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drunkorexic - the slang word describing women who skip food in order to drink booze without gaining weight (Macleans.ca)
The week's best invented words
Published On Fri Aug 20 2010
Funemployment, n. A period of joblessness that a person uses for leisure and other fun activities. (wordspy.com)
Torontosaurus Ex, n. A tired old dinasour that lives on the shore of Lake Ontario. It awakens for eighteen days every August to announce the end of summer. (Tom Peacock)
Twite, n: A Twitter message that is particularly trite. (Anne Borden)
Post block syndrome, n: Similar to writers' block but in the context of social networking sites. Being unable to come up with post-worthy content. “After logging into Facebook and staring at the screen unable to post, I realized I was suffering from post block syndrome.” (Urbandictionary.com)
Meeting affective disorder, n.: A form of boredom that occurs at meetings, especially those centred around a presentation. Symptoms include difficulty in staying awake and delirious hallucinations more commonly referred to as daydreams. (urbandictionary.com)
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The week's best invented words
Published On Sat Aug 14 2010
Alfred Holden
Nature deficit disorder, n.
A yearning for nature, or an ignorance of the natural world, caused by a lack of time spent outdoors, particularly in rural settings. (Wordspy.com)
Youtube attention span, n.:
Your normal attention span, now significantly decreased due to Youtube. Whereas normally 10 minutes is a short amount of time, Youtube turns it into a cinematic experience. (urbandicitionary.com)
Thinko, n.:
A mental typo, where someone says the wrong word but not because they don't know the correct word. (urbandictionary.com)
Refudiate, ?:
Sarah Palin's recent twitter typo. “She faced the brunt from all quarters for the mistake. However, in her defence she compared herself to Shakespeare and said that she had just coined a new word just like the master wordsmith.” (thaindianews.com)
Shakespalin, n:
A trend on twitter, where inspired users Palinized some of the Bard's famous sayings, ie, “But soft, what light from yonder window breaks? It is the East, and I can see Russia from my front porch.” (thaindianews.com)
Palinized, n:
self-explanatory. (Staff)
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The week’s best invented words
Published On Fri Aug 06 2010
Alf Holden
Brick computing, v.:
What you do with old, heavy, but reliable laptops. “My Thinkpad 770 is a brick, but it never crashes so I keep on using it.” (Staff)
Powerdisking, n.:
Watching several episodes of a TV show in a row, over several evenings or a marathon weekend. “I missed the first three seasons of Mad Men, so I spent the past two weekends powerdisking all the episodes in order to be up to date for the premiere of season four later this month.” (urbandictionary.com)
Range anxiety, n.:
distress or uneasiness caused by concerns about running out of power while driving an electric car. (cited in wordspy.com, as used in the Toronto Star by Jim Kenzie on June 18)
Obsessive computer disorder, n:
To constantly be online or just on a personal computer for fun or entertainment; also always thinking about anything computer related. (urbandictionary.com)
Violent agreement., v.:
When people think they are arguing, but fail to realize they actually agree. “This arena is bigger than the old one.” “Not much bigger.” “It's definitely bigger!” (urbandictionary.com)
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Imagineers -
Government scientists sent to solve the oil spill problems. Fortunately they were eventally replaced by engineers.
The meaning of the word Dope
exhaustipated - too tired to take a shit
Fritatas - braless
dentition - breast reduction surgery
penne regati - cheap yacht race
Pederasty - Fungal infection of the toenails.
mangini - guess
Assterhoids- painful jerks
infinititties - really big breasts
Here is the Washington Post's Mensa Invitational which once again asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition. Here are this year's winners:
1. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period of time.
2. Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an asshole.
3. Caterpallor (n.): The color you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you're eating.
4. Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.
5. Bozone (n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.
6. Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.
7. Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.
8. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.
9. Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.
10. Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.
11. Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)
12. Karmageddon: It's like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like, a serious bummer.
13. Decafalon (n.): The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.
14. Glibido: All talk and no action.
15. Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.
16. Arachnoleptic fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web.
17. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.
