Welcome, alexz

alexz commented on the word bilby

Welcome Back!

November 26, 2023

alexz commented on the word glizzy

Today, I saw a video where a microwaved hot dog which was partially overcooked and deformed was called a glizzy.

"Glizzy's done"

October 29, 2023

alexz commented on the word pastryarchy

spotted on Mastodon - "There are Pop-Tarts but no Mom-Tarts because of the pastryarchy"

October 8, 2023

alexz commented on the word phonk

"that's not music, that's noise"

October 7, 2023

alexz commented on the list glitched-definitions

so.. from Wikipedia -

"Mayo is an Uto-Aztecan language. It is spoken by about 40,000 people, the Mexican Mayo or Yoreme Indians, who live in the South of the Mexican state of Sonora and in the North of the neighboring state of Sinaloa."

August 30, 2023

alexz commented on the list glitched-definitions

Mayo gives me a 404 error.

I recently learned that Mayo is a regional language in Mexico.

I only looked it up because someone replied to Gretchen M with 'Is Mayonaise a language'

and my initial answer was 'only if you're in the Mayon region of France...' type of joke.. but Wikipedia lists Mayo as a language.

August 30, 2023

alexz commented on the word co-co

spotted in Conspiracy Trial news as 'co-conspirator'

Spotted in the Slate

"The indictment recognizes this co-co (yes, that’s going to be our shorthand for co-conspirator from here on out) as the author of the “December 9 Memorandum (‘Fraudulent Elector Instructions’),”...

August 18, 2023

alexz commented on the word UAP

Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena

spotted in US Congress hearings.

🛸

🐄

🏡

August 1, 2023

alexz commented on the word non human biologics

"...or alien life forms from fallen starships"

US Congress

August 1, 2023

alexz commented on the word bunspotting

a word I saw a friend use.... the spotting of wild bunnies at the park

July 26, 2023

alexz commented on the word oughties

spotted as a reference to the 00's decade referrng to 2000-2009

in a bit of a lookup, this term was historically used before https://www.google.ca/books/edition/SCAN_info/gX0jAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=oughties

July 3, 2023

alexz commented on the word guwap

spotted this in a youtube video.... a quick lookup shows that it means 'money'.

also spelled guwop

Urbandictionary seems to have this word defined.

July 3, 2023

alexz commented on the word zqfmgb

this reminds me of the time Fred Flintstone played the word ZARF

July 2, 2023

alexz commented on the word jebaited

esports - has an article on the Origins of Jebaited.

"WHAT DOES JEBAITED MEAN – ORIGINS AND USAGE OF THE JEBAITED EMOTE

Jebaited is Twitch emoticon featuring Alex Jebailey, owner of CEO Gaming, and used to describe the act of baiting an opponent in a video game.

Since its inception the jebaited definition has somewhat evolved to encompass any situation when somebody gets baited into doing something. While still extremely popular on Twitch, it has also found its place in video complications of funny moments and fails. It’s of those die-hard memes that you keep seeing occasionally."

https://www.esports.net/wiki/guides/what-does-jebaited-mean/#:~:text=The%20jebaited%20emote%20first%20emerged,%E2%80%9CBulldog%20Jebaited%20Aegis%20Steal%E2%80%9D.

June 30, 2023

alexz commented on the word went pear shaped

'went pear shaped' means went horribly wrong.

early citation 1994 'Liberty and Order' page 44 https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Liberty_and_Order/

June 5, 2023

alexz commented on the word chonkosaurus

Spotted in the BBC news online.

"Chicago kayakers discover 'Chonkosaurus' turtle"

Kayakers have nicknamed a large turtle Chonkosaurus

May 13, 2023

alexz commented on the word heat set

Refers to mechanical inserts which are heated and interted into plastic so they remain in place.

May 6, 2023

alexz commented on the word protestival

Spotted in Vancouver news for the 420 "protest"

April 21, 2023

alexz commented on the word thitch

how is this not a word?

April 8, 2023

alexz commented on the word rautener

Google translate says it's the German word for Diamond

Google books found it also as a surname, so maybe someone did something rascallish in the 19th century.

