pardon mon français

Blend of pardon my French + French mon (“my”) + French français (“French”).

[…]the actor finally turned to the audience and said, “What are you blaming me for, I didn’t write this shit.” / Then he looked at Teach. “Pardon mon Français.”

1989, Craig Grant, The Last India Overland, Coteau Books, →ISBN, page 51:

I'm beginning to get REALLY CONFUSED AND PISSED OFF. (pardon mon francais)HELP!!!?!?!!?

1993 April 14, PAW...@psuvm.psu.edu, “Thunderbird Question...”, in rec.autos.tech (Usenet):

And another one (Pardon mon Francais), "Neater than Owl Shit."

1993 September 13, TSM...@auvm.american.edu, “Appalachia dialect and expressions”, in alt.appalachian (Usenet):

The world has to survive, and we can't let *everyone* go to (pardon mon francais) shitty schools.

1994 May 3, MICHAEL WINFIELD STEVENS, “Anti-gay groups”, in k12.chat.senior (Usenet):

Bottom line: it's free, you fuck. Pardon mon francais, but I am unbelievably tired of losers that never coded a thing in their lives hounding guys who write one of the most incredible pieces of free software on the face of the planet.

1995 February 9, Craig A. Johnston, “What's up with XFree86 3.1.1?”, in comp.os.linux.x (Usenet):

No S**t!! Pardon mon francais.

1995 February 21, Mike Taylor, “Cost of 1-month European Trip”, in rec.travel.europe (Usenet):

After endless fireballs, it is worth it seeing that big red fucker turn into 20 dragonsteak! (pardon mon francais!)

1995 August 21, Tim Lamb, “Dungeon Master 1”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg (Usenet):

But, not to worry, if my boss doesn't piss me off (pardon mon francais) too badly tommorrow, I won't kill him.

1996 June 11, Meneaux, “Day One...Again!!!!”, in alt.support.stop-smoking (Usenet):

But quiet alpinism, in my book, is much more rewarding than a public blow-job (pardon mon francais.)

1996 November 19, Dale Bish, “K2 hears you (long post)”, in rec.skiing.alpine (Usenet):

This is real small time chickenshit stuff, pardon mon francais.

1998 July 17, GDAuthor, “Scientology Adherents protest in Geneva Thursday”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet):

The whold public education system is out in left field somewhere being decimated by special interest groups and PC crap (pardon mon français).

1998 September 23, Bill Galante, “I Share This With You All”, in alt.writing (Usenet):

I don't trust those assholes one bit, pardon mon francais.

1998 October 5, EldonB123, “Genetic screening for dyslexia”, in alt.support.dyslexia (Usenet):

Pardon mon francais: Bullshit.

1999 January 26, JmG, “Constitutional question”, in alt.fan.cecil-adams (Usenet):

***** 92mm P&C's SUCK!!***** / Pardon mon Francais!

1999 October 4, SHO'N'PRV 67, “Cheap parts sold at stores and car shows”, in rec.autos.makers.vw.aircooled (Usenet):

Infrastructure is a bitch of a test, pardon mon Francais.

2001 September 17, Michelle Klein-Hass, “70-216”, in microsoft.public.cert.exam.mcse (Usenet):

NO he is fucking wrong, pardon mon francais.

2002 March 31, Roenie, “Which is more valuable?”, in alt.games.diablo2 (Usenet):

Pardon mon francais but -- Fuck That!

2004 February 10, Lazarhat, “Tastes like chicken, cont...”, in alt.buddha.short.fat.guy (Usenet):

If anyone has ever read some of the novels, such as the DS9 or VOY relaunches (novels that take place after the series ends, or the AMAZING original series be Peter David, Star Trek: New Frontier, they would know that the novels are KICKING ASS right now! (Pardon mon français.)

2005 February 14, Sugapablo, “You HAVE to blame Berman et al. here's why...”, in alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise (Usenet):

>> Go fuck yourself Renia / >> / >> *PLONK* / >> / > About time, too. / Pardon mon Francais.

2008 June 5, Cory Bhreckan, “Reagan, Gadaffi & Lockerbie”, in soc.culture.scottish (Usenet):

Pardon mon francais, but it's them fucquing bonus-driven MBA's and their legal blow-buddies.

2009 December 31, Robatoy, “Surreal Borg Experience”, in rec.woodworking (Usenet):

You have to understand, to the motherfucking MBA's, pardon mon francais, all programmers and tech people are just cows.

2010 December 30, Nomen Nescio, “Sunsolve etc disappearing, now "My Oracle"”, in comp.unix.solaris (Usenet):

“‘So much as bat an eye as the toffs trot by, and you’ll be digging latrines,’ pardon mon Français, ‘until it’s George the ruddy Fortieth mincing into Westminster.’”

2011, Steve Hockensmith, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dreadfully Ever After, Quirk Books, →ISBN, page 241:

They’re lying to us that everything’s gonna be fine, but I see Clark’s emails sometimes, and well, pardon mon français, but there’s a lot of dirty shit they’re hiding.

2016, Imbolo Mbue, Behold the Dreamers: A Novel, Random House, →ISBN, page 50:


flexbone

(American football) A formation involving three running backs in which a fullback is lined up behind the quarterback and two slotbacks are lined up behind the line of scrimmage at each end of the offensive line.


pardon my français

Blend of pardon my French + French français (“French”).

blend

Taxis have become an absolute bugger, if you’ll pardon the français.

1968, Frederic Raphael, Orchestra & Beginners, Viking Press, →ISBN, page 390:

My next bitch, pardon my Francais, may be a perfectly legitimate bug.

1987 December 7, bi...@killer.uucp, “NetHack Woes”, in comp.sources.bugs (Usenet):

“I guess we were the only two at TNF who didn’t give a shit—pardon my français—about politics.[…]”

1990, Tony Gibbs, Running Fix, Random House, →ISBN, page 76:

“Yeah, scared shitless, if you’ll pardon my Français.”

1992, Vincent Courtney, Wake Up Screaming, Pinnacle Books, →ISBN, page 38:

“Jackass bastard,” West muttered. “Pardon my français.[…]”

1993, Roseanne Williams, Hot Date, Harlequin Books, →ISBN, page 118:

First off, pardon my francais. / Second off, stop all this stupid ROGER MAYNARD KILL FILE stuff.

1994 March 18, Rob Polinsky, “Stop The Roger Maynard Shit!”, in rec.sport.hockey (Usenet):

Well, I found Stunt Race FX and KG Baseball to be utter sh*t, pardon my francais.

1994 September 17, Castellan, “Are you happy with your Jag?”, in rec.sport.hockey (Usenet):

Quite a giggle! More humourous^([sic]) than your Bob Hope, I can tell ya’ fuckin’ that, mate! / (BEVERLEY stops playing. There is an astonished pause. ARCHIE smiles, awkwardly.) / ARCHIE: I hope you can pardon my Français, Bev.

1997, Israel Horovitz, The Primary English Class and Six New Plays, Smith and Kraus, →ISBN, page 99:

Tradeoffs suck (pardon my Francais).

1997 December 29, Steve Sidwell, “Leaving tomorrow for Asia”, in bit.listserv.travel-l (Usenet):

Pardon my Francais but was I pissed.

1998 July 5, Beanie, “Good-Bye My Friends”, in soc.support.depression.manic (Usenet):

Chapter 22 / Pardon My Français: Ten (Or So) Expressions You Need to Know

2001, Cheryl A. Pientka, Laura M. Reckford, France For Dummies, Hungry Minds, →ISBN, page 485:

As if he heard my thoughts, he opened the door just then. “Fuck! It’s crazy out there!” he shouted.[…]She pointed to me. “Meet Josh, my student.” / George’s face fell when he saw me. “Whoops! Sorry about that, kid. Pardon my français.”

2007, Barry Lyga, Boy Toy, Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 129:

“No. Goddamit. Pardon my francais, sweetheart.”

2008, Nisi Shawl, “Good Boy”, in Filter House, Aqueduct Press, →ISBN:

Anyway, here I was on this park bench with a French loaf, some cheese and a large bottle of beer trying to figure out how I was going to open the bottle without a ‘tirer-bouchon’, pardon my francais.

2011, Chris Buch, “Some European Titbits”, in Hello Sunshine: A Blitz Kid’s Journey to the Sunshine State, Xlibris, →ISBN, page 219:

And that fuckin trumpet, pardon my francais.

2015, Stephen King, “Drunken Fireworks”, in The Bazaar of Bad Dreams, Scribner, →ISBN, page 453:

“Because I do not think Tiffany wants a size seven high-heeled Christian Louboutin up her ass—if you’ll pardon my Français.[…]”

2016, Adam Gittlin, chapter 3, in Deal Master: A Novel, Greenview Publishing, →ISBN, page 28:

“Who fucking cares about money?” my mother hissed. When Avery looked up at her from her tea, my mother said sweetly, “Pardon my français.”

2017, T. Greenwood, “Haven”, in The Golden Hour: A Novel, Kensington Books, →ISBN:

“First car and likely your current car, which, pardon my français, is a rolling piece of garbage.”

2020, Tracy Clark, chapter 1, in What You Don’t See: A Gripping Private Investigator Series, Canelo, →ISBN:

pardon my French
pardon my French#English


scromiting

(informal) Cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome, which has the characteristic symptom of screaming and vomiting.


streatery

Innovative solutions combine private and individual with commercial uses, as shown in 'streateries' in Seattle. Streateries convert a few on-street parking places into open spaces, similar to parklets. While parklets are open for public use 24 hours a day, streateries provide additional space for restaurants to serve customers during their hours of operation.

2019, Bianca Maria Rinaldi, Puay Yok Tan, Urban Landscapes in High-Density Cities: Parks, Streetscapes, Ecosystems, Birkhäuser, →ISBN, page 111:

(US, food) An on-street outdoor dining establishment, frequently under a tent, umbrella, or awning with heaters.


-glitazar

/ˈɡlɪt.əˌzɑɹ/

Blend of -glitazone + peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor.

w:peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor alpha

w:peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma

(pharmacology) Used to form names of dual peroxisome proliferator activated receptors-α and -γ agonists.


simcade

(video games) A game with the simple, intuitive controls of an arcade game but also having some of the technical accuracy of a simulation.


-oxanide

(pharmacology) Used to form names of salicylanilides and analogs.


hurtbox

“Our goal with this update is to more tightly tie hitboxes and hurtboxes to our character’s animations,” devs explained in the blog post.

2022 August 9, Brad Norton, “MultiVersus patch 1.02 notes: Gizmo release, hitbox overhaul, Finn buffs, more”, in Dexerto:

As of the current patch, Luke’s crouching Medium Punch has been nerfed. It will now have a larger hurtbox, in addition to having a slower recovery when the attack misses.

2024 February 27, Rishov Mukherjee, “Street Fighter 6 update 1.11 patch notes: JP, Luke nerfs, Ryu buff, & more”, in Dexerto:

(video games) The area (hitbox) around a character in a fighting game such that, if an attack impinges upon it, the character will take damage.


obscenicon

Synonym of grawlix (“string of typographical symbols used to represent obscenity”)


actornaut

HJP (“Douglas”) Arnold has expressed the regret that there was only one distant shot of Neil Armstrong near the LM. […] How could Armstrong forget, what about the list of assignments, the mission timeline? Or was he not there? And if he was not there, then was there an actornaut or A N Other astronaut in that pressurised suit?

1999, Mary Bennett, David S. Percy, “Photo Call”, in Dark Moon: Apollo and the Whistle-Blowers, Kempton, IL: Adventures Unlimited Press, published 2002, →ISBN, page 49:

The reality of the ISS is that its a giant hoax!!! […] But one of the more hilarious aspects of these NASA videos has got to be the constantly incomprehensible NASA jargon the actornauts use to communicate with Houston (and with each other).

