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hugovk commented on the word red-band trailer
https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2024/12/31/the-10th-annual-tucker-awards-for-excellence-in-swearing/
January 1, 2025
scarequotes commented on the list american-dialect-society-2018-words-of-the-year-nominees-68W9uYfmSVMFI2wTkarIu
2018 Word of the Year: tender-age shelter/camp/facility
December 31, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word downline
pyramid scheme term: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DDSFLSXJu87/
December 30, 2024
bilby commented on the word crust-hunter
Well I have to confess here.
A while ago I bought a tub of (Arab) sesame halwa. Unbeknown to me there was tiny crack in it and the interaction with the air had created a quite chewy crust on it ... which I liked far more than the halva the way it normally is.
So now I have another tub sitting a home with the lib off awaiting its crusty maturity, but every time I pop into the Persian grocery I have a look through the halva tubs to see if there might be another secretly-broken treasure.
*appropriates crust-hunter badge*
December 30, 2024
bilby commented on the word contraduction
FFS modern linguistics has had a fascination for near indistinguishable pairs of words that denote seemingly critical distinctions and divisions and it should have stopped before it started infecting everything else.
December 30, 2024
bilby commented on the list american-dialect-society-word-of-the-decade-2010-2019-nominees-zQMLwFA02WYDH4pTrrJpj
*yawn*
December 30, 2024
bilby commented on the word Teresa Bilowus
Today I received a media release from TB, who is Marketing Manager for Woolmers Estate in Tasmania.
Perhaps her parents were pilots?
December 30, 2024
scarequotes commented on the list american-dialect-society-word-of-the-decade-2010-2019-nominees-zQMLwFA02WYDH4pTrrJpj
Winner: singular "they"
December 30, 2024
vendingmachine commented on the word crust-hunter
One who hunts deer, moose, or other large game on the snow, when the crust is strong enough to support the hunter but not the game, which is in consequence easily overtaken and killed.
December 29, 2024
vendingmachine commented on the word blood eagle
Particularly famous is the so-called “blood eagle”, a gory and brutal ritual these warriors are said to have performed on their most hated enemies. The ritual allegedly involved carving the victim’s back open and cutting their ribs away from their spine, before the lungs were pulled out through the resulting wounds. The final fluttering of the lungs splayed out on the outspread ribs would supposedly resemble the movement of a bird’s wings – hence the eagle in the name.
For decades, researchers have dismissed the blood eagle as a legend. No archaeological evidence of the ritual has ever been found, and the Vikings themselves kept no records, listing their achievements only in spoken poetry and sagas that were first written down centuries later. So the bloody rite has been rejected as improbable, resulting from repeated misunderstandings of complex poetry and a desire by Christian writers to paint their Nordic attackers as barbaric heathens.
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December 29, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word gangstalking
"What was the neolithic equivalent of CIA gangstalking" https://www.reddit.com/r/BrandNewSentence/comments/1hnhxrt/what_was_the_neolithic_equivalent_of_cia/
December 29, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word cuck
A non-conservative poster referring to MAGA people as cucks instead of vice versa https://www.reddit.com/r/WorkReform/comments/1hojxd1/condolences_to_the_cucks_who_voted_trump_truly/
December 29, 2024
mai1995 commented on the user mai1995
stay tuned after the commercial break
December 27, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word S tier
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DEC-K6qpk3y/
December 27, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word In this essay I will
A good meme https://www.reddit.com/r/CuratedTumblr/comments/1hn8ujy/lord_aringing/
A similar way to end a post as "Thank you for coming to my TED talk' but this is implying that the explaining has just begun.
