Old East Low Franconian

In the Netherlands, Low Franconian was spoken along with Frisian and Saxon. A division can be made between Old East and Old West Low Franconian (of which almost nothing is left).

2011, Robert S.P. Beekes, revised and corrected by Michiel de Vaan, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics: An Introduction, 2nd ed., p. 29

If we went to Liège around the year 750, we would hear Old East Low Franconian in the city, north and northwest; Old Ripuarian Franconian to the east and in Aachen; …

2011, Dominique T. Hoche, Charlemagne, in: Lister M. Matheson (ed.), Icons of the Middle Ages: Rulers, Writers, Rebels, and Saints, here p. 146

(broad sense) Old Low Franconian (as distinguished from Old West Low Franconian or Westfränkisch)


canned benchmark

en-noun

canned benchmark (plural canned benchmarks)

(by extension, video games) An automated benchmark sequence built into a video game.


misstitched

en-adj

misstitched (comparative more misstitched, superlative most misstitched)

more misstitched (comparative)
most misstitched (superlative)

Once, when she returned to her historical fiction after an intense period of political activity, she called her creative work “my miserable misstitched writing” (Diary, November 13, 1914).

1994, Joanne E. Gates, Elizabeth Robins, 1862–1952: Actress, Novelist, Feminist, page 186

Here again we have the passionate love of beauty, this time beauty of form, as desired by a misstitched, gnarled, crooked stableman and odd-job man attached to a travelling circus:

2013, Timothy Rogers, Georgian Poetry 1911-22

He did not recognize its mis-stitched monograph.


LARPy

LARPy (comparative more LARPy, superlative most LARPy)

more LARPy (comparative)
most LARPy (superlative)

God I fucking hate that bot. Like it's so larpy and pathetic it fucking REEKS of only liking socialism for aesthetics

2021 April 25, “r/therightcantmeme”, in Reddit, r/tankiejerk, archived from the original on 2023-09-18

While the Civil War talk is larpy and unrealistic, it is clear that America is too polarized to ever be a properly functioning country in the foreseeable future

2021 November 19, @DarrenJBeattie, Twitter, archived from the original on 2021-11-21

Lol we're the larpiest country ever. Everyone carries guns to stores, or shows up to protest in their little millitia with guns and play armor, everyone thinks they're some kinda badass who could take the world here.

2022 February 20, “Anon hates ads”, in Reddit, r/greentext, archived from the original on 2023-09-18

People who read theory and treat Marx's word like scripture are LARPy losers.

2023 September 10, @Inkaino, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-09-18

(Internet slang, by extension, derogatory) Which LARPs (pretends to be something that one is not).


Muscle Beach

muscle+beach. From being an area on the beach where people work out and exercise, and where body builders pump iron, building muscles.

(by extension) Synonym of Venice Beach: A beach in Venice Beach neighborhood, Venice district, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, on the shore of the Pacific


sprint finish

If you need to make a sprint finish to your date or get held up in traffic, this will just add to the pressure!

2023, Hayley Quinn, Do This, Not That: Dating

(by extension) A hurried commotion at the end of a long process


bless someone with

en-verb

bless someone with (third-person singular simple present blesses someone with, present participle blessing someone with, simple past and past participle blessed someone with)

blesses someone with (present singular third-person)
blessing someone with (participle present)
blessed someone with (participle past)
blessed someone with (past)

Hey, could you bless me with some cash?

Could you bless me with a link too

2021 August 27, u/whoopscooptywhoop, “Anybody have the link to a recording of Donda listening party V2?”, in Reddit, r/Kanye, archived from the original on 2023-09-25

A random poor Bangladeshi dude come up to me yesterday and asked me for money, he wanted Indian food from this spot so I blessed him with 5 bucks. Generally people give money and keep it pushing. But the man wanted to chat, so I listened. He gave me a hug. Let's humanize us man.

2022 December 2, @DR0DRIGUEZ, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-09-25

There were a few times when YouTube can bless me with some amazing music.