2013 November 6, Warhol, “Not working rockets!!! Fake Satellites!!! Fake Astronauts!!! Fake Moon Images!!!Fake Mars rover!!! Its all Fake fake fake”, in alt.conspiracy (Usenet):

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

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

A group of fans calling themselves the Flat Hearts has gleefully run with the terraplanismo theme, confecting a whole songbook of chants in double-quick time. […] Another casts doubt on the moon landings, describing “actornauts” suspended on NASA wires.

2019 September 6, Jack Lang, “World of Football: Flat Earth FC seek to broaden their horizons”, in The Athletic:

(humorous, derogatory) A person who is claimed to be an astronaut, in the context of conspiracy theories that claim that some or all travel into outer space is faked.


ARPAbet

The ARPAbet system provides a broad, phonetic transcription that is nearly phonemic.

2016, Ronald A. Cole, Perception and Production of Fluent Speech, Routledge, →ISBN, page 16:

A set of phonetic transcription codes developed by Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA).


Trumpanzee

Who cares if your neighbor is a socialist or a raving Trumpanzee? You can go fishing or work in your garden or fruit orchard and forget about all that political nonsense.

Of course, you can say that my little city's unwillingness to go whole chimp for the Trumpanzee means we won't get much. The federal government is locked tight in the hands of Republicans, and they may not want to shower money on such a[…]

2020 January 27, Marc Dion, Devil's Elbow: Dancing in the Ashes of America, Creators Publishing, →ISBN:

The whole Trumpanzee movement is operating without conscious control. Unconscious mania is constantly being manifested. That's why Trumpism is so extraordinarily dangerous. Trump was elected exactly because he was an inflated “prophet”[…]

2021 July 27, David Sinclair, The War of the Mind: Understanding Inflation and Alienation, Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN:

(derogatory) A fervent or chauvinistic follower of former US president Donald Trump.


spoonula

Using a spoonula/rubber spatula, gently fold in until thoroughly combined. (Folding means to place your spoonula/spatula down along the edges of the bowl.)

2014, Karen Blake Peek, Be Your Own Chef I I: Cooking With Fresh Ingredients and Dietary Substitutions In Every Recipe, Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN:

Keep a heatproof spoonula (a curved, spoonlike spatula) at the ready. When the oil starts to shimmer, pour in the egg mixture. Using your spoonula, stir the egg mixture in small circular motions to distribute the onions, chile and cilantro evenly […]

2014, Aarti Sequeira, Aarti Paarti: An American Kitchen with an Indian Soul, Grand Central Life & Style, →ISBN:

A cooking utensil resembling both a spoon and a spatula.


thrussy

(Internet slang, vulgar, humorous) A person's throat, in the context of irrumation.


spoileron

(aviation) A spoiler panel which is extended on one wing of an aircraft in order to decrease the lift and increase the drag generated by said wing, rolling and yawing the aircraft towards that wing.


rudderon

(aviation) A type of control surface, usually found on flying wing aircraft, consisting of two pairs of panels (one mounted near each wingtip on the wing's trailing edge), with one lying on top of the other sandwich-style; to roll the aircraft, both panels on one wing deflect downwards (increasing the lift of that wing) and both panels on the othe wing deflect upwards (decreasing the lift of that wing), while, to yaw the aircraft, the panels on one wing split apart from each other (the upper panel deflects upwards, and the lower panel deflects downwards), increasing the drag on that wing.


crokicurl

(sports) A winter sport played on ice, that is a blend of the board game crokinole and the ice sport curling. The playing pieces, similar to curling rocks, are used in place of crokinole pieces, and the playing surface is expanded to the area of a curling rink turn circle. The objective is that of crokinole, of landing the playing piece in the central hole, while played pieces on the surface obstruct launching new rocks from the edge into the central hole.


pantifa

From mid-2017, a blend of panty + Antifa. See quotations and also the expression get one's panties in a bunch.

2017 August, reader comment on Black Bloc warning urges more violence against Canadian journalists
I call then ‘Pantifa’ because they cover their faces with their Mom's Old Underwear!

You are a pantifa? Panty Fascist

2017 September 8, reader comment on Eric Bolling Out at Fox News

Most people who support pantifa have never worked a day in their life

Be ready to fight. Congress needs to hear glass breaking, doors being kicked in, and blood from their BLM and Pantifa slave soldiers being spilled. Get violent.

2021 January 12, online discussion, quotee, “FBI report warned of ‘war’ at Capitol, contradicting claims there was no indication of looming violence”, in Washington Post:

(Internet slang, derogatory) Antifa, specifically the North American movement that arose in the late 2010s.


Polexit

Blend of Poland + exit, by analogy with Brexit.

(politics) The (possible) act of Poland leaving the European Union.

Polish withdrawal from the European Union


nussy

The rise of the Covid-19 nasal swab, however, has brought the nussy into the forefront, leading to millions of people sharing the novel experience of having an entirely new body part poked, prodded, and penetrated. As a result, it has become something of a meme on social media, with many sharing both the discomfort — and the unexpected pleasures — of hardcore nussy stimulation.

2020 December 21, Ej Dickson, “Meet the People Getting Off on Covid-19 Nasal Swabs”, in Rolling Stone:

But coronavirus has brought the nussy into the mainstream, with hundreds upon hundreds of people tweeting about getting their nussy stimulated by the intimate act of a nurse pushing a swab up there.

2020 December 22, Ellen Scott, “What is a nussy?”, in Metro UK:

“Got my covid test and honestly it felt good. They did my nussy RIGHT. Might do it for fun again soon,” one fan tweeted this month.

2020 December 22, Hannah Frishberg, “‘Too gentle’: These COVID-test fans get off on deep nose swabs”, in New York Post:

Most States Now Offer Free Flu Shots So Here’s How Get One And Avoid A Drippy Nussy

2022 May 31, Kathleen Farmilo, Aleksandra Bliszczyk, “(title)”, in Pedestrian, archived from the original on 2022-08-19:

Do you feel like you’ve been hit with the ol’ spicy cough, but no matter how deep you put the little swab up your nussy, your RAT test returns negative? Well, it turns out there’s a reason this may be happening to you.

2022 December 12, Michael Di Iorio, “Why Do Our RATs Come Up Negative Even When We’re Coughing Up The Devil Himself?”, in Pedestrian, archived from the original on 2022-12-18:

(Internet slang) The nose (in reference to penetration by a test swab).


Frat Pack

(informal) A group of comedy actors who have appeared together in many of the highest-grossing comedy movies since the mid-1990s.


Brat Pack

Introduced as the bad boy of American letters, the brattiest of the Brat Pack that included Jay McInerney, Tama Janowitz and other chroniclers of young Reagan-era angst, Mr. Ellis has achieved over the last 20 years a level of notoriety and acclaim that has eluded most of his peers.

2005 August 7, Edward Wyatt, “Bret Easton Ellis: The Man in the Mirror”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(informal, literature, historical) A group of young authors who emerged on the East Coast in the 1980s.


thinkfluencer

From thinkfluence + -er, or equivalently, a blend of think + influencer.

It would be easy for an ungenerous observer to conclude that their parliament is little more than the entrepreneurial initiative of a few TED-style thinkfluencers – just another half-formed idea coughed up by smooth talkers with books to sell and consulting gigs to line up.

2014 September 18, Adam Greenfield, “A global parliament of mayors? Just what cities need – more bureaucracy”, in The Guardian:

That's why the first rule of any revolution is to wipe out the intellectuals. Trump is surely already dreaming of the vast logging camp he will fill with the Republican thinkfluencers who are at the moment making a show of being the last holdouts.

2017, Matt Taibbi, Insane Clown President: Dispatches from the 2016 Circus, New York, NY: Spiegel & Grau, →ISBN, page 180:

The emotional underpinnings of this economy have been best theorized by Venkatesh Rao, a 46-year-old writer and business consultant, who has become something of a negative futurist, a thinkfluencer’s thinkfluencer.

2020 January 19, Kyle Chayka, “How Nothingness Became Everything We Wanted”, in The New York Times Magazine:

(Internet, informal, sometimes derogatory) An influencer who posts their thoughts and analysis.


Saint Ann Parish

Blend of Saint Ann's Bay + parish. From being the parish-sized political division which contains Saint Ann's Bay. Which was in turn named after Lady Anne Hyde, first wife of James II and VII, King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; and using the saintly terminology of the preceding Spanish name of the bay of Spanish Santa Gloria.

Middlesex County
Middlesex County#English


blackhood

en-noun

blackhood (countable and uncountable, plural blackhoods)

From black + -hood. In some senses perhaps from blend of black + brotherhood. Compare Middle English blakhede (“blackness”), of equivalent formation.

[…] expression, I'm afraid I do not share the conviction held by very important people, like Aime Cesaire, quoted earlier by Charles, who suggest that there is a kind of brotherhood, call it negritude, call it a blackhood, call it blackness.

1961, Charles J. Patterson, Letters Relating to Africa South of the Sahara:

He also arranged a list of twelve secrets of life to help African Americans enjoy their blackhood and lead better lives.

2003, Zekeh S. Gbotokuma, A Pan-African Encyclopedia, volume 2, page 676:

How does blackhood stand against today's leading critical discourse on race and sex that renders black people missing and murdered?

2019, Tryon P. Woods, Blackhood Against the Police Power:

The state or condition of being black (all senses); blackness.


Jewitch

(religion) A practitioner of Jewish neopaganism.


ram-don

Blend of ramen + udon, coined by Darcy Paquet when writing the subtitles for the 2019 South Korean film Parasite.

(neologism) jjapaguri/chapaguri; a dish made from the combination of two Korean instant noodle brands.


outroductory

en-adj

outroductory (comparative more outroductory, superlative most outroductory)

more outroductory (comparative)
most outroductory (superlative)

Blend of out + introductory, after outro.

Coordinate term: introductory

This has been my introductory, and at the same time outroductory message to this NG, I'm going home for holidays.

1996 December 16, Ante Senjanovic, “Rule no. 6: There is NO rule no. 6!”, in alt.rock-n-roll.metal.oldschool (Usenet):

Thereafter, Chapter 5 will be about presentation of the conclusion followed by an ‘outroductory vignette’ where a long dance will be properly ended.

2021 April, Marink Hendricus Marinus Reedijk, “Teach me how to dance with you”: A phenomenological exploration to improve my own (football) coaching (thesis), Cardiff: Cardiff Metropolitan University, page 4:

The RS was then finished and to inform the participant of this and to thank them again, an outroductory text was shown (Figure 35).

2023 May 11, Alexander Hagen, Which contents and empiricism from Shared Mobility Hub projects, as well as formats for sharing them, are relevant for the development of a digital learning platform? (bachelor thesis), Hamburg: University of Applied Sciences Hamburg, →DOI, page 35:

(rare) Related or referring to an outro or closing section.

εξόδιος

referring to a closing section or a part of it


vaxxie

Blend of vax (“vaccine”) + selfie. Coined in late 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Perhaps you’ve seen your first “vaxxies” — naturally, photos that people take of themselves getting a coronavirus vaccine and then post on social media. The country has already distributed over one million doses to health care workers, but who’s next?

2020 December 27, Charlotte Cowles, “The Week in Business: The Bitter End”, in The New York Times:

Posting a ‘vaxxie’ (rarely a true a selfie, for logistical reasons) is becoming the unexpected social media trend of 2021, and led by a just as unexpected band of influencers. […] Inevitably, there will be some who deem vaxxies to be as smug, performative and fatuous as all other social media crazes.

