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.
New potential category: measurements. cm km ft hr GB MB etc. I don't know if I'd call hr or ft an acronym, but it's being similarly shortened into a 2-letter entity.
ruzuzu I don't care how it's pronounced, I care that normally, it's larger phrases that are turned into acronyms, even if it's just 2 letters (HR for human resources, or PB for peanut butter, OJ, TP, etc) but these just kinda break up one word in a place where it's not immediately obvious that you could do that. TD for touch/down is kind of similar, but I can see that logic of breaking on the compound, where as I'd think tuberculosis could be abbreviated in a whole lot of other ways instead of TB. TC for tuber/culosis, tubey, 'culosis, t-losis. (It's a serious medical thing, so probably not too many nicknames, but still, other shortenings feel a lot more likely).
And it also baffles me that this strange abbreviation method has turned into PJ twice. That's what kicked this off.
These don't even necessarily break on a morpheme boundary, you know? On a consonant cluster. Maybe ID is different. I need more examples. Morphology is wild.
Well noted, ry. It was a 2021 Word of the Year nominee. It came from cannabis culture - originally referring to "mid-grade weed", then expanding in use through hip hop and Black Twitter to talk about middling music, media, and celebrities. smoking mid, middest of the mid, it's mid af. It's featured in the upcoming Among the New Words part of the American Dialect Society's journal along with other nominees like hard pants and horny jail.
RNG = random number generator. In video games, you sometimes have to depend on the "luck" of what item will appear in what chest, or when an NPC will appear in a certain location, and so speedrunners pray to RNGesus, that luck will be on their side. Pronounced R-N-Jesus.
vendingmachine how do you pronounce it? This is a new term to me, but based on quintet and bicentennial, that robot man's pronunciation sounds good to me.
Welcome pugnatio! The New Yorker style is proudly eccentric, with their use of the diaeresishttps://www.grammarly.com/blog/diaeresis/ and their refusal to move forward at the speed of tech for things like Web site and e-mail. The New York Times is also slow to adopt revisions to their style guide. Maybe it's an East Coast thing.
Just heard this in a business meeting in reference to a group that is supposed to be advised, but this person couldn't think of a reason for them to have a demand signal for this document/issue. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demand_signal It's about the chain of notifications, and if someone doesn't care, why are they in the chain?
IN rock climbingbouldering competitions, you get half points on a problem for getting halfway through the wall to the zone hold during your 4 minutes of attempts, and full points if you can maneuver around to the top hold as well.
In rock climbing, when you match a hold, you have both hands on the same hold at the same time. Sometimes in competitions, there's only room for 3 fingers in a hold, but competitors still find a way to transition from one hand's 3 fingers to the others' to make progress on a boulder problem. In competitions, you top a wall (complete it) by matching both hands to the hold labeled Top.
An affectionate term that Tumblr users for Tumblr, and sometimes Twitter users use for Twitter, in reference to changes to the interface, layouts, new rules, bans, and choices that seem to ignore and go directly against what users want from that site. https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/medeamybeloved/682632763736752128
A very terrible 2007 movie written by and starring Jerry Seinfeld. Many memes about it, one of them involves making new cuts of the film - commonly in the form "Bee Movie but..." as in "Bee Movie but everyone time they say the word bee, it speeds up." The movie is mocked for many reasons, one because the human woman leaves her human partner because she falls in love with a bee (beestiality), who successfully sues the world for selling honey without the bees receiving a profit from it. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/subcultures/bee-movie
A verb backformed from the 2022 movie Morbius, which was given the Bee Movie treatment by online users (a meme-rich bad thing), and misinterpreted by the studio as a reason to return the poorly received movie to theaters a second time, where it flopped again. The verb is not used in the movie, it's just based on the title and that the movie is bad and that Jared Leto (who plays Morbius) takes his roles too seriously.
On Tumblr, a reference to plinko horse from the game Plinko. There's a gif of a CG horse flopping down again and again through plinko pegs. Users felt bad for the horse and now use it as a facetious example of animal abuse. Also used in a bouba vs kiki linguistics meme with blorbo and plinko replacing the original examples since both were popular at the same time. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/horse-plinko
A fictional beloved character, making fun of fandoms latching onto random side characters without knowing much about them, or just trying to talk to someone about a rabbithole aspect of a niche interest: blorbo from my shows. Sometimes a Star Wars character, though another fake beloved character glup shitto specifically makes fun of weird Star Wars names. Created and popularized on Tumblr in 2022. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/blorbo-from-my-shows
Internet meme verb based on the flop 2022 movie "Morbius" about a Marvel Comics vampire. From the new backformation verb morb. Sometimes with apostrophe as morbin'. Often appears in the phrase "it's morbin time!"
it's an ice cream made with eggs and heavy cream? Often with chopped cherries, almonds, or crumbled macaroons (biscuits) mixed in. More info at tortoni. #RandomWord
In board gaming a shelf jerk is a board game box that is not a standard size and shape (12x12 or euro rectangle shape), making them difficult to fit into bookshelves. (Example: a shoebox, coffin box, or a novelty cylinder shape.)
As ELLE’s associate beauty editor Margaux Anbouba says about these pants, “they are your classic dad-style thick, fleecy sweat-pants material, shaped into a flattering, just butt-hitting enough fit that you won’t be embarrassed leaving the house in them.”
Just saw this in a Starbucks promotional email - it's a category that includes silverware plus napkins, straws. Basically, they are no longer going to automatically provide serveware to customers - to reduce waste, you now need to ask for them. Looks like it would be a service industry term, but because of laws it'll maybe become more widespread.
In rock climbing, this describes a hold on a wall that is particularly good to grab onto - like a jug handle. (As opposed to shallow holds, slopers, and other, less friendly kinds where you have to crimp your fingers to make them fit.)
Wikipedia: "Simcenter STAR-CCM+ is a commercial Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) based simulation software developed by Siemens Digital Industries Software. Simcenter STAR-CCM+ allows the modeling and analysis of a range of engineering problems involving fluid flow, heat transfer, stress, particulate flow, electromagnetics and related phenomena."
AKA pouch of Douglas or rectouterine pouch. A body part I only know about because it inspired the title of Hannah Gadsby's stand up special Douglas. #RandomWord
Not sure when this originated, but it's grown in popularity this year as a way to start a phrase telling someone "my dude, i must kindly inform you that you have majorly fucked up."
Earliest citation I found so far was from the 1992 book "A Leader's Journey to Quality" by Dana M Cound. There's a section called "Skip Level Meetings" and this quote after it:
"The executive should consider making a plant tour following his skip level meetings - after not before."
"On the web, soft hyphens ( or ) can be added manually to tell browsers where a word can be broken across lines. A soft hyphen will be displayed only when needed and, if desired, can be added multiple times to long words to give the browser options as to where a break might occur. The mark up might look like the following: hyphenation,"
"The problem for dyslexic people occurs because large gaps between words are more likely to line up above one another than are the smaller gaps typical of more evenly spaced text. When they do, readers may perceive highly distracting white patterns flowing through the page that can become more prominent than the text itself. The effect is known as “rivers of white” and it can make reading difficult, if not impossible."
The book "English Ancestral Names" by JR Dolan (1972) is a great resource for these. 360 pages of surnames grouped by occupation, with historical context for what that work meant between 1100 and 1350.
On the Neopets site, your Neopet could have a petpet, which come in different fantastical breeds from the larger Neopets. One was called a Noil, which was a cute, plushie-looking lion. (Noil is lion backwards.)
Like a paper town that only exists on maps but not in the world, this is a (for example, nuclear) power plant/design that only exists in concept without concrete plans to make it a reality. Also paper reactor.
The Girl with the Dogs TikTok/YouTube channel describes pre-groomed dog feet as Grinch feet, resembling the cartoon Grinch from Dr. Seuss. She often says "...I shave out their paw pads... and then I trim their grinch feet" during her narrated walkthroughs of her process with unique dog clients.
Probably not an originator of the term but definitely a popularizer. Lowercase "grinch feet" appears more commonly in social media posts.
The Girl with the Dogs TikTok/YouTube channel describes pre-groomed dog feet as Grinch feet, resembling the cartoon Grinch from Dr. Seuss. She often says "...I shave out their paw pads... and then I trim their grinch feet" during her narrated walkthroughs of her process with unique dog clients.
Probably not an originator of the term but definitely a popularizer.
I learned from a Gastropod podcast about an early version of chewing gum that people used to chew resin from the mastic tree. https://gastropod.com/gums-the-word-a-sticky-story/ (picture at link). So. The resin came from the tree name came from the French/Latin Greek verb?
In Season 1 of the TV Show Community, Pierce Hawthorne coins the phrase "streets ahead" to mean cool/ahead of its time, though it's just defined as "if you have to ask, you're streets behind. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCktKQKXNWg
When motorcyclists pass each other going in different directions, they tell each other if there's a cop speed trap ahead by patting the top of their helmets. https://www.motorcyclelegalfoundation.com/motorcycle-hand-signals-chart/ If they have no news, they just give a finger gun salute down low to say "hey, you on motorcycle too. nice."
My other favorite brief connection gesture is city bus drivers doin a little two-fingers-to-the-head salute when they pass by each other on their routes.
Wordle has made frequentatives productive again this year. Absurdle, Airportle, BRDL, Crosswordle, Dordle, Heardle, Lewdle, Lordle of the Rings, Nerdle, Passwordle, Primel, Queerdle, Squabble, Squirdle, Sweardle, Weredle, Wordawazzle, etc.
I only know about the demon raccoon... not sure what would happen if you were possessed by a demon chicken. https://youtu.be/iLxtPxIXH_4 (Demon Raccoon by The Zach and The Jess)
ruzuzu thanks! I just started a new job at a nuclear power startup, so I'm writing down all the (non-proprietary, non-NDA) Manhattan Project codenames and diagram parts as I come across them and add them to my local Word dictionary :)
vendingmachine looks like default is "by anyone" when you use the New List dropdown, but not sure if you build it starting from a word's page. You can change permissions under the list's Edit menu.
