eargasmic

en-adj

eargasmic (comparative more eargasmic, superlative most eargasmic)

more eargasmic (comparative)
most eargasmic (superlative)

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

(slang, of music) Causing an eargasm; giving great musical pleasure.


fleaker

A container used for liquids in a laboratory, combining the flat base and wide profile of a beaker with the narrowed neck of a flask.


alphametic

A puzzle that presents an arithmetic problem with letters in place of the digits, the reader challenged to deduce which digit corresponds to each letter.


gayborhood

We held the Gay Shame Awards in Harvey Milk Plaza, at the center of the white-washed gayborhood of the Castro, and bestowed awards in eight categories[…]

2005, Chris Carlsson, The Political Edge:

Each full-color city map features the latest updates on roads, public transit, airports, tourist sights and the city's most happening gayborhood.

[…]who learned a lot from their time in the city — but who have decided in the end that they "fit in" better away from the gayborhood.

2007, Richard LaBonte, Where the Boys Are: Urban Gay Erotica:

[…]a queer youth homeless shelter in San Francisco's gayborhood, the Castro[…]

2007, George E Haggerty, Molly McGarry, A Companion to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies:

From the Warhol museum, walk north through the quaint, red-brick Mexican War Streets (Pittsburgh's gayborhood) and head for the Q Mattress Factory[…]

2009, Jeff Campbell, Adam Karlin, Virginia Otis, New York, Washington DC and the Mid-Atlantic Trips:

“Gayborhoods are going away,” Mr. Jones said. “People need to pay attention to this. When people are dispersed, when they no longer live in geographic concentrations, when they no longer inhabit specific precincts, we lose a lot.[…]”

2022 July 3, Adam Nagourney, quoting Cleve Jones, “Once a Crucial Refuge, ‘Gayborhoods’ Lose L.G.B.T.Q. Residents in Major Cities”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

A part of a city that is largely populated by gay people.


adriamycin

/ˌeɪdɹɪəˈmaɪsɪn/

Also, the therapy is clearly dangerous for some patients, including those with a collapsed lung and those receiving chemotherapy with cisplatinum or adriamycin.

2009 March 10, Jane E. Brody, “Oxygen Therapy Is Valuable, Sometimes”, in New York Times:

An anthracycline antibiotic drug used in cancer chemotherapy.


annepressin

(biochemistry) A homologous form of oxytocin/vasopressin found in segmented worms


annetocin

(biochemistry) A homologous form of oxytocin/vasopressin found in segmented worms.


ventifact

Blend of vent (“wind”) + artifact (“an object shaped or created by some process or agency”) from French vent from Latin ventus

blend

Stones splintered by fire, or faceted by sandstorms (ventifacts or dreikanters) are occasionally mistaken for the work of man.

1949, Kenneth Page Oakley, Man the Tool-Maker:

A pebble or little stone shaped and polished by wind-blown sand.


Chinovela

(Philippines) A soap opera of Chinese origin.


Koreanovela

Prime time on Philippine television has become the time of "Koreanovelas,” said one media watcher.

2006, Ronald Meinardus, Liberal Times in the Philippines: Reflections on Politics, Society and the Role of the Media, page 190:

In the Philippines over the last fifteen years, Koreanovelas have replaced South American telenovelas in popularity, spawning the Philippines' own soap opera industry.

2014, Euny Hong, The Birth of Korean Cool: How One Nation Is Conquering the World Through Pop Culture, unnumbered page:

That's why whenever Love watches Koreanovelas, I (Dreus) remind her not to compare me with the oppas (boyfriend, older brother, or leading man).

2020, Dreus Cosio, Love Cosio, Love Connect: The Couple's Language to a Happy Marriage, page 59:

(Philippines) A soap opera originating in Korea.


exergaming

Dance games, where the player dances on a pad in time with on-screen cues, are a popular form of exergaming.

The playing of video games that also provide the player with physical exercise.


sportscasting

Sports broadcasting, as presented by a sportscaster.


Paralympic

/ˌpæɹəˈlɪmpɪk/

/ˌpæɹəˈlɪmpɪk/

Blend of paraplegic + Olympic; the Paralympic Games were originally organized for persons with paraplegia from spinal injuries, but are now participated in by sportspersons with all kinds of disabilities.

(sports) Pertaining to the Paralympic Games.


bromance

en-noun

bromance (countable and uncountable, plural bromances)

Blend of bro + romance. Coined by American editor Dave Carnie 1990s as part of an article for the skateboard magazine Big Brother to refer specifically to the sort of relationships that develop between skaters who spent a great deal of time together.

coinage

There is a bromance between Josh and David.

Bromance—Romance between bros. Example: ‘It looks like there's a bit of bromance between Ryan and Matt.’

2001 April, “WORD”, in TransWorld Surf, retrieved 2018-01-06, page 40:

The letter was pure puffery, probably written by some clerk in North Korea's agitprop bureau, but Trump loved it. This was the beginning of the Trump-Kim bromance.

2020 June 23, John Bolton, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 96:

(informal) A close but non-sexual relationship between men.


emocore

Blend of emotional + hardcore; alternatively, emo + -core.

There's a new form of performance occuring out in Washington, D.C. It goes by the name of Emo-Core or Emotional Core. Bands like Embrace (featuring Ian McKaye), Rites of Spring, Beefeater, among others, are taking the severe intensity of an emotional projection and adding it totally into their respective live sets.

1986 January 1, “Notes From the Underground”, in Thrasher:

“Clarity” was a pivotal album for Jimmy Eat World, the first to feature Jim Adkins on lead vocals instead of Mr. Linton and the last to reflect the heart-on-sleeve values of emocore more than the hard gleam of pop-punk.

2009 February 25, Nate Chinen, “Years Later, an Appeal to Heart and Head”, in New York Times:

A style of hardcore punk known for emotional and introspective lyrics.


chromonema

Blend of chromosome + Ancient Greek νῆμα (nêma, “thread”).

blend

(genetics) The central coiled filament of a chromatid upon which the chromomeres lie


bankster

Blend of banker + gangster
Judge Ferdinand Pecora has been credited with coining the term "bankster." In June 1933, his image appeared on the cover of Time magazine, seated at a US Senate table, a cigar in his mouth. Pecora’s hearings were said to have coined a new phrase, "banksters" for the finance "gangsters." However, the word, with the same meaning, had appeared in the U.S. press at least a year and a half previous to that.
The term was later used by Léon Degrelle, Belgian fascist politician and journalist, in 1937 as a pejorative term for high financiers.

Hearing Sir Fred the Shred and the rest of them utter some hedged half-apologies has not made the public feel any warmer to the banksters.

2009 February 15, Andrew Rawnsley, “The cabinet's quarrels are a warning of the storms ahead”, in The Observer:

(informal, derogatory) A banker who is seen as criminally irresponsible, or as extorting bailout money from the taxpayers.


flexicurity

Blend of flexibility + security, coined by Danish prime minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen in the 1990s.

A welfare state model with a proactive labour market policy, combining easy hiring and firing (flexibility for employers) and high benefits for the unemployed (security for the employees).


negentropy

en-noun

negentropy (countable and uncountable, plural negentropies)

/ˌnɛɡˈɛntɹɒpi/

/ˌnɛɡˈɛntɹəpi/

Erwin Schrödinger
Léon Brillouin
What is Life?

From nega- + entropy.
A blend of negative + entropy, coined by the French physicist Léon Brillouin (1889–1969). The term negative entropy was introduced by the Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger (1887–1961) in his book What is Life? (1944, based on lectures delivered in February 1943).

An isolated system contains negentropy if it reveals a possibility for doing mechanical or electrical work: […] A tank of compressed gas in a room at atmospheric pressure, a vacuum tank in a similar room, a charged battery, any device that can produce high grade energy (mechanical work) or be degraded by some irreversible process (thermal conduction, electrical resistivity, friction, viscosity) is a source of negentropy. […] If a living organism needs food, it is only for the negentropy it can get from it, and which is needed to make up for the losses due to mechanical work done, or simple degradation processes in the living system. Energy contained in food does not really matter, since energy is conserved and never gets lost, but negentropy is the important factor.

1956 April, Brillouin, Léon, “Summary of Thermodynamics”, in Science and Information Theory, New York, N.Y.: Academic Press, →OCLC, section 2 (The Two Principles of Thermodynamics; Entropy and Negentropy), pages 116–117:

The same magnitude, but with a minus sign, i.e., the measure of macroscopic ordering, the measure of non-uniformity in the distribution of heat, the measure of the differences in temperature—temperature gradients—is called negentropy.

1977, Boris G. Kuznetsov, Philosophy of Optimism, Moscow: Progress Publishers, page 35:

Negentropy is the difference between the entropy of a system and the entropy of the same system at equilibrium (i.e., when it has its maximum possible entropy). Since entropy measures the amount of disorder, negentropy measures order.

2013, John E. Mayfield, “The Evolution of Complexity”, in The Engine of Complexity: Evolution as Computation, New York, N.Y.: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 277:

(thermodynamics) The difference between the entropy of a system and the maximum possible entropy of the same system.

Brillouin (1956) made an attempt to link thermodynamic notions to the notions of information theory. To this end he employs the idea of bound information or information consistent with some microstates of a physical system. […] Brillouin has shown that bound information is equal to entropy decrease or negentropy increase. This is a so called negentropy principle of information, according to which negentropy can be turned into information and vice versa as follows from (1.103).

1990, Aleksandr I. Zotin, “Thermodynamics of Nonequilibrium Processes”, in Thermodynamic Bases of Biological Processes: Physiological Reactions and Adaptations, Berlin, New York, N.Y.: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, section 1.3.2 (Maxwell’s Demon and Negentropy Effects), page 46:

probability distribution
probability distribution

(information theory) The difference between the entropy of a probability distribution and the maximum possible entropy of the same probability distribution.


exertainment

Any form of exercise that includes aspects of entertainment, especially exergaming.


grasscycle

en-verb

grasscycle (third-person singular simple present grasscycles, present participle grasscycling, simple past and past participle grasscycled)

grasscycles (present singular third-person)
grasscycling (participle present)
grasscycled (participle past)
grasscycled (past)

To leave short grass clippings on a lawn as nutrient.


ubistatin

(medicine) Any of a class of compounds that inhibit proteasome-dependent degradation of proteins by binding the ubiquitin chain.


neatball

Then come the neatballs ($3), nuts and seeds packed into a sphere, made to resemble meatballs.

2009 March 28, Corey Mintz, “Hard to be rah-rah about all raw”, in Toronto Star:

A vegetarian food made with nuts, designed to resemble a meatball.


retrotort

retrotort (third-person singular simple present retrotorts, present participle retrotorting, simple past and past participle retrotorted)

retrotorts (present singular third-person)
retrotorting (participle present)
retrotorted (participle past)
retrotorted (past)

But Greek and Latin are quite unequal, when disjoined from the elder wheels in our etymological system, to the working of the total machinery of the English language. Mr. Landor proceeds upon no fixed principles in his changes. Sometimes it is on the principle of internal analogy within itself, that he would distort or retrotort the language; sometimes on the principle of external analogy with its roots; sometimes on the principle of euphony, or of metrical convenience.

