founding mother

founding mother (plural founding mothers)

/ˌfaʊndɪŋ ˈmʌðə/

/ˌfaʊndɪŋ ˈmʌðɚ/

From founding (“who or that founds (establishes, starts) or founded”) + mother, modelled after founding father.

compound

Finally there is a comprehensive, well-documented life of founding mother Elizabeth Cady Stanton: In Her Own Right, by Elisabeth Griffith. Griffith focuses upon both the life and the social atmosphere which led to the beginnings of the first wave of American feminism.

1984 December 29, Michael Bronski, “Hot Off The Presses”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 25, page 10:

She (Audrey Lorde) is a member of the founding collective of Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press and a founding mother of SISA, Sisterhood in Support of Sisters in South Africa.

1986, Johnnetta B. Cole, All American Women: Lines that Divide, Ties that Bind, →ISBN:

There could even be a case made for treating Jane Harrison as a founding mother of social science (Beard, 2000).

2003 April 21, Sara Delamont, Feminist Sociology, SAGE, →ISBN:

The initial founding mother, Eve, becomes a paradigmatic figure in later Jewish and Christian exegesis[…]

2020 October 21, Kathleen Gallagher Elkins, Mary, Mother of Martyrs: How Motherhood Became Self-Sacrifice in Early Christianity, Wipf and Stock Publishers, →ISBN:

A woman who founded (established or started) something.


final reckoning

en-noun

final reckoning (countable and uncountable, plural final reckonings)

From final + reckoning (“act or occasion of accounting to God after death for one’s conduct in life”).

compound

judgement day

(Christianity, Islam, Judaism) Synonym of judgement day (“the final trial of all humankind, both the living and the dead, by God expected to take place at the end of the world, when each is rewarded or punished according to their merits”)


pavement special

en-noun

pavement special (plural pavement specials)

From pavement + special (“thing which is distinctive or out of the ordinary”, noun), referring to the fact that stray dogs are often found roaming around on pavements.

compound

[E]very mangy, threadbare, snarling cur pariah pavement-special dog that ever got kicked in the ribs appears from the shadows of twisted dreams and with flashing fangs bears down on the injured party to rip her apart in a streak of blood and matted fur.

1996 (date written), Brett Bailey, “Notes from the Wilderness”, in The Plays of Miracle & Wonder: Bewitching Visions and Primal High-jinx from the South African Stage, Cape Town, South Africa: Double Storey Books, Juta, published 2003, →ISBN, page 36:

As I move around the world studying working dogs, there always seems to be another population of dogs hanging around. They are part of the background. When I ask about these dogs, they are described to me as the local mutts, mongrels, pavement specials, crossbreeds.

2001, Raymond Coppinger, Lorna Coppinger, “Village Dogs”, in Dogs: A Startling New Understanding of Canine Origin, Behavior, and Evolution, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, →ISBN, page 69:

Two smaller pavement specials ranged alongside, and made up for size by their barking.

2011, Eckart Schumann, chapter 3, in Patterns of Change, New York, N.Y.: Eloquent Books, AEG Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 29:

And then there was Gypsy, a little black rescue dog we picked up from the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Gypsy was a wonderful mutt, a ‘pavement special’ as we say, who had a heart as big as Africa.

2012 July, Lawrence Anthony, with Graham Spence, chapter 3, in The Last Rhinos: The Powerful Story of One Man’s Battle to Save a Species, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Dunne Books, →ISBN, pages 22–23:

In Park Rynie, down the south coast in Kwa Zulu Natal, where I had grown up, we only saw and heard of people keeping Alsatians, Rottweilers, Labradors, poodles, and the common pavement specials. My knowledge of dogs was actually pathetic, but the subject had never interested me.

2013 March 6, Resh Ramlakan, Fur Kids: Angels on Earth, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 11:

(South Africa) A dog (especially a stray dog) of miscellaneous ancestry; a mongrel, a mutt.


hip whip

(roller derby) The act of grabbing a teammate's hips in order to propel oneself forward.


house plunder

From house + plunder (“(chiefly Southern US, slang, dated) baggage, luggage; household items; personal belongings”).

[P]eople had stock, and children, and house plunder, and a stout log cabin to cover them, […]

1852, Cora Montgomery, “A Pioneer Mother”, in Eagle Pass; or, Life on the Border, New York, N.Y.: George P[almer] Putnam & Co., […], →OCLC, page 28:

I can count many families living in log houses with a ladder only for a stairway to the loft, where one or more beds and sometimes house plunder and grain were kept; while the room below—kitchen, dining-room and parlor—where the wool was carded into rolls, spun and sometimes woven into cloth, prepared for the puller, to be made into good warm winter goods.

1885 December 11 – 1886 February 11, William Penn Ryman, quoting John R. Barton, “The Early Settlement of Dallas Township, Pa.”, in Horace Edwin Hayden, editor, Proceedings and Collections of the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society, volume VI, Wilkes-Barré, Pa.: […] [E. B. Yordy Co.] for the [Wyoming Historical and Geological] Society, published 1901, →OCLC, pages 212–214:

Also I will sell all of my house plunder, such as bedding, chairs, tables, parlor and kitchen furniture.

1888 August 15, B. T. Igleheart, “Notice”, in McHenry Rhoads, Frank L. Felix, editors, The Hartford Herald, volume XIV, number 33, Hartford, Ky.: [McHenry Rhoads and Frank L. Felix], →OCLC, page 3, column 3:

I'm the squire from Buckskin Township, an' I rather think I married that old lady with red cheeks to an oldish man in a butternut suit, drivin' a span of grays to a green wagon full of house plunder, an' with two red cows tied behind.

1894 November, Lizzie Hyer Neff, “A November Idyl”, in The Peterson Magazine, volume IV (New Series), number 5, Philadelphia, Pa.: Penfield Pub. Co., →OCLC, page 1114, column 2:

Each girl got a cow, a mare and sufficient "house[-]plunder" with which to set up house-keeping, but they rarely got any land, the husband being expected to provide that.

1914, John Preston Arthur, “Manners and Customs”, in Western North Carolina: A History (from 1730 to 1913), Asheville, N.C.: The Edward Buncombe Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution; Raleigh, N.C.: Edwards & Broughton Printing Company, →OCLC, page 253:

Why, she married that oldest boy of little Ike's, a moughty well-turned, civil, workin' boy, an' his folks give 'im a heifer an' some house[-]plunder, an' her mam give 'em a bed an' a nice lot uv quilts, an' they've set up fer theirselves.

1917, Louise S[aunders] Murdoch, “In Memoriam”, in Almetta of Gabriel’s Run, New York, N.Y.: The Meridian Press, →OCLC, page 101:

So Jack got all them things from the giant and gathered up all the house-plunder that wasn't tore up when the house hit the ground.

1938 December, Richard Chase, Kay Chase, quoting R. M. Ward, “Jack and the Bean Tree (The Jack Tales No. 4)”, in Alton C. Morris, editor, Southern Folklore Quarterly, volume II, number 4, Gainesville, Fla.: The University of Florida in cooperation with the Southeastern Folklore Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 202:

I 'spect you'll be able to haul all their house plunder at one load. Them mules could pull that slab shack they live in, house plunder and the family if you could git it all on the wagon.

1940, Jesse Stuart, “Part IV”, in Trees of Heaven, Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky, published 1980, →ISBN, section 1, page 188:

Fin'lly the old sow she fixed Jack three days' rations and a little house-plunder on a drag-sled and he headed for the wilderness.

1948, “The Old Sow and the Three Shoats”, in Richard Chase, editor, Grandfather Tales: American-English Folk Tales […], Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company, published 1976, →ISBN, page 83:

That made me recollect how Birdsong Creek had got its name. Mama had named it when she and Papa came to settle. Mama had told me about it. She said she named it the first day she and Papa got there, with Mama driving the ox cart loaded with our house plunder, and with Papa driving the cows and horses.

1956, Fred Gipson, chapter 1, in Old Yeller, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 7:

Knowing how much Grandma wanted a lumber house, Grandpa cut down the buck-tree and ripsawed it into boards. He put up a fine board house, and they moved all their house-plunder in.

