Farmer George

In reference to his well-known agricultural hobbies and interests; purportedly in allusion to the derivation of George from Ancient Greek γεωργός (geōrgós, “farmer, earth worker”).

der

(historical) A nickname for King George III of the United Kingdom.


Ohomo

WASHINGTON - Mary Beth Maxwell says her years of fighting for workers' rights can be traced to the values and sense of social justice that came with her upbringing in a Catholic family in Omaha. Maxwell, 43, has received some high-profile mentions lately as a possible nominee for secretary of labor under President-elect Barack Obama. She would be the first openly gay cabinet secretary.

2008 December 18, Speeders & Drunk Drivers are MURDERERS, “Ohomo leaning towards faggot for Labor Secretary”, in alt.politics (Usenet):

They killed american personnel because obozo invaded and holocausted their country and murdered their president. And all because Libya was going to a gold standard and the bankers who contol^([sic]) Ohomo won't allow that. I can't believe americans are so stupid they believe this obozo BS that libyans killed the US ambassador because of an anti-islam movie!!!!!!

2012 September 13, Car Crashes Mean Car Sales - GM loves highway criminals, “Do you really think Libya is mad because of some silly movie?”, in alt.politics.usa (Usenet):

So the despicable, vile, worthless, sub-cockroach mega-turd nigger 'son-of-Ohomo' Christopher Hendrix tried multiple times in a single day to try its paw at carjacking. Of course, it failed miserably and was finally (Thank Heaven!) wrangled and caged. During its long odyssey, the stupid ape got showered with gasoline and also faced the business-end of a pistol. Ape-parently, carjacking beez rayciss an shee-it.

2020 October 20, Skeeter, “Re: Mega-turd Christopher Hendrix Fails at Many Carjackings in One Day; Gets Wrangled”, in alt.conspiracy (Usenet):

(slang, derogatory, offensive) Barack Obama.


Wacko Jacko

/ˈwæ.kəʊ ˈd͡ʒæ.kəʊ/

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

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

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


Jellicoe

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

John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, a British admiral in the First World War.

Thunder Bay District
Thunder Bay District#English

A community of Greenstone municipality, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada.


Trumpster diving

So, sit back, grill a Trump Steak, pour a tall glass of Trump Vodka, and go “Trumpster diving” for some billiondollar stanzas, straight from the Bard of the Deal. As the Poet himself might say, this stuff is like very, very, very good.

2015 December 15, Hart Seely, Bard of the Deal: The Poetry of Donald Trump, HarperCollins, →ISBN:

He presents himself as a Strong Man who promises to knock heads and make things right again. In this, he has a lot more in common with South American populist demagogues than with our tradition of political leaders... The middle-class consensus in America has collapsed. This is the most important political and social earthquake since World War II. The conservative movement's leadership isn't up to the challenge, and a good number of voters are willing to gamble on Trump's bluster. Bad bet. Our nation's solidarity is being tested. It will only make things worse if we go Trumpster diving.

2016 January 21, R. R. Reno, “Conservatives against Trump”, in National Review, archived from the original on 2022-10-29:

Reno humorously cautions against going “Trumpster diving” for our next president (p. 38). Donald Trump was reviled for his vulgarity and boastfulness.

2017 March 8, William L. Benoit, Mark J. Glantz, Persuasive Attacks on Donald Trump in the 2016 Presidential Primary, Lexington Books, →ISBN:

scraping the bottom of the barrel
scrape the bottom of the barrel

(US, politics, dated, informal, humorous) The act of scraping the bottom of the barrel to find a candidate.

VBNMW

voting for liberal candidates regardless of their record


Subhūti

Transliteration of Sanskrit सुभूति (subhūti) or Pali Subhūti.

translit

(Buddhism) One of Ten Principal Disciples of Gautama Buddha.


Katyayana

Transliteration of Sanskrit कात्यायन (kātyāyana)


Billy Wigglestick

From Billy as a diminutive of William, and Wigglestick as a reinterpretation of Shakespeare as shake + spear.

Shakespeare chaired the meeting and tabled the motion where they decided to turn nouns into verbs. You dont like it? Take it up with Billy Wigglestick.

2022 December 3, from_dust, “I don’t think definitions of words should change just because people are commonly using the word wrong.”, in Reddit, unpopularopinion, archived from the original on 2022-12-05:


Scroogey

en-adj

Scroogey (comparative more Scroogey, superlative most Scroogey)

more Scroogey (comparative)
most Scroogey (superlative)

The idea comes from a particularly Scroogey, and infamous, paper by the economist Joel Waldfogel, who estimated that the deadweight loss from gift-giving is one-tenth to one-third of the gift’s value.

2015 December 18, Ana Swanson, “Why cash is the worst gift”, in The Washington Post:

Before you write off this review as uncharitably Scroogey, take note: four children, ages eight to 11, gathered round the television to attend the screening. Plied with mugs of sugary cocoa, a frighteningly willing audience heeded the call of duty.

2022 November 28, Lauren Mechling, “Scrooge: A Christmas Carol review – Netflix’s junky musical is a lump of coal”, in The Guardian:

Resembling or characteristic of Ebenezer Scrooge; bad-tempered, selfish and miserly.


Dumbya

Blend of Dubya (“nickname for George W. Bush”) + dumb.

blend

Maybe Dumbya vs. Pinocchio would be a good matchup for late-night comedy, but with U.S. sailors being blown to bits in Yemen, the Mideast in flames, and a stock market as un- reliable as a daily tracking poll, a new sense of seriousness, if not outright gloom, has descended on the White House sweepstakes. The public seems even more exhausted than the candidates.

2000 October 23, Roger Simon, Kenneth T. Walsh, “Suddenly, it's serious: A turbulent wold intrudes on America's long, national daydream”, in U.S. News & World Report, volume 129, number 16, →ISSN, page 36:

A lifetime spent as a Rockefeller toady cultivating both open and covert contacts with intelligence agencies, organized crime figures, third world dictators, oil cartels, drug lords and the New World Order made our new President Dumbya possible.

2001 Winter, Robert Lederman, “GW Bush and the Bi-Partisanism Hustle”, in It's About Time…, volume 5, number 1, page 6:

Because who doesn’t want to own an oil-less, el busto oil company? Do you know anything at all about tax dodges? (As president, Dumbya would appoint Reynolds ambassador to Switzerland after he and DeWitt contributed nearly $1 million to the Bush 2000 campaign.)

2007, Jack Huberman, The GOP-Hater's Handbook: 378 Reasons Never to Vote for the Party of Reagan, Nixon and Bush Again, New York, NY: Nation Books, →ISBN, page 59:

(US politics, derogatory) George W. Bush (born 1946), the 43rd president of the United States (2001–2009).


Gamaliel

/ɡæməˈliːəl/

From Late Latin Gamaliēl from Koine Greek Γαμαλιήλ (Gamaliḗl) from Aramaic גַמַלִיאיֵל (Ḡamalīʾēl) from Biblical Hebrew גַּמְלִיאֵל (Gamlīʾēl). Compare Classical Syriac ܓ݂ܰܡܰܠܺܝܐܝܶܠ (Ḡamalīʾēl).

bor

Aramaic גַמַלִיאיֵל (Ḡamalīʾēl)

cog

ܓ݂ܰܡܰܠܺܝܐܝܶܠ

I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 22:3:

(biblical, Judaism, Christianity) Gamaliel the Elder, a leading authority in the Sanhedrin in the early first century CE.


Bloomie

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg was getting an earful. “He created this crisis so that he can take credit for fixing it and get our votes in exchange,” one commenter wrote on a Brooklyn blog, Vos Iz Neias, Yiddish for “What is News.” Someone else remarked, “I got to my store I got 2 tickets from the Sanitation police. I sure deserved it Bloomie. I will NOT vote for you.”

2009 November 15, Fernanda Santos, “Fewer Hasidim Backed Mayor, Study Finds”, in The New York Times:

Bloomie recently wrote that unlike Trump he did not inherit a fortune. That he did not. But nor, really, did The Donald. […] Transforming a Wild West town into a peaceful Swiss village takes a long time — eight years to be exact — and Bloomie was smart and opportunistic enough to keep Rudy’s people and structure in place.

2020 March 2, Taki Theodoracopulos, “What makes Bloomie run?”, in The Spectator (US edition):

(informal) A nickname for Michael Bloomberg (born 1942), American businessman, politician, CEO of Bloomberg L.P., and mayor of New York City from 2002 to 2013.


Bushophile

Eventually, the Bush platters will go to the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum in Texas, where planners hope to build a sophisticated multimedia system that will allow Bushophiles to see correspondence, polls, press reports and video clips on computer workstations.

1993 January 25, Mitch Betts, “Bush Presidential Library first to employ high tech”, in Computerworld, volume 27, number 4, →ISSN, page 22:

So to bash Bush, for being the fool he is, is America bashing? What a crock! You Bushophiles don't give a shize about true democracy, or freedom of speech.

2002 September 24, eric davis, “Re: "Bush Squandered World Good Will after 9-11"”, in alt.prophecies.nostradamus (Usenet):

(US politics, informal) A fan or supporter of George H. W. Bush (1924–2018) or George W. Bush (born 1946), former presidents of the United States.


Shakspearism

en-noun

Shakspearism (countable and uncountable, plural Shakspearisms)


Shakespearism

Shakespearism (countable and uncountable, plural Shakespearisms)


Shakspearianism

Shakspearianism (countable and uncountable, plural Shakspearianisms)


Shakspeareanism

Shakspeareanism (countable and uncountable, plural Shakspeareanisms)


Shaksperianism

Shaksperianism (countable and uncountable, plural Shaksperianisms)


Shaksperism

Shaksperism (countable and uncountable, plural Shaksperisms)


Xiden

Blend of Xi + Biden, in reference to Xi Jinping (born 1953), the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party.

I keep waiting for ONE of my left-leaning facebook buddies to say what a good job Xiden is doing.

2021 July 29, Jason Burke, “Re: Two Puddles Of Blood In Dealey Plaza?”, in alt.conspiracy.jfk (Usenet):

Not content with being #3 on the Chinese Wuhan Virus state list, the wreckless hypocrite woke folks of Massachusetts are holding posh dinner parties and spreading the virus like crazy, classic democrats like those governors and Xiden that were caught secretly not wearing masks.

2021 August 9, iceber...@gmail.com, “OT Cases in Massachusetts going through the roof again!”, in rec.sport.tennis (Usenet):

Trump was famously on the verge of banning it when Xiden rode in and gave a reprieve.

2022 October 4, JeSSe, “Chink spyware app has Hook$ into Bolshevik power structure”, in uk.current-events.terrorism (Usenet):

(US politics, derogatory) Joe Biden (born 1942), the 46th president of the United States, viewed as a pawn or tool of China.


Putinophile

It's not clear if the job ad is a hoax, a publicity stunt, or a genuine appeal to the young Putinophile with an eye for fashion statements and espionage.

2016 August 30, Nick Miller, “Time to add some glamour to Russian espionage, unusual Raketa watch ad hints”, in The Sydney Morning Herald:

(politics, informal) A fan or supporter of Vladimir Putin (born 1952), Russian politician who has served continuously as president or prime minister since 1999.


Putinophilia

“Ukraine attacks Russia!” was the surreal headline on a report in the 22 February edition of Informer, Serbia’s biggest-selling tabloid. That headline was not a one off, it was an expression of the Putinophilia that has been strong in Serbia for years.