2021 January 19, Guy Kelly, “The rise of the vaxxie – and why the Greek PM’s Herculean effort is more important than you might think”, in The Daily Telegraph:

(slang, neologism) A photograph (especially a selfie) of a person receiving a vaccine, often shared on social media.


quinch

en-verb

quinch (third-person singular simple present quinches, present participle quinching, simple past and past participle quinched)

quinches (present singular third-person)
quinching (participle present)
quinched (participle past)
quinched (past)

First attested 1530 as quynche, possibly from unrecorded Middle English *quinchen, itself of obscure origin. Perhaps a fusion of Middle English quicchen, quecchen (“to shake, tremble; twitch, flinch”) and Middle English winchen (“to flinch, wince; veer or move away”), making it equivalent to a blend of quitch + winch.
Compare Saterland Frisian kwinkje (“to blink, wink with the eyes”), Middle Dutch quincken, quinken ("to shake, quiver"; whence modern Dutch kwinken, kwinkeleren (“to warble”)), German Low German quinken (“to blink, wink”).

unk

obscure

cog

And therupon to beſtow all my Soldiers in ſuch ſort as I have done, that no part of all that Realm ſhall be able to dare to quinch […]

1598, Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande, page 213:

(obsolete, intransitive) To stir; to act as if in pain, flinch, wince.


light sector

Blend of light + dark sector. From not being part of the dark sector.

(astrophysics, cosmology, astronomy, physics) The known universe; the part of the universe that is not part of the dark sector; the segment of the universe that is explained by the known laws of physics, and whose components (particles) are predicted by it. The portion of the universe that is not dark matter nor dark energy.

The fraction of the universe that interacts with electromagnetism (ie. light).


Pomapoo

A small dog that is a cross between a Pomeranian and a poodle (typically a toy poodle).


sheanderthal

/ʃiːˈæn.dəˌtɑːl/

/ʃiːˈæn.dɚˌθɑːl/

/ʃiːˈæn.dɚˌtɑːl/

/ʃiˈændəɹθəl/

(derogatory, slang) A brutish or uncivilized woman.


rocket surgeon

Blend of rocket scientist + brain surgeon, as both are commonly used in such phrases as "you don't have to be a rocket scientist to understand it".

blend

At this point you may be thinking, “I know all about goals. I know to make them S.M.A.R.T.” What's S.M.A.R.T? Some rocket surgeon a while back came up with the notion that goals should be specific, measurable, attainable, reasonable, and time-based.

2012, Chris Vander Mey, “How to measure greatness”, in Shipping Greatness, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 89:

rocket scientist
rocket scientist#English

(humorous) Synonym of rocket scientist (“someone qualified to understand or handle that which is overly complex, detailed or confusing”)


snozzle

A few minutes later, when the two RMFD vehicles arrived, the on-scene commander instructed one of them to take up a position on the left side of the airplane and to use its snozzle to apply firefighting agents in the airplane's main cargo compartment.

2005, National Transportation Safety Board, “1.15.3 Emergency Response”, in Aircraft Accident Report: Hard Landing, Gear Collapse, Federal Express Flight 647, Boeing MD-10-10F, N364FE, Memphis, Tennessee, December 18, 2003, archived from the original on 2020-10-18, page 24:

(aviation, firefighting) A reinforced firefighting nozzle used to pierce the exterior skin of an aircraft and spray water or firefighting foam inside the aircraft to help extinguish a fire.


Venmo

After the Venmo mobile payment system. According to co-founder Andrew Kortina, the name was formed as a blend of Latin vēndere (“to sell”) + mobile, for the following reasons:
We were exploring the Latin root vendere “sell” and mo for mobile, but purely as a means to get to a name that (1) was short, 5-6 letters, (2) could be a verb, (3) didn’t have a unintuitive spelling, and (4) was cheap. Venmo was available on GoDaddy and met the important criteria, so we grabbed it.

It was part of a larger trend of monetizing the demand for unpaid emotional labor that became bigger and bigger after the 2016 election. At first, posting a Venmo or CashApp “for emotional labor” was something I noticed activists doing, usually Black women who were being asked to donate their time and expertise for free to the public, and even to private institutions with the budget to pay them.

2022, Aimée Lutkin, “What Is Dating?”, in The Lonely Hunter: How Our Search for Love Is Broken: A Memoir, New York, N.Y.: The Dial Press, →ISBN, part 1, page 94:

His vest had a Kevin Bacon hashtag and a Venmo on it. “I have to give it to Doug, he is a hustler,” Briana said, eyeing the Venmo. “Doug would punch me in the face for a billion dollars.”

2023, Abby Jimenez, Yours Truly, London: Piatkus, Little, Brown Book Group, →ISBN:

Where many bars published their staff’s Venmos and Cash Apps so that patrons could show some financial appreciation while they were out of work, Troupe429 went further. […] Each “Troupetender” card featured a cute headshot, a QR code linked to the employee’s online cash account, and a recipe for a cocktail.

2023, Greggor Mattson, “#SaveTheGayBars from Another Pandemic: Troupe429 ■ Norwalk, Connecticut”, in Who Needs Gay Bars? Bar-Hopping through America’s Endangered LGBTQ+ Places, Stanford, Calif.: Redwood Press, →ISBN:

A Venmo pops up. Jesse Desmond. I thought that was his voice.

2023, Rachel Anne Jones, “Chapter Seventeen: Nash”, in Ramblin’ Nash: A Day in the Life of a Flower Shop Boy, White Bear Lake, Minn.: Fire & Ice Young Adult Books, Melange Books, LLC, →ISBN:

Find PayPals, Venmos, or CashApps of BIPOC and randomly donate money as reparations.

2024, Maria Minnis, “The Lovers”, in Tarot for the Hard Work: An Archetypal Journey to Confront Racism and Inspire Collective Healing, Newburyport, Mass.: Weiser Books, →ISBN, section “Choosing to Redistribute Wealth”:

Remember that so many of us click on links to CashApps, Venmos, PayPals, etc. to donate to bail funds, Flint Water reliefs, the next Ferguson, and the like without any thought of integrating ourselves into collective action?

2024, Too Black, Rasul A. Mowatt, “Conclusion”, in Laundering Black Rage: The Washing of Black Death, People, Property, and Profits, New York, N.Y.; Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Routledge, →DOI, →ISBN:

(informal) An account on the Venmo peer-to-peer mobile payment system.


Venmo

en-verb

Venmo (third-person singular simple present Venmos, present participle Venmoing, simple past and past participle Venmoed)

Venmos (present singular third-person)
Venmoing (participle present)
Venmoed (participle past)
Venmoed (past)

Don’t want to bother splitting the brunch check five ways? Split it two ways instead, and three people will have some Venmoing to do.

2013 August 5, Emma Roller, “The Spawn of Facebook and PayPal”, in Slate:

We had only Venmoed once or twice in our short relationship, but I knew it was an app he used frequently with his friends.

2016 August 2, Tonya Riley, “After a Breakup, I Turned to Venmo for Closure”, in Cosmopolitan.com:

Venmoing may be standard, but here’s why I’ve switched.

2018 August 26, Louise Matsakis, “It's Time to Stop Sending Money on Venmo”, in Wired:

She's the keeper of all the receipts and bills (and hopefully sees the benefit this will be if she's using a rewards credit card) and at the end of the trip she divides the total and everyone Venmos!

2020, Kerstin Lindquist, Where’s My Crown for Acting Like Everything Is Fine?:

(intransitive, informal) To use the Venmo peer-to-peer mobile payment system, originally principally for splitting bills such as for food, drinks, entertainment, and transportation.

vippse

to use a peer-to-peer mobile payment system

"Keeps to himself," he said, "Venmos the rent. Never calls to fix nothin'." In other words, a perfect tenant.

2020, John McMahon, The Evil Men Do, page 176:

Ariana Grande is lending a hand to help her fans in need amid the current coronavirus pandemic.

2020 March 26, Nicholas Rice, “Ariana Grande Venmos Money to Fans in Financial Need amid Coronavirus Crisis”, in People.com:

Jillian had Venmoed me half my fee that morning.

2023, Sonia Hartl, chapter 13, in Rent to Be: A Novel, Alcove Press, The Quick Brown Fox & Company LLC, →ISBN:

I know his occasional emails and the few times he Venmoed me money will never compare to what Mom does for me.

2024, Ronni Davis, This Night Is Ours, New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN:

(ditransitive, informal) To transfer money to someone using the Venmo peer-to-peer mobile payment system.


bancorporation

While we have seen some group banks fail, several of the present bancorporations have shown statements that indicate a high degree of liquidity.

1931, Bankers Monthly, volume 48, page 117:

bank holding company
bank holding company


lyricon

(computing) A form of earcon or musicon that incorporates musically intoned speech.


rumdriver

Blend of rum + screwdriver (“cocktail”).

A cocktail containing rum, orange juice, and a small wedge of lime; an alternative to a screwdriver with rum substituted for vodka.


Jailtacht

(Ireland, slang) An area in a prison where Irish was spoken, particularly during the Troubles.


sophomoronic

en-adj

sophomoronic (comparative more sophomoronic, superlative most sophomoronic)

more sophomoronic (comparative)
most sophomoronic (superlative)


Obamunist

Did you have the audacity to suggest ObamaCare seemed like a bad idea? Then you're a “typical wingnut douchebag.” Were you foolish enough to point out something the Obama administration did right? “Keep drinking that Obamunist Kool-Aid, dipshit.”

2011, Brian Sack, The B.S. of A.: A Primer in Politics for the Incredibly Disenchanted, page 25:

An anonymous commenter wrote into Carender's blog: "Success is yours, the Obamunists are on the run."

2012, Michael Grabell, Money Well Spent?: The Truth Behind the Trillion Dollar Stimulus, the Biggest Economic Recovery Plan in History, page 87:

The Traditional Values Coalition called for a stop to “Obamunists'” attempt to destroy private health care.

2018, Clyde Wilcox, Onward Christian Soldiers?: The Religious Right in American Politics, unnumbered page:

(neologism, derogatory) A supporter of US president Barack Obama.


Tessica

The crowd Wednesday included a few outdoor movie buffs and some casual Austen fans, but the majority were young women such as Tessica Venteicher, 30, who showed up last year for the “Pride and Prejudice” screening and was back now for “Emma.” Along for the ride: fiance Kevin Harber, who’s a good sport but not a true believer.

2015 July 18, Roxanne Roberts, “The Jane Austen film festival: Chick flicks for D.C.’s highbrow romantics”, in The Washington Post:


Splat Pack

(informal) A group of independent filmmakers who, since 2002, have directed, written and produced violent low-budget horror films.


tacnuke

Probably it would go as this: the Soviets attack with as little warning as possible in a holiday with a massive BC assault together with their mechanized wave. Maybe a tacnuke or two (or two dozens) are exchanged between WARPACT and NATO troops in Germany and Turkey (i'm thinking of the Thrace area). After 2-3 weeks either the Soviets reach the Rhine and ask for an armistice or the war stalemates and ask for an armistice.

2018 October 16, El_Presidente, “Reply to "WW3 in the late 80s: How long does the munition last?"”, in alternatehistory.com, archived from the original on 2021-02-21:

(military, slang) A tactical nuclear weapon.


downblend

en-verb

downblend (third-person singular simple present downblends, present participle downblending, simple past and past participle downblended)

downblends (present singular third-person)
downblending (participle present)
downblended (participle past)
downblended (past)

The facility has the capacity to downblend 5 tonnes of bomb-grade uranium per year.

highly-enriched uranium
highly-enriched uranium

slightly-enriched uranium
slightly-enriched uranium

low-enriched uranium
low-enriched uranium

(usually transitive, nuclear physics) To blend highly-enriched uranium, typically from decommissioned nuclear weapons, with uranium containing a low concentration of fissile uranium-235 (slightly-enriched uranium, natural uranium, or depleted uranium) in order to convert it to low-enriched uranium suitable for use as fuel in standard power reactors but not usable for a fission bomb.


dexamyl

Brand name, blend of dextro- + amphetamine + amyl.

After 25 hours of work (dexamyl—uninterrupted except for an hour with Lottman and, later, Alphaville) I think I've sorted things out.

