acedapsone

We report here the successful use of a new repository sulphone, acedapsone, in a field trial in Micronesia, both for the treatment of active leprosy cases and for the prevention of leprosy in an exposed, highly susceptible population.

1971 September 4, The Lancet, volume 2, number 7723, page 525:

In the 1960s and 1970s chemoprophylaxis with dapsone and acedapsone was investigated.

2010, Roger G. Finch, Antibiotic and Chemotherapy, page 479:

The more intense effect arises, of course, from the relatively facile non-enzymatic hydrolysis of these compounds as opposed to the enzyme-dependent hydrolysis of acedapsone.

2011, R. M. Pinder, “Recent advances in the chemotherapy of malaria”, in Progress in Medicinal Chemistry, volume 8:

(pharmacology) An antimicrobial drug that is used to treat leprosy.


starchitecture

en-noun

starchitecture (usually uncountable, plural starchitectures)

Large, unusual building projects designed by celebrity architects.


demogrant

A grant awarded on purely demographic principles such as age and sex.


Microhoo

If it manages to win over Yahoo, the combined entity (already dubbed Microhoo on the Net) would be another behemoth, not only controlling e-mail and instant messenger (over 90 per cent share), but also standing significantly taller in the fight against Google.

2008 February 18, Sunit Arora, Arindam Mukherjee, “Knock Knock... MS Hoo”, in Outlook, volume 48, number 7, page 53:

Facing the Possibility of Microhoo!

Yahoo's systems are based heavily on Open Source. If Microsoft keeps them that way, it will lose credibility with customers.

2008, Lawrence D'Oliveiro, “Microhoo prognostications”, in nz.comp (Usenet):

MS is desperate to find something new that others might play catchup to, with little success. Their approach has almost always been claim jumping ("A market without competition, isn't."). That is hardly working for them anymore (witness Zune, Microhoo).

2008, Matt, “[News] Ogg is Coming to Hundreds of Millions of PCs!!”, in comp.os.linux.advocacy (Usenet):

You made a really, really bad move getting in bed with microhoo, and it will cost you in the end.

2011, unknown author, “Went back to 3.5”, in mozilla.feedback.firefox (Usenet):

(computing, humorous) The company that would be formed by the acquisition of Yahoo! by Microsoft (the potential result of a merger proposed in the mid-2000s).


ambassadrix

From ambassad(or) + -(t)rix (or blend of ambassador + -trix).


erotosexual

en-adj

erotosexual (comparative more erotosexual, superlative most erotosexual)

more erotosexual (comparative)
most erotosexual (superlative)


laptronica

Blend of laptop + electronica. The term gained a certain degree of currency in the 1990s.

More recently, the notion of using a portable computer on stage became a reality and new forms of music including laptronica, the synthesis of laptop and electronica, were born.

2012, Leigh Landy, Making Music with Sounds, Routledge, →ISBN, page 16:

(music, computing) Musical output made with a laptop computer combined with electronic devices, portable enough for live performances.


spanger

From spange + -er (“person who does”), root blend of spare + change, from stereotyped phrase “spare change?”, “spare any change?”.

I squatted down on the sidewalk to get eye level with the spanger (someone who asks passerbys for spare change).

2007, Pam Hogeweide, Spangers and Song on Hawthorne

(US, slang, derogatory) beggar, one who uses the phrase “spare change?”


malternative

An alcoholic beverage, an alternative to beer, that contains some malt alcohol and may contain other types of alcohol.


holyhedron

John Conway of Princeton University offered a reward in the 1990s to anyone producing a holyhedron, a polyhedron with a finite number of faces and with a hole in every face. […] Conway had predicted that someone will eventually find a holyhedron with fewer than 100 faces.

1969, Charles Miller, Vern Heeren, John Hornsby, Margaret Morrow, Jill Van Newenhizen, Mathematical Ideas, 11th edition:

(geometry) A polyhedron with a finite number of faces and with a polygonal hole in every face, the holes' boundaries sharing no point with each other or the face's boundary.


Zionazi

1988, slogan spray-painted on the wall of the Jewish Student Center at SUNY Binghamton, quoted in David Singer, American Jewish Year Book, 1990, Jewish Publication Society (1990), →ISBN, page 213,
Zionazi racists

a'''2002, Hussam Ayloush, quoted in Daniel Pipes, In the Path of God, Transaction Publishers (2002), →ISBN, page 118,
zionazi

2002, graffiti at the University of Colorado at Boulder, quoted in Raphael Israeli, Islamikaze: Manifestations of Islamic Martyrology, Routledge (2003), →ISBN, pages 364–365,
Zionazis

(offensive, derogatory) A Zionist with Nazi-like tendencies.


nowcasting

(statistics) The use of mathematical models of a current situation that include adjustments to imperfect data.


nowcast

en-verb

nowcast (third-person singular simple present nowcasts, present participle nowcasting, simple past and past participle nowcasted)

nowcasts (present singular third-person)
nowcasting (participle present)
nowcasted (participle past)
nowcasted (past)

If the nowcasted or forecasted rainfall depth is greater than the FFG, then flooding in the basin is considered likely.

2017, Nicolas R. Dalezios, Environmental Hazards Methodologies for Risk Assessment and Management, page 169:

To predict the weather for a very short upcoming period (usually a few hours).

The indices are nowcasted at a very low level, meaning thousands of nowcasts. Attention has been focuesed on the nowcasts that fail validation checks.

2010, Economic & Labour Market Review - Volume 4, Issues 1-6, page 33:

First, the value-added contribution from each origin country is adjusted according to their (nowcasted) change in GDP.

2019, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Transnational Corporations, page 124:

Our ability to nowcast will depend on the length of the delay and the quality of data available.

2020, Adam Kucharski, The Rules of Contagion, page 147:

(statistics, modelling) To estimate what is currently happening based on knowledge of how data is biased.


nowcast

A low-probability nowcast was essentially a “No Forecast" , but issued with less confidence.

1988, Third International Conference on the Aviation Weather System, page 208:

(meteorology) A weather forecast predicting the weather for a very short upcoming period, usually only a few hours.

(statistics, modelling) An estimate made by nowcasting.


Medigap

(US) A type of medical insurance for expenses not covered under Medicare.


prenote

A speech that serves as a warm-up to the keynote of a conference.


brandcasting

Promoting a brand, product or service by streaming video of events, product demonstrations and other offline experiences through online media channels.


Mouseketeer

Blend of mouse + musketeer, from the Mickey Mouse ears worn by the performers.

Yes, I became one of those confused children in the school cafeteria who failed to identify with one of the Mouseketeers; one of those who flubbed in food fights because I had not sufficiently studied my friends' mentors […]

1982 August, Deirdre English, “We oughta be in pictures”, in Mother Jones Magazine, volume 7, number 7:

And that cartel's got a network that makes the CIA look like Mouseketeers.

The research for that really disturbed me because so many of the Mouseketeers were living lives of quiet desperation. They hadn't profited emotionally, or financially, or professionally.

2004, Robert William Kubey, Creating television:

Any of the child or teenage performers featured in the American television variety show The Mickey Mouse Club.


jeggings

I remember first reading about jeggings (jeans+leggings) in 2009. How ridiculous it sounded then, a word that conjured up images of urinary infections and squished buttocks. Four years later, the M&S website devotes an entire section to this fashion hybrid.

2013 May 10, Rachel Braier, “The trouser is so now in the singular world of fashion”, in The Guardian:

(fashion, neologism) Denim leggings, or very skinny jeans.


hang tight

hang tight (third-person singular simple present hangs tight, present participle hanging tight, simple past and past participle hung tight)

hangs tight (present singular third-person)
hanging tight (participle present)
hung tight (participle past)
hung tight (past)

From hang + tight, possibly in part from a blend of hang on + hold tight.

And should a really large payoff be hit, a jackpot, the machines will make a bunch of noise, a light may go off atop the machine and you just hang tight, a casino employee should be there soon to give you the payoff.

2003, Avery Cardoza, Winning Casino Play, page 198:

The day before I was supposed to fly out I called my friend Mike back home and explained what was happening and he told me to hang tight while he tried to figure out what to do, he knew his friend Phil who was an Ex Marine who once served under Mikes command, was working out here and luckily for me he was based on VBC, so he asked him for a favour, to hide me until he felt it was safe to fly me out, Mike then called me back and gave me Phil's number, and that he was expecting my call when I arrive on Victory.

2009, Karen Smith, Desert Rose, page 540:

I'll call you back when I've got someone in the air. I'll need your coordinates at that time. In the interim, you're going to have to hang tight, buddy.

2011, Linda Castillo, Operation: Midnight Cowboy:

“Hang tight.” He heard the feet running away again. Robie looked down at Julie and back over at the window. He wasn't hanging tight. He pulled out his phone, thumbed Vance's number.

Hang tight, Mr. Hampton. Let me run you through the system, write your ticket, and we'll have you on your way soon.

I'm gonna call Captain Doby and talk to him about your situation. In the meantime, you guys just hang tight until we get back with you.

2014, Renaldo Martin, Sins Beneath the Cloth, page 190:

“Noah, if you want more, I need to be able to go out and get it.” “I know, I know,” he said. “I'm just saying hang tight till Monday.”

“Okay mom, you need to hang tight and we need to figure out a plan. Don't do anything yet. We are on our way.”

2021, Elizabeth Foutch, City of Chaos and Mayhem, page 165:

“For now, just hang tight.” “Hang tight?” Hattie cried. “My baby girl is in danger and you're telling us to hang tight?”

(informal, chiefly imperative) To wait, without attempting to address a challenging, alarming, or dangerous situation, until a later point in time.


chrominance

en-noun

chrominance (countable and uncountable, plural chrominances)

The signal used in video systems to convey the picture's colour information, separately from the accompanying luma signal.


niggerhood

He had grown up in the niggerhood. Even now on some calls, white complainants asked him to go around to the back door.

1998, Patricia Cornwell, Southern Cross:

The next freeway entrance was Vernon. He'd drive up there and find it. If he didn't run across a decent location on the way, he'd just have to vacate the niggerhood and do it somewhere else.

2009, Susan Calhoun, Freeway Close, page 211:

We need a modern White version of that. They go into niggerhoods that border Human areas and patrol. Protect the Human encampments from the invading Morlocks. Do it legally, and call the police to actually grab the criminal n*gs, but be out there in force watching & filming these things.

Quoted in: 2020, Martina Althoff, Bernd Dollinger, Holger Schmidt, Conflicting Narratives of Crime and Punishment (page 155)

(slang, offensive, ethnic slur) A neighborhood of primarily African-American residents.


grapholect

Blend of grapheme + dialect, coined by linguist Einar Haugen in 1964.

The grapholect of Standard English is not the exclusive system that arbiters of cultural purity wish to 'correct' us into believing

1993, Gajendra K. Verma, Inequality and teacher education: an international perspective, page 188:

A grapholect is a transdialectical language formed by deep commitment to writing. An example of grapholect is the (written) Chinese language. Almost any Standard language, such as Standard Dutch or Standard English is a grapholect.

1993, MHM Heng, Three Dimensions of Information Technology Applications: A Historical Perspective:

(linguistics) A written variant of a language, analogous to a spoken dialect of a language.


voluntourist

As summer looms, many Americans — college students, retirees and others who stand at the cusp of life changes — will make similar choices in search of transformational experiences. An industry exists to make these easier to make: the voluntourism business. A voluntourist is someone like Jack, who wishes to combine exotic vacation travel with volunteer work.

