Indy

Clipping of Indianapolis, Indiana, and Independent + -y.

But while Dial may have all the right pieces on the board to make for another classic entry in the saga, Indy’s latest adventure is a lackluster attempt at reconciling the old with the new.

2023 June 28, Lauren Coates, “Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny review: Harrison Ford goes to the whip”, in AV Club:

(informal) The fictional character Indiana Jones.


Alex

Short form of Alexander, from Ancient Greek Ἀλέξανδρος (Aléxandros) 'he who wards off men', i.e. protector, possibly of Hittite origin. Also from Alexius, from the same Ancient Greek first element, "helping, defending". These two origins of Alex are indistinguishable in most languages. The female name has the same root, shortened from Alexandra or the female name Alexis, in some cases also a spelling variant of Alix.

A nickname for Alexandria. (city in Egypt)


Brum

(British, informal) A nickname for the English city of Birmingham.


Big Apple

Popularized by John J. Fitz Gerald in horse-racing articles in the 1920s - an apple being a treat for a horse, and New York being a prize location for horse-racing at the time. From usage among African American stable hands. See the Wikipedia article.
The Big Apple. The dream of every lad that ever threw a leg over a thoroughbred and the goal of all horsemen. There's only one Big Apple. That's New York.

blockquote

Sharon, I left my man
At a North Dakota junction
And I came out to the Big Apple here
To face the dream's malfunction

1976, “Song for Sharon”, in Hejira, performed by Joni Mitchell:


La-La Land

Blend of LA (initialism for Los Angeles) and La La Land (metaphorical dreamland).

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... back to her new home in Calabassas, near Los Angeles. Her years in Phoenix, where she started her own zoo, ended in divorce, "and now I'm back in La La Land," […]

1958, TV Guide, volume 35, numbers 36–39:

(slang, US, figuratively, humorous or derogatory) Los Angeles, California (or Hollywood).


Blighty

Corruption of the Hindustani विलायती (vilāytī) / وِلائتی (vilā'iyatī, “foreign”), which is related to Arabic ولاية (wilāyah, “state, province”), whence also, through Turkish, vilayet.
Sir Henry Yule and Arthur C. Burnell explained in their Anglo-Indian dictionary, Hobson-Jobson, published in 1886, that the word was used in the names of several kinds of exotic foreign things, especially those that the British had brought into the country, such as the tomato, विलायती बैंगन (vilāytī baiṅgan, literally “foreign aubergine”), and especially to soda water, which was commonly called विलायती पानी (vilāytī pānī, literally “foreign water”).
Blighty was the inevitable British soldier’s corruption of it. But it only came into common use as a term for Britain at the beginning of the First World War in France about 1915. It turns up in popular songs "There’s a ship that’s bound for Blighty", "We wish we were in Blighty", and "Take me back to dear old Blighty, put me on the train for London town", and in Wilfred Owen's poems, as well as many other places.
The sense of a minor wound comes from attributive use of the noun, as in “a Blighty wound,” “a Blighty one,” 1916.
In modern Australian usage, Old has been added, as in Old Country and Old Dart, as a sentimental reference to Britain.

The ones who did get a good Blighty were returned to England.

Well maybe I'll have luck this time in the shape of a decent little “Blighty” as its^([sic]) the only way out of it for a while.

2010, Y.A. Bennett, Kiss the kids for dad, Don’t forget to write, →ISBN:

"Talk about Blighties——” He lifted his bandaged arm.

2016, Ronald Gurner, Pass Guard at Ypres: A Novel, →ISBN:


Cathay

From Latin Cathaya, variant of Cataya, from Old Turkic 𐰶𐰃𐱃𐰪 (Qïtań), and ultimately from Khitan 𘱿𘲫 (*qid ún); the Khitan people who conquered northern China as the Liao dynasty in the 10th century and ruled the central Asian Qara Khitai Khanate in the 12th, just prior to the overland European missions to China occasioned by the Pax Mongolica. Most likely cognate with Mongolian хутга (xutga, “knife”) from Proto-Mongolic *kïtuga.
Doublet of Khitan. Cognate with Russian Кита́й (Kitáj, “China”). See Names of China.


Beantown

From bean + town, in reference to Boston baked beans.

(US) Nickname for the city of Boston, Massachusetts


Chuck

A form of the male given name Charles, of mostly American usage.


Hub

(informal) Nickname for Boston, Massachusetts, United States.


Peg

I just got back from the Peg.

(Canada, slang) Abbreviation of the city of Winnipeg. Usually preceded by "the".


Toon

(in Newcastle) Geordie pronunciation spelling of town.

(Geordie) The city of Newcastle upon Tyne.


Old Dart

Possibly from the river Dart in Devonshire which enters the sea at Dartmouth, location of a Royal Navy College. Royal Navy officers who were returning to England at the end of a foreign tour of duty referred to going back to the "Old Dart" for further training.
Alternatively a variation of "old dirt" (compare old sod).

J. A. W. has still, I am persuaded, any amount of friends in the Old Dart.

1872, Pen-name Auld Lang Syne, Original Correspondence, Ovens and Murray Advertiser, Beechworth, Victoria, 20 July 1872, page 2:

You recollect that when I left the Colony to visit the old dart, besides the usual allowance granted...

1876, Magguffin, Random Notes, Oamaru Mail, 24 June 1876, page 2:

The ‘Old Dart’ mattered little to German Australians but the empire was another matter and Australia was their home.

2003, John Williams, German Anzacs And The First World War, page 9:

‘I have a whole range of new talents, Dad. I can muster a mob of cattle, break in a horse, speak pidgin, and at a pinch, stitch up someone′s head.’
‘Very useful in the Old Dart,’ he commented dryly and returned to his newspaper.

2003, Di Morrissey, Barra Creek, published 2010, page 432:

Marsh′s experiences during his first days in the Old Dart were no different from most Australian cricketers′.

2004, Mark Browning, Rod Marsh: A Life in Cricket, page 55:

(Australia, New Zealand) Britain, England, London, or Ireland; the Old Country.


Great Satan

Calque of Iranian Persian شیطان بزرگ (šeytân-e bozorg), which is more often the name of the largest of the three jamarat at which stones are thrown during the hajj. The derogatory sense is coined by Supreme Leader of Iran from 1979 to 1989 Ruhollah Khomeini in 1979 one day after the onset of the Iran hostage crisis.

coinage

Ahmadinejad, facing serious political problems, can posture about standing up to the Great Satan.

2007, Alexander Cockburn, “Will they nuke Iran?”, in The Free Press:

Or, have Muslims been alienated from the Congress because of the Prime Minister's warm embrace of the Great Satan?

2007, Swapan Dasgupta, “Muslims aren't the only voters”, in The Pioneer:

United States of America
United States of America

(derogatory, mostly used by Muslims, especially in Iran) The United States of America, particularly with regard to its perceived imperialist foreign policy.


Hongcouver

(informal, somewhat derogatory) Vancouver; referring to the large-scale Chinese Canadian immigration to that city in the 1980s and 1990s, particularly from Hong Kong.


Doitsu

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From Japanese ドイツ (Doitsu, “Germany”) with influence from the anime Hetalia: Axis Powers; ultimately from Dutch Duits. Doublet of Dutch and Deutsch.

emTeX is from Eberhard Mattes, I believe a PhD student in Stuttgart, Doitsu.

1992 October 5, Eugene N. Miya, “[l/m 6/5/91] Soc.culture.japan references”, in soc.culture.japan (Usenet):

i'm from doitsu!

2003 March 27, FuNG [username], “icq people from japan?”, in japan.app.icq (Usenet):

How are things in Doitsu?

2008 June 18, mozark [username], “Re: My Whining 2008 Scorecard”, in alt.sports.basketball.nba.la-lakers (Usenet):

List of Hetalia: Axis Powers characters#Germany


Philly

First syllable of Philadelphia or Philippa + -y.

A diminutive of the female given name Philippa.


Gringolandia

The three gringos had all hucked themselves off Cerro Potosi, an imposing peak on the road to Gringolandia. Their idea was to try to fly as far north as possible. North after all, was the way out — the way out of Mexico and back to Gringolandia.

2009 November 7, John Quinn Olson, Tales From The Wild Blue Yonder *TAKING MEXICO FLYING* (Tales from the Wild Blue Yonder), Dust Devil Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 143:

The film renders meaningless nativist claims of insider status in contrast to the supposed alien status of Mexicans, dissolving these claims in the nightmarish reality of having no more Mexican and Latin American labor on the highways, in the kitchens, in the factories, in the vineyards, or anywhere else in the infrastructure of Gringolandia.

2012 July 9, María DeGuzmán, Buenas Noches, American Culture: Latina/o Aesthetics of Night, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 18:

Aura showed Anna the list of countries the program had partnered with and pointed out to USA and said, "I am going to apply and study here at the University of Gringolandia!"

2016 April 26, Gregg Abello, Angel Warriors, Partridge Publishing Singapore, →ISBN, →OCLC:

'Why were those men singing to me last night?' Sam asked the manager, who spoke English because of his time working in 'gringolandia'.

2022 April 28, PJ Skinner, Fool's Gold: Classic Adventure Novel (Sam Harris Adventure Series), PJ Skinner:

(slang, sometimes derogatory) The United States of America.


Gotham

Salmagundi (periodical)
Washington Irving

When originally used in England, the meaning of the place name Gotham was literally “homestead where goats are kept”, from Old English gāt (“goat”) + hām (“home”).
As nickname for New York City, first used 1807 by Washington Irving in his Salmagundi Papers.

Naturally sweetened desserts—delicious ones—have several hiding places in Gotham, and the Upper East Side's Candle Café is among the best.

2010, Jared Koch, Alex Van Buren, Clean Plates Manhattan 2011 […] , page 99:


Disgusta

(slang, derogatory) Augusta, Georgia, USA.


Big Easy

The Big Easy doesn't want fewer bachelor parties. It just wants more bachelor's degrees.

2013 April 8, Derek Thompson, “The Big Comeback: Is New Orleans America's Next Great Innovation Hub?”, in The Atlantic:

(informal) The city of New Orleans, Louisiana.


Frisco

Abbreviation of San Francisco through shortening by omission of syllables. “Frisco City” was chosen as the name of the Texas city by its residents in 1904 in honor of the St. Louis–San Francisco Railway that was being built through the area, commonly called “the Frisco”.

Whoever after due and proper warning shall be heard to utter the abominable word "Frisco," which has no linguistic or other warrant, shall be deemed guilty of a High Misdemeanor, and shall pay into the Imperial Treasury as penalty the sum of twenty-five dollars.

1872, "Emperor" Joshua A. Norton, Edict:

Left my home in Georgia, headed for the Frisco Bay,
I had nothin' to live for, looks like nothin's gonna come my way,
I'm just sittin' on the dock of the bay, watchin' the tide roll away,
sittin' on the dock of the bay, wastin' time.

1968, Otis Redding (lyrics and music), “(Sittin' on) the Dock of the Bay”:

My baby's always dancin' and it wouldn't be a bad thing / But I don't get no lovin' and that's no lie / We spent the night in Frisco at every kinda disco / From that night, I kissed our love goodbye

1978 September 8, Mick Jackson, David Jackson, Elmar Krohn (lyrics and music), “Blame It on the Boogie”, in Destiny, performed by the Jacksons, track 1:

I fed a fish to a pelican at Frisco Bay

2009, Violent J, Miracles (Insane Clown Posse song)

(slang) A nickname for San Francisco: a city in California, United States.