2012, Susan Sontag, “6/8/65 7 a.m.”, in edited by David Rieff, As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 88:


niggatry

From nigga + -t- + -ry, a term coined by the fictional character Uncle Ruckus in the animated sitcom The Boondocks. A blend of nigga + wizardry.

Toine yelled when he finally got me off of Ry. “I'm taking my black ass back home to North Carolina,” Charm said as he continued to sit at the table with his feet up like we weren't just fucking up the place. “Y'all got too much niggatry going on for me.” He shook his head.

2016, Charmanie Saquea, A Lady & Her Sire 3: A Royal Love Affair:

That's not exactly true, there was plenty of “niggatry” in my new neighborhood, it was just coming from my white neighbors.

2019, Charlamagne Tha God, Shook One: Anxiety Playing Tricks on Me, page 76:

Usher! Hi, babe! I'm with Corporate Niggatry!

2021, Michael R. Jackson, A Strange Loop:

(vulgar, slang, rare, derogatory, offensive, uncountable) The actions or behaviors stereotypically typifying African Americans.


conspiritualism

Blend of conspiracy (theory) + spiritualism. Compare earlier conspirituality.

blend

But little prepared me for this most recent pop-political mash-up, coined conspiritualism. It’s certainly a Venn overlap that is hard to fathom. How did wellness warriors come to unite with the alt-right QAnon community?

2020 September 14, Sarah Wilson, “The wellness realm has fallen into conspiritualism – I have a sense why”, in The Guardian:

In times of unrest, Purser explains, societies see a rise in groups of people who are attracted to esoteric ideas mixing them with political movements. Recently, this wave of "conspiritualism" has begun to overlap with influencers on social media.

2021 March 12, “Professor Ron Purser Interviewed by Salon on ‘Conspirituality’ Influencers”, in San Francisco State University College of Business, archived from the original on 2021-06-28:

Since the beginning of the pandemic Sara has allied herself with “Conspiritualism”, claiming that this virus is a hoax; that the evil left is trying to trap us with a toxifying vaccine; and that meditation, taking natural remedies and vitamins are sufficient to immunise our bodies so that they can fight back any virus.

2021 March, Orit Badouk Epstein, “I don’t have COVID, she has it”, in ESTD Newsletter, volume 11, European Society for Trauma and Dissociation, page 6:

There is nothing left wing about alternative medicine, the rejection of scientific research or ostensibly anti-authoritarian stances against state regulation. The individualism, entrepreneurialism and “conspiritualism” at the heart of the wellness movement fits alongside the far right’s claim that state-enforced public health measures are totalitarian.

2021 October 20, Vashti Fox, “It’s time to confront the anti-vaccination far right”, in Red Flag, archived from the original on 2021-10-21:

The melding of conspiracy theories into the narrative of the wellness industry.


crypterati

The bad faith, and (generally correct) assumption of bad faith, among bitcoin conversationalists on Reddit is really something even for Reddit. Even many of the cryptorati are, shall we say, not always exactly redolent of good faith.

2017 December 3, Jon Evans, “Metascarcity and Bitcoin’s future”, in Tech Crunch:

At that moment, the crypterati were watching in horror as high-profile ICO Tezos embarked on a public internecine war.

2018 February 23, Gian Volpicelli, “To get rich in crypto you just need an idea, and a coin”, in Wired:

In October, the IRS published tax guidance for anyone operating in the crypto industry, addressing multiple concerns of the cryptorati.

2019 December 27, “Digital Currency and Blockchain Weekly Round-Up”, in Token Post:

For a start, it's patented, and for the Crypto-purists, or Crypterati, that's a big red flag. They do not like its governance.

2020 December 23, ngtenor, “Hedera Hashgraph – The Future Google Of Distributed Ledger Technology”, in Seeking Alpha:

Those people who deal in cryptocurrencies.


bureaupathology

Harmful traits of a bureaucratic organization, such as inflexibility and impersonality.


eggsactly

en-adv

eggsactly (comparative more eggsactly, superlative most eggsactly)

more eggsactly (comparative)
most eggsactly (superlative)

Eggsactly, is exactly what we mean! In the highly competitive field of egg processing, fast, efficient production methods are essential for a profitable, successful operation.

1960, Everybody’s Poultry Magazine, page 9:

How to boil eggs eggsactly as ordered and at a profit.

Only two of the chocolate Easter eggs are ‘eggsactly’ the same size, which two?

2006, 1000 Junior Holiday Puzzles, New Dawn Press, Inc., published 2009, →ISBN:

Not Eggsactly What You Thought / Bird eggs are perfect structures that contain all of the materials needed to support the growth of a new life or, in many unlucky cases, provide a highly nutritious meal to any number of different critters.

2016, Richard Evershed, Nicola Temple, Sorting the Beef from the Bull: The Science of Food Fraud Forensics, Bloomsbury:

(informal, humorous) Exactly, when referring to eggs or Easter.


Pencourt

(UK, journalism) Barrie Penrose and Roger Courtiour collectively.


gubbish

Blend of garbage + rubbish, coined by Philip K. Dick in his 1964 novel Martian Time-Slip.

But by the time the novel is over we are left with the perception that the autistic boy is living in a kind of precog vision of a future decaying into “gubbish,” into a dead simulacrum from which all animating spirit has been leached ( a key Dickian concept ), as real or more so in some sense than the consensus reality of the other characters.

1990, Norman Spinrad, Science Fiction in the Real World, page 208:

All that kipple, gubbish, garble and abomination which Alice James Raccoona Tiptree Sheldon, Jr., showed for what it is when she appeared, smiling a little uncertainly, from her postbox in McLean, Virginia.

1992, Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood, The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction, page 184:

It rained gubbish, now; all was gubbish, wherever he looked.

2016, Michael Bérubé, The Secret Life of Stories, page 105:

How'd you get your information, the stuff on the index cards? Which, anyway, is probably all gubbish.

2017, Dean Koontz, The Silent Corner, page 102:

Anything worthless or incomprehensible; junk.


Galentine's Day

Blend of gal + Valentine's Day, originally the title and subject of the 16th episode of the second season of the American comedy television series Parks and Recreation, first broadcast in 2010.

Saint Valentine's Day
Saint Valentine's Day

(informal) A day on which women hold a party around the time of Saint Valentine's Day, typically on February 13.


intersexism

Discrimination against people who are intersex.


relationshopping

/ɹɪˈleɪʃənˌʃɒpɪŋ/

Some experts believe that an overpowering fear of commitment may be the driving force behind relationshopping, but that is not likely the case. The fear of commitment is largely determined by past experiences […]

2010, Sean Kenniff, Stop Effing Yourself, page 117:

“Relationshopping” is detrimental to users' romantic relationship goals for two reasons. One, there is evidence that ideal romantic partner preferences do not predict romantic attraction in-person (Eastwick and Finkel 2008).

2018, Mark Blythe, Andrew Monk, Funology 2: From Usability to Enjoyment, page 65:

The practice of seeking romantic or sexual partners based on a shortlist of attributes, like a consumer shopping for a product.


copystrike

I uploaded a copy of the film trailer to the site, but the distributor removed it and gave me a copystrike.

copyright infringement
copyright infringement

(slang, Internet) A formal notice to a user on a website (particularly YouTube or other video-sharing site) reprimanding the user for copyright infringement.


copystrike

en-verb

copystrike (third-person singular simple present copystrikes, present participle copystriking, simple past and past participle copystriked)

copystrikes (present singular third-person)
copystriking (participle present)
copystriked (participle past)
copystriked (past)

I uploaded a copy of the film trailer to the site, but the distributor removed it and copystriked me.

S-seriously? He just said that? I'm gonna copystrike this guy.

2018, Alinity, [https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/twitch-streamer-alinity-copyright-strikes-pewdiepie-for-calling-her-a-twitch-thot Twitch Streamer Alinity Copyright Strikes Pewdiepie^([sic]) for Calling her a Twitch Thot]:

(slang, Internet) To issue a copystrike to someone or against a piece of content.


kennetic

Relating to the acquisition of knowledge


Stinkomalee

Coined by Theodore Hook, apparently Blend of stink + Trincomalee, perhaps because some cow-houses and dunghills stood on the original site.

(UK, slang, derogatory, obsolete) The University of London.


lukecold

en-adj

lukecold (comparative more lukecold, superlative most lukecold)

more lukecold (comparative)
most lukecold (superlative)

Blend of lukewarm + cold, equivalent to luke (“lukewarm”) + cold.

In Texas, Conservative Price Daniel gave lukecold support to the Kennedy-Johnson ticket but had blazing hot support from the voters, who gave him a runaway third-term victory over Dallas Republican William Steger.

1960 November 16, “The Election: The States: The Governers”, in Time, volume LXXVI, number 20A, →ISSN, page 13:

Since industry is the principal supporter and indirectly financiers of the regulating bodies, the response by said group is veritably lukecold to those who fall in the human sub-set of sensitive reactions to pesticides.

1991 May 9, Robert G. Haines, “Pesticide consulting services, co.: expert witness testimony on SB-849”, in Issues Related to the Use and Application of Lawn Care Chemicals, 102nd United States Congress, page 230:

(rare) Not very enthusiastic (about a proposal or an idea) (and less enthusiastic than lukewarm would imply).


relationshit

From blend of relationship + shit, taken from such phrases as the relationship has gone to shit.

My marriage has gone from a relationship to a relationshit.

(neologism, vulgar) A failed or failing relationship.


whamola

(music) A bass musical instrument played in the United States; a descendant of the washtub bass.


rolony

A colony of nucleic acid produced by rolling circle replication


voicespond

en-verb

voicespond (third-person singular simple present voicesponds, present participle voicesponding, simple past and past participle voicesponded)

voicesponds (present singular third-person)
voicesponding (participle present)
voicesponded (participle past)
voicesponded (past)

(intransitive, dated) To correspond via recorded voice messages.


Wood Wide Web

If so, did Voyria have anything to give back to their fungal partners in exchange, or were they just parasites — hackers of the Wood Wide Web?

2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 23:

(ecology) Mycorrhizal networks, that is networks of fungi that connect trees, collectively.


Kimbit

Blend of Kim (“Kim's Convenience”) + Timbit (“Tim Hortons snack”).

blend

convenience store
convenience store#English

(Canada, fandom slang) A fan of Kim's Convenience (2016–2021 on CBC), a Canadian sitcom about a Korean-owned convenience store and the Korean-Canadian family which runs it.


factish

Blend of fact + fetish, coined by Bruno Latour.

Factishes fit well the emergent and networked vision of the world, because they stress the historical quality with which every acting entity is endowed with.

2005, Monika A. Szumilak, Reconfiguring Spanish Subjects, page 93:

If what we have are not fetishes to be critiqued, but factishes that are hybrids that have complex effects, then we must exercise caution and care both in relation to critiquing and creating factishes.

2012, Mike Michael, Reconnecting Culture, Technology and Nature, page 35:

The factish obliterates the binary between fact and fetish and, more importantly, between Africa and Europe.

2013, Lucia Thesen, Linda Cooper, Risk in Academic Writing, page 249:

(sociology) A scientific "fact" whose power is believed in, but which is ultimately a construction, just as fetishes are constructions believed to hold spiritual powers.


e-troduce

en-verb

e-troduce (third-person singular simple present e-troduces, present participle e-troducing, simple past and past participle e-troduced)

e-troduces (present singular third-person)
e-troducing (participle present)
e-troduced (participle past)
e-troduced (past)

Online learning communities should include opportunities for students to “e-troduce” themselves to each other.

