hangry

en-adj

hangry (comparative hangrier, superlative hangriest)

hangrier (comparative)
hangriest (superlative)

A monster was described as hangry, pronounced by the aythor as [aŋgri]. When asked whether it was angry or hungry, the author replied "Yes".

1994, Jean Harkins, Bridging Two Worlds:Aboriginal English and Crosscultural Understanding, page 162:

I also get really "hangry".

2005, L. R. Parenti, Durata Del Dramma: Life Of Drama, page 98:

We're not talking about the fast-food giants or smaller chains, such as Wimpy's, both of which turn up frequently in the stripmalls that dot the Trail. No matter how hungry -- or even hangry -- you and your fellow travellers are, eschew these places.

2008, “The Great Southern Ontario Burger Trail”, in National Post:

Seriously, somebody needs to give this toddler a bottle and put him down for a nap. That baby pitches a fit when he gets hangry.

2011, Chris Haire, “I'm tired of writing about Nikki Haley”, in Charleston City Paper:

2015, Amanda Salis, “The science behind being "Hangry"”, in CNN "The conversation":

Mission Control: "Get them pizza before they get hangry. Hungry and angry!"
Astronaut: "We're hangry! Hungry and angry!"

2016, “People Pleaser”, in The Powerpuff Girls:

You know this if you've ever been hangry. You go through your day without stopping to eat, and for a while it doesn't matter. Then your stomach starts sending signals to your brain that it's waiting.

2018, Jean Chatzky, Women with Money: The Judgment-Free Guide to Creating the Joyful, Less Stressed, Purposeful (and, Yes, Rich) Life You Deserve, page 11:

(slang) Hungry and angry, especially when the anger is induced by the hunger.


Tudorbethan

This same essay, much of which is explicitly directed against the Tudorbethan ‘aesthetic’ of the Prince of Wales, concludes with Ballard saying: ‘I look forward to … the transformation of Britain into the ultimate departure lounge.’

2011, Will Self, “The frowniest spot on Earth”, in London Review of Books, XXXIII.9:

[...] on what John Betjeman called 'these mild home county acres' the Metropolitan would create Metroland, a series of Tudorbethan havens for the office toilers of London, destroying the mildness of those acres in the process, of course.

2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 169:

(architecture) Mock-Tudor; designed to resemble a Tudor or Elizabethan architectural style.


glocal

glocal (comparative more glocal, superlative most glocal)

more glocal (comparative)
most glocal (superlative)

Not so much wedded as welded to their airline seats, he and his amanuensis see the cities of the future as ‘glocal’ phenomena, where high-density urban centres are air-linked to intercontinental faubourgs.

(chiefly business, politics) Both global and local.


judicare

Blend of judicial + care; compare Medicare, denticare.

(US, law) A form of legal aid in which private lawyers and law firms are paid to handle cases from eligible clients alongside the cases from their own fee-paying clients.


wedmin

(rare, informal) The administration and planning associated with a wedding.


canuding

Ontario off the beaten path is safe for discreet camping, hiking, and canuding.

2006, James Woycke, Au Naturel: The History of Nudism in Canada:


Chicom

Communist Party of China
Communist Party of China

(politics, informal, sometimes offensive) A member of the Communist Party of China, a Chinese cadre.

(politics, informal, sometimes offensive) A proponent of Chinese Communism, whether Maoist or its subsequent development.

People's Republic of China
People's Republic of China

(politics, informal, inexact, sometimes offensive, ethnic slur) Any citizen of the People's Republic of China.


Microspeak

Actually, preview, in Microspeak, is what blunter software companies call "beta" — meaning incomplete, buggy, and unsupported.

2002, James Gleick, What just happened: a chronicle from the information frontier:

Welcome to the world of Microspeak — the unofficial language of Microsoft.

2003, Steven Lattimore McShane, Mary Ann Young Von Glinow, Organizational behavior:

The browser buttons, shown in Figure 7-1, are simply links that you can place on the same toolbar that holds your most frequently used bookmarks (known as "favorites" in Microspeak).

2004, Sarah Milstein, Rael Dornfest, Google: the missing manual, page 174:

(informal) The computer and business jargon associated with Microsoft.


echoplex

On Electric Bath Ellis provided an exquisite example of how to use the loop delay echo chamber on his trumpet, as he played “Open Beauty”. By using an echoplex Ellis was able to play highly effective solos, duets, and trios in a surrealistic manner by himself.

2001, Bob Yurochko, A Short History of Jazz, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 175:

(music, also capitalized) A tape delay effect first used in the 1960s.


linish

en-verb

linish (third-person singular simple present linishes, present participle linishing, simple past and past participle linished)

linishes (present singular third-person)
linishing (participle present)
linished (participle past)
linished (past)

(transitive, engineering) To improve the flatness of a surface by means of grinding or belt-sanding techniques.


downcycle

downcycle (third-person singular simple present downcycles, present participle downcycling, simple past and past participle downcycled)

downcycles (present singular third-person)
downcycling (participle present)
downcycled (participle past)
downcycled (past)

Nike set up a "Reuse-a-Shoe" program to "downcycle" old sneakers. The outsole rubber and midsole foam from used shoes are converted into surface material for running tracks and other athletic facilities and playgrounds. The fabric from the shoe uppers becomes padding under carpets.

2004, Michael Renner, “Moving toward a Less Consumptive Economy”, in Linda Starke, editor, State of the World 2004: A Worldwatch Institute Report on Progress toward a Sustainable Society, New York, N.Y., London: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 108:

(transitive) To convert (waste materials, etc.) into new materials or products of lower quality and reduced functionality.


crossplay

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The problem with the crossplay of plastic-based (Mylar) tape is that it's pliable; any difference in temperature or mechanical stress, induced by various transports, will distort track patterns recorded on the compliant tape.

1993, Airborne Reconnaissance, volume 16, Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers, →ISBN, page 52:

(engineering) The ability to record data with one device and play back the data on a different, compatible device.


upcycle

upcycle (third-person singular simple present upcycles, present participle upcycling, simple past and past participle upcycled)

upcycles (present singular third-person)
upcycling (participle present)
upcycled (participle past)
upcycled (past)

Blend of up- + recycle or possibly upgrade + recycle.

Recycling in many cases means "downcycling" – in particular cases, however, it can also mean "upcycling".

1994, Jim Mason, editor, Design for Manufacturability, 1994: An Environment for Improving Design and Designing to Improve Our Environment: Presented at the 1994 Design for Manufacturability Conference at the National Design Engineering Conference, Chicago, Illinois, March 14–17, 1994 (DE (Series) (American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Design Engineering Division); 67), New York, N.Y.: American Society of Mechanical Engineers, →ISBN, page 75:

As I child I made thins from "nothing." If I didn't have any store-bought materials, I would go to my closet and cut up my least favorite article of clothing and make something new with it. It just made sense to use, reuse, upcycle and make things from scratch.

2009, Jacqueline Myers-Cho, “Use, Reuse, Recycle”, in Strands: Creating Unexpected Fabrics and Fashionable Projects, Cincinnati, Oh.: North Light Books, F+W Media, →ISBN, page 7:

For Tom Szaky, founder and chief executive of TerraCycle, which collects used plastic bags, juice pouches, cookie wrappers and other items that cannot be recycled and ‘upcycles’ or morphs them into items such as messenger bags, tote bags, and pencil cases, trash is a raw material and the key to a multimillion-dollar, ecocapitalist (ad)venture[…].

2010, Avi Brisman, “The Indiscriminate Criminalisation of Environmentally Beneficial Activities”, in Rob White, editor, Global Environmental Harm: Criminological Perspectives, Cullompton, Devon, Portland, Or.: Willan Publishing, →ISBN; republished Abingdon, Oxon., New York, N.Y.: Routledge, 2011, →ISBN, page 166:

[…] PFNC takes empty shipping containers that are too expensive to recycle or ship back empty to China and converts them into affordable, stackable homes for Mexican workers. […] PFNC makes enough money to continue upcycling shipping containers costs and to invest for future growth.

2010, Tyler McNally, Ronald S. Jonash, Hitendra Patel, “Introduction”, in Greenovate!: Companies Innovating to Create a More Sustainable World, [Boston], Mass.: Hult International Business School Pub., →ISBN, page xxiv:

Electronic waste—or ewaste—has provided a business opportunity for certain companies, which disassemble old computers, monitors, fax machines, printers, and other electronic equipment that they obtain from businesses and individuals[…]. These ecycling businesses reclaim the glass from monitors, plastics from casings, and metal from wires and circuit boards and ship the components to manufacturers that upcycle the materials. (Upcycling is a type of recycling that takes discarded materials and makes a new product with a value higher than that of the original materials.)

2012, Peter H[amilton] Raven, David M. Hassenzahl, Linda R. Berg, “Solid and Hazardous Wastes”, in Environment, 8th edition, Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 481, columns 1–2:

Upcycling requires that innovation be integrated with sustainable product development. Several innovative products can be manufactured by upcycling the unrecyclable wastes, such as plastic rejects from municipal solid waste. Such products include bricks, interlocks, manhole covers, table toppings, and road ramps[…].

2015, Hussein ElKersh, Salah M. El-Haggar, “Cradle-to-Cradle and Innovation”, in Salah M. El-Haggar, Sustainability and Innovation: The Next Global Industrial Revolution, Cairo, New York, N.Y.: American University in Cairo Press, →ISBN, page 54:

(transitive) To convert (waste materials, etc.) into new materials or products of higher quality and greater functionality.

kitar tinggi

to convert into new materials or products of higher quality and greater functionality


shellfishery

en-noun

shellfishery (countable and uncountable, plural shellfisheries)

It may come as a surprise that there is a shellfishery worth defending in New York City waters.

2007 July 5, Andy Newman, “Raritan Bay Border War Flares Anew Over Clams”, in New York Times:

A place where shellfish are caught or processed.

(uncountable) The catching of shellfish.


foundherentism

But one of the express tenets of foundherentism is that “there need be no privileged class of empirical beliefs justified exclusively by the support of experience, independently of the support of other beliefs” (Haack 1993, p. 19).

2007 October 26, Lydia McGrew, Timothy McGrew, “Foundationalism, Probability, and Mutual Support”, in Erkenntnis, volume 68, number 1, →DOI:

theory of justification
theory of justification

(philosophy) A theory of justification that combines elements from the two rival theories addressing infinite regress: foundationalism and coherentism.


sargable

(databases, of a query) Able to use indexes to speed up execution.


padfolio

A portable case that opens in the manner of a book to reveal a notepad.


Americunt

Huh? Even I have seen thousands of Imams condemning terrorists acts and I am not even Muslim. Just search Yahoo. However, I have never seen an Americunt admitting that the biggest terrorist country in history is America.

2004, AK, “Jazeera's Iraq coverage hits U.S. raw nerve”, in soc.culture.arabic (Usenet):

So you've been there for 4 years fighting everybody and everything, two are^([sic]) three times over. Why don't you admit it phuktards, You haven't got a clue and you've set yourself up for NUCLEAR ANNIHILATION. You are going to teach yourself a real big lesson aren't you PHUKTARDS?

2007, J0HN H0WARD, “Phuktard Americunts now Killing The People They Liberated”, in alt.politics.org.cia (Usenet):

(slang, humorous, offensive, vulgar, derogatory, ethnic slur) An American.


plumcot

These fruits are in season now, along with the plumcot, 50 percent plum and 50 percent apricot, which has been sold on a limited basis until now.

