roll in the aisles

en-verb

roll in the aisles (third-person singular simple present rolls in the aisles, present participle rolling in the aisles, simple past and past participle rolled in the aisles)

rolls in the aisles (present singular third-person)
rolling in the aisles (participle present)
rolled in the aisles (participle past)
rolled in the aisles (past)

Theatregoers may not roll in the aisles when lanky Ray Bolger impersonates a window dresser retiring for the night. . . . But plenty of people will be amused by Cartoonist Robert Wildhack.

1934 September 10, “Theatre: New Play in Manhattan”, in Time:

A comedy that this site has been championing since we first got a whiff of it earlier in the year, the film is every bit as politically incorrect as we'd been led to believe, and has many members of the raucous Scottish audience rolling in the aisles.

2005 August 23, “Film: Edinburgh - Day Three”, in Time Out New York, retrieved 2010-01-21:

(idiomatic, of an audience) To laugh uproariously.


happy bunny

(informal) A contented, satisfied person or animal.


fraidy cat

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

MURROW: Do you remember the most severe disciplinary action taken against you when you were a youngster, Mr. President?
TRUMAN: Well, I was one of these fraidy cats who usually obeyed the rules and they didn't have to get after me very often.

1964, Harry S. Truman, Edward R. Murrow, 13:07 from the start, in MP66-7 Harry S. Truman Interviewed by Edward R. Murrow, February 1957 (5 of 12), Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, National Archives Identifier: 595162:

(childish) Synonym of scaredy cat (“coward”).


ludophilia

Latin lūdus (“play”) + English -philia (from the Ancient Greek φιλία (philía, “love”, “fondness”))

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[…] based on sicalipsis, with their tastelessness, petty subjects and immodest exhibition of female beauties, became a fitting artistic formula for the hedonism, ludophilia, escapism, and consumerism of the years just prior to the Great War, an atmosphere well reflected in stage settings similar to the ones displayed on the grand avenues and boulevards of the main European […]

2008, Sara Martin, Recycling Culture(s), Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 169:

Chapter 3 examines the racial and class politics of musical play as they are manifested in negotiations among the postcommunist state, the European Union, the global music industry, and Roma minority groups. The argument foregrounds a disavowed register of European nationalisms: the moral majority’s ludophilia toward “lazy” and “unproductive” Gypsies. Evoking Stuart Hall’s theorization of the playful Caribbean cultural identities, the chapter discusses Roma Rap, […]

2009, Anikó Imre, Identity Games: Globalization and the Transformation of Media Cultures in the New Europe, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 18:


agalmatophilia

Ancient Greek ἄγαλμα (ágalma, “statue”) + English -philia

The former included research into alcoholism, transsexualism, painting in therapy, agalmatophilia and tattoo removal: the latter the differential effects of single or double carotid endarterectomy.

1974, New Zealand Medical Journal, volume 79, page 891:

The most famous episode of agalmatophilia in the ancient world dates also to the early third century. It is recounted in the treatise Peri Knidou by Posidippus, probably the homonymous epigrammist of Pella, who was interested in works of art and whose activity dates to around 285-265.

2008, John Petropoulos, Greek Magic: Ancient, Medieval and Modern, page 24:

Interestingly, though, agalmatophilia (the erotic love of statues) is a recognized sexual attraction with a history of labeling as deviant (Blanshard 2010: 28–30). […] Perhaps, though, what we behold in agalmatophilia is a love of art gone too far rather than a queer love.

2016, Elahe Haschemi Yekani, Queer Futures: Reconsidering Ethics, Activism, and the Political:

A paraphilia characterised by sexual attraction to a statue, doll, mannequin, or similar object.


flip one's wig

en-verb

flip one's wig (third-person singular simple present flips one's wig, present participle flipping one's wig, simple past and past participle flipped one's wig)

flips one's wig (present singular third-person)
flipping one's wig (participle present)
flipped one's wig (participle past)
flipped one's wig (past)

(idiomatic, informal) To become very angry.


bust out

bust out (third-person singular simple present busts out, present participle busting out, simple past and past participle busted out or (colloquial) bust out)

busts out (present singular third-person)
busting out (participle present)
busted out (participle past)
busted out (past)
bust out (colloquial participle past)
bust out (colloquial past)

(US, informal, nonstandard) To burst out (laughing).


bliss out

bliss out (third-person singular simple present blisses out, present participle blissing out, simple past and past participle blissed out)

blisses out (present singular third-person)
blissing out (participle present)
blissed out (participle past)
blissed out (past)

She was so blissed out that she could barely stand, but a moment of true happiness will do that.

(transitive, informal) To cause to experience bliss.


MSR

I am a shipper, and yes, I prefer to read MSR.

2000 May 8, C. E. McLarney, “Re: NEW: "Remotely Controlled" (1/1) by Marguerite”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):

Although I read MSR occasionally (and at one time did exclusively) the minute I discovered slash I was hooked.

2003 April 14, pjay [username], “slash”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):

Made me want to read MSR again, and I thought I'd finally kicked that habit.

2006 June 12, jzjenn [username], “Paula Graves News”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):

(uncountable, fandom slang) Such fan fiction collectively.


BL

From Japanese BL(ビーエル) (bīeru), from ボーイズラブ (bōizu rabu), from English boys + love.

Initialism of boys' love (“yaoi media”).


fuckish

en-adj

fuckish (comparative more fuckish, superlative most fuckish)

more fuckish (comparative)
most fuckish (superlative)

Does your stripper make you feel fuckish?


xanthophobia

One function of xanthophobia in loggerhead hatchlings may be to reduce the attraction of light sources with a substantial participation of long-wavelength light.

1991 December 13, Blair E. Witherington, Karen A. Bjorndal, “Influences of Wavelength and Intensity on Hatchling Sea Turtle Phototaxis: Implications for Sea-Finding Behavior”, in Copeia, volume 1991, number 4, American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, pages 1067–8:

The aversion to yellow light, or xanthophobia, that loggerhead hatchlings show sets them apart from other sea turtle species.

1996, in FMRI Technical Reports number 2, Florida Marine Research Institute, page 10

In contrast, loggerhead hatchlings showed an aversion to light in the green-yellow to yellow region of the spectrum (560 to 600 nm) (Figure 5.2). Although this xanthophobia (yellow light aversion) is unique to loggerheads, green turtles are less strongly attracted to yellow light than to light of other wavelengths.

1997, Kenneth J. Lohmann et al., “Orientation, Navigation, and Natal Beach Homing in Sea Turtles”, chapter 5 of John A. Musick et al. (editors), The Biology of Sea Turtles, CRC Press, page 111


trypophobia

/ˌtɹɪpəˈfəʊbi.ə/

From Ancient Greek τρῦπα (trûpa, “hole”), compare Ancient Greek τρυπάω (trupáō, “bore”), + -phobia (from Ancient Greek φόβος (phóbos, “fear, phobia”)), said to have been coined by a blogger from Ireland in 2005.

der

Images of lotus seed heads are often reported as inducing trypophobia. Sufferers of trypophobia report that it is the visual percept that is particularly aversive.

2013 October, G[eoff] G. Cole, A[rnold] J. Wilkins, “Fear of Holes”, in Psychological science, volume 24, number 10, →DOI, →PMID, pages 1980–1985:

2015, Irena Milosevic, Trypophobia (Fear of Holes), Irena Milosevic, Randi E. McCabe (editors), Phobias: The Psychology of Irrational Fear, ABC-CLIO (Greenwood), page 401,
In particular, individuals with trypophobia are fearful of clusters of holes that are found in a variety of objects and matter such as skin, coral, honeycombs, seed pods, and even aerated chocolate.

(psychology) An irrational or obsessive fear of irregular patterns or clusters of small holes, such as those found in honeycombs.

集合体恐怖症

しゅうごうたいきょうふしょう


Hellenophilia

From Helleno- + -philia, from Ancient Greek Ἑλλάς (Hellás, “Greece”).

A love of Greece and Greek culture, whether ancient or modern.


unlove

From un- (“not; lack of”) + love (noun).

Disgust, nausea, loathing—some aspects of yourself and others surely deserve such abhorrent gut responses. But disgust doesn't create suffering— recoil does. Separation is the act of unlove.

How do you experience this sense of unlove in your body? Notice the specific quality of the bodily […] Then see if you can let the feeling of unlove be there just as it is, without trying to fix it, change it, or judge it.

2007, John Welwood, Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships:

All the most intractable problems in human relationships can be traced back to “the mood of unlove,” a deep-seated suspicion most of us harbor […] The mood of unlove that Wellwood describes is pervasive in our culture.

2011, Christopher Uhl, Teaching as if Life Matters:

The lack, absence, or omission of love; lovelessness; enmity; neglect; hate.


multiship

en-verb

multiship (third-person singular simple present multiships, present participle multishipping, simple past and past participle multishipped)

multiships (present singular third-person)
multishipping (participle present)
multishipped (participle past)
multishipped (past)

Though I do have a habit of picking a lady chara and multishipping her. Especially hermione. 💁♀

2020 July 2, Emlyn (@evilmaid_), Twitter:

As someone who multiships Chaggie and Charlastor. You guys fighting in the tags is annoying the hell out of me. Please stop using the tags. 😒

2021 February 18, ObsessedKatie (@ObsessedKatie), Twitter:

There’s a reason Sakura is multishipped so much and it’s bc she had interactions/development with almost the entire cast

2021 March 26, @uchihassasusaku, Twitter:

(fandom slang) To ship multiple pairings in the same fandom, especially ones featuring the same character.


belgard

Vpon her eyelids many Graces sate, / Vnder the shadow of her euen browes, / Working belgards, and amorous retrate […]

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

(obsolete) A loving look, an amorous glance.


free love

Joseph’s looks and handsome figure had attracted her attention. Every morning she would beckon: “Come and lie with me, love.” Joseph wanted to resist her til one day she proved too eager. Joseph cried in vain: “Please stop! I don’t believe in free love!”

1974, “Potiphar”, in Tim Rice (lyrics), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat:

Sometimes prudish and sometimes outrageous, Marilyn rationalized her behavior through free love ideas.

2012, Lois Banner, Marilyn: The Passion and the Paradox, page 262:

The practice of sexual intercourse without the restraints of marriage or commitment.


make love, not war

desc

→ French: faites l’amour, pas la guerre (calque)

Originally coined by those who opposed the United States's involvement in the Vietnam War.

I want you to make love, not war / I know you've heard it before

1973, John Lennon (lyrics and music), “Mind Games”, in Mind Games:

A hippie anti-war slogan encouraging love and peace.


haphephobia

/ˌhæfɪˈfəʊbiə/

From Ancient Greek ἁφή (haphḗ, “touch”) from ἅπτω (háptō, “I touch”) + -phobia.

