Memfrica

Blend of Memphis + Africa, alluding to the substantial number of African Americans who reside there.

The only good thing I've heard lately is that my nephew's friends all call Memphis (my home town) "Memfrica," which makes me suspect that maybe not all young Whites are blind and dumb.

2002, Resistance - Issues 17-21, page 62:

Over the next several weeks I placed numerous calls and sent countless e-mails to every news outlet in the fine nation of Memfrica.

2010, Kevin L. Hogan, Politically Correct My Ass...:

Still, man, they take our jobs and don't pay taxes and bring drugs. It's bad enough the blacks have turned this place into 'Memfrica' and now we gotta worry about them too?”

2015, Joshua Savage, Melting Pot, page 84:

(ethnic slur, derogatory, slang, offensive) Synonym of Memphis (“city in Tennessee”)


Suckramento

She would call the alcohol retro squad, hitch to Tiffany's in Suckramento, split to San Francisco.

1994, William Luvaas, Going Under, Putnam's, →ISBN, page 299:

There was a short period during the 1990s when our great city deserved the moniker "Suckramento" — the only town where White Zombie could fill ARCO Arena, and you could still find tickets available to Paul McCartney on the day of the show.

2005 June 9, Eddie Jorgensen, “No more Suckramento”, in Sacramento News & Review:

Well, it applies to Suckramento and SmellA, too.

2023 June 20, Julia Heaberlin, Night Will Find You: A Novel, Flatiron Books, →ISBN, page 122:


Satanyahu

(derogatory, politics) Nickname for Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli politician.


Mirfanda

YouTube sensation Miranda Sings’ Midwest Premiere of her hilarious cabaret musical comedy Miranda Sings Live! Saturday night attracted ‘Mirfandas’ from across the country to Highland Park. Starring New York-based actress and singer Colleen Ballinger as Miranda Sings, the two performances were a smashing success with ‘Mirfandas’ storming the area from California to Minnesota, Milwaukee and Chicago proper.

2010 November 22, Abbe Sparks, “Mirfandas Infiltrate Highland Park from across the country for Midwest Premiere of Miranda Sings Live!”, in TribLocal (Chicago Tribune), archived from the original on 2011-01-10:

A performance at Cap City Comedy Club last year saw dozens of teenage girls (self-proclaimed “Mirfandas”) lined up wearing the character’s signature pulled back hair, surprised eyebrows, bright red (and poorly applied) lipstick and crooked smile.

2014 March 29, Dale Roe, “Big, funny names on their way to Austin”, in Austin American-Statesman, Austin, Tex., page E8, column 6:

These “Mirfandas” were extreme, to say the least. Things got even wilder as Miranda took the stage. […] The show has officially made a “Mirfanda” out of me.

2014 April 15, Sam Sklar, “I went to a Miranda Sings show and became a ‘Mirfanda’”, in The Badger Herald, archived from the original on 2014-04-19:

Actress/comedienne Miranda Sings makes a stop at 7 p.m. Friday night in the Fargo Theatre, bringing her bad singing, messy lipstick and other quirks to the stage for all her “Mirfandas.”

2014 August 28, Jack Dura, “Editor’s Choice: Something for Everyone this Labor Day Weekend”, in The Spectrum, volume 118, number 1, page 9, column 3:

She has built up her teenage following – her “Mirfandas” – through her YouTube videos.

2014 September 22, Bruce Dessau, “YouTube clown keeps it real”, in Evening Standard, London, page 42, column 1:

Colleen opens the show by transforming into Miranda live on-stage and proceeds to guide the audience through a Self Help Seminar on “PORN, love, BULLIES and Self isteam [sic]“. This quickly captures the hearts of dedicated ‘Mirfandas’ while setting the obscure tone for any newcomers. […] Whether you’re a die-hard Mirfanda or a stranger to her videos, you’re sure to enjoy the original flavours and quick-witted humour that Miranda has to offer.

2014 September 24, AJ Brinnand, “Miranda Sings Live At Cadogan Hall”, in Ten Eighty Magazine, archived from the original on 2014-09-27:

Now she’s performing hundreds of concerts every year all over the world, and just made an appearance on “The Tonight Show” as the guest of the newest Mirfanda, Jerry Seinfeld.

2014 December, Jim Caruso, “Jim Caruso’s Ultimate Party”, in BLEEP, number 411, page 69:

I AM A SWIFTY, DIRECTIONER and Mirfanda. I unashamedly succumb to my weekly dose of the Celebrity Apprentice, Keeping Up with the Kardashians, TMZ and occasionally, while sitting in an orthodontist waiting room preparing to enter two hours of torture, Seventeen Magazine. My iPhone is my best weapon — with it, I am able to follow my favorite celebrities’ every move through tabloids, Instagram and Twitter.

2015 April, Anna Lu, “Celebrity Worshipping: Hey Girl, Ryan Gosling Will Never Be Your BF”, in Verde, volume 16, number 4, page 66, column 1:

There will be special appearances by the Ballinger family, other YouTube friends, and, for all you Mirfandas and baes, Miranda Sings! 7:30 pm. Granada Theatre, […]

2015 December 10, Santa Barbara Independent, page 32:

In each video, Miranda calls out particularly nice or mean comments, inspiring some Mirfandas to post negative comments in hope that they might be featured. While her real identity is hardly a secret, as Ballinger posts bloopers of Miranda videos on her personal YouTube channel and gives interviews out of character, fans delight in their shared knowledge of Miranda’s performance and the talentless hopefuls she is skewing. Mirfandas can take pleasure in their communal understanding that they are “insiders.”

2016, Alice E. Marwick, “You May Know Me From YouTube: (Micro)-Celebrity in Social Media”, in P. David Marshall, Sean Redmond, editors, A Companion to Celebrity, Wiley Blackwell, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 342–343:

Are You A Mirfanda? You may subscribe to MirandaSings, but are you a true Mirfanda? Use this quiz to prove that you’re not a hater!

2016, Vlog It! The Quiz Book, London: Scholastic, →ISBN:

Miranda Dot-to-Dot / Haters back off. Only Mirfandas are welcome to join the dots here.

2016, Zoella & Friends: Vlogging Activities & Dot-to-Dots, London: Studio Press, Templar Publishing, Bonnier Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 14:

She has attracted legions of fans for both her online output and her in-person live tours; these “Mirfandas” follow her across YouTube (6.5 million subscribers), Instagram (4.4 million), Twitter (2.3 million), and other platforms.

2016 June 21, Todd Spangler, “Miranda Sings Leads the Way for Digital Stars Leaping to TV”, in Variety, archived from the original on 2016-06-22:

Is 'Haters Back Off' Based Off Of Miranda Sings' YouTube Channel? MirFANdas Will Be Happy [title]

2016 October 14, Kathleen Walsh, “Is 'Haters Back Off' Based Off Of Miranda Sings' YouTube Channel? MirFANdas Will Be Happy”, in Romper, Bustle Digital Group, archived from the original on 2021-03-05:

How much of an O.G. Mirfanda are you? […] That's not to say the show is only for Mirfandas. Sure, Haters contains Easter eggs. (Look for a "Where My Baes At?" kernel.) But it also answers burning questions -- "Why the heck does she wear her lipstick like that?" "Where did her name come from?" -- and fleshes out a bizarre world in ways both newbies and diehards can enjoy.

2016 October 14, Sean Fitz-Gerald, “Netflix's 'Haters Back Off!' Is the 'Napoleon Dynamite' of TV”, in Thrillist, archived from the original on 2016-12-02:

Be part of an audience of “Mirfandas” for the hit live comedy show of YouTube sensation Miranda Sings, the zany character performed by Colleen Ballinger-Evans.

2016 November, “Calendar of Events”, in Vicinity Magazine, Fairfield, N.J.: Vicinity Media Group, page 14, column 3:

Art from a Mirfanda. While Ballinger’s efforts to engage fans as herself outside of the Miranda character have been somewhat successful, her interactions with “Mirfandas” in character are the more compelling ones. […] A wall full of fan art, much of it from actual Mirfandas, decks out Mirandas^([sic]) bedroom walls in all their crayoned glory. […] Mirfandas, believe it or not, function similarly — of course, they view everything that Ballinger uploads and attend live events but are also committed to putting in time outside of mere watching to keep the project going through fan art, questions, and requests. […] And so the Mirfandas return to their natural state. It’s almost like Haters Back Off! never happened, if the YouTube and fan reactions are any indication.

2016 November 2, Jamie Loftus, “Miranda Sings Is the Ultimate Expression of Ironic Teenagers”, in Inverse, archived from the original on 2016-11-29:

Miranda’s passion and confidence inspire her “Mirfandas” to let the haters back off and never be afraid to be yourself.

2016 November 7, Liz Kyle, “Miranda Sings Makes her Netflix Debut in “Haters Back Off!””, in Flyer News, archived from the original on 2020-11-24:

With over 7 million Mirfandas, a Netflix show, two tours and a book under her belt, we’re thinking Adele better watch her back!

2017, Harriet Paul, Vlogs, Tags & Hauls, London: Studio Press, Kings Road Publishing, Bonnier Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 32:

Mia Lewis, a 15-year-old Mirfanda and freshman at Milwaukie Academy of the Arts, makes friends easily and loves performing in musical theater. That wouldn't be so, she insists, without Miranda's influence.

2017 January 4, Kate Taylor, “YouTube star Miranda Sings brings clueless, inspiring act to Portland”, in The Oregonian, archived from the original on 2020-08-07:

Sometimes the videos are just not enough for us #MIRFANDAS (the word used to describe Miranda Sings fans) so we have a Netflix show to show us what it’s like for a day in the life of Miranda Sings.

2017 October, Marty Kearney, “Recommended”, in GNI MAG, number 28, Belfast: Lamb Promotions Ltd, page 12, column 2:

Elite Daily had the chance to sit down with Kinsey to talk about her experience on the show, what we can expect from Season 2, and everything Mirfandas need to know about the possibility of Haters Back Off Season 3. […] Haters Back Off Season 2 hits Netflix Oct. 20, so get ready to binge, Mirfandas!

2017 October 20, Stephanie Ironson, “Will ‘Haters Back Off’ Season 3 Happen? Angela Kinsey Is Definitely Ready – EXCLUSIVE”, in Elite Daily, archived from the original on 2017-10-20:

Colleen Ballinger and her YouTube alter-ego Miranda Sings performs for her "Mirfandas," reading snippets of her diary and singing songs through some of the weird comments she receives.

2019 May 31, Sonja Haller, “New to Netflix in June 2019: The best kids, tweens and teens movies to stream”, in USA Today, archived from the original on 2019-05-31:

Filmed in front of a packed house of “Mirfandas,” “Miranda Sings Live … Your Welcome,” currently available on Netflix, has the talent reading snippets of her diary and singing through some of the weird comments she receives.

2019 June 16, Dan Rice, “cyberwaves”, in TV Week, page 44, column 2:

She performed to a Sony Centre full of young “mirfandas” as part of the JFL42 comedy festival in 2015.

2020 April 13, Garnet Fraser, “Miranda Sings pushes Toronto show back to November”, in Toronto Star, archived from the original on 2023-12-03:

A member of her management team suggested that they begin collecting fans’ emails to start a “Mirfanda club.”

2023 June 30, Laura Bradley, “YouTuber Colleen Ballinger Can’t Sing Her Way Out of These Allegations”, in The Daily Beast, archived from the original on 2023-12-03:

(fandom slang) A fan of the fictional character Miranda Sings.


mouthpie

(pornography) Semen visibly displayed after ejaculation in the mouth.


Dunning-Krugerrand

Blend of Dunning-Kruger effect + Krugerrand.


Slavaboo

(Internet slang, often derogatory) A non-Slavic person who is overly infatuated with Slavic (especially Russian) culture.