The Washington Post has also published the winning submissions to its yearly contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for common words. And the winners are:
1. Coffee, n. the person upon whom one coughs.
2. Flabbergasted, adj. appalled by discovering how much weight one has gained.
3 Abdicate, v. to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.
4. Esplanade, v. to attempt an explanation while drunk.
5. Willy-nilly, adj. impotent.
6. Negligent, adj. absentmindedly answering the door when wearing only a nightgown.
7. Lymph, v. to walk with a lisp.
8. Gargoyle, n. olive-flavored mouthwash.
9. Flatulence, n. emergency vehicle that picks up someone who has been run over by a steamroller.
10. Balderdash, n. a rapidly receding hairline.
11. Testicle, n. a humorous question on an exam.
12. Rectitude, n. the formal, dignified bearing adopted by proctologists.
13. Pokemon, n. a Rastafarian proctologist.
14. Oyster, n. a person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddishisms.
15. Frisbeetarianism, n. the belief that, after death, the soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck there.
16. Circumvent, n. an opening in the front of boxer shorts worn by Jewish men.
The week’s best invented words
Published On Fri Jun 18 2010
Oversolarcated, v.: The point at which you realize you have far too many novelty solar-powered lights in your yard. (Joel Stitt, Burlington)
Store d’oeuvres, n.: “Snacks and food samples that a grocery store will serve at various locations in order to tempt the patrons into buying something they weren’t planning on (pizza, chips and dip, sausage, etc.). Usually happens on the weekend. “I went to Loblaws the other day and filled up on store d’oeuvres.” (Urbandictionary.com)
Roommate chicken, n.: Where a group of people sharing a living space each avoid doing a household chore for an extended period because each believes it’s someone else’s responsibility. “I’m not going to do the dishes. It’s your turn.” “Yeah, but 90% of them are from the dinner you made for your girlfriend. I’m not cleaning up your mess.” (urbandictionary.com)
Texter’s thumb, n.: When an individual suffers repetitive strain injury (RSI) in the first digit of the hand (thumb) from excessive text messaging. Bill: ‘Dude I wasn’t ignoring you. My texter’s thumb was preventing me from contacting you!.’ (urbandictionary.com)
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The week’s best invented words
Alfred Holden
Zidouken, n., In soccer, a powerful headbutt to the chest that knocks a player down, even unconscious. Infamously performed by France’s Zinedine Zidane on Italy’s Marco Materazzi in the final match of the 2006 World Cup. Combines Zidane's name and “hadouken,” a technique found in the Street Fighter video game. “Dude, the Zidouken is the new Chuck Norris roundhouse kick;" "They were just horsing around until Harry flattened John with that Zidouken." (urbandictionary.com)
Textwife, n.“Due to circumstances and a difficult history, the way I communicate with my ex-wife is texting. Thus, she is my "textwife". (Jason Taylor, Toronto).
Status-texting, v.,“When someone texts you random or insignificant information only pertaining to themselves, as if they were updating their Facebook status.” For example, Lauren (via text): “I'm taking pictures at my sister's wedding!” (urbandictionary.com).
WOFTBO, v. For “watch out for the burnout. “ “I told my girlfriend (wife now) that she should be careful to avoid burn out in her job. Donna wrote back to WOFTBO.” (Dave Smart, Winterville N.C.).
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The week’s best invented words
Published On Sun Jun 06 2010
Foodoir, n.: A written description of someone’s experiences which includes recipes or focuses on food. “Done well, memoirs about love and food go together like steak and martinis. Meals are a perfect application for the ‘show, don’t tell” directive, from proposal soufflé to break-up pastina. These foodoirs have become a successful subset, one part chick lit mixed with one part chicken lit.” (New York Times). (macmillandictionary.com)
Squeakinese, n.: A large dog that has a high-pitched, squeaky bark. (Linda Leslie, Toronto)
Rebound job, n.: A job you take, often due to an emergency such as the imminent loss of your current job, knowing that it isn’t long term. (urbandictionary.com)
Premature officiation, n.: When the hockey referee loses sight of the puck momentarily and mistakenly blows his whistle too quickly. (Patricia Caron, London, Ont.)
