sydney suburb of Chatswood, known for its large Cantonese population.


huwoman

Blend of human + woman; in analogy to man, as it appears to be in the word human.

(rare, nonstandard) A woman; a female human.


drider

What a cool army! Do you have Driders or spider riders in there as well?

2001 April 12, RT Maitreya, “Dark Elf Giant Spider”, in rec.games.miniatures.warhammer (Usenet):

I did my best to avoid the driders, but there are a lot of rocks to negotiate around that river, and normal running doesn't cut it. I die. Again.

2001 August 29, Bradmeister, “A server with no ANON”, in alt.games.everquest (Usenet):

This would have been enough to kill a typical generically named character, but the Drider had already proven she was anything but typical.

2002 July 23, swlucky, “[OW!] Never trust a youma”, in alt.fan.sailor-moon (Usenet):

2004, Roby Ward, Heroes of Watussin, Llumina Press， page 206.
The drider had however moved close as he beseeched the entity behind the door, so found himself needing to bend his black elvish upper torso back towards the ceiling in order to avoid being slammed by the sudden rush of the massive slab.

I was in a dungeon, alone, nude.
Suddenly and without warning, a huge gay drider came from behind and shoved his massive drider cock up my anus!!!
[…]
Now my willy is sore and my asshole hurts badly and I have the foul taste of drider cum in my mouth and I lost 90% of my hitpoints!
So NEVER walk around in a dungeon nude, because gay driders may rape you!

2004 October 23, Karl-Hugo Weesberg, “A gay drider raped me ! ! ! !”, in can.uucp (Usenet):

2010, Matthew Lehmann, Wulf's Gate, Xlibris, page 26. Bolded "a" is original.
“Shh, No not a drider. Drider. He is one of the cruelest elves I know, and one of the fastest. […]”

“They were killed by Drider venom that was injected into the back of their necks. […]”

2012, Matthew Mackenzie, The History of Valin Sol: The Decay Years, WestBow Press, page 2:

(fantasy) A monstrous hybrid of a drow or other dark elf and a spider, with a humanoid (vertical) upper body and an arachnid opisthosoma forming the (horizontal) lower part.


joyport

With Bracy's, especially if you're using the Apple system, getting the joyports to work and the initial data entered correctly can be difficult.

1987, Cognitive Rehabilitation, volume 5, page 14:

One or more joyports actually exist as an extra option on many floppy controller cards and I/O cards.

1994, André LaMothe, Teach Yourself Game Programming in 21 Days, page 386:

(computing) A port for connecting a joystick.


airbrasive

(dentistry) A device that delivers a jet of sodium bicarbonate slurry at teeth in order to remove stains.


horrorzine

The woman's angle in the horrorzines seems influenced by the women's movement in rather a complex way.

1975, Angela Carter, “The Art of Horrorzines”, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage, published 2013, page 551:

Fanzines get almost no attention in the sf field (with the exception of horrorzines, and that's only because Karl Edward Wagner reads them all and selects stories from them for his annual anthology of the year's best horror).

2001, Orson Scott Card, How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy, page 108:

A magazine that publishes horror stories.


antimicrobicide

Misconstruction of antimicrobial biocide


somethingburger

Blend of something + nothingburger, equivalent to something + -burger.

Despite the undeniable corruption, Hillary called the scandal "the biggest nothingburger ever." […] This was a somethingburger with everything on it, for crying out loud. And the media did its best to sweep it under the rug—not just for Hillary's sake, but Obama's as well.

2018, Matt Margolis, The Scandalous Presidency of Barack Obama:

(nonce word, informal) Something believed or claimed to be unimportant that turns to be of some importance.


pelfie

Indeed, if 2013 has been the year of the selfie, our elected leaders have put their own fluffy spin on things with the “pelfie” (yep, I went there), unabashedly pimping out their pets for cheap RTs.

2013 December 26, Charlotte Lytton, “Bo and Sunny Obama Are Definitely The Leaders of the Political Pets”, in Daily Beast:

Buyagift has launched a nationwide competition to find the best "pelfie" – a pet selfie – all in the spirit of raising money for two animal charities – Angels Animal Rescue and Wood Green,

2014 June 30, Sophie Alexander, “Selfie, belfie, now it's the pelfie! Animals get snap happy for charity”, in Daily Star:

Even rural puppies on the other side of the world are apathetic when I try to take selfies with them,” he jokes of his pelfie in the Philippines.

