Welcome, alexz

alexz commented on the word broligarch

Tech-Bro oligarch.

December 20, 2024

alexz commented on the word chalked

I wonder if Chalked comes from old mid 20th century cartoons and tv shows where a chalk outline refers to a body from a murder scene.

December 17, 2024

alexz commented on the word LOML

Spotted on some local artwork after a Taylor Swift concert... it looks like LOML means 'Love Of My Life'

December 17, 2024

alexz commented on the word multisolves

Spotted in Urban Planning social media.

https://bsky.app/profile/brenttoderian.bsky.social/post/3lcvc3t3dpc2o

":IMPORTANT: Investing in protected bike-lane infrastructure “multisolves” (or at least multisupports) many of our big urban challenges at the same time. It’s a great term — any smart urbanism is constantly

#multisolving

. ..."

December 10, 2024

alexz commented on the word barndominium

blend of Barn and Condominium. An industrial barn with living quarters sectioned off.

spotted in a youtube video.

a quick search shows others use this term.

December 4, 2024

alexz commented on the word shedominium

spotted as an storage shed with space for living.

spotted online when looking up examples for barndominium

December 4, 2024

alexz commented on the word Santacopter

spotted in the news - :Santacopter brings Jolly Old St. Nick

November 30, 2024

alexz commented on the word jarlic

Is it pronounced with a soft G or a hard J?

November 19, 2024

alexz commented on the word dragged

Dragged has a meaning on Social media...

Example "RFK Jr. Dragged Over Cringey Photo Of Him Eating McDonald's With Musk, Trump And Don Jr."

November 19, 2024

alexz commented on the word top of the ticket

Seen this term used for people who voted for their presidential candidate, and none of the other choices. just voting 'top of the ticket'

November 16, 2024

alexz commented on the word Xiism

That's good work for your students putting this word together as an exercise.

October 30, 2024

alexz commented on the word ancient lights

spotted in a video about London. 'Ancient Lights' refers to signs in London which indicate that the window is used for natural light, and that they have a legal right to further use of that light in the future. It can prevent buildings from blocking a window, or trees from blocking the light.

October 15, 2024

alexz commented on the word Gegagedigedagedago

'touching grass' is going outside and actually touching nature and is what people do instead of getting stuck in an internet rabbit hole which goes back to the origins of Cotton Eyed Joe in the 1860s, to the skibidy toilet lsd AI which is the Meme

October 9, 2024

alexz commented on the word Gegagedigedagedago

Today I got an email from the American Dialect Society for 'word of the year nominations'

I'm sure 'touch grass' and 'hauk tuah' will likely be discussed, with 'touch grass' likely winning. but

THIS word to me is the most interesting of 2024, likely not to win, but the most interesting in that it's from the new generation of people who create whacky AI lsd trips of videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=693d5IJmXLo

October 8, 2024

alexz commented on the word the panini

spotted as a nickname for 'the pandemic'

September 28, 2024

alexz commented on the word beginning of the panini

'beginning of the panini' refers to 'beginning of the pandemic'

spotted online on mastodon... and did a phrase search on google to see other people using this term

September 28, 2024

alexz commented on the word granulometry

spotted in a sales video referring to the properties of material hauled in rail cars. They look just like the images section below.

September 25, 2024

alexz commented on the word softwares

I recently saw an ad which mentioned 'not needing five or more softwares'.. and thought it was an isolated typo.... then recently saw another example of adding an s at the end of 'software'.

Wordnik's example pages makes it seem as if 'softwares' has been around since 2009.

Myself, I don't 'like' this formation because it's 'different' and doesn't 'sound right' , but the language is written by the next generation, so it's up to them to decide if this is their grammar.

The 'examples' at Wordnik, seem to have an early citation of 1988 from biology.

September 22, 2024

alexz commented on the word bussin

The next generation's slang word for 'tasty'

September 4, 2024

alexz commented on the word Bleptember

"Happy Bleptember" - Oregon Zoo on BlueSky

Zoos and Aquariums are always there for the punny portmanteaus

September 2, 2024

alexz commented on the word medireview

AI chat result from Claude 3 ""geek speak" or "hacker slang"."

September 2, 2024

alexz commented on the word medireview

Hi Bilby,

I think 'jargon' tends to be a more encompassing word which isn't limited to computers.

One of my favourite jargon words is 'Heisenbug' which is a bug which disappears when you turn debug logging on.