2014 April 21, Rafia Zakaria, “The white tourist’s burden”, in Al Jazeera America, archived from the original on 2016-01-14:

I’m not pretending all in the camp are philanthropic angels. On Sunday we saw three “voluntourists”, taking selfies.

2016 October 7, Rosamund Urwin, Let’s praise the Jungle’s volunteers, in the i, № 1,831, page 18/5:

A tourist who takes part in voluntourism.


utilidor

The theme park's utilidors conveyed electricity to various parts of the rides.


scriptment

Blend of script + treatment. Coined by filmmaker James Cameron, possibly during his early involvement in the development of the Spider-Man film series.

(cinematography) A written work by a movie or television screenwriter that combines elements of a script and treatment, especially the dialogue elements, which are formatted the same as in a screenplay.


boomburb

(neologism, informal, urban studies) A rapidly expanding suburb.


zoomburb

(informal, neologism, urban studies) A very rapidly expanding suburb.


daymare

What walks I took alone, down muddy lanes, in the bad winter weather, carrying that parlour, and Mr. and Miss Murdstone in it, everywhere: a monstrous load that I was obliged to bear, a daymare that there was no possibility of breaking in, a weight that brooded on my wits, and blunted them!

1859, Charles Dickens, chapter VIII, in David Copperfield, published 1869:

Sometimes I can't help but feel helpless / I'm havin' daymares in daytime wide awake try to relate / This can't be happenin' like I'm in a dream while I'm walkin' / Cause what I'm seein is hauntin', human beings like ghost and zombies

2005, “Road to Zion”, in Welcome to Jamrock, performed by Damian Marley ft. Nas:

A vivid, unpleasant mental image, having the characteristics of a nightmare, during wakefulness.


mathemagician

Of course, there is no reason why some algorithm invented by mathemagicians should have an analogy in the way actual markets work.

1984, Richard R Cornwall, Introduction to the use of general equilibrium analysis:

They're all here in this illustrated, brain-boggling bonanza by famous puzzler and mathemagician Martin Gardner.

1995, Martin Gardner, Classic Brainteasers:

It is not, then, a Boeing which our mathemagicians propose to make vanish, but the living Earth; and it is its metaphysical double which they are progressively unveiling to us.

2005, Paul Virilio, The information bomb:

(informal) One whose mathematical skills are so remarkable as to resemble magic.


platypusary

Blend of platypus + nursery, coined by Australian naturalist Henry Burrell (1873–1945), the first person who succeeded in constructing a functioning platypusary.

It was Mr. Harry Burrell, of Sydney, who first designed an intricate model home for the platypus and coined for it the obviously suitable name of "Platypusary".

1944, David Howells Fleay, We breed the platypus, page 14:

When building "platypusaries" in zoos and sanctuaries it is essential to ensure that man-made tunnels are tight-fitting.

1974, Dal Stivens, The incredible egg: a billion year journey, page 354:

There was nothing for it but to install the three duckbills in the travelling platypusary in one of the Pan American hangars and hope for the best.

1980, David Howells Fleay, Paradoxical Platypus: Hobnobbing with Duckbills, page 106:

(Australia) A place where platypuses are nurtured.


mappen

Dunnet gowl, Aggy. Mappen I'll be maister man mysel' soon.

1887, Hall Caine, chapter VII, in A Son of Hagar: A Romance of Our Time […], volume I, London: Chatto and Windus, […], →OCLC, 1st book (Retro Me, Sathana), page 128:

(UK, dialectal, obsolete) It may happen that; maybe, perhaps.


conifold

(mathematics) A certain generalization of a manifold, capable of containing conical singularities.


logamediate

(physics) Describing a proposed form of cosmological inflation whose rate is intermediate between logarithmic and exponential.


quintom

(physics) A proposed interaction of a quintessence field and a phantom field as a model of dark energy


spheromak

(physics) A particular form of stabilized magnetic field in which a plasma may be confined for use in nuclear fusion.


Jelena

Borrowed from Russian Еле́на (Jeléna), from Latin Helena, from Ancient Greek Ἑλένη (Helénē). Doublet of Helen and Ellen.

Еле́на Елена#Russian

A transliteration of the Russian female given name Еле́на (Jeléna), equivalent to Helen.


Jelena

/d͡ʒəˈliːnə/

“Jelena” ended their almost two year relationship just a week ago when, as reports state, Justin wouldn't “be her boyfriend” any more.

2012 November 29, Brittany Lander, “Bieber BreakUp (Boo-Hoo)”, in Red & Black, volume 104, number 11, Washington & Jefferson College, page 17:

By fall 2011, “Jelena”—the cosmically cute combo of Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez—was official.

2013, Nadia Higgins, Justin Bieber: Pop and R & B Idol, Lerner Publications Company, →ISBN, page 26:

On Jan. 4, Justin Bieber posted a picture — an usie — on Instagram of him and Selena Gomez, captioned “Love the way you look at me.” Only time and paparazzi will tell if Jelena will once again go strong.

2014 January 8, “Trending”, in The Michigan Daily, University of Michigan, page 3B:

(slang) The couple consisting of celebrities Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez.


educrat

/ˈɛd͡ʒəkɹæt/

This is a great example of an educrat, getting in the way of what's right to push a failed political ideology.

2020, Adriana LaGrange, Refusing to spend adequate money to protect Alberta kids during a pandemic:

It has everything to do with the educrat industry whose grip on our children Hillary is helping to maintain.

2000, Laura Ingraham, The Hillary trap: looking for power in all the wrong places:

Many educrats make much of their income and build their reputations trying to fix the problems they themselves created with their dopey educational methodologies.

As a result of the misguided educrats, college students across the country now spend much of the first two years in remedial classes […]

2003, G Gordon Liddy, When I Was a Kid, This Was a Free Country:

(derogatory) An official or administrator in a school district or government body.


symplectomorphism

In prequantizing symplectomorphisms of the type T^*g, the only special property which we used was the fact that they preserve canonical 1-forms.

1977, Alan Weinstein, Lectures on Symplectic Manifolds, American Mathematical Society, page 34:

2001, A. Dzhamay, G. Wassermann (translators), V. I. Arnol'd, A. B. Givental' Symplectic Geometry, V. I. Arnol'd, S. P. Novikov (editors), Dynamical Systems IV: Symplectic Geometry and its Applications, Springer, 2nd Edition, page 39,
Poincare's argument is based on the fact that the fixed points of a symplectomorphism of the annulus are precisely the critical points of the function F(x,y)=∫(fdv-gdu), where u=(X+x)/2, v=(Y+y)/2, true under the assumption that the Jacobian ∂(u,v)/∂(x,y) is different from zero.

2008, Ana Cannas da Silva, Lectures on Symplectic Geometry, Springer, 2nd printing with corrections, page 63,
The symplectomorphisms of a symplectic manifold (M,ω) form the group
Sympl(M,ω)={f:M overset ≃⟶M|f^*ω=ω}.

(mathematics) An isomorphism of a symplectic manifold; a diffeomorphism which preserves symplectic structure.


magnetricity

(physics) The flow of magnetic monopoles as the magnetic equivalent of electricity.


soysage

Soybeans can be used to make soyburgers, souffles, fritters, casseroles, soysages, soymilk, ice bean, tofu (Japanese bean curd), tempeh (Indonesian cultured soy cake), spreads, dips and soups and many more.

2013, William Shurtleff, Akiko Aoyagi, History of Whole Dry Soybeans:

A vegetarian or vegan sausage made with soy instead of meat.


metroplex

Blend of metropolitan + complex, originally coined as a marketing term for the Dallas–Fort Worth conurbation.

Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex

The collection of small urban centers and the multinucleated metropolitan subcenters is the twenty-first-century metroplex that provides citizens with opportunities to develop different lifestyles in new environmental settings. In the metroplex the new arrivals do not have to abandon their careers or interests.

1984, Jack Meltzer, Metropolis to Metroplex: The Social and Spatial Planning of Cities, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 14:

(US, urban studies) A large metropolitan area containing several cities and their suburbs.


Jedward

(UK, Ireland, informal) John & Edward, an Irish singing duo who achieved fame in The X Factor in 2009.


tweetup

A meeting in person organised on the social networking web site Twitter.


Halfrican

My son who calls himself a Halfrican-American flattens his hair by pressing the top of his head against the wall in our hallway.

1994, Myra Goldberg, Whistling and Other Stories, page 177:

[…] ¶ “White girl!” ¶ “Nigger bitch!” ¶ “HALFRICAN!” ¶ “MUTT!” ¶ “HALF-BREED!” ¶ […]

2004, Nicole Bailey-Williams, Floating, Random House, →ISBN, page 128:

"Oh, Biracial Humor!" Devin laughed. "Too clever for me!"
He laughed, but the comment stung. It always had. It meant that even his closest friends saw him as inauthentic, the fake McCoy, a Halfrican.

2005, Wendy Coakley-Thompson, What You Won’t Do For Love, Dafina Books, →ISBN, page 79:

(offensive) A person who is biracial, with one black parent and one of another race.


cannista

“Our cannistas have worked tirelessly to understand how to guide people … where we can show them what a terpene is, what THC and CBD are, what strains are potentially the best for the outcomes they’re looking to have,” Mison said.

2018 October 16, Dayla Lahring, “Cannabis is legal – now what?”, in St. Albert Gazette:

The store also has a dedicated “education room” or “experimental room,” where customers can search tablets or talk to the shop’s cannabis educators — or “cannistas” — about different strains and consumption methods.

2019 April 1, “As retail pot shops launch in Ontario, Ottawa’s three stores open their doors”, in Global News:

Our Cannistas share inspiring insights, easy-to-follow advice and as much or as little education as you want, making your purchase simple and snappy.

2020 March 22, “Cannista (Educator)”, in Canada Jobs, archived from the original on 2020-03-22:

(Canada) A service employee at a marijuana shop.


Chrismahanukwanzakah

Etymology tree
English Christmasblend.
English Hanukkahblend.
English Kwanzaablend.
English ChrismahanukwanzakahBlend of Christmas + Hanukkah + Kwanzaa.

etymon

Happy Chrismahanukwanzakah! Merry HanuKwanzMas! (Whew... that covers everyone, right?)

2005 December, “Diversity Calendar 2006”, in Cincinati Magazine, volume 39, number 3, Emmis Communications, →ISSN, page 66:

How could Fox ever win its holiday war now? Surely all would be lost, and the nation would be forced to endure another Chrismahanukwanzakah.

2007, Joseph Minton Amann, Tom Breuer, Fair and Balanced, My Ass!: An Unbridled Look at the Bizarre Reality of Fox News, →ISBN, page 247:

Have a Blessed Chrismahanukwanzakah and a Spectacular New Year!

2009 December 16, "John H", “Approval ratings not the best...”, in rec.boats (Usenet):

(humorous) A fictional holiday in December combining aspects of Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa into one festival.


Manwich

Genericized trademark, presumably a blend of man + sandwich.

An easily made sandwich of ground meat and commercially made, seasoned tomato sauce.


occultural

/ɒˈkʌltjʊəɹəl/

Blend of occult + cultural or occulture + -al.

If there is some truth both to the argument concerning the significance of popular music and also to the argument concerning the emergence and significance of occulture in the West, then one would expect popular music, at certain points, to reflect occultural commitment and to be implicated in the process of sacralization.