2014, Management Association, Information Resources, Adult and Continuing Education, page 118:

I would like to “e-troduce” you as a group of friends and colleagues who all share a common interest in writing […]

2017, Troy Hicks, Anne Elrod Whitney, James Fredricksen, Coaching Teacher-Writers, page 125:

(transitive, informal) To introduce (people to each other) by means of computer communication.


winterim

(US) A period in a winter term in which students work on projects away from their normal school


carisack

Pulling a little carrisack from his pack, he began to fill it with small but essential pieces of his Wyvern's survival kit.

2014, Scott Ashby, Assignment to Earth, page 82:

Beside her the men left a soft tube of nutrient gel and a carisack of water.

2016, Elizabeth Moon, Rules of Engagement:

She fished in her carisack for drops, then tilted her head back to administer them.

2017, Maggie Lynch, Eternity: Virus Wars:

(science fiction) A bag for carrying things.


slifting

The rule of Slifting (described in Ross 1973) moves complement clauses and adjoins them to the left of the original embedding structure as a coordinate clause, leaving the rest of the structure as a tag.

1977, Alice Davison, Indirect Speech Acts: a Natural Class or not?:

(linguistics) The preposing of an embedded clause containing reported speech or beliefs.


QAnonsense

Will our next president need to replace Trump’s appointees with people who are loyal to our Constitution rather than Trump’s deep state swamp Qanonsense? Probably the sooner we find out the answer to that the better.

2020 June 5, Don Galloway, “After Trump is gone”, in The Press Democrat, Santa Rosa, California, Friday’s Letters to the Editor:

Those who subscribe to QAnonsense are too far gone, and the relatively sane Republicans will call you a socialist no matter what.

2021 January 20, Garrett Snedaker, “Letters to the Editor”, in The New York Times, page 26:

We would be wise not to laugh at the antics of Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has spouted QAnonsense and compared mask mandates to the Nazi treatment of Jews, or else she could ride similar waves of derision to even greater political heights.

2021 June 9, John Feffer, “We’re not out of the woods yet”, in The Nation:

(derogatory) Conspiracy theories or other statements by followers of QAnon that are asserted to be nonsense.


Graphalloy

en-noun

Graphalloy (countable and uncountable, plural Graphalloys)

Any of a group of metal-impregnated graphite materials, commonly used for self-lubricating plain bearings or electrical contacts.


snow-how

SNOW-HOW means top engineering and design for durability and strength without excess weight—reinforcements and flexibility in the hitch—ease of adjustment — reliability of the hydraulic system — control of moldboard curve — all factors that make a plow and its attachments one single unit designed to do the job efficiently.

1966, Civic Administration, volume 18, page 19:

The know-how of Thomson and the snow-how of Lunn Poly have combined to produce the wintersports programme to end them all.

1973, “Wintersports: A run for everyone's money.”, in Punch, volume 265, page 43:

BUILDING A COMPANY WITH SNOW-HOW

“Right. So these European settlers, who were total ding-dongs, came in the dead of winter, with zero snow-how.” “Lotta loose bonnets, if you know what I'm saying.” “These underprepared vacationers turned to eating each other to survive.”

2021 January 17, Minty Lewis, “Feast of Not People Adventure” (1:29 from the start), in The Great North, season 1, episode 2, spoken by Beef Tobin (Nick Offerman):

(informal) The knowledge and skill utilized during snow and inclement weather.


sexterity

She roars grandly, slips into realistic modernism, lunges over into sinuous sexterity.

1949, New York Theatre Critics' Reviews - Volume 8, volume 8:

You like my helm? It's plus five sexterity.

2007 September 7, Felicia Day, “The Macro Problem” (3:39 from the start), in The Guild, season 1, episode 3, spoken by Zaboo (Sandeep Parikh), archived from the original on 2023-03-31:

Yeah, well keep your 'Plus Five to Sexterity' vest to yourself, eh?

2012 February 28, Allison Pang, A Sliver of Shadow, →ISBN:

(informal) Sexual ability, experience, or prowess.


castrophony

castrophony (countable and uncountable, plural castrophonies)

Blend of catastrophe + cacophony. Originally coined by Damon Albarn (Gorillaz) in his 2005 song Fire Coming Out of the Monkey's Head.

Then there came a sound, distant at first, that grew into a castrophony so immense, That it could be heard far away in space.

2005, Gorillaz (Damon Albarn), Fire Coming Out of the Monkey's Head (song):

I went some paces further into the citadel, and then, as though in a fearful dream, people were running past me, breathless and wild-eyed, and the nearer I drew, the greater the castrophony that boomed from the palace courtyard up ahead.


spunion

"Mother fuck you, spunion! Old crackhead bitch! ” He lowered a fist down on the dog's spine and the thing trundled off.

2003, Bruce Wagner, I'll Let You Go, page 94:

I forget her name, but I'm not surprised the spunion lost her dog. Last time I seen her she looked like she was going to suck some for nitrous.

2009, J. J. Colagrande, Headz, page 154:

Then the spunion showed up. He was sweating profusely.

2013, Carl Cole, The Melody of Motion: Following Phish and Widespread Panic, page 48:

(slang, derogatory) A person who is spun out, most often as a result of excessive drug use.


C-string

A woman's scanty undergarment resembling a G-string but having a curved (C-shaped) wire that runs between the buttocks.


totchos

Basic bar standards like quesadillas, sliders, Caesar salad, chicken fingers, hummus and YAY! They've got totchos!

2008 ·, Cindy Anderson, Happy Hour Guidebook -- Portland 2009, page 39:

These kicked-up tots (such as Tater Tots) nachos, a.k.a. totchos, are my homage to our Sunday night nacho feasts. Serve the braised steak over the totchos, or you can even skip the tots and use this meat in tacos, burritos, classic nachos, or add a couple more cans of tomatoes (or some beef stock) and a can or two of pinto or black beans for a hearty ropa vieja stew.

“Totchos!” Turbo was howling and reaching before the plate hit the table, and the race was on. Turbo and D-Tay, both now aged ten in spirit, grabbed and shoveled at a plate full of Newberry's specialty, a heaping helping of tater tots laced with ground beef, cheese, tomatoes, and salsa.

2020, Antony L. Saragas, Once Upon a Rhyme:

Nachos made with tater tots instead of tortilla chips.


quesarito

/ˌkeɪ̯səˈɹiː.təʊ/

/ˌkeɪ̯səˈriːtəʊ/

[ˌkʰeɪ̯səˈɹiː.təʊ]

[ˌkʰeɪ̯səˈriːtəʊ]


quesalupa

[ˌkʰeɪ̯səˈluːpə]


dadvice

(slang) Advice given to new fathers, often from other fathers.


appisode

Unlike a webisode, an appisode often incorporates interactive features. Players can tap on characters on the screen to make them talk, find hidden objects, or collect items as part of a quest.

2014, Carolyn Handler Miller, Digital Storytelling, page 334:

Also the minor characters of a drama series can become somewhat more famous as the hero in a web series or “appisodes” for mobile devices.

2017, Sergio Sparviero, Corinna Peil, Gabriele Balbi, Media Convergence and Deconvergence, page 166:

Indeed, summative research on the first four appisodes found that, even after less than one hour with each appisode, children improved in all four topics, […]

2018, Dafna Lemish, Amy Jordan, Vicky Rideout, Children, Adolescents, and Media:

An episode of a show in the form of an interactive software application.


baecation

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

“Baby, don't ever apologize for something that's out of your control. I always enjoy myself when I'm with you. Whether we're in Georgia or Florida, wherever we are, it always feels like a baecation,” I said smiling.

Boy I'm not going to take you on my baecation with Shane.

It wasn't no baecations popping off. I couldn't catch feelings for a nigga or spend holidays with a nigga. Essentially, I was still out here alone!

2019, Natisha Raynor, Torn Between A Boss And A Real One:

Lonetta shouted a lot, but it didn't bother Jholee because she was still on such a high from her sex filled baecation with her soon-to-be husband.

2019, Bianca, Jholee & Kiandre 3: A Gangsta & His Good Girl:

(African-American Vernacular) A romantic vacation for two taken with one's sexual partner.


dudevorce

Sometimes they even come right out and ask for a dudevorce by taking back the video game system they were keeping at your house.

2009, Daniel Maurer, Brocabulary: The New Man-i-festo of Dude Talk, page 17:

“I was about to file for a dudevorce if you didn't show, J.” He grins over at Jake wearing a similar knowing smile as Liv.

(slang, humorous) The breakup of a casual friendship between men.


rolleron

(aviation) An aerodynamic control surface device, used to control against unwanted rolling (rotation) about the axis of movement. The moving wingtip is self-gyro-stabilized with a rolling bladed wheel catching the airstream, providing the gyroscopic moment.


latrinalia

It wasn't until I gave up, closed and stowed my notebook, and was sitting on a toilet seat reading latrinalia on the stall door that I recalled[…]

2020, Ayad Akhtar, Homeland Elegies, Little, Brown and Company, page 106:

Deliberately inscribed marking made on lavatory walls


webisodic

How do you make money from a webisodic? The business model for online entertainment remained elusive.

1999, John Geirland, Eva Sonesh Kedar, Digital Babylon, page 91:

Many developers placed their hopes on a form called the webisodic, a story-based serial told in short installments using stills, text, animation, or video. The first such webisodic, The Spot, debuted in 1995 and was an enormous hit at the time.

2004, Carolyn Handler Miller, Digital Storytelling:

(Internet) A website offering an unfolding story in the form of blog posts, images, short videos, etc. posted at intervals.


interphobia

Behrensen condemns the practice of targeting certain athletes and subjecting them to the indignity and humiliation of a procedure that has no bearing on athletic ability and that further violates privacy in the service of accommodating interphobia.

2017, Thomas Keith, Masculinities in Contemporary American Culture: An Intersectional Approach to the Complexities and Challenges of Male Identity, page 283:

I knew those attitudes were out there, but I'd already learned that I had to reject the racism I'd experienced as a child, and the homophobia later on, so it seemed natural to also reject the interphobia I saw directed at intersex people.

2018, August McLaughlin, Girl Boner: The Good Girl's Guide to Sexual Empowerment, unnumbered page:

Many intersex people and intersex studies scholars note how various oppressive systems—interphobia, heterosexism, phallogocentrism, queerphobia, as well as compulsory dyadism, heterosexuality, and able-bodiedness—work together to justify curative violence.

2021, Rohini Bannerjee, Karim Mukhida, From Band-Aids to Scalpels: Motherhood Experiences in/of Medicine, Demeter Press, →ISBN:

Fear, dislike, or hatred of intersexual people and/or intersexuality.


Ashkenormativity

Moreover, Sephardi communities have not been the subjects of enough studies, genetics-based or otherwise. Their titular exclusion from some DTC DNA testing companies' reference population lists helps perpetuate an already socially existent Ashkenormativity […]

2021, Caitlyn Rose Campana, Sephardi Identity & Legitimacy in the Age of Direct-to-Consumer DNA Tests (thesis), Miami: Florida International University, →OCLC, page 46:

While I do believe that Ashkenormativity has been a detriment to the Mizrahi people and Jews of color, it shouldn't be so much to ask for a world in which all voices are heard and respected.

2022, Hen Mazzig, The Wrong Kind of Jew: A Mizrahi Manifesto, New York: Wicked Son, →ISBN:

The assumption that Jews are Ashkenazi Jews by default, and that Ashkenazi culture is the culture of Judaism at large.


teabacco

A tobacco substitute illicitly made in prisons from tea and nicotine.


fleecehold

(informal, derogatory) The charging of exorbitant maintenance fees to people living on private estates.


slackadaisical

en-adj

slackadaisical (comparative more slackadaisical, superlative most slackadaisical)

more slackadaisical (comparative)
most slackadaisical (superlative)

Usually it is when a co-worker is making a mess of things, you know it, and your own workload is increasing in a direct inverse ratio to his slackadaisical ways.

1986, George Mazzei, Moving Up, page 177:

But they're worlds apart from the bleary, slackadaisical euphoria of Happy Mondays.