2023 February 18, u/amb_7_96, “Is there any album that garnered your attention based on the cover art?”, in Reddit, r/vinyl, archived from the original on 2023-09-25

im living for these teletubbies sun yoongi povs the tour has blessed us with

2023 June 26, @fairytaegis, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-09-25

Wah gwan, Sabrina, what's it like in Mississauga? / I know you stay at home wit' momma / So can you bless me with a dollar? Don't be rude

2024 June 3, “Wah Gwan Delilah” (3:32 from the start)performed by Snowd4y ft. Drake

(slang, by extension) To give something favourable (without the implication of religious faith).


border jumper

undocumented immigrant
undocumented immigrant

(US, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) An undocumented immigrant (typically Hispanic) in the United States.

(US, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur, by extension) Any Hispanic person.


mizpah

(by extension) An emotional bond between people who are separated.


ma'ruf

Borrowed from Classical Persian مَعْرُوف (ma'rūf, “famous”).

bor+

[...] there are two kinds of Yā in Persian, namely, the Ma'rūf and the Majhūl. The Ma'rūf or known Yā is the Yā which occurs in such words as رقیب, تیر, شیر (milk), دید, پیل etc., while the Majhūl or Unknown Yā occurs in words such as خویش, تیز, شیر (lion), سپید etc.

1921, “The Unknown Yā in Persian”, in Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Poona, volumes 3-4, pages 86-87

If the stem ends in either ی-ma'rūf (i) or ی-majhul (e), the letter ج is inserted, for the sake of euphony, between the stem and the termination: e.g., from پینا to drink, we have پینجیئے, پیجیو, and پیجییگا, from دینا we have دیجیئے, etc.

1910, R. C. Busher, A Complete Urdu Course Consisting of the Essentials of Grammar, Progressive Exercises, Readinglessons and Vocabularies, Longmans, Green and Co.

Mârūf مَعروُف and majhul مَجھوُل, known and un-known. These Arabic terms are applied to the letters و wāo and ی ye. In Arabic the simple vowel sounds of these two letters are ū and ī, the sounds o and e are unknown in that language; so ū and ī are said to be mârūf, but o and e are majhūl. The majhūl sounds are sometimes called Âjamī or Persian.

1872, John Dowson, A Grammar of the Urdū Or Hindūstānī Language

(linguistics) A class of vowel used in various Arabic script languages, including Classical Persian, Dari Persian, Kurdish, Pashto and Urdu, among others:

(by extension) The pronunciation, or reading, of a semivowel or other vocalic character as a vowel phoneme that is similar to its normal phonemic value in Classical Arabic. Contrasted with majhul.


specialty crop

(agriculture, broadly) Any of various crops cultivated for, or managed and gathered for, human use (in food, personal hygiene, medicine, or decoration) rather than as animal feed, fodder, or forage.


creener

From creen (“to complain”) + -er, from Cornish krena (“to tremble”).


transatlanticism

(broadly): An ideology which advocates a close economic, political and military alliance between certain nations in North America, particularly the United States and Canada, and those of Western Europe.


Îdinist

Coined by a user of an online Romanian-learning community on Discord in March of 2022.
The word is derived from the native name of the Romanian letter î (“î din i”), combined with the suffix -ist.

(by extension) A proponent of Îdinism, a movement to promote these orthographic practices within Romanian linguistics.


deadlite

(by extension) A window that does not open


Fifth World

After the Fourth World.
The second sense was coined before 13 July 2002 by micropatriologist Cesidio Tallini.

(micronationalism, obsolete) Collectively, micronations which are advanced or developed; above the Sixth World and Seventh Worlds.

(micronationalism, dated, very rare, by extension) Collectively, all micronations.


Qassam

Unadapted borrowing from Arabic قَسَّام (qassām); named after Hamas' Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades.

ubor

(broadly, informal) Any rocket fired from Gaza.


triple-team

en-verb

triple-team (third-person singular simple present triple-teams, present participle triple-teaming, simple past and past participle triple-teamed)

triple-teams (present singular third-person)
triple-teaming (participle present)
triple-teamed (participle past)
triple-teamed (past)

(transitive, by extension) To deal with or handle a task or individual person by using a team of three people.


YAMO

Acronym of yet another micronational organisation, originally referring to an intermicronational organisation (“an organisation composed of micronations”); perhaps by analogy with yet another (YA), programmer slang denoting unoriginality, and so-called for the abundance of short-lived micronational organisations.
First attested in 2000 (see quotations), but ostensibly dates to circa 1998.

acronym

Guy, a bit of fun can be had with the HCE. I suggest you don't dissolve it just yet. I'm thinking Christian YAMO, HRE styled with Head of State Electors and terms of say... 6 months. I'll work on it some more and get back to you.

