hell-bent for leather

Apparently a blend of hell-bent + hell-for-leather, though sometimes said to have been initially applied to animals which behaved poorly as if they were bent on being turned into leather.

[...] his Supply Officer was hell bent for leather to torpedo his tour as the Commanding Officer and wanted explanations, or at least reassurances.

2003, Edward Landers, Smooth, →ISBN, page 510:

She had been through several programs, to no avail; nothing worked, she was hell-bent for leather, she was intent on hurting herself.

2013, Clem Martini, One Hundred Stories for One Hundred Years, →ISBN, page 52:

(Behaving) determinedly recklessly, in a manner that lacks restraint.

“Gosh!” said Marking. “Where the hell did the Japs get that? [...Was that] a Jap plane? God damn, it was fast.” And I agreed, “It was hell-bent for leather some place.”

2009, Yay Panlilio, The Crucible: An Autobiography by Colonel Yay, Filipina American Guerrilla, Rutgers University Press, →ISBN:

Synonym of hell-for-leather (“very fast”)

It had been quite some piece of road from an eastern region of Arizona to SOD, but Jethro was hell-bent for leather. His desire for a meeting with Zelda Klemp had taken him over. He'd been driving since late the previous night ...

2000, Angus Wynn, Mojave Fringe, →ISBN, page 95:

I was determined not to be a back seat driver. I said nothing. I waited patiently for her to stop hugging the berm to keep distance from fast moving traffic. I waited for three thousand miles. She was hell bent for leather to get to our destination, ...

2006, Jeanne Elizabeth Siphron, Fit to be crazy: living with lithium and manic depression, →ISBN:

Synonym of hell-bent (“(recklessly) determined”)


snoggle

en-verb

snoggle (third-person singular simple present snoggles, present participle snoggling, simple past and past participle snoggled)

snoggles (present singular third-person)
snoggling (participle present)
snoggled (participle past)
snoggled (past)

2001, Billie, Re: Meg went dateless in Aspen, alt.gossip.celebrities, <20010107192337.27750.00000321@ng-fs1.aol.com>
No, she and Crowe both attended, but they entered and exited separately, but were seen dancing and snoggling together.

2003, "dog", Re: What is the best selling jazz album of all time?, rec.music.jazz, <3f9b0f03_2@newspeer2.tds.net>
Hey he's not bad when reading a book, or snoggling with a lady.

I ended up with an older woman at a club last night. She looked okay for a 57-year-old. We drank a bit, and a had a bit of a snoggle and she asked if I'd ever had a Sportsman's Double.

2007 May 2, Stipo, “Sportsman's Double”, in alt.humor (Usenet), archived from the original on 2024-02-19:

… so that the greatest tension in all romances comes as a heroine is maybe, just maybe, about to kiss someone. This is always spellbinding and illustrates my maxim that it is less erotic to snoggle for sixty minutes than spend sixty seconds wondering if you are almost about to be snoggled.

2010 (2012), Roger Ebert, "Chandi Chowk to China", Chicago Sun-Times, reprinted in A Horrible Experience of Unbearable Length: More Movies That Suck, Andrews McMeel Publishing, page 39


polyself

(video games, roguelikes) The transformation of one's own character into another type of creature.


polyself

polyself (third-person singular simple present polyselfs, present participle polyselfing, simple past and past participle polyselfed)

polyselfs (present singular third-person)
polyselfing (participle present)
polyselfed (participle past)
polyselfed (past)

(video games, roguelikes, intransitive) To transform one's own character into another type of creature.


Whoniverse

Special mention must also go to all the wonderful people I've met since becoming part of the ‘Whoniverse’: Joe Lidster, Stuart Manning, Scott Handcock, Tom Spilsbury, Gareth Roberts, Darren Scott, Kieron Grant, Neil Corry, […]

2010, Oli Smith, Doctor Who: Nuclear Time, →ISBN, page 245:

(possibly dated) The totality of all things connected to the series Doctor Who, including the fictional universe which is its setting, the real-world sets in which it is filmed, its actors and fandom, etc.


shunpiker

One who avoids toll roads, or who uses sideroads to avoid toll booths.


lipoplatin

A nanoparticle composed of lipids and cisplatin, used to treat tumours.


asexy

en-adj

asexy (comparative more asexy, superlative most asexy)

more asexy (comparative)
most asexy (superlative)

One of the first rumored-to-be-asexy relationships can be seen in Henry James's The Bostonians, an 1886 novel that deals with the devotion between two women, Olive and Verena — the work even gave rise to the term "Boston marriages" to describe women who lived together in love with one another without having sex.

2007, Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture, numbers 34-37, page 363:

And in June, while wearing an "Asexy Dyke" T-shirt, she marched with two dozen other self-described asexuals in San Francisco's Gay Pride Parade.

2009 August 24, Demian Bulwa, “Asexuals leave the closet, find community”, in San Francisco Chronicle:

Asexual and Proud! is a MySpace community whose goal is to help “asexy” people connect with one another (Bogaert, 2004).

2011, Robert Crooks, Karla Baur, Our Sexuality, Wadsworth, →ISBN, page 250:

(slang) Asexual (not experiencing sexual attraction).


Kimye

Continuing their romance (showmance? fauxmance? I don't even know any more), Kimye took their relationship show over to Canada, where Kim, 31, was hawking her new jewellery line.

2012 May 12, Clemmie Moodie, Sarah Tetteh, Ashleigh Rainbird, “Kanye looks grim”, in Daily Record, Scotland:

Kimye and their baby bump celebrated the start of a new year in Las Vegas.

2013 January 1, Ann Oldenburg, “Kim Kardashian, Kanye West welcome 2013”, in USA Today:

Meanwhile, it looks as though Kimye could be expecting a baby girl.

2013 April 6, Emily Hewett, “Gwyneth Paltrow defends pregnant Kim Kardashian: ‘I think she looks absolutely beautiful’”, in Metro:

(slang) The couple consisting of celebrities Kim Kardashian and Kanye West.


mangenue

The mangenue was easy pickings for that vamp.

(rare) A young, inexperienced, guileless man or boy, especially in film and theater.


gentleboy

Coordinate term: gentlegirl

Acteon found the air hostess trying to pull on her damasse dress and realign cleavage in the gentleboys' bog.

1980, Ian Kennedy Martin, The Last Crime, page 9:

(rare, informal or humorous) A young gentleman.


Ameritopia

Blend of America + utopia. Popularized by Mark R. Levin's 2012 book Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America.

Let's suppose we live in Ameritopia, where only the cops investigate child abuse on a criminal charge standard...sort of the dreamworld I've seen suggested here.

2005 October 21, 0;-> [username], “Gee, here's an interesting thought, douggieboy”, in alt.support.child-protective-services (Usenet):

The hypocrisy is in the Left's pretentious and fake allusion^([sic]) we live in Ameritopia where Political Correctness is a way of life.

2012 January 18, CB, “Re: Bill Maher: ‘If They Were Real Taliban… Not That Upset About Pissing On Them’”, in alt.politics.usa.republican (Usenet):

Unfortunately, the people who are voting democrat do not care about the constitution in any area where it limits their grand vision of Ameritopia.

2012 November 11, brent, “Re: OT: OBAMA WINS ANOTHER FOUR YEARS!!!’”, in sci.electronics.design (Usenet):

(neologism) A utopian or overly idealistic vision or version of the United States.


manther

Cougars and manthers (which you should have heard of by now—or you can at least intuit) are always on the hunt for the energetic, supple, and naive.

2010, Brian Griffin, The Trustafarian Handbook: A Field Guide to the Neo-Hippie Lifestyle Funded by Mom and Dad, Adams Media, published 2010, →ISBN, page 195:

(Canada, US, slang) A woman who actively seeks the casual, often sexual, companionship of younger men.


manther

“Jolo was a dick magnet but preferred manthers (older men who preyed on younger women) who spend lots of cash on her and me.”

2011, Dennis J. Stevens, Wicked Women: A Journey of Super Predators, iUniverse, published 2011, →ISBN, page 50:

All of these questions and more will be answered when Loverboy unleashes its well-oiled, classic rock canon on a sea of sweaty cougars and manthers grinding against one another to “Turn Me Loose,” April 21 at the Commodore.

2012 April 20, “Picks of the week”, in Vancouver Courier, page A37:

(Canada, US, slang) A man who actively seeks the casual, often sexual, companionship of younger women.


breastaurant

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

Two things attracted Andrew Rodgers and his bachelor-party buddies to Hooters of Virginia, Inc., Roanoke's first and only “breastaurant.”

1993 October 6, “Cheap Thrills”, in The Roanoke Times:

And feminists aren't the only ones complaining about the Island's inaugural “breastaurant”: Concerned parents whose broods play in the park across the street wonder how to shield them from the chain's double-entendre name, which is about as sophisticated as those looseleaf notes you furtively passed in high school health class.

1995 June 4, Denise Flaim, “Is Hooters Too Hot for the Island?”, in Newsday:

Busting out of Las Vegas and onto the local pub scene is this breastaurant. Think Hooters girls in micro-kilts and push-up bras.

2012, Josh Pahigian, Kevin O'Connell, The Ultimate Baseball Road Trip: A Fan's Guide to Major League Stadiums, Lyons Press, →ISBN, unnumbered page:

(informal) A restaurant featuring scantily clad female waitstaff.

波霸餐廳

restaurant featuring scantily clad waitresses


promposal

Once posed as a timid "Will you go to prom with me?" in the locker room, the promposal is now an extravagant public affair: Think choreographed dance numbers, serenades, elaborate scavenger hunts and dramatic staging.

2011 May 26, Zosia Bielski, “‘Promposals’ ratchet up the fun, and the competition”, in Globe and Mail, Canada, retrieved 2013-04-25:

Rebecca Leet, 17, had an audience of more than 250 people for a prom-posal from her boyfriend, Joe Nelson, 18.

2012 April 22, Beth J. Harpaz, "‘Prom-posal’: Clever, elaborate prom invite, Washington Times / AP (retrieved 25 April 2013)

Promposals can mimic marriage proposals — dropping down to one knee, and all that — or they can be more fun. Most appear to simply spell “prom?” in a creative way, and involve flowers.

2013 April 16, William Wolfe-Wylie, “It’s the season for promposals, the new trend in high school love”, in canada.com, retrieved 2013-04-25:

“So, if we want to make an impulse promposal, we hold the door up, and ask him to go to prom, and then shoot the confetti gun.” “Simple. Tasteful. Elegant.”

2023 May 14, Caroline Levich, “For Whom the Smell Tolls Adventure Part One)” (6:20 from the start), in The Great North, season 3, episode 21, spoken by Judy Tobin (Jenny Slate):

(informal) An invitation, especially one which is made in an elaborate manner, in which the invitee is asked to accompany the inviter to a prom.


zygomaxillary

Blend of zygo(ma) + maxillary; the prefix meaning "zygoma" is zygomatico- in all other instances, and the prefix zygo- means "pair" or "union" in all other instances, which indicates that this word, zygomaxillary, is best understood as a special case involving haplologic influence, such that it might otherwise have been either zygoma + maxilla + -ary = *zygomamaxillary or zygomatico- + maxill(o)- + -ary = *zygomaticomaxillary.

(anatomy) Relating to the cheekbone and maxilla (upper jawbone).


procrasturbate

en-verb

procrasturbate (third-person singular simple present procrasturbates, present participle procrasturbating, simple past and past participle procrasturbated)

procrasturbates (present singular third-person)
procrasturbating (participle present)
procrasturbated (participle past)
procrasturbated (past)

"Because if something's not right, I can't sit around here procrasturbating," said Triumff.

