wiki

Etymology tree
Proto-Polynesian *witi
Hawaiian wiki
Hawaiian wikiwikider.
English wiki
First appearance in 1995 in PC Week. Abbreviated from WikiWikiWeb, from Hawaiian wikiwiki (“quick”) + English web.

etymon

A collaborative website which can be directly edited merely by using a web browser, often by anyone who has access to it.


wiki

en-verb

wiki (third-person singular simple present wikis, present participle wikiing, simple past and past participle wikied)

wikis (present singular third-person)
wikiing (participle present)
wikied (participle past)
wikied (past)

To get an understanding of the topics, he quickly went online and wikied each one.

I tore through his collection wikiing any plot points that I missed learning the importance of the players of the DC universe

2008 December 1, GeekDad, “Son of a Geek: Comics and Growing Up the DC Way”, in Wired News:

Her English is no better than my Portuguese, but I wikied 'influenza' in Portuguese and it came up with 'gripe'

2009 June 18, Lizz Holmans, “Janus”, in uk.rec.sheds (Usenet):

I did research on the internet and found out so. I “wikied” it.

(transitive, intransitive) To research on Wikipedia or some similar wiki.

The history of wikied novels isn't pretty (Penguin Books never published the gobbledygook that was "A Million Penguins"), and no one has dared wiki a jazz song.

2009 October 19, “Cooking Consensus: Will Wiki Work in the Kitchen?”, in Time, archived from the original on 2011-06-04:

(transitive) To participate in the wiki-based production of.


blog

→ Bulgarian: блог (blog)

→ Catalan: blog

→ Czech: blogovat

→ Danish: blogge

tooltip

reshaped by analogy or addition of morphemes

→ Dutch: blog, ⇒ bloggen

→ Faroese: blogga

→ Finnish: blogata

→ French: bloguer

→ German: Blog

→ Hungarian: blogol

→ Icelandic: blogga

→ Italian: blog, ⇒ bloggare

→ Macedonian: блог (blog)

→ Polish: blog

desc

→ Portuguese: blogue, blog (unadapted spelling)

→ Russian: блог (blog)

→ Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: бло̀г

Latin: blòg

→ Spanish: blog, ⇒ bloguear

→ Swahili: blogu

→ Thai: บล็อก (blɔ́k)

→ Turkish: blog

→ Yoruba: búlọ́ọ̀gù

Rebracketing of weblog. The Oxford English Dictionary says the shortened word was coined 23 May 1999 and references the "Jargon Watch" article in an issue of an online magazine which attributes the shortening to Peter Merholz. The form blog is now so much more common than weblog that some misspell the latter as webblog, as if from web + blog.

So you see, the blog has been around since the beginning of the web; that is how basic the concept is. Today's blogs, and the activity of blogging, have taken on more meaning, but the concept of it all is still very simple and rooted in the beginning and intentions of the web itself.

2002, Biz Stone, chapter 1, in Blogging: Genius Strategies for Instant Web Content, Indianapolis: New Riders Pub., →ISBN, page 4:

Have you tried these, darling? They’re tempura zucchini flowers. Japanese-Italian fusion! My own invention. Shall I photograph it? We can put it on our blog.

2012, Zadie Smith, NW, London: Penguin Books, published 2013, →ISBN, page 150:

(Internet) A website that allows users to reflect, share opinions, and discuss various topics in the form of an online journal, sometimes letting readers comment on their posts. Most blogs are written in a slightly informal tone (personal journals, news, businesses, etc.)


forum

→ Italian: forum

→ Korean: 포럼 (poreom)

From Latin forum (“public market place, forum”). Doublet of fuero.

der

Trish was an admin on three forums, and had no trouble at all when it came to moderating them.

(Internet) An Internet message board where users can post messages regarding one or more topics of discussion.


IMDb

(initialism) The Internet Movie Database, a website that documents movies and television shows.


Wiki

Wiki is where I go to research facts about Asian culture.


Google

Misspelling of googol (“one followed by a hundred zeros”), alluding to the site's purpose of providing easy access to vast amounts of information.

