Wiktionary:List of protologisms
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[edit] List of Protologisms for English
Following is a list of proposed protologisms, with brief definitions. Feel free to add additional suggested words for others to consider, but please do not add articles for them. That being the case most links to these words should remain red. Humorous additions are fine as long as they fill an expressive gap. Please see Wiktionary:Protologisms for more detailed guidelines.
- For the definitions and list of protologistic large numbers see List of protologisms/large numbers.
See also Wiktionary:List of protologisms by topic.
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- @buse: the use of non-alphabetic characters preceding the alphabet in ASCII encoding so as to assure oneself the leading position in a list sorted by ASCII character values. (@ precedes A in ASCII encoding.)
- a: The fear of short words, not to be confused with hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia, the fear of long words.
- aa: - Bad, poor, less than expected. (Compare "pahoehoe.") Pronounced "ah-ah," with a break in the middle. From the Hawaiian word for a lava flow creating jagged, rough terrain. — e.g., "How was the movie?" "Aa; I don't need to see that again." | "You know, the skiing was great, but the rest of the vacation was just aa." In German this is also used as a synonym for "poo".
- aaa: - Prefix, a way to get in the front of the phonebook. — e.g., AAA Storage brings you the best in storage capabilities. AAuto paint and body, just south of AAA storage
- a-luvy-a: An Aussie slang word used at the tail end of sentences, can also be substituted for "a-mate-a" as well.
- aabaology: Study of the beginning of the dictionary.
- aabaphobia: Fear of the beginning of the dictionary
- aagram: word formed from another by deletion of second letter and transposition of those remaining
- aalst: n. One who changes his name to be nearer the front.
- aapa: [ad astra per aspera] to the stars through troubles
- aardvark advance: A cool station name for a square on the game of Monopoly.
- aasleagh: n. A liqueur made only for drinking at the end of a revoltingly long bottle party when all the drinkable drink has been drunk. — e.g., I named my company Aaaaabakery so I could get some good aaaaadvertising placement.
- aaardvark: - Person who has to be first, foremost, number one, etc. A desire to rise above others. Particularly to do so without effort, talent, etc. — e.g., 1. Dave is an aaardvark -- always trying to impress people. He'd have no supporters at all except that he always pays. 2. Zoe´s aaardvarkian manners alienated her from her friends.
- aabar: - To use sly, deceitful, or illegal tactics to occupy the first place in any ordered listing, esp. phone directories. — e.g., You will have to aabar well to rank higher in the dictionary than this.
- aaboos: - Abuse. Brummie translation of the Welsh. — e.g., You are aaboosing me, you naughty Welshman.
- aaiight!: - All Right! Used in times of intense emotion. — e.g., Dad: Son, get in there and clean your room. Son: Aaiight! I was just fixing to. Dad: Stop fixing to and start doing.
- aardfark: - Mating call of an edentate mammal, of the genus Orycteropus, somewhat resembling a pig, common in some parts of southern Africa. — e.g., Even experts have difficulty distinguishing between the sound of an aardfark and an aargasm.
- aardvark: - The gel (usually silicone) insides from keyboard wrist guards. The name comes from the similarity of the gel to an aardvark's tongue. Can be used in a whip-like fashion to pick up large items from desks, ground or out of co-workers hands. — e.g., *crack* "Rats, Phil got me with the aardvark again."
- aardworm: - Intestinal parasite which primarily attacks the aardvark and aardwolf. — e.g., Thulogg, the great aardvark hunter, was cut down in his prime by the dreaded aardworm.
- aazing: - Like amazing, but not quite. — e.g., The 30-story building was aazing.
- aba: - Loose robe worn by Fremen women, usually black. — e.g., She wore an ABA.
- abacoral: - The backbone of a snail. — e.g., Hello, class. We're going to look for abacorals today.
- abal: - Used by the younger generation to label a person as dumb, uncouth, unsophisticated. — e.g., You're just an Abal.
- Might come from Arabic: "ahabal". Used widely also by Israeli Hebrew-speakers.
- abbamatically: - The tendency for an unbearably cloying song to repeat over and over in your head all day after hearing it on the radio. — e.g., "More Than a Woman" has been playing abbamatically in my head since breakfast.
- abbeverate - To feed a person a drink, to offer a drink, or provide a drink. — e.g., I'm going to abbeverate our guests before they die of thirst.
- abdicate - To give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach. — e.g., If you drink 24 beers a day you must be prepared to abdicate seeing your toes(?) again.
- abecidofugy - A discussion or conversation about a topic that most people would find irrelevant or utterly trivial. — e.g., James and Lee's conversation comparing the color of a giraffe's tongue to the color of a newly paved road was a complete abecidofugy.
- abeer! - Amen, usually as a type of thanks. — e.g., Paul: "I'll get the next round of sodas." Group (in unision): "Abeer!"
- abella - Someone who "owns" everything possible. — e.g., That abella rules at Counter-strike.
- aberzombie - One who wears only Abercrombie & Fitch clothing. — e.g., Trust me, you're not his type. He's only into other Aberzombies like himself.
- abibliophobia - abibliophobia noun [U] — the fear of running out of things to read
- abisselfa - "A," by itself. — From The Omnificent English Dictionary In Limerick Form:Here's an odd little word. An abisselfa was the letter "A" when that letter stood by itself within a word such as the "A" in able. When spelling this word, a true scholar would say, "A, by itself, A - b - l - e" and, over time, that first part condensed itself down into abisselfa in what was called "cumulative spelling" before disappearing from the scene altogether. Another example of this is the word ampersand which came from a condensing of "and, per se, and."
- abnormous - Large to an absurd degree. — e.g., Look at the size of David's head. It's ... it's ... abnormous. To top it off -- so to speak -- he's bald and has a pony tail. What's his deal with wearing shorts year-round, anyway?
- abocus - A person who keeps tab of how many Aboriginal friends she has to show how racially accepting she is. Plural: aboci or abocuses. — e.g., Step to the rail. No, not you. The abocus to your left.
- abode - A board. A piece of lumber used to build a structure. — e.g., Is that abode fence?
- abodeaceous - Of a glorious and affordable form of rental accomodation amidst otherwise overpriced and substandard rental abodes on the market. (Used by students and artists.) — e.g., A modern two-bedroom cottage, with a gorgeous bathroom, a good kitchen, courtyard and part-deck? Near to the city with off-street parking? For under $400? Abodeaceous.
- abomally - A unique or unusually severe violation of human values. — e.g., Putting ketchup on mint-chocolate-chip ice cream is an abomally.
- aborable - Exceptionally cute yet insufferably boring. — e.g., At first, I was pleasantly surprised by my blind date, but soon realized he was aborable when he continually turned the topic of conversation to his Michael Bolton collection.
- abortional - To make an exceptionally poor attempt at something. — e.g., The striker had an abortional first half hour.
- abra-kebabra - The inevitability that the kebab you are consuming at 3 am after one too many beers with your mates will reappear in the very near future. — e.g., We had almost made it home after a big night out. Suddenly, abra-kebabra. Right in the back seat of the car.
- abracadaver - A virtual corpse, discovered while surfing the web one night.
- abracapocus - Hybrid of abracadabra and hocus pocus. Was used by Bugs Bunny when battling a vampire and he turned into a bat with a vampire's head. — e.g., Presto! Chango! Abracapocus! Hocuscadabra! A la Peanut Butter Sandwiches!
- abbrhyme: synthetic rhyme using abbreviation
- abbrphobia: Fear of abbreviations.
- ablexive: Overwhelmingly confusing.
- ablism: Discrimination against people with a disability or mental disorder.
- abreticular: Derived by copying from the Internet without attribution. From Latin — (google:abreticular) See also "apoistic".
- abreticulate: To copy from the Internet without attribution. — (google:abreticulate)
- etymology: ab, from, + reticulum, net (referring to the Internet)
- absent-linkedness: Email sent with the intent of forwarding a URL or link, only to be received sans the URL or link. Coined by George Fulton. — (google:absent-linkedness)
- absinthe - A liquid heart medication. — e.g., Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder.
- absitively - Absolutely and positively, with extreme certainty. Sometimes still wrong, though. — e.g., The Chicago Tribune was absitively sure that Dewey had beaten Truman in 1948.
- absogoddamnlutely - Ultimate absolutely. (One of a group of words relating to certainty: * * absogoddamnlutely, absopositively, absotively, absotively-posilutely, absotivelyposilutely.) — e.g., I am absogodamnlutely sure I've used this word hundreds of times.
- absolucid - A portmanteau word: absolute plus lucid. — e.g., John meditates because one day he hopes to become absolucid.
- absoludacris, absoludacras - Something absolutely ludicrous--say, Mr. T, for example. — e.g., 1. Drugs are bad. Drugs are absoludacris. 2. Ludicras is absoludacris.
- absoludicrous - The peak of ridiculousness. Absolutely ludicrous. — e.g., Dude, your blue hair, with what little there is of it on top, looks absoludicrous with that long ponytail. People can tell you're bald.
- absolut - The extreme or epitome of. Pinnacle. — e.g., He always gives us absolut intimidation.
- absonotly - Used when the intent is to most definitely decline. — e.g., I absonotly won't do that.
- absopause - When, for some odd reason, everyone shuts up and listens when you talk. Rare. — e.g., During the absopause, everyone heard Rob's plan.
- absopositilutely - "Absolutely" and "positively" combined together in different segments. — e.g., You are absopositilutely right.
- absopositively - Absolutely and positively combined. (One of a group of words relating to certainty: absopositively, absotively, absotively-posilutely, absotivelyposilutely.) — e.g., I am absopositively sure that Milton likes you.
- absotively - Combination of absolutely and positively. Usually used an answer to a request. (One of a group of words relating to certainty: absopositively, absotively, absotively-posilutely, absotivelyposilutely.) — e.g., Q: Will you go to the store for me? A: Absotively.
- absotivelyposilutely - This is the word you use when you really need to make the point that you are 100% sure of something. It even sounds authoritative. And heck, it's even fun to say because of the way it rolls off your tongue. (One of a group of words relating to certainty: absopositively, absotively, absotively-posilutely, absotivelyposilutely.) — e.g., You might be right about that, Mr. Smartypants, but you'd better be absotivelyposilutely sure before you bet any money on it.
- absotutely - Synonymous with "absotivelyposilutely" and its ilk but FAR more authoritative. Also spelled "absotootly" by the great unwashed. — e.g., "Absotutely" is far more erudite and impressive than "absotootly."