December 27, 2024
ghadeer commented on the user ghadeer
GHADEER
December 26, 2024
ghadeer commented on the user ghadeer
Hi
December 26, 2024
bansos1 commented on the user bansos1
Hai juga
December 26, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word tm
Short for tomorrow: "if i don't get a switch for christmas tm..." https://www.reddit.com/r/BrandNewSentence/comments/1hm89dl/thats_one_way_to_inject_some_excitement_into_the/
December 26, 2024
tankhughes commented on the list algorithm-avoidant-inventions-D25p2r0HK_2pCayeZApKQ
Etymology Nerd on censorship and media framing of UHC CEO shooting, TikTok bans, and control of mass communication: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DD9sbr0JnCx/
December 26, 2024
hemal4 commented on the user hemal4
building something new
December 26, 2024
puvqruns commented on the user puvqruns
kittie
December 24, 2024
peter_m_siegel commented on the word contraduction
An ingenious word for an invaluable concept. -- Steven Pinker [from the cover of Contraduction, by Dan Barker (Hypatia Press).
The very point of the book is that we might assume it is a malapropism, but then realize that ordinary concepts (such as the notion that the sun sets and rises) are in fact "backwards" (i.e. the earth in fact does the setting and rising). Let's allow for thinking out of the box.
December 24, 2024
natalie_portmanteaux commented on the word prebunk
Prebunk, a portmanteau of preemptive and debunk.
December 24, 2024
natalie_portmanteaux commented on the word prebuttal
Prebuttal, a portmanteau of preemptive and rebuttal.
December 24, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word penice
Misspelling (algorithm avoidant?) of penis: https://www.reddit.com/r/characterarcs/comments/1hkfkeg/good_lord/
December 23, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word thug
https://www.reddit.com/r/BlackPeopleTwitter/comments/1hkb3wd/just_another_thug/
December 23, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word madeupical
Talking about the origin and lack of definition of madeupical on Wordnik itself: https://bsky.app/profile/wordnik.bsky.social/post/3ldwfyyo5ak2y
December 22, 2024
natalie_portmanteaux commented on the word bikenapping
Bikenapping, a portmanteau of bike and kidnapping.
December 22, 2024
tubbydammer commented on the word plough
plough is the UK spelling and plow is the US spelling. They are the same thing: a big knife for opening soil to admit seeds. The plough is pulled by an animal or mechanical device.
December 22, 2024
w.o.v commented on the list fictional-music-genres
Hey this is so cool
December 22, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word pacemogged
https://www.reddit.com/r/BrandNewSentence/comments/1hitont/someone_150_years_ago_literally_has_no_frame_of/
"Just pacemogged a slowbie on the sidewalk"
(Just walked faster than a slow walking person on the sidewalk)
December 22, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word scrumpt
Facetious past tense form of screamed: "I scream I scrumpt at just linking the Wikipedia article lmfao" https://www.reddit.com/r/asklinguistics/comments/1hioxst/comment/m30qrss/
December 22, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word skinchies
Newcastle slang for crossing your fingers? https://www.instagram.com/reel/DDzsp2UCrhq/
December 22, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word daylighting
https://abc7news.com/post/california-daylighting-law-san-francisco-start-issuing-warnings-cars-parked-crosswalks-40-fines-january/15536088/
"It's because of a change to the state's "daylighting" law, which prohibits parking within 20 feet of any crosswalk."
December 22, 2024
dachi commented on the user dachi
Hi
December 21, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word Luigi
graffiti art of Nintendo's Luigi character next to 3 Bullet Bills that say "deny delay depose" https://www.reddit.com/r/SocialistGaming/comments/1hfgc1s/a_masterwork/
December 21, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word Luigi
Doesn't mention Luigi but relevant: https://www.tumblr.com/mostly-funnytwittertweets/770390373525749760
December 20, 2024
ry commented on the word contraduction
limited usefulness as most people will assume malapropism of contradiction
December 20, 2024
ruzuzu commented on the word groce out
Have we discussed this already? I've noticed that I don't pronounce "grocery" the way other people do--I say "grosh-ery," but often I hear people say "gross-ery."
December 20, 2024
ruzuzu commented on the user wavey
I like your lists.
