tankhughes has adopted no words, looked up 0 words, created 122 lists, listed 4763 words, written 1066 comments, added 0 tags, and loved 392 words.
Comments for tankhughes
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Sorry about the condiment incident.
October 28, 2015
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Bilby has been known to talk to himself, but this time he was talking to me. My comment page is experiencing a 404 bad ketchup gateway moment.
April 27, 2015
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who's my little paleoverbologist? <3
May 12, 2011
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Your tags are amazing. I adore the periodic symbol words.
November 7, 2010
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We're up to a thousand different consonant-vowel patterns now, tagged convowel.
March 5, 2010
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Have you figured out how many different consonant-vowel patterns are possible? I've found representatives for a couple of dozen more patterns. Your tag for descriptive missed the last vowel (assuming it's yours).
I've tagged vowel patterns in lots of words over the last couple of years. See the list descriptions for Panvocalics, Panvocalic euryvocalic, Monovocalics, and Double diphthongs etc. Let me know if you find any errors with my tags.
OneLook might help your search for other patterns, such as words with bh.
February 16, 2010
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Wow, thanks! Right now I have the time to contribute here and it amuses me. Thanks for the heads up on the error, I'm definitely human. I have a blog that, among other things, tracks the silly tags I've been adding on wordnik: http://tankhughes.blogspot.com/search/label/wordnik
February 14, 2010
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Hi Bri,
Love the consonant-vowel tagging! You've covered a lot of ground. I've been adding a few of the odder patterns. There's an extra c in your tag for down.
February 14, 2010
Comments by tankhughes
tankhughes commented on the word potato-stones
Edible?
June 1, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word deaerator
No offense taken! Tank is strong. Tank can take a hit. For proof, please consider Patton in its entirety, or the Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade tank battle.
May 31, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word loglikelihood
Reminds me of Guy Smiley or Scam Likely.
May 31, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word deaerator
Blech, what a gross clump of vowels, flanked by yet another A.
May 30, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word hallucinations
Including this as a potential word of the year in regards to creations by AI - particularly visual output by MidJourney. It's not realistic enough to be a deepfake, it's dreamlike, it's a hallucination. Also can apply to fake reference lists - hallucinated citations.
https://lookalikes.substack.com/p/today-i-asked-chatgpt-about-the-topic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucination_(artificial_intelligence)
May 26, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word upheaval
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom video game has the hero running through a destroyed kingdom that has been affected by an event called the Upheaval. In the last game, a similar event happened called the Calamity. My guess is that this word is being primed by all the people playing the game and that it will show up with greater frequency this year than normal.
May 25, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word memoize
I truly thought this was a typo for memorize but it's not.
May 22, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word unhoused
vendingmachine Your annoyance at the term feels misguided. Ultimately the problem is the problem, not the word. Yes, unhoused can be used by people as a self-righteous identifier to appear more empathetic while not doing anything (like correcting someone telling their story, instead of listening to the message) but adding a new term to the mix can help refresh the conversation and is not inherently worthless or harmful.
May 17, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word combinatorial
Good word to say.
Double dactly like lexicographical https://youtu.be/J4VzuWmN8zY?t=65
May 7, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word subtilely
This is less subtle.
May 5, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word yetling
Cute!
May 2, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word deeps
This is a word. It's a plural of deep. It's probably not in M-W's Collegiate or New World Dictionary. It is a playable Scrabble word though: https://scrabble.merriam.com/finder/deeps
It could use a tag like "non-standard" or "archaic" or "fantastical" since it seems it's mostly used to describe fictional caves or extreme deep-sea creatures and monsters that are "from the deeps." It's also used in the KJV translation of Psalms.
May 1, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word metal wood
oxymoron?
April 30, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word firmth
WHAT. depth length width warmth
April 30, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word Brand
capital B Brand
https://www.tumblr.com/shorthistorian/715614494439669760 "not to be a Brand"
April 26, 2023
tankhughes commented on the list elonyms-uSsdgG16E5CDlsBibHu74
https://www.tumblr.com/seldo/715618504312750080
Elno Morks
April 26, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word Twitter Blue
Twitter end times drama.
https://www.tumblr.com/adverseflyer909/715430544708632576/starting-a-compilation
https://www.tumblr.com/animentality/715410408241020928/dril-is-a-legend
Blue checks originally verified a celebrity account vs an impersonation.
Musk made them something people could pay for for clout.
This weekend, Twitter started giving celebrities blue checks without paying for it.
The celebrities are not happy about it because it implies they support Musk.