1861, Thomas De Quincey, Writings, volume 3, page 250:

(transitive, rare, formal) To twist backward.


retrotort

Blend of retro- + retort, coined by Bernard Cooper.

(neologism) A witty remark that one thinks of when it is too late.


tanorexia

(slang) A condition whose sufferers believe they are too pale and become obsessed with tanning.


Pastafarianism

Blend of pasta + Rastafarianism; popularized in 2005 by Bobby Henderson as a satirical protest against the teaching of intelligent design.

One third time for Intelligent Design, one third time for Flying Spaghetti Monsterism (Pastafarianism), and one third time for logical conjecture based on overwhelming observable evidence.

2005 January, Bobby Henderson, “Open Letter To Kansas School Board”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):

Flying Spaghetti Monster
Flying Spaghetti Monster

A parody religion centered around the Flying Spaghetti Monster, a creator deity who resembles spaghetti and meatballs.

Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster

an organized religious body practising Pastafarianism


rompler

(music, informal) An electronic musical instrument that generates sounds by replaying samples stored in ROM, unable to synthesize sounds or to record new samples.


backcast

(UK dialectal) Misfortune; reverse; reversal; a relapse in health or illness; moral backsliding.


backcast

en-adj

backcast (comparative more backcast, superlative most backcast)

more backcast (comparative)
most backcast (superlative)


backcast

(UK dialectal, of time) Long ago; in the past.


bupropion

(pharmacology) An antidepressant drug which is also given to relieve the symptoms of nicotine withdrawal.


strimmer

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

Blend of string + trimmer, originally a trademark in the United Kingdom.

string trimmer

(British, horticulture) Synonym of string trimmer (“a powered, hand-held garden implement that uses a rotating monofilament line to cut grass, etc., without damaging other objects”)


celebreality

A television programme about the real life of a celebrity.


cyberverse

Blend of cyber + universe, or cyber- + -verse.

Perhaps the various elements will simply assemble themselves fractally in the cyberverse, reproducing anti-entropically like crystals...

The criminal applications of viruses in the cyberverse are almost without limits.

2004, Eoghan Casey, Robert Dunne, Digital evidence and computer crime:

But there's also the high-octane "cyberverse" of mash-ups, surfing, blogging, list-serving, streaming and synthesising...


biolistics

(genetics) The introduction of DNA into a plant or animal cell by coating it onto the surface of a pellet and firing it into the tissue at high velocity.


Madchester

Released late in 1990, the hit album Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches was a summation of the Madchester era.

2013 [1998], Simon Reynolds, Generation Ecstasy, Routledge, →ISBN:

(music) An alternative rock genre and associated social scene that originated in Manchester, England, in the late 1980s, influenced by indie, psychedelic and dance music.


cybertronic

The temperature element used in cybertronic devices is a nickel wire winding. (A cybertronic device is an electronic control system.)

2006, Mark R. Miller, Air conditioning and refrigeration, McGraw-Hill Professional, →ISBN, page 82:

Of, pertaining to, or being an electronic control system.


microfuge

A laboratory centrifuge used for very small samples.


microfuge

en-verb

microfuge (third-person singular simple present microfuges, present participle microfuging, simple past and past participle microfuged)

microfuges (present singular third-person)
microfuging (participle present)
microfuged (participle past)
microfuged (past)

(transitive) To centrifuge in a microfuge.


masstige

(marketing) A class of products that are affordable for the general consumer but positioned as luxury goods.


yupster

...all those senior citizens in those condos, those conservative Cubans down on Eighth Street, those idealist young yupsters on the beach.

Until a handful of years ago, the Animas River valley, anchored dead center by Durango, remained blissfully undiscovered by ex-urban yupsters...

1997, David Petersen, The Nearby Faraway:

Julio's crowd didn't wear suits, except for occasional adventuresome yupsters looking for something different...

The habits of the rich — whether movie stars, yupsters, or cocaine addicts — they were all grist for his mental mill...

2003, Linda A Fairstein, Final Jeopardy:

(slang, derogatory) An affluent follower of trends.


smokeasy

My passport was an engraved invitation on expensive parchment paper. Inside a border of fanciful Morrocan ormentation was inscribed in elaborate script the name of the smokeasy: “Au Contraire.”

1979, Albert Harry Goldman, Grass Roots: Marijuana in America Today, Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 14:

An establishment where patrons are permitted to smoke despite a general ban.


lawfare

/ˈlɔːfɛə(ɹ)/

[…] Watch […] proceeded to the door, which he tried, and there discovered that that official had not only taken his parole d'honneur [word of honour; promise], but had adopted the additional security of turning the key; and knowing that circumstance had vacated the pre-existent treaty between them, by all the rules of civilised nations, whether in lawfare or warfare, he proceeded at once to the window; whereform, the ostler having brought him, by pre-arrangement, a ladder, he descended in safety to the yard; […]

[1842], [Henry Downes Miles], chapter X, in Will Watch: A Tale of the Coast. […], London: W. M. Clark, […], →OCLC, page 79:

The canton is clearly reduced, but not to the status of a mere private corporation. It stil is a state with standing in cort to wage some lawfare for itself and for its folk.

1959, William G[orham] Rice [Jr.], “The Political-legal Frontier”, in Law among States in Federacy: A Survey of Decisions of the Swiss Federal Tribunal in Intercantonal Controversies, Appleton, Wis.: C. C. Nelson Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 318:

And we hear that the construction unions now are bitter over the environmentalists' dragging construction projects into the courts, delaying them for years. "Lawfare" the hard hats call this.

1975 April 21, Victor Riesel, “Inside labor”, in The Daily Standard, number 44, Sikeston, Mo.: C. L. Blanton, Jr., →OCLC, page 2, column 8:

Lawfare, as defined by [George Walker] Bush Administration officials, is a terrorist tactic. Yet to anyone trained in English and American jurisprudence, not to mention the thinking that has dominated the Anglo-Saxon legal world at least since 1688, those who are accused of engaging in lawfare are simply exercising well-established legal rights and liberties. Indeed, the lawfare doctrine is the conceptual framework that best reveals the degree to which the Bush Administration has effectively declared war on the rule of law itself.

2007 July, Scott Horton, “State of Exception: Bush’s War on the Rule of Law”, in Roger D. Hodge, editor, Harper’s Magazine, volume 315, number 1886, New York, N.Y.: Harper’s Magazine Foundation, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 74–75:

[T]he data suggest that the one area of competition where China does not enjoy an advantage is in the legal sphere. This is surprising given the Chinese emphasis on lawfare and the "Three Warfares" in its strategic literature. The Philippines has been more active in using legal tactics, and China has been in a reactive mode.

2015 August, Christopher D. Yung, Patrick McNulty, “An Empirical Analysis of Claimant Tactics in the South China Sea”, in Strategic Forum, number 289, Washington, D.C.: NDU Press for the Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 9, column 2:

The PRC [People's Republic of China]'s version of PW [Political Warfare] is all encompassing. It is Total War that goes beyond traditional Liaison Work (building coalitions in a "United Front" to support the PRC and to "disintegrate" enemies) and the "Three Warfares" (strategic psychological warfare, overt and covert media manipulation, and the use of "Lawfare") to include use of violence and other forms of destructive attacks.

2019 March, Kerry K. Gershaneck, “Enhancing Japan–U.S. Military Cooperation to Support the Indo-Pacific Strategy”, in 國防雜誌 = National Defense Journal, volume 34, number 1, Taoyuan, Taiwan: National Defense University, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 30:

Earlier this year the [Australian] environment minister, Sussan Ley, said the "lawfare that is such a part of today's environmental landscape can be crippling to business as well as to environmental organisations". […] GreenLaw found […] strong evidence that public interest litigants are not abusing court processes to disrupt and delay proponents.

2020 June 18, Lisa Cox, quoting Sussan Ley, “Claims major projects are being delayed by environmental ‘lawfare’ dismissed in new research”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-05-10:

International scrutiny had driven Chinese authorities away from extrajudicial detention towards forms of "lawfare" and weaponising criminal prosecutions, Ms [Rayhan] Asat said.

2024 August 23, Max Walden, “China’s Uyghur Policies a ‘Racialised Atrocity Crime’, Harvard Law Scholar Finds”, in ABC News, Sydney, N.S.W.: Australian Broadcasting Corporation, archived from the original on 2024-08-30:

(informal) The bringing of legal proceedings against an opponent, often only to attack, harass, or intimidate.


menopot

Blend of menopause + pot, as in pot belly; coined or popularized by Dr. Pamela Peeke.

Abdominal fat present in post-menopausal women, forming a pot belly.


lovastatin

Probably blend of (meva)lonate + mevastatin.

(pharmacology) A statin that inhibits the synthesis of cholesterol.


celebutard

Blend of celebrity + debutante + retard. The first documented usage of the term was in a story about Paris Hilton published in the New York Post on 21 January 2006 ("Paris With a P"), which was followed by the second documented usage of the term in another story about Hilton published in the same paper five days later ("Unedited Paris Not Cute at All").

Paris Hilton … helped coin the buzzword celebutard, a cross between celebrity and retard. From her sex tapes to having her belongings auctioned on the Web, she seems to totter from one embarrassing moment to another.

2007 April 17, Clayton Neuman, “The Time 100 – Are They Worthy?”, in Time:

[A]t some point between the moment a movie script wanders into the hands of a world-class celebutard such as George Clooney, and the words travel through lilting vocal chords and land on unsuspecting ears, something terrible occurs.

2009 January 25, Andrea Peyser, “Celebutards: A Pox on All the Celebs and Politicians Gone Wild”, in New York Post:

(informal, derogatory, offensive, slang) A celebrity viewed as unintelligent; especially a celebrity who behaves badly in public.


lamestream

en-adj

lamestream (comparative more lamestream, superlative most lamestream)

more lamestream (comparative)
most lamestream (superlative)

I think my Black Creek ancestors, and current rural Afrindian family members would take issue with being lumped into the prosumer/linear lamestream society...

1998 October 13, Omoya, “wondering...”, in alt.native (Usenet), message-ID <19981012205907.02009.00000368@ng99.aol.com>:

Knowing over 90% of Americans believe in God, the lamestream media is complicit in the effort to cover up the intentional subversion of liberty and freedom in this nation that was once the beacon of hope to the rest of the world.

2008 October 22, Alfred Eugene Pearl, The Gates of Hell, Xulon Press, →ISBN, →OL, page 47:

Thank goodness for social networking sites like this and new media sites which have allowed us to get around the "lamestream" media and present the facts.

2010 June 1, Sarah Palin, “Is It Any Wonder Why We Call Them “Lame”?”, in Facebook, retrieved 2013-01-27:

(slang, derogatory, usually of media) Mainstream.


martemper

en-verb

martemper (third-person singular simple present martempers, present participle martempering, simple past and past participle martempered)

martempers (present singular third-person)
martempering (participle present)
martempered (participle past)
martempered (past)

(transitive) To subject (steel) to a heat treatment involving austenitization followed by step quenching (at a rate fast enough to avoid the formation of ferrite, pearlite or bainite), used to produce martensite under relatively low stress.


acetazolamide

en-noun

acetazolamide (countable and uncountable, plural acetazolamides)

(pharmacology) A drug that inhibits the enzyme carbonic anhydrase, used in the treatment of glaucoma and epilepsy and as a diuretic (now especially in the prevention of acute mountain sickness).

acetazolamid

carbonic anhydrase inhibitor that is used to treat glaucoma and other conditions


prosumer

(marketing, of a consumer product) High-end.


vetivazulene

(chemistry) An azulene, 4,8-dimethyl-2-isopropylazulene, obtained from vetiver oil.


xylenol

xylenol (countable and uncountable, plural xylenols)

Blend of xylene + phenol, the names of two similar compounds.