(trademark) A particular Internet company.


link farm

Coordinate term: content farm

(computing) A website containing many hyperlinks, especially one designed to increase the index ranking of other websites to search engines.


Yahoo!

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According to Encyclopedia Britannica, the name itself is an acronym for “Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle”, incorporated 1995. However, other sources claim the main inspiration by founders Jerry Yang and David Filo originates from Yahoo, the race of barbaric beings from the Jonathan Swift novel Gulliver's Travels (perhaps with a semantic notion of strongly exploring the then-"wild" late 90s Internet), thence the acronym apparently being a backronym. Also compare Etymology 2 of yahoo; the exclamation point was supposedly added to "strengthen" the trademark.

(Internet, trademark) A web portal and search engine located at yahoo.com.

David Filo
Encyclopedia Britannica
Gulliver's Travels
Jerry Yang
Jonathan Swift
Yahoo!


shock site

A website intended to offend or shock, containing frightening and/or distasteful content of a pornographic, scatological, or grotesquely violent nature. In most cases, it displays a particular picture most prominently; some shock sites also show animations or image galleries.


Wikipedia

Etymology tree
Proto-Polynesian *witi
Hawaiian wiki
Hawaiian wikiwikider.
English wikiblend.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁en-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁en-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Ancient Greek ἐν (en)
Ancient Greek ἐν- (en-)
Proto-Indo-European *kʷel-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷékʷlos
Ancient Greek κύκλος (kúklos)
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Ancient Greek -ιος (-ios)
Ancient Greek ἐγκύκλῐος (enkúklios)
Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w-der.
Proto-Hellenic *pā́wits
Ancient Greek παῖς (paîs)
Ancient Greek -εύς (-eús)
Ancient Greek -εύω (-eúō)
Ancient Greek παιδεύω (paideúō)
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Ancient Greek -ία (-ía)
Ancient Greek παιδείᾱ (paideíā)
Ancient Greek ἐγκύκλιος παιδείᾱ (enkúklios paideíā)der.
New Latin encyclopaedīabor.
English encyclopediablend.
English Wikipedia
Blend of wiki + encyclopedia, coined by Larry Sanger in 2001.

etymon

In August 2009, Wikipedia announced that it planned a move that many saw as a step away from its freewheeling ethos of anyone can edit.

Wikipedia mounted a 24-hour protest starting at midnight by converting their English page to a shadowy black background and warning readers that "the U.S. Congress is considering legislation that could fatally damage the free and open Internet."

(metonymically) The community that develops Wikipedia.


myspace

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From the social networking site MySpace.

Why did you delete your myspace?

(Internet slang) One's profile on the MySpace website.


imageboard

An imageboard is a type of posting board centered around the posting of images. A very famous imageboard is 4chan.org.

2014, Jessica L. Beyer, Expect Us: Online Communities and Political Mobilization, Oxford University Press, →ISBN:

The concept for Anonymous began when American-run imageboard 4chan, a website created in 2003 for sharing images with accompanying comments, followed in the footsteps of the Japanese imageboard 2channel by allowing an anti-signup system where comment posters could remain anonymous.

2018, Barney Warf, The SAGE Encyclopedia of the Internet, SAGE, →ISBN:

(Internet) A type of message board that revolves around the posting of images, with optional associated text, often characterized by the near lack of moderation and by the freedom to discuss any topic.


TGP

(Internet) Initialism of thumbnail gallery post, a website that links to many galleries (of e.g. pornography) and provides a thumbnail image of each.


Facebook

en-verb

Facebook (third-person singular simple present Facebooks, present participle Facebooking, simple past and past participle Facebooked)

Facebooks (present singular third-person)
Facebooking (participle present)
Facebooked (participle past)
Facebooked (past)

Facebook me the details later.

(transitive) To send a message or leave a comment on Facebook.