Famous anonymous tweeter @dril was verified after suggesting that everyone blocks anyone with a blue check.
Every time they change their username (normally "wint", @dril stays the same), their blue check is removed, so as punishment, @dril receives a blue check, then changes their name to remove it, then someone at Twitter gives them a blue check again.
April 25, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word innlike
The B&B reminded me of a tavern... in like an innlike way.
April 20, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word FONSI
Ayyyyyyyyyyyyyhttps://www.energy.gov/nepa/listings/findings-no-significant-impact-fonsis
April 19, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word dying
These are some good definitions. Good job, lexicographers of the past.
April 14, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word my x era
Entering my villain era, my redemption era, my top era, etc.
This was around in 2022, but was prominently used in RuPaul's Drag Race Season 15, further bringing into the cultural zeitgeist.
April 13, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word skin hunger
The need for touch
April 11, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word buttered noodles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bxt0AEoANJk
April 11, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word samefoods
Foods that are always considered desirable and safe to eat when nothing else sounds good (especially by autistic people who are sensory avoiders - classic example is buttered noodles.)
April 11, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word soft hiking
Hiking where the point is to be in nature instead of an emphasis on pushing yourself for exercise goals.
April 11, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word Millennial Rage
A new genre of tv/movies like Beef, Emily the Criminal, On the Count of Three, Palm Springs, Ingrid Goes West, Sissy, Search Party, and The Bear.
April 11, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word hydropical
oOOOOOo look at the pretty Visuals!
April 10, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word thitch
I think it's called a phonological gap? It's a viable set of sounds/letters, but for whatever reason, no concept currently uses that vessel.
April 9, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word direct registering
This is how cats only make one set of prints - their back feet step perfectly into the impressions of their front foot steps.
April 9, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word This Barbie is X
As a promotion for the upcoming Barbie movie, there are now templates where people fill in pictures of themselves, famous people, or memes with a "This Barbie is X" or "This Barbie Xes" captions on top like the promotional material posters. https://www.vulture.com/2023/04/barbie-movie-cast-posters-real-dolls.html
April 8, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word strewing
This is a strategy used in unschooling practices and with PDA autism to provide potential activities for someone who would say no if you asked them without visual cues that it was already available to start. https://www.unschoolingmom2mom.com/strewing
April 3, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word Lagenlook
Fashion style. German for "layered look." Somewhat similar to Japanese mori girls.
March 31, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word Mayo sapien
modern comical term for white people ( like Napkin American or wypipo)
March 30, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word corecore
Post-modern Dada collage videos on TikTok?
March 27, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word lambastic
See lambast and lambaste.
March 22, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word anti-drop
The drop is an EDM term for the part of an electronic-inspired song that comes after building up tension.
Modern pop songs often build up tension with their pre-chorus to mimic this aspect of EDM, but now there are also songs that intentionally build up lots of dense production in the pre-chorus and then have a sparse chorus. That's called an anti-drop. This YouTuber uses it, and has a clip of musician Charlie Puth using the term in reference to his own song: https://youtu.be/ZWhmkpdgj74
March 15, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word heterofatalism
Term coined by Indiana Seresim to describe the pessimism that straight straight, bi, and pansexual women feel at being attracked to straight men - the hopelessness that comes from being attracted to your oppressor. (definition from @chillipolyamory TikTok in March 2023)
March 14, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word grivation
Related: isogriv
March 14, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word milk ingestion pathway
https://mepas.pnnl.gov/mepas/formulations/exposure/2.0/2_7/2_7.html
March 14, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word tenting
Pants also tent. As in pitch a tent.
March 9, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word serpentine
I mostly hear this in reference to drafting (like fantasy football drafts) where they do a serpentine draft to give first player advantage but not too much advantage. Where it goes 1 2 3 4 4 3 2 1 1 2 3 4 4 3 2 1 etc.
March 9, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word PDA autism
PDA or Pathological Demand Avoidance is a subtype of autism where any demands (external, internal, self-made, anything) are potentially interpreted as threats to autonomy, threatening the person's sense of control, which their anxiety desperately grasps onto to navigate a neurotypical world. Others may view it as disrespect towards authority, but can also stem from activities they like, or bodily needs like food, bathroom, and sleep from themselves. It's not obstinance for attention, but a response to a threat to survival. https://www.pdasociety.org.uk/what-is-pda-menu/about-autism-and-pda/
March 8, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word distinct anxiety
distinct anxiety, also called autism-distinct anxiety, is a form of anxiety related to disturbances in the comfort of an autistic person - being disconnected from their schedule, stims, interests, safe foods, preferred sensory environment, etc. Has something to do with amygdala size. https://neurosciencenews.com/amygdala-autism-anxiety-20054/
March 8, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word nepo baby
nepotism baby
The term has been around, but Jamie Lee Curtis has been using it. Just heard it again in the first 10 minutes of the Ruined podcast episode from March 7. 2023: Possession (1981). https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/23/entertainment/jamie-lee-curtis-nepo-baby/index.html
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2023/02/jamie-lee-curtis-loves-being-a-nepo-baby-awards-insider
March 7, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word Engpanish
lightbird25 It looks like Engpanish takes its sentence structure (grammar) totally from English, and adds the literal translation of individual endings of Spanish words onto the English sentence. Is that correct?
