@blafferty , you will find that that lists are personal preference. In my case, I may have a few Corono words, but I prefer to keep a 2020 list instead.
Chocolate. I ordered some groceries for delivery from my local drugstore to avoid crowds, but the order was split up, so one guy delivered a bag of usual things, and another guy showed up half an hour later to drop of a 6 inch cubed cardboard box with a packing slip, with 1 Kit-Kat bar.
Chocolate and sugary treats are also in my 72 hour earthquake prep bag.
spotted as a slang term for the 2020 Novel Coronavirus.
World Health guidelines say to not name a virus after a person, a location, or a region. I think a name like CV19 would be simple to say, simple to write, and give information that it's a 2019 Corona virus.
Spotted in a BBC article 'Reviving Colombia's 'language of resistance'' "Palenquero is one of the 68 languages found in Colombia and is a mix of Spanish and African Bantu languages. But with just a few thousand speakers, it has not been easy to keep the language alive."
"ok hear me out ok so assuming a group of mola is a guac of mola and then you come across a mol of Mola mola is that avocado’s number
|\____ ⠀ ⠀____/|
( •o• ⠀ •-• ⠀ )
|/￣￣⠀ ⠀￣￣\|"
"the tweet above and this tweet here include ASCII common sunfish aka Mola mola discussing the logical conclusion of “a guac of mola” becoming a collective noun for sunfishes, a movement we hope gains traction
"NanoPutians are a series of organic molecules whose structural formulae resemble human forms. James Tour et al. (Rice University) designed and synthesized these compounds in 2003 as a part of a sequence on chemical education for young students ..."
I have no idea what this word really means in a gaming sense. scarequote's definition at yeet likely helps, but I think yeet means several things. - see twitter examples
"Oojay-cum-spiff, adj. "All you have to do,’ I said, ‘is to carry on here for a few weeks more, and everything will be oojah-cum-spiff." 1930 PG Wodehouse.
Check out the meaning in our Oxford English Dictionary. Part of our Digital Library
This term came from the IT Crowd TV show episode 'The Internet', but it has some history, and can be seen on Twitter in reference to the organizations that decide on internet standards.
There was once a reference to 'Ethernet elders' in Info World.
"And then there’s its cousin, greige, which you can make by mixing together two other things: monotony and despair. All of these related shades spell out a disappointment in all the world’s flowers. They look like preened and perfected sick. And it is my belief that the palace has used the beige to take confident, opinionated, personality-owning Meghan away from us and turn her into a royal bot, like they always do."
"Is easy schnappen der Springenwerk, blowenfusen und poppencorken mit spitzensparken. 1st nicht fur gerwerken by das Dummkopfen. Das rubber- necken sightseeren keepen hands in das pockets. Relaxen und watch das Blinkenlights."
Wikipedia has blinkenlights going back to the 50's and IBM
Wiktionary seems to have a 'Neutral Point of View' theme which neutralizes half of the meaning of a word and blandifies it to something a committee agrees on.
'Laze -- a mashup of "lava" and "haze" -- is a nasty product formed when hot lava hits the ocean, sending hydrochloric acid and volcanic glass particles into the air'
'Bowl food is larger than a canapé and around a quarter of the size of a main course.
It is served in miniature or hand-sized bowls and comes ready to eat with a small fork.
The idea behind a bowl food menu is so guests can stay standing up and mingle while they eat. It has been described by caterers as an option which allows guests to "keep on talking".
"The two dozen or so pipeline warriors appeared on the BC Legislature lawn driving custom built motorcycles, doombuggies armed with menacing spikes, and F-150 pickup trucks with bumper stickers proclaiming their love for Alberta beef."
'Sinclair Broadcast Group, the largest owner of television stations in the U.S., employs a well-known practice of producing "must-runs," conservative commentary segments that each Sinclair-owned station is required to air. ' - Seattle PI.
A form of censorship which refers to buying the exclusive rights to a news story, and then not publishing the story to protect a person the story is about.
If you google the progression of programmer's thorpes, you get a programming language named Unithorpe
"Unithorpe
Unithorpe is a small interpreted programming language and its virtual machine.
The driving idea is to use a single unicode character to name each variable, function, namespace, builtin operator, etc. in the language. All data is either unicode characters or arrays of unicode characters or other arrays."
Also search Trithorpe and Oglethorpe (more computer languages by Henry Strickland)
I wonder if half the variable names render as Emoji
"The first task for spacewalkers Mark Vande Hei and Norishige Kanai is to move a Latching End Effector (LEE), or hand, for the Canadian-built robotic arm, Canadarm2, from a payload attachment on the station’s Mobile Base System rail car to the Quest airlock. " - NASA Johnson YouTube video 'U.S. Spacewalk 48 Animation'
Spotted in the Guardian " Sarcelles has come to represent everything wrong with Paris’s banlieues to such an extent that there’s even a word – Sarcellitis – to describe the ennui created by modernist high-rises, concrete and social isolation."
"Theoretical calculations suggest these gaseous threads, known as the warm–hot intergalactic medium, or the Whim, ought to be around a million degrees celsius. " - Guardian article : Astronomers find half of the missing matter in the universe
"We have ferryspotters? Yes, we do. Like British trainspotters, they chat happily on online forums, tracking the ships and burrowing into the minutiae of those big, complicated people-movers that most of us rely on without ever pausing to ponder how they actually work. "
'The newly-discovered group, named “ancient Beringians”, appears to have split off from the founding population of Native Americans about 20,000 years ago.'
- Jan 3 article: Surprise as DNA reveals new group of Native Americans: the ancient Beringians
the perfect word to describe the tangle of cables between my monitor, usb hubs, usb switcher, laptop, pi, old desktop, plethora of power supplies, network hubs, and HDMI switcher
"Growing up, she said, her father would occasionally speak to her in the Nak'azdli dialect of the Dakelh language historically spoken in central B.C., even though he wasn't fluent."
You will see differing definitions above (trout species versus salmon species) because scientists didn't really understand this fish over the last 200 years. It's like a trout that lives like a salmon.
'"Milkshake Duck" is slang for someone who is briefly and universally cheered, but then swiftly turned upon because of their previous social media posts. ' Dec 15, 2017
A shipper uni-name of a character coupling of Oliver Queen and Felicty Smoak on the Arrow tv show. Spotted in the news where fans raised money for a dedicated park bench in Vancouver.
in BC, it's a glass of beer, less than an imperial pint of 568 mL .
Our bars sometimes buy pint glasses from the US which is a 473 mL drink, but the bar cannot legally call it a pint in Canada. In general, a sleeve is not a specific unit of liquid. Lookup : "sleeve of beer" Google books has 'sleeve of beer' in the 21st century, but I heard this term in the late 80's.
term looked up 3200 times. Google Trends search shows this term trending Sept 2013. Google search shows this term popping up on wordnik on Sep 20, 2013
I feel that when a word is looked up 1000 times, it becomes mainstream in a way, and has to be recognized by the international cartel of big old dusty spider squishing dictionary publishers.
some will consider this word 'wrong' because it's a greek word with a latin plural ending added. On the other hand, some people will insist this is the 'right' way to spell the plural of octopus.
I remember this term being used in the Computer To Plate printing industry referring to the area of paper which will not be used in the final folded book or magazine. also margins
this is one of those words where, in Wiktionary's attempt to have a briefly written definition like a paper dictionary, they miss out on explaining what the word means.
the 90's are 20 years in the past, and this is the first time I heard this word, and wiktionary failed to explain this colour of music to a non-musicblind person.
the recursive verb definition is the cherry on top of the unclear definition.
So far, the fire emoji seems to be popular. It isn't the most common on emojipedia or other emoji sites, but it seems to be used as the new term lit , fire corn 🔥🌽 for fire cooked corn,🔥🐜 for fire ants,🗑🔥 for dumpster fire, 'is on 🔥' for 'is on fire' , 🔥🔥hard for 'fire fire hard' (?), and 💨🔥 for the sport of lighting natural methane, and allegedly 💀➡️🔥
looked up 2400 times. The people demand a definition.
quick search has Boom Shaka Laka in 1991
"His reviews for mid-'70s issues of Black Echoes helped define the genre and inspired some of the better reggae writing that followed, such as that in the now-defunct Small Axe or the new Boom Shaka Laka. " The Beat magazine, (google book search result)
Also spotted in the 1984 Ultimate Broadway Fake Book "shakalaka baby"
non spoiler from Wikipedia: ". It describes the titular monster, the Babadook, a tall pale-faced humanoid in a top hat with pointed fingers who torments its victims after they become aware of its existence."
Spotted in a news article about a crashed warship 'Though the admiral said he had visited the McCain and denied, in response to reporters' questions, that her crew were overworked ("I didn't see a crew taking a knee, so to speak") his...'
In NASAspeak, it includes the atmosphere in the disk of an object.
"Some of the most breathtaking views of Earth taken from space are those that capture our planet’s limb. When viewed from the side, the Earth looks like a flat circle, and the atmosphere appears like a halo around it. This edge of the atmosphere is known as the limb. Viewed from satellites, space shuttles, and even the moon, the image of this luminous envelope of gases shielding the life on our planet from the dark, cold space beyond rarely fails to fascinate us." - NASA visible earth.
"Families who would once have eaten potato waffles are now experimenting with lower carb butternut “squaffles” (slices of butternut squash cut to resemble a waffle)." Guardian article - Why we fell for clean eating.
'with the term “reduce greenhouse gases” blacklisted in favor of “build soil organic matter, increase nutrient use efficiency”. ' - Guardian article on banned terms. climate change
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alexz commented on the word smoothbrain
Found a new insult term on Twitter. It's an insult at someone's intelligence as a smart brain is supposed to have lots of folds and wrinkles.
May 23, 2020
alexz commented on the word girth certificate
spotted this on twitter, nearly died laughing.
May 20, 2020
alexz commented on the word COVID-19
I'd have to say that WuFlu is even more unloved than COVID-19 due to its racist tones. (listed Jan 24)
May 14, 2020
alexz commented on the word watchawl
spotted in the wild social media feeds.
'what are you all'
May 13, 2020
alexz commented on the word undercut
Spotted in Twitter as a haircut. The hair on the bottom is cut short, top remains longer.
May 13, 2020
alexz commented on the word COVID-19
Spotted on the Colbert Report that in French, COVID-19 is feminine.
While coronavirus is masculine. (Collins Dictionary)
I suspect that one rule of linguistics is that languages are not required to logical.
May 13, 2020
alexz commented on the word stinko
It's also in the Stompin Tom Connors song Sudbury Saturday Night
"Da girls are out to Bingo and the boys are gettin' stinko,
And we think no more of Inco on a Sudbury Saturday night."
May 11, 2020
alexz commented on the word vortmax
Spotted a new technical weather term in my social media feeds. Spotted on a diagram next to ridge, polar jet, subtropical jet
May 11, 2020
alexz commented on the list words-new-to-me-2020-NY4hVTZrcTi
@blafferty , you will find that that lists are personal preference. In my case, I may have a few Corono words, but I prefer to keep a 2020 list instead.
My 2020 list is here https://www.wordnik.com/lists/2020-new-words-i-stumble-across-gcITmkkCfnM
May 7, 2020
alexz commented on the list edifices
@cooldude69 it's possible to make a list non-editable. It's pretty rare that people have to clean up a list.
May 6, 2020
alexz commented on the word argy bargy
argle bargle
May 1, 2020
alexz commented on the word zumping
Blend of Zoom and Dumping, getting dumped on zoom.
spotted on my FB feed.
April 14, 2020
alexz commented on the word zoombombing
is when jerks join an organization's Zoom meeting to prank or insult people
March 31, 2020
alexz commented on the word rona
Spotted as a shortening of the coronavirus
'the rona'.
March 23, 2020
alexz commented on the list every-item-you-could-possibly-need-to-prepare-for-a-global-pandemic-nmSE0qa1TbsT
Chocolate. I ordered some groceries for delivery from my local drugstore to avoid crowds, but the order was split up, so one guy delivered a bag of usual things, and another guy showed up half an hour later to drop of a 6 inch cubed cardboard box with a packing slip, with 1 Kit-Kat bar.
Chocolate and sugary treats are also in my 72 hour earthquake prep bag.
March 18, 2020
alexz commented on the word quarantini
Spotted multiple times in my FB feed. A martini drunk in quarantine self-isolation.
March 14, 2020
alexz commented on the word self-isolation
Maybe pour out a quarantini?
March 14, 2020
alexz commented on the word Earthizen
Spotted this word in today's events by Chuck D
March 2, 2020
alexz commented on the word reylo
uniname of Rey and Kylo Ren.
February 27, 2020
alexz commented on the word snain
snow/rain
February 21, 2020
alexz commented on the word ground blizzard
I saw 'ground blizzard' in the news this weekend as there was a bunch of snow and wind in the Eastern US.
Maybe it's because I followed some weather experts on twitter.
also adding 'snow devil' to my big list.
February 18, 2020
alexz commented on the list wordpersonword-s7q3NEeJZepf
thingumbob?
February 16, 2020
alexz commented on the word FYEO
"For Your Eyes Only"
February 15, 2020
alexz commented on the word COVID-19
New official name for the 2019 Novel Coronavirus
Spotted in the WHO twitter feed.
"We now have a name for the #2019nCoV disease:
COVID-19.
I’ll spell it: C-O-V-I-D hyphen one nine – COVID-19""
February 12, 2020
alexz commented on the word megaroost
spotted as a really big roost of birds
February 7, 2020
alexz commented on the word tysm
yes it is!
February 7, 2020
alexz commented on the word shellmets
Spotted on Monterey Bay Aquarium twitter
"helmet-like shells"
February 1, 2020
alexz commented on the word Szczecin
clicking the word above sounds a bit like ch-ch-ch-chia
Google translate has a shch ech een
January 29, 2020
alexz commented on the word mcdo
I added this as I spotted people using McDo to refer to McDonalds
January 29, 2020
alexz commented on the word mcdo
You know what they call McDonalds in France?
January 26, 2020
alexz commented on the list ch-sounds-like-k-words-QedxLaOCfsn
achtung arachnids?
January 25, 2020
alexz commented on the word WuFlu
spotted as a slang term for the 2020 Novel Coronavirus.
January 24, 2020
alexz commented on the word SHSN
National Weather Service abbreviation for Snow Showers.