When you get a Heisenbug, you basically get a free clue that the bug is related to timing or race conditions of 2 processes causing a branch.

September 2, 2024

alexz commented on the word phonk

confirmed...Phonk is noise.... it's like they put high quality music through a 1970s boom box and cranked the electronics so that the input signal is clipping and the speakers are rattling beer cans in an old chevette

September 1, 2024

alexz commented on the word Gegagedigedagedago

It's a new meme based on Cotton Eyed Joe.

Apparently the Cotton Eyed Joe song goes back to the 1800s

September 1, 2024

alexz commented on the word nanonana

Physicists would use nanonana for scale

August 25, 2024

alexz commented on the word runza

spotted in the news

"You think he's ever had a runza? You think he's ever had a runza? THAT GUY would call it a hot pocket. YOU KNOW IT! Every one of you in here know it"

Walz -

It's meats stuffed into bread. Nebraska regional term.

August 25, 2024

alexz commented on the word uff da

also spotted as uff-da

more of the Minnesota language

allegedly defined at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itgHq5CyBAM

August 9, 2024

alexz commented on the word ope

also uff da

August 9, 2024

alexz commented on the word ope

spotted this midwestern term trending on Bluesky and Mastodon.

August 9, 2024

alexz commented on the list 2024-woty-research-RBBkUEHcX2DZce0hR98P4

I wonder if 'weird' or 'brat' will be word of the year. Both are US centric.

August 3, 2024

alexz commented on the word CBGB

For the punk rock club CBGB - the letters stand for Country BlueGrass Blues

From the CBGB web article 'history-by-hilly;

August 3, 2024

alexz commented on the word OMFUG

The sign on the CBGB club includes "OMFUG"

"OTHER MUSIC FOR UPLIFTING GOURMANDIZERS"

From the CBGB web site article 'history-by-hilly'

August 3, 2024

alexz commented on the word AI

when I added weird to my 2024 word list, I noticed that its pictures list was populated by 'AI art by sebilden'

I wonder if Wordnik would be better off filtering out 'ai art' , or if that is even practical.

August 3, 2024

alexz commented on the word weird

I wonder if this will be 2024's word of the year... or will it get replaced by another shinier word in the next few weeks.

August 3, 2024

alexz commented on the word brat

In 2024, this term is used in Kamala's presidential campaign.

BBC: "What is Kamala Harris's 'brat' rebrand all about?"

Quoting the article '“You’re just like that girl who is a little messy and likes to party and maybe says some dumb things some times,” Charli explained on social media.

“Who feels like herself but maybe also has a breakdown. But kind of like parties through it, is very honest, very blunt. A little bit volatile

. Like, does dumb things. But it’s brat. You’re brat. That’s brat.” '

BBC - July 21, 2024

July 25, 2024

alexz commented on the word hawk tuah

This refers to spitting. This seems to be a meme in 2024.

I'm not sure when the first cite of this meme is.

July 25, 2024

alexz commented on the word Zynbabwe

Spotted Zynbabwe in a youtube video... in googling what it really means, it is referring to people who use Zyn nicotine patches.

Emily Dreyfuss had an opinion article in the New York Times talking about Zyn, and Zynbabwe

July 23, 2024

alexz commented on the word hail flow

spotted 'hail flow' in a video clip. a quick search also showed this snow/ice term at the Weather channel.

"Otherworldly 'Hail Flow' Looks Like Lava "

In looking at video, it acts more like a mud slide, as it flows like a liquid, but has a bunch of solids in the flow like the hail, dirt, grass, leaves, and twigs.

July 18, 2024

alexz commented on the word taberfuckingnak

Recently read Gretchen's thread on how it's only english swears get infix'ed to make a swear word... Google confirmed that taberfuckinnak exists , but I'm not sure how common it is.

Gretchen's thread on bluesky - https://bsky.app/profile/gretchenmcc.bsky.social/post/3kx4r5obcsw2v

July 13, 2024

alexz commented on the word Chaldic

Also Ancient Greek ... Chaldaicum

July 12, 2024

alexz commented on the word Chaldaicum

In googling this, and trusting google with a latin to english translation.... Ancient Greek

July 12, 2024

alexz commented on the word Belgick

"Low German" spotted in 1627 book of languages by Minsheu

https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Minsh%C3%86i_emendatio_vel_%C3%A0_mendis_expurga/xJxKENUXli0C?hl=en&gbpv=1

July 12, 2024

alexz commented on the user ngocahn

Good day. I hope you like all the words.

