Learned a (shocking) piece of terminology this week 'EMI'. Even my dad's consultant had to ask someone what it stood for: 'Elderly Mentally Infirm'. So we're now on the hunt for a 'EMI bed'. Social care never fails to shock me. It's in another century (the last but one). --Neil Crowther, Twitter
Not long ago, my aviary was struck by a mass death event. I lost 50 birds in one day. I have 19 left. It was heartbreaking to have to bury them all at once. I buried them deep because I was afraid some raccoon or other scavenger would dig them up and have them spread all across the yard.--vendingmachine/frogapplause
Interesting, but when I typed thingamajig into one of those online language detectors/translators, it identified Javanese as the probable language of origin.
All human beings start out as tiny anuses. In the first few weeks after fertilization, we're nothing more than a small group of cells called a blastula. This blastula bursts open from the inside out, making a little bitty opening.
This opening is called a blastopore, and it is the first of our proto-organs to begin forming.
American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled; in some classifications put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae.
DarkSide is a relative newcomer to the ransomware scene, what Ms. Neuberger called “a criminal actor” that hires out its services to the highest bidder, then shares “the proceeds with ransomware developers.” It is essentially a business model in which some of the ill-gotten gains are poured into research and development on more effective forms of ransomware.
But this case was different: a criminal actor who, in trying to extort money from a company, ended up bringing down the system. One senior Biden administration official called it “the ultimate blended threat” because it was a criminal act, the kind the United States would normally respond to with arrests or indictments, that resulted in a major threat to the nation’s energy supply chain.
During the Trump administration, the Department of Homeland Security issued warnings about Russian malware in the American power grid, and the United States mounted a not-so-secret effort to put malware in the Russian grid as a warning.
To many officials who have struggled for years to protect the United States’ critical infrastructure from cyberattacks, the only surprise about the events of the past few days is that they took so long to happen. When Leon E. Panetta was defense secretary under President Barack Obama, Mr. Panetta warned of a “cyber Pearl Harbor” that could shut off power and fuel, a phrase often used in an effort to get Congress or corporations to spend more on cyberdefense.
“There are governments that turn a blind eye or affirmatively encourage these groups, and Russia is one of those countries,” said Christopher Painter, the United States’ former top cyberdiplomat. “Putting pressure on safe havens for these criminals has to be a part of any solution.”
Mr. Biden, who is expected to announce an executive order in the coming days to strengthen America’s cyberdefenses, said there was no evidence that the Russian government was behind the attack.
The explosion of ransomware cases has been fueled by the rise of cyberinsurance — which has made many companies and governments ripe targets for criminal gangs that believe their targets will pay — and of cryptocurrencies, which make extortion payments harder to trace.
“Right now, they’ve not asked for cybersupport from the federal government,” Anne Neuberger, the deputy national security adviser for cyber and emerging technology, told reporters at a briefing at the White House.
Privilege, though, is not confined to money or pedigree. Although most people generally think of privilege as socio-economic, that’s just one of many categories. Of course, there is white privilege, but there’s also colorism. Colorism, favoring light-skinned people over darker skin tones, is real and present in both Black and white communities.
On the island of Guam, the coral-tree, Erythrina Indica, the appearance of the bright scarlet blossoms of which announces the beginning of the rainy season. Its wood is soft and is used for making troughs.
This sounds poetic... the appearance of the bright scarlet blossoms .... announces the beginning of the rainy season.
A derder is an impromptu kazoo-like musical instrument fashioned by placing one's mouth on the end of a toilet paper tube and tunefully going "der-der-der" into it . This cheap and innocent toy has delighted children of all ethnicities and socioeconomic strata since the invention of the toilet paper roll in 1877.
Spice - often dubbed ‘fake’ or ‘synthetic’ cannabis - is made from dried plant material, chopped up herbs and man-made chemicals.
Some of the ingredients in Spice are similar to those in marijuana, but the substance is often much more potent.
It was invented in the US by an organic chemist who was looking for a new way of developing anti-inflammatory medication.
One of the substances included the synthetic cannabinoid ‘JWH-018’.
The substance was declared unfit for human consumption in 2006, but it began being sold on the internet two years later, advertised as a plant fertiliser.
"Continental Mine ores are crushed in two stages. The crushed ores are then sent to the mill, where they are ground down to the fineness of talcum powder. Flotation and lime are used in processing. Sulfides are collected. 1% of the mined material goes to the concentrator. 99% of mined material becomes tailings. The tailings powder is wet (33% solid and the rest is water) and piped uphill to a pond. The tailings pond water has a pH of 10. Water from the pond is recycled to make tailings slurry. 27 million gallons a day enters the pond. An earthen dam around the pond is designed to withstand a powerful earthquake."
It's been years (I'm assuming) since any of us have heard how John is doing. Before wordnik, we were wordie. I was frogapplause back then. As much as I love, love Erin, it all started with John.
I was trying to compile the user names of all the old gang, but I was afraid of slighting someone by forgetting a name or two. Is there a list of all the wordie people somewhere?
Many word enthusiasts on this site have coined words, too, but we don't overdocument our timelines, keep promoting ourselves or (worst of all) keep shouting about it. It's time to move onto the next word. It's a clever creation, but the world is waiting for something new now. How about PHOTOMOVER?
Alpha-gal syndrome is a recently identified type of food allergy to red meat and other products made from mammals. In the United States, the condition most often begins when a Lone Star tick bites someone. The bite transmits a sugar molecule called alpha-gal into the person's body. In some people, this triggers an immune system reaction that later produces mild to severe allergic reactions to red meat, such as beef, pork or lamb, or other mammal products.
Pork–cat syndrome is an allergy to pork, usually after adolescence, that is caused by exposure to cats. Although first described in 1994, it was first documented in the U.S. by Scott Commins and Thomas Platts-Mills during their research on alpha-gal allergy.
It is called "pork–cat syndrome" because "almost all people with the condition are cat owners, and many have multiple cats. Some develop an allergic response to cat serum albumin (protein made by a cat’s liver) that cross-reacts with albumin in pork when someone consumes it, and can lead to severe or even fatal allergic reactions when pork is consumed."
I knew someone who suffered from alpha-gal syndrome. It is a tick-borne disease.
Witches' stones are flat stones jutting from chimneys in the islands of Jersey and Guernsey.
According to folklore in the Channel Islands, these small ledges were used by witches to rest on as they fly to their sabbats. Householders would provide these platforms to appease witches and avoid their ill favor.
There are several reasons why firefly populations are declining, including climate change and the harvesting of luciferase from them, light pollution and habitat destruction. When firefly habitats are destroyed for roads or other construction, they don't migrate to a new spot, they simply disappear.
"This remarkable, one-of-a-kind actress has, since the early 1990s, intrigued film and TV audiences with her glowing, yet careworn eccentricity and old world-styled glamour. Very much in demand these days as a character player, Patricia Clarkson nevertheless continues to avoid the temptation of money-making mainstream filming while reaping kudos and acting awards in out-of-the-way projects." --bio of Patricia Clarkson for IMDb
LGBT+ is an "inclusive" way to represent all the different identities in the longer acronym but here's a breakdown of what each of the letters in LGBTQQIAAP mean.
L - lesbian: a woman who is attracted to other women
G - gay: a man who is attracted to other men or broadly people who identify as homosexual
B - bisexual: a person who is attracted to both men and women
T - transgender: a person whose gender identity is different from the sex the doctor put down on their birth certificate
Q - queer: originally used as a hate term, some people want to reclaim the word, while others find it offensive. It can be a political statement, suggest that someone doesn't want to identify with "binaries" (e.g. male v female, homosexual v straight) or that they don't want to label themselves only by their sexual activity
Q - questioning: a person who is still exploring their sexuality or gender identity
I - intersex: a person whose body is not definitively male or female. This may be because they have chromosomes which are not XX or XY or because their genitals or reproductive organs are not considered "standard"
A - allies: a person who identifies as straight but supports people in the LGBTQQIAAP community
A - asexual: a person who is not attracted in a sexual way to people of any gender
P - pansexual: a person whose sexual attraction is not based on gender and may themselves be fluid when it comes to gender or sexual identity
"The queer having bareback sex in the back room of a club might not identify with the term “queer” or think of their actions as political, but in rejecting what society says they should be doing, they are queer."--https://www.them.us/story/what-does-queer-mean
"It’s paradoxical because these queer leftists are usually white, and they pepper their events and issues with a kind of “diversity by numbers” approach. I call this approach “queernormativity.” Like heteronormativity, they identify a “right” way to be queer and argue that everyone else is doing queerness incorrectly."--https://www.them.us/story/what-does-queer-mean
"First, there is “queer” as an umbrella term. Rather than use the alphabet soup of LGBTQQIIAAPSS+, “queer” encompasses any non-cisgender, non-heterosexual identity, relationship, behavior, or desire. I use “queer” this way because I think it includes a wide variety of ways people are non-cisgender and/or non-heterosexual."--https://www.them.us/story/what-does-queer-mean
"For me, queerness encompasses my sexual identity as someone uncomfortable with binary presentation. It also encompasses my rebuke of cisgender and heteronormative privilege and the intersection of these privileges with white privilege. LGBT+ labels tend to presume a binary origination, and their usage coincides with a social movement that seeks assimilation and erases the existence of non-binary identities. Using “queer” as a catch-all umbrella term, whether intentionally or not, silences that important fringe voice."--https://www.them.us/story/what-does-queer-mean
I now realize that I can't create a hashtag list because the symbol # makes Wordnik sad and confused. The words don't alphabetize well, and they link to irrelevant, random words like "somehow", "forest fire", and "the earth is flat."
The large blooms produce a scent that smells strongly reminiscent of rotting meat. Its powerful scent attracts huge numbers of flies and it is exactly these flies that become covered in the pollen of the Pelican Flower and transmit it to others.
"Having to don and doff new PPE with every patient, and do it quickly enough to keep up with the chaos of a pandemic ER, “made every shift, and every hour, a lot more stressful than even it had been before,” Myles Greenberg, his best friend and a former ER doctor, says."
Why is it hard to believe that your name is John Mullen? Why are you apologizing for being 84? When is two of Payment time? If you cannot do a monthly donate, try a newly other donate time. I will to be trying to safe live a good life in my work.
A fake Shemp is someone who appears in a film as a replacement for another actor or person. Their appearance is disguised using methods such as heavy make-up (or a computer-generated equivalent), filming from the back, dubbing in audio and splicing in past footage from the original actor's previous work, using a sound-alike voice actor, or using partial shots of the actor. Coined by film director Sam Raimi, the term is named after Shemp Howard of the Three Stooges, whose sudden death in 1955 necessitated the use of these techniques to finish the films to which he was already committed. Once somewhat commonplace throughout the 20th century, the use of fake Shemps to emulate living people is now forbidden under Screen Actors Guild contracts, largely because of a lawsuit filed by Crispin Glover — following his replacement in Back to the Future Part II — that determined that the method violates the original actor's personality rights. The method continues to be used in cases, such as Shemp's, where the original actor is deceased and permission from the deceased actor's estate is granted.
A fake Shemp is distinguished from a stunt double. Stunt doubles usually only substitute for an actor in select scenes where the original actor is either unable to perform the stunt or is unwilling to take the risk of being injured in the stunt. The same techniques are often used for both.
"Robin DiAngelo describes white fragility to be a defensive response by a white person when their whiteness is highlighted or mentioned, or their racial worldview is challenged, whether this response is conscious or otherwise. She gives examples including a white man accusing someone of "playing the race card" or a white woman crying to avoid conflict.
DiAngelo proposes that white people are used to viewing themselves as "raceless" or the "default" race, and as such are insulated from feelings of racial discomfort. She describes racism as systematic rather than overt and conscious, arguing that racial segregation has shaped the United States. She points to research that has shown that children as young as four years old show a strong and consistent pro-white bias and an especially strong prejudice against black males."
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(Forget DiAngelo's book. Read this instead: )
The Dehumanizing Condescension of White Fragility
The popular book aims to combat racism but talks down to Black people.
"It is most efficient and relevant to conduct these studies in populations with a high symptom burden."
"Fifty percent or more of patients in Cluster II experienced a high symptom burden."
"A high symptom burden is associated with a high use of healthcare, admissions to nursing homes, and reduced quality of life."
"A study focusing on community pharmacies in Missouri found that patients with COPD receiving respiratory medication from the pharmacies had high symptom burden and low medication adherence."
"Ever since Starbucks onboarded Oatly's milk as its latest dairy alternative, the company has had a hard time keeping up with skyrocketing demand." --Twitter
I've created this list at least eight times and it keeps self-erasing. Maybe it's because it's a list about sharks. My list keeps eating itself. I had perhaps 50+ words, now I see 7. And what's with ILZf4M-6DSX?
"Not all human intervention has been as successful, however. For example, the degradation of brown earths under heath in western France is not a natural feature but the product of human clearance and grazing practices."
" The quality of the soils depends heavily upon the origin of their waste sheets; sand spreads derived from the granites of the Hercynian massifs, for example, provide only poor soils."
"These may provide a particularly favorable soil material; most notable is the windblown limon that mantles the Paleogene and Neogene limestone plateaus of the central Paris Basin and the chalk beds to the northwest, the basis of the finest arable soils of France."
"Over large areas of France, soils have developed not directly from the disintegrated bedrock but from the waste sheets created by periglacial action."
"Some climate-related variation can be detected within the French brown earth group; in the high-rainfall and somewhat cool conditions of northwestern France, carbonates and other minerals tend to be leached downward, producing a degraded brown earth soil of higher acidity and lesser fertility; locally this may approach the nature of the north European podzol."
On a broad, general scale, virtually the whole of France can be classified in the zone of brown forest soils, or brown earths. These soils, which develop under deciduous forest cover in temperate climatic conditions, are of excellent agricultural value.
A word coined by someone I know who said there was a void for a word that labeled all the cemetery-related duties he had: grave digger, marketing and sales, administrative work, etc. I like the mouthfeel of his creation. Coining a word carries with it a certain degree of responsibility that I respect and admire. I've only coined one word with any lasting power (shoecabbage), so I enjoy the process and end result.
Industrially, pine oil is used as a frother in mineral extraction from ores. For example, in copper extraction, pine oil is used to condition copper sulfide ores for froth flotation. Therefore, it is important in the industry for the froth flotation process. It has largely been replaced by synthetic alcohols and polyglycol ethers.
The limited functional expression of olfactory receptors in heterologous systems, however, has greatly hampered attempts to deorphanize them (analyze the response profiles of single olfactory receptors).
Several strategies could improve the interview experiences of Black applicants. First, academic leaders must accept that inequitable treatment of Black applicants exists and will take time to correct. Second, everyone involved in the interview process from host institutions should be educated about microaggressions, stereotype threat, and other challenges and biases that disadvantage Black applicants. We recommend bystander and upstander training to prepare people to act when they witness discrimination, bias, or racism. Third, we favor careful and fair recruitment of diverse interviewers to create a welcoming environment. We also suggest incorporating work related to diversity and inclusion when describing the mission and values of the program or institution. On a wider scale, we recommend the creation of institutional databases — or, ideally, a national database — where applicants can report experiences of racism or bias while interviewing, which would be aggregated to protect their identity. Improving the experiences of Black applicants will be a first step toward increasing the diversity of programs and subsequently addressing the unmet needs of the diverse patient populations they serve.
Finally, it is widely recognized that people tend to associate with and gravitate toward others who have backgrounds and interests that are similar to their own. This phenomenon, called homophily, drives much of Black applicants’ discomfort and isolation. The concept of homophily was popularized by Paul Lazarsfeld and Robert Merton in 1954. Although the tendency to socialize with people like oneself creates opportunities for positive, lasting relationships, homophily can lead to applicants being excluded on the basis of differences.
Tokenism entails making cursory strides toward diversity and inclusion. The recruitment of Black candidates merely to achieve a metric undermines the applicant’s academic value and dismisses the difficulty associated with navigating medicine as a member of an underrepresented minority group. Awareness of tokenism and of the ways in which it can lead to depression, burnout, attrition, and a minority tax — extra responsibility placed on underrepresented minorities with a goal of achieving diversity — is warranted as early as interview day. A clear demonstration of efforts to recruit, retain, support, and promote Black applicants better illustrates dedication to diversity in medicine.
Another challenge facing Black interviewees is imposter syndrome. In 1978, Pauline Clance described imposter syndrome as an “internal experience of intellectual phoniness in people who believe that they are not intelligent, capable or creative despite evidence of high achievement.” Studies have revealed feelings of imposter syndrome in up to 82% of students, with minorities and women reporting such feelings at higher rates than White men. Imposter syndrome can cause qualified Black applicants to feel unqualified and isolated.
Stereotype threat was defined by Claude Steele and Joshua Aronson in 1995 as “being at risk of confirming, as self-characteristic, a negative stereotype about one’s group.” In landmark research, Steele and Aronson demonstrated that Black participants performed worse than White participants during a test when they believed that they were at risk for fulfilling stereotypes about Black people’s intellectual abilities. When that stereotype threat was removed, Black participants performed similarly to their White counterparts. Stereotype threat has been found to be present in medicine. In a 2020 study of medical students, 82% of Black respondents had high scores on a measure of vulnerability to stereotype threat, as compared with 4% of White respondents.2 When Black applicants see photographs of only non-Black graduates on the walls, they may perceive the threat of a negative stereotype, such as “Black people are not smart,” and perform worse than expected.
Although there are many concerns that broadly affect Black people in medicine, such as institutional racism and inequality of educational opportunities, the experiences of Black interviewees in particular remain underaddressed. Being interviewed while Black involves a collision of microaggressions and feelings and experiences related to stereotype threat, tokenism, imposter syndrome, and homophily (see table). Many of these experiences are rooted in unconscious bias, whereas some can be born from overt racism. In turn, Black interviewees collect impressions that make them doubt that they will be welcomed and valued in medicine.
"Shortly afterwards, Anne was asked for her consent to an annulment, to which she agreed. Cromwell, the moving force behind the marriage, was attainted for treason. The marriage was annulled on 9 July 1540, on the grounds of non-consummation and her pre-contract to Francis of Lorraine. Henry VIII's physician stated that after the wedding night, Henry said he was not impotent because he experienced "duas pollutiones nocturnas in somno" (two nocturnal pollutions while in sleep; i.e., two wet dreams)."
"Psychometric profiling is the process by which your actions are used to infer your personality. The technique was developed by academics and used by marketers and advertisers to assess the psychological characteristics of an individual or a group. These profiles give advertisers and political strategists insights into users' beliefs, behaviours and motivations. By appealing to these underlying traits on an individual or group level, psychometrically-informed advertisements have the potential to be more persuasive and are thus used to influence decisions like what to buy or how to vote."
"The racehorse theory is the belief that some humans have a better genetic endowment than others, and by breeding two superior people you end up with superior offspring. The belief in eugenics, the pseudoscience of trimming out “inferior” bloodlines to increase the quality of the gene pool, is part of a long, racist history in America, from forced sterilizations to research funded by the Carnegie Institution, among other wealthy foundations. Earlier this month, charges surfaced that a doctor at an ICE facility was performing unwanted and likely unnecessary hysterectomies on detained immigrant women, which would prevent them from having more children."
"It's called a “dog whistle,” a word or phrase in a speech that is unobjectionable on the surface but conveys a coded message to partisans, by analogy to high-pitched sounds that are audible to dogs but not to people. Richard Nixon leaned on it heavily during his 1968 presidential campaign, referencing “law and order” and a “war on drugs,” further codifying racial appeals from Barry Goldwater for “states’ rights” and “freedom of association.” Ronald Reagan took it to another level in 1976, demonizing a “welfare queen” who fraudulently collected $150,000 in government benefits, a barely concealed appeal to the race and class resentments of white voters toward Blacks.
By that standard, President Trump’s riff about the “good genes” found among the people of Minnesota — an 80 percent white state — wasn’t a dog whistle. It was a train whistle, folding in Trump’s long-held belief that some people, himself especially, are simply born with superior traits to others."
What is the correct pronunciation for jabot? I've heard at least four different pronunciations. Which one should I believe? Maybe they are ALL correct. Maybe they are ALL wrong.
Have you ever seen Ruth Bader Ginsburg's jabot collection? Fascinating!
BTW, for those who don't subscribe to Erin's "Things I Learned While Looking Up Other Things"... you're really missing out. I look forward to each installment!
Wikipedia claims that the term was coined in 1977 for the song "Brick House" by Shirley Hanna-King, who took it from the older expression built like a brick shit house.
Patients do not come to us (our medical malpractice law firm) because they want to bring a frivolous claim or “jackpot justice.” They come to us because they are in the most dire circumstances.
“Journals have devolved into information laundering operations for the pharmaceutical industry”, wrote Richard Horton, editor of the Lancet, in March 2004. In the same year, Marcia Angell, former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, lambasted the industry for becoming “primarily a marketing machine” and co-opting “every institution that might stand in its way”. Medical journals were conspicuously absent from her list of co-opted institutions, but she and Horton are not the only editors who have become increasingly queasy about the power and influence of the industry.
It also awarded $354 million to Phlow Corp. in May to start producing active pharmaceutical ingredients, or API, among other chemical ingredients, used in certain essential medications. A spokesperson for Phlow said the company can’t disclose the list of drugs, but it includes treatments for pain and blood pressure that can be used by hospitalized COVID-19 patients. The total contract is worth up to $812 million. Phlow cites a shift toward producing API in China and India as the rationale behind its business model.
Ironically (or not), with the rising militancy of suffragists, skirts began to narrow until they became the barreled, banded style known as the hobble skirt or "the speed-limit skirt."
Discovered in 1957 by a Swiss pharmaceutical firm, isotonitazene is an analogue of its banned parent compound, etonitazene, which was discovered in 1956 and is itself 60 times more potent than morphine.
“Isotonitazene is the most persistent and prevalent new opioid in the U.S.,” said Logan, adding that he is now seeing 40 to 50 isotonitazene-related deaths per month in the U.S. compared to about six per month last summer (2019).
Isotonitazene is legal to export from China and is not specifically banned in the U.S., Europe or China. America’s Analog Act would cover it as a derivative of a banned substance, but no case has come to court yet. It could take years before it is scheduled in the U.S. and internationally.
Chemists in Shanghai and other major manufacturing centers are still out-inventing lawmakers the world over, quickly synthesizing new, legal variants of recently banned drugs. Isotonitazene and several variants of it are now being sold online, legally by Chinese suppliers offering bulk deals.
"Previously, isotonitazene was a niche drug used by internet drug geeks, or psychonauts, Logan said. But he now, as happened with fentanyl, there are bags of heroin on sale on the streets in the U.S. with mixtures containing isotonitazene, with users having no idea what they are buying."
There are other examples of vowelless sentences in Czech and Slovak, such as prd krt skrz drn, zprv zhlt hrst zrn, meaning "a mole farted through grass, having swallowed a handful of grains"
So, every -ist is an addict? How exactly does an addiction to vowels manifest itself? Do vowelists insist on buying game-show vowels even when a vowel is not needed to identify a word or phrase? Do vowelists suffer mercilessly when encountering languages such as Czech?
Strč prst skrz krk
--a Czech and Slovak tongue-twister meaning "stick a finger through the throat".
Political ponerology (originating from the Greek word for evil, poneros) is a science on the nature of evil adjusted for political purposes which ultimately on a larger scale results in a pathocracy.
Cross-cutting relationships is a principle of geology that states that the geologic feature which cuts another is the younger of the two features. It is a relative dating technique in geology. It was first developed by Danish geological pioneer Nicholas Steno in Dissertationis prodromus (1669) and later formulated by James Hutton in Theory of the Earth (1795) and embellished upon by Charles Lyell in Principles of Geology (1830).
The principle of faunal succession, also known as the law of faunal succession, is based on the observation that sedimentary rock strata contain fossilized flora and fauna, and that these fossils succeed each other vertically in a specific, reliable order that can be identified over wide horizontal distances. A fossilized Neanderthal bone will never be found in the same stratum as a fossilized Megalosaurus, for example, because neanderthals and megalosaurs lived during different geological periods, separated by many millions of years. This allows for strata to be identified and dated by the fossils found within.
The principle of lateral continuity states that layers of sediment initially extend laterally in all directions; in other words, they are laterally continuous. As a result, rocks that are otherwise similar, but are now separated by a valley or other erosional feature, can be assumed to be originally continuous.