2005, Christopher Hugh Partridge, The Re-Enchantment of the West, volume 1, page 147:

The increasing pervasiveness of this occultural milieu across society suggests that it is beginning to displace institutional Christianity as the dominant religious culture.

2007, Gordon Lynch, The New Spirituality: An Introduction to Progressive Belief in the Twenty-first Century, page 111:

(properly) Of or pertaining to occulture.


spy-fi

With the MIB taking on aliens of every stripe, it can also be viewed as a parody of The X-Files and the spy-fi series that rose to prominence in the 1990s.

2005, Wesley Alan Britton, Beyond Bond: spies in fiction and film:

Perhaps the series had finally gone over the top, taking spy-fi to the limit. What next—007 fighting alien invaders?

2006, Wesley Alan Britton, Onscreen and undercover: the ultimate book of movie espionage:

(informal) A genre of science fiction involving secret agents.


quarkyonic

quantum chromodynamics
quantum chromodynamics#English

(physics) Describing elements of quantum chromodynamics that have characteristics both of quarks and of baryons.


medroxyprogesterone

/mɛˌdɹɒk.sɪ.pɹəˈd͡ʒɛ.stə.ɹəʊn/

(pharmacology) A synthetic progesterone C₂₂H₃₂O₃ that is administered by injection as a long-acting contraceptive or is taken orally especially to treat amenorrhea and abnormal uterine bleeding and in conjunction with estrogen to relieve the symptoms of menopause and prevent osteoporosis.


permalloy

magnetic permeability
magnetic permeability

Any of a class of nickel/iron alloys that have a high magnetic permeability.


multicasting

en-noun

multicasting (countable and uncountable, plural multicastings)

Unlike broadcasting, multicasting allows each host to choose whether it wants to accept multicast packets.

2009, Robert Rümmler, Alexander Daniel Gluhak, Hamid Aghvami, Multicast in Third-Generation Mobile Networks: Services, Mechanisms and Performance, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 14:

(networking) The simultaneous transmission of data to several destinations on a network.


futarchy

Perhaps a blend of (idea) futures + -archy.

[Vitalik Buterin is] an unabashed geek whose eyes spark when he alights upon one of his favorite concepts, whether it be quadratic voting or the governance system futarchy.

2022 March 18, Andrew Chow, “The Man Behind Ethereum Is Worried About Crypto's Future”, in Time, →ISSN:

A form of government proposed by economist Robin Hanson, in which elected officials define measures of national welfare and prediction markets are used to determine which policies will have the most positive effect.


thumbboard

Blend of thumb + keyboard. By surface analysis, thumb + board.

A small keyboard designed to be operated with the thumbs, as on smartphones.


gravastar

(astronomy, physics) A proposed alternative to black holes that is more consistent with quantum mechanics.


muser

From Middle English musere, equivalent to muse + -er.


retrodiction

retrodiction (countable and uncountable, plural retrodictions)

A form of "prediction" that deals with the past rather than the future, sometimes useful in testing theories whose actual predictions are too long-term to be of immediate use.


botel

a floating hotel; a boat that acts as a hotel


cro

Blend of Crip (“a member of the Crips gang”) + bro; however, the word does not necessarily refer to a member of the Crips.

blend

Every night, late night like I'm Jimmy Fallon / Cro shoot from anywhere like he Ray Allen

2022 November 11, Drake, 21 Savage (lyrics and music), “Circo Loco”, in Her Loss:

(MTE, slang) Synonym of bro (“a male comrade or friend”)


surgicenter

A medical facility where surgical procedures not requiring an overnight hospital stay are performed.


azran

A position, often in polar coordinates, of an object located by radar


ballute

A parachute that incorporates a toroidal balloon.


yumptious

en-adj

yumptious (comparative more yumptious, superlative most yumptious)

more yumptious (comparative)
most yumptious (superlative)

...it was an American soda fountain that knew how to produce yumptious milk shakes and the deadliest of sundaes.

1933, Beatrice Borland, Passports for Asia:

Dinner from $3.25 includes fresh bread (baked daily), yumptious island soups...

1970, Jeanne Harman, Harry E Harman, Fielding's guide to the Caribbean, plus the Bahamas:

Select two picnic foods you're famous for—say, your homemade lemonade and those yumptious chocolate-chip cookies—and make those for the picnic.

2007, Jeff Bredenberg, How to Cheat at Organizing: Quick, Clutter-Clobbering Ways to Simplify Your Life:


ceramal

en-noun

ceramal (countable and uncountable, plural ceramals)


mixmer

(genetics) An oligomer consisting of alternating short stretches of LNA and DNA.


silicene

(organic chemistry) Any short-lived, reactive species R₂Si: analogous to carbenes.


crapplet

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


queerdo

I don't look like Indhira Ghandi yet. / Dummy-heado, stupid queerdo. / Holden, Howard and No Hands.

1985, “[Untitled]”, in Lake Forest College Yearbook, page 143:

A club for queerdos and weirdos featuring electro, indie, R&B, '80s, hip-hop, punk, and more.

2005 October 19, Laurie Koh [complier], “Events Listings”, in The San Francisco Bay Guardian, page 81:

[…] and a burning urge to write something. Anything — it just needed to be queer. Why? Because this l'il queerdo had been a longtime Gay Place reader […]

2020 February 14, Beth Sullivan, “Qmmunity”, in The Austin Chronicle, page 60:

(US, slang) A particularly strange LGBTQ+ person.


fluorspar

fluorspar (usually uncountable, plural fluorspars)

Blend of fluorite + spar (“mineral, crystal”).

(mineralogy) A halide mineral composed of calcium fluoride.


lumberjacket

As they approached they saw a man running up this track towards the road, a man in lumber jacket and dirty canvas trousers, a rough man, running clumsily up-hill, half foundered.

1952, Neville Shute, chapter 5, in The Far Country:

He fished into the inside pocket of his lumber jacket and brought out a paper screw of sugar.

1958, Muriel Spark, chapter 4, in Robinson, New York: New Directions, published 2003, page 38:

[…] swinging back up into the cab of the truck in my Levis and lumberjacket and moccasins (which out on the highway no longer seem the costume that they do in the halls of the high school) […]

1969, Philip Roth, Portnoy’s Complaint, New York: Vintage, published 1994, page 170:


furoin

(organic chemistry) The heterocyclic hydroxy-ketone 1,2-bis(2-furyl)-2-hydroxy-ethanone, analogous to benzoin


repunit

11, 111, and 1,111 are repunits.

The only known prime repunits are R2, R19, R23, and more recently R317 (discovered by Williams in 1978) and R1031 (discovered by Williams & Dubner in 1986). Moreover, Dubner has determined that for every other prime p less than 10000, the repunit Rp is composite.

1991, Paulo Ribenboim, The Little Book of Big Primes, page 172:

A repdigit consisting only of one or more occurrences of the digit 1.


helislab

(physics) A relatively large cluster of liquid crystal molecules having a common helical axis.


lactosamine

lactosamine (countable and uncountable, plural lactosamines)

(biochemistry) An amino derivative of lactose that is found in many biologically active carbohydrates


coboson

(physics) Any boson considered to be a composite particle.


spinoculation

spinoculation (countable and uncountable, plural spinoculations)

centrifugal inoculation (of cell cultures)


shitizen

Blend of shit + citizen and/or blend of shitty + citizen.

(Chinglish, vulgar, derogatory) A citizen who is common, of little value, worthless, or corrupt.


cracktro

When browsing the HVSC, I often encounter some songs which I never heard the name of, but which I know from those famous cracktros from Ikari, Hotline etc.

2002, Blackspawn, “Favourite cracktro tunes”, in alt.c64 (Usenet):

Some of his modules were later also used by crackers and demogroups. Bamiga Sector One, for example, used his module titled Blueberry for the cracktro of Carrier Command.

2005, Tamás Polgár, Freax: the brief history of the demoscene: Volume 1:

(demoscene) An intro added to a piece of cracked software, typically including visual effects and music and naming the group that did the cracking.


invitro

This party will have it all for the Amiga scener: demos, competitions, dealers, and huge projection screen and sound system to entertain you. […] And keep an eye out for the DA official party invitro, to be released in a month or two's time.

1996, John Bus, “Amiga Domain - An Aussie Scene Party!”, in alt.sys.amiga.demos (Usenet):

since when should all invitations be executables? :P
anyway, the sf2k invitro should be looked at as a demo, just like the VIP2 invitro, for instance

2001, Egbert Teeselink, “Ready to use Demosystem libraries (was: Re: DemoGL v1.3 Final released)”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet):

(demoscene) An intro that provides details of a forthcoming demoparty to which viewers are invited.


mankini

Blend of man + bikini, equivalent to man + -kini.

Then he spray-tans and parades before a panel of judges in a posing suit, known in the sport as a mankini.

2012 April 1, Mary Pilon, “Sculptured by Weights and a Strict Vegan Diet”, in The New York Times:

A few supporters even wore mankinis of their own in solidarity.

2024 February 19, Yan Zhuang, “An Olympic Equestrian Rode a Horse in a ‘Mankini.’ Australia Loves Him.”, in The New York Times:


acrisorcin

(pharmacology) A topical antiinfective, typically used as a fungicide, whose active ingredients are 9-aminoacridine and 4-hexylresorcinol.


benzenesulfonamide

benzenesulfonic acid
benzenesulfonic acid

(organic chemistry) The amide of benzenesulfonic acid; any derivative of this compound, especially ones that are used as intermediates in the synthesis of dyes, photochemicals and disinfectants


oxalamide

(organic chemistry) The amide of oxalic acid; any N-derivative of this compound


pivalaldehyde

(organic chemistry) The aldehyde formed by reduction of the carboxylic acid group of pivalic acid


alkynamide

(organic chemistry) Any amide containing an alkyne group


trackmo

(demoscene) A demo that is loaded directly from the physical tracks of a floppy disk instead of loading through the file system.

(demoscene) A demo whose visual effects follow a set timeline synchronized with a continuous soundtrack, much like a music video.


slunt

I sure hope not. Way too many untalented bimbo slunts getting tv time already.

2001, Drazic the No 1 Sickboy, “Kim Page to new WCW or WWF?”, in rec.sport.pro-wrestling (Usenet):

I like talking to married ladies though, cause most they the safest. Of course, you got some married slunts, but the ones that get it are really neat peeples. Which brings me to a sore point - I hate being single and scrounging in the singles scene.

2002, Hollywood®Boy, “Tag”, in alt.religion.jiffyism (Usenet):

Kolle, you slunt, as long as I'm in power, you'll never even touch that title~! If you were champion, the ratings would go down even lower than when Craiggers left the Late Late Show~!

2004, Golden God MMkay, “ASBCW~! Cracky Is Nacho Hats - 11/01/04”, in alt.skate-board (Usenet):

(slang, vulgar, derogatory, rare) A very slutty person.


washlet

From a trademark. Calque of Japanese ウォッシュレット (wosshuretto). Blend of wash + toilet, or wash + -let.

calque

Toto doesn’t sell its washlets in big-box stores like Home Depot, preferring the showroom experience instead.

2015 November 18, Steven Kurutz, “The Cult of the Toto Toilet”, in New York Times:

(colloquial) A bidet shower, bidet seat, or similar bathroom product meant to cleanse the user.


locsiton

(physics) A form of exciton that has only a local effect.


