""Timberlake is believed to have said: “This is going to ruin the tour” to the policeman who arrested him, an officer who, it seems, was too young to recognise the former boyband star.""
"autism is new" babygirl your grandma stimmed by knitting all the time, had strict daily routines, got really annoyed if people disrupted her routines, spoke in a mostly monotone voice, was oblivious of social cues, and interpreted young people's slang literally
ChatGPT-generated papers use "delve" more often than normal human use, so we may see an increase of its use generally in society. https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7PF_C4ACDK/
It also overuses commendable and meticulous. Future search terms for teachers looking for student copypasta.
Changing uses of low-key since 2009 to be an adverb of degree and also become a more intense modifier, getting closer to taking over the place of high-key:
This is a big arena venue in Daly City, California that used to have cattle auctions but now has big events like dog shows and concerts and the Dickens Fair and was where the San Jose Sharks hockey team originally played.
"The idea for the arena was inspired by the popularity of the livestock pavilion at the 1915 Panama–Pacific International Exposition. A local newspaper asked, as early as May 1935, "Why, when people are starving, should money be spent on a 'palace for cows'?" A headline writer turned the phrase around, thus "Cow Palace"
"If you are interested, this name comes from a gag that was used in many Buster Keaton films as is seen in this photo. With this candy really can't tell you what you will get, but we can promise it will be fun."
A particular brand of readingthat is offered up as constructive criticism. Popularized by the drag artist Dawn throughout her run on RuPaul's Drag Race Season 16.
Starting to be an obsolete mode as phones can now connect to modern cars through Bluetooth and not a physical cord, but still a way for passengers to talk about who is DJing a trip.
A common strategy used by ADHD and other neurodivergent people to help quickly clean up a room by shoving everything that shouldn't be there into a doom box/bag/pile to sort later. People do it to help with decision fatigue and fluctuating energy levels. DOOM can stand for "didn't organized, only moved."
sus (popularized by Among Us), loading... as a way to ask for people's patience, S-tier (from the system of ranking best fighting characters in a game), f's in the chat (paying respect to a dead character in a game by pressing F), game over, level up, grinding (a way to level up in games by killing the same enemies thousands of times), speedrun, frame perfect (in speedrunning, a trick/glitch that requires absolutely precise inputs, camera angles, and/or timing), PvP player vs player combat - not just against a program or NPC).
A specific type of cute dancing associated with Japanese anime girls that involves bouncing and using your hands as cute lil ears and the camera moves up and down with the dancers. The term comes from a Swedish group Caramell, whose electronica song was sped up and used with an animation of girls (Caramella Girls) dancing during the early internet.
In an article about decolonizing bird names - not calling them the name of the white European ornithologist associated with them - they refer to these names as verbal statues, monuments to colonizers new to the area.
"The Bird Names for Birds movement argues that these names are like “verbal statues” and that the moment has come for the birding community to take a long, hard look at the institutions and systems that perpetuate white colonial ideals."
On Drag Race: UK vs the World 2, Australian drag qheen Hannah Conda has been encouraging other performers by saying "you're gonna kick it in the dick!" like "fuck em up! you got this!" A good luck blessing. Kinda like merde for ballerinas. Not sure if it's Australian or UK slang. Found it in a stand-up comedy vocab slang post from Dec 2016: https://medium.com/@bokla/the-comedy-urban-dictionary-89933a54515b
Nouns to verbs without -ify or -ate, verbs to nouns without -tion or -er
Parts of Speech? Gender? No thank you. Don't need em.
Allows for nuance in synonym implications amd levels of formality, infinite loanwords, great for flexibility and wordplay. But! Has few signposts for new learners - a bad feature for the current lingua franca.
Huh. The page won't expand the 5-letter and 6-letter word list to show me the 26 names alphabetically after patty and murphy. Must return to this project later or find an internet friend to help me bypass the error message I'm getting.
In December 2023, I learned from this Tumblr post that there used to be giant lemurs on Madagascar. Lemurs are Pizza to me, so giant lemurs are BIG PIZZA.
Lemurs arrived on the island small, and some grew big, and then when humans arrived, they hunted the big pizzas to extinction and now there are no more big pizzas, but there USED to be big pizza. SO BIG. BIG PIZZA.
Pizza is the name of a lemur at the San Francisco Zoo that I admired in 2022, napping under the heat lamps in its lil treehouse. Staying warm like a convenience store pizza. Since then, Pizza has come to mean lemurs in general (to me and 2 others).
This is a pretty new and neat emoticon that means dabbing. The circle is the head, the cross through the head and the slash are the two arms. Pretty good emoticon for a complicated upper body gesture.
"Saltburn" as a verb is used in relation to the film Saltburn for a couple of reasons. Frequently used in the phrase "You've been saltburned!" as a way to mark that someone has seen the movie, but also...
"Shashibo is a unique magnetic puzzle cube that transforms into over 70 shapes. Each cube is a mesmerizing blend of art and geometry, offering endless possibilities for creativity and exploration."
vendingmachine. For some reason, I can't respond to your comment on my username page OR yours. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.
The NPL is a lovely organization of people who like to make and play puzzles of all types. Their monthly newsletter "The Enigma" is full of very trick esoteric puzzles called flats. They do their best to give you the vocabulary, but even after a year there are some things I don't quite get. Very cool famous word people are part of the organization, including Will Shortz and Ben Zimmer and people who make the puzzles for your favorite radio shows and podcasts. Everyone in the organization chooses a nom, that is often very witty and complicated. Mine is Pandatron, though. There's an active Facebook group, an active Discord with people getting together on weekly calls to solve puzzles, many local gatherings, and one big con every year somewhere in North America. Hope that's what you wanted to know! It's a very friendly and smart group.
@Hi word_geek! Happy you're here. I make a lot of odd lists that I realize in hindset make good answer sets for themed puzzles. I would also recommend becoming a member of the NPL - National Puzzler's League. We meet at cons, but also weekly on Zoom to share puzzles we've made, or to work together to solve flats puzzles from the NPL newsletter.
Even though the Twitterblue checkmark verification system was broken when Elon Musk made people pay for them, I have heard drag queens recently talk about using their online fame as "weaponizing their blue checkmark."
Fake Pokemon that fans design, often in original regions. Sometimes artists use the name of existing Pokemon and design a totally new monster that interprets the name in another way. Pronounced FAKE-uh-mon. Same stress as Pokemon.
In some posters promoting the 5th Scream movie (2022), the title was written as "5CREAM", which was then humorously pronounced as "fivecream." Similar to the way some people pronounce "SE7EN" as "se-seven-en." Scream VI (2023) posters break the M in half and use roman numerals on the 2nd half to make a VI: SCREAVI.
Feels like this might be a reaction phrase after flop era and mid really focusing on the struggle of making things good, beyond the sophomore slump. I really like it.
Origin from 2017 video of man finding a cat he thought was dead but was just sleeping. Used to describe sad/tragic/pathetic people or fictional characters.
diversity, equity, inclusion. Many companies have DEI initiatives to be more inclusive to non-white non-male employees in different aspects of work life. https://www.edapp.com/blog/10-dei-topics/
In terms of diction, the math lingo lent a veneer of surety. Mathiness, a term coined in 2015 by Nobel Prize–winning economist Paul Romer, describes mathematical language used not to clarify but to mislead. “The beauty of mathematical language is its capacity to convey truths about the world in glaringly simple terms — E = MC2,” Noah Giansiracusa, a math and data-science professor at Bentley University, told me. “I read his tweet over and over and still don’t really know how to parse it or what exactly he’s trying to say.”
At the wonderful lemur exhibit at the San Francisco Zoo (https://www.sfzoo.org/lipman-family-lemur-forest/), they have little treehouses with heat lamps inside them so the lil lemurs can stay warm on chilly coastal days. We saw lemurs napping right under the heat lamps, looking like a convenience store slices of pizza. So from that day, one specific white and black ruffed lemur was named Pizza, who we invited to come home with us (but politely declined). And also now all lemurs are known as pizza.
Miette is a cat who wishes their mother to go to jail for 1000 years for her crimes of gently moving her out of the way. "you KICK miette? you kick her body like the football? oh! oh! jail for mother! jail for mother for One Thousand Years!!!!"
My boyfriend thinks that some birbz are TOO small. And that for their crime of small, they should be placed in mouth jail (because they could fit in your mouth).
I can almost imagine the sensation of gently holding a small birb in my mouth because of this law, like a felt spherical Christmas ornament who fluffs up every so often against the roof of my mouth.
I live a very good life to be able to step out of the car, see a small borb hopping around in the bushes nearby, and have a partner who confidently declares MOUTH JAIL!
"and of course. cherry on top. 20-year-old account holders are crytyping on the site events neoboard about how mean and cruel it is to make rare stamps part of the prize pool, because their entire identity hinges on being part of the neopian bourgeoisie, and they are having MELTDOWNS over their assets being devalued until they're part of the lowly proletariat."
2022/2023 slang. a calm low-effort casual outfit, then used ironically for an outfit with intention and effort, then used to describe a surreal AI snow bird: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnugqgG9c0o
Post Malone uses busting as a positive adjective in this Last Meal interview at least twice:
https://youtu.be/ciktYlmFbfc?si=Q637Snd0xG8Jf2Cq&t=1100 Once at the beginning minute when talking about the smell of all the good food in the room, once after looking at his own Rosé brand in the light and declaring it to look positively busting. I assume it comes from "bout to bust" changing from meaning specifically sexy to generally good.
Pretty sure this is separate from bussin but could be wrong. Could be a jocular overpronunciation of bussin.
Said when someone's in the middle of making something and others should be patient to see their vision come together - like a music producer live on Twitch. (Bishu says it a lot, probably somewhere in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNwsBe2Iqso)
Canon / AU talk has been in fandom culture for a long time, but the May 2023 movie "Across the Spiderverse" specifically talks about canon events and it's leaking into daily discourse.
An anonymous commenter on Tumblr trying to shame someone for reblogging a post but not following the account it's from (which is not a cultural taboo on Tumblr you can be shamed for).
I've heard this a lot in rock climbing - going hard, or flashing a boulder problem - getting through the whole thing at once, maybe with a dynamic move. It's also used in other extreme sports.
But now I'm hearing coworkers using it, talking about hammering in a nail (literally) with full confidence, or making the choice for a group to leave after waiting for a few minutes for a maybe to join.
Something in my brain wants to create a lapped catalytic joke about a sinner in a slow racecar. But I think it's too many bridges too far for even me, the former creator of TankHughes "punchline only" comics.
"The finale so successfully erased the show from public consciousness, that when people tried to come up with a name for the "extremely popular show with finale so bad that people just immediately stop talking about it" phenomenon, people called it... the Game of Thrones Effect. HIMYM got memoryholed so hard that people forgot it even existed"
The first words of a nonsense paragraph invented to try to capture all of the possible vowels that any speaker might use in different accents. It's not perfect, but it's the standard and we have a lot of recordings that use it: https://accent.gmu.edu/browse_language.php?function=detail&speakerid=145
Full paragraph: Please call Stella. Ask her to bring these things with her from the store: Six spoons of fresh snow peas, five thick slabs of blue cheese, and maybe a snack for her brother Bob. We also need a small plastic snake and a big toy frog for the kids. She can scoop these things into three red bags, and we will go meet her Wednesday at the train station.
Another usage: by Holiday Barbie 1996 (Aabria Iyengar) during a DnD one-shot campaign after Dentist Barbie has axed a troll doll to death, and they're all dancing (because it's a charity stream and people can donate for them to do that) and contemplating death and where souls go when you die: https://youtu.be/IHe55yVQa3k?t=5565 From a PixelCircus livestream, released July 25, 2023.
At some point, was watching a show with a friend and an actor looked a bit like Will Ferrell. But not just discount Will Ferrell, or store-bought off-brand Will Ferrell... even lower quality than that. We riffed that he was in an unpaid Will Ferrell internship, and I love that phrase every time I remember it.
This is a quote from the 2021 Nicole Kidman AMC ad that is encouraging people, post-2020, to return to movie theaters. The ad is beloved(?) and derided, but this particular quote seems to have a life of its own. And they're making another Nicole Kidman AMC ad so it may come up again even more.
The original line was "Somehow, heartbreak fesls good in a place like this" but the somehow is not necessary.
I feel the urge to ask new user laxus for their credit card, but that would not be welcoming or a true reflection of the site. But... it's an intrusive thought, an antisocial call of the void.
Scorigami was invented by sports writer Jon Bois in a Youtube video, and now a site exists that tracks the phenomenon of unique NFL scores that are created by the unique addition of 2,3,6,7 points added at a time: https://nflscorigami.com/
wilhelmina. Good news! Wordnik includes a definition for God wink from Wiktionary - it's just on the entry written with a space instead of a hyphen: God wink
Hey deadwoodcarl, and welcome. Trans rights are human rights, gender is not a binary, and language changes all the time.
To respond to your specific comment: the definitions on this site clearly show their sources, some of which are historical and out of date, none of which are created by Wordnik. The intention of dictionaries is not to police or litigate usage, but to reflect how terms are actually used. Sometimes people use filly to mean a young horse, regardless of that horse's gender, so one dictionary source (GCIDE) chose to represent that usage. Part of why Wordnik pulls from many sources is to give a broader perspective about how terms are perceived by different sources over time. I hope that answers your question.