Paris, Texas. Cairo, Illinois. Portland, Oregon is named after Portland, Maine. (Lore says it was almost called Boston but the other guy (Pettygrove, not Lovejoy) won the coin flip.)
Comedian Michael Che, responding on Feb 13, 2022 to Kanye's instagram offer to pay him to quit SNL, jokingly says he'll only quit if Kanye fulfills all his ridiculous requests, including tripling his salary and "you gotta make beats for my band 'The Slap Butts'" That's a new cutthroat compound, baby. https://instagram.com/p/CZ7hNINpbUd/
Is it an acronym or more specifically a clipped compound? I don't know Russian, but it seems like it's coming from To-ka-ma-k, not T.O.K.A.M.A.K. or T.K.M.K but maybe that's how you pronounce those letters?
"The Garn is a unit used by NASA to measure nausea and travel sickness caused by space adaptation syndrome. It is named after astronaut Jake Garn, who was frequently sick during tests and on orbit. A score of one Garn means the sufferer is completely incapacitated."
FLiBe is a molten salt made from a mixture of lithium fluoride (LiF) and beryllium fluoride (BeF2). It is both a nuclear reactor coolant and solvent for fertile or fissile material. It served both purposes in the Molten-Salt Reactor Experiment (MSRE) at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Twingo, a Renault city car (1992-present). The name was created from "twist," "swing," and "tango." Not to be confused with TwinGo, a baby carrier for twins.
"The vaccine will be marketed in the EU under the brand name Comirnaty, which represents a combination of the terms COVID-19, mRNA, community and immunity, to highlight the first authorization of a messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine, as well as the joint global efforts that made this achievement possible with unprecedented rigor and efficiency, and with safety at the forefront, during this global pandemic."
"Air bridges are a concept proposed by a few countries in Europe to allow air travel between each other without a two-week quarantine at each destination. They would ‘bridge’ the gap between higher-risk counties, and allow tourism to flourish.
The plan will mean that tourists, for example, will be able to fly away for a weekend without having to stay locked in a hotel for two weeks at their destination. The same would be true on the return trip too."
If you have h-dropping (aitch- dropping) like in a Cockney type dialect, can add highway (why), hallway (wall), hooray (rue), holiday (dolly), headway (wed), and hearsay (sear).
Well now I'm confused. On Etymonline, it said the Ygg part was Odin, and drasil was horse. Here it says it's terrible + hanging tree. Oof. What's going on here?
Just know that I love priming, and YARD SARD is such a sweet simple example of it when people try to write YARD SALE in big block letters. Two four letter words back to back with an A in the 2nd place somehow leads to a lot of fun variants: https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1274514-alignment-charts
I think rage is a noun here, though I originally thought it could go on my verb-verb list. (https://www.wordnik.com/lists/verb-verbs. The only other similar emotion-verb compound I can think of right now is gladhanding.
Scottish writer Chris McQueer used it in a piece called Class:
"My upbringing has made it easier for me to have a bit of a brass neck and shout about my work when some other writers might feel it’s a bit crass or a bit of a riddy."
LuLaRoe is a clothing company named after 3 granddaughters: Lucy, Lola, and Monroe. The company is pyramid scheme-adjacent: https://youtu.be/L6eujSJ0-RU
In reference to the meme Moon Moon, the stupidest possible wolf. It came from a name generator in which you use your first and last initial to create your "werewolf name" and people with the initials "PW" would get Moon Moon as the full name. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/moon-moon
Starting around 1hour 19 minutes in this video, he doesn't know what barouche means when it comes up in the title card, so he uses it in every possibly context.
This is a translation of raccoon in several languages.
I like it because someone suggested to me that it might be a cutthroat compound.
Tragically, it's not the case. It's a bear-type animal known for washing its food (see sad video of raccoon waashing cotton candy and having it disappear :( ).
I wish. I WISH. it were an animal who washed bears, but it's not. Only then would it be a cutthroat construction.
The literature examples on this page seem to be about the equivalent of a trailhead and the tweets are about blowjobs in a car (moving or not moving). I don't see examples of either on road head with a space.
"The name "Makaton" is derived from the first letters of the names of three speech and language therapists who helped devise the programme in the 1970s: the researcher Margaret Walker, and Katharine Johnston and Tony Cornforth, colleagues from the Royal Association for Deaf people.4" - Makaton Wikipedia page.
I don't know why the quotation mark is used before nurse name and I don't know what nurse name means and googling it just gets me a list of famous nurses.
"Q. In the early 1930s, my grandmother won a citywide crossword puzzle contest in New York City, earning the $1,000 prize at a time when money was tight. The winning word was qobar, a word that no longer appears in even unabridged dictionaries. Once a word is a word, isn’t it always a word?
A. Yes. But so far, there has never been a dictionary that listed all the words. There are too many words! One of the standards that lexicographers use when deciding which words to delete to make way for new ones is whether a word is actually used very often in a meaningful way. At least one online dictionary, Wordnik, has a goal of listing all the words available. Qobar isn’t listed there yet—maybe you should send it!"
"The gurning batrachian monster that crawled out of the mordant id of mass society to squat in the Oval Office was a symptom of our collective neurosis before he was a cause."
Nov 2017 "The gurning batrachian monster that crawled out of the mordant id of mass society to squat in the Oval Office was a symptom of our collective neurosis before he was a cause."
Of course it's a word! It has sound and meaning. And it serves several functions in English:
In the phrase "yous guys," it seems to decline so it matches its noun, I think that's sweet.
Also appears at the end of syntactically frozen phrases like "all the i love yous."
Also has a distinct ability to declare that someone is not unique and there are many of that person as in "there's a million of yous, there's only one of me." (Kanye West - Stronger)
For internet dogs, I think it's about when dogs stick their tongues out just a little bit, like they forgot to pull it back in before closing their mouth.
I think Kory said it because she (and I) recently attended ACES in Florida and Anne Curzan in her keynote speech, used the term grammando. Curzan has used it for years.
It's a proposed alternative to grammar nazi. I'd like to disassociate asshole pedants from state-funded murderers, ao I use it a bit and hope it catches on.
I would guess it's an allusion to Dicken's A Christmas Carol when Scrooge tries to explain Marley away:
"“You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!”"
Shitgibbon was used in a presidential insult tweet: "Hey @realDonaldTrump I oppose civil asset forfeiture too! Why don't you try to destroy my career you fascist, loofa-faced, shit-gibbon!"
shitgibbon is an example of a shitgibbon compound.
An acronym short for "grotesque, unbelievable, bizarre, unprecedented."
Not military slang as I first suspected.
Based off of this quote by then Taoiseach (prime minister) of Ireland, Charles Haughe, in 1945: "It was a bizarre happening, an unprecedented situation, a grotesque situation, an almost unbelievable mischance."
There is a tree near my suburban childhood home that is in the middle of the road surrounded by a 2 foot circular brick wall. Growing up, there was a much larger tree in that place, but several years ago it fell over. My mother cried, she thought they had cut it down on purpose. The city replaced it with a young tree with a sturdy trunk but not many branches.
I decided that it looked sad, especially when its leaves fell off in winter. So I concocted festive crime, in which my mother and I brought oversized ornaments, bows, and boas of tinsel and hung them in the tree around midnight a few days before Christmas.
We take it down around New Years (but not New Years Eve, too many people out). We figure if we get caught we could be charged with jaywalking into the middle of the street where the tree is, or maybe littering for securing objects on the tree.
We've done it for a few years now. Not sure it will happen this year. It's a fun term to whisper.
I'm putting this here as a historical record and also a hope-filled persuasive argument. I will remove if it violates community standards:
"I know it has its own complicated consequences, but I STRONGLY ENCOURAGE YOU to persuade 20+ members of the electoral college to switch their votes away from Drumpf.
This is an interesting list because most word aversion involves bodily function aversion. This list seems like an aversion to doing a lot of work in your mouth (except maybe intimate). It's refreshing.
short for nerfing, which often describes game characters or powers that were OP (overpowered) in previous versions/editions/games that have now been underpowered or nerfed.
:A glottonaut is someone exploring languages without necessarily acquiring them (thereby becoming a polyglot). Most people doing linguistic typology can be considered glottonauts."
"This ghost word appears in Samuel Johnson's 1755 dictionary. It is defined as "To drive with a sudden impetuosity. A word out of use."
The last part of the definition is certainly right. It was never in use. This is a misreading of soupe (due to the long s character used in those days), a dialect form of swoop." http://everything2.com/title/foupe
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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
tankhughes commented on the list abbreviations-into-acronyms-QGBtAKUtfn64-q-17Y0TZ
New potential category: measurements. cm km ft hr GB MB etc. I don't know if I'd call hr or ft an acronym, but it's being similarly shortened into a 2-letter entity.
July 13, 2022
tankhughes commented on the list abbreviations-into-acronyms-QGBtAKUtfn64-q-17Y0TZ
ruzuzu I don't care how it's pronounced, I care that normally, it's larger phrases that are turned into acronyms, even if it's just 2 letters (HR for human resources, or PB for peanut butter, OJ, TP, etc) but these just kinda break up one word in a place where it's not immediately obvious that you could do that. TD for touch/down is kind of similar, but I can see that logic of breaking on the compound, where as I'd think tuberculosis could be abbreviated in a whole lot of other ways instead of TB. TC for tuber/culosis, tubey, 'culosis, t-losis. (It's a serious medical thing, so probably not too many nicknames, but still, other shortenings feel a lot more likely).
And it also baffles me that this strange abbreviation method has turned into PJ twice. That's what kicked this off.
July 13, 2022
tankhughes commented on the list abbreviations-into-acronyms-QGBtAKUtfn64-q-17Y0TZ
State abbreviations do this out of necessity, with so many states starting with the same letters - AK AL AR AZ, MA MD ME MI MN MO MS MT
July 13, 2022
tankhughes commented on the list abbreviations-into-acronyms-QGBtAKUtfn64-q-17Y0TZ
These don't even necessarily break on a morpheme boundary, you know? On a consonant cluster. Maybe ID is different. I need more examples. Morphology is wild.