A city in Texas, United States, within the greater Dallas–Fort Worth area.


Land of the Long White Cloud

the Land of the Long White Cloud (canonical)

Loose calque of Maori Aotearoa, from ao (“cloud, daytime, world”), tea (“white”), and roa (“long, tall”). Allegedly the first English-language mention was in the February, 1916, New Zealand School Journal (King, 2004). Probably a reference to the appearance of mountainous land when seen on the horizon from a canoe after an ocean voyage.


land of the free

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O! say does that star-spangled Banner yet wave, / O'er the land of the Free, and the home of the brave?

1814, Francis Scott Key, The Defence of Fort McHenry:

[…] nowhere but in America could a liberty, so easily acquired, be so easily maintained. Since that time, Heaven has smiled incessantly on the land of the free.

1839 April, “Italian Historians”, in The North American Review, volume 48, number 103, page 330:

Born on a mountaintop in Tennessee / Greenest state in the land of the free

1954, “The Ballad of Davy Crockett”, Grant Sherman Henry, Thomas W. Blackburn (lyrics), George Bruns (music), performed by The Wellingtons:


Lou

en-proper noun

Lou (countable and uncountable, plural Lous)

(with definite article) A nickname for St. Louis. A city in Missouri, United States


Hollywood North

From Hollywood + north; from the fact that many US movies are filmed in Canada because filming there is less expensive.


Sampa

Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese Sampa.

bor+

This is Sampa my friend; anything can happen.


Motown

Blend of motor + town; see Motor City. The poker slang comes from jacks and fives sounding similar to Jackson 5, associated with Motown popular music.

They may be a rock band, but their retro style shows a heavy Motown influence.

(music, often attributive) A style of popular soul music strongly associated with Motown Records.

(poker slang) A jack and a five as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em.


USSA

United States Sports Academy
w:United States Sports Academy

Initialism of United States Sports Academy.

w:United States Ski and Snowboard Association

Initialism of United States Ski and Snowboard Association.

United States Student Association
w:United States Student Association

Initialism of United States Student Association.

(derogatory) Initialism of United Socialist States of America.


Windy City

Nickname for the city of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States of America.


Donny

A male given name; diminutive of Don, Donald, Donovan, Adonis


Amerikkka

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In Amerikkka, this movement is evident from efforts to control the institutions serving and located within Black communities.

1970 July, “White Ethics and Black Power: The Emergence of the West Side Organization”, in Black World/Negro Digest, volume 19, number 9, page 83:

We have said […] that one of the greatest dangers of the continuance of the Vietnam war was that […] it would lead to an inevitable rise of fascism at home. Now that the U.S. is spreading the aggression in Indo-China the danger is coming icily close. The Black Panthers believe this is already a Fascist Amerikkka; we can understand this view from the black ghetto. We happen to hold that many Americans will resist, and there may be a Civil War in which thousands, if not millions, will die. Feeling thus, it is hard to get enthused about cleaning up the Hudson. There is a strong suspicion that Earth Day was a diversion, for at that very moment plans were being put in operation in Washington to spread death and destruction to Cambodia.

1970 June, Broadside, volume 107, page 7:

And get mad, mad 'cause I'm the nigga that flaunt it / AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted

1990, “AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted”, in AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted, performed by Ice Cube:

[…] it's so obscene and Amerikkka and greedy, but pleasing to the eye […]

2002, Courtney X, Lasting Visions, page 202:

Ben Caldwell recalls the scene as follows:
Life as we know it is about to change
I smell it within the air the weather is getting strange
Drugged up sedated and numb from the pain
The sickness in Amerikkka has spread to her brain [...]

2009, Marcyliena H. Morgan, The real hiphop: battling for knowledge, power, and respect, page 161:

(derogatory slang) The United States of America. Generally used in depicting the country as fascist or racist.


land down under

Referring to Australia's and New Zealand's location at the southern hemisphere, when observed at a map or a globe.

"Do you come from the land down under?"


Big Smoke

The first man I spoke to was Whitechapel to the backbone, plainly to be spotted as such as if it had been tattooed on his forehead. Making myself at home with him, I desired to know what brought him so far from the "big smoke," and on board a whaler of all places in the world.

1898, Frank Thomas Bullen, The Cruise of the Cachalot:


San Fran

‘In San Fran, we can be who we are. Not who we’re forced to be.’

2022, Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, Sort Of Books, page 302:


Yankee land

A mad world this, my friends, a world in its lunes[…] ever since when this rampant androgynous Bloomerism first came over from Yankee land.

1851 July–December, Thomas Snarlyle, “Bloomerism: A Latter-Day Fragment”, in Punch, volume XXI, page 217:


Emerald Isle

Nor one feeling of vengeance presume to defile
The cause, or the men, of the Emerald Isle.

[…] with our diminishing supply of gasoline, our situation might be serious. Minutes passed and we saw no Emerald Isle.

1932, Amelia Earhart, “Across the Atlantic with the Friendship”, in The Fun of It, page 78:


land of opportunity

They say America is the land of opportunity. Opportunity for what? For children to run in the dirty streets? - Mr Mousekewitz in An American Tail: Fievel Goes West

It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. […] It is the starving of the public sector which has been pivotal in America no longer being the land of opportunity – with a child's life prospects more dependent on the income and education of its parents than in other advanced countries.

2013 June 7, Joseph Stiglitz, “Globalisation is about taxes too”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 19:

(informal, idiomatic) The United States.


Tollywood

(India, informal) A nickname for Film Nagar.; A district of Hyderabad, Telangana, India


Cowtown

From cowtown, being the centre of the Canadian cattle industry.


Winterpeg

Blend of winter + Winnipeg, referring to the city's harsh winters.


Sin City

Making sure Sin City still shines brighter than creation's dark

2008, Mike Cooley, Checkout Time in Vegas:


Edmonchuk

Edmonton + -chuk, a suffix from Ukrainian surnames, from Ukrainian -чук (-čuk), in reference to Edmonton's large proportion of residents of Ukrainian ancestry.

(Canada, informal) The city of Edmonton, Canada.


Saskabush

(Canada, informal, humorous) The city of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.


Tinseltown

There's a woman in the window / There's a bed in Tinseltown / I'll write you when it's over / Let me take this temple down

2014, Leonard Cohen (lyrics and music), “Samson in New Orleans”, in Popular Problems:

(slang) A nickname for Hollywood.; A district of Los Angeles, California, United States

(slang, by extension) The film industry of the United States of America

(India, informal, by restriction) A nickname for Film Nagar.; A neighbourhood of Hyderabad, Telangana, India


Tinseltown

Christmas village
Christmas village#English

A Christmas-themed district of a city, or a Christmas village.


City That Never Sleeps

Your favorite radio station in your favorite radio city, the city by the bay, the city that rocks, the City That Never Sleeps!

1985 September 10, “We Built This City”, in Knee Deep In The Hoopla, performed by Starship:


Land of the Dragon

The dragon, or long (龍 /龙 (lóng)), is a sacred animal in Chinese culture.


Baghdad by the Bay

Coined by American columnist Herb Caen in the late 1940s, likely reflecting the multiculturalism and exotic character of the city, while also identifying the city with a great historical cultural and intellectual center, as well as possibly implying a moral association with Babylon.

coin

(informal, dated) San Francisco (a city in California).


Land of the Rising Sun

Loose calque of Japanese 日本 (Nihon, “Japan”, literally “origin of the sun”) or 日の本の国 (Hinomoto-no-kuni, literally “land of the sun's origin”).

calque

(periphrasis) Japan (a country in Asia).


Broken Britain

2010 February 22, Jay Z, quoted in "Jay-Z Claims Britain Is 'Broken'", MTV News
People are calling it Broken Britain, so there's obviously a problem. The rise of the BNP is also a problem.

PRINCE Charles weighed into the debate on Broken Britain yesterday, warning of the risks of ordinary citizens being stabbed while trying to stop litter louts.

2010 March 19, Richard Palmer, “Prince Charles: Tackle a lout and you risk a stabbing”, in Daily Express:

A year ago, amid the London riots, people were entitled to wonder if Mr Cameron had a point about Broken Britain.

2012 August 11, Alistair Campbell, “London Olympics have redefined how Britain sees itself”, in CNN:

(informal, derogatory) Britain (viewed as a crime-ridden state where society and common sense have failed)


Motor City

In reference to its early influence on the automotive industry.


Centre of the Universe

The announcer finished the report with, “All is well in the Centre of the Universe; the Toronto Maple Leafs won a hockey game last night.” I loved it. That sentiment will keep Canada together long after the politicians have finished[…]

2004, Barry D. Stewart, Across the Land --a Canadian Journey of Discovery, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 96:

Back in the centre of the universe – Toronto, the 'vortex' of all known Canadian culture, most of the gigs were self-promoted, presented in the unused basement room of a hotel or the back room of a hip café.

2011, William (Bill) E. Smith, Bill Smith, Rant & Dawdle: The Fictional Memoir of Colston Willmott, Charivari Press, →ISBN, page 285:

No one is credited with coming up with the definitive jab at Toronto—the Centre of the Universe—and thus some sharp wit squandered a million-dollar trademark opportunity.

2017 October 31, Gare Joyce, Young Leafs: The Making of a New Hockey History, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 67:

(slang, Canada, derogatory) The city of Toronto, due to its perceived self-absorbed haughty attitude.


Yankeeland

Bend, oh, bend your mains'l, we're back to Yankeeland

1896 November – 1897 May, Rudyard Kipling, “Captains Courageous”, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, published 1897, →OCLC:


Lost Wages

From Las Vegas. The city is famously the home of many casinos, where people may lose their wages: see lost, wages.


Naziland

(derogatory) Any place populated by Nazis.


Dumbfuckistan

(slang, derogatory, vulgar, offensive) The United States of America.

[…] an unapologetic liberal screed about the deteriorating state of our national dialogue, which is dragging down our culture, our politics, and our lives.

2016, Ian Gurvitz, Welcome to Dumbfuckistan: The Dumbed-Down, Disinformed, Dysfunctional, Disunited States of America:

(US, slang, derogatory, vulgar, offensive) The red states collectively.


Mile High City

From the city's official elevation of exactly one mile (1.6 km) or 5,280 feet (1,609 meters) above sea level.

Mrs. Eisenhower said she was not disappointed at the rainy weather in Denver during her visit, and said, in fact, she hoped to return to the Mile High City soon.

1958 May 15, “Mrs. Eisenhower Leaves Denver”, in The Deseret News:

(informal) The city of Denver, Colorado, United States.


No Fun City

Reportedly coined in 2000 by an organiser of Vancouver's annual Symphony of Fire fireworks exhibition (now known as the Celebration of Light), who was upset over a tobacco company being prevented from sponsoring the event. Strict liquor licensing laws have also been pointed to as the source of the nickname, as has an incident in which police advised people to avoid a New Year's celebration, fearing violence. Further popularized in 2010 via a feature documentary called No Fun City about the struggles faced by Vancouver music venues, directed by Melissa James and Kate Kroll.

Where did this wealth of visual expression come from, and how did it blossom in No Fun City, of all places?

2002, Elizabeth Nolan, "Vancouver's Underground Stars Light up the Night", The Nerve, Volume 3, Number 3, May/June 2002, page 4

Celebrates independent art and culture in “No Fun City” — Vancouver, BC.

2013, Heidi Waechtler, editor, The Canadian Writer's Market, 19th Edition: The Essential Guide for Freelance Writers, McClelland & Stewart, →ISBN, page 37:

The Winter Olympics brought people out on the street and showed that even in No Fun City, we could find ourselves having endless fun.