(Internet slang, often derogatory) A non-Slavic person who is overly infatuated with gopnik subculture, originating in Slavic countries.


FOODMO

A new poll shows that a large portion of social media users experience FOODMO, or fear of missing out on new food trends.

2023 May 30, Ariana Triggs, “New survey finds social media users experience FOODMO, fear of missing out on food trends”, in USA TODAY:

(Internet slang) The fear of missing out on food trends.


vibecession

Blend of vibe (“an atmosphere or aura”) + recession. Coined by content creator Kyla Scanlon in a June 2022 article.

The concept of a vibecession may feel like a cop-out. But it’s a good starting point for understanding where we’re really at.

2022 August 13, Kevin T. Dugan, “Are We in a Recession or a Vibecession?”, in Intelligencer, New York, N.Y.: New York Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-10-03:

So, this is my favorite theory: The vibecession prevented the real recession. In medicine, weaker versions of a virus, like the flu, inoculate people against the real thing. By analogy, Fed Chair Jerome Powell and his melancholy minions essentially administered an injection of mostly safe gloom into the economic bloodstream, which seems to have triggered just the right level of macroeconomic immune response to reduce inflation without causing a downturn.

2023 August 3, Derek Thompson, “How the Recession Doomers Got the U.S. Economy So Wrong”, in The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-10-12:

Americans are gloomy about the state of the economy. Since the covid-19 pandemic began, consumer sentiment has been in the doldrums, hitting its lowest level ever in June 2022. Such negativity has prompted claims that the country is suffering a "vibecession"—although the market appears healthy, good vibes are lacking.

2023 September 7, “The pandemic has broken a closely followed survey of sentiment”, in The Economist, London: The Economist Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-11-10:

"I think people have gotten angrier," she said. "I think we're actually in a worse vibecession now."

2023 November 17, Jeanna Smialek, Jim Tankersley, quoting Kyla Scanlon, “Biden Faces Economic Challenges as Cost-of-Living Despair Floods TikTok”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-12-05:

(neologism) A general state of societal pessimism about the economy.


penjamin

Blend of pen + Benjamin. Popularized by YouTuber and livestreamer Fulcrum around late 2022, although isolated uses exist earlier.

I'm gonna take a hit of the penjamin.

I have finally named my dab pen and he is dubbed penjamin 🥳👑

[2019 June 6, @tals_balls, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-12-09:

Just hit the penjamin franklin n I can't stop eating out of the fridge

2019 September 2, @youngfishgod, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-07-28:

dropped cigs. we on the penjamins now baby.

2022 November 30, @halfwhack, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-12-09:

Imagine being the cause for an illegal arms trafficker being released because you couldn't go a few hours without your penjamin. damn son

2022 December 8, u/happycleaner, “Rare Biden L: Brittney Griner Is Freed in Prisoner Swap With Russia in exchange for Arms Dealer Victor Bout”, in Reddit, r/Destiny, archived from the original on 2023-12-09:

My 14 year old cousin smoking penjamins now its crazy

2022 December 30, @seepsterr, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-12-09:

I always wondered how Snoop's lungs were feeling at his age. I'm 39 and I've had to switch to edibles or quit weed entirely multiple times over the years. No matter what I try (blunts, vaporizers, water pipes and bongs, glass pipes, penjamin etc) it still hurts my lungs and feels like it's damaging

2023 November 16, u/c0achdickandballs, “Snoop gives up weed”, in Reddit, r/rap, archived from the original on 2023-12-09:

(slang) A dab pen (a battery-powered pen-shaped device that allows the user to inhale THC vapor).


CensorStation

(slang, video games, derogatory) The PlayStation video game console, regarded as having excessively censored content in its games.


glucurono-

(biochemistry) Relating to glucuronic acid.


MONIAC

An amusing invention was the MONIAC (MOnetary National Income Analogue Computer) hydraulic macroeconomic machine where flows of investment or export were represented by streaming coloured water in transparent tubes, and the stock of money by a water tank, whereas taxation was controlled through a valve.

2018, Tönu Puu, Disequilibrium Economics: Oligopoly, Trade, and Macrodynamics, Springer, →ISBN, page 204:

(economics) Acronym of Monetary National Income Analogue Computer.


rankit

Possibly a blend of rank + unit, along the lines of probit.

For a sample size of 6, the rankits are approximately −1.2672, −0.6418, −0.2016, 0.2016, 0.6418, and 1.2672. This means, for example, that the second largest value of a sample is likely to be around 0.6148.

A special problem illustrated in this example is the case of ties, or variates of identical magnitude. In such a case we sum the rankit values for the corresponding ranks and find their mean.

1969, Robert R[euven] Sokal, F. James Rohlf, Biometry: The Principles and Practice of Statistics in Biological Research, San Francisco, C.A.: W. H. Freeman and Company, page 124:

standard normal distribution
standard normal distribution#Noun

The expected value of the nth largest value (for some n) in a standard normal distribution sample of a particular size, used in normality testing.


gurp

en-verb

gurp (third-person singular simple present gurps, present participle gurping, simple past and past participle gurped)

gurps (present singular third-person)
gurping (participle present)
gurped (participle past)
gurped (past)

I crawl outta bed about 8 in the mornin' / Start gurpin' 8:30 today is my birthday / It's August 14th and I'm guzzling Rossi / I got me a 40 ain't nothin' gon' stop me

2004 March 8, “Come Gurp With Me”performed by Z-Man:


Yapanese

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

Blend of yap (“chat excessively”) + Japanese, a language perceived as being difficult or foreign to English speakers.

blend

Bro has got a PhD in Yapanese 💀

Bro was speaking Yapanese idk what he expected

2023 July 27, u/PinheadLarry_, “God forbid I have an actual conversation on this app”, in Reddit, r/Tinder, archived from the original on 2024-04-28:

this professor is fluent in yapanese..

2023 December 5, @abey_cd11, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-04-28:

nigga spoke a whole lot of yapanese just to say Caitlin Clark is better and more valuable, I'm cryin dawg

2023 December 21, @imspenser_6, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-04-28:

She's fluent in yapanese. Talking just to talk

2024 March 14, u/lilpumpski, “Doctors and baristas should be paid the same”, in Reddit, r/medicalschool, archived from the original on 2024-04-28:

(Internet slang, humorous) Incomprehensible and meaningless speech; nonsense, waffle.


romantasy

Blend of romance + fantasy. The term was popularized during 2020.

I want @lara_adrian 's book 7.! -.- sooo bad.! Best romantasy author ever.! (:

2009 December 14, @xlittleshawty, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-07-18:

Well that's the typical girl in books
Especially romance and "romantasy"

2017 October 29, @loneIydreams, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-07-18:

[Sarah J.] Maas, whose sales jumped 51 per cent this past year and was largely credited by Bloomsbury for a 15 per cent increase in total revenue, is technically classified as sci-fi or “romantasy”.

2023 November 11, Madison Darbyshire, “Hot stuff”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 9:

Morgan Entrekin, chief executive of Grove Atlantic, the publisher behind last year's Booker prize-winner, Paul Lynch's Prophet Song, agrees. “The boom in [romantasy]^([sic]) has been amazing,” he says.

2024 February 17, Anna Nicolaou, quoting Morgan Entrekin, “‘Romantasy’ writer who could save publishing”, in FT Weekend, Opinion, page 9:

Romantic fantasy, a subgenre of fantasy literature.


Murphia

Her poll numbers were sky high, higher even than Jack’s; this [...] impressed his Irish mafia (‘the Murphia,’ she called them).

1998, E. Klein, Just Jackie, Ballantine Books, page 27:

1998, Jack Cunningham, FERGUS SHAMED BY THE MURPHIA., The Mirror, np.

the expatriate Irish people living in the UK, esp. those who have prospered; also attrib.


spanktastic

en-adj

spanktastic (comparative more spanktastic, superlative most spanktastic)

more spanktastic (comparative)
most spanktastic (superlative)

While admiring herself in a mirror, she shows peeks of her own peaks, spanktastic ass, and hairiffic furburger. Beastly and beautiful! Still a flaxen-haired vision of vixenism, Virginia made a comeback in Hammer's Love is the Devil (1998).

2005, Mr. Skin, chapter 28, in Mr. Skin's Skincyclopedia: The A-to-Z Guide to Finding Your Favorite Actresses Naked, illustrated edition, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 590:

You know your aim is true when the deepest part of you is engaged by what you're doing. Your self-expression feels honest and purposeful. If you can make that the biggest part of your life, and it serves both yourself and others, then that's spanktastic.

2015 October 6, Lux Alani, chapter 1, in The Little Vanilla Book: S&M Wisdom to Improve Your Everyday Life, illustrated edition, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 3:

All thoughts of the man encased in the spanktastic tight denim are lost as we move closer.

2016 March 22, Kacie Ji, chapter 2, in Demigoddess 101, Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD), →ISBN:

I laugh, and Kiki glares at me. “It's not funny, bunny. You need to look spanktastic this first time out of the gate.” She's so serious I giggle again. “I'm not a damn horse!” I hold my sides as laughter peels out of me, and I feel closer to normal.

2018, Marata Eros, The Token Series Complete Boxed Set 1-5: Impossible-to-predict Romantic Billionaire Psychological Thrillers, T. Rose Press LLC, →ISBN:

Topics covered in this spanktastic guide include: How to give an effective scolding. A deep dive into Supplementary Punishments such as early bedtimes, mouth-soaping, and diapers / pull-ups.

2022 February 16, Clarine Klein, The Caregiver's Guide to Strict and Loving Discipline: The Tools You Need to Give a Spanking by the Book!, Studio Bebop Incorporated, →ISBN:


sparktastic

sparktastic (comparative more sparktastic, superlative most sparktastic)

more sparktastic (comparative)
most sparktastic (superlative)

Screens for Tony Hawk: Ride were unavailable at press time, but we can only hope they're as sparktastic as this artwork.

2009, Nintendo of America, Nintendo Power, volumes 243-245, Nintendo of America Inc, page 11:

"But the reason to go see Dreamatorium is the closing musical number. The chemistry between the robber character... and the lonely morgue operator was sparktastic."

2011 February 20, Dan Fybel, Rich Rinaldi, “Hamburger Dinner Theater” (14:23 from the start), in Bob's Burgers, season 1, episode 5, spoken by Mort (Andy Kindler):

“Making Sweet Pea into lots of little plants was a sparktastic idea!” said Lavender. “Rain and sun will take care of all the little Sweet Peas,” said Hazel. “And Posie can get some sleep at night,” said Lavender.

2016 June 28, Scholastic, A Day at Charm School (Little Charmers: Reader), Scholastic Inc., →ISBN, page 29:


waffsicle

WAFFSICLE FOR WAFFLES (U.S. CL. 46).

1998 June 16, United States. Patent and Trademark Office, Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office: Trademarks, Volume 1211, Issue 3, volume 1211, number 3, U.S. Department of Commerce, Patent and Trademark Office, page 207:

“I wish I had some of his ice cream. I could use a Waffsicle right now,” said Long Island.

2001, Richard W. Browne, chapter 33, in Brannon's Choice, Hard Shell Word Factory, →ISBN, page 228:

“Tina, you're missing breakfast. Your frozen waffles are gonna refreeze.” “Mine is somehow burnt and frozen? It defies science.” “I love Mom's waffsicles.” “I'll have to take my waffsicles to go. Dad and I have a meeting. Right, Dad?”

2019 October 13, Holly Schlesinger, “Motor, She Boat” (0:21 from the start), in Bob's Burgers, season 10, episode 3, spoken by Gene Belcher (Eugene Mirman):


pawlice

Blend of paw + police, found in DoggoLingo.

(Internet slang, humorous) An imaginary police force relating to, or staffed by, animals.