- National Weather Service Glossary
January 23, 2020
alexz commented on the word mesolow
Spotted on a NOAA / National Weather Service tweet. This is weather term listed in the NOAA glossary.
https://forecast.weather.gov/glossary.php?letter=m
January 23, 2020
alexz commented on the word jebaited
spotted this term in the last 2 years. most recent sighting was on a Ninja gaming video.
January 21, 2020
alexz commented on the word storm chips
Spotted a new term in these recnt Canadian storms.
Apparently Maritimers stock up on potato chips when a storm comes through town.
Also stormbeer stormchips
January 18, 2020
alexz commented on the user plainbroke
Have you signed up at https://developer.wordnik.com/
January 18, 2020
alexz commented on the word Chinese restaurant syndrome
It appears that Wiktionary and Wordnet have the same 'problem' definition that Webster has. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51139005
January 17, 2020
alexz commented on the word ⎠
⎝('¬')⎠
January 17, 2020
alexz commented on the word shromp
MBARI has a new meme word for shrimp ... shremp ....
January 16, 2020
alexz commented on the word dark-money
spotted in 2020 electionspeak
January 16, 2020
alexz commented on the word fakation
Spotted on Dr. Who. Jan 12 2020
January 12, 2020
alexz commented on the word tejrjwne
A mystery word on a mystery telephone box in Manchester
January 12, 2020
alexz commented on the word Megxit
Spotted in this week's news, Meghan and Harry leaving the Royal family.
January 11, 2020
alexz commented on the word panda bear sea angel
My new favourite word today thanks to Mbari
https://twitter.com/MontereyAq/status/1214629972066721792
January 7, 2020
alexz commented on the word snowdoor
When you open your front door, and discover a snowdrift has built up on your door which left an imprint in that drift.
January 7, 2020
alexz commented on the word damshur
Spotted in Wikipedia article about Ma Murray
'Her editorials were famously signed off with the catchphrase "And that's fer damshur!".'
January 5, 2020
alexz commented on the word caramelized snow
spotted in the news, that there is so much smoke in Australia's fires, that New Zealand's snow is covered in a light brown dust.
January 4, 2020
alexz commented on the word HNY
Good find ry!
January 4, 2020
alexz commented on the list 2020-words-i-stumble-across-███-vBUw_M4OlqF
Hi Ry,
I think the block text in the list name is causing an issue, so the best solution is to delete this list, and I can create a new one.
I'm not able to delete this list, so, I'll just stop adding words to this one.
January 2, 2020
alexz commented on the word Hyderized
citation for the book crowd
"Get Hyderized" originated at the Glacier Inn in 1956"
https://www.thealaskalife.com/blog/hyder-alaska-canadian-ties/
December 31, 2019
alexz commented on the word hny
see HNY
December 31, 2019
alexz commented on the word HNY
spotted as Happy New Year
December 31, 2019
alexz commented on the word fwu
spotted on twitter meaning 'f*** with you'
See also fw and fwm
December 21, 2019
alexz commented on the word fwm
spotted 'fwm' on twitter, in most cases it means 'f*** with me'
see also fw and fwu
December 21, 2019
alexz commented on the word foilboard
a motorized surfboard with an aquatic foil so that it lifts out of the water.
December 17, 2019
alexz commented on the word penis fish
Urechis caupo
aka innkeeper worms
December 14, 2019
alexz commented on the word meteorological winter
December, January, February.
as opposed to Astronomical Winter
December 2, 2019
alexz commented on the word fam jam
spotted as a family party / family event / family group
November 30, 2019
alexz commented on the word gdi
spotted as textspeak for 'goddamn it'
November 28, 2019
alexz commented on the word bird site
Spotted as a reference to Twitter by people who don't want Twitter to know they're talking about them.
November 27, 2019
alexz commented on the word maclunky
also spotted as MacClunkey
Attributed to Greedo in Star Wars. A new word added in an edited version of Star Wars.
This would be an interesting name for a car.
November 26, 2019
alexz commented on the word foomo
Wonder if foomo is best used alongside oomf (one of my followers/friends)
November 18, 2019
alexz commented on the list words-of-the-decade-2010s-lpd4AzgFQxB
My nomination for word of the decade is .... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
November 14, 2019
alexz commented on the word caticorn
Also catticorn
November 14, 2019
alexz commented on the word catticorn
A rare creature, mostly cat, part unicorn. Can be found on the internets.
November 14, 2019
alexz commented on the word quod googla
Spotted this term on Twitter.
"q.g. - quod googla = "which you can Google," from the first declension latin verb googlare, "to Google."
https://twitter.com/robinhouston/status/1193105748374491136
whole thread is worth reading.
q.g. quod googla quod googlandum Q.E.G. googlare QEG Quod Errat Wikipaedium quod est googlandum
November 9, 2019
alexz commented on the list ice-nomenclature-2YkOZ__kW6GB
Stealing words from your ice list for my ice list....
November 8, 2019
alexz commented on the list retro-names-for-movie-houses-BJX43YqsEME9
Canada used to have Famous Players, Odeon,
The Stanley theatre is an old vintage theater in Vancouver.
November 4, 2019
alexz commented on the list retro-names-for-movie-houses-BJX43YqsEME9
a lot of US small towns had a Strand theatre
November 1, 2019
alexz commented on the word spood
Spotted as spider on twitter.
Not sure if it's meme-speak or a dialect from Asia Pacific
October 31, 2019
alexz commented on the word YARD SARD
YARB SALE
October 26, 2019
alexz commented on the user wesleybrandon
The really exclusive secret society is the Secret Society of Bilbies.
October 12, 2019
alexz commented on the list interrogative-animals-G78xbJ5pP_Nz
how now brown cow
https://books.google.ca/books?id=kSr4fO2zYrIC&pg=PA39&dq=how+now+brown+cow
September 20, 2019
alexz commented on the word bhop
Gaming term - short for Bunny Hop - computer games physics gives a player a longer jump if they land from another large jump.
September 17, 2019
alexz commented on the word FRH
Spotted as Flameless Ration Heater - a bag with water activated heating pack used for heating up a MRE Meal Ready to Eat package.
September 16, 2019
alexz commented on the word bujo
spotted as a shortening of Bullet Journaling
keeping a journal
September 16, 2019
alexz commented on the word h8rz
txt speak for 'haters'
September 10, 2019
alexz commented on the word IPA
I wonder where Donald Duck speech and Gollum Speak line up on the IPA charts.
The O and I in 'hobbitses' really squeeze air around the tonsil area.
September 4, 2019
alexz commented on the word Palenquero
Spotted in a BBC article 'Reviving Colombia's 'language of resistance'' "Palenquero is one of the 68 languages found in Colombia and is a mix of Spanish and African Bantu languages. But with just a few thousand speakers, it has not been easy to keep the language alive."
September 4, 2019
alexz commented on the word MCU
Marvel Cinematic Universe
August 31, 2019
alexz commented on the word guac
Monterey Bay Aquarium mentioned they'd like this to be the collective noun for a group of mola fish.
https://twitter.com/MontereyAq/status/1167147269021298688
"ok hear me out ok so assuming a group of mola is a guac of mola and then you come across a mol of Mola mola is that avocado’s number
|\____ ⠀ ⠀____/|( •o• ⠀ •-• ⠀ )
|/￣￣⠀ ⠀￣￣\|"
|\____ ⠀ ⠀____/|
( •-• ⠀ •o• ⠀ )
|/￣￣⠀ ⠀￣￣\|"
August 30, 2019
alexz commented on the word thankyouverymuch
Reminds me of Latka Gravis from the 70s tv show Taxi.
August 28, 2019
alexz commented on the word tysm
txtspeak for 'thank you so much'
August 27, 2019
alexz commented on the list 2019-shortlist-of-interesting-words
Of my shortlist of 2019 words, I think I like boujie the best, but I don't think it will be around in 5 years.
August 26, 2019
alexz commented on the word Kochtopus
spotted this one in recent news.
August 26, 2019
alexz commented on the word pizzadilla
spotted in trending things on twitter.
"deep-fried BBQ chicken pizzadilla"
Suddenly Haggis doesn't sound so scary.
August 26, 2019
alexz commented on the word orthosilicic
It appears that the phrase following phrase has a good reverse lookup to find words which have this definition glitch.
August 26, 2019
alexz commented on the word boujie
Spotted this term twice in the last week. Saw it spelled once as boujie.
August 19, 2019
alexz commented on the word Cthulu
Spotted a Cthulu emoticon today
/|\(;,;)/|\
August 9, 2019
alexz commented on the word PEDMAS
related to BODMAS and BEDMAS
July 31, 2019
alexz commented on the word argb
"Addressable Red Green Blue" LED lighting.
Computer lighting which is software configured on a device by device basis.
July 25, 2019
alexz commented on the word smol
This word, has not, been adopted... yet
July 4, 2019
alexz commented on the word rage-quit
There's words like joy-ride , happy dance , smug shrug ,...
June 27, 2019
alexz commented on the word easy clap
have been seeing this term in online gaming videos for an 'easy win'.
easy claps ; ez clap
June 20, 2019
alexz commented on the word yonut
Spotted this in a Bon Appetit YouTube video about donuts @2:30 June 17 2019
Sour cream donut made using yogurt instead of sour cream.
June 18, 2019
alexz commented on the word iydyd
"if you don't you don't"
June 9, 2019
alexz commented on the word iykyk
'if you know you know'
June 9, 2019
alexz commented on the word babycoo
spotted on twitter as baby cows
June 8, 2019
alexz commented on the word bug report
Same here, https://www.wordnik.com/lists/undefined The Rhino has nice nails on that page.
June 4, 2019
alexz commented on the word dub
2019 - Refers to W for a Win.
I initially spotted this in Fortnite in this usage. But I suspect it's had sports usage for a win.
June 3, 2019
alexz commented on the word hurb
spotted on twitter. It's 'bruh spelled backwards.
sometimes you will see it spelled hurB
June 2, 2019
alexz commented on the word molecules of freedom
Spotted in the news. Reminds me of freedom fries
May 30, 2019
alexz commented on the word zooper dooper
Gotta love the current tweets for this word though.
May 29, 2019
alexz commented on the word zooper dooper
Australian for freeze pop
May 28, 2019
alexz commented on the word efforting
heard this spoken in a Science Friday interview about climate change. To me, this word doesn't sound right.
May 8, 2019
alexz commented on the word vomelet
Spotted in a Slate article as a Veggie and Egg Omelet Meal Ready To Eat
May 7, 2019
alexz commented on the word ilu
Spotted as "I love u" in textspeak on Twitter
May 2, 2019
alexz commented on the word terrorific
Spotted in a Canada Space Agency tweet.
April 30, 2019
alexz commented on the word twanting
Spotted in The Register , Tweet Ranting
April 25, 2019
alexz commented on the word rwnj
spotted as 'Right Wing Nut Job"
April 21, 2019
alexz commented on the word First
also see First!
April 16, 2019
alexz commented on the word Snofozam
Spotted in my twitter feed as the Snow Fountain cherry tree.
April 13, 2019
alexz commented on the word linecon
Spotted in a friends tweet. A comment on long lines at conventions
April 12, 2019
alexz commented on the word luzonensis
Apr 10, 2019 New ancient human species discoverd. Homo luzonensis
April 11, 2019
alexz commented on the word GRRM
Saw a friend use this term. Stands for George RR Martin
March 31, 2019
alexz commented on the word mfn
muffin snakes on this muffin plane
March 30, 2019
alexz commented on the word alcosynth
Spotted in a Guardian news article about synthetic alcohol.
March 29, 2019
alexz commented on the word mfn
Spotted a new swear in txt speak
March 27, 2019
alexz commented on the word blesst
Spotted this on Twitter, and I agree with the twitter faves list, I like this word.
March 27, 2019
alexz commented on the word criscuit
spotted as a cricket flour biscuit
March 23, 2019
alexz commented on the word poppypocalypse
The event of 50,000 tourists visiting a small valley in California to see a flower superbloom. Spotted on Science Friday
March 23, 2019
alexz commented on the word Illegitimi non carborundum
From Wikipedia "don't let the bastards get you down"
March 21, 2019
alexz commented on the word manyplies
I assumed this was a toilet paper adjective
March 21, 2019
alexz commented on the word GSOD
Green Screen Of Death. Similar to BSOD but is a bugcheck screen.
March 20, 2019
alexz commented on the word haz gas
Spotted this term in March 15 Delta IV launch in the 'go for launch' checklist pre-launch..
March 16, 2019
alexz commented on the word NPU
spotted in tech as Neural Processing Unit
March 15, 2019
alexz commented on the word pawesome
Paws awesome
March 14, 2019
alexz commented on the word pilish poem
A poem designed with words representing the digits of pi.
https://www.rd.com/culture/pilish-poetry/
March 10, 2019
alexz commented on the word octopi
𝜋𝜋𝜋𝜋𝜋𝜋𝜋𝜋
March 10, 2019
alexz commented on the word skysolo
Blend of Han Solo / Luke Skywalker
March 10, 2019
alexz commented on the word meteorological spring
March April May
March 1, 2019
alexz commented on the word lolsob
This looks to me like laughing and crying.
February 27, 2019
alexz commented on the word ballicadres
Can be spotted in Newfoundland English for sea ice piled up on the shore.
February 25, 2019
alexz commented on the word cbf
Searching twitter for 'cbf means' confirms your definition.
February 25, 2019
alexz commented on the word cbf
not sure if cbf is "can't be found" or "can be found"
February 24, 2019
alexz commented on the word mudlarker
Spotted in the BBC
"Neolithic skull found by Thames 'mudlarkers'"
see mudlark
February 21, 2019
alexz commented on the word Snow Banksy
Spotted in CBC news - snow art made from snowbanks and spray paint.
February 20, 2019
alexz commented on the word divot
I've seen this spelled divit
February 19, 2019
alexz commented on the word spoilering
Spotted in the news "Josh Gad is very worried about spoilering Frozen 2"
February 15, 2019
alexz commented on the word now-casting
Spotted in a tweet by a local Vancouver meteorologist. People's tweets are helping them update their weather reporting.
February 15, 2019
alexz commented on the word tuckamore
Spotted this in a Twitter post.. a Maritimes word for a tree. In this case it was a twisted windswept tree near a coastal cliff.