YouTube

/ˈjʉː.tʃʉːb/

Website name, from a compound of you + tube (“North American colloquial term for television”), implying that users (you) may submit their own television (tube) content.

com+

Alternative form: (abbreviation) YT


YouTube

/ˈjʉː.tʃʉːb/

None of this is to suggest that academic libraries should turn their websites into a YouTube or Facebook in which our user communities would create all the content,[…]

2007, Steven J. Bell, John D. Shank, Academic librarianship by design:

There is all kinds of stuff that people post there- some of it is entertaining, some is actually useful as a template for studying or for business...it is sort of like a YouTube for documents.

(neologism) Any website that allows users to upload content, particularly YouTube itself.

在線視頻網站

any website that allows users to upload content


YouTube

en-verb

YouTube (third-person singular simple present YouTubes, present participle YouTubing, simple past and past participle YouTubed)

YouTubes (present singular third-person)
YouTubing (participle present)
YouTubed (participle past)
YouTubed (past)

/ˈjʉː.tʃʉːb/

Inquiry elicited that he was a pop singer. I YouTubed him, revealing another ghastly microphone-gripping, anguished nasal wailer.

2015 April 21, Bob Jones, “Appetite for quirky fulfilled”, in Wanganui Chronicle:

If you don't know me, YouTube me, because soon the whole world is going to know me.

2017 July 20, Sammy Guevara, Impact Wrestling:

(transitive) To search for and view on YouTube.


Napster

Named after Napster, a file-sharing system (not itself a website) that facilitated the copying of copyrighted MP3 audio files, itself named after a nickname of its creator Shawn Fanning, referring to his nappy-textured hair; hence nap + -ster.

(Internet) Any website that facilitates free distribution of data.


wedsite

A website dedicated to sharing information about a particular wedding.


Wiktionary

→ Esperanto: Vikivortaro (calque)

→ Finnish: Wikisanakirja (calque)

desc

→ Greek: Βικιλεξικό (Vikilexikó) (calque)

וִיקִימִלּוֹן

→ Hebrew: וִיקִימִלּוֹן (vikimilón) (calque)

→ Irish: Vicífhoclóir (calque)

/ˈwɪk.ʃəˌnɛə.ɹi/

Etymology tree
Proto-Polynesian *witi
Hawaiian wiki
Hawaiian wikiwikider.
English wikiblend.
Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ-
Proto-Indo-European *déyḱti
Proto-Italic *deikō
Latin dīcō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Italic *-tjō
Latin -tiō
Latin dictiō
Latin -ārium
Medieval Latin dictiōnāriumlbor.
Middle English dixionare
English dictionaryblend.
English Wiktionary
Blend of wiki + dictionary.

etymon

The site was brought online in English on December 12, 2002; on March 29, 2004, the first non-English Wiktionaries were initiated in French and Polish. Wiktionaries in over 200 languages now exist, and more than 100 have more than 100 definitions.

2008, Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, Ben Yates, “Wikimedia Commons and Other Sister Projects”, in How Wikipedia Works: And How You Can Be a Part of It, San Francisco, Calif.: No Starch Press, →ISBN, page 430:

A particular version of this dictionary project, written in a certain language, such as the English-language Wiktionary (often known simply as the English Wiktionary).

Wikiwoordeboek

the collaborative project; a particular version of this project written in a certain language

Wikizziunariu m (italianized spelling adopted for the relative project)


about page

a type of web page commonly seen on websites,containing general information about the person or organization that is responsible for the website in question, usually a description of the site's history and mission or purpose.


Twitter

From twitter (“to utter a succession of chirps”).

(trademark) An online social networking service that enables users to send and read short messages (280 characters; originally 140); officially known as X since 2023.


Twitter

I've lost the password to my Twitter.

(Internet, informal) A user account belonging to the above service.

There were, of course, many Twitters existing in parallel: Politics Twitter, Sports Twitter, Black Twitter, Weird Twitter. But Twitter and TV went together like extreme weather and marine predators.

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

(Internet, informal, usually in combination) A community on Twitter.


