viral

ro-adj

viral m or n (feminine singular virală, masculine plural virali, feminine and neuter plural virale)

virală (feminine singular)
virali (masculine plural)
virale (feminine neuter plural)
viral (indefinite masculine neuter singular)
virală (feminine indefinite singular)
virali (indefinite masculine singular)
virale (feminine indefinite neuter plural)
viralul (definite masculine neuter singular)
virala (definite feminine singular)
viralii (definite masculine singular)
viralele (definite feminine neuter plural)
virale (feminine indefinite singular)
viralului (definite masculine neuter singular)
viralei (definite feminine singular)
viralilor (definite masculine singular)
viralelor (definite feminine neuter plural)

Borrowed from French viral. By surface analysis, vir[us] + -al.

(Internet) viral (quickly attaining high popularity)


OMG

(Internet, slang) Abbreviation of omogen (immature)


Usenet

From USENIX, a group of computer programmers using the operating system Unix, from users of Unix. See net (“network”).

And as the Carnegie Mellon study is careful to point out, pornographic image files, despite their evident popularity, represent only about 3% of all the messages on the Usenet newsgroups, while the Usenet itself represents only 11.5% of the traffic on the Internet.

2001 June 24, Philip Elmer-Dewitt, “On a Screen Near You”, in Time, →ISSN, archived from the original on 2023-11-09:

(Internet) A world-wide distributed discussion system consisting of newsgroups that are classified hierarchically by subject.

يُوزْنِت

a world-wide distributed discussion system consisting of newsgroups classified hierarchically by subject


SFAIK

so far as I know
so far as I know#English

(Internet) Initialism of so far as I know.


electronic mail

en-noun

electronic mail (countable and uncountable, plural electronic mails)

Electronic mail is the single most visible application of distributed computing today.

1992, Sara Radicati, Electronic Mail: An Introduction to the X.400 Message Handling Standards, McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, page 1:

(uncountable, networking) Email (the system).


courriel

Académie française
Office québécois de la langue française

Blend of courrier + électronique. A portmanteau word created in French-speaking Canada, promoted by the Office québécois de la langue française and endorsed by the Académie française.


meatspace

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From meat + space; by analogy with cyberspace.

meat-space (alternative)
meat space (alternative)

The HBO sci-fi blockbuster Westworld has been an inspiring look into what humanlike robots can do for us in the meatspace.

2019 April 7, Rita Liao, “The team behind Baidu’s first smart speaker is now using AI to make films”, in TechCrunch:

(Internet, often derogatory) The physical world, as opposed to the virtual world of the Internet.


algorithm

algorithm (countable and uncountable, plural algorithms)

algorithms (plural)
algorism (alternative)
augrim (alternative)
Algorithm (alternative)

→ Japanese: アルゴリズム (arugorizumu)

→ Korean: 알고리즘 (algorijeum)

/ˈælɡəɹɪðəm/

[ˈæɫɡəɹɪðm̩]

/ˈælɡəˌɹɪðəm/

[ˈæɫɡəˌɹɪðm̩]

Etymology tree
Arabic ال (al-)
Old Persian 𐎢𐎺𐎠𐎼𐏀𐎷𐎡𐏁 (u-v-a-r-z-mi-i-š)
Classical Persian خْوَارَزْم (xwārazm)bor.
Arabic خَوَارِزْم (ḵawārizm)
Arabic ـِيّ (-iyy)
Arabic خَوَارِزْمِيّ (ḵawārizmiyy)
Arabic الخَوَارِزْمِيّ (al-ḵawārizmiyy)bor.
Medieval Latin algorismusbor.
Anglo-Norman algorismebor.
Middle English algorisme
English algorism
Proto-Indo-European *h₂er-
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti
Proto-Indo-European *h₂reh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-éyti
Proto-Indo-European *h₂rey-der.
Ancient Greek ἀριθμός (arithmós)bor.
English arithmo-influ.
English algorithm
From Middle English algorisme, augrym, from Anglo-Norman algorisme, augrim, from Medieval Latin algorismus, from Arabic الخَوَارِزْمِيّ (al-ḵawārizmiyy), the nisba of Persian mathematician Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī and a toponymic name meaning "person from Chorasmia". The spelling change (-s- > -th-) was influenced by unrelated Ancient Greek ἀριθμός (arithmós) (whence English arithmo-).

der

الخَوَارِزْمِيّ

(social media, metonymically) recommender systems and the curation of feeds

(usually proceeded by definite article "the") software that makes content display determinations on a platform, in totality of effect upon all end users (within a potential audience).

social media; usually proceeded by definite article "the"; usually proceeded by definite article "the"

Glover began his acceptance speech by saying, “First, I want to thank the great algorithm that put us all here.”

2018 February 26, Tad Friend, quoting Donald Glover, “Donald Glover Can’t Save You”, in The New Yorker:

(informal, by extension of above) the influenced zeitgeist: e.g. what content ends up trending or viral, what persons become a main character or cancelled

… you and I probably didn't run across that in our algorithm, but that doesn't mean that a lot of people aren't gonna run across garbage like that in their algorithms in the next couple weeks…

2024 October 23, Ben Rhodes, “Trump Blames Zelensky for War, Sucks Up to Saudis” (23:52 from the start), in Pod Save the World (podcast):

possessive determiner
possessive determiner

(informal, usually proceeded by a possessive determiner) the actual personalized selections of content seen by specific user(s), the microtargeting to which they are subject

social media; usually proceeded by a possessive determiner; usually proceeded by a possessive determiner


squat

en-verb

squat (third-person singular simple present squats, present participle squatting, simple past and past participle squatted)

squats (present singular third-person)
squatting (participle present)
squatted (participle past)
squatted (past)

From Middle English squatten, from Old French esquatir, escatir (“compress, press down, lay flat, crush”), from es- (“ex-”) + quatir (“press down, flatten”), from Vulgar Latin *coactire (“press together, force”), from Latin coāctus, perfect passive participle of cōgō (“force together, compress”).
The sense “nothing” may be the source or a derivation of diddly-squat.

uder

The old homepage for L2TP, www.l2tpd.org, has been squatted by a domain squatter. A malicious person could reinstate this domain with malicious code on it.

2006, Paul Wouters, Ken Bantoft, Building and Integrating Virtual Private Networks with Openswan:


GC

(education) Initialism of Google Classroom.


cookie

cookies (plural)
cookey (alternative)
cooky (alternative)

→ Arabic: كُوكِي (kuki)

→ Cantonese: 曲奇 (kuk¹ kei⁴)

→ Mandarin: 曲奇 (qūqí)

→ Catalan: cookie

→ Cebuano: kokis

→ French: cookie

→ Georgian: ქუქი (kuki)

→ German: Cookie

→ Gujarati: કૂકી (kūkī)

→ Hindi: कुकी (kukī)

→ Italian: cookie

→ Japanese: クッキー (kukkī)

→ Kannada: ಕುಕಿ (kuki)

→ Korean: 쿠키 (kuki)

→ Malay: kuki

→ Polish: cookie

→ Portuguese: cookie

→ Russian: куки (kuki)

→ Spanish: cookie

→ Swedish: cookie

→ Tagalog: kuki

→ Telugu: కుకీ (kukī)

→ Thai: คุกกี้ (kúk-gîi)

Borrowed from Dutch koekie, dialectal diminutive of koek (“cake”), from Proto-Germanic *kōkô (compare German Low German Kookje (“biscuit, cookie, cracker”), Low German Kook (“cake”), German Kuchen (“cake”)). More at cake. Not related to English cook.
The computing senses derive from magic cookie.

koekie

small, flat baked good — see also biscuit


cookie

Unadapted borrowing from English cookie.

(Internet) cookie, HTTP cookie (packet of information sent by a server to browser)


cookie

pt-noun

cookie (Brazil) m or (Portugal) f (plural cookies)

(Internet, computing) cookie, HTTP cookie


HTTP cookie

(Internet) A packet of information sent by a server to a World Wide Web browser and then returned by the browser each time it accesses that server, used to maintain state between otherwise stateless HTTP transactions, for example, to identify the user.

kaka c (recommended by authorities, but relatively rarely used)


fol

(Hong Kong Cantonese, Internet slang, social media) follower count


fol

(Hong Kong Cantonese, Internet slang, social media) to follow


विक्षनरी

hi-proper noun

विक्षनरी • (vikṣanrī) m (Urdu spelling وکشنری)

vikṣanrī (romanization)
وکشنری (Urdu)
विक्षनरी (direct singular)
विक्षनरी (direct plural)
विक्षनरी (oblique singular)
विक्षनरियों (oblique plural)
विक्षनरी (singular vocative)
विक्षनरियो (plural vocative)

[ʋɪk.ʃɐ̃n.ɾiː]


mem

mem (indefinite nominative singular)
mems (genitive indefinite singular)
memen (definite nominative singular)
memens (definite genitive singular)
memer (indefinite nominative plural)
memers (genitive indefinite plural)
memerna (definite nominative plural)
memernas (definite genitive plural)
meme (alternative)

From English meme coined by Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene (1976), similar to gene. The book was translated to Swedish by Roland Adlerbeth, Den själviska genen (1983). The Swedish word mem follows the grammar of gen (“gene”).

(Internet, chiefly in the alternative form "meme") a meme


ウィクショナリー

[β̞ikɯ̟̊ɕo̞na̠ɾʲiː]


zeigen

de-verb

zeigen (weak, third-person singular present zeigt, past tense zeigte, past participle gezeigt, auxiliary haben)