No offense taken! Tank is strong. Tank can take a hit. For proof, please consider Patton in its entirety, or the Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade tank battle.
Including this as a potential word of the year in regards to creations by AI - particularly visual output by MidJourney. It's not realistic enough to be a deepfake, it's dreamlike, it's a hallucination. Also can apply to fake reference lists - hallucinated citations.
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom video game has the hero running through a destroyed kingdom that has been affected by an event called the Upheaval. In the last game, a similar event happened called the Calamity. My guess is that this word is being primed by all the people playing the game and that it will show up with greater frequency this year than normal.
vendingmachine Your annoyance at the term feels misguided. Ultimately the problem is the problem, not the word. Yes, unhoused can be used by people as a self-righteous identifier to appear more empathetic while not doing anything (like correcting someone telling their story, instead of listening to the message) but adding a new term to the mix can help refresh the conversation and is not inherently worthless or harmful.
This is a word. It's a plural of deep. It's probably not in M-W's Collegiate or New World Dictionary. It is a playable Scrabble word though: https://scrabble.merriam.com/finder/deeps
It could use a tag like "non-standard" or "archaic" or "fantastical" since it seems it's mostly used to describe fictional caves or extreme deep-sea creatures and monsters that are "from the deeps." It's also used in the KJV translation of Psalms.
Blue checks originally verified a celebrity account vs an impersonation.
Musk made them something people could pay for for clout.
This weekend, Twitter started giving celebrities blue checks without paying for it.
The celebrities are not happy about it because it implies they support Musk.
Famous anonymous tweeter @dril was verified after suggesting that everyone blocks anyone with a blue check.
Every time they change their username (normally "wint", @dril stays the same), their blue check is removed, so as punishment, @dril receives a blue check, then changes their name to remove it, then someone at Twitter gives them a blue check again.
Foods that are always considered desirable and safe to eat when nothing else sounds good (especially by autistic people who are sensory avoiders - classic example is buttered noodles.)
As a promotion for the upcoming Barbie movie, there are now templates where people fill in pictures of themselves, famous people, or memes with a "This Barbie is X" or "This Barbie Xes" captions on top like the promotional material posters. https://www.vulture.com/2023/04/barbie-movie-cast-posters-real-dolls.html
The drop is an EDM term for the part of an electronic-inspired song that comes after building up tension.
Modern pop songs often build up tension with their pre-chorus to mimic this aspect of EDM, but now there are also songs that intentionally build up lots of dense production in the pre-chorus and then have a sparse chorus. That's called an anti-drop. This YouTuber uses it, and has a clip of musician Charlie Puth using the term in reference to his own song: https://youtu.be/ZWhmkpdgj74
Term coined by Indiana Seresim to describe the pessimism that straight straight, bi, and pansexual women feel at being attracked to straight men - the hopelessness that comes from being attracted to your oppressor. (definition from @chillipolyamory TikTok in March 2023)
I mostly hear this in reference to drafting (like fantasy football drafts) where they do a serpentine draft to give first player advantage but not too much advantage. Where it goes 1 2 3 4 4 3 2 1 1 2 3 4 4 3 2 1 etc.
PDA or Pathological Demand Avoidance is a subtype of autism where any demands (external, internal, self-made, anything) are potentially interpreted as threats to autonomy, threatening the person's sense of control, which their anxiety desperately grasps onto to navigate a neurotypical world. Others may view it as disrespect towards authority, but can also stem from activities they like, or bodily needs like food, bathroom, and sleep from themselves. It's not obstinance for attention, but a response to a threat to survival. https://www.pdasociety.org.uk/what-is-pda-menu/about-autism-and-pda/
distinct anxiety, also called autism-distinct anxiety, is a form of anxiety related to disturbances in the comfort of an autistic person - being disconnected from their schedule, stims, interests, safe foods, preferred sensory environment, etc. Has something to do with amygdala size. https://neurosciencenews.com/amygdala-autism-anxiety-20054/
lightbird25 It looks like Engpanish takes its sentence structure (grammar) totally from English, and adds the literal translation of individual endings of Spanish words onto the English sentence. Is that correct?
"it" used to be spelled "hit" (OE) but lost the h because it's so often in an unstressed place. (In reference to the list I added this to called Abbreviations that Start in the Middle.)
As heard in a Feb 2023 TikTok, people pretending that they're stretching dollars, making bread and growing food because it's trendy, not because they're poor.
The Amen break is a famous drum beat taken from a section of the 1969 song Amen, Brother. It is a foundational sample beat in house and jungle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amen_break
"Perhaps the choice is a form of atonement for company founder Cecil Rhodes’s unabashed imperialism, for the blood diamond scandals, and for the ongoing exploitation of miners. Call it sparklewashing."
A lot of electric kettles have a bullet point list on their boxes with a list of features. Often, one of them is "cool touch bottom", that you won't burn yourself if you touch the bottom of the kettle.
I don't think it's quite solidified, but with AI-generated text/art, human-created/human-generated is a recent concept that will eventually go on this list.
Updated FSAR, AKA, an Updated Final Safety Analysis Report. People seem to say this acronym as letters, and not as "OOF-sar", even though that would sound pretty fun and save time.
From The First Nuclear Era (1994) by Alvin Weinberg:
"I've always found physics to be difficult. I am not endowed with the ability to see immediately the essence of a physical phenomena. Yet by dint of hard work, I was able to complete my undergraduate physics examination at the top of my small class."
In power plant talk, I've noticed people pronouncing turbine the way I would pronounce turban. I say the 2nd syllable more like it's an endivecombine harvester from Irvine. Maybe a familiarity thing leading to erosion? American Heritage pronunciation (below) says it like them, Macmillan says it like me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Needle_in_a_Timestack This is the name of a 2021 sci-fi time travel movie. It breaks up the atomicity of this phrase, but it doesn't make it funny, or poignant, hay doesn't rhyme with time, it's not a before and after, and it doesn't expand the metaphor into anything more thought-provoking. It's just fucking stupid. A timestack is nothing. This phrase is nothing. Who approved this.
Apparently it's the name of the short story from 1985 that the movie is based on. It continues to be a bad name.
I saw this used like shimmy, in the past tense "shinnied up the log to the shore" in a book from 1946. Not sure which is older or if they're related. At first I thought it was a printer typography error where 2 n's equal 1 m, but then we're still missing an m.
A rare example of reduplication that isn't contrastive focus reduplication as in "Do you like him or do you like-like him?" where repeating the word denotes that the core meaning is the one that you mean. "Did you take a subway train or a train train?"
It's not the Blarney Stone and it's not Burt Wonderstone, but it's still quite wondrous and a stone. Can't find a specific picture of it online because so many other things are called wonder stone.
circularity and circular design are used to describe the opposite of fast fashion - clothes made to be worn, and donated, and thrifted, and used, and shared, and worn again.
I've been working on a spreadsheet to see if there are any patterns about languages or word formations that come up more often than others, but I think it's really the combination of sources that makes it hard to have strong reader intuition about how to pronounce any - meringue and merengue, quahog and quay, gnu and GNU.
Sure, French and Greek come up a lot, but a lot of English words in total come from French and Greek, so those numbers would need to be weighted against the total number of loanwords each language family has contributed.
Disney's Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow. (You know, that park with that huge golfball building and a manufactured lake surrounded by representations of many countries?
Not sure what list this belongs on, maybe a retro futurism acronym list. Corporate hope? Something.
I have smellfeast on my big list of cutthroats, but the example from "English Past and Present" brought me to a fun intersection of references and light thoughts about cutthroats that I either haven't read before, or it's been 10 years so it's worth reading their gentleman scholarly work again: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/20900/20900-0.txt Thanks Gutenberg Project!
I think it's an American football reference, or a sports reference at least, about running with your elbows out to keep other people away from you, or to suddenly jut your elbows out to knock nearby racers out of your way. Someone who's not afraid to show their mercilessly competitive side.
In the musical version of Heathers, the 3 Heathers sing their villain song called Candy Store.
"Honey what you waiting for? Welcome to my candy store. Time for you to prove you're not a loser anymore, then step into my candy store." https://youtu.be/BQOoTX1Nxx8
I guess it's evoking how she (Veronica) could do fun, destructive rich girl shit (be a kid in a candy store) if she chooses their clique over morality, but I'm not sure why it's that specific image, which isn't anywhere else in the musical. Maybe it's from the original movie?
When you face-tank in a game, it means your character chooses to open a door or box without checking, even though it may set off traps, because your constitution/HP is high enough that you're not worried that you'll die even if you get hit with the full blast. Other characters, like rogues in DnD have thieves tools and proficiencies in skills that let them check for traps and disarm them, but if your party doesn't have a rogue, or if you just have a particularly stalwart dwarf paladin who doesn't fear death, you may see the consequences of face-tanking.
In video games and RPGs of all kinds, a tank is a common defensive class, as opposed to fighter (damage-focused), healer (group health-focused), or magic user (special abilities/buff-focused).
It's bait for you to click on, it's bait that wants clicks. So it's either N+N or V+N but it's endocentric either way. Kind of an odd connection. fishbait it to catch fish, so clickbait is to catch clicks. THE MORPHOLOGY OF THIS WORD WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE...
This is not the word guardrail, this is the name of a fictional character on an episode of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend who was very stingy with their cocaine. https://cxg.fandom.com/wiki/Guardrail
In improv 101 classes, yes-anding someone means accepting whatever element they add to a scene and then building on top of it to further create the world and its characters. Sometimes written as yes, and...
Some kind of strange Tumblr moment about Sans from the video game Undertale vs the anime character Reigen in a Tumblr Sexyman vote that coincided with the death of Queen Elizabeth II (Sept 8, 2022). also #sansweep also #SANSWEEP (vs. #reigensweep)
A TPK is a "total party kill" in Dungeons and Dragons or other TTRPGs. That means that the group (adventuring party) of player characters (PCs) was fully killed in an attack of some kind. Often times, one of two of a party will fall to 0 hit points (HP) during a battle, but another character with healing spells or a healing potion will bring them back from death saving throws and continue on their adventure. However, when all of the player characters die, and no one is there to resurrect them, it's a TPK. TPKs can result in the end of a campaign - like dying in a story, or they can be a temporary setback that resets the progress of the party, like a video game. TPKs can lead to player characters changing who they are role-playing as, or lead to a conversation with the DM about how difficult the battles should be going forward. Or they can just be a fun story about the time that everybody died because they went to the ominous deserted village, ignored multiple red flags, released the goats of a clearly evil woman to annoy her, and then were killed by that witch in a skull-shaped airship (for example)
Well explicked, ruzuzu. Being a murderhobo is one way to play DnD, and is fine if it fits with the story setting and the player group. Some people want to play out a high-fantasy court drama, some want to shapeshift into bears and talk to demigods, some want to explore non-binary identities and creative problem-solving, and some people want to ruthlessly murder anyone they meet without real-life consequences. That last type is murderhobos.
When a DM or GM applies the rule of cool, they allow a player character to do something cool in DnD (or another RPG) that isn't strictly what is intended by the rules/the manuals, but is such a cool idea, the DM wants to reward their creativity.
A murderhobo is a character in DnD who just wants to kill any NPC that they come across or have an issue with, because it's a fictional world and they know how to wield weapons and/or magic. The whole party can be murderhobos who never try for diplomacy, or it can just be one character who flies into battle when faced with most situations.
The hobo part is because an adventuring party travels from town to town in a normal campaign. Their backstory isn't that important because they're just focused on whatever monster or corrupt official they run into and murder that day.
I know thaumaturgy from DnD. I guess thauma is miracle, and this definition is trying to say "when people try to describe the wonders of the world, their writings are thaumatography," Writing about wonders.
People definitely spell murder this way now, but I can't tell if it's for fun, to avoid algorithm bans on saying murder, or just because they liked the SNL murdur durdur sketch, which was making fun of Delco (Philly) accents from Mare of Easttown. https://youtu.be/qaKZi6p6sxg
This job title is used by sex workers (and others who don't want to talk about their jobs or can't for censorship/safety reasons). https://youtu.be/psCTNvhF9cE
neck gaiter makes me think of turkey wattles. I don't think this was in the discussion of WOTY 2020, but it shoulda been, as a mask alternative of people who have sensitive ears, or who only want to nominally comply with mask laws but just keep this around their neck as a scarf.
I saw this term used to describe warnings for the cat-based video game Stray. The category included trypophobia (fear of tiny clustered holes), clusters, and parasites. Reminds me of the similar category of body horror, which includes too many limbs or eyes, limbs in the wrong places, and all kindsa gross mad scientist monster manipulation of what humans should look like.
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pinkwashed citation
https://www.tumblr.com/rainn-dropz-world/752197775732637696
June 22, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word this is going to ruin the tour
https://www.instagram.com/p/C8ey4wjIM8y/
A quote from Justin Timberlake's DWI arrest.
""Timberlake is believed to have said: “This is going to ruin the tour” to the policeman who arrested him, an officer who, it seems, was too young to recognise the former boyband star.""
June 22, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word (affectionate)
(endearing)
June 19, 2024
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Muxes – Mexico's third gender: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiek6JxYJLs
Oaxaca-specific gender category.
June 11, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word egg-and-tongue
I don't love the image this conjures up.
