Trumanomics

Blend of Truman + economics, equivalent to Truman + -nomics.

The Eagle quotes Professor Shapiro as being “infuriated by Reagonomics.” Would he be less infuriated by Trumanomics or Johnsonomics, with another nice little war to drive the suicide rate down?

1982 November 2, John S. Kebabian, “Statistics on suicide”, in The Berkshire Eagle, volume 90, number 149, Pittsfield, Mass., page 8, column 5:

WHY, in all the recent talk about the Man from Independence, didn’t we hear anyone mention Trumanomics?

1984 May 15, William D. Tammeus, “Starbeams”, in The Kansas City Star, Kansas City, Mo., page 10A, column 4:

When Dewey told Eisenhower that he wanted to limit the role of the federal government to merely underwriting the cartels, he was calling for the stabilization of Trumanomics: the preservation of the separation of government, the cartels, and the economy.

1986, H.R. Shapiro, Democracy in America: A Political History of the United States, 1620-1789/1984, page 456:

A closer look at Trumanomics is in order, since Kuttner praises the “crusty populist” and his economic adviser Leon Keyserling as friends of full employment and economic planning.

No, go for Trumanomics

1996 August 13, David Chaffey, “Letters”, in The Modesto Bee, Modesto, Calif., page A-9:

(US politics, rare) Economic policies associated with the administration of Harry S. Truman, 1945–1953.


Johnsonomics

Blend of Johnson + economics, equivalent to Johnson + -nomics.

With interest on the national debt at $100 billion annually, and the total debt at $1 trillion, these figures are not Reaganomics but Johnsonomics coming home to roost with an assist from Richard Nixon, Jerry Ford and Jimmy Carter.

1981 December 4, James H. Bolling, “Lundy column needs refuting”, in Tallahassee Democrat, number 338, Tallahassee, Fla., page 4A, columns 4–5:

This has been the going rate for as long as I can recall, and that goes back long before Reaganomics or Johnsonomics, or just about any nomics that can be mentioned.

1982 July 18, Jim Fox, “Weatherbird Is A Tradition That’s Hard To Buck”, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch, volume 104, number 196, St. Louis, Mo., page 1C, column 1:

“Reaganomics and its failure is the same as Carteronomics, Johnsonomics and Nixonomics,” David W. Ring said at an hour-long faculty seminar at the college’s Hunt Union yesterday afternoon.

1983 April 14, Diane Boyer, “Reaganomics dubbed trend, not turnabout”, in The Evening Press, Binghamton, N.Y., page 1B, column 2:

I don’t understand Reaganomics and never have. Of course I never understood Carternomics, Fordonomics, Nixonomics, Johnsonomics, or Kennedynomics either. The best I have been able to figure out is that you just send all you can to Washington and hope to get a little in return.

1992, Bo Whaley, “Things I Just Don’t Understand”, in Why the South Lost THE War ...and Other Things I Don’t Understand, Nashville, Tenn.: Rutledge Hill Press, →ISBN, section “A Few Things I Don’t Understand”, page 20, column 2:

(US politics, rare) Economic policies associated with the administration of Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963–1969.


narluga

(zoology) A hybrid whale, resulting from the crossbreeding of narwhal and beluga whales; but which feed on different prey than either parent species.


warsuit

“He won’t be waging wars all the world ― he’ll be waging ‘warsuits,’” Noah said. “Droning people with subpoenas all over the globe.”

2016, David Moye, “Trevor Noah: If Trump Is Elected, He’ll Wage ‘Warsuits’”, in Huffington Post:

An unjust lawsuit that is used to intimidate a target.


Radelaide

(Australia, informal, humorous) A nickname for Adelaide. (city in South Australia)


Porkistan

Blend of pork + Pakistan. Consumption of pork is forbidden in Islam, Pakistan’s predominant and official religion. By surface analysis, pork + -i- + -stan.

Coordinate term: Endia

(derogatory, offensive, slang) Pakistan.


shitoris

Can you reach my shitoris with your tongue, Chuck?

(slang, LGBT) Prostate gland in the context of sexual stimulation.


digitextuality

Blend of digital + intertextuality, coined by Anna Everett.

[…] and problematize this seemingly reified sublation of body to mind, especially in digital culture and in practices of digitextuality.

2010, Pramod K. Nayar, The New Media and Cybercultures Anthology, page 37:


librandu

(India, derogatory, politics, slang) An ardent supporter of the Indian National Congress or its leader Rahul Gandhi.


suifuel

The ‘blackpills’ (read: hopeless nihilists) amongst them share ‘suifuel’ (suicidal rant) posts stating there’s no hope, and encouraging fellow incels to kill themselves.

2020 February 19, Jake Hall, “Investigating the insidious rise of the gay incel”, in Dazed:

i went through one of my chad coworker’s social media. Worst decision of my life, absolute suifuel. 500 likes on every picture.

2020, anonymous, quoted in Emma Nyström, "'What becomes of the broken-hearted?': En socialantropologisk studie om männen som kallar sig incels", thesis submitted to Lund University, page 28

For me it is pure suifuel when I meet girls in my age group. Knowing that I have no chance with them makes me really sad. Hopefully my upcoming nose surgery will change that, let's hope so.

2020, anonymous, quoted in Kirsti Sippel, "'Tuhoutukoot naiset maailmani mukana': Incel paineen varaventtiilinä, ideologiana ja yhteiskunnallisena ilmiönä", thesis submitted to the University of Turku, page 36

(incel slang) Something which causes or intensifies suicidal ideation and feelings of hopelessness.


hycean

With densities between those of rocky super-Earths and more extended mini-Neptunes, Hycean planets can be optimal candidates in the search for exoplanetary habitability and may be abundant in the exoplanet population.

2021 August, Nikku Madhusudhan, Anjali A. A. Piette, Savvas Constantinou, “Habitability and Biosignatures of Hycean Worlds”, in Astrophysical Journal:

It's thought that the new classification could accelerate the search for life outside our Solar System for one simple reason: planets that fulfil the criteria to be "Hycean" already dominate the known exoplanet population, which is approaching 4,500.

2021 August 25, Jamie Carter, “Is Alien Life Hiding In Plain Sight? New Class Of 'Hycean' Planet Is Where We Should Look, Say Scientists”, in Forbes:

And learning more about Hycean planets could help scientists find biosignatures, or signs of life, outside of our solar system in the near future.

These hydrogen-rich ocean worlds, or hycean worlds, may be habitable.

2021 September 2, Joshua Colwell, Adrienne Dove, James Cooney, “Hycean Worlds and Nudging Asteroids”, in Walkabout the Galaxy:

TOI-2136b is a sub-Neptune transiting a nearby and bright star (J=10.8) and is a potential hycean planet, making it an excellent target for atmospheric studies to understand the formation, evolution, and habitability of the small planets.

2022 February 21, K KawauchiF MurgasE PalleN NaritaA Fukuiet al., “Validation and atmospheric exploration of the sub-Neptune TOI-2136b around a nearby M3 dwarf”, in arXiv.org, →DOI:

While LTT 1445 Ab is not in the traditional habitable zone of its star (Winters et al. 2019), it is considered as a candidate Hycean world where a liquid ocean may exist underneath a H₂-dominated atmosphere.

2022 September 26, Caprice Phillips, Ji Wang, Billy Edwards, Romy Rodriguez Martinez, Anusha Pai Asnodkar, B. Scott Gaudi, “Is LTT 1445 Ab a Hycean World or a cold Haber World? Exploring the Potential of Twinkle to Unveil Its Nature”, in arXiv, →DOI:

(astronomy, planetology, of a planet, neologism) Having a water-based ocean that covers the entire planet, and an atmosphere rich in hydrogen.


soycuck

Guys today are either soycucks, limp pussy-whipped foid worshippers or violent impulse lunatics that don’t understand the term restraint.

2020, anonymous, quoted in Angus Charles Lindsay, "Swallowing the Black Pill: A Qualitative Exploration of Incel Antifeminism within Digital Society", thesis submitted to Victoria University of Wellington, pages 70-71

It is only jealous older roasties and soy cucks, who complain about men fucking younger females (Especially if it is an ugly man).

2020, anonymous, quote in Katri-Maaria Kyllönen, "'The Incel Rebellion Has Already Begun!': Diskurssianalyysi vihan oikeutuksen representaatioista Incels.co -palstan keskusteluissa", thesis submitted to the University of Lapland, page 65

Fifth, it pisses off normies, soycucks and feminists.

2020, Brian Whitney, The "Supreme Gentleman" Killer: The True Story of an Incel Mass Murderer:

(incel slang, derogatory) A weak or effeminate man; a beta male.


Finnrey

People have started to look at fandom through a social justice lens, so there are now progressive/good ships (Finnrey = interracial, good) and regressive/bad ships (Reylo = white, racist, abusive and sexist = bad).

2020, Shuang, quoted in Adrienne E. Raw, "Fandom Discussion: Knowledge, Intersections, and Tensions of Self, Community, and Social Justice", dissertation submitted to the University of Michigan, page 280

FinnRey fan art

2020, Abigail Reed, "Interpretations and Receptions of Alternative Subjectivities in the Disney-Produced Star Wars Films", dissertation submitted to Florida State University, page vi

I've been following "Finnrey" a lot, which is a dark horse in the realm of shipping. Even people who don't love Finnrey recognize that the first movie did set up that Finn (played by black actor John Boyega) and Rey (white actor Daisy Ridley) had a deep emotional connection that producers later dropped.

2021, Greg Carter, quoted in "UWM historian takes on race, relationships, and representation", In Focus (University of Wisconsin-Millwaukee), January 2021, page 11

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Finn and Rey from Star Wars.


Catradora

I'm firmly on team Catradora, I mean, are they blind to each other or something?

2019, Erik Schubach, The Pike: New Beginnings, unnumbered page:

From Charlize Theron kicking *ss in The Old Guard to the final season of She Ra and The Princess^([sic]) of Power finally giving us Catradora.

2020 August, Jamal Grootboom, “Cursed”, in TV Magazine, South Africa, page 19:

While many comparisons have now been made between “Korrasami” and “Catradora,” in light of the critical success of She-Ra's final season and its open depiction of Catra and Adora's love, […]

2021, Lauren Chochinov, “'What's Going On with You Two?': Queerness, Fandom, and Adaptation in The Legend of Korra Franchise”, in Reginald Wiebe, editor, Polyptych: Adaptation, Television, and Comics, page 131:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Catra and Adora (She-Ra) from the animated series She-Ra and the Princesses of Power.


Lincolnomics

Blend of Lincoln + economics, equivalent to Lincoln + -nomics.

It’s little wonder the Republicans are always so anxious about midterm elections. They lost ground in the very first one — when Abraham Lincoln was in the White House, in 1862. The Democrats picked up 38 House seats in that election, and they might have won more if President Lincoln hadn’t used federal troops to intimidate the opposition in some of the border-state contests. Democrats even won a majority of the House seats from Lincoln’s home state of Illinois. Was it a signal to Washington that Lincolnomics had failed? Not at all.

1982 November 14, “The missing message”, in Craig Klugman, Larry J. Hayes, editors, The Journal~Gazette, Fort Wayne, Ind.: Richard Inskeep, column 1:

THE LITTLE boy next door reports that his class now is studying the Civil War and Lincolnomics.

