TIM

en-noun

TIM (countable and uncountable, plural TIMs)

Abbreviation.
* (trans-identified male): when applied to trans women by a person who holds gender-critical beliefs.

trans-identified male
trans-identified male#English

(usually derogatory, offensive, dysphemistic) Initialism of trans-identified male.


dead tree

dead trees (plural)
dead-tree (alternative)

You can't grep dead trees.

Mail on dead trees: Dept. of CS, Chalmers University of Technology, S-412 96 Goteborg, Sweden

1985 Jul 23: Thomas Johnsson, DECUS public domain C compiler: where can I get it? (signature), net.lang.c, http://groups.google.com/group/net.lang.c/browse_thread/thread/711ce5d3a4eb7019/860f62c7e3c5e117?q=dead-tree+OR+dead-trees#860f62c7e3c5e117

I wouldn't be surprised to hear of parents telling their children how we used to spend hundreds of watts to light a room, or how we drove 3000 kg vehicles to pick up a single newspaper printed on a dead tree, and so on.

1991 October 29, Daniel Mocsny, “Re: Ecological Dependency”, in sci.environment (Usenet):

As usual, when I checked the page, it points to a dead tree with ink available at a cost.

1995 September 15, Mountain Man, “Re: Many worlds speculation--a complete waste of time”, in sci.physics (Usenet):

2003 May 16: yoodaw elder{:}child, Re: kjv #1? consider, alt.christnet, http://groups.google.com/group/alt.christnet.bible/msg/425b9a41581e51a9?dmode=source
come out of this wicked, evil world and her seductive, dogmatic, heretical religious systems, all of whom seek to prove their righteousness by manipulating colored marks written on a dead tree.

(dysphemistic) A quantity of paper; a collection of paper such as a book or newspaper.


live in sin

en-verb

live in sin (third-person singular simple present lives in sin, present participle living in sin, simple past and past participle lived in sin)

lives in sin (present singular third-person)
living in sin (participle present)
lived in sin (participle past)
lived in sin (past)

Ralph: Athene gone and got married?
Builder: No. It's—it's that she's gone and—and not got married. . . . I suppose you'd have me eat humble pie and tell Athene she can go on living in sin and offending society.

1922, John Galsworthy, A Family Man, act 2:

(intransitive, idiomatic, dysphemistic) To cohabit as if husband and wife without being married.


feticide

en-noun

feticide (countable and uncountable, plural feticides)

feticides (plural)
fetucide (alternative)
foeticide (alternative)

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From fetus + -cide or fetus + -icide, from Middle French -cide, from Latin -cīda (“cutter, killer”) and its derivation -cīdium (“killing”), from -cīd (combining form of caedō (“cut, kill”)) + -a (“-er”, forming agent nouns).

Zimra, then, takes an unequivocal stance; favoring Rashi's view over that of Maimonides, he offers little comfort for the rodef approach, holding instead that feticide cannot be regarded as murder becaue the fetus is not a nefesh.

2002, Daniel Schiff, Abortion in Judaism, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 68:

Notwithstanding the earnest opposition of writers and lecturers and preachers and legislators, the practice of feticide appears to be on the increase.

1878, H. Gibbons, "On Feticide" in Transactions of the Session of the Medical Society of the State of California vol. 8; J. Anthony & Co., Printers; page 209

(dysphemistic) The killing of a fetus or embryo; an induced abortion.


death tax

(US politics, derogatory, dysphemistic) inheritance tax


Windoze

Blend of Windows + doze, suggesting slow performance. First use appears c. 1986. See cite below.

Every point and counterpoint is peppered with derisive terms such as "Windoze," "File Mangler," and "PeeCees."

1986, PC Communications Corporation, PC Magazine, The Independent Guide to IBM-standard Personal Computing · Volume 15, page 85:

I've had it with the Windoze Gestapo. They want to make everyone use Windoze. They have propogandize^([sic]) the public through computer publications and large newspapers.