Twitter

en-verb

Twitter (third-person singular simple present Twitters, present participle Twittering, simple past and past participle Twittered)

Twitters (present singular third-person)
Twittering (participle present)
Twittered (participle past)
Twittered (past)

2009 March 2, Justin Rebello, “Eight top-notch tips for the Twittering attorney"”, in Wisconsin Law Journal, retrieved 2009-03-02:

2009 February 23, MSNBC, “Stars can’t stop Twittering at Oscars, parties”, in Access Hollywood, retrieved 2009-03-02:

(transitive, intransitive, Internet, sometimes proscribed) To tweet; to post an update to Twitter.


Mumsnetter

So keen are politicos to woo Mumsnetters that Gordon Brown did an online chat with the site a short while ago, and David Cameron is due to follow suit tomorrow.

2009 November 18, Helen Pidd, “Queen's Speech gets the Mumsnet treatment”, in The Guardian:

(Internet) A member of the Mumsnet parenting web site.


Instagram

/ˈɪnstəɡɹæm/

Trade name. Blend of instant + telegram. By surface analysis, insta- + -gram.

According to a survey commissioned by the credit card company Barclay, 9 percent of shoppers in Britain admitted to buying clothes online for Instagram. After posting pictures of themselves wearing the item online, they return it.

2019 September 25, Kendra Pierre-Louis, “How to Buy Clothes That Are Built to Last”, in New York Times:

Carla's got a boyfriend / I spotted him on Instagram / Followed him about a bit

2020, “Carla's got a boyfriend”, in The Night Chancers, performed by Baxter Dury:

(Internet) An online photo- and video-sharing social networking service, originally designed to mimic old-fashioned instant cameras.

insta-

instant; long predates Insta; likewise productive of compounds, and ultimately cognate, but essentially homonymic


Wikidata

A free-content, multilingual, online knowledge base and wiki run by the Wikimedia Foundation.


Pit of Voles

pit + of + voles, from the site's reputation in fandom as being filled with amateurish and poorly-written stories.

[…] I have comparatively little spare time compared to what I'd like, and what fanfiction reading I've been doing has tended to be in the less ugly depths of the Pit of VOles.^([sic])

2009 January 4, The Wanderer [username], “Re: AFSM Purpose? (was Re: Tokyo Trip Photos)”, in alt.fan.sailor-moon (Usenet):

This was my utter last choice as a posting avenue, because it's such an incredible pain in the butt to post here, compared to anywhere else, whether it's LJ, my website, a messageboard or even the Pit of Voles.

2009 March 3, KKGlinka [username], “Re: Not Quite Off-Topic: ASC and the ASC Awards”, in alt.startrek.creative (Usenet):

And in the ultimate case of inception-ism, the Pit of Voles is already up to 24 submissions of _Fangirl_ fanfic. Haven't checked Archive of Our Own yet... :-P

2014 January 21, Chrysti Cat, “Re: FANGIRL by Rainbow Rowell”, in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet):

(fandom slang, derogatory) The online fan fiction archive FanFiction.net.


wiktionary

However, with the increase in free resources like wiktionaries, or the increase in the number of translated materials available on the Internet

2011, Zygmunt Vetulani, Human Language Technology. Challenges for Computer Science:

PanLex draws on various lexical resources, including dictionaries, wiktionaries, glossaries, lexicons, word lists, terminologies, thesauri, wordnets, ontologies, vocabulary databases, namedentity resources, and standards

2011, Nikolas Coupland, The Handbook of Language and Globalization:

This lower bound is logically determined – a wiktionary with fewer entries could never provide a full IDS list – and not meant to be realistic. We do not know how big a wiktionary has to be in order to provide, say, 75% of an IDS list, but it is likely that several thousands of entries are required for this.

2013, Lars Borin, Anju Saxena, Approaches to Measuring Linguistic Differences, page 297:

Any online lexicon resembling Wiktionary.


Pravda

Borrowed from Russian Правда (Pravda, literally “The Truth”).

bor+

These figures indicate that there must have been considerable wastage in the past; indeed Pravda said that “no deviation from these standards is to be permitted, however slight, and it is the duty of Party workers in factories to exercise their rights of supervision to eliminate waste.”

1949 April, John Baker White, “How's Business in Russia?”, in The Atlantic:

The official newspaper of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and successor papers.