It is necessary to distinguish haphephobia from the syndrome described under the name of délire de toucher, the emotional disturbance produced especially after contact.

1894, Annual of the Universal Medical Sciences, volume 2, unnumbered page:

[…] He realizes that his goal is a loving relationship with you. It's that simple, and that's what we're working on now. Of course there are obstacles—his haphephobia, for one."
His what? I gasp.
“I'm sorry. I mean his fear of being touched," Dr. Flynn says, shaking his head as if scolding himself. […]

2011, E. L. James, Fifty Shades Darker, Vintage Books, published 2012, →ISBN, page 412:

My hair stood on end all over my body and my haphephobia, the fear of being touched, kicked into full gear.

2013, Leesia Lindsay, “Paranormal Encounters”, in From Every Corner, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 10:


lipophobia

The new generation avoided fixed itineraries, stayed in cheap hotels or hostels, and (unaffected by the lipophobia of later generations) lived on bread, cheese, and paté.

1998, Harvey A Levenstein, Seductive journey: American tourists in France from Jefferson to the Jazz Age:

The most audacious example of chicken meat being used to position a company comes with Kentucky Fried Chicken's rebirth as KFC in 1993; the primary purpose of which was to lose its image as the 'fried food king'. Once again, both the 1980s lipophobia movement and the broad consumer movement can claim the credit.

2002, Jane Dixon, The Changing Chicken: Chooks, Cooks and Culinary Culture:

They can be as prone to lipophobia (the irrational fear of fat) as the population as a whole.

2012, Ellyn Satter, How to Get Your Kid to Eat: But Not Too Much, page 135:


Sturm und Drang

/ˈʃtəɹm ʊnt ˈdɹaŋ/

Borrowed from German Sturm und Drang with the same figurative meaning, from Sturm (“storm”) + und (“and”) + Drang (“pressure, stress; urge, impulse, longing”). The phrase is the title of the play Sturm und Drang (1776) by German dramatist Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger (1752–1831).
The fact that the phrase is often italicized suggests it has not been fully assimilated into English.

The best of the Stürmer und Dränger grew out of their Sturm und Drang, and it was necessary to indicate in what ways [Johann Gottfried] Herder and [Johann Wolfgang von] Goethe changed as they grew older. It should be stressed, however, that the very principles which forced them to burst the husk of the Sturm und Drang are in themselves a vital element within the Sturm und Drang.

1953, Roy Pascal, “Introduction”, in The German Sturm und Drang, Manchester: Manchester University Press, →OCLC, page xvi:

[Georg Wilhelm Friedrich] Hegel's further observation shows the route taken by those who survived their Sturm und Drang and went on to produce more: "Because the sickness is in the essence itself, its isolated manifestations can be repressed [zurückdrängen] and the superficial symptoms suppressed [dämpfen]."

1985, Larry Vaughan, The Historical Constellation of the Sturm und Drang (American University Studies, Series I (Germanic Languages and Literatures); 38), New York, N.Y.: Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 61:

[page 1100, column 1] The Sturm und Drang (storm and stress) was a literary movement that flourished in Germany in the 1770s and 1780s and represented the protest of a group of young university-educated men against the norms of polite society. […] [page 1101, columns 1 and 2] [T]he Sturm und Drang reflected the growth of modern individualism and the challenge that middle-class ideas of selfhood presented to so-called enlightened absolutism, that is to say, to political and cultural structures that sought legitimacy by assimilating elements of bureaucratic rationalism. […] The Sturm und Drang was nevertheless an important forerunner of Romanticism in its formal experimentalism, its enthusiasm for popular culture and the primitive, its acceptance of the power of unconscious, irrational forces, and above all its concern with individual experience.

2004, David Hill, “Sturm und Drang”, in Christopher John Murray, editor, Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760–1850, volumes 2 (L–Z, Index), New York, N.Y., London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, →ISBN, pages 1100–1101:

It was precisely this reason, science and the eighteenth-century Enlightenment to account for genius in rational terms that allowed the non-rational thinkers who fueled the fires of the Sturm und Drang movement to vivify, and elaborate upon, the ancient Greek notion of genius as a numinous power associated with the Muses and the gods.

2006, Angus [James] Nicholls, Goethe's Concept of the Daemonic: After the Ancients, Rochester, N.Y.: Camden House Publishing, →ISBN, page 81:

The complex figure of Clavigo is therefore a variant on the Sturm and Drang theme of the enemy brothers, which forms the framework for a far older theme: that of Shakespeare's Hamlet who kills Ophelia's brother Valentin. Goethe's play is in fact modeled after Shakespeare's tragedy, and the last act is riddled with references to the cemetery scene from Hamlet. A theme dear to Sturm and Drang is also revisited: fratricide. The period during which Goethe wrote Clavigo was that in which the young Sturm and Drang poets all flocked around the figure of Goethe.

2014, Katalin Nun, Jon Stewart, editors, Kierkegaard's Literary Figures and Motifs: Tome I: Agamemnon to Guadalquivir (Kirkegaard Research: Sources, Reception and Resources; 16), Farnham, Surrey, Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing, →ISBN, page 105:

(literature, music, theater) A proto-Romantic movement in German literature and music which occurred from the late 1760s to the early 1780s, emphasizing individual subjectivity and the free expression of emotions.

狂飆突進運動

a proto-Romantic movement from the late 1760s to the early 1780s in German literature and music


pour one's heart out

en-verb

pour one's heart out (third-person singular simple present pours one's heart out, present participle pouring one's heart out, simple past and past participle poured one's heart out)

pours one's heart out (present singular third-person)
pouring one's heart out (participle present)
poured one's heart out (participle past)
poured one's heart out (past)

He poured his heart out to them, so as he never could in any other company, where he hath generally passed for being moody, or supercilious and silent.

1852, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 29, in The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.:

[S]he would be all the better for pouring her heart out freely, and would be glad to do it, if she were sure of sympathy

1860, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 7, in The Marble Faun:

And I just can't pour my heart out, to another living thing, I'm a whisper, I'm a shadow, but I'm standing up to sing.

The spirited lyrics, the dancing and the joy of watching these five handsome, clean-cut youngsters pouring their hearts out moved me then and moves me now.

2009 July 2, “Our Favorite Songs: General Colin Powell”, in Time:

(intransitive, idiomatic) To express one's innermost thoughts or feelings effusively.

vuodattaa sydäntään

to express one's innermost thoughts or feelings


sapphic

Clinton and I became peripherally involved with a pair of Leckford Road girls who, principally sapphic in their interests, would arrange for sessions of group frolic.

[...] and rumor had it that the Margo—Eve relationship was inspired by the bisexual Bankhead and her Skin of Our Teeth understudy [...] (The 1947 film version teamed Humphrey Bogart with sapphic stars Barbara Stanwyck and Alexis Smith.)

2013, Boze Hadleigh, Broadway Babylon: Glamour, Glitz, and Gossip on the Great White Way, Back Stage Books, →ISBN, page 194:

Her lyrics are deeply personal and wide reaching and she weaves in indignation at the state of American politics while simultaneously exploring her identity as a black sapphic [pansexual] woman.

2018 December 10, Jess Taylor Weissner, review of Janelle Monae, Dirty Computer, in The Courier, page 18

Perhaps the queer, unnatural, and possibly disturbing conjunctions of the trans and nonbinary sapphic can help to do just that.

2023 July 26, Susan S. Lancer, SAME/DIFFERENCE? TOWARD A SAPPHIC/NONBINARY SEXUALITY OF HISTORY, in https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/hith.12319

Lesbian, relating to lesbianism, or (broadly) to women who are attracted (not necessarily exclusively) to women.


retrofuturistic

en-adj

retrofuturistic (comparative more retrofuturistic, superlative most retrofuturistic)

more retrofuturistic (comparative)
most retrofuturistic (superlative)

Imagining a future employing outdated concepts.


burst out

en-verb

burst out (third-person singular simple present bursts out, present participle bursting out, simple past and past participle burst out)

bursts out (present singular third-person)
bursting out (participle present)
burst out (participle past)
burst out (past)

My parents exchanged amused glances and burst out laughing.

1993, Leslie Feinberg, Stone butch blues:

(intransitive) To display sudden powerful emotion.


air kiss

A social gesture in which the lips are pursed as if kissing, but without actual contact.


osmophobia

A heightened dislike or sensitivity to smells


somnophilia

In contrast, Calef and Weinshel (1972) suggested that somnophilia may be a neurotic equivalent of necrophilia.

2008, D. Richard Laws, William T. O'Donohue, Sexual deviance: theory, assessment, and treatment, page 401:

A paraphilia in which an individual becomes sexually aroused by someone who is unconscious.


acrotomophilia

From the Ancient Greek ἀκρότομος (akrótomos, “having the top cut off”) + φιλία (philía). Compare acrotomous.

uder

You have to already be afflicted with the syndrome of acrotomophilia (which has its genesis in childhood) in order to be turned-on by amputation stumps.

1985, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Juvenile Justice, Effect of pornography on women and children:

Although there is no adequate explanation of the etiology of acrotomophilia, evidence points to a developmental onset in early childhood...

1987, Psychological abstracts, volume 74:

...the fetishistic attachment is not to an object but to a part of the partner's body, for example the hair or, in the case of acrotomophilia, the stump of an amputated limb.

1990, John Money, Gay, Straight, and In-Between: The Sexology of Erotic Orientation:

(psychology) A paraphilia involving sexual attraction toward amputees.


Catalanophobia

Villaverde's refusal to concede a concierto económico to the region, backed by a general diatribe of catalanophobia in the Madrid press, brought on a taxpayers' strike in Barcelona and throughout Catalonia, coupled with the closure of shops.

1979, European studies review, volume 9, Macmillan, page 15:

Against a general diatribe of catalanophobia in the Madrid press, the middle classes of the Principality, represented in their guilds (gremios), retaliated by declaring a taxpayers' strike and the closure of all shops, a movement which became known as the tancament de caixes.

1990, Élites and Power in Twentieth-Century Spain: Essays in Honor of Sir Raymond Carr, Eds. Frances Lannon and Paul Preston, Clarendon Press, →ISBN, page 52:

Yet in a mood of catalanophobia, stirred up by sections of the Madrid press against separatist tendencies in the Principality, Catalan proposals for the economic regeneration of Spain were rejected as special pleading.