2007 August 20, Colonel Vilhelm, “Matbaa and Houland/UCE Edit”, in Micras forums

I'm just a Count, but I don't Shireroth is really interested in a YAMO or economic union. I thought this economic business was an extension of our Commonwealth with Batavia. And I was still hoping you'd recognise the Kaiser as Super-Duper-FigureHead of State. 🙂

2008 September 4, b3n|<3r|\|, “Re: Commonwealth idea”, in Imperial Republic of Shireroth forums

Hey, what's so special on this YAMO that made you all join?

2010 February 13, Peter, “Does Lykosha have an imitator?”, in List of Micronations Forum

Pikeland is gauging interest in creating a new YAMO called the Southeastern Conference of Micronations or SECμ. Membership is limited to the areas that comprise the SEC.

(micronationalism, derogatory) An intermicronational organisation that is useless, unnecessary or deficient in some aspect; used to insult, or convey disapproval of, an intermicronational organisation.

(micronationalism, potentially derogatory, by extension, rare) Any intermicronational organisation.


misweave

Maybe this is just an aberration. The misweave in the kilim which placates Allah.

Either way it wasn't much of an invitation to Reggie into the dark misweave of the material world.

2001, Stephen Beachy, Distortion, page 76

Labelle saw the duo slur into focus and initially assumed he was looking through some misweave in reality at receiving spirits on the other side: a young Indian girl crunching over the pebbles, leading a bearded man on a rope.

2013, Christopher Howard, Prince of the World: Stories

(by extension) An anomaly or aberration.


Squad

Coined by Pentagon officials in reference to the Quad, a similar military alliance.

(by extension) A grouping of the United States, Japan, Australia, and the Philippines.


ChatGPT

From chat + GPT. First attested in 2022.

(by extension) Any chatbot or AI software.


monkey show

(figuratively, by extension) Something either comical or very entertaining.


Little Ramallah

From being a diaspora community of Palestinians. From the capital of the West Bank and the operational seat of the Palestinian Authority being Ramallah. From the naming of diaspora communities and ethnic ghettos as "Little something".

A neighborhood and ethnic community in South Paterson, Paterson, New Jersey, United States

(by extension) Synonym of South Paterson (“a region of Paterson, NJ, USA”)

Paterson

(by extension) Synonym of Paterson (“a town in NJ, USA; a suburb of New York City”)


Little Palestine

From being a diaspora community of Palestinians. From the naming of diaspora communities and ethnic ghettos as "Little something".

A neighborhood and ethnic community in Bridgeview, Illinois, United States

(by extension) Synonym of Bridgeview (“a town in Chicagoland; a suburb of Chicago, IL, USA”)


schiz

en-adj

schiz (comparative more schiz, superlative most schiz)

more schiz (comparative)
most schiz (superlative)

Clipping of schizophrenic. Compare schizo, schizoid.

This all sounds a little schiz to me.

(slang, loosely, uncommon) Of a situation: odd, bizarre.


poetical justice

/pəʊˌɛtɪkl̩ ˈd͡ʒʌstɪs/

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

coinage

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


ride-along

Being a ride-along doesn't make you immune, but it takes the bull's-eye off your back.

2017, Kenneth L. Fisher, The Ten Roads to Riches

He had taken her for a dogsbody, a beta fish, a bridesmaid, a ride-along; he had looked right past her, as likely many people did.

2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 319

(by extension) A member of an organization who is more of a follower than a leader.


play pendulum

en-verb

play pendulum (third-person singular simple present plays pendulum, present participle playing pendulum, simple past and past participle played pendulum)

plays pendulum (present singular third-person)
playing pendulum (participle present)
played pendulum (participle past)
played pendulum (past)

(figuratively, by extension, obsolete) To sway from one emotion or state of mind to another.


powder magazine

en-noun

powder magazine (plural powder magazines)

(figuratively, by extension) An individual or other situation that is bound to go awry or is potentially dangerous; a tinderbox.


powder-post

(figuratively, by extension, rare) The condition of being reduced to a lesser or weakened state.


single-phase

en-verb

single-phase (third-person singular simple present single-phases, present participle single-phasing, simple past and past participle single-phased)

single-phases (present singular third-person)
single-phasing (participle present)
single-phased (participle past)
single-phased (past)

(electricity, by extension) To use such a current.


fruit-time

Thence come songs whose fruit-time will inherit Butterflies from my light-hearted spirit.