ProJects PaJama TuBerculis IDentification
July 13, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word fish-show
"Going to the pond later?"
"Oh fish-show."
#RandomWord
July 13, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word a. testudineus
a dot fish
July 8, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word mid
Well noted, ry. It was a 2021 Word of the Year nominee. It came from cannabis culture - originally referring to "mid-grade weed", then expanding in use through hip hop and Black Twitter to talk about middling music, media, and celebrities. smoking mid, middest of the mid, it's mid af. It's featured in the upcoming Among the New Words part of the American Dialect Society's journal along with other nominees like hard pants and horny jail.
July 5, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word spider-helmet
Not that I know of, bilby, but there's a lovely song by the a capella group The Bobs about helmets. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SopKJlMvNkk
June 28, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word RNGesus
RNG = random number generator. In video games, you sometimes have to depend on the "luck" of what item will appear in what chest, or when an NPC will appear in a certain location, and so speedrunners pray to RNGesus, that luck will be on their side. Pronounced R-N-Jesus.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/rngesus
June 28, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word agender agenda
Are there dialects where would these be pronounced the same? (non-rhotic something?)
June 23, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word NIRMA
The Nuclear Information and Records Management Association
June 23, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word blorbo
blorbo from your ads: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/kingkirkwall/687106166764011520
June 23, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word quindecennial
vendingmachine how do you pronounce it? This is a new term to me, but based on quintet and bicentennial, that robot man's pronunciation sounds good to me.
June 23, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word eggcorn
Check out the eggcorn database for more. My favorite is firstable for first of all. https://eggcorns.lascribe.net/
June 22, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word pulls above his belt
An eggcorn I heard in a meeting today said during a compliment to a one-man team. Some kind of mashup with punches above his weight class or pulls his own weight. Not sure where belt is coming from.
June 22, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word eulogium
Sounds like a room where you give eulogies. #RandomWord
June 21, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word ergatandry
Whoa! I don't want to look more into this, but I'm intrigued. #RandomWord
June 21, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word OLS
OLS: Ordinary Least Squares regression. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinary_least_squares
June 20, 2022
tankhughes commented on the user pugnatio
Welcome pugnatio! The New Yorker style is proudly eccentric, with their use of the diaeresis https://www.grammarly.com/blog/diaeresis/ and their refusal to move forward at the speed of tech for things like Web site and e-mail. The New York Times is also slow to adopt revisions to their style guide. Maybe it's an East Coast thing.
June 17, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word SNUPPS
Standard Nuclear Unit Power Plant System
June 15, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word battologize
Can you repeat that? #RandomWord
June 14, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word demand signal
Just heard this in a business meeting in reference to a group that is supposed to be advised, but this person couldn't think of a reason for them to have a demand signal for this document/issue. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demand_signal It's about the chain of notifications, and if someone doesn't care, why are they in the chain?
June 14, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word pereutectic
Same as peritectic? https://www.answers.com/Q/Difference_between_eutectic_and_pereutectic_points
June 14, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word zone
IN rock climbing bouldering competitions, you get half points on a problem for getting halfway through the wall to the zone hold during your 4 minutes of attempts, and full points if you can maneuver around to the top hold as well.
June 13, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word match
In rock climbing, when you match a hold, you have both hands on the same hold at the same time. Sometimes in competitions, there's only room for 3 fingers in a hold, but competitors still find a way to transition from one hand's 3 fingers to the others' to make progress on a boulder problem. In competitions, you top a wall (complete it) by matching both hands to the hold labeled Top.
June 13, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word NEI
Also Nuclear Energy Institute
June 10, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word vitre-o-electic
All I can think of is the Bass-o-Matic.
June 10, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word plateout
https://www.osti.gov/biblio/7201314-study-plateout-fission-product-behavior-during-large-scale-pipe-rupture-accident-high-temperature-gas-cooled-reactor
June 9, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word eeby deeby
one of many nonsensical terms (often standing in for hell that became popular on Tumblr in 2022, partially in response to a ban of common tags in December 2021. https://www.makeuseof.com/why-has-tumblr-banned-tags-ios-app/
June 9, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word top
In rock climbing, to successfully reach the top of a route on a wall.
June 9, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word hellsite
An affectionate term that Tumblr users for Tumblr, and sometimes Twitter users use for Twitter, in reference to changes to the interface, layouts, new rules, bans, and choices that seem to ignore and go directly against what users want from that site. https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/medeamybeloved/682632763736752128
June 9, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word Bee Movie
A very terrible 2007 movie written by and starring Jerry Seinfeld. Many memes about it, one of them involves making new cuts of the film - commonly in the form "Bee Movie but..." as in "Bee Movie but everyone time they say the word bee, it speeds up." The movie is mocked for many reasons, one because the human woman leaves her human partner because she falls in love with a bee (beestiality), who successfully sues the world for selling honey without the bees receiving a profit from it. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/subcultures/bee-movie
June 9, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word morb
A verb backformed from the 2022 movie Morbius, which was given the Bee Movie treatment by online users (a meme-rich bad thing), and misinterpreted by the studio as a reason to return the poorly received movie to theaters a second time, where it flopped again. The verb is not used in the movie, it's just based on the title and that the movie is bad and that Jared Leto (who plays Morbius) takes his roles too seriously.
June 9, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word plinko
On Tumblr, a reference to plinko horse from the game Plinko. There's a gif of a CG horse flopping down again and again through plinko pegs. Users felt bad for the horse and now use it as a facetious example of animal abuse. Also used in a bouba vs kiki linguistics meme with blorbo and plinko replacing the original examples since both were popular at the same time. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/horse-plinko
June 9, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word blorbo
A fictional beloved character, making fun of fandoms latching onto random side characters without knowing much about them, or just trying to talk to someone about a rabbithole aspect of a niche interest: blorbo from my shows. Sometimes a Star Wars character, though another fake beloved character glup shitto specifically makes fun of weird Star Wars names. Created and popularized on Tumblr in 2022. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/blorbo-from-my-shows
June 9, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word morbin
Internet meme verb based on the flop 2022 movie "Morbius" about a Marvel Comics vampire. From the new backformation verb morb. Sometimes with apostrophe as morbin'. Often appears in the phrase "it's morbin time!"
June 9, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word coinventorship
ruzuzu i'm not sure, but I found carrot on a list of this flavor by sionnach: https://www.wordnik.com/lists/not-the-sum-of-their-parts
June 6, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word Kaijune
An art prompt about drawing a different kaiju every day in June.
June 3, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word biscuit tortoni
it's an ice cream made with eggs and heavy cream? Often with chopped cherries, almonds, or crumbled macaroons (biscuits) mixed in. More info at tortoni. #RandomWord
June 2, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word shelf jerk
In board gaming a shelf jerk is a board game box that is not a standard size and shape (12x12 or euro rectangle shape), making them difficult to fit into bookshelves. (Example: a shoebox, coffin box, or a novelty cylinder shape.)
See also, this list: https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/140577?page=3
June 1, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word butt-hitting
Doing some hard pants research and found this. https://www.elle.com/fashion/shopping/g25602198/cozy-sweatpants/?slide=10
As ELLE’s associate beauty editor Margaux Anbouba says about these pants, “they are your classic dad-style thick, fleecy sweat-pants material, shaped into a flattering, just butt-hitting enough fit that you won’t be embarrassed leaving the house in them.”
May 31, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word serveware
Just saw this in a Starbucks promotional email - it's a category that includes silverware plus napkins, straws. Basically, they are no longer going to automatically provide serveware to customers - to reduce waste, you now need to ask for them. Looks like it would be a service industry term, but because of laws it'll maybe become more widespread.
May 31, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word buptkis
I've always seen it as bupkis. Yiddish as heck.
May 31, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word flash
In rock climbing, if you flash a wall, it means you get up it all the way on your first try - especially used in bouldering competitions.
May 26, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word juggy
In rock climbing, this describes a hold on a wall that is particularly good to grab onto - like a jug handle. (As opposed to shallow holds, slopers, and other, less friendly kinds where you have to crimp your fingers to make them fit.)
May 26, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word curly hair
New euphemism. Class president Zander Moricz was banned from saying gay in his graduation speech, so he talked about his difficulties growing up in Florida with curly hair instead. https://twitter.com/JasonColavito/status/1528824713962786817
May 26, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word GSI
GSI can stand for "generic safety issue" https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/contract/cr6762/index.html
May 25, 2022
tankhughes commented on the user laticiagibson
The dentist near me page is a pretty blank, but it has some nice stock photography at the bottom. And that phrase does show up in tweets.
May 25, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word Gaston
A power-based move in rock climbing, named after a climber named Gaston who was photographed doing the move. https://sendedition.com/what-is-a-gaston-in-climbing/ also gastoning
May 22, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word radicle
Radical! #RandomWord
May 20, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word supershedder
different from superspreader, but kind of a superspreader. #RandomWord
May 20, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word quadruple royal
My first thought was that this was a card game term like a royal flush, then a term about somehow hitting the line of succession jackpot, but it seems to describe a fancy hotel room like a presidential suite. #RandomWord
May 20, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word monkeypox
I don't want this to be a new word to watch for in 2022, but as of today it might be.
May 18, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word ethnic mass attack
New euphemism for white supremacist terrorist attacks.
May 16, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word pintle
Interesting that the Word of the Day version of this page doesn't include the etymology or all the meanings.
May 13, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word multip
multiball + Paris = multiparous #RandomWord
May 13, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word whichs
Has anyone named a fictional character Witch Ever? Kind of a satisfying name.
*Looks like its the name of a Toronto band. https://witchever.bandcamp.com/
May 13, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word thrombospondin
secrete-d not secret-ed, right?
May 11, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word jacquemart
Also called jaquemart or quarter-jack, but those pages don't have definitions either.