2000, Joseph Harrison, “Tackling national decadence: economic regeneration in Spain after the colonial débâcle,”, in Spain's 1898 Crisis: Regenerationism, Modernism, Post-Colonialism, Eds. Joseph Harrison and Alan Hoyle, Manchester University Press, →ISBN, page 61:

(rare) Dislike or hatred of the Catalan people, culture or language.

catalanofòbia

Dislike of Catalan people, culture of language


Phan

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Phan

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


lovesome

en-adj

lovesome (comparative more lovesome, superlative most lovesome)

more lovesome (comparative)
most lovesome (superlative)

From Middle English lufsom, lufsum, from Old English lufsum (“loving, lovable, pleasant”), equivalent to love + -some.

inh

(now rare, chiefly Ireland) Affectionate; friendly.


nostalgie de la boue

Borrowed from French nostalgie de la boue (literally “nostalgia for mud”).

bor

Politics, like Rock, Pop and Camp, has its uses; but to put one's whole status on the line for nostalgie de la boue in any of its forms would be unprincipled.

1970 June 8, Tom Wolfe, “Radical Chic: That Party at Lenny's”, in New York Magazine:

The fastidious and solitary public-schoolboy [George Orwell] dosses down with tramps and tarts and forces himself to endure bedbugs and chamberpots and lockups. The extraordinary thing about this nostalgie de la boue is that it is undertaken with a humorous self-consciousness and without a tinge of religious abjection or mortification.

2002, Christopher Hitchens, Why Orwell Matters, New York: Basic Books, →ISBN, page 10:

Mr. Smith [Shane Smith] called the appeal of the trailer-park aesthetic purveyed by Vice the latest twist on bohemia's old nostalgie de la boue.

2003 September 28, Vanessa Grigoriadis, “The Edge of Hip: Vice, the Brand”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:


slashable

en-adj

slashable (comparative more slashable, superlative most slashable)

more slashable (comparative)
most slashable (superlative)

I met so many other great people who have a similar interest in pairing up those oh-so-slashable couples.

1999, Reesa, “My very late Friscon report”, in alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated (Usenet):

(fandom slang) Suitable for writing slash fan fiction about.


Jaspis

Blend of jasper and lapis (from lapis lazuli).

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Lazuli Jasper and Lapis Lazulifrom the Steven Universe series.


bridle up

en-verb

bridle up (third-person singular simple present bridles up, present participle bridling up, simple past and past participle bridled up)

bridles up (present singular third-person)
bridling up (participle present)
bridled up (participle past)
bridled up (past)

To show anger or indignation at something.


Rocketshipper

From rocket + shipper (after the characters' team, Team Rocket, and punningly on rocketship).

Those of you who have read my fanfics will know that I am a Rocketshipper.

2000 January 13, Blue-Jackal and her box-o-Skywarp [username], “Jessie and James, an item?”, in alt.fan.team-rocket (Usenet):

All the Rocketshippers love to talk about evidence in favor of Jessie/James being in love and such.

2000 February 7, BBD127 [username], “Rocketshipping... negative evidence?”, in alt.fan.team-rocket (Usenet):

You realize, of course, that this thread would probably get us lynched by the large Rocketshipper population on the net.

2001 January 15, Bodger [username], “Re: Gay couple in Godzilla vs. Megalon”, in rec.arts.tv.mst3k.misc (Usenet):

(fandom slang) A shipper of Jessie and James, characters in the animated version of Pokémon.


outlaugh

outlaugh (third-person singular simple present outlaughs, present participle outlaughing, simple past and past participle outlaughed)

outlaughs (present singular third-person)
outlaughing (participle present)
outlaughed (participle past)
outlaughed (past)

From out- + laugh. Compare Saterland Frisian uutlachje, West Frisian útlaitsje, Dutch uitlachen (“to ridicule”), German Low German utlachen, German auslachen (“to laugh at”), Danish udle.

His apprehensions of being outlaughed will force him to continue in a restless obscurity. - Franklin

(transitive) To ridicule or laugh someone out of a purpose, principle, etc.; laugh down; discourage or put out of countenance by laughing.

At his father's quick guffaw he jumped back, trying to outlaugh him. "Mamma, did you hear what I said, Mamma?" Boardman felt his side. "My boy, that's a good one."

(transitive) To laugh louder than, surpass in laughing.


entomophobia

en-noun

entomophobia (usually uncountable, plural entomophobias)

Abnormal fear of insects or similar arthropods


bare one's breast

en-verb

bare one's breast (third-person singular simple present bares one's breast, present participle baring one's breast, simple past and past participle bared one's breast)

bares one's breast (present singular third-person)
baring one's breast (participle present)
bared one's breast (participle past)
bared one's breast (past)

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Near-synonym: wear one's heart on one's sleeve

[…] he bared his breast to whizzing javelins, to hissing arrows, to any and every weapon that promised death and forgetfulness, and rest.

I'm going to be angry with you. Pitch into old Frank Henchman—hit away, my young one.' And Frank put himself into an attitude as of one prepared to receive a pugilistic assault. He bared his breast, as it were, and showed his scars, and said, "Strike!"'

1854-55, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Newcomes, Chapter 59


Romeo and Juliet

From a tragedy, written by Shakespeare, about two young lovers named Romeo and Juliet whose deaths ultimately unite their feuding families.

Unlike cynical you, however, I do believe a Romeo and Juliet love is possible.

1996, Katherine Stone, Rainbows, page 73:

We all married—well, most of us married—for love, for some version of Sinatra and Casablanca love, for a love that would light up our lives and cast out fear, for a Romeo and Juliet love (except with a better ending), for a love that the poet John Donne once wrote "makes one little room an everywhere."

2008, Judith Viorst, Grown-Up Marriage: What We Know, Wish We Had Known, and Still Need to Know, page 6:

A pair of lovers, particularly if they are young, visibly enamored, and come from families or groups that are on opposing sides of a dispute.


WAFF

en-noun

WAFF (countable and uncountable, plural WAFFs)

Acronym of warm and fuzzy feeling(s). Reportedly coined by fans of the television series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1993-1997). First attested on alt.tv.lois-n-clark as part of a fandom glossary in January 1996.

Why wait until the series is close to an end to change their relationship, leaving fans with a feeling of having been cheated of great WAFFs (Warm And Fuzzy Feelings)?

1996 January 7, Nancy Lemieux, “Re: The girlfriend/boyfriend thing”, in alt.tv.x-files (Usenet):

Sharon remembers the WAFFs, the romance, the cuddling, the tender bits, the honesty and openness between our heroes and gives the episode an A+.

1996 March 18, Colonel X, “Re: Camping With Clark”, in alt.tv.lois-n-clark (Usenet):

I did love Dad Kent's response to her, beginning with "Dearest Lois, a love... [I've forgotten the rest, but it was a major WAFF for me :-)]

1996 May 14, Polly Robinson, “Re: Clark's disappearance”, in alt.tv.lois-n-clark (Usenet):

(countable, fandom slang) A warm and fuzzy feeling, especially in relation to a ship.

Any idiot would have to know that 99% of the fans expect the relationship to progress, but Singer's answer just doesn't give fans that WAFF that they may need after feeling so betrayed by the current arc.

1996 March 6, KalElFan, “Damage Control at TPTB Central”, in alt.tv.lois-n-clark (Usenet):

Well, I can now see why ABC did not hop on the boards here to try and quell the disquiet the 'wedding' arc caused. A) because there is no wedding in the arc, and B) The episode isn't quite the WAFF one might expect.

1996 March 16, Zoomway, “Updated Spoilers on OW”, in alt.tv.lois-n-clark (Usenet):

It's a pity that this term isn't used on atxc, as I'd describe this as a lovely slice of Moose & Squirrel WAFF (stands for warm-and-fuzzy-feelings).

1999 July 14, Harper, “Re: xfc NEW: When God Dreams, 3 of 3. by Snark, rated PG”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):

(uncountable, fandom slang) Such feelings collectively.


friendship with benefits

friendship with benefits (countable and uncountable, plural friendships with benefits)

(idiomatic, euphemistic) A platonic friendship where the partners engage in sexual activities, but do not consider themselves a couple.


pissplay

We did everything we'd written about, even pissplay. The sex was great, but she was hysteric. She didn't want me to have sex with other women; she left her husband for me. That was a real tragedy, and I learned my lesson.

2000, “Eurydice”, in Satyricon USA: A Journey Across the New Sexual Frontier:

GWM, grn, brn, 41, looking for asian or hispanic that wants to piss all over or in me. Do you live in the San Jose, CA area. Email me. Looking for fun.

1998, Herryass, “PissPlay”, in alt.sex.watersports (Usenet):


pedosexuality

The idea that women can't be guilty of pedosexuality has been found to be a myth. Sexual abuse of children by women is usually perpetrated by mothers on their own offspring.

2014, D. F. Swaab, We Are Our Brains: A Neurobiography of the Brain, →ISBN:

(uncommon) Sexual activity between an adult and a child.

pédosexualité

sexual activity between an adult and a child


pedosexual

1994, T. P. Smith, Effects of the child's relative age appearance and attractiveness on vulnerability to pedosexual interactions (Doctoral dissertation, University of Texas at Austin, 1993; published by Dissertation Abstracts International, 54(12), 6472B)

(uncommon, of an act or behavior) Being or constituting pedosexuality, sexual activity between an adult and a child.

pedoseksuaalinen

constituting sexual activity between adults and children


pedosexual

There, pedosexuals are helped by a group of volunteers after their detention. The resulting social network has been shown to cut reoffending rates quite considerably.

(uncommon) An adult who is sexually active with children.


dust settles

I tried to make amends after the dust settled.

You should let the dust settle.

when the dust settles

(idiomatic, usually with the) A heated, angry, or confused atmosphere calms down.


open relationship

open relationship (plural open relationships)

"But practically and logistically, what does an open relationship actually involve? Apparently, it's about 'being able to love yourself and others, plus healing some of the guilt and shame we have around our sexuality," says Susannah.

2003 January 26, Rose Rouse, “Multiple choices”, in The Observer:

"Ryan wants to have sex and says he and his boyfriend have an open relationship, but I feel too guilty to go all the way."

A romantic and/or sexual relationship in which the people involved are permitted or tolerated to be available to have additional simultaneous romantic and/or sexual relationships.

relació oberta

a relationship with possible additional relationships


turn the frown upside down

en-verb

turn the frown upside down (third-person singular simple present turns the frown upside down, present participle turning the frown upside down, simple past and past participle turned the frown upside down)

turns the frown upside down (present singular third-person)
turning the frown upside down (participle present)
turned the frown upside down (participle past)
turned the frown upside down (past)

Tricky Nicky always ran around town / She’s the type of girl who'll turn your frown upside-down / Five fucking minutes in the sack and you’ll return with a / Dozen roses and some weed to burn

2006, Mike Pinto (lyrics and music), “Tricky Nicky”, in Little District:

(colloquial) To become or make somebody else happy after being sad.


dacryphilia

/ˌdækɹɪˈfɪlɪə/

From Ancient Greek δάκρυ (dákru, “tear”) and φίλος (phílos, “loving”) (or dacry- + -philia).