December 20, 2024
ruzuzu commented on the user chark
Welcome to Wordnik! I like your lists.
December 20, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word in da clurb, we all fam
In the stall, we all fam! https://www.instagram.com/reel/DDwzVCURQJe/
December 20, 2024
alexz commented on the word broligarch
Tech-Bro oligarch.
December 20, 2024
ruzuzu commented on the word broigne
Also see brugne.
December 19, 2024
ruzuzu commented on the word tulwar
Also see thulwar.
December 19, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word bore worms
https://knowyourmeme.com/editorials/guides/where-does-the-not-the-bore-worms-line-come-from-the-wormy-earworm-explained
December 19, 2024
rfbrownwards commented on the word poioumena
Poioumena is a term used in postmodern literature to describe a type of metafiction that focuses on the process of creation. The word comes from the Ancient Greek word poioúmenon, which means "product".
December 19, 2024
khongoroo commented on the user khongoroo
ok
December 19, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word countermapping
The practice of putting things like indigenous and oral tradition information on a map to acknowledge that it exists: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DCXdPIZpayb/
December 19, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word barg
A nickname for Grocery Outlet Bargain Market. Also called "groce out" pronounced like "gross out" since there are often unexpected flavored products.
December 18, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word groce out
A nickname for Grocery Outlet Bargain Market. Also called "barg". Pronounced like "gross out" since there are often unexpected flavored products.
December 18, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word Wednesday waffle
A weekly tradition where friends send each other 3-minute long audio files to explain how their week is going. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DCo0EDSPvEm/
December 18, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word demure
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DDWQAjkyP1R/ "you see how I'm drinking my coffee this morning? It's very go away, very not yet, very leave me the fuck (caption: floof) alone"
December 18, 2024
rfbrownwards commented on the word overfit
Overfitting occurs when a machine learning model becomes too complex and fits the training data too closely.
December 18, 2024
pinkpout49 commented on the user pinkpout49
Thanks for all your help. Appreciate the definition on Immaculate. It's awesome to hear it means free from sin.
December 18, 2024
rfbrownwards commented on the word univocity
Univocity refers to the state or essence of being univocal, meaning that something has only one clear and consistent interpretation or meaning. It implies a lack of ambiguity, ensuring that the message or concept is understood in a single, uniform way.
December 18, 2024
chamssou16 commented on the user chamssou16
I love you
December 18, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word Luigi
It's a verb too: "needs to be Luigi'd" https://bsky.app/profile/bamfaerie.bsky.social/post/3ldkv4zl6bk2d
December 18, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word cancelthreaten
"Going to spend tomorrow cancelthreatening every service in my life."
https://www.reddit.com/r/BrandNewSentence/comments/1hgmmsk/on_a_way_to_cancelthreaten/
December 18, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word my brother in Christ
Re: losing the video game Balatro because of one boss called The Plant which makes all the face cards worthless: "My brother in Christ you built the deck" https://www.reddit.com/r/balatro/comments/1hgj6bd/shut_up_about_the_plant_shut_up_about_the_plant/
December 18, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word queen out
to queen out - to chat with, catch up with, gossip with, hang out with. Feels like a black/gay/femme slang that is now making its way out to broader circles.
Talking about an actor with dwarfism they wished they could have hung out with: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DDsn8NVS9r5/
Talking about new coworkers they don't know well yet "a lot of people I haven't gotten to queen out with": https://youtu.be/XMbAu2Yk6xM?si=atCKdTuVJCa6hJKB&t=300
December 18, 2024
icetee commented on the user icetee
apple
December 17, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word Jeff the Land Shark
A recent Marvel comic creation from 2018 whose popularity is spiking because of the 2024 video game Marvel Rivals.
December 17, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word Luigi
https://www.reddit.com/r/clevercomebacks/comments/1hf2fm1/even_the_staff_agrees/
"ending HIV is no longer a question of medical technology but a question of sufficient Luigi."