2017 August 4, Kate Hogan, “30 Photos of PEOPLE's Pet Vet Dr. Evan Antin Cuddling with Puppies (You're Welcome)”, in People:

(neologism) A self-taken photograph of one's pet.


pelfie

Given that it's technically illegal to show an erect penis in movies, here's to assuming some poor production assistant was sent several pelfies (penis selfies? Does it work?) of Shia's floppy, non-erect penis.

2014 January 7, Dale Neuringer, “Shia Is the New Joey Tribbiani”, in Bustle:

And while we're on the subject of messaging, how many of us have sent or received a penis selfie? (A pelfie, if you will.)

2014 June 28, Emma Jane Unsworth, “A feminist's guide to dating”, in The Guardian:

Another argument for the growing trend for pelfies is the widespread availability of free porn

2017 December 17, “The rise and fall of the penis selfie”, in The Times:

Just 22% of men in the same age bracket admitted sending the racy shots, known as "pelfies".

2018 February 16, Alexander Brown, “Willy pics on the rise: Almost half young women get unwanted snaps”, in Daily Star:

(neologism) A self-taken photograph of one's penis.


hudwit

I'd missed them by a couple of hours. This dip did not bode well for the Hudwit.

2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 124:


impresstaurant

At an impresstaurant, the sommelier is both your wine man and your wingman, presenting bottles of Pinot Noir to you with a fancy cumrag draped over his arm.

2008, Daniel Maurer, Brocabulary: The New Man-I-Festo of Dude Talk, page 68:

Across the country, more and more chefs are using fresh, seasonal and sustainable ingredients. And the practice is spreading from high-end impresstaurants to casual local eateries.

2008, Bill Corsello, Shelley Gallagher, America's Top Restaurants 2009, page 6:

(slang, rare) An upscale restaurant where one might take somebody to impress them.


fidget-spinning

(rare) The act of spinning a fidget spinner.


Shitlands

Shetland Islands
Shetland Islands#English

(slang, derogatory, vulgar) The Shetland Islands; the Shetlands.


Shitland Islands

(slang, vulgar, derogatory, rare) The Shetland Islands.


universanimous

Likely a blend of universal + unanimous.

(now rare) Of one mind; all in agreement; unanimous.


beneffectance

Blend of beneficence + effectance. Coined by psychologist Anthony Greenwald in 1980.

(psychology) Perception of responsibility for desired outcomes, but not for undesired ones.


chicken Wellington

en-noun

chicken Wellington (countable and uncountable, plural chicken Wellingtons)

A variant of beef Wellington, where a boneless chicken breast fillet replaces the beef tenderloin.


pork Wellington

pork Wellington (countable and uncountable, plural pork Wellingtons)

A variant of beef Wellington, where a pork tenderloin replaces the beef tenderloin.


caliphette

For quotations using this term, see Citations:caliphette.

(rare) A (Muslima) woman who is a member of Daesh/ISIS.


bananapants

en-adj

bananapants (comparative more bananapants, superlative most bananapants)

more bananapants (comparative)
most bananapants (superlative)

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Blend of bananas (“crazy”) + crazypants (“crazy”)

blend

For quotations using this term, see Citations:bananapants.


Kentuckiana

The area in the Upland South region of the United States containing metropolitan areas with counties in both Kentucky and Indiana.


jerkhole

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Blend of jerk + asshole; possibly originated as a euphemism.

(Canada, US, slang, derogatory) An obnoxious person; a jerk.


Fakémon

(fandom slang) A fake Pokémon; for example, any Pokémon invented in fanart.


yabba dabba don't

Blend of yabba dabba doo + don't, since doo is a homophone of do.

(humorous, informal) An expression of disappointment, especially towards something of or pertaining to The Flintstones franchise.


Blastaway

We drank Blastaways and danced to Everything But the Girl's 'Missing', 'Dreamer' by Livin' Joy and 'Rhythm is a Mystery' by K Klass which we played repeatedly, […]

[…] just thought she was wrecked from all the Diamond White ciders she'd been sinking – I'd even bought her a couple of Blastaways, which in hindsight was a mistake.

