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• tankhughes commented on the word klining

  What's your hear me out?

  https://www.reddit.com/r/CuratedTumblr/comments/1i4z39s/whats_your_hear_me_out/

  January 22, 2025

• tankhughes commented on the word fash

  Short for fascist, re: Elon Musk doing a Nazi salute at the presidential inauguration.

  January 22, 2025

• tankhughes commented on the word bourgeoicracy

  https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/1i73749/is_it_time_to_give_the_bourgeoicracy_a_new/

  Bourgeoicracy = pronounced buzh-WAH-cruh-see? It's hard to decide how many vowels to keep in.

  Bourgeoiscracy? Bouzhwacracy?

  January 22, 2025

• natalie_portmanteaux commented on the word broligarchy

  Broligarchy, a portmanteau of bro and oligarchy.

  January 22, 2025

• natalie_portmanteaux commented on the word broligarch

  Broligarch, a portmanteau of bro and oligarch.

  January 22, 2025

• tankhughes commented on the word saltburned

  "He has an adult son, but I don't think it'd be too difficult to do a Saltburn" https://www.instagram.com/reel/DE5VPYUihM1/

  January 22, 2025

• bilby commented on the word mereswine

  You old sea pig you.

  January 22, 2025

• bilby commented on the user electronelectricltd

  SPAM

  January 22, 2025

• scarequotes commented on the list american-dialect-society-2009-words-of-the-year-nominees-afvm_gnsvbiLyJaC6uwqV

  ADS Word of the Year 2009: tweet, noun, a short message sent via the Twitter.com service, and verb, the act of sending such a message.

  January 21, 2025

• abdulazeezabdulazeez657 commented on the word argumental

  A

  January 21, 2025

• abdulazeezabdulazeez657 commented on the word argumental

  (((Olatunji)))

  January 21, 2025

• abdulazeezabdulazeez657 commented on the word argumental

  ((Feeling fancy))

  January 21, 2025

• abdulazeezabdulazeez657 commented on the word argumental

  (Feeling fancy)

  January 21, 2025

• tankhughes commented on the word aftercare

  "what we call self-care is often just aftercare."

  https://www.instagram.com/reel/DDw9SlbRBUK/

  January 21, 2025

• ry commented on the word antitask

  I overheard the word "antitasking." From context, it sounded like it referred to the opposite (or inverse?) of multitasking—getting nothing done by attempting nothing. urbandictionary has an entry that supports this, but searching the internet finds few enough hits that it looks like a single person's coinage or nonce word in each instance.
  

  January 21, 2025

• tankhughes commented on the word goon

  https://www.reddit.com/r/BrandNewSentence/comments/1i68ykr/goonlooking_genes/

  related: goonicide

  January 21, 2025

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

  Use in Minecraft to make violent threats appear fictitious by adding the context of "in a video game."

  "I instantly want to redacted everyone in Minecraft as soon as some fucker start to speak like that."

  https://www.reddit.com/r/evilautism/comments/1i5xtpg/i_thought_i_hated_small_children_turns_out_i_hate/

  January 21, 2025

• tankhughes commented on the word POV

  Many meme templates start with "POV: " like "POV: You just Xed" or "POV: You finally Y."

  When people say it out loud, they pronounce the phrase as letters.

  In this one, they shouldn't have used POV, because instead of implying that he's with the girl. his POV is of someone who is standing near an intimate couple: https://www.reddit.com/r/rareinsults/comments/1i6ifof/cant_recover_from_that_burn/

  January 21, 2025

• tankhughes commented on the word oiter

  oiter = water

  https://www.reddit.com/r/wunkus/comments/1i5zp83/hydrated_wunk/

  January 21, 2025

• tankhughes commented on the word wunkus

  https://www.reddit.com/r/wunkus/

  silly animal videos. from wonky?

  January 21, 2025

• electronelectricltd commented on the user electronelectricltd

  Electron Electric Ltd

  https://electronelectricltd.com/

  Hi there, I'm Sukhdeep Singh, a proud owner of Electron Electric Ltd. from Abbotsford, Canada. In Abbotsford, Burnaby, Canada, we provide full-service electrical solutions that are customized to meet your needs, such as installing solar panels, EV chargers, and generators.

  January 21, 2025

• tankhughes commented on the word -maxxing

  Some discussion at looksmaxxing

  January 21, 2025

• tankhughes commented on the word looksmaxxing

  screen-maxxing: https://youtu.be/3TK9rgTOpIA?si=jfX1yT9ZQE3WYN9T&t=6286

  January 21, 2025

• tankhughes commented on the word just hit the 2nd tower

  "a second X has just hit the Y."