(organic chemistry) An arene compound with two methyl groups and a hydroxyl group.


splake

A hybrid fish derived from a male brook trout and a female lake trout


funkadelia

A psychedelic musical genre, with funk roots.


J++

programming language
programming language

A programming language developed by Microsoft that is a nonstandard variant of Java.


Gomorrahy

a brief dedicatory sermon against the evils of gomorrahy in these perilous times of moral upset

1967, Anders Swenson, “From the Desk of Radio Romany”, in Miskatonic University, number 21, Walnut Creek, CA:

He has been arrested several times in Dallas (for sodomy, gomorrahy, and failing to carry a weapon)

1974 November 1, “Letters to the Princess”, in The Mighty News & World Report, volume 2, number 3, Houston, TX: KPFT, page 7:

He punished Sodom because of it. The Sunday school teacher didn't even hint at what they got up to in Gomorrah, it was so bad. Even today I don't know what the act of 'Gomorrahy' is and how one got 'Gomorrahed'.

2008, Wilf Lunn, My Best Cellar: An Autobiography Up to the Age of Eleven:

(rare, humorous) Unspecified sexual behavior regarded as immoral.

I heard lectures about the prostate, the joy or males everywhere. I joked: "I may condone Sodomy, but this would be Gomorrahy."

1981, William O'Rourke, Idle hands: a novel, New York: Delacorte Press, →ISBN, page 357:

explicit descriptions and depictions of gomorrahy-- to wit, vaginal fisting, anal fisting, and vaginal footing

2003, “You May Now Enjoy Fisting Porn in Canada”, in Sewer News, number 14, Vancouver, BC: Robin Bougie, page 2:

(rare, humorous) The insertion of a non-sexual extremity into a vagina or an anus, for sexual purposes.

gomorrahy may manifest itself so blatantly in the public sphere because it is so well controlled in the private one.

1986 April 14, Bob Wiemer, “Gommorrah upon our messy lives”, in Daily Record, Morristown, NJ, page A4:

(rare, humorous) Failure to maintain infrastructure.


spokesmodel

(sometimes derogatory) A spokesperson hired based on appearance or celebrity rather than credibility.


glamazon

More handsome than most of his pop-star subjects, the Cambridge-educated Whitehead squired plenty of groovy glamazons: Nico, Nathalie Delon, Niki de Saint Phalle and Dido Goldsmith.

2007 March 11, Maura Egan, “Still Swinging”, in New York Times:

The warmest of welcomes back to undead glamazon Katie Price, who has emerged from a 37-second self-imposed exile to promote her new book.

2010 November 4, Marina Hyde, The Guardian:

At that moment a glamazon of a woman stepped forward, "She can feed from me." Her six-foot-two frame was solidly built but in no way was she masculine.

2013, Danika Jayde, The Carpe Noctem Chronicles:Of Blood and Magic:


slurve

Of the 90 pitches he threw, Igawa, who relies on a slurve, fastball and changeup, never unleashed one that traveled faster than 91 miles per hour.

2008 June 20, Rainer Sabin, “Igawa Searching for a Way Back to New York”, in New York Times:

(baseball) A pitch in which the pitcher throws a slider as if he or she were throwing a curve ball.


Dunglish

A non-standard variety of the English language with Dutch influences.


chemtrail

Blend of chemical + trail, modelled on contrail.

A contrail consisting of chemicals or biological agents deliberately sprayed at high altitudes, according to certain conspiracy theories.


memex

Blend of memory + index, coined by Vannevar Bush in his article As We May Think (1945) in The Atlantic Monthly.

Surely when Vannevar Bush imagined his hyperlinked memex or Jorge Luis Borges his Library of Babel or Tim Berners-Lee his World Wide Web, what excited them wasn’t the possibility of reading the boldfaced words “nympho starlets” in a printed novel, racing to the nearest computer to type a U.R.L. into a browser and watching a YouTube clip of James Blunt singing “You’re Beautiful” over scenes of Sharon Tate in “The Fearless Vampire Killers.”

2007 February 11, Matt Weiland, “Web of Spies”, in New York Times:

A proposed computer system, implemented with electromechanical controls and microfilm equipment, that would permit a researcher to follow and annotate topics of interest, analogous to later hypertext technologies.


shockvertising

Because what they know — what they learned at the feet of the master — is that, in the narrowest sense, shockvertising works. It works (a) by provoking widespread outrage, inevitably reported in the press, creating a level of buzz […]

2004, Bob Garfield, And Now a Few Words From Me:

So-called shockvertising, in the form of ads that are deliberately provocative to draw attention to themselves, is becoming increasingly popular.

2007 March 14, Stuart Elliott, “Critics to Marketers: Suicide Is No Joke”, in New York Times:

Advertising that is intended to shock the viewer.


cotrimoxazole

From co- + blend of trimethoprim + sulfamethoxazole.

blend

Because pediatricians are concerned that prolonged use of cotrimoxazole could lead to resistant malaria, they often stop the drug among AIDS patients when tests show significant improvement in the health of their immune system after antiretroviral therapy.

2007 March 1, Lawrence K. Altman, “Project Curbs Malaria in Ugandan Group”, in New York Times:

A sulfonamide antibacterial combination of trimethoprim and sulfamethoxazole, in the ratio of 1 to 5, used in the treatment of a variety of bacterial infections.


isoprenaline

en-noun

isoprenaline (countable and uncountable, plural isoprenalines)

(pharmacology) A sympathomimetic beta-adrenergic agonist medication, structurally similar to epinephrine and mainly used for the relief of bronchial asthma and pulmonary emphysema.


ethionamide

ethionamide (countable and uncountable, plural ethionamides)

/ˌɛθ.ʌɪˈɒn.ə.mʌɪd/

/ˌɛθ.aɪˈɑn.əˌmaɪd/

(pharmacology) An antibiotic prodrug C₈H₁₀N₂S effective only against mycobacteria and used in the treatment of tuberculosis and leprosy.


lactivism

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The advocacy of breastfeeding, and especially of the right to nurse children in public.


ecotecture

Architecture of an environmentally-friendly kind.


balisword

Blend of balisong + sword, to indicate the extensive length of the tool.


popera

popera (countable and uncountable, plural poperas)

McLaren is a dozy Pinkerton, an uptight Don José ("Carmen is an animal/uncontrollable stuff..."), and his American-accented voices ride perfect over the beat. "Popera," someone said. The parts may be better than the whole, though.

The popera artist continued his rise to the top of the music charts earlier this year...

2004 August, Indianapolis Monthly, volume 27, number 14:

Guests can enjoy the music of strolling musicians performing opera, "popera," and popular music as they sit, relax, and take in the sunset.

2006, Laura Lea Miller, Frommer's Walt Disney World and Orlando with Kids:

...blockbuster popera acts handled by pop labels...

2007 November, Billboard, volume 119, number 47:

(informal, music, uncountable) A crossover genre combining elements of pop music and classical opera.

(informal, music, countable) A musical or operatic work performed in this style.


genethics

(informal, genetics) The ethics of genetics


mediocracy

mediocracy (countable and uncountable, plural mediocracies)

(informal) A social hierarchy in which the mediocre prevails.

mediokracie

social hierarchy where the mediocre prevails


keytar

(music) A relatively lightweight keyboard or synthesizer supported by a strap around the neck and shoulders, as a guitar is supported by a guitar strap.


jeepney

→ Tagalog: dyipni

(Philippines) A vehicle used as public transport in the Philippines, originally made from US military Jeeps left over from World War II and well known for their flamboyant decoration and crowded seating.


docufiction

docufiction (countable and uncountable, plural docufictions)

Coordinate term: docudrama

The Novel as Document: The "Docufiction" of Norman Mailer, Jay Cantor, and Jack Kerouac
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO SAY that a novel-a work of fiction is based on the life of a real person, on events that really happened in the world […]

1988, Welch D. Everman, Who Says This?: The Authority of the Author, the Discourse, and the Reader, SIU Press, →ISBN, page 3:

Although not a new phenomenon as such, the genre of the docufiction film has grown spectacularly since the global and digital turns in the 1990s. Retrospectively attributed to the practices of such diverse filmmakers as Robert Flaherty, Jean Rouch, or Abbas Kiarostami, the genre, as the name suggests, applies to hybrid films that cross the traditional division of films between fiction and documentary. […] The docufiction genre generally, and Werner Herzog's recent films in particular, form crystals of a special kind.

2019, Jeroen Gerrits, chapter 4, in Cinematic Skepticism: Across Digital and Global Turns, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 73:

(film) A cinematographic combination of documentary and fiction.


cattelo

cattelo (usually uncountable, plural cattelo or catteloes)

“They purposely crossed bison with domestic cattle to make a better beef animal,” which they called cattelo, said James Derr, a geneticist at the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine.

2007 January 9, Jim Robbins, “Strands of Undesirable DNA Roam With Buffalo”, in New York Times:

A cross between domestic cattle and buffalo.


melodramatize

en-verb

melodramatize (third-person singular simple present melodramatizes, present participle melodramatizing, simple past and past participle melodramatized)

melodramatizes (present singular third-person)
melodramatizing (participle present)
melodramatized (participle past)
melodramatized (past)

It’s tempting to compare Abe Foxman with Al Sharpton, another portly, bellicose, melodramatizing defender of ethnic ramparts.

2007 January 14, James Traub, “Does Abe Foxman Have an Anti-Anti-Semite Problem?”, in New York Times:


labanotation

en-noun

labanotation (countable and uncountable, plural labanotations)

Blend of Laban + notation, since it was derived from the work of Rudolf Laban.

Labanotation uses a set of abstract symbols to define the part of the body

2008, Dan Saffer, Designing Gestural Interfaces: Touchscreens and Interactive Devices, page 92:

(choreography) A system for documenting body movement.


trimoxazole

Blend of trimethoprim + sulfamethoxazole

blend

(medicine) A combination of trimethoprim and sulfamethoxazole used to treat bacterial infections


orpharion

(music) A musical instrument of the Renaissance, part of the cittern family, whose metal strings are tuned like a lute's and plucked with the fingers.


burgernomics

Blend of burger + economics, coined in The Economist in 1986 by Pam Woodall with the introduction of the Big Mac Index.

Burgernomics is based upon the theory of purchasing-power parity (PPP)...

1995, James W Eaton, Frederic S Mishkin, 1995 readings to accompany Mishkin, The economics of money, banking, and financial markets:

Both The Economist's and Smart's study move at the intersection between burgernomics and burgerology. But they also move across each other and thereby point to a more general contrast.

1998, Nick Perry, Hyperreality and global culture:

Light-hearted burgernomics has become a matter of increasing academic interest and has spawned many articles and even a whole book by Ong (2003) of the International Monetary Fund.

2004, Adrian Buckley, Multinational Finance:

Burgernomics hints that their currencies are a little overcooked.

