sheboon

If the sheboon is unable to control her violent impulses to dominate, and display her chimpanzee "gifts" from nature to a "human" and she continues to assert these "superior" "gifts" that she is very proud of on me with her moronic sub imbecilic yapping (the ability to attack and savage a non primate with niggerbabble and threat of physical violence looming always in the background) then the "shit" will start.

2009 March 23, Lexi Brown, “If the sheboon keeps bothering me than I will then make more trouble”, in alt.test.test.test (Usenet):

I was recently contacted by an old sheboon girlfriend, who suggested we "do lunch" sometime.

2011 August 13, Virtual Shadow or VS-1 [username], “SHEBOON LOVER”, in alt.support.depression (Usenet):

The unwed, government dependent sheboons who use food as a babysitter, while stuffing their own faces constantly.

2014 July 19, Fred Oinka, “Re: Obesity, Waffle Houses, And the South”, in alt.fan.rush-limbaugh (Usenet):

sheboons don't take baths !!

2015 January 31, THE NI99ERS [username], “Re: Whitney Houston's daughter found unresponsive in tub”, in alt.gossip.celebrities (Usenet):

Footage, recorded by a coonstomer on Saturday night, shows a gaggle of groids engage in a CAT 4 chimpout at around 3.30pm at the Swatara Township store in Pennsylvania. During the chimpout, which began after a 'disagreement' between two sheboons, the two parties tenderize and pull each other's fur near the check-out line, as bystanders try to intervene. I wonder when chimping out will become an Olympic sport? You could have the All-Nigger games, Flash rioting, Sheboon fighting, niglet tossing, the 200 meter "I ain't the daddy" dash, the possibilities are endless!

2019 March 14, Robert Wolfe, “Another "shocking" NigMart CAT 4 chimpout”, in soc.penpals (Usenet):

That guard handled that extremely well, but they'd need about 2 more of him to be able to lift that fat slob sheboon off the floor, she's probably close to 400. Notice that she called him "White trash" before accusing Walmart of being "racist".

2024 February 20, K Wills, “Must watch! Fat bootlip sheboon screeches "Walmart is racist!" after fight with security”, in soc.culture.african.american (Usenet):

(slang, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) An ugly, fat or stupid black woman.


bimboy

the bimboy-seeking wife

The doors were opening and Dolly was leading the bimboy out by the hand.


hardbag

Blend of hard + handbag, i.e. a harder form of the earlier genre handbag or handbag house.

They present a wide range of dance styles, including electro, trance, acid house, handbag, hardbag, hardcore, happy hardcore, drum-and-bass, hi-NRG and even industrial.

2003, Aline Scott-Maxwell, John Whiteoak, Currency companion to music and dance in Australia:

A melodic genre of electronic dance music of the mid-1990s, usually with female vocals.


watercise

A form of exercise done in water; aquacise.


broket

Electronic addresses, logins, and passwords are shown enclosed in brokets such as: . The brokets are not part of the addresses.

1999, Gary Allen, Resource guide for food writers, page 3:

(computing, informal) An angle bracket: either of the symbols < and > when used as an enclosing pair.


fluorescamine

en-noun

fluorescamine (usually uncountable, plural fluorescamines)

A spiro compound that reacts with primary amines to form highly fluorescent products.


womanthrope

MISS PRISM: A misanthrope I can understand—a womanthrope, never!

1895, Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest […] , [Act II]:

"Crabtree's become a—a womanthrope," said Tommers. "No—a misowench. There's not been a fresh photo of ankles on his chimney-piece for months."

“No,” he told her. “Cheering is entirely beyond my capabilities.”
“Oh, too bad.” Her tone was sympathetic, but her eyes were mocking. “I see now. You're a womanthrope.”
He'd never heard the word before, but the meaning was all too clear.

2013, Courtney Milan, The Countess Conspiracy:

(rare, humorous) Someone who hates women; a misogynist.


presstitute

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Blend of press + prostitute. The comparison comes from the notion that they sell themselves for money.

(derogatory, sometimes attributive) A person or media entity that misleadingly tailors news to fit a particular partisan agenda.

zurnalist

a person or media entity reporting news in such a biased manner


brony

Blend of bro + pony, the earliest documented use dates to the 25th of October 2010 on the 4chan image boards.

But Sethisto thinks that for him and his fellow bronies, the show has "evolved way past being just another 22-minute commercial. They gave the team enough freedom to really make it awesome."

2011 September 7, Jaime Weinman, “Men who love ‘My Little Pony’”, in Maclean's, →ISSN:

(fandom slang) A (usually major, often male) fan of the animated television series My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, typically an adult male.

ব্রনি

fan of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic


virtopsy

Thali and his colleagues have already performed more than 100 virtopsies, with each virtual analysis confirmed by an actual autopsy afterward.

2004 December 12, Ryan Bigge, “Virtopsy”, in New York Times Magazine:

A noninvasive autopsy performed through medical imaging technology.


waithood

Coined by Diane Singerman in 2007 as a blend of wait + adulthood, modelled after the earlier term wait unemployment; see the citations page.

A period of limbo faced by young college graduates in developing countries, in which activities belonging to the traditional transition into adulthood, such as marriage and buying a home, are put off to allow the securing of employment or money.


welfariat

Can we sustain a welfariat of its present size without serious economic, social and political consequences?

2005, Alfred Sherman, "Full of Sound and Fury", The Salisbury Review, Summer 2005

(politics, derogatory) The class of people who live on welfare payments.


tetracontane

Blend of tetra- (“4”) + Ancient Greek τεσσαράκοντα (tessarákonta, “40”) + -ane (“saturated hydrocarbon”), from Latin -ānus (“-an: forming adjectives”).

der

τεσσαράκοντα

(organic chemistry) Any of very many isomers of the aliphatic hydrocarbon having forty carbon atoms, but especially n-tetracontane CH₃(CH₂)₃₈CH₃


nerol

en-noun

nerol (countable and uncountable, plural nerols)

Blend of neroli (oil from which it was first isolated) and -ol (“suffix denoting an alcohol”).

(organic chemistry) The monoterpene alcohol (Z)-3,7-dimethyl-2,6-octadien-1-ol, found in many essential oils.


carvoxime

(organic chemistry) The oxime of carvone


libtard

Blend of liberal + -tard, equivalent to lib (“liberal”) + -tard.

[…] The libtards in Washington closed down the mines and your pa died with eight dollars in his pocket."

2009, Noel Hynd, The Prodigy, Damnation Books, published 2009, →ISBN, page 76:

(US, slang, derogatory, politics) A stupid liberal or progressive; a person who presents or advocates liberal views in a stupid or illogical manner.


mixel

(art) In pixel art, a pixel of incoherent or inconsistent size when compared to the rest of the artwork as a whole.


crapitalism

Handouts to Solyndra and special deals for Goldman Sachs and GM are not capitalism. That’s “crapitalism.”

2012 March 7, John Stossel, “Greed, capitalism and Romney”, in Fox News:

(derogatory) Corrupt or inauthentic capitalism.

All you have to do is look around and see that the solution is here; there are better ways to handle the resources of the globe, there are better ways to do things than "crapitalism."

1983, Walli F. Leff, Marilyn G. Haft, Time Without Work: People Who Are Not Working Tell Their Stories, How They Feel, What They Do, How They Survive, South End Press, →ISBN, page 346:

Whereas the barren, soulless toxic-waste dumps of contemporary crapitalism propelled him into the grasp of fame and fortune (not to mention those free big-legged piggyback rides), spreading his anti-wholesome influence far and wide.

2005 May 3, Howard Hampton, “Naked Lunchbox”, in Village Voice:

Rather, the mercenary aspect of crapitalism is at fault, as it allows the almighty dollar to set the programming agenda.

2007 April 11, Kam Williams, “Imus Wouldn’t Insult Jews”, in Black Star News:

(derogatory) Capitalism viewed as an inherently flawed or unjust system.


truel

To effect a yet more complex and challenging truel, we can void the simplification that each player knows his order of firing ab initio.

2014, Richard A. Epstein, The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic, Gulf Professional Publishing, →ISBN, page 324:

(game theory) A duel fought between three people.

(neologism) A conflict between three contending groups or ideas.


kuiperoid

/ˈkaɪpəɹɔɪd/

Blend of Kuiper belt + asteroid, a name suggested by Clyde Tombaugh, discoverer of Pluto.

I'm fascinated by the relatively small "ice balls" in the very outer part of the solar system. I have often wondered what bodies lay out there fainter than 17th magnitude, the limit of the plates I took at Lowell Observatory. May I suggest we call this new class of objects "Kuiperoids"?

1994 December, Clyde Tombaugh, “The Last Word”, Letters to the Editor, in Sky & Telescope, page 8:

As of mid-1995, more than 20 objects, dubbed Kuiperoids, had been discovered within the Kuiper belt. The first one (other than Pluto) was spotted in 1992.

1995, Terence Dickinson, Other worlds: a beginner's guide to planets and moons:

Complementary mechanisms of dust release from kuiperoids and Centaurs between Jupiter and Neptune can include impacts of large grains and the solar wind. Without discussing here the dust production by the above mechanisms ... we simply refer to observational data that indicate, for a number of kuiperoids and Centaurs, a steady cometary activity lasting for years

2000 June 29, Gorkavyi, Ozernoy, Taidakova, Mather, “Distribution of dust from Kuiper belt objects”, in arXiv.org, arXiv:astro-ph/0006435v1:

We would not begin to guess how many more objects like Pluto (and Charon) could exist in the outskirts of our Solar System until the discovery of the first kuiperoid (1992 QB1) by David Jewitt and Jane Luu

2012, Robert Tuttle, The Fourth Source, page 178:

(astronomy) A Kuiper belt object, such as Pluto


Chrislam

A Nigerian syncretic religion founded by Nigerian clergyman Tela Tella which combines elements of Christianity and Islam.

(derogatory, religious slur) Any sect of Christianity or Islam deemed to have aspects of the other.


yeah-huh

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(colloquial) Yes; an expression of affirmation.


go-show

(travel) The situation where a passenger checks in at an airport in the hope of getting an earlier flight than was reserved.


placepot

(UK) A bet in which the bettor must correctly pick a placed horse from each of the first six races from any British race meeting.


chairobics

Any system of exercise in which the exerciser remains seated or uses the chair for balance, as for seniors or someone confined to a wheelchair.


golden slam

(tennis, golf) Winning all four major championships (a grand slam) plus an Olympic gold medal.

calendar golden slam

inning all these in a calendar year or a single season

career golden slam

winning all these in the course of a career

non-calendar golden slam

holding all these as reigning champion all at one time, not in the course of one year/season, but spread over two


carefrontation

From blend of care + confrontation. Compare carefront.

If she wants attention, ignore her. If she is trying to get you angry, laugh. As with the first approach, this is most effective in low-stakes situations, and it won't go very far toward building a lasting friendship. Practice carefrontation.

1999, Sandra A. Crowe, Since strangling isn't an option:

"Carefrontation first creates resonance with the person you're confronting. I use gentle statements.

2007, Jill Neimark, Stephen Post, Ph.D., Why Good Things Happen to Good People

In a “carefrontation,” there is still a lack of agreement about a situation; however, the skills that are used to resolve the situation are caring skills.

2008, Maryln Appelbaum, How to handle the hard-to-handle student, K-5:

Confrontation done in a caring or loving manner.


momager

A growing category of “bad” mother is the so-called “momager,” the woman who interferes with her famous children's affairs, exploits them, and contributes to their tarnished reputations—[...]