July 7, 2024

alexz commented on the word goose poop zamboni

Lines up at the lights... "Little Goose Poop... You don't know what I got"

/song

June 27, 2024

alexz commented on the word abecadarium

In making a joke about 'abecadaria' being a linguists magic word... found a reference to "runica abecedaria" and the "Abecedarium Nordmannicum" - (on wikipedia)

June 24, 2024

alexz commented on the word abecedarian

For the next linguistics magic trick.... Abecadaria!

June 24, 2024

alexz commented on the word goose poop zamboni

Spotted in CBC news "Staff use ‘goose poop zamboni’ in Vancouver parks"

- June 23 article 2024.

added to the Canadianisms list.

June 24, 2024

alexz commented on the word friend shaped

this term is from "If Not Friend, Why Friend-Shaped?"

it was a bit of a meme phrase a few years ago.

Today saw a Scientific American article called '‘If Not Friend, Why Friend-Shaped?’ A Beary Scientific Investigation'

June 12, 2024

alexz commented on the word crowbar

Crows use their curved beaks for leverage. The feet are just regular corvid talons.

On the west coast, they'll open up clams and small crabs.

June 5, 2024

alexz commented on the word grippy sock jail

a slang term for the psych ward, as a patient.

The grippy socks keep you from slipping, and your feet from contacting nasty hospital floors.

May 31, 2024

alexz commented on the word unthawed

I've been seeing people use 'unthawed' as thawed. As in to make not frozen.

Most recent sighting - Daily Show's Jordan Klepper's 'Useful Tools' video.

Other sightings... the examples listed at Wordnik.

May 21, 2024

alexz commented on the word touching grass

spotted free range definitions with quick google searches

"What does "touch grass" mean? | Hootsuite's Social Media ...

Hootsuite Blog

The phrase "touch grass" implies that a person spends too much time online, and they need to get outside and reconnect with the real world."

May 13, 2024

alexz commented on the word bos'n

spotted as Boatswain -

Was watching a documentary by DownieLive about training on the west coast in the Royal Canadian Navy.

The examples listed in Wordnik also match this.

May 4, 2024

alexz commented on the word moo-woo

Thank you for the Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu flashback

April 16, 2024

alexz commented on the word oroblanco

so... Gold and White, or Black and Blue?

#theDress

April 16, 2024

alexz commented on the word prison pony

a zebra

March 17, 2024

alexz commented on the word danger zebra

A zebra is a prison pony

March 17, 2024

alexz commented on the word danger zebra

meme name for a Tiger

March 16, 2024

alexz commented on the word 🪩🐔

"Disco Chicken"...

aka The Peacock

March 16, 2024

alexz commented on the word nice weather for ducks

I refer to rainy days as "It's a good day to be a duck"

March 12, 2024

alexz commented on the word chicken-fried chicken

today I discovered.

March 4, 2024

alexz commented on the word Saanich

Also a town north of Victoria, British Columbia

March 4, 2024

alexz commented on the word nonsked

The arrival of the Swan Kid, was totally a nonsked

March 1, 2024

alexz commented on the word Etm.

spotted online as "et merda" ('and shit') instead of etcetera.

Here's a mastodon link - https://mastodon.world/@dbc3/112011742629233863

I think this is a made-up term.

February 29, 2024

alexz commented on the word verb

Today while shopping I spotted verb shampoo... so there you go... they've verbed a physical noun.

February 18, 2024

alexz commented on the word bonkwave

a new genre of music I know nothing about.

February 16, 2024

alexz commented on the word weaponize my blue checkmark

☑️

February 11, 2024

alexz commented on the word ditto

Just saw a video where Ditto is the trade name of a Spirit Duplicator, which is an early document duplicating machine... similar to a mimeograph.

February 11, 2024

alexz commented on the word ➰🛩️

spotted in social media from a pilot describing a plane doing a loop.

February 3, 2024

alexz commented on the word mygalomorph

Spotted in Science Friday social media

"A team of scientists in Ecuador is trying to find and describe mygalomorphs, a group of giant, stocky spiders.

Pedro Peñaherrera and Roberto Jose León from Universidad San Francisco de Quito join us to discuss how they discover and classify spiders. " - spotted on BlueSky

February 3, 2024

alexz commented on the word 8964

"Used to refer the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre that happened on June 4, 1989." - Wikipedia.