2010, Dan Abnett, Triumff: Her Majesty's Hero, Nottingham: Angry Robot, →ISBN, →OL, ch. 6:

What's the problem, if you give Congress computers do they just spend all their time on porn sites procrasturbating?

2013 April 29, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (Television), Jon Stewart (actor):

(slang, intransitive) To procrastinate by masturbating.


natimortality

The proportion of births that are stillbirths.


fleshlight

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

Proprietary name, blend of flesh + flashlight.

A vagina-shaped sex toy which is designed to stimulate and fit around the penis to aid masturbation or to simulate a real vagina.


monogamish

Blend of monogamous + -ish. Coined by American sex advice columnist and gay rights campaigner Dan Savage in 2011, although earlier coinages seem to have existed and not become popularized.

coin

So I've got a new word to describe relationships like yours, mine, and your mom's, IIC: "monogamish." We're mostly monogamous, not swingers, not actively looking. Monogamish.

2011 July 20, Dan Savage, “Savage Love: Monogamish”, in The Stranger, retrieved 2013-05-05:

In their own marriage, Savage and Miller practice being what he calls “monogamish,” allowing occasional infidelities, which they are honest about. Miller was initially opposed to the idea.

2011 June 30, Dan Savage, “Married, With Infidelities”, in The New York Times, retrieved 2013-05-05:

In 2008, Dr. Sarit A. Golub, a member of our research group, coined the term “monogamish” to describe situations such as this, in which the relationship is neither monogamous nor open, but closer to monogamy than not, and our recent research has confirmed this unique relationship arrangement and suggests gay men in monogamish relationships report low levels of sexual risk and high levels or relationship satisfaction (Parsons et al, in press).

2012, Charlotte J. Patterson, Ph.D., Anthony R. D'Augelli, Ph.D., Handbook of Psychology and Sexual Orientation, →ISBN, page 25:

Assuming he denies this story, use it as a jumping-off point to discuss the difference between monogamy and monogamish.

2013 April 24, Two Senses, “Two Sense: Is My Fiancé Lying?”, in 7x7SF, retrieved 2013-05-05:

Mostly monogamous, but allowing for occasional infidelities.


Nedward

Either a rebracketing of mine Edward or a blend of Ned + Edward.

The time was, when every musical young gentleman breathed forth his wishes in dulcet strains to "be carried back to Old Virginia's shore," or related to the history and most wonderful exploits of that good old colored individual, "Uncle Nedward;" but we suppose this superannuated colored person has been superseded by the still more popular "Uncle Tom," of Mrs. Stowe celebrity.

1853, William Wallace Warden, Pen and Pencil, volume I, S.I, page 761:


clitar

(uncommon, humorous, slang) The clitoris.


hellfare

Blend of hell + welfare, equivalent to hell + fare.

He hesitated again before he said: “Well, we have done a lot of welfare work." “Welfare!" I exclaimed. “You can boast of that? You must know what labor calls that—hellfare work."

1989, Saul Alinsky, Reveille for Radicals:

I am willing to pay a fair amount, but not to be mulcted in that vindictive way, and nuts to the Hellfare State.

2008, Norman T. Gates, Richard Aldington:

Not surprisingly, the quest for resources other than from the public purse received no small urging by governments and Ministry, though obviously the degree of pressure brought to bear and the means by which it was brought to bear, are legion depending on the state of national wealth and hellfare!

2009, Robert Cowen, Andreas Michael Kazamias, Elaine Unterhalter, International handbook of comparative education:

Deplorable welfare; welfare that causes more anguish than good.


morphonology

Blend of morpho- + phonology: morphophonology with applied haplology.


proselytute

I've heard from a number of Christian proselytutes that if what they're saying hurts me, then it must be because i was involved with a group that twisted the bible and "wasn't *really* Christian," and that i should listen to them & their version because *they* have it *right*.

1995 March 27, The Answer is to Question [username], “Re: PURGATORY: PART I”, in alt.religion.christian (Usenet):

Frankly, I think that evangelism is a profoundly obnoxious activity, particularly when proselytutes claim that they are morally superior to those who do not share their delusions.

1999 October 2, John C. Randolph, “Re: Firewalking and Sharks”, in alt.paranet.science (Usenet):

Hey, that's nothing; you should see the stuff I hurled at the Buddhist proselytute formerly known as Dhamma Dog.

2001 May 30, Delia, “Re: An enlightened TM adept?”, in alt.meditation.transcendental (Usenet):

(slang, derogatory) A person given to excessive religious proselytizing.


halfro

He met us at the door with this big 'fro, or half an afro, halfro—he slept on his right side evidently.

2007, Richard Peabody, Kiss the Sky: Fiction & Poetry Starring Jimi Hendrix, Paycock Press, →ISBN, page 149:

But I think the pitchman’s Art Garfunkel-esque halfro is more offensive, since it looks different in nearly every frame.

2007 June 25, Tim Nudd, “Nothing says style quite like Members Only”, in Adweek:

One had a halfro and a Kobe Bryant Jersey that appeared to be unaccompanied by pants, toddler-sized Nikes peaked out from the bottom.

2013, Matthew T. Bell, “Earth Drum”, in The Elderly Kids: Short Stories, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 21:

(slang, humorous) An afro hairstyle that only covers half the head or is otherwise of below average size.


manarchist

Is it [singling out women revolutionaries] a reaction to the manarchists who don't believe gender privilege exists or is a valid topic of conversation?

2010, “Queen of the Neighbourhood”, in Revolutionary Women: A Book of Stencils, PM Press, →ISBN, page 14:

“There’s a ‘manarchist’ problem in a lot of left-wing spaces,” Federow, a young New York–based artist and activist who has been active in Occupy Judaism and has regularly volunteered downtown, says. “By that I mean a small group of white guys take up space and make de facto choices for a larger group of people.”

2011 October 26, Sarah Seltzer, “Where Are the Women at Occupy Wall Street? Everywhere—and They're Not Going Away”, in The Nation:

Nor is it unique to the organised left - the brocialist's more chaotic cousin is, of course, the manarchist, who displays many of the same traits in terms of blindness to privilege, casual sexism and a refusal to acknowledge structural gender oppression, but has a slightly different reading list and a more monochrome wardrobe.

2013 November 2, Laurie Penny, “Laurie Penny on Brand, iconoclasm, and a woman's place in the revolution”, in New Statesman:

(slang, derogatory) A masculinist anarchist, especially one who downplays women's issues.


civionics

Blend of civil engineering + electronics; compare avionics.

blend

The combination of civil engineering with electronics engineering.


doomsdate

Many articles emphasize some given doomsdate in the future. I cannot agree with these calculations.

1967, Canadian Fisherman, volumes 54-55, page 21:

The next doomsdate is scheduled for March 21, 2014, when an asteroid will hit the earth.

2011, David A. Levy, James E. Parco, Echoes of Mind: Thinking Deeply about Humanship, page 78:

The date of doomsday, or some catastrophic and final event.


duppie

Older Duppies who've lived through previous layoffs seem prepared for the emotional and financial shifts that a protracted job loss can bring.

2003 June 17, Leslie Haggin Geary, “Here come the 'Duppies'”, in CNN/Money:

In recent months, the founder and director of Life Transitions career counseling and life coaching in San Antonio has seen plenty of duppies struggle with escalating debts and depression.
"The reality may be that they might have to take on what we call a 'stop-loss job,'" Lincoln says, referring to a lower-paying position the typical duppie once scoffed at.

2003 July 18, Rene A. Guzman, “Overeducated and underemployed”, in San Antonio Express-News:

In fact, I've seen the term "duppies," which means depressed urban professionals who take jobs at a lower level than their old employment. But, as you recognize, duppies can pass through more hiring portals because they can read.

2004 April 19, Joyce Lain Kennedy, “Learning To Read Is Essential”, in Sun Sentinel:

An urban professional suffering from depression, especially one who has lost a high-paying job and been forced to take up lower-paying work.


femcee

Why was Emerson a failure in 1940s Hollywood but a blazing success as a femcee on early 1950s television?

2008, Christine Becker, It’s the Pictures That Got Small: Hollywood Film Stars on 1950s Television, Wesleyan University Press, →ISBN, page 80:

In addition to radiating personality, a femcee had to sell products. When she wasn't demonstrating a kitchen appliance, as Furness did in commercials, a femcee often hosted game shows, where the prizes were wonderful new consumer goods on display in department stores and on supermarket shelves.

2008, Catherine Gourley, Gidgets and Women Warriors: Perceptions of Women in the 1950s and 1960s, Twenty-First Century Books, →ISBN, page 48:

Francis, a regular panelist on What's My Line?, was a poised and dignified “femcee,” and she also served as the program's managing editor.

2015, Charles L. Ponce de Leon, That's the Way It Is: A History of Television News in America, The University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 34:


Cumberbitch

But Rik, for the legion of Cumberbitches out there, the sight of Sherlock in his sheet makes up for any plot inconsistencies!

2012 January 8, Judith Brenan, “Re: New series of Sherlock”, in rec.arts.mystery (Usenet):

He [Cumberbatch] was with friends, and we debated going over to congratulate him on his performance but deemed it "too stalkery". How we rue the day. She and I were two of the original Cumberbitches, in what is now a nation of Cumberbitches.

2012 January 20, Rosamund Urwin, “The Benedict Cumberbatch band wagon”, in London Evening Standard:

Sherlock star Cumberbatch – who also appears as villain John Harrison in JJ Abrams' upcoming Star Trek sequel Into Darkness – has a fervent female following but it's possible even the most die hard Cumberbitch will think twice before pinning this photo to her bedroom wall.

2013 January 22, Paul Jones, “First look at Benedict Cumberbatch as Julian Assange in The Fifth Estate”, in RadioTimes:

(slang, vulgar, fandom slang) A female fan of actor Benedict Cumberbatch.


orangelo

Blend of orange + pomelo. Calque of Puerto Rican Spanish chironja, itself a blend of china (“orange”) + toronja (“grapefruit”).

A citrus fruit that is a cross between an orange and a grapefruit.


Schadenford

2008, blend of schadenfreude (“malicious enjoyment of another’s misfortune”) + Ford (“surname”). Coined by Philip Preville in the title of a Toronto Life article.

[title] Schadenford: The arrest of Rob Ford, city hall hoser

2008 March 28, Philip Preville, “Schadenford: The arrest of Rob Ford, city hall hoser”, in Toronto Life:

The situation prompted some Twitter users to resurrect the term “schadenford” — taking pleasure at the mayor's misfortunes — and a play on the German word schadenfreude.

2011, Colin Perkel, “Police chief backs Mayor Ford on 911 call after ‘22 minutes’ fiasco”, Canadian Press (St. Albert Gazette), October 28

In 2013, there's nothing remotely acceptable about engaging in Schadenford, a term coined by Toronto Life in 2008, when then-councillor Rob Ford was charged with assault and uttering death threats in a domestic incident involving his wife.
Already a national punchline, Rob Ford went international, with U.S. TV talk shows engaging in their own particular form of Schadenford -- sketches about a nice, polite Canadian city with a buffoon leader who does a modern-day Marion Barry impression.

2013 May 26, Bartley Kives, “When the Ford jokes stop”, in Winnipeg Free Press:

(Canada, humorous) Perverse pleasure derived from observing the foibles of Toronto mayor Rob Ford.


Zionistan

Blend of Zionist + -stan, equivalent to Zion + -i- + -stan

(neologism, rare, offensive, derogatory) The State of Israel, viewed as Zionist.


trequel

A work following a sequel; the third in a series, particularly of films.


Newzak

Blend of news + Muzak, coined by Malcolm Muggeridge.