2008, Glen Arnold, Corporate Financial Management:

Curiously, however, burgernomics has an impressive record in predicting exchange rates: currencies that show up as overvalued often tend to weaken in later years.

2009, Theo S Eicher, John H Mutti, Michelle H Turnovsky, Robert M Dunn, International Economics:

purchasing power parity
purchasing power parity

An informal measurement of the purchasing power parity between currencies, based on the price of a Big Mac in various countries.


advergame

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Some advertisers have taken casual gaming a step further, creating their own casual games — sometimes called advergames — and posting them on their Web sites.

2007 January 24, Louise Story, “More Marketers Are Grabbing the Attention of Players During Online Games”, in New York Times:

(informal) A computer game published by an advertiser in order to promote a product or service.


Japanoise

While we allow the sounds of Japanoise to challenge our ears, this practice of sound-making reveals not only the limits of origin stories, but also the limits of the concept of “ongaku,” […]

2021 [2001], Timothy Rommen, Bruno Nettl, editors, Excursions in World Music, 8th edition, Routledge, →ISBN, page 204:

(music) A genre of postindustrial music of Japan, primarily in the 1980s and 1990s.


snocross

A sport in which snowmobiles are raced at high speed on artificial tracks.

snocross

Alternative form of snowcross (“snowbike mini-snowmobile motocross”)


thinspiration

Like ballet and some forms of modern dance, thinspiration puts a premium on both agony and lightness.

2008 May 25, Virginia Heffernan, “Narrow Minded”, in New York Times:

Do a quick search on Instagram and you will find reams of “thinspiration” material, usually in the form of pictures that glamorises the extreme skinniness of various models and celebrities.

2013 February 8, Tina Hassannia, “Waging war on web ‘thinspiration’”, in The Guardian:

Photographs or other material intended to provide inspiration for anorexia nervosa as a lifestyle choice.

2014 July 22, “Do and don'ts of thinspiration”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), archived from the original on 2014-07-27:

Material provided as an inspiration to stay thin or lose weight.


netcronym

(Internet, informal, rare) An acronym or initialism used on the Internet, such as LOL for "laugh out loud".


gennaker

/ˈd͡ʒɛnəkə(ɹ)/

(nautical) A sail having characteristics of a genoa and a spinnaker.


twazzock

I am fully aware that I sound like the worst kind of pseudo-intellectual twazzock […]

2008, Stephen Fry, Don't Mind your Language:

(UK, derogatory) a stupid or annoying person.


artilect

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence

An artificial intellect, a supposed artificial intelligence that may outstrip its human creators in mental capability.


matriotism

Blend of alma mater + patriotism, later reanalyzed as being derived from matri- by analogy with patriotism. Though attested since the mid-19th century, the continued placement of the word within quotation marks suggests it is often regarded as a neologism.

I am delighted with your ma'''triotism. "Rome, Venice, Cambridge!" I take it for an ascending scale, Rome being the first step and Cambridge the glowing apex.

1856, James Russell Lowell, “To Miss Norton”, in Charles Eliot Norton, editor, The Letters of James Russell Lowell, New York, N.Y.: Harper's Magazine, published September 1893, →OCLC, page 270:

[The poem] "Almae Matres" celebrates "a land of waters green and clear," and "a little city worn and grey." […] But though Mr. [Andrew] Lang's matriotism is thus divided, he has only one fatherland [Scotland], and to that he is faithful against the world.

1885, H[enry] C[harles] Beeching, “Rhymes à la Mode. By A. Lang [book review]”, in The Academy: A Weekly Review of Literature, Science, and Art, volume 27, number 667, London, →OCLC, pages 108–109:

School, hometown, or parish pride or loyalty, as opposed to nationalism or patriotism.


celebrification

Chuck Todd, editor of the online political clearinghouse Hotline, calls the gossip phenomenon “pack gossip journalism,” a byproduct of the celebrification of politics and the attendant proliferation of media to cover it.

2007 February 3, Mark Leibovich, “Titillating or Not, Washington Gossip Blossoms”, in New York Times:

(informal) The introduction of celebrity as a factor in some field or discipline.


droodle

Blend of drawing + doodle; coined by Roger Price, who published a book of them in 1953.

A simple cartoon or doodle, whose contents are given a humorous description; another person is challenged to identify the picture in the manner of a riddle.


dockominium

A boat slip sold like a condominium, so that the owner has exclusive use of the slip and shared use of common areas of the marina.


sexsational

en-adj

sexsational (comparative more sexsational, superlative most sexsational)

more sexsational (comparative)
most sexsational (superlative)

Sexsational exotic colour-packed catalogue featuring devastating cleavage bras...

It was the small-ads page of the only mucky paper that Northern Ireland produced, a paper with sexsational stories about mythical locals...

1997, Robert McLiam Wilson, Eureka Street:

In the 1990s only the new breed of "sexsational" stories — the John Bobbitt, OJ Simpson and Monica Lewinsky melodramas — permit them to cobble together something temporarily resembling a mass audience.

2000, Bruce W Sanford, Don't shoot the messenger:

"You've seen her sexsational dance?" "That I'm not ready for."

(slang) Very sexy or sexual; characterised by brash, overt sexuality.


Japlish

(informal) A confused blend of Japanese and English; Engrish.


readathon

Blend of read + marathon; compare telethon, walkathon, etc.

An event during which people read books in order to raise money for charity.


docufantasy

(rare) A fictional programme presented as a documentary.


tofurkey

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...to 3 slices of smoked tofurky, fresh cracked pepper and salt...

2005, Celeste Heldstab, The Kitchen Grimoire: By Celeste Rayne Heldstab, page 53:

rather eat raw tofurky than wear cotton pullovers with little thingies on them—polo guys, sailboats, whatever that Tommy Hilfiger logo is supposed to be.

A meat substitute resembling turkey, usually made from tofu.


oatlage

(agriculture) Silage made from oats: oat silage.


cybernation

And the mechanization of a task is done by segmentation of each part of an action in a series of uniform, repeatable, and moveable parts. The exact opposite characterizes cybernation (or automation), which has been described as a way of thinking, as much as a way of doing. Instead of being concerned with separate machines, cybernation looks at the production problem as an integrated system of information handling.

1964, Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media, Routledge, published 2008, page 269:

The control of an industrial operation or task through processing of information with a computer.


edu-babble

Already notorious for edubabble, officials may have hit new depths with a four-page progress report used by the St. Louis public schools.

1992 November 17, “Schoolspeak”, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch:

Overwhelmed teachers yearn to escape the edu-babble of conflicting and unworkable policy directives

1998, Andy Hargreaves, International Handbook of Educational Change, page 412:

These terms, this way of talking, is what we like to refer to as “Edu-babble.” Orwell liked to call it doublespeak. Edu-babble is just that, with some hip catchphrases attached. And by hip I mean impractical.

2009, Gwendolyn Green, Edu-Babble: The Glamorous World of the New York City Public School System, page 3:

(education, derogatory) Jargon on educational topics; writing or speech containing a large amount of education jargon.


funemployed

Maybe you’re funemployed and you can go anytime?

2009 May 15, Bryce Longton, “Not another travel deal site”, in BlackBook, archived from the original on 2016-07-16:

Buoyed by severance, savings, unemployment checks or their parents, the funemployed do not spend their days poring over job listings.

2009 June 4, Kimi Yoshino, “For the ‘funemployed,’ unemployment is welcome”, in Los Angeles Times, archived from the original on 2016-05-07:

And the so-called millennial generation's "weirdly upbeat" word "speaks volumes" about how this well-fed, well-organized age group is dealing with the worst downturn since the 1930s—the "young and funemployed" are taking the time to relax and "find themselves," but many also volunteer or self-educate.

2009 June 5, “The recession and ‘funemployment’”, in The Week, archived from the original on 2016-07-16:

A world without rigid temporal boundaries gave some a rare chance to relax and regroup after many years of busyness. Some took advantage of this freedom by becoming, as one respondent cleverly put it, “funemployed.”

2016, Benjamin H. Snyder, The Disrupted Workplace […] , Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 144:

Instead of being employed and lamenting over the loss of employment, money, and opportunity, we're now expected to be “funemployed”!

2022, Whitney Goodman, Toxic Positivity […] , Penguin, →ISBN, page 52:

(neologism) In a state of enjoyable unemployment.


Hackintosh

(computing, informal) A computer other than a Macintosh that has been configured to run the Macintosh operating system (OS X or macOS).


fuck-a-doodle-doo

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(UK, vulgar) Expression of frustration, contempt or boredom.

- I can play 'Don't Look Back in Anger' on guitar.
- Well fuck-a-doodle-doo.

(UK, vulgar) Conveys sarcastic admiration or happiness; whoop-de-doo.


melene

(organic chemistry) An unsaturated hydrocarbon, C₃₀H₆₀, of the ethylene series, obtained from beeswax as a white, scaly, crystalline wax.


coquit

en-verb

coquit (third-person singular simple present coquits, present participle coquitting, simple past and past participle coquit)

coquits (present singular third-person)
coquitting (participle present)
coquit (participle past)
coquit (past)

(Internet slang) To quit being coquette; to give up on being feminine and frilly.


galectin

(biochemistry) A lectin that binds galactosides


Nuyorican

Of or pertaining to New Yorkers of Puerto Rican descent.


Nuyorican

There are about 40 young men and women, largely second‐ and third-generation Puerto Rican New Yorkers who call themselves “Nuyoricans,” in the crowded storefront cafe at 505 East Sixth Street, on the Lower East Side.

1976 May 14, David Vidal, “‘Nuyoricans’ Express Pain and Joy in Poetry”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:


Nuyorican

The variety of Spanish spoken by Nuyoricans.


code face

[…] hype merchants of the computing world are up and running off towards the horizon before the IS workers toiling away at the code face are even crawling.

1992, Patrick A V Hall, Software reuse and reverse engineering in practice:

Why is it that, everywhere we look in the software world from academics, for whom computation is an abstract notion way above the trivializing clutter of actual computers, to hard-core systems designers and programmers, people actually working at the code face (as it were), we encounter this urge to apologize for the current techniques and to seek improvement?

1992, Derek Partridge, Engineering artificial intelligence software:

This was a CIO Magazine poll of senior managers, not a poll of programmers at the codeface. Programmers will get enough deserved blame in the Y2k aftermath; please don't incite undeserved blame.

1999, Barb Knox, “Y2K Optimism: Unjustified in survey”, in comp.software.year-2000 (Usenet):

Documentation is at least one conceptual step away from the code-face, out of date the moment it's written, and difficult to write […]

2003, Robert L Glass, Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering:

Code craft starts at the codeface; it's where we love to be. We programmers are never happier than when immersed in an editor, bashing out line after line of perfectly formed and well-executed source code.

2007, Pete Goodliffe, Code craft: the practice of writing excellent code:

(computing, informal) The place where programmers develop source code (as opposed to conceptually distant areas such as design and marketing).


austemper

austemper (third-person singular simple present austempers, present participle austempering, simple past and past participle austempered)

austempers (present singular third-person)
austempering (participle present)
austempered (participle past)
austempered (past)

(transitive) To harden (a metal) and produce a stronger microstructure by heating it into the austenite region and then immediately quenching and removing any bainite and ausferrite.


seaquarium

en-noun

seaquarium (plural seaquariums or seaquaria)

An infant pigmy sperm whale was left on the waterstep of the Miami Seaquarium one night recently.