2010, Andrea O'Reilly, Encyclopedia of Motherhood:

The most fitting occupation for my mother is no longer a stage actress or momager or anything like that; she would make—she is—a fantastic nurse.

2012, Sarah Wylie, All These Lives, page 184:

The scope of ambition of the Hadids can be seen in the increased visibility of Yolanda, who accompanied Gigi to the Fashion awards, because you are no one without a momager.

2016 December 13, Jess Cartner-Morley, The Guardian:

It seems even Kris Jenner has got the pink memo. The momager followed up Kim's post with her own, sharing a throwback pic of herself in a neon pink '80s swimsuit.

2023 June 14, Alexandria Dale, “Kim Kardashian relaxes poolside in a bright pink thong bikini”, in Women's Health:

(US, slang) A showbusiness manager who is also the performer's mother.


pawty

[…] cutting a great dash in a brandnew two guinea dress suit and a burled hogsford hired for a Fursday evenin merry pawty, […]

1939 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, →OCLC; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960, →OCLC, part I, page 182:

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling


glycolipidome

(biochemistry) The set of all glycolipids in a cell or organism


retinamide

(organic chemistry) Any amide of retinoic acid.


sphingolipidome

(biochemistry) The set of all sphingolipids in a cell or organism


laminboard

laminboard (countable and uncountable, plural laminboards)

A compound wood board consisting of thin strips of softwood placed side by side and sandwiched between veneer panels, often of hardwood, considered to be of higher quality than blockboard.


roundrect

Blend of rounded + rectangle. In 1981, a function for quickly creating rounded rectangles was added to the Apple program LisaGraf (later renamed QuickDraw) created by Bill Atkinson at the request of Steve Jobs, with the program referring to this shape as the "RoundRect."

The iPhone is, officially, King of Design: when even Intel is mirroring your new roundrect bezels, you have won that particular game.

2007 September 21, Rob Beschizza, “Intel Touts Toys of Future At Conference”, in Wired:

(computer graphics) A rectangle with rounded corners.


vacationship

And Kinsella, acknowledging how much she gets out of Mehan's doting over her in person and from afar, concedes she's in a "vacationship".

2007, Tom Levinson, "Lives in limbo", Chicago Tribune

I'm not looking for a vacationship.

2007, "Spy Something or Get Out", season 2 episode 7 of Little Mosque on the Prairie, CBC

The vacationship one-night-stand is one of the best and easiest of all.

2009, Tristan Coopersmith, Todd Johnso, Menu Dating, →ISBN, page 108:

The vacationship, however, is a different story.

2010, Dunja Nedic, "love out loud: the vacationship", LipMag

a sexual relationship formed during the course of a vacation which has no attachments, and after the vacation has ended, ceases to exist.


airmiss

(aviation) An incident where two aircraft almost collide.


pettiskirt

A kind of skirt modelled on old-fashioned petticoats.


nimber

Any of a set of number-like objects used in combinatorial game theory, equivalent to the values of heaps in the game of nim.


amitriptylinoxide

A tricyclic antidepressant that is an analogue and metabolite of amitriptyline.


sultamicillin

(pharmacology) An oral form of the antibiotic combination ampicillin/sulbactam.


negamile

Blend of negative + mile. Compare negawatt.

[I]nstead of tolls, he talks about negamiles — paying people to stay off the roads, so they needn't be built and mended so much. So far, however, no negamile programs exist[…]

1992 July, Popular Science, volume 241, number 1, page 96:

By creating markets in negamiles and negatrips, society could discover what it's worth to pay people to stay off the roads[…]

1999, Paul Hawken, Amory B. Lovins, L. Hunter Lovins, Natural Capitalism: The Next Industrial Revolution, page 281:

A proposed unit of saved travel, equivalent to one mile not travelled.


absatively

Any old reels will do, comedies, tragedies, weekly reviews (dating back to the fall of Sumter)—“posalutely absatively” anything will do!

1917 November, Fitzhugh Green, “Amusing Fifty Thousand Men: Another Avenue for Government Control”, in J. W. Greenslade, editor, United States Naval Institute Proceedings, volume 43, number 11, number 177, page 2538:

Worthingham Washington Lewis told me he was absatively, posolutely ready for us: “We've got the scenario, and my men are raring to go, Captain.”

1994, Richard Marcinko with John Weisman, Rogue Warrior II: Red Cell, New York: Pocket Books, →ISBN, →OL:

“No. Absatively out of the question.”

2005, Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys, →ISBN, →OL, page 278:


hatorade

[…] you have to be on guard for those drinking hatorade. That was another lesson for him.

2008, George Stowers, Straight Up, No Sippin': Memoirs of Life and Work Onboard Mega Cruise Ships, page 491:

Put the hatorade down, step away from the ground
where the successful have commonly gathered,
yea, fall back, 'cause your game is whack,
focusing on his funky lather.

2010, John Anthony Lewis, “Hatorade”, in John Anthony Lewis! Poetry, Prose, and Other Selected Writings, page 47:

An imaginary drink which haters are said to be drinking.


moredom

From more + -dom; sometimes viewed as a blend of more + boredom.

These people are dedicated to the pursuit of prosperity," he said later, "and the price of prosperity is often moredom. Moredom is the cousin of boredom. [...]"

Mmmmm. so i started a live journal our of boredom, and then deleted it out of boredom, and now im undeleting it out of even more moredom.

2006, Talkin shit about a pretty sunset - shmorgesboard of mindchanges, the-mandrew.livejournal.com/1045.html

"I never suffer from boredom, and in fact, if I suffer from anything, it's from moredom! I never have enough time to do all the things I want to do!"

2009, Danny Bloom, zippy1300.blogspot.com:

I wish you Boredom. Rather, Moredom.

2009, FUTURES Antiques, futuresantiques.com/boredom:

Make The Most Of The Moment And Avoid Moredom!

2011, 5 minutes inspiration from @actorbrianwhite

The quality, state, or condition of having more (to do); excessiveness.


haterade

Blend of hate(r) + Gatorade (“a brand of sports drink”).

blend

All the haters who call him a fake Tupac/DMX need to stop drinking that Haterade.

2002 March, Juanika H., “Mail (letters)”, in Vibe, →ISSN, page 59:

I know y'all love my music, and love my videos, and shit. But be fully prepared to drink hella haterade, nigga. Cause y'all 'bout to see how good it is to be me, and how bad it is to be you!

2007 November 26, “Shinin'”, in The Boondocks, season 2, episode 22, spoken by Thugnificent (Carl Jones):

You can try telling the hate mongers, “Stop guzzling down the Haterade,” but the best approach is to make the most of your own life by proving them wrong.

2009 February 10, Dilara Hafiz with Yasmine Hafiz and Imran Hafiz, The American Muslim Teenager's Handbook, New York: Athenium, →ISBN, →OL:

(slang) Hatred, as a metaphorical beverage.


elif

en-noun

elif (countable and uncountable, plural elifs)

(computing) A conditional statement in computer code that runs after an "if" statement.


parallelotope

Blend of parallelogram + polytope. Popularized by Canadian geometer H.S.M. Coxeter.

1983 [North Holland/Elsevier], Robert S. Borden, A Course in Advanced Calculus, 1998, Dover, page 83,
Suppose now that P is a k-dimensional parallelotope, 1<k<n, in Eⁿ.

1997, Daniel A. Klain, Gian-Carlo Rota, Introduction to Geometric Probability, Cambridge University Press, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, page 30,
We develop next a theory of invariant valuations for the lattice of finite unions of orthogonal parallelotopes, having edgers parallel to a fixed frame. […] This follows from the basic fact that the intersection of two parallelotopes is a parallelotope.

It has 2ᵏ gyrovertices, k#x2B;1 of which are the gyropoints of S, and k 2#x7B;k-1#x7D; gyroedges, in full analogy with parallelotopes.

2015, Abraham Albert Ungar, Analytic Hyperbolic Geometry in N Dimensions, Taylor & Francis (CRC Press), page 187:

(geometry) A generalization of parallelogram and parallelepiped into a figure of arbitrary dimensionality.

Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter
parallelotope


Shagaluf

Blend of shag + Magaluf. So called because it is a popular holiday destination for British tourists looking for casual sex.

"When you go into Shagaluf on Wednesday," explain the jolly 18-30 reps, "you'll see a big red erection. No, it's not Steve with his trousers down. It's BCM's."

1995 August 20, Anna Blundy, “Lust and vomit”, in Scotland on Sunday, page 16:

Perhaps Sky will bring slappers Sarah and Louise back for a Spanish tour series, called Are You Being Serviced? They could be man-on in Mahon, shameless in Shagaluf – sorry Magaluf.

1997 August 27, Garry Bushell, “Bushell on the Box: Why does big big talent get very little chance?”, in The Sun, page 11:

(UK, vulgar slang) The Majorcan resort town of Magaluf.


crapitalist

(derogatory) A corrupt or inauthentic capitalist; a proponent of crapitalism.


boxaerobics

Blend of boxing + aerobics or box + aerobics

A form of exercise that combines aerobics with elements of kick-boxing


gaytopia

In less than a decade, Nepal, a poor and devout Hindu kingdom, had become what the Indian writer and gay activist C.K. Meena calls "a gaytopia."

2009 August 24, Jyoti Thottam, “Why Asia's Gays are Starting to Win Acceptance”, in Time:

(informal) A very gay-friendly place or environment.


valsartan

(pharmacology) An antihypertensive drug C₂₄H₂₉N₅O₃ that is taken orally and blocks the action of angiotensin II. It is marketed under the trademark Diovan and when used in combination with amlodipine, under the trademark Exforge.


trainiac

The Lomita Railroad Museum was once a regular stop on our shopping trips, a little reward for my trainiac.

2001, Kathie Weir, A Parent's Guide to Los Angeles: Friendly Advice for Touring Los Angeles with Children, Mars Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 29:

There are still trainiacs, for sure — approximately 300,000 hardcore train hobbyists in the United States, who spend about $500 million on their passion.

2006, James B. Twitchell, Where Men Hide, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 77:

Sheldon Cooper: It's official. I'm an HO trainiac.

2011 September 29, “The Pulled Groin Extrapolation” (00:10:27-00:10:32 from the start), in The Big Bang Theory, season 5, episode 3, Chuck Lorre, Eric Kaplan, and Jim Reynolds (actors):


volumetrics

The measurement or the estimation of volume.


homprenorphine

(pharmacology) An opioid analgesic of the thebaine series.


TomKat

Blend of Tom + Katie, as a play on tomcat.

Right now, celebrity photographers are in a frenzy trying to wrangle an image of TomKat's kitten.

2006 April 19, Buck Wolf, “Multimillion-Dollar Bounty on TomKat Baby Photo”, in ABC News:

The Beckhams were among several A-lister guests invited to the TomKat wedding at a castle in Italy last month.

2006 December 5, “Katie welcomes Victoria to the neighbourhood”, in Daily Mail:

With her bodyguard tailing closely, Holmes uttered her first public words since the TomKat split, telling the paper, "I'm all right, thank you."

2012 July 4, Leslie Miller, “Katie Holmes breaks silence after divorce announcement”, in ABC 7:

(slang) The couple consisting of celebrities Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, together from 2005 to 2012.


Bennifer

Although her Gigli costar stood off to the side and said nothing, Bennifer observers noted that Lopez was once again wearing the $1.2 million pink diamond engagement ring Affleck gave her.

2003 October 28, Gary Susman, “Jenny From the Block”, in Entertainment Weekly:

Ben Affleck […] plays Ollie Trinkle. His wife is played by Jennifer Lopez, whose bit part was made even smaller when Smith scrapped a wedding scene with the couple after Bennifer became no more.