These pundits intone Newzak like priests each evening, every now and again breaking off for a 'message', this being the consumer aspect of Newzak[…]

1979, Malcolm Muggeridge, Things past, page 209:

[…]they go on, mile after mile, with ever more tarmac opening before them, and their radio alternating between Muzak, a melange of tunes, and Newzak, a melange of news items, both geared to counteracting anything in the nature of thought.

1985, Architectural Digest, volume 42, page 33:

The thrust of the news service was unbiased reporting and presenting the complete picture. Critics reported that despite its claims, Fox News had not found a way to reinvent the news. Rather, it merely added to the saturation level. Newzak.

2003, Richard Hack, Clash of the titans, page 473:

The recording must exist somewhere in the vast archives of the BBC, but it wasn't particularly enlightening as far as Mugabe's negotiating position was concerned, and the report I based on it was one of those Newzak pieces[…]

2008, John Simpson, Not Quite World's End, page 421:

(derogatory) News reporting that aims to entertain more than to inform.


Manhattanhenge

Blend of Manhattan + Stonehenge. Coined by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson in 2002, in reference to the ancient English monument built in accordance with the sun's path.

coinage

(US) A circumstance which occurs twice a year, during which the setting sun aligns with the east–west streets of the main street grid in the borough of Manhattan in New York City.


flobber

en-verb

flobber (third-person singular simple present flobbers, present participle flobbering, simple past and past participle flobbered)

flobbers (present singular third-person)
flobbering (participle present)
flobbered (participle past)
flobbered (past)

And the fish flobbered back with a flop, JACK'!

The aide raised a fast-clenched fist to his mouth, flobbered his throat muscles in a horrible spasm of crimson-faced control, repressed his cough silently and looked briefly toward heaven.

1957, The Saturday Evening Post - Volume 230, page 74:

My cheeks flobber up and down while my arms whirl like electric fans.

1963, Andrew Sinclair, The paradise bum, page 80:

Hornsby's Adam's apple flobbered but he did not answer.

1967, James Warner Bellah, The Journal of Colonel De Lancey, page 79:

And she began flobbering, almost imperceptibly, toward the scrubby brown growth beyond the sand and toward the sun.

1978, James Thurber, Further fables for our time, page 2:

They flobber as they walk with their fat damp flabby feet.

1990, Richard Francis, The Land where Lost Things Go by Olive Watson, page 227:

He flobbered and flumped all over chairs, and he talked endlessly in that rapid, insinuating, confidential marshmallow voice of his - so swift to compassion!

1991, Wilbur Sanders, The Big Wolves, page 101:

I've never seen a blimp close-up. It bobbled. Slowly. It flobbered. It was a bit like a whale acting coy -- or one of the hippopotami in pink tutus in Fantasia.

And when he had hooked a fine perch, and Miss BELL made a dash at the line, And the fish flobbered back with a flop, JACK'S escape from a cuss cut it fine.

2006, Patricia Marks, The 'Arry Ballads: An Annotated Collection of the Verse Letters, →ISBN, page 69:

So we proceeded at chastened speed, the dust reduced enough that our headlights showed Ross's flattened tire as it flobbered joltingly around the rim.

2012, Steve Turner, Amber Waves and Undertow, →ISBN:

Since it's inflatable, various artworld wags have been plotting how to shoot a dart into its side and watch it flobber down like a great big burst balloon.

2013 May 31, Charlotte Higgins, “Venice Biennale diary: dancing strippers and inflatable targets”, in The Guardian:


Christlam

A hybrid synthesis of Christianity and Islam, founded by Eldridge Cleaver in the 1980s.


budder

Grenache is an early budder.

[…] so I will begin
Now while I cannot hear the city’s din;
Now while the early budders are just new,

1818, John Keats, Endymion^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Endymion_(Keats)#Book_I), Book I, lines 39-41:

(horticulture) A person who practices budding (a form of grafting).


budder

(slang) Synonym of honey oil (“form of cannabis”)


Cumberbabe

So is the fantasy to put warmth and cuddly love into this weird detective's life - or is Benedict such a Cumberbabe magnet because he's just a brilliant actor and easy on the eye?

2012 March 29, Beverley Watts, “Calling all Cumberbitches! Is it Benedict Cumberbatch who's irresistible or is it Sherlock?”, in Now:

Cumberbabes: brace yourselves. Benedict Cumberbatch has revealed that some of his Star Trek Into Darkness costumes are so tight that, in his words, “you can almost see what religion I am.”

2013 March 8, Tom Cole, “Benedict Cumberbatch's Star Trek costumes are so tight 'you can almost see what religion I am'”, in Radio Times:

2013, Liz Ferguson, "Twenty years of Benedict Cumberbatch in Sherlock! What do you think, Cumberbabes?", The Gazette (Montreal), 13 March 2013 (only used in title)

(slang, fandom slang) A female fan of actor Benedict Cumberbatch.


ecoburb

Village Homes in Davis, California and The Woodlands, Texas are ecoburbs..

(US) A type of suburban development which protects environmental functions of a site such as natural hydrology and habitat.


trancecore

Blend of trance + hardcore, or trance + -core.

A music genre combining elements of trance music and metalcore.


illbient

Blend of ill + ambient; coinage attributed to DJ Olive (Gregor Asch). See hip-hop slang sense of ill.

This describes the sound of what is known as illbient, a genre of electronic music that arose in New York in the mid-1990s. The first illbient compilations were released by the Asphodel label—Crooklyn Dub Consortium Vol. 1 in 1995 and Incursions in Illbient in 1996—and Olive was involved with both projects.

2012, Mark Katz, Groove Music: The Art and Culture of the Hip-Hop DJ, Oxford University Press, →ISBN:

(music) A music genre with layered soundscapes, dub and hip-hop influences (including the use of samples), and a progressive approach to beat programming.


carbogen

A mixture of carbon dioxide and oxygen gas.


brogrammer

At Santa Monica (Calif.)-based Gravity, engineering director Jim Plush is referred to as the “resident brogrammer” and has affixed his computer monitor to a treadmill so he can exercise two to three hours a day while programming.

2012 March 1, Douglas MacMillan, “The Rise of the 'Brogrammer'”, in Bloomberg Businessweek:

It started with the 1984 film Revenge of the Nerds. Then came geek chic. Now, "brogrammers" — computer programmers with frat house sensibilities — are hitting the scene.

2012 April 12, Haya El Nasser, “Geek chic: 'Brogrammer?' Now, that's hot”, in USA Today:

Experts have pointed to Silicon Valley's "brogrammer" culture and a lack of female role models as contributing to the problem — but women are managing to make huge contributions to the field anyway.

2013 May 29, Dana Liebelson, “5 women busting through the tech industry's glass ceiling”, in The Week:

(slang) A male programmer who acts like and has the interests of a frat boy, defying stereotypical conceptions of programmers as shy and nerdy.


Europhoria

(informal) Positive feelings about European integration.


schooliosis

Blend of school + scoliosis, coined by Petr Skrabanek and James McCormick.

The medical misdiagnosis of scoliosis in schools.


intermestic

en-adj

intermestic (comparative more intermestic, superlative most intermestic)

more intermestic (comparative)
most intermestic (superlative)


spectabulous

spectabulous (comparative more spectabulous, superlative most spectabulous)

more spectabulous (comparative)
most spectabulous (superlative)

And that means that rehearsals have started for the most spectabulous Barristers' Club show in history.

1974, Barristers' Bailiwick, volume 3, Bar Association of San Francisco, page 165:

It's good. No, it's great. No, it's spectabulous!

2003, Jordana Arkin, "The Vampire Strikes Back", What's New, Scooby-Doo?, season 2, episode 5, 0:37 (DVD subtitles)


collabulary

A folksonomy, or user-generated system of tagging content, that is enriched by collaboration with experts in the field.


edgel

(computer graphics) A pixel in an image that is recognised as the edge of something.


entertoyment

Once, Mr. Potato Head and Slinky were found in toy boxes, rather than in supporting roles. And kids cuddled up with teddy bears instead of with Simba, the Lion King. But that was before studio heads, toy makers and corporations realized they were sitting on a gold mine. That was before the dawn of entertoyment.

1995 December 26, Surabhi Avasthi, “When the movie never ends that's entertoyment”, in New York Daily News:

The latest Disney entertoyment franchise is actually a remake of an earlier animated classic, "101 Dalmatians."

1996 December 22, Ted Sickinger, “Disney called good buy”, in The Kansas City Star:

Of course, female characters are now fairly common in some crass "entertoyment" series like Pokemon, Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, and X-Men.

2000 March 11, Steve Sailer, “KidTV: A Guide for the Perplexed”, in National Post:

The phenomenon of popular entertainment (especially that which is intended for children) linked to the mass marketing of tie-in toys and products.


maltitude

(mathematics) Any of the four line segments perpendicular to the sides of a cyclic quadrilateral and passing through the opposite side's midpoint.


nuplex

The nuplexes, virtually independent of fuel supplies, could be dropped into jungle or tundra.

2009, Spencer R. Weart, Nuclear Fear: A History of Images, page 303:

An industrial complex that operates on nuclear power.


fivehead

Blend of five + forehead. Wordplay based on adding one to the "fore" (homophonous to four) of forehead, thus implying a brow that is larger than average.

His splashiest trick is balancing a glass of grape juice on his forehead (which is so big, he says, that everyone calls it a fivehead) while playing the ukulele, whistling and doing a backward somersault.

1997 October 31, Anita Gates, “Theater Review: Magic That's Made Comic, and Comedy That's Magic”, in The New York Times:

It also helps that my hair has left for higher ground and instead of a forehead, as the joke goes, I have a fivehead.

2008, Gregory Hartley, I Can Read You Like a Book: How to Spot the Messages and Emotions People Are Really Sending with Their Body, ReadHowYouWant.com, →ISBN, page 63:

For starters, thin me tanned easily and didn't have a forehead so wide it was called a fivehead.

2009 October 13, Stephanie Klein, Moose: A Memoir of Fat Camp, HarperCollins, →ISBN, →OL, page 196:


coronaviral

To determine the size of the coronaviral RNA components and their similarity to oncornaviral RNA, we compared the mobilities of RNA extracted from TGEV and HEV at 20 and 100 °C with those of purified Rous sarcoma virus (RSV) RNA held at the same temperatures.

1975, D. J. Garwes, “Identification of heat-dissociable RNA complexes in two porcine coronaviruses”, in Nature, volume 257, page 508:

A distinguishing feature of canine coronaviral enteritis is that bone marrow cells are not affected.

2012, Linda Merrill, Small Animal Internal Medicine for Veterinary Technicians and Nurses:


flubber

desc

→ German: Flummi (“bouncy ball”) (calque)

en:Flubber (disambiguation)
en:Flubber (material)

Blend of flying + rubber; originally the name of a fictional substance in the film The Absent-Minded Professor (1961).

A rubbery polymer formed by cross-linking of polyvinyl alcohol with a boron compound, used as a plaything or to demonstrate physical properties.


newsjacking

A public relations technique involving piggybacking off the attention of the news media on another item.


exoatmosphere

The region of space just outside the atmosphere proper; the outer atmosphere.


catio

So some cat owners who would never dream of letting their pets roam free outside have come up with a creative compromise: an enclosed space — usually in the form of a screened-in porch or deck — that allows them to share the great outdoors. Please don’t call it a cage. They prefer the term “catio.”

2010 June 16, Jennifer A. Kingson, “‘Catios’ Bring Cats Outdoors”, in The New York Times:

And we have a catio of sorts, a small screened porch built by the previous owner for humans.