2007 July 11, Florence Fabricant, “Food Stuff”, in New York Times:

He also sent us specimens of what he calls the "plumcot" — a cross between the plum and the apricot.

1898, Report/Maryland State Horticultural Society:


sandboarding

It wasn’t until I was 29, and tried sandboarding for the first (and last) time, that I saw the beauty in being merely O.K. at something.

2007 July 15, Rebecca Zerkin, “Children’s Books”, in New York Times:

A recreational activity resembling snowboarding but performed on sand instead of snow.


Camford

(UK, education, rare) Synonym of Oxbridge


maplet

Michael J. Caulfield, Gannon University (1046-O1-346) 10:40AM - (1105) A maplet for encoding, decoding, and correcting errors in Golay codes.

2009 January, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, volume 56, number 1:

(computing, mathematics) An applet written in the computer algebra system Maple.


swoe

Blend of sword + hoe; originated as a trademark of Wilkinson Sword.

I approached the new light hoes, swoes and other garden tools with some degree of scepticism, feeling that weight aided the cutting down operation. After two summers I am quite converted, especially as I am two years older.

(She told me I must buy a swoe, a long-handled weeder sold by Fiskars, that changed her life.)

2007 July 26, Anne Raver, “Recognizing Those Who Keep Brooklyn in Bloom”, in New York Times:


viewspaper

Q. Before stepping down as Britain’s prime minister, Tony Blair made a speech criticizing the British media, during which he singled out The Independent as a “metaphor” for what has happened to the news over his tenure, saying it is “well-edited and lively” but “is avowedly a viewspaper not merely a newspaper.”

2007 August 4, Richard Siklos, “Press Baron Champions ‘Viewspaper’”, in New York Times:

A newspaper that includes many opinion pieces.


shwasted

en-adj

shwasted (comparative more shwasted, superlative most shwasted)

more shwasted (comparative)
most shwasted (superlative)

i got shwasted in wine when i was like 12

2004 April 6, Shmegma dOgmatagram fishmarket stew, “happy passover to all my jewish RMPers”, in rec.music.phish (Usenet):

so i came home the other night and i was shwasted and pulse was on

2004 April 6, Dingus SquatfOrd Jr., “DSOTM B&P”, in rec.music.phish (Usenet):

We totally forgot that this morning when we were getting shwasted, we changed Zoe's voice mail [...]

2010, Molly Hills, Chicago Girls, page 32:


prolotherapy

A state-by-state listing of prolotherapy practitioners can be found at www.getprolo.com .

2007 August 7, Jane E. Brody, “Injections to Kick-Start Tissue Repair”, in New York Times:

The injection of an otherwise non-pharmacological and non-active irritant solution into the body, generally in the region of tendons or ligaments for the purpose of strengthening weakened connective tissue and alleviating musculoskeletal pain.


nollie

Gagnon’s final run might have been better, but he fell on his last trick, a nollie heelflip 360.

2007 August 6, Matt Higgins, “No Snow, but White Still Provides the Sizzle”, in New York Times:

(skateboarding, snowboarding) A variation of the ollie where the rider uses the front foot to pop the nose down and the back foot to scrape backwards to achieve lift off of the ground.


condotel

The Greenwich Hospitality Group, which manages the Delamar Hotel in Greenwich, still has a contract with the partnership to manage the inn, which will not operate as a condotel after all, according to Jonathan Wise, the company’s vice president for hotel development.

2007 September 16, Lisa Prevost, “Promises Foreclosed”, in New York Times:


mastertone

In a written statement, Universal said it was disappointed that “the Marley estate has chosen to take such an extreme and meritless position that a customary promotional campaign highlighting the availability of Marley mastertones somehow constitutes an ‘endorsement’ of Verizon over all.”

2007 September 14, Andrew Adam Newman, “Marley Family’s Vitriol Leads Verizon to Bite Back”, in New York Times:

A ringtone consisting of an extract from an original recorded work (and not a synthesised imitation).


trioval

It is a 2.66-mile trioval with long stretches of speed-building asphalt, which have been made less threatening by restrictor plates that cut the horsepower of the powerful stock car engines.

2007 October 7, Ray Glier, “Talladega Nightmares for the Chase”, in New York Times:

A shape that is a hybrid of triangle and oval, sometimes used for motor racetracks.


mockbuster

Whereas the Asylum had a well-defined audience as a horror-movie company, the mockbuster strategy aims at a broader and shallower demographic: some viewers have seen the real blockbuster and want more of the same thing, no matter how lo-fi; some are genre geeks, interested in low-budget adventure and sci-fi films; others rent the movie thinking it is something else (Web sites are rife with the scornful entries of duped film fans).

2007 October 7, Rolf Potts, “The New B Movie”, in New York Times:

(informal) A relatively low-budget film given a similar theme and title to a popular blockbuster in an attempt to piggyback on its success.


parclo

Shortening of partial cloverleaf interchange
Blend of partial + cloverleaf

partial cloverleaf interchange
partial cloverleaf interchange


tweetheart

My colleague in the US, Heather Hopkins recently covered the blaze of publicity around Oprah Winfrey starting to tweet and its immediate impact on Twitter’s US share of visits. In Australia the influences seem to be broader than America’s new 'tweetheart’.

2009 April 28, Alan Long, “Oprah may be America's Tweetheart, but she doesn't make the earth move Downunder!”, in Digital Ministry:

When Vanity Fair published a story earlier this year on a group of all-American, all-white "tweethearts," the real Twitterati took the magazine to task for ignoring a growing force on Twitter: African-Americans.

2010 May 6, Ki Mae Heussner, “Is Twitter Disproportionately Popular Among Black Users?”, in ABC News:

Thursday night's "Daily Show" began with another thorough take-down of John McCain's stance on Don't Ask Don't Tell, but afterward Jon Stewart moved on to McCain's 2008 Presidential running mate Sarah Palin, who he dubbed "America's Tweetheart."
Palin has taken to Twitter to vent her frustrations with Obama's handling of the latest WikiLeaks document drop, but Stewart believes her outrage is primarily unfounded.

2010 December 3, Katla McGlynn, “Stewart Mocks Media's Obsession With Sarah Palin's Tweets”, in The Huffington Post:

One of the latest twilebrities is Simmons alumna Julia Roy, '05. She was named "America's Tweetheart" by Vanity Fair, which called her a "26-year-old New York social strategist turned twilebrity."

2011 March 3, Victoria Solomon, “Simmons alum named 'America's Tweetheart'”, in The Simmons Voice:

(Internet slang) A Twitter user who is popular with others.

"I liked the idea of people who don't really know each other except through short messages getting together and meeting for the first time, putting a face to a name, and also telling people how much I enjoy reading their updates," said Tim Lara, Twitter user @timothydanger. "Meeting new tweeps was nice too. I gained a couple of tweethearts since then and enjoy the banter. (My twitter is never serious)."

2009 September 5, C.J. Castillo, “Tweetups: Meeting the people behind the tweets”, in Victoria Advocate:

"Just got the imaging for my new fragrance Radiance and thought I'd share it with all my tweethearts," she wrote.

2010 August 8, “No new Britney music in pipeline”, in Daily Mirror:

Kim, 29, treated herself to the frozen snack following a photo shoot earlier that morning, which she wrote about on her Twitter account:
'Morning tweet hearts! Heading to a fab photo shoot for ShoeDazzle.com!'

2010 August 10, “Louboutins, check! Make-up, check! Kim Kardashian is ready to buy a yoghurt”, in Daily Mail:

There is the local angle - if you are one of the desperate spruikers who interpreted Kim Clijsters' twittering "Happy Australia Day to all my Aussie tweethearts" as an indication her heart beats green and gold, even if her dress was only a half-hearted green.

2011 January 27, Richard Hinds, “No football or meat pies, it's down to foreign stars”, in The Age:

(Internet slang) A Twitter user who is one's personal friend or within one's broader social networking circle.

"I actually met my girlfriend on Twitter," says Verdino, who has been tweeting for the last two years. "We call ourselves tweethearts."

2009 February 4, Luann Lasalle, “Tweeting with tweople: Twitter spawns new vocabulary - but beware of twitterhea”, in Winnipeg Free Press:

When I got to my car and dialed up my friend to tell her about the tweetheart I just met she informed me she just got a tweet from Lindsay Lohan.

2009 March 9, “Learning Just How Tweet It Is”, in The Lowell Sun:

Taylor Lukacin wants to help you find your “tweetheart”. This afternoon (May 7), the 20-year-old, White Rock-born blogger will give a talk at the 2010 Northern Voice conference that she’s calling "Social Media Flirting 101".

2010 May 7, Stephen Hui, “Geek Speak: Taylor Lukacin, UBC student blogger”, in The Georgia Staight:

"They did me a Twitter when I started this book," he said. "I had a load of girls who did the Twitter and I dubbed them my Tweethearts, and my true Tweetheart, my wife, does my Twitter now, because I can't do it."

2010 October 27, Mark Egan, “For Michael Caine's second act, another memoir”, in Reuters:

2011 Kate Jones, "Aussie tweethearts say 'I do'", Herald Sun, 16 April 2011 (used in headline only)

(Internet slang) A Twitter user with whom one is infatuated or involved romantically, especially if they were first met through the service.


integraph

(mathematics) A device that determines the value of an integral by measuring the area under a curve (and drawing the curve of its integral)


geekerati

It took until 1993 and the advent of Mosaic (a forerunner of Netscape) to move the Web out of the hands of solely the geekerati and into the realm of technological early adapters^([sic]).

2007, Hank Bordowitz, Dirty Little Secrets of the Record Business, page 165:

He was overwhelmed by an immediate onrush of hospitality as the geekerati lined up to get a word with him.

2007 October 29, David Carr, “Murdoch, a Folk Hero in Silicon”, in New York Times:

(slang) An elite community of computer geeks.


amnihook

From a trademark. Blend of amniotic + hook.

The physician/nurse midwife inserts an amnihook through the cervix and perforates the amniotic membranes. Labor contractions may begin within a few hours.

2005, Roberta Pavy Ramont, Dolores Maldonado Niedringhaus, Mary Ann Towle, Comprehensive nursing care:

The conclusions suggest that every delivery suite should have, alongside the sundry ampoules of oxytocin and packs of disposable amnihooks, birthing pools available.

2007, Denis Walsh, Evidence-based care for normal labour and birth: a guide for midwives, page 41:

(medicine) A baton with a slightly hooked end, used to perform amniotomy.


brookie

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We now have crookies, brookies, duffins, and cruffins, all mash-ups of familiar treats (cookies, tarts, brownies, doughnuts, croissants and muffins respectively).

2016, Alysa Levene, Cake: A Slice of History, Headline Publishing Group, →ISBN:

They were not only combining doughnuts and muffins, but just about any other kind of food you could think of. There were piecakens (a pie baked inside a cake), brookies (brownie and cookie) and cherpumples (cherry, pumpkin and apple pie).

2016 October 27, Tracy Beckerman, “Pass me a cronut or maybe a duffin!”, in The Gazette, page 10:

When you can’t decide between a cookie and a brownie, why not make both—in the same pan—for what we fondly refer to as the “brookie.”

2019, Martha Stewart’s Cookie Perfection, Clarkson Potter, →ISBN, page 173:

A dessert with one layer being a cookie and the other being a brownie.


muttnik

If they can get a muttnik up, I don't see why we can't put up a burro-nik.

1958 June, Boys' Life, volume 48, number 6, page 4:

The advent of sputniks and muttniks has aroused apprehension as to whether we are training the best brains we have in sufficient numbers to keep up with developments in other countries.