2022 October 28, Tomislav Marković, “The cult of Putin in Serbia reflects a nation that has still not dealt with its past”, in The Guardian:

(politics, informal) The love or admiration of Vladimir Putin (born 1952), Russian politician who has served continuously as president or prime minister since 1999.


Bushophilia

Bushophilia is reaching a new peak among the ranks of the demented, the sexually depraved and the paranoid. The GOP is selling pictures of the usurper running panicked and scared for his life after 9/11for $150 a pop.

2002 May 16, William PF, “Photos of W running scared after 9/11 are going for $150 a piece”, in soc.culture.usa (Usenet):

That said, for many fresh-faced men there was one love that dared speak its name. The exhibition hall was a temple of Bushophilia, from photographs of his inauguration for $175 to cups, hats, badges, key-rings and “Pray for him” T-shirts.

2003 February 8, “Guys and dolls: Conservatives, off their leash, are a frightening bunch”, in The Economist, volume 366, number 8310:

That’s why all the hypocrisy surrounding George H.W. Bush’s death thrilled me. I didn’t fall for the weaponization of Bushophilia to bash Trump and implicitly say, “Hey, I’m fair-minded, I could abide by Reagan or the Bushes – but this guy’s beyond the pale.”

2018 December 11, Gil Troy, “The constructive hypocrisy when eulogizing Bush was OK”, in The Jerusalem Post:

(US politics, informal) The love or admiration of George H. W. Bush (1924–2018) or George W. Bush (born 1946), former presidents of the United States.


Shakespearese

Language characteristic of, or in the style of, William Shakespeare.


Putinomania

Putinomania gradually became an element of Russian life. New textbooks were introduced in the schools of Saint Petersburg, Putin’s hometown, that described the childhood of Uttle Volodya Putin. That meant something to people who had learned to read with books about the childhood of litde Volodya Ulyanov (Lenin).

2005, “The Moment of Truth”, in Lilia Shevtsova, translated by Antonina W. Bouis, Putin's Russia, Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, →ISBN, page 123:

The Putin cult is most visible in his native St. Petersburg. The city is in the vanguard of Putinomania. One local sculptor is preparing a bronze bust. […] The pompous celebrations in 2003 marking the 300th anniversaiy of the founding of the city threw oil on the flames of Putinomania.

2005, Boris Lanin, “Putin and Culture”, in Dale R. Herspring, editor, Putin's Russia: Past Imperfect, Future Uncertain, 2nd edition, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, →ISBN, page 77:

Putinomania was stoked throughout the country, as state-owned media pictured Putin daily, meeting national and regional leaders and making an unprecedented number of foreign trips. Russia was once again a player on the international stage, to be respected and taken into account.

2014, Karen Dawisha, “The Founding of the Putin System”, in Putin's Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia?, New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 310:

(politics) The fervent admiration of Vladimir Putin (born 1952), Russian politician who has served continuously as president or prime minister since 1999.


Shakespeareanly

en-adv

Shakespeareanly (comparative more Shakespeareanly, superlative most Shakespeareanly)

more Shakespeareanly (comparative)
most Shakespeareanly (superlative)


Shakespeareanize

en-verb

Shakespeareanize (third-person singular simple present Shakespeareanizes, present participle Shakespeareanizing, simple past and past participle Shakespeareanized)

Shakespeareanizes (present singular third-person)
Shakespeareanizing (participle present)
Shakespeareanized (participle past)
Shakespeareanized (past)


Shakespearize

Shakespearize (third-person singular simple present Shakespearizes, present participle Shakespearizing, simple past and past participle Shakespearized)

Shakespearizes (present singular third-person)
Shakespearizing (participle present)
Shakespearized (participle past)
Shakespearized (past)


Shakespearolater

One who is very enthusiastic about the works of William Shakespeare.


Shakespearolatry

Extreme enthusiasm for the works of William Shakespeare.


Lady Macbeth

From the character in William Shakepeare's Macbeth.

True it is, that the ambitious women of these civilized times do not murder sleeping kings: but are there, therefore, no Lady Macbeths in the world? no women who, under the influence of a diseased or excited appetite for power or distinction, would sacrifice the happiness of a daughter, the fortunes of a husband, the principles of a son, and peril their own souls?

1833, [Anna Brownell] Jameson, Characteristics of Women, Moral, Poetical, and Historical. […], 2nd edition, volume II, London: Saunders and Otley, […], page 309:

Fear of blood has become the incubus of modern men who are pursued like so many women, little nineteenth century Lady Macbeths, by the spectre of death ... the principle of right to life is utterly without justification.

1961, John Alden Thayer, Italy: The Post-Risorgimento and the "Great War", Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin–Madison, page 246:

With the cuts in government expenditure, heads of research councils rage round their castles like demented Lady Macbeths looking for blood with which to stain their hands as evidence of their administrative worthiness, apparently oblivious of the fact that what they cut today can never be recreated as the costs of new building and recruitment escalate with the size of their administrations.

1987, New Scientist, volume 114, page 82, column 3:

The silent men, women, and children streaming down the center of Manhattan instead carried signs reading: “Mother, Do Lynchers Go to Heaven?”; “Pray for the Lady Macbeths of East St. Louis”; “Mr. President, Why Not Make America Safe for Democracy?”; and “Give Us a Chance to Live.”

2010, Anne P. Rice, “White Islands of Safety and Engulfing Blackness: Remapping Segregation in Angelina Weld Grimké’s “Blackness” and “Goldie””, in Brian Norman, Piper Kendrix Williams, editors, Representing Segregation: Toward an Aesthetics of Living Jim Crow, and Other Forms of Racial Division, Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 95:

The president’s wife, Turai [Yar’Adua], acquired the image of a Lady Macbeth hungry for power and determined to loot the country’s coffers while she still had the chance.

2015, Mark Hollingsworth, Von Kemedi, Against the Odds: President Goodluck Jonathan, the Rise of Nigeria as Africa’s Economic Superpower and the Threat of Boko Haram, Susquehanna Press, →ISBN, page 32:

As we did with Medea and the “Modern Medeas,” we were able to see multiple instances in which real life female politicians were described as “Lady Macbeths.” Given that Lady Macbeth herself clearly views the monstrous acts she is going to commit as more male than female, it seemed strange to the class that those who call scheming politicians Lady Macbeths associated that scheming, plotting cruelty with the worst traits of women. […] On the day we were studying this text in class, Hillary Clinton had just made headlines, and we were able to see and then analyze how the term “Lady Macbeth” was used to describe her in multiple articles published mere hours before class had started.

[2017, Brian Sweeney, “High School Monsters: Designing Secondary English Courses”, in Adam Golub, Heather Richardson Hayton, editors, Monsters in the Classroom: Essays on Teaching What Scares Us, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, →ISBN, part III (Disrupting Systems: The Monster Attacks), page 204:

A determined but ruthless or unscrupulous woman.


The Kingfish

After George "Kingfish" Stevens, character from American radio sitcom Amos 'n' Andy

(US, historical) byname of Huey Pierce Long


Cebes

An ancient Greek philosopher from Thebes.


Celsus

An ancient Roman encyclopaedist of the First Century, Aulus Cornelius Celsus.


Reaganagram

Blend of Reagan + anagram, after the 40th president of the United States, Ronald Wilson Reagan (1911–2004).

I would like to thank the net for ... connecting me to Mike Morton of Dartmouth, who ... happens to have a collection of the best "Reaganagrams" around!

1984 April 24, James A. Woods, “The holoalphabetic "Jocks vend, fix, quartz BMW glyph."”, in net.puzzle (Usenet):

Several readers were inspired to construct Reaganagrams of their own. John Henrick felt NO, DARLINGS, NO ERA LAW was a "magnificent specimen destined to surpass all others ever"[.]

1984 August, “Colloquy”, in Word Ways, page 146:

[Pleased, Dmitri Borgmann pointed] out that ... insane Anglo warlord [was] a human-generated Reaganagram.

1986 October, Scot Morris, “Wordplay”, in Omni, page 183:

Some may prefer the Reaganagram 'insane Anglo warlord'.

1997 January 11, Ucalegon, “Richard Nixon anagram?”, in alt.folklore.urban (Usenet):

(obsolete, rare) An anagram of the name Ronald Wilson Reagan.


Rowldemort

Big ups to Rick Riordan for being a good one. Disappointing that Rowldemort continues to not listen.

2020 June 6, Crow, in Autumn Clad(@unlimitedBLACK), Twitter:

People want to morally justify putting money in Rowldemort's pockets.

2022 December 29, @The_Terroirist, Twitter:

Like seriously, you're being silenced? Then why the fuck do I keep hearing from your ass, huh? Conjure me up an answer to that one, Rowldemort.

2023 April 14, Kilroy A. L. Mioruilt (@superiordriger), Twitter:

(slang, derogatory) J. K. Rowling viewed as villainous for her espousal of gender-critical or anti-transgender views.


Middle-earther

"These, Your ineffable Wickedness," said Bilgenest, trying to roll his "R"s properly -- very hard since there weren't any in those words -- "are the humble Middle-earthers who have come in response to your ad about your, uh, grandmother's modest little Ring." Sauron looked at the many assembled creatures.

1988 November 30, Excitement City Unlimited, number 15, page 3:

In “Fellowship,” Frodo, Gandalf and assorted Middle-earthers begin an arduous and dangerous journey through enemy territory to destroy the ring by returning it to the fires where it was forged.

2001 December 20, Duane Dudek, “‘Rings’ echoes today’s clash of good and evil”, in Press Enterprise, page 24, column 2:

Early in the film, a couple of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earthers steal a moment to relax by puffing on pipes.

2001 December 30, Jay Boyar, “Hollywood ends with bang after starting with whimper”, in Orlando Sentinel, page F3, column 1:

All questions were answered when he walked into the main hall and discovered his mother, father and several score elves, dwarves and assorted other Middle-earthers waiting for him.

2003, Tad Williams, “The Happiest Dead Boy in the World”, in Robert Silverberg, editor, Legends II, Voyager, published 2004, →ISBN, page 457:

Middle-earthers expand our sensitivity because they tend to be more aware of sensory stimuli than we. They see better: Malbeth is a professional “Seer” (1025), Faramir enjoys “long sight” (742), and the primitive Woses “have long ears and long eyes” (814).

2009, Steve Walker, The Power of Tolkien's Prose: Middle-earth’s Magical Style, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 133:


Middle-earthian

The animation, in a style somewhere between Arthur Rackham’s and Disney gothic, is handsome enough to have furnished publisher Harry Abrams with a new, coffee-table edition of “The Hobbit,” and the voices of the characters—Orson Bean, John Huston, Richard Boone, Cyril Ritchard and Brother Theodore—are as distinctive as you’d want for this odd assortment of Middle-earthians.

1977 November 25, Alexander Keneas, “‘Rolling Stone’ a musical show to miss”, in Newsday, page 80A, column 2:

Middle-earthians head for Mordor to destroy object in the fires.

1994, Jack Umstatter, Hooked on Literature!: Ready-to-Use Activities & Materials to Spark Students’ Interest in Literature, Grades 9 & Up, Center for Applied Research in Education, →ISBN, page 156:

Those Middle-earthians from the First Age knew enough to recognize that even death wasn’t necessarily going to keep witch-kings and giant flaming eyes from harassing you later.

2022, Smart Pop Explains Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit Movies, Smart Pop, BenBella Books, →ISBN:


Elno

Humorous alteration of Elon, possibly to deter namesearching.

I fact checked Elno in a Birdwatch on his own $44 billion dollar site over his inability to understand GraphQL queries.

