rickroll

en-verb

rickroll (third-person singular simple present rickrolls, present participle rickrolling, simple past and past participle rickrolled)

rickrolls (present singular third-person)
rickrolling (participle present)
rickrolled (participle past)
rickrolled (past)

4chan
Grand Theft Auto IV
Never Gonna Give You Up
Rick Astley
YouTube

The verb is a blend of Rick + duckroll, combining the name of the British pop singer and songwriter Rick Astley (born 1966) with a reference to the duckroll prank on the website 4chan, in which users tricked into clicking on a hyperlink were led to an image of a duck on wheels. The word was coined by the American YouTuber Shawn Cotter (born 1987) who, under the handle “cotter548”, uploaded the music video of Astley’s song “Never Gonna Give You Up” (1987) to the online video-sharing service YouTube and then posted messages on 4chan on May 15, 2007 ostensibly with links to a trailer for the forthcoming game Grand Theft Auto IV. People who clicked on the links instead saw the Astley video with the caption “You just got Rickroll’d” scrolling across the screen. The noun is derived from the verb.

coinage

I try not to get rickrolled by sketchy YouTube links, but sometimes you let your guard down.

YouTube ‘Rickrolls’ Everyone [title] […] Let the Internet pranking begin! YouTube, capitalizing on the resurgence of a popular meme, has booby-trapped each of the “featured videos” on its homepage. Click on any of the showcased clips and you’ll be taken instead to a cheesy video of pop singer Rick Astley singing his late-’80s hit song, “Never Gonna Give You Up.”

2008 April 1, Jenna Wortham, “YouTube ‘Rickrolls’ Everyone”, in Wired, San Francisco, Calif.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-08-07:

Once you start rickrolling people, and more importantly get a reputation for it, you're heading towards being the Zimbabwean dollar in the link economy: it doesn't matter how many you offer, people just aren't going to buy them.

2008 December 5, Charles Arthur, “Why rickrolling is bad for you”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-10-22:

Despite its name, there is one thing the Vote Leave campaign should not have left for so long: registering a domain name. The delay by the anti-EU organisation meant that up to 100,000 people who tried to access voteleave.com, co.uk or .net were rickrolled – redirected to a YouTube clip of Rick Astley's 1987 hit Never Gonna Give You Up. So far, so internet.

2016 April 20, Homa Khaleeli, “How Vote Leave got rickrolled”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-11-17:

You send a Web link to someone, promising something exciting or compelling ("Is this you!?")—but the link actually takes your victim to a YouTube video of Rick Astley's 1987 music video, "Never Gonna Give You Up." That's it. That's the joke. Ha! You've been Rickrolled!

2020, David Pogue, “The Internet Celebrity Culture [Internet Memes 101: A Guide to Online Wackiness]”, in Social Media Influencers: Apps, Algorithms and Celebrities (In the Headlines), New York, N.Y.: New York Times Educational Publishing in association with The Rosen Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 14:

(originally Internet slang) To mislead (someone) into following a seemingly innocuous hyperlink, or sometimes a QR code, that leads to a YouTube video of Rick Astley's song "Never Gonna Give You Up".

瑞克搖

to mislead (someone) into following a seemingly innocuous hyperlink, or sometimes a QR code, that leads to a YouTube video of Rick Astley’s song “Never Gonna Give You Up”; to surprise or trick (someone) into hearing this song; to cause (someone) to unexpectedly engage with this song through an indirect method


Wimbleware

Blend of Wimbledon + Edgware (from Edgware Road)

(rail transport, informal) The Wimbledon to Edgware Road service on the London Underground's District Line.


desk jockey

The production manager was annoyed because some desk jockey in the main office reassigned her staff without even consulting her.

(idiomatic) One who spends his or her time seated at a desk; especially one who is more concerned with procedure, paperwork, or administration than with its ultimate goal or practical consequence.


collapsar

Blend of collapse + star, patterned after quasar, pulsar. Analyzable as collapse + -ar

(astronomy) The black hole thought to form following the gravitational collapse of a massive star.


kogo

Blend of K- (“Korea, Korean”) + pogo (“corndog-on-a-stick”)

blend

(Canada, food) Korean-style deep-fried battered sausage on a stick


bustitution

en-noun

bustitution (countable and uncountable, plural bustitutions)

(rail transport, sometimes derogatory) The (temporary or permanent) substitution of a bus service for a rail (train, tram, etc) or trolleybus service.


tankini

A bathing suit composed of a tank top and the lower half of a bikini.


snazztastic

en-adj

snazztastic (comparative more snazztastic, superlative most snazztastic)

more snazztastic (comparative)
most snazztastic (superlative)

"How are you feeling?" "Snazztastic!"

I like your snazztastic new hair cut!

Truthfully, I was kind of average until my life went from snooze to snazztastic in about sixty seconds.

(rare, informal, neologism) Exceptional; outstanding.


smush

en-verb

smush (third-person singular simple present smushes, present participle smushing, simple past and past participle smushed)

smushes (present singular third-person)
smushing (participle present)
smushed (participle past)
smushed (past)

Exercising can take your smushing to a whole new level. WORK OUT I am not shitting you: experts say exercise can make sex mind-blowing.

2011, Jenni Farley, The Rules According to JWOWW:

(slang, New York, US) To engage in intimate contact, especially sexual relations.


burqini

(Islam) A head-to-toe swimsuit, enabling women to conform to the Islamic dress code when bathing on a public beach.


burkini

Blend of burqa + bikini or burka + -kini.

In my mind, the burkini was always the practical, inevitable swimwear goal; the final stage in my journey to becoming a proper hijabi.

2016 August 26, Romaissaa Benzizoune, “At the Beach in My Burkini”, in The New York Times:

In recent days, people on Twitter and other social media platforms have mocked the banning of burkinis by dozens of French beachside towns by asking what French officials would do if Chinese beachgoers showed up wearing facekinis.

2016 August 29, Edward Wong, “‘Facekini’-Wearing Chinese Stand Up for the Right to Bare Nothing”, in The New York Times:


conbulker

A cargo ship capable of handling both containerized cargo and bulk cargo.


med-evac

The removal of the injured or ill to a hospital from a combat or disaster area.


mandelbug

Blend of Mandelbrot + bug, in reference to the Mandelbrot set.

Try to determine as soon as you can if this is a problem you can solve, or whether it's a mandelbug that technical support needs to look at.

1997, David Hutchinson, The Internet Workbook for Health Professionals, page 145:

(computing, informal) A software bug whose behaviour appears to be chaotic.


heisenbug

(ca. 1983) Blend of Heisenberg + bug. Named for the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, which states very roughly that any attempt to measure the position of a subatomic particle will disrupt its movement, making it harder to predict.

I recently encountered a particularly infuriating Heisenbug. A large program, when given a large input, was just mysteriously dying. Of course, I ran it under the debugger. The mystery deepened: the program returned quietly to the debugger.

1987 January 4, Don Lindsay, “More Heisen-debugs”, in RISKS Digest, volume 4, number 36:

Except for pointer messups in C on my side, the Heisenbugs I've come across were hardly ever caused by _me_.

1994 January 20, Heinz Wrobel, “'Heisenbugs'”, in comp.programming (Usenet), message-ID <heinz.0i4s@hwg.muc.de>:

There are multiple perf related issues like this that are hard to track down. They are borderline heisenbugs that are possibly race conditions, so bisecting doesn't work and even things like enablibg^([sic]) ftrace will make the issue go away (or crash ftrace itself).

2014 December 8, Vince Weaver, “Re: Linux 3.18 released”, in linux-kernel mailing list, message-ID <alpine.DEB.2.10.1412081331580.28373@pianoman.cluster.toy>:

(computing) A software bug which fails to manifest itself or manifests differently during debugging.


molfile

(chemistry) Any of several formats of table (and associated computer file) for holding information about the atoms, bonds, connectivity and coordinates of a molecule


osmolality

(chemistry) The molality of an ideal solution that would exert the same osmotic pressure as the solution being considered.

osmalálacht

chemistry: the molality of an ideal solution that would exert the same osmotic pressure as the solution being considered


perstraction

en-noun

perstraction (countable and uncountable, plural perstractions)

(chemistry) A separation process in which a solution is permeated through a membrane and subsequently extracted with a solvent


MacBook

A trademark; apparently a blend of Macintosh + notebook.

Hooo, boy! Sometimes I just can't let things rest. I have the new MacBook Pro.

2006, Maria Langer, Miraz Jordan, WordPress 2, page 135:

The faux hippie dude working on his top-of-the-line seventeen-inch MacBook Pro looked way annoyed.

2007, Paul Ruditis, Everyone's a Critic, Simon and Schuster,, →ISBN, page 52:

In Bayard's nonreading utopia the printing press would never have been invented, let alone penicillin or the MacBook.

2007 November 11, Jay McInerney, “Faking It”, in New York Times:

I felt like such a wimp, sitting there with my MacBook and a 2 percent, decaf latte.

2008, Stephen James, David Thomas, How to Hit a Curve Ball, Grill the Perfect Steak, and Become a Real Man, Tyndale House Publishers,, →ISBN, page 114:

2008 March 18, “Now Blogging: Israel's Secret Service”, Bryant Park Project, National Public Radio
Now, normally, you would trip, you'd get back up, but apparently he was carrying his fancy new MacBook Air, and he was trying to save the MacBook Air from falling […]

A MacBook-brand notebook computer, manufactured by Apple Computer.


physisorption

physisorption (countable and uncountable, plural physisorptions)

Otherwise, in the case of pure physisorption, adatoms and very small adclusters would not be observed with the STM because the probability for the sharp eigenstates of the adparticles to lie within the 10 meV energy window ( given by the bias voltage ) would be considerably small.

(physical chemistry) adsorption in which the forces involved are intermolecular rather than chemical


stalkerazzi

stalkerazzi pl (normally plural, singular stalkerazzo)

(derogatory) Paparazzi who violate their targets' privacy in the manner of stalkers.


cosmeceutical

Any cosmetic that is claimed to have a medicinal action


gaymer

You're a gaymer aintcha? :)

2003, Gorf, “FA:Fzero Jap”, in uk.games.video.gamecube (Usenet):

> Are you a gaymer then?
No, I'm just a gay man that enjoys computer games in exactly the same way that non-gay men enjoy computer games.

2003, Nick, “Gaymers”, in uk.games.video.gamecube (Usenet):

How is this self-ostracism? Is anyone who would choose to post there thus prevented from posting here, or to any of the planet* websites Gamespy owns? Or to any of the publisher/developer forums available for discussion? I post to a mailing list for gay gaymers, and yet I post here. How am I ostracized?

2003, Julie d'Aubigny, “Gaymers”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action (Usenet):

(slang, video games) A homosexual gamer.


gorno

A film which uses gratuitous, intentionally over-the-top violence in combination with overly sexual themes to attract audiences.


staycation

The noun is a blend of stay + vacation. The verb is derived from the noun.

It's holiday time again. Having invented the staycation – no, I don't like the word either – four years ago when we ran out of money and out of patience with French traffic, we are sticking to principle and, as we did four months ago, hanging out at Tom Hodgkinson's gaff in north Devon.

2009 August 31, Nicholas Lezard, “Down and Out in London”, in New Statesman, London: New Statesman Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2012-12-01, page 54:

Somewhere in the last few decades the stacation was substituted for the prestige and glamour of the trip abroad, and the recent flurry of low cost airlines all but cemented that as the new tradition for those that can afford it.