The Principle of Original Horizontality states that layers of sediment are originally deposited horizontally under the action of gravity.1 It is a relative dating technique. The principle is important to the analysis of folded and tilted strata. It was first proposed by the Danish geological pioneer Nicholas Steno (1638–1686).
The law of superposition is an axiom that forms one of the bases of the sciences of geology, archaeology, and other fields dealing with geological stratigraphy. It is a form of relative dating. In its plainest form, it states that in undeformed stratigraphic sequences, the oldest strata will be at the bottom of the sequence. This is important to stratigraphic dating, which assumes that the law of superposition holds true and that an object cannot be older than the materials of which it is composed.
“Take the red pill.” The term is popular in internet communities such as the alt-right and the manosphere, and refers to the scene in the film The Matrix in which the protagonist, Neo, is offered the choice between a blue pill that will allow him to remain safely deluded, or a red pill, which will allow him to discover the underlying truth about reality. The phrase has come to mean rejecting widely accepted truths — particularly those that relate to equality between races, genders and social groups — and choosing an alternative narrative about society. Such narratives lean, in many cases, towards racism, misogyny and other highly controversial beliefs. While this is not true of every single person who would consider themselves “redpilled”, the members of pretty much every alt-right group you might have heard of – incels, neo-Nazis, eco-fascists – will often consider themselves to have awakened in this way to their fringe theories and socially unacceptable beliefs.
How do the Jans, Chads, Janets, and Sharons of the world feel about the memeification of their names? While their experiences are obviously in no way comparable to people who face real-world, racially-motivated name discrimination, it is potentially frustrating to have a name that is part of pop culture. Just ask Harry Potter.
"Luce's climbing style was dynamic and determined and she seemed to thrive in the modern style of competition bouldering. Athletes and coaches sharing tributes online are recalling the energy that she brought to competitions with her ever-smiling presence.
Luce began climbing from a young age with her father on crags in the Chartreuse Massif near her home. In May, Luce ticked her first 8b+ on rock at a local crag, just weeks after French lockdown ended."
Many badger species are very social creatures and live in groups called a cete or clan. A clan shares territory and setts. Setts can be centuries old and are used by many generations of badgers. One sett can be 22 to 109 yards (20 to 100 meters) or more long.
Honey badgers became popular due to a YouTube video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r7wHMg5Yjg) with a humorous voiceover. Honey badgers are known for their ferocity. Some fun facts about honey badgers:
* They are called ratels because of the rattling sound they make when they are being attacked.
* They have a resistance to snake venom.
* When attacking beehives, they release a fume that spreads throughout the hive.
* When attacking large animals, such as lions, they go for the scrotum.
Any substance added to the soil with the view of rendering it more fertile; specifically, and as used in leases and other contracts relating to real property, the excrementitious product of livestock, with refuse litter, accumulated, and used for enriching the land.
A diegetic sound is any sound that originates from the world of a production. A very simple way to think about diegetic sounds is to think of them as anything that’s real, or anything that could make sound in the world of a film. The sound doesn't have to be featured on-screen.
In fact, many diegetic sounds are not shown on-screen. Say there’s an emergency and an ambulance is called. The corresponding siren sound would be diegetic, even if it’s not shown on screen. This is because it’s a natural sound of the film world.
Examples of Diegetic Sounds
*Dialogue between characters
*Music played within the world. Piano playing at a restaurant, music in an elevator, a street performer banging drums.
*Sound effects such as: explosions, rain drops on a stormy night, wind whirring through a turbine, and many, many more.
The military has a long history of discriminating against servicemembers who either were or were perceived to be Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, or Queer (LGBTQ). That history of discrimination included the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT) policy in place from 1994 to 2011, as well as predecessor policies that were even more harsh, and extends to the current ban on service by openly transgender individuals. Under DADT and prior policies, between the end of World War II and the repeal of DADT, over 100,000 servicemembers were discharged with bad paper discharge because of their actual or perceived LGBTQ status. In addition, thousands of LGBTQ servicemembers were discharged with bad paper for behaviors—interpreted as inexcusable misconduct—that stemmed from the trauma of having to conceal their sexual or gender identity or were discharged for pretextual reasons, such as minor misconduct, when the true cause was discrimination against them due to their LGBTQ status.16 The nation’s history of discrimination against LGBTQ servicemembers is therefore another cause of bad paper discharges that is perpetuated when these veterans are turned away from VA without being allowed to apply.
PTSD and TBI Traumatic Brain Injury are considered the signature wounds of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts and both conditions can significantly impair a person’s ability to conform their behavior to the military’s standards. In particular, the symptoms of PTSD can lead to behaviors that are misinterpreted by military commanders, which in turn can lead to a bad paper discharge.
Every servicemember is assigned a “character of service” or “discharge status” upon leaving military service. While most servicemembers receive Honorable discharge statuses, a substantial percentage—approximately 7 percent of (American) veterans discharged since 1980—receive discharge statuses that are not Honorable, which are known as “bad paper.” Servicemembers usually get “bad paper” because of some alleged misconduct, though that misconduct frequently is minor, for a military-only offense, or not proved in any court. Studies also show that many servicemembers are separated with bad paper for misconduct related to a service-related mental or physical health condition or Military Sexual Trauma (MST).
Not everybody is equal when it comes to the transmission of infectious diseases. In fact, it has been established for at least two decades that there is something called the 20/80 rule – that a small core group of about one in five people transmit infections to far more people than the majority do.
On 2 February, the WHO declared there was a "massive infodemic" accompanying the outbreak and response, citing an over-abundance of reported information, accurate and false, about the virus that "makes it hard for people to find trustworthy sources and reliable guidance when they need it."
The Hawaiian language uses two diacritical markings. The ‘okina is a glottal stop, similar to the sound between the syllables of "oh-oh." In print, the correct mark for designating an ‘okina is the single open quote mark. The kahako is a macron, which lengthens and adds stress to the marked vowel. For example 'pau,' depending on placement of ‘okina and kahako, can mean completed, smudge, moist or skirt.
The State of Hawai‘i and University of Hawai‘i strongly encourage use of Hawaiian diacritical markings.
"In many Polynesian cultures, it is believed that a person's errors (called hara or hala) caused illness. Some believe error angers the gods, others that it attracts malevolent gods, and still others believe the guilt caused by error made one sick. In most cases, however, specific 'untie-error' rites could be performed to atone for such errors and thereby diminish one's accumulation of them.
Among the islands of Vanuatu in the South Pacific, people believe that illness usually is caused by sexual misconduct or anger. "If you are angry for two or three days, sickness will come," said one local man. The therapy that counters this sickness is confession. The patient, or a family member, may confess. If no one confesses an error, the patient may die. The Vanuatu people believe that secrecy is what gives power to the illness. When the error is confessed, it no longer has power over the person.
Like many other islanders, including Hawaiians, people of Tikopia in the Solomon Islands, and on Rarotonga in the Cook Islands, believe that the sins of the father will fall upon the children. If a child is sick, the parents are suspected of quarreling or misconduct. In addition to sickness, social disorder could cause sterility of land or other disasters. Harmony could be restored only by confession and apology.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoʻoponopono (grave accent mark messes up link; must copy and paste. In Hawaiian, the grave accent is not placed over another character but is sometimes encountered as a typographically easier substitute for the ʻokina: Hawai`i instead of Hawaiʻi.).
Another ad, which was popular with focus groups in Minneapolis, Kansas City and Denver, was titled “Festivals for everything from mud to testicles.” The latter refers to a Father’s Day weekend Testicle Festival, at the Round the Bend Steakhouse east of Ashland, that features deep-fried sheep and beef testicles.
"Equilibristics is a blanket term for a number of circus skills which involve balancing or maintaining equilibrium. The term applies equally to acts in which the performer balances on a prop, and acts in which the performer balances or spins a prop. Many different tricks and stunts fit into this category. Some well-known examples of equilibristics include juggling, baton twirling, unicycle riding, stilt walking, tightrope walking, the manipulation of devil sticks, plate spinning, and some acrobatics. Couch juggling is a stunt in which one lies on one's back, balancing an upended sofa on the soles of one's feet. The couch is flipped end-for-end and caught at the other end, beginning a spin which is maintained by deft movements of the feet. This stunt can also be performed with a canoe, or any other large and unwieldy object. It can even be performed as a gymnastic stunt, using a human gymnast as the juggled object. Technically, balancing a cane on the tip of a finger is an equilibristic stunt, but generally equilibristics is more flashy."
"During times of rapid change, there is always a lag between events and our perception and understanding of those events. “Thought” is past tense. Reflection is always after the fact. Someone once said that “time makes hypocrites of us all”, but what that really means is that there is a dissonance between change and the adequacy of our responses to that change. We are already living in the future, but our thinking is still in the past, so that we live divided between the past and the future."
Some phenotypes (characteristics) of people who have Russell–Silver syndrome are inadequate catch-up growth in the first two years, body asymmetry, lack of appetite, low-set posteriorly rotated ears, clinodactyly* (inward curving) of the 5th finger, webbed toes, non-descended testicles, weak muscle tone, delayed bone age, downturned corners of mouth and thin upper lip, hypospadias, high-pitched voice, small chin, delayed closure of the fontanel, hypoglycemia, and a bossed forehead.
The omoluwabi is a philosophical and cultural concept that's native to the Yoruba people. It's used to describe a person of good character. The omoluabi concept signifies courage, hard work, humility and respect. An omoluabi is a person of honor who believes in hard work, respects the rights of others, and gives to the community in deeds and in action. Above all, an omoluwabi is a person of integrity.
The Omoluwabi concept is an adjectival Yoruba phrase, which has the words - "Omo + ti + Olu-iwa + bi" as its components. Literally translated and taken separately, omo means 'child', ti means 'that or which', Olu-iwa means the chief or master of Iwa (character), bi means 'born'. When combined, omoluabi translates as "the baby begotten by the chief of iwa". Such a child is thought of as a paragon of excellence in character.
More than 1 in 5 wealthy people pay an extra fee for direct access to their doctor, according to a new poll from NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. For low and middle income people, the rates are less than half that.
also known as creative reuse, is the process of transforming by-products, waste materials, useless, or unwanted products into new materials or products of better quality and environmental value.
The newspaper report of 1 September featured in the comments suggests that Annie Anderson may have been involved in prostitution. This is made more explicit in a report of a later arrest in the Shields Daily Gazette for 21 July 1904, 'disorderly house' being a euphemism for brothel.
"At North Shields Annie Anderson (34) was charged with keeping a disorderly house in Liddell Street on July 1st. Sergt. G. Scougal proved the case. Chief Constable Huish said that the prisoner was convicted for a similar offence on March 28th of this year, and committed for one month. Immediately she came out of prison she went back to the room and continued to carry on the house in the same manner as before. The complaints received by the police about it were serious. Defendant, who pleaded not guilty, was committed for three months with hard labour".
So you're a medieval landlord, collecting property rent from your peasants in eels. How do you measure them?
Eels were usually counted in units called sticks (25 eels) -- likely from the number of eels you can smoke on a stick at one time. 10 sticks of eels was called a bind.
necker's knob: A knob attached to the steering wheel of an automobile, especially before the widespread availability of power steering, helping the driver steer with one arm and leaving the other arm free to provide romantic attention to a companion.
The plot thickens... "leaving the other arm free to provide romantic attention to a companion."
A knob attached to the steering wheel of an automobile, especially before the widespread availability of power steering, helping the driver steer with one arm and leaving the other arm free to provide romantic attention to a companion.
The opihi, or Cellana exarata, is an edible shellfish of the limpet species of molluscs. There are 3 types in Hawaii. The opihi alinalina or yellowfoot is one. The opihi makaiauli or blackfoot is the second. And the opihi ko`ele or giant opihi is the third. Most say they prefer the taste of the opihi alinalina or yellowfoot.
According to local researchers, the opihis are probably the most expensive seafood in Hawaii. In terms of cost of the delicacy (including the shell), one can value it in the range of $150 a gallon. A long time ago, pickers were selling over 140,000 pounds annually. Today, there are only 13,000 pounds harvested annually. This due to diminished stock and over harvesting. Despite this, demand for opihis remains very high.
In Eastern Christianity, a passion bearer (Russian: страстотéрпец, tr. strastoterpets, IPA: strəstɐˈtʲɛrpʲɪts) is one of the various customary titles for saints used in commemoration at divine services when honouring their feast on the Church Calendar; it is not generally used in the Latin Church.
The term can be defined as a person who faces his or her death in a Christ-like manner. Unlike martyrs, passion bearers are not explicitly killed for their faith.
Notable passion bearers include the brothers Boris and Gleb, Alexander Schmorell (member of the White Rose resistance movement), and the entire Imperial Family of Russia, executed by the Bolsheviks in 1918.
Woke (/ˈwoʊk/) as a political term of African American origin refers to a perceived awareness of issues concerning social justice and racial justice. It is derived from the African-American Vernacular English expression "stay woke", whose grammatical aspect refers to a continuing awareness of these issues.
This term describes a form of boycott in which someone (usually a celebrity) who has shared a questionable or unpopular opinion, or has had behavior that is perceived to be either offensive or problematic called out on social media is "canceled"; they are completely boycotted by many of their followers or supporters, often leading to massive declines in celebrities' (almost always social media personalities) careers and fanbase.
Call-out culture (also known as outrage culture) is a form of public shaming that aims to hold individuals and groups accountable for their actions by calling attention to behavior that is perceived to be problematic, usually on social media. A variant of the term, cancel culture, describes a form of boycott in which someone (usually a celebrity) who has shared a questionable or unpopular opinion, or has had behavior that is perceived to be either offensive or problematic called out on social media is "canceled"; they are completely boycotted by many of their followers or supporters, often leading to massive declines in celebrities' (almost always social media personalities) careers and fanbase.
Steal This Book is a book written by Abbie Hoffman. Written in 1970 and published in 1971, the book exemplified the counterculture of the sixties. The book sold more than a quarter of a million copies between April and November 1971.
The book is, in the style of the counterculture, mainly focused on ways to fight the government, and against corporations in any way possible. The book is written in the form of a guide to the youth. Hoffman, a political and social activist himself, used many of his own activities as the inspiration for some of his advice in Steal This Book.
Culture jamming (sometimes guerrilla communication) is a tactic used by many anti-consumerist social movements to disrupt or subvert media culture and its mainstream cultural institutions, including corporate advertising. It attempts to "expose the methods of domination" of a mass society to foster progressive change. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_jamming
Anonymous Christian is the controversial notion introduced by the Jesuit theologian Karl Rahner (1904–1984) that declares that people who have never heard the Christian Gospel might be saved through Christ. Non-Christians could have "in their basic orientation and fundamental decision," Rahner wrote, "accepted the salvific grace of God, through Christ, although they may never have heard of the Christian revelation.
Black dog syndrome or big black dog syndrome is a phenomenon in which black dogs are passed over for adoption in favor of lighter-colored animals. Animal shelters often use the term BBD, or big black dog, to describe the type of larger dark-colored mixed-breed said to be typically passed over by adopters. Black cats suffer the same problem in shelters, being passed over for adoption in favor of other coat colors.
Example: nasutus: One of a caste of termites in which the head is prolonged into a point like a long nose. A duct opens at the extremity of the point and from it issues a fluid used as a cement in. constructing the nest.
Smith Volcano, also known as Mount Babuyan, is a cinder cone on Babuyan Island, the northernmost of the Babuyan group of islands on Luzon Strait, north of the main island of Luzon in the Philippines. The mountain is one of the active volcanoes in the Philippines, which last erupted in 1924.
Nike's Air Max line of running shoes is a prime example in which a single model of a shoe is often produced for years, but the color and material combination ( " colorway " ) is changed every few months, or different colorways are offered in different markets.
Yarn with multiple shades of the same hue are called " omber ", while a yarn with multiple hues may be known as a given " colorway " a green, red and yellow yarn might be dubbed the " Parrot Colorway " by its manufacturer, for example . " Heathered " yarns contain small amounts of fiber of different colors, while " tweed " yarns may have greater amounts of different colored fibers.
The firm made wallpaper by block printing, where blocks of wood are carved and printed for each colorway of a design, and fabrics were produced using the indigo-discharge dyeing method, where cloth is stained a deep indigo, then designs are bleached out so that they can be dyed other colors.
But I want to pay the registration fee! I demand the opportunity to pay the registration fee in order to be initiated into the Illuminati ScamHood. Why are you depriving me of this great opportunity, wesleybrandon? I have money to burn and a hole in my pocket.
I am not interested in owning a Lamborghini, though. I'd love an adult tricycle instead (yellow and with a basket.)
Coordinated inauthentic behavior is a Facebook cybersecurity term defined as “when groups of pages or people work together to mislead others about who they are or what they’re doing.”
Accounts with CIB were based on their behavior and not the content posted. Activity was coordinated and used fake accounts to misrepresent. For example, accounts from China were removed for what was described as a "disinformation campaign against pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong."
The logical error of concentrating on the people or things that made it past some selection process and then overlooking those that did not, typically because of their lack of visibility. This can lead to false conclusions in several different ways. It is a form of selection bias.
Wellywood is an informal name for the city of Wellington, New Zealand. The name—a conflation of Wellington and Hollywood—is a reference to the film production business established in the city.
The snares collected by the anti-poaching units of (PaintedDog.org) who turn them into animal sculptures. Through sales of these snares and other crafts they spread the conversation message of the painted dogs both to their own community and internationally.
Scheele's Green was used as a color for paper, e.g. for wallpapers and paper hangings, and in paints, wax candles, and even on some children's toys. It was also used to dye cotton and linen.
Despite evidence of its high toxicity, Scheele's Green was also used as a food dye for sweets such as green blancmange, a fondness of traders in 19th-century Greenock; this led to a long-standing Scottish prejudice against green sweets.
"Harm reduction refers to policies, programmes and practices that aim to minimise negative health, social and legal impacts associated with drug use, drug policies and drug laws. Harm reduction is grounded in justice and human rights - it focuses on positive change and on working with people without judgement, coercion, discrimination, or requiring that they stop using drugs as a precondition of support.
Harm reduction encompasses a range of health and social services and practices that apply to illicit and licit drugs. These include, but are not limited to, drug consumption rooms, needle and syringe programmes, non-abstinence-based housing and employment initiatives, drug checking, overdose prevention and reversal, psychosocial support, and the provision of information on safer drug use. Approaches such as these are cost-effective, evidence-based and have a positive impact on individual and community health."
This reminds me of the Medieval dunking ordeal to find out if a woman is a witch. If she drowns and dies, she's innocent. In this case, vomiting poison determines your innocence... but it could STILL kill you in the process. See tanghin.
"In Madagascar, one way of determining guilt is to poison you, and see if you spew."
Today the dialect is highly endangered, with only a few elderly native speakers. It is thought that any remaining speakers live in or around Old Mines, Missouri.
Hardscape refers to hard landscape materials in the built environment structures that are incorporated into a landscape. This can include paved areas, driveways, retaining walls, sleeper walls, stairs, walkways, and any other landscaping made up of hard-wearing materials such as wood, stone, and concrete, as opposed to softscape, the horticultural elements of a landscape.
In the canon law of the Catholic Church, the loss of the clerical state (commonly referred to as laicization or laicisation) is the removal of a bishop, priest or deacon from the status of being a member of the clergy.
I'm still unclear on the meaning. Is being happy, dressed in black, and wearing rubber tips on one's fingers the only criteria for being a nickel thrower?
Loogan (sometimes spelled loogin or lugan, according to the Historical Dictionary of American Slang) is no longer used to mean “a minor hoodlum,” though hood, recorded by Kendall, is still used to mean “a petty gangster.”
I found LOOGAN in Jamieson’s Scottish Dictionary of 1825 with a definition of “a rogue” and in a couple of prison slang lists online meaning “mentally ill prisoner."
receiver: In portable breech-loading firearms, the steel frame screwed to the breech end of the barrel, which receives the bolt or block, gives means of securing for firing, facilitates loading, and holds the ejector, cut-off, etc.
mustard-seed: A very fine kind of shot used by ornithologists and taxidermists for shooting birds with least injury to the plumage; dust-shot. The name includes No. 10 shot and finer numbers.
Leech houses were used to store the worms—often in special containers of moist earth—and keep them alive and fresh until they were needed by druggists or doctors.
Noun. malternative (plural malternatives) An alcoholic beverage, an alternative to beer, that contains some malt alcohol and may contain other types of alcohol.
Noun. malternative (plural malternatives) An alcoholic beverage, an alternative to beer, that contains some malt alcohol and may contain other types of alcohol.
PR Newswire coined the term “Social Echo” to describe “the powerful reverberation around brands that occurs through the millions of conversations in the social networks and communities where people gather today.”
In PR Newswire’s view, “A brand’s Social Echo has enormous power to shape reputation, influence mass opinion and drive growth. Social Echo has equal – and perhaps even greater – power to stop a brand dead in its tracks.”
They go on to say that…
“Marketers and communicators who understand this are actively engaged in listening to their Social Echo and in finding ways to participate in the conversations that comprise their Social Echo. Importantly, they are also gleaning real-time insights to apply back to their brands in every area – customer care, product development, brand positioning and messaging, innovation and more.
"An obscure hymn-writer, whose verses have been sung in all parts of the world, was Thomas Bilby, parish clerk of St. Mary's Church, Islington, between the years 1842 and 1872. He was the parish schoolmaster also, and thus maintained the traditions of his office handed down from mediæval times. Before the days of School Boards it was not unusual for the clerk to teach the children of the working classes the three R's and religious knowledge, charging a fee of twopence per week for each child. "
(The intimacy coordinator) will intervene in small but important ways, like giving a performer something to cover their private parts, knee pads, mouth spray or flavored lubricant, etc.
Tsundoku (Japanese: 積ん読) is acquiring reading materials but letting them pile up in one's home without reading them.
The term originated in the Meiji era (1868–1912) as Japanese slang. It combines elements of tsunde-oku (積んでおく, to pile things up ready for later and leave) and dokusho (読書, reading books). It is also used to refer to books ready for reading later when they are on a bookshelf. As currently written, the word combines the characters for "pile up" (積) and the character for "read" (読).
Suggesting that two wrongs equal a right. For example, suggesting that a particular CEO can mislead shareholders because some other CEO mislead shareholders even more.
A logical fallacy in which two completely opposing arguments appear to be logically equivalent when in fact they are not. This fallacy is categorized as a fallacy of inconsistency.
False equivalence arguments are often used in journalism and in politics, where the minor flaws of one candidate may be compared to major flaws of another.
“ 'Mis-carriage,' in an insidious way, suggests fault for the mother - as if she dropped something, or failed to 'carry.' ”
Using the hashtags #WeNeedANewName and #MoreCommonThanYouHearAbout, Vmiscarriage happens far more frequently than some might think and that, ultimately, changing its name might help conversations about miscarriage flow more freely, as couples will no longer feel like they're being judged for the biological event over which they have little to no control.
'"So many women feel shame about losing a baby even though there is nothing shameful about it. But nevertheless, this often stops them from talking openly about their loss..."
Any suggestions for a new term? Leave suggestion(s) at hashtags above.
"Asian Americans argue that racial considerations have made them a victim of their own academic success. They tend to get better grades and score higher on standardized tests than other races but claim they are frequently rejected as a result of “racial balancing,” which is akin to racial quotas and has been ruled unconstitutional."
In Latvian, your favorite person is your sirds puķīte, a.k.a. “the little flower of your heart.” Another endearment for a loved one is sirsniņa: “little heart” (this is a noun with a feminine ending) or sometimes just sirds.
The person you love most is described in English as “the apple of your eye.” The phrase originates in Old English and means the pupil of the eye, which reflects the image of the one you’re looking at. In Latvian, your favorite person is your sirds puķīte, a.k.a. “the little flower of your heart.” Another endearment for a loved one is sirsniņa: “little heart” (this is a noun with a feminine ending) or sometimes just sirds.
Chocolate bloom refers two types of whitish coating that can appear on the surface of chocolate: fat bloom, caused by changes in the fat crystals in the chocolate; and sugar bloom, due to crystals formed by the action of moisture on the sugar. Chocolate that has "bloomed" remains edible but may have an unappetizing appearance and texture.
Chocolate bloom refers two types of whitish coating that can appear on the surface of chocolate: fat bloom, caused by changes in the fat crystals in the chocolate; and sugar bloom, due to crystals formed by the action of moisture on the sugar. Chocolate that has "bloomed" remains edible but may have an unappetizing appearance and texture.