Gacrux

Blend of gamma + Crux, probably invented by astronomer Elijah Hinsdale Burritt by contraction of its Bayer designation

Abbreviation of Gamma Crucis. a red giant star approximately 88 light-years away in the constellation of Crux


ShamWow

Trade name, from Blend of chamois + wow.

You might as well buy a couple of ShamWows and least you get your money's worth.

"Use this Shamwow to absorb someone else's soul while you suck on the other end."

From now on, will soak up her briefings like Shamwow.

2009, G. B. Trudeau, My Shorts R Bunching. Thoughts?: The Tweets of Roland Hedley, page 25:

He had sincere ambition, and he would soak up information like a "ShamWOW" sponge.

2008, Jeff Zahratka, Sweepers Sweepers Man Your Brooms: An Enlisted Man's Story, page 167:


vortensity

en-noun

vortensity (countable and uncountable, plural vortensities)

(physics) The ratio of vorticity to density of a rotating fluid.


spaceliner

A commercial spacecraft that carries passengers.


ammoxidation

(organic chemistry) The reaction of ammonia and oxygen with any of several classes of organic compound

ammonossidazione

reaction of ammonia and oxygen with an organic compound


sextravaganza

(slang) An event, production, etc. involving plenty of sex or erotic imagery.


dendrigraft

(organic chemistry) A polymer, having the form of a dendrimer, that is constructed in stages by grafting pieces onto an existing structure.


estazolam

Probably blend of (d)es(me)thyl + alprazolam.

(pharmacology) A benzodiazepine drug used to treat insomnia.


malvertising

(computing) Internet advertising whose real intention is to deliver malware to the viewer's computer.


permatemp

An employee who is officially a temp (temporary worker) but who works full time alongside permanent workers, without the stability and benefits (insurance, holiday pay, etc.) afforded to them.


cowpunk

cowpunk (countable and uncountable, plural cowpunks)

On that record, Bad Pumpkin, they romped around the fringes of hard rock, toying with cowpunk on one side and zanier stuff (a Television-at-the-beach instrumental) on the other.

1989 November 10, Bill Wyman, “Fetchin Bones”, in Chicago Reader:

At times the group's new album, Drag It Up, fights to find a middle ground between the surging cowpunk of 1997's Too Far to Care and the melodic pop of 2001's Satellite Rides.

2004 September 3, Bob Mehr, “Chuck Prophet, Old 97's”, in Chicago Reader:

Also known as country punk, cowpunk combines punk rock with folk, country, blues, and rockabilly influences. A wide range of punk bands have evidenced cowpunk tendencies, such as the Blasters, Meat Puppets, Violent Femmes, Social Distortion, the Beat Farmers […] and others.

2022, Rich Weidman, Punk: The Definitive Guide to the Blank Generation and Beyond, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 80:

(uncountable) A musical subgenre that combines punk rock with country music, folk music, and blues.


pepper Jack

A cheese derived from Monterey Jack with the addition of spicy hot peppers.


Mickeysoft

Blend of Mickey Mouse (suggesting inferior quality) and Microsoft.


refback

(Internet) The use of the optional HTML referer header to obtain information about web pages or proxy servers bringing traffic to a web page.


Windoze

Blend of Windows + doze, suggesting slow performance. First use appears c. 1986. See cite below.

Every point and counterpoint is peppered with derisive terms such as "Windoze," "File Mangler," and "PeeCees."

1986, PC Communications Corporation, PC Magazine, The Independent Guide to IBM-standard Personal Computing · Volume 15, page 85:

I've had it with the Windoze Gestapo. They want to make everyone use Windoze. They have propogandize^([sic]) the public through computer publications and large newspapers.

1997 February 19, ROWE BOBBY S, “Defend yourself against the Windoze Gestapo”, in alt.destroy.microsoft (Usenet):

My big fear was that they'd use some kind of weirdo operating system, but it turned out just to be Windoze. And not Windoze Millennium, NT, or '98, or even '95, but Windoze 3.1

2006, Anthony McGowan, Hellbent, page 118:

(computing, slang, derogatory) Microsoft Windows.


Windross

Blend of Windows + dross, suggesting an inferior product.

Like Danny, I made the difficult decision to take a close look at Windross at Xmas96. The OS is a monster it's true; but IMHO it also brings alternative ways of achieving your objectives which are, as I have tried to show, not available in the Acorn environment. Recent threads on Acorn v Windross in schools don't seem to focus on this?

1998 June 10, Martin Birchall, “Sad”, in comp.sys.acorn.misc (Usenet):

The Windross user experience is awful. I migrated to the Mac, and while it's amazing to have inDesign, XPress, Photoshop, Acrobat, etc. right there, Mac OS 8/9's GUI was nothing on RISC OS and it's difficult to describe in any meaningful way Mac OS X's GUI is better than Windows - especially as the responsiveness remains poor.

2003 January 4, David, “Comments about Windross OS”, in comp.sys.acorn.misc (Usenet):

I copy the file to a plain Jane Lexar thumb drive, then move the drive to Windoze. Windross does it's^([sic]) usual popup game: "Yay! Look at me! I found something! Yay! It's a USB device! Yay! I'm setting it up now! Yay! Look at me!!"

2012 November 17, Sinister Midget, “Windwoes Dimwittery”, in comp.os.linux.advocacy (Usenet):


flexatone

percussion instrument
percussion instrument

A modern percussion instrument consisting of a small flexible metal sheet suspended in a wire frame ending in a handle.


eyeborg

A cybernetic body apparatus which is designed to allow the visually impaired to perceive color through sound waves.


tapespondent

The average is probably around three or four, but some tapespondents have more than fifty contacts.

1967, Ken Peters, Modern tape recording and hi-fi:

So, while some tapespondents wrap their tapes in aluminum foil […]

1969, High Fidelity, volume 19, numbers 7-12:

I remember a few particularly valued tapespondents: Don from Riverside, California; Louis from Miami, Florida […]

2002, Tom Sherman, Peggy Gale, Before and After the I-Bomb: An Artist in the Information Environment:

(dated) A sort of penfriend who communicated by means of early audio tape recordings sent in the post.


altazimuth

A telescope or surveying instrument that has a mount permitting both horizontal and vertical rotation.

altazimutal

the surveying instrument that has a mount permitting both horizontal and vertical rotation


aquacade

An entertainment consisting of swimmers and divers performing to music


splanch

We barely see the world at such a level, for we are surburbing in our splanches, looking for ledges to set down our plastic menorahs for all the gentiles to see.

2005, Mathias B. Freese, The i Tetralogy, page 213:

(US, architecture) A house with three levels inside a two-level skin.


cellco

(informal) A cellular telecommunications company.


linearithmic

/ˌlɪni.əˈɹɪðmɪk/

(computer science, of a procedure) Taking up to time proportional to n log(n) to run on inputs of size n.


tenderpreneur

No doubt you’re tired of reading about his colourful escapades – about his glamorous home, his allegedly dodgy tenderpreneur deals, his gushing praise of malevolent dictators, or his soundly articulated international economic policy.

2010 November 10, Pratish Mistry, “Why Julius Malema is important to the ANC”, in NewsTime:

If anything, the decision represents an important victory to both emerging and accomplished tenderpreneurs who have undoubtedly distinguished themselves in clandestine plundering of state resources.

2010 October 24, “As Hawks fail us crooks plot anew”, in Sunday World (Sputh Africa):

Let's be bold, let's go and promote small entrepreneurs and defeat tenderpreneurs, those who steal."

2010 January 6, Blade Nzimande., Blade: Make all tenders public. Times LIVE.:

Tenderpreneur Julius Malema says he is not a hypocrite for publicly condemning personal enrichment while allegedly privately enriching himself, saying that there is no word for 'hypocrite' in the Pedi dictionary.

2010, Hayibo.com, Red Card, The: The Best of Hayibo.com 2009/2010, page 119:

(slang, South Africa) A government official or politician who uses their powers and influence to secure government tenders and contracts.


Movember

A charity event held each November, where men grow moustaches to raise funds and awareness for men's health issues.


blackfold

(cosmology) Any of several proposed submanifolds of a black brane.


cefadroxil

Blend of cephalosporanic acid + hydroxy(phen)yl.

blend

(pharmacology) A broad-spectrum cephalosporin antibiotic.


noseshot

As she approached closer, though, the load of rabbits came into vivid noseshot, and the saxophonist's nose wrinkled at the reek.

2002, Michael Meehan, Stormy weather, page 74:

...Fartman's thunder has been stolen by a character in the 1999 film Mystery Man named Spleen (played by Paul Reubens, better known as Pee Wee Herman) whose power was his ability to discharge farts so lethally putrid that they incapacitated anyone within noseshot.

2006, Jim Dawson, Blame It on the Dog: A Modern History of the Fart, page 73:

range of smell, a distance in which something is detectable by smell


Obamunism

Both are interesting choices as poster children for corporate American promoters of Obamunism.

2010, Chris Horner, Power Grab: How Obama's Green Policies Will Steal Your Freedom and Bankrupt America, page 142:

More recently, Patrick Michaels, a longtime critic of climate science and policy scholar at the Cato Institute, criticized plans for a cap and trade system to control greenhouse gases as “Obamunism.”

2010, Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming, page 253:

It's amusing to listen to the moonbats continue to blame Bush for everything wrong now in the second term of Obamunism.

2013, Jay Kennedy, "Bush admin. had nothing to do with 'fast & furious', look it up" (letter to the editor), The Laconia Daily Star (Laconia, NH), 14 May 2013, page 5

(neologism, derogatory) The economic or political policies of the Obama administration, viewed as socialism, communism, or government overreach.


flotel

a ship converted to a permanently moored hotel.


ObamaCare

/oʊˈbɑ məˌkɛəɹ/

Blend of Obama (“Barack Obama”) + healthcare or Medicare and perhaps influenced by earlier HillaryCare.

For some reason, Obama's senior economist, Austan Goolsbee, chooses not to believe this about Obamacare, possibly because he figures the private-but-regulated health-care plans in Obama's National Health Insurance Exchange would be more generous than Obama's public health-care plan.

2007 July 5, Timothy Noah, “Edwardscare: A Trojan Horse, in Slate Magazine”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):

This is a trick. This is a trick that's going on here. This idea that, that whether it's HillaryCare, or ObamaCare, or EdwardsCare, that idea that it's not socialized medicine is a trick. It's a massive growth in government control of medicine.

2007 September 26, Rudy Giuliani, address to the New Jersey Republican Party (about 12 minutes 30 seconds in)

Those who designed ObamaCare were willing to sacrifice marriage for the sake of seeming to be “progressive and equitable,” even though social science research reveals a clear link between single motherhood and poverty.

2010, Richard McKenzie Neal, We the People: A Christian Nation, page 161:

This book will tell you what is right and wrong with Obamacare and will offer solutions to improve healthcare in our country so that it remains of high quality and sustainable financially in the future for all Americans.

2011, Tony Maglione, Obamacare: A Doctor's Guide to Saving Healthcare:

Of course ObamaCare is socialism. It has been designed along explicitly socialist lines[…]

2011, Kevin Williamson, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Socialism, page 237:

Tonight, for our main story, we’re going to look at Obamacare. Basically, the opposite of this photo which is more “Obama don’t give a fuck”!