1986, Richard Young, Judy Dockrey Young, compilers, “The Hoop Snake”, in Ozark Tall Tales: Collected from the Oral Tradition, Little Rock, Ark.: August House, published 1989, →ISBN, page 84:

The last feller that lived thar tuck off so fast he left his beds an' house[-]plunder thar.

1970, Herbert Maynor Sutherland, “Bad ’Lige Shoots a Ghost”, in Tall Tales of the Devil’s Apron, Johnson City, Tenn.: The Overmountain Press, published 1988, →ISBN, page 206:

She wished, though, there had been a way to take more of the house-plunder. […] Still and all, it was a wrench to leave her beds and her tables, her chairs, and the dish dresser Daniel had made for her.

1975, Janice Holt Giles, “Wilderness Road”, in Wellspring, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, pages 76–77:

You'd never calkelate he was mean-turned from his looks. But he grab-snatched everything the old man had. Got away with his house[-]plunder even.

1997, Rose O’Neill, chapter 2, in Miriam Formanek-Brunell, editor, The Story of Rose O’Neill: An Autobiography, Columbia, Mo.: University of Missouri Press, →ISBN, page 69:

Then they got to asking the mill to grind out good clothes for them to wear and new house plunder, and it ground out that. Then the man, he would say the right words, and the mill would quit.

2007, Anne Shelby, “Grind Mill Grind”, in The Adventures of Molly Whuppie and Other Appalachian Folktales, Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, →ISBN, page 52:

(chiefly Southern US) Miscellaneous household items.


love dove

Some such tablets were marked with an image of a dove (the bird).


cutie patootie

Compound of cutie (“cute person”) + patootie (“attractive woman; girlfriend”), probably chosen because the words rhyme.

com+

Early mornings are best approached as late nights in the toddler-training arena, especially if it's still dark outside. Explain, in ten words or less, that it's still sleep time and that Cutie Patootie needs to go back to bed for more rest.

1999 February, Vicki Iovine, “Sleepy Time”, in The Girlfriends’ Guide to Toddlers […] (A Perigee Book), New York, N.Y.: Berkley Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 181:

The British import Get Real (directed by Simon Shore) is the love story of two classmates—outcast Steven (total cutie patootie Ben Silverstone, above left with Charlotte Brittain) and Big Man on Campus John (Brad Gorton).

1999 May, Marc S. Malkin, “Preview (Film): To Live and Love in the ‘So-called’ Years”, in James Collard, editor, Out, New York, N.Y.: Out Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 86:

Like, yeah! We love Usher. We decided to focus on his cutie-patootie face instead of his bodacious body.

2004 December – 2005 January, “The 50 Hottest Rockers! More Cute Boys than You Can Shake a Stick at. Bigger, Better and … Pinker than Ever.”, in Brandon Holley, editor, Elle Girl, New York, N.Y.: Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 73:

He's an excellent teacher, a dedicated police officer, and a bit of a cutie patootie, too (but don't tell my husband I said that).

2018, Marnie Blue, “Acknowledgements”, in Mistletoe Kisses, Fort Collins, Colo.: Entangled Publishing, →ISBN:

(chiefly US, slang) An adorable and attractive person.


armfloat

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At that moment I realised just how alike Dad and BRAD were, and an image splashed into my mind of the two of them, armfloats strapped to their arms and goggles on their foreheads, […]

armband

(swimming) Synonym of armband (“one of a pair of inflatable plastic bands, normally worn on the upper arms, to help the wearer (often a child) float in water and learn to swim”)


stealth wealth

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So-called “quiet luxury” — understated but ultra-luxurious clothes favoured by the super-rich — is back in vogue, with an emphasis on stealth-wealth brands such as The Row, Loro Piana, Max Mara and Hermès.

2023 March 30, Carola Long, “Gwyneth Paltrow, ‘stealth wealth’ star of the courtroom catwalk”, in Financial Times:

(informal) Monetary wealth that its owner keeps secret or discreet, rather than flaunting it; quiet luxury.


prairie fairy

(slang, derogatory) An environmental activist.


Flemish coil

/ˌflɛmɪʃ ˈkɔɪl/

From Flemish (“of or relating to Flanders”) + coil, the fact that the technique of coiling rope in this manner began with sailors from Flanders.

compound

(nautical) A rope that has been arranged into a neat, flat spiral coil.


bent-side

...is up on knolls that lie nearer to the bent, and be turned somewhat southward; or on the east side of the Flood, which runneth here nigh due north to south, on the bent-side itself, where, as it windeth and turneth, certain slopes lie turned to south-west.

1898, William Morris, The Sundering Flood, page 5:


sea-ground

'I'll set my foot in a bottomless boat, / And swim to the sea-ground.'

1882, “Ballad 51: Lizie Wan”, in The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, volume 1:


sack-whack

‘Sack whack!’ Poppy said, retreating from a deft move in which she'd slapped Fergal between the legs with the back of her hand.

2014, Robert Muchamore, Rock War: The Audition, Hachette, →ISBN:

(slang, humorous) A slap in the testicles.


pudgy wudgy

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community immunity

en-noun

community immunity (countable and uncountable, plural community immunities)

How to help: Be social wise while we build community immunity

2021 December 9, Ottawa Public Health, “Thank you for getting vaccinated!”, in Community Immunity: Let's stay the course, Ottawa, archived from the original on 2022-01-11:

In Delta we look forward to championing the race to community immunity and hope all of our neighbours will be right on our heels.

2021 May 27, Fraser Health, “Fraser Health Mayors Challenge Each Other to Community Immunity”, in News:

A third category, community immunity, does not involve physical components of the immune system for protection, but is still worth discussion in this capacity.

2019 April 22, Paul A. Offit, “Types of Immunity”, in Vaccine Education Center, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia:


somepony

From some + pony, by analogy with somebody.

I messaged somepony over Tumblr last night / She said "RAWR X3" so it's true love at first sight

2021, Vylet Pony (lyrics and music), “ANTONYMPH”, in CUTIEMARKS (And The Things That Bind Us):


Itty Bitty Titty Committee

the Itty Bitty Titty Committee (plural Itty Bitty Titty Committees)

the Itty Bitty Titty Committee (canonical)
Itty Bitty Titty Committees (plural)

itty bitty titty committee
itty bitty titty committee#English

Alternative form of itty bitty titty committee


humanitarian corridor

humanitarian corridor (plural humanitarian corridors)

/hjʊˌmæ.nɪˈtɛː.ɹɪ.ən ˈkɒ.ɹɪ.dɔː/

From humanitarian (“concerned with people’s welfare, and the alleviation of suffering”) + corridor (“restricted tract of land that allows passage between two places”).

compound

A type of temporary demilitarized zone intended to allow the safe transit of humanitarian aid into, and/or refugees out of, a crisis-hit region.


Cape Cod Canal

An artificial waterway connecting Cape Cod Bay in the north to Buzzards Bay in the south.


hip dip

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(usually in the plural) A naturally-occurring indentation on the side of the hip.


Bitching Betty

Referring to the female voice used in such recordings.

(aviation, slang) A voice warning system in an aircraft.


clotshot

(medicine, slang, derogatory, neologism) An administration of a COVID vaccination, resulting in unexpected and untimely blood clots.


cosmic calendar

en-noun

cosmic calendar (plural cosmic calendars)

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A model of the chronology of the universe, scaling its currently accepted age of 13.8 billion years to a single year.


Herkimer Jerkimer

Herkimer Jerkimer (plural Herkimer Jerkimers)

A reduplicated rhyming compound, from Herkimer and jerk. First appeared during the 1940s.

Herkimer Jerkimer, a fool, a rustic, is a "jerk from Herkimer," an impossibly remote place. This jerk was, presumably, from his upstate hometown of Herkimer, New York, ZIP code 13350.

1995, Irving Lewis Allen, “The Contempt for Provincial Life”, in The City in Slang: New York Life and Popular Speech, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 245:

A 'Herkimer Jerkimer?' Why, that's a local yokel, you rube.

1995 November 19, Jesse McKinley, “F.Y.I.”, in New York Times, section 13, page 2:

(New York City, slang, derogatory, dated) A yokel; a country bumpkin.


Cancún Cruz

Referring to Ted Cruz going on vacation to Cancún, Mexico, during the 2021 Texas power crisis.

Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., said the senator shouldn’t have apologized, and the president’s son Donald Trump Jr. complained that people were trying to “cancel Cancún Cruz” — a defense wrapped in a classically Trumpian insulting nickname.

2021 February 19, Lisa Lerer, “How Ted Cruz Became the least sympathetic politician in America”, in New York Times:

You'd think they'd be ashamed of the shenanigans they try / But never Cancun Cruz or Lady G

2021 April 5, “Ted and Lindsey”, Randy Rainbow (lyrics):

Ken dressed up like Cancun Cruz and sang "Margaritaville." When he got to the chorus, everyone joined in and sang, "I tried to say that my kids were to blame, but I know it was my own damn fault."

2021 October 6, Joe Lovato, Blood, Love and Justice, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN:

We have all read about “Cancun Cruz,” and how he blamed his poor decision to travel to Cancun during Texas’ winter freeze on his daughters.

2022 April 4, “Cruz's actions display a lack of maturity, poor decision-making”, in Austin American-Statesman, page A8:

(US politics, derogatory, neologism) U.S. senator Ted Cruz.


love lotion

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By this time all three of us were practicing self abuse. I wanted to cum, but I grabbed the base of my cock to prevent a premature release of my love lotion.

1996 November 30, Gerald Vontsteen, “STORY - Three Is Not A Crowd (MFF)”, in alt.sex.stories (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-03:

My orgasm seemed to last for an eternity as I came and came, spewing stream after stream of my love lotion deep within her pussy.

1999 January 28, TextTrdr, “Repost-Gaming Husband" (M/F, wife watch)”, in alt.sex.stories (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-03:

1999 October 11, Shattered Dreams Inc., “Shooting my love lotion into Tonya.”, in alt.fan.tonya-harding.whack.whack.whack (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-03:

hi i am looking for a black male you must be 8 inches + cut with a muscular body to give my cuckhold husband his first taste of a lovers creampie cos he is gonna clean me up after you shoot your love lotion deep in my pussy

2000 May 27, Sarah, “re. fem seeks black male”, in uk.adverts.personals (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-03:

Given his line of work, his man juice would probably have tasted of bovine excreta. But his best friend, whom you divorced Jim for while he was in prison for providing you your gluttonous lifestyle--he ought to go down a little smoother. He's probably got a hint of snake or worm in his love lotion--should be real smooth.

2007 May 10, Mehfist (Awful) Ease, “Tammy Faye wants to swallow”, in alt.religion.christian (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-03:


throat goat

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From throat (“to take into the throat”) + GOAT (“greatest of all time”).

compound

(sex, slang, vulgar) One who is exceptionally good at fellatio; particularly deep-throating.


lip flip

(slang) A cosmetic surgery procedure involving an injection of Botox into the upper lip to give a fuller or poutier appearance.


Olympic Valley

From Olympic + valley, referring to Olympia, in the valley of the Alfeiós River in Greece, where the Ancient Olympic Games were held.

A valley formed by the river Alpheus, Ilia, Greece, site of Olympia.


bisexual lighting

en-noun

bisexual lighting (countable and uncountable, plural bisexual lightings)

/baɪˌsɛkʃʊəl ˈlaɪtɪŋ/

From bisexual (adjective) + lighting (noun), referring to the pink, purple, and blue colours of the bisexual flag (also known as the bisexual pride flag).

(LGBTQ, often art, film, television) The simultaneous use of pink, purple, and blue lighting, often to indicate bisexuality.


bitch switch

(slang, vulgar, humorous) A tendency to have sudden, unexplained fits of rage.


Wacko Jacko

/ˈwæ.kəʊ ˈd͡ʒæ.kəʊ/

i bet Wacko Jacko was kind of wishing now that he "beat it" a long time ago ;-)

2003 November 25, kali yuga 2004, “Who set up Wacko Jacko?”, in alt.music.michael-jackson (Usenet), retrieved 2022-11-04:

(humorous, derogatory) A nickname of the American singer-songwriter, dancer, and philanthropist Michael Jackson (1958-2009).


prince-primate

prince-primate (plural prince-primates or princes-primate)

prince-primates (plural)
princes-primate (plural)

From prince + primate, a calque of German Fürstprimas. In the case of the archbishop of Esztergom, the title derived from his status as primate of Hungary and a prince of the Holy Roman Empire from 1715.

vorst-primaat

Soon, on the right, appears the cathedral of Grann [Esztergom], a miniature of St. Peter’s, in something like red porphyry, built within this century by the prince-primates, at their own private expense […]

1884, John Fallon, “From Passau to Pesth, along the Danube. Part II”, in The Irish Monthly, volume 12, page 453:

These factors may have convinced Pope Pius XII to pass over other figures in the Hungarian Church and select Mindszenty in August 1945 to be cardinal at Esztergom and thus prince-primate of Hungary.

2006, Paul Hanebrink, In Defense of Christian Hungary: Religion, Nationalism, and Antisemitism, 1890–1944, →ISBN, page 228:

(Roman Catholicism, historical) An honorary title given to an especially prominent archbishop with certain secular prerogatives, in particular:

The act of the Confederation also seemed to hold forth some hope that the new federation might develop a growing community of its German member states. Apart from the presidency of the prince-primate, it mentioned the establishment of two colleges, those of the kings and princes.

1964, Hajo Holborn, A History of Modern Germany, 1648–1840, page 371:

Confederation of the Rhine
Confederation of the Rhine

The prince-primate of the Napoleonic Confederation of the Rhine, Karl von Dalberg.


imperial-royal

Calque of German kaiserlich-königlich, from kaiserlich und königlich, referring to the monarch’s titles, Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary.

[…] Emperor Napoleon had given the assurance, in consequence of the emphatic representations of the Imperial-Royal Ambassador, that the last obstacles to a conclusion, in so far as they depended upon France, should speedily be removed.

1868, “Introduction”, in Austrian Red-Book: Diplomatic Correspondence of the Imperial-Royal Ministry for Foreign Affairs, from November 1866 to 31st December 1867, page 33:

For example, Hungarians still had to serve in a joint imperial-royal army. They also had to accept financial decisions made by imperial-royal banks in Vienna.

2006, Paul Hanebrink, In Defense of Christian Hungary: Religion, Nationalism, and Antisemitism, 1890–1944, →ISBN, page 12:

This administration was headed by the Imperial-Royal government in Vienna and the Austrian emperor.

2018, Benno Gammerl, translated by Jennifer Walcoff Neuheiser, Subjects, Citizens, and Others: Administering Ethnic Heterogeneity in the British and Habsburg Empires, 1867–1918, →ISBN, page 62:

(historical) Pertaining to the central government of Austria-Hungary.

Emperor of Austria
King of Hungary
imperial–royal


imaginary lat syndrome

/ɪˌmæd͡ʒɪn(ə)ɹi ˈlæt ˌsɪndɹəʊm/

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/ɪˌmæd͡ʒɪˌnɛɹi ˈlæt ˌsɪndɹoʊm/

From imaginary + lat (“(slang) latissimus dorsi muscle”) + syndrome.

compound

Neophytes, for example, risk being ridiculed by other gym members if they walk this way: ‘Aghh, look at him! He’s got ILS [Imaginary Lat Syndrome]’.

2001, Lee F. Monaghan, Bodybuilding, Drugs and Risk, London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 42:

[Brendan] Ranford does not have washboard abs, like many of his prospect camp counterparts, and he does not walk around with Imaginary Lat Syndrome — or a deliberate, imposing gait to impress or attract.

2011 July 13, Frank Seravalli, “Ranford tackling some weighty issues”, in Philadelphia Daily News, page 48:

Not everyone who does regular resistance training has to end up with tight muscles, inflexible joints, and a bad case of imaginary lat syndrome.

2015 March 19, Michelle Churchill, “Using your body weight to work out”, in Cape Life, Cape Coral, Fla.: The News-Press Media Group, page B2:

ILS, or Imaginary Lat Syndrome, became popular in the late 1980s when pro wrestling peaked and every guy wanted to be like Hulk Hogan.