March 29, 2023

alexz commented on the word Pascal case

similar to camel case

Apparently using Camel Case or Pascal Case helps e-reader software read multi word hashtags WhichAreStrungTogether

March 19, 2023

alexz commented on the word well actually

"what do you call a mansplainer at the bottom of a 30 foot deep pit?"

March 18, 2023

alexz commented on the word acoustic typewriter

aka 'typewriter'

March 13, 2023

alexz commented on the word acoustic bike

aka 'bike'

March 13, 2023

alexz commented on the word fart squirrel

spotted as a reference to a skunk.

Spotted in my mastodon feed "Do not pet the fart squirrels"

March 7, 2023

alexz commented on the word UrbEx

spotted in my social media as 'Urban Exploration' - the exploration of abandoned buildings and stuctures.

also urbex

February 25, 2023

alexz commented on the list elonyms-uSsdgG16E5CDlsBibHu74

spotted today - melon tusk

February 23, 2023

alexz commented on the word twin-stick

refers to gaming on consoles which have the dual joysticks for aiming/moving

February 19, 2023

alexz commented on the word mastodown

another name for the errorphant on Mastodon

February 16, 2023

alexz commented on the word errorphant

a recently coined name for the 'Error elephant' when your Mastodon server serves up an error code.

Here's the voting page: https://mstdn.ca/@jeffsamsonow/109866846487073759

February 16, 2023

alexz commented on the word sadge

spotted this word... in looking it up, knowyourmeme lists it as the 'flattened pepe' emote. so... sad?

February 13, 2023

alexz commented on the word dictionariana

Spotted in a news article about Madeline Kripke

'She owned “dictionariana,” from the world beyond the books. Kripke had pictures of dictionary makers, images from matchbooks and cigar boxes. Noah Webster is usually shown as an elderly gentleman, but Kripke had a cigar-box-cover drawing of him as a young man with flowing brown hair. In her collection is a shot of Allen Walker Read, hanging off the side of a Midwestern windmill. She had a letter written by Walt Whitman, then a newspaper editor in Brooklyn, asking for a free copy of Webster’s dictionary, which the poet said was owed him after giving it a favorable review.'

https://archive.is/20230207122217/https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-mistress-of-slang#selection-2195.0-2203.81

the Kripke collection has moved to Indiana and is now being unboxed according to this blog: https://blogs.libraries.indiana.edu/lilly/2023/02/08/unpacking-the-kripke-collection/

February 12, 2023

alexz commented on the word crowberry

it's edible, so I think crows will eat these.

They prefer nuts though as nuts are fatty food with lots of energy

February 11, 2023

alexz commented on the word soulsian

gaming speak for a video game which is like Dark Souls the game.

January 27, 2023

alexz commented on the word turbine

I remember watching videos of the Oroville dam crisis when their spillway broke. One youtuber was a pilot and he would sometimes switch from the Aviation 'turbin' to the hydro dam's turBINES .. but mostly use his preferred 'turbin' pronounciation.

January 21, 2023

alexz commented on the word GAFAM

Spotted as a reference to Google Apple Facebook Amazon and Microsoft

January 20, 2023

alexz commented on the word boomer shooter

This is a new 2022 term referring to the First Person Shooter computer games in the style of the 80s and 90's Quake/Doom types of games with shooting and travelling.

January 13, 2023

alexz commented on the word iphoneography

blend of iPhone and photography, spotted again today. I think it came from the Instagram crowd

January 11, 2023

alexz commented on the list edible-fabrics-maKxgyBzsvbUXyegouwza

rice paper?

January 11, 2023

alexz commented on the word croon

The shiny new thing at my local cafe is the croon or croissant moon Also known as swish rolls

Everyone's been swarming them because of the shiny new thing.

They've also got cruffins which is a croissant muffin.

December 30, 2022

alexz commented on the word Croissant Moon

aka croon

December 30, 2022

alexz commented on the word pspspsps

the word to use when calling a cat

also pspsps

December 29, 2022

alexz commented on the word the dacity

some slang spotted as a shortened 'the audacity'

dacity is already listed here.