FaceSpace

A blend of the names of the well-known social networks Facebook and Myspace.

He could contact the administrators of FACEspace to have the page removed and he could also contact the police to have them deal with the situation.

2010, Bullying in a Cyber World :-), volume 4, R.I.C. Publications, →ISBN, page 24:

This fast-paced video gives you a glimpse of office workers using smartphones, computers, and other technologies on the job.[…] Who is using “FaceSpace” and why?

2012, Mary Ellen Guffey, Dana Loewy, Essentials of Business Communication, Cengage Learning, →ISBN, 9, pages 136-137:

Like everyone else, I’ve been on FaceSpace for a while. Seems like everyone’s having fun.

2013, Adrian Chamberlain, FaceSpace: Orca Currents, Orca Book Publishers, →ISBN, page 1:

No more facespace. No more texting or tweeting.

2014, Elisabeth Sheffield, Helen Keller Really Lived, University of Alabama Press, →ISBN, page 201:

social networking
social networking#English


Snapchat

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(Internet, social media) A user account on Snapchat.

“I just got out of the shower,” I explained. Will pointed down, asking playfully, “Pics or it didn't happen.” “No pics,” I snorted. “No Snapchats, no video. Sorry.”

2014, Jessa Holbrook, While You're Away, Penguin, →ISBN:

(Internet, social media) A visual message sent through the Snapchat application.


Snapchat

en-verb

Snapchat (third-person singular simple present Snapchats, present participle Snapchatting, simple past and past participle Snapchatted)

Snapchats (present singular third-person)
Snapchatting (participle present)
Snapchatted (participle past)
Snapchatted (past)

She Snapchatted me all the details from the hairdresser, including a selfie of her crying when the job was totally done.

2017, Norah Olson, “5/6, afternoon”, in Before Now, New York, N.Y.: Katherine Tegen Books, HarperCollins Publishers, →ISBN, page 162:

He was probably still awake up there, Snapchatting by the light of the silvery moon.

2019, Kate Atkinson, Big Sky, →ISBN, page 100:

(Internet, social media, ditransitive, intransitive) To send a message on Snapchat.


Stormfronter

Somebody who frequents the white supremacist web site Stormfront.


Baidu

Baidu (third-person singular simple present Baidus, present participle Baiduing, simple past and past participle Baidued)

Baidus (present singular third-person)
Baiduing (participle present)
Baidued (participle past)
Baidued (past)

From Mandarin 百度 (Bǎidù, literally “hundreds of times”).

zh-l

To ground my assumption in facts, I “googled” and “baidued” the major Baidu events in 2008 and 2009.

2011, Xiaoli Li, 期待ing: From Globalization to Glocalization (dissertation), Clemson University, page 105:

This generally involves students reading the text for the main idea of the text, consulting print dictionary or online dictionary or Googling /Baiduing (one of the most popular searching engine in China) for difficult words, phrases, expression and sentence structure and figure out how they should be used properly if they can’t find satisfying answers from their print dictionaries.

2012, Chen Yan, Jiang Yuhong, “Integration of ICTs into subject teaching in pre-service English teacher education”, in 2012 International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training (ITHET), IEEE, →DOI, →ISBN:

P.S, did some baiduing, found your cool dictator book

2014 July 11, fjrp2, “Car destroyed by ukrainian artillery.”, in alt.politics.international (Usenet):

From May 6, 2014 I read online English news by Googling news of “Alibaba IPO.” Simultaneously, I read online Chinese news by Baiduing news of “Alibaba IPO.”

2016, Shuwen Li, Ethos as Dwelling: The Construction of Corporate Ethos in an IPO (dissertation), University of Minnesota, page 61:

When I baidued the keywords “剩女/leftover women” and “新华网/Xinhua.net,” a website sponsored by the Chinese government on June 11, 2019, at 11:30a.m., I found numerous reports on the leftover women on the Xinhua net.