2017, Andrew Ginsburg, Pumping Irony: How to Build Muscle, Lose Weight, and Have the Last Laugh, Skyhorse Publishing, →ISBN:

His [Kenneth’s] arms talk: elbows cocked out, hands into fists, when illustrating the tough, dominant image he has worn for much of his time in white gay enclaves — jokily referring to “imaginary lat syndrome.”

2020 February 29, Patrick Strudwick, “This Is Why Queer People Of Color Are Becoming Addicted To Meth And Sex”, in BuzzFeed News, archived from the original on 2020-03-01:

(derogatory, humorous) A tendency for one to adopt a posture as if one had larger latissimus dorsi muscles than one actually has, especially a posture where the arms are held away from the torso.


flannel panel

The contributors had a really big credit on their features, so that saves some space / And everyone else is up there in the Flannel Panel From Hell.

1993 September, Your Sinclair, number 93, page 2:

[…] with my (cough!) gargantuan talents other than use them to collect a fortnightly wage for writing flannel panels and interviews with the seemingly miserable (I could never figure out why) cast of Hey Dad...! about how they all got on so well.

2011, Marc Andrews, Claire Isaac, David Nichols, Pop Life: Inside Smash Hits Australia 1984-2007, page 106:

(journalism, slang) A section of a magazine listing the contributors and their roles.


political-economic

en-adj

political-economic (comparative more political-economic, superlative most political-economic)

more political-economic (comparative)
most political-economic (superlative)


geezer teaser

First known reference to the term was in a March 2021 Vulture article, in which film distribution executive Adam Champ attributed it to a client.

One of my clients calls it a ‘geezer teaser’: You have Bruce Willis at the intro of the movie, so people are like, Great, this is a Bruce Willis movie. But he’s actually a secondary character who shows up sporadically.

2021 March 31, Joshua Hunt, quoting Adam Champ, “The King of the Geezer Teasers”, in Vulture:

These low-budget affairs are called Geezer Teasers. They're genre movies that star older actors and cater to the direct-to-video (or streaming) market.

2022 January 6, “What Is a Geezer Teaser? And Why Do They Make Money?”, in No Film School:

5. Crackle
Good for: Fans of classic TV, British television, geezer teaser action movies
Crackle is a collection of on-demand TV and films, with a few originals included in a library that leans heavily on BBC content such as “Midsomer Murders” and such classic shows as “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” “What's Happening,” “The Little Rascals” and “Barney Miller.”

2022 November 20, Kelly Lawler, “Free your mind: The best free streaming services, ranked”, in Detroit Free Press, page E.1:

(film, neologism, derogatory) A film, most often an action film released direct to video and primarily distributed via video on demand (VOD), for which older, well-known male actors ("geezers") are billed in lead or co-lead roles and prominently featured (teased) in promotional material, but only appear sporadically during the film itself.


boulder holder

Alternative form of over-the-shoulder boulder holder (“a large bra”)


smh one's head

en-verb

smh one's head (third-person singular simple present smhes one's head or smh one's head, present participle smhing one's head or smh one's head, simple past and past participle smhed one's head or smh one's head)

smhes one's head (present singular third-person)
smh one's head (present singular third-person)
smhing one's head (participle present)
smh one's head (participle present)
smhed one's head (participle past)
smhed one's head (past)
smh one's head (participle past)
smh one's head (past)

From smh (“shaking my head”), humorously reinterpreted as a verb.

how could you do this... smhing my head rn

he smh his head and went back to solving his crossword

Hold up, I need to use the ATM machine.[…]I forgot my personal PIN number. SMH my head. Lemme go inside the bank, I'll BRB right back ASAP as possible.

(Internet slang, sometimes humorous) Alternative form of SMH


semen demon

(slang, humorous, derogatory, vulgar) A child; a brat.


diaper sniper

He was a softie, a predatory sex offender with a penchant for juveniles—a diaper sniper, the lowest of the low.


ginger ninja

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care bear

Alternative letter-case form of Care Bear


summit disease

en-noun

summit disease (countable and uncountable, plural summit diseases)

From summit + disease, from the tendency of infected insects to climb to the upper parts of plants before dying.

Some fungus mediated behavioral changes have been recorded, such as "summit disease" where infected grasshoppers climb to the top of plants to die[…]. This may aid spore dispersal, but it has also been suggested that it is a mechanism by which the host reduces infection through increased exposure to UV.

2010, M[ark] S[tanislaw] Goettel, J[ørgen] Eilenberg, T[ravis] Glare, “Entomopathogenic Fungi and Their Role in Regulation of Insect Populations”, in Lawrence I[rwin] Gilbert, Sarjeet S[ingh] Gill, editors, Insect Control: Biological and Synthetic Agents, London; Burlington, Mass.: Academic Press, →ISBN, page 405:

Soybean looper, Thysanoplusia orichalcea, infected with Thysanoplusia orichalcea nucleopolyhedrovirus. The image illustrates what is known as treetop disease or summit disease, whereby the host climbs to an exposed position (e.g., on vegetation) before death to facilitate dispersal of the pathogen.

2012, David I[an] Shapiro-Ilan, Denny J[oseph] Bruck, Lawrence A[nthony] Lacey, “Principles of Epizootiology and Microbial Control”, in Fernando E. Vega, Harry K[azuyoshi] Kaya, editors, Insect Pathology, 2nd edition, London; Waltham, Mass.: Academic Press, →ISBN, figure 3.2 caption, page 38, column 2:

Many foliar-feeding hosts infected with bacterial and viral pathogens display classic "summit" diseases, in which the infected insects move up the foliage immediately before they die. This behavioral host response to infection results in increased transmission to uninfected hosts, as the pathogen propagules from the cadaver shower down on the foliage below, resulting in increased transmission to the rest of the population.

2014, D[enny] J[oseph] Bruck, “Entomopathogens as Insect Biocontrol Agents”, in Robert G[rant] Linderman, D[avid] Michael Benson, editors, Compendium of Rhododendron and Azalea Diseases and Pests, 2nd edition, St. Paul, Minn.: APS Press, →ISBN, page 84, column 2:

A particularly striking example of host manipulation called ‘summit disease’ occurs across a wide range of insect groups including aphids, grasshoppers, butterflies and moths, beetles and ants. The fungus grows within the host’s body, infecting various organs, but before it reaches a point when the animal can no longer move, somehow the fungus causes the host to climb to a higher point like the top of a grass stem or tree and wait there to die. This can be beneficial to the fungus as from this elevated position they can spread their spores far and wide on the breeze.

2017, Jack Ashby, “Caterpillar with Parasitoid Fungus: Dried Specimen”, in Animal Kingdom: A Natural History in 100 Objects, Stroud, Gloucestershire: The History Press, →ISBN:

In the case of Ophiocordyceps, an infected ant's behaviour can be thought of as fungal behaviour. The death grip, summit disease, these are extended characteristics of the fungus, part of its extended phenotype.

2020, Merlin Sheldrake, “Mycelial Minds”, in Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures, London: The Bodley Head, →ISBN, page 124:

(phytopathology) A disease (usually fungal, caused by the species complex Entomophaga grylli) that affects various species of insect, especially grasshoppers, whereby the infected individual typically climbs to the upper parts of a plant, attaches itself there and dies, at which point the infecting agent disperses itself, usually in the form of spores.

Gipfelkrankheit

disease that affects various species of insect


waccy baccy

"I'm smoking what I can get," says Dorthy Parker, "'Strange Fruit,' or what they are called." Well, they could be called Weird Weeds or Waccy Baccy.

[1944 November 26, “Paragraphics”, in News and Record, Greensboro, page 32:


punkin chunkin

pumpkin chunkin'
pumpkin chunkin'#English


Marprelate

(often attributive) A pseudonym used in the later 16th century by a satirist, or group of satirists, who attacked the Anglican episcopacy.


surgeon-dentist

From Dvandva compound of surgeon + dentist.


cope cage

Coined in 2022 to refer to the structures placed on Russian tank turrets during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The word cope is used mockingly (referring to the slang meaning of cope: "delusion, coping mechanism"), as the cages were perceived to be ineffective against a lot of the weaponry used by the Ukrainian forces, such as Javelin anti-tank missiles.

The nickname is “the cope cage,” to allow the crew to cope with the Javelins. And they’re about as effective as wearing a cloth mask to stop the spread of COVID.