- abstractional-dopmology - The study of brown dots in any carpet. — e.g., I see you've been catching up on your abstractional-dopmology.
- acrobatorium: room or space where acrobatics is being practiced.
- acrosstic: [across + acrostic, Poe] acrostic variation in which nth letter in nth line is significant
- acronymisitis: a redundancy created by following an acronym with the final word of that acronym, i.e. "PIN Number," where "PIN" stands for "Personal Identification Number," rendering the final word "number" redundant.
- acrophile: one who enjoys in extreme sports.
- acrojumble - Using too many acronyms. Such as, "I'd love to, but it is the DFR deadline week for all KIXs and ZSWs. — e.g., Her memo was unreadable because of severe acrojumble.
- acronize - To provide an acronym for.
- acronyze - The process of shortening phrases through acronyms, for the purpose of simplifying statements. Typically used in technical data reporting or inter-office e-mails. (i.e. "FUBAR" or "KISS") — e.g., I didn't realize that phrase had been acronyzed.
- active monopoly - Microsoft term (inspired from active directory) to explain when a company has gained a monopoly on an otherwise dynamic market. — e.g., Q: Why is ADSL so expensive in Australia? A: Tel$tra own the phone lines. They're just applying the active monopoly.
- acute fedupwithit disorder - Condition affecting anyone who's just about had enough and about to
- adad: [aut disce aut discede] learn or leave.
- adolescenticide: The act of killing teenagers.
- adorkable: Endearingly socially inept.
- adrenalitis: A fictional adrenaline disease for an ad of the Toyota Tacoma. — (google:adrenalitis)
- adaui - To put as many drops of water on a penny as it will hold. — e.g., Where in the name of God did your idea of adauing come from? It's really annoying.
- adda be - Congratulatory phrase, often used in a sarcastic manner. — e.g., Your girlfriend just slapped you in front of the whole school? Adda be, doofus.
- addadictomy - The operation performed when a transexual woman becomes a man. — e.g., No, Bernice did not have an addadictomy. Quite the opposite, since Bernice was born Bernard.
- addictant - What you are addicted to. — e.g., Nicotine is quite an addictant.
- addictefreak - One who is addicted to something 24/7. — e.g., Boy, Sam is sure an addictefreak when it comes to StarCraft.
- adevo - A generally exaggerated amount. Also used to refer to smack downs in video games. — e.g., Who wants to feel the adevo power?
- adger - A mistake, or pathetically stupid remark in conversation, usually involving disastrous consequences, which could have been avoided with even the slightest amount of forethought. — e.g., Oh, mate, that certainly was an enormous adger you made there, and now you look a right tit.
- aeioi: [adj. and sing. aeious from Dmitri A. Borgman's aeiou word] words with all of the 5 vowels, a, e, i, o and u -- dialogue, equation, sequoia
- aeious: Singular of "aeioi". (See recto-aeious)
- aelosaccophobia: Fear of injury resulting from the unexpected release of a vehicle air bag. — (google:aelosaccophobia)
- afaik: [acronym] as far as I know
- aftermorn: n. [<after and morn(-ing).>]The awkward time period of a day which is no longer early morning, but has not reached 12:01 pm and thereby can not yet be referred to as afternoon.
- aftermorrow n. [< after and (to-)morrow.] The day after tomorrow.
- agamemnonym: [Edward R. Wolpow's Agamemnon word] A word with three or more palindromic trigrams
- agenarian: [nonagenarian back-formation] person under 90 or over 99.
- ageware: Direct ports of video games that were originally developed for ancient video game consoles and converted for play on contemporary television game consoles, especially without an incentive to buy, e.g. Mega Man Anniversary Collection. — (google:ageware)
- agmenonym: [Agamemnon backformation + -nym] A word transformed into agamemnonym by adding appropriate letter after bigrams to form palindromic trigrams
- agoranthrope: One who hates crowds.
- agorocoritsophobia: 1. Fear or hatred of tomboys or tomboyish fashion ideas. 2. The belief that women should not wear their hair short or wear trousers.
- aibohphobia: Fear of palindromes (itself a palindrome) — (google:aibohphobia)
- aibohphobiac: anchored palindrome like aibohphobiac that has an extra final letter and so is not actually a palindrome, demonstrating itself a morbid fear of palindromes
- A.I.-ism: The act or fact of developing robots or other artificial intelligence technology (including machines and software) with the intent to erase the need for a job position that is designated for a specific process (e.g. speech recognition technology).
- aip: [ab Iove principium] start with the most important
- AIQ: [AI + IQ portmanteau acronym] measurement of "artificial intelligence" as in the results of a Turing test
- Aizism: exonim for the Chinese new religious movement called Haizidao 亥子道, founded in 1984 in Taiwan.
- akkeyn (Pronounced, "ah-kEEn")adjective: Especially in-tune, sensitive, and concerned or worried with or about something. Example: She is very akkeyn to the problems of the world.
- aliaception: From the Latin alias, meaning "the other" and the English perception. Aliaception is the knowledge of another person's body (tension, positioning, and quality of movement) via one's sense of touch. “Proprioceptive” awareness of another via the sense of touch.
- alcoholistic: a barfly that frequents drinking establishments on merit of atmosphere and bartenders/tendresses. Coined by Dr. Darren "Gav" Bluel (Nukees!).
- alindrome: [beheaded palindrome] near-palindrome that lacks initial letter
- Aldhelmian: like Aldhelm, saintly Anglo-Latin riddlemaster (c. 640-709)
- alatry: [a-without, latreia-Greek for "worship"] any philosophy that specifically excludes religion and superstition, including atheism, agnosticism, "free thought", humanism, etc. (coined by Ken Comer)
- alatrist: [a-without, latreia-Greek for "worship"] a person without religion (adapted by Ken Comer)
- alotrist: variant spelling of alatrist from Feedback column of New Scientist magazine
- alphabit: [alphabet bit] alphabet transformation rebus -- abcdfghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz = cut e = cute, abcdefhijklmnopqrstuvwxyz = g out = gout, abcdefghijkltnopqrstuvwxyz = for m a t = format, abcdefghijkmnopqrstuvwxyz = no l = noel, abcdfghijklmnopqrtuvwxyz = no s, e = nose, abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxzy - shift y = shifty
- altocelarophobia: Fear of high ceilings, from Latin alto (high) and celare (cover).
- ambiguify: To make ambiguous.
- ambitch v. ambitching, ambitcher [< amb(ush) and bitch.] To scold or berate someone when they are least expecting it.Eg: "I told her not to wait up for me, but when I got home at 2:00am she ambitched me!"
- Amerime: Referring to American-made cartoons in the style of Japanese Anime.
- Ameripolitan: Referring to original music with 'prominent' American roots influence.
- Amerispanic: An enlightened empowered Latino or Hispanic who pursues philosophy, intellectualism etc
- Amerocentric: Referring to a concept or topic related to or focused on America (or specifically the US)
- Amish: [Percy Moore Manx + -ish] describing poem form variation with final two lines left unwritten andrest reversed
- amlwch n. A British Rail sandwich which has been kept soft by being regularly washed and resealed in cling film
- amoration: Possessing profound love in every moment, in any possible way.
- amzing: An adjective describing an improvised dance meant to portray cheerfulness. An amzing dance.
- ana: adverb [greek: "up"] - A term used in some literature to refer to one of the two directions from three dimensional space into four dimensional space. In tetraspace, represented by the vector <0,0,0,1>. This term refers to the direction analogous to up; the opposite direction is kata.
- aangram: particular anagram formed by transposing the second and third letter of a word to form another word
- anachronismic: the quality of using multiple anachronisms (e.g. - In the book "The Sword and the Stone," the character Merlyn is anachronismic.)
- anany: [curtailed ananym] describing transdeletion in which word is reversed and final letter deleted -- anany(petal) = late
- -anatrophe: Suffix. Any style of child-rearing.
- anatonym: aka body part name -- areola (nipple area), canthus (where eyelids meet), coccyx (tail bone), coxa (hip bone), diaphysis (bone shaft), dorsum (top of tongue), epiphysis (bone head), fovea (blind spot on retina), frenulum (thin muscle under tongue), hallux (big toe), ischium (back of hip bone), maxilla (upper mouth bone), nasopharynx (passage between nose and throat), opisthenar (back of hand), oropharynx (passage between mouth and throat), patella (kneecap), phalanx (finger or toe bone), philtrum (indentation between nose and upper lip), pinna (external ear), pollex (thumb), popliteal (hollow in back of knee), pubis (front of hip bone), sclera (white of eye), thenar (fleshy pad below thumb), tragus (fleshy bump between face and ear cavity), vomer (slender bone between nostrils)
- anatidaephobia: the fear that somewhere, somehow, a duck is watching you.
- andgasm: A play on the word "orgasm" - an intense rush of pleasure attained entirely non-sexually
- and la: Synonym for etcetera. Used at the end of lists such as Pick up mail, feed dogs, and la. Uniquely used by L. Lodge.
- andor: Simply replaces and/or in typed discourse. — (google:andor)
- andranfather: A paternal grandfather. — (google:andranfather)
- andranmother: A paternal grandmother. — (google:andranmother)
- andranparent: A paternal grandparents. — (google:andranparent)
- andranparents: Paternal grandparents. — (google:andranparens)
- andrithmics: The study which deals with men in their quantative aspect; the study of statistics pertaining to men; from G "andr": man + "arithm": number + "ics": pertaining to.
- androbot: n. A part male human and part electronic being, designed to live on planets other than Earth. Blending of Gk, "andro" meaning man, and "robot" from Czech. See Humobot and Ildrobot.
- andrographics: Demographics based on male gender. Homagraphics.
- androgynophobia: fear of tomboys. — (google:androgynophobia)
- androdiacrisis: Discrimination against males.
- andronym: male version of a name or item. Alexander is the andronym for the name Alexander. The gynonym would be Alexandra. Bull is the andronym for cow. — (google:andronym) — Note that this term is already used (though in limited contexts) with a different meaning. -- What is the correct/current term for this concept?
- anepistemology: The study of what we do not know, answering the question, "What should we know?"