1982 December 8, William D. Tammeus, “Starbeams”, in The Kansas City Star, volume 103, number 69, Kansas City, Mo., page 16A:

1984, John H. Hotson, Rooseveltonomics, Reaganomics, and Lincolnomics, or, How Come the Bankers Are Charging Ron 10 Percent, when FDR Got His Money at 2 Percent, and Honest Abe Got His for Nothing?, Waterloo, Ont.: Department of Economics, University of Waterloo, →OCLC

The only people practicing Lincolnomics these days are the Soviets, which may be why they can afford more missiles and tanks than we can despite a much smaller economy.

1987 February 2, Charley Reese, “Today’s civil-rights and welfare groups would jump on Lincoln”, in The Orlando Sentinel, Orlando, Fla., page A-10, column 2:

(US politics, rare) Economic policies associated with the administration of Abraham Lincoln, 1861–1865.


runcicantitruncation

Blend of runcination + cantellation + truncation

blend

The simultaneous state of runcination, cantellation and truncation.


runcicantellation

(geometry) The simultaneous state of runcination and cantellation.


runcitruncation

The simultaneous state of runcination and truncation.


cantitruncation

The simultaneous state of cantellation and truncation.


Apefrican

Blend of ape + African or Apefrica + -an

Leave apefricans to themselves and let nature take its course!

2015 May 15, Fred Oinka, “If whites had not interfered, blacks would be extinct by now”, in alt.fan.rush-limbaugh (Usenet):

Apefricans have just evolved from eating Mud Cookies to eating
BBQ rat.

2019 December 26, KWills Shill #2, “Traditional Africoon Food”, in alt.atheism (Usenet):

I hate the mall because there are too many unemployed apefricans and mudsharks.

2021, Innocent Chiluwa, Discourse and Conflict: Analysing Text and Talk of Conflict, Hate and Peace-building, Springer Nature, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 125:

(slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) An African.


BreadTube

Blend of bread + YouTube, in reference to the 1892 book The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin, often considered a foundational text of political anarchism. By surface analysis, bread + -Tube.

Holonym: LeftTube

The community of videobloggers (particularly YouTubers) who tend towards left-wing perspectives.


biorg

Blend of biological + organism(?), modelled on cyborg, which is from cybernetic + organism.

In this case, the story concerns three pets who have gone missing—a dog named Bandit, a cat named Tinker, and a rabbit named Pirate. These pets have been transformed by the US Air Force into computer-enhanced "biorgs," as part of an army of "efficient animal slaves" designed to take the place of humans […]

2018, David Herman, Narratology beyond the Human: Storytelling and Animal Life:

Biorgs are both cyborgs and companion animals, […] Vint's reading of the biorgs' speech underscores how the comic blurs the division between nature and culture as well as between human and non-human animals. The biorgs may not speak exactly like humans, but their speech communicates […] While canine biorgs' speech […]

2020, Sidney I. Dobrin, EcoComix: Essays on the Environment in Comics and Graphic Novels, McFarland, →ISBN, pages 71–72:

Metaphorically a biorg witch with flowers in her hair, I am presently a doctoral student […]

2021, Florence Ashley, "'X' why? Gender Marks and Non-binary Transgender People", in Isabel Cristina Jaramillo Vélez, Laura Carlson (editors), Trans Rights and Wrongs: A Comparative Study of Legal Reform Concerning Trans Persons, Springer Nature, pages 33-34

(neologism, science fiction, rare) A non-human animal cyborg.


typoglycemia

(humorous) The disputed idea that readers can easily comprehend text even when it is full of spelling errors and misplaced letters.


Murderapolis

Blend of murder + Minneapolis, with reference to its crimewave of the 1990s, during which many homicides were recorded.

(US, slang, derogatory) The city of Minneapolis, Minnesota.


brandwagon

Blend of brand + bandwagon; see jump on the bandwagon.

Because they don't want their (stupid, chicken, technophobic) competitors to wake up and get on the bandwagon, or should I say, brandwagon […]

2011, Jeffrey H. Gitomer, Social Boom!, page 67:

Through online relationships, current loyal customers can possibly persuade new customers to jump on the brandwagon.

2013, Barbara E. Kahn, Global Brand Power: Leveraging Branding for Long-Term Growth, page 17:

(marketing, informal) A trend or craze relating to a marketed brand.


crisitunity

Blend of crisis + opportunity; introduced as a gag in the animated television series The Simpsons (season 6, episode 11, "Fear of Flying", first broadcast on 18 December 1994):
* LISA: Look on the bright side, Dad. Did you know that the Chinese use the same word for "crisis" as they do for "opportunity"?
* HOMER: Yes. "Crisitunity"! You're right.

Would it help to say that we misunderestimated the effects of Frankenfood and mutagenic smog, to speculate that amid all our infornography and anticipointment, some crisitunity slumbered unnoticed in a roadside motel?

2010, Nick Lantz, The Lightning That Strikes the Neighbors’ House, page 25:

Communicate the “crisitunity.” Originally coined by Homer Simpson, a “crisitunity” is the moment when crisis meets opportunity—and it has a slightly better ring than “opporisis.” Regardless of the word choice, the principle is straightforward: by communicating a time-sensitive problem your organization faces, along with how your online community can help solve the problem, people will be motivated to act.

2011, Darian Rodriguez Heyman, Nonprofit Management 101, page 267:

On lost crisitunities, vanishing post-Soviet and decolonization of thinking, being and perception.

2017, Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo of Zimbabwe: Politics, Power, and Memory, page 147:

In addition to the challenges of Chinese lending raised above, the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) presents another possibility for crisitunity (crisis-opportunity) in Africa.

2021, Gorden Moyo, African Agency, Finance and Developmental States, page 116:

(informal, rare) A crisis from which some good may come, and which may therefore be perceived as an opportunity.


semitarian

<i class="Latn mention" lang="en">semi-</i> +

It's fine. I think I could be ... semitarian, maybe? Half vegetarian? It's a thing,' he adds, a little defensively

2020, Sophie Kinsella, Love Your Life, Random House:

semi-vegetarian, a person who is sometimes vegetarian


sploot

en-verb

sploot (third-person singular simple present sploots, present participle splooting, simple past and past participle splooted)

sploots (present singular third-person)
splooting (participle present)
splooted (participle past)
splooted (past)

Uncertain. Perhaps a blend of splay + scoot. Compare also splat.

Four of the dragons sploot flat instead of sitting — a gesture they must have picked up from their time being Frank’s corgi.

2019, March 5, Amber Royer, Pure Chocolate, Watkins Media, unpaged

Squirrels in the U.S. are 'splooting' in an attempt to stay cool and close to the ground as the heat blazes across the country

2020 August 20, Matthew Wright, DailyMail.comhttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8648567/Squirrels-U-S-splooting-attempt-stay-cool-close-ground.html

With his front paws tucked underneath his chest and his hind legs splayed behind him in a splooting pose, he didn’t appear to have a care in the world.

2020 September 21, Paige Sleuth, Arrested in Cherry Hills, Amazon KDP, chapter 6, unpaged

Not many big dogs do the sploot, but Pooh Bear will sploot just about anytime and anywhere. She even splooted in the middle of the mall while waiting to see Santa!

2020 November 3, Tama Fortner, “Homecoming Tales”, in 15 Inspiring Stories from Old Friends Senior Dog Sanctuary, Thomas Nelson, page 82:

(slang) To lie flat with hind legs extended.


lexpionage

(informal) The process of looking for new words and/or phrases.


ANZUS

Blend of AUS (“Australia”) + NZ (“New Zealand”) + US (“United States”).

blend

(geopolitics) A security treaty between Australia, New Zealand, and America for the Pacific region; particularly in naval affairs.


AUKUS

Blend of AU + UK + US; Acronym of Australia + United Kingdom + United States of America.; Coined in 2021

acronym of

And so, friends, AUKUS is born — a new enhanced trilateral security partnership between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. AUKUS: a partnership where our technology, our scientists, our industry, our defense forces are all working together to deliver a safer and more secure region that ultimately benefits all.
AUKUS will also enhance our contribution to our growing network of partnerships in the Indo-Pacific region: ANZUS; our ASEAN friends; our bilateral strategic partners, the Quad; Five Eyes countries; and, of course, our dear Pacific family.
The first major initiative of AUKUS will be to deliver a nuclear-powered submarine fleet for Australia.

2021 September 15, Scott Morrison, “Remarks by President Biden, Prime Minister Morrison of Australia, and Prime Minister Johnson of the United Kingdom Announcing the Creation of AUKUS”, in White House:

Although Australia, the UK, and US partnership, AUKUS, sounds strange with all these acronyms but it's a good one, AUKUS, our nations will update and enhance our shared ability to take on the threats of the 21st century just as we did in the 20th century: together. Our nations and our brave fighting forces have stood shoulder to shoulder for literally more than one hundred years. Through the trench fighting in World War I, the island hopping of World War II, during the frigid winters of Korea and the scorching heat of the Persian Gulf, the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom have long been faithful and capable partners, and are even closer today. Today we take another historic step to deepen and formalize cooperation among all three of our nations, because we all recognize the imperative of insuring peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific over the long term.

2021 September 17, Joe Biden, Australia's decades-long balancing act between the US and China is over. It chose Washington, CNN:

On Sept. 15, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia unveiled a new security partnership, with the less-than-euphonious acronym AUKUS. The three states are close allies of long standing, but the headline item in the new arrangement is a joint effort to equip Australia with a fleet of advanced nuclear-powered submarines. U.S. President Joe Biden, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson also announced plans for more extensive cooperation on cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and quantum computing.
Those basic facts about AUKUS are pretty straightforward. But why it came together—and what it means—is more complicated and far more revealing about where the world is heading.

2021 September 18, Stephen M. Walt, “The AUKUS Dominoes Are Just Starting to Fall”, in Foreign Policy:

AUKUS envisages a wide range of diplomatic and technological collaboration, from cybersecurity to artificial intelligence, but at its core is an agreement to start consultations to help Australia acquire a fleet of nuclear-propelled (though not nuclear-armed) submarines. One consequence of this is Australia cancelling a contract, worth tens of billions of dollars, signed in 2016 with France for diesel-electric submarines. In announcing AUKUS on September 15th with the prime ministers of Australia and Britain, Scott Morrison and Boris Johnson, President Joe Biden stressed that it was about “investing in our greatest source of strength—our alliances”.

2021 September 19, “The strategic reverberations of the AUKUS deal will be big and lasting”, in The Economist:

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was in the US to help announce the landmark AUKUS pact in San Diego this morning.

2023 March 14, “AUKUS deal: Jim Chalmers announces $8 billion HMAS Stirling naval base expansion”, in ABC Premium News (wire feed), Sydney:

(geopolitics, neologism) A security treaty between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States; for the construction of nuclear submarines in Australia, and cooperation on cybersecurity and espionage technology; to contain the rise of China in the Indo-Pacific region.


shamdemic

Blend of sham + pandemic. Coined by conspiracy theorists to describe the COVID-19 pandemic and the actions of governments and other organizations in response to it.

They waved signs that read “Stop the shamdemic” and “the coronavirus is a hoax.”