Football minute, n.: When someone asks for a minute to do something, even though they know it will take much longer than 60 seconds. (urbandictionary.com)
Yard-sailing, n.: The act of flitting from house to house during a street sale. (Linda Leslie, Toronto)
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The week’s best invented words
Alf Holden
Prograsstinate, v.: To put off mowing the lawn. (George Shane, Toronto)
Nonliner, n.: A person who never, or very rarely, uses the Internet, usually because he or she does not have access to it. “Digital champion Martha Lane Fox is spearheading a campaign to recruit four million nonliners, from the ‘less well-off,’ a sector of society, traditionally disconnected from the web.” (BBC News) (macmillandictionary.com)
Airplane talker , n.: A person who stands within the confines of your personal space bubble (causing extreme discomfort) to hold an ordinary conversation, as someone sitting next to you on an airplane would; a person who speaks louder than the current conversation calls for, as if they are trying to talk over a plane’s engines. (urbandictionary.com)
Moussetache, n.: The line you get above your lip when you are eating lemon mousse. (Zayah Kraftcheck, age 5, Hamilton)
Foodoir, n.: A written description of someone’s experiences which includes recipes or focuses on food. “Done well, memoirs about love and food go together like steak and martinis. Meals are a perfect application for the ‘show, don’t tell” directive, from proposal soufflé to break-up pastina. These foodoirs have become a successful subset, one part chick lit mixed with one part chicken lit.” (New York Times). (macmillandictionary.com)
One-cheek bench sneak, n: The easing out of flatulency gently, usually when sitting down, so as not to attract undue attention. (urbandictionary.com)
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The week’s best invented words
Published On Sun May 09 2010
Alfred Holden
Recombobulate, v.:
to recover from a state of confusion or disorganization. (Wordspy.com; seen on a Milwaukee airport sign by Garrison Keillor and cited in the Chicago Tribune)
Office hands, n:
Someone with soft hands for doing office work and little or no hard labour (urbandictionary.com); a condition noted in Sinclair Lewis’ classic novel about a realtor, George F. Babbitt, whose “unroughened hand which lay helpless upon the khaki-colored blanket was slightly puffy.” (Babbitt, p. 2)
Sinlaws, n:
The parents of your live-in boyfriend/girlfriend. (urbandictionary.com)
Churnalism, n.
Journalism that churns out articles based on wire stories and press releases, rather than original reporting. (Wordspy.com)
Cell membrane, n.:
An invisible force field that makes cell-phone conversations inaudible to other people. "Sorry, you're breaking up . . . What? . . . I said, HOW'S THAT URINARY TRACT INFECTION HEALING? . . . What? . . . No, of course no one can hear me — I'm surrounded by the cell membrane." (urbandictionary.com)
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The week’s best invented words
Published On Sun May 02 2010
Alfred Holden
Cybersaur:
Someone who still only uses e-mail to communicate. (Mark LaVigne, Aurora)
Textstills:
People who stop anywhere, at any time to read and return text messages. (Ken Langer, Toronto)
Stoptional:
While driving, not actually stopping but choosing to stop or not, based on whether anyone is there. Against traffic laws but universal practice. (Wendi Hudson, Deseronto)
Pitfolio:
A financial portfolio that has grossly underperformed. (George Fells, Toronto)
Child supervision:
When an older person, especially a parent, needs a tech-savvy kid to help him/her with computers or other electronic devices. "Jimmy, could you send your kid over to help me with my facebook? I’m afraid I might get a virus without some child supervision." (urbandictionary.com)
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The week’s best invented words
Published On Sat Apr 24 2010
Cybersaur: Someone who still only uses e-mail to communicate. (Mark LaVigne, Aurora)
Textstills: People who stop anywhere, at any time to read and return text messages. (Ken Langer, Toronto)
Stoptional: While driving, not actually stopping but choosing to stop or not, based on whether anyone is there. Against traffic laws but universal practice. (Wendi Hudson, Deseronto)
Pitfolio: A financial portfolio that has grossly underperformed. (George Fells, Toronto)
Child supervision: When an older person, especially a parent, needs a tech-savvy kid to help him/her with computers or other electronic devices. "Jimmy, could you send your kid over to help me with my facebook? I’m afraid I might get a virus without some child supervision." (urbandictionary.com)
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The week's best invented words
Published On Sun Apr 18 2010
Alfred Holden
Wikiwacky;
An on-line encyclopedia of the improbable; a compendium of fringe ideas and crazy conspiracies. (David Oleson, Toronto)
Dinosnaur:
A person whose recollections from a bygone era make people lose interest or fall asleep. "For the keynote address, a dinosnaur talked about fountain pens." (Jon McGoey, London Ont.)
