meme

Shortened from mimeme, equivalent to mime + -eme.
Coined by British biologist Richard Dawkins in 1976 in his book The Selfish Gene. Shortened (after gene) from mimeme (compare English phoneme), anglicized as if from a noun derived from Ancient Greek μῑμέομαι (mīméomai) with the deverbal suffix -μα (-ma), from μῖμος (mîmos, “imitation, copy”). The concept was later applied to the Internet by Mike Godwin.

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Not everyone saw the comparison to Nazis as a "meme" - most people on the Net, as elsewhere, had never heard of "memes" or "memetics." But now that we're living in an increasingly information-aware culture, it's time for that to change.

1994 January 10, Mike Godwin, “Meme, Counter-meme”, in Wired:

I do...but my journal is a mess. It's mostly filled with memes and my bitching about a house I am building.

2005, darklily, “OT: Livejournal”, in soc.sexuality.general (Usenet):

The idea was to append Keyboard Cat to the end of a blooper video to "play" that person offstage after a mistake or gaffe, like getting the hook in the days of vaudeville. The meme became popular, Ashton Kutcher tweeted about it to more than 1 million followers, and more than 4,000 such videos have now been made.

2012, Greg Jarboe, You Tube and Video Marketing, 2nd edition:

Harlem Shake meme: the new Gangnam Style? [headline]

2013 February 8, Tim Jonze, “Harlem Shake meme: the new Gangnam Style?”, in The Guardian:

Social networks produce inside jokes at a relentless pace. The best, worst, stupidest and funniest of those jokes become memes, and either you get them or you don’t.

2017 December 15, Jonah Engel Bromwich, “Life on the Meme Council: Meet the Internet’s Gatekeepers”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

He said that NFT sales had helped establish memes as a sophisticated art form and “serious pieces of culture.”

2021 April 29, Marie Fazio, quoting Ben Lashes, “The World Knows Her as ‘Disaster Girl.’ She Just Made $500,000 Off the Meme.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(Internet) Media, usually humorous, which is copied and circulated online with slight adaptations, such as basic pictures, video templates, etc.

This meme generator lets you make your own memes by adding a caption to existing images, or by uploading your own image.

I'm always posting memes on the groupchat.

(Internet) A specific instance of a meme, such as an image macro or a video, often with humorous superimposed text.

(Internet) A work produced and shared in response to a prompt or suggestion within an online group.

kink meme

anon meme


meme

(Internet) meme (humorous image, video or other media shared in the Internet)


Holy Grail

the Holy Grail (canonical)
Holy Grails (plural)

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From Middle English Holy Grayle.
(web page layout): So called because it was traditionally difficult to achieve with the available markup.

(Internet, informal) A web page layout with fixed-width columns to the left and right, and a central area that fills the remaining space.


ng

(Internet) Initialism of newsgroup; also NG.


tema

Borrowed from Latin thema, from Ancient Greek θέμα (théma).


cyber-

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(Internet) Relating to the Internet or cyberspace, or to computers more generally.


nuke

Clipping of nuclear weapon. The verb is derived from the noun.

(colloquial) vessel running on nuclear power

Confronted with the threat of several nukes on the island, we soon realized that the Long Island Sound is being used as a massive cooling basin for nuclear reactors.

1979, Anna Gyorgy et al., “Atomic Power, Nuclear Plants”, in No Nukes: Everyone’s Guide to Nuclear Power (Black Rose Books; no. I.49), Montreal, Que.: Black Rose Books, →ISBN, page 406:

Nukes Don't Pollute

2002, Home Power - Issues 86-91, page 121:

He calculates that nukes might be needed to power energy-intensive “large scale co2 sequestration techniques” as well.

2010, Andrew Nikiforuk, Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent, page 155:

We've analyzed employee manifests at all nukes, LNG, and refineries in the United States for Middle Eastern profile matches.

nuclear power station
nuclear power station


nuke

en-verb

nuke (third-person singular simple present nukes, present participle nuking, simple past and past participle nuked)

nukes (present singular third-person)
nuking (participle present)
nuked (participle past)
nuked (past)

The command and control servers used by the Mydoom variant, responsible for the recent denial of service attacks against Korean and US government websites, receive instructions from a master server located in the UK. [...] Apparently, the decision of whoever was responsible to damage the infected systems after July 10 pointed [Roger] Thompson in this direction. "Why bother nuking 60k computers after doing all the work of assembling them? Nuking them only helps the Good Guys, because the victims are forced to re-build, and therefore clean, their computers. [..."]

2009 July 14, Lucian Constantin, “Master Control Server for Mydoom DDoS Botnet Tracked to UK: Security Experts Stress that North Korea’s Involvement in the Attacks is Unlikely”, in Softpedia News, archived from the original on 2016-05-09:

denial-of-service attack
denial-of-service attack

(transitive, Internet slang, by extension) To carry out a denial-of-service attack against (an IRC user).


email

en-noun

email (countable and uncountable, plural emails)

The noun is an abbreviation of electronic mail. The verb is derived from the noun, by analogy with mail (“to send through the mail”).

He sent me his details via email.

The advent of email has simultaneously brought our society closer together and farther apart.

Please stop sending me “constructive criticisms” via email, or telling me that “ I feel you are being defensive”, especially just after I have told you “you’re loved”. “Rewards” like that are horrible.

(uncountable) A system for transferring messages from one computer to another, usually through a network.

e-pos

דואר אלקטרוני \ דֹּאַר אֶלֶקְטְרוֹנִי

ímél

now officially endorsed but still less common

He sent me an email last week to remind me about the meeting.

I archive my old emails using a cloud-based service.

(countable) A message sent through an email system.

e-pos

message sent through email an email system

What’s your email?

In this system, your username is your email.

Don’t send personal messages to my work email.


email

en-verb

email (third-person singular simple present emails, present participle emailing, simple past and past participle emailed)

emails (present singular third-person)
emailing (participle present)
emailed (participle past)
emailed (past)
e-mail (alternative)

e-pos

(transitive) to send an email or emails to

I’ll email you the link.

He emailed the file out to everyone.

(transitive, ditransitive) To send (something) through email.

e-pos

(transitive) to send (something) through email

átküld

optionally adding: e-mailen, if the context doesn't make it clear

Most teenagers seem to spend almost the whole day emailing and surfing the Web.

(intransitive) To send, or compose and send, an email or emails.

e-pos

(intransitive) to send, or compose and send, an email or emails


email

Borrowed from Middle French email, from Old French esmal (“enamel”) (modern French émail (“enamel; vitreous enamel; glaze (coating on pottery)”)), from Medieval Latin smaltum (“enamel”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meld- (“to melt; to soften”). Doublet of smalt, smalto, and schmaltz.

der

Set Naples courser to an asse, / Fine emerawde vnto greene glasse: / Set rich rubye to redd emayle, / The raven's plume to peacocke's tayle: / [...] / There shall no less an oddes be seene, / In myne from everye other Queene!

1579 January 11, George Puttenham, “[Appendix] Partheniades [No. 15; believed to have been presented to Elizabeth I of England on 1 January 1579 (Julian calendar)]”, in Joseph Haslewood, editor, Ancient Critical Essays upon English Poets and Poësy (Miscellanea Poetica Anglicana Antiqua; 1), volume I, London: Printed by Harding and Wright, […], for Robert Triphook, […], published 1811, →OCLC, page xxxiv:

It is reported, that the Pope long ſince gaue them [the people of Iceland] a diſpenſation to receiue the Sacrament in ale, inſomuch as for their vnceſſant froſts there, no wine but was turned to red emayle, as ſoone as euer it came amongſt them.

1594, Tho[mas] Nashe, The Terrors of the Night or, A Discourse of Apparitions, London: Printed by Iohn Danter for William Iones, […], →OCLC, signature Diii; republished in Alexander B[alloch] Grosart, editor, The Complete Works of Thomas Nashe. In Four Volumes. […] (The Huth Library), volume III, London, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire: Printed [by Hazell, Watson, and Viney] for private circulation only, 1883–1884, →OCLC, pages 242–243:

Another part of this Earth being mixt with an equal part of its Salt, and put on the Fire to melt, in part pierc'd thro the Crucible, which was found on the outside, as it were, lin'd with a Brown Email, and the inside of the Crucible was cover'd with a Clear-Red Email.

1684, [Samuel] Du Clos, “The Eighth Class. Of Cold Waters somewhat Aigre and Vinous, which Participate of a Salt Resembling the Nitre of the Ancients.”, in Observations on the Mineral Waters of France, Made in the Royal Academy of the Sciences, […] Now Made English, London: Printed for Henry Faithorne, and John Kersey […], →OCLC, pages 96–97:

(obsolete, rare) Enamel (“an opaque, glossy coating”).


email

emails (plural)
e-mail (alternative)
E-mail (alternative)


webmail

en-noun

webmail (usually uncountable, plural webmails)

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Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail and Gmail are well-known webmail services.

A service for sending, receiving, and/or storing email, usually on a remote web server, in such a way that it is accessible through a web browser.

I'm going to check my webmail.


hero

hero (plural heroes or (sandwich sense) heros)

→ Hindi: हीरो (hīro)

→ Japanese: ヒーロー (hīrō)

→ Korean: 히어로 (hieoro)

→ Thai: ฮีโร่ (hii-rôo)

[ˈhɪə.ɹəʊ~ˈçɪə.ɹəʊ]

From Middle English heroes, from Old French heroes, from Latin hērōs (“hero”), from Ancient Greek ἥρως (hḗrōs, “demi-god, hero”), from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to watch over, protect”). Related to Latin servo (“protect”). Displaced Middle English heleð, haleð, from Old English hæleþ, hæle.

der

(web design) The eye-catching top portion of a web page, sometimes including a hero image; the portion above the fold.


corn

For the rhyme with porn, and with influence from the emoji substitute 🌽.

(Internet, euphemistic) pornography; porn


cap

(slang, Internet) Abbreviation of caption.


pasta

pasta (nominative singular)
pasty (nominative plural)
pasty (genitive singular)
past (genitive plural)
paście (dative singular)
pastom (dative plural)
pastę (accusative singular)
pasty (accusative plural)
pastą (instrumental singular)
pastami (instrumental plural)
paście (locative singular)
pastach (locative plural)
pasto (singular vocative)
pasty (plural vocative)

(Internet slang) copypasta (block of text which has been copied and pasted from somewhere else)


stub

From Middle English stubbe (“tree stump”), from Old English stybb, stubb (“tree stump”), from Proto-West Germanic *stubb, from Proto-Germanic *stubbaz (compare Middle Dutch stubbe, Old Norse stubbr, Faroese stubbi (“stub”)), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tew-; compare steep (“sharp slope”). Doublet of stob.
Sense extended in Middle English to similarly shaped objects. Verb sense “strike one’s toe” is recorded 1848; “extinguish a cigarette” 1927.

Even though the stub is a dummy, it allows us to determine whether the procedure is called at the right time by the program or calling procedure.

2000, Nell B. Dale, Chip Weems, John W. McCormick, Programming and Problem Solving with ADA 95, 2nd edition, Jones & Bartlett Learning, →ISBN, page 352:

(programming) A placeholder procedure that has the signature of the planned procedure but does not yet implement the intended behavior.