2014, Zsuzsanna Ozsvath, Frederick Turner, Light within the Shade: Eight Hundred Years of Hungarian Poetry, page 58

(by extension, figurative) The time when something is mature.


-ussy

American Dialect Society
American Speech
Benjamin Zimmer
Canadian Linguistic Association
Duke University Press
Know Your Meme
Urban Dictionary

Reanalyzed from blends formed with pussy. The first -ussy term is often considered to be bussy (boy + pussy), with evidence for the term as early as 2004. However, the -ussy suffix arguably originates in March–April 2017, when nussy (nose + pussy), thrussy (throat + pussy), and thussy (they + pussy) were coined in quick succession and popularized on Tumblr. This was soon followed by the "one thicc bih" meme around May–June 2017, which led to a huge growth of novel -ussy terms. -ussy became more prominent in 2022, resulting in the suffix being chosen as the American Dialect Society's 2022 Word of the Year.

Put my whole auntie nova ussy into this

2022 May 20, @badbrainowie, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-02-06

It should came as no surprise that people on social media put their whole effortussy into the memes and jokes.
Also arguably an example of sense 3.

2023 January 8, Maggie Baska, “American Dialect Society makes 'ussy' suffix its word of the year”, in PinkNews, archived from the original on 2024-01-14

"[It] can be a physical structure analog — like a donutussy, [with] a hole, or it can be metaphorical," Conrod explained. "So, if you're a really dedicated coffee artist and you really put your whole baristaussy into this latte, I'm expecting some killer latte art."

2023 January 11, Emily Bloch, quoting Kirby Conrod, “Language scholars decided '-ussy' was the word of 2022. Here's what that means.”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia, P.A.: The Philadelphia Inquirer, LLC, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-01-18

❗My GDF 2023 set is now out on SoundCloud! I really put my whole bass-ussy into this set 😮💨

2023 July 27, @edamamiofficial, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-02-06

put one's whole pussy into
put one's whole pussy into#English

(Internet slang, by extension, humorous) Combining with the phrase put one's whole pussy into, denoting an effort of a specified kind or theme.

and that's when through the magic of the internetussy

2021 September 2, @checkyesgnomeo, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-02-06

what in the friedussy are those???

2022 January 27, @Oliver_wine, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-02-07

Are you scared to address the absence within you? That everything surrounding you seems to be missing something? That there's this general sense of lack of something plaguing each detail of your existence, a lacking that you cannot place or name, and yet, you feel vibrating in the periphery of every moment? ¶ Don't worry. That's just the voidussy.

2022 February 28, Magdalene Taylor, “We've Reached Peak '-Ussy'”, in MEL Magazine, archived from the original on 2023-12-01

Wow, that's a funny meme you got there, I bet it's completely original and you didn't steal it from a youtube channelussy...

2022 March 22, u/Ninethethotslayer, “Ussy”, in Reddit, r/MoldyMemes, archived from the original on 2024-02-06

Though "-ussy" took off as a meme in 2022, its origins date way further back in historussy. "Bussy" — a portmanteau of "boy pussy" — has been a queer slang term for years, showing up on Urban Dictionary as early as 2004. In 2017, -ussified words had a big moment thanks to Ditty videos. This year, the -ussification came to TikTok, particularly in the comment section before becoming all but inescapable all across the internussy.

2022 December 27, Julia Reinstein, Ikran Dahir, Steffi Cao, “The 41 Most Defining Memes Of 2022”, in Buzzfeed News, archived from the original on 2023-09-28

[Michael] Dow deemed this class of words "pussy blends," a phrase that deserves its own place in historussy.

2023 January 13, Mia Mercado, “I Can't Shut Up About -Ussy”, in The Cut, archived from the original on 2023-03-12

(Internet slang, by extension, humorous) Added arbitrarily to any noun.


high command

(by extension) The leaders of any organization.