zeigt (present singular third-person)
zeigte (past)
gezeigt (participle past)
haben (auxiliary)
haben (auxiliary)
zeigen (infinitive)
zeigend (participle present)
gezeigt (participle past)
zeige (first-person indicative present singular)
zeigen (first-person indicative plural present)
zeige (first-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
zeigen (first-person plural subjunctive subjunctive-i)
zeigst (indicative present second-person singular)
zeigt (indicative plural present second-person)
zeigest (second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
zeiget (plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-i)
zeigt (indicative present singular third-person)
zeigen (indicative plural present third-person)
zeige (singular subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
zeigen (plural subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
zeigte (first-person indicative preterite singular)
zeigten (first-person indicative plural preterite)
zeigte (first-person formal rare singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
zeigten (first-person formal plural rare subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
zeigtest (indicative preterite second-person singular)
zeigtet (indicative plural preterite second-person)
zeigtest (formal rare second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
zeigtet (formal plural rare second-person subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
zeigte (indicative preterite singular third-person)
zeigten (indicative plural preterite third-person)
zeigte (formal rare singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
zeigten (formal plural rare subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
zeig (imperative second-person singular)
zeige (imperative second-person singular)
zeigt (imperative plural second-person)
haben (auxiliary)
habe gezeigt (first-person indicative multiword-construction perfect singular)
haben gezeigt (first-person indicative multiword-construction perfect plural)
habe gezeigt (first-person multiword-construction perfect singular subjunctive)
haben gezeigt (first-person multiword-construction perfect plural subjunctive)
hast gezeigt (indicative multiword-construction perfect second-person singular)
habt gezeigt (indicative multiword-construction perfect plural second-person)
habest gezeigt (multiword-construction perfect second-person singular subjunctive)
habet gezeigt (multiword-construction perfect plural second-person subjunctive)
hat gezeigt (indicative multiword-construction perfect singular third-person)
haben gezeigt (indicative multiword-construction perfect plural third-person)
habe gezeigt (multiword-construction perfect singular subjunctive third-person)
haben gezeigt (multiword-construction perfect plural subjunctive third-person)
hatte gezeigt (first-person indicative multiword-construction pluperfect singular)
hatten gezeigt (first-person indicative multiword-construction pluperfect plural)
hätte gezeigt (first-person multiword-construction pluperfect singular subjunctive)
hätten gezeigt (first-person multiword-construction pluperfect plural subjunctive)
hattest gezeigt (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect second-person singular)
hattet gezeigt (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect plural second-person)
hättest gezeigt (multiword-construction pluperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
hättet gezeigt (multiword-construction pluperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
hatte gezeigt (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect singular third-person)
hatten gezeigt (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect plural third-person)
hätte gezeigt (multiword-construction pluperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
hätten gezeigt (multiword-construction pluperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
zeigen werden (future future-i infinitive multiword-construction)
werde zeigen (first-person future future-i multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werden zeigen (first-person future future-i multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werdest zeigen (future future-i multiword-construction second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werdet zeigen (future future-i multiword-construction plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werde zeigen (future future-i multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
werden zeigen (future future-i multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
werde zeigen (first-person future future-i indicative multiword-construction singular)
werden zeigen (first-person future future-i indicative multiword-construction plural)
würde zeigen (first-person future future-i multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
würden zeigen (first-person future future-i multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
wirst zeigen (future future-i indicative multiword-construction second-person singular)
werdet zeigen (future future-i indicative multiword-construction plural second-person)
würdest zeigen (future future-i multiword-construction second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
würdet zeigen (future future-i multiword-construction plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
wird zeigen (future future-i indicative multiword-construction singular third-person)
werden zeigen (future future-i indicative multiword-construction plural third-person)
würde zeigen (future future-i multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
würden zeigen (future future-i multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
gezeigt haben werden (future future-ii infinitive multiword-construction)
werde gezeigt haben (first-person future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werden gezeigt haben (first-person future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werdest gezeigt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werdet gezeigt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werde gezeigt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
werden gezeigt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
werde gezeigt haben (first-person future future-ii indicative multiword-construction singular)
werden gezeigt haben (first-person future future-ii indicative multiword-construction plural)
würde gezeigt haben (first-person future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
würden gezeigt haben (first-person future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
wirst gezeigt haben (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction second-person singular)
werdet gezeigt haben (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction plural second-person)
würdest gezeigt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
würdet gezeigt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
wird gezeigt haben (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction singular third-person)
werden gezeigt haben (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction plural third-person)
würde gezeigt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
würden gezeigt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)

/ˈt͡saɪ̯ɡən/

[ˈt͡saɪ̯ɡŋ̍]

From Middle High German zeigen, from Old High German zeigōn, intensive of zīhan, whence modern zeihen (“to blame”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ-, whence also Zeichen, English teach. In Modern German, zeigen absorbed the synonymous but entirely unrelated Middle High German zöugen (cognate with Gothic ataugjan); therefore the spellings zäugen, zeugen also occurred.

Wenn dieser Kanal die 100.000 Abos knackt, zeige ich mich.

When this channel reaches 100,000 subscribers, I'll do a face reveal.

(reflexive, Internet) to face reveal, to show one's face

to show, make see
to exhibit, allow to see
to face reveal, to show one's face


smiley face

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

Enter the smiley face, the computer hacker's version of comic relief.

2002, Lisa Malia McDonough, Lisa, the Brief Life of a Writer, page 136:

Two minutes later a reply came back.
Cool, see you tomorrow...x
Campbell sent back a smiley face, did a little dance around the bedroom and flopped back onto his bed wearing a smiley face of his own.

2005, Craig Cornwell, Whoops! There Goes the Neighbourhood, page 20:

Against Mary Jane's wishes, I texted Gavin just to reassure him that I was not going out with his girlfriend. I put a smiley face at the end of the message.

2007, C. N. Barton, The Cambridge Diaries: A Tale of Friendship, Love And Economics, page 94:

(rare, Internet) A smiley, a sequence of text characters used to represent a happy mood, e.g. :) or :-).


courrier électronique

fr-noun

courrier électronique m (plural courriers électroniques)


edress

If anybody wants to take up a reply to ream me out, my edress is as follows: […]

1993 September 23, "williams" (username), "here's another chance to flame, in rec.pets.herp, Usenet

Baleen’s boardroom lay somewhere out in the virtch, in a deeply encrypted region called the Briarpatch. Only Baleen (and Poole sEcurity) had the edress and key.

2001, Michael Flynn, Lodestar, Macmillan,, →ISBN, page 124:

Comcast negotiated a deal for a few months, they're going to pay a lot more to @home for those months, while they try to find a new cable supplier. So your edress will probably change eventually.

2001 December 7, Marilee J. Layman, “Re: @home.com email addys”, in rec.crafts.beads (Usenet):

My edress is […].

2010 April 9, Leslie, “Re: April Phoenix Housfilk - Announcement”, in rec.music.filk (Usenet):


e-dress

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

As I added my info, one e-dress caught my eye: […]

2001, Andy Anderson, “Ask Doctor Rowing: A tale of three New Yorkers”, in The Independent Rowing News, Volume 9, Number 2 (2001 March 15), ISSN 1548-694X, page 54

Had someone at the paper given out his home e-dress?

2002, Tim Waggoner, All Too Surreal, Prime Books, →ISBN, page 92:

Email is so important in Antarctica. Each expeditioner has an e-dress on board and on the station.

2002, Hazel Edwards, Antarctic writer on ice: diary of an enduring adventure, Common Ground, →ISBN, page 31:

But he wasn’t responding to her messages on his Lucky Dog e-dress.

2007, Richard Hawke, Cold Day in Hell, Random House, →ISBN:

Unmunge my e-dress (I think its self explanatory).

2010 July 29, Adelle, “Re: Formatting replies”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):

An email address, a unique identifier specifying a virtual location to which e-mail can be sent.


channel

→ Japanese: チャンネル (channeru)

→ Korean: 채널 (chaeneol)

→ Welsh: sianel

From Middle English chanel (also as canel, cannel, kanel), a borrowing from Old French chanel, canel, from Latin canālis (“groove; canal; channel”). Doublet of canal.

kanal

communication: single path provided by a transmission medium via physical separation

kanaal

broadcasting: specific radio frequency or band of frequencies used for transmitting television

The excerpt in Figure 1 below shows a list of some channel names as they appear to an IRC user. The left hand column displays the channel name, the middle column displays how many people are currently on the channel, and the right hand column indicates the theme of the channel or the current topic of conversation: […]

1996, Susan C. Herring, Computer-mediated Communication, page 50:

(Internet) A particular area for conversations on an IRC or similar network, analogous to a chat room and often dedicated to a specific topic.

Netcaster is the "receiver" for channels that are built into Netscape 4.01 and later releases.

1999, Jeffrey S Rule, Dynamic HTML: The HTML Developer's Guide:

To access channels in Windows 98, you don't have to go any farther than your desktop.

1999, Margaret Levine Young, Internet: The Complete Reference:

(Internet, historical) A means of delivering up-to-date Internet content via a push mechanism.


IRA

Internet Research Agency
w:Internet Research Agency

(Internet, politics) Initialism of Internet Research Agency.


surfing

en-noun

surfing (usually uncountable, plural surfings)

→ Japanese: サーフィン (sāfin)

→ Korean: 서핑 (seoping)

To J. M. Duffin, former student and now assistant archivist at the University of Pennsylvania, thanks for courteous surfings of the Internet for missing dates, publishers, and other embarrassing gaps in my text.

(Internet) The activity of browsing the Internet.


necromancy

necromancy (countable and uncountable, plural necromancies)

necromancies (plural)
necyomancy (alternative)
egromancy (alternative)

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Circa 1300, from Middle English nigromancye, from Old French nigromancie, from Medieval Latin nigromantia, from Latin necromantia, from Ancient Greek νεκρομαντεία (nekromanteía), νεκρός (nekrós, “dead”) + μαντεία (manteía, “divination”). Medieval Latin spelling, incorporating niger (“black”), influenced by the notion of black art. Modern spelling adopted in mid-1500s. By surface analysis, necro- + -mancy.

der

νεκρομαντεία


blogosphere

/ˈblɒɡ.əʊˌsfɪɚ/

From blog + -o- + -sphere, possibly under the influence of biosphere, atmosphere, etc.

2004 Air America Radio http://www.airamericaradio.com/
Regular guest and blogger, Kos of DailyKos.com, provides Sam and Janeane the latest information from the blogosphere.

The blogosphere is relentless: It rightfully hammered Eason Jordan and CNN from day one and refuses to stop.

2005 February 11, Lawrence Kudlow, National Review Online:

there's some talk, as you said, on the blogosphere, that this book is controversial, but I think more properly it's a contribution...

2006 October 8, Lee Smolin (interviewee), Steve Paulson (interviewer), To the Best of Our Knowledge, “Future Physics”, Wisconsin Public Radio, program 06-10-08-A, segment 1

(Internet) The totality of blogs, especially the unique jargon, cultures and shared interests created by their interconnection.


instance

en-noun

instance (countable and uncountable, plural instances)

instances (plural)
enstance (alternative)
enstaunce (alternative)
instaunce (alternative)

Borrowed from Middle French instance, from Latin īnstantia (“a being near, presence, also perseverance, earnestness, importunity, urgency”), from īnstāns (“urgent”); see instant.

der

To collect the messages, we select the mstdn.jp as the target instance. The mstdn.jp is one of the major Mastodon instances that has 123,331 users and connects to the 2415 other instances at 26 Feb 2017.

2017, Masaki Kohana et al., “A Topic Trend on P2P Based Social Media”, in Leonard Barolli, Makoto Takizawa, Tomoya Enokido, editors, Advances in Network-Based Information Systems: The 20th International Conference on Network-Based Information Systems (NBiS-2017), page 1140:

In a poll I conducted on Mastodon, 42% of the 674 respondents said that they had reported something, whether it had been a spam account or hateful content, to their instance's moderator.

2022, Derek Caelin, “Decentralized Networks vs The Trolls”, in Hoda Mahmoudi, Kate Seaman, Michael H. Allen, editors, Fundamental Challenges to Global Peace and Security: The Future of Humanity, page 157:

Every Mastodon instance (neighborhood) has a code of conduct that you have to agree to before you join (move in).

2023, Chris Minnick, Michael McCallister, Mastodon for Dummies, page 14:

(Internet) An independent server on a decentralised social network, such as Mastodon.


instance

A derivative of etymology 1, but reborrowed from English.


mud

en-verb

mud (third-person singular simple present muds, present participle mudding, simple past and past participle mudded)

muds (present singular third-person)
mudding (participle present)
mudded (participle past)
mudded (past)

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, Douglas Schuler, Reinventing technology, rediscovering community, page 153:

(intransitive, Internet) To participate in a MUD or multi-user dungeon.


e-quaintance

e-quaintances (plural)
ecquaintance (alternative)

From acquaintance, replacing ac- (ad) with e- (“electronic”), by analogy with e-mail.

(Internet) a person known exclusively online, usually from instant messaging such as AIM, or through internet dating personals.