December 24, 2022

alexz commented on the word Mavica

Today I learned that Mavica is a portmanteau of MAgnetic VIdeo CAmera. This camera used a floppy disk to save photos.

December 22, 2022

alexz commented on the list elonyms-uSsdgG16E5CDlsBibHu74

baby elmo

December 19, 2022

alexz commented on the word chubby rain

"The aliens come down in raindrops"

"making the raindrops chubby" - from the movie Bowfinger

December 18, 2022

alexz commented on the word irrecromulent

just coined this word to troll people who don't like the word irregardless

December 18, 2022

alexz commented on the word freeze peach

I"m seeing more 'freeze peach' in 2022 these days.

December 18, 2022

alexz commented on the word blops

Heard 'blops' as a gaming reference to the 'BLack OPS' games.

The usage examples seem to refer to blops as being more like bleep and bloops.

December 16, 2022

alexz commented on the word IDNHAC

initials for 'i do not have a clue'

December 16, 2022

alexz commented on the word tallywhackers

It seems to a name of part of the sailor uniform.

https://library.uncw.edu/capefearww2/veWebDailyLife/exhibit3/e30084a.htm

December 6, 2022

alexz commented on the word tridemic

refers to the recent Flu, Covid, and RSV outbreaks... 2022.

December 5, 2022

alexz commented on the word fairy bread

Wikipedia has "hundreds and thousands" being those tiny colored candy ball sprinkles.

'Nonpareils are a decorative confectionery of tiny balls made with sugar and starch, traditionally an opaque white but now available in many colors. They are also known as Hundreds and Thousands in South Africa, Australia, New Zealand1' - wikipedia

Wordnik's got the definition hundreds and thousands

December 5, 2022

alexz commented on the word goblin mode

I only heard about this word today when it was Oxford's word of the year. I've never heard it before.

December 5, 2022

alexz commented on the word 🫳 🎤

The 'mic drop' emoji phrase.

Also done as

🫳

🎤

November 25, 2022

alexz commented on the list retro-encabulator-tech-specs

In the last month, I've seen 2 unique encabulator videos..

One is the Bike Encabulator which makes some fun at all the fun bike part names, https://youtu.be/yJe4kFS1LqM

Second is "SANS ICS HyperEncabulator" which hires the original actor. https://youtu.be/5nKk_-Lvhzo

November 25, 2022

alexz commented on the word birdsite

"birdsite" is referring to Twitter

November 22, 2022

alexz commented on the list elonyms-uSsdgG16E5CDlsBibHu74

spotted in today's timeline BirdFuhrer

November 21, 2022

alexz commented on the word zookpo

spotted on twitter "In Ojibwe our word for snowing is zookpo."

November 20, 2022

alexz commented on the list elonyms-uSsdgG16E5CDlsBibHu74

The Boring Man

he who shall not be named

World's Richest Man

Phony Stark

November 19, 2022

alexz commented on the list horse-colors-oTNnYX5KRVWJQyjNKgcHg

maybe it's the semicolons in the list name.

November 17, 2022

alexz commented on the word dogwater

calling something dogwater, is calling something crap. gen Z term.

November 17, 2022

alexz commented on the word CW

spotted on Mastodon for 'Content Warning'

You can put a content warning on your posts there.

November 13, 2022

alexz commented on the word mobik

in 2022, it refers to a Russian person who was mobilised to fight in Ukraine.

November 6, 2022

alexz commented on the list ai-generated-vogon-words-ZBzLg57KTcNWQaB3a-eN6

Of the 18 words picked by an AI as matching an AI list... five don't appear in Wordnik, so I wonder how an AI coins a new Vogon word.

baggis wugger spooging shivvying freddled

October 30, 2022

alexz commented on the word buh bye

meaning bye bye

October 30, 2022

alexz commented on the word bubye

or buh bye

October 30, 2022

alexz commented on the word wusuhh

spotted online on twitter.

wusuhh , so far, It looks like it means 'What's up'

October 29, 2022

alexz commented on the word boo-jee

spotted on twitter bad and boo-jee
also spelled boojee and boujee but haven't seen too many examples.