Coordinate term: skeleton

The server performs the server RPC runtime library functions to accept the request and call the server stub procedure. […] After this, the server stub calls the actual procedure on the server.

2002, Judith M. Myerson, The Complete Book of Middleware, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 7:

(computing, middleware) A procedure that translates requests from external systems into a format suitable for processing and then submits those requests for processing.

A stub is usually long enough to serve as a quick definition, but too short to provide encyclopedic coverage of a subject (see Figure 4-2).

2008, John Broughton, Wikipedia: The Missing Manual, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 66:

(wiki jargon) An article providing only minimal information and intended for later development.

بذرَة

(wikis) page providing minimal information


filter

→ Japanese: フィルター (firutā)

→ Korean: 필터 (pilteo)

From Middle English filtre, from Medieval Latin filtrum (compare also Old French feutre (“felt; filter”)), from Frankish *filtir, from Proto-West Germanic *felt. See felt. Doublet of phin.

(social media) an appearance-altering digital image effect

filtro

digital image effect used on social media


sub

* Shortened form of any of various words beginning with sub-.

I've just noticed a mistake in the subs for this film.

(Internet, informal) Clipping of subtitle.

I'm totally stoked; just got 10 new subs after my last video.

(colloquial, Internet) Clipping of subscription (or (by extension) a subscriber) to an online channel or feed.

subi

subscription to an online channel or feed


sub

en-verb

sub (third-person singular simple present subs, present participle subbing, simple past and past participle subbed)

subs (present singular third-person)
subbing (participle present)
subbed (participle past)
subbed (past)

switch

one who is willing to take either a sadistic or a masochistic role

(slang, Internet, transitive) To subtitle (usually a film or television program).


astroturfing

From AstroTurf (“a synthetic substitute for grass”), a play on grass roots, as in “fake grass roots”. Attributed to U.S. Senator Lloyd Bentsen in an unidentified 1985 public statement: "[A] fellow from Texas can tell the difference between grassroots and Astroturf."

(originally US politics, now social media, marketing) The disguising of an orchestrated campaign as a "grass-roots" event, i.e., a spontaneous upwelling of public opinion.

Tarnung einer Kampagne als Volksbewegung


like

like (third-person singular simple present likes, present participle liking, simple past and past participle liked)

likes (present singular third-person)
liking (participle present)
liked (participle past)
liked (past)
lak (alternative)

Jersey Dutch: lāike

Verb from Middle English liken, from Old English līcian (“to like, to please”), from Proto-West Germanic *līkēn, from Proto-Germanic *līkāną, from Proto-Indo-European *leyg- (“image; likeness; similarity”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian liekje (“to be similar, resemble”), Dutch lijken (“to seem”), German Low German lieken (“to be like; resemble”), German gleichen (“to resemble”), Swedish lika (“to like; put up with; align with”), Norwegian like (“to like”), Icelandic líka (“to like”).
Noun from Middle English like (“pleasure, will, like”), from the verb Middle English liken (“to like”).

inh

падаба́цца (padabácca) (intransitive, the person who likes is the object of the verb in the dative case)

plaĉi al (intransitive, the person who likes is marked with the preposition al)

dáma (with subject in dative case and object in accusative case)

hóva (with subject in dative case and object in accusative case)

líka (with subject in dative case and object in accusative case)

falla (with subject in dative case and object in accusative case)

plaire (à)

gefallen (intransitive, the person who likes is the object of the verb in the dative case)

מָצָא חֵן בְּעֵינֵי (matzá ẖen b'enéy, literally “found grace in the eyes of”) (with subject and object reversed)

tetszik (with the person or thing liked in the dative)

podobać się impf (intransitive, the person who likes is the object of the verb in the dative case)

нра́виться impf (nrávitʹsja) (intransitive, the person who likes is the object of the verb in the dative case) (e.g. мне нра́вится (mne nrávitsja) + nominative case - I like + object)

сви́ђати се impf (intransitive, the person who likes is the object of the verb in the dative case)

svíđati se impf (intransitive, the person who likes is the object of the verb in the dative case)

zespódobaś se pf (intransitive, the person who likes is the object of the verb in the dative case)

all above + indirect object: ལ་དོན (la don) (oblique/dative-locative case) (ལ/-ར (la / -ra))

подо́батися (podóbatysja) (intransitive, the person who likes is the object of the verb in the dative case)

געפֿעלן (gefeln) (intransitive, the person who likes is the object of the verb in the dative case)

I liked my friend's last status on Facebook.

I can't stand Bloggs' tomato ketchup, but I liked it on Facebook so I could enter a competition.

What' up, y'all? I'm the last man on Earth. Shit's all fucked up. Don't forget to like and subscribe. We out here.

2021, Adam McKay, Don't Look Up, spoken by Jason Orlean (Jonah Hill):

(Internet, social media, transitive) To show support for, or approval of, something posted on the Internet by marking it with a vote.

հավանել

to show support for, or approval of, something posted on the Internet by marking it with a vote


like

→ Russian: лайк (lajk)

→ Ukrainian: лайк (lajk)

→ Spanish: like, likear

Social media is supervisual, and there's nothing more shareable than images, so this is a way to increase shares and likes and follows.

2016, Brooke Warner, Green-Light Your Book:

Dress for myself, I don't dress for hype / I dress for myself, you dress for the likes

2019, “Balenciaga”, performed by Princess Nokia:

Likes are the social media currency undergirding an entire influencer economy, inspiring a million Kardashian wannabes and giving many of us regular people daily endorphin hits.

2020 January 17, Amy Chozick, “This Is the Guy Who’s Taking Away the Likes”, in New York Times:

(Internet) An individual vote showing support for, approval of, or enjoyment of, something posted on the Internet.


like

/lɐi̯⁵⁵ kʰiː³⁵/

/lɐi̯⁵⁵ kʰiː³⁵/

(Hong Kong Cantonese, social media) like


like

head

like n (singular definite liket, plural indefinite likes)

liket (definite singular)
likes (indefinite plural)

Den fik 30.000 likes i løbet af en halv time, hvilket er ret meget.

It received 30,000 likes in the course of half an hour, which is quite a lot.


like

like (imperative like, infinitive at like, present tense liker, past tense likede, perfect tense har liket)

like (imperative)
at like (infinitive)
liker (present)
likede (past)
har liket (perfect)

Han havde liket sin egen kommentar.


like

like (nominative singular)
like'i (nominative plural)
like'a (genitive singular)
like'ów (genitive plural)
like'owi (dative singular)
like'om (dative plural)
like'a (accusative singular)
like'i (accusative plural)
likiem (instrumental singular)
like'ami (instrumental plural)
like'u (locative singular)
like'ach (locative plural)
like'u (singular vocative)
like'i (plural vocative)

(colloquial, neologism, social media) Alternative spelling of lajk


like

(Brazil, social media) like (Internet interaction)


fold

The verb is from Middle English folden, from Old English fealdan, from Proto-Germanic *falþaną (“to fold”), from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“to fold”). The noun is from Middle English folde,falde, itself derived from the verb.

For example, a story that is "page I, above the fold" is considered very important news. In web page design, the fold signifies the place at which the user has to scroll down to get more information.

1999, Jared M. Spool, Web Site Usability: A Designer's Guide, Morgan Kaufmann, →ISBN, page 77:

(by extension, web design) The division between the part of a web page visible in a web browser window without scrolling; usually the fold.


Uniform Resource Locator

en-noun

Uniform Resource Locator (plural Uniform Resource Locators)

(computing, Internet) A universal address for resources on the internet, which is most commonly used for websites.

ΟΕΠ

ομοιόμορφος εντοπιστής πόρων (omoiómorfos entopistís póron)


web

cs-noun

web m inan (relational adjective webový)

webový (adjective relational)
web (nominative singular)
weby (nominative plural)
webu (genitive singular)
webů (genitive plural)
webu (dative singular)
webům (dative plural)
web (accusative singular)
weby (accusative plural)
webe (singular vocative)
weby (plural vocative)
webu (locative singular)
webech (locative plural)
webem (instrumental singular)
weby (instrumental plural)


web

es-noun

web f (countable and uncountable, plural webs)


badge

→ Gulf Arabic: باجة (bāja)

→ Japanese: バッジ (bajji)

→ Korean: 배지 (baeji)

From Middle English badge, bagge, bage, bagy, from Anglo-Norman bage or Medieval Latin bagea, bagia (“sign, emblem”), of uncertain origin. Possibly derived from Medieval Latin baga (“ring”), from Old Saxon bāg, bōg (“ring, ornament”), from Proto-Germanic *baugaz (“ring, bracelet, armband”); or possibly the Anglo-Norman word is derived from an earlier, unattested English word (compare Old English bēag (“ring, bracelet, collar, crown”). Cognate with Scots bagie, badgie, bawgy (“badge”).

cog

When you have checked in to the site from ten different cities, you unlock the Traveller badge.

(Internet, video games) An icon or emblem awarded to a user for some achievement.


moot

Clipping of mutual with humorously altered pronunciation.

Eid Mubarak to all my muslim moots out there

2020, @healer_katara, "Café au Twitter", ZaofuToday, Issue 1, page 10

I just simply post them in my main Twitter account, then hoping that my moots will like and retweet them.

2021, @DIORJAEYUN, "NCity Small Business", EnVi, Winter 2021, page 222

RT: hi..jst joined #edtwt! let’s be moots and rt each other

2022, anonymous, quoted in Fayika Farhat Nova et al., "Cultivating the Community: Inferring Influence Within Eating Disorder Networks on Twitter", Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, January 2022 (article link)

(Internet slang, endearing) A mutual follower on a social media platform.


hate

hate (accusative indefinite nominative)
hate-ul (accusative definite nominative)
hate (indefinite)
hate-ului (definite)

(Internet, sociology) hate (hateful or spiteful comments, especially online)


fragment

From Late Middle English fragment, from Latin fragmentum (“a fragment, remnant”), from frangō (“I break”) + -mentum.

der

Holonym: anchor link

The URL www.example.com/home#recent ends with a fragment.

Unique URLs requires you to make like an information architect and do some URL design work. Possibly, you'll be controlling only the fragment identifier rather than the entire URL, but even the fragment identifier has usability implications.

2006, Michael Mahemoff, Ajax Design Patterns, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 523:

(Internet) A portion of a URL referring to a subordinate resource or anchor (such as a specific point on a web page), introduced by the # sign.


vue

vues (plural)
vüe (alternative)
vuë (alternative)

Cette vidéo a atteint les 1 000 000 vues sur YouTube.

(Internet) view (an individual viewing of a video by a user)


block

Unadapted borrowing from English block. Doublet of bloco.

(social media) block (temporary or permanent ban that prevents access to an online account or service)


story

desctree

Sranan Tongo: tori
Aukan: toli
→ Dutch: tori

→ Welsh: stori

→ Persian: استوری (estori)

→ Portuguese: estória

From Middle English storie, storye, from Anglo-Norman estorie by aphesis. The Anglo-Norman word itself comes from Latin historia, a borrowing from Ancient Greek ἱστορίᾱ (historíā, “learning through research”). Doublet of history and storey.

der

What will she do without being able to watch her stories?

He stood on the doorstep for a minute, listening for sounds inside the house — a radio, a TV tuned to one of the stories […]

(US, colloquial, usually pluralized) A soap opera.