2020 May 4, CST Editorial Board, “America’s road back from COVID-19 must begin with an end to the politics of division”, in Chicago Sun Times:

Do please go back and REVIEW the swine flu shamdemic of 1976, which i witnessed. And the 2009 Swine Flu SHAMDEMIC. […]

2021 March 4, Robert Turner, “We Call Out Reiner Fuellmich as a Fraud. The Covid Conspirator Investigated”, in Medika Life:

Even though he [Joe Biden] says that America is improving from the shamdemic, including economically [some how], […]

2021 September 9, Jacob M. Thompson, ““This Is Not About Freedom”: Biden To Require All Large Employers And Federal Workers To Get Vaccinated. *UPDATE*”, in Wine Press:

(informal, derogatory, neologism) Synonym of scamdemic.


cadmopone

en-noun

cadmopone (countable and uncountable, plural cadmopones)


Encyclopedia Galactica

Blend of Encyclopedia Britannica (“Encyclopaedia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica”) + galactic

blend

(science fiction) A compendium of all knowledge, or most of the important knowledge, an encyclopedia for a galaxy-spanning civilization. A sci-fi analog of the Encyclopedia Britannica. This term is used in many works by many authors, and prominently found in Douglas Adams' Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy series and Isaac Asimov's Foundation series.


infinifat

en-adj

infinifat (comparative more infinifat, superlative most infinifat)

more infinifat (comparative)
most infinifat (superlative)

Superfat and infinifat women live in bodies that, even in a somewhat fat-positive environment, do not perform fatness in the “right way” either because they are perceived as too large altogether or their shape does not conform to the hourglass or pear ideal of a large and perky bust, small tummy and waist, and thick thighs and bottom.

2020, Jennifer Jolie, "Body Positivity as Public Pedagogy?: The Case of the #effyourbeautystandards Movement on Instagram", thesis submitted to Lakehead University, page 54

For superfat and infinifat people, fatphobic culture is even more traumatizing.

2020, Crystal Kotow, "Big, Beautiful Affect: Exploring the Emotional Environment of BBW Social Events and Its Relationship to Fat Women's Embodiment", dissertation submitted to York University, page 224

Further, those who are categorized as infinifat face intense institutional sizeism, with size accessibility interfering with every aspect of daily life.

2021, Rhiannon Sian Downey, "The Commodification of Body Positivity: Constructing a Neoliberal Fat Citizenship", paper submitted to Ryerson University, page 40


infinifat

Because they can be a lot to remember, throughout this book I use "smaller fat people" to refer to small and mid-fats and "very fat people" or "larger fat people" to refer to superfats and infinifats.

2020, Aubrey Gordon, What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat, pages 9–10:

Indeed, it is important to consider here that there are a wide variety of fat bodies, many of whom are excluded from body positivity conversations, namely transgender women and “super fats” or “infinifats” (sizes 26+, which I will discuss more fully in my literature review).

2020, Jennifer Jolie, "Body Positivity as Public Pedagogy?: The Case of the #effyourbeautystandards Movement on Instagram", thesis submitted to Lakehead University, page 12

As images and videos circled social media in the days following the event, some spoke out in anger that so many from within the community—particularly top industry names—publicly supported a brand that left out super- and infinifats (though the attendees did reflect a wide spectrum of bodies).

2022, Gianluca Russo, The Power of Plus: Inside Fashion’s Size-Inclusivity Revolution, Chicago Review Press, →ISBN:

To lose 40 pounds is no small feat, especially when one is working to achieve a healthy, neutral relationship to one’s body, but for fat people on the other end of the fat spectrum, “super-fats” and “infinifats,” gender affirming surgery might be out of the question entirely.

2022, Bek J. Orr, “Trans/fat: an autoethnographic exploration of becoming at the intersection of trans and fat”, in Fat Studies, →DOI:


murdercide

en-noun

murdercide (countable and uncountable, plural murdercides)

A murder that has been disguised as a suicide.


rinsta

Teen girls tell me that they have public “rinsta” or real Instagram accounts for all followers and then private “finsta” Instagram accounts for their "closest" friends.

2017, Ana Homayoun, Social Media Wellness: Helping Tweens and Teens Thrive in an Unbalanced Digital World, page 31:

Her “rinsta” is based on her full name and it is the picture of a perfect middle schooler.

2018, Carrie Kerpen, Work It: Secrets for Success from the Boldest Women in Business, page 78:

There were the Finstas and the Rinstas—the fake and the real, the accounts that your parents could see, where every kid posted things about school and new haircuts and cute dogs on the street, and the accounts where you could see more bare skin and some authentic teen misery.

2020, Emma Straub, All Adults Here, page 110:

(informal) A primary personal Instagram account on which one posts publicly (typically under their real name).


greenflation

But in the wake of so much publicity, are we now undergoing a wave of “greenflation,” where the term “green” is used to justify almost everything and anything, as long as it can make the claim of lowering carbon?

2007 December 26, James Kanter, “Does Too Much Green Lead to “Greenflation”?”, in Green: Energy, the Environment and the Bottom Line, New York Times blogs:

While decarbonizing our homes can lead to price stability and significant savings — my family, for example, cut our monthly utility bill by more than 75 percent in a recent renovation — we must also prepare for what Dr. Schnabel calls “greenflation,” the higher prices and labor crunches that come with the green transition.

2022 August 12, Gernot Wagner, “Greening Your Home Will Be Cheaper, but Expect Growing Pains”, in The New York Times:

(economics) A rise in energy prices as a result of shifting from fossil fuels to sustainable energy sources.


Fraturday

We're just lucky he's so determined to keep his entire weekends free for his family, or we'd all be spending Fraturdays together.

2014, Amy Finnegan, Not in the Script, page 105:

(informal) A period of time that runs from Friday into Saturday, for example because of an intense work schedule.


Puertopia

[…] to "crypto-currency" traders building their own version of a libertarian, tax-free "Puertopia" built on Bitcoin.

2018, Mimi Sheller, Mobility Justice: The Politics of Movement in an Age of Extremes, unnumbered page:

Their arrival came as residents of the island struggled from the devastation wreaked by Hurricane Maria, but the young millionaires—some of them were billionaires—had another priority: creating "Puertopia."

2020, Jeff John Roberts, Kings of Crypto: One Startup's Quest to Take Cryptocurrency Out of Silicon Valley and Onto Wall Street, unnumbered page:

Puerto Rico has become a hotbed for this virtual currency as ultra rich advocates, such as Brock Pierce, flocked to their Caribbean “Puertopia” to evade taxes and to maximize their blockchain profits.

2021, Catalina M. de Onís, Energy Islands: Metaphors of Power, Extractivism, and Justice in Puerto Rico, page 210:

(cryptocurrencies slang) Puerto Rico as a cryptocurrency tax haven.


sophisti-pop

Blend of sophisticated + pop, coined retrospectively.

The fact that the intellectual Green [Gartside] was also a friend and protégé of leading post-structuralist scholar, Jacques Derrida, served further to hype the postmodern playfulness of his sophisti-pop.

2012, Iain Ellis, Brit Wits: A History of British Rock Humor, Intellect Books, →ISBN, page 102:

(music) A subgenre of pop music that emerged during the mid-1980s in the UK.


BernieCare

Blend of Bernie + healthcare, after the pattern of ObamaCare, HillaryCare, etc.

2016 February 3, Paula Dwyer, “BernieCare Looks to Europe; Americans Don't”, in Liberal Opinion Week, page 8:

Senator Lindsey Graham summed up the current situation with precision when he said his main concern is that "Obamacare" is a placeholder for BernieCare."^([sic])

2017 September 29, Star Parker, “Collins irresponsibly blocks health reform”, in The Daily Corinthian, page 4A:

Now, BernieCare wants to put a lot of power and authority into the hands of the government, which has historically lead to corruption and a whole host of other problems.

2018 August 31, Eric Kim, “Why Healthcare Must Be an Exception to the Capitalist System”, in The Amherst Student, Amherst College, page 5:

(US politics) The 2017 Medicare for All bill or any other healthcare reform supported by Bernie Sanders.


oddvertisement

Blend of odd + advertisement. From oddvertising.


vulture capitalism

(informal) The practice of acquiring distressed firms in the hopes of making them more profitable so as to sell them for a profit.


lesbiflexible

In recent years, bisexuality has become only one of various orientations identifying with attraction to more than one gender. Eisner (2013) reviews the growing list of identities within the bi-spectrum of "under one umbrella" that include, but are not limited to: pansexual/omnisexual, polysexual, queer, fluid, heterofexible, homoflexible/lesbiflexible, and bicurious.

2017, Gerald P. Mallon, Social Work Practice with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People:

2018, Charlotte A. Archer, The Hierarchy of Rights and the Expression of Values in the LGBTQ+ Rights Movement (master's thesis submitted to Middle Tennessee State University), table 5, sexual orientation: Heteroflexible 2.0% 1 Homoflexible 0.0% 0 Lesbiflexible 0.0% 0

lesbiflexible: describing a woman who identifies as predominantly lesbian but is open to relationships and sexual encounters with men or gender nonconforming partners.

2021, Chloe O. Davis, The Queens' English, The LGBTQIA+ Dictionary of Lingo and Colloquial Phrases, page 196:

(LGBT, neologism) Primarily lesbian, but with a limited amount of attraction to men, or a limited desire to partake in romantic or sexual activity with a man.


Bjelkemander

Blend of Bjelke + gerrymander, named after Australian politician Joh Bjelke-Petersen.

named-after

(Australian politics) The intentional malapportionment of votes in Queensland in the 1970s and 1980s.


transgenderal

Etymology tree
English transsexualblend.
Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁os
Latin genus
Old French gendrebor.
Middle English gendre
English genderblend.
English transgenderal
Blend of transsexual + gender. Coined by American transgender activist Virginia Prince in 1969 in order to distinguish between sex and gender (see first quotation).

coinage

Virginia Prince talks about a person who is merely transgenderal. She sees no reason to change her sex organs just because she happens to like a different gender role.

1972, John Money, Archives of Sexual Behavior:

However, most are transgenderal, occurring within the framework of the man-woman role known to observers as berdache. The term berdache apparently comes from the Arabic word bardaj, meaning a boy slave kept for erotic purposes[…]

1995, William A. Young, The World's Religions: Worldviews and Contemporary Issues, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, →ISBN, →OCLC:

[…] that their macho 'real men' clients want to be the receptive partner. In many cultures same-sex sexualities are 'transgenderal' in that they put gender identity in question. […]

2007, Vanessa Baird, The No-nonsense Guide to Sexual Diversity, New Internationalist, →ISBN, page 19:

(dated, rare) Of a person, transgender (having gender which is different from one's assigned sex).

Greenberg's second common form of sexual and erotic relationship is transgenderal. Here, partners are different genders or play different gender roles, although they are not necessarily different sexes.

2000 August 31, Michael R. Kauth, True Nature: A Theory of Sexual Attraction, Springer Science+Business Media, →ISBN, page 88:

Women found advantages in taking on a man's name since it was easier for a man to publish his work than for a woman. However, women did not monopolize transgenderal pseudonymity because, interestingly, men also adopted female pseudonyms.

2002, Jared C. Calaway, “Benjamin Franklin and Transgenderal Pseudonymity”, in Constructing the Past, volume 3, number 1:

(dated, rare) Of a person, expressing a different gender role.


globohomo

Uncertain; often given as a blend of global + homogenization, globalist + homosexual, among similar terms. This term has origins from anti-Semitism and anti-LGBT rhetoric.

the globohomo agenda

Republicans are aftraid to take true right wing stands on most issues. Rather than provide a real alternative to the cosmopolitan, GloboHomo agenda of the Democratic Party, they offer Liberalism Lite; basically all of the same stuff but with a tax cut.

2019 June 28, College Republicans @ UW, Twitter, archived from the original on 2019-06-29:

In a number of posts about globohomo, it seemed like a generalized reference to contemporary economic life—there were references to "globohomo megacorporations," "globohomo materialism," and a longing for "the upcoming post-globohomo, techno-feudalistic ages of revenge and strife." The term homo is usually used as derogatory shorthand for homosexuals, but in this context served two purposes: It also meant “homogenization,” the increasing sameness of everything worldwide.