(Internet) the state of knowing exclusively online


e-quainted

en-adj

e-quainted (comparative more e-quainted, superlative most e-quainted)

more e-quainted (comparative)
most e-quainted (superlative)

People I was thrilled to meet after being e-quainted forever: […]

1997 February 22, Kathleen Swanholt, “Correction and LCC”, in bit.listserv.dorothyl (Usenet):

I'm e-quainted with someone who goes to the VA there and he says he sees Indian groceries when he goes there.

1997 September 12, TJ, “Re: basmati rice”, in rec.food.cooking (Usenet):

2000, Russell Merris, Graph Theory, Wiley-IEEE, →ISBN, page 195,
Let’s say two people are e-quainted if, during the past year, they participated together in one or more of the same chat room discussions. Otherwise, call them e-stranged. Then any two people attending the convention’s introductory cocktail party will be either e-quainted or e-stranged.

I am e-quainted with a Catherine who became Cathrin, also for Goff reasons.

2004 December 7, Dave Larrington, “Re: Cynical? moi?”, in uk.rec.sheds (Usenet):

(Internet) Acquainted by means of online communication.


oshi

For me, my Oshi is Watame. I find her content very relaxing and calming, it helps bring me a smile whenever I see that wonderful sheep doing anything and it’s sometimes exactly what I need after a stressful day at work. I really admire all the hard work she puts into her music as well as how inclusive she always attempts to be as far as reaching out to overseas fans with everything. Everything about her just makes me feel happy and I really value everything she does here at HoloLive.

2022 April 19, /u/Daniel101773, Who’s your Oshi & why?:

(VTuber fandom slang) A person’s favorite VTuber, idol, or character, especially one they actively support and promote.


RSS feed

(Internet) An XML document that follows the RSS ("Rich Site Summary") specification, used for syndication.


監督

/t͡ɕi̯ɛn⁵⁵ tu⁵⁵/

/t͡ɕiɛn⁵⁵ tu⁵⁵/

/kam²¹⁻⁴¹ tɔk̚³²/

/kam²¹⁻⁵³ tɔk̚³²/

/kam¹¹⁻⁵³ tɔk̚³²/

/kam⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ tɔk̚⁵/

/kam⁴⁴⁻²² tɔk̚³²/

/kam²¹³⁻⁵⁵ tok̚²/

/t͡ɕi̯ɛn⁵⁵ tu⁵⁵/

/t͡ɕiɛn⁵⁵ tu⁵⁵/

/kam²¹⁻⁴¹ tɔk̚³²/

/kam²¹⁻⁵³ tɔk̚³²/

/kam¹¹⁻⁵³ tɔk̚³²/

/kam⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ tɔk̚⁵/

/kam⁴⁴⁻²² tɔk̚³²/

/kam²¹³⁻⁵⁵ tok̚²/

; “(ACG) director”
; “(WMF) to oversight”

(Wikimedia jargon) to oversight (to suppress content in a way that removes or minimizes its visibility or viewability)


kuukkeloida

kuukkeloin (first-person indicative present singular)
en kuukkeloi (first-person indicative negative present singular)
olen kuukkeloinut (first-person indicative perfect singular)
en ole kuukkeloinut (first-person indicative negative perfect singular)
kuukkeloit (indicative present second-person singular)
et kuukkeloi (indicative negative present second-person singular)
olet kuukkeloinut (indicative perfect second-person singular)
et ole kuukkeloinut (indicative negative perfect second-person singular)
kuukkeloi (indicative present singular third-person)
ei kuukkeloi (indicative negative present singular third-person)
on kuukkeloinut (indicative perfect singular third-person)
ei ole kuukkeloinut (indicative negative perfect singular third-person)
kuukkeloimme (first-person indicative plural present)
emme kuukkeloi (first-person indicative negative plural present)
olemme kuukkeloineet (first-person indicative perfect plural)
emme ole kuukkeloineet (first-person indicative negative perfect plural)
kuukkeloitte (indicative plural present second-person)
ette kuukkeloi (indicative negative plural present second-person)
olette kuukkeloineet (indicative perfect plural second-person)
ette ole kuukkeloineet (indicative negative perfect plural second-person)
kuukkeloivat (indicative plural present third-person)
eivät kuukkeloi (indicative negative plural present third-person)
ovat kuukkeloineet (indicative perfect plural third-person)
eivät ole kuukkeloineet (indicative negative perfect plural third-person)
kuukkeloidaan (indicative passive present)
ei kuukkeloida (indicative negative passive present)
on kuukkeloitu (indicative passive perfect)
ei ole kuukkeloitu (indicative negative passive perfect)
kuukkeloin (first-person indicative past singular)
en kuukkeloinut (first-person indicative negative past singular)
olin kuukkeloinut (first-person indicative pluperfect singular)
en ollut kuukkeloinut (first-person indicative negative pluperfect singular)
kuukkeloit (indicative past second-person singular)
et kuukkeloinut (indicative negative past second-person singular)
olit kuukkeloinut (indicative pluperfect second-person singular)
et ollut kuukkeloinut (indicative negative pluperfect second-person singular)
kuukkeloi (indicative past singular third-person)
ei kuukkeloinut (indicative negative past singular third-person)
oli kuukkeloinut (indicative pluperfect singular third-person)
ei ollut kuukkeloinut (indicative negative pluperfect singular third-person)
kuukkeloimme (first-person indicative past plural)
emme kuukkeloineet (first-person indicative negative past plural)
olimme kuukkeloineet (first-person indicative pluperfect plural)
emme olleet kuukkeloineet (first-person indicative negative pluperfect plural)
kuukkeloitte (indicative past plural second-person)
ette kuukkeloineet (indicative negative past plural second-person)
olitte kuukkeloineet (indicative pluperfect plural second-person)
ette olleet kuukkeloineet (indicative negative pluperfect plural second-person)
kuukkeloivat (indicative past plural third-person)
eivät kuukkeloineet (indicative negative past plural third-person)
olivat kuukkeloineet (indicative pluperfect plural third-person)
eivät olleet kuukkeloineet (indicative negative pluperfect plural third-person)
kuukkeloitiin (indicative passive past)
ei kuukkeloitu (indicative negative passive past)
oli kuukkeloitu (indicative passive pluperfect)
ei ollut kuukkeloitu (indicative negative passive pluperfect)
kuukkeloisin (conditional first-person present singular)
en kuukkeloisi (conditional first-person negative present singular)
olisin kuukkeloinut (conditional first-person perfect singular)
en olisi kuukkeloinut (conditional first-person negative perfect singular)
kuukkeloisit (conditional present second-person singular)
et kuukkeloisi (conditional negative present second-person singular)
olisit kuukkeloinut (conditional perfect second-person singular)
et olisi kuukkeloinut (conditional negative perfect second-person singular)
kuukkeloisi (conditional present singular third-person)
ei kuukkeloisi (conditional negative present singular third-person)
olisi kuukkeloinut (conditional perfect singular third-person)
ei olisi kuukkeloinut (conditional negative perfect singular third-person)
kuukkeloisimme (conditional first-person plural present)
emme kuukkeloisi (conditional first-person negative plural present)
olisimme kuukkeloineet (conditional first-person perfect plural)
emme olisi kuukkeloineet (conditional first-person negative perfect plural)
kuukkeloisitte (conditional plural present second-person)
ette kuukkeloisi (conditional negative plural present second-person)
olisitte kuukkeloineet (conditional perfect plural second-person)
ette olisi kuukkeloineet (conditional negative perfect plural second-person)
kuukkeloisivat (conditional plural present third-person)
eivät kuukkeloisi (conditional negative plural present third-person)
olisivat kuukkeloineet (conditional perfect plural third-person)
eivät olisi kuukkeloineet (conditional negative perfect plural third-person)
kuukkeloitaisiin (conditional passive present)
ei kuukkeloitaisi (conditional negative passive present)
olisi kuukkeloitu (conditional passive perfect)
ei olisi kuukkeloitu (conditional negative passive perfect)
kuukkeloi (imperative present second-person singular)
älä kuukkeloi (imperative negative present second-person singular)
kuukkeloikoon (imperative present singular third-person)
älköön kuukkeloiko (imperative negative present singular third-person)
olkoon kuukkeloinut (imperative perfect singular third-person)
älköön olko kuukkeloinut (imperative negative perfect singular third-person)
kuukkeloikaamme (first-person imperative plural present)
älkäämme kuukkeloiko (first-person imperative negative plural present)
kuukkeloikaa (imperative plural present second-person)
älkää kuukkeloiko (imperative negative plural present second-person)
kuukkeloikoot (imperative plural present third-person)
älkööt kuukkeloiko (imperative negative plural present third-person)
olkoot kuukkeloineet (imperative perfect plural third-person)
älkööt olko kuukkeloineet (imperative negative perfect plural third-person)
kuukkeloitakoon (imperative passive present)
älköön kuukkeloitako (imperative negative passive present)
olkoon kuukkeloitu (imperative passive perfect)
älköön olko kuukkeloitu (imperative negative passive perfect)
kuukkeloinen (first-person potential present singular)
en kuukkeloine (first-person negative potential present singular)
lienen kuukkeloinut (first-person perfect potential singular)
en liene kuukkeloinut (first-person negative perfect potential singular)
kuukkeloinet (potential present second-person singular)
et kuukkeloine (negative potential present second-person singular)
lienet kuukkeloinut (perfect potential second-person singular)
et liene kuukkeloinut (negative perfect potential second-person singular)
kuukkeloinee (potential present singular third-person)
ei kuukkeloine (negative potential present singular third-person)
lienee kuukkeloinut (perfect potential singular third-person)
ei liene kuukkeloinut (negative perfect potential singular third-person)
kuukkeloinemme (first-person plural potential present)
emme kuukkeloine (first-person negative plural potential present)
lienemme kuukkeloineet (first-person perfect plural potential)
emme liene kuukkeloineet (first-person negative perfect plural potential)
kuukkeloinette (plural potential present second-person)
ette kuukkeloine (negative plural potential present second-person)
lienette kuukkeloineet (perfect plural potential second-person)
ette liene kuukkeloineet (negative perfect plural potential second-person)
kuukkeloinevat (plural potential present third-person)
eivät kuukkeloine (negative plural potential present third-person)
lienevät kuukkeloineet (perfect plural potential third-person)
eivät liene kuukkeloineet (negative perfect plural potential third-person)
kuukkeloitaneen (passive potential present)
ei kuukkeloitane (negative passive potential present)
lienee kuukkeloitu (passive perfect potential)
ei liene kuukkeloitu (negative passive perfect potential)
kuukkeloida (infinitive infinitive-i)
kuukkeloiva (active participle present)
kuukkeloitava (participle passive present)
kuukkeloidakseni (first-person possessive singular)
kuukkeloidaksemme (first-person plural possessive)
kuukkeloidaksesi (possessive second-person singular)
kuukkeloidaksenne (plural possessive second-person)
kuukkeloidakseen (possessive third-person)
kuukkeloidaksensa (possessive third-person)
kuukkeloinut (infinitive-i-long past)
kuukkeloitu (infinitive-i-long past)
kuukkeloidessa (inessive second-person)
kuukkeloitaessa (inessive second-person)
kuukkeloima (agent)
kuukkeloidessani (first-person possessive singular)
kuukkeloidessamme (first-person plural possessive)
kuukkeloidessasi (possessive second-person singular)
kuukkeloidessanne (plural possessive second-person)
kuukkeloidessaan (possessive third-person)
kuukkeloidessansa (possessive third-person)
kuukkeloimaton (inessive negative second-person)
kuukkeloiden (instructive second-person)
kuukkeloimassa (inessive third-person)
kuukkeloimasta (elative third-person)
kuukkeloimaan (illative third-person)
kuukkeloimalla (adessive third-person)
kuukkeloimatta (abessive third-person)
kuukkeloiman (instructive third-person)
kuukkeloitaman (instructive third-person)
kuukkeloiminen (fourth-person noun-from-verb)
kuukkeloimaisillani (first-person possessive singular)
kuukkeloimaisillamme (first-person plural possessive)
kuukkeloimaisillasi (possessive second-person singular)
kuukkeloimaisillanne (plural possessive second-person)
kuukkeloimaisillaan (possessive third-person)
kuukkeloimaisillansa (possessive third-person)

kuukkeli (“Siberian jay”) + -oida; obtained by substituting kuukkeli for Google, in order to fit better in the phonetic structure of Finnish.