2004 March 27, Beth Jones, “'Jersey Girl' is so lame, you even miss J.Lo”, in Roanoke Times:

The public couldn't get enough of Bennifer - possible wedding dates, the Harry Winston engagement rock, various tiffs and reunions.

2005 December 5, Amy Cooper, “Love in a goldfish bowl”, in Sydney Morning Herald:

“Part of what makes the Bennifer [Jennifer and Ben]^([sic]) story so enticing is that it fills a neat romantic narrative: two people who were in love but things came between them and they find each other again 20 years later,” said the dating coach Hayley Quinn.

2021 July 30, Hayley Quinn, quotee, “Bennifer is back, but don’t rush to contact your ex, say experts”, in The Guardian:

(slang) The couple consisting of celebrities Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez, together from 2002 to 2004 and again from 2021 to 2024.


Robsten

Certainly, though, the messages about Robsten that the fans receive are mixed. Pattinson and Stewart regularly deny the relationship in the mainstream press […]

2010, Jennifer Stevens Aubrey, Scott Walus, Melissa A. Click, “Twilight and the Production of the 21st Century Teen Idol”, in Melissa A. Click, Jennifer Stevens Aubrey, Elizabeth Behm-Morawitz, editors, Bitten by Twilight: Youth Culture, Media, & the Vampire Franchise, Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 233:

Based on Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart's recent trip to London, Star blares that the couple is "going public." They support this idea with a slew of quotes from Rob's aunt, Diana Nutley, who gushes that "it's a true love match," wishes Robsten "all the happiness in the world," and sagely points out that "when a young couple love each other, they can't hide their feelings forever."

2010 March 5, Patrick Huguenin, “Newsstand Junkie: Love hurts for Kourtney, Kim and Khloe Kardashian”, in New York Daily News:

Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson are fueling rumors of a possible Robsten reconciliation since news broke of her affair with director Rupert Sanders.

2012 September 19, “KStew and RPatz secretly meeting post-scandal”, in New York Post:

(slang) The couple consisting of celebrities Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, together from 2009 to 2013.


necroptosis

Blend of necrosis + apoptosis, as necroptosis combines characteristics of both processes.

(biology, cytology) A programmed form of necrosis.


imipraminoxide

A tricyclic antidepressant that is an analogue and metabolite of imipramine.


planimal

Such a 'planimal' could move itself over the ground only at a rate considerably slower than that of a terrestrial slug but if other plants could not move at all, this would be sufficient.

1968, Alta: University of Birmingham Review - Issues 7-11, page 136:

This week my planimal friend Daedalus continues his exploration of human symbiosis with useful organisms. Those green flatworms, permeated with photosynthesizing algae, represent a distinct advance on his plumbed-in photosynthetic sandwich-boards of last weak.

1970, New Scientist - Volume 47, page 649:

Overseas scientists have taken an animal cell and crossed it with a cell from a tobacco plant to produce a half-animal, half-plant creature known as a planimal.

1979, Christiaan Barnard, The best medicine, page 58:

That is our Syncytial Planimal, genetically engineered to give us both plant and animal proteins.

The planimal was the first post-plant, followed by the versatile, Octopamine-blessed animant, and only then came the animals.

2015, Anand Madhu, Brain Function and Dysfunction, page 26:

Something that has characteristics of both plants and animals.


virilocal

Blend of virile + local. From Latin vir+locus.


flurithromycin

(pharmacology) A macrolide antibiotic, a fluorinated derivative of erythromycin.


etazepine

(pharmacology) A tricyclic anticonvulsant drug.


etafedrine

(pharmacology) Ethylephedrine, a long-acting bronchodilator.


etidocaine

(pharmacology) A local anesthetic given by injection during surgical procedures and childbirth.


Randroid

At the same meeting I was interviewed by the philosopher and historian George Walsh, a follower of Ayn Rand. The interview turned out to be a disaster, for after it had already been scheduled Walsh heard from Harry Binswanger — a Randroid loyalist I used to call the Basil Rathbone of the Objectivist gang, since since he seemed to fit the image of a ruthless henchman — that I was a "liar."

2004, Tibor R. Machan, The Man Without A Hobby: Adventures of a Gregarious Egoist, Hamilton Books, →ISBN, page 107:

[…] She was a very unpleasant lady, and one of the most unpleasant things about her was that she was what you might call a 'born-again Randroid,' someone who'd taken Ayn Rand's teachings to such extremes that she made Rand herself look like a flaming liberal by comparison. You know the type?"

2007, Wayne Dwight Richards, Richard Ransdell, & LaDawna Word-Denslow, Dragon Drive: A Comedia Mundana, iUniverse, →ISBN:

Despite being populated by Randroids (Ayn Rand devotees) and sci-fi geeks, 4chan's literature board is another that continually surprises with clever content.

2011, Cole Stryker, Epic Win for Anonymous: How 4chan's Army Conquered the Web, The Overlook Press, →ISBN:

(slang, derogatory) A supporter of Ayn Rand's philosophies, particularly an overzealous one.


xanthose

A complex formed between xanthine and ribose.


carbimazole

(pharmacology) The prodrug of thiamazole, used to treat hyperthyroidism.


clodantoin

(pharmacology) A drug used in gynecology.


cetrimide

A topical antiseptic containing cetrimonium bromide.


cyclarbamate

(pharmacology) A muscle relaxant and tranquilizer of the carbamate family.


dimetridazole

(pharmacology) A nitroimidazole drug that combats protozoan infections.


diprenorphine

(pharmacology) An opioid antagonist used to reverse the effects of superpotent opioid analgesics, such as etorphine and carfentanil, that are used for tranquilizing large animals in veterinary medicine.


depramine

(pharmacology) A tricyclic antidepressant.


diodone

(pharmacology) A radiocontrast agent used in urography.


moxaverine

(pharmacology) A phosphodiesterase inhibitor.


texaphyrin

Blend of Texas + porphyrin, because some of the molecules have a shape that can be superimposed on the points of the star on the Texas state flag.

(chemistry) Any of a certain subclass of porphyrins.


mesuximide

(pharmacology) An anticonvulsant drug C₁₂H₁₃NO₂ used especially in the control of absence seizures.


Romnesia

Blend of Romney (“Mitt Romney”) + amnesia.

blend

When the Boston Globe asked Mitt about the incident in 1994, he provided a classic mind-numbing “Romnesia” evasion: “I don't have any memory of what she is referring to, although I certainly can't say it could not have been me.”

2011 November 22, Ronald B. Scott, Mitt Romney: An Inside Look at the Man and His Politics, Lyons Press, →ISBN:

In a typical display of what Kossack AlyoshaKaramazov calls "Romnesia," the all-but-official presidential nominee conveniently couldn't remember the incident in which, aided by some of his pals, he attacked a gay student at his prep school and, while others held the boy to ground, whacked off his non-conformist long hair because "he can’t look like that."

2012 May 11, Timothy Lange, “The bully's bully: Mitt Romney's consigliere Eric Fehrnstrom”, in Daily Kos, archived from the original on 2013-05-24:

The fact that Mitch Daniels apparently has forgotten we are at war in Afghanistan—even though he served in the White House when we began the war more than a decade ago—is a fitting tribute to the Romnesia that has infested the Republican Party.

2012 May 18, Jed Lewison, “Another dazzling display of Romnesia: Mitch Daniels says we're in 'peacetime'”, in Daily Kos, retrieved 2012-10-19:

If you say you’re for equal pay for equal work, but you keep refusing to say whether or not you’d sign a bill that protects equal pay for equal work — you might have Romnesia. If you say women should have access to contraceptive care, but you support legislation that would let your employer deny you contraceptive care — you might have a case of Romnesia. If you say you’ll protect a woman’s right to choose, but you stand up at a primary debate and said that you’d be delighted to sign a law outlying — outlawing that right to choose in all cases — man, you’ve definitely got Romnesia.

2012 October 19, Barack Obama, “Remarks by the President at a Campaign Event — Fairfax, VA”, in The White House, retrieved 2012-10-19:

This is more than Romnesia / Or any other Romney brainteaser. / This is cognitive dissonance.

2013 September 5, Timothy J. Callahan, Poet Against Israel, Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 418:

(US politics, of Mitt Romney) A propensity to claim to have forgotten, or act like one has forgotten, one's past deeds and political positions.


pettipants

A kind of women's lingerie resembling long shorts, usually with ruffles down each leg.


nabitan

(pharmacology) A synthetic cannabinoid analogue of dronabinol, exhibiting antiemetic and analgesic effects.


cantenna

A directional waveguide antenna for long-range Wi-Fi, made from an open-ended metal can.


jorts

en-noun

jorts pl (normally plural, singular jort)

Jorts are confusing. Do you want to wear jeans or shorts? Our guess is that what you're really saying is that you'd like to wear a longish, slouchy pair of shorts and not look too buttoned-up.

2010 March 16, Ellen Rakieten with Anne Coyle, Undateable: 311 Things Guys Do That Guarantee They Won't Be Dating or Having Sex, New York: Villard Books, →ISBN, →OL, page 13:

Although some feel that jorts include any manner of denim short regardless of length, others describe jorts as strictly of the knee-length, baggy variety.

2011 November 18, Anna Lefle, The Chicktionary: From A-line to Z-snap, the words every woman should know, Avon: Adams Media, →ISBN, →OL, page 106:

Your dad wore jorts before you did and he's got the short frayed denim to prove it.

2012 March 28, Brad Getty, Dads Are the Original Hipsters, San Francisco: Chronicle Books, →ISBN, →OL, page 11:

(countable, uncountable) jean shorts, a pair of shorts made from denim (especially, mid-thigh or knee-length)


hemalum

hemalum (usually uncountable, plural hemalums)

(cytology) a mixture of hematoxylin and alum that is used to stain cell nuclei


Obamaton

I loved it when the Obamatons started chanting "Yes we can yes we can yeswe can" in the middle of it as if it were some sort of religious ritual.

2008 November 5, Rabid Weasel Lawson [username], “Re: O'bamma gives acceptance speech”, in rec.martial-arts (Usenet):

Rather than following the MSM lead and merely parroting the Obamatons' talking points after the release of previously-classified memos this week, Thiessen actually examined the documents.

2009 August 27, Obama Nation Is An Abomination [username], “Re: America's Top 10 Enemies' List”, in alt.non.racisml (Usenet):

You just know the Obamatons will blame Bush.

2010 July 2, Frogwatch [username], “Lost hope, No Change”, in sci.military.naval (Usenet):

(US, slang, derogatory) A person who follows U.S. president Barack Obama blindly.


faitheist

Those are all appeals made either to the assumptions that Dennett shares with the belief-believers (or “faitheists”) or to their own priorities in ways that challenge their essential reasons for believing in belief.

2009 July 26, Daniel Fincke, “On The Alleged Intolerance Of The New Atheists Towards “Faitheists””, in Camels With Hammers, retrieved 2012-10-24:

I see the "faitheists" as parallels to the quietly closeted gays who cringed at the tactics of Act Up or the sit-in counter veterans who shook their heads at Malcolm X.

2009 August 19, dofang, “Distortions of the New Atheists prevent substantive debate about their impact (comment)”, in Examiner.com, retrieved 2012-10-24:

You're Not Helping is a blog started by a faitheist; that is, an atheist who sees value in faith or, at least, that some respect for their beliefs is in order. Even more particularly, a faitheist thinks that some atheist behaviour (typically labelled 'new atheist') is driving a wedge between 'moderate' theists and the rest of rational society.

2010 June 28, Mark Jones, “You Really Aren't Helping”, in Good Grief, Linus, retrieved 2012-10-24:

(slang, neologism) An atheist who thinks faith should not be criticized.