2010 June 21, Teresa Mears, “Do your kitties need a 'catio'?”, in MSN Money:

She made a “fence” of them for Varmint inside the wrought iron white fence that bordered the patio so that it was his “catio.”

2010, Sue Tatem, Mones, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 35:

They're happy to hang out on what we call their “catio” all day, lazing on the couch while glowering at chipmunks and letting the sun warm the downy fur on their bellies.

2012 May 1, Jen Lancaster, Jeneration X: One Reluctant Adult's Attempt to Unarrest Her Arrested Development; Or, Why It's Never Too Late for Her Dumb Ass to Learn Why Froot Loops Are Not for Dinner, New American Library, →ISBN:


ecofact

The fact that two periods of occupation are in evidence, both having similar ecofact and material remains, suggests that the occupation and the behavior carried on there are part of an established cycle of seasonally based behavior.

1963, Missouri Archaeological Society, Research Series, Issues 1–13, page 57:

Ecofact is a term archaeologists invented to classify natural objects used by humans without modification. Animal bones left for dinner or pollen from gathered plants are ecofacts. … Even phosphates or other chemicals in the soil are ecofacts showing that people threw their organic waste on the ground.

2009, Nancy Marie White, Archaeology For Dummies, part 1 Archaeology: Seeing Past People Today, chapter 1 What Archaeology Is, page 12

(archaeology) A biological artifact not altered by humans, but which may be indicative of human occupation.


terribad

en-adj

terribad (comparative more terribad, superlative most terribad)

more terribad (comparative)
most terribad (superlative)

You simply should not only put in the re-raise with only a straight. That is terribad poker.

2009 April 3, FellKnight [username], “Re: Deepstack tourney hand for Doggy”, in rec.gambling.poker (Usenet):

Are you tired of waiting hours just to get a terribad group, doing less deeps than a lvl 69 in greens?

2011 February 21, “Classifieds”, in The Daily Reveille, volume 115, number 93, Louisiana State University, page 14:

You will usually hear her before you see her, whether it is her classic British accent, or a "purposely terribad" rendition of a love song.

2011, Victoria Aguilar & Rachel Wan, "Ann Zeng", The San Mateo Hi (San Mateo High School), Volume 95, Number 9, 20 May 2011, page 4


Holohoax

(offensive, used by Holocaust deniers) The Holocaust viewed as an event which is fabricated and did not happen.

holokaustihuijaus

the Holocaust viewed as a fabricated event


globaloney

/ˌɡləʊbəˈləʊni/

Blend of global + baloney. Coined in 1943 by Clare Boothe Luce to disparage Vice President Henry A. Wallace's recommendation that airlines of the world be given free access to US airports.

But much of what Mr. Wallace calls his global thinking is, no matter how you slice it, still “globaloney”.

1943, Clare Boothe Luce, Congressional Record, volume 89, page 761:

We must beware of any form of ‘globaloney’.

1950, Joseph S. Davis, “Population and Resources: Discussion of Papers by Frank W. Notestein and P. V. Cardon”, in Journal of the American Statistical Association, volume 45, number 251, page 346:

–an outlook characterised by one senior State Department official as “messianic globaloney”

1988, Fraser J. Harbutt, The Iron Curtain: Churchill, America and the Origins of the Cold War, Oxford University Press, page 142:

Wendell Willkie's One World (1942), the epitome of “globaloney”, had sold a four million copies.

1995, William L. Oneill, A Democracy at War: America's Fight at Home and Abroad in World War II, Harvard University Press, page 197:

The cheap labor threat is a common element of globaloney arguments today.

2006, Michael Veseth, Globaloney: Unraveling The Myths Of Globalization, Rowman & Littlefield, page 19:

Our forefathers, who created this country, rejected, totus porcus, the nonsense we spout today about egalitarianism and globaloney.

2007, Patrick Buchanan, Jamestown as It Never Was, RealClearPolitics:

In fact, this is all a bunch of “globaloney” says Pankaj Ghemawat, professor of strategic management and Anselmo Rubiralta Chair of Global Strategy at IESE Business School at the University of Navarra in Barcelona, in his new book World 3.0: Global Prosperity and How to Achieve It (Harvard Business Review Press, 2011).

2011, Michael Shermer, “Globaloney: Why the World Is Not Flat...Yet”, in Scientific American:

And policies rooted in overestimating globalization — “globaloney” — could harm the people they purport to protect.

2017, Pankaj Ghemawat, Steven A. Altman, “Is America enriching the world at its own expense? That’s globaloney.”, in Washington Post:

(chiefly US) Absurd or nonsensical ideas or talk on global issues.


whiteanity

To make life more human for the oppressed and to reclaim the humanity of the oppressed as well, the racism that is built into our most cherished institutions, including our churches, must be attacked and removed “root and branch.” Without this there can be “whiteanity,” but there can be no genuine Christianity.

1974, J. Deotis Roberts, A Black Political Theology, Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, published 2005, →ISBN, →OL, page 68:

Is it an authentic liberation theology, or is it Christianity/Whiteanity—a religion of oppression, a species of the slave master’s Frankenstein mutation of biblical religion and Christianity that Carter G. Woodson labels mis-religion and Benjamin Mays, “compensatory beliefs”?

1998, William R. Jones, Is God a White Racist?: A Preamble to Black Theology, Boston: Beacon Press, →ISBN, →OL, page ix:

But the black church also operates out of a constructive cultural amnesia still clinging to remnants of the malignant forms of Christianity offered by slaveholders. This is not Christianity at all but may be what William R. Jones refers to as a creative and adaptive form of “whiteanity.”

2004 July, Barbara Ann Holmes, Joy Unspeakable: Contemplative Practices of the Black Church, Fortress Press, →ISBN, →OL, page 40:

(Black liberation theology) A white supremacist form of Christianity.


arkeologist

The most successful arkeologist of his time was Fernand Navarra, whose record was published in French in 1956 and in English in 1974 under the title Noah's Ark: I Touched It!

2000, Bob Rickard, John Michell, chapter 7, in Unexplained Phenomena: Mysteries and Curiosities of Science, Folklore and Superstition, page 182:

Those who search—often obsessively—for it are known as ‘Arkeologists’. … Geologists are bored and irritated by the Arkeologists for Ararat has a remarkable history of its own. … An eminent Arkeologist, a Dr Allen Roberts, armed with a degree in Christian Education from Florida's Freedom University, once sought funds in Australia to excavate the possible remains of Noah's lifeboat.

2013, Steve Jones, The Serpent's Promise: The Bible Retold as Science:

Unfortunately, the inflated pronouncements of “arkeologists,” as they are called, have proven to be neither accurate nor trustworthy.

2013, Jerome Clark, Unexplained!: Strange Sightings, Incredible Occurrences, and Puzzling Physical Phenomena, 3rd edition:

Someone who studies the story of Noah's ark, particularly by searching for physical evidence which would corroborate it.


tritave

(music) An interval with a frequency ratio of 3:1, usually in the context of the Bohlen–Pierce scale where it replaces the octave.


Jesusanity

Certain forms of liberal theology extol the fatherhood of God but (like Islam) reduce Jesus to the status of a prophet and regard the Holy Spirit as an impersonal force. There is also a kind of “Jesusanity” that ignores the Son's relationship to the Father and the Holy Spirit.

2009, Timothy George, Is the Father of Jesus the God of Muhammad?:

Darrell Bock, a prominent evangelical New Testament scholar and coauthor of Dethroning Jesus, sums up the cultural conversation about Jesus in terms of Jesusanity versus Christianity.

2011, Jonathan Morrow, Think Christianly:

(informal) A form of Christian religion focusing on Jesus to the exclusion of God.

Christianity

often contrasted, in a way with coordinate focus


Pricasso

Timothy James Francis Patch is a crazy Australian artist who specializes in penile art. Penile art is exactly what you imagined it would be, "Pricasso" uses his member as his brush.

2008 February 25, Ubiquitous, “Pricasso”, in alt.tasteless (Usenet):

"There are Millions of Artists in the World, but only one who paints with his Penis." Actually, that's not true; clearly, Mr. Pricasso doesn't know where the word "penis" comes from, and what other words derive from that base.

2008 August 20, Richard Bos, “Not quite finger painting”, in uk.rec.sheds (Usenet):

"Pricasso". What can you say about a guy who wears a huge silver hat and boots (and nothing else), and paints your portrait while you wait? Oh, and he uses part of his anatomy as his paintbrush! Unique.

2008 November 20, Solar West, “Sexpo Progress Reports”, in Solar West Public Group (Usenet):

speaking of pricks, did you order any pricasso paintings? don't forget they come complete with a video showing the artist in action...imagine the awe and oh's you'll hear christmas time.

2009 October 26, eastsidelar, “On Cars & Driving”, in alt.society.boomers (Usenet):

Tim Patch, an Australian artist known for painting with his penis.


haliver oil

(dated) A nutritional supplement derived from the liver of the halibut.


hse

(Hong Kong, Singapore) Abbreviation of house.


zoochosis

Abnormal animal behaviour caused by time in captivity.


soulular

soulular (comparative more soulular, superlative most soulular)

more soulular (comparative)
most soulular (superlative)

A sense of lightness permeated my being to what I thought must be a cellular — indeed a soulular — level.

1997, Lynnclaire Dennis, The Pattern, Integral Publishing, →ISBN, page 30:

The final important thread of this phase of my spiritual "rivering" came when I encountered Aldous Huxley's The Perennial Philosophy where I discovered the convergence among ancient and modern spiritual teachings around a core set of shared beliefs that resonated with me on a soulular level.

2010, Dan Shafer, The Power of I Am: Claiming Your Inherent Power to Consciously Create a Life of Purpose, Meaning, and Joy, PathBinder Publishing, →ISBN, pages 11–12:

The spirit-filled power of his beautiful, rich voice reverberates at the cellular and soulular core of my being.

2011, Ollie Mae Farley, The Life He Chose: Biography of Pastor Tom Weeks, Jr., Xlibris, →ISBN, page 31:

(informal) Of, relating to, or characteristic of the soul.


fauxpology

What satirist could then top Texas Republican Joe Barton's coerced, linguistically mangled fauxpology? "If anything I said this morning has been misconstrued to the opposite effect I want to apologize for that misconstrued misconstruction." Translation: It's your fault for hearing me right the first time.

2010 June 23, Ruth Marcus, “The Gulf oil disaster: when bad things happen to bad companies”, in The Seattle Times:

The old “sorry if I upset you” route is the go-to tactic of politicians, celebrities, media corporations and spouses for a reason. It looks and smells like an apology, but acknowledges no wrongdoing. It’s a fauxpology.

2010 October 20, Belinda Luscombe, “Thank You, Ginni Thomas”, in Time:

“Hey love. How'sit?” Jena greets without even a fauxpology for her lateness.

2012, Julie Golden, Vagilantes, Abbott Press, →ISBN, page 190:


firenado

en-noun

firenado (plural firenados or firenadoes)

A fire whirl (a whirling column of fire found in large fiery areas such as wildfires, similar in appearance to a tornado made out of fire).


cronut

Coordinate term: croffle

Could it have been a hybrid, a marriage of croissant and doughnut? The Cronut? The Doughsant?

1991 March 3, Diane White, “Munching in the '90s -- will doughnuts topple the croissant?”, in Boston Globe:

You can't overlook the fact that the culinary skill needed to create cronuts is extremely high; pastry dough in a fryer usually "separates instantly and parts six ways to Sunday," says Merwin.

2013 June 6, Emily Shire, “Everything you need to know about the cronut”, in The Week:

Botshka added that he doesn't understand the draw of the cronut burger, which combines a doughnut and croissant into a burger that is topped with maple bacon jam.