1958, House of Commons debates, official report (Canadian Parliament)

Sputniks and muttniks, flying through the air.

1958, Ray Anderson and the Home Folks – Sputniks and Mutniks [sic] (Starday Records 45-342, 1958)

But a quieter celebration of Laika and her colleagues can be found here at the Museum of Jurassic Technology, where glowing oil portraits of five of the most lauded muttniks (as they were nicknamed by the American press) have been displayed for close to two years.

2007 November 4, Carol Kino, “Boldly, Where No Dog Had Gone Before”, in New York Times:

(slang, humorous) A dog that is launched into space.


ukelin

Originally a trademark. Blend of ukelele + violin.

Thats a ukelin on his lap and another next to it.

2007 November 4, Zo Wolff, “But Can He Hum?”, in New York Times:

(music) A musical instrument resembling a ukelele and violin.


Homintern

Blend of homosexual + Comintern, coined in the mid-twentieth century.

A supposed conspiracy of homosexual elites who controlled the art world.


gustnado

en-noun

gustnado (plural gustnados or gustnadoes)

A type of short-lived, low-level rotating cloud that can form in a severe thunderstorm.


facemail

facemail (countable and uncountable, plural facemails)

Zaria was surprised as she opened her e-mail a few days later to find new facemail from none other than Michael Kennedy. [...] I was surprised that you accepted my friend request, but then receiving facemail from you ... Am I dreaming? ...

(Internet) An email message sent via Facebook.


sextortion

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Facebook had to assess nearly 54,000 potential cases of revenge pornography and “sextortion” on the site in a single month, according to a leaked document.

2017 May 22, Nick Hopkins, Olivia Solon, “Facebook flooded with ‘sextortion’ and ‘revenge porn’, files reveal”, in The Guardian:

(colloquial) A form of sexual extortion; the extortion of a person through the use of the history of their sexual conduct (such as saved sexting messages).


guggulipid

guggulipid (usually uncountable, plural guggulipids)

An extract of resinous sap of guggul, whose active ingredient is guggulsterone.


angledozer

A kind of bulldozer whose blade can be tilted at an angle


desirement

(nonstandard) Something that is desired, but not absolutely required.


fucktard

Blend of fucking + retard or fuck + -tard

That fucktard spilled soda all over my keyboard.

No it's not, fucktard. There are different types and degrees of deceptive advertising.

1999 August 8, "Nick" (username), WELCOME to reality, FUCKTARD (Was Re: WELCOME to rec.arts.movies.blair-witch), [ultimately] in rec.arts.movies.current-films, Usenet

It really is just shameful that a father's grief is being put under a microscope and examined by paranoid delusional fucktards with an agenda.

2013 January 18, TheAmazingAtheist, 5:06, in SANDY HOOK TROOF?!, via YouTube:

(derogatory or offensive, slang, vulgar, slur) An extraordinarily stupid person.


refujew

[…] Basque children, White Russians or refujews, but a whole empire in agony, a mastodon at bay, is beyond the limit of our imaginations.

1938, Anne Jackson Fremantle, Loyal enemy:

'Fancy him having a refujew in his gang,' Gladstone said.


geodome

Today, even as Mr. Haeg is putting his beloved geodome on the market and deaccessioning unnecessary objects, there is one thing he is hanging onto.

2008 February 17, David Colman, “Art and Life, Steeping in a Teapot”, in New York Times:


boatmobile

For residents of this remote village on an ice-locked island off the tip of mainland Wisconsin, the gliding boatmobile, known here as a windsled, is a kind of school bus.

2008 February 22, Susan Saulny, “Across the Bay, on a School Bus Wearing Skis”, in New York Times:


drunkorexia

The latest entry in the lexicon of food-related ills is drunkorexia, shorthand for a disturbing blend of behaviors: self-imposed starvation or bingeing and purging, combined with alcohol abuse .

2008 March 2, Sarah Kershaw, “Starving Themselves, Cocktail in Hand”, in New York Times:

(neologism) A combination of anorexia or bulimia with alcohol abuse.


maraging

/məˈɹeɪd͡ʒɪŋ/

At the core of the new centrifuge design is a thin, tubelike rotor made of carbon fibers rather than maraging steel, a variety with great strength, the institute’s report said.

2008 February 8, David E. Sanger, “Iran Is Reported to Test New Centrifuges to Make Atomic Fuel”, in New York Times:

precipitation hardening
precipitation hardening

(steel-making) A process that produces a tough, malleable form of steel (maraging steel) by means of heat treatment and precipitation hardening.


bulimorexia

It is not bulimorexia, exercise-bulimia or any other kind of eating disorder.

2008 March 9, “Letters”, in New York Times:

The combination of bulimia and anorexia.


Trollywood

(informal) The Swedish film industry located in Trollhättan.


scratchiti

“What a trip!” Land had said as we took our seats on the Red Line. The seats were brand spanking new with no graffiti or scratchiti on the walls or windows and no need to purchase tickets!

2007, Sid Nasr, Passing the American Charivari, page 35:

The zebrawood paneling is beginning to get the scratchiti veneer of a grade-school desktop.

2008 March 20, Cintra Wilson, “Better Angel, Out of the Dressing Room!”, in New York Times:

A form of graffiti that is scratched into a surface, rather than drawn or painted.


coachwhip

Masticophis flagellum, a colubrid snake of North America.


voluntell

en-verb

voluntell (third-person singular simple present voluntells, present participle voluntelling, simple past and past participle voluntold)

voluntells (present singular third-person)
voluntelling (participle present)
voluntold (participle past)
voluntold (past)

I just found out that I was "voluntold" [Marine-speak for a combination of volunteered and told—F[rank] S[chaeffer]] to stay back for a working party.

2003 April 24, [anonymous United States Marine Corps corporal], “Combat Iraq”, in Frank Schaeffer, editor, Voices from the Front: Letters Home from America’s Military Family, New York, N.Y.: Carroll & Graf Publishers, published 2005, →ISBN, pages 132–133:

All had been directed by their command to participate in the study (in Marine jargon, they were "voluntold" to participate).

2007, W. Lewis Johnson, “Serious Use of a Serious Game for Language Learning”, in Rosemary Luckin, Kenneth R. Koedinger, Jim Greer, editors, Artificial Intelligence in Education: Building Technology Rich Learning Contexts that Work, Amsterdam: IOS Press, →ISBN, page 71:

“I see I’ve been voluntold to be a team leader,” said Rudi Samson, a project manager. “What do I need to do as team leader?”

2007, Jeff Pallister, “Work through Teams”, in Chain Reaction: A Business Novel: The Executive’s Action Plan for Turning Creativity and Teamwork into Sustainable Profits, Calgary, Alta.: Pallister Resource Management, →ISBN, part II (Transformation), page 69:

Hanging out with a gunnery sergeant, especially Gunny Yates, was dangerous for a sergeant. The threat of being volunteered (voluntold) for working parties always loomed.

2009 March, Clint Van Winkle, chapter 11, in Soft Spots: A Marine’s Memoir of Combat and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 141:

Studies I completely made up show that 84 percent of voluntold incidents originate with your parents or your spouse. You're enjoying a perfectly normal day when your mom will say, "Hey, I volunteered you to teach the next door neighbors' grandparents from China how to drive."

2010, Jonathan Acuff, “Missional Postmodern Relevance”, in Stuff Christians Like, Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, →ISBN, page 180:

Another caution: while it may be up to you to volunteer for tasks, it often isn't up to you if a higher-up "voluntells" you for a task by assigning it, but making it look like it is optional for you to accept it.

2021, Gorick Ng, “Be Proactive”, in The Unspoken Rules: Secrets to Starting Your Career Off Right, Boston, Mass.: Harvard Business Review Press, →ISBN:

No matter how much you work to make people feel seen, use personal invitations, and politely voluntell people to participate, there will still be times when you just don't get a response to something you organize for the community.

2021, David Spinks, “Activating Community Engagement”, in The Business of Belonging: How to Make Community Your Competitive Advantage, Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 158:

"Yeah, not happening, old man. I'm not volunteering for this. Make Montey do it! At least he can tolerate her!" Donney smiles viciously at me. "Then consider this me voluntelling you to do it. Besides, Montey is needed in making a new garden so we can at least have food for when winter hits."

2021, Tally Vivarais, chapter 12, in The Silver Men, Victoria, B.C.: FriesenPress, →ISBN, page 64:

(transitive, originally US military slang, informal, often humorous) To tell or force (someone) to volunteer to do something.

התנודב

to tell or force (someone) to volunteer to do something


trishaw

Hardman ran to the corner and jumped into a trishaw. The driver was maddeningly slow and stupid.

1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 378:

“Where are all those uniformed people who are always ready to beat civilians?” asked a trishaw taxi driver, who said he did not want to be identified because he feared retribution.

2008 May 5, The Associated Press, “Cyclone Kills More Than 350 in Myanmar”, in New York Times:


geeksta

Elvis Costello and The Talking Heads’s David Byrne popularized a cool geek style that’s led to Moby, Weezer, Vampire Weekend and even self-styled “nerdcore” rock and geeksta rappers.

2008 May 23, David Brooks, “The Alpha Geeks”, in New York Times:

(slang, humorous) An unfashionable, nerdy individual who performs gangsta-style music.


stonerific

en-adj

stonerific (comparative more stonerific, superlative most stonerific)

more stonerific (comparative)
most stonerific (superlative)

(slang, very rare) Characteristic of stoners, or recreational drug users.


morningmare

What a nightmare! Or morningmare, in this case.

1997, Anna Collins, Elliot Sullivan, Women Are from Bras, Men Are from Penus: A Survival Guide for Bypassing Communication and Getting Even in Your Relationships, page 27:

My skin had goosebumps and my hands were damp and cold. I prayed I would never again be troubled by that—morningmare.

2008, Gary Diehl, Those Were the Days: Baseball, Hotdogs, Apple Pie, and.., page 124:

Talking of nightmares on the M1, we went to York this morning to see the St.Nik. fair. We caught the 8.08 from New Pudsey and had to stand in a packed carriage as far as Leeds. Do people actually do this every day? What a morningmare!

1999 November 25, Les Hellawell, “Re: Nightmare on the M1 - WARNING: thread convergence link to new thread drift”, in uk.local.yorkshire (Usenet), retrieved 2011-09-08:

(rare, humorous) A nightmare experience in the morning.


exergame

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(video games) A video game that also provides the player with physical exercise.


maniverter

(automotive) A component that integrates the functions of exhaust manifold and catalytic converter.


sexship

Because the focus is often on temporary physical gratification, very few sexships progress into long-term, committed, quality relationships.

2009, Chris Jackson, The Black Christian Singles Guide to Dating and Sexuality:

(slang, neologism) A relationship based purely on sex.


wambulance

Blend of wah + ambulance. The earliest known usage was in the 2000 Disney film The Kid, and it may have been first used in this film.

Russ Duritz (Bruce Willis): Waaaaaah. Waaaaaaah. Somebody call the wambulance.

Someone call the Wambulance. Dudley I am so sick of hearing you bitch about how everybody is not suffering enough.

2001, jim, “Outrageous!!!”, in rec.aviation.piloting (Usenet):

Funny how we didn't see a single post in this NG from "Ron" or Holder during the game. Not surprising, but funny anyway. I'm sure they'll surface sometime. As a precaution, I've already called the wambulance for them.