(intransitive, Internet) Synonym of googlata (“to google”).


googlata

googlaan (first-person indicative present singular)
en googlaa (first-person indicative negative present singular)
olen googlannut (first-person indicative perfect singular)
en ole googlannut (first-person indicative negative perfect singular)
googlaat (indicative present second-person singular)
et googlaa (indicative negative present second-person singular)
olet googlannut (indicative perfect second-person singular)
et ole googlannut (indicative negative perfect second-person singular)
googlaa (indicative present singular third-person)
ei googlaa (indicative negative present singular third-person)
on googlannut (indicative perfect singular third-person)
ei ole googlannut (indicative negative perfect singular third-person)
googlaamme (first-person indicative plural present)
emme googlaa (first-person indicative negative plural present)
olemme googlanneet (first-person indicative perfect plural)
emme ole googlanneet (first-person indicative negative perfect plural)
googlaatte (indicative plural present second-person)
ette googlaa (indicative negative plural present second-person)
olette googlanneet (indicative perfect plural second-person)
ette ole googlanneet (indicative negative perfect plural second-person)
googlaavat (indicative plural present third-person)
eivät googlaa (indicative negative plural present third-person)
ovat googlanneet (indicative perfect plural third-person)
eivät ole googlanneet (indicative negative perfect plural third-person)
googlataan (indicative passive present)
ei googlata (indicative negative passive present)
on googlattu (indicative passive perfect)
ei ole googlattu (indicative negative passive perfect)
googlasin (first-person indicative past singular)
en googlannut (first-person indicative negative past singular)
olin googlannut (first-person indicative pluperfect singular)
en ollut googlannut (first-person indicative negative pluperfect singular)
googlasit (indicative past second-person singular)
et googlannut (indicative negative past second-person singular)
olit googlannut (indicative pluperfect second-person singular)
et ollut googlannut (indicative negative pluperfect second-person singular)
googlasi (indicative past singular third-person)
ei googlannut (indicative negative past singular third-person)
oli googlannut (indicative pluperfect singular third-person)
ei ollut googlannut (indicative negative pluperfect singular third-person)
googlasimme (first-person indicative past plural)
emme googlanneet (first-person indicative negative past plural)
olimme googlanneet (first-person indicative pluperfect plural)
emme olleet googlanneet (first-person indicative negative pluperfect plural)
googlasitte (indicative past plural second-person)
ette googlanneet (indicative negative past plural second-person)
olitte googlanneet (indicative pluperfect plural second-person)
ette olleet googlanneet (indicative negative pluperfect plural second-person)
googlasivat (indicative past plural third-person)
eivät googlanneet (indicative negative past plural third-person)
olivat googlanneet (indicative pluperfect plural third-person)
eivät olleet googlanneet (indicative negative pluperfect plural third-person)
googlattiin (indicative passive past)
ei googlattu (indicative negative passive past)
oli googlattu (indicative passive pluperfect)
ei ollut googlattu (indicative negative passive pluperfect)
googlaisin (conditional first-person present singular)
en googlaisi (conditional first-person negative present singular)
olisin googlannut (conditional first-person perfect singular)
en olisi googlannut (conditional first-person negative perfect singular)
googlaisit (conditional present second-person singular)
et googlaisi (conditional negative present second-person singular)
olisit googlannut (conditional perfect second-person singular)
et olisi googlannut (conditional negative perfect second-person singular)
googlaisi (conditional present singular third-person)
ei googlaisi (conditional negative present singular third-person)
olisi googlannut (conditional perfect singular third-person)
ei olisi googlannut (conditional negative perfect singular third-person)
googlaisimme (conditional first-person plural present)
emme googlaisi (conditional first-person negative plural present)
olisimme googlanneet (conditional first-person perfect plural)
emme olisi googlanneet (conditional first-person negative perfect plural)
googlaisitte (conditional plural present second-person)
ette googlaisi (conditional negative plural present second-person)
olisitte googlanneet (conditional perfect plural second-person)
ette olisi googlanneet (conditional negative perfect plural second-person)
googlaisivat (conditional plural present third-person)
eivät googlaisi (conditional negative plural present third-person)
olisivat googlanneet (conditional perfect plural third-person)
eivät olisi googlanneet (conditional negative perfect plural third-person)
googlattaisiin (conditional passive present)
ei googlattaisi (conditional negative passive present)
olisi googlattu (conditional passive perfect)
ei olisi googlattu (conditional negative passive perfect)
googlaa (imperative present second-person singular)
älä googlaa (imperative negative present second-person singular)
googlatkoon (imperative present singular third-person)
älköön googlatko (imperative negative present singular third-person)
olkoon googlannut (imperative perfect singular third-person)
älköön olko googlannut (imperative negative perfect singular third-person)
googlatkaamme (first-person imperative plural present)
älkäämme googlatko (first-person imperative negative plural present)
googlatkaa (imperative plural present second-person)
älkää googlatko (imperative negative plural present second-person)
googlatkoot (imperative plural present third-person)
älkööt googlatko (imperative negative plural present third-person)
olkoot googlanneet (imperative perfect plural third-person)
älkööt olko googlanneet (imperative negative perfect plural third-person)
googlattakoon (imperative passive present)
älköön googlattako (imperative negative passive present)
olkoon googlattu (imperative passive perfect)
älköön olko googlattu (imperative negative passive perfect)
googlannen (first-person potential present singular)
en googlanne (first-person negative potential present singular)
lienen googlannut (first-person perfect potential singular)
en liene googlannut (first-person negative perfect potential singular)
googlannet (potential present second-person singular)
et googlanne (negative potential present second-person singular)
lienet googlannut (perfect potential second-person singular)
et liene googlannut (negative perfect potential second-person singular)
googlannee (potential present singular third-person)
ei googlanne (negative potential present singular third-person)
lienee googlannut (perfect potential singular third-person)
ei liene googlannut (negative perfect potential singular third-person)
googlannemme (first-person plural potential present)
emme googlanne (first-person negative plural potential present)
lienemme googlanneet (first-person perfect plural potential)
emme liene googlanneet (first-person negative perfect plural potential)
googlannette (plural potential present second-person)
ette googlanne (negative plural potential present second-person)
lienette googlanneet (perfect plural potential second-person)
ette liene googlanneet (negative perfect plural potential second-person)
googlannevat (plural potential present third-person)
eivät googlanne (negative plural potential present third-person)
lienevät googlanneet (perfect plural potential third-person)
eivät liene googlanneet (negative perfect plural potential third-person)
googlattaneen (passive potential present)
ei googlattane (negative passive potential present)
lienee googlattu (passive perfect potential)
ei liene googlattu (negative passive perfect potential)
googlata (infinitive infinitive-i)
googlaava (active participle present)
googlattava (participle passive present)
googlatakseni (first-person possessive singular)
googlataksemme (first-person plural possessive)
googlataksesi (possessive second-person singular)
googlataksenne (plural possessive second-person)
googlatakseen (possessive third-person)
googlataksensa (possessive third-person)
googlannut (infinitive-i-long past)
googlattu (infinitive-i-long past)
googlatessa (inessive second-person)
googlattaessa (inessive second-person)
googlaama (agent)
googlatessani (first-person possessive singular)
googlatessamme (first-person plural possessive)
googlatessasi (possessive second-person singular)
googlatessanne (plural possessive second-person)
googlatessaan (possessive third-person)
googlatessansa (possessive third-person)
googlaamaton (inessive negative second-person)
googlaten (instructive second-person)
googlaamassa (inessive third-person)
googlaamasta (elative third-person)
googlaamaan (illative third-person)
googlaamalla (adessive third-person)
googlaamatta (abessive third-person)
googlaaman (instructive third-person)
googlattaman (instructive third-person)
googlaaminen (fourth-person noun-from-verb)
googlaamaisillani (first-person possessive singular)
googlaamaisillamme (first-person plural possessive)
googlaamaisillasi (possessive second-person singular)
googlaamaisillanne (plural possessive second-person)
googlaamaisillaan (possessive third-person)
googlaamaisillansa (possessive third-person)

/ˈɡuːɡlɑtɑˣ/

[ˈɡuːɡlɑ̝t̪ɑ̝(ʔ)]

/ˈɡoːɡlɑtɑˣ/

[ˈɡo̞ːɡlɑ̝t̪ɑ̝(ʔ)]

(transitive) to google (to search from the Internet using Google search engine)

(transitive, by extension) to google (to search from the Internet using any comprehensive search engine)


aggregator

(Internet) An online feed reader used to keep track of updates to blogs, etc.


Googlish

Googlish (comparative more Googlish, superlative most Googlish)

more Googlish (comparative)
most Googlish (superlative)

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

This is the Googlish way to do directory services.

"Innovation" has become a key word in journalism education, as schools attempt to create a Googlish culture that provides students with the ability to create their own platforms, technologies, and techniques for journalistic reporting and storytelling.

2017, Robert E. Gutsche, Jr., Media Control: News as an Institution of Power and Social Control:

(Internet, informal) Resembling or in the manner of Google.


netsplit

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

(Internet) A technical glitch encountered when two or more IRC servers lose their connection to each other, dividing the network into a number of isolated groups of users.


netsplit

en-verb

netsplit (third-person singular simple present netsplits, present participle netsplitting, simple past and past participle netsplitted)

netsplits (present singular third-person)
netsplitting (participle present)
netsplitted (participle past)
netsplitted (past)

(Internet, transitive) To leave an IRC server as a result of a netsplit.


muro

Inherited from Old Spanish muro, from Latin mūrus, from Old Latin *moerus, *moiros, from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“to strengthen”). Cognate with German Mauer (“wall”) and obsolete English mure. Compare English mural.


ratio

→ Portuguese: rácio

/ˈɹeɪ.ʃi.əʊ/

/ˈɹeɪ.ʃiˌoʊ/

Borrowed from Latin ratiō. Doublet of ration and reason.

(Internet) The number of comments to a post or other expression on social media relative to the number of likes; a high ratio suggests disagreement with the contents of the original post.


ratio

en-verb

ratio (third-person singular simple present ratios, present participle ratioing, simple past and past participle ratioed)

ratios (present singular third-person)
ratioing (participle present)
ratioed (participle past)
ratioed (past)

/ˈɹeɪ.ʃi.əʊ/

/ˈɹeɪ.ʃiˌoʊ/

The politician's post was quickly ratioed due to its controversial nature.