2013 August 21, Clare Clancy, “Cronut burger vendor closed after 34 people report getting sick at Toronto’s CNE”, in Hamilton Spectator:

A pastry which combines characteristics of a croissant and a doughnut.


Delena

And vice versa, when we want Stefan and Elena to have a moment together, how can we do that and not have our Delena fans outraged?

2012, Julie Plec, quoted in Nuzhat Naoreen, "This Week's Cover: 'The Vampire Diaries' stars talk about the red-hot Damon-Elena-Stefan triangle", Entertainment Weekly, 8 February 2012

And while you may deny having ever watched the "Vampire Diaries" in pubic, you have a strong opinion regarding team Stelena vs. team Delena.

2014, Danielle Wolk, "Netflix or Nut-flix?: A guide to Understanding Your Netflix Obsession", The Lion's Roar (Solomon Schechter School of Westchester, Hartsdale, New York), January 2014, page 6

There will never be enough swoon-worthy Delena moments to fill shippers’ hearts, […]

2014 May 4, Lanford Beard, “TV Jukebox: 'Grey's Anatomy,' 'The Following,' 'Supernatural,' and more of the week's best music-on-TV moments”, in Entertainment Weekly:

(fandom slang) The romantic pairing of the characters Damon Salvatore and Elena Gilbert from the American television series The Vampire Diaries.


seasteading

Blend of sea + homesteading, coined in a 1969 United States commission report (see quotations).

The territorial sea offers a new realm for individual and small business enterprises. The Commission recommends an experimental program to encourage new uses of the ocean through State leases of submarine areas within U.S. territorial waters. Such a program might be called "seasteading."

1969 January, Our Nation and the Sea: A Plan for National Action: Report of the Commission on Marine Science, Engineering and Resources, Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 14, column 2:

Benefits from the acquisition of this new territory include the development of tremendous oil and gas reserves, new mineral, chemical and pharmaceutical resources, fish farms and such things as “seasteading” by private companies […]

1969, Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates [...], volume 115, part 21, Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 28085, column 2:

"Seasteading" may one day assume the pioneering role in underwater colonization that homesteading played in past settlement of the grasslands of the American West.

1969, Saturday Review, volume 52, New York, N.Y.: Saturday Review Associates, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 52:

We're a young American couple without much money who wanted to make the planet our village. Seasteading (self-sufficient boat living) was the answer.

1977, New Age Journal, volume 3, Brookline Village, Mass.: New Age Communications, →OCLC, page 193:

The Raft was a seasteading community, a loose affiliation of over a hundred vessels that had been converted to floating farms and cities by climate refugees from small island nations that had been wiped out by rising waters.

2007, Pat Murphy, Paul Doherty, “Cold Comfort”, in Gardner Dozois, editor, The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-fourth Annual Collection, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Griffin, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 295:

He [Peter Thiel] has used his considerable wealth to support visionary research on anti-aging products, artificial intelligence, and "seasteading" (building new communities on the ocean, beyond the control of governments), among other initiatives.

2014, Darrell M. West, “Not a One-person Act”, in Billionaires: Reflections on the Upper Crust, Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, →ISBN, part 2 (It Takes a Village to Make a Fortune), page 146:

As a seastead supporter wrote on one of our discussion forums, a key difference between the founders of nations and the creators of seasteads is that "seasteading aggresses against no one. That humans may settle new territory consistent with the principle of nonaggression is a remarkable development in the human experience."

2017 March, Joe Quirk, with Patri Friedman, “Home: This Isn’t Planet Earth”, in Seasteading: How Floating Nations will Restore the Environment, Enrich the Poor, Cure the Sick, and Liberate Humanity from Politicians, New York, N.Y.: Free Press, →ISBN, part I (Seavilization Now), page 30:

The creation of permanent dwellings at sea, especially outside the territory claimed by any national government.


Cumberfan

Cumberfans from all around the globe donated money in Cumberbatch's name, with the total raised entirely exceeding expectations.

2012 July 19, Ellie Walker-Arnott, “Benedict Cumberbatch's birthday raises thousands for charity”, in Radio Times:

Cumberfans would not have long to wait for their next fix as their idol unveiled his new role in Parade’s End, one of the classiest drama’s of 2012.

2012 December 21, Isobel Finblow, “Review of the year 2012: February”, in Radio Times:

Sadly for the many Cumberfans, neither he nor Martin Freeman were available for an appearance (watch their special video message below), but co-creators Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss plus producer/Moffat better half Sue Vertue did have the time to talk about the show in general and series three in particular.

2013 July 19, James White, “Comic-Con 2013: The Sherlock Series 3 Panel”, in Empire:

(slang) A fan of actor Benedict Cumberbatch.


Cumbermania

While he's grateful for his fans' support since the phenomenal success of Sherlock, Benedict is also very forthright about some of the more intrusive aspects of Cumbermania.

2012 October 3, Paul Simper, “'People thought I was dead'”, in The Sun:

None more so than that of Cumberbatch – since Cabin Pressure was last on Radio 4, series two of Sherlock has put Cumbermania at an even higher pitch.

2013 January 9, Jack Seale, “Cabin Pressure writer John Finnemore on the joy of radio, crafting comedy - and Benedict Cumberbatch”, in Radio Times:

Sherlock and Cumbermania may cause women to go mad, but what do the guys think of it all?

2013 August 22, Emma Daly, “Sherlock: Why we love Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, by the fans”, in Radio Times:

(informal) Enthusiasm for actor Benedict Cumberbatch.


cake pop

Blend of cake + lollipop. Compare also cookie pop.

The holidays are one of my favorite times of the year to make cake pops.

2010, Bakerella, Cake Pops Holidays, Chronicle Books (2010), page 30

Before you start it's best to pierce the holes into the polystyrene block that will hold the cake pops.

2011, Molly Bakes, Crazy for Cake Pops: 50 All-New Delicious and Adorable Creations, Ulysses Press, →ISBN, page 38:

“Maybe this will cheer you up.” Paige whipped the cutest cellophane-wrapped cake pop out of her tote, decorated like a mini pumpkin all the way down to the stem.

2013, Tracy March, The Practice Proposal, Entangled Publishing, →ISBN:

A confection consisting of a round piece of cake coated in icing or chocolate and stuck on a stick in the manner of a lollipop.


flatform

Love it or hate it, Prada created its version of the flatform -- a men's leather dress shoe with a blue platform.

2011 April 18, Kristy Brownlee, “Explaining the flatform phenom”, in London Free Press:

In Europe, the flatforms were touted as the hottest new shoe trend at the collection runways for spring and summer 2011.

2011 June 27, Susi Banks, “Flatforms: ditch the pitch and still walk tall”, in The Australian:

Flatforms and gusset shoes (yes really) are, in theory, en vogue and tall enough to get you through puddles safely...

2012 April 20, Gilly Ferguson, “Your all-weather wardrobe: How to look stylish come rain or shine, by Olivia Palermo & co.”, in Mirror, UK:

A type of shoe with a flat platform sole.


catitude

catitude (countable and uncountable, plural catitudes)

I didn't notice Mother until Goodyear leapt up to greet me—and with dirty paws too. Pewter, full of catitude, refused to move aside for Goodyear.

1988, Rita Mae Brown, Bingo, Bantam Dell, published 2008, →ISBN, page 248:

Ally, the alpha cat in my household, has a severe case of catitude. She demands to sit on my lap and leaves as soon as she has altered whatever I was doing.

2003 October 5, “Cats' Drinking: Is It Smarts Or Snobbery?”, in The Tribune, San Luis Obispo, California:

Like "Garfield," "Catwoman" is really a parody of catitude, offering glib mockery of a domestic species notorious for its pride and hauteur.

2004 July 22, A. O. Scott, “FILM REVIEW; Not-So-Cuddly Cat: This One Cracks a Mean Whip”, in The New York Times:

(humorous) An attitude belonging to or befitting a cat.


gayby boom

A sudden increase in the number of homosexual parents.


quink

Blend of quin- + quark, suggesting a fifth-level building-block of matter, as if quark were derived from Latin quartus (“fourth”).

For instance, quarks now are supposed to have their own elemental constituents: prequarks, maons, quinks, or rishons; so far there are ten kinds of them.

1987, D. G. Garan, Our sciences ruled by human prejudice:

(physics) A hypothetical fundamental particle; a preon.


bowlliards

A pool game that borrows aspects of tenpin bowling.


crapplication

By contrast, I've never seen a Windows machine perform well after being on for more than about 5 or 6 days straight; if it doesn't outright crash, it loses all of its memory and has to be restarted, PLUS it is susceptible to the same hardware lockups, power failures and crapplications as Linux is.

1999, William Wueppelmann, “How to downgrade to Windows 95?? Win 98 HATES my guts.”, in rec.games.computer.ultima.dragons (Usenet):

Most people don't realize how many background crapplications they have running thanks to the different stuff that they have installed.

2002, n3kkb0, “Rocksim and WindowsXP”, in rec.models.rockets (Usenet):

(computing, Internet, slang, derogatory) An unwanted or poor-quality application.


skintern

"We were talking about this at dinner the other night, about how some interns show up in some of the skimpiest clothing," a female press secretary said. "One of the boys called them skinterns, which I thought was hilarious."

2005 June 22, “The bad rap of Capitol Hill interns”, in The Hill:

They're known as “skinterns.” Those who think "belly shirts" are career wear. If the devil wears Prada, the skinterns wear nada.

2006 July 5, “Showing off a bit of skin”, in The Washington Times:

Though “skinterns” do provide ample entertainment and a welcome distraction for many young staffers, the situation actually points to a disturbing reality lurking behind the heavy gilded doors of the Capitol: by appearing scantily-clad in their attire, women self-designate themselves into inferior roles and open themselves up to objectification.

2009 September 28, Shayna Murphy, “Scantily-clad interns give working girls a bad name”, in The Daily Collegian, University of Massachusetts Amherst:

Meanwhile, the barely there selection of a skintern might actually cause potential donors on the street to take a second look, and, possibly even open their wallets -- just hopefully not in expectation of sexual favors.

2010 July 15, Annie Werner, “Where the 'Skinterns' Should Work”, in Village Voice:

(US, slang) A female intern who wears very revealing clothing in an office setting where more conservative attire is the norm.


zolly

Another, though less common, use of depth of field can be found in the zolly, or zoom-with-a-counter-dolly shot. In this camera move, the characters or object being viewed will often stay the same relative scale while the lens length changes.

2001, Marcie Begleiter, From word to image: storyboarding and the filmmaking process:

In Jaws, Spielberg used the zolly effect when Brody witnesses a little boy eaten by the shark. Brody is sitting on the beach and as the camera dollies toward him, the zoom lens is pulled back.

2005, Wendy Tumminello, Exploring Storyboarding, page 51:


princessipality

Bill Cosby will eye spy Philadelphia, his hometown, on a new TV tour, and Grace Kelly, who also grew up in Philadelphia, is ready with a razzle tour of her Princessipality.

1976, Bryan Holme, The Journal of the Century, Viking Press, page 328:

We are all the subjects of time, my princesa, even you, whose principality, or should I say, whose princessipality, resides, by necessity, within it.

2000, Kathleen Alcalá, Treasures in Heaven, Chronicle Books, page 168:

Princess Syleen commandeered one of the King's Generals from his admin office and set him up as her regent over Star Point Five. She kidded with several close friends about changing it to a 'Princessipality' verses a Principality but decided to leave well enough alone.

2011, Max Hobby, Oshgomshee and the Princess Syleen, Trafford Publishing, page 353:

Whatever the story of the moment happened to be, Princess Heidrophobia is always the lead babe while Lady Maxipad is the fastmouthed soubrette, the heavy lifter, the practical elf who comes while the Princess is sleeping or, more typically, distracted, and gets the real work of the princessipality done.