Maniwood

(abroad, by extension) The cinema of Manipur in general, no matter the language.


dope stick

Have we any other landlord? (Taking stem of narghille from RANJE'S mouth) Here! (Lifting narghille from floor) Take that dope-stick out of your mouth, and give your brains a chance.

1918, Edgar Selwyn, Nearly Married: A Farce in Three Acts, page 44

Miss Frumperts paused to extract a dope-stick from the Ambassadorial humidor, perfunctorily offering one to her guests.

1986, Keith Laumer, Retief in the Ruins, page 170

"Stick that in your dope stick and smoke it," muttered a trooper.


Imperial Aramaic

Designated imperial for the Neo-Assyrian, Neo-Babylonian, and Achaemenid Empires.

𐡀𐡓𐡌𐡉𐡀

chronolect of Aramaic (745–330 BC) used by the Neo-Assyrian, Neo-Babylonian, and Achaemenid Empires

(broad sense: sociolinguistics) The chronolect of the Aramaic language (mid-8th century–late 4th century BCE), intermediate between Old Aramaic and Middle Aramaic, that was used as a language of public life and administration in the late Neo-Assyrian Empire (from the reign of King Tiglath-Pileser III [r. 745–727 BCE] onward), the Neo-Babylonian Empire, and the Achaemenid Empire, until the latter’s conquest by Alexander the Great in 330 BCE.


Europoor

(offensive, by extension) Any European person, the implication being that all of Europe now has the living standards once associated with the poorest countries.


be left at the post

be left at the post (third-person singular simple present is left at the post, present participle being left at the post, simple past was left at the post, past participle been left at the post)

is left at the post (present singular third-person)
being left at the post (participle present)
was left at the post (past)
been left at the post (participle past)

(idiomatic, by extension) To be completely overwhelmed or dominated.


error correct

error correct (third-person singular simple present error corrects, present participle error correcting, simple past and past participle error corrected)

error corrects (present singular third-person)
error correcting (participle present)
error corrected (participle past)
error corrected (past)


memory bank

(figurative, by extension) A person's memory.


Gosfordian

An inhabitant or resident of Gosford, New South Wales


Opimian

en-adj

Opimian (comparative more Opimian, superlative most Opimian)

more Opimian (comparative)
most Opimian (superlative)

From the name of the Roman consul Lucius Opimius.

(by extension) Of or relating to very fine wines.


zero locus

(algebraic geometry, of a polynomial, or, more generally, a function) The set of points (usually in affine or projective space, but more generally in the domain of the function) where the given polynomial (or function) takes the value zero.


fluoride stare

Flat Earth
Know Your Meme
microplastics
water fluoridation controversy

Originating from a 2016 image macro on a Flat Earth conspiracy theory Facebook page referencing the water fluoridation controversy. Broader use possibly influenced by the attested prevalence of substances such as microplastics.

(by extension, Internet slang, humorous) Any vacant stare.


molly-handed

molly-handed (comparative more molly-handed, superlative most molly-handed)

more molly-handed (comparative)
most molly-handed (superlative)

(Australia, slang, by extension, now rare) Clumsy, awkward.


frame one

(by extension, slang) Immediate or very quick.


nuts to butts

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-nuts to butts.wav

Many had never ridden on a train before and were excited as children. They piled in willy-nilly, everywhere, finding room where they could. It was so crowded that some had to stand up in the aisles, nuts to butts, but they didn’t mind.

2005, Richard Lee Pulgham, The Hogs of Cold Harbor: The Civil War Saga of Private Johnny Hess, CSA, Whitmore Publishing Co., page 93

When I got down there they already had about 20 crazy fuckers packed together nuts to butts in the same cell smellin’ like fart. I was like, get me the fuck outta here.

2008, Nick Garafola, Hot Metal Boys, Cold Piece Books, page 48

De La Soul, the iconic Long Island hip-hop trio, performed last Saturday to a capacity crowd at Cervantes' Masterpiece Ballroom. It was "nuts-to-butts crowded," as my Tennessee friends like to say.

2014 March 17, Mark Sanders, “Denver fans explain why De La Soul still matters”, in Westword, archived from the original on 2024-04-25

If it had not been a weekend, the borough would have been quieter. Moreover, the morning crowd would have soon been out, and the area overwhelmed with commuters walking, biking, and driving to work, or packed nuts to butts on public transportation.