2019, Wenjing Liu, The Implications of Science and Technology for Chinese Women (dissertation), Michigan Technological University, →DOI, pages 108–109:

(uncommon, transitive) To search for (something) on the Internet using the Baidu search engine.


Spotify

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According to co-founder Daniel Ek, "Spotify" is a mishearing from a name shouted by Martin Lorentzon; they retroactively coined its etymology as a combination of spot + identify.

An online music and audio streaming service founded in 2006 in Stockholm by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon.


TikTok

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Airbnb

/ˌɛəɹˌbiːɛnˈbiː/

Shortening of the company's former name AirBed & Breakfast, coined by co-founders Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia in 2007, who originally came up with the idea of putting an air mattress in their living room and turning it into a bed and breakfast. Equivalent to air + B&B (“bed and breakfast”).

(trademark) An online vacation rental marketplace, operated by Airbnb, Inc.


DuckDuckGo

The search engine website was founded by Gabriel Weinberg in 2008, who stated in 2009 that the name comes from duck, duck, goose.

(Internet) An Internet search engine that emphasizes protecting searchers' privacy and avoiding the filter bubble of personalized search results.


DuckDuckGo

en-verb

DuckDuckGo (third-person singular simple present DuckDuckGos, present participle DuckDuckGoing, simple past and past participle DuckDuckGoed)

DuckDuckGos (present singular third-person)
DuckDuckGoing (participle present)
DuckDuckGoed (participle past)
DuckDuckGoed (past)

(Internet, transitive, rare) To search for (something) on the Internet using the DuckDuckGo search engine.


FaCIAbook

Blend of Facebook + CIA, suggesting that the site has an ulterior motive of spying on its users, or is a tool of the US government.

All teh Important People have moved-on to FaciaBook...

2016 March 22, ah, “Friday, June 25 2015”, in demon.local (Usenet):

Parliament has used its legal powers to seize internal Facebook [FaCIAbook] documents in an extraordinary attempt to hold the US social media giant to account after chief executive Mark Zuckerberg repeatedly refused to answer MPs' questions.

2018 December 3, jgsh...@aol.com, “You Saw This? Re: NY AG agrees to submit evidence of unprosecuted 9/11 federal crimes relating to destruction of WTCs to Special Criminal Grand Jury”, in peopleofCA12 (Google Groups):

Facebook takes down Trump campaign ads for 'violating our policy against organized hate' Facebook [FaCIAbook] on Thursday said it had take action against ads run by President Trump's re-election campaign for breaching its policies on hate. The ads, which attacked what the Trump campaign described as "Dangerous MOBS of far-left groups," featured an upside-down triangle... The ads targeted the far left group Antifa, calling on Trump supporters to back the President's calls to designate the group a terrorist organization. Responding to criticism of the ad earlier Thursday, the Trump campaign said the red triangle was "a symbol widely used by Antifa."

2020 July 19, Lori Price, “Protest in Albany as NY State Bar Association Walks Back COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate Recommendation”, in I Hate Trump Fan Club (Google Groups):

(Internet slang, derogatory, rare) The social networking site Facebook.


Fuckbook

Facebook is turning into a mean horrible thing. I got more real friends in these news groups than I do on fuckbook.

2012 October 25, BuZZard, “FUCKBOOK”, in alt.countrystuff (Usenet):

For so long she's stayed away from everybody's Fuckbook pages, but now she types in Facebook. She stares at the login screen and tries to remember her username, her password.

2013, Andre Dubus, Dirty Love, page 221:

Twit and Fuckbook emerge and before long they are infected with the human race's weirdos.

(vulgar, derogatory, humorous, chiefly Internet) Facebook.


Fakebook

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Blend of fake + Facebook, suggesting that the site consists of phony, inauthentic users.

I love Fakebook, where all my fake friends hang out.
When the weather is fair my fakebook friends are there. When things
get ruff they're gone in a huff.

2010 July 22, onet...@gmail.com, “Fakebook”, in alt.philosophy (Usenet):

2016 December 16, Ubiquitous, “Fakebook - The social-media site empowers a journalism cartel.”, in alt.journalism (Usenet):

Fakebook stuck to the antisemite crap and never investigated. Just like the Justice shit system.