2013, Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge, Penguin Press, page 25:

(rare, humorous) A political entity ruled by a princess.


deathhawk

A mohawk hairstyle with voluminous teased or backcombed hair, common in the deathrock subculture.


biostitute

(slang, derogatory) A biologist who lies for money.


Blend of America's Cup + 90, because it measures approximately 90 feet on the waterline.

(sports) A class of monohull sailing racing yacht, a type of supermaxi.


turdis

(vulgar, slang, UK) A place to defecate shaped like a police box: an outhouse; a portable toilet.


Portugeezer

Here he established trading posts, and in less than a year or so all the Portugeezers were eating chutney on their beefsteaks, and calling it an Indian meal.

1904, Frank C. Voorhies, Twisted History, G. W. Dillingham Company, page 38:

For a while Redknapp tried to pair Dowie, who possessed all the speed of a steamroller, with the sublimely fast Portugeezer Hugo Porfirio — Porfirio's permanent expression of bemusement and sometimes downright amazement at his strike partner is still vivid.

2002, Pete May, West Ham: Irons in the Soul, Mainstream Publishing Company, →ISBN:

This liberating relinquishing of control seemed to chill everybody right out – the Germans took to canoodling and beachcombing, the Portugeezer shared out the last of his biscuits, I spent a couple of hours listening to the waves then idly chatting with the Belgians about Joey Dunlop and Manx Nortons.

2008, Dan Walsh, Endless Horizon: A Very Messy Motorcycle Journey Around the World, Motorbooks, published 2009, →ISBN, page 25:

(UK, slang, sometimes derogatory) A Portuguese person.


throffer

(political philosophy) A proposal that mixes an offer with a threat that will be carried out if the offer is not accepted.


YouTubular

en-adj

YouTubular (comparative more YouTubular, superlative most YouTubular)

more YouTubular (comparative)
most YouTubular (superlative)

I'm shooting my next film in my living room as I type, and I'll see everyone next week, right here, with another crazy tale of YouTubular adventure.

2008 January, Andrew Struthers, “A Feisty One Online”, in Tofino Time, page 21:

More recently, Spectres of the Spectrum presented another YouTubular conspiracy rant — about fair use and corporate control of media technology and copyright law, also dealt with in his early internet-age Ecstasy of Influence-predicting docu-essay Sonic Outlaws — within the framework of a far-out D.I.Y. sci-fi movie.

2009, Mark, "Mock Up on Mu", L Magazine, 14 January 2009

Hello everyone, and welcome back to the blog where we will find out which YouTubular acts will be moving on into the semi-finals.

2010 August 11, Sarah Kickler Kelber, “'America's Got Talent': YouTube semifinalists revealed”, in Baltimore Sun:

(informal) Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of YouTube.

youtubowy

of, pertaining to, or characteristic of YouTube


helldesk

(computing, slang, derogatory) help desk


truckwit

Problem is I'd forgotten how many truckwits there were on King George's Road.

1998 October 23, Matt Cremer, “Re: Advice please: Lancer coupe 94 for $8000?”, in aus.cars (Usenet):

Hmm ... car drivers trying to get in front of the truckwits ... wouldn't be anything to do with their vision being impaired by the truckwits, would it? Nah, couldn't be that ..,

2004 June 28, Forg, “Re: Special licences for 4WD”, in aus.cars.offroad (Usenet):

Excellent, when your truck is blown over and you are horribly injured, refuse all assistance on the grounds that you knew better.
Oh hang on, no, you'll do what all the other truckwits who ignored the warnings did, blubber like a baby and scream for help.

2008 February 2, Steve Firth, “Re: Sad loss”, in uk.transport (Usenet):

(slang) A reckless or idiotic truck driver.


peemergency

YKK zipper across the chest, shoulder to shoulder, is extremely easy to operate alone - no help necessary in a peemergency. (I've tried the neck entry/zipperless suits, and agree with the owners I've talked to about them: we can't get the darn things off.)

2000 August 31, Mike F, “FS: New Body Glove Hooded Steamer”, in rec.windsurfing (Usenet):

Junior insists he doesn't have to use the facilities at the rest stop. Ten minutes and 45 miles from the next roadside oasis, the little schnook has to go - right now. Enter the civilized, anytime, anywhere solution to "peemergencies": TravelJohn Disposable Urinal.

2003 December 14, Jacky Runice, “Give a gift with travelers in mind”, in Daily Herald:

A company called TravelJohn Products, for example, promoted portable, unisex disposable urinals. […] Literature says the device helps families avoid a peemergency.

2004 August 14, Tom Wharton, “Bold products spice up Outdoor Retailers' 'newbie' tent”, in The Salt Lake Tribune:

(informal) A situation in which one has an urgent need to urinate but is prevented from doing so due to lack of access to a toilet, restrictive gear, etc.


blizzicane

The "blizzicane" of '93 drenched Hampton Roads with monsoonlike rains Saturday morning, ripped the area with near-hurricane force wind in the early afternoon then began dropping some light snow after nightfall.

1993 March 14, Steve Stone, “Wicked Winds Tear Up Hampton Roas”, in The Virginian-Pilot:

A certain form of extra-tropical cyclone, the infamous Nor'easter, can even come to exhibit "blizzicane" features, including dramatic drops in central pressure and an eyelike structure.

2007, Chris Mooney, Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming, Harcourt, published 2008, →ISBN, page 293:

Lauer applauded the Hub for its response to last weekend’s blizzicane — a storm, he said, that “hammahd’’ the city, mimicking a Boston accent.

2013 February 15, Mark Shanahan, Meredith Goldstein, “Fans flock to see ‘Today’ show at Faneuil Hall”, in Boston Globe:

(informal) A weather system that produces intense rain, wind, and snow.


evilution

Actually, dinosaurs are an atheist plot to get kids to believe in evilution.

1993 August 29, Frank Reid, “Re: 4 more Barney (end)”, in alt.music.filk (Usenet):

Ooops, no, he can't use alcohol, either. That's produced by fermentation, which is studied and optimized by evil biologists and chemists, almost all of whom believe in evilution.

1996 October 5, Paul Myers, “Re: The eloquent words of Immanuel Velikovsky [really: more on Carboniferous bones]”, in talk.origins (Usenet):

I don't care if every man, woman and child, from the first conscious ape (if you believe in evilution) to the last man standing, if they all believe that "X" is wrong and "Y" is right, it is still a relative ethic.

2002 May 9, Loren, “Re: Tradition and Scripture”, in soc.religion.christian (Usenet):

(informal, derogatory, often humorous) Evolutionary theory viewed as something evil.


beautimous

beautimous (comparative more beautimous, superlative most beautimous)

more beautimous (comparative)
most beautimous (superlative)

Uncertain, probably a blend of beautiful + gorgeous, or some other similar word.

“Oh, them stories. That she's a young beautimous girl and she don't never get old or die. That she can touch you and heal any sickness, or cancer ... or scar. Your friend tell you all that?”

1991, Robert R. McCammon, Gone South, Open Road Integrated Media, published 2011, →ISBN:

I was in the beautimous April of my years.

2003, Tom Carson, Gilligan's Wake, Picador, →ISBN, page 133:

I wonder about Adam. The pride that guided his decision to eat the fore-bitten fruit wasn't for the purpose of impressing his beautimous wife.

2012, Norman H. Drummond, True Humility: Finding Power and Joy in This Biblically Mandated Virtue, WestBow Press, →ISBN, page 21:

(Southern US, colloquial, sometimes humorous) Beautiful.


netpicking

Such debates about details occur all the time in any fan forum; on the Internet this bloodsport is called 'netpicking'.

(Internet slang, fandom slang) nitpicking on the Internet, usually regarding minor mistakes in a film, television series, etc.


Destiel

His overt revulsion is caused by the Wincest fan fiction — the Sam-slash-Dean pairing that also alarms Dean in the epigraph of this paper — and to a Dean-slash-Castiel (or Destiel) kink meme in which Castiel has a crab claw for a hand.

2011, Brigid Cherry, “Becky Rosen, Fan Identity, and Interactivity in Supernatural”, in Stacey Abbott, David Lavery, editors, TV Goes to Hell: An Unofficial Road Map of, Supernatural , ECW Press, →ISBN, page 204:

All of our "feels" are on the line again as they continue to be with anything that involves Johnlock (thanks a lot, Moffat), Merthur and Destiel.

2013, Keren Lopez, "Yahoo buys Tumblr, leaves fandoms in despair", La Voz Weekly (De Anza College), Volume 46, Number 27, 3 June 2013, page 8

I'm always happy to write some sappy Destiel one shot (a one chapter story, often focused solely on fluff, or pure cuddles) when writer's block is making work on Phoenix difficult.

2013, Evangeline Warren, "Confessions of a Teenage Fangirl", INKredible!, Issue 4, Summer 2013, page 21

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Castiel and Dean Winchester from the television series Supernatural.


salsatheque

Accustomed to more arduous tasks, the Montubios dance without the wild display seen in the salsatheques, with their heads held high, some without shoes.

1988, Pablo Cuvi, In the Eyes of My People: Stories and Photos of Journeys through Ecuador, Dinediciones, →ISBN, page 172:

'Spanish was one of my languages at university, so I spent time in Ecuador. And they don't have discotheques, they have salsatheques, so I learned salsa from a little lady who was about the size of Ronnie Corbett - if Dirty Dancing comes calling, I'll be there.'

2006, Keith Watson, "Andrew strikes it lucky", London Evening Standard, 26 February 2008

After 30 years, Sese has earned the title as the oldest salsatheque in Quito, and continues to attract the best dancers in town, who come to this underground club to see and be seen.

2010, V!VA Travel Guides: Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands, Viva Publishing Network, →ISBN, page 130:

A discotheque that only plays salsa music.


Snarry

Best Excuse for a Wandering Mind: SNARRY!, Jason Isaacs, Alan Rickman

2004 December 31, barbarella [username], “Re: That Was The Year That Was 2004”, in aus.culture.gothic (Usenet):

"Snarry is part of a subgenre of fan fiction called Slash," she says. "Snarry depicts romantic relationships between Harry Potter and Severus Snape, together - Snarry. […]

2009 July 17, David Templeton, “One geek over the line”, in Pacific Sun:

Snarry slash people (ie people who write fan fiction about Snape and Harry getting it on till the break o’dawn) are super-intense. Seriously that is one rich, rich subculture.

2009 July 22, Lev Grossman, “Notes from Azkatraz, a Harry Potter Convention”, in Time:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Harry Potter and Severus Snape of the Harry Potter series.


seastead

A permanent dwelling or settlement constructed at sea, outside the territory claimed by any national government.


silicyne

an allotrope of silicon, consisting of a long chain of silicon atoms linked together with either (1) disilene units [ ...=Si=Si=Si=...] or (2) disilyne units [ ...–Si≡Si–Si≡Si–... ]


tradigital

/tɹəˈdɪd͡ʒɪtl̩/

Blend of traditional + digital, coined by Judith Moncrieff.

What has happened since the formulation of The Technological Sublime has not proved me wrong: ASCII art, digital art, glitch art, digital poetry, tradigital art, software art, telematic art, system art, generative art, virtual art, computing art, viral art, […]

2017, Silvia Benso, Viva Voce: Conversations with Italian Philosophers, page 132:

The resulting “tradigital” media practice has become a focus of my creative efforts over the past several years. […] it seems that there is no end to the variety one might find in what could ultimately be labeled as tradigital art practice.