2022 November 11, Brianna Wu (@briannawu@mstdn.social), Mastodon:

I blocked Elno back in Nov and haven't seen a 🐦 from him since.

2023 February 14, SallyBlack (@toastygirl@mastodon.online), Mastodon:

Elno is driving regular people off of twitter.

2023 April 16, AudreyOnTheGo (@AudreyOnTheGo@mstdn.social), Mastodon:

(derogatory or humorous) A nickname for South African-born tech entrepreneur Elon Musk.


She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named

Coined as an ironic reference to the nickname "He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named" used by characters who fear speaking Lord Voldemort's name within Rowling's Harry Potter series.

Depending on who you ask, JK Rowling is either a heroine of free speech or She Who Must Not Be Named.

2021 July 28, Charlotte Runcie, “JK Rowling is more than just a Twitter talking point”, in The Telegraph:

Witchcraft and wizardry have been the subject of fascination for centuries—just look at the success of a certain magical franchise written by She Who Must Not Be Named.

2022, Josie Anne Gaitens, “Witch Hunt”, in Reykjavík Grapevine, number 5, page 30:

I used to worship She Who Must Not Be Named of Harry Potter before she started using her platform to peddle a bunch of harmful garbage.

2022 December 20, Prerana Srikantappa, quoting Robbie Crouch, “Robbie Crouch”, in Vulkan, page 83:

(slang, derogatory) The author J. K. Rowling, when viewed as villainous for her espousal of gender-critical or anti-transgender views.

Harry Potter
J. K. Rowling
Lord Voldemort


Phony Stark

Blend of phony (“fraudulent or fake”) + Tony Stark, referencing the fictional business magnate, inventor, and playboy from the Marvel franchise.

blend

so, yeah, five years on and people on Twitter just kinda endured the Nazis, but now Phony Stark might just tank the whole thing anyway.

2022 November 10, Muhammad (@muhammad@mastodon.social), Mastodon:

Phony Stark seems to want to drive Twitter off a cliff for whatever reason.

2023 February 6, Simon Zerafa (@simonzerafa@infosec.exchange), Mastodon:

I'm not mad at anything Phony Stark does to Twitter. I am mad (or at least dumbfounded) at respectable professionals still using that service, though.

2023 April 5, Leon Cowle (@leoncowle@hachyderm.io), Mastodon:

“As always,” Elon patronised, “please try to stay as close to the truth as possible, even for stuff you don’t like.” Likewise, Phony Stark. Likewise.

2023 October 10, Marina Hyde, “Look at the horror of the Israel-Hamas war, then at Elon Musk’s X site. It’s clear he’s not fit to run it”, in The Guardian:

(derogatory) A nickname for South African-born tech entrepreneur Elon Musk.


Space Karen

Coined with reference to Musk's company SpaceX and the pejorative sense of Karen (“a person exhibiting an exaggerated sense of entitlement”).

By the way, journalists shouldn't use Twitter DMs either. They're not safe. Especially with Space Karen in charge.

2022 November 11, Chris Trottier (@atomicpoet@mastodon.social), Mastodon:

A stream of insults aimed at new Twitter boss Elon Musk has been projected onto the company’s San Francisco headquarters after workers were locked out of their offices. Insults included “supreme parasite”, “mediocre manchild”, “worthless billionaire” and “space karen”, according to footage posted online.

[2022 November 18, Anthony Cuthbertson, “Elon Musk ‘space karen’ insult projected onto deserted Twitter HQ”, in The Independent, London:

Watching Space Karen burn Twitter down is actually quite funny 😂

2022 December 16, MrMajestikness (@MrMajestikness@mastodon.social), Mastodon:

it’s one of the key reasons I left the night Space Karen took over.

2023 February 1, Jason Allen (@JAllen@mstdn.social), Mastodon:

WALLACE: Kara, your boy, Elon Musk, made a lot of news,
SWISHER: Not my boy.
WALLACE: Hit me with your best shot.
SWISHER: Well, I’m trying to think of something that. So that Space Karen doesn’t sue me. So, let me say he’s troubled.

2023 December 2, The Chris Wallace Show, spoken by Kara Swisher, via CNN:

Over on the ever-lovely PC Pro podcast […] we refer to him as “Space Karen”. But despite what you might think of Mr Musk, it’s clear that he has assembled teams of extremely capable engineers in the various companies that he runs.

[2024 June, Jon Honeyball, “Nailing down which device had gone rogue was the sort of wasted morning that consumes many coffee beans”, in PC Pro, page 113:


Shakespearemania

His veneration and imitation of the English playwright, part of a German tradition of “Shakespearemania” initiated by Herder’s “Shakespeare” essay, has been well documented.

1979, William C. Reeve, Georg Büchner, →ISBN, page 27:

Michael Bristol’s Shakespeare’s America explores the philosophical and cultural background that gave rise to Shakespearemania in the nineteenth century and that has supported its various manifestations down to the present day.

1990, College & Research Libraries, page 570:

Shakespearemania may have waned slightly since then, but as the 1996 autumn festival in Madrid showed, it is always capable of returning.

Shakespearemania prevailed in 1828. Only one year later, another English troupe arrived in Paris featuring William Macready in Macbeth, and some months later, still another exciting visitor, the renowned Edmund Kean, performed in Richard III, The Merchant of Venice, and King Lear.

2007, Bettina Knapp, Marie Dorval: France’s Theatrical Wonder: A Book for Actors, Rodopi, →ISBN, pages 75–76:

Enthusiasm for the works of English playwright, poet and actor William Shakespeare (1564–1616).


SpaceXer

Allen took everything he saw here in stride, and the younger SpaceXers respected him as a wise old-timer.

2007, Michael Belfiore, Rocketeers: How a Visionary Band of Business Leaders, Engineers, and Pilots Is Boldly Privatizing Space, Smithsonian Books, →ISBN, page 181:

The Space Florida and SpaceXers claim that hundreds of jobs would be created at the refuge launch sites.

2013 June 9, Karl Wickstrom, “Wildlife or missiles? We’ll have both, please”, in Press Journal, Scripps Treasure Coast Newspapers, page 3B, column 4:

The original SpaceX team consisted of about 20 SpaceXers, as they call themselves. […] “We start with that layer – young engineers, young talent, young technicians – who don’t really know what’s impossible,” a SpaceXer said. […] The total number of employees were now 150 SpaceXers.

2014, Erik Nordeus, The Engineer: Follow Elon Musk on a Journey from South Africa to Mars, Leanpub, pages 126, 129, and 136–137:

Over the years I’ve met lots of SpaceXers, from former astronauts to engineers to range rats.

2017, Joe Pappalardo, Spaceport Earth: The Reinvention of Spaceflight, New York, N.Y., London: Overlook Duckworth, →ISBN, page 207:

Most of us SpaceXers in Hawthorne, California, had come in to watch the Dragon spacecraft launch to the International Space Station, which is pretty typical even for a weekend.

2019, Andrew Rader, Beyond the Known: How Exploration Created the Modern World and Will Take Us to the Stars, Scribner, published 2020, →ISBN, page 301:

An employee of the American spacecraft manufacturer, launcher, and satellite communications corporation SpaceX.


JKR

Initialism of Joanne Kathleen Rowling (born 1965), British author.


SJP

Sarah Jessica Parker
w:Sarah Jessica Parker


Trump train

(US politics, informal) Political support for Donald Trump.


Teflon Don

From teflon (“able to easily shrug off or deflect criticism or blame”) + don (“mafia boss”), after three high-profile trials in the 1980s resulted in acquittals.

On June 23, 1992, Mafia boss John Gotti, who was nicknamed the "Teflon Don" after escaping unscathed from several trials during the 1980s, is sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty on 14 accounts of conspiracy to commit murder and racketeering.

2020 June 22, “Mafia boss John Gotti, aka "Teflon Don," sentenced to life”, in History.com:


Teflon Don

From teflon (“able to easily shrug off or deflect criticism or blame”) + Don (diminutive of Donald), for Trump’s supposed ability to dodge legal matters.

Former President Trump – long deemed Teflon Don for his ability to dodge legal matters – is facing a series of serious criminal charges brought by the Justice Department, which unsealed a 37-count indictment on Friday related to his handling of classified documents.

2023 June 10, “Trump faces biggest challenge yet to 'Teflon Don' persona”, in The Hill:


Hopey McChange

From hope + -y + Mc- + change, in reference to Obama's political campaigning; see Barack Obama "Hope" poster and compare hopeium.

Is that why Hopey McChange had a beer with Biden, that professor and that cop?

2010 November 11, theget, “o/t - Is George W Bush a Racist?”, in alt.tv.law-and-order (Usenet):

First it was "my father served in WWII", now an enormous error in mixing up the dead with the living Medal of Honor Recipients. How do you suppose the magic President Hopey McChange, with the mind of a computer can make all these errors?

2011 June 26, Sorbo, “AP Goes All Orwell in Covering Obama Apology for MOH Gaffe It Originally Ignored”, in soc.retirement (Usenet):

But Hopey McChange just asked for more money to give to people who are below water.

2012 February 8, theget, “OT The Good Example”, in alt.tv.law-and-order (Usenet):

(slang, derogatory) A nickname for former US president Barack Obama.


Russian world

Calque of Russian ру́сский мир (rússkij mir).

calque

ру́сский мир

The community of Russia as its own world; the Russosphere.


Bennelong

An electoral division in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia


Joever

en-adj

Joever (comparative more Joever, superlative most Joever)

more Joever (comparative)
most Joever (superlative)

/ˈd͡ʒəʊ.və(ɹ)/

Blend of Joe + over, in reference to 46th president of the United States Joe Biden. Initially appeared in a 4chan post published October 14, 2020, shortly before the 2020 United States presidential election, to signify the perceived defeat of Joe Biden. Popularized in late 2022 in various memes on Twitter. Repopularized after Joe Biden withdrew from the 2024 Presidential race.

here's a prediction for you
it's joever

2020 October 24, anonymous author, 4chan, /pol/:

“It’s Joever,” joked one fan with an attached image of a forlorn President Joe Biden.

2022 December 22, DJ Byrnes, “NFL world reacts to major Russell Wilson change”, in The Comeback, archived from the original on 2022-12-30:

It's Joever. On Saturday, Entertainment Tonight dropped the bombshell news that Taylor Swift and her boyfriend of more than six years, Joe Alwyn, broke up "a few weeks ago," which was subsequently confirmed by People, Page Six, and CNN.

2023 April 10, Brendan Morrow, “The daily gossip: Taylor Swift and Joe Alwyn were 'talking about marriage' before reported split, Kim Kardashian cast in American Horror Story, and more”, in The Week, archived from the original on 2023-06-19:

The 27-year-old streamer tweeted out a meme collage for the announcement of his new world record, while also tagging Forsen. He shared the meme quote “It’s Joever,” along with his time for the speed run of 16 minutes and 38 seconds.

2023 May 7, Ajitesh Rawat, quoting xQc, “xQc Flexes on Forsen After Taking Back the Crown of Minecraft Record Holder”, in EssentiallySports, archived from the original on 2023-07-20:

Over on Twitter, someone immediately posted, "They even added complicated armor layouts to the alien flesh suits its joever".

2023 May 25, James Troughton, “Gamers Are Divided Over Spider-Man 2's Symbiote Suit”, in TheGamer, archived from the original on 2023-06-03:

'Honestly heartbroken babes... Go collect your brother, after this is done... You might want to log out tonight sis... it’s joever for your brother i fear... Your brother is giving LOSER ENERGY. So disrespectful... Tell him sis'.

