"Oojay-cum-spiff, adj. "All you have to do,â I said, âis to carry on here for a few weeks more, and everything will be oojah-cum-spiff." 1930 PG Wodehouse.
Check out the meaning in our Oxford English Dictionary. Part of our Digital Library
This term came from  the IT Crowd TV show episode 'The Internet', but it has some history, and can be seen on Twitter in reference to the organizations that decide on internet standards.
There was once a reference to 'Ethernet elders' in Info World.
"And then thereâs its cousin, greige, which you can make by mixing together two other things: monotony and despair. All of these related shades spell out a disappointment in all the worldâs flowers. They look like preened and perfected sick. And it is my belief that the palace has used the beige to take confident, opinionated, personality-owning Meghan away from us and turn her into a royal bot, like they always do."
"Is easy schnappen der Springenwerk, blowenfusen und poppencorken mit spitzensparken. 1st nicht fur gerwerken by das Dummkopfen. Das rubber- necken sightseeren keepen hands in das pockets. Relaxen und watch das Blinkenlights."
Wikipedia has blinkenlights going back to the 50's and IBM
Wiktionary seems to have a 'Neutral Point of View' theme which neutralizes half of the meaning of a word and blandifies it to something a committee agrees on.
'Laze -- a mashup of "lava" and "haze" -- is a nasty product formed when hot lava hits the ocean, sending hydrochloric acid and volcanic glass particles into the air'
'Bowl food is larger than a canapĂŠ and around a quarter of the size of a main course.
It is served in miniature or hand-sized bowls and comes ready to eat with a small fork.
The idea behind a bowl food menu is so guests can stay standing up and mingle while they eat. It has been described by caterers as an option which allows guests to "keep on talking".
Spotted on Astronomy Picture of the Day "A plurality of singularities at the Galactic Center"
"Explanation: A recent informal poll found that astronomers don't yet have a good collective noun for a group of black holes, but they need one.  ..."
APOD May 12 2018
There's something about using plural and singular in the same sentence to describe the same thing.
"The two dozen or so pipeline warriors appeared on the BC Legislature lawn driving custom built motorcycles, doombuggies armed with menacing spikes, and F-150 pickup trucks with bumper stickers proclaiming their love for Alberta beef."
'Sinclair Broadcast Group, the largest owner of television stations in the U.S., employs a well-known practice of producing "must-runs," conservative commentary segments that each Sinclair-owned station is required to air. ' - Seattle PI.
A form of censorship which refers to buying the exclusive rights to a news story, and then not publishing the story to protect a person the story is about.
If you google the progression of programmer's thorpes, you get a programming language named Unithorpe
"Unithorpe
Unithorpe is a small interpreted programming language and its virtual machine.
The driving idea is to use a single unicode character to name each variable, function, namespace, builtin operator, etc. in the language. All data is either unicode characters or arrays of unicode characters or other arrays."
Also search Trithorpe and Oglethorpe (more computer languages by Henry Strickland)
I wonder if half the variable names render as Emoji
"The first task for spacewalkers Mark Vande Hei and Norishige Kanai is to move a Latching End Effector (LEE), or hand, for the Canadian-built robotic arm, Canadarm2, from a payload attachment on the stationâs Mobile Base System rail car to the Quest airlock. " - NASA Johnson YouTube video 'U.S. Spacewalk 48 Animation'
Spotted in the Guardian " Sarcelles has come to represent everything wrong with Parisâs banlieues to such an extent that thereâs even a word â Sarcellitis â to describe the ennui created by modernist high-rises, concrete and social isolation."
"Theoretical calculations suggest these gaseous threads, known as the warmâhot intergalactic medium, or the Whim, ought to be around a million degrees celsius. " - Guardian article : Astronomers find half of the missing matter in the universe
"We have ferryspotters? Yes, we do. Like British trainspotters, they chat happily on online forums, tracking the ships and burrowing into the minutiae of those big, complicated people-movers that most of us rely on without ever pausing to ponder how they actually work. "
'The newly-discovered group, named âancient Beringiansâ, appears to have split off from the founding population of Native Americans about 20,000 years ago.'
- Jan 3 article: Surprise as DNA reveals new group of Native Americans: the ancient Beringians
the perfect word to describe the tangle of cables between my monitor, usb hubs, usb switcher, laptop, pi, old desktop, plethora of power supplies, network hubs, and HDMI switcher
"Growing up, she said, her father would occasionally speak to her in the Nak'azdli dialect of the Dakelh language historically spoken in central B.C., even though he wasn't fluent."
You will see differing definitions above (trout species versus salmon species) because scientists didn't really understand this fish over the last 200 years. It's like a trout that lives like a salmon.
'"Milkshake Duck" is slang for someone who is briefly and universally cheered, but then swiftly turned upon because of their previous social media posts. ' Dec 15, 2017
A shipper uni-name of a character coupling of Oliver Queen and Felicty Smoak on the Arrow tv show. Spotted in the news where fans raised money for a dedicated park bench in Vancouver.
in BC, it's a glass of beer, less than an imperial pint of 568 mL .
Our bars sometimes buy pint glasses from the US which is a 473 mL drink, but the bar cannot legally call it a pint in Canada. In general, a sleeve is not a specific unit of liquid. Lookup : "sleeve of beer" Google books has 'sleeve of beer' in the 21st century, but I heard this term in the late 80's.
term looked up 3200 times. Google Trends search shows this term trending Sept 2013. Google search shows this term popping up on wordnik on Sep 20, 2013
I feel that when a word is looked up 1000 times, it becomes mainstream in a way, and has to be recognized by the international cartel of big old dusty spider squishing dictionary publishers.
some will consider this word 'wrong' because it's a greek word with a latin plural ending added. On the other hand, some people will insist this is the 'right' way to spell the plural of octopus.
I remember this term being used in the Computer To Plate printing industry referring to the area of paper which will not be used in the final folded book or magazine. also margins
this is one of those words where, in Wiktionary's attempt to have a briefly written definition like a paper dictionary, they miss out on explaining what the word means.
the 90's are 20 years in the past, and this is the first time I heard this word, and wiktionary failed to explain this colour of music to a non-musicblind person.
the recursive verb definition is the cherry on top of the unclear definition. Â
So far, the fire emoji seems to be popular. It isn't the most common on emojipedia or other emoji sites, but it seems to be used as the new term lit , fire corn đĽđ˝ for fire cooked corn,đĽđ for fire ants,đđĽ for dumpster fire, 'is on đĽ' for 'is on fire' , đĽđĽhard for 'fire fire hard' (?), and đ¨đĽ for the sport of lighting natural methane, and allegedly đâĄď¸đĽ
looked up 2400 times. The people demand a definition.
quick search has Boom Shaka Laka in 1991
"His reviews for mid-'70s issues of Black Echoes helped define the genre and inspired some of the better reggae writing that followed, such as that in the now-defunct Small Axe or the new Boom Shaka Laka. "  The Beat magazine, (google book search result)
Also spotted in the 1984 Ultimate Broadway Fake Book "shakalaka baby"
non spoiler from Wikipedia: ". It describes the titular monster, the Babadook, a tall pale-faced humanoid in a top hat with pointed fingers who torments its victims after they become aware of its existence."
Spotted in a news article about a crashed warship 'Though the admiral said he had visited the McCain and denied, in response to reporters' questions, that her crew were overworked ("I didn't see a crew taking a knee, so to speak") his...'
In NASAspeak, it includes the atmosphere in the disk of an object.
"Some of the most breathtaking views of Earth taken from space are those that capture our planetâs limb. When viewed from the side, the Earth looks like a flat circle, and the atmosphere appears like a halo around it. This edge of the atmosphere is known as the limb. Viewed from satellites, space shuttles, and even the moon, the image of this luminous envelope of gases shielding the life on our planet from the dark, cold space beyond rarely fails to fascinate us." - NASA visible earth.
"Families who would once have eaten potato waffles are now experimenting with lower carb butternut âsquafflesâ (slices of butternut squash cut to resemble a waffle)." Guardian article - Why we fell for clean eating.
'with the term âreduce greenhouse gasesâ blacklisted in favor of âbuild soil organic matter, increase nutrient use efficiencyâ. ' - Guardian article on banned terms. Â climate change
The frog and hotbeverage emoji pairing refers to the "but that's none of my business" meme. Which has Kermit drinking tea. Â 1000 years from now in the future, future linguists will be wondering what the heck the frog/teacup thing means.
"...argued that marine tankers are safer because they spill less than 0.001 per million barrels of oil shipped (Mboe)." -Global news snippet.
It's confusing if the term refers to 1000 barrels or a million barrels. Anyone doing math regarding spills per Mboe really needs to double check the usage.
'The nightmare was sketched for me by the head of geosciences at Pennsylvania State University, Lee Kump, whose âhorror movieâ speculation was that there might have turbocharged âhypercanesâ of almost unbelievable intensity assaulting the supercontinent Pangaeaâthe result of runaway global warming.'
Spotted in article about Curiosity rover's wheels.
" âIn either case, the climbing wheel can end up experiencing higher forces, leading to cracks and punctures. The treads on each of Curiosity's six wheels, called grousers, are designed for climbing rocks. But the spaces between them are more at risk.â
Pope Francis gave the Catholic church five new cardinals Wednesday, sombrery instructing them to act as servants and not âprincesâ in a world where innocents are dying from wars and terrorism, slavery persists and refugee camps often"
spotted this word in my facebook feed with a definition of
"Straight white male offended by any feminist or ethnic activity which is not directly designed for him" - this was likely copy and pasted from somewhere else
it's a term that implies that all these technical things work together nicely and flawlessly, but the reality is that a tech stack is a cross between square pegs hammered into round holes, a Rube Goldberg machine and a Jenga tower which stops working and falls apart at the slightest disturbance.
This refers to the sourtoe drink which has a mummified toe.
Fron the Guardian article:
"For more than 40 years the Downtown hotel in Dawson City has served up the sourtoe cocktail, a shot of whisky with a blackened toe â nail and all â bobbing inside. Those who manage to touch the gnarled, severed toe to their lips earn a certificate.
On Saturday a customer took it one step further, allegedly making off with the wrinkled digit after swallowing his drink. âWe are furious,â said Terry Lee of the hotel. âToes are very hard to come by.â"
from the examples, half the time 'evergreen content' refers to spammy SEO optimization where old articles are refreshed to get search engines to update.
other times it refers to content which is "always true".
"The Chinese governmentâs list of banned words lengthens every year. Every June, they delete, via a censorship army of robots, algorithms and humans, posts that contain memes (a rubber duck facing a line of tanks), codes (June 4, 64, 8², May 35), or even everyday words (today, tomorrow, mourn, people)."
If you use this term, you're being socially insensitive, as it makes fun of people with aspergers, or uses aspergers as an insult, even if the target of the insult doesn't have aspergers.
because seeing that someone has mixed up 2 or 3 words that sound the same doesn't really confuse the reader, especially in an informal writing environment such as Facebook or Twitter.
"This week paleontologists from the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto unveiled the latest addition to their dinosaur menagerie: a massive, rhinocerous-sized armoured dinosaur they're calling Zuul - because of its striking resemblance to the demon-monster in the original Ghostbusters movie." -CBC Quirks and Quarks
spotted on ifixit "Some light adhesive secures the battery, but it's nothing that a little spudgering can't handle." Â Â Â using the plastic pry tool : Â spudger
it was a play on words for Nuclear Fusion. There were Tokomaks, Gyrotron, Thermotron, Stellerator and the fact fusion is really hard and always '20 years away',
"An alphamagic square is a magic square in which the number of letters in the name of each number in the square generates another magic square. " - wikipedia
 <i>The rap scholars at Genius have decided, on this track at least, that "lowkey means keeping things secret while highkey means letting everyone know."</i>
I'm not sure if this renders on phones and desktops, but this is a heiroglyphic character of a guy with his hands up... I like to think this is the Heiroglyphic shruggie. (it's not)
a massive high definition wall sized display. NASA and Apple have these. UC Irvine has one (from 2007 CNN story) IEEE has a 2003 description of this  "We describe the hyperwall, a visualization cluster that uses coordinated visualizations for interactive exploration of multidimensional data and simulations. The system strongly leverages the human eye-brain system with a generous 7/spl times/7 array of flat panel LCD screens powered by a Beowulf cluster."
"So, here's the thing: most people assume that I am a grammando of the highest order, or that I'm the sort of person who walks around with a Sharpie in my pocket ready to correct bad apostrophization and such."
it's like a compressed unicode. Instead of each unicode letter being 6 ascii characters (ie. u+1234), it's a starting point for the first character and then uses smaller numbers to represent the relative positions in that alphabet.
in the optics sense - a 2D sensor can be measured so fast to see the light waves arrive at different times to build up a 3d view of an object or to see through smoke and fog, or to see how neutrons bounce off of an object onto a bunch of detectors.
Physics has this for 'time of flight' mass spectrometers where particles travel down a tube and hit a detector at different times;Â
Medicine - this is a heart condition called Tetralogy of Fallot
"DoĂąa Liliana scolded with a single cut of her eyes before turning back to me to say, She lookeded muy elegante. She lookeded overdressed â as did you in those days â is what she lookeded, doĂąa Cristina said while examining her own ..."
"A nor'easter forms when warm, moist air travelling north with the gulf stream collides with cold air moving down from Canada, resulting in snow and rain." - NASA video NASA Catches April 1 Norâeaster over New England
"We and our service providers also use âPixel Tagsâ (sometimes referred to as clear Gifs, Web beacons, or Web bugs). Pixel Tags are tiny graphic images with a unique identifier, similar in function to Cookies, that are used to track online movements of Web users. "
âWorking with a local dog breeder, the VPD has genetically modified a German shepherd, Labrador retriever and a poodle to create a Shabradoodle,â <b>April 1</b>. Vancouver Courier
an artificial intelligence algorithm where simple things (such as lines and blobs) imply more complex things (such as letters and then words on a page) and then layered for more complex inferences.
phrase banned again in 2017 along with "Paris agreement" and "emmisions reduction" Â "climate change" was previously on the 'banned list' in 2015 by Florida (with 'global warming').
spotted in the 'Who Killed the Ice Man" article NYTimes
"Every modern murder investigation relies heavily on forensic science, but in Ătziâs case, the techniques have been particularly high tech, involving exotic specialties like archaeobotany and paleometallurgy."
'âItâs not an actual word in the German language,â says University of Kentucky psychologist Richard Smith. âYou wonât find it in any German dictionary.â' - spotted on languagehat
computer overclocking term - when people remove the metal cover from their computer's CPU and replace the thermal compound. The metal 'lid' is physically pried off. As a techie, I don't condone this because the thermal compound you replace the original lid with generally won't be any better.
"Sardony has some resemblance to parsley; it contains a poison which is said to contract the mouth in so peculiar a manner, that the individual affected seems to laugh in expiring. This horrible laugh has been named, Risis Sardonicus, or Sardonic Laughter. It is that which we see playing on the lips of Satire, as those of cold Irony.
Mammoth cloning article in the guardian: 'âWe hope to do the entire procedure ex-vivo (outside a living body),â he said. âIt would be unreasonable to put female reproduction at risk in an endangered species.â'
the computer term ping does not come from "p(acket) in(formation) g(roper)." Â The fifth edition of the American Heritage dictionary fixed their etymology.
Robotics term for controlling a stepper motor so it's in between 2 step locations. example: putting 20% current on coil A and 80% current on coil B results in a location in between A and B locations.
In general, microstepping is used for making the motors move smoothly between phases.
a 3d printing term for a benchmark test of your 3d printer.  named after the 3DBenchy file: It's a model of a boat.  I suspect benchy comes from benchmark
Spotted in the news as a card skimmer installed in the card slot of a banking machine. (shim / skimmer)
From a CBC article on these devices being found in point of sale devices - 'Bojic said using the tap function of a chip card is one way to avoid being "shimmed." '
spotted in the news 2017 - tech companies creating a colony in French Polynesia.
"The idea of seasteading â escaping the laws, regulations, and taxes of life on terra firma by establishing an outpost in international waters â has long enchanted libertarians." - The Guardian.
Comments by alexz
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alexz commented on the word freakshake
spotted in the BBC
'Call for UK ban on 'grotesquely sugary' freakshakes' Nov 12, 2018
"Freakshakes are milkshakes that also contain chocolates, sweets, cake, cream and sauce."
November 13, 2018
alexz commented on the word ptest
Computing - a package test.
November 10, 2018
alexz commented on the word milkshake duck
duckmilk shake
November 7, 2018
alexz commented on the word marschitect
Spotted as a Mars Architect
spotted in an ad.
November 6, 2018
alexz commented on the word BOFA
"both of"
November 5, 2018
alexz commented on the word w key
Refers to computer game players which hold down the W key, moving forward.
November 5, 2018
alexz commented on the word mobage
spotted as being a mobile game
November 4, 2018
alexz commented on the word Petđđ˝ty
Spotted on twitter, the shoutclap used in the midđđ˝dle of a word.
November 4, 2018
alexz commented on the word mervert
Fox News headline "'Professional mermaid' says creepy 'merverts' are the worst part of the job"
November 3, 2018
alexz commented on the list zamboni-palin
love this list.
November 3, 2018
alexz commented on the word firsting
Spotted this in gaming (Fortnite) but it seems to have a meaning on twitter.
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November 2, 2018
alexz commented on the word NaNoWriMas
On the first day of NaNoWriMas the writer typed to thee "It was a dark and stormy night.."
November 2, 2018
alexz commented on the word Hu
Spotted online as meaning the 'Human Element'
after the periodic table.
November 1, 2018
alexz commented on the list stars--1
Glad you liked the Thesaurus link.
October 30, 2018
alexz commented on the word Goop-ies
fans of Goop
October 29, 2018
alexz commented on the word intimacy coordinator
it's a stunt coordinator for love scenes
October 29, 2018
alexz commented on the word Inuk
Spotted in the news Inuk word of the day.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/angus-andersen-teaches-intuktitut-1.4881065
October 28, 2018
alexz commented on the word deplatform
Spotted in the news: when online services no longer do business with an organization, removing their platform servicesÂ
October 28, 2018
alexz commented on the word pro rep
Spotted in BC's 2018 referendum for Proportional Representation
October 27, 2018
alexz commented on the word NASA Thesaurus
I'm happy to discover that NASA has an online Thesaurus
October 27, 2018
alexz commented on the word twickets
Twitter tickets - tech support tickets which come in from Twitter to a company's tech support system.