2021, Barbara Copperthwaite, The Girl in the Missing Poster:

(UK, slang) A cocktail of Castaway (an alcopop) and Diamond White (a brand of cider).


snurf

en-verb

snurf (third-person singular simple present snurfs, present participle snurfing, simple past and past participle snurfed)

snurfs (present singular third-person)
snurfing (participle present)
snurfed (participle past)
snurfed (past)

To use a snurfer, to participate in snurfing.


snurfer

A bindingless snowboard/ski variant, with a rope leash at the front tip, that the snurfer (rider/surfer) can hold on to.


snurfing

The activity of using a snurfer, the action of the verb snurf.


carmalum

A solution of carmine and alum used as a histological stain.


casamino

Relating to a casamino acid or its derivative


vitroplant

The LGD medium appeared to be unsuitable for lilac vitroplant culture, resulting in yellow aerial parts, less than 5 mm in height.

2000, A. C. Cassells, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Methods and Markers for Quality Assurance in Micropropagation, page 214:

In order to reduce the impact of the labour that accounts for 60 to 75% in the cost price of a vitroplant, one then attends in the robotisation and the laboratories of production decided to move to the countries where the labour is cheaper.

Exact figures for world production of vitroplants are not known, but may represent more than 50 million per annum. This would mean that plant tissue culture multiplication techniques are used more frequently in banana than in any other crop.

2013, Y.P.S. Bajaj, High-Tech and Micropropagation V, →ISBN, page 120:

(biotechnology) An artificially propagated plant that is grown in vitro.


vomma

(finance) A second-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the rate of change of vega with respect to changes in the volatility of the underlying asset.


twenteen

The classic banner ad that had been driving Internet marketing for a decade would eventually die off, because on social networks it wasn't about throwing ads like confetti at users—it was about integrating product experience. And the demographic that first tuned into social networks—teens, “twenteens,” which was how some in their early twenties not ready to graduate to adulthood referred to themselves, and young working stiffs—were the consumers of the future.

2010, Adam Penenberg, Viral Loop: The Power of Pass-It-On:

But something new was rippling through a million MySpace profiles. The sound was electro, and bass-laced synthetic dance pop would soon start streaming in from producers in Paris, dizzying the twenteens of Britain with its accessible, anthemic funk.

(informal) A person in their twenties who still has teenage tastes and attitudes.


Sonbie

(slang, derogatory) One who is blindly supportive of Sony's products.


savingram

Savingrams were used where there was not sufficient urgency to necessitate telegrams and they were sent in the same way as despatches.

1995, Anne Thurston, Sources for Colonial Studies in the Public Record Office, →ISBN:

In light of this the colonial secretary noted in a draft savingram to the Colonies "cotton is one of those commodities of which it is necessary to increase production in the Sterling Area in order to reduce dollar expenditure and to assist in closing the dollar gap."

1996, The International Journal of African Historical Studies:

This series contains copies of outward cablegrams and savingrams from Canberra either to Jakarta or to Dili, which were classified secret and below.

2001, Karl Metcalf, Near Neighbours: Records on Australia's Relations with Indonesia:

A piece of administrative correspondence that uses the informal and abbreviated language of a telegram, but sent by mail, which is less expensive.


dummymander

(US politics) A gerrymander that has narrow margins to electorally benefit the gerrymandering party and has a high probability of backfiring.


Talivan

(UK, slang, derogatory) A portable speed camera inside a police van, moved from place to place to detect speeding motorists.


militariat

It is noted that some military coups, especially in West Africa, have been carried out, not by senior officers, but by junior & noncommissioned officers, ie, the militariat, which occupies a class position in the army analogous to the working class in society.

1998, Leo P. Chall, Sociological Abstracts - Volume 46, Issue 6, page 3825:

Irregulars of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) shared both the subaltern class location and lumpen culture of the militariat in Sierra Leone.

2004, J. Kandeh, Coups from Below: Armed Subalterns and State Power in West Africa, →ISBN:

The militariat generally lack a "social consciousness" (Kandeh 2004, 3), aw well as the intellectual skills, organizational expertise, and military discipline necessary for governance.

