romantica

Actively seeking romance (including category), romantica, women’s fiction, mystery, thrillers and young adult. Does not want to receive poetry, short stories or screenplays.

2007, Chuck Sambuchino, editor, 2008 Guide to Literary Agents, Cincinnati, Ohio: Writer’s Digest Books, →ISBN, page 102:

This is Madison Lake’s third steamy romantica novel in a rapidly growing collection. She stumbled upon writing romantica quite by accident when, after reading some of her work, several colleagues suggested she explore the genre. Since then, writing romantica has become a passion (no pun intended).

2012, “About the Author”, in Madison Lake, A Cloud of Hawthorne: A Real Old Fashion Romance, with Titillating Tid-Bits, FriesenPress, →ISBN, page 98:

If one believes the marketing strategies of erotic romance publishers, romantica re-envisions an autonomous female sexuality.

2012, Carole Veldman-Genz, “The More the Merrier? Transformations of the Love Triangle Across the Romance”, in Sarah S.G. Frantz, Eric Murphy Selinger, editors, New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction: Critical Essays, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 116:


televangelism

evangelism using telecommunications, especially radio and television


satnav

en-noun

satnav (countable and uncountable, plural satnavs)

(informal) A civilian GPS receiver (“Navstar receiver”).


abortuary

(slang, anti-abortion, derogatory) A place where abortions are performed.


Wikipedia

Blend of wiki + encyclopedia, coined by Larry Sanger in 2001.

Shopping online for deals on some writable media / I edit Wikipedia

2006, “White & Nerdy”, in Straight Outta Lynwood, performed by “Weird Al” Yankovic:

Wikipedia is the best thing ever. Anyone in the world can write anything they want about any subject, so you know you are getting the best possible information.

2007 April 5, Greg Daniels, Michael Schur, “The Negotiation”, in The Office, season 3, episode 19, spoken by Michael Scott (Steve Carell):

Bart: So Dean Martin would show up at the last minute and do everything in just one take?
Homer: That's right.
Bart: But Wikipedia said he was “passionate about rehearsal.”
Homer: Don't you worry about Wikipedia. We'll change it when we get home.

2008 April 27, Jeff Westbrook, “Apocalypse Cow”, in The Simpsons, season 19, episode 17:

Civility – translated as savoir-vivre in the French version – is one of the five "pillars" of Wikipedia.

2011 January 12, Timothy Garton Ash, “We've seen America's vitriol. Now let's salute Wikipedia, a US pioneer of global civility”, in The Guardian:

To see how ghastly things have turned, look at the pages of the highly popular Wikipedia. Its free accessibility has made it a very useful and popular Internet resource. Then due to reports by Nature in 2005 of Wikipedia’s higher accuracy than online offerings of the Encyclopedia Britannica, the Wikipedia has been gaining in respect as a legitimate online reference source. […]

2011, Andrew S. Balian, “Introductory Preface”, in The Unintended Disservice of Young Earth Science, Charleston, South Carolina: Christian Research Publishers, →ISBN, “Terrible Consequence of YE Denying This Early Church History”, pages 28–29:

Sirius is 8.6 light years away / Arcturus is 37 / The past is the past and it's here to stay / Wikipedia is Heaven / When you don't want to remember no more / On the far side of the morning

2013, “We Real Cool”, in Warren Ellis, Nick Cave (lyrics), Push the Sky Away, performed by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds:

"Cottagecore" refers to an internet aesthetic that, according to Wikipedia, "celebrates a return to traditional skills and crafts such as foraging, baking, and pottery, and is related to similar nostalgic aesthetic movements such as grandmacore, farmcore, goblincore, and faeriecore."

2020 September 15, Stephanie Osmanski, “What Is the Cottagecore Aesthetic? How T.Swift, Animal Crossing & COVID Are Involved”, in Parade, archived from the original on 2020-09-26:

[…] we could be on the cusp of a genuine technological revolution where systems like GPT-3 replace search engines or Wikipedia as our default resource for discovering information.

2022 April 15, Steven Johnson, Nikita Iziev, “A.I. Is Mastering Language. Should We Trust What It Says?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

A free-content, multilingual, online encyclopedia and wiki run by the Wikimedia Foundation.

In August 2009, Wikipedia announced that it planned a move that many saw as a step away from its freewheeling ethos of anyone can edit.

Wikipedia mounted a 24-hour protest starting at midnight by converting their English page to a shadowy black background and warning readers that "the U.S. Congress is considering legislation that could fatally damage the free and open Internet."

(metonymically) The community that develops Wikipedia.


Wikipedia

He learned a lot of things according to his Wikipedia / and demonstrates his ample intellect on social media.

2018, “A Very Stable Genius”, Randy Rainbow (lyrics), Gilbert and Sullivan (music)performed by Randy Rainbow:

We spent our days off huddled in blankets and fleeces on our awful bony couch, listening to the radio and writing in our notebooks or sending emails or ‘doing research’, which for me meant reading the Wikipedias of lesser-known serial killers[…]

2021, Megan Nolan, Acts of Desperation, Random House, →ISBN:

(colloquial) An article or page on Wikipedia.


Wikipedia

en-verb

Wikipedia (third-person singular simple present Wikipedias, present participle Wikipediaing, simple past and past participle Wikipediaed)

Wikipedias (present singular third-person)
Wikipediaing (participle present)
Wikipediaed (participle past)
Wikipediaed (past)

Did a bit of Wikipediaing: […]

2004 January 7, Mike Pitt, “Re: (Non-Euros/SAs Only) How did you become a lover of football?”, in rec.sport.soccer (Usenet):

Is everybody in this group incapable of arithmetic, Googling, and Wikipediaing?

2005 August 18, Edward Cherlin, “Re: Slow Re-entry”, in rec.arts.sf.science (Usenet):

A little Wikipediaing could've told him that—sometimes it feels like I'm the only one willing to do the research.

2021, Michael Burrows, Where the Line Breaks, Fremantle Press, →ISBN:

I mean, honestly, it was me doing some Wikipediaing.

2021, Mike Roe, quoting Tami Sagher, The 30 Rock Book: Inside the Iconic Show, from Blerg to EGOT, Abrams, →ISBN:

(intransitive, colloquial) To consult Wikipedia for information.

I mean, it's true, if Katie Holmes had not become engaged to Tom Cruise, we'd all still be Wikipeidaing her, looking her up, trying to figure out exactly why do I know her, what was she in, is she famous?

2006 November 17, Paula Zahn Now, spoken by Rachel Maddow, CNN:

He made me curious enough that I Wikipediaed Bob Satterfield and found out, yes, he was a real fighter, nicknamed the Bombadier, and was KO'd by the Raging Bull himself in a 1946 fight in Wrigley Field.

2009, Roger Ebert, Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2010, Andrews McMeel Publishing, →ISBN, page 363:

That’s a true fact, you can Wikipedia that shizz.

2010 April 7, Jeff K., “Like a Drunk One Legged Pirate Stores His Rum, The aTable Stores Your Cords”, in CraziestGadgets.com:

[…] her mother was "homeschooling" her via the Internet (basically, Wikipediaing the Important Facts from the History of the World, and ordering appropriate-level math textbooks from Amazon) […]

2010, Rachel Cohn, chapter 3, in Very Lefreak, Random House, →ISBN:

If you wikipedia "dead", it says that it is the permanent termination of all biological functions that sustain living organisms. What it doesn't tell you is how to cope with that.

2013, Dave Cole, Straight A's, spoken by Charles (Riley Thomas Stewart):

Honestly, I had to Wikipedia him, but he seems all right.

2024 July 20, Ethan Meyers, quoting Isaiah White, “Trump’s return to rally stage met with prayers, excitement and confusion over JD Vance”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-07-21:

(transitive, colloquial) To search Wikipedia for information on a specific subject.


regiolect

A lect spoken in a particular geographical region.


Pharmageddon

/ˌfɑːməˈɡɛdə̆n/

Blend of pharmaceutical + Armageddon; dates from the late 1990s.

A dystopian scenario wherein medicine and the pharmaceuticals industry have a net detrimental effect on human health and medical progress does more harm than good.


phenanthroline

(organic chemistry) A tricyclic heterocyclic compound having two pyridine rings fused with a benzene ring; any of its derivatives


tragicomic

en-adj

tragicomic (comparative more tragicomic, superlative most tragicomic)

more tragicomic (comparative)
most tragicomic (superlative)

Coordinate term: tragicofarcical

The pirates threatened to kill Captain Phillips if attacked, and the result was tragicomic: the world’s most powerful navy vs. a lifeboat.

2009 April 12, Robert D. McFadden, Scott Shane, “In Rescue of Captain, Navy Kills 3 Pirates”, in The New York Times, page A1:

Of, pertaining to, or resembling tragicomedy; having both tragic and comic aspects.


thermet

A mixture of a metal and of a ceramic material which has been thermally treated (i.e. a heat-treated cermet).


transaxle

(automobiles) A single unit combining transmission gearbox, clutch, final drive, and differential are combined into a single unit connected directly to the driveshaft, used mostly in rear-engine cars.


parthenote

(embryology) a cell or embryo generated through parthenogenesis


volga

(finance) A second-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the rate of change of vega with respect to changes in the volatility of the underlying asset.


multilogue

Blend of multi- + dialogue. By surface analysis, multi + -logue.

A conversation that is many-to-many. The term is commonly used to describe the nature of conversations and interactions using social media and collaborative tools, such as social networking, online video, widgets for syndication, wikis, message boards, forums, etc.


textual harassment

Blend of textual + sexual harassment. The term textual harassment is from Mary Jacobus, 'Is There a Woman in This Text?' New Literary History 14 (Fall 1982): 117-41."

She places the textual harassment experienced by all women writers at her own disposal as evidence of her grace, and hence her authority.

1991, Karma Lochrie, Margery Kempe and Translations of the Flesh, page 113:

Moneypenny reminding Bond of his responsibilities and limitations curtails the textual harassment of the character.

2002, Tara Brabazon, Ladies Who Lunge: Celebrating Difficult Women, page 104:

Sexual harassment
sexual harassment#English

Iraneus contrasts the unity and integrity of these writings with the distorted, contextless citations of the Gnostics. He describes the code of textual harassment that allows these heretics to chip away at the Scriptures, […].

1991, Jan Gorak, The Making of the Modern Canon: Genesis and Crisis of a Literary Idea, page 24:

The process is one of systematic misconstruction, a kind of textual harassment.

1998, Kevin J. Vanhoozer, Is There a Meaning in This Text?: The Bible, the Reader, and the Morality of, page 149:

So the deconstructionist practises what has been called textual harassment or oppositional reading, reading with the aim of unmasking internal contradictions or inconsistencies in the text.

2002, Peter Barry, Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory, page 72:

Aggressive, distorting literary or textual criticism.

Sexual harassment by means of explicit text messages.


byke

Blend of bi (“bisexual”) + dyke (“lesbian”).

blend

Why do I wear a biker jacket? I like making people scared of me. I get treated better by the servers in the coffeehouses in the gaybourhood. Not to mention getting looked at by the dykes/bykes. :) Without the jacket, I get pushed around more on the subway, people don't get out of my way on crowded sidewalks, and men try to intimidate me -- I'm a wee femmy thing, most of the time.