Ah, the simple and majestic bean bag; this stalwart of youth, this icon of a slackadaisical generation, like a sceptered isle of laziness awash in the mellow fruitfulness of simpler days.

2011, Michael Garrett Farrelly, Make Room for Teens!, page 7:

Slipshod and lazy; lacking diligence and effort.


woolulose

(historical) A wool substitute made from natural vegetable fibres.


Flox

en-noun

Flox (usually uncountable, plural Floxes)

(astronautics) A mixture of liquid oxygen with some added fluorine, used as a high-energy oxidizer.


ménage à moi

Blend of ménage à trois + French moi (“me”).

blend

French <i class="Latn mention" lang="fr">moi</i> (“me”)

While there’s the how to part to figure out, we’re still left wondering if it’s OK to have a ménage à moi while in hospital.

2018 October 14, Almara Abgarian, “Is it OK to masturbate while in hospital?”, in Metro, UK:

Wever’s character, aroused by the situation, goes to the train bathroom for a quick, no-nonsense menage a moi.

2020 April 16, Lucy Jones, The Independent:

(humorous, slang) Masturbation or an act of masturbation, especially by a woman.


fawaffle

Remove the fawaffles when they are cooked through and evenly browned.

2014, Daniel Shumski, Will It Waffle?: 53 Irresistible and Unexpected Recipes to Make in a Waffle Iron, page 92:

Yonatan Armon and Maya Mordechay show off a plate of three fawaffles, served with mujadra (lentils and rice), hummus and Israeli coleslaw at their Surfer’s Wife stand at the Kakaako Farmers Market.

2019 December 3, Joleen Oshiro, “Going Gluten-Free: Fawaffles highlight Surfer’s Wife Kitchen menu”, in Honolulu Star Advertiser:

falafel goes into a waffle iron and emerges as “fawaffles,” which then become a partner for fried chicken, of course.

2021 May, “17 Restaurants Where New Yorkers Can Make Up for Lost Time”, in The New York Times:

Falafel that has been pressed in a waffle iron into the form of a waffle.


yattle

en-noun

yattle (countable and uncountable, plural yattles)


vajacial

/vəˈd͡ʒeɪ.ʃəl/

A personal care beauty treatment which involves cleansing and moisturizing of the vulva and bikini area.


drungry

en-adj

drungry (comparative more drungry, superlative most drungry)

more drungry (comparative)
most drungry (superlative)

When one of your friends achieves Drungry—the perfect balance of drunk and hungry—and orders two chili-cheese omelets, it's time to wobble out to the parking lot and clear the drop zone.

2010, Mark Decarlo, Fork on the Road: 400 Cities/One Stomach, page 229:

(slang, rare) Drunk and hungry, especially when the hunger is induced by the drunkenness.


vattoo

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

Like the vajazzle, the vattoo isn't permanent and can last on the vulva for seven days if the vattoo-ed "avoids friction" (the spa's representatives explain that might take some creativity).

2010 August 23, Claire Lawton, “Vatooing: A New Kind of Painted Box”, in Phoenix New Times, archived from the original on 2022-05-16:

On the heels of the vagazzling trend, spas have come up with another way to doll up your lady parts. Temporary vagina tattoos -- a.k.a. "vattoos," are generally done post-Brazilian wax (you need a "clean canvas" for the artist). They're applied a few inches above your actual girlie bits, and the airbrush-and-stencil "vat" washes away after a week.

2010 September 9, Jenny Everett, “Forget Vagazzling: Here Comes the Vattoo!”, in Self.com, archived from the original on 2023-02-25:

If you’ve got more Morticia than Marilyn vibes down there, consider a “vattoo,” also known as temporary tattoos for your vagina. Vattooing is done by applying an airbrush tattoo to the area after a Brazilian Bikini Wax. Like a proper vajazzling, a vattoo can also last up to five days.

(Can we date this quote?), Monica Haim, “Vajazzling: Vagina Bling, In?”, in Mamiverse.com, archived from the original on 2021-06-14:

A tattoo or temporary tattoo on the pubic area.


workiversary

/ˈwɜːkɪˌvɜːs(ə)ɹi/

The anniversary of beginning employment.


chemzyme

Blend of chemical + enzyme, coined by American organic chemist Elias James Corey.

(chemistry) A kind of synthetic molecule specialized in producing a certain three-dimensional form.


jackaburra

/ˈdʒækəbʌrə/

laughing kookaburra
laughing kookaburra#English

(obsolete, informal) Synonym of laughing kookaburra


conspirituality

Blend of conspiracy (theory) + spirituality. Compare conspiritualism.

blend

A hybrid of conspiracy theory and alternative spirituality has appeared on the internet. The existence of such a synthesis has previously been noted in passing (Barkun; Goodrick-Clarke), but no detailed account has yet been given of what, for the sake of convenience, we call ‘conspirituality’.

2011, Ward, Charlotte, and David Voas, “The Emergence of Conspirituality”, in Journal of Contemporary Religion, →DOI, page 103:

“Conspirituality” prompts us to focus on the cross-sections of conspiracy culture and alternative spirituality, and to the internal tensions there

2015, Asbjørn Dyrendal, “Norwegian ‘Conspirituality’: A Brief Sketch”, in Handbook of Nordic New Religions, volume 11, →DOI, page 269:

Conspirituality, in fact, helps describe some of the dynamics and one of the “contexts” in which Italian Pagan conspiracy-believing is embedded—one that, at a more general level, is characterized by what Christopher Partridge (e.g., 2004; 2005; 2014) defined as occulture.

2021, Giovanna Parmigiani, “Magic and Politics: Conspirituality and COVID-19”, in Journal of the American Academy of Religion, →DOI, page 12:

A political and spiritual ideology that combines alternative or New Age beliefs with conspiracy theories.


pawternity leave

en-noun

pawternity leave (usually uncountable, plural pawternity leaves)

(informal) Time off work granted to an employee to take care of their pets.


floatovoltaics

(physics) The technology of photovoltaic cells that float in a water environment.

điện mặt trời nổi

the technology of photovoltaic cells that float in a water environment


floatovoltaic

In May 2008, the Far Niente Winery in Oakville, California, pioneered the world's first floatovoltaic system by installing 994 solar PV modules with a total capacity of 477 kW onto 130 pontoons and floating them on the winery's irrigation pond.

2018, Hazell Marshall, Environmental Nanotechnology, page 46:

Of or referring to a photovoltaic cell designed to float in a water environment.


duplitecture

duplitecture (countable and uncountable, plural duplitectures)

An exact replica of a piece of architecture.


transfur

en-verb

transfur (third-person singular simple present transfurs, present participle transfurring, simple past and past participle transfurred)

transfurs (present singular third-person)
transfurring (participle present)
transfurred (participle past)
transfurred (past)

Blend of transfer + fur or Blend of transform + fur. Popularized by the video game Changed (2018).

(transitive, furry fandom, slang) To transform (someone) into a furry.


ambassadonor

Earlier this year, three of Obama’s "ambassadonor" picks raised eyebrows in their confirmation hearing testimony.

2014 May 8, “These are the 'essential skills' needed to be an Obama ambassadonor”, in Yahoo! News:

Stumbles by other "ambassadonors" have played into a Republican narrative that the administration has been giving too many plum assignments to financial contributors.

2014 December 13, Paul Richter, “Obama donor George Tsunis ends his nomination as Norway ambassador”, in Los Angeles Times:

"Jane Hartley is more talented and much more prepared than most of President Obama's 'ambassadonors'," Hendershott said.

2015 January 13, James Warren, Dareh Gregorian, “U.S. Ambassador to France Jane Hartley is big fundraiser for President Obama”, in New York Post:

During the campaign, Biden refused to rule out embracing the tradition of naming what I've called "ambassadonors," but promised in December 2019 "nobody, in fact, will be appointed by me based on anything they contributed."

2021 July 12, Olivier Knox, “The Daily 202: Biden nominates 'ambassadonor' to France”, in The Washington Post:

(neologism) Someone selected as an ambassador based at least in part upon their history of political donations or contributions.


timestomp

timestomp (third-person singular simple present timestomps, present participle timestomping, simple past and past participle timestomped)

timestomps (present singular third-person)
timestomping (participle present)
timestomped (participle past)
timestomped (past)

(computing, slang) To modify a timestamp (for example the time when a file was accessed) so as to obfuscate the details of one's activity on a system.


naanwich

The slightly messy naanwiches are more like a pocket sandwich, the kathi rolls are convenient wraps, one served with egg and caramelized onions, and don't miss the potato-stuffed paratha sandwiches.

2009, Justin Schwartz, Veg Out! New York City, page 67:

Sara, microwaving a naanwich, had answered with a breathy, unsteady voice, as if winded from weeks of preparing her greeting's cheery nonchalance.


cornlage

/ˈkɔɹnlɪd͡ʒ/

(agriculture) Silage made from corn (maize): corn silage.


ryelage

(agriculture) Silage made from rye: rye silage.


wheatlage

(agriculture) Silage made from wheat: wheat silage.


Afronaut

A South African celebrity entrepreneur known for his space travel—he was the first ‘afronaut’—as well as his philanthropic ambition, [Mark] Shuttleworth has overseen the development of Ubuntu […]

2005, Soenke Zehle, “FLOSS Redux: Notes on African Software Politics”, in Mute, volume 2, number 1, →ISSN:


Garage Mahal

She remembered reading an article a few years ago in the New York Times that noted that several “Garage Mahals” had been built in Bronxville.

2003, Pamela Hackett Hobson, The Bronxville Book Club, page 126:

He recently created a garage mahal to house a Seal Beach client's large collection of "man-goodies," but at the same time, Porter says, it's no longer uncommon to find a plasma TV next to a workbench.

2008 August, Orange Coast Magazine, page 72:

[…] those red-brick or limestone-covered mini castles with Rapunzel-ready turrets in front and gabled porte-cochères leading to Garage Mahals.

2009, Hank Stuever, Tinsel: A Search for America's Christmas Present, page 21:

But even if you have a garage mahal, it is not going to be practical for you to store bales of cotton and bushels of corn.

2011, Ben Stein, Phil DeMuth, The Little Book of Alternative Investments, page 78:

(US, informal) A very large and luxurious garage (storage area for cars etc.).


bletch

bletch (third-person singular simple present bletches, present participle bletching, simple past and past participle bletched)

bletches (present singular third-person)
bletching (participle present)
bletched (participle past)
bletched (past)

(transitive, dialectal) To blacken; to dirty or soil.


bletch

(dialectal) Anything that has been blackened or dirtied.


teenaper

GERMANTOWN - January 21, 2010 (WPVI) -- An 18-year-old has been
arrested for using a frying pan to kill a Germantown woman he knew all
his life.

2010 February 1, Chad Bryant, “Feral Teenaper Nigger Kills/Robs Elderly Woman He Knew All His Life”, in demon.local (Usenet):

PRICHARD, Alabama -- Prichard police today continued to search for at least two persons who were with a 17-year-old arrested after a stolen sport utility vehicle struck and critically injured an 82-year-old woman, Police Chief Jimmie Gardner said.

2011 October 11, Cheryl, “Teenaper mows down 82 year old woman”, in alt.sports.football.pro.sd-chargers (Usenet):

There nigger "teens" reportedly drowned when the stolen car they
were driving careened into a pond.[…]
Who in their right mind would dive into a pond and risk their lives for
shitskin teenaper criminals??? Not me.

2017 February 5, Rick Mathers, “Three nigger teenaper sows join rockfish parade”, in alt.atheism (Usenet):

Bonus vid: middle aged spook knocks out teenaper for walking naked through Macy's.

2023 October 25, K Wills, “Georgia Dindu complains about the wild african bootlip migrants the Biden Admin is dumping in his hood”, in alt.atheism (Usenet):

(derogatory, slang, ethnic slur, US) A teenage black person.