(slang, neologism, derogatory) An atheist who takes the nonexistence of gods on faith.


faitheist

en-adj

faitheist (comparative more faitheist, superlative most faitheist)

more faitheist (comparative)
most faitheist (superlative)


returnship

US 2008, blend of return + internship. By surface analysis, return + -ship. Early programs include Sara Lee Corporation (October 2008).

An internship-like program for experienced workers seeking to reenter the workforce after an extended period, particularly in a new line of work.


alternateen

US circa 1990, blend of alternative + teen, around popularization of alternative rock in early 1990s.

Even if you’re a cynical, pierced, and multiply-tattooed alterna-teen, you won’t have a dry eye after this one.

2003, Jim DeRogatis, Milk It: Collected Musings on the Alternative Music Explosion of the ’90s,, Da Capo Press, page 83:

By the time high school rolled around, I had become a sullen alternateen who wore a lot of black and was perpetually growing her bangs out.

2011, Tracy Nectoux, Out Behind the Desk, page 122:

A teenager with an interest in alternative rock and the associated youth counterculture, particularly with visible markers such as piercings.


snowicane

The giant storm — dubbed a “Snowicane” — was coming up the East Coast like a steamroller in overdrive.

1993, American Philatelic Association, The American philatelist:

The snowicane that had raged for three days and three nights had left him as bad off as the pheasants, and it wasn't any easier for him to allay his hunger pains in the vast wasteland of snow than it was for them.

… it’s nice to think about baseball in the calm before the snow-ricane we are about to allegedly have.

It's pretty apparent that Craig the weatherman was not in my Brooklyn neighborhood because we had a full-blown snowicane.

2011, Todd Starnes, Dispatches from Bitter America:

(meteorology) A hurricane or other such tropical storm which precipitates snow.


theranostics

(medicine) A form of diagnostic testing employed for selecting targeted therapy.


astragaloside

(organic chemistry) Any of a group of glycosides, found in the root of the astragalus plant, thought to have some medical applications


prednylidene

(pharmacology) A glucocorticoid for systemic use.


dreamlining

Blend of dream + streamlining, coined by Timothy Ferriss.

A technique for achieving one's personal dreams based on writing them down and performing time and cost calculations.


flashpacking

A more luxurious form of backpacking with a larger budget.


manzilian

Blend of man + Brazilian (“a style of pubic hair removal”).

blend

"The manzilian is something I think all men know about, yet I have no doubt the average person would be surprised by the idea."

2008 August 14, Nathan Sauer, Paddy Hint, “Blokes go for manzilians, manscara and guyliner”, in Courier-Mail:

These days, the majority of her business is from guys seeking "manzilians." She does about 30 per month, up from five per month when she first began.

2009 September 28, Rachel Skybetter, “Manscaping: Waxing poetic about the razor's lost edge”, in The Olympian:

If you are "ballsy," you can go for a "manzilian." Just like a woman's Brazilian, wax is applied all the way from your front to the back and everywhere in between, including the jewels.

2010, Christi Smith Scofield, Ted Scofield, Sexy Slang's Bedroom Challenges: 69 Ways to Spice Up Your Sex Life, Sourcebooks, →ISBN, page 22:

(slang) A cosmetic treatment involving complete removal of a man's pubic hair by waxing.


hexit

Blend of hexadecimal + digit. Compare bit (“binary digit”).

There are sixteen hexits: the numbers 0 to 9 and the letters A to F.


pornstache

If--and this is a substantial if--you can get past the neon rainbows, the jolly robots and the crooner with the Ron Jeremy pornstache on the cover of Danish duo Junior Senior's debut D-D-Don't Don't Stop the Beat, you're in for the most delirious, charmingly silly dance-pop you've heard since some jerkoff filched your Jackson 5 Greatest Hits cassette.

2003 August 14, “Listening Station”, in Las Vegas Mercury:

This was a far cry from Hall's original look, which resembled a 1970s adult film star. With his bushy hair and magnificent pornstache, Hall could have easily doubled for a muscle-bound John Holmes.

2007, R. D. Reynolds, Blade Braxton, The WrestleCrap Book of Lists!, ECW Press, →ISBN, page 65:

It wasn't Bo's girlfriend behind the wheel, unless she had what looked like a '70s pornstache attached to her upper lip.

2011, Tanya Huff, The Wild Ways, Daw Books, →ISBN:

(slang) A moustache that resembles one worn by an adult film actor.


infobesity

[H]ow information professionals can embrace new social networking technologies, and the move from information to knowledge and meaning, as well as the idea of ‘infobesity’.

2007, Library + Information Update, volume 6, London: Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 28, column 4:

We live in an age of infobesity. Information overload. Too much choice. You can't stop it – as even the Chinese are finding – by building virtual walls any more.

John Kelly (2009) “Where Next? A Few Predictions”, in Colin Bundy [et al.], editors, Red Kayaks and Hidden Gold: The Rise, Challenges and Value of Citizen Journalism (RISJ Challenges), Oxford, Oxfordshire: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, →ISBN, archived from the original on 2021-06-13, footnote 102, page 46

As [Anthony] Lilley (2008) has suggested, we are living in an age of ‘infobesity’.

2009, Kay Withers, First Class?: Challenges and Opportunities for the UK’s University Sector, London: Institute for Public Policy Research, →ISBN, page 96:

On the data and information front, he believes we are suffering from infobesity. Too much information causes stress and confusion and makes us do irrational things.

2010, Kevin Duncan, quoting John Naish, “Affluenza, Herds and Quirkology: Mysterious Consumer Behaviour”, in Marketing Greatest Hits: A Masterclass in Modern Marketing Ideas, London: A & C Black Publishers, →ISBN, page 84:

This module introduces students to the principles of dematerialization, to the need for perpetual mutation, adaptation and to co-evolution phenomena; to the phenomenon of infobesity, and so on.

2010, Alain Fayolle, Handbook of Research in Entrepreneurship Education: Volume 3: International Perspectives, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, Northampton, Mass.: Edward Elgar Publishing, →ISBN, page 98:

Internet users have access to huge amounts of information. Confronted with infobesity, their attention is rare and volatile.

2011, Florence Devouard, “Collective Intelligence and Business Enterprise 2.0”, in Moira Cockell, Jérôme Billotte, Frédéric Darbellay, Francis Waldvogel, editors, Common Knowledge: The Challenge of Transdisciplinarity, Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland: EPFL Press, →ISBN, page 36:

As digital platforms continue to grow, it also gives rise to infobesity and the problem of plenty which can undermine the platforms' performance.

2021, Prasanna Karhade, Abhishek Kathuria, Ojaswi Malik, Benn Konsynski, “Digital Platforms and Infobesity: A Research Agenda”, in Aravinda Garimella et al., editors, The Role of e-Business during the Time of Grand Challenges: 19th Workshop on e-Business, WeB 2020 Virtual Event, December 12, 2020 (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing; 418), Cham, Zug, Switzerland: Springer Nature, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 71:

information overload
information overload#English

information overload

(informal) Synonym of information overload (“the availability or supply of too much information, or a state of stress which results from it”)


triamterene

Blend of triamino + -terene (“alteration of pteridine”).

(pharmacology) A potassium-sparing diuretic used in combination with thiazide diuretics for the treatment of hypertension and edema.


tolgabide

(pharmacology) An anticonvulsant drug, an analogue of progabide.


tolimidone

(pharmacology) A chemical compound which inhibits acid secretion in animal models and also acts as a bronchodilator in histamine-challenged animals.


Caturday

I had heard of Caturday when I wrote the piece, but I’d understood that it was a proto-lolcats practice that was different from the actual lolcats meme.

2007 July 16, Lev Grossman, “Lolcats Addendum: Where I Got the Story Wrong”, in Time:

Lolcats - images of anthropomorphic felines captioned with mis-spelt web-speak ("im in ur bed zleepin" and so on) - made their first appearance on the site, during its regular "Caturday" slot, but went on to dominate blogs and sites the length and breadth of the internet.

2010 August 31, Jon Kelly, Jude Sheerin, “The strange virtual world of 4chan”, in BBC News:

When he and his wife began to have children, they nicknamed them after Internet memes like the lolcat holiday, Caturday.

2012, Katherine Losse, The Boy Kings: A Journey into the Heart of the Social Network, Free Press, →ISBN, page 148:

(Internet slang) Saturday, as the day of the week for posting lolcats or other pictures of cats.


nicofibrate

An antilipidemic drug, a derivative of clofibrate and nicotinic acid.


decloxizine

(pharmacology) A histamine 1 receptor antagonist.


Africoon

It was Africoons who enslaved other Africoons, then as now, and sold them for pretty trinkets.

2000 January 23, elfatvis <gordo@la.mesa.net>, “Re: The stupid slaves”, in soc.couples.intercultural (Usenet), message-ID <Dyti4.33998$Mg.496169@c01read03-admin.service.talkway.com>:

Many thousands of years ago, an Africoon was loafing in the dust in front of his hut when he felt the need for a snack.

2003 February 7, Grover Cleveland Gibbs, Jr. <dead_cracker@ofoafbitch.com>, “Where are my two nigger lovers, Janice and Gail, today”, in alt.private.investigator (Usenet), message-ID <cRU0a.149$sz4.131@fe05.atl2.webusenet.com>:

Did your Africoon PROMISE no lobbyists working in the White House??????????????

2013 June 18, Valentine Liu <liuvalentine@darkhorsefan.net>, “"Sir Gay" (Prince of Swallows-A-Lot) Is A Butthurt Faggot, Imbecile And Proven Liar - #068”, in alt.politics.democrat (Usenet), message-ID <klv1s8p21rg9ui87cu1la47uh7hdg49jo2@4ax.com>:

(derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A black African.


lilopristone

Probably blend of (al)lyloxy + mifepristone.


Mexcrement

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


Mexcrement

I say the U.S. should also plant trees. They can be festooned with
mexcrement wetbacks dangling by their scrawny necks. Should we call
them Live Piñatas?

2008 July 7, Mexcrementy, “Mexico plants border 'wall of life'”, in soc.culture.mexican.american (Usenet):

Wow! A mexcrement spic writing in the language of Spaniards (his former
masters)! Don't you have your own native language?

2009 September 24, Dirty Sick Pig, “16th-century Mexican Indian map offers key to history”, in alt.usage.spanish (Usenet):

(slang, derogatory, offensive) Mexican (of or relating to Mexico).


aspoxicillin

(pharmacology) An acylaminopenicillin, synthesized from amoxicillin.


mannaric

(organic chemistry) Relating to mannaric acid and its derivatives


mannaric acid

(organic chemistry) The aldaric acid derived from mannose


ethaverine

(pharmacology) A particular drug derived from papaverine.


vinaxanthone

Penicillium vinaceum
Penicillium vinaceum

(organic chemistry) A complex xanthone, produced by Penicillium vinaceum, that is a phospholipase inhibitor


vacutainer

Blend of vacuum + container, originally a trademark.

(medicine) A glass or plastic test tube with a rubber stopper creating an internal vacuum, used to draw blood samples.


guluronic acid

(organic chemistry) The uronic acid derived from gulose


mannuronic

Relating to mannuronic acid or its derivatives


lunner

(informal) A meal consumed between lunchtime and dinnertime.


femifascism

From femifascist, or blend of feminism + fascism.

(slang, offensive, derogatory, rare) Radical or militant feminism, intolerant of opposing views.


sexhibition

I am not, however, one of those ultra-libertine types who puts on sexhibitions for the kindergarten set in hopes they will grow up unthwarted.