1969, “The Fishermen and the Whale”, in The Drum and Croaker, volume 69, number 3, page 31:


trit

Blend of trinary + digit, formed in analogy to bit from binary digit.

For example, consider storing trits (recall Section 2.6.4), which take values in {0, 1, 2}. If we use 2 bits per value, then an array A[1, n] of trits requires 2n bits.

2016, Gonzalo Navarro, Compact Data Structures, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 45:

(computing) The ternary equivalent of a bit; a fundamental unit of information that may take any of three distinct states.


qubyte

Blend of quantum + byte, generalizing the prefix qu-, after qubit.

(quantum computing) A quantum byte, one composed of eight qubits.


blackwit

(Yorkshire, birdwatching) the black-tailed godwit.


sorostitute

The last one was a satirical documentary about sorostitute joggers around town called "Joggin'."

...you sorostitute . . . you Douche in the larval stage, you cum dumpster for Saint Rays and Phi Gams only— discriminating anorexic bitch, aren't you...

2005, Tom Wolfe, I am Charlotte Simmons:

Let me put it this way: frat daddies and sorostitutes suck, but that's completely my opinion. There are lots of pretty faces around here.

2005, Lindsey Nolan, Latasha Hamilton, Auburn University College Prowler Off The Record:

(US, slang, derogatory) A slutty member of a sorority (social group for female students).


ellagitannin

(organic chemistry) Any of a group of tannins, related to ellagic acid, that have potential as anticancer drugs


humanure

Human excrement that is recycled via composting for agricultural or other purposes.


technorati

/ˌtɛknəˈɹɑːti/

‘The clash is between what you might call the technorati and the literati,’ wrote Bob Thompson in The Washington Post shortly after Updike's speech. ‘The technorati are thrilled at the way computers and the Internet are revolutionizing the world of books. The literati fear that, amid the revolutionary fervor, crucial institutions and core values will be guillotined.’

2008, Jeff Gomez, quoting Bob Thompson, Print Is Dead: Books in our Digital Age, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN:

The Winklevosses say this week’s tumult is just growing pains for a digital currency that they believe will become a sort of gold for the technorati.

2013 April 11, Nathaniel Popper, Peter Lattman, “Never Mind Facebook; Winklevoss Twins Rule in Digital Money”, in New York Times:

(informal) Those who are skilled at using, or knowledgeable about, technology.


Mohole

Blend of Mohorovičić discontinuity + hole

blend

Mohorovičić discontinuity
Mohorovičić discontinuity

A hole drilled through the Earth's crust into the Mohorovičić discontinuity, part of a scientific project of the 1960s.


posedown

The real reason for these subdued responses was the fact that the audience knew it would be a fight to the finish; they were saving their screams for the posedown festivities to come.

1988, Steve Holman, “Christian Conquers Columbus”, in Ironman, 47 (6): 28-34:

(bodybuilding) The final part of a competition in which two or more bodybuilders pose freestyle on stage side by side, rather than individually.


hebra

The offspring of a cross between a horse sire and a zebra dam.


skurf

en-verb

skurf (third-person singular simple present skurfs, present participle skurfing, simple past and past participle skurfed)

skurfs (present singular third-person)
skurfing (participle present)
skurfed (participle past)
skurfed (past)

to ride on a small surfboard towed behind a speedboat, after the manner of water skiing


haylage

en-noun

haylage (countable and uncountable, plural haylages)

Blend of hay + silage. Coined in 1949 to distinguish this type of fodder from earlier types of grass silage with higher moisture percentages.

(agriculture) A type of silage with a high dry-matter content, made from the same grasses or legumes from which hay is made (such as alfalfa, timothy, and others) but not dried as much as hay nor as little as direct-chop/green-chop silage (before being ensiled).

silage

when spoken of as distinguished from "regular" silage, including higher-moisture grass silage types


earcon

(computing, broadcasting) A brief, distinctive sound used to represent a specific item or event.


jackalope

Most jackalopes are furry and a foot or two tall; many are only heads, mounted on wood plaques; there are some six-footers, covered with fur...

1993, Jane Stern, Michael Stern, Way out west:

A folkloric animal, a supposed cross between a jackrabbit and an antelope, goat, or deer, usually portrayed as a rabbit with antlers.


bozon

Chain book sellers are, by and large, bogon and bozon emitters like nothing you've ever seen.

1996, John Novak, “Re: TOR is Fucking with Us All”, in rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan (Usenet):

One bozon is the exact amount of stupidity and lack of scientific knowledge needed to confuse joules with watts.

2000, Jeffrey Yu, “[Fanfic] Flame Wars!!!”, in alt.startrek.vs.starwars (Usenet):

Riling people to the point of stupidity is a poor litmus test of their decency, no matter how red and blue their faces get. The result of these trolls seems only to show that the collision of large egos results in the ejection of energetic bozons.

2000, Dirt First!, “Re: Thanks for all the fish, but I'm vegetarian”, in comp.lang.perl.misc (Usenet):

There might be a superhigh concentration of bozons which will create a Stupid Hole and suck them all in.

2001, "Kurt[MCoPS]", Re: [ot] Aiiieee! - The Four Horseman return! (on newsgroup rec.games.miniatures.warhammer)

(humorous) A notional particle of stupidity.


oxymetholone

Blend of (hydr)oxymethylidene + mestanolone.

blend

(pharmacology) A synthetic anabolic steroid developed in 1960, used to treat osteoporosis and anaemia and to stimulate muscle growth in undernourished or underdeveloped patients.


riot grrrl

en-noun

riot grrrl (countable and uncountable, plural riot grrrls or riot grrrlz)

riot grrrls (plural)
riot grrrlz (plural)

The Riot Grrl scene emerged in the early '90s, but had faded as a driving force in popular culture by the end of the decade. Looking back, most associate the Riot Grrl movement mainly with music, and although the music entered the popular culture, it's fair to say that much of the feminist message has been lost.

2004, Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, The F-word, Seal Press, →ISBN, page 86:

(uncountable) An underground feminist punk movement and subculture that began in the early 1990s.


glulam

glulam (countable and uncountable, plural glulams)

(uncountable) Glued laminated timber: a structural timber product composed of several layers of dimensioned lumber glued together.


chemigation

chemigation (countable and uncountable, plural chemigations)

(agriculture) The application of a pesticide or fertilizer through an irrigation system.


farmaceutical

Of course industry assures us that biotech's "farmaceuticals" would never be allowed to grow in proximity to related plants and wild relatives, and that measures will be taken to mitigate the spread of transgenes from pharma crops and biofortified plants.

2002 Spring, ETC Group, “Genetic Pollution in Mexico's Center of Maize Diversity”, in Backgrounder, volume 8, number 2, archived from the original on 2008-11-28, page 3:

(pharmacology, medicine) A medically valuable compound produced from modified agricultural crops or animals (usually through biotechnology).


farmaceutical

(pharmacology, medicine) Of or pertaining to farmaceuticals.


ambisextrous

en-adj

ambisextrous (comparative more ambisextrous, superlative most ambisextrous)

more ambisextrous (comparative)
most ambisextrous (superlative)

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One searches to see whether the author [of “He created them male and female”, Genesis 5:2] meant to say that man was at the start ambisextrous […]

1920, Ezra Pound, “Genesis, or, The First Book in the Bible”, reprinted in Pavannes and Divagations, New Directions Publishing (1974), page 171

“So you think, wonderful woman; but you're so utterly unlike your sisters in that particular. You're ambisextrous, do you know that?”

1921 November 19, Richard Matthews Hallet, “The Canyon of the Fools”, in The Saturday Evening Post, volume 194, number 2, page 55:

My signature with either hand is the same. I’m ambidextrous, ambisextrous. I’m intermediate sex.

a. 1922, “Adolf Smith” (pseudonym), quoted in Dudley Ward Fay, “Adolf, a Modern Edipus”, in The Psychoanalytic Review, Volume IX Number 3 (July 1922), page 281

Having both male and female, or masculine and feminine, elements.


brandwash

(derogatory) An alteration of this kind.


plasticulture

en-noun

plasticulture (countable and uncountable, plural plasticultures)

Careful innovation and novel use of appropriate plasticulture can revolutionize Indian agriculture allowing the country to enter into high-tech areas of development.

1994, A. N. Sarkar, chapter 14, in Integrated horticulture development in eastern Himalayas, →ISBN, page 241:

This technology is already in use in plasticulture throughout the world but legislation will in the future limit the use of materials that accumulate in soil or lead to the generation of long-term toxic products in the soil.

2005, Ray Smith, chapter 17.4, in Biodegradable polymers for industrial applications, →ISBN, page 470:

(agriculture, uncountable) The use of plastics in agriculture.

Most strawberries are soil grown in various configurations, under plasticulture (Pitts et al., 1998) or straw mulch.

2005, J. Benton Jones, chapter 11, in Hydroponics: a practical guide for the soilless grower, →ISBN, page 256:

(agriculture, countable) The plastics used in agriculture.


intertwingle

en-verb

intertwingle (third-person singular simple present intertwingles, present participle intertwingling, simple past and past participle intertwingled)

intertwingles (present singular third-person)
intertwingling (participle present)
intertwingled (participle past)
intertwingled (past)

Blend of intertwine + intermingle
This word has been coined independently multiple times.
* Apparently used comically by Montgomery Gordon Rice of Bradley Polytechnic Institute in an April 1901 performance of Esmeralda
* Used as a noun by Henry James as a nickname for a group of his Emmet female cousins who were painters.
* Used as a noun by John Singer Sargent as a nickname for his 1900s genre paintings of the Ormond sisters (his nieces); either relating to the use of shawls as a motif, or the interchangeability of the models, or their convoluted poses. (Jane Emmet de Glehn, one of Henry James' "intertwingles", was also a friend and model of Sargent's.)
* Introduced in urban planning by Tracy Augur in the 1950s, and adopted by others including Dennis O'Harrow
The more specific computing sense was introduced by Ted Nelson in Computer Lib/Dream Machines (1974).

Deeply intertwingled hypertext documents offer readers abundant choices, permitting reader and author to work together to dynamically reorganize the document to meet specific needs.

1991 February, Mark Bernstein, "Deeply Intertwingled Hypertext: The Navigation Problem Reconsidered" Technical Communication Vol.38 No.1 p.41

2015 Theodor Holm Nelson, "What Box?" p.134 in Intertwingled: The Work and Influence of Ted Nelson Douglas R. Dechow and Daniele C. Strappa, eds. (2015) History of Computing →ISSN →ISBN
This book, like the conference, is called Intertwingled. It’s a word that expresses a philosophical position about cross-connection. I said in Computer Lib, “Everything is deeply intertwingled.” I meant that all subjects and issues are intertwined and intermingled. ... Now, it’s also a metaphysic to say, “everything is deeply intertwingled,” since the sentence cannot be proven true or false. But it is computer science to say that we need to represent cross-connection, and I’m expressing a computer science opinion when I say that intertwingularity is a better form of representation—for everything—than hierarchy.