March 7, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word troons
A derogatory term for trans people. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Troon
March 6, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word zoochosis
I've heard this could apply to humans en masse since 2020.
https://digitalcitizen.ca/2019/08/19/do-humans-suffer-from-zoochosis/
March 5, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word it
"it" used to be spelled "hit" (OE) but lost the h because it's so often in an unstressed place. (In reference to the list I added this to called Abbreviations that Start in the Middle.)
March 4, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word practicable
Practical, as able to be put into practice as possible.
March 2, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word disposition
Not disposal. Used for nuclear waste. https://www.energy.gov/ne/spent-fuel-and-waste-disposition
March 2, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word dispositioning
Not disposal. Used in reference to nuclear waste. https://www.energy.gov/ne/spent-fuel-and-waste-disposition
March 2, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word gendy nooch
Short for gender neutral. Heard in a Feb 2023 TikTok. https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRWJhGB8/
March 2, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word recession-core
As heard in a Feb 2023 TikTok, people pretending that they're stretching dollars, making bread and growing food because it's trendy, not because they're poor.
March 2, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word Amen break
The Amen break is a famous drum beat taken from a section of the 1969 song Amen, Brother. It is a foundational sample beat in house and jungle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amen_break
February 26, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word ephebo-labor
When it's teen labor instead of child labor? https://www.reddit.com/r/WorkReform/comments/11awn0x/think_of_the_children/
February 24, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word tough cookie
I think there's an existing "sounds edible but isn't" list somewhere that this should be on.
Edit: found it, added it
February 22, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word practical
Is the phrase "to the extent practical" an example of a post-positive adjective like surgeons general?
February 22, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word twink death
When young gay men called twinks age out of being a twink and there's no specific label they transition to (like cub, otter, bear, daddy, etc.)
February 17, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word gray rock method
A strategy used by people in abusive situations to be non-responsive so that the abusive person will lose interest when no one falls for their inflammatory bait. https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/grey-rock also called gray rocking, grey rocking, and the grey rock method because of UK/AmE spelling differences.
February 13, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word easy water
This term easy water is one of my favorite videos on the internet - a parrot orders groceries (mostly strawberries) from an Alexa. https://youtu.be/IvnW89osj0g
[big tofu' is another good one, but somehow, saying easy water like a robot woman comes up more often in my daily life.
February 10, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word crowberry
Presumably crows eat these?
February 10, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word resenteeism
https://www.reddit.com/r/WorkReform/comments/10xzz5x/apparently_resenteeism_is_the_new_buzzword_to/
February 10, 2023
tankhughes commented on the list triple-homonyms
Not to be confused with a list of triple homicides.
February 10, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word kin keeping
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinkeeping
February 9, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word sparklewashing
"Perhaps the choice is a form of atonement for company founder Cecil Rhodes’s unabashed imperialism, for the blood diamond scandals, and for the ongoing exploitation of miners. Call it sparklewashing."
https://wordworking.medium.com/all-that-glitters-diamonds-and-the-cultivation-of-desire-c7b8dcf7c82e
Like whitewashing or greenwashing.
February 8, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word cool touch bottom
A lot of electric kettles have a bullet point list on their boxes with a list of features. Often, one of them is "cool touch bottom", that you won't burn yourself if you touch the bottom of the kettle.
February 8, 2023
tankhughes commented on the list retronyms
I don't think it's quite solidified, but with AI-generated text/art, human-created/human-generated is a recent concept that will eventually go on this list.
January 31, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word cursive
Cursive is also a term for a particular indie pop singing style in the 2000s/2010s. https://www.acelinguist.com/2021/05/dialect-dissection-indie-voicecursive.html
January 30, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word UFSAR
Updated FSAR, AKA, an Updated Final Safety Analysis Report. People seem to say this acronym as letters, and not as "OOF-sar", even though that would sound pretty fun and save time.