October 28, 2022

alexz commented on the word VOD

VOD stands for Video On Demand -

In game streaming, a streamer will make his video available to view later.

October 28, 2022

alexz commented on the word Gindex

slang for Gin and blue cocktail mix.

October 24, 2022

alexz commented on the word Augtober

Augtober - spotted in my local news Vancouver BC, relating to a warm and Dry October

October 11, 2022

alexz commented on the word stonkingly bright

Sept 2022, Jupiter is described as 'Stonkingly bright'

https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/09/28/stonkingly-bright-jupiter-closest-to-earth-easily-seen-in-nz-sky/

September 28, 2022

alexz commented on the word gen alpha

Will the term 'gen alpha' take off as the next generation?

September 25, 2022

alexz commented on the word elbows-out

Google book search has

A book called Elbows Out

By Dietrich von Bothmer · 1968

Dictonary of Phrase and Fable 1898

"To elbow ont ; to be elbowed out . To supersede ; to be ousted by a rival . "

And then there is

'out at the elbows' referring to a person's jacket elbows being worn out.

From the book 'Gone to the bottom' page 121

https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Gone_to_the_Bottom

September 24, 2022

alexz commented on the word FAFO

Acronym for 'F*** Around and Find Out'

Used in 2022 when J6 insurrectionists get sentenced.

September 24, 2022

alexz commented on the word Roevember

Spotted as a political term - blend of Roe vs Wade and November

September 24, 2022

alexz commented on the word religiot

spotted religiots on Twitter in 2022. blend word of religious and idiot

September 21, 2022

alexz commented on the word NyQuil chicken

In the future, when archaologists try to figure out what the hell happened in 2022, they'll come across this entry 'NyQuil Chicken'

September 21, 2022

alexz commented on the word breadcrumbing

Recently spotted this on twitter as doing the bare minimum to keep a relationship going.

September 20, 2022

alexz commented on the word PLARF

Spotted at "People's Liberation Army Rocket Force" or China's rocket warfare department.

September 18, 2022

alexz commented on the word novid

spotted in the news defined as 'someone who has never caught covid'

September 17, 2022

alexz commented on the word Pee Pee

Pee Pee is trending because Pierre Poilievre is the new Conservative Party leader in Canada Sept 2022.

September 11, 2022

alexz commented on the word phthisicky

so, not a phth like in phenolphthalein

September 8, 2022

alexz commented on the word situationship

you know you got a good word when it shows up on 6 of the twitter word lists.

September 3, 2022

alexz commented on the word snaccident

"inadvertently eating an entire packet of biscuits, when you meant to have just the one" - from a BBC clip 'The art of mashing up words to create new ones'

September 3, 2022

alexz commented on the word texptectation

"the constant checking of a phone for a message you're hoping will arrive" from a BBC clip 'The art of mashing up words to create new ones'

September 3, 2022

alexz commented on the word probsolutely

"probsolutely for one is a definite maybe" - BBC video 'The art of mashing up words to create new ones'

September 3, 2022

alexz commented on the word definitionless

see fnord

September 2, 2022

alexz commented on the word TMNT

Acronym for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

September 1, 2022

alexz commented on the list put-me-back-on-my-bike-UToeNCrf6-wRMQ-Aibl_k

Taking up biking? I miss it because we had some heat waves.

August 31, 2022

alexz commented on the word zombie ice

Spotted in Weather twitter - the Greenland ice which is destined to melt in the next century regardless of whether we cut back greenhouse gas emissions.

August 30, 2022

alexz commented on the word chocolate bar

I think it's got a Canada listing as at the time of writing, it was more likely that Americans use Candy Bar and Canadians use Chocolate Bar as a phrase, totally ignoring the rest of the Engish speaking world.

August 30, 2022

alexz commented on the word acronym

I prefer the word acronym over initialism , according to Google's ngram viewer, this word picked up steam in the sixties, took off and is now more popular by orders of magnitude.

