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.
'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
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.
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.
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
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.” '
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.
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.
In making a joke about 'abecadaria' being a linguists magic word... found a reference to "runica abecedaria" and the "Abecedarium Nordmannicum" - (on wikipedia)
"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
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.'
"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."
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’),”...
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."
'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.'
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.
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.
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
"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'
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.
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.
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
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. "
"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."
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
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.
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"
spotted on Twitter as a musical instruments made from rocks... in the tweet I saw, it was an archaologist banging on fossils with a rock getting different tones.
"Archaeologist Dr. Jean-Loup Ringot specialized in prehistoric music demonstrates a Lithophone.
Software written to protest. In some cases a user gets a popup with the protest message, in other cases, computers with specific country code get wiped.
Well, you enter a word in the search bar, and if you don't see a definition, you an write a comment about it. You can even add it to a list. Putting square brackets around a word ][ make a link to that word.
"RCMP asks public for help catching people starting fires known as 'Kootenay candles' at a ski hill
The RCMP detachment in Trail, B.C., is investigating a rash of "Kootenay candles" at Red Mountain Resort in nearby Rossland.
The term "Kootenay candle" has come to refer to the practice of lighting old, dead trees on fire in the middle of winter, often using sap or sapwood to start the blaze. ..." From CBC article.
"Happy #TwosDay! What happens when #two galaxy clusters collide? Sometimes they can bear a striking resemblance to the Starship Enterprise from Star Trek, apparently. Abell 1033 is located about 1.6 billion light years from Earth. Boldly Go for more:"
refers to 'those guys' at Wiktionary spotted on YouTube in That Word Chat interview with Erin McKean
I expect someone from Wiktionary to come along and say that it should be a capital W for this word, then we can reply "Citation Needed" Checkmate! Wiktionary!
Spotted in MBARI news... environmental DNA - material containing DNA which floats about the environment, and in MBARI's case, floats about in the ocean.
spotted in Canadian medical news, the Greater Toronto Hospitals have staff out due to illness and shortages meaning they have to prioritize critical cases first.
"To this Fredericton couple, born and raised No Funswickers, New Brunswick is such a hotbed of hilarity, outrageous goings-on and bizarre political antics they had to create a website to hold it all."
'The ‘polymutant spike’ proved fully resistant to neutralizing antibodies from most of the people they tested, who had either received two doses of an mRNA vaccine or recovered from COVID-19. With Omicron, “we expect there to be a significant hit”, says Bieniasz." - spotted in Nature Magazine'
Ok, Shakespeare had a time machine then, because 'flesh and blood' is all over that book.
Ephesians 6:12
King James Version
12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Comments by alexz
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.
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
alexz commented on the word monkeypox
"The word bilby has been adopted by Royal Secret Society of Bilbies."
I think we should double efforts to save the bilbies
May 19, 2022
alexz commented on the word lithophone
spotted on Twitter as a musical instruments made from rocks... in the tweet I saw, it was an archaologist banging on fossils with a rock getting different tones.
"Archaeologist Dr. Jean-Loup Ringot specialized in prehistoric music demonstrates a Lithophone.
© The Archaeologist"
May 15, 2022
alexz commented on the word spicy purrito
spotted on Twitter. A new form of the purrito or blanket wrapped cat.
May 15, 2022
alexz commented on the word narluga
spotted in the news again, as a narwhal has been seen swimming with a group of belugas.
April 23, 2022
alexz commented on the word shrinkflation
spotted this term again in 2022.
April 19, 2022
alexz commented on the word s worded
twitter speak for 'suspended'
April 17, 2022
alexz commented on the word acc
spotted in text speak, twitterpseak as 'actually' and 'account' as in a twitter account.
April 17, 2022
alexz commented on the word gooble gobble
This phrase is from the 1932 movie Freaks
It has worked its way into Simpsons and Wolf of Wall Street.
I wonder if the Toy Story phrase 'One of Us' is a reference.
April 5, 2022
alexz commented on the word maidenless
maidenless is a bit of a meme word as the computer game Elden Ring has NPC characters saying "But you, I am afraid, are maidenless"
April 2, 2022
alexz commented on the list words-in-first-3-wordle-word-guess-list-fEttSrihG8
I always lead with 'canes' and then try would/wound might/light to eliminate 15 of the 26 letters of the alphabet.