2017, William Hunter, Sanction, […], page 47

Maybe it does take a village. But what if the damned village in question is nuts to butts full of idiots? —Lieutenant Jack Rivera

2018, Lois Greiman, Unsweetened, NYLA, page 227

There's no point in arguing, they believe they are superior and anyone who doesn't live nuts to butts in an overcrowded city is stupid.

2024 June 27, @dane_berggren, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-07-21

(by extension) Crowdedly, tightly, compactly.


self-segment

en-verb

self-segment (third-person singular simple present self-segments, present participle self-segmenting, simple past and past participle self-segmented)

self-segments (present singular third-person)
self-segmenting (participle present)
self-segmented (participle past)
self-segmented (past)

The aim of the present study was twofold. First, to empirically test a novel interviewing technique whereby the witness self-segments their memory of an event into their own discrete parameter-bound ‘topic boxes’ at the outset, before engaging in an exhaustive free recall retrieval attempt (followed by interviewer probing) within the parameters of each topic box in turn. […] The WAFA method enables witnesses to impose an individual parameter-bound structure to their recall by self-segmenting the to-be-remembered event at the outset, before then freely recalling everything they can remember, following which they respond to interviewer prompts within each of these segments.

2020 March 13, Katie Maras, Coral Dando, Heather Stephenson, Anna Lambrechts, Sophie Anns, and Sebastian Gaigg, “The Witness-Aimed First Account (WAFA): A new technique for interviewing autistic witnesses and victims”, in Autism, volume 24, number 6, →DOI, pages 1449–1467

We encourage methods that promote a platform for all viewpoints, not just polarizing views, to be heard. Researchers self-segmenting into smaller, niche conferences or organizations that only highlight one perspective are a disservice to the field and have the potential to undercut public health.

2020 August 10, Dana Mowls Carroll, Rachel L Denlinger-Apte, Sarah S Dermody, Jessica L King, Melissa Mercincavage, Lauren R Pacek, Tracy T Smith, Hollie L Tripp, Cassidy M White, “Polarization Within the Field of Tobacco and Nicotine Science and its Potential Impact on Trainees”, in Nicotine & Tobbaco Research, volume 23, number 1, →DOI, pages 36–39

CBP continues to find ways to improve the entry process through the use of mobile technology to ensure it is safe and efficient. To that end, CBP has deployed a process which allows travelers to use a mobile app to submit information to CBP prior to arrival in domestic locations and prior to departure at preclearance locations. This process, called Mobile Passport Control (MPC) allows travelers to self-segment upon arrival into the United States or departing a preclearance location.

2023 October 27, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, “Agency Information Collection Activities; Revision of Existing Collection; U.S. Customs Declaration (CBP Form 6059B)”, in Federal Register, Document Number 2023-23783, pages 73867-73868

Concepts […] normally trigger associations in our minds, and individuals can have dissimilar associations when they are faced with the same concept. When used in surveys, vague concepts may have the effect that different individuals understand the same questions in different ways (Brady, 1985) and result in incomparability (King et al., 2004). Vague questions lead respondents to provide vague answers. For example, asking visitors to self-segment by answering the question as to whether they are seasoned snowboarders might introduce an element of vagueness.

2022 August 30, Andrea Polonioli, “Zero party data between hype and hope”, in Frontiers in Big Data, volume 5, →DOI

(by extension) To place oneself in a particular group, for example when responding to a survey.


kharita

(India, historical, by extension) The letter itself.


cock watch

cock watch (third-person singular simple present cock watches, present participle cock watching, simple past and past participle cock watched)

cock watches (present singular third-person)
cock watching (participle present)
cock watched (participle past)
cock watched (past)

Let people go missing. Stop cock watching

Arsenal fans spent all week cock watching us saying we’re gonna “rig the draw” only for us to get the hardest possible one (again) 😂😂😂


popularity contest

en-noun

popularity contest (plural popularity contests)

(figurative, derogatory, by extension) Any situation where a person succeeds over others based on popularity rather than merit.


simmer up

en-verb

simmer up (third-person singular simple present simmers up, present participle simmering up, simple past and past participle simmered up)

simmers up (present singular third-person)
simmering up (participle present)
simmered up (participle past)
simmered up (past)

Emotions simmered up when he saw his wife again.