June 10, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word babygirl
https://twitter.com/suchnerve/status/1699644462828265777
"autism is new" babygirl your grandma stimmed by knitting all the time, had strict daily routines, got really annoyed if people disrupted her routines, spoke in a mostly monotone voice, was oblivious of social cues, and interpreted young people's slang literally
June 9, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word body English
https://time.com/4507209/arnold-palmer-drink-history/
"Despite his mastery of shots, Palmer sometimes feels compelled to help out with body English, as in playoff round of the '62 Masters, which he won."
June 6, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word toxic boy mom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POiWfbwbOJY
Romantic obsession of moms about boy children?
June 2, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word Fanum tax
https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/172jukl/what_is_up_with_the_fanum_tax/
tax of taking some of other people's food
also tax for looking too good?
Fanum is a streamer - friends would come on their stream and they would eat some of their food. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanum_tax
June 2, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word delve
ChatGPT-generated papers use "delve" more often than normal human use, so we may see an increase of its use generally in society. https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7PF_C4ACDK/
It also overuses commendable and meticulous. Future search terms for teachers looking for student copypasta.
May 22, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word low-key
Changing uses of low-key since 2009 to be an adverb of degree and also become a more intense modifier, getting closer to taking over the place of high-key:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7CSGlDgkUp/
May 19, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word the Cow Palace
This is a big arena venue in Daly City, California that used to have cattle auctions but now has big events like dog shows and concerts and the Dickens Fair and was where the San Jose Sharks hockey team originally played.
"The idea for the arena was inspired by the popularity of the livestock pavilion at the 1915 Panama–Pacific International Exposition. A local newspaper asked, as early as May 1935, "Why, when people are starving, should money be spent on a 'palace for cows'?" A headline writer turned the phrase around, thus "Cow Palace"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_Palace
May 15, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word bossman
Bossman as a gender and age-neutral term for someone behind a counter. (BrE?) https://www.instagram.com/p/C6edKg9MCRU/
May 15, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word Damfino
"damn if I know"
From a Buster Keaton gag, used now by Lofty Pursuits candy company in Florida to label packages of unknown assorted candies at a discount price: https://www.pd.net/products/80?_pos=17&_fid=41e367404&_ss=c
"If you are interested, this name comes from a gag that was used in many Buster Keaton films as is seen in this photo. With this candy really can't tell you what you will get, but we can promise it will be fun."
May 9, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word visible mending
https://www.remodelista.com/posts/household-visible-mending-trend-alert/
https://www.hareinthechair.com/post/707610750617845760/how-to-use-visible-mending-to-repair-pet-damaged
May 9, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word delulu
"May all your delulu come trululu"
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1546044000/may-all-of-your-dululu-come-trululu
May 5, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word sigma
talking about the semantics of the phrase what the sigma and more generally, brainrot. https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6Y5AISC78A/
May 3, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word YTP
YouTube Poop - a genre of video mashup.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phQEjyM3Xp0
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube_poop
reminds me of shitposting
April 30, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word qunt
feeling qunt. An intensified drag algorithm-avoidant version of cunt.
https://www.instagram.com/p/Cx0m4A8rIVW/
April 26, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word tenderqueer
play off of genderqueer? found in reddit post as a dismissive insult to drag performer Dawn. https://www.reddit.com/r/dragrace/comments/1carofu/is_this_true/
April 23, 2024
tankhughes commented on the list algorithm-avoidant-inventions-D25p2r0HK_2pCayeZApKQ
frick = fuck
shippy = shitty
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5_2fj4Pans/
April 22, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word dawnest
Dawn + honest. Written as dawnest or Dawnest
A particular brand of reading that is offered up as constructive criticism. Popularized by the drag artist Dawn throughout her run on RuPaul's Drag Race Season 16.
Often used in the phrase "Can I be Dawnest?" as a coy introduction to a cutting remark. https://twitter.com/XunamiMuse/status/1762248219621212599
https://twitter.com/ssimplyysam/status/1778414456050975212
April 22, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word soy boy
spelling variant soy-boiz used ironically when talking about cancelling trees for liberal tendencies: https://www.instagram.com/p/C536UiXPsCp/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
April 22, 2024
tankhughes commented on the list algorithm-avoidant-inventions-D25p2r0HK_2pCayeZApKQ
Examples of emoji censorship of audio captions (Clips from Conan O'Brian Hot Ones episode)
salute emoji = erect
chicken emoji = clucking
https://youtube.com/shorts/dNUrqQXpvj0?si=qA_AFTkih7ezt5m2
April 22, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word -pilled
"Based and hanukkia-pilled."
https://twitter.com/boom_tentpeg/status/1781669621566685462
April 20, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word be SO FR RN
be SO FR RN: be so for real right now
April 20, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word solidarity spring
https://www.tumblr.com/shutyourmoustache/748237292558319616/college-students-have-kicked-off-solidarity "COLLEGE STUDENTS HAVE KICKED OFF SOLIDARITY SPRING!!! 🇵🇸FREE PALESTINE!!!🇵🇸 "
April 20, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word skibidi
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C53mHsGCKvC/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
Sound of fictional toilet from meme. Sound comes from scat singing vocalizations.
April 18, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word oroblanco
oroblanco means gold-white.
orange is another fruit. Are there other fruits that are just colors?
April 15, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word aux
the aux cord in a car that people use to play music through a car. There are "when your friends give/hand you the aux cord" memes. on aux pass the aux
auxiliary cord
Starting to be an obsolete mode as phones can now connect to modern cars through Bluetooth and not a physical cord, but still a way for passengers to talk about who is DJing a trip.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5yeYljCV5y/
April 15, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word baddie
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5i-d9pgdj8/
April 15, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word gagged
gagged to enter straight white girl slang like slay did in 2022? https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5vt6JViotl/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
April 15, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word gentle bossing
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5s2kedN8Dw/ Gentle bossing as an antidote to micromanaging, unrelenting demands that drain energy, infantilization, and lack of trust in a power dynamic (at work, in families, etc.)
April 14, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word slash
slash as a new conjunction: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5lg1UxA2wW/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
not quite or or and, but it connects two clauses. slashfic
April 13, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word thobe
Man tries on matching thobes with his cat: https://www.tumblr.com/tiktoksthataregood-ish/747387729468407808
April 13, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word my brother in Christ
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5tnUlJP1zO/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
"My sister in Christ. Is he kind?"
April 13, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word scromiting
Scromiting as a symptom of smoking too much weed over time?
https://youtube.com/shorts/qXL0zOJGsEI?si=PDb2I2G2S6Txf1UH
April 13, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word DOOM box
A common strategy used by ADHD and other neurodivergent people to help quickly clean up a room by shoving everything that shouldn't be there into a doom box/bag/pile to sort later. People do it to help with decision fatigue and fluctuating energy levels. DOOM can stand for "didn't organized, only moved."
https://www.minimizemymess.com/blog/doom-bags
April 9, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word NPC
nonplayable character (in a video game or role playing game like Dungeons and Dragons).
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5WHT__gc6H/
Video also talks about sidequest, where we dropping, (a Fortnite reference), noob, OP, and nerf.
Other video game phrases in general use:
sus (popularized by Among Us), loading... as a way to ask for people's patience, S-tier (from the system of ranking best fighting characters in a game), f's in the chat (paying respect to a dead character in a game by pressing F), game over, level up, grinding (a way to level up in games by killing the same enemies thousands of times), speedrun, frame perfect (in speedrunning, a trick/glitch that requires absolutely precise inputs, camera angles, and/or timing), PvP player vs player combat - not just against a program or NPC).
April 8, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word Jumanji'd
In an April 6, 2024 SNL sketch, a woman is worried about getting Jumanji'd into the board game Ticket to Ride. Jumanji is a verb now.
https://youtu.be/8cdBcfLhJVY
April 8, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word fanon
fanon vs canon https://www.reddit.com/r/Undertale/comments/1bvbc53/what_undertale_character_is_this/
Pronounced like canon - FAN-nun
April 5, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word caramelldansen
A specific type of cute dancing associated with Japanese anime girls that involves bouncing and using your hands as cute lil ears and the camera moves up and down with the dancers. The term comes from a Swedish group Caramell, whose electronica song was sped up and used with an animation of girls (Caramella Girls) dancing during the early internet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvq9r6R6QAY
https://www.tumblr.com/tiktoks-for-tired-tots/746868014325055488
April 4, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word egg
https://gscc.msu.edu/education/glossary.html#:~:text=of%20the%20individual.-,Birth%2Dassigned%20sex%20is%20often%20mistakenly%20confused%20with%20gender.,they%20will%20eventually%20hatch%20into.
"egg – Slang term for someone who is trans but doesn’t know it yet. Someone who is an embryo of the trans person they will eventually hatch into."
April 4, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word boop
This was an April Fools 2024 feature on Tumblr like a "like" or old school Facebook "poke" https://www.tumblr.com/allthingslinguistic/746598429812195328/the-boops-are-like-a-pure-instantiation-of-phatic
https://www.tumblr.com/lil-shiro/746600105295085568
https://www.reddit.com/r/tumblr/comments/1bszhv0/new_tumblr_mechanic_booping/
April 3, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word dazzle camouflage
Is this an oxymoron?
April 3, 2024
tankhughes commented on the list contest-winner-words-that-actually-got-popular-9vivPkKN-NieFQ12dfVV4
phubbing was a 2013 creation for the Australian dictionary MacQuarie: https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/phubbing-words-we%27re-watching
free bird is a Boomer redefinition of empty nester that was an answer to a reader query on BetterAfter50.com. (I think - research in progress) https://betterafter50.com/re-defining-the-empty-nest/
scofflaw was a 1924 contest about prohibition violators sponsored by wealthy liquor hater Delcevare King from Massachussetts.
March 28, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word function
History of function as a funnier version of party: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C45yWkVgV-_/
March 25, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word stonks
In meme culture, this means stocks. Related terms: GameStop, to the moon, tendies etc.
March 21, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word verbal statues
In an article about decolonizing bird names - not calling them the name of the white European ornithologist associated with them - they refer to these names as verbal statues, monuments to colonizers new to the area.
"The Bird Names for Birds movement argues that these names are like “verbal statues” and that the moment has come for the birding community to take a long, hard look at the institutions and systems that perpetuate white colonial ideals."
https://birdsconnectsea.org/2021/08/19/names-are-power-lets-talk-about-decolonizing-bird-names/
March 21, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word croffle
Blend of croissant and waffle. Like cronut I guess? https://addybean.com/recipe/breakfast/gluten-free-and-vegan-croffles-croissant-waffles/
March 19, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word inverted arch
An inverted arch is just a U-shaped hole.
March 19, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word kick it in the dick
Hannah Conna mentioned she has a UK boyfriend, maybe it's from him.
March 14, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word kick it in the dick
On Drag Race: UK vs the World 2, Australian drag qheen Hannah Conda has been encouraging other performers by saying "you're gonna kick it in the dick!" like "fuck em up! you got this!" A good luck blessing. Kinda like merde for ballerinas. Not sure if it's Australian or UK slang. Found it in a stand-up comedy vocab slang post from Dec 2016: https://medium.com/@bokla/the-comedy-urban-dictionary-89933a54515b
March 14, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word zero morpheme derivation
The most important and unique feature of English (I think).
You can just change words without a paper trail. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPq0-8dyl8I
Nouns to verbs without -ify or -ate, verbs to nouns without -tion or -er
Parts of Speech? Gender? No thank you. Don't need em.
Allows for nuance in synonym implications amd levels of formality, infinite loanwords, great for flexibility and wordplay. But! Has few signposts for new learners - a bad feature for the current lingua franca.
March 12, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word nice weather for ducks
Related: a John Mulaney bit about an eccentric boss "Too Old To Be a Duckling": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJxrnbmdm9s
March 12, 2024
tankhughes commented on the list acceptable-proper-names-in-scrabble-pHSNGIBeNewAK3vF6I5kj
Huh. The page won't expand the 5-letter and 6-letter word list to show me the 26 names alphabetically after patty and murphy. Must return to this project later or find an internet friend to help me bypass the error message I'm getting.
March 11, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word iktr
short for "I know that's right"
different from ikr: "I know, right?"
March 10, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word smth
short for something
not to be confused with smh (shaking my head) and smdh (shaking my damn head)
March 10, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word pikucho
An off-brand or somewhat messed up version of the Pokémon Pikachu.
March 7, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word certified library post
certified x post is a snowclone template (from Tumblr?). Feels related to the tag or declaration of a tumblr heritage post
certified library post is common, just saw certified soup post: https://www.instagram.com/p/C4I_V6Yrjn5/
March 7, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word BIG PIZZA
In December 2023, I learned from this Tumblr post that there used to be giant lemurs on Madagascar. Lemurs are Pizza to me, so giant lemurs are BIG PIZZA.
Lemurs arrived on the island small, and some grew big, and then when humans arrived, they hunted the big pizzas to extinction and now there are no more big pizzas, but there USED to be big pizza. SO BIG. BIG PIZZA.
https://www.tumblr.com/ode-on-a-grecian-butt/702656578660204544/illustrations-show-size-difference-between?redirect_to=%2Fode-on-a-grecian-butt
February 28, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word Pizza
Pizza is the name of a lemur at the San Francisco Zoo that I admired in 2022, napping under the heat lamps in its lil treehouse. Staying warm like a convenience store pizza. Since then, Pizza has come to mean lemurs in general (to me and 2 others).