January 27, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word do-me
Podcast host recently talked about the Lion King and Nala's "do-me eyes." Better citation forthcoming.
January 27, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word dint
From The First Nuclear Era (1994) by Alvin Weinberg:
"I've always found physics to be difficult. I am not endowed with the ability to see immediately the essence of a physical phenomena. Yet by dint of hard work, I was able to complete my undergraduate physics examination at the top of my small class."
January 27, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word human-created
a retroynm now that AI-generated art/writing/journalism is a possibility because of its normalization by ChatGPT and DALL-E.
January 27, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word swoveralls
Overalls made of sweatpants material
January 26, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word knee-trembler
Got the plural of this as a #RandomWord. New to me.
Green's Dictionary has it as early as 1965 as a UK term. https://greensdictofslang.com/entry/3vfhtqy#cp62q2i
January 26, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word turbine
In power plant talk, I've noticed people pronouncing turbine the way I would pronounce turban. I say the 2nd syllable more like it's an endive combine harvester from Irvine. Maybe a familiarity thing leading to erosion? American Heritage pronunciation (below) says it like them, Macmillan says it like me.
January 17, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word Needle in a Timestack
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Needle_in_a_Timestack This is the name of a 2021 sci-fi time travel movie. It breaks up the atomicity of this phrase, but it doesn't make it funny, or poignant, hay doesn't rhyme with time, it's not a before and after, and it doesn't expand the metaphor into anything more thought-provoking. It's just fucking stupid. A timestack is nothing. This phrase is nothing. Who approved this.
Apparently it's the name of the short story from 1985 that the movie is based on. It continues to be a bad name.
January 12, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word paper plane
A paper plane is a cocktail developed in 2007, which is named after the M.I.A. song "Paper Planes" that came out that year
January 11, 2023
tankhughes commented on the list edible-fabrics-maKxgyBzsvbUXyegouwza
I'm also counting smaller textile parts here - string, yarn, cloth, twine, rope.
January 11, 2023
tankhughes commented on the list edible-fabrics-maKxgyBzsvbUXyegouwza
It's a short list, ruzuzu, I'm happy to have it padded out. I only knew of chiffon cake. A lot of cake textures on this list.
I keep thinking there's a lace-based food, but I can only think of Queen Anne's Lace and drug-laced foods.
January 10, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word rizz
Short for charisma
January 10, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word Silk
Silk is a brand of soy milk.
January 10, 2023
tankhughes commented on the list edible-fabrics-maKxgyBzsvbUXyegouwza
Not sure sponge should count as a textile, but it's tactile.
January 10, 2023
tankhughes commented on the word shinny
I saw this used like shimmy, in the past tense "shinnied up the log to the shore" in a book from 1946. Not sure which is older or if they're related. At first I thought it was a printer typography error where 2 n's equal 1 m, but then we're still missing an m.
December 13, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word grandmillennials
https://impeccablenestdesign.com/blog/what-is-a-grand-millennial/ also written as grand millennials.
December 11, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word candididate
candi-di-date reminds me of the song Down by Marian Hill where she sings that words "down di di down" a lot. https://youtu.be/cc9Wvfbt5Ec
December 9, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word unmuted
Who knows how long I was unmuted for in this meeting? M O R T I F Y I N G. mortifying.
December 1, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word contrastive focus reduplication
I don't just like contrastive focus reduplication, I like like it.
https://www.haggardhawks.com/post/contrastive-focus-reduplication
December 1, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word rhubarb rhubarb
A rare example of reduplication that isn't contrastive focus reduplication as in "Do you like him or do you like-like him?" where repeating the word denotes that the core meaning is the one that you mean. "Did you take a subway train or a train train?"
November 29, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word rhubarb
Rhubarb is also used as stage whisper-type nonsense dialogue by background actors / ensemble to look like they're chatting but not saying anything. https://wordhistories.net/2022/01/28/rhubarb-theatre-nonsense/
November 29, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word shiksa
Different from the fragrant powder chiksa
November 28, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word chiksa
different from Yiddish shiksa
November 28, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word neurospicy
neurospicy means neurodivergent, from a post about facetious variants of autism - mild, spicy, extra hot like hot sauce.
November 23, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word Goncharov
A fake movie by Martin Scorsese, invented by a Tumblr user.
November 23, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word sol-gel process
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol%E2%80%93gel_process
November 22, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word need to sharpen the pencil
https://grahamchastney.com/2015/06/04/office-speak-sharpen-our-pencils/
November 21, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word -ussy
from pussy and bussy, -ussy can be a suffix for anything with a hole.
https://www.reddit.com/r/BrandNewSentence/comments/yy1tde/hes_getting_dewgonged_straight_in_the_ashussy/
November 18, 2022
tankhughes commented on the list elonyms-uSsdgG16E5CDlsBibHu74
I found "elongated muskrat" in Tumblr tags about him.