October 25, 2018
alexz commented on the word letterboxing
Sounds like geocaching
October 22, 2018
alexz commented on the word memepad
What some players call the launchpad in Fortnite
October 22, 2018
alexz commented on the word totes mcgoats
Hyperbolic slang for totally
October 22, 2018
alexz commented on the word Totes McGoats
The name of a recycling mascot in Niagara Falls. http://time.com/4074261/totes-mcgoats/
Slang for totally
October 21, 2018
alexz commented on the word toats
I assume its a new way of saying totes for totally.
October 21, 2018
alexz commented on the word saxomophone
Made popular by Homer Simpson
October 20, 2018
alexz commented on the word Bunnicula
A vampire rabbit.
October 20, 2018
alexz commented on the word TLOTR
The lord Of The Rings
October 18, 2018
alexz commented on the word oojay-cum-spiff
Spotted in a Vancouver Public Library tweet.
https://twitter.com/VPL/status/1052368633794580481
"Oojay-cum-spiff, adj. "All you have to do,â I said, âis to carry on here for a few weeks more, and everything will be oojah-cum-spiff." 1930 PG Wodehouse.
Check out the meaning in our Oxford English Dictionary. Part of our Digital Library
http://ow.ly/NE3o30mghCz "
October 17, 2018
alexz commented on the word zaddy
I wonder which will last longer.. 'zaddy' as a word, or 'it me' as a sentence.
October 16, 2018
alexz commented on the word aurodium
Super rare Star Wars fictional gold
October 16, 2018
alexz commented on the word instagame
Instagram skill level
October 15, 2018
alexz commented on the word flossing
it's a dance move - 2018.
Spotted this at a Fortnite Emote.
October 15, 2018
alexz commented on the word aluminium
The discoverer of Aluminum initially called it aluminum. https://books.google.ca/books?id=YjMwAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA201
October 14, 2018
alexz commented on the word nuisance flooding
Well then...
October 14, 2018
alexz commented on the word postdrome
A migraine hangover
October 10, 2018
alexz commented on the word it me
First spotted the it me in 2017. I wonder what other sentences are just nouns.
October 10, 2018
alexz commented on the word chocolate bloom
Bloom county , Orlando Bloom, bloomers , bloomin ...
October 10, 2018
alexz commented on the word inverse femtobarn
A physics expression of luminosity, as a femtobarn is a unit of area.
October 8, 2018
alexz commented on the word youd
slang version of you would
October 7, 2018
alexz commented on the word Yanni
I think a good linguistics prank would be to make Laurel/Yanni the word of the year.
"And the word of the year is ....*soundclip*"
October 7, 2018
alexz commented on the word Banksy-ed
' âIt appears we just got Banksy-ed,â said Alex Branczik, Sothebyâs senior director and head of contemporary art in Europe.'
Spotted in the Guardian Article - Banksy auction prank leaves art world in shreds
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October 7, 2018
alexz commented on the word dream-pop
A type of music i'm not familiar with
October 5, 2018
alexz commented on the word contstant
I suspect this word shows up in print because that's how some people say constant
October 5, 2018
alexz commented on the word CELF
Commission for the Enrichment of the French Language - spotted in the Guardian.
October 5, 2018
alexz commented on the word regos
Spotted as Regolith Legos - small sintered blocks made from regolith material.
Spotted in Verge Science video "Building a lunar base out of Moon dust" Sept 18 2018
To add circular recursion, regolith comes from the greek word rhÄgos
October 4, 2018
alexz commented on the word sortabiography
"It's sorta true" -Eric Idle on Colbert Late Show
October 2, 2018
alexz commented on the word hickup-snickup
a hiccough
a 1400's word spotted in an 1800's dictionary on Archaic and Disused words.
https://books.google.ca/books?id=zG1JAAAAcAAJ
October 2, 2018
alexz commented on the word vall
to fall, rain or snow.
spotted in https://books.google.ca/books?id=WVYJAAAAQAAJ&pg=795#v=onepage&q&f=false
The West Somerset Word-book
October 2, 2018
alexz commented on the word ROTM
Spotted in The Register : Rise Of The Machines
October 2, 2018
alexz commented on the word HUSAR
Heavy Urban Search and Rescue
October 1, 2018
alexz commented on the word Amsterdammer
Google books says the song goes back to at least 1958
https://books.google.ca/books?id=jigNd06IAyoC&p=67
(no preview)
October 1, 2018
alexz commented on the word USMCA
US Mexico Canada Agreement.
Spotted on CBC News
October 1, 2018
alexz commented on the word Amsterdamster
Rhymes with Amsterhamster
September 30, 2018
alexz commented on the word Amsterdammer
Spotted ths term. I'm not sure if this is an official term.
September 29, 2018
alexz commented on the word long story short
examples go back to the 1700's https://books.google.ca/books?id=EPGFUz7coAEC&pg=PA44&dq=long+story+short
September 29, 2018
alexz commented on the word Clippy
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September 26, 2018
alexz commented on the word fotc
Abbreviation for tv show Flight Of The Conchords
September 25, 2018
alexz commented on the word UAC
Windows term for User Account Control
the computer protection based on approval popups which you get when you try to run an unknown executable in Windows.
September 22, 2018
alexz commented on the word OK
Vox did an article on this word.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UnIDL-eHOs
How it started from Boston and spread through the Telegraphs.
September 17, 2018
alexz commented on the word Elders of the Internet
https://books.google.ca/books?id=BjsEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA46&dq=elders+internet
March 14 1994 , Info World
I don't think this is the actual root of this term.Â
E. of The Internet spotted in Internet Engineering Task Force document https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-elders-social-media-apology-00 - July 2018
see also 'elder days' at the Jargon File. http://catb.org/jargon/html/E/elder-days.html  This version of Jargon File is from the late 90's.
Version 2.1.1 had the first reference to 'elder'
"1. To attach a removable storage volume to a machine.
Version 2.8.2 had the first Lord Of the Rings based reference to elders.
March 23 1991
September 15, 2018
alexz commented on the word trash panda
Despite the blog, this term pre-dates Reddit. https://books.google.ca/books?id=A5F5MRJl98YC&pg=PT79&dq="trash+panda"
2009 example.
September 13, 2018
alexz commented on the word SIEM
"Security incident and event management"
- wikipedia
This is a computer security term. I keep seeing it and having to look it up.
September 12, 2018
alexz commented on the word EGOT
An acting achievement where tou win Emmy, Oscar, Tony, and Grammy
September 10, 2018
alexz commented on the list on-the-lot
I sometimes wonder how 'real' the terms are when the terms are recycled in list compilation books.
https://books.google.ca/books?id=WipZDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT289
September 9, 2018
alexz commented on the word it'snot
For the times this is not a typo, it's a clever blend of it's not and it snot.
Spotted on Twitter
"You might think wiping your nose on the flag is patriotic but itâsnot"
- @hoarsewisperer
September 8, 2018
alexz commented on the word sas-quashed
Sootted in news article where a Sasquatch believer sued the BC government.
September 6, 2018
alexz commented on the list the-bees-knees-and-the-cats-pajamas
In my co-op student days, a British mechanic called everything good the cat's ass.
September 4, 2018
alexz commented on the word meteorological fall
meteorological autumn
September 4, 2018
alexz commented on the word meteorological autumn
September through November
https://forecast.weather.gov/glossary.php?word=autumn
also meteorological fall
September 4, 2018
alexz commented on the word Everest
Spotted as a verb, cycling term in a BBC article.
'The first cyclist to 'Everest' on Everest'
"Everesting is a cycling challenge where you pick a hill and ride up it over and over again until you've scaled 8,848m - the height of Mt Everest."
August 31, 2018
alexz commented on the word nyongmato
Sounds like a lot of work for a free sheep.
August 30, 2018
alexz commented on the word Unscented
link to TankHughe's list https://wordnik.com/lists/this-definition-is-wrong
August 30, 2018
alexz commented on the word book club
Why's the wine gone?
August 29, 2018
alexz commented on the word anolyte
a negatively charged electrolyte . see also, catholyte
August 28, 2018
alexz commented on the word SENÄOĹŚEN
Spotted in CBC article 'New dictionary published for Indigenous Vancouver Island language'
"... SENÄOĹŚEN is one of the one of the Coast Salish group of languages that is written in a mainly upper-case alphabet."
August 26, 2018
alexz commented on the word 1-1
spotted as businesspeak for 1 on 1 meeting
August 22, 2018
alexz commented on the word rng
Gaming : random number generator
August 21, 2018
alexz commented on the word đđ
Believe
August 21, 2018
alexz commented on the user heavenglows144
Running the first letters of a group of nations is how the word Pakistan came about.
August 19, 2018
alexz commented on the word đ đł đ
Spotted in a Carly Rae Jepsen music video as "Run Forrest Run!"
August 18, 2018
alexz commented on the word UNIX
Etymology - from UNICS which was Uniplexed Information and Computing Service
Spotted this in a youtube video watch?v=jowCUo_UGts and a Google books search confirms this.
https://books.google.ca/books?id=6DZdDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA7&dq=Uniplexed+Information+and+Computing+Service
August 17, 2018
alexz commented on the word starboard
I assumed it was because when ships sail from England to North America, Portugal is on the left and the North Star was on the right.
August 17, 2018
alexz commented on the word avozilla
An avocado as big as your head.
August 16, 2018
alexz commented on the word IMBH
Intermediate Mass Black Hole
August 12, 2018
alexz commented on the word tbqh
to be quite honest
August 11, 2018
alexz commented on the word landiversary
What the Mars Curiosity rover just called its landing anniversary.
August 6, 2018
alexz commented on the word remainer
2016-2018 refers to people who think Britain should remain in the EU
August 4, 2018
alexz commented on the word remainiac
Refers to people who prefer remain intstead of Brexit. Remainer.
August 4, 2018
alexz commented on the word seenager
Spotted online as a joke - a Senior Teenager - An old person who has no job, and no worries.
July 26, 2018
alexz commented on the list non-dairy-beverages
milk of magnesia , milk of the poppy,Â
July 24, 2018
alexz commented on the word almond milk
Spotted in cookbooks going back to the 1600's https://books.google.ca/books?id=NY9mAAAAcAAJ
July 21, 2018
alexz commented on the word Meghalayan
From the examples, it's referring to a region in India.
July 21, 2018
alexz commented on the word meghalayan
From a CBC news article : "Meghalayan (Late Holocene) Age, which runs from the start of a "mega-drought" 4,200 years ago to the present day."
July 21, 2018
alexz commented on the word hetiquette
Spotted in Guardian article where 'eating bananas whole' is an issue for people... also, Ice Cream.
July 21, 2018
alexz commented on the word greige
Free range definition from the Guardian.
"And then thereâs its cousin, greige, which you can make by mixing together two other things: monotony and despair. All of these related shades spell out a disappointment in all the worldâs flowers. They look like preened and perfected sick. And it is my belief that the palace has used the beige to take confident, opinionated, personality-owning Meghan away from us and turn her into a royal bot, like they always do."
July 15, 2018
alexz commented on the word bollux
spotted this as an alternative to bollocks
July 15, 2018
alexz commented on the word ux
If i had a wife, I wouldn't call er an ux
July 15, 2018
alexz commented on the word novichok
in 2018 news, it's a nerve agent which has historically been associated with Russia.
July 9, 2018
alexz commented on the word Spotified
Spotted a case of this becoming a generic term. " The future will be Spotified"
July 8, 2018
alexz commented on the word hypolith
Spotted this tweeted by a science radio show.
July 8, 2018
alexz commented on the word grep
Spotted the etymology in a youtube video - 8 minute mark.
G is for Global
re is for Regular Expression
P is what their tools tended to end in. https://youtu.be/NTfOnGZUZDk?t=8m1s
July 7, 2018
alexz commented on the word ez pz
Easy peasy
July 6, 2018
alexz commented on the word EZ PZ
easy peasy
July 6, 2018
alexz commented on the word insurancitis
Spotted this word again in 2018.
It appears to have some sticking power in the language.
July 6, 2018
alexz commented on the word hydromulch
spray on grass - used to stabilize hills from erosion.
June 30, 2018
alexz commented on the word donug
donut shaped chicken nugget
June 27, 2018
alexz commented on the word shiggrins
spotted as "just for shiggrins"
June 21, 2018
alexz commented on the word QT
twitterese for 'quote tweet'
June 20, 2018
alexz commented on the word metamorph
Science fiction - a shape shifter. Goes back to at least 1979
June 19, 2018
alexz commented on the word ĹĄxʡĆĚexÉn Xwtlâa7shn
New place name in Vancouver. The plaza by the Queen Elizabeth Theatre.
June 19, 2018
alexz commented on the word battle royale
Computer gaming - refers to a game where huge teams play against each other.
ie, 50 vs 50, last team standing wins.
June 17, 2018
alexz commented on the word âŽ
The symbol comes from the semaphores for N and D which stand for Nuclear Disarmament
June 17, 2018
alexz commented on the word smancy
schmancy
June 16, 2018
alexz commented on the word HIIT
High Intensity Interval Training
June 16, 2018
alexz commented on the word wit
slang shortening of with
June 15, 2018
alexz commented on the word fittinta
fittin ta
June 15, 2018
alexz commented on the word ikr
I know, right?
Also IKR
June 14, 2018
alexz commented on the word Periodontology
Glitched definition
June 14, 2018
alexz commented on the word fawn-napping
Spotted in the news. Leave the baby deer alone.
June 14, 2018
alexz commented on the word putchist
That would make sense.
June 6, 2018
alexz commented on the word putchist
no idea what this word means.
spotted in the news.
June 6, 2018
alexz commented on the word hexa-core
having 6 cpu cores
June 6, 2018
alexz commented on the word Manipogo
Name comes from Ogopogo
June 3, 2018
alexz commented on the word Winnipogo
Another Canadian lake monster, see Manipogo
June 3, 2018
alexz commented on the word noods
Spotted as noodles.
June 2, 2018
alexz commented on the word 23 skidoo
Spotted this term being discussed in Lexicon Valley Episode No. 75 at the 20 minute mark.
The podcast said that 23 referred to the Flatiron Building in New York and people's dresses being affected by the wind.
Wikipedia has a whole page dedicated to this term.
June 2, 2018
alexz commented on the word erry
Spotted as slang for every
June 2, 2018
alexz commented on the word Old Sober
yakamein
June 1, 2018
alexz commented on the word yakamein
A New Orleans hangovers cure dish,
May 31, 2018
alexz commented on the word Manhattanhenge
It's like it happens every year around this time.
May 30, 2018
alexz commented on the word nausrht
Page 24 of the referenced book, The Gentle Shepherd, shows naught
May 28, 2018
alexz commented on the word blinkenlights
From a 1960's joke. (from books search)
"Is easy schnappen der Springenwerk, blowenfusen und poppencorken mit spitzensparken. 1st nicht fur gerwerken by das Dummkopfen. Das rubber- necken sightseeren keepen hands in das pockets. Relaxen und watch das Blinkenlights."
Wikipedia has blinkenlights going back to the 50's and IBM
May 26, 2018
alexz commented on the word gnight
g'night
May 25, 2018
alexz commented on the word HSTS
HTTP Strict Transport Security
May 24, 2018
alexz commented on the word GDPR
General Data Protection Regulation
May 24, 2018
alexz commented on the word yasss
There's a YouTube video which explains the difference between yaaas and yasss.
watch?v=6ZrYUOBshcE . 'The Origin of "Yas Queen" | Iris'
"Steven London explains the origins of "Yaaass Queen!"
May 24, 2018
alexz commented on the word yasss
I'm starting to see yasss in 2018 more frequently than yaaas in 2016.
May 23, 2018
alexz commented on the word laze
Wiktionary seems to have a 'Neutral Point of View' theme which neutralizes half of the meaning of a word and blandifies it to something a committee agrees on.
May 21, 2018
alexz commented on the word laze
'Laze -- a mashup of "lava" and "haze" -- is a nasty product formed when hot lava hits the ocean, sending hydrochloric acid and volcanic glass particles into the air'
- Spotted on CNN https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/20/us/hawaii-kilauea-volcano-lava-flow/index.html
May 20, 2018
alexz commented on the word afaict
"as far as I can tell" . AFAICT
May 20, 2018
alexz commented on the word 996
Refers to working conditions in China: 9am to 9pm 6 days a week
May 20, 2018
alexz commented on the word expunction
I, prefer, the, Shatner comma
May 20, 2018
alexz commented on the word bowl food
Spotted in the BBC Royal Wedding news
'Bowl food is larger than a canapĂŠ and around a quarter of the size of a main course.
It is served in miniature or hand-sized bowls and comes ready to eat with a small fork.
The idea behind a bowl food menu is so guests can stay standing up and mingle while they eat. It has been described by caterers as an option which allows guests to "keep on talking".
'
May 20, 2018
alexz commented on the word pawfficer
Spotted in the news. A police cat
May 18, 2018
alexz commented on the word eggacado
Multiple friends have posted pics of eggs and avocados, so Im predicting a new trend.
May 16, 2018
alexz commented on the word Newfie
Today I learned that Newfie is considered a derogatory term. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/11/anthony-bourdain-newfies-newfoundland-show-tweet-response-criticism
May 13, 2018
alexz commented on the word plurality
Spotted on Astronomy Picture of the Day "A plurality of singularities at the Galactic Center"
"Explanation: A recent informal poll found that astronomers don't yet have a good collective noun for a group of black holes, but they need one.  ..."
APOD May 12 2018
There's something about using plural and singular in the same sentence to describe the same thing.
May 12, 2018
alexz commented on the word lean in
...is a phrase I've seen several times but am never sure of the meaning of.
May 12, 2018
alexz commented on the word entymology
Uncertainty is part of the joke
May 12, 2018
alexz commented on the word đđŠL
Emoji phrase for Deadpool
May 11, 2018
alexz commented on the word indigineer
Spotted in CBC news article.
'Indigeneer' combines scientific methods and traditional Indigenous knowledge
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/indigeneer-scientific-methods-indigenous-knowledge-1.4655478
May 10, 2018
alexz commented on the list đĽ
Does this mean my emoji phrases list won't work? https://www.wordnik.com/lists/emoji-phrases
May 9, 2018
alexz commented on the word EBCDICity
Also spotted, in same video referenced in EBCDIC
pronounced ebb-sid-issity
May 9, 2018
alexz commented on the word EBCDIC
Pronounced Ebb-stick
May 9, 2018
alexz commented on the word yestermorrow
spotted today
May 5, 2018
alexz commented on the word narcodrone
Spotted in the news,... drones used by drug gangs
May 5, 2018
alexz commented on the word WHCD
White House Correspondent's Dinner
May 2, 2018
alexz commented on the word Henoticon
Zeno's Henoticon
May 1, 2018
alexz commented on the word smsing
text messaging
May 1, 2018
alexz commented on the word imop
I think this means imo or "In My Opinion"
May 1, 2018
alexz commented on the word Konami code
Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, select Start
April 29, 2018
alexz commented on the word Emacs
"Editing MACroS"Â
LinuxFest Northwest 2018: Linux Jargon talk.