March 30, 2022
alexz commented on the word protestware
Spotted 'protestware' in the news.
Software written to protest. In some cases a user gets a popup with the protest message, in other cases, computers with specific country code get wiped.
March 24, 2022
alexz commented on the word -dle
i've spotted Worldle and Quordle
March 23, 2022
alexz commented on the word demon egg
Today's XKCD refers to a 'Demon Egg' which is a reference to the demon core which was a plutonium sphere initially created for nuclear bomb making.
March 15, 2022
alexz commented on the user anix27
Well, you enter a word in the search bar, and if you don't see a definition, you an write a comment about it. You can even add it to a list. Putting square brackets around a word ][ make a link to that word.
March 7, 2022
alexz commented on the word peepoSad
ok... this is a meme phrase. I'm not familiar with the reference.
March 6, 2022
alexz commented on the word dressy cas
spotted as dress casual
Also spotted a doubling of this 'dressy dressy cas cas'
March 5, 2022
alexz commented on the word gestures wildly
All I know, is that we need a *gestures wildly* emoji.
And a in Spanish modifier.
March 2, 2022
alexz commented on the word slow roll
In 2022, it refers to a group of vehicles in a protest driving very slow to disrupt traffic, denying people access to streets.
I've also seen 'slow roll' refer to a line of anti riot police moving forward slowly, and yoinking some individuals who do not move out of the way.
February 27, 2022
alexz commented on the word Kootenay candle
spotted in BC news -
"RCMP asks public for help catching people starting fires known as 'Kootenay candles' at a ski hill
The RCMP detachment in Trail, B.C., is investigating a rash of "Kootenay candles" at Red Mountain Resort in nearby Rossland.
The term "Kootenay candle" has come to refer to the practice of lighting old, dead trees on fire in the middle of winter, often using sap or sapwood to start the blaze. ..." From CBC article.
February 27, 2022
alexz commented on the word 💙💛
spotted on Twitter, the blue heart and yellow heart mean love for the Urkaine.
February 26, 2022
alexz commented on the word tfg
Political speak for 'The former guy'
February 26, 2022
alexz commented on the list cities-named-for-animals-flowers-and-objects-fiW21tp9bQ
Saskatoon is named after the berry.
Moose Jaw, Red Deer.
Cherryville , Salmon Arm, Blaeberry , Phoenix,
Whitehorse, Tuktoyaktuk ,
February 26, 2022
alexz commented on the word Twos Day
citation on Twitter by Chandra Xray Telescope.
"Happy #TwosDay! What happens when #two galaxy clusters collide? Sometimes they can bear a striking resemblance to the Starship Enterprise from Star Trek, apparently. Abell 1033 is located about 1.6 billion light years from Earth. Boldly Go for more:"
February 22, 2022
alexz commented on the word Chinada
This slur has been around for years, usually when people criticise social programs, or when they criticise the enforcement of laws.
Blend word of China and Canada
February 20, 2022
alexz commented on the word splothery
As someone who has 800 words for Snow and Ice... i love this word.
splother goes back to Lincolnshire dialect.
https://www.google.ca/books/edition/A_Glossary_of_Words_Used_in_South_west_L/pHcKAAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=splothery&pg=PA139
February 17, 2022
alexz commented on the word BoomerBook
A reference to Facebook, because 'only boomers use FaceBook'
February 16, 2022
alexz commented on the word socials
refers to 'social networks' - twitters, tictoks, facebook
February 16, 2022
alexz commented on the word wiktionarians
refers to 'those guys' at Wiktionary
spotted on YouTube in That Word Chat interview with Erin McKean
I expect someone from Wiktionary to come along and say that it should be a capital W for this word, then we can reply "Citation Needed"
Checkmate! Wiktionary!
February 16, 2022
alexz commented on the word convoyers
one term used for the convoy of idiots blocking border crossings for the last few weeks.
February 14, 2022
alexz commented on the word cry ab it
spotted on twitter as a shortening of 'Cry about it'
this had some popularity due to the olympics.
February 13, 2022
alexz commented on the list wordle-tAcc_IXQK8yV
3blue1brown went through the wordle source code to see the actual word list and did a video on it recently.