On registration, the user is prompted to complete a 'fetish list', most of which the average layman would need a BDSM dictionary for: acts such as Dacryphilia, Cupping or Klismaphilia.

2008, The Library Association of Australia, Archives and Manuscripts: The Journal of the Archives Section - Volume 36, Issues 1-2:

Dacryphilia is a non-normative sexual interest that involves enjoyment or arousal from tears and crying, and to date has never been researched empirically.

2015, Richard Greenhill, Mark D. Griffiths, “Compassion, dominance/submission, and curled lips: A thematic analysis of dacryphilic experience”, in International Journal of Sexual Health, volume 27, number 3:

Perhaps dacryphilia, arousal by tears, is nearer to the mark -- certainly in Mandogi's Ghost this seems possible, not least because the text effects a seamless (unwounded) transition between the living Mandogi and (of course) his ghost.

2016, David Punter, The Gothic Condition: Terror, History and the Psyche, →ISBN:

The present study depicts the case of Angela M, a straight Romanian woman in her mid-twenties who has a sexual interest in dacryphilia (ie she derives sexual pleasure and arousal from crying and/or tears).

2016, Richard Greenhill, Mark D. Griffiths, “Sexual interest as performance, intellect and pathology: A critical discursive case study of dacryphilia”, in Psychology & Sexuality, volume 0:

FRANKLIN: I don't know. Listen lady, I don't know what you're into-
VAN HELSING: Asphyxiaphilia, dacryphilia, sadism, masochism, androphilia, necrophilia, ass worship, and just overall full fledge kink, what about you?

2012, Reginald Edmund, Blacula: Young, Black, and Undead:

A paraphilia in which one is aroused by tears or sobbing.


attery

en-adj

attery (comparative more attery, superlative most attery)

more attery (comparative)
most attery (superlative)

From Middle English attery, attry, attri, ætriȝ, from Old English ǣttriġ, ǣtriġ (“poisonous”), from Proto-Germanic *aitrīgaz (“poisonous”). Cognate with Dutch etterig (“purulent”), German eiterig (“purulent, festering”), Swedish ettrig (“poisonous”). By surface analysis, atter (“poison”) + -y.

surf

(of mood or disposition) Bad-tempered; spiteful; quarrelsome; peevish; angry; hot-headed


hangry

en-adj

hangry (comparative hangrier, superlative hangriest)

hangrier (comparative)
hangriest (superlative)

A monster was described as hangry, pronounced by the aythor as [aŋgri]. When asked whether it was angry or hungry, the author replied "Yes".

1994, Jean Harkins, Bridging Two Worlds:Aboriginal English and Crosscultural Understanding, page 162:

I also get really "hangry".

2005, L. R. Parenti, Durata Del Dramma: Life Of Drama, page 98:

We're not talking about the fast-food giants or smaller chains, such as Wimpy's, both of which turn up frequently in the stripmalls that dot the Trail. No matter how hungry -- or even hangry -- you and your fellow travellers are, eschew these places.

2008, “The Great Southern Ontario Burger Trail”, in National Post:

Seriously, somebody needs to give this toddler a bottle and put him down for a nap. That baby pitches a fit when he gets hangry.

2011, Chris Haire, “I'm tired of writing about Nikki Haley”, in Charleston City Paper:

2015, Amanda Salis, “The science behind being "Hangry"”, in CNN "The conversation":

Mission Control: "Get them pizza before they get hangry. Hungry and angry!"
Astronaut: "We're hangry! Hungry and angry!"

2016, “People Pleaser”, in The Powerpuff Girls:

You know this if you've ever been hangry. You go through your day without stopping to eat, and for a while it doesn't matter. Then your stomach starts sending signals to your brain that it's waiting.

2018, Jean Chatzky, Women with Money: The Judgment-Free Guide to Creating the Joyful, Less Stressed, Purposeful (and, Yes, Rich) Life You Deserve, page 11:

(slang) Hungry and angry, especially when the anger is induced by the hunger.


first love

Could this be love?—pure, first love for a shopkeeper's daughter.

1852, Wilkie Collins, chapter 7, in Basil:

The common things are terrible and startling, death, for instance, and first love.

1906, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, chapter 10, in Charles Dickens:

(literally) One's first experience of the feeling of romantic love.

He thought how he would tell her . . . that his love for her had fallen off through his own unworthiness, and had returned to one who was in all respects less perfect than she, but who in old days, as she well knew, had been his first love.

c. 1867, Anthony Trollope, chapter 29, in The Claverings:

[A]fter I made the personal acquaintance of Mr. Thrall's chef, Anatole, I found my affections dividing themselves between him and his lordship's man Robert, my first love.

1907, William Dean Howells, chapter 13, in Through the Eye of the Needle: A Romance:

(by extension) The first person to be the object of one's romantic affection.

初戀情人

object of one's first romantic affection

He had a very strong and faithful attachment for places: Chatham, I think, being his first love in this respect.

1897, Mamie Dickens, chapter 1, in Charles Dickens—My Father as I Recall Him:

Even though he made his millions from refrigerators, radios, scalp exercisers, bed coolers and sundry other gadgets, Powel Crosley Jr.'s first love was always the automobile.

1952 July 28, “Mergers: Love's Labor Lost”, in Time:

(idiomatic, by extension) The thing, place, or activity of which one is fondest; one's most fundamental interest or attachment.

erste Liebe

the latter only when this interest started very early in life


love slave

A slave whose duties include love and/or being available for sex.


robosexual

A person who is sexually attracted to robots.


stabby

stabby (comparative stabbier, superlative stabbiest)

stabbier (comparative)
stabbiest (superlative)

Her eyes are the stabby kind, worse than long hatpins. Honest, after one glance I felt like I was bein' held up on a fork.

1917, Sewell Ford, chapter VIII, in Wilt Thou Torchy, Grosset & Dunlap:

Then I catches the eye of the stiff-necked dame with the straight nose and the gun-metal hair. No, both eyes, it was; and a cold, suspicious, stabby look is what they shoots my way.

1918, Sewell Ford, chapter VII, in The House of Torchy, Grosset & Dunlap, page 98:

Toby glittered the tears into hard, stabby looks at his father and Ma.

1974, Pamela Rogers, The Rare One, T. Nelson, published 1974, page 54:

(of a look or eyes) penetrating and hostile


doom and gloom

The economic forecast contained the usual doom and gloom.

His sister was all doom and gloom after she lost the part.

Doom and gloom abounded among copyright scholars, including many who shared Mr. Gates's basic premise—that software should be covered by property rights.

Something considered indicative of feelings of pessimism and despair.


homichlophobia

From Ancient Greek ὁμίχλη (homíkhlē, “mist, fog”) + New Latin -phobia, from Latin, from Ancient Greek φόβος (phóbos, “fear”).

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[…] as dense as the fog surrounding the house, outside through the window, sucking the crepuscular light up into the spooky mist, homichlophobia augmenting the turmoil.

2010, Bill Smith, Rant and Dawdle: The Fictional Memoir of Colston Willmott, Charivari, published 2011, →ISBN, page 390:

Thick fog rolled in and swallowed Abby whole. Unable to see her outstretched hand, she clenched her jaw to stop her teeth from chattering. Homichlophobia — the fear of fog.

2012, Scott Cramer, Night of the Purple Moon, Train Renoir Publishing, published 2012, →ISBN:

“Necrophobia—fear of death and dead bodies. There's, like, hundreds of different phobias you could have. Know what homichlophobia is?”
Sousa shook his head. “No freakin' idea.”
“Fear of fog,” the slender EMT said. […]

2012, Jon Loomis, Fire Season, Minotaur Books, →ISBN:

I responded, ... “I never knew Burl had to fear fog, or anything else for that matter.”
“Homichlophobia,” she spat[.]

2019, Steve Herndon, “Draw the Latch”, in Beyond the Periphery, Xlibris US, →ISBN:


pedohebephilia

(sexology) Primary or exclusive sexual attraction to prepubescent and pubescent children by an adult.


fly into a rage

en-verb

fly into a rage (third-person singular simple present flies into a rage, present participle flying into a rage, simple past flew into a rage, past participle flown into a rage)

flies into a rage (present singular third-person)
flying into a rage (participle present)
flew into a rage (past)
flown into a rage (participle past)

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glope

From Middle English glopen, probably from Old Norse glápa (“to stare vacantly”), from Proto-Germanic *glupaną (“to shine, gape”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰlub(ʰ)- (“to yawn, gape”). Cognate with Icelandic glápa (“to watch, stare at”), Dutch gluipen (“to sneak”), Low German glupen (“to look askance, leer”), Scots gloup (“chasm, cleft”). See also gloppen.


gloppen

en-verb

gloppen (third-person singular simple present gloppens, present participle gloppening, simple past and past participle gloppened)

gloppens (present singular third-person)
gloppening (participle present)
gloppened (participle past)
gloppened (past)

From Middle English glopnen, from Old Norse glúpna (“to frighten, grieve, look downcast”), from Proto-Germanic *glupnōną (“to frighten, cause to stare”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰlub(ʰ)- (“to yawn, gape”). Cognate with Icelandic glúpna (“to put to shame”). More at glope.

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"O Job! if you will help me," exclaimed Mary, brightening up (though it was but a wintry gleam after all), "tell me what to say, when they question me; I shall be so gloppened,* I shan't know what to answer." / *Gloppened; terrified.

1848, Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2000:

(intransitive, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To be in fear; gaze in alarm or astonishment; look downcast

A pause before the intense guy cut in: "The Word of the Day is gloppen. Verb, transitive and intransitive. … One. To surprise or astonish. Two. To be startled or astonished. Gloppen."

2006, Jeremy Iverson, High School Confidential: Secrets of an Undercover Student, →ISBN, page 59:

(transitive, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To terrify; astonish; surprise.


audiophilia

IT’S only a mild case of audiophilia, according to the professionals, but it’s causing me significant discomfort.

2008 February 21, Jason Turbow, “Put Another File in the Jukebox, Baby”, in New York Times:

An interest in high fidelity sound reproduction and equipment.


anti-Americanism

The fear or dislike of people, policies, culture or government of the United States.

antiamerikanizëm

the fear or dislike of the United States or American people, policies, culture or government


snogger

They're nearly as pathetic as those snoggers (sad, deluded morons who believe DD and GA should be together!).