May 9, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word memberment
I don't get it either, vendingmachine. Maybe it doesn't 'member either.
May 5, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word STAR-CCM+
Wikipedia: "Simcenter STAR-CCM+ is a commercial Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) based simulation software developed by Siemens Digital Industries Software. Simcenter STAR-CCM+ allows the modeling and analysis of a range of engineering problems involving fluid flow, heat transfer, stress, particulate flow, electromagnetics and related phenomena."
May 5, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word Oulipo
Ouvroir de littérature potentielle; roughly translated: "workshop of potential literature", stylized OuLiPo)
May 4, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word Discosauriscidae
discosauriscids and discosauriscid lead here but there's nothing here or at discosauriscidae. They are a family of stegocephalian/stegocephalous animals with spines from the Permian. Kinda pre-amphibians? #RandomWord
May 4, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word douglas's pouch
AKA pouch of Douglas or rectouterine pouch. A body part I only know about because it inspired the title of Hannah Gadsby's stand up special Douglas. #RandomWord
May 4, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word memberment
You always hear about dismemberment but not the status quo that precedes it. #RandomWord
May 4, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word my brother in Christ
Not sure when this originated, but it's grown in popularity this year as a way to start a phrase telling someone "my dude, i must kindly inform you that you have majorly fucked up."
May 3, 2022
tankhughes commented on the list nuclear-homework-xLoFAN-UQmQG
Picture with a buncha advanced reactor designs around the world: https://aris.iaea.org/
May 3, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word mustard-seed
One of my favorite Shakespearean fairies along with peasblossom and cobweb.
May 3, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word skip-level
Earliest citation I found so far was from the 1992 book "A Leader's Journey to Quality" by Dana M Cound. There's a section called "Skip Level Meetings" and this quote after it:
"The executive should consider making a plant tour following his skip level meetings - after not before."
May 2, 2022
tankhughes commented on the list words-ending-with--board
starboard
May 2, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word tin pan alley
It's not a metaphorical place only, but some cool work by song pluggers got done there. https://youtu.be/S659j_PdSt0
April 29, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word nabooian
From the Gungan Star Wars planet Naboo?
April 28, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word FLiNaK
Salt made from fluoride, lithium, sodium, and potassium.
Similar to FLiBe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLiNaK
April 27, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word spiders georg
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/spiders-georg
April 27, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word Spiders Georg
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/spiders-georg
April 27, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word no-trumper
A #RandomWord from bridge affected by that Trump guy.
April 25, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word hodler
Misspelling of holders in the quote below?
April 23, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word immaculate infection
When people get Covid but say they never went anywhere or were in contact with anyone.
https://twitter.com/D_Bone/status/1514618716285145098
Been around since 2020, but the phrase seems more common now that many high-risk situations are not considered risks and many precautions have been removed. https://twitter.com/russellgburger/status/1241837901614182400
April 15, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word Sistine
Petition to name the next pope Sixtus, so there will finally be 6 Sixtuses.
April 13, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word soft hyphen
June 13, 2009 https://accessible-digital-documents.com/blog/justified-text/
"On the web, soft hyphens ( or ) can be added manually to tell browsers where a word can be broken across lines. A soft hyphen will be displayed only when needed and, if desired, can be added multiple times to long words to give the browser options as to where a break might occur. The mark up might look like the following: hyphenation,"
April 13, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word rivers of white
June 13, 2009 https://accessible-digital-documents.com/blog/justified-text/
"The problem for dyslexic people occurs because large gaps between words are more likely to line up above one another than are the smaller gaps typical of more evenly spaced text. When they do, readers may perceive highly distracting white patterns flowing through the page that can become more prominent than the text itself. The effect is known as “rivers of white” and it can make reading difficult, if not impossible."
April 13, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word feels old and structured, but isn’t
Here's the link to possibleunderscore's list: https://www.wordnik.com/lists/things-youve-heard-in-your-dreams
April 13, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word feels old and structured, but isn’t
society?
April 12, 2022
tankhughes commented on the list last-names-that-are-professions
The book "English Ancestral Names" by JR Dolan (1972) is a great resource for these. 360 pages of surnames grouped by occupation, with historical context for what that work meant between 1100 and 1350.
April 11, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word noil
On the Neopets site, your Neopet could have a petpet, which come in different fantastical breeds from the larger Neopets. One was called a Noil, which was a cute, plushie-looking lion. (Noil is lion backwards.)
April 11, 2022
tankhughes commented on the list nuclear-homework-xLoFAN-UQmQG
Historically related list: hu-science
April 8, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word HIPS platform
https://www.power-grid.com/td/nuscale-small-modular-reactor-gets-nrc-approval-of-hips-platform/ "highly integrated protection system"
April 8, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word paper plant
Like a paper town that only exists on maps but not in the world, this is a (for example, nuclear) power plant/design that only exists in concept without concrete plans to make it a reality. Also paper reactor.
April 8, 2022
tankhughes commented on the list ras-syndrome-1fFizBdFKE2
ID Dentification
April 6, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word source term
https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/basic-ref/glossary/source-term.html
Source term can either mean a variable in the relevant equation, or the total result of that equation, which is also called dose consequence.
April 5, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word daughter product
The decay product from an isotope in radioactive decay.
Heard the phrase "daughters of decay products."
Does anyone have a list of potential band names? Please add that.
April 5, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word halurgist
what if you're hallergic to salt?
April 4, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word grinch feet
The Girl with the Dogs TikTok/YouTube channel describes pre-groomed dog feet as Grinch feet, resembling the cartoon Grinch from Dr. Seuss. She often says "...I shave out their paw pads... and then I trim their grinch feet" during her narrated walkthroughs of her process with unique dog clients.
Probably not an originator of the term but definitely a popularizer. Lowercase "grinch feet" appears more commonly in social media posts.
March 31, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word Grinch feet
The Girl with the Dogs TikTok/YouTube channel describes pre-groomed dog feet as Grinch feet, resembling the cartoon Grinch from Dr. Seuss. She often says "...I shave out their paw pads... and then I trim their grinch feet" during her narrated walkthroughs of her process with unique dog clients.
Probably not an originator of the term but definitely a popularizer.
March 31, 2022
tankhughes commented on the list words-in-first-3-wordle-word-guess-list-fEttSrihG8
I like PIOUS and TEARY to get all 6 vowels and PRST.
March 30, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word wet signature
This is a retronym compared to "dry" electronic signatures in digital documents.
March 30, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word beknave
Oh, beknave! #RandomWord
March 29, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word dwell time
SEO people use this term. Also industrial plant people.
March 28, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word masticate
I learned from a Gastropod podcast about an early version of chewing gum that people used to chew resin from the mastic tree. https://gastropod.com/gums-the-word-a-sticky-story/ (picture at link). So. The resin came from the tree name came from the French/Latin Greek verb?
March 28, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word additive manufacturing
it means 3D printing.
March 28, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word Infrangible
For more info, go to the lowercase infrangible page.
March 28, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word maidenless behavior
https://twitter.com/TillyMonkfish/status/1504513933394251778
March 28, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word Lapsus$
A hacking group active in 2022 - causing Okta breach (and others?)
March 24, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word streets ahead
In Season 1 of the TV Show Community, Pierce Hawthorne coins the phrase "streets ahead" to mean cool/ahead of its time, though it's just defined as "if you have to ask, you're streets behind. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCktKQKXNWg
People use "streets ahead" IRL in a joking way.
March 23, 2022
tankhughes commented on the list fun---gestures
When motorcyclists pass each other going in different directions, they tell each other if there's a cop speed trap ahead by patting the top of their helmets. https://www.motorcyclelegalfoundation.com/motorcycle-hand-signals-chart/ If they have no news, they just give a finger gun salute down low to say "hey, you on motorcycle too. nice."
My other favorite brief connection gesture is city bus drivers doin a little two-fingers-to-the-head salute when they pass by each other on their routes.
March 23, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word -dle
Yes yes! My daily move is now: Heardle, Wordle, Dordle, Quordle, Octordle, hope my brain is awake, do work.
March 23, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word -dle
Wordle has made frequentatives productive again this year. Absurdle, Airportle, BRDL, Crosswordle, Dordle, Heardle, Lewdle, Lordle of the Rings, Nerdle, Passwordle, Primel, Queerdle, Squabble, Squirdle, Sweardle, Weredle, Wordawazzle, etc.
See also https://wordnik.com/lists/english-frequentative-verbs'>https://wordnik.com/lists/english-frequentative-verbs
March 22, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word panthea
Perhaps a lovely girl's name? #RandomWord
March 22, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word 7458
I was also wondering that, yarb. I was going to make a comment about rolling a nat 21 based on what you said, but there was nowhere to do so.
March 21, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word Enigmarch
Puzzle constructors make a buncha puzzles in March through prompts.
March 18, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word bearoff
Search results are all about backgammon though. I don't know what that means.
March 17, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word bearoff
The GPO Style Guide says "An en space is used for all bearoffs or insets." Seems like a printer's term for an aspect of tables. It's under the Tabular Work section, and the subsection after this is called boxheads. https://www.govinfo.gov/collection/gpo-style-manual?path=/GPO/U.S.%20Government%20Publishing%20Office%20Style%20Manual
March 17, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word quishing
QR phishing. Other variants: SMiShing, vishing, angler phishing, spear phishing, whaling
March 17, 2022
tankhughes commented on the list periodic-element-words-RjpBvXwtvnHn
FLiBe and FLiNaK are both written using the elements that make them up, but not in that order. It's not the exact formula like H2O.
March 16, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word demon egg
I only know about the demon raccoon... not sure what would happen if you were possessed by a demon chicken. https://youtu.be/iLxtPxIXH_4 (Demon Raccoon by The Zach and The Jess)
March 16, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word fueling chute
maybe I should fuel a little down, but I still feel rad.
March 15, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word cheese-taster
This is my best recent Random word button find. You know, same thing as a cheese-pale. You get it.
March 15, 2022
tankhughes commented on the user pedroy
Welcome, pedroy! if you go to the staycation page, you'll find that definition there. Hope you see your contributions to word pages for many years :)
March 14, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word fueling chute
Might delete later... was fueling chute.
https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/new-reactors/advanced/ongoing-licensing-activities/pre-application-activities/kairos.html
March 9, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word CORDEL
Cooperation in Reactor Design Evaluation and Licensing = Co-R-D-E-L
March 7, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word DEGB
double-ended guillotine break https://www.osti.gov/biblio/6280449
March 2, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word Vaseline glass
Uranium glass that glowed green (See Visuals below). So called because the Vaseline formula at the time (1930s) was a similar pale yellow-green color.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_glass
February 26, 2022
tankhughes commented on the list nuclear-homework-xLoFAN-UQmQG
ruzuzu thanks! I just started a new job at a nuclear power startup, so I'm writing down all the (non-proprietary, non-NDA) Manhattan Project codenames and diagram parts as I come across them and add them to my local Word dictionary :)
February 25, 2022
tankhughes commented on the list cities-named-for-animals-flowers-and-objects-fiW21tp9bQ
vendingmachine looks like default is "by anyone" when you use the New List dropdown, but not sure if you build it starting from a word's page. You can change permissions under the list's Edit menu.
February 25, 2022
tankhughes commented on the list three-toed-portmanteaus
maybe tokamak but maybe that's a Russian acronym. Don't know enough Russian morphology to tell.
February 25, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word RuPocaLipstick
The 4 Drag Queens of the RuPocaLipstick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaGPyKFgZ9I
RuPaul + apocalypse + lipstick
February 25, 2022
tankhughes commented on the list cities-named-after-another-state-cyXkmYNFLMR6
Paris, Texas. Cairo, Illinois. Portland, Oregon is named after Portland, Maine. (Lore says it was almost called Boston but the other guy (Pettygrove, not Lovejoy) won the coin flip.)
February 24, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word Gible
Gible is a Ground/Dragon Pokemon from Generation 4. https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Gible_(Pok%C3%A9mon)
February 24, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word a-prefixing
Me an' pa going a-prefixin'.
February 24, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word The Slap Butts
Comedian Michael Che, responding on Feb 13, 2022 to Kanye's instagram offer to pay him to quit SNL, jokingly says he'll only quit if Kanye fulfills all his ridiculous requests, including tripling his salary and "you gotta make beats for my band 'The Slap Butts'" That's a new cutthroat compound, baby. https://instagram.com/p/CZ7hNINpbUd/
February 23, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word basemat
NOT a basement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_island_basemat
February 23, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word tokamak
Is it an acronym or more specifically a clipped compound? I don't know Russian, but it seems like it's coming from To-ka-ma-k, not T.O.K.A.M.A.K. or T.K.M.K but maybe that's how you pronounce those letters?
February 23, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word Garn
https://www.neatorama.com/2019/10/11/Humorous-Units-of-Measurement/
"The Garn is a unit used by NASA to measure nausea and travel sickness caused by space adaptation syndrome. It is named after astronaut Jake Garn, who was frequently sick during tests and on orbit. A score of one Garn means the sufferer is completely incapacitated."
February 15, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word Velcro
It's a clipped compound!!
January 21, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word FLiBe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLiBe
FLiBe is a molten salt made from a mixture of lithium fluoride (LiF) and beryllium fluoride (BeF2). It is both a nuclear reactor coolant and solvent for fertile or fissile material. It served both purposes in the Molten-Salt Reactor Experiment (MSRE) at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
January 17, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word Ever Given
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/suez-canal-jam
October 4, 2021
tankhughes commented on the word gaslight gatekeep girlboss
A 2021 original.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/gaslight-gatekeep-girlboss
October 4, 2021
tankhughes commented on the word horny jail
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/go-to-horny-jail
October 1, 2021
tankhughes commented on the word miette
you kick miette?!
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/miette
October 1, 2021
tankhughes commented on the word hard pants
a retronym for jeans/slacks after people started wearing leggings/lounge pants/pajama pants during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020.
September 28, 2021
tankhughes commented on the word Twingo
Twingo, a Renault city car (1992-present). The name was created from "twist," "swing," and "tango." Not to be confused with TwinGo, a baby carrier for twins.
August 28, 2021
tankhughes commented on the word turduckenym
Term proposed by Fritinancy (Nancy Friedman) in August 2021 for three-part blends, itself a four-part blend:
https://twitter.com/Fritinancy/status/1431298097246707720
turkey-duck-chicken-nym
August 28, 2021
tankhughes commented on the word Comirnaty
https://gulfnews.com/world/why-is-pfizer-biontechs-covid-19-vaccine-called-comirnaty-in-europe-1.1609318713481
"The vaccine will be marketed in the EU under the brand name Comirnaty, which represents a combination of the terms COVID-19, mRNA, community and immunity, to highlight the first authorization of a messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine, as well as the joint global efforts that made this achievement possible with unprecedented rigor and efficiency, and with safety at the forefront, during this global pandemic."
August 28, 2021
tankhughes commented on the word orison
ooooo, related to oration, but not kyrie eleison (which means "Lord, have mercy").
June 4, 2021
tankhughes commented on the word air bridge
a UK pandemic word
"Air bridges are a concept proposed by a few countries in Europe to allow air travel between each other without a two-week quarantine at each destination. They would ‘bridge’ the gap between higher-risk counties, and allow tourism to flourish.
The plan will mean that tourists, for example, will be able to fly away for a weekend without having to stay locked in a hotel for two weeks at their destination. The same would be true on the return trip too."
https://simpleflying.com/what-are-air-bridges/
June 4, 2021
tankhughes commented on the word hyflex
This is a clipped compound that came out of the pandemic meaning "hybrid-flexible", related to remote/adapted educational strategies.
June 4, 2021
tankhughes commented on the word levidrome
This is a proposed madeupical term for a word that, when spelled backwards, creates a different word like stop and pots or stressed and desserts.
Levi- is eponymous for the kid creator of the term, and -drome is from palindrome.
https://www.levidromelist.com/
June 3, 2021
tankhughes commented on the word tediferous
From @HaggardHawks on Twitter today: A TEDIFEROUS statue is one carrying a torch.
May 22, 2021
tankhughes commented on the list abbreviations-that-start-in-the-middle
"it" used to be spelled "hit" (OE) but lost the h because it's so often in an unstressed place.
April 28, 2021
tankhughes commented on the word trixic
New term to me. Can describe nonbinary attraction/relationships.
https://www.reddit.com/r/TransyTalk/comments/kiwqnu/terms_trixic_and_toric/
-trix from the Latin fem. suffix, -tor from the Latin masc. suffix.
April 27, 2021
tankhughes commented on the word toric
New term to me. Can describe nonbinary attraction/relationships.
https://www.reddit.com/r/TransyTalk/comments/kiwqnu/terms_trixic_and_toric/
-trix from the Latin fem. suffix, -tor from the Latin masc. suffix.
April 27, 2021
tankhughes commented on the list words-that-are-pig-latin-and-also-english-s9CHF2M_W3a
If you have h-dropping (aitch- dropping) like in a Cockney type dialect, can add highway (why), hallway (wall), hooray (rue), holiday (dolly), headway (wed), and hearsay (sear).
April 15, 2021
tankhughes commented on the word like oil and water
Idiom meaning that two things will not mix together (without agitation) https://cee.mit.edu/eric-adams-wins-the-ig-nobel-prize-in-chemistry/
January 21, 2021
tankhughes commented on the word cheese and crackers
This is a minced oath. For... Jesus Christ I think?
January 21, 2021
tankhughes commented on the list ch-sounds-like-k-words-QedxLaOCfsn
@tankhughes it's kuh-thonic, so I think it counts.
January 21, 2021
tankhughes commented on the list two-ingredient-phrases-LMVLHuH_tt
Seersucker means milk and sugar, referring to the opposing visuals and textures of the two stripes in seersucker fabric.
January 21, 2021
tankhughes commented on the word trinonym
Hmm, I'm trying to figure out the difference between this and a tautological compound: https://twitter.com/HaggardHawks/status/1338982875090329602
December 16, 2020
tankhughes commented on the word Yggdrasil
Well now I'm confused. On Etymonline, it said the Ygg part was Odin, and drasil was horse. Here it says it's terrible + hanging tree. Oof. What's going on here?
December 3, 2020
tankhughes commented on the list ch-sounds-like-k-words-QedxLaOCfsn
chthonic seems to just totally omit the ch part?
June 18, 2020
tankhughes commented on the list rh-words-WzH1iYTsgFV
rh(oea) means to flow in Greek. Also Greek: myrrh, rhotic, catarrh
A lot of rh- words are German.
And then a boatload of English compounds cuz gosh I love compounds.
June 18, 2020
tankhughes commented on the list periodic-element-words-RjpBvXwtvnHn
The letters that stand on their own are: B C F H I K O N P S U V W Y
the words i made with those are:
BONK
CHICK
CLOCK
FISH
FUCK
HIPPO
ICON
KNOCK
PICK
PINK
PONY
PSYCHIC
SPOCK
SPUNK
US
VOUCH
VOW
WISH
YOU
Greek letters: CHI KSI NU PHI PI PSI
May 31, 2020
tankhughes commented on the list whats-my-favorite-word
Mrs. Tiggywinkle
April 13, 2020
tankhughes commented on the word YARD SARD
Just know that I love priming, and YARD SARD is such a sweet simple example of it when people try to write YARD SALE in big block letters. Two four letter words back to back with an A in the 2nd place somehow leads to a lot of fun variants: https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1274514-alignment-charts
October 25, 2019
tankhughes commented on the word 'pose
"Where the hell my phone? Where the hell my phone? Where the hell my Where the hell my phone? How I'm 'pose to get home?" - Phone by Lizzo
August 22, 2019
tankhughes commented on the word PEBCAK
I've only seen this as PEBKAC but this makes sense as a variation.