1997 February 19, ROWE BOBBY S, “Defend yourself against the Windoze Gestapo”, in alt.destroy.microsoft (Usenet):

My big fear was that they'd use some kind of weirdo operating system, but it turned out just to be Windoze. And not Windoze Millennium, NT, or '98, or even '95, but Windoze 3.1

2006, Anthony McGowan, Hellbent, page 118:

(computing, slang, dysphemistic) Microsoft Windows.


Windross

Blend of Windows + dross, suggesting an inferior product.

Like Danny, I made the difficult decision to take a close look at Windross at Xmas96. The OS is a monster it's true; but IMHO it also brings alternative ways of achieving your objectives which are, as I have tried to show, not available in the Acorn environment. Recent threads on Acorn v Windross in schools don't seem to focus on this?

1998 June 10, Martin Birchall, “Sad”, in comp.sys.acorn.misc (Usenet):

The Windross user experience is awful. I migrated to the Mac, and while it's amazing to have inDesign, XPress, Photoshop, Acrobat, etc. right there, Mac OS 8/9's GUI was nothing on RISC OS and it's difficult to describe in any meaningful way Mac OS X's GUI is better than Windows - especially as the responsiveness remains poor.

2003 January 4, David, “Comments about Windross OS”, in comp.sys.acorn.misc (Usenet):

I copy the file to a plain Jane Lexar thumb drive, then move the drive to Windoze. Windross does it's^([sic]) usual popup game: "Yay! Look at me! I found something! Yay! It's a USB device! Yay! I'm setting it up now! Yay! Look at me!!"

2012 November 17, Sinister Midget, “Windwoes Dimwittery”, in comp.os.linux.advocacy (Usenet):


anti-choice

en-adj

anti-choice (comparative more anti-choice, superlative most anti-choice)

more anti-choice (comparative)
most anti-choice (superlative)
antichoice (alternative)

[...her campaign techniques] demonstrate a pattern to deceive potential contributors by failing to disclose without ambiguity that she is soliciting funds for her presidential candidacy and not for the antichoice movement.

1976, NARAL complaint against Ellen McCormack, “Complaint may block federal matching funds”, in the Beaver County Times, 1976 February 18

Gamble also warned the audience that the possibility of judicial change is "not remote". She said that two anti-choice Reagan appointments to the U.S. Supreme Court would put anti-choice justices in the majority by one vote.

1984 February 4, Sue Hyde, “Abortion Activists Mark Jan 22. Anniversary”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 28, page 1:

(derogatory, dysphemistic) Not pro-choice; opposed to the individual's choice, especially of abortion or euthanasia.


anti-choicer

anti-choicers (plural)
antichoicer (alternative)

(informal, derogatory, dysphemistic) One who opposes pro-choice views.


Winblows

Blend of Windows + blows (in the slang sense where something that "blows" is worthless or inferior). First use appears c. 1997 in the periodical Working Woman.

Winblows regrets that it is "Not Justice Department Approved."

1998, Newsweek, Incorporated, Newsweek, Volume 131, page 12:

Ring me when Winblows becomes free, or when there are free dev tools for it!

1999, John Purcell (editor), Linux, The Complete Reference; The Advanced Reference · Book 2, page 319:

While many users run versions of Linux or Unix on their PCs, most PC users run some flavor of Windows (often referred to by Mac and Unix users as WinDoze or WinBlows).

2003, David Chappelle, Protect Yourself Online, How to Cover Your Assets Every Time You Log On, page 27:

(computing, slang, dysphemistic) The Microsoft Windows operating system.


fetus fetishist

en-noun

fetus fetishist (plural fetus fetishists)

"Defeat the fetus fetishists" and "I am more important than a fetus" were among the placards carried by nearly 100 women […]

1972 October 3, Laurie Johnston, “Respect Life Week Stresses the Unborn”, in The New York Times:

As Campbell announced he supported life, Morgentaler cut him off and shouted, "I'm a pro-choicer and a pro-lifer. You are not a pro-lifer; you are a fetus fetishist."