February 14, 2019
alexz commented on the word setmance
Spotted in Vancouver news for on set romance. (Hollywood North Buzz)
February 12, 2019
alexz commented on the word NanoPutians
Spotted in an Astronaut Massimo tweet.
"NanoPutians are a series of organic molecules whose structural formulae resemble human forms. James Tour et al. (Rice University) designed and synthesized these compounds in 2003 as a part of a sequence on chemical education for young students ..."
February 10, 2019
alexz commented on the word 🤏
This is the 'pinching hand' emoji.
In Canada, my generation has the 'squishing your head like a grape' gesture from a 'Kids in the hall' comedy sketch..
Colbert referred to this as the 'tiny penis' emoji.
February 8, 2019
alexz commented on the word 🤏🎻
The new 'pinching hand' emoji and violin = "the tiniest violin"
(spotted in looking up usage of the 'pinching hand' emoji.
February 8, 2019
alexz commented on the word SalArm
Spotted in a friends update.
Short for Salvation Army thrift store
Looking this up has salarm Sal Arm and sal arm in a search.
February 7, 2019
alexz commented on the word supershear
Spotted in a @nasa tweet.
"A team including @NASAJPL researchers finds the Sept. 2018 major earthquake near Indonesia was a 'supershear' – a rare, extra-powerful event. "
February 6, 2019
alexz commented on the word Brandon Bob
Brandon Bob is a mythical Groundhog who doesn't actually exist in Brandon Manitoba.
Spotted in a MacLeans article "Sorry, folks. Manitoba’s famed groundhog, Brandon Bob, doesn’t exist."
Here's a 1993 example for Brandon Bob https://books.google.ca/books?id=wtEOAQAAMAAJ&q="brandon+bob
February 2, 2019
alexz commented on the word Hoobiyee
Spotted in Vancouver news as Nisga'a New Year
February 2, 2019
alexz commented on the word Chiberia
Spotted in today's weather news. It's cold in Chicago.
January 31, 2019
alexz commented on the word gawrsh
How Goofy says Gosh
January 29, 2019
alexz commented on the word sea-can
a sea-container
A shipping container.
Spotted in a Delta Police news posting "Police ask for assistance to find owner of missing household goods"
Examples to the right show this term going back to 2006, 2008
January 29, 2019
alexz commented on the word hangxiety
Spotted in a Guardian article 'Hangxiety’: why alcohol gives you a hangover and anxiety
January 28, 2019
alexz commented on the word PVE
gaming term - Player versus environment
ie, a computer game where you have to fight non-player enemies, such as zombies, robots, etc.
January 25, 2019
alexz commented on the word super-poopers
Spotted in CBC article
"Not all poop is created equal, and 'super-poopers' could be life savers"
Article is about people with a healthy microbiome who have better results in fecal transplants.
January 25, 2019
alexz commented on the word popty ping
not really the Welsh word for microwave
January 21, 2019
alexz commented on the word hair ice
Video explainer of hair ice spotted in my local news https://globalnews.ca/news/4855862/no-its-not-hair-unusual-ice-formations-turn-up-on-vancouver-island/?utm_source=Article&utm_medium=MostPopular&utm_campaign=2014
January 17, 2019
alexz commented on the word tombac
Laurtal Yanni
January 16, 2019
alexz commented on the word ducco
Spotted as a form of doggo speak on twitter
Also ducc
January 15, 2019
alexz commented on the word wdym
textspeak for 'what do you mean'
January 15, 2019
alexz commented on the word tombac
larval COM port
January 14, 2019
alexz commented on the word tombac
Mortal Compote
January 14, 2019
alexz commented on the word battlestation
Spotted as a marketing term for a computer desk setup for gaming
Also, Star Wars
January 14, 2019
alexz commented on the word full stack developer
snarky comment left under full stack
January 12, 2019
alexz commented on the word full stack
full stack developer.
In myth, it's someone who knows everything from the bare metal to the application level.
January 12, 2019
alexz commented on the word elim
gaming shortening for elimination
January 12, 2019
alexz commented on the word elims
gaming short version of eliminations
January 12, 2019
alexz commented on the word resos
spotted again as restaurant reservations.
The twitter examples also have it being a shortening of Resolutions (computer plus new year's)
January 11, 2019
alexz commented on the word electron guzzler
spotted as an old version electric car, or an electric car which is inefficient.
January 8, 2019
alexz commented on the word 👏🏽
In 2018, this was commonly used as the SHOUT 👏🏽 CLAP
Where a phrase was to be read as if it were in all caps with a tempo.
As in
NEXT 👏🏽 YEAR 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽 WILL 👏🏽 BE 👏🏽 EMOJI 👏🏽 OF 👏🏽 THE 👏🏽 YEAR
January 6, 2019
alexz commented on the word chine
Coquitlam BC has a neighbourhood called Harbour Chines
January 3, 2019
alexz commented on the word LTM
In computer gaming it is Limited Time Mode
January 2, 2019
alexz commented on the word ☕⏰
Spotted emoji phrase for teatime
January 1, 2019
alexz commented on the word criminelly
Crikey!
December 26, 2018
alexz commented on the word Spidersonas
one of the better words I stumbled across in 2018
December 24, 2018
alexz commented on the word regen
for electric cars, people are referring to this as the level of power regeneration from braking.
December 22, 2018
alexz commented on the word Ultima Thule
Just saw this is defined at ultima thule
December 16, 2018
alexz commented on the word Ultima Thule
"most north"
Ultima Thule is a nickname of an object in the Kuiper Belt.
December 15, 2018
alexz commented on the word oxime
ox-team ?
December 14, 2018
alexz commented on the word oxime
rhymes with box mime
December 14, 2018
alexz commented on the word deagle
Computer gaming - refers to the Desert Eagle pistol in a computer game.
December 14, 2018
alexz commented on the word procaffeinating
But first, coffee
December 13, 2018
alexz commented on the list woty-nominations-for-2018
In looking back at this list, I don't think most of these words will be used much in 10 years from now.
looking up 'it me' shows low usage. I haven't heard 'zaddy' in months.
I think the shout clap emoji and cryptojacking will be around 10 years from now.
December 12, 2018
alexz commented on the word detank
To empty a fuel tank
December 9, 2018
alexz commented on the word safed
dunno.
The rocket launch industry likes to shorten words, verbing nouns, nouning verbs.
December 9, 2018
alexz commented on the word safed
NASA speak for having been made safe.
a radio call you may hear is "Stage 1 FTS safed"
spotted this in a discussion about the recent water landing of a rocket.
December 8, 2018
alexz commented on the word ftlog
text speak - 'for the love of god'
December 8, 2018
alexz commented on the word resiliência
Mozambique's 2018 word of the year.
resiliência - resilience
December 6, 2018
alexz commented on the word dipped
Spotted a new 2018 usage in an Ariana song
December 2, 2018
alexz commented on the word Abcde
Spotted in BBC news where an airline apologized for making fun of a kids name.
November 30, 2018
alexz commented on the word belsnickeling
According to the CBC. It is real. https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-tuesday-edition-1.4922290/nova-scotia-belsnickling-is-real-and-here-s-a-photo-to-prove-it-1.4922302
November 28, 2018
alexz commented on the word EDL
Nasa speak for Entry Descent Landing
November 27, 2018
alexz commented on the word spaghett
spotted this word without the i on the end, and I think it's intentional.
also, spotted with an o at the end.
November 26, 2018
alexz commented on the word wwyd
"what would you do "
November 24, 2018
alexz commented on the word ENIAC
Watching a video which has Grace Hopper giving a talk, she pronounces it like Enny-Ack
November 21, 2018
alexz commented on the word BECO
NASAspeak - Booster Engine Cut-off
November 21, 2018
alexz commented on the word vanre
Vancouver term for Vancouver real estate
November 19, 2018
alexz commented on the word tenkeyless
a keyboard without the number pad.
aka TKL
November 19, 2018
alexz commented on the word balloonatic
Spotted in an article about inflatable parade floats
November 19, 2018
alexz commented on the word die kleine h
"the little h" or Planck's constant.
November 17, 2018
alexz commented on the word Le Grand K
This refers to the mechanical platinum alloy model of the kilogram which has been in use for the last 200 years.
November 17, 2018
alexz commented on the word IPK
"international prototype of the kilogram " This refers to the Platinum alloy model of the kilogram kept in storage in France.
November 17, 2018
alexz commented on the word kilogram
from https://www.bipm.org/utils/en/pdf/si-mep/MeP-kg-2018.pdf
"The kilogram, symbol kg, is the SI unit of mass. It is defined by taking the fixed
numerical value of the Planck constant h to be 6.626 070 15 × 10–34 when expressed
in the unit J s, which is equal to kg m2 s
–1
, where the metre and the second are
defined in terms of c and ∆νCs."
Nov 2018 redefinition of kilogram.
Mandatory XKCD comic: https://xkcd.com/2073/
November 17, 2018
alexz commented on the word yeeting
I have no idea what this word really means in a gaming sense. scarequote's definition at yeet likely helps, but I think yeet means several things. - see twitter examples
November 17, 2018
alexz commented on the word edtech
education technology blend
November 15, 2018
alexz commented on the word freakshake
spotted in the BBC
'Call for UK ban on 'grotesquely sugary' freakshakes' Nov 12, 2018
"Freakshakes are milkshakes that also contain chocolates, sweets, cake, cream and sauce."
November 13, 2018
alexz commented on the word ptest
Computing - a package test.
November 10, 2018
alexz commented on the word milkshake duck
duckmilk shake
November 7, 2018
alexz commented on the word marschitect
Spotted as a Mars Architect
spotted in an ad.
November 6, 2018
alexz commented on the word BOFA
"both of"
November 5, 2018
alexz commented on the word w key
Refers to computer game players which hold down the W key, moving forward.
November 5, 2018
alexz commented on the word mobage
spotted as being a mobile game
November 4, 2018
alexz commented on the word Pet👏🏽ty
Spotted on twitter, the shoutclap used in the mid👏🏽dle of a word.
November 4, 2018
alexz commented on the word mervert
Fox News headline "'Professional mermaid' says creepy 'merverts' are the worst part of the job"
November 3, 2018
alexz commented on the list zamboni-palin
love this list.
November 3, 2018
alexz commented on the word firsting
Spotted this in gaming (Fortnite) but it seems to have a meaning on twitter.
+
November 2, 2018
alexz commented on the word NaNoWriMas
On the first day of NaNoWriMas the writer typed to thee "It was a dark and stormy night.."
November 2, 2018
alexz commented on the word Hu
Spotted online as meaning the 'Human Element'
after the periodic table.
November 1, 2018
alexz commented on the list stars--1
Glad you liked the Thesaurus link.
October 30, 2018
alexz commented on the word Goop-ies
fans of Goop
October 29, 2018
alexz commented on the word intimacy coordinator
it's a stunt coordinator for love scenes
October 29, 2018
alexz commented on the word Inuk
Spotted in the news Inuk word of the day.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/angus-andersen-teaches-intuktitut-1.4881065
October 28, 2018
alexz commented on the word deplatform
Spotted in the news: when online services no longer do business with an organization, removing their platform services
October 28, 2018
alexz commented on the word pro rep
Spotted in BC's 2018 referendum for Proportional Representation
October 27, 2018
alexz commented on the word NASA Thesaurus
I'm happy to discover that NASA has an online Thesaurus
October 27, 2018
alexz commented on the word twickets
Twitter tickets - tech support tickets which come in from Twitter to a company's tech support system.
October 25, 2018
alexz commented on the word letterboxing
Sounds like geocaching
October 22, 2018
alexz commented on the word memepad
What some players call the launchpad in Fortnite
October 22, 2018
alexz commented on the word totes mcgoats
Hyperbolic slang for totally
October 22, 2018
alexz commented on the word Totes McGoats
The name of a recycling mascot in Niagara Falls. http://time.com/4074261/totes-mcgoats/
Slang for totally
October 21, 2018
alexz commented on the word toats
I assume its a new way of saying totes for totally.
October 21, 2018
alexz commented on the word saxomophone
Made popular by Homer Simpson
October 20, 2018
alexz commented on the word Bunnicula
A vampire rabbit.
October 20, 2018
alexz commented on the word TLOTR
The lord Of The Rings
October 18, 2018
alexz commented on the word oojay-cum-spiff
Spotted in a Vancouver Public Library tweet.
https://twitter.com/VPL/status/1052368633794580481
"Oojay-cum-spiff, adj. "All you have to do,’ I said, ‘is to carry on here for a few weeks more, and everything will be oojah-cum-spiff." 1930 PG Wodehouse.
Check out the meaning in our Oxford English Dictionary. Part of our Digital Library
http://ow.ly/NE3o30mghCz "
October 17, 2018
alexz commented on the word zaddy
I wonder which will last longer.. 'zaddy' as a word, or 'it me' as a sentence.
October 16, 2018
alexz commented on the word aurodium
Super rare Star Wars fictional gold
October 16, 2018
alexz commented on the word instagame
Instagram skill level
October 15, 2018
alexz commented on the word flossing
it's a dance move - 2018.
Spotted this at a Fortnite Emote.
October 15, 2018
alexz commented on the word aluminium
The discoverer of Aluminum initially called it aluminum. https://books.google.ca/books?id=YjMwAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA201
October 14, 2018
alexz commented on the word nuisance flooding
Well then...
October 14, 2018
alexz commented on the word postdrome
A migraine hangover
October 10, 2018
alexz commented on the word it me
First spotted the it me in 2017. I wonder what other sentences are just nouns.
October 10, 2018
alexz commented on the word chocolate bloom
Bloom county , Orlando Bloom, bloomers , bloomin ...
October 10, 2018
alexz commented on the word inverse femtobarn
A physics expression of luminosity, as a femtobarn is a unit of area.
October 8, 2018
alexz commented on the word youd
slang version of you would
October 7, 2018
alexz commented on the word Yanni
I think a good linguistics prank would be to make Laurel/Yanni the word of the year.
"And the word of the year is ....*soundclip*"
October 7, 2018
alexz commented on the word Banksy-ed
' “It appears we just got Banksy-ed,” said Alex Branczik, Sotheby’s senior director and head of contemporary art in Europe.'