(intransitive, informal, computing, rare) To interconnect or interrelate in a deep and complex way.


pigopoly

It is no more than a tie between the players in the Two-Party Pigopoly* of our government. ¶ […] ¶ *term courtesy of The Register […]

2002 February 1, "Ayn R Keey" (username), "Re: Democrat National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe does not hold office", in alt.fan.rush-limbaugh and other newsgroups, Usenet

That's actually quite encouraging; it shows that no matter how much they try, pigopolies like the MPAA can't stop technology with legislation.

2003 November 19, Tacit, “Re: Screen capture from DVD”, in comp.graphics.apps.photoshop (Usenet):

I think it is one thing to not have DRM built in in the first place, and keep your board from being being massacred by the pigopoly, but quite another to have built-in DRM and not implemet it.

2005 February 21, news, “Re: Mac OS X and the Cell Processor: A Marriage Made in Heaven?”, in comp.sys.mac.advocacy (Usenet):

[…] a lot of smaller ISPs were getting their feed from a certain pigopoly company that had decided to save money and unplug a heap of their storage units & sell them off.

2006 November 7, Data Banks, “Re: a quick semi-OT question”, in alt.games.the-sims (Usenet):

(informal, derogatory) A cartel of greedy, overcharging businesses, specifically the entertainment industry.


mereotopology

/ˌmɛɹɪətəˈpɒləd͡ʒi/

(mathematics) A theory combining mereology and topology, investigating relations between parts and wholes and boundaries between them.


Auslan

Blend of Australian + sign + language, coined by Trevor Johnston in the early 1980s, although the language itself is much older.

The sign language of the Australian deaf community.


unintelligentsia

Blend of unintelligent + intelligentsia, by surface analysis, un- + intelligentsia.

surf

(informal, derogatory) The unintelligent members of a society or community; the unthinking mob.


Emmabel

Perhaps a blend of Emma + Annabel or blend of Emma + Mabel.

July 4, 1899 (Tuesday) at house of Joseph B. Bennett by Joseph B. Bennett, Judge Greenup County Court, in presence of Annie L. Bennett and Emmabel Bennett […]

2007, Patricia Porter Phillips, Greenup County, Kentucky Marriages: The First 100 Years, 1803-1903:

(rare) A female given name originating as a coinage.


-gov-

(pharmacology) a monoclonal antibody that targets ovarian tumors

-got- is a coordinate term and has the same alternative form

-mab is the base suffix common to all monoclonal antibodies


clickjacking

Blend of click + hijacking, coined by Jeremiah Grossman and Robert Hansen in 2008.

New 0-Day Browser Exploits Clickjacking - yea, this is bad... Jeremiah Grossman & Robert "RSnake" Hansen

2008 September 12, Jeremiah Grossman, Robert Hansen, “OWASP NYC AppSec 2008 Conference”, in OWASP, archived from the original on 2016-09-13:

Clickjacking, however, evades the need for this cross domain reading, and instead directly places the mouse over the target area to click on the link or form that contains the nonce - thereby bypassing the need for client side cross domain read exploitation.

2008 September 12, Robert Hansen, Jeremiah Grossman, “Clickjacking”, in SecTheory - Internet Security Services Internet Security, archived from the original on 2008-10-29:

(computing, web development) A malicious technique whereby part of a webpage is covered by transparent or misleading content that receives the user’s mouse clicks, thus causing them to execute commands they did not intend.


imposex

(biology) The development in certain marine gastropod mollusks of sex organs in contrast to their actual gender, the result of toxic pollutants.


freetard

Blend of freedom + retard, by surface analysis, free + -tard.

(Internet slang, derogatory) A zealous advocate of free software.


mensiversary

Blend of anniversary + Latin mēnsis (“month”), perhaps through French mensiversaire.

How flourishes the King of Clubs? I always observe its mensiversary in my fancy.

1805 June 1, James Mackintosh, edited by Robert James Mackintosh, Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh, volume 1, published 1835, letter to Richard Sharp, page 250:

(rare) A day that marks an exact month (or specified number of months) since the occurrence of a significant event.

monatreveno

day that is an exact month (or specified number of months) since the occurrence of an event


Cambozola

Blend of camembert + gorgonzola; first industrially produced by the Germany company Champignon in the 1970s.

A smooth, mild cheese made from the same blue Penicillium roqueforti mould used to make gorgonzola, Roquefort, and Stilton, with the addition of cream for consistency.


kyphoscoliosis

en-noun

kyphoscoliosis (countable and uncountable, plural kyphoscolioses)

(medicine) Abnormal curvature of the spine in both coronal and sagittal planes; i.e. backward and lateral (sideways) spinal curvature.

cifoescoliose

abnormal curvature of the spine in both coronal and sagittal planes


dotmocracy

An informal process of voting in which the participants indicate their preference by placing or drawing a dot alongside the favoured choice.


logit

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Blend of logistic + unit, by analogy with probit, coined by Joseph Berkson in 1944: “I use this term [logit] for ln p/q following Bliss, who called the analogous function which is linear on x for the normal curve ‘probit.’”

operatorname logit(p)= log (p/(1-p))= log (p)- log (1-p).!,

(mathematics) the inverse of the "sigmoid" or "logistic" function used in mathematics, especially in statistics. The logit of a number p between 0 and 1 is given by the formula:


Chinglish

en-adj

Chinglish (comparative more Chinglish, superlative most Chinglish)

more Chinglish (comparative)
most Chinglish (superlative)

(sometimes derogatory) Of or resembling English that is influenced by the Chinese language.

中式英語的

resembling English influenced by Chinese


Chinglish

And as Global English evolves through the twenty-first century, Chinglish will, undoubtedly, continue to have a sizable impact.

2008, Paul J.J. Payack, A Million Words And Counting: How Global English Is Rewriting The World, →ISBN:

Andrea acknowledged that she spoke Chinglish, that she hated her accent, and that learners needed a comprehensible teacher voice in the classroom.

2010, Janette Ryan, Gordon Slethaug, International Education and the Chinese Learner, →ISBN, page 146:

You will see signs written in Chinglish all over China. These signs are usually amusing to English-speaking westerners because they often make no sense, or the translation is inappropriately sexual in content.

2011, Jean M. Life, LIFE IN CHINA: My Story, →ISBN, page 204:

The same can be said about the speakers of Teochiu, Hokkien, Hakka, and Cantonese and Hailam in Southeast Asia, Cantonese in Hong Kong, and all the different topolect speakers and Chinglish or pidgin speakers in the United States.

2012, Shu-mei Shih, Sinophone Studies: A Critical Reader, →ISBN, page 32:

(sometimes derogatory) Spoken or written English which is influenced by the Chinese language.


biot

en:Jean-Baptiste Biot
en:biot (disambiguation)

From French Biot; Named after Jean-Baptiste Biot.


biot

(science fiction) A robot composed of living components.


coywolf

Canis latrans
Canis latrans#Translingual

A hybrid of a coyote (Canis latrans) and a wolf.


catnapper

From catnap + -er or blend of cat + kidnapper.

Besides, I reflected, Joe might easily have become a catnapper, as so many millions of other Americans had become since Sarah Perkins, during the campaign, had made it so widely known that although the incumbent President slept in a bed with the covers over him for three and sometimes four hours a night, she herself never slept at all except for the catnaps.


pralidoxime

(pharmacology) An oxime used in conjunction with atropine to combat poisoning by organophosphates or acetylcholinesterase inhibitors (nerve agents).


triazolam

(organic chemistry, pharmacology) A benzodiazepine C₁₇H₁₂Cl₂N₄ used as a sleep-inducing agent in the short-term treatment of insomnia.


tolvaptan

(pharmacology) A certain vaptan drug used to treat hyponatremia and potentially polycystic kidney disease.


ramscoop

(science fiction) A proposed space travel technology using enormous electromagnetic fields as a scoop to collect and compress hydrogen and trigger thermonuclear fusion, thus powering the vessel.


astrogate

en-verb

astrogate (third-person singular simple present astrogates, present participle astrogating, simple past and past participle astrogated)

astrogates (present singular third-person)
astrogating (participle present)
astrogated (participle past)
astrogated (past)

Sure, Mike was used to having many loads in trajectory at once—but had never had to astrogate more than one at a time. Now he had hundreds and had promised to deliver twenty-nine of them simultaneously to the exact second at twenty-nine pinpointed targets.

1966, Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, New York: Ace, published 2018, Book 3, Chapter 25:

(science fiction, transitive, intransitive) To astronavigate; to control and guide a spacecraft.


Runglish

Nadsat

the Russian-influenced argot used by the teenage protagonist in Anthony Burgess's novel A Clockwork Orange (1962)

Don’t bother defining Runglish, simply let its rising bilingual tides of English-flavored Russian and Russian-flavored English wash over your eardrums – as thousands of speakers in a dozen societies already do. (Moscow News 11 Sept 2013)

2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 6:

(informal) Any mixture of the Russian and English languages.

(informal) An informal romanization of Russian, usually following English spelling rules.


computronium

Toffoli says he thinks of CAM-8 as "computronium" -- a flexible "element" capable of mimicking all other elements and particles, real or imagined.

1990 February 17, I. Amato, “Computronium: the 'element' that imitates”, in Science News, volume 137, number 7, page 103:


innovent

innovent (third-person singular simple present innovents, present participle innoventing, simple past and past participle innovented)

innovents (present singular third-person)
innoventing (participle present)
innovented (participle past)
innovented (past)

So in effect, the millennials are generating 3 key trends: Innoventing, Neo-Bartering, and Q-Rewarding. Innoventing. They say you can’t reinvent the wheel, but millennials definitely believe they can make it better. They are innovative inventors that are re-creating and bettering existing products and technologies.

2011 October 21, Cheryl Swanson, “Millennials and the Recession Trends: Innoventing, Neo-Bartering, and Q-Rewarding”, in Popsop, archived from the original on 2017-09-11:

There are the classic inventions (a magical new mech), the innovations (a new animated IP or a board game that’s built a fan base already from a crowdfunding site) and then there’s both (Paw Patrol, the magical toy mech plus the story). When you combine both, you get innoventing. If you can create an idea that has the combination of inventing (conceiving a unique idea) and innovation (executing that unique idea so it has the ability to disrupt) then you’re ‘innoventing’ – you’ve gone beyond the raw invention and shown the vision by applying it to a commercial market.

2019 March 20, Fi Murray, “Innoventing: a new era of inventing?”, in Mojo Nation, archived from the original on 2021-01-17:

And I wish readers success in innoventing with this book. Good luck!

2020 January 18, Michael A. Orloff, Modern TRIZ Modeling in Master Programs: Introduction to TRIZ Basics at University and Industry, Springer Nature, →ISBN:

During about last four decades, besides nature’s ferocities and degradation of environmental ecosystem, new risks and challenges are from cyber criminals. Digital assets are their targets for extracting ransoms in millions. They infiltrate through the pores of system peripherals and spread malwares using digital tools. The irony is that, they use mostly the same tools, e. g., AI, ML, RPA, etc. to spawn new malwares, which digital scientists use for ‘innoventing’ solutions and creating deterrents for malwares. This battle is gradually taking dreadful dimensions.