Karmalized:
Experiencing the impact of setting bad karma. "Tom's loss at the poker match was due to being karmalized with bad luck." (Thomas Evers, Oakville)
Famine underwear:
The garments you wear during a shortage of underwear, when you haven't done laundry. Usually characterized by lack of elasticity, holes, and stains. (urbandictionary.com)
Soap grafting:
The act of attaching an almost completely used piece of soap to a new, unused piece because it is now too small to be conveniently used but you also don't want to waste it. (urbandictionary.com)
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The week's best invented words
Alfred Holden
Thumbo:
An error made while using the thumbs to type, particularly on a mobile device keypad. (Wordspy.com)
Oblongation:
An obligation that has strained your patience and goodwill, as when your distant relative asked if her delightful progeny might stay a night and the darling arrived with a steamer trunk asking if you'd set up any job interviews for her yet. (Jennifer Ramsay, Toronto)
Smugacious:
Adjective describing the immense sense of self-satisfaction one gets from winning a pointless argument. "Smugaciousness, to be so addicted to proving yourself right that you argue compulsively, and endlessly, about anything and everything." (verbotomy.com)
Revengineering:
The act of orchestrating a revenge plot. (Andrea Gagne, Waterloo)
Misery lit:
A memoir or novel that focuses on extreme personal trauma and abuse. Also: misery-lit, mis lit, misery literature, misery memoir. (Wordspy.com)
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This week's best invented words
Aggravitation: That annoying force that pulls the item that you need most urgently to the very bottom of your purse.
(Janet Vanier, Mississauga)
Tree-book: A book printed on dead trees – paper – as opposed to an e-book, which only exists electronically.
(Urbandictionary.com)
Meh-sayer: A person who expresses indifference or apathy towards something.
(Wordspy.com)
Repreenhensible: An adjective for the act of grooming oneself in inappropriate places or times. "Kimberly's office etiquette was repreenhensible. Kimberly thought she was being sneaky when she ducked under her desk to floss her teeth, but her stealth was stymied by her tendency to toss her used floss on the floor."
(Verbotomy.com)
Understandment: The combination of understanding and agreement. "We aren't dating but we have an understandment not to fool around with other people."
(urbandictionary.com).
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On iHub it's always 11:34. Turn your digital clock upside down at 11:34 to discover why...
The week's best invented words
Published On Sun Mar 28 2010
Pi time: When the time is 3:14. "Super Pi time is 3:14 on March 14th (3rd month, 14th day) Ultra pi time is 3:14 on March 14th 314 (3rd month, 14th day, 314th year)" (Urbandictionary.com)
Procrasticleaning: the urge to clean or re-organize when facing an unrelated deadline, e.g. studying for final exam. "Colleen, now into post-secondary studies, has become enthusiastic about cleaning the floor and rearranging the living room furniture," her mother says. (Colleen and Judy McCarten, Toronto)
Mythinformation: To misinform using myths and popular misconceptions. In the U.S., "health care reform is being shot down by mythinformation." (Urbandictionary.com)
Vapour trail: The tell-tale sign of a co-worker who uses too much cologne or perfume. The lingering odour can be detected long after they've passed by. (Buzzwhack.com)
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Flashturbation - Overuse of Flash programming beyond the point of no return.
Used in a sentence:
"You have to click to enter the site to get to the “real” home page, which is a whirling collection of Flashturbation that would make a Sufi dizzy."
Source: http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/worst-nonprofit-web-sites-of-2009.html
Example:
http://www.evangelcathedral.net/welcome.htm
The week's best invented words
Published On Sun Mar 21 2010
Alfred Holden
Shirculate:
Shirking your duty by forwarding a task by email to your colleagues, hoping they'll pick up your slack. (Jennifer Ramsay, Toronto).