Spotted in the Guardian Article - Banksy auction prank leaves art world in shreds
🎈🏃♀️
October 7, 2018
alexz commented on the word dream-pop
A type of music i'm not familiar with
October 5, 2018
alexz commented on the word contstant
I suspect this word shows up in print because that's how some people say constant
October 5, 2018
alexz commented on the word CELF
Commission for the Enrichment of the French Language - spotted in the Guardian.
October 5, 2018
alexz commented on the word regos
Spotted as Regolith Legos - small sintered blocks made from regolith material.
Spotted in Verge Science video "Building a lunar base out of Moon dust" Sept 18 2018
To add circular recursion, regolith comes from the greek word rhēgos
October 4, 2018
alexz commented on the word sortabiography
"It's sorta true" -Eric Idle on Colbert Late Show
October 2, 2018
alexz commented on the word hickup-snickup
a hiccough
a 1400's word spotted in an 1800's dictionary on Archaic and Disused words.
https://books.google.ca/books?id=zG1JAAAAcAAJ
October 2, 2018
alexz commented on the word vall
to fall, rain or snow.
spotted in https://books.google.ca/books?id=WVYJAAAAQAAJ&pg=795#v=onepage&q&f=false
The West Somerset Word-book
October 2, 2018
alexz commented on the word ROTM
Spotted in The Register : Rise Of The Machines
October 2, 2018
alexz commented on the word HUSAR
Heavy Urban Search and Rescue
October 1, 2018
alexz commented on the word Amsterdammer
Google books says the song goes back to at least 1958
https://books.google.ca/books?id=jigNd06IAyoC&p=67
(no preview)
October 1, 2018
alexz commented on the word USMCA
US Mexico Canada Agreement.
Spotted on CBC News
October 1, 2018
alexz commented on the word Amsterdamster
Rhymes with Amsterhamster
September 30, 2018
alexz commented on the word Amsterdammer
Spotted ths term. I'm not sure if this is an official term.
September 29, 2018
alexz commented on the word long story short
examples go back to the 1700's https://books.google.ca/books?id=EPGFUz7coAEC&pg=PA44&dq=long+story+short
September 29, 2018
alexz commented on the word Clippy
|￣￣￣￣￣ ￣￣￣|
| It looks like
| you're trying
| to look up
| Clippy .
| ＿＿____________ |
⩎
ꙭ
⩏
September 26, 2018
alexz commented on the word fotc
Abbreviation for tv show Flight Of The Conchords
September 25, 2018
alexz commented on the word UAC
Windows term for User Account Control
the computer protection based on approval popups which you get when you try to run an unknown executable in Windows.
September 22, 2018
alexz commented on the word OK
Vox did an article on this word.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UnIDL-eHOs
How it started from Boston and spread through the Telegraphs.
September 17, 2018
alexz commented on the word Elders of the Internet
https://books.google.ca/books?id=BjsEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA46&dq=elders+internet
March 14 1994 , Info World
I don't think this is the actual root of this term.
E. of The Internet spotted in Internet Engineering Task Force document https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-elders-social-media-apology-00 - July 2018
see also 'elder days' at the Jargon File. http://catb.org/jargon/html/E/elder-days.html This version of Jargon File is from the late 90's.
Version 2.1.1 had the first reference to 'elder'
"1. To attach a removable storage volume to a machine.
Version 2.8.2 had the first Lord Of the Rings based reference to elders.
March 23 1991
September 15, 2018
alexz commented on the word trash panda
Despite the blog, this term pre-dates Reddit. https://books.google.ca/books?id=A5F5MRJl98YC&pg=PT79&dq="trash+panda"
2009 example.
September 13, 2018
alexz commented on the word SIEM
"Security incident and event management"
- wikipedia
This is a computer security term. I keep seeing it and having to look it up.
September 12, 2018
alexz commented on the word EGOT
An acting achievement where tou win Emmy, Oscar, Tony, and Grammy
September 10, 2018
alexz commented on the list on-the-lot
I sometimes wonder how 'real' the terms are when the terms are recycled in list compilation books.
https://books.google.ca/books?id=WipZDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT289
September 9, 2018
alexz commented on the word it'snot
For the times this is not a typo, it's a clever blend of it's not and it snot.
Spotted on Twitter
"You might think wiping your nose on the flag is patriotic but it’snot"
- @hoarsewisperer
September 8, 2018
alexz commented on the word sas-quashed
Sootted in news article where a Sasquatch believer sued the BC government.
September 6, 2018
alexz commented on the list the-bees-knees-and-the-cats-pajamas
In my co-op student days, a British mechanic called everything good the cat's ass.
September 4, 2018
alexz commented on the word meteorological fall
meteorological autumn
September 4, 2018
alexz commented on the word meteorological autumn
September through November
https://forecast.weather.gov/glossary.php?word=autumn
also meteorological fall
September 4, 2018
alexz commented on the word Everest
Spotted as a verb, cycling term in a BBC article.
'The first cyclist to 'Everest' on Everest'
"Everesting is a cycling challenge where you pick a hill and ride up it over and over again until you've scaled 8,848m - the height of Mt Everest."
August 31, 2018
alexz commented on the word nyongmato
Sounds like a lot of work for a free sheep.
August 30, 2018
alexz commented on the word Unscented
link to TankHughe's list https://wordnik.com/lists/this-definition-is-wrong
August 30, 2018
alexz commented on the word book club
Why's the wine gone?
August 29, 2018
alexz commented on the word anolyte
a negatively charged electrolyte . see also, catholyte
August 28, 2018
alexz commented on the word SENĆOŦEN
Spotted in CBC article 'New dictionary published for Indigenous Vancouver Island language'
"... SENĆOŦEN is one of the one of the Coast Salish group of languages that is written in a mainly upper-case alphabet."
August 26, 2018
alexz commented on the word 1-1
spotted as businesspeak for 1 on 1 meeting
August 22, 2018
alexz commented on the word rng
Gaming : random number generator
August 21, 2018
alexz commented on the word 🐝🍃
Believe
August 21, 2018
alexz commented on the user heavenglows144
Running the first letters of a group of nations is how the word Pakistan came about.
August 19, 2018
alexz commented on the word 🏃 🌳 🏃
Spotted in a Carly Rae Jepsen music video as "Run Forrest Run!"
August 18, 2018
alexz commented on the word UNIX
Etymology - from UNICS which was Uniplexed Information and Computing Service
Spotted this in a youtube video watch?v=jowCUo_UGts and a Google books search confirms this.
https://books.google.ca/books?id=6DZdDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA7&dq=Uniplexed+Information+and+Computing+Service
August 17, 2018
alexz commented on the word starboard
I assumed it was because when ships sail from England to North America, Portugal is on the left and the North Star was on the right.
August 17, 2018
alexz commented on the word avozilla
An avocado as big as your head.
August 16, 2018
alexz commented on the word IMBH
Intermediate Mass Black Hole
August 12, 2018
alexz commented on the word tbqh
to be quite honest
August 11, 2018
alexz commented on the word landiversary
What the Mars Curiosity rover just called its landing anniversary.
August 6, 2018
alexz commented on the word remainer
2016-2018 refers to people who think Britain should remain in the EU
August 4, 2018
alexz commented on the word remainiac
Refers to people who prefer remain intstead of Brexit. Remainer.
August 4, 2018
alexz commented on the word seenager
Spotted online as a joke - a Senior Teenager - An old person who has no job, and no worries.
July 26, 2018
alexz commented on the list non-dairy-beverages
milk of magnesia , milk of the poppy,
July 24, 2018
alexz commented on the word almond milk
Spotted in cookbooks going back to the 1600's https://books.google.ca/books?id=NY9mAAAAcAAJ
July 21, 2018
alexz commented on the word Meghalayan
From the examples, it's referring to a region in India.
July 21, 2018
alexz commented on the word meghalayan
From a CBC news article : "Meghalayan (Late Holocene) Age, which runs from the start of a "mega-drought" 4,200 years ago to the present day."
July 21, 2018
alexz commented on the word hetiquette
Spotted in Guardian article where 'eating bananas whole' is an issue for people... also, Ice Cream.
July 21, 2018
alexz commented on the word greige
Free range definition from the Guardian.
"And then there’s its cousin, greige, which you can make by mixing together two other things: monotony and despair. All of these related shades spell out a disappointment in all the world’s flowers. They look like preened and perfected sick. And it is my belief that the palace has used the beige to take confident, opinionated, personality-owning Meghan away from us and turn her into a royal bot, like they always do."
July 15, 2018
alexz commented on the word bollux
spotted this as an alternative to bollocks
July 15, 2018
alexz commented on the word ux
If i had a wife, I wouldn't call er an ux
July 15, 2018
alexz commented on the word novichok
in 2018 news, it's a nerve agent which has historically been associated with Russia.
July 9, 2018
alexz commented on the word Spotified
Spotted a case of this becoming a generic term. " The future will be Spotified"
July 8, 2018
alexz commented on the word hypolith
Spotted this tweeted by a science radio show.
July 8, 2018
alexz commented on the word grep
Spotted the etymology in a youtube video - 8 minute mark.
G is for Global
re is for Regular Expression
P is what their tools tended to end in. https://youtu.be/NTfOnGZUZDk?t=8m1s
July 7, 2018
alexz commented on the word ez pz
Easy peasy
July 6, 2018
alexz commented on the word EZ PZ
easy peasy
July 6, 2018
alexz commented on the word insurancitis
Spotted this word again in 2018.
It appears to have some sticking power in the language.
July 6, 2018
alexz commented on the word hydromulch
spray on grass - used to stabilize hills from erosion.
June 30, 2018
alexz commented on the word donug
donut shaped chicken nugget
June 27, 2018
alexz commented on the word shiggrins
spotted as "just for shiggrins"
June 21, 2018
alexz commented on the word QT
twitterese for 'quote tweet'
June 20, 2018
alexz commented on the word metamorph
Science fiction - a shape shifter. Goes back to at least 1979
June 19, 2018
alexz commented on the word šxʷƛ̓exən Xwtl’a7shn
New place name in Vancouver. The plaza by the Queen Elizabeth Theatre.
June 19, 2018
alexz commented on the word battle royale
Computer gaming - refers to a game where huge teams play against each other.
ie, 50 vs 50, last team standing wins.
June 17, 2018
alexz commented on the word ☮
The symbol comes from the semaphores for N and D which stand for Nuclear Disarmament
June 17, 2018
alexz commented on the word smancy
schmancy
June 16, 2018
alexz commented on the word HIIT
High Intensity Interval Training
June 16, 2018
alexz commented on the word wit
slang shortening of with
June 15, 2018
alexz commented on the word fittinta
fittin ta
June 15, 2018
alexz commented on the word ikr
I know, right?
Also IKR
June 14, 2018
alexz commented on the word Periodontology
Glitched definition
June 14, 2018
alexz commented on the word fawn-napping
Spotted in the news. Leave the baby deer alone.
June 14, 2018
alexz commented on the word putchist
That would make sense.
June 6, 2018
alexz commented on the word putchist
no idea what this word means.
spotted in the news.
June 6, 2018
alexz commented on the word hexa-core
having 6 cpu cores
June 6, 2018
alexz commented on the word Manipogo
Name comes from Ogopogo
June 3, 2018
alexz commented on the word Winnipogo
Another Canadian lake monster, see Manipogo
June 3, 2018
alexz commented on the word noods
Spotted as noodles.
June 2, 2018
alexz commented on the word 23 skidoo
Spotted this term being discussed in Lexicon Valley Episode No. 75 at the 20 minute mark.
The podcast said that 23 referred to the Flatiron Building in New York and people's dresses being affected by the wind.
Wikipedia has a whole page dedicated to this term.
June 2, 2018
alexz commented on the word erry
Spotted as slang for every
June 2, 2018
alexz commented on the word Old Sober
yakamein
June 1, 2018
alexz commented on the word yakamein
A New Orleans hangovers cure dish,
May 31, 2018
alexz commented on the word Manhattanhenge
It's like it happens every year around this time.
May 30, 2018
alexz commented on the word nausrht
Page 24 of the referenced book, The Gentle Shepherd, shows naught
May 28, 2018
alexz commented on the word blinkenlights
From a 1960's joke. (from books search)
"Is easy schnappen der Springenwerk, blowenfusen und poppencorken mit spitzensparken. 1st nicht fur gerwerken by das Dummkopfen. Das rubber- necken sightseeren keepen hands in das pockets. Relaxen und watch das Blinkenlights."
Wikipedia has blinkenlights going back to the 50's and IBM
May 26, 2018
alexz commented on the word gnight
g'night
May 25, 2018
alexz commented on the word HSTS
HTTP Strict Transport Security
May 24, 2018
alexz commented on the word GDPR
General Data Protection Regulation
May 24, 2018
alexz commented on the word yasss
There's a YouTube video which explains the difference between yaaas and yasss.
watch?v=6ZrYUOBshcE . 'The Origin of "Yas Queen" | Iris'
"Steven London explains the origins of "Yaaass Queen!"
May 24, 2018
alexz commented on the word yasss
I'm starting to see yasss in 2018 more frequently than yaaas in 2016.
May 23, 2018
alexz commented on the word laze
Wiktionary seems to have a 'Neutral Point of View' theme which neutralizes half of the meaning of a word and blandifies it to something a committee agrees on.
May 21, 2018
alexz commented on the word laze
'Laze -- a mashup of "lava" and "haze" -- is a nasty product formed when hot lava hits the ocean, sending hydrochloric acid and volcanic glass particles into the air'
- Spotted on CNN https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/20/us/hawaii-kilauea-volcano-lava-flow/index.html
May 20, 2018
alexz commented on the word afaict
"as far as I can tell" . AFAICT
May 20, 2018
alexz commented on the word 996
Refers to working conditions in China: 9am to 9pm 6 days a week
May 20, 2018
alexz commented on the word expunction
I, prefer, the, Shatner comma
May 20, 2018
alexz commented on the word bowl food
Spotted in the BBC Royal Wedding news
'Bowl food is larger than a canapé and around a quarter of the size of a main course.
It is served in miniature or hand-sized bowls and comes ready to eat with a small fork.
The idea behind a bowl food menu is so guests can stay standing up and mingle while they eat. It has been described by caterers as an option which allows guests to "keep on talking".