Chocolate bloom refers to two types of whitish coating that appear on the surface of chocolate: fat bloom, caused by changes in the fat crystals in the chocolate; and sugar bloom, due to crystals formed by the action of moisture on the sugar. Chocolate that has "bloomed" remains edible but may have an unappetizing appearance and texture.
TV trope. The last character left alive to confront the killer. The character is almost ALWAYS female, a virgin, fully clothed, avoids death by sex, doesn't drink, smoke or take drugs.
The term was coined by Carol J. Colver in her 1992 book, Men, Women, And Chain Saws: Gender In The Modern Horror Film.
"I drank two cocktails, three glasses of sherry, a quart of champagne and several ponies of Cointreau. The show seemed to get better and better as it went ...
pony a small drinking glass or the drink contained in it.
"The term psychogeography was invented by the Marxist theorist Guy Debord in 1955. Inspired by the French nineteenth-century poet and writer Charles Baudelaire’s concept of the flâneur – an urban wanderer – Debord suggested playful and inventive ways of navigating the urban environment in order to examine its architecture and spaces.
The reimagining of the city proposed by psychogeography has its roots in dadaism and surrealism, art movements which explored ways of unleashing the subconscious imagination. Tristam Hillier’s paintings such as La Route des Alpes 1937 could be described as an early example of the concept.
Psychogeography gained popularity in the 1990s when artists, writers, and filmmakers such as Iain Sinclair and Patrick Keiller began using the idea to create works based on exploring locations by walking."
An elite unit of the Norwegian police that investigates organized crime and missing persons, for example. They have specialized technical and forensic expertise. They are currently investigating the disappearance of Arjen Kamphuis, a Dutch cybersecurity expert for Wikileaks. "Arjen Kamphuis is a Digital Self Defence professional. Every day he helps people keep their secrets safe in the digital world. He has seen firsthand how government-funded spying, hacking and security programs fall into the wrong hands and cause more harm than good. He argues that it is time we all start keeping ourselves safe by taking responsibility for our own digital defenses and letting go of the idea that we’re just not smart enough to adapt."
Men's Bread, Fairy Hearts Turkey Pork Sausage, boys walking rein and harness (blue), girls walking rein and harness (pink), pet shampoo (for him, for her).
"In 1966, the late sociologist Robert Bellah presented a now-classic essay, “Civil Religion in America.” The essay is about religion in public life, and how American politicians created a sense of shared national identity around general religious claims. Since then, sociologists and political theorists have argued about how inclusive civil religion really is (Does it include atheists or other minority groups who aren’t Christian? Lots of Americans don’t seem to think so.), but the theory is useful for highlighting how much of American political life takes on a religious tone."
"The ad blocker should not be seen as a selfish technology. It is a socialist cudgel—something that forces otherwise lazy capitalists to find new and inventive ways to make their creations sustainable. Ad blockers are one of the few tools users have to fight against the need to monetize fast and big because it troubles the predictability of readily traceable attention."
"Based on observations of three technology-rich Bay Area middle schools, Rafalow examined whether the skills students develop through digital play are considered cultural capital — skills, habits, and dispositions that that can be traded for success in school and work."
Jenny Edkins (Trauma and memory politics) explores how we remember traumatic events such as wars, famines, genocides and terrorism. She argues that remembrance does not have to be nationalistic but can instead challenge the political systems that produced the violence. Using examples from the World Wars, Vietnam, the Holocaust, Kosovo and September 11th, Edkins analyzes the practices of memory rituals through memorials, museums and remembrance ceremonies. This wide-ranging study embraces literature, history, politics and international relations, in an original contribution to the study of memory.
"Ukraine’s memory politics do not exclude women entirely. In 2016, the UINM chose to focus on women when commemorating the anniversary of the end of the Second World War. The title of the institute’s project was “War makes no exceptions. Female history of the Second World War”. The intention to focus on women’s experiences in order to “reveal the criminal nature of war” seems admirable. But the 12 stories of both military and civilian women chosen by the UINM simply replicate a male pantheon rather than challenge the very tradition of glorifying the war through its heroes. The difference is that the male heroes are celebrated every year, whereas the female figures only once in a while, as part of a special project."
Such laws, however, do not have to pass to have a chilling effect. In 2014, I met Kyrgyz LGBTQI organisation Labrys, who said that lesbians and trans men already faced corrective rape, and gay men and trans women were often beaten and sometimes killed. Such attacks have since intensified. Soon after I went back to London, Labrys shut down their Facebook page, and had to sell the house where I first met them after it was subjected to an arson attack in 2015. They resurfaced last year, and in March I returned to Bishkek to meet a new generation of activists who, amidst the confusion and hostility, are fighting to make Kyrgyzstan more open to diversity of gender and sexuality.
At the Pasteur Institute in Paris Mechnikov was engaged in work associated with the establishment of his theory of cellular immunity, which, like many great advances in science, encountered considerable hostility. He published, during this period, several papers and two volumes on the comparative pathology of inflammation (1892), and his treatise entitled L’Immunité dans les Maladies Infectieuses (Immunity in infectious diseases, 1901). In 1908 he was awarded, together with Paul Ehrlich, the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.
Biomedical gerontology, also known as experimental gerontology and life extension, is a sub-discipline of biogerontology that endeavors to slow, prevent, and even reverse aging in both humans and animals. Most "life extensionists" believe the human life span can be increased within the next century, if not sooner. biogerontologists vary in the degree to which they focus on the study of the aging process as a means of mitigating the diseases of aging or extending lifespan, although most agree that extension of lifespan will necessarily flow from reductions in age-related disease and frailty, although some argue that maximum life span cannot be altered or that it is undesirable to try. The area of geroscience is a recently formulated interdisciplinary field that embraces biomedical gerontology as the center of preventing diseases of aging through science emerging at the interface of the biology of aging and age-related disease.
"...so-called sneaker waves sometimes claim lives of the unwary along the coast of the Pacific Northwest.
Tuba Ozkan-Haller, a wave researcher at Oregon State University, recommends that when people go to the beach in Northern California, Oregon and Washington state — which because of the nature of the coastline are susceptible to sneaker waves — they study the wave action and ensure escape routes aren’t blocked by rocks or cliffs."
The term “calendering” refers to any of several processes in which fabric is subjected to great pressure and/or heat, in a type of ironing using large rollers.
For the study and collection of beetles, see coleopterology.
Beetling is the pounding of linen or cotton fabric to give a flat, lustrous effect. The process by which fabrics, etc. are beetled, or beaten with a mallet. Within Ireland, beetling was first introduced by Hamilton Maxwell in 1725. Beetling is part of the finishing of the linen cloth. The hammering tightens the weave and gives the cloth a smooth feel. The process was gradually phased out, in lieu of calendering. A similarity is the compression; however, with calendering, the finish does not remain for the life of the cloth. This distinguishes it from beetling.
Beetling eyebrows are thick and stick out from the face: He glared at me under beetling brows.
"When a dog crouches forward with its elbows on the ground and its rear end in the air, wagging tail and all, that's a play bow. The position is the ultimate sign of playfulness, which is important for a species that often uses playtime as practice for attacking prey.
The play bow first evolved in canids as a form of communication. When a dog sees another dog it wants to play with, it extends its front paws forward and lifts up its behind as a visual invitation to engage in a friendly play session. Dogs will "bow" in the middle of playtime to show that they're having fun and wish to continue, or when a session has paused to signal they want to pick it back up. Play bows can also be a sort of apology: When the roughhousing gets too rough, a bow says, “I’m sorry I hurt you. Can we keep playing?' "
Amnesty International on Thursday accused Nigeria's government of carrying out unlawful arrests and practicing "enforced disappearance" -- detention without trial -- to suppress dissent.
"Countries are increasingly copying the marketing tactics that companies use to raise their profiles, and let people know that they are open for business. Welcome to the world of nation branding.
A strong country brand should encourage tourists, trading partners and investors all at once. But having a snazzy logo, and an advertising budget won't sell a product that people don't want."
The best way to improve a country's image is for it to contribute to the well-being of the world beyond its borders rather than spending money on advertising.
"If you really want to earn a better reputation, the best thing you can do is stop chasing after it."
Among the Ga, the people who are indigenous to Ghana's capital, Accra, a woman is entitled to a live sheep on the delivery of her 10th child. The word for it is "nyongmato".
The first time I heard this word I was watching "To Kill a Mockingbird".
Mayella Ewell in the movie "To Kill a Mockingbird" (1962): "I was sittin' on the porch, and he come along. Uh, there's this old chifforobe in the yard, and I-I said, 'You come in here, boy, and bust up this chifforobe, and I'll give you a nickel.'"
On Twitter: "Today I asked my class to come up with a pair of terms that share a denotative meaning but whose connotative meanings differ and one student offered BUTT DIAL and BOOTY CALL."
"Make America Great Again" Americans (from Donald Trump's political slogan). As described on fivethirtyeight.com:
"Right Trolls behave like “bread-and-butter MAGA Americans, only all they do is talk about politics all day long.”
"Left Trolls often adopt the personae of Black Lives Matter activists, typically expressing support for Bernie Sanders and derision for Hillary Clinton, along with “clearly trying to divide the Democratic Party and lower voter turnout."
Sounds like a note brought to school as an excuse for something. "Dear Mrs. Frye: I couldn't finish my homework. We had a grasshopper escapement at home. You do believe me, don't you?'
Shadow banning isn't a new concept; it's frequently used in forums and on other social networks as an alternative to banning someone outright.
Instead of kicking someone off, shadow banning makes a person's post visible only to the user who created it. The idea is to protect others from harmful content while eventually prompting the shadow-banned user to voluntarily leave a forum due to a lack of engagement.
If a user is banned outright, the thinking goes, the person is aware of it and will likely just set up another account and continue the offending behavior.
Shadow banning is typically used to stop bots and trolls and is effective in combating bots where 'bot herders' who maintain these accounts don't necessarily know whether or not their bots are actually being seen by other people.
"Shadow banning: What it is -- and what it isn't", Alfred Ng, cnet.com, 26 July 2018
How does one add 110,098 words to a list? For me, and even if I managed to copy and paste hundreds or thousands of words, I'd still have to insert a semi-colon between those words. Is there a shortcut? An easier method I’m not using?
Here's the tree-free paper alternatives list. I tried before but I couldn't get my link to work, even with single curly braces. Okay, great. It works now.
qms: I'm looking for plant-based milks, so, yes, poppy milk qualifies. When I looked it up, I discovered that poppy milk (aguonų pienas) is a traditional Lithuanian drink or soup, one of the 12-dishes Christmas Eve Supper Kūčios. Usually, it is eaten together with kūčiukai, another traditional Lithuanian Christmas Eve dish. Thank you.
I will open this list with the understanding that only plant-based milks are added. Thank you.
I've been on a silly quest to sample many of these "milks". Just yesterday, I tried macadamia milk. I doubt if I'll be able to even find any candlenut milk, but is does exist! I'm also particularly interested in trying some black walnut milk. Will it have the unique flavor of black walnuts?
BTW, the dairy industry is trying relentlessly to force manufacturers of these non-dairy products from using the word "milk" when marketing their products. They claim that milk comes from mammals, not plants. The non-dairy milk people insist this is not able semantics, but because their product is affecting the popularity of goat / cow milk.
I thought this was paper made from the feces of an elephant. and not just "big" paper. I've read about paper made from elephant, rhino, and other herbivores.
Scottish. A football fan, esp of Rangers FC or Celtic FC, who exhibits religious bigotry at matches but does not consider him- or herself to be bigoted outside a football context.
I intended to start a list like this one, but after finding your impressive and thorough list, I figured: why bother? Love it. I've added it to my list of favorite lists.
ru: the day you started contributing to wordnik was--and continues to be!-- pure awesomeness. I love the way you think. You should be on a remarkable list yourself: a list of remarkable people! ♥♥♥♥
There are many words for pass in the English-speaking world. In the United States, pass is very common in the West, the word gap is common in the southern Appalachians, notch in parts of New England, and saddle in northern Idaho. Scotland has the Gaelic term bealach (anglicised "balloch"), while Wales has the similar bwlch. In the Lake District of north-west England, the term hause is often used, although the term pass is also common—one distinction is that a pass can refer to a route, as well as the highest part thereof, while a hause is simply the highest part, often flattened somewhat into a high-level plateau.--Wikipedia
In video games, and particularly eSports, commentators are often called shoutcasters; this term is derived from the free plugin for <i>Winamp</i> called <i>SHOUTcast</i>, which enabled users to live-stream audio-only feeds across the Internet.
Mansplaining (a blend of the word man and the informal form splaining of the verb explaining) means "(of a man) to comment on or explain something to a woman in a condescending, overconfident, and often inaccurate or oversimplified manner". Lily Rothman of "The Atlantic" defines it as "explaining without regard to the fact that the explainee knows more than the explainer, often done by a man to a woman". Author Rebecca Solnit ascribes the phenomenon to a combination of "overconfidence and cluelessness".
In its original use, mansplaining differed from other forms of condescension in that it is rooted in the sexist assumption that a man is likely to be more knowledgeable than a woman. However, it has come to be used more broadly, often applied when a man takes a condescending tone in an explanation to anyone, regardless of the age or gender of the intended recipients: a "man 'splaining" can be delivered to any audience. In 2010 it was named by the New York Times as one of its "Words of the Year".
A widespread phenomenon that "keeps women from speaking up and from being heard when they dare; that crushes young women into silence by indicating, the way harassment on the street does, that this is not their world. It trains us in self-doubt and self-limitation just as it exercises men's unsupported overconfidence.
To measure the women’s biological age, the researchers looked at the length of telomeres in their white blood cells. Telomeres are the dangly bits at the end of chromosomes that shorten every time a cell divides. Their length is considered a measure of cellular age.
Between three and five years later, 250 of the women came back so researchers could calculate their risk of developing heart disease in the next decade – known as their Framingham score. This takes account of risk factors such as cholesterol levels, blood pressure and body weight.
As expected, the team found that women with lower egg counts had higher Framingham scores, but they also had shorter telomeres. Previous studies have suggested that shorter telomeres are linked with heart disease, dementia and cancer, and also with a shorter lifespan. So women with fewer eggs may also be at higher risk of other age-related diseases, although epidemiological studies will be needed to bolster this link."
(The Framingham Risk Score is a gender-specific algorithm used to estimate the 10-year cardiovascular risk of an individual. The Framingham Risk Score was first developed based on data obtained from the Framingham Heart Study, to estimate the 10-year risk of developing coronary heart disease. In order to assess the 10-year cardiovascular disease risk, cerebrovascular events, peripheral artery disease and heart failure were subsequently added as disease outcomes for the 2008 Framingham Risk Score, on top of coronary heart disease.)
(Noun) A private technology company that was formerly valued at $1bn or more (slang, vulg)
Silicon Valley is nothing if not inventive, and that applies to language as much as product development. Three years ago, Aileen Lee, founder of Cowboy Ventures, coined “unicorn” to capture the phenomenon of private technology companies achieving valuations of $1bn and more. She likened these desirable ventures to the mythical horned creature often represented in the shape of a horse.
More recently, in response to the declines in value of some unicorns, Ms Lee has concocted a less mythological variant: the “unicorpse”. It is one of a number of unicorn-related neologisms, including “My Little Pony” (a start-up worth $10m or more), the “Centaur” ($100m start-up) and the impressive “quinquagintacorn” (you work it out*).
--Financial TImes (article available for subscribers only)
The ancient concept of animal guides, particularly prominent in some indigenous, especially Native American, religions and cultures, was adopted in Pagan and Wiccan spirituality in the 1990s. In these contexts, spirit animals are meant literally, referring to spiritual guides or totems that take the form of animals.
Please do not kick or pound me if your pellets don't fall immediately. And don't press my buttons over and over. Be patient and you will receive your due reward.
"Australia's iconic koala has a problem that keeps boomeranging back.
Chlamydia, a type of sexually transmitted disease also found in humans, has hit wild koalas hard, with some wild populations seeing a 100 percent infection rate." --National Geographic, 14 April 2018
Likewise, necropsy is also necropsied. Most users seem to prefer the noun form. "The pathologist decided to forego a necropsy of the dead bilby on the side of the road."
Peter Haff coined the term technosphere (in 2014). He defines the technosphere as “the global, energy consuming techno-social system that is comprised of humans, technological artifacts, and technological systems, together with the links, protocols, and information that bind all these parts together.”
Basically, the technosphere is the vast, sprawling combination of humanity and its technology. Haff argues that in our thousands of years of harnessing technology – including the first technologies like stone tools, wheels and crops – the technology itself has basically begun to act practically independently, creating a new sphere (i.e., like the biosphere or atmosphere or lithosphere), but like nothing the planet has ever seen before.
“I would argue that domesticated animals and plants, as well as humans, are parts of the technosphere,” said Haff. “These are in effect manufactured by the technosphere for its own use on the basis of genetic blueprints appropriated from the biosphere.”
Blackbirding has continued to the present day in developing countries. One example is the kidnapping and coercion at gunpoint of indigenous people in Central America to work as plantation laborers in the region, where they are exposed to heavy pesticide loads and do backbreaking work for very little pay.
Dog meat has been eaten in every major German crisis at least since the time of Frederick the Great, and is commonly referred to as "blockade mutton."
--GERMANY: Dachshunds Are Tenderer, 25 November 1940. Time Magazine.
To a war menu which already included fish-fed poultry, decrepit horses, goats, and numerous zoo animals, Germany last week added those of its dogs which had not been killed by an earlier decree to save food. A new law, effective January 1, 1940, states that dogs, wolves, foxes, bears, badgers and wild hogs have been legalized as meat. After being inspected for trichina, their carcasses will be dressed, stamped and distributed to butchers for rationing to general consumers.
bilby: Have you ever visited Hastings Caves south of Hobart, or Mole Creek Karst National Park west of Launceston? I read somewhere that these sites have colonies of glowworms to see.
The newest addition to the modern dating lexicon. Named after the fictional child phantom, Casper, it’s a friendly alternative to ghosting. Instead of ignoring someone, you’re honest about how you feel, and let them down gently before disappearing from their lives.
"...the idea that the more “aromatic” (i.e. smelly) organic compounds foods share, the better they will taste together."
"...dishes whose ingredients share few compounds in common can also taste delicious; a 2011 analysis of more than 50,000 recipes found that while cuisines from Western Europe and North America tended to use ingredients with shared compounds, ingredients from East Asian recipes tended not to."
--An Illustrated Guide to Matching Foods' Flavor Molecules, Wired, 6 March 2018,
"On July 3, 2006, Amanda gave birth to fraternal twin girls, and the ecstatic parents gave their daughters intertwined names: One would be Millie Marcia Madge Biggs, the other Marcia Millie Madge Biggs."
In Australia, the term "flogger" is sometimes used rather than "pom-pom". Floggers are very large, heavy pom-poms in the team's colors. They sometimes require more than one person to lift them, and they are waved about when a goal is scored.
Floggers are an important part of Australian rules football culture and cheer-squads.
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vendingmachine commented on the word EMI
Learned a (shocking) piece of terminology this week 'EMI'. Even my dad's consultant had to ask someone what it stood for: 'Elderly Mentally Infirm'. So we're now on the hunt for a 'EMI bed'. Social care never fails to shock me. It's in another century (the last but one). --Neil Crowther, Twitter
December 26, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the list flying-into-snow
بَرف (barf... Persian)
snowberry
snowball
snowbird
snowblower
snowboard
snow boots
snowbrush
snowbush
snowdrop
snowflick
snowmold
snowsuit
December 19, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word mass death event
Not long ago, my aviary was struck by a mass death event. I lost 50 birds in one day. I have 19 left. It was heartbreaking to have to bury them all at once. I buried them deep because I was afraid some raccoon or other scavenger would dig them up and have them spread all across the yard.--vendingmachine/frogapplause
December 11, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word thingamajig
Interesting, but when I typed thingamajig into one of those online language detectors/translators, it identified Javanese as the probable language of origin.
December 2, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word blastopore
Calling someone a blastopore lacks the punchy outrage as, say, asshole.
November 13, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word blastopore
All human beings start out as tiny anuses. In the first few weeks after fertilization, we're nothing more than a small group of cells called a blastula. This blastula bursts open from the inside out, making a little bitty opening.
This opening is called a blastopore, and it is the first of our proto-organs to begin forming.
A blastopore is essentially a miniscule anus.
November 13, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the user mwanjasi.herrings
It prefers to be loved.
November 9, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the user fly_v
Geese fly in a V formation. That's what's up, yo.
November 9, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word welly whanging
...Geoff whanged that welly into the next parish.
I like the sound of it, yarb. Then again, you've always had a way with words, even welly ones.
November 7, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word welly whanging
What's a Wellington boot and what's the point of throwing one?
November 4, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word wood-sare
cuckoo-spit; herb froth
November 4, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word shippy
Anyone caught saying this word near water (and being serious), should be drowned. Dumb word.
November 1, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word wide-awake hat
Huh? The hat is wide awake or the person wearing it is? Words can be so confusing.
October 31, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word cow pat
The digested residue of a herbivore excreted as a flat piece of dung
That's a nice way to describe a pile of shit.
October 30, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word crybaby tree
It was a very tall tree, so tall that it took years before I hit the ground.
October 30, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the list wordie-curio-cabinet
Leave it to reesetee to have such an amazing list. --frogapplause/vendingmachine
October 28, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word heredipety
legacy-hunting doesn't seem to provide enough. reesetee's post makes more sense: seeking inheritances by indue means... by clergy? Hm.
October 28, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word eudemonize
euDEMONize
To consider or esteem happy... (all i could see is the word demon inside.)
October 28, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the list common-name-compounds-HQmcFkyCx_
Brasenia schreberi (a.k.a. snot bonnet or watershield), cattails, sawgrass, coneflower...
October 27, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the list compound-words-that-rhyme-3S0pE_CQ3y
Thank you, ry.
October 27, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word magnetoacoustics
noun The science that deals with the interaction or interconversion of magnetic and acoustic phenomena.
October 27, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word nurry
A foster child.
October 27, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word wood pussy
American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled; in some classifications put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae.
Synonyms: polecat, skunk
October 27, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word nekomimi
Cat girls...
October 27, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word crybaby tree
Yes, I did fall out of a crybaby tree. It really hurt, too. Good thing I landed on your big, soft ears. They helped to break my fall.
October 27, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word painture
The art or act of painting.
October 27, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word coulter
I knew a woman who had this word as her family name.
A blade or wheel attached to the beam of a plow that makes vertical cuts in the soil in advance of the plowshare.
October 27, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word pedissequant
What did you just call me? A pedissequant? Well, you're a..a...{crickets).
October 26, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word mackerel-gaff
See gaff or gaffhook.
October 26, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word gambeering-iron
See mackerel-gaff
October 26, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word criminal actor
DarkSide is a relative newcomer to the ransomware scene, what Ms. Neuberger called “a criminal actor” that hires out its services to the highest bidder, then shares “the proceeds with ransomware developers.” It is essentially a business model in which some of the ill-gotten gains are poured into research and development on more effective forms of ransomware.
October 24, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word the ultimate blended threat
But this case was different: a criminal actor who, in trying to extort money from a company, ended up bringing down the system. One senior Biden administration official called it “the ultimate blended threat” because it was a criminal act, the kind the United States would normally respond to with arrests or indictments, that resulted in a major threat to the nation’s energy supply chain.
October 24, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word malware
During the Trump administration, the Department of Homeland Security issued warnings about Russian malware in the American power grid, and the United States mounted a not-so-secret effort to put malware in the Russian grid as a warning.
October 24, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word cyber Pearl Harbor
To many officials who have struggled for years to protect the United States’ critical infrastructure from cyberattacks, the only surprise about the events of the past few days is that they took so long to happen. When Leon E. Panetta was defense secretary under President Barack Obama, Mr. Panetta warned of a “cyber Pearl Harbor” that could shut off power and fuel, a phrase often used in an effort to get Congress or corporations to spend more on cyberdefense.
October 24, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word cyberdiplomat
“There are governments that turn a blind eye or affirmatively encourage these groups, and Russia is one of those countries,” said Christopher Painter, the United States’ former top cyberdiplomat. “Putting pressure on safe havens for these criminals has to be a part of any solution.”
October 24, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word cybercriminals
DarkSide is believed to have roots in Russia and the country provides a haven for cybercriminals.
October 24, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word cyberdefenses
Mr. Biden, who is expected to announce an executive order in the coming days to strengthen America’s cyberdefenses, said there was no evidence that the Russian government was behind the attack.