January 25, 2024

alexz commented on the word o'ersnow'd

spotted in the NY times. Checked google -S

hakespeare Sonnet 5

January 20, 2024

alexz commented on the word spicy pillow

a 'spicy pillow' is a lithium cell which has expanded filling up the polymer bag.

This typically means the lithium battery is bad and is ripe to explode at any time.

January 16, 2024

alexz commented on the word pooky

Shows up in Garfield comics. archived 2010 May 5.

"Cheer Up Pooky" - garfield to the stuffed bear.

January 15, 2024

alexz commented on the word frazzlepan

spotted this word on Mastodon and twitter as a blend of frazil and pan ice.

frazil pans are a thing in Alberta's peace river.

'Unlike lakes or ponds, where ice forms in a sheet across the surface, ice in northern rivers forms as frazil crystals, which vary in size as tiny as fractions of a millimetre across. These crystals collide and freeze together forming large flocs that eventually rise to the surface to form "frazil pans," which look like clusters of ice discs.'

-https://www.ualberta.ca/engineering/news/2016/december/blastofwinterheatingupresearchonriverice.html

January 13, 2024

alexz commented on the list words-for-ice

Discovered the National Ice and Snow Data Center... and they have all the science words for snow and ice.

https://nsidc.org/learn/cryosphere-glossary

It looks like Science may win the word race. .. ok we got over 100 terms in this list. some of which are repeats

January 9, 2024

alexz commented on the list words-for-ice

It's been a few years since I touched this list.. added another 25 words or so. Thanks to suggestions from Mastodon.

January 6, 2024

alexz commented on the word rizzler

spotted in the New York Times - ;Gen Alpha Is Here. Can You Understand Their Slang?'

December 14, 2023

alexz commented on the word $#!7

An alternative to typing a swear word...... in this case... the s-word

December 10, 2023

alexz commented on the list what-do-do-with-things-you-detest-UWrDJ5dfQ00yCnqilXyLo

flush it?

poop on it
(or is that just what birds to)

December 10, 2023

alexz commented on the word bilby

Welcome Back!

November 26, 2023

alexz commented on the word glizzy

Today, I saw a video where a microwaved hot dog which was partially overcooked and deformed was called a glizzy.

"Glizzy's done"

October 29, 2023

alexz commented on the word pastryarchy

spotted on Mastodon - "There are Pop-Tarts but no Mom-Tarts because of the pastryarchy"

October 8, 2023

alexz commented on the word phonk

"that's not music, that's noise"

October 7, 2023

alexz commented on the list glitched-definitions

so.. from Wikipedia -

"Mayo is an Uto-Aztecan language. It is spoken by about 40,000 people, the Mexican Mayo or Yoreme Indians, who live in the South of the Mexican state of Sonora and in the North of the neighboring state of Sinaloa."

August 30, 2023

alexz commented on the list glitched-definitions

Mayo gives me a 404 error.

I recently learned that Mayo is a regional language in Mexico.

I only looked it up because someone replied to Gretchen M with 'Is Mayonaise a language'

and my initial answer was 'only if you're in the Mayon region of France...' type of joke.. but Wikipedia lists Mayo as a language.

August 30, 2023

alexz commented on the word co-co

spotted in Conspiracy Trial news as 'co-conspirator'

Spotted in the Slate

"The indictment recognizes this co-co (yes, that’s going to be our shorthand for co-conspirator from here on out) as the author of the “December 9 Memorandum (‘Fraudulent Elector Instructions’),”...

August 18, 2023

alexz commented on the word UAP

Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena

spotted in US Congress hearings.

🛸

🐄

🏡

August 1, 2023

alexz commented on the word non human biologics

"...or alien life forms from fallen starships"

US Congress

August 1, 2023

alexz commented on the word bunspotting

a word I saw a friend use.... the spotting of wild bunnies at the park

July 26, 2023

alexz commented on the word oughties

spotted as a reference to the 00's decade referrng to 2000-2009

in a bit of a lookup, this term was historically used before https://www.google.ca/books/edition/SCAN_info/gX0jAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=oughties

July 3, 2023

alexz commented on the word guwap

spotted this in a youtube video.... a quick lookup shows that it means 'money'.

also spelled guwop

Urbandictionary seems to have this word defined.

July 3, 2023

alexz commented on the word zqfmgb

this reminds me of the time Fred Flintstone played the word ZARF

July 2, 2023

alexz commented on the word jebaited

esports - has an article on the Origins of Jebaited.