2015 February 27, Patrick Johnston, “Rugby notebook: ‘Fandamonium’ the word of the day at Canada Sevens announcement, Olympic qualifying and more”, in The Province:

(informal, usually derogatory) The city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.


Lion City

From the literal English meaning of Singapore's name, which derives from Malay singa ("lion") and pura ("city"), from Sanskrit सिंह (siṃhá, “lion”) and पुर (pura, “city”).

Singapore is a place to be included on any traveller's itinerary, whether for pleasure or business. Its manifold attractions lure over six million visitors to the Lion City every year.

2008, Helen Oon, Singapore, New Holland, →ISBN, page 5:


Emerald City

The Seattle Convention and Visitors Bureau held a contest in 1981 to find a new nickname for Seattle. The winning entry, "Emerald City", came from Sarah Sterling-Franklin of Carmel, California, whose submission described the city as "the jewel of the Northwest, the Queen of the Evergreen State, the many-faced city of space, elegance, magic and beauty." "Emerald City" is also a reference to the fictional capital of the Land of Oz in the book series by L. Frank Baum.

The Emerald City, both famous and notorious for its clouds and rain, has been forced to institute a mandatory water conservation program for the first time "in memorable history."

1987 August 4, “Seattle curbs watering”, in Deseret News:

(informal) Seattle (a city in Washington, United States)


Lotusland

In reference to Vancouver, coined by Canadian journalist Allan Fotheringham.

coined

"Vancouver, until about two years ago." I could tell that she was going to regale me about the beauty of Lotusland, where it never snows and pot grows between cracks in the sidewalk.

1999, Jim Munroe, Flyboy Action Figure Comes with Gasmask, HarperFlamingo Canada, →ISBN, page 10:

(informal) The city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; (by extension) the province of British Columbia.


Boro

They created the better chances while Boro, looking every inch a troubled team, rarely looked like avoiding a third successive goalless home draw.

1999, Stuart Barnes, “Boro's form keeps failing”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), The Guardian:

If, however, Boro let their guard slip, you can bet the Tigers will tear their guests for the day to shreds. In not one game this season have City sat back. Against Middlesbrough it will surely be no different.

2009, Ian Waterstone, Live Through the Dream: The Epic Journey Depicting Hull City's First Ever Season in the Top Flight of English Football, →ISBN, page 124:

Last week, the man from the local paper told the 24-year-old author that in years to come the "Linny", as the pub is known, will feature prominently on "Richard Milward Tours" of Boro.

2009, Caspar Llewellyn Smith, “A night out with the young bard of Boro”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), The Guardian:

(chiefly soccer and Teesside) The town of Middlesbrough, and more specifically Middlesbrough FC football club.

Craig Reid struck the United woodwork, while Boro goalkeeper Chris Day had to tip over a header from his own midfielder Michael Bostwick.

2012 May 11, Chris Osborne, “Stevenage 0-0 Sheff Utd”, in BBC Sport:

(soccer) Stevenage Football Club, a football team from Stevenage formerly known as Stevenage Borough Football Club


City of Light

Paris, the City of Light, is a favorite target. While its landmark monuments now go dark earlier than usual, many store signs still stay lit all night.

2022 October 13, Constant Méheut, “With Leaps and Bounds, Parkour Athletes Turn Off the Lights in Paris”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:


Eternal City

A nickname for the city of Kyoto in Japan.


Metropolis

A city, the county seat of Massac County, Illinois, United States.

A ghost town in Elko County, Nevada, United States.

My city need a hero, so I treat it like Metropolis / And it's a few bad Lois Lanes I can't name

2012, “Higher”, in Detroit, performed by Big Sean:

(fiction) A fictional city appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, best known as the home of Superman.


Shitcago

/ˌʃɪtˈkɑːɡəʊ/

/ˌʃɪtˈkɑɡoʊ/

/ˌʃɪtˈkɔɡoʊ/

“You're that nosy reporter from Shitcago aren't you? Why don't you take your little dog and get your asses back where you belong.”

2012, Tom Richmond, The Favored, →ISBN, page 163:

'I seen GD in the Quarter,' another kid said. 'I told them to git back to Shitcago where they belong.'

2013, Jeff Gulvin, The Procession, Open Road Media, →ISBN:

I went to the little heap of paperbacks, found the Bible, and tried to ignore the mumbling of the other prisoners, speculating on my likely being "one a-them coon-sucking perverts from Shitcago" when we were ordered back into our cells[.]

2018, Ralph D. Fertig, A Passion for Justice: One Man’s Dedication to Civil Rights, Dorrance Publishing, →ISBN, page 91:

(US, vulgar, derogatory, offensive) Chicago.


Soviet Canuckistan

First attested in a 1993 article in the US anti-Semitic publication The Liberty Bell. Subsequently (and apparently independently) used by American conservative political commentator Pat Buchanan on the October 31, 2002 episode of his MSNBC television show, in reaction to Canadian objection to a US law mandating Arab-Canadian visitors to the US be photographed and fingerprinted.

[…] Chelsea Polk and Kellie Matthews for bolstering my knowledge of the native music of Soviet Canuckistan; […]

2005, Elizabeth Bear, Worldwired, Spectra (2005), unnumbered page (acknowledgements)

We have been on the verge of decriminalizing small amounts of marijuana for personal use up here in Soviet Canuckistan for the past couple of years, but have yet to do so.

2005, Laura Penny, Your Call Is Important to Us: The Truth About Bullshit, Three Rivers Press, published 2006, →ISBN, pages 118–119:

But it's not just the residents of Soviet Canuckistan - a Pat Buchanan dig that many Canadians have embraced - who have soured on the US.

2006, Adbusters, Issues 63-65, unknown page

(informal, derogatory or humorous) Canada.


Canuckistan

Fistfights aside, Day is looking forward to her band's first Canadian tour as she anticipates a more European flavour up here in Canuckistan.

2005 April 28, Adrian Mack, “Top of the Pops”, in The Georgia Straight:

Meantime, the loonie's buoyancy this year reflects growing interest in Canuckistan from offshore admirers.

2006 January 7, David Olive, “Data belie resilient economy”, in Toronto Star:

Republican political consultants regularly ply their trade with Conservatives up in Canuckistan […]

2012, Warren Kinsella, Fight the Right: A Manual for Surviving the Coming Conservative Apocalypse, Random House Canada, published 2012, →ISBN, page 28:


Zionistan

Blend of Zionist + -stan, equivalent to Zion + -i- + -stan

(neologism, rare, offensive, derogatory) The State of Israel, viewed as Zionist.


Bongo Bongo Land

/ˌbɒŋɡəʊ ˈbɒŋɡəʊ lænd/

/ˌbɑŋɡoʊ ˈbɑŋɡoʊ lænd/

(dated, derogatory, offensive) The Third World countries, especially those in Africa.


Jewsrael

If I had my way I'd withdraw all support for Jewsrael and let the Jew-Islam race war go on without USA intervening.

2002 April 12, Mississippi Master [username], “Re: USA=ISRAEL”, in soc.culture.iranian (Usenet):

Why can I find maps of Palestine then, before the British rule of the area? Can't find any maps of Jewsrael though... funny that.

2003 October 13, TheMan [username], “Re: Israel - Palestine: Facts Worth Noting”, in aus.politics (Usenet):

>In tribute to the United States of America and the State
>of Jewsrael, two bastions of strength in a world filled with strife and
>terrorism and peple^([sic]) killing the crap out of each other in the Middle East.

2004 January 6, Totality of Lunar Mu_n Eclipsed [username] (quoting RK), “Re: alt support diabetes dot org ??”, in alt.support.diabetes (Usenet):

Ah, Jewsrael is actually the 53rd after Canada and Mexico. We might have to settle for 54th?

2005 February 17, Kevin V. Russell, “I want Australia to be 51st state of USA”, in alt.politics.bush (Usenet):

Nigger Albinos? Heh. Reminds me of the tourists who went to Jewsrael. They were sitting in a cafe discussing the surroundings. One of them said, "Huh, you don't see very many niggers around here. I wonder if they have Afro-Jews?" The other fellow said, "Ask the waiter". So when the waiter walked by the first guy asked, "Hey, excuse me, but I was just wondering if you guys have Afro-Jews". The waiter replied, "No, we have orange juice and tomato juice, but no nigger juice.""

2010 April 12, Mark, “Re: Gypsy Rock?? It's the NIGGER ALBINOS!!”, in alt.slack (Usenet):

You know what you all happier in North koria [sic] or back in Jewsrael. get OUT of our country!

2015 February 11, Karolina Dean...Where the HELL is my monkey?, “'Christian' Hate Mail Activists Received for Challenging Religious Indoctrination in the Military”, in rec.sport.pro-wrestling (Usenet):


Three Rivers

/ˈθɹiː ˈɹɪv.ɚz/

From the fact that three rivers flow through the area (confluence of two rivers, one flowing into the other, resulting in three channels).

(informal) A nickname for Pittsburgh. (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, North America); A city in Pennsylvania, United States.

(informal) A nickname for Trois Rivieres. (Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada, North America); A city in Quebec, Canada.


'Murica

Eye dialect spelling of a non-standard aphetic pronunciation of America.

(satirical, humorous, derogatory) The United States of America as viewed by the stereotypical southerner or conservative.


Nigger

In reference to the color black, from nigger.

Gibson's real affinity is with his dog, Nigger. When we first see Gibson returning from a raid, he is overjoyed to see his four-legged friend […]

2000, Tony Williams, Structures of Desire: British Cinema, 1939-1955, page 190:

(historical, now offensive) A given name for a black pet.


Porkopolis

From pork + -o- + -polis; it was once the country's chief hog-packing center.


Islamerica

2003, Eprem, Re: Islam: The Next American Religion? Group: alt.religion.islam
Americans are not very inclined to believe your propaganda of a utopia islamerica

2006, Wild Monkshood, Re: Only in America--soon to be Islamerica. Give an inch, they'll take . . . your country. Group: alt.true-crime
Only in America--soon to be Islamerica

2002, TR, Re: Women Slaves of Islam Group: alt.religion.islam
What is the most Islamic country in the world? Islamerica. If you eliminated from the list of Muslims, all those Muslims that other Muslims called "they are not Muslims", there would be no Muslims left on the list

He had already formed a very preliminary first hypothesis, based on that vector running through Angela's statement about Islamerica's objective; Braddock's multiple personas as a shuttle pilot […]

2002, Arthur Becker, Destiny Restored - Page 103

(derogatory) A supposed future United States which is predominantly inhabited by Muslims.


Vangroovy

Because "Vangroovy" is the most stereotyped city in Canada, I felt what I as a newcomer needed to do: ditch the power suits, eat organic, exercise a lot and be laid back all the time.

2002 August 30, Laura Madokoro, “Super, natural Vancouver, B.C.”, in Globe and Mail:

Here we are in a beautiful Calgary garden. The groovy newlywed young engineer who designed and installed the very Vancouver garden spent his childhood in Richmond. He offers me a veggie burger and with a straight face says, “What’s it like in Vangroovy these days?”

2009 November 21, Tom Graff, “Vangroovy Vancouver”, in Vancouver Observer:

Recipes and photographs are nothing short of gorgeous and if you’ve got friends in Vangroovy (and who doesn’t), this book will delight them to no end.