(by extension) To arise as if from a steamy, simmering action.


S rank

Derived from Japanese shū (秀) + rank. S can be given as a letter grade for exceptional work in Japanese schools.

(by extension) Of exceptional quality in its class


see-through fence

en-noun

see-through fence (countable and uncountable, plural see-through fences)

(US, Philippines, by extension) chainlink fence


LoRA

LoRA (countable and uncountable, plural LoRAs)

Fine-tuning (deep learning)#Low-rank adaptation

(uncountable) An adapter-based technique for efficiently fine-tuning models.

(chiefly Stable Diffusion, loosely, by extension, countable) An adapter.


apartment house

apartment house (plural apartment houses)

Heritage House is a ten-story apartment house for seniors in the heart of downtown.

apartment building
apartment building#English

(broadly) Synonym of apartment building: any building comprising apartments.


corner up

en-verb

corner up (third-person singular simple present corners up, present participle cornering up, simple past and past participle cornered up)

corners up (present singular third-person)
cornering up (participle present)
cornered up (participle past)
cornered up (past)

(informal, by extension) to corner or be cornered (To trap in a position of great difficulty or hopeless embarrassment).


suck under

suck under (third-person singular simple present sucks under, present participle sucking under, simple past and past participle sucked under)

sucks under (present singular third-person)
sucking under (participle present)
sucked under (participle past)
sucked under (past)

Our country will be sucked under by my opponent's policies.

(transitive, intransitive, figurative, by extension) To cause (someone or something) to figuratively drown, such as by succumbing to a pressure or problem.


bob under

bob under (third-person singular simple present bobs under, present participle bobbing under, simple past and past participle bobbed under)

bobs under (present singular third-person)
bobbing under (participle present)
bobbed under (participle past)
bobbed under (past)

He bobbed under the blanket.

(transitive, intransitive, by extension, figurative) To go under the surface or edge of something.


whore up

whore up (third-person singular simple present whores up, present participle whoring up, simple past and past participle whored up)

whores up (present singular third-person)
whoring up (participle present)
whored up (participle past)
whored up (past)

He's whoring up the movie in response to notes from the studio.

(transitive, figurative, by extension) To offer or be willing to change (something) to make it popular in a way that constitutes selling out.


Bislish

(Philippines, linguistics, by extension) an informal bilingual variety of any Visayan language, such as Hiligaynon, etc, that incorporates English lexis


three-letter agency

en-noun

three-letter agency (plural three-letter agencies)

From initialisms of major intelligence agencies in the United States, such as CIA, FBI and NSA.

(US, humorous, by extension) Any intelligence agency, regardless of nationality and allegiance.


melonious

en-adj

melonious (comparative more melonious, superlative most melonious)

more melonious (comparative)
most melonious (superlative)

From melon + -ious, likely as a pun on melodious.

Only occasionally, jacketless in her customary brown or gray silk blouse and ramrod straight in her typing chair, did she reveal superb melonious breasts cantilevered over a trim waist.

1987, Thomas B. Morgan, Snyder’s Walk, page 59

But what about all those women? That awful woman with a bottom you said was melonious?

1987, Henrietta Garnett, Family Skeletons, page 26

She is clearly taking in my visible panty line, lack of melonious chest and bottom like a bagful of walnuts. I knew I would hate this bloody place the minute I arrived.

2004, Carole Matthews, The Sweetest Taboo, page 80

Or do you reconsider at, say, 65? Then you weigh up having melonious gazongas that seem to belong to a much younger lady against, I’m guessing, sad, empty bags of skin. (Or by then will you have had your face done to match your boobs?)

2012 January 7, Janice Turner, “Like the financial bubble, implants will burst”, in The Times, number 70463, London, page 25

(euphemistic, by extension, chiefly UK) Curvaceous.

(of body parts, especially breasts) Very large.

I have had several letters of complaint from the Haringey Women’s Lesbian Kalashnikov Training and Mouth Painting Centre saying that this column has been prejudiced in favour of girls with enormous breasts to the detriment of their less melonious sisters.

1991, Ed Knox, “World of Nookie”, in Men Only, volume 56, number 6, Paul Raymond, page 34

(of a woman) Very buxom; having large breasts.