- angram: transdeletion with third letter deleted and rest moved
- anno globus: Year of our Earth. As in a way to count the number of times the earth has orbited the sun. The count of anno globus started when the mission to complete the circumnavigation of the world by Magellan 0 A.G. (1519 CE) began, thus providing proof of a more complete 'round earth' than previously 'flat world' believed. i.e. the Delcaration of Independence by the U.S. was 257 A.G. (1776 - 1519 = 257) or the U.S. entered WWII in 422 A.G. (1941 - 1519 = 422)
- anonagenarian: A person who looks very, very old, but won't reveal their age.
- anti-bananist: One who is opposed to bananas.
- antu: [abusus non tollit usum] abuse is no argument
- Anx: [beheaded Manx] with initial and terminal lines deleted
- anteprotologism: A word that may or may not become a newly-created word, i.e. a draft protologism
- anti-truth: A statement that deceives by being part of the whole truth, a form of half-truth that is true in its own dimension, but only part of the entire truth.
- anim cersom: A state of mind causing one affected to see reality as artificial
- antigamy: The act of marrying someone from a family, party, or country opposing one's own. Romeo-and-Juliet marriage.
- antigynepantelonism: The belief that women should not don trousers.
- antihurtatorium: A hospital or other place of medical care, specifically in instances where you wish to stop the pain.
- antiprotologisticophobia: a special liking to people who do not have a problem with people who enjoy adding to or editing lists of newly created words in a special fashion
- antisiloisation: the principled stance against business silos within an organisation, leading to the process of desiloisation to remove the above silos.
- anxiarrhea: loose stools associated with an elevated level of stress and/or worry.
- apartionalism: A system of apartheid and discrimination spurred by underlying nationalist and colonialist motivations.
- apho: Fear of four-letter words.
- apos: - The portion of an object that is furthest ana. It is the analog of the top portion of an object for the direction up, or the front portion for the forward direction. Derived from "apex". The opposite side of an object is its zakos.
- apathete (pronounced to rhyme with either epithet or athlete): One who is apathetic, an apathetic person. (Derived from the parallel relationship between athlete and athletic)
- appmae: [adde parvum parvo magnus acervus erit] add little by little and there will be a big pile
- Apparaphernaliantly: Apparently regarding possession/use of drugs.
- Appersonate: (Attempt to) Pass the Turing Test.
- applanche: (apple + avalanche) A fall or slide of a large number of apples out of the produce bin at the grocery store after removal of a key weight-supporting apple.
- apodyopsis: The act of mentally undressing someone
- apoistic: Derived by copying from the Internet without attribution. From Greek apo, from, + istos, web (that is, the Internet) — (google:apoistic) — See also "Abreticular".
- apostate gamer: A video game player who has given up religious faith or heritage in favor of his or her own video game interests. — (google:"apostate gamer")
- apostronym: [Dave Morice's apostrophe word] word that becomes another word with apostrophe deletion -- can't, he'll, I'll, she'll, we'd, we'll, we're
- aproctosis: A condition of extended apathy, disinclination and propensity to indulge in displacement activities. From Greek elements a-, lacking + proct(o), rectum + -osis, disease. Compare British English slang "I can't be arsed".
- aqa: [age quod agis] do what you do (well)
- aquaphobophobia: Fear of people that are aquaphobic.
- arachnophobophobia: Fear of people that are arachnophobic.
- aralisation: "The destruction of a waterway by man-made interference and uncontrolled pollution; such as the destruction of the Aral Sea by diverting its inflowing rivers and by more an half-a-hundred years of pollution from weapons' testing, industrial waste dumping and fertilizer run-off.
- archietype: A variant of archetype but inclinated more toward individuality than emulation.
- archisphere: The extent of knowledge or interest relating to the art and science of designing and erecting buildings - etc
- ard: [beheaded ord with phonetic r-] word that has been doubly beheaded
- Ardunian: [beheaded Erdunian with phonetic r-] with first two and last four lines unwritten
- arithmonym: number name
- armups: [up in arms wordle] aroused to action
- arneticologism: a negative adjective or verb or phrase
- arrational: [beheaded irrational with phonetic r-] between rational and irrational
- arrestee: A person who is being arrested.
- archiconym: original name.
- Argentemo: an 'emo' of Argentinean origin.
- argubate: argument & debate (and argubation)
- arse candle: an offensive term.
- arsenonym: The masculine term of the animal species. Bull is the arsenonym for cattle. — (google:arsenonym)
- Arte Mecco : An art style created by blending contemporary art, modern art, abstract art, art deco, art nouveau and characterized by the usage of the natural juices of the cactus apple or prickly pear, the pomegranate and aloe vera.
- artificial stupidity: The essential quality of a software interface, the programming goal of which is to be intelligent by saving the user from repetitive keystrokes and by anticipating the formatting intent of the user, the end result of which prohibits the user from undertaking the most elementary of text procedures without having to refer to the 'help' section of the software, within which the reference is rarely found. See also indicis-absentia. Example, in a word processing program, 'auto-formatting' that strictly prohibits the user from simply indenting a new line of text without automatically creating a new paragraph or bullet point. Coined by George Fulton. — (google:"artificial stupidity")
- artinesque in which the actual outcome of a person's planned action surpasses the sort of results that could be hoped for by far
- Arwin ancient word meaning wing plural:arwen
- Arvinout contemporary slang word meaning '"having the best intentions but not coming through" Example: Although with complete sincerity he told me that we would meet for a drink, once again I sat waiting only to realize that he had "Arvinedout".(Past Tense)
- aschemegynephobia fear of unattractive women
- aspiratage (From French aspirateur, vacuum cleaner) A surrealist method in which impressions are made in the pile of carpeting by the movement of a vacuum cleaner, or the carpeting with its impressions that are made using this method. Coined by Daniel C. Boyer. — (google:aspiratage)
- aspergineering - describes a branch of thinking associated with people who have Aspergers syndrome. — e.g., The unique ability of these people is to think beyond the concept of thinking outside of the box or simple Lateral thinking. In Aspergineering terms... There simply is no box!
- Assback: v. A slang word commonly used to express an opposition having lost an argument. A meeting of the ass and back, but not quite the lower back. The kicking of one Ajin J.'s buttox. Coined by Suman B. and Ajin J..- (google:assback)
- astroillogical: [astrological + illogical portmanteau] demonstrating thelogically extrapolated illogicalness of astrology
- astronumby: [numb + astronomy portmanteau] mind-numbing gee-whiz astronomy
- autophone: [automobile sound] one of the seven car noises or combinations
- autoshiftgram: word which is its own shiftgram, tanger + 13 = gnatre, emblazonry + 13 = rzoynmbael
- avo: [amor vincit omnia] love conquers all
- atheiphobia: Fear of atheists.
- atheish: A person who does not "really" believe in God or a person who claims to be an atheist but also claims to be looked after by close deceased. Coined by Derek O'Sullivan.
- atheognosis: The knowledge that you don't have to believe mumbo-jumbo to know it logically cannot exist in a universe governed by physical and logical laws. Coined by Naja Hannah.
- athslay: vb. The murder of an elite athlete or sportsman over matters relating to sport. Blending of athlete + slay.
- atismia: (Acronym from "All That Is Solid Melts Into Air"): quote originally from The Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels, re the dissolution of traditional cultures and relationships under the pressures of capitalism, but receiving a new meaning in the era of global capitalism with its weakening of traditional communities and borders.
- atroxputrobscenus: 1. frightfully horrible or disgusting 2. cruel and offensive, of evil omen
- audiocism: The belief that musical taste accounts for differences in human character or ability and that listening (or not listening) to a particular genre of music makes a person superior to others
- augminished: In music, a chord that is formed by combining an Augmented chord with a Diminished chord. The opposite of an Augminished chord is a Demented chord.
- aunta: Maternal aunt — (google:aunta)
- auntfender: a tray that you carry at family gatherings so you don't have to hug your relatives (see unclebuffer).
- aunto: Paternal aunt — (google:aunto).
- auparishtaka: a fictional word made up by exit mundi.
- Aurebesize: To transliterate text into the Star Wars Aurebesh alphabet.
- autarded: A rare, possibly fictional condition in which the individual exhibits traits of both autism and mental retardation.
- authitect: An author who writes about the structure of fictional buildings, public spaces or cities.
- autismodiacrisis: Discrimination against people with an autism spectrum disorder.
- autoanarchy: A status quo of few if any rules governing individuals or nations, enforced by one powerful authority. — (google:autoanarchy)
- autobiopic: A biopic that is screenwritten or directed by or that stars the person whose life the film is based on. An autobiographical film.
- autodarwinate: To remove oneself from the gene-pool and thereby furthering evolution.
- autofugle: A futile search of the Internet for references to oneself, for a new car, or for information on autism ("After hours of fruitless autofugling, Reginald gave up and went out for a soda").
- autophaegophilism: Businesses which are dependant on using elements of other affiliated organizations to survive. (ie: the relationship between kaft and coca-cola). Wouldn't that be commensal symbiosis?
- automasticate: To chew oneself
- autorisity: To laugh at oneself
- awag: - to waste the working day posting on the internet
- awesomeousity: Person or items potential for being awesome, High level of awesomeness.
- awesome-tastic: The combination of 'awesome' and 'fantastic'.
- awfulize: To blow something (that has yet not happened) way out of proportion in one's thinking
- aximosampia: Belonging to a person, place, object or other posessor who/which displays the pinnacle of majesty.ex: Audrey's new P.T. Cruiser is way aximosampia.
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- babank A baby skank. Someone in their pre-teens or even in the single digit age group who dresses like an adult tart but is clearly too young to do so.
- babelrybski (Part translation of Babelfish into Russian: ????, fish) Text which has been mangled by machine translation to or from Russian.
- baby-in-law (n) the spouse of the lastborn of a family (Also lastborn-in-law, last-in-law)
- Bahamavention: 1. An orchestrated attempt by friends or family to convince a loved one who's stressed, overworked or undertan to seek the kind of help only a vacation in The Islands Of The Bahamas can give. 2. A catchphrase for ideal, sub-tropical, rejuvenating vacation.
- baikce: Thirteen times.
- bairdbox blandness n. The negative impact of American TV's words and expressions on Englishes around the world. Instead of making them richer in nuance and colour, it has taken over what they had, and inhibited expression. Get a life has replaced colourful expressions such as You're on the wrong track, for pity's sake or pull your head in.
- bajooble (n) A form of dance which combines dancing with the progressive motion (moving continuously from a starting point A to a destination point B) more characteristic of walking. (v) The act of dancing while walking.
- balanceboardology: The scientific study of Vew-Do balance board design. Coined by Rick Contrata.
- ballin': (v) The act of being fly
- bamble: A cross between babble and ramble. Not as relaxed as rambling, but not as frantic as babbling. Example: "Dear readers, when I last left you to bamble on à as I do à am doing, Gina and I were just being attacked by a French ruffian."
- bamf other v. Bamf [Sound effect from X-Men comics that accompanies Nightcrawler when he teleports somewhere.] The sound something makes when it disappears into thin air, usually with a large puff of smoke.
- banff adj. [From the place name. Note: Coined by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd in The Deeper Meaning of Liff.] "Pertaining to, or description of, that kind of facial expression which is impossible to achieve except when having a passport photograph taken
- bandthin: The opposite of bandwidth. Refers to a slow internet connection, such as dial-up networking.
- banestead: n. A place where people are not meant to live owing to the extremes and harshness of the climate; for example, The Polar Regions, extreme mountainous regions, waterless deserts.
- banquine: a style of acrobatic performance where the stunts are executed without the aid of mechanical aparatus. The word seems to have been coined by Cirque du Soleil, although to a lesser extent it is also used by the wider circus community. One suggested derivation path is saltimbanco (Italian for travelling acrobat), saltimbanque (French), saltimbanqine (sounds feminine, but not a real word), banquine (abbreviated). The word does not appear in any major French or Italian dictionary.
- This word does seem to have some credibility, is in use in several places, books. but hard to find a definition.--Richardb 14:02, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
- banquo: n. [< character Banquo in Shakespeare's tragedy MacBeth.] Someone or something that reminds one of a past misdeed.
- banteer: n. A lusty and raucous old ballad sung after a particularly spectacular araglin (q.v.) has been pulled off.
- basil n. claimant to an abolished throne. So-called royal who parades like a peacock without feathers, and assumes a title his or her ancestors only had a tenuous grip on. From Gk, "Basil" meaning King, and Basil Fawlty, the eccentric restauranteur, of "Fawlty Towers".
- battle-abort To perform an abortion by killing a pregnant woman in the course of battle.
- bbot (abrv.) for Boun's Board of Trade
- be-Darth (v) to lure someone to the dark side of the Force.
- bedridiation (n) emotional state one reaches after frustration, depression, and hopelessness turns into bedraggledness, cynicism, and sarcasm.
- beefz0r: An individual in a group whose heavy-handed ignorance causes the destruction of the group itself. As a verb, to destroy a group through passive-aggressive ignorance.
- bennelong: Antipodean Australian slang or nickname for someone who disappears from the pub (whilst drunk) and mysteriously appears at home hours later with no recollection of where he has been.
- Bendomino (n) A new version of the classic domino, the curved domino changes game play, allowing players to block opponents options.
- be-Sith (v) (1) to turn to the dark side of the Force. (2) to seduce (someone) to the dark side of the Force.
- bichotomy (n) A synonym of dichotomy.
- bigambic (adj) Refers to clothing which envelops each of a biped's legs individually (e.g. pants, jeans, shorts). [Latin bi-, from bis, twice + Italian gamba, leg]. Compare to monogambic.
- bigsmall: Something small with the characteristics of something big.
- bikini-zapping : The destruction of an atoll or small island by using it as testing ground for atomic and nuclear bombs for the "Good of Mankind"; from Bikini Atoll +"zap" : to bomb with atomic bomb.
- bilisecond: Microsoft's take on the ISO standard nanaosecond
- bindachec: The failure to use hyphens.
- binda-exyusa: n. The overuse of hyphens.
- bindaphobia: n. Fear of hyphens.
- binhead: n. A smoking game involving forfeits.
- biochronophobia: n. Fear that one's biological clock will run down before one has had a chance adequately to replenish the species.
- bionian: noun - A person from planespace. adjective - From planespace. For example, a "bionian river" is a river from planespace. See chart under tetraspace.
- biostitute: A scientist paid to testify on behalf of an act or company harmful to the environment. ("biologist" + "prostitute")
- bitalilined: adj. When letters are made bold, italicized, and underlined at the same time. ("bold" + "italicized" + "underlined")
- bitchma: n. A feminist position strongly and non-negotiably held (fem. of dogma).
- bitchmatic: adj. Of or pertaining to bitchma (feminine of dogmatic).
- bizist: (B)usiness (I)intelligence (Z)one (I)nternet (S)pecialist (T)raining in the area of online business.
- black eye: A cup of coffee with two shots of espresso.
- black helicopter: Any wild conspiracy theory which lacks credible evidence to back it up and is used to distract, mislead, or "fear-monger" (similar to a red herring, but more pointed in meaning). Originally used to specifically describe sightings of "black helicopters" connected to assorted alleged nefaria, this term could conceivably be extended as a general descriptor for all such conspiracy theories.
- blankday: n. A single calender day in which there may be space reserved for a nonsense, insignificant or false holiday.
- blarg: adj. "blah" + "arg" = "blarg." emotion. When you are having more than a bad day, more than a terrible day, it's a "blarg" day.
- blargy: A placeholder whose meaning can vary, said especially when there is nothing to say.
- blatt: A noise made by a faulty brass instrument.
- Blauthor: n. A person who writes blog articles, from Blog and Author.
- Blearh: A Word to express on opinion of discust. that dinner was blearh, you're blearh. or just the single use of blearh. pronouced Blh-air, blearh
- Bleurgh: A word created to express a feeling of boredom, and or annoyance towards a subject, often a coursework, almost always textiles, all though has had use outside this. Has similar meanings to the words 'meh', 'huh', or the lesser used 'blop'. Pronounced Blu-eh. (By Sariya...Samuel, not Khan, although she likes to think she is related to Ammir Khan. The boxer. Possibly her future husband :D)
- blimsnozzle: To be used after someone sneezes. Meaning: That was a pretty good sneeze my friend; I hope you didn't wind up with too much snot in your hand.
- blinkbat (driver who leaves turn-signal blinking mindlessly, analogous to dingbat).
- blip-pop: n. a form of music used in computer games.
- blitzcrap : n. describes the sudden onset of diarrhea.
- blogamist: a person who maintains more than one blog at a time.
- blogamy: the act of maintaining more than one blog at a time.
- blogetiquette: the netiquette used in the blogosphere.
- bloggerosphere: the specific part of the blogosphere that is based on the Blogger engine which is the biggest Blog platform of the blogosphere.
- bloggetiquette: the Netiquette used by the Blogger using the Blogger engine wich is the biggest Blog platform of the blogosphere.
- blogjam n. a state of repetitious publishing of an article or topic in the blogosphere, esp. over a short period of time.
- blogosophy: n. the philosophy of blogging.
- blogospherical: adj. the condition of morbid obesity due to long periods of physical inactivity spent reading blogs.
- blogsploitation n. the misuse of Blogs in US media.
- blogstitute: n. (1) a person (often a woman or a musical group) who makes multiple random friend requests on online blogs, weblogs, or online community websites. (2) a person who is perceived as engaging in online promiscuity for fun or profit.
- Blogtile Dysfunction: (n) a blogging disorder marked by the elongated cessation from posting content of any kind on one's blog.
- blogtry: a web log entry.
- Blond-banality: The accursed state where blond banals who, seemingly having little singing or acting talent, become "celebrities" making squillions for their frequent outrageous and sometime bizarre behaviour; from blond + bane and banal + ity.
- blournalist n. Credible individual publisher of online content whose motives and/or loyalties are transparent.
- blue advertisement: In political campaigns, an advertisement pertaining to the U.S. Democratic Party. (Abbreviation: blue ad)
- blue attack ad: In U.S. political campaigns, an advertisement whose message is meant to attack a Republican candidate or the U.S. Republican Party itself.
- blue Congress: A United States Congress with a Democratic majority.
- blue Presidency: A U.S. Presidential tenure when a Democratic U.S. President was in office.
- blue vote: 1) n. In U.S. political campaigns, a vote for a Democratic candidate in a given election. 2) v.t. To vote for a Democratic candidate in a given U.S. election.
- blue year: n. A year when a Democratic U.S. President was in office.
- bluh: internet interjection: blah + ugh.
- blurgh: interjection Used to express disappointment (Blurgh! I can't believe we lost!) or excitement (Blurgh! I won $500!) see: http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blurgh
- blurdybloop: A word invented by Mark Crispin, perhaps most famous for its usage in RFC 3501.
- blurk: n. Popular, conventional wisdom which may be factually right or wrong, but which loses meaning through frequent, often thoughtless repetition.
- Boba-type character: A character who has a significant fanbase but is unimportant to the story.
- Bman v.t. The process of stacking two canned beers on top of each other while consuming them.
- bode-miller n. One who takes advantage of the opportunity to “party and socialize at an Olympic level” while seeming indifferent to the expectations anybody else may have of him or her. (usage) “Dude! You are such a bode-miller.” (synonym of slacker)
- bodnerism: a blatant exaggeration.
- boi n. A pretty boy, term often used in goth and queer culture. The word Boi originated from a small village cricket team, the word soon spread in the surrounding area and now Boi is going worldwide! It has been without a set definition for over a year unitl now... Boi has a joint meaning depending on the context its used in... 1. A term used to scare or warn somebody off 2. A greeting between friends
- bom chicka wah wah : onomonopoea to denote the sound of a guitar with a 70's-style wah wah pedal turned on. It sometimes make this sound in an adult film to cue an impending sex scene. Re-entered pop culture in 2007 as the tagline for Axe bodyspray.
- bong hit An amount of smoke inhaled by way of a bong
- bongwater The water in a bong
- boobiesexual n. A woman who identifies primarily as straight but who enjoys touching and fondling women's breasts with no particular interest in genital sexual contact. The fondling may or may not be sexual in nature, depending on the individual. The term was coined by minx in a 2005 blog entry and first appeared in print in the February 2006 Penthouse Forum article by Rachel Kramer Bussel entitled, "XXX Podcasts: the Future of Porn?"
- boomawang bent penis
- borange adj. rhyming with orange.
- borange n. A word with no rhymes.
- borange n. A color intermediate between brown and orange.
- borm n. one who is socially inept with members of the opposite sex.
- Borobelology n. The study of beautiful cities in relation to their locality, physiognomy, climate and architecture etc; and the influence, if any, these things have on living standards, crime rate, divorce rate, etc of the inhabitants. From OE, Borough; Lt,"bel" + ology.
- boshwurglitude n. The state of being materially dependent on, or indebted to, people or institutions that only (know how to) do "hammer nagging" rather than "push nagging". (Example: A person receiving letters from a landlord, a bank, *and* their former best buddy demanding immediate payment of overdue rent or loans, and threatening legal action if they fail, is "severely and multiply boshwurgled". However, a person whose landlord urges them to contact the Citizen's Advice Bureau for help is not in boshwurglitude with respect to the landlord. Example of usage: "Dude, I seriously need to reduce my level of boshwurglitude!")
- bougant adj. The state of non-herbal tea that has been over-steeped.
- boz v.i. IPA: /bɑːz/ To accomplish by brute force; to accomplish very quickly; to go someplace quickly; to complete a round trip quickly, or drop by for a short time (chiefly in "boz over to...").
- bradorrection n. 1. the sublime correction of pedal deformities via skill, mental expertise. manual dexterity and finesse. 2. That weird feeling 'down there' that one gets when they realize that only one other surgeon could have done better, maybe. 3. That sinking feeling preceding the phrase "Yes Dror, you're right".
- braedennial adj. Extremely fast, traveling at a speed more extreme than described by fast or speedy.
- braffing n. Lying in bed, staring into space, listening to music.
- brand lag The time it takes for a brand to catch up with what its consumers are currently doing.
- brap: n. a black guy who acts white and has a fat rear end.
- bracism discrimination against people with braces.
- Brathlete n. Angry, impetuous, violent sportstar; from a blending of brat, OE brath+ athlete.
- brathology n. The study of all forms of violence: domestic, street-gang, underworld, terrorism ktp. From (OE) brath: anger, violence + "ology".
- brathspree n. angry, violent confrontation between political demonstrators or crowds at illegal drag-racing towards police. From OE "brath": meaning angry, violent and ON "spree": unrestraint in activity.
- breadwinning child A son or daughter who is the primary income earner of the household, thus earning more money than the parents.
- breastraunt n. a bar/restaurant in which the waitresses (or waiters if you're that way inclined) are bare-breasted. e.g. 'Hooters'.
- Brixton Overcoat n. The downside of being black in the western world. "So I'm just walking down the street and the cops stop me. All they see is my Brixton Overcoat."
- brokebacker n. A fan of the movie Brokeback Mountain.
- "Bruce Willis is a robot" (idiom) Began when the movie Sixth Sense came out. Used when you do not want to give away the end of a movie (does not have to star Bruce Willis). "So in the end, it turns out that Bruce Willis is a robot."
- bruck v.t. To penetrate with a brick.
- Bruckingham Palace n. A venue for a royal brucking (see 'bruck').
- brupper: n. [polyporteau of brunch (breakfast and lunch) and supper] the meal that is eaten by a person who only eats once a day.
- Bubbafication n. 1. The act of making something accessible and/or acceptable to the least sophisticated members of a society. 2. Dispensing with all airs and pretense.
- Buddage n. An endearing term for one's friend. "Aw buddage" or "howiya Buddage". Buddagita is also acceptable.
- buffin n. Short name for a "Muffin Bar".
- buffle v.t. To rub the top of one's head against another's belly. (present participle: buffling).
- Buhday n. Celebration that takes place each 8th of September during Leap Septembers. In the event that the 8th is skipped (which occurs every 30 Leap Septembers) it will be celelbrated between Flurpday and Slipgorp. Tradition has it that extravagent gifts are given to those celebrating birthdays on Buhday. Good luck is said to follow those who adhere to this custom. Scary dogs with red eyes are said to follow those who don't.
- bulk: The measure of space within a four dimensional object. It is the tetraspace analog of area in planespace and volume in realmspace.
- bunhead: ballet dancer
- bunnify: v.t. To modify something so as to emphasise feeling and sentiment to the detriment of factual, logical content. North Americans are good at this, while the English are not. E.g. "I have re-focused your resumé for applying for Primary School Teaching. Your bona fides are now bunnified."
- burger munch A social gathering of people who would otherwise primarily meet for other purposes with little opportunity for socializing. Originally coined by the BDSM community, but has spread beyond it.
- burgloin v.t. To burgle, to purloin, esp. sneakily.
- burj: (n., from the Arabic meaning tower or castle) A multiuse skyscrapper that is at least 500 m tall. For example, Taipei 101.
- Bushkavite: n. Anyone willing to sit in the hot sun for over two hours waiting for the dedication of a childhood home ceremonies to commence.
- buttsack: n. A saggy or misshapen posterior.
- buttsauce: A term coined by Postal Guy of Postal and Postal 2. Holds the meaning of: "That was weak."
- buxuyaodinu: An unwanted daughter, specifically in the People's Republic of China
- bweet: n. [From the Little Rascals character Buckwheat] A lock of hair that sticks up uncontrollably.
- bytergist (computers, techspeak) The spirit or genius that marks the technology for the next generation.
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- Cadishism: name for the Natib Qadish Neopaganism.
- Caffeinergy Source: Any product that uses caffeine as an energy source for customers like Coffee, Mountain Dew or Red Bull. Used by Strong Bad.[1]
- caligynophilism: the belief that female beauty is beneficial and morally okay.
- caligynophobism: the belief that female beauty is immoral, depraved, dangerous, or deadly.
- Canade, v. To act Canadian, or perform activities associated with Canadians. First used by the character Craig, on Matt Wilson's Bonus Stage: "Come on, son, we're moving to Canada, where we can... canade."
- Canzoo: A animal that can adopt a smelly stinky smell.Also called a "Ah-choo!"
- carbage: trash, junk or other clutter found in one's car. Also, excessivly, sometimes hideously customized cars. Citation: Carbage web site at topgear.com.
- carma n.: The understanding, tolerant attitude of a motorist towards other motorists or road users when things go wrong on the road. The antonym of road rage. Based on karma.
- casanology: Science pertaining to house construction and health; the effects on ones body of walking frequently on a concrete-based floor; the link between electronic devices and certain types of cancer, etc. From a blending of Italian, casa meaning house, L san health & ology.
- cashtration: Financial impotency resulting from a major purchase.
- catastolephobia: fear of or aversion to repression or repressive culture/countries.
- catastolepolitism: repressive culture or regime
- catastolocracy: A repressive government; a government that uses legislation for ideological purposes
- -catastolia: Suffix. Repression of
- catastrofuck: "When a hell-hole meets a cataclysm." - Jon Stewart, The Daily Show, 10/03/2006
- castrophony: a portmanteau of cacophony and catastrophic. Attributed to the the song "Fire Coming Out of the Monkey's Head" by the musical group Gorillaz. Implied meaning is: a cacophony of catastrophic proportions.
- casttype: to write a character in a screenplay or tv-series specifically for a certain actor. Similar to typecast but performed by the writer.
- catapult the propoganda: To promote acceptance of lies/damn lies/statistics; used by George W. Bush in a speech[2]
- cedeiaphobia: fear of attending funerals
- celibatariat: a person who does not believe in romantic love, especially a man
- celibatary: not believing in romantic love
- certificant: an individual or group that has been certified or approved by an independent organization
- cesariacy: hair length
- cesariate: long-haired
- cesariatism: 1. the act of judging by hair length. 2. discrimination against bald or short-haired women. hair bigotry. 3. the belief that women should wear their hair long; opposition to female haircutting.
- cesariatist: 1. one who judges by hair length. 2. one who discriminates against bald or short-hair women. 3. an advocate of long hair for women.
- cewebrity: A person who is famous on the internet, but may or may not be otherwise well-known
- chandralethe: n. (shondra-lee-thee) The relegation of a major news headline from the front page of newspapers, such as the disappearance of Chandra Levy, by a subsequent far greater headline grabbing event like the 11th September attack on the USA. From Chandra + Gk "lethe":to forget,
- chandropol: n. The name of the first colony established on the Moon by humobots (see humobot) in the year 2525 AD, whose human forebears were a mixed race of Australians, Chinese and Indians called Auschindians. Blend of words: "chen" from Mandarin meaning city; "chandra" from Sanskrit meaning moon; and "pol" anglicised greek " meaning city.
- chain-coke: v. The act of drinking multiple cans of coke (or other caffeinated beverage) in rapid sequence, often times using the pop-top of an empty can to open the next can. Ex. Pete would often chain-coke in order to stay awake during late nights at work. Eric's chronic chain-coking resulted in frequent headaches.
- chainsawesome (Chain'saw'sum), Combination of Chainsaw and awesome; Really Really awesome, so as to invoke the need of a chainsaw. Ex. That game last night was so Chainsawesome!
- Charles-ism: The act of mixing two or more genres of music together in a song. (Coined after Ray Charles)
- chavalanche: a gang of chavs.
- chavelling: The act of chavs travelling together
- cheapware: Inexpensive software applications (e.g. desktop publishing, word processing), usually when used in professional settings for business purposes where more expensive software applications would be more appropriate.
- cheggers: Slang for Ketamine, derived from U.K. TV personality Keith Chegwin.
- chicktyper: A male who types on the keyboard at uncanny speed without looking, mimicing the secretorial skills of a female.
- chick-wo: Someone or something that is very cool in Mt Isa
- chillaxin': 1. to release oneself from inhibition, worry, tension etc. 2. to kick back, take it easy. 3. to be chillin' and relaxin'.
- Chirp a brodie: To spin the wheels of one's vehicle, causing a screeching sound.
- chocolate slavery : The practice in some countries of enslaving young children to harvest cocoa for the making of chocolate.
- "Choowara" : Literally, a dried date, but used to represent sleazy, showy guys.
- Choog: (Slang) A person possessing any bad qualities, an extremely vague term. Also a name given to any person disliked by you.
- Christi-insanity : Pro-life/pro-war Christianity.
- chromatophotographer: A person who prefers color photography.
- chronophobia: a fear of the passing of time, in the belief that oneself or others are of less importance as a consequence
- chuckawucka': An exclamatory and descriptive word which can be used in almost any context to express any emotion and relies on the tone of voice of the speaker.
- chuppy: A Chinese yuppy
- circumloconvolution To allegedly discuss, at great length, any given topic without actually making any meaningful comment on said topic.
- circumseq Eschewing the direct path for a circuitous or convoluted course
- "clariflixplain" To explain something to a complete fucking idiot. Usually destroying their previous beliefs in the process, and taking a very long time.
- claustrophobophobia: Fear of people that are claustrophobic.
- clicktionary: A quick and dependable instant translation computer dictionary.
- clickwealth: The wealth that is acquired by the clicks that a website/blog entries or elements receive which can translate into to money, fame or recognition.
- clidiocy: The state of being either uneducated in regards to much of human history, or having significant misconsceptions about a historical era, event, or person.
- clidiot: One who suffers from clidiocy.
- citidiot: City dweller who gives the air of cosmopolitanism and intelligence but when pressed is ignorant on all things and geography not locally based. Urban equivalent to a country bumpkin but more arrogant.
- climatia: the process of global warming
- clirty: clothes that aren't dirty enough to wash, but on the other hand aren't clean enough to put back where you normally keep them.
- cluewareness: The state or level that one has a clue and demonstrates awareness. An antonym for clueless, and an alternative to the non existent word cluefulness or clueinedness from which cluewareness was inspired.
- cockjockery: acting like a cockjockey.
- cockjockey: a homosexual, or someone who acts like one.
- cockslap: a slap with a cock. Especially in the shower when the maximum "smack" sound is achieved by cock to forehead contact.
- cognotype: (n) The sum of non-conscious genetic and cultural influences on thought. A non-exhaustive list would include any processes that are in-built (genetic) and universally generalized; those (cultural and genetic) that might be characteristic of isolated populations; and those (genetic) of individual personality.
- Collaborative Service Network: (n) a Layer-7 switching network that supports complex human / computer relationship webs in a service oriented fashion; or; (n) a community working together to deliver an aggregated service in a cooperative fashion.
- Colberrific: terrific like Stephen Colbert.
- cold chick: An unattractive young woman.
- coldspot: opposite of wifi hotspot
- coldth: State or quality of being cold.
- come back to Rapunzel: To regrow one's long hair after having short hair for a time.
- commodum sed malum prohibitum Any thing that is beneficial, but wrong by only statute. To be used to refer to something that is wrong only by statute, but is actually beneficial instead of hurtful. A victimless crime that is actually beneficial.
- complinsult: A sentence or phrase that is both a compliment and an insult: e.g. "you must have practised really hard to become as rude as that" or "that's a great haircut, particularly at the back," etc.
- concension: The brief and fleeting sensation commonly preceding consensus. (contention + consensus).
- concoctionist: Someone who makes concoctions e.g. new cocktails, recipies. Also a low-level alchemist.
- concuber: Describes a specific situation where traffic control lights are inoperative and a police officer is directing traffic. Usage: There is a "concuber" at first and main. Drivers are advised to take an alternate route. First coined by Nova Holt, 2008.
- condescendor: Someone who behaves in a condescending manner - a condescendor.
- confluctuate: of results from a search-engine - to fluctuate because of algorithm change
- confoddery: A mixture of random pointlessness.
- confruition: The sense that one's satisfaction and actualization are inseparable, not only from each other, but also from those of others
- confuscate: To over-complicate, or make convoluted. To obfuscate. A common mis-spelling of confiscate.
- confusopoly: Apparently coined by Scott Adams in The Dilbert Future. Adams defines it as "a group of companies with similar products who intentionally confuse customers instead of competing on price".
- congraduate : To congradulate someone on their graduation: e.g. "I congraduate you!" or "Congraduations!"
- connectology : The study of connecting things.
- consecotaleophobia: Fear of chopsticks
- consonantpated : To have all vowels and no consonants after multiple turns in a Scrabble game. e.g. "I felt very sure a vowel movement was in order as I was consonantpated."
- conspadamo: love at first sight
- Consuelopial: Capable of lowering (raising) blood pressure by talking (silence).
- contetrichaphobia: (1) Fear of women with short hair (2) Fear of or aversion to female haircutting or advocation of it.
- contrascientific: A phenomenon is contrascientific if the current scientific understanding of the laws of nature gives us good reason to believe it cannot happen. For example: astrology, chiropractic theory, telekinesis. and intelligent design are all currently contrascientific. Acupuncture used to be, but is no longer contrascientific. (Squiptryx)
- contrivonym: n. An acronym that is constructed so that it spells a desired word. Examples in government abound, such as the USA PATRIOT Act: The "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001". Compare backronym. [Term suggested by Wikipedia user JackofOz on the Wikipedia Miscellaneous Reference Desk, 2007-11-04 "Type of Acronym" thread, in this edit.]
- cood: cool and good
- coomestibles: n. Charred meat, but somehow still thought to be edible in the relaxed mood of a barbecue. Blending of OE "coom" meaning soot and Latin "edibil" meaning edible. Based on comestible.
- coomy throsm : The dark, grayish, sooty atmosphere that hovers above many of the world's overpopulated, heavy polluted super-cities. From OE "coom" meaning begrimed, dirty, sooty and "throsm": smoke.
- coparazzi: The person operating a photo-radar camera to catch vehicular speeders. Also a term used during a protest march lead by Jesse Jackson referring to unfair treatment by the police.
- copyriot: copy + riot.
- coregenesis (or koregenesis): Female birth — Coregenesis is never a cause for celebration in China.
- correctify: To Fix Something - You better Correctify that problem before the boss finds it!"
- corephobia: (1) Fear of having female offspring. Son preference. (2) The act of cancelling female birth, through abortion or infanticide. Female deselection. (3) Fear of hearing news of female birth. (Alternate spelling: korephobia)
- corephobic: (1) Not wanting a daughter. (2) Where daughters are often not wanted. (Alternate spelling: korephobic)
- corephobocracy (or korephobocracy): A country where daughters are often not wanted. A corephobic country.
- cornfuzzle: To severely confuse or disorient.
- cornobble: to hit with a fish
- cornography: The blatant and gratuitous commercials by General Motors, Ford and the U.S. Federal Government in which American citizens are broadsided with propaganda relating to E85 and other Ethanol products.
- corpalith: A monolithic corporation. Similar to coprolith.
- corporate wine: wine with a personalised custom label.
- corporatti: Those who support the corporate community above that of government by the people. etc
- corrumpo vader (or ghost willace): to blurt the ending of a movie before a nearby bystander's first viewing
- costumist: A person who creates costumes. The existing word is costumier.
- cotarian: A gladiator that was hit in the head by a mace.
- could-have-been: Noun describing someone who could have been famous or successful if not for certain events. See has-been.
- cousina: Female cousin
- cousino: Male cousin
- crappify': To lower the image quality of a texture map by texture compression
- craptabulous: staggeringly and fanficully lousy.
- craptest: To make a quick judgment of an issue based on personal experience of the subject matter.
- craxiology: n. the study of the controversial life and politics of Benedetto Craxi
- Crazy Ivan: A tetris fanatic/addict
- creepypasta: A short story pasted into a forum designed to frighten or shock the reader.
- cremains: The remains of a cremated person.
- crevicle: One of any kind of small objects that collect and multiply in odd corners and shelves
- criminiferous: Causing or promoting criminal activity. — Some men believe that the feminist movement is criminiferous.
- crind: noun - A 3d object that is the intersection of two perpendicular cylinders. It has two linear axes of rotation like the duocylinder, but it is not a rotatope because the angles between the sides aren't right angles.
- crisate: [Lat. crisare] v. (of women) to wiggle the hips during copulation. Further etymology at crissum & sker-2, #8
- crockaholic: someone with an irrational attachment to old computers, cars etc. who wastes a lot of time trying to keep them working ("Marvin, get a new Mac and stop being such a crockaholic").
- croocked: To be drunk, or in a state of stupor.
- Crosstian: Derogatory slang referring to those who self-identify as Christian but who place more importance on either the death of Jesus of Nazareth or on the works of people in the faith who joined after his death than they do the life and example of Jesus. Used as a noun or adjective.
- crotching: Giving a particularly deserving someone a swift kick to the groin, without the need for explanation, as the crotchee is already well aware of his social infraction.
- crunk: Type of hip hop music originating in the late 1990s in Tennessee. Possibly a contraction of the terms "crazy" or "chronic" and "drunk;" or the state of being drunk and high on marijuana at the same time.
- crypaesthetic: A hidden feeling towards words. (South African in Origin) http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Mensa
- cryptic catastrophe: "Nature or Man doing Harm", but the extent of death, destruction and hardship remaining unknown to the rest of mankind, because of the strict censoring of news in the afflicted country.
- cryptolectrology: the study of loose change, car keys and television remotes. (from Greek: kruptos "hidden" and lektron "couch").
- cryptophilia: you want something but you don't know what it is.
- cubinder: noun - A four dimensional hypercylinder that can roll along one axis, but is flat on all the other sides. It can be formed by extending a cylinder into tetraspace linearly. See the chart under rotatope.
- cuculoupe: a cross between a cucumber and a cantaloupe - (GoogleIt)
- cunctabund: Hesitant.
- cunniphobia: Fear of performing cunnilingus for various or singular reasons.
- cuz cuz: Someone you are going to rob but have not robbed yet. Derived from "cuz" as in "wuddup cuz" but referring more specifically to the mark in a robbery.
- cutiful: cute and beautiful
- cyall: "Cya" to a group of people.
- cybermartyr: A user who is humiliated or banned from a forum, or blocked from a Wikisite for expounding one's religious, political, or cultural beliefs or cause.
- cyberquire: To come into possession or control of information acquired on the Internet.
- cyborgization: Transformation into a cyborg.
- cyborgize: To cause transformation into a cyborg.
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- daddypuffin (noun) male mummypuffin (see mummypuffin).
- dadkeen adj. Of men who rush to claim fatherhood of a young child following the death of its wealthy mother. Parody of the expression "dead keen".
- daga A random and stupid word, can be used in any context.
- dalmatiated adj. Covered in spots. EXAMPLE: The dog was dalmatiated with ticks.
- dalp Dumb And Lazy Poor
- dandination Derived from French, the act of turning oneself into a dandy, typically by means of wriggling or swaying about. Masters of dandination will often say strange things like "I became one with the universe dancing on Britney Spears the other day", and invite you to "dandinate yourself out" with them.
- dark censorship: The act of censoring access to beneficial information or the truth. (Synonym: negative censorship)
- darkth: The state or quality of being dark.
- dark years: The most depressing chapter of a person's life.
- DATAPAGE: Synonymous with "INFOPAGE" (see below).
- DATASITE: Synonymous with "INFOSITE" (see below).
- David-and-Goliath victory: A victory wherein the overwhelming odds of the battle have been in favor of the vanquished: The Battle of Yavin resulted in a David-and-Goliath victory.
- dawnload: A bowel movement at the break of dawn.
- debaucherous: tending to indulge in sensuous pleasures
- debush: to emerge from the far right; to distance oneself from the current president, especially of Republicans trying to get re-elected. (variation of debouch)
- decemfeminate A group of ten women. (Modeled after decemvirate)
- decemmillenuple: Ten thousand times as great;ten thousandfold
- decepticon an emoticon used to hide rather than reveal. (Someone who is attractive from behind but not from the front. Some language has a word for this(Dutch?). Link if found. Answer: Japanese, the word 'Bakku-Shan', itself from the English loanword 'back' and the German 'schoen'.)
- decomplexify: to simplify
- decroded: An emphasis to describe a thing in an advanced state of erosion or corrosion to the point of revulsion.
- deephobia Fear of d's as grades or getting d's as grades. (GoogleIt)
- definitionary A more accurate term for the linguistic device commonly refered to as the dictionary. Note that a dictionary implies a guide to diction, and while the pronunciation key for every entry in a dictionary does provide diction guidelines, the primary usage of a dictionary is to provide definitions of words. Thus a more accurate term would be 'definitionary.'
- defunkify To make less stinky. ex. The girl needed to defunkify her brother's room because it smelled so bad.
- degravify To appear to float or escape gravity. ex: The magician made the spoon degravify in the air.
- degreedy:"Doing too many undergraduate degrees.
- delhigate:"Getting others to do the work" The practice of large companies in countries with advanced economies in downsizing their workforce by sending the work to India where wages are low.
- delintophilophobia: The uncomfortable feeling that maybe you enjoy emptying the lint trap just a bit too much. Coined by Darren "Gav" Bluel (Nukees!)
- dekce: Ten times.
- delta: adverb - One of the two directions pointing out of realmspace into tetraspace; movement in the negative w direction. In tetraspace, represented by the vector <0,0,0,-1>. This term refers to the direction analogous to down; the 'd' in 'delta' corresponds to the 'd' in 'down'. In some literature, this direction is referred to as ana. This term is the same direction as zant, but is used in a different context: delta is movement from realmspace to tetraspace, but zant is a turning direction. The opposite direction is Upsilion.
- deltanphobia Fear of the letter "d". (GoogleIt)
- deluminati modern world power brokers
- demopath A person who exploits the rights, privileges, and freedoms of a representative government in order to destroy them, or the government itself.
- de-Net To bar off Internet access; to bar off someone from the Internet
- depletist An individual or group demonstrating apparent negligent or reckless disregard for the environmental consequences of their actions or an individual or group that exhausts non-renewable resources and rejects positive environmental strategies.
- deprovision: To delete a user account or remove user data from a computer system. (i.e. To un-provision someone)
- describe a room game A game in which players take turns describing a room until they are in some sense "finished".
- desistive: Final; conclusive; ending.
- destiny theory: determinism
- Deutschbag: A German douchebag
- devwahrchec: The failure to do one's homework.
- devwahrphobia: Fear of homework.
- dhishing: A term used to describe fake member profiles (dhishers) placed in a web based dating site in an effort to defraud genuine members (dhishees). The dhishers are normally exceptionally good looking ("real dishes") and end up asking for money or plane tickets or some other payment so they can visit the dhishee. Once paid dhishers are never heard from again unless it's to ask for more money.
- -diacrisis: suffix meaning "discrimination against"
- diagonability: The ability to do or place something diagonally.
- diary-a: The act of passing off self-indulgent journal-style entries as informational weblog entries.
- dictor: Name given to the sound made by a cone speaker when a cellular phone is brought near it.
- didn't've: multi-contraction of "did not have"
- dilethism: "Divine-Forgetfulness" The thought that the Earth and Cosmos was created, as a scientific experiment, by a divine, extra-terrestial scientist who lost interest in the project and simply filed it away.
- dilligaf: Biker acronym for "Does it look like I give a fuck"--Biker1955 23:03, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
- diplonot: A non-diplomatic, staff member of an embassy who claims diplomatic immunity when trying to avoid penalties for misdeamours, such as traffic offences.
- dironic: The opposite of ironic; an outcome of events aligned with what was, or might have been, expected. what would be expected. "Ironically, she sufferd heat stroke in the arctic-themed putt-putt course." [versus] "Dironically she suffered heat stroke in the desert-themed putt-putt course."
- dinkabyte: A very small amount of memory, e.g. "My iPod only has a dinkabyte of memory left on it."
- disasturbate: To idly fantasize about possible disasters, without considering their actual likelihood or the prospects for preventing them. (google:disasturbate OR disasturbation)
- ditricise: To attack threateningly or in rage. Must be of complete seriousness in to be worthy of ditricism.
- disadulation: n. A warning or admonition; a criticism
- disemvowel: v. To remove the vowels from text. (Usages found back to 1995.)
- dishwashron: A person who washes dishes, distinct from a machine that washes dishes which is a dishwasher.
- dispulsion: The act of dispelling or the state of being dispelled. (google:dispulsion)
- diswant: v. To dislike to have; to wish for or desire negatively. To 'want to not'.
- DNB n. The next step forward in man's greater understanding of and after DNA, and its application in a range of matters affecting human life still beyond man's ken.
- doctrix: n. A female doctor, abbreviated Dx. [Lat.]; see -rix. In some cultures, a physician's duties are determined by his/her gender. In India, for example, doctors treat men and doctrices treat women and children, though they aren't called that, there.
- documinutery: n. 1. A cinematic form 2. Short-form documentary content lasting between one and five minutes.
- dodo game: An electronic game that received rave reviews at the time of its release, but panned by much later critics. (Synonym: dinosaur game, dodo classic)
- dodo state: A government that has very old-fashioned or conservative viewpoints and imposes them on its people, and suppresses any attempts to change or challenge their views. An extremely conservative regime. (Synonyms: didocracy, dinosaur state, dinosaurocracy)
- dogmadic: adj. Loss of mental power or dementia suffered by dogs. From OE words "dog" and "mad" + the Latin suffix "-ic", pertaining to.
- dogwall: a term representing a metaphorical bockade in one's path, usually created by some higher power directing you towards the correct path.
- domestibles: n. Food one considers eating only at home or in their own Land. For example, certain kosher foods for Jewish folk; Vegemite for Australians. Blending of Latin words, "dom" meaning a house and "edibil": edible. Based on the word, "comestible".
- donkament (donkey + tournament): A poker tournament. Originally used on the Two Plus Two forums. Commonly seen in the phrase "lol donkaments".
- doodpooner: A person, male or female, who exhibits personality characteristics undesirable to the general party population.
- doucheclick: A person who acts moronic, selfish, mean or obnoxious online. Forums, chatrooms, and online gaming communities are rife with these people.
- douchecock: Insulting one being or beings as being an idiot, or of being a douche used by a chicken.
- Doxic: More worse then the worst.
- dracocracy :(dra-KOK-ra-see) n. A government, usually a theocracy, which imposes the strictest laws on its people and punishes breaches of those laws most severely (sometimes by death). After "Draco" a law-giver of such ilk in ancient Athens + "cracy".
- dracocrat n. A ruler who imposes a severe regime on a people, mete-ing out the harshest punishment for minor breaches. After "Draco" a law-giver of such ilk in ancient Athens + "crat".
- dracomancy: The study of dragons that involves Occult Sciences.
- dream-dulcifier: n. Pill or spray, with the power to give one dreams which one desires, such as nostalgic, erotic or "success in life" dreams.
- dree-dom-deeity: The deepest state of boredom. From the OE "dree" meaning tedious, wearisome; "dom": condition, state; "dee": no meaning in this context, and "-ity" expressing state
- dress code excess The act of imposing a dress code that is overly strict for the institution's clients or detrimental to the preferences of the institution's clients.
- drismal: Drizzly and dismal.
- droank: To give drink to drink. — Be sure to feed and droank the pets.
- drongo spotter: One who spots acts of sheer stupidity by persons who are never likely to win at anything. Such as the candidate standing for political office who unwitting divulges his policy planks to his opponent's chief adviser. From drongo, an australianism for one always finishes second.
- drunkle (noun): an extremely enebriated adult who makes a spectacle of themselves at a social event. A 'drunk uncle'.
- dry-fuck: The act of grinding pelvises through layers of clothes with the intention of sexual arousal.
- dub: Pronunciation of the letter w. The pronunciation "dub" is one syllable like the other letters, and is intended to replacement the three syllable pronunciation "double-u" which leads to "www" having more syllables than what it stands for.
- dub dub dub: Pronunciation of the acronym WWW. Used to avoid the cumbersome pronunciation "double-u double-u double-u" which has nine syllables.
- dubbaphobia: Fear of the letter "w".
- dubyaphobia: Fear of George W. Bush.
- dude:used instead of cool e.g dude look at those clouds
- dudely: Expressing a certain coolness that cannot otherwise be expressed without the use of the word "dudely".
- dumbeee:a dumb baby
- dumbonstrators Demonstrators for peace who are anything but peaceful. Those that throw rocks at police, throw up on sidewalks, and lie down in traffic.
- ducatist: (dookahtist, izem-) n. 1. The belief that certain persons or members of certain classes or groups who ride Ducati motorcycles deserve favored treatment by virtue of their perceived superiority, as in intellect, social status, or financial resources. 2. (a) The sense of entitlement enjoyed by such a group or class that ride Ducati motorcycles. (b) Control, rule, or domination by such a group or class.--Kjhayes 12:13, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
- dunt A shove with the shoulder (as in "I gave him a right dunt"). "Dunt with the elbow" - a nudge. Origin Co. Fermanagh, Ireland
- duphobia: Fear of the number 2. Not to be confused with biphobia.
- duskdread: The fear felt by persons at dusk in facing the coming darkness alone; especially felt strongly by the elderly, the frail and the lonely. From the OE words of dusk and dread.
- duss: Twelve times.
- dustache A faint, imperceptible mustache, like a sprinkling of dust upon the upper lip. Attested use.
- dust buffalo A giant dust bunny.
- dust cover collector: n. "Person who buys books not only to read, but also for the look of the book cover, font, illustrations etc.
- duocylinder: [noun] A four-dimensional shape that can roll along two independent linear axes. If it is placed on one rolling axis, it cannot roll along the other axis, but it can roll no matter what side it is placed on. It can be formed by rotating the flat ends of a cylinder into four-dimensional space.
- DVRed: A synonym of the word TiVoed in which a television program, such as a show or movie, is recorded on a harddrive-based video recorder. It is meant to resemble the word “deferred” in that the show is recorded to be seen at a later, more opportunistic time. Also the act of recording a show while watching another via a dual-tuner video recorder. Comes from the acronym “DVR” which is short for “digital video recorder” such as those built into recent versions of cable boxes available for subscribers. It is meant as an alternative to the word “TiVoed” in that it more accurately describes the action since the word “TiVoed” would falsely suggest that one owns a TiVo when one may not; it is essentially a more generic version of the verb. “DEE-VEE-ARED” is an alternate pronunciation in which the letters of the original acronym are pronounced.
- dwherb: A person with few or no friends who can't stand for others around him to be happy.
- dysergy: The opposite of synergy.
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- eahh: Something with little desire for action.
- elgaeb: "Beagle" spelled backwards
- ebaum: To take credit for an unoriginal work
- eboniciser: (pronounced: ee-bon-eh-size-or) A person who frequently invents words to add to online slang/protologism lists. The word is believed to be a combination of ebonics and improviser.
- ecdoomology: "Eco" + acronym: Disaster of Ones Own Making + ology. Examples are the introduction of rabbits and cane toads into Australia.
- eceiophobia: Fear of having an intimate relationship. (British English: oeceiophobia)
- echo drawing: A method of surrealist drawing in which one makes a sequential drawing by "mirroring" the drawings that came before.
- Evidently coined by analogy with echo poem.
- ecomnemosis: "eco-" home + "mnemo" memory + "-sis". Awareness or knowledge of the ecological and environmental conditions in a place.
- ecothermology: n. The study of global warming; from Gk "eco-", abode + "thermo", warmth + ology.
- ecothermophobia: n. The fear of global warming.
- ecothermorati: n. The self-proclaimed "authorities", such as entertainers, on matters of global warming. Fashioned on "Literati" etc.
- eCourage: Used to explain statements normally socially unacceptable, offensive, or inflammatory that appears on the internet, emails, etc. that would not be made in person because a person feels protected by anonimity and/or distance.
- editability: in the context of graphics software, text or graphics that may still be edited.
- eductivity: The dynamic between deduction (leading from, general to specific) and induction (leading in or into, specific to general). Similar to the Hegelian dialectic of thesis (rationalism), antithesis (empiricism) and synthesis (eductivity) except that the process must be constant to create 'good,' either positive or normative. The stone tablets must be continually created, broken, recreated, etc.
- efficiate: to make more efficient.
- effophobia: Fear of f's as grades or making f's as grades. (GoogleIt)
- eFlyer: A full color (HTML or other accepted universal internet graphical format) fun and informative email message or document that a company sends to its customers to promote itself or one of its products.
- efriend: A friend one met on the Internet.
- eighteenty: The number 180.
- elbutt: (n) (Derived from the words elbow and butt). An elbutt is created when one bends their arm, with the eblow in the air. The skin, muscle, and fat at the bend then resembles a butt.
- electripod: (n) a personal electric vehicle (PEV) having characteristics that allow it to function as an electric pedestrian.
- elephantatious: The biggest description of a thing, bigger than colossal.
- elevaphobia: Fear of elevators. (Synonym: anelkysperphobia)
- eleventy: the number 110 (coined by Tolkien)
- elfce: Eleven times.
- elseweb: (n) Term used in discussion fora meaning 'somewhere else on the internet'.
- elwister: An aunt or uncle.
- embeddable: (adv) The ability to be embedded. Example: The java database is embeddable in your application
- emmosin: (adj) Similar to bitch, an offensive term used to criticize or exclaim annoyance. Eg. That emossin little son of a gun stole my wallet!
- emocide The slang term emocide is a combination of the word emo and suffix -cide to form a new word which means "the killing of emos".
- empowerful: (a) Sold or advertised as empowering (esp. to women) while actually being the opposite.
- emutranslation: A form of fan translation by means of emulator ROM hacking.
- en: A a pronoun which means "the being". It can be used to replace any of the words "he/she/him/her" and the word "them" when referring to a single being. The being "en" refers to can be of any gender, or genderless. (ES is its possessive form.)
- enigmacy The state or quality of being an enigma or enigmatic
- enfagmentize The act of becoming, or causing to become gay
- enmiclave n. An enclave in hostile territory, such as the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba and the former British colony of Hong Kong in China. From a blending of the words enmity and enclave.
- enrony To act selfishly in secrecy in violation of moral values coming close to, but not actually breaking any laws
- ensidic' pertaining to everything that can be constructed and built up from the principles of identity, contradiction and the excluded third, and organizes anything given by means of univocally defined elements, classes, relations and properties. It is a determined logic that is present in everything humans say or do, and is instituted and sanctioned by society[1].
- ensopholism: The process of becoming wise.
- enstub: To reduce to a stub, especially a Wikipedia article.
- Englandshire: used by George W Bush as he is an idiot who cant use real vocabulary (other word used by Bush U.S of K)
- entequalment: (portmanteau involving entitlement and equal) The notion that everyone is entitled to scrupulously equal treatment, not only by the law, but by the universe and life itself. "It's not fair that he's taller/smarter/better looking than me; that gives him an unfair advantage; I insist that you { cut him off at the knees / give me the job even though I'm a bonehead / pass a law requiring everyone on the planet to wear blinders so they can't make petty judgements based only on appearences}."
- entrepolis (noun) a word that combines “entrepreneur” and “metropolis” to describe an exceedingly large urban area (population 1 million plus) with a sophisticated, free-market economy; favorable and functioning political governance; and significant cultural influence—all of which come together to create a fertile environment that embraces entrepreneurship.
- epicaricacy the act or practice of taking pleasure from others' misfortune; Schadenfreude.
- ephalgamate: (v. trans.) To cover in paper. "I'm sorry, but I ran out of time before the party and was unable to ephalgamate your gift."
- ephebegeriphebe n.One who suddenly goes through a reversal of the aging process. With gray hair taking on a blackish hue; adolescent acne returnlng, and once leathery skin becoming teenager smooth. From "epheb" Gk for youth & "geri", "old"
- ephebegynephobia Fear of teenage girls.
- epheberosia n. (Ee-fay-BRO-see-a): sexual intercourse between a pubescent and an adult, especially between a female adult and a male pubescent. Gk "epheb": youth, "eros": love and L & Gk: "ia": condition.
- ePhlet: (n.) An electronic pamphlet; a small, easily distributed electronic document.
- epivat The center vat or container within an array of such containers.
- eprikiniel (n.) A makeshift solution or invention to fix or customise an object.
- erogant (adj., of a person) Arrogant in a way that makes one sexually attractive to others.
- errologism (n.) a word or definition mistakenly added to a dictionary
- es pa ex yusa: The overuse of spaces.
- es: The posessive form of EN. eg.En rode es new bike back to es house.
- Esbatty: a message board slang word regarding the feeling of being "whelmed" or immersed in something one is not familiar with. sopusidly comes from WUMB ([http://wizarduniverse.invisionzone.com/index.php?act=idx) member Esbat (http://wizarduniverse.invisionzone.com/index.php?showuser=2689)
- etceteric Of or relating to a person who is like others of his or her kind; not deserving to be named individually; marginal, anonymous, obscure.
- ethernado (n.) (Pronounced: EE-ther-NAY-doe): A term used to describe extremely poor cable management in a concentrated area to a degree resembling tornadic activity. Example: "This server room looks like it got hit by an ethernado" (blend of ethernet and tornado.)
- ethnoburb: a residential or business district formed in a suburban areas by richer migrants to a country
- euphonism: [blend of euphony and euphemism] An extravagantly gussied-up term to replace another that has become ordinary. For example, what were once "curtains" are now called ""window treatments" by drapery manufacturers, and are on their way to being called "window fashions". (Note that, just like euphemisms, euphonisms tend to evolve also, as the nouveau eventually becomes ordinary in turn, and invites replacement by something even more nouveau.)
- evility: the level of evilness in a person or object.
- existoid: something true and valid that is a) specifically stated as existent in its definition regardless of evidence and beyond paradoxical examination, and b) unquestionably existent but by definition cannot be defined. Exs. An existoid is not an existoid.
- expectceed: [verb] To constantly exceed customers' expectations in every customer service encounter. Ex. I always enjoy going back to that store, their customer service staff always seems to expectceed.
- exthusiasm: enthuiasm under protest or begrudgingly, typically for the sake of another - a false sense of enthusiasm.
- extrafamous: Very well known.
- extrude: verb - To create a new shape by tracing the path of the original shape in a direction perpendicular to it.
- excisely: To confirm one hypothesis or opinion while disregarding the possible inclusion or possibility of all other hypotheses or opinions
- exeffigiate: To dummy out (something during the process of localizing a video game from a foreign country).
- exennium: a period of a quintillion years.
- eumeterate: To idealize something or someone who is far away in either space or time.
- Eurofag: A derogatory American English term to describe an ultra-hip European
- Externym (Exteronym): (etym. L. externus-foreign, strange; -[o]nym denotes words of a particular property) A classification of words dealing with outsiders (i.e. Jewish concept of Gentile, Roma [Gypsy] concept of Gorgio, Greek concept of barbarian [barbaros]).
- Extrarealistic: Pertaining to, or being of, anything but reality.
- exuffragiate: Reality television. To vote a contestant to be eliminated from a broadcast competition.
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- fagatonic: (adj.) used to describe something that is very much disliked. (from "fag")
- falcyon: n. the result of the action of powerful nations who intervene in the affairs of other nations claiming that they wish to bring era of peace and tranquility (halcyon), but, in reality, bring in an era of death & destruction; from a blend of falchion, a sword and halcyon.
- faldo: feeling embarrassed for someone when they should, but do not feel embarrassed for themselves
- famspam: unsolicited email from family members
- fancruft: used in Wikipedia to describe excessively detailed encyclopedia "articles" about fictional characters, locations, techology, languages and related fictional topics.
- fandamntastic: Can only be used sarcastically, when 'fantastic' doesn't quite cut it. "Your pet ate his own leg off. Fandamntastic, that's the fifth time this week!"
- fangina: (n) A vulgar term for a woman who is mean/ugly to the extent that she effectively becomes a human chastity belt (pronounced "fang" with the last two syllables of "vagina").
- fanship: (n) The set of entities of which one is a fan (Etymology 2).
- fanson: (n) A fan of Hanson; widely used in the Hanson f