Fishtar

Blend of fish + Ishtar, in reference to Ishtar (1987), another film that failed to recoup its lavish budget.

(slang, humorous, derogatory) The 1995 film Waterworld, known for its runaway production costs.


Bramladesh

Yet half a century later, it is part of Brampton and known in some quarters as "Bramladesh" because it epitomizes the transformation taking place.

2013 June 15, Dakshana Bascaramurty, “How Brampton demonstrates the new vision of Canada”, in The Globe and Mail:

Brampton – a.k.a. “Browntown,” “Bramladesh” or “Singhdale” – is just like the nicknames imply: mostly brown.

2016 June 3, Noreen Ahmed-Ullah, “How Brampton, a town in suburban Ontario, was dubbed a ghetto”, in The Globe and Mail:

It is now 73% visible minority, with its largest ethnic group Indian, particularly Sikhs from Punjab, earning the city the nicknames “Bramladesh” and “Browntown”.

2018 September 4, Sadiya Ansari, “‘Everybody fits in’: inside the Canadian cities where minorities are the majority”, in The Guardian:

(Canada, colloquial, derogatory) Brampton (city in Ontario)


Republicrap

I personally believe, Tuttle, that our country has been completely void of government, at any level, for at least the last 12 years. Look at it: Two “Republicraps” and one Democrap” — an utter uncontrollable mess. At all levels, the “people’s will” be damned.

1979 June 27, K. R. Jackson, “Don’t apologize”, in News-Chronicle, volume XXV, number 23, Thousand Oaks, Calif., page 40, column 5:

See? Immediately, it forces a focus on the message. No leggy blonde frowning earnestly and saying, “Have you heard the Democruds want to make abortion mandatory?” No harried mom wondering what she’ll do if the Republicraps issue assault rifles in school. Just The Candidate, talking.

1996 April 16, Cory Farley, “Ad nauseum:^([sic]) Closing in on a cure”, in Reno Gazette-Journal, Reno, Nev., page 1D, column 1:

Did anyone notice that all of these legislators have one thing in common? They’re all Republicraps.

2002 April 14, Paul Hart, “Capitol Clowns”, in The Salt Lake Tribune, volume 263, number 182, Salt Lake City, Ut., page AA2, column 5:

“Why would the other senators allow the upstarts into their committees?” Chiun demanded, not letting up on the earlier ludicrousness. / “Guess they’d have to if there were enough MAEBEs,” Remo said. “Otherwise, the MAEBEs would fight everything the Democraps and Republicraps did. I guess it’s a part of the checks and balances.”

2004, Warren Murphy, Richard Sapir, chapter 31, in Political Pressure: Number 135 in Series (The Destroyer), London: Sphere, published 2016, →ISBN:

Interactions in a civil society must transcend insults, such as “snowflakes” or “Republicraps.”

[2021, Phillip A. Olt, “Developing Social Empathy With Higher Education”, in Vincent Bowhay, editor, The Proper Role of Higher Education in a Democratic Society (Advances in Higher Education and Professional Development), IGI Global, →ISBN, section 1 (Institutional Perspectives on Civic Engagement), page 1:

Once again, 1960 saw the election of another president fated to die in office—John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963. By this time, seven consecutive presidents elected in years ending in zero had died in office, and still, nobody was talking about it. After seven consecutive presidential deaths fitting the pattern of the curse, it should have been obvious there was something to it. One wonders how the Democraps and Republicraps were able to dig up any candidates for president when 1980 rolled around, yet there they were, in droves.

2023, Frank P. Skinner, Setting the Record Straight: A Compleat History of the Alternate States of America, volume 1, Conneaut Lake, Pa.: Page Publishing, →ISBN:


wokel

General American, African-American Vernacular, MTE, MLE

The sum total of the mechanisms in the covid psyop, why it works. Last year was another ridiculous parade of alternating fear + pseudoscience in the media. Just like the previous year only the lies were getting even more …unbaalievable. Not too bizarre though it would seem for the devout religious branch of Covidian wokels, the fear kept working on them.

2022 January 6, “Fear-Submission-Control”, in BDBinc:

By analogy with yokels, the ignorance and naivety of woke fascists makes them “wokels”. Then why are so many academics woke? Surely, they must be the opposite of wokels.

2022 June 12, J. C. Lester, Wokeness Is Inverted Fascism Plus Hypocrisy: A Libertarian Perspective, page 3:

On the other hand, I can already hear critics bellowing that giving men free booze promotes patriarchy rather than subverts it. Such a program would be a tough sell to the local wokels.

2023 April 25, Doug Mortimer, “Snockered with Knockers”, in A Voice for Men:

(slang) Somebody who speaks for progressive (“woke”) values in spite of missing education.


horrorscope

Oh dear, oh dear! all my appalling presentiments are coming as true as those awful horrors'''copes in Zadkiel’s almanac! I knew that girl would break her neck with her horse-riding. I can see her now laid out a corpse at my feet.

1874, Henry Mayhew, Athol Mayhew, Mont Blanc. A Comedy, in Three Acts., London: […] [P]rivate circulation, page 13:

Well, John Hamilton—he’s an awfully cute Kansas boy, just a freshman at Electoral College, but I wouldn’t be surprised if he got his ’Fi Beata Capper next term—anyway, he reads horrorscopes the way Jim Farley reads palms, and he told me months ago that a dark horse would shortly come into my life . . .

1936, The Saturday Evening Post, volume 209, page 27:

Madame La Finkus is the astrologer who predicted Harry Truman would run as usual. His horrorscope shows a strong fever chart.

1952 March 9, Arthur ‘Bugs’ Baer, “Stars Over Washington”, in Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph, volume 50, number 37, Pittsburgh, Pa., column 1:


holidate

Blend of holiday + date. Perhaps popularized by Holidate (2020), American romantic comedy film.

(informal, rare) A holiday taken with a potential romantic partner, similar to a date.

(informal, rare) The potential romantic partner taken on such a holiday.


bathinette

Blend of bath + bassinette, originally a trademark.

The bathinette was ignited by proximity to exposed hot water pipes in the bathroom.

1832, Records and Briefs of the United States Supreme Court, page 4:

Depositing Susie in the bathinette, I removed the soiled nappie.

1954, Ernest Cady, We Adopted Three, page 65:

(dated) A small folding bathtub for washing a baby.


peppermintini

A kind of martini cocktail made with peppermint.


hufu

en-noun

hufu (countable and uncountable, plural hufus)

He wants to eventually offer varieties of hufu, but he's starting with just one: Hufu Classic Strips. These “will basically resemble the choicer flesh, which is upper arms, thighs and buttocks.”

2006, Alex Boese, “Food”, in Hippo Eats Dwarf: A Field Guide to Hoaxes and Other B.S., illustrated edition, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 77:

a human-flavored tofu called Hufu. The bean curd's flavor was based on what cannibals described humans as tasting like. The Hufu motto: It's the healthy human-flesh alternative.

2010 March 1, Bart King, chapter XXI, in The Big Book of Gross Stuff, Gibbs Smith, →ISBN, page 258:

Hufu is sort of like tofu (bean curd) except it is designed to look and taste like, uh, human.

2014 August 21, Bart King, The Big Book of Girl Stuff, revised edition, Gibbs Smith, →ISBN:

So when Hufu gets the catchy slogan, ‘the great taste of friends’, it again points directly to long held philosophical division between so-called humans - who are always fellows or potential friends - and edible bodies that have no subjecthood.

2016 August 16, Brianne Donaldson, Christopher Carter, The Future of Meat Without Animals, illustrated edition, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 242:

Sally's original goal was to teach all monsters, mainly zombies, how to survive "fleshie" onslaught. (Fleshies is a term use to describe humans. It's fleshie or hufu. I think someone took hufu.) It was us zombies against the fleshies.

2017 January 25, Robert Michael “Bobb” Cotter, Vampira and Her Daughters: Women Horror Movie Hosts from the 1950s into the Internet Era, illustrated edition, McFarland, →ISBN, page 130:

HuFu and was promoting it as “the healthy human flesh alternative!” Mark Nuckols, inventor of HuFu, says, “I have to admit that I myself have never sampled human flesh. . . . However, I've done quite a bit of research on the history and anthropology of cannibalism and read enough accounts to have come up with a fairly good approximation”

2022 August 23, Deborah L. Nichols, Patricia L. Crown, “9 Devouring Ourselves George J Armelagos”, in Social Violence in the Prehispanic American Southwest, University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, page 218:

Tofu whose flavor has been designed to resemble that of human flesh.


stewp

stewp (countable and uncountable, plural stewps)

Stewp is part stew and part soup. Crusty bread is perfect for dunking.

1999, Jean Paré, “Fish Seafood”, in One-Dish Meals, illustrated edition, Company's Coming Publishing Limited, →ISBN, page 60:

A “stewp” is like a stew and a soup combined.

2005 July 1, Linda Larsen, The Everything Meals For A Month Cookbook: Smart Recipes To Help You Plan Ahead, Save Time, And Stay On Budget, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 22:

But Nana died when I was seven, and my grandpa, who could put up a mean “stewp”—a thick, chunky soup—when I was thirteen. I was too young to remember their wisdom, or to have understood it in the first place. But I have the file.

2010 October 19, Suzan Colon, Cherries in Winter: My Family's Recipe for Hope in Hard Times, illustrated edition, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 9:

I made what was likely to be the last pot of soup for the season as the weather was warming up. This was a thick, hearty soup of the type my family has labelled ‘stewp’.

2012 October 1, Mary Horsfall, “October”, in Gardens for All Seasons, Csiro Publishing, →ISBN, page 246:

Julia spooned up some stewp. “I'm glad you like it.” She blew on her spoonful before she took a bite.

2017 October 31, Fern Michaels, Susan Fox, Jules Bennett, Leah Marie Brown, Winter Wishes, Zebra Books, →ISBN:

This stewp (stew/soup), also known as a pepper pot, can be adapted to any hardy green and uses cheap cuts of meat in a spicy coconut broth. The stewed meat is sometimes seen served on top of the stewp, and the stewp is sometimes purée into a thick sauce.

2021 September 7, Christine Tizzard, Cook More, Waste Less: Zero-Waste Recipes to Use Up Groceries, Tackle Food Scraps, and Transform Leftovers, Appetite by Random House, →ISBN:

A thick, chunky soup that is thicker than most soups but thinner than a stew.


dogfluencer

One likely reason these totes are slightly less popular than Love Thy Beast's right now is that, even though Wagwear is an older company (it debuted in 1998; Love Thy Beast launched in 2012), it came out before Instagram or dogfluencers were a thing, and therefore has stayed slightly more under the radar.

2019 July 19, Liza Corsillo, “What Dog Bag Should I Use to Look Like I’m Carrying a Dogfluencer?”, in New York, New York, N.Y.: New York Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-29:


vlogpology

Blend of vlog + apology. Popularised in a January 2020 study of YouTuber apology videos by data visualisation website The Pudding, but attested earlier (see quotations).

fucking RUINED this guy myers needs a vlogpology without hte^([sic]) mask ...SHOW YOURSELF MYERS !

And this is what he was trying to do. A vlog apology. Vlogpology. 👌

vlogpology (noun): when a famous YouTuber becomes embroiled in a controversy, makes headlines, and releases an apology video.

2020 January 12, Arjun Kakkar, Russell Samora, “The Aftermath of a YouTube Apology”, in The Pudding:

My findings also show that vlogpologies are often created when the vlogger is under extreme duress and may be uncomfortable with being told to apologise, which can result in non-apologetic language and seem insincere.