December 17, 2024
tankhughes commented on the list elonyms-uSsdgG16E5CDlsBibHu74
ElMo: https://www.reddit.com/r/MurderedByWords/comments/1hfieam/elmo_gonna_skin_someone_alive_today/
December 17, 2024
alexz commented on the word chalked
I wonder if Chalked comes from old mid 20th century cartoons and tv shows where a chalk outline refers to a body from a murder scene.
December 17, 2024
alexz commented on the word LOML
Spotted on some local artwork after a Taylor Swift concert... it looks like LOML means 'Love Of My Life'
December 17, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word astroturfing
"The astroturfing and emotional abuse Reddit inflicts on its users when they rise up is fucking unreal."
https://www.reddit.com/r/ClassConscienceMemes/comments/1hfrbhn/the_astroturfing_and_emotional_abuse_reddit/
December 17, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word Kaizo mode
"Speedrunning Mario Odyssey's TRUE Kaizo Mode" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xzc5CP8xjdI In video games, Kaizo mode refers to general game play or speedrun subgcategories that are highly restricted and require deliberate movement.
December 17, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word core memory
Feels like this term also corresponds with therapyspeak becoming more widespread and common - trauma bonding, trauma dumping, projection, emotional dysregulation, undermedicated, overstimulated, take accountability, hold space, I statements, in my healing era, out of spoons, emotional labor, etc.
December 17, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word quangle
Was in Edward Lear's poem "The Quangle Wangle's Hat" from his book Laughable Lyrics (1877). https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44604/the-quangle-wangles-hat
December 17, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word core memory
This was a term used in the original Inside Out movie, but with Inside Out 2 coming out this year, it's reinforced it as a concept, so I think it's going to stick around.
https://bsky.app/profile/johngreensbluesky.bsky.social/post/3ldhiasmq722q
December 17, 2024
ruzuzu commented on the list abandoned-mines-of-nevada-3meaBks5_pUpYGRRGOro_
Excellent! I look forward to future amusement.
December 16, 2024
yarb commented on the list abandoned-mines-of-nevada-3meaBks5_pUpYGRRGOro_
Thank u 'zuzu! I will keep this list updated as more mines become abandoned in the state of Nevada.
December 16, 2024
bilby commented on the word counterpunching
Show me where the counter hurt you.
December 16, 2024
starbelles commented on the user starbelles
i like words
December 15, 2024
natalie_portmanteaux commented on the word procrasturbation
Procrasturbation, a portmanteau of procrastination and masturbation.
December 15, 2024
natalie_portmanteaux commented on the word exasturbation
Exasturbation, a portmanteau of exacerbate and masturbation.
December 15, 2024
natalie_portmanteaux commented on the word scornography
Scornography, a portmanteau of scorn and pornography.
December 15, 2024
natalie_portmanteaux commented on the word madsturbation
Madsturbation, a portmanteau of mad and masturbation.
December 15, 2024
kalkav53 commented on the user kalkav53
GOOD LOVE
December 15, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word WomenInMaleFields
This is a hashtag, but you can't put a # at the start of a term on Wordnik.
see citation at hawk tuah girl.
#QueersInStraightFields https://www.instagram.com/reel/DCt821UNsl6/
Same sex competition dancing couple: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DC7no2wSGHx/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
December 15, 2024
leduy6161 commented on the user leduy6161
satisfy
December 14, 2024
natalie_portmanteaux commented on the word predictament
Predictament, a portmanteau of predict and predicament.
December 13, 2024
rfbrownwards commented on the list my-lexicon-WwfwBfZdW70B5LKux8Wb3
A type of illusion or misperception involving a vague or obscure stimulus being perceived as something clear and distinct.