2020 February, Paritosh Basu, “DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION – RISK ENABLED PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT AND GOVERNANCE”, in The Management Accountant, via Magzter, archived from the original on 2023-01-12:


calretinin

en-noun

calretinin (countable and uncountable, plural calretinins)

(biochemistry) A vitamin D-dependent calcium-binding protein involved in calcium signalling and abundantly expressed in neurons; it stains mesothelioma and can help to identify lung tumours.


co-amoxiclav

From co- and a blend of amoxicillin + clavulanate.

(pharmacology) A combination antibiotic containing amoxicillin trihydrate, a beta-lactam antibiotic, and potassium clavulanate, a beta-lactamase inhibitor.


amrinone

congestive heart failure
congestive heart failure

(pharmacology) A type 3 pyridine phosphodiesterase inhibitor used to treat congestive heart failure.


polymersome

Both the membrane bending and area expansion moduli of electroformed polymersomes (polymer-based liposomes) fell within the range of lipid membrane measurements, but the giant polymersomes proved to be almost an order of magnitude tougher and sustained far greater areal strain before rupture.

1999 May 14, Bohdana M. Discher et al., “Polymersomes: Tough Vesicles Made from Diblock Copolymers”, in Science, volume 284, number 5417, →DOI, pages 1143–1146:

The governing concepts for this biological self-assembly are general; for example, we expect synthetic analogs, such as charged polymersomes of diblock copolymers (47 ) and polyelectrolytes, to give rise to similar complex membrane architectures and "plastic" tubules for chemical delivery and a variety of other applications.

2000 June 16, Gerard C. L. Wong et al., “Hierarchical Self-Assembly of F-Actin and Cationic Lipid Complexes: Stacked Three-Layer Tubule Networks”, in Science, volume 288, number 5473, →DOI, pages 2035–2039:

(organic chemistry) A polymer-based liposome.


pracademic

Blend of practitioner + academic. The earliest reference may have been identified by a subscriber to Worldwide Words in 1973.

The life and times of pracademics

Someone who is both an academic and an active practitioner in their subject area.


pracademic

en-adj

pracademic (comparative more pracademic, superlative most pracademic)

more pracademic (comparative)
most pracademic (superlative)

I earned a pracademic degree.

The Pracademic Curve

Pertaining to a type of teaching style for entrepreneurs


glasphalt

One 58-foot-long test strip of glasphalt pavement, outside the Owens-Illinois Technical Center in Toledo, has held up well during the worst winter in years […]

1970 March 16, “Riding on Wastes”, in Time, archived from the original on 2010-12-01:

Indeed, in a glut, contaminated materials may find no market at any price, or they may be used for low-value uses such as landfill cover, glasphalt paving, or sandblasting--not for closed-loop recycling that reduces solid waste and saves natural resources.

1991 November 15, Eric Melvin, “Garbage In, Garbage Out”, in Chicago Reader:

A type of asphalt that uses crushed glass in place of rock aggregate.


piracetam

Nootropics also include extracted and purified components of medicinal plants, as well as substances synthesized from chemical precursors, such as piracetam, the world's first official nootropic (piracetam was created in 1964 in Belgium by a team of scientists whose leader, Dr. Corneliu E. Giurgea, coined the term).

2012 January 30, Ari LeVaux, “Experimenting With Nootropics to Increase Mental Capacity, Clarity”, in The Atlantic:

A nootropic drug, 2-oxo-1-pyrrolidine acetamide.


insultant

As a consultant, he has specialized in strategy and policy for businesses, nonprofits, and government agencies around the globe. He is perhaps most famous for his direct criticisms of management, acknowledging that clients consider him a management "insultant."

2004, William R. Childs, Scott B. Martin, Wanda Stitt-Gohdes, Business and Industry: Corporate governance to entrepreneurship:

Not surrounding yourself with only the 'Yes' men and women. Invite some 'Insultants' instead of just Consultants to keep you honest. Most consultants will tell you what you want to hear […]

2008, Lu KeeHong, The 7e Way of Leaders, page 3:

Breakthroughs like having insultants around because they're prepared to buck convention and challenge the fundamental assumptions of the business. Outsiders serving as insultants are generally best because they feel no need to defer to the preferences of the CEO in order to enhance their promotion prospects.

2014, BusinessNews Publishing, Summary: The Breakthrough Company:

(business, colloquial) A consultant who is willing to criticise the organisation that they work for.


tensegrity

en-noun

tensegrity (countable and uncountable, plural tensegrities)

Coined by Buckminster Fuller, blend of tensional + integrity.

(architecture, physics) tensional integrity (of a structure)


animanga

animanga (countable and uncountable, plural animanga or animangas)

(countable) A manga created from cels from an anime.


Amerimanga

Personally, I believe that an American comic is not manga, but I prefer to call things like NHS either Foreign-manga, Amerimanga, or (the catch-all) "Manga-inspired." That's what I would call an American comic drawn in the manga style.

1995, Sharpwit, “What makes a manga manga?”, in rec.arts.manga (Usenet):

Every time the subject's come up, I've seen the complaint that "S/he's just copying the manga look, not the layout/storytelling/themes" bandied about over just about any Amerimanga artist you'd care to name. However, I'e ^([sic]) never really seen anyone describe exactly what they *meant* by that. Obviously, they mean more than (as Warren says) "huge eyes and speed-lines". So what else then?

1998, Gwydion, “What is the "Manga Style"?”, in rec.arts.comics.misc (Usenet):

...and Devil's Due just keeps putting out more terrific, in-color Amerimanga (its new Udon line focuses on video game-related stories)...

2006, Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link, Gavin Grant, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2006: 19th Annual Collection:

These titles, dubbed Amerimanga or original English language manga, draw their inspirations from Japanese and other Asian comics.

2007, Robin E Brenner, Understanding manga and anime:

Comics created in the United States, or by extension North America, in the style of Japanese comics (manga).


solvmanifold

(mathematics) A homogeneous space of a connected solvable Lie group.


snoozle

en-verb

snoozle (third-person singular simple present snoozles, present participle snoozling, simple past and past participle snoozled)

snoozles (present singular third-person)
snoozling (participle present)
snoozled (participle past)
snoozled (past)

She […] seemed absorbed in her occupation; desisting from it only to […] push away a dog, now and then, that snoozled its nose overforwardly into her face.

1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], Wuthering Heights: […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], →OCLC:

(British, rare) To nuzzle affectionately.


diazoxide

(pharmacology) A potassium channel activator which causes local relaxation in smooth muscle by increasing membrane permeability to potassium ions, used as a vasodilator to treat hypertension and in diabetes to decrease the secretion of insulin.


hydroxyzine

en-noun

hydroxyzine (countable and uncountable, plural hydroxyzines)

(pharmacology) A first-generation antihistamine of the piperazine class, used as an antihistamine, antiemetic, anxiolytic, and weak analgesic.


cranapple

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

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

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

(attributive) A blend of cranberry and apple.


pirenzepine

Blend of pi(pe)razine + ben(zodia)zepine.

blend

(pharmacology) A drug used in the treatment of peptic ulcers, one of the muscarinic receptor antagonists.


Wiimote

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Blend of Wii + remote. Not a trademark, but a nickname for the product.

[…] co-ordinated combinations of button presses and feedback loops of rumbling joypads, Wiimotes and styli.

2008, James Newman, Playing with videogames:

Finally it can be used in parallel with other Wiimotes in order to provide more motion data or even be expanded with other devices […]

2009, Ernesto Damiani, Jechang Jeong, Robert J Howlett, Lakhmi C Jain, New Directions in Intelligent Interactive Multimedia Systems and Services:

The Wiimote provides sensing of acceleration on three axes, as well as an optical sensor that is used in conjunction with a stationary Sensor Bar […]

2009, Alan Craig, William R Sherman, Jeffrey D Will, Developing Virtual Reality Applications: Foundations of Effective Design:

(video games, informal) The Wii Remote, the primary controller for the Nintendo Wii game console, noted for its motion-sensing capabilities.

Astrid Ensslin
Palgrave Macmillan
Wiimote


clonazepam

(organic chemistry, pharmacology) A benzodiazepine with potent anticonvulsant used especially in the treatment of epilepsy and other seizure disorders; C₁₅H₁₀ClN₃O₃. It is a derivative of nitrazepam.


Jewfro

He raked his fingers through his hair, which had become a Jewfro in the Florida humidity.

2022, Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Vintage (2023), page 160:

A curly, bushy hairstyle worn by some Ashkenazi Jews.


agitpop

His keenest outrage is reserved for the Bush administration, which he tears into like a good punker should, but Gabel's lyrics and delivery have a subtlety and wit that more didactic agitpop singers lack. "

2006 April 28, Miles Raymer, “Against Me!”, in Chicago Reader:

(music) Pop music of an agitational character


alternarock

While the album admirably breaks the downward stylistic spiral that marked the latter band's career, it's so crammed with alternarock stars it sounds more like a tribute to Watt than a solo debut.

1995 May 5, Peter Margasak, “Spot Check”, in Chicago Reader:

Alternative rock
alternative rock#English


alderperson

en-noun

alderperson (plural alderpersons or alderpeople)

alderpersons (plural)
alderpeople (plural)

That is the problem with Dorothy's Third Ward, all these years she has been alderperson she has not made any deals to better that pigsty.

1992 February 14, Maryanne Burgess, “Re: Respect”, in Chicago Reader:

With Daley's iron grip and his loyal band of alderpeople, he will continue to ride roughshod over what appears to be a very complacent Chicago populace.

2007 August 24, Mike Koskiewicz, “On Taxes and TIF Spending”, in Chicago Reader:

(uncommon) An alderman of any gender; a member of a city council.


smartbook

A mobile device that has the functions of both a smartphone and a netbook.


treggings

A form of trousers having the characteristics of jeans and leggings.


Twitterati

For amusing one-liners, news, and water-cooler chatter about Palin from the Twitterati, please keep checking in on our "McCain VP Watch" Twitter widget on our blog to the right.

2008 September 3, Sarah Lai Stirland, “Sarah Palin's Campaign Debut Electrifies the GOP, Galvanizes The Twitterati”, in Wired:

Fire-starters weren’t the only ones at work that night. The Twitterati were also in full force.

2009 June 8, Elina Shatkin, “Taco Zone truck attacked in Echo Park, as told by Twitter”, in Los Angeles Times:

Sitting in the courtroom […], their laptops and tablets propped before them, power cables snaking through convoluted adapters, the Twitterati have sight of witnesses at all times — the troubadours, or perhaps the tricoteuses, of the digital revolution.

2014 April 24, Alan Cowell, “At Pistorius trial, Twitterati have their day in court”, in The New York Times:

Queen Elizabeth II may not have been amused, but the Twitterati certainly were.

2018 July 14, Sarah Mervosh, “Trump Walks in Front of Queen Elizabeth, Causing Social Media Frenzy”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(informal) People, particularly avid or frequent users, who use the microblogging service Twitter.


copypasta

copypasta (countable and uncountable, plural copypastas)

→ Polish: copypasta

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Blend of copy-paste + pasta.
Etymology tree
Middle English copien
English copy
Proto-Indo-European *kʷeh₁t-der.
Ancient Greek πάσσω (pássō)
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Ancient Greek -τός (-tós)
Ancient Greek παστός (pastós)
Ancient Greek παστά (pastá)bor.
Late Latin pasta
Old French pastebor.
Middle English paste
English paste
English copy-pasteblend.
Late Latin pasta
Italian pastabor.
English pastablend.
English copypasta

etymon

Fix copypasta error in previous patch.