Curvaceous.
Very buxom; having large breasts.


gummy up

en-verb

gummy up (third-person singular simple present gummies up, present participle gummying up, simple past and past participle gummied up)

gummies up (present singular third-person)
gummying up (participle present)
gummied up (participle past)
gummied up (past)

(figurative, by extension) To mess up or break (something), especially by making it sticky or slow.


Alpish

en-adj

Alpish (comparative more Alpish, superlative most Alpish)

more Alpish (comparative)
most Alpish (superlative)

For in the midſt of thy moſt Alpiſh waies, / when ruinous rocks did threat to end thy daies, / No doubt,thou couldſt haue wiſh:thyſelfe at home, / To liue,and lay thy bones in ſweete Odcombe.

1611, Richardus Badley, “In praiſe of the moſt obſeruant Trauel Mr. Thomas Coryate of Odcombe, and of his moſt Axiopiſticall Hodæpory”, in Thomas Coryat, editor, Coryat's Crudities: Hastily gobled up in Five Moneth's Travels, London: W. S., page k2

The country is near enough the Alpish region of Galicia and Asturias to be blessed with showers, and ample verdure is the result.

1879, James Albert Harrison, chapter XVIII, in Spain in Profile: A Summer Among the Olives and Aloes, Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Company, page 369

Ours was but a twenty-four hour visit to Santa Catalina, but a much longer visit would be needed to do it justice. Its fifty miles of circuit has much more than fifty miles of bay and cove, for the coast is indented deeply: it has innumerable cañons, and valleys, and uplands, alpish peaks and summits: a perfect climate, brilliant sun, and neither heat nor cold.

1821, John Ayscough, chapter XXV, in First impressions in America, London: John Long Ltd, page 140

"Ah, the world must recognize and respect me," she yelled and dashed out of the window to begin scaling the roof.
Upon attaining this alpish region she immediately perched herself upon the chimney top and in this regal position may be found there today.

1938 April 30, Ruth Toucey, “Zealous Zebralya or How to Shred a Toothpick Proportionally”, in The Crimson and Gray, volume XXI, number 3, page 7

By 1977 the whole main street had blossomed with domes, cupolas, gingerbreaded balconies, and other bits of alpish architecture.

1968, “The Cascade Mountains”, in Sunset Travel Guide to Washington, Lane Publishing, page 86

Good thing Joey didn’t specify the altitude of a proper, winterable mountain. I’m sure he pictured something Alpish or Rocky, not the mildly undulating Blue Ridge.

2004, Lisa Samson, The Living End, Center Point Publishing, page 111


repetition, repetition, repetition

A somewhat visual pun, repeating repetition (“the act or an instance of repeating or being repeated”) three times. Compare practice, practice, practice (“emphatic guidance on the importance of practice to learning a skill or similar”), and see also location, location, location (“locations are important”).


hamsick

(communism, Internet slang, derogatory, by extension) A supporter of far-left views or the Soviet Union.


green FN

Family Guy
Know Your Meme
NBA 2K
Peter Griffin

Abbreviation of green fuck nigga. In reference to the NBA 2K basketball simulation video game series, wherein the quality of a player's shot is measured in colours—green denoting the highest quality shot. Online Internet meme documentation website Know Your Meme first attests the word in early 2023 on the video-sharing service TikTok, but popularised in late February 2024 via an Internet meme depicting Family Guy character Peter Griffin dunking a basketball mid-air.

(Internet slang, by extension) Used to indicate something amazing, fantastic, impressive or otherwise exceptionally good; something considered desirable.


earthly paradise

en-noun

earthly paradise (countable and uncountable, plural earthly paradises)

(figuratively, by extension, countable) A place on Earth that is a perfect combination of beauty and happiness.


go to earth

en-verb

go to earth (third-person singular simple present goes to earth, present participle going to earth, simple past went to earth, past participle gone to earth)

goes to earth (present singular third-person)
going to earth (participle present)
went to earth (past)
gone to earth (participle past)

(UK, figurative, by extension) Of a person, to hide from someone or something, to escape.


pterodactylic

(loosely, proscribed) Of, like, or pertaining to any pterosaur.


chiastically

en-adv

chiastically (comparative more chiastically, superlative most chiastically)

more chiastically (comparative)
most chiastically (superlative)

(by extension) Pertaining to the position of two things relative to one another.