1998, Suzanne White, Chinese Astrology Plain and Simple, page 226:

At dinner that night, talk turned to sexhibitions. One of the party told us of sex-shows in Bangkok and Copenhagen.

2000, Peter Nichols, Diaries, 1969-1977, page 402:

While looking at the sexhibition going on between Antonio and Noni, their lips locked, I could see that Antonio was trying to push her off of him[…]

2011, Emerald T. Stone, Crossing the Line, page 125:

(slang) A sex show; an erotic performance.


superdupervenience

Blend of super-duper + supervenience, coined by Terence Horgan in a 1993 paper: https://web.archive.org/web/20160307175427/http://thorgan.faculty.arizona.edu/sites/thorgan.faculty.arizona.edu/files/From%20Supervenience%20to%20Superdupervenience-%20Meeting%20the%20Demands%20of%20a%20Material%20World.pdf.

(philosophy) Ontological supervenience that is robustly explainable in a materialistically explainable way.


Scala

Scala started life in 2001 as a research project at EPFL in Switzerland. It was released publicly in 2004 after an internal release in 2003.

2017, Toby Weston, Scala for Java Developers: A Practical Primer, Apress, →ISBN, page 5:

programming language
programming language

(computer languages) A statically-typed multi-paradigm programming language designed to run on the JVM.


mesonet

An integrated network of automated weather-monitoring stations designed to observe mesoscale meteorological phenomena


threadjack

en-verb

threadjack (third-person singular simple present threadjacks, present participle threadjacking, simple past and past participle threadjacked)

threadjacks (present singular third-person)
threadjacking (participle present)
threadjacked (participle past)
threadjacked (past)

(Internet) To take over a discussion thread with a subject unrelated to the original posting.


decaversary

where Rick and Dara took their vows. The priest
was good, and the cake was good, and the wine so kickass special
that they saved a liter to share on their decaversary.

2003, Albert Goldbarth, Combinations of the Universe, Ohio State University Press, →ISBN, page 122:

In an anniversary event perhaps second only to the 60th birthday celebrations of the People's Republic, Beijing nightclub stalwart VICS begins a month-long celebration of it's^([sic]) "decaversary" this weekend with a series of events designed to confirm its position as the city's leading drunken experience.

2010 May 7, “VICS still in the mix”, in Global Times:

The annual summer concert series is marking its decaversary by bringing back blink-182, the inaugural artist from the first Honda Civic Tour in 2001, along with My Chemical Romance, for a 40-plus date nationwide.

2011 October, Susan Segal, “Coast Calendar”, in Coast Magazine:

(informal, rare) The tenth anniversary of something.


snackwich

He set aside the tools, prepared a snackwich and coffee, […]

1996, Ashraf Jamal, Love themes for the wilderness, page 246:

Corsicana and Geronimo were detained by the discovery, while retrieving their jackets off Everton's filthy mattress, of a similar sense of being bereft, a prevalence of childhood memories involving toasted cheese snackwiches and Tintin comics […]

2012, Zinaid Meeran, Tanuki Ichiban, page 161:

(South Africa) A grilled cheese sandwich.


iduronic

(organic chemistry) Relating to iduronic acid or its derivatives.


hexosamine

(biochemistry) Any amino sugar derived from a hexose.


Texican

(informal) A resident or denizen of Texas who identifies as Mexican.


banjolin

A musical instrument, most often with four strings, resembling a small banjo but tuned like a mandolin.


manjo

(music, Ireland, informal) A mandolin-banjo


teahadist

Figures a teahadist would define jingoism as love of country.

2011 August 1, Bill Baker, “Re: Haskell Breaks His Hand”, in alt.fan.rush-limbaugh (Usenet):

The anti-American teahadist screeches in outrage that Obama dares to cut taxes in order to help veterans.

2011 August 6, Ray Fischer, “Re: More Obama Spending Won’t Do It and Stocks Know It”, in alt.politics.liberalism (Usenet):

2011 September 20, REDRUM KILGORE [username], “Re: More Funny Stuff From The Obama White House? It's good to see President Obama finally giving up on any attempt at compromise with teahadists!”, in alt.fan.howard-stern (Usenet):

(neologism, derogatory) An affiliate of the Tea Party movement, particularly an overzealous one.


alaninamide

(organic chemistry) The amide of the amino acid alanine CH₃-CH(NH₂)-CO-NH₂


cnidopsin

(biochemistry) Any of a family of opsins found in cnidarian jellyfish


pinopsin

en-noun

pinopsin (countable and uncountable, plural pinopsins)

(biochemistry) A type of opsin found in the pineal gland (mostly of chickens)


wifestyle

Mila […] isn't pushing her wifestyle on anyone, she says, she is merely exercising her right to choose.

1987, Susan Riley, Political wives: the lives of the saints, page 83:

But in Washington, with its educational opportunities and abundant role models, a brave new wifestyle is flowering among those who married far too young.

1990, The Washingtonian, volume 25, page 141:

A wifestyle is the manner in which you deal — and I don't mean this disparagingly — with your husband.

1991, Gloria Bledsoe Goodman, Keys to Living with a Retired Husband, page 36:

Gardetto (1997) concluded that the New York Times [indicated] that Rodham Clinton's strength and intelligence somehow diminished that of her husband; by comparing her "wifestyle" to that of other political wives; and by raising questions about her equal, rather than subservient, status in the marital relationship.

2004, Lynda Lee Kaid, Handbook of political communication research, page 450:

A woman's attitudes and behaviour within a marriage.


mantyhose

The site e-MANcipate.net is devoted to "accelerating the acceptance of male pantyhose as a regular clothing item," and features a how-to guide for wearing mantyhose properly.

2009 January 16, “'Mantyhose', latest fad for men!”, in The Times of India:

Mantyhose have been popular in Europe – that bastion of progressive, gender-neutral fashion – for years, but have only recently gained traction in the U.S.

2012 March 8, Allison Berry, “Introducing Mantyhose. Yes, Mantyhose.”, in Time:

Their mantyhose are most popular with customers from Germany, France, Scandinavia, Canada and the United States.

2012 March 10, Maureen Dowd, “Manlashes, Manscara and Mantyhose”, in The New York Times:

(informal) Pantyhose designed for and/or marketed toward men.


briarellin

briarellin (countable and uncountable, plural briarellins)

(biochemistry) Any of a class of eunicellin diterpenes found in Briareum.


misteress

Blend of mister + mistress (“a female partner in an extramarital relationship”).

blend

He had a long-standing relationship with his married female CEO boss, and in his eyes, had sex for salary. In her eyes, he was a convenient misteress.

2001, Wise, Wonder..., iUniverse (2001), Writers Club Press (2001), page 135

The best looking ones will be kept as geisha boys or misteresses as women were.

2004, George, Hunters Beware, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 165:

I don't mind if he has a misteress; shopping is more interesting than sex.

2005, Martin Kantor, Together Forever: The Gay Man's Guide To Lifelong Love, Sourcebooks, Inc., →ISBN, page 101:

(slang) A male partner in an extramarital relationship; a male paramour; a kept man.


sexalicious

en-adj

sexalicious (comparative more sexalicious, superlative most sexalicious)

more sexalicious (comparative)
most sexalicious (superlative)

When Cosmo asked guys about the most sexalicious thing women could do after getting busy, this was their number-one plea: suggest a shower for two.

2005, Dr. Rajeev Sharma, New Kamasutra Sex Management Guide, page 262:

A blue-eyed cowboy with curved, sexalicious lips, her friend had added, licking her own in exaggeration.

2009, Alyssa Brooks, Larissa Lyons, Restrain Me, page 143:

"For your sake, I hope he is totally sexalicious."


correntropy

(mathematics) A nonlinear measure of the similarity between two random variables


Lienux

(Internet slang, derogatory) The Linux operating system.


meggings

Blend of man + leggings; compare treggings, jeggings.

On the catwalk, in magazines, on the legs of industry "muses" such as Jethro Cave (son of Nick), meggings are everywhere.

2009 March 9, Jonathan Heaf, “Coming your way: leggings for men”, in The Guardian:

Uniqlo is already selling Meggings on its British website, and their success in New York is seen as an indication they will also prove popular here.

2012 December 9, Tom Teodorczuk, “Men in tights: how ‘meggings’ are taking fashion by storm”, in Telegraph:

(neologism, informal) tights or leggings for men.


IDiot

Blend of ID (“intelligent design”) + idiot

blend

In his moronic book, _The Design Revolution: Answering the Toughest Questions about Intelligent Design_ (2004), 334pp., the IDiot William Dembski writes on page 305 about how a fellow IDiot was fired from a research position at a "prestigious molecular biology laboratory" the very same day a press story appeared exposing this character as being an IDiot.

2004 March 12, David Ford, “Re: How is this for an ID lesson plan?”, in talk.origins (Usenet), message-ID <b1c67abe.0403121312.35d2e0c@posting.google.com>:

Nor does any sane or rational person believe any enzyme fell together all at once purely by chance - that is the domain of creotards, IDiots, and theoloons.

2008 October 17, Prof Weird, “Re: Pretty cool eh?”, in talk.origins (Usenet), message-ID <9f2b4ea1-f138-4ff1-b526-ea6ba94156e4@l64g2000hse.googlegroups.com>:

Thus all sciences, including evolution, are guided by the available objective physical evidence while all creationism regularly rejects any implications of objective physical evidence which does not support their IDiot Bibliolatry.

2012 September 18, Virgil, “Re: Creationists SUICIDAL After Evidence Dumps Them”, in alt.talk.creationism (Usenet), message-ID <virgil-2B02C7.14220718092012@bignews.usenetmonster.com>:

(slang, derogatory) A proponent of intelligent design.


lanatoside

Digitalis lanata
Digitalis lanata#Translingual

(biochemistry) Any of a group of cardiac glycosides found in Digitalis lanata.


guanase

(biochemistry) guanine deaminase, an enzyme


churnalize

en-verb

churnalize (third-person singular simple present churnalizes, present participle churnalizing, simple past and past participle churnalized)

churnalizes (present singular third-person)
churnalizing (participle present)
churnalized (participle past)
churnalized (past)

Blend of churn + journalize; back-formation from churnalism.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:churnalize.

(transitive, informal) To copy and paste (a news story) from one source into another, especially into a blog.


gyrene

Uncertain. First attested 1894 in a list of United States Naval Academy slang, where it remained in use at least until 1925. Widely adopted during the Second World War. Often stated to be a blend of GI + marine, but early uses antedate both the widespread adoption of the term GI (c. 1910) and its use to denote individuals (c. late 1930s).
Possibly related to Royal Navy slang gerine (“a marine”), though gyrene antedates it in print. gerine is sometimes given as a clipping of tangerine, in reference to the color of the tunics worn by the Royal Marine Light Infantry, but U.S. Marines' uniforms did not have such a color.

(informal) A member of the United States Marine Corps.

Royal Navy
United States Naval Academy
gyrene


aspulvinone

(organic chemistry) Any of a group of hydroxylated pulvinones found in cultures of the mold Aspergillus terreus.


floptical

Blend of floppy (“floppy disk, a magnetic data storage device”) + optical.

blend

Like floppy drives on steroids, flopticals use laser optics to store up to 21MB of data on one 3½-inch disk. The advantages of flopticals are a low buy-in cost ($400 and under) and the convenience of using the drive for your current library of 1.44MB and 720K disks (as well as IBM′s 2.88MB disks).

1995, Eric Knorr, The PC Bible, page 74:

You said you are using flopticals in your sound studio? Is that where you use it mostly?