The Challenger tanks have been reinforced with "cope cages" — self-installed turret-mounted cages to safeguard the vehicles from drone strikes.

The most recent photo of a Ukrainian Challenger 2 to appear online depicts the tank with a turret-mounted cage that the crew clearly hopes will help to protect the vehicle from drone strikes. These “cope cages” are a battlefield expedient that brigades tend to install on their own as they’re getting ready to enter combat.

loitering munition
loitering munition#English

(slang, derogatory) An improvised kit of slat armor (cage-like defensive structure placed upon an armoured vehicle, as (supposed) protection against explosive devices or loitering munitions).


bogus-maker

(US, dialect, archaic) A counterfeiter (of money).


harrier carrier

harrier carrier (plural harrier carriers)

Blend of harrier + aircraft carrier. From the Hawker-Siddeley Harrier GR.1/2/3 & AV-8A and the McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II, the Harrier jump jet named after the harrier bird.

aircraft carrier
aircraft carrier#English

(nautical, military, aviation, slang) A small light fast aircraft carrier specialized in operating VTOL aircraft, used for controlling sea lanes, convoy escort, and anti-submarine patrol (ASW).

en:Hawker-Siddeley Harrier
en:McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II


truffle shuffle

truffle shuffle (plural truffle shuffles)

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From the American adventure comedy film The Goonies (1985).

(slang, childish) The act of an overweight or obese individual holding their excess fat around the stomach and then shaking it.


scene queen

(informal) A girl or woman who is deeply involved in a subcultural scene.


tier list

Compound of tier (“rank, grade”) + list.

When discussing game balance in an asymmetric game, players often use a tier list.

2016, David Sirlin, “Game Balance”, in Henry Lowood, Raiford Guins, editors, Debugging Game History: A Critical Lexicon, Cambridge, Mass., London: The MIT Press, →ISBN, page 173:

For most competitive tier lists, however, the rankings are cut at B because champions below B level are rarely if ever viable in competition.

2020, Phill Alexander, Esports For Dummies®, Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., →ISBN, page 60:

(video games) A list of playable characters in a video game subjectively ranked by their respective viability.

paremustik

ranked list of characters in a video game


frat rat

Jesus, he had been a real fuckup in college, a frat rat, drinking, partying, playing golf, earning eighteen hours of fucking-off credit per semester, and screwing girls—What the hell was a sixteen-year-old girl doing at a goddamn frat party?

2007, Mark Gimenez, The Abduction, New York, N.Y.: Vanguard Press, →ISBN, page 174:

The purpose of [Matt] Gaetz and his frat rats wasn't to bring the facts to light, or to expose some nefarious behavior by the Democrats and Republicans on the three committees leading the impeachment inquiry, who were in the SCIF hearing the testimony of yet another fact witness in what is now absolutely established as a quid pro quo in Donald Trump's attempt to extort the Ukrainian government.

2019 October 24, Rick Wilson, “Trump's Ukraine Clown Posse Sounds Like Shit”, in The Daily Beast, archived from the original on 2023-03-25:

The poems of Robert Frost whispered to her soul, carrying her through the hard times and lifting her spirits when the various college boys she'd met were little more than frat rats who wanted the one thing Greta was sure she did not want. At least, not then. Not yet.

2020, Elizabeth Bromke, The Innkeeper's House: A Hickory Grove Novel, White Mountains, A.Z.: Publishing in the Pines, →ISBN, page 14:

(slang, often derogatory) A member of a fraternity.


computer illiteracy

From computer + illiteracy, probably modelled after computer literacy.

Computer illiteracy is likely to be a problem for the society of tomorrow; plain illiteracy […] is a problem of today's society.

1993, Scott R. Tilley, “Computer Businesses”, in How to Make Money with Your Home Computer:

(computing) The inability to use a personal computer.


plum rains

plum rains pl (normally plural, singular plum rain)

From plum + rains, either:
* a calque of Japanese 梅雨 (ばいう, baiu, “East Asian rainy season”) (梅 (ばい, bai, “Japanese plum or apricot (Prunus mume)”) + 雨 (う, u, “rain; rainy weather”)), from Middle Chinese 梅雨 (muʌi ɦɨo^X), a poetic reference to the season when plums grow or ripen;
* a calque of Japanese 梅の雨 (うめのあめ, ume no ame, literally “plums’ rain”), from 梅 (うめ, ume) + の (no, possession marker) + 雨 (あめ, ame); or
* a calque of Mandarin 梅雨 (méiyǔ, “East Asian rainy season”) (see, for example, the 1894 and 1991 quotations), from 梅 (méi, “Prunus mume”) + 雨 (yǔ, “rain”).

calque

This week the rainy season appears fairly to have set in, and to have found the farmers but ill-prepared for the deluge. The wheat and barley crops were just ripe for the sickle, and in several instances had been cut, but not carried, when the "plum rains," as the Japanese call them, began.

1871 October, “Foreign Items”, in Samuel J[ones] Smith, editor, The Siam Repository. Containing a Summary of Asiatic Intelligence, volume 3, number 4, Bangkok: Smith’s Place, →OCLC, page 431, column 1:

The heroes of those thousand years? / Alas! like running water, gone; / Yet still the fever-blast one hears, / And still the plum-rain patters on.

1894 January, [anonymous], “Chinese Poetry in English Verse [Thoughts on the View from an Old Tower]”, in Herbert A[llen] Giles, transl., edited by James Knowles, The Nineteenth Century: A Monthly Review, volume XXXV, number CCIII, New York, N.Y.: Leonard Scott Publication Co., […]; London: Sampson Law, Marston & Company, →OCLC, page 123:

Besides, the general rainfall caused by the occasional visitation of cyclones and typhoons a long spell of wet weather prevails from the second decade of June to the first decade of July. This rainy season is commonly known as "Bai-u" or "Plum-rain", as it occurs when the plums are getting ripe. This "Plum-rain" season begins earlier in the lower latitude and progresses to the higher latitude.

1929, Y[oshitarō] Takenobu [ja], “Geography”, in The Japan Year Book: Complete Cyclopaedia of General Information and Statistics on Japan and Japanese Territories for the Year 1929, Tokyo: The Japan Year Book Office […], →OCLC, page 10:

In May–June, it may rain for days on end for about a month and is known as the period of "plum rains."

1974 August 21, “General Condition of China’s Seaports [Port of Shanghai]”, in [anonymous], transl., Translations on People’s Republic of China (JPRS 62776), number 283, Arlington, Va.: U.S. Joint Publications Research Service, →OCLC, page 47:

In the Yangtze River Valley, the rainy period from mid-June to mid-July is the noted Meiyu or Plum Rains. This rainy season is characterized by the abundant precipitation, high relative humidity, cloudy or overcast, short daily duration of sunshine, weak surface wind, and the frequent occurrence of heavy rainfalls.

1991 December, Ding Yihui, “The Short-range Fluctuations of Monsoons and Their Association with the Major Weather Events in China”, in Monsoons over China (Atmospheric Sciences Library; 16), Dordrecht, South Holland: Kluwer Academic Publishers, published 1994, →ISBN, page 195:

We have bad weather in Shanghai leading up to summer, called the plum rains. If the product isn't in a good environment it will get wet, and mould and frost will damage it.

2000, Carolyn Blackman, “A Lot to Learn: ‘Nowhere Else in the World is It Like This!’”, in China Business: The Rules of the Game, Crows Nest, Sydney, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, →ISBN, part I (The Chinese Face of Globalisation), page 8:

Also occasionally in the singular form plum rain: the East Asian rainy season from early summer to midsummer in the fourth and fifth lunar months (early June to early or mid-July); also, the rain which falls during this season.

梅雨

East Asian rainy season; rain which falls during this season


everyfur

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From every + fur (“clipping of furry”), perhaps by analogy with everypony from the My Little Pony media franchise, itself an analogy with everybody.

Attention Everyfur...
Peter Da Silva has set-up wonderful SPAM-FREE furry newsgroups and I would like to do my part to help bring furry fans over to this wonderful system.

1996 December 3, AberDeen Foxx, “FUR: Everyfur switch to FUR.*”, in alt.fan.furry (Usenet):

We shoed up at almost same time, Ziphorra. Soon here will be so much of food so we could open a picnic and invite everyfur, what do you think?

2002 April 2, Darquan, “Hello, everyfur”, in alt.lifestyle.furry, Google Groups:

Merry Christmas, everyone and everyfur! (in a few hours, anyway)

Hi, everyfur! I've been in the Furry Fandom for 4 years, and I guess I'm still considered a 13-year-old (Because if you aren't 21, you're 13 until you are 21 by legal age.) and I'm what the fandom calls, a 'Young Fur'. I've been seeing a lot of posts all over the place because people are complaining about Young Furs wanting to have fursuits.

2017 April 12, u/Nuwknon, “Younger Furs In The Fandom Wanting Fursuits”, in r/furry, Reddit:

Everyfur help Juno out. They Arknights, Blue Lock, Kengan, and recently got blasted by the evil devils of Car Seat Headrest

(furry fandom) Everybody; or, every furry.


somefur

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From some + fur (“clipping of furry”), perhaps by analogy with somepony from the My Little Pony media franchise, itself an analogy with somebody.

(furry fandom slang, rare) Somebody; or, some furry.


pale male

For quotations using this term, see Citations:pale male.


beaver deceiver

en-noun

beaver deceiver (plural beaver deceivers)

A device to prevent flooding damage due to beaver dams, such as a hidden pipe (that cannot be detected or easily blocked by beavers) to divert water which would otherwise build up behind the dam.


poetical justice

/pəʊˌɛtɪkl̩ ˈd͡ʒʌstɪs/

From poetical + justice, coined by the English literary critic Thomas Rymer (c. 1643 – 1713) in the work The Tragedies of the Last Age Consider’d and Examin’d (1678): see the quotation.

coinage

(by extension, generally) Synonym of poetic justice (“the fact of someone experiencing what they deserve for their actions, especially when this happens in an ironic manner”)


noob toob

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(video games, slang, humorous) Alternative form of noob tube


gruesome twosome

en-noun

gruesome twosome (plural gruesome twosomes)

But Carr Hartley’s most remarkable possessions are his two white rhinos, Mitzi and Gus. […] The differences between black and white rhinos are marked, and it has often been pointed out that the name ‘white’ does not come from the skin colour. […] However, Carr’s gruesome twosome are strangely light in shade.

1912, Alastair Scobie, Adventurer's Paradise:

Lederer and Jackson use a similar system of labels to discriminate the happiest ("the heavenly twins") from the unhappiest marriages ("the gruesome twosome" ) .

1975, Heather L. Ross, Isabel V. Sawhill, Anita R. MacIntosh, Time of Transition: The Growth of Families Headed by Women, page 39:

All he could think about was the gruesome twosome in the back of the room, and why is he in my dreams.

2012, Troy Onder, Town Secrets, page 19:

Armitage was squeaking like crazy. At that moment there was a gurgling sound and the gruesome twosome passed through the machine. It clunked and groaned like never before, as they passed through the rollers. Finally two very large burgers trundled out. In one, Burt’s shattered wraparound shades poked out. In another, Sheila’s pink furry slippers were clearly visible. They were two distinctly unappetising-looking burgers.

2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], “Pink Furry Slippers”, in Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN, pages 279–280:

Mbappé and Neymar were a gruesome twosome for any defence to come up against.

(humorous, idiomatic) A pair of people who go together, such as two friends, siblings, a married couple, etc., especially if they are mischievous, cause trouble, do not get along well, or have an unpleasant appearance.


coola boola

Reduplication of cool, influenced by Irish English ruaille buaille (“commotion”), from Irish ruaille buaille.

Relax! Everything's coola boola.

(predicative, Ireland, slang) Cool; all right; fine.


coola boola

(Ireland, slang) Cool; okay; no problem.


ablenationalism

From able + nationalism, modelled after homonationalism. The word was coined by Sharon L. Snyder and David T. Mitchell in a 2010 journal article: see the quotation.

The historical development of ablenationalism results in the modern formation of disability as a discrete, sociological minority. In order to locate people with disabilities under market capitalism one must often look beyond the margins of surplus labor to those classified as “deserving poor” by national regimes. In emphasizing severity of incapacity as primary to a devalued identity, discourses of policy, economics, health, rehabilitation, and citizenship support practices of charity as voluntary instances of conspicuous contributions to sustain them and the bureaucratic provision of supports and services. Whether nation-state or market-supplied, ablenationalism’s calculated provision (and non-provision) of services based on principles of detecting and qualifying bodies as “too impaired” for meaningful labor underscores the degree to which the category of “deserving poor” is a highly guarded space of ostracization.

2010, Sharon L. Snyder, David T. Mitchell, “Introduction: Ablenationalism and the Geo-politics of Disability”, in Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, volume 4, number 2, Liverpool, Merseyside: Liverpool University Press, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 113–114:

[O]ur analyses seek to explore the strange agencies that neoliberalism has set into motion under the banner of ablenationalism: first in a discussion of a backlash against the homogenizing implications of universal disability access design in cities and national monuments addressed by the contemporary European art theorist Paul Virilio, and in the complaints about paving over U.S. national parklands by American desert environmentalist Edward Abbey.

2015, David T. Mitchell, with Sharon L. Snyder, “Introduction”, in The Biopolitics of Disability: Neoliberalism, Ablenationalism, and Peripheral Embodiment, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 21:

A disability analytic reveals how ableism and ablenationalism are central to the design of care infrastructures and policy. Ablenationalism is one of the reasons disabled people are far more likely to be institutionalized in some way than nondisabled people, whether in a nursing home, a rehabilitation center, a smaller congregate care setting, and so on.

2023, Laura Mauldin, “Disability, Ableism, and Care during COIVD-19 in the United States”, in Mignon Duffy, Amy Armenia, Kim Price-Glynn, editors, From Crisis to Catastrophe: Care, COVID, and Pathways to Change, New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, part 1 (Crisis):

[T]he distinctions between persons who are "disabled already" and "disabled because of" no longer appear as morally or politically meaningful. Rather, the desire to produce and materially benefit from violence present in narco-trafficking and inflicted through the nation-state to curb the possession and trafficking of illicit drugs thereby renders obvious and inevitable the market demand to maim, torture, and traumatize. Accordingly, ablenationalism when taken to this extreme, perpetuated through the war on drugs and its financial and enfleshed circulation of violence, reconfigures what [Jasbir] Puar (2017) calls the "right to maim."

2024, Andrea J. Pitts, “The Apparatus of Addiction: Substance Abuse at the Crossroads of Colonial Ableism and Migration”, in Shelley Lynn Tremain, editor, The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability, London: Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, part II (Mechanisms of Oppression):

The attitude that considers the qualifications of citizenship to be such that people with disabilities are exceptions.


poop stoop

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From poop + stoop, chosen for the rhyme.

(informal, humorous) A toilet stool/potty stool.


squatty potty

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From squatty + potty, chosen for the rhyme.

One thing that China has that China can keep is its toilets – 'squatty potties' as we so affectionately called them. They are holes in the ground with a place on each side to put one's feet. Some of the more elegant ones are porcelain but that doesn't change what they are.

1981 August 6, Tracy Borders, “Students Find China Lacks Amenities”, in Tulsa World, page F5:

Hole-in-the-floor "squatty-potty" toilets are the rule rather than the exception in many parts of the world. […] Fortunately, squatty-potties are very sanitary though you'll want to pack your own toilet paper if you'd prefer not to "wipe" with water.

2002, Rolf Potts, Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel, Random House, →ISBN, page 106:

I withheld mentioning that if she used the squatty potty, she'd likely have to spray her bum with a hose that we call the "bum gun" or handwash with a bucket of water – both of which accompany most squatty potties in Asia rather than toilet paper.

2023, Alexa West, The One-Way Ticket Plan: Find and Fund Your Purpose While Traveling the World, New World Library, →ISBN, page 3:


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Dr. Lily White wrote: > White Ape Alert > USA Houston, Galleria rape Ape goes on trial > Galleria rape suspect goes on trial > 07:11 PM CDT on Tuesday, May 30, 2006 > By Karla Barguiarena / 11 News>> The trial is under way for the man charged in a rape case that once had Galleria shoppers and workers looking over their shoulders.