2022 November 12, Bella Sampson, I'm Sorry You(Tube) Feel That Way: An Introduction to the YouTube Vlogpology Genre (Thesis), Auckland University of Technology, page 2:

(derogatory, neologism, very rare) An apology video; a video, typically uploaded to video-sharing service YouTube, in which an Internet celebrity/influencer apologises for, or addresses, public backlash, especially in an insincere manner.


nasallang

Blend of nasal + palang (Malay, “crossbar”), styled after ampallang.

blend

An industrial piercing that passes through both sides of the nose and the nasal septum.


mapletini

THE MAPLETINI

1992, Harold Wallace Ross, Katharine Sergeant Angell White, “The New Yorker”, in F-R Publishing Corporation, volume 68, numbers 24-32:

EASY ENTERTAINING AT HOME Mapletini: Mix 1 1/2 ounces Bulleit® bourbon, 1 teaspoon maple syrup, and 1 dash vanilla extract in a shaker with cracked ice. Strain into a tumbler filled midway with cracked ice. Top with 3 ounces soda water. Garnish with maple candy. Makes 1 drink.

2011 December 1, Sandra Lee, Easy Entertaining at Home: Cocktails, Finger Foods, and Creative Ideas for Year-Round Celebrations, Hachette Books, →ISBN:

“I'm sorry, all right? I was just trying to help.” “Two mapletinis.” “Look at that. Is that real syrup? Right. Sorry. Disaster at hand.”

2014 November 30, Brigitte Munoz-Liebowitz, “The Road Trip” (5:46 from the start), in Brooklyn Nine-Nine, season 2, episode 9, spoken by Bart Ender (Adam Lamb):

Mapletini This cocktail comes nowhere near a classic martini, and it's proud of it. It's best served arctic cold, so shake the vodka until your hands are stuck to the shaker by a layer of frost.

2015 October 6, Katie Webster, Maple: 100 Sweet and Savory Recipes Featuring Pure Maple Syrup, Quirk Books, →ISBN:

40. Creamy Vodka-based Mapletini Preparation Time: 5 minutes Total Time: 5 minutes Servings: 1 Calories: 339 kcal

2021 January 2, Victoria White, “40. Creamy Vodka-based Mapletini”, in Refreshing and Delicious Keto Cocktail Recipes: 79 Satisfying Keto Alcoholic Drinks to Make You Shout from the Rooftops!, Fehintola Otegbeye, →ISBN, page 40:


DeSanctimonious

Blend of DeSantis + sanctimonious. Coined by Donald Trump at a rally in 2022.

coinage

Mr Trump mockingly referred to his onetime ally, who won the Sunshine State’s 2018 gubernatorial election after earning the then-president’s endorsement, as Ron DeSanctimonious while discussing his standing in the polls during a rally in Latrobe, Pennsylvania.

[2022 November 5, Andrew Feinberg, “Trump road-tests nickname for Florida governor and potential 2024 rival Ron DeSantis”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-11-19:


RuSSian

Blend of Russian + SS, implying that the Russian character is fascistic.

(slang, humorous, offensive, derogatory) Russian.


chinchillada

/ˈt͡ʃɪn.t͡ʃɪˈlɑ.də/

My friend Martin desperately wanted me to make “chinchilladas,” using chinchilla meat, though try as I might, I couldn't find the stuff anywhere. If you've ever seen one of these animals, you might know why—talk about the cuteness factor!

2008 March 18, Scott Gold, The Shameless Carnivore: A Manifesto for Meat Lovers, Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed, →ISBN, page 94:

Grant keeps calling them chinchilladas which it think is a cross between an insect and Mexican food.

2012 August 22, Benny Goodman, Grant Goodman, 16 Sundays in France - Cycling from Calais to Montpellier, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 81:

“For your information, we're working on a plan to earn enough money to pay you, and to get new wings, so...” “It better not be chinchilladas!” “Oh, my God.” (laughing) “Oh, my God.” “See?” “Chinchilladas? I'd forgotten all about that.” “It's not chichilladas!” (laughing) “Jesus Christ...”

2018 May 9, Adam Reed, “Different Modes of Preparing the Fruit” (10:42 from the start), in Archer, season 9, episode 3, spoken by Sterling Archer (H. Jon Benjamin):

But being funny has never been Archer’s problem; the weakest episodes earn that distinction through faulty plotting mechanics, never for a dearth of magnificent one-liners. (This episode’s chinchilladas bit, for instance, is beautiful. The fur farm practically gave them the meat for free!)

2018 May 9, Charles Bramesco, “Archer: Danger Island Recap: Anyone for Chinchilladas?”, in Vulture.com, archived from the original on 2022-12-25:


Mazdarati

“Hey, hey, hey! Get away from my Mazdarati!” “I thought it was a Porsche.” “Parts! It's both! Mostly Honda!”

2021 May 9, Katie Crown, “Steal Magazine-olias” (20:15 from the start), in Bob's Burgers, season 11, episode 20, spoken by Dr. Yap (Ken Jeong):

For example, say you have $50,0000 in the bank. You may think ‘Hurrah! I can buy a new ‘Mazdarati’!’ However, if you aren't recording your bills into MYOB in a timely manner, how can you know what you have available to spend?

2023 October 3, Sonya Prosper, “The Part of Tens”, in MYOB For Dummies, 9 edition, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 447:

Steve inevitably crashed the car again and was sacked. The car he drove was a two litre Mazda and was a beautiful car to drive at first so good and fast someone nicknamed it the Mazdarati. I drove the car one day when Steve was busy in the office and no other vehicle was available and it was a joy to use. I drove it later after Steve left and it was absolutely hell to drive, noisy when running, pulling over to one side and making a clicking sound and did not change gear easily at all.

2023 November 15, Derek Fairey, A Modern Fairey Story, AuthorHouse, →ISBN:

A low-end vehicle being shown as a sportscar.


enzybiotic

(pharmacology) An experimental enzyme used in antibacterial therapy.


Russophrenia

This is classic Russophrenia, believing that Russia is about to threaten the world while on fiscal life-support.

2015 June 30, Bryan MacDonald, “Russophrenia - an illness in need of a cure”, in RT:

In one astute observation, Western media exhibit a “Russophrenia” – “a condition where the sufferer believes Russia is both about to collapse, and take over the world.”

2018 July 18, Mikhail Molchanov, quoting Bryan MacDonald, “The Trump-Putin summit: Russophrenia explained”, in Asia Times:

In some psychiatric sense it is very close to the more specific Russophrenia phenomenon, where Russia is simultaneously about to collapse and about to overtake the US, and the combined West.

2019 April 9, Bill Totten, “Has the US Lost Its Military Supremacy Over Russia?”, in BillTottenWeblog (Google Groups):

The Russian FIMI ecosystem produced and distributed satirical videos attacking Western values and exposing the purported reasons why Russia is superior to Western democracies. The European External Action Service (EEAS) Data team detected this new trend, including a video highlighting the Western “Russophrenia” and supposed attempts to cancel Russian culture, an advertisement inviting EU citizens to move to Russia, and commercial videos mocking EU citizens on the energy crisis.

2022, Global Affairs Canada, G7 Rapid Response Mechanism Annual Report 2022, page 10:

(neologism, political science, geopolitics, derogatory) The belief or idea that Russia is simultaneously about to collapse, and also take over the world.


conspiracy fact

en-noun

conspiracy fact (plural conspiracy facts)

A conspiracy theory that has been proven true.


popufur

Blend of popular + furry. Attested as early as 2007 (see quotations), but popularised by a 2009 musical comedy sketch at the Furry Night Live variety show of the Further Confusion furry convention that used popufur as a synonym for popular.

I'm getting crap from people upset that a person did an OC for me, and how they waited around for blah blah blah time. The favoritism and having to OC with "popufur" artist has turned me off to the program and talk about ruining something done out of the kindness of someone's heart :/

2007 February 13, Arshes Nei, “RE: What pisses you right the !@#$ off?”, in Fur Affinity Forums, Fur Affinity, archived from the original on 2015-08-28:

Yay! I'm in the news! Can I be a popufur yet? :D

How many watchers on FA do you need to be a popufur?

2016 September 15, u/BennyCrobat, “What counts as a popufur?”, in r/Furry, Reddit:

Let's call it what it is. People have an easier time bullying furries of color, especially black furries than they do gently telling a white popufur they might want to rethink something they said.

how the fuck did I get 56 followers in 5 days. why am I slowly gaining popufur status o h n o

(furry fandom) An influential or famous furry; a microcelebrity or influencer in the furry fandom subculture.


mirrortocracy

mirrortocracy (countable and uncountable, plural mirrortocracies)

/ˌmɪ.ɹəˈtɒkɹəsi/

A type of society where wealth, income, and social status are assigned through resemblance or similarity to those already in power.


dickmatize

en-verb

dickmatize (third-person singular simple present dickmatizes, present participle dickmatizing, simple past and past participle dickmatized)

dickmatizes (present singular third-person)
dickmatizing (participle present)
dickmatized (participle past)
dickmatized (past)

I’d come to the conclusion that Ben had one hundred per cent dickmatized me, and to break the trance I needed to start calling the shots again when it came to blokes.

2012, Becci Fox, Confessions of an Essex Girl, London: Pan Books, →ISBN, page 228:

I should thank Fad not just for my niece but for dickmatizing my sister the way he did.

2018, Jessica Knoll, The Favorite Sister, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, →ISBN, page 62:

"Please baby. Pull those panties down and play with that fat cat." He moaned. / I don't know what it was about that last statement, but I lost all my inhibitions. I felt as if he had dickmatized me. I was in a trance as I felt my panties sliding down over my plump ass. My eyes lowered as I became aroused.

2019, Sheena Perry, My Brother’s Lady, My Baby 1: Please Be Mine!, [Florissant, Mo.]: Sheena Perry Publishing, →ISBN, page 144:

(transitive, slang, vulgar) To make dickmatized.


assholocene

“Paleontologists of SFWA will one day refer to this as the Assholocene Era … ”

2014 February 17, Unknown, “SFF.NET SFWA Discussion”, in The Bulletin Petition, SFWA, SFF.NET, archived from the original on 2024-01-07:

The epoch in human history in which assholisation, i.e. the normalisation of group-specific misanthropy, is a dominant political dynamic, and the nationalist, patriarchal asshole replaces the neoliberal sociopath as the dominant subject: this is what I call the assholocene - the age of assholes.

2023 October 26, Tadzio Müller, “Beyond ethics and rationality: welcome to the assholocene”, in Friedliche Sabotage, archived from the original on 2024-01-07:

During the past weeks, I’ve been casting about to see what ideas are already out there. Suggestions I’ve found include the Terrible Twenties, the Long 2016, the Age of Emergency, Cold War II, the Omnishambles, the Great Burning, and the Assholocene.

2023 December 7, Kyle Chayka, “The Terrible Twenties? The Assholocene? What to Call Our Chaotic Era”, in The New Yorker, archived from the original on 2024-01-07:

(slang, derogatory, vulgar, somewhat humorous) The current era of human history, inhabited by assholes.


furspeech

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

Furgot (verb): Slang alteration of the word, "forgot". This is an example of Furspeech (q.v.)

2000 October 7, Wanderer, “Furry dictionary-need contributions :-)”, in alt.fan.furry (Usenet):

When you're a Newfur looking up meanings to furspeech

2015 September 18, CoonyoteCrook, Twitter:

Furspeech itself is a constructed language, meaning that its phonology, grammar and vocabulary were invented as works of fiction as opposed to emanating naturally. While this type of language isn't typically used throughout everyday life, it has become increasingly popular through different online communities — in this case, the furry fandom.

2021 July 23, Stella Kotik, “Furspeech: The 'purrfect' constructed language of furries”, in The Daily Californian, archived from the original on 2021-07-23:

(furry fandom, neologism, uncommon) Slang used by the furry subculture.