Singletasker:
Opposite of multitasker, a singletasker is someone who takes up only one task at a time, and follows it through to completion. Bobby: "Today I'm only going to focus on finishing my TPS reports and not to answer the phone, email, text, IM, staple, and make breakfast simultaneously." (urbandictionary.com)
Nerd bird:
An airliner that flies between two high-tech cities. It is likely that the majority of the passengers will be nerds. "I'm taking the Nerd Bird from Toronto to Boston." (urbandictionary.com)
Business-buzzed:
an acceptable level of intoxication for business situations. "There was an open bar but my boss was there so I could only get business buzzed." (urbandictionary.com)
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The week's best invented words
Alfred Holden
Cameraflaged,
v., from the Olympic games; describes the cameraperson on the short track speed skating rink, who before the race all but disappeared in his white coverall, mittens and boots. The camera was covered in white so only the lens showed. (Cathleen Felian, Burlington)
Feleinstein.,
n. "I have an extraordinarily intelligent cat....he's a real feleinstein". (George Shane, Toronto)
Cracked screen app.,
n., "When you crack your iPhone screen for some reason, but you just keep using it since it still works. It is free to get this app, but if you want to get rid of it you need to pay around $70 to get it fixed." (Urbandictionary.com)
Bandwidth,
n., as it applies to people; "expect to hear it from your boss soon. It means: How much extra time do you have to take on new projects?" (Buzzwhack.com)
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The week's best invented words
2010/02/21 04:30:00
Narcolympsy, n.:
The sensation you get that you will fall asleep at any moment during the day, due to trying to watch as much of the Olympics as you can the night before. (Urbandictionary.com)
Car droppings, n:
the compressed ice and snow buildups that drop from vehicular wheel wells during the winter. Also known as car balls in some locations. (Kathy Williamson, Peterborough)
Vegedairyan, n.:
not vegan; a vegedairyan consumes milk, cheese, butter and ice cream. "Vegedairyans have it easier than vegans." (George Shane, Toronto)
Compu-knowledgement, adj:
When someone turns away from his computer and acknowledges you. "After waiting several minutes, I received compu-knowledgement from my son. He lifted his head from his computer war games and said, 'What do you want?' " (Mary Moore, Oakville)
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The Week's best invented words
Published On Sun Feb 14
Alfred Holden
Snowpocalypse, n: A sky-is-falling reaction to snow or mere predictions of a winter storm, that shuts whole cities down. Related to snowmaggedon and and snowverkill, lately used in the Star. "It is the end of the world in the form of snow." (urbandictionary.com, staff, archives)
Stragedy, adj.: Bad planning leading to a disaster. (Shelly Goldstein, North York)
Evanjailist, n: An evangelist who is sent to prison for a criminal offense. (Stewart Fisher, Burlington)
Senatary, adj.: A lifestyle marked by much sitting about and idleness of mind and body. "When Stephen Harper recently appointed Bob Runciman to Canada's upper house, he commited him to a monstrously senatary culture." (George Town, Whitby).
Car, n., a shout of warning, during a game of street hockey. (urbandictionary.com)
Mondaze, n.: A daze you find yourself in due to it being Monday, not Sunday. (urbandictionary.com)
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The week's best invented words
Published On Sun Feb 07 2010
Alfred Holden
Toyotad, v.:
Sent back to be fixed. "I Toyotad the Toyota." (Staff)
Dinovation, n.:
The opposite of innovation, the D reflecting the low grade assigned by the Conference Board of Canada to this country's "capacity to innovate." In its study, Report Card on Canada, the think tank rated this country 14th out of 17 countries. (The Current, CBC Radio 1).
Corpocracy, n.:
a country ruled by corporations as opposed to a democracy ruled by its people. (Tom Sullivan, Toronto).
Street creep, n.:
A perjorative term for Wall Street executives who raked in huge bonuses while plunging the world into economic chaos. (urbandictionary.com)
Frenemy, n.:
An enemy disguised as a friend. (urbandictionary.com)
Flirtationship, n.:
More than a friend, less than a relationship (urbandictionary.com)
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THE WEEK'S BEST INVENTED WORDS
Stoptional, n.: "My daughter used it while I was driving;" it refers to the habit of ``slowing down at a stop sign but not coming to a complete stop."
(Arnold Reich, Thornhill)
Consiberal, n: A person who refuses to be pigeon-holed into one particular political camp, but instead holds ideologies from both sides. (Christianitytoday.com)
Seduciary responsibility, n: The responsibility of a spouse to make attempts and succeed at seducing his or her mate. Jason: "Ricky, you need to satisfy your seduciary responsibility in this relationship, I'm not feeling
the romance." (staff, urbandictionary.com)
Zerotasking, v.: To do nothing or have nothing to do. (Buzzwhack.com)
Prepone, v.: To move forward in time. The opposite of postpone. "The Wednesday meeting has been preponed to Tuesday."
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THE WEEK'S BEST INVENTED WORDS
Published On Sun Jan 10
Wikiodyssey, n. : Taking an unintended journey through Wikipedia from the starting article. "Just as Odysseus in The Odyssey had 10 years of detours from Troy until he reached his home in Ithaca, a Wikiodyssey . . . goes through the links and continues to subsequent pages an indeterminate amount of times. The odyssey is not complete until the reader backtracks to finish reading the original, thus returning home." (Theo Kapodistrias).