1999 March 12, A, “Re: bisexual attire”, in soc.bi (Usenet):


softroader

A vehicle, such as an SUV or wagon, that is not quite as capable as a full-blown off-roader but a step above 'regular' cars (on-roaders), because of increased ground clearance with tyre, wheel, and suspension adjustments and skid plates.


logarithmancy

/lɒɡəˈɹɪðmənsi/

/lɑɡəˈɹɪðmənsi/

From logarithm + -mancy; or a blend of logarithm + arithmancy.

What difference betwixt Astromancy, Magomancy, or Magastromancy (as touching a sorcerous both superstition, and operation) and all these after-named? viz. […] Arithmancy, by numbers; Logarithmancy, by Logarithmes; […]

1652, John Gaule, “From the Affinity to Witch-craft”, in Πῦς-μαντία [Pys-mantia] the Mag-astro-mancer, or The Magicall-astrologicall-diviner Posed, and Puzzled. By John Gaule, Minister of Great Staughton in the County of Huntingdon, London: Printed for Joshua Kirton at the Kings Arms in St. Pauls Church-yard, →OCLC, page 165:

LOGARITHMANCY: A mathematical method of divination performed with the aid of logarithms. Now supplanted by modern computers.

[1973, Walter B. Gibson, Litzka R. Gibson, The Complete Illustrated Book of Divination and Prophecy, London: Souvenir Press, published 1987, →ISBN, page 320:

(obsolete, rare) Divination using logarithms.


mopy

Blend of MOP + copy, acronym of "multiple original prints".

Some people value the crisp appearance of mopies or find it time- consuming to operate both printers and copiers.

1998, Computer Systems Series: Peripherals, page 22:

Hewlett-Packard says that the LaserJet was also the first printer that could print multiple original documents (now known as mopies), and was the first personal laser printer to hit the 1,200-dpi resolution barrier.

1999, Publish!: The How-to Magazine of Desktop Publishing:

So printing mopies (multiple original prints) is now a reality.

1999, Business India - Issues 544-549, (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 73:

One of the multiple original copies printed from a single original.


brami

Janay by played Ardelia Lovelace skates in a sports brami and a heavy pant that brings to mind 90's singer Aaliyah's Tommy Hilfiger look.

2020 August, Brittany Swearingen, “Skate Fashion as Seen on HBO's Betty”, in The Spot Mag, page 12:

(uncommon) An item of clothing which combines elements of a bra and a camisole.


Burmilla

Blend of Burmese + chinchilla; see Chinchilla Persian.

A medium-sized shorthair domestic cat breed, originating in Great Britain.


Ocicat

A domestic cat of a breed that is spotted like a wild cat, established from Siamese and Abyssinian stock.


Toyger

A domestic cat of a breed with a tiger-like striped coat.


docufilm

A film or video production, presenting personal, social, political or historical subject matter in a factually accurate and informative or entertaining manner that often consists of archival footage and/or interviews supported by narration.


litrebike

From litre + bike or blend of litre + motorbike.

(slang, neologism) A motorcycle with an engine displacement of 1000cc or greater.


preditor

In the entertainment industry, a person fulfilling the duties of both producer and editor (and sometimes also writer).


transfection

en-noun

transfection (countable and uncountable, plural transfections)

(molecular biology) The introduction of foreign genetic material (such as DNA or RNA) into a eukaryotic cell.

transfection

introduction of foreign DNA into a eukaryotic cell


fluphenazine

fluphenazine (countable and uncountable, plural fluphenazines)

(pharmacology) An antipsychotic drug of the phenothiazine class, which can be administered orally or by injection.


carbamazepine

carbamazepine (countable and uncountable, plural carbamazepines)

(organic chemistry, pharmacology) A synthetic compound of the benzodiazepine class, used as an anticonvulsant and analgesic drug.


evapotranspiration

evapotranspiration (countable and uncountable, plural evapotranspirations)

/ɪˌvæpəʊˌtɹænspɪˈɹeɪʃn̩/

Calculated evapotranspirations are climatological values, namely the long-term average of the evapotranspirations.

1998, R. B. Singh, editor, Ecological Techniques and Approaches to Vulnerable Environment: Hydrosphere-Geosphere Interaction, page 25:

In many environments, evapotranspiration makes up a larger proportion of the catchment water balance than the stream discharge. Thus, for longer periods of rainfall–runoff simulation, it will generally be necessary to estimate actual evapotranspiration losses from a catchment in order to have an adequate representation of the antecedent state of the catchment prior to each rainfall event.

2004, Keith J. Beven, Rainfall - Runoff Modelling: The Primer, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 59:

SWAP estimates that all the components of the water balance and the simulated evapotranspirations do not comprise percolation.[…]Figure 10A shows the ratios between sugarbeet evapotranspirations estimated by water balance and the SWAP-simulated evapotranspirations.

2008, Angel Utset Suastegui, “Chapter 1: Introducing Modelling Tools to Support Water-Management Decision-Making Under Climate Change Conditions: A Spanish Experience”, in Magnus L. Sørensen, editor, Agricultural Water Management Research Trends, Nova Science Publishers, page 51:

The transfer of water from the surface of the earth to the atmosphere by evaporation, sublimation and transpiration.

蒸發散

the transfer of water from the surface of the earth to the atmosphere by evaporation


carefront

en-verb

carefront (third-person singular simple present carefronts, present participle carefronting, simple past and past participle carefronted)

carefronts (present singular third-person)
carefronting (participle present)
carefronted (participle past)
carefronted (past)

We can carefront on issues and relationships that matter.

2012, John Ng, Smiling Tiger, Hidden Dragon, page 307:

(transitive) To caringly confront; to approach (someone) and reprove them in a loving and respectful manner.


cybrid

(genetics) An artificial hybrid cell produced by introducing nuclear material from one organism into a cell (of the same or different species) from which the nucleus has been removed


medible

Bear in mind that tinctures and medibles (edibles containing marijuana) use far more than ingestion by smoking.

2010 October 18, Alicia Williamson, Grow Marijuana Now!: An Introductory, Step-by-Step Guide to Growing Cannabis, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

“Medical Marijuana: More Than Just THC”; “Medibles: Cannabis 86 Cooking”; “NORML at 40-Years-Old”; […]

2013, David E. Newton, Marijuana: A Reference Handbook, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 202:

Jonathan Martin, “Medical Marijuana: 'Medibles' Industry Thrives, Lacks Safety Regulations,” Seattle Times, October 7, 2012. http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2019372300 _medibles08m.html.

2013 September 17, Arthur Gillard, Medical Marijuana, Greenhaven Publishing LLC, →ISBN, page 95:

Experimenting with marijuana tinctures and edibles (medibles), while also continuing to immerse their daughter in social therapy, the parents saw rapid, significant improvements. They found specific profiles of CBD (cannabadiol),[…]

2014 August 6, Dr. Mark Sircus, Medical Marijuana, Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN:

[...] is most common but homemade or commercial foods laced with concentrated marijuana (“medibles”) are gaining popularity.

2015 October 26, Larry P. Tilley, Francis W. K. Smith, Jr., Blackwell's Five-Minute Veterinary Consult: Canine and Feline, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 844:


psychobilly

(music) A genre of popular music, blending rockabilly with punk rock, that has grotesque or humorous lyrics which often draw heavily on the imagery of 1950s science fiction and horror films.


pubcaster

(informal, entertainment industry) A public broadcaster


psychotronics

Blend of psycho- + electronics, on the model of French psychotronique which Fernand Clerc proposed in November 1954 in the journal ‘'Vie des Métiers'’, defining it as "use of thought and will"; Clerc's term was popularized by the magazine '‘Toute la Radio'’ in January 1955, which speculated on the possibility of telekinesis, particularly operating microwave printed circuit boards by concentration.
In the late 1960s, the term was popular among parapsychology researchers of the socialist bloc (particularly Zdeněk Rejdák), used instead of parapsychology to avoid its negative connotations and "advance parapsychology as a science" (as stated in the Constitution of the Parapsychological Association in 1957) and because the incorporation of the word electronics better conveyed the focus on energy, and (according to parapsychology researcher Larissa Vilenskaya in 1983) because the term analogized parapsychology to bionics.
The term was then popularized in western world during the second half of the Cold War by science fiction and fears of mind control.

"Other researchers are studying high-frequency generators (those designed to stun the psyche with high frequency waves such as electromagnetic, acoustic, and gravitational); the manipulation or reconstruction of someone's thinking through planned measures such as reflexive control processes; the use of psychotronics, parapsychology, bioenergy, bio fields, and psychoenergy; [..]"

1998, Timothy L. Thomas, The Mind Has No Firewall, Article:

More quotations at psychotronic

A field of military technology dealing with electronic weapons or devices used to either degrade or enhance human health by directed energy.


saketini

A cocktail resembling a martini but made with saké


punkabilly

en-noun

punkabilly (countable and uncountable, plural punkabillies)

(music) A subgenre of psychobilly that blends rockabilly with punk rock.


robotrip

(slang) A trip (drug experience) of this kind.


twerk

Blend of twerp + jerk, found primarily in the 1930s-era works of Walter Dumaux Edmonds.

"'...but when they load a pack onto you, what'll you do? A little twerk like you?'"

1930, Walter Dumaux Edmonds, The Big Barn, page 207:

"But even then the poor twerk's whiskers and little eyes looked kind of wistful as if the clothes had got him and was taking him somewhere..."

You don't need those twerks who walk in off the street.

2003, Bernard Kamoroff, Small Time Operator, →ISBN, page 19:

(slang, dated, US) A puny or insignificant person, generally male; a twerp.


craisin

Genericization of the brand name Craisin. Blend of cranberry + raisin

But the craisins I have had in the past, seem to have additional sugar.

1995 May 12, Pete Stryjewski , “How to make craisins?”, in rec.food.cooking (Usenet):

Then I threw a craisin (sweetened dried cranberry) in my mouth and it flew to the back of my throat and stuck there, choking me....

1997 April 3, Kristen Mahan-Moutaw , “Bad Moods”, in bit.listserv.cinema-l (Usenet):

I was giving him craisins and he started to stick his head in the bag looking for more.

2002 March 12, pinktrixrabbit@aol.comnospam, “Mr. Craisin Head”, in alt.pets.rabbits (Usenet):

c. 2004, Judith Moffett, "The Bear's Baby", in Gardner Dozois, ed., The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-First Annual Collection, 2004, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 156,
Denny passed the remaining hours of daylight eating a sandwich and a packet of craisins, […]


affluential

en-adj

affluential (comparative more affluential, superlative most affluential)

more affluential (comparative)
most affluential (superlative)


repdigit

/ˈɹɛpˌdɪd͡ʒɪt/

Repdigit Triangular Numbers [article title]

1975, David W. Ballew, Ronald C. Weger, “Repdigit Triangular Numbers”, in Journal of Recreational Mathematics, volume 8, number 2, Farmingdale, N.Y.: Baywood Publishing Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 96–98:

Is there any system of notation in which there is a repdigit aa such that (aa)²#x3D;ccdd, with c#x3D;a-1 and d#x3D;c-1?

1980 January, Murray S[eymour] Klamkin, quoting Charles W. Trigg, “The Olympiad Corner: 11”, in Crux Mathematicorum, volume 6, number 1, Ottawa, Ont.: Canadian Mathematical Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 16:

Here is another palindromic magic square that has the added property of having main diagonals containing eight repeating "repdigits": 222, 333, 444, 555, 666, 777, 888, and 999. The magic sum is 2442.

2002, Clifford A[lan] Pickover, “Gallery I: Squares, Cubes, and Tesseracts”, in The Zen of Magic Squares, Circles, and Stars: An Exhibition of Surprising Structures across Dimensions, Princeton, N.J., Woodstock, Oxfordshire: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 284:

A positive with repeated digit is called a repdigit, for example 222, 55555, and all repunits are repdigits.