2020 October 13, Talia Lavin, Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy, Legacy Lit, →ISBN:

At that point, Cornero appears to have completely drifted away from screenwriting, having been kicked out of writer Facebook groups after demanding on Gab that “globohomo”-infested (a portmanteau of “globalized homosexual”) Hollywood be burned to the ground.

2021, Mike Rothschild, The Storm Is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy:

I hate Jews enough that my natural reaction to all the fighting is to laugh, but I know there is a schism between globalist and Zionist jews, and I'd rather have all of them in Israel, rather than the globohomo ones trying to found their new Zion in North America (likely the endgame of globohomo)

2021 May 24, ADL, quoting social media posts, “Antisemitic Language Surges on 4chan During Israel-Hamas Conflict”, in Anti-Defamation League:

(Internet slang, alt-right, 4chan, derogatory) The supposed promotion of homosexuality, neoliberal economics, and progressive values coupled with the paternalistic curtailment of freedoms by corporate and political interests.


momfluencer

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

Feeling overwhelmed and maybe a bit underappreciated, we moms gravitate toward the insistence of well-meaning momfluencers who tell us what we "deserve” — we "deserve" a break. Praise. Recognition.

2020 August, Allie Beth Stuckey, You're Not Enough (And That's Okay), page 43:

The everchanging expectations voiced by an endless stream of “experts” (and the momfluencer with 12K followers and the gingham filter for that perfect orange-y skin glow) makes it impossible to feel like you're succeeding at motherhood.

2020 September, Maggie Combs, Motherhood Without All the Rules:

And now, some of the first Insta Stories I watch as I nurse my baby at 6:23 a.m. are by Hannah of @ballerinafarm, a new face to the momfluencer stratosphere, but one of many conventionally beautiful, straight, white women who perform a version of motherhood that feels like pioneer cosplay hit with a dash of Brooklyn hipster aesthetics.

2021 January 28, Sara Petersen, “Momfluencer Content Enrages Me. Why Can't I Look Away?”, in Harper's Bazaar:

The soul of this community is local queen bee Sherry Conrad (Search Party alum Shalita Grant, the season’s MVP), an officious, controlling momfluencer with a knack for stealing the spotlight.

2021 October 17, Judy Berman, “You Season 3 Is the Best Installment Yet—and a Brilliant Send-Up of Suburbia”, in Time Magazine:

(Canada, US) Alternative form of mumfluencer.


breadpill

en-verb

breadpill (third-person singular simple present breadpills, present participle breadpilling, simple past and past participle breadpilled)

breadpills (present singular third-person)
breadpilling (participle present)
breadpilled (participle past)
breadpilled (past)

Blend of bread + red pill, in reference to the 1892 book The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin, often considered a foundational text of political anarchism.

(transitive, slang) To influence (a person) to support leftist and anarchist ideology.


manterruption

It was perhaps the most public example of the “manterruption” – that is, a man interrupting a woman while she’s trying to speak (in this case, on stage, by herself, as an award honoree) and taking over the floor.

2015 January 20, Jessica Bennett, “How Not to Be 'Manterrupted' in Meetings”, in Time:


manterrupt

manterrupt (third-person singular simple present manterrupts, present participle manterrupting, simple past and past participle manterrupted)

manterrupts (present singular third-person)
manterrupting (participle present)
manterrupted (participle past)
manterrupted (past)

Blend of man + interrupt, after mansplain.

(informal, derogatory) To interrupt condescendingly (a female interlocutor), presuming that the woman's word have little merit merely because she is not male.


Tamlish

A crossover of Tamil and English language.


Kanglish

A crossover of Kannada and English language.


Hindlish

A crossover of Hindi and English language.


Urglish

A crossover of Urdu and English language.


Benglish

A crossover of Bengali and English language.


Bonglish

(uncommon) A crossover of Bengali and English language.


Tenglish

A crossover of Telugu and English language.


Apelanta

A few months ago here in Apelanta a similar incident occurred when a lowlife
'boo jumped up and shot to death 4 of his longtime friends during an
argument over a basketball game.

2003 August 24, Work Work Work, “With negro friends like these....”, in soc.culture.african.american (Usenet):

Remember, there are quite a lot of dumb, violent negroes here in Apelanta (a
murder a day). Stay as far away from the stupid beasts as possible.

2004 February 19, Bull Connor, “Tourism in Atlanta area”, in alt.atlanta (Usenet):

30 years of living in apelanta will open the eyes of even the most staunch
NIGGERphile.

2005 November 1, I. M. White, “Re: New Orleans Police Department Fire 51 Cops for Desertion”, in uk.politics.guns (Usenet):

What a waste of a perfectly good nuke.
They should have at least taken out Detroit or Apelanta.
Either that or they should have fileld^([sic]) that underground testing space
with niggers first.

2006 October 9, abc, “Re: FLASH: North Korea Claims Test of Nuclear Weapon”, in soc.culture.african.american (Usenet):

When Somalian dunecoons learned that their blue-gummed Bantu slaves
were too stupid to be productive, they dumped the useless critters
onto the laps of Clitonista "Diversity" nitwits. These dippy shits
brought a whole tribe of the Africoon savages to Apelanta thinking
that all niggers were the same species and would blend into the local
herd.

2007 October 20, \/\/0RD@trwe.nug, “Re: Darwinism Showing Its True Face: "Black People Are Less Intelligent Than Whites" Claims One Of The World's Most Eminent Darwinists”, in talk.atheism (Usenet):

Watch out for "slippery slope" martial law. First Baltimorgue, then
Shitcago, Apelanta, Detoilet, Milwaukee, Ferguson, and Los Angeles? Where
will it stop? Probably after all the shit-colored apes have been liquidated.

2017 November 24, Byker, “Re: ANOTHER Detroit!!!”, in alt.law-enforcement (Usenet):

(derogatory, slang, ethnic slur) Atlanta, with reference to its African-American population.


schlockey

Punning blend of schlocky + hockey. From being an inferior variant of ice hockey.

(Canada) A box game variant of ice hockey, for two players, with two blade-less "schtick" sticks, a puck, a wooden box with two, three, or five slotted dividers, representing pass/shot opposition for the (possible) middle divider(s), and the goal slots for the two end dividers.


seagan

We've gathered three weeks' worth of seagan menus to take the guesswork out of eating well.

2016, Amy Cramer, Lisa McComsey, Seagan Eating, page 54:

The technical term for someone following such a diet would be “pescetarian,” though it has also been dubbed a “seagan” diet, meaning a diet that is wholly plant-based, except to include seafood.

Originally created in 2016 by food writers and the team behind The Vegan Cheat Sheet, Amy Cramer and Lisa McComsey, the Seagan diet is being touted as a possible contender. Combining the plant-based regimen of the vegan lifestyle, the Seagan diet espouses the benefits of a few sustainably sourced seafood meals each week.

2019 March 13, Sean Murphy, “What is the 'Seagan' diet and is it the next big food trend?”, in The Scotsman:

moules mariniere, a sustainable seagan treat.

2019 November 7, Dale Berning Sawa, “Fishy business: should we all be seagans?”, in The Guardian:

So, while some consumers fully embrace the plant-based trend, others are looking for that 'seagan' combination of seafood and plant-based dishes, which is an area where we're seeing a great deal of menu innovation from customers and have also been building our own online recipe bank.

2020 January 23, Alice Leader, “What food do pub-goers want to see on menus in 2020?”, in Morning Advertiser:

Being or relating to a plant-based pescetarian diet in which some seafood (in essence, finned fish and shellfish) is incorporated into an otherwise vegan diet.


locktail

(humorous, neologism) A cocktail partaken of by people in COVID-19 lockdown.


Turd Reich

GOEBBELS: ‘…Gone ist zer goose-step…in comes ze new Swingen Turd Reich - Under der Linden Plattz Von-step.’.

2012, Spike Milligan, ’Rommel?’’Gunner who?’: A Confrontation in the Desert:

…and his glorious Third Reich (or as our men called it, the ‘Turd Reich’).

2014, Sidney Litherland, The Junak King: Life as a British POW, 1941-45:

In Johnny Canuck, a Nazi guard says: “Look, gentlemen of der turd reich. Ve haf captured Johnny Canuck and all his friends.”

2016, Sara Buttsworth, Maartje Abbenhuis, War, Myths, and Fairy Tales - Page 103:

(slang, derogatory, historical) The Third Reich; used to represent a stereotypical German pronunciation of the phrase, or to liken Nazis to excrement.


Turd World

Blend of turd + Third World, in reference to the unsanitary conditions in the Third World. First use appears c. 1971-1972 in the Alternative Press Index.

(slang, offensive, humorous) The Third World.


Chimpcago

But wait! It wasn’t Negro violence, it was “gun violence.” Yes, steel
objects must be banned!

2015 July 7, rebcar...@gmail.com, “Blacks Kill Blacks in Chimpcago”, in soc.culture.israel (Usenet):

A 72 year old silverback spook sexually assaults a female paramedic in
a Chimpcago amberlamps.

2017 January 18, Rick Mathers, “Silverback attempts Muh-Dikking in da amberlamps!!”, in soc.culture.african-american (Usenet):

Black babies yet unborn will
scream for their share as soon as they can speak ,,, And I think we can
all imagine, the homicides in Chimpcago are not going to decrease even
with a city full of sudden democrat welfare millionaires.

2019 June 20, JeSSe, “Dems campaign on mass handouts to blacks”, in uk.current-events.terrorism (Usenet):

Since it's Chimpcago, this is to be expected. Truck drivers are also
not wanting to drive into most of these nigger-infested cities, so I
could imagine the availabilities of supplies of 'gibs me dat' will be
much lower now.

2020 August 13, KWills, “Janithor's flag”, in alt.checkmate (Usenet):

(slang, offensive, derogatory, ethnic slur) Chicago, with reference to its African-American population.


emojipasta

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That poster’s favorite emojipasta, he said, is the one that takes a chunk of dialogue from Todd Phillips’s Joker and fills it in with clowns and squirt guns.

2020 January 24, Kaitlyn Tiffany, “The Divine Origins of the Horny Chain Text”, in The Atlantic:

This style is now heavily associated with “cringe culture” and, like emojipasta, can signal a mocking style through its presence alone.

2022, Sara Haskin Rosenau, "Mock Koreaboo: Appropriating Appropriation", thesis submitted to the University of Colorado, page 15

(Internet slang) A block of text containing random or excessive emoji.


Colemak

Blend of Coleman + Dvorak, from the name of its inventor, Shai Coleman, and in reference to the earlier Dvorak keyboard layout.

(computing) A keyboard layout for Latin-script alphabets, somewhat similar to the QWERTY layout, but placing the most frequently used letters of the English language on the home row.


Halloweekend

Even if you've missed the Halloweekend memo, putting together a last-minute costume can still be easy and cheap.

2011 October 27, Nissa Ostroff, “Last minute costume ideas”, in The Vanderbilt Hustler, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, page 6:

As it nears “Halloweekend,” we tend to find ourselves scrambling for cheap, last-minute Halloween costumes and if you're currently engaged in some type of partnership, you may find yourself dressing for two.

2015 October 29, Nebraska Lucas, “WU-approved costumes for budgeting couples”, in Willamette Collegian, page 4:

Despite this year's restrictions on social gatherings, Halloweekend was still a great time to have fun while staying within pods.