2001 July 12, Caffeine Cal, “Re: *Nasty* Doggett-Haters Website :(”, in alt.tv.x-files (Usenet):

It's a bit sad when snoggers write in to the IMDB to pass on the false information that DD has "filed for divorce" from TL: […]

2002 August 27, pam, “Re: Doggett to come back to Fox”, in alt.tv.x-files (Usenet):

While I'm not a snogger (don't look at me like that!), I do think, from what little I know of them, that David and Gillian had a kind of working relationship that in some weird cosmic way must have reflected what we saw on the screen between them.

2005 June 17, Robert Cook, “Re: Speaking of "Lost"”, in alt.tv.x-files (Usenet):

(X-Files fandom slang, derogatory) A fan who believed Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny were romantically involved or shipped them together.


cry in one's beer

en-verb

cry in one's beer (third-person singular simple present cries in one's beer, present participle crying in one's beer, simple past and past participle cried in one's beer)

cries in one's beer (present singular third-person)
crying in one's beer (participle present)
cried in one's beer (participle past)
cried in one's beer (past)

It was a pleasure to talk to a movie producer who wasn't crying in his beer over what the European war has done to the picture business.

1940 June 16, Frederick C. Othman, “Here's Film Director Who Says War Helps Business”, in St. Petersburg Times, US, retrieved 2011-07-15, page 21:

He was bitter about the whole thing, but he wasn't crying in his beer.

1956 July 27, Harris Powers, “The Circus Gets In One's Blood”, in Sarasota Journal, US, retrieved 2011-07-15, page 4:

"When you win, you're supposed to drink to celebrate, and when you lose, you're supposed to cry in your beer."

2003 April 17, Ian O'Connor, “Alcohol puts a damper on fun and games”, in USA Today, retrieved 2011-07-15:

Christopher Nolan need not cry in his beer over Inception's demotion to the No. 2 spot.

2010 August 8, Richard Corliss, “Box Office Weekend”, in Time:

(idiomatic) To feel sorry for oneself; to feel sadness or regret, especially in combination with self-pity.


turn someone's crank

turn someone's crank (third-person singular simple present turns someone's crank, present participle turning someone's crank, simple past and past participle turned someone's crank)

turns someone's crank (present singular third-person)
turning someone's crank (participle present)
turned someone's crank (participle past)
turned someone's crank (past)

McGwire had said that international competition did not "turn my crank," but the players on the dais today seemed positively excited about the trip.

2000 March 26, George Vecsey, “Baseball: Mets and Cubs Are Grateful McGwire Said No to Tokyo”, in New York Times, retrieved 2011-07-16:

But it was journalism that turned his crank. He loved knowing the secrets and the gossip; he loved trafficking in information.

2003 May 25, “The Times Bomb”, in Newsweek, retrieved 2011-07-16:

[A]bsolutely nothing beats pursuing the path that truly fascinates your brain, engages your energy, and touches your soul. Whatever you do, do what turns your crank.

2007 September 4, Jack Welch, Suzy Welch, “From Hero To Zero”, in Businessweek, retrieved 2011-07-16:

Yet if you ask guys which Hollywood stars most turn their crank, you'd be surprised who their answers might be, and why.

2011 May 19, John Ortved, “Guys Confess Their Celebrity Crushes: Cannes Edition”, in www.glamour.com, retrieved 2011-07-16:

(informal) To arouse a person's interest or passion; to excite someone.


every Jack has his Jill

Everybody will eventually find a romantic partner.

طنجرة ولقت غطاها

everybody will eventually find a romantic partner

non c'è la pentola così brutta che non si trova il suo coperchio

há um chinelo velho para todo pé cansado


someone's blood runs cold

Little Oliver's blood ran cold, as he listened to the Jew's words, and imperfectly comprehended the dark threats conveyed in them.

1838, Charles Dickens, chapter 18, in Oliver Twist:

[M]y blood ran cold and my heart turned to water, for there, before the cave, rolled wolves, many and great.

1891, H. Rider Haggard, chapter 13, in Nada the Lily:

Her blood ran cold, and her heart seemed pressed in an iron vice.

1908, W. Somerset Maugham, chapter 9, in The Magician:

His "blood runs cold" imagining the wrath of Weinstein.

2004 January 12, Jeffrey Ressner, “Sundances with Wolves”, in Time, archived from the original on 2013-06-30:

Here, he read of dreadful crimes that made the blood run cold.

1838, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], chapter 20, in Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress. […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC:

"Why, it mikes yer blood run cold: they 'ang a man on the stige; oh, it mide me creep all over!"

1897, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter 7, in Liza of Lambeth, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published [1921], →OCLC:

"It just makes my blood run cold to read about it. And to think that the man who did it is still around the country somewhere—plotting other murders."

1914, Lucy Maud Montgomery, The Man on the Train:

[T]he prospect of doing hard time in an American penitentiary was about the only thing that made Pablo Escobar's blood run cold.

2009 February 24, John Otis, “Colombia's Drug Extraditions: Are They Worth It?”, in Time:

(idiomatic) One experiences a visceral feeling of fear, horror, dread, or strong foreboding.

einem gefriert das Blut in den Adern

One experiences a visceral feeling of fear, horror, dread, or strong forboding


miserabilism

From German Miserabilismus, French misérabilisme, corresponding to miserable + -ism.

Parlementary ideas invariably evinced that most thoroughgoing national miserabilism which had impressed poor Damiens [...].

2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 267:

A beautiful-looking slice of British miserabilism, “Fish Tank” traces what happens to a 15-year-old (Katie Jarvis) when her mother’s boyfriend moves into the family’s cramped flat, a story that can be summed up by the lyrics, sung by Nas, that portentously bring the accumulated bleak moments to a close: “Life’s a bitch and then you die.”

2009 May 15, Manohla Dargis, “A Less Crowded Cannes, and Perhaps a Silver Lining”, in New York Times:

Nobody will ever 'fix' the internet, just as nobody will ever fix the world. But this has never justified giving in to miserabilism about life offline.

2021, Eliot Higgins, We Are Bellingcat, page 147:

The term “performative miserabilism” has been coined to explain France’s confusing penchant towards self-cynicism.

2023 May 1, Alexander Hurst, “Has France really gone to hell? Its catastrophist discourse is at odds with the facts”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

Since he arrived there, he’s delivered a lot of words about the direness of the inheritance from the Tories and accompanied this with the warning that things are going to get worse before they get better. Can the Labour conference, which opens on Sunday in Liverpool, expect a further deluge of miserabilism or will he have some more optimistic things to say to his party and to the public?

2024 September 21, Andrew Rawnsley, Toby Helm, “‘We have done more in 11 weeks than the Tories did in 11 years’: Keir Starmer defends his record”, in The Guardian:

A tendency to take a miserable or pessimistic view on life; a consistently miserable outlook, negativity.


pussy out

pussy out (third-person singular simple present pussies out, present participle pussying out, simple past and past participle pussied out)

pussies out (present singular third-person)
pussying out (participle present)
pussied out (participle past)
pussied out (past)

(intransitive, slang, derogatory) To fail to do something because of cowardice.


nut out

nut out (third-person singular simple present nuts out, present participle nutting out, simple past and past participle nutted out)

nuts out (present singular third-person)
nutting out (participle present)
nutted out (participle past)
nutted out (past)

From nut (“(slang) the head”) + out, referring to thinking or working something out in one’s head.

[A] chronic optimistic faith in pragmatic experiment to overcome deficiencies in the knowledge of these experts (rather than set up an expensive preparatory research program) was responsible for the difficulties that immediately occurred when the factory began to produce glass in July 1962. An Auckland newspaper reporter transmitted the parochial attitude of the technical management when he boasted that the finer points of glassmaking “had to be nutted out by Kiwis on the spot.”

1965, William J[ames] Cameron, “From Adversity to Diversity”, in New Zealand (A Spectrum Book), Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, →OCLC, page 136:

On the Monday afternoon, at about four o'clock, Mervyn said, “Well, we’re doing a lot of sitting around gas, gas, gas, but it seems to me we’ve got everything there is to nut out, nutted out.[…]”

1974, Ronald Hugh Morrieson, Predicament, London: Robert Hale, published 1982, →ISBN, page 89:

In ’86 Frank helped Ian [Roberts] nut out his first contract—$26,000 a year—[…]

1997, Paul Freeman, Ian Roberts: Finding Out, Milsons Point, N.S.W.: Random House Australia, →ISBN, page 70:

An inquiry takes place and more often than not all sides of politics—I should use ‘all’ rather than ‘both’ with the member for Cunningham sitting opposite—get together and nut out something, compromising a little bit here or there to come up with a final result.

2003 November 25, Gary Nairn, “Economics, Finance and Public Administration Committee: Report”, in Parliamentary Debates (Hansard): House of Representatives (Australian House of Representatives), volume 259, Canberra: […] Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, →OCLC, page 22823:

Nutting out our own way of doing things may take some work, but we get there.

2010, Stefan Korn, Scott Lancaster, Eric Mooij, Being a Great Dad for Dummies (For Dummies), Australian & New Zealand edition, Milton, Qld.: Wiley Publishing Australia, →ISBN, page 273:

(transitive, Australia, New Zealand, informal) To find a solution (for something), especially in a group discussion; also, to work out the finer details (of something).


nut out

From nut (“(slang) crazy person”) + out.

There was also the Black political pimp syndrome where a few middle-class and bourgeois negroes got big off the people’s struggles, and then nutted out completely, joining forces with our enemies, as agents, messengers, sophisticated stool pigeons, professional confusers.

1981, Amiri Baraka, “Black America and the Afro-American Nation: The Urban Voice”, in Michael C. Jaye, Ann Chalmers Watts, editors, Literature & the American Urban Experience: Essays on the City and Literature, Manchester: Manchester University Press, →ISBN, page 156:

The day we found out George Jackson was murdered he nutted out. I was there, at Shirley Sutherland′s house in Beverly Hills, the afternoon we heard George Jackson was murdered, and he nutted out at this meeting, right there.

1994, Eric Cummins, “The Force of Imprisoned Words”, in The Rise and Fall of California’s Radical Prison Movement, Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 254:

I tried not to think about clients who were in prison without appellate hopes or anything else left but years of time in front of them to nut out. I do what I can with each case but sometimes there is nothing that can be done.

2005, Michael Connelly, chapter 9, in The Lincoln Lawyer, New York, N.Y., Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 88:

(intransitive, US, informal) To become crazy, especially with rage.


dowf

en-adj

dowf (comparative more dowf, superlative most dowf)

more dowf (comparative)
most dowf (superlative)

From Middle English [Term?], from Old Norse daufr (“deaf”) (whence also Icelandic daufur (“deaf, dull”)), from Proto-Germanic *daubaz (“deaf”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰūbʰ-, *dʰūp- (“to smoke”). Doublet of daff, deaf, and dof. Compare dove ("to slumber"). More at deaf.