2017 March 12, “American Health Care Act”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 4, episode 5, John Oliver (actor), via HBO:

(US, neologism, originally derogatory) Any of various healthcare plans seen as associated with Barack Obama before or during his tenure as U.S. President; especially, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (H.R. 3590): a healthcare reform plan that was passed in 2010 and signed into law by him.


interpassivity

Blend of interactivity + passivity, coined by cultural theorist Robert Pfaller.

[…] interpassivity, the exact obverse of "interactivity," which refers to the sense of being active through another subject who does the job for one […]

1998, Slavoj Žižek, “Cyberspace, or, How to Traverse the Fantasy in the Age of the Retreat of the Big Other”, in Public Culture, volume 10, number 3, page 483:

A film like Wall-E exemplifies what Robert Pfaller has called ‘interpassivity’: the film performs our anti-capitalism for us, allowing us to continue to consume with impunity.

2009, Mark Fisher, chapter 3, in Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?, Zero Books, →ISBN:

[…] the true motivation for readymade laughter in TV comedies is interpassivity: I don't have to engage in recognising, sympathising with and interpreting the drama.

2010, Juha Suoranta, Tere Vadén, Wikiworld, Pluto Press, page 133:

A state of passivity, particularly cognitive or emotional passivity, enabled or facilitated by the appearance or potential of interactivity


interpassive

en-adj

interpassive (comparative more interpassive, superlative most interpassive)

more interpassive (comparative)
most interpassive (superlative)

Interpassive people are those who want to delegate their pleasures or their consumptions. And interpassive media are all the agents—machines, people, animals etc.—to whom interpassive people can delegate their pleasures.

2003, Robert Pfaller, "Little Gestures of Disappearance: Interpassivity and the Theory of Ritual", European Journal of Psychoanalysis, number 16, Winter-Spring 2003


zome

Blend of zonohedron + dome, coined by Steve Durkee in 1968.


gastrophysics

(physics, cosmology) The physics involved in the formation of galaxies.


gunt

I'm a man with a gunt. How do I get rid of it? My legs and arms are in good shape, however.

Then there was the period immediately afterward when she grew a bit of a gunt and started looking more like a traditional female-in-sports person.

(slang, vulgar) The bulging between the waist and the genital areas in an obese person.


transcreation

en-noun

transcreation (countable and uncountable, plural transcreations)

(translation studies) An adaptation of a creative work into another language or culture.


quadrella

2003 March 22, Craig Sherborne, Footy′s Man of Passion, The Herald Sun, republished in 2003, Garrie Hutchinson (editor), The Best Australian Sports Writing 2003, page 79,
Demetriou is an inveterate punter with a miraculous instinct for picking big quadrellas.

2009, H. G. Nelson (Greig Pickhaver), Sprays: A Collection of Verbal Touch-Ups, unnumbered page,
Imagine jagging a couple of nice trifectas or the quadrella and squaring the Christmas credit-card bill, with a little extra left for a three-week holiday at Victor Harbor. Magic!

2010, Stephen Barkoczy. Australian Tax Casebook, 10th Edition, CCH Australia, page 416,
Instead, the taxpayer relied on his own intuition, placed bets mainly on the totalisator or with on-course bookmakers and was more inclined to place “higher risk” bets such as trifectas and quadrellas.

(gambling, horse racing, Australia, New Zealand) A bet where the bettor must pick the winners of four nominated races at the same track.


Mandopop

Last year, Mandopop streams went up 45 per cent on Spotify, which is unavailable in China.

2024 January 20, Ludovic Hunter-Tilney, “An Asian megastar who fills arenas in Europe–so who is he?”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 14:


scruze

en-verb

scruze (third-person singular simple present scruzes, present participle scruzing, simple past and past participle scruzed)

scruzes (present singular third-person)
scruzing (participle present)
scruzed (participle past)
scruzed (past)

Perhaps an irregular blend of screw + squeeze.

with her right the riper fruit did reach, / Whose sappy liquor, that with fulnesse sweld, / Into her cup she scruzd […]

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:


bistronomy

2007 January 28, Christine Muhlke, “Bistronomy”, in New York Times:

French casual fine dining: casual decor, quality food.


semperidentical

Blend of Latin semper īdem (“always the same”) + identical.

blend

That perfectly semperidentical display of idiosyncratic egotism which runs through…all his varieties.

1820–1847: Thomas Griffiths Wainewright [aut.] and William Carew Hazlitt [ed.], Essays and Criticisms, page 98 (1880 publication)

(rare nonce word) Remaining always the same; unvarying with the passage of time.


sexcapade

The rest of Don Juan is a series of sexcapades across Asia and Europe.

Rottenneighbor.com even features video from long-suffering neighbours, such as the screeching soundtrack of one woman's nightly sexcapades or the video clips of a man who drives his riding mower in circles for hours on end.

2009 May 30, Susan Pigg, “Neighbours as nightmares”, in Toronto Star:

“And, Beef, I didn't even know there was a poetry corner in the Lone Moose Wind. I bet no one's even read this.” “You're probably right. I mean, kids today, with their video games and their LinkedIns, and their... kites. I'm sure nobody cares about my sexcapades.”

2024 February 18, Ted Travelstead, “Risky Beefness Adventure” (12:42 from the start), in The Great North, season 4, episode 2, spoken by Beef Tobin (Nick Offerman):

(humorous) A sexual escapade; an incident or story involving sex.


Roomba

Marketing coinage. Blend of room + rumba?

A robotic vacuum cleaner made and sold by iRobot.


galcon

(physics, astronomy) A hydrodynamic model of galaxy formation.


overgo

en-verb

overgo (third-person singular simple present overgoes, present participle overgoing, simple past overwent, past participle overgone)

overgoes (present singular third-person)
overgoing (participle present)
overwent (past)
overgone (participle past)

From Middle English overgon, from Old English ofergān (“to pass over, beyond, across, traverse, cross, transgress, overstep, overrun, overcome, overspread, conquer, come upon, overtake, seize, attack, pass off, pass away, end, overreach”), equivalent to over- + go. Cognate with Dutch overgaan, German übergehen, Swedish övergå.

inh

(archaic) To cross, go over (a barrier etc.); to surmount.

He did not rave, he did not stare aghast, / For all those visions were o'ergone, and past […]

1818, John Keats, “(please specify the page)”, in Endymion: A Poetic Romance, London: […] T[homas] Miller, […] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC:

(intransitive, UK, dialectal) To pass by, pass away; often, to go unnoticed.

forward rode, and kept her readie way / Along the strond, which as she ouer-went, / She saw bestrowed all with rich aray / Of pearles and pretious stones of great assay […]

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

The fixed stars overgo Saturn, and so in them and all the rest, all is but one motion, and the nearer the earth the slower – a motion also whereof air and water do participate, though much interrupted.

1625, Francis Bacon, The Praise of Knowledge:

To go over, move over the top of, travel across the surface of; to traverse, travel through.

O, what cause have I, / Thine being but a moiety of my grief, / To overgo thy plaints and drown thy cries!

c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:

He seeks to persuade the queen not merely to emulate the Amazons' vigilant territoriality but to overgo them by emulating the Spaniards' rampant invasiveness.

1992, Domna C Stanton, Discourses of Sexuality, page 177:


vajazzle

en-verb

vajazzle (third-person singular simple present vajazzles, present participle vajazzling, simple past and past participle vajazzled)

vajazzles (present singular third-person)
vajazzling (participle present)
vajazzled (participle past)
vajazzled (past)

[vəˈd͡ʒæzl̩]

Discussing her new memoir "The Day I Shot Cupid," debut author [Jennifer Love] Hewitt said that after a painful breakup, "A friend of mine Swarovski-crystalled my precious lady and it shined like a disco ball," adding the imperative that "women should vajazzle their vajayjays."

2010 January 15, Mary Elizabeth Williams, “The secrets of 'vajazzling'”, in Salon:

'My biggest dream cameo would be fellow Essex girl Victoria Beckham. I'd love to vajazzle her,' she admitted.

2011 April 27, Amy Childs, “Victoria Beckham is my next vajazzle target”, in Metro, UK:

Sally Bercow 41, told fellow Celebrity Big Brother housemate Amy Childs she had no plans to get vejazzled, then teased: "My life is spicy enough."

2011 August 20, “Celebrity Big Brother 2011: 'Spicy' Sally Bercow's Sex Life Slip-Up”, in Daily Star, UK:

(slang) To decorate a woman's vulva and/or pubic area with jewels.


Jennica

Blend of Jennifer + Jessica, a 20th-century coinage.

When we were twenty minutes from the airport, he said: “Jennica, we're almost there.” He wanted to talk.

2009, Rudolph Delson, Maynard and Jennica, page 230:

A female given name originating as a coinage.


qubitope

(physics, neologism) A generalization of a chirotope involving qubits


helichopper

"I yelled up at all them helichoppers."

2002, Patricia Daniels Cornwell, Isle of Dogs:

"Is it really true what you said about flying to school?" "Uh, yes, because, uh . . ." Bluebell paused to think of a human-sounding answer, as Katie had taught her. "Because my dad's very rich; he's got a helichopper," she finished.


Eurabia

/jʊəˈɹeɪbiə/

Moreover, the fear of an emerging "Eurabia" ignores the vast economic and cultural differences between immigrant populations in the different European countries...

2006, Hent de Vries, Lawrence Eugene Sullivan, Political theologies: public religions in a post-secular world:

Among those who connect the unfolding of Eurabia with a popular reaction that might bring back fascism to Europe is Canadian columnist Mark Steyn.

2007, José Pedro Zúquete, Missionary politics in contemporary Europe:

Cultural Islam and the myth of Eurabia

2008, Olivier Roy, The politics of chaos in the Middle East:

(derogatory) A supposed future Europe that has undergone Islamization.


Deaflympics

A sports competition held every two years for deaf people.


adipokinin

(biochemistry) A hormone, from the anterior pituitary, that aids the mobilization of fat stored in adipose tissue


orbispace

(mathematics) A topological space or generalization of an orbifold.


positutely

"Whatever you do, you "absitively," "positutely"...must not panic."

2000, Disney - The Little Mermaid II, Return to the Sea - https://web.archive.org/web/20110411054111/http://movie.subtitlr.com/subtitle/show/250961#line281

absitively posolutely
absitively posolutely

(informal, humorous or childish) positively and absolutely; see absitively posolutely


mockamole

A condiment resembling guacamole but with different ingredients.


cricondentherm

Blend of critical + condensation + therm (meaning temperature).

blend

(physics) The maximum temperature at which two phases can coexist.


re-up

en-verb

re-up (third-person singular simple present re-ups, present participle re-upping, simple past and past participle re-upped)

re-ups (present singular third-person)
re-upping (participle present)
re-upped (participle past)
re-upped (past)

"Reenlist" sense is a possible blend of re-enlist + sign up

Andy Levine, the founder and chief executive of Sixthman, said that more than 50 percent of attendees re-up for his cruises. According to Mr. Levine, his average passenger is 35 years old […].

2012 March 30, Joe Levy, “Rockers at Sea”, in The New York Times:

(informal) To renew (e.g. a library book, a lease, a contract).


seajack

seajack (third-person singular simple present seajacks, present participle seajacking, simple past and past participle seajacked)

seajacks (present singular third-person)
seajacking (participle present)
seajacked (participle past)
seajacked (past)


crayfishery

A place where crayfish are caught or cultivated.


dienamine

(organic chemistry) Any amine derived from a diene


Dixiecrat

A Dixiecrat is nothing but a Democrat in disguise.