Worshippers in Mecca are streaming their stories live on Snapchat, opening up the Saudi city to non-Muslims online.

2015 July 14, Aisha Gani, “Mecca worshippers stream their stories live on Snapchat”, in The Guardian:

People can make stories public or private, and can choose if they want only a subsection of their followers to view them.

2016 August 2, Mike Isaac, “Instagram Takes a Page From Snapchat, and Takes Aim at It, Too”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

I have come across a few (OK, two) Stories that have made me laugh. And when that happens, the medium frustrates even more with its fleetingness. But here’s hoping the Instagram Stories on my feed improve as time goes by. The End.

2016 August 12, Hannah Jane Parkinson, “Instagram Stories: who cares about your commute or cleansing routine?”, in The Guardian:

While it might seem harmless to sneak the occasional peek at their Story or see what they’ve been watching on Netflix, Fortin says you’re leaving yourself open to “potentially stressful situations that may come at a time when you're gaining momentum in your progress.” Think about it—if their number isn’t blocked, you’ll jump at each noti wondering if it’s them.

2023 October 23, Rachel Varina, “How to Get Over a Breakup So You Can *Actually* Move On and Heal”, in Cosmopolitan:

(social media, sometimes capitalized) A chronological collection of pictures or short videos published by a user on an application or website that is typically only available for a short period.


story

en-verb

story (third-person singular simple present stories, present participle storying, simple past and past participle storied)

stories (present singular third-person)
storying (participle present)
storied (participle past)
storied (past)
storie (alternative)

But Portman, quite self-deprecating about her social-media savvy, says she . . . isn’t quite fully at ease yet with the world of double-taps and geotags and storying.

2018 February 12, Josh Duboff, “Reese Witherspoon Is Natalie Portman’s Instagram Guru”, in Vanity Fair:

I hereby argue that the only thing that would make these mini Friends reunions truly complete would be contributions from Aniston herself, who decidedly does not have an Instagram page. Imagine the content possibilities: Aniston looking flawless and chic by the pool; Aniston Storying herself shopping at Gelson’s; […]

2019 June 24, Christian Allaire, “Jennifer Aniston, We Beg You, Get on Instagram”, in Vogue:

(ambitransitive, social media, sometimes capitalized) To post a story (chronological collection of pictures or short videos) on an application or website.


story

head

story (definite accusative storyi or storyyi, plural storyler)

storyi (accusative definite)
storyyi (accusative definite)
storyler (plural)
st (alternative)


page

→ Hindi: पेज (pej)

→ Japanese: ページ (pēji)

→ Korean: 페이지 (peiji)

Via Middle French from Latin pāgina, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ-. Doublet of pagina.


park

en-verb

park (third-person singular simple present parks, present participle parking, simple past and past participle parked)

parks (present singular third-person)
parking (participle present)
parked (participle past)
parked (past)

From Middle English park, from Old French parc (“livestock pen”), from Medieval Latin parcus, parricus, from Frankish *parrik (“enclosure, pen, fence”). Cognate with Dutch perk (“enclosure; flowerbed”), Old High German pfarrih, pferrih (“enclosure, pen”), Old English pearroc (“enclosure”) (whence modern English paddock), Old Norse parrak, parak (“enclosure, pen; distress, anxiety”), Icelandic parraka (“to keep pent in under restraint and coercion”). More at parrock, paddock.

cog

(Internet) To register a domain name, but make no use of it (See domain parking)


wikify

en-verb

wikify (third-person singular simple present wikifies, present participle wikifying, simple past and past participle wikified)

wikifies (present singular third-person)
wikifying (participle present)
wikified (participle past)
wikified (past)

The Los Angeles Times proved this last week, with its high-minded but ultimately hilarious attempt to 'wikify ' its editorial column.

2005 June 26, Frank Kane, “Eureka! Journalists may not be doomed after all”, in The Observer:

Although he's adamant that NCBI is not going to "wikify" GenBank, Lipman says he's eager to work with mycologists to come up with a solution, possibly through RefSeq.

2008 March 21, Elizabeth Pennisi, “Proposal to 'Wikify' GenBank Meets Stiff Resistance”, in Science:

(transitive) To make into a wiki, or to use a wiki approach for.


XNAY

Initialism of X-No-Archive: yes, a Usenet message header that indicates the message should not be retained on the server after delivery. Probably also influenced by ixnay.

(Internet slang) Indicates the poster’s request for a message not to be stored in Usenet archives.


part

part (third-person singular simple present parts, present participle parting, simple past and past participle parted)

parts (present singular third-person)
parting (participle present)
parted (participle past)
parted (past)

From Middle English parten, from Old French partir.

ayrılmaq

to become divided in two or separated; shed

He parted the channel saying "SHUTUP!"[…]so I queried him, asking if there was something I could do[…]maybe talk[…]so we did[…]since then, I've been seeing him on IRC every day (really can't imagine him not being on IRC anymore actually).

2000, Phantom, “Re: Uhm... hi... I guess...”, in alt.support.boy-lovers (Usenet):

(transitive, Internet) To leave (an IRC channel).


GNAA

The Gay Nigger Association of America (GNAA) was created in 2002, and typified this sort of extreme trolling. Their opening page featured the following invitation: “Are you GAY? Are you a NIGGER? Are you a GAY NIGGER? If you answered ‘Yes’ to all of the above questions, then GNAA might be exactly what you're looking for!”

2015, Jamie Bartlett, The Dark Net, Melville House, →ISBN:

Asked why GNAA is getting involved in the election now, Meepsheep demurred. “The media has created a lot of fertile soil for trolling and I’m sure you’ll start seeing a lot more out of the GNAA and others within the next few months,” he or she wrote.

2016 October 13, Brendan O'Connor, “Internet Trolls Vandalize Hillary and Bill Clinton's Wikipedia Pages in Extremely NSFW Way”, in Jezebel, archived from the original on 2023-02-28:

Gay Nigger Association of America
w:Gay Nigger Association of America

(Internet) Initialism of Gay Nigger Association of America.


mirror

mur (all in some North American accents only)

From Middle English mirour, from Old French mireor (“mirror”, literally “looker, watcher”), from mirer (“look at”), from Latin mīror (“wonder at”), from mīrus (“wonderful”), from Proto-Indo-European *smey- (“to laugh, to be glad”). Displaced native Middle English schewere, schawere, from Old English sċēawere (“mirror”, literally “watcher”), which was also the word for "spy".

ncog

Although the content had been deleted from his blog, it was still found on some mirrors.

(computing, Internet) A website or server that contains replicated data from another site.


mirror

en-verb

mirror (third-person singular simple present mirrors, present participle mirroring, simple past and past participle mirrored)

mirrors (present singular third-person)
mirroring (participle present)
mirrored (participle past)
mirrored (past)
mirrour (alternative)

(transitive, computing, Internet) To create something identical to (a website, etc.).

tükröz

computing: to create a replica of another site


mirror

Unadapted borrowing from English mirror.

(computing, Internet) mirror (replica of other websites)


metaverse

From meta- + (uni)verse. Analyzable as meta- + -verse. In the sci-fi sense coined by American science fiction writer Neal Stephenson in 1992.

coin

It is closer, in other words, to another science fiction vision, the “metaverse” Neal Stephenson envisioned in his 1992 Snow Crash. That particular moniker has not caught on, but many of Stephenson's ideas about what the on-line world can look like are driving a new generation of entrepreneurs to try to match it.

1997 July 7, Zina Moukheiber, “The geeks have inherited the earth”, in Forbes, →ISSN, pages 354–356:

But now, with 350 million players who are used to hanging out in a vibrant, ridiculous online world filled with dancing bananas and cartoon skirmishes, Party Royale could be the experience that finally realises the idea of a playful, mass participation online metaverse.

2020 May 15, Keith Stuart, “Fortnite Party Royale is the most fun you can have in the metaverse”, in The Guardian:

Video games like Roblox and Fortnite and Animal Crossing: New Horizons, in which players can build their own worlds, have metaverse tendencies, as does most social media. If you own a non-fungible token or even just some crypto, you’re part of the metaversal experience. Virtual and augmented reality are, at a minimum, metaverse adjacent.

2021 July 10, John Herrman, Kellen Browning, “Are We in the Metaverse Yet?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

In the world of Snow Crash, the metaverse is not viewed as particularly cool—it is necessary, because the real world has become so unbearable.

2021 July 30, Brian Merchant, “The Metaverse Has Always Been a Dystopian Idea”, in VICE:

The metaverse is the convergence of two ideas that have been around for many years: virtual reality and a digital second life.

2022 January 18, Brian X. Chen, “What’s All the Hype About the Metaverse?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(science fiction, Internet, computing) A hypothetical future (counterpart or continuation of the) Internet, created by the convergence of virtually enhanced physical reality and physically persistent virtual space.


exploit

From Old French esploit (noun), esploitier (verb).

(by extension, Internet, video games) An action or technique that takes advantage of the conditions of a video game to gain an advantage, or to disadvantage others.


wallop

en-verb

wallop (third-person singular simple present wallops, present participle walloping, simple past and past participle walloped)

wallops (present singular third-person)
walloping (participle present)
walloped (participle past)
walloped (past)

(Internet) To send a message to all operators on an Internet Relay Chat server.


pod

Origin uncertain. Perhaps from Middle English *pod ("seed-pod, husk, shell, outer covering"; attested in pod-ware (“legume seed; seed grain”)), itself possibly from Old English pād (“an outer garment, covering, coat, cloak”), from Proto-West Germanic *paidu, from Proto-Germanic *paidō (“coat, smock, shirt”), from Proto-Indo-European *baiteh₂- (“woolen clothes”). If so, then cognate with Old Saxon pēda (“skirt”), German dialectal Pfeid, Pfeit (“shirt”), Gothic 𐍀𐌰𐌹𐌳𐌰 (paida, “mantle, skirt”), and perhaps Albanian petk (“gown, garment, dress, suit”) and Ancient Greek βαίτη (baítē, “goat-skin, fur-coat, tent”).

unc

uncertain

gloss

"seed-pod, husk, shell, outer covering"; attested in <i class="Latn mention" lang="enm">pod-ware</i> (“legume seed; seed grain”)

ncog

I'd started shopping at 2 a.m., and the pod I listened to while shopping was almost through, so had to be 3 damn near.

2022, Sean Thor Conroe, Fuccboi, Hachette, →ISBN:

(informal, Internet) Clipping of podcast.


stitch

en-verb

stitch (third-person singular simple present stitches, present participle stitching, simple past and past participle stitched)

stitches (present singular third-person)
stitching (participle present)
stitched (participle past)
stitched (past)
stich (alternative)

From Middle English sticchen, stichen, from Old English *stiċċan, stiċċian, from Proto-Germanic *stikjaną (“to stab, stick, prick”), influenced by the noun (see above).

inh

One site, PearPop.com, hooks TikTok or Instagram influencers up with fans to create duetted or stitched videos that fans pay for. This can be an effective way to build followers fast.⁹ Model Leah Svoboda added 120,000 followers after a PearPop duet with megainfluencer Anna Shumate.¹⁰

2022, Brian Boxer Wachler, Influenced: The Impact of Social Media on Our Perception, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, pages 186–187:

She talks briefly about their park picnic and then inserts a cliffhanger: “I’m going to stitch this when we’re either in a relationship or he absolutely obliterates my self-esteem.” (Stitch is a creation tool that allows users to add new content to an existing video.)