Dull; flat; denoting a defect of spirit, animation, or courage; melancholy; gloomy; inactive; listless; lethargic; pithless; vapid; lacking force; frivolous.


period play

Sexual intercourse
sexual intercourse#English


roll around

en-verb

roll around (third-person singular simple present rolls around, present participle rolling around, simple past and past participle rolled around)

rolls around (present singular third-person)
rolling around (participle present)
rolled around (participle past)
rolled around (past)

Pigs like to roll around in the mud.

(intransitive) To move about on the ground while rotating and turning one's body.

I know a girl who's fun to roll around with, but can't have a conversation.

Ibanez shook out her jumpsuit sleeves. "Delta, the guy, was no great shakes; he rolled around with Lil, tried to roll me, and I put one of his own bullets between his eyes. Sorry."

2022 October 4, HarryBlank, “Drilling Down”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 2024-05-23:

(intransitive, slang) To indulge in sexual intercourse (with).

(intransitive, colloquial) To laugh very heartily.

By the time Friday rolls around, I'm ready for the weekend.

Sequels to fish-out-of-water comedies make progressively less sense the longer a series continues. By the time Crocodile Dundee In Los Angeles rolled around in 2001, 15 years after the first Crocodile Dundee became a surprise blockbuster, the title character had been given an awfully long time to grow acclimated to those kooky Americans

2012 May 24, Nathan Rabin, “Film: Reviews: Men In Black 3”, in The Onion AV Club:

(intransitive) Of a time or event: to come up; to happen.


float someone's boat

float someone's boat (third-person singular simple present floats someone's boat, present participle floating someone's boat, simple past and past participle floated someone's boat)

floats someone's boat (present singular third-person)
floating someone's boat (participle present)
floated someone's boat (participle past)
floated someone's boat (past)

I invited Lily to join us, but horror films don't float her boat.

(slang) To interest or appeal to someone; to make someone happy.


slashy

en-adj

slashy (comparative slashier, superlative slashiest)

slashier (comparative)
slashiest (superlative)

It was the first slashy story published after the threats to expose slash to the producers and actors in Starsky and Hutch.

2001, Kelly Simca Boyd, "'One Index Finger On The Mouse Scroll And The Other On My Clit': Slash Writers' Views On Pornography, Censorship, Feminism and Risk", thesis submitted to Simon Fraser University, page 156

One amazing claim to fame, though, is that very soon after this collating party at my house, Roberta published her slashy/raunchy stories in a fanzine that was called, I think, GRIP (a sendup of zines Grope and Grup) […]

2013, Jacqueline Lichtenberg, “Recollections of a Collating Party”, in Anne Jamison, editor, Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World, page 92:

As this vidder's website modestly states: "I think of this vid as my proof of how slashy these shows are. […]

2014, Kathryn Hill, “'Easy to Associate Angsty Lyrics with Buffy': An Introduction to a Participatory Fan Culture: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Vidders, Popular Music and the Internet”, in Mary Kirby-Diaz, editor, Buffy and Angel Conquer the Internet: Essays on Online Fandom, page 182:

(fandom slang) Characteristic of or related to slash fiction.


sissyphobia

Although a cultural reaction has begun to set in, sissyphobia still dominates present societal thinking which regards with diffidence most sensitivity, creativity, tender demeanor and confidingly close same-sex friendships in males.

1974, John F. Oliven, Clinical sexuality: a manual for the physician and the professions:

I have built my model from feminist tenets because, although as Doyle (1983), Herek (1987) and others have noted, sissyphobia is derived via projection from both misogyny and from homophobia[…]

1993, Sue Wilkinson, Celia Kitzinger, Heterosexuality: a feminism and psychology reader, page 164:

Rather than merely producing a simulacrum of past decades, however, this synthetic utopia rewrites the Israeli masculinity and effeminates the cultural national agenda in regard to the politics of effeminacy, sissyness, and sissyphobia […]

2009, Temple University. School of Communications and Theater, Communication abstracts (volume 32, issue 1)

A prevailing negative reaction towards men who act in a feminine way.

plomafòbia

negative attitude towards men who act in a feminine way


bare one's soul

en-verb

bare one's soul (third-person singular simple present bares one's soul, present participle baring one's soul, simple past and past participle bared one's soul)

bares one's soul (present singular third-person)
baring one's soul (participle present)
bared one's soul (participle past)
bared one's soul (past)

“[…] But the world might guess it; and I will not bare my soul to their shallow, prying eyes. My heart shall never be put under their microscope.[…]”

1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter I, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London, New York, N.Y., Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC, page 16:

"Must a Romany bare his soul before a stranger?" replied Rhodo. . . . Must the secret of the dead be spoken before the robber of the dead—"

1916, Gilbert Parker, chapter 26, in The World For Sale:

Her thoughts wandered about among the various friends whose judgment might serve at this crisis to clear her own thoughts. . . . No, she could not bare her soul to the bishop.

1916, Kathleen Norris, chapter 3, in The Heart of Rachael:

Duritz's vocals are more anguished and torn than ever; he's as emotionally naked as a daytime talk-show guest, baring his soul and searching for empathy.

1996 October 21, Christopher John Farley, “Music: First-Class Flyers”, in Time:

(idiomatic) To reveal one's innermost feelings and thoughts, especially concerning one's doubts, regrets, or flaws; to tell one's personal secrets to others.


friggatriskaidekaphobia

From Frigga (an English variant of Old Norse Frigg, the Norse goddess for whom Friday was named) + triskaideka- + -phobia.

The fear of Friday the thirteenth, or friggatriskaidekaphobia, takes the thirteen superstition to a whole new level.

2012, R. W. A. Mitchell, Ask a Little-Learn a Lot: How Questions Change Everything, iUniverse, published 2012, →ISBN, page 90:

Friggatriskaidekaphobia is probably the most common superstition in the United States; according to researchers, it affects 17 to 21 million people.

2013, Sara Latta, Scared Stiff: Everything You Need to Know About 50 Famous Phobias, Zest Books, published 2013, →ISBN, page 186:

So I started Googling, and I found some interesting information about “friggatriskaidekaphobia.” (That's the actual term for the condition of the fear of Friday the thirteenth. […]

2013, Rachel Wise, Breaking News, Simon Spotlight, published 2013, →ISBN, page 2:

Friday the thirteenth
Friday the thirteenth


shpilkes

Borrowed from Yiddish שפּילקעס (shpilkes, “needles”), ultimately from a Slavic term such as Polish szpilka, which comes from Italian spilla, from Late Latin spīnula (“little thorn”).

This job interview tomorrow gives me shpilkes.

A state of impatience, agitation, and/or anxiety.


moonling

From moon + -ling. Compare moon-related origins of lunacy and lunatic.

The sky was not quite as blue as her—Thunderation, he was no moonling!

2011, Barbara Metzger, A Suspicious Affair:

Remaining there long enough to hear Those words that moonling longs to hear...I love you

2013, Zara Borthwick, Nicholas Arnold, Wonderful, page 55:

Here he was, reputed to be a rake among rakes, but he discovered, where Thea was concerned, he was as vulnerable and uncertain as the greenest moonling in love for the first time.

2017, Shirlee Busbee, Swear by Moonlight:

(archaic or poetic) One who is lovesick; one who moons over a beloved.

A shy moonling hangs on the suit of an astronaut and is taken back to earth.

1981, Ruth Beall Heinig, Lyda Stillwell, Creative Drama for the Classroom Teacher, page 248:

For a given walking speed, will an earthling astronaut or a moonling do less, equal, or more work when taking a stroll on the Moon, and by what factor?

2010, Michael M. Domach, Introduction to Biomedical Engineering, page 204:

This, together with the 'balloon manufactured entirely of dirty newspaper' in which the dwarf/moonling descends at the tale's opening, points to some self-referential satire on behalf of Poe, a newspaperman himself.

2016, Adam Roberts, The History of Science Fiction, page 142:

(science fiction) Someone from the Moon.


chirk

en-adj

chirk (comparative chirker or more chirk, superlative chirkest or most chirk)

chirker (comparative)
more chirk (comparative)
chirkest (superlative)
most chirk (superlative)

From Middle English chirken, cherken, charken, from Old English ċearcian (“to chatter, creak, crash”), from Proto-West Germanic *krakōn, from Proto-Germanic *krakċną (“to make a sound, crack”). Doublet of chark. Related also to crake, crack.

inh

(colloquial, US, chiefly New England) lively; cheerful; in good spirits


fuff

en-verb

fuff (third-person singular simple present fuffs, present participle fuffing, simple past and past participle fuffed)

fuffs (present singular third-person)
fuffing (participle present)
fuffed (participle past)
fuffed (past)

cats fuffing and fighting

1828, Mansie Waunch, The Life of Mansie Wauch, Tailor in Dalkeith:

(dialect, transitive, intransitive) To puff.


days of wine and roses

From the 1896 poem "Vitae Summa Brevis" by Ernest Dowson.

A bygone era of innocence and simplicity, especially youth


gliff

Compare Middle English glyffen (“to give a glancing look; to become startled or frightened”).

cog

(UK, Scotland, dialect) A sudden fright.


lactophilia

(paraphilia) a sexual fetish for lactating breasts and breastfeeding


eldning

From Middle English elning, elnung, from Old English ellnung, elnung (“encouragement, comfort, consolation, emulation, hot emulation, zeal, envy”), from elnian (“to emulate, endeavor to be equal, be zealous, strive with zeal after another, make strong, strengthen, comfort oneself, gain strength”) (compare Old English ellen (“zeal, strength, power, vigor, valor, courage, fortitude, strife, contention”)), equivalent to elne + -ing. Cognate with Scots eldning (“jealousy”).

(rare, obsolete, UK, Scotland, dialectal) Envy; jealousy; suspicion.


femslash

The demographics of femslash are a little more complicated than regular slash; stories are written by straight and lesbian women and sometimes straight men.

2005, Phyllis M. Japp, Mark Meister, Debra K. Japp, Communication Ethics, Media & Popular Culture, page 178:

One of the driving forces behind slash and femslash is the pervading heterosexism of commercial media – if television will not give us the due proportion of same-sex eroticism we are entitled to expect, then we will make it for ourselves.

2010, Stacey Abbott, The Cult TV Book, page 245:

The point of slash is that the orientation of one or more canonical characters is changed, which is why slashing is strongest in fandoms where the source parades heteronormativity or machismo. Kirk/Spock, Bodie/Doyle, Aragorn/Boromir, Darcy/Bingley and Harry/Snape stories all slash their canons, but a story featuring, say, Sebastian Flyte and Anthony Blanche in bed would not be slash, nor would a relationship between two lesbian characters in The L Word qualify as femslash.