'
May 20, 2018
alexz commented on the word pawfficer
Spotted in the news. A police cat
May 18, 2018
alexz commented on the word eggacado
Multiple friends have posted pics of eggs and avocados, so Im predicting a new trend.
May 16, 2018
alexz commented on the word Newfie
Today I learned that Newfie is considered a derogatory term. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/11/anthony-bourdain-newfies-newfoundland-show-tweet-response-criticism
May 13, 2018
alexz commented on the word plurality
Spotted on Astronomy Picture of the Day "A plurality of singularities at the Galactic Center"
"Explanation: A recent informal poll found that astronomers don't yet have a good collective noun for a group of black holes, but they need one. ..."
APOD May 12 2018
There's something about using plural and singular in the same sentence to describe the same thing.
May 12, 2018
alexz commented on the word lean in
...is a phrase I've seen several times but am never sure of the meaning of.
May 12, 2018
alexz commented on the word entymology
Uncertainty is part of the joke
May 12, 2018
alexz commented on the word 💀💩L
Emoji phrase for Deadpool
May 11, 2018
alexz commented on the word indigineer
Spotted in CBC news article.
'Indigeneer' combines scientific methods and traditional Indigenous knowledge
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/indigeneer-scientific-methods-indigenous-knowledge-1.4655478
May 10, 2018
alexz commented on the list 🔥
Does this mean my emoji phrases list won't work? https://www.wordnik.com/lists/emoji-phrases
May 9, 2018
alexz commented on the word EBCDICity
Also spotted, in same video referenced in EBCDIC
pronounced ebb-sid-issity
May 9, 2018
alexz commented on the word EBCDIC
Pronounced Ebb-stick
May 9, 2018
alexz commented on the word yestermorrow
spotted today
May 5, 2018
alexz commented on the word narcodrone
Spotted in the news,... drones used by drug gangs
May 5, 2018
alexz commented on the word WHCD
White House Correspondent's Dinner
May 2, 2018
alexz commented on the word Henoticon
Zeno's Henoticon
May 1, 2018
alexz commented on the word smsing
text messaging
May 1, 2018
alexz commented on the word imop
I think this means imo or "In My Opinion"
May 1, 2018
alexz commented on the word Konami code
Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, select Start
April 29, 2018
alexz commented on the word Emacs
"Editing MACroS"
LinuxFest Northwest 2018: Linux Jargon talk.
April 29, 2018
alexz commented on the word EMACS
Emacs
April 29, 2018
alexz commented on the word BSD
Berkeley Software Distribution
April 29, 2018
alexz commented on the word BOFH
This acronym comes from The Register.
April 29, 2018
alexz commented on the word timey-wimey
wibbly-wobbly
April 29, 2018
alexz commented on the word wibbly-wobbly
timey-wimey
April 29, 2018
alexz commented on the word YAMWFI
"Yet Another Meeting Will Fix This"
Spotted in LinuxFest Northwest 2018: Security Theatre talk.
April 29, 2018
alexz commented on the word 📷
spotted 📷: as being a photo credit marker.
📷: photoperson.
April 28, 2018
alexz commented on the word hanami
Cherry Blossom viewing
- from Japan
April 26, 2018
alexz commented on the word tufthunter
(chorus)
Where women glow and men plunder?
Can't you hear, can't you hear tufthunter?
You better run, you better take cover
April 26, 2018
alexz commented on the word flatology
The study of flatulence,according to Science Friday's tweet. Apr 25 2018
April 25, 2018
alexz commented on the word monotwist
Goto monotwist.
A Rubik's cube transformation that twists 2 corner pieces.
April 25, 2018
alexz commented on the word come-down
"They were foot ballers from all over the state, had their come downs in Adelaide"
- Spotted in an Objectivity video, so I assume it's real Australianese for 'come down for a visit'.
watch?v=FtEQuM7JmdI
On Twitter, it seems to refer to withdrawal symptoms from caffeine or some substance.
April 25, 2018
alexz commented on the word atlantification
The warming of the arctic ocean and the influx of Atlantic species. Probably should be Capitalized
April 24, 2018
alexz commented on the word pulchrist
A refreshing break from the 'neutral point of view' types of definitions that Wiktionary has
April 22, 2018
alexz commented on the word bunny-hug
In Saskatchewan, a bunny-hug is a hoodie.
April 20, 2018
alexz commented on the word doombuggies
Spotted in Canada's Beaverton.
"The two dozen or so pipeline warriors appeared on the BC Legislature lawn driving custom built motorcycles, doombuggies armed with menacing spikes, and F-150 pickup trucks with bumper stickers proclaiming their love for Alberta beef."
April 18, 2018
alexz commented on the word bilby
A fez wearing person in a tiny little car shows up and drops off a food pellet.
April 16, 2018
alexz commented on the word froot
What some people in the UK want to call the frunk, a front boot, instead of a front trunk.
April 15, 2018
alexz commented on the word bilby
I hear there's a secret button pressing ceremony involving a food pellet.
April 15, 2018
alexz commented on the word legos
The floor is legos.
April 14, 2018
alexz commented on the word munt
Book search confirms it is a racist slur in S Africa
April 14, 2018
alexz commented on the word ylem
then there's doggospeak's mlem
April 13, 2018
alexz commented on the word Primenesia
forgetting what you ordered on Amazon when the package arrives.
April 11, 2018
alexz commented on the word pemdas
PEMDAS
April 8, 2018
alexz commented on the word whishing
Spotted as WhatsApp phishing.
April 8, 2018
alexz commented on the word upthread
Refers to earlier in a threaded discussion.
April 5, 2018
alexz commented on the word photoplethysmographic
Spotted in Register article about cell phones being used to check for veins and check pulse and circulation measurements.
April 4, 2018
alexz commented on the word sudoer
Spotted in an XKCD comic... and I suspect I've seen this around before as a SUDO user in a Linux / UNIX sense.
April 4, 2018
alexz commented on the word polycoat
Spotted in a city of Vancouver tweet referring to the non recyclable coated cardboard.
April 3, 2018
alexz commented on the word must-runs
spotted in the news
'Sinclair Broadcast Group, the largest owner of television stations in the U.S., employs a well-known practice of producing "must-runs," conservative commentary segments that each Sinclair-owned station is required to air. ' - Seattle PI.
April 1, 2018
alexz commented on the word somebunny
Easterspeak for 'somebody'
April 1, 2018
alexz commented on the word biobot
Spotted in a NASA tweet.
March 31, 2018
alexz commented on the word baha'i
Wordnik is case sensitive in the word search, so you will find it at . Baha'i
March 31, 2018
alexz commented on the word plogging
I look forward to April 1 when the pranksters who coined this word admit it was a joke.
Picking up garbage while jogging?
March 31, 2018
alexz commented on the word tryalls
an archaic term for trials?
March 28, 2018
alexz commented on the word scambaiting
Is where people mess with phone and email scammers to waste their time and frustrate them.
March 28, 2018
alexz commented on the word ┳━┳
Is a representation for a table. From tableflip emoticon.
March 27, 2018
alexz commented on the word naunt
Wonder if it's related to nuncle
March 27, 2018
alexz commented on the word byo
"bring your own"
March 26, 2018
alexz commented on the word Hesperian
3 billion to 3.8 billion years ago when Mars was in transition from a wet planet Noachian to the current cold and dry planet Amazonian
March 26, 2018
alexz commented on the word Noachian
Mars's Geological period when it was covered in Water.
March 26, 2018
alexz commented on the word Rockoon
'He wants to build a "Rockoon," a rocket that is carried into the atmosphere by a gas-filled balloon, then separated from the balloon and lit.'
- spotted in CBC news story of a rocketeer who thinks the world is flat.
March 26, 2018
alexz commented on the word catch and kill
A form of censorship which refers to buying the exclusive rights to a news story, and then not publishing the story to protect a person the story is about.
March 25, 2018
alexz commented on the word porgin pie
porg themed pumpkin pie
March 24, 2018
alexz commented on the word porgin
Spotted in looking up this word: porgin pie ;
March 24, 2018
alexz commented on the word twemoji
Twitter emoji
March 24, 2018
alexz commented on the word Twemoji
Twitter emoji
March 24, 2018
alexz commented on the word screlting
"scream belting"
March 23, 2018
alexz commented on the word technotronic
"This beat is... This beat is... This beat is... "
March 23, 2018
alexz commented on the word Glosik
A 19th century way of writing which resembles lolspeak.
https://books.google.ca/books?id=aKIKAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA89#v=onepage&q&f=false
from doing a book search for moar and 19th century.
March 22, 2018
alexz commented on the word wine-thirty
That time of day
March 21, 2018
alexz commented on the word yotes
short for coyotes . Yotes
March 20, 2018
alexz commented on the word Yotes
short for coyotes.
spotted in a hashtag #Yotes for a Coyotes sports team.
March 20, 2018
alexz commented on the word Steve
Spotted in a CBC news story about Steve
"The phenomenon does now have a backronym of an official name: strong thermal emission velocity enhancement (Steve for short)."
March 20, 2018
alexz commented on the word Animal Farm
Refers to a the book Animal Farm.
March 20, 2018
alexz commented on the word thraward
Ok Bruce.
March 18, 2018
alexz commented on the word Norwenglish
Norway english.
Worth a web search.
March 17, 2018
alexz commented on the word gravitonium
Science Fiction (Marvel Universe) - material that affects gravity.
March 17, 2018
alexz commented on the word brosef
Bro
March 17, 2018
alexz commented on the word Cheshire moon
aka Cheshire cat moon
March 17, 2018
alexz commented on the word de-crab
When an airplane straightens out to land on a runway when flying slightly sideways in a crosswind.
March 17, 2018
alexz commented on the word Nak
a sodium (na) potassium (k) alloy.
liquid at room temperature
NaK is probably the right spelling
March 16, 2018
alexz commented on the word galinstan
a "Gallium/Indium/Tin " alloy, which has a very low melting point
March 16, 2018
alexz commented on the word waka waka bang splat
Name of a poem which is written mostly in programming punctuation, but pronounced with the UNIX/ASCII names for the characters.
Calvin College - https://calvin.edu/news/archive/waka-waka-bang-splat-
so.. circa 1990 'ish
March 12, 2018
alexz commented on the word NACTO
National Association of City Transportation Officials
March 11, 2018
alexz commented on the word MUTCD
Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways
The style guide which is why streets are mostly the same across the US.
March 11, 2018
alexz commented on the word AASHTO
American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials
- road designers
March 11, 2018
alexz commented on the word ques
questions
cues
or short for the question mark ?
March 11, 2018
alexz commented on the word slashaster
/*
March 11, 2018
alexz commented on the word n-tilde
ñ or Ñ
March 11, 2018
alexz commented on the word bash-bang-splat
the ASCII characters \!*
March 11, 2018
alexz commented on the word enyay
Unix pronounciation guide ( http://www-personal.umich.edu/~rmutt/doc/pronunciation-guide.html ) says it's the tilde ~
March 11, 2018
alexz commented on the word slashterix
/*
pairing of a slash and asterix .
March 11, 2018
alexz commented on the word asterslash
the pairing of an asterix and slash
*/
March 11, 2018
alexz commented on the word Unithorpe
If you google the progression of programmer's thorpes, you get a programming language named Unithorpe
"Unithorpe
Unithorpe is a small interpreted programming language and its virtual machine.
The driving idea is to use a single unicode character to name each variable, function, namespace, builtin operator, etc. in the language. All data is either unicode characters or arrays of unicode characters or other arrays."
Also search Trithorpe and Oglethorpe (more computer languages by Henry Strickland)
I wonder if half the variable names render as Emoji
March 11, 2018
alexz commented on the word octalthorpe
"The word has appeared in many forms, including octothorn, octalthorp, octothorp, and octatherp as well as octothorpe. "
- World Wide Words - 1999 http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-oct1.htm
March 11, 2018
alexz commented on the word pentathorpe
allegedly *
based on the silly progression of octothorpe, quadrathorpe, bithorpe, duothorpe, monothorpe
(from quick google search)
March 11, 2018
alexz commented on the word monothorpe
The Ascii Table people ask 'what's a monothorpe?'
March 11, 2018
alexz commented on the word bithorpe
-
https://glossographia.wordpress.com/2013/07/01/octothorpe-quadrathorpe-bithorpe/
March 11, 2018
alexz commented on the word quadrathorpe
half an octothorpe
For 'the equals sign'
https://books.google.ca/books?id=g80P_4v4QbIC&pg=PA46&dq=quadrathorpe
March 11, 2018
alexz commented on the word hyper-drive
If the Google book search is accurate, this goes back to 1925 science fiction.
"We could just equip the space ship with something we might call Hyper-drive, and let it go at that."
Term later found in 1950's Analog and Galaxy science fiction magazines.
March 11, 2018
alexz commented on the word walk-thru
a quick demonstration going over the basic features of an item or a piece of software.
March 10, 2018
alexz commented on the word tf
short for "The f%ck"
March 10, 2018
alexz commented on the word fr
twitterese, txtspk "for real"
March 10, 2018
alexz commented on the word stg
textese, twitterspeak "swear to god"
March 10, 2018
alexz commented on the word livetweet
to tweet events in real time
March 9, 2018
alexz commented on the word mates rates
Free,
According to my Aussie friend
March 8, 2018
alexz commented on the word manspalining
spa lining. 2 inches of reinforced concrete with a layer of Rhino liner.
March 8, 2018
alexz commented on the word some men hate eating onions
mnemonic for memorizing the Great Lakes
March 6, 2018
alexz commented on the word crokicurl
A hybrid of crokinole and curling
Spotted on the Mercer Report from Winnipeg at the Forks.
March 4, 2018
alexz commented on the word perfunctionary
shows up as a 'related word' under formal, but has no definition here.
March 4, 2018
alexz commented on the word emojipasta
copypasta for emojis
March 4, 2018
alexz commented on the word shouty clap
SHOUTY👏CLAP👏SPOTTED👏AT https://twitter.com/timhwang/status/969583233867403264
March 4, 2018
alexz commented on the word forbidden three Ts
Censorshipspeak of "Taiwan, Tibet, and Tiananmen"
March 3, 2018
alexz commented on the word wideth
...notes the examples listed
March 3, 2018
alexz commented on the word heighth
wideth
March 3, 2018
alexz commented on the list fingernails-on-my-chalkboard
Hit the breaks
March 3, 2018
alexz commented on the word xed
Crossed out. Or Covered with an X.