  "A second Meme has hit the office":

  https://www.reddit.com/r/smosh/comments/1i689qo/a_second_meme_has_hit_the_office/

  January 21, 2025

• scarequotes commented on the list american-dialect-society-2010-words-of-the-year-nominees-JAOaYOdsyIFmu_moCtYpS

  ADS Word of the Year 2010: app, "application program for a computer or phone operating system. As in "there’s an app for that," an advertising slogan for the iPhone.

  January 21, 2025

• alexz commented on the word plutokleptokakistocracy

  Spotted on Bluesky from George Takei

  "Welcome to the plutokleptokakistocracy! Where the ultra wealthy steal from you and run the country in the most insanely inept way imaginable."

  Jan 20 , 2025

  January 21, 2025

• bilby commented on the word scuppie

  Lol at the Indian variation.

  January 21, 2025

• tankhughes commented on the word hadouken

  https://www.reddit.com/r/BrandNewSentence/comments/1i5pwtl/welcome_to_the_uk/

  The Argus headline: "Drunk man farts in own hand, hadoukens it at passer-by"

  January 21, 2025

• tankhughes commented on the word fw

  a redditor learning the fuck with (positive) meaning of fw: https://www.reddit.com/r/characterarcs/comments/1i5akxm/redditor_learns_a_new_word/

  January 20, 2025

• bilby commented on the word swither

  qms in fine form here.

  January 20, 2025

• bilby commented on the word cutlin

  I think it's a plurale tantum, see cutlins.

  January 20, 2025

• bilby commented on the word VHS

  And now it feels too late :-/

  January 20, 2025

• bilby commented on the word VHS

  OMG I never knew what this acronym meant.

  January 20, 2025

• scarequotes commented on the list american-dialect-society-2011-words-of-the-year-nominees-f4e-zKNEwclRidSk31W84

  ADS Word of the Year 2011: occupy: verb, noun, and combining form referring to the Occupy protest movement

  January 20, 2025

• natalie_portmanteaux commented on the word sarcastupid

  Sarcastupid, a portmanteau of sarcastic and stupid.

  January 20, 2025

• scarequotes commented on the list american-dialect-society-2012-words-of-the-year-nominees-aF12uQVLZ7OrMuGwXpDmN

  ADS Word of the Year 2012: hashtag

  January 20, 2025

• tankhughes commented on the word shmovement

  https://www.reddit.com/r/smashbros/comments/ndz5fl/where_did_the_term_schmovementschmovin_come_from/

  the flowing (smooth) movement created by a sequence of video game maneuvers back to back.

  January 19, 2025

• tankhughes commented on the list elonyms-uSsdgG16E5CDlsBibHu74

  President Muskrat https://www.reddit.com/r/clevercomebacks/comments/1i4pjxt/president_muskrat_and_his_orange_vice_abandoned/

  January 19, 2025

• tankhughes commented on the word PiCoSteveMo

  As a parody of NaNoWriMo

  "PiCoSteveMo is a noncompetitive month-long jam where participants create a PICO-8 game inspired by a Stephen King work."

  https://itch.io/jam/picostevemo

  January 19, 2025

• tankhughes commented on the word JOMO

  JOMO = Joy of missing out. Opposite of FOMO (fear of missing out)

  
  

  https://www.reddit.com/r/linguisticshumor/comments/1i49ilz/%CA%A4o%CA%8Amo%CA%8A/

  January 19, 2025

• tankhughes commented on the word just hit the 2nd tower

  Noticing a lot of 9/11 jokes by what I think is Gen Z, mostly involving hitting the 2nd tower.

  In this post, TikTok was just banned, but so was CapCut, and so someone posted on BlueSky: "THEY JUST HIT THE SECOND TOWER"

  https://www.reddit.com/r/BlackPeopleTwitter/comments/1i4phmx/both_are_down_i_repeat_both_are_down/

  "Hey, 2001 called..."

  *mimicking picking up the phone*

  "Oh my god...they just hit the 2nd tower"

  Before this, the main memes were to say "never forget" when those numbers came up, or joke about forgetting, or to facetiously talk about "these colors don't run" or repeating the phrase: "jet fuel can't melt steel beams" from the 9/11 conspiracies like the Loose Change documentary, or mocking Mark Wahlberg for saying he would have stopped 9/11 if he had been on the flight: https://www.kazu.org/2012-01-18/mark-wahlberg-with-me-aboard-9-11-hijackers-would-have-been-stopped.