2012 October 24, Jeff Brazier, “The Joys of Camping”, in HuffPost, UK edition, archived from the original on 2017-07-01:

The rise in patronage partly reflects the growing trend for ‘staycations’ in the UK, in addition to Pitlochry’s status as the southern gateway to the world-famous Cairngorms National Park.

2019 December 4, Paul Stephen, “At the Heart of the Local Community”, in Rail, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 58:

Many families who had planned to go away for the easter holidays are now deciding to grab a tent and go on an isolated family camping stacations to ensure the kids are still entertained as many holiday resorts go on possible lockdown.

2020 March 16, Heather Carrick, “Coronavirus: Glaswegians stock up on camping gear before self-isolation”, in Glasgow Times, Glasgow: Newsquest (Herald & Times), →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-09-27:

(informal) A vacation spent at or close to home.

(British, Ireland) A holiday spent in one's own country without travelling abroad.


hypervisor

The hypervisor is the component that translates the virtual machines into the underlying hardware. There are two types of hypervisors: The type 1 hypervisor runs directly on the host hardware; the type 2 or hosted hypervisor runs in software.

2011, Edward Whalen, Oracle VM Implementation and Administration Guide, McGraw Hill Professional, →ISBN, page 17:

(computing) A firmware or software system that provides a virtual machine and allows it to operate directly on underlying hardware (instead of via emulation), but within specified constraints.


fogbow

(meteorology) A white arc or circle, similar to a rainbow, which can appear in the sky in foggy conditions as sunlight passes through small airborne water droplets.


telco

Meronyms: netco, servco

(informal) A telecommunications company, a telecom.


phenylephrine

phenylephrine (usually uncountable, plural phenylephrines)

α-adrenergic receptor
α-adrenergic receptor

(medicine, pharmacology) An α-adrenergic receptor agonist related to adrenaline, used as a vasoconstrictor and nasal decongestant; 3-(1-hydroxy-2-methylamino-ethyl)phenol, with the formula C₉H₁₃NO₂.


minarchism

minarchism (countable and uncountable, plural minarchisms)

1971, coined by Samuel Edward Konkin III. Blend of minimum + -archy (“government”) + -ism (“system”) (alternatively, minimal).

blend

Belief in the desirability and practicality of minimum government.

minarkisme

government with the least necessary power over its citizens


Rosanne

Blend of Rose + Anne, possibly also inspired by Roxanne.


benchmarketing

In both senses, blend of benchmark + marketing; but the two appear to have formed independently.

(business) The imitation of an aspect of another business where it is seen to excel, such as in supply-chain management or customer service.


adlayer

(physical chemistry) An adsorbed layer; in surface chemistry, a layer that is chemically interacting with the substrate.


sensorimotor

(biology) Of or pertaining to both sensory and motor activity

senzomotorický

of or pertaining to both sensory and motor activity


fludarabine

(pharmacology) An antineoplastic agent that is an analog of vidarabine and is administered intravenously in the form of its phosphate C₁₀H₁₃FN₅O₇P especially in the treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukemia.


multicast

The result is a new multicast delegate that invokes both of the original implementing methods.

2005, Jesse Liberty, Programming C#: Building .NET Applications with C#:

(programming, of a delegate) Having multiple targets, such that a call to the delegate triggers a call to each target.


huboon

I'm a huboon, baby, I'm a cross between a human and an ape

She's got all the huboons crying her name

Your first giddy reaction would be to wonder whether the patient, if he survived at all, would still be human being, [sic] or rather a baboon, or perhaps an entirely new hybrid species, no doubt to be called a "huboon."

1994, Joseph S. Berliner, “Transformation as Transplanation”, in A World Fit For People, page 88:

2004, "Mr. X", Shout It Out, Club Devo https://web.archive.org/web/20080705113221/http://www.clubdevo.com/mp/shout.html
Everything that 'makes the world go round', or 'progress with a price tag' as the huboons say on their way to work

A human-baboon hybrid; an ape-like person.


doga

Ms. Bryan, the author in Seattle, said: “It’s a new field so there can be confusion about what doga is and isn’t.”

2009 April 9, Bethany Lyttle, “Bonding With Their Downward-Facing Humans”, in New York Times:


webtop

Web services are on the rise, favoring the "webtop" over the desktop in much new development.

2007, Paul J. Deitel, C++ How to Program, page 34:

(computing) Integration of desktop office-productivity applications with Web-based information and application delivery.


birl

en-verb

birl (third-person singular simple present birls, present participle birling, simple past and past participle birled)

birls (present singular third-person)
birling (participle present)
birled (participle past)
birled (past)

About nine in the morning, in a burst of wintry sun between two squalls of hail, I had my first look of Holland - a line of windmills birling in the breeze.

1893, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter XXII, in Catriona, Helvoetsluys:

1906, Neil Munro, The Vital Spark, reprinted in 1958, Para Handy Tales,
"I'll maybe no trouble you long, boys," he moaned lugubriously. "My heid's birling roond that fast that I canna even mind my own name two meenutes."

(transitive, intransitive, Scotland) To spin.


mimivirus

Blend of microbe + mimicking + virus. From the genus name translingual Mimivirus

A virus, of the genus Mimivirus, associated with some amoebas; it has a very large capsid and complex genome


snausage

A variant of the more usual sausage, from Snausages (“a brand of dog treat”), perhaps a blend of snack + sausage.

nutella! oh, the memories ;) one time i was just too fucking lazy to smear it on, so i made dominick <my ex> dip his snausage into the jar, and i think i gained 2 or 3 pounds that night.

1996 May 22, “Sabine the Diva Chick”, “nutella!”, in alt.fan.aimee-lortskel (Usenet):

And there's Peeper Geoffie hiding in the bushes, peering through windows, rubbing his snausage against his little yellow raincoat.

1999 December 13, “J.R. Dean”, “Geoff Miller's Guilty Conscience?”, in scruz.general (Usenet):

Who is in charge, Kerry or his snausage? If he cannot master his groin, then he ain't worth a shit.

2004 February 12, “Venger”, “Re: Rumor leads to Kerry's pants!!”, in alt.sports.football.pro.dallas-cowboys (Usenet):


obnosis

Coined by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, apparently as a blend of observe + gnosis.

coined

Here you will find the Instructor's Code, Obnosis and the Tone Scale and one of the best descriptions of Assist processing ever published.

1958, Ability, Hubbard Association of Scientologists, International, page 12

Obnosis (observing the obvious) must be used at every moment to determine the best next step with any student.

1970, B. Robert Ross, A Parent's Guide to the Teaching of Reading: A Compilation of Old and New Methods of Teaching and a New View of the Reading Process: Upstat Pub. Co.

Hubbard created Scientology's language to be unique to its members. It includes words that are interpretations, or variations, of standard terms: "isness," for example, which Scientology's glossaries say, in essence, means "reality." But there are also words that are wholly made up, such as "obnosis," which means "observation of the obvious."

[2006 February 23, Janet Reitman, “Inside Scientology: Unlocking the complex code of America's most mysterious religion”, in Rolling Stone:


transpressionism

Blend of trans- + impressionism, coined by Guity Novin in the 1990s.

(neologism, art) A movement in art characterized by its emphasis on the role of observer in interpreting the artist's representation of collective memories of man which are manifested in myths and legends.


creamsicle

Blend of cream + popsicle, originally a trademark of Unilever.

A flavored popsicle with an ice cream core.

Any of various sweet and creamy mixed drinks.


pykrete

Finnish: pykriitti

Blend of Pyke + concrete, Named after British inventor Geoffrey Pyke.

named-after

A solid substance made of water ice and sawdust, stronger than pure ice. Originally to be used in combination with a refrigeration system as hull material for warships. Used as a building material for ice buildings (such as winter ice hotels) and ice sculptures, usually without the originally envisioned embedded refrigeration systems.


Republicrat

This hybrid voting behavior may be called "Republicrat", and obviously it must depress Republicanism in Southern congressional, state, and local politics.

1966, Allan P. Sindler, Political Parties in the United States, page 70:

(US politics, derogatory) A United States politician who is a member of one of the two major political parties (Democrat and Republican), but frequently votes with the other party.


jargonaut

Only a generation ago, some academic jargonaut coined prioritize, meaning “give priority to” or “rank in order of importance,” and stiffs like me ran to the ramparts to denounce it as ugly, bureaucratic and unnecessary.

2006 September 24, William Safire, “On Language: Pretexting”, in New York Times, retrieved 2012-11-20:

Someone who uses jargon, especially to an excessive degree.


malaphor

Blend of malapropism + metaphor; attributed to Lawrence Harrison in the Washington Post article "Searching for Malaphors" (Aug. 6, 1976).

Coordinate term: mixed metaphor

What I conclude from this admittedly narrow data base is that, while the malaphor flourishes in bureaucratic compost, it will grow just about anywhere. The following malaphors are my pick of the letters. They were uttered in the home, on the farm, in the street.

1977, Benefit Payments Report, California Dept. of Benefit Payments, Health and Welfare Agency, →OCLC, page 5:

Among Swift's favorite malaphors are "He's a ragged individualist"; "I was up at the crank of dawn"; and "He's a fly in the oatmeal."

2012, George Michael Killenberg, Public Affairs Reporting Now: News of, by and for the People, Taylor & Francis:

(rare) An idiom blend: an error in which two similar figures of speech are merged, producing an often nonsensical result.


algeny

Coined by American molecular biologist Joshua Lederberg in 1966, a blend of alchemy + gene.

coined

Algeny will eradicate infirmities and deformities of all kinds.

2000, J. R. Aldergrove, Why We Are Not Obsolete Yet: Genetics, Algeny, and the Future, section 5:

Any of, and all of, those activities which depend on the handling of genetic material.


gengineer

(informal) A person skilled at gengineering


foodprint

My carbon foodprint is relatively small as I live a locavore’s diet.

The environmental impact, or footprint, of food, including the amount of land required to sustain a diet, the amount of carbon dioxide produced, if the food is organic, and if it is local.


marmalize

en-verb

marmalize (third-person singular simple present marmalizes, present participle marmalizing, simple past and past participle marmalized)

marmalizes (present singular third-person)
marmalizing (participle present)
marmalized (participle past)
marmalized (past)

Thought to be a humorous Blend of marmalade + pulverize

(informal, British) To defeat decisively; trounce.


wellderly

the welderly

hiking vacations for the welderly

en:old people, collectively, who are in good health

(with definite article, collective) Old people who are in good health: healthy senior citizens.


illderly

the illderly

at-home nursing care for the illderly

en:old people, collectively, who are in poor health

(with definite article, collective) Old people who are in poor health: unhealthy senior citizens.


Blissymbols

In the 1970s, disabled people who couldn't write or speak—such as those with cerebral palsy—used Blissymbols to communicate by point to the drawings on a large board. It was time-consuming and required a person who knew Blissymbols to help translate.

2020, Carla Sinclair, Girl Genius, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 139:

A constructed language using ideographs invented by Charles K. Bliss after the Second World War.


washeteria

Blend of wash + cafeteria. The trademark Wash-a-teria was prominent in the U.S. South during the 1930s.


rurban

1915, Charles J. Galpin, Rural Life, New York: The Century Company:

The rurban community offers greater possibilities of social stratification than does the open country community.