April 29, 2018
alexz commented on the word EMACS
Emacs
April 29, 2018
alexz commented on the word BSD
Berkeley Software Distribution
April 29, 2018
alexz commented on the word BOFH
This acronym comes from The Register.
April 29, 2018
alexz commented on the word timey-wimey
wibbly-wobbly
April 29, 2018
alexz commented on the word wibbly-wobbly
timey-wimey
April 29, 2018
alexz commented on the word YAMWFI
"Yet Another Meeting Will Fix This"
Spotted in LinuxFest Northwest 2018: Security Theatre talk.
April 29, 2018
alexz commented on the word đˇ
spotted đˇ: as being a photo credit marker.
đˇ: photoperson.
April 28, 2018
alexz commented on the word hanami
Cherry Blossom viewing
- from Japan
April 26, 2018
alexz commented on the word tufthunter
(chorus)
Where women glow and men plunder?
Can't you hear, can't you hear tufthunter?
You better run, you better take cover
April 26, 2018
alexz commented on the word flatology
The study of flatulence,according to Science Friday's tweet. Apr 25 2018
April 25, 2018
alexz commented on the word monotwist
Goto monotwist.
A Rubik's cube transformation that twists 2 corner pieces.
April 25, 2018
alexz commented on the word come-down
"They were foot ballers from all over the state, had their come downs in Adelaide"
- Spotted in an Objectivity video, so I assume it's real Australianese for 'come down for a visit'.
watch?v=FtEQuM7JmdI
On Twitter, it seems to refer to withdrawal symptoms from caffeine or some substance.
April 25, 2018
alexz commented on the word atlantification
The warming of the arctic ocean and the influx of Atlantic species. Probably should be Capitalized
April 24, 2018
alexz commented on the word pulchrist
A refreshing break from the 'neutral point of view' types of definitions that Wiktionary has
April 22, 2018
alexz commented on the word bunny-hug
In Saskatchewan, a bunny-hug is a hoodie.
April 20, 2018
alexz commented on the word doombuggies
Spotted in Canada's Beaverton.
"The two dozen or so pipeline warriors appeared on the BC Legislature lawn driving custom built motorcycles, doombuggies armed with menacing spikes, and F-150 pickup trucks with bumper stickers proclaiming their love for Alberta beef."
April 18, 2018
alexz commented on the word bilby
A fez wearing person in a tiny little car shows up and drops off a food pellet.
April 16, 2018
alexz commented on the word froot
What some people in the UK want to call the frunk, a front boot, instead of a front trunk.
April 15, 2018
alexz commented on the word bilby
I hear there's a secret button pressing ceremony involving a food pellet.
April 15, 2018
alexz commented on the word legos
The floor is legos.
April 14, 2018
alexz commented on the word munt
Book search confirms it is a racist slur in S Africa
April 14, 2018
alexz commented on the word ylem
then there's doggospeak's mlem
April 13, 2018
alexz commented on the word Primenesia
forgetting what you ordered on Amazon when the package arrives.
April 11, 2018
alexz commented on the word pemdas
PEMDAS
April 8, 2018
alexz commented on the word whishing
Spotted as WhatsApp phishing.
April 8, 2018
alexz commented on the word upthread
Refers to earlier in a threaded discussion.
April 5, 2018
alexz commented on the word photoplethysmographic
Spotted in Register article about cell phones being used to check for veins and check pulse and circulation measurements.
April 4, 2018
alexz commented on the word sudoer
Spotted in an XKCD comic... and I suspect I've seen this around before as a SUDO user in a Linux / UNIX sense.Â
April 4, 2018
alexz commented on the word polycoat
Spotted in a city of Vancouver tweet referring to the non recyclable coated cardboard.
April 3, 2018
alexz commented on the word must-runs
spotted in the news
'Sinclair Broadcast Group, the largest owner of television stations in the U.S., employs a well-known practice of producing "must-runs," conservative commentary segments that each Sinclair-owned station is required to air. ' - Seattle PI.
April 1, 2018
alexz commented on the word somebunny
Easterspeak for 'somebody'
April 1, 2018
alexz commented on the word biobot
Spotted in a NASA tweet.
March 31, 2018
alexz commented on the word baha'i
Wordnik is case sensitive in the word search, so you will find it at . Baha'i
March 31, 2018
alexz commented on the word plogging
I look forward to April 1 when the pranksters who coined this word admit it was a joke.
Picking up garbage while jogging?
March 31, 2018
alexz commented on the word tryalls
an archaic term for trials?
March 28, 2018
alexz commented on the word scambaiting
Is where people mess with phone and email scammers to waste their time and frustrate them.
March 28, 2018
alexz commented on the word âłââł
Is a representation for a table. From tableflip emoticon.
March 27, 2018
alexz commented on the word naunt
Wonder if it's related to nuncle
March 27, 2018
alexz commented on the word byo
"bring your own"
March 26, 2018
alexz commented on the word Hesperian
3 billion to 3.8 billion years ago when Mars was in transition from a wet planet Noachian to the current cold and dry planet Amazonian
March 26, 2018
alexz commented on the word Noachian
Mars's Geological period when it was covered in Water.
March 26, 2018
alexz commented on the word Rockoon
'He wants to build a "Rockoon," a rocket that is carried into the atmosphere by a gas-filled balloon, then separated from the balloon and lit.'
- spotted in CBC news story of a rocketeer who thinks the world is flat.
March 26, 2018
alexz commented on the word catch and kill
A form of censorship which refers to buying the exclusive rights to a news story, and then not publishing the story to protect a person the story is about.
March 25, 2018
alexz commented on the word porgin pie
porg themed pumpkin pie
March 24, 2018
alexz commented on the word porgin
Spotted in looking up this word:Â porgin pie ;
March 24, 2018
alexz commented on the word twemoji
Twitter emoji
March 24, 2018
alexz commented on the word Twemoji
Twitter emoji
March 24, 2018
alexz commented on the word screlting
"scream belting"
March 23, 2018
alexz commented on the word technotronic
"This beat is... This beat is... This beat is... "
March 23, 2018
alexz commented on the word Glosik
A 19th century way of writing which resembles lolspeak.
https://books.google.ca/books?id=aKIKAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA89#v=onepage&q&f=false
from doing a book search for moar and 19th century.
March 22, 2018
alexz commented on the word wine-thirty
That time of day
March 21, 2018
alexz commented on the word yotes
short for coyotes . Yotes
March 20, 2018
alexz commented on the word Yotes
short for coyotes.
spotted in a hashtag #Yotes for a Coyotes sports team.
March 20, 2018
alexz commented on the word Steve
Spotted in a CBC news story about Steve
"The phenomenon does now have a backronym of an official name: strong thermal emission velocity enhancement (Steve for short)."
March 20, 2018
alexz commented on the word Animal Farm
Refers to a the book Animal Farm.
March 20, 2018
alexz commented on the word thraward
Ok Bruce.Â
March 18, 2018
alexz commented on the word Norwenglish
Norway english.
Worth a web search.
March 17, 2018
alexz commented on the word gravitonium
Science Fiction (Marvel Universe) - material that affects gravity.
March 17, 2018
alexz commented on the word brosef
Bro
March 17, 2018
alexz commented on the word Cheshire moon
aka Cheshire cat moon
March 17, 2018
alexz commented on the word de-crab
When an airplane straightens out to land on a runway when flying slightly sideways in a crosswind.
March 17, 2018
alexz commented on the word Nak
a sodium (na) potassium (k) alloy.
liquid at room temperature
NaK is probably the right spelling
March 16, 2018
alexz commented on the word galinstan
a "Gallium/Indium/Tin " alloy, which has a very low melting point
March 16, 2018
alexz commented on the word waka waka bang splat
Name of a poem which is written mostly in programming punctuation, but pronounced with the UNIX/ASCII names for the characters.
Calvin College - https://calvin.edu/news/archive/waka-waka-bang-splat-
so.. circa 1990 'ish
March 12, 2018
alexz commented on the word NACTO
National Association of City Transportation Officials
March 11, 2018
alexz commented on the word MUTCD
Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways
The style guide which is why streets are mostly the same across the US.
March 11, 2018
alexz commented on the word AASHTO
American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials
- road designers
March 11, 2018
alexz commented on the word ques
questions
cues
or short for the question mark ?
March 11, 2018
alexz commented on the word slashaster
/*
March 11, 2018
alexz commented on the word n-tilde
Ăą or Ă
March 11, 2018
alexz commented on the word bash-bang-splat
the ASCII characters \!*
March 11, 2018
alexz commented on the word enyay
Unix pronounciation guide ( http://www-personal.umich.edu/~rmutt/doc/pronunciation-guide.html ) says it's the tilde ~
March 11, 2018
alexz commented on the word slashterix
/*
pairing of a slash and asterix .
March 11, 2018
alexz commented on the word asterslash
the pairing of an asterix and slash
*/
March 11, 2018
alexz commented on the word Unithorpe
If you google the progression of programmer's thorpes, you get a programming language named Unithorpe
"Unithorpe
Unithorpe is a small interpreted programming language and its virtual machine.
The driving idea is to use a single unicode character to name each variable, function, namespace, builtin operator, etc. in the language. All data is either unicode characters or arrays of unicode characters or other arrays."
Also search Trithorpe and Oglethorpe (more computer languages by Henry Strickland)
I wonder if half the variable names render as Emoji
March 11, 2018
alexz commented on the word octalthorpe
"The word has appeared in many forms, including octothorn, octalthorp, octothorp, and octatherp as well as octothorpe. "
- World Wide Words - 1999 http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-oct1.htm
March 11, 2018
alexz commented on the word pentathorpe
allegedly *
based on the silly progression of octothorpe, quadrathorpe, bithorpe, duothorpe, monothorpe
(from quick google search)
March 11, 2018
alexz commented on the word monothorpe
The Ascii Table people ask 'what's a monothorpe?'
March 11, 2018
alexz commented on the word bithorpe
-
https://glossographia.wordpress.com/2013/07/01/octothorpe-quadrathorpe-bithorpe/
March 11, 2018
alexz commented on the word quadrathorpe
half an octothorpe
For 'the equals sign'
https://books.google.ca/books?id=g80P_4v4QbIC&pg=PA46&dq=quadrathorpe
March 11, 2018
alexz commented on the word hyper-drive
If the Google book search is accurate, this goes back to 1925 science fiction.
"We could just equip the space ship with something we might call Hyper-drive, and let it go at that."
Term later found in 1950's Analog and Galaxy science fiction magazines.
March 11, 2018
alexz commented on the word walk-thru
a quick demonstration going over the basic features of an item or a piece of software.
March 10, 2018
alexz commented on the word tf
short for "The f%ck"
March 10, 2018
alexz commented on the word fr
twitterese, txtspk "for real"
March 10, 2018
alexz commented on the word stg
textese, twitterspeak "swear to god"
March 10, 2018
alexz commented on the word livetweet
to tweet events in real time
March 9, 2018
alexz commented on the word mates rates
Free,
According to my Aussie friend
March 8, 2018
alexz commented on the word manspalining
spa lining. 2 inches of reinforced concrete with a layer of Rhino liner.
March 8, 2018
alexz commented on the word some men hate eating onions
mnemonic for memorizing the Great Lakes
March 6, 2018
alexz commented on the word crokicurl
A hybrid of crokinole and curling
Spotted on the Mercer Report from Winnipeg at the Forks.
March 4, 2018
alexz commented on the word perfunctionary
shows up as a 'related word' under formal, but has no definition here.
March 4, 2018
alexz commented on the word emojipasta
copypasta for emojis
March 4, 2018
alexz commented on the word shouty clap
SHOUTYđCLAPđSPOTTEDđAT https://twitter.com/timhwang/status/969583233867403264
March 4, 2018
alexz commented on the word forbidden three Ts
Censorshipspeak of "Taiwan, Tibet, and Tiananmen"
March 3, 2018
alexz commented on the word wideth
...notes the examples listed
March 3, 2018
alexz commented on the word heighth
wideth
March 3, 2018
alexz commented on the list fingernails-on-my-chalkboard
Hit the breaks
March 3, 2018
alexz commented on the word xed
Crossed out. Or Covered with an X.
March 2, 2018
alexz commented on the word n
Letter n now banned , if you believe the Guardian.
February 28, 2018
alexz commented on the word AOA
Nasaspeak - Abort Once Around
February 27, 2018
alexz commented on the word ET SEP
Space Shuttle - External Tank Separation
February 27, 2018
alexz commented on the word RTLS
Return To Launch Site
February 27, 2018
alexz commented on the word OAR
2018 Winter Olympics: Olympic Athletes from Russia
February 27, 2018
alexz commented on the list just-one-thing
the one and only
Google autocomplete has one-off . one-eyed-jacks
one flew over the cuckoos nest
February 27, 2018
alexz commented on the word neckbeard
It's likely Wiktionary tried to 'Neutral Point of View' their definition: some of their 2007 definitions mention it's derogatory.
February 25, 2018
alexz commented on the word CPAC
Conservative Political Action Conference
from the examples to the right "pronounced C-Pack"
February 25, 2018
alexz commented on the word Wakanda
19th century book search shows this as a North American word.
February 25, 2018
alexz commented on the word bin chicken
Australian white ibis
- spotted in science news
aka trash turkey
aka tip turkey (wikipedia)
February 24, 2018
alexz commented on the word Thuja
see thuja
February 24, 2018
alexz commented on the word euphemism
alternaswears alterna-swears , bowdlerism ... I have a ââââ list...
February 24, 2018
alexz commented on the word telop
spotted in a robotics video for teleoperation
"now we should be able to telop the car"
February 21, 2018
alexz commented on the word pies
bilbycakes
February 21, 2018
alexz commented on the word đđ
Emoji phrase for 'die laughing' - hyperbolically speaking.
February 19, 2018
alexz commented on the word 1440
4 rotations in an acrobatic sport. 1 turn more than a 1080
February 18, 2018
alexz commented on the word backside triple cork 1440
snowboarding references at chicken salad
February 18, 2018
alexz commented on the word snaining
added to the big list of words for ice and snow.
February 17, 2018
alexz commented on the word snoosh
From the examples listed here '...and the light drizzle at home turns to the sleet-snow hybrid known locally as âsnoosh.â '
February 17, 2018
alexz commented on the word LEE
NASA, Spacestation term for Latching End Effector
"The first task for spacewalkers Mark Vande Hei and Norishige Kanai is to move a Latching End Effector (LEE), or hand, for the Canadian-built robotic arm, Canadarm2, from a payload attachment on the stationâs Mobile Base System rail car to the Quest airlock. " - NASA Johnson YouTube video 'U.S. Spacewalk 48 Animation'
February 17, 2018
alexz commented on the word Oppy
the Opportunity Mars rover... still going .
February 16, 2018
alexz commented on the word hbty
hate beets , tomatoes yummy
February 15, 2018
alexz commented on the word steezy
Oh Wiktionary, you 'clean up' the definition by not putting maintenance tasks in to the definition.
February 14, 2018
alexz commented on the word Sarcellitis
Spotted in the Guardian " Sarcelles has come to represent everything wrong with Parisâs banlieues to such an extent that thereâs even a word â Sarcellitis â to describe the ennui created by modernist high-rises, concrete and social isolation."
February 14, 2018
alexz commented on the word hbty
textspeak "happy birthday to you"
February 14, 2018
alexz commented on the word chicken salad
Spotted on the CBC as a downhill snowboarding term. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5nc5Ul-irk
February 14, 2018
alexz commented on the word bog-shoeing
https://books.google.ca/books?id=34Fi1tvFdV8C&pg=PA166&dq=bog+shoe
February 14, 2018
alexz commented on the word btvs
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
February 13, 2018
alexz commented on the word cryptojacking
is where a web browser is hijacked to run a crypto-mining program for someone else.
February 12, 2018
alexz commented on the word PSOD
Purple Screen Of Death - the 2018 equivalent to the BSOD
February 11, 2018
alexz commented on the word Endymion
Spotted as a name for a parade.
February 11, 2018
alexz commented on the word Whim
"Theoretical calculations suggest these gaseous threads, known as the warmâhot intergalactic medium, or the Whim, ought to be around a million degrees celsius. " - Guardian article : Astronomers find half of the missing matter in the universe
February 11, 2018
alexz commented on the word The Land of the Morning Calm
February 10, 2018
alexz commented on the word two-peat
also 2-peat and see three-peat
February 9, 2018
alexz commented on the word 2-peat
spotted in the news regarding an Olympic Flag Carrier coin toss decision.
February 9, 2018
alexz commented on the word VCSEL
pronounced 'vixel'. vertical cavity surface emitting laser
February 6, 2018
alexz commented on the list triple-anagrams
tar rat art
February 6, 2018
alexz commented on the list triple-anagrams
antres astern sterna
February 5, 2018
alexz commented on the list triple-anagrams
Ronald ladron lardon
February 5, 2018
alexz commented on the word NET Date
"no earlier than" date for a space launch.
February 3, 2018
alexz commented on the word Qarlinngua
... and anyone who studies the etymology of this word would be a Qarlinnguaist. :)
February 3, 2018
alexz commented on the word Qarlinngua
Name of a 'pants' shaped rock formation in northern Canada.
'The Nunavut community of Arctic Bay calls it "Qarlinngua" â pronounced "kar-ling-wah," which means "like pants" in Inuktitut.' -CBC news
February 3, 2018
alexz commented on the word maintain station
NASAspeak for maintaining a position in orbit. Also station-keeping (wikipedia)
February 3, 2018
alexz commented on the word snow rollers
Snow roller formation recorded on video in progress. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/bales-of-snow-in-downtown-ottawa-a-rare-treat-climatologist-1.4517031Â . from my previous post, it seems to be a February thing.
February 3, 2018
alexz commented on the word vound
Release the vounds!