2023 March 1, Rachel Ellison, “Bad Dates Turn Out to Be Excellent on TikTok”, in The New York Times:

To include, combine, or unite into a single whole.

(TikTok) To incorporate (an existing video) into a new one, resulting in a collaborative clip that shows the two videos in a sequence.


disambiguation

en-noun

disambiguation (countable and uncountable, plural disambiguations)

/dɪsæmˌbɪɡjuːˈeɪʃən/

(wiki jargon) A page on a wiki containing links to two or more topics with the same name.


sysop

(computing, Internet) A system operator, especially someone who administers an online communications system or bulletin board.

(wiki jargon, chiefly Wikimedia jargon) An administrator on a wiki.

wiki jargon; chiefly Wikimedia jargon; wiki jargon; chiefly Wikimedia jargon


interred

From inter- + red, calque of English Internet.


bouncer

(Internet) An account or server (as with IRC and FTP) that invisibly redirects requests to another, used for anonymity or vanity.


forward

en-verb

forward (third-person singular simple present forwards, present participle forwarding, simple past and past participle forwarded)

forwards (present singular third-person)
forwarding (participle present)
forwarded (participle past)
forwarded (past)
foreward (alternative)
forrard (alternative)
forrad (alternative)
forred (alternative)

Dutch: forwarden

From Middle English foreward, from Old English foreweard (“forward, inclined to the front, fore, early, former”), from Proto-Germanic *fura- (“fore-”), *warþaz (“turned”), equivalent to fore + -ward. Cognate with Dutch voorwaarts (“forward”), German vorwärts (“forward”).

der

I'll be glad to forward your mail to you while you're gone.

One of the most important aspects of the social service operation was the maintaining of a telephone "hot line," supposedly available twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week […] This unbelievable achievement was accomplished with the expedient of "call forwarding" which made it possible for all the calls coming in to the CHAT office to be sent by means of technical magic to any other telephone in the area.

1981 April 4, Steve Owens, “We Are God's Children Too”, in Gay Community News, page 9:

(transitive) To send (a letter, email etc.) on to a third party.

aanstuur

send (something received) to a third party

pass on

send (something received) on to a third party


forward

forwards (plural)
foreward (alternative)
forrard (alternative)
forrad (alternative)
forred (alternative)

When you receive your new pen-pal's email address, do not automatically put it in your address book and use the email Addy to send 'forwards' to. Not every pen pal likes 'forwards', especially jokes and meaningless emails.

2004, Tamara Stevens, What Is Snail Mail?: The Lost Art of Letterwriting, page 27:

This method attaches the files to a new email, which is fine if you want to create a new email. The only problem with this is that it doesn't work if you'd rather send forwards or replies.

2009, Joli Ballew, Windows 7 for the Over 50s in Simple Steps:

(Internet) An e-mail message that is forwarded to another recipient or recipients; an electronic chain letter.


frame

→ Korean: 프레임 (peureim)

→ Swahili: fremu

From Middle English frame (“profit, benefit, advantage; a structure composed according to a plan”), from the verb (above) and also from Old Norse frami (“advantage, fame, bravery, efficiency, privilege, honor”); and frame (“a framework or structure of any kind”) which is of uncertain origin. The latter is usually regarded as a derivative of former; however, compare the rare Anglo-Norman and Old French frame, fraine (“frame, framework”), itself of uncertain origin, which might be a borrowing from the English, from the Norse, or even possibly ultimately from Frankish *hramu (“frame”) related to Dutch raam (“window frame”).

der

(Internet) An individually scrollable region of a webpage.


frame

(Internet) frame (individually scrollable region of a webpage)


IM

en-noun

IM (countable and uncountable, plural IMs)

Have them meet you on your favorite messenger program. IMs provide a means of instant chat without waiting on someone to respond back to you.

2010, Tim Collins, A Woman's Guide to Internet Dating, A Male Perspective, page 49:

(Internet) Initialism of instant message.

Another threat to the use of IM is a phenomenon known as spimming. Spimming is to IM as spam is to e-mail. Some aggressive spimmers learned how to take over one IMer's contact list — threatening a company's entire IM system!

2007, Bill Daley, Computers Are Your Future, page 70:

Sure, we may use cellphones and e-mail hundreds of times a week, but we say very little. […] Most of our talk, even in privileged IM circles, is no deeper than the words we exchange with the pizza guy.

2008 January–February, Chris Rodell, “Small talk, big results”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 1, →ISSN, page 80:

instant messaging
instant messaging#English

(Internet) Initialism of instant messaging.


googlewhack

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

From Google + whack. Coined by Gary Stock on 8 January 2002.

(Internet) A Google search result consisting of a single hit, in response to a search on two separate words.


googlewhack

en-verb

googlewhack (third-person singular simple present googlewhacks, present participle googlewhacking, simple past and past participle googlewhacked)

googlewhacks (present singular third-person)
googlewhacking (participle present)
googlewhacked (participle past)
googlewhacked (past)

(Internet, transitive, rare) To search for something using Google, resulting in a single hit.


ググる

ja-verb

ググる • (guguru) transitive godan (stem ググり (guguri), past ググった (gugutta))

guguru (romanization)
ググり (stem)
ググった (past)
ググら
gugura
ググり
guguri
ググる
guguru
ググれ
gugure
ググられる (passive)
gugurareru (passive)
ググらせる (causative)
ググらす (causative)
guguraseru (causative)
gugurasu (causative)
ググれる (potential)
gugureru (potential)
ググろう (volitional)
gugurō (volitional)
ググらない (negative)
guguranai (negative)
ググらず (continuative negative)
gugurazu (continuative negative)
ググります (formal)
gugurimasu (formal)
ググった (perfective)
gugutta (perfective)
ググって (conjunctive)
gugutte (conjunctive)
ググれば (conditional hypothetical)
gugureba (conditional hypothetical)

Blend of グーグル (Gūguru, derived from English Google) + verb-forming suffix -る (-ru).

blend

derived from English <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">Google</i>

(Internet slang) to google: to search the Internet using the Google search engine

(Internet slang) to search the Internet using a search engine (not necessarily Google)


creator

creators (plural)
creatour (alternative)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-creator.wav

From Middle English creatour, from Old French creator, creatur, creatour, from Latin creātor, agent noun from perfect passive participle creātus (“created”), from verb creō (“I create”) + agent suffix -or. Mostly displaced native Old English wyrhta (modern English wright).

Coordinate term: influencer

creator economy

People have viewed his videos more than 13 billion times. And last year as the pandemic raged, he became the most-subscribed YouTube creator in the country.

2021 May 4, Taylor Lorenz, “Mr. Beast, YouTube Star, Wants to Take Over the Business World”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

The video shows TikTok creator Harrison Pawluk approaching the woman, Maree, in a public shopping centre.

2022 July 14, Rafqa Touma, “Melbourne woman ‘dehumanised’ by viral TikTok filmed without her consent”, in The Guardian:

(social media) Ellipsis of content creator, someone who regularly produces and publishes content on social media, especially of a monetizable nature.

creator

one who regularly produces and publishes content on social media — see also content creator


tag

en-verb

tag (third-person singular simple present tags, present participle tagging, simple past and past participle tagged)

tags (present singular third-person)
tagging (participle present)
tagged (participle past)
tagged (past)

From Middle English tagge (“small piece hanging from a garment”), probably of North Germanic origin. Compare Norwegian tagg (“point; prong; barb; tag”), Swedish tagg (“thorn; prickle; tine”), Icelandic tág (“a willow-twig”). Compare also tack.

cog

One side wants to demonstrate a higher level of street knowledge and openly denounces the distorting lens of Instagram dissings; the other embraces the medium's branding affordances by sending “clout” to a third-party ally, while at the same time avoiding tagging the opponent.

2021, Julie B. Wiest, Theorizing Criminality and Policing in the Digital Media Age, page 82:

(transitive, Internet) To attach the name of (a user) to a posted message so that they are linked from the post and possibly sent a notification.

taggare

to attach the name of a user so that they are linked from the post


block level element

en-noun

block level element (plural block level elements)

(HTML) An HTML element that normally begins on a new line, and may or may not contain other block level elements or inline elements.


blogger

The New York Times called it “another signal moment for bloggers,” while over at HardwareGeeks.com (“a community for sophisticated geeks and geekettes”), they were flying the victory flag: “A blogger with a White House Press pass? Just another sign of the times and another indication that bloggers are as powerful as regular media.”

2005 March, William Powers, “Sleeping With the Enemy”, in The Atlantic:

(Internet) A contributor to a blog (from weblog) or online journal.


blogger

Unadapted borrowing from English blogger.


blogger

bloggeren (definite singular)
bloggere (indefinite plural)
bloggerne (definite plural)

blogg + -er, possibly from English blogger

(Internet) a blogger (person who writes a blog)


blogger

bloggeri (plural)
blogger (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
bloggerul (accusative definite nominative singular)
bloggeri (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
bloggerii (accusative definite nominative plural)
blogger (indefinite singular)
bloggerului (definite singular)
bloggeri (indefinite singular)
bloggerilor (definite plural)
bloggerule (singular vocative)
bloggerilor (vocative)


web hosting

web-hosting (alternative)
webhosting (alternative)

The service of hosting a web site on the Internet, making it viewable by other users.


immortal

From Latin immortālis, from prefix im- (“not”) (from in-) + mortālis (“mortal”) (from mors (“death”), combining form mort- + adjectival suffix -alis), equivalent to im- + mortal. Displaced native undeadly, from Old English undēadlīċ.

Tazmania/Middle Sphere is in need of builders, admin, and immortals. […] Immortals do not need experiance^([sic]).

1999, Corey Crawford, “RECRUITING: [circle] Tazmania/Middle Sphere: Admin, Builders, Immortals”, in rec.games.mud.announce (Usenet):

(Internet) An administrator of a multi-user dungeon.


sticky

en-adj

sticky (comparative stickier, superlative stickiest)

stickier (comparative)
stickiest (superlative)

(Internet, of threads on a bulletin board) Fixed at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in view.

A woman has come to me with the complaint that her website is not sticky: 70% of the visits last 30 seconds or less.

(Internet, of a website) Compelling enough to keep visitors from leaving.


sticky

en-noun

sticky (countable and uncountable, plural stickies)

(Internet) A discussion thread fixed at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in view.


sticky

en-verb

sticky (third-person singular simple present stickies, present participle stickying, simple past and past participle stickied)

stickies (present singular third-person)
stickying (participle present)
stickied (participle past)
stickied (past)

(Internet, bulletin boards, transitive) to fix a thread at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in view.


wey

Variant of güey, representing the relaxed pronunciation of the /ɡw/ sounds.

(Mexico, colloquial slang, eye dialect, Internet) chump, punk, dumbass, idiot, jerk

(Mexico, colloquial, Internet, also Latin America) dude, guy, buddy


reaction

reactions (plural)
reäction (alternative)

Inherited from Middle English reaccion, from Old French reaction, from Latin reāctiō, from the verb reagō, from re- (“again”) + agō (“to act”); more at re-, action; equivalent to react + -ion.