2010, John Conteh-Morgan, New Francophone African and Caribbean Theatres, →ISBN, page 116:

A ruling class resulting from a coup by junior officers and non-officers from the military.


phoneography

Blend of phone + photography; early 21st century.

Dubbed ‘phoneography’, the pictures submitted by the public will share exhibition space with entries from a host of celebrities including Stephen Fry and Ruby Wax.

2011, Fred Attewill, Smartphone ‘phoneography’ photos showcased in new exhibition:

Identity, memory, privacy, agency, and the network self in mobile phoneography are other related areas researched by Elisa Serafinelli and Patricia Routh.

2015, Athina Karatzogianni, Firebrand Waves of Digital Activism 1994-2014:

It might not conform to the traditionalist viewpoint of street, but as basic as this camera may seem, phone photography (phoneography) is an ever-growing and popular form of the art. Technology has allowed us to do away with film. We no longer have to wait for pictures to be processed and developed. It just takes a click and within a moment we can upload images to share with others, something that was unthinkable in the 1930s.

2017, Tanya Nagar, The New Street Photographers Manifesto: Any Camera, Anywhere:

The use of a mobile phone to take photographs.


docucomedy

(film, television) A comedy presented as though it were a documentary.


sextacular

en-adj

sextacular (comparative more sextacular, superlative most sextacular)

more sextacular (comparative)
most sextacular (superlative)

(informal) Spectacular, in a sexual context.


linel

(computer graphics) A unit segment between surfels.


Greygler

(informal) An employee of the technology company Google who is relatively old.


Bliar

(derogatory, UK politics) A pejorative nickname for former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, usually in reference to his support for the Iraq War.


televangelize

en-verb

televangelize (third-person singular simple present televangelizes, present participle televangelizing, simple past and past participle televangelized)

televangelizes (present singular third-person)
televangelizing (participle present)
televangelized (participle past)
televangelized (past)

To spread the message about (a particular branch of) Christianity, over a television broadcast; to work as a televangelist.


trashterpiece

The average consumer would much rather buy a slick Hollywood production over the latest shot-on-video “trashterpiece” by someone like yours truly. As the independent moviemaker dealt with these blows, the proliferation of bit torrent downloading added further insult to injury. Suddenly everything you had ever released was posted on the 'net and available as an absolutely FREE download to anyone who really wanted it!

1998, Kevin J. Lindenmuth, How to Make Movies: Low-Budget/No-Budget Indie Experts Tell All, McFarland, →ISBN, page 168:

Our theory: Tager saw Ed Wood's 1958 trashterpiece, "Plan 9 From Outer Space," which, yes, contains the line: "Kenneth, what is the frequency?"

2001 November 26, Ted Farlow, “"What's the Frequency Kenneth" saga continues...”, in rec.music.rem (Usenet):

The two didn't like each other even before Joan started horning in on Jackie's turf by writing her own steamy trashterpieces. Joan told friends the other night that her latest book, "Misfortune's Daughters," out in February, is about a rivalry between showbiz sisters.

2004 December 24, Lili2, “Feud continues with Jackie and Joan Collins”, in alt.showbiz.gossip (Usenet):

[…] fears, frustrations and fantasies crystallized into what Warhol might have tagged a mid–'60s “trashterpiece.”

2006, Douglas Brode, Elvis Cinema and Popular Culture, McFarland, →ISBN, page 161:

[…] stock footage, boring cliches, more stock footage, a fourth-rate pop score, kiddie show–level Martian surface sets, and skinny, crooked stalks representing one-eyed monsters who operate out of an appearing-disappearing sphere (one reviewer likened it to “a rolled-up ball of aluminum foil”!). Instead of debuting on TV as originally intended, this interstellar trashterpiece instead received theatrical release from Allied Artists several months following the February 1968 suicide of Adams.

2012, Tom Weaver, A Sci-Fi Swarm and Horror Horde: Interviews with 62 Filmmakers, McFarland, →ISBN, page 347:

Reeves had recently completed the trashterpiece Devil's Advocate for Warner Bros., starring as a lawyer who goes up against Satan.

2019, Brian Raftery, Best. Movie. Year. Ever. How 1999 Blew Up the Big Screen, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 57:

(slang) A film, book or other work that is widely regarded as bad, but still beloved by some.