2020 November 12, Sydney Olinger, “Friars Celebrate Día de los Muertos”, in The Cowl, Providence College, Providence, RI, page 2:

The weekend where Halloween falls on a Friday, Saturday, or Sunday; or a weekend before or after Halloween, when Halloween festivities are celebrated, if Halloween does not fall on a weekend.


politicore

Blend of politico- + -core, or political + -core.

F.U.A.L. / ($7) truely^([sic]) great politicore from North Ireland

1990, Profane Existence, number 3, unnumbered page:

As far as I’m concerned, faster-than-you politicore like this is a hell of a lot more dangerous to individual thought than George Bush or a handful of Nazi skinheads will ever be.

1991, Jersey Beat, number 41, unnumbered page:

Politicore from Pennsylvania. Philosophically, this is pretty right on, calling for a “socialist/collectivist world-state.”

1997, Punk Planet, number 20, unnumbered page:

You will be billed later, shading within a garment may occur, shamelessly hamhanded politicore, sharp as a stick but not small in stature, […]

Austin politicore thrasher Beyond Gods and Empires

2013 August 9, The Austin Chronicle, page 60:

(music, uncommon) A subgenre of punk with overtly political themes.


Halloweek

For a full “Halloweek,” Buzz Lightyear and his Space Rangers battle the ultimate cavalcade of monsters, including the space incarnations of Dracula (“NOS-4-A2,” an energy vampire); the Wolfman (“Wirewolf,” a human who becomes a wolf-like, energy-thirsting creature after being nipped by NOS-4-A2); the Frankenstein monster (“XL,” a self-made robotic monster comprised of stolen parts) and the Mummy (“Ancient Evil,” an entombed “mummy” capable of draining a human's lifeforce); as well as an episode (“Revenge of the Monsters”) featuring the entire quartet of monsters as organized by NOS-4-A2.

2001 October 16, “‘Disney/Pixar’s Buzz Lightyear of Star Command’ Celebrates ‘Halloweek’ On UPN & Syndication”, in PR Newswire:

One of the few times of the year when students are encouraged to pretend to be someone – or something – they are not, Halloweek will feature both on- and off-campus celebrations and attempts to best their peers with creative attire and trickery.

2013 October 31, Corinne Sejourne, “Halloweek haunts College Hill”, in The Brown Daily Herald, Brown University:

Throughout the hair-raising ‘Halloweek,’ bold adventurers can also visit Camel Creek\xE2s scariest residents at the Reptile House and Crocodile Corner and face their fears in the House of Horrors Scare Zone.

2021 October 11, Ryan Morwood, “Family attraction’s spooky ‘Halloweek’ of activities kicks off next Saturday”, in Falmouth Packet:


furversion

en-noun

furversion (countable and uncountable, plural furversions)

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And _if_ furversion is a mental illness, would you want it to be cured? (Personaly,^([sic]) I wouldn't, I'm having too much fun in my dreams...)

1994 April 5, Lycan, “Re: Fox Addiction...”, in alt.fan.furry (Usenet):

While poking through the discount videos rack at Wal-Mart, what should I find but 'Kimba the White Lion'! For you younger Furries, this was a series that played afternoons in the mid 60s. It's one of the things that led to my Furversion, or so I've always believed.

1996 March 12, Marshall Anthony Woods (quoted by Timothy Fay), “KIMBA!!!”, in alt.fan.furry (Usenet):

So, these are the confessions of a furry toonophile. Our furversion may be less graphic and spoogey than others', but vive le difference, non?

1996 March 24, Lontra (quoted by D.M. Quozl Falk), “confessions of a furry toonophile”, in alt.fan.furry (Usenet):

(furry fandom) Sexual interest in furry media and/or the furry subculture.


Shitney

(Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Singapore, colloquial, vulgar, humorous) The city of Sydney, Australia.


potomato

Synonym of pomato (“potato-tomato hybrid”)


Kadena

Even so, the show succeeds in establishing the Kadena connection with heartfelt love and deep respect.

2017, Melissa Lee, “The Bold Type Big Buzz”, in F-Yeah, volume 1, page 5:

During the first two seasons while the Kadena relationship develops onscreen, the pair dominated fanfiction writing.

2020, Jessica Doble, "Reading Fandom: Fandom as Reception and Creative Authority", dissertation submitted to the University of Lousiana at Lafayette, page 231

While the show has had issues when it comes to diversity […], Kadena never fails to make our gay hearts happy.

2021 July, Roxy Bourdillon, “Get The Look: The Bold Type”, in Diva, page 22:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Kat Edison and Adena El-Amin from the television series The Bold Type.


MerDer

With Izzie Stevens' treatment going on and MerDer's wedding looming, there's going to be lots of drama at Seattle Grace in the last few episodes of the fifth season.

2009 April 16, CeCe Brooks, “Summer TV GUide”, in Old Black & Gold, Wake Forest University, page B5:

With the MerDer drama heating up and Meredith's job on the line, the two-hour season premiere is looking at keeping viewers glued to the screen from beginning to end.

2011 August 31, Ashley Hite, “Fall returning television series provide relief, relaxation from studies”, in The Daily Athenaeum, West Virginia University, page 9:

But then they had to go and create a montage of MerDer's relationship and it suddenly got very real.

2015 May 7, Danielle S. Tepper, “Derek Deserved Better”, in Town & Country Gazette, page 40:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Meredith Grey and Derek Shepherd from the television series Grey's Anatomy.


Paily

Commenters are generally supportive of the possibility of a Paige and Emily coupling, either expressing surprise or that they had been expecting this, with one commenter even expressing her love for “Paily” (Emily and Paige’s relationship name) (ABC Family, 2011).

2013, Caitlin Campisi, "Homonationalism on TV?: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Queer and Trans* Youth Representations on Mainstream Teen Television Shows", thesis submitted the University of Ottawa, page 98

They can explore female queerness by reblogging posts about ‘Paily’.

2015, Alexandra Louise Elizabeth Simpson, "Shipping The Margin To The Centre: Excavating Tumblr; Filling In The Self", thesis submitted to Texas A&M University, page 74

Strategies which fanfiction authors use to create fanfiction, such as closely analysing homoerotic moments in the source text, are investigated through analysing similar trends investigated in section one and by employing the same method outlined above but are applied to Paily fics instead of the slash texts explored in section one.

2016, William Patrick Bingham, "Queer Fan Practices Online: Digital Fan Production as a Negotiation of LGBT Representation in Pretty Little Liars", thesis submitted to the University of East Anglia, page 100

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Paige McCullers and Emily Fields from the television series Pretty Little Liars.


Karmy

Fans rooting for "Karmy" – the official couple name for the two of them – may still have hope.

2014, Sophia Kaufman, "'Faking It' midseason finale forgoes subtlety", The Michigan Daily (University of Michigan), 3 December 2014, page 5A

But despite the show’s depiction of Karma as presumably straight, fans latched onto the “Karmy” pairing.

2018, Annemarie Navar-Gill, “From Strategic Retweets to Group Hangs: Writers’ Room Twitter Accounts and the Productive Ecology of TV Social Media Fans”, in Television & New Media, volume 19, number 5:

Fans were especially disappointed when Covington revealed to the Hollywood Reporter, “It was always my intention to make ‘Karmy’ happen during our final season. Karma would finally realize that her possessiveness of Amy might be a sign of deeper feelings for her best friend.”

2019, Carter Covington, quoted in Francesca Petronio, "Raised on TV: A Queer Teen's Guide to Syndicated Sexualities", thesis to The City University of New York, page 42

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Karma Ashcroft and Amy Raudenfeld from the American television series Faking It.


Vauseman

Note: If you don't ship 'Vauseman' by the end of the season, then I'm judging you.

2014, Jenna Benson, in "Reviews", Blitz Mag (University of New South Wales), Session 2, Week 3 + 4 (2014), page 34

However, Clexa (Clarke Griffin and Lexa) from The 100 (2014-), Vauseman (Alex Vause and Piper Chapman) from Orange is the New Black (2013-) and Karmy (Karma Ashcroft and Amy Raudenfeld) in Faking It (2014-2016) are further examples.

2016, William Patrick Bingham, "Queer Fan Practices Online: Digital Fan Production as a Negotiation of LGBT Representation in Pretty Little Liars", thesis submitted to the University of East Anglia, page 6

I will delve into the ways Vauseman both upholds and subverts the expectations of a couple involved in a traditional marriage plot.

2019, Alexis Constantine, "'I wanna be your prison wife': Nice Blonde Ladies, Broken Rules, and Subversive Marriage Plots in Jenji Kohan’s Orange is the New Black", thesis submitted to Middle Tennessee State University, page 13

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Alex Vause and Piper Chapman from the television series Orange Is the New Black.


Naomily

In the case of Naomily however, the relationship is endorsed within the official text by the end of Series 3, and by Series 4 they are unambiguously presented and recognized as a couple.

2012 February, Deborah F. Hunn, “'The dark side of Naomily': Skins, fan texts and contested genres”, in Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, volume 26, number 1, page 93:

There was no difference between the handling of Naomily and that of other couples on the show because it was a story about falling in love—the fact that the lovers happened to be a pair of schoolgirls was incidental.

2020, Ann-Marie Cook, “Just a Queer Little Love Story: Skins and the Naomily Phenomenon”, in Stefano Ramello, editor, Fascination of Queer, page 173:

The details of their romance are lovingly expanded upon, developing the Naomily narrative in multiple ways.

2020, Kate McNicholas Smith, Lesbians on Television: New Queer Visibility & The Lesbian Normal, unnumbered page:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Naomi Campbell and Emily Fitch from the British television series Skins.


GQP

Blend of GOP + QAnon.
The GOP stands for "Grand Old Party", the Republican Party of the United States of America, a conservative political party. The usage of "Q" refers to Republican politicians either supporting the QAnon conspiracy theories, or becoming closer to extremism and fascism, represented by the more militant members of the QAnon groups.

(US politics, slang, derogatory) The Republican Party, especially politicians and members who align themselves with militant extremism.


Qaren

Blend of QAnon + Karen. It was first used in a viral video on Twitter posted on 2020, mocking a woman who got angry at a doctor for not administering hydroxychloroquine to treat a COVID-19 infection.

(US politics, slang, derogatory) A supporter of QAnon, especially female, who has a hostile and irrational attitude.


Kataang

Are you a supporter of Katara and Aang’s relationship? Then you’re a member of the Kataang club.

2006, "United Nations: The Fans of Avatar", Nick Mag Presents, Winter 2006, page 40

I still prefer Kataang, because I can't imagine Aang and Katara ever drifting apart when Katara is the one person he could not let go and Katara's life truly began because she met him and he is basically the light and joy in her life.

2014, "paulina101", quoted in Rincke de Bont, "The Appreciation of Storybending: An Exploration of Reviewing Practices in Online Avatar Fan Fiction", thesis submitted to Tilburg University, pages 98-99

Konietzko, for his part, suggests a great awareness: “There were plenty of Makorra shippers out there, so if we had gone back on our decision and gotten those characters back together, would that have meant we caved in to those fans instead?....Trust me, I remember Kataang vs. Zutara.”

2017, Jake Pitre, "Rated Q for Queer: The Legend of Korra and the Evolution of Queer Reading", Reader Feather Journal, Volume 8, Number 2, Fall 2017, pages 29-30

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Katara and Aang from the animated television series Avatar: The Last Airbender.

