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• solitude_stands commented on the word rhodomontade

  "He does not, however, suggest that there is anything spurious in de Selby's equally damaging rhodomontade in the Layman's Atlas where he inveighs savagely against 'the insanitary conditions prevailing everywhere after six o'clock' and makes the famous gaffe that death is merely 'the collapse of the heart from the strain of a lifetime of fits and fainting'."

  The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien, p 120

  January 18, 2026

• synapsecracklepop commented on the word halms

  “The boy pulled at the halms of grass.” In Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy

  January 17, 2026

• promise_1997 commented on the user promise_1997

  nice

  January 17, 2026

• synapsecracklepop commented on the word lope

  “The wind has a raw edge to it and leaves lope by the roadside and skelter on in the night fields.” Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy

  Can’t find this context’s definition anywhere. Any ideas?

  January 17, 2026

• tankhughes commented on the word #Shit4Brains

  https://bsky.app/profile/gmf1369.bsky.social/post/3mcnccbbzzc2z

  January 17, 2026

• solitude_stands commented on the word defalcation

  "'That is a very serious defalcation,' he said, 'but all the same I will tell you the size of it."

  The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien, p 86

  January 17, 2026

• solitude_stands commented on the word whin

  "It was a small modest whin-bush, a lady member of the tribe as you might say, with dry particles of hay and sheep's feathers caught in the branches high and low."

  The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien, p 81

  January 17, 2026

• solitude_stands commented on the word acatalectic

  "'I think it is extremely acatalectic,' I answered."

  The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien, p 77

  January 17, 2026

• solitude_stands commented on the word sempiternal

  "'I think you are a sempiternal man,' he said slowly."

  The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien, p 68

  January 17, 2026

• solitude_stands commented on the word gazar

  "The head tailor, Miwa Ishii, was finishing a silk gazar shirt for Paltrow."

  "Period Correct" by Victoria Uren in the New Yorker's January 19th 2026 issue

  January 17, 2026

• peekaboo78 commented on the word lingoes

  Lingoes ate my baby.

  January 16, 2026

• peekaboo78 commented on the word miny

  Not to be confused with eeny, meenie, or moe.

  January 16, 2026

• peekaboo78 commented on the word Friday

  My name's Friday. I'm a cop.

  January 16, 2026

• tankhughes commented on the word bruzz

  -uzz (huzz, chuzz, bruzz, gruzz) - all collected on Merriam-Webster

  bruzz = bros, hoes

  huzz = chopped hus,

  https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitsatards/comments/1l2c65i/attention_bruzz_and_huzz_roadmap_for_2nd_attempt/

  January 16, 2026

• peekaboo78 commented on the word solar mass

  Or a Catholic ceremony on the sun.

  January 16, 2026

• peekaboo78 commented on the word hadaway

  What is love?

  January 16, 2026

• tankhughes commented on the word type shit

  type shit

  DEF: As a phrase, comparing an activity to a wider context -type shit (Metro Boomin song is full of examples)

  DEF On its own, as an affirmative response (adverb) to indicate to peer that you’re on the same page, excitement for future plans discussed, etc. “Type shit, type shit”

  https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/type-shit-shi-slang

  https://www.reddit.com/r/Quadeca/comments/1mcjgkz/type_shit_type_shit/

  Very Quadeca (a rapper)-coded to have unreviewed lyrics

  January 16, 2026

• tankhughes commented on the word aura farming

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aura_farming

  https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8UL4F91/

  https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8ULQ2wb/

  https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8ULgKeS/

  January 16, 2026

• tankhughes commented on the word locked in

  locked in

  https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8ULxKtt/

  https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8ULnmgE/

  https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8ULtFB5/

  January 16, 2026

• tankhughes commented on the word Labubu

  labaddie

  https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8ULVYP7/

  DEF: A trendy blindbox toy in 2025 of an ugly little bunny monster.

  Not sure how many blends to expect (maybe some delulu rhyming or reduplication).

  Naomi Osaka

  Knockoff versions: Lafufu, Lababies

  Combining forms (mostly nonce uses): Labuybuy, Labunicorn, Labu-who?, Labobu, Lablublu, Labubu vs. Lakiki, Labustody

  Naomi Osaka combining forms

  January 16, 2026

• octe commented on the word immanentistic

  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/immanentistic

  January 16, 2026

• peekaboo78 commented on the word eyebright

  Turn around.

  January 15, 2026

• peekaboo78 commented on the word deer

  Oh, deer.