2005, James J[oseph] Tattersall, “Modular Arithmetic”, in Elementary Number Theory in Nine Chapters, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, section 5.6 (Supplementary Exercises), paragraph 14, page 193:

recreational mathematics
recreational mathematics

(recreational mathematics) A number composed only of one or more occurrences of one specific digit and no other digit.


technocentrism

Blend of techno- + egocentrism, coined by Seymour Papert in 1987.

The ideology that advocates the use of technology to try to answer all questions.


precovery

(slang) The act of resting before a long night, weekend or season of binge drinking.


twotino

This provides a possible explanation for the low fraction of twotinos compared to plutinos in the Kuiper belt.

2009, A. C. Quillen, “Resonances in Galactic and Circumstellar Disks”, in G. Contopoulos, P. A. Patsis, editors, Chaos in Astronomy: Conference 2007, Springer, page 199:

Plutinos are Kuiper belt objects in a 2:3 resonance (a = 39.4 AU) with Neptune and are named after Pluto since these bodies have orbits similar to Pluto. Twotinos are objects that are in a 1:2 resonance (a = 47.8 AU) with Neptune.

2017, Thomas H. Burbine, Asteroids, Cambridge University Press, page 234:

These objects have been given the name of twotinos (rhymes with "plutinos").
Interestingly, there are very few low-eccentricity TNOs beyond the twotinos.

2021, Barbara Ryden, Bradley M. Peterson, Foundations of Astrophysics, Cambridge University Press, page 276:

(astronomy) Any astronomical object, on the apparent outer edge of the Kuiper Belt, whose orbit has a 1:2 resonance with the planet Neptune.

Resonant trans-Neptunian object#1:2 resonance ("twotinos", period ~330 years)


troon

Blend of transgender + goon (“member of Something Awful”). Coined in the internet forum Something Awful in the late 2000s.

blend

Good Woke Boys pretending like they didn't obsessively post "troons are mentally ill" for 5 years is my favorite* part of twitter

2016 September 19, @uchimatador, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-05-29:

When the troons speak about ‘gender neutral spaces’ ALWAYS maintain they are promoting unisex spaces.

2020 August 29, @fifyfomum, Twitter, archived from the original on 2020-08-29:

how do I wear skirts without coming off like a troon twitter no-fashion-sense transbian

2021 October 26, @coolestrogen, Twitter, archived from the original on 2021-10-26:

(Internet slang, derogatory, offensive) A transgender person; most commonly, a trans woman.


troon

en-verb

troon (third-person singular simple present troons, present participle trooning, simple past and past participle trooned)

troons (present singular third-person)
trooning (participle present)
trooned (participle past)
trooned (past)

Everyone was a hon back then and trooning at that age still guarantees that you'll be a hon.

2020 December 15, anonymous author, 4chan, /lgbt/:

How old were you when you trooned?

2021 November 25, anonymous author, 4chan, /lgbt/:

>Are you trooning?
yeah I started trooning five years ago kek

2022 December 29, anonymous author, 4chan, /lgbt/:

(intransitive, Internet slang, chiefly derogatory, offensive) To undergo gender transition.

wait, i thought yu get forcebly trooned if you do the gay in iran? white man propaganda?

2021 October 8, @primalplat, Twitter, archived from the original on 2021-10-08:

Is it so strange that our time is dominated by mental illness, that our men are trooned and our civilization is torn apart by screeching women? Deny a God, suffer a God's wrath.

2022 March 13, @autistocrates, Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-03-13:

I don't support trooning kids because I'd be bitter they get to transition earlier than I did.

2023 March 15, anonymous author, 4chan, /lgbt/:

(transitive, Internet slang, derogatory, offensive) To make someone transition.


cosmid

(genetics) A type of plasmid (often used as a cloning vector) constructed by the insertion of cos sequences, which are DNA sequences of the lambda phage.


clear as mud

Blend of clear as day + mud. Compare muddy (“unclear, blurry”).

(simile, sarcastic) Unclear; difficult or impossible to understand or interpret.


molestache

> rivers looks like a kid toucher.
rivers definitely has the molestache action goin on.

2001 January 27, Scott “devotion100”, “Re: Weezer's mustaches”, in alt.music.weezer (Usenet):

I think that this level of arrogant cynicism is very instructive...you know...like how watching a mulleted drunk in a wife-beater, boxers and a molestache smacking his kids on COPS teaches us about how NOT to raise a family.

2002 December 28, C. Lee, “Re: i wonder what kind of movie we would come up with”, in alt.horror (Usenet):

2004 April 1, Douglas C. Niedermeyer (pseudonym), “Scary molestache completes coaching staff”, in the Daily Nebraskan, 2004 April 1 joke issue.

Also known as the “molestache,” this sexified upper lip hair is often seen on men wearing short shorts, Blue Blocker sunglasses, lots of gold jewelry, […]

2005 March 10, Bryce Donovan, “Easy ladies, there's enough Bryce to go around”, in The Post and Courier, Evening Post Publishing Company:

(He earned the name Mario Mugshot in my circle because he looks like Mario from Super Mario Bros, and he has a molestache and messy hair like you would see on a child molester in a mugshot)

2005 May 26, Thomas, “Re: Pistons will win Game 3”, in alt.sports.basketball.nba.det-pistons (Usenet):

2007 January 6, “Gurriato”, “Re: Estamos todos manipulados” (“Re: We are all being manipulated”), in alt.usage.spanish and other groups, Usenet,
He wears a britstache (also called a molestache, a combination of the words mustache and molest). El Renacuajo's mustache is scrawny and creepy, much like most wearers of the molestache.

(slang, rare) A type of scrawny or unkempt mustache supposedly associated with child molesters.


Rayne

A city in Acadia Parish, Louisiana, United States

A township in Indiana County, Pennsylvania, United States.

A village and civil parish in Braintree district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TL7222).


felsic

en-adj

felsic (comparative more felsic, superlative most felsic)

more felsic (comparative)
most felsic (superlative)

Much of the southern half of the southeastern body is a mafic syenite, slightly more felsic than the shonkinite.

1954, J. C. Olson, D. R. Shawe, L. C. Pray, W. N. Sharp, Rare-Earth Mineral Deposits of the Mountain Pass District, San Bernadino County, California, U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 261, U.S. Department of the Interior, page 22:

1983, Paul C. Bateman, A summary of critical relations in the central part of Sierra Nevada batholith, California, U.S.A., J. A. Roddick (editor), Circum-Pacific Plutonic Terranes, Geological Society of America Memoir 159, page 241,
Within comagmatic suites, successively younger granitoids are commonly, but not invariably, more felsic, representing progressively lower temperature mineral assemblages.

1992, David C. Champion, Bruce W. Chappell, Petrogenesis of felsic I-type granites: an example from northern Queensland, P. E. Brown, B. W. Chappell (editors), The Second Hutton Symposium on the Origin of Granites and Related Rocks, Proceedings, Geological Society of America Special Paper 272, [Originally published in Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences, Volume 83], page 115,
The Claret Creek Supersuite granites are a little more felsic (65-77% SiO₂), and are chemically distinctive, having higher Al₂O₃, CaO, Na₂O and Sr, and lower K₂O, Rb, Th and U than the granites of the Almaden Supersuite.

(petrology) Enriched in minerals predominantly composed of the lighter elements such as silicon, oxygen, aluminium, sodium, and potassium.


yakalo

“Yakalos” breed true to type, are sturdy and able to forage for themselves, he said.

1924 July 8, “Breed Yaks with Bison: New Animal Called Yakalo Good Beef Producer”, in Ogden Standard-Examiner, Ogden, Utah, page 8:

The meat of yakalos is said to be almost identical with beef aside from being finer-grained.

1926 December 23, “Yakalos, New Stock Breed, May Solve Meat Problem”, in Indiana Weekly Messenger, Indiana, Pennsylvania, page 7:

Instead of beefalo, he would have yakalo.

1975 November 2, D.K. Woodman, “The Case of the Reluctant Tibetan Yak”, in Mansfield News-Journal, Mansfield, Ohio, page 4C:

A hybrid cross of a yak (Bos grunniens) and an American bison (Bison bison).


heximal

(rare, of a positional numeral system) Using base six; senary.

(nonstandard, rare, of a positional numeral system) Using base sixteen; hexadecimal.


dot bomb

The 1990s saw many dot bombs.


Infobahn

While a recent EU report recommended adopting the Californian free enterprise model to build the ‘infobahn’, cutting-edge artists and academics have been championing the ‘post-human’ philosophy developed by the West Coast's Extropian cult.

1995 September, Richard Barbrook, Andy Cameron, “The Californian Ideology”, in Mute, volume 1, number 3, →ISSN:

information superhighway
information superhighway

(dated, computing) The information superhighway.


prebuttal

You're no flexecuive, after all, just a lowly permalance. Your prebuttals fall flat, and he orders you on to a data fast, tosses a message slip on your inflatable, and leaves.

2001 December 17, Hubert B. Herring, “Roll Over, Shakespeare, the Future Is Here”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Still, is there a more exciting player in the prebuttal space than Facebook, whose attempts to get out in front of the fortnightly exposés of its behaviour are fast becoming a totally non-ominous part of the early 21st-century powerscape?

2021 October 22, Marina Hyde, “Finally, Facebook can say it’s not the most toxic social network”, in The Guardian:


Cavachon

Cavalier King Charles Spaniel
Cavalier King Charles Spaniel

A breed of dog that is a cross between a Bichon Frisé and a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel.


halon

The Renew is also free of polyvinyl chloride, asbestos, chlorofluorocarbons and halons.

2009 February 12, Azadeh Ensha, “A Cellphone That Is Made With the Environment in Mind”, in New York Times:

(organic chemistry) A hydrocarbon (more precisely haloalkane) in which one or more hydrogen atoms have been replaced by halogens


Finglish

fingliska

way of speaking Finnish using English terminology

(US, dated) A variant of Finnish language that is spoken by the descendants of Finnish immigrants to North America, the vocabulary of which is heavily influenced by English. It is far from being a uniform language, mainly exists in spoken form, and seems bound to disappear.

American Finnish

variant of Finnish spoken in North America


shunpike

In 1821 the selectmen were petitioned to lay out a new road in Hampton, beginning at Vittum's corner, so called, [junction of Towle Farm Road & Exeter Road] and running to the line of Hampton Falls at the shunpike bridge, so called.

1988: Joseph Dow's History of Hampton (New Hampshire), (referring to a bridge built to avoid a turnpike toll)


shunpike

en-verb

shunpike (third-person singular simple present shunpikes, present participle shunpiking, simple past and past participle shunpiked)

shunpikes (present singular third-person)
shunpiking (participle present)
shunpiked (participle past)
shunpiked (past)

To travel by side roads so as to avoid the toll roads or turnpikes.


impasta

Blend of imposter + pasta Coined in 2013 by American celebrity molecular gastronomy chef Richard Blais

(molecular gastronomy) Pasta analogue created by using ingredients that are not grains (ie. semolina, maize, rice) or grain substitutes (ie. potato, quinoa), such as a sheet of pasta analogue made out of gelatin


rifampicin

en-noun

rifampicin (countable and uncountable, plural rifampicins)

(pharmacology) A reddish-brown semisynthetic antibiotic C₄₃H₅₈N₄O₁₂ obtained from the bacterium Amycolaptosis mediterranei, used chiefly to treat tuberculosis, leprosy, and asymptomatic carriers of meningococci.