See also: BIG PIZZA
February 28, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word cheese pizza
cheese pizza = CP = child pornography. AKA: CSA (child sex abuse).
Cheese pizza is an algospeak term that avoids filters and word lists banning sex and violence.
February 28, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word canadew
Q: Why was the melon so successful?
A: Because it had a canadew attitude.
That's a 2024 original in the style of my old TankHughes.com Monday Comics. Thanks #RandomWord
February 23, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word Ø/
This is a pretty new and neat emoticon that means dabbing. The circle is the head, the cross through the head and the slash are the two arms. Pretty good emoticon for a complicated upper body gesture.
February 21, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word saltburned
"Saltburn" as a verb is used in relation to the film Saltburn for a couple of reasons. Frequently used in the phrase "You've been saltburned!" as a way to mark that someone has seen the movie, but also...
!!!
As a reference to a psychosexual long con done by a lower-class person to a higher-class person or group.
2023 Nov 30, Twitter https://twitter.com/ANDREWTI/status/1730349216382455856
The world would be a better place if white people Saltburned each other like all the time.
2023 Dec 30, Twitter https://twitter.com/lauren_westen/status/1741347668511658466
My favorite part was when he said “it’s saltburnin time!” And saltburned all over the place
(this is a play on the tweet that originated morbin as a verb from the movie Morbius in 2022.)
2024 Feb 11, Kevin Smith answer on After Midnight: https://youtu.be/W6nGoaWWH1Q?si=TbBVb8G2YC5btZMJ&t=34 "Travis Kelce Saltburns the entire league and then dances naked with his salt shaker dangling"
February 19, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word whitegeist
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Whitegeist
February 18, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word Shashibo
Sha-shi-bo. Shape shifting box. https://funinmotiontoys.com/products/avatar-series
"Shashibo is a unique magnetic puzzle cube that transforms into over 70 shapes. Each cube is a mesmerizing blend of art and geometry, offering endless possibilities for creativity and exploration."
February 17, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word befuddled
vendingmachine. For some reason, I can't respond to your comment on my username page OR yours. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.
The NPL is a lovely organization of people who like to make and play puzzles of all types. Their monthly newsletter "The Enigma" is full of very trick esoteric puzzles called flats. They do their best to give you the vocabulary, but even after a year there are some things I don't quite get. Very cool famous word people are part of the organization, including Will Shortz and Ben Zimmer and people who make the puzzles for your favorite radio shows and podcasts. Everyone in the organization chooses a nom, that is often very witty and complicated. Mine is Pandatron, though. There's an active Facebook group, an active Discord with people getting together on weekly calls to solve puzzles, many local gatherings, and one big con every year somewhere in North America. Hope that's what you wanted to know! It's a very friendly and smart group.
February 14, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word ouches
ouches are brooches. An oucher ouches.
February 14, 2024
tankhughes commented on the user word_geek
@Hi word_geek! Happy you're here. I make a lot of odd lists that I realize in hindset make good answer sets for themed puzzles. I would also recommend becoming a member of the NPL - National Puzzler's League. We meet at cons, but also weekly on Zoom to share puzzles we've made, or to work together to solve flats puzzles from the NPL newsletter.
February 12, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word weaponize my blue checkmark
https://youtu.be/MgW_JcnNFdY?si=DL8MdWPyU1sN6UTX&t=200
Even though the Twitter blue checkmark verification system was broken when Elon Musk made people pay for them, I have heard drag queens recently talk about using their online fame as "weaponizing their blue checkmark."
February 9, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word neuroconformity
https://drdevonprice.com/post/741161166960803840/hi-im-doing-a-literature-review-on-the
February 9, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word can hook
can cook, can clean, can dance, can hook
February 9, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word shifting
Multiverse out of body experiences?
https://www.reddit.com/r/CuratedTumblr/comments/1am9w2d/reality_shifting/ Probably inspired by Spiderverse/multiverse trends in general.
February 9, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word looksmaxxing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3zehSJgE8Y An unhealthy set of trends to try to change the jaw and face shape that began in incel forums. Related terms: mogging, mewing, jelqing (nsfw), bonesmashing, hunter eyes.
February 8, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word Barris
How embarrassing for a chimpanzee and a mandrill to both be named Barris.
February 7, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word billy-roller
Making wool is so complicated. Could have a whole list of wool-making terms.
February 6, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word yodie
"Vape pen is your train to yodie land"
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=yodie
February 1, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word cryptogam
Spoiler alert, because the ad said cryptograms and not cryptograms, we got a seaweed expert working on the Enigma Code and it ultimately helped. https://youtu.be/N8jeYeWz-NM
January 26, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word pluviophile
Why neurodivergents can be pluviophiles: rain is a visual stim and an auditory stim and potentially a tactile stim https://www.instagram.com/reel/C2X6nDhuJRn/
January 23, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word hoi polloi
I think this sounds similar to hoity toity and that's why some people think it means elite rather than common people.
January 23, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word CYOA
CYOA: Choose Your Own Adventure (literary/game genre)
January 22, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word wrecking-train
I came in like a wrecking-train... to clean up the situation. Unexpected but makes sense. Same as firetruck.
January 17, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word WS
can be short for White Supremacy https://www.instagram.com/reel/C2Fz2fYvPr7/
January 15, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word pookie
This shows up in the song Tango: Maureen from RENT (1996).
M: Has she ever pouted her lips and called you Pookie?
J: Never
M: Have you ever doubted a kiss or two?
J: This is spooky
January 15, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word pookie
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C2DGZfDgq7G/
January 15, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word Damp January
Like Dry January but you drink in subjective moderation instead of attempting abstinence, which is rarely achievable.
January 9, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word singulars
"The plural form of singular." Huh.
January 9, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word grey rock
https://psychcentral.com/health/grey-rock-method
"The grey rock method is where you deliberately act unresponsive or unengaged so that an abusive person will lose interest in you."
January 2, 2024
tankhughes commented on the word fakemon
Fake Pokemon that fans design, often in original regions. Sometimes artists use the name of existing Pokemon and design a totally new monster that interprets the name in another way. Pronounced FAKE-uh-mon. Same stress as Pokemon.
Subjectively Mazah Region: https://youtu.be/XqbZ9LcgFPg?si=fno77fqBj2u2VeUt&t=32
Aetis_Fakemon: https://www.instagram.com/aetis_fakemon/
December 21, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word 5CREAM
In some posters promoting the 5th Scream movie (2022), the title was written as "5CREAM", which was then humorously pronounced as "five cream." Similar to the way some people pronounce "SE7EN" as "se-seven-en." Scream VI (2023) posters break the M in half and use roman numerals on the 2nd half to make a VI: SCREAVI.
December 20, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word three-nerved
Same
December 15, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word uninunium
Unununium (Uuu) is the former name of chemical element 111, now called Roentgenium (Rg)
1-1-1-ium
December 14, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word we're so back
Feels like this might be a reaction phrase after flop era and mid really focusing on the struggle of making things good, beyond the sophomore slump. I really like it.
December 13, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word WFH
WFH = work from home, remote work
December 12, 2023
tankhughes commented on the list what-do-do-with-things-you-detest-UWrDJ5dfQ00yCnqilXyLo
throw it off a cliff
lock it in a dungeon
push it into traffic
block it online
December 11, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word sweepstakes dispersal
http://museum2.utep.edu/archive/fossils/DDsweepstakes.htm
Maybe how lemurs got to Madagascar - by floating on fallen trees from mainland Africa. Also maybe how rodents got from Africa to South America.
https://youtu.be/1hTJh8W0khU?si=_UZWnHrXIbHneFYs&t=165
December 7, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word watermelon emoji
Watermelon emoji being used to replace the Palestinian flag, watermelon has been used this way for decades. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_resistance_and_watermelons
December 7, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word jippa jappa
jippa jappa? Means straw, is named after a rainforest plant from Central America: https://belize.com/jippi-jappa-maya-basket/
December 6, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word de-cakeifying
https://www.reddit.com/r/BrandNewSentence/comments/18ak9d5/decakeifying/
December 4, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word spoonie
Someone with fewer spoons, or who is out of spoons in Spoon Theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoon_theory
November 30, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word floptokers
https://floptok.fandom.com/wiki/Floptok Floptok a subset of TikTok videos about flop era. Floptokers are people who post about that content. Related to Stan Twitter.
November 28, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word Texaboo
Like the opposite side of a weaboo (a white/American person who loves Japanese culture). A Japanese person obsessed with American culture https://www.reddit.com/r/NonPoliticalTwitter/comments/183p769/til_that_texaboos_are_a_thing/
November 28, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word healthism
https://www.instagram.com/p/C0MbC-urlTR/
yourdietitianbff: 🗞️ You heard it here first: healthism and eugenics are very much IN for 2024 /sarcasm
November 28, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word poor little meow meow
https://fanlore.org/wiki/Poor_Little_Meow_Meow
Origin from 2017 video of man finding a cat he thought was dead but was just sleeping. Used to describe sad/tragic/pathetic people or fictional characters.
Battinson (Robert Pattinson in 2022's "The Batman"), the Bruce Wayne persona is considered to be a poor little meow meow by fans. Commonly used on Tumblr and Twitter. https://www.tumblr.com/handwrittenhello/708345004816515072/poorest-little-meow-meow-harry-du-bois-disco
November 26, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word slick back
a 2023 TikTok trending dance originally called jubislide in 2022 https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/jubi-slide-jubislide
November 22, 2023
tankhughes commented on the list terms-that-are-examples-of-the-term
Related: Many alphabets are named for the first few letters of that alphabet. https://www.wordnik.com/lists/names-for-alphabets
November 16, 2023
tankhughes commented on the list abbreviations-that-start-in-the-middle
Rudely, some people wanted a list of the ones that are JUST the middle, not also the end. For me, the onset is what matters.
But the just-the-Oreo-cream ones are fridge, Liza, flu, rizz (maybe, origin disputed)
November 16, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word verse
"No power in the 'verse can stop me" - Firefly https://www.reddit.com/r/firefly/comments/bzq40a/the_original_no_power_in_the_verse_can_stop_me/
November 16, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word witch ball
Not a sport.
November 16, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word fox-snake
Oh for fox-snake!
November 15, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word pain sponge
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Pain-sponge
From at least 2012, but popularized by the TV show Succession
https://youtu.be/bmj0RA9QLJc?si=EkYFomr04cwc-BX1&t=274
November 14, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word DEI
diversity, equity, inclusion. Many companies have DEI initiatives to be more inclusive to non-white non-male employees in different aspects of work life. https://www.edapp.com/blog/10-dei-topics/
November 14, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word mathiness
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/sam-altman-artificial-intelligence-openai-profile.html
Sept 25, 2023
In terms of diction, the math lingo lent a veneer of surety. Mathiness, a term coined in 2015 by Nobel Prize–winning economist Paul Romer, describes mathematical language used not to clarify but to mislead. “The beauty of mathematical language is its capacity to convey truths about the world in glaringly simple terms — E = MC2,” Noah Giansiracusa, a math and data-science professor at Bentley University, told me. “I read his tweet over and over and still don’t really know how to parse it or what exactly he’s trying to say.”
November 14, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word pizza
At the wonderful lemur exhibit at the San Francisco Zoo (https://www.sfzoo.org/lipman-family-lemur-forest/), they have little treehouses with heat lamps inside them so the lil lemurs can stay warm on chilly coastal days. We saw lemurs napping right under the heat lamps, looking like a convenience store slices of pizza. So from that day, one specific white and black ruffed lemur was named Pizza, who we invited to come home with us (but politely declined). And also now all lemurs are known as pizza.
November 14, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word entiltment
You think you're so great that you're entilted/entitled to a shed of your own?
November 13, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word black bamboo
This definition sounds like a poem: noun "small bamboo having thin green culms turning shining black"
November 6, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word Miette
Miette is a cat who wishes their mother to go to jail for 1000 years for her crimes of gently moving her out of the way. "you KICK miette? you kick her body like the football? oh! oh! jail for mother! jail for mother for One Thousand Years!!!!"
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/miette
November 1, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word mouth jail
My boyfriend thinks that some birbz are TOO small. And that for their crime of small, they should be placed in mouth jail (because they could fit in your mouth).
I can almost imagine the sensation of gently holding a small birb in my mouth because of this law, like a felt spherical Christmas ornament who fluffs up every so often against the roof of my mouth.
I live a very good life to be able to step out of the car, see a small borb hopping around in the bushes nearby, and have a partner who confidently declares MOUTH JAIL!
Feels very Miette-adjacent.
November 1, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word glizzy
Glizzy has meant gun, then penis and hot dog. https://knowyourmeme.com/editorials/guides/what-is-the-meaning-of-glizzy-the-gen-z-slang-term-and-its-memes-explained
A more complete history with citations in the 2021 WOTY Among the New Words discussion PDF here: https://read.dukeupress.edu/american-speech/article/97/2/197/315013/Among-the-New-Words
October 30, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word Tribulus
turkey-blossom leads to this entry. So turkey-blossom is a plant.
October 27, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word crytyping
October 24, 2023 https://www.tumblr.com/shorthistorian/732275766796189696
"and of course. cherry on top. 20-year-old account holders are crytyping on the site events neoboard about how mean and cruel it is to make rare stamps part of the prize pool, because their entire identity hinges on being part of the neopian bourgeoisie, and they are having MELTDOWNS over their assets being devalued until they're part of the lowly proletariat."