1964 April 3, Malcolm X, The Ballot or the Bullet:

United States of America
United States of America

Confederate States of America
Confederate States of America

socially conservative
social conservative

(US politics, dated) A member of the Democratic Party of the United States of America from the southern States, especially one of the former territories of the Confederate States of America, who hold socially conservative viewpoints, and supports racial segregation and white power.

Throughout the controversy, most prominent southern leaders stayed within the Democratic Party. After the election, the Dixiecrat movement evaporated. The South's vocal dissent in 1948, however, forecast the sectional unrest of the following decades, weakened the region's loyalty to the Democratic Party, and prepared the way for future political realignment.

2014, James W. Ely Jr., Bradley G. Bond, The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, UNC Press Books, →ISBN, page 190:

States' Rights Democratic Party
States' Rights Democratic Party

(US politics, historical) A member of the short-lived States' Rights Democratic Party of the United States of America.


atomtronics

Bose-Einstein condensate
Bose-Einstein condensate

(physics) The design, manufacture and study of analogs of electronics using atoms (especially Bose-Einstein condensates) at low temperature


spange

spange (third-person singular simple present spanges, present participle spanging, simple past and past participle spanged)

spanges (present singular third-person)
spanging (participle present)
spanged (participle past)
spanged (past)

Blend of spare + change, from stereotyped phrase “spare change?”, “[can you] spare any change?”

1996, Tim “Salvage”, quoted in Ian Fisher, “Erin’s looking for Leg-Rub Steve. Fly’s looking for CD’s to steal. Star’s looking for Jaya. And it’s starting to get cold.”
I don’t spange much because I really don’t like doing it. I eat out of trash cans a lot.

2009, Kelly Myers, 33, quoted in Joe Deegan, “Nowhere To Go”, San Diego Reader
Then my father would send all us kids out to ‘spange’ [beg for spare change]. You could sometimes make $50 a day by spanging. Other days you might make a dollar.

(US, intransitive) To beg, particularly using the phrase “spare change?”


intactivist

pro-circer

antonym(s) of “one opposed to male circumcision”

Intactivists argue that the bodies of male babies should remain physically intact, and they consider circumcision to be genital mutilation.

2022, Samah Choudhury, Michael J. Altman, Prea Persaud, editors, American Examples: New Conversations about Religion, volume 2, University of Alabama Press, →ISBN, page 173:

A person who is involved in intactivism; one who campaigns against involuntary, nontherapeutic genital modification, such as infant male circumcision.


charybdotoxin

Blend of Charybdis + toxin; along with scyllatoxin in the same scorpion's venom, it references the monsters Scylla and Charybdis of Ancient Greek mythology.

(toxicology) An oligopeptide neurotoxin from the venom of a scorpion of the genus Leiurus.


catanionic

(chemistry) Containing both cationic and anionic centres; zwitterionic.


grism

The advantage of grisms is that the same camera can be used both for imaging (without the grism) and spectroscopy (with the grism) without having to be moved.

If this grism is placed in an ƒ/4 beam at s = 120 mm, the plate factor P ≈ 1100 Å/mm.

1987, Daniel J. Schroeder, Astronomical Optics, Academic Press, page 302:

As the name implies, grisms are a combination of a transmission grating and a prism. One common configuration uses the refraction at the grism surface to redirect nonzero diffractive orders along the original optical path.

1994, T. M. Herbst, J. T. Rayner, “First Experiences With A Solid ZnSe Grism for Near Infrared Astronomy”, in Ian S. McLean, editor, Infrared Astronomy with Arrays, Springer,, page 515:

The grism usually consists of an SR transmission grating mounted on the hypotenuse of a right-angle prism.[…]Volumetric phase holographic grisms, which are capable of relatively high angular dispersions, have begun to appear.

2010, Frederick R. Chromey, To Measure the Sky, Cambridge University Press, page 382:

A combination of diffraction grating and prism used to obtain spectra from selected parts of an image.


wreckreation

Wreckreation in Our National Forests

1973, David E. Gray, Donald A. Pelegrino, Reflections on the recreation and park movement: a book of readings:

...critiques of motorized wreckreation...

2001, Wild Earth Association, Cenozoic Society, Wild earth, Volume 11, page 80:

Time will tell whether the small town surrounded by agribusinesses, booming residential populations, and sand dunes to drive on for high-speed wreckreation will preserve its maternal purity.

2008, Craig Chalquist, Deep California: Images and Ironies of Cross and Sword on El Camino Real:

https://web.archive.org/web/20080509133709/http://www.peer.org/campaigns/publiclands/orv/index.php
Off-Road “Wreckreation” Plagues Public Lands

http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2009/11/11/Wreckreation/index.html - By Jim Cooperman, 11 Nov 2009, TheTyee.ca
BC's Shameful Backcountry Wreckreation

Recreation that wrecks or harms the environment. For example, running off-road vehicles and mountain bikes through ecologically sensitive areas, running boats with large wakes in narrow watercourses so as to cause bank erosion, climbing in areas where raptors nest, or simply hiking in areas that disturb existing flora, fauna and archaeological resources.


beavage

i mention this because that woman in cowboy bibimbop looks ooooooooohhhhhhhhhhh SO HOT. that cleavage--ga!-- and hmm that beavage if you know what i mean. and it aint even hentai, though i'll bet there are already a zillion dojinshi hentai variations on that number.

1999 September 4, EagleBear of Sioux Nation, “excluding hentai, who is the sexiest bababoo in anime?”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet):

Now she showed off her physique in a backless apron shirt and hoochie shorts that were so tight, I could see ample beavage.

2003, Megan McCafferty, Second Helpings, Three Rivers Press, →ISBN, page 69:

I heard this on the Bob and Tom show and immediately came to work and downloaded it from one of our ever friendly Napster look-alikes. [...] You're a beautiful girl, and your pants are on so tight that when you stand just right I can see it all. [...] I see your camel-toe. Your biscuit, your beavage. I see your cooter-cleavage.

2003 February 17, The Swiss Triad, “Probably my *only* SOTD”, in alt.underground (Usenet):

I've seen a lot of beavage in my time man and that thing looks sick

2003 November 7, Dave P, “Paris Hilton...”, in rec.music.hip-hop (Usenet):

He starts on the pitch: ‘Call it what you want, yeah, snapper, bearded clam, cooler cleavage, the pink taco, Beavage, there’s nothing that tastes or smells like a camel toe.’

2006, Tom Parker Bowles, The Year of Eating Dangerously: A Global Adventure in Search of Culinary Extremes, St. Martin's Press, published 2007, →ISBN, pages 62–63:

(uncommon, slang) The triangle created by the hem of a miniskirt and a woman's legs when she is sitting; the physical feature between a woman's legs, especially as revealed by a short skirt.


parthanatos

Blend of PAR + Thanatos (“Greek personification of death”)

blend

Our results suggest that excessive activation of PARP-1 leads to an intrinsic cell death program, which we designate as parthanatos to distinguish from necrosis and apoptosis.

2006, Seong-Woon Yu, “Apoptosis-inducing factor mediates poly(ADP-ribose) (PAR) polymer-induced cell death”, in PNAS, volume 103, number 48:

Also, the lack of knowledge of mechanisms of calpain activation in parthanatos makes it difficult to identify calpain as PAR-dependent mediators of AIF release.

2008, Gary E. Gibson, Mitochondria and Oxidative Stress in Neurodegenerative Disorders:

The biochemical features of parthanatos are distinct from classically defined pathways of cell death, and include rapid PARP-1 activation, early PAR accumulation, mitochondrial depolarization, early nuclear AIF translocation, loss of cellular NAD and ATP, and late caspase activation.

2010, Denson G. Fujikawa, Acute Neuronal Injury: The Role of Excitotoxic Programmed Cell Death Mechanisms:

(physiology) A form of apoptosis associated with PARP.


strawbana

a strawbana smoothie

(informal or marketing) A mixture of strawberry and banana.


blipster

Blend of black + hipster, influenced by blip + -ster.

You get the sense that if Jimi Hendrix were to show up in Echo Park today, he’d be publicly mocked in a style section piece on blipsters for wearing a feathered fedora.

2009 June 29, Robert Lanham, “Look at This Fucking Hipster Basher”, in The Dallas Morning News:

Blipsters hate hip-hop unless they are spoofing it (Das Racist), turning it into a mash-up (Danger Mouse), updating it to sound more techno-punk (Santigold, Ninjasonik), or getting it from an unlikely source (e.g., Swedish songstress Lykke Li covering A Tribe Called Quest).

2011, Patrice Evans, Negropedia: The Assimilated Negro's Crash Course on the Modern Black Experience, Three Rivers Press, →ISBN, page 182:

During the first season, I wondered why Hannah and her friends didn't have at least one blipster friend or why Hannah's boss at the publishing house or one or more of the girls' love interests couldn't be an actor of color.

2014, Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist, Corsair, →ISBN:

An ethnically black (African-American) hipster.


Jägerbomb

/ˈjeɪɡɚˌbɑm/

Audio (US)

Anyone who has been to a bar in the past 5 years has surely seen or even tasted a Red Bull and vodka or a Jägerbomb (Jägermeister and energy drink).

2009, Harvey B. Milkman, Stanley G. Sunderwirth, Craving for Ecstasy and Natural Highs: A Positive Approach to Mood Alteration:

The ambience: locals, tourists, mad fishermen, rednecks and the odd journalist saddling up for endless Jägerbombs before dancing the night away to any number of consistently good live acts.

2009, Jeff Campbell, Becca Blond, Willy Volk, Adam Karlin, Florida:

You won't see me buying a round of Jägerbombs for girls half my age because I know when I have no shot.

2009, David P. Murphy, Phil Torcivia, Rebecca Shockley, Such a Nice Guy:

A cocktail of Jägermeister and Red Bull.


sexperimentation

Sexual exploration; experimentation in sexuality.


solidaristic

en-adj

solidaristic (comparative more solidaristic, superlative most solidaristic)

more solidaristic (comparative)
most solidaristic (superlative)

Exhibiting, or pertaining to, solidarism.


psilocin

Blend of translingual Psilocybe + -in, from Ancient Greek ψιλός (psilós, “smooth”).

4-hydroxy-dimethyltryptamine, a hallucinogenic alkaloid found in most psychedelic mushrooms.


Algic

Blend of Allegheny + Atlantic. Coined by Henry Schoolcraft in his Algic Researches (1839) from the names of the Allegheny River and the Atlantic Ocean.

An indigenous language family of North America, comprising Wiyot, Yurok, and many Algonquian languages.


starchitect

Others are timelessly provocative; the stacked tubes of “Museum Design Based on a Cigarette Package” might have been dreamed up by a starchitect.

2009 May 8, Karen Rosenberg, “A Low-Cost Show Reinflates a Big Bag”, in New York Times:

Gehry is more than an architect—he is a starchitect, a neologism coined to describe the small band of elite international architects whose personal brands transcend their buildings.

2012, Chrystia Freeland, Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else, New York: The Penguin Press, page 104:


Jafaican

2006, June: Archibald St John Smith, How British is That?!: The Eccentric British Guide Book, pages 33–34 (Crombie Jardine Publishing Limited; →ISBN
Forget Cockney, Brummie, Geordie and Scouse, according to the Daily Mail — who else? — Jafaican is laying siege to our inner-city accents and is infiltrating the sacred English language. Soon we may all be familiar with creps (trainers), yard (home), yoot (child), blud (mate) and bitch (girlfriend).