February 2, 2018
alexz commented on the word prancercising
I cannot unsee the visuals from my FB feed
February 2, 2018
alexz commented on the word istg
spotted as "I swear to god"
January 31, 2018
alexz commented on the word g2g
looking up s2g at ud gives 'swear to god'
January 31, 2018
alexz commented on the word mythtaken
*bangs on keyboard loooking for earlier citation*
https://books.google.ca/books?id=vTICAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA368&dq="myth-taken";;;;Â 1875 it appears to have originally been a lisp joke.
January 30, 2018
alexz commented on the word ilysm
txtspk for 'I love you so much'
January 29, 2018
alexz commented on the word g2g
got 2 go
twitterese, text speak.
January 29, 2018
alexz commented on the word kernelista
Hyperbolic term spotted in The Register as a linux kernel developer.
January 29, 2018
alexz commented on the word NTNOCN
BBC Television Show "Not The Nine O'Clock News"
January 29, 2018
alexz commented on the word snow monster
In Japan, snow monsters are snow covered alpine trees which have interesting shapes due to the wind blowing snow.
Spotted in the Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2018/01/photos-of-the-week-aerobatic-performers-snow-monsters-a-murmuration/551624/
January 28, 2018
alexz commented on the word mythtaken
Luke Skywalker? I thought he was a myth!
You were mythtaken.
https://twitter.com/HamillHimself/status/957652314508029952?ref_src=twcamp%5Eshare%7Ctwsrc%5Em5%7Ctwgr%5Eemail%7Ctwcon%5E7046%7Ctwterm%5E2
January 28, 2018
alexz commented on the word shippening
fanspeak : shipper happening
January 28, 2018
alexz commented on the word shirtballs
Spotted Holy Shirtballs on twitter, then a quick search revealed variants of holy mother forking shirtballs.
January 27, 2018
alexz commented on the word literally
Is listed as being one of the circles of he'll for linguistic transgressions. https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/dantes-nine-circles-of-hell-reimagined-for-linguistic-transgressions
January 27, 2018
alexz commented on the word LCHF
Low Carb High Fat - diet
January 26, 2018
alexz commented on the word ferryspotter
"We have ferryspotters? Yes, we do. Like British trainspotters, they chat happily on online forums, tracking the ships and burrowing into the minutiae of those big, complicated people-movers that most of us rely on without ever pausing to ponder how they actually work. "
http://www.vancourier.com/opinion/ferry-s-whistle-back-to-tooting-a-major-chord-1.23155089
January 26, 2018
alexz commented on the word ě°ě
looks like a person holding hands with a one legged person.
January 25, 2018
alexz commented on the word swipe right
from the tinder dating app, 'like'.
January 24, 2018
alexz commented on the word swipe left
from the Tinder app... not a match; nope.;
January 24, 2018
alexz commented on the word oontz
I'm glad to see this listed at Wordnik.
January 23, 2018
alexz commented on the word henlo
This is 2017/2018 memespeak for 'hello'.
January 21, 2018
alexz commented on the word đ đ
Spotted emojiphrase Book Worm
January 20, 2018
alexz commented on the word headass
Another word to add to the swear jar.
I like this one. It's a fun insult.
January 17, 2018
alexz commented on the word eggs for money
I like all these words you're listing Gammerstang.
January 17, 2018
alexz commented on the word solresol
Solresol
January 16, 2018
alexz commented on the word Solresol
La Langue Musicale Universelle , Universal Musical Language .. spotted in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyC4lLTOyL8 .
A language made of music"
January 16, 2018
alexz commented on the word manholer
" And 'manholers' flock from far and wide to photograph the artworks"
BBC article on fancy Japanes manhole covers. 'Japan's elaborate manhole covers' .Â
January 15, 2018
alexz commented on the word productise
productize
January 15, 2018
alexz commented on the word đĽđŚ
or đĽ¤đŚÂ or milkshake duck
January 14, 2018
alexz commented on the word đĽ¤đŚ
or đĽđŚ
January 14, 2018
alexz commented on the word methylox
liquid methane, liquid oxygen, rocket fuel
January 14, 2018
alexz commented on the word bfr
short txt version of 'before'.
January 14, 2018
alexz commented on the word chee-hoo
My favourite new Hawaii slang. Spotted in the news about a cashier who looks like Disney's Maui
January 14, 2018
alexz commented on the word meowntain
a version of meowtain
(spotted on Twitter, of course)
January 13, 2018
alexz commented on the word sav'd
Saved
January 13, 2018
alexz commented on the word fav'd
Noticed all the examples are from the long s version of sav'd
January 13, 2018
alexz commented on the word fav'd
Spotted as liked or favourited as in Twitter facebook
January 13, 2018
alexz commented on the word rtd
Spotted as retweeted
January 13, 2018
alexz commented on the word retpoline
" a retpoline is a return trampoline that uses an infinite loop that is never executed to ..."
- stackoverflow.
gotta love tech speak (the above doesn't make sense to me)
This word showed up January 3rd'ish in reference to Spectre and Meltdown bugs.
January 11, 2018
alexz commented on the word houghmangandy
Googlefight gives these 2 words a tie score, tied at zero.
https://www.googlefight.com/houghmangandy-vs-+houghmagandy.php
For the tie breaker, google ngram viewer gives it to https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=houghmangandy+%2C+houghmagandy&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Choughmagandy%3B%2Cc0
...houghmagandy . đŠââď¸
January 10, 2018
alexz commented on the word phlyarologist
would make a nice business card title,
January 10, 2018
alexz commented on the word Buck House
Buckingham Palace
January 9, 2018
alexz commented on the word googoo
Now works as an alternative "ok Google" voiceprint hack, thx to Italian grandma.
January 7, 2018
alexz commented on the word weather bomb
CBC article on the origin of the term weather bomb. http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/technology/canadian-coined-term-weather-bomb-1.4474431
January 5, 2018
alexz commented on the word Beringia
The land region of the Bering Sea Land Bridge from the last ice age.
Beringian
January 4, 2018
alexz commented on the word Beringian
Spotted in the Guardian
'The newly-discovered group, named âancient Beringiansâ, appears to have split off from the founding population of Native Americans about 20,000 years ago.'
- Jan 3 article: Surprise as DNA reveals new group of Native Americans: the ancient Beringians
January 4, 2018
alexz commented on the word cybersquid
the perfect word to describe the tangle of cables between my monitor, usb hubs, usb switcher, laptop, pi, old desktop, plethora of power supplies, network hubs, and HDMI switcher
January 1, 2018
alexz commented on the word shrobe
spotted in a guardian article about denim being a new thing.
"Model Gigi Hadid âshrobingâ her denim jacket in New York. "
Vogue has an article called "What Is Shrobing? And How Do You Do it?"
It's basically draping what you're wearing off your shoulders, like your jacket is almost falling off your shoulders.
January 1, 2018
alexz commented on the word Dakelh
A native language in the Prince George area of British Columbia.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/dakelh-nakazdli-language-app-camp-1.4459256
"Growing up, she said, her father would occasionally speak to her in the Nak'azdli dialect of the Dakelh language historically spoken in central B.C., even though he wasn't fluent."
January 1, 2018
alexz commented on the word -verse
suffix for universe. twitterverse, spiderverse,
December 31, 2017
alexz commented on the word Blackguardiana
"Blackguardiana; or, a dictionary of rogues"Â https://books.google.ca/books?id=zZtkAAAAcAAJ Â Â 18th century.
"Ankle, A girl who is got with child, is said to have sprained her ankle"
December 31, 2017
alexz commented on the word semis
semi-finals .
December 30, 2017
alexz commented on the word spaghetto
uh oh spaghettios!
December 26, 2017
alexz commented on the word duallie
A pickup truck with the 2 pairs of tires on the back.
December 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word octoweb
A rocket chassis where a center rocket engine is surrounded by 8 outer engines.
The chassis holds all the engines together at the bottom of the rocket.
December 24, 2017
alexz commented on the word steelhead
You will see differing definitions above (trout species versus salmon species) because scientists didn't really understand this fish over the last 200 years. It's like a trout that lives like a salmon.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/salmon-or-trout-what-the-heck-is-a-steelhead-anyway-1.4461827
Either way, this is an endangered fish in some rivers.
December 23, 2017
alexz commented on the word autometalogolex
Xkcd 1932
December 23, 2017
alexz commented on the word indigenized
Spotted this in the news "Star Wars characters get Indigenized by Comox First Nation artist" - CBC article.
From the examples, this term has been around for at least 20 years.
Quick books search has this going back to 1800s https://books.google.ca/books?id=TLw-AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA256&dq=indigenized
December 23, 2017
alexz commented on the word milkshake duck
in emoji đĽ¤đŚÂ
December 22, 2017
alexz commented on the word đĽ¤đŚ
emoji for milkshake duck
December 22, 2017
alexz commented on the list words-objected-to-grammatically
Objection overruled!
December 22, 2017
alexz commented on the word undersudsing
clearly this word was coined by marketing types to make people feel inadequate about their laundry and consume more detergent.
December 21, 2017
alexz commented on the word you'dn't've'd
You might like bilby's list of contractions. https://www.wordnik.com/lists/at-least-two-apostrophes-or-your-money-back
December 19, 2017
alexz commented on the word y'all'lln't
Need to add this to the y'all list https://www.wordnik.com/lists/yall
December 18, 2017
alexz commented on the word sudsing
quick books search, this term is over 100 years old.
December 18, 2017
alexz commented on the word oversudsing
This word is written on my apartment building's washing machines.
Supposed to 'avoid oversudsing' by using less detergent.
also sudsing
December 18, 2017
alexz commented on the word mouses
It may be 'incorrect' in a strunk sense, but in usage...
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=computer%20mouses,computer%20mice
and
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=keyboards+and+mice%2C+keyboards+and+mouses&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Ckeyboards%20and%20mice%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Ckeyboards%20and%20mouses%3B%2Cc0
December 18, 2017
alexz commented on the word tenthmeter
When I studied metals, we use the unit Angstrom
December 17, 2017
alexz commented on the word milkshake duck
BBC article explains what Milkshake Duck means.
'"Milkshake Duck" is slang for someone who is briefly and universally cheered, but then swiftly turned upon because of their previous social media posts. ' Dec 15, 2017
December 17, 2017
alexz commented on the word sheetcaking
Sorry for getting wordnik in trouble with the word police.
December 14, 2017
alexz commented on the list nominations-for-words-to-ban---2018
Top word I'd like to see banned for 2018 : omnichannel
Second nomination re-platform
business speak
December 14, 2017
alexz commented on the word Oumuamua
The name of the cigar shaped object hurtling through our Solar system.
December 12, 2017
alexz commented on the list 2017-favourites
ok, this is my shortlist of words for 2017.
https://wordnik.com/lists/2017-woty-noms is a 187 word list of new words I stumbled across, which also had over 100 or so lookups.
that list is a shortening of the 755 word list of https://wordnik.com/lists/words-i-stumble-across-2017
December 11, 2017
alexz commented on the word twt
short version of the word tweet.
December 11, 2017
alexz commented on the word v
shortened form of very , spotted in the twitterverse.
December 11, 2017
alexz commented on the word Olicity
A shipper uni-name of a character coupling of Oliver Queen and Felicty Smoak on the Arrow tv show. Spotted in the news where fans raised money for a dedicated park bench in Vancouver.
December 10, 2017
alexz commented on the word emojies
spotted as multiple of emoji
đĽ up the emoji plural debate
(Google trends has emojis being more popular)
December 10, 2017
alexz commented on the word scroll jank
An actual technical term when scrolling is broken in a web browser.
December 10, 2017
alexz commented on the word glĂźhwien
i before e especially after glßh
December 9, 2017
alexz commented on the word Feuerzangenbowle
a German bowl of flaming sugarloaf christmas drink
from wikipedia "The name translates literally to fire-tongs punch. "
December 8, 2017
alexz commented on the word glĂźhwien
Suspect it is glow wine. Quick goog search has "warm Vienna"
December 7, 2017
alexz commented on the word Ginmas
is comprised of đ¸đ
December 7, 2017
alexz commented on the word Christmosa
Spotted as a Christmas themed alcoholic drink. đđ¸
December 7, 2017
alexz commented on the word HCF
Computing: "Halt and Catch Fire" assembly code instruction 1967 https://books.google.ca/books?id=VItRAAAAYAAJ&q="halt+and+catch+fire"
December 6, 2017
alexz commented on the word British racing green
Just watched a video hj7o3vXfy90 which referenced that British racing green comes from the fact the 1903 Bennet cup car race was held in Ireland..
So the shade of green represents Ireland.
December 6, 2017
alexz commented on the word goodun
"A man, woman, or thing of decided and undoubted merit" - https://books.google.ca/books?id=XLATAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA180&dq=goodun
December 4, 2017
alexz commented on the word shant
shall not . shan'tÂ
spotted in books in the 19th century. Probably not listed in dictionaries because it sounds like a biological function.
December 3, 2017
alexz commented on the word languaging
Dec 2017, languaging seems to have a different usage today than it did in 2015.
'Languaging is a "real word, despite what the dictionary may say," says Favilla.' -CBC article which recycles a Buzzfeed article.
December 3, 2017
alexz commented on the word CRISPR
Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats
A gene editing tool, sounds like they're describing grammar or poetry.
December 3, 2017
alexz commented on the word gurrlll
oh, it's a word
December 2, 2017
alexz commented on the word puffer
Spotted as a puffy jacket
December 1, 2017
alexz commented on the word twittercrat
Like the 2009 definition
November 30, 2017
alexz commented on the word tat-spiration
Tattoo inspiration
November 30, 2017
alexz commented on the word discetomy
a back surgery operation where the part of a herniated disk is removed because it was pressing against the spinal cord.
see also microdiscetomy
November 29, 2017
alexz commented on the word microdiscetomy
an operation where parts of a herniated disk which is pinching your spinal nerves is removed, relieving pressure on the nerve.
November 29, 2017
alexz commented on the word bioacoustician
Sometimes scientists just like to make big words.
November 28, 2017
alexz commented on the word postprandial somnolence
Nap time after dinner
November 24, 2017
alexz commented on the word nanocentury
A billionth of a century. 3.155 seconds
November 22, 2017
alexz commented on the word brexity
Brexit turned into an adjective.
spotted news article - "How Brexity is your vacuum cleaner?"
November 19, 2017
alexz commented on the word Englog
English / Tagalog . aka Taglish
November 19, 2017
alexz commented on the word green board
Spotted in NASA Nov 18, 2017 Weather Satellite launch.
November 18, 2017
alexz commented on the word glutist
spotted in the office, someone who is biased against people who are gluten intolerant.
November 18, 2017
alexz commented on the word organioid
spotted in a CBC science show
"Now scientists are using human brain 'organoids' to study the roots of some genetic diseases like frontotemporal dementia.
November 18, 2017
alexz commented on the word stomed
Ok.
Past tense of stome
November 16, 2017
alexz commented on the word adcomsubordcomphibspac
Allegedly a super long Navy Acronym...
"Administrative Command, Amphibious Forces, Pacific Fleet Subordinate Command"
I'm doubtful that it's a real acronym
November 15, 2017
alexz commented on the word hmu
txt shortening of 'hit me up' . which means 'call me' or 'contact me'
November 15, 2017
alexz commented on the word WOTY
spotted as Women Of The Year - Nov 13, 2017
November 14, 2017
alexz commented on the word feiku nyĹŤsu
Japanese for fake news . spotted in japantimes article "Japanâs buzzwords of 2017 cover everything from politics to poop"
November 12, 2017
alexz commented on the word sleeve
in BC, it's a glass of beer, less than an imperial pint of 568 mL .
Our bars sometimes buy pint glasses from the US which is a 473 mL drink, but the bar cannot legally call it a pint in Canada. In general, a sleeve is not a specific unit of liquid. Lookup : "sleeve of beer"Â
Google books has 'sleeve of beer' in the 21st century, but I heard this term in the late 80's.
November 12, 2017
alexz commented on the word gmorning
good morning
November 11, 2017
alexz commented on the word CVE
computing term -Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures
November 8, 2017
alexz commented on the word barf
according to twitter, Farsi and Hindi word for snow.
November 6, 2017
alexz commented on the word yuki
Japanese word for snow
November 6, 2017
alexz commented on the word snø
Norwegian word for snow.
November 6, 2017
alexz commented on the word Cold Smoke
spotted in searching twitter for 'type of snow'.
"The airy trail of powder that follows skiers in fresh powder." https://www.thoughtco.com/snow-terms-types-3010117
November 6, 2017
alexz commented on the word heart attack snow
a snow at a depth deep enough to raise your risk of getting a heart attack from overexerting yourself.
November 6, 2017
alexz commented on the word random
I wonder how many words are in the 'random' pool. is it a million. Can I use 5 words to make a really good passphrase?
settlementsmisprintingpepcidsprogletschirped
November 6, 2017
alexz commented on the word pentakill
Spotted in computer gaming.
November 5, 2017
alexz commented on the word HIGNFY
"Have I Got News For You"
November 4, 2017
alexz commented on the word Thorsday
2017 usage: when the early screening of the new
Marvel movie opens.
1600's usage: Thursday
November 4, 2017
alexz commented on the word trans-poo-sion
" a transplant of faecal matter" - spotted in BBC article.
November 4, 2017
alexz commented on the word â('ÂŹ')â
Gesturing 'lots' . emoticon stolen from the 'lots of coffee' person on Twitter. I like this 'lots of' emoticon.
November 3, 2017
alexz commented on the word shoe drop
wait for the other shoe to drop
November 1, 2017
alexz commented on the word acwrimo
Academic Writing Month
November 1, 2017
alexz commented on the word °C
Degree Celcius . or centrigrade
October 29, 2017
alexz commented on the word magnetohydrodynamic
Moving water using magnets and electricity
October 28, 2017
alexz commented on the word ig
Refers to a users instagram.
Today, I saw a tweet about "ig game" and had to figure out what it meant by skimming through Twitter.
October 28, 2017
alexz commented on the word cogwheel
this is what I heard the 'gear' (settings) icon in software called.
October 28, 2017
alexz commented on the word Halloweekend
Halloween Weekend.
October 28, 2017
alexz commented on the word Big Red
Techie slang referring to Oracle corp
October 26, 2017
alexz commented on the word pomicide
The pom part of the eord is an Aussie slur for a British person
October 26, 2017
alexz commented on the word Jolabokaflod
spotted in my social media feeds as a Iceland book thing with chocolate.
October 24, 2017
alexz commented on the word purply
..prurpably
October 22, 2017
alexz commented on the word irony
... is getting injured doing the Safety Dance.
October 22, 2017
alexz commented on the word donger
refers to this emoticon
ŕźźŕşŮÍŕşŕź˝
I don't like this emoticon, because it's typically used by trolls.