October 27, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word calm luh fit
2022/2023 slang. a calm low-effort casual outfit, then used ironically for an outfit with intention and effort, then used to describe a surreal AI snow bird: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnugqgG9c0o
October 24, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word piepowder
What the HEDCK is this definition talking about? pie powder?
Me answering me an hour later:
October 19, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word glassholes
https://www.theverge.com/23920102/meta-quest-3-in-public-privacy-recording-glassholes Meta glasses, like Google Glass.
October 17, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word rediscern
Not in the Scrabble dictionary, but sometimes players do not challenge words because it's not worth the chance it's valid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZdiSggMUsg
October 12, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word girl math
x math is like x dinner, popular in 2023 https://pleated-jeans.com/2023/10/05/girl-math-memes-funny/
October 7, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word x dinner
from girl dinner, boy dinner, dad dinner, etc.
October 6, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word x math
girl math, boy math, corporate math, etc
October 6, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word delulu
https://medium.com/educreation/is-present-day-english-delulu-b08c52df0f94
October 5, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word my brother in Christ
Forum question: How does Spot keep sunglasses on his face without a nose?
Comment answer: My brother in Christ, you’re talking about the movie in which a guy got bitten by a radioactive spider and didn’t die instantly
https://www.reddit.com/r/IntoTheSpiderverse/comments/170kg6l/comment/k3lih87/
October 5, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word twink
2023 definition of a twink: https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cx_kbdkOWV2/ also includes variants demon twink and twunk.
October 5, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word delulu
Shortening of delusional https://www.tumblr.com/aropride/729310702412742656/i-dont-know-if-my-tone-is-getting-lost-or-if
Can be an adjective "i'm delulu" or noun "it's a delulu"
October 5, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word busting
Post Malone uses busting as a positive adjective in this Last Meal interview at least twice:
https://youtu.be/ciktYlmFbfc?si=Q637Snd0xG8Jf2Cq&t=1100 Once at the beginning minute when talking about the smell of all the good food in the room, once after looking at his own Rosé brand in the light and declaring it to look positively busting. I assume it comes from "bout to bust" changing from meaning specifically sexy to generally good.
Pretty sure this is separate from bussin but could be wrong. Could be a jocular overpronunciation of bussin.
September 29, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word Millennial Rage
https://twitter.com/shand_kathy/status/1662261785741893632 "‘The millennial rage comes from seeing how much better things could be’. And this was just the start of the conversation @SydWritersFest #SydneyWritersFestival #okboomer"
September 29, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word millennial zoom
millennial zoom - manually zooming in a video by double-touching the screen
September 29, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word let him cook
Said when someone's in the middle of making something and others should be patient to see their vision come together - like a music producer live on Twitch. (Bishu says it a lot, probably somewhere in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNwsBe2Iqso)
September 28, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word we're so back
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/its-so-over-were-so-back
September 27, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word canon event
Canon / AU talk has been in fandom culture for a long time, but the May 2023 movie "Across the Spiderverse" specifically talks about canon events and it's leaking into daily discourse.
https://x.com/staciemontero/status/1706070021695218013
https://twitter.com/anythingbott/status/1675235602063564800
https://twitter.com/TheJCGreen/status/1664107888917331969
https://twitter.com/valkyriephd/status/1638871801035116545 (pre-movie)
September 25, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word theyby
theyby - a gender-neutral baby https://www.reddit.com/r/TooAfraidToAsk/comments/16r0u4h/why_are_we_changing_non_gendered_words_to_end_in_x/
September 25, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word my brother in Christ
my brother in christopher: https://www.tumblr.com/rinielle/729275745337245696/its-rude-to-reblog-things-from-people-you-arent
An anonymous commenter on Tumblr trying to shame someone for reblogging a post but not following the account it's from (which is not a cultural taboo on Tumblr you can be shamed for).
September 24, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word dariacore
a music genre https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Dariacore
September 23, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word justificaketion
An example of sandwich blending? sandwich words?
prerizzstoric, self-himprovement, rethuglican, redorkulous, autobidography, blawgs, anticipicaketion
Ben Zimmer post from 2006 https://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002780.html
September 21, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word light work
Something people say to encourage people. Can appear in faith-based encouragement or in gym workouts.
Song from 2016 - https://youtu.be/ULC2C3VjO-o?si=htArp-WaohYoCLcN "I call it housework, cause it's light work."
September 20, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word my brother in Christ
an extended biblical metaphor joke about this phrase: https://www.tumblr.com/gay-cripply-scientist/728848199009337344
September 19, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word cripplepunk
https://www.tumblr.com/cripple-woe/728467852208881664/i-made-up-a-way-to-explain-fatigue?source=share #cripplepunk is in the hashtags
September 19, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word cemeterrarium
YouTuber Rachel Maksy just made a cemeterrarium on her channel from things she bought at a thrift store: https://youtu.be/Ifal13pYQ6M?si=0ek-nzZ3Dq0l-B1S&t=1012
September 18, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word send it
The British gymnast Nile Wilson says this 20 seconds into this video and it also appears on screen (video from Dec 2021): https://youtu.be/XdxPuA8xxw0?si=FcDNC5nDPTkzPPR7
September 15, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word send it
I've heard this a lot in rock climbing - going hard, or flashing a boulder problem - getting through the whole thing at once, maybe with a dynamic move. It's also used in other extreme sports.
But now I'm hearing coworkers using it, talking about hammering in a nail (literally) with full confidence, or making the choice for a group to leave after waiting for a few minutes for a maybe to join.
Dictionary.com says it comes from rock climbing slang, but was popularized through a snowmobile stunt video: https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/send-it/
September 8, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word symblepharon
This is SO SPECIFIC.
September 7, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word -pilled
red-pilled and blue-pilled have existed for a while, but other variations exist.
Example: Instagram of Capybaras roaming around a zoo supervised being "walkpilled"
September 7, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word lapsed Catholic
Something in my brain wants to create a lapped catalytic joke about a sinner in a slow racecar. But I think it's too many bridges too far for even me, the former creator of TankHughes "punchline only" comics.
August 31, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word chubsucker
Do we have a list of "sounds filthy, but isn't" ?
August 31, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word memoryholed
https://www.tumblr.com/shorthistorian/726579372999524352?source=share
"The finale so successfully erased the show from public consciousness, that when people tried to come up with a name for the "extremely popular show with finale so bad that people just immediately stop talking about it" phenomenon, people called it... the Game of Thrones Effect. HIMYM got memoryholed so hard that people forgot it even existed"
August 25, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word deduster
dust as a verb is a contranym.
you can dust your furniture to remove dust. (v1)
you can dust your cake to add dusty decoration to it. (v2)
De-dust means to remove dust in a specific industrial way, so it's both a synonym to dust (v1) and an antonym to dust (v2).
August 24, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word please call Stella
The first words of a nonsense paragraph invented to try to capture all of the possible vowels that any speaker might use in different accents. It's not perfect, but it's the standard and we have a lot of recordings that use it: https://accent.gmu.edu/browse_language.php?function=detail&speakerid=145
Full paragraph: Please call Stella. Ask her to bring these things with her from the store: Six spoons of fresh snow peas, five thick slabs of blue cheese, and maybe a snack for her brother Bob. We also need a small plastic snake and a big toy frog for the kids. She can scoop these things into three red bags, and we will go meet her Wednesday at the train station.
August 24, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word memory activism
Describes a festival meant to keep history, and specifically the memory of a destroyed city, alive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanport_Mosaic_Festival
August 24, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word school air
boyfriend air, school air https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cv--dbxLcgV/
August 24, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word boyfriend air
boyfriend air, school air https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cv--dbxLcgV/
boyfriend air makes your skin/makeup/health better by being around your boyfriend.
August 23, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word girl dinner
Playful usage by internet dad: https://twitter.com/NickCho/status/1694083380986658920
August 23, 2023
tankhughes commented on the list celebrities-with-english-occupational-surnames-GuJD2FvMRUtBeyqvVACW_
POTTERS: Bowles, Turner
CLOTH FINISHERS: Callendar
MAKERS OF LOOM EQUIMENT: Rucker
WOOL MERCHANTS: Packard
THE SILK BUSINESS: Mercer
MAKERS OF CLOTHING: Chaucer, Hozier, Mantle, Taylor
SHIRT AND UNDERWEAR MAKERS: Camus
BLANKET, QUILT, and MAT MAKERS: Blanchett
PRODUCERS OF RAWHIDE: Skinner
LEATHER MAKERS: Barker. Tewers
SADDLEMAKERS: Sellers
GLOVEMAKERS: Glover
SHOEMAKERS: Corden, Sutter
THE FUR BUSINESS: Pill
PEASANT-FARMERS: Apple, Bean, Bee, Bonds, Bundy, Fielder, Fielding, Fields, Frank, Franklin, Fry, Freeman, Hides, Plant, Tilly
THE DAIRY BUSINESS: Cheese, Day, Milk
CATTLE TENDERS: Best, Booth, Bullock, Byers, Coward, Folds, Heard, Herd
THE MEAT BUSINESS: Bacon, Butcher, Kellogg
SWINEHERDS: Grice, Hogg
CARETAKERS OF HORSES: Marshall, Stoddard
MILLERS: Miller
SIEVE MAKERS: Bolt
BAKERS: Baker, Peele, Spicer
SHIPBUILDERS: Keller
MERCHANTS: Chapman, Merchant, Plummer, Ullman
INNKEEPERS: Harbour
BEVERAGE MAKERS: Brewster
COOPERS: Cooper, Tubman
BASKET MAKERS: Peck
CABINETMAKERS: Carver, Turner
WHEEL AND WAGON MAKERS: Cartwright, Wainwright
(Groups 63-115)
August 22, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word -ngus
Post today on r/linguisticshumor: "Why is the suffix "-ngus" considered inherently funny? I noticed it in a lot of memes."
https://www.reddit.com/r/linguisticshumor/comments/15xcwcv/why_is_the_suffix_ngus_considered_inherently/
August 21, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word wolf cut
Not a mullet, but not not a mullet. Haircut trend. https://www.instagram.com/reel/CwLLm6nu_bU/
August 21, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word heartbreak feels good in a place like this
Another usage: by Holiday Barbie 1996 (Aabria Iyengar) during a DnD one-shot campaign after Dentist Barbie has axed a troll doll to death, and they're all dancing (because it's a charity stream and people can donate for them to do that) and contemplating death and where souls go when you die: https://youtu.be/IHe55yVQa3k?t=5565 From a PixelCircus livestream, released July 25, 2023.
August 19, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word unpaid Will Ferrell internship
At some point, was watching a show with a friend and an actor looked a bit like Will Ferrell. But not just discount Will Ferrell, or store-bought off-brand Will Ferrell... even lower quality than that. We riffed that he was in an unpaid Will Ferrell internship, and I love that phrase every time I remember it.
August 16, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word slempy
When you're too sleepy to describe yourself sleepy. I'm slempy.
August 16, 2023
tankhughes commented on the list ez-visigoth-surnames-UTTNf4OUxNRePXzvJVMp6
Further research:
Muñoz means hill.
Ortiz? Same as Ortez. Son of Orti, meaning brave/fortunate.
Flores means flowers. Is Florez the same or is it son of Floro? Torres means towers. Is Torrez the same or is it son of Torro?
August 16, 2023
tankhughes commented on the list ez-visigoth-surnames-UTTNf4OUxNRePXzvJVMp6
These patronymic surnames also be written as -iz or -es, but I'm sticking to just -ez for now.
If you take the -ez off (which means 'son of), and add an -o, you get a man's name.
Alvarez -> Alvaro
Gonzalez -> Gonzalo
Iniguez -> Inigo
Marquez -> Marco
Ramirez -> Ramiro
Ruiz is from a shortened version of Roderick (like Rodriguez).
Some don't add an -o.
Guitierrez becomes Guiter/Guiterre, meaning Walter. Ibanez is just Ibán.
August 16, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word heartbreak feels good in a place like this
This is a quote from the 2021 Nicole Kidman AMC ad that is encouraging people, post-2020, to return to movie theaters. The ad is beloved(?) and derided, but this particular quote seems to have a life of its own. And they're making another Nicole Kidman AMC ad so it may come up again even more.
The original line was "Somehow, heartbreak fesls good in a place like this" but the somehow is not necessary.
Non-movie examples from 2023 Twitter:
https://twitter.com/goodsoop_/status/1689392348613238784
https://twitter.com/miklausroyale/status/1690556438060417025
https://twitter.com/musical_myles/status/1688397023731744768
https://twitter.com/AlexMusibay/status/1688205286656315392
Bonus: the NHL mascot Gritty dressed as Barbie and went to see Oppenheimer and also quoted Nicole Kidman: https://twitter.com/GrittyNHL/status/1683231253590319104
Original ad: https://youtu.be/KiEeIxZJ9x0
August 15, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word Kenergy
A lot of Ken- blends came from the Barbie movie press tour, but I think Kenergy is the one with staying power. https://www.tumblr.com/nessa007/723462587313963008/ryan-goslingi-wouldnt-dare-ken-splain-the-barbie
August 12, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word shoulder devil
I feel the urge to ask new user laxus for their credit card, but that would not be welcoming or a true reflection of the site. But... it's an intrusive thought, an antisocial call of the void.