October 24, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word cyberinsurance
The explosion of ransomware cases has been fueled by the rise of cyberinsurance — which has made many companies and governments ripe targets for criminal gangs that believe their targets will pay — and of cryptocurrencies, which make extortion payments harder to trace.
October 24, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word cybersupport
“Right now, they’ve not asked for cybersupport from the federal government,” Anne Neuberger, the deputy national security adviser for cyber and emerging technology, told reporters at a briefing at the White House.
October 24, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word privilege
We could also talk about gender privilege (men still get paid more than women for the same jobs, and that’s a fact).There’s cis-hetero privilege, educational privilege, ZIP code privilege, right-handed privilege and able-bodied privilege, age privilege, and hair privilege.
October 23, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word colorism
Privilege, though, is not confined to money or pedigree. Although most people generally think of privilege as socio-economic, that’s just one of many categories. Of course, there is white privilege, but there’s also colorism. Colorism, favoring light-skinned people over darker skin tones, is real and present in both Black and white communities.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/black-woman-racism-privilege_n_613b9ea2e4b00ff836ec9480
October 23, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word lithology
See petrology and petrography.
October 23, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word petrography
noun The art of writing or inscribing on stone.
noun The study of rocks; lithology; petrology.
noun The art of writing on stone.
noun The scientific description of rock which investigates the constitution of rocks; petrology.
October 23, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word ketton-stone
Any day that I get to use diacritics is a good day.
In petrography, an oölitic limestone found at Ketton, England.
October 23, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word ahuruhuru
I can't decide which is more fun to say... goatfish or ahuruhuru.
October 23, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word acridology
The study of grasshopper species.
October 23, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word stercorary
noun A sheltered place for storing dung.
October 22, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word NEC
Urban dictionary: Not Even Cute
October 22, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word tern
This definition is lacking an etymology or has an incomplete etymology. You can help Wiktionary by giving it a proper etymology.
Is it okay to make up an etymology? Truthfully, many of Wiktionary's words look like they were made up by a sleepy bilby.
October 22, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word tern
noun Games A set of three, especially a combination of three numbers that wins a lottery.
Three birds (terns) is the secret to winning a lottery. Who knew?
October 22, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word herbous
Which sounds better... to smell herbulent, herbous or herbaceous?
October 21, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word gabgab
On the island of Guam, the coral-tree, Erythrina Indica, the appearance of the bright scarlet blossoms of which announces the beginning of the rainy season. Its wood is soft and is used for making troughs.
This sounds poetic... the appearance of the bright scarlet blossoms .... announces the beginning of the rainy season.
October 18, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word jackdog
Do dogs even care if you contemptuously call them a jackdog?
October 18, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word dimples
"The reason golf balls have dimples is for control and for longer distance due to interaction with the air."
October 16, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word shitkicker
noun US, slang, vulgar A workboot.
October 16, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word hemitery
noun Congenital malformation which is not sufficient in degree to amount to monstrosity.
October 16, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word derder
A derder is an impromptu kazoo-like musical instrument fashioned by placing one's mouth on the end of a toilet paper tube and tunefully going "der-der-der" into it . This cheap and innocent toy has delighted children of all ethnicities and socioeconomic strata since the invention of the toilet paper roll in 1877.
--https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/07/AR2011010704496.html?wprss=rss_print/washpostmagazine
October 16, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word cross-purpose
See also cross purpose.
October 15, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word eking
See also eiking.
October 15, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word softie
Bee softy?
October 15, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word Spice
Spice - often dubbed ‘fake’ or ‘synthetic’ cannabis - is made from dried plant material, chopped up herbs and man-made chemicals.
Some of the ingredients in Spice are similar to those in marijuana, but the substance is often much more potent.
It was invented in the US by an organic chemist who was looking for a new way of developing anti-inflammatory medication.
One of the substances included the synthetic cannabinoid ‘JWH-018’.
The substance was declared unfit for human consumption in 2006, but it began being sold on the internet two years later, advertised as a plant fertiliser.
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/what-is-spice--12871477
October 15, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word dogging parties
I think I know what this means, but then... maybe I don't want to know.
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/men-from-manchester-holding-dogging-21863620
October 15, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word Mancunian
...Joshua speaks with a Mancunian accent, but he is also known to put on a Scottish accent when talking.
October 15, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word drink driver
Hm. I had no idea that the British equivalent of a drunk driver is a drink driver.
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/police-officers-catch-drink-driver-21868134
October 15, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word defendresses
English can be a silly language.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenders_and_Defendresses_of_Ukraine_Day
October 14, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word lace-runner
A person who runs with the needle the design imprinted upon machine-made net. This operation is called lace-running.
I don't think it's safe to run with a lace-running needle. We aren't encouraged to run with scissors, why lace-running needles?
October 11, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word john
Thanks, Erin. You're terrific.
October 11, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word nillionaire
I seen it more specifically as a person who acts like they have a lot of money, but really they are broke.
October 10, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word tailings slurry
"Continental Mine ores are crushed in two stages. The crushed ores are then sent to the mill, where they are ground down to the fineness of talcum powder. Flotation and lime are used in processing. Sulfides are collected. 1% of the mined material goes to the concentrator. 99% of mined material becomes tailings. The tailings powder is wet (33% solid and the rest is water) and piped uphill to a pond. The tailings pond water has a pH of 10. Water from the pond is recycled to make tailings slurry. 27 million gallons a day enters the pond. An earthen dam around the pond is designed to withstand a powerful earthquake."
October 8, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word pitted ground
That's convenient for ground consumers. Pitted olives can be hand-pitted or machine-pitted. I suppose the ground is the same way.
October 8, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word angryphone
A Canadian Karen?
October 7, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word john
It's been years (I'm assuming) since any of us have heard how John is doing. Before wordnik, we were wordie. I was frogapplause back then. As much as I love, love Erin, it all started with John.
I was trying to compile the user names of all the old gang, but I was afraid of slighting someone by forgetting a name or two. Is there a list of all the wordie people somewhere?
October 7, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word sugar-camp
If you're going camping, do it right and go sugar-camping, dagnabbit!
October 7, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word codonosigidæ
My eyes were covered, but my coin slot (gasp!) was left wide open.
October 7, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word crapaud
So, this is the origin of crap?
When I am really, REALLY steamed... I am known to say, "crap and a half"
October 6, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word avocado-beige
This is the only way to describe the color I saw a Jeep truck today. Maybe I should try looking it up to see what color it REALLY is.
October 5, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word PHOTOTELLER
Many word enthusiasts on this site have coined words, too, but we don't overdocument our timelines, keep promoting ourselves or (worst of all) keep shouting about it. It's time to move onto the next word. It's a clever creation, but the world is waiting for something new now. How about PHOTOMOVER?
October 5, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word Bourbon and Heartland viruses
Lone star ticks don't just induce alpha-gal syndrome; they transmit several deadly diseases, including the little known Bourbon and Heartland viruses.
October 4, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word alpha-gal syndrome
Primates lack alpha-gal naturally.
October 4, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word logomachy
Fortunately, disputes about words don't turn into a war of words of wordnik.
October 4, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word letifical
This word does not make me glad.
October 4, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word alpha-gal syndrome
Alpha-gal syndrome is a recently identified type of food allergy to red meat and other products made from mammals. In the United States, the condition most often begins when a Lone Star tick bites someone. The bite transmits a sugar molecule called alpha-gal into the person's body. In some people, this triggers an immune system reaction that later produces mild to severe allergic reactions to red meat, such as beef, pork or lamb, or other mammal products.
October 4, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word pork-cat syndrome
Pork–cat syndrome is an allergy to pork, usually after adolescence, that is caused by exposure to cats. Although first described in 1994, it was first documented in the U.S. by Scott Commins and Thomas Platts-Mills during their research on alpha-gal allergy.
It is called "pork–cat syndrome" because "almost all people with the condition are cat owners, and many have multiple cats. Some develop an allergic response to cat serum albumin (protein made by a cat’s liver) that cross-reacts with albumin in pork when someone consumes it, and can lead to severe or even fatal allergic reactions when pork is consumed."
I knew someone who suffered from alpha-gal syndrome. It is a tick-borne disease.
October 4, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word viscid mushroom
If it's so important, what's it's name? Viscid?
September 29, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word mirific
Is this an old word or a new creation?
September 23, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word balustrade
https://www.flickr.com/photos/126110866@N08/51043879083
September 22, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word seraskier
This word has NOTHING to do with a skier or skiing.
September 20, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word pass-penny
A coin placed on the tongue of the dead.
pass swine-penny. A coin placed on the tongue of a dead pig.
September 20, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word swine-penny
Money rooted up by swine? And here I thought it was money that first traveled through the digestive tract of hogs...
I've heard of a piece of pie, but never a piece of money...
September 20, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word uninoctisomnocyclist
A person who sleeprides a unicycle at night.
September 18, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word witches' stones
Witches' stones are flat stones jutting from chimneys in the islands of Jersey and Guernsey.
According to folklore in the Channel Islands, these small ledges were used by witches to rest on as they fly to their sabbats. Householders would provide these platforms to appease witches and avoid their ill favor.
September 11, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word gestation
Bilbies have a gestation of about 12–14 days, one of the shortest among mammals.
Little-known fact: The gestational period would take a little over a week, except for the ears. The bilby's ears slow down gestation considerably.
September 11, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word wordnik blog
I just found out that wordnik has a blog. Am I the only one who didn't know? I feel like an idiot.
https://blog.wordnik.com
September 8, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word wedding-song
epithalamiura
September 5, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word vasque
I just called it a fountain bowl or a birdbath bowl. I just emptied mine today. It was full of wet and gunky, decaying leaves.
September 4, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word water-colour controversy of 1887
Ho hum. The "big" controversy only had to do with the action of light on water colors. Not even a single mention of portcrayons!
September 4, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word water-colour controversy of 1887
I don't know what the controversy is all about yet. I have to read the introduction mentioned here first:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/126377022@N07/14779993744
September 4, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word lewy-body dementia
My mother died of complications from this horrible disease on Thursday, August 19, 2021.
August 24, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word moldy-rat
Is there a rat called the moldy-mole?
August 17, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word pyow
The putty-nosed monkey, even with his pyow-pyow-pyow, has nothing on the little-known putty-eared bilby.
August 17, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word fogdog
Odd etymology.
July 29, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word light pollution
There are several reasons why firefly populations are declining, including climate change and the harvesting of luciferase from them, light pollution and habitat destruction. When firefly habitats are destroyed for roads or other construction, they don't migrate to a new spot, they simply disappear.
July 12, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word atheroma
What is bread-sauce?
July 7, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word carnography
Gratuitous carnography
July 7, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word pair of virginals
Hm. Perhaps not. It is legless but not rectangular.
July 6, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word pair of virginals
I wonder if the image below https://www.flickr.com/photos/126377022@N07/14784960555 is a pair of virginals. How could one instrument be a pair... unless the player is the other half of said virginals.
July 6, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word careworn
"This remarkable, one-of-a-kind actress has, since the early 1990s, intrigued film and TV audiences with her glowing, yet careworn eccentricity and old world-styled glamour. Very much in demand these days as a character player, Patricia Clarkson nevertheless continues to avoid the temptation of money-making mainstream filming while reaping kudos and acting awards in out-of-the-way projects." --bio of Patricia Clarkson for IMDb
July 5, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word LGBTQQIIAAPSS+
LGBT+ is an "inclusive" way to represent all the different identities in the longer acronym but here's a breakdown of what each of the letters in LGBTQQIAAP mean.
L - lesbian: a woman who is attracted to other women
G - gay: a man who is attracted to other men or broadly people who identify as homosexual
B - bisexual: a person who is attracted to both men and women
T - transgender: a person whose gender identity is different from the sex the doctor put down on their birth certificate
Q - queer: originally used as a hate term, some people want to reclaim the word, while others find it offensive. It can be a political statement, suggest that someone doesn't want to identify with "binaries" (e.g. male v female, homosexual v straight) or that they don't want to label themselves only by their sexual activity
Q - questioning: a person who is still exploring their sexuality or gender identity
I - intersex: a person whose body is not definitively male or female. This may be because they have chromosomes which are not XX or XY or because their genitals or reproductive organs are not considered "standard"
A - allies: a person who identifies as straight but supports people in the LGBTQQIAAP community
A - asexual: a person who is not attracted in a sexual way to people of any gender
P - pansexual: a person whose sexual attraction is not based on gender and may themselves be fluid when it comes to gender or sexual identity
July 3, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word bareback sex
"The queer having bareback sex in the back room of a club might not identify with the term “queer” or think of their actions as political, but in rejecting what society says they should be doing, they are queer."--https://www.them.us/story/what-does-queer-mean
July 2, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word queernormativity
"It’s paradoxical because these queer leftists are usually white, and they pepper their events and issues with a kind of “diversity by numbers” approach. I call this approach “queernormativity.” Like heteronormativity, they identify a “right” way to be queer and argue that everyone else is doing queerness incorrectly."--https://www.them.us/story/what-does-queer-mean
July 2, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word LGBTQQIIAAPSS+
"First, there is “queer” as an umbrella term. Rather than use the alphabet soup of LGBTQQIIAAPSS+, “queer” encompasses any non-cisgender, non-heterosexual identity, relationship, behavior, or desire. I use “queer” this way because I think it includes a wide variety of ways people are non-cisgender and/or non-heterosexual."--https://www.them.us/story/what-does-queer-mean
July 2, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word heteronormative
"For me, queerness encompasses my sexual identity as someone uncomfortable with binary presentation. It also encompasses my rebuke of cisgender and heteronormative privilege and the intersection of these privileges with white privilege. LGBT+ labels tend to presume a binary origination, and their usage coincides with a social movement that seeks assimilation and erases the existence of non-binary identities. Using “queer” as a catch-all umbrella term, whether intentionally or not, silences that important fringe voice."--https://www.them.us/story/what-does-queer-mean
July 2, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the list hashtags-for-pain-community-lfLYoG_IlywQ
#ScamOfTheCentury (for the propaganda aspect for litigation purposes.)
June 29, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word I think I broke Wordnik
I now realize that I can't create a hashtag list because the symbol # makes Wordnik sad and confused. The words don't alphabetize well, and they link to irrelevant, random words like "somehow", "forest fire", and "the earth is flat."
June 29, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word upwreath
A new word for me.
June 28, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word airstair
The Airstairway to Heaven... by Led Zeppelin
June 28, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word flavocastaneous
Flavocastaneous Locks and The Three Bears...
June 28, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word pelican flowers
The large blooms produce a scent that smells strongly reminiscent of rotting meat. Its powerful scent attracts huge numbers of flies and it is exactly these flies that become covered in the pollen of the Pelican Flower and transmit it to others.
June 27, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word human hamster ball
Just say NO to human-hamster meatballs.
June 27, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word don and doff
"Having to don and doff new PPE with every patient, and do it quickly enough to keep up with the chaos of a pandemic ER, “made every shift, and every hour, a lot more stressful than even it had been before,” Myles Greenberg, his best friend and a former ER doctor, says."
June 23, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word andnew
I love it when typos become words. Not really.
June 22, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word pelican flowers
I don't care what a pelican flower looks like. It sounds nice.
June 22, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word git
Let's not forget the traditional cowboy ballad "Git Along, Little Dogies"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_Along,_Little_Dogies
June 17, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word bristol milk
bristol milk
See the nouns.
See which nouns?
May 29, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the user johnmullen
Why is it hard to believe that your name is John Mullen? Why are you apologizing for being 84? When is two of Payment time? If you cannot do a monthly donate, try a newly other donate time. I will to be trying to safe live a good life in my work.
May 29, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word fake shemp
A fake Shemp is someone who appears in a film as a replacement for another actor or person. Their appearance is disguised using methods such as heavy make-up (or a computer-generated equivalent), filming from the back, dubbing in audio and splicing in past footage from the original actor's previous work, using a sound-alike voice actor, or using partial shots of the actor. Coined by film director Sam Raimi, the term is named after Shemp Howard of the Three Stooges, whose sudden death in 1955 necessitated the use of these techniques to finish the films to which he was already committed. Once somewhat commonplace throughout the 20th century, the use of fake Shemps to emulate living people is now forbidden under Screen Actors Guild contracts, largely because of a lawsuit filed by Crispin Glover — following his replacement in Back to the Future Part II — that determined that the method violates the original actor's personality rights. The method continues to be used in cases, such as Shemp's, where the original actor is deceased and permission from the deceased actor's estate is granted.
A fake Shemp is distinguished from a stunt double. Stunt doubles usually only substitute for an actor in select scenes where the original actor is either unable to perform the stunt or is unwilling to take the risk of being injured in the stunt. The same techniques are often used for both.
May 24, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word cardening
How does one garden in a car? Should I picture a junked and hollowed out car being used to grow veggies and such?
May 17, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word aspaldiko
There is a list or lists on wordnik that include words with untranslatable definitions.
May 17, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the user matterjam
Glad to hear that you finally came around and joined the fun. Welcome to wordnik. We all love words, too!
I doubt that you're as old as you claim. You've never too old when it comes to being a logophile or, in the case of most users here, a logomaniac.
May 17, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word white fragility
"Robin DiAngelo describes white fragility to be a defensive response by a white person when their whiteness is highlighted or mentioned, or their racial worldview is challenged, whether this response is conscious or otherwise. She gives examples including a white man accusing someone of "playing the race card" or a white woman crying to avoid conflict.
DiAngelo proposes that white people are used to viewing themselves as "raceless" or the "default" race, and as such are insulated from feelings of racial discomfort. She describes racism as systematic rather than overt and conscious, arguing that racial segregation has shaped the United States. She points to research that has shown that children as young as four years old show a strong and consistent pro-white bias and an especially strong prejudice against black males."
_____________________________________________
(Forget DiAngelo's book. Read this instead: )
The Dehumanizing Condescension of White FragilityThe popular book aims to combat racism but talks down to Black people.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/dehumanizing-condescension-white-fragility/614146/
May 17, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word high symptom burden
Darn. To be blamed for EVERYTHING... and on my birthday (May 5)!
May 7, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word high symptom burden
Is your listing problem something I've done wrong, bilby?
May 3, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word what the
What made you want to share your story here (on Wordnik)? Approximately, what year did this take place?
May 2, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word high symptom burden
"It is most efficient and relevant to conduct these studies in populations with a high symptom burden."
"Fifty percent or more of patients in Cluster II experienced a high symptom burden."
"A high symptom burden is associated with a high use of healthcare, admissions to nursing homes, and reduced quality of life."
"A study focusing on community pharmacies in Missouri found that patients with COPD receiving respiratory medication from the pharmacies had high symptom burden and low medication adherence."
April 26, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word unicispinous
Bearing undivided or simple spines, as the surface of certain brachiopod shells: contrasted with dujlicispinate.
unicispinate
April 26, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word onboarded
"Ever since Starbucks onboarded Oatly's milk as its latest dairy alternative, the company has had a hard time keeping up with skyrocketing demand." --Twitter
April 22, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word snackwiches
snackwichcraft. That's almost a sweet tooth fairy, is it not?
April 18, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word snackwiches
I don't see myself EVER using this word. It's too cutesy for my taste (no pun intended; I hate puns.)
April 16, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the list sharks-sharks-and-more-sharks-ILZf4M-6DSX
It keeps doing it... I give up. Is anyone else having a problem creating new lists or with disappearing words added to a list?
April 16, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the list sharks-sharks-and-more-sharks-ILZf4M-6DSX
I've created this list at least eight times and it keeps self-erasing. Maybe it's because it's a list about sharks. My list keeps eating itself. I had perhaps 50+ words, now I see 7. And what's with ILZf4M-6DSX?
April 16, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word monkey wrench
What? No bilby-related hand tools?
April 6, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word petty-rice
Poor quinoa. Being called petty-rice is PrETTY insulting.
April 6, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word han't
hain't. This is a word that I've heard at least one person use habitually.
This person also used the non-count noun HAIR as in, "I hain't washed my hairs today."
March 26, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the list do-not-say-these-words-in-my-presence
At the end of the day / just kidding (after saying something rude or inappropriate) / let's give a shout-out to ---.
March 16, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the list verses
neckverse, oversecretion, overseed, oversell, oversensitive, oversentimental, overserious, overservice, subverse, verset
February 27, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word queeve
twist in a road
February 6, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word figpecker
This sounds like an mild insult.
February 5, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word doven
doven
lazy (unwilling to work)
stale (of beverages)
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/doven
February 5, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word dovening
"Several members always end up moaning and thudding their foreheads on the table in the 'dovening for democracy' portion of the evening."
"I noticed that I wasn't the only woman dovening (praying) on the bus."
The quotes (above) suggest that dovening is praying, whereas the definition refers to it as a slumber. Maybe it is praying while sleeping?
February 5, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the user gjw
If you love words, you belong here and we welcome you.
January 29, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the user articlepost
Correction: A very interesting scam site.
January 29, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word heath
"Not all human intervention has been as successful, however. For example, the degradation of brown earths under heath in western France is not a natural feature but the product of human clearance and grazing practices."
January 17, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word massifs
" The quality of the soils depends heavily upon the origin of their waste sheets; sand spreads derived from the granites of the Hercynian massifs, for example, provide only poor soils."
January 17, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word limon
"These may provide a particularly favorable soil material; most notable is the windblown limon that mantles the Paleogene and Neogene limestone plateaus of the central Paris Basin and the chalk beds to the northwest, the basis of the finest arable soils of France."
January 17, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word waste sheets
"Over large areas of France, soils have developed not directly from the disintegrated bedrock but from the waste sheets created by periglacial action."
January 17, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word podzol
"Some climate-related variation can be detected within the French brown earth group; in the high-rainfall and somewhat cool conditions of northwestern France, carbonates and other minerals tend to be leached downward, producing a degraded brown earth soil of higher acidity and lesser fertility; locally this may approach the nature of the north European podzol."
January 17, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word brown earths
On a broad, general scale, virtually the whole of France can be classified in the zone of brown forest soils, or brown earths. These soils, which develop under deciduous forest cover in temperate climatic conditions, are of excellent agricultural value.
January 17, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word crapflooding
A method of trolling, crapflooding is flooding a weblog's comment form with text consisting of repeated words and phrases.
January 17, 2021
vendingmachine commented on the word gumsucker
Do denizens of Tasmania have a moniker?
December 29, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word flagging
flagstones (collectively)
December 27, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word gumsucker
Antiquated term for a person native to the state of Victoria, Australia.
In the same way, South Australians are croweaters, West Australians are sandgropers and Queenslanders are banana benders.
What's with all the weird monikers?
December 27, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word cemeterian
A word coined by someone I know who said there was a void for a word that labeled all the cemetery-related duties he had: grave digger, marketing and sales, administrative work, etc. I like the mouthfeel of his creation. Coining a word carries with it a certain degree of responsibility that I respect and admire. I've only coined one word with any lasting power (shoecabbage), so I enjoy the process and end result.
December 11, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word froth flotation
Industrially, pine oil is used as a frother in mineral extraction from ores. For example, in copper extraction, pine oil is used to condition copper sulfide ores for froth flotation. Therefore, it is important in the industry for the froth flotation process. It has largely been replaced by synthetic alcohols and polyglycol ethers.
December 5, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word deorphanize
The limited functional expression of olfactory receptors in heterologous systems, however, has greatly hampered attempts to deorphanize them (analyze the response profiles of single olfactory receptors).
December 4, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word dramedy
I detest blended words such as this.
December 1, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word peeshoo
Canada Lynx, commonly termed the "peeshoo" by French colonists.
November 28, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word puet duet
See puet.
November 28, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word puet
noun (Zoöl.) The pewit.
puet duet
November 28, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word chucky-chucky
See wax-cluster.
November 18, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word glad eye
This term doesn't sound particularly seductive.
November 17, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word upstander
Several strategies could improve the interview experiences of Black applicants. First, academic leaders must accept that inequitable treatment of Black applicants exists and will take time to correct. Second, everyone involved in the interview process from host institutions should be educated about microaggressions, stereotype threat, and other challenges and biases that disadvantage Black applicants. We recommend bystander and upstander training to prepare people to act when they witness discrimination, bias, or racism. Third, we favor careful and fair recruitment of diverse interviewers to create a welcoming environment. We also suggest incorporating work related to diversity and inclusion when describing the mission and values of the program or institution. On a wider scale, we recommend the creation of institutional databases — or, ideally, a national database — where applicants can report experiences of racism or bias while interviewing, which would be aggregated to protect their identity. Improving the experiences of Black applicants will be a first step toward increasing the diversity of programs and subsequently addressing the unmet needs of the diverse patient populations they serve.