Danish wastry, n. : In Copenhagen, two weeks of parades, speeches, finger-pointing and discussions, etc., leading to a watered down international agreement on climate change.
(Doug Allan, Lindsay).
News snackers, n. : People with short attention spans who primarily get their news in short bursts from things like Twitter, RSS feeds, mobile phones and glimpses of TVs posted on gas pumps or in elevators. Like most snacks, they're tasty and easy to digest but aren't good for you in the long run. (Buzzwhack.com)
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The week's best invented words
Alfred Holden
Published On Sun Jan 17
ABC sex, n:
Sex only on anniversaries, birthdays and Christmas. "They've been married so long they only have abc sex." (Urbandictionary.com)
Prorogues' gallery, n.:
a balcony reserved for members of a governing party reduced to idleness by the suspension of Parliament. (Aleksander Szymanski, Chatham)
Mid-day crisis, n.:
when one is in a desperate need for a siesta, because the effect of the morning coffee has worn off. (Urbandictionary.com and staff)
Wetware, n.:
There's hardware, software, vaporware, etc., but behind it all is wetware – the human brain. "Our mainframe would be nothing without our wetware." (Buzzwhack.com)
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If "social media" was the trend of the 00's. then "anti-social media" will be the trend of the teens.
No doubt about it.
And don't bother replying, I won't read it. ;)
I've given this recent rash of message board experts challenging Shelly's understanding of the TOU some thought.
You've read about "AXHOLES" #msg-38870588
I often post about USERS that think iHub's rules don't apply to them... attack people, then blame the person they attack...those people often just end up in jail or booted.
There is a slightly more intelligent sub-category of that group... the ones that don't think the rules apply to them AND who DON'T READ what other people post; they only subscribe to the content of their own posts, because they believe their opinions are superior to all others. They make very lengthy arguments in very wordy posts.
This is why BLOGS exist. The comment area on a BLOG is for people with this anti-social personality disorder to filter the people out that don't agree with them... and only leave up the comments of their fans, friends and cheerleaders...
There's a psychological term for this disorder, but I haven't found it yet...
Blogger? ...is too simple a word.
Politician? ... doesn't fit message board context.
Blogitician? ... compounding the two, but it's obtuse.
I'm still thinking about a word to invent that fits into the iHub/message board context....
If 2008 was the year that you friended everyone you ever knew via Facebook, 2009 was the year you unfriended those people you never really liked in the first place.
Don’t just take our word for it on this one. The New Oxford American Dictionary named "unfriend" its word of the year for 2009.
that gets my vote as well...
Not new "words" but new "phrases"...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34318752/ns/business-economy_at_a_crossroads/
The week's best invented words
Urban Amish, n. A city dweller with no cellphone, laptop, iPod, BlackBerry, etc. (buzzwhack.com)
Face base, v. "The point in a relationship when pictures of the couple begin to appear on Facebook, and or when the relationship status changes to `In a relationship.' `It looks like Kate has made it to Face base with that new guy.' " (urbandictionary.com)
Cueless, adj. Having difficulty recognizing and interpreting facial expressions. (vertobomy.com)
Freeway blog, n. A homemade banner, particularly one with a political message, being displayed from a freeway overpass or similar location. (wordspy.com)
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Haha - I love this board...
Got this pm and it made me truly laugh out loud...
ottermagically - n,v - Sleight of hand used by technogeeks to confuse Luddites (Meatloaf, Boogerville MO)
A whiffle through some ostrobogulous lost words
Kenneth Kidd
Feature Writer Published On Sun Nov 29
We now know that a path does lead from vetullan to ostrobogulous, because Adam Jacot de Boinod has traversed it.
The latter word, an English coinage meaning bizarre and interesting, both appears in and sums up Jacot de Boinod's latest book on language, The Wonder of Whiffling.
The former, which denotes very bushy eyebrows in Albanian, is what got the whole thing started in the early 1990s.
Jacot De Boinod was then a researcher for the BBC television show QI, short for "quite interesting." His task was to find interesting things involving the letter A.
"Rather perversely, I picked up an Albanian-into-English dictionary, which is 1,100 pages long," he says. "There were 27 words for moustache and 27 words for eyebrow."
