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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
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
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
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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