(Internet) An icon or emoji appended to a posted message by a user to express their feeling about it.


malper

malper (nominative singular)
malper (nominative plural)
malpera (construct singular)
malperên (construct plural)
malperê (oblique singular)
malperan (oblique plural)
wê malperê (singular)
wan malperan (plural)
malperê (singular vocative)
malperino (plural vocative)
malperek (nominative singular)
malperin (nominative plural)
malpereke (construct singular)
malperine (construct plural)
malperekê (oblique singular)
malperinan (oblique plural)


bounce

bounce (third-person singular simple present bounces, present participle bouncing, simple past and past participle bounced)

bounces (present singular third-person)
bouncing (participle present)
bounced (participle past)
bounced (past)

From Middle English bounsen, bunsen (“to beat, thump”), cognate with Scots bunce, bonce (“to bounce”). Of uncertain origin. Perhaps imitative, related to bump, or related to Middle English bonchen (“to pound, beat”) and Dutch bonken (“to bump”).
Compare Saterland Frisian bumzje (“to pound, bang, bounce”), West Frisian bûnzje (“to throb, bounce, pulsate”), Dutch bonzen (“to thump, knock, throb, bounce”), German Low German bunsen, bumsen (“to beat, bounce”), German bumsen (“to thud, bang, pound”).

unc

uncertain

onomatopoeic

imitative

cog

What’s your new email address? The old one bounces.

The girl in the bar told me her address was thirsty@example.com, but my mail to that address was bounced back by the server.

(ambitransitive, Internet, of an e-mail message) To return undelivered.


bounce

en-noun

bounce (countable and uncountable, plural bounces)

unc

uncertain

onomatopoeic

imitative

(Internet) An email that returns to the sender because of a delivery failure.


dewikify

en-verb

dewikify (third-person singular simple present dewikifies, present participle dewikifying, simple past and past participle dewikified)

dewikifies (present singular third-person)
dewikifying (participle present)
dewikified (participle past)
dewikified (past)

I dewikified "a kind of deciduous tree" to "a kind of deciduous tree".

(wiki jargon, transitive) To remove wiki markup formatting, such as internal links.


news

Sranan Tongo: nyunsu

From Middle English newes, newys (“new things”), equivalent to new (noun) + -s. Compare Saterland Frisian Näis (“news”), East Frisian näjs (“news”), West Frisian nijs (“news”), Dutch nieuws (“news”), German Low German Neeis (“new things; news”), though unlike the English word, these originated as genitives, not plurals. Sometimes erroneously claimed to be an acronym of "North, East, West, South" or "Noteworthy Events, Weather, Sports".

cog

Is there any news about the storm?

That was not much news in the press release.

VVith speede let vs impart the newes vnto my Lord the King,
The fearefull newes that whilſt the flame doth but begin,
Sad pollicie may ſerue to quench the fire: […]

1593, anonymous author, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], Act I:

Sirra, your Lord and maſters married, there's newes for you: you haue a new Miſtris.

c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii], page 239, column 1:

When theſe news were brought to him, ſome counſelled him to go to Stirlin, where the King was, and where he would be the ſtronger.

a. 1630, David Hume of Godscroft, The History of the Houses of Douglas and Angus, Edinburgh: […] Evan Tyler, […], published 1644, page 302:

The Usenet news system brings people together from around the world and forms social groups on the basis of common interest. Usenet news is a domain that is suffering badly from information overload.

2012, Christopher Lueg, Danyel Fisher, From Usenet to CoWebs, page 207:

(Internet) Messages posted on newsgroups.


LC

en-noun

LC (countable and uncountable, plural LCs)

(fashion on the Internet) Initialism of legit check.


pampa

head

pampa (definite accusative pampayı, plural [please provide])

Raad ol pampa.


(chiefly computing) Uses especially in computing.

(Internet) Used to indicate a field of a form that must be filled out.


magnet

→ Cebuano: magnet

→? Indonesian: magnet

→? Malay: magnet

→ Tagalog: magnet

→ Welsh: magnet

From Middle English magnete, via Old French magnete, Latin magnēs, magnētem (“lodestone”), from Ancient Greek μαγνῆτις [λίθος] (magnêtis [líthos], “Magnesian [stone]”), either after the Lydian city Magnesia ad Sipylum (modern-day Manisa, Turkey), or after the Greek region of Μαγνησία (Magnēsía) (whence came the colonist who founded the city in Lydia). Related to manganese, magnesia and magnesium.

der

μαγνῆτις 􂀿λίθος􂁀

Magnets are thus used to create a package of cryptologic information and bundling^([sic]) it together.

2019, David Adams, Ann-Kathrin Maier, Big Seven Study (2016): 7 open source Crypto-Messengers to be compared, page 142:


sacar

pt-verb

sacar (first-person singular present saco, first-person singular preterite saquei, past participle sacado)

saco (first-person present singular)
saquei (first-person preterite singular)
sacado (participle past)
sacar (impersonal infinitive)
sacar (first-person infinitive singular)
sacares (infinitive second-person singular)
sacar (infinitive singular third-person)
sacarmos (first-person infinitive plural)
sacardes (infinitive plural second-person)
sacarem (infinitive plural third-person)
sacando (gerund)
sacado (masculine participle past singular)
sacados (masculine participle past plural)
sacada (feminine participle past singular)
sacadas (feminine participle past plural)
saco (first-person indicative present singular)
sacas (indicative present second-person singular)
saca (indicative present singular third-person)
sacamos (first-person indicative plural present)
sacais (indicative plural present second-person)
sacam (indicative plural present third-person)
sacava (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
sacavas (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
sacava (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
sacávamos (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
sacáveis (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
sacavam (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
saquei (first-person indicative preterite singular)
sacaste (indicative preterite second-person singular)
sacou (indicative preterite singular third-person)
sacamos (Brazil first-person indicative plural preterite)
sacámos (first-person indicative plural preterite)
sacastes (indicative plural preterite second-person)
sacaram (indicative plural preterite third-person)
sacara (first-person indicative pluperfect singular)
sacaras (indicative pluperfect second-person singular)
sacara (indicative pluperfect singular third-person)
sacáramos (first-person indicative pluperfect plural)
sacáreis (indicative pluperfect plural second-person)
sacaram (indicative pluperfect plural third-person)
sacarei (first-person future indicative singular)
sacarás (future indicative second-person singular)
sacará (future indicative singular third-person)
sacaremos (first-person future indicative plural)
sacareis (future indicative plural second-person)
sacarão (future indicative plural third-person)
sacaria (conditional first-person singular)
sacarias (conditional second-person singular)
sacaria (conditional singular third-person)
sacaríamos (conditional first-person plural)
sacaríeis (conditional plural second-person)
sacariam (conditional plural third-person)
saque (first-person present singular subjunctive)
saques (present second-person singular subjunctive)
saque (present singular subjunctive third-person)
saquemos (first-person plural present subjunctive)
saqueis (plural present second-person subjunctive)
saquem (plural present subjunctive third-person)
sacasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
sacasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
sacasse (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
sacássemos (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
sacásseis (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
sacassem (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
sacar (first-person future singular subjunctive)
sacares (future second-person singular subjunctive)
sacar (future singular subjunctive third-person)
sacarmos (first-person future plural subjunctive)
sacardes (future plural second-person subjunctive)
sacarem (future plural subjunctive third-person)
saca (imperative second-person singular)
saque (imperative singular third-person)
saquemos (first-person imperative plural)
sacai (imperative plural second-person)
saquem (imperative plural third-person)
não saques (imperative negative second-person singular)
não saque (imperative negative singular third-person)
não saquemos (first-person imperative negative plural)
não saqueis (imperative negative plural second-person)
não saquem (imperative negative plural third-person)

From Old Galician-Portuguese sacar, probably from Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐌺𐌰𐌽 (sakan, “to dispute, rebuke”), from Proto-Germanic *sakaną (“to dispute, rebuke”). Compare Spanish sacar.

der

(colloquial, computing, Internet) to download


ark

head

ark (definite accusative arkı, plural arklar)

arkı (accusative definite)
arklar (plural)

(chiefly Internet) Abbreviation of arkadaş.


blackout

en-noun

blackout (countable and uncountable, plural blackouts)

blackouts (plural)
black-out (alternative)

→ French: blackout

→ German: Blackout

→ Portuguese: blecaute, blackout

the 2012 English Wikipedia blackout

A group of Redditors, many of whom are moderators, organized a temporary boycott, with participating subreddits going private or restricted for 48 hours starting on Monday. A Twitch stream tracking the blackout claimed that nearly 8,500 subreddits, some with tens of millions of subscribers, had gone dark by Tuesday afternoon.

2023 June 14, Sara Morrison, “The ongoing Reddit Blackout, explained”, in Vox:

(Internet) An intentional outage of a website or other online service, typically as a form of protest.


bong

(slang, Internet, derogatory) Clipping of Britbong.


firehose

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

2015, Ismail Khalil, Erich Neuhold, A Min Tjoa, Li Da Xu, Ilsun You, Information and Communication Technology: Third IFIP TC 5/8 International Conference
The programmer must override the method on_data(), which processes each tweet that is taken from the firehose.

(Internet, neologism) Access to the social media data sold to the third parties, or such data stream.


topic

From Latin topica, from Ancient Greek τοπικός (topikós, “pertaining to a place, local, pertaining to a common place, or topic, topical”), from τόπος (tópos, “a place”), of Pre-Greek origin.


spyware

In the end of the 90s we call^([sic]) this software spyware, there was a term for it, and now we don't use this term anymore because most of the software that we use is spyware […]

2017 December, 5:24 from the start, in Interview with hacktivist Jaromil, ArtEZ studium generale:

(Internet) Programs that surreptitiously monitor and report the actions of a computer user.


dislike

(Internet) An individual vote showing disapproval of, or lack of support for, something posted on the Internet.


dislike

en-verb

dislike (third-person singular simple present dislikes, present participle disliking, simple past and past participle disliked)

dislikes (present singular third-person)
disliking (participle present)
disliked (participle past)
disliked (past)

Rebecca Black's "Friday" video has gained notoriety for being one of the most disliked videos in YouTube history.

(Internet) To leave a vote to show disapproval of, or lack of support for, something posted on the Internet.


cyber

Originally from cybernetics, before becoming a stand-alone word.

I pointed out to him we have significant cyber capability and he knows it. He doesn’t know exactly what it is, but it’s significant. And if in fact they violate these basic norms, we will respond cyberly. He knows. In a cyber way.

2021, Charles P. Pierce, “Vladimir Putin Is a King Bullshit Artist,” Esquire, June 17 [quoting Joe Biden]

Of, or having to do with, the Internet; alternative spelling of cyber-


cyber

These prefigure the more complex aspects of virtual and real interactions which the cyber will deliver to us in these early years of the new millennium.

2004, Henry Linger, Julie Fisher, W. Gregory Wojtkowski, Constructing the Infrastructure for the Knowledge Economy: Methods and Tools, Theory and Practice:

2012, Sean Swan (Ed), On the Cyber
The pace and extent to which the cyber is transforming our world increases daily.