2006 May 30, Kay, “SRe: USA Houston, Galleria rape Ape goes on trial”, in alt.politics.immigration (Usenet):

CASSELBERRY, Fla. -- A man is facing charges Monday morning after he was accused of trying to rape a woman inside the bathroom of Seminole County bar. Casselberry police arrested 22-year-old Jerel Kent around 2:30am Monday after they said he tried to rape a woman at Shakers Lounge on State Road 436 in Casselberry.

2010 August 30, Kay, “Seminole County bar patrons hold rape ape until pigs arrive”, in alt.sports.baseball.sd-padres (Usenet):

A rapist accused of displaying himself to children at a Seattle park hasbeen charged with indecent exposure. King County prosecutors contend Joseph “Hotdog Captain” Porter exposed himself to several people on June 2 at Rainier Playfield Park, located at 3700 S. Alaska St. Porter, a convicted rapist and registered sex offender, is alleged to have called out “look at me” to passing children.

2013 June 10, Phoena, “Rape ape shows his cock to small children”, in alt.sports.football.pro.sd-chargers (Usenet):

In Valrico, FL nigger rape ape Kendrick Morris boldly axed a judge for a shorter sentence. The nigger raped a girl in Bloomingdale Regional Public Library and then beat her until she was paralyzed and blind for life. Hats off to the judge - he lengthened the nigger's sentence to life!

2017 March 16, Rick Mathers, “Nigger axes for shorter rape sentence, judge ADDS TIME!”, in alt.politics (Usenet):

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

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

According to police teennigger Isiah Hayes, 19, recorded itself sexually assaulting the baby (unknown if an innocent human child or a shefant). The victim's mother told police she found a video on a cell phone and realized the horrific video showed Hayes and her daughter. The woman identified the teenaper through the Facebook name "Zay." It is charged with aggravated rape of a child and especially aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor. Calling all coddlers and nigger lovers! After reading the story of the rape ape cheeto head, anyone of you libertard NLLN's want to explain to me how they are just like us??

2018 February 2, Hansi Gehirn-Schaden, “Cheeto head teenaper coonfessed to muh diking a nine month old”, in alt.alien.vampire.flonk.flonk.flonk (Usenet):

In Miami rape ape nigger Khalil Jabali microwaved water for 3 - 4 minutes and then poured it on a 4 year-old male causing its cooked skin to fall off. The 4 year-old also had so many brain contusions (& broken ribs) had the injuries not been fatal the 4 year-old would have been in a permanent vegetative state. A 6 year-old female told police that nigger Jabali also was grabbing her private parts.

2019 April 25, Robert Wolfe, “Nigger kills 4 y/o w/microwaved water”, in comp.os.linux.advocacy (Usenet):

In article , jth...@gmail.com Trump won 2020 whined: I like nigger dick in my flabby fat ass. This spook would likely help you out with that - That rape ape mudshark was not far from jumping that woman.

2021 March 30, ]v [etaphoid, “Re: Feral Nigger”, in alt.sports.soccer.manchester.united (Usenet):

Even when kidnapping with a view to muh dik and probable murder, a rape ape can't resist the siren call of the Colonel and his chiggun.

2022 May 24, KWills, “KFC SAVES KIDNAPPED SHE BOON FROM HER EVIL CHIGGUN HUNGRY BOOTLIP DINDU”, in alt.conspiracy (Usenet):

(Internet slang, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A suspected black male rapist.


gob job

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ring wing

(aerodynamics) A wing having a closed circular shape.


nuts to butts

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There was a Marine in front of Puller, then Puller, and myself. We were nuts-to-butts, so to speak, and that Marine tripped a booby trap.

1994, George I. Ellis, “Petty Officer Third Class”, in Harry Spiller, editor, Scars of Vietnam: Personal Accounts by Veterans and Their Families, McFarland & Company, pages 93-94:

They’d been led about the Court in a nuts-to-butts conga line, dancing for the amusement of His Royal Highness.

1999, H. Jay Riker, chapter 14, in In Harm's Way, Avon Books, page 276:

“All traffic all the time, every minute on the minute.” The radio waves trembled with Mother’s voice. “It’s nuts to butts on the Kennedy all the way into... wait a second... Accident Alert!”

2004 June 30, Martin Mundt, The Crawling Abattoir, 3rd edition, Twilight Tales, page 103:

As you approach the door outside the funnel, you get nuts-to-butts and keep the muzzles of your weapons pointed up. You bring the weapon to bear as soon as you enter the room, careful not to sweep your buddy.

2007, Luis Giampietri, Bill Salisbury, Lorena Ausejo, 41 Seconds to Freedom: An Insider's Account of the Lima Hostage Crisis, 1996-97, Ballantine Books, page 140:

(chiefly of people) Arranged in close formation, one behind the other; nose to tail.


tech neck

tech neck (countable and uncountable, plural tech necks)

When I finished writing my first book a couple of years ago, I noticed that the long hours spent at the computer had taken their toll in the form of radiating pain and tingling down my arms. My rheumatologist prescribed a set of strengthening exercises for my “tech neck.” Because I am a yoga therapist, they were already part of my movement vocabulary, but I wasn't practicing them frequently enough to address my issues.

2023, Beth Spindler, Trauma-Aware Yoga and Movement Therapeutics for Older Adults: Managing Common Conditions by Healing the Nervous System First, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 88:

(informal) Neck pain, stiffness, and discomfort resulting from poor posture while using electronic devices (e.g. smartphones, tablets, and computers).


congenital cutaneous candidiasis

congenital cutaneous candidiasis (uncountable)

From Candida, the type of yeast that causes this infection. This term replaced Beck-Ibrahim disease since the latter's namesake, Yusuf Ibraham, is associated with Nazi euthanasia.

A fungal infection in infants, characterized by red patches and small bumps on the skin or in the mouth, appearing at birth or a few days after birth.

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pash rash

(Australia, slang) A facial rash resulting from kissing a person with a beard or stubble.


plain-sailing

From plain (adjective) + sailing.
Sense 2 of plain sailing (“something that is easy, simple, or straightforward”, noun) is attested slightly later than the adjective, and so could have been derived from it.

[…] I took an uncommon fancy to him. He's a straightforward, plain-sailing fellow. I shall be very glad to see him again.

1873, Louisa Parr, “Rays of Hope”, in Hero Carthew or The Prescotts of Pamphillon […] (Leisure Hour Series), New York, N.Y.: Holt & Williams, →OCLC, page 91:

[W]hat was the mainspring of her mind—round what axis did it revolve—that was what puzzled him. Clearly enough it was not like most women's, least of all like that of happy, healthy, plain-sailing Bessie.

1887, H[enry] Rider Haggard, “Bessie is asked in Marriage”, in Jess, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC, page 31:

But the plain-sailing tradesman who must be taken as the typical manager (for the west end of London is not the whole theatrical world) is by no means equally qualified to judge whether a play is safe from prosecution or not.

1909 (date written), [George] Bernard Shaw, “The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet. Preface.”, in The Doctor’s Dilemma, Getting Married, & The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet, London: Constable and Company, published 1911, →OCLC, page 303:

plain sailing

something that is easy, simple, or straightforward; possibly: see the etymology


research ship

/ɹɪˌsɜːt͡ʃ ˈʃɪp/

/ˌɹiːsɜːt͡ʃ-/

/ˌɹiˌsɜɹt͡ʃ ˈʃɪp/

/ɹiˌsɜɹt͡ʃ-/

Eight stations were occupied by the researchship Ryofu-Maru along the 30° N-line which crossed the Japan Trench at the vicinity of Ramapo Deep, during the period from May 12 to June 20.

1958, Japanese Contribution to the International Geophysical Year 1957/8, Tokyo: National Committee of the International Geophysical Year, Science Council of Japan, →OCLC, page 148:

Experience also shows that a research ship spends from one quarter to one half of her sea time on scientific station when the sustained speed seldom exceeds 3.5 knots.

1960, Lester Rosenblatt, “The Design of Modern Oceanographic Research Ships”, in The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers: Transactions, volume 68, New York, N.Y.: Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, →OCLC, page 213, column 2:

On the new scientific researchship everything is aimed at subjecting the sea to the will of man and making ships even more reliable and comfortable, and more inhabitable, as the specialists say.