It used to be fun to watch tweets like that get ratioed back into their ugly corner of the internet.

2019, Henry Chisholm, "'Who Cares? It's women's hoops'", Montana Kaimin (The University of Montana), 30 January 2019 - 5 February 2019, page 29

And, just FYI, here's how brutally the public ratioed that tweet.

2021 January 27, Leigh Tauss, “Ghost Roast”, in INDY Week, page 4:

It is essential that you ratio anyone who comes for your honour.

2021, @suburbanpoet, "Ratio or be Ratioed: Reluctant notes on Twitter", Honi Soit (University of Sydney), Week 4, Semester 2 (2021), page 16

(transitive, Internet slang) To respond to a post or message on social media in a greater number than the number of likes the post receives, especially to condemn or mock the original poster.


cancel

From Middle English cancellen, from Anglo-Norman canceler (“to cross out with lines”) (modern French chanceler (“to stagger, sway”)), from Latin cancellō (“to make resemble a lattice”), from cancellus (“a railing or lattice”), diminutive of cancer (“a lattice”).

der

A control message posted to Usenet that serves to cancel a previously posted message.


noob

nooben (definite singular)
noober (indefinite plural)
noobene (definite plural)
nabb (alternative)
nub (alternative)


noob

nooben (definite singular)
noobar (indefinite plural)
noobane (definite plural)
nabb (alternative)


POTD

(Internet) Initialism of picture of the day.


home page

home pages (plural)
Home page (alternative)
homepage (alternative)

From home + page. First attested in 1992.

Creating Your Own Home Page
The home page provided by CERN is a good entry point into the Web; it points you to a lot of resources fairly quickly.

1992, Ed Krol, The Whole Internet: User's Guide & Catalog, page 240:

(Internet) The main or first page of a website or set of hyperlinked documents.


burner

→ Japanese: バーナー (bānā)

From burn + -er. Merged with and eclipsed related Middle English brennar, brennere (“an incendiary, incinerator”). Compare German Brenner (“burner”), Swedish brännare (“burner”).

Internet sleuths later discovered that the username, @SO_blessed1, appeared to be a burner belonging to the Twitter user Incarcerated Bob, who had long been spreading false information.

2021 June 8, Andy Martino, Cheated: The Inside Story of the Astros Scandal and a Colorful History of Sign Stealing, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, →ISBN, →LCCN:

(Internet, slang) Ellipsis of burner account.


whisper

From Middle English whisperen, from Old English hwisprian (“to mutter, murmur, whisper”), from Proto-West Germanic *hwisprōn, from Proto-Germanic *hwisprōną (“to hiss, whistle, whisper”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱweys-, *ḱwey- (“to hiss, whistle, whisper”).
Cognate with Dutch wisperen (“to whisper”), German wispern (“to mumble, whisper”). Related also to Danish hviske (“to whisper”), Icelandic hvískra (“to whisper”), Norwegian Bokmål hviske, kviskre (“to whisper”), Norwegian Nynorsk kviskre, kviskra (“to whisper”), Swedish viska (“to whisper”). More at English whistle.

inh

The invisibility of private interactions in the form of whispers resolved an ethical concern in the research but reduced our ability to gauge the volume of interaction […]

2002, Ralph Schroeder, The Social Life of Avatars, page 218:

Anyone logged in to the chat room can click on an individual name, highlighting it, and send a message — a whisper — that will be seen only by the selected person.

2004, Caroline A. Haythornthwaite, Michelle M. Kazmer, Learning, Culture and Community in Online Education, page 179:

(Internet) A private message to an individual in a chat room.

yksityisviesti

internet: private message in a chat room


whisper

en-verb

whisper (third-person singular simple present whispers, present participle whispering, simple past and past participle whispered)

whispers (present singular third-person)
whispering (participle present)
whispered (participle past)
whispered (past)

(Internet) To send a private message to an individual in a chat room.


stream

stream (third-person singular simple present streams, present participle streaming, simple past and past participle streamed)

streams (present singular third-person)
streaming (participle present)
streamed (participle past)
streamed (past)

From Middle English streem, strem, from Old English strēam, from Proto-West Germanic *straum, from Proto-Germanic *straumaz (“stream”), from Proto-Indo-European *srowmos (“river”), from Proto-Indo-European *srew- (“to flow”). Doublet of rheum.
Cognate with Scots strem, streme, streym (“stream, river”), North Frisian strum (“stream”), West Frisian stream (“stream”), Low German Stroom (“stream”), Dutch stroom (“current, flow, stream”), German Strom (“current, stream”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål strøm (“current, stream, flow”), Norwegian Nynorsk straum (“current, stream, flow”), Swedish ström (“current, stream, flow”), Icelandic straumur (“current, stream, torrent, flood”), Ancient Greek ῥεῦμα (rheûma, “stream, flow”), Lithuanian srovė (“current, stream”) Polish strumień (“stream”), Welsh ffrwd (“stream, current”), Scottish Gaelic sruth (“stream”).

cog

(Internet) To push continuous data (e.g. music) from a server to a client computer while it is being used (played) on the client.

I did factor in the whole, like, "oh, I wonder if doing streaming, and the money that's kind of attached to it, is the reason I wanted to do this?", like, is it warping my brain? I did think about that. I've streamed for years and it's been my entire life and I've made a lot of money off it, and I wondered if that's what's affecting me and making me want to do this. And it's not.

2024 March 1, F1NN5TER, 1:40 from the start, in Coming Out, archived from the original on 2024-05-14:


stream

stream (nominative singular)
streamy (nominative plural)
streamu (genitive singular)
streamów (genitive plural)
streamowi (dative singular)
streamom (dative plural)
stream (accusative singular)
streamy (accusative plural)
streamem (instrumental singular)
streamami (instrumental plural)
streamie (locative singular)
streamach (locative plural)
streamie (singular vocative)
streamy (plural vocative)

Unadapted borrowing from English stream. First attested in 1993.

ref

Pęzik, Piotr, Przepiórkowski, A., Bańko, M., Górski, R., Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, B (2012) Wyszukiwarka PELCRA dla danych NKJP. Narodowy Korpus Języka Polskiego [National Polish Language Corpus, PELCRA search engine], Wydawnictwo PWN


social

en-adj

social (comparative more social, superlative most social)

more social (comparative)
most social (superlative)

From Middle French social, from Latin sociālis (“of or belonging to a companion or companionship or association, social”), from socius (“a companion, fellow, partner, associate, ally”), from sequor (“follow”). Cognate with English seg (“man, companion, fellow”). More at seg.

der

social gaming

(Internet) Relating to social media or social networks.

социаль

internet: relating to social media or social networks


social

en-noun

social (countable and uncountable, plural socials)

“I saw that shift, and I was like, ‘Oh, that’s the future of social,’” Systrom said.

2023 January 31, Casey Newton, quoting Kevin Systrom, “Instagram’s co-founders are back with Artifact, a kind of TikTok for text”, in The Verge:

(Internet, informal, uncountable) Ellipsis of social media.

Also check out some other experts in this topic — their socials are in the pinned comment below.

Close your mouth and delete all your socials tonight.

2019 August 29, “Cheeto Christ Stupid Czar”, Randy Rainbow (lyrics), Andrew Lloyd Webber (music)performed by Randy Rainbow:

(Internet, informal, countable) A social media account; the username or handle thereof, or a link thereto.


blogophile

A person who is fond of blogs or blogging.


UDP

UDP (countable and uncountable, plural UDPs)

Usenet Death Penalty
Usenet Death Penalty#English

(Internet, Usenet) Initialism of Usenet Death Penalty.


IANA

Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
w:Internet Assigned Numbers Authority

(Internet) Acronym of Internet Assigned Numbers Authority.


revert war

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(Internet) A dispute on a wiki or in a git repository where two users repeatedly revert one another's changes to an article.


plus

en-verb

plus (third-person singular simple present pluses or plusses, present participle plusing or plussing, simple past and past participle plused or plussed)

pluses (present singular third-person)
plusses (present singular third-person)
plusing (participle present)
plussing (participle present)
plused (participle past)
plused (past)
plussed (participle past)
plussed (past)

Coordinate term: like

How do you get others to add you or your brand to their circles? By creating and sharing useful content, commenting, plussing others' content and comments, and engaging with others on Google+.

2012, Lee Odden, Optimize, →ISBN, page 111:

Everyone was plussing them or liking them or pinning them. The videos went viral.

2014, Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc., →ISBN, page 279:

(social media, dated) To give a mark of approval on Google+.


post

post (third-person singular simple present posts, present participle posting, simple past and past participle posted)

posts (present singular third-person)
posting (participle present)
posted (participle past)
posted (past)
poast (alternative)

→ Finnish: postata

Borrowed from Middle French poste, from Italian posta (“stopping-place for coaches”), feminine of posto (“placed, situated”).

der

I couldn't figure it out, so I posted a question on the mailing list.

(Internet) To publish (a message) to a newsgroup, forum, blog, etc.


post

(Internet) post (message on a blog, etc.)


SEO

en-noun

SEO (countable and uncountable, plural SEOs)

Coordinate term: ASO

Some are prepared to pay for placement; others use Search Engine Optimization (SEO) hoping their result percolates up the organic SERP.

2011, Jaroslav Pokorny, Vaclav Repa, Karel Richta, Wita Wojtkowski, Henry Linger, Chris Barry, Michael Lang, Information Systems Development: Business Systems and Services: Modeling and Development, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 88:

search engine optimization
search engine optimization#English

(uncountable, Internet) Initialism of search engine optimization.

Several people that I spoke to made a similar point: the best SEOs are the ones that follow Google's rules, which essentially ask you to make amazing websites without even thinking about Google. You are not supposed to make any attempt to artificially boost a website's ranking; you are supposed to be designing websites for human readers, not for the algorithm. And many SEOs do exactly this kind of work: rewriting copy, making a site load more quickly, etc. But the existence of good SEOs does not negate the presence of scammers and idiots and people who get ahead by violating Google's terms of service, just as the mild-mannered teacher's pet in a classroom does not negate the obnoxious shouting of the kids that refuse to behave. A few loud kids can easily drown everyone else out.

2023 November 1, Amanda Chicago Lewis, “The people who ruined the internet”, in The Verge, archived from the original on 2024-06-08:

(countable, Internet) Initialism of search engine optimizer.


organic

en-adj

organic (comparative more organic, superlative most organic)

more organic (comparative)
most organic (superlative)
organick (alternative)

From Middle English organic, organik, from Old French organique, from Latin organicus.

According to a recent survey by Jupiter Research, 80 percent of Web users get information from organic search results.

2008, Michael Masterson, MaryEllen Tribby, Changing the Channel: 12 Easy Ways to Make Millions for Your Business:

(Internet, marketing, of search results) Generated according to the ranking algorithms of a search engine, as opposed to deliberate promotional techniques e.g. by advertisers.


baddie

Aside from all of the abstract aspects (things we cannot see), you do not have to be an Instagram model/baddie to be a bad bitch.