October 21, 2017
alexz commented on the word Lenny
nickname given to this emoticon ( ͥ° ÍĘ ÍĄÂ°)
October 21, 2017
alexz commented on the word table flip
refers to the table flip emoticon
(âŻÂ°âĄÂ°ďźâŻď¸ľ âťââť
or
(ăಠçಠ)ă彥âťââť
and some people have to 'put the table back'.
âŹâââŹâĄďž(° -°ďž)
October 21, 2017
alexz commented on the word pre-gamed
pre-game , now verb'd. To have had a pregame party
October 21, 2017
alexz commented on the word philosophy
applied logic
October 20, 2017
alexz commented on the word logic
applied philosophy
October 20, 2017
alexz commented on the word math
applied logic
October 20, 2017
alexz commented on the word red headed stepchild
early use of this term goes back to 1913-1915
I wonder if it's influenced by the Anne of Green Gables books just before that time.
October 20, 2017
alexz commented on the word modulii
search result is "Did you mean: modulus"
yes, google, they did mean modulus or moduluses, but moduluses doesn't look 'smart'.
19th century modulus of elasticity, modulus of shear for materials.
October 18, 2017
alexz commented on the word EVSE
Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment . - spotted in an EV video series.
October 17, 2017
alexz commented on the word bambi bucket
a fabric water bucket under a firefighting helicopter.
October 17, 2017
alexz commented on the word chipocalypse
October 2017. New Zealand ran out of chips.
October 16, 2017
alexz commented on the word skunky
describing beer gone bad.
October 15, 2017
alexz commented on the word skunked
fishing version of this word is to go fishing and not catch anything.
my US friend used 'dog got skunked' meaning their dog got sprayed by a skunk.
October 15, 2017
alexz commented on the word timbre
am I going deaf, or do people pronounce this like 'tamber'?
October 14, 2017
alexz commented on the word glyfosate
glyphosate
October 14, 2017
alexz commented on the word pluff mud
spotted on Colbert
quick search 'aka plough mud
South Carolina term for tidal flats mud.
October 13, 2017
alexz commented on the word puppyslug
puppyslug is best explained with a google image search
October 13, 2017
alexz commented on the word DCHP-2
"Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles"
October 11, 2017
alexz commented on the word TFA
Star Wars fan speak for The Force Awakens
October 10, 2017
alexz commented on the word porg
a Star Wars meme creature.
October 10, 2017
alexz commented on the word legislooter
loaded political word.
October 10, 2017
alexz commented on the word horns
the rock and roll hand gesture supposed to look like 'horns' \m/
October 9, 2017
alexz commented on the word wordnesia
i have a deja-list feeling in looking at this word
October 9, 2017
alexz commented on the word flegmatic
archaic version of phlegmatic?
October 8, 2017
alexz commented on the word underglow
October 7, 2017
alexz commented on the word cryo-EM
cryo-electron microscopy
October 7, 2017
alexz commented on the word APFS
Apple File System
October 7, 2017
alexz commented on the word Adelaidian
The Adelaidean vs. Adelaidian battle is very real.
October 6, 2017
alexz commented on the word đđĽ
refers to 'liar liar pants on fire'
October 5, 2017
alexz commented on the word Stumptown
Portland Oregon
October 5, 2017
alexz commented on the list latinized-meme-animals
The giraffe 'camel leopard' thing is actually true.
October 3, 2017
alexz commented on the list meme-animals
sure!
October 2, 2017
alexz commented on the word Lunfardo
spotted a bbc article on this "20171001-how-italians-influenced-a-south-american-dialect"
October 2, 2017
alexz commented on the word booplesnoot
a bunny rabbit
term looked up 3200 times. Google Trends search shows this term trending Sept 2013. Google search shows this term popping up on wordnik on Sep 20, 2013
Coincidence?
October 1, 2017
alexz commented on the word floof
...has been looked up 1372 times
October 1, 2017
alexz commented on the word birb
... looked up 1152 times.
October 1, 2017
alexz commented on the word trash panda
term spotted again in Guardians Of The Galaxy 2 movie.
October 1, 2017
alexz commented on the word cat snakes
ferrets, according to twitterese.
October 1, 2017
alexz commented on the word bird puppies
bats
October 1, 2017
alexz commented on the word coinkeydink
coincidence
see coin-key-dink
or coinkydink
September 30, 2017
alexz commented on the word coin-key-dink
a fun way people say coincidence coinkydink
September 30, 2017
alexz commented on the word BFR
Big Falcon Rocket,
Big Friendly Rocket,
etc.
September 29, 2017
alexz commented on the word steam powered
spotted as pilot slang for 'the old round gauge displays' instead of modern rectangular displays.
- froma Juan Browne video.
September 28, 2017
alexz commented on the word ranpa
spotted someone using this, assumed it meant 'grandpa', probably wrong.
September 28, 2017
alexz commented on the user Josh.thomaa
Welcome to linguistics fight club. If it's your first time here, you have to verb.
September 26, 2017
alexz commented on the word taking a knee
football term defined at take a knee
September 24, 2017
alexz commented on the word đś â
spotted in looking up puppucino
September 24, 2017
alexz commented on the word puppucinos
I don't think you're supposed to give your dog coffee, twitter people.
September 24, 2017
alexz commented on the word NoKo
Slang shortening of North Korea
September 22, 2017
alexz commented on the word triple-triple
3 creams 3 sugars - spotted in CBC article about couple married at local coffee and donut shop.
September 21, 2017
alexz commented on the word OQLF
"Office quÊbÊcois de la langue française"
from the BBC article "The place that banned the term grilled cheese and cocktail"
new allowed word in Quebec: grilled-cheese
September 21, 2017
alexz commented on the word UNGA
United Nations General Assembly
September 20, 2017
alexz commented on the word octopi
octopuses .Â
September 20, 2017
alexz commented on the word Octopolis
another octopus city . also Octlantis
September 19, 2017
alexz commented on the word Octlantis
"Biologists Just Discovered an Underwater Octopus City And They're Calling It Octlantis "
- unconfirmed story from my FB feed. also Octopolis
And if the Octopuses have a garden, would that be the Octopuses' garden?
September 19, 2017
alexz commented on the word gutter
I remember this term being used in the Computer To Plate printing industry referring to the area of paper which will not be used in the final folded book or magazine. also margins
September 18, 2017
alexz commented on the word neologism
once upon a time neologism was a neologism
https://books.google.ca/books?id=ErY_AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA233
September 18, 2017
alexz commented on the word bluetiful
spotted on CNN "But critics say the name will teach children a nonword. It prompted a hue and cry (pun intended) on Twitter."
September 16, 2017
alexz commented on the word gn
texting/tweeting abbreviation of 'good night'
September 16, 2017
alexz commented on the word choreo
spotted as short for choreography
dance moves
September 16, 2017
alexz commented on the word fraturday
Fraturday (friday/saturday)
September 16, 2017
alexz commented on the word awoo
doggo speak for a wolf howl
spotted in my FB feed as 'pupper does an awoo' .Â
 Also spotted an 'awoo everyword' twitter handle
September 15, 2017
alexz commented on the word bow-stay
You might be interested in the Sailor's word book. Â 1876
https://books.google.ca/books?id=y7HqO9XAwk8C
September 14, 2017
alexz commented on the word macOS
How Google and Apple refer to the Macintosh OS according to their style guides
September 14, 2017
alexz commented on the word NANP
North American Numbering Plan
This is what gives us our (222) 555-1234 style phone numbers.
spotted term in the Google documentation style guide .Â
September 14, 2017
alexz commented on the word shoegaze
this is one of those words where, in Wiktionary's attempt to have a briefly written definition like a paper dictionary, they miss out on explaining what the word means.
the 90's are 20 years in the past, and this is the first time I heard this word, and wiktionary failed to explain this colour of music to a non-musicblind person.
the recursive verb definition is the cherry on top of the unclear definition. Â
September 13, 2017
alexz commented on the word animoji
refers to the wibbly wobbly poop emojis in the upcoming new phone
September 11, 2017
alexz commented on the word ntn
txt shortening for nothing
September 11, 2017
alexz commented on the word chalupa
so, a boatload of mexican food.
September 11, 2017
alexz commented on the word irmababies
scheduled to be born around 6/17/18 in Florida
September 11, 2017
alexz commented on the word chalupa
I don't know what a chalupa is.
September 11, 2017
alexz commented on the word weathervaning
letting a crane spin in the wind during a storm event.
September 10, 2017
alexz commented on the word fo sheezy
fo shizzle
September 10, 2017
alexz commented on the word sharkicane
Early sighting of this term - 2013 New York Post
September 9, 2017
alexz commented on the list stormanteau
anagram of atramentous
September 8, 2017
alexz commented on the word Irmahgerd
spotted in the Miami New Times http://www.miaminewtimes.com/arts/hurricane-irma-the-best-memes-from-irmahgherd-to-irmageddon-9648050
"Irmahgerd Hurdicurn Reperder"
September 7, 2017
alexz commented on the word Irmageddon
spotted in my social media feed The destructive Hurricane Irma 2017
September 7, 2017
alexz commented on the word Fujiwhara
Fujiwhara effect is where storms combine to form a bigger storm.
September 6, 2017
alexz commented on the word ICO
2017 Initial Coin Offering
Where investors invest in a new cryptocurrency
September 6, 2017
alexz commented on the word @ing
spotted in the twitterverse "at"-ing
https://twitter.com/search?q=%40ing&src=typd much to the dismay of the ING twitter handle.
September 5, 2017
alexz commented on the word launchiversary
anniversary of a launch
September 5, 2017
alexz commented on the word szn
text speak for season
September 5, 2017
alexz commented on the word spaghetti plot
a graph showing the multiple paths of an incoming storm using multiple mathematical models.
spotted in the news.
spotted in a book search 1973 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute -1975 MIT - Mid Ocean Dynamics ExperimentÂ
September 5, 2017
alexz commented on the list a-queenly-list
Victorian Elizabethan regnant Elizabethian
bloody Mary prom queen
drama queen
September 4, 2017
alexz commented on the word cardboardeaux
boxed wine
September 4, 2017
alexz commented on the word beardy
spotted as a lizard. Â Bearded dragon?
September 4, 2017
alexz commented on the word lango
tongue
short slangy - language
September 4, 2017
alexz commented on the word btwn
txt speak for between
September 4, 2017
alexz commented on the word front-end
the customer facing side of tech, ie, the web page, or user interface.
also spotted as a verb, because you can verb all the nouns.
September 2, 2017
alexz commented on the word USACE
US Army Corps of Engineers
August 30, 2017
alexz commented on the word esquite
more Mexican food, cup of elote
August 30, 2017
alexz commented on the word elote
spotted this in looking up fire corn emojis.
Grilled corn.
August 30, 2017
alexz commented on the word đĽđ˝
spotted as fire cooked corn.
I first assumed it was barbecued corn on the cobb, but it may be corn boiled over a fire. Â see also eloteÂ
August 29, 2017
alexz commented on the word đĽđ
fire ants.
August 29, 2017
alexz commented on the word đđĽ
spotted on twitter as a common 'dumpster fire' emoji phrase.
August 29, 2017
alexz commented on the word đĽ
So far, the fire emoji seems to be popular. It isn't the most common on emojipedia or other emoji sites, but it seems to be used as the new term lit , fire corn đĽđ˝ for fire cooked corn,đĽđ for fire ants,đđĽ for dumpster fire, 'is on đĽ' for 'is on fire' , đĽđĽhard for 'fire fire hard' (?), and đ¨đĽ for the sport of lighting natural methane, and allegedly đâĄď¸đĽ
August 29, 2017
alexz commented on the list understatements
business speak "lost opportunity"
August 26, 2017
alexz commented on the word cake eater
related Canadianism term mangia-cake
also spelled mangiacake mangia cake
August 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word sfa
sweet Fanny Adams
August 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word thicc
thicc has been looked up 4285 times. Â Google trends has this term showing up late 2015. Â
August 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word shooketh
looked up 2500 times.
Google trends has this word becoming a thing likely with a March 6 Youtube Video 'I am shooketh'
I wonder if those lookups were from after that video.
August 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word spoilery
spoiler alert :like a spoiler alert
August 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word shakalaka
looked up 2400 times. The people demand a definition.
Also spotted in the 1984 Ultimate Broadway Fake Book "shakalaka baby"
August 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word flyboard
flying aquatic skateboard - powered by a powerful water jet.
August 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word fake news
updated 2017 definition - any news you don't personally like
August 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word nomaj
people without magical powers. Muggles.
August 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word rooftopping
taking selfies from restricted access rooftops
August 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word procaffeinating
looked up 1200 times?
It's a marketing word from an ad referring to drinking coffee and procastinating.
August 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word mlem
doggo speak refers to sticking a tongue out
mlem sounds like the type of word you would say when your tongue is out.
đś
đ
August 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word pyrofuse
A fuse with a pyrotechnic device which ensures a circuit is broken quickly preventing short circuit damage to upstream circuits.
August 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word babadook
non spoiler from Wikipedia: ". It describes the titular monster, the Babadook, a tall pale-faced humanoid in a top hat with pointed fingers who torments its victims after they become aware of its existence."
spoiler: don't look under the bed.
August 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word tone deaf
the 2017 usage implies deaf to political or social tones.
August 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word bklyn
Bklyn
August 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word fw
textspeak for forward or f*ck with.
tech speak for firmware.
August 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word bec
looked up 2400 times,Â
August 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word steelbook
A collectors edition, such as Blu-Ray, DVD, CD, books, packaged in a tin or steel case.
August 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word demogorgon
A monster from Dungeons & Dragons, later spotted in the Stranger Things tv show.
August 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word meowtain
Term looked up 700 times by people who want to fact check the "What do you call a pile of cats? A meowtain" joke.
Meowtain confirmed as a word of the year candidate.
August 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word whomst'd've'nt't'dn't've's'd've'll
Looked up 161 times, likely by people who want to 'prove' that it's a real word to their friends.
This word comes from the whomst meme who-meme, where words are assembled with more contractions.
August 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word dw
i think this is txt-speak for 'don't worry'
August 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word adtech
advertising tech - includes all the website tracking, customer profiling, cookie collecting tech, data slurping, etc.
August 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word bowbag
bawbag
August 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word ChatOps
tech speak referring to using chat programs to replace email in the office.
August 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word friendniversary
the anniversary of being a friend -
August 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word Kitty Hawk moment
a moment when something new is invented which changes the way we do things from now on, like inventing the aeroplane
August 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word duderus
dude uterus
see brovaries
August 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word himmicane
2017 - spotted this term again. This word has some sticktion
August 25, 2017
alexz commented on the user Azred
for Oestrums, you might want to check oestrum
August 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word snoutgloop
pet boogers.
spotted in Guardian story 'How I survived living with a cat stuffed with uranium'
August 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word taking a knee
Refers to the quarterback kneel-wikipedia.
Spotted in a news article about a crashed warship 'Though the admiral said he had visited the McCain and denied, in response to reporters' questions, that her crew were overworked ("I didn't see a crew taking a knee, so to speak") his...'
August 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word limb
In NASAspeak, it includes the atmosphere in the disk of an object.
"Some of the most breathtaking views of Earth taken from space are those that capture our planetâs limb. When viewed from the side, the Earth looks like a flat circle, and the atmosphere appears like a halo around it. This edge of the atmosphere is known as the limb. Viewed from satellites, space shuttles, and even the moon, the image of this luminous envelope of gases shielding the life on our planet from the dark, cold space beyond rarely fails to fascinate us." - NASA visible earth.
August 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word guapo
my Philippines friends say this means handsome.
August 21, 2017
alexz commented on the word muah
it's a smoochy friendly kiss sound , also common to add extra letters for added effect.
August 20, 2017
alexz commented on the word Rahu
was looking up the 'shadow snakes' effect which is seen during eclipse, and came across the Rahu legend in search results.
August 20, 2017
alexz commented on the word fear of dictionaries
google book search says the word for this is languophobia, but that's debatable.
August 19, 2017
alexz commented on the word sheetcaking
sheet caking
August 18, 2017
alexz commented on the word sheet caking
"Sheet caking is a grassroots movement, Colin" http://m.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/tina-fey-sheet-caking_us_599675d0e4b0e8cc855cce85
Thanks Tina Fey. đ.
August 18, 2017
alexz commented on the list jumbo-shrimp
man child , pro-am, dwarf galaxy
August 15, 2017
alexz commented on the word aluminum
Original spelling by Humphrey Davy, 1812 . https://books.google.ca/books?id=YjMwAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA201
August 14, 2017
alexz commented on the word yoy
"year over year"
August 13, 2017
alexz commented on the word axin
slang - asking
August 13, 2017
alexz commented on the word tilted
from the examples on the right 'don't get "tilted," which means emotionally upset.'
spotted tilted in a video about the top Dota2 gamer versus a general Artificial Intelligence.
"At first it was easy to get titled..."
August 13, 2017
alexz commented on the word hummies
hummingbirds
also found - 1994 usage slang for homies
August 11, 2017
alexz commented on the word squaffles
"Families who would once have eaten potato waffles are now experimenting with lower carb butternut âsquafflesâ (slices of butternut squash cut to resemble a waffle)." Guardian article - Why we fell for clean eating.
August 11, 2017
alexz commented on the word hyper-power
for when the term super-power isn't good enough
August 10, 2017
alexz commented on the word GISHWHES
Greatest International Scavenger Hunt the World Has Ever Seen
August 10, 2017
alexz commented on the word nutation
"let your backbone slide"
August 10, 2017
alexz commented on the word cantcha
can'tcha
can't you
August 9, 2017
alexz commented on the word can'tcha
can't you
August 9, 2017
alexz commented on the word won'tcha
spotted in 1949 song 'Louisiana Girls' in a Baker's plays book
https://books.google.ca/books?id=5DaCyLyjGn8C&pg=PA63
spotted in 1915 Cosmopolitan
August 9, 2017
alexz commented on the word aintcha
ain'tcha
August 9, 2017
alexz commented on the word sequester carbon
'âsequester carbonâ is ruled out and replaced by âbuild soil organic matterâ.' - Guardian article climate change
August 7, 2017
alexz commented on the word reduce greenhouse gases
'with the term âreduce greenhouse gasesâ blacklisted in favor of âbuild soil organic matter, increase nutrient use efficiencyâ. ' - Guardian article on banned terms. Â climate change
August 7, 2017
alexz commented on the word climate change adaption
'Instead of âclimate change adaptionâ, staff are asked to use âresilience to weather extremesâ' Guardian article climate change
August 7, 2017
alexz commented on the word climate change
Term now banned by the USDA https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/aug/07/usda-climate-change-language-censorship-emails
'âClimate changeâ is in the âavoidâ category, to be replaced by âweather extremesâ. '
August 7, 2017
alexz commented on the word Novembeard
when the Movember moustache takes over the lower face.