July 31, 2019
tankhughes commented on the word Word
Pretty fantastic that Word with a capital W means the Bible, the Word of God, or Microsoft Word XD
July 17, 2019
tankhughes commented on the list your-mailchimp-randomly-selected-word-from-the-dictionary
I need to add words from episode 91 - 101 but I'm having permissions issue with pages I made as tankhughes vs TankHughes right now.
Words to add: quillet, liripipe (liripoop), floruit, thridace, cancrine, ostrakon (ostracon), almacantar (almucantar), embouchure, scytale, halteres, purfle, utricle
June 29, 2019
tankhughes commented on the word rage-quit
I think rage is a noun here, though I originally thought it could go on my verb-verb list. (https://www.wordnik.com/lists/verb-verbs. The only other similar emotion-verb compound I can think of right now is gladhanding.
June 26, 2019
tankhughes commented on the word brass neck
https://medium.com/@ChrisMcQueer/class-fd36e8dc35ad
Scottish writer Chris McQueer used it in a piece called Class:
"My upbringing has made it easier for me to have a bit of a brass neck and shout about my work when some other writers might feel it’s a bit crass or a bit of a riddy."
June 4, 2019
tankhughes commented on the word LuLaRoe
LuLaRoe is a clothing company named after 3 granddaughters: Lucy, Lola, and Monroe. The company is pyramid scheme-adjacent: https://youtu.be/L6eujSJ0-RU
May 31, 2019
tankhughes commented on the list whats-my-favorite-word
Remind me to add category fight when I can.
May 29, 2019
TankHughes commented on the word help
Help! is a 1965 movie starring the Beatles.
May 12, 2019
TankHughes commented on the word First
First!
This is a capitonym for internet comment pride. I couldn't be first on first or this, but heck yeah I"m first on First.
Who's on First? ME.
April 15, 2019
TankHughes commented on the word first
Awwww, I just saw the first comment for this and I thought I could be "First! on first, but no.
April 15, 2019
TankHughes commented on the word pomary
According to @HaggardHawks on April 11, 2019, a pomary is an orchard or an apple grove.
April 12, 2019
TankHughes commented on the list three-toed-portmanteaus
Canola is "Canada oil, low acid" ?!
November 8, 2018
TankHughes commented on the word milkshake duck
I really like duckshake milk as as the reverse. It's a stupid fun concept.
November 8, 2018
TankHughes commented on the word moonmoon
In reference to the meme Moon Moon, the stupidest possible wolf. It came from a name generator in which you use your first and last initial to create your "werewolf name" and people with the initials "PW" would get Moon Moon as the full name. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/moon-moon
November 1, 2018
TankHughes commented on the list stars--1
Related: space idioms: https://twitter.com/E_Briannica/status/1057003921904812032
October 29, 2018
TankHughes commented on the word y'all'd've'f'I'd've
Surprisingly easy to say. Something like... yolladiffeyediv.yolladoveifeyedove.
October 24, 2018
TankHughes commented on the word barouche
I learned this term from this video of comedian Paul F Tompkins as Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber doing audio commentary for the 1925 silent film version of the Phantom of the Opera. http://paulftompkins.com/post/178657191289/paul-f-tompkinss-andrew-lloyd-webbers-the
Starting around 1hour 19 minutes in this video, he doesn't know what barouche means when it comes up in the title card, so he uses it in every possibly context.
October 3, 2018
TankHughes commented on the word anarthria
I love you, qms.
September 26, 2018
TankHughes commented on the word palabrarium
I don't know this term. Palabra means word in Spanish. A place for words?
August 28, 2018
TankHughes commented on the word sphericon
https://youtu.be/wb29-ULRBaE
"A device for generating a meandering motion."
July 16, 2018
TankHughes commented on the word washbear
This is a translation of raccoon in several languages.
I like it because someone suggested to me that it might be a cutthroat compound.
Tragically, it's not the case. It's a bear-type animal known for washing its food (see sad video of raccoon waashing cotton candy and having it disappear :( ).
I wish. I WISH. it were an animal who washed bears, but it's not. Only then would it be a cutthroat construction.
July 12, 2018
TankHughes commented on the word cum gutters
This really makes my iliac furrow.
July 6, 2018
TankHughes commented on the word roadhead
The literature examples on this page seem to be about the equivalent of a trailhead and the tweets are about blowjobs in a car (moving or not moving). I don't see examples of either on road head with a space.
July 6, 2018
TankHughes commented on the list abbreviations-that-start-in-the-middle
also the feck in feckless is a Scots shortening of effect.
https://mashedradish.com/2018/06/01/what-is-the-feck-in-feckless/
June 1, 2018
TankHughes commented on the word jackalope
My tired good friend just posited that jackalope = jackfruit + cantaloupe.
May 11, 2018
TankHughes commented on the word cuttoe
Are you a [honetically misparsed French word that became a cutthroat in English? I hope so, cutttoe. (See Example)
April 16, 2018
TankHughes commented on the word Makaton
"The name "Makaton" is derived from the first letters of the names of three speech and language therapists who helped devise the programme in the 1970s: the researcher Margaret Walker, and Katharine Johnston and Tony Cornforth, colleagues from the Royal Association for Deaf people.4" - Makaton Wikipedia page.
March 8, 2018
TankHughes commented on the word one-eyed snake
Euphemism for penis.
February 26, 2018
TankHughes commented on the list triple-anagrams
stop, opts, pots, post.
This goes through my head at most stop signs.
February 6, 2018
TankHughes commented on the word mythtaken
This originally came from the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode A New Man (2000). Fourth season, twelfth episode.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0533384/quotes
Professor Maggie Walsh: So, the Slayer!
Buffy: Yeah. That's me.
Professor Maggie Walsh: We thought you were a myth.
Buffy: Well, you were myth-taken
January 29, 2018
TankHughes commented on the word nurse name
On pg 28 of this surname book, the footnote says "Popkiss may be derived from some " nurse name in the same way."
English Surnames: An Essay on Family Nomenclature, Historical ..., Volume 2
By Mark Antony Lowe
https://books.google.com/books?id=Bj8nAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA29&dq=conquergood+surname&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjcyNbf_-_YAhUQ5WMKHR46DesQ6AEILjAB#v=onepage&q=conquergood%20surname&f=false
I don't know why the quotation mark is used before nurse name and I don't know what nurse name means and googling it just gets me a list of famous nurses.
January 24, 2018
TankHughes commented on the word outsized
Twitter released a statement about not blocking or deleting world leader accounts. January 5, 2018:
"Elected world leaders play a critical role in that conversation because of their outsized impact on our society."
https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/949389322255519744
January 5, 2018
TankHughes commented on the word qobar
You're the best, qms.
January 2, 2018
TankHughes commented on the word qobar
http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html January 2018
"Q. In the early 1930s, my grandmother won a citywide crossword puzzle contest in New York City, earning the $1,000 prize at a time when money was tight. The winning word was qobar, a word that no longer appears in even unabridged dictionaries. Once a word is a word, isn’t it always a word?
A. Yes. But so far, there has never been a dictionary that listed all the words. There are too many words! One of the standards that lexicographers use when deciding which words to delete to make way for new ones is whether a word is actually used very often in a meaningful way. At least one online dictionary, Wordnik, has a goal of listing all the words available. Qobar isn’t listed there yet—maybe you should send it!"
January 2, 2018
TankHughes commented on the word batrachian
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-globalized-jitters-penny Nov 2017
"The gurning batrachian monster that crawled out of the mordant id of mass society to squat in the Oval Office was a symptom of our collective neurosis before he was a cause."
November 28, 2017
TankHughes commented on the word gurning
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-globalized-jitters-penny
Nov 2017
"The gurning batrachian monster that crawled out of the mordant id of mass society to squat in the Oval Office was a symptom of our collective neurosis before he was a cause."
November 28, 2017
TankHughes commented on the word hipster racism
Used by @zinziclemmons in a Nov 19 2017 tweet to describe Lena Dunham and people in her social circles who use sarcasm to cover up racism.
Tweet: https://twitter.com/zinziclemmons/status/932200880975286273
November 21, 2017
TankHughes commented on the word pomicide
"Ashes 2015: 'It's Pomicide' - world reacts to Australia's collapse"
Australia cricket team was trounced by British but I don't get the pomicide reference.
October 25, 2017
TankHughes commented on the word hugeous
NOT my last name but pretty close.
Brain hugeous.
September 19, 2017
TankHughes commented on the word taints
This is covered more on the singular taint page, but taints could mean 3 things:
Verb: to taint, to poison, to sully
Noun: body part: skin between genitals and anus (perimneum). (Possibly from contraction meaning).
Contraction: it ain't. "'taint what you do, it's the way that you do it."
September 12, 2017
TankHughes commented on the word chalupa
Hi alexz. It's a Mexican dish that most Americans know through the Taco Bell bastard version (that's kind of like a taco but made with fried dough).
September 11, 2017
TankHughes commented on the user MrBluestone
Hi!
September 11, 2017
TankHughes commented on the word heel
I recently realized that the heel that they mention in "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" is the same as the wrestling heel.
August 31, 2017
TankHughes commented on the word yous
Of course it's a word! It has sound and meaning. And it serves several functions in English:
In the phrase "yous guys," it seems to decline so it matches its noun, I think that's sweet.
Also appears at the end of syntactically frozen phrases like "all the i love yous."
Also has a distinct ability to declare that someone is not unique and there are many of that person as in "there's a million of yous, there's only one of me." (Kanye West - Stronger)
August 22, 2017
TankHughes commented on the word guapo
He is right. alexz. It's Spanish for handsome. The villain in Three Amigos is "El Guapo."
August 21, 2017
TankHughes commented on the user Giovy
enough already! :)
August 7, 2017
TankHughes commented on the word helpfuler
"This page is helpfuler than I thought it would be." - friend I told about Wordnik.
August 3, 2017
TankHughes commented on the user QPheevr
Welcome over here, QPheevr!