2011 February 1, Polytheus, “r288 committed - ChangeLog for system 6.2-rc1, boot 3.0”, in openetna (Usenet):

There are a number of file systems that have copypasta of ufs_ihash; adapting these too to vcache should be a piece of cake.

2014 April 7, Taylor R. Campbell, “Vnode API change: add global vnode cache”, in fa.netbsd.tech.kern (Usenet):

Perl's pod docs are a disorganized mess on the relation of hashes, packages, objects, references and globs. The tutorials never make it clear, and instead encourage copypasta.

2015 June 27, bulk 88, “documentation: do we want perlblurb?”, in perl.perl5.porters (Usenet):

This [bug documentation] is copypasta from the initramfs-tools bug.

2016 April 5, Ben Hutchings, “Bug#820038: Copy signatures into udebs”, in linux.debian.maint.boot (Usenet):

Something like 30% of large codebases on "big name" software projects by Google, Adobe, etc. have "copypasta errors" in code of the form like this, a shit-headed way to compare two arrays for reverse equality:
if (array_1[9] == array_2[0] &&
array_1[8] == array_2[1] && […]

2019 February 18, bitrex, “Modern Math”, in sci.electronics.design (Usenet):

(computing, slang) Code or documentation that has been copied and pasted, often erroneously.

copié-merdé

code or documentation that has been copied and pasted, often erroneously


cavicapture

(biochemistry) The temporary capture of a small molecule in a cavity of a biological macromolecule.


memcapacitance

(physics) The capacitance of a memcapacitor.


memcapacitor

(physics) A capacitor with memory, whose capacitance depends on past input.


transflective

liquid crystal display
liquid crystal display

(electronics, computing) Of a liquid crystal display: that reflects and transmits light.


barstaurant

It's hard to find spiritual reverence in an advertisement for "Kokopelli," a Chicago "barstaurant" that "endeavors to honor its namesake […]"

1998 August 18, “The Most Famous Flutist from Kitsch to Fine Art, Kokopelli is King”, in The Gazette, Colorado Springs:

Thus the owners of Boka hope to imprint an atmosphere of fellowship on their new venture, LANDMARK, a noisy and for the moment crowded barstaurant at the epicenter of the neighborhood once voted Most in Denial of the Housing Project Next Door.

2005 October 7, Martha Bayne, Kathie Bergquist, Mike Sula, “The Hot New Barstaurant, Fancified Mexican, and Upscale Irish”, in Chicago Reader:

I was a little surprised to hear that the owner of this so-called "regionally inspired," "rustic," tin-ceilinged Italian spot was also a partner in the generic barstaurant Charlie's Ale House next door.

2007 June 1, “What's New: Rustic Italian, Coal-Oven Pizza, and Thai Tapas”, in Chicago Reader:

The seafood-centric barstaurant will have a few specials (lobster ravioli with beurre blanc, anyone?) plus the usual seafood towers, and the excellent bar staff will keep the drinks flowing.

2022 December 20, Nikita Richardson, “A Plan for Every Kind of New Year’s Eve”, in The New York Times:

(chiefly Chicago) A combined bar and restaurant.


brickor mortis

I've certainly heard people complain of feeling "credit crunched", although I can't really imagine anyone using the term brickor mortis with a straight face.

[2009 January 14, Hilary Osborne, “Empty of pocket, rich in diction: The credit crunched dictionary”, in The Guardian:

(UK, informal, rare) A condition of the housing market in which very few houses are bought and sold.


primidone

(pharmacology) An anticonvulsant drug chemically related (and partially metabolized) to phenobarbital, used in the treatment of epilepsy and essential (idiopathic) tremor.


wasbian

On the island she will meet up with her pal Mary Sharon (a slightly subdued, slightly aging radical-feminist-lesbian attorney), Teddie (ex-love of Rachel and only slightly less-true-believer), Rachel (who’s hosting the reunion on her tiny island), Grace (enigma extraordinaire), and Julie (ex of Tyler’s, now a ‘wasbian’).

1999 October 31, Beren deMotier, “Mystery Forum,” The Lesbian Review of Books

(LGBT, slang, derogatory, sometimes offensive) A former lesbian who is now heterosexual.


Talibaptist

Blend of Taliban + Baptist, from the hardline tactics of the former group and the traditionalism of the latter.

(slang, derogatory, chiefly US) A fundamentalist Christian.


wasband

After reading here about the guy who calls his wife’s ex her ‘wasband,’ Rosemary Wolohan confides that she refers to her two exes as ‘hasbeends.’

1990, Herb Caen, “Plenty of Monday”, The San Francisco Chronicle, March 12, 1990

The bride’s aunt dances with her ex-husband — he’s called a ‘wasband’ — on the hay-strewn ‘dance floor’ in front of the barn.

1996, Abigail Trafford, “Will You Still Catch Me When I’m Sixty-Four?”, The Washington Post, September 10, 1996

El Camino Real Elementary School librarian Cindy Mirallegro wants to put a word in the dictionary. She thought it was her own word when she and her friend were talking and she invented it, but it turns out a search of the Internet showed that several other people have used it before. But, that doesn't matter to College Park resident Mirallegro, she still wants to get it listed in Webster's dictionary.

2002, Peggy Goetz, “Has anyone seen her wasband? School librarian wants to get a word in the dictionary”, The Orange County Register, May 9, 2002

"Has anyone seen her wasband?" said the headline in the Irvine World News. It wasn't a typo. The story referred to librarian Cindy Mirallegro's campaign to win acceptance for "wasband" as a word meaning ex-husband. " 'Ex' just sounds so harsh," said Mirallegro, who has a wasband herself. She sent the Irvine article to Merriam-Webster, which said the word could find "its way into our dictionaries" if "you and other proponents of the word continue to use it in speech and correspondence." Mirallegro said she and her friends are keeping an eye out for "wasband" mentions -- it dates back at least as far as a 1990 Herb Caen column.

2002, Steve Harvey, “Woman Campaigns for Another Term of Endearment for a Former Spouse”, The Los Angeles Times, December 12, 2002

"Wasband" didn't make it this year into Webster's New World College Dictionary update. That was the official word this week from Mike Agnes, Wiley Publishing's dictionary editor who oversees all new editions and updates of the dictionary.

2005, Peggy Goetz, “BEYOND THE BEIGE Wasband didn't make it And, what's up with wedgie?”, The Orange County Register, August 18, 2005

(slang, rare) An ex-husband, former husband.


wedsite

A website dedicated to sharing information about a particular wedding.


gengineered

genetically engineered
genetically engineered

(science fiction) genetically engineered


Imagineer

Disney Imagineers are offering us fantasy as real life. We can buy it and move in permanently.

2005, Keally D McBride, Collective dreams: political imagination and community:

An engineer responsible for designing and implementing innovative concepts or technologies, often found in theme parks, installation art, or fireworks.


slidewalk

(science fiction) A pavement/sidewalk that moves in the manner of a conveyor belt.


trimipramine

(pharmacology) A tricyclic antidepressant with sedative and anxiolytic properties.


salicylanilide

(chemistry) A compound that is both a salicylamide and an anilide.


fauxtograph

[ˈfoːtəɡɹɑːf]

/ˈfəʊtəɡɹɑːf/

Blend of faux + photograph; compare fauxtography.

2006 August 15, Larry Hammick, “OT -- a great fauxtograph”, in sci.math (Usenet):

That was one of the factors in the fauxtograph scandal a year or so ago. If AP and Reuters didn't photograph and publish the staged events provided for them, they wouldn't be allowed to stay in the country and would lose the ability to cover more staged events.

2007 August 15, Eliyahu, “Re: Old news, new show: Billy Graham on Jews”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):

Faking is as old as photography itself. In the First World War, faked pictures - fauxtographs - were circulated of the Kaiser cutting the hands off babies.

2009 June 25, Cassandra Jardine, “Iran's Joan of Arc: dying seconds that last for ever”, in The Sydney Morning Herald:

Hélène suggests here that identity consists not of physical presence, but of a place within a system: without the coating and the papers that back it up, one can have no identity and thus cannot live among the Foreigners — one cannot join that (or any) society. These papers, furthermore, are based on three simulacra, three representations (photographic or otherwise, but each of which Hélène calls a “fauxtograph” [fausse tographie]): the face, the thumbprint, and the signature of the cardholder. The signature itself — the traditional guarantee of an individual’s presence — is nothing other than “that fauxtograph of the name” (203). It is not the real name, but only its false reflection, and it is this reflection alone that allows identity, because it has been encoded into a system. Like Derrida’s “Signature Event Context,” which Hélène’s untutored analysis closely resembles, this line of reasoning privileges the imaginary but nonetheless real power of the name or of its representations, which Derrida calls the “effects of signature” (328), demonstrating the presence of the singer by proving his or her passive and thus absent absorption into a system of representation of which he or she is not actually a part.

1998, Jordan Stump, Naming & Unnaming: On Raymond Queneau, University of Nebraska Press, page 89


fauxtography

/fəʊˈtɒɡɹəfi/

/fəʊˈtɑɡɹəfi/

Coined by webloggers around the time of the July 2006 Israel–Hezbollah War in Lebanon in criticism of the manipulated images of the conflict published by journalistic outlets: blend of faux and photography; compare fauxtograph. (This term is attested prior to July 2006, chiefly in use for company names, without an established meaning, and probably coined independently.)

Also, fauxtography, coined by bloggers writing about the Israel–Lebanon conflict in summer 2006 to describe both the deceptive modification of pictures by newswire photojournalists and the intentional staging of tragic scenes for propagandistic photos in the media.

2006, The New Atlantis, numbers 12-14, Washington, D.C.: Ethics and Public Policy Center, page 146:

Various bloggers have uncovered several cases of fauxtography in Reuters’ photo coverage of the Israel–Hezbollah conflict.

2007 November 5, Aaron Peckham, Mo’ Urban Dictionary: Ridonkulous Street Slang Defined, Andrews McMeel Publishing, →ISBN, page 103, →ISBN:

2007 November 28, Cynthia Baron, Adobe Photoshop Forensics: Sleuths, Truths, and Fauxtography, main title (illustrated edition; Course Technology Printer; →ISBN, 9781598634051)

Bloggers noted that when, in February 2005, California’s Barbara Boxer gave a speech on the floor of the Senate, she held in her hands notes that were a printout from BradDeLong.com, the eponymous blog by a professor of economics at UC, Berkeley. Conversely, mainstream photojournalism was shaken to its core by right-wing bloggers who pointed out errors, malfeasance, inconsistencies, miscaptions, and outright fakery in press “fauxtography” from the 2006 Israel–Lebanon war.

2008, David D. Perlmutter, Blogwars, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page xiii, →ISBN:

(chiefly Internet) Misleading presentation of images for propagandistic or otherwise ulterior purposes, involving staging, deceptive modification, or the addition or omission of significant context.


flutamide

(pharmacology) A nonsteroidal antiandrogen C₁₁H₁₁F₃N₂O₃ that is taken orally in the treatment of prostate cancer.