2023 June 12, Ciara Farmer For Mailonline, “Snoochie Shy rages over Love Island star brother Zachariah's cruel treatment of Catherine... leaving fans urging the DJ to 'go collect her loser sibling'”, in Daily Mail, London: DMG Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-06-13:

Ah shit, it’s Joever.

2024 February 26, Smii7Yplus, 19:47 from the start, in Worms Moments that End in Disaster:

It’s finally Joever: On Sunday, President Joe Biden announced he's stepping down from the Democratic presidential ticket with a letter to his "fellow Americans," posted on Twitter.

2024 July 21, Kylie Cheung, “It's Joever”, in Jezebel, archived from the original on 2024-07-21:

(Internet slang, humorous) Done for, finished, cooked.

Withdrawal of Joe Biden from the 2024 United States presidential election


Dear Leader

Kim Jong-il, North Korea’s so-called Dear Leader, did not survive the year that opened with the Arab Spring.

2011 December 18, Evan Osnos, “Kim Jong-il is Dead”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-07-30:

North Korea has long been known for its love of titles for its leaders. Mr. Kim's grandfather, the nation's founder, was known as the Great Leader; his son, the Dear Leader. The country seems not yet to have decided on the same kind of moniker for Mr. Kim — settling for workaday titles like marshal of the military.

2013 October 25, Choe Sang-hun, “Following Dear Leader, Kim Jong-un Gets Title From University: Dr. Leader”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-04-08:

"The teachers would say: 'Do you know where the milk came from? It came from the Dear Leader. Because of his love and consideration, we are drinking milk today,' " said Lee, looking every bit a South Korean with her dyed hair and trendy sweater.

2015 January 16, Anna Fifield, quoting Lee [pseudonym], “North Korea begins brainwashing children in cult of the Kims as early as kindergarten”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-25:

A title adopted by Kim Jong Il, the supreme leader of North Korea from 1994–2011.

But patriotism means standing up for your country's values, not pledging personal allegiance to Dear Leader.

2017 January 16, Paul Krugman, “With All Due Disrespect”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-02-13:

Even as Trump commands a dwindling number of Republicans willing to say the election remains unsettled, his administration is stuck trying to carry out Dear Leader's wishes.

2020 November 14, Terry H. Schwadron, “Trump gums up the transition works”, in Salon.com, archived from the original on 2023-05-05:

Also on Tuesday, Arizona Republicans censured Rusty Bowers, a Republican and leader in the state's legislature, after he had testified last month before the committee and denied that Trump won Arizona. Fealty to "Dear Leader" remains a tribal litmus test.

2022 July 22, Lloyd Green, “Trump, modern Nero, watched the Capitol sacked from a White House dining room”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-06-05:

(by extension, ironic, derogatory) A nickname for Donald Trump (US president from 2017–2021), seen as engendering unthinking subservience among his followers.


Haylor

Though their relationship was brief, Haylor was all anyone who was chronically online during the era of One Direction could talk about for the four months these two were dating.

2023 July 8, Naydeline Mejia, “Taylor Swift And All Of Her Ex-Boyfriends' Body Language, Explained”, in Women's Health:

(slang) The couple consisting of English singer-songwriter Harry Styles and American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, together briefly in 2012.


Muskophile

I know that Twitter remains lively for other communities and users, from niche fan groups to the Muskophiles who bought blue verified checks when the owner began selling them like stars for Sneetches.

2023 July 10, James Poniewozik, “The Twitter Watch Party Is Over”, in The New York Times:

(politics, informal) A fan or admirer of Elon Musk (born 1971), American business magnate and investor.


Hetlor

Of course, all these hidden messages could be nothing but the overactive imagination of a group of largely queer Swift fans that want to claim the singer as their own. The Gaylors refer to this as the "Hetlor" thesis (Hetlor being a deeply unfortunate portmanteau of heterosexual and Taylor). Just because people see hidden messages does not mean they are there.

[2022 October 31, Joe Packer, “How Gaylor Swift conspiracists think like QAnoners”, in Salon.com, archived from the original on 2023-07-25:

Dr McCann raises the Taylor Swift fandom as an example, where the "Gaylor" faction (fans dedicated to queer readings of her songs) would butt heads with the straight "Hetlor" faction.

2022 November 4, Patrick Lenton, “How 'Queerbaiting' Became Weaponised Against Real People”, in VICE, archived from the original on 2023-05-02:

(fandom slang) Opposition to the Gaylor theory; belief that singer-songwriter Taylor Swift is not secretly gay.


Pessi

All they need is one crumb of ammunition and they'll go for miles. Such is how the nickname "Pessi" was born. As fans on Twitter look for any possible way to reduce Messi's incredible career to a punchline, they've come up with a reductive way to pretend that he's not one of the best players to ever step on a football pitch.

[2022 December 19, Kyle Bonn, “Why Lionel Messi is called Pessi”, in The Sporting News:


Joktan

en-proper noun

Joktan (countable and uncountable, plural Joktans)


Trumpcuck

(US politics, Internet slang, derogatory) A supporter of former U.S. president Donald Trump.


Khamba

A male given name from Meitei; A transliteration of the Manipuri male given name ꯈꯝꯕ (khamba).


Thoibi

From Manipuri ꯊꯣꯏꯕꯤ (thoʼibee). Transliteration of Manipuri ꯊꯣꯏꯕꯤ (thoʼibee); this name is of Meitei ethnic origin.

translit

ꯊꯣꯏꯕꯤ ꯊꯣꯏꯕꯤ#Manipuri

A female given name from Meitei; A transliteration of the Manipuri female given name ꯊꯣꯏꯕꯤ (thoʼibee).


mini-Trump

For quotations using this term, see Citations:mini-Trump.

(politics, derogatory) A Trumpian politician.


Makhno

Transliteration of Ukrainian Махно (Maxno).

w:Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine

A surname from Ukrainian; especially when referring to Nestor Makhno, the leader of the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine during the Russian Civil War.


Pewds

(slang) PewDiePie (born 1989), online video streamer.


Tay Tay

Reduplication of Tay, a clipping of Taylor.

As it turns out, I’m not the only dork in attendance tonight. It’s evident when I start Taylor Swift’s “Shake it Off.” / “A little Tay Tay? I’ve so got this.” Camille stretches, like we’re in a boxing ring and she’s about to knock me out.

2019, Tracy Goodwin, Ice Hard (New York Nighthawks), New York, N.Y.: Loveswept, →ISBN:

I love that I can be in the shower and be like, “Alexa, play ‘Shake It Off’ by Taylor Swift,” and two seconds later I’m jamming out to Tay Tay.

2019, Rachel Hollis, Girl, Stop Apologizing: A Shame-Free Plan for Embracing and Achieving Your Goals, New York, N.Y.: HarperCollins Leadership, →ISBN, pages 136–137:

Mum, my last big concert was Taylor Swift. April knew how much I loved Tay Tay when I was little, so she surprised me with the tickets.

2021, Claire Thomas, The Performance, New York, N.Y.: Riverhead Books, →ISBN, page 190:

(fandom slang) Nickname of American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift (born 1989).


Drizzy

Toronto rapper Drake has publicly disowned the new concert film Drake's Homecoming: The Lost Footage – and Drizzy's disdain might be the most interesting thing about the movie.

2015 March 18, Nick Patch, “Five things we learn from the unofficial Drake documentary”, in The Globe and Mail, Toronto, ON: The Woodbridge Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-04-25:

(endearing) Drake (Canadian rapper and singer born in 1986).


From Hitler + fan + 1488 (Nazi dog whistle), forming a theoretical username.

Antifa flew those planes too. I saw a video on it from HitlerFan1488.

2021 January 20, AloneAddiction, Reddit, retrieved 2023-10-09:

Twitter is run by absolute dumbasses that'll allow @HitlerFan1488 to have an account but will target me.

2022 November 23, ryethefops, Tumblr, retrieved 2023-10-09:

I’m so glad the blue checks are pushed to the top of comments so I can see HitlerFan1488 defend Matt Walsh.

2023 June 7, patterp09, InsideMDSports, retrieved 2023-10-09:

(Internet slang, derogatory) A notional neo-Nazi, often invoked in discussions about e-moderation.


Hooverite

(politics) A supporter of Herbert Hoover (1874–1964), 31st president of the United States from 1929 to 1933.


Hooverism

(politics) The policies of Herbert Hoover (1874–1964), 31st president of the United States from 1929 to 1933.


FDT

[Pitt] pairs [the upside-down American flag dipped in black ink] with a white surrender flag with the message “FDT” [.]

2017 January 18, Shelia Regan, “13 Artists Design Flags for the Age of Trump (with Plans to Burn Them Later)”, in Hyperallergic, archived from the original on 2023-03-21:

(US politics) Initialism of fuck Donald Trump.


Chuckster

Whether you agree with the Chuckster or not, there's no denying just how entertaining a figure he has been, is and hopefully will be for many more years.

2014 February 20, Josh Martin, Bleacher Report:

(informal) Nickname of former NBA basketball player Charles Barkley.


Derbyite

A person who believes that the works attributed to William Shakespeare have actually been authored by William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby.


Derbyite

en-adj

Derbyite (comparative more Derbyite, superlative most Derbyite)

more Derbyite (comparative)
most Derbyite (superlative)

Pertaining to the conspiracy theory that the works attributed to William Shakespeare have actually been authored by William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby.


Trumplandia

Mr. Trump, who believes he is always right, may be correct: he may become the forty-fifth president of the United States. […] This is history on the fly, written for the scholars of the future who will analyze Trumpian doctrine and for the schoolchildren who will memorize Trump’s pithiest quotes. […] —Carol Pogash / Trumplandia / USA!

2015, Carol Pogash, “Preface”, in Quotations from Chairman Trump, New York, N.Y.: RosettaBooks, →ISBN:

Having systematically and baselessly pronounced every objective system to which he might be accountable as invalid or illegal — a list that includes polls, data, newspapers, and actual math — Trump suggests that, in fact-free Trumplandia, he has not just the right but the obligation to hold the nation hostage while he judges the election. He alone will pronounce on its legitimacy, and the basis of his pronouncement will not be anything you — a mere outsider to his marvelous world — can measure.

2016 October 20, Lili Loofbourow, “Welcome to Trumplandia, where feelings trump facts”, in The Week, New York, N.Y., archived from the original on 2016-10-21:

In the brave, new nation of Trumplandia, it can be hard to keep things straight. Down is up and up is sideways and many words have taken on new meaning. What follows is an aid to deciphering the gibberish.

2017 July 27, Mary Schmich, “It's hard to understand Donald Trump without this Trumplandia Dictionary”, in Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Ill., archived from the original on 2021-06-19:

Here’s the rub. If that knowledge is produced but not consumed, it will have little impact on the quest for global social justice. Are research, thinking, reading, and producing texts like the aforementioned blog going to make a difference in Trumplandia? Reading Foucault might provide a road map for resisting Minority President Trump, but the real work of resistance is down in the trenches—organizing, making phone calls, and printing flyers.

2018, Paul Stoller, Adventures in Blogging: Public Anthropology and Popular Media, Toronto, Ont.: University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 43:

“He really enjoyed the battle between Marla and Ivana.” The Queens of Trumplandia are champion competitors who have never been reluctant to fight to the finish.