1997, Lee Purcell, David Martin, The Complete Recordable-CD Guide, page 461:

Flopticals, once promising, have mostly been shoved aside by improvements in capacity and price for older designs that are still around and new devices, such as the Zip and SuperDisk LS-120 drives.

2007, Corey Sandler, chapter 11, in Fix Your Own PC, page 5:


aeraulic

Relating to the transmission of energy via pressurised air


Supermarionation

Blend of super + marionette + animation, coined by Gerry Anderson, possibly in imitation of Dynamation, Ray Harryhausen's stop-motion technique.

A puppetry technique used in the 1960s, involving motorized marionettes suspended and controlled by thin wires.


fishetarian

'Okay, we can't do monkfish for the fishetarians because it's not kosher, and the koshers won't eat red meat either, so cod will do for them[…]

2005, Michael Bywater, Lost Worlds, page 39:

Uncle Murray is on a very strict heart healthy diet. Katherine may be a fishetarian — she has some sort of ulcer-thing I think, because I know that eating much in the way of tomatoes is a no-no for her.

2006, Hana Schank, A More Perfect Union, page 82:

(informal) A pescetarian; one who eats no meat other than fish.


privatopia

A private, generally gated, community of regulated and genteel appearance.


crangrape

Blend of cranberry + grape, equivalent to cran- + grape created as a trademark by Ocean Spray.

The box lunch always contained enough for a crew of nine: three loaves of bread, a pound of American cheese, a pound of mystery meat (usually something that resembled salami), one jar of smooth peanut butter, one jar of grape jelly, two dozen small bags of airline peanuts (or, occasionally, rock-hard raisins), a dozen boxes of cranberry juice (or cranapple, crangrape, or the like), condiments, and dessert.

1999, Mark A. Hinebaugh, Flying Upside Down: True Tales of an Antarctic Pilot, page 90:

(attributive) A blend of cranberry and grape.


heatronic

Originally a marketing coinage by Bakelite Corp, presumably Blend of heat + electronic.

Of or relating to an electrostatic moulding technique.


cadwelding

Perhaps Blend of Cadwell + welding, after Dr. Charles Cadwell.

3 CuO + 2 Al → 3 Cu + Al₂O₃

A welding technique producing good electrical conducting welds by using a highly exothermic thermite reaction between copper oxide and a metal such as aluminium, which results in pure copper being deposited in the weld.


irrelephant

en-adj

irrelephant (comparative more irrelephant, superlative most irrelephant)

more irrelephant (comparative)
most irrelephant (superlative)

Captain Spaulding: One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know. Then we tried to remove the tusks. […] But they were embedded so firmly we couldn't budge them. Of course, in Alabama the Tuscaloosa, but that's entirely irrelephant to what I was talking about.

1930, Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, & George S. Kaufman, Animal Crackers, 00:49:33-00:49:58

It was no fluke that the best of elephant-joke books — 101 Elephant Jokes — was written by Robert Blake, fourteen, who ran the following warning at the beginning of his work: "Practically no parents will think elephant jokes are funny."
But all of this is quite irrelephant; bring on the jokes.

1984, Paul Dickson, Jokes: Outrageous Bits, Atrocious Puns, and Ridiculous Routines for Those Who Love Jests, Delacorte Press, →ISBN, page 57:

Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant.

2010 June 26, KORN Andras [username], “Re: unbound 1 host tobb IP-vel”, in hun.lists.mlf.linux-flame (Usenet):

(humorous) Not related to elephants; irrelevant to the consideration or discussion of elephants.


fruitique

Gustavsburg was like a seaside model village, there was a lilypond outside the Post Office where we bought some stamps (one mark! That's nearly 50 pence for a stamp!) and some fruit and vegetables at a chic fruitique close to a fountain.

1997, Bill Cooper, Laurel Cooper, Back Door to Byzantium: To the Black Sea by the Great Rivers of Europe, Sheridan House, →ISBN, page 58:

A linguist would note with interest, rather than horror, the fact that you can have your hair washed and set in a glamorama in North Carolina, or your car oiled in a lubritorium in Sydney, or that you can buy apples at a fruitique in a trendy suburb of London.

2004, Jean Aitchison, Teach Yourself Linguistics:

New Yorkers are crazy about organic produce and the more esoteric, the better, from pink banana pumpkins at a Greenwich Village fruitique to stinging nettle lasagna at the fantastic new Eataly indoor marketplace at Fifth Avenue and 23rd Street.

2010 October 16, Susan Kurosawa, “New York's way with words”, in The Australian:


flirtationship

en-noun

flirtationship (countable and uncountable, plural flirtationships)

From flirtation + -ship and/or Blend of flirtation + relationship.

You may have a flirtationship with your best friend's brother, a coworker, or the baristo with the nice forearms who makes your latte[…]

2011, Anna Lefler, The Chicktionary, page 70:

(informal) A casual relationship based only on flirtation.


voken

[…] a Web portal that features voken-style campaigns.

2004, Keith J. Tuckwell, Canadian Marketing in Action, page 425:

He also had a key role in designing and building the eyeReturn Voken engine for online advertising and loyalty programs.

2005, Shaun Walker, Patrick J. Santry, Joe Brinkman, Professional DotNetNuke ASP.NET Portals, page xxi:

Hey, I was approached today asking^([sic]) about Voken ad's and if i knew how they were done.

2006, Spot3313, “Flash Voken Ads”, in macromedia.flash (Usenet):

pop-up advertisement
pop-up advertisement

(Internet) A pop-up advertisement that is displayed over the top of the content but without spawning a separate window.


bytesexual

(computing, slang) Capable of operating in either big-endian or little-endian mode.


menotropin

menotropin (countable and uncountable, plural menotropins)

human menopausal gonadotropin; an active substance for the treatment of fertility disturbances


metharbital

/məˈθɑɹ.bəˌtɔl/

(pharmacology) An anticonvulsant barbiturate C₉H₁₄N₂O₃.


metacycline

(pharmacology) A semisynthetic tetracycline antibiotic C₂₂H₂₂N₂O₈ with longer duration of action than most other tetracyclines used in the treatment of gonorrhea especially in penicillin-sensitive subjects and as a precursor in the industrial synthesis of doxycycline.


metanephrine

metanephrine (countable and uncountable, plural metanephrines)

(biochemistry) A metabolite of epinephrine (adrenaline) created by the action of catechol-O-methyl transferase on epinephrine.


phablet

@JGallo02 With that device it would be worth getting a pay as you go account just for that phablet. I can't wait for them to ship here

2009 September 3, Sloan Bowman, tweet https://twitter.com/sloanb/status/3725657504, Twitter

@sloanb phablet? dude, it's an uber-smart-phone with a sick open operating system called #maemo5 #n900 rocks

2009 September 3, Joe Gallo, tweet https://twitter.com/JGallo02/status/3725692942, Twitter

@JGallo02 You guys are marketing it as a internet tablet at all? phablet = Phone/Tablet. And I agree I love Maemo especially V.5

2009 September 3, Sloan Bowman, tweet https://twitter.com/sloanb/status/3725777613, Twitter

(neologism) A mobile device intermediate in size between smartphone and tablet.


slawdog

A hotdog with mustard in a bun covered with coleslaw, and topped with raw chopped onions.


Linux

en-proper noun

Linux (countable and uncountable, plural Linuxes or (slang) Linuxen)

Blend of Linus + Unix, from the name of its creator Linus Torvalds.

(computing, strictly) The Unix-like open-source computer operating system kernel created by Linus Torvalds in 1991.


pancrelipase

en-noun

pancrelipase (usually uncountable, plural pancrelipases)

A mixture of porcine-derived pancreatic amylase, pancreatic lipase, and chymotrypsin, used in the treatment of some digestive disorders.


prajmaline

An antiarrhythmic drug, a semisynthetic propyl derivative of ajmaline.


spreadmart

(sometimes derogatory) A system of spreadsheets, databases, etc. developed for data analysis, often becoming unmaintainable through size or complexity.


artlang

1997 November 18, Jack Durst, “Proposal: new language-type name (fwd)”, alt.language.artificial.ngl, Usenet,
The idea was for "functionlang" to be a useful term to describe a certain group of conlangs that weren't fitting into the pattern. Those being the (relatively rare) conlangs that were not artlangs, logiclangs, or auxlangs, but instead designed around some *other* specified purpose(s).

1998 January 8, Paul Roser, “Help with phonological transcription”, list.sci.lang.constructed, Usenet,
It is my artlang, spoken on an archipelago in the mid-Atlantic, somewhat south of the Azores and northwest of Madeira. The liturgical language has a number of _very_ exotic sounds, partly to indicate that it is not the normal language of the street (these sounds include several velaric egressive sounds, ie reverse clicks; one or two apicovelars; nareal fricatives; and a few others).

2000 March 15, Rex F. May, “Question about LSD”, soc.culture.esperanto, Usenet,
I'm opposed to an artlang with tones, in much the same way I'm opposed to an artlang with the many vowel sounds of English, or the consonant clusters of Russian and English.

A conlang created for artistic purposes or aesthetic ideals.


MacIntel

There is no doubt that a MacIntel machine could supplant the Wintel platform. And most likely, the entire hungry Linux community could port all the x86 Linux code to the MacIntel OS within weeks, creating a huge flood of good products.

2003 April 7, John C. Dvorak, “How the MacIntel Will Change the Market”, in PC Magazine:

The ADC participants also received MacIntel computers for testing and development.

2005 August 12, Mark Baard, “Mac Hacks Allow OS X on PCs”, in Wired:

(computing, informal) A Macintosh computer with an Intel CPU.


sialoquent

en-adj

sialoquent (comparative more sialoquent, superlative most sialoquent)

more sialoquent (comparative)
most sialoquent (superlative)

Blend of sialic + eloquent, from Ancient Greek σίαλον (síalon, “spittle, saliva”)

der

The sialoquent professor could not understand why his pupils would not sit in the front row of the lecture hall.

With a little practice it will become easy and natural, and you will leave the sialoquent* sayers of ek-SPLIK-uh-buul in the dust.

1999, Charles Harrington Elster, The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations: The Complete Opinionated Guide, Houghton Mifflin, →ISBN, page 150:

In person your SMC may be boorish, charming, self-absorbed, humorous, gentle, sloppy, or even sialoquent ("spraying saliva while talking").

2001, Eric F. Fagan, Cast Your Net: A Step-By-Step Guide to Finding Your Soulmate on the Internet, Harvard Common Press, →ISBN, page 210:

"Stop killing me you [censored] noob!"
The grand finale of a coveted franchise, millions of fans in the making and presumably more spent in marketing will have culminated in one siaoloquent outburst hissing through your standard issue Xbox Live headset.

2007 September 28, Azfarul Islam, “'Alo, 'Alo, 'Alo, What's This?”, in Felix, page 34:

(rare) Tending to spray saliva when speaking.


banilla

a banilla cream pie

a banilla smoothie

(attributive) A combination of banana and vanilla.


thoughtograph

A photograph produced by thoughtography.


Mandelbulb

(computer graphics) a three-dimensional analogue of the Mandelbrot set


persipan

en-noun

persipan (usually uncountable, plural persipans)

Borrowed from German Persipan, a blend of Latin persicus (“peach (tree)”) and German Marzipan.

A substance similar to marzipan, but produced from peach or apricot pits instead of almonds.

Persipan

marzipan-like substance made from peach or apricot pits


automobility

automobility (countable and uncountable, plural automobilities)

Near-synonyms: automobilery, motordom

In view of the fact that a number of paradigm shifts are required to bring about the authors' vision of sustainable automobility - paradigm shifts in the way cars are made, sold, used and powered - this approach appears inadequate.