What came to really fascinate Jacot de Boinod was the number of words in other languages for which there was no English equivalent.
To wit: majh, a Persian way of describing someone who looks beautiful after a disease. But after filling two books with such words – The Meaning of Tingo and Toujours Tingo – he decided it was time to explore the comparable quirks of his native tongue.
He searched an array of sometimes obscure dictionaries for words that struck him as "telling, thought-provoking, amusing, quirky, curious, eyebrow-raising."
Among a number of Australian descriptives for the intellectually challenged, he found "there's a kangaroo loose in the top paddock."
English, Jacot de Boinod notes, has always been obsessively adding and discarding words – or changing the meaning of existing ones, so that "racket" no longer denotes the palm of your hand, as it once did.
Which is where "whiffling" comes in. More than just a peculiar word, it amply illustrates how meaning can change radically under the onslaught of usage and dialect.
In the 17th century, a whiffling was a smoker of tobacco, and later became, at Oxford and Cambridge, the one who examined degree candidates. Elsewhere it came to mean the person who clears the way for a procession or the one with the whip in Morris dancing. The mutations continued. Whiffling could mean anything from trifling to moving erratically, from the sound of geese descending to, in Victorian slang, someone who cried out in pain.
In a sense, those meanings duly coalesced into "whiffled," or drunk, courtesy of P.G. Wodehouse, since that's what one became after too many of Jeeves' special cocktails.
This, of course, wasn't the first or last time a writer invented words. One of the most evocative is "fleshment," coined by Shakespeare to describe the flush of excitement that comes from a first success.
A sampling of other words in The Wonder of Whiffling:
Plapper, to make a soft noise with the lips.
Desiderium, a yearning for something you once had but have lost.
Stridewallops, a tall and awkward woman.
Crambazzled, prematurely aged through a dissolute, drunken life.
Fluff, to break wind silently.
Rizzle, to enjoy a short period of idleness after a meal.
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The week's best invented words
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Vampire creativity,
n. Marketing jargon for a commercial so entertaining people remember the ad, but not the product being sold. It essentially bites itself. (buzzwhack.com)
Palintologist,
n. A person who follows or studies political dinosaurs. (urbandictionary.com)
Whiskibit,
n. To shave your facial hair into a style which advertises your political allegiance, sexual orientation or taste in music. "Marco spent weeks growing his whiskers to whiskibit his love for Marcy by displaying her name with little alphabeads braided into his long beard, only to have her dismiss him as a whiskibitionist." (verbotomy.com)
Bike-curious,
v. A man interested in buying a Harley motorcycle. Jim dreams of buying a Harley someday; Jim is bike-curious. (urbandictionary.com)
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Concenbake, v:
"Trudy needed to have the cake ready for the baby shower but a series of events put her behind. She looked at the cake through the oven window and began to concenbake so that it would bake faster; or so she believed." (Verbotomy.com)
Indoorsman, n.:
A person who spends considerable time in indoor pursuits, such as computing, sleeping and watching sports on television. "Sean, an avid indoorsman, is highly regarded for his skill at video games and computer programming." (urbandictionary.com)
Proteen, n.:
A professional teenager, like the Fonz. (Eric Spears, Hannover, N.H.)
Sacriledge, n.:
The last point before one falls into heresy. "His ideas about the Trinity have put him on the sacriledge." (www.outofur.com)
Embiggen, v.:
" 'The week's best invented words' is a regular column published in the Toronto Star. Check it regularly to embiggen your vocab." (bittertonic.com; popularized by the Simpsons)
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Piglet flu, n.:
During times of pandemic, the common flu is known as Piglet flu. While less deadly than swine flu it still makes you feel like s--t. However, because it is not infamous like swine flu you get no respect from having it. (urbandictionary.com)
Costume malfunction, v:
An embarrassing exposure that can be blamed on clothing. "No, Janet didn't flash the world on purpose. That was a costume malfunction." (Urbandictionary.com)
Meanderthal, n:
Someone who has a difficult time getting to the point when telling a story or giving a presentation. (buzzwhack.com).
Babblogic, n:
"Cecil's usual babblogic behavior befuddled even the most intelligent person. He could expound a subject for hours and you came away not understanding the point of anything he had said." (verbotomy.com)
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Published On Sun Nov 01 2009
Northwest nap, n. A deep sleep where you are unable to hear telephones, text messages, and even the U.S. Air Force. "Dude, I was so tired yesterday afternoon, I took a Northwest Nap. My girl called me 15 times and I didn't hear a thing." (Urbandictionary.com).