2018, Nina Burleigh, Golden Handcuffs: The Secret History of Trump’s Women, New York, N.Y.: Gallery Books, →ISBN, page 311:

“The Color of New Media Enters Trumplandia” is a transcript of our group meeting on February 2, 2017, which was twelve days after the inauguration of Donald Trump as forty-fifth president of the United States, and the same day that alt-right agitator Milo Yiannopoulos was scheduled to visit the UC Berkeley campus.

2019, Abigail De Kosnik, Keith P. Feldman, “Introduction: The Hashtags We’ve Been Forced to Remember”, in #identity: Hashtagging Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Nation, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 17:

Between Home and State: Care Workers and Labor Strategy for the New Open-Shop Era of Trumplandia / Jennifer Klein

2019, Jasmine Kerrissey, Eve Weinbaum, Clare Hammonds, Tom Juravich, Dan Clawson, editors, Labor in the Time of Trump, Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press, Cornell University Press, →ISBN:

If minorities consider they are cheated, they can start voting Democrats again. But they should give Trump a shot. They should try to live a life in Trumplandia.

2019, Tiberiu Dianu, Trumplandia: Stories from New America, Chennai: Notion Press, →ISBN:

In Trumplandia, history begins when we wake up; and the future starts the morning after, with a new outrageous “executive order” against the poor, the migrants, the sick, the elderly, “criminal foreigners,” queers, rebel artists, the beluga whales, the sequoias, etc.… And, as if this weren’t enough, the refrigerator is empty. And I have jury duty next Monday. The rest is academic discourse. Trump is in power & every day feels like a new episode of a 24-hour post-apocalyptic reality TV show titled The President of Designed Chaos.

2021, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Gómez-Peña Unplugged: Texts on Live Art, Social Practice and Imaginary Activism (2008–2020), New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN:

The subjects of these explorations were “resisting,” and they were “coping,” and they were “innovating”—they were doing and generating and being and growing under and despite the imperial lash. And now the good benevolent ethnographer wants to help them decolonize, as if the dull infection of the colony was not gift enough. But having returned home to the locus of rot that is the American scene, they find something now to see there: it is fundable thought. Trumplandia scowled them into this interest, but no matter. Here the genres bewilder us if we spend time looking.

2023, Joseph Russo, “Queer Rot”, in Daniel Lukes, Stanimir Panayotov, editors, Black Metal Rainbows, Oakland, Calif.: PM Press, →ISBN, page 138:

They were assigned the task of keeping a certain minimal order in species composition in the backyards of Cleveland Avenue. It works, if one does not question the birds too closely. No one who counts on this block is any longer overwhelmed by rats. It keeps my mind on living and dying in noninnocent combinations; it situates me in Trumplandia.

2023, Donna Haraway, “Revisiting Catland in 2019: Situating Denizens of the Chthulucene”, in Cynthia Huff, Margaretta Jolly, editors, Engaging Donna Haraway: Lives in the Natureculture Web (Routledge Auto/Biography Studies), Abingdon, Oxon, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN:


PNoy

Abbreviation of President Noynoy, with Noynoy being a nickname of Benigno Aquino III. Additionally, also a pun on Pinoy.

(Philippine politics, slang) Benigno Aquino III, 15th President of the Philippines


Boethius

Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (480–524 C.E.), Roman historian and philosopher from the Early Middle Ages.


Peter the Great

Peter I, the Tsar of all Russia from 1682, and the first Emperor of all Russia from 1721 until his death in 1725.


Ivan the Terrible

Ivan IV Vasilyevich, who was the Grand Prince of Moscow and all Russia from 1533, and Tsar of all Russia from 1547 until his death in 1584.


Swoonatra

Blend of swoon + Sinatra, in reference to his infatuated fandom.

(slang, dated) Frank Sinatra (1915–1998), American singer and actor.


Swedish Nightingale

Nickname of Jenny Lind (1820–1887), renowned Swedish opera singer.


Satanyahu

(derogatory, politics) Nickname for Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli politician.


SwiftTok

2021 November 17, Zoya Raza-Sheikh, “From SwiftTok to #Taylurking: How Taylor Swift redefined online fandom”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-10-03:

After Swift announced the upcoming release of a new album, Midnights, at the 2022 Video Music Awards, SwiftTok immediately began formulating theories on everything from what artists might be featured on the album, to what the songs would be titled, to what genre the record would dabble in

2022 October 17, Kevin Hurler, “What is 'SwiftTok'? Inside Taylor Swift's Rabid TikTok Fanbase”, in Gizmodo, archived from the original on 2023-08-21:

The Travis Kelce quotes alone will keep SwiftTok busy for weeks.

2023 December 6, Sam Adams, “Taylor Swift Is Time’s Person of the Year, in Terrible News for Taylor Swift”, in Slate, New York, N.Y.: The Slate Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-12-07:

The community of TikTok users who are fans of singer-songwriter Taylor Swift.


Genocide Joe

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

Originating from Joe Biden's support of Israel during the 2023 Israel–Hamas war, and refers to the US military support that has been employed in the Gaza genocide.

[The protest] started with the chants: […] “Hey hey! Ho ho! Genocide Joe has got to go!”

2023 November 5, Jack Crosbie, Rolling Stone, Joe’: Massive D.C. Cease-Fire Protest Directs Its Rage at Biden"

Challenged at a White House briefing to confront the term “Genocide Joe” by some protesters to described Biden, Kirby […] embarked on an animated exposition.

2023, December 4, Robert Tait, The Guardian, the White House’s John Kirby is taking on the word ‘genocide’"

2024, January 23, Remarks by President Biden at a Campaign Event | Manassas, VA
[JOE BIDEN:] Jill and I had a chance to sit down —
AUDIENCE MEMBER: Genocide Joe, how many kids have you killed in Gaza?

(US politics, derogatory) A nickname of the American president Joe Biden.

2023 Israel–Hamas war
Gaza genocide
Joe Biden


Swiftmania

Swiftmania is a very different kind of high from what I experienced listening to music as a teenager — a high that is worth the pain. It's not just the plethora of songs to discover but the nonstop Swiftie culture itself — the constant access to the music, the news, the scrolling for swag, the shout-outs on the street, the sharing of songs and lines of poetic code via text or passed bracelet — a party that is raging all day and all night.

2023 June 17, Suzanne Garfinkle-Crowell, “Taylor Swift Has Rocked My Psychiatric Practice”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-09-30:

Depending on when you choose to arrive at SoFi, your immersion into Swiftmania can last anywhere between three hours (her set length) to six-plus (there are two opening acts each show, Gracie Abrams and Haim among them).

2023 August 2, Abigail Covington, “For true Swifties, the fun begins when the stadium gates open”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-09-19:

Can Swiftmania Finally Help Change the Kansas City Chiefs’ Name?

2023 October 1, CT Jones, “(article title)”, in Rolling Stone, New York, N.Y.: Penske Media Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-11-13:

Enthusiasm for American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift.


Swift Quake

The "Swift Quake" was recorded by the same seismic station, located just outside Lumen Field.

2023 July 28, Chang Che, “Taylor Swift-Quake: Fans Cause Seismic Activity at Seattle Concert”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-12-10:

She [Jackie Caplan-Auerbach] found that the "Swift Quakes" were longer and more powerful than the "Beast Quake."

2023 August 1, Sarah Kuta, “Taylor Swift Concerts Are Generating Seismic Activity”, in Smithsonian, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-17:

No longer am I the person who studies volcanoes. I'm the person who's known for the Swift Quake. It's totally ridiculous. People have asked: Has Taylor Swift reached out? No, Taylor Swift has not reached out.

2023 November 8, Robin George Andrews, quoting Jackie Caplan-Auerbach, “The Scientist Who Decodes the Songs of Undersea Volcanoes”, in Quanta Magazine, New York, N.Y.: Simons Foundation, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-11-27:

One of two minor earthquakes, occurring on July 22 and 23, 2023, caused by fans at a Taylor Swift concert.


Trumpkin

From Trump + -kin, modelled after munchkin.

He concedes that yesteryear's Fascists are “not exactly” like Trump's populist armies, but the collective noun he assigns—“Trumpkins”—usefully diminishes them as tiny Munchkins in The Wizard of Oz.

2017, Harold Evans, Do I Make Myself Clear?:

(derogatory) A follower, supporter, or protégé of Donald Trump.


Taylormania

But there may be some of you still struggling with a recent bout of Taylormania brought on by her acts of altruism, love of cats, and one. sick. beat. Well don't worry, you no longer have to suffer in silence, the crack pharmaceutical team at S.N.L. have your backs.

2014 November 2, Joanna Robinson, “’’Saturday Night Live’’ Offers up a Cure for All You Recent Taylor Swift Converts”, in Graydon Carter, editor, Vanity Fair, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-22:

How to explain this degree of Taylormania?

2023 August 1, Mikael Wood, August Brown, “How Taylor Swift took over L.A. and the world”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-12-11:

The second verse of "Anti-Hero" takes on even more resonance in our current Taylormania era, where Swift has somehow become bigger than ever.

2023 October 22, Brian Hiatt, “Will Taylor Swift Do Another Eras Tour in 2033?”, in Rolling Stone, New York, N.Y.: Penske Media Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-10-28:

Gaining full control of the recording copyright is the reason for Swift's indefatigable campaign to remake her first six albums. 1989 (Taylor's Version) is the fourth to be completed. The project steps up a gear now — for this is the Big One, the megahit that launched the first wave of Taylormania.

2023 October 26, Ludovic Hunter-Tilney, “Taylor Swift: 1989 (Taylor’s Version) — our critic changes his mind on the pop star’s magnum opus”, in Financial Times, London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-10-27:


Swiftonomics

From Taylor Swift + -onomics. Coined by reporter Augusta Saraiva in a 2022 article, although isolated use exists earlier (see quotations below).

Swiftonomics: How Taylor Swift is Destroying the Music Business

[2013 February 13, stu, “(post title)”, in thiswontendwell.com, archived from the original on 2013-06-03:

Skyrocketing demand, limited supply, price gouging and monopoly accusations. And a customer willing to pay almost anything. ¶ Welcome to Swiftonomics.

2022 November 23, Augusta Saraiva, “Welcome to 'Swiftonomics': What Taylor Swift Reveals About the US Economy”, in Bloomberg, New York, N.Y.: Bloomberg L.P., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-05-19:

In Toronto, where the singer-songwriter will perform six shows at the Rogers Centre in November 2024, cultural and tourism experts say Swift could provide a much-needed boon to the city and a hospitality sector still recovering from the pandemic. But the "Swiftonomics," as the Swift-induced economic boost has been dubbed, could also bring some eye-watering price increases — and accusations of price gouging — for locals and tourists alike.

2023 August 9, Joshua Chong, “'Swiftonomics': Here's how Taylor Swift's Toronto concerts will impact the local economy”, in Toronto Star, Toronto, Ont.: Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-12:

Others concern themselves with Swiftonomics: where Taylor steps, businesses grow and bloom.

2023 September 30, Martha Gill, “When Taylor Swift reaps country-sized riches, other artists are squeezed out”, in The Observer, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-11-24:

(neologism) The boost to local businesses caused by Taylor Swift concerts.


Landslide Lyndon

Sarcastic nickname from the fact that Lyndon B. Johnson's 1948 run to a be a Texas senator needed a runoff in order to be successful, which LBJ won by 87 votes over Coke Stevenson, in a state with a large population. After 1964, there were more sincere uses due to his 1964 United States presidential election landslide win over Barry Goldwater.

Hence, […] quiet fence-mending on the part of “Landslide Lyndon”, as he is now known to his friends since his 87-vote margin over Stevenson in the Democratic primary.