August 7, 2017
alexz commented on the word cray
slang for crazy .
kray kray
August 5, 2017
alexz commented on the word kray
slang - version of cray meaning crazy
spotted kray kray in a discussion.
not sure what the russian examples of this word mean.
August 5, 2017
alexz commented on the word fognado
Stephen King wrote The Mist
Movie idea: the writer - a story about a writer who unleashes monsters on people who steal his ideas. Wait.. that was Goosebumps.
August 4, 2017
alexz commented on the word memedom
Realm of memes
August 4, 2017
alexz commented on the word fognado
spotted in the news "'Fognado' engulfs California beach" BBC. it's more of a low roll cloud or a low gravity wave cloud.
August 4, 2017
alexz commented on the word stupidist
The examples tend to be acquired by algorithm, so, if the most common usage of a word is a typo, you would likely see typo examples.
Using tools like Google's ngram viewer, trends tool, books, can sometimes help a person find if a new word is really an accidental case.
Twitter search can sometimes reveal if a new word is really rare, a possible typo, or a regionalism or used by a small group of people.
August 3, 2017
alexz commented on the word sgetti
slang for spaghetti
August 3, 2017
alexz commented on the word wordmoji
spotted half a dozen times on twitter since 2013. refers to when someone types the words for an emoji instead of using emojis
ie "dumpster fire" instead of"đđĽ"
August 2, 2017
alexz commented on the word đ¸âď¸
The frog and hotbeverage emoji pairing refers to the "but that's none of my business" meme. Which has Kermit drinking tea. Â 1000 years from now in the future, future linguists will be wondering what the heck the frog/teacup thing means.
August 2, 2017
alexz commented on the word goldador
a golden labrador doggo
July 30, 2017
alexz commented on the word xennial
Blend of gen-x and millennial. Spotted in an article where this was people born between 1977 and 1983.
July 30, 2017
alexz commented on the word bubblenetting
bubble net feeding - by humpback whales.
also bubble-netting , bubble net fishing, bubble netting, bubble-net fishing,
spotted in a tweet which had a video of a guy in a kayak with half a dozen whales rising and feeding.
July 30, 2017
alexz commented on the word ngl
Spotted in the twitterverse "not gonna lie"
July 29, 2017
alexz commented on the word shld
Twitterese for 'should'
July 29, 2017
alexz commented on the word Mboe
Quantity of oil shipped
"...argued that marine tankers are safer because they spill less than 0.001 per million barrels of oil shipped (Mboe)." -Global news snippet.
It's confusing if the term refers to 1000 barrels or a million barrels. Anyone doing math regarding spills per Mboe really needs to double check the usage.
July 28, 2017
alexz commented on the word mini-you
mini version of you
July 27, 2017
alexz commented on the word ins
Txt shortening of insurance
July 27, 2017
alexz commented on the word RaaS
Spotted in tech news as 'Ransomware As A Service' where bad guys have malware for sale and servers to rent.
Glad the examples listed to the right have Recovery as a service.
July 27, 2017
alexz commented on the word falute
Early 'high falutin' in 1856 National Magazinehttps://books.google.ca/books?id=XZomAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA136&dq=falutin
And the knickerbocker magazine https://books.google.ca/books?id=N_dFtyzEqFsC&pg=PA533&dq=highfalutin
highfalutin
July 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word farfar
Swedish for fathers father
related words mormor morfar farmor
July 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word tht
shortened version of 'that'.
twitterese
July 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word kn
twitterese for 'know'
from the tweets - automated buoys tweetage for knots.
July 24, 2017
alexz commented on the word hwaet
hwĂŚt
July 22, 2017
alexz commented on the word gigil
bbc article " an untranslatable word for pure joy"
July 22, 2017
alexz commented on the word quindar
Beeps heard in Apollo spaceflight audio. Spotted on a Science Friday retweet.
July 21, 2017
alexz commented on the word ish
Spotted "all that ish"
July 21, 2017
alexz commented on the word Y'all'd've'f'I'd've
alleged Southern contraction overload: allegedly "you all would have if I'd have"
I doubt people actually use this term.
July 20, 2017
alexz commented on the word sunglasses and Advil
this phrase refers to having a hangover from partying.
July 20, 2017
alexz commented on the word space bear
new nickname for the tardigrade because it can survive in space.
July 18, 2017
alexz commented on the word fo-ev-ah
dramatic spelling of forever
July 18, 2017
alexz commented on the word noped
See modern example at noping
July 18, 2017
alexz commented on the word noping
spotted as a verb.
nope nope nope nope.. outta here.
July 18, 2017
alexz commented on the word la-ti-da
lah-de-dah shows up a lot in 19th century books. There's a late 19th c. song with this name.
July 18, 2017
alexz commented on the word maas
in linux computing, it's 'metal as a service'.
July 18, 2017
alexz commented on the word hypercane
Spotted in The Atlantic
'The nightmare was sketched for me by the head of geosciences at Pennsylvania State University, Lee Kump, whose âhorror movieâ speculation was that there might have turbocharged âhypercanesâ of almost unbelievable intensity assaulting the supercontinent Pangaeaâthe result of runaway global warming.'
July 16, 2017
alexz commented on the word chiopino
cioppino thx google auto correct
July 14, 2017
alexz commented on the word shookt
spotted in 19th c. "Shropshire Word-book: A Glossary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Etc., "
https://books.google.ca/books?id=BzoLAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR54&dq=shookt
July 14, 2017
alexz commented on the word Bart Simpson
In 1991's RFC 1208 ' A Glossary of Networking Terms' , Bart Simspon is defined as
"Bart Simpson (R): Internet and OSI cult hero."
Internet Engineering Task Force link - https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1208
July 13, 2017
alexz commented on the word tweet
added to my Word of the Year shortlist for 2017 - most news events have included some tweet of some kind this year.,
July 13, 2017
alexz commented on the word nothingburger
2017 - everyone is hating this word. added to lists of words to ban for 2018
July 13, 2017
alexz commented on the word publessness
âwhole deserts of publessnessâ spotted in Guardian article on how pubs are disappearing
July 11, 2017
alexz commented on the word patio
spotted this in verb form - lets patio!
July 10, 2017
alexz commented on the list ok-google-voice-hacks
I think Michael BublĂŠ will be amused that you can retrain your android's phone voice unlock to "OBEY BublĂŠ" instead of OK Google.
I wonder if lingluists like the 'obey woogle' option.Â
July 10, 2017
alexz commented on the word coggle moggle
apparently wikipedia spells it kogel mogel
July 10, 2017
alexz commented on the word on-base
baseball term
"on-base percentage" "on-base streak"
July 10, 2017
alexz commented on the word dog mom
a mom to a furbaby
July 10, 2017
alexz commented on the word Instagrandma
Spotted in a NPR article.
July 9, 2017
alexz commented on the word levitating business woman
I suspect the unicode consortium has been browsing the 'emojis I'd like to see' list.
http://blog.emojipedia.org/facebook-releases-new-emojis-levitating-woman/
July 8, 2017
alexz commented on the word grouser
Spotted in article about Curiosity rover's wheels.
" âIn either case, the climbing wheel can end up experiencing higher forces, leading to cracks and punctures. The treads on each of Curiosity's six wheels, called grousers, are designed for climbing rocks. But the spaces between them are more at risk.â
-The Register
July 7, 2017
alexz commented on the word wunderpus
Spotted Monterey Bay Aquarium tweet
"You can now see the aptly-named wunderpus (full name: wunderpus photogenicusâreally!) in our Tentacles special exhibition! đ"
July 7, 2017
alexz commented on the word exhaustipated
a joke word meaning 'too tired to give a poop'
July 7, 2017
alexz commented on the word reco'd
recommended
July 7, 2017
alexz commented on the word hb2u
"Happy birthday to you"
July 3, 2017
alexz commented on the word mtfbwy
"May the force be with you"
July 3, 2017
alexz commented on the word daquiri
apparently, it's actually spelled daiquiri
July 2, 2017
alexz commented on the word Dothraquiri
Dothraki daiquiri
July 2, 2017
alexz commented on the word gtfo
GTFO
July 2, 2017
alexz commented on the word gtfoh
Txt/twitterspeak "gtfo of here"
July 2, 2017
alexz commented on the word wld
Txt/twitterspeak for "would"
July 2, 2017
alexz commented on the word sombrery
This word doesn't look right.
Spotted in the Guardian,
"Last modified on Thursday 29 June 2017 00.54 BST
Pope Francis gave the Catholic church five new cardinals Wednesday, sombrery instructing them to act as servants and not âprincesâ in a world where innocents are dying from wars and terrorism, slavery persists and refugee camps often"
July 1, 2017
alexz commented on the word broflake
spotted this word in my facebook feed with a definition of
"Straight white male offended by any feminist or ethnic activity which is not directly designed for him" - this was likely copy and pasted from somewhere else
July 1, 2017
alexz commented on the word FODMAP
seed comments at Fodmaps
June 30, 2017
alexz commented on the word 4ever
forever
June 27, 2017
alexz commented on the word 5ever
more than 4ever
June 27, 2017
alexz commented on the word cugly
definition spotted on twitter "cute ugly"
June 27, 2017
alexz commented on the word porte cochere
sounds like a car port
June 27, 2017
alexz commented on the word meteotsunami
Yes it was. Sounds similar to a storm surge
June 27, 2017
alexz commented on the word Sbux
abbreviation for Starbucks
June 26, 2017
alexz commented on the word replatform
early sighting of this term 1997 or 1998 in a software sense
Department of Veteran's Affairs.
"- Education System Replatform/Redesign
- to replatform or redesign all Education benefit delivery systems to operate on the VBA Stage 1 environment"
https://books.google.ca/books?id=wG0eAAAAMAAJ&q=replatform&dq=replatform
1994 example by the IEEE
"Determine how COBOL/SRE might help to re-platform our code and subsequently support new development within APG "
previous non-tech sense of this word is related to trains and train platforms.
June 26, 2017
alexz commented on the word nginx
I've heard this pronounced as Engine X
For non-techies, it's a web page server thingy.
June 26, 2017
alexz commented on the word LEMP
website speak - from the examples "Linux, Nginx, MySQL, PHP5"
similar to LAMP
June 26, 2017
alexz commented on the word marcom
marketing, or 'marketing and communications'
June 26, 2017
alexz commented on the word MEAN
in software developerspeak "(MongoDB, Express, Angular, node.js)"
June 26, 2017
alexz commented on the word rando
random stranger
June 26, 2017
alexz commented on the word mktg
abbreviation of marketing
June 26, 2017
alexz commented on the word tech stack
a software industry buzzword bingo jargon word.
it's a term that implies that all these technical things work together nicely and flawlessly, but the reality is that a tech stack is a cross between square pegs hammered into round holes, a Rube Goldberg machine and a Jenga tower which stops working and falls apart at the slightest disturbance.
Also, powered by hamsters. x1636
June 26, 2017
alexz commented on the word meteotsunami
spotted in news as a weather generated tsunami
June 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word sploof
an air filter for marijuana smokers to exhale without stinking up the place.
June 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word sourtoe
I don't know why. The 19th c. Had whiskey as part of frostbite treatment. Â (google book search "whisky frostbite" 19th c.)
June 23, 2017
alexz commented on the word poemoji
emoji poetry
most emoji poetry is non english
June 23, 2017
alexz commented on the word sourtoe
This refers to the sourtoe drink which has a mummified toe.
Fron the Guardian article:
"For more than 40 years the Downtown hotel in Dawson City has served up the sourtoe cocktail, a shot of whisky with a blackened toe â nail and all â bobbing inside. Those who manage to touch the gnarled, severed toe to their lips earn a certificate.
On Saturday a customer took it one step further, allegedly making off with the wrinkled digit after swallowing his drink. âWe are furious,â said Terry Lee of the hotel. âToes are very hard to come by.â"
June 22, 2017
alexz commented on the word spinor
physics - "Other physicists figured out that this quantum state represented spin.
And the up and down degrees of freedom with direction of pointing along the angular momentum axis. We now call these component waveforms spinors"
June 22, 2017
alexz commented on the word nfi
Spotted as "no f'ing idea"
Has nfi, had nfi. Or nfi as an adjective.
June 21, 2017
alexz commented on the word gillnetter
most of the examples point to the boat being called a gilnetter.
June 21, 2017
alexz commented on the word lbd
LBD twitterspeak for 'little black dress'.
June 21, 2017
alexz commented on the word All Hallows
Nov 1st.
June 20, 2017
alexz commented on the word thingamy
spotted in 1787 as a Mr Thingamy
https://books.google.ca/books?id=leo5AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA457&dq=Thingamy
spotted again in 1851 as Mr. Thingamy along with Mr. So-and-so and Mr. Thing'embob
https://books.google.ca/books?id=-MVNAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA305&dq="what%27s+his+name"
and again in 1870 as Mr. What's-his-name Thingamy
https://books.google.ca/books?id=sdFZAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA104&dq="what%27s+his+name"
June 20, 2017
alexz commented on the list is-defined-as---search-results
thanks.
new words discovered are ihy, aftselakhis ,Meteorological Summer,
burlesquercise , Malama Honua , cishet , ponv , resilient Thessaloniki , covfefe
June 20, 2017
alexz commented on the word resilient Thessaloniki
refers to the resilient city concept
June 19, 2017
alexz commented on the word Meteorological Summer
term goes back to 1848 or so.
June July August
I think I like Meteorological seasons over trying to remember the 21st or 22nd or so of the month for an astronomical season.
More info at NOAA https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/news/meteorological-versus-astronomical-summer%E2%80%94what%E2%80%99s-difference
June 19, 2017
alexz commented on the word aftselakhis
Quick books search shows this showing up in 1997.
allegedly yiddish for doing something to spite the rest of world.
June 19, 2017
alexz commented on the word Malama Honua
spotted on twitter "âMalama Honua,âis defined as #CareForIslandEarth "
June 19, 2017
alexz commented on the word cishet
spotted as cishetero or cis heterosexual
June 19, 2017
alexz commented on the word ihy
textspeak for 'i hate you'
June 19, 2017
alexz commented on the word despactio
mispelling of despacito
June 18, 2017
alexz commented on the word omnichannel
... some buzzword businessspeak
June 18, 2017
alexz commented on the word magnetohydrodynamics
According to XKCD 1851 , just replace this word with magic
June 18, 2017
alexz commented on the word Jackspeak
British Naval Slang
spotted in 1989 book of the same name "Jackspeak: A guide to British Naval slang & usage"
June 17, 2017
alexz commented on the word evergreen content
from the examples, half the time 'evergreen content' refers to spammy SEO optimization where old articles are refreshed to get search engines to update.
other times it refers to content which is "always true".
June 16, 2017
alexz commented on the word evergreen tweet
a tweet that is accurate now as it was years ago.
June 16, 2017
alexz commented on the word U.G.R.R.
19th Century - Under Ground Rail Road.
June 16, 2017
alexz commented on the word BBO
physics - Beta barium borate - crystals that can split light.
June 15, 2017
alexz commented on the word pitya
dragon fruit
June 15, 2017
alexz commented on the word liar's tell
A smile with raised eyebrows.
June 14, 2017
alexz commented on the word clickservative
starting to spot this in my FB and Twitter feeds.
from the usage, it seems to have different meanings for different people.
June 13, 2017
alexz commented on the list tiger-safety-rules
our laser lab had the 'do not look into laser with remaining eye' sign back in the 90's.
June 12, 2017
alexz commented on the word Book Book
If you write a book about Book Book, you get the Book Book book
June 12, 2017
alexz commented on the list tiger-safety-rules
how about "don't pet tiger with remaining arm"
June 12, 2017
alexz commented on the word Internet Maintenance Day
June 4
June 12, 2017
alexz commented on the word June 4
"The Chinese governmentâs list of banned words lengthens every year. Every June, they delete, via a censorship army of robots, algorithms and humans, posts that contain memes (a rubber duck facing a line of tanks), codes (June 4, 64, 8², May 35), or even everyday words (today, tomorrow, mourn, people)."
from Financial Times article
June 12, 2017
alexz commented on the word cup pong
self censored version of beer pong
June 12, 2017
alexz commented on the word canotidan
"Dakotah god of the woods" https://books.google.ca/books?id=bQAxAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA41
June 11, 2017
alexz commented on the list wandering-in-a-woodland
you might like shinrin-yoku
June 11, 2017
alexz commented on the word ice rise
"Ice rises are islands overridden by the ice shelf, allowing them to shoulder more of the weight of the shelf."
- NY Times article - A Crack in an Antarctic Ice Shelf Is 8 Miles From Creating an Iceberg the Size of Delaware
June 11, 2017
alexz commented on the word sperg
spotted phrase 'sperg out'
If you use this term, you're being socially insensitive, as it makes fun of people with aspergers, or uses aspergers as an insult, even if the target of the insult doesn't have aspergers.
June 10, 2017
alexz commented on the list food-that-shall-not-be-named
bilbycakes
June 10, 2017
alexz commented on the word drugalyzer
Roadside drug tester. Spotted in the news
June 9, 2017
alexz commented on the word BOTD
spotted as "Born On This Day" in twitterspeak.
June 8, 2017
alexz commented on the word hovercard
a html frame that pops up when you hover over an object or text for more information on a web site.
June 8, 2017
alexz commented on the word lookeeloo
Spotted in local news lookeeloos
June 7, 2017
alexz commented on the list food-that-shall-not-be-named
mom's spaghetti
June 6, 2017
alexz commented on the word bloggess
female blogger
June 6, 2017
alexz commented on the list perhaps--1
google reverse translate has perchance, possibly, peradventure, maybe probablyÂ
June 6, 2017
alexz commented on the word blep
The linguists are going to have a hard time deciding between blep and mlem for word of the year.
June 5, 2017
alexz commented on the word blep
đś
June 5, 2017
alexz commented on the word blep
:p
June 5, 2017
alexz commented on the word blep
Spotted as doggo speak.Â
June 5, 2017
alexz commented on the word flip book
a flipbook
June 4, 2017
alexz commented on the word RBG
2017 politics - refers to Ruth Bader Ginsburg "Notorious RBG"
thx bilby.
June 4, 2017
alexz commented on the word RGB
thanks for catching that typo.