Idreamea, n. An idea that pops into your head just before you fall asleep, which is so big and brilliant, or else so dark and scary, that it keeps you awake all night long. v. To lie awake in bed with a head full of big dreams. (Verbotomy.com)
Thinksomnia, n. Apparently he was too busy or preoccupied to think during his busy day, but Joe Einstein got his best ideas at night just before or after he went to sleep and ended up thinking of all the possibilies/obstructions/refinements to his ideas all night. To the point he could not get to sleep. (Verbotomy.com)
Sleeprecorder, n. A digital or tape recorder when used by Einstein (above) to record his ideas as he got them, so that he could replay and capitalize on them.
(Verbotomy.com)
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Last texter, n.: That friend who sends a meaningless last word after the obvious end of a text conversation. "Jan is SUCH a last texter it drives me crazy. The other day, she sent me a text "K" back after I texted her "don't text me, in a meeting." (Urbandictionary.com)
Condominimum, v. About 400 square feet. (Drew Henderson, Pickering)
Mirrortation, v.: A state of irrational irritation which develops when you work or live with someone whose annoying habits mirror your own. "Whenever Jack and Jack Jr. spend more than 5 minutes together you can be assured that sparks will fly. They are so much alike that the mirrortation is inevitable." (Verbotomy.com)
Snap, n.: A short nap.
(Shirley Brown, Peterborough)
Reefer, n: Not a marijuana cigarette, when used by truckers. "Reefer is the shorthand term for refrigerated truck or trailer. `They have a whole fleet of reefers.'"
(Buzzwhack.com)
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Intaxicated, v. A stupified feeling that comes over one when learning that additional monies are owed to the department of revenue. (Danny Kraftcheck, Hamilton)
Artifiscal, n.: Creative spending.
(Drew Henderson, Pickering)
Remembeer, v.: The act of remembering, with or without success, a night of inebriation.
"Alice could vaguely remembeer bits and parts of the chili cook-off."
(Urbandictionary.com)
Fleeceonomics, n.: government bailouts.
(David Ray, Kingston)
Spear of influence, n.: Using a weapon to make a point.
(Tom Coucill, Toronto)
Scavengcycler, n. Someone who scavenges blue bins. "We just looked out our window (it's garbage day) and someone's gone through our recycling bin . . . a scavengcycler." (Jeff Beamer, Waterloo)
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Kemergency, v.: when you lock your car keys inside the vehicle. (Carleigh Cathcart, Peterborough)
Reprodiculous, v.: "Reflecting on our thoughts of having another baby just when we were about to become empty nesters with the last of our 5 kids going off to university." (Wayne Pearce, Welcome, Ont.)
Maritable, adj: Married long enough to be irritable. "I inadvertently said it while out with friends who are married. It was the perfect Freudian slip." (Jennifer Connolly, Toronto).
Ambidoorstrous, v.: Able to use any door. "Our dog loves to ride in the car so he hops in no matter what door is open — back, front, hatch; he's ambidoorstrous." (Dave Easby, Campbellford.)
Multi-tedia presentation, n.: using multiple methods in an attempt to enliven boring information. (Karen Phelan, Hewitt N.J.)
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Oct 04, 2009 04:30 AM
Timeslaver, n.: any electronic device that is supposed to save time, like say a Blackberry.
(Mark Baron)
Tattoo remorse, v. Looking back on a tattoo you got when you were younger. Joe: "My tattoo remorse is catching up on me after looking in the mirror and realizing my ex-wife's name is tattooed on my arm." (Urbandictionary.com)
Microvisit, v.: Stopping by to talk to someone for 140 seconds or less.
(Urbandictionary.com)
Flixation, v.: the state of only watching movie channels on TV.
(Lee Tokar, St. Catharines)
Uppercase voice, v: To raise your voice or accentuate part of a sentence to stress significance as you would while typing in the digital world. "I got a BRAND NEW car!" she said in her uppercase voice.
(Urbandictionary.com)
Cyberchondriac, n: Someone who spends their time searching medical websites for diseases they convince themselves they actually have.
(Urbandictionary.com)
Zerotasking: To do nothing or have nothing to do. From the caption of a New Yorker cartoon, which pictures a serene-looking man in a comfy chair.
(Buzzwhack.com)
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