2007, Rodney Parker, “What a game!”, in alt.sports.football.pro.dallas-cowboys (Usenet):

(slang) A notional ambulance called to the scene when somebody is upset; used in dismissive responses to complaining perceived as being oversensitive.


girus

Blend of giant + virus; coined by J M Claverie, H Ogata, S Audic, C Abergel, K Suhre, P E Fournier, in a 2006 paper in Virus Research (DOI 10.1016/j.virusres.2006.01.008).

nucleocytoplasmic large DNA virus
nucleocytoplasmic large DNA virus

(virology) a type of giant virus, a giant nucleocytoplasmic large DNA virus (giant NCLDV)

(by extension, informal) Synonym of giant virus


amtrac

(military) An amphibious vehicle of a class introduced in World War II.


lemandarin

Citrus × limonia, a citrus fruit which is a hybrid between the mandarin orange and the lemon.


Nazarite

A blend of Hebrew נָזִיר (nazír, “nazarite, monk, ascetic”) + -ite, from נִזַּר (nizár, “to separate”).

der

A Jew bound by a vow to leave the hair uncut, to abstain from alcohol, and to practice extraordinary purity of life and devotion.


softwarematically

(rare, informal, computing) By the use of software, especially without direct user intervention.


gorilla in the room

en-noun

gorilla in the room (plural gorillas in the room)

Blend of 800-pound gorilla + elephant in the room

blend

(idiomatic) A problem or difficult issue that is very obvious, but is ignored for the convenience or comfort of those involved.


rockoon

(aviation, astronautics) A rocket, powered by solid fuel, that is not lit while on the ground but first carried into the upper atmosphere by a gas-filled balloon, then separated from the balloon and automatically ignited to allow it to achieve a higher altitude.


solecistic

en-adj

solecistic (comparative more solecistic, superlative most solecistic)

more solecistic (comparative)
most solecistic (superlative)


dequity

This book is the first to fully examine the many recent financial innovations that have blended the traits of debt and equity and created the hybrid security known as dequity.

1991, Andrew H. Chen with John W. Kensinger, Innovations in dequity financing:

For example quasi-debt (or dequity) instruments, such as redeemable preference shares, carry obligations and incentives to perform in order that the shares may be repurchased

1996, Ken Robbie with Mike Wright, Management buy-ins: entrepreneurship, active investors, and corporate restructuring, page 4:

They can be designed with debt-like features so as to satisfy the Internal Revenue Service that they are debt instruments, not equity (or "debtquity" as some refer to junk bonds).

1996, Richard S. Wilson with Frank J. Fabozzi, Corporate bonds: structures & analysis, page 96:

2005, Georgette Chapman Poindexter, Dequity: the blurring of debt and equity in secruitized real estate financing:

(finance) Securities characterized by attributes of both fixed-income and equity securities.


naphthazarin

en-noun

naphthazarin (countable and uncountable, plural naphthazarins)

(organic chemistry) A dyestuff, resembling alizarin, obtained from naphthoquinone as a red crystalline substance with a bright green, metallic lustre.


charticle

/ˈt͡ʃɑɹtɪkl̩/

/ˈt͡ʃɑːtɪkl̩/

An article based around a chart or informational graphic.


listicle

Coordinate term: charticle

Dishy books! Bruno Mars! Human excrement! Relieve the year that was in handy listicle form, on page 52.

2011 January–February, Doug Brod, editor, Spin, New York, N.Y.: Spin Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4:

"6 TITANIC SURVIVORS WHO SHOULD HAVE DIED." "THESE 9 NAZI ATROCITIES WILL MAKE YOU LOSE FAITH IN HUMANITY." "5 INSANE PLANS FOR FEEDING WEST BERLIN YOU WON’T BELIEVE ARE REAL." These are just some of the lists that the comic strip "XKCD" recently joked would result from retrofitting the twentieth century's most newsworthy events with modern, Internet-style headlines. Despite the growing derision of listicles exemplified by the comic, numbered lists—a venerable media format—have become one of the most ubiquitous ways to package content on the Web.

2013 December 2, Maria Konnikova, “A list of reasons why our brains love lists”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: New Yorker Magazine, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2014-03-27:

The Internet did not invent the listicle. Lists-as-arguments—lists-as-stories—have, of course, been around since long, long before Buzzfeed^([sic]) came along. And they haven't just been around; they've also been both playing with and poking fun at the list form itself, one item at a time. I mention that because the Public Domain Review has unearthed this gem, "The 25 Stages from Courtship to Marriage," a set of hand-tinted stereographs depicting a sampling of those stages, generally from the perspective of the woman being courted. The cards are undated, PDR notes, but they mostly likely originated in the late 19th century.

2014 April 7, Megan Garber, “Victorian Buzzfeed:^([sic]) ‘The 25 Stages From Courtship to Marriage’: Here’s a listicle from the 19th century that pokes fun at … listicles”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 2014-04-13:

It seems little more than an exercise in googling, an attempt to sell the listicle as literature.

2017 September 10, Leo Robson, “The Golden House is Salman Rushdie’s not-so-great American novel”, in New Statesman:

“Your trivia category choices are pop culture listicles, discontinued snack foods, or dog sounds.” “Hey, no shame in going for the easiest one, gimme the listicles.”

2024 August 12, Dominic Dierkes, “Live Die Repeat Device (Formerly Known as the Edge of Tomorrow Device)” (12:18 from the start), in Solar Opposites, season 5, episode 3, spoken by Jerry (Mikey Day):

(informal, journalism) An article based around a list.


polyfill

The racks include blouses and sweaters and some polyfill vests, with corduroy coats and outerwear due to be in stock as the weather cools.

1981 October 11, Jeanne Clare Feron, “Careful Shopper; Elmsford Warehouse A Weekend Store”, in New York Times, page 16:

The first article, designated a troll, is 12 inches tall, composed of polyfill with a cotton knit shell.

1989 June 14, John Durant, “Classification of stuffed doll and stuffed clown rattle”, in Commodity Classification Under the Harmonized System, volume 1, number 4, United States Customs Service, page 215:

A synthetic textile used for bulk or insulation, e.g., in stuffed animals or coats.


yed

en-verb

yed (third-person singular simple present yeds, present participle yedding, simple past and past participle yedded)

yeds (present singular third-person)
yedding (participle present)
yedded (participle past)
yedded (past)

From Middle English ȝedden, ȝeddien, from Old English ġieddian (“to speak formally, discuss, speak with alliteration, recite, sing”), from ġiedd (“song, poem, saying, proverb, riddle, speech, story, tale, narrative, account, reckoning, reason”).

inh

(intransitive, UK dialectal) To magnify greatly in narration; exaggerate a tale; fib.

(intransitive, UK dialectal) To contend; wrangle.


yed

From Middle English ȝed, from Old English ġiedd (“song, poem, saying, proverb, riddle, speech, story, tale, narrative, account, reckoning, reason”).


yed

From Middle English eorþien (“to bury, dig”), from eorþe (“earth”). Influenced or conflated with Middle English eardien (“to dwell, inhabit”), from Old English eardian (“to live, dwell, be inhabitant, occupy”). More at earth.

(UK dialectal) To burrow underground, as a rabbit or mole; also said of miners.

(UK dialectal) To be associated with a place or locality.


yed

(UK dialectal) A burrow; a hole made by an animal in the ground.


veepstakes

Blend of veep (“(informal) Vice President of the United States”) + sweepstakes (plural of sweepstake (“lottery in which the prize or prizes constitute all the money paid by the participants”)).

blend

The candidate for the challenging party was undergoing a veepstakes.

What America needs now is comedy—so hurray, we're getting ready to elect a Vice-President! Sure, we elect a Boss Man too, but it'll be the Veepstakes that'll provide the laughs.

1952 May 13, Earl Wilson, “It happened last night: Veepstakes provide laughs even in serious campaign”, in W. E. Christenson, editor, Evening World-Herald, number 222, Omaha, Neb.: World Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 25, column 3:

[Barbara] Mikulski, who is 47, is the least chic of the women mentioned in the veepstakes. Barely 4 feet 11 inches tall, she barrels through the halls of Congress like a small tank. Her facial expressions swing from a pugnacious frown to an impish grin.

1984 June, Kaye Northcott, “Campaign 84: Only a Heartbeat Away: Will the Next Vice President of the United States be a Woman?”, in Deirdre English, editor, Mother Jones, volume IX, number V, San Francisco, Calif.: Foundation for National Progress, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 40, columns 1–2:

If [Spiro] Agnew abandoned his inflammatory rhetoric during the 1972 campaign, he did not abandon his corrosive wit altogether. The more restrained Agnew twitted Sargent Shriver, the Democratic candidate in the Veepstakes, on his personal wealth.

1994, Gerald [Clifford] Gardner, “Campaign 1972: So I Made a Mistake”, in Campaign Comedy: Political Humor from Clinton to Kennedy (Humor in Life and Letters), Detroit, Mich.: Wayne State University Press, →ISBN, page 194:

He laughed again and we talked vividly, I recall, on the topic of how many people in Washington are obsessed with where they rank, how they’re perceived. It’s a particularly acute concern in television and politics—ratings, veepstakes, poll numbers, the kind of things that mean everything and nothing in Washington.

2008 June 15, Mark Leibovich, “Tiny town: Washington after a fall”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-06-01:

Mr. [Chuck] Todd, whose ubiquity as a running-mate handicapper at his network is akin to Mel Kiper Jr.’s as an N.F.L. draft expert on ESPN, said that all the time and energy devoted to the veepstakes these days is well spent.

2008 June 22, Mark Leibovich, “The great American float”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-11-26:

The above is worth remembering as the presidential race turns the corner into its most feverishly speculative, excessively breathless phase: the veepstakes.

2012 April 2, Frank Bruni, “And now, the veepstakes”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-06-17:

Harris’s choice will come down to “who can have the hard conversations”, a former Harris aide turned US senator said as the “veepstakes” neared their conclusion.

2024 August 3, Martin Pengelly, “Crunch time in ‘veepstakes’ as Kamala Harris prepares to choose running mate”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(US politics, slang, humorous) The process by which candidates for the Presidency of the United States choose a running mate to become the Vice President if elected.


nerderati

At the offices of Pseudo at 600 Broadway in SoHo, his legendary parties brought together the nerderati and the downtown art set.

2009 January 26, David Carr, “Sundance Toasts an Early Online Life”, in New York Times:

It's likely that if you don't already have one or more social media nerderati in residence, you're going to need one soon.

2011, Jay Baer, Amber Naslund, The NOW Revolution, page 37:


bloggerati

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That’s why the bloggerati pounced gleefully last week on the news that one of their own had fallen in love with a commoner, er, commenter.

2009 April 5, Jan Hoffman, “Commoner Captures Princess, Blog Version”, in New York Times:


schlockbuster

If the stalker thriller “Obsessed,” which opens on Friday, tops the box office, Clinton R. Culpepper will cement his reputation as Hollywood’s king of the schlockbuster.

2009 April 22, Michael Cieply, “He’s Behind the Guffaws and the Gore”, in New York Times:

(US, slang) A schlocky blockbuster; a film that is tasteless and inferior but still very successful.


spokescreature

The duck is the spokescreature for Aflac, formally the American Family Life Assurance Company of Columbus.

2009 April 22, Stuart Elliott, “Not Daffy or Donald, but Still Aflac’s Rising Star”, in New York Times:

The bee, acting in his capacity as spokescreature for the swarming things, adds his buzzing voice to the proceedings[…]

2011, Dominic Pettman, Human Error: Species-Being and Media Machines, page 70:


cabulance

Doris unbuckled her seatbelt and went to the back of the cabulance, to the sheriff situation.