  January 19, 2025

• tankhughes commented on the word jouch

  jouch = jeans couch

  https://www.reddit.com/r/ATBGE/comments/1i1paem/this_jouch_i_found_at_a_flee_market/

  jorts jeggings

  I feel like there's a general higher frequency of humorous portmanteaus in the last 10 years of internet language.

  snurse = snail purse

  snilk = snake milk

  -ussy donussy = donut pussy

  January 19, 2025

• tankhughes commented on the word brat

  Naomi Smalls talking about fellow drag artist Lexi Love: "she seems like a party girl kid, she seems very brat, and that was not very brat"

  https://youtu.be/facYFjFTinc?si=02zB3UKDh3LbASnG&t=2114

  January 18, 2025

• scarequotes commented on the list american-dialect-society-2013-words-of-the-year-nominees-d9_l9ZIB3e3DU1AgtNjPy

  ADS Word of the Year: because, meaning introducing a noun, adjective, or other part of speech (e.g., “because reasons,” “because awesome”).

  January 18, 2025

• tankhughes commented on the word howmstever

  "Whomst’d’ve summoned me? 🔮" https://www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmile/comments/1i48t5i/whomstdve_summoned_me/

  January 18, 2025

• tankhughes commented on the word goonicide

  from gooning and goon: https://www.reddit.com/r/BlackPeopleTwitter/comments/1i2vhtf/goonicide/

  https://www.reddit.com/r/BrandNewSentence/comments/1i5f90r/not_just_a_new_sentence_a_whole_new_word_kinda/

  January 18, 2025

• tankhughes commented on the word found divorce

  https://www.reddit.com/r/CuratedTumblr/comments/1i2vsp3/found_divorce/

  January 18, 2025

• tankhughes commented on the word slut virus

  https://www.reddit.com/r/therewasanattempt/comments/1i3lbzx/to_find_new_tiktok/

  January 17, 2025

• tankhughes commented on the word RedNote

  Since TikTok has been banned, RedNote is a similar? app people are trying.

  https://www.reddit.com/r/therewasanattempt/comments/1i3lbzx/to_find_new_tiktok/

  January 17, 2025

• ruzuzu commented on the word aquativeness

  Thank you, ry!

  January 17, 2025

• ruzuzu commented on the list phrenology-2WQl6P-RdvZ_S-tjd7R2n

  My new favorite list!

  January 17, 2025

• ry commented on the word aquativeness

  I have created a phrenology list

  January 17, 2025

• alexz commented on the word 'tism

  A bit of slang for autism

  January 16, 2025

• saacmatchin commented on the word ataraxia

  Well done philosophy entry

  January 16, 2025

• ruzuzu commented on the list london-underground-stations-which-are-also-linkedin-accounts-C3A1HfVOLDDMYCes83D3F

  If you ever do make that list, I'll definitely favorite it.

  January 15, 2025

• yarb commented on the list london-underground-stations-which-are-also-linkedin-accounts-C3A1HfVOLDDMYCes83D3F

  This is just a subset of the much larger "feasible human names which are also something else" category. I keep meaning to make a start on that but I'm never near my wordnik console when they occur to me.

  January 15, 2025

• ruzuzu commented on the list london-underground-stations-which-are-also-linkedin-accounts-C3A1HfVOLDDMYCes83D3F

  *favorited*

  January 15, 2025

• tankhughes commented on the word girl math

  https://youtube.com/shorts/NYCcMvmSr2g?si=9XP79paEE9QSgcVA

  January 15, 2025

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

  Parody of corporations trying to use drag queen slang in pride month commercials: https://youtu.be/wKNizU1oeCs?si=5xFvKQqLFWpwV4DB&t=88

  January 15, 2025

• tankhughes commented on the list 2024-woty-research-RBBkUEHcX2DZce0hR98P4

  Official list of ADS WOTY nominees, thanks scarequotes https://www.wordnik.com/lists/american-dialect-society-2024-words-of-the-year-nominees-kZHpYgcY8gI4E904tlTPY#

  January 15, 2025

• ruzuzu commented on the word aquativeness

  Do we have any lists about phrenologists? If not, I'd nominate ry to create one.