2020, Kenshi Hayabusa, The Road to Becoming a Bad Bitch: How I Overcame Low-Self Esteem and Negativity, Hayabusa Publishing, →ISBN, page 56:

All day long, she can immerse herself in the world of crop tops and contour and IG “baddies” that do not look like any Indian girl she knows.

2021, Priya-Alika Elias, Besharam: On Love and Other Bad Behaviors, Chicago: Chicago Review Press, →ISBN:

Miriam noted that Instagram had “Insta baddies,” who made names for themselves by posing “with scandalous clothes on and maybe they'll have a bunch of makeup on.”

2021, Shauna Pomerantz, Miriam Field, “A TikTok Assemblage: Girlhood, Radical Media Engagement, and Parent–Child Generativity”, in Fiona Blaikie, editor, Visual and Cultural Identity Constructs of Global Youth and Young Adults: Situated, Embodied and Performed Ways of Being, Engaging and Belonging, Abingdon, England: Routledge, →DOI, →ISBN:

On Instagram, baddies and models of every ethnicity rock fashion and beauty trends that Black women either created or popularized: cornrows, oversized door knocker earrings, long, intricately designed acrylic nails, artfully sculpted baby hairs.

2021, Zeba Blay, Carefree Black Girls: A Celebration of Black Women in Popular Culture, New York: St. Martin's Griffin, →ISBN:

(neologism, slang) An attractive, confident woman, especially one who is a social media influencer.


wicket

From Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French wiket, from Old Norse (specifically, Old East Norse) víkjas, diminutive of vik. Compare modern French guichet, ultimately from the same Old Norse source.

(Internet, informal) An angle bracket when used in HTML.


ghit

/ˈd͡ʒiːˌhɪt/

A contraction of Google hit; coined on 3 February 2004 by “Trevor” on his blog k’ɑləbøl: see the quotations from him and from American linguist Mark Liberman on his Language Log blog (9 February 2004), below.

Igry (1/2/3) – a (research-driven?) neologism expressing a voyeuristic, laissez-faire sense of shame – already gets slightly more ghits (ca 200 to 175, once you've sifted out the Russians) than its Catalan equivalent, vergonya aliena, although it's still way behind plaatsvervangende schaamte and vergüenza ajena (not to mention verguenza ajena).

2004 February 3, “Trevor”, “Shame”, in k’ɑləbøl, archived from the original on 2015-09-22:

For me, though, the most important thing in his post is the neologism ghits. Now there's a word that fills a need! I don't know if this is Trevor's coinage, but it seems to be pretty new: "ghits" has 2380 ghits, at the moment, but all the 50 or so that I checked were programming language variable names, words in languages other than English, alternative spellings of "gits", or jokes like "ghits and siggles". Anyhow, I'm in Trevor's debt for the tip, and if he's the author, he deserves immortal renown. […] Update: it seems that Trevor is the responsible party. He's posted that / I am having 1,500 cards printed with "ghit = google hit © 2004 followthebaldie.com" and am going to flog them down the Ramblas this lunchtime. I am unsure as to whether this constitutes a business plan.

2004 February 9, Mark Liberman, “Igry and Ghits”, in Language Log, archived from the original on 2016-07-03:

"Fifth wheel" is a common expression for superfluity, common in frames like "feel like a fifth wheel" (538 ghits), but it's not so commonly used in the frame "ADJ as a ___".

2004 August 8, Mark Liberman, “Superfluity and Uselessness”, in Language Log, archived from the original on 2016-10-01:

I'm quite baffled, in fact, that there are so few ghits (Google hits) for this search, as the idea seems so obvious. Even if you spell it without the final 's', you end up with only one extra ghit.

2004 October 22, “David”, “Searching Sue de Nimes”, in TEFL Smiler: A British EFL Teacher Comments on His Life and Applied Linguistics, archived from the original on 2006-03-02:

(Internet) Contraction of Google hit: a hit obtained using the search engine Google.


mousetrap

en-noun

mousetrap (countable and uncountable, plural mousetraps)

mousetraps (plural)
mouse trap (alternative)

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From Middle English mouse-trappe, mous trappe, mouse trape, equivalent to mouse + trap. Cognate with Dutch muizetrap, muizentrap (“mousetrap”), German Low German Muustrappe, Muustrapp (“mousetrap”). In the Internet sense, refers to a computer mouse.

(countable, Internet) A website designed to open another copy of itself when the user tries to close the webpage. Frequently used by advertisers and pornographers.


mousetrap

en-verb

mousetrap (third-person singular simple present mousetraps, present participle mousetrapping, simple past and past participle mousetrapped)

mousetraps (present singular third-person)
mousetrapping (participle present)
mousetrapped (participle past)
mousetrapped (past)
mouse trap (alternative)

The scammer is paid for each new visitor directed to his site. There is nothing wrong except that the user finds it impossible to leave the site because he is mousetrapped.

(Internet, transitive) To prevent (the user) from leaving a website by opening another copy when it is closed.


script kiddie

script kiddies (plural)
script kiddy (alternative)

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Generally speaking, script kiddies are bored individuals without girlfriends or boyfriends who can think of nothing better to do on a Saturday night than make people come into work to fix a failing system.

2003, Kevin Day, Inside the Security Mind: Making the Tough Decisions, Prentice Hall Professional, →ISBN, page 126:

It is important to realize that the motive behind the script kiddie or recreational hacker is a more ego-driven destruction of data without a hidden moral, political, or economic agenda.

2011, Will Gragido, John Pirc, Cybercrime and Espionage: An Analysis of Subversive Multi-Vector Threats, Newnes, →ISBN, page 115:

(informal, derogatory) A (usually amateur) hacker who compromises files on others' computers or launches attacks on computer systems, using widely distributed computer programs or scripts rather than developing their own.


mutual

mutuals (plural)
mut. (alternative)
mutuall (alternative)

Borrowed from Middle French mutuel, from Latin mūtuus.

(Internet) Either of a pair of people who follow each other's social media accounts.


website

websites (plural)
web site (alternative)
web-site (alternative)
Web site (alternative)
Website (alternative)

→ Car Nicobarese: vep sait

→ Danish: website

→ Dutch: website

→ German: Website f

desc

→ Japanese: ウェブサイト, サイト

→ Japanese: ウェブサイト, サイト

→ Persian: وبسایت (veb-sâyt)

→ Marathi: वेबसाईट (vebsāīṭ)

→ Portuguese: website

→ Russian: веб-са́йт (veb-sájt), сайт (sajt)

→ Spanish: website

→ Swedish: webbsajt, sajt

→ Ukrainian: веб-са́йт (veb-sájt)

Meronym: webpage

You can find complete information about the products on the company's website.

(Internet) A collection of interlinked web pages on the World Wide Web that are typically accessible from the same base URL and reside on the same server.

webwerf

a collection of pages on the World Wide Web

Béésh Łichíʼii biyiʼdóó ił Nahazʼą́ baa Haneʼ


photoblog

A type of blog designed primarily to showcase photographs.

photoblog

a type of blog designed primarily to showcase photographs


query

en-verb

query (third-person singular simple present queries, present participle querying, simple past and past participle queried)

queries (present singular third-person)
querying (participle present)
queried (participle past)
queried (past)
quæry (alternative)

An anglicisation of quere, an obsolete variant form of Latin quaere, second-person singular present active imperative of quaerō (“seek, look for; ask”). Cognate with French quérir, Italian chiedere, Portuguese querer, Romanian cere, and Spanish querer. Compare question.

He parted the channel saying "SHUTUP!"... so I queried him, asking if there was something I could do.. maybe talk...

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

if you know someone who is in the channel, you can query them and ask for the key.

2000, Robert Erdec, “Re: Help; mIRC32; unable to resolve server arnes.si”, in alt.irc.mirc (Usenet):

(transitive, Internet) To send a private message to (a user on IRC).


status

en-noun

status (countable and uncountable, plural statuses or status)

→ Cantonese: status

Northern England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, many accents

A learned borrowing from Latin status. A doublet of state and estate.

I'm just about to update my status to "busy".

I read your status last night / You posted that someone else was holding you tight

2012, “Facebook Drama”, performed by Northern Cree:

(social media) A function of some instant messaging applications, whereby a user may post a message that appears automatically to other users, if they attempt to make contact.

status

social networking: function of some instant messaging applications


canonical

From Middle English canonycal, from Medieval Latin canōnicālis. By surface analysis, canon + -ical.

Google advises canonicals as one of the preferred methods of treating duplicate content in your CMS.

2015, Simon Kloostra, Joomla! 3 SEO and Performance, page 63:

(Internet) A URL presented in canonical form.


World Wide Web

From worldwide + web, coined by English computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee (born 1955) and Belgian informatics engineer and computer scientist Robert Cailliau (born 1947) in a paper published on 12 November 1990: see the quotation.

coinage

WorldWideWeb: Proposal for a HyperText Project [title] […] Having a world wide web implies some solutions must be found for problems such as different access protocols and different node content formats. These issues are addressed by our proposal.

[1990 November 12, Tim Berners-Lee, Robert Cailliau, “WorldWideWeb: Proposal for a HyperText Project”, in World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), archived from the original on 2020-11-10:

Additionally, gateways exist so that WAIS users can retrieve information from non-WAIS data bases like Gopher, developed by university users of Next computers, and the World Wide Web, which makes available physicists' research from many locations.

1993 February 28, John Markoff, “A web of networks, an abundance of services”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-11-09, page 8:

Anxiety about the World Wide Web tends to center on its excesses, on the overabundance of information, the overstimulation of graphics and gimmicks, the multiplicity of links.

2000, Jodi Dean, “Webs of Conspiracy”, in Andrew Herman, Thomas Swiss, editors, The World Wide Web and Contemporary Cultural Theory, New York, N.Y., Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Routledge, →ISBN, page 63:

Although the Internet has long been used to communicate a wealth of information, it was the rise of the World Wide Web, beginning in 1994, that led to the Internet's most rapid growth and acceptance as a medium of commerce. The Web can be thought of as the Internet's popular "multimedia" segment and is a primary platform for electronic commerce.

2003, Julian S. Millstein, Jeffrey D. Neuburger, Jeffrey P. Weingart, “Introduction to the Internet”, in Doing Business on the Internet (Intellectual Property Law Series), New York, N.Y.: Law Journal Press, →ISBN, § 1.03 (The World Wide Web), page 1-6.4:

Consider for a moment that the Internet is about 40 years old, the microelectronics explosion happened only 30 years ago, the desktop computer appeared only about 25 years ago, the World Wide Web is really only a little more than a decade old, and that ubiquitous wireless Internet access is only now becoming a reality. Despite only relatively recent developmental history, we are facing an information explosion on the World Wide Web, making it necessary to build a better Web—an Intelligent Web—that will help users easily realize their information and communication needs.

2008, Rajendra Akerkar, Pawan Lingras, “Introduction to Web Intelligence”, in Building an Intelligent Web: Theory and Practice, Sudbury, Mass.: Jones & Bartlett Publishers, →ISBN, section 1.1 (Historical Perspective), page 1:

(Internet) Usually preceded by the: collectively, all of the hypertext documents (web pages) on the Internet stored in different computers around the world that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media, and are typically retrieved by the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS).

Wêreldwye web

all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media

Isizindalwazi sokuxhumana somhlaba jikelele


LP

en-noun

LP (countable and uncountable, plural LPs)

(Internet) Abbreviation of landing page.

(online gaming, Internet) Initialism of let's play.