1997, Ivan Doig, Bucking the Sun, page 394:


copyfight

Unless users and developers of open source software join the copyfight, they will find the new reality of copyright law restricting not just their freedom to play blockbuster movies, but also their core freedoms to write and run interdependent and interoperable software.

2005, Chris DiBona, Danese Cooper, Mark Stone, Open sources 2.0: the continuing evolution, page 150:

For participant-fans, they valorize interventionist and interruptive art and music that broaden the discussion of the copyfights raging within the culture industries.

2010, Patrick Burkart, Music and cyberliberties:


copyfight

en-verb

copyfight (third-person singular simple present copyfights, present participle copyfighting, simple past and past participle copyfought)

copyfights (present singular third-person)
copyfighting (participle present)
copyfought (participle past)
copyfought (past)


HillaryCare

Blend of Hillary + healthcare, after Hillary Rodham Clinton, chair of the task-force that developed the plan.

(US politics, chiefly derisive) The Clinton health care plan of 1993.


Amtrak

Coined circa 1971; blend of American + track.

Trains are fuller under Amtrak, but it is thought to be largely because there are fewer trains.

1969, School Mathematics Study Group, Studies in mathematics, volumes 19-20, page 8:

Its pitifully small appropriation of $40 million already gone, Amtrak has asked Congress for another $170 million to keep the trains running through mid-1973.

1971, “Give the trains a chance”, in Life, page 42:

The Amtrak brand revitalization approach represents one of the most ambitious, comprehensive, and systematic experiential marketing approaches I have ever seen.

1999, Bernd Schmitt, Experiential marketing, page 39:

(US, rail transport) A US passenger railway (incorporated as the National Railroad Passenger Corporation).


threadjacker

(Internet) One who takes over a discussion thread with a subject unrelated to the original posting.


Jacobethan

en-adj

Jacobethan (comparative more Jacobethan, superlative most Jacobethan)

more Jacobethan (comparative)
most Jacobethan (superlative)

Blend of Jacobean + Elizabethan, coined by John Betjeman in 1933.

In the latter case [Helsby], in 1849, a rock-faced red sandstone waiting space in the Jacobethan style was erected on an island platform for the Birkenhead, Lancashire & Cheshire Junction Railway.

2022 June 29, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Wonderful waiting rooms on the waiting list”, in RAIL, number 960, page 56:

(often of architecture) Of a style incorporating elements of Elizabethan and Jacobean.


angryphone

Such sayings run counter to a certain character who loiters in the Montreal imaginary of stereotypes: the whining 'angryphone,' the anglophone Montrealer ever dissatisfied with his or her lot in Quebec.

2000, Martha Radice, Feeling Comfortable? The Urban Experience of Anglo-Montrealers, page 88:

(Canada, informal) An English-speaking resident of Quebec who demonstrates systematic anger or aggression towards the French language or against the actions of Quebecois nationalists, or who is a peevish complainer.


weisure

Blend of work + leisure, coined by American sociologist Dalton Conley.

I call how we spend our time (I would say "free" time, but that would obscure the point that this once hallowed bounary has broken down) instrumental leisure or weisure (i.e., work and leisure combined), since the info-economy puts a premium on quk, shrt trms tht cn b txtd fst & rmmbrd easily.

2009, Dalton Conley, Elsewhere, U.S.A.: How We Got from the Company Man, Family Dinners, and the Affluent Society to the Home Office, BlackBerry Moms, and Economic Anxiety:

Workers choose the weisure lifestyle when they monitor the BlackBerry while on vacation or post pictures to Facebook between business meetings. The blending of leisure and work is a creative and ubiquitous lifestyle choice[…]

2010, Vincent R. Waldron, Jeffrey W. Kassing, Managing Risk in Communication Encounters, page 222:

Sociologists have been throwing around the concept of weisure a lot in the past few years. Weisure, the blurring of work and leisure, was directed at the encroachment of work into rest.

2015, Darrin Patrick, Amie Patrick, The Dude's Guide to Marriage: Ten Skills Every Husband Must Develop to Love His Wife Well:

New communication technologies have enabled us to complete private issues during working time and vice versa, leading to phenomena coined as weisure.

2018 April 13, “Let’s go out for a drink after work! The relation between leisure time spent with colleagues and employees’ life satisfaction”, in Journal of Workplace Behavioral Health, volume 33, number 1:

(neologism) The merging of work and leisure activities.


nife

Coined by Eduard Suess in 1909, in Das Antlitz der Erde, as a blend of translingual Ni (nickel) + Fe (iron).

ref

Eduard Suess (1909) “Vierter Theil, Vierundzwanzigster Abschnitt: Die Tiefen”, in Das Antlitz der Erde (in German), volume 3.2, Wien: F. Tempsky, →OCLC, page 626:
Wir nehmen ferner drei Zonen oder Hüllen als maassgebend für die Beschaffenheit der Erde an, u. zw. die Barysphäre oder das Nife (Ni-Fe), ferner Sima (Si-Mg) und Sal (Si-Al). Diese Theilung unterscheidet sich von der Classification, die von hervorragenden americanischen Petrographen vorgeschlagen wurde, durch die Abtrennung der metallischen Barysphäre (Nife).
We further assume the existence of three zones or envelopes as determining the structure of the earth, namely, the barysphere or the Nife (Ni-Fe), Sima (Si-Mg), and Sal (Si-Al). This division differs from the classification which has been proposed by distinguished American petrographers, in the separation of the metallic barysphere (Nife).

(geology) The innermost layers or core of the Earth, composed chiefly of nickel and iron.


fanslator

It is to all the speedrunners, sequence breakers, cosplayers, modders, walkthrough authors, fanfic writers, artists, musicians, fanslators, remixers, hackers and above all, gamers, that this book is dedicated.

2008, James Newman, Playing with videogames, page x:

(informal) A person or online group that carries out fanslation.


flirtini

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[…]a hot spot for beautiful people who come to drink flirtinis and choose from a dizzying array of seafood dishes.

2004, Samantha Cook, Greg Ward, Tim Perry, Rough guide to USA, page 112:

A cocktail of vodka, champagne and pineapple juice.


heroicomic

en-adj

heroicomic (comparative more heroicomic, superlative most heroicomic)

more heroicomic (comparative)
most heroicomic (superlative)


heroicomical

heroicomical (comparative more heroicomical, superlative most heroicomical)

more heroicomical (comparative)
most heroicomical (superlative)

a heroicomical poem

(literature) Blending heroic and comical elements.


Kleagle

At last, when the tribute slackened, he motioned to his retainers to sweep up the treasure. Then he strode off to a near-by pavilion to consult with his attendant Kleagles, Cyclopses, and Titans.

1984, John Henry Cary, Julius Weinberg, The Social Fabric: American life from 1607 to 1877:


Klaliff

If he should be in doubt as to the qualifications of the one seeking admission, he must satisfy himself from the Klaliff or Kligrapp.

1969, Stanley Frost, The challenge of the Klan:


klonvocation

But other klonvocations, held contemporaneously with Norfolk's, he pointed out, had displayed a more malevolent quality.

2002, Alexander Leidholdt, Editor for justice: the life of Louis I. Jaffé, page 169:


klavalier

In Indiana County, seventeen of twenty-four klavalier applicants were from the mining industry[…]

1997, Philip Jenkins, Hoods and shirts: the extreme right in Pennsylvania, 1925-1950, page 73:

A member of the Ku Klux Klan's "secret police" or flogging squads.


Klannish

Klannish (comparative more Klannish, superlative most Klannish)

more Klannish (comparative)
most Klannish (superlative)

I am an American Negro woman who, in spite of all the Klannish feeling in the world, is grateful to the Creator, since it pleased Him to create me thus, and proudly I join with those who denounce hatred and advocate love.

1970, Nancy Cunard, Hugh D. Ford, Negro: An Anthology, page 115:

Klannish political culture offered a way of life, a sense of purpose, and a worldview that drew on the ordinary racism and intolerance of white Protestant society[…]

2008, Kathleen M. Blee, Women of the Klan: racism and gender in the 1920s, page 155:


vanoxite

(mineralogy) A trigonal mineral containing hydrogen, oxygen, and vanadium.


pyroxmangite

(mineralogy) A triclinic-pinacoidal mineral containing iron, manganese, oxygen, and silicon.


oxammite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic-disphenoidal mineral containing carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, and oxygen.


armangite

(mineralogy) A trigonal-rhombohedral black mineral containing arsenic, carbon, hydrogen, manganese, and oxygen.


platarsite

(mineralogy) An isometric-diploidal gray mineral containing arsenic, platinum, rhodium, ruthenium, and sulfur.


tellurantimony

(mineralogy) A trigonal-hexagonal scalenohedral silver white mineral containing antimony and tellurium.


blawg

Blend of blog + law. Coined by American lawyer and podcaster Denise Howell.

coined

Keeping a blawg also can be helpful when you update your resume and compose cover letters[…]

2004, American Bar Association, Student lawyer: Volume 33:

If there is a blawg you would like to see added, please feel free to suggest that we add it to the list.

2006, Carole A. Levitt, Mark E. Rosch, The lawyer's guide to fact finding on the Internet, page 738:

The vowel of blog can mutate, as when law blogs are called blawgs or requests via blog posts are called blegs (combining blog and beg).

[2010 November 11, Ben Zimmer, “Web”, in The New York Times Magazine:

(Internet) A weblog dealing with topics related to the law.


valerin

(organic chemistry) A glyceride of valeric acid, found in butter, dolphin oil, etc.


valeramide

(organic chemistry) The amide of valeric acid.


ketol

1962, James A. Moore, Erich Heftmann, Chapter 2: Chemistry of the adrenocortical steroids, Helen Wendler Deane, The Adrenocortical Hormones, Part 1, Springer-Verlag, page 221,
The 21-hydroxyl group in the α-ketol side chain is very easily esterified, and in many of the synthetic routes leading to these side chains the ketol acetate is still formed.

Consider the enolization (Scheme 3.26) of the methyl ester of acetoacetic acid, a reaction involving ketol-enol tautomerism.

2010, Daniel L. Purich, Enzyme Kinetics: Catalysis and Control, Elsevier, Academic Press, page 201:

The steroid acetates are stable derivatives, having the desirable property that the electron-capture detector (ECD) selectively responds to acetyl derivatives of α-ketols [958].

2011, Erich Heftmann, Chromatography of Steroids, Elsevier, page 29:

(organic chemistry) A hydroxyketone (e.g., an acyloin).


beergarita

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The beergarita — a margarita amplified by Flemish sour ale and framboise — is popular at the Small Bar on Division Street in Chicago.

2009 July 1, Betsy Andrews, “Cocktails Dance on the Head of a Beer”, in New York Times:


poperetta

That was the era of the lushly scored costume poperetta (“The Phantom of the Opera,” “Cats,” “Miss Saigon,” “Les Misérables”), staged like Cecil B. DeMille epics and usually overseen by the Mike Todd-ish producer Cameron Mackintosh.

2009 July 8, Ben Brantley, “London’s Musicals: Intimate or Outsize”, in New York Times:


blognoscenti

The blognoscenti were quick to note after the Uniform Project site started making the rounds that earlier projects have played with the one-dress idea.

2009 July 12, Rob Walker, “This Year’s Model”, in New York Times:

(informal, neologism) Intelligent, discerning bloggers.


aquaponics

The tomato may in fact have absorbed a flavor from the soil in which it was grown, one granted neither by the sand of Florida's winter tomatoes exported North, nor by hothouse aquaponics.