  January 14, 2025

• amelia998 commented on the word Bitcoin

  In January 2009, Bitcoin was launched as a decentralized cryptocurrency, originally detailed in a 2008 whitepaper by an individual or group under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto. This peer-to-peer digital currency enables direct transactions between equal, independent participants without requiring intermediaries. Nakamoto designed Bitcoin to facilitate “online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution.” While earlier concepts for decentralized electronic currencies existed, Bitcoin is distinguished as the first cryptocurrency to achieve practical implementation.

  Source: TradingKey

  January 14, 2025

• amelia998 commented on the word PIP

  In foreign exchange markets, a PIP (percentage in point) is a unit of change in an exchange rate of a currency pair.

  January 14, 2025

• natalie_portmanteaux commented on the word Oaxacalifornia

  Oaxacalifornia, a portmanteau of Oaxaca and California.

  January 14, 2025

• natalie_portmanteaux commented on the word Choriental

  Choriental, a portmanteau of Chinese and Oriental.

  January 14, 2025

• natalie_portmanteaux commented on the word Mexitino

  Mexitino, a portmanteau of Mexican and Latino.

  January 14, 2025

• natalie_portmanteaux commented on the word Blafrican

  Blafrican, a portmanteau of black and African.

  January 14, 2025

• tankhughes commented on the word skibidi

  https://www.reddit.com/r/characterarcs/comments/1i0f3wc/i_cant_think_of_a_good_title/

  January 13, 2025

• bilby commented on the word food cache

  I have a feeling vanderpink does this.

  January 13, 2025

• minted commented on the word turtleism

  The belief that “it’s turtles all the way down.” From Robert M Sapolsky‘s book “Determined.”

  January 13, 2025

• tankhughes commented on the word gatekeep

  https://www.instagram.com/reel/DEs6a5oR8Lu/

  January 13, 2025

• tankhughes commented on the word hurkle-durkle

  https://www.tumblr.com/abd-illustrates/772490246995771392

  hurkle-durkle is a Scottish word meaning "to lounge in bed all day long after it's time to get up." The link above has a GTA meme version "HURKLE-DURKLE'D" meaning that someone stayed in bed comfy so long that they died.

  January 13, 2025

• tankhughes commented on the word dome

  Lizzo - "Boys" (2019) "is you home boy? come give me dome boy."

  https://www.reddit.com/r/BrandNewSentence/comments/1hyhrws/road_dome_so_sloppy_i_almost_crashed_the/

  road dome = road head = fellatio/cunnilingus in a (moving) car

  January 12, 2025

• tankhughes commented on the word power bottom

  Power Bottom Aladdin

  https://www.reddit.com/r/BrandNewSentence/comments/1hyxmes/power_bottom_aladdin/

  January 12, 2025

• tankhughes commented on the word sir, this is a Wendy's

  https://www.reddit.com/r/CuratedTumblr/comments/1hysblz/map_store/

  January 12, 2025

• tankhughes commented on the word walking the children in nature

  From Drag Race contestant Tammie Brown who said a lot of weird things, but this seems to be literal that she used to take kids on hikes. But now it can be a metaphor like "my skin is clear, my crops are flourishing" or "teach the children"

  https://www.reddit.com/r/rupaulsdragrace/comments/g535fj/what_does_walking_children_in_nature_even_mean/

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sccHU8q3Sr0

  January 11, 2025

• bilby commented on the word aquativeness

  Hmmm. You can put 'propensity for hommous' on my grave.

  January 11, 2025

• scarequotes commented on the list american-dialect-society-2024-words-of-the-year-nominees-kZHpYgcY8gI4E904tlTPY

  ADS Word of the Year 2024: rawdog

  January 11, 2025

• tankhughes commented on the word skibidi

  "Skibidi toilet or whatever you kids say"

  https://www.reddit.com/r/BrandNewSentence/comments/1hy036t/skibidi_toilet_or_whatever_you_kids_say/

  January 10, 2025

• ruzuzu commented on the word dirck's ghost

  See Pepper's ghost.

  January 10, 2025

• tankhughes commented on the word light water

  Light water is normal water H20. heavy water is heavier because it has more deuterium molecules. Both have been used in nuclear power plants in the past.

  January 10, 2025

• bilby commented on the word Mehr

  One could be excused for finding this month a bit meh.

  January 10, 2025

• tankhughes commented on the word Spiders Georg

  https://www.reddit.com/r/CuratedTumblr/comments/1hxm0r6/on_this_day_12_years_ago_tumblr_user_max_lavergne/

  January 9, 2025

• tankhughes commented on the word atp

  atp = at this point

  https://www.reddit.com/r/BlackPeopleTwitter/comments/1hxb1hn/were_cooked/

  January 9, 2025

• tankhughes commented on the word tea

  https://www.reddit.com/r/CuratedTumblr/comments/1hxgy9h/tea/

  "Y'all I told my boyfriend I had tea & he immediately asked "herbal or verbal?" and I just died dead skull emoji"

  January 9, 2025

• scarequotes commented on the list american-dialect-society-2014-words-of-the-year-nominees-R1lgxvOFqgUzl5Ma3lHE_

  2014 ADS Word of the Year: #blacklivesmatter

  January 9, 2025

• ry commented on the word aquativeness

  a "propensity for water" seems pretty baseline. I wonder if phrenologists also identified propensities for sleep, respiration, walking upright, etc

  January 9, 2025

• ry commented on the word competition milk

  milk with water removed via fractional freezing, concentrating the fat and protein content and used in barista competitions

  https://europeancoffeetrip.com/competition-milk-barista/

  January 9, 2025

• tankhughes commented on the word Lolicon

  https://www.reddit.com/r/GetNoted/comments/1hx8fmz/this_is_wild/

  https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/items/583788d8-bbc8-4475-b1ed-031b695f3373

  "Hypersexualization of minors is a continuous problem prevalent in Japan. This particular brand of hypersexualization is known as Lolicon which is the attraction to prepubescent girls, particularly in anime and manga. Historically, it is derived from the 1955 novel titled “Lolita”, which depicts a middle-aged man’s dark obsession with a young girl, but Lolicon didn’t become a recognized genre until the 1970’s when fan artists depicted their favorite female characters of the time as underage girls. There is still ongoing debate within Japanese society about its harmful effects, some dubbing it as a “sickness”, while other individuals find no problem with continuing the practice. Regardless, it is still incredibly easy to find openly in Japan, with convenience stores selling magazines containing lolicon imagery. Utilizing academic research, we will showcase how this problem is influencing and normalizing the attraction to underage girls. We will discuss the impact, local and globally, on the acceptance and societal effect of Lolicon, as well as the steps taken to combat its influence in Japan."

  Child sex abuse materials in Japan

  January 9, 2025

• tankhughes commented on the word girl

  The black/queer/femme gender neutral use of "Girl" was just used by Elon Musk? https://www.reddit.com/r/clevercomebacks/comments/1hwn7u6/the_audacity_of_this_unelected_loser/

  January 9, 2025

• ry commented on the word chud

  arby's 2007 comment refers to the monsters in the 1984 science fiction horror movie C.H.U.D.

  the current politically-inflected derogatory use of chud may have come from podcast Chapo Trap House circa 2016. Unclear if this has anything to do with the movie.

  January 8, 2025

• ry commented on the list one-look-dictionary

  this is ~36 years' worth of words of the day??

  January 8, 2025

• alexz commented on the word chud

  Different groups use the 2 words.

  The term Chad is used by incels complaining about other charismatic people.

  the term chud is used to describe stupid racists.

  January 8, 2025

• tankhughes commented on the word chud

  https://www.reddit.com/r/balatro/comments/1hw6zcf/nothing_ever_happens/

  https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/chud

  a variant from Chad?

  January 8, 2025

• tankhughes commented on the word successorizing

  trixie mattel: successorizing is succeeding with accessories

  https://www.instagram.com/reel/DEMBjKUNqV1/

  January 8, 2025

• tankhughes commented on the word mansplaining

  It's sometimes used to describe a man in a video essay, even if he's not interrupting another speaker or directly referencing another content creator. https://www.reddit.com/r/CuratedTumblr/comments/1hvy9ti/thats_not_mansplaining/

  January 8, 2025

• scarequotes commented on the list american-dialect-society-2015-words-of-the-year-nominees-Bg-52_0YaXvcqBPnlPhKW

  ADS WOTY 2015: singular they. "Gender-neutral singular pronoun for a known person, particularly as a nonbinary identifier"

  January 8, 2025

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

  narcotiç: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DEihuAsPWSp/

  January 7, 2025

• tankhughes commented on the word (derogatory)

  https://www.tumblr.com/iwannakillbobby/732834669786267648/shes-an-evil-motherfucker-with-admiration

  Variants (loving) (with admiration)

  January 7, 2025

• tankhughes commented on the word sidegrade

  Not a downgrade, a lateral move: https://www.reddit.com/r/aspiememes/comments/1hvjd6o/i_solved_the_debate/

  January 7, 2025