2013 December 11, Liane Faulder, “Nothing beats a gorgeous cookbook to tantalize the taste buds”, in Edmonton Journal:

(informal) Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.


Mordor

Chinese: 魔多

Polish: Mordor

Russian: Мо́рдор (Mórdor)

Ukrainian: Мо́рдор (Mórdor)

/ˈmɔːdɔː(ɹ)/

J. R. R. Tolkien
Middle-earth
Mordor
Sauron

From Mordor, a bleak realm ruled by the dark lord Sauron, in J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional Middle-earth. Tolkien created the name in his constructed language Sindarin, from morn (“dark, black”) and dôr (“land”). Compare with Old English morþor (“murder”), murder, Greek μαυρός (mavrós, “dim”) and Latin mors (“death”). Sense 2 is a semantic loan from Ukrainian Мо́рдор (Mórdor) or Russian Мо́рдор (Mórdor), both of those from the English word, alluding to it being the land of orcs.

semantic loan

It is a “Mordor” sort of anthropology, dark rather than light, swampland rather than solid ground.

2007, Paul F. M. Zahl, Grace in Practice: A Theology of Everyday Life, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., published 2007, →ISBN, page 94:

Nevertheless, this book is about the truth, the good and the bad, so I will tread into the forbidden territory, the Mordor of motherhood.

2007, B. Erin Wylde, Where Did I Go?, →ISBN, page 100:

“OK, can we go back now?” asked their guide and expert on the underground, whose restless eyes implied that he was on the edge of panic. “I for one am not venturing a step further into this Mordor.”

2012, Zygmunt Miłoszewski, A Grain of Truth: A Second Case for State Prosecutor Teodor Szacki, Bitter Lemon Press (2012; original Polish book published 2011), page 290

It’s impossible to find harmony in an outfit when you have to schlep five kilos of kit with you in order to manage the post-workout transformation. Of course, I could change at work. But this would entail using the office showers. And I would sooner venture into Mordor.

2017 November 16, Jo Ellison, “Help: the gym has turned us into slobs”, in Financial Times:

“I fled from Moscow, which has turned into Mordor.[…]”

2022 April 17, Pjotr Sauer, Andrew Roth, quoting Antonina Baever, “Empty galleries and fleeing artists: Russia’s cultural uncoupling from the west”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

They are out in nature for hours a day – despite the fact that the weather’s terrible (we’re talking Mordor from October to March).

2024 February 25, Helen Russell, “Play outside and sing together: what living in Denmark taught me about raising ‘Viking’ children”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

An area of peril, darkness, or evil, which people fear to visit or explore.


Bride of the Sea

(poetic) A nickname for Venice. (city in Italy)

A coastal city
A nickname for Venice. (city in Italy)

(poetic) A nickname for Tripoli. (city in Libya)

A coastal city
A nickname for Tripoli. (city in Libya)

(poetic) A nickname for Alexandria. (city in Egypt)

(poetic) A nickname for Jaffa. (city in Israel)

A coastal city
A nickname for Jaffa. (city in Israel)

(poetic) A nickname for Rio Grande. (city in Brazil)


land up over

Once the departure preparations for Australia were ironed out, I spent my last evening in the land up over at the San Francisco Brewing Company, located at 155 Columbus Avenue.

2000, Ken Ewell, No Worries, Mate: A Manly Adventure in the Land Down Under, Writers Club Press, →ISBN, page 7:

If the K6-3+ 450 has surfaced in Australia, then come on Australia, there is lots of money here in the land up over.

2000 September 23, Dale Butcher, “Re: K6-2+/500 benefits over K6-3??”, in alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.fic (Usenet):

In any event, it doesn't affect me because I come from the land up over eh! (Apologies to our Finnish and other northern-type friends. You come from the land *way* up over!)

2001 April 26, Android Cat, “Re: Religion outlawed in Australia”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet):

(informal) The United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, or another Northern Hemisphere country, from the perspective of Australia and New Zealand.


Fakestine

Blend of fake + Palestine, referring to the purported inexistence of a land named Palestine.

Coordinate term: Isn'treal

(slang, derogatory, offensive) Palestine.


Jew York

(slang, sometimes offensive) A nickname for New York, referring to its Jewish population.


Putinstan

(derogatory) Russia under the government of Vladimir Putin.


Putinland

(derogatory) Russia under the presidency of Vladimir Putin


Raincouver

Blend of rain + Vancouver, referring to its rainy climate.

What would Raincouver (Vancouver) be without 400cm of rain and a flash flood on a summer day?

2008, Arlena De Bruin, On The Bright Side…and Other Rose-Coloured Catastrophes, Red Wagon Writing and Publishing Services, →ISBN, page 158:

News reporters giving out the weather should have a smile in their voice, they should be making Metro Vancouver inhabitants feel good about living in "Raincouver."

2011 February 4, Harvinder Sandhu, “Put grey in perspective and embrace wet coast”, in Surrey Now, page A13:

In winter, water is often foremost on our minds for all the wrong reasons, but one of the most amazing things about living in Raincouver is our ability to turn on the tap and drink deeply.

2013, Kelsey Klassen, "Local company marries nature lovers and developing nations", WE, 3 January 2013 - 9 January 2013, page 9

British Columbia
British Columbia#English

(informal) Vancouver (a city in British Columbia, Canada).


Land o' Cakes

In reference to the oatmeal cakes for which the country is famous.


America's Hat

From the jocular image of Canada as a hat worn by the United States on its northern border.

A tip o' the hat to those in America's Hat.

2006 July 1, Max C. Webster III, “Happy Canada Day”, in alt.music.rush (Usenet):

We're smug in our superiority in knowing how to spell tire, color (or any other word the Brits stick an unnecessary "u" in) and knowing that in the World Series, the World consists only of the USA and America's Hat (Canada).

2008 December 10, Tom Lake, “Re: dell's monitor bad pixel policy?”, in alt.sys.pc-clone.dell (Usenet):

Broken Social Scene, one of the coolest things that America's Hat (you may know it better as Canada) has exported since the mullet and maple syrup.

2010, Brandi Panter, "Editor analyzes status of current music videos", The Daily Beacon (University of Tennessee), Volume 114, Issue 14, 20 July 2010, page 5


Soviet Jewnion

(derogatory, informal, neologism) the Soviet Union, viewed as being under the control and influence of Jews.


Best Korea

Likely originated on YouTube in 2008, on a now-deleted video of a military parade titled "North Korea is Best Korea", which amassed hundreds of thousands of views. Afterwards, further popularized through an image of Kim Jong Il with the text "North Korea is Best Korea", which originated on 4chan in January 2009, from where the term also made its way to Tumblr and Reddit.

I saw a bit in one blog (Bob Cesca? Deus Ex Malcontent?) yesterday mentioning that Best Korea is trading a reduction in plutonium enrichment for food aid. AND they're willing to be more accommodating to inspections.

2011, Doc Smartass, “Re: OT: one nutjob gone”, in alt.atheism (Usenet):

Why don't you go to some trade shows and take Best Korea with you, the manufacturer of the Brown's Gas generator.

2011, rick_s, “Re: Korea”, in alt.gossip.celebrities (Usenet):

there is going to be one hell of a party when Lil'Kim relinquishes control of Best Korea. everyone will be there, and they'll all bring a plate and a bottle and a pc with porn on it.

2013, Nikolai Kingsley, “Re: Bucket, kick, ding”, in talk.bizarre (Usenet):

Best Korea is a famous libertarian paradise.

2014, DVH, “Re: North Korean drug policy”, in uk.politics.misc (Usenet):

2014, Oren, “OT Best Korea... diplomat checks into rehab”, in alt.home.repair (Usenet):

2014, the...@bigmailbox.net, “OT Best Korea blames the video.”, in alt.tv.law-and-order (Usenet):

Democratic People's Republic of Korea
Democratic People's Republic of Korea

(Internet slang, sarcastic, humorous) North Korea; the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.


People's Republic of Canada

(informal, derogatory or humorous) Canada.


Hymietown

From Hymie + town, in reference to the city's large Jewish population.

In campaign speeches, he has called on interest groups that seem to have nothing in common to find common ground. He has been guarded in talking to the press - no doubt remembering the grief that the Hymietown remark brought him during the 1984 campaign.

1988 March 11, Don Wycliff, “The Editorial Notebook; The New Jesse Jackson”, in New York Times, A, page 34:


Absurdistan

From absurd + -stan, originally to refer deprecatingly to countries in the former Eastern Bloc, alluding to names such as Turkmenistan, Afghanistan etc.

(informal, humorous, derogatory) Any country where absurdity is the norm, especially in its public authorities and government.


Hotlanta

Blend of hot + Atlanta, referring to the hot climate.

(colloquial) Atlanta, capital of Georgia, USA


Cuntingham

(derogatory, vulgar, offensive) Alternative form of Cunningham


Fayettenam

Blend of Fayetteville + Vietnam, in reference to the city's large military base and high crime rate.

(derogatory) Fayetteville, North Carolina and its surrounding area, which includes a large military base.


Chiraq

Blend of Chicago + Iraq, coined by South Side rappers comparing the frequency of shootings in Chicago and in Iraq.

Seeing too much of anything in Chiraq streets could be hazardous to anyone's health

Welcome to Chiraq
Chitown
My town

2015, Jimmy Chan, Don't Kill the Messenger 69...The Chronicles of Fo:

When the south and west sides of Chicago are covered in the media, for instance, they are often described using infamous terms such as Chiraq and food deserts. Chiraq, a portmanteau of Chicago and Iraq, is used as code to refer to the violence and poverty of these neighborhoods.

2017, Steve Ventura, Martin Bailkey, Good Food, Strong Communities, page 235:

He met his wife and never thought about moving back to Chiraq.

2018, Shatiera Holman, Equality Ain't Equal:

(US, slang, derogatory) Chicago, especially those parts in the South Side subject to a large amount of violence.


Chi-Town

By the time we hit that Chi-town
Them bears was a-gettin' smart.
They'd brought up some reinforcements
From the Illinois National Guard.

1975, “Convoy”, in C.W. McCall, Chip Davis (lyrics), Black Bear Road, performed by C. W. McCall:

You was the Chi-Town version of Baby / And I was just a virgin, a baby

2005, “Drive Slow”, in Late Registration, performed by Kanye West:


Gauteng

From Sotho iGauteng (“place of gold”), from gauda or gauta (“gold”, from Afrikaans goud, cognate with English gold) + teng (“here, there; inside”).

af

gauta<t:gold><pos:from Afrikaans goud, cognate with English gold>

(South Africa) A colloquial name for the city of Johannesburg.


City of Brotherly Love

Indiana eclipsed Philadelphia as the center of North American Quakers in the 1850s. To this day, Richmond, Indiana, is second only to the City of Brotherly Love in total Quaker population.

2011, Colin Woodard, chapter 16, in American nations, New York: Penguin, →ISBN:

(poetic) A nickname for Philadelphia. (city in the United States)


City of Hate

In reference to the assassination of John F. Kennedy.


Berserkeley

(slang, humorous) The city of Berkeley, California or the University of California campus located there, both having a reputation for progressive or radical politics.


Brisneyland

(informal, humorous) Brisbane, the capital city of Queensland, Australia.


Chinkland

I used to tell the kids who slanted their eyes and told me to go back to Chinkland that I was a direct descendant of Robert E. Lee, giving me more right to live in this country than they had.