November 17, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word pixels
Singer Rina Sawayama calls her fans pixels.
November 17, 2022
tankhughes commented on the list elonyms-uSsdgG16E5CDlsBibHu74
I also found a variant - MeLon the Husk https://twitter.com/JeffAndDonkeys/status/1592910796123934720
November 17, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word overpressure
No David Bowie or Freddie Mercury song about this one.
November 15, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word RatVerified
On Twitter, choosing to add a rat emoji to your profile name instead of hypothetically paying a subscription fee to have a blue verified checkmark under Elon Musk's new plan. https://www.newsweek.com/how-get-ratverified-twitter-fights-back-against-musks-blue-check-plan-1756456
It's with a hashtag, but starting with a hashtag breaks Wordnik links?
November 5, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word cafedrine
Seems like a blend, or caffeine + drug suffix.
November 3, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word wonder-stone
It's not the Blarney Stone and it's not Burt Wonderstone, but it's still quite wondrous and a stone. Can't find a specific picture of it online because so many other things are called wonder stone.
November 3, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word circularity
circularity and circular design are used to describe the opposite of fast fashion - clothes made to be worn, and donated, and thrifted, and used, and shared, and worn again.
November 2, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word bake
you can "bake" (bake out?) residual moisture out of a reactor vessel https://www.pfeiffer-vacuum.com/en/know-how/introduction-to-vacuum-technology/influences-in-real-vacuum-systems/bake-out/
November 2, 2022
tankhughes commented on the list misled-words-rVbqlGprVH6k
I've been working on a spreadsheet to see if there are any patterns about languages or word formations that come up more often than others, but I think it's really the combination of sources that makes it hard to have strong reader intuition about how to pronounce any - meringue and merengue, quahog and quay, gnu and GNU.
Sure, French and Greek come up a lot, but a lot of English words in total come from French and Greek, so those numbers would need to be weighted against the total number of loanwords each language family has contributed.
November 2, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word menty b
Short for mental breakdown Maybe an algospeak algorithm avoidant term for talking about mental health without getting content banned on platforms like TikTok. A tweet on Oct 30, 2022 by @MiraGonz got 64K Likes and spread the term's use: https://twitter.com/miragonz/status/1586772633265135616
Oct 26: https://twitter.com/demohaters/status/1585517583943483393
November 1, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word sex machine
Both of these definitions are great.
October 31, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word blanket statement
Not sure what kind of list, but it seems like blanket statement and umbrella term should be on a list together.
October 28, 2022
tankhughes commented on the list three-toed-portmanteaus
also called acronymic blends? acroblends?
October 27, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word zucced
zucced or zucced = getting censored/banned anywhere online, originally just on Facebook. Short for Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook.
October 25, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word zucchinied
1. having too many zucchinis in a harvest
2. being censored - short for being zucc'ed (banned for something on Facebook.)
October 25, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word Leatherhead
Leatherhead is also a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT) villain who is an alligator in a cowboy hat.
October 24, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word what is x if not y persevering
This is a snowclone from the 2021 Disney+ TV show Wandavision, originally "what is grief if not love persevering?" but it's still in use in 2022.
October 22, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word EPCOT
Disney's Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow. (You know, that park with that huge golfball building and a manufactured lake surrounded by representations of many countries?
Not sure what list this belongs on, maybe a retro futurism acronym list. Corporate hope? Something.
October 20, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word PARFUME
PARFUME: particle fuel model
October 19, 2022
tankhughes commented on the list fictional-acronyms
Today, I was looking for a list of fictional backronyms like this, and lo and behold, it existed already and I'm the one who made it.
Thanks 2015 me.
October 19, 2022
tankhughes commented on the user mrblubdev
Hello! Go here for API key: https://developer.wordnik.com/
October 17, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word hendecagram
jjon it looks like that Wiktionary page was created in June 2020. So I it may be a "subset" of data that was pulled at a certain time, before then.
October 13, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word letheon
Letheon is ethyl ether.
October 13, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word MAPS
From the Wikipedia anadrome list, MAPS is a reverse backronym of spam.
MAPS (Mail Abuse Prevention System)
October 11, 2022
tankhughes commented on the list antiwords-ReFxVvX-Gvibuy2mJlimO
What about god and dog when they are used to describe truly great and truly awful people?