November 14, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word homophily
Finally, it is widely recognized that people tend to associate with and gravitate toward others who have backgrounds and interests that are similar to their own. This phenomenon, called homophily, drives much of Black applicants’ discomfort and isolation. The concept of homophily was popularized by Paul Lazarsfeld and Robert Merton in 1954. Although the tendency to socialize with people like oneself creates opportunities for positive, lasting relationships, homophily can lead to applicants being excluded on the basis of differences.
November 14, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word tokenism
Tokenism entails making cursory strides toward diversity and inclusion. The recruitment of Black candidates merely to achieve a metric undermines the applicant’s academic value and dismisses the difficulty associated with navigating medicine as a member of an underrepresented minority group. Awareness of tokenism and of the ways in which it can lead to depression, burnout, attrition, and a minority tax — extra responsibility placed on underrepresented minorities with a goal of achieving diversity — is warranted as early as interview day. A clear demonstration of efforts to recruit, retain, support, and promote Black applicants better illustrates dedication to diversity in medicine.
November 14, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word imposter syndrome
Another challenge facing Black interviewees is imposter syndrome. In 1978, Pauline Clance described imposter syndrome as an “internal experience of intellectual phoniness in people who believe that they are not intelligent, capable or creative despite evidence of high achievement.” Studies have revealed feelings of imposter syndrome in up to 82% of students, with minorities and women reporting such feelings at higher rates than White men. Imposter syndrome can cause qualified Black applicants to feel unqualified and isolated.
November 14, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word stereotype threat
Stereotype threat was defined by Claude Steele and Joshua Aronson in 1995 as “being at risk of confirming, as self-characteristic, a negative stereotype about one’s group.” In landmark research, Steele and Aronson demonstrated that Black participants performed worse than White participants during a test when they believed that they were at risk for fulfilling stereotypes about Black people’s intellectual abilities. When that stereotype threat was removed, Black participants performed similarly to their White counterparts. Stereotype threat has been found to be present in medicine. In a 2020 study of medical students, 82% of Black respondents had high scores on a measure of vulnerability to stereotype threat, as compared with 4% of White respondents.2 When Black applicants see photographs of only non-Black graduates on the walls, they may perceive the threat of a negative stereotype, such as “Black people are not smart,” and perform worse than expected.
November 14, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word microaggression
Although there are many concerns that broadly affect Black people in medicine, such as institutional racism and inequality of educational opportunities, the experiences of Black interviewees in particular remain underaddressed. Being interviewed while Black involves a collision of microaggressions and feelings and experiences related to stereotype threat, tokenism, imposter syndrome, and homophily (see table). Many of these experiences are rooted in unconscious bias, whereas some can be born from overt racism. In turn, Black interviewees collect impressions that make them doubt that they will be welcomed and valued in medicine.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2023999?query=race_and_medicine
November 14, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word hedge-parson
See buckle-beggar.
November 14, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word buckle-beggar
See also hedge-parson.
November 14, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word First Dog
Both capitalized, just like First Lady is.
November 13, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word peanut butt
A comment that could ONLY come from the brilliant and creative mind of you, bilby.
October 30, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word wooden spooner
Really? Has anyone ever heard of a wooden spooner?
October 24, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word attainted
"Shortly afterwards, Anne was asked for her consent to an annulment, to which she agreed. Cromwell, the moving force behind the marriage, was attainted for treason. The marriage was annulled on 9 July 1540, on the grounds of non-consummation and her pre-contract to Francis of Lorraine. Henry VIII's physician stated that after the wedding night, Henry said he was not impotent because he experienced "duas pollutiones nocturnas in somno" (two nocturnal pollutions while in sleep; i.e., two wet dreams)."
--Anne of Cleves, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_of_Cleves
October 18, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word backweasel
To go back on one's words or actions in a cowardly or weaselly fashion.
October 2, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the user kalyan01
Promote a Dodgy Site Day!
September 30, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word psychometric profiling
"Psychometric profiling is the process by which your actions are used to infer your personality. The technique was developed by academics and used by marketers and advertisers to assess the psychological characteristics of an individual or a group. These profiles give advertisers and political strategists insights into users' beliefs, behaviours and motivations. By appealing to these underlying traits on an individual or group level, psychometrically-informed advertisements have the potential to be more persuasive and are thus used to influence decisions like what to buy or how to vote."
September 22, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word racehorse theory
"The racehorse theory is the belief that some humans have a better genetic endowment than others, and by breeding two superior people you end up with superior offspring. The belief in eugenics, the pseudoscience of trimming out “inferior” bloodlines to increase the quality of the gene pool, is part of a long, racist history in America, from forced sterilizations to research funded by the Carnegie Institution, among other wealthy foundations. Earlier this month, charges surfaced that a doctor at an ICE facility was performing unwanted and likely unnecessary hysterectomies on detained immigrant women, which would prevent them from having more children."
September 22, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word dog whistle
"It's called a “dog whistle,” a word or phrase in a speech that is unobjectionable on the surface but conveys a coded message to partisans, by analogy to high-pitched sounds that are audible to dogs but not to people. Richard Nixon leaned on it heavily during his 1968 presidential campaign, referencing “law and order” and a “war on drugs,” further codifying racial appeals from Barry Goldwater for “states’ rights” and “freedom of association.” Ronald Reagan took it to another level in 1976, demonizing a “welfare queen” who fraudulently collected $150,000 in government benefits, a barely concealed appeal to the race and class resentments of white voters toward Blacks.
By that standard, President Trump’s riff about the “good genes” found among the people of Minnesota — an 80 percent white state — wasn’t a dog whistle. It was a train whistle, folding in Trump’s long-held belief that some people, himself especially, are simply born with superior traits to others."
--Trump to nearly all-white crowd: 'You have good genes', Yahoo! News, https://www.aol.com/article/news/2020/09/21/trump-to-nearly-all-white-crowd-you-have-good-genes/24626071/
September 22, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the user jgkahn
Do you have an example to share?
September 22, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word jabot
Erin,
What is the correct pronunciation for jabot? I've heard at least four different pronunciations. Which one should I believe? Maybe they are ALL correct. Maybe they are ALL wrong.
Have you ever seen Ruth Bader Ginsburg's jabot collection? Fascinating!
BTW, for those who don't subscribe to Erin's "Things I Learned While Looking Up Other Things"... you're really missing out. I look forward to each installment!
September 21, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the list common-word-placenames-A0dfLDyK97Yf
Republic, Missouri; Battlefield, Missouri; Bellflower, Missouri; Bland, Missouri; Clever, Missouri; Crane, Missouri; Fisk, Missouri; Foley, Missouri; Eminence, Missouri; Miller, Missouri; Miner, Missouri; Reeds, Missouri; Stover, Missouri.
September 13, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word fatty series
Fatty series? Seems rather harsh.
September 8, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word tree-iron
In a vehicle: A reinforcing piece of wrought-iron used to connect a swingletree to a doubletree or a doubletree to the tongue.
September 7, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word nat-worship
unrelated to gnat worship.
August 31, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word Janey Mack
Gosh!
August 31, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word brick house
Wikipedia claims that the term was coined in 1977 for the song "Brick House" by Shirley Hanna-King, who took it from the older expression built like a brick shit house.
August 30, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word nom-de-guerre
"My nym is a nom-de-guerre not a pseudonym like some of the anonymous cowards around here." See nymshifter.
August 28, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word thingwhat
She was a lump of a thingwhat the sailors call a butter-box.
August 28, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word lithomania
A passion for building what?
August 28, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word disembosoming
Again, no surprise.
‘disembosoming’ is no one's favorite word yet, has no comments yet, and is not a valid Scrabble word.
August 28, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word gipser
pilgrim pouch
August 28, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word jackpot justice
Patients do not come to us (our medical malpractice law firm) because they want to bring a frivolous claim or “jackpot justice.” They come to us because they are in the most dire circumstances.
August 27, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word exuvia
Cool. Now I know what to call a cicada's exoskeleton. Cicada exuvia! (I hope I'm pronouncing it correctly.)
August 24, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word thallophori
‘thallophori’ is no one's favorite word yet, has no comments yet, and is not a valid Scrabble word.
So sad. That's why:
I favorited thallophori and left this comment. Sorry, I can't do anything about thallophori's Scrabble validity.
August 24, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word incontinent
Hm. I guess it's perfectly possible to be unchaste and also lack voluntary control over one's excretory functions.
August 24, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word albarello
A ceramic pharmacy or drug jar, generally majolica ware. They are usually tall rather than wide, and often of a waisted shape.
August 18, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word giant panda
Don't let that stop you, dear ru. Pun away! I see Twitter poster are busy in this regard, too.
*my fursona is a giant panda (said by an icon of an animal with fur)
August 14, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word information laundering
“Journals have devolved into information laundering operations for the pharmaceutical industry”, wrote Richard Horton, editor of the Lancet, in March 2004. In the same year, Marcia Angell, former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, lambasted the industry for becoming “primarily a marketing machine” and co-opting “every institution that might stand in its way”. Medical journals were conspicuously absent from her list of co-opted institutions, but she and Horton are not the only editors who have become increasingly queasy about the power and influence of the industry.
August 7, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word Thighland
Thailand:
https://twitter.com/LanguageLog/status/1291587631478792194
August 7, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word Zezuru
Mugabe's parents belonged to the Zezuru clan, one of the smallest branches of the Shona tribe.
August 5, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word chieftaincy
Through his father, Mugabe claimed membership of the chieftaincy family that has provided the hereditary rulers of Zvimba for generations.
August 5, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word parvenu
noun An upstart; a man newly risen into notice.
A man, huh. Really? How old is this definition?
August 5, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word wherret
A box on the ear? What kind of box.. a cereal box, a cake mix?
August 4, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word fress
Thanks for this clarification, bilby. "Humans essen and animals fressen." Easy and worth remembering!
August 4, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word fress
To gobble up food; to gorge oneself. "To eat quickly or noisily, like an animal".
August 3, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word fumette
The stench or high flavor (?) of game meat. Hm.
August 3, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word ignifluous
My favorite word for today.
August 2, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word API
It also awarded $354 million to Phlow Corp. in May to start producing active pharmaceutical ingredients, or API, among other chemical ingredients, used in certain essential medications. A spokesperson for Phlow said the company can’t disclose the list of drugs, but it includes treatments for pain and blood pressure that can be used by hospitalized COVID-19 patients. The total contract is worth up to $812 million. Phlow cites a shift toward producing API in China and India as the rationale behind its business model.
July 30, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word hobble skirt
Ironically (or not), with the rising militancy of suffragists, skirts began to narrow until they became the barreled, banded style known as the hobble skirt or "the speed-limit skirt."
July 30, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word isotonitazene
Discovered in 1957 by a Swiss pharmaceutical firm, isotonitazene is an analogue of its banned parent compound, etonitazene, which was discovered in 1956 and is itself 60 times more potent than morphine.
“Isotonitazene is the most persistent and prevalent new opioid in the U.S.,” said Logan, adding that he is now seeing 40 to 50 isotonitazene-related deaths per month in the U.S. compared to about six per month last summer (2019).
Isotonitazene is legal to export from China and is not specifically banned in the U.S., Europe or China. America’s Analog Act would cover it as a derivative of a banned substance, but no case has come to court yet. It could take years before it is scheduled in the U.S. and internationally.
Chemists in Shanghai and other major manufacturing centers are still out-inventing lawmakers the world over, quickly synthesizing new, legal variants of recently banned drugs. Isotonitazene and several variants of it are now being sold online, legally by Chinese suppliers offering bulk deals.
July 30, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word psychonaut
"Previously, isotonitazene was a niche drug used by internet drug geeks, or psychonauts, Logan said. But he now, as happened with fentanyl, there are bags of heroin on sale on the streets in the U.S. with mixtures containing isotonitazene, with users having no idea what they are buying."
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wxebjb/40-americans-are-dying-every-month-from-taking-this-new-legal-opioid
July 30, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word spinal chord
I believe that this is a common MISSPELLING for spinal cord but no way is it a legitimate, alternative spelling.
July 23, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word stilt-petrel
What's wrong with long-legged petrel? Stilts are artificial legs, are they not?
July 18, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word zeme
Now I know what a zeme meme is, I guess.
July 18, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word symbolophobia
A fear of symbols is concise and seems to make sense, but the definition provided adds different layers of meaning that appear made-up.
July 18, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word vowelist
There are other examples of vowelless sentences in Czech and Slovak, such as prd krt skrz drn, zprv zhlt hrst zrn, meaning "a mole farted through grass, having swallowed a handful of grains"
July 18, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word vowelist
So, every -ist is an addict? How exactly does an addiction to vowels manifest itself? Do vowelists insist on buying game-show vowels even when a vowel is not needed to identify a word or phrase? Do vowelists suffer mercilessly when encountering languages such as Czech?
Strč prst skrz krk
--a Czech and Slovak tongue-twister meaning "stick a finger through the throat".
July 18, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word gonotyl
A sucker surrounding the genital opening...
Not sure why this particular detail describes this worm, unless it helps to distinguish one trematode worm from another.
July 18, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word tropologize
To make a trope of.
July 8, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word mummachog
mummichog
July 8, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word caraccas
There were galleys and caravels, barques and feluccas, pinnaces and caraccas.
July 3, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the list a-group-of-bilbies-is-called
What? Not an earful of bilbies? (BTW, my spell-check keeps trying to change bilbies to bibles.)
July 3, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word pathocracy
A pathocracy is a social movement, society, nation, or empire wherein a small pathological minority takes control over a society of normal people.
June 30, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word political ponerology
Political ponerology (originating from the Greek word for evil, poneros) is a science on the nature of evil adjusted for political purposes which ultimately on a larger scale results in a pathocracy.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/55641292@N03/5482658316
June 30, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word ponerological
See ponerology.
June 30, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word cross-cutting relationships
Cross-cutting relationships is a principle of geology that states that the geologic feature which cuts another is the younger of the two features. It is a relative dating technique in geology. It was first developed by Danish geological pioneer Nicholas Steno in Dissertationis prodromus (1669) and later formulated by James Hutton in Theory of the Earth (1795) and embellished upon by Charles Lyell in Principles of Geology (1830).
June 29, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word principle of faunal succession
The principle of faunal succession, also known as the law of faunal succession, is based on the observation that sedimentary rock strata contain fossilized flora and fauna, and that these fossils succeed each other vertically in a specific, reliable order that can be identified over wide horizontal distances. A fossilized Neanderthal bone will never be found in the same stratum as a fossilized Megalosaurus, for example, because neanderthals and megalosaurs lived during different geological periods, separated by many millions of years. This allows for strata to be identified and dated by the fossils found within.
June 29, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word principle of lateral continuity
The principle of lateral continuity states that layers of sediment initially extend laterally in all directions; in other words, they are laterally continuous. As a result, rocks that are otherwise similar, but are now separated by a valley or other erosional feature, can be assumed to be originally continuous.
June 29, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word principle of original horizontality
The Principle of Original Horizontality states that layers of sediment are originally deposited horizontally under the action of gravity.1 It is a relative dating technique. The principle is important to the analysis of folded and tilted strata. It was first proposed by the Danish geological pioneer Nicholas Steno (1638–1686).
June 29, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word law of superposition
The law of superposition is an axiom that forms one of the bases of the sciences of geology, archaeology, and other fields dealing with geological stratigraphy. It is a form of relative dating. In its plainest form, it states that in undeformed stratigraphic sequences, the oldest strata will be at the bottom of the sequence. This is important to stratigraphic dating, which assumes that the law of superposition holds true and that an object cannot be older than the materials of which it is composed.
June 29, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word outcrop
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outcrop
June 29, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word remnant prairie
See also prairie remnant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prairie_remnant
Land that has never been plowed and remains undisturbed by agricultural and urban/suburban development.
June 29, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word thaumaturgism
thaumaturgy
June 29, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word nuciculture
nut-culture; a branch of pomology.
June 26, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word deme
demonymic: bearing a name derived from the deme, or township, to which one (who was an inhabitant of ancient Attica) belonged.
June 23, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word redpilled
“Take the red pill.” The term is popular in internet communities such as the alt-right and the manosphere, and refers to the scene in the film The Matrix in which the protagonist, Neo, is offered the choice between a blue pill that will allow him to remain safely deluded, or a red pill, which will allow him to discover the underlying truth about reality. The phrase has come to mean rejecting widely accepted truths — particularly those that relate to equality between races, genders and social groups — and choosing an alternative narrative about society. Such narratives lean, in many cases, towards racism, misogyny and other highly controversial beliefs. While this is not true of every single person who would consider themselves “redpilled”, the members of pretty much every alt-right group you might have heard of – incels, neo-Nazis, eco-fascists – will often consider themselves to have awakened in this way to their fringe theories and socially unacceptable beliefs.
June 23, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word memeification
How do the Jans, Chads, Janets, and Sharons of the world feel about the memeification of their names? While their experiences are obviously in no way comparable to people who face real-world, racially-motivated name discrimination, it is potentially frustrating to have a name that is part of pop culture. Just ask Harry Potter.
June 23, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the list words-for-women
These words don't actually describe women; they label women. Words used to describe women could be: intelligent, tall, brave, adventurous, funny; meddlesome, annoying, attractive, unattractive...
*climbing off my soap-box now.
June 18, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word wolfian theory
A variation of bilby-ian theory. Not sure about spelling. bilbian? bilbyian?
June 18, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word baby bilby boom
Nice alliteration!
June 18, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word increased glaciation
Beats decreased glaciation, I guess.
June 17, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word shitstem
Meaning what? Is it a disparaging term? My first thought was a weed, but then, I just got through pulling a bunch from my garden.
June 17, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word wordnik factor
Hey, we got a visual below. This must be the wordnik factor!!
https://www.flickr.com/photos/9361468@N05/1338213272
June 17, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word foreign factor
Thanks, Alex. I was hoping for more intrigue than this. The explanation ended up sounding as boring at its newfound meaning.
What do you suppose the definition is for the wordnik factor? :)
June 17, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word foreign factor
reverse dictionary: hong.
Still not helping to explain foreign factor. You are such a tease, wordnik.
June 16, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word foreign factor
OK, wordnik. You randomly selected this term for me. Explain it. What is the foreign factor?
June 16, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word Festival of Extraordinary Teapots
A real event, apparently.
June 16, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word bouldering
"Luce's climbing style was dynamic and determined and she seemed to thrive in the modern style of competition bouldering. Athletes and coaches sharing tributes online are recalling the energy that she brought to competitions with her ever-smiling presence.
Luce began climbing from a young age with her father on crags in the Chartreuse Massif near her home. In May, Luce ticked her first 8b+ on rock at a local crag, just weeks after French lockdown ended."
June 16, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word doomage
So much gloom and doomage...
June 16, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word bolthole
Everyone needs a bolthole.
May 29, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word sett
Many badger species are very social creatures and live in groups called a cete or clan. A clan shares territory and setts. Setts can be centuries old and are used by many generations of badgers. One sett can be 22 to 109 yards (20 to 100 meters) or more long.
May 29, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word honey badger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r7wHMg5Yjg
Honey badgers became popular due to a YouTube video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r7wHMg5Yjg) with a humorous voiceover. Honey badgers are known for their ferocity. Some fun facts about honey badgers:
* They are called ratels because of the rattling sound they make when they are being attacked.
* They have a resistance to snake venom.
* When attacking beehives, they release a fume that spreads throughout the hive.
* When attacking large animals, such as lions, they go for the scrotum.
May 29, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word balloon clock
This visual makes more sense than the actual definition:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/148501304@N06/49855658911
May 27, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word Mormon cricket
Interesting history regarding this insect's name.
May 18, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word water spirit
From Twitter:
A rare representation of an Ogbanje and mami-water spirit messenger communicating in encrypted language..
Yep. Water spirits communicate in encrypted language. Good to know.
May 18, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word poak
Found this:
Any substance added to the soil with the view of rendering it more fertile; specifically, and as used in leases and other contracts relating to real property, the excrementitious product of livestock, with refuse litter, accumulated, and used for enriching the land.
May 18, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word poak
I thought manure consists of feces. How can hair, lime and oil be classified as manure?
Never heard of the word POAK.
May 18, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word nonpig
That's what you get for giving us a swift kick when we don't uncoil your Dorito's fast enough.
April 30, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word hanging naked men
What pajamas? --frogapplause
April 30, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word diegetic sound
A diegetic sound is any sound that originates from the world of a production. A very simple way to think about diegetic sounds is to think of them as anything that’s real, or anything that could make sound in the world of a film. The sound doesn't have to be featured on-screen.
In fact, many diegetic sounds are not shown on-screen. Say there’s an emergency and an ambulance is called. The corresponding siren sound would be diegetic, even if it’s not shown on screen. This is because it’s a natural sound of the film world.
Examples of Diegetic Sounds
*Dialogue between characters
*Music played within the world. Piano playing at a restaurant, music in an elevator, a street performer banging drums.
*Sound effects such as: explosions, rain drops on a stormy night, wind whirring through a turbine, and many, many more.
https://www.studiobinder.com/blog/what-is-diegetic-sound/
April 25, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word nonpig
nonbilby... that which is not a bilby.
April 25, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word wonky hole
Who knew?
April 11, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word slow loris
Why not call it a stocky lemur?
April 10, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word butt woman
I'm not sure she I want to know what a butt woman is.
April 10, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word parolist
A paroled man, huh? So, is this a one-size-fits-both-genders type word?
April 10, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word food insecure
According to a 2018 survey by the United States Department of Agriculture, 11.1 percent of American households could be described as “food insecure.”
April 8, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word fishtancing
I misread it as fishdancing.
April 2, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word oxgate
See oxland, oxgang.
March 27, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word oxgang
See oxland, oxgate.
March 27, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word BTDTBTTS
Seriously?
March 27, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the user norm.mclaughlin
Don't you mean remote computer fraud/scam/control/hijacking/stealing? Shame on you and scum like you.
March 27, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word touch elbows
True or False... the CDC recommends that instead of shaking hands, people touch elbows.
March 27, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word M-m-m-my Sharona
M-m-m-my Coronavirus
March 25, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word coins
I read that coins pose a greater threat to virus transmission than paper money.
March 20, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word bunny boiler
This is listed under Fun Words?
March 17, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word cap of maintenance
The janitor's hat?
March 17, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word Me no Leica.
I like this statement:
"Kerr was well known for panning musicals that were musically ambitious."
March 11, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word LGBTQ
The military has a long history of discriminating against servicemembers who either were or were perceived to be Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, or Queer (LGBTQ). That history of discrimination included the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT) policy in place from 1994 to 2011, as well as predecessor policies that were even more harsh, and extends to the current ban on service by openly transgender individuals. Under DADT and prior policies, between the end of World War II and the repeal of DADT, over 100,000 servicemembers were discharged with bad paper discharge because of their actual or perceived LGBTQ status. In addition, thousands of LGBTQ servicemembers were discharged with bad paper for behaviors—interpreted as inexcusable misconduct—that stemmed from the trauma of having to conceal their sexual or gender identity or were discharged for pretextual reasons, such as minor misconduct, when the true cause was discrimination against them due to their LGBTQ status.16 The nation’s history of discrimination against LGBTQ servicemembers is therefore another cause of bad paper discharges that is perpetuated when these veterans are turned away from VA without being allowed to apply.
March 10, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word TBI
PTSD and TBI Traumatic Brain Injury are considered the signature wounds of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts and both conditions can significantly impair a person’s ability to conform their behavior to the military’s standards. In particular, the symptoms of PTSD can lead to behaviors that are misinterpreted by military commanders, which in turn can lead to a bad paper discharge.
http://www.legalservicescenter.org/wp-content/uploads/Turn-Away-Report.pdf
March 10, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word bad paper discharge
Others may have been discharged with bad paper based on discriminatory policies, such as the now-repealed Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT) policy.
March 10, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word MST
Military Sexual Trauma
March 10, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word bad paper discharge
Every servicemember is assigned a “character of service” or “discharge status” upon leaving military service. While most servicemembers receive Honorable discharge statuses, a substantial percentage—approximately 7 percent of (American) veterans discharged since 1980—receive discharge statuses that are not Honorable, which are known as “bad paper.” Servicemembers usually get “bad paper” because of some alleged misconduct, though that misconduct frequently is minor, for a military-only offense, or not proved in any court. Studies also show that many servicemembers are separated with bad paper for misconduct related to a service-related mental or physical health condition or Military Sexual Trauma (MST).
March 10, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word bad paper discharge
Former military servicemembers with “bad paper” — an Other Than Honorable, Bad Conduct, or Dishonorable discharge...
(Dear VA: Stop kicking veterans with PTSD out of your hospitals)
https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/486640-dear-va-stop-kicking-veterans-with-ptsd-out-of-your-hospitals
March 10, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word super spreader
What are super-spreaders?
Not everybody is equal when it comes to the transmission of infectious diseases. In fact, it has been established for at least two decades that there is something called the 20/80 rule – that a small core group of about one in five people transmit infections to far more people than the majority do.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/27/what-are-super-spreaders-and-how-are-they-transmitting-coronavirus
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/11/what-is-a-coronavirus-covid-19-super-spreader-infections-explained.html
March 8, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word infodemic
Coronavirus is more of an infodemic than an epidemic.
March 8, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word infodemic
On 2 February, the WHO declared there was a "massive infodemic" accompanying the outbreak and response, citing an over-abundance of reported information, accurate and false, about the virus that "makes it hard for people to find trustworthy sources and reliable guidance when they need it."
March 8, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word leucocytiform
Elephants doing somebody job, eh? What kind of job?
March 6, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word ʻokina
About Hawaiian diacritical marks. https://www.hawaii.edu/site/info/diacritics.php
The Hawaiian language uses two diacritical markings. The ‘okina is a glottal stop, similar to the sound between the syllables of "oh-oh." In print, the correct mark for designating an ‘okina is the single open quote mark. The kahako is a macron, which lengthens and adds stress to the marked vowel. For example 'pau,' depending on placement of ‘okina and kahako, can mean completed, smudge, moist or skirt.
The State of Hawai‘i and University of Hawai‘i strongly encourage use of Hawaiian diacritical markings.
March 2, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word hoʻoponopono
"In many Polynesian cultures, it is believed that a person's errors (called hara or hala) caused illness. Some believe error angers the gods, others that it attracts malevolent gods, and still others believe the guilt caused by error made one sick. In most cases, however, specific 'untie-error' rites could be performed to atone for such errors and thereby diminish one's accumulation of them.
Among the islands of Vanuatu in the South Pacific, people believe that illness usually is caused by sexual misconduct or anger. "If you are angry for two or three days, sickness will come," said one local man. The therapy that counters this sickness is confession. The patient, or a family member, may confess. If no one confesses an error, the patient may die. The Vanuatu people believe that secrecy is what gives power to the illness. When the error is confessed, it no longer has power over the person.
Like many other islanders, including Hawaiians, people of Tikopia in the Solomon Islands, and on Rarotonga in the Cook Islands, believe that the sins of the father will fall upon the children. If a child is sick, the parents are suspected of quarreling or misconduct. In addition to sickness, social disorder could cause sterility of land or other disasters. Harmony could be restored only by confession and apology.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoʻoponopono (grave accent mark messes up link; must copy and paste. In Hawaiian, the grave accent is not placed over another character but is sometimes encountered as a typographically easier substitute for the ʻokina: Hawai`i instead of Hawaiʻi.).
March 2, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word hoʻoponopono
See hooponopono.
March 2, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word honestly, it's not for everyone
Nebraska's tag line. https://www.omaha.com/news/state_and_regional/nebraska-s-new-tourism-pitch-honestly-it-s-not-for/article_4e7a5320-fe58-544a-b8ac-078e075fb3f8.html
Another ad, which was popular with focus groups in Minneapolis, Kansas City and Denver, was titled “Festivals for everything from mud to testicles.” The latter refers to a Father’s Day weekend Testicle Festival, at the Round the Bend Steakhouse east of Ashland, that features deep-fried sheep and beef testicles.
February 23, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word plim
So, slim and plim isn't so good, I guess.
February 16, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word ground blizzard
We call these snow devils; they are pretty much the opposite of a dust devil.
February 16, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word celery-looper
And yo' Momma was a celery-looper, too.
February 16, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word salad onions
This is probably what I'd call green onions. Some people call them, irk, scallions.
February 16, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word celery-looper
Sounds like a good insult.
February 16, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word rudder-iron
See pintle.
February 3, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word equilibristics
"Equilibristics is a blanket term for a number of circus skills which involve balancing or maintaining equilibrium. The term applies equally to acts in which the performer balances on a prop, and acts in which the performer balances or spins a prop. Many different tricks and stunts fit into this category. Some well-known examples of equilibristics include juggling, baton twirling, unicycle riding, stilt walking, tightrope walking, the manipulation of devil sticks, plate spinning, and some acrobatics. Couch juggling is a stunt in which one lies on one's back, balancing an upended sofa on the soles of one's feet. The couch is flipped end-for-end and caught at the other end, beginning a spin which is maintained by deft movements of the feet. This stunt can also be performed with a canoe, or any other large and unwieldy object. It can even be performed as a gymnastic stunt, using a human gymnast as the juggled object. Technically, balancing a cane on the tip of a finger is an equilibristic stunt, but generally equilibristics is more flashy."
February 2, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word horseless carriage syndrome
"During times of rapid change, there is always a lag between events and our perception and understanding of those events. “Thought” is past tense. Reflection is always after the fact. Someone once said that “time makes hypocrites of us all”, but what that really means is that there is a dissonance between change and the adequacy of our responses to that change. We are already living in the future, but our thinking is still in the past, so that we live divided between the past and the future."
--https://longsworde.wordpress.com/2017/11/15/horseless-carriage-syndrome/
February 2, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the list anagram-poetry
Thanks for liking my shitty anagram poem!
My two-word poem also works on another list of mine (created by my former user identity, frogapplause).
https://www.wordnik.com/lists/two-word-poems
February 1, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the list anagram-poetry
I'm having fun adding to this list. One entry, however, might be misconstrued:
this shit
January 25, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word clinodactyly
Clinodactyly is an autosomal dominant trait that has variable expressiveness and incomplete penetrance*
January 23, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word bossed
Some phenotypes (characteristics) of people who have Russell–Silver syndrome are inadequate catch-up growth in the first two years, body asymmetry, lack of appetite, low-set posteriorly rotated ears, clinodactyly* (inward curving) of the 5th finger, webbed toes, non-descended testicles, weak muscle tone, delayed bone age, downturned corners of mouth and thin upper lip, hypospadias, high-pitched voice, small chin, delayed closure of the fontanel, hypoglycemia, and a bossed forehead.
January 18, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word ninja star
A shuriken. A throwing star.
January 16, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word omoluwabi
The omoluwabi is a philosophical and cultural concept that's native to the Yoruba people. It's used to describe a person of good character. The omoluabi concept signifies courage, hard work, humility and respect. An omoluabi is a person of honor who believes in hard work, respects the rights of others, and gives to the community in deeds and in action. Above all, an omoluwabi is a person of integrity.
The Omoluwabi concept is an adjectival Yoruba phrase, which has the words - "Omo + ti + Olu-iwa + bi" as its components. Literally translated and taken separately, omo means 'child', ti means 'that or which', Olu-iwa means the chief or master of Iwa (character), bi means 'born'. When combined, omoluabi translates as "the baby begotten by the chief of iwa". Such a child is thought of as a paragon of excellence in character.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omoluwabi
January 16, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word omoluwabi
January 16, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word carucage
The act of plowing.
January 14, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word scatebrous
What kind of springs? Bedsprings?
January 14, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word concierge medicine
More than 1 in 5 wealthy people pay an extra fee for direct access to their doctor, according to a new poll from NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. For low and middle income people, the rates are less than half that.
https://tinyurl.com/wwghlyn
January 14, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word coenestopathic
So, a bilby with coenestopathy is perhaps unaware that he has big ears.
January 14, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word micropenis
This term seems rather harsh and belittling (no pun intended.)
January 11, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word vagina-scented candle
https://www.thecut.com/2020/01/gwyneth-paltrow-is-selling-a-vagina-scented-candle.html
January 11, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the list hedgepiglet
Another fun and creative list by yarb.
January 7, 2020
vendingmachine commented on the word muddler
Not to be confused with a puddler, cuddler, fuddler or huddler.
December 31, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word muddler
The Houdini Deluxe Mojito Muddler:
https://tinyurl.com/whz7y9q
Also, get your muddler away from my double jigger!
https://tinyurl.com/rg5ktyc
December 28, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word upcycling
also known as creative reuse, is the process of transforming by-products, waste materials, useless, or unwanted products into new materials or products of better quality and environmental value.
December 23, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word cake-urchin
aka urinal cake-urchin
December 23, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word hazel-oil
A severe beating with hazel rods? What's a severe beating with bilby ears and feet?
December 23, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word muddler
I've never heard of a muddler. I suppose it could be used interchangeably with potato masher.
December 23, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word lek
My new favorite word, birdwise.
December 19, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the user naman77
I'm looking for a used rickshaw to add luxury to my life and to boost my bidness. Please help me most promptly.
December 17, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word disorderly house
The newspaper report of 1 September featured in the comments suggests that Annie Anderson may have been involved in prostitution. This is made more explicit in a report of a later arrest in the Shields Daily Gazette for 21 July 1904, 'disorderly house' being a euphemism for brothel.
"At North Shields Annie Anderson (34) was charged with keeping a disorderly house in Liddell Street on July 1st. Sergt. G. Scougal proved the case. Chief Constable Huish said that the prisoner was convicted for a similar offence on March 28th of this year, and committed for one month. Immediately she came out of prison she went back to the room and continued to carry on the house in the same manner as before. The complaints received by the police about it were serious. Defendant, who pleaded not guilty, was committed for three months with hard labour".
https://www.flickr.com/photos/29295370@N07/6628772201
December 17, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word bind
So you're a medieval landlord, collecting property rent from your peasants in eels. How do you measure them?
Eels were usually counted in units called sticks (25 eels) -- likely from the number of eels you can smoke on a stick at one time. 10 sticks of eels was called a bind.
--https://twitter.com/greenleejw
December 13, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word clickership
‘clickership’ is no one's favorite word yet, has no comments yet, and is not a valid Scrabble word.
Ah, what a sad and lonely word!
December 2, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word scriptorium
The killer was Colonel Mustard in the scriptorium!
December 2, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word Brodie knob
The plot thickens...
necker's knob: A knob attached to the steering wheel of an automobile, especially before the widespread availability of power steering, helping the driver steer with one arm and leaving the other arm free to provide romantic attention to a companion.
November 25, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word necker's knob
The plot thickens... "leaving the other arm free to provide romantic attention to a companion."
A knob attached to the steering wheel of an automobile, especially before the widespread availability of power steering, helping the driver steer with one arm and leaving the other arm free to provide romantic attention to a companion.
See Brodie knob.
November 25, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word Brodie knob
A few examples here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brodie_knob
November 21, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word opihi
The opihi, or Cellana exarata, is an edible shellfish of the limpet species of molluscs. There are 3 types in Hawaii. The opihi alinalina or yellowfoot is one. The opihi makaiauli or blackfoot is the second. And the opihi ko`ele or giant opihi is the third. Most say they prefer the taste of the opihi alinalina or yellowfoot.
According to local researchers, the opihis are probably the most expensive seafood in Hawaii. In terms of cost of the delicacy (including the shell), one can value it in the range of $150 a gallon. A long time ago, pickers were selling over 140,000 pounds annually. Today, there are only 13,000 pounds harvested annually. This due to diminished stock and over harvesting. Despite this, demand for opihis remains very high.
November 17, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word buffel duck
See also marionette.
November 17, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word passion bearer
In Eastern Christianity, a passion bearer (Russian: страстотéрпец, tr. strastoterpets, IPA: strəstɐˈtʲɛrpʲɪts) is one of the various customary titles for saints used in commemoration at divine services when honouring their feast on the Church Calendar; it is not generally used in the Latin Church.
The term can be defined as a person who faces his or her death in a Christ-like manner. Unlike martyrs, passion bearers are not explicitly killed for their faith.
Notable passion bearers include the brothers Boris and Gleb, Alexander Schmorell (member of the White Rose resistance movement), and the entire Imperial Family of Russia, executed by the Bolsheviks in 1918.
November 17, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word BIG suit
noun An airtight full-body suit intended to protect wearer from biologically hazardous persons, serums, materials, or lifeforms.
What's an example of a hazardous lifeform? An alien from Mars maybe?
November 12, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word sugar tit
Really?
November 11, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word BIG suit
BIG from “Biological Isolation Garment” + suit.
November 11, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word mill-power
How can a value change because of its locality?
November 11, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the list polychronic-liquidators--cyf
Misread puddling-furnace. Thought I saw pudding-furnace. Like pudding-furnace better.
November 11, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the list polychronic-liquidators--cyf
I'm afraid to find out what a donkey-boiler is.
November 11, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word podium sweep
A podium sweep is when one team wins all available medals in a single event in a sporting event.
November 5, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word woke culture
Woke (/ˈwoʊk/) as a political term of African American origin refers to a perceived awareness of issues concerning social justice and racial justice. It is derived from the African-American Vernacular English expression "stay woke", whose grammatical aspect refers to a continuing awareness of these issues.
November 2, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word cancel culture
This term describes a form of boycott in which someone (usually a celebrity) who has shared a questionable or unpopular opinion, or has had behavior that is perceived to be either offensive or problematic called out on social media is "canceled"; they are completely boycotted by many of their followers or supporters, often leading to massive declines in celebrities' (almost always social media personalities) careers and fanbase.
November 2, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word callout-culture
Call-out culture (also known as outrage culture) is a form of public shaming that aims to hold individuals and groups accountable for their actions by calling attention to behavior that is perceived to be problematic, usually on social media. A variant of the term, cancel culture, describes a form of boycott in which someone (usually a celebrity) who has shared a questionable or unpopular opinion, or has had behavior that is perceived to be either offensive or problematic called out on social media is "canceled"; they are completely boycotted by many of their followers or supporters, often leading to massive declines in celebrities' (almost always social media personalities) careers and fanbase.
November 2, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the list retro-names-for-movie-houses-BJX43YqsEME9
Fox, Paramount, Avon, Alameda, Plaza, Majestic, Repertory, Regent, Imperial, Jewelbox, Mayfair, Garden, Savoy, ShowRoom, Apollo, Beach, Capitol, Colonial, Hollywood, Embassy, Empress, Exposition, Globe, Palace, Park, Roxy, Century, Victory, Alpha, Union, Bourbon, Glacier, Memorial, Prism, Auburn, Village, Frontier, Moonlight, Crescent, Stadium, Ruby, Spectrum, Sunland, Ritz, Crestview, Arcade, Boulevard, Old Mill, Colony, Rainbow, Classic, Cascade, Thunderbird, Westgate, Starlite, Suburban, Venture, Liberty, Sunset, International, Gateway, Clover Leaf, Bengal, Philmore, Uptown, State, Dixie, Rivoli, Casino, Vogue, Cottage, Radio City, Folly, Star, Fremont, Renaissance, Midway, Heritage, Capri, Carousel, Tower, Medallion, Varsity, King, Holiday, Jubilee, Studio...
November 1, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word scomfishing
strangling, smothering...
October 30, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the list no-reason-yf0LEROMMFwE
I like the three Ls: wallless, cowbellless...
October 28, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word Steal This Book
Steal This Book is a book written by Abbie Hoffman. Written in 1970 and published in 1971, the book exemplified the counterculture of the sixties. The book sold more than a quarter of a million copies between April and November 1971.
The book is, in the style of the counterculture, mainly focused on ways to fight the government, and against corporations in any way possible. The book is written in the form of a guide to the youth. Hoffman, a political and social activist himself, used many of his own activities as the inspiration for some of his advice in Steal This Book.
October 28, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word culture jamming
Culture jamming (sometimes guerrilla communication) is a tactic used by many anti-consumerist social movements to disrupt or subvert media culture and its mainstream cultural institutions, including corporate advertising. It attempts to "expose the methods of domination" of a mass society to foster progressive change. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_jamming
October 28, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word timber mafia
Timber mafia refers to organized crime in the field of illegal logging in timber. Not to be confused with lumber cartel.
October 28, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word Anonymous Christian
Anonymous Christian is the controversial notion introduced by the Jesuit theologian Karl Rahner (1904–1984) that declares that people who have never heard the Christian Gospel might be saved through Christ. Non-Christians could have "in their basic orientation and fundamental decision," Rahner wrote, "accepted the salvific grace of God, through Christ, although they may never have heard of the Christian revelation.
October 28, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word black dog syndrome
Black dog syndrome or big black dog syndrome is a phenomenon in which black dogs are passed over for adoption in favor of lighter-colored animals. Animal shelters often use the term BBD, or big black dog, to describe the type of larger dark-colored mixed-breed said to be typically passed over by adopters. Black cats suffer the same problem in shelters, being passed over for adoption in favor of other coat colors.
October 28, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word titman
A titman in the 19th century could mean a small or stunted person, as Henry David Thoreau indicates when he calls his generation “a race of tit-men.”
October 28, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word double obelus
double obelus rolls off the tongue much nicer than double dagger.
October 27, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word eyeleteers
Wow. eeeee.
October 24, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word ookpik
My new favorite word.
October 23, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word caste
Example: nasutus: One of a caste of termites in which the head is prolonged into a point like a long nose. A duct opens at the extremity of the point and from it issues a fluid used as a cement in. constructing the nest.
October 16, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word caste
In entomology, any one of the distinct forms found among the polymorphic social insects, especially the true ants and the white ants or termites.
October 16, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word Smith Volcano
Smith Volcano, also known as Mount Babuyan, is a cinder cone on Babuyan Island, the northernmost of the Babuyan group of islands on Luzon Strait, north of the main island of Luzon in the Philippines. The mountain is one of the active volcanoes in the Philippines, which last erupted in 1924.
October 16, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word Smith Act
A 1940 United States federal statute that set criminal penalties for advocating the overthrow of the U.S. government.
October 16, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word colorway
A new term for me. Some sample sentences:
Nike's Air Max line of running shoes is a prime example in which a single model of a shoe is often produced for years, but the color and material combination ( " colorway " ) is changed every few months, or different colorways are offered in different markets.
Yarn with multiple shades of the same hue are called " omber ", while a yarn with multiple hues may be known as a given " colorway " a green, red and yellow yarn might be dubbed the " Parrot Colorway " by its manufacturer, for example . " Heathered " yarns contain small amounts of fiber of different colors, while " tweed " yarns may have greater amounts of different colored fibers.
The firm made wallpaper by block printing, where blocks of wood are carved and printed for each colorway of a design, and fabrics were produced using the indigo-discharge dyeing method, where cloth is stained a deep indigo, then designs are bleached out so that they can be dyed other colors.
October 16, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word intactivists
Anti-circumcision activists.
October 12, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the user wesleybrandon
But I want to pay the registration fee! I demand the opportunity to pay the registration fee in order to be initiated into the Illuminati ScamHood. Why are you depriving me of this great opportunity, wesleybrandon? I have money to burn and a hole in my pocket.
I am not interested in owning a Lamborghini, though. I'd love an adult tricycle instead (yellow and with a basket.)
TESTIMONY! TESTIMONY!! TESTIMONY!!!
October 11, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word quillow
Often sold in small country stores run by Amish or Mennonite communities.
October 9, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the list the-yokes-on-you-7mgeGbMIVSvw
yokefellow, yokemate, yoke bone, yoke elm, yoke-footed, yokelry, yoke riveter.
October 6, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word trenchcoater
See raincoater.
October 6, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word looer
noun A hatters' brushing-pad.
October 5, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word coordinated inauthentic behavior
Coordinated inauthentic behavior is a Facebook cybersecurity term defined as “when groups of pages or people work together to mislead others about who they are or what they’re doing.”
October 5, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word selection bias
See survivorship bias.
September 29, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word survivorship bias
The logical error of concentrating on the people or things that made it past some selection process and then overlooking those that did not, typically because of their lack of visibility. This can lead to false conclusions in several different ways. It is a form of selection bias.
September 29, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the user 3041244
It seems me more handy than others, too -- except when it not handy, in such cases it less or not more handy.
September 29, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word Jollywood
Refers to the film industry of the state of Assam in India. The industry was born in 1935 when Jyoti Prasad Agarwala released his movie "Joymoti".
September 29, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word Mollywood
Refers to the Malayalam film industry based in the state of Kerala, India.
September 29, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word Kaliwood
Refers to the Nepali film industry based in Kathmandu, Nepal.
September 29, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word Follywood
Refers to the film industry of Sri Lanka.
September 29, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word Dhaliwood
refers to the Bangladeshi film industry (based in the city of Dhaka, Bangladesh.) See also Dhallywood.
September 29, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word Dhallywood
Refers to the Bangladeshi film industry (based in the city of Dhaka, Bangladesh.) See also Dhaliwood.
September 29, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word Lollywood
More specifically refers to the Punjabi films of Pakistan based in Lahore, Pakistan.
September 29, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word Pollywood
1. The cinema of Punjab, India.
2. The Pashto language movie industry in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
September 29, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word Wellywood
Wellywood is an informal name for the city of Wellington, New Zealand. The name—a conflation of Wellington and Hollywood—is a reference to the film production business established in the city.
September 29, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word snare wire art
The snares collected by the anti-poaching units of (PaintedDog.org) who turn them into animal sculptures. Through sales of these snares and other crafts they spread the conversation message of the painted dogs both to their own community and internationally.
September 11, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word pooer
Combining the definitions above: A poor person that poops.
September 10, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word Scheele's Green
Scheele's Green was used as a color for paper, e.g. for wallpapers and paper hangings, and in paints, wax candles, and even on some children's toys. It was also used to dye cotton and linen.
Despite evidence of its high toxicity, Scheele's Green was also used as a food dye for sweets such as green blancmange, a fondness of traders in 19th-century Greenock; this led to a long-standing Scottish prejudice against green sweets.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheele%27s_Green
September 10, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word poison dress
"The Poison Dress", or "Embalmed Alive" features a dress that has in some way been poisoned.
Also contributing to the poison-dress theme is the prevalence of smallpox-contaminated blankets, which were given to native Americans.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poison_dress
September 7, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word harm reduction
"Harm reduction refers to policies, programmes and practices that aim to minimise negative health, social and legal impacts associated with drug use, drug policies and drug laws. Harm reduction is grounded in justice and human rights - it focuses on positive change and on working with people without judgement, coercion, discrimination, or requiring that they stop using drugs as a precondition of support.
Harm reduction encompasses a range of health and social services and practices that apply to illicit and licit drugs. These include, but are not limited to, drug consumption rooms, needle and syringe programmes, non-abstinence-based housing and employment initiatives, drug checking, overdose prevention and reversal, psychosocial support, and the provision of information on safer drug use. Approaches such as these are cost-effective, evidence-based and have a positive impact on individual and community health."
https://www.hri.global/what-is-harm-reduction
September 2, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word pailer
NIce! Thanks.
August 29, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word green vitriol
I thought it might be jealousy (green-eyed monster) with a hint of cruelty added.
August 28, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word pailer
A straw bed? Not the definition I expected. I assumed it meant someone who empties a pail.
August 28, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word flancard
See flanchard.
August 27, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word flancard
OK. I found this one: https://www.wordnik.com/lists/medieval-horse-related-words-listed-by-a-non-horse-knowledgeable-person.
August 27, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word flancard
Is there no list pertaining to armory or knights, etc?
August 27, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word tanguin
This reminds me of the Medieval dunking ordeal to find out if a woman is a witch. If she drowns and dies, she's innocent. In this case, vomiting poison determines your innocence... but it could STILL kill you in the process. See tanghin.
August 27, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word lunky
Lunky and lanky sound like their meanings.
August 27, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word thankyouverymuch
I like this version because it emphasizes the speed spoken and its informality. I'm not a fan of tysm, for example.
August 27, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word glitch poetry
Glitch poetry is the practice of introducing orthographic anomalies in poems.
https://medium.com/@massimo.franceschet/glitch-poetry-75e2247bfc43
August 27, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word orthosilicic
Good find, alexz.
August 26, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word orthosilicic
A word used only in the following phrase. That's the definition of orthosilicic?
August 25, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word Missouri French
Today the dialect is highly endangered, with only a few elderly native speakers. It is thought that any remaining speakers live in or around Old Mines, Missouri.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri_French
August 24, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the list 43
Why is this named 43? Trump is, sadly, the 45th POTUS.
August 24, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word ustilaginales
Which is worse... being parasitic fungi or belonging to the smut family?
August 17, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word tadago-pie
At first glance, I thought I read tadpole pie.
August 17, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word jean dimmock
Hey, what happened to my list (created under a different user identity): https://www.wordnik.com/lists/wordniks-who-proudly-contribute-worthless-stuff--a-lot-of-dumb-comments--and-useless-words-to-the-zeitgeist-page
August 14, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word nikword dot com
A message popped up warning me that I was being directed to the site above for possibly nefarious reasons.
August 14, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word xeriscaping
Grouping plants with similar watering requirements together on a landscape.
August 3, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word hardscaping
Hardscape refers to hard landscape materials in the built environment structures that are incorporated into a landscape. This can include paved areas, driveways, retaining walls, sleeper walls, stairs, walkways, and any other landscaping made up of hard-wearing materials such as wood, stone, and concrete, as opposed to softscape, the horticultural elements of a landscape.
August 3, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word axillary falcon
Axillary Falcon - This bird has also been identified as a black-shouldered kite, Elanus notatus.
June 15, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word laicized
In the canon law of the Catholic Church, the loss of the clerical state (commonly referred to as laicization or laicisation) is the removal of a bishop, priest or deacon from the status of being a member of the clergy.
June 15, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word thought leaders
"Lists like this one arm citizens and thought leaders with the data to “help make important business and life decisions.”
June 12, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word nickel thrower
I'm still unclear on the meaning. Is being happy, dressed in black, and wearing rubber tips on one's fingers the only criteria for being a nickel thrower?
June 11, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word loogan
Loogan (sometimes spelled loogin or lugan, according to the Historical Dictionary of American Slang) is no longer used to mean “a minor hoodlum,” though hood, recorded by Kendall, is still used to mean “a petty gangster.”
I found LOOGAN in Jamieson’s Scottish Dictionary of 1825 with a definition of “a rogue” and in a couple of prison slang lists online meaning “mentally ill prisoner."
May 31, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word horseapple
See also osage orange.
May 15, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word horseapple
My regional vocabulary refers to a horseapple as a hedgeapple. A horseapple sounds more interesting.
May 15, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the list firearm-terms
receiver: In portable breech-loading firearms, the steel frame screwed to the breech end of the barrel, which receives the bolt or block, gives means of securing for firing, facilitates loading, and holds the ejector, cut-off, etc.
May 10, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the list firearm-terms
mustard-seed: A very fine kind of shot used by ornithologists and taxidermists for shooting birds with least injury to the plumage; dust-shot. The name includes No. 10 shot and finer numbers.
May 10, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word cowboy shot
I'm content adding to hernesheir's list, if I'm lucky enough to find other words to add. Hernesheir is a creative and masterful listmaker.
May 10, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word cowboy shot
Is there a film/cinematography list? If so, this term is missing from it.
May 9, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word threat actor
Hey back, Tom.
May 9, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word threat actor
Also known a a hacktivist or ecoteur.
.May 7, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word snitty
"He decided to cast her in The Last Picture Show as Jacy, a spoiled, snitty, small town high school heartbreaker."
— Lloyd Shearer, The Hartford Courant (Hartford, CT), 16 Jul. 1972
May 4, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word lungeous
Ill-tempered; rough and violent.
May 4, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word purdy
Disagreeably self-important.
May 4, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word snitty
Disagreeably ill-tempered.
May 4, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word bottom surgery
A type of gender confirmation surgery in which a person's genitalia are altered to match their gender identity.
May 4, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word top surgery
A type of gender confirmation surgery in which a person's breasts are removed or augmented to match their gender identity.
May 4, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word go-cup
A plastic or paper cup used especially for taking a beverage off the premises of a bar, restaurant, etc.
May 4, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word garbage time
The final moments or minutes of a game in which one side has an insurmountable lead.
May 4, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word Goldilocks
An area of planetary orbit in which temperatures are neither too hot nor too cold to support life.
May 4, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word owlbino
an albino owl
April 27, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word leech house
Leech houses were used to store the worms—often in special containers of moist earth—and keep them alive and fresh until they were needed by druggists or doctors.
The UK's last-standing leech house: http://mentalfloss.com/article/518390/uks-last-standing-leech-house
March 7, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word red handfish
The rare red handfish from Tasmania doesn't really swim—it just walks slowly along the sea floor.
March 3, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word malternatives
Noun. malternative (plural malternatives) An alcoholic beverage, an alternative to beer, that contains some malt alcohol and may contain other types of alcohol.
February 18, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word malterative
Noun. malternative (plural malternatives) An alcoholic beverage, an alternative to beer, that contains some malt alcohol and may contain other types of alcohol.
February 18, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word social echo
PR Newswire coined the term “Social Echo” to describe “the powerful reverberation around brands that occurs through the millions of conversations in the social networks and communities where people gather today.”
In PR Newswire’s view, “A brand’s Social Echo has enormous power to shape reputation, influence mass opinion and drive growth. Social Echo has equal – and perhaps even greater – power to stop a brand dead in its tracks.”
They go on to say that…
“Marketers and communicators who understand this are actively engaged in listening to their Social Echo and in finding ways to participate in the conversations that comprise their Social Echo. Importantly, they are also gleaning real-time insights to apply back to their brands in every area – customer care, product development, brand positioning and messaging, innovation and more.
Read more at https://www.business2community.com/social-media/how-is-your-social-echo-0453783
January 2, 2019
vendingmachine commented on the word Bilby
"An obscure hymn-writer, whose verses have been sung in all parts of the world, was Thomas Bilby, parish clerk of St. Mary's Church, Islington, between the years 1842 and 1872. He was the parish schoolmaster also, and thus maintained the traditions of his office handed down from mediæval times. Before the days of School Boards it was not unusual for the clerk to teach the children of the working classes the three R's and religious knowledge, charging a fee of twopence per week for each child. "
December 20, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word Bilby
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Bilby
December 19, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word dugdug
See nangka (In Guam, Artocarpus communis) and langka (In the Philippine Islands, Artocarpus integrifolia).
December 17, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word milkshake duck
Thanks for the reverso story, sionnach.
November 6, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word milkshake duck
A person or character on social media that appears to be endearing at first, but is found to have an unappealing backstory.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milkshake_Duck
November 4, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word choreopoem
An interwoven series of poetic monologues set to music.
Coined by Ntozake Shange, author of "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf," 1975.
October 31, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word intimacy coordinator
(The intimacy coordinator) will intervene in small but important ways, like giving a performer something to cover their private parts, knee pads, mouth spray or flavored lubricant, etc.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hbo-hires-intimacy-coordinator-sex-scenes_us_5bd35c64e4b0a8f17ef7690e
October 29, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word gaslight
v. To manipulate someone psychologically such that they question their own sanity.
(I've watched the movie several times so this meaning is, uh, MEANINGFUL!)
October 18, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the list occupations-grouped-together-with-chicken-sexer-by-careers-org
Fun list.
October 18, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word letterboxing
n. An outdoor hobby in which participants attempt to locate small boxes hidden in public places.
When was this a thing?! Imagine finding a small box with a little, baby bilby inside.
October 18, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word tsundoku
Tsundoku (Japanese: 積ん読) is acquiring reading materials but letting them pile up in one's home without reading them.
The term originated in the Meiji era (1868–1912) as Japanese slang. It combines elements of tsunde-oku (積んでおく, to pile things up ready for later and leave) and dokusho (読書, reading books). It is also used to refer to books ready for reading later when they are on a bookshelf. As currently written, the word combines the characters for "pile up" (積) and the character for "read" (読).
October 15, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word whataboutism
Suggesting that two wrongs equal a right. For example, suggesting that a particular CEO can mislead shareholders because some other CEO mislead shareholders even more.
October 15, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word false equivalence
A logical fallacy in which two completely opposing arguments appear to be logically equivalent when in fact they are not. This fallacy is categorized as a fallacy of inconsistency.
False equivalence arguments are often used in journalism and in politics, where the minor flaws of one candidate may be compared to major flaws of another.
October 15, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word miscarriage
“ 'Mis-carriage,' in an insidious way, suggests fault for the mother - as if she dropped something, or failed to 'carry.' ”
Using the hashtags #WeNeedANewName and #MoreCommonThanYouHearAbout, Vmiscarriage happens far more frequently than some might think and that, ultimately, changing its name might help conversations about miscarriage flow more freely, as couples will no longer feel like they're being judged for the biological event over which they have little to no control.
'"So many women feel shame about losing a baby even though there is nothing shameful about it. But nevertheless, this often stops them from talking openly about their loss..."
Any suggestions for a new term? Leave suggestion(s) at hashtags above.
October 14, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word racial balancing
"Asian Americans argue that racial considerations have made them a victim of their own academic success. They tend to get better grades and score higher on standardized tests than other races but claim they are frequently rejected as a result of “racial balancing,” which is akin to racial quotas and has been ruled unconstitutional."
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-harvard-asians-affirmative-action-2018-story.html
October 13, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word hello
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October 13, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word bumbubúi
Icelandic terms of endearment
Icelandic words that used with partners, children and other loved ones.
Key to abbreviations: >m = said to males, >f = said to females.
kærasti = Darling, loved one (>m), boyfriend.
kærasta = Darling, loved one (>f), girlfriend
ástvinur = Darling, beloved (“love friend”)
sæti (>m), sæta (>f) = Sweetie, cutie
elskan (mín) = My love, my darling
ástin (mín) = My love, my darling
krútt (mitt) = Sweetie, cutie (used for children, animals, and between lovers)
krúttið (mitt) = Sweetie, cutie, honey
dúlla(n) (mín) = Sweetie (often used by girls for friends)
elsku dúllan mín = My dear sweetie
yndið mítt = My sweetie
bumbubúi = "belly dweller" (used for an unborn baby)
October 12, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word yndið mítt
Icelandic terms of endearment
Icelandic words that used with partners, children and other loved ones.
Key to abbreviations: >m = said to males, >f = said to females.
kærasti = Darling, loved one (>m), boyfriend.
kærasta = Darling, loved one (>f), girlfriend
ástvinur = Darling, beloved (“love friend”)
sæti (>m), sæta (>f) = Sweetie, cutie
elskan (mín) = My love, my darling
ástin (mín) = My love, my darling
krútt (mitt) = Sweetie, cutie (used for children, animals, and between lovers)
krúttið (mitt) = Sweetie, cutie, honey
dúlla(n) (mín) = Sweetie (often used by girls for friends)
elsku dúllan mín = My dear sweetie
yndið mítt = My sweetie
bumbubúi = "belly dweller" (used for an unborn baby)
October 12, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word elsku dúllan mín
Icelandic terms of endearment
Icelandic words that used with partners, children and other loved ones.
Key to abbreviations: >m = said to males, >f = said to females.
kærasti = Darling, loved one (>m), boyfriend.
kærasta = Darling, loved one (>f), girlfriend
ástvinur = Darling, beloved (“love friend”)
sæti (>m), sæta (>f) = Sweetie, cutie
elskan (mín) = My love, my darling
ástin (mín) = My love, my darling
krútt (mitt) = Sweetie, cutie (used for children, animals, and between lovers)
krúttið (mitt) = Sweetie, cutie, honey
dúlla(n) (mín) = Sweetie (often used by girls for friends)
elsku dúllan mín = My dear sweetie
yndið mítt = My sweetie
bumbubúi = "belly dweller" (used for an unborn baby)
October 12, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word dúlla
Icelandic terms of endearment
Icelandic words that used with partners, children and other loved ones.
Key to abbreviations: >m = said to males, >f = said to females.
kærasti = Darling, loved one (>m), boyfriend.
kærasta = Darling, loved one (>f), girlfriend
ástvinur = Darling, beloved (“love friend”)
sæti (>m), sæta (>f) = Sweetie, cutie
elskan (mín) = My love, my darling
ástin (mín) = My love, my darling
krútt (mitt) = Sweetie, cutie (used for children, animals, and between lovers)
krúttið (mitt) = Sweetie, cutie, honey
dúlla(n) (mín) = Sweetie (often used by girls for friends)
elsku dúllan mín = My dear sweetie
yndið mítt = My sweetie
bumbubúi = "belly dweller" (used for an unborn baby)
October 12, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word krúttið
Icelandic terms of endearment
Icelandic words that used with partners, children and other loved ones.
Key to abbreviations: >m = said to males, >f = said to females.
kærasti = Darling, loved one (>m), boyfriend.
kærasta = Darling, loved one (>f), girlfriend
ástvinur = Darling, beloved (“love friend”)
sæti (>m), sæta (>f) = Sweetie, cutie
elskan (mín) = My love, my darling
ástin (mín) = My love, my darling
krútt (mitt) = Sweetie, cutie (used for children, animals, and between lovers)
krúttið (mitt) = Sweetie, cutie, honey
dúlla(n) (mín) = Sweetie (often used by girls for friends)
elsku dúllan mín = My dear sweetie
yndið mítt = My sweetie
bumbubúi = "belly dweller" (used for an unborn baby)
October 12, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word krútt
Icelandic terms of endearment
Icelandic words that used with partners, children and other loved ones.
Key to abbreviations: >m = said to males, >f = said to females.
kærasti = Darling, loved one (>m), boyfriend.
kærasta = Darling, loved one (>f), girlfriend
ástvinur = Darling, beloved (“love friend”)
sæti (>m), sæta (>f) = Sweetie, cutie
elskan (mín) = My love, my darling
ástin (mín) = My love, my darling
krútt (mitt) = Sweetie, cutie (used for children, animals, and between lovers)
krúttið (mitt) = Sweetie, cutie, honey
dúlla(n) (mín) = Sweetie (often used by girls for friends)
elsku dúllan mín = My dear sweetie
yndið mítt = My sweetie
bumbubúi = "belly dweller" (used for an unborn baby)
October 12, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word ástin
celandic terms of endearment
Icelandic words that used with partners, children and other loved ones.
Key to abbreviations: >m = said to males, >f = said to females.
kærasti = Darling, loved one (>m), boyfriend.
kærasta = Darling, loved one (>f), girlfriend
ástvinur = Darling, beloved (“love friend”)
sæti (>m), sæta (>f) = Sweetie, cutie
elskan (mín) = My love, my darling
ástin (mín) = My love, my darling
krútt (mitt) = Sweetie, cutie (used for children, animals, and between lovers)
krúttið (mitt) = Sweetie, cutie, honey
dúlla(n) (mín) = Sweetie (often used by girls for friends)
elsku dúllan mín = My dear sweetie
yndið mítt = My sweetie
bumbubúi = "belly dweller" (used for an unborn baby)
October 12, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word elskan
celandic terms of endearment
Icelandic words that used with partners, children and other loved ones.
Key to abbreviations: >m = said to males, >f = said to females.
kærasti = Darling, loved one (>m), boyfriend.
kærasta = Darling, loved one (>f), girlfriend
ástvinur = Darling, beloved (“love friend”)
sæti (>m), sæta (>f) = Sweetie, cutie
elskan (mín) = My love, my darling
ástin (mín) = My love, my darling
krútt (mitt) = Sweetie, cutie (used for children, animals, and between lovers)
krúttið (mitt) = Sweetie, cutie, honey
dúlla(n) (mín) = Sweetie (often used by girls for friends)
elsku dúllan mín = My dear sweetie
yndið mítt = My sweetie
bumbubúi = "belly dweller" (used for an unborn baby)
October 12, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word sæti
celandic terms of endearment
Icelandic words that used with partners, children and other loved ones.
Key to abbreviations: >m = said to males, >f = said to females.
kærasti = Darling, loved one (>m), boyfriend.
kærasta = Darling, loved one (>f), girlfriend
ástvinur = Darling, beloved (“love friend”)
sæti (>m), sæta (>f) = Sweetie, cutie
elskan (mín) = My love, my darling
ástin (mín) = My love, my darling
krútt (mitt) = Sweetie, cutie (used for children, animals, and between lovers)
krúttið (mitt) = Sweetie, cutie, honey
dúlla(n) (mín) = Sweetie (often used by girls for friends)
elsku dúllan mín = My dear sweetie
yndið mítt = My sweetie
bumbubúi = "belly dweller" (used for an unborn baby)
October 12, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word ástvinur
celandic terms of endearment
Icelandic words that used with partners, children and other loved ones.
Key to abbreviations: >m = said to males, >f = said to females.
kærasti = Darling, loved one (>m), boyfriend.
kærasta = Darling, loved one (>f), girlfriend
ástvinur = Darling, beloved (“love friend”)
sæti (>m), sæta (>f) = Sweetie, cutie
elskan (mín) = My love, my darling
ástin (mín) = My love, my darling
krútt (mitt) = Sweetie, cutie (used for children, animals, and between lovers)
krúttið (mitt) = Sweetie, cutie, honey
dúlla(n) (mín) = Sweetie (often used by girls for friends)
elsku dúllan mín = My dear sweetie
yndið mítt = My sweetie
bumbubúi = "belly dweller" (used for an unborn baby)
October 12, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word kærasta
celandic terms of endearment
Icelandic words that used with partners, children and other loved ones.
Key to abbreviations: >m = said to males, >f = said to females.
kærasti = Darling, loved one (>m), boyfriend.
kærasta = Darling, loved one (>f), girlfriend
ástvinur = Darling, beloved (“love friend”)
sæti (>m), sæta (>f) = Sweetie, cutie
elskan (mín) = My love, my darling
ástin (mín) = My love, my darling
krútt (mitt) = Sweetie, cutie (used for children, animals, and between lovers)
krúttið (mitt) = Sweetie, cutie, honey
dúlla(n) (mín) = Sweetie (often used by girls for friends)
elsku dúllan mín = My dear sweetie
yndið mítt = My sweetie
bumbubúi = "belly dweller" (used for an unborn baby)
October 12, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word kærasti
celandic terms of endearment
Icelandic words that used with partners, children and other loved ones.
Key to abbreviations: >m = said to males, >f = said to females.
kærasti = Darling, loved one (>m), boyfriend.
kærasta = Darling, loved one (>f), girlfriend
ástvinur = Darling, beloved (“love friend”)
sæti (>m), sæta (>f) = Sweetie, cutie
elskan (mín) = My love, my darling
ástin (mín) = My love, my darling
krútt (mitt) = Sweetie, cutie (used for children, animals, and between lovers)
krúttið (mitt) = Sweetie, cutie, honey
dúlla(n) (mín) = Sweetie (often used by girls for friends)
elsku dúllan mín = My dear sweetie
yndið mítt = My sweetie
bumbubúi = "belly dweller" (used for an unborn baby)
October 12, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word sayang
A term used to express endearment and affection in Indonesian. It can be equated to 'dear’, 'darling’ or 'sweetheart’ when referring to a person.
October 12, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word sirsniņa
In Latvian, your favorite person is your sirds puķīte, a.k.a. “the little flower of your heart.” Another endearment for a loved one is sirsniņa: “little heart” (this is a noun with a feminine ending) or sometimes just sirds.
October 12, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word sirds puķīte
The person you love most is described in English as “the apple of your eye.” The phrase originates in Old English and means the pupil of the eye, which reflects the image of the one you’re looking at. In Latvian, your favorite person is your sirds puķīte, a.k.a. “the little flower of your heart.” Another endearment for a loved one is sirsniņa: “little heart” (this is a noun with a feminine ending) or sometimes just sirds.
October 12, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word sirdsdraugs
In Latvian, your closest friend is your sirdsdraugs or “the friend of your heart.”
October 12, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the list blooms--2
Bloom syydrome (sp?). Who knew that a little chocolate bloom would inspire our dearest ru with a list. Good job.
October 12, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word sugar bloom
Chocolate bloom refers two types of whitish coating that can appear on the surface of chocolate: fat bloom, caused by changes in the fat crystals in the chocolate; and sugar bloom, due to crystals formed by the action of moisture on the sugar. Chocolate that has "bloomed" remains edible but may have an unappetizing appearance and texture.
October 9, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word fat bloom
Chocolate bloom refers two types of whitish coating that can appear on the surface of chocolate: fat bloom, caused by changes in the fat crystals in the chocolate; and sugar bloom, due to crystals formed by the action of moisture on the sugar. Chocolate that has "bloomed" remains edible but may have an unappetizing appearance and texture.
October 9, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word chocolate bloom
Chocolate bloom refers to two types of whitish coating that appear on the surface of chocolate: fat bloom, caused by changes in the fat crystals in the chocolate; and sugar bloom, due to crystals formed by the action of moisture on the sugar. Chocolate that has "bloomed" remains edible but may have an unappetizing appearance and texture.
October 9, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word sizzle reel
A sample of a film's concept or highlights; a prototype.
October 2, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word final girl
TV trope. The last character left alive to confront the killer. The character is almost ALWAYS female, a virgin, fully clothed, avoids death by sex, doesn't drink, smoke or take drugs.
The term was coined by Carol J. Colver in her 1992 book, Men, Women, And Chain Saws: Gender In The Modern Horror Film.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FinalGirl
September 25, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word expoodles
Twitter: Autocorrect just changed the word “explodes” to “expoodles”. Saw it do it with my own eyes. Is that even a WORD??
September 22, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word adynaton
For ruzuzu:
Kad pūcei aste ziedēs ("When an owl's tail blooms")
September 21, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word ponies
The Popular Theatre by George Jean Nathan (1918)
"I drank two cocktails, three glasses of sherry, a quart of champagne and several ponies of Cointreau. The show seemed to get better and better as it went ...
September 21, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word cointer
British verb (transitive) to bury together
September 21, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word twinter
dialectal, British
: a sheep, ox, or horse that has lived through two winters.
September 21, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word tripple
chiefly southern Africa
: a gait in which the horse moves both near and both off legs alternately and which somewhat resembles the amble
September 21, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word dumbsize
To reduce the staff numbers of a company to such low levels that work can no longer be carried out effectively.
September 21, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word psychogeography
"The term psychogeography was invented by the Marxist theorist Guy Debord in 1955. Inspired by the French nineteenth-century poet and writer Charles Baudelaire’s concept of the flâneur – an urban wanderer – Debord suggested playful and inventive ways of navigating the urban environment in order to examine its architecture and spaces.
Psychogeography gained popularity in the 1990s when artists, writers, and filmmakers such as Iain Sinclair and Patrick Keiller began using the idea to create works based on exploring locations by walking."
-https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/p/psychogeography
September 21, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word Kripos
An elite unit of the Norwegian police that investigates organized crime and missing persons, for example. They have specialized technical and forensic expertise. They are currently investigating the disappearance of Arjen Kamphuis, a Dutch cybersecurity expert for Wikileaks. "Arjen Kamphuis is a Digital Self Defence professional. Every day he helps people keep their secrets safe in the digital world. He has seen firsthand how government-funded spying, hacking and security programs fall into the wrong hands and cause more harm than good. He argues that it is time we all start keeping ourselves safe by taking responsibility for our own digital defenses and letting go of the idea that we’re just not smart enough to adapt."
September 20, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word pointlessly gendered products
https://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2014/03/15/new-in-pointlessly-gendered-products/
Men's Bread, Fairy Hearts Turkey Pork Sausage, boys walking rein and harness (blue), girls walking rein and harness (pink), pet shampoo (for him, for her).
Pinterest collection: https://www.pinterest.com/socimages/pointlessly-gendered-products/
lip balm engineered for men, water for men, etc.
September 20, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word cultural tropes
cultural tropes (like pointlessly gendered products)
September 20, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word civil religion
"In 1966, the late sociologist Robert Bellah presented a now-classic essay, “Civil Religion in America.” The essay is about religion in public life, and how American politicians created a sense of shared national identity around general religious claims. Since then, sociologists and political theorists have argued about how inclusive civil religion really is (Does it include atheists or other minority groups who aren’t Christian? Lots of Americans don’t seem to think so.), but the theory is useful for highlighting how much of American political life takes on a religious tone."
--https://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2018/07/
September 20, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word selfish technology
"The ad blocker should not be seen as a selfish technology. It is a socialist cudgel—something that forces otherwise lazy capitalists to find new and inventive ways to make their creations sustainable. Ad blockers are one of the few tools users have to fight against the need to monetize fast and big because it troubles the predictability of readily traceable attention."
--https://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2015/09/23/full-communism-is-the-ultimate-ad-blocker/
September 20, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word cultural capital
"Based on observations of three technology-rich Bay Area middle schools, Rafalow examined whether the skills students develop through digital play are considered cultural capital — skills, habits, and dispositions that that can be traded for success in school and work."
--https://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2018/09/12/schools-selective-screening/
September 20, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word memory politics
Jenny Edkins (Trauma and memory politics) explores how we remember traumatic events such as wars, famines, genocides and terrorism. She argues that remembrance does not have to be nationalistic but can instead challenge the political systems that produced the violence. Using examples from the World Wars, Vietnam, the Holocaust, Kosovo and September 11th, Edkins analyzes the practices of memory rituals through memorials, museums and remembrance ceremonies. This wide-ranging study embraces literature, history, politics and international relations, in an original contribution to the study of memory.
September 20, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word memory politics
"Ukraine’s memory politics do not exclude women entirely. In 2016, the UINM chose to focus on women when commemorating the anniversary of the end of the Second World War. The title of the institute’s project was “War makes no exceptions. Female history of the Second World War”. The intention to focus on women’s experiences in order to “reveal the criminal nature of war” seems admirable. But the 12 stories of both military and civilian women chosen by the UINM simply replicate a male pantheon rather than challenge the very tradition of glorifying the war through its heroes. The difference is that the male heroes are celebrated every year, whereas the female figures only once in a while, as part of a special project."
--What place for women in Ukraine's memory politics? https://www.opendemocracy.net/od-russia/olesya-khromeychuk/what-place-for-women-in-ukraine-s-memory-politics
September 20, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word corrective rape
Such laws, however, do not have to pass to have a chilling effect. In 2014, I met Kyrgyz LGBTQI organisation Labrys, who said that lesbians and trans men already faced corrective rape, and gay men and trans women were often beaten and sometimes killed. Such attacks have since intensified. Soon after I went back to London, Labrys shut down their Facebook page, and had to sell the house where I first met them after it was subjected to an arson attack in 2015. They resurfaced last year, and in March I returned to Bishkek to meet a new generation of activists who, amidst the confusion and hostility, are fighting to make Kyrgyzstan more open to diversity of gender and sexuality.
--https://www.opendemocracy.net/od-russia/juliet-jacques/fear-and-loathing-in-kyrgyzstan
September 20, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov
At the Pasteur Institute in Paris Mechnikov was engaged in work associated with the establishment of his theory of cellular immunity, which, like many great advances in science, encountered considerable hostility. He published, during this period, several papers and two volumes on the comparative pathology of inflammation (1892), and his treatise entitled L’Immunité dans les Maladies Infectieuses (Immunity in infectious diseases, 1901). In 1908 he was awarded, together with Paul Ehrlich, the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.
He coined the word gerontology in 1903.
September 15, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word gerontology
Gerontology is the study of the social, cultural, psychological, cognitive, and biological aspects of aging. The word was coined by Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov in 1903. The field is distinguished from geriatrics, which is the branch of medicine that specializes in the treatment of existing disease in older adults. Gerontologists include researchers and practitioners in the fields of biology, nursing, medicine, criminology, dentistry, social work, physical therapy, occupational therapy, psychology, psychiatry, sociology, economics, [political science, architecture, geography, pharmacy, public health, housing, and anthropology.
September 15, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word biogerontology
Biomedical gerontology, also known as experimental gerontology and life extension, is a sub-discipline of biogerontology that endeavors to slow, prevent, and even reverse aging in both humans and animals. Most "life extensionists" believe the human life span can be increased within the next century, if not sooner. biogerontologists vary in the degree to which they focus on the study of the aging process as a means of mitigating the diseases of aging or extending lifespan, although most agree that extension of lifespan will necessarily flow from reductions in age-related disease and frailty, although some argue that maximum life span cannot be altered or that it is undesirable to try. The area of geroscience is a recently formulated interdisciplinary field that embraces biomedical gerontology as the center of preventing diseases of aging through science emerging at the interface of the biology of aging and age-related disease.
September 14, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word sneaker waves
"...so-called sneaker waves sometimes claim lives of the unwary along the coast of the Pacific Northwest.
Tuba Ozkan-Haller, a wave researcher at Oregon State University, recommends that when people go to the beach in Northern California, Oregon and Washington state — which because of the nature of the coastline are susceptible to sneaker waves — they study the wave action and ensure escape routes aren’t blocked by rocks or cliffs."
September 12, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word involuntary suicide
= murder
September 11, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word wet diarrhea president
An odd insult found on Twitter:
"Wow #Uganda under the repulsive and primitive cow #Musevi is like a zoo...chei! Just like #Cameroon under our own piece of wet diarrhea president..."
Isn't diarrhea always wet? Is there such a thing as dry diarrhea?
September 11, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word calendering
The term “calendering” refers to any of several processes in which fabric is subjected to great pressure and/or heat, in a type of ironing using large rollers.
September 5, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word beetling
For the study and collection of beetles, see coleopterology.
Beetling is the pounding of linen or cotton fabric to give a flat, lustrous effect. The process by which fabrics, etc. are beetled, or beaten with a mallet. Within Ireland, beetling was first introduced by Hamilton Maxwell in 1725. Beetling is part of the finishing of the linen cloth. The hammering tightens the weave and gives the cloth a smooth feel. The process was gradually phased out, in lieu of calendering. A similarity is the compression; however, with calendering, the finish does not remain for the life of the cloth. This distinguishes it from beetling.
Beetling eyebrows are thick and stick out from the face: He glared at me under beetling brows.
September 5, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word nomophobia
A fear of being disconnected from social media in general.
September 2, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word mud volcano
Mud volcanoes occur when gases push hot water and dirt from deep in the ground up to the surface. https://twitter.com/ScienceAlert/status/1036068618805682176
September 2, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the list the-bees-knees-and-the-cats-pajamas
Make up your own!
1. the bilby's bilirubin
2. the walrus's wallet
3. the kiwi's coinpurse
ABC animals, http://www.skyenimals.com/alph_index.cgi?letter=A
September 1, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word play bow
"When a dog crouches forward with its elbows on the ground and its rear end in the air, wagging tail and all, that's a play bow. The position is the ultimate sign of playfulness, which is important for a species that often uses playtime as practice for attacking prey.
The play bow first evolved in canids as a form of communication. When a dog sees another dog it wants to play with, it extends its front paws forward and lifts up its behind as a visual invitation to engage in a friendly play session. Dogs will "bow" in the middle of playtime to show that they're having fun and wish to continue, or when a session has paused to signal they want to pick it back up. Play bows can also be a sort of apology: When the roughhousing gets too rough, a bow says, “I’m sorry I hurt you. Can we keep playing?' "
Mental Floss, http://mentalfloss.com/article/544112/why-do-dogs-crouch-forward-play-bow
September 1, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word enforced disappearance
Amnesty International on Thursday accused Nigeria's government of carrying out unlawful arrests and practicing "enforced disappearance" -- detention without trial -- to suppress dissent.
August 30, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word nation branding
"Countries are increasingly copying the marketing tactics that companies use to raise their profiles, and let people know that they are open for business. Welcome to the world of nation branding.
A strong country brand should encourage tourists, trading partners and investors all at once. But having a snazzy logo, and an advertising budget won't sell a product that people don't want."
The best way to improve a country's image is for it to contribute to the well-being of the world beyond its borders rather than spending money on advertising.
"If you really want to earn a better reputation, the best thing you can do is stop chasing after it."
August 30, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word nyongmato
Among the Ga, the people who are indigenous to Ghana's capital, Accra, a woman is entitled to a live sheep on the delivery of her 10th child. The word for it is "nyongmato".
August 30, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word chifforobe
The first time I heard this word I was watching "To Kill a Mockingbird".
Mayella Ewell in the movie "To Kill a Mockingbird" (1962): "I was sittin' on the porch, and he come along. Uh, there's this old chifforobe in the yard, and I-I said, 'You come in here, boy, and bust up this chifforobe, and I'll give you a nickel.'"
August 30, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the list glitched-definitions
Yes! This is the list I remember using.
August 30, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word Unscented
Thanks!
August 30, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word Unscented
I forgot who had the list of "problem" entries... alexz? madmouth?
August 29, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word butt dial
On Twitter: "Today I asked my class to come up with a pair of terms that share a denotative meaning but whose connotative meanings differ and one student offered BUTT DIAL and BOOTY CALL."
August 27, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word erinaceous
Erin is the perfect name for a pet hedgehog.
August 23, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word erinaceous
Lucky! Such a cute word, too.
August 23, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word fewmet
"I've met a few hunters who studied fewmet."
August 21, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the user heavenglows144
"pak" means pure in Urdu. Land of the pure.
August 20, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word Englishly
or, even better: Englishish.
August 20, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word MAGA Americans
"Make America Great Again" Americans (from Donald Trump's political slogan). As described on fivethirtyeight.com:
"Right Trolls behave like “bread-and-butter MAGA Americans, only all they do is talk about politics all day long.”
"Left Trolls often adopt the personae of Black Lives Matter activists, typically expressing support for Bernie Sanders and derision for Hillary Clinton, along with “clearly trying to divide the Democratic Party and lower voter turnout."
August 13, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word dermaesthetics
A different way to say hair transplantation. I found a doctor's practice listed as Advanced Dermatology and Dermaesthetics.
What is so advanced about a hair transplant?
August 7, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word grasshopper escapement
Sounds like a note brought to school as an excuse for something. "Dear Mrs. Frye: I couldn't finish my homework. We had a grasshopper escapement at home. You do believe me, don't you?'
July 31, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word shadow banning
Shadow banning isn't a new concept; it's frequently used in forums and on other social networks as an alternative to banning someone outright.
Instead of kicking someone off, shadow banning makes a person's post visible only to the user who created it. The idea is to protect others from harmful content while eventually prompting the shadow-banned user to voluntarily leave a forum due to a lack of engagement.
If a user is banned outright, the thinking goes, the person is aware of it and will likely just set up another account and continue the offending behavior.
Shadow banning is typically used to stop bots and trolls and is effective in combating bots where 'bot herders' who maintain these accounts don't necessarily know whether or not their bots are actually being seen by other people.
"Shadow banning: What it is -- and what it isn't", Alfred Ng, cnet.com, 26 July 2018
Also known as stealth banning, ghost banning or comment banning.
July 27, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word dolmens
dolmens: dolls for men (Stonehenge)
lichened dolmens = dolls for men covered with lichens.
July 27, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the list twitterbotlist
How does one add 110,098 words to a list? For me, and even if I managed to copy and paste hundreds or thousands of words, I'd still have to insert a semi-colon between those words. Is there a shortcut? An easier method I’m not using?
July 26, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word people-first language
People are not defined by their diseases. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People-first_language
July 25, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the list paper-and-papermaking
Is hieratica okay?
July 25, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word elephant dung
Here's the tree-free paper alternatives list. I tried before but I couldn't get my link to work, even with single curly braces. Okay, great. It works now.
July 25, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word casse paper
This word is looking for a forever list home about paper.
July 25, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word paper
I have a list called tree-free paper alternatives.
July 25, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the list non-dairy-beverages
qms: I'm looking for plant-based milks, so, yes, poppy milk qualifies. When I looked it up, I discovered that poppy milk (aguonų pienas) is a traditional Lithuanian drink or soup, one of the 12-dishes Christmas Eve Supper Kūčios. Usually, it is eaten together with kūčiukai, another traditional Lithuanian Christmas Eve dish. Thank you.
I will open this list with the understanding that only plant-based milks are added. Thank you.
July 25, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the list non-dairy-beverages
I've been on a silly quest to sample many of these "milks". Just yesterday, I tried macadamia milk. I doubt if I'll be able to even find any candlenut milk, but is does exist! I'm also particularly interested in trying some black walnut milk. Will it have the unique flavor of black walnuts?
BTW, the dairy industry is trying relentlessly to force manufacturers of these non-dairy products from using the word "milk" when marketing their products. They claim that milk comes from mammals, not plants. The non-dairy milk people insist this is not able semantics, but because their product is affecting the popularity of goat / cow milk.
July 25, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word elephant paper
I thought this was paper made from the feces of an elephant. and not just "big" paper. I've read about paper made from elephant, rhino, and other herbivores.
July 25, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word duck blur
A chaotic commotion of activity, often compared to a hurricane.
July 25, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word lebensmagnetismus
An invisible natural force possessed by all living and animate beings (humans, animals, fruits, vegetables).
July 22, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word bling coffee
Trendy overpriced coffee.
July 22, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word splogs
Spam weblogs that steal content from other sites in order to appear legitimate. Also known as an adfarm.
July 13, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word fist-law
Good old fist-law, the code of brute force. See also club-law.
July 13, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word bilby
Among the list of Random Adoptions on Wordnik:
bilby was adopted by Royal Secret Society of Bilbies
July 7, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word 12 o'clock flasher
A person who is unwilling or unable to learn how to use all but the most basic functions of the electronic appliances he or she possesses.
July 7, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word 90-minute bigot
Scottish. A football fan, esp of Rangers FC or Celtic FC, who exhibits religious bigotry at matches but does not consider him- or herself to be bigoted outside a football context.
July 7, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word zeuglodont
Any of a group of extinct carnivorous whales known as Phocodontia or Zeuglodonta.
July 7, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word zeroth
Denoting a term in a series that precedes the term otherwise regarded as the first term.
July 7, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word zex
A tool for cutting roof slate.
July 7, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word cock-a-leekie soup
Scottish. A soup made from a fowl boiled with leeks.
July 7, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word scolopendrine
Pertaining to any centipede of the family Scolopendridae, including some large and poisonous species.
July 7, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word smaragdine
Any green gemstone, such as the emerald.
July 7, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word sourdeline
A type of bagpipe.
July 7, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word tragelaphine
Of or relating to a tragelaph.
July 7, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word vincristine
An alkaloid, C46H56N4O10·H2SO4, obtained from the leaves of a periwinkle (Vinca rosea) and used as a drug in the treatment of leukemia.
July 7, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word vomerine
Pertaining to the thin flat bone forming part of the separation between the nasal passages in mammals.
July 7, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word zibeline
A soft lustrous wool fabric with mohair, alpaca, or camel's hair.
July 7, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word zygaenine
pertaining to a family of moths (Zygaenidae) including the foresters, burnet moths, and related moths most of which are bright-colored and day-flying.
July 7, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word aedine
relating to mosquitoes of the genus Aedes
July 7, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the list animal-ine
Another great -ine list!
July 7, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the list animal-ines-cheat-sheet
crotaline: having a rattle or pertaining to a rattlesnake
July 7, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the list animal-ines-cheat-sheet
I intended to start a list like this one, but after finding your impressive and thorough list, I figured: why bother? Love it. I've added it to my list of favorite lists.
July 7, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word they are now very aware of my situation
Yes, they are aware... but they don't care.
June 28, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word circadian dysrhythmia
Jet lag.
June 25, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word Schwellenangst
Fear of crossing a threshold to embark on something new.
What's with the potential customer in the definition from Wiki?
June 5, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the list remarkable-wikipedia-categories
ru: the day you started contributing to wordnik was--and continues to be!-- pure awesomeness. I love the way you think. You should be on a remarkable list yourself: a list of remarkable people! ♥♥♥♥
June 4, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word pass
There are many words for pass in the English-speaking world. In the United States, pass is very common in the West, the word gap is common in the southern Appalachians, notch in parts of New England, and saddle in northern Idaho. Scotland has the Gaelic term bealach (anglicised "balloch"), while Wales has the similar bwlch. In the Lake District of north-west England, the term hause is often used, although the term pass is also common—one distinction is that a pass can refer to a route, as well as the highest part thereof, while a hause is simply the highest part, often flattened somewhat into a high-level plateau.--Wikipedia
June 1, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word shoutcaster
In video games, and particularly eSports, commentators are often called shoutcasters; this term is derived from the free plugin for <i>Winamp</i> called <i>SHOUTcast</i>, which enabled users to live-stream audio-only feeds across the Internet.
June 1, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word mumpfen
May 31, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word mimpfeln
See also mumpfen, to chew with a full mouth.
May 31, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word kainotophobia
Not to be confused with the fear of changing one's underwear.
May 26, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word mansplaining
Mansplaining (a blend of the word man and the informal form splaining of the verb explaining) means "(of a man) to comment on or explain something to a woman in a condescending, overconfident, and often inaccurate or oversimplified manner". Lily Rothman of "The Atlantic" defines it as "explaining without regard to the fact that the explainee knows more than the explainer, often done by a man to a woman". Author Rebecca Solnit ascribes the phenomenon to a combination of "overconfidence and cluelessness".
In its original use, mansplaining differed from other forms of condescension in that it is rooted in the sexist assumption that a man is likely to be more knowledgeable than a woman. However, it has come to be used more broadly, often applied when a man takes a condescending tone in an explanation to anyone, regardless of the age or gender of the intended recipients: a "man 'splaining" can be delivered to any audience. In 2010 it was named by the New York Times as one of its "Words of the Year".
A widespread phenomenon that "keeps women from speaking up and from being heard when they dare; that crushes young women into silence by indicating, the way harassment on the street does, that this is not their world. It trains us in self-doubt and self-limitation just as it exercises men's unsupported overconfidence.
May 15, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word Framingham score
To measure the women’s biological age, the researchers looked at the length of telomeres in their white blood cells. Telomeres are the dangly bits at the end of chromosomes that shorten every time a cell divides. Their length is considered a measure of cellular age.
Between three and five years later, 250 of the women came back so researchers could calculate their risk of developing heart disease in the next decade – known as their Framingham score. This takes account of risk factors such as cholesterol levels, blood pressure and body weight.
As expected, the team found that women with lower egg counts had higher Framingham scores, but they also had shorter telomeres. Previous studies have suggested that shorter telomeres are linked with heart disease, dementia and cancer, and also with a shorter lifespan. So women with fewer eggs may also be at higher risk of other age-related diseases, although epidemiological studies will be needed to bolster this link."
(The Framingham Risk Score is a gender-specific algorithm used to estimate the 10-year cardiovascular risk of an individual. The Framingham Risk Score was first developed based on data obtained from the Framingham Heart Study, to estimate the 10-year risk of developing coronary heart disease. In order to assess the 10-year cardiovascular disease risk, cerebrovascular events, peripheral artery disease and heart failure were subsequently added as disease outcomes for the 2008 Framingham Risk Score, on top of coronary heart disease.)
May 15, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word purple prose
subtitle: China's president-in-waiting turns to purple prose during populist speech aimed at top and bottom of Communist party
May 11, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word unicorpse
(Noun) A private technology company that was formerly valued at $1bn or more (slang, vulg)
Silicon Valley is nothing if not inventive, and that applies to language as much as product development. Three years ago, Aileen Lee, founder of Cowboy Ventures, coined “unicorn” to capture the phenomenon of private technology companies achieving valuations of $1bn and more. She likened these desirable ventures to the mythical horned creature often represented in the shape of a horse.
More recently, in response to the declines in value of some unicorns, Ms Lee has concocted a less mythological variant: the “unicorpse”. It is one of a number of unicorn-related neologisms, including “My Little Pony” (a start-up worth $10m or more), the “Centaur” ($100m start-up) and the impressive “quinquagintacorn” (you work it out*).
--Financial TImes (article available for subscribers only)
April 29, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word spirit animal
The ancient concept of animal guides, particularly prominent in some indigenous, especially Native American, religions and cultures, was adopted in Pagan and Wiccan spirituality in the 1990s. In these contexts, spirit animals are meant literally, referring to spiritual guides or totems that take the form of animals.
April 25, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word tzitzit
No pronunciation available.
April 24, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word magnetotail
An odd-looking word.
April 23, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word bilby
Please do not kick or pound me if your pellets don't fall immediately. And don't press my buttons over and over. Be patient and you will receive your due reward.
April 16, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word chlamydia
"Australia's iconic koala has a problem that keeps boomeranging back.
Chlamydia, a type of sexually transmitted disease also found in humans, has hit wild koalas hard, with some wild populations seeing a 100 percent infection rate." --National Geographic, 14 April 2018
April 15, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word autopsied
Likewise, necropsy is also necropsied. Most users seem to prefer the noun form. "The pathologist decided to forego a necropsy of the dead bilby on the side of the road."
April 13, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word schollard
A corruption, perhaps... but vulgar? Words have feelings, too. Down with word-shaming!
April 12, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word technosphere
Peter Haff coined the term technosphere (in 2014). He defines the technosphere as “the global, energy consuming techno-social system that is comprised of humans, technological artifacts, and technological systems, together with the links, protocols, and information that bind all these parts together.”
Basically, the technosphere is the vast, sprawling combination of humanity and its technology. Haff argues that in our thousands of years of harnessing technology – including the first technologies like stone tools, wheels and crops – the technology itself has basically begun to act practically independently, creating a new sphere (i.e., like the biosphere or atmosphere or lithosphere), but like nothing the planet has ever seen before.
“I would argue that domesticated animals and plants, as well as humans, are parts of the technosphere,” said Haff. “These are in effect manufactured by the technosphere for its own use on the basis of genetic blueprints appropriated from the biosphere.”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/radical-conservation/2015/oct/20/the-four-horsemen-of-the-sixth-mass-extinction
April 2, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word blackbirding
Blackbirding has continued to the present day in developing countries. One example is the kidnapping and coercion at gunpoint of indigenous people in Central America to work as plantation laborers in the region, where they are exposed to heavy pesticide loads and do backbreaking work for very little pay.
April 1, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word blockade mutton
Dog meat has been eaten in every major German crisis at least since the time of Frederick the Great, and is commonly referred to as "blockade mutton."
--GERMANY: Dachshunds Are Tenderer, 25 November 1940. Time Magazine.
To a war menu which already included fish-fed poultry, decrepit horses, goats, and numerous zoo animals, Germany last week added those of its dogs which had not been killed by an earlier decree to save food. A new law, effective January 1, 1940, states that dogs, wolves, foxes, bears, badgers and wild hogs have been legalized as meat. After being inspected for trichina, their carcasses will be dressed, stamped and distributed to butchers for rationing to general consumers.
March 31, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word glowworms
bilby: Have you ever visited Hastings Caves south of Hobart, or Mole Creek Karst National Park west of Launceston? I read somewhere that these sites have colonies of glowworms to see.
March 30, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word cockalorum
1. A little man with an unduly high opinion of himself. 2. The game leapfrog.
"A cockalorum playing cockalorum."
March 28, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word chittering-bite
See also chittering-crust and chittering-piece.
March 28, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word naunt
Mine aunt?
March 26, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word Caspering
The newest addition to the modern dating lexicon. Named after the fictional child phantom, Casper, it’s a friendly alternative to ghosting. Instead of ignoring someone, you’re honest about how you feel, and let them down gently before disappearing from their lives.
March 26, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word sidebarring
Repeatedly checking one's phone and/or sending messages to others while on a date. Considered rude.
March 26, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word Marleying
A term that refers to the awkward situation in which an ex-partner gets in touch with their ex out of nowhere, such as at Christmas time.
March 26, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word shaveducking
A dating term that refers to someone worrying that they're only attracted to a man because of his beard.
March 26, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word breadcrumbing
A dating term that refers to leading someone on with no intention of getting serious.
March 26, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word thraward
Splendid, qms! Rocky and Bullwinkle Effect.
March 18, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word flavor pairing
If it will keep your ears from convulsing, see flavour pairing.
*insincere smirk*
March 14, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word flavor pairing
How about incorrect change and a swift kick?
March 14, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word collectanea
I had to resort to the pronunciation feature for this one.
March 14, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word flavor pairing
"...the idea that the more “aromatic” (i.e. smelly) organic compounds foods share, the better they will taste together."
"...dishes whose ingredients share few compounds in common can also taste delicious; a 2011 analysis of more than 50,000 recipes found that while cuisines from Western Europe and North America tended to use ingredients with shared compounds, ingredients from East Asian recipes tended not to."
--An Illustrated Guide to Matching Foods' Flavor Molecules, Wired, 6 March 2018,
https://www.wired.com/story/the-flavor-matrix/
March 13, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word intertwined names
"On July 3, 2006, Amanda gave birth to fraternal twin girls, and the ecstatic parents gave their daughters intertwined names: One would be Millie Marcia Madge Biggs, the other Marcia Millie Madge Biggs."
March 12, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word flogger
In Australia, the term "flogger" is sometimes used rather than "pom-pom". Floggers are very large, heavy pom-poms in the team's colors. They sometimes require more than one person to lift them, and they are waved about when a goal is scored.
Floggers are an important part of Australian rules football culture and cheer-squads.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/Richmond_Cheer_Squad_Rd_21_2006_closeup.jpg
March 6, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word chase-flying
"This is the first time I've seen a willet chase-flying insects."
March 5, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word prognathous
See lantern-jawed
March 5, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word dingo kidneys
Those crazy, non-explicit Australians.
March 5, 2018
vendingmachine commented on the word ptisan
Any word that starts with pt is already more interesting.
February 28, 2018
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