Aang
Katara (Avatar: The Last Airbender)


Fawnlock

Certainly it would be hard to guess why individuals dressed as humanoid woodland animals would be at a Holmes convention if you weren’t familiar with Fawnlock stories and art, in an Alternate Universe where Sherlock is a deer-like creature with antlers and fur.

2014, Lynne Stephens, "The Game Is Never Over: A 221B Con Review", Canadian Holmes: The Journal of the Bootmakers of Toronto, Volume 36, Number 4, Summer 2014, page 4

One of my oldest informants, adagio, confirms this in an e-mail interview and admits to sometimes feeling as if fandom is deviating too far from the story told on the show: "I don‘t really see the point when the names is all that‘s left. I don‘t get things like fawnlock or tunalock at all, but I guess it‘s amusing. … Sometimes I think the internet has made it too easy to publish stories."

2015, "adagio", quoted in Kee Lundqvist, "Stories of Significance: The Process and Practices of Sense-Making in the Sherlock Fan Community", thesis submitted to Uppsala University, page 76

Sometimes the thematically focused groups are a clear subset of shippers, such as teenlock, femlock, vamplock, or fawnlock (respectively describing John Watson/Sherlock Holmes as teens, women, vampires, or young deer).

2017, Kristina Busse, Framing Fan Fiction: Literary and Social Practices in Fan Fiction Communities, page 112:

(Sherlock fandom slang) A subgenre of Sherlock fan fiction and fanart portraying Sherlock Holmes as an anthropomorphic deer-like creature.


Femlock

As the fandom of BBC Sherlock, English and Japanese alike, is predominantly female, it comes as no surprise that a lot of fans have taken this matter upon themselves by cosplay. Thus, this makes up for a big part of the Femlock content available online.

2017, Carolina Lindström, "'The power of characterization': A comparative analysis of the transformative works created by the English-language and Japanese-language fandoms of BBC Sherlock", thesis submitted to Stockholm University, page 31

Fan-created versions of characters like 'Femlock' (female Sherlock) allow adolescent girls to create a world where they can incorporate all the atavistic traits of 'boy heroes' into female characters.

2021, Emma Byrne, How to Build a Human: What Science Knows About Childhood, unnumbered page:

(fandom slang) A female version of the fictional character Sherlock Holmes, especially from the television series Sherlock.


greynaissance

A revival in interest in the needs of older people.


wokelash

A “wokelash”, I called it, a backlash designed to denounce Friends’s ageing values. I was scathing about this wokelash at first: all those youngsters raising their voices in condemnation, so confident that the things they thought and said, felt and believed wouldn't seem preposterously outdated 25 years hence too… but then I realised you only judge a cultural property by today's values if it is still relevant according to today’s standards and habits.

2019 September 12, Polly Vernon, “I watched it at 22. I'm still watching it: Friends is the most-streamed show on Netflix, its jokes shared by today's teens”, in The Times, London, page 2:

His unguarded remarks about the state of comedy inspired a huge wokelash.

2019 October 4, Kyle Smith, “The Mob vs. Joker’s Director”, in National Review:

Over the past fortnight, in the background of the Sussex soap opera, it has often felt as though Britain has been enjoying what you might call a wokelash. The first royal of colour is quitting not just the firm but also the country, after only 18 months in the job, and the big question is who ought to feel bad about it. Much of social media, woke ground zero, has already decided that the answer to that question is racist newspapers and racist chat hosts, closely followed by their racist readers and viewers.

2020 January 21, Hugo Rifkind, “We're wrong to shout down cries of racism”, in The Times, London, page 23:

A backlash against media, speech, etc. deemed inconsistent with social justice principles, or viewed as perpetuating unwoke or reactionary ideas.

There is a solid demographic of people who are fed up with what they see as increasingly rigid progressive ideals who feel clamped by the modern liberal consensus. […] Liberal ideals are being subjected to a wokelash, and telling people what they should and shouldn’t culturally consume is not going to help build any bridges between divided factions.

2020 January 31, Catriona Stewart, “TV awards illustrate backlash against woke cultural snobs”, in The Herald, Glasgow, page 21:

Some centrist Democrats today say “woke” politics have gone too far and provoked the “wokelash” (causing Democrats to lose elections in 2021).

2021 November 30, Ibram X. Kendi, “TV awards illustrate backlash against woke cultural snobs”, in The Atlantic:

Fortunately, there’s early signs of a “wokelash” from institutions that won’t cower to this nonsense. When staff at publisher Hachette threatened to down tools because they regarded JK Rowling as a toxic transphobe for a tweet mocking “people” who menstruate instead of “women”, management pushed back saying they couldn’t refuse to work on a book because they disagree with the author’s views.

2021 November 20, Angela Mollard, “Gen Z cancelling musical Grease is disappointing”, in The Daily Telegraph, Surrey Hills, N.S.W:

A backlash against or mass rejection of wokeness, or of media, policies, etc. deemed woke or politically correct.


paxhole

(slang, derogatory) A rude or disrespectful rideshare customer.


caremongering

Blend of care + scaremongering, coined in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic.

She designed the postcard, which enabled recipients to ask for help with shopping, collecting medical supplies, or a simple chat on the phone, and posted it on Facebook so people could download it and deliver it through their neighbours’ doors. This scheme, and many others like it, became part of a coronavirus “caremongering” movement that spread through towns, cities, villages and countries around the world as people came together to help one another in times of need.

While everyone practiced safe social distancing at home, the Crush team contracted a new viral trend: CAREMONGERING! We used our social media platforms to share positive stories, lighthearted memes, self care tips, and activities to keep the kids entertained.

2020 spring/summer, Crush Magazine, page 19:

From Buenos Aires to London and Madrid, the perils of social isolation affecting elder generations were confronted through solidarity and caremongering inspired actions by neighbors (EUROPA PRESS. 2020; BBC News. 2020).

2021, Fabián Echegaray, Valerie Brachya, Philip J. Vergragt, Sustainable Lifestyles after Covid-19:

In response, we have witnessed “caremongering,” communities mobilizing and forming systems of mutual aid to provide everything from childcare, to food and mobility access.

2022, Julian Agyeman, Kofi Boone, “The Black Commons: A Framework for Recognition, Reconciliation, Reparations”, in Jayne Engle, Julian Agyeman, Tanya Chung-Tiam-Fook, editors, Sacred Civics: Building Seven Generation Cities (Routledge Equity, Justice and the Sustainable City Series), Routledge, page 59:

The provision of help or the use of social media to offer everyday assistance and positive thoughts.


Westsylvania

Blend of west + Pennsylvania. The name was first used in 1776 in the early days of the American Revolutionary War, when the state was proposed.

(historical) A proposed state of the United States located in what is now West Virginia, southwestern Pennsylvania, and small parts of Kentucky, Maryland, and Virginia. It would have been the fourteenth state in the newly formed United States, had it been recognized.


waterdrome

Blend of water + aerodrome. May be analyzed as water + -drome.

(nautical, aviation) A facility for landing and launching aircraft, where the runway is the surface of a body of water.


birthaversary

The combined celebration of one's birthday and one's anniversary, especially when the two individual events are near each other in date.


fatshion

It is my ferocious tenacity in hunting for discounts, deals, and dragging heretofore unknown plus-size options from the caves of fatshion obscurity into the sunlight as a normal part of my endless hunt for fat style.

2012, Lesley Kinzel, Two Whole Cakes: How to Stop Dieting and Learn to Love Your Body:

Not only did the industry take note of the growing popularity and demand of plus size and “fatshion” but it also realised the significant impact of the body positive movement and size inclusive representation.

2021, Cat Pausé, Sonya Renee Taylor, The Routledge International Handbook of Fat Studies, page 118:

(informal) Clothing fashions designed for overweight people.


Africunt

Just shot a rifle aimed at a boat full of Africunts :-)

2020, 3 June, @BrexitGaming on Twitter https://mobile.twitter.com/BrexitGaming/status/1268205637059608585

South Africunts elected looters in public offices, looting is allowed, and people don't even fear looting a moving truck.
Looting is out of hand in our country.

2022, 17 December, @alfred_cabonena on Twitter https://mobile.twitter.com/alfred_cabonena/status/1604136213992333313

(ethnic slur, derogatory, vulgar) An African.


Deutschbag

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Here's the special typewriter you requested, mein Führer
Eh-xcellent. Now I can start on my new opus.
[…]
Goebbels, you deutschbag, this is Arial! NOOOOOOOOOO!!!

2012, James Carr, Archana Kumar, Hipster Hitler, page 48:

Tell Fritz to stop being a Deutschbag.

(slang, offensive, derogatory, ethnic slur) A German person.


flagacious

en-adj

flagacious (comparative more flagacious, superlative most flagacious)

more flagacious (comparative)
most flagacious (superlative)

I hope Gentlemen, you will put all the Discountenance imaginable on that flagacious Crime of Pyracy, which is not only the worst sort of Robbery, but is, for the most part attended with the horrid Sin of Murder, which is a great aggravation of that odious Practice, detested by all the Civil Nations of the World.

1698 May 19: Richard Coote, 1st Earl of Bellomont, Votes of the House of Representatives for His Majesties province of New-York in America (New York: Printed by William Bradford)

If it be for some open immorality or flagacious crime, or some capital error, which overthrow's the foundation of our faith and hope, like the errors of Hymeneus and Alexander; then the delinquent must be immediately separated from the communion of the saints, as soon as the crime charged upon him can be proved against him

1775: Charles Whitfield, Part IV; Section IV; p. 222 The Form and Order of a Church of Christ (Newcastle upon Tyne)

In the debate therefore, which arose in the senate upon the merit of his negative, Cicero provoked to find so desperate a confederacy against him, rose up, and after some railery and expostulation with Mucius, made a most severe invective on the flagacious lives and practices of his two competitors, in a speech usually called in toga candida, because it was delivered in a white gown, the proper habit of all candidates, and from which the name itself were derived.
(the original (1756) edition has flagitious)

1811: William Duncan, Cicero's Select Orations, translated into English p. 269 footnote 37 (Sidney's Press, New Haven)

The present parliament has been packed with the aid of the most flagacious bribery to oppress and crush the Irish nation.
(Shaw's Authenticated Report of the Irish State Trials, 1844 p. 65 has flagitious)

1844: John Flanedy (ed.) A Special Report Of The Proceedings in the case of The Queen against Daniel O'Connell, Esq., M.P. ... in the Court of Queen's Bench, Ireland ... on an Indictment for Conspiracy and Misdemeanour. p. 144 col. 2 (Dublin: James Duffy)

The consequence of this is, there is no other possible mode of vacating the office thus protracted against the will of the officer during the session of the Senate, however flagacious and imperious his personal or official conduct may be except through the conditional process of impeachment.
(Louisville Daily Journal 13 August 1868 p. 1 col. 2 and Sacramento Daily Union, 28 August 1868 p. 1 col. 4 have flagitious)

1868 August 10, William M. Evarts, letter printed 13 August 1868 in "Letter from Secretary McCulloch; E. A. Rollins Writes a Letter; His Resignation" Evansville Journal p. 1 col. 3

(rare, obsolete) Alternative form of flagitious


blorange

/ˈblɒɹɪnd͡ʒ/

/ˈblɒɹənd͡ʒ/

Coordinate term: bronde

I couldn't afford to have anybody else color my hair anymore, so I started doing it myself and it became various shades of blond and orange. Blorange, as they call it. It was pretty bad.