October 11, 2022
tankhughes commented on the list antiwords-ReFxVvX-Gvibuy2mJlimO
What about evil mirror versions of characters like Waldo and Odlaw?
October 11, 2022
tankhughes commented on the list antiwords-ReFxVvX-Gvibuy2mJlimO
If we could find a contranym (like dust or table) that was a palindrome, it could go on this list too.
What about gag and x? I found them on an autoantonyms list. https://www.wordnik.com/lists/autantonyms
October 11, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word biobreak
I hear this used in corporate settings like "we can end this meeting early and give people time for a biobreak before the next meeting starts."
October 11, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word Alcoa
Aluminum Company of America is a clipped compound, not an acronym, because of the L. It's also probably taking the O from cOmpany, not Of. Al+Co+A
October 4, 2022
tankhughes commented on the list portmonthteaus
NaNoWriMo is in November, but doesn't feature the name November. But it feels relevant.
...
*grapping hooks away*
October 4, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word HALEU
HALEU is high-assay, low-enriched uranium. Pronounced like "hay-loo."
October 4, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word bleaunt
What is a bleaunt? https://youtu.be/e3qwuMzzMTU
September 30, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word smellfeast
I have smellfeast on my big list of cutthroats, but the example from "English Past and Present" brought me to a fun intersection of references and light thoughts about cutthroats that I either haven't read before, or it's been 10 years so it's worth reading their gentleman scholarly work again: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/20900/20900-0.txt Thanks Gutenberg Project!
September 30, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word bisognio
Seems Italian.
September 28, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word smar
I'm seeing a lot of typos for smart in the citations. Could the attitude definition from aurowra0 be a shortening of smarmy?
September 26, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word bananas
I like that the metaphorical definitions from AHD show up first, and then Wiktionary's "plural form of banana."
September 23, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word elbows-out
I think it's an American football reference, or a sports reference at least, about running with your elbows out to keep other people away from you, or to suddenly jut your elbows out to knock nearby racers out of your way. Someone who's not afraid to show their mercilessly competitive side.
September 22, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word gougar
Some type of cougar variant creature, possibly originating on Tumblr.
September 22, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word verlan
Verlan is an example of verlan, which is 'l'envers' (the inverted) inverted.
September 19, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word candy store
In the musical version of Heathers, the 3 Heathers sing their villain song called Candy Store.
"Honey what you waiting for? Welcome to my candy store. Time for you to prove you're not a loser anymore, then step into my candy store." https://youtu.be/BQOoTX1Nxx8
I guess it's evoking how she (Veronica) could do fun, destructive rich girl shit (be a kid in a candy store) if she chooses their clique over morality, but I'm not sure why it's that specific image, which isn't anywhere else in the musical. Maybe it's from the original movie?
September 14, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word face-tank
When you face-tank in a game, it means your character chooses to open a door or box without checking, even though it may set off traps, because your constitution/HP is high enough that you're not worried that you'll die even if you get hit with the full blast. Other characters, like rogues in DnD have thieves tools and proficiencies in skills that let them check for traps and disarm them, but if your party doesn't have a rogue, or if you just have a particularly stalwart dwarf paladin who doesn't fear death, you may see the consequences of face-tanking.
In video games and RPGs of all kinds, a tank is a common defensive class, as opposed to fighter (damage-focused), healer (group health-focused), or magic user (special abilities/buff-focused).
September 14, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word piss missile
A very hard hit ball in baseball (or other sports). Not sure of the meaning. I'd guess it's a missile that you hit the piss out of.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Piss%20Missile
https://www.wrestlingattitude.com/2021/06/pat-mcafee-explains-piss-missile-viral-term-from-wwe-hell-in-a-cell.html
September 14, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word clickbait
It's bait for you to click on, it's bait that wants clicks. So it's either N+N or V+N but it's endocentric either way. Kind of an odd connection. fishbait it to catch fish, so clickbait is to catch clicks. THE MORPHOLOGY OF THIS WORD WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE...
bear bait shark bait jailbait
September 14, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word azimuthally
Things being "azimuthally symmetric" is a thing I learned about today.
September 14, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word Guardrail
This is not the word guardrail, this is the name of a fictional character on an episode of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend who was very stingy with their cocaine. https://cxg.fandom.com/wiki/Guardrail
September 13, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word tombester
like spinster and brewster as female occupational terms?
September 12, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word Nfld
404 page not foundland
September 12, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word towel-horse
How many non-living horses are there? sawhorse, hobbyhorse, high horse
September 12, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word Yes And
In improv 101 classes, yes-anding someone means accepting whatever element they add to a scene and then building on top of it to further create the world and its characters. Sometimes written as yes, and...