(singular only) Everything having to do with the Internet considered collectively.


googlować

googlować (infinitive)
googluję (present singular)
googlujemy (plural present)
googlujesz (present singular)
googlujecie (plural present)
googluje (present singular third-person)
googlują (plural present third-person)
googluje się (impersonal present)
googlowałem (masculine past singular)
-(e)m googlował (masculine past singular)
googlowałam (feminine past singular)
-(e)m googlowała (feminine past singular)
googlowałom (neuter past singular)
-(e)m googlowało (neuter past singular)
googlowaliśmy (past plural virile)
-(e)śmy googlowali (past plural virile)
googlowałyśmy (nonvirile past plural)
-(e)śmy googlowały (nonvirile past plural)
googlowałeś (masculine past singular)
-(e)ś googlował (masculine past singular)
googlowałaś (feminine past singular)
-(e)ś googlowała (feminine past singular)
googlowałoś (neuter past singular)
-(e)ś googlowało (neuter past singular)
googlowaliście (past plural virile)
-(e)ście googlowali (past plural virile)
googlowałyście (nonvirile past plural)
-(e)ście googlowały (nonvirile past plural)
googlował (masculine past singular third-person)
googlowała (feminine past singular third-person)
googlowało (neuter past singular third-person)
googlowali (past plural third-person virile)
googlowały (nonvirile past plural third-person)
googlowano (impersonal past)
będę googlował (future masculine singular)
będę googlować (future masculine singular)
będę googlowała (feminine future singular)
będę googlować (feminine future singular)
będę googlowało (future neuter singular)
będę googlować (future neuter singular)
będziemy googlowali (future plural virile)
będziemy googlować (future plural virile)
będziemy googlowały (future nonvirile plural)
będziemy googlować (future nonvirile plural)
będziesz googlował (future masculine singular)
będziesz googlować (future masculine singular)
będziesz googlowała (feminine future singular)
będziesz googlować (feminine future singular)
będziesz googlowało (future neuter singular)
będziesz googlować (future neuter singular)
będziecie googlowali (future plural virile)
będziecie googlować (future plural virile)
będziecie googlowały (future nonvirile plural)
będziecie googlować (future nonvirile plural)
będzie googlował (future masculine singular third-person)
będzie googlować (future masculine singular third-person)
będzie googlowała (feminine future singular third-person)
będzie googlować (feminine future singular third-person)
będzie googlowało (future neuter singular third-person)
będzie googlować (future neuter singular third-person)
będą googlowali (future plural third-person virile)
będą googlować (future plural third-person virile)
będą googlowały (future nonvirile plural third-person)
będą googlować (future nonvirile plural third-person)
będzie googlować się (future impersonal)
googlowałbym (conditional masculine singular)
bym googlował (conditional masculine singular)
googlowałabym (conditional feminine singular)
bym googlowała (conditional feminine singular)
googlowałobym (conditional neuter singular)
bym googlowało (conditional neuter singular)
googlowalibyśmy (conditional plural virile)
byśmy googlowali (conditional plural virile)
googlowałybyśmy (conditional nonvirile plural)
byśmy googlowały (conditional nonvirile plural)
googlowałbyś (conditional masculine singular)
byś googlował (conditional masculine singular)
googlowałabyś (conditional feminine singular)
byś googlowała (conditional feminine singular)
googlowałobyś (conditional neuter singular)
byś googlowało (conditional neuter singular)
googlowalibyście (conditional plural virile)
byście googlowali (conditional plural virile)
googlowałybyście (conditional nonvirile plural)
byście googlowały (conditional nonvirile plural)
googlowałby (conditional masculine singular third-person)
by googlował (conditional masculine singular third-person)
googlowałaby (conditional feminine singular third-person)
by googlowała (conditional feminine singular third-person)
googlowałoby (conditional neuter singular third-person)
by googlowało (conditional neuter singular third-person)
googlowaliby (conditional plural third-person virile)
by googlowali (conditional plural third-person virile)
googlowałyby (conditional nonvirile plural third-person)
by googlowały (conditional nonvirile plural third-person)
googlowano by (conditional impersonal)
niech googluję (imperative singular)
googlujmy (imperative plural)
googluj (imperative singular)
googlujcie (imperative plural)
niech googluje (imperative singular third-person)
niech googlują (imperative plural third-person)
googlujący (active adjectival masculine participle singular)
googlująca (active adjectival feminine participle singular)
googlujące (active adjectival neuter participle singular)
googlujący (active adjectival participle plural virile)
googlujące (active adjectival nonvirile participle plural)
googlowany (adjectival masculine participle passive singular)
googlowana (adjectival feminine participle passive singular)
googlowane (adjectival neuter participle passive singular)
googlowani (adjectival participle passive plural virile)
googlowane (adjectival nonvirile participle passive plural)
googlując (adjectival contemporary participle)
googlowanie (noun-from-verb)


wizard

4chan
English Renaissance
Fizban the Fabulous
en:wizard

From Middle English wysard, wysarde, equivalent to wise + -ard. A uniquely medieval Anglo-Saxon word with no known morphologically exact cognates in or outside the Germanic family; did not gain distinct sense of "occultist, magic user" (as opposed to a philosopher or sage) until circa 1500s, aligning roughly with the starting English Renaissance.
The sense of "old (male) virgin" is from a Japanese Internet meme where virgins who are typically friendless, shy, outcasts, and loners who don't fit in anywhere, legendarily gain magical powers upon reaching 30 years of age; popularized ultimately by 4chan and adjacent online incel spaces.

Wizards, in general, have a very different experience of mudding than other players. Because of their palpable and extensive extra powers over other players, and because of their special role in MUD society, they are frequently treated differently[…]

1997, Philip Agre and Douglas Schuler, Reinventing Technology, Rediscovering Community: Critical Explorations of Computing as a Social Practice, page 153:

It is certainly easy to believe the stories I hear of MUD wizards who demand deference and severely punish those who transgress […]

1997, Sara Kiesler, editor, Culture of the Internet, page 132:

(Internet) One of the administrators of a multi-user dungeon.

mag

internet: administrators of a multi-user dungeon


cloak

From Middle English cloke, from Old Northern French cloque (“travelling cloak”), from Medieval Latin clocca (“travelers' cape, literally “a bell”, so called from the garment’s bell-like shape”), of Celtic origin, from Proto-Celtic *klokkos, ultimately imitative.
Doublet of cloche and clock.

onomatopoeic

imitative

(Internet) A text replacement for an IRC user's hostname or IP address, making the user less identifiable.


comment

[kɔm˧˧ mɛn˧˧]

[kɔm˨˩ mɛn˧˧]

[kɔm˧˧ mɛŋ˧˧]

[kɔm˦˩ mɛŋ˧˧]

[kɔm˧˧ mɛŋ˧˧]

[kɔm˨˩ mɛŋ˧˧]


comment

[kɔm˧˧ mɛn˧˧]

[kɔm˨˩ mɛn˧˧]

[kɔm˧˧ mɛŋ˧˧]

[kɔm˦˩ mɛŋ˧˧]

[kɔm˧˧ mɛŋ˧˧]

[kɔm˨˩ mɛŋ˧˧]


A cursive variation of ᾱ or ᾱᾱ, the abbreviation of Greek ἀνά (aná) used in recipes and prescriptions with the meaning "of each", and later extended to accounting. (Other explanations have that it is ā, an abbreviation of Latin ad (“to”), or French à (“to”).)

Bob: How can I stop other people from accessing my files when they use my computer?

Jack: @Bob, you need to protect the files with a password.

(Internet) Prepended to the name of the user to whom a remark is addressed.


alp

(Internet slang, text messaging) à la prochaine


clique

Borrowed from French clique, ultimately of imitative origin. Influenced by "claque", though this may have happened in French rather than in English.

claque

another type of ingroup of people with biased interests

Does anyone know what an internet clique is/does? I came across a few and am thoroughly confused.

1999, Jackie, “someone help me out?”, in alt.fan.leo-dicaprio (Usenet):

even though we're not "regulars" anymore...*sniffle*...we still can't forget the NG...i always tell new fans about it...(people who join my clique, etc...)...and besides...i owe the NG a LOT...itz where i met my best friend...

2000, - deanna -, “ot: hiya”, in alt.fan.backstreet.boys (Usenet):

you always have to click some big section and you get a whole new set of options in a different frame, thats^([sic]) usually on the other side of the screen. when you're there, you can choose from (in a section site stuff or something like that) link me, link you, links, top 10 links, free for all links, cliques, and webrings.

2001, spee2k, “future no doubt website....”, in alt.music.no-doubt (Usenet):

(Internet) A group of related web sites that link to each other, like a webring but with exclusive membership determined by the clique owner.


doge

From dog, probably as a sensational spelling of doggy like monke. First attested in the 2005 episode "Biz Cas Fri 1" from Homestar Runner.

Bobsled wasn't the only Dogecoin-backed sporting success. Fans of Nascar will recognise the car driven by Josh Wise, emblazoned, as it is, with the adorable little doge on its bonnet (pictured above).

2015 July 23, Dave Lee, “Six times Reddit wasn't completely awful”, in BBC:

(Internet slang, humorous) Specifically, a Shiba Inu, as in the doge meme.


mod

en-noun

mod (countable and uncountable, plural mods)

The mods had a difficult time deciding whether to believe a story about a man who was attracted to his girlfriend only when she was grieving her dead sister, but it stayed up.

2019 October 23, Kaitlyn Tiffany, “How Reddit's R/Relationships Subreddit Is Moderated”, in The Atlantic:

(Internet) A moderator, for example on a discussion forum.

Mods, kill this guy with hammers.

(Internet slang, originally Twitch-speak, humorous, in the plural) Used to express a wish of removal or, often hyperbolic, harm (as opposed to a literal request to moderators).


mod

en-verb

mod (third-person singular simple present mods, present participle modding, simple past and past participle modded)

mods (present singular third-person)
modding (participle present)
modded (participle past)
modded (past)

Don't break the rules or you'll be modded.

I used to mod that forum.

(transitive, Internet, informal) To moderate; to silence or punish (a rule-breaking user) on a forum, especially when done by a moderator.


mod

mod (indefinite nominative singular)
mods (genitive indefinite singular)
modden (definite nominative singular)
moddens (definite genitive singular)
moddar (indefinite nominative plural)
moddars (genitive indefinite plural)
moddarna (definite nominative plural)
moddarnas (definite genitive plural)

Borrowed from English mod, from modification.


mort

(Internet, informal) A player in a multi-user dungeon who does not have special administrator privileges and whose character can be killed.


skeet

Blend of sky + tweet, from the resemblance to tweets posted on Twitter. Strongly discouraged by CEO Jay Graber.

Bluesky’s users appear to be having fun with the app’s similarities to Twitter, including calling posts on the app “skeets,” as a play on tweets. Not even a plea from Ms. Graber on Thursday to change that name seems to have deterred them.

[2023 April 29, Sheera Frenkel, “Interest Builds Over Bluesky, A Social Site Akin to Twitter”, in New York Times, page B3:

At first, it was kind of fun when Bluesky broke.[…] When threading broke – causing people to receive tonnes of notifications if they replied to a long enough chain of skeets – users created the "hellthread", an infinitely long, chaotic conversation

2023 June 10, Annalee Newitz, “And now for something completely familiar”, in New Scientist, volume 258, page 22:

My last ‘toot’, as Mastodon’s users call tweets, was in December. I’ve never even done a ‘skeet’, the unfortunate name of the Bluesky version.

2023 July 22, Max Chafkin, “What if the next big social media app is ... Nothing?”, in Irish Examiner, Cork:

Bluesky’s faithful have playfully dubbed posts “skeets” in contrast to tweets – although Bluesky’s own CEO Jay Graber has begged users to stop using that term.