1926, John M. Gillette, “Community Concepts”, in Social Forces, volume 4, number 4, page 686:

There exists what has come to be called the "rurban fringe," an area occupied by tar paper shacks and stately estates, large commercial farms and one-acre part-time farms, golf courses and cemeteries, airports and obnoxious industries.

1946, Walter Firey, “Ecological Considerations in Planning for Rurban Fringes”, in American Sociological Review, volume 11, number 4, page 413:

In the lands of the Indian Ocean ‘agrarian cities’ and ‘rurban’ settlements of all sizes were the general rule throughout the medieval period.

2002, Andre Wink, “From the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean: Medieval History in Geographic Perspective”, in Comparative Studies in Society and History, volume 44, number 3, page 428:

Of or pertaining to a location which has both urban and rural characteristics.

rurbain

of a location which has both urban and rural characteristics


minimax

minimax (third-person singular simple present minimaxes, present participle minimaxing, simple past and past participle minimaxed)

minimaxes (present singular third-person)
minimaxing (participle present)
minimaxed (participle past)
minimaxed (past)

To find the optimum play, or decision, to achieve minimizing the maximum loss.


maximin

maximin (third-person singular simple present maximins, present participle maximinning or maximining, simple past and past participle maximinned or maximined)

maximins (present singular third-person)
maximinning (participle present)
maximining (participle present)
maximinned (participle past)
maximinned (past)
maximined (participle past)
maximined (past)


vegeburger

/ˈvɛd͡ʒiːˌbɜː(ɹ)ɡə(ɹ)/

Blend of vegetable + burger, vegetarian + burger, or alteration of veggie burger.

Here the little girl eats a "vege-burger" and her sister drinks pomegranate juice, one of favorites at snack bar

1950 June 24, “Camp Parley of Methodist Group Slated”, in Los Angeles Times:

1 serving Vegeburger Loaf with non-fat mushroom gravy

1951, E. Virginia Dobbin, The low fat, low cholesterol diet: what to eat and how to prepare it, page 346:

(UK) Alternative spelling of veggie burger


Czenglish

The poor English spoken or written by some Czechs.


sensel

Blend of sensor + cell or sensor and element, by analogy to pixel

charge-coupled device
charge-coupled device

A single sensor element of an array of sensors, such as in a charge-coupled device.


flexagon

(geometry) A flat model made from folded strips of paper that can be folded, or flexed, to reveal a number of hidden faces.

флексаго́н

a flat model made from folded strips of paper


fandub

The fandub Evangelion: ReDeath is shown every year at Fanime.

(US, anime) An anime title that has been dubbed by fans.


hydricity

But the impact of the hydricity economy goes beyond transportation.

2005, Andrew Heintzman, Evan Solomon, Fueling the Future: How the Battle Over Energy is Changing Everything, →ISBN:

The figures indicate a slight fall-off in the hydricity growth rate over the next several decades.

2008, DAvid Sanborn Scott, Smelling Land: The Hydrogen Defense Against Climate Catastrophe:

The combined use of hydrogen and electricity as a power source

DuBois and coworkers carried out extensive studies of the thermodynamic hydricity of metal hydrides (3.2); in many cases the metal product resulting following hydride transfer will bind a CH3CN ligand (not shown in 3.2), so comparisons of hydricity will be solvent-dependent.

2011, R. Morris Bullock, Catalysis without Precious Metals:

The hydricity concept applies to the interaction of M-H bonds with CO₂ as well.

2015, Michele Aresta, Angela Dibenedetto, Eugenio Quaranta, Reaction Mechanisms in Carbon Dioxide Conversion, →ISBN, page 87:

(chemistry) The tendency in a transition metal hydride for an H⁻ ion to transfer to a substrate


breasticle

She stumbled out of her bra and panties and stood naked, hugging her elbows, while Gerard surveyed her, frowning up and down her body, biting the flesh on the ball of his thumb. She waited for him to notice her lopsided breasticles but he stayed quiet about them, a real gentleman.

1997, Erika Ellis, Good Fences, Random House, →ISBN, page 134:

Toby changes tactics and now attempts to reach my clenched armpits (my tickliest bits), but mistakenly squeezes my left breasticle instead! We both freeze up and instantly want to die. Breasticles are entirely new to this game; one day I was happily flat chested and the next day I had these pointy things.

2006, Amber Deckers, Ella Mental: And the Good Sense Guide, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, pages 39–40:


circumstantiate

circumstantiate (third-person singular simple present circumstantiates, present participle circumstantiating, simple past and past participle circumstantiated)

circumstantiates (present singular third-person)
circumstantiating (participle present)
circumstantiated (participle past)
circumstantiated (past)

Neither will time permit to circumstantiate these particulars, which I have only touched in the general.

To describe, verify or prove by setting out circumstantial evidence


finickity

en-adj

finickity (comparative more finickity, superlative most finickity)

more finickity (comparative)
most finickity (superlative)

Possibly a blend of finicky + pernickety

It's great when you've taken the time to have persuade someone to explain to you the ludicrously finickity way it wants a particular command typing in. Very powerful, but not for end-users.

1993 October 7, David Covey, “Re: unix is user-friendly”, in comp.unix.user-friendly (Usenet), retrieved 2008-09-21:

We see, then, that some systems can be unreasonably finickity about the use one may make of assumptions for the sake of argument, especially with a rule like the rule of conditional proof.

1997, Neil Tennant, The Taming of the True, →ISBN, page 327:

Q62 Mr Bercow: But £86 million is very precise. It is not £85 million, it is not £90 milllion; it is £86 million. […] I am sorry if you think I am being finickity; I am being very finickity about it but I believe rightly.

2005, House of Commons International Development Committee, Parliament of Great Britain, Development assistance in Iraq: Interim Report : Seventh Report of Session 2004-05, →ISBN, page 9:

I got most of the money to pay for all this by stealing. It was very wrong. Today I'm so finickity that I fired one of my staff for nicking twenty-pence worth of curtain hangers from Barkers because he couldn't be bothered to wait at the till queue.

2005, Michael Winner, Winner Takes All, →ISBN, page 11:

(usually said of a person) Fastidious and fussy; difficult to please; exacting, especially about details; meticulous and particular.


vegelate

France and Belgium led the drive for British chocolate to be renamed 'vegelate' before it could be sold abroad, but they lost that battle. Now an updated EU chocolate directive obliges all EU countries to accept all chocolate[…]

2005, John MacDonald, Andrew Bowden, Dare We Trust Them?: A New Vision for Europe, page 151:

(rare, derogatory) Chocolate containing vegetable fat (not a permitted ingredient in parts of the European Union).


acupoint

Blend of acupuncture + point. By surface analysis, acu- + point.

An important aspect of the "barefoot doctors" treatment is G-Jo. G-Jo rests on the same philosophy as acupuncture, acupressure, Shiatsu and the other acupoint stimulation therapies.

1979, George J. Feiss, Mind Therapies, Body Therapies, page 59:

alternative medicine
alternative medicine

(alternative medicine) A specific point on the body where acupuncture or acupressure is applied.

穴位

a specific point on the body where acupuncture is applied


pegan

A person who practices peganism, a variant of the vegan diet and paleo diet, with organic, unprocessed foods.


pegan

pegan (comparative more pegan, superlative most pegan)

more pegan (comparative)
most pegan (superlative)

Pertaining to peganism, the variant of the vegan diet and paleo diet, with organic, unprocessed foods.


moxibustion

en-noun

moxibustion (countable and uncountable, plural moxibustions)

Blend of moxa (“mugwort”) + combustion (“burning”), literally "burning of mugwort", with the connecting -i- usual in Latinate vocabulary.

blend

Traditional Chinese medicine includes herbal remedy, diet therapy, use of animal secretion and organs, acupuncture, massage, moxibustion (the application of a burning moxa plant to skin), and other folk methods.

1998, Lin Zhan, edited by Lin Zhan, Asian Voices: Asian and Asian-American Health Educators Speak Out, Jones and Bartlett Publishers, →ISBN, Xi Young Hong: Health Practice in Chinese Older Women, page 36:

(folk medicine) The burning of moxa against the skin to treat pain or illness.


Tex-Mex

Written first and foremost for the sensibility of the Latina in the US, Cuentos is bilingual and bicultural. Some of the stories appear in Spanish, others in English; most are written in Spanglish and Tex-Mex.

1984 April 14, Stephanie Poggi, “Mujeres en Lucha”, in Gay Community News, page 10:

An English-influenced dialect of Spanish spoken on both sides of the Mexico-United States border..


xylorimba

(music) A pitched percussion instrument corresponding to a xylophone with an extended range.


Technicolor

Blend of technology + color. A trademark (1916), in reference to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where two of its three developers met.

A colour process for motion pictures, developed and used in the twentieth century and known for its hyperrealistic, saturated levels of colour.


adipokine

(biochemistry) Any of several cytokines secreted by adipose tissue.

adipokin

any of several cytokines secreted by adipose tissue


citrangequat

/ˈsɪtɹənd͡ʒˌkwɑːt/

Blend of citrange + kumquat — since citrange is itself a blend of citrus and orange, this is a triple blend.

A trigenic hybrid cross of two types of orange and a kumquat (Citrus × georgiana).


conjugase

pteroylglutamic acid
pteroylglutamic acid

(biochemistry) Any of a group of enzymes that promote the hydrolysis of folic acid conjugates and the production of glutamic acid and pteroylglutamic acid


cheese slaw

Blend of cheese + coleslaw, or simply cheese + slaw.

A salad made of grated cheese, grated carrot and a mayonnaise dressing.


citrange

Citrus × insitorum, a hybrid of the sweet orange and the trifoliate orange.


knork

A piece of cutlery in the form of a fork with a sharpened outer tine, enabling it also to be used as a knife.


nutriceutical

en-adj

nutriceutical (comparative more nutriceutical, superlative most nutriceutical)

more nutriceutical (comparative)
most nutriceutical (superlative)

The team, along with consulting pharmacists and nutriceutical formulators, have developed, through a series of trials with actual medicinal marijuana patients, a way for anyone, anywhere, to make their own THC capsules.

Both nutritionally and pharmaceutically beneficial.


thiazide

/ˈθʌɪ.əz.ʌɪd/

From thio- + azine + oxide, or blend of (benzo)thia(di)azine + dioxide.

(pharmacology) Any of a class of sulfur-containing drugs that increase the excretion of sodium and chloride and are used as diuretics and to assist in lowering the blood pressure.


typosquatting

It's a technique, a sort of "typosquatting," that Maly has used repeatedly. A Web site called "Jobonline.cz" was registered last March and two months later Maly bought jobsonline.cz.

2000 April 4, ICB Toll Free News, “TYPO-SQUATTING IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC”, in Toll Free 800, Domain Name, and ENUM Industry News and Information, archived from the original on 2004-01-17:

The decline in traditional, direct cybersquatting was accompanied by a rise in a form of indirect cybersquatting known as typosquatting. A typosquatter attempts to cash in on the traffic generated by high-volume Web sites.

2014, Aaron Schwabach, Internet and the Law: Technology, Society, and Compromises, 2nd edition, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 59:

(Internet) A form of cybersquatting that involves the registration of domain names likely to be mistyped by users.

typosquattage

registration of names likely to be mistyped by users


blogroll

Blend of blog + logroll, or as back-formation from blogrolling.