1988 February 10, “TV Opponents Take Gloves Off Following Debate on Abortions”, in Toronto Star:

(Canada, US, politics, derogatory, dysphemistic) One who supports fetal rights; an antiabortionist.


forced-birther

[…] that we are English, for there is something peculiarly English about modern abortion, and that is why we can bravely claim to be, as the forced-birthers snarl, the abortion capital of the world, no less.

1997, The American Spectator, volume 30, page 88:

(chiefly US, Canada, politics, informal, derogatory, dysphemistic) One who desires that abortion be illegal, and thus that pregnant women be required to carry to term and give birth in all or most cases; a pro-lifer.


worm food

food for worms (alternative)
worm-food (alternative)
worm's food (alternative)
wormfood (alternative)

"Say, have ye a drug that will make worm's food of your enemy in an hour?"

1830, J. Y. A. "The Powder Plot," The Olio Vol. 4, p. 246 (Google preview)

At a state clemency board hearing earlier this month, a prosecutor said that Mr. Parker once joked that he had turned the Warrens into "worm food."

1996 May 29, Kevin Sack, “Awaiting Execution, And Finding Buddha”, in New York Times, retrieved 2015-06-24:

"It's something that you want to do instead of being ashes or worm food, to be some kind of asset instead of being in the ground," she said.

2007 May 20, Thomas Peipert, “Donors Hope Plastinated Bodies Educate”, in Washington Post, retrieved 2015-06-24:

[F]or those of us who think that the grave is the end of us, when we shall become food for worms, the sensible course is to make the most of every passing hour.

2012 June 28, Allan Massie, “At some point your luck will run out”, in Telegraph, UK, retrieved 2015-06-24:

Texas Republican Rep. Mike Conaway said, “I can’t imagine an atheist accompanying a notification team as they go into some family’s home to let them have the worst news of their life and this guy says, ‘You know, that’s it — your son’s just worms, I mean, worm food.’”

2013 December 3, Victoria Bekiempis, “Atheists in Foxholes Want Chaplains, Too”, in Newsweek, retrieved 2015-06-24:

(idiomatic, often darkly humorous, dysphemistic) One or more corpses, especially in a state of decay; remains.


bitesheep

bitesheeps (plural)
biteshipe (alternative)

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From bite + sheep. Possibly an intentional, satirical corruption of, or pun on, bishop, to imply one who bites the flock he should be protecting (compare English sheep-biter).

Wherefore mine advice and most earnest desire is, with all other of your loving friends, that you still keep that order with those bloodthirsty bitesheeps (bishops, I should say) that you have begun. For though in conclusion they will surely have your blood, yet shall they come by it with shame enough, and to their perpetual infamy while the world doth endure.

c. 1556, John Foxe, “A Letter of John Careless, answering to the loving Epistle or Letter sent to him before by Master John Philpot”, in Rev. Stephen Reed Cattley, editor, The Acts and Monuments of John Foxe, volume 8, London: R. B. Seeley and W. Burnside, published 1839, page 172:

Wherfore the bitesheepe and the recorder beinge owtragiously moved agaynst him, contrary to all justice all Law th[e]y condemned him to bee whipped at a Carts tayle and to bee boored through the eare wᵗʰ a hot iron, wᶜʰ was executed in most dispitful and cruellest manner that might bee executed to any Rooge, […]

1578 December 15, A. Dolm, [A Letter]; republished in “Diarium Secundum”, in The First and Second Diaries of the English College, Douay, London: David Nutt, 1878, Februarius 1579, page 149:

If Thomas is rather fond of calling Geoffrey Riddell Archidiabolus instead of Archidiaconus, was it not the established joke of the Reformation to call a Bishop a Bitesheep, and to turn Cardinal Poole into Carnal Fool?