1990, Eugene B[loor] Brody, Psychoanalytic Knowledge, Madison, Conn.: International Universities Press, →ISBN, page 111:

The warm water in which [Donnie] Tenney's tilapia swim and grow is pumped from the fish tanks to beds nurturing basil, rosemary, and cucumber, then drained, filtered, and recirculated to the tilapia. The hybrid aquaculture-hydroponics system, dubbed aquaponics, uses pumps, aerators, greenhouse lights, and fans all powered by natural gas from an abandoned gas well.

2000 May–August, Carl Hoffmann, “Mining Fresh Water for Aquaculture”, in Appalachia, volume 33, number 2, Washington, D.C.: Appalachian Regional Commission, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 24, columns 1–2:

Pumps send the dirty fish water up into beds of watercress, which filter pollutants and trickle the cleaner water back down to the fish – a symbiotic system called aquaponics.

2009 July 5, Elizabeth Royte, “Street farmer”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 2017-04-19:

(agriculture) A sustainable food production system that combines traditional aquaculture with hydroponics, with effluent from the water in which fish are reared being used as nutrition for plants.

akwaponika

system that combines aquaculture with hydroponics

vesiviljelyn ja kalankasvatuksen yhdistäminen


cataraft

I have a 14-foot raft and a cataraft, which is a raft with two pontoons and a frame that can carry me and two other passengers.

2009 July 17, “Reading the River”, in New York Times:

A long raft with two pontoons, capable of carrying more than one person.


imesatin

(organic chemistry) A dark yellow crystalline substance obtained by the action of ammonia on isatin.


designerati

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On this evening, members of the city’s designerati dined in the gallery, which featured a monthlong show of work by eight local artists, ranging from $100 to $5,000.

2009 September 13, Deborah Schoeneman, “A Feast for the Eyes and Ears”, in New York Times:

(informal) Fashion designers collectively.


triphibious

(military) Involving land, air and sea forces.


triphibian

Coordinate term: amphibious


overstand

en-verb

overstand (third-person singular simple present overstands, present participle overstanding, simple past and past participle overstood)

overstands (present singular third-person)
overstanding (participle present)
overstood (participle past)
overstood (past)

From Middle English overstonden, from Old English oferstandan (“to stand over”), equivalent to over- + stand. Cognate with Dutch overstaan (“to stand over”), German überstehen (“to stand through, survive”).

cog

But they that overstand the day of grace, shall not obtain to cool their tongues so much of this water as will hang on the tip of one's finger.

(rare) To stand or insist too much or too long; overstay.

(transitive) To stand too strictly on the demands or conditions of.

(yachting, boat racing): To sail to the mark at a wider angle than is the normal upwind angle, to go beyond the layline

yachting; boat racing; yachting; boat racing

When a coppice woodland is no longer cut on its regular rotation the rods from the stool continue to grow and the coppice becomes known as overstood. Sadly, in many parts of the country this is the commonest form of coppice you are likely to see.

2001, Ben Law, The Woodland Way: a permaculture approach to sustainable woodland management, Hyden House, →ISBN:

(forestry, of a coppice): To be neglected and left uncut for too long.


overstand

(lutherie) The measurement between the top plate and the fingerboard where the neck meets the body of the instrument.


overstand

Blend of over + understand, coined in Rastafarianism before 1965.

"But, Sister, it look like you neither overstand or understand"

1965, Orlando Patterson, The children of Sisyphus: A novel, page 192:

"I need you to overstand this the way I overstand this. Notice how I didn't say understand, because I need you to more than understand—I need you to overstand."

(Rastafarianism, US black subculture): To have complete or intuitive comprehension of; to understand fully.


bestshoring

In the past several years, I've watched as companies have become highly skilled at performing what I call supply chain gymnastics — outsourcing, subcontracting, partnering, offshoring, bestshoring, and all the rest, primarily in China.

2008, George Stalk, John Butman, Five future strategies you need right now, page 8:

The important aspect is to do bestshoring.

2010, Franz Ammon, The Eastern European Expansion of the EU, page 13:

(business, neologism) The process of identifying the best location to which to move manufacturing or other industrial facilities.


positone

Finally, we mention that several papers studied nonlinear eigenvalue problems of the form

Leszek Gasinski, Nikolaos S. Papageorgiou (2004) Nonsmooth Critical Point Theory and Nonlinear Boundary Value Problems, CRC Press, page 704

(mathematics) of a particular kind of eigenvalue problem involving a nonlinear function on the reals that is continuous, positive, and monotone.


spife

A hybrid utensil combining a spoon and a knife.


nonversation

en-noun

nonversation (countable and uncountable, plural nonversations)

There is always a bit of jovial nonversation at the newsstand.

1997, Andrew Field, Nabokov, His Life In Part, page 22:

Oh, God, thought Hadley. This "nonversation" can't go on much longer.

2004, Brian Dobbins, chapter 2, in Jasmine's Husband, Sam, page 14:

As Bruce was somewhat taken aback by this turn in the nonversation, as a witty friend used to term the appropriately uneven match of social skills, he simply asked why.

2008, Maxim Jakubowski, Paris Noir: Capital Crime Fiction, page 266:


merby

Men's roller derby, known as "merby", is an emerging version of the ladies' roller derby, which has taken south-east Queensland by storm in recent years.

2011 August 21, Ellen Lutton, Sydney Morning Herald:


eclection

I go in for a snack and look at an eclection of fried sundries […]

2000 September 5, Bigfoot, “Labor Day Sermon”, in alt.society.neutopia (Usenet):


lumberjill

The Paula Bunyans have permits to cut an area of ponderosa pines for spinning logs on the water with their feet, their lumberjill training for the Lumberjack World Championship.

2006, Sage Sweetwater, From The Convent To The Rawhide, page 80:

A world champion lumberjill (as opposed to lumberjack), she can chop, saw, and roll logs with the best of them, ...

2007, Andrew Vietze, Insiders' Guide to the Maine Coast, Globe Pequot, page 189:

She even felt guilty about the fact that she rather liked this idea of being a lumberjill.

Lumber Jill

member of the Women's Timber Corps in World War II


nonylene

(chemistry) Any of a series of metameric unsaturated hydrocarbons, C₉H₁₈, of the ethylene series.


Thanksmas

This particular Thanksmas, Bill accepted an invitation to be my house guest — enthusiastically accepted.

2004, Bob Guter, John R. Killacky, Queer crips: disabled gay men and their stories, page 152:

The terrified looks on everyone's face when it was time to play that game was enough incentive to come to Thanksmas.

2011, Tamara Jane Owens, Remembering Mary Jane, page 78:

(informal) A celebration held between Thanksgiving and Christmas, especially because a family is unable to get together at either of the other dates.


boutfit

It wasn't just the skater's athletic prowess that was enviable... it was her sporty fishnets and hot-pants "boutfit."

2009 November 29, Sophia Kercher, Los Angeles Times:

We bump into the dressing room with our skate bags and boutfits. I have new pair of tights that look like dragon tattoos.

(roller derby) An outfit chosen for a bout.


genitorture

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The content of these videos often includes genitorture, tit-torture, bondage, spanking, flagellation (with belts, whips, and canes), water sports[…]

1995, John Robert Burger, One-handed histories: the eroto-politics of gay male video pornography, page 62:

Sounds are sometimes used in SM play for medical scenes and male genitorture.

1996, Bill Henkin, Sybil Holiday, Consensual sadomasochism: how to talk about it and how to do it safely, page 225:

If you have violent fantasies of evil women owning males as absolute property, with such elements as genitorture, castration, amputation, skinning alive, cooking alive, butchering, cannibalism, etc, you owe it to yourself to give Katharsis a look see.

1997, John Randall, “ASFD: F/m males as absolute property owned by women ... torture, genitorture, castration, execution”, in alt.sex.femdom (Usenet):


funkabilly

(music) A subgenre of popular music that blends rockabilly with funk.


e-tail

It is to be found in examining and evaluating what roles could happily co-exist for both the retail and e-tail parties.

2001, Martin Lindström, Clicks, bricks and brands, page 239:


distrail

A clear path through a cloud created by a passing aircraft, caused either by evaporation or freezing of water droplets in the wake.


Macolyte

So long as Macolytes keep paying Apple's high prices, its 28% gross margins should far exceed PC rivals — especially if it keeps expanding its portfolio with non-PC products such as the iPod MP3 music player.

2002, Business Week, numbers 3814-3826, page 288:

Will anyone beyond deep-pocketed Macolytes fork over $499-599 (4GB and 8GB models, respectively) and embrace Cingular service, with its sluggish data network, for a two-year contract?

2007 May 5, Steve Morgenstern, “Ring In The New”, in Billboard, page 27:

[…] and Macolytes are well served, but the Chenies Street branch specialises in Apple products and sells many Mac-compatible accessories.

2010, Time Out, London's Best Shops, →ISBN, page 208:

(slang, sometimes derogatory) A loyal user of Apple products, such as Macintosh computers, iPads, and iPhones.


plasticuffs

From the briefcase he took two pairs of plasticuffs, and handed them to the first — and now entirely compliant — bodyguard.

2003, Chris Ryan, The Hit List, page 230:

As he cut through my plasticuffs with a pair of scissors, the guy I'd shared a smile with spoke to the back of my head.


lamalginite

lamalginite (countable and uncountable, plural lamalginites)

An alginite found in sapropel and composed of thin-walled colonial or unicellular algae that occur as distinct laminae, cryptically interbedded with mineral matter.


vidiot

You are a vidiot if you watch music videos for any period of time without stopping to think about what they are saying.

1989, Mike Yaconelli, Scott Koenigsaecker, Get 'em talking: 104 great discussion starters for youth groups, page 118:

Cynics might say that any show based on television--like, say, The Real Live Brady Bunch--is bound to be popular among the nostalgic vidiot generation.

1994 March 4, Jack Helbig, “Schoolhouse Rock Live!”, in Chicago Reader:

Featuring witty wordplay--Therriault could be David Mamet and John Patrick Shanley's long-lost love child raised in the wild by William Burroughs-- and a story and characters simple enough to be understood by your average vidiot play reader, Battery is just challenging enough to appeal to a young actor's ego but not so challenging as to scare her off.

1995 July 28, Jack Helbig, “Battery”, in Chicago Reader:

We're raising a generation of vidiots, and it's going to be a problem when they get older.

2009, Lori Sullivan, Overcoming Autism: A Parent's Guide, page 115:

(derogatory, informal) A passive, undiscriminating consumer of video media.


inkshed

By our electioneerings and Hansard Debatings, and ever-enduring tempest of jargon that goes on everywhere, we manage to settle that; to have it declared, with no bloodshed except insignificant blood from the nose in hustings-time, but with immense beershed and inkshed and explosion of nonsense, which darkens all the air, that the Right Honorable Zero is to be the man.

1850, Thomas Carlyle, Latter-Day Pamphlets:

Europeans can hardly understand this truly anomalous phase of our American institutions; they do not understand that it is characteristic that 'we speak daggers but use none'; that we fight with ballots and not with bullets; that we have abundance of inkshed and little bloodshed, and that all that is explosive is blown off through newspaper safety-valves."

1914, Samuel F. B. Morse, Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals:

He smiled gravely as he thought of the inkshed that would come to pass in a combat a l'outrance between the Three Dimensionists and the Four Dimensionists, and how the distinguished scientists on each side would hurl their ponderous thunderbolts of wisdom against each other.