March 2, 2018
alexz commented on the word n
Letter n now banned , if you believe the Guardian.
February 28, 2018
alexz commented on the word AOA
Nasaspeak - Abort Once Around
February 27, 2018
alexz commented on the word ET SEP
Space Shuttle - External Tank Separation
February 27, 2018
alexz commented on the word RTLS
Return To Launch Site
February 27, 2018
alexz commented on the word OAR
2018 Winter Olympics: Olympic Athletes from Russia
February 27, 2018
alexz commented on the list just-one-thing
the one and only
Google autocomplete has one-off . one-eyed-jacks
one flew over the cuckoos nest
February 27, 2018
alexz commented on the word neckbeard
It's likely Wiktionary tried to 'Neutral Point of View' their definition: some of their 2007 definitions mention it's derogatory.
February 25, 2018
alexz commented on the word CPAC
Conservative Political Action Conference
from the examples to the right "pronounced C-Pack"
February 25, 2018
alexz commented on the word Wakanda
19th century book search shows this as a North American word.
February 25, 2018
alexz commented on the word bin chicken
Australian white ibis
- spotted in science news
aka trash turkey
aka tip turkey (wikipedia)
February 24, 2018
alexz commented on the word Thuja
see thuja
February 24, 2018
alexz commented on the word euphemism
alternaswears alterna-swears , bowdlerism ... I have a ████ list...
February 24, 2018
alexz commented on the word telop
spotted in a robotics video for teleoperation
"now we should be able to telop the car"
February 21, 2018
alexz commented on the word pies
bilbycakes
February 21, 2018
alexz commented on the word 💀😂
Emoji phrase for 'die laughing' - hyperbolically speaking.
February 19, 2018
alexz commented on the word 1440
4 rotations in an acrobatic sport. 1 turn more than a 1080
February 18, 2018
alexz commented on the word backside triple cork 1440
snowboarding references at chicken salad
February 18, 2018
alexz commented on the word snaining
added to the big list of words for ice and snow.
February 17, 2018
alexz commented on the word snoosh
From the examples listed here '...and the light drizzle at home turns to the sleet-snow hybrid known locally as “snoosh.” '
February 17, 2018
alexz commented on the word LEE
NASA, Spacestation term for Latching End Effector
"The first task for spacewalkers Mark Vande Hei and Norishige Kanai is to move a Latching End Effector (LEE), or hand, for the Canadian-built robotic arm, Canadarm2, from a payload attachment on the station’s Mobile Base System rail car to the Quest airlock. " - NASA Johnson YouTube video 'U.S. Spacewalk 48 Animation'
February 17, 2018
alexz commented on the word Oppy
the Opportunity Mars rover... still going .
February 16, 2018
alexz commented on the word hbty
hate beets , tomatoes yummy
February 15, 2018
alexz commented on the word steezy
Oh Wiktionary, you 'clean up' the definition by not putting maintenance tasks in to the definition.
February 14, 2018
alexz commented on the word Sarcellitis
Spotted in the Guardian " Sarcelles has come to represent everything wrong with Paris’s banlieues to such an extent that there’s even a word – Sarcellitis – to describe the ennui created by modernist high-rises, concrete and social isolation."
February 14, 2018
alexz commented on the word hbty
textspeak "happy birthday to you"
February 14, 2018
alexz commented on the word chicken salad
Spotted on the CBC as a downhill snowboarding term. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5nc5Ul-irk
February 14, 2018
alexz commented on the word bog-shoeing
https://books.google.ca/books?id=34Fi1tvFdV8C&pg=PA166&dq=bog+shoe
February 14, 2018
alexz commented on the word btvs
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
February 13, 2018
alexz commented on the word cryptojacking
is where a web browser is hijacked to run a crypto-mining program for someone else.
February 12, 2018
alexz commented on the word PSOD
Purple Screen Of Death - the 2018 equivalent to the BSOD
February 11, 2018
alexz commented on the word Endymion
Spotted as a name for a parade.
February 11, 2018
alexz commented on the word Whim
"Theoretical calculations suggest these gaseous threads, known as the warm–hot intergalactic medium, or the Whim, ought to be around a million degrees celsius. " - Guardian article : Astronomers find half of the missing matter in the universe
February 11, 2018
alexz commented on the word The Land of the Morning Calm
February 10, 2018
alexz commented on the word two-peat
also 2-peat and see three-peat
February 9, 2018
alexz commented on the word 2-peat
spotted in the news regarding an Olympic Flag Carrier coin toss decision.
February 9, 2018
alexz commented on the word VCSEL
pronounced 'vixel'. vertical cavity surface emitting laser
February 6, 2018
alexz commented on the list triple-anagrams
tar rat art
February 6, 2018
alexz commented on the list triple-anagrams
antres astern sterna
February 5, 2018
alexz commented on the list triple-anagrams
Ronald ladron lardon
February 5, 2018
alexz commented on the word NET Date
"no earlier than" date for a space launch.
February 3, 2018
alexz commented on the word Qarlinngua
... and anyone who studies the etymology of this word would be a Qarlinnguaist. :)
February 3, 2018
alexz commented on the word Qarlinngua
Name of a 'pants' shaped rock formation in northern Canada.
'The Nunavut community of Arctic Bay calls it "Qarlinngua" — pronounced "kar-ling-wah," which means "like pants" in Inuktitut.' -CBC news
February 3, 2018
alexz commented on the word maintain station
NASAspeak for maintaining a position in orbit. Also station-keeping (wikipedia)
February 3, 2018
alexz commented on the word snow rollers
Snow roller formation recorded on video in progress. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/bales-of-snow-in-downtown-ottawa-a-rare-treat-climatologist-1.4517031 . from my previous post, it seems to be a February thing.
February 3, 2018
alexz commented on the word vound
Release the vounds!
February 2, 2018
alexz commented on the word prancercising
I cannot unsee the visuals from my FB feed
February 2, 2018
alexz commented on the word istg
spotted as "I swear to god"
January 31, 2018
alexz commented on the word g2g
looking up s2g at ud gives 'swear to god'
January 31, 2018
alexz commented on the word mythtaken
*bangs on keyboard loooking for earlier citation*
https://books.google.ca/books?id=vTICAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA368&dq="myth-taken";;;; 1875 it appears to have originally been a lisp joke.
January 30, 2018
alexz commented on the word ilysm
txtspk for 'I love you so much'
January 29, 2018
alexz commented on the word g2g
got 2 go
twitterese, text speak.
January 29, 2018
alexz commented on the word kernelista
Hyperbolic term spotted in The Register as a linux kernel developer.
January 29, 2018
alexz commented on the word NTNOCN
BBC Television Show "Not The Nine O'Clock News"
January 29, 2018
alexz commented on the word snow monster
In Japan, snow monsters are snow covered alpine trees which have interesting shapes due to the wind blowing snow.
Spotted in the Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2018/01/photos-of-the-week-aerobatic-performers-snow-monsters-a-murmuration/551624/
January 28, 2018
alexz commented on the word mythtaken
Luke Skywalker? I thought he was a myth!
You were mythtaken.
https://twitter.com/HamillHimself/status/957652314508029952?ref_src=twcamp%5Eshare%7Ctwsrc%5Em5%7Ctwgr%5Eemail%7Ctwcon%5E7046%7Ctwterm%5E2
January 28, 2018
alexz commented on the word shippening
fanspeak : shipper happening
January 28, 2018
alexz commented on the word shirtballs
Spotted Holy Shirtballs on twitter, then a quick search revealed variants of holy mother forking shirtballs.
January 27, 2018
alexz commented on the word literally
Is listed as being one of the circles of he'll for linguistic transgressions. https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/dantes-nine-circles-of-hell-reimagined-for-linguistic-transgressions
January 27, 2018
alexz commented on the word LCHF
Low Carb High Fat - diet
January 26, 2018
alexz commented on the word ferryspotter
"We have ferryspotters? Yes, we do. Like British trainspotters, they chat happily on online forums, tracking the ships and burrowing into the minutiae of those big, complicated people-movers that most of us rely on without ever pausing to ponder how they actually work. "
http://www.vancourier.com/opinion/ferry-s-whistle-back-to-tooting-a-major-chord-1.23155089
January 26, 2018
alexz commented on the word 우유
looks like a person holding hands with a one legged person.
January 25, 2018
alexz commented on the word swipe right
from the tinder dating app, 'like'.
January 24, 2018
alexz commented on the word swipe left
from the Tinder app... not a match; nope.;
January 24, 2018
alexz commented on the word oontz
I'm glad to see this listed at Wordnik.
January 23, 2018
alexz commented on the word henlo
This is 2017/2018 memespeak for 'hello'.
January 21, 2018
alexz commented on the word 📚 🐛
Spotted emojiphrase Book Worm
January 20, 2018
alexz commented on the word headass
Another word to add to the swear jar.
I like this one. It's a fun insult.
January 17, 2018
alexz commented on the word eggs for money
I like all these words you're listing Gammerstang.
January 17, 2018
alexz commented on the word solresol
Solresol
January 16, 2018
alexz commented on the word Solresol
La Langue Musicale Universelle , Universal Musical Language .. spotted in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyC4lLTOyL8 .
A language made of music"
January 16, 2018
alexz commented on the word manholer
" And 'manholers' flock from far and wide to photograph the artworks"
BBC article on fancy Japanes manhole covers. 'Japan's elaborate manhole covers' .
January 15, 2018
alexz commented on the word productise
productize
January 15, 2018
alexz commented on the word 🥛🦆
or 🥤🦆 or milkshake duck
January 14, 2018
alexz commented on the word 🥤🦆
or 🥛🦆
January 14, 2018
alexz commented on the word methylox
liquid methane, liquid oxygen, rocket fuel
January 14, 2018
alexz commented on the word bfr
short txt version of 'before'.
January 14, 2018
alexz commented on the word chee-hoo
My favourite new Hawaii slang. Spotted in the news about a cashier who looks like Disney's Maui
January 14, 2018
alexz commented on the word meowntain
a version of meowtain
(spotted on Twitter, of course)
January 13, 2018
alexz commented on the word sav'd
Saved
January 13, 2018
alexz commented on the word fav'd
Noticed all the examples are from the long s version of sav'd
January 13, 2018
alexz commented on the word fav'd
Spotted as liked or favourited as in Twitter facebook
January 13, 2018
alexz commented on the word rtd
Spotted as retweeted
January 13, 2018
alexz commented on the word retpoline
" a retpoline is a return trampoline that uses an infinite loop that is never executed to ..."
- stackoverflow.
gotta love tech speak (the above doesn't make sense to me)
This word showed up January 3rd'ish in reference to Spectre and Meltdown bugs.
January 11, 2018
alexz commented on the word houghmangandy
Googlefight gives these 2 words a tie score, tied at zero.
https://www.googlefight.com/houghmangandy-vs-+houghmagandy.php
For the tie breaker, google ngram viewer gives it to https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=houghmangandy+%2C+houghmagandy&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Choughmagandy%3B%2Cc0
...houghmagandy . 👩⚖️
January 10, 2018
alexz commented on the word phlyarologist
would make a nice business card title,
January 10, 2018
alexz commented on the word Buck House
Buckingham Palace
January 9, 2018
alexz commented on the word googoo
Now works as an alternative "ok Google" voiceprint hack, thx to Italian grandma.
January 7, 2018
alexz commented on the word weather bomb
CBC article on the origin of the term weather bomb. http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/technology/canadian-coined-term-weather-bomb-1.4474431
January 5, 2018
alexz commented on the word Beringia
The land region of the Bering Sea Land Bridge from the last ice age.
Beringian
January 4, 2018
alexz commented on the word Beringian
Spotted in the Guardian
'The newly-discovered group, named “ancient Beringians”, appears to have split off from the founding population of Native Americans about 20,000 years ago.'
- Jan 3 article: Surprise as DNA reveals new group of Native Americans: the ancient Beringians
January 4, 2018
alexz commented on the word cybersquid
the perfect word to describe the tangle of cables between my monitor, usb hubs, usb switcher, laptop, pi, old desktop, plethora of power supplies, network hubs, and HDMI switcher
January 1, 2018
alexz commented on the word shrobe
spotted in a guardian article about denim being a new thing.
"Model Gigi Hadid ‘shrobing’ her denim jacket in New York. "
Vogue has an article called "What Is Shrobing? And How Do You Do it?"
It's basically draping what you're wearing off your shoulders, like your jacket is almost falling off your shoulders.
January 1, 2018
alexz commented on the word Dakelh
A native language in the Prince George area of British Columbia.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/dakelh-nakazdli-language-app-camp-1.4459256
"Growing up, she said, her father would occasionally speak to her in the Nak'azdli dialect of the Dakelh language historically spoken in central B.C., even though he wasn't fluent."
January 1, 2018
alexz commented on the word -verse
suffix for universe. twitterverse, spiderverse,
December 31, 2017
alexz commented on the word Blackguardiana
"Blackguardiana; or, a dictionary of rogues" https://books.google.ca/books?id=zZtkAAAAcAAJ 18th century.
"Ankle, A girl who is got with child, is said to have sprained her ankle"
December 31, 2017
alexz commented on the word semis
semi-finals .
December 30, 2017
alexz commented on the word spaghetto
uh oh spaghettios!
December 26, 2017
alexz commented on the word duallie
A pickup truck with the 2 pairs of tires on the back.
December 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word octoweb
A rocket chassis where a center rocket engine is surrounded by 8 outer engines.
The chassis holds all the engines together at the bottom of the rocket.
December 24, 2017
alexz commented on the word steelhead
You will see differing definitions above (trout species versus salmon species) because scientists didn't really understand this fish over the last 200 years. It's like a trout that lives like a salmon.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/salmon-or-trout-what-the-heck-is-a-steelhead-anyway-1.4461827
Either way, this is an endangered fish in some rivers.
December 23, 2017
alexz commented on the word autometalogolex
Xkcd 1932
December 23, 2017
alexz commented on the word indigenized
Spotted this in the news "Star Wars characters get Indigenized by Comox First Nation artist" - CBC article.
From the examples, this term has been around for at least 20 years.