2018, Anna Ursyn, Visual Approaches to Cognitive Education With Technology Integration:

(art) Produced through a combination of traditional and computer-based techniques.


pomato

Combinations such as "pomatoes" do not have commercial value now, but investigators hope that closer crosses may.

1983, Water-related Technologies for Sustainable Agriculture in U.S. Arid/semiarid Lands:

A plant produced by grafting a tomato plant and a potato plant, producing cherry tomatoes on the vine and potatoes under the ground.


camrip

en-verb

camrip (third-person singular simple present camrips, present participle camripping, simple past and past participle camripped)

camrips (present singular third-person)
camripping (participle present)
camripped (participle past)
camripped (past)

To record (a movie) illicitly by means of a camcorder.


gothabilly

en-noun

gothabilly (countable and uncountable, plural gothabillies)

(music, uncountable) A musical genre combining rockabilly and gothic rock, and its associated subculture (style of clothing, etc).


Chicagorilla

Blend of Chicago + gorilla, coined by Walter Winchell.


Hoaxocaust

(rare, offensive, used by Holocaust deniers) The Holocaust, seen as a hoax.


Baltimoron

He styled himself both a Prohibition-flouting "Baltimoron" and "an incurable snob," the voice of "the intelligent minority" determined "to stir up the animals."

2001, Richard P. Horwitz, The American Studies Anthology, page 50:

(slang, derogatory) Someone from Baltimore, Maryland.


Jewsrael

If I had my way I'd withdraw all support for Jewsrael and let the Jew-Islam race war go on without USA intervening.

2002 April 12, Mississippi Master [username], “Re: USA=ISRAEL”, in soc.culture.iranian (Usenet):

Why can I find maps of Palestine then, before the British rule of the area? Can't find any maps of Jewsrael though... funny that.

2003 October 13, TheMan [username], “Re: Israel - Palestine: Facts Worth Noting”, in aus.politics (Usenet):

>In tribute to the United States of America and the State
>of Jewsrael, two bastions of strength in a world filled with strife and
>terrorism and peple^([sic]) killing the crap out of each other in the Middle East.

2004 January 6, Totality of Lunar Mu_n Eclipsed [username] (quoting RK), “Re: alt support diabetes dot org ??”, in alt.support.diabetes (Usenet):

Ah, Jewsrael is actually the 53rd after Canada and Mexico. We might have to settle for 54th?

2005 February 17, Kevin V. Russell, “I want Australia to be 51st state of USA”, in alt.politics.bush (Usenet):

Nigger Albinos? Heh. Reminds me of the tourists who went to Jewsrael. They were sitting in a cafe discussing the surroundings. One of them said, "Huh, you don't see very many niggers around here. I wonder if they have Afro-Jews?" The other fellow said, "Ask the waiter". So when the waiter walked by the first guy asked, "Hey, excuse me, but I was just wondering if you guys have Afro-Jews". The waiter replied, "No, we have orange juice and tomato juice, but no nigger juice.""

2010 April 12, Mark, “Re: Gypsy Rock?? It's the NIGGER ALBINOS!!”, in alt.slack (Usenet):

You know what you all happier in North koria [sic] or back in Jewsrael. get OUT of our country!

2015 February 11, Karolina Dean...Where the HELL is my monkey?, “'Christian' Hate Mail Activists Received for Challenging Religious Indoctrination in the Military”, in rec.sport.pro-wrestling (Usenet):


chaosphere

A symbol associated with chaos in certain modern forms of occultism, consisting of a sphere with eight arrows pointing outward from its centre.


zebavidin

(biochemistry) An avidin found in zebrafish.


tamavidin

(biochemistry) Any of a group of avidin-like biotin-binding proteins found in the tamogitake mushroom (of genus Pleurotus).


xenavidin

(biochemistry) An avidin found in frogs of the genus Xenopus


pellistor

A solid-state device, containing ceramic pellets coated with a catalyst, whose resistance changes in the presence of certain gases

pellistore

solid-state device whose resistance changes in the presence of certain gases


mefenamic

Relating to mefenamic acid or its derivatives


crotoxin

crotoxin (countable and uncountable, plural crotoxins)

A cytotoxic polypeptide complex isolated from the venom of a pit viper Crotalus durissus


acquihire

Coined by Rex Hammock in 2005 as acqhire, blend of acquire + hire, in reference to acquisition of Dodgeball.com by Google. Hammock subsequently worked to popularize the word. Spelling inconsistent, particularly to difficulty in pronunciation (/ak-hire/), leading to longer variants.

Then, in August, they bought Push Pop press, which was seen as an acquihire of designers Kimon Tsinteris and Mike Matas, who designed several of key pieces of the iPhone interface.

2013 May 2, Alexis C. Madrigal, “How Facebook Designs the 'Perfect Empty Vessel' for Your Mind”, in The Atlantic:

There are a lot of really excellent founders pursuing consumer ideas that just never work -- that's why companies like Yahoo and Google and others can do so many acquihires.

2013 October 11, Marc Andreessen (as pmarca), “Weary of ‘Fruit Fly’ Consumer Startups, Andreessen Horowitz Raises Series A Bar”, in Hacker News, comment:

(business slang) An acquisition of a company to recruit its employees, rather than for its products or services.


MexiCoke

MexiCoke (countable and uncountable, plural MexiCokes)


osturducken

No, but when I got interested in Turducken, I came across a recipe for an Osturducken. Take an ostrich, stuff it with a turducken.

1999 December 1, Andrew L. Tepper, “Turducken”, in pgh.food (Usenet):

Our traditional South African version is the Osturducken, an ostrich stuffed with turkey stuffed with duck stuffed with chicken.

2001 November 20, Hane, quoting Jan, “Turk-Duck-Hen”, in houston.eats (Usenet):

And there's always the osturducken, which is a turducken tucked into an ostrich.

2001 November 21, Towse, “Terducken redux …”, in misc.writing (Usenet):

This year I decided that I wanted to share with all the SLUG readers one of my absolute favorite Thanksgiving recipes: the mighty osturducken! The osturducken is a sister dinner to the more traditional turducken, but it's ten thousand times more delicious. To create an osturducken you will need a de-boned ostrich, stuffed with a de-boned turkey, stuffed with a de-boned duck, stuffed with a de-boned chicken that is stuffed with your favorite stuffing. […] Place the osturducken in the oven at 225° and bake for 8 hours or until the meat thermometer reaches 165°.

2007 November, Lisa Anne Marie Baster, “Dear Dickheads [letter]”, in Angela H. Brown, editor, SLUG Magazine, volume 18, number 227, Salt Lake City, Utah: Eighteen Percent Gray, →OCLC, page 6:

(cooking) An ostrich stuffed with a turducken; that is, a boned chicken stuffed with some sort of breadcrumb or sausage stuffing, inside a boned duck, inside a boned turkey, inside a boned ostrich.

kanalla täytetyllä ankalla täytetyllä kalkkunalla täytetty strutsi


splatstick

(film, comedy, horror, gore) A genre of film which blends slapstick style comedy with splatfest blood and gore splatter filled horror.


unmatchless

Blend of unmatched + matchless, by confusion.


dexify

en-verb

dexify (third-person singular simple present dexifies, present participle dexifying, simple past and past participle dexified)

dexifies (present singular third-person)
dexifying (participle present)
dexified (participle past)
dexified (past)

This is a common masochistic sabotage that I describe with the acronym "dexify." When individuals defend, explain, or justify, they are unnecessarily supporting the reasons for their decision and giving others the opportunity to rebut their rationale.

1986, David Brandt, Don't Stop Now, You're Killing Me: The Sadomasochism Game in Everyday Life and How Not to Play It, Poseidon Press, →ISBN, →OL, page 88:

Powerful people don't dexify (defend, explain, or justify).

1991, Roberta Jean Bryant, Stop Improving Yourself and Start Living, New World Library, →ISBN, →OL, page 65:

The reason for this is that when you ask "why" questions people feel defensive and have a tendency to "dexify" (defend, explain, justify) what they said.

1991 March, David Farlow, “Principles of Rapport - Focus Group Moderation”, in Quirk's Marketing Research Review, volume 5:

We may “dexify” — try to defend, explain and justify — so that the angry person will stop being angry with us.

1998 March 10, Robert Holman Coombs, Surviving Medical School, Thousand Oaks, London, New Delhi: Sage Publications, →ISBN, →OL, page 145:


disgrossting

/dɪsˈkɹəʊstɪŋ/

/dɪsˈɡɹəʊstɪŋ/

(slang, Canada, US, uncommon) gross and disgusting


stanene

Blend of stannum + graphene (stannum + -ene) from Latin stannum (“tin”) and graphene, due to the analogous situation of tin in the material to carbon in graphene, being a two-dimensional layer one-atom thick.

topological insulator
topological insulator

(inorganic chemistry) a two-dimensional layer of tin one-atom thick, which is a topological insulator (conducting electricity only along its edges).


neverendum

en-noun

neverendum (plural neverendums or neverenda)

Blend of neverending + referendum. Coined by Canadian writer Josh Freed in the context of repeated referendums on the secession of Quebec.

Another "neverendum" (as Canadian nationalists call this process) on Quebec's secession is planned before the year 2000.

1998, Pierre Desrochers, Eric Duhaime, “10: A Secessionist's View of Quebec's Options”, in David Gordon, editor, Secession, State, and Liberty, page 239:

And so, the neverendum marches on. This is good news for the Liberals but bad news for Canada.

1999, David Schneiderman, The Quebec Decision: Perspectives on the Supreme Court Ruling on Secession, page 123:

Well then you get Bouchard to have some neveredums (or neverenda, if you're literate.)

1999 April 26, J Kirby Inwood, “Municipality creation”, in can.legal (Usenet):

You should see the history lessons on the Quebec referenda(neverenda?)...

1999 September 9, Dwight Williams, “Plastique and the FALN: Birds of a Feather?”, in rec.arts.comics.dc.universe (Usenet):

Some referenda feel like neverenda, political footballs kicked about in empty aisles.

2011, Peter Swirski, American Utopia and Social Engineering in Literature, Social Thought, and Political History, Routledge, page 86:

This is the Québécois scenario of the ‘neverendum’, which could be replicated in Scotland: the voters park their ideology and values at the elections to the Holyrood Parliament and elect an SNP or SNP coalition government, but vote differently at Westminster elections.

2012, Henry McLeish, Scotland: The Growing Divide: Old Nation, New Ideas, page 116:

I refer, among other things, to the egregious abuses during our neverenda referenda and the federal robocall scandal.

2014 June 17, Yaniv Loran, “How to get out the youth vote”, in The Gazette, Montreal, Que., page A16:

A series of referendums on the same issue held in an attempt to achieve an unpopular result.


metaboreceptor

(physiology) A type of chemoreceptor, found in skeletal muscle, that responds to an increase in metabolic products and stimulates an increase in circulation in response to exercise


yogasm

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

At first, Morris was flustered and anxious that others in the class might have witnessed her, mid-yogasm.

2011 September 28, Lizzie Crocker, The Daily Beast:

Yogasms have happened during forward bends, lotus poses, and even in the New York City yoga studio Pure Yoga, which is owned by Equinox, in a class taught by Marco Rojas, who apparently smells of patchouli.

2011 September 29, Jen Doll, The Village Voice:

And speaking of orgasms, I've found that there is something to all the yogasm hullabaloo that popped up in the media last year.

2013 May 29, Steph Auteri, The Huffington Post:

(colloquial) An orgasm experienced while performing yoga.


Bushbama

Blend of Bush + Obama, from surnames of George W. Bush and Barack Obama.