[…] from Cockney, or East London, terminology to a style called “Jafaican”, which has elements of Jamaican and African street talk.

2007 March 16, Debbie Stowe, Paul Stump, Who is Borat?: The Unauthorized Biography of Sacha Baron Cohen, Barnes & Noble, →ISBN, page 122, →ISBN:

She is frowning, hiding her nervousness of Suzy’s presence behind the Jafaican babble.

2007 June 28, María Alvarez, Mirror, Mirror, Fig Tree, →ISBN, page 88, →ISBN:

One part of segregation not immediately obvious is language. I do not mean someone unable to speak the English language, although that is another variation on it; I mean the usage of ‘street’ talk or ‘Jafaican’ as it is sometimes referred to.

2007 December 17, Bobby Smith, Margaret Oshindele-Smith, One Love Two Colours: The Unlikely Marriage of a Punk Rocker and His African Queen, Troubador Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, pages 197–198:

In the early section of this chapter, I discussed attitudes to British Patois, a variety used by members of the West Indian community in Britain. While attitudes are always changing, and new varieties of Black English, such as Jafaican, are said to be developing, […]

2008, January: Janet Holmes, An Introduction to Sociolinguistics, page 413 (3rd edition; Pearson Education; →ISBN, 9781405821315)

a. 2009, Ignacio Ramos, A. Jesús Moya Guijarro, and José Ignacio Albentosa Hernández [eds.], New Trends in English Teacher Education, page 209 (Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha; →ISBN
In terms of its characteristics, MLE is anchored to a large extent in Jamaican Creole, throughout the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s a competitor to Cockney. But Kerswill et al report that it has now encompassed and synthesized elements of everything from Cockney and African English to Hindi, Bangladeshi languages and Arabic. For this reasons it is sometimes called, erroneously, “Hinglish” or “Jafaican”.

Multicultural London English
Multicultural London English

(informal, also used attributively) Multicultural London English.


catazine

A type of catalogue with a magazine-like style.


bookazine

A "bookazine" (in a readable, nonacademic, magazine style), created by a non-linear "organic process," to provide a systemic view of the global transition that is already under way.

1984, Future Survey Annual 1983, World Future Society, 1984, p. 222

It was a quarterly paperback bookazine from Ace, a book filled with fiction and speculative fact and artwork and all the little extras that make up a magazine, and it was the most consistently satisfying and thought-provoking periodical that came into my house, not excluding Omni and the Scientific American.

1992, Spider Robinson, “Rah Rah R.A.H.!”, in Requiem, Tor, page 369:

It costs $34 for a two-year subscription, which includes access to all of their Web-based products and a quarterly print "bookazine."

2007, Mark Frauenfelder, Rule the Web, St. Martin's, page 140:

A publication combining elements of books and magazines.


meatatarian

Blend of meat + vegetarian; compare pescetarian.

A person who exclusively or predominantly eats meat.


uberveillance

The advent of subdermal microchips is part of what the authors call 'uberveillance,' which connotes the ability to automatically locate and identify individuals, and can be used to as^([sic]) a predictive mechanism for behaviour and traits.

2010, Darren Pauli, “The Next Generation May be 'Chipped'”, in PCWorld:

(slang) An omnipresent form of round-the-clock surveillance of people via widespread electronic devices, and especially computer chips embedded into human bodies.


newgrass

Blend of new + bluegrass; term arose in the 1970s

At the beginning of the new century, the chief standard bearers of the newgrass style are an ensemble of California-born musicians known as Nickel Creek...

2002, Bill C. Malone, Country music, U.S.A.:

A progressive subgenre of bluegrass music, typically incorporating electric instruments, non-traditional chord progressions, and lengthy improvisation.


spaxel

Blend of space + pixel, introduced in the 2012 paper Spaxels, Pixels in Space: A novel mode of spatial display (Horst Hörtner, Matthew Gardiner, Roland Haring, Christopher Lindinger, Florian Berger).

A pixel that is not fixed to a two-dimensional display matrix but can be moved in three spatial dimensions.


mangina

“Maybe tomorrow. I don’t really feel like doing anything tonight.” ¶ Daniel leans his elbow into the locker and he lowers his head, leaning toward me. “You’re really being a mangina,” he says. “You didn’t even date the chick. Get the fuck over it and…”

2013 October, Colleen Hoover, chapter 29, in Losing Hope (Hopeless; 2), New York, N. Y.: Atria Paperback, →ISBN, page 195:

(slang, derogatory) A sensitive, cowardly or effeminate man.

No it's not "interesting" you stupid cocksucking mangina. It's not well known that men are more violent than women except inside the heads of mangina slugs like you and your feminist overlords. ¶ This mangina is presented with clear facts but, exhibiting clear evidence of feminist brainwashing, fails to let this intefere with his mentality and outlook.

2006 June 25, MCP, “Women love beating men; mangina "surprised"”, in soc.men (Usenet):

Michael: Planet Earth, man. I mean, why do men make more money playing sports than women? It’s because we’re more athletic.
Michael: What would you say if I told you it’s because of sexism?
Michael: I'd say you’re a mangina. What’re you talking about? Just look at Olympic records.

2011, Michael Kaufman, Michael Kimmel, The Guy's Guide to Feminism, Berkeley, Calif.: Seal Press, →ISBN, page 152:

(slang, derogatory) A man who holds feminist beliefs.

Aside from the jacked up Slovak Corner, where Marek and his posse take turns tucking their dick and balls between their legs to see who has the best mangina, the pregame mood in the locker room is tense.

2016, Bill Keenan, Odd Man Rush: A Harvard Kid's Hockey Odyssey from Central Park to Somewhere in Sweden—with Stops along the Way, New York, N. Y.: Sports Publishing, →ISBN, page 100:

(slang) The genitalia of a man tucked between the legs, often as a prank.

He resisted me every time I tried to fuck him. I think that’s what kept the passion alive. I loved pursuing him, and he loved controlling me with his mangina.

1999, Scott Capurro, Fowl Play, London: Headline Book Publishing, published 2000, →ISBN, page 216:

Hidden in the depths of every man’s rectum is a special nubbin of love about the size of a walnut—the prostate. It’s reached by similar methods to the G-spot on a woman, but in his mangina instead.

2011, Mamakind, Sex Pot: The Marijuana Lover's Guide to Gettin' It On, Piedmont, Calif.: Quick American Publishing, →ISBN, page 91:

(chiefly gay slang) The anus of a man, especially in the context of gay sex.

[…] a while back [insurance provider] sent me to the women’s clinic, which was pretty hilarious because when I got there, the clerk at the Pap smear clinic office told me that I was on the wrong floor and that this was the women’s clinic. Then, I had to explain to her that I was a trans man and I still had a “mangina”....I told my PCP about that.

2021, Tre Wentling, Carrie Elliott, Andrew S. London, Natalee Simpson, Rebecca Wang, quoting Jeff, a 67-year-old white man, ““Every Now and Then I Get Flagged for a Pap Smear”: Gender Transition, Embodiment, and “Sex-Specific” Cancer Screenings”, in Allen J. LeBlanc, Brea L. Perry, editors, Sexual and Gender Minority Health (Advances in Medical Sociology; 21), Bingley: Emerald Publishing Limited, →ISBN, page 267:

(transgender slang) The vulva or vagina of a trans man, or the neovagina of a detransitioned man.


carbocisteine

(organic chemistry, pharmacology) A mucolytic that reduces the viscosity of sputum.


sensorineural

(anatomy) Of or pertaining to the sensory nerves


treelogy

(rare, humorous nonce word) A trilogy with tangible tree-related themes.


boatel

(nautical) A ship, normally moored alongside a quay, used as a hotel


learnfare

(US) A welfare system in which a person must attend college etc. in order to receive payment.


pultrude

en-verb

pultrude (third-person singular simple present pultrudes, present participle pultruding, simple past and past participle pultruded)

pultrudes (present singular third-person)
pultruding (participle present)
pultruded (participle past)
pultruded (past)

To draw resin-coated glass fibres through a heated die in order to make a composite material


presentee

From present + -ee; second sense likely a blend of present + absentee.

A person who is presented (e.g. to a benefice), or to whom an award is given.


sperminator

My stomach jumped off a cliff and my legs became stone. The Pill . . . was she on it? I never asked. First shot lucky. The Sperminator.

1998, Douglas Coupland, Girlfriend in a Coma, page 44:

And the epic pain I was about to endure any day now was going to make the sperminator's backache seem like a hangnail.

2013, Vicki Murphy, MotherFumbler, page 28:

I rubbed elbows with Bravo Housewives Teresa Giudice, Kyle Richards, Brandi Glanville, and Gretchen Rossi, and sperminator Jon Gosselin.

2014, Courtney Robertson, I Didn't Come Here to Make Friends: Confessions of a Reality Show Villain, page 215:

(slang, humorous) A man who impregnates a woman or women.


Swoose

Blend of swan + goose (from a song about a bird that was half swan, half goose) because it had another aircraft's tail grafted onto it.

The Swoose was so named because it contained so many scavenged parts that it was half swan and half goose or a “Swoose”.

2005, Robert R. Burch, World War II: A Pilot's Experience, Trafford Publishing, page 69:

(historical) A specific B-17 bomber plane used extensively in World War Two.


swoose

The associate in arts or A.A. degree, another "swoose," has quickly established itself as the community college degree in a degree-obsessed nation.

1970 Dec, James J. Zigerell, “The Community College in Search of an Identity”, in The Journal of Higher Education, volume 41, number 9, pages 701–712:

Well by the time all the cooks in that broth got through with it, by the time it emerged from the Congress, it was a "swoose." It was not swan and it was not goose, it was a "swoose." It was a "swoose" to its dying day, which hasn't quite arrived yet, but its [sic] imminent.

1979 "A History of Cancer Control in the United States, 1946-1971: Appendixes," U.S. National Cancer Institute, Division of Cancer Control and Rehabilitation, p98

But Mom describes my life that year pretty accurately when she says that I had become a “swoose”- that is to say, not a swan and not a goose.

2000, Claire Cloninger, Karla Worley, When the Glass Slipper Doesn't Fit, New Hope Publishers:

"John calls teenagers 'sweese.'" "What?" "Neither swans nor geese."

2007, Susan Kelly, Now You Know, Pegasus Books, page 229:

(informal) A person or thing sharing the characteristics of two otherwise separate groups; a hybrid (also see Swoose)


penicylinder

A small cylinder that can be coated with bacteria as part of scientific experiments with antibiotics.


Phan

Phish "phans" compile set lists, take notes on performances and tape-record everything from a section designated for them at each show.

2000 September 23, “Eclectic crowd catches Phish”, in The Washington Times:

But none were as crazy as this one -- when Phish's tie-dyed "Phans" danced in the aisles, sang along to the music and generally created a scene that recalled the Grateful Dead's glory daze.

2006 July 9, “Wanna try the meaning of life?”, in Oakland Tribune:

It was the type of evening -- an entirely mesmerizing and moving two-set concert filled with superb musicianship and incredible improvisation -- that made the undying devotion of the "phans" seem quite logical.