(Internet slang, uncommon) Uwu speech, sometimes associated with furries.


fraudience

/ˈfɹɔːdɪəns/

Laugh track: fraudience —Hugh Burr

1988, DeWitt Wallace, Lila Acheson Wallace, editor, The Reader's Digest, volume 132, Reader's Digest Association, page 36:

Fraudience – A group of overly enthusiastic spectators positioned to cheerlead the performer; a tactic often used by politicians.

2011 August 4, Geoff Tibballs, edited by Geoff Tibballs, The Mammoth Book of Insults, Little, Brown Book Group, →ISBN:

The term fraudience is a portmanteau derived from the terms fraud and audience. It generally applies to audiences on infomercials who, although supposedly unbiased and uninformed about the product, are in fact paid to cheer, gasp, and exclaim their joy and wonder about the product in question on cue. It is a marketing tool used to help build the impression in the minds of viewers that other people find the product to be of high quality and usefulness, in order to sway would-be buyers.

2023 August 5 (last accessed), “Fraudience: definition of Fraudience and synonyms of Fraudience”, in sensagent - dictionary, archived from the original on 2023-08-05:

Audiences on infomercials who, although supposedly unbiased and uninformed about the product, are in fact paid to cheer, gasp, and exclaim their joy and wonder about the product in question on cue.


flopulist

[A] flopulist […] has a wonderful itch for office but seldom gets there.

1895 June 22, “Short Editorials”, in The Shawnee Independent:

Indeed, it might be said that Senator McGovern, who characterizes himself as a populist, has ended up as a flopulist!

1972 November 7, Spiro Agnew, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

[T]he [populists] […] are shown giving Clinton [dumb] advice.

1994 July 3, Mickey Kraus, “TRB FROM WASHINGTON: FLOPULISTS”, in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:


Dhrystone

While the average Dhrystones per task decline rapidly after five, the total number of Dhrystones increases until the number of tasks […]

Because a VAX 11/70 could execute 1,757 loops through the Dhrystone benchmark in 1 second, 1,757 loops became 1 Dhrystone.

2001, Arnold S. Berger, Embedded Systems Design: An Introduction to Processes, Tools, and Techniques, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 27:

(computing) A measure of the Dhrystone benchmark, calibrated to some reference architecture.


quackcinated

(Internet slang, humorous, derogatory) Vaccinated.


furgot

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling


gloeovessel

The hymenium is a more-or-less thickening euhymenium or a catahymenium, often with associated sterile hyphidia, cystidia, gloeocystidia, setae or gloeovessels.

1965, C. G. Ainsworth, Frederick K[roeber] Sparrow, Alfred S. Sussman, editors, The Fungi: An Advanced Treatise, volume IVB (A Taxonomic Review with Keys: Basidomycetes and Lower Fungi), New York, N.Y., London: Academic Press, →ISBN, page 327:

(mycology) A vessel-shaped attachment to a gleocystidium that projects into the trama.


furgonomics

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

Blend of fur (“clipping of furry”) + ergonomics.

blend

And not just for actual furries: that's how I started on keyboards. Now, years later, I'm up to about 4. - 6 fingers when I get a good head of steam up.
Furgonomics -- now _there's_ a fascinating field for study! :->

1994 March 8, Bruce Grant, “Non-human FurryMUCK typists, Re: Dream of ....”, in alt.furry.fan (Usenet):

I've got this couple, in some of my stories, who just got engaged (for the second time)--and this time, it looks like they actually *will* get married. Which brought up some furgonomics questions regarding the wedding.
First of all, dresses. How the deuce does one deal with a dress if one has a tail? The bride's wedding gown might have to have a rather strange zipper on the back.

2000 August 15, Rimau Dahan, “FUR: Wedding Furgonomics”, in alt.furry.fan (Usenet):

Needs more furgonomics

Furgonomics reveals that the mass production of a single model of a good, like a chair, has its limits. In a world dwelled by anthro people, variations in the anatomy of furries forces us to re-think the way people live.

2022 August 20, u/Le_Endal, “Thinking furgonomics is kind of thinking disability”, in r/furgonomics, Reddit:

(furry fandom) Ergonomics as it applies to furries; the design of equipment and objects in order to accommodate anthropomorphic animals.


rajamuffin

What results is a polyvocal, rajamuffin sound that illustrates the ways in which the creolisation process, more familiarly studied in the context of the colonies of Britain, assumes new dynamics in the very belly of the beast of Empire.

2004 February 15, Carolyn Cooper, “Mix Up the Indian with all the Patwa: Rajamuffin Sounds in ‘Cool’ Britannia”, in Language and Intercultural Communication, volume 4, numbers 1-2, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 81–99:

People’re always tryin to stick a label on our scene. That’s the problem with havin a fuckin scene. First we was rudeboys, then we be Indian niggas, then rajamuffins, then raggastanis, Britasians, fuckin Indobrits.

2006, Gautam Malkani, Londonstani, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 5:


furgonomic

en-adj

furgonomic (comparative more furgonomic, superlative most furgonomic)

more furgonomic (comparative)
most furgonomic (superlative)

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

From furgonomics + -ic, by analogy with ergonomic. Analysable as a blend of fur (“clipping of furry”) + ergonomic.

blend

Probably the most obvious "furgonomic" problem is how to fit a tail into just about any seat, without sitting on the tail any more than is absolutely necessary.

1996 January 4, Joseph Francis Nebus, “Would furries wear clothes?”, in alt.fan.furry (Usenet):

I remember the game Solatorobo had a few furgonomic elements in its worldbuilding. Although you would've only seen them if you watched all 100 advertisements they made for the game to beat a world record.

2015 December 4, u/kojolion, “Furgonomics Discussion”, in r/furry, Reddit:

Furries in furgonomic hoodies are underappreciated

At a birthday party where we were meant to dress up (I’m kinda cheating) and was worried how I’d get a seat
Thankfully there are furgonomic chairs

(furry fandom, uncommon) Of or relating to furgonomics.


pissicle

It’s over the relatives’ heads. ‘Yes, I will write.’ He writes once and does not write again. The little one is fired up. ‘Au revoire,^([sic]) André. Build those punee leg. Next time I get a good ride on your pissicle.’

1995, Bruce Pascoe, Lyn Harwood, Fabulous at Fifty: Fifty of the Best from Australian Short Stories, illustrated edition, Pascoe Pub., →ISBN, page 138:

But fear of the rat of the black wrack of africa ruins of dreamers conrad + kurtz rat-a-tap rat-a-tap rat-a-tap tappin fear of the past not knowing it per-fume or nas-ty. hear-ing about it only in whispers bound to the mast of street comers barbershop rum-shop gossip in pissicle places after the sex-surge of young womens thighs comb-ing […]

2001, Kamau Brathwaite, Ancestors: A Reinvention of Mother Poem, Sun Poem, and X/Self (New Directions paperbook; 902), New Directions Publishing, →ISBN, pages 266–267:

We were stopped at a gas station. As we stumbled out one by one, we saw in the morning light, the entire side of the van covered in yellow ice, a gigantic ‘pissicle’ blowing outwards along the backside from a spot at the window’s edge into a thick, frozen glacier. I had to laugh.

2003, Tim Catz, “Introduction”, in Sleazegrinder, editor, Gigs from Hell: True Stories of Rock and Roll Gone Wrong, illustrated edition, Critical Vision, →ISBN, page 23:

I noticed this long slender structure hanging down from their spacecraft and couldn’t identify what it was. Turns out it was the urine dump valve. After 11 days in space, the urine that was dumped overboard had frozen on to the side of the spacecraft. I called it the Gemini 7 pissicle.

2005, Ed Buckbee, Wally Schirra, The Real Space Cowboys, illutrated edition, number 53, Apogee Books, →ISBN, page 86:

When the kids and I got home, Drew would be waiting for us. Peter would confess the crime du jour. “Ellie ate a pissicle,” he would explain solemnly. Drew would laugh, of course. Peter’s little face would shine with incredulous relief, with delight. I would tell Drew about the first achievement of my new spiritual journey: I had proudly reinvented the Golden Rule.

2010 January 13, Kate Braestrup, Marriage and Other Acts of Charity: A Memoir, Little, Brown, →ISBN:


dadication

en-noun

dadication (countable and uncountable, plural dadications)

/ˌdædɪˈkeɪʃən/

Dadication's What You Need!

2011 May 26, Paul Barker, The Book of Dad, illustrated, reprint edition, HarperCollins UK, →ISBN:

They will work overtime to ensure their kids get the best education. And they will mow down the guy who got the last Elmo doll in he Toys R Us parking lot with their Ford F-150s. And then they'll brag about it on Facebook. That's dadication.

2013 April 2, Blair Koenig, STFU, Parents: The Jaw-Dropping, Self-Indulgent, and Occasionally Rage-Inducing World of Parent Overshare, Penguin, →ISBN:

dadication = dad + dedication

2023 March 21, Charlotte Smith, Portmanteaus and More: Let's Have Some Fun with English, Archway Publishing, →ISBN:

Dadication. Becoming a father in 2019 with the birth of my first daughter is where the deep desire for Geek to Outdoorsman truly began.

2023 December 12, Elwin Kline, “Introduction”, in Geek 2 Outdoors - Hunting, Elwin M Kline III, page 14:


perinaise

Blend of peri-peri + mayonnaise; introduced as a trademark (styled PERinaise) of the Nando's restaurant chain.

PERI MAYONNAISE / Combine good-quality mayonnaise with peri-peri sauce (see page 191) to taste, or use ready-made perinaise.

No doubt she had a laundry basket on her hip or was whisking a perinaise sauce, little Brady careening off the walls and wanting to be out on the waves with his brothers.

Serve with a sauce, such as tartar sauce, parsley sauce (see page 80), garlic mayo, lemon mayo, or perinaise or hot sauce. Some lemon wedges and a fresh side salad complete the look.

2023, Poppy O'Toole, Poppy Cooks: The Actually Delicious Air Fryer Cookbook, page 90:


controligarch

Blend of control + oligarch, coined by Seamus Bruner in 2023.

(economics, neologism) An oligarch who has a desire to control people's individual lives.


hyperstitious

Blend of hyper + superstitious, replacing the super- element with the more intense hyper-.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:hyperstitious.

self-fulfilling prophecies
self-fulfilling prophecy

Pertaining to hyperstitions, cultural self-fulfilling prophecies.


manniversary

It would be on the night of their two-month 'manniversary' that Dean's girlfriend's sister, aka Dean's evil minion, finally accepting one of Alastair's dinner invitations.

2014 December 16, Daniel Wells, Alluvium: A Collection Of Poems, Essays, And Short Stories Composed In 2014, Daniel Wells, →ISBN:

Matthew, let's get this manniversary back on track. Tonight, my house will be empty, my nuts will be full, and I'm gonna cook you a romantic dinner.

2022 October 28, L.E. Correia, “Andrew's Gonna Touch A Boob Tonight” (4:36 from the start), in Big Mouth, season 6, episode 5, spoken by Jay Bilzerian (Jason Mantzoukas):

An anniversary between two men, whether they be romantic partners or friends.


Sinatratic

Sinatratics, as they’ve been called, are very eloquent about Frank, and thirteen-year-old Irene persuaded the dignified welfare worker in charge to take her to the theater to hear Frank.

1944 February 12, Earl Wilson, “The Voice”, in Edward Maher, editor, Liberty, volume 21, number 7, New York, N.Y.: Liberty Magazine, Inc., page 72, column 2:

Alexander J. Dorogokupetz took aim from the third row center and splattered a raw egg in Frank’s face. […] Before Dorogokupetz could fling his fourth missile, irate Sinatratics pounced on him, threatening to scratch his eyes out and pull his arms out of their sockets.