2004, Caroline Hwang, In Full Bloom, →ISBN, page 47:

Shit, all they wanted was to be back in Wyoming or South Carolina or Pennsylvania or wherever the hell they came from, copping a feel at a drive-in movie, sneaking a fifth with the guys, dreaming of their first car. Not slogging through a stinking tropical jungle in Chinkland, fighting off malaria, wondering if a Bouncing Betty was going to blow their balls off.

2013, H. W. "Buzz" Bernard, Supercell, →ISBN:

(derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) Loosely, East Asia or (chiefly US) Asia in general.


Brisvegas

/ˈbɹɪzˈveɪɡəs/

Blend of Brisbane + Las Vegas, in sarcastic reference to the city's lack of showy opulence, and partially as Brisbane had Queensland's first casino.

(Australia, slang) Brisbane, Queensland.


Land of the Morning Calm

the Land of the Morning Calm (canonical)

Calque of Korean 조선(朝鮮) (Joseon, “Korea”), from 조(朝) (jo, “morning”) + 선(鮮) (seon, “fresh”).


Pakiland

And reaching out a hand she pulled the hat of ^([sic]) Piloo's head […] 'You won't need this back in Pakiland,' she said, 'It's hot where you're goin', in Pakiland.'

2011, Penelope Farmer, Penelope, page 14:

'Get on!' Wayne guffawed. 'That's only in Pakiland, though, innit? All them mosques and Islams.'

2020, M. J. Trow, Maxwell's Curse, page 110:


Japland

→ Japanese: ジャップランド (Jappurando)

I am scribbling of fashion, and running into the moralities thereon, and revelling in my first day's frolic in Japland.

1872, James Brooks, A Seven Months' Run, Up, Down, Around the World, page 50:


C'ville

Charlottesville Mayor Nikuyah Walker was having a long and frustrating day. […] So the mayor consoled herself by writing a poem — one that soon had parts of C'ville recoiling.

2021 April 5, Laura Vozzella, “Charlottesville mayor says graphic poem illustrates Black experience in city”, in The Washington Post:

(informal) Charlottesville, Virginia, United States.


Great Wen

UK 1820s. great (“very big”) + wen (“a cyst on the skin”). Coined by William Cobbett.

But, what is to be the fate of the great wen of all? The monster, called, by the silly coxcombs of the press, 'the metropolis of the empire?'

London is of vital importance to the communications, industry and towns of the south-east Midlands as a whole, though the proximity of 'the Great Wen' may be partly responsible for the fact that no town within it has a population of more than 130,000.

1962, C. T. Smith, “The South-East Midlands”, in J. B. Mitchell, editor, Great Britain: Geographical Essays, page 135:

2014 June 2, D.K, “Let the Great Wen get greater still”, in The Economist:

(UK, derogatory, informal, with "the") The city of London.


Sauga

This what Sauga feels like in the night time / Watch what she doin' when the light shine

2013, Jahron Brathwaite, Miguel Pimentel (lyrics and music), “Break From Toronto”, performed by PartyNextDoor:

I lived and worked in Brampton, but I liked going home to "Sauga".

2015 October 26, Sandra Ward-Cooper, Journeying Through Adversities: Part Two of an Autobiography, page 209:

It traipses through Cooksville and Dacosta intones in the voice-over that particular community “embodies the true Sauga” he remembers before the film moves onto the Valleys, which to the filmmaker is not “just another neighbourhood” and was an extremely special place to grow up.

2017 July 17, Chris Clay, “Mississauga filmmaker explores city of his youth in The Saugonian doc”, in Mississauga News, archived from the original on 2022-06-03:

(informal) A nickname for the city of Mississauga.


Gringoland

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Gringoland.

(slang, sometimes derogatory) A land of gringos; in particular, the United States of America.


Oxford of the East

So called because, like Oxford in England, it is known for its academic institutions.

It was feared that the rapid pace of industrial development would destroy ‘Oxford of the East’ and its educational and intellectual atmosphere

2011, Jasmine Y. Damle, Pune: Tradition to Market: a Study of Changing Trends in Consumption with Special Reference to Service Sector in Hotel Industry, Gyan Publishing House, →ISBN, page 68:


City of Angels

Latin: Angelopolis

A calque of Spanish Pueblo de Los Ángeles (“City of the Angels”).

der

(US, colloquialism) Synonym of Los Angeles, California.


Teagueland

O who'll march for me? now speak any that dare, / A horse and a hundred pounds for him, that's fair; / Dear courtier excuse me from Teagueland and slaughter, / And take, which you please, my wife or my daughter.

1690, Thomas Brown, “The Cavalcade, and disbanding the Royal Regiment; a Ballad fo Jo. Haynes, 1690”, in Works of Mr. Thomas Brown, 8th edition, volume 4, London: Henry Lintot & Charles Hitch, published 1744, page 275, stanza 16:

To Teagueland we this beauty owe, / Teagueland her earliest charms did know

a. 1706, Charles Sackville, The Antiquated Coquet:


KKKanada

So sorry for violating your god-given right to dehumynize^([sic]) others. Morlock Chlorophyll / PO Box […] / Vancouver, BC / V5T-1W5 / KKKanada.

To keep the public in perpetual fright / KKKanada forgets that being colour-blind / Means she can only see black and white

2004, Steven Green, Karen Richardson, T Dot Griots: An Anthology of Toronto's Black Storytellers, page 124:

It was not as bad as in KKKanada, for example. In the 1930s, Toronto's public schools would not hire Jewish teachers, no Jews were allowed at St. Michael's and Trinity Colleges.

(derogatory, slang) Canada (understood as being dominated by white supremacy)


Big Tomato

Based on Big Apple (“New York City”), but referring to the local tomato industry.

(informal) A nickname for Sacramento, California.


land of a thousand hills

the land of a thousand hills (canonical)


Little Red Dot

From the appearance on maps indicating the position of Singapore, being a red dot position marker, that completely covers all of Singapore on such maps. Originally a derogatory term coined by 3rd President of Indonesia (1998—1999) and 7th Vice President of Indonesia B. J. Habibie in 1998.


gookland

(offensive, ethnic slur) Any unspecified country inhabited primarily by people of East Asian or Oceanian descent, such as China, Korea, Japan, Vietnam, or the Philippines.


From the original 6 boroughs (Etobicoke, North York, Scarborough, York, East York, Toronto) forming the megacity of Toronto (formerly Metro Toronto) under a forced merger by the provincial government.


Northern Palmyra

Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg#English


Mobtown

From mob + town, used in print as early as 1838 by The Baltimore Sun.


Smalltimore

(slang) Baltimore, Maryland when seen as culturally similar to a small town.


A-Town

(slang) Atlanta, Georgia, United States.


Big Peach

In reference to Big Apple (“New York City”) and Georgia's moniker as the Peach State.


Swedistan

No, more likely the cowardly Swedes will move away and the MooSlimes will rename it Swedistan. / Swedistan - Future Capital of Eurabia.

2006 June 3, Anonymous Infidel - Scares away the primitives with fire, “Re: OFFICIAL SWEDEN SAYS MUSLIM RAPES, ETC. = OK”, in soc.culture.australian (Usenet):

The Islamic Country of Swedistan.

2016 January 6, MuahMan, “Re: Multiple accounts - OS X vs. Windows”, in comp.sys.mac.advocacy (Usenet):

[“]Swedistan has failed. The ethnic Swedes will soon become a minority. I give it maybe ten years. These new Swedes will have the right to vote and that will be the end of Sweden. In my opinion Sweden is no longer a country I recognize.[”]

2019, Cathrine Thorleifsson, Nationalist Responses to the Crises in Europe: Old and New Hatreds (Research in Migration and Ethnic Relations), Abingdon: Routledge, →ISBN, page unknown:

The hubris of “progressive” politics, and its relentless war against patriarchy, provide a pointed reminder that cultural evolution is 100 percent reversible, as Sweden's violent descent into “Swedistan” amply testifies. Today's “progressive” social democracy is tomorrow's “Stone Age” Islamic theocracy.

2019, Lou Marinoff, On Human Conflict: The Philosophical Foundations of War and Peace, Lanham, MD: Hamilton Books, →ISBN, page 390:

(slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) Sweden, viewed as an Islamic country because of immigration from Islamic countries.


Paris of the East

Usually a calque of French Paris de l’Orient, praising a location for its supposed resemblance to the glamor and nightlife of 19th-century Paris.

(obsolete) Synonym of Lahore in British India.


Petropolis

A nickname for Fort McMurray. A city in Alberta, Canada; the oil extraction capital of Canada


Second City

So named because Chicago was the second largest city in the United States (after New York City) from 1889 to 1984.

Nickname for the city of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States of America.


Cola Town

A shortening probably influenced by cola (the beverage).

(slang, US) A nickname for the city of Columbia, South Carolina.


Bulletmore

Blend of bullet + Baltimore, in reference to the high murder rate.

Even if I'm honest about my ignorance of the best show on TV, folks are thirsty to know if Bulletmore is really as criminally minded as it's portrayed on television.

2007, Felicia Pride, The Message: 100 Life Lessons from Hip-Hop's Greatest Songs, page 192:

Bulletmore's success rate of solving crime is only about 17%. This is a city where the National Guard could be used as target practice by the local B.G.F.

(slang, derogatory) The city of Baltimore, Maryland, United States.


the city of a thousand windows

Calque of Albanian qyteti i njëmijë dritareve.

calque

qyteti i njëmijë dritareve

nickname for Berat (city in south-central Albania)


eGoli

From Zulu eGoli (literally “in Johannesburg”).

bor

A nickname for Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa.


Grit City

(informal) Tacoma (a city in Washington, United States)


Brummagem

(UK, colloquial, dialect) The city of Birmingham, England.


Granite City

A city in Madison County, Illinois, United States.


Fordtown

From Ford + town and ford + town.
* (Detroit, Michigan): From the original base of the Ford Motor Company's large factories, and its dominance of the early automobile industry.

A nickname for Detroit.; A city in Michigan, United States


Yankland

(slang, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Canada, UK, sometimes derogatory) The United States.


West Britain

(derogatory) The island of Ireland, as influenced by Britain.


Endia

(Pakistan, derogatory, offensive, slang) India.


City of Churches

A nickname for Adelaide. (city in South Australia)


Radelaide

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


Porkistan

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

Coordinate term: Endia

(derogatory, offensive, slang) Pakistan.


Murderapolis

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

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


Duke City

Named after the 10th Duke of Alburquerque.

(US, colloquial) Synonym of Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.


Mound City

Crittenden County
Crittenden County#English

A number of places in the United States:

An unincorporated community in Crittenden County, Arkansas.

A city, the county seat of Pulaski County, Illinois.

A city, the county seat of Linn County, Kansas.

A town, the county seat of Campbell County, South Dakota.


Apelanta

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Chimpcago

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Belgistan

Have you seen the UTube on Belgistan? According to a young spokesman of militant Muslims in Belgium, his coreligionists will be in the majority of voters in Belgium by the year 2030.

2012, Andrew Brent, Intellect, Sex, Politics...And More:

The 700 Club news show recently presented a report on "Belgistan" or Belgium, which is being taken over by Islam.

2012, Dr. Martha J. Smith, Comfort Ye My People:

Belgium or Belgistan? Brussels or Muslim capital of Europe in the making?

2014, Maanoj Rakhit, Muslim India Will be Like THIS, page 288:

(informal, derogatory) Belgium, seen as overrun by Muslims.


Cereal City

So called because the company Kellogg's, a multinational cereal manufacturer, is headquartered there.

A nickname for the city of Battle Creek, Michigan, United States.