August 10, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word scorigami
Scorigami was invented by sports writer Jon Bois in a Youtube video, and now a site exists that tracks the phenomenon of unique NFL scores that are created by the unique addition of 2,3,6,7 points added at a time: https://nflscorigami.com/
August 8, 2023
tankhughes commented on the list edible-fabrics-maKxgyBzsvbUXyegouwza
Velveeta is not the same thing as velvet, but it's not really cheese either, so I think it belongs here.
August 7, 2023
tankhughes commented on the list mathematical-phrases-in-common-parlance-ELBa_XDVyMmPUrgA2JZaw
Related: a mathematical love song: https://youtu.be/SEbzTe0CzT8
August 3, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word Bosha
The Lom, the Rom, and the Dom? New to me! Subsets of Roma people. Thanks #RandomWord
August 2, 2023
tankhughes commented on the list celebrities-with-english-occupational-surnames-GuJD2FvMRUtBeyqvVACW_
I've done groups 63-115. Note to come back once I finish the book.
August 1, 2023
tankhughes commented on the list celebrities-with-english-occupational-surnames-GuJD2FvMRUtBeyqvVACW_
Fictional people with English occupational surnames:
Silas Marner
Harry Potter
Sophie Hatter
Professor Layton
Mrs. Buttersworth
Polly Pocket
Mr. Hooper (hanging with)
Mr. Roper (Three's Company landlord)
Don Draper
Sally Bowles
Occupational surnames as first names: Steadman, Satchel Paige, Chandler Bing, Taylor Swift
August 1, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word bugs and bunnies
Heard this in reference to environmental concerns "What about the bugs and bunnies part?": https://www.reddit.com/r/environmental_science/comments/a77pi3/did_you_guys_know_that_environmental_engineers/
August 1, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word crispy R
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmQiCZBi0go A version of an R in kr gr clusters (at least) where the tongue seems to be more curved back to the roof than a typical American r.
Per Trixie Mattel in this video: "Sarah Michelle Gellar does it. I think it's a North Atlantic whatever thing."
July 28, 2023
tankhughes commented on the list how-you-put-the-clothing-on-buJ8h89twxhulFeCpvnRk
The antithesis of this list is, of course, tear away pants
July 28, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word my brother in Christ
"my brothersister in christ" https://www.tumblr.com/carnadelions/718138849332789248/absolutely-love-it-when-people-are-like-why-do-you
July 28, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word michaelmass
There are some citations for Michaelmass on the capitalized page, but no definition.
July 28, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word Citizen Doctor Abraham Mehermblur
My favorite DnD NPC ever. https://youtu.be/mesxOPMO4f8?t=115
July 27, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word global boiling
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jul/27/scientists-july-world-hottest-month-record-climate-temperatures
Eek
In a speech in July, UN Chief called this the era of global boiling: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/un-climate-hell_n_650afb19e4b0805755c762d7
July 27, 2023
tankhughes commented on the list how-you-put-the-clothing-on-buJ8h89twxhulFeCpvnRk
What are duffles, yarb?
July 27, 2023
tankhughes commented on the list how-you-put-the-clothing-on-buJ8h89twxhulFeCpvnRk
snapback? drawstring? Not sure if they counts.
July 27, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word enshitification
see also enshittification and enshitify https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1550457808222552065 Coined/popularized by Cory Doctorow in 2022?
July 23, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word enshitify
enshitify https://aus.social/@ajsadauskas/110762848273603019 see also enshittification
July 23, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word enshittification
enshittification. See also enshitification and enshitify https://lingo.lol/@grvsmth/110763836102433078
July 23, 2023
tankhughes commented on the list how-you-put-the-clothing-on-buJ8h89twxhulFeCpvnRk
What are all the ways clothing is closed up? Buttons, zippers, elastic, knots, snaps, laces, straps, belts, velcro. I know I'm missing some.
July 21, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word God-Wink
wilhelmina. Good news! Wordnik includes a definition for God wink from Wiktionary - it's just on the entry written with a space instead of a hyphen: God wink
July 18, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word rad-hard
radiation-hardened electronics https://www.baesystems.com/en-us/definition/what-are-radiation-hardened-electronics
July 17, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word eyebombing
Putting googly eyes on objects in the real world to induce pareidolia and whimsy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3O7t4R5Gxw
July 2, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word memory-foaming
A new metaphor about the experience of autistic people pleasing / fawning. https://www.tumblr.com/drdemonprince/720844239224897536/autistic-memory-foaming?source=share
June 22, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word Juneteenth
Happy Juneteenth! a great holiday, a great blend.
June 19, 2023
tankhughes commented on the list things-i-wish-i-knew-more-about-7drAlcNcpDIX3mOmTeJHz
I <3 the names of fallacies.
June 15, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word filly
Hey deadwoodcarl, and welcome. Trans rights are human rights, gender is not a binary, and language changes all the time.
To respond to your specific comment: the definitions on this site clearly show their sources, some of which are historical and out of date, none of which are created by Wordnik. The intention of dictionaries is not to police or litigate usage, but to reflect how terms are actually used. Sometimes people use filly to mean a young horse, regardless of that horse's gender, so one dictionary source (GCIDE) chose to represent that usage. Part of why Wordnik pulls from many sources is to give a broader perspective about how terms are perceived by different sources over time. I hope that answers your question.
June 11, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word deathpill
https://www.reddit.com/r/CuratedTumblr/comments/1450398/joe_biden_and_desantis_are_the_two_ends_of_the/ "We have to deathpill woke moralists"
June 9, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word potato-stones
Edible?
June 1, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word deaerator
No offense taken! Tank is strong. Tank can take a hit. For proof, please consider Patton in its entirety, or the Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade tank battle.
May 31, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word loglikelihood
Reminds me of Guy Smiley or Scam Likely.
May 31, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word deaerator
Blech, what a gross clump of vowels, flanked by yet another A.
May 30, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word hallucinations
Including this as a potential word of the year in regards to creations by AI - particularly visual output by MidJourney. It's not realistic enough to be a deepfake, it's dreamlike, it's a hallucination. Also can apply to fake reference lists - hallucinated citations.
https://lookalikes.substack.com/p/today-i-asked-chatgpt-about-the-topic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucination_(artificial_intelligence)
May 26, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word upheaval
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom video game has the hero running through a destroyed kingdom that has been affected by an event called the Upheaval. In the last game, a similar event happened called the Calamity. My guess is that this word is being primed by all the people playing the game and that it will show up with greater frequency this year than normal.
May 25, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word memoize
I truly thought this was a typo for memorize but it's not.
May 22, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word unhoused
vendingmachine Your annoyance at the term feels misguided. Ultimately the problem is the problem, not the word. Yes, unhoused can be used by people as a self-righteous identifier to appear more empathetic while not doing anything (like correcting someone telling their story, instead of listening to the message) but adding a new term to the mix can help refresh the conversation and is not inherently worthless or harmful.
May 17, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word combinatorial
Good word to say.
Double dactly like lexicographical https://youtu.be/J4VzuWmN8zY?t=65
May 7, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word subtilely
This is less subtle.
May 5, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word yetling
Cute!
May 2, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word deeps
This is a word. It's a plural of deep. It's probably not in M-W's Collegiate or New World Dictionary. It is a playable Scrabble word though: https://scrabble.merriam.com/finder/deeps
It could use a tag like "non-standard" or "archaic" or "fantastical" since it seems it's mostly used to describe fictional caves or extreme deep-sea creatures and monsters that are "from the deeps." It's also used in the KJV translation of Psalms.
May 1, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word metal wood
oxymoron?
April 30, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word firmth
WHAT. depth length width warmth
April 30, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word Brand
capital B Brand
https://www.tumblr.com/shorthistorian/715614494439669760 "not to be a Brand"
April 26, 2023
tankhughes commented on the list elonyms-uSsdgG16E5CDlsBibHu74
https://www.tumblr.com/seldo/715618504312750080
Elno Morks
April 26, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word Twitter Blue
Twitter end times drama.
https://www.tumblr.com/adverseflyer909/715430544708632576/starting-a-compilation
https://www.tumblr.com/animentality/715410408241020928/dril-is-a-legend
Blue checks originally verified a celebrity account vs an impersonation.
Musk made them something people could pay for for clout.
This weekend, Twitter started giving celebrities blue checks without paying for it.
The celebrities are not happy about it because it implies they support Musk.
Famous anonymous tweeter @dril was verified after suggesting that everyone blocks anyone with a blue check.
Every time they change their username (normally "wint", @dril stays the same), their blue check is removed, so as punishment, @dril receives a blue check, then changes their name to remove it, then someone at Twitter gives them a blue check again.
April 25, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word innlike
The B&B reminded me of a tavern... in like an innlike way.
April 20, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word FONSI
Ayyyyyyyyyyyyyhttps://www.energy.gov/nepa/listings/findings-no-significant-impact-fonsis
April 19, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word dying
These are some good definitions. Good job, lexicographers of the past.
April 14, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word my x era
Entering my villain era, my redemption era, my top era, etc.
This was around in 2022, but was prominently used in RuPaul's Drag Race Season 15, further bringing into the cultural zeitgeist.
My congenial era: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZBi4bJSLV0
April 13, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word skin hunger
The need for touch
April 11, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word buttered noodles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bxt0AEoANJk
April 11, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word samefoods
Foods that are always considered desirable and safe to eat when nothing else sounds good (especially by autistic people who are sensory avoiders - classic example is buttered noodles.)
April 11, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word soft hiking
Hiking where the point is to be in nature instead of an emphasis on pushing yourself for exercise goals.
April 11, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word Millennial Rage
A new genre of tv/movies like Beef, Emily the Criminal, On the Count of Three, Palm Springs, Ingrid Goes West, Sissy, Search Party, and The Bear.
April 11, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word hydropical
oOOOOOo look at the pretty Visuals!
April 10, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word thitch
I think it's called a phonological gap? It's a viable set of sounds/letters, but for whatever reason, no concept currently uses that vessel.
April 9, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word direct registering
This is how cats only make one set of prints - their back feet step perfectly into the impressions of their front foot steps.
April 9, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word This Barbie is X
As a promotion for the upcoming Barbie movie, there are now templates where people fill in pictures of themselves, famous people, or memes with a "This Barbie is X" or "This Barbie Xes" captions on top like the promotional material posters. https://www.vulture.com/2023/04/barbie-movie-cast-posters-real-dolls.html
April 8, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word strewing
This is a strategy used in unschooling practices and with PDA autism to provide potential activities for someone who would say no if you asked them without visual cues that it was already available to start. https://www.unschoolingmom2mom.com/strewing
April 3, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word Lagenlook
Fashion style. German for "layered look." Somewhat similar to Japanese mori girls.
March 31, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word Mayo sapien
modern comical term for white people ( like Napkin American or wypipo)
March 30, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word corecore
Post-modern Dada collage videos on TikTok?
March 27, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word lambastic
See lambast and lambaste.
March 22, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word anti-drop
The drop is an EDM term for the part of an electronic-inspired song that comes after building up tension.
Modern pop songs often build up tension with their pre-chorus to mimic this aspect of EDM, but now there are also songs that intentionally build up lots of dense production in the pre-chorus and then have a sparse chorus. That's called an anti-drop. This YouTuber uses it, and has a clip of musician Charlie Puth using the term in reference to his own song: https://youtu.be/ZWhmkpdgj74
March 15, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word heterofatalism
Term coined by Indiana Seresim to describe the pessimism that straight straight, bi, and pansexual women feel at being attracked to straight men - the hopelessness that comes from being attracted to your oppressor. (definition from @chillipolyamory TikTok in March 2023)
March 14, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word grivation
Related: isogriv
March 14, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word milk ingestion pathway
https://mepas.pnnl.gov/mepas/formulations/exposure/2.0/2_7/2_7.html
March 14, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word tenting
Pants also tent. As in pitch a tent.
March 9, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word serpentine
I mostly hear this in reference to drafting (like fantasy football drafts) where they do a serpentine draft to give first player advantage but not too much advantage. Where it goes 1 2 3 4 4 3 2 1 1 2 3 4 4 3 2 1 etc.
March 9, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word PDA autism
PDA or Pathological Demand Avoidance is a subtype of autism where any demands (external, internal, self-made, anything) are potentially interpreted as threats to autonomy, threatening the person's sense of control, which their anxiety desperately grasps onto to navigate a neurotypical world. Others may view it as disrespect towards authority, but can also stem from activities they like, or bodily needs like food, bathroom, and sleep from themselves. It's not obstinance for attention, but a response to a threat to survival. https://www.pdasociety.org.uk/what-is-pda-menu/about-autism-and-pda/
March 8, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word distinct anxiety
distinct anxiety, also called autism-distinct anxiety, is a form of anxiety related to disturbances in the comfort of an autistic person - being disconnected from their schedule, stims, interests, safe foods, preferred sensory environment, etc. Has something to do with amygdala size. https://neurosciencenews.com/amygdala-autism-anxiety-20054/
March 8, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word nepo baby
nepotism baby
The term has been around, but Jamie Lee Curtis has been using it. Just heard it again in the first 10 minutes of the Ruined podcast episode from March 7. 2023: Possession (1981). https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/23/entertainment/jamie-lee-curtis-nepo-baby/index.html
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2023/02/jamie-lee-curtis-loves-being-a-nepo-baby-awards-insider
March 7, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word Engpanish
lightbird25 It looks like Engpanish takes its sentence structure (grammar) totally from English, and adds the literal translation of individual endings of Spanish words onto the English sentence. Is that correct?