2003, Paul Nieuwenhuis, Peter E. Wells, The Automotive Industry and the Environment: A Technical, Business and Social Future:

eMobility is not only an alternative drive technology that can be substituted for the combustion engine that has dominated until now, it could revolutionize transport altogether because it differs decisively from conventional automobility.

2012, Weert Canzler, “eMobility in Germany: Prospects for and barriers to sustainable mobility”, in Måns Nilsson, Karl Hillman, Annika Rickne, editors, Paving the Road to Sustainable Transport, page 260:

The use of automobiles as the major means of transportation and mobility.


diagrid

A structure, used by some buildings, which is made up of triangles formed from beams of steel or sometimes other materials.


syndemic

Coined by Merrill Singer in the mid-1990s. Blend of synergy + demic (“of a population”). Compare epidemic (literally “upon the people”).

blend

The syndemic nature of the threat we face means that a more nuanced approach is needed if we are to protect the health of our communities.

2020 September 26, Richard Horton, “Offline: COVID-19 is not a pandemic”, in The Lancet, volume 396, number 10255, →DOI:


grindie

The whole 'grindie' thing is just bollocks. I hate labelling music. They make up names and throw it to anything.

2006, Hip-hop connection, numbers 208-209, page 14:

He is known for MCing in grime music, and is also associated with the grindie scene which combines influences from grime, with indie rock.

2008, Damien Morgan, Hip Hop Had a Dream, volume 1, page 345:

Dizzee […] went on to make 'Temptation', creating the first grime-indie track, or 'grindie' as Dizzee calls it[…]

2011, Alex Kitts, Dizzee Rascal: Tales from Da Corner:

A style of music that fuses indie and grime music.


hunormous

en-adj

hunormous (comparative more hunormous, superlative most hunormous)

more hunormous (comparative)
most hunormous (superlative)


gyprock

en-noun

gyprock (countable and uncountable, plural gyprocks)

Cinder blocks were more durable, however, and soon gypsum was redirected for “gyprock” drywall, a wallboard...

2012, Richard Harris, Building a Market: The Rise of the Home Improvement Industry, page 55:


dashcam

Why not direct viewers to your website for entire, unedited interviews, an exclusive one-on-one with a local sports star or the whole five minutes of raw police dashcam from that cool chase you aired 20 seconds of?

2006, RTNDA Communicator, volume 60, Washington, D.C.: Radio-Television News Directors Association, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 44:

By dissolving from the last frame of the dashcam video clip into the same scene in animated form, the montage associated Murtha with the "good" officers in the other cruiser, embracing him in the group rather than singling him out as the renegade shooter who, to the unprepared viewer of the dashcam video alone, he might well have appeared to be.

2016, Neal Feigenson, “‘That’s What I See!’”, in Experiencing Other Minds in the Courtroom, Chicago, Ill., London: University of Chicago Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 65:

The evaluator is generally interested in the acquired video data as well as its integrity, but does not operate the dashcam himself. The evaluator is allowed to review anonymized dashcam videos for certain purposes. However, just like the operator, the evaluator must not be granted access to the classified data. An example for this actor is an insurance company that offers lower fees for dashcam users and wants to evaluate the video images after an insurance claim has been filed.

2017, Paul Wagner, Pascal Birnstill, Erik Krempel, Sebastian Bretthauer, Jürgen Beyerer, “Privacy Dashcam – Towards Lawful Use of Dashcams through Enforcement of External Anonymization”, in Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Guillermo Navarro-Arribas, Hannes Hartenstein, Jordi Herrera-Joancomartí, editors, Data Privacy Management, Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technology: […] (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS); 10436), Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 188:

[W]e can connect the episode to the rise of "dashcams": small cameras mounted on the dashboards of cars to record the behavior of pedestrians and other motorists in case of accidents. In several countries, the use of such dashcams can already be required by insurance companies, at least to obtain a discount. It seems a plausible scenario that such practices might expand beyond car insurance and police forces, aggregating dashcams with lifelogging to create a situation in which citizens, under cover of security and legal protection, become expected to record and store their daily experience.

2018, Pinelopi Troullinou, Mathieu d’Aquin, “Seeing the ‘Surveillant Face’ of Technology in Black Mirror: Using Futuristic Scenarios for an Interdisciplinary Discussion on the Feasibility and Implications of Technology”, in Angela M. Cirucci, Barry Vacker, editors, Black Mirror and Critical Media Theory, Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, →ISBN, pages 74–75:

Proliferating as well are personal monitoring devices—dash cams, cyclist helmet cameras to record collisions, doorbells equipped with lenses to catch package thieves—that are fast becoming a part of many a city dweller’s everyday arsenal.

2018 February, Robert Draper, “They are Watching You—and Everything Else on the Planet: Technology and Our Increasing Demand for Security have Put Us All under Surveillance. Is Privacy Becoming just a Memory?”, in National Geographic, Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-06-14:

digital video recorder
digital video recorder

(automotive) A digital video recorder mounted on the dashboard of a vehicle or elsewhere inside the vehicle to record occurrences in the vicinity, such as traffic accidents that the vehicle has been involved in, to provide evidence for criminal prosecutions, insurance claims, etc.


randumb

en-adj

randumb (comparative more randumb, superlative most randumb)

more randumb (comparative)
most randumb (superlative)

(slang) Both random and stupid; having the nature of a foolish non sequitur.


tovero

A horse whose coloration is a mixture of tobiano and overo.


pandamonium

First Lady Pat Nixon, who received them on behalf of all Americans, said "Thank you so much for this gift of pandas for children of all ages, including me. I'm sure pandamonium will break out."

1972 April 21, “Pandas settled in National Zoo”, in Lodi News-Sentinel:

But Sunday was the last day of the pandas' six-month visit and the "pandamonium" was supposed to be over.

1987 November 4, Douglas Martin, “About New York; Year of the Panda Is Lengthened By a Few Days”, in The New York Times:

Ever since it was known that the Toledo Zoo would be exhibiting a pair of the endangered giant pandas, a state of "pandamonium" has existed in this part of Ohio.

1988 August 16, Scott R. Robinson, “Chinese cooking is an art”, in The Bryan Times:

(humorous) Furor caused by or involving pandas.


Eurasiafrican

Eurasiafrican (comparative more Eurasiafrican, superlative most Eurasiafrican)

more Eurasiafrican (comparative)
most Eurasiafrican (superlative)

From Euro- + a blend of Asian + African.

Of or relating to Europe, Asia, and Africa


Juvember

All of this work will take from now to Juvember!

(US, informal) A fictional month of the year, used as sarcasm or a joke to mean that something will never happen or never take place.


tetracontagon

Blend of tetra- (“4”) + Ancient Greek τεσσαράκοντα (tessarákonta, “40”) + -gon (“-sided”), from γωνία (gōnía, “corner”).

der

τεσσαράκοντα


freeship

(India) A studentship offered at no cost to the student.


Friendsgiving

en-noun

Friendsgiving (countable and uncountable, plural Friendsgivings)

That means a holiday traditionally celebrated with family could be a very lonely affair. But, never fear, this year discover the joy of a “Friendsgiving”—a Thanksgiving with friends.

2011 November 22, Alyce Gilligan, “Happy Friendsgiving”, in Relevant, →ISSN, archived from the original on 2013-02-07:

I would like to thank my friends, who make Friendsgiving the best holiday of the year.

2012, Cash Costello, Elgg 1.8 Social Networking, Birmingham: Packt Publishing, →ISBN, page 9:

Palardy, who has a learning disability and deals with medical challenges, was one of more than two dozen from the Best Buddies club — or about four tables full — who came together for a special "Friendsgiving" Italian meal in Lenox at Trottoria Il Vesuvio in a special acknowledgment of thanks to friendship shortly before Thanksgiving.

2012 November 18, John Sakata, “'Friendsgiving' celebrates friends with Pittsfield students”, in The Berkshire Eagle, →ISSN:

A Thanksgiving feast held by and for someone's friends.


Prop H8

(derogatory, US politics) The Californian proposition which restricted marriage to one woman and one man.


chatiquette

Each chat room functions in accordance with its own rules. They may be written rules in the form of chatiquette. Chatiquette prescribes what behavior is frowned upon and what the sanctions are.

2006, Jeffrey Jensen Arnett, Encyclopedia of Children, Adolescents, and the Media:

As long as no one causes any offence to others in the room, and adheres ^([sic]) to the basic rules of 'chatiquette', they can then remain in that room for as long as they wish, or until everyone else has left the room.

2012, Yvonne Jewkes, Dot.cons, page 175:

Chatiquette is similar to netiquette in terms of the words and behavior acceptable while participating in a chat room.

2013, Irene Joos, Ramona Nelson, Marjorie J. Smith, Introduction to Computers for Healthcare Professionals, page 479:

Never forget that a bipolar chat room has also its own rules, chatiquette, and guidelines. It is very important to understand it.

(Internet) The etiquette dictating how one should behave in chat rooms.


erom

(literature) A blend of erotica and romance.


taileron

(aviation) A kind of tailplane or stabilator that can move differentially to perform the roll control function of an aileron.


Namlish

(Namibia) A form of English spoken in Namibia, influenced by Afrikaans.


Yinglish

An informal language blending elements of English and Yiddish.


middlescent

(informal) A middle-aged person who acts more like an adolescent.


fuckumentary

This is, after all, a movie my dear, not a fuckumentary

2010, Phil Torcivia, Nick Street, Still a Nice Guy, page 222:

After a brief moment of hesitation, either from fear or shock, he gave my fuckumentary the green light.

2005, Carly Milne, Naked Ambition: Women Who Are Changing Pornography, page 4:

Charles Kilgore recalls the 'white coaters' or 'fuckumentaries', early hardcore masquerading as educational films […]

2004, Temple Drake, David Kerekes, Headpress Guide to the Counter Culture, page 35:

(slang, vulgar) A documentary featuring or focusing on explicit sexual conduct.


Hunglish

A variety of English incorporating Hungarian words or constructions.


Pennsyltucky

(informal) The rural and exurban part of the state of Pennsylvania outside the Pittsburgh and Philadelphia metropolitan areas, more specifically the mountainous central region.


gymnatorium

gymnatorium (plural gymnatoriums or gymnatoria)

gymnatoriums (plural)
gymnatoria (plural)

A room, as in a school, combining the functions of gymnasium and auditorium.


Russlish

Each spoke the other's language fluently, but they usually talked Russlish to ensure that idioms and shaded meanings were correctly transmitted. Because few people would understand Russlish, their conversation is reported here in English.

1988, G. Harry Stine, Operation High Dragon, page 14:

Runglish; a blend of Russian and English


buffeteria

A cafeteria where food is served from a buffet.


dubtitle

A subtitle that transcribes the new alternative dialogue spoken on a dubbed soundtrack, rather than translating the original dialogue.


Polglish

A variety of English incorporating Polish words or constructions.


spacistor

(electronics) A kind of transistor developed in the 1950s.


Janglish

Blend of Japanese + English, with intended pun on jangle (“sound discordantly”); coined by English author James Kirkup in 1966.

A variety of English incorporating Japanese words or constructions; English heavily influenced by Japanese grammar or pronunciation.


sexpat

They weren't all just sexpats and drifters and former disgraced officers or old bartenders, none of which he should have mentioned.

(slang) An expatriate who engages in sex tourism.


blogorrhea

Blend of blog + logorrhea, or possibly blog and diarrhea.

Most blogs fail because beginning bloggers don't understand that it's difficult to come up with new content day in and day out. Sure, it's easy enough to post a "Didn't do anything today" lament or a "Don't feel like writing today" sigh. But post too much of this content-free blogorrhea—or, sin of sins in the blogging community, don't post at all for long periods—and your blog is as good as dead.

2004, Paul McFedries, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating a Web Page & Blog, Alpha Books, →ISBN, page 237:

It’s a surprisingly robust masthead, considering that the entire operation produces about 1,500 words a day—barely a peep in the days of unrelieved blogorrhea and Web-wide word bloat.

2006 May 1, Michael Idov, “How Sweet Is It?”, in New York:

Not every blogger writes confessional kiss-and-tell posts or records the dinner menu—the blogosphere is not all blogorrhea and mystery meat.

2009, Dennis Baron, A Better Pencil: Readers, Writers, and the Digital Revolution, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 166:

stream-of-consciousness
stream of consciousness

Excessive, compulsive, or stream-of-consciousness blogging, especially over trivial matters.


Ruthanasia

Blend of Ruth + euthanasia, in reference to the National Party's Minister of Finance, Ruth Richardson.

Rogernomics has been succeeded by Richardson's Ruthanasia.

(slang, derogatory, New Zealand politics) The period of free-market economic reform conducted during the first term of the fourth National government in New Zealand, from 1990 to 1993.


zebrinny

His zebra-horse hybrids, or zebrules, and his horse-zebra hybrids, or zebrinnies, are not marked like their Burchell-zebra parent, but resemble in both cases the Somali zebra, which is the most primitive of all its kind.

1900, The Annual Register of World Events, volume 141, page 113:

They will also interbreed with horses, producing zebrules (Plate 137) or zebrinnies.

1955, Ivan Terence Sanderson, Living mammals of the world, page 223:

The offspring of a male horse and a female zebra.


Famiclone

You may also see very unauthorized Famiclones — third-party, unlicensed NES joysticks, sometimes with an attached light gun and not as many games as the packaging says.

2005, Simon Carless, Gaming Hacks, page 34:

Like keyboard-based Famiclones today, these early home computers were also commonly connected to a TV display[…]

2009, James Derek Lomas, The social movement laboratory:

(informal, video games) Any electronic hardware designed to replicate the Nintendo Entertainment System video game console.


advertique

These miscellaneous advertising items, often called advertiques, were generally useful in nature and were saved as a result.

1977, Cecil Munsey, Illustrated Guide to Collectible Bottles, page 267:

Any item with the name of the firm that gave it away on it is an advertique. Souvenir spoons, tin trays, trade cards,[…]

1979, Marguerite Ashworth Brunner, How to sell your collectibles, antiques, and crafts at a profit, page 29:

They hold a historical library of printed and audiovisual materials, research and reference collections of advertisements in various media, display items, slides for presentations, manuscripts materials, and artifacts and advertiques.

1988, Stanley C. Hollander, Terence R. Nevett, Ronald A. Fullerton, Historical perspectives in marketing, page 211:

Another one-of-a-kind advertique, this example is in excellent condition.

1990, William C. Ketchum Jr, The new and revised catalog of American antiques, page 508:


odditorium

Blend of odd + auditorium; mainly used by the Ripley's Believe It or Not! franchise.

[…] and we found passageways with queer, quaint gables, and in a draper's shop, and in constant daily use, we came upon an ancient and beautiful oak staircase really fit for a palace, and we happened upon an "odditorium," […]

1917, Robert Shackleton, Touring Great Britain, page 182:

Today the syndicated daytime talk show is the straight-line mainstream descendant of the odditoriums and dunk-the-fool attractions of a century ago.

1998, Robert Abelman, Reaching a critical mass, page 39:

Ripley's has odditoriums across the United States, but the Key West location features many exhibits unique to our island.

2002, Christopher Shultz, David L. Sloan, Quit Your Job and Move to Key West: The Complete Guide, page 55:

His shop had been an odditorium, its crowding walls filled to the ceiling with unfathomable, strangely charismatic products like Bay Rum and styptic pencils that would seal up cuts […].

2016, Alan Moore, Jerusalem, Liveright, page 27:

A shop or museum exhibiting unusual curiosities.


Delmarva

Blend of Delaware (“Del”) + Maryland (“mar”) + Virginia (“VA”)

blend

Coordinate term: DMV

A large peninsula on the east coast of the United States, occupied by most of Delaware and portions of Maryland and Virginia; separated from the mainland by Chesapeake Bay.


manorexic

en-adj

manorexic (comparative more manorexic, superlative most manorexic)

more manorexic (comparative)
most manorexic (superlative)

(informal) male and anorexic; suffering from manorexia


occulture

/əˈkʌlt͡ʃə(ɹ)/

Blend of occult + culture First used in Rapid Eye magazine by Simon Dwyer. Later used by Professor Christopher Partridge.

UFO religions drink deeply from the waters of occulture, while, at the same time, seeking to reconcile their ideas with a contemporary secular and scientific worldview.

2005, Christopher Partridge, The Re-enchantment of the West, volume 2, →ISBN, page 167:

With the term occulture I refer to a diverse milieu of spirituality that formed around esoteric discourses, as characterized by Nina Kokkinen in her dissertation about occulture and modern spirituality in turn of the century Finnish art, and its three notable artists Hugo Simberg (1873–1917), Akseli Gallen-Kallela and Pekka Halonen (1865–1933) (Kokkinen 2019: 44).

2020, Mikko Välimäki, “Decadence and occulture: Oscar Parviainen’s art”, in Approaching religion, volume 11, number 1, →DOI, page 99:

Conspirituality, in fact, helps describe some of the dynamics and one of the “contexts” in which Italian Pagan conspiracy-believing is embedded—one that, at a more general level, is characterized by what Christopher Partridge (e.g., 2004; 2005; 2014) defined as occulture.

2021, Giovanna Parmigiani, “Magic and Politics: Conspirituality and COVID-19”, in Journal of the American Academy of Religion, →DOI, page 12:

The appropriation by a subculture of occult themes (New Age, etc.) in opposition to the dominant culture.


Enronomics

Blend of Enron + economics, after Enron, a company that collapsed through accounting fraud.

Alas, we are reduced to desperately seeking Toto, in need of someone to go behind the curtain and tell us that the wizard's name is enronomics.

2007, George M. Frankfurter, Theory and Reality in Financial Economics, page 122:

Well, we do understand economics. We just do not understand Enronomics. The majority party unfortunately is forcing down the throats of consumers in this country Enronomics. They are allowing Enron to continue to pillage and burn the West Coast.

2009, Congressional Record, V. 150, Pt. 9, June 2, 2004 to June 16 2004:

And, in the financial sector, this weakening continued as a blind eye was turned to the parallels between 'Enronomics' and the use of leveraged debt to engage in the creation and trading of exotic financial products.

2011, Mollie Painter-Morland, René ten Bos, Business Ethics and Continental Philosophy, page 111:

creative accounting, or accounting fraud


Mexifornia

He spent a few months with me in Mexifornia[…]

1975, Alfred Bester, The computer connection, page 11:

This was demonstrated by references to California as Mexifornia, complaints about hearing Spanish in stores and restaurants, and seeing, "so few white people in Wal-Mart" (CP6).

2008, Jennifer Ingraham Bryant, Vigilance on the Border, page 95:

the millions of illegal alien barbarians in Mexifornia

2005, Samuel Heath, The American Poet: Weedpatch Gazette for 2005, page 210:

(US, sometimes derogatory) California, viewed as increasingly Mexican in population and culture, especially due to illegal immigration.


smark

professional wrestling
professional wrestling

A fan of professional wrestling who is aware that the matches are scripted but enjoys them nonetheless.


animutation

en-noun

animutation (countable and uncountable, plural animutations)

Think you're cool sayin' "All Your Base"? / Get that Xiao Xiao outta my face / You gotta be kidding me with that crap / Animutation's where it's at

2003 April 5, Neil Cicierega (lyrics and music), “Hyakugojyuuichi 2003”, in Clown Circus, performed by Lemon Demon:

It's no fun to watch animutations when the music doesn't even line up! I think this is a performance issue[…]

2003, Greg Courville, “Flash Player”, in alt.linux (Usenet):

Animutation is satire, irony, and social criticism […]

2009, Marcel Danesi, X-rated!: the power of mythic symbolism in popular culture, page 109:

He is also the creator of a genre of Flash animation known as animutation.

2011, Greg Jarboe, YouTube and Video Marketing: An Hour a Day:

(Internet) A form of Web-based computer animation characterized by unpredictable montages of pop culture images set to music.


pegasister

"Bronies" and "pegasisters," as some fans are called, point to the quality of animation and humor as what makes the series enjoyable.

2011, Christina Belisle, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic review, Reporter, 30 September 2011, page 9

The group included four "Pegasisters," as the small minority of female bronies sometimes call themselves in this male-dominated world.

2011 November 5, Vauhni Vara, Ann Zimmerman, “Hey, Bro, That's My Little Pony! Guys' Interest Mounts in Girly TV Show”, in The Wall Street Journal:

“I’d say 80 percent of my friends are into it,” says the “pegasister,” slang for a female fan. “My dorm loves it. We get together to watch the shows, and we eat and laugh.”

2012 January 11, Reed Tucker, “Horsing around!”, in New York Post:

(slang) A female fan of the animated television series My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, typically an adult.


Shitcago

/ˌʃɪtˈkɑːɡəʊ/

/ˌʃɪtˈkɑɡoʊ/

/ˌʃɪtˈkɔɡoʊ/

“You're that nosy reporter from Shitcago aren't you? Why don't you take your little dog and get your asses back where you belong.”

2012, Tom Richmond, The Favored, →ISBN, page 163:

'I seen GD in the Quarter,' another kid said. 'I told them to git back to Shitcago where they belong.'

2013, Jeff Gulvin, The Procession, Open Road Media, →ISBN:

I went to the little heap of paperbacks, found the Bible, and tried to ignore the mumbling of the other prisoners, speculating on my likely being "one a-them coon-sucking perverts from Shitcago" when we were ordered back into our cells[.]

2018, Ralph D. Fertig, A Passion for Justice: One Man’s Dedication to Civil Rights, Dorrance Publishing, →ISBN, page 91:

(US, vulgar, derogatory, offensive) Chicago.


carborundum

Blend of carbon + corundum; originally a trade name.

There is no doubt that such a button — properly prepared under great pressure — of carborundum, especially of powder of the best quality, will withstand the effect of the bombardment fully as well as anything we know.

1892, Nikola Tesla, Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency, Wildside Press LLC, →ISBN, page 73:

This can most readily be done by use of carborundum marking. The procedure involves successive marking of the same mat with layers of carborundum at least twice.

1976, M.R. Walter, Stromatolites, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 28:

At the same times, samples were taken to determine that the carborundum treatment did increase the amount of wear of the mandibles compared with insects on the diet without carborundum powder.

1995, Reg F. Chapman, Gerrit de Boer, Regulatory Mechanisms in Insect Feeding, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 22:

Print made by combining carborundum—a carbon and silicon compound customarily used for polishing by abrasion—with synthetic resin or varnish (see also Prints, §III, 5).

2008, Gerald W. R. Ward, The Grove Encyclopedia of Materials and Techniques in Art, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 83:

Crystals of silicon carbide used as an abrasive.

Carborundum

crystals of silicon carbide used as an abrasive


XNAND

electrical engineering
electrical engineering

(electrical engineering, rare) XOR, a logic gate


XAND

(electrical engineering, rare) XNOR, a logic gate.


endectocide

Blend of endoparasite + ectoparasite + -cide

blend

(veterinary medicine) An antiparasitic drug that is active both against endoparasites and against ectoparasites.