Holocash

The Times of London credited this capitulation to the "Holocash" campaign in the United States.

I've never been a big fan of Stoney but this takes some serious balls. The Holocash is a huge money-maker for hollywood.

2010 July 26, Speeders & Drunk Drivers Are Murderers, “Re: Oliver Stone Commits Career Suicide - CALLS FOR HOLOCAUST DEBATE”, in talk.politics.misc (Usenet):

The Germans have said no to the latest Jewish demand for Holocash. A Greek Jewish group demanding that the Germans must give them money […]

2014, Heinrich, “Finally: Germans Reject Jewish Demand for Holocaust Bucks”, in soc.culture.israel (Usenet):

(offensive) Monetary gain resulting from exploitation of the Holocaust by Jews, or the Holocaust itself, regarded (by anti-Semites) as having been exploited by Jews for monetary gain.


frumious

en-adj

frumious (comparative more frumious, superlative most frumious)

more frumious (comparative)
most frumious (superlative)

Blend of fuming + furious, coined by Lewis Carroll in the poem Jabberwocky (1871).


hairdon't

Blend of hairdo + don't, a play on hairdo.

"You're gonna mess up my hairdo." "That's a hairdo? Looks more like a hairdon't to me." "Yeah? And what do you think yours looks like?" "Great, as always."

1984, Charlotte White, A Hard Act to Follow, Ace Books, →ISBN:

"Maybe that's a new hairdo," he gibed, "but I think it's a hairdon't - your hair don't look good."

1990, Julius Nicholas Hook, The Appropriate Word: Finding the Best Way to Say what You Mean, Addison-Wesley:

He had a funny moustache and an entertaining combover ('Less a hairdo and more a hairdon't,' according to Dad, who should know) and many soldiers imitated his hilarious walk.

2013, Sarah Burton, The Complete and Utter History of the World According to Samuel Stewart Aged 9, Short Books, →ISBN:

“Looks really sketchy,” Claire Olivia said, looking in the rearview mirror to fix her beehive hairdo. Or hairdon't, depending on how you looked at it.

2013, Bill Konigsberg, Openly Straight, Scholastic Inc., →ISBN:

She has a hairdo that should have been a hairdon't.

2014, Brad Ashton, Stand Up and Be Laughed At, Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN:

I'd sported a few awkward hairstyles before I left the WWE in 2005 (Why didn't anybody tell me the “too long to be short, too short to be long” hairdo was a hairdon't?), but my weeds were still at least longish back then.

2014, Chris Jericho, The Best in the World: At What I Have No Idea, Penguin, →ISBN:

“That hairdo is a hairdon't,” Luke said, loud enough for all the boys gathered around him to hear.

2016, R.L. Stine, Monsterville 1: Cabinet of Souls, Scholastic UK, →ISBN:


wedtro

There is no point in demos, they are made for fun. They don't show anything which would have a special point... unlike wedtro, xmastro, etc. 99% of demos are whole bunch of routines thrown together... some others don't and have kind of a story line, Angel IMO was one of them.

1995, Houman Ghahremanlou, “Stupid remarks !”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet):

Hi Trixter! Long time no speak! How's life for you these days? If everything goes well, I'll have to make a wedtro too in a few months ;).

2002, JAL / Nostalgia, “Old demos”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet):

(demoscene) An intro created to announce and celebrate a wedding.


evergreenery

The evergreenery of our holly and mistletoe declares the everlasting life; and the off-key sounds of carolers, hoarse and shrill and piping, come from the throats of angels, as their listeners for those few moments are transformed into shepherds, hearing for the first time the gladdest tidings of the greatest joy.

1963, The Living Church, volume 147, page 74:


Neveruary

Blend of never + January or blend of never + February.

Dudes go some big numbers up north, some of them are comin' home Neveruary first.

2004, Shanno Holmes, Never Go Home Again: A Novel, page 162:

(humorous) Never; a time that will not come.


dilemmanade

Blend of dilemma + lemonade. Usually occurs in phrases that mirror or reference when life gives you lemons, make lemonade.

When life deals you a dilemma, just make dilemmanade
If you let your attitude go bad, it doesn't take very long for that negative feeling to get passed on to your staff and then to your customers.