March 7, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word troons
A derogatory term for trans people. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Troon
March 6, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word zoochosis
I've heard this could apply to humans en masse since 2020.
https://digitalcitizen.ca/2019/08/19/do-humans-suffer-from-zoochosis/
March 5, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word it
"it" used to be spelled "hit" (OE) but lost the h because it's so often in an unstressed place. (In reference to the list I added this to called Abbreviations that Start in the Middle.)
March 4, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word practicable
Practical, as able to be put into practice as possible.
March 2, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word disposition
Not disposal. Used for nuclear waste. https://www.energy.gov/ne/spent-fuel-and-waste-disposition
March 2, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word dispositioning
Not disposal. Used in reference to nuclear waste. https://www.energy.gov/ne/spent-fuel-and-waste-disposition
March 2, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word gendy nooch
Short for gender neutral. Heard in a Feb 2023 TikTok. https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRWJhGB8/
March 2, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word recession-core
As heard in a Feb 2023 TikTok, people pretending that they're stretching dollars, making bread and growing food because it's trendy, not because they're poor.
March 2, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word Amen break
The Amen break is a famous drum beat taken from a section of the 1969 song Amen, Brother. It is a foundational sample beat in house and jungle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amen_break
February 26, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word ephebo-labor
When it's teen labor instead of child labor? https://www.reddit.com/r/WorkReform/comments/11awn0x/think_of_the_children/
February 24, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word tough cookie
I think there's an existing "sounds edible but isn't" list somewhere that this should be on.
Edit: found it, added it
February 22, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word practical
Is the phrase "to the extent practical" an example of a post-positive adjective like surgeons general?
February 22, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word twink death
When young gay men called twinks age out of being a twink and there's no specific label they transition to (like cub, otter, bear, daddy, etc.)
February 17, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word gray rock method
A strategy used by people in abusive situations to be non-responsive so that the abusive person will lose interest when no one falls for their inflammatory bait. https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/grey-rock also called gray rocking, grey rocking, and the grey rock method because of UK/AmE spelling differences.
February 13, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word easy water
This term easy water is one of my favorite videos on the internet - a parrot orders groceries (mostly strawberries) from an Alexa. https://youtu.be/IvnW89osj0g
[big tofu' is another good one, but somehow, saying easy water like a robot woman comes up more often in my daily life.
February 10, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word crowberry
Presumably crows eat these?
February 10, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word resenteeism
https://www.reddit.com/r/WorkReform/comments/10xzz5x/apparently_resenteeism_is_the_new_buzzword_to/
February 10, 2023
tankhughes commented on the list triple-homonyms
Not to be confused with a list of triple homicides.
February 10, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word kin keeping
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinkeeping
February 9, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word sparklewashing
"Perhaps the choice is a form of atonement for company founder Cecil Rhodes’s unabashed imperialism, for the blood diamond scandals, and for the ongoing exploitation of miners. Call it sparklewashing."
https://wordworking.medium.com/all-that-glitters-diamonds-and-the-cultivation-of-desire-c7b8dcf7c82e
Like whitewashing or greenwashing.
February 8, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word cool touch bottom
A lot of electric kettles have a bullet point list on their boxes with a list of features. Often, one of them is "cool touch bottom", that you won't burn yourself if you touch the bottom of the kettle.
February 8, 2023
tankhughes commented on the list retronyms
I don't think it's quite solidified, but with AI-generated text/art, human-created/human-generated is a recent concept that will eventually go on this list.
January 31, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word cursive
Cursive is also a term for a particular indie pop singing style in the 2000s/2010s. https://www.acelinguist.com/2021/05/dialect-dissection-indie-voicecursive.html
January 30, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word UFSAR
Updated FSAR, AKA, an Updated Final Safety Analysis Report. People seem to say this acronym as letters, and not as "OOF-sar", even though that would sound pretty fun and save time.
January 27, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word do-me
Podcast host recently talked about the Lion King and Nala's "do-me eyes." Better citation forthcoming.
January 27, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word dint
From The First Nuclear Era (1994) by Alvin Weinberg:
"I've always found physics to be difficult. I am not endowed with the ability to see immediately the essence of a physical phenomena. Yet by dint of hard work, I was able to complete my undergraduate physics examination at the top of my small class."
January 27, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word human-created
a retroynm now that AI-generated art/writing/journalism is a possibility because of its normalization by ChatGPT and DALL-E.
January 27, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word swoveralls
Overalls made of sweatpants material
January 26, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word knee-trembler
Got the plural of this as a #RandomWord. New to me.
Green's Dictionary has it as early as 1965 as a UK term. https://greensdictofslang.com/entry/3vfhtqy#cp62q2i
January 26, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word turbine
In power plant talk, I've noticed people pronouncing turbine the way I would pronounce turban. I say the 2nd syllable more like it's an endive combine harvester from Irvine. Maybe a familiarity thing leading to erosion? American Heritage pronunciation (below) says it like them, Macmillan says it like me.
January 17, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word Needle in a Timestack
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Needle_in_a_Timestack This is the name of a 2021 sci-fi time travel movie. It breaks up the atomicity of this phrase, but it doesn't make it funny, or poignant, hay doesn't rhyme with time, it's not a before and after, and it doesn't expand the metaphor into anything more thought-provoking. It's just fucking stupid. A timestack is nothing. This phrase is nothing. Who approved this.
Apparently it's the name of the short story from 1985 that the movie is based on. It continues to be a bad name.
January 12, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word paper plane
A paper plane is a cocktail developed in 2007, which is named after the M.I.A. song "Paper Planes" that came out that year
January 11, 2023
tankhughes commented on the list edible-fabrics-maKxgyBzsvbUXyegouwza
I'm also counting smaller textile parts here - string, yarn, cloth, twine, rope.
January 11, 2023
tankhughes commented on the list edible-fabrics-maKxgyBzsvbUXyegouwza
It's a short list, ruzuzu, I'm happy to have it padded out. I only knew of chiffon cake. A lot of cake textures on this list.
I keep thinking there's a lace-based food, but I can only think of Queen Anne's Lace and drug-laced foods.
January 10, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word rizz
Short for charisma
January 10, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word Silk
Silk is a brand of soy milk.
January 10, 2023
tankhughes commented on the list edible-fabrics-maKxgyBzsvbUXyegouwza
Not sure sponge should count as a textile, but it's tactile.
January 10, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word shinny
I saw this used like shimmy, in the past tense "shinnied up the log to the shore" in a book from 1946. Not sure which is older or if they're related. At first I thought it was a printer typography error where 2 n's equal 1 m, but then we're still missing an m.
December 13, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word grandmillennials
https://impeccablenestdesign.com/blog/what-is-a-grand-millennial/ also written as grand millennials.
December 11, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word candididate
candi-di-date reminds me of the song Down by Marian Hill where she sings that words "down di di down" a lot. https://youtu.be/cc9Wvfbt5Ec
December 9, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word unmuted
Who knows how long I was unmuted for in this meeting? M O R T I F Y I N G. mortifying.
December 1, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word contrastive focus reduplication
I don't just like contrastive focus reduplication, I like like it.
https://www.haggardhawks.com/post/contrastive-focus-reduplication
December 1, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word rhubarb rhubarb
A rare example of reduplication that isn't contrastive focus reduplication as in "Do you like him or do you like-like him?" where repeating the word denotes that the core meaning is the one that you mean. "Did you take a subway train or a train train?"
November 29, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word rhubarb
Rhubarb is also used as stage whisper-type nonsense dialogue by background actors / ensemble to look like they're chatting but not saying anything. https://wordhistories.net/2022/01/28/rhubarb-theatre-nonsense/
November 29, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word shiksa
Different from the fragrant powder chiksa
November 28, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word chiksa
different from Yiddish shiksa
November 28, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word neurospicy
neurospicy means neurodivergent, from a post about facetious variants of autism - mild, spicy, extra hot like hot sauce.
November 23, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word Goncharov
A fake movie by Martin Scorsese, invented by a Tumblr user.
November 23, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word sol-gel process
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol%E2%80%93gel_process
November 22, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word need to sharpen the pencil
https://grahamchastney.com/2015/06/04/office-speak-sharpen-our-pencils/
November 21, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word -ussy
from pussy and bussy, -ussy can be a suffix for anything with a hole.
https://www.reddit.com/r/BrandNewSentence/comments/yy1tde/hes_getting_dewgonged_straight_in_the_ashussy/
November 18, 2022
tankhughes commented on the list elonyms-uSsdgG16E5CDlsBibHu74
I found "elongated muskrat" in Tumblr tags about him.
November 17, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word pixels
Singer Rina Sawayama calls her fans pixels.
November 17, 2022
tankhughes commented on the list elonyms-uSsdgG16E5CDlsBibHu74
I also found a variant - MeLon the Husk https://twitter.com/JeffAndDonkeys/status/1592910796123934720
November 17, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word overpressure
No David Bowie or Freddie Mercury song about this one.
November 15, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word RatVerified
On Twitter, choosing to add a rat emoji to your profile name instead of hypothetically paying a subscription fee to have a blue verified checkmark under Elon Musk's new plan. https://www.newsweek.com/how-get-ratverified-twitter-fights-back-against-musks-blue-check-plan-1756456
It's with a hashtag, but starting with a hashtag breaks Wordnik links?
November 5, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word cafedrine
Seems like a blend, or caffeine + drug suffix.
November 3, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word wonder-stone
It's not the Blarney Stone and it's not Burt Wonderstone, but it's still quite wondrous and a stone. Can't find a specific picture of it online because so many other things are called wonder stone.
November 3, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word circularity
circularity and circular design are used to describe the opposite of fast fashion - clothes made to be worn, and donated, and thrifted, and used, and shared, and worn again.
November 2, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word bake
you can "bake" (bake out?) residual moisture out of a reactor vessel https://www.pfeiffer-vacuum.com/en/know-how/introduction-to-vacuum-technology/influences-in-real-vacuum-systems/bake-out/
November 2, 2022
tankhughes commented on the list misled-words-rVbqlGprVH6k
I've been working on a spreadsheet to see if there are any patterns about languages or word formations that come up more often than others, but I think it's really the combination of sources that makes it hard to have strong reader intuition about how to pronounce any - meringue and merengue, quahog and quay, gnu and GNU.
Sure, French and Greek come up a lot, but a lot of English words in total come from French and Greek, so those numbers would need to be weighted against the total number of loanwords each language family has contributed.
November 2, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word menty b
Short for mental breakdown Maybe an algospeak algorithm avoidant term for talking about mental health without getting content banned on platforms like TikTok. A tweet on Oct 30, 2022 by @MiraGonz got 64K Likes and spread the term's use: https://twitter.com/miragonz/status/1586772633265135616
Oct 26: https://twitter.com/demohaters/status/1585517583943483393
November 1, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word sex machine
Both of these definitions are great.
October 31, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word blanket statement
Not sure what kind of list, but it seems like blanket statement and umbrella term should be on a list together.
October 28, 2022
tankhughes commented on the list three-toed-portmanteaus
also called acronymic blends? acroblends?
October 27, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word zucced
zucced or zucced = getting censored/banned anywhere online, originally just on Facebook. Short for Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook.
October 25, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word zucchinied
1. having too many zucchinis in a harvest
2. being censored - short for being zucc'ed (banned for something on Facebook.)
October 25, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word Leatherhead
Leatherhead is also a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT) villain who is an alligator in a cowboy hat.
October 24, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word what is x if not y persevering
This is a snowclone from the 2021 Disney+ TV show Wandavision, originally "what is grief if not love persevering?" but it's still in use in 2022.
October 22, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word EPCOT
Disney's Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow. (You know, that park with that huge golfball building and a manufactured lake surrounded by representations of many countries?
Not sure what list this belongs on, maybe a retro futurism acronym list. Corporate hope? Something.
October 20, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word PARFUME
PARFUME: particle fuel model
October 19, 2022
tankhughes commented on the list fictional-acronyms
Today, I was looking for a list of fictional backronyms like this, and lo and behold, it existed already and I'm the one who made it.
Thanks 2015 me.
October 19, 2022
tankhughes commented on the user mrblubdev
Hello! Go here for API key: https://developer.wordnik.com/
October 17, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word hendecagram
jjon it looks like that Wiktionary page was created in June 2020. So I it may be a "subset" of data that was pulled at a certain time, before then.
October 13, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word letheon
Letheon is ethyl ether.
October 13, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word MAPS
From the Wikipedia anadrome list, MAPS is a reverse backronym of spam.
MAPS (Mail Abuse Prevention System)
October 11, 2022
tankhughes commented on the list antiwords-ReFxVvX-Gvibuy2mJlimO
What about god and dog when they are used to describe truly great and truly awful people?
October 11, 2022
tankhughes commented on the list antiwords-ReFxVvX-Gvibuy2mJlimO
What about evil mirror versions of characters like Waldo and Odlaw?