2012 August 20, Jim Harrington, “Review: Phish closes SF stand on legendary note”, in Contra Costa Times:

(slang) A fan of the American rock band Phish.


Phan

In 2017 Tumblr fandometrics identified that two of the ten most reblogged ships were RPF ships. YouTube vloggers Dan Howell and Phil Lester, whose ship portmanteau is Phan, […]

2018 June, Emily E. Roach, “The homoerotics of the boyband, queerbaiting and RPF in pop music fandoms”, in The Journal of Fandom Studies, volume 6, number 2:

In hindsight, I now regret the errors of my ways (flashback to the time I was embarrassingly obsessed with Phan, the romantic pairing of YouTubers Daniel Howell and Phil Lester) as I find it uncomfortable to see people make the mistakes I once did.

2019 June 24, Jade Tan, “All Aboard The Ship”, in The High, International School of Lausanne, page 10:

Fans were so frenzied by the idea of a romantic relationship between them that Phan has always maintained a spot in the top five of Yearly Top Ships on Tumblr for the past three years.

2020 May, Sherin John Francis, Kavya Purushothaman, “Fanfiction: A Study as An Uprising Genre in LIterature”, in Purakala, volume 31, number 30, page 28:

(fandom slang) The real-person fiction ship of YouTube personalities Daniel Howell and Phil Lester.


infodemic

(informal) An excessive amount of information concerning a problem such that the solution is made more difficult


e-thumb

Oh, I'll never have an e-thumb, no matter how long I stay at it. Nothing ever seems to work for me. Every program I launch crashes.

(US, idiomatic) A natural skill for tinkering with electronics; or computers.

I should ask the e-thumb next door what he recommends for my BSOD.


quadfecta

He won the Superfecta and the Quadfecta all in the same day at Hollywood Park Casino in Los Angeles.

2010, George V. Bush, Magazine Man “A Slave To The Sale”, unnumbered page:

(gambling, horse racing) A bet in which the bettor must select the winners of the first four places (i.e., first, second, third, and fourth) of a race in the correct order.


cyberdelic

en-adj

cyberdelic (comparative more cyberdelic, superlative most cyberdelic)

more cyberdelic (comparative)
most cyberdelic (superlative)

...Jody Radzik, a key cyberdelic ideologue who helped out at Osmosis...

1999, Simon Reynolds, Generation ecstasy: into the world of techno and rave culture:

...a New Breed that loves technology and uses it to revolutionize communication while having fun creating the cyberdelic politics and culture of the 21st Century.

2004, Timothy Leary, Evolutionary Agents:

With pornography now accounting for 60 percent of its use, according to some estimates, the Internet would seem to represent not just a cyberdelic revolution but a new form of cybersexual revolution.

2006, Hugh B. Urban, Magia sexualis: sex, magic, and liberation in modern Western esotericism:

Of or pertaining to a fusion of modern cyberculture with the psychedelic counterculture of the 1960s.


axiverse

(physics) A postulated universe populated by axions having sizes of many different orders of magnitude.

axiverso

a postulated universe populated by axions having sizes of many different orders of magnitude


tablebase

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

(chess) A computerized database that contains precalculated exhaustive analysis of a chess endgame position, typically used by a computer chess engine during play.


lustmaking

Blend of lust + making, modelled on lovemaking.

"It's not lovemaking, but lustmaking." She spat the words at him as though she were trying to convince herself. "Besides, I guess you never considered that a woman simply might not want to make love with you."

1995, Carol Caldwell, Fields of Fire, Pinnacle Books, →ISBN, page 199:

Not that it has made a difference in our lustmaking. It seems that his desire for me died around the same time he got wind of Harry's misfortunes.

2010, Josie Brown, Secret Lives of Husbands and Wives, Downtown Press, →ISBN, page 286:

Just hours upon hours of leftovers, lounging, and lovemaking—or rather lustmaking, because Zaria wanted no part of any kind of love from a man.

2011, Niobia Bryant, The Hot Spot, Dafina Books, →ISBN, page 58:

Sexual intercourse motivated solely by lust.


aparthotel

A form of hotel having self-catering apartments instead of bedrooms or suites.

asuntohotelli

a form of hotel having self-catering apartments instead of bedrooms or suites


appletini

A cocktail of vodka and either apple juice, apple cider, or apple liqueur.


rockstardom

They gathered outside Macari's, the musical instrument shop that specializes in amps, guitars and dreams of head-banging rockstardom.

2002, Lillian Pizzichini, Dead Men's Wages, Picador, published 2003, →ISBN, page 197:

Radiohead 2.0 has taken a number of innovative approaches to rockstardom, from the one-off “set your own price” digital release of In Rainbows (which is excellent by the way) to turning down an appearance at the Glastonbury festival because of potential harm to the environment.

2010, Andrew Marx, Thank You Is Implied: The Annotated Smart Remarx, →ISBN, page 13:

When church let out, Colin and I would draw up plans for rockstardom while Mrs. Gawel and my mom talked about how great it was that we boys had found something we were so dedicated to.

2012, Joe Oestreich, Hitless Wonder: A Life in Minor League Rock and Roll, Globe Pequot Press, →ISBN:

The state or quality of being a rock star.


cyclinac

particle accelerator
particle accelerator

(physics) A particle accelerator in the form of a high-gradient linac driven by a large-current cyclotron


indoleacetic

Of or pertaining to indoleacetic acid or its derivatives


harmolodics

(music) A form of improvised jazz associated with Ornette Coleman


satphone

They’re there mostly if I have to make a decision so they can hand me a satphone and I can make a decision.”

2009 June 26, James Dao, “Politicians Disappear More Often Than You Think”, in New York Times:


solunar

Of, pertaining to, or influenced by both the sun and the moon.


squircle

At the NCI, the applicator shapes most often used are circular or "squircular." The squircle applicator has one square and one round end, and it is beveled so that the circular end is longer.

1985, Hospital Practice, volume 20, page 131:

(algebraic geometry) A closed quartic curve having properties intermediate between those of a square and a circle.

kwadratokrąg

shape intermediate between a square and a circle

An object whose shape combines a circle and a square.


insinuendo

en-noun

insinuendo (plural insinuendos or insinuendoes)

insinuendos (plural)
insinuendoes (plural)

Truly a man may wish, “O that mine enemy would let me write his Preface! Could I not damn with faint praise and stab with sharp insinuendo?” – to use the labor-saving and much-needed word thoughtlessly invented by the sable legislator of South Carolina.

1888, Brander Matthews, Pen and Ink; Papers on Subjects of More Or Less Importance,, page 57:

It’s sort of an insinuendo, as Matt King says, that your mind could stand a good deal of improving and not hurt it any.

1918, Eugene Wood, “Missed It - The Big Idea”, in Boys' Life, Boy Scouts of America, Inc., page 30:

"I don't have it," says Leon. "It was done away with because of the negative insinuendo."

1964, Milton Rokeach, The three Christs of Ypsilanti: a psychological study, Knopf, page 131:


antimonselite

(mineralogy) An orthorhombic sulfosalt mineral containing antimony and selenium.


escalefter

Blend of escalator + left, spelled with -er. Coined by the Washington DC metro.

One who stands still on the left of an escalator impeding those wanting to move more quickly (often the right of the escalator is for standing and the left is for walking).


dyshesion

(pathology, cytology) A loss of ordered cohesion between cells.


cassingle

Blend of cassette + single; originally a trademark.

(music) A small cassette containing a single track of popular music on each side


mancession

Blend of man + recession, coined during the financial crisis of 2007–2010.


gastrimmune

Trademark, presumably Blend of gastrin + immune.

(medicine) A gastrin immunogen in which the amino terminus of the gastrin molecule is linked to a diphtheria toxoid


wavicle

(quantum mechanics) A wave-particle; an entity which simultaneously has the properties of a wave and a particle.


warmist

These elites “understand the real significance of climate change better than most of the ‘warmists’ in the political centre, the ones who are still insisting that the response can be gradual and painless and that we don’t need to go to war with anybody…

2014 September 22, John Gray, quoting Naomi Klein, “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate review – Naomi Klein’s powerful and urgent polemic”, in The Guardian:

(politics, chiefly derogatory) A person who believes that global warming is real, and is caused by human activity.

réchauffiste

believer in global warming caused by human activity


polyplex

(genetics) Any complex of a polymer and DNA, especially one designed to protect the DNA when being injected into a cell as part of gene therapy


gluonstrahlung

(physics) radiation consisting of gluons


electrochemogene

(medicine) Describing a combination of electrochemotherapy and gene therapy


cittern

This discourse took us much time, till it was time to go to bed; but we being merry, we bade my Lady goodnight, and intended to have gone to the Post-house to drink, and hear a pretty girl play of the cittern (and indeed we should have lain there, but by a mistake we did not), but it was late, and we could not hear her, and the guard came to examine what we were; so we returned to our Inn and to bed, the page and I in one bed, and the two captains in another, all in one chamber, where we had very good mirth with our most abominable lodging.

1661 January 17, Samuel Pepys, Diary of Samuel Pepys: January 1661:

1911, Cittern, article in Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition,
The cittern consisted of a pear-shaped body similar to that of the lute but with a flat back and sound-board joined by ribs. The neck was provided with a fretted fingerboard; the head was curved and surmounted by a grotesque head of a woman or of an animal.

The advent of the Spanish guitar in England led to the wane in the popularity of the cittern, also known at that time in contradistinction as the English or wire-strung guitar, although the two instruments differed in many particulars.

1911, “Guitar”, in Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition:

Antwerp was world-famous for its harpsichords, but it was also a centre, in the 16th century, where citterns, lutes, viols and later violins were constructed with skill.

2000, Musical Instruments Museum, Visitor's Guide, page 93:

A stringed instrument (chordophone), played with a plectrum (a pick), and most commonly possessing four wire strings and chromatic frets, which is a precursor to the modern day guitar.


calcrete

calcrete (countable and uncountable, plural calcretes)

A sedimentary rock, a hardened deposit of calcium carbonate, capable of cementing together with other materials.


buprenorphine

(pharmacology) A semisynthetic narcotic analgesic that is administered in the form of its hydrochloride C₂₉H₄₁NO₄·HCl to control moderate to severe pain and treat opioid dependence.


beamstrahlung

Blend of beam + bremsstrahlung, coined by John Rees in 1978.

electromagnetic field
electromagnetic field

(physics) The radiation from one beam of charged particles in a storage ring or linear collider caused by its interaction with the electromagnetic field of the other beam.


permalancer

An employee who was originally hired on a freelance basis (on a fixed-term contract) but has become permanent (but not necessarily with the same benefits as a full-time employee)


jellycopter

All we care about is peace. Nout about the latest Apache jellycopters to go into service.

1999 April 10, Richard Brown, “The Brotherhood of PEace”, in alt.kosovo-relief.what.do.you.need (Usenet):

Beyond (upwind) of the scurry ground, about 100 yards away, tops, the very busy A12 trunk road. To the right of the scurry ground, "have a go" archery. And beyond that the flaming jellycopter.

2001 May 7, Pete, “Re: Suffolk Game & Country Fair”, in uk.rec.shooting.game (Usenet):

ooh you are oodles braver than I am....I am scaredy of jellycopters :-)

2004 June 23, Tickettyboo, “Re: Gozo”, in uk.people.silversurfers (Usenet):

(usually humorous, sometimes childish) A helicopter.