Christmas City

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

So called because the city's name Noel is coincidentally also a synonym for Christmas in the English language (although it was actually named after two people with the surname Noel).

A nickname for the city of Noel, Missouri, United States.


Bolehland

From Malay boleh + -land, where the root comes from the expression in Malay Malaysia Boleh (“Malaysia can [do it]”), ultimately from Malay boleh. The term was based on politicians using the previous phrase while failing to resolve various problems in Malaysian society.

der

(Malaysia, sarcastic, derogatory, slang, colloquial, politics) Malaysia.


Space City

A reference to NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center which opened 1963 in Houston.

Official nickname for the city of Houston, Texas.


Red Russia

From red + Russia; see red (“communist”).


Jewnited Snakes

Blend of Jew + United States + snakes, implying that the United States is malicious, untrustworthy and controlled by Jews. First use appears c. 1982. See cite below.

What makes Mark [Margoian] unique is the fact he is literate. That, for a wacko, is very unusual. Out of two legal-sized pages of single-spaced harangue he misspells only a handful of words. And most of these, such as “Jewnited Snakes government” and “niggar,” are apparently misspelled for effect.

1982 September 9, Frank Boyett, “Yes, there are a few wackos out there”, in Clare Nichols, editor, Sandpoint Daily Bee, volume XVII, number 58, Sandpoint, Ida.: Pend Oreille Printers, Inc., →OCLC, page 2, column 4:

The current German Regime, which does not represent German popular opinion, is currently arresting and jailing American citizens for acts committed within the sovereign borders of the United States. These acts are not illegal in the U.S. German law is not in effect in the U.S. The crime? Belonging to a "politically incorrect" organization. The victims? Gerhard Lauck, American hero; Hans Schmidt, American hero, and others. WHY is the Zionist Occupied Government of the Jewnited Snakes permitted to surrender its sovereignty to the traitors occupying Bonn?

1996 January 25, JohnOttoNY, “German Gov't attack on US Citizens”, in alt.society.sovereign (Usenet):

YOUNG ARABS, IRANIANS, SIKHS,
AFGHANS AND PAKISTANIS ARE FORMING SKINHEAD GANGS TO STOMP JEW$ INTO
BLOODY RED MESS! EVEN THE PEOPLE OF THE JEWNITED SNAKES OF AMERIKA ARE
GETTING SICK OF YOU HEBES!

2002 May 5, Habib Al-Hazra, “Are Zionist Jews Satanic Creatures?”, in soc.culture.jewish (Usenet):

No, the countries of the human shields aren't under threat of
terrorism since neither faction in the Congo conflict is getting
billions of dollars anually from the Jewnited Snakes, nor do any of
those niggers drive us into wars for their own benefit.

2003 April 9, Mark, “White House Hawks View Iraq War as Lesson to the World”, in soc.culture.jewish (Usenet):

::When you've made a few posts attacking Israel or the Jewnited Snakes of Scamerica we may take you seriously
::Bring the lads home to a heroes welcome

2003 July 13, tucobeneditopacificojuanmariaramirez, “Should the 'UK' Guantanamo Two come 'home'?”, in alt.religion.islam (Usenet):

Where's the Furher^([sic]) when we need
him? These "jewnited snakes" are in dire need. The Fe(de)ral
government MUST be dissolved.

2007 June 24, AnArky, “Why I admire Hitler”, in soc.culture.israel (Usenet):

Maybe you don't remember or know about Jonathan Pollard and what he did and
whom he worked for and you clearly certainly didn't lose any family members
murdered by jews who the traitorous former President Johnson and his other
jew pals in the jewnited snakes tried to sink the U.S. Liberty by conducting
a false flag operation they intended to use to blame on Egypt (Muslims) so
Israel could use the jewnited snakes military machine to destroy the Arab
states and steal their resources.

2007 August 6, 12 String, “The Misinformed Person's Guide To Copyright or...”, in alt.guitar (Usenet):

They don’t want the pornographic filth that the Jewnited Snakes of America is disseminating around the globe. They don’t want to live under a usurious credit system run by the greedy Self-Chosen and they sure don’t want their daughters to be inundated with the sexual libertinism and permissiveness that Hollywood outre-peddlers count as normalcy.

2009 December 30, muto2100, “JEWS 15 MORE Ways To Destroy Your Country: How the Jewish Supremacists Are STILL Wrecking America”, in soc.culture.israel (Usenet):

He has defended Iran against Israel and the Jewnited Snakes for nine years now. Here is Putin with Ahmadinejad of Iran, who overtly denounces the Holocaust fraud.

2014 March 3, dc, “JDN: ENGLISH Obama, Putin and Ukraine”, in Money Morning Refugees (Google Groups):

(slang, derogatory, offensive) The United States.


Jewkraine

Blend of Jew + Ukraine, implying that Ukraine is controlled by the Jews and Jewish interests.

The Jew-Coup
in the country now known as Jewkraine has been
heavily subsidized by International Jewry.

2014 February 26, rebcar...@gmail.com, “Jewcraine Jews Fear The Bull!”, in alt.fan.adolf-hitler (Usenet):

Game Over for the zio regime of Jewkraine!

2022 February 24, greg1242, “Live Updates: LPR Forces Conduct Operation in Town Controlled by Ukraine, Republic Says”, in (Usenet):

2022 March 3, David Chase Taylor, “The Jewkraine Conspiracy”, in YouTube:

2022 March 30, SK, “jewkraine:"what will you give us in return for not putting Jew-America's nukes 5 minutes from Moscow?”, in alt.usage.english (Usenet):

The Jewkraine is so fucked that the only people they can find to push propaganda for them are mentally ill people. That’s why they’ve put a tranny in charge of their English propaganda efforts.

2023 August 3, *skriptis, “(OT) Tranny Chosen to Lead Ukraine English Propaganda Efforts”, in rec.sport.tennis (Usenet):

(slang, humorous, offensive, derogatory) The nation of Ukraine.


Fall Reeve

Apparently a pronunciation spelling based on the speech of Portuguese immigrants.

My mother bake the massa sovadas, the sweetbreads. Much vinho tinto, some aguardente that maka the old folks have dreams. The band, she come from Fall Reeve; the young folks, they danca.

1956, David Patten, Three Sides to the Sea: Memories of a Scunnet Childhood, Rinehart, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 68:

> Tangentially, I don't know anything about the derivation of "hoagie."
> Anyone?
I'd ask Emeril. He's from Fall Reeve.

2000 June 2, tejas, “The JaneSoc of Snod”, in rec.arts.books (Usenet):

They are not illegal,they are not illegal? (I guess they're like the
Rhode Islanders who come to work in Connecticut from [Fall Reeve] and
[Proavidence] LOL).

2002 May 27, Skeets, “Transcript Vicente Fox on Hannity and Colmes”, in alt.politics.immigration (Usenet):

After Hurricane Gloria, we had no well water (no pump running, or anything
else) for nearly a week. We bought bottled water to drink, and paid the
day rate at a hotel in Fall Reeve to take showers.

2003 August 15, Anne, “Did any of y'all lose power today?”, in alt.rhode_island (Usenet):

I useta get that reaction when we lived in Little Compton and I was
working here in Providence. Down there on the peninsula, going all the
way to Fall Reeve to buy some Bronhard's kielbasa was the big
thrill. ;-)

2004 August 4, A, “alt.rhode-island does milk.”, in alt.rhode_island (Usenet):

It had been years since I had driven around ‘Fall Reev’ as it's known. Honestly, I avoided Fall River like the plague.

2012 November 6, Hollie Delaney, Lessons: Author's Cut, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 71:

I don’t know what he ever saw in this little chick from Fall Reeve. You never know!

2013, Remembering Adamsville, Little Compton Historical Society, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC:

(informal) A nickname for Fall River, Massachusetts.


New Beige

New Bedford aka Lil Portugal.. aka New Beige... it's in Massachusetts.

1999 September 25, Everyones^([sic]) Little Skin Sister, “i ask, you answer”, in alt.skinheads.moderated (Usenet):

>Surely you can find decent chourico in Rhode Island, no?
Only the part of RI that is close to Fall River and New Beige....

2004 September 10, nantuckets finest, “From Pat Buchanan.......”, in rec.music.gdead (Usenet):

According to a listing I found on the Web, the company actually has a warehouse and retail store in New Beige.

2008 December 9, Jan Brogan, Teaser (Hallie Ahern Mysteries), Macmillan, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 145:

His father says the races have been mingling in New Bej since the whaling days.

2011 July 1, Randall Peffer, Old School Bones, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

New Beige, a place where half/ of the hell of this city don’t even speak.

2019, Maggie L.N. Felisberto, quoting Millicent Borges Accardi, “Kale Soup and the Portuguese-American Soul: The Work of Millicent Borges Accardi”, in Christopher Larkosh, editor, Luso-American Literatures and Cultures Today (Portuguese Literary & Cultural Studies; 32), Tagus Press (UMass Dartmouth), →ISBN, →OCLC:

(informal) A nickname for New Bedford, Massachusetts.


Niggeria

NIGGERIAN PIPELINE EXPLOSION KILLS 250 'NOGS
ADEJE, Niggeria (Darky Cuntinent) - A pipeline explosion and fire
killed 250 shitskins in southern Niggeria[…]

2000 July 11, I, “ANOTHER NIGGERIAN BAKEOFF”, in soc.culture.african.american (Usenet):

Taboo: Niggeria, like other Africoon countries, is a primitive society
where homosexuality is considered a taboo. The Niggerian parliament
has been trying to pass a law introduced by former head nigger
Olusegun Obasanjo banning peter puffers.

2007 August 13, \/\/0RD@true.nog, “QUEER NIGGERIANS FACE SHARIA DEATH”, in soc.culture.african.american (Usenet):

Around 15,000 pickaninnies have been accused in two of
>Niggeria's 36 states over the past decade and thousands have been
>killed. In the past week alone, five Niggerian nigglets accused of
>Witchcraft were killed and another three were set on fire.

2009 November 6, wis...@yahoo.com, “AFRICOONS ARE STILL BURNING WITCHES”, in rec.boats (Usenet):

(vulgar, derogatory, offensive) Nigeria.


Bucket

‘You really think the Bucket's a shithole, Mousy?’ ’[They should] put a toilet seat on top of this place.’

1999, M. Corrente, P. & R. Farrelly, Outside Providence:

People used to call Pawtucket ‘the Bucket’. And it was a derogatory term. But you know what there are some artists who've taken that term ‘the Bucket’ and reinvigorated it and they actually sell shirts, ‘the Bucket’ shirts. They're proud of being from the Bucket

2008, Jason Caminiti, Pawtucket Rising, spoken by James Doyle (mayor):

Rhode Island had a way of trapping its inhabitants like roaches that check in but can never escape. Pawtucket, The Bucket was especially gluey that way.

2012 October 23, Rey Otis, Dead Batteries, Black Bed Sheet Books, →ISBN, page 34:


Urinal of the Planets

In allusion to the frequent rainy weather.

A writer on British slavery later explained that the denigration was deserved because Ireland's wet climate made her “The Urinal of the Planets.” (For a similar Irish slur on an Englishman, see twiss.) Ireland is perhaps the only[…]

2008, Robert Hendrickson, The Facts on File Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins, Facts on File:

'I thought you would have preferred to have been with them in that stinking urinal of the planets, looking for bog-oranges.' Kempe's sympathy towards the plight of the Irish was well known, and he had no sympathisers here tonight.