1976, George Griffith, The Mummy and Miss Nitocris:

The writing of polemical letters or articles.


spokesbear

Teddy was remarkably successful in helping Roosevelt win reelection, and since that time many different companies have asked him to be their spokesbear.

Not long ago, most people associated the Forest Service with its benevolent spokesbear, Smokey.

1994 June, “Can this Man Save Our Forests?”, in Popular Science, volume 244, number 6, page 81:

The spokesbear for the government answered questions for the remainder of the conference.

2002, Wes Platt, Otherspace: The 2001 Yearbook, page 531:

A bear mascot who gives speeches or advice.


pornocopia

But the "coming" is decidedly profane: an encounter with a dominatrix, who strips Principle, makes him beg, then rides him through a porno-copia of sexual positions.

1999, Simon Reynolds, Generation Ecstasy: Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture, Routledge, →ISBN, page 31:

What author Frank Rose calls the web's "pornocopia" generated close to $1 billion (U.S.) in revenue in 1996.

2001, David Taras, Power and Betrayal in the Canadian Media, Broadview Press, →ISBN, pages 110–111:

Back in the pre-"pornocopia" era, wearing a thong meant painful waxing and a wedgie, pole dancing meant emulating a low-class stripper, and taking a man for a lap dance meant tolerating and even endorsing the humiliation of watching your mate cheat.

2005, Pamela Paul, Pornified: How Pornography Is Damaging Our Lives, Our Relationships, and Our Families, Owl Books, →ISBN, page 109:

Pornocopia represents a form of sexuality that, for the most part, only exists through fiction – a particular kind of pornographic space that gives greater license to the imagination of readers and writers alike than they were apt to enjoy in the real world.

2006, Henry Jenkins, “'He's in the Closet but He's Not Gay': Male-Male Desire in Penthouse Letters”, in Peter Lehman, editor, Pornography: Film and Culture, Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, page 147:

Hollywood becomes a "pornocopia" where erotic desire is everything and must be satisfied at all costs.

2007, Henry Jenkins, The Wow Climax: Tracing the Emotional Impact of Popular Culture, New York University Press, →ISBN, page 132:

Marlowe's eyes trailed slick video covers posted outside each, a pornocopia of pouting lips, inflated breasts, and overblown cocks.

2009, Terence Taylor, Bite Marks: A Vampire Testament, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 51:

An abundance of pornography, sexual imagery, or nudity.


querl

en-verb

querl (third-person singular simple present querls, present participle querling, simple past and past participle querled)

querls (present singular third-person)
querling (participle present)
querled (participle past)
querled (past)

From a dialectal variant of twirl, possibly representing a blend of twirl + curl. Cognate with German querlen (“to twirl”).

to querl a cord, thread, or rope

(transitive) To twirl; turn or wind around; coil.


underdig

underdig (third-person singular simple present underdigs, present participle underdigging, simple past and past participle underdug)

underdigs (present singular third-person)
underdigging (participle present)
underdug (participle past)
underdug (past)

Blend of understand + dig (“to understand”).

blend

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Fuck givin' body shots I'm hittin' you in yo wig / Ya underdig?

2000 September 12, “Uptown” (2:06 from the start), in Baller Blockin', performed by Turk ft. B.G.:

Niggaz know who I be and what I represent, so my hood stripes could never be in question, you underdig me? I ain't trying to shit on they character, they went out like straight Gs.

2006, K'wan Foye, Hood Rat, New York, N.Y.: Saint Martin's Griffin, →ISBN, page 308:

[…] there are these pipes and boughs and heifer cows and the cows represent the young maidens who are "overwrought" and there are musicians playing songs and people who really like underdig the parade but feel sorta depressed because they know the time will be gone soon like a memory and it's all very cool and written in rhyme which we studied.

2018, Carolyn Light Bell, “All He Saw Was Summer”, in I Heard a Fish Cry: And Other Stories, Lisbon: Adelaide Books, →ISBN, page 193:

(transitive, African-American Vernacular, slang) To fully understand or comprehend.


tutulemma

Blend of Turkish tutulma (“eclipse”) + English analemma.

(neologism) A photographed analemma that includes an image of a solar eclipse.


kytoon

A lighter-than-air kite, filled with gas and capable of staying aloft even without wind.


caftaric acid

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

(organic chemistry) A cinnamate formed when caffeic acid and tartaric acid undergo esterification.


Salinastroika

Political liberalization under Carlos Salinas de Gortari, President of Mexico from 1988 to 1994.


urechitoxin

(organic chemistry) A poisonous glucoside found accompanying urechitin.


mercurammonium

en-noun

mercurammonium (countable and uncountable, plural mercurammoniums)

(inorganic chemistry) The cation Hg(NH₄)₂⁴⁺


platiniridium

(chemistry, mineralogy) A natural alloy of platinum and iridium occurring in grayish metallic rounded or cubical grains with platinum.


frickle

Frickles (fried pickles) are inspired and served with a blue cheese dipping sauce (see page 20).

2013, Lisa Faulkner, The Way I Cook..., page 41:

Raise your hand if you love fried pickies (both my hands are raised). There is no stopping my love for pickle-anything, but frickles take it to a whole new level.

2020, Rachel Mansfield, Just the Good Stuff, page 116:

Using the deep-fryer's wire basket, a slotted spoon, or a spider, remove the frickles to paper towels to absorb extra oil or drain on a wire rack.

2013, Josh Lebowitz, Eva Pesantez, Sean Evans, Brother Jimmy's BBQ:


indogen

(organic chemistry) A complex nitrogenous radical, C₈H₅NO, regarded as the essential nucleus of indigo.


chylaqueous

(zoology) Consisting of chyle diluted with water; said of a liquid that forms the circulating fluid of some inferior animals.


wegotism

(colloquial, dated) Excessive use of the pronoun we.


vertilinear

en-adj

vertilinear (comparative more vertilinear, superlative most vertilinear)

more vertilinear (comparative)
most vertilinear (superlative)


nitraniline

(chemistry) Any of a series of nitro derivatives of aniline.


barkery

Doggie bakeries (or “barkeries”) and cafés are also an excellent locale for a “destination” dog pawty. Many dog barkeries will not only cater the function but will also provide a pawty area and staff to host and move the pawty along.

2007, Barbara Burg, Good Treats Cookbook for Dogs: 50 Home-Cooked Treats for Special Occasions Plus Everything You Need to Know to Throw a Dog Party!, Quarry Books, →ISBN, page 14:

She has truly been a gift. So now I get it: Dogs on the family Christmas card. Dogs with jeweled collars. Thousand–dollar vet bills. Dogs on vacation. Doggie barkeries. Dogs riding shotgun on a trip to the bank. Dogs in the bed. Thanks to Buffy, I now understand it all.

2009, Maryann McCullough, “The Convert”, in Colleen Sell, editor, A Cup of Comfort for Dog Lovers II, Adams Media, →ISBN:

The ATL prides itself on a hot evening social scene for pampered pets, ample al fresco dining options, a slew of doggie barkeries, and loads of dog-friendly hotels, making it a terrier-rific destination.

2014, Kelly E. Carter, The Dog Lover’s Guide to Travel: Best Destinations, Hotels, Events, and Advice to Please Your Pet—and You, National Geographic Society, →ISBN:

A bakery that makes treats for pet dogs.


malamide

en-noun

malamide (countable and uncountable, plural malamides)

(organic chemistry) The acid amide derived from malic acid, as a white crystalline substance metameric with asparagine.


churnalist

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(derogatory) A lazy journalist who produces articles based on press releases.


indiglucin

(organic chemistry) The variety of sugar (glucose) obtained from the glucoside indican.


obeast

The doctor told me I was a little obeast.

1981, New York Magazine, Jan 12, 1981, page 107

“There's gotta be a ladder up there, and I can't hoist you, you's obeast.”

2006, Norman Green, Shooting Dr. Jack, page 235

Fast Food Nation, where, as I overheard one new mother in my town recently note, children are likely to grow up obeast'

2009, Harry F. Dahms, Nature, Knowledge and Negation, page 323:

(slang, derogatory) A very obese or overweight person.


homolosine

(cartography) Being or employing a particular pseudocylindrical, equal-area, composite projection used for world maps.


poperatic

en-adj

poperatic (comparative more poperatic, superlative most poperatic)

more poperatic (comparative)
most poperatic (superlative)


Taglish

(Philippines, linguistics) an informal bilingual variety of the Tagalog language that incorporates English lexis


Taglish

(Philippines, uncountable) A particular instance of Taglish


brandjacking

This is one of the more blatant forms of brandjacking, in which a person claims to be an official representative of the company.

2009, Joel Postman, SocialCorp: social media goes corporate, page 121:

(Internet) The imposture of the online identity of another person or company.


mucamide

(chemistry) The acid amide of mucic acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance.


gun fu

The Rev. Hugh Dalton runs a different kind of drive-in, one with no kung fu, bimbo fu, gun fu or any kind of violence. His establishment: The Gospel Film Drive-In.

1985 July 2, Mike Pesarchick, “Clean Fun”, in Orlando Sentinel, page A.12:

The gun-fu employed by the daintily fanged Jovovich seems like a development of the equally silly martial arts practised by Christian Bale in Wimmer's last dystopian action picture, Equilibrium (2002), but the director's vision has devolved from cod Orwell to riffing off bad girl art comic books and generally feeble posing.

2006 July, Kim Newman, “Ultraviolet”, in Sight and Sound, volume 16, page 78:

A style of sophisticated gunplay at close quarters, originating in Hong Kong action films.

gun kata

a fictional martial arts resembling this type of gunplay


glyoxime

en-noun

glyoxime (countable and uncountable, plural glyoximes)

(organic chemistry) The oxime HO-N=CH-CH=N-OH produced by the action of hydroxylamine on glyoxal


obliterature

(literary criticism) Forms of literature that are somehow obliterated or void, for example, by being interpreted in a way not intended by the original author.


medispa

A kind of spa, or health club, that offers therapeutic treatments.


violaniline

violaniline (usually uncountable, plural violanilines)

(chemistry) An induline dyestuff made from aniline and formerly used as a substitute for indigo in dyeing wool and silk.


podule

The podules Acorn plans to release include network cards (for Econet and Ethernet), ROM cards containing application software, a MIDI (musical instrument digital interface) sound card, an extended I/O card, […]

1987, Byte, volume 12, numbers 10-11, page 126:

The Archimedes version of the Chromalock is a plug-in podule.

1989, Science Software, volume 5, page 231:

Acorn's Springboard is a PC card with an Arm chip, either 1Mbyte or 4Mbyte of ram and a 32-bit podule bus. The result is a simple and cheap multiprocessor system on a PC base[…]

1990, Electronics World + Wireless World:

printed circuit board
printed circuit board

(computing, dated) An expansion mechanism for ARM-based computer systems, generally a Eurocard-compatible printed circuit board that plugs into a backplane inside the machine.


henchboy

... There, when in Solemn State he pleas'd to ride, Poor Scepter'd slaves ran Henchboys by his side: [...]