1971, Soviet Union: Daily Report, volume 71, [Reston, Va.]: Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →OCLC:

The US research ship Glomar Challenge has conducted successful drilling experiments at a depth of 5,000 metres.

1974, Brian Johnson, Third World and Environmental Interests in the Law of the Sea, London: International Institute for Environment and Development, →OCLC, page 12:

This brings to my mind the important statement which Henry [Bryant] Bigelow made when he was asked by Rockefeller foundation authorities, "What would you like to have first, a building or a researchship", and his prompt answer was "a ship".

1990, Walter Lenz, Margaret Deacon, editors, Ocean Sciences: Their History and Relation to Man: Proceedings of the 4th International Congress on the History of Oceanography, Hamburg, 23.–29. 9, 1987 (Deutsche hydrographische Zeitschrift [German Hydrographic Journal]; no. 22), Hamburg: Bundesamt für Seeschiffahrt und Hydrographie [Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency], →OCLC, page 545:

(nautical) A ship that is designed and used for research.


gear queer

(slang, derogatory) Someone who overspends on high-end equipment (particularly in military or hobbyist contexts).


mattress actress

mattress actress (plural mattress actresses)

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(slang, euphemistic) A female porn star; an adult actress.


upsetti spaghetti

en-adj

upsetti spaghetti (comparative more upsetti spaghetti, superlative most upsetti spaghetti)

more upsetti spaghetti (comparative)
most upsetti spaghetti (superlative)

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From upset + Italian -etto + Italian -i + spaghetti.

the live action movie just honestly ruined the image of light i'm upsetti spaghetti

2013 December 2, @gendrya, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-07-22:

A HUGE thank you to my loving husband who has been there for mé every step of the way. Through the insane music choices, the upsetti spaghetti scenes when I couldn’t just kill one of my characters like I wanted. I love you!

2022, Whitnay Edes, “Author Note”, in Engulfed In Her Words:

Everything was fine as long as I said yes to whatever he wanted to do. Now he’s upsetti spaghetti?

2023, Kianna Alexander, After Hours Agenda, Harlequin Enterprises:

Do you have asp-rations of taking a snake on a plane? Don't get upsetti spaghetti by not understanding your airline's rules.

2023 January 9, “4-foot boa constrictor snake found in carry-on luggage at Florida airport”, in ABC 7 Chicago, archived from the original on 2024-07-212:


birthday buddy

en-noun

birthday buddy (plural birthday buddies)

Our lovely son had made his appearance, sharing a birthday with French playright Molière, Welsh actor and musician Ivor Novello and civil-rights campaigner Martin Luther King Jr. Not a bad pedigree of creative and inspirational birthday buddies. Oh, yes, Google also informs me that the online resource Wikipedia was launched on the very same day as Lukas.

2011, Sandra Harnisch-Lacey, Steve Stickley, People Like Us: Life with Rob Lacey, Author of The Word on the Street, Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan, →ISBN, page 110:

In other words, the question is not what are the odds of a particular pair of people sharing a birthday but of any pair of people, from all the different possible pairings, being birthday buddies.

2018, David Darling, Agnijo Banerjee, Weird Math: A Teenage Genius and His Teacher Reveal the Strange Connections Between Math and Everyday Life, New York City: Basic Books, →ISBN, page 48:

(colloquial) A person who shares the same birthday as another person.


abuse excuse

(informal, derogatory, law) A self-defense claim based on the idea that, because of long-term abuse, a defendant was unable to distinguish between right and wrong.


bagdrag

You soldier through your period of waiting and abortive bagdrags, which may last as long as a week, and finally board the LC-130 that will take you to Pole, hoping not to boomerang.

2017, Mark Bowen, The Telescope in the Ice:

(Antarctica, slang) The carrying of one's luggage to the airfield in preparation for a scheduled flight.


poophole loophole

poophole loophole (plural poophole loopholes)

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(slang, idiomatic, humorous) The idea that a woman can remain a virgin by engaging in anal sex rather than vaginal sex.


glebe farm

From glebe (“plot of parish land assigned to a clergy member as part of a benefice”) + farm.

compound

On the glebe farms the country is very populous, and but for the liberality of the few reſident gentry, the poor would have literally ſtarved this diſtreſſing ſeaſon.

1801, Charles Coote, “Barony of Balliboy”, in General View of the Agriculture and Manufactures of the King’s County, with Observations on the Means of Their Improvement, Drawn Up in the Year 1801. […], Dublin: […] Graisberry & Campbell, […], →OCLC, section IV (General Subjects), page 88:

The immediate renters of the glebe farms, instead of being hostile to the incumbents of livings, would hold the same relation to them which other tenants do to landlords.

1812, Joshua Kirby Trimmer, Further Observations on the Present State of Agriculture, and Condition of the Lower Classes of the People, in the Southern Parts of Ireland: […], London: F[rancis] C[harles] & J[ohn] Rivington, […], and J. Harding, […], →OCLC, page 71:

One of the Earls of Eglinton, in 1734, had made an excambion with the minister of Beith, and the glebe farm thus acquired by the minister was said to have been at one time worth £200 per annum, and to be still worth £150, besides the full size of an ordinary glebe.

1835 May 20 (date decided), [David] Boyle, Lord Justice Clerk, “Rev. John Stewart, Pursuer.—D. F. Hope—More. Lord Glenlyon, Defender.—Keay. [No. 243]”, in Patrick Shaw [et al.], reporters, Cases Decided in the Court of Session, from Nov. 12, 1834, to Sept. 30, 1835, volume XIII, Edinburgh: […] [Ballantyne and Co.] for Thomas Clark, […]; and Saunders and Benning, […], published 1835, →OCLC, page 797:

A silver coin of Edward the Confessor was found on the glebe-farm, in digging a well, in 1833.

1848, Samuel Lewis, “FRODINGHAM, NORTH (St. Elgin)”, in A Topographical Dictionary of England, […], 7th edition, volume II, London: S[amuel] Lewis and Co., […], →OCLC, page 268, column 2:

I must not reckon on more than two thousand three hundred at present, and of that nine hundred and fifty is the great tithe, and the rent of the Glebe farm is three hundred and seventy.

1873, Charlotte M[ary] Yonge, “The Old Squire and the New”, in The Pillars of the House; or, Under Wode, under Rode. […], volume IV, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 17:

Part of my father's income, as rector of the parish, was derived from a pretty little glebe-farm, on which was a neat old-fashioned farmhouse, surrounded with small but well-arranged buildings. All was let, years before I could remember, to a man named John Ashmeade, one of the most respectable men in the parish, […]

1880, H[enry] C. Barkley, chapter XVI, in My Boyhood: A Story Book for Boys, New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Company, →OCLC, page 205:

We cannot easily admit that land has been distributed amongst a few men, like the benefices or glebe-farms in the king's gift, merely that it may yield them a certain income.

1891, Charles Gide, “The Man who Lives on His Income”, in Edward Percy Jacobsen, transl., Principles of Political Economy, Boston, Mass.: D[aniel] C[ollamore] Heath & Co., →OCLC, page 529:

At the turn of the century, the Episcopalian church in the South found itself in even worse straits. […] In 1802, an act of the General Assembly declared that the title of the colonial property of the church belonged to the state at large and directed that even the glebe farms be seized for public benefit. This created a financial collapse of the diocese at a time when very few young men were willing to serve the church.

1989, Nathan O[rr] Hatch, “Storming Heaven by the Back Door”, in The Democratization of American Christianity, New Haven, Conn.; London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, part II (Mass Movements), page 60:

The numerous small manors without servile tenants had no alternative but to hire labour and on many demesnes the supply of labour services was inadequate to the requirements of cultivation. The same usually applied to the thousands of modest glebe farms belonging to rectors.

2016, Bruce M[ortimer] S[tanley] Campbell, “Efflorescence: The Enabling Environment and the Rise of Latin Christendom”, in The Great Transition: Climate, Disease and Society in the Late-Medieval World: The 2013 Ellen McArthur Lectures, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 97:

(chiefly UK, Christianity) A home farm owned by a parish, assigned as part of a benefice to a parish priest, pastor, rector, or vicar to provide them with income.