(Internet) A blogger's list of hyperlinks to other blogs that he/she recommends.


migradollar

(US, economics) A dollar sent home by a foreign migrant worker, especially to Mexico.


longline

(fishing) gear consisting of a long and thick mainline, with baited hooks attached at intervals by means of branch lines called snoods (or gangions)

palangre

very long fishing line with multiple hooks


dygogram

Blend of dynamic + goniometric + diagram

blend

(nautical) A chart showing the horizontal variation in the magnetic force acting on a ship's compass needle by the iron within the ship, as a function of course steered


opinionnaire

For quotations using this term, see Citations:opinionnaire.

A form containing a list of statements, each of which the members of a selected group are asked to endorse or reject; the purpose being to gather information for a survey.


compansion

en-noun

compansion (countable and uncountable, plural compansions)


compandor

(electronics) Any device used in companding


companding

companding (usually uncountable, plural compandings)

(electronics) A process in which noise in a signal is reduced by selective compression and expansion


neutropenia

neutropenia (countable and uncountable, plural neutropenias)

A hematological disorder characterized by an abnormally low neutrophil count.


anamonic

Blend of anagram + mnemonic; coined by Scrabble player Bob Lipton.

For example, the DAMOSEL stem only appears in the second of the two Internet lists mentioned above. The given anamonic is PRIZED GALS.

2004, Andrew Fisher, David Webb, The Art of Scrabble:

A mnemonic used for recalling lists of words, particularly in Scrabble, consisting of a "stem" of base letters and an accompanying phrase, each of whose letters can combine with the stem to form an anagram of a word.


shotcrete

shotcrete (countable and uncountable, plural shotcretes)

concrete conveyed through a hose and pneumatically projected at high velocity onto a surface


angulaperturate

Acicarpha, Calycera, and Nastanthus have angulaperturate grains.

1952, Gunnar Erdtman, Pollen Morphology and Plant Taxonomy, published 1986, →ISBN, page 90:

(palynology) Having apertures at the corners of an angular amb

anguloaperturado

having apertures at the corners of an angular amb


coltan

Coltan is used for the production of tantalum capacitors.

[…] as of 2003 over one billion cell phones were in use worldwide, so by the time the high-tech bubble approached its bursting point in 2000 and 2001, coltan had become an extremely hot commodity.

2007, Elizabeth Grossman, High Tech Trash, Island Press, →ISBN, page 46:

Consider your mobile phone. Before it was assembled in a Chinese factory, the coltan in its capacitors may have been dug by miners in the Eastern Congo, where millions have died in a series of wars over ‘conflict minerals’, though we give this no more thought than previous generations of Westerners gave to the Congolese origins of the ivory in their piano keys, the rubber in their tyres, the copper in their bullet casings or the uranium in their bombs.

2014, Adam Schatz, ‘Ça va un peu’, London Review of Books, volume 36, number 20:

(mineralogy) A metallic ore, (Fe,Mn)(Ta,Nb)₂O₆, from which the elements niobium and tantalum are extracted.


whimperative

Blend of whimper + imperative. Coined by Jerrold Sadock in a 1970 essay.

Since whimperatives look like questions, the lowest hypersentence must be interrogative.

1970, Jerrold Sadock, “Whimperatives”, in Studies Presented to Robert B. Lees by His Students, page 235:

We see this in the way that whimperatives use pro forma openings like Can you rather than other wordings with the same meaning, such as Are you capable of passing the salt?

2007, Stephen Pinker, The Stuff of Thought, →ISBN, page 388:

(pragmatics) An order or imperative phrased obliquely as a question, such as "would you mind closing the window?"


bandstration

bandstration (countable and uncountable, plural bandstrations)

(countable) a composition that has been bandstrated


glutaric

Of or pertaining to glutaric acid or its derivatives


framily

Often, these groups would include at least one gay character who would be depicted sympathetically, if usually as desexualised. Movies focused specifically on gay/queer framilies produced.

2007, Glyn Davis, Queer as folk, page 60:

(slang) A group of friends who are close like a family.


Obamanomics

Blend of Obama + economics, equivalent to Obama + -nomics. See Related terms below.

(US politics, economics, neologism) The economic policies of Barack Obama.


sockpuppetry

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

From sock puppet + -ry, under influence from puppetry.

The facelessness of the internet makes sockpuppetry all too tempting for many.

2007, Jonathon Keats, Control + Alt + Delete: A Dictionary of Cyberslang:

On the Internet, the new form of false identities is termed sock puppetry... the term came to be applied to people who would assume a false identity and then join an Internet group. The term has been extended to include people who use false identities on the Internet in order to deceive others.

2014, Timothy R. Levine, Encyclopedia of Deception, Vol. II, s.v. Sockpuppetry

The use of sock puppets, especially (Internet, derogatory) the use of pseudonymous online accounts for abuse.


Nixonomics

Blend of Nixon + economics, equivalent to Nixon + -nomics. Coined in a speech of the same title by Walter Heller in October 1969. This is believed to be the first such term coined by blending a president's surname with the word "economics." http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E0CEEDB153AF932A35752C1A964958260 Similar blends have been used to describe the economic policies of all subsequent US presidents, though Fordonomics is rare.

Senators William Proxmire and Hubert Humphrey, among others, hinted that the new Nixonomics may be due for some design changes when it reaches the Senate.

1971 September 6, “Nixon's Freeze and the Mood of Labor”, in Time Magazine, archived from the original on 2008-12-21:

(US politics) The economic policies of the Richard Nixon administration, 1969-1974.


perzine

Disgruntled housewife is a perzine in Web format.

2002, Johan Fornäs, Digital borderlands:

This is not to say that the only zines that matter are perzines. In general, the zine seems more interested in the lived relationship of the individual zine writer to the world.

2009, John D. H. Downing, Encyclopedia of Social Movement Media, page 566:

A personal zine, one that deals with issues directly related to its author.


Clintonomics

Blend of Clinton + economics, equivalent to Clinton + -nomics.

But I am not yet persuaded that Clintonomics will make much of a dent in the persistent problems of unemployment in the U.S. economy.

1992 December 6, David M. Gordon, “Clinton May Fall Short on Easing Unemployment”, in Los Angeles Times, archived from the original on 2013-06-30, page D2:

(US politics) The economic policies associated with the administration of William Jefferson Clinton, 1993–2001.


Carternomics

Blend of Carter + economics, equivalent to Carter + -nomics.

Carternomics stimulates the economy to reduce unemployment and help the "old" poor, while it causes runaway inflation that creates legions of the new poor.

1978 June 1, William Safire, “The New Poor”, in The New York Times:

Mr. Bush's return to Carternomics killed the Reagan boom, resulting in higher unemployment, lower incomes and higher deficits.

1993 October 31, “Taxing the patience in Jersey election”, in The Washington Times:

(US politics, often pejorative) Economic policies associated with the administration of Jimmy Carter, 1977-1981.


Bushonomics

Blend of Bush + economics, equivalent to Bush + -o- + -nomics.

Ross Perot's advisers suggest he may push a much bolder plan, investing hundreds of billions in infrastructure; but until he delivers, Clinton clearly occupies the high ground against Bushonomics.

1992 July 8, David Gergen, “Democrats' 'Comeback Kid' Revels in Latest Returns”, in Rocky Mountain News:

(US politics) The economic policies associated with the presidency of George Herbert Walker Bush, 1989–1993.

According to the Democratic nominee, Bushonomics would "squander" the surplus.

2000 August 18, Richard S. Dunham, “Battlin' Al Comes Out Swinging”, in Business Week:

(US politics) The economic policies associated with the presidency of George W. Bush, 2001–2009.


McCainiac

And, as Bush learned painfully, there are plenty of McCainiacs in pivotal Michigan.

2000 March 2, “After Primaries, Focus Turns to the Vice Presidential Slot”, in Philadelphia Inquirer, page A1:

The McCainiacs are warning John McCain's conservative opponents that unless they stop criticizing their candidate immediately, he'll never recover in time for the general election.

2008 February 18, David Limbaugh, “Grassroots hurdle?”, in Washington Times:

(US politics, informal) An ardent follower or supporter of John McCain in his campaigns for the presidency in 2000 and 2008.


snowbilly

The "damnyankees" can't agree with the Georgia Crackers, and they won't have any truck with the "snowbillies" or the Eskimos.

1959, Ernest H. Groth, Official Proceedings of the National Ice Association, page 76:

I'm just a bowlegged snowbilly from Canada.

1994 March 18, Leslie Nielsen, quotee, “Nielsen Is a Closet Comedian Come to Life”, in Lexington Herald-Leader:

Wonkette describes Sarah Palin as a “doomed loser snowbilly.”

2008 November 4, “Our Morning Roundup: Election Edition”, in Washington City Paper:

(derogatory, slang) A person from rural areas of northern North America. Is used to mainly describe rural white Canadians, Alaskans or Upper Midwesterners, where the temperatures in the winter dip below freezing.


navaid

instrument landing system
instrument landing system

Any form of aid to navigation, particularly applying to shipping and aviation. Examples: lighthouse, or ILS (instrument landing system)


zircophyllite

(mineralogy) A complex mineral with the chemical formula (K,Na)₃(Mn,Fe)₇(Zr,Ti,Nb)₂Si₈O₂₄(OH,F)₇.


barse

From Middle English bars, from Old English bærs (“a fish, perch”), from Proto-West Germanic *bars, from Proto-Germanic *barsaz (“perch”, literally “prickly”). Cognate with Dutch baars (“perch, bass”), German Barsch (“perch”). More at bass (“fish”).

inh

The perch; any of various marine and freshwater fish resembling the perch.


barse

So the prospects for this were pretty bad, and truly the most exciting thing I got out of watching this was feeling a pool of cold sweat collect in the hairy part of my barse, so livid was I with the treatment of Hooper's original classic.

2000 March 13, death_hammer [username], “texas chainsaw 4”, in alt.horror (Usenet):

The padding is also way too thin and I'm constantly aware of the pressure on my barse (I think perinium^([sic]) is the correct term) - something I don't have with my other shorts or tights.

2002 September 5, bomba, “SR: Shorts Review”, in alt.mountain-bike (Usenet):

Going to be a cruiser style one me thinks, low seat making it easy to swing my leg over, laid back riding position, bit wide seat for my arse cheeks to sit on, rather than my barse being perched on a plank seat,

2012 March 28, Gazz, “After a mid size cruiser”, in uk.rec.motorcycles (Usenet):

(UK, vulgar, slang) The perineum of a man.


Cheaster

Up to that point, we were Methodist Cheasters, as Martin called us. Went to a protestant church only on Christmas and Easter. We had a general faith in a Greater Being, but not much attention was paid to spiritual matters.

2016, Ted Haynie, Ted's Shorts: One Man's Thoughts, page 310:

(slang) A person who attends religious services only twice a year, at Christmas and Easter.


awkweird

Nanny was buttockicized (& that the word is awkWEIRD and ungainly is no accident) because she was black & therefore how could she possibly be a leader […]

a. 1994, Kamau Brathwaite, “Nanny, Palmares and the Caribbean Maroon Connexion”, quoted in Jeanne Christensen, “A Language of Myth”, chapter 5 of Annie Paul (editor), Caribbean Culture: Soundings on Kamau Brathwaite, University of the West Indies Press (2007), page 119

Maybe I'm playing the wrong games, or maybe it's because I've become so use^([sic]) to TADS that anything else seems 'awkweird'.