1948 October 16, Doris Fleeson, “G.O.P. Needs Landslide to Get Texas Seat”, in Youngstown Vindicator:

Perhaps you have noticed a slight decline in your popularity of these past several months. Perhaps you get the feeling that if you ran for office today the “Landslide” Lyndon of 1964 would be more like the “Landslide” Lyndon who just barely made it back to the U.S. Senate from Texas.

1967 February 11, J.C. Goolrick, “JCG: This Week”, in The Free Lance-Star:

The [coiner of the nickname] cannot be definitively established, although it may have been [Lyndon] himself[, who] was among those [to] make it a familiar part of the scene of insider Washington. “From the start, [he met] he did not know by sticking out a hand and saying, ‘Howdy, I'm Landslide Lyndon,’” [writes] Alfred Steinberg[.]

1990, Robert Caro, The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Means of Ascent:

(US politics, historical) Lyndon B. Johnson.

1948 United States Senate election in Texas


Pterry

A reference to the kingdom of Djelibeybi in Pratchett's novel Pyramids, where names beginning with the letter T have a silent P in front, as in Ptraci. Coined on the Internet newsgroup alt.fan.pratchett.

(Internet slang) Nickname for Terry Pratchett (1948–2015), English author.


Presburger

Mojżesz Presburger (Polish mathematician)


Madame Mao

In reference to her being the wife of Mao Zedong.


Hitlerology

(Were Hitler’s gramophone items labelled a, b, c, d, etc., any statement of his could be reported in a brief formula, such as cdmhf or adjkbr; while the frequency, incidence, variations, and permutations of these marks would yield useful charts for Hitlerology).

1941 July–September, L[ewis] B[ernstein] Namier, “Coloured Books”, in The Political Quarterly, volume XII, number 3, page 274:

According to the present state of Hitlerology, it seems certain that until the end of 1943 Hitler was not insane, at least not in the clinical sense of the word.

1967, Laslo Havas, translated by Kathleen Szasz, “June”, in The Long Jump, London: Neville Spearman, page 106:

This was one way of calling Stalin a barefaced liar without actually naming him. Experts in Hitlerology may note several minor flaws in this version, but basically it is quite close to the reality.

1978, James P[reston] O’Donnell, “Epilogue⸺1945 and After”, in The Bunker: The History of the Reich Chancellery Group, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 372:

The study of Adolf Hitler (1889–1945), dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945.


DeSanctimonious

Blend of DeSantis + sanctimonious. Coined by Donald Trump at a rally in 2022.

coinage

Mr Trump mockingly referred to his onetime ally, who won the Sunshine State’s 2018 gubernatorial election after earning the then-president’s endorsement, as Ron DeSanctimonious while discussing his standing in the polls during a rally in Latrobe, Pennsylvania.

[2022 November 5, Andrew Feinberg, “Trump road-tests nickname for Florida governor and potential 2024 rival Ron DeSantis”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-11-19:


Polyclitus

Learned borrowing from Latin Polyclītus, from Ancient Greek Πολῠ́κλειτος (Polúkleitos).

bor

Πολῠ́κλειτος

A male given name from Latin Polyclītus [in turn from Ancient Greek Πολύκλειτος (Polúkleitos, “far-famed, greatly renowned”)]

A male given name of historical usage, notably borne by Polyclitus the Elder, 5th century BCE Ancient Greek sculptor and artist from Argos or Sicyon

A male given name of historical usage, notably borne by Polyclitus the Younger, 4th century BCE Ancient Greek architect


Polycletus

Learned borrowing from Latin Polyclētus, from Ancient Greek Πολῠ́κλειτος (Polúkleitos).

Πολῠ́κλειτος

Alternative form of Polyclitus, a male given name from Latin Polyclētus [in turn from Ancient Greek Πολύκλειτος (Polúkleitos, “far-famed, greatly renowned”)]


Aethelred

/ˈæθ.əlˌɹɛd/

Learned borrowing from Old English Æþelræd, Æðelred, from æþele (“noble”) + rǣd (“counsel, advice”).

af

A male given name from Old English Æþelræd (“noble counsel, well-advised”), variant of Ethelred or Æthelred

A male given name of historical usage, notably borne by Aethelred I, King of Wessex between 865 and his death in 871

A male given name of historical usage, notably borne by Aethelred II “the Unready”, King of the English between 978 and his death in 1016


Ethelred

/ˈɛθ.əlˌɹɛd/

Learned borrowing from Old English Æþelrǣd, Æþelred, Æðelred, from æþele (“noble”) + rǣd (“counsel, advice”).

lbor

A male given name from Old English Æþelræd (“noble counsel, well-advised”), variant of Aethelred or Æthelred

A male given name of historical usage, notably borne by Ethelred I, King of Wessex between 865 and his death in 871

A male given name of historical usage, notably borne by Ethelred II “the Unready”, King of the English between 978 and his death in 1016


Ammian

From Latin Ammiānus: a masculine praenomen of probable Semitic origin.

Who thoſe other Picts were, we learn from Ammian, that writ about fourſcore years after.

1684, William Lloyd, An Historical Account of Church-Government, as It Was in Great-Britain and Ireland, When They First Received the Christian Religion, page 6:

The same extent of the name of Picti appears also in Ammian, as we observed elsewhere.

1879, Thomas Innes, A Critical Essay on the Ancient Inhabitants of the Northern Parts of Britain or Scotland, page 53:

The only other Greek writer of the age to manifest a similar interest in, knowledge of, and admiration for the Republic, is Ammian.

1970, Alan Cameron, Claudian: Poetry and Propaganda at the Court of Honorius, page 359:

(uncommon) Ammianus Marcellinus, a Roman soldier and historian from Late Antiquity.


Meagain

“Please give us MORE MORE MORE of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. Sick to absolute death of fake narcissistic MeAgain Markle,” a commenter wrote on a photo of Prince William and Kate on the royal family’s Instagram account.

2018 November 26, Patricia Treble, “Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton’s fans are fighting a fierce new royal feud”, in Maclean’s, archived from the original on 2018-11-27:

Commenter Rhirhi, remarking on the Duchess's appearance at the British Fashion Awards, writes ‘if Meagain cradles her bump once more I’m going to puke. Kate didn’t do any of this kind of attention grabbing because she isn’t a narcissist like Sparkles’ (2513 upvotes, 68 down).

2022, Kendra Marston, “Hating Meghan Markle: Drawing the boundaries of British whiteness against postfeminist femininity”, in Shona Hunter, Christi van der Westhuizen, editors, Routledge Handbook of Critical Studies in Whiteness (Routledge International Handbooks), Abingdon, Oxon, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →DOI, →ISBN, part II (Conspiracies: Ideologies reinforcing whiteness):

The Jubilee... will they won’t they.....will Meagain and the very private ginger one be able to stop filming their behind the scenes epic for Netflix and pop across to put in an appearance on the balcony (in disguise to prevent any invasion of privacy).

2022 June/July, W. Anchor, “Grumpy Corner”, in Triangle Norwich, Beccles, Suffolk: Anglia Print Ltd, →ISSN, page 10:

She had a ready-made excuse to stay at home with the children, since the event coincides with Archie’s fourth birthday, but there was no way Meagain was ever going to risk being booed at the coronation, or having lines from that humiliating South Park parody shouted from the crowd.

2023 April 14, Brenda Power, “Meghan spares Kate a right royal drama”, in Daily Mail, London, →ISSN, page 14:

(derogatory) Meghan, Duchess of Sussex (born 1981), American member of the British royal family and former actress, viewed as self-absorbed and narcissistic.


JRRT

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
w:J. R. R. Tolkien

Initialism of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien.


Yezhov

A surname from Russian; especially when referring to Nikolai Yezhov, NKVD chief under Stalin's administration and one of the main architect of the Great Purge.


Beria

Borrowed from Russian Берия (Berija), ultimately from Mingrelian ბერია (beria).

A surname from Mingrelian; especially when referring to Lavrentiy Beria, NKVD chief under Stalin's administration and one of the main architect of the Great Purge.


Urakonthouba

An ancient Meitei emperor of the Ningthouja dynasty, who ruled late antiquity Kangleipak, in the 6th century CE.


Irengba

A Meitei emperor of the Ningthouja dynasty, who ruled Kangleipak, in the 10th century CE.

Alternative form of Irengbam family of the Meitei ethnicity.


Thawanthaba

A Meitei emperor of the Ningthouja dynasty, who ruled Kangleipak, in the 12th century CE.

(Thawānthāba Hirān) A Meitei literary text, about the political relations between the Ningthouja and Khuman royal houses, during the era of King Thawanthaba.


Loitongba

Alternative form of Loitongbam family of Meitei ethnicity.


Taothingmang

From Manipuri ꯇꯥꯎꯊꯤꯡꯃꯥꯡ (taautheengmaang).


Telheiba

From Meitei language word, meaning "skilful archer".


Punsiba

From Meitei language word, meaning "long-lived".

(Luwang Ningthou Punsiba) A philosopher king of the Luwang dynasty, who was also a statecraft teacher of the then Meitei prince Naothingkhong (later became king) of the Ningthouja dynasty.


Bhagyachandra

A Meitei Hindu emperor of the Ningthouja dynasty, who ruled Manipur, in the 18th century CE, credited for the development of the Manipuri Rasa Leela classical dance and classical music.


Naothingkhong

An ancient Meitei emperor of the Ningthouja dynasty, who ruled late antiquity Kangleipak, in the 7th century CE.


Churachand

A Meitei Hindu emperor of the Ningthouja dynasty, who ruled Manipur, in the 19th century CE.


Bodhchandra

A Meitei Hindu emperor of the Ningthouja dynasty, who ruled Manipur, in the 20th century CE.


Chitshai

A Meitei Hindu emperor of the Ningthouja dynasty, who ruled Manipur, in the 18th century CE.


Pamheiba

A Meitei Hindu emperor of the Ningthouja dynasty, known for renaming Kangleipak as Manipur and massively converting the then Meitei folks from Sanamahism to Hinduism in the 18th century CE.


girther

Girthers averred that President Trump had lied about his weight.

2022, Timothy J. Redmond, Political Tribalism in America, page 107:

physical examination
physical examination

(slang, US politics) One who believed that Donald Trump was shorter and heavier than suggested by his presidential physical examination in 2018.


From Au and H₂O being the chemical formulae for gold and water, respectively.

A campaign poster […] reads: "AUH2O in MCMLXIV."

1962 May 24, “Sign for Egghead Conservatives”, in Lakeland Ledger:

Were I AuH₂O, I would be a little more careful about the verbiage I scatter like water […] over the political scene.

1966, Herbert Faulkner West, The Impecunious Amateur Looks Back:

Ron had [the desk] custom made from a laminated campaign sign proclaiming "Goldwater in '64". Attached […] and laminated [was] the famous bumper sticker "AuH2O", a must for Arizona Republicans during Barry's run[.]

2001, Edward Alexander McKenzie, Scorpion's Sting:


Lady Macbethian

en-adj

Lady Macbethian (comparative more Lady Macbethian, superlative most Lady Macbethian)

more Lady Macbethian (comparative)
most Lady Macbethian (superlative)

Resembling or relating to Lady Macbeth in William Shakespeare's play Macbeth, a determined and unscrupulous woman who urges her husband to commit murder to advance his rank.


Seljouk

Seljouk was the prime minister of Sultân Bighoû, sovereign of Kipjak; he established himself, with his tribe, in the countries of Samarcand and Bokhara, where they became converted to the religion of Islâm.