[2024 July 2, “X alternative Bluesky finally opens up for all: What’s the hype about?”, in Indian Express, Mumbai:

Another skeet! Blue Sky^([sic]) is clearly taking off – not content with picking up a million new accounts on Friday, and another million on Saturday, it has now played its part in two posts on the OBO.

2024 November 17, Tim de Lisle, “West Indies v England: fifth men’s T20 cricket international – match abandoned”, in The Guardian:

(Internet slang) A post on the Bluesky social media platform.


banner

From Middle English baner, from Old French baniere (Modern bannière), of Germanic origin. More at band.

(Internet, television) A type of advertisement on a web page or on television, usually taking the form of a graphic or animation above or alongside the content.


banner

banner (nominative singular)
bannery (nominative plural)
banneru (genitive singular)
bannerów (genitive plural)
bannerowi (dative singular)
bannerom (dative plural)
banner (accusative singular)
bannery (accusative plural)
bannerem (instrumental singular)
bannerami (instrumental plural)
bannerze (locative singular)
bannerach (locative plural)
bannerze (singular vocative)
bannery (plural vocative)

Unadapted borrowing from English banner.

(advertising, Internet) Alternative spelling of baner


banner

(Internet) banner (advertisement in a web page)


beacon

From Middle English beken, from Old English bēacn (“sign, signal”), from Proto-West Germanic *baukn, from Proto-Germanic *baukną (compare West Frisian beaken (“buoy”), Dutch baken (“beacon”), Middle Low German bāke (“beacon, sign”), German Bake (“traffic sign”), Middle High German bouchen (“sign”)), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂u-, *bʰeh₂- (“to shine”).

emergency position indicating radio beacon


hydration

en-noun

hydration (usually uncountable, plural hydrations)

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

From hydrate + -ion. The programming terms come from the concept of data lake.

(web design) Client-side rendering of pre-rendered static server data, e.g. to make dynamic web pages.


incomplete

From Middle English incomplete, incompleet, from Late Latin incomplētus, from in- (“un-; not”) + complētus (“complete”), equivalent to in- (“not”) + complete.

(Usenet) A multipart file posted to a Usenet newsgroup that is incomplete and thus unusable.

(video games, Internet) A multiplayer game that is abandoned because one player disconnects.


mention

Inherited from Middle English mencioun, mention, from Old French mention, from Latin mentiōnem, accusative of mentiō (“a mention, calling to mind”).

"I would like Twitter to put some kind of filters in place," suggests Prakash. "At present I can't see troll tweets if I block the user, but others who go into my 'mentions' can do so, and read the graphic abuse, which is disturbing."

2012 November 20, Kavitha Rao, “The Problems With Policing Sexism on Twitter”, in The Atlantic:

In response to the flood of replies, Chance returned to Twitter several hours later — presumably, after his mentions calmed down — to request that users format their resumes as "creative decks, pitches or proposals" […].

2017 March 28, Jaleesa M. Jones, “Time to update your resumes: Chance the Rapper is hiring an intern”, in USA Today:

I didn’t delete my account — yet! I know! I am full of shame! — but I did change the way I use it (no looking at my mentions; far less tweeting; aiming to highlight the work of people I like rather than criticize the work of those I don’t).

2018 December 3, Bari Weiss, Eve Peyser, “Can You Like the Person You Love to Hate?”, in The New York Times:

(Internet, plural only) A social media feed, a list of replies or posts mentioning a person.


raid

From Scots raid, from Northern Middle English rade, from Old English rād (“a riding, an expedition on horseback, road”), whence also the inherited English road (“way, street”). The earlier senses of “a riding, expedition, raid” fell into disuse in Early Modern English, but were revived in the northern form raid by Walter Scott in the early 19th century. The use for a swift police operation appears in the later 19th century and may perhaps have been influenced by French razzia (similar in both original meaning and sound).

der

I used the tools discord gave me to prevent raids but he somehow knows a bypass, I use bots and they do help prevent it but just having him ping 90 guys once makes people bash me for an entire hour.

2022 January 28, D4TBOl, “I need some help with preventing raids”, in Reddit, archived from the original on 2024-09-06, r/discordapp:

Raids are a problem on Guilded. I have been in many servers that have been raided by a user with an account gen or even just some users looking to cause trouble and ruin the communities for us [...]

2022 March 7, AcousticJamm, “Raid prevention tools”, in Reddit, r/guilded:

(social media) An event involving a flash mob of users, often using bots and scripts, who join a server to harm it or harass its members.


react

en-verb

react (third-person singular simple present reacts, present participle reacting, simple past and past participle reacted)

reacts (present singular third-person)
reacting (participle present)
reacted (participle past)
reacted (past)
reäct (alternative)

(Internet, intransitive) To post a reaction (icon or emoji indicating how one feels about a posted message).


react

Sad reacts only

(Internet) An emoji used to express a reaction to a post on social media.


reel

From Middle English reel, reele, from Old English rēol, hrēol, from Proto-West Germanic *hrehul, from Proto-Germanic *hrehulaz, *hrahilaz, from Proto-Indo-European *krek- (“to weave, beat”). Cognate with Icelandic ræl, hræll.

der

(social media, sometimes capitalized) A chronological collection of pictures or short videos published by a user on an application or website that is typically only available for a short period.


route

en-verb

route (third-person singular simple present routes, present participle routing or (UK) routeing, simple past and past participle routed)

routes (present singular third-person)
routing (participle present)
routeing (UK participle present)
routed (participle past)
routed (past)

From Middle English route, from Old French route, from Latin [rupta] via (literally “a path made by force”). Compare Modern French route.

der

(Internet) to connect two local area networks, thereby forming an internet.


server

→ Danish: server

→ Dutch: server

→ German: Server

→ Hindi: सर्वर (sarvar)

→ Hungarian: szerver

→ Italian: server m

→ Japanese: サーバー (sābā)

→ Korean: 서버 (seobeo)

→ Norwegian Bokmål: server, sørver

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: server, sørvar

→ Persian: سرور

→ Polish: serwer

→ Portuguese: server

→ Romanian: server n

→ Russian: се́рвер (sérver)

desc

→ Thai: เซิร์ฟเวอร์ (sə́əp-wə̂ə)

→ Thai: เซิร์ฟเวอร์ (sə́əp-wə̂ə)

→ Turkish: server

From Middle English servere, equivalent to serve + -er.

Please take a look at my log its completely going haywire… My server is changing the admin name and doesn’t store any created channels.

2020 August 11, EasyCompZeeland, “My server is changing the admin name and doesn’t store any created channels… out of the blue”, in Official TeamSpeak Community Forum, TeamSpeak Server:

Discord gives you the power to create an invite-only home for your friends or community - a place where you can talk, hang out, and have fun. We call these special places - servers [...]

2020, “Beginner's Guide to Discord”, in Discord Help Center:

Basically like how there is an emoji button for statuses and bios but make them for certain settings such as channel names or descriptions. This little QOL(quality of life) change would add a slightly faster way of navigating through channels and add a nicer more organized appearance to some servers.

2024 June 30, Narunzo, “I can't find a decent place where I can post a suggestion and it would be seen by staff in Guilded so I'm posting my suggestion here”, in Reddit, r/guilded:

(social media) A community space where only those who joined it can communicate in channels.


server

Unadapted borrowing from English server.

O server da Hawkwind reconheceria os códigos desonestos e daria um belo de um kick no traseiro gordo do Esmagossauro, ou de qualquer player que ousasse ser desonesto na rede.

2013, Felipe Castilho, Ouro, Fogo e Megabytes, Gutenberg, →ISBN, page 80:


shout

en-verb

shout (third-person singular simple present shouts, present participle shouting, simple past and past participle shouted)

shouts (present singular third-person)
shouting (participle present)
shouted (participle past)
shouted (past)

From Middle English shouten. Further origin uncertain. Possibly related to Middle English shooten (“to shoot (out)”) or from or akin to Old Norse skúta (“to chide, scold”), Old Norse skúti, skúta (“a taunt”). See also the second, rare sense of the verb scout (“to reject with contempt”).

cog

Please don't shout in the chat room.

(Internet) To post a text message (for example, email) in upper case, regarded as the electronic messaging equivalent of oral shouting.


site

From Middle English site, from Anglo-Norman site, from Latin situs (“position, place, site”), from sinere (“to put, lay, set down, usually let, suffer, permit”). Doublet of sitio and situs.

1999, Publisher's notes on relevant web sites, in front of Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, Wordsworth Editions (1999), →ISBN, p. xxvi,
[G]eneral site with excellent links to contextual as well as author-specific material.

When a new visitor arrives at your site, your web server should log the referring site, which is generally either a search engine or another web site.

2006, Doug Addison, Web Site Cookbook, O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 248:


site

From Latin situs.
Sense 2 is a semantic loan from English site, a clipping of website.


site

site-uri (plural)
site (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
site-ul (accusative definite nominative singular)
site-uri (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
site-urile (accusative definite nominative plural)
site (indefinite singular)
site-ului (definite singular)
site-uri (indefinite singular)
site-urilor (definite plural)
site-ule (singular vocative)
site-urilor (vocative)
sit (alternative)
sait (alternative)


site

head

site (definite accusative siteyi, plural siteler)

siteyi (accusative definite)
siteler (plural)
site (nominative singular)
siteler (nominative plural)
siteyi (accusative definite singular)
siteleri (accusative definite plural)
siteye (dative singular)
sitelere (dative plural)
sitede (locative singular)
sitelerde (locative plural)
siteden (ablative singular)
sitelerden (ablative plural)
sitenin (genitive singular)
sitelerin (genitive plural)
sitem (first-person nominative singular)
sitelerim (first-person nominative singular)
siten (nominative second-person singular)
sitelerin (nominative second-person singular)
sitesi (nominative singular third-person)
siteleri (nominative singular third-person)
sitemiz (first-person nominative plural)
sitelerimiz (first-person nominative plural)
siteniz (nominative plural second-person)
siteleriniz (nominative plural second-person)
siteleri (nominative plural third-person)
sitemi (accusative definite first-person singular)
sitelerimi (accusative definite first-person singular)
siteni (accusative definite second-person singular)
sitelerini (accusative definite second-person singular)
sitesini (accusative definite singular third-person)
sitelerini (accusative definite singular third-person)
sitemizi (accusative definite first-person plural)
sitelerimizi (accusative definite first-person plural)
sitenizi (accusative definite plural second-person)
sitelerinizi (accusative definite plural second-person)
sitelerini (accusative definite plural third-person)
siteme (dative first-person singular)
sitelerime (dative first-person singular)
sitene (dative second-person singular)
sitelerine (dative second-person singular)
sitesine (dative singular third-person)
sitelerine (dative singular third-person)
sitemize (dative first-person plural)
sitelerimize (dative first-person plural)
sitenize (dative plural second-person)
sitelerinize (dative plural second-person)
sitelerine (dative plural third-person)
sitemde (first-person locative singular)
sitelerimde (first-person locative singular)
sitende (locative second-person singular)
sitelerinde (locative second-person singular)
sitesinde (locative singular third-person)
sitelerinde (locative singular third-person)
sitemizde (first-person locative plural)
sitelerimizde (first-person locative plural)
sitenizde (locative plural second-person)
sitelerinizde (locative plural second-person)
sitelerinde (locative plural third-person)
sitemden (ablative first-person singular)
sitelerimden (ablative first-person singular)
sitenden (ablative second-person singular)
sitelerinden (ablative second-person singular)
sitesinden (ablative singular third-person)
sitelerinden (ablative singular third-person)
sitemizden (ablative first-person plural)
sitelerimizden (ablative first-person plural)
sitenizden (ablative plural second-person)
sitelerinizden (ablative plural second-person)
sitelerinden (ablative plural third-person)
sitemin (first-person genitive singular)
sitelerimin (first-person genitive singular)
sitenin (genitive second-person singular)
sitelerinin (genitive second-person singular)
sitesinin (genitive singular third-person)
sitelerinin (genitive singular third-person)
sitemizin (first-person genitive plural)
sitelerimizin (first-person genitive plural)
sitenizin (genitive plural second-person)
sitelerinizin (genitive plural second-person)
sitelerinin (genitive plural third-person)