2001 August 19, “TheCycoONE”, “Re: Help the AIF community!”, in rec.arts.int-fiction (Usenet):

Sure, Seneca 10s will probably feel stiffer than Jacks Canyon 10s but those are apples and orangutans. Old 8s and 9s can be plain old awkweird and hard, respectively.

2005 September 26, “Mad Dog”, “Re: My big day”, in rec.climbing (Usenet):


gussy

en-verb

gussy (third-person singular simple present gussies, present participle gussying, simple past and past participle gussied)

gussies (present singular third-person)
gussying (participle present)
gussied (participle past)
gussied (past)

1952, apparently from Gussy (adjective), schoolyard slang for “overly dressed” (1940); perhaps related to gussie (“effeminate man”) (1901) and somehow connected to Gussie, the nickname for Augusta and Augustus.

(chiefly US) To dress up or decorate in a showy way.


kinderwhore

en-noun

kinderwhore (countable and uncountable, plural kinderwhores)

It allows for baby-doll dresses and kinderwhore fashions, for chunky high-heeled Mary Janes from Prada and solid-silver pacifier pendants […]

1998, Elizabeth Wurtzel, Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women:

(fashion, uncountable) A feminine fashion aesthetic that emerged with grunge rock in the early 1990s, contrasting the childlike quality of baby-doll dresses, Peter Pan collars, etc. with heavy (and possibly smudged) make-up characteristic of adult decadence.

In much the same way as that in which Punk disrupted conventional notions of female beauty the 'kinderwhore' disrupts traditional or ideological versions […]

2002, Malcolm Barnard, Fashion as Communication:

(possibly offensive, countable) A follower of this style.


skyrmion

Blend of Skyrme + fermion, after British physicist Tony Skyrme (1922–1987), who proposed the mathematical structure as a model of the nucleon in 1961.

No conclusive results are available yet; the hope is that the skyrmion would be stabilized at R#x5C;approx#x5C;lambda#x5F;c, where the gradient expansion breaks down and yet the skyrmion may still carry the quark quantum numbers.

1985, William A. Bardeen, Alan R. White, editors, Symposium on Anomalies, Geometry, Topology, World Scientific, page 502:

The properties of nuclear matter at high densities have been investigated in many ways. Castillejo et al. studied Skyrmion matter by placing SU(2) hedgehog Skyrmions on a lattice and show that the deconfinement phase transition and the chiral symmetry restoration occur above a critical density [11].

1998, Physics Letters: B., Volume 430, Part 2, North-Holland Publishing Company, page 169:

(physics, solid state physics, string theory) Any of a particular class of topological soliton that can be used to model certain properties of a nucleon.

solid state physics; string theory; solid state physics; string theory

(physics, solid state physics) A type of topological soliton that occurs in magnetic materials and magnetic thin films.


mesendoderm

(embryology) An embryonic tissue layer which differentiates into mesoderm and endoderm


splendiloquent

en-adj

splendiloquent (comparative more splendiloquent, superlative most splendiloquent)

more splendiloquent (comparative)
most splendiloquent (superlative)

Blend of splendid + eloquent, probably modelled after grandiloquent and magniloquent. First attested in 1848.

Aid me now and forever Ye Juxtapositional Muses!
And especially Tusa, splendiloquent Dinneen!
hero of the fortuitous, commander of the unlikely,
first citizen of the joyous lexical state!

a. 1971, Sydney Bernard Smith, “Invocation”, in The Book of Shannow, Lulu.com, published 2007, →ISBN, page 10:

Tirelessly swimming through de Quincy’s ‘department of impassioned prose,’ either in splendiloquent support of some new work or in dismissal of its shortcomings, is vouchsafed to few reviewers.

2006, Nigel J. Jamieson, “The Ubiquitous Book Review”, in Law & Critique, volume 17, number 2, page 218:


odderon

(physics) The hypothetical counterpart of the pomeron, carrying odd charge parity.


computerate

computerate (comparative more computerate, superlative most computerate)

more computerate (comparative)
most computerate (superlative)


comsymp

Coined by American businessman and political organizer Robert Welch from a blend of Communist + sympathizer.

coinage

Personally, I think he's a comsymp. Or close. That's why I never had much enthusiasm for being on it, great as you all seem to think it is.

1965, Niven Busch, The Gentleman from California:

The guard said he wouldn't be surprised to find out that the longhaired comsymp pervos had done it by putting something into the water.

1990, Stephen King, The Stand: The Complete and Uncut Edition:

[L]iberals were committed[…] to convincing America that Democrats were now modern and pragmatic, not wasteful bleeding-heart suckers or childish protesters or comsymp fools.

2020 August 7, Kurt Andersen, “College-Educated Professionals Are Capitalism’s Useful Idiots”, in The Atlantic:

(slang, derogatory) A Communist sympathizer; a liberal.


silcrete

en-noun

silcrete (countable and uncountable, plural silcretes)

An indurated duricrust formed when silica is dissolved and resolidifies as a cement.


slinch

(physics, informal) An English unit of mass equal to 12 slugs (386.088 pounds-mass), that accelerates by 1 inch per second squared (1 in/s²) when a force of one pound-force (lbf) is exerted on it.


translocase

(biochemistry) An enzyme that assists in moving another molecule, usually across a membrane

(biochemistry) historical term for the protein now called elongation factor G


tardyon

Blend of tardy + tachyon or tardy + -on.

One, our own, is the tardyon-universe, in which all particles go at subluminal velocities and may accelerate to nearly the speed of light.

1972, Isaac Asimov, Asimov's Guide to Science:

Just as brute force cannot make a tachyon out of a tardyon...

1988, Nick Herbert, Faster Than Light: Superluminal Loopholes in Physics:

(physics) Any particle with non-zero mass (i.e. one that travels more slowly than the speed of light).


netbook

Blend of net + notebook, a trademark registered by Psion.

2009 March 4, The net(book) effect, “Joe Brancatelli”, in NBC News:

As the line between traditional laptop computers and smartphones blurs and new ideas like netbooks arrive, business travelers face a new series of choices about what to carry on the road.

(computing) An economical notebook computer able to access the Internet.


glycogenesis

glycogenesis (countable and uncountable, plural glycogeneses)

Blend of glycogen + genesis, or glyco- + -genesis

(biochemistry) The biosynthesis of a sugar

(biochemistry) The synthesis of glycogen from glucose


Rastaman

But the most important aspect was that dreadlocks guaranteed a Rastaman was true to himself at all times...

2001, Lloyd Bradley, This is Reggae Music:

If I had known, really, what a Rastaman was, I would have thought this was no place for a Rastaman.

2004, Hank Bordowitz, Every Little Thing Gonna be Alright:


azipod

A trademark, from a blend of azimuth thruster + pod

(nautical) An azimuth thruster, an engine and ships' propeller in an underslung pod that is azimuth adjustable, to replace a fixed-azimuth propeller and rudder configuration.


greengrocery

From greengrocer + -y, alternatively blend of greengrocer + grocery.

Where greengrocery is concerned there is a distinction between the sale in the shops or in special greengrocery shops […]

1925, Theodor Cassau, J F Mills, The Consumers' Co-operative Movement in Germany:

(uncountable) The trade of a greengrocer.

When William was twenty-four and Emma was twenty-three, they were married and took over a greengrocery in Stratford.

2004, Patrick McGilligan, Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light:


calcein

(organic chemistry) A fluorescent dye, with chemical formula C₃₀H₂₆N₂O₁₃; related to fluorescein; used in some contexts as a calcium indicator


Churchianity

In October, 1789 (says Dr. Parr in the Sequel, p.99), when I preached for the Charity Schools at Birmingham, I earnestly recommended to the audience two admirable sermons which Dr. Priestley had written, &c. &c. / This commendation gave great offence; the name of the arch-heritic was poison to the orthodox ears of many of the congregation. One of them in the vestry, immediately after the sermon, ventured even to expostulate with the preacher; and to represent to him that the sermon recommended might he admirable and good Christian doctrine, but that the author was an enemy to the Church, and therefore ought never to be named within its sacred precincts. Parr heard him out, and then calmly replied, "Sir, you are the best vindicator of Churchianity I ever knew."

1789, Samuel Parr, edited by John Johnstone, The works of Samuel Parr, ...: With memoirs of his life and writings, and a selection from his correspondence, volume 1, published 1828, page 341:

Such religion is Churchianity; it is not Christianity. Christianity means the religion where Christ is all; Churchianity, the religion where the Church is all

1852, Edwin Paxton Hood, Lamps of the temple: shadows from the lights of the modern pulpit, page 329:

the sweet and ineffectual Jesus of American Protestant churchianity.

1971, Paul Carter, The Spiritual Crisis of the Gilded Age, page 69:

The Priest and Levite represent Churchly Movements, They represented Churchianity that is powerless to lift suffering humanity. What is wrong with the world today is that we have too much Churchianity and too little Christianity

2002, Charles Jenkins, Keeping Sane in a Crazy World, page 84:

(derogatory) Any practices of Christianity that place a larger emphasis on the habits of church life or the institutional traditions of the church than on theology and spiritual teachings of Jesus; the quality of being too church-focused.


alphamosaic

The two European systems use an "alphamosaic" method of delivering data to a viewdata terminal screen.

To create a teletext page using an alphamosaic scheme requires dividing the video frame […]

1986, Herbert S Dordick, Understanding Modern Telecommunications:

The French system Antiope is also alphamosaic by its nature […]

1987, Oldrich Standera, The Electronic Era of Publishing:


tweenybopper

Everyone likes Sugababes. Even those who are convinced that all tweenybopper bands were grown in test tubes in Dr Evil's pop dungeon have time for the Liverpool/London trio.

2003, Caroline Sullivan, Wanna be in our gang? (in The Guardian newspaper)

The High School Musical honey was spotted looking more beefcake than tweenybopper as he exited a gym at the Toluca Lake Tennis Club in LA.

2008, Sara Nelson, From scrawny schoolboy to beefcake: Teen star Zac Efron bulks up (in The Daily Mail newspaper)

(informal) The tween equivalent of a teenybopper; a pre-teen with teenybopper interests.


thoughtography

[…] thoughtography might be regarded merely as an unusual means of registration of a still-mysterious phenomenon […]

1974, Edgar D Mitchell, John Warren White, Psychic Exploration:

Can one discern a hard and fast line between the thoughtography of Ted Serios and old-fashioned spirit photography?

1982, Hilary Evans, Intrusions: Society and the Paranormal:

The supposed psychic ability of imprinting images onto film.


watsu

Overnight guests receive $5 off the whole-hour massage or watsu sessions.

2002, Nathaniel Altman, The Cheapskate's Guide to Spas:

A form of body massage performed on a subject lying in warm water.


Nibral

Nibral (usually uncountable, plural Nibrals)

A metal alloy made of nickel, bronze and aluminium, often used for underwater parts of ships and boats, such as propellors, stabilizers, and foils.


favicon

From the original filename used by Internet Explorer, "favicon.ico", a blend of favorites (“browser bookmarks”) + icon.

blend

The only way to restore a favicon is to delete the link from the Favorites folder and recreate it.

2000, PC Magazine, volume 19, numbers 19-20, page 127:

A free online favicon editor allows advanced webmasters to create their own favicons and use them during website development or maintenance.