1854, J. Cumming, "Signs of the Times: The Moslem and His End, the Christian and His Hope", "The Ottoman Empire", The Church of England Quarterly Review..., Vol. XXXVI (New Ser. Vol. II), p. 189

(historical) Obsolete form of Seljuk, Seljuk Bey.


Seljouk

Why Persian rather than Arabian or any other literature became the model of Ottoman writers, is explained by the early history of the race. Some two centuries before the arrival of the Turks in Asia Minor, the Seljouks, then a mere horde of savages, had overrun Persia, where they settled and adopted the civilization of the people they had subdued.

1907, V.H. Hagopian, Ottoman-Turkish Conversation-Grammar..., page 421:

(historical) Obsolete form of Seljuk, a member of the dynasty or person of the empire.


Seljouk

Those who desire to read the exploits of those great Seljouk conquerors, Togrul-beg, Alp-Arslan, (the lion), and Malek Shah, we refer to the volume of Gibbon, who has rendered their fame immortal.

(historical) Obsolete form of Seljuk, of or related to Seljuk, his dynasty, their empire, or their period of rule.


Bathhouse Barry

From rumors that Obama spent a lot of time in Chicago's gay bathhouses. First use appears c. 2011 online.

(US politics, slang, derogatory, humorous) Nickname for Barack Obama.


bigrant

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“We will call it from now on Biden migrant crime. … Let’s call it ‘Bigrant,’” he said.

[2024 February 18, Steve Contorno, Kristen Holmes, Kate Sullivan, quoting Donald Trump, “Trump returns to Michigan with eyes on a Biden rematch, but legal woes loom over campaign”, in CNN Politics:

(derogatory) A migrant to the United States during the presidency of Joe Biden.


Netanyahoo

(derogatory, politics) Nickname for Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli politician.


MBZ

Coordinate term: MbS

Alternative form: MbZ

The appointments cement the influence of MBZ and his five full brothers, known as the “Bani Fatima six”, in reference to their mother […]

2023 March 29, “Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed names his son crown prince of Abu Dhabi”, in Financial Times:

Mohamed bin Zayed (Al Nahyan)
w:Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan

Initialism of Mohamed bin Zayed (Al Nahyan).


Mercury Seven

NASA's first astronaut group, consisting of seven members, chosen in 1959: Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard, and Deke Slayton.

Alan Shepard
Deke Slayton
Gordon Cooper
Gus Grissom
John Glenn
Scott Carpenter
Wally Schirra


Ashmedai

/ˈæʃ.mɪˌdaɪ/

Borrowed from Hebrew אַשְׁמְדַאי (ashmedáy). Doublet of Asmodeus.

bor+

Whilst Ashmedai was reigning in Jerusalem, Solomon went about from place to place saying that he was Solomon the king of the Jews; but the people laughed at him and said that he was mad.

1869, E. C. A., Count Teleki: A Story of Modern Jewish Life and Customs, →OCLC, page 202:

The moment he released Ashmedai from his fetters, the demon snatched the ring and hurled it into the sea. Solomon’s power and wisdom were lost, and Ashmedai took the king’s throne in his place.

2006, Dov Noy, Folktales of the Jews, Volume 3: Tales from Arab Lands, →ISBN, page 586:

In the famous tale of Solomon and Ashmedai (Gittin 68a-b), the latter resists until the moment Benaiah produces Solomon’s ring, engraved with the Ineffable Name

2009, Eli Yassif, The Hebrew Folktale: History, Genre, Meaning, →ISBN, page 154:


Trumpery

From Trump + -ery, especially as a pun on trumpery.

"Trump: The Art of the Deal" (fresh drumroll, please) is more forthcoming about the first wing of the Trump attack than it is about the second. The reason goes to the dark heart of Trumpery: the book is itself a craftily designed piece of public relations. That a businessman should thus use himself as a sales gimmick is hardly a crime against literature. But "The Art of the Deal" does deserve at least a warning label.

1988 February 1, Louis Menand, “The Triumph of Trumpery”, in The New Republic, New York, N.Y.: Republic Publishing Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-06-07:

In American alone, after 18 months of trumpery, the editors of Merriam-Webster are still playing catch-up. If new terms aren't being hatched, like narcissocracy or pluto-populism, then recent inventions (infoganda, feardom, Spinnish) are fast gaining traction.

2018 August 28, David Astle, “Wordplay: OK cracy-ness rules, OK?”, in The Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, NSW: Nine Entertainment, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-08-31:

So American people are going to be called on. I think they'll repudiate Trumpery. That's why I think Trump has to be front and center. I'm not in agreement with the people who say, "No, never talk about Trump." He needs to be discussed. Trumpery, not Trump, Trumpery needs to be a part of every conversation. The 2024 election is going to be a referendum on both Trump and Trumpery, because if he's alive, he's running.

2022 May 25, Dahlia Lithwick, quoting Norm Eisen, “The Four Boxes to Defeat Trumpery”, in Slate, New York, N.Y.: The Slate Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-10-16:

Trumpery is like a virus in a zombie movie, infecting the unlikeliest think-tankers, politicians, and columnists. People you have down as solid Reaganites will suddenly, like the ravening monsters in those films, start telling you that tariffs are a terrific negotiating tool or that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is more dangerous than Russian President Vladimir Putin.

2024 February 8, Dan Hannan, “When the Republicans get back to normal, Trump and Trumpery will pass”, in Washington Examiner, Washington, D.C.: MediaDC, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-03-28:

(usually derogatory) The beliefs and practices of former US president Donald Trump.


Parky

Nickname for Michael Parkinson (1935–2023), English broadcaster and writer.


King of Pop

The earliest known attestation of this term as a nickname for Michael Jackson is in a newspaper article in the New York Post of February 8, 1984.

The King of Pop.” That’s how Fox, Black Entertainment Television (BET) and MTV, the American TV outlets that got the rights to première Jackson’s “Black or White” video, now refer to him. That was the deal. You want to get “Black or White” first, you dub Jackson “the King of Pop.”

1992 January 9, Michael Goldberg, “Michael Jackson: The Making of ‘The King of Pop’”, in Rolling Stone:

When he billed himself as the King of Pop, no one contested the title.

1995 June 18, Jon Pareles, “POP VIEW; Michael Jackson Is Furious, Understand?”, in The New York Times:

He was given the nickname the "King of Pop" -- a spin on Elvis Presley's status as "the King of Rock 'n' Roll" -- and few questioned the moniker.

2009 June 25, Todd Leopold, “Michael Jackson, pop music legend, dead at 50”, in CNN:

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

King of Pop (disambiguation)
Michael Jackson
New York Post


Ze

Ze, as he’s been nicknamed, charmed his country with his wit, his charisma, his irreverent talent.

2023, Jessie Asya Kanzer, “Preface”, in Unlocking Your Inner Zelensky: Lessons We Can All Learn from an Unexpected Leader, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Essentials, →ISBN:

(Internet slang, derogatory) Volodymyr Zelenskyy.


Dark MAGA

"I am on a mission now to expose those who say and promise one thing yet legislate and work towards another, self-profiteering, globalist goal," Cawthorn wrote. "The time for genteel politics as usual has come to an end. It’s time for the rise of the new right, it’s time for Dark MAGA to truly take command. We have an enemy to defeat, but we will never be able to defeat them until we defeat the cowardly and weak members of our own party. Their days are numbered. We are coming." (Cawthorn originally misspelled "genteel" as "gentile.")

2022 May 20, Eric Ting, “Kevin McCarthy tries to be nice to Madison Cawthorn. Cawthorn attacks anyway.”, in SFGATE:

(US politics, slang) A fringe movement advocating for a vengeful return of Trumpism.


HHH

Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.
w:Hubert Humphrey

(US politics) Initialism of Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr., 38th vice president of the United States and 1968 Democratic nominee.


Baracknophobia

Blend of Barack + arachnophobia. Popularized by comedian Jon Stewart in 2007.

With the party gearing up for a major election, it seems that such frivolous and irate protestations on the economy and Baracknophobia isn't as vogue as it was in 2010-2011.

2012 April 23, 2966 Dead, “#Teabaggers heading into the sunset”, in alt.fan.rush-limbaugh (Usenet):

(informal, humorous, derogatory) An irrational opposition to Barack Obama (US president from 2009–2017).


LKY

It flourished in a world order that is decomposing. (LKY's all-too-prescient speech to Congress urged America to uphold free trade).

2024 May 18, Janan Ganesh, “What can and can't be learnt from Singapore”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 20:

(Singapore, politics) Initialism of Lee Kuan Yew, 1st Prime Minister of Singapore.


many such cases

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From an X (formerly Twitter) post by Donald Trump (@realDonaldTrump) in 2014, popularized after his election as President of the United States in 2016:
Healthy young child goes to doctor, gets pumped with massive shot of many vaccines, doesn't feel good and changes - AUTISM. Many such cases!
The phrase itself has been rarely attested in literature, from at least the 19th century, primarily in medical or legal context.

quote-book

1848, François Lallemand, A Practical Treatise on the Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment of Spermatorrhœa, Lea & Blanchard:

(colloquial, often humorous) Used to indicate that an occurence is unsurprising, or that something is or was evident. Often sarcastic, mocking someone for believing that something is common, or otherwise tongue-in-cheek.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see many, such, cases, indicating that there are many examples of something or that something is a common occurrence.


double hater

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There's the anti-Trump forces on the right and the anti-Biden forces on the left, but there's also the anti-everyones, the so-called double haters, the people who really dislike both their choices and say they don't want to vote for either candidate. We had double haters in 2020, and they tended to ultimately break for Biden.

2024 March 17, Carlos Lozado, Katherine Miller, Michelle Cottle, Lydia Polgreen, quoting Carlos Lozado, “The Double-Hater Election”, in New York Times, page SR 11:

Double haters make up about 15% of the electorate, according to a poll this month by USA TODAY/Suffolk University, giving them significant sway in deciding the outcome of the November election.

2024 March 23, Joey Garrison, “Meet the surging ‘double haters’ who could decide whether Biden or Trump wins the election”, in USA Today:

Uhh, okay. 67% of, this is my favorite category, the double haters, and a lot of us are in this category, [laughter] including me. Look, I- I'm never going to vote for Trump and I'm never going to help Trump win. So that's not going to happen. But, you know, beyond that, uhh, I got no love for Joe Biden. So, you know, double hater? Well, maybe. Uhh. So. Anyways, that's a big number; that's a big group in America, the double haters, understandably so. And uhh...67% of them said that the- that Trump should drop out. Now that's, like, since they're not decided, that's a really important group. On the other hand, they already hate him, that's why they're double haters, so it's not that surprising that two-thirds of them- of them want him to drop out.

2024 June 5, Cenk Uygur, 7:39 from the start, in Was Trump Hurt by the Felony Conviction? Poll Results, YouTube; The Young Turks, archived from the original on 2024-06-05:

(US politics) A person who does not favor either the Democratic Party (candidate Kamala Harris; formerly Joe Biden) or the Republican Party (candidate Donald Trump) in the 2024 United States presidential election.


Rough Riders

Spanish-American War
Spanish-American War

(US, military, slang, dated) The 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry, military unit in the Spanish-American War.