This is truly a dilemma. But as my guru harry Cohen Baba once told me, when you're faced with a dilemma, the only thing to do is make dilemmanade. Yes, we need a new approach, something truly revolutionary and earth-shaking.

1993, Swami Beyondananda, Steve Bhaerman, When you see a sacred cow-- milk it for all it's worth, →ISBN:

The citizens could easily obtain weapons equal to the grade of the weapons that the military was using in the 1790s. Today, that means that we have a slight bit of a dilemma, because citizens probably shouldn't have mutated Smallpox and agent orange just sitting around in their basements. but, you know the saying; if life gives you lemons, make lemonade. Conversely, if life gives you a dilemma, make dilemmanade.

2013, Nathan Richendollar, Sic Semper Res Publica, →ISBN, page 123:

(colloquial) A notional drink, a positive thing that one makes by making the best of dilemmas one faces.


ringularity

An annular cosmic singularity, a ring with zero thickness and infinite density.


biojector

Trade name, from Blend of bio- + injector.


parkitecture

(US, informal) A style of 20th-century architecture developed by the United States National Park Service in its efforts to create buildings that harmonized with the natural environment and avoided the regularity and symmetry of the industrial world.


bikepacking

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Bikepacking, as the name implies, is a harmonization of backpacking and cycling that is typically synonymous with a lightweight setup for touring, often off-road. Both ultralight touring and bikepacking are based on the principle that less is more.

2015, Justin Lichter, Justin Kline, Basic Illustrated Bike Touring and Bikepacking, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 32:

He [Iohan Gueorguiev] was a star in the world of “bikepacking,” long-distance bike travel conducted off main roads.

2021 October 11, Alex Traub, “Iohan Gueorguiev, ‘Bike Wanderer’ of the Wilderness, Dies at 33”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Recreational multiday travel on a bicycle, often off-road and with minimal camping gear.


politrickery

(informal, derogatory) Synonym of politricks


Hebrish

An informal hybrid language combining elements of Hebrew and English.


aquabatics

acrobatic maneuvers performed underwater


halfmer

Either half of an approximately symmetrical polymer.


femoid

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Members describe women as “femoids” and the men they have sex with as “chads”.

2017 November 8, Olivia Solon, “'Incel': Reddit bans misogynist men's group blaming women for their celibacy”, in The Guardian:

The user wrote: "Although I don’t condone what celbro Frank Yeager did, normies and femoids need to understand what can happen after you bully us for so long."

2017 November 9, Alexandra Richards, “Reddit bans 'misogynist' group which blamed women for its members' celibacy”, in Evening Standard:

But when they abandon the pursuit of relationships in favor of long-winded posts about their anger toward “femoids,” one’s sympathy wanes.

2018 April 27, Brooke A. Rodgers, “The online ‘incel’ culture is real – and dangerous”, in New York Post:

Alongside the terms used in Minassian’s message, a common idiom in their discussions is “femoid”. Short for “female humanoid”, it’s used in place of the word “woman” to depict how, in an incel’s view, women are not entirely human, but are instead robot-like androids who only crave sex with Chads.

[2018 April 28, Kate Wilson, “Last week in tech: sex robots”, in The Georgia Straight:

Mr. Genco posted on an incel website that he had also shot couples and “foids” — short for “femoids,” an incel term for women — with orange juice from a water gun, which made him feel “spiritually connected to the saint on that day,” according to the indictment.

2021 July 21, Michael Levenson, “‘Incel’ Is Charged With Plotting to Shoot Women, U.S. Says”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:


pangopup

(informal, neologism) A young pangolin; a scaly anteater pup.


neurule

A kind of hybrid symbolic rule used in neurocomputing.


bromantical

bromantical (comparative more bromantical, superlative most bromantical)

more bromantical (comparative)
most bromantical (superlative)

Blend of bro + romantical, equivalent to bromantic + -al.