2002, Ejub Kajan, Information technology encyclopedia and acronyms, page 195:

You, however, can do better by creating your own customized favicon for your Web site — just the thing you need to add that professional touch.

2006, Richard Wagner, Web Design Before & After Makeovers, page 206:

Make sure to create a favicon. Since the browser will request this file anyway, there's no reason to return a 404 Page Not Found error, especially if your 404 handler consumes a database connection or other expensive resources.

2009, Steve Souders, Even Faster Web Sites, page 158:

Favicons are those cute little icons that appear on your browser's address bar when you visit some sites.

2009, Manny Hernandez, Ning for Dummies, page 312:

You can stick with the favicon provided by your Web host.
Do not worry about pronouncing favicon correctly. There is no definitive pronunciation.

2010, Janet Majure, Teach Yourself Visually WordPress, page 132:

(web design) An icon associated with a particular website, and typically displayed in the address bar of a browser viewing the site.


precap

A preliminary summary of forthcoming events, especially at the start of a television programme, or before a commercial break.


freemium

en-noun

freemium (countable and uncountable, plural freemiums)

So the only thing left would be using freemium as a means of gaining trial, with the potential to up-sell to a paid subscription.

2015, Robbie Kellman Baxter, The Membership Economy: Find Your Super Users, Master the Forever Transaction, and Build Recurring Revenue, →ISBN, page 86:

(uncountable) A business model that relies on offering a free version and charging for a premium version.


snottite

Blend of snot (“mucus, especially nasal mucus”) + stalactite, possibly coined by James A. Pisarowicz in unpublished field notes of an exploration of the Villa Luz Cave in Tabasco, Mexico, in 1988.

blend

We worked our way past the gypsum bank to a small, snottite-laden room around a corner from it. A few days earlier, Martin and his crew had filmed Diana sampling a snottite here as she discussed the strangeness of multiple life forms adapting to such an extremely acidic microenvironment. The snottites held perhaps hundreds of strange microbial species wrapped in gypsum crystals, and also small spiders and gnats that ranged freely up and down them, appearing wholly unperturbed by the acid.

1999, Michael Ray Taylor, “April 18, 1998”, in Dark Life: Martian Nanobacteria, Rock-eating Cave Bugs, and Other Extreme Organisms of Inner Earth and Outer Space, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, →ISBN, pages 252–253:

[Page 14, column 1] This expedition also began investigating the acidity of drips from snottites in the cave. […] [Page 15, column 2] Inspection revealed that the "snottites" are communities of microbes similar to microbial mats commonly associated with sulfur-rich surface springs, but these colonies are suspended vertically.

1999 April, Louise D. Hose, James A. Pisarowicz, “Cueva de Villa Luz, Tabasco, Mexico: Reconnaissance Study of an Active Sulfur Spring Cave and Ecosystem”, in Louise D. Hose, editor, Journal of Cave and Karst Studies: The National Speleological Society Bulletin, volume 61, number 1, Huntsville, Ala.: National Speleological Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-03-02, pages 14 and 15:

Highly acidic (pH 0–1) biofilms, known as ‘snottites’, form on the walls and ceilings of hydrogen sulfide-rich caves. […] Snottites from the Frasassi cave system (Italy) are dominated (>70% of cells) by Acidithiobacillus thiooxidans, with smaller populations including an archaeon in the uncultivated ‘G-plasma’ clade of Thermoplasmatales (>15%) and a bacterium in the Acidimicrobiaceae family (>5%). […] Based on combined metagenomic, molecular and geochemical evidence, we suggest that Acidithiobacillus is the snottite architect and main primary producer, and that snottite morphology and distributions in the cave environment are directly related to the supply of C, N and energy substrates from the cave atmosphere.

2011 June 30, Daniel S. Jones [et al.], “Community Genomic Analysis of an Extremely Acidophilic Sulfur-oxidizing Biofilm”, in The ISME Journal: Multidisciplinary Journal of Microbial Ecology, volume 6, number 1, London: Nature Publishing Group, published January 2012, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-05-11, abstract, page 158:

(bacteriology) A colony of single-celled extremophilic bacteria that hangs in a sheet (having the consistency of snot or nasal mucus) from the ceilings of some caves like stalactites.

snottite

colony of bacteria that hangs in a sheet from the ceilings of some caves


Soundex

Basically, the Soundex algorithm converts each string into an alphanumeric code that begins with the first letter of the string.

2022, Wallace Wang, Beginning Programming All-in-One For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 439:

(information science) A phonetic algorithm for indexing names by their English pronunciation, based on the most probably significant consonants, so that a search for a misspelled name may find the desired one.


duloxetine

(pharmacology) A drug that functions as an SNRI and is administered orally in the form of its hydrochloride C₁₈H₁₉NOS·HCl especially to treat depression, anxiety, and chronic pain (such as that associated with fibromyalgia and peripheral neuropathy). It is marketed under the trademark Cymbalta.


telestrator

A device that allows its operator to draw a freehand sketch over a motion picture image.


tesseral

Blend of tessara + numeral, used in 1983 to describe such systems over various isohedral tilings of the plane.

(mathematics) Describing number systems, algebras, and algorithms over labeled hierarchical subdivisions of space.


flippy disk

(computing, dated) An 8-inch or 5.25-inch floppy diskette having storage capacity on both sides, and needing to be removed from the drive, flipped over and reinserted in order to access the other side.


oleamide

An endogenous amide of oleic acid that induces sleep in animals.


cyberchondriac

Blend of cyber- (prefix denoting cyberspace or the Internet, or computers more generally) + hypochondriac.

Doctors are on the alert for a new kind of victim: the cyberchondriac. With so much health information now on the Internet, thousands of people are using their computers to try to match symptoms with diseases.

1998 June 27, Roger Dobson, “Doctors warn the cybersick”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-07-08:

The growth of the Internet—arguably the fastest-growing new technology in history—has generated explosive growth of people who search the Web for healthcare information related to specific diseases. We call these people "cyberchondriacs." […] The diseases that generate the greatest use of the Web are depression (19 percent of cyberchondriacs), allergies or sinus (16 percent), cancer (15 percent), bipolar disorder (14 percent), arthritis or rheumatism (10 percent), high blood pressure (10 percent), migraine (9 percent), anxiety disorder (9 percent), heart disease (8 percent) and sleep disorders (8 percent).

1999 March 4, Louis Harris, “Harris survey: New breed of ‘cyberchondriacs’”, in John A. Jones, editor, Johnson City Press, volume 79, number 206, Johnson City, Tenn.: Sandusky Newspaper Group, →OCLC, page 4, columns 1–2:

Some doctors complain that they are being plagued by a new type of hypochondriac, dubbed the cyberchondriac, a condition in which patients arrive at the surgery armed with piles of information to try to prove that they have a certain illness. A quick internet search for information on back pain illustrates the problem. Search for the word 'backache' using the Excite search engine, for example, and you are presented with a list of 2643 sites.

2002, Steven B. Kayne, “Practice and Delivery of CAM [Complementary and Alternative Medicine]”, in Complementary Therapies for Pharmacists, London: Pharmceutical Press, →ISBN, part 1 (Introduction to CAM), pages 25–26:

Faced with the printout-wielding patient or ‘cyberchondriac’, it is tempting to take the view that the Internet is the spawn of the Devil. However, a better strategy may be to offer more reliable Internet sites for the patient to visit; […]

2006, Alan Gillies, “Informatics Can Empower Patients”, in The Clinician’s Guide to Surviving IT, Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Radcliffe Publishing, →ISBN, part I (What Can Informatics Do for Me?), page 67:

None of them carried news of research into his condition, but there was enough for any cyberchondriac to get his mind around.

2006, S[aif] Rahman, “Baltic Balti”, in Down to a Sunset Sea, [London]: Twenty First Century Publishers, →ISBN, page 84:

Word Watch: Cyberchondriac [title] Definition: A person who's convinced he or she has a particular medical condition based on information found on the Internet.

[2007 November, “Word Watch: Cyberchondriac”, in Will Smith, editor, Maximum PC, San Francisco, Calif.: Future US, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 14:

An article in the April 2012 issue of ‘Psychological Science’ suggested that the irrational tendency at work in the brains of cyberchondriacs is the same as that in the brains of gamblers. When gamblers get a positive roll of the dice, they think that their luck will continue. When cyberchondriacs match a few of the symptoms for a condition, they take that as a positive sign and may assume they must have the other symptoms on the list.

2012 November 14, Lisa Jewell, “Are you a cyberchondriac?”, in Irish Independent, Dublin: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-03-07:

(Internet, psychology) A hypochondriac (“person with an excessive preoccupation or worry about having a serious illness”) who researches their potential medical condition(s) on the Internet.

netistä sairauksia hakeva luulosairas

hypochondriac who researches their potential medical condition(s) on the Internet


fosmid

(biology) A cosmid related to a bacterial fertility factor


utopiate

Blend of utopia + opiate. The noun usage was coined by Richard H. Blum of Stanford University in 1964.

(pharmacy) A drug providing escape from the problems of reality, and giving dreams of utopia.


cybrarian

One who maintains a cybrary; a librarian who works with digital resources online.


exsqueeze me

And a bit of peace and quiet to eat it in, after all the din, ken. I picked up my tea and walked away. Exsqueeze me for breathing! Ronaldson said behind me.

Exsqueeze me, but saying I don't have much to go on is a ridiculous understatement. Give me something to think about, Sel.

Oooh, exsqueeze me! What are those guys, totally clueless? We're supposed to get all hot and bothered over Massachusetts?

2003, Mary-Ann Tirone Smith, She's Not There:

[bell rings] “And chug!” [belches] “Well, ex-squeeze me.” “I love drunk Beef. Give him another shot, Pam.” “Gladly. You still got it, Beef.”

2024 April 14, Kit Boss, “A Chug's Life Adventure” (12:53 from the start), in The Great North, season 4, episode 10, spoken by Beef Tobin (Nik Offerman):


pandy

en-noun

pandy (countable and uncountable, plural pandies)


jocoserious

en-adj

jocoserious (comparative more jocoserious, superlative most jocoserious)

more jocoserious (comparative)
most jocoserious (superlative)

/ˌd͡ʒəʊkəʊˈsɪəɹiəs/

Our proposed removal to Mr. Small's was, as you suppose, a jest, or rather a joco-serious matter. We never looked upon it as entirely feasible, yet we saw in it something so like practicability, that we did not esteem it altogether unworthy of our attention. It was one of those projects which people of lively imaginations play with, and admire for a few days, and then break in pieces.

1880, Goldwin Smith, chapter VII, in Cowper:

“His genius was jocular; but, when disposed, he could be very serious.” It is a part of his joco-serious vein of late.

1885, L.G.W., “Review of Current Literature”, in The Unitarian Review and Religious Magazine, volume XXIII:

Was the guest conscious of and did he acknowledge these marks of hospitality? His attention was directed to them by his host jocosely, and he accepted them seriously as they drank in jocoserious silence Epps's massproduct, the creature cocoa.