1986, Kitty Kelley, His Way: The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, page 95:

At one point during the height of the frenzy, grab-happy “Sinatratics” (above) ruined four of Frank’s expensive suits in a matter of days.

1998, Robert Sullivan, the Editors of LIFE, Remembering Sinatra: A Life in Pictures, New York, N.Y.: LIFE Books, →ISBN, page 31:

Elements of the press were naturally sceptical about Frank’s effect on the predominantly teenage female fans. George Tucker of Associated Press wrote somewhat cynically asking if someone was paying for these girls to demonstrate. This got George Evans into a flurry of self-righteous indignation; he even offered to give $1,000 to charity if anyone could prove that he paid the girls. He did, however, admit he took some of the Sinatratics (as he christened them) to the basement of the Paramount [Theatre] to coach them to know exactly when to scream.

2004, Richard Havers, Sinatra, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: DK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 74:

Why did parents, parents’ parents pretend you were the Scourge of Hell, corrupting sweet young daughters? They forgot “Moonlight Swoonatra” rubbing against the microphone while bobby-soxers swooned, all those sweet young “Sinatratics” throwing bras and panties at Frankie Boy.

2011, Lynn Veach Sadler, “Subversive? Yeah, Yeah, Yeah!”, in Snakes in the Sass, [United States]: Aquillrelle.com, →ISBN, page 62:

Between 1943 and 1948, Sinatra earned 63 chart hits (of which four went to #1)—records purchased by the Sinatratics who would queue for hours before concerts and even, as in a sensational 1944 mob scene before the Paramount Theatre in New York City, riot in their desperation to see the idol live (Kaplan 2010, 230–31).

2013, Ana Salzberg, “Sinatra, Frank (1915–1998)”, in edited by Robert C. Sickels, 100 Entertainers Who Changed America: An Encyclopedia of Pop Culture Luminaries, volume 2, Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, LLC, →ISBN:

(fandom slang) A fan of American singer and actor Frank Sinatra (1915–1998).


legsie

(informal, photography) A photo of one's suntanned legs usually taken with a smartphone and shared on social media.


fauxstalgia

(uncommon) Nostalgia for something one has not experienced or which never existed.


husbian

For quotations using this term, see Citations:husbian.

(informal, uncommon) The wife of a married lesbian.


ifpology

For quotations using this term, see Citations:ifpology.

A non-apology of the form "I'm sorry if you were upset" or "I'm sorry if you took it that way".


hepeat

en-verb

hepeat (third-person singular simple present hepeats, present participle hepeating, simple past and past participle hepeated)

hepeats (present singular third-person)
hepeating (participle present)
hepeated (participle past)
hepeated (past)

Blend of he + repeat, said to have been coined in 2017 by friends of astronomer Nicole Gugliucci.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:hepeat.

(informal, derogatory) Of a man: to repeat something a woman said and take credit for her idea.


writeprint

en-noun

writeprint (countable and uncountable, plural writeprints)

(linguistics) A forensic linguistic method used to identify authors by analyzing distinctive writing styles, serving as a digital fingerprint.


frauditor

Blend of fraud + auditor, appeared in the early 2020s.

First Amendment auditor
First Amendment auditor

(US, journalism) An intimidating, phony or insincere First Amendment auditor.


one more again

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-one more again.wav

Let me give it to you one more again.

(African-American Vernacular, idiomatic, slang) One more time; once again.


sentegraph

For quotations using this term, see Citations:sentegraph.

(informal) A paragraph consisting of a single sentence.


toilegami

(informal, humorous) The practice of folding the first available sheet on a roll of toilet paper, done in hotels to indicate to guests that the bathroom has been cleaned.


snacktivity

Blend of snack + activity. (short period): The duration is compared to a snack, as opposed to a full meal.

When conducting a snacktivity (or any other experiment) never taste research material unless the method states to do so.

2010, Allen Kurzweil, Potato Chip Science: 29 Incredible Experiments, page 28:

An activity that involves making or eating a snack.


oversharent

en-verb

oversharent (third-person singular simple present oversharents, present participle oversharenting, simple past and past participle oversharented)

oversharents (present singular third-person)
oversharenting (participle present)
oversharented (participle past)
oversharented (past)

Blend of overshare + parent. Equivalent to over- + sharent.

If you post pictures of your kids online every day, you might be oversharenting.

Readers, do you find yourself "oversharenting"? What limits do you set on your children's lives online.

2012 May 16, “Oversharenting: Parents Juggle Their Kids’ Lives Online”, in The Wall Street Journal, New York, N.Y.: Dow Jones & Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-02-04:

Whether you parent, rear your children, or (horror of horrors) oversharent, you are probably doing just fine.

2015 May 10, Britt Peterson, “The effects of 'parenting' on child-rearing”, in The Boston Globe, Boston, M.A.: Boston Globe Media Partners, LLC, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-28:

Does it matter? Am I oversharenting?

2017 May 4, Stacey Steinberg, “Growing up under the watchful eyes of his mother’s newsfeed”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-01-18:

But as the digital age has taken over from the family scrapbooks, and more of our lives are lived online, what digital legacy are you leaving your kids? Are you guilty of what's been called "oversharenting"?

2023 March 15, Amy Bell, “'Oversharenting': Are you giving away too much about your kids online?”, in CBC News, archived from the original on 2023-03-17:

(neologism) To overdocument one's child's upbringing on social media; to sharent excessively.


Fairborn

Blend of Fairfield + Osborn, the names of two villages that united in 1950 to form Fairborn.

A city in Bath Township, Greene County, Ohio, United States.


flamboast

flamboast (third-person singular simple present flamboasts, present participle flamboasting, simple past and past participle flamboasted)

flamboasts (present singular third-person)
flamboasting (participle present)
flamboasted (participle past)
flamboasted (past)

Blend of flamboyant + boast. Green's Dictionary of Slang suggests a derivation from flam (“to trick, hoodwink, deceive”) + boast, although this is less likely due to flam being a relatively obscure word.

com

Motherfuckers hate to see a true nigga flamboast / Bringin' in mo' net than gross

1995 November 7, “Get Chopped”performed by The Click:

This cafe is a jewel of architectural "flamboasting" that makes it one of the most amazing rooms in the city.

2005, Prague (Avant-Guides), third edition, New York, N.Y.: Empire Press Media, Inc., →ISBN, page 55:

"Stop shoving your fake relationship in my face and move it," I warned. ¶ "Hey!" His nostrils flared. "We ain't flamboasting!"

2006, Beth Killian, The 310: Everything She Wants, New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 114:

(intransitive, African-American Vernacular, slang, dated) To show off.


trululu

en-adj

trululu (comparative more trululu, superlative most trululu)

more trululu (comparative)
most trululu (superlative)

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


cryocrastinate

en-verb

cryocrastinate (third-person singular simple present cryocrastinates, present participle cryocrastinating, simple past and past participle cryocrastinated)

cryocrastinates (present singular third-person)
cryocrastinating (participle present)
cryocrastinated (participle past)
cryocrastinated (past)

Longterm discounts help to some extent but do nothing to encourage younger members to join rather than to cryocrastinate.

2020, Michael Benjamin, Jerry D. Leaf, Max More, R. Michael Perry, “How to Sustain an Organization for Over a Century”, in Cryonics, volume 41, number 3, page 14:

[…] so in cryonics when you delay signing up for your membership we call it 'cryocrastinate.'

2022 April 19, Peter Ward, quoting Patrick Harris, “How To Pay For a Second Life” (chapter 4), in The Price of Immortality, United Kingdom: Melville House Publishing, →ISBN, page 70:

Why do people cryocrastinate? The most common explanation I’ve heard from intelligent people for not getting cryonics is that the money is better spent on some altruistic cause.

2009 July 22, AndrewH, “An observation on cryocrastination”, in lesswrong.com, archived from the original on 2024-01-21:

(intransitive, neologism) To put off making arrangements of having one's body cryopreserved upon old age.


femoir

For quotations using this term, see Citations:femoir.


jilboob

(slang, derogatory) A Muslim woman who wears the jilbab while at the same time wearing a tight dress or blouse emphasizing her breasts.


rumptious

en-adj

rumptious (comparative more rumptious, superlative most rumptious)

more rumptious (comparative)
most rumptious (superlative)

Blend of rump (“the buttocks”) + scrumptious. Compare rumpalicious.

blend

I am not one to scourge such a rumptious and beautiful arse such as you are quite properly displaying to us now, my dear. Push it out more, and you also, Caroline. More, girls, more! Ah, yes indeed, that is better. What vaselike forms their hips take, do they not, Jonathan?

1986, Miss Martin: Or, an Account of Impassioned Desires Told by an Anonymous but Unhindered Witness Thereto, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, Inc., →ISBN, page 66:

Inebriated, she didn't feel a thing, thinking she was being pinched and stroked, when he inserted a small needle into her rumptious tush, putting her soundly to sleep.

2006, Norman Kelley, “The Messenger of Soulsville”, in George Pelecanos, editor, D.C. Noir, New York, N.Y.: Akashic Books, →ISBN, page 280:

Due to the overwhelming interest—throughout human history, it seems—in this particular feature of our anatomy, I feel, before we look at exercises, a special word must be given to these rumptious rounds of misery and delight.

2015, David Knox, Body School: A New Guide to Improved Movement in Daily Life, Aachen: Meyer & Meyer Sport, →ISBN, page 83:

(nonstandard, humorous) Of a person's buttocks: large, well-shaped.


quadrobics

Likely a blend of quadrupedal (“walking on four feet”) + aerobics.

Physical actions, movements, and exercises performed by an individual on all fours to mimic those of an animal.


Chibson

An electric guitar manufactured in East Asia, often of low quality.


y'allternative

A modern outgrowth of traditional country music that incorporates elements of rock while keeping the country twanginess.


canslaw

(slang) Pieces of shredded aluminium cans that may trigger a metal detector.


ronation

massively multiplayer online game
massively multiplayer online game

(video games, uncommon) A country, based on an existing one or invented, that is hosted on the massively multiplayer online game platform Roblox, in which users roleplay as citizens or government officials.


space nation

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

(micronationalism) A micronation that lays claim to territory in space: planets, satellites, stars or portions of space itself.


doomsteader

Doomsteaders may do well to revive the common practice from the pre-Cornucopian South of having a kitchen separate from the main house.

2009, “Practical Doomsteading: Summer Kitchen.”, in The Old Horseman's Blog:

You might call him a doomsteader; he's burrowed into his land like a tick, he's got earthworks and ponds and goats and hugels and trees from Stark Brothers.

2015 February 26, Dan Boone, “Growing Jujubes from seed (and general Jujube feedback)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):

My first internet communications and discussion on Doom concepts came on the Peak Oil Forum in 2008-2009, and there I ran into the whole panoply of Doomer Archetypes, Survivalists, Nazi Eugenecists, Permaculturists and of course the Doomsteaders, which is where the Doomstead Diner title for this Blog comes from.

2015 June 27, Reverse Engineer, “Boomer Doomers”, in Doomstead Diner:

'Doomsteading,' said Sir Owen. 'That's what they call it. Bunking down for the end of the world. They're doomsteaders, that's the word.'

2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 134:

A survivalist; one who engages in doomsteading.


doomsteading

(see title)

A cold, hard rationalism based on group survival rather than personal benefit, or survivalist-style doomsteading.

2010 March 21, Canuckistani, “Politics and Peak Energy”, in The Oil Drum:

So it’s no surprise that there is a trend toward “Doomsteading,” a term being used to describe the new disaster preparedness that is gentler and definitely more stylish than the concrete bunker and stockpiled ammo scenarios of the post WW II era.

2016 November 25, “Doomsteading: How to plan to head to the hills”, in The Napa Valley Register:

The novel takes a dim view of doomsteading.