2015 April 18, Graham Sutherland, Conspiracy of Fate, Knowle Villa Books, →ISBN:

(obsolete, UK, thieves' cant, derogatory, rare) Ireland.


Niggerland

/ˈnɪɡəɹlænd/

And, they didn't coin anti-Catholicism, or Meryl Streepesque Aryans, who attacked Kifeland, Kikeland, Niggerland, Guinealand, Gookland, Micland, Spicland, and other realms. Jack Henry Abbott wasn't Cheryl Crane or the Cuban waiter he[…]

2012 August 13, Jason Hurlburt, Cold Blood, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN:

(offensive, ethnic slur) Any country in Sub-Saharan Africa.


Burgerland

From burger + -land, from the popularity of fast food in the country.


Badelaide

(Australia, humorous, sometimes offensive) The city of Adelaide, Australia.


Eagleland

From the 1994 video game EarthBound. Equivalent to eagle + -land.

That's the thing about Eagleland. It presents a common face, but it's a mass of bickering territorialism and local laws behind the scenes.

2011 July 25, SteveD, “I may be crazy”, in alt.sysadmin.recovery (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-28:

Please do excuse my French; I've been trying vainly for about an hour, and I'm ticked off. I've read the sidebar, I just want advice - is there a legal way to do this or...? It's not like Marvel fans only exist in America, I mean, they have two Brits in the freaking main cast, I reckon they should be aware of the existence of other nationalities by now. Isn't it good if more people watch it and decide to watch the show as a result? Anyway, my forehead hurts from frowning for ages at my screen - I'm going to go calm myself down with a cuppa. Sorry about the rant.

2014 May 29, -screamin-, “I would like to watch MAoS Declassified, but I don't live in bloody Eagleland. Hmmph.”, in Reddit, shield, archived from the original on 2022-08-15:

For some reason this movie released in The Netherlands before it released in Eagleland.

2020 December 3, Vicdomen, “I wasted €17 on the Monster Hunter movie, so ask me whatever.”, in Reddit, MonsterHunter, archived from the original on 2022-08-15:

It depends where in Eagleland you are, cities have worse tasting tap water while developed forest communities have tap water that slaps

2021 July 26, Maleficent_Ad5102, “How good is everyone else’s tap water for drinking? Here in Eagleland it’s not as good as refrigerator water, and sometimes unpurified”, in Reddit, teenagers, archived from the original on 2022-08-15:

This is basically a typical sight in Jakarta. To see this in eagleland is amusing and sad in same time.

2022 August 5, Otakubouzu, Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-08-14:

On a positive note, hope Shin Ultraman comes around Eagleland during the holiday season.

2022 August 9, TGJR777, Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-08-09:

(slang, humorous) The United States of America.


Douchebagistan

“one way ticket to Douchebagistan pls, this dude needs it so much.”

2013 November 12, Shaka McGlotten, Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality, SUNY Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 132:

(slang, humorous) A fictional country inhabited by douchebags.


Jewrusalem

/ˌdʒuːˈɹuːsələm/

(slang, derogatory, offensive) Jerusalem, the capital of Israel.


Norgay

From Blend of Norway + gay by way of rhyme.

Svartedaun is a complete anal rammer. So what if he likes darkthrone? All he does is ramble about his stupid art wank bands from NorGAY. His band chugs down massive amounts of alien semen too.

1999 August 12, IamXanaX, “Selling out”, in alt.music.black-metal (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-10:

And to DB fans: fuck you all , you are "not" black metal in my eyes no matter how many inverted crosses and plastic bullet belts you wear. I say Dumb burger should stick to lipstick and gay techno music cause they're far from it anyway. Karma will strike back at the Norgay homosexuals.

2001 May 17, Maniac_...@webtv.net, “F#uck Dummy Burger's Ebonic Jew metal !”, in alt.music.black-metal (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-10:

that book sucks to say the least, now I assume Varg's kiddie photos appeal to gay men as Norgay's prison population increased since the book came out.

2001 July 7, Artur D, “Lords of Chaos: who has read the book? UNITE!”, in alt.music.black-metal (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-10:

(humorous, derogatory, offensive) Norway (with connotations of homosexuality).


Buttswana

I'm sure it was 'brai' whan I lived in Buttswana in '93.

1998 April 30, Adrian Smith, “How to recognize the end of an aura.”, in rec.arts.prose (Usenet):

for guaranteed admission to your choice of Medical Colleges such as
Dayanand Medical College, Bangalore Medical College of Tutty, Carribean^([sic])
Medical College for fudthus, African Medical College of Buttswana . . .

2000 January 17, theb...@my-deja.com, “Dayanand Medical College: earn your MD. No BS!”, in soc.culture.punjab (Usenet):

You think they got pirating in Buttswana?

2001 January 27, Vpoppa311, “Pirates...”, in alt.games.builder.dcgames (Usenet):

However, now that she's home from her surgery and consequent overseas trip to Buttswana and Djibooty, her life should be returning to normal soon.

2015, Joe Sardo, The Funky Munky Band Goes on Tour, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN:


Monkeydonia

Blend of monkey + Macedonia. Used primarily by Greek, Serbian, and Bulgarian nationalists to suggest that North Macedonia's statehood and ethnogenesis is illegitimate, and that the name Macedonia was usurped, referring to North Macedonia's naming dispute with Greece.

> Macedonians show no mercy because the time has come for the
> DAY OF RECKONING and the Traitors in our ranks must be
> dealt with FIRST.
WITH YOUR CRETINOUS LITTLE ANALYSIS I'D SAY !!!YOU!!! AND YOUR ILL-BREED
ARE THE BIGGEST TRAITORS TO MONKEYDONIA!!! KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK,
FYRO-MAGGOT!!! WITH ENEMIES LIKE YOU, WHO NEEDS FRIENDS???

1998 May 29, BaLgArYaN666`@feedme, “Gligorov and his Dictatorial Regime are the”, in alt.feedme (Usenet):

European Union Countries---Monkeydonia and Toorkey not now or in the
future members of the UNION. lol

2007 November 8, Sylvester, “What's missing?”, in alt.news.macedonia (Usenet):

One more embargo
and you won't just be back in the stone age...... if every Greek made
an extra tray of ice cubes and we dropped on monkeydonia you'll be
back in the ice age.

2008 January 6, Drexl Spivey, “Republic of Macedonia Will Defend the Name with Arguments”, in soc.culture.greek (Usenet):

Republic of North Macedonia
Republic of North Macedonia

(slang, humorous, derogatory, 4chan) Republic of North Macedonia.


Tranada

Sadly the same is happening in Tranada, where I live.

2019 December 26, RadFemGem (@gem_fem), Twitter:

Oh Tranada. You are such a disappointment. I never knew you had so many legislators with no respect for women.

2020 June 5, The Honourable Yona (@yona1959), Twitter:

Scotland is still the fight we all need to fight, SNP are trying to emulate Tranada.

2020 September 20, Paintpot (@Paintpot17), Twitter:

(derogatory) Canada, viewed as excessively supportive of trans rights or hostile toward gender-critical beliefs and policies.


Ruzzia

Neologism following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. At first a blend of Russia + Nazi, after 2022 a blend of Russia + Z, using the military Russian Z symbol of Russian propaganda to mock the Russian invasion of Ukraine. See Z for more information. Compare with Russian РоZZи́я (RoZZíja) and Ukrainian РоZZі́я (RoZZíja).

A third user, @Ni79Mo wrote: "See what happens when you hang out with RuZZia too much? You start creating your own realities as well."

2022 June 8, Millie Cooke, “'No shame!' Olaf Scholz sensationally claims Germany gives MORE support to Ukraine than UK”, in Daily Express:

Shayk was accused of being a "supporter of the terrorist state Ruzzia and genocide of Ukrainians."

2022 July 15, Will Stewart, Liam Buckler, “Supermodel accused of 'backing Putin’s war' after using 'Z' symbol in Instagram caption”, in The Mirror:

Because one way to fight a proxy war is to flood the market with cheap oil and that’s what the US is doing in its support of Ukraine against what the late Senator John McCain called Ruzzia: "a petrol (gas) station, run by a Mafia, masquerading as a country"

2022 September 8, Chris Becker, “Crude oil prices tank as US floods market”, in MacroBusiness:

I received a letter that instilled in me feelings of rage and pain- my assigned roommate is going to be a competitor from the terrorist-country, from a country that lost all laws and order, from the despot-country, from the disgusting and deceitful stain on the body of our beautiful planet, from ruzzia^([sic]).

2022 October 5, Charles Wade-Palmer, “Ukraine beauty queen slams pageant officials for rooming her with Russian rival”, in The Daily Star:

(slang, derogatory, neologism) Alternative spelling of Russia.

orc

another neologism; a derogatory term for a Russian soldier


Hinduland

From Hindu + -land. Compare Dutch Hindoeland, German Hinduland.

An even larger body of water separates the two continents of 'Hinduland' (India) and Confuciania (the Far East plus Indo—China) from each other and from the other continents.

2013, Terry M. Boardman, Mapping the Millennium: Behind the Plans of the New World Order:


Hinduland

(rare, possibly derogatory) Any country, land, or region where Hinduism is prevalent or the majority religion.


Detoilet

Yeah, that made a lot of sense, do you even know the story of his
injury faking in Buffalo? Did you even know he played in Buffalo? Did
you even know who he was before he came to Detoilet?

2003 May 22, Freedom Elz, “Hasek coming back?”, in alt.sports.hockey.nhl.det-redwings (Usenet):

Wow, let's just call the engraver right here, right now! Why even bother to
play
the games, the cup is an automatic gimme for Detoilet right?

2008 January 20, Freedom Elz, “Another Publication rates them...”, in alt.sports.hockey.nhl.col-avalanche (Usenet):

The Avs will win a cup before Detoilet does again. Our rebuilding has
started, yours is being patchworked with denial.

2009 September 30, Freedom Elz, “Anyone here going to honor our captain tomorrow?”, in alt.sports.hockey.nhl.col-avalanche (Usenet):

(slang, derogatory, ice hockey) The Detroit Red Wings.


Baltimorgue

Blend of Baltimore + morgue, referencing the fact that Baltimore is the US city with the second highest murder and nonnegligent manslaughter rate.

pedia

List of United States cities by crime rate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

What's this, Coleman? You acting White and leaving your beloved
Baltimorgue and fleeing to the suburbs.

2000 September 24, Orenthal J. Funk, “Hey Coleman Howard: WHO'S YOUR DADDY?”, in soc.culture.african.american (Usenet):

Conspicuously
noticeable by absence is any mention of the fragging by a "brother." Oh,
no, mustn't make black people look bad, right, Baltimorgue?

2003 March 23, r_rennert, “This is even more 'shameful'”, in soc.culture.usa (Usenet):

It's bad enough you fill this newsgroup with your bullshit lies about
good news in Baltimorgue.

2008 February 18, joe, “eBay: Baltimore Orioles tickets - Orioles Park at Camden Yards”, in md.general (Usenet):

2016 May 1, Byker, “Baltimorgue blacks go bongoid when black mayoral candidate reneges on giving them jobs”, in alt.politics.democrats (Usenet):


Chimpcongo

/tʃɪmpˈkɒŋɡəʊ/

/tʃɪmpˈkɑŋɡoʊ/

Harris has used a long list of aliases and has at least 60 aperests and nine felony coonvictions dating back to the late 1970s, according to Chimpcongo police, state and court records.