2018 June 1, hic...@gmail.com, “Fakebook Removes Trending Topics”, in alt.recovery.aa (Usenet):

(derogatory, Internet slang) The social networking site Facebook.


Mumsnut

Blend of Mumsnet + nut (“a crazy person”).

blend

Here’s some folks who actually know what they’re talking about, you don’t get that on Mumsnut.

2018 July 25, Hetty Spoon (@Henriettaspoon), Twitter:

Oh, and in the light of the current mumsnut discussion... I block all transphobes. Just sayin'.

2019 October 12, Annie Wallace (@anniewallace), Twitter:

Mumsnut is melting down, tee hee. "EVEN WPUK", lol

2021 March 24, Stephanie Anne Calvert (@StephAcalvert), Twitter:

(Internet slang, derogatory) The British parenting-focused message board Mumsnet, viewed as a locus of gender-critical discourse and activism.


Prosecco Stormfront

From Prosecco, a wine varietal, and Stormfront, a white supremacist website, the implication being that Mumsnet has become a radicalisation pipeline for upper-middle-class mothers (sometimes referred to pejoratively as wine mums).

Prosecco Stormfront have worked themselves up into a transphobic frenzy of utter vileness now.

2019 November 27, Banquo's Ghost (@_banquos_ghost_), Twitter:

Prosecco Stormfront aka Mumsnet had to shut down the Graham Linehan thread to moderate it because of the sheer influx of new accounts trolling everyone.

2020 June 27, Gemma Stone (@notCursedE), Twitter:

Prosecco Stormfront slagging off another cis woman, all because she doesn’t agree with their obsessive transphobic hate-cult! 🙄😖

2022 May 20, Helen (@mimmymum), Twitter:


Mumsnutter

Blend of Mumsnet + nutter (“a crazy or eccentric person”).

Mumsnutters use all kinds of euphemisms to denigrate trans women (no acknowledgement of trans people) but somehow 'cis' is a hate crime?

2018 November 17, Aimee Evelyn (@AimeeEvelyn202), Twitter:

*waves at all the obsessive Mumsnutters trawling my twitter to ‘report back’ to the terven “mother ship” for back-slaps and gossip* 🙄

2019 November 1, Helen (@mimmymum), Twitter:

Hey trans guys, did you know that you're likely to be a "trojan horse" according to Mumsnutters?

2021 September 8, Rachel the wolf (@TheWolfSpirit1), Twitter:

(Internet slang, derogatory) A gender-critical poster on the Mumsnet feminism boards.


WebMD

en-verb

WebMD (third-person singular simple present WebMDs, present participle WebMDing, simple past and past participle WebMDed or WebMD'd)

WebMDs (present singular third-person)
WebMDing (participle present)
WebMDed (participle past)
WebMDed (past)
WebMD'd (participle past)
WebMD'd (past)

There had been signs. Dana saw them in 2008, when she was away attending American University. “We would have the same conversation three times in one day,” she recalled. B. also told her she felt a tingling in her face. “I WebMD’d it, and I said, ‘Oh, she has Alzheimer’s.’ ”

2019 January 28, Lavanya Ramanathan, “Lifestyle guru B. Smith has Alzheimer’s. Her husband has a girlfriend. Her fans aren’t having it.”, in The Washington Post:

It’s like being scared of spiders and then constantly scanning every room you enter for spiders and WebMDing “spider bites side effects.” Or freaking out about the state of our democracy and studying the 25th Amendment at 3 a.m.

2020 October 11, Elahe Izadi, “The news is driving you mad. And that’s why you can’t stop devouring it.”, in The Washington Post:

And as you consulted the pediatrician and read child development books and WebMD’d your questions, you became familiar with the general time frame in which to expect many of those new skills to develop.

2021, Lea Ann Garfias, Everything You Need to Know about Homeschooling: A Comprehensive, Easy-to-Use Guide for the Journey from Early Learning through Graduation, Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, page 63:

(transitive) To search for (something) on the WebMD healthcare website.