FA

FA (countable and uncountable, plural FAs)

(Wikimedia jargon) Initialism of featured article.


forum

→ Italian: forum

→ Korean: 포럼 (poreom)

From Latin forum (“public market place, forum”). Doublet of fuero and door.

der

Trish was an admin on three forums, and had no trouble at all when it came to moderating them.

(Internet) An Internet message board where users can post messages regarding one or more topics of discussion.


forum

* Most meanings: Learned borrowing from Latin forum.
* Internet: Borrowed from English forum.


forum

Unadapted borrowing from English forum, borrowed from Latin forum. Doublet of foro.


forum

forum (nominative singular)
fora (nominative plural)
forum (genitive singular)
forów (genitive plural)
forum (dative singular)
forom (dative plural)
forum (accusative singular)
fora (accusative plural)
forum (instrumental singular)
forami (instrumental plural)
forum (locative singular)
forach (locative plural)
forum (singular vocative)
fora (plural vocative)

From Latin forum. Doublet of dwór (“court, courtyard”).


forum

forum (indefinite nominative singular)
forums (genitive indefinite singular)
forumet (definite nominative singular)
forumets (definite genitive singular)
forum (indefinite nominative plural)
forums (genitive indefinite plural)
forumen (definite nominative plural)
forumens (definite genitive plural)
forum (indefinite nominative singular)
forums (genitive indefinite singular)
forumet (definite nominative singular)
forumets (definite genitive singular)
fora (indefinite nominative plural)
foras (genitive indefinite plural)
fora (definite nominative plural)
foras (definite genitive plural)


admin

en-noun

admin (countable and uncountable, plural admins)

admins (plural)
admin. (alternative)
Admin. (alternative)

Clipping of administrator or administration.

The admin changed the forum settings to enable the use of emoticons.

(countable, informal, Internet) A user of a discussion forum, website, etc. with privileges allowing them to control or restrict the activity of other users.


admin

(Internet) admin, administrator (user with special privileges)


admin

(Internet) admin (A user of a discussion forum, website, etc. with privileges)


crawl

en-verb

crawl (third-person singular simple present crawls, present participle crawling, simple past and past participle crawled)

crawls (present singular third-person)
crawling (participle present)
crawled (participle past)
crawled (past)

→ German: kraulen

From Middle English crawlen, crewlen, creulen, crallen, *cravelen, from Old Norse krafla (compare Danish kravle (“to crawl, creep”), Swedish kravla, kräla)), from Proto-Germanic *krablōną (compare Dutch krabbelen, German Low German krabbeln, German krabbeln), frequentative of *krabbōną (“to scratch, scrape”). Compare also West Frisian kreauwelje (“to crawl”), Dutch krevelen, krieuwelen (“to crawl”), German Low German kribbeln, German kribbeln (“to creep, crawl, tingle”). See also crab, crabble.

cog

Yahoo Search has updated its Slurp Crawler to crawl websites faster and more efficiently.

(transitive, Internet) To visit files or web sites in order to index them for searching.

抓取

to index files or web sites in order to make them available for search


e-commerce

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E-commerce (alternative)
e-Commerce (alternative)
eCommerce (alternative)
electronic commerce (alternative)

The last thing you need to do before launching the e-commerce site is enable credit card processing.

2006, Cristian Darie, Karli Watson, Beginning ASP.NET 2.0 E-Commerce in C# 2005, Apress, →ISBN, page xxi:

(Internet, business) Commercial activity conducted via the Internet.

تِجَارَة إِلِكْتْرُونِيَّة

commercial activity conducted via the Internet


haul

From Middle English hālen, hailen, haulen, halien (“to drag, pull; to draw up”), from Old French haler (“to haul, pull”), from Frankish *halōn (“to drag, fetch, haul”) or Middle Dutch halen (“to drag, fetch, haul”), possibly merging with Old English *halian (“to haul, drag”); all from Proto-Germanic *halōną, *halēną, *hulōną (“to call, fetch, summon”), from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁- (“to call, cry, summon”). The noun is derived from the verb.
Cognates
The word is cognate with Danish hale (“to haul”), Middle Dutch halen (“to draw, fetch, haul”), Dutch halen (“to fetch, bring, haul”), Old Frisian halia, Saterland Frisian halen (“to draw, haul, pull”), Low German halen (“to draw, pull”), Old High German halôn, holôn, German holen (“to fetch, get”), Norwegian hale (“to haul”), Old Saxon halôn (“to fetch, get”), Swedish hala (“to hale, haul, pull, tug”), and related to Old English ġeholian (“to get, obtain”).

cog

Then there are the YouTube hauls, the oddly viral videos of influencers showing off what they got for Christmas. In her 2017 haul that's been watched 1.7 million times, Olivia Jade – a 19-year-old beauty and fashion tipster and the daughter of actress Lori Loughlin – sat on a plush white bed in polar bear pyjamas and a Santa hat. One by one, she showed off a bottle of Valentino perfume ("sweet mixed with floral"), a cropped, purple fuzzy sweater from Urban Outfitters, bikinis, sneakers, jeans, underwear, high heels, dresses, tops and more.

2018 December 24, Rachel Siegel, “Holiday shopping in the age of Instagram”, in The Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, N.S.W.: Nine Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-04-23:

(Internet) Short for haul video (“video posted on the Internet consisting of someone showing and talking about recently purchased items”).


st

head

st (definite accusative styi, plural stler)

styi (accusative definite)
stler (plural)


शब्दकोश

hi-noun

शब्दकोश • (śabdakoś) m (Urdu spelling شبدکوش)

śabdakoś (romanization)
شبدکوش (Urdu)
शब्दकोश (direct singular)
शब्दकोश (direct plural)
शब्दकोश (oblique singular)
शब्दकोशों (oblique plural)
शब्दकोश (singular vocative)
शब्दकोशो (plural vocative)
शब्दकोष (alternative)

From शब्द (śabd) + कोश (koś), lit. "word-store".


favourite

favourites (plural)
favorite (alternative)

Attested from the 1580s, borrowed from Middle French favorit, from Old French favorit or Italian favorito (“favoured, favourite”), past participle of Italian favorire (“to favor”), from favore, from Latin favor (“good will, favor”), from the verb faveō (“I favour”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂weh₁yeti (“to be favourable to”), from the root Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“to shine, glow light”). Doublet of favori.


favourite

en-verb

favourite (third-person singular simple present favourites, present participle favouriting, simple past and past participle favourited)

favourites (present singular third-person)
favouriting (participle present)
favourited (participle past)
favourited (past)
favorite (alternative)

→ Japanese: ふぁぼ

(Internet) To add to one's list of favourite items on a website that allows users to compile such lists.


signature

/ˈsɪɡnət͡ʃə(ɹ)/

/ˈsɪɡnɪt͡ʃə(ɹ)/

/ˈsɪɡnət͡ʃɚ/

/ˈsɪɡnɪt͡ʃɚ/

/ˈsɪɡnɪt͡ʃə(ɹ)/

Borrowed from Middle French signature, or from Medieval Latin signātūra, future active periphrastic of verb signāre (“to sign”) from signum (“sign”), + -tūra, feminine of -tūrus, future active periphrastic suffix. Displaced native Old English handseten (literally “hand setting”).

ncog

Your signature must not exceed three lines of text, or 600 pixels in height.

forum signature generator

(Internet) Text (or images, etc.) appended to a user's emails, newsgroup posts, forum posts, etc. as a way of adding a personal touch or including contact details.


太太

/tʰaɪ̯⁵¹ tʰaɪ̯¹/

/tʰɛ⁴⁴ tʰɛ²⁴/

/tʰaːi̯³³ tʰaːi̯³³⁻³⁵/

/tʰai̯⁵⁵ tʰai̯⁵⁵/

/tʰai²¹⁻⁵³ tʰai²¹/

/tʰai⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ tʰai⁴¹/

/tʰai²¹⁻⁵³ tʰai²¹/

/tʰai¹¹⁻⁵³ tʰai¹¹/

/tʰai²¹⁻⁴¹ tʰai²¹/

/tʰa⁵⁵ tʰa²¹/

/tʰaɪ̯⁵¹ tʰaɪ̯¹/

/tʰɛ⁴⁴ tʰɛ²⁴/

/tʰaːi̯³³ tʰaːi̯³³⁻³⁵/

/tʰai̯⁵⁵ tʰai̯⁵⁵/

/tʰai²¹⁻⁵³ tʰai²¹/

/tʰai⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ tʰai⁴¹/

/tʰai²¹⁻⁵³ tʰai²¹/

/tʰai¹¹⁻⁵³ tʰai¹¹/

/tʰai²¹⁻⁴¹ tʰai²¹/

/tʰa⁵⁵ tʰa²¹/

(Internet, fandom slang) fandom content contributor


scheme

→ Irish: scéim

→ Malay: skim

Borrowed from Medieval Latin schēma (“figure, form”), from Ancient Greek σχῆμα (skhêma, “form, shape”), from ἔχω (ékhō, “I hold”). Doublet of schema. Compare sketch.

der

uniform resource identifier
uniform resource identifier

(Internet) Part of a uniform resource identifier indicating the protocol or other purpose, such as http: or news:.

skeema

internet: part of a uniform resource identifier that indicates purpose


karma

en-noun

karma (countable and uncountable, plural karmas)

Borrowed from Sanskrit कर्म (kárma), nom.sg. of कर्मन् (kárman, “act, action, performance”); first attested in English in 1785 in a translation of the Bhagavad Gita by Charles Wilkins.

(Internet) A score assigned to a user or post on some discussion forums, indicating popularity or perceived value.


nudge

Circa 17th century, perhaps of North Germanic origin, related to Norwegian nugge, nyggje (“to push, rub, shove”), Icelandic nugga (“to rub, massage”), from the root of Proto-Germanic *hnōjaną (“to smooth, join together”), from Proto-Indo-European *kneh₂- (compare Ancient Greek κνάω (knáō, “to scratch, scrape”), source of English acnestis).
Compare also Scots nodge (“to push, poke, nudge”), knidge (“to push, squeeze”), gnidge (“to rub, press, squeeze, bruise”), and knudge (“to squeeze, press down with the knuckles”), Saterland Frisian Nukke, Nuk (“a sudden push”), Middle Low German nucke, nücke, gnücke (“a sudden push, shock, impetus”). Compare also dialectal nuch (“to tremble”), Middle English nuchen (“to tremble”).

cog

(Internet) A feature of instant messaging software used to get the attention of another user, as by shaking the conversation window or playing a sound.


NSFW

en-adj

NSFW (comparative more NSFW, superlative most NSFW)

more NSFW (comparative)
most NSFW (superlative)

Molinier dolls, wrapped in their haimet stockings, on the other hand, always welcome—no matter which way their buttocks are turned, whether to the front or the back, NSFW, no matter, as long as their vaginas know what's behind them—the big fight

2005 November, Tom Whalen, “Doll With Chili Pepper.”, in Fiction International., volume 38, →ISSN, page 140:

Whose utopia is this? Smart phone applications for porn, Grindr, sex available unbound by time or space—except for the dictates of NSFW [Not Safe For Work].

2012 Jan/Feb, Corey, Frederick, Nakayama, Thomas, “deathTEXT.”, in Western Journal of Communication, volume 76, page 21:

Over the years, Bryant has made it clear he does not care for Skip Bayless, most recently sending a NSFW tweet at the longtime media personality in 2020 in response to Bayless' criticism...