February 9, 2022
alexz commented on the word wordler
spotted as someone who plays Wordle
February 3, 2022
alexz commented on the word eDNA
Spotted in MBARI news... environmental DNA - material containing DNA which floats about the environment, and in MBARI's case, floats about in the ocean.
February 2, 2022
alexz commented on the word wordlemaster
spotted in my social media feed.
Also..
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
February 1, 2022
alexz commented on the word Snowgopogo
spotted in Canadian news... a snowy Ogopogo monster
January 29, 2022
alexz commented on the word PETSCII
This refers to the letters and graphical character elements in the Commodore 64. Each character was in a 8pixel by 8pixel square.
January 27, 2022
alexz commented on the word poopsicle
Frozen dog poop. Spotted in CBC article about Prince George's social media writer.
From the article:
'Other highlights include a message to dog owners to "scoop your poopsicles" from the snow.
"Come spring our parks are going to STINK," the post warned, once again garnering positive responses.'
January 23, 2022
alexz commented on the word megaberg
Spotted in the news - The A68 iceberg dumping fresh water into the ocean. It's a chunk of ice which broke off of an ice shelf.
January 22, 2022
alexz commented on the word deltacron
Blend word of Delta and Omicron. People being hyperbolic about the pandemic virus names.
January 9, 2022
alexz commented on the word flurona
spotted on the Colbert report... the flu plus the corona virus
January 5, 2022
alexz commented on the word code orange
spotted in Canadian medical news, the Greater Toronto Hospitals have staff out due to illness and shortages meaning they have to prioritize critical cases first.
January 5, 2022
alexz commented on the word idek
spotted again in text speak for 'i dont even know'
December 29, 2021
alexz commented on the word No Funswick
"To this Fredericton couple, born and raised No Funswickers, New Brunswick is such a hotbed of hilarity, outrageous goings-on and bizarre political antics they had to create a website to hold it all."
- CBC article on The Manatee, a satire news site.
December 29, 2021
alexz commented on the word gfm
Spotted as 'go fund me' , as in the vitual panhandling site to raise funds.
December 24, 2021
alexz commented on the word toodle-oo
spotted a british person saying 'to the loo' and immediately wondered if this the etymology.
December 24, 2021
alexz commented on the word headcanon
I'm spotting this online lately. Same definition as below.
December 15, 2021
alexz commented on the word ILs
abbreviation for 'InLaws'
December 14, 2021
alexz commented on the word tortierre
am i spelling the 'wrong', or does it needed to be added to wordnik?
December 13, 2021
alexz commented on the word monobob
Dictionary dot com is like "did you mean man boob"
and at that point, I realised my future search engine results will be changed for the worse
December 11, 2021
alexz commented on the word monobob
spotted in the news
"Canada wins bronze in World Cup monobob, four-man races at Winterberg" - Global TV
article had zero context for definition. Tweets seem to indicate it means one man bobsled.
December 11, 2021
alexz commented on the word roll tide
I'm seeing this repeatedly on a tik-tok video series.
Wikipedia has this listed as belonging to the University of Alabama for its Crimson Tide team.
December 6, 2021
alexz commented on the word shundo
This is a Pokemon Gaming term for a 'shiny hundo' , a Pokemon with 100% good stats and a shiny cosmetic.
December 4, 2021
alexz commented on the word hundo
This is a Pokemon gaming term for a captured Pokemon which has 100% good stats.
December 4, 2021
alexz commented on the word polymutant
Polymutant want a poly-cracker?
'The ‘polymutant spike’ proved fully resistant to neutralizing antibodies from most of the people they tested, who had either received two doses of an mRNA vaccine or recovered from COVID-19. With Omicron, “we expect there to be a significant hit”, says Bieniasz." - spotted in Nature Magazine'
December 4, 2021
alexz commented on the word BNPL
spotted again as 'Buy Now Pay Later'.
This time in reference to a 'buy now pay later' application added to Edge browser.
December 2, 2021
alexz commented on the word flesh and blood
Ok, Shakespeare had a time machine then, because 'flesh and blood' is all over that book.
Ephesians 6:12
King James Version
12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
December 1, 2021
alexz commented on the word tiger dam
Spotted in local news
"B.C. flood: What is a Tiger Dam — and why did they spend all night building one in Abbotsford?
The dam is built using custom-made water-filled tubes around a metre high that combine to create a water barrier." - Vancouver Sun, Nov 29 2021
November 30, 2021
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