(informal) A pale reddish-orange hair color.


fursonality

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(fandom slang) The personality of an animal, or of a human who identifies with an animal.


transpoosion

Blend of transfusion + poo, coined c. 2012.


Qult

(derogatory) The cultlike following of the QAnon movement.


Qultist

Blend of Q (“QAnon”) + cultist, equivalent to Qult + -ist.

(derogatory) A cultlike follower of the QAnon movement.


get under one's goat

en-verb

get under one's goat (third-person singular simple present gets under one's goat, present participle getting under one's goat, simple past got under one's goat, past participle gotten under one's goat or got under one's goat)

gets under one's goat (present singular third-person)
getting under one's goat (participle present)
got under one's goat (past)
gotten under one's goat (participle past)
got under one's goat (participle past)

Uncertain. Perhaps a blend of get under one's skin + get someone's goat.

blend

Maybe you would have been warm when you died; You should not have gotten under my goat.

2013, Sherlyn Gajewski, Freedom of F-----g Speech Baby, page 105:

(transitive, figurative, nonstandard) To irritate or annoy someone; to bother.


wishcast

en-verb

wishcast (third-person singular simple present wishcasts, present participle wishcasting, simple past and past participle wishcast or wishcasted)

wishcasts (present singular third-person)
wishcasting (participle present)
wishcast (participle past)
wishcast (past)
wishcasted (participle past)
wishcasted (past)

Back-formation from wishcasting, equivalent to a blend of wish + forecast.

Since then, as [Chief Justice John] Roberts predicted and seemed to wishcast, there have been some signs of a thaw at One First Street NE [the address of the United States Supreme Court Building].

2022 December 30, Josh Gerstein, “How Justice Kagan lost her battle as a consensus builder”, in Politico:

To interpret information or a situation in a way that casts it as favorable or desired, despite the fact that there is no evidence for such a conclusion.


wishcasting

We have an incurious narcissist of a president who was warned over and over by his advisors about an imminent pandemic. He ignored them. Then he engaged in “one day it will just disappear” wishcasting instead of spearheading a coordinated federal response.

2020, Sarah Longwell, “What Did They Think Would Happen?”, in The Bulwark:

The act of interpreting information or a situation in a way that casts it as favorable or desired, despite the fact that there is no evidence for such a conclusion; a wishful forecast.


anipal

Can't wait to see my anipals when I get home!

(nonstandard, chiefly in the plural) An animal that is a friend, to other mentioned animals or humans.


cattlelog

(rare, nonstandard, play on words) A catalog about, or used in the context of, cattle.


choconutty

A biscuit made with cocoa and desiccated coconut


playbor

Blend of play + labor, coined by Julian Kücklich in 2005.

The fun, pleasurable aspect of playbor troubles scholars because it seems to suggest that playborers are not exploited; exploitation is supposed to be immiserating, not fun. Furthermore, the characterization of playbor as exploitative might easily be read as something of an insult to the exploitation of real (material) labor, which is in fact immiserating.

2018 January 16, Greg Goldberg, Antisocial Media: Anxious Labor in the Digital Economy, NYU Press, →ISBN, page 51:

A hybrid form of play and labour, specifically in the games industry.


threeven

Blend of three + even (“divisible by two”).

blend

(mathematics, informal) Divisible by three.


bumfuck middle of nowhere

Blend of bumfuck nowhere + middle of nowhere.

“I do not want to go to bumfuck middle of nowhere,” Shorty said firmly. Then he hesitated. “Unless you seriously think you need someone to watch your back.” “Bunch of hayseeds,” Mac said with a snort. “Don't discount hayseeds.

2020, L.J. Breedlove, In God's Name, L.J. Breedlove, →ISBN:

(vulgar, rare) Synonym of bumfuck nowhere


proats

(informal) A food consisting of oatmeal mixed with protein powder and milk or water.


Zillennial

Coordinate term: xennial

These and other differences raise larger questions: How did Zillennials come to be this way? At what point did their tactics diverge?

2019, Robby Soave, Panic Attack: Young Radicals in the Age of Trump:

Such widespread inequality calls for an urgent requirement for leaders to change, especially because the new workforce – Millennials and Zillennials – are demanding such change, in their droves.

2019, Leila McKenzie Delis, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging, page 23:

2023 June 6, Nadira Goffe, “A Zillennial Comedian Is Creating Taylor Swift–Style Chaos on Ticketmaster. Who Is Matt Rife?”, in Slate, retrieved 2023-06-06:

A person born on the cusp between the Millennials/Generation Y and Generation Z. Sources cite birth years from the early 1990s through the early 2000s for this cohort. They are cultural hybrids of both generations.


staffaculty

(rare, informal) A combination of the staff and faculty of an institution.


Tim Whoreton's

(Canada, vulgar, slang, derogatory, rare) Synonym of Tim Hortons


headless over heels

en-adv

headless over heels (comparative more headless over heels, superlative most headless over heels)

more headless over heels (comparative)
most headless over heels (superlative)

2001, Harris M. Lentz (III.), Science Fiction, Horror & Fantasy Film and Television Credits: Television shows
James Mathers ; Sp .: Margo McCahon . " Ghoul Trouble ” ( 9-11-97 ) . Dir .: John Putch ; Sp .: M.A. Evans . " Totally Slammin ' Sector Cycles " ( 9-1297 ) . Dir .: John Putch ; Sp .: Bod Allen . “ Headless Over Heels ” ( 9-15-97 ) .

He wandered around his room in circles, unable to make heads or tails of the situation. By accident, he headed out of his room. He tripped on a laundry basket sitting at the head of the stairs and tumbled headless over heels all the way ...

2010, David Michael Slater, Ned Loses His Head, ABDO Publishing Company, →ISBN:

No, but he's headless over heels for the Headless Horsewoman! What's the difference between ghosts and vampires? Ghosts can't see their reflections because they're invisible and dead, while vampires can't see their reflections because ...

2018, Julian Henson, Kira Henson, HALLOWEEN 2018, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 36:

(rare, informal, humorous) Head over heels, but while one or someone else is headless.


tacticool

Though I dig the tacticool chic, Dixon, I'm an immortal, remember? Unless that gauze can fix a beheading.

2010, Kresley Cole, Demon from the Dark, page 81:

2014, Daniel Tyler, How to Be Tacticool: A Satirical Guide:

Tacticool? In the last few decades, the tactical folder has dominated the knife market. The demand for these folders has been so great that the marketplace has been flooded with cheap alternatives to this hardier knife, […]

2017, Mike Yarbrough, The Guy's Guide to Pocket Knives:

(slang) Having the impressive appearance, but not the functionality, of tactical military equipment, or being functional but also risibly tryhard about badass appearance.


Brobot

-butter pats for Dad , and lug nuts for Brobot- Thanks Kumquat! Thanks. Mom! Oh look. Brobot, it's your brother! Hey, Jimmy. You're naked. In the tub!

2003, John A. Davis, Jimmy Neutron, Tokyopop, →ISBN:

The gravitational laws of space allow Brobot's potential to be fully realized!

Martha Brockenbrough, Samantha Berger. Brobot did not sputter , cough , wheeze , or SPLORK ! He beep - bloop - bweedle - eedle - eeped ! BROBOT WAS ALIVE ! " I have a brother ! A ROBOT BROTHER !

2020, Martha Brockenbrough, Samantha Berger, Bigfoot Wants a Little Brother, Scholastic Inc., →ISBN:

This will give you a good insight into personality too, as Brobot's code is written to hassle its users and act just like a 'bro'.

2020, Nicola O’Brien, Heather Catchpole, Ready, Set, Code!: Coding Activities for Kids, CSIRO PUBLISHING, →ISBN, page 23:

(science fiction) A name given to a robot that emulates a brother.


fundagelical

en-adj

fundagelical (comparative more fundagelical, superlative most fundagelical)

more fundagelical (comparative)
most fundagelical (superlative)

Its attempts at explaining the “Scientific Creationists” fail, however, because they do not focus sufficiently on the importance of soteriology in fundagelical religion.

1993, Delos Banning McKown, The Mythmaker's Magic: Behind the Illusion of "Creation Science", page 166:

Coming out as gay while also nestled in the bosom of fundagelical Christianity reveals more than sexual secrets.

2014, Jay Emerson Johnson, “Apocalypse Later”, in Cathleen Falsani, Jennifer Grant, editors, Disquiet Time: Rants and Reflections on the Good Book by the Skeptical, the Faithful, and a Few Scoundrels, unnumbered page:

Finally, we aimed to present our opinions without religious-like 'fundagelical' fervour.

2018, Gene Likens, David Lindenmayer, Effective Ecological Monitoring, unnumbered page:

(sometimes derogatory) Of, related to, or characteristic of both evangelical and fundamentalist Christianity.


fundagelical

In Alabama, Fundagelicals - our modern day moral majoritarians calling themselves Citizens for a Positive Education, banned the use of a social studies textbook on the grounds that it failed to extol the virtues of capitalism […]

1982, A View from the Loft, volumes 5-8, page 11:

What do fundagelicals instinctively oppose? Gay marriage, abortion, gun control, taxes, the UN (and the currently top-rated candidate for anti-Christ, Kofi Annan), withdrawal from Iraq, Michael Moore, Janet Jackson's left breast.

2004 May 3, John Sutherland, “God save America...”, in The Guardian:

Let us be radicals: not conservatives or liberals, fundagelicals or charismatics (or whatever other brand of something-less-than gospel entices), but radicals: radical preachers and practitioners of the gospel by justification by faith without the deeds of the law.

2012, Gerhard O. Forde, “Radical Lutheranism”, in Virgil Thompson, editor, Justification Is for Preaching: Essays by Oswald Bayer, Gerhard O. Forde, and Others, page 19:

(sometimes derogatory) A person with beliefs and values characteristic of both evangelical and fundamentalist Christianity.


stravenue

(US) In Tucson, Arizona, a street that runs diagonally between and intersects a street (running east-west) and an avenue (running north-south).


femonationalist

femonationalist (comparative more femonationalist, superlative most femonationalist)

more femonationalist (comparative)
most femonationalist (superlative)

In the final analytical section, we offer examples of ways in which feminists have tried to actively contest femonationalist tendencies.

2018, Maja Sager, Diana Mulinari, “Safety for whom? Exploring femonationalism and care-racism in Sweden”, in Women's Studies International Forum, Volume 68, May-June 2018:

The femonationalist territorialisation of Muslim men as sexual offenders may be exemplified with the Sweden Democrats, who in that op-ed in Wall Street Journal argued that Sweden's high rape figures are due to an 'open-door immigration' of particularly men from Muslim countries […]

2020, Lucas Gottzén, Kalle Berggren, “The rape capital or the most gender-equal country in the world?: Masculinity, hybridity and young men's intimate partner violence in Sweden”, in Lucas Gottzén, Margunn Bjørnholt, Floretta Boonzaier, editors, Men, Masculinities and Intimate Partner Violence, unnumbered page:

Femonationalist discourse is increasingly utilized by both Hindu and Buddhist nationalist representatives to figuratively rescue women from what they deem are the oppressive structures of Islam.

2021 September, Andrew Malji, “Gendered Islamophobia: The nature of Hindu and Buddhist nationalism in India and Sri Lanka”, in Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, volume 21, number 2:

Related to, characteristic of, or espousing femonationalism.


fauxtina

Artificial patina applied to a wristwatch etc. for cosmetic purposes.


transsensual

transsensual (comparative more transsensual, superlative most transsensual)

more transsensual (comparative)
most transsensual (superlative)

Probably a blend of transsexual + sensual, transgender + sensual, or similar.