December 13, 2024
rfbrownwards commented on the list my-lexicon-WwfwBfZdW70B5LKux8Wb3
A "mediapheme" refers to a modern, postmodern concept where a popular icon or personality is filled or inhabited by the viewer, and their persona is circulated and shaped through various media channels, often blurring the lines between the individual's actual identity and their public image.
December 13, 2024
rfbrownwards commented on the word mediapheme
A "mediapheme" refers to a modern, postmodern concept where a popular icon or personality is filled or inhabited by the viewer, and their persona is circulated and shaped through various media channels, often blurring the lines between the individual's actual identity and their public image.
December 13, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word chalked
chalked as a slang word means bad, game over, done with? Urban Dictionary entries go back to 2006 at least. Maybe in reference to chalking up the results already on a scoreboard?
During this Pokemon battle video, one Pokétuber keeps using the phrase:
"oh my goodness I'm chalked brother I'm chalked" https://youtu.be/bgV6eM3ZRyQ?si=fKUp-bDMrysLgWBJ&t=1373
"but IF I can get the plus 3.. I mean, it's just chalked brother, this thing is gonna destroy"
https://youtu.be/bgV6eM3ZRyQ?si=Eez7RtMiq-btetfN&t=1713
"I think I'm chalked, I just gave you...I need a..."
https://youtu.be/bgV6eM3ZRyQ?si=PNNCnT1CkvClaoK8&t=1908
December 13, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word time quangle
see quangle for no definition either, but context
December 13, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word quangle
Dropout's Dimension 20 show had a series of live shows this year where they played a mix of their characters and settings in what they called a "Time Quangle". They specifically refuse to define what a quangle is, and only explain that it's a quangle but with time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi9jQrvdAuY
December 13, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word blorbo
teaching an older ESL person about blorbo and me when: https://www.reddit.com/r/CuratedTumblr/comments/1hc778x/referenced_in_passing/
December 12, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word gazoonkas
https://www.reddit.com/r/nerdfighters/comments/1hc4140/how_i_feel_after_this_weeks_bluesky_revelations/
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/12REBmHV25y8lN6Xl_bbfgvlCBuURW9VjoRMg6yZEQpc/edit#slide=id.g31e197dd797_495_243
December 12, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word Luigi
Luigi-pilled: https://www.reddit.com/r/CPTSDmemes/comments/1hcc0ub/anyone_else_with_chronic_pain_who_hates_the/
December 12, 2024
scarequotes commented on the word decivilization
But take the broad view and you find they point at the same diagnosis: Our social bonds are disintegrating.
Another word for this unraveling is decivilization. The further a society goes down this path, the fewer behavioral options people identify as possible reactions to grievances. When every disagreement becomes zero-sum and no one is willing to compromise, violence becomes more attractive to people. And when violence becomes widespread, the state may escalate its own use of violence—including egregious attacks on civil liberties.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/12/decivilization-political-violence-civil-society/680961/
December 11, 2024
scarequotes commented on the word salad bar extremism
As I’ve written for this magazine, eruptions of violence are not necessarily associated with a clear or consistent ideology and often borrow from several—a phenomenon that law enforcement calls “salad-bar extremism.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/12/decivilization-political-violence-civil-society/680961/
December 11, 2024
scarequotes commented on the word futurity
"But what it nonetheless provided for the industry was a sense of futurity. AI is full of futurity.
Futurity ain’t solid. You can’t hold it in your hands. It isn’t liquid either — there’s no money in it, at least not yet. It’s a gas. It fills a room. No one can quite see it, but everyone breathes it in.
Or, to lean on the slighly-overused parlance of the day: futurity is a vibe shift."
https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/silicon-valley-runs-on-futurity
December 11, 2024
rudy007 commented on the user rudy007
Examplesets
December 11, 2024
bairseach commented on the list ulysses
gorgeous
December 11, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word deny defend depose
There's a 2010 book about the healthcare industry called Delay Deny Defend: https://delaydenydefend.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay,_Deny,_Defend
December 11, 2024