Interpol

Blend of international + police, a syllabic abbreviation.

The International Criminal Police Organization, an international organization facilitating police cooperation.

Ինտերպոլ

the International Criminal Police Organization

国際刑事警察機構

こくさいけいじけいさつきこう

Organização Internacional de Polícia Criminal


termbase

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

(translation studies, software) A database of terminology, usually in a multilingual format.


hushaby

Blend of hush + lullaby or hush + -a- (connective interfix) + by (“goodbye, as in bye-bye”).

affix

The moaning of their voices seemed to me to be like what is understood in Scotland by a "sugh," and might very well have passed for a hushaby, when the nurse had nearly succeeded in murmuring herself to sleep, as well as her infant.

1832, Thomas Skinner, Excursions in India:

A lullaby used to soothe babies to sleep.


intervasion

en-noun

intervasion (countable and uncountable, plural intervasions)

(military) A military action consisting of armed forces of one geopolitical entity entering territory controlled by another such entity, generally with the objective of intervention in some troubled situation.


Juneteenth

en-proper noun

Juneteenth (countable and uncountable, plural Juneteenths)

Blend of June + nineteenth, commemorating the anniversary of June 19, 1865, when Union Army General Gordon Granger (1821–1876) issued General Order No. 3 in Galveston, Texas, to enforce President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation of September 22, 1862. The General Order stated that all previously enslaved people in Texas were now free. Entered wider usage after becoming a federal holiday in 2021.

There was^([sic – meaning were]) not so many colored people in the city as usual on Saturday evening, all of them, very near, being out at the "Juneteenth siliibration."

1891 June 25, “Local news”, in Brenham Weekly Banner, volume XXVI, number 26, Brenham, Tex.: J[ohn] G. Rankin, →OCLC, page [7], column 1:

If there is plenty of sunshine within the next ten days there will be sufficient supply of watermelons in Southwest Texas to take care of the "Juneteenth" celebrations of San Antonio's colored population.

1912 June 15, “Watermelons are Moving”, in Fruit Trade Journal and Produce Record, volume XXXXVII, number 10, New York, N.Y.: Fruit Trade Journal Company, →OCLC, page 12:

"'Twere Juneteenth day," she began reverentially, "when my light firs' broke. The darkies all bunched up down in the live oak grove were a-singin' an' a-dancin', 'spressin' their glory 'cause they warnt no mo' slaves nohow.["]

1921, Julia Walcott Hoffman, chapter I, in Pearl o’ Great Price or A Woman’s ’Sperience, Chicago, Ill.: Gift and Music Shop, →OCLC, page 11:

"But whut if it rains?" asked Josy. "It always do rain on Juneteenth." / "Dat's jes' de way of it," said John. "Someone is always a-th'owin' cold water on eve'ything I does."

1922, Hubert Anthony Shands, chapter VIII, in White and Black, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC, page 50:

He had invited her to attend the Juneteenth picnic as his guest all day. And now he had done something that never, in all his life, had he heard of any colored boy doing before—planned an expensive outing right on the eve of the big annual event. [...] "Juneteenth"—white people also pretty generally use the phrase—is their Emancipation Day, and it is the one day in the year when every Caucasian is supposed to consider the comfort and enjoyment of his negro friends ahead of his own.

1925, J. Frank Davis, “Episode I. Juneteenth and Joada”, in Almanzar Evarts, Hero, Macon, Ga.: J. W. Burke Company, →OCLC, pages 13–14:

Truck drivers, business men, and school teachers belonging to the racial group have told me tales, but the best of tale-tellers has been some ex-slave buoyed up by the spirit of a Nineteenth of June celebration—the "Juneteenth"—the day on which all colored people in the South commemorate the freedom of their race from slavery. The significance of the day is so great and the tales I have collected are so bound up with the legalized slavery which, in 1865, this day put an end to, that I have used Juneteenth as a title. Nobody who does not understand a Juneteenth celebration can ever understand the Negro or his songs and tales.

1932, J[ohn] Mason Brewer, “Juneteenth”, in J[ames] Frank Dobie, editor, Tone the Bell Easy (Publications of the Texas Folk-lore Society; no. 10), Austin, Tex.: Texas Folk-lore Society, →OCLC, pages 8–54:

The annual celebration by Negroes of June 19—the day when emancipation from slavery became effective in the State [...]—is general; few Texas Negroes would consider working on "Juneteenth" if it can be avoided. The holiday is generally observed by a picnic at which everyone eats, dances and sings to his heart's content.

1940, Writers’ Program, Work Projects Administration, Texas, “Folklore and Folkways”, in Texas: A Guide to the Lone Star State (American Guides Series), New York, N.Y.: Hastings House, published 1943, →OCLC, part I (Texas: Yesterday and Today), page 97:

As I chewed on my extra-hot barbecue sandwich, Mr. Artis Lovelady, the vendor and celebration sponsor, explained why he was having a Juneteenth observance: "I just wanted to do something, just wanted to kinda bring back old times and let the younger people see what we used to do to celebrate it on account of our Emancipation Proclamation."

1987, William H. Wiggins, Jr., “Following the Freedom Trail”, in O Freedom!: Afro-American Emancipation Celebrations, Knoxville, Tenn.: University of Tennessee Press, published 2000, →ISBN, page 5:

But what they [black people] chose to emphasize by means of traditional activities each year was the memory of gaining freedom. Consequently in African-American communities, especially in the South, a day of prayer, preaching, and festivities usually known as "Juneteenth" came to be observed [...].

1991, Michael Kammen, “The Civil War Remembered—but Unreconciled”, in Mystic Chords of Memory: The Transformation of Tradition in American Culture, 1st Vintage Books edition, New York, N.Y.: Vintage Books, published February 1993, →ISBN, part 2 (Circa 1870 to 1915), page 122:

There's been a heap of Juneteenths before this one and I tell you there'll be a heap more before we're truly free!

1999, Ralph Ellison, chapter 7, in John F. Callahan, editor, Juneteenth: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, page 131:

On June 19, 1883, an eighteen-gun salute on the plaza in front of the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas, signaled the start of the annual Juneteenth observance.

2005, W[illiam] Fitzhugh Brundage, “Celebrating Black Memory in the Postbellum South”, in The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory, Cambridge, Mass., London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 55:

Proud Pelham in Navarro County had a long history of major Juneteenths. Every year on June 19, pigs and goats roasted over open pits or old bedsprings, while fish deep-fried in lard in big washpots hung from trees.

2005, Thad Sitton, James H. Conrad, “Saturday Nights and Sunday Mornings”, in Freedom Colonies: Independent Black Texans in the Time of Jim Crow (Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture; no. 15), Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, →ISBN, page 105:

Senator Taylor, with unanimous consent, asked that when the Senate adjourn, it do so in honor of "Juneteenth Day," to symbolize the struggle for freedom and equality in the United States. [...] Indeed, Juneteenth Day is much more about the future than the past. It is a day where we gather to continue the struggle. We all realize the true freedom still eludes many of us.

2009 June 17, Lena C. Taylor, “Announcements, Adjournment Honors, and Remarks under Special Privilege”, in State of Wisconsin Senate Journal: Ninety-ninth Regular Session (Wisconsin State Senate), Madison, Wis.: State Printer, →OCLC, page 218, column 2:

[M]aking Juneteenth a federal holiday is both urgent and necessary. [...] A Juneteenth federal holiday would be more than a "day off," but one filled with educational experiences about the institution and affliction of slavery, community conversations on race and reconciliation, and cultural experiences that bring the history, challenges, and contributions of Black Americans to the forefront of the nation's consciousness.

2020 June 14, Seth Cohen, “No More Excuses – It’s Time to Declare Juneteenth a Federal Holiday”, in Forbes, New York, N.Y.: Forbes, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-06-14:

(US) Also more fully as Juneteenth Day: the United States national holiday commemorating the end of slavery, observed on June 19.

Abraham Lincoln
Emancipation Proclamation
General Order No. 3
Gordon Granger
Union Army

Dia De l'Emancipació

holiday celebrated in the U.S. on June 19, commemorating the end of slavery


choodle

(slang) A mixed breed dog that is partially chihuahua and partially poodle.


bingle

From bing (“thump, sudden bang”) + -le (diminutive suffix).

af

It is always an advantage if you have a sexy car, but if you pick her up in a rusty Datsun 180B you may as well say goodnight.[…]There is also the worst-case scenario of being involved in a bingle. If this happens you will definitely be finished and she will probably sneak off on you if she manages to escape injury.

2005, Johnny Blue, The Blue Riders' Club, page 144:

"I, uh . . . " I managed, "I seem to have had a bit of a bingle." I pointed a thumb behind me at the car.

2006, Lee Battersby, A Stone to Mark My Passing: Through Soft Air, page 138:

‘But you've still got your father′s car haven′t you?’
‘No. Had a bingle in it the other night, nothing major. I just hope to hell it′s fixed before he finds out.[…]’

2010, Felicity Young, Take Out, page 163:

(Australia, informal) A minor collision, especially between motor vehicles.


bingle

en-verb

bingle (third-person singular simple present bingles, present participle bingling, simple past and past participle bingled)

bingles (present singular third-person)
bingling (participle present)
bingled (participle past)
bingled (past)


bingle

(baseball, slang) A base hit in which the batter stops safely at first base.


bingle

(baseball, slang) To achieve a base hit in which the batter stops safely at first base.


congratudolences

: And soon to be an eligible bachelor guy!
Congratudolences, or whatever.

1996 October 31, Dennis Monbourquette, “Re: DemoniK for hire”, in alt.1d (Usenet):

(humorous) Used to express congratulations and condolences simultaneously.


dawk

Blend of dove + hawk. Coined by American author Donald S. Zagoria in 1967 (see quotation).

coinage

In the analysis that follows, I shall explore the foreign policy views of three distinct factions within the Chinese elite: “hawks, doves, and dawks.” In my view, the “dawks,” “centrists,” or more precisely, Maoists, have won.

1967, Donald S. Zagoria, “Peking’s Hawks, Doves, and Dawks” (chapter 3), in Vietnam Triangle: Moscow, Peking, Hanoi, New York, N.Y.: Pegasus, →LCCN, page 67:

Collins English Dictionary
w:Collins English Dictionary

(politics) A person who advocates neither an aggressive nor a conciliatory political attitude (especially in foreign policy).


Tanglish

A variety of English spoken by native Tamil speakers.


Denglish

blend

German <i class="Latn mention" lang="de">Deutsch</i>

The German language modified by the addition of items of English vocabulary.


meacock

Probably a blend of meek + peacock, or from meek + -ock (“diminutive suffix”). For cock in a diminutive, see also niddicock.

Petruchio: How tame, when men and women are alone / A meacock wretch can make the curstest shrew.

c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

Viola: a woman’s well holp’d up with such a meacock. I had rather have a husband that would swaddle me thrice a day, than such a one that will be gull’d twice in half an hour.

1604, Thomas Decker, Thomas Middleton, The Honest Whore:

Earl: A man that as much knowledge has of war / As I of brewing mead ! ... A bookish nursling of the monks—a meacock !

1876, Henry Taylor, Philip Van Artevelde., A Dramatic Romance., In Two Parts., Henry S. King & Co. (London), page 86

(obsolete) An uxorious, effeminate, or spiritless man; a meek man who dotes on his wife, or is henpecked.


blackfish

en-noun

blackfish (plural blackfishes or blackfish)

(Canada, US) Either of two dark-coloured fish of the west Atlantic, the tautog of New England (Tautoga onitis) and the black sea bass (Centropristis striata).


buildering

The practice of climbing buildings as a recreational activity.


Great Firewall of China

Blend of Great Wall of China + firewall, popularized in a 1997 issue of Wired.

Behind this hypothetical Great Firewall of China, most users would be allowed to exchange information with foreign sites if they were on the approved list

1997, A. Michael Froomkin, “Jurisdiction in Cyberspace: The Role of Intermediaries”, in Borders in Cyberspace: Information Policy and the Global Information Infrastructure, →OCLC, page 146:

The "Great Firewall of China" is failing, largely due to the increased volume of Internet traffic in China.

2001, Greg Walton, China's Golden Shield: Corporations and the Development of Surveillance Technology in the People's Republic of China, →OCLC, page 5:

The Great Firewall of China is a case of corporate collaboration in censorship.

2007, Dinah PoKempner, “A Shrinking Realm: Freedom of Expression Since 9/11”, in Human Rights Watch World Report 2007, →ISBN, page 76:

The targets suggest the attackers are sympathetic to the vast censorship apparatus known as the Great Firewall of China.

2015 March 31, Dan Goodin, “Massive denial-of-service attack on GitHub tied to Chinese government”, in Ars Technica, retrieved 2015-04-01:

People's Republic of China
People's Republic of China

(originally humorous, derogatory) Government Internet censorship in the People's Republic of China.


algebraic number theory

Blend of algebraic number + number theory. Possibly (alternatively or also) a calque of German algebraische Zahlentheorie.

blend

As is well-known in algebraic number theory, there is a far-reaching analogy between number fields and algebraic function fields in one variable with finite constant field.

1998, Norbert Klingen, Arithmetical Similarities: Prime Decomposition and Finite Group Theory, Oxford University Press (Clarendon Press), page 241:

The field of mathematics that these generalize to is known as algebraic number theory. As a matter of historical fact, our development here parallels the development of algebraic number theory.

2008, Steven H. Weintraub, Factorization: Unique and Otherwise, CRC Press, page 143:

Elementary arithmetic studies divisibility and factorization of ordinary integers, Algebraic number theory considers the same questions for algebraic numbers, solutions to polynomial equations with integer coefficients. In this setting, (un)fortunately, the uniqueness of prime factorization no longer holds. Remedying and measuring its failure is the starting point of algebraic number theory.

2013, Mak Trifković, Algebraic Theory of Quadratic Numbers, Springer, page v:

algebraic number field
algebraic number field

(mathematics, number theory) The branch of number theory in which number-theoretic questions are expressed in terms of properties of algebraic number fields or related objects, and studied using techniques from algebra.

հանրահաշվական թվերի տեսություն

branch of number theory concerning algebraic number fields


polycotton

en-noun

polycotton (countable and uncountable, plural polycottons)

A fabric made from a blend of cotton and artificial fibres, especially of polyester fibres


pake

Cherry pie baked inside a chocolate cake, for a dandy Black Forest pake.

2014 July 1, Nancy Stohs, “Bake a pie in a cake to make a ‘pake,’ because why not?”, in The Brownsville Herald, volume 122, number 363, page C2:

Pie specials include pumpkin, pumpkin crunch, pumpkin pecan, pumpkin haupia, gluten-free pumpkin pake (cake meets pie), pumpkin pake, cranberry walnut pudding, chocolate chip pecan and rum pecan.

2014 November 21, The Garden Island, section “TGIFR!DAY” (volume 2, number 46), page 5:

We honor foot-high pie, oatmeal pecan pie, “pake” (that’s a pie baked inside a cake), apple green chili pecan pie, levee-high pie and even gooey butter cake pie.

2015 November 18, Patricia Corrigan, “Sweet! St. Louis thrives with pies”, in St. Louis Jewish Light, volume 68, number 44, page 1B:


greenwashing

greenwashing (usually uncountable, plural greenwashings)

Blend of green + whitewashing (or green + -wash + -ing).

Fossil fuel lobbyists are trying to water down planned EU rules to stop “investment greenwashing’ by setting science-based criteria for any investment which lays claim to being environmentally sustainable.

2019 December 2, Jillian Ambrose, “Fossil fuel lobbyists push to dilute EU anti-greenwash plan”, in The Guardian:

It's not greenwashing - it makes sense for a whole load of reasons. It demonstrates that we are not just accepting that we have to use diesel for years to come.

2023 August 9, Paul Clifton, “Network News: Chiltern services powered by vegetable oil”, in RAIL, number 989, page 13:

The practice by people, organizations and states of presenting themselves as environmentally-friendly and progressive to downplay their actual destructive behavior.

(uncommon; literally “painting [things] green”) zöldre festés


cattitude

It took a lot of Rosie and Ernie to forgive their "bad cattitude" kitty.

2011, M. R. Wells, Connie Fleishauer, & Dottie Adams, The Cat Lover's Devotional, Harvest House Publishers, →ISBN, page 64:

Rani, the cat, was a different ball game. She liked to keep her distance, had considerable cattitude, and preferred to live in a world of her own. She loved (and lived) her name – the queen, the royal one.

2013, Rohini Singh, Free Fall: The Journey Home, Hay House Publishers, →ISBN:

He adjusted to domesticated life remarkably well, retaining his regal feral “cattitude.”

2014, Kathleen M. Downey, Legendary Locals of Newburyport, Legendary Locals, →ISBN, page 18:


glyphosate

glyphosate (countable and uncountable, plural glyphosates)

Any of several herbicides based on it, such as Roundup.


mingy

en-adj

mingy (comparative mingier, superlative mingiest)

mingier (comparative)
mingiest (superlative)

Uncertain. Perhaps a blend of mean + stingy.

'And weren't you happy as an officer and a gentleman, when your Colonel was dead?'
'No! They were a mingy lot.' He laughed suddenly. 'The Colonel used to say: Lad, the English middle classes have to chew every mouthful thirty times because their guts are so narrow, a bit as big as a pea would give them a stoppage. They're the mingiest set of ladylike snipe ever invented: full of conceit of themselves, frightened even if their boot-laces aren't correct, rotten as high game, and always in the right. That's what finishes me up. Kow-tow, kow-tow, arse-licking till their tongues are tough: yet they're always in the right. Prigs on top of everything. Prigs! A generation of ladylike prigs with half a ball each--'

1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter XV, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, [Germany?]: Privately printed, →OCLC:

After the Liberation Mrs Crewe kept on being as mingy as before with the food; and wouldn't let Harold buy any new clothes.

1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 298:

Now all that, in its mingy way, is logical enough.

1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 413:


prizzly

A hybrid between a polar bear and a grizzly bear.


groupality

(rare, humorous) The sum total of the physical, mental, emotional, and social characteristics of a group of individuals; the organized pattern of behavioral characteristics of a group of individuals.


triggernometry

(humorous) The theory and study of firearms and shooting.


pyribole

(mineralogy) Any mineral of either the pyroxene or amphibole groups.

pireaból

any mineral of either the pyroxene or amphibole groups


quadrominium

(US) A building divided into four residences as condominiums


celesbian

Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi are well known celesbians.

The weekend parties, which feature thong-clad girls writhing on stripper poles, are hip enough to pull in a mix of faux-hawks, bridge-and-tunnel singles, celesbians, and even a spattering of boys.

2006 March 13, “Best Lesbian Bar”, in New York, volume 39, numbers 8–14, page 84:

I might've been able to get by with the whole gay thing had Gait been a "celesbian," like Ellen DeGeneres or Sheryl Swoopes.

2008, Linda Villarosa, Passing for Black, page 180:

Marie Claire got lucky in November with Lindsay Lohan talking openly about her "celesbian" affair, and InStyle struck gold in April with the freshly bobbed Katie Holmes.

2009, Sally Jackson, “Stand out and sell”, in The Australian, page 14:

Some clients will think that the life of celesbians (celebrity lesbians visible in movies and television) represent the life that all lesbians will have — leading to disappointment, confusion, and, in some, despair.

2010, Geoffrey L. Greif, Paul H. Ephross, editors, Group Work with Populations at Risk, 3rd edition, page 364:

A celebrity who is also famous for being a lesbian.


transceive

en-verb

transceive (third-person singular simple present transceives, present participle transceiving, simple past and past participle transceived)

transceives (present singular third-person)
transceiving (participle present)
transceived (participle past)
transceived (past)

Blend of transmit + receive; alternatively, back-formation from transceiver.

(of a communications device) To both transmit and receive


modacrylic

en-noun

modacrylic (countable and uncountable, plural modacrylics)

Any of several copolymer fibres (mostly polymers of acrylonitrile) that are soft yet strong, and are used in carpeting, wigs, etc.


parafango

A mixture of mud and paraffin used in thermotherapy.


Twixmas

Blend of twixt (“betwixt, between”) + Christmas.

blend

Christmas / Twixmas and New Year

1998 December 9, dear..., “Super Savings - UK Hotels for Xmas”, in alt.travel (Usenet), retrieved 2023-12-27:

Twelve Days of Christmas
Twelve Days of Christmas

(slang) The period in between Christmas Day and New Year, typically December 27th–30th where Boxing Day is observed, and December 26th–30th elsewhere (i.e. the first six of the Twelve Days of Christmas).

romjul

the period between Christmas and New Year


chlorodyne

en-noun

chlorodyne (countable and uncountable, plural chlorodynes)

Then he began, for he had a good memory, quoting a few of the more important notes in the papers—slowly and one by one as a man drops chlorodyne into a glass.

1888, Rudyard Kipling, “Consequences”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio, published 2005, page 71:

Mr. Pappleworth arrived, chewing a chlorodyne gum, at about twenty to nine, when all the other men were at work.

1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 5”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:

A narcotic drug, made from chloroform, morphia and other substances.


spamvertizement

Blend of spam + advertisement (with the intentional misspelling of advertisement)

qual

(Internet) A type of unsolicited e-mail (spam) that specifically advertises a product.


textonym

When I texted her, I accidentally asked her "Are you at good?" because good is a textonym of home.

Any of a set of words that share the same numeric combination as another when typed using a mobile phone that uses predictive text


cupset

Gary: It'll Be Cupset for Andy

[…] a landmark point of the season, with fans and commentators alike eagerly awaiting a 'cupset'.

2014, Lee Price, Turning My Back On the Premier League:

(sports, British, slang) An upset in a Cup competition.


Bidet

That's Joe Bidet.

1995 June 29, DDuchaine, “Steriods& Alzado”, in misc.fitness (Usenet):

Every minute it continues, it makes the aftermath problems more frightening to me," said Sen. Joe "Buckwheat" Bidet, Democrapic Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. Speaking to the Council on Foreign Relations, a leftist group of foreign policy wonks, Bidet said he feels that a little careful bombing might be needed to help protect U.S. Special Forces operations, but it creates a scary problem. Bidet stressed that, like most Democratic weenies, he is afraid to challenge President Bush - but the "honeymoon' might get rockier soon."

2001 October 25, Crusader, “Steriods& Alzado”, in alt.politics (Usenet):

If Obama chose Joe Robinet Bidet for a running mate, he's not just covering his ass, he's cleaning it!

2008 August 25, Dennis, “it's Biden”, in sci.military.naval (Usenet):

Trump calls Biden (Joe BIDET) 'another low I.Q. individual' after 2020.

2019 March 18, allise...@gmail.com, “Hey Fred ! ! ! Here's you another song to enjoy ...”, in rec.radio.shortwave (Usenet):

Kamala Harris became the first woman to be given presidential powers on Friday as Joe Biden briefly transferred authority while he underwent a colonoscopy. Whether he's shitting his pants or farting on royalty, the *fake* president is usually causing a stink. Now they're even shoving cameras up his arse to prove it can talk.

2021 November 20, The Genetically Unmodified Paul Pot (Still a natural human being as God created), “Stinky Joe Bidet undergoes colonoscopy”, in alt.sports.soccer.manchester.united (Usenet):

(Internet slang, US politics, derogatory, humorous) Joe Biden.


terephthalic acid

(organic chemistry) An aromatic dicarboxylic acid, benzene-1,4-dicarboxylic acid, used in the manufacture of polyesters


manorexia

Preparing for the role— taking in only 900 calories a day and running 5 miles — he [Dennis Quiad] says he developed "manorexia."

2006 April, David A. Keeps, “Dennis Quiad”, in Best Life, page 74:

He's getting too flaquito, nena, all scrawny like Marc Anthony with his manorexia chiseling up his face.

2008, Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, Dirty Girls on Top, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN:

Manorexia has taken the younger gay community by storm, and gay hearts weep for the scrawny skin-and-bones younger gay hearts who look like they are on an emo hunger strike […]

2010, Freeman Hall, Stuff That Makes a Gay Heart Weep: A Definitive Guide to the Loud & Proud Dislikes of Millions, Adams Media, →ISBN, page 36:

(humorous, informal) Anorexia nervosa (or any similar eating disorder) when occurring in a male.


gwan

From various English dialects, notably Gullah.

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling

(nonstandard) Pronunciation spelling of going on.

“Aw, gwan, you slave driver,” the boy said, dashing from the room.

1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page 199:

(nonstandard) Pronunciation spelling of go on.

I need to get to gwan.

(nonstandard) Pronunciation spelling of going.


gwan

(neologism, rare) A hybrid between a goose and a swan, especially the offspring of a gander (male goose) and a pen (female swan).


Bapticostal

en-adj

Bapticostal (comparative more Bapticostal, superlative most Bapticostal)

more Bapticostal (comparative)
most Bapticostal (superlative)

Of, relating to, or characteristic of the blending of Baptist and charismatic theologies, especially acceptance of the charismatic gifts.

"We tend to be a little Bapticostal where I go.--Mike Huckabee, December 17, 2007.

Of, relating to, or characteristic of Baptist worship service similar to that of charismatic churches, especially in the use of high-tempo contemporary Christian music, raising of hands, and spontaneous shouts.


clonewheel organ

en-noun

clonewheel organ (plural clonewheel organs)

(music) Any kind of electronic musical instrument which can emulate the sound of any of the tonewheel-based Hammond organs.


moblog

A weblog posted from a mobile device, such as a cell phone or PDA.


Jamerican

(informal) An American of Jamaican birth or ancestry


Schnoodle

A dog that is a hybrid between a poodle and a schnauzer.


defeatocrat

(US, derogatory) A member of the Democratic political party, seen as proponents of surrender and accepting defeat.


defeatican

(US, derogatory, used by political opponents) A member of the Republican political party, regarded as proponents of surrender and accepting defeat.


flashforward

This "Lone Ranger" begins and ends in a flash-forward, with an elderly Tonto installed in a carnival diorama behind a sign that reads "The Noble Savage."

2013, “Depp’s Tonto: an upgrade on a stereotype or just an updated stereotype?”, in The Washington Post:

(narratology) A dramatic device in which a future event is inserted into the normal chronological flow of a narrative.


flashforward

en-verb

flashforward (third-person singular simple present flashforwards, present participle flashforwarding, simple past and past participle flashforwarded)

flashforwards (present singular third-person)
flashforwarding (participle present)
flashforwarded (participle past)
flashforwarded (past)


airbill

(transport) A waybill for cargo being shipped by air.


mapvertising

Blend of map + advertising. Though there is evidence of usage before, the term first came into heavy use in 2006. The word was trademarked in the United Kingdom only on November 29, 2004.

the concept and act of advertising on, or in direct relation to, maps; generally referring to online maps, but also including rooftop and other large, physical ads positioned for satellite photo opportunities.


demitazza

Recent coinage, macaronic blend of French demi- (“half”) and Italian tazza (“cup”).

A small cup of Greek coffee or espresso, typically about 40-60 ml/2–3 fl oz capacity.


sping

(Internet) The use of blogs' trackback functionality to generate link spam.


unitard

While Lincoln Kirstein noted that the unitards did show clearly the dancers' lines, he too found them distracting: "Union-suit tights are hard to make look neat, but the line of undergarments shining through continually destroyed the line."

2007, Leslie Norton, Frederic Franklin, Frederic Franklin: A Biography of the Ballet Star, page 46:

The unitard consists of a leotard (a sort of stretchy one-piece bathing suit) attached to a pair of tights, which completely cover the legs. The unitard can be worn by anyone — men and women, boys, girls, and extraordinarily graceful household pets.

2011, Scott Speck, Evelyn Cisneros, Ballet for Dummies, unnumbered page:

Backstage (that is, in the high school locker room) before the show, all the other senior girls were pulling on their red unitards for the jazz piece.

A skin-tight garment covering the torso and the legs, sometimes the arms and feet.


recapitate

recapitate (third-person singular simple present recapitates, present participle recapitating, simple past and past participle recapitated)

recapitates (present singular third-person)
recapitating (participle present)
recapitated (participle past)
recapitated (past)

He who has once been decapitated, can not be recapitated.

1973, Samael Aun Weor, Aztec Christic Magic, →ISBN, page 33:

(transitive) To furnish with a head again; to reattach a head to.


landphoon

(meteorology, informal) A tropical depression over land whose satellite signature resembles that of a typhoon.


tornadocane

(meteorology, informal) A supercell thunderstorm whose radar signature resembles that of a hurricane, with a center free of precipitation; a landphoon.


splog

The “b” in these words is all that remains from its ancestor, Berners-Lee’s Web, and even that slim vestige can be lost when blog blends with other words, as in vlog (a video blog) and splog (a spam blog).

[2010 November 11, Ben Zimmer, “Web”, in The New York Times Magazine:

(Internet) A fake blog, usually reusing content from other sources in order to generate link spam.


SoHo

en:Houston Street
en:SoHo
en:SoHo (disambiguation)

Acronym of South of Houston. (Houston Street is a street in Manhattan).


wholistic

en-adj

wholistic (comparative more wholistic, superlative most wholistic)

more wholistic (comparative)
most wholistic (superlative)

Illness is a wholistic reality, just as health is wholistic, and healing is the process of moving from illness to health.

2012, Anne Westhues, Canadian Social Policy: Issues and Perspectives:


frecency

en-noun

frecency (countable and uncountable, plural frecencies)

Blend of frequency + recency, coined for the development of Mozilla Firefox.

For example, a feature called "frecency" compiles the user's browing^([sic]) history to suggest similar websites and searches.

2008 February 13, Mark Raby, “Firefox 3 Beta 3 goes live”, in TG Daily:

[…] the AwesomeBar will match what you’re typing (even multiple words!) against the URLs, page titles, and tags in your bookmarks and history, returning results sorted by “frecency” (an algorithm combining frequency + recency).

2008 April 17, Deb Richardson, quoted in Bill Scott and Theresa Neil, Designing Web Interfaces, O’Reilly Media (2009), page 264

So the more often and the more recently you’ve been there, the higher “frecency” it has and the higher it’s rated.

2008 August, unknown author, “Firefox 3: A Browser Odyssey”, Maximum PC, Future US, ISSN 1522-4279, page 52

[…] or improve our cache performance so that we're keeping cached items that are related to sites with high frecency -- […]

2009 March 23, Mike Beltzner, “Re: Firefox privacy prefpane UI refresh”, in mozilla.dev.apps.firefox (Usenet):

No, Tb [Thunderbird] has yet to develope^([sic]) the Fx [Firefox] frecency thing. It's just simple pattern matching, IIUC.

2009 May 20, Ron K., “Re: Address selection preference”, in mozilla.support.thunderbird (Usenet):

Regarding collection usage, frecency metrics are employed, combining frequency and recency, to effectively capture concept drift and temporal trends.

2010, Mounia Lalmas et al., editors, Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries […] , Springer, →ISBN, page 544:

(computing, rare) Any heuristic that combines the frequency and recency into a single measure, typically used to predict page revisits in a web browser.


Tollywood

(India, informal) A nickname for Film Nagar.; A district of Hyderabad, Telangana, India


Czechlish

A mangled combination of spoken Czech and spoken English, spoken because of lack of knowledge of either language, or for humorous effects.


Nollywood

After the film was released, the actor Nkem Owoh became part of the 'Big Five' (ie the five most well-paid actors in Nollywood).

2009, Pierre Barrot, Nollywood: The Video Phenomenon in Nigeria, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 23:

Nollywood films are defined by excess, where the borders that frame the images, the sentiments, the characters—the symbolic order and its limits—are violated dramatically and systematically, as in the mannerism of the neobaroque.

2013, Kenneth W. Harrow, Trash: African Cinema from Below, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 244:

Video parlors, which are still the most popular outlet for Nollywood film screenings across Africa, do not run African auteur films, and the film festivals of Ouagadougou, Carthage, Durban, and Zanzibar do not accept Nollywood films into their main competitions.

2013, Matthias Krings, Onookome Okome, “Nollywood and Its Diaspora: An Introduction”, in Matthias Krings, Onookome Okome, editors, Global Nollywood: The Transnational Dimensions of an African Video Film Industry, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 19:


disulfiram

disulfiram (countable and uncountable, plural disulfirams)

(pharmacology) A synthetic compound (trademark Antabuse) used in the treatment of alcoholics to make drinking alcohol produce unpleasant after-effects.


Scouserati

From a blend of Scouser (“person from Liverpool”) + literati (“well-educated people, intellectuals”).
Usage is noted in 2007, then gained acceptance by a supplement to the Liverpool Echo newspaper on 1 January 2008, the day Liverpool began its year as European Capital of Culture. The supplement listed 366 people as "The Scouserati - the 366 most influential Scousers on the planet".

blend

(UK, colloquial, neologism) Notable or influential people whose place of birth or residence is in the city of Liverpool or its surrounding region.


Paralympics

Blend of para- (as in paraplegia or parallel (as preferred by the International Paralympic Committee itself, according to Snopes)) + Olympics

At present, however, the Long Beach resident has more than records on his mind, mainly getting a representative U.S. team to the 1964 "paralympics" to be held in Tokyo Nov. 8–12. [Frank] Vecera is on a fund-raising drive for the six California athletes selected to perform on this year's team. The tab for transporting the six to Tokyo is $3,900.

1964 August 20, “Funds sought for ‘Paralympian’ trip”, in Nick B[oddie] Williams, editor, Los Angeles Times, volume LXXXIII, number 250, Los Angeles, Calif.: Times Mirror Company, →OCLC, part III (Sports), page 8, columns 2–3:

Paralympic Games
Paralympic Games#English

(sports) Synonym of Paralympic Games (“an international sports competition participated in by sportspeople with physical disabilities, which is held every four years as a counterpart of the Olympic Games and nowadays at the same venue”)

paralympiáda

synonym of Paralympic Games — see also Paralympic Games


sysadmin

Many front-end web developers may not have implemented a web service before, leaving that boring stuff to the neckbeards and the sysadmins.

2011, Andrew Lunny, PhoneGap Beginner's Guide:

Systems administrator; a person whose job it is to maintain computer or network systems.


formose

Blend of formaldehyde + aldose. May be decomposed as form- + -ose

formose reaction
formose reaction#English

(organic chemistry) Pertaining to the formose reaction (“Butlerov reaction”)


astronot

The astronots claimed they never did take any lighting with them to the Moon so where did all that extra light come from? Close inspection reveals that neither of Aldrins feet/boots are on any rungs as he descends the ladder. He is thus falling downwards as the shot is taken.

2003 November 5, Nathan Jones, “Aldrins boot and other boo boo's (Apollo fakery)”, in alt.astronomy (Usenet):

The cattle mutilations continued and people in the area wrote to Senator Harrison Schmitt's (former Apollo astronot/actornaut), which eventually resulted in a mutilation conference being held in the Albuquerque Public Library on April 20, 1979.

2019, Andrew Johnson, Acknowledged: A Perspective on the Matters of UFOs, Aliens and Crop Circles, [self-published], →ISBN, page unknown:

(humorous, derogatory) Synonym of actornaut.


camporee

(US) A gathering of Scouts in which accommodation is in tents


chifforobe

/ˈʃɪfəˌɹoʊb/

A piece of furniture consisting of a wardrobe combined with a chest of drawers


screenager

Blend of screen + teenager; coined by the author Douglas Rushkoff

A teenager who spends a lot of time in front of the screen of a personal computer or video game console.


whippador

A dog that is a cross between a whippet and a Labrador retriever.


showmance

en-noun

showmance (countable and uncountable, plural showmances)

I notoriously fell for my leading man. I really did. By the third or fourth leading man I said "No, Mom, it's real. I love him. I know it is sort of like a pattern but I love him." There is legitimacy to a showmance."

2004, David Wienir, Jodie Langel, Making It on Broadway: Actors' Tales of Climbing to the Top, New York, Allworth Communications, Inc., →ISBN, page 115:

Eventually the tale of a stagehand who seemed to be separated from his housebound wife, but, oddly, not when she came to visit, seemed more amusing than appalling, and I learned not to wince at the various (sometimes painfully) young women who arrived breathless and eager for a Showmance—whether or not there was a wife in the background. [sic]

2005, Jane Ganahl, Single Woman of a Certain Age: 29 Women Writers on the Unmarried Midlife—Romantic Escapades, Empty Nests, Shifting Shapes, and Serene Independence, New World Library, →ISBN, page 161:

In addition to mud-slinging, deception and drama, showmance is one aspect that makes reality television so addicting.

2008, David Lyle quoted in "Love is in the Air This Valentine’s Day When Fox Reality Channel Premieres 'The Top 25 Hottest Reality Showmances,'" Business Wire, February 11, 2008, 09:00 AM EST, (article)

(colloquial) A romance between cast members or production crew of a play or television show (often reality shows) which only lasts the duration of the show, or its filming.


halothane

halothane (countable and uncountable, plural halothanes)

Hepatic injury due to halothane is well described and can be an indirect cause of encephalopathy.

1998, Thomas Markham Brown, Alan Stoudemire, Psychiatric Side Effects of Prescription and Over-the-Counter Medications:

(pharmacology) The halogenated hydrocarbon 2-bromo-2-chloro-1,1,1-trifluoroethane that is used as an inhalational general anaesthetic.


ornithine

ornithine (countable and uncountable, plural ornithines)

(biochemistry, organic chemistry) An amino acid, 2,5-diaminopentanoic acid, that is not present in protein, but is an intermediate in the biosynthesis of urea.


ritten

According to Willy Raets (famous dutch breeder who e-mails with AG) it is the above, although he can't tell for sure until the ritten is 3 months old.

1999 January 19, Anne M@rie [ Scarlet's Shelter ], “New ratties.. :-))”, in alt.pets.rodents (Usenet):


phreak

Phreaks can max-out 911 systems just by siccing a bunch of computer-modems on them in tandem, dialling them over and over until they clog.

1992, Bruce Sterling, The Hacker Crackdown, →ISBN:

(slang, dated) A person who engages in phone phreaking.


phreak

en-verb

phreak (third-person singular simple present phreaks, present participle phreaking, simple past and past participle phreaked)

phreaks (present singular third-person)
phreaking (participle present)
phreaked (participle past)
phreaked (past)

(slang, transitive, intransitive, dated) To engage in phone phreaking.


advertainment

en-noun

advertainment (countable and uncountable, plural advertainments)

A form of communication that combines the elements of advertising and entertainment.


azoxy

(organic chemistry, especially in combination) The divalent functional group of general formula R-N=NO-R^'; such compounds are considered the oxides of azo compounds.


butyramide

(organic chemistry) An amide of butyric acid


diphenoxylate

(pharmacology) An antidiarrheal agent (trademark Lomotil) chemically related to pethidine and administered in the form of its hydrochloride C₃₀H₃₂N₂O₂·HCl in combination with the sulfate of atropine.


trimeperidine

(pharmacology) A particular narcotic painkiller.


collaboratory

(sciences) A networked organization in which scientists can collaborate


cinnamaldehyde

cinnamaldehyde (countable and uncountable, plural cinnamaldehydes)

(organic chemistry) The aromatic aldehyde C₆H₅-CH=CH-CHO that is responsible for the aroma of cinnamon; any derivative of this compound


Rosanna

Blend of Rose + Anna, possibly also inspired by Roxana.


virome

Blend of virus + genome or from viro- + -ome.

Scientists now have discovered another realm within our habitat  the virome, a large community of viruses.

2010 July 19, “A Universe of Us”, in The New York Times:

Nevertheless, the comprehensive comparative analysis of pumpkin viromes across various geographic regions by NGS remains deficient.

2023 August 12, Batchimeg Togoobat, Nan Wu, Xifeng Wang, Mengji Cao, Zhongtian Xu, “Viromic approach reveals differences in the composition, diversity and relative abundance of pumpkin viruses across main growing regions of China”, in Virology, volume 585, →DOI, pages 61-71:

(biology) The genomes of all the viruses that inhabit a particular organism or environment.


baskimo

A mix between an American Eskimo Dog and a basset hound.


OB-GYN

OB-GYN (countable and uncountable, plural OB-GYNs)

(countable, initialism, acronym) (prefixed with the) A clinic or doctor's office with these specialties.


enyl

(organic chemistry, in combination) Any univalent radical derived from an alkene


formamide

(organic chemistry) The amide of formic acid HCO-NH₂ or any N-substituted derivative; they are used in the synthesis of pharmaceuticals


fulminuric

Of or pertaining to fulminuric acid or its derivatives.


glyme

glyme (countable and uncountable, plural glymes)

(organic chemistry) dimethoxyethane or any other ether of a glycol


maleimide

(organic chemistry) The internal imide of maleic acid, or any of its derivatives; they have a number of industrial applications


clamato

clamato (countable and uncountable, plural clamatos)

/kləˈmɑːtəʊ/

From Clamato, a blend of clam + tomato trademarked (if not coined) by Mott's.

Howard watched his wife calmly pour herself a third glass of clamato juice.

2005, Zadie Smith, On Beauty, Penguin Books (2006), page 10:

A beverage made from clam juice and tomato juice (especially this concoction as produced by Mott's) used to make Bloody Caesar cocktails.


performic

Of or pertaining to performic acid or its derivatives


phthalimide

(organic chemistry) The imide of phthalic acid, used in the manufacture of some plastics.


nepit

Synonym of nat (“logarithmic unit of information”)


sock puppeteer

From sock puppet + -eer, after the model of puppeteer.

It is intent to deceive or to dabble in malicious mischief that sets a sock puppeteer apart from a legitimate user with multiple accounts.

2005 December 21, Shelley Powers, "Yo! Sock Puppets!" on Burningbird.net

The idea of a sock puppeteer as a minion was an extension of the term that was published in 2000 by U.S. News and World Report.

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

A person who controls a sock puppet (any sense).


masscom

AM call-up talk shows constitute one of the few electronic soapboxes which citizens - other than the usual two dozen professional TV "pundits" - can use to express themselves via the electronic apparatus of the masscom system.

2005, David March, Robert J. Thompson, Television in the Antenna Age: A Concise History, →ISBN, page 47:

Mass communication, often specifically the mass media.


levulose

Blend of laevus + l + -ose (Latin for "left" + connector "l" + sugar) (left sugar)

gloss

The saccharides include such substances as dextrose and levulose, which are typical examples of the two classes into which these bodies are divisible, viz. the Aldoses and Ketoses.

1895, Richard Lloyd Whiteley, chapter XXXV, in Organic Chemistry: The Fatty Compounds, London, New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 263:

(biochemistry) D-fructose, the left-rotating stereoisomer of fructose.


palmitoleic

Of or pertaining to palmitoleic acid or its derivatives.


palmitoleic acid

(organic chemistry) An unsaturated fatty acid, having 16 carbon atoms and one double bond, found in the adipose tissue of all animals.


digitoxin

en-noun

digitoxin (countable and uncountable, plural digitoxins)

(organic chemistry) A toxic cardiac glycoside, obtained from digitalis, related to cardenolide.


estriol

estriol (countable and uncountable, plural estriols)

/ˈɛˌstɹaɪˌɔl/

(American spelling, biochemistry, steroids, pharmacology) A relatively weak natural estrogenic hormone that is a glycol C₁₈H₂₄O₃ found in the body chiefly as a metabolite of estradiol, is the main estrogen secreted by the placenta during pregnancy, and is the estrogen typically found in the urine of pregnant women.


lanosterol

(organic chemistry) A triterpenoid sterol found in lanolin


mook

From the 1930s, origin unknown. Suggestions include a variant of British slang moke (“donkey”); a variant of US slang mooch (“a sponger, beggar, idler”); Irish muc (“pig”); Dutch mok, German Mocke, Mucke (both dialectal for “sow” and hence “slovenly or bothersome woman/person”); a corruption of Italian mammalucco (“fool”, literally “mamluk”).

der

(slang, US, chiefly Northern US) A disagreeable or incompetent person.


mook

Blend of magazine + book, nowadays a reborrowing from Japanese ムック (mukku).

A book published in the form factor of a magazine.


suprafix

Blend of supra- + affix, equivalent to supra- + -fix.

(linguistic morphology) A type of affix where a suprasegmental change (such as tone or stress) modifies an existing morpheme's meaning.


exciplex

(chemistry, physics) Any complex or heteronuclear molecule existing in an excited state, that is dissociated in the ground state.


excimer

(chemistry, physics) Any diatomic exciplex


HUMINT

human intelligence
human intelligence#English


SIGINT

en-noun

SIGINT (countable and uncountable, plural SIGINTs)

signals intelligence
signals intelligence#English

(espionage, uncountable) Initialism of signals intelligence.


gentamicin

gentamicin (countable and uncountable, plural gentamicins)

Alteration of gentamycin, as a blend of gentian violet + kanamycin, from the color of the actinomycete.

(biochemistry, pharmacology) A broad-spectrum aminoglycoside antibiotic mixture, derived from an actinomycete (Micromonospora echinospora), extensively used as the sulfate in treating severe systemic bacterial infections (as of the urinary tract); (3R,4R,5R)-2-{[(1S,2S,3R,4S,6R)-4,6-diamino-3-{[(2R,3R,6S)-3-amino-6-[(1R)-1-(methylamino)ethyl]oxan-2-yl]oxy}-2-hydroxycyclohexyl]oxy}-5-methyl-4-(methylamino)oxane-3,5-diol.


vibronic

en-adj

vibronic (comparative more vibronic, superlative most vibronic)

more vibronic (comparative)
most vibronic (superlative)

(physics) Describing relationships between electronic and vibrational motions or quantum states


amatoxin

(toxicology) Any of a class of toxic peptides produced by several mushrooms of the genus Amanita and others.

amatoksiini

any of a class of toxic peptides produced by amanitas


coasteering

A hybrid sport involving the traversal of a coastline without mechanical aids, usually by some mixture of jumping, walking, climbing and swimming.


fanti

Blend of fan + anti (“a fan who objects to something on moral or sociopolitical grounds”).

blend

Fantis condemn "problematic" ships & fanfic more often and with more vigor than they condemn harassment in fandom.

2023 January 23, discourse catharsis (@lizcourserants), Twitter:

I love toxic ships, but I was so turned off by the fantis that I visibly cringe whenever I see it

2023 January 31, Alchemilla (@vitavillis), Twitter:

I’m just so sick of fantis acting like every proshipper only ships the most fxcked up nasty stuff when some of us don’t want to touch the extreme fictional stuff.

2024 March 8, GODZILLA'S WIFE (@GojiraSpouse), Twitter:

(fandom slang, derogatory) One who moralises within a fandom space, especially over sexual content and shipping.


emotronic

Blend of emo + electronic, referring to electronic music.

(music) A genre of music that fuses emo and electronic music, typically combining emotional lyrics with instruments such as synthesizers, bass guitars, and sequencer.


poofy

en-adj

poofy (comparative poofier, superlative poofiest)

poofier (comparative)
poofiest (superlative)


artemisinin

en-noun

artemisinin (countable and uncountable, plural artemisinins)

Artemisinin (Qinghaosu) isolated from Artemisia annua is a novel sesquiterpene lactone bearing an unusual endoperoxide function.

1994 May, Mankil Jung, “Current Developments in the Chemistry of Artemisinin and Related Compounds”, in Current Medicinal Chemistry, page 35:

The practical value of artemisinin itself as a therapeutic agent has been limited by several factors, however. Artemisinin has a high rate of recrudescence [8], poor oral activity [8], a short half-life in plasma [9], and limited solubility in both water and oil [10].

1998, Dee Ann Casteel, “Synthesis of Simple Bridged Bicyclic Trioxanes as Analogs of the Antimalarial Natural Product, Atemisinin”, in Attaur Rahman, editor, New Trends in Natural Product, page 30:

The emerging resistance to artemisinin is partly due to the complexity of the parasite and the unstoppable nature of its ability to evolve. But it is also the direct result of greed, for which there is no drug or vaccine.
In early 2009 the World Health Organization (WHO) announced the discovery of malaria parasites along the Thai-Cambodia border that were proving resistant to commonly used derivatives of artemisinin called artesunate and anthemeter.

2010, Bill Shore, The Imaginations of Unreasonable Men, page 222:

Artemisia annua
Artemisia annua#Translingual

(organic chemistry, pharmacology) An antimalarial drug derived from the sweet wormwood shrub, Artemisia annua, found as the active ingredient in traditional Chinese medical herbal treatment for malaria, chemically a sesquiterpene lactone - C₁₅H₂₂O₅.


fucktarded

en-adj

fucktarded (comparative more fucktarded, superlative most fucktarded)

more fucktarded (comparative)
most fucktarded (superlative)

(vulgar) Exceedingly stupid or irrational.


kairomone

Blend of Ancient Greek καιρός (kairós, “advantage; profit”, noun) + English pheromone, coined in the 1970 article “Allomones and Kairomones: Transspecific Chemical Messengers” by the American geneticist William Lacy Brown, Jr. (1913–1991), the German-American ecologist and entomologist Thomas Eisner (1929–2011), and the American ecologist Robert Harding Whittaker (1920–1980) which was published in BioScience: see the quotation.

lbor

Among these substances, we propose to designate two major functional groupings by the terms allomone and kairomone, chosen as intentional parallels to the term pheromone.

[1970 January, William L[acy] Brown, Jr., Thomas Eisner, Robert H[arding] Whittaker, “Allomones and Kairomones: Transspecific Chemical Messengers”, in BioScience, volume 20, number 1, Washington, D.C.: American Institute of Biological Sciences, →DOI, →ISSN, page 21:

Host‐finding by the parasitic wasp Orgilus lepidus, a braconid parasite, is mediated by two kairomones present in the frass of the host insect, the potato tuberworm.

1973 December, L. B. Hendry, P. D. Greany, R. J. Gill, “Kairomone Mediated Host‐finding Behavior in the Parasitic Wasp Orgilus lepidus”, in Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, volume 16, number 4, Amsterdam: Nederlandse Entomologische Vereniging [Netherlands Entomological Society], →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, abstract, page 471:

Mutillids apparently use odour signals (kairomones) while actively running in suitable locations for finding such hosts, and must spend much time searching, with little prospect of finding numerous hosts.

2000 August, D. J. Brothers, G[unther] Tschuch, F. Burger, “Associations of Mutillid Wasps (Hymenoptera, Mutillidae) with Eusocial Insects”, in Insectes Sociaux, volume 47, Heidelberg: Birkhäuser Verlag for the International Union for the Study of Social Insects, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 201–211:

(biochemistry, ecology) Any substance produced by an individual of one species (often an insect) that benefits the recipient which is of a different species but is harmful to the producer.

kairomona

any substance produced by an individual of one species that benefits the recipient which is of a different species but is harmful to the producer


probit

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

Blend of probability + unit. Coined by Chester Ittner Bliss in 1934: “These arbitrary probability units have been termed ‘probits’…”

The probit function, the inverse of the cumulative distribution function.


posolutely

(informal, humorous or childish) Positively and absolutely.


absitively

en-adv

absitively (comparative more absitively, superlative most absitively)

more absitively (comparative)
most absitively (superlative)

Curfew absitively must not ring!

1919, Peter Clark MacFarlane, The Exploits of Bilge and Ma, Boston: Little, Brown, & Company, →LCCN, →OL, page 108:

His heart being weak, of course they couldn't draft him, but anyhow they just absitively insisted on his going to work.

1919, George Allen England, Keep Off the Grass, Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, →LCCN, →OL, ch. VII, page 94:

"Colonel Blake has okayed my transfer."
"You're serious, Frank. You're leaving."
"Absitively."
"Gee, Frank, this place won't seem the same without you. It'll be terrific."

1973 March 11, “Major Fred C. Dobbs”, in M*A*S*H, season 1, episode 22:

(informal, humorous or childish) Absolutely and positively.


ampholyte

Blend of amphoteric + electrolyte, coined by Australian physiologist and biochemist Thorburn Brailsford Robertson in 1906.


definitioneering

Blend of definition + engineering or from definition + -eer + -ing

Are we entitled to so define, or is Hook bogged down in a form of "persuasive definitioneering"?

1968 (1972?), "Definitioneering: An Article-review of Sidney Hook's Academic Freedom," The Philosophy Forum, supplement 11, nos. 1-2 (Summer 1972): S77-S95

...danger is that we may become bogged down in 'definitioneering'; that is, we may become advocates of special definitions that are arbitrarily stipulated.

1973, Paul Kurtz, The Humanist Alternative: Some Definitions of Humanism, Prometheus Books, page 177:

Makkonen argues that the rationale of the rights concerned should always be taken as a point of departure, rather than an attempt at a priori 'definitioneering'.

2001, Catherine Brölmann, "T. Makkonen, Identity, Difference and Otherness. The Concepts of People, Indigenous People and Minority in International Law," International Journal on Minority and Group Rights, ISSN 1385-4879, 2001, vol. 8; issue 1, pg. 93

"...when you try to define it it becomes a surreal puddle of definitioneering," said drummer Brandon Weaver.

2006 December 29, John Wenzel, “We make the music we want to make”, in Denver Post:

(rare, humorous) The act of creating, usually by making up, definitions.


memristor

Blend of memory + resistor, coined by Leon O. Chua in 1971.

According to Kumar, memristor inventor Leon Chua predicted that if you mapped out the possible device parameters there would be regions of chaotic behavior in between regions where behavior is stable.

2020 October 1, Samuel K. Moore, “Memristor Breakthrough: First Single Device To Act Like a Neuron”, in IEEE Spectrum:

electrical resistance
electrical resistance

(physics) A passive electrical element in which the electrical resistance is proportional to the integral of the electrical current between the terminals.


manpris

"Manpris" is a derogatory term for Capri-style pants for men.

[2002 March 20, Sally Cragin, “Chillin' With Surfers and Sick Waves”, in Boston Globe:

The young Spaniard's vivacity and flair is the perfect foil to Federer's stoicism and meticulousness. Hell, I'm even beginning to come around on the manpris (OK, maybe not).

2006 July 9, Jim Ryan, “Federer's game has no weaknesses”, in SportingNews:

Her husband has one uniform to accompany his always untamed mane, and it's not a particularly flattering one: He's addicted to black Hush Puppies ("he will not wear any other shoe but these — even in the summer"), the color black and, perhaps most insidiously, "manpris" — capri pants for men.

2007 June 13, Olivia Barker, Mary Cadden, “Dumpy dads yield fashionable fathers”, in USA Today, page 6D:

But Leo's fanny pack was a Titanic mistake ... and we can only hope it's near the 11th hour for manpris.

2007 July 27, Sarah van Schagen, Sarah K. Burkhalter, “From Bend It to Blow It”, in Grist Magazine:

But modern American manpris? I don't understand them. Unless you're doing something creative with your socks[…] the midcalf length typically just makes a man look sloppy—and shorter.

2012, Tim Gunn, Ada Calhoun, Tim Gunn's Fashion Bible: The Fascinating History of Everything in Your Closet, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

(plural only, slang) Capri pants that are worn by men.


ASCIIbetical

(computing, informal, of a sorting) According to the order of the ASCII table, with uppercase and lowercase letters grouped separately.


Celtiberian

Celtiberian
Celtiberian language
Celtiberians

A member of a Celtic people living in the Iberian Peninsula, chiefly in what is now north central Spain, before and during the Roman Empire.


infomediary

Blend of information + intermediary. Coined in 1997 by John Hagel in a Harvard Business Review article, "The Coming Battle for Customer Information".

(Internet) An Internet site that deals in information pertaining both to businesses offering goods and services and to potential customers.


Intertubes

Blend of Internet + tubes. Inspired by the famous "series of tubes" analogy used on June 28, 2006 by then United States Senator Ted Stevens to describe the Internet.

Nameserver administrators also provide email forwarding, which is the equivalent of call-forwarding on the Intertubes.

2007, David Gewirtz, Where have all the emails gone? (citing a March 30, 2007 blog post on Corrente Wire), Zatz, p. 95

(If you missed my musings, you can find them on the Intertubes here [link removed])

2008 January, Rik Myslewski, “Deep Tech - Multicore Management”, in Mac Life, volume 2, number 1, page 17:

Go on out to the wilds of the Intertubes and have a look: there are approximately 8,234,58721 vegan food blogs […]

2009, Bob & Jenna Torres, Vegan Freak: Being Vegan in a Non-Vegan World, 2nd edition, PM Press, page 52:

(chiefly Internet slang, humorous) The Internet.


plamodel

(in Japan) Any of a range of plastic die-cast models, kits, or similar merchandise.


Winterpeg

Blend of winter + Winnipeg, referring to the city's harsh winters.