TV/TS/SO - Carolina Transsensual Alliance: […] Open to all regardless of sexual orientation. No gay men unless CD. […] SOs welcome.

[1993 Winter, “Directory of Organizations & Services”, in Vivian D. Allen, editor, TV-TS Tapestry Journal, volume 66, →ISSN, page 89:

Jack was able to come to a sense of peace within himself as he and Dawn worked out an intimate and domestic life together. For others, the awareness of transsensual attraction comes long after the partnership is formed.

2004, Arlene Istar Lev, Transgender Emergence: Therapeutic Guidelines for Working with Gender-Variant People and Their Families, published 2007, →ISBN, page 310:

The dealer Rasmussen, who has previously rejected Gerda [Wegener]’s work, says of the paintings inspired by Lili [Elbe]: ‘These are different, I don’t know, there may be a market’.²⁷
²⁷ From his tone it may be a transsensual niche market that Rasmussen has in mind.

2016, Nicholas Chare, “Landscape into Portrait: Reflections on Lili Elbe and Trans* Aesthetics”, in Parallax, volume 22, number 3, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 351, 362:

(rare) Related to (sexual) attraction to trans people.


leftugee

Blend of left (political left, left-wing) + refugee.

blend

Just as a refugee resettles to escape hardship, a leftugee does so to flee the punitive financial environment created in their state by big government.

2019 December 27, Jason Orestes, “'Leftugees': Red states must defend themselves from the blue-state exodus”, in Washington Examiner:

But the fact that leftugees move in pursuit of more-affordable housing or to escape chronic traffic jams does not mean they all prefer a pure “red” policy model of low taxes and fewer services. To the contrary, blue-state migrants may nudge the politics of their new homes — and the new congressional districts to be drawn around them — leftward, while avoiding the worst liberal excesses they left behind.

2020 January 6, Charles Lane, “Want more bang for your vote? Move.”, in Washington Post:

There's dispute over whether the newcomers will change state politics in the South, as they may have in North Carolina, which elected a Democratic governor in 2016, or are “leftugees” fleeing liberal policies who will embrace conservatism.

2020 January 6, Tim Henderson, “Some states face political changes as newcomers arrive”, in Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise, Bartlesville, Oklahoma, page A6:

Forbes.com had a stark March 2021 headline for what's happening around the country: “America's Mass Migration Intensifies as ‘Leftugees’ Flee Blue States and Counties for Red.”

2022 January 23, “Color these (new) Tennessee former blue-staters red”, in The Tennessean, Nashville, Tennessee, page H7:

(US, politics) One who leaves a liberal blue state to live in a conservative red state, (often) doing so in favour of fewer regulations and lower taxes.


footquake

seismic activity caused by the feet of many people moving in unison


Mainely

Either a blend of Maine + mainly, or from Maine + -ly (“suffix to form an adjective”).

suf

Mainely Lobsters, Mainely Mulch

(US, nonstandard, used in business names or titles) Authentic to the U.S. state of Maine.


sexsurfing

On the other hand, in some circles couchsurfing has been dubbed “sexsurfing.”

2014 December, Matthew Czaja, Jacek Ciesnowski, “Sharing is the new economy”, in Warsaw Business Journal, page 20:

While an ideal host may enlighten travelers to the ins and outs of a city or offer a local's perspective on the surrounding area, the prevalence of “sexsurfing,” a term used by some travelers to describe incidents of sexual activity between travelers and hosts, has been sufficient to make some pause and reconsider.

2015 September, Nick Ficeto, “Your Friends in Bolivia”, in Tufts Observer, page 27:

Take note though, as in researching the term couchsurfing it was found that in Europe, couchsurfing can be synonymous with sexsurfing, whereby hosts may assume that they can have sex with the guest in return for lodging.

2018 [2016], Gabriela Domicelj, Derek Young, The Home Stay Guide, Little, Brown Book Group, →ISBN:

(informal, uncommon) The practice of couch surfers and hosts engaging in sexual intercourse.


pubikini

A thin, V-shaped, thong-style bathing suit bottom that in the front featured a tiny strip of fabric that exposed the wearer's pubic hair or mons pubis.


technophoria

2011 Philip Doty, "Privacy, Reading, and Trying Out Identity: The Digital Millennium Copyright Act and Technological Determinism", in Privacy in America: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, edited by William Aspray and Philip Doty, Scarecrow Press, p. 240.
As is widely recognized, the technophoria of these and similar authors is all too common, with only Castells of the three offering any serious and specific critique of such enthusiasm.

The technophoria of the mid-1990s has, however, left an unfortunate legacy: digital media and print culture studies' avid attention to changing e-book formats and digital rights skirmishes has distracted both fields from considering the surprising resilience of literary discussion.

2015, Simone Murray, “Charting the Digital Literary Sphere”, in Contemporary Literature, volume 56, number 2, page 316:

2017 Joshua Clover, "The Technical Composition of Conceptualism," in Literature and the Global Contemporary, edited by Sarah Brouillette, Mathias Nilges and Emilio Sauri, Palgrave Macmillan, p. 110.
Rather than resolve this tension directly, one might suggest that this incoherence signals the possibility of another periodization to be found beneath the technophoria, itself veritably rapturous in its vision of a human race relieved by robots not only from producing but also consuming—a periodization in which neither the anxiety over thwarted innovation nor the hurry of technological progress functions as cause of these poetic and more broadly social developments.

Excessive enthusiasm for technology, or excessive optimism about its possibilities.


Homocrat

All across the world, families came together and most people agreed, Retardican and Homocrat alike, it was a beautiful time to be alive on the planet Earth, wars or no wars, end or no end.

2006, Michael Soltys, The Grass is Green, page 244:

Ah yes, the way of the liberal. Never allow the 1st amendment rights of
others conflict with the distasteful agenda of the liberal homocrats.

2009 May 3, Jam Rock, “A liberal HOMOCRAT whines: "Miss California USA Should Quit or Be Fired"”, in alt.politics.democrats (Usenet):

2010 March 16, Democrat Gay Deadbeats, “Homocrat / democrat (Disney) scumbags who REFUSE to pay taxes”, in alt.politics (Usenet):

LOL... you Homocrats and Demofags have been hornswoggled into thinking
they actually give a shit about YOU, when the opposite is true... they
don't... they just wanted your vote and the sympathy of the stupid guilt-
stricken white idiots.

2016 August 13, AlleyCat, “LOL... Stupid Homocrats Think Hillary Clinton Is On Their Side”, in alt.society.liberalism (Usenet):

(US politics, slang, derogatory, offensive) A member or supporter of the Democratic Party, implying that they are homosexual.


Pfizermectin

Blend of Pfizer + ivermectin.
Coined by conspiracy theorists in 2021. From the drug pharmacokinetics of nirmatrelvir being similar to ivermectin, and thus supposedly being evidence that Pfizer blocked ivermectin from use by issuing a newly patented medicine of the same function, similar to how drug companies block generic drugs by issuing minor variants of drugs soon to come off patent and receiving a new patent extension.

(pharmacology, slang, conspiracism, neologism) Synonym of nirmatrelvir (Paxlovid)


cannabev

Jardin explains that the company’s non-infused offerings work well in both the lucrative carbonated water market and as brand awareness for when AAA Medic enters the cannabev space.

2019 May 7, Midas Letter Live, “AAA Medic Montreal Inc Receives Health Canada License for Industrial Outdoor Grow Site”, in Midas Letter, archived from the original on 2021-12-25:

But beyond it being easier to sip on cannabis than smoke a joint, there are many other reasons that people are loving cannabevs.

2019 November 20, Aleah Radovich, “Why Cannabis Drinks Are All the Hype Right Now”, in Dixie Brands:

You want the high but without the smoke or the delayed drop that comes with eating an edible. What’s the best method for your cannabis consumption? Look no further than CannaBevs, or cannabis beverages. Over the past 12-24 months, the market for CannaBevs has exploded, so here we’ll explore what juice is worth the squeeze.

2021 April 26, ecocanndev, “Which CannaBevs Are Worth It?”, in ECO Cannabis, archived from the original on 2021-12-25:

The nascent cannabev category only represents about 1% of total cannabis sales through the dispensary channel.

2021 September 10, Julia Gray, “The cannabis beverage market is bubbling with brands”, in Morning Brew:

Prohibition of Interstate cannabis commerce and the lack of state-by-state bottling plant manufacturing contracts currently hinder national launches of cannabevs.

2021 December 26, Sara Brittany Somerset, “7 Uplifting THC Drinks for the Holidays”, in Cannabis & Tech Today:

A drink infused with tetrahydrocannabinol.


brochacho

(slang) A term of endearment for a friend or brother.


bedaffled

en-adj

bedaffled (comparative more bedaffled, superlative most bedaffled)

more bedaffled (comparative)
most bedaffled (superlative)

She squinched her face, bedaffled.

2001, David R. Ambos, Letters from the Nude Lake and Other Historic Monuments, page 245:

O, I know very well what you are thinking: "The poor maid must be bedaffled in the brain to entrust all her fortune to a man like that!"

2010, Patrice Kindl, Goose Chase, page 8:


nanobe

Blend of nano + microbe, from nano-. From being nanoscale particles similar to microbes.

(geology, geochemistry, biology, biochemistry, microbiology, microscopy) A structure similar in appearance to a cell, but only nanometres in size.

Nanoscopic abiotic life, acellular life, or protolife.

A nanoscopic self-replicating structure.

Petrified nanoscopic structure, fossil or pseudofossil.


covidiocy

(derogatory, humorous, neologism) Foolish or reckless behavior with respect to avoiding or contracting COVID-19.


dwelf

The dwelf brought them boiling water and let them choose the leaves for the tea. Patience inquired about the possibility of getting rooms with closable windows for the night. “That depends,” said the dwelf. “On what? Tell us the price. […]”

2003, Orson Scott Card, Wyrms, Orb Books, →ISBN, page 167:

“Dwelves are half-elf, half-dwarf.” “Certainly not! We are not half-elves or half-anything. We are not dwarves. We are not elves. We are a unique race.” “Do their peoples descend from yours?” “Maybe. Giants did descend from fairies.”

2018, Austin Dragon, Comes the War Wizards' Wrath: Fabled Quest Chronicles (Book 3), Well-Tailored Books, →ISBN:

(fantasy) A member of a fictional race of creatures which combine the qualities of, or are hybrids of, dwarves and elves.


kung flu

Blend of kung fu + flu, in reference to the disease's presumed origin in Wuhan, China, in late 2019.

Hart: Kung Flu Virus will blow over

2020 February 20, headline, Chattanooga Times Free Press

"By the way, it's a disease, without question, has more names than any other in history. I can name, ‘kung flu,’ I can name, 19 different versions of names," Trump said.

2020 June 23, Eliza Relman, quoting Donald Trump, “White House press secretary says Trump's racist 'kung flu' comment was 'linking' the coronavirus 'to its place of origin'”, in Business Insider:

A source close to Mr Cummings said: 'From March through to the autumn, the PM said we should never have locked down. That was why he was so reluctant to do it again in November.' He said, 'the big danger is not Kung-Flu but the harm caused in trying to stop it.'

2021 May 25, Simon Walters, “PM 'wanted to be infected with Covid on live TV, called virus Kung-Flu and was slow to act because he was on holiday with Carrie'”, in Daily Mail:

(humorous, offensive) Synonym of COVID-19.


girlchik

(chiefly Jewish) Term of endearment for a girl or woman.