"WHAT DOES JEBAITED MEAN – ORIGINS AND USAGE OF THE JEBAITED EMOTE

Jebaited is Twitch emoticon featuring Alex Jebailey, owner of CEO Gaming, and used to describe the act of baiting an opponent in a video game.

Since its inception the jebaited definition has somewhat evolved to encompass any situation when somebody gets baited into doing something. While still extremely popular on Twitch, it has also found its place in video complications of funny moments and fails. It’s of those die-hard memes that you keep seeing occasionally."

https://www.esports.net/wiki/guides/what-does-jebaited-mean/#:~:text=The%20jebaited%20emote%20first%20emerged,%E2%80%9CBulldog%20Jebaited%20Aegis%20Steal%E2%80%9D.

June 30, 2023

alexz commented on the word went pear shaped

'went pear shaped' means went horribly wrong.

early citation 1994 'Liberty and Order' page 44 https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Liberty_and_Order/

June 5, 2023

alexz commented on the word chonkosaurus

Spotted in the BBC news online.

"Chicago kayakers discover 'Chonkosaurus' turtle"

Kayakers have nicknamed a large turtle Chonkosaurus

May 13, 2023

alexz commented on the word heat set

Refers to mechanical inserts which are heated and interted into plastic so they remain in place.

May 6, 2023

alexz commented on the word protestival

Spotted in Vancouver news for the 420 "protest"

April 21, 2023

alexz commented on the word thitch

how is this not a word?

April 8, 2023

alexz commented on the word rautener

Google translate says it's the German word for Diamond

Google books found it also as a surname, so maybe someone did something rascallish in the 19th century.

March 29, 2023

alexz commented on the word Pascal case

similar to camel case

Apparently using Camel Case or Pascal Case helps e-reader software read multi word hashtags WhichAreStrungTogether

March 19, 2023

alexz commented on the word well actually

"what do you call a mansplainer at the bottom of a 30 foot deep pit?"

March 18, 2023

alexz commented on the word acoustic typewriter

aka 'typewriter'

March 13, 2023

alexz commented on the word acoustic bike

aka 'bike'

March 13, 2023

alexz commented on the word fart squirrel

spotted as a reference to a skunk.

Spotted in my mastodon feed "Do not pet the fart squirrels"

March 7, 2023

alexz commented on the word UrbEx

spotted in my social media as 'Urban Exploration' - the exploration of abandoned buildings and stuctures.

also urbex

February 25, 2023

alexz commented on the list elonyms-uSsdgG16E5CDlsBibHu74

spotted today - melon tusk

February 23, 2023

alexz commented on the word twin-stick

refers to gaming on consoles which have the dual joysticks for aiming/moving

February 19, 2023

alexz commented on the word mastodown

another name for the errorphant on Mastodon

February 16, 2023

alexz commented on the word errorphant

a recently coined name for the 'Error elephant' when your Mastodon server serves up an error code.

Here's the voting page: https://mstdn.ca/@jeffsamsonow/109866846487073759

February 16, 2023

alexz commented on the word sadge

spotted this word... in looking it up, knowyourmeme lists it as the 'flattened pepe' emote. so... sad?

February 13, 2023

alexz commented on the word dictionariana

Spotted in a news article about Madeline Kripke

'She owned “dictionariana,” from the world beyond the books. Kripke had pictures of dictionary makers, images from matchbooks and cigar boxes. Noah Webster is usually shown as an elderly gentleman, but Kripke had a cigar-box-cover drawing of him as a young man with flowing brown hair. In her collection is a shot of Allen Walker Read, hanging off the side of a Midwestern windmill. She had a letter written by Walt Whitman, then a newspaper editor in Brooklyn, asking for a free copy of Webster’s dictionary, which the poet said was owed him after giving it a favorable review.'

https://archive.is/20230207122217/https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-mistress-of-slang#selection-2195.0-2203.81

the Kripke collection has moved to Indiana and is now being unboxed according to this blog: https://blogs.libraries.indiana.edu/lilly/2023/02/08/unpacking-the-kripke-collection/

February 12, 2023

alexz commented on the word crowberry

it's edible, so I think crows will eat these.

They prefer nuts though as nuts are fatty food with lots of energy

February 11, 2023

alexz commented on the word soulsian

gaming speak for a video game which is like Dark Souls the game.

January 27, 2023

alexz commented on the word turbine

I remember watching videos of the Oroville dam crisis when their spillway broke. One youtuber was a pilot and he would sometimes switch from the Aviation 'turbin' to the hydro dam's turBINES .. but mostly use his preferred 'turbin' pronounciation.