2013, John Lennard, London Review of Books, letter, vol. 35, no. 6:

(fandom slang) Slash fiction that focuses on romantic and/or sexual relationships between female characters.


Arabophobia

Fear, hate, or dislike of Arabs and their culture


Negrophobia

‘But,’ says Gilroy, ‘negrophilia and negrophobia can be intertwined. [Colin] MacInnes seems to have imprisoned black people in his exotic conceptions of their blackness. […]’

2007 April 14, Ed Vulliamy, quoting Paul Gilroy, “Absolute MacInnes”, in The Guardian:

(somewhat derogatory) The fear, hate, or dislike of black people of any descent, usually Africans.

negerphobie

the fear, hate or dislike of black people


MAP

en-noun

MAP (countable and uncountable, plural MAPs)

minor-attracted person
minor-attracted person#English

(euphemistic) Initialism of minor-attracted person.


straight as an arrow

(simile, by extension) Having no homosexual desires or thoughts; completely heterosexual.


frabbit

en-adj

frabbit (comparative more frabbit, superlative most frabbit)

more frabbit (comparative)
most frabbit (superlative)

When last I went she was so frabbit with me, that I really thought she wished I'd keep away.


galsome

galsome (comparative more galsome, superlative most galsome)

more galsome (comparative)
most galsome (superlative)

galsome bitternesse

1633, Thomas Morton, A Discharge of Five Imputations of Mis-Allegations:


meet cute

Claudette Colbert
Ernst Lubitsch
Gary Cooper

Accidentally coined by German-American film director Ernst Lubitsch (1892–1947), who had difficulty speaking English, to describe the encounter between the characters played by Claudette Colbert and Gary Cooper in the 1938 film Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife.

If this is a distortion of reality, it is a knowingly utopian gesture, and the wit of such conceits lies in placing in tension the ideal with the real and so being more than a series of fancy ‘meet cutes’: […]

1989, Bruce Babington, Peter William Evans, Affairs to Remember: The Hollywood Comedy of the Sexes, Manchester, New York, N.Y.: Manchester University Press, →ISBN, page 11:

The hunt for love saturates Western culture. […] Romantic comedies have characters discover one another serendipitously, called "meet-cutes." The lead clumsily spills a drink on his future love interest, setting off a chain of events to love. Meet-cutes affirm the idea that possibility is all around us: love can happen anywhere, at anytime, and with anyone.

2013, Jaime Woo, “How to Find Love on Grindr (if You Hafta)”, in Meet Grindr: How One App Changed the Way We Connect, Canada: [Lulu.com], →ISBN, page 108, column 1:

In some respects, it might be too faithful to the genre it savages; as in many real rom-coms, the energy flags during the plot’s backstretch, and audiences may share the drifting interest of Kyle (Bill Hader) and Karen (Ellie Kemper), who come to regret ever asking Joel and Molly to chronicle their meet-cute.

2014 June 26, A. A. Dowd, “Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler Spoof Rom-com Clichés in They Came Together”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2017-12-07:

When Wade first crosses paths with Art3mis (Olivia Cooke), the ass-kicking fellow “gunter” (or egg hunter) with whom he becomes infatuated, the pair’s meet cute is predicated on the swapping of favorite pop-culture quotes.

2018 March 26, A. A. Dowd, “Steven Spielberg Finds Fun, and maybe even a Soul, in the Pandering Pastiche of Ready Player One”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2018-05-31:

Café Pick Me Up was a cosy little place with a low pressed-metal ceiling, crammed full of tiny tables, with French cafe chairs and mellow lighting. If you were to write a romcom featuring a meet cute, you’d set it there.

2021 December 26, Alys Fowler, “My winter of love: I was homesick in New York. The quiet Danish poet was just what I was longing for”, in The Guardian:

(narratology, informal) A situation in a film, television series, etc., in which a potential romantic couple meet for the first time in a way that is considered adorable, amusing, or cute.


brick it

en-verb

brick it (third-person singular simple present bricks it, present participle bricking it, simple past and past participle bricked it)

bricks it (present singular third-person)
bricking it (participle present)
bricked it (participle past)
bricked it (past)

The first time I performed in public I was bricking it.

I always replied with a casual and breezy ‘Iʼll be fine,’ but deep down I was bricking it.

2020, Louise Curtis with Sarah Johnson, A Nurseʼs Story: My Life in A&E During the Covid Crisis, Pan Books, page 70:

I felt in control, but regardless, when the snow started coming over and it got dark/harder to breathe, I was bricking it and I thought I might die.

2022 July 11, Harry Taylor, quoting Harry Shimmin, “British tourists survive avalanche in Tian Shan mountains of Kyrgyzstan”, in The Guardian:

(slang, vulgar) To be scared; to be terrified.


slashfic

en-noun

slashfic (countable and uncountable, plural slashfics)

(uncountable) Short for slash fiction, a genre of fan fiction.


slash fiction

slash fiction (countable and uncountable, plural slash fictions)

From slash + fiction, from the use of the slash symbol (/) to separate the names or initials of the characters or persons involved.

But Buffy has also generated enormous amounts of slash fiction. The cult television text and the rise of the Internet have both had an important aspect on the development of slash fiction.

2005, Milly Williamson, The lure of the vampire: gender, fiction and fandom from Bram Stoker to Buffy, Wallflower Press, page 169:

They analyze slash fiction (stories about romantic and sexual relationships between two male characters, some of which involve graphic descriptions of sex), and argue that the similarities between romance novels and slash fiction prove gender differences exist.

2009, Mark Bould, The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction, Routledge, page 208:

Over the years, slash writers have started dismissing as homophobic this trope of men having sex with men without identifying as homosexual or bisexual; nevertheless, much slash fiction retains the trope's underlying sentiment of true love and devotion transcending all external rules.

2009, Robin Anne Reid, Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy, page 282:

(uncountable) A genre of fan fiction focusing on romantic and/or sexual relationships between characters of the same sex (typically men).


amoret

From Middle English amorette, from Old French amorette, French amourette, diminutive of amour.


technostalgia

This isn't just technostalgia or a diatribe against what Nicholas Negroponte calls "digital obesity." The upbeat message is that the search for simplicity is a golden opportunity for IS managers.

1997 June 16, Computerworld, volume 31, number 24:

Technostalgia is about the ways in which, in the past, the future was imagined.

2006, David Bell, Science, technology and culture:

Fond reminiscence of, or longing for, outdated technology.


neophilia

neophilia (usually uncountable, plural neophilias)

LIKE SOCIABILITY, conscientiousness, or any other trait, your particular expression of neophilia has potential advantagesand drawbacks. Exploiting its strengths and compensating for its limitations begins with an understanding of your […]

2011, Winifred Gallagher, New: Understanding Our Need for Novelty and Change, Penguin, →ISBN:

On the one hand, it was certainly imbued with the desire for change (rampant neophilia). On the other hand, it argued that what ordinary people wanted — rather than what planners, architects and other aesthetic judges said they ought to want […]

2013, Jonathan Hughes, Simon Sadler, Non-Plan: Essays on Freedom, Participation and Change in Modern Architecture and Urbanism, Routledge, →ISBN, page 2:

The love of novelty, new things, innovation, or unfamiliar places or situations.


emboil

en-verb

emboil (third-person singular simple present emboils, present participle emboiling, simple past and past participle emboiled)

emboils (present singular third-person)
emboiling (participle present)
emboiled (participle past)
emboiled (past)

Emboyled, grieued, brent.

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

(obsolete, transitive) To cause to boil with anger; to irritate; to chafe.


hit it up

hit it up (third-person singular simple present hits it up, present participle hitting it up, simple past and past participle hit it up)

hits it up (present singular third-person)
hitting it up (participle present)
hit it up (participle past)
hit it up (past)

(idiomatic, informal) To develop an amicable relationship (with), especially in a sudden manner during an initial encounter.


disenamour

disenamour (third-person singular simple present disenamours, present participle disenamouring, simple past and past participle disenamoured)

disenamours (present singular third-person)
disenamouring (participle present)
disenamoured (participle past)
disenamoured (past)

Don Quixote disenamoured of Dulcinea del Tobos

1612–1620, [Miguel de Cervantes], Thomas Shelton, transl., The History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha. […], London: […] William Stansby, for Ed[ward] Blount and W. Barret, →OCLC:

(transitive) To free from being in love; to cause to fall out of love.


loveship

en-noun

loveship (countable and uncountable, plural loveships)

The act of falling in or making love; courtship.


happy little vegemite

happy little vegemite (plural happy little vegemites)

The corner grocer delivered the week′s order in brown paper bags and the bread man made deliveries every morning in his horse-drawn van. He′d give the kids buns and let you ride for a couple of stops. The iceman delivered fresh fish, rabbits and, of course, ice for the ice chest, which many people still owned rather than a fridge. I was a happy little Vegemite.

1999, Jim Keays, His Master's Voice: The Masters Apprentices: The bad boys of sixties rock ′n′ roll, page 3:

I was a happy little vegemite that night as we cuddled up in bed. I fell into a deep and satisfied sleep, content in the knowledge that all the hard work we′d put into the programme seemed to have paid off.

2003, Barry Crocker, The Adventures of Barry Crocker: Bazza, page 285:

2007, Margaret Cossey, Stories from an Indigenous perspective in the reading resources mix, and the role they play in literary success for Indigenous Australian students, Alyson Simpson (editor), Future Directions in Literacy: International Conversations 2007, Sydney University Press, page 32,
What I also learnt was that, if the new story selected for that day′s lesson was about a topic or concept familiar to the student, then the book orientation was a breeze, the running record on the book the next day was often up over the 95 per cent accuracy rate and the child and I were both happy little vegemites.

(Australia) A contented and well-behaved child; a very pleased person; often used ironically.


feeze

From Middle English fese, from the verb (see below).

All this time, they were chattering; but at last I thought, by the sound of their voices, that they must be walking away, and I never was in such a feeze in all my life, in case they should be gone before I could get up the wall ; and when I did get up it, sure enough, gone they was!

1797, Hannah Webster Foster, The Coquette, page 203:

“Don't git in a feeze, uncle Tib;—you can't help your head, I dare say;[…]”

1825, John Neal, Brother Jonathan: or, The New Englanders, volume 2, page 85:

[Crispin buys a lottery ticket and splashes out in anticipation of winning.] The next morning Violetta [his daughter] was paraded through the streets by a smart clerk in the neighbourhood[…]At the turn of the next street they met Crispin himself, with a visage of alarming length. He was fresh from the office, where they told him he had drawn a—blank!—The smart beau sneaked off in a feeze, Crispin and his goods were sold out by the sheriff[…]

1828 April 19, “For the Ariel”, in The Ariel, page 205:

Why what a feeze you air in, to be sure!