Simultaneously jocular and serious; mixing mirth with serious matters.


hendigo

A combination of henna and indigo, used as a hair dye.


dolostone

(geology) A sedimentary carbonate rock that contains a high percentage of the mineral dolomite.


isoproterenol

en-noun

isoproterenol (countable and uncountable, plural isoproterenols)

/ˌʌɪ.səp.ɹəʊ.təˈɹiː.nɒl/

/ˌʌɪ.səʊ.pɹəʊ.təˈɹiː.nɒl/


ecosophy

ecosophy (countable and uncountable, plural ecosophies)

Blend of ecology + philosophy, coined by Félix Guattari and Arne Næss.

[…] ecosophy argues that an individual should act in such a way as to “do as little harm as possible.” The “oath” of those committed to ecosophy closely parallels that of medical doctors: Above all else do no harm.

1996, Donald T. Wells, Environmental Policy: A Global Perspective for the Twenty-first Century, →ISBN:

His ideas on ecology and ecosophy were developed in numerous books and articles, notably “Freedom, Emotion and Self-Subsistence” (1975), “Ecology, Community and Lifestyle” (1989) and “Life’s Philosophy: Reason and Feeling in a Deeper World” (2002).

2009 January 15, William Grimes, “Arne Naess, Norwegian Philosopher, Dies at 96”, in New York Times:

Ecological philosophy, particularly of the type associated with the deep ecology movement.


blam

[…] we refer to unsolicited and unwanted advertising as spam. The phenomenon is widespread, and has led people to coin terms for it in other information product or service contexts, such as splog or blam (unsolicited advertisements in blog comments), spim (instant messaging), […]

2012, Martin Peitz, Joel Waldfogel, The Oxford Handbook of the Digital Economy:

To counter this effect, spammers attempt to create links to their sites on other people's pages. The most common targets for this kind of spam are weblogs, the spamming then being known as blog spam, or "blam" for short.

2014, Nicolae Sfetcu, Internet Marketing, SEO & Advertising:

(Internet, informal) Spam posted to a blog.


sexploration

sexploration (countable and uncountable, plural sexplorations)

Let's have a sexploration of Gillian's geography, shall we?

2006, Joseph Heywood, The Snowfly: A Novel, page 76:

Today, more than ever before in history, a considerable number of people are involved in sexploration.

1999, James Elias et al., Porn 101: Eroticism, Pornography, and the First Amendment, page 440:

But sexploration is exciting, and it gets a rise out of folks.

1969, Calvert Stein, Practical Family and Marriage Counseling, page 104:

Sexual exploration; experimentation in sexuality.


indel

The observation that indels are enriched in linker relative to core sequence is also difficult to reconcile with a model of linker sequence conservation, because sites that are constrained for substitutions are also likely to be constrained for indel events.

2009 January 16, Colin A M Semple, Martin S Taylor, “MOLECULAR BIOLOGY: The Structure of Change”, in Science, volume 323, number 5912:

(genetics) Either an insertion or deletion mutation in the genetic code.


sexercise

en-verb

sexercise (third-person singular simple present sexercises, present participle sexercising, simple past and past participle sexercised)

sexercises (present singular third-person)
sexercising (participle present)
sexercised (participle past)
sexercised (past)

(intransitive) To perform this kind of exercise.


Medicare

My mom started getting Medicare last week.

(US) The system of government subsidies for health care for the elderly and disabled.

Medicare benefits are available to all persons ordinarily resident in Australia with the exception of members of foreign diplomatic missions and their dependants.

1984, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Year Book Australia: No. 68, 1984, page 190:

All Australians are covered by Medicare, which is a universal insurance system controlled by the Australian Government through Commonwealth–State Health Care Agreements.

2008, Jackie Crisp, Catherine Taylor, Potter and Perry′s Fundamentals of Nursing, page 25:

Aside from Medicare, Australia′s universal health care system, most other support is income- or means-tested, depending on the level of income and assets of the care recipient, with some residents required to pay a daily fee to contribute to their care.

2010, Elizabeth MacKinlay, Ageing and Spirituality Across Faiths and Cultures, page 229:

(Australia) The publicly funded universal health care system, operated by the government authority Medicare Australia.

(Canada) Alternative spelling of medicare


grrrl

Blend of grrr + girl. From the 1990s riot grrrl movement.


pregorexia

2008, Jane Bainbridge, "Pregorexia: body image over baby?" (article), in British Journal of Midwifery, Volume 16, Issue 9, September 4 2008, page 608.

Pregorexia came on the radar in 2006 when former TV presenter Liz Fraser told Marie Claire magazine about her struggle with bulimia during pregnancy.

2009 July 7, Kevin Courtney, “Pregorexia”, in The Irish Times:

Her dramatic weight loss meant Mrs Bassett had to be taken into hospital when just 11 weeks pregnant. Evan was born early at 30 weeks, but her ‘pregorexia’ left her too frail to care for him until he was 14 months old.

2012 March 2, Alison Smith-Squire, “The 'pregorexic' mother whose weight plummeted to FOUR STONE because she was so worried about getting fat during pregnancy”, in Daily Mail:

Pregorexia, or 'mommyrexia', as they dub it Stateside, is a growing disorder: women exercising madly all through the pregnancy (there are now scores of websites devoted to selling workout gear for pregnant women, while sizes for maternity clothes these days often include an extra-small, which would be impossibly tiny even for the average non-pregnant woman), […]

2013, Emily Hourican, How to (Really) Be a Mother, Gill & Macmillan, →ISBN:

A condition where a pregnant mother is obsessed with being thin.


folktronica

(music) A musical genre combining elements of folk music and electronica.


dage

Blend of day + rage (“an exciting party”).

blend

So help me god, if I see someone just standing around at a dage acting like they're not having any fun at all, I will run inside, print out an application for Penn State, and force you to fill it out write in front of me. Have fun, that's what a dage is for, don't be a buzzkill.

2016 March 10, Ryan Cagide, “What not to do at a Rutgers dage”, in The Tab, archived from the original on 2020-06-24:

Dages in general just isn't^([sic]) appealing, but going out in the middle of the afternoon in the snow is what I would least like to do on my day off. If I get a day off from school, I'm going to be using it to catch up on sleep and my Netflix shows.

2019 February 20, Ariana Pelosci, “No, I Would Not Like To 'Snage'”, in The Odyssey Online, archived from the original on 2023-04-08:

Throughout the school year, some UD students embraced the designation, with the No. 1 moniker becoming an often-heard rallying cry during "dages" (daytime parties) and bar crawls alike.

2019 August 5, Natalia Alamdari, Brandon Holveck, “University of Delaware again ranks among the top party schools in the nation. Where did it fall?”, in The News Journal, archived from the original on 2023-04-08:

As someone of legal drinking age who will likely never see another Rutgers dage in her life, the BORG doesn't catch my interest very much as a consumer. But when I got multiple doctors on my feed advocating for the use of a BORG as a harm reduction tactic, it piqued my interest.

2023 March 3, Meredith MacLean, “To BORG or not to BORG: Safe alternative or dangerous trend?”, in The Daily Targum, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-04-08:

(university slang, East Coast) A party held in the daytime.


exacta

Blend of exact + trifecta?
Blend of exact + perfecta?

A bet in which the bettor must correctly pick the two runners who finish first and second, in the correct order.


portafilter

Blend of portable + filter, or possibly incompletely calqued from Italian Italian portafiltro "filter-carrier".

A similar-shaped device but without a bottom opening, used to backflush or clean an espresso machine.


politicide

en-noun

politicide (countable and uncountable, plural politicides)

With an immediate Arab majority over the Jews, it would be instant politicide for the Israeli government.

2009 January 23, “Qaddafi’s Solution: A State of ‘Isratine’”, in New York Times:

Certainly, one could imagine this kind of systematic denial of the resources required to live as a form of politicide -- or political genocide.

2002 May 20, Samantha Power, “A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide”, in Washington Post:


magalogue

Blend of magazine + catalogue, coined in 1986

A type of catalogue with a magazine-like style.


snarge

Arriving mostly in sealed plastic bags, these included birds’ feet, whole feathers or tiny bits of down, and pulverized bird guts, known as snarge.

2009 January 25, Matthew L. Wald, “Identifying the Bird After a Strike, When Not Much Bird Is Left”, in New York Times:

Snarge can be a wad of a Canada goose lodged inside an airplane engine. Or it can be a broken and burned gull feather littered along the runway. Snarge can even be as small as a rusty-red smear on the nose of an airliner. But no matter what form it takes, every bit of snarge is different — and all snarge is important.

2022 April 14, Jason Bittel, “‘Snarge’ Happens, and Studying It Makes Your Flight Safer”, in New York Times, archived from the original on 2022-04-14:

(military, aviation, slang) The remains of a bird after it has collided with an airplane (in a bird strike), especially a turbine engine.


arabinonucleic

Of or pertaining to arabinonucleic acids or their derivatives


cannabutter

(uncountable, slang) A product of cooking cannabis with butter, used to make edibles.


granzyme

(biochemistry) Any of a series of serine proteases that are released by cytoplasmic granules within natural killer cells


slopestyle

French: slopestyle

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

From slope + style or Blend of slope + freestyle.

(skiing, snowboarding) A discipline of freestyle skiing or snowboarding involving an obstacle course.


hindcast

en-verb

hindcast (third-person singular simple present hindcasts, present participle hindcasting, simple past and past participle hindcasted)

hindcasts (present singular third-person)
hindcasting (participle present)
hindcasted (participle past)
hindcasted (past)

To test a mathematical model by using data from a past event.


blipvert

Blend of blip + advert; coined in the 1985 film Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future, in which they caused the nervous systems of certain viewers to overload.

The blipvert condenses 30 seconds of advertising to 3 seconds in order to prevent viewers from switching channels during an advertisement.

1991, Alan M Olson, Christopher Parr, Debra Parr, Video Icons and Values:

The result was the passing of laws forbidding the use of such "blipvert" advertising, but rumors of its insidious presence abounded.

2003, Andy Fyfe, When the Levee Breaks: The Making of Led Zeppelin IV:

As with television, on the web a user is required to see the blipvert before moving onto their intended destination, unlike banner ads...

2004, Rick Poynor, David Crowley, Nico Macdonald, John O'Reilly, Communicate: Independent British Graphic Design Since the Sixties:

A subliminal or nearly subliminal advertisement displayed for a very short time.


carbenicillin

(pharmacology) A broad-spectrum semisynthetic form of penicillin C₁₇H₁₈N₂O₆S used to treat infection by Gram-negative bacteria (as pseudomonas).


confuddle

(slang) The state of confusion and/or being befuddled.


confuddle

confuddle (third-person singular simple present confuddles, present participle confuddling, simple past and past participle confuddled)

confuddles (present singular third-person)
confuddling (participle present)
confuddled (participle past)
confuddled (past)

(informal, transitive) To confuse thoroughly.


confuddled

en-adj

confuddled (comparative more confuddled, superlative most confuddled)

more confuddled (comparative)
most confuddled (superlative)

This silly chemistry problem makes me so confuddled!

(informal) In a state of extreme confusion, especially when unable to solve a frustrating problem.


weathercast

Blend of weather + forecast. Alternatively from weather + -cast, from broadcast.

The official weathercast called for variable cloudiness.

1965 July 29, “It'll Be Scorcher Again”, in Deseret News, Utah, USA, retrieved 2009-02-04, page B1:

Jocular TV weatherman Dave Devall […] announced on last night's 6 o'clock news that he is easing into retirement. […] His last regular weathercast will be April 3.