January 21, 2023

alexz commented on the word GAFAM

Spotted as a reference to Google Apple Facebook Amazon and Microsoft

January 20, 2023

alexz commented on the word boomer shooter

This is a new 2022 term referring to the First Person Shooter computer games in the style of the 80s and 90's Quake/Doom types of games with shooting and travelling.

January 13, 2023

alexz commented on the word iphoneography

blend of iPhone and photography, spotted again today. I think it came from the Instagram crowd

January 11, 2023

alexz commented on the list edible-fabrics-maKxgyBzsvbUXyegouwza

rice paper?

January 11, 2023

alexz commented on the word croon

The shiny new thing at my local cafe is the croon or croissant moon Also known as swish rolls

Everyone's been swarming them because of the shiny new thing.

They've also got cruffins which is a croissant muffin.

December 30, 2022

alexz commented on the word Croissant Moon

aka croon

December 30, 2022

alexz commented on the word pspspsps

the word to use when calling a cat

also pspsps

December 29, 2022

alexz commented on the word the dacity

some slang spotted as a shortened 'the audacity'

dacity is already listed here.

December 24, 2022

alexz commented on the word Mavica

Today I learned that Mavica is a portmanteau of MAgnetic VIdeo CAmera. This camera used a floppy disk to save photos.

December 22, 2022

alexz commented on the list elonyms-uSsdgG16E5CDlsBibHu74

baby elmo

December 19, 2022

alexz commented on the word chubby rain

"The aliens come down in raindrops"

"making the raindrops chubby" - from the movie Bowfinger

December 18, 2022

alexz commented on the word irrecromulent

just coined this word to troll people who don't like the word irregardless

December 18, 2022

alexz commented on the word freeze peach

I"m seeing more 'freeze peach' in 2022 these days.

December 18, 2022

alexz commented on the word blops

Heard 'blops' as a gaming reference to the 'BLack OPS' games.

The usage examples seem to refer to blops as being more like bleep and bloops.

December 16, 2022

alexz commented on the word IDNHAC

initials for 'i do not have a clue'

December 16, 2022

alexz commented on the word tallywhackers

It seems to a name of part of the sailor uniform.

https://library.uncw.edu/capefearww2/veWebDailyLife/exhibit3/e30084a.htm

December 6, 2022

alexz commented on the word tridemic

refers to the recent Flu, Covid, and RSV outbreaks... 2022.

December 5, 2022

alexz commented on the word fairy bread

Wikipedia has "hundreds and thousands" being those tiny colored candy ball sprinkles.

'Nonpareils are a decorative confectionery of tiny balls made with sugar and starch, traditionally an opaque white but now available in many colors. They are also known as Hundreds and Thousands in South Africa, Australia, New Zealand1' - wikipedia

Wordnik's got the definition hundreds and thousands

December 5, 2022

alexz commented on the word goblin mode

I only heard about this word today when it was Oxford's word of the year. I've never heard it before.

December 5, 2022

alexz commented on the word 🫳 🎤

The 'mic drop' emoji phrase.

Also done as

🫳

🎤

November 25, 2022

alexz commented on the list retro-encabulator-tech-specs

In the last month, I've seen 2 unique encabulator videos..

One is the Bike Encabulator which makes some fun at all the fun bike part names, https://youtu.be/yJe4kFS1LqM

Second is "SANS ICS HyperEncabulator" which hires the original actor. https://youtu.be/5nKk_-Lvhzo

November 25, 2022

alexz commented on the word birdsite

"birdsite" is referring to Twitter

November 22, 2022

alexz commented on the list elonyms-uSsdgG16E5CDlsBibHu74

spotted in today's timeline BirdFuhrer

November 21, 2022

alexz commented on the word zookpo

spotted on twitter "In Ojibwe our word for snowing is zookpo."

November 20, 2022

alexz commented on the list elonyms-uSsdgG16E5CDlsBibHu74

The Boring Man

he who shall not be named

World's Richest Man

Phony Stark

November 19, 2022

alexz commented on the list horse-colors-oTNnYX5KRVWJQyjNKgcHg

maybe it's the semicolons in the list name.

November 17, 2022

alexz commented on the word dogwater

calling something dogwater, is calling something crap. gen Z term.

November 17, 2022

alexz commented on the word CW

spotted on Mastodon for 'Content Warning'

You can put a content warning on your posts there.