October 11, 2022
tankhughes commented on the list antiwords-ReFxVvX-Gvibuy2mJlimO
If we could find a contranym (like dust or table) that was a palindrome, it could go on this list too.
What about gag and x? I found them on an autoantonyms list. https://www.wordnik.com/lists/autantonyms
October 11, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word biobreak
I hear this used in corporate settings like "we can end this meeting early and give people time for a biobreak before the next meeting starts."
October 11, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word Alcoa
Aluminum Company of America is a clipped compound, not an acronym, because of the L. It's also probably taking the O from cOmpany, not Of. Al+Co+A
October 4, 2022
tankhughes commented on the list portmonthteaus
NaNoWriMo is in November, but doesn't feature the name November. But it feels relevant.
...
*grapping hooks away*
October 4, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word HALEU
HALEU is high-assay, low-enriched uranium. Pronounced like "hay-loo."
October 4, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word bleaunt
What is a bleaunt? https://youtu.be/e3qwuMzzMTU
September 30, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word smellfeast
I have smellfeast on my big list of cutthroats, but the example from "English Past and Present" brought me to a fun intersection of references and light thoughts about cutthroats that I either haven't read before, or it's been 10 years so it's worth reading their gentleman scholarly work again: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/20900/20900-0.txt Thanks Gutenberg Project!
September 30, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word bisognio
Seems Italian.
September 28, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word smar
I'm seeing a lot of typos for smart in the citations. Could the attitude definition from aurowra0 be a shortening of smarmy?
September 26, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word bananas
I like that the metaphorical definitions from AHD show up first, and then Wiktionary's "plural form of banana."
September 23, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word elbows-out
I think it's an American football reference, or a sports reference at least, about running with your elbows out to keep other people away from you, or to suddenly jut your elbows out to knock nearby racers out of your way. Someone who's not afraid to show their mercilessly competitive side.
September 22, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word gougar
Some type of cougar variant creature, possibly originating on Tumblr.
September 22, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word verlan
Verlan is an example of verlan, which is 'l'envers' (the inverted) inverted.
September 19, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word candy store
In the musical version of Heathers, the 3 Heathers sing their villain song called Candy Store.
"Honey what you waiting for? Welcome to my candy store. Time for you to prove you're not a loser anymore, then step into my candy store." https://youtu.be/BQOoTX1Nxx8
I guess it's evoking how she (Veronica) could do fun, destructive rich girl shit (be a kid in a candy store) if she chooses their clique over morality, but I'm not sure why it's that specific image, which isn't anywhere else in the musical. Maybe it's from the original movie?
September 14, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word face-tank
When you face-tank in a game, it means your character chooses to open a door or box without checking, even though it may set off traps, because your constitution/HP is high enough that you're not worried that you'll die even if you get hit with the full blast. Other characters, like rogues in DnD have thieves tools and proficiencies in skills that let them check for traps and disarm them, but if your party doesn't have a rogue, or if you just have a particularly stalwart dwarf paladin who doesn't fear death, you may see the consequences of face-tanking.
In video games and RPGs of all kinds, a tank is a common defensive class, as opposed to fighter (damage-focused), healer (group health-focused), or magic user (special abilities/buff-focused).
September 14, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word piss missile
A very hard hit ball in baseball (or other sports). Not sure of the meaning. I'd guess it's a missile that you hit the piss out of.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Piss%20Missile
https://www.wrestlingattitude.com/2021/06/pat-mcafee-explains-piss-missile-viral-term-from-wwe-hell-in-a-cell.html
September 14, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word clickbait
It's bait for you to click on, it's bait that wants clicks. So it's either N+N or V+N but it's endocentric either way. Kind of an odd connection. fishbait it to catch fish, so clickbait is to catch clicks. THE MORPHOLOGY OF THIS WORD WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE...
bear bait shark bait jailbait
September 14, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word azimuthally
Things being "azimuthally symmetric" is a thing I learned about today.
September 14, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word Guardrail
This is not the word guardrail, this is the name of a fictional character on an episode of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend who was very stingy with their cocaine. https://cxg.fandom.com/wiki/Guardrail
September 13, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word tombester
like spinster and brewster as female occupational terms?
September 12, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word Nfld
404 page not foundland
September 12, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word towel-horse
How many non-living horses are there? sawhorse, hobbyhorse, high horse
September 12, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word Yes And
In improv 101 classes, yes-anding someone means accepting whatever element they add to a scene and then building on top of it to further create the world and its characters. Sometimes written as yes, and...
September 12, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word sansweep
Some kind of strange Tumblr moment about Sans from the video game Undertale vs the anime character Reigen in a Tumblr Sexyman vote that coincided with the death of Queen Elizabeth II (Sept 8, 2022). also #sansweep also #SANSWEEP (vs. #reigensweep)
September 10, 2022
tankhughes commented on the list dungeons-and-dragons-5uZe8GVIUAU46ERM7YPqz
Oh! I missed this list by ruzuzu. https://www.wordnik.com/lists/dungeons-and-dragons
September 8, 2022
tankhughes commented on the list dungeons-and-dragons-5uZe8GVIUAU46ERM7YPqz
I added dungeon crawl and dungeon crawler for you, bilby. I haven't actually done a lot of that in DnD yet.
September 8, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word TPK
A TPK is a "total party kill" in Dungeons and Dragons or other TTRPGs. That means that the group (adventuring party) of player characters (PCs) was fully killed in an attack of some kind. Often times, one of two of a party will fall to 0 hit points (HP) during a battle, but another character with healing spells or a healing potion will bring them back from death saving throws and continue on their adventure. However, when all of the player characters die, and no one is there to resurrect them, it's a TPK. TPKs can result in the end of a campaign - like dying in a story, or they can be a temporary setback that resets the progress of the party, like a video game. TPKs can lead to player characters changing who they are role-playing as, or lead to a conversation with the DM about how difficult the battles should be going forward. Or they can just be a fun story about the time that everybody died because they went to the ominous deserted village, ignored multiple red flags, released the goats of a clearly evil woman to annoy her, and then were killed by that witch in a skull-shaped airship (for example)
September 8, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word candle-hour
For this candle-hour, the scent is "fresh linen."
September 8, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word timeline cleanse
Also referred to as eye bleach - when someone intentionally posts wholesome content in order to counteract doomscrolling.
September 8, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word murderhobo
Well explicked, ruzuzu. Being a murderhobo is one way to play DnD, and is fine if it fits with the story setting and the player group. Some people want to play out a high-fantasy court drama, some want to shapeshift into bears and talk to demigods, some want to explore non-binary identities and creative problem-solving, and some people want to ruthlessly murder anyone they meet without real-life consequences. That last type is murderhobos.
September 6, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word rule of cool
When a DM or GM applies the rule of cool, they allow a player character to do something cool in DnD (or another RPG) that isn't strictly what is intended by the rules/the manuals, but is such a cool idea, the DM wants to reward their creativity.
September 6, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word phthisicky
not persnickety. tie-sicky.
September 6, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word murderhobo
A murderhobo is a character in DnD who just wants to kill any NPC that they come across or have an issue with, because it's a fictional world and they know how to wield weapons and/or magic. The whole party can be murderhobos who never try for diplomacy, or it can just be one character who flies into battle when faced with most situations.
September 1, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word quiet quitting
Not sure when/where the original source is from, but a good explanation of this distortion of working to rule: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/seldo/694106680062001152
August 31, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word fourish
Interesting that the citations and tweets don't use it for time, mostly for "quantities of about 4". #RandomWord
August 31, 2022
tankhughes commented on the list name-suggestions-for-ultra-compact-cars
anklebiter, micromachine, seedling
August 31, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word thaumatography
I know thaumaturgy from DnD. I guess thauma is miracle, and this definition is trying to say "when people try to describe the wonders of the world, their writings are thaumatography," Writing about wonders.
August 29, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word twite
Not quite twit, not trite, not tweet, not thwite. #RandomWord
August 26, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word obcited
Per https://www.wordnik.com/users/the_mighty_quinn, a mix of oblom and excited.
August 25, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word obcite
Per https://www.wordnik.com/users/the_mighty_quinn, a mix of oblom and excite.
August 25, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word obcitable
Per https://www.wordnik.com/users/the_mighty_quinn, a mix of oblom and excitable.
August 25, 2022
tankhughes commented on the user mari2
Very cool
August 24, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word aestophobe
An aestophobe is afraid of hot weather.
This appeared in an article about hot weather in Seattle today - it's on phobia lists but aesto doesn't seem to appear in other English words. Very specific. https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/weather/more-heat-is-in-store-for-seattle-area-but-fall-is-just-29-days-away/
August 24, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word quiet quitting
https://twitter.com/BudrykZack/status/1561846623625437186
August 23, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word cirrorhinal
Hey cirri, show me a nasal cavity.
August 23, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word abear
I would love to nap next to abear.
August 23, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word funga
An alternate way to say fungi to have it treated as an equal to flora and fauna. https://undark.org/2021/08/09/flora-fauna-and-funga/
August 20, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word feutre
Note to me for later to look this up. I think there's a French cutthroat loanword that uses this verb.
August 18, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word Yucca Mountain
A place where you could put spent nuclear fuel, but no one has yet.
August 12, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word blorbo from my shows
blorbo is your favorite character from any piece of media that you care about.
August 9, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word quiet quitting
Doing your job a normal amount, not over-achieving. From
an Aug 9, 2022 article: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/radish-radish/692057183537561600
August 9, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word explode orb
euphemism for bomb to avoid demonization on a MarioMaker speedrunner video game video: https://twitter.com/AnAnimeGiraffe/status/1471094373479763978
August 8, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word fuzzy sock vacation
hospital socks (provided by the hospital) are always grippy and sometimes fuzzy, depending on the hospital. (These are both: https://www.amazon.com/Socks-Hospital-Fluffy-Slipper-Gripper/dp/B09FHPMYYP)
August 8, 2022
tankhughes commented on the list who-farted-75HJ2Pth_NrRur5yC-Ob6
It's not a verb, but I'm pleased that SBD has the definition for "silent but deadly."
August 8, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word OF
OF can be short for OnlyFans.
August 4, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word fuzzy sock vacation
@vendingmachine a euphemism used online. also grippy sock vacation: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=grippy%20sock%20vacation
August 4, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word skripper
Algorithm-avoidant stripper. Also skrippa.
August 4, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word noods
Nudes. Naked photos.
August 4, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word PAWG
phat ass white girl
August 4, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word Delco
A clipped compound of Delaware County = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
August 4, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word murdur
People definitely spell murder this way now, but I can't tell if it's for fun, to avoid algorithm bans on saying murder, or just because they liked the SNL murdur durdur sketch, which was making fun of Delco (Philly) accents from Mare of Easttown. https://youtu.be/qaKZi6p6sxg
August 4, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word accountant
This job title is used by sex workers (and others who don't want to talk about their jobs or can't for censorship/safety reasons). https://youtu.be/psCTNvhF9cE
August 2, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word fuzzy sock vacation
Time spent in a psych ward.
August 2, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word change course
I would think change course would refer to changing the ship's direction, not your location on a ship. #RandomWord
August 1, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word kms
Short for "kill myself", used by people to talk about mental health without being blocked or demonetized on certain sites.
July 29, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word Averno
Oh! In DnD, Avernus is the first level of the Nine Hells. Good to know it's in Italy.
July 29, 2022
tankhughes commented on the list algorithm-avoidant-inventions-D25p2r0HK_2pCayeZApKQ
Little Bear Winnie. Chinese word bans called "river crab" https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-china-blog-40627855
July 29, 2022
tankhughes commented on the list algorithm-avoidant-inventions-D25p2r0HK_2pCayeZApKQ
camping = help someone visit your state for an abortion https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/camping-meme-roe-v-wade-abortion-ban-rcna35765
July 29, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word nem
Used to mean "men" some places online to avoid men who are searching for safe-space groups to harass.
July 29, 2022
tankhughes commented on the list topological-verb-adjectives
I didn't know about that Latin participle form! Now I want to go to onelook.com and type *ate and see what else pops up for this list.
July 27, 2022
tankhughes commented on the list why-did-the---cross-the
I think the tankhughes might cross the road because she felt overwhelmed about something happening on the side of the road where she was.
July 27, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word gaiter
neck gaiter makes me think of turkey wattles. I don't think this was in the discussion of WOTY 2020, but it shoulda been, as a mask alternative of people who have sensitive ears, or who only want to nominally comply with mask laws but just keep this around their neck as a scarf.
July 27, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word organic horror
I saw this term used to describe warnings for the cat-based video game Stray. The category included trypophobia (fear of tiny clustered holes), clusters, and parasites. Reminds me of the similar category of body horror, which includes too many limbs or eyes, limbs in the wrong places, and all kindsa gross mad scientist monster manipulation of what humans should look like.
July 27, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word blows per foot
Sounds more like ASMR foot fetish terminology than a legit engineering measurement, but here we are.
July 18, 2022
tankhughes commented on the list helmet-CZgXMkbmQU
kabuto!
July 18, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word thimble parameters
Thimbles are so small! how could their parameters warrant a whole report section?
July 18, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word portrayment
Feels like a betrayment department in here.
July 15, 2022
tankhughes commented on the list abbreviations-into-acronyms-QGBtAKUtfn64-q-17Y0TZ
Maybe Jr for junior. Can be pronounced J.R., not quite treated like an acronym.
July 13, 2022
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