Osoyoos

From o' + Soyoos, literally “of Soyoos”. Blend of Okanagan + Soyoos, from of the Soyoos, from Okanagan Sẁiẁs, from sẁiẁs (“narrowing of the waters”). The "o" represents an "of" and harmonization of toponyms in the Okanagan with a starting "O". It is named for the narrowing at the outlet of Osyoos Lake.

Ellipsis of Osoyoos First Nation; a band of Okanagan First Nations people


sextra

[Says] Beamish, the actor who plays Severin, about the aesthetics of the film: 'Pornography is something that there's no connection to in this film.' […] The majority of the volunteer 'sextras' of the film tend to be young and […]

2016, Doctor David Alderson, Sex, Needs and Queer Culture: From Liberation to the Postgay, Zed Books Ltd., →ISBN:

In Williams' view, feature-length pornography does not lack a narrative. […] After all, as one of the sextras in the Sex-Not-Bombs room explains to Sofia, […]

2020, Susanne Jung, Bouncing Back: Queer Resilience in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century English Literature and Culture, transcript Verlag, →ISBN, page 186:

(uncommon, informal) An extra in a pornographic or sexual film.


cistem

It is this toilet cistem that served to cement the spatially constructed division between man and woman that is still present today.

2017, Nigel Patel, “Violent cistems: Trans experiences of bathroom space”, in Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity, volume 31, number 1, page 52:

I can think of no better role model for a transgender individual, particularly one looking to tackle the "cistem" of health care.

2019, Kyan Lynch, “The Trans Man and the Warrior Women”, in Transgender Health, volume 4, number 1, page 278:

Capital High’s school culture is seemingly accepting to the LGBTQIA+ population, yet it is also one saturated by a white heteropatriarchal cistem, and continued education and activism are required to combat this.

2022, Kenan Omercajic, “'Basement Boys' in the All-Gender Bathroom: Investigating Student-Inspired Trans-Activism and White Cisgenderist Barriers to Supporting Trans Students in School”, in Teacher College Record, volume 124, number 8, page 229:

(LGBT, social sciences, neologism) A system or societal structure that privileges cisgender people and marginalizes transgender people.


pingdemic

Blend of ping + pandemic, coined in 2021.

The Metropolitan Line was forced to close on July 17 because so many workers were self-isolating that insufficient control room staff remained to run the service.

2021 July 28, Paul Clifton, “Network News: COVID 'pingdemic' forces Metropolitan Line closure”, in RAIL, number 936, page 10:

Output in consumer-facing services fell 0.3 per cent in July, the first decline since January, mainly because of a 2.5 per cent drop in retail sales during bad weather and a spike in cases in mid-July that caused the so-called "pingdemic", after the NHS Covid-19 app ordered hundreds of thousands to self-isolate.

2021 September 11, Valentina Romei, “Recovery slows as 'pingdemic' dents growth: Delta variant”, in Financial Times, London, page 3:

To that end, testing should be used to keep society open not shut it down, which is what is happening now despite Mr Johnson's intentions. That lesson should have been learnt with the "pingdemic" last summer but apparently was not.

2022 January 5, “‘Pingdemic’ lessons: established 1855”, in The Daily Telegraph, London, page 17:

The NHS Covid-19 app behind the controversial “pingdemic” is to be shut down next month. The digital contact tracing service, which crippled businesses and forced millions of workers into quarantine, will stop working on April 27 for lack of use.

2023 March 29, “‘Pingdemic’ Covid app to be locked down forever”, in The Daily Telegraph, page 2:

(UK, informal, neologism) The rapid rise in self-isolation resulting from many people being sent advisory alerts ("pings") by the National Health Service’s COVID-19 test and trace app for mobile phones.


begpacker

(informal) A backpacker who finances his travels by begging


aerotropolis

en-noun

aerotropolis (plural aerotropolises or aerotropoli)

aerotropolises (plural)
aerotropoli (plural)

A city that has grown up around a pre-existing airport.


squitten

(informal) A cat with a genetic deformity which causes a partial formation or complete absence of the radius bone, making it resemble a squirrel.


criminigger

Obama set the thug spook Damarlon Thomas free on 11/22.
Dumb nigger barely made it 8 weeks before it assumed room temperature.

2017 January 30, Rick Mathers, “Obanga Pardoned criminigger gets ventilated”, in soc.culture.african.american (Usenet):

What's scary is that these niggers are just starting their careers, and
there are many felonies ahead- sooner rather than later if some lib
judge turns them loose.

2017 February 14, Rick Mathers, “Master criminiggers kill 92 year old black female- net $70”, in alt.atheism (Usenet):

Seriously, it's not the catch and release nigger's fault that he keeps
getting 2nd chances. It's the fault of his Lib Coddlers, and they are
as much at fault, if not more, than the POS CrimiNigger.

2017 April 5, Rick Mathers, “Will the 55th strike finally be enough to cage this beast for life?”, in comp.os.linux.advocacy (Usenet):

In Cleveland horsenostril nigger Manson Bryant, a career
catch-‘n-release criminigger, was facing up to 28 years for a home
apevasion and a laundry list of charges.

2019 March 20, Robert Wolfe, “Nigger’s courtroom chimpout = 28 yrs. in Nigger University from judge”, in alt.checkmate (Usenet):

Making a hero out of a filthy stinking feral idiot piece of shit criminigger is repulsive!

2021 May 24, SynCity, “SH*T-FOR-BRAINS JOE TO HOST THE GEORGE FLOYD 'FAMBLY' AT THE WHITE HOUSE”, in soc.culture.african.american (Usenet):

(US, slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) A black criminal.


prebunking

The practice of countering potential misinformation by warning people against it before it is disseminated.


blanet

2020 August 7th, Anton Petrov, Massive Blanets - Black Hole Planets - Could Be All Over the Place, YouTube:

(astronomy) A planet that orbits a black hole.


Phinabella

I could have been your girlfriend / I could have been your fella / We might have been an item / They would have called us "Phinabella"

2015 February 20, “Act Your Age”, in Phineas and Ferb, season 4, episode 47:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Phineas Flynn and Isabella Garcia-Shapiro from the animated television series Phineas and Ferb.


earthberg

In some senses, a blend of earth + iceberg; in other senses from earth + berg.

The landscape of the Elemental Chaos is broken up by rivers of lightning, seas of fire, floating earthbergs, ice mountains, and other fantastic terrain features.

2008, Jennifer Clark Wilkes, Wizards Presents Worlds and Monsters, page 16:

Marrec mentally labeled the floating islands 'earthbergs.' He saw a few perfect cubes, each face a mirror, tumbling through the darkness.

2010, Bruce R. Cordell, Lady of Poison: The Priests:

All land is floating islands, like icebergs of earth, or “earthbergs,” honeycombed with caves.

2019, Mike Pritchard, A Player's Guide to Strinrath, page 26:

(fantasy) A mass suspended or floating in water, similar to an iceberg, but consisting of earth (dirt, soil, etc.).


Apefrica

An FDNY EMT has been arrested for allegedly choking and raping a 10-year-old girl in Queens, cops said. Frantz Petion was busted around 3:20 a.m. Sunday and accused of strangling and sexually assaulting the girl. This is just a remnant from its ancestors' days in Apefrica where muh dik was used to cure a range of maladies.

2017 March 16, Dindu Nuffin, “Rape Ape EMT Frantz Petion Muh Diks 10-year old”, in soc.culture.african.american (Usenet):

(derogatory, slang, ethnic slur, US) Africa.


Washminster

Blend of Washington + Westminster. Coined by political scientist Elaine Thompson in 1980.

Having read Graham Maddox I can no longer complacently describe the Australian system as a Washminster mutation, nor as a successful system of representative democracy government, as I have in the past.

2005, A Passion for Politics: Essays in Honour of Graham Maddox:

This has caused speculation that New Zealand is moving from a classic Westminster parliamentary system to a more parliamentary-congressional 'Washminster' hybrid.

2007, Stephen I. Levine, Nigel S. Roberts, The Baubles of Office: The New Zealand General Election of 2005:

The move toward the "Washminster" model identified in the early 1980s may be measured by shifts in several of these indicators.

2017, Jong S. Jun, Development in the Asia Pacific: A Public Policiy Perspective, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, →ISBN, page 479:

(politics) A political system which has elements of both the Westminster system and the United States' political system ("Washington").


makeaway

Thousands of venues are offering “makeaways” – a part-cooked takeaway that you finish off or reheat – so that you can enjoy fine dining in the comfort of your own home.

[2021 February 6, Sarah Rainey, “Bring l'amour to your door”, in Scottish Daily Mail, page 53:

Recreate your favourite meat-free dishes with these DIY ‘makeaway’ kits

2021 February 8, Kayleigh Rattle, “10 best vegan restaurant meal kits for you to make at home”, in Independent:

Even the most well thought-out Makeaway or Finish At Home menu kits come with a degree of preparation and pots and pans.

2021 May 23, Julie Scrumptious, “Crumbs up for chocolate treat; Broken up Rich Tea biscuits elevate this choccy cake to a dessert status”, in Daily Record and Sunday Mail, page 19:

Local pub group, Oakman Inns, have recently launched their exciting new “Makeaway” meal boxes, Oakman At Home. […] This year, with their pubs still closed, their award-winning Chef Director, Ross Pike, and his team have created a special three-course Mother's Day Makeaway Feast to deliver direct to your door.

2022 February 15, Jupiter International Pty, “Oakman Inns & Restaurants: When The Local Really Means Local”, in News Bites Finance:

(UK) A kit containing the ingredients for a meal, delivered by a restaurant to the diner's home for them to cook.


dartchery

Among the most courageous—and successful—darts players are Australian, paralysed in the lower limbs and part of the trunk, who try their hands at dart-archery (often called dartchery).

1971, Jack Pollard, Ampol's Sporting Records, page 269:

Dartchery is also part of the archery game. Competitors, meeting in pairs, shoot at a dart archery target at 15 yards.

1972 May, Rehabilitation Record, volumes 13-14, page 27:

Two gold medals were awarded to Mary for her competition in intermediate archery and mixed dartchery.

1973, Sigma Signs, Delta Sigma Omicron Alpha Chapter, page 19:

A sport that is a combination of darts and archery. It was played at the Paralympics.


strollout

Opinion polls were showing that Morrison had been personally damaged by the government's perceived failures on vaccine supply – the 'strollout' – and the brawls with state leaders over who was to blame for lockdowns during Delta.

2022, Simon Benson, Geoff Chambers, Plagued: Australia's two years of hell — the inside story:

(Australia, informal) The rollout of COVID-19 vaccines at a relatively slow pace.


cister

Support all your sisters, not just your cisters!

So let the show begin, black femme cisters, unleash your pinks and let the show begin!

2018, Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley, Ezili's Mirrors: Imagining Black Queer Genders, unnumbered page:

I feel like sometimes, in our need to prove our worth we forget to tell our "cisters" how much they matter to us.

2018, Ariadni Tzounakou, “From Woman to Woman”, in Fliqped Magazine, number 11, page 23:

As I write, I see and hear the many sister (not cister) friends and colleagues and comrades who have been a part of this conversation.

2021, Zillah Eisenstein, Abolitionist Socialist Feminism: Radicalizing the Next Revolution, page 21:

(LGBT, neologism) A cisgender woman, especially one that is part of a community that includes trans women.


nociplastic

Blend of nociceptive + neuroplastic, or perhaps noci- + plastic.

Patients with rheumatic conditions often have mixed pain states, with varying degrees of nociceptive, neuropathic, and nociplastic mechanisms, which exist on a continuum. When individuals with any chronic pain have a nociplastic component to their symptoms, they are less likely to respond to treatments (eg, injections, surgery, biologics, and opioids) that work better for acute or purely nociceptive pain.