2012 November 9, More Taxes, “Serial "catch & release" nigger attacks a doctor”, in rec.arts.tv (Usenet):

On 12/25/2019 10:15 AM, KWills Shill #2 wrote: Shoplifting in Chicago is so bad that men's underwear now displayed in padlocked glass cases in Walmart. https://www.americanthinker.com/blog...n_walmart.html It's all account of those goddamned niggers.

2019 December 25, Colonel Edmund J. Burke, “Re: Retail Stores in Chimpcongo”, in alt.war.vietnam (Usenet):

I remember in Chimpcongo back in the 90s, they led a media-backed initiative for people to turn in their guns and solve their problems in other more constructive ways. Now, look at the debacle. Let's pay them to move to Africa, and stay there! Here endeth the lesson...

2021 March 22, ]v [etaphoid, “Baltimore activist: pay spooks and we won?t shoot yo ass”, in alt.sports.soccer.manchester.united (Usenet):


Jewnited Snakes of Amerikkka

the Jewnited Snakes of Amerikkka (canonical)

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Jewnited Snakes of Amerikkka.


Chicongo

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Chicongo.

(Internet slang, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) Chicago, in reference to the city's predominant black population.


Excited States of America

the Excited States of America (canonical)

Blend of excited + United States of America. From perceived excitability of the American people.

blend

The longest serving host of the NBC political chat show Meet the Press passed to his eternal reward recently, and the Excited States of America lived up (or down) to its somewhat sardonic anglophilic nickname.

2008 June 23, Douglas Bell, “Falling over ourselves to pay tribute to Tim Russert”, in Toronto Life, Toronto, Ontario, Canada:

Over the past number of years, I’ve warmed to his writings in The National Post; a newspaper he started and once owned. The takedown of Diane Francis for her column suggesting that Canada be bribed to join the “Excited States of America” should be required reading for all Canadians.

2015 February 25, Tony Wilson, “Conrad Black and that meddlesome Supreme Court”, in Canadian Lawyer Magazine, Canada:

The fact that 148 years after Confederation, 10 provinces and three territories eventually married and stayed married without blowing up (literally and figuratively), is to be celebrated, especially when it would have been so easy (and yet so sad) to have packed it all in and joined the Excited States of America.

2015 August 7, Tony Wilson, “Confederation Day”, in BarTalk, British Columbia, Canada: Canadian Bar Association in British Columbia:

One in which English and French would work together and one which would leave pettiness and ‘small Canada thinkers’ behind. It would have been easy to be de-railed from the Big Picture of a Big Canada. Returning to the old-prejudices of the past would have been comforting to many, but then what? A set of small squabbling colonies slowly dropping one by one into the “Excited States of America”? If this were to be the case, there would have been no chance for a North American state where change would be peaceful and evolutionary; no chance for a state which cares for all its citizens.

2017 July 5, John Edwards, “John Edwards writes on Canada”, in The Millstone, Mississippi Mills, Ontario, Canada:

The Excited States of America may have had the most trusted television news anchor in the universe, Walter Cronkite, but Canada had the most trusted weather prognosticator: Winnipeg-born Saltzman.

2019 February 20, Claude McIntosh, “Do you think the weather man is fake news?”, in Seaway News, Cornwall, Ontario, Canada:

Comparing elections between Canada and the Excited States of America is a bit like comparing the halftime shows at the Super Bowl and the Grey Cup.

2020 November 6, Jon Snobelen, “Canada, let's resist the urge to watch down south with smugness”, in Toronto Sun, Toronto, Ontario, Canada:


Kits

Vegetarians will think they've died and gone to heaven, especially in Kits, the former center of hippiedom.

1999, Frommer's Irreverent Guide to Vancouver, page 57:

So often, as they'd stroll down the pathways and sidewalks in Kits, they'd remark on the essence of the neighbourhood, sighing, “only here”.

2006, Tannis Zboroluk, Kitsilano Al Fresco, page 2:

She'd walked from Kits to Granville Island, intending to take the water-bus across False Creek and walk down Burrard Street to West Georgia.

2014, Patrick Taylor, Now and in the Hour of Our Death: A Novel of the Irish Troubles, page 52:

(informal) The Kitsilano neighbourhood of Vancouver.


breadbasket of Europe

Referring to Ukraine being the source of much of Europe's grain, due to its rich soil.


Dunners

(informal) A nickname for Dunedin, New Zealand.


Perfidious Albion

Calque of French perfide Albion. First coined by French poet and playwright Augustin Louis de Ximénès at the beginning of the French Revolutionary Wars.

coin

Alternative form: perfidious Albion

Vice-President Dick Cheney viewed the move by Britain—“perfidious Albion,” as he put it—as “a stab in the back,” according to a former senior intelligence official.

2009 March 30, Dick Cheney, quotee, “Albion, I stab at thee”, in The Economist, →ISSN:

international relations
international relations

(poetic or international relations, derogatory) The United Kingdom, seen as a country that is manipulative, deceptive, or treacherous on the international stage.

perfide Albion

pejorative phrase referring to the United Kingdom


People's Korea

Shortened form of Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the official name of North Korea.

Unironically, People's Korea has always been based.

2022 November 22, WingedLionGyoza, “[KCTV, North Korea’s state television broadcaster] showed the opener of the 2022 FIFA World Cup despite not buying the rights to it, instead pirating the signal and blurring the original logo (from r/soccer)”, in Reddit, Piracy, archived from the original on 2022-11-24:


Bodymore

Blend of body + Baltimore, in reference to the high murder rate.

(slang, derogatory) The city of Baltimore, Maryland, United States.


Zionist entity

Calque of Arabic الكِيَان الصِّهْيُونِيّ (al-kiyān aṣ-ṣihyūniyy). First use appears c. 1956. See citations page.

calque

الكِيَان الصِّهْيُونِيّ

Coordinate term: Isn'treal

(Middle East, derogatory, dysphemistic) Israel, viewed by Palestinians and their supporters as an illegitimate regime ruled by Zionists.

الكِيَان الصِّهْيُونِيّ

a pejorative term for the State of Israel


Snottsdale

Spoken like a true resident of Snottsdale..........you eastsiders need to get a clue.

2003 April 21, Irv, “Moving to Phoenix”, in az.general (Usenet), retrieved 2022-12-22:


Slumbai

How Slumbai is being shanghaied?

[…] lose an opportunity to strike at the non-Maharashtrian population in “Slumbai”.

It was a city where the fabulously wealthy Ambani dynasty could build a twenty-seven-storey tower-block in the exclusive Malabar Hill as their own personal compound, while inequality and poverty still of Victorian levels flourished in coagulating ‘Slumbai’.

2014, Tristram Hunt, Ten Cities That Made an Empire, Penguin Books, →ISBN:

The irony is every single corporate head honcho who creates jobs in this city has not raised his or her voice to sort the mess that Mumbai has denegenerated into. Probably because they have wonderful holiday/second/weekend homes in global cities like New York, London, Singapore or Dubai… Anywhere but Slumbai.

2016 June 24, Srinath Sridharan, “Slum shame & rains: In Mumbai, sab chalta hai”, in The Asian Age:

A day before his arrest, he had tweeted, “You have arrested the wrong person, slumbai police.”

2022 January 9, “‘Bulli Bai” accused Bishnoi tells police he hacked websites”, in Millennium Post:


Iraqnam

Remember how the US troops were told that after the “Shock and Awe” knockout blow and the Iraqis welcomed them in with open arms, they would largely all be off home by the 4th July! Well, welcome to IraqNam.

2003 September 20, Paul Shallard, “Feedback: Comment on A sad case of schadenfreude by Andrew Gimson (13/09/2003)”, in The Spectator:

It was one of the worst days of my life, as I had to admit that Vietnam had been a waste. When the Iraq war began, it became evident to me that it was going to be an IRAQNAM—as mismanaged as Vietnam had been or worse.

2006, Jerry Autry, “Preface”, in Gun-Totin' Chaplain: A True Memoir, San Francisco, CA: Airborne Press, →ISBN, page xiii:

Now can we leave IraqNam and Afghanistan? We pissed away billions to support US oil fascism, and ruined our nation's reputation in so-doing. Meanwhile, record numbers of homeless people and families, undernourished children, and failling^([sic]) young people grow, even as we pump up the BS for BC's version of the Olympic Follies.

2008 November, Joseph E Fasciani, “Letters to the editor: Ruined reputation”, in Common Ground, number 208, →ISSN, page 10:

Aided by our Uncle Toms—Brokaw and Hanks—the rich, who had not served in the first quagmire because they had other priorities, grew nostalgic for those so-called greatest generation wars. When attacked in 2001, we were pumped up and ready. We gave ourselves rhetorical goose bumps about freedom goose-stepping. Iraqnam.

2009, Kate Clinton, I Told You So, Boston, MA: Beacon Press, →ISBN, page 58:

(often derogatory) The country of Iraq during the Iraq War (2003–2011) that began with a controversial invasion by a United States-led coalition, seen as analogous to the Vietnam War (1955–1975) which was also marked by American military involvement.


Tronna

“We have seen the picture in question,” brags The Examiner—being justly proud, no doubt, of having revisited Toronto. […] Having seen much superior nonsense in the Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53rd Street, New York City, N. Y., (where one is charged 35 cents to get in and would be willing to pay a buck to get out), who would waste the gasoline necessary to get to Tronna?

1951 March 27, “For The Arty Only”, in The Brantford Expositor, Brantford, Ont., page 4:

Born and raised in a seedy street in ‘Tronna’ and now a naturalized Briton and one of the last to be created an hereditary lord — an anachronism in any modern democracy surely — [Roy] Thomson demonstrated a frank glee about his success to his slightly deferential inquisitors.

1972 January 19, Keith Ashwell, “My verdict on Today”, in Edmonton Journal, Edmonton, Alta., page 57:

I can recite parts of his speeches still. They always contained a reference to “the loyal city of Tronna, which has sent so many of its brave boys overseas to fight for King and Country.”

1983, Floyd S[herman] Chalmers, Both Sides of the Street: One Man’s Life in Business and the Arts in Canada, Macmillan of Canada, →ISBN, page 27:

Johnny: Well , to tell you the truth, I been ridin’ that train straight out from Tronna, and what them Pullman benches started, them bony shoulders finished. My be-hind’s so raw you could. … Oh … I beg your pardon, Miss. Mr. Big: My daughter, Leah. Johnny: Nice to meetcha. He stares at Leah. Mr. Big: You were sayin’? Johnny: Mn? … Oh. Nothin’. … Just … nothin’. Mr. Big: I’m int’rested, boy. Johnny: I … I ain’t got nothin’ else to say, I don’t think. Mr. Big: So … home from Toronto … for a visit?

1987, Sharon Pollock, edited by Diane Bessai and Don Kerr, NeWest Plays by Women, NeWest Press, →ISBN, page 171:

Says ’e hates bloody Canadians. Crude. Obstructive. Turbulent. Even pigeons be nervy in Tronna.

2018, S Minsos, Sky Walker Tehawennihárhos Charter, FriesenPress, →ISBN, page 109:

“Oh, I haven’t heard from you in a long time. Where do you live?” “In Toronto.” “You’re in Tronna? I’m in Seattle. It’s 6:00 o’clock here. It must be 9:00 where you are.”

2021, Joy Kogawa, “Intent to Forgive”, in Rona Altrows, editor, You Look Good for Your Age: An Anthology, University of Alberta Press, →ISBN, page 29:


K-Town

(Hong Kong, informal) Short for Kennedy Town.


Cream City

From the cream-colored bricks used in many of its buildings.

(informal) The city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.