1710, John Oldham, The Works of Mr. John Oldham: Together with His Remains:

The smiths exhibited a mounted horseman with head-piece and axe; the carpenters, a group of boys, bearing wands surmounted with bunches of flowers, like that borne by the lord mayor of London's henchboy, in Charles I's time, as shewn in the frontispiece to the first part of my "Lord Mayors' Pageants;" …

w:Webster's Dictionary#Webster's New International Dictionary 1909

(archaic) A follower; footman; page; a servant.


indihumin

(organic chemistry) A brown amorphous substance resembling humin, and obtained from indican.


phenose

(organic chemistry) A sweet amorphous deliquescent substance obtained indirectly from benzene, and isometric with dextrose.


conylene

An oily substance, reportedly C₈H₁₄ and probably a mixture of octadienes, obtained from several derivatives of conine


methoxyl

methoxyl (countable and uncountable, plural methoxyls)

(organic chemistry) A univalent radical, CH₃O-, derived from methanol


Mopologist

(informal) An apologist for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons).


frape

Then, by their own Corrupted Whimſies led,Where the Frape meet, and common Ills are bred;
There hear the Church, from whence they came, Lampoon’d,


frape

frape (countable and uncountable, plural frapes)

(Internet slang, dated) An act of using another person's Facebook account to post derogatory messages.


frape

en-verb

frape (third-person singular simple present frapes, present participle fraping, simple past and past participle fraped)

frapes (present singular third-person)
fraping (participle present)
fraped (participle past)
fraped (past)

(Internet slang, dated) To hijack, and meddle with, someone's Facebook account while it is unattended.


ciphony

The process of encrypting telecommunication signals, as to prevent information from being intercepted by an enemy or competitor.


Merkozy

Blend of Merkel (“Angela Merkel”) + Sarkozy (“Nicolas Sarkozy”)

blend

(slang, politics) The (personification of the) unified position of France and Germany during the early 21st century European sovereign debt crisis.


fumulus

A very thin cloud resembling a veil, especially one formed of water droplets from a rising plume (from a cooling tower etc)


undecolic acid

Blend of undecylenic acid + propiolic acid

(organic chemistry) An acid, C₁₁H₁₈O₂, of the propiolic acid series, obtained indirectly from undecylenic acid.


alkalamide

(chemistry) One of a series of compounds that may be regarded as ammonia in which a part of the hydrogen has been replaced by basic, and another part by acid, atoms or radicals.


mannide

(organic chemistry) A white amorphous or crystalline substance obtained by dehydration of mannite, and distinct from, but convertible into, mannitan.


hydrargochloride

(chemistry, obsolete, rare) A compound of the bichloride of mercury with another chloride.


Japanazi

This is not a very merry Christmas for Japanazi leaders. And, that should be a source of great personal satisfaction to you.

The members of the Death Dodgers now in the Armed Forces will soon have the Japanazis trying to dodge death. To them we send our warmest regards and affection, and the sincere hope that they'll be back with us soon.

1942 November 28, Billboard, volume 54, number 48:

(US, informal, derogatory, dated) Any citizen of the Axis powers who opposed the Allies in the Second World War.


surnominal

Blend of surname + nominal. Equivalent to sur- + nominal.


bromantic

en-adj

bromantic (comparative more bromantic, superlative most bromantic)

more bromantic (comparative)
most bromantic (superlative)

[…] for understanding how the bromantic plot […] maintain the primacy of relations between men.

2014, Michael DeAngelis, Reading the Bromance: Homosocial Relationships in Film and Television, Wayne State University Press:


surfel

en-verb

surfel (third-person singular simple present surfels, present participle surfelling, simple past and past participle surfelled)

surfels (present singular third-person)
surfelling (participle present)
surfelled (participle past)
surfelled (past)

She shall no oftener powder her hair, [or] surfel her cheeks, […] but she shall as often gaze on my picture.

1633, Iohn Ford [i.e., John Ford], Loues Sacrifice. A Tragedie […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Hugh Beeston, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page):

(obsolete, transitive) To wash with a cosmetic water, said by some to be prepared from sulphur.


pointel

(computer graphics) Any of the eight vertices of a voxel.


sprelve

In the early days of LLTV monitoring it was common to observe an apparent elve followed by a sprite, sometimes called a "sprelve." While elves do indeed precede some sprites, the "sprelve" in most cases, was found to represent a "sprite halo."

2006, Martin Füllekrug, Eugene A. Mareev, Michael J. Rycroft, Sprites, elves and intense lightning discharges, page 37:

(astronomy, meteorology) An upper atmospheric optical phenomena associated with thunderstorms, in which an elve is immediately followed by a sprite.


osmiridium

en-noun

osmiridium (countable and uncountable, plural osmiridiums)

(mineralogy) A hard, corrosion-resistant alloy of osmium and iridium, used in pen nibs.


indolamine

(organic chemistry) Any amine derivative of indole, but especially the neurotransmitter serotonin.


metaproteome

(biochemistry, genetics) The complete set of metaproteins of an organism.


Kollywood

en:Cinema of Nepal
en:Kollywood (disambiguation)

(informal) The Nepali film industry located in Kathmandu, Nepal.


phlorone

(organic chemistry) A yellow crystalline substance resembling the quinones and obtained from beechwood tar and coal tar, or by the oxidation of xylidine.


bicelle

A self-assembled aggregate of phospholipid in water, that combines flat bilayer-like and curved micelle-like features


veganaise

veganaise (countable and uncountable, plural veganaises)

Then I may add rosemary, dill, Italian dressing, and veganaise to different bottles and even a can of tomato paste when I want something more along that line.

2005, Sandy Colledge, God's Prescription for Cancer, page 71:

Cauliflower Salad Ingredients 1 head of Cauliflower 3 cups of shredded romaine lettuce 1 cup veganaise ½ cup unsweetened soy milk 1 tsp stevia glycerite 1 tsp Braggs Liquid Aminos 2 tbsp Vegan Bacon Bits Clean and cut Cauliflower.

2007, Fayth Silveus, Fayth's Christian Cookbook, page 30:

...1 ripe avocado 1 clove garlic 2 tbsp olive oil 2 tsp salt 2 tsp pepper 1 tsp organic palm sugar ¼ cup vegan mayo (preferably veganaise) ½ tsp Dijon mustard...

2011, Brendan Brazier, Thrive Foods: 200 Plant-Based Recipes for Peak Health, page 173:


acetarsol

Blend of acet(amido) + ars(onic) + -ol. The drug was developed by Ernest Fourneau at the Pasteur Institute and sold under the brand name stovarsol. The name is established as the drug’s international nonproprietary name.

(organic chemistry, medicine) The compound (3-acetamido-4-hydroxyphenyl)arsonic acid sometimes used as an antiinfective against the parasite protozoan Entamoeba histolytica

asetarsoli

compound sometimes used as an antiinfective


cesspipe

A pipe for carrying off waste water, etc., from a sink or cesspool.


transcribbler

December 11, 1746, Thomas Gray, letter to Dr. Wharton
He [Aristotle] has suffered vastly from the transcribblers, as all authors of great brevity necessarily must.

(derogatory, dated, rare) A poor transcriber.


celebretard

Blend of celebrity + retard. Celebrity blogger Perez Hilton is credited with coining the term.

Hollywood celebretards Rumer Willis, Vanessa Hudgens, Hania Barton, and Quinn's boy toy, actor/DJ Blake Miller, joined Quinn in sucking down the SoCo and stripping down in the hot tub.

2009, Zoey Dean, Hollywood Is Like High School with Money [novel], Grand Central Publishing (2009), page 147

(slang, derogatory) A celebrity regarded as foolish or stupid, especially one noted for episodes of unrestrained, self-destructive behavior.


quinaphthol

(medicine) A treatment for typhoid fever etc, prepared from quinine and naphthol sulfonate


luppie

(rare) A high-earning Latino living in a major urban area.


RomneyCare

Blend of Romney (“Mitt Romney”) + healthcare or Medicare and likely influenced by the term ObamaCare. Although the 2006 Massachusetts Law signed by then-governor Mitt Romney predated the 2010 United States Federal Law signed by President Barack Obama, the term RomneyCare was not commonly used until after the term ObamaCare was in wide use.

blend

(US politics, neologism, chiefly derogatory) Healthcare plans instituted by the state of Massachusetts under the governorship of Mitt Romney, which provided for complete coverage of all citizens of the Commonwealth, and included an individual mandate to purchase health insurance for those able to pay.


guppie

(sometimes derogatory) A foolish, easily surprised, or naive person.

(climbing) A climbing hold, refers to the way the climber's hand is turned sideways and grips a hold by cupping it with the little-finger side of the hand.


guppie

It's where I work, okay? Not in some dinky little magazine office with a bunch of guppies!

1987 [1987 August 20], Alan Moore, “Chapter XI: Look on My Works, Ye Mighty...”, in Watchmen, DC Comics, page 349:

The guppie (gay urban professional) with a partner and a Porsche was replacing the free love advocate with a placard and a toke.

2004, Michale Mello, Legalizing Gay Marriage: Vermont And The National Debate, Temple University Press, published 2008, page 29:

(dated) A high-earning gay person living in a major urban area, especially a male.


vulture capitalist

en-noun

vulture capitalist (plural vulture capitalists)

(derogatory, finance) A takeover artist who loads a venture up with debt while extracting capital for profit, making the firm go bankrupt.


advermation

Useful information within an advertisement.


advertecture

Large advertising painted on the walls of buildings.


adminisphere

(informal) The administrative layers of an organization's hierarchy.


anonymouse

(Internet, slang) A person who posts to an online forum, or otherwise distributes information anonymously


adorkable

en-adj

adorkable (comparative more adorkable, superlative most adorkable)

more adorkable (comparative)
most adorkable (superlative)

/ʌˈdɔɹkəbl̩/

(informal) Adorable in a dorky, socially awkward manner.


methal

(organic chemistry) A white waxy substance, found in small quantities in spermaceti as an ethereal salt of several fatty acids, and regarded as an alcohol of the methane series.


architourism

Its luxury loft rooms attract international visitors seeking the "architourism" experience of staying in the only hotel housed in a Wright structure.

2004, "The Wright stuff: a reborn Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece attracts visitors to an Oklahoma oil town", Journal of Property Management, May/June 2004

Tourism involving seeing buildings and other architectural works.


architourist

There is so much to see in Chicago that it can be more than a little confusing for the would-be architourist.

1991 June 9, “Chicago's Good Place to Indulge Edifice Complex”, in St. Paul Pioneer Press:

A tourist whose primary activity involves seeing buildings and other architectural works.


arachnerd

Blend of arachnid + nerd, as a play on web and Web. Included on lists of Internet slang as early as 1996.

Why do I find these Internet neologisms so interesting? Guess it's because I'm a bona-fide arachnerd, a person that spends way too much time either surfing the Web or fussing with their home page.

2003 June 8, Chris Sherman, “To Google, and Other Internet Neologisms”, in Search Engine Watch:

(Internet, slang) A person who spends a lot of time on the World Wide Web.


barkitecture

I'm sure with barkitecture just taking off, the next generation of doghouses will be designed with individual breeds in mind.

2000, William Thomas, The Dog Rules, Penguin, →ISBN, page 42:

(informal, humorous) The design and structure of doghouses.


blandiose

blandiose (comparative more blandiose, superlative most blandiose)

more blandiose (comparative)
most blandiose (superlative)

The opening act, Restless Heart, presented a 45-minute set of synthesizer-glossed corn-pop that managed to be schlocky, grandstanding and dull all at once. The five-piece band drew appreciative whoops despite a lackluster performance made up mostly of blandiose romantic ballads in the tradition of such denizens of the pop dustbin as Firefall.

1989 September 9, Marty Hughley, “Judds give stellar performance”, in The Oregonian:

Simultaneously dull and overblown; striving to be impressive, but turning out bland or unoriginal.