2023 November 25, Alys Key, “The last battle: The Future, by Naomi Alderman, reviewed”, in Spectator Australia:

The creation of a place to live in after the collapse of civilization.


soccasin

How soon how soon is a day in June when I won't wear shoes on a bright forenoon, won't wear moccasins, won't wear sockasins, only my feet-like kangaroos. KANGAROOS! Can you picture shoes on KANGAROOS

1960, Aileen Fisher, edited by Adrienne Adams, Going Barefoot, illustrated edition, Crowell, →ISBN:

Wally's parachute pants and sockasins were just too weird for his persona, too memorable should certain questions ever be asked.

1997 March 1, Spider Robinson, chapter 3, in Lifehouse, Baen, →ISBN, page 56:

SOCCASINS FOR HYBRID OF SOCK AND MOCCASIN FOR CHILDREN (U.S. CLS. 22 AND 39).

2003 June 17, United States. Patent and Trademark Office, Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office: Trademarks, Volume 1271, Issue 3, volume 1271, number 3, U.S. Department of Commerce, Patent and Trademark Office, page 332:

There was an interlude during which they walked along side by side without talking, Lyla shrouded in he yash and sockasins so that none of her skin showed, and they were able to make it along the sidewalk without trouble because other people took it for granted she too was knee.

2014 April 1, John Brunner, “Seventy-four No Entry”, in The Jagged Orbit, Open Road Media, →ISBN:

“That's exactly what I want,” she said gratefully. “To make things seem normal, just for a while, even though I know they aren't and never will be again. Look, let's go eat right awayso I don't hold you up for too long. I'll get my yash and put on some sockasins so nobody can tell I'm blank walking along the street, and I know some restaurants that don't mind mixed clientele.”

2018 May 15, John Brunner, chapter 70, in The John Brunner Collection Volume One: The Sheep Look Up, The Crucible of Time, and The Jagged Orbit, volume 1, Open Road Media, →ISBN:

Hearing Ken sloshing in the bath, she quickly located her soccasins and made her way downstairs to plan the finer details of her post-funeral gathering. Post. Funeral. Gathering. Just the mere sound of it was delicious to Izzy. And with her head swirling with images of ancient druid rituals, she merrily set up her laptop on the kitchen table.

2021 April 19, Daren Kay, The Brightonians, Grosvenor House Publishing, →ISBN:

Ususally his whip-cracking reflexes had him out of bed in a flash and jerking on his shorts and sockasins while he frantically hunted around for the jar of beard-dissolving cream.

2023 November 9, Fritz Leiber, chapter 1, in Erik Schreiber, editor, The Green Millennium, volume 18, Good Press, →ISBN:


World of Warcrack

Blend of World of Warcraft + crack, an allusion to the addictiveness of crack cocaine.

Noah Tsutsul world of warcrack addict

2005 March, “Staff Rants”, in MacAddict, volume 10, number 3 / 103, Brisbane, Calif.: Future Network USA, →ISSN, page 08:

The first thing I did was install a few games, including Call Of Duty 2, Far Cry, F.E.A.R., rFactor, and World Of Warcrack (don’t ask).

2006 September, Rahul Sood, “Wagging The Dog: Intel Will Change The Way It Does Business”, in Computer Power User, volume 6, number 09, Lincoln, Neb.: Sandhills Publishing, →ISSN, page 99, column 2:

World of Warcrack — er, Warcraft

2007, Hugh Hancock, Johnnie Ingram, “Massively Multiplayer Machinima: World of Warcraft”, in Machinima For Dummies®, Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, part III (Advanced Machinima Creation), page 190:

As with EverQuest before it, concerned citizens around the nation have attempted to liken its addictive gameplay to substance abuse. As usual, these dire warnings serve only as free publicity, vaulting “World of Warcrack” to even greater fame.

2008, Matt Barton, “The Modern Age”, in Dungeons and Desktops: The History of Computer Role-Playing Games, Wellesley, Mass.: A K Peters, Ltd., →ISBN, page 419:

In other circumstances, the overweening success of a single game would prove frustrating to its competitors: other developers trying to get their products in the hands of receptive audiences. Except in this case, most of those developers are themselves addicted to what some call the “World of Warcrack.”

2009 December 2–8, Ben Richardson, “No escape from Azeroth”, in The San Francisco Bay Guardian, volume 44, number 9, San Francisco, Calif., →ISSN, page 23, columns 1–2:

“And it’s a crack addiction.” Everybody stared. “World of Warcrack, that is,” Chip said, and smiled. / “Wait,” Tracy said. “They locked you up for a video game addiction?”

2013, Trish Cook, Brendan Halpin, A Really Awesome Mess, New York, N.Y.: Egmont USA, →ISBN, page 124:

As usual, Ryan was playing World of Warcrack, as Mom called it. The most addictive computer game ever created, where kids with no lives have names like Worgen and are always leveling up.

2014, Mitchell Kriegman, Being Audrey Hepburn, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Dunne Books, →ISBN, page 4:

Brandon’s parents also made their home a “screen free zone” replacing “World of Warcrack” with a cooking class, the Percy Jackson book series, yard work, a chemistry set, and a soccer league.

2014, David Altshuler, Love the Kid You Get. Get the Kid You Love., Langley Press, →ISBN, page 175:

The improvements it made to the EQ [EverQuest] template were noticed, and players around the globe became absorbed by what was being termed ‘the World Of Warcrack’. It ate up lives and players became devoted to their guilds, their levelling friends and their online avatars.

2019 October 31, Adam Barnes, “World Of Warcraft”, in Retro Gamer, number 200, Bournemouth, Dorset: Future Publishing Limited, →ISSN, pages 80–81:

(video games, slang, humorous) The massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft.


dogloo

(Antarctica) An igloo used as a doghouse.


mugly

(slang, derogatory) A young female who has an attractive body, but an unattractive face.


drunkover

en-adj

drunkover (comparative more drunkover, superlative most drunkover)

more drunkover (comparative)
most drunkover (superlative)

We aren't talking now. I'm drunk and hungover, or drunkover. Landscape inside and outside the car glows monochrome. John concentrates on the dark road. His glasses are shimmering circles of cold white fire.

2020 November 24, David Nickle, Monstrous Affections: Stories, Open Road Media, →ISBN:

“If you're okay here on your own, I think I'm going to head home and get some sleep. I'm still feeling a little...” “Seedy?” Nora supplied. “Drunkover? “I was going to say under the weather.” “Don't you worry.” Nora beamed at him. “Everything is under control here.

2021 February 28, Josh Lanyon, Mystery at the Masquerade: An M/M Cozy Mystery, volume 3, JustJoshin Publishing, Inc., →ISBN:

“He was pretty lunched the night before.” “Yep. He had a full-throttle drunkover.” “Drunkover!” All five of them laugh. “Fuck. Been there.” Ollie and Katie catch our eyes at the swear word, as if they're getting away with something just by hearing the curse.

2021 April 13, Angie Abdou, “Four”, in This One Wild Life: A Mother-Daughter Wilderness Memoir, ECW Press, →ISBN:


strawberrita

And they come in five fantastic flavors: Torada Original, Strawberrita, Melonrita, and two totally new ones : Cinnamonrita “The Original Cinnamon Margarita' and Salsarita “The Original Salsa Margarita'.

1981, Market Watch, volume 13, M. Shanken Communications, page 83:

Less romantic, I suggest, is the strip joint of the Riverside Lounge which offers 'girls, girls, girls' and 'Limearita' and 'Strawberrita' to drink; I didn't stop.

2014 July 17, Mark Avery, A Message from Martha: The Extinction of the Passenger Pigeon and Its Relevance Today, A&C Black, →ISBN:

He and his girlfriend spent all their time working. She was studying to be a lawyer. They had no reason to throw their life away on Strawberrita.

2017 October 12, Elle Truth, Invisible Generation: The Saga of the Domestic Engineer in High Society Homes, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN:

You can hear the deputy ask the driver, Darrol Austin Luce if he’s been drinking. “You been drinking a little bit?” “No, I haven’t been drinking at all, but there is a strawberrita in there,” said Luce. The 19-year-old driver admitted there’s alcohol in the car but maintained he had not been drinking.

2018 August 10, Andy Cordan, “2 teens arrested after drug bust in Lawrence Co.”, in WKRN, archived from the original on 2021-03-03:

The guacamole at Angela’s is the real deal, and if you’re in need of a great margarita, the restaurant has a number of options, ranging from the classic version to a mangorita, coconutrita, and strawberrita.

2019 May 17, Erin Kuschner, “Discover a global dining scene in East Boston”, in Boston.com, archived from the original on 2022-01-21:

It wouldn’t be a true Happy Hour without some delicious drinks to complement the Border Style Mex. For $3, guests can raise their glasses with any of these refreshing beverages – select grande domestic drafts, Dos Equis draft, Corona and Dos Equis bottles or regular House Margarita. For an additional $1, upgrade to a grande Dos Equis draft or a grande House Margarita or try a grande Strawberrita or grande Mango Tango for $5.

2020 July 21, Cami Studebaker, “On The Border Livens Up Happy Hour with Bold New Specials”, in RestaurantNews.com, archived from the original on 2021-02-05:

If you're looking for something frozen the also serve a frozen margarita as well as a frozen "strawberrita."

2022 January 26, Eddie Ritz, “Love tacos? This new Mexican restaurant at Delray Marketplace has you covered!”, in Palm Beach Post, archived from the original on 2023-03-18:

Featured drinks include the Blue Riptide fish bowl and portable summer cooler bags with flavors of Strawberrita, White Lightning and Henny Raz. Along the Cedar Point Boardwalk, the mobile Boardwalk Beer Bike will serve a variety of beers and seltzers.

2022 July 26, Crawford County Now Staff, “Cedar Point Nights returns to the Cedar Point Beach”, in CrawfordCountyNow.com, archived from the original on 2022-07-27:

A strawberry flavored margarita cocktail.


Uncle Sham

(slang, humorous, derogatory) Uncle Sam.


poojeet

Blend of poo + pajeet (“an Indian”). Inspired by a stereotype of Indians commonly partaking in open defecation.

These fucking delusional Poojeets are not worth the time or the effort.

2020 May 9, u/sars_910, “This comment made me so mad, what would be the shortest way to refute it?”, in Reddit, r/chutyapa:

Your job will never be outsourced because of national interests and even the poojeets coming here cant be hired as they won't get security clearances lmao.

2023 August 4, u/b0ssplus, “Anon is looking for a job”, in Reddit, r/4chan:

Sri Lanka too strong for Poojeets 💪💯💪💯🦁🐯💪💯💪💯

2023 September 20, u/Xskeletton, “RAW PROPAGANDA 🇮🇳🐅🪷🪷👳👳🍛”, in Reddit, r/2bharat4you:

Show me one poojeet fuck that actually looks like this. ¶ Malnourished dung munchers can only dream

2023 December 6, @PoorTaxEvader, Twitter:

(4chan, Internet slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) An Indian.


balloonatic

A balloonatic is a bad risk for a life insurance company. Statistics show that the average life of a balloonatic is about two hours and a half — if he has good luck.

1906 June 21, The Spectator, New York, page 52, column 1:


antiquitech

The Romans had mock battles in the Colosseum, which was pumped with water. The obelisks and columns with the intertwining wires around them mean something and relate back to this antiquitech.

2022 May 4, Everest Media, Summary of Martin Liedtke's The Holy Grail of Our Flat Earth, abridged edition, Everest Media LLC, →ISBN:

Experience the quickening. Sand boils start up bubbling. Silted, buried roadways. Cover over Jain. Minaret antiquitech. Chaos in the casbah. Reset retribution. Last in line is Jain.