2009 February 3, “Hot Box: TV worth talking about”, in Toronto Star, retrieved 2009-02-04:

(meteorology) A weather forecast, especially one broadcast by radio or television.


fyborg

Any biological organism having extended functions provided by technology


nicad

(electronics) rechargeable nickel-cadmium battery


lagger

The economic time series can be segregated into leaders, laggers and coinciders in relation to movements in aggregate economic activity.

1984, Wisconsin Economic Planning Information, page 75:

One who or that which lags behind; a laggard.


lymphokine

(biochemistry) Any of a group of cytokines produced by lymphocytes


latrotoxin

The black widow spider injects a neurotoxin called α-latrotoxin in its venom, which causes the release of acetylcholine and catecholamines at the neuromuscular junction.

2007, Melissa A. Bogle, “5: Bites and Stings”, in Kenneth A. Arndt, Jeffrey T. S. Hsu, editors, Manual of Dermatologic Therapeutics, page 37:

At present, seven different latrotoxins have been isolated from the venom of L. tredecimguttatus.

2011, Graham M. Nicholson, “Chapter 54: Spider Venom Peptides”, in Abba J. Kastin, editor, Handbook of Biologically Active Peptides, page 377:

These toxins are produced by black or brown widow spiders from the genus Latrodectus and are directed predominantly against vertebrates (α-LTX), although five homologous insect-specific latrotoxins and one crustacean-specific latrotoxin coexist in the venom of Latrodectus mactans tredecimguttans.

2011, Juan M. Pascual, “44: Disorders of Muscle Excitability”, in Scott Brady, George Siegel, R. Wayne Albers, Donald Price, editors, Basic Neurochemistry, page 797:

(biochemistry) Any of a group of neurotoxins found in the venom of spiders of the genus Latrodectus.


-micin

Blend of translingual Micromonospora + -mycin.

blend

(pharmacology) Used to form names of aminoglycosides, antibiotics obtained from various Micromonospora.


banjolele

A four-stringed musical instrument with a small membrane-covered body like a banjo, with a neck fretted like a ukulele.


midazolam

I got the vial of midazolam out of the crash trolley and squeezed the contents into the patientʼs mouth.

2020, Dr Amir Khan, The Doctor Will See You Now, Ebury Press (2021), page 127:

(pharmacology) A sedative of the benzodiazepine class, used (as the hydrochloride) chiefly as a premedication for anesthesia; 8-chloro-6-(2-fluorophenyl)-1-methyl-4H-imidazo[1,5-a][1,4]benzodiazepine, C₁₈H₁₃ClFN₃.


goodput

(computing, networking) Application-level throughput, i.e. the number of useful bits per unit of time forwarded by a network from source to destination, excluding protocol overhead such as retransmissions.


cyberman

Blend of cybernetic + man, analyzable as cyber- + man. Originally a race of extraterrestrial enemies in the long-running British television series Doctor Who, first appearing in the 1966 serial The Tenth Planet.

A human intertwined with electronic components; often implies the result is more electronic than biological.


gastrodome

These range from places proposing simply to knock 50% off your bill, to Michelin-starred gastrodomes such as L'atelier de Joël Robuchon or Arbutus with lunches for about £20.

2009 February 14, Jon Henley, “At last there is such a thing as a free lunch”, in The Guardian:


aralkyl

(organic chemistry) Any univalent radical derived from an alkyl radical by replacing one or more hydrogen atoms by aryl groups


-enyl

(organic chemistry) suffix for alkenyl functional groups


mascon

A region within a solid astronomical body that is of higher density than the surrounding material.


sexting

en-noun

sexting (usually uncountable, plural sextings)

There are already concerns that young people are unaware of the serious legal implications that sexting can have.

2009 August 6, Annalisa Barbieri, “You don't know what sexting is?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

But perhaps the most critical question in this area of research concerns the effect of sexting on relationship quality. Does sexting benefit or harm relationships?

2018, Zizi Papacharissi, editor, A Networked Self and Love, Routledge, →ISBN:

The act of transmitting and/or receiving sexually suggestive text messages and/or photographs between cell phones equipped with text messaging.


skullet

John was, thankfully, no longer sporting the skullet from his Facebook profile.
“So what was the deal with that?” I asked.
John just laughed. “It was a contest Christian Student Fellowship put on last year to see who could grow the best mullet. I won.”
“I’m sure.”
“And then when we left for our mission trip to Africa, I had to take it up a notch, so I went for the skullet.”
How beautiful is the skullet of him who brings good news.

2010, Chad Gibbs, God & Football: Faith and Fanaticism in the SEC, page № unknown:

(informal) A more extreme form of the mullet hairstyle, in which the hair at the back is kept long, whilst the hair on the top and the sides is shaven in a buzzcut or skinhead style.


paromomycin

Blend of Ancient Greek παρόμοιος (parómoios, “closely resembling”) + neomycin.

blend

(pharmacology) A mixture of broad-spectrum aminoglycoside antibiotics related to neomycin and produced by some strains of the bacterium Streptomyces rimosus, given orally in the form of the sulfate C₂₃H₄₅N₅O₁₄·H₂SO₄ in the treatment of intestinal amebiasis.


coronial

1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter XIV, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks16/1600641.txt
When the station was reached the doctor, of course, said that Garfield's death had been instantaneous, and as he was vested with coronial powers a formal inquest was held before burial.

But, overturning the 1961 coronial finding, Victorian coroner John Olle ruled Ms Kramer's mother, Phyllis Loomes, had put the bag over Margaret's head.

2009 January 22, Melissa Iaria, “Cleared of killing after 48 years”, in Herald Sun:

(chiefly Australia and New Zealand) Of, by or pertaining to a coroner.


coronial

Bollywood couple Kareena Kapoor Khan and Saif Ali Khan announced that they are expecting their second child together. Their baby will be a coronial.

2020 August 14, “Kareena Kapoor and Saif Ali Khan to have a 'coronial' baby. Here's what it means …”, in Onmanorama, Kottayam, Kerala:

I am unsure when they will get to meet their first grandson, but they intend to spend Easter in the UK with my brother, a week before our coronial baby is due. And "with a bit of luck", as my dear mother said, "we'll all be together for his arrival on Zoom".

2022 March 12, Anna Sarjeant, “What it's like to be seven months pregnant with Covid-19”, in NZ Herald:

For those who don't know, Veer is a coronial baby and because of this Amrita and Anmol were not able to take him anywhere!

2022 July 21, Ekta Chanana, “Amrita Rao And RJ Anmol's Son, Veer Takes His First Flight, The Couple Talks About Their Experience”, in BollywoodShaadis.com:

(uncommon) A baby conceived or born during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially one apparently conceived during a lockdown.


fishapod

A blend of fish + tetrapod, Coined by American paleontologist Neil Shubin circa 2006. Analyzable as fish + -a- + -pod

coined

In these conditions, ‘fishapods’, able to do push-ups on proto-limbs to gulp fresh air from just above its river habitat, would have had an edge over those relying only on gills to extract meagre oxygen from the murky water.

2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 12:

(informal, paleontology) Any of several extinct creatures of the subclass Tetrapodomorpha having features both of fish and tetrapods, especially Tiktaalik.


zonotope

(geometry) A polytope formed by the Minkowski sum of a zonohedron's line segments in any dimension.


rockumentary

A documentary about rock music or its musicians.


clavinet

(music) An electrophonic keyboard instrument, an electronically amplified clavichord with a distinctive bright staccato sound.

klavinetti

electronic clavichord with a staccato sound


trazodone

(pharmacology) An antidepressant drug C₁₉H₂₂ClN₅O administered in the form of its hydrochloride.


pizza-ghetti

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(Canada) A dish consisting of a slice of pizza and a serving of spaghetti.


gamma knife

(medicine) A machine that produces and focuses beams of gamma rays at a specific location in the body, used to burn up diseased tissues.


mercaptoundecanoic

mercaptoundecanoic acid
mercaptoundecanoic acid

Of or pertaining to mercaptoundecanoic acid or its derivatives


facon

en-noun

facon (usually uncountable, plural facons)


CASEVAC

en-verb

CASEVAC (third-person singular simple present CASEVACs, present participle CASEVACing, simple past and past participle CASEVAC'd)

CASEVACs (present singular third-person)
CASEVACing (participle present)
CASEVAC'd (participle past)
CASEVAC'd (past)

Blend of casualty + evacuation; compare MEDEVAC.

Sadly, two days later we are back at the hospital again, initially to casevac a patient down to a fixed wing aircraft at the airfield. […] It has been decided to casevac him to Andrew Fleming hospital in Salisbury.

2018, Mike Borlace, Spider Zero Seven, Kibworth Beauchamp, Leicestershire: Matador, →ISBN, page 123:

(transitive, military) To perform the emergency evacuation of (an injured person) from a combat zone.


Liebercrat

Blend of Lieberman + Democrat, from Joseph Lieberman, a US Senator from Connecticut who left the Democratic Party after being defeated in the party primary in 2006.

JMS, you really need to figure out who you support. I seem to recall you giving a thumbs-up to McCain, but you now seem to come across as a Liebercrat - a decent person who has been corrupted by Clinton/Gore.

2000 December 18, Sean Ormond, “Re: OK, I'm expecting an announcement about the formation of”, in rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated (Usenet):

As result, Mr. Lambert is being called a "Liebercrat" after Sen. Joe Lieberman, of Connecticut, who won re-election as an independent after losing in the 2006 Democratic primary to Ned Lamont.

2007 March 21, Seth McLaughlin, “Virginia Democrat faces blog ire for Allen support”, in Washington Times, archived from the original on 2010-07-02:

The protesters referred to Amann as an "arrogant Liebercrat," noting that he voted against civil unions and calling him a DINO, a "Democrat in name only."

2008 January 31, Frank Juliano, “Amann officially wants to be governor”, in Connecticut Post:

(US politics slang) A Democrat whose politics resemble those of Joseph Lieberman; in recent use, often specifically a Democrat who acts like a Republican


phenelzine

She had a history of depression and was taking phenelzine, an antidepressant.

2009 March 3, Barron H. Lerner, “A Life-Changing Case for Doctors in Training”, in New York Times:

(pharmacology) A synthetic compound used as a monoamine oxidase inhibitor.


midquel

(narratology) A work that is set during the timeframe of a previous work, rather than before or after it.


prettiful

en-adj

prettiful (comparative more prettiful, superlative most prettiful)

more prettiful (comparative)
most prettiful (superlative)

Blend of pretty + beautiful, or pretty + -ful.

(colloquial, babytalk) pretty, beautiful, cute


furvert

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The most popular animal alter-egos in the gay furvert scene are well-hung centaurs, ravenous werewolves, and bears.

1999, Katharine Gates, Deviant Desires: Incredibly Strange Sex:

[…] the loud-mouthed Furvert who had been annoying us the previous day.

Fred never feels as alive as when dressed as a Furvert, his life rich with secrets and deception.

"I'm not a furvert just because I'd fuck Mayor Ben!"

2007, Marcus Alexander Hart, David Wong, The Oblivion Society:

(informal) A furry who is a pervert; somebody who takes a sexual interest in furry media.


userspace

en-noun

userspace (countable and uncountable, plural userspaces)

(Internet) A namespace on a wiki used by individual users for personal details and discussions.


zilde

programming language
programming language

(computing) In the APL programming language, the symbol ⍬ (a zero crossed by a tilde), representing an empty numeric vector.