2006, John Neal, Down Easters, page 134:

(obsolete or US, dialectal) A state of fretful excitement or worry.

setting up the most expedient agricolary instruments of wains, carts, slades, with their several devices of wheels and axle-trees, plows and harrows of divers sorts, feezes, winders, pullies, and all other manner of engines fit for easing the toyl and furthering the work;

1653, Sir Thomas Urquhart, Logopandecteision:

The Dean and assessors —unanimoslie condishended and agreied upon that ane compitent number of feezes be made for packing of pleding.

1674, Proceedings: The Guildry Incorporation of Dundee:

(obsolete, Scotland) A device for wedging items into a tight space.


feeze

en-verb

feeze (third-person singular simple present feezes, present participle feezing, simple past and past participle feezed)

feezes (present singular third-person)
feezing (participle present)
feezed (participle past)
feezed (past)

From Middle English fesen, from Old English fēsian, fȳsian (“to drive away, put to flight”), variants of fēsan, fȳsan (“to hasten, rush; to incite, stimulate, send forth, drive away”), of disputed origin. Doublet of faze.

A Vriday I went to winding [gloss: Winnowing], and took the Boy wi' me, to cry turr, [gloss: An expression used in driving pigs], and vease away the pigs from nuzzling in the corn[…]

1839, Mary Palmer, edited by Theophila Gwatkin, A Devonshire Dialogue, page 30:

but you Republicans are so much accustomed to this uncertainty upon many other questions that it need not feeze you at all.

But the crows and squirrels and various birds called his attention from his work at about every second stroke of the hoe, and the questions I had to answer would have feezed Agassiz.

1910, The World To-day: A Monthly Record of Human Progress, page 552:

That of itself set gossip flying, for Whitcroft, as he had said, was a talky place: but Dave knew and approved, so the evil hints with the tongue in the cheek never feesed me.

1913, Hamilton Drummond, Winds of God, page 78:

[…] but as any old fighter will tell you there is nothing more discouraging than to discover that your most effective blows do not feeze your opponent, […]

1914 October – 1916 July, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Mucker, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., published 31 October 1921, →OCLC:

Old Dunbar's heavy-lidded yellow eyes lighted on it and turned away. There was about as much encouragement in his leathery face as in my old camel Josephine's, when the gentlemen of her party think they're particularly entertaining. But d'you think that feezed Hustling Billy? He just waited.

1918 December 7, Miriam Michelson, “Such A Liar”, in Argosy Weekly, page 249:

But that did not feeze the old man; he said, “Well, we will put it in the Constitution.”

1938, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Flood Control, Comprehensive Flood-control Plans, page 953:

(transitive) To drive off, frighten away, or cause to flee or hesitate; to faze.


feeze

From Scots feeze, from Old Scots fize (“screw”, noun), from Dutch vijs (“screw”), from Middle Dutch vise (“screw, windlass, winch”), from Old French vis, viz (“vise, vice”), from Latin vītis (“vine”). Doublet of vice, vise, and withe.

der

In short, Tibbie made maist praiseworthy efforts to feeze her fingers oot o' my loof as lang as I held them fast.

1864, William Duncan Latto, Tammas Bodkin: Or, The Humours of a Scottish Tailor, page 270:

The thread that joins us baith will sune Feeze oot and snap in twa!

I can't feeze it out among these strange entanglements of circumstance and personalities.

2014, David L. Birdsall, “The Moon Past Noon”, in 4 Ergomont plays, page 277:

(transitive, intransitive, Scotland) To untwist; to unravel, as the end of a rope.


Sybaritic

en-adj

Sybaritic (comparative more Sybaritic, superlative most Sybaritic)

more Sybaritic (comparative)
most Sybaritic (superlative)

Learned borrowing from Latin Sybarīticus (“of or pertaining to Sybaris or its inhabitants”) + English -ic (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’, forming adjectives from nouns). Sybarīticus is derived from Ancient Greek Συβαρῑτικός (Subarītikós), from Σῠβᾰρῑ́της (Subarī́tēs, “(noun) inhabitant of Sybaris; (adjective) decadent; self-indulgent”) (from Σῠ́βᾰρῐς (Súbaris, “Sybaris”) + -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs, suffix forming demonyms)) + -κός (-kós, suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’, forming adjectives). The English word is analysable as Sybarite (“inhabitant of Sybaris”) + -ic. Sybaris, a city of Magna Graecia (the coastal parts of Sicily and southern Italy once colonized by Greek settlers), was known for its wealth and the excesses and hedonism of its inhabitants.

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[S]he, for whom attendant maidens had smoothed the Sybaritic sheet of finest texture, […]

1840, F[rederick] M[arryat], “How to Write a Romance”, in Olla Podrida. […], volume III, London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, […], →OCLC, page 252:

Alternative letter-case form of sybaritic (“of or having the qualities of a sybarite (“a person devoted to luxury and pleasure”); dedicated to excessive comfort and enjoyment; decadent, hedonistic, self-indulgent”)


Hispanophobia

fear, hatred of, hostility or discrimination against Spaniards, Hispanic (Spanish) people or culture.


rageaholic

"He was abrasive, abusive, probably a rageaholic. Popular? No, I'd have to say not."

1992, Steven Womack, Dead Folks' Blues, Ballantine Books, →ISBN:

(slang) A person with a highly volatile temper.


genophobia

The physical or psychological fear of sexual relations or sexual intercourse.


paperphilia

Maybe paperphilia really isn't so different from the recessive pinings that motivate some people to own antique cars.

2010, William Powers, Hamlet's BlackBerry, Harper, →ISBN, page 139:

The appreciation of and preference for paper.


homoflexible

Another student, who identified himself as “homoflexible,” said,“I live with straight guys now,and I definitely see the sexual tensions, which have made me very uncomfortable"

2003, The Homosexual Agenda: Exposing the Principal Threat to Religious Freedom Today, page 97:

opposite sex, it is said, but are not averse to exploring their 'gay side'. 'Homoflexible' suggests the reverse. Some men and women enjoy an even more fluid set of desires and see themselves as 'flexi-sexual'. 'pansexual', 'omnisexual'

2008, Mates and lovers: a history of gay New Zealand, page 370:

Many adolescents and young adults prefer terms such as: bi-curi- ous, fluid, hetero- or homo-flexible, open, omni- or pan-sexual, polyamorous, questioning, or queer (Driver, 2007, pp. 42-A3; Meyer, 2008).

2009, Diversity and Multiculturalism: A Reader, page 179:

I have many gay friends whom are homoflexible and many of them have had adventures with members of the opposite sex solely because they wanted kids.

2012, Jed La Lumiere, Patience: A Gay Man's Virtue, FriesenPress, published 2012, →ISBN, page 80:

Hunter was a man who was bi-curious about women, rather than a man who was bi-curious about other men. Hunter was homoflexible.

In my experience, some heteroflexible men do not test bisexual. (I should note that I have also met a few homoflexible men.)

2014, Joe Kort, Is My Husband Gay, Straight, or Bi?: A Guide for Women Concerned about Their Men, Rowman & Littlefield, published 2014, →ISBN, page 187:

Primarily homosexual, but with a limited amount of attraction to other genders, or willingness to take part in a heterosexual activity.


heteroflexible

From hetero- + flexible, probably for the near-rhyme with heterosexual.

We are living at a time when youthful attitudes toward casual sexual encounters and pliable sexual boundaries have spawned a whole new vocabulary of sexuality ("pansexual," "ambisexual," "polysexual," and "heteroflexible," according to a

2000, United Synagogue Review, Volumes 53-59, page 17:

It is a rejection of bisexuality since the inevitable question that comes up in bisexuality is one of preference, and the preference of the heteroflexible is quite clear. Here postmodern heterosexuals can envision indulging in homosexual sex.

2002, Queering Christ: Beyond Jesus Acted Up, page 232:

A “boi” describes a boyish gay guy or abiological female with a male presentation; and “heteroflexible” refers to a straight person with a queer mindset

2003, The Homosexual Agenda: Exposing the Principal Threat to Religious Freedom Today, page 31:

Dery describes Bowie as "a reverse-drag queen: a heteroflexible straight man playing an exquisitely androgynous gay."

2013 June 5, Richard Metzger, “Growing Up Bowie: Mark Dery's "All The Young Dudes: Why Glam Rock Matters”, in Boing Boing:

Let me start by saying that yes, people can be heteroflexible, homoflexible and bisexual.

2014 August 1, Joe Kort, “Are "heteroflexible" and "homoflexible" shades of bisexual?”, in San Diego Gay & Lesbian News:

If you know me, you might know I've bounced around a lot with my sexual orientation — from straight to heteroflexible to queer to "I'm not going to label myself as anything, and I’ll just take things as they come" — pun intended.

2014 September 25, Robyn Smith, “Bisexuality is real, not just indecision”, in The Independent Florida Alligator:

Primarily heterosexual, but open to taking part in a limited amount of homosexual activity.


gynemimetophilia

(dated, nonstandard, rare, sexology) A sexual attraction to trans women or to men who look and act like women.

(dated, nonstandard, rare, sexology) A sexual attraction to transfeminine individual, or trans woman, who has not had sex reassignment surgery.


zip-a-dee-doo-dah

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From a song in the Disney movie Song of the South, from “O Zip a duden duden duden zip a duden day”, chorus to an old minstrel song “Zip Coon” popularized by George Washington Dixon

Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay, / My oh my, what a wonderful day / Plenty of sunshine headin' my way / Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay

1946, “Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah”, Ray Gilbert (lyrics), Allie Wrubel (music):

Zip-a-dee-doo-dah! What a treat this movie was for kids and adults alike.

1990 March, Susan Sackett, The Hollywood Reporter Book of Box Office Hits, New York: Billboard Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL, page 60:

If the newspapers and broadcasts are blaring “Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, Zip-a-dee-a/My, oh my, what a wonderful day” over and over, there’s a tendency to go down the road humming that tune, too, because you can’t get it out of your head. Are business conditions good? Zip-a-dee-doo-dah!

2000, Jim Hightower, If the Gods Had Meant Us to Vote They Would Have Given Us Candidates, New York: HarperCollins, →ISBN, →OL:

"Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah," Kate said. "This is better." She held her half-empty glass up.

2004 March 17, Donley Watt, Dancing With Lyndon, Fort Worth: TCU Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL, page 135: