refudiate

en-verb

refudiate (third-person singular simple present refudiates, present participle refudiating, simple past and past participle refudiated)

refudiates (present singular third-person)
refudiating (participle present)
refudiated (participle past)
refudiated (past)

Blend of refute + repudiate. Often associated with Sarah Palin's infamous 2010 lapsus linguae. A few rare attestations predate the 1970s. Since then the word has been uncommon although not rare, but many written occurrences of the word focus on prescriptively refudiating its use; it remains nonstandard.

Blends are the simplest kind of slip of the tongue […] some examples […] "refudiating" (refuting + repudiating).

1951, Rulon Wells, "Predicting Slips of the Tongue"; reprinted in Victoria Fromkin (editor), Speech Errors as Linguistic Evidence, 1973, Walter de Gruyter, page 85

[…] their articles were read to determine whether the citation was to substantiate or refudiate the initial claim or was it a "quote of acceptance".

1980 January 23, Report of Joint Commission on Prescription Drug Use, page 1:

‘Captain Blip? Never,’ he said, without ceasing to calculate. ‘I refudiate that.’
‘You what?’ Jane felt suddenly cold all over. ‘There’s no such word, Denny.’

1984, John Sladek, The Lunatics of Terra, Wildside Press LLC, published 2005, →ISBN, page 77:

The value of given data can and must be judged regardless of the hypothesis they are supposed to support or refudiate.

1987, Mahabalagiri N. Hegde, Clinical Research in Communicative Disorders: Principles and Strategies, Little, Brown, →ISBN, page 317:

I am going to do everything I can along with the Chairman to see this Congress refudiate the certification of certain countries that are not complying.

1988 March 3, James Bilbray, quoted in Worldwide Narcotics Review of the 1988 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 9

a. 2008, Alan Moore writes in the subsection, Dr. Manhattan: Super-powers and the Superpowers, pg. iii, of Chapter IV, in Watchmen, "The suggestion that the presence of a superhuman has inclined the world more towards peace is refudiated by the sharp increase in both Russian and American nuclear stockpiles since the advent of Dr. Manhattan."

Words are coined on the spot, like “refudiate,” and regular words are used in ways that make sense only in context.

a. 2010, David Segal quoting a marijuana seller, “When Capitalism Meets Cannabis”, in The New York Times, 2010 June 27, page BU1

Palin tweeted that "peaceful Muslims" should "refudiate" the New York mosque being built near Ground Zero. This prompted plenty of retweets at her expense -- "refudiate," of course, is not a word.

2010, Matt DeLong quoting Sarah Palin, “'Refudiating' Palin brings Shakespeare into Twitter exchange”, in the Washington Post, 2010 July 20


Kimothy

An American 20th century coinage. Blend of Kim + Timothy?

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


absitively posolutely

Spooneristic blend of absolutely and positively.

"She was absitively, posolutely nutty!"

1922, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, (please specify |book=1, 2, or 3):

1988, Disney - Oliver and Company - http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/o/oliver-and-company-script-transcript.html
"And once you got the beat, you can do anything. "I can?" "Absitively posolutely."

"Well, thanks." "Could you validate my parking?" "Absitively posolutely."

1991, Jon Vitti, When Flanders Failed, season 3, episode 3, spoken by Ned Flanders (Harry Shearer):

"Ha ha! It's brilliant, inspired...absitively, posolutely electrified!"

2004, Disney - Springtime with Roo - https://web.archive.org/web/20110411052109/http://movie.subtitlr.com/subtitle/show/28805#line1571

(humorous) Absolutely and positively; certainly; yes.


absotively

That is one of the twelve reasons why Charlotte Diners are absotively the best little old dining chairs produced in this Land of the Free—and Prohibition has nothing to do with it.

1920 September, “Style and Stability (advertisement)”, in The Rotarian, volume 17, number 3, page 159:

“I is sad; absotively mis'able. What you reckon kind of pitcher they is takin' down there?”

1925, Octavus Roy Cohen, Bigger and Blacker, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, →LCCN, →OL:

“Absotively, Admiral Dewey?” “Posilutely, General Grant.”

1994, Joseph Heller, Closing Time, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL:

(informal, humorous or childish) Absolutely and positively.


midhusband

(rare, usually humorous) masculine equivalent of midwife: A male midwife.


perxactly

(colloquial) Alternative spelling of perzactly


prexactly

(colloquial) Alternative form of perzactly


perzactly

and Joseph continued: "That's it perzactly, All these words mean perzactly that, but there is hope, sister; there is hope.

1898, Lynn Roby Meekins, Some of our people, page 190:

"Not perzactly," Remy allowed. "Hezzy'd be gathering eggs one minute or sweeping the front porch and the next she'd be flat out on the ground.

2009, Jan Watson, Sweetwater Run, page 171:

(colloquial) precisely, exactly; used as an affirmation


collectin

en-noun

collectin (countable and uncountable, plural collectins)


diabesity

(medicine, pathology) The simultaneous diagnosis of obesity and diabetes in a patient, especially when the obesity is a causative factor of the diabetes.


Amerithrax

Blend of America + anthrax; the name used for the case by the FBI.

The 2001 anthrax attacks in the United States, in which letters containing anthrax spores were mailed to news media offices and politicians.


fauxmosexual

(slang) A heterosexual person who affects homosexual characteristics.


culturati

culturati pl (normally plural, singular culturatus)

/ˌkʌlt͡ʃəˈɹɑti/

The Club became like town meetings for the entire New York art scene, attracting dealers, collectors, uptown curators like Alfred Barr, critics, and just about any other culturati who could wrangle their way in.

Instead of letting WQXR disappear into the maw of sports talk or a top-40 juggernaut, the transaction ensures that New York City — so often pointed to by its culturati as a music capital — will have at least one classical outlet.

2009 July 17, Daniel J. Wakin, “Amid Changes at WQXR, Music Stays”, in New York Times:

Well-educated people who are interested in cultural activities.


Beervana

This beervana is enjoyed by a surprisingly young and collegiate crowd, which explains the row of video games now in place.

Attendees usually think they've died and gone to Beervana […]

2004, Duane Swierczynski, The big book o' beer:

Call it what you want – PDX, P-Town, Puddletown, Stumptown, City of Roses, Bridge City, River City or Beervana – Portland kicks booty.

2008, Sandra Bao, Washington, Oregon and the Pacific Northwest:

If you're getting a taste for the local pivo, head to the Pivovarský klub, absolute Beervana for hop heads.

2010, Brett Atkinson, Lonely Planet Prague Encounter:

(informal) Any place where good beer is available in abundance.


coopetition

coopetition (countable and uncountable, plural coopetitions)

Conflict over how to divide up the benefits produced by cooperation, as for example in labor-management relations.


copywrong

copywrong (countable and uncountable, plural copywrongs)

We do it with less compunctious visitings of conscience, on the score of copyright or copywrong, as we are informed by the New York bookseller, that the demand, since we commenced the publication of our extracts, has been greater than the supply...

1847, Freeman Hunt, Hunt's merchants' magazine, page 539:

But immediately we run headlong into the issue of copywrong. For instance, take a sample of some artist and mix it with other samples and sounds to create a new work and you will get a composition that will attract entertainment lawyers like a garbage bin gathers flies.

1998 March 23, Network World, volume 15, number 12:

For me personally, the copyrights and "copywrongs," as I have called them, simply boil down to either one or two things, and that is it's either an act of distribution or it is an act of consumption.

2005, Gerard M Stegmaier, The Digital Millennium Copyright Act: 2005 supplement:

(nonce word) The unethical use of, or disregard for, copyright law.


philanthrocapitalism

At its best, philanthrocapitalism reinforces and amplifies the time, money, skills, and gifts given every year by people who are not rich, and it informs and enhances government policies.

2009, Matthew Bishop, Michael F. Green, Bill Clinton (foreword), Philanthrocapitalism: How Giving Can Save the World, Bloomsbury Press, →ISBN, Foreword, page viii:

"Philanthrocapitalism", as it has been called, veers towards tackling symptoms of poverty and distress rather than underlying causes.

2010 August 5, Peter Wilby, “The rich want a better world? Try paying fair wages and tax”, in The Guardian:

(neologism) The philosophy of applying capitalist style objectives and criteria to directing philanthropic enterprises.


circlip

A type of fastener consisting of a flexible metal ring of spring steel with open ends which can be snapped into place. Internal and external forms exist.

circlip

fastener consisting of a semi-flexible metal ring


biotecture

biotecture (countable and uncountable, plural biotectures)

(architecture) Any of several types of architecture that use forms influenced by biological structures.


Microshaft

Blend of Microsoft + shaft (in slang sense; see shafted).

(computing, slang, derogatory) The computer company Microsoft.


Winblows

Blend of Windows + blows (in the slang sense where something that "blows" is worthless or inferior). First use appears c. 1997 in the periodical Working Woman.

Winblows regrets that it is "Not Justice Department Approved."

1998, Newsweek, Incorporated, Newsweek, Volume 131, page 12:

Ring me when Winblows becomes free, or when there are free dev tools for it!

1999, John Purcell (editor), Linux, The Complete Reference; The Advanced Reference · Book 2, page 319:

While many users run versions of Linux or Unix on their PCs, most PC users run some flavor of Windows (often referred to by Mac and Unix users as WinDoze or WinBlows).

2003, David Chappelle, Protect Yourself Online, How to Cover Your Assets Every Time You Log On, page 27:

(computing, slang, derogatory) The Microsoft Windows operating system.


aramid

Any of a class of strong, heat-resistant synthetic fibres, used in aerospace and military applications.


Sensurround

Blend of sense + surround, coined as a brand name.

The object of Sensurround is to subject the audience to such high levels of such low frequency sound that they feel as well as hear the sound waves.

1977 December, “Rolling and reeling with Sensurround”, in New Scientist, page 771:

Who is against upgrades, jump cuts, more channels, better speakers, the Sensurround pleasure dome of everyday life?

2002, Todd Gitlin, Media Unlimited: How the Torrent of Images and Sounds Overwhelms Our Lives, →ISBN, page 115:

For Libby, hysterics were an MGM Technicolor production in Dolby Sound and Sensurround.

2006, Nancy Martin, Have Your Cake and Kill Him Too, →ISBN, page 129:

Upstairs, you enter a cavernous ballroom, like a junior high school auditorium taken over by aliens with superior technology—featuring amazing lighting tricks and a Sensurround–style bass response that makes your chest feel as if it's going to explode.

2010, Eve Zibart with Lea Lane and Aaron Starmer, The Unofficial Guide to New York City, →ISBN, page 455:

An audio process for motion pictures using low-frequency sound to produce physical sensations in an audience.


Euramerica

/ˌjʊəɹəˈmɛɹəkə/

(historical) A minor supercontinent made up of the Laurentia, Avalonia and Baltica cratons. Later joined with other continents as part of Pangaea.


dubtronica

A genre of music combining electronica and dub.


dancercise

dancercise (countable and uncountable, plural dancercises)

Dancercise is good for weight loss.

Any aerobic exercise in the form of a vigorous dance.


dancercise

en-verb

dancercise (third-person singular simple present dancercises, present participle dancercising, simple past and past participle dancercised)

dancercises (present singular third-person)
dancercising (participle present)
dancercised (participle past)
dancercised (past)

Suzy dancercised at 4 PM to burn many calories.

(intransitive, rare) To perform this kind of exercise.


palmcorder

Blend of palm + camcorder, suggesting one that fits in the palm of the hand. Originally a trademark of Panasonic.


informetrics

(mathematics, computing) The study of quantitative aspects of information


cartomizer

electronic cigarette
electronic cigarette

A combination of cartridge and atomizer that is part of an electronic cigarette.


bullshot

From bull + shot with influence from bullshit.

A cocktail made from vodka and beef bouillon.


bullshot

Blend of bullshit + screenshot, coined in 2005 in the webcomic Penny Arcade.

Exhibit A is a textbook example of a bullshot, an image ginned up by marketing and foisted on people who don't know any better.

2005 September 12, “Potent New Lingo”, in Penny Arcade, retrieved 2012-06-15:

Even the world's most technically proficient game-makers — industry leaders in graphical and gameplay innovation — seem shy to release actual screenshots of their forthcoming games, preferring instead to unleash super-scaled bullshots, or enhanced videos.

2009 August 15, Richard Leadbetter, “Media Manipulation: the "Bullshot" phenomenon”, in Eurogamer, retrieved 2012-06-15:

Sometimes they’ll fall under the ambiguous label of ‘visual target renders’, the small-print description of bullshots at the highest level.

2012 March 19, Ryan King, “7 Marketing Trends That Need To Stop”, in Play, →ISSN, retrieved 2012-06-16:

(neologism, video games) A phony screenshot created for promotional purposes.


mahoosive

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

Probably a blend of massive and a respelling of the letters hu in huge infixed in the former.

Well, I haven't had any real problems with it, it's not the most reliable ISP I've ever used (mahoosive understatement), but considering it's free it's not too bad.

2000 March 27, Laurence Bogle, “Re: DF”, in alt.fab.robert-jordan (Usenet):

I even said to someone look at them mahoosive mosquitoes!! […] I tell ya, between the mahoosive mosquitoes, bees & wasps and caterpillars, I was VERY happy to get back to the city & it's pollution.

2002 September 24, “Frothie” [pseudonym], “Re: More Mahoosive Spiders :S”, in alt.babylon5.uk (Usenet):

We do have a rather mahoosive store locally.

2003 October 10, “Catkins” [pseudonym], “Re: Just ‘done’ Tescos”, in freeserve.chat (Usenet):

Picture this: we had a fat tourist: wandering along in a mahusive pair of budgie smugglers (Speedo's), and wearing this ridiculous flower hat; pawing over a local girl.

2007 February 26, John P. Wood, Woody’s World Turns Left … into South East Asia, Bloomington, Ind., Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 247:

And on that note, I shall bid you all a fond au revoir. This scene-setting commentary will now end, and Phil Harlow will bring you all the action from the Stade de France before, during and after tonight's mahoosive match.

2007 October 20, Sam Lyon, “England v South Africa countdown”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 2021-06-08:

Those destinations are the span of England. And it's not exactly a mahoosive country …

2010 January 23, “humble.life” [pseudonym], “Re: get this …”, in alt.support.depression (Usenet):

Rachel McAdams showed off a mahusive baby bump while out and about in Notting Hill, London late yesterday afternoon. Which could just about be the most exciting thing to ever happen, today.

2012 July 6 (updated 2012 September 25), Gilly Ferguson, “Is Rachel McAdams pregnant!? Let’s examine the evidence (the bump)”, in Daily Mirror, London: Reach plc, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-12-02:

Bass-thrum and glass-shard music swelled slowly in volume. Despite the sound's sweetness, its painful clarity, something in Ecko shivered – it jagged at his nerves like the old fingernails-down-a-blackboard trick. It was pure power, some ma-hu-sive engine that was just turning over, warming the fuck up.

2015 November, Danie Ware, “Muster”, in Ecko Endgame, London: Titan Books, Titan Publishing Group, →ISBN:

So if you're shy about going to the gym because there is always someone next to you using mahoosive weights, don't be. You do your weights, just make every workout count.

2019 June 17, Matt Goulet, quoting Henry Cavill, “Henry Cavill Reveals His Secret to Getting Big Arms”, in Richard Dorment, editor, Men’s Health, New York, N.Y.: Hearst Magazine Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-10-03:

(chiefly British, humorous, slang) Massive; huge; very large.


produceorial

en-adj

produceorial (comparative more produceorial, superlative most produceorial)

more produceorial (comparative)
most produceorial (superlative)

I'm always just trying to get direct access to an audience, without having to go through the media hoops, or even theproduceorial hoops

2003, Kathleen Gallagher, “A dialogue with Ann-Marie MacDonald”, in How theatre educates: convergences and counterpoints with artists, scholars and advocates, University of Toronto Press, page 251:

(film, theater) Of or pertaining to a producer; concerned with production


amatol

A high explosive consisting of a mixture of ammonium nitrate and trinitrotoluene.

amatoli

high explosive made from ammonium nitrate and trinitrotoluene


manumatic

Describing any of several forms of motor car transmission that have both manual and automatic features.


televisionary

An enthusiast for advanced television technology.


pedway

(Canada) An elevated or underground walkway, often connecting high-rise buildings.


outsert

Blend of out + insert, as though the latter had been formed from in.

A piece of promotional material that is placed on the outside of a product.


flumpet

A musical instrument that blends qualities of the trumpet and flugelhorn.


bobbinet

en-noun

bobbinet (countable and uncountable, plural bobbinets)

A net fabric, with hexagonal mesh, woven by machine.


anthropodicy

anthropodicy (countable and uncountable, plural anthropodicies)

/ˌænθɹəʊˈpɒdɪsi/

/ˌænθɹoʊˈpɑdɪsi/

Blend of anthropo- (prefix meaning ‘human beings, people’) + theodicy (“justification of a deity or of particular attributes of a deity; specifically, a justification of the existence of evil and suffering in the world”). Anthropo- is derived from Ancient Greek ἄνθρωπος (ánthrōpos, “human being, person; all human beings, mankind”), ultimately possibly Pre-Greek; while the -dicy element of theodicy is from Ancient Greek δῐ́κη (díkē, “justice; judgment, order; law; right”), and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ- (“to point out”).

der

[T]he next two [devices or arguments] urge that these distresses are the prices paid for certain compensating advantages to the animals, notably existence. I have some difficulty believing that they are seriously intended, for they would, without alteration, justify the vilest imaginable human slavery and oppression. Nor is it generally true nowadays—though once it was—that those who offer such anthropodicies are much impressed by them in their original form, as theodicy.

1977, Stephen R[ichard] L[yster] Clark, “Devices of the Heathen”, in The Moral Status of Animals, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 59:

(Christianity, philosophy) An attempt, or an argument attempting, to justify that human beings are fundamentally good despite the commission of evil acts by some people.

ანთროპოდიცეა

attempt, or argument attempting, to justify that human beings are fundamentally good


Wiktionary

→ Esperanto: Vikivortaro (calque)

→ Finnish: Wikisanakirja (calque)

desc

→ Greek: Βικιλεξικό (Vikilexikó) (calque)

וִיקִימִלּוֹן

→ Hebrew: וִיקִימִלּוֹן (vikimilón) (calque)

→ Irish: Vicífhoclóir (calque)

/ˈwɪkʃəˌnɛ(ə)ɹi/

/ˈwɪkt͡ʃəˌnɛ(ə)ɹi/

/ˈwɪkʃəˌnɛɹi/

The site was brought online in English on December 12, 2002; on March 29, 2004, the first non-English Wiktionaries were initiated in French and Polish. Wiktionaries in over 200 languages now exist, and more than 100 have more than 100 definitions.

2008, Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, Ben Yates, “Wikimedia Commons and Other Sister Projects”, in How Wikipedia Works: And How You Can Be a Part of It, San Francisco, Calif.: No Starch Press, →ISBN, page 430:

A particular version of this dictionary project, written in a certain language, such as the English-language Wiktionary (often known simply as the English Wiktionary).

Wikiwoordeboek

the collaborative project; a particular version of this project written in a certain language

Wikizziunariu m (italianized spelling adopted for the relative project)


heirhead

St. Andrews — in case you're not up on such weighty matters — is the hoity-toity school where the heirhead they call Wills (ain't that cute) will soon begin studying for his history of art degree.

2000 November 14, Weekly World News, volume 22, number 8, page 12:

It would seem easy to write him off as another playboy who has managed to date his way to B-list stardom in the sketchy tradition of pampered heirheads like Paris Latsis, Brandon Davis and Stavros Niarchos.

2007 April 29, Lola Ogunnaike, “DJ AM: His Life, Times, Shoes”, in New York Times:

(slang, derogatory) The foolish heir to a large fortune.


mocktini

A LICENSE TO PARTY For high school graduates (and other groups), this is the year of Bond, and that theme (made politically correct for students, of course) is everywhere, from alcohol-free mocktinis to redesigned logos.

2007 May 3, Ralph Gardner Jr., “No Aston Martin, but a Limo Will Do”, in New York Times:

An alcohol-free drink resembling a martini cocktail.


reinventive

en-adj

reinventive (comparative more reinventive, superlative most reinventive)

more reinventive (comparative)
most reinventive (superlative)

The city proved remarkably resilient in the face of the Bethlehem Steel closing, said Bridget George, the festival’s executive director, and “as change comes, we have to be as creative and reinventive in our own response to what Bethlehem is and how passionately we feel about it.”

2007 May 7, James Oestreich, “Bach’s Captains and Foot Soldiers of Musical Industry”, in New York Times:


sweetmeal

The digestive sweetmeal cookie deserves particular mention. A best-selling cookie in the United Kingdom for many years, its popularity must have a lot to do with its versatility.

2000, D. A. V. Dendy, Bogdan J. Dobraszczyk, Cereals and cereal products: chemistry and technology, page 234:

digestive biscuit
digestive biscuit#English

Wholemeal and sweet; used to describe digestive biscuits.


inclinator

The push button or other car switch control for operating the inclinator in both directions oftravelshall be magnetically controlled and shall be properly fused being provided with a device for protecting the motor from overload.

1939, Los Angeles Board of mechecanicalengineers, Elevator Code Providing for the Construction, Inspection, Maintenance and Operation of Elevators: Ordinance, Issue 81; Issue 827, 54.233 INCLINATOR — CONTROLLER, page 107:

The Valley Station features accessible parking near the entrance and access to the station via a funicular-like lift device called an inclinator.

2007, Candy Harrington, “Escape to the Springs”, in 101 Accessible Vacations: Travel Ideas for Wheelers and Slow Walkers, →ISBN:

Unlike an elevator, which would require its own vertical shaft, an inclinator could share an inclined shaft with the standard escalators, thus simplifying construction and keeping down expense.

2008, Zachary M. Schrag, “The Builders, 1972-1976”, in The Great Society Subway: A History of the Washington Metro, JHU Press, →ISBN, page 168:

An elevator that ascends an incline rather than in a vertical shaft.


tiswas

Possibly coined by the Royal Air Force. Possibly a blend of it + is + was. Compare tizzy.

It was her first ever visit to the capital and she was all of a tiswas.

(UK) A state of nervous excitement or confusion.


gallerina

The heroine of Danielle Ganek’s captivatingly titled novel “Lulu Meets God and Doubts Him” is a gallerina.

2007 May 28, Janet Maslin, “Dance, Gallerina, Dance: A Gimlet-Eyed Look Through an Art World Keyhole”, in New York Times:

But Charlotte, a prim gallerina whose sole aspiration consists of locking down a Wasp husband, remained a bridge to the past.

2024 April 5, Alaina Demopoulos, “Sex and the City is on Netflix. Perfect – gen Z are a bunch of Charlottes”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(slang) A fashionable art gallery employee, usually female.


sacrilicious

sacrilicious (comparative more sacrilicious, superlative most sacrilicious)

more sacrilicious (comparative)
most sacrilicious (superlative)

/sækɹəˈlɪʃəs/

Blend of sacrilegious + delicious, coined in a 1994 episode of the animated TV series The Simpsons (see quotation below).

I know I shouldn't eat thee, Lord, but... mmmm, sacrilicious.

1994 March 17, “Homer Loves Flanders”, in The Simpsons, season 5, episode 16, spoken by Homer Simpson (Dan Castellaneta (voice)):

Not for the modest, at those times, the secluded bar area features several TVs showing porn while you eat and drink. Mmmm, sacrilicious.

2004 October 27, Elizabeth Canning Blackwell, Frommer's Irreverent Guide to Chicago, 5th edition, Hoboken: Wiley, →ISBN, →OL, page 194:

Sellers offered VMGC T-shirts — "I ate the Virgin Mary Grilled Cheese ... It was Sacrilicious!"

2006 April 15, Susanna Paasonen, “"Virgin Mary in Grilled Cheese NOT A HOAX! LOOK & SEE!"”, in Everyday eBay: Culture, Collecting, And Desire, New York: Routledge, →ISBN, →OL, page 201:

Maybe they thought it would be inappropriate — dare I say, sacri-licious — to eat the animal the team is named after.

2007 March 1, Josh Pahigian, The Ultimate Minor League Baseball Road Trip: A Fan's Guide to AAA, AA, A, and Independent League Stadiums, Globe Pequot, →ISBN, →OL, page 44:

(slang, humorous) producing pleasure through the violation of taboos


quillow

A quilt with an attached pocket into which the whole blanket can be folded, thus making a pillow.


glocalization

en-noun

glocalization (countable and uncountable, plural glocalizations)

The global distribution of a product or service that is tailored to local markets


brinner

brinner (countable and uncountable, plural brinners)

Blend of breakfast + dinner, on the pattern of brunch.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:brinner.

(humorous slang) An evening meal consisting of breakfast food; breakfast for dinner.


brupper

Blend of breakfast + supper, on the pattern of brunch. From at least 1949.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:brupper.

(humorous slang) A meal consisting of a fusion of breakfast (one’s first meal upon awakening) and supper.


fishwich

More to the liking of students, the new menu includes hamburgers, cheeseburgers, fishwiches, pizza, donuts, French fries, malts and coffee.

1972, The Nation's Schools, volume 90, page 183:

Fish fillets can be garnished with a lemon-yogurt sauce for a fishwich.

1986, Audrey Tittle Cross, Nutrition for the working woman, page 133:

One evening as we were winding up, engaged in a spirited debate about whether or not to serve fishwiches at the next meeting, a car speeding down Evergreen whirled out of control and smashed through the front window...

2005, Leslie Stella, Unimaginable zero summer, page 214:

A burger with a filling of breaded fish.


lifecasting

The broadcasting of events in one's life to the Internet, especially by means of a webcam.


stabilator

A one-piece horizontal tailplane, used especially on high-speed aircraft.


medscanner

He knelt beside Crusher and watched, briefly useless, as she passed her medscanner over the body. Except that it wasn't a body.

1997, Diane Duane, Intellivore, page 102:

Deep wounds in his chest were seeping blood, and the medscanner Tacitus had pressed against his neck showed his vital signs on the wane.

(science fiction, chiefly Star Trek) A portable device capable of scanning a patient to diagnose sickness or injury.


jackhole

As soon as the machine is well under way, the runner determines about where the next rear jack-hole will come, and has the cut made and ready for receiving the jack by the time the machine has finished its cut.

1907, Rock Boring, Rock Drilling, Explosives and Blasting, Coal-Cutting Machinery, Timbering, Timber trees, Trackwork, page 48:

Trout glided into the shadows, feeding upon grey moths, while in the jackhole beneath the red clay hollows big pike stirred lazily.

It was therefore decided to drive one jackhole through to the surface, and after passing through the inferior coal, the alluvium was met with, and found to be so light and loose in character that it ran through at this point to the surface. The jackhole had therefore to be abandoned, and no further attempts were made to pierce the strata.

1913, Institution of Mining Engineers (Great Britain), The Mining Engineer, page 379:

The particular work he was doing when the accident occurred was digging with pick and shovel a jackhole under one of the track rails to prepare a foundation for a track-lifting implement.

1927, Reports of cases determined in the district courts - Volume 74, page 22:

Finally, Spindrick came to a jackhole with the cover off and protected by a circular barrier.

(mining, archaic) A hole that is created using a jack or wedge.


telepathetic

en-adj

telepathetic (comparative more telepathetic, superlative most telepathetic)

more telepathetic (comparative)
most telepathetic (superlative)

Besides, after two minutes of stretching and beaming my eyes in his direction, all I got was a dizzy spell—telepathetic, really.

2005, Ian Souter, Pocket Tales Year 6 Twenty Pounds and All That Nonsense, page 19:

And one minor nit: consultants are not telepathic, they're telepathetic.

1995 September 20, Matt Clonfero, “SC-21 class?”, in sci.military.naval (Usenet):

And yes, my medium gives a good massage but when it comes to clairvoyance she's telepathetic.

2000 May 24, Eskimo Joe, “Who's quote? Who's book?”, in alt.writing (Usenet):

Weren't you on this newsgroup a few years back trying to impress us with your psychic investigation, channeling, remote viewing BS. That was pretty telepathetic.

2000 September 26, Village Idiot, “Blood Brothers MC”, in alt.military.police (Usenet):

(informal, rare, humorous) Bad at telepathy.


fanslation

en-noun

fanslation (countable and uncountable, plural fanslations)

Question: Where does one obtain the English libretto? And is it the official version or a "fanslation"?

2000 February 16, Seth Christenfeld, “Kristina fran Duvemala is AWESOME!”, in rec.arts.theatre.musicals (Usenet):

This is the #1 reason I hate the fanslation.

2004 June 8, Saint Avenger, “Hey, remember that FF6 translation of Sky Render's?”, in alt.games.final-fantasy (Usenet):

There are no others available in English as far as I know (well, I think there is a fanslation of Tales of Phantasia for the SNES).

2004 July 19, Paul Tomlin, “Tales of Destiny”, in uk.games.video.misc (Usenet):

(slang) An unofficial translation of the dialogue or text of a media product (such as a manga, television programme, or video game) from one language to another which is done by fans rather than by its producer.

非職業翻譯

unofficial translation of a media product

非公式な翻訳 (ひこうしきなほんやく, hikōshiki na hon'yaku) (literally: informal translation)


kegerator

He will be on your side when you want to spend an entire Saturday making the house smell like a brewery or drop several hundred dollars to build a kegerator.

2011, Vance Hanna, Bizarre Brews 101: For the Adventurous Home Brewer, page 15:

A refrigerator adapted for storing and serving beer from a keg.


Winmodem

Blend of Windows + modem; from a trademark of U.S. Robotics.

Coordinate term: Linmodem

(computing) A softmodem designed to work with the Microsoft Windows operating system.


scrilla

Bay Area slang amongst many other terms for money of variously obscure allusions. Likely a blend, the constituents of which can be seen in the same area’s scratch (“money”) + bills, the -a being from its frequency in other words for money including moola, mazuma, and mozzarella. Also possibly from the Italian-American slang usage of scarola, meaning “endive” or “lettuce” in Italian but also “money” or “dollar bill” in Italian-American slang. In a similar way, possibly derives from Spanish escarola.

back up bro, cuz crooks is in the house man,
a player for life with major game, going insane,
Paul Lane in the dark room studio spittin tight flows, late fact,
overbound tracks tryna get paid fact,
straight out of the haze, that cold world’s records and player faze,
I took the criminal road out of young age so I can get paid,
cuz I am all about my scrilla, on the forilla,
the Bay Area’s getting scarier cuz northern chems are killa.

1993, Darkroom Familia (lyrics and music), “Northern Killa Cali” (2:16–2:39 from the start), in From the Barrio with Love, Remastered edition, published 1999:

Bitch isn't in debt, she's just got a good scam for getting strangers to send her some scrilla.

2002 September 9, Rai, “Re: OT: N'Sync AstroNOT!!!”, in alt.music.pearl-jam (Usenet):

"Who cares? I get to be the hot chick in the video. Do you know how much scrilla video hos are raking in these days? […]

2007, Abiola Abrams, Dare, Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 193:

But I gotta dip, I gotta get at the cake / Lotta scrilla to make

2012, Azealia Banks, “Liquorice”, in 1991:

This guy thinks he's big 'cause he's got a bit of scrilla

2016 April 2, “Afghan Business (Afghan Dan Send)”, performed by Dylan Brewer and Little T (Josh Tate):

Fuck the police, they locked him up and took his scrilla

2016 June 10, BlocBoy JB (lyrics and music), “No Chorus, Pt. 5”, in Who Am I:

(slang, Bay Area, African-American Vernacular and Chicano) Money

Bay Area; African-American Vernacular and Chicano; Bay Area; African-American Vernacular and Chicano


subtopia

subtopia (countable and uncountable, plural subtopias)

Blend of suburb + utopia, coined by British architectural critic and broadcaster Ian Nairn.

coin

In the 1890s and in the early years of the present century there was considerable building development in the area around Sanderstead, Warlingham and Oxted, where large villas were springing up. East Grinstead, Tunbridge Wells and Uckfield were growing fast, as was that loosely knit "subtopia"—neither town, village nor country—which is known collectively as Crowborough.

1960 November, H. P. White, “The evolution of train services on the Southern's Oxted line”, in Trains Illustrated, page 662:

Their bland don't-mind-me-meekness is all the more offensive for it, resulting in an energy vampire form of architecture. It's subtopia writ large if anything.

2023 September 23, Travis Elborough, “Traces of utopia”, in FT Weekend, House & Home, page 1:

(UK, derogatory) Sprawling suburbs, collectively.


fakon

The steward smiled back at Brumby and dumped her entire remaining bacon reserve onto Brumby's eggs. That meant the rest of the lineup would have to settle for reconstituted sausage or soy-based fakon. Brace's rat-nosed valet snorted, […]

2005, Robert Buettner, Orphan's Destiny:

meat-free imitation bacon, generally made with tofu, tempeh, beans, or buckwheat.


multimediocrity

en-noun

multimediocrity (usually uncountable, plural multimediocrities)

Blend of multimedia + mediocrity, used in the early 1990s.

(slang, computing, rare) Poor-quality multimedia material.


Gleek

I'm more of a Gleek myself.

2009 September 7, Jason Wuthrich, “Re: OT what new shows are you looking forward to seeing this fall season?”, in alt.tv.american-idol (Usenet):

2010, Evie Parker, 100% Gleek: The Unofficial Guide to Glee:

Well I thought she looked quite cute, so I Googled her. I'm not yet a full on Gleek, honest!

2010 February 3, Fred X, “Re: Glee - the woman from Pushing Daisies”, in uk.media.tv.misc (Usenet):

are there any other Gleeks out here in viPhone land? I saw on my facebook today that there's a Glee app!! $2.99 so I grabbed it. maybe I shouldn't have seeing all the financial stress I'm currently under but I'm a Gleek in a big way!! so I couldn't resist!! I needed to check it out!!!

2010 April 17, "Jessica and Goldina", "anyone try the Glee app?", in "VIPhone" (Google Groups group)

Yep... I'm a "Gleek"! (I'm sure it's partially due to being in band in high school, as we usually did a medley of songs from a musical during each performance.)

2010 April 30, Zoot, “Re: Glee-------”, in alt.x.y (Usenet):

Fair warning: One is the beginning of a musical number that's been on every Gleek's watch-list since Spears tweeted this pic.

2010 September 24, Kate Stanhope, “Do You Mind That Glee Can't Keep a Secret?”, in TVGuide:

And you call yourself a Gleek...

2010 September 27, Don Del Grande, “Re: 09/26/2010 New Episode”, in alt.tv.simpsons (Usenet):

(fandom slang) A fan of the television show Glee.


infotisement

The employee wrote a clever infotisement for the Industry Association newsletter.

An advertisement meant to describe and promote the attributes of a company's specific product or service in the guise of a non-proprietary, informational format.


rabbitat

We have already seen how forest rabbitat management improves the forest stand and helps other forest game species.

1955, Wisconsin conservation bulletin, Volume 20, page 36:

This may necessitate canvas-shelled britches and a long-sleeved hunting jacket, since thorns, needles, and burrs are part of rabbitat.

1978, Anthony J. Acerrano, The practical hunter's handbook, page 15:

Whatever special combination rabbitat is, the Prairie Home Area's small fields, weedy field borders, brush piles and cover plantings fit the bill pretty well.

1985, Missouri Conservationist, Volume 46, page 13:

The type of natural environment where rabbits can thrive.


Amerasian

Blend of American + Asian, modelled after Eurasian.

Keane's speeches have not reduced the number of Amerasian births, but a decade of sleuthing has helped nearly 600 Amerasian orphans find new homes in the United States.

In the mid-1960s, a letter arrives from his Amerasian son, now twelve years old and victimized by poverty […]

1998, Peter Conn, Pearl S. Buck: a cultural biography, Cambridge University Press, page 365:

Interestingly, however (and fortunately for the children), Amerasian parentage held virtually no stigma in the Philippines, in contrast to the situation in other Asian nations such as Korea, Japan, and Vietnam […]

2004, Anni P. Baker, American soldiers overseas: the global military presence, Greenwood Publishing Group, page 119:


skitch

en-verb

skitch (third-person singular simple present skitches, present participle skitching, simple past and past participle skitched)

skitches (present singular third-person)
skitching (participle present)
skitched (participle past)
skitched (past)

(intransitive) To hitch a ride by holding on to a motor vehicle while riding on a skateboard, roller skates, or bicycle.


piscola

A highball cocktail popular in Peru, made of pisco and usually cola.


catom

A nanoscale robot, many of which would interact to form claytronic structures.


skurfing

A water sport similar to waterskiing except that a single board is used instead of skis.


entertailing

Begelman's strategy borrows from the trend toward entertailing, which combines retailing with entertainment.

1999, Michael R. Solomon, Elnora W. Stuart, Marketing: real people, real choices, page 420:

Not all entertailing is sports-focused.

1999, Richard W. Oliver, The shape of things to come, page 141:

The primary goal of entertailing is to catch customers' attention and engage them in some kind of entertaining experience so that they shop longer and buy more goods or services.

2003, Norman M. Scarborough, Thomas Zimmerer, Effective small business management: an entrepreneurial approach, page 197:

A commercially-designed experience intended to combine entertainment and retailing.


retailtainment

We also are able to achieve that connection with retailtainment — our Oreo Stacking Contest, Grandparents Day, and our Wal-Mart Live broadcasts of exclusive concert performances from Garth Brooks, Britney Spears, Faith Hill, and others.

2001, Barry Berman, Joel R. Evans, Retail management: a strategic approach, page 631:

China "is the world leader in retailtainment," Mr. Menzer says. "You go into the store and there's a fashion show of some of your apparel lines.

2006, John E. Richardson, Annual Editions: Marketing 07/08, page 158:

Therefore, we anticipate consumers' perceived value and satisfaction with retailtainment will be different for consumers with high versus low likelihood to use instore technologies.

2023, Theodore Tarnanidis, Maro Vlachopoulou, Jason Papathanasiou, Influences of Social Media on Consumer Decision-Making Processes in the Food and Grocery Industry, page 88:

A commercially-designed experience that combines entertainment and retailing.


Twihard

Getting "Twihards" who love virtuous vampires to buy the soundtrack is easy — but getting Radiohead fans to plunk down cash for a little bit of the "New Moon" universe will be a coup.

2009 October 3, Ann Donahue, “'New Moon' Rising”, in Billboard, page 19:

Beginning at popular Rialto Beach, share this classic coastline with beachcombers, dog walkers (allowed on-leash to Ellen Creek), and scores of Twihards from across the country.

2011, Craig Romano, Backpacking Washington: Overnight and Multiday Routes, The Mountaineers Books, published 2011, →ISBN, page 38:

'Not me, I'm an out and out Twihard, loved the vampires in Twilight – still do, always will – so I know what it's like when people take the mickey. My brothers drew huge fangs and devil tails on all my posters of Robert Pattinson.'

2014, Samantha Tonge, From Paris, With Love, Carina, published 2014, →ISBN:

(fandom slang) An avid fan of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight book series or the related films.


yestergay

(slang, LGBT) A former gay male who is now in a heterosexual relationship.


moto-cross

A sport involving the off-road racing of motorcycles.


swellegant

en-adj

swellegant (comparative more swellegant, superlative most swellegant)

more swellegant (comparative)
most swellegant (superlative)

The childhood raised in various swellegant locales around the world: London, Rio, Paris, wherever his mother (nee Margherita Agnelli) and his father, Alain Elkann (and later his stepfather, Serge de Pahlen), wanted to be.

2007 June 10, David Colman, “Everything Isn’t Always Black and White”, in New York Times:


blort

Onomatopoetic; in sense 1, also blend of blow + snort.

metasyntactic variable
metasyntactic variable

(computing, uncountable) A metasyntactic variable similar to foo and bar


Jaspis

Blend of jasper and lapis (from lapis lazuli).

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Lazuli Jasper and Lapis Lazulifrom the Steven Universe series.


trilostane

(pharmacology) A drug used to treat Cushing's syndrome in dogs.


indietronica

Coordinate term: indie rock

Delphic's debut album, Acolyte, was one of the hits of 2010 for its fizzing indietronica, a more youthful take on the collision of electronics and rock perfected by Manchester predecessors New Order.

2013 January 24, Dave Simpson, “Delphic: Collections – review”, in The Guardian:

(music) A musical genre combining elements of indie, electronica, rock, and pop music.


spooktacular

Ghostbusters: A Live Action Spooktacular features a breathtaking set as well as impressive stunt work and laser and ghost effects, but the show has yet to be fine-tuned.

1990 June 29, “New Universal Studios Is Getting Its Act Together”, in Orlando Sentinel, archived from the original on 2012-10-03:

The annual Halloween Spooktacular was held for the Tri-town community where over 300 young children come to the high school to enjoy a fun-filled evening that is presented by a large variety of King Philip clubs and organizations.

2010, Plainville, Massachusetts annual reports, page 110:

At the end of each October, Cal State Long Beach hosts its annual Spooktacular where people from every field and department dress to the nines with fake blood and every gory fake body part imaginable.

(entertainment, informal) A Halloween-themed event or episode.


intexticated

intexticated (comparative more intexticated, superlative most intexticated)

more intexticated (comparative)
most intexticated (superlative)

Mr. Sweeney almost paid a price for, as the saying goes, driving while “intexticated.” About a year ago, he said, he almost got into a collision as he was text-messaging while driving.

2008 March 16, Dave Caldwell, “With Text-Messaging Ban While Driving, Legislators Play Gizmo Catch-Up”, in The New York Times:

What about driving while intexticated?

2009 February 25, The Citizen, “Re: {OP-ED} The punishment for DUI is way too harsh”, in rec.sport.pro-wrestling (Usenet):

(slang, rare, neologism) Distracted by text messaging; said of someone driving poorly for this reason.


mansplaining

Blend of man + explaining, or from mansplain + -ing.

Mansplaining isn't just the act of explaining while male, of course; many men manage to explain things every day without in the least insulting their listeners... Mansplaining is when a dude tells you, a woman, how to do something you already know how to do, or how you are wrong about something you are actually right about, or miscellaneous and inaccurate "facts" about something you know a hell of a lot more about than he does.

2009 May 8, Karen Healey, “A woman's born to weep and fret”, in Karen Healey's Livejournal:

It's hard to appreciate the full pathological depths of mansplaining unless you've read late-period Heinlein, an experience comparable to being trapped in an elevator for six hours with a boorish know-it-all offering his theories on economics, politics, sex, aesthetics, military strategy, investing and myriad other topics.

2014 December 1, Jeet Heer, Sweet Lechery: Reviews, Essays & Profiles, The Porcupine's Quill, →ISBN, page 179:

“Cognitive therapy” is the fancy clinical term for what is otherwise known as “mansplaining.”

2015 December 7, James Taranto, “You're Being Hysterical. Calm Down.”, in The Wall Street Journal:

(informal, derogatory) The act of condescendingly explaining something, particularly by a man to a woman, in order to appear knowledgeable, or from a mistaken presumption that she has an inferior understanding of the topic.


dissensus

en-noun

dissensus (usually uncountable, plural dissensuses)

From Latin dissēnsus (“disagreement, quarrel; dissension, conflict”); or a blend of dissent + consensus.

der

Now it is apparent that neither the consensus of Christianity with other religions, nor its dissensus from them, nor the absolute or relative superiority which we claim for it, can be made evident without a thorough and methodical comparison of all religions.

1874, Edmund Spiess, “Comparative Study of Religions, in Its Bearing upon Christian Apologetics”, in Philip Schaff, S[amuel] Irenæus Prime, editors, History, Essays, Orations, and Other Documents of the Sixth General Conference of the Evangelical Alliance, Held in New York, October 2–12, 1873, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, publishers, Franklin Square, →OCLC, page 310:

Underlying a real and culturally meaningful general consensus about the wrongness of rape, there can indeed be many contextual dissensuses about rape being okay. Only when we allow a reified conception of consensus to drive out the nuanced understanding in the ethnographic literature of the way people talk when they accuse and excuse crime do we see consensus-dissensus as being an "insoluble inconsistency" ([Christopher] Uggen at 496) at the foundation of the theory.

1998, Gregg Barak, editor, Integrative Criminology (International Library of Criminology, Criminal Justice & Penology), Aldershot, Hampshire, Brookfield, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing, →ISBN, page 569:

In this chapter, we explore two forms of dissensus. The first is horizontal dissensus, or that which occurs within a three-judge panel on the courts of appeals. Judges signal this form of dissensus by writing separate opinions that take the form of a dissent or concurrence. The second is vertical dissensus, which occurs when a court of appeals panel disagrees with the lower court over the proper resolution of the case. This form of dissensus is observed when the court of appeals reverses the lower court's decision, either in whole or in part.

2006, Virginia A. Hettinger, Stefanie A. Lindquist, Wendy L. Martinek, “Horizontal and Vertical Dissensus”, in Judging on a Collegial Court: Influences on Federal Appellate Decision Making (Constitutionalism and Democracy), University of Virginia Press, →ISBN, page 5:

Certainly parliamentary politics is indebted to the rhetorical culture of addressing issues from opposite views and debating the alternatives pro et contra. In parliamentary procedure dissensus and debate are institutionalised: no motion is approved without a thorough examination of and confrontation among imaginable alternatives.

2014, Kari Palonen, José María Rosales, Tapani Turkka, “Introduction: The Parliamentary Politics of Dissensus”, in Kari Palonen, José María Rosales, Tapani Turkka, editors, The Politics of Dissensus: Parliament in Debate (Social Sciences & Humanities; 2), Santander: Cantabria University Press; [Madrid]: McGraw-Hill Interamericana de España, →ISBN, page 3:

Disagreement, especially when widespread.


Chindia

The idea of Chindia- China and India together as a massive economic and geographic entity with one-third of the world's population- is acknowledged by many government leaders, especially within these two countries.

2007, James M. Popkin, Partha Iyengar, IT and the East: how China and India are altering the future of technology, →ISBN, page 147:

China and India, especially in the context of business and economics.


mancation

(US, informal) A vacation taken by a group of men and catering specifically to male interests.


mytharc

Blend of mythology + story arc, used originally and most commonly in reference to The X-Files.

This [Neon Genesis Evangelion] is one show that -really- has me sucked in. And yes, their mytharc has to be the most perfectly constructed thing I've ever seen. :)

1999, Heath Smith, “TAN: Neon Genesis and how to do the mytharc properly”, in aus.tv.x-files (Usenet):

I think this is what you seek to avoid in mytharcs - a plot that drowns out the character-based drama and morality plays that are still Gene's finest legacy.

2000, Allronix, “An open letter to Ms. Roddenberry”, in alt.tv.earth-final-conflict (Usenet):

The mytharc is a continuous story line about the government's involvement in a plot to cover up the presence of extraterrestrials on Earth.

2008, J. P. Telotte, The essential science fiction television reader, page 234:

(fandom slang) The ongoing story arc that underpins all episodes of a television series.


turken

These inoculations did not result in the production of precipitins in chickens against turken serum or in turkens against chicken serum, whereas both produced precipitins when injected into turkeys.

1933, Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, page 239:

Synonym of Naked Neck (“chicken of a breed without feathers on its neck”)


JBiebs

Blend of J(ustin) + Biebs (from Bieber), modelled on other abbreviations such as J-Lo.

blend

from <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">Bieber</i>

(slang) The Canadian singer Justin Bieber.


lacrosstitute

At the bar, each group occupies its own place. Lacrosse players (or playas, whichever you prefer) hover on the right side of the bar, near the entrance. If you are lucky (or a lacrosstitute), one of them will order you the Lacrosse Shot, […]

2006, Natalie Krinsky, Chloe Does Yale, page 38:

It was as we waited on line at the outside window, however, that I realized that maybe this had been a mistake. Off to the side, a bunch of the lacrosstitutes were horsing around, arm wrestling, and chewing tobacco.

2008, J. M. Steele (the undisclosed pseudonym of two authors), The Taker, page 323

"Look around you, Westinghouse. This room is filled with opportunities. These are not the people you party with but the people you impress. ‘Puck fuck, lacrosstitute’ — what the hell is that? You are selling yourself short, Westinghouse. Now act your age and sober the fuck up before ADA Katz comes to shake your hand for being the fine upstanding citizen that you are."

(informal, generally derogatory) a person who has sexual relations with one or usually multiple lacrosse player(s)


conrod

(automotive) Abbreviation of connecting rod.


Eeveelution

(fandom slang) Any Pokémon that is an evolution of Eevee, either official or made up by fans.


guck

As everyone familiar with these things knows, they're sticky on the outside -- and that sticky guck gets on your hands, making everything stick to them!

1996, Carole Marsh, Vermont History!, page 59:

(slang) An unpleasant sticky substance; goo, gunk.


Pokémaniac

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Blend of Pokémon + maniac. Derived from "POKéMANIAC", the name of a class of opponent characters in-game. The characters are nowadays seen donning cosplay pieces resembling the Pokémon creatures (though originally wearing lab coats and portrayed as being somewhat lunatic). "POKéMANIAC" was the term used in the English translation for the aforementioned, originally called 「かいじゅうマニア」 [kaijuumania] ("monster maniac") in Japanese. Equivalent to Poké- + maniac.

A dedicated or obsessive fan of Pokémon.


Bootnik

A fan of the ReBoot CGI-animated television series.


tongue-in-chic

en-adj

tongue-in-chic (comparative more tongue-in-chic, superlative most tongue-in-chic)

more tongue-in-chic (comparative)
most tongue-in-chic (superlative)

The men's styles – arguably more tongue-in-chic than the women's – include glow-in-the-dark denim and a new selvedge herringbone in addition to linen and cashmere blends; prices ring in at about $200.

2011 September 24, Amy Verner, “Best-kept denim secret? The hottest brands are Canadian”, in Globe and Mail:

It soon gave birth to a whole host of self-referential, tongue-in-chic logo t-shirts and jumpers.

2013 October 23, Alison Lynch, “How the designer logo grew up”, in Metro:

Whether tongue-in-chic or seriously eccentric, fall's most unforgettable heels, flats and sneakers have major flourish with allover fur or delicate tufts of the stuff.

2015 March 25, Mosha Lundstrom Halbert, “Women's Footwear Trend: Fur for Fall”, in Footwear News:

If you want to dress in Aussie-style (“Aussies? Style?” I hear you scoff) it has to be tongue-in-chic because we are world-class masters at self deprecation.

2015 May 22, Kathy Lette, “Why Australia will make Eurovision even more fun”, in Radio Times:

Even at more seemingly conventional Hot 50 establishments, tongue-in-chic ingredients are becoming de rigueur.

2015 August 21, Necia Wilden, “Hot 50 list of Australia's best restaurants revealed”, in The Australian:

Using humor as a deliberate element of style.

2012, Paris Hilton, Merle Ginsberg, Confessions of an Heiress: A Tongue-In-Chic Peek Behind the Pose, →ISBN:

On a radically different tip, if you're after something raucously tongue-in-chic to round off your weekend, then Larry Tee's Fashion Disaster Party at XOYO on Sunday will definitely fit the bill.

2013 February 13, Sharon O'Connell, “LuckyMe to rock Plastic People and Fashion Disaster land in XOYO”, in Metro:

She's one of the most influential fashion bloggers in the world, whose site is read by more than 1.5 million women around the world every month, who has worked with everyone from NARS to J Crew and Superga, and is the brains behind such tongue-in-chic terms like ‘arm party’ and ‘birth control glasses’.

2014 October 27, Hannah-Rose Yee, “Fast Five With Leandra Medine”, in Marie Claire Australia:

Characterized by humor about style or fashion.


tongue-in-chic

It was big hats, prints galore, tight outfits and plenty of bling under the impressive Shanghai skyline – just the tongue-in-chic Moschino is famous for.

2013 June 14, Jing Zhang, “Moschino lights up Shanghai in first China show”, in South China Morning Post:

That said, you have to admire the whole tongue-in-chic of it all, and the soul/hard rock wheel doesn't actually need reinventing.

2014 October 16, Graham Reid, “Album review: Lenny Kravitz, Strut”, in New Zealand Herald:

The use of humor as an element of style.


steezy

steezy (comparative steezier, superlative steeziest)

steezier (comparative)
steeziest (superlative)

2000 January 24th, Brian Jackson, alt.skate-board (Google group): shoes, 8:00am
Osiris- too steezy for my tastes, I don’t like the look their shoes have

2000 August 10th, Brian Jackson, alt.skate-board (Google group): interesting stuff i got to say that isnt really interesting, 7:00am
That song is ok, I’m sort of bored with it now but its pretty cool when you first hear it, sort of cheezy (or steezy?).

2009 October 14th, Shift, Longboard-Atlanta (Google group): Beast Coast Longboarding 2010 Season, 1:12am
Not to mention GA riders could compete with the best the East Coast has to offer; racing against the fastest and steeziest riders around.

2010 November 18th, daniel, UC Davis Alpine Ski and Snowboard Team (Google group): a little market research in regards to the sweatshirts, 6:48pm
So basically I want to make sure as many people as possible get sweatshirts because (a) you’ll be the steeziest kid on your block / floor / chair lift and (b) its definitely and ego boost to see people wearing something you made.


-ibly

Euphonic blend of -ible + -ly, due to difficulty of pronouncing *-iblely. Compare same sound change in unrelated feebly, nimbly, and nobly.

audible → audibly

Used to form adverbs corresponding to adjectives that end in -ible.


scoopula

A curved spatula used as a scoop in chemistry laboratories.


rusticle

Blend of rust + icicle, coined by Robert Ballard, who first observed them on the wreck of the Titanic in 1986.

An icicle-shaped rust formation, formed on shipwrecks etc. by underwater microbes that consume iron.


cunnilinguistic

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(rare) Cunnilingual, relating to cunnilingus.


minisode

Fit and minisodes are among examples of a trend that is gaining favor on Madison Avenue to reprise “Think small,” which was created almost five decades ago for Volkswagen by the old Doyle Dane Bernbach agency.

2007 June 15, Stuart Elliott, “MySpace Mini-Episodes, Courtesy of Honda”, in New York Times:

(informal) A very short episode of a television programme.


bioneer

Blend of biological + pioneer or biological + engineer, possibly coined by Kenny Ausubel.

A high environmental impact of an industry significantly reduces the likelihood of a firm to be classified as a bioneer or ecopreneur.

2009, Gary D. Libecap, Frontiers in Eco-Entrepreneurship Research, →ISBN, page 140:

(neologism) A biological pioneer, an inventer of environmental solutions and biotechnology; a crafter of creative solutions to environmental and sociocultural problems.

Beneath the coat, a metal frame of gears and levers and wheels: living bone, tendon, sinew holding it together. A bioneer’s wet dream.

2002, Trent Jamieson, Garry Nurrish, Redsine, 7, →ISBN, page 13:

(chiefly science fiction) A biological engineer, an engineer of creatures, especially partially artificial/mechanical ones.


bioneer

en-verb

bioneer (third-person singular simple present bioneers, present participle bioneering, simple past and past participle bioneered)

bioneers (present singular third-person)
bioneering (participle present)
bioneered (participle past)
bioneered (past)

The only thing you can truly say, and I think this is a very safe statement, is if you can't figure out how to bioneer, bioneer with a b, you're not going anywhere.

2006, John Logan, NASA physician, at the Space Frontier Foundation's "New Space Return to the Moon Conference" (2006): Panel SFF1484 at 1:15:25

Lost beneath her abundant flesh was a vestigial skeleton which floated disconnected and unmoving in a gelatinous sea. Her bioneered organs were swollen to immense proportions and hundreds of liters of blood pumped through her extensive circulatory system.

1975, Thomas F. Monteleone, edited by Roger Elwood, Dystopian visions, page 3:

Devon scowled. "This is clever bioneering. A muttie that dies before it lives."

2002, Trent Jamieson, Garry Nurrish, Redsine, 7, →ISBN, page 11:

[…] an open space that would not have been possible a millennium earlier, before the development of sophisticated bioneering.

2002, L. E. Modesitt, Jr., The Octagonal Raven, →ISBN, page 90:

The cows were bioneered
so urbs could have fresh milk, laced
with graces — vitamins and serums conveyed in compact, pet-like packages. Even their shit is boutiqued. It falls in uniform pellets and smells like Zen.

2007, Peter Jay Shippy, How to build the ghost in your attic: a book-length poem, page 21:

(chiefly science fiction) To engineer biologically.


voicemailbox

In addition to organizing a traditional paper mess, you should also avoid clutter in your email accounts and voicemailboxes.

2004, Richard Worth, Organization Skills, page 98:

To communicate with friends, Kim and I used a Palm Beach answering service at first, and then a voicemailbox.

2005, Larry J. Kolb, Overworld: The Life and Times of a Reluctant Spy:

An electronic mailbox that stores voicemail messages.


colorpuncture

alternative medicine
alternative medicine

(alternative medicine) A form of alternative medicine in which coloured light is shone on acupoints.


floptical disk

(computing) A form of floppy disk whose head tracking was optically controlled (superseded by compact disc technology).


red chip

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

A stock or other investment in a perceived high-value and reliable company of the People's Republic of China.


makeunder

Wordplay blend of makeover + under, replacing over with its opposite.

While some women need a makeover to add makeup, some women need a makeunder to take it down a notch.

2011, Coni Masciave, Beauty Rehab: Your Guide to Feel Beautiful, Sexy, and Confident in Twenty-Eight Days, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 142:

The typical candidate for a makeunder is a woman who applies her makeup with too liberal a hand, styles her hair in a distracting or unattractive manner, or wears clothes that could be described as unflattering or over the top. The ideal candidate for a makeunder does all three of these simultaneously, mostly likely while upending a bottle of perfume into her cleavage.

2011 October 18, Anna Lefler, The Chicktionary: From A-line to Z-snap, the words every woman should know, Adams Media, →ISBN, page 122:

A makeover in which the quality, flashiness or value of something is downgraded.


belligerati

Blend of belligerent + literati which is also the plural of belligerātus.

I am not, in this instance, referring to the belligerati - Salman Rushdie, Martin Amis and chums - ever-present in the liberal press on both sides of the Atlantic.

2005, Tariq Ali, Street Fighting Years: An Autobiography Of The Sixties, page 19:

They are the belligerati who are given opinion columns and radio talkback programs; who are accorded the status of minor celebrities; and there can at times seem no end to the uniquely Australian cross of their public bullying

2011, Andrew Charlton, Man-Made World, page 88:

Since neoconservatives and the liberal belligerati have sought to appropriate these ideological resources on behalf of imperialism, aspects of this question will be examined in chapter 1.

2011, Richard Seymour, American Insurgents: A Brief History of American Anti-Imperialism, page xviii:

Literary people, authors — literati — who promote wars of aggression.


intactivism

The advocacy of a right to genital integrity, i.e., the right of a person to not be subjected to involuntary, nontherapeutic modification of their genitals. This includes opposition to infant male circumcision and female circumcision, and may also extend to supporting protection of intersex people against involuntary gender reassignment and other nontherapeutic genital surgeries.


Shebrew

Blend of she- + Hebrew, the latter jocularly analysed as he- + -brew.


phonemark

phonemark (third-person singular simple present phonemarks, present participle phonemarking, simple past and past participle phonemarked)

phonemarks (present singular third-person)
phonemarking (participle present)
phonemarked (participle past)
phonemarked (past)

Or worse, without earmarks the members of the spending committees can "phonemark" projects without anyone ever knowing

2008 June 11, “Deseret News candidate questionnaire:”, in Deseret News, Salt Lake City, Utah:

(US politics, transitive) To apply pressure on a government agency to fund a specific project as part of a more general program.


STOLport

(aviation) An airport designed for STOL or short-field operations.


fauxnetic

/ˌfəʊˈnɛtɪk/

George H.'s use of "ah" is, strictly speaking, erroneous, although we can't expect much more from a fauxnetic transcription.

(Language Log, "A pretentious and altogether lamentable affectation", 2010 December 28)http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2870

pronunciation respelling
pronunciation respelling

(humorous) Of a pronunciation respelling system, in contrast to a phonetic alphabet.


notspot

The exchange enablement phase of the RIBS programme was completed in July 2007. Now seeking to address broadband notspots.

2009, Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Welsh Affairs Committee, Digital inclusion in Wales: thirteenth report of session 2008-09, page 140:

2009, Jane Wakefield (BBC News), Need to tackle 'social' notspots
Some 17 million people in the UK - 30% of the population - are estimated to be offline because they simply don't want it. Some have opted out for economic reasons while others believe broadband has no relevance to their lives.

"We've been able to do this work for £50,000," said Mr Lewis.
"I'm not sure why BT said it would cost so much more, but essentially this is a case of community action and a small company working together.
"This is now the first Welsh notspot area to receive broadband using this method. We hope to go live in October."

2010, BBC News, Erbistock villagers quoted £550,000 for broadband link:

(informal) An area where wireless Internet access or mobile phone access is not available.


fursecution

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(fandom slang) Hostility towards the furry subculture.


octeract

(mathematics) An eight-dimensional hypercube


calligraffiti

The words were written in a hurried, unaccomplished new world hand, unlike the calligraffiti that honors the bricks of warehouses and the concrete of overpasses elsewhere in Europe […]

1995, H. L. Hix, Spirits hovering over the ashes: legacies of postmodern theory, page 48:

Showcases the author's creation of calligraffiti, which combines graffiti and calligraphy, through a collection of pieces that he has done for clients and exhibitions.

2010, Niels Shoe Meulman, Adam Eeuwens, Calligraffiti: The Graphic Art of Niels Shoe Meulman:


piem

A mnemonic to aid in memorizing the digits of pi.


zebrule

A cross between a male zebra and a female horse.


Nintendinitis

repetitive strain injury
repetitive strain injury

(informal, video games) A form of repetitive strain injury affecting frequent video gamers, often from excessive use of the d-pad on a game controller.


bullshido

Blend of bullshit + bushido. Attested from 1996, and popularized by the bullshido.net website from 2002.

We understand the spirit of Bushido better than anyone. Or was that Bullshido? (comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.flight-sim, 22 August 1996)

(slang, derogatory) martial arts fraud, especially exaggerated or fraudulent claims regarding the biography, lineage, skills or experience of martial arts instructors


arfendazam

(pharmacology) A benzodiazepine derivative with sedative and anxiolytic effects.


clickjack

clickjack (third-person singular simple present clickjacks, present participle clickjacking, simple past and past participle clickjacked)

clickjacks (present singular third-person)
clickjacking (participle present)
clickjacked (participle past)
clickjacked (past)

(Internet) To steal confidential information from a user who is browsing a website via clickjacking.


wikiality

en-noun

wikiality (usually uncountable, plural wikialities)

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Blend of Wikipedia + reality, coined by Stephen Colbert 31 July 2006 on his show, The Colbert Report.

A group of undergraduates and alumni combated the backlash of "wikiality" and put their own spin on the facts about Cornell in an article about the University on the Web site Wikipedia.

2006 September 20, Felicia Daniels, “Wikipedia selects Cornell U. page as 'Featured Article'”, in University Wire:

2007 January 21, Kevin Garcia, “Wikiality is not reality”, in The Brownsville Herald:

Yet, this is the wikiality("truth based on consensus rather than fact") of the world, I'm sorry, of America, today

2007 January 5, Matt Martin, “Are we best we can be?”, in The Lantern:

Most important, here, Colbert calls attention to the Bush administration's cooption of wikiality: its continuous campaign to manipulate public perception.

2009, Jonathan Gray, Jeffrey P. Jones, Ethan Thompson, Satire TV: politics and comedy in the post-network era, NYU Press, →ISBN:

(derogatory) The supposed reality described by Wikipedia articles, whose content is established by majority consensus.


pathetisad

en-adj

pathetisad (comparative more pathetisad, superlative most pathetisad)

more pathetisad (comparative)
most pathetisad (superlative)

(rare, colloquial) Pathetic: arousing scornful pity or contempt.


Billary

(US, slang, sometimes derogatory) The political union of Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton.


vishing

Vishing takes advantage of the trust that most people place in the telephone network.

2008, Gregory B. White, Dwayne Williams, Roger Davis, CompTIA Security+ All-in-One Exam Guide, Second Edition (Exam SY0-201), page 36:

Within just an hour, a new vishing infrastructure can be configured and put in place to launch a new attack.

2009, Ken Dunham, Mobile malware attacks and defense, page 188:

Between 2006 and 2007, the number of vishing identity theft cases rose from 3 percent of theft to 40 percent (Source: Javelin Strategy & Research.)

2010, David A. Montague, Essentials of Online Payment Security and Fraud Prevention, page 85:

But there has been less public outreach about similar new types of phone schemes, sometimes called vishing.

2014, Nick Wingfield, Swindlers Use Telephones, With Internet’s Tactics:

A form of phishing using a telephone call to the prospective victim.


mogas

en-noun

mogas (countable and uncountable, plural mogases or mogasses)

(aviation) Automotive gasoline suitable for use in some piston-engined gasoline powered aircraft.


autogas

autogas (countable and uncountable, plural autogases or autogasses)

Cylinder cracks are nothing new, however, and there is no reason to expect autogas-burning engines to have a higher incidence of head cracking than avgas-users.

1988, Kas Thomas, Fuel and oil systems: basic and advanced light plane maintenance:

In the area of autogas volatility, a Reid vapor pressure of 9.0 to 15 is very common, compared to the vapor pressure of avgas, which is 5.5 to 7.

1994, Michael J. Kroes with Thomas W. Wild, Aircraft powerplants:

Autogas can be obtained for a fraction of the cost of avgas, but its use is not without controversy.

2006, The AOPA pilot: voice of general aviation, volume 49, Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association:

(US, Canada, aviation) Automotive gasoline suitable for use in piston-engined gasoline-powered aircraft.


primorial

Blend of prime + factorial. Coined by American engineer and mathematician Harvey Dubner.

The primorial of 6 is #x5C;textstyle 6#x5C;#x23;#x3D;2#x5C;times 3#x5C;times 5#x3D;30.

2020, Rong Pan, Qinheping Hu, Rishabh Singh, Loris D'Antoni, Solving Problem Sketches with Large Integer Values, Peter Müller (editor), Programming Languages and Systems: 29th European Symposium, Proceedings, Springer, LNCS 12075, page 587,
The following number theory result relates the primorial to the Chebyshev function.
θ(n)= log (n#)= log 2⁽¹⁺ᵒ⁽ⁿ⁾⁾ⁿ=(1+o(n))n

(number theory) A unary operation, denoted by the postfix symbol # and defined on the nonnegative integers, which maps 0 to 1, 1 to 1, and each subsequent number to the product of all primes less than or equal to it; the value mapped to by said operation for a given input.


hempcrete

In situations such as bathrooms and kitchens where there is likely to be a higher level of humidity than other rooms in the house, hempcrete works very well with the distribution of moisture and prevention of condensation.

2005, Steve Allin, Building with Hemp, page 79:

This should not be a problem with hempcrete as it is a very simple building method that can be grasped by ordinary builders within a few hours of instruction.

2009, Andy van den Dobbelsteen, Machiel van Dorst, Arjen van Timmeren, Smart Building in a Changing Climate, page 122:

The issue of assessing the thermal control properties of hempcrete is very important for the widespread adoption of hempcrete in North America, and unfortunately, it is not a straightforward subject.

2016, Chris Magwood, Essential Hempcrete Construction, page 16:

A mixture of hemp shives and lime (possibly including sand, pozzolans, or cement) used as a material for construction and insulation.


nontroversy

It is a terrible shame that the media only helps to covers this up "as a national security measure," while they serve us a diet of needless sporting events and contrived international political situations, >nontroversies< designed to distract even the most brilliant humans into complete and total docility.

1995 February 11, Rev. Ivan Stang, “FIST:Rev-X Outs:Silent Radio”, in alt.slack (Usenet), retrieved 2016-12-10, message-ID <i.stang-1002952302170001@net40.metronet.com>:

You gotta be fuckin' kidding me. I never had a doubt in my mind that the audience was applauding for the song and not the political statement (it _was_ at the _end_ of the song, recall). Seems like a complete nontroversy to me. Furthermore, the remark is decidedly _not_ anti-abortion!

1997 June 29, David F Lynch, “Yellow Shark controversy”, in alt.fan.frank-zappa (Usenet), retrieved 2016-12-10, message-ID <867610590.22815@dejanews.com>:

This will, I hope, be my last post about astrology for a while. Until and unless, at least, some other nontroversy pops up.

2009, Phil Plait, “Bad Astronomy”, in Discover Magazine:

A supposed controversy that does not exist or is of little importance.


straintronics

(physics) A situation, observed in graphene and elsewhere, in which an applied strain causes electrons to behave as if they were in a magnetic field.


spraddle

Uncertain; possibly from sprad, an obsolete dialectal past participle of spread; or a blend of sprawl + straddle or spread + straddle, or perhaps from Middle English *spraddelen; a frequentative form of Middle English spradden, spraden, sprēden (“to lay flat, spread; to distribute, scatter, sow”), from Old English sprǣdan (“to expand, spread; to outspread, stretch forth”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)per- (“to sow, sprinkle, strew”), equivalent to spread + -le. Compare also dialectal Norwegian spradla (“to flail, squirm, thrash about”).

noncog

A manner of walking with the legs spread out.


Torygraph

Blend of Tory + telegraph, from the newspaper's political leanings; popularised by Private Eye magazine.

I thought, I'm not going to do my spring boxes and give a picture to the bloody Torygraph.

1993, David Hare, Lyn Haill, Asking around, page 169:

(UK, derogatory, informal) The Telegraph newspaper.


homocaust

Blend of homo + holocaust. See Homocaust.

However, the empirical basis for these arguments was established as early as 1977 by scholars who refuted the notion of a "homocaust," an idea that had been awarded wide currency by German gay groups in the early 1970s.

2005, Dagmar Herzog, Sexuality and German Fascism, →ISBN, page 96:

To speak of a "final solution" or a "homocaust" for homosexuals is an absurdity that denigrates the homosexual cause.

2006, Florence Tamagne, A history of homosexuality in Europe: Berlin, London, Paris, 1919-1939, Algora Publishing, →ISBN, page 397:

Another view sometimes heard is that the Nazis' loudly trumpeted policy of 'eradicating' homosexuality amounted to a ‘homocaust’ somehow comparable to the extermination of the Jews.

2013, The Hidden Holocaust?, →ISBN, page 5:

(rare) A systematic persecution of homosexuals, especially the one which occurred in Nazi Germany (the Homocaust), when seen as constituting systematic destruction of them.


weblebrity

I've told her how I get like 13000 hits a day and that if things work out with us, she could be a weblebrity too, but she's not buying it.

2001, Beth Lisick, This too can be yours:

My passion, combined with my unique role as a hybrid career marketer and weblebrity, gives me a unique peek into how small companies and large brands can engage successfully in online video.

2010, Kevin Nalty, David Meerman Scott, Beyond Viral:

We're living in a world where anyone has the potential for 15 minutes or streams of fame; this is the rise and era of the weblebrity, as I call the elite few who get more views on YouTube than Nike or even Apple.

A person who has become famous on the World Wide Web.


foodflation

Not long ago, before "foodflation," the restaurant operator would figure out menu prices by scribbling costs on a scrap of paper [...]

1991, Thomas F. Powers, Jo Marie Powers, Food service operations: planning and control:

When I spoke to her three years ago, she said she was spending about $50 a week to feed her family of five. With foodflation, she now spends about $80-$100 a week to feed a family of five.

2010, John Wiley, Pat Foran, The Smart Canadian's Guide to Saving Money:

The continuous rise in the price of food which is higher than the general inflation level.


featherwood

I have another roommate who is a white girl, she is a featherwood. So she got this thing in the mail from her pen pal that had peckerwood written in it. And this black girl wanted to look at her mail, which she had no business doing […]

1998, Barbara A. Owen, "In the Mix": Struggle and Survival in a Women's Prison, page 155:

"I don't know, Teri asked me if I was a featherwood and I said no because I don't have wings […]" […] "Girl do you know what a featherwood is?" Tai asked. "I thought it was a bird." "God you're so innocent." Dolores stated.

2007, Sandra Coleman, From Housewife and Mother to Convict, page 100:

I've been visiting a couple of featherwoods, all bad tattoos and twisted intentions. Seeing Anita for the first time without a half-inch-thick plate of shatterproof Plexiglas between us (the county jail allows only noncontact visits), […]

2010, Kenneth E. Hartman, Mother California: A Story of Redemption Behind Bars, page 68:

(prison slang) A white female inmate, especially one who is racist or who is a member of a race-based prison gang.


humiture

"Ninety six." She nodded toward the forecast. "And look at that humiture."

2010, Nora Roberts (writing as J. D. Robb), Indulgence in Death, G. P. Putnam's Sons, page 200

An index of temperature and humidity intended to encapsulate in one number how hot it feels on a humid day.


XNOR

electrical engineering
electrical engineering

(electrical engineering) A logic gate which is the inverse of XOR.


fakelore

Behind all this was the mythy Paul Bunyan, that giant lumberjack from the North Woods who bestrode entire counties in a single step while accompanied by the equally gigantic Babe the Blue Ox. To be sure, as with other heroes of American fakelore — bear-wrestling Davy Crockett, coyote-raised Pecos Bill, river-boating Mike Fink — there lingered about Paul Bunyan an aroma of frontier development and chamber-of-commerce boosterism.

2009 May 31, Jerry Griswold, “A Family of Epic Proportions”, in New York Times:

Manufactured folklore presented as if it were genuinely traditional.

fakelore

manufactured folklore presented as if it were genuinely traditional


disregardless

Whatever a man really is, he is so esteemed and named by Goethe in Faust, quite disregardless of any conventional titles or obloquys he bears.

1870, William Kyle, An exposition of the symbolic terms of the second part of ..., page 17:

Typically, this reduction is based on a polynomial number of non-deterministic steps. Hence the combination algorithm introduces its own NP-complexity, disregardless of the complexity of the algorithms that are available for the components.

1996, Klaus U. Schulz, Combining Unification and Disunification Algorithms: Tractable and Intractable Instances (unpublished report):

I wouldn't call the term "wasichu" racist at all, for example. It doesn't refer to race, but to a behaviour that could be observed disregardless of race.

1998 March 17, <rojas.ro...@swipnet.se>, “Takes a thief”, in alt.native (Usenet), message-ID <1>:


Punycode

Punycode is an encoding, or an escape scheme (depending on how you look at it), for a specific purpose: implementing Internationalized Domain Names (IDN).

2006, Jukka Korpela, Unicode Explained, O'Reilly Media, Inc., →ISBN, page 322:

(computing) A mapping from Unicode to the simpler ASCII character set, intended for the representation of international domain names where Unicode is not available.


fauxmance

“Their fauxmance?” I asked. “What are you talking about?"
“Fake romance,” Lee said. “Haley and Kevin are both Monica's clients. She had them fake-date for publicity. And it worked, their pictures are everywhere.”
[…]
My head was whirling. I'd been set up to take that picture. Haley and Kevin were only fake-dating and I'd broken their fauxmance on Princess of Gossip. And it hit me. Princess of Gossip was based on a lie.

2008, Sabrina Bryan, Julia DeVillers, Princess of Gossip, page 307:

Their fauxmance is put to the test when Marc's mom has dinner at Casa Suarez.

2008, Ann Donahue, Ugly Betty: The Book:

2011, Brendan Halpin, Emily Franklin, Jenna & Jonah's Fauxmance, Walker & Company, →ISBN:

A fake romance between celebrities, arranged for publicity.


churnalism

/ˈtʃəːnəlɪzəm/

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New-media gossip juggernaut Gawker also pays tribute to churnalism's animating spirits: shortness, sensationalism, superficiality, and speed.

2014, Astra Taylor, The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age, Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN:

One can see the possibility for limitless content for a 24/7 world: churnalism, hamsterization, the news cyclone—names to describe the condition keep coming.

2014, Nikki Usher, Making News at The New York Times, page 232:

(derogatory) The use of ready-made press release material copied wholesale into a newspaper article as if it were the journalist's own copy.


simplicate

en-verb

simplicate (third-person singular simple present simplicates, present participle simplicating, simple past and past participle simplicated)

simplicates (present singular third-person)
simplicating (participle present)
simplicated (participle past)
simplicated (past)

Our audience is getting younger and less educated, so despite the additional fabrication costs, we must simplicate the new model of this machine to improve ease of use.

To make a system more complex so that the use of the system is easier or simpler.


puccalo

Different from casual whistling, puccalo is considered a musical instrument that players can master to perform many kinds of music—from classical and jazz to blues and rock.

2008, Penny Estes Wheeler, Elasti-Brain:

the highest level of human oral mouth whistling.


hickster

Hawk-eyed bus-tour agents mounting watch at the intersections, flaunting printed signs tucked in the bands of their visored caps to advertise their business, claim they can spot the hickster nine times out of ten.

1960, William Garland Rogers, Mildred Weston, Carnival crossroads: the story of Times Square:

“You there, hickster! Stop gawking! We're on the clock here! Tick, tick, time is money in Gotham.

He was cool as ice, and he knew it. "All right then, hickster," said the tough. "Hickster?" Sheldon said to himself.

A hick who attempts to be hip (that is, to be a hipster).


Belieber

Blend of Bieber (“Justin Bieber”) + believer.

blend

A Belieber is sustained by the hope of someday being followed by, and receiving a direct message from Justin on Twitter.

2010 August 13th (3:21pm), “Twitchell” (user name), alt.gossip.celebrities (Usenet newsgroup), “Inside the Weird World of Justin Bieber Micro-Gossip”, Message ID

There is simply nothing you can say that could make me feel remorse. If Justin sings Christmas, then for the duration of the track I am a Belieber.

2011 December 12, Marina Hyde, “Whether it's Justin or Cliff, I'm a Belieber in Christmas songs”, in The Guardian:

(informal) A fan or supporter of Canadian singer Justin Bieber (born 1994); a Justin Bieber fanatic.


bumfoolery

I'm prepared to bet I was more spaced when I wrote this indexed register bumfoolery than you were when you wrote whatever it was you wrote...

2000 February 11, Kira Brown, “Re: Surveillance...TV prog.”, in uk.rec.motorcycles (Usenet):

He refers to the Pentagon shipping two 19-cent washers from South Carolina to Texas at a cost $1 million and spending $293,451 sending an 89-cent washer from South Carolina to Florida. If this is true, it certainly tops their old well-noted scandals of $90 hammers and $600 toilet seats. (Those numbers may not be the exact — giver or take — but they do illustrate the bumfoolery of the incidents.)

2008 March 24, “We the public just won’t get excited enough”, in The Moultrie Observer:

Forgetting all the odd bumfoolery going on with IE, you need to sniff the NIC and see what is really happening.

2009 October 21, Spamtastic Spastic, “Re: problem - maybe due to 3Com Wireless DSL router?”, in uk.telecom.broadband (Usenet):

Where compassion between men – not bumfoolery mind – but true compassion will prosper.

2010, Rick Senley, Moustache Man and the Deadly Whiskers, Troubador Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 298:

(slang) Messing about, often in a homosexual way.


mald

en-adjective

mald (comparative malder, superlative maldest)

malder (comparative)
maldest (superlative)

Blend of mad + bald. See malding for further etymology.

So bald, so mald.

(Internet slang, neologism, Twitch-speak) Extremely angry, especially as a result of losing a video game.


mald

en-verb

mald (third-person singular simple present malds, present participle malding, simple past and past participle malded)

malds (present singular third-person)
malding (participle present)
malded (participle past)
malded (past)

He's actually malding.
He is so mad that his hair is legitimately falling out.

In his "hardest game" series, he plays malding games, named for the rage they provoke in those who play them.

2021 May 24, Charlie Pugh, “The art of misery: how Ludwig made a career from failing”, in The Courier, number 1414, Newcastle upon Tyne, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 30:

[…] “Coomers malding PepeLaugh,” […] The second comment, written by HarleyJ, insinuates that “coomers” (a term used to refer to an individual that overly sexualizes things) are angered by her actions, […]

2021 August 10, Dylan Maroney, quoting a comment by HarleyJ, Livestreaming Vico: Imagination and the Ecology of Literacy in Online Gaming, Georgia State University, page 36:

I make money in my sleep, got you hatin' on me
Malding in my chat while you're tryna take a peep

2022 January 16, Amouranth (lyrics and music), “Down Bad”:

It reminds me of how people in the alpha for WoW malded that the game penalized them for playing the game too much with a 50% XP penalty if their character was exhausted, so instead Blizzard decided to nerf all XP gains by 50%, and then give you a “bonus” (rested XP) that doubled your XP gains back to its original amount, and people praised it.

2022 July 18, Sentenzà, “I think Jailer heroic was nerfed too hard”, in Blizzard.com:

(Internet slang, neologism, Twitch-speak) To become extremely angry, especially as a result of losing a video game.


peakon

(physics, mathematics) A soliton whose first derivative is discontinuous.


glamping

en-noun

glamping (usually uncountable, plural glampings)

Blend of glamorous + camping. Of UK origin, first appears c. 2005 in The Guardian, adopted in the U.S. by 2007.

Tom Hanks and Sean Penn are doing it. Paris Hilton and Nicole Ritchie want to do it. What are we talking about? Glamping or glamorous camping for those not yet in the know.

2006, “The Glamper’s Guide To Style” (archive), GadgetCandy.com, 2/24/2006

And glamping – that’s luxury camping, of course.

2007 February 4, Jennifer Gould Keil, “Are you a Jetrosexual? Be Honest…”, in New York Post:

If the eco-friendly idea of falling asleep under the stars and roasting marshmallows around a campfire appeals to you, but the reality of pitching a tent and sleeping on bumpy ground does not, glamping, the new term being used for upscale — or glamorous — camping, could be your ideal green vacation.

2008 September 14, Jennifer Conlin, “Camping? Yes. Roughing It? Not Quite.”, in The New York Times:


ametrine

ametrine (countable and uncountable, plural ametrines)

A naturally occurring variety of quartz, with zones of purple and yellow or orange.

Ametrin

variety of quartz with zones of purple and yellow or orange


gaysian

It’s also supported by comments from my gaysian friends, and observing how Asian men are treated in gayville.

2011, Jimmy Nguyen, Why the gay rainbow needs to embrace more colors of beauty, in the San Diego Gay and Lesbian News (link)

(LGBT, slang) A gay Asian, especially a male.


hangry

en-adj

hangry (comparative hangrier, superlative hangriest)

hangrier (comparative)
hangriest (superlative)

A monster was described as hangry, pronounced by the aythor as [aŋgri]. When asked whether it was angry or hungry, the author replied "Yes".

1994, Jean Harkins, Bridging Two Worlds:Aboriginal English and Crosscultural Understanding, page 162:

I also get really "hangry".

2005, L. R. Parenti, Durata Del Dramma: Life Of Drama, page 98:

We're not talking about the fast-food giants or smaller chains, such as Wimpy's, both of which turn up frequently in the stripmalls that dot the Trail. No matter how hungry -- or even hangry -- you and your fellow travellers are, eschew these places.

2008, “The Great Southern Ontario Burger Trail”, in National Post:

Seriously, somebody needs to give this toddler a bottle and put him down for a nap. That baby pitches a fit when he gets hangry.

2011, Chris Haire, “I'm tired of writing about Nikki Haley”, in Charleston City Paper:

2015, Amanda Salis, “The science behind being "Hangry"”, in CNN "The conversation":

Mission Control: "Get them pizza before they get hangry. Hungry and angry!"
Astronaut: "We're hangry! Hungry and angry!"

2016, “People Pleaser”, in The Powerpuff Girls:

You know this if you've ever been hangry. You go through your day without stopping to eat, and for a while it doesn't matter. Then your stomach starts sending signals to your brain that it's waiting.

2018, Jean Chatzky, Women with Money: The Judgment-Free Guide to Creating the Joyful, Less Stressed, Purposeful (and, Yes, Rich) Life You Deserve, page 11:

(slang) Hungry and angry, especially when the anger is induced by the hunger.


Tudorbethan

This same essay, much of which is explicitly directed against the Tudorbethan ‘aesthetic’ of the Prince of Wales, concludes with Ballard saying: ‘I look forward to … the transformation of Britain into the ultimate departure lounge.’

2011, Will Self, “The frowniest spot on Earth”, in London Review of Books, XXXIII.9:

[...] on what John Betjeman called 'these mild home county acres' the Metropolitan would create Metroland, a series of Tudorbethan havens for the office toilers of London, destroying the mildness of those acres in the process, of course.

2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 169:

(architecture) Mock-Tudor; designed to resemble a Tudor or Elizabethan architectural style.


glocal

glocal (comparative more glocal, superlative most glocal)

more glocal (comparative)
most glocal (superlative)

Not so much wedded as welded to their airline seats, he and his amanuensis see the cities of the future as ‘glocal’ phenomena, where high-density urban centres are air-linked to intercontinental faubourgs.

(chiefly business, politics) Both global and local.


judicare

Blend of judicial + care; compare Medicare, denticare.

(US, law) A form of legal aid in which private lawyers and law firms are paid to handle cases from eligible clients alongside the cases from their own fee-paying clients.


wedmin

(rare, informal) The administration and planning associated with a wedding.


canuding

Ontario off the beaten path is safe for discreet camping, hiking, and canuding.

2006, James Woycke, Au Naturel: The History of Nudism in Canada:


Chicom

Communist Party of China
Communist Party of China

(politics, informal, sometimes offensive) A member of the Communist Party of China, a Chinese cadre.

(politics, informal, sometimes offensive) A proponent of Chinese Communism, whether Maoist or its subsequent development.

(politics, informal, inexact, sometimes offensive, ethnic slur) Any citizen of the People's Republic of China.


Microspeak

Actually, preview, in Microspeak, is what blunter software companies call "beta" — meaning incomplete, buggy, and unsupported.

2002, James Gleick, What just happened: a chronicle from the information frontier:

Welcome to the world of Microspeak — the unofficial language of Microsoft.

2003, Steven Lattimore McShane, Mary Ann Young Von Glinow, Organizational behavior:

The browser buttons, shown in Figure 7-1, are simply links that you can place on the same toolbar that holds your most frequently used bookmarks (known as "favorites" in Microspeak).

2004, Sarah Milstein, Rael Dornfest, Google: the missing manual, page 174:

(informal) The computer and business jargon associated with Microsoft.


echoplex

On Electric Bath Ellis provided an exquisite example of how to use the loop delay echo chamber on his trumpet, as he played “Open Beauty”. By using an echoplex Ellis was able to play highly effective solos, duets, and trios in a surrealistic manner by himself.

2001, Bob Yurochko, A Short History of Jazz, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 175:

(music, also capitalized) A tape delay effect first used in the 1960s.


linish

en-verb

linish (third-person singular simple present linishes, present participle linishing, simple past and past participle linished)

linishes (present singular third-person)
linishing (participle present)
linished (participle past)
linished (past)

(transitive, engineering) To improve the flatness of a surface by means of grinding or belt-sanding techniques.


downcycle

downcycle (third-person singular simple present downcycles, present participle downcycling, simple past and past participle downcycled)

downcycles (present singular third-person)
downcycling (participle present)
downcycled (participle past)
downcycled (past)

Nike set up a "Reuse-a-Shoe" program to "downcycle" old sneakers. The outsole rubber and midsole foam from used shoes are converted into surface material for running tracks and other athletic facilities and playgrounds. The fabric from the shoe uppers becomes padding under carpets.

2004, Michael Renner, “Moving toward a Less Consumptive Economy”, in Linda Starke, editor, State of the World 2004: A Worldwatch Institute Report on Progress toward a Sustainable Society, New York, N.Y., London: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 108:

(transitive) To convert (waste materials, etc.) into new materials or products of lower quality and reduced functionality.


crossplay

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The problem with the crossplay of plastic-based (Mylar) tape is that it's pliable; any difference in temperature or mechanical stress, induced by various transports, will distort track patterns recorded on the compliant tape.

1993, Airborne Reconnaissance, volume 16, Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers, →ISBN, page 52:

(engineering) The ability to record data with one device and play back the data on a different, compatible device.