November 13, 2022

alexz commented on the word mobik

in 2022, it refers to a Russian person who was mobilised to fight in Ukraine.

November 6, 2022

alexz commented on the list ai-generated-vogon-words-ZBzLg57KTcNWQaB3a-eN6

Of the 18 words picked by an AI as matching an AI list... five don't appear in Wordnik, so I wonder how an AI coins a new Vogon word.

baggis wugger spooging shivvying freddled

October 30, 2022

alexz commented on the word buh bye

meaning bye bye

October 30, 2022

alexz commented on the word bubye

or buh bye

October 30, 2022

alexz commented on the word wusuhh

spotted online on twitter.

wusuhh , so far, It looks like it means 'What's up'

October 29, 2022

alexz commented on the word boo-jee

spotted on twitter bad and boo-jee
also spelled boojee and boujee but haven't seen too many examples.

October 28, 2022

alexz commented on the word VOD

VOD stands for Video On Demand -

In game streaming, a streamer will make his video available to view later.

October 28, 2022

alexz commented on the word Gindex

slang for Gin and blue cocktail mix.

October 24, 2022

alexz commented on the word Augtober

Augtober - spotted in my local news Vancouver BC, relating to a warm and Dry October

October 11, 2022

alexz commented on the word stonkingly bright

Sept 2022, Jupiter is described as 'Stonkingly bright'

https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/09/28/stonkingly-bright-jupiter-closest-to-earth-easily-seen-in-nz-sky/

September 28, 2022

alexz commented on the word gen alpha

Will the term 'gen alpha' take off as the next generation?

September 25, 2022

alexz commented on the word elbows-out

Google book search has

A book called Elbows Out

By Dietrich von Bothmer · 1968

Dictonary of Phrase and Fable 1898

"To elbow ont ; to be elbowed out . To supersede ; to be ousted by a rival . "

And then there is

'out at the elbows' referring to a person's jacket elbows being worn out.

From the book 'Gone to the bottom' page 121

https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Gone_to_the_Bottom

September 24, 2022

alexz commented on the word FAFO

Acronym for 'F*** Around and Find Out'

Used in 2022 when J6 insurrectionists get sentenced.

September 24, 2022

alexz commented on the word Roevember

Spotted as a political term - blend of Roe vs Wade and November

September 24, 2022

alexz commented on the word religiot

spotted religiots on Twitter in 2022. blend word of religious and idiot

September 21, 2022

alexz commented on the word NyQuil chicken

In the future, when archaologists try to figure out what the hell happened in 2022, they'll come across this entry 'NyQuil Chicken'

September 21, 2022

alexz commented on the word breadcrumbing

Recently spotted this on twitter as doing the bare minimum to keep a relationship going.

September 20, 2022

alexz commented on the word PLARF

Spotted at "People's Liberation Army Rocket Force" or China's rocket warfare department.

September 18, 2022

alexz commented on the word novid

spotted in the news defined as 'someone who has never caught covid'

September 17, 2022

alexz commented on the word Pee Pee

Pee Pee is trending because Pierre Poilievre is the new Conservative Party leader in Canada Sept 2022.

September 11, 2022

alexz commented on the word phthisicky

so, not a phth like in phenolphthalein

September 8, 2022

alexz commented on the word situationship

you know you got a good word when it shows up on 6 of the twitter word lists.

September 3, 2022

alexz commented on the word snaccident

"inadvertently eating an entire packet of biscuits, when you meant to have just the one" - from a BBC clip 'The art of mashing up words to create new ones'

September 3, 2022

alexz commented on the word texptectation

"the constant checking of a phone for a message you're hoping will arrive" from a BBC clip 'The art of mashing up words to create new ones'

September 3, 2022

alexz commented on the word probsolutely

"probsolutely for one is a definite maybe" - BBC video 'The art of mashing up words to create new ones'

September 3, 2022

alexz commented on the word definitionless

see fnord

September 2, 2022

alexz commented on the word TMNT

Acronym for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

September 1, 2022

alexz commented on the list put-me-back-on-my-bike-UToeNCrf6-wRMQ-Aibl_k

Taking up biking? I miss it because we had some heat waves.

August 31, 2022

alexz commented on the word zombie ice

Spotted in Weather twitter - the Greenland ice which is destined to melt in the next century regardless of whether we cut back greenhouse gas emissions.