2011 Marc Anthony, Will Smith, and Dwyane Wade Get Bromantical for Monday Night Football, Miami New Times

2013 Brad Pitt & Shia LaBeouf Went On A Bromantical Camping Trip With Their Fury Team, PerezHilton.com

2014 Enlisted Stars Crash the Bones Set to Annoy David Boreanaz and Celebrate Their Milestone 4th Episode Eonline.com
to make sure that this momentous occasion does not get overlooked, Geoff Stults and Parker Young have prepared a bromantical celebration with Bones' David Boreanaz

Of or pertaining to a bromantic tendency or character.


sismance

en-noun

sismance (countable and uncountable, plural sismances)

‘Sis-mance’, or ‘sister-mance’ (the best I could come up with for a female version of ‘bromance’) was rampant this week

2013, What have Your Favourite Celebs been up to? Find out on ‘The BFF Special’ of #WorkFlow! – Your Weekly Entertainment News Bulletin, BellaNaija:

2014 Joséphine Japy : "Mélanie Laurent place la barre assez haut dans son cinéma" Premiere
Joséphine : C’est une amitié passionnelle, au sens de l’adoration de l’autre. Ce que les Américains appellent une « sismance ».
Le féminin de « bromance » ?
Joséphine : Voilà. Ces deux jeunes filles ont un rapport d’exclusivité l’une envers l’autre. Elles doivent toujours tout faire ensemble, tout partager. C’est particulier, deux filles qui décident qu’elles sont faites l’une pour l’autre.

So, when Amy showed up to Elle's Women in Hollywood Awards Monday (Oct. 19) night in what must've been her Jennifer Lawrence Halloween costume because literally everything about her look was a direct throwback to Jennifer Lawrence's iconic 2011 Academy Awards style, we knew this sismance was at peak levels.

2015, Amy Schumer And Jennifer Lawrence Just Completed The Twin Transformation, MTV:

Romeo and Juliet ended their relationship in similar fashion. So did Thelma and Louise, come to think of it. Is that a Sismance?

2016, Ten great movie bromances, The Irish Times:

2017 Rahul Da Cunha: Padmavati Bar & Grill, Goa Mid-Day
I wanted to make a low budget sismance movie — the female equivalent of 'bromance' — but was told by the studios that chick flicks are out

2018 Kareena Kapoor Khan and Sonam Kapoor starrer ‘Veere Di Wedding’s trailer to release on THIS day Free Press Journal
She will be seen in ‘Veere Di Wedding’ which also stars Sonam Kapoor, Swara Bhasker and Shikha Talsania in the key roles. Ever since the announcement of the film, their fans have been excited to watch this mixture of sismance on the big screen.

(informal) A close but nonsexual relationship between women.


sismantic

en-adj

sismantic (comparative more sismantic, superlative most sismantic)

more sismantic (comparative)
most sismantic (superlative)

Sweetest thing i saw when i was at the esplanade was there was a couple and they came up with this idea of taking pictures of other couples in love, and also those who just wanna be bromantic and sismantic.

2009, Matthew Goh, locked inside my head ., Creating-Miracles:

January 2010 Kyle Frazier Distributed time for others leads to healthy relationships
A fine balance of chilling with friends and hanging with a significant other is the key to a good relationship, whether the relationship is of the romantic kind or the bromantic/sismantic kind.

February 2010 The Uncelebrated Love Affair of the Single Girl, Ruth's Gleanings
The Benefits of Bro-/Sismantic Love

Special thanks to my beta, dolimir_k and my sismantic twin, maplelump.

2011, together, we are the oceans (part 4):

there is nothing in the rule book stating that you must celebrate only romantic love. Why not celebrate the love you have for yourself and your closest friends by having a “single girls night” at home? While all the couples out there are waiting for their turn in a jam-packed restaurant, you and your friends can enjoy a fun, sismantic (okay, I made that up, how come guys have bromances, but we don’t have a term for our bond as women?) night in the comfort of your own dining room.

2012, Nicole Etolen, Celebrate Single Girls Night on Valentine’s Day with Bormioli Rocco, Pretty Opinionated:

Root’s sismantic (/romantic) relationship with Shaw is also fascinating.

2015, Laura Dallars, Great Women II, We're Being WATCHED:

If a scene is between two or more characters, does it advance the story or character development arc between those characters? This includes all sex scenes and romantic or witty bromantic/sismantic interludes.

2016, James Osiris Baldwin, Fix Your Damn Book!: How to Painlessly Self-Edit Your Novels & Stories, page 72:


worldhouse

The large artificial dome constructed in paraterraforming.