  January 15, 2026

• peekaboo78 commented on the word antirock

  Can one be antirock, but pro-roll?

  January 15, 2026

• peekaboo78 commented on the word digamist

  Can you dig it? A digamist can.

  January 15, 2026

• peekaboo78 commented on the word clobbered china

  What the Thing drinks tea from.

  January 15, 2026

• peekaboo78 commented on the word waffled

  Lego my Eggo.

  January 15, 2026

• peekaboo78 commented on the word rockaway

  The Ramones can hitch a ride there.

  January 15, 2026

• peekaboo78 commented on the word cubangle

  Also a flat angle served with pickles and mustard.

  January 15, 2026

• peekaboo78 commented on the word Este

  One of my top three Haim sisters.

  January 15, 2026

• peekaboo78 commented on the word barbatimao

  Not a character in "Welcome Back, Kotter".

  January 15, 2026

• peekaboo78 commented on the word poshest

  Not to be confused with Babyest, Sportiest, Scariest, or Gingerest.

  January 15, 2026

• peekaboo78 commented on the word muscular tissue

  When you want to be strong while blowing your nose.

  January 15, 2026

• peekaboo78 commented on the word outdent

  Nobody outdents Two-Face.

  January 15, 2026

• peekaboo78 commented on the word pie-wipe

  Sounds messy.

  January 15, 2026

• peekaboo78 commented on the word tide-register

  Where to buy laundry detergent.

  January 15, 2026

• peekaboo78 commented on the word roscoelite

  Popular in Hazzard County.

  January 15, 2026

• peekaboo78 commented on the word dead meat

  Also a cool Youtube channel and podcast.

  January 15, 2026

• peekaboo78 commented on the word panurgus

  The bees! The bees!

  January 15, 2026

• peekaboo78 commented on the word Milwaukee

  The good land.

  January 14, 2026

• peekaboo78 commented on the word fast forward

  Nobody ever goes fast backward.

  January 14, 2026

• peekaboo78 commented on the word plotland

  Where plots can be found.

  January 14, 2026

• peekaboo78 commented on the word leg

  The tastiest part of the chicken.

  January 14, 2026

• tankhughes commented on the word The Great Cinnamon-Sugaring of 2026

  On the way back from LSA/ADS in New Orleans, a the top of a shaker of cinnamon sugar that I bought from a Cafe Beignets popped off in my carryon and coated everything in my suitcase in cinnamon sugar - most can be washed, except the novelty 2D sweater, cozy bear hat, my backpack purse, and the suitcase itself, which all smell good but cannot be considered clean.

  I have called this The Great Cinnamon-Sugaring of 2026, and the phrase pleases me. I think WOTY candidates will veer more personal and idiosyncratic for me this year.

  January 14, 2026

• peekaboo78 commented on the word relative density

  How to describe dumb cousins.

  January 14, 2026

• peekaboo78 commented on the word mammogram

  Better or worse than a singing telegram?

  January 14, 2026

• peekaboo78 commented on the word headmaster

  Also a type of Transformer.

  January 14, 2026

• peekaboo78 commented on the word shoepac

  A famous footwear-based rapper.

  January 14, 2026

• peekaboo78 commented on the word barline

  I hate when the barline is too long.

  January 14, 2026

• peekaboo78 commented on the word Horta

  They're real devils in the dark.

  January 14, 2026

• solitude_stands commented on the word forenenst

  "Let you go alone and get the box and bring it back here. There are good times coming and we will be rich men tonight. It is sitting under a loose board in the floor of the first room on the right, in the corner forenenst the door."

  - The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien

  January 14, 2026

• tankhughes commented on the list black-queer-femme-slang-KKX6mc6dFPQpKGaWE_ddr

  gorgiana grande: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Jw5_ZqGPhrM

  January 14, 2026

• tankhughes commented on the list algorithm-avoidant-inventions-D25p2r0HK_2pCayeZApKQ

  crossing out murdered and killed in images to bypass censorship https://www.instagram.com/p/DTahxPRCGwh/

  January 14, 2026

• tankhughes commented on the word Cruella Noem

  https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgressiveHQ/comments/1qc2zfr/rep_steve_cohen_spits_fire_shes_dead_and_weve/

  January 14, 2026

• peekaboo78 commented on the word bridge deck

  Also the deck used to play bridge.

  January 13, 2026

• peekaboo78 commented on the word trap

  It's a trap!