[1860 April 10, Edward Augustus Freeman, “Saint Thomas of Canterbury and His Biographers”, in The National Review; republished as Historical Essays, London: Macmillan and Co., 1875, page 95:

(obsolete, derogatory, dysphemistic, religious slur) A bishop, particularly a Catholic bishop persecuting Protestants.


trans-identified male

trans-identified male (plural trans-identified males)

trans-identified males (plural)
TIM (alternative initialism)

Abstract: This thesis addresses the multiple ways that trans-identified males experience gender, masculinity, and identity. In this ethnographic project, seven trans-identified males living in the Triangle of North Carolina speak about their daily experiences and share their personal narratives to reveal diverse masculine identities.

2010, A. Carter Sickels, What does masculinity mean to you: trans males creating identities of possibilities


TIF

When applied to trans men, perhaps influenced by the name Tiff.

trans-identified female
trans-identified female#English

(derogatory, offensive) Initialism of trans-identified female.


TIF

(computer graphics file format) Abbreviation of TIFF.


Chinese virus

Chinese virus (countable and uncountable, plural Chinese viruses)

中國病毒 /中国病毒 (Zhōngguó bìngdú) (explanatory translation)

Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa, said on Twitter that “I don’t understand why China gets upset bc we refer to the virus that originated there the ‘Chinese virus’ Spain never got upset when we referred to the Spanish flu in 1918&1919.”

2020 March 13, Katie Rogers et al., “Trump Defends Using ‘Chinese Virus’ Label, Ignoring Growing Criticism”, in New York Times:

First it was the Chinese virus, then we had the murder hornets, then we had to close the embassy in Houston because of espionage … Now we’ve got all these mystery seeds coming in in the mail.

2021 July 15, Chris Heath, quoting Sid Miller, “The Truth Behind the Amazon Mystery Seeds”, in The Atlantic:

(colloquial, sometimes offensive, dysphemistic) Synonym of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

There were supposed to be armies. Grand armies of contact tracers crisscrossing every county in the country on the hunt for the Chinese virus.

2020 June 16, David Marcus, “Contact Tracing Is A Fiasco Rejected By Most Americans”, in The Federalist:

Stocks mostly recover on hope for handling of Chinese virus.

2020 January 22, Associated Press, headline:

(quoting a sign in a doctor's office) "Dear patients: During this time period of the Chinese Virus, please observe the six foot rule of social distancing."

2020 November 13, Natalie Pasquarella, “NJ Mom Stunned to See Sign About ‘Chinese Virus' — At A Doctor's Office”, in NBC New York:

More importantly, the number of anti-Asian hashtags rose by 797% and 17 400% for #covid19 and #chinesevirus, respectively. This represents a combined increase from about 12 000 to almost a half a million anti-Asian hashtags.

2021 May, Yulin Hswen, Xiang Xu, Hing, Anna, Hawkins, Jared B., Brownstein, John S., Gee, Gilbert C., “Association of ‘#covid19’ Versus ‘#chinesevirus’ With Anti-Asian Sentiments on Twitter”, in American Journal of Public Health, volume 111, →DOI, page 960:

I don't even talk about it because when it COVID came in, which is the Chinese virus, when Chinese virus came in, that was so much bigger than anything else. I mean they owe us $20 trillion.

2021 August 18, Maria Bartiromo, Peter Doocy, Dagen McDowell, “Biden Cuts Vacation Short, Returns to White House; […] ”, in Mornings with Maria, spoken by Donald Trump, via Fox Business Network:

(colloquial, sometimes offensive, dysphemistic) Synonym of coronavirus, the disease COVID-19.


trans-identified female

en-adj

trans-identified female (not comparable)

(derogatory, offensive, dysphemistic) Transgender male.


trans-identified female

en-noun

trans-identified female (plural trans-identified females)

trans-identified females (plural)
TIF (alternative initialism)

(derogatory, offensive, dysphemistic) A trans man.


FART

Acronym of feminism-appropriating reactionary transphobe deliberately constructed to be homonymous with fart.

acronym

Reminder that FARTs don't actually believe trans women are men. They don't speak to people they think are men the way they do to trans women.