June 4, 2017
alexz commented on the word shinrin-yoku
fancy way of saying walk in the woods , term coined in 1980's Japan.
June 3, 2017
alexz commented on the word surfwear
goes back to 1968
June 3, 2017
alexz commented on the word surfware
surfing gear - wetsuits , spotted in BBC article. maybe they meant surfwear
June 3, 2017
alexz commented on the word xfic
A cross-fiction story, combining 2 different fictional universes x-fic
June 2, 2017
alexz commented on the word TMW
'That Moment When'.
June 2, 2017
alexz commented on the word ZOV
spotted Zero Occupancy Vehicle
a self driving car driving about...
June 1, 2017
alexz commented on the word grammos
Grammatical errors
May 31, 2017
alexz commented on the word Tim Tam Slam
I heard of the Tim Tam Slam 20 years ago. This should be in the dictionary, or at least the Macquarie
May 31, 2017
alexz commented on the word meet-cute
looked up 1295 times, just saw this term today.
May 30, 2017
alexz commented on the word curbstoned
gyped by a curbstoner
May 30, 2017
alexz commented on the word mansplay
spotted in a british video, also mansplaying I assume it's the British version of manspreading
May 30, 2017
alexz commented on the word MOAB
spotted it pronounced as Moe ab
May 30, 2017
alexz commented on the word skip-level
"skip-level meetings" "skip-level manager" - sounds like some new corporatespeak.
May 28, 2017
alexz commented on the word cinemagraph
spotted this in a local twitter feed for a hybrid between a photo and a video.
seems this word has some staying power.
May 28, 2017
alexz commented on the word suntea
tea brewed in the sun in a glass jar. Â sun tea
May 27, 2017
alexz commented on the word evaporated cane juice
spotted this in the news today. Â Term goes back to 1847Â https://books.google.ca/books?id=kzMNAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA190
May 26, 2017
alexz commented on the word evaporated cane juice
Sugar. Misleading ingredient listing meaning sugar.
May 26, 2017
alexz commented on the word phubbing
The OED reveals the Australian plot to 'make phub happen' https://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2016/05/phub-made-eat-words/?__prclt=85zcQo6D
May 26, 2017
alexz commented on the word stick'n'poke
a do-it-yourself tattoo.. sewing needles and ink. Â aka snp tattoo aka stick and poke
nope nope and nope
May 26, 2017
alexz commented on the word Kirk-Fu
Captain Kirk's fighting style.
May 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word potizza
mmm.. potizza
May 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word national socialist
2017 : it's a nazi
May 24, 2017
alexz commented on the word intent'l
spotted shortening of intentional
May 24, 2017
alexz commented on the word cmte
spotted cmte. as short for committee (spotted in a news headline)
May 24, 2017
alexz commented on the word sheeny
19th century article suggests that this term may come from french chien for dog.
May 23, 2017
alexz commented on the word elco
an El Camino car
"Yeah Man, El Camino!" (from a movie)
May 22, 2017
alexz commented on the word Maudie
A nickname for a Maud Lewis painting
May 21, 2017
alexz commented on the word adorifying
spotted in the comments section of a video where someone was petting a leopard.
adorable/terrifying
May 21, 2017
alexz commented on the word theiryeâre
"Theirye're, problem solved."
because seeing that someone has mixed up 2 or 3 words that sound the same doesn't really confuse the reader, especially in an informal writing environment such as Facebook or Twitter.
May 20, 2017
alexz commented on the word Planet B
A non-existent Earth twin planet we can all fly to when we ruin this one.
"There is no Planet B" - most scientists in 2017
May 19, 2017
alexz commented on the word Zuul
"This week paleontologists from the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto unveiled the latest addition to their dinosaur menagerie: a massive, rhinocerous-sized armoured dinosaur they're calling Zuul - because of its striking resemblance to the demon-monster in the original Ghostbusters movie." -CBC Quirks and Quarks
May 19, 2017
alexz commented on the list soup-words
mustgo soup, stock
May 19, 2017
alexz commented on the word Cantosphere
South China Morning Post is using this term for Vancouver's Cantonese community
May 19, 2017
alexz commented on the word all y'all
Love it
May 18, 2017
alexz commented on the word y'all'd'nt've
High level of the Texan equivalent of the whom'st contraction.
https://books.google.ca/books?id=7rOoDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA81
May 18, 2017
alexz commented on the word spudgering
spotted on ifixit "Some light adhesive secures the battery, but it's nothing that a little spudgering can't handle." Â Â Â using the plastic pry tool : Â spudger
May 17, 2017
alexz commented on the word songbirds
http://web.archive.org/web/20150920130858/https://www.wordnik.com/lists/songbirds
When a list is archived at archive.org, it lives forever. Hope it helps.
May 17, 2017
alexz commented on the word HB
spotted as 'happy birthday'.
from the tweet examples, it also means hardboiled for eggs.
May 16, 2017
alexz commented on the word hmb
spotted online as a shortening of 'hold my beer'. This is a minority use of this abbreviation.
May 16, 2017
alexz commented on the word klancestors
when your dad was a racist, your grandfather was a racist, etc...
May 15, 2017
alexz commented on the word Perhaps-A-Tron
Seems it wasn't a play on words, but an actual scientific experiment. 1958 Life Magazine article :Â https://books.google.ca/books?id=xFUEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA34
May 14, 2017
alexz commented on the word Sens
Spotted as a nickname for Ottawa Senators
May 14, 2017
alexz commented on the word Perhaps-A-Tron
it was a play on words for Nuclear Fusion. There were Tokomaks, Gyrotron, Thermotron, Stellerator and the fact fusion is really hard and always '20 years away',
Spotted in a documentary about Nuclear Fusion.
May 14, 2017
alexz commented on the word takigrafer
someone who does takigrafy
spotted in the Shorthand Writer. https://books.google.ca/books?id=IgQDAAAAYAAJ
May 13, 2017
alexz commented on the word enhatted
"Now that this hat is upon mine head, Any and all procamations I make, thus enhatted, are now and forever law"
-Colbert , Big Furry Hat
May 13, 2017
alexz commented on the word shakalaka
boom.
May 12, 2017
alexz commented on the word WTF-ery
spotted quote on Facebook, Can't vouch for it's realness.
"We made it to friday! Raise your cup to surviving another week of wtf-ery." ~ Nanea Hoffman ~âŚ
May 12, 2017
alexz commented on the word backhitchless
Tape drive tech term. Not sure what a tape drive backhitch is.
May 12, 2017
alexz commented on the word mocku
short for mockumentary
May 12, 2017
alexz commented on the word zombee
a bee infected by apocephalus borealis "The zombie fly"
May 11, 2017
alexz commented on the word shutcho
"shut your"
May 10, 2017
alexz commented on the word Amers
a twitter shortering of Americans
May 10, 2017
alexz commented on the word republisplain
spotted in the 'recently listed' list.
Interesting examples when you browse twitter.
Apologies for the loss in productivity in looking up this word on twitter.
May 8, 2017
alexz commented on the word 81
Code for HA (8th letter, first letter) , or Hells Angels.
May 8, 2017
alexz commented on the word happy Gary
happy Gary refers to this emoticon á( á )á
May 7, 2017
alexz commented on the word Oddest Title of the Year
"This Hippo Holds The Dubious Title Of World's Most Prolific Farter! " spotted in a quick search of "dubious title of"
it's a good search term. oh, wait.. you meant book titles.. nevermind.
May 7, 2017
alexz commented on the word alphamagic
"An alphamagic square is a magic square in which the number of letters in the name of each number in the square generates another magic square. " - wikipedia
also alpha magic, alpha-magic
May 7, 2017
alexz commented on the word peeped
spotted in the article listed at  highkey  peeped seems popular in tweets still.
May 3, 2017
alexz commented on the word highkey
opposite of lowkey
a 2015 business insider article has it as
May 3, 2017
alexz commented on the word lowkey
opposite of highkey
May 3, 2017
alexz commented on the list spiral--1
this list has spiralled out of control j/k
May 2, 2017
alexz commented on the word signwriting
spotted this as Sutton Signwriting - the symbols used to describe signlanguage.
unicode set: http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1D800.pdf
May 2, 2017
alexz commented on the word certi
appears to be short version of certified/ certificate
May 1, 2017
alexz commented on the word pawcast
a podcast including cats.. maybe dogs.
also spotted on youtube.
May 1, 2017
alexz commented on the word blix
photography chemistry - bleach and fix
spotted on youtube.
May 1, 2017
alexz commented on the word mustgo
mustgo soup is made from the leftovers in the fridge which 'must go'
April 29, 2017
alexz commented on the word bro fist
a fist bump
April 29, 2017
alexz commented on the list confectio-damocritis
Allegedly cures 'running of the reines' or Gonorrhoea.
https://books.google.ca/books?id=U08PAAAAYAAJ&vq=mithri&pg=RA2-PA388
April 28, 2017
alexz commented on the word panzoologicomineralogia
archaic term found in an archaic book from the 1600's relating to Animals and Minerals.
https://books.google.ca/books?id=U08PAAAAYAAJ
Page 479 has Spirit Animals.
April 28, 2017
alexz commented on the word đ
I'm not sure if this renders on phones and desktops, but this is a heiroglyphic character of a guy with his hands up... I like to think this is the Heiroglyphic shruggie. (it's not)
April 28, 2017
alexz commented on the word Trexit
spotted Trexit here http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/turkey-council-of-europe-1.4085168
"Looking for 'a way out': Turkey mulls a 'Trexit'"
April 27, 2017
alexz commented on the word Trexit
Spotted again in 2017 a Turkey Exit from the EU, similar to Brexit and Grexit
April 27, 2017
alexz commented on the word snot otter
snot otter's not an otter
it's a type of salamander
April 26, 2017
alexz commented on the word caffenol
film developer made from coffee and vitamin C
April 26, 2017
alexz commented on the list most-looked-up-words-in-wordnik
I listed gullible just to make everyone look. :)  word (44k)
ÂŻ\_(ă)_/ÂŻ always has a count of 1. Â test 47k
April 24, 2017
alexz commented on the word bilby
13k lookups
April 24, 2017
alexz commented on the word love
Looked up over 69k times.
April 24, 2017
alexz commented on the word hyperwall
sorry for the jargon. Pretty much everything IEEE or NASA is Jargon.
https://www.nas.nasa.gov/hecc/resources/viz_systems.html
April 24, 2017
alexz commented on the word Steve
2017 - a newly discovered stream of glowing gas spotted in the night sky.
"Testing showed it appeared to be a hot stream of fast-flowing gas in the higher reaches of the atmosphere." - spotted in the BBC.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39686055
The downside to calling a natural phenomenom 'Steve' is that future researchers will have a hard time trying to look it up in journals.
April 23, 2017
alexz commented on the word DoggoLingo
the lexicon of doggos and fluffers spotted on NPR
April 23, 2017
alexz commented on the word CPE
Spotted in news as superbug carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae
Guardian.
April 23, 2017
alexz commented on the word hyperwall
a massive high definition wall sized display. NASA and Apple have these.
UC Irvine has one (from 2007 CNN story)
IEEE has a 2003 description of this  "We describe the hyperwall, a visualization cluster that uses coordinated visualizations for interactive exploration of multidimensional data and simulations. The system strongly leverages the human eye-brain system with a generous 7/spl times/7 array of flat panel LCD screens powered by a Beowulf cluster."
April 22, 2017
alexz commented on the word DT
Spotted in a PSA as Designated Texter. Someone else who texts While you drive
April 22, 2017
alexz commented on the word nope rope
memespeak for a snake
April 21, 2017
alexz commented on the word grammando
Spotted in a Kory Stamper reddit AMA
"So, here's the thing: most people assume that I am a grammando of the highest order, or that I'm the sort of person who walks around with a Sharpie in my pocket ready to correct bad apostrophization and such."
April 20, 2017
alexz commented on the word nÉĚcĚaĘmat ct
New library name in Vancouver
it's written in NAPA - North American Phonetic Alphabet
https://ywcavan.org/sites/default/files/resources/downloads/Pronunciation%20guide%20for%20n%C9%99%CC%81c%CC%93a%CA%94mat%20ct.pdf
April 20, 2017
alexz commented on the word punycode
rfc3492
April 19, 2017
alexz commented on the word manlet
insult: a little man
April 19, 2017
alexz commented on the word RWNJ
spotted on twitter: Right Wing Nut Job
April 19, 2017
alexz commented on the word she-ro
she hero
April 19, 2017
alexz commented on the word EfĂŻk
Efik
April 18, 2017
alexz commented on the word nothing
rhymes with orange
April 18, 2017
alexz commented on the word TOF
in the optics sense - a 2D sensor can be measured so fast to see the light waves arrive at different times to build up a 3d view of an object or to see through smoke and fog, or to see how neutrons bounce off of an object onto a bunch of detectors.
Physics has this for 'time of flight' mass spectrometers where particles travel down a tube and hit a detector at different times;Â
Medicine - this is a heart condition called Tetralogy of Fallot
April 18, 2017
alexz commented on the word mock-doc
Mock documentary
April 18, 2017
alexz commented on the word bureaucat
the context I saw this word was captioning a picture of a cat at a desk
April 18, 2017
alexz commented on the word reperible
challenge accepted:
Middle English
https://books.google.ca/books?id=aOTa8wGzOr4C&pg=PA478&dq=reperible
"adj. discoverable; to be found"
I don't think anyone uses this word much today.
April 17, 2017
alexz commented on the word tooth hurty
2:30 or two thirty
How old is the 'tooth hurty' joke?
This joke goes back to 1879
https://books.google.ca/books?id=5WBHAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA71&dq=tooth+hurty
INCIDENTAL
'He rushed into a house, did this adventist,
In agonizing haste to find a dentist.
"I've a respect for you, impatient youth."
"Ivory Spect!" he answered. "O, my tooth!"
I asked: "Why travel at this rapid rate?"
He said: "Tis only a tooth hurty gait."
April 17, 2017
alexz commented on the word GTD
"getting things done"
April 17, 2017
alexz commented on the word vhpictures
Hasselblad's camera date code similar to Kodak's camerosity
April 16, 2017
alexz commented on the word camerosity
The code for figuring out the manufacturing date of your Kodak brownie camera
camerosity
1234567890
First 2 letters give you the number of the month. Last 2 letters give the numbers for a 2 digit year.
April 16, 2017
alexz commented on the word FOAB
Father Of All Bombs
April 16, 2017
alexz commented on the word Norks
political slang for North Korea
April 15, 2017
alexz commented on the word Lookeded
"DoĂąa Liliana scolded with a single cut of her eyes before turning back to me to say, She lookeded muy elegante. She lookeded overdressed â as did you in those days â is what she lookeded, doĂąa Cristina said while examining her own ..."
- Looseing my Espanish.
April 15, 2017
alexz commented on the user voa4you
not so sure it's spam; 'voa' is short for 'Voice of America' which is broadcast overseas to people who have English as a second language.
April 15, 2017
alexz commented on the word Paleoamerican
spotted this term in looking up Kennewick man - North American from 9,000 years ago.
April 14, 2017
alexz commented on the word Triquet
 spotted in the news. referring to the people of a 14000 year old uncovered village as Triquet people.
Triquet island is off the west coast of central BC
I think it would be a mistake to use this term for other discovered villages or the entire ice age migrations. Â
April 14, 2017
alexz commented on the list hail-size-descriptors
dime pea grape
baseball emoji
"Tremendous sized hail. Yuuuuuuuuuuge sized hail. Very luxurious sized hail."
https://twitter.com/pally4christ/status/848597002485198850
April 14, 2017
alexz commented on the word elxn
Short for election.
April 13, 2017
alexz commented on the list macquarie-dicionary-phrases-2
dicionary :)
April 12, 2017
alexz commented on the word re-accommodation
airline speak for getting kicked off your flight
April 12, 2017
alexz commented on the word pink moon
full mooon in April, according to the Farmer's Almanac.
April 12, 2017
alexz commented on the word TPU
Computing: Tensor Processing Unit used in a machine learning inference engine
April 12, 2017
alexz commented on the word wavicle
wiktionary got this one wrong in the above sample (but updated it on their site)
April 11, 2017
alexz commented on the word nor'easter
"A nor'easter forms when warm, moist air travelling north with the gulf stream collides with cold air moving down from Canada, resulting in snow and rain." - NASA video NASA Catches April 1 Norâeaster over New England
April 11, 2017
alexz commented on the word birb
a cute intentional misspelling of bird
April 10, 2017
alexz commented on the word LPT
"life protip"
April 10, 2017
alexz commented on the word AUMF
Authorization for Use of Military Force
Spotted in the news
April 9, 2017
alexz commented on the word lunch shaming
where schools shame and make kids feel bad for not having lunch money.
April 9, 2017
alexz commented on the word pixel tag
April 8, 2017
alexz commented on the word klebenleiben
uh oh, dueling definitions.
April 8, 2017
alexz commented on the word vetronic
as a techie, I think it means "Vehicle Electronic"
"...designed for the harsh environments of avionic and vetronic applications..."
April 8, 2017
alexz commented on the word necktop
slang for 'your brain'.
spotted in a Royal Institution talk by Daniel Dennett
April 7, 2017
alexz commented on the word CANZUK
in current events. CANZUK becoming 'a thing'
April 6, 2017
alexz commented on the list parsnips
"Oliver Cromwell had a big nose,
As big as a parsnip, as red as a rose;"
https://books.google.ca/books?id=2FMHAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA190&dq=parsnip
April 5, 2017
alexz commented on the word shabradoodle
mostly an april 1st thing.
April 5, 2017
alexz commented on the word shabradoodle
âWorking with a local dog breeder, the VPD has genetically modified a German shepherd, Labrador retriever and a poodle to create a Shabradoodle,â <b>April 1</b>. Vancouver Courier
April 4, 2017
alexz commented on the word apostrophiser
"He's invented an 'Apostrophiser' to reach the highest signs" - BBC on the Grammar Vigilante
April 4, 2017
alexz commented on the word heres
19th century - heirs
April 4, 2017
alexz commented on the word hoverslam
a rocketry term for landing a rocket vertically - zero velocity meeting zero height at the same time
goes back to 2013 with SpaceX's grasshopper term hover slam 3/7/13
goes back even earlier with computer gaming termsÂ
April 3, 2017
alexz commented on the word inference engine
an artificial intelligence algorithm where simple things (such as lines and blobs) imply more complex things (such as letters and then words on a page) and then layered for more complex inferences.