(US politics, derogatory) George W. Bush and Barack Obama, seen as a continuation of the same political agenda.


stereotrode

A pair of closely-spaced microelectrodes used for probing brain activity


bureaupathic

en-adj

bureaupathic (comparative more bureaupathic, superlative most bureaupathic)

more bureaupathic (comparative)
most bureaupathic (superlative)

Following bureaucracy to the point of harming business operations or upsetting customers.


chomo

From a corrupted blend of chi(ld) + mo(lester).

Fuckers never see the light of day. Nevada Fucking Prisneyland, O.G.! Homos, snitches, Chomos, straight-up J-Cats, and children all P.C.'d up together, scandalous shit, dawg!

2003, Jimmy Lerner, You Got Nothing Coming: Notes from a Prison Fish, page 77:

The child molesters (chomos, they are called) were a peculiar group. Some hobbled about with canes or walkers from the beatings they had received from some other prisoners because of their perceived moral degeneracy […]

2012, Conrad Black, A Matter of Principle, page 451:

Charlie shifted in his chair and inhaled the fresh, evening air. “See, child molesters—they call them chomos—have it the roughest in prison. Even the worst, most sadistic convicts have no respect for pedophiles. […]

2013, Landon Parham, First Night of Summer, page 300:


Chrismukkah

Blend of Christmas + Hannukah, popularized by the US television series The O.C. in the 2000s. A similar formation can be found in German Weihnukka (from Weihnachten (“Christmas”)), and compare also Dutch Chanoeklaas, a merger of Hanukkah and the Dutch winter holiday of Sinterklaas which similarly involvies gift-giving.

Kimberly Duran of DallasNews.com, for example, referenced restaurants that served Chrismukkah foods in 2005 when Hanukkah and Christmas coincided.

2012, Joshua Eli Plaut, A Kosher Christmas: 'Tis the Season to be Jewish, page 147:

(neologism) The merged holiday of Christmas and Hanukkah.


cetalkonium

(pharmacology) A form of benzalkonium in which the longer alkyl group is cetyl.


clickhaler

(medicine) An inhaler in which the medicine is released by clicking a button


cuprofen

Trademark. Blend of codeine + ibuprofen.

(medicine) A mixture of codeine and ibuprofen used as an analgesic


transgirl

Blend of transgender + girl, equivalent to trans- + girl or trans + girl.

But it seemed there was never a flinch or second thought on his part about being with a transgirl, even when they started having sex, some few months into the relationship.

2007, Cris Beam, Transparent: Love, Family, and Living the T with Transgender Teenagers, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 199:

Sitting on my stomach, a few inches from my face, was a miniature French version of the transgirl I should have been—a girl too brave, too honest, too strong, too much of a person not to be herself.

2012, Joy Ladin, Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey between Genders, →ISBN, page 72:

Parent of a 6-year-old transgirl

2013, Stephanie Brill, Rachel Pepper, The Transgender Child: A Handbook for Families and Professionals, →ISBN:


isoscape

The geographic distribution of isotope ratios.


paradelle

Coined by Billy Collins circa 1997; believed to be from a blend of parody + villanelle.

(poetry) A ridiculously restrictive poetic form consisting of four sestets that must repeat lines and reuse all previous words according to a fixed pattern.


carbivore

(informal) A person who eats food high in carbohydrates.


niggerati

These niggerati are the conventional referent of “Harlem Renaissance.” In fact, the niggerati were but lily pads floating on the surface.

1977, Richard Miller, Bohemia: The Protoculture Then and Now, page 238:

[…] his experiences in Paris during the 1950s and 1960s did not replicate the halcyon days of the Harlem Renaissance – there was no cohesive “niggerati” akin to the one Zora Neale Hurston wrote of during the 1920s […]

1996, Keith Clark, “Baldwin, Communitas, and the Black Masculinist Tradition”, in Trudier Harris, editor, New Essays on Go Tell It on the Mountain, →ISBN, page 151:

Using the language of acceptance, members of the niggerati began reimagining the lived experiences and social realities of Black people and their African heritage by retelling generational narratives employing a present day context.

2018, Tammie Jenkins, “From Harlem to Haiti: A Niggerati Renaissance in Caribbean Negritude”, in Celucien L. Joseph et al., editors, Between Two Worlds: Jean Price-Mars, Haiti, and Africa, →ISBN, page 144:

The group of young African-American artists and intellectuals of the Harlem Renaissance.


bagholder

Blend of bag + shareholder, referring to the phrase "leave someone holding the bag".

(US, finance, slang) An investor left holding on to worthless financial assets (esp. worthless stock shares).


Iyaric

A dialect of English used by the Rastafari.


Inity

Blend of I + unity, replacing the you sound.


Idren

(Rastafari) One's peers, or spiritual brothers and sisters.


itinually

(Rastafari) continually; perpetually; always


livication

en-noun

livication (countable and uncountable, plural livications)

Blend of live + dedication, as if the latter began with dead.


nettop

Blend of net + desktop; compare netbook.

(computing) A small, inexpensive, low-power desktop computer.


downpression

downpression (usually uncountable, plural downpressions)

Blend of down + oppression; see downpressor.

The downpression of native people is linked to the subjugation and exploitation of the Earth.

1983, Winona LaDuke, “They Always Come Back”, in Beth Brant, editor, A Gathering of Spirits, page 54:

Rastaman don’t deal with negativity so oppression is now downpression even though there is no up in the word.

2014, Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings, Oneworld Publications (2015), page 156:


dragadiddle

(music) In drumming, a paradiddle where the first note is a drag.


Nigger

In reference to the color black, from nigger.

Gibson's real affinity is with his dog, Nigger. When we first see Gibson returning from a raid, he is overjoyed to see his four-legged friend […]

2000, Tony Williams, Structures of Desire: British Cinema, 1939-1955, page 190:

(historical, now offensive) A given name for a black pet.


pugeranian

A dog that is a cross between a pug and a Pomeranian.


oilionaire

(US, informal) One who has made a large amount of money in the oil business.


Johnlock

All of our "feels" are on the line again as they continue to be with anything that involves Johnlock (thanks a lot, Moffat), Merthur and Destiel.

2013, Keren Lopez, "Yahoo buys Tumblr, leaves fandoms in despair", La Voz Weekly (De Anza College), Volume 46, Number 27, 3 June 2013, page 8

For Karen the most exciting thing about the comeback is the reunion between Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman: “I ship Johnlock!” Karen enthused.

2013, Gerrit van de Riet, "November for Fandoms: Sneak Peek", The Window (New College, Toronto), November 2013, page 20

Across the pond, writers Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss often place characters Sherlock Holmes and John Watson in situations that suggest a relationship between them, even though the series establishes Watson as heterosexual, to placate the fans that “ship Johnlock” in the BBC series “Sherlock.”

2013, Pragya Parmita, "Fandoms: Too Powerful?", The Bottom Line (Associated Students, UC Santa Barbara), Volume 8, Issue 5, 6 November - 12 November 2013, page 8

(fandom slang) The ship of characters John Watson and Sherlock Holmes from the television series Sherlock.


Idared

A red apple cultivar from Idaho, United States, having white flesh and a firm body.


sexploit

The ultimate collision between these irreconcilable worlds comes in the dream sequences where Portnoy fantasises about the possible domestic outcome of his latest sexploit[…]

1973, Punch, volume 264, number 1, page 185:


sexploit

en-verb

sexploit (third-person singular simple present sexploits, present participle sexploiting, simple past and past participle sexploited)

sexploits (present singular third-person)
sexploiting (participle present)
sexploited (participle past)
sexploited (past)

(slang, transitive) To take advantage of someone sexually.


chookie

‘Now, darling,’ she said to her client, ‘we have ten colours written on our chart so we can put our chookie back in its little house.’

1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 292:

(Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) A small or young domestic fowl; a chick.


slushbreaker

(Canada, derogatory, shipping) an icebreaker with poor icebreaking capabilities, unable to operate year-round in Arctic or polar conditions


quagma

en-noun

quagma (usually uncountable, plural quagmas)

A theorized phase of matter occurring at extremely high temperature and density, composed of free quarks.


apartotel

An apartment rented out to guests in the manner of a hotel room.


cellucotton

A cellulose-based cotton substitute used in the early 20th century.


greensome

(golf) A foursome game with the difference that both players tee off on every hole. The better ball is chosen and alternate strokes are then played to complete the hole.


petrogarch

Why focus on gas in particular? Because gasoline is where the world’s petrogarchs have us by the short hairs.

2012, J. Rauch, “Ban Gasoline”, in The Atlantic:

... selling out to the petrogarchs of Russia and Qatar was simply a master stroke of evil genius.

2010, B. Dowbiggin, “Pursuing MLSE a survival strategy for Rogers”, in The Globe and Mail:

Someone who is part of a small group that controls the petroleum industry, and hence has power over lives and governments similar to the powers of an oligarch.


San Fagcisco

Blend of San Francisco + fag, in reference to the LGBT population that lives there.

2013, Capt Justice, “Re: Fireball reported across California sky near San Fagcisco”, in talk.politics.mideast (Usenet):

Tom Ammiano is the fag canidate running for the mayor of San Fagcisco against black mayor Willie […]

1999, Matthew Alexander, “Re: Fag of the week for 12/13 is Tom Ammiano”, in alt.politics.homosexuality (Usenet):

I realized that when the San Fagcisco Circuit Court voted […]

2003, raiderjet, “Re: Interesting Walter fact”, in alt.sports.football.pro.ne-patriots (Usenet):

(vulgar, slang, derogatory, offensive, sometimes humorous) San Francisco, viewed in terms of its gay population.


eatertainment

The combination of dining and entertainment, as in some themed restaurants.


vagitarian

She's a vagitarian She's a member of the club

1990, Julia Penelope, Finding the lesbians: personal accounts from around the world:

We used to call her the Vagitarian, remember?

2000, Anne Harris, Accidental Creatures, page 104:

You know, the politically correct word for lesbian is 'vagitarian,' because you are what you eat!

2003, Leila J. Rupp, Drag Queens at the 801 Cabaret, page 136:


shiksappeal

Blend of shiksa + sex appeal, coined in the Seinfeld episode “The Serenity Now”.

(slang) The sex appeal of a non-Jewish female (a shiksa) to a Jewish male.


womance

womance (countable and uncountable, plural womances)

“We're having an intense moment of womance here, do you mind?” Billie said.

2012, Sarah Mayberry, Within Reach, Harlequin, published 2012, →ISBN, page 12:

“Angel goes through BFFs the way Limbaugh goes through oxy. Always has. I give their little ‘womance’ six months tops before Angel gets tired of her.”

2013, Marcia Clark, “Chapter 3”, in Inherit the Dead, Touchstone, →ISBN, page 42:

She shares an apartment with her best friend Sophie (Mickey Sumner, daughter of Sting and Trudie Styler; she is terrific), but then Sophie dumps her for a rich boyfriend, and although the two have quite a womance going — ‘We are the same person, but with different hair,’ they tell everybody — we are never quite sure if Sophie is true or not.

2013 July 27, Deborah Ross, “At last, a film about proper women who aren’t just drippily searching for love”, in The Spectator:

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


fatkini

Gregg, a size 18, famously posted an image of herself in a striped “fatkini” last spring — deep cleavage, non-skinny legs and all.

2013 February 1, Jennifer Barger, “Curve Appeal”, in The Washington Post:

Gabi’s "fatkini" stories shed light on the misconceptions about women, body image, and swimwear.

2013 May 24, Olivia Fleming, “Fashion blogger's 'Fatkini' swimsuits sell out within hours to the disappointment of thousands of eager plus-size customers”, in Daily Mail:

(slang) A two-piece swimsuit designed for an overweight woman; a plus-size bikini.