2018 September 16, Panic Dixie Scream Girl (@ChaKatKimber), Twitter:

“Blaming trans people for everything” is to FARTs as Three Blind Mice is to the bloody recorder.

2019 May 16, Dan (@DanDanYamagata), Twitter:

Tellingly, FARTs often end up in alliance with other far right movements with xenophobic, white supremacist, and nativist and ethno-nationalist reactionary politics.

2022, Alex Khasnabish, Making Sense of Society: Power and Possibility, page 118:

(derogatory) A trans-exclusionary radical feminist (TERF).


pro-deather

Without realizing it, the pro-deathers and the police together end up closing the clinic down, thus preventing aboritons on that day, all to avoid violence!

1995 February 21, Angie Miller, “Church Will Always Have PR Problems with World”, in Liberty Champion, Lynchburg, Virginia, retrieved 2022-11-19, page 13:

Recently our local abortion rights fund received a piece of mail enjoining “pro-lifers” to “attack” abortion providers and other “peddlers of death. . . . When we shoot, we should aim for the lower spine and the buttocks. At this time we probably don’t need to kill to discourage some pro-deathers from implementing their agenda.”

1998, Marlene Gerber Fried, “Abortion in the United States – Legal but Inaccessible”, in Rickie Solinger, editor, Abortion Wars: A Half Century of Struggle, 1950–2000, Berkeley, California: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 209:

a. 2013, “Euthanasia Pro-Deather Spills the Beans”, Pro-Life Victoria, archived from the original on October 26, 2022.

(derogatory, dysphemistic, uncommon) A person who is supportive of the practice or legality of abortion or who is opposed to “pro-life” causes.


Zionist entity

Calque of Arabic الكِيَان الصِّهْيُونِيّ (al-kiyān aṣ-ṣihyūniyy). First use appears c. 1956. See citations page.

calque

الكِيَان الصِّهْيُونِيّ

Coordinate term: Isn'treal

(Middle East, derogatory, dysphemistic) Israel, viewed by Palestinians and their supporters as an illegitimate regime ruled by Zionists.

الكِيَان الصِّهْيُونِيّ

a pejorative term for the State of Israel


-cest

(informal, humorous, dysphemistic) A suffix for relationships between participants in the same (usually close-knit) activity (see castcest, classcest, clubcest, coursecest, friendcest, teamcest, workcest) or residents of the same complex (see dormcest, floorcest, hallcest, housecest).


Slowaris

Blend of slow + Solaris, suggesting slow performance.

Linux faithful mock Solaris with the adolescent nickname "Slowaris," but I challenge critics to find one instance among the innumerable huge-scale Solaris deployments where decision makers are considering a switch to Linux for speed's sake.

2006, InfoWorld, volume 28, number 38, page 24:

(informal, dysphemistic) Solaris, a Unix-based operating system earlier known as SunOS and now developed by Oracle Corporation.


Lunix

Blend of Linux + lunatic or perhaps loon.

(informal, dysphemistic) Deliberate misspelling of Linux.


rag-box

You shut up your rag-box an' 'ark to my lay

1892, Rudyard Kipling, “The Young British Soldier”, in Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses, 3rd edition, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, page 46:

Better shut your rag-box if you can't tell better ones than that.

1900 November, Roy M. Mason, “The Triumph of Private John Dory”, in The Yale Literary Magazine, volume 66, page 73:

(obsolete, slang, dysphemistic) A person's mouth.


one-eyed monster

en-noun

one-eyed monster (plural one-eyed monsters)

Senses 1 and 2 refer to television having a single screen (the "eye"), and it being perceived as a negative influence to children.

(colloquial, dysphemistic) Television, especially seen as an addiction.

Children and Television; The One Eyed Monster? - Barrie Gunter, Jill McAleer; 1990

(colloquial, dysphemistic) A television set or screen.


friendcest

(slang, dysphemistic) Romantic and/or sexual involvement between members of the same circle of friends.


pain in the dick

pain in the dick (plural pains in the dick)

(dysphemistic) Synonym of pain in the ass.