2023 February 19, Ike Knife, Moon Mind, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN:

(see title)

2023 April 30, James W Lee, “title”, in One World/One America 2: Tartarian Antiquitech and Lumerian Giants, Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp, →ISBN:

Ancient highly advanced technology which was lost for an extended period of time.


animagus

Coined by J. K. Rowling for her Harry Potter series as a blend of animal + magus. Term is introduced in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (1999).

There is also the question of what we imagine the universes in the multiverse would look like in general. One is virtually forced to speculate, way beyond anything physics can say, that all possible universes exist, in order to guarantee one like ours coming about. Most of these universes would be dead. Of the tiny minority that had life at all, some would really have mythical creatures like unicorns, werewolves and animagi.

2007, Rodney D. Holder, “Is the universe designed?”, in Denis Alexander, editor, Has Science Killed God? The Faraday Papers on Science and Religion, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, published 2019, →ISBN, part 4 (Science, Faith and Philosophy):

When we match our crown chakras with the topmost lion and its crown, we have the odd experience of looking out from the eyes of the golden lion atop the Ray pillar, as if we have become this lion, shapeshifting like an animagus into a lion’s form, or perhaps into the Lion, as in the Lion archetype, one of the Holy Beasts, the angelic order with the four heads, one for each of the zodiacal quarters and one the figure of a lion.

2011, Richard Leviton, Hierophantic Landscapes: Lighting up Chalice Well, Lake Tahoe, Yosemite, the Rondanes, and Oaxaca, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 519, column 1:

Lucifer was an Animagus, not by God’s hand, but perhaps by evolution or by willing it later and he used it in a successful attempt to lead Adam and Eve astray in the Garden of Eden.

2022, Barb Cantrell, I Want My Kids to Know Who God Really Is, Conneaut Lake, Pa.: Page Publishing, →ISBN:

"This is my friend Leonard. Leo you can transform back now." / Alexa smiled at the dog. All of a sudden, the husky jumped up onto his hind legs and before their very eyes the husky turned into a man. / "Dude that was awesome! Are you a..." Shinara questioned. / "An animagus? Yes." Leonard said looking back at Alexa.

2022, C[harlie-]L[ee] Davies, The Dark Elf: The Return of the Queen, London: Europe Books, →ISBN:

(fantasy) A person who can transform into an animal.

animago

a person who can transform into an animal


raindroplet

Blend of raindrop + droplet, in view of the fact that raindrop is attested since Old English.

The ground rose very slightly. She pressed on and then she ran straight into them. Not one, not two, not ten, but dozens of wood anemones, their green leaves perfect, their white and purple flowers half open and bespattered with shining raindroplets.

1980, William Horwood, “Siabod”, in Duncton Wood, New York, N.Y.: McGraw-Hill Book Company, →ISBN, page 439:

Her hair was webbed by thousands of tiny raindroplets, which sparkled dully in the electric light.

2000, Blánaid McKinney, “The Gold of Tolosa”, in Big Mouth, London: Phoenix House, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, →ISBN, page 18:

She speaks with her hands, and raindroplets bead on her brow.

2000, Andrea Hollander Budy, “On High Street”, in Laure-Anne Bosselaar, editor, Urban Nature: Poems about Wildlife in the City, Minneapolis, Minn.: Milkweed Editions, →ISBN, page 151:


millenopause

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

some uterine fuckery lately (apparently a month now is 44 days long, who knew) made me think about some things, and I realized: ¶ when we all hit millenopause without ever having been culturally considered adults? things are gonna get weird.

2020 January 5, @slip_stitch, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-02-03:

The Millennial generation includes women born between 1981 and 2000 (depending upon which source you reference). That means the oldest Millennials are entering their 40s, well within the time frame when perimenopause can begin. It's time to reckon with "Millenopause."

2022 January 10, Angela Rosoff, “Millenopause – it's a thing”, in The C Word Mag, archived from the original on 2022-01-10:

Millennials have grown up. We've hit middle age, started to show signs of aging — even of aging out of the internet and into something called "millenopause." We now have to work harder than ever to stay culturally relevant, as Gen Z and (gasp) Gen Alpha seize the attention of marketing departments and the media.

2024 January 28, Joseph Bernstein, “Why Millennials Are Declaring Themselves Obsolete”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-01-31:

What gives us away — our hemlines, our hairstyles, our slang? Whatever it is, there is nothing more embarrassing, apparently, than a millennial. Especially a geriatric millennial, at the upper end of the 28-43 age bracket, fast approaching middle age, our "millenopause".

2024 January 29, Charlie Gowans-Eglinton, “Help! I am about to reach my ’millenopause’”, in The Times, London: News UK, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-01-29:

To go through menopause is to confront the truth that our bodies are machines that run on their own, finite timeline: once you've stopped menstruating, it's just a matter of time before you also stop breathing. To go through millenopause, on the other hand, is to hold your mortality at a cute, narrative remove. Menopause is existential dread; millenopause is a viral hashtag and a video of you taking your HRT out of a pastel-coloured subscription box.

2024 February 1, Kat Rosenfield, “Millennials are rebranding the menopause”, in UnHerd, archived from the original on 2024-02-01:

(neologism) Menopause or perimenopause, as experienced by those in the millennial generation (those born from the early 1980s to the mid 1990s).


twonager

Blend of two + teenager (by analogy with threenager), due to toddlers of this age ostensibly resembling the difficult attitude and demeanour stereotypically associated with teenagers.

no plans really, a quiet one with t and babel I think, though babel not so quiet lately, she has become a twonager!

Today's highlight was getting locked out of my truck by my twonager. I must stop putting my keys in his cup holder while I buckle him in...

Sophie is going through some typical two year old tantrums (we've started referring to her as our "twonager" since it's a nice little preview of what she'll be like as a teenager), and when you combine that with a needy newborn you get two very [author's italics] tired parents.

2014 October 24, Nole, Happy Weekend!, number 237, Oh So Beautiful Paper:

Establishing a nighttime routine is super important (even when you have a rebellious twonager on your hands), which is why we created our toddler bedtime routine chart. But it also requires flexibility.

2018 July 20, “Bedtime routine chart for a 2 year old: Our routine chart”, in Bottles and Banter:

My twonager HATES having her hair brushed or even touched. She has these nasty knots that I keep trying to gently work out, but I can't. I've tried TV as a distraction. I've talked to her about it.

2023 March 13, u/hiiiiiiiiiiyaaaaaaaa, “Can't brush her hair”, in r/toddlers, Reddit:

(slang, uncommon) A two-year-old toddler who is now more independent and difficult, involving refusals, demands and tantrums; a toddler experiencing their terrible twos developmental stage.


technoference

Interference in one's life caused by technology, e.g. notifications and texts that interrupt what one is doing.


Shoah business

(slang, derogatory, sometimes humorous) The merchandizing or trivializing of the Holocaust.


walkalator

(US, India, Philippines, Malaysia) A moving walkway (a slow conveyor belt that transports people horizontally or on an incline in a similar manner to an escalator.)


passhole

(US, slang, derogatory) A person who holds a pass to visit Walt Disney theme parks and who behaves obnoxiously while there.


tigard

(rare) The hybrid offspring of a male tiger and a female leopard.


cybertarianism

Blend of cyber- + libertarianism. Equivalent to cybertarian + -ism.

The illustrations gathered above—arbitrarily selected but emblematic of profound tendencies across theories, industries, and places—amount to a touching but maddening mythology: cybertarianism, the belief that new media technologies are obliterating geography, sovereignty, and hierarchy in an alchemy of truth and beauty. Cybertarianism promises libertarian ideals and forms of life made real and whole thanks to the innately individualistic and iconoclastic nature of the newer media.

2016, Toby Miller, “Cybertarian Flexibility—When Prosumers Join the Cognitariat, All That Is Scholarship Melts into Air”, in Michael Curtin, Kevin Sanson, editors, Precarious Creativity: Global Media, Local Labor, Oakland, C.A.: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 21:

(neologism) The application of libertarianism beliefs to the digital world.


cybertarian

I've been doing a lot of research particularly in India but in other Asian countries too on, if you like, the new cybertarians who are growing up working in an offshore call centers and software development and so on.

2011, Sasha Lilley, quoting Ursula Huws, Capital and Its Discontents: Conversations With Radical Thinkers in a Time of Tumult, Oakland, C.A.: PM Press, →ISBN, page 177:

Coders allied to cyber workers' rights also play a role, creating tools to aid cybertarians in information sharing and self-organizing. The ingenious Turkopticon, for example, is a web browser plugin that overlays features on the Amazon Mechanical Turk platform, helping workers who do pay-per-task clickwork to avoid poor quality jobs, delayed payment, and outright wage theft (Irani & Silberman 2013).

2021 May 27, Jenna Burrell, Marion Fourcade, “The Society of Algorithms”, in Annual Review of Sociology, volume 47, San Mateo, C.A.: Annual Reviews, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 221:

(Marxism, neologism) A member of the cybertariat class.


cybertarian

John Perry Barlow is a "cybertarian," a form of libertarian. In other words, he believes in bottom-up, decentralized solutions to the dilemmas that arise in cyberspace.

2002, Terry Halbert, Elaine Ingulli, CyberEthics, Mason, O.H.: West, →ISBN, page 22:

We're in the midst of fevered discussions about communications and security. Cybertarian campaigners want to stop collusion between corporations and governments to intercept citizen chat; attention-grabbing adolescents at Anonymous want to disrupt murderers who dislike mockery of their principal prophet and the gilt-edged grown-ups in national security services want to listen in on plans to revenge such blasphemy.

2015 January 23, Toby Miller, “How to deal with electronic waste? Make it a national security issue”, in The Conversation, archived from the original on 2024-01-30:

(neologism) Someone who applies libertarian ideology to the Internet; a follower of cybertarianism.


cybertariat

Blend of cyber- + proletariat. Coined by researcher Ursula Huws in a 2000 essay (see quotation below).

It is apparent that a new cybertariat is in the making. Whether it will perceive itself as such is another matter.

2000, Ursula Huws, “The Making of a Cybertariat? Virtual Work in a Real World”, in Leo Panitch, Colin Leys, editors, Socialist Register, Working Classes, Global Realities, London: The Merlin Press, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 20:

On the eve of May Day, also known as International Workers' Day, all 50 volumes of the Marx and Engels Collected Works (MECW) were removed from the Marxists Internet Archive at Marxists.org at the request of the publisher, Lawrence & Wishart, igniting the cybertariat's fury.

[2014 May 2, Jordan Pearson, “Not Even Radical Communist Literature Is Immune to Copyright Battles”, in VICE, archived from the original on 2023-11-06:

The work of matching drivers to ride requests on ridesharing apps, scoring web pages for quality, correcting digital maps, tagging and annotating videos, double-checking virtual assistants' responses, correcting biases, and moderating social media postings all demands, to this day, a multitude of real humans in the loop. What stands beneath the fetish of AI is a global digital assembly line of silent, invisible men and women, often laboring in precarious conditions, many in postcolonies of the Global South. A new class of workers stands opposite the coding elite: the cybertariat.

2021 May 27, Jenna Burrell, Marion Fourcade, “The Society of Algorithms”, in Annual Review of Sociology, volume 47, San Mateo, C.A.: Annual Reviews, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 219:

(Marxism, neologism) A proletarian class who perform repetitive, unskilled, and low-paid digital labour (such as moderating online platforms or click farming).


Roevember

Blend of Roe + November. From Roe v. Wade, an overturned Supreme Court case that protected abortion, and November, when elections in the United States typically take place.

Will Roevember become a reality? According to reproductive-rights leaders and political analysts, the answer is not as tidy or triumphant as the catchphrase.

2022 October 28, Michelle Ruiz, “Is Roevember Really Coming?”, in Vogue:

(US politics) The 2022 United States elections, in relation to abortion.