April 3, 2017
alexz commented on the word ohmagerd
funny variant of OMG
March 31, 2017
alexz commented on the word A fool who cannot see the outside world
phrase banned in North Korea.
also banned: sarcasm (really)
March 31, 2017
alexz commented on the word climate change
phrase banned again in 2017 along with "Paris agreement" and "emmisions reduction" Â "climate change" was previously on the 'banned list' in 2015 by Florida (with 'global warming').
March 31, 2017
alexz commented on the word LOX
rocketry - liquid oxygen
March 31, 2017
alexz commented on the word sudo
some people  pronounce it 'sue doh'
some people pronounce it 'soo doo'
March 31, 2017
alexz commented on the word E2EE
'end to end encryption'
March 30, 2017
alexz commented on the word reflight
term popped up in SpaceX's second flight and landing of a booster rocket.
mar 30 2017
March 30, 2017
alexz commented on the word choranaptyxic
Checked Google news for 'new word', was not disappointed.
March 29, 2017
alexz commented on the word UAS
aerospace - Unmanned Aerial System ; a robot plane.
March 29, 2017
alexz commented on the word qn
txtspeak - Short for question
March 28, 2017
alexz commented on the word qns
txtspeak - short for questions.
March 28, 2017
alexz commented on the word Qns
Short for Queens
March 28, 2017
alexz commented on the word Bklyn
short for Brooklyn.
from Bklyn Qns Expwy signs.
March 28, 2017
alexz commented on the word paleometallurgy
spotted in the 'Who Killed the Ice Man" article NYTimes
"Every modern murder investigation relies heavily on forensic science, but in Ătziâs case, the techniques have been particularly high tech, involving exotic specialties like archaeobotany and paleometallurgy."
March 27, 2017
alexz commented on the word wtaf
"what the actual f"
for when wtf isn't enough.
March 26, 2017
alexz commented on the word meme'd
The word meme has been verb'd
March 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word 437737
secret code for herpes
comes from the alphanumeric keypad.
March 24, 2017
alexz commented on the word goon
"uh, about ten cups of goon" - guy who jumped into crocodile water to impress a girl.
March 24, 2017
alexz commented on the word ambiturner
"I'm not an ambiturner. It's a problem I had since I was a baby. I can't turn left" - Zoolander 2001
recent usage spotted in a mathematics video about 'the sofa moving problem'.
other usage ambi-turner
March 24, 2017
alexz commented on the word DHCP-2
Second Edition of A Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles
http://www.dchp.ca/dchp2/Â
still doesn't list bus loop
March 24, 2017
alexz commented on the word netadmin
Network admin
March 22, 2017
alexz commented on the word hypo
spotted in the news as 'hypothetical'. ie a hypothetical situation.
the tweet examples has this as also being hypo as in low blood sugar.
March 21, 2017
alexz commented on the word howbow
how about
March 21, 2017
alexz commented on the word BEC
physics - Bose Einstein Condensate
March 21, 2017
alexz commented on the word WIF
space station acronym for Worksite InterFace
March 20, 2017
alexz commented on the word doorknocker
today, I saw this term as a political volunteer who knocks on everyone's doors to promote a politician.
The example tweets and examples have this used for beards, or amnything that hangs from the top.
March 19, 2017
alexz commented on the word deep state
Term showing up in 2017 US. Spotted on the Samantha Bee show.
March 17, 2017
alexz commented on the word Deus vult
2017 Â crusaderspeak
According to Google trends, this term is trending in Moscow, Russia. https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%203-m&q=Deus%20vult
March 17, 2017
alexz commented on the word shirtfront
Spotted in Australia news: "Watch SA Premier Jay Weatherill shirtfront Josh Frydenberg over energy policy" abc news
March 16, 2017
alexz commented on the list words-for-people-that-are-animals-too
bunny, fox, eagle, dodo , cow, snake, worm, maggots, chickapoo, sloth, ass, pig, stud,
some need modifiers - bar flies, secret squirrel,
some terms are racist ; not listed.
or sexist
March 16, 2017
alexz commented on the word meowtain
a mountain or pile of cats.Â
spotted in a minute earth video about 'Why is a group of crows called a murder'Â 0rkrGwI4rZA
book search shows this used as a pun - 2005
usage verified by the twitterverse.
March 16, 2017
alexz commented on the word ice flow
The movement of ice
March 15, 2017
alexz commented on the word purple bird
2017 slang for a pigeon
March 15, 2017
alexz commented on the word thundersleet
Adding this to the snow list
March 14, 2017
alexz commented on the list this-list-is-like-butter
butter of antimony
March 14, 2017
alexz commented on the word VLOS
aircraft/drones Visual Line Of Sight
March 14, 2017
alexz commented on the word BVLOS
"Beyond Visual Line Of Sight "
when you lose sight of your drone or aircraft.
March 14, 2017
alexz commented on the word nyall
i think it's 'none of you all'
March 14, 2017
alexz commented on the word yaint
"you all are not" Â spotted in memespeak.
March 14, 2017
alexz commented on the word AHCA
2017 : American Health Care Act
March 14, 2017
alexz commented on the word gluckschmerz
'âItâs not an actual word in the German language,â says University of Kentucky psychologist Richard Smith. âYou wonât find it in any German dictionary.â' - spotted on languagehat
March 12, 2017
alexz commented on the word SDNY
Southern District of New York
March 12, 2017
alexz commented on the word MURB
Multi Unit Residences
March 12, 2017
alexz commented on the word Rumlish
A Russian English hybrid language used on the International Space station.
spotted this term on Science Friday - Mar 10 2017
example tweet using this term in 2014 in the NASA context https://twitter.com/LaurenAlloyce/status/448180711384952832
March 11, 2017
alexz commented on the word poopetrator
Poop perpetrator - the doggy responsible
March 10, 2017
alexz commented on the word adoptables
adoptable pets
March 9, 2017
alexz commented on the word IWD
International Women's Day
March 9, 2017
alexz commented on the list sea--words
When I was a kid, you could order Sea Monkeys from an ad in comic books.
March 9, 2017
alexz commented on the word k'plah
It's KlingonÂ
March 8, 2017
alexz commented on the word k'plah
qapla'
March 7, 2017
alexz commented on the word mubble-squibble
adopted by undefined?
March 7, 2017
alexz commented on the word farmer weld
A poor quality weld.
March 6, 2017
alexz commented on the word zombie process
Definition should clarify that this is a computing term.
March 6, 2017
alexz commented on the word CKD
Chronic Kidney Disease
March 5, 2017
alexz commented on the word shitton
really, wiktionary definition?
March 5, 2017
alexz commented on the word soddered
soldered I consider this a typo and a warning label identifying people who shouldn't touch my electronics.
March 5, 2017
alexz commented on the word delidded
computer overclocking term - when people remove the metal cover from their computer's CPU and replace the thermal compound. The metal 'lid' is physically pried off.
As a techie, I don't condone this because the thermal compound you replace the original lid with generally won't be any better.
delid , lid
March 4, 2017
alexz commented on the word clan lab
Spotted in Twitter feed as short for clandestine lab , a drug lab.
March 4, 2017
alexz commented on the word NVMe
computerese: "Non Volatile Memory express" - a type of solid state storage.
March 3, 2017
alexz commented on the word AHCI
computer term "Advanced Host Controller Interface"
March 3, 2017
alexz commented on the word sardony
"Sardony has some resemblance to parsley; it contains a poison which is said to contract the mouth in so peculiar a manner, that the individual affected seems to laugh in expiring. This horrible laugh has been named, Risis Sardonicus, or Sardonic Laughter. It is that which we see playing on the lips of Satire, as those of cold Irony.
There was a devil lurking in his Sneer - Byron"
 https://books.google.ca/books?id=XvI-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA135&dq=Sardony&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Sardony&f=false
page 257 has a floral poetry dictionary.
see clever comments at sardonic
February 28, 2017
alexz commented on the word sologamy
Where you marry yourself. Spotted in a Guardian article.
February 26, 2017
alexz commented on the word weenusk
Apparently, from the picture shown below, it's a Quebec marmot, circa the 1800's.
https://books.google.ca/books?id=J2NRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA221&dq=weenus
Arctomys empetra
February 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word poking Murphy in the eye
to tempt Murphy's law.
February 23, 2017
alexz commented on the word whomst
silly memes aside, this word actually appeared in print.
https://books.google.ca/books?id=dFMCAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA63&dq="whomst";;;;
https://books.google.ca/books?id=FERaAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA246&dq="whomst";;;
https://books.google.ca/books?id=QZ5BAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA184&dq="whomst";;;
So, there you go memers, it's been word'd.
The 19th century also had  what-d'ye-call'em Â
February 23, 2017
alexz commented on the word whomst'd
oh no.. a new meme.
February 23, 2017
alexz commented on the word källkritik
"Due to what happened #lastnightinsweden the most valuable #wordoftheday is 'källkritik'. Meaning #factcheck"
https://twitter.com/swedense/status/833682059642228737
February 21, 2017
alexz commented on the word cinebulle
spotted this term near heligimbal - wikipedia lists it as a balloon used for filming.
February 20, 2017
alexz commented on the word electropol
spotted in a Fermilab video
February 20, 2017
alexz commented on the word heligimbal
the (usually ball shaped) motion stabilized camera mount on a helicopter or aircraft.
spotted term in a video about nature videography.
February 20, 2017
alexz commented on the word CINO
Conservative In Name Only
Similar acronym RINO
February 20, 2017
alexz commented on the word squareabout
.is a squared off roundabout. The sharper turns supposedly slow down cars more.
February 19, 2017
alexz commented on the word ayce
:all you can eat:
February 18, 2017
alexz commented on the word dbg
techy speak - short for debug
February 18, 2017
alexz commented on the word pro-sumer
prosumer
February 17, 2017
alexz commented on the word orgs
Short for organizations
February 16, 2017
alexz commented on the word psy-ops
From the examples listed: psychological operations
February 16, 2017
alexz commented on the word de-extincting
Spotted in article about bringing back mammoths, or mammophants
February 16, 2017
alexz commented on the word ex-vivo
Mammoth cloning article in the guardian: 'âWe hope to do the entire procedure ex-vivo (outside a living body),â he said. âIt would be unreasonable to put female reproduction at risk in an endangered species.â'
February 16, 2017
alexz commented on the word mammophant
A mammoth elephant hybrid.
February 16, 2017
alexz commented on the word yank-shake
An overly aggressive handshake where someone's whole arm is pulled, spotted in the news. aka yankshake
February 15, 2017
alexz commented on the word as you wish
SPOILER ALERT: in the movie The Princess Bride, "as you wish" means "I love you"
February 14, 2017
alexz commented on the word infotainment
Spotted in a linux presentation: "Auto industry is way behind smartphones. 36mos to produce infotainment system."
February 14, 2017
alexz commented on the word speechcon
Amazon's word for an interjection, so their talking gizmo can say Bazinga with emphasis. Speech emoticon?
February 14, 2017
alexz commented on the word PDX
sometimes refers to Portland Oregon. Letters come from the airport code. Â Not everyone refers to their city by airport code.Â
February 14, 2017
alexz commented on the word side-eye
explained in emoji: đ đ
February 13, 2017
alexz commented on the word IDIC
a Star Trek acronym " Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations" attributed to the Vulcans.
sometimes spotted on twitter in human rights debates.
February 12, 2017
alexz commented on the word chip shooter
a machine that rapidly places electronics components on a circuit board
- spotted in a manufacturing video ;Â historically would have called this a pick and place machine
February 12, 2017
alexz commented on the word gang aft a-gley
spotted in examples for a-gley "slang for gone haywire"
February 12, 2017
alexz commented on the list false-etymology
the computer term ping does not come from "p(acket) in(formation) g(roper)." Â The fifth edition of the American Heritage dictionary fixed their etymology.
February 12, 2017
alexz commented on the word whale snow
Alaskan term - spotted in the book 'Whale Snow'
https://books.google.ca/books?id=JsGC81aEorcC
"...Whale snow comes from when a whale has given itself to the People"
February 12, 2017
alexz commented on the word snow whales
skiing term for a big mound of snow
February 12, 2017
alexz commented on the word clinkerbell
a Hampshire word for Icicle.
spotted in a Robert McFarlane word hoard Guardian article. Feb 27 2015
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/feb/27/robert-macfarlane-word-hoard-rewilding-landscape
February 12, 2017
alexz commented on the word bun bun
Bunny rabbit. đ
February 11, 2017
alexz commented on the word bawbag
an insult spotted on the Samantha Bee show - Feb 8 2017
February 9, 2017
alexz commented on the word icicle
in looking up more ice words , came across 5 pages of icicle variants
https://books.google.ca/books?id=pPQoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA143
Transactions of the American Philological Association, Volumes 24-26 1893
February 8, 2017
alexz commented on the word skeldroch
hoar frost - from Jamieson's dictionary.
February 8, 2017
alexz commented on the word isechokill
an old Scottish word for icicle
February 8, 2017
alexz commented on the word snaw-powther
"fine snow"
spotted in Jamieson's dictionary
https://books.google.ca/books?id=y_s3AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA500
February 8, 2017
alexz commented on the word greymin
"Twas frost and thro' leet, wid a greymin o' snaw,
When I went to see Biddy, the flow'r o' them aw;"
https://books.google.ca/books?id=MEBjAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA83
February 8, 2017
alexz commented on the word rmb
lowercase version of RMB or renminbi currency. Â
February 8, 2017
alexz commented on the word chatops
when all your devops guys are texting during a meeting, skip the meeting part. aka ChatOps
February 8, 2017
alexz commented on the word m8s
Mates, as in friends.
February 7, 2017
alexz commented on the word mirl
Txtspeak for 'meet in real life'
Spotted in TheRegister article "Parents have no idea when kidz txt m8s 'KMS' or '99'"
February 7, 2017
alexz commented on the word trisyllabic
trisyllabic is not trisyllabic
it has 4 syllables.
February 6, 2017
alexz commented on the list â˘-knuckle-tattoos
back flip
my bilby
February 6, 2017
alexz commented on the word celly'ing
Celebrating
February 5, 2017
alexz commented on the word celly
Slang for celebrate... from the examples it is short for cell phone or cell phone picture
February 5, 2017
alexz commented on the word microstepping
Robotics term for controlling a stepper motor so it's in between 2 step locations. example: putting 20% current on coil A and 80% current on coil B results in a location in between A and B locations.
In general, microstepping is used for making the motors move smoothly between phases.
February 5, 2017
alexz commented on the word benchy
a 3d printing term for a benchmark test of your 3d printer.  named after the 3DBenchy file: It's a model of a boat.  I suspect benchy comes from benchmark
February 4, 2017
alexz commented on the word Vancouver intention
A term coined by an article writer who thinks the faux "let's do lunch" is Vancouver specific
February 4, 2017
alexz commented on the word BC bail
Term coined by an article writer who thinks cancelling meetings at the last minute is a BC thing.
February 4, 2017
alexz commented on the word shimmer
Spotted in the news as a card skimmer installed in the card slot of a banking machine. (shim / skimmer)
February 4, 2017
alexz commented on the word Huxleyan
Keep seeing this term show up in the 'not Orwellian' context.
February 4, 2017
alexz commented on the list this-is-one-lame-ass-list
kickass
February 2, 2017
alexz commented on the word stanene
physics/chemistry - Tin atoms in a single layer similar to a graphene layer.
February 2, 2017
alexz commented on the word blessed two times over
.. means twins, or expecting twins
February 2, 2017
alexz commented on the word Googleheimers
Ok Google.... What was I searching for again?
February 1, 2017
alexz commented on the word roomnesia
When you forget why you entered a room
February 1, 2017
alexz commented on the word sarloo
Wikipedia has this term as Saarloo
January 31, 2017
alexz commented on the word sarloos
Spotted this word in looking up wolfdog
From the examples, it's a German shepherd wolf cross. Wikipedia had this term as Saarloos
January 31, 2017
alexz commented on the word quagma
sounds a bit like the quark soup term that goes back to the nineteen seventies
January 31, 2017
alexz commented on the word how bow dah
internet memespeak for 'how about that'
January 31, 2017
alexz commented on the word grumpypants
a quick search shows that pants have been grumpy since 1996.
January 30, 2017
alexz commented on the list grump-words
grumpypants?
January 30, 2017
alexz commented on the word unikernel
term spotted again 2017.
January 30, 2017
alexz commented on the word hippocracy
spotted in my twitter feed "a system of government in which citizens are ruled by hippopotami"
or a typo of  hypocrisy
January 30, 2017
alexz commented on the word Inukness
the qualities of being Inuk
January 29, 2017
alexz commented on the word brovaries
spotted on a t-shirt "ovaries before brovaries"
January 29, 2017
alexz commented on the word H0LiCOW
Favourite new astronomy term.
"H0 Lenses in COSMOGRAILâs Wellspring"
January 27, 2017
alexz commented on the word yo'self
yourself
January 27, 2017
alexz commented on the word birling
This word is kept alive by the Log Driver's Waltz song and NFB film.
"For he goes birling down and down white water
That's where the log driver learns to step lightly"
January 26, 2017
alexz commented on the word seasteading
spotted in the news 2017 - tech companies creating a colony in French Polynesia.
"The idea of seasteading â escaping the laws, regulations, and taxes of life on terra firma by establishing an outpost in international waters â has long enchanted libertarians." - The Guardian.
January 26, 2017
alexz commented on the word oinkubator
January 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word awks
awkward
January 25, 2017
alexz commented on the word Chinook Wawa
Just saw a Sam Sullivan (former mayor of Vancouver) video about the origins of Chinook Wawa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6-F3s6E3do
There seems to be a bunch of online videos keeping Chinook Wawa alive.
January 24, 2017
alexz commented on the word gedankedank
"Einstein was famed for his gedankedank"
Fake German word from XKCD
January 24, 2017
alexz commented on the word catipede
a cat/centipede hybrid created by the panorama effect on a digital camera.. or photoshop
only on the internet. image search results worth it.
January 24, 2017
alexz commented on the word LGBTQIA
thanx
January 23, 2017
alexz commented on the word LGBTQIA
From the examples "Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Ally"
January 22, 2017
alexz commented on the word alternative fact
this term is resonating on Twitter and FB today.
January 22, 2017
alexz commented on the word suminagashi
Japanese paper marbling.
January 21, 2017
alexz commented on the word quaff
how about cough
or
old rhyme book at https://books.google.ca/books?id=leoIAAAAQAAJ&dq=rhyme%20dictionary&pg=PA188 and page 206
the syrup he did quaff for his 5 year cough
January 21, 2017
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