Battle of San Juan Hill
Theodore Roosevelt


Kiliel

Wow I ship Kiliel a lot, but I also ship Kili and Legolas and Tauriel and Legolas and I don't know what to do

2013 December 14, Kayla (@Kay_Pereira), Twitter:

Accusing people of not being "real fans" of Tolkien because they ship Kiliel is just u being an asshole with superiority issues

2015 February 6, JJ Bug (@moonjellu), Twitter:

I am a filthy dirty garbage Kiliel shipper until the day my trash fire existence burns out…

2021 June 30, Space Lich and His Brick (@space_lich), Twitter:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Kíli and Tauriel of The Hobbit film trilogy.


Bagginshield

I think I should stop swimming in denial now and just admit that I think I've become a Bagginshield shipper...

2013 January 31, @Seheehee1105, Twitter:

I'll stop shipping Bagginshield when Bilbo and Thorin stop being perfect for each other

Out here shipping Bagginshield in the year of our Lord two thousand and nineteen

2019 January 5, Binary Sunset (@binary_suunset), Twitter:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Bilbo Baggins and Thorin Oakenshield of The Hobbit.


Orcban

Blend of orc + Orban. Orc, a term for Russian soldiers participating in the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, refers to Orban's pro-Russian stance.

(derogatory, politics, Internet slang) Viktor Orban (president of Hungary).


Cameltoe Harris

A wordplay on the name Kamala. First use appears c. 2015.

@Halopauly the CA 9th just needs to finalize Peruta and smack KamelToe Harris down.

2015 January 10, Rusty Shackleford (@whalekock), Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-07-23:

WGUV-TV -- Cameltoe Harris knows a lot about pulling out sense she didn't last the first round uv the Democrat primary. Whiff regard to Kabull, Harris believes Sniff's was sloppy in pulling out prematurely creating a sticky sitiation.

2021 August 20, Idjit BoB, “BRAKING NEWS: VP Horseface Harris Own Spayshul Mission to Vietnam”, in alt.appalachian (Usenet):

What we are sick of is an open border(that idiots deny exist). We would not have this problem if sleepy Joe and Cameltoe Harris shut it down. As for Abbott and DeSantis shipping them to sanctuary cites, hell yes, great stunt. Sadly its not enough. We should ship them to the Canadian boarder.

2022 September 26, BTSinAustin, “True Colors”, in rec.gambling.poker (Usenet):

You agree it's a lie? You have stated before and above that you would deny half of the registered voters their right to vote for the candidate of their choice and would only allow them to vote for an Isaac Chase approved candidate. You don't get much more authoritarian than that. Your snowflake rhetoric is noted and laughed at, although it described the Biden cartel well (lying, evil, despicable, insane, corrupt conmen and fraud and criminal). Cameltoe Harris is a true comedy gem, though..

2023 April 26, Conley Brothers, “Culture And Snobbery”, in alt.arts.poetry.comments (Usenet):

(US politics, slang, derogatory, vulgar, humorous) Kamala Harris.


Obamna

Originally a mispronunciation or misspelling of Obama. Somewhat popularized by Donald Trump during a 2018 campaign rally, in which it is thought he had unintentionally mispronounced “Obama” with an “-na” at the end, possibly in confusion with the word amnesty.

obamna

2024 May 8, DougDoug, 02:41 from the start, in I used Barack Obama’s hands to play Mario Party (NOT CLICKBAIT), spoken by WalletWorrier_:

(Internet slang, humorous, US politics) Barack Obama.


Sralin

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If the Soviet media crafted a cult of personality for Stalin which tried to place him beyond criticism, some ordinary citizens hung his portrait in the toilets, mocked his heavy Georgian accent, or replaced the “t” in his name with an “r”, making him “Sralin” – not the “Man of Steel”, but the “Man of Shit”.

2020 July 20, Jonathan Waterlow, It’s only a joke, comrade! Why even Stalin couldn’t kill the political quip:

(informal, vulgar, derogatory, sometimes humorous) Joseph Stalin.


detrumpification

Only a huge win in 2020 will make detrumpification possible. And only detrumpification reopens the door for American democratization.

2019 November 12, Ira Allen, “On Detrumpification: An Urgently Necessary Process After Trumpism”, in Common Dreams:

(US politics, neologism) The removal of Donald Trump's political ideas or influence.


detrumpify

en-verb

detrumpify (third-person singular simple present detrumpifies, present participle detrumpifying, simple past and past participle detrumpified)

detrumpifies (present singular third-person)
detrumpifying (participle present)
detrumpified (participle past)
detrumpified (past)

So, no, if you want to be able to detrumpify--and if you give any shits about democratic norms or the constitutional order or any of that, you'd *better* want to be able to detrumpify government at all levels -- then you've only got one pragmatic choice.

(US politics, transitive, neologism) To subject to detrumpification.


Nasty Pelosi

From nasty (chosen for its similarity to Nancy) + Pelosi. First use appears c. 2005 online.

If President George W. Bush ignored the pleas of Nasty Pelosi, John Fraud Kerry, Red Ted Kennedy, and Robert Byrd Poop, to do something to stop Saddam Hussein the way that Billy Clinton did, they would demand an impeachment, or worse..

2005 August 8, Choices, “Do the Liberals really care about our Soldiers”, in alt.politics.gw-bush (Usenet):

In a characteristic Pelosi moment a deranged Nasty Pelosi claimed that all that don't agree with her or Obama are Nazis and that they all wear Nazi symbols...a scientology-laden technique used in pathetic attempts to silence critics.

2009 August 10, Escape_the_Cult_Now, “Obama Violating Civil Liberties acting like the Nazi he accuses others of being Via Pelosi”, in alt.obituaries (Usenet):

Not only did the White House NOT get the message (Press Secretary Robert Gibbs postured that he didn’t even know the rally was taking place), but then the protesters were ridiculed en masse by the speaker of the House, Nasty Pelosi, who said she thought the language being used at freedom rallies and town-hall meetings (and presumably in columns such as this) just might incite violence.

2009 September 20, Frank [D.] Miele, “Montana Perspectives: That was the week that was (not funny)”, in Sunday Inter Lake, Kalispell, Mont., →ISSN, page C10, column 2:

I don’t care for Pingree, but it is just cruel to compare her to Nasty Pelosi.

2010 October 11, ScreaminEagle80 [pseudonym], quotee, “[bangordailynews.com] You said it”, in Bangor Daily News, volume 122, number 99, Bangor, Me.: Bangor Publishing Co., →ISSN, page A3, column 2:

... Barb May type Dupes! ... Gender Confused Trannies! ... Hermaphrodites! ... Nasty Pelosi types! ... Black Lives Matter Fools! ... Morons who watch CNN! ...same with any MSM "News" TV shows! ... Global Warming Dupes!

2016 October 29, Make America more like Mexico .. Vote Democrat, “I Thank God ... I'm Not a Democrat ... Liars! ... Perverted Weiners! ... Pay to Play 'Charities!' ... Bi-Sexual Diaper Wearer Hillary! ...”, in rec.arts.tv (Usenet):

The dummycrats lead^([sic]) by Schmucky Schumer and Nasty Pelosi, followed in lockstep by our very own Shill Nelson and all other dummycrats, started off the S.O.T.U. address by not standing for our national anthem.

2018 February 3, Dave Doty, “[Your view] Democrat’s true colors”, in Highlands News-Sun, volume 99, number 34, Sebring, Fla.: Sun Coast Media Group, →ISSN, page A6, column 4:

House Minority Leader sour puss “Nasty” Pelosi (CA) kept a close eye on her minions to see who might give applause or stand for President Trump’s inspiring message (which had a 75 percent approval rating even though the lonesome left news media continued to tell viewers what they should not like) as she sucked on lemon drops candy.

2018 February 9, Jerry Wright, “[Your view] Poor behavior during speech”, in Highlands News-Sun, volume 99, number 40, Sebring, Fla.: Sun Coast Media Group, →ISSN, page A6, column 4:

What started as a crowd of about 15 mostly Cuban-American protesters grew to about 40 at one point, as they pounded on every door they could find and clamored insults in both Spanish and English like “Nasty Pelosi” and “brujas” — witches.

2018 October 18, Martin Vassolo, Jimena Tavel, “Campaign 2018: Shalala event protested over Castro sympathizer”, in Miami Herald, volume 116, number 34, Miami, Fla., →ISSN, page 3A, column 2:

Steve claims President Trump’s massive ego and vile gut drive everything and mainstream media is permitting him to prevail. Really? Trump has been a media punching bag since his election and gave his ego a backseat in re-opening the government. Nasty Pelosi would still have 800,000 government employees out of work.

2019 February 16, Randall Pawlikowski, “[Letters to the Editor] Trump went high, not so Democrats”, in The Day, volume 138, number 230, New London, Conn., →ISSN, page A6, column 5:

Next writer claims that President Trump is distracting “us” by not granting billions of dollars to “fund” the post office! I guess the writer is not aware or willing to admit that this funding has been an ongoing struggle for years and that the “real ploy” was by Nasty Pelosi who knowing^([sic]) that this political bill would not pass but necessary to divert our attention of the fraud and corruption within her party; including the opportunity to control an electoral process with mail-in votes!

2020 September 2, Paul R. Pawlicki, “[Letters to the Editor] Letter writers can’t give Trump credit”, in The Daily Sun, volume 128, number 246, Charlotte Harbor, Fla.: Sun Coast Media Group, Inc., →ISSN, page 6C, column 2:

Yet getting a relief deal would have required accepting a compromise with that “nasty” Pelosi. It seems that he would rather let the economy burn.

2020 October 11, Paul Krugman, “Trump’s rage harming economy”, in The Sunday Times, Scranton, Pa., →OCLC, page C2, column 6:

There It Is: Pelosi Snaps at Reporters, Makes Stunning Admission About Why She Stalled Virus Relief Bill

2020 December 5, a425couple, “Re: Nasty Pelosi - admits making millions suffer to aid Democrats”, in seattle.politics (Usenet):

Exactly. Those of us with an attention span longer than six seconds remember very well how the Democrats and Nasty Pelosi demeaned the President for wanting to take the Chink Flu seriously in the month of January.

2021 June 4, Rabid Roach, “Fauci Lied--MILLIONS DIED”, in comp.os.linux.advocacy (Usenet):

(US politics, slang, derogatory) Nancy Pelosi.


Trumplessness

We'd switch on the car radio and there'd be utter Trumplessness all the way to work.

2017 March 6, Amy Goldman Koss, “Op-Ed: Something a lot of us could get behind — a week without Trump”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-11-20:

Two days later, I was minding my own business, enjoying the memory of the pastry I'd just eaten at a cafe that had become my favorite when my Trumplessness was again interrupted. In a dusty street-facing stall that sells high powered speakers and cheap cell phone cases in Jyatha, Kathmandu, I ran into Dilli Ram Kander, the administrator of the biggest Donald Trump fan page in Nepal.

2017 May 14, Erin Gloria Ryan, “Taking a Trumpspringa: My Break From 24-7 Trump News”, in The Daily Beast, archived from the original on 2023-12-07:

The absence of Donald Trump (47th president-elect and 45th president of the United States, businessman (Republican Party)).


Bleachgate

What some of the world's most insufferable people are already calling "Bleachgate" is a perfect reductio ad absurdum of the relationship between the president and the media.

2020 April 29, Matthew Walther, “Bleachgate is the archetype of a Trump media cycle”, in The Week:

A 2020 controversy where then-president Donald Trump suggested drinking bleach as a way to cure COVID-19.


MAGAtard

I may sound like MAGAtard but Trump's assassination was not staged, they really wanted to kill him.

(US politics, slang, derogatory) A person who uncritically supports Donald Trump