August 30, 2022

alexz commented on the word chocolate bar

I think it's got a Canada listing as at the time of writing, it was more likely that Americans use Candy Bar and Canadians use Chocolate Bar as a phrase, totally ignoring the rest of the Engish speaking world.

August 30, 2022

alexz commented on the word acronym

I prefer the word acronym over initialism , according to Google's ngram viewer, this word picked up steam in the sixties, took off and is now more popular by orders of magnitude.

At this point, it's a handful of people at Wiktionary trying to hold onto the word initialism

August 25, 2022

alexz commented on the word ion

spotted in song lyrics for "i don't"

August 25, 2022

alexz commented on the word parattack

Spotted in BC's Forest Fire Fighter twitter.

Province of BC lists this term as "Parattack crews are a specialized type of initial attack crew that are deployed to incidents by parachuting out of fixed-wing aircraft. "

August 24, 2022

alexz commented on the word rapattack

Spotted in BC Forest Fire fighter's twitter.

Province of BC lists this term as

"Rapattack crews are a specialized type of 3-person initial attack crew who use medium-lift helicopters equipped with hoist and rappel gear to access difficult-to-reach incidents."

August 24, 2022

alexz commented on the word feutre

"It's not a bug, it's a ..."

August 19, 2022

alexz commented on the user loveofwords

Welcome!

August 19, 2022

alexz commented on the word gyal a

Spotted in in Nicki Minaj - Super Freaky Girl

also spelled gyal ah

August 18, 2022

alexz commented on the word hA

The wiktionary definition bugs me, because the 'SI UNIT' is the ampere.
Hecto may be listed in the SI manual as a common prefix, but I've never seen people use 'hecto' in practice when dealing with electricity.

Wiktionary's definition got mangled to '102' amps because someone used 10^2 exponent notation which normal people don't use for small numbers.

Every electrical usage I've seen is that people stick to 'kilo' 'mega' and 'giga' , and milli, micro

August 18, 2022

alexz commented on the word boops boops

Today I discovered there's a fish named boops boops

August 15, 2022

alexz commented on the word canadew

Doin the Dew?

August 15, 2022

alexz commented on the list who-farted-75HJ2Pth_NrRur5yC-Ob6

who cut the cheese?

August 4, 2022

alexz commented on the word cow tipping

I thought Australia didn't tip

August 1, 2022

alexz commented on the word necrobotics

Spotted in the media - using dead spiders as robotic grippers.

July 29, 2022

alexz commented on the word hypnosporange

surprised this didn't get on my orange poetry list. https://www.wordnik.com/lists/orange-poetry

July 23, 2022

alexz commented on the word J6er

Refers to the January 6 insurrectionists.

July 23, 2022

alexz commented on the word J6

This year, J6 refers to the January 6 insurrection and J6er refers to the insurrectionists.

July 23, 2022

alexz commented on the list professional-wrestling-slang-5V5seeZRNJ54pzXowKeaW

no suplex? No Piledriver?

July 12, 2022

alexz commented on the word trewe

trewe dat

July 6, 2022

alexz commented on the word waffle

How much awful can an offal waffle falafel be if an awful falafel used awful offal waffles?

June 21, 2022

alexz commented on the word hieratica

I think this gives me the idea of making a Heirovetica font.

June 21, 2022

alexz commented on the word opakapaka

How many opakapakas can an alpaca pack if an alpaca could pack opakapakas?

June 15, 2022

alexz commented on the word licuala

If licuala is pronounced 'lick a koala' then

how many licuala's can a Koala lick if a Koala could lick licualas?

June 10, 2022

alexz commented on the word squee

I remember emailing the OED about this word back in 2000 because it was overused on fan forums. Now it's a word of the day.

June 10, 2022

alexz commented on the word dart

I've recently seen dart be used to describe cigarettes. First time I heard it was watching live streams of the Ottawa protests in 2022. And recently, saw an article about the 'dart board' a surfboard made of cigarettes.

June 9, 2022

alexz commented on the word coscup

so , apparently movie themed mugs and tumblers are now called coscups or CosCups

for 'cosplay cup'.

I dunno... when I'm drinking coffee, I'm not cosplaying.

May 29, 2022

alexz commented on the word sharkcano

Spotted in the news

MetroUK "A Nasa satellite has captured the moment a massive underwater volcano home to sharks and other marine life - and nicknamed ‘Sharkcano’ - erupted in the depths of the Pacific Ocean"

May 26, 2022

alexz commented on the word MPX

spotted on twitter in medical news for Monkeypox

May 20, 2022

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