Orthographic borrowing from English site, with pronunciation kept from earlier borrowing from French.


snap

en-noun

snap (countable and uncountable, plural snaps)

From Dutch snappen (“to bite; seize”) or Low German snappen (“to bite; seize”), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *snappōn, from Proto-Germanic *snappōną (“to snap; snatch; chatter”), intensive form of *snapāną (”to snap; grab”, whence Old Norse snapa (“to get; scrounge”)), from Proto-Indo-European *snop-; compare Lithuanian snãpas (“beak, bill”). (One alternative hypothesis links the Germanic words to *snu-, an expressive root deriving words meaning “nose”, “snout”, “sniff” etc., but this is phonetically unsound.) In any case influenced by onomatopoeia; note expressions such as snip-snap, containing the formally unrelated snip.
Cognate with West Frisian snappe (“to get; catch; snap”), German schnappen (“to grab”), Swedish snappa (“to snatch”).
The verb is derived from the noun.

gloss

”to snap; grab”, whence Old Norse <i class="Latn mention" lang="non">snapa</i> (“to get; scrounge”)

sound-symbolic

expressive

onom

onomatopoeia

cog

By April 2014, over 700 million snaps are shared per day on Snapchat — more than Facebook, WhatsApp, and other social networks.

2014, Newton Lee, Facebook Nation: Total Information Awareness, page 51:

The oldest snaps will be deleted after 24 hours, and to keep the story going you'll have to add new content regularly.

2015, Suse Barnes, Like, Follow, Share: Awesome, Actionable Social Media Marketing to Maximise Your Online Potential, page 238:

While Snapchat bases its whole product marketing on the auto-deletion of the snaps (images and videos) so that they are not stored, recent reports indicate otherwise.

2015, Yuval Karniel, Amit Lavie-Dinur, Privacy and Fame: How We Expose Ourselves across Media Platforms, page 120:

(social media) Alternative letter-case form of Snap.

A visual message sent through the Snapchat application.

“[…] What’s your snap?” she asks. “Oh here.” He jerks for his phone not trying to test her patience or invitation. They trade info. “Cool,” she comments and memorizes his username.

2017, Coulter, A Night’s Tale, BookVenture Publishing LLC, →ISBN:

In addition to compliments (“that’s hot!”) and direct propositions (“please post a full frontal shot”), commenters often leave invitations on users’ posts to direct message them (“DM me!”), follow their account (“follow me”) or exchange usernames for the ephemeral social messaging service, Snapchat (“snap: @readyforyou”, “what’s your snap?”).

2018, Elija Cassidy, Gay Men, Identity and Social Media: A Culture of Participatory Reluctance, Routledge, →ISBN:

He asked for my snap one day so I gave it to him, but strictly as friends and he knew that.

2023 August 29, Alexis Sook, chapter 1, in Two Hearts or One, Union City, N.J.: Writers Republic L.L.C., →ISBN, page 4:

(colloquial) Clipping of Snapchat (“user account on Snapchat”).


snap

en-verb

snap (third-person singular simple present snaps, present participle snapping, simple past and past participle snapped or (obsolete) snapt)

snaps (present singular third-person)
snapping (participle present)
snapped (participle past)
snapped (past)
snapt (obsolete participle past)
snapt (obsolete past)

sound-symbolic

expressive

onom

onomatopoeia

захапвам

to attempt to seize with the teeth or bite

napsauttaa

transitive: to cause something to emit a snapping sound

As I set myself up the round table, my phone lit up with a few notifications on Snapchat. Gustin snapped me a few pictures of the three boys in the park.

2019, Keertiga Chandran, “Rockhurst”, in The Pebble Fall Theme Park: Welcome to the Pebble Fall Theme Park, Partridge Publishing Singapore, →ISBN:

Did you know she just joined Snapchat? Last night, she snapped me a picture of you sitting in a muddy puddle in nothing but your diaper.

2024, Jami Rogers, “Chapter Two: Natalie”, in Always Been Write: A Small Town, Best Friends to Lovers Romance (Lust or Bust; 6):

(social media, ditransitive) Alternative letter-case form of Snap (“to send a visual message through the Snapchat application”).


toot

en-noun

toot (countable and uncountable, plural toots)

Probably onomatopoeic in origin. Compare Dutch toeteren (“to blow a horn”), German tuten, Swedish tuta, Danish tude.
Noun sense 7 ("Mastodon post") and verb sense 10 ("to post on Mastodon") are influenced by tweet (“Twitter post”).

I'm not paying fifty pounds for this load of old toot!

As for layout, Mastodon feels a little like TweetDeck, with columns for your toots, toots from the people you follow, your mentions, and (unlike Twitter) a timeline of all public posts being shared by every user on the platform.

2017 April 4, Madison Malone Kircher, “What the Heck Is Mastodon, and Why Is Everyone Talking About It?”, in New York Magazine:

Interestingly, Mastodon offers a bit more in that aspect for toots can be 500 characters long.

2017 April 5, “Mastodon is here; will you stop tweeting and start tooting?”, in The Indian Express:

Mastodon users can send toots with 500 characters as opposed to Twitter's 140. But that's not the only difference. Individual toots can be marked as private, meaning you don't have to choose between a public or a private account like on Twitter.

2017 April 5, Jack Morse, “Bye, Twitter. All the cool kids are migrating to Mastodon”, in Mashable Australia:

So if I follow Nick, his toots (yep, they're called toots) will show up in wandering.shop's federated timeline.

2018 August 24, Beth Skwarecki, “A Beginner's Guide to Mastodon”, in Lifehacker:

(countable, social media) A message on the social networking software Mastodon.


toot

en-verb

toot (third-person singular simple present toots, present participle tooting, simple past and past participle tooted)

toots (present singular third-person)
tooting (participle present)
tooted (participle past)
tooted (past)

Only want to toot in the Animal Rights instance? You can create an account there and do that.

One alternative to Fist is Mastodon, which looks and behaves a bit like Twitter (you don’t tweet, you “toot”).

2018 February 8, Marie Boran, “Why tweet when you can toot on Mastodon”, in The Irish Times:

Each instance has its own administrator and its own code of conduct, so make sure you read up before you toot.

(social media) To post a message on a Mastodon instance.


trend

trend (third-person singular simple present trends, present participle trending, simple past and past participle trended)

trends (present singular third-person)
trending (participle present)
trended (participle past)
trended (past)

From Middle English trenden (“to roll about, turn, revolve”), from Old English trendan (“to roll about, turn, revolve”), from Proto-West Germanic *trandijan (“to turn, roll, revolve”), apparently derived from a strong verb Proto-West Germanic *trindan. Cognate with Dutch trent (“circumference”). Akin to Old English trinde (“ball”), Old English tryndel (“circle, ring”). More at trindle, trundle.

inh

LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-trend.wav

What topics have been trending on social networks this week?

"Puppy Bowl" was even a trending sports topic on Facebook.

2016 February 3, Voice of America, “Trending Today: Puppy Bowl”, in Voice of America, Voice of America:

The hashtag #RepublicofThailand trended on Twitter in Thailand on Friday after parliament voted to push back the question of changing the constitution as protesters have demanded.

2020 September 25, Reuters Staff, “Thai republican hashtag trends after constitution change delayed”, in Reuters, Reuters, retrieved 2020-09-25:

The platform, founded in 2006, also came along just as TV’s cultural cachet was rising, with a growth in ambitious, talk-about-able appointment series. “Mad Men” and “Breaking Bad” premiered during its run; twist-heavy serials like “Scandal” and “Game of Thrones” delivered the kind of OMG moments that got them trending regularly.

2023 July 10, James Poniewozik, “The Twitter Watch Party Is Over”, in The New York Times:

(social media, intransitive, informal) To be the subject of a trend; to be currently popular, relevant or interesting.


trend

(Internet slang) trend; content that goes viral on social media


unlike

en-verb

unlike (third-person singular simple present unlikes, present participle unliking, simple past and past participle unliked)

unlikes (present singular third-person)
unliking (participle present)
unliked (participle past)
unliked (past)

From Middle English unliken, unlyken, equivalent to un- + like.

I unliked the post after I found out the author was racist.

Facebook, for instance, allows you to register approval for a posted message in a very concrete way, by clicking a thumbs-up like button. Toggling off the button results in unliking your previously liked item. Note that this is different from disliking something, since unliking simply returns you to a neutral state.

2009, Ben Zimmer, “On Language: The Age of Undoing”, in The New York Times Magazine, 2009 September 20, page MM8

My comment was more of a backhanded slap at Stern Pinball's Facebook "presence", specifically the garbage "cheap heat" posts. […] It's so inane (and now, so constant) that I wound up "unliking" stern pinball entirely.

2010 June 25, TheKorn, “Re: Pinball: RGP and/or Facebook”, in rec.games.pinball (Usenet):

(Internet) To withdraw support for a particular thing, especially on social networking websites.


unlike

Getting an unlike for every 20 likes is common and not something you need to be losing sleep over.

2012, Jesse Cannon, Todd Thomas, Get More Fans, page 552:

On Facebook, users can also hide anyone in their network, including companies, from their News Feed, which is worse than an unlike, as brands cannot measure how many people still like them but have hidden their status updates […]

2014, Ekaterina Walter, Jessica Gioglio, The Power of Visual Storytelling, page 13:

(Internet) The act of withdrawing one's like from a post on social media.


impression

en-noun

impression (countable and uncountable, plural impressions)

From Old French impression, from Latin impressio.

Publishers are paid for each ad impression their site generates.

2010, Dusty Reagan, Twitter Application Development For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 329:

(Internet) A performance metric representing an instance where a post or ad is shown once.


viral

The end game of that is the GoFundMe link posted beneath a viral tweet so they can pay for their health care. Being an influencer sounds fun until it’s ‘keep producing viral content to literally stay alive.’

2021 March 24, Charlie Warzel, quoting Anil Dash, “What Are You Paying for When You Buy a GIF for $25,000?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(social media) Circulated rapidly and widely from one user to another.

(of an image, video, piece of information, etc.) circulating rapidly and widely from one Internet user to another


viral

(advertising, marketing, social media) circulated rapidly and widely from one user to another.


viral

From ví[rus] + -al. Piecewise doublet of virusal.

(Internet) viral (quickly attaining high popularity through word of mouth)