Quick books search has this going back to 1800s https://books.google.ca/books?id=TLw-AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA256&dq=indigenized
December 23, 2017
alexz commented on the word milkshake duck
in emoji 🥤🦆
December 22, 2017
alexz commented on the word 🥤🦆
emoji for milkshake duck
December 22, 2017
alexz commented on the list words-objected-to-grammatically
Objection overruled!
December 22, 2017
alexz commented on the word undersudsing
clearly this word was coined by marketing types to make people feel inadequate about their laundry and consume more detergent.
December 21, 2017
alexz commented on the word you'dn't've'd
You might like bilby's list of contractions. https://www.wordnik.com/lists/at-least-two-apostrophes-or-your-money-back
December 19, 2017
alexz commented on the word y'all'lln't
Need to add this to the y'all list https://www.wordnik.com/lists/yall
December 18, 2017
alexz commented on the word sudsing
quick books search, this term is over 100 years old.
December 18, 2017
alexz commented on the word oversudsing
This word is written on my apartment building's washing machines.
Supposed to 'avoid oversudsing' by using less detergent.
also sudsing
December 18, 2017
alexz commented on the word mouses
It may be 'incorrect' in a strunk sense, but in usage...
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=computer%20mouses,computer%20mice
and
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=keyboards+and+mice%2C+keyboards+and+mouses&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Ckeyboards%20and%20mice%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Ckeyboards%20and%20mouses%3B%2Cc0
December 18, 2017
alexz commented on the word tenthmeter
When I studied metals, we use the unit Angstrom
December 17, 2017
alexz commented on the word milkshake duck
BBC article explains what Milkshake Duck means.
'"Milkshake Duck" is slang for someone who is briefly and universally cheered, but then swiftly turned upon because of their previous social media posts. ' Dec 15, 2017
December 17, 2017
alexz commented on the word sheetcaking
Sorry for getting wordnik in trouble with the word police.
December 14, 2017
alexz commented on the list nominations-for-words-to-ban---2018
Top word I'd like to see banned for 2018 : omnichannel
Second nomination re-platform
business speak
December 14, 2017
alexz commented on the word Oumuamua
The name of the cigar shaped object hurtling through our Solar system.
December 12, 2017
alexz commented on the list 2017-favourites
ok, this is my shortlist of words for 2017.
https://wordnik.com/lists/2017-woty-noms is a 187 word list of new words I stumbled across, which also had over 100 or so lookups.
that list is a shortening of the 755 word list of https://wordnik.com/lists/words-i-stumble-across-2017
December 11, 2017
alexz commented on the word twt
short version of the word tweet.
December 11, 2017
alexz commented on the word v
shortened form of very , spotted in the twitterverse.
December 11, 2017
alexz commented on the word Olicity
A shipper uni-name of a character coupling of Oliver Queen and Felicty Smoak on the Arrow tv show. Spotted in the news where fans raised money for a dedicated park bench in Vancouver.
December 10, 2017
alexz commented on the word emojies
spotted as multiple of emoji
🔥 up the emoji plural debate
(Google trends has emojis being more popular)
December 10, 2017
alexz commented on the word scroll jank
An actual technical term when scrolling is broken in a web browser.
December 10, 2017
alexz commented on the word glühwien
i before e especially after glüh
December 9, 2017
alexz commented on the word Feuerzangenbowle
a German bowl of flaming sugarloaf christmas drink
from wikipedia "The name translates literally to fire-tongs punch. "
December 8, 2017
alexz commented on the word glühwien
Suspect it is glow wine. Quick goog search has "warm Vienna"
December 7, 2017
alexz commented on the word Ginmas
is comprised of 🍸🎄
December 7, 2017
alexz commented on the word Christmosa
Spotted as a Christmas themed alcoholic drink. 🎄🍸
December 7, 2017
alexz commented on the word HCF
Computing: "Halt and Catch Fire" assembly code instruction 1967 https://books.google.ca/books?id=VItRAAAAYAAJ&q="halt+and+catch+fire"
December 6, 2017
alexz commented on the word British racing green
Just watched a video hj7o3vXfy90 which referenced that British racing green comes from the fact the 1903 Bennet cup car race was held in Ireland..
So the shade of green represents Ireland.
December 6, 2017
alexz commented on the word goodun
"A man, woman, or thing of decided and undoubted merit" - https://books.google.ca/books?id=XLATAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA180&dq=goodun
December 4, 2017
alexz commented on the word shant
shall not . shan't
spotted in books in the 19th century. Probably not listed in dictionaries because it sounds like a biological function.
December 3, 2017
alexz commented on the word languaging
Dec 2017, languaging seems to have a different usage today than it did in 2015.
'Languaging is a "real word, despite what the dictionary may say," says Favilla.' -CBC article which recycles a Buzzfeed article.
December 3, 2017
alexz commented on the word CRISPR
Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats
A gene editing tool, sounds like they're describing grammar or poetry.
December 3, 2017
alexz commented on the word gurrlll
oh, it's a word
December 2, 2017
alexz commented on the word puffer
Spotted as a puffy jacket
December 1, 2017
alexz commented on the word twittercrat
Like the 2009 definition
November 30, 2017
alexz commented on the word tat-spiration
Tattoo inspiration
November 30, 2017
alexz commented on the word discetomy
a back surgery operation where the part of a herniated disk is removed because it was pressing against the spinal cord.
see also microdiscetomy
November 29, 2017
alexz commented on the word microdiscetomy
an operation where parts of a herniated disk which is pinching your spinal nerves is removed, relieving pressure on the nerve.
November 29, 2017
alexz commented on the word bioacoustician
Sometimes scientists just like to make big words.
November 28, 2017
alexz commented on the word postprandial somnolence
Nap time after dinner
November 24, 2017
alexz commented on the word nanocentury
A billionth of a century. 3.155 seconds
November 22, 2017
alexz commented on the word brexity
Brexit turned into an adjective.
spotted news article - "How Brexity is your vacuum cleaner?"
November 19, 2017
alexz commented on the word Englog
English / Tagalog . aka Taglish
November 19, 2017
alexz commented on the word green board
Spotted in NASA Nov 18, 2017 Weather Satellite launch.
November 18, 2017
alexz commented on the word glutist
spotted in the office, someone who is biased against people who are gluten intolerant.
November 18, 2017
alexz commented on the word organioid
spotted in a CBC science show
"Now scientists are using human brain 'organoids' to study the roots of some genetic diseases like frontotemporal dementia.
November 18, 2017
alexz commented on the word stomed
Ok.
Past tense of stome
November 16, 2017
alexz commented on the word adcomsubordcomphibspac
Allegedly a super long Navy Acronym...
"Administrative Command, Amphibious Forces, Pacific Fleet Subordinate Command"
I'm doubtful that it's a real acronym
November 15, 2017
alexz commented on the word hmu
txt shortening of 'hit me up' . which means 'call me' or 'contact me'
November 15, 2017
alexz commented on the word WOTY
spotted as Women Of The Year - Nov 13, 2017
November 14, 2017
alexz commented on the word feiku nyūsu
Japanese for fake news . spotted in japantimes article "Japan’s buzzwords of 2017 cover everything from politics to poop"
November 12, 2017
alexz commented on the word sleeve
in BC, it's a glass of beer, less than an imperial pint of 568 mL .
Our bars sometimes buy pint glasses from the US which is a 473 mL drink, but the bar cannot legally call it a pint in Canada. In general, a sleeve is not a specific unit of liquid. Lookup : "sleeve of beer"
Google books has 'sleeve of beer' in the 21st century, but I heard this term in the late 80's.
November 12, 2017
alexz commented on the word gmorning
good morning
November 11, 2017
alexz commented on the word CVE
computing term -Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures
November 8, 2017
alexz commented on the word barf
according to twitter, Farsi and Hindi word for snow.
November 6, 2017
alexz commented on the word yuki
Japanese word for snow
November 6, 2017
alexz commented on the word snø
Norwegian word for snow.
November 6, 2017
alexz commented on the word Cold Smoke
spotted in searching twitter for 'type of snow'.
"The airy trail of powder that follows skiers in fresh powder." https://www.thoughtco.com/snow-terms-types-3010117
November 6, 2017
alexz commented on the word heart attack snow
a snow at a depth deep enough to raise your risk of getting a heart attack from overexerting yourself.
November 6, 2017
alexz commented on the word random
I wonder how many words are in the 'random' pool. is it a million. Can I use 5 words to make a really good passphrase?
settlementsmisprintingpepcidsprogletschirped
November 6, 2017
alexz commented on the word pentakill
Spotted in computer gaming.
November 5, 2017
alexz commented on the word HIGNFY
"Have I Got News For You"
November 4, 2017
alexz commented on the word Thorsday
2017 usage: when the early screening of the new
Marvel movie opens.
1600's usage: Thursday
November 4, 2017
alexz commented on the word trans-poo-sion
" a transplant of faecal matter" - spotted in BBC article.
November 4, 2017
alexz commented on the word ⎝('¬')⎠
Gesturing 'lots' . emoticon stolen from the 'lots of coffee' person on Twitter. I like this 'lots of' emoticon.
November 3, 2017
alexz commented on the word shoe drop
wait for the other shoe to drop
November 1, 2017
alexz commented on the word acwrimo
Academic Writing Month
November 1, 2017
alexz commented on the word °C
Degree Celcius . or centrigrade
October 29, 2017
alexz commented on the word magnetohydrodynamic
Moving water using magnets and electricity
October 28, 2017
alexz commented on the word ig
Refers to a users instagram.
Today, I saw a tweet about "ig game" and had to figure out what it meant by skimming through Twitter.
October 28, 2017
alexz commented on the word cogwheel
this is what I heard the 'gear' (settings) icon in software called.
October 28, 2017
alexz commented on the word Halloweekend
Halloween Weekend.
October 28, 2017
alexz commented on the word Big Red
Techie slang referring to Oracle corp
October 26, 2017
alexz commented on the word pomicide
The pom part of the eord is an Aussie slur for a British person
October 26, 2017
alexz commented on the word Jolabokaflod
spotted in my social media feeds as a Iceland book thing with chocolate.
October 24, 2017
alexz commented on the word purply
..prurpably
October 22, 2017
alexz commented on the word irony
... is getting injured doing the Safety Dance.
October 22, 2017
alexz commented on the word donger
refers to this emoticon
༼ຈل͜ຈ༽
I don't like this emoticon, because it's typically used by trolls.
October 21, 2017
alexz commented on the word Lenny
nickname given to this emoticon ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
October 21, 2017
alexz commented on the word table flip
refers to the table flip emoticon
(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
or
(ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻
and some people have to 'put the table back'.
┬──┬◡ﾉ(° -°ﾉ)
October 21, 2017
alexz commented on the word pre-gamed
pre-game , now verb'd. To have had a pregame party
October 21, 2017
alexz commented on the word philosophy
applied logic
October 20, 2017
alexz commented on the word logic
applied philosophy
October 20, 2017
alexz commented on the word math
applied logic
October 20, 2017
alexz commented on the word red headed stepchild
early use of this term goes back to 1913-1915
I wonder if it's influenced by the Anne of Green Gables books just before that time.
October 20, 2017
alexz commented on the word modulii
search result is "Did you mean: modulus"
yes, google, they did mean modulus or moduluses, but moduluses doesn't look 'smart'.
19th century modulus of elasticity, modulus of shear for materials.
October 18, 2017
alexz commented on the word EVSE
Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment . - spotted in an EV video series.
October 17, 2017
alexz commented on the word bambi bucket
a fabric water bucket under a firefighting helicopter.
October 17, 2017
alexz commented on the word chipocalypse
October 2017. New Zealand ran out of chips.
October 16, 2017
alexz commented on the word skunky
describing beer gone bad.
October 15, 2017
alexz commented on the word skunked
fishing version of this word is to go fishing and not catch anything.
my US friend used 'dog got skunked' meaning their dog got sprayed by a skunk.
October 15, 2017
alexz commented on the word timbre
am I going deaf, or do people pronounce this like 'tamber'?
October 14, 2017
alexz commented on the word glyfosate
glyphosate
October 14, 2017
alexz commented on the word pluff mud
spotted on Colbert
quick search 'aka plough mud
South Carolina term for tidal flats mud.
October 13, 2017
alexz commented on the word puppyslug
puppyslug is best explained with a google image search
October 13, 2017
alexz commented on the word DCHP-2
"Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles"
October 11, 2017
alexz commented on the word TFA
Star Wars fan speak for The Force Awakens
October 10, 2017
alexz commented on the word porg
a Star Wars meme creature.
October 10, 2017
alexz commented on the word legislooter
loaded political word.
October 10, 2017
alexz commented on the word horns
the rock and roll hand gesture supposed to look like 'horns' \m/
October 9, 2017
alexz commented on the word wordnesia
i have a deja-list feeling in looking at this word
October 9, 2017
alexz commented on the word flegmatic
archaic version of phlegmatic?
October 8, 2017
alexz commented on the word underglow
October 7, 2017
alexz commented on the word cryo-EM
cryo-electron microscopy
October 7, 2017
alexz commented on the word APFS
Apple File System
October 7, 2017
alexz commented on the word Adelaidian
The Adelaidean vs. Adelaidian battle is very real.
October 6, 2017
alexz commented on the word 👖🔥
refers to 'liar liar pants on fire'
October 5, 2017
alexz commented on the word Stumptown
Portland Oregon
October 5, 2017
alexz commented on the list latinized-meme-animals
The giraffe 'camel leopard' thing is actually true.
October 3, 2017
alexz commented on the list meme-animals
sure!
October 2, 2017
alexz commented on the word Lunfardo
spotted a bbc article on this "20171001-how-italians-influenced-a-south-american-dialect"
October 2, 2017
alexz commented on the word booplesnoot
a bunny rabbit
term looked up 3200 times. Google Trends search shows this term trending Sept 2013. Google search shows this term popping up on wordnik on Sep 20, 2013
Coincidence?
October 1, 2017
alexz commented on the word floof
...has been looked up 1372 times
October 1, 2017
alexz commented on the word birb
... looked up 1152 times.
October 1, 2017
alexz commented on the word trash panda
term spotted again in Guardians Of The Galaxy 2 movie.
October 1, 2017
alexz commented on the word cat snakes
ferrets, according to twitterese.