July 20, 2017
TankHughes commented on the list engendered-words
See also: Dragon Bro comics by Floccinaucinihilifilipication on tumblr: http://floccinaucinihilipilificationa.tumblr.com/tagged/dragon-bros
June 30, 2017
TankHughes commented on the word green cake
Bricks made from ashes in Gaza: http://www.palestinechronicle.com/rising-from-ruins-gazas-engineers-use-ashes-to-make-bricks/
June 17, 2017
TankHughes commented on the word blep
See also: mlem
June 5, 2017
TankHughes commented on the word blep
The esteemed WeRateDogs twitter account uses blep like that: https://twitter.com/dog_rates/status/809448704142938112
Someone said blep is for cats only but WeRateDogs is having none of it: https://twitter.com/dog_rates/status/809491597121507328
June 5, 2017
TankHughes commented on the word blep
For internet dogs, I think it's about when dogs stick their tongues out just a little bit, like they forgot to pull it back in before closing their mouth.
June 5, 2017
TankHughes commented on the list tautologies
aiding and abetting assault and battery primping and preening ?
May 18, 2017
TankHughes commented on the word blackguard
A term that Joyce uses in Ulysses to describe villainous men but also in erotic letters to his wife: https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2017/05/08/fuckbird-cockstand-and-frigging-some-annotations-of-james-joyces-erotic-letters-to-his-wife-nora-barnacle/
May 8, 2017
TankHughes commented on the word Slacklash
backlash against the group messaging app Slack. http://www.slacklash.com/
May 2, 2017
TankHughes commented on the word cuddle death
When a queen bee is old or diseased, the worker bees huddle around here and overheat her to death. This is known as cuddle death.
http://www.ilknowledge.com/2013/10/worker-bees-will-cuddle-old-queen-bee.html
I think it's true? But either way, a good phrase.
April 22, 2017
TankHughes commented on the word grammando
I think Kory said it because she (and I) recently attended ACES in Florida and Anne Curzan in her keynote speech, used the term grammando. Curzan has used it for years.
http://www.chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/2015/10/13/going-grammando/
It's a proposed alternative to grammar nazi. I'd like to disassociate asshole pedants from state-funded murderers, ao I use it a bit and hope it catches on.
April 21, 2017
TankHughes commented on the word gum golem
A nickname for 2017 US Press Secretary Sean Spicer.
April 14, 2017
TankHughes commented on the word Youngledore
The news that Young Pope actor Jude Law will be playing a younger version of Dumbledore in the upcoming Fantastic Beasts movie: https://twitter.com/i/moments/852216936133836800
April 12, 2017
TankHughes commented on the word nut graph
See: nut paragraph
March 21, 2017
TankHughes commented on the word nut paragraph
As explained in Writing Tools by Roy Peter Clark, a nut paragraph answers the "so what?" question for the reader.
Also nut graph
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nut_graph
March 21, 2017
TankHughes commented on the word rise and shine it's time to make the doughnuts
*eats a chocolate old-fashioned* good idea, bilby.
March 17, 2017
TankHughes commented on the word Black Flag
An American punk rock band.
March 10, 2017
TankHughes commented on the word amastous
nippleless
March 7, 2017
TankHughes commented on the word sequela
Raynaud's phenomenon is often a sequela.
March 3, 2017
TankHughes commented on the word sologamy
http://mikepope.com/blog/DisplayBlog.aspx?permalink=2532
March 3, 2017
TankHughes commented on the word cheese dream
I would guess it's an allusion to Dicken's A Christmas Carol when Scrooge tries to explain Marley away:
"“You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!”"
February 22, 2017
TankHughes commented on the word InCoWriMo
Short for International Correspondence Writing Month: http://incowrimo.org/
Every February
February 21, 2017
TankHughes commented on the word shitgibbon compound
Shitgibbon was used in a presidential insult tweet: "Hey @realDonaldTrump I oppose civil asset forfeiture too! Why don't you try to destroy my career you fascist, loofa-faced, shit-gibbon!"
shitgibbon is an example of a shitgibbon compound.
http://allthingslinguistic.com/post/157210818652/the-orgin-and-constraints-of-shitgibbon
February 18, 2017
TankHughes commented on the word GUBU
An acronym short for "grotesque, unbelievable, bizarre, unprecedented."
Not military slang as I first suspected.
Based off of this quote by then Taoiseach (prime minister) of Ireland, Charles Haughe, in 1945: "It was a bizarre happening, an unprecedented situation, a grotesque situation, an almost unbelievable mischance."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUBU
February 10, 2017
TankHughes commented on the word mofenguin
Fake food item proposed by David Ortiz (Kenan Thompson) that's like a turducken but with mofongo, chicken, and a penguin.
From Kristen Stewart SNL episode Feb 4, 2017 during the Weekend Update segment.
February 9, 2017
TankHughes commented on the word plastron
You get em, qms. Sub-limerick the bastard.
February 8, 2017
TankHughes commented on the word coutour
I think you're thinking of couture, pumpumrock. Good definition.
February 8, 2017
TankHughes commented on the list noun-verbs
It seems like a lot of these are backformations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_back-formations
February 3, 2017
TankHughes commented on the word Lawcast
See the comments about Lawcast on WordSmith2099's page: https://wordnik.com/users/WordSmith2099
January 30, 2017
TankHughes commented on the word Trivago
No one has publicly verified the intended meaning of this company name.
Two websites talking about branding think it is "Trip(s), Vacation, Go"
http://www.rewindandcapture.com/why-is-trivago-called-trivago/
https://www.namerobot.com/All-about-naming/tips-for-naming/start-up-names-pro-contra-fantasy-names.html
January 24, 2017
TankHughes commented on the word LGBTQIA
A for asexual/aromantic.
People who identify as asexual sometimes abbreviate that to ace.
People who identify as aromantic sometimes abbreviate that to aro.
January 23, 2017
TankHughes commented on the word tinhatting
In this example, someone in a fandom (BBC Sherlock) who believes something strongly, even though they know they'll be treated like a wigged-out conspiracy theorist. http://221behavior.tumblr.com/post/155972809187/i-believe-in-bbc-sherlock
January 17, 2017
TankHughes commented on the word golden shower
Comes from a Greek myth where Zeus appeared to a woman as golden rain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana%C3%AB :/
January 11, 2017
TankHughes commented on the word LRT
LRT on Twitter is short for "last retweet." Meaning that they simply
retweeted something without comment, but then wanted to comment on it
after
Tweet 1: A picture
Tweet 2: LRT it me
January 6, 2017
TankHughes commented on the word fuckyouitiveness
As said about Alexander Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda on his episode of Drunk History (2016). https://twitter.com/Lin_Manuel/status/803892779889922048
January 6, 2017
TankHughes commented on the word fuck-you-itiveness
As said about Alexander Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda on his episode of Drunk History (2016). https://twitter.com/Lin_Manuel/status/803892779889922048
January 6, 2017
TankHughes commented on the word monkey puzzle tree
Sometimes also called puzzle monkey tree, which might be a cutthroat compound - a tree that would puzzle a monkey.
January 3, 2017
TankHughes commented on the word pisang
took me a second, ruzuzu, but it was worth it.
December 29, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word euphemia
A baby was born on December 24, 2016 and now has Euphemia as her middle name.
December 27, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word fingermouthing
https://www.buzzfeed.com/katienotopoulos/fingermouthing-is-the-new-hot-pose-for-selfies?utm_term=.miKYr7qYV8#.gcywQlmwnA
December 20, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word festive crime
This is a whispered term.
There is a tree near my suburban childhood home that is in the middle of the road surrounded by a 2 foot circular brick wall. Growing up, there was a much larger tree in that place, but several years ago it fell over. My mother cried, she thought they had cut it down on purpose. The city replaced it with a young tree with a sturdy trunk but not many branches.
I decided that it looked sad, especially when its leaves fell off in winter. So I concocted festive crime, in which my mother and I brought oversized ornaments, bows, and boas of tinsel and hung them in the tree around midnight a few days before Christmas.
We've done it for a few years now. Not sure it will happen this year. It's a fun term to whisper.
December 13, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word kulning
Just saw this video of kulning by Swedish person Jonna Jinton.
https://youtu.be/6fglBL7eQIA
December 11, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word buttwoman
buttwoman also means fishwife: http://tankhughes.com/?p=983
December 7, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word cherpumple
cherry+pumpkin+apple pie.
December 6, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word Morzouksnick
Name of a comedy show with Seth Morris, Jason Mantzoukas and Nick Kroll. It's a clipped compound. MOR-ZOUKS-NICK.
December 6, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word banhammer
I've been told that this is very 1999 slang, and that my colleague prefers the slightly more recent 2000s version, b&, pronounced bampersand.
November 23, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word contranym
For more examples, look at this list: https://wordnik.com/lists/contranyms--1
November 23, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word Raxacoricofallapatorius
It's the fictional planet where those gassy, baby-faced aliens come from in Doctor Who. (Season 1 of New Who).
November 14, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word cow-lady
What's going on with you, lady-birds. Why you called lady-cow sometimes?
November 14, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word faithless elector
I'm putting this here as a historical record and also a hope-filled persuasive argument. I will remove if it violates community standards:
"I know it has its own complicated consequences, but I STRONGLY ENCOURAGE YOU to persuade 20+ members of the electoral college to switch their votes away from Drumpf.
https://www.change.org/p/electoral-college-electors-electoral-college-make-hillary-clinton-president-on-december-19
Sign the petition, but more importantly, CALL THEM. Write them. Offer to pay for their fines.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GlTW_UKpRg3l3qrkObP62PZgWB87QTuIH7TCMbRtFak/edit
If Drumpf and everyone he's assembling get into office, 2020 will be too late.
http://time.com/4560682/faithless-electors/"
November 13, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word faithless elector
You're my only hope.
November 13, 2016
TankHughes commented on the list disgusting-words-2
This is an interesting list because most word aversion involves bodily function aversion. This list seems like an aversion to doing a lot of work in your mouth (except maybe intimate). It's refreshing.