  January 13, 2026

• peekaboo78 commented on the word gaming-house

  Gaming House! I'm revoking your charter!

  January 13, 2026

• peekaboo78 commented on the word gracefuller

  Not to be confused with Grace Fuller, whoever that is.

  January 13, 2026

• peekaboo78 commented on the word millionfold

  How to make the tiniest piece of origami art ever.

  January 13, 2026

• octe commented on the word duende

  lacking wiktionary: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/duende#English

  January 13, 2026

• tankhughes commented on the word gap moe

  https://youtu.be/ZpZW8kjqKyM?si=x59CCpbJXWwqLHPh&t=189

  when a stoic character does something out of character and is therefore cute (moe pronounced mo-ay), like "way of the house husband".

  January 13, 2026

• tankhughes commented on the word perfidy

  https://bsky.app/profile/mashedradish.bsky.social/post/3mcbgrisnuc2o

  perfidy - the plane used by the US gov military to sink fishing boats looked like a civilian aircraft. That's a crime called perfidy.

  Also Teyana Taylor wpm a Golden Globe for playing Perfidia Beverly Hills in “One Battle After Another.”

  January 13, 2026

• etmr commented on the word jubilancy

  hi

  January 12, 2026

• trarterburn commented on the word digital kill

  A targeted neutralization or destruction of a human threat using digital targeting systems, sensors, and networked weapons, such as those utilized by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), often in real-time via data links for precision strikes.

  Usage:

  How long will it be until the Department of Homeland Security goes digital kill on citizens?

  
  

  First used in Defense Week—the journal of military defense.

  
  

  https://trarterburn.substack.com/p/defense-week-makes-urban-dictionary?r=42e1s1
  

  January 12, 2026

• peekaboo78 commented on the word keyboarding

  I'm doing it right now.

  January 12, 2026

• peekaboo78 commented on the word geomechanics

  Or mechanics who work exclusively on Geos.

  January 12, 2026

• peekaboo78 commented on the word tiebar

  A fancy place to get a drink.

  January 12, 2026

• solitude_stands commented on the word washstrake

  "No one has ever uncovered even a scrap of a Lapita canoe—it has been too long, the materials are too perishable, the atmosphere too damp—but words for sail, outrigger, boom, washstrake, rib, caulking, paddle, bailing, and cargo can all be reconstructed in Proto-Oceanic, a hypothetical language (like Proto-Indo-European) that is associated with the Lapita expansion."

  — Sea People by Christina Thompson, p 228

  January 11, 2026

• solitude_stands commented on the word megapode

  "Before the arrival of human beings, New Caledonia had one of the most diverse collections of reptiles anywhere on the planet, including a giant horned turtle with a spiked tail, a twenty-pound monitor lizard, and a rare pygmy land crocodile, all of which—along with a giant megapode, a flightless swamp hen, two falcons, a scrub fowl, and several other species of bird—are now extinct."

  Sea People by Christina Thompson, p 223

  January 10, 2026

• solitude_stands commented on the word kahawai

  "It is a barren, windswept place, but rich in marine resources, including kahawai and whitebait, eels, herring, flounder, and shellfish."

  Sea People by Christina Thompson, p 206

  January 10, 2026

• speednat commented on the list words-with-four-consecutive-vowels

  ditto to hernesheir's comment. Please remove Aeneous

  January 10, 2026

• eggaliciouschloe commented on the list chlos-2026-words-rmuCesP7g5_jCBfDJFbA8

  Neuro-sama was on my 2025 list, but due to her going viral online for breaking the Twitch hype train record twice in a row within a few days, i felt it apt to include her again

  January 10, 2026

• eggaliciouschloe commented on the list chlos-2026-words-rmuCesP7g5_jCBfDJFbA8

  choppelganger: first heard at LSA 2026 WOTY voting

  January 10, 2026

• ry commented on the list practical-training-in-cad-graphic-design-and-animation-in-madurai-jvgbjN5jN5IxpDyeGChRe

  I asked them to work on some architectural drawings and I got a pile of napkins with curse words written upon them, in crayon. In some cases I was impressed by the vocabulary; it's been a while since I've seen sperm burglar in writing. Suffice to say, though, "Velora" seems quite without mechanical drawing expertise.

  (SPAM)

  January 9, 2026

• ry commented on the list pony-names-jZQtZEhGvnto_dLx_jVKy

  I beg to differ, these are excellent pony names

  January 9, 2026

• ry commented on the word OG

  see comments at original gangster

  January 9, 2026

• ry commented on the word original gangster

  ca. 1970s, from regional Southern California AAVE, first referring to hardened, respected founders of street gangs. Commonly used now to refer to a veteran or founding member of any crew or scene. The term denotes authenticity and deep roots in street culture, or a particular lifestyle.

  Broadened to also refer to an entity regarded as one of the first to do something, the first of their kind, or simply someone who is old school.

  Usually abbreviated as OG

  https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/og

  January 9, 2026

• peekaboo78 commented on the word bridge loan

  I would definitely get one if I was building a bridge.

  January 9, 2026

• tankhughes commented on the list three-toed-portmanteaus

  flowkirkenually = flow state + lowkirkenually

  lowkirkenually = lowkey + Kirk + genuinely

  January 9, 2026

• tankhughes commented on the word kirkification

  https://uclpimedia.com/online/from-martyr-to-meme-the-kirkification-of-everything

  January 9, 2026

• tankhughes commented on the word big back

  https://www.reddit.com/r/blackladies/comments/1c2afwa/ok_i_hate_the_term_big_back/

  January 9, 2026

• tankhughes commented on the word arrest

  arrest as euphemism for kidnapping?

  January 9, 2026

• tankhughes commented on the word flowkirkenually

  https://www.tiktok.com/@random.shenanigan7/photo/7587486954078391566

  What are y’all getting for this Christmas 🥲🎋 Flowkirkenually I’m getting a snare drum ✌️ #christmas #fyp #elfontheshelf

  January 9, 2026

• tankhughes commented on the word flowkirkenually

  low key + genuinely + Charlie Kirk + flow state

  January 9, 2026

• tankhughes commented on the word lowkirkenually

  https://imgflip.com/i/agsfll

  low key + Kirk + genuinely

  also flowkirkenually to add flow state

  January 9, 2026

• tankhughes commented on the word type shit

  2024 July 12 https://www.reddit.com/r/NoJumper/comments/1e1qjvw/fuckin_fresh_friday_yall_typeshittype_shit/

  January 9, 2026

• tankhughes commented on the word Temu

  https://www.reddit.com/r/snarkingonselena/comments/1k3px32/temu_version/

  January 9, 2026

• tankhughes commented on the word type shit

  Future Metro Boomin - Type Shit (song from Mar 2024)

  I don't hang with rats, that's some new type shit

  Get a nigga whacked on the news type shit

  Sippin' drank and Actavis on some Screw type shit

  Just a sad ho runnin' through the crew type shit

  I got a bad bitch at home, voodoo type shit

  Take down Megan Stallions by the group type shit

  etc.

  January 9, 2026

• peekaboo78 commented on the word fatigue-duty

  This is what I call my job.

  January 8, 2026

• ruzuzu commented on the word tomato hornworm

  Cf. tomato-worm.

  January 8, 2026

• ruzuzu commented on the word tomato-worm

  Am I right to assume this is the same as Manduca quinquemaculata? (Which I think of as a tomato hornworm.)

  January 8, 2026

• peekaboo78 commented on the word caesarean

  Pertaining to a delicious salad dressing.

  January 8, 2026

• peekaboo78 commented on the word clog dancing

  Can you use clog dancing to unclog something?

  January 7, 2026

• peekaboo78 commented on the word cross-party

  Ain't no party like a cross-party.

  January 7, 2026

• peekaboo78 commented on the word microcontact

  For very small eyes.

  January 7, 2026

• peekaboo78 commented on the word Hoffman

  Definitely Hoffman.

  January 7, 2026

• peekaboo78 commented on the word gas-producer

  Me, when I eat all the deviled eggs.

  January 7, 2026

• peekaboo78 commented on the word boldly

  This is the manner in which to go where no one has gone before.

  January 7, 2026

• peekaboo78 commented on the word be mother

  Norman Bates liked this.

  January 7, 2026

• tankhughes commented on the word protagonist

  Another media literate meta awareness term, also in contrast to NPCs, protagonists have to be declared by someone other than the person themselves. It's a community recognition/diagnosis. Maybe similar to main character energy

  https://youtu.be/ZHAeHVcDirc?si=agxZN8PQui8BD_z8 "damien haas being the protagonist that he is" (clips of a comic actor on the Smosh YouTube channel)

  https://www.youtube.com/shorts/EaL6MPWcm1s Brennan Lee Mulligan talking about how it's good to be in New York City to know you're not always the main character.

  The Seattle Mariners being called the protagonists of baseball.

  January 7, 2026