October 1, 2017
alexz commented on the word bird puppies
bats
October 1, 2017
alexz commented on the word coinkeydink
coincidence
see coin-key-dink
or coinkydink
September 30, 2017
alexz commented on the word coin-key-dink
a fun way people say coincidence coinkydink
September 30, 2017
alexz commented on the word BFR
Big Falcon Rocket,
Big Friendly Rocket,
etc.
September 29, 2017
alexz commented on the word steam powered
spotted as pilot slang for 'the old round gauge displays' instead of modern rectangular displays.
- froma Juan Browne video.
September 28, 2017
alexz commented on the word ranpa
spotted someone using this, assumed it meant 'grandpa', probably wrong.
September 28, 2017
alexz commented on the user Josh.thomaa
Welcome to linguistics fight club. If it's your first time here, you have to verb.
September 26, 2017
alexz commented on the word taking a knee
football term defined at take a knee
September 24, 2017
alexz commented on the word 🐶 ☕
spotted in looking up puppucino
September 24, 2017
alexz commented on the word puppucinos
I don't think you're supposed to give your dog coffee, twitter people.
September 24, 2017
alexz commented on the word NoKo
Slang shortening of North Korea
September 22, 2017
alexz commented on the word triple-triple
3 creams 3 sugars - spotted in CBC article about couple married at local coffee and donut shop.
September 21, 2017
alexz commented on the word OQLF
"Office québécois de la langue française"
from the BBC article "The place that banned the term grilled cheese and cocktail"
new allowed word in Quebec: grilled-cheese
September 21, 2017
alexz commented on the word UNGA
United Nations General Assembly
September 20, 2017
alexz commented on the word octopi
octopuses .
September 20, 2017
alexz commented on the word Octopolis
another octopus city . also Octlantis
September 19, 2017
alexz commented on the word Octlantis
"Biologists Just Discovered an Underwater Octopus City And They're Calling It Octlantis "
- unconfirmed story from my FB feed. also Octopolis
And if the Octopuses have a garden, would that be the Octopuses' garden?
September 19, 2017
alexz commented on the word gutter
I remember this term being used in the Computer To Plate printing industry referring to the area of paper which will not be used in the final folded book or magazine. also margins
September 18, 2017
alexz commented on the word neologism
once upon a time neologism was a neologism
https://books.google.ca/books?id=ErY_AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA233
September 18, 2017
alexz commented on the word bluetiful
spotted on CNN "But critics say the name will teach children a nonword. It prompted a hue and cry (pun intended) on Twitter."
September 16, 2017
alexz commented on the word gn
texting/tweeting abbreviation of 'good night'
September 16, 2017
alexz commented on the word choreo
spotted as short for choreography
dance moves
September 16, 2017
alexz commented on the word fraturday
Fraturday (friday/saturday)
September 16, 2017
alexz commented on the word awoo
doggo speak for a wolf howl
spotted in my FB feed as 'pupper does an awoo' .
Also spotted an 'awoo everyword' twitter handle
September 15, 2017
alexz commented on the word bow-stay
You might be interested in the Sailor's word book. 1876
https://books.google.ca/books?id=y7HqO9XAwk8C
September 14, 2017
alexz commented on the word macOS
How Google and Apple refer to the Macintosh OS according to their style guides
September 14, 2017
alexz commented on the word NANP
North American Numbering Plan
This is what gives us our (222) 555-1234 style phone numbers.
spotted term in the Google documentation style guide .
September 14, 2017
alexz commented on the word shoegaze
this is one of those words where, in Wiktionary's attempt to have a briefly written definition like a paper dictionary, they miss out on explaining what the word means.
the 90's are 20 years in the past, and this is the first time I heard this word, and wiktionary failed to explain this colour of music to a non-musicblind person.
the recursive verb definition is the cherry on top of the unclear definition.
September 13, 2017
alexz commented on the word animoji
refers to the wibbly wobbly poop emojis in the upcoming new phone
September 11, 2017
alexz commented on the word ntn
txt shortening for nothing
September 11, 2017
alexz commented on the word chalupa
so, a boatload of mexican food.
September 11, 2017
alexz commented on the word irmababies
scheduled to be born around 6/17/18 in Florida
September 11, 2017
alexz commented on the word chalupa
I don't know what a chalupa is.
September 11, 2017
alexz commented on the word weathervaning
letting a crane spin in the wind during a storm event.
September 10, 2017
alexz commented on the word fo sheezy
fo shizzle
September 10, 2017
alexz commented on the word sharkicane
Early sighting of this term - 2013 New York Post
September 9, 2017
alexz commented on the list stormanteau
anagram of atramentous
September 8, 2017
alexz commented on the word Irmahgerd
spotted in the Miami New Times http://www.miaminewtimes.com/arts/hurricane-irma-the-best-memes-from-irmahgherd-to-irmageddon-9648050
"Irmahgerd Hurdicurn Reperder"
September 7, 2017
alexz commented on the word Irmageddon
spotted in my social media feed The destructive Hurricane Irma 2017
September 7, 2017
alexz commented on the word Fujiwhara
Fujiwhara effect is where storms combine to form a bigger storm.
September 6, 2017
alexz commented on the word ICO
2017 Initial Coin Offering
Where investors invest in a new cryptocurrency
September 6, 2017
alexz commented on the word @ing
spotted in the twitterverse "at"-ing
https://twitter.com/search?q=%40ing&src=typd much to the dismay of the ING twitter handle.
September 5, 2017
alexz commented on the word launchiversary
anniversary of a launch
September 5, 2017
alexz commented on the word szn
text speak for season
September 5, 2017
alexz commented on the word spaghetti plot
a graph showing the multiple paths of an incoming storm using multiple mathematical models.
spotted in the news.
spotted in a book search 1973 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute -1975 MIT - Mid Ocean Dynamics Experiment
September 5, 2017
alexz commented on the list a-queenly-list
Victorian Elizabethan regnant Elizabethian
bloody Mary prom queen
drama queen
September 4, 2017
alexz commented on the word cardboardeaux
boxed wine
September 4, 2017
alexz commented on the word beardy
spotted as a lizard. Bearded dragon?
September 4, 2017
alexz commented on the word lango
tongue
short slangy - language
September 4, 2017
alexz commented on the word btwn
txt speak for between
September 4, 2017
alexz commented on the word front-end
the customer facing side of tech, ie, the web page, or user interface.
also spotted as a verb, because you can verb all the nouns.
September 2, 2017
alexz commented on the word USACE
US Army Corps of Engineers
August 30, 2017
alexz commented on the word esquite
more Mexican food, cup of elote
August 30, 2017
alexz commented on the word elote
spotted this in looking up fire corn emojis.
Grilled corn.
August 30, 2017
alexz commented on the word 🔥🌽
spotted as fire cooked corn.
I first assumed it was barbecued corn on the cobb, but it may be corn boiled over a fire. see also elote
August 29, 2017
alexz commented on the word 🔥🐜
fire ants.
August 29, 2017
alexz commented on the word 🗑🔥
spotted on twitter as a common 'dumpster fire' emoji phrase.
August 29, 2017
alexz commented on the word 🔥
So far, the fire emoji seems to be popular. It isn't the most common on emojipedia or other emoji sites, but it seems to be used as the new term lit , fire corn 🔥🌽 for fire cooked corn,🔥🐜 for fire ants,🗑🔥 for dumpster fire, 'is on 🔥' for 'is on fire' , 🔥🔥hard for 'fire fire hard' (?), and 💨🔥 for the sport of lighting natural methane, and allegedly 💀➡️🔥
August 29, 2017
alexz commented on the list understatements
business speak "lost opportunity"
August 26, 2017
alexz commented on the word cake eater
related Canadianism term mangia-cake
also spelled mangiacake mangia cake
August 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word sfa
sweet Fanny Adams
August 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word thicc
thicc has been looked up 4285 times. Google trends has this term showing up late 2015.
August 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word shooketh
looked up 2500 times.
Google trends has this word becoming a thing likely with a March 6 Youtube Video 'I am shooketh'
I wonder if those lookups were from after that video.
August 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word spoilery
spoiler alert :like a spoiler alert
August 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word shakalaka
looked up 2400 times. The people demand a definition.
Also spotted in the 1984 Ultimate Broadway Fake Book "shakalaka baby"
August 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word flyboard
flying aquatic skateboard - powered by a powerful water jet.
August 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word fake news
updated 2017 definition - any news you don't personally like
August 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word nomaj
people without magical powers. Muggles.
August 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word rooftopping
taking selfies from restricted access rooftops
August 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word procaffeinating
looked up 1200 times?
It's a marketing word from an ad referring to drinking coffee and procastinating.
August 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word mlem
doggo speak refers to sticking a tongue out
mlem sounds like the type of word you would say when your tongue is out.
🐶
👅
August 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word pyrofuse
A fuse with a pyrotechnic device which ensures a circuit is broken quickly preventing short circuit damage to upstream circuits.
August 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word babadook
non spoiler from Wikipedia: ". It describes the titular monster, the Babadook, a tall pale-faced humanoid in a top hat with pointed fingers who torments its victims after they become aware of its existence."
spoiler: don't look under the bed.
August 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word tone deaf
the 2017 usage implies deaf to political or social tones.
August 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word bklyn
Bklyn
August 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word fw
textspeak for forward or f*ck with.
tech speak for firmware.
August 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word bec
looked up 2400 times,
August 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word steelbook
A collectors edition, such as Blu-Ray, DVD, CD, books, packaged in a tin or steel case.
August 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word demogorgon
A monster from Dungeons & Dragons, later spotted in the Stranger Things tv show.
August 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word meowtain
Term looked up 700 times by people who want to fact check the "What do you call a pile of cats? A meowtain" joke.
Meowtain confirmed as a word of the year candidate.
August 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word whomst'd've'nt't'dn't've's'd've'll
Looked up 161 times, likely by people who want to 'prove' that it's a real word to their friends.
This word comes from the whomst meme who-meme, where words are assembled with more contractions.
August 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word dw
i think this is txt-speak for 'don't worry'
August 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word adtech
advertising tech - includes all the website tracking, customer profiling, cookie collecting tech, data slurping, etc.
August 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word bowbag
bawbag
August 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word ChatOps
tech speak referring to using chat programs to replace email in the office.
August 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word friendniversary
the anniversary of being a friend -
August 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word Kitty Hawk moment
a moment when something new is invented which changes the way we do things from now on, like inventing the aeroplane
August 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word duderus
dude uterus
see brovaries
August 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word himmicane
2017 - spotted this term again. This word has some sticktion
August 25, 2017
alexz commented on the user Azred
for Oestrums, you might want to check oestrum
August 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word snoutgloop
pet boogers.
spotted in Guardian story 'How I survived living with a cat stuffed with uranium'
August 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word taking a knee
Refers to the quarterback kneel-wikipedia.
Spotted in a news article about a crashed warship 'Though the admiral said he had visited the McCain and denied, in response to reporters' questions, that her crew were overworked ("I didn't see a crew taking a knee, so to speak") his...'
August 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word limb
In NASAspeak, it includes the atmosphere in the disk of an object.
"Some of the most breathtaking views of Earth taken from space are those that capture our planet’s limb. When viewed from the side, the Earth looks like a flat circle, and the atmosphere appears like a halo around it. This edge of the atmosphere is known as the limb. Viewed from satellites, space shuttles, and even the moon, the image of this luminous envelope of gases shielding the life on our planet from the dark, cold space beyond rarely fails to fascinate us." - NASA visible earth.
August 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word guapo
my Philippines friends say this means handsome.
August 21, 2017
alexz commented on the word muah
it's a smoochy friendly kiss sound , also common to add extra letters for added effect.
August 20, 2017
alexz commented on the word Rahu
was looking up the 'shadow snakes' effect which is seen during eclipse, and came across the Rahu legend in search results.
August 20, 2017
alexz commented on the word fear of dictionaries
google book search says the word for this is languophobia, but that's debatable.
August 19, 2017
alexz commented on the word sheetcaking
sheet caking
August 18, 2017
alexz commented on the word sheet caking
"Sheet caking is a grassroots movement, Colin" http://m.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/tina-fey-sheet-caking_us_599675d0e4b0e8cc855cce85
Thanks Tina Fey. 💗.
August 18, 2017
alexz commented on the list jumbo-shrimp
man child , pro-am, dwarf galaxy
August 15, 2017
alexz commented on the word aluminum
Original spelling by Humphrey Davy, 1812 . https://books.google.ca/books?id=YjMwAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA201
August 14, 2017
alexz commented on the word yoy
"year over year"
August 13, 2017
alexz commented on the word axin
slang - asking
August 13, 2017
alexz commented on the word tilted
from the examples on the right 'don't get "tilted," which means emotionally upset.'
spotted tilted in a video about the top Dota2 gamer versus a general Artificial Intelligence.
"At first it was easy to get titled..."
August 13, 2017
alexz commented on the word hummies
hummingbirds
also found - 1994 usage slang for homies
August 11, 2017
alexz commented on the word squaffles
"Families who would once have eaten potato waffles are now experimenting with lower carb butternut “squaffles” (slices of butternut squash cut to resemble a waffle)." Guardian article - Why we fell for clean eating.
August 11, 2017
alexz commented on the word hyper-power
for when the term super-power isn't good enough
August 10, 2017
alexz commented on the word GISHWHES
Greatest International Scavenger Hunt the World Has Ever Seen
August 10, 2017
alexz commented on the word nutation
"let your backbone slide"
August 10, 2017
alexz commented on the word cantcha
can'tcha
can't you
August 9, 2017
alexz commented on the word can'tcha
can't you
August 9, 2017
alexz commented on the word won'tcha
spotted in 1949 song 'Louisiana Girls' in a Baker's plays book
https://books.google.ca/books?id=5DaCyLyjGn8C&pg=PA63
spotted in 1915 Cosmopolitan
August 9, 2017
alexz commented on the word aintcha
ain'tcha
August 9, 2017
alexz commented on the word sequester carbon
'“sequester carbon” is ruled out and replaced by “build soil organic matter”.' - Guardian article climate change
August 7, 2017
alexz commented on the word reduce greenhouse gases
'with the term “reduce greenhouse gases” blacklisted in favor of “build soil organic matter, increase nutrient use efficiency”. ' - Guardian article on banned terms. climate change
August 7, 2017
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