November 10, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word hygge
Lost to Brexit for Collins Word of the Year 2016: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/nov/03/brexit-named-word-of-the-year-ahead-of-trumpism-and-hygge?CMP=share_btn_tw
November 3, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word hollop
Paging qms or other poet for hollop-based limerick. Request from Twitter: https://twitter.com/GillHoffs/status/792865904598118401
October 31, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word tea-like
Are there any greek/latin adjectives describing something that is tea-like? Like nimbiform, vulpine, cretaceous?
October 30, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word dek
so dek and lede are both editorial nicknames that are spelled differently to denote their technical journalistic meaning. OK.
October 24, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word countroversy
Most examples are misspelling of controversy.
October 24, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word coreligionist
More legible as co-religionist.
October 24, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word contraremonstrance
Also contra-remonstrance.
October 24, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word consequentalist
Misspelling of consequentialist.
October 24, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word conquetoon
Another name for a grimme, which is a West African antelope.
October 24, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word congent
Misspelling of cogent mostly, in the examples.
October 24, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word conflageration
Misspelling of conflagration.
October 24, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word condesceusion
Misspelling of condescension?
October 24, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word commonism
Also misspelling of communism.
October 23, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word collabrate
Misspelling of colloborate.
October 23, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word coenamor
Misspelling of coenamour.
October 23, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word cocheneal
Misspelling of cochineal.
October 23, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word outdoo
Typo of outdoor or outdoors?
October 22, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word ordasity
Misspelling of audacity.
October 22, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word oppty
Abbreviation of opportunity in tweets and newspaper ads.
October 22, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word ophidaphobic
Misspelling of ophidiophobic?
October 22, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word ontophony
Misspelling of ontophany.
October 22, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word ontodote
Misspelling of odontode?
October 22, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word ongong
Misspelling of ongoing.
October 22, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word oenopole
MORE LIKE WINE CELLAR, AMIRIGHT?
October 22, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word nuncmillennialism
nunc millennialism
October 21, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word numismastist
See numismatist.
October 21, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word nullipary
nulliparity?
October 21, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word nudgocracy
http://brendanoneill.co.uk/archives April 2012 article says it.
October 21, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word nubivagent
Misspelling of nubivagant.
October 21, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word nostritch
Then wouldn't it be nostrich? Neither has citations outside of the previous comment.
October 20, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word noscible
Some example are hypyhen line breaks on cognoscible.
October 20, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word nooked
either nuked or part of a larger phrase like three-nooked or four-nooked.
October 20, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word noctivagent
Misspelling of noctivagant?
October 20, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word nitpik
Misspelling of nitpick.
October 20, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word niggest
Is this a superlative of the slur, or a misspelling of biggest?
October 20, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word nerfin
short for nerfing, which often describes game characters or powers that were OP (overpowered) in previous versions/editions/games that have now been underpowered or nerfed.
October 20, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word neogism
Misspelling of neologism?
October 20, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word narrishkeit
Yiddish term.
October 20, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word garrilous
Misspelling of garrulous.
October 20, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word nabubugnot
Tagalog word.
October 20, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word mucilagenous
mucilaginous?
October 19, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word mophobia
Line break on homophobia.
October 19, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word mootch
mooch
October 19, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word monopolytourism
monopoly tourism
October 19, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word moeity
Misspelling of moiety.
October 19, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word mitsake
Misspelling of mistake. Seems intentional often for. Irony? For humor.
October 19, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word misshappen
Misspelling of misshapen.
October 19, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word ministic
Line breaks with deterministic or maybe monastic misspelling.
October 19, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word milktoast
Mostly misspelling of milquetoast but might refer to milk toast.
October 19, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word firstable
An eggcorn for first of all. What an adorably adoptable eggcorn.
October 19, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word meliturgy
Wouldn't it be double L like mellifluous?
October 18, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word mehrong
Korean word.
October 18, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word house-proud
Has anyone made a list of post-positive adjectives? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postpositive_adjective Someone ought to.
October 17, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word mababaw
Tagalog word.
October 16, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word lupanare
Pompeii brothel?
October 16, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word luminence
luminance
October 16, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word lojtra
Slovenian word?
October 16, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word linimaly
liminal? liminally?
October 16, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word limarin
Limarin is a drug.
October 16, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word levearage
Misspelling of leverage.
October 16, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word leucocytozoans
leucocytozoons?
October 16, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word letcherers
Mostly meant as lecherers or lecturers but it also seems like an old spelling of lecherer as in lechery.
October 16, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word lession
Misspelling of lesson or lesion.
October 16, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word leitwortstil
German "leading-word style" "was coined by Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzweig and applied to the field of Biblical textual studies."
October 16, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word legup
Variant of leg up or leg-up.
October 16, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word ledasha
Racist urban legend that a black woman named her child "Le-a" pronounced "Ledasha."
October 16, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word lechita
Spanish word, dimunutive of leche meaning milk.
October 16, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word latigables
Spanish word.
October 16, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word kulseyo
Hard-to-translate Korean word.
October 16, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word kubrikian
Misspelling of Kubrickian or kubrickian.
October 16, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word klabauter
See klabautermann?
October 16, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word kergymatic
Misspelling of kerygmatic.
October 16, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word kergyma
Misspelling of Greek kerygma.
October 16, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word kaibash
Misspelling of kibosh.
October 16, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word juvescence
Also juvenescence.
October 16, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word ipsism
Related to Latin ipse, which is a reflective pronoun or something like that.
October 16, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word iontopheresis
Misspelling of iontophoresis.
October 16, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word involiable
Misspelling of inviolable.
October 16, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word interfation
interfaction misspelling?
October 16, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word inicimal
Misspellin of inimical, enemy-like.
October 16, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word infradig
Short for infra dig or infra dignitatem, a Latin phrase meaning "beneath one's dignity."
October 16, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word indumental
Misspelling of indumetal?
October 16, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word incohate
Misspelling of inchoate?
October 16, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word incantory
Misspelling of incantatory.
October 16, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word inastatic
Misspelling of anastatic?
October 16, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word implusive
Misspelling of impulsive.
October 16, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word imperturability
Misspelling of imperturbability I think.
October 16, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word impedement
Misspelling of impediment.
October 16, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word ideodialect
I hear this more often as idiolect.
October 15, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word stunt on
stunting (without on) appears in Katy Perry song "This is How We Do" https://youtu.be/7RMQksXpQSk
"Straight stuntin' ya we do it like that"
October 13, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word hypokeimenal
Related to hypokeimenon?
October 13, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word hypnogogia
Misspelling of hypnagogia?
October 13, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word hydrophic
hydropic or hydrophobic ?
October 12, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word hullabalo
Misspelling of hullabaloo.
October 12, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word hootnanny
Variant of hootenanny ?
October 12, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word hoolegenism
Misspelling of hooliganism.
October 12, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word glottonaut
Proposed word from linguisten.de Tumblr account:
:A glottonaut is someone exploring languages without necessarily acquiring them (thereby becoming a polyglot). Most people doing linguistic typology can be considered glottonauts."
October 12, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word headness
Seems to be mostly a ellisive misspelling of the suffix headedness.
October 11, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word kittentits
From "A Softer World" comic: http://asofterworld.com/index.php?id=152
October 11, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word hatshag
sometimes short for racist sexual term Mexican hat shag. mostly a misspelling of hashtag.
October 11, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word halevai
Yiddish word meaning if only; "Would that it be so".
October 11, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word gürültülü
Turkish.
October 11, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word grelots
grelot means tiny bell in French but also refers to a type of onion.
October 10, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word gooksu
Korean food name. Also written as guksu.
October 10, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word glof
Most examples are misspellings of golf.
October 10, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word gimrack
misspelling of gimcrack?
October 10, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word fungibleu
Where mushrooms go to college?
October 10, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word fungibleu
Misspelling of fungible?
October 10, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word fubmiffion
long s spelling of submission
October 9, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word frustrule
Misspelling of frustule
October 9, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word frission
Misspelling of frisson?
October 9, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word frenchifryied
frenchifried
October 9, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word Trump Sunlight Campaign
https://www.gofundme.com/sunlightfund
October 9, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word foupe
A mountweazel?
"This ghost word appears in Samuel Johnson's 1755 dictionary. It is defined as "To drive with a sudden impetuosity. A word out of use."
The last part of the definition is certainly right. It was never in use. This is a misreading of soupe (due to the long s character used in those days), a dialect form of swoop." http://everything2.com/title/foupe
October 9, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word fog-bow
Also written as fogbow or fog bow.
October 9, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word fluxuate
Misspelling of fluctuate?
October 9, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word floresce
Misspelled backformation from flourescent. See fluoresce.
October 9, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word fiuviatile
Misspelling of fluviatile.
October 9, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word fireflower
In the video game Super Mario Bros., this is spelled fire flower.
October 9, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word filky
long s confusion? Do the examples mean silky?
October 9, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word fire-meat
Literal translation of Korean food bulgogi.
October 9, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word filfot
Variant spelling of fylfot meaning swastika?
October 9, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word ficticious
Misspelling of fictitious.
October 9, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word fibrouse
Misspelling of fibrous.
October 9, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word fastiduous
Misspelling of fastidious.
October 9, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word fastedious
Misspelling of fastidious.
October 9, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word farkakte
Variant spelling of verkakte.
October 9, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word fa-reezing
emphasized variant of freezing.
October 9, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word expulcate
Maybe misspelling of exculpate?
October 9, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word explick
unable to explain -> inexplicable -> explick
Backformation of the verb from the adjective.
October 9, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word exopthalmic
Misspelling of exophthalmic.
October 9, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word exhuberance
Misspelling of exuberance.
October 9, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word exequator
Misspelling of exequatur?
October 9, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word euxenic
Misspelling of euxinic.
October 9, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word escoymous
Anglo-French relative of squeamish.
October 9, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word equinimity
Misspelling of equanimity?
October 9, 2016
TankHughes commented on the word ephermeral
Misspelling of ephemeral.
October 9, 2016
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