September 12, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word sansweep
Some kind of strange Tumblr moment about Sans from the video game Undertale vs the anime character Reigen in a Tumblr Sexyman vote that coincided with the death of Queen Elizabeth II (Sept 8, 2022). also #sansweep also #SANSWEEP (vs. #reigensweep)
September 10, 2022
tankhughes commented on the list dungeons-and-dragons-5uZe8GVIUAU46ERM7YPqz
Oh! I missed this list by ruzuzu. https://www.wordnik.com/lists/dungeons-and-dragons
September 8, 2022
tankhughes commented on the list dungeons-and-dragons-5uZe8GVIUAU46ERM7YPqz
I added dungeon crawl and dungeon crawler for you, bilby. I haven't actually done a lot of that in DnD yet.
September 8, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word TPK
A TPK is a "total party kill" in Dungeons and Dragons or other TTRPGs. That means that the group (adventuring party) of player characters (PCs) was fully killed in an attack of some kind. Often times, one of two of a party will fall to 0 hit points (HP) during a battle, but another character with healing spells or a healing potion will bring them back from death saving throws and continue on their adventure. However, when all of the player characters die, and no one is there to resurrect them, it's a TPK. TPKs can result in the end of a campaign - like dying in a story, or they can be a temporary setback that resets the progress of the party, like a video game. TPKs can lead to player characters changing who they are role-playing as, or lead to a conversation with the DM about how difficult the battles should be going forward. Or they can just be a fun story about the time that everybody died because they went to the ominous deserted village, ignored multiple red flags, released the goats of a clearly evil woman to annoy her, and then were killed by that witch in a skull-shaped airship (for example)
September 8, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word candle-hour
For this candle-hour, the scent is "fresh linen."
September 8, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word timeline cleanse
Also referred to as eye bleach - when someone intentionally posts wholesome content in order to counteract doomscrolling.
September 8, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word murderhobo
Well explicked, ruzuzu. Being a murderhobo is one way to play DnD, and is fine if it fits with the story setting and the player group. Some people want to play out a high-fantasy court drama, some want to shapeshift into bears and talk to demigods, some want to explore non-binary identities and creative problem-solving, and some people want to ruthlessly murder anyone they meet without real-life consequences. That last type is murderhobos.
September 6, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word rule of cool
When a DM or GM applies the rule of cool, they allow a player character to do something cool in DnD (or another RPG) that isn't strictly what is intended by the rules/the manuals, but is such a cool idea, the DM wants to reward their creativity.
September 6, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word phthisicky
not persnickety. tie-sicky.
September 6, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word murderhobo
A murderhobo is a character in DnD who just wants to kill any NPC that they come across or have an issue with, because it's a fictional world and they know how to wield weapons and/or magic. The whole party can be murderhobos who never try for diplomacy, or it can just be one character who flies into battle when faced with most situations.
September 1, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word quiet quitting
Not sure when/where the original source is from, but a good explanation of this distortion of working to rule: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/seldo/694106680062001152
August 31, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word fourish
Interesting that the citations and tweets don't use it for time, mostly for "quantities of about 4". #RandomWord
August 31, 2022
tankhughes commented on the list name-suggestions-for-ultra-compact-cars
anklebiter, micromachine, seedling
August 31, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word thaumatography
I know thaumaturgy from DnD. I guess thauma is miracle, and this definition is trying to say "when people try to describe the wonders of the world, their writings are thaumatography," Writing about wonders.
August 29, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word twite
Not quite twit, not trite, not tweet, not thwite. #RandomWord
August 26, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word obcited
Per https://www.wordnik.com/users/the_mighty_quinn, a mix of oblom and excited.
August 25, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word obcite
Per https://www.wordnik.com/users/the_mighty_quinn, a mix of oblom and excite.
August 25, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word obcitable
Per https://www.wordnik.com/users/the_mighty_quinn, a mix of oblom and excitable.
August 25, 2022
tankhughes commented on the user mari2
Very cool
August 24, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word aestophobe
An aestophobe is afraid of hot weather.
This appeared in an article about hot weather in Seattle today - it's on phobia lists but aesto doesn't seem to appear in other English words. Very specific. https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/weather/more-heat-is-in-store-for-seattle-area-but-fall-is-just-29-days-away/
August 24, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word quiet quitting
https://twitter.com/BudrykZack/status/1561846623625437186
August 23, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word cirrorhinal
Hey cirri, show me a nasal cavity.