/ˌeɪ əʊ ˈθɹiː/

/ˌeɪ oʊ ˈθɹiː/

Shortening of the standard acronym of Archive of Our Own (AOOO) to account for the three consecutive Os.

LiveJournal and AO3 rely largely on tags, whilst Fanfiction.net has genre and character filters as well as a keyword search.

2017, Judith May Fathallah, Fanfiction and the Author:How Fanfic Changes Popular Cultural Texts, page 39:

The effect of Tumblr's ephemeral timescape was further exacerbated by many Hockey RPF fans' decision to delete works from the AO3.

2020, Milena Popova, “How Tumblr's Temporal Features Shape Community Memory and Knowledge”, in Allison McCracken, Alexander Cho, Louisa Stein, Indira Neill Hoch, editors, A Tumblr Book: Platform and Cultures, page 89:

Gosh. Where on earth had that come from? She really needed to read less AO3 smut before bed.

2021, Talia Hibbert, Act Your Age, Eve Brown, unnumbered page:

(fandom slang) Abbreviation of Archive of Our Own.


Wish.com

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From the domain name of the e-commerce platform Wish, because many poor-quality and counterfeit goods have been sold on it, itself from wish + .com (created as an application that allowed shoppers to create wish lists of their favorite products before matching them with merchants).

When I sit and watch Insidious, I cannot help but smile at the Wish.com version of Darth Maul whom I am supposed to tremble at the sight of.

2021 October 29, Ellie Jurmann, “Horror Movies for Bedtime Stories”, in Post, Providence, RI: Brown University, page 5:

I feel like this concept is the Wish.com version of reincarnation.

2022, Mary Katherine Backstrom, Crazy Joy: Finding Wild Happiness in a World That's Upside Down, unnumbered page:

But ultimately, it's the Wish.com version of a David Lean epic, partway between a pound-shop Kwai and a half-decent episode of Columbo, […]

2022, John Dorney, Jessica Regan, & Tom Salinsky, Best Pick: A Journey Through Film History and the Academy Awards, page 150

(attributive, Internet, slang, derogatory) Used to denote that something is low-quality or an inferior copy.

wishes

used to denote something considered to be low-quality or an inferior copy


Myrotvorets

Borrowed from Ukrainian Миротворець (Myrotvorecʹ, literally “Peacemaker”).

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This estimate is contested by the estimates of the Ukrainian pro-governmental website Mirotvorets, which regularly publishes data of identified separatists. Mirotvorets puts the total number of Russian foreign fighters, excluding regular military, at around 50-80,000. However, there is one common thread in the numbers provided by the Union of Donbass Volunteers and Mirotvorets:[…]

2017 May 30, Kacper Rekawek, Not Only Syria? The Phenomenon of Foreign Fighters in a Comparative Perspective, IOS Press, →ISBN, page 64:

But within hours, Myrotvorets (or Peacemaker), a Ukrainian website with close ties to law enforcement agencies and hackers, “blacklisted” them in their online database of more than 130,000 names – because the plane was bound for Russia-annexed Crimea.

2019 August 27, Mansur Mirovalev, “Peacemaker: The Ukrainian website shaming pro-Russia voices”, in Al Jazeera, archived from the original on 2022-04-24:

I had asked him about the Myrotvorets (Peacemaker) organization, which hosts a database he described as a political instrument for counterterrorism in Ukraine. Launched in December 2014, Myrotvorets collects personal information about people believed to be conspiring against the country.[…]Myrotvorets and its separatist counterpart Tribunal offer concrete examples of the difficulties of researching politicized contexts like war.

2023 December 6, Ilmari Käihkö, "Slava Ukraini!": Strategy and the Spirit of Ukrainian Resistance, 2014-2023, Helsinki University Press, →ISBN, page 32:

(Internet) A Ukrainian government-backed website that publishes a running list, and often personal information, of people who are considered by authors of the website to be enemies of Ukraine.


Deezer

An online music and audio streaming service founded in 2007 in Paris by Daniel Marhely and Jonathan Benassaya.