2021, Deeba Minhas, Daniel Joseph Clauw, “Pain Mechanisms in Patients with Rheumatic Diseases”, in Maripat Corr, editor, Pain in Rheumatic Diseases, Elsevier, unnumbered page:

Pain can be classified as nociceptive, neuropathic, or nociplastic as per the International Association for the Study of Pain [6, 7]. Fibromyalgia falls within the nociplastic classification.

2023, George Deng, “9: Fibromyalgia”, in Brian W. Blakley, Joan E. Blakley, editors, Functional Illness of the Head and Neck, Springer, page 75:

Peripheral sensitisation of nociceptive neurons can enhance or prolong the pain experience, even without sensitisation of central neurons (i.e. nociplastic or central sensitisation).

2024, Elaine Atkins, Emily Goodlad, Sharon Braddock, A Practical Approach to Musculoskeletal Medicine, 5th edition, Elsevier, page 5:

central nervous system
central nervous system

(physiology) Of, pertaining to, or resulting from plasticity, of a kind analogous to neuroplasticity, in parts of the central nervous system concerned with nociception.

nociplastique

pertaining to or resulting from plasticity in the central nervous system


snownado

snownado (plural snownados or snownadoes)

(informal) A tornado that touches down over a snow covered area, such as a field or mountain, and draws snow up into its vortices.


documercial

/ˌdɒk.jʊˈmɜːʃəl/

A documentary formatted and used to sell products.


tritoon

A type of boat with three parallel pontoons.


modmin

Instead of alerting the officials, users are told to tag a modmin, who will quickly review the situation and do what needs to be done so that the group can continue to function.

2019, Jessica Reyman, Erika M. Sparby, Digital Ethics: Rhetoric and Responsibility in Online Aggression:

As soon as I set up a course page with my CRs as my fellow modmins, my course students immediately joined the page and within a week I started lectures.

2020 June 7, Naira Khan, “OP-ED: The online pivot in Bangladesh”, in Dhaka Tribune:

As those needs come, Williams and her team of modmins remain more dedicated than ever to keeping their Buy Nothing Group as welcoming and safe a space as possible in order to both provide – and create – community.

2021 June 1, Olivia Monahan, “How a Sacramento ‘Buy Nothing’ Facebook group helped a community thrive in 2020”, in The Sacramento Bee:

Having moderators and administrators (modmins) who are very active can go a long way to knowing who is in your community, what’s happening in your community, and ensuring everyone feels comfortable in the space you’ve created.

2021 July 3, Kiesha Richardson, “How to Create Safe Communities in the Gaming Industry”, in GNL Magazine:

A user on social media who is either a moderator or an administrator.


apronym

If the acronym spells a word that suits the message (e.g. MAMA for Mothers Against Male Aggression) it is known as an apronym. Motivational speakers often use acronyms or apronyms because they are so easy to remember.

2018, Simon Lancaster, Speechwriting: The Expert Guide:

SWIFT was an apronym, an acronym that spelt a contextually meaningful word. It was meant to be fast. Indeed, SWIFT messages are literally lightning fast, travelling over wire at the speed of light, basically instantaneous.

2020, Nikesh Lalchandani, Payments and Banking in Australia:

An acronym or backronym that spells out another word or phrase relating to the meaning of the phrase that it abbreviates.


noodlewhore

Blend of noodle + whore, referencing the stereotype of noodle-based dishes as a staple of East Asian cuisines.

[…] Indian and Asian women are hated the most (“Ethnik Indian and noodlewhores are the worse of the worst”) because they are said to prefer only white men, […]

2019 November, Sylvia Jaki, Tom De Smedt, Maja Gwóźdź, Rudresh Panchal, Alexander Rossa, Guy De Pauw, “Online hatred of women in the Incels.me forum: Linguistic analysis and automatic detection”, in Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict, volume 7, number 2:

(incel slang, ethnic slur) A woman of East Asian (especially Japanese) heritage.


mangorita

/ˌmæŋɡəʊɹˈiː.tə/

/ˌmæŋɡoʊˈɹi.tə/


fungasm

fungasm (countable and uncountable, plural fungasms)

You might even, just maybe, enjoy it. Have a little fungasm maybe.

It's this ear for off-kilter fungasms that sets Greco-Roman apart from the swathes of other labels attempting to shape dance music's history.

2018 September 6, Kate Hutchinson, “Greco-Roman: the DIY dance label uncovering the stars of tomorrow”, in The Guardian:

Whilst there’s a sort of Unionist “fungasm” about internal disputes (see Deerin’s masterclass) there’s also mass chaos in their understanding.

2021 February 22, Mike Small, “England is finally waking up to the fact that the Union is in peril”, in The National:


cidiot

Probably one of them cidiot hunters fooling around, firing off pot shots any which way.

2013, Robin Timmerman, Season of Deceit, page 51:

Not a typical cidiot, he was self-employed and thinking of relocating here to be closer to her.

2015, Deb Loughead, Rise of the Zombie Scarecrows, page 1412:

Only an idiot, like this roofer from the city, would drive his truck out on the ice. A cidiot.

2019, Carol Rose GoldenEagle, Bone Black:

A 'cidiot,' I believe we're called by the locals?

2020, Aimee Molloy, Goodnight, Beautiful:

“Hey, watch it buddy, technically I'm a cidiot.” “Present company excluded. You may be from the city but I'm sure you don't act like the rest of the city idiots."

(colloquial, derogatory) An idiot from the city.


sleepcation

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(I know moms who live for their “sleepcations”—they either hit a hotel for a night or just wait for the kids to be away at Grand-ma's or a slumber party, then they climb into bed at eight p.m., […]

If your debt is over 40 hours, a “sleepcation” could change your life. This is where you check into a hotel for three nights, dim the room as much as possible, avoid stimulants, and let yourself sleep day and night.

2014, Alan Christianson, The Adrenal Reset Diet, page 104:

I spend a lot of time in my clinic telling couples it is okay to sleep apart sometimes. I have dubbed this a "sleepcation".

2017, W. Chris Winter, The Sleep Solution:Why Your Sleep is Broken and How to Fix It, Penguin Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 115:

(informal) A break from ordinary activities in order to catch up on missed sleep.


Endia

(Pakistan, derogatory, offensive, slang) India.


shoffice

This spring, is your fancy turning towards a delightful garden room? Whether it’s a place to hang out (or hide from the family), an art studio, a gymnasium, a home office or shoffice, or even occasional accommodation for visitors, these stylish domestic add-ons have never been so popular.

2019 February 22, Jayne Dowle, A pod, a ‘shoffice’ or a garden room:

Cropping up at the bottom of gardens up and down the UK is the latest trend among the country’s home workers – the “shoffice”, an office in a shed.

2021 May 30, Joanna Partridge, Home working drives demand for ‘shoffice’ space in UK gardens:

(British, informal) A small building, located in a garden, serving as a home workspace.


preighter

(aviation) A freighter converted from a passenger aircraft.


finfluencer

→ German: Finfluencer, Finfluenzer

→ Macedonian: финфлуенсер (finfluenser)

desc

финфлюе́нсер

финфлюэ́нсер

→ Russian: финфлюе́нсер (finfljujénser), финфлюэ́нсер (finfljuénser)

→ Serbo-Croatian: fincluencer／финфлуенсер

(informal, social media, marketing, neologism) An influencer who gives advice on financial investments.


kidfluencer

Blend of kid + influencer, equivalent to kid + -fluencer.

In December, a 9-year-old kidfluencer known as Txunamy shared a photo on Instagram and asked her more than two million followers to comment on it and share their ages.

2019 January 3, Sapna Maheshwari, “Online and Earnings Thousands, at Age 4: Meet the Kidfluencers”, in The New York Times:

Putting aside the obvious questions regarding infant privacy, just who exactly are these kidfluencers supposed to be kidfluencing?

2019 January 3, Jack Morse, “So it's come to this: An unborn baby 'kidfluencer' has 112,000 Instagram followers”, in Mashable:

As a result, most “Kidfluencers” parents manage their accounts in order to sustain their online presence.

2021 February 23, Vanessa Cezarita Cordeiro, ““Kidfluencers” and Social Media: The Evolution of Child Exploitation in the Digital Age”, in Humanium:

Even though only a small number of kidfluencers are this successful, the prospect of earning a steady income has attracted many families to participate in the trend.

2022 September 6, “What are 'kidfluencers'?”, in INHOPE:

(informal, social media, marketing) A child who is an influencer.


sharbing

(gambling, informal) The use of a betting shop's coupons and a betting exchange to create an arbitrage position.


blucket

Blend of blade + bucket; the use of bucket here refers to the inner, turbine portion of the blade.

mechanical engineering
mechanical engineering

(aviation, mechanical engineering) A type of turbine blade where the inner portion of the blade is driven by expanding exhaust gases from the engine core, while the outer portion extends into the bypass duct and serves as a fan blade; used on a few turbofans with rear-mounted fans.


beetloaf

en-noun

beetloaf (countable and uncountable, plural beatloaves)

Father had a bit more success with his beet experimentation, inventing such delicacies as beetloaf, Sunday morning succotash surprise and beet omelets.

1999 February, Maria M Gillan, Jennifer Gillan, Identity Lessons: Contemporary Writing About Learning to Be American, New York: Penguin Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →ISBN:

[…] eggsalad made with eggs laid by those local chickens, ham and cheese, meat loaf, and spectacularly succulent meatless beetloaf.

2017 March, Jane Stern, Michael Stern, Roadfood, 10th Edition: An Eater's Guide to More Than 1,000 of the Best Local Hot Spots and Hidden Gems Across America, New York: Clarkson Potter, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 159, →ISBN:

A vegetarian meatloaf substitute made with beets.


queerantine

queerantine (countable and uncountable, plural queerantines)

Or, as another user put it in a post that invited members to a WhatsApp chat: “JOIN US IN QUEERANTINE. Self isolation need not be so lonely.”

2020 March 18, Penelope Green, “‘Join us in queerantine’: a dating app builds a community”, in New York Times (online):

This is my winged eleganza best costume for today! #goforthegold #billyporterfashionchallenge #theebillyporter #diydiva #queerantine #quarantinebutmakeitfashion

2020 March 27, Celia Fernandez, quoting Tony Elder (@forgotten_fabric), “Billy Porter asked fans to recreate his Met Gala look, and they delivered”, in Insider, archived from the original on 2020-06-29:

Olly has been hosting weekly Queerantine parties since March. Having started out via Instagram Live, the Saturday club nights have now transferred over to Zoom.

2020 June 14, Adam Maidment, “Queerantine parties bring Gay Village into living rooms”, in Manchester Evening News, Glasgow, page 10:

The present study aims to address this need through analysing data from the Queerantine study (a portmanteau of queer and quarantine), a web-based survey that assesses how LGBTQ+ adults are experiencing the coronavirus pandemic. In the present paper, we examine extent to which respondents to the Queerantine survey experienced forms of sexuality or gender-based discrimination, including harassment and exclusion, during the coronavirus pandemic.

2021 June 25, Kneale, Dylan, and Laia Bécares, “Discrimination as a predictor of poor mental health among LGBTQ+ people during the COVID-19 pandemic: cross-sectional analysis of the online Queerantine study”, in BMJ Open, volume 11, →DOI, page 3:

(humorous) A quarantine experienced by one or more queer (sexually unconventional) people during the COVID-19 pandemic.


yummylicious

en-adj

yummylicious (comparative more yummylicious, superlative most yummylicious)

more yummylicious (comparative)
most yummylicious (superlative)

Cutting-edge humor and a raw seductive hero make Don't Talk Back to Your Vampire a yummylicious treat.

2010 September 7, Michele Bardsley, Cross Your Heart: A Broken Heart Novel (Fiction), Penguin Publishing Group, →ISBN, →OCLC, →ISBN: