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• tankhughes commented on the list algorithm-avoidant-inventions-D25p2r0HK_2pCayeZApKQ

  graped and unalived: https://www.reddit.com/r/meirl/comments/1ko9ltn/meirl/

  May 17, 2025

• natalie_portmanteaux commented on the word berrytini

  Berrytini, a portmanteau of berry and martini.

  May 16, 2025

• natalie_portmanteaux commented on the word bananarita

  Bananarita, a portmanteau of banana and margarita.

  May 16, 2025

• natalie_portmanteaux commented on the word bananatini

  Bananatini, a portmanteau of banana and martini.

  May 16, 2025

• tankhughes commented on the word foamers

  people who like trains so much they foam at the mouth? https://www.tumblr.com/queer-as-city-folk/783616409534136320/foamers-literally-suck-they-cursed-out-and-gave

  May 16, 2025

• tankhughes commented on the list algorithm-avoidant-inventions-D25p2r0HK_2pCayeZApKQ

  a cis woman drag queen talks about her love of butch cartoon characters:

  bih for bitch

  lezbean for lesbian

  https://www.instagram.com/reel/DJpfAkZzDvj/

  May 15, 2025

• tankhughes commented on the word stay in line!

  From US elections in which voters are lied to and intimidated and disheartened to have to stand in line past the time that voting booths were meant to close - activists online will post STAY IN LINE to encourage the voters to wait even though they may receive that misinformation.

  https://www.reddit.com/r/NonPoliticalTwitter/comments/1kmtm07/from_my_cold_dead_hands/

  May 15, 2025

• tankhughes commented on the word loot

  https://www.reddit.com/r/NonPoliticalTwitter/comments/1klr885/endgame_catholic_loot/

  May 14, 2025

• natalie_portmanteaux commented on the word apricotini

  Apricotini, a portmanteau of apricot and martini.

  May 14, 2025

• natalie_portmanteaux commented on the word peacharita

  Peacharita, a portmanteau of peach and margarita.

  May 14, 2025

• natalie_portmanteaux commented on the word peachtini

  Peachtini, a portmanteau of peach and martini.

  May 14, 2025

• natalie_portmanteaux commented on the word plumtini

  Plumtini, a portmanteau of plum and martini.

  May 14, 2025

• natalie_portmanteaux commented on the word plumrita

  Plumrita, a portmanteau of plum and margarita.

  May 14, 2025

• tankhughes commented on the word caruncle

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caruncle_(bird_anatomy) Little flesh

  May 13, 2025

• tankhughes commented on the word DPR

  https://youtube.com/shorts/8Jv_CQ3SPFE demonstrative pronoun reduction in the Yorkshire dialect (previously known as DAR)

  May 13, 2025

• natalie_portmanteaux commented on the word seltzerita

  Seltzerita, a portmanteau of seltzer and margarita.

  May 12, 2025

• natalie_portmanteaux commented on the word seltzertini

  Seltzertini, a portmanteau of seltzer and martini.

  May 12, 2025

• tiger915 commented on the user tiger915

  Hi, my name is Tiger and I came from Taiwan. Nice to join this community.

  May 12, 2025

• tankhughes commented on the list 2025-woty-research-y4sh9nurnUxr2gBi3jyQd

  truthed it out: https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lovlmb7ujk2o

  May 11, 2025

• natalie_portmanteaux commented on the word quickle

  Quickle, a portmanteau of quick and pickle.

  May 11, 2025

• tankhughes commented on the list 2025-woty-research-y4sh9nurnUxr2gBi3jyQd

  https://www.reddit.com/r/BlackPeopleTwitter/comments/1kjiikn/cultural_appropriation_is_the_worst/ AAVE slang being called Gen Z slang

  May 11, 2025

• tankhughes commented on the word -sona

  from persona, maybe fursona from furry + persona.

  Now a million variants - METsona, spidersona, gemsona, worksona

  Can apply to what your OC character would look like in an existing universe/art style like Simpsonsona, or just an alternate version of yourself, like your personality at work (worksona).

  May 10, 2025

• tankhughes commented on the word one of the X of all time

  https://www.reddit.com/r/BrandNewSentence/comments/1kizoy9/agressively_christian_furries/

  May 10, 2025

• tankhughes commented on the word one of the x of all time

  https://www.reddit.com/r/BrandNewSentence/comments/1kizoy9/agressively_christian_furries/

  May 10, 2025

• tankhughes commented on the word -maxxing

  ratmaxxing: https://www.reddit.com/r/TumblrDraws/comments/1kir0g7/it_is_said_that_little_girl_is_still_out_there/

  May 10, 2025

• natalie_portmanteaux commented on the word worksona

  Worksona, a portmanteau of work and persona.

  May 9, 2025

• tankhughes commented on the word dickprint

  https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/v4b2e1/women_of_reddit_do_you_notice_a_visible_bulge_or/

  May 9, 2025

• tankhughes commented on the word scraps

  so scraps

  https://www.instagram.com/reel/DJaUY95yEdb/

  May 9, 2025

• natalie_portmanteaux commented on the word passiontini

  Passiontini, a portmanteau of passionfruit and martini.

  May 9, 2025

• natalie_portmanteaux commented on the word hazeltini

  Hazeltini, a portmanteau of hazelnut and martini.

  May 9, 2025

• natalie_portmanteaux commented on the word matchatini

  Matchatini, a portmanteau of matcha and martini.

  May 9, 2025

• natalie_portmanteaux commented on the word bacontini

  Bacontini, a portmanteau of bacon and martini.

  May 9, 2025

• alexz commented on the word enshitternet

  Spotted word used by Cory Doctorow, asking who broke the internet

  May 9, 2025

• bilby commented on the word couth

  Compare cuddle.

  May 9, 2025

• bilby commented on the word Alpheratz

  *snort* hilarious name.

  May 8, 2025

• tankhughes commented on the word rawdog

  The cardinals are rawdogging the papal conclave

  https://www.reddit.com/r/BrandNewSentence/comments/1khi0c0/the_cardinals_are_rawdogging_the_papal_conclave/

  May 8, 2025

• tankhughes commented on the word splorpability

  a metric to judge the newly captured on film colossal squid: https://www.tumblr.com/natjennie/782844985584304128

  May 8, 2025

• marc commented on the word sozius

  https://www.phileas.art/news/bless

  May 7, 2025

• tankhughes commented on the word brick

  brick, bricky, a trans femme person who doesn't pass like a doll - a really good historical explanation here https://www.instagram.com/reel/DJU6M1hJUV7/
  
  https://www.instagram.com/reel/DH650qqBmhD/

  May 7, 2025

• boke commented on the user boke

  apprentice

  May 7, 2025

• tankhughes commented on the list discount-insults-btJ1PGLlOpyPliE2HHSVx

  Temu Goebbels: https://www.reddit.com/r/MarchAgainstNazis/comments/1kg9o1g/temu_goebbels/

  May 7, 2025

• ruzuzu commented on the word sabulous

  I just added it here: best-of-qms-f3E-ECnAs3S.

  May 6, 2025

• bilby commented on the word sabulous

  qms in fine form here. Well played sir!

  May 5, 2025

• ruzuzu commented on the word breadwich

  Is this like a toast sandwich?

  May 5, 2025

• yarb commented on the word breadwich

  Can I have extra bread on my breadwich please

  May 5, 2025

• yarb commented on the word breadwich

  I love this

  May 5, 2025

• bilby commented on the word smut

  Punchy good, this word.

  May 5, 2025

• tankhughes commented on the word olo

  a new blue-green color

  May 5, 2025

• natalie_portmanteaux commented on the word lewdorable

  Lewdorable, a portmanteau of lewd and adorable.

  May 5, 2025

• vendingmachine commented on the list apparelgarments-e2gnG58eGVjchNpBDr4pu

  A friend from Tanzania gifted me a kanga (a wraparound skirt for women) I've heard there is a similar garment for men and women, but I can't recall the term in KiSwahili just now.

  May 4, 2025

• bilby commented on the word map-washing

  Explained here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bse.4280

  "...a process of disclosing spatial information that has little or no value to the intended users, but rather creates, conforms to or distorts a particular narrative."

  May 4, 2025

• rip commented on the list apparelgarments-e2gnG58eGVjchNpBDr4pu

  working notes. there's so much to cover and i am suffuse with token frenzy as i fucking climb and climb these long and slender lists of words and hope that some long-lost middle-english synonym for a doublet doesn't crop up

  May 4, 2025

• rip commented on the list apparelgarments-e2gnG58eGVjchNpBDr4pu

  single features of a "whole" article are not wholesale; a "tassel" does not have a strong enough relationship to an individual article to be considered standalone, nor a "vamp", "shoelace", "ribbon", even though their use is clear enough. we don't say, "he is wearing shoelaces" as some synecdoche for "shoes", nor "he stomped around in vamps" (i suppose you could, but the usage isn't colloquially well-known, so that is purely literary).

  May 4, 2025

• rip commented on the list apparelgarments-e2gnG58eGVjchNpBDr4pu

  armor is utility-driven, but it is closer to the "utility" defined through "covering, wearing", where "protecting" can be seen as holding a family resemblance; a merkin also, while being non-functional in that sense, is closer to "lingerie", while also satisfying a "complementary" (non-functional, "added") article/garment.

  May 4, 2025

• rip commented on the list apparelgarments-e2gnG58eGVjchNpBDr4pu

  "backpack", "bandoleer", "purse", "handbag", etc., are not applicable, as they are ostensibly utility-driven even if they can be designed as coordinative/complementary (they are not purely so, unless you are a freak).

  May 4, 2025

• rip commented on the list apparelgarments-e2gnG58eGVjchNpBDr4pu

  accessories broadly fit into our category for general apparel, and so we'll choose to posit some tangential relation with the outer/underwear nowise supplicant; for instance, a watch has a functional, utility-based purpose (for telling the time) and is not specifically coordinative, but it is complementary, and can be seen as similarly related to a "wristband" or any other accessory which has the possibility of standing in coordinative relation; in general, the coordinative-complementary nexus need not include both to validate any particular term.

  May 4, 2025

• rip commented on the list apparelgarments-e2gnG58eGVjchNpBDr4pu

  also, we are being rather loose with our use of "wear", "wore" or "worn", which presumably are tied up with our definitions of "clothing" as that (of cloth, or other material) which is "worn" or "covers the body", which does not exclude non-functional ornament which is coordinative and/or complementary. a badge is excluded, since this counts as a second-order accessory.

  May 4, 2025

• rip commented on the list apparelgarments-e2gnG58eGVjchNpBDr4pu

  note: second-order "apparel" is defined as that which is functionally or pairwise functionally supplicant with an article of clothing or garment; a hairclip would not be second-order, while a cockade would be; epaulettes would not be second-order, while aiglets would be.

  May 4, 2025

• ahmed011 commented on the user ahmed011

  Hello

  May 4, 2025

• stacyp commented on the user stacyp

  Debrett

  May 3, 2025

• bilby commented on the word cancer

  See also chancre.

  May 3, 2025

• bilby commented on the word leper lily

  That's some common name.

  May 3, 2025

• bilby commented on the word breadwich

  Because sandwiches are traditionally made out of roof tiles?

  May 3, 2025

• tankhughes commented on the list black-queer-femme-slang-KKX6mc6dFPQpKGaWE_ddr

  fake celebrity apology: "i thought it would eat, but it did not" https://www.reddit.com/r/justgalsbeingchicks/comments/1kd6jrl/i_thought_it_would_eat_and_it_did_not/

  May 2, 2025

• mize3456 commented on the user mize3456

  Thank you

  May 2, 2025

• natalie_portmanteaux commented on the word breadwich

  Breadwich, a portmanteau of bread and sandwich.

  May 2, 2025

• octe commented on the word dunamis

  Wiktionary: "Alternative form of dynamis"

  May 2, 2025

• octe commented on the word dulotic

  See dulosis

  May 2, 2025

• octe commented on the word gramary

  See gramarye

  May 2, 2025

• johanda commented on the user johanda

  Ghvv

  May 2, 2025

• johanda commented on the user johanda

  Jz

  May 2, 2025

• bilby commented on the word smoked eel

  Cured of what? Living?

  May 2, 2025

• tankhughes commented on the list black-queer-femme-slang-KKX6mc6dFPQpKGaWE_ddr

  https://www.reddit.com/r/BrandNewSentence/comments/1kci3f8/cuntpalm_airstrikes_in_the_slayitnam_war/

  facetious overusage: "she served cuntpalm airstrikes in the slayitnam war”

  May 2, 2025

• kbwaaablya commented on the user kbwaaablya

  operand

  April 30, 2025

• tankhughes commented on the list 2025-woty-research-y4sh9nurnUxr2gBi3jyQd

  "Switching to your side pope is faster than repoping"

  https://www.reddit.com/r/BrandNewSentence/comments/1kb5k0j/switching_to_your_side_pope_is_faster_than/

  April 30, 2025

• davidber commented on the word ma ramona

  Hello RAMONA IM David

  April 29, 2025

• hugovk commented on the word stalkerware

  A serious security vulnerability has been found in popular stalkerware apps, exposing the sensitive personal information and communications of millions of people.

  Stalkerware is a type of spyware, frequently used to spy on every message sent or received by a romantic partner, learn who they are speaking to on their phone, learn their location, or view the photos they have taken.

  https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/flaw-stalkerware-apps-exposing-people-heres-how-to-find-out-phone-spied

  April 29, 2025

• hugovk commented on the word bossware

  Work Composer is a form of “bossware” – software designed to track employee activity by recording keystrokes and periodically snapping screenshots of their screens.

  Like "stalkerware," I don't believe that anyone who has bossware installed on their computers is keen on the idea.

  https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/21-million-employee-screenshots-leaked-in-bossware-breach-blunder

  April 29, 2025

• nilbits commented on the user nilbits

  Oh, hey! I like coffee. ☕️

  April 29, 2025

• tankhughes commented on the word wope

  nonce humorous 'woman pope' blend https://www.reddit.com/r/justgalsbeingchicks/comments/1ka0px0/the_wope/

  April 28, 2025

• natalie_portmanteaux commented on the word sinserious

  Sinserious, a portmanteau of sincere and serious.

  April 28, 2025

• roycurl commented on the user mangonel

  surtax

  jejune

  mithridatism

  strident

  tremulous

  anastasis

  epigon

  blasé

  rump

  ingratiate

  auspice

  augury

  yoke

  mentum

  reine

  effluvium

  ebullient

  effusive

  homesite

  Tisha

  abeyant

  strawberry-mark

  cathexis

  overfish

  glacière

  futurology

  spokesmodel

  hammerspace

  welladay

  provenance

  courtside

  aphasia

  demiurge

  frump

  liminal

  Acheron

  Lethe

  cogency

  bobwhite

  nonfarm

  cuirass

  antifeedant

  lilt

  bereft

  gelds

  graft

  halcyon

  libertine

  licentious

  spindling

  Godiva

  off-speed

  selfsame

  placard

  de facto

  brahmana

  Rig-Veda

  soprano

  raga

  quadrivium

  effigies

  flashier

  bosh

  pococurantism

  yammer

  aperçu

  bien pensant

  ark ruffian

  ermine

  infirmity

  steam-chest

  pawl

  patrix

  pinons

  tousled

  praxis

  untoward

  greengage

  songstress

  unmoors

  Incidences

  mangler

  sausage-machine

  imperial

  abjure

  suffuse

  imprint

  wrath

  pilfer

  rubicon

  plexus

  ab ovo

  repudiate

  aleatory

  Honoria

  elater

  libation

  dyadic

  glady

  leucoderma

  fiefdom

  stultify

  betrothal

  baroque

  formose

  surly

  castrato

  nainsell

  virulent

  perspicacity

  recondite

  interregnum

  disquisition

  loggerhead

  rapacious

  hermeneutic

  porous

  pliable

  elegiac

  syncretic

  rosier

  ashrams

  ashram

  treacly

  bastinado

  finis

  boudoir

  sully

  leper

  baphomet

  autodiegetic

  basilisk

  reconquista

  haruspex

  a corps perdu

  acephalist

  ambatch

  cynosure

  nouveau riche

  diptych

  bathymetry

  lacuna

  dyad

  dally

  balustrade

  monadic

  glean

  limn

  flit

  cingulum

  frankincense

  myrrh

  chair-mending

  genuflect

  agglutination

  nutate

  limerence

  lactescent

  cadaver

  basal

  merry-andrew

  frippery

  aporia

  picnolept

  lissome

  rickshaw

  atelier

  pomade

  insinuate

  abdalaziz

  reopse

  jew's harp

  repletion

  encaustic

  cribriform

  vermeil

  April 28, 2025

• natalie_portmanteaux commented on the word vodquila

  Vodquila, a portmanteau of vodka and tequila.

  April 28, 2025

• max_006 commented on the user max_006

  Your friend

  April 27, 2025

• exo5205 commented on the user exo5205

  https://gleezy.net/exo5205

  April 27, 2025

• fivi commented on the user fivi

  nothing

  April 27, 2025

• tankhughes commented on the word I'm throwing

  I'm throwing this. I'm throwing this hard. I'm throwing hard. I'm throwing.

  In gaming, twitch, live commentary, this can now be an intransitive verb about someone who had the lead and is throwing it away, is choking in a moment of pressure and will now lose or at least lose their lead.

  April 27, 2025

• nikoftime commented on the user nikoftime

  PENNY4YOURTHOUGHTS

  April 27, 2025

• octe commented on the word nicodemite

  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Nicodemite

  April 25, 2025

• octe commented on the word pirlicue

  Note - (Scotland) A summary, given at the end of an address or sermon, repeating its main points.

  April 25, 2025

• bilby commented on the word home brand

  An Australian term for a store's in-house brand.

  e.g. "You should try MegaMart's home brand tomato juice, it's pretty decent."

  April 25, 2025

• bilby commented on the list discount-insults-btJ1PGLlOpyPliE2HHSVx

  Does garden variety fit here?

  April 25, 2025

• bilby commented on the user tbc

  Welcome tbc! I hope you enjoy Wordnik.

  April 25, 2025

• bilby commented on the word swimfant

  Opposite of sinkfant :-/

  April 24, 2025

• bilby commented on the word broligarchy

  "With the control of personal data now yielding unprecedented influence without deference to national borders, the right of the individual in a democratic society is being subverted by autocrats like Trump and his 'broligarchy'."

  - Greg Pullen, 'Two Easter Edicts', https://tasmaniantimes.com/2025/04/two-easter-edicts/

  April 24, 2025

• phuc-nguyen commented on the user phuc-nguyen

  N/A

  April 24, 2025

• natalie_portmanteaux commented on the word swimfant

  Swimfant, a portmanteau of swim and infant.

  April 24, 2025

• natalie_portmanteaux commented on the word pregnercise

  Pregnercise, a portmanteau of pregnant and exercise.

  April 24, 2025

• izzyyyy commented on the user izzyyyy

  I would like to contribute the word Bwabble. Bwabble is when people in giant bubbles do the the wobble.

  April 23, 2025

• brueckl100 commented on the word thanatopraxis

  "Thanatopraxis is not mummification, but a body preservation technique used mainly for the public display of corpses. The practice, regulated in Italy under a law passed in 2022, is considered a modern evolution of embalming, and is distinguished by the use of less invasive substances that are more respectful of the human body."

  April 23, 2025