2025 January 5, Hladik, Matt, thespun.com, Former Cowboys Star Reacts To Accusation Against Skip Bayless.:

(Internet, initialism) Initialism of not safe for work.; i.e., containing inappropriate or adult content (e.g. pornography or profanity) that might be offensive to employees and co-workers.


pl

(Internet, vulgar) Abbreviation of pulă.


VoIP

The VoIP Forum is dedicated to enabling and promoting industry-wide interoperability between products that send telephony over the Internet and private IP enterprise networks. This interoperability will allow seamless transmission of Internet phone calls regardless of the telephony application used by callers and call recipients. At present, applications from different vendors are incompatible due to fundamental differences in voice coding, silence suppression, addressing and dialing plans, call management and other related functions.

1996 November 12, IMTC, Inc., comp.dcom.telecom (Usenet), retrieved 2016-11-03, message-ID <telecom16.627.2@massis.lcs.mit.edu>:

VoIP "represents a group of competing companies who've gotten together to agree on standards," Pulver says. "It's very important," and is good news for users, because their co-operation will move Internet telephony forward, he says.

1996 November 13, Rebecca Sykes, “Group forms to spur Internet telephony”, in Computerworld New Zealand, archived from the original on 2016-11-03:

(Internet, telephony) Voice over Internet Protocol, a telecommunications system that uses the Internet or other Internet Protocol network to transmit telephone calls.


mail relay

(Internet) A device or program that routes an e-mail to the correct destination.


transit

en-verb

transit (third-person singular simple present transits, present participle transiting, simple past and past participle transited)

transits (present singular third-person)
transiting (participle present)
transited (participle past)
transited (past)

From French, from Latin transire (“to go across, pass in, pass through”), from trans (“over”) + ire (“to go”).

der

(Internet) To carry communications traffic to and from a customer or another network on a compensation basis as opposed to peerage in which the traffic to and from another network is carried on an equivalency basis or without charge.


highlight

en-verb

highlight (third-person singular simple present highlights, present participle highlighting, simple past and past participle highlighted or (nonstandard) highlit)

highlights (present singular third-person)
highlighting (participle present)
highlighted (participle past)
highlighted (past)
highlit (nonstandard participle past)
highlit (nonstandard past)
hilite (alternative)

You could have asked: is there a reason this easy patch was not applied, either on IRC or private mail by me. You did write a comment on IRC and I did see it. Problem is that you did not highlight me _and_ you did not wait for an answer.

2006, Frans Pop, “Re: Bug#378404: installation guide: one more additional proposal”, in linux.debian.maint.boot (Usenet):

You must be somewhere completely different. I’ve looked for several days and don’t see you. But: I’m kind of blind from time to time - please feel free to highlight me ([Sno]) or probably (H. Merijn Brand) Tux or vanHoesel (Theo van Hoesel).

2013, Jens Rehsack, “Re: AnyData open API”, in perl.dbi.dev (Usenet):

(transitive, Internet) To seek the attention of (a user) on IRC by mentioning their name in a message, causing that message to appear highlighted on their screen.


podcast

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁en-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁en-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér
Proto-Italic *ənter
Latin inter
Latin inter-bor.
English inter-
Proto-Indo-European *neHd-
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Germanic *natją
Proto-West Germanic *nati
Old English nett
Middle English net
English net
Proto-Indo-European *werǵ-
Proto-Indo-European *-om
Proto-Indo-European *wérǵom
Proto-Germanic *werką
Proto-West Germanic *werk
Old English weorc
Middle English werk
English work
English network
English internetwork
English Internet
English i-
English pod
English iPodblend.
Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-der.?
Proto-Germanic *braidaz
Proto-West Germanic *braid
Old English brād
Middle English brod
English broad
Proto-Germanic *kas-
Proto-Germanic *kastōną
Old Norse kastabor.
Middle English casten
English cast
English broadcastblend.
English podcast
Blend of iPod (“portable music player made by Apple”) + broadcast, probably coined by the British technologist and broadcaster Ben Hammersley (born 1976) who proposed the word podcasting in 2004.

coinage

There's no restriction for what a podcast should and should not be. Of course, if you cover all these topics and more, you may find it harder to find an audience than if you focus on a narrower range and cover it well. Finding listeners is simpler if your podcast can be summarized in a sentence. More people will sample your show if it fits in a category in a podcast directory—like that found in the iTunes Store—than if it ends up lumped in a generic catch-all list.

2007, Andy [J. Williams] Affleck, “Plan Your Podcast”, in Take Control of Podcasting on the Mac, Berkeley, Calif.: Peachpit Press, →ISBN; republished in “Plan Your Podcast”, in Take Control of Podcasting (1.0), San Diego, Calif.: Alt Concepts, 2020, →ISBN:

Try listening to a mix of well-known podcasts. You'll soon find that the best always feature hosts that have their own unique voice.

2016, Matthew Anniss, Create Your Own Podcast, Capstone, →ISBN, page 20:

A program, especially an audio program, produced on a regular basis, delivered over the Internet in a compressed digital format and designed for playback on computers or portable devices such as mobile phones.

(loosely, by extension) An individual episode of such a program.


podcast

en-verb

podcast (third-person singular simple present podcasts, present participle podcasting, simple past and past participle podcasted or podcast)

podcasts (present singular third-person)
podcasting (participle present)
podcasted (participle past)
podcasted (past)
podcast (participle past)
podcast (past)

lähettää podcastina

to deliver (information) in the form of a program over the Internet on a regular basis for playback on computers or portable devices

lähettää podcastia

to deliver a program over the Internet on a regular basis for playback on computers or portable devices

(transitive) To deliver (information) in the form of a program, especially an audio program, over the Internet on a regular basis for playback on computers or portable devices such as mobile phones.

(intransitive) To deliver a program, especially an audio program, over the Internet on a regular basis for playback on computers or portable devices such as mobile phones.


podcast

podcastok (plural)
podcastek (plural)
podcast (nominative singular)
podcastok (nominative plural)
podcastot (accusative singular)
podcastokat (accusative plural)
podcastnak (dative singular)
podcastoknak (dative plural)
podcasttal (instrumental singular)
podcastokkal (instrumental plural)
podcastért (causal-final singular)
podcastokért (causal-final plural)
podcasttá (singular translative)
podcastokká (plural translative)
podcastig (singular terminative)
podcastokig (plural terminative)
podcastként (essive-formal singular)
podcastokként (essive-formal plural)
podcastban (inessive singular)
podcastokban (inessive plural)
podcaston (singular superessive)
podcastokon (plural superessive)
podcastnál (adessive singular)
podcastoknál (adessive plural)
podcastba (illative singular)
podcastokba (illative plural)
podcastra (singular sublative)
podcastokra (plural sublative)
podcasthoz (allative singular)
podcastokhoz (allative plural)
podcastból (elative singular)
podcastokból (elative plural)
podcastról (delative singular)
podcastokról (delative plural)
podcasttól (ablative singular)
podcastoktól (ablative plural)
podcasté (singular)
podcastoké (plural)
podcastéi (singular)
podcastokéi (plural)
podcastom (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
podcastjaim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
podcastod (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
podcastjaid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
podcastja (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
podcastjai (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
podcastunk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
podcastjaink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
podcastotok (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
podcastjaitok (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
podcastjuk (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
podcastjaik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)
podcast (nominative singular)
podcastek (nominative plural)
podcastet (accusative singular)
podcasteket (accusative plural)
podcastnek (dative singular)
podcasteknek (dative plural)
podcasttel (instrumental singular)
podcastekkel (instrumental plural)
podcastért (causal-final singular)
podcastekért (causal-final plural)
podcastté (singular translative)
podcastekké (plural translative)
podcastig (singular terminative)
podcastekig (plural terminative)
podcastként (essive-formal singular)
podcastekként (essive-formal plural)
podcastben (inessive singular)
podcastekben (inessive plural)
podcasten (singular superessive)
podcasteken (plural superessive)
podcastnél (adessive singular)
podcasteknél (adessive plural)
podcastbe (illative singular)
podcastekbe (illative plural)
podcastre (singular sublative)
podcastekre (plural sublative)
podcasthez (allative singular)
podcastekhez (allative plural)
podcastből (elative singular)
podcastekből (elative plural)
podcastről (delative singular)
podcastekről (delative plural)
podcasttől (ablative singular)
podcastektől (ablative plural)
podcasté (singular)
podcasteké (plural)
podcastéi (singular)
podcastekéi (plural)
podcastem (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
podcastjeim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
podcasted (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
podcastjeid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
podcastje (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
podcastjei (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
podcastünk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
podcastjeink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
podcastetek (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
podcastjeitek (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
podcastjük (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
podcastjeik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)

(Internet) podcast (audio programme produced on a regular basis, delivered over the Internet)


podcast

podcast (nominative singular)
podcasty (nominative plural)
podcastu (genitive singular)
podcastów (genitive plural)
podcastowi (dative singular)
podcastom (dative plural)
podcast (accusative singular)
podcasty (accusative plural)
podcastem (instrumental singular)
podcastami (instrumental plural)
podcaście (locative singular)
podcastach (locative plural)
podcaście (singular vocative)
podcasty (plural vocative)
podkast (alternative)

Unadapted borrowing from English podcast.

ubor

(Internet) podcast (program, especially an audio program, produced on a regular basis, delivered over the Internet in a compressed digital format, and designed for playback on computers or portable devices such as mobile phones)


inorganic

/ɪnɔɹˈɡænɪk/

/ɪnɔːˈɡænɪk/

(Internet, marketing, of search results) Not generated by the ranking algorithms of a search engine, but deliberately by promotional techniques.


WikiProject

WikiProjects (plural)
Wikiproject (alternative)

Compound of wiki + project. Coined before 26 September 2001 (see quotations) by Wikipedian Manning Bartlett, creator of the concept earlier that month.

This is the WikiProject page for SPORTS

2001 September 26, Manning Bartlett, “basic framework - lots more work needed”, in Wikipedia:

Through Wikiproject Medicine, some medical professionals (and other health-savvy Wikipedia editors) have taken it upon themselves to improve the quality of medical information available on the site.

2013 October 1, Julie Beck, “Should I Be Getting Health Information From Wikipedia?”, in The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-05-10:

Wikipedia is made up of thousands of WikiProjects—groups of editors who work together to tackle articles on similar topics—but not all of them offer the same level of training that [Susan] Gerbic does.

2018 July 25, “The ’Guerrilla’ Wikipedia Editors Who Combat Conspiracy Theories”, in Wired, San Francisco, Calif.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-29:

A WikiProject, among other things, includes a page of reliable sources for editors to pull from.

2020 August 7, Travis M. Andrews, “Covid-19 is one of Wikipedia’s biggest challenges ever. Here’s how the site is handling it.”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-17:

Some pages can be "locked" and cannot be changed until one of more than 200 volunteer editors on WikiProject Covid-19, many of whom are doctors or academics, review it.

2020 October 22, Donald G[erard] McNeil Jr., “Wikipedia and W.H.O. Join to Combat Covid-19 Misinformation”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-10-11:

(Wikimedia jargon) A group of editors who work together on improving the coverage of a particular topic on a wiki, especially on Wikipedia.