August 23, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word abear
I would love to nap next to abear.
August 23, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word funga
An alternate way to say fungi to have it treated as an equal to flora and fauna. https://undark.org/2021/08/09/flora-fauna-and-funga/
August 20, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word feutre
Note to me for later to look this up. I think there's a French cutthroat loanword that uses this verb.
August 18, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word Yucca Mountain
A place where you could put spent nuclear fuel, but no one has yet.
August 12, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word blorbo from my shows
blorbo is your favorite character from any piece of media that you care about.
August 9, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word quiet quitting
Doing your job a normal amount, not over-achieving. From
an Aug 9, 2022 article: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/radish-radish/692057183537561600
August 9, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word explode orb
euphemism for bomb to avoid demonization on a MarioMaker speedrunner video game video: https://twitter.com/AnAnimeGiraffe/status/1471094373479763978
August 8, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word fuzzy sock vacation
hospital socks (provided by the hospital) are always grippy and sometimes fuzzy, depending on the hospital. (These are both: https://www.amazon.com/Socks-Hospital-Fluffy-Slipper-Gripper/dp/B09FHPMYYP)
August 8, 2022
tankhughes commented on the list who-farted-75HJ2Pth_NrRur5yC-Ob6
It's not a verb, but I'm pleased that SBD has the definition for "silent but deadly."
August 8, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word OF
OF can be short for OnlyFans.
August 4, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word fuzzy sock vacation
@vendingmachine a euphemism used online. also grippy sock vacation: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=grippy%20sock%20vacation
August 4, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word skripper
Algorithm-avoidant stripper. Also skrippa.
August 4, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word noods
Nudes. Naked photos.
August 4, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word PAWG
phat ass white girl
August 4, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word Delco
A clipped compound of Delaware County = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
August 4, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word murdur
People definitely spell murder this way now, but I can't tell if it's for fun, to avoid algorithm bans on saying murder, or just because they liked the SNL murdur durdur sketch, which was making fun of Delco (Philly) accents from Mare of Easttown. https://youtu.be/qaKZi6p6sxg
August 4, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word accountant
This job title is used by sex workers (and others who don't want to talk about their jobs or can't for censorship/safety reasons). https://youtu.be/psCTNvhF9cE
August 2, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word fuzzy sock vacation
Time spent in a psych ward.
August 2, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word change course
I would think change course would refer to changing the ship's direction, not your location on a ship. #RandomWord
August 1, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word kms
Short for "kill myself", used by people to talk about mental health without being blocked or demonetized on certain sites.
July 29, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word Averno
Oh! In DnD, Avernus is the first level of the Nine Hells. Good to know it's in Italy.
July 29, 2022
tankhughes commented on the list algorithm-avoidant-inventions-D25p2r0HK_2pCayeZApKQ
Little Bear Winnie. Chinese word bans called "river crab" https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-china-blog-40627855
July 29, 2022
tankhughes commented on the list algorithm-avoidant-inventions-D25p2r0HK_2pCayeZApKQ
camping = help someone visit your state for an abortion https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/camping-meme-roe-v-wade-abortion-ban-rcna35765
July 29, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word nem
Used to mean "men" some places online to avoid men who are searching for safe-space groups to harass.
July 29, 2022
tankhughes commented on the list topological-verb-adjectives
I didn't know about that Latin participle form! Now I want to go to onelook.com and type *ate and see what else pops up for this list.
July 27, 2022
tankhughes commented on the list why-did-the---cross-the
I think the tankhughes might cross the road because she felt overwhelmed about something happening on the side of the road where she was.
July 27, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word gaiter
neck gaiter makes me think of turkey wattles. I don't think this was in the discussion of WOTY 2020, but it shoulda been, as a mask alternative of people who have sensitive ears, or who only want to nominally comply with mask laws but just keep this around their neck as a scarf.
July 27, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word organic horror
I saw this term used to describe warnings for the cat-based video game Stray. The category included trypophobia (fear of tiny clustered holes), clusters, and parasites. Reminds me of the similar category of body horror, which includes too many limbs or eyes, limbs in the wrong places, and all kindsa gross mad scientist monster manipulation of what humans should look like.
July 27, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word blows per foot
Sounds more like ASMR foot fetish terminology than a legit engineering measurement, but here we are.
July 18, 2022
tankhughes commented on the list helmet-CZgXMkbmQU
kabuto!
July 18, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word thimble parameters
Thimbles are so small! how could their parameters warrant a whole report section?
July 18, 2022
tankhughes commented on the word portrayment
Feels like a betrayment department in here.
July 15, 2022
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