At this point, it's a handful of people at Wiktionary trying to hold onto the word initialism

August 25, 2022

alexz commented on the word ion

spotted in song lyrics for "i don't"

August 25, 2022

alexz commented on the word parattack

Spotted in BC's Forest Fire Fighter twitter.

Province of BC lists this term as "Parattack crews are a specialized type of initial attack crew that are deployed to incidents by parachuting out of fixed-wing aircraft. "

August 24, 2022

alexz commented on the word rapattack

Spotted in BC Forest Fire fighter's twitter.

Province of BC lists this term as

"Rapattack crews are a specialized type of 3-person initial attack crew who use medium-lift helicopters equipped with hoist and rappel gear to access difficult-to-reach incidents."

August 24, 2022

alexz commented on the word feutre

"It's not a bug, it's a ..."

August 19, 2022

alexz commented on the user loveofwords

Welcome!

August 19, 2022

alexz commented on the word gyal a

Spotted in in Nicki Minaj - Super Freaky Girl

also spelled gyal ah

August 18, 2022

alexz commented on the word hA

The wiktionary definition bugs me, because the 'SI UNIT' is the ampere.
Hecto may be listed in the SI manual as a common prefix, but I've never seen people use 'hecto' in practice when dealing with electricity.

Wiktionary's definition got mangled to '102' amps because someone used 10^2 exponent notation which normal people don't use for small numbers.

Every electrical usage I've seen is that people stick to 'kilo' 'mega' and 'giga' , and milli, micro

August 18, 2022

alexz commented on the word boops boops

Today I discovered there's a fish named boops boops

August 15, 2022

alexz commented on the word canadew

Doin the Dew?

August 15, 2022

alexz commented on the list who-farted-75HJ2Pth_NrRur5yC-Ob6

who cut the cheese?

August 4, 2022

alexz commented on the word cow tipping

I thought Australia didn't tip

August 1, 2022

alexz commented on the word necrobotics

Spotted in the media - using dead spiders as robotic grippers.

July 29, 2022

alexz commented on the word hypnosporange

surprised this didn't get on my orange poetry list. https://www.wordnik.com/lists/orange-poetry

July 23, 2022

alexz commented on the word J6er

Refers to the January 6 insurrectionists.

July 23, 2022

alexz commented on the word J6

This year, J6 refers to the January 6 insurrection and J6er refers to the insurrectionists.

July 23, 2022

alexz commented on the list professional-wrestling-slang-5V5seeZRNJ54pzXowKeaW

no suplex? No Piledriver?

July 12, 2022

alexz commented on the word trewe

trewe dat

July 6, 2022

alexz commented on the word waffle

How much awful can an offal waffle falafel be if an awful falafel used awful offal waffles?

June 21, 2022

alexz commented on the word hieratica

I think this gives me the idea of making a Heirovetica font.

June 21, 2022

alexz commented on the word opakapaka

How many opakapakas can an alpaca pack if an alpaca could pack opakapakas?

June 15, 2022

alexz commented on the word licuala

If licuala is pronounced 'lick a koala' then

how many licuala's can a Koala lick if a Koala could lick licualas?

June 10, 2022

alexz commented on the word squee

I remember emailing the OED about this word back in 2000 because it was overused on fan forums. Now it's a word of the day.

June 10, 2022

alexz commented on the word dart

I've recently seen dart be used to describe cigarettes. First time I heard it was watching live streams of the Ottawa protests in 2022. And recently, saw an article about the 'dart board' a surfboard made of cigarettes.

June 9, 2022

alexz commented on the word coscup

so , apparently movie themed mugs and tumblers are now called coscups or CosCups

for 'cosplay cup'.

I dunno... when I'm drinking coffee, I'm not cosplaying.

May 29, 2022

alexz commented on the word sharkcano

Spotted in the news

MetroUK "A Nasa satellite has captured the moment a massive underwater volcano home to sharks and other marine life - and nicknamed ‘Sharkcano’ - erupted in the depths of the Pacific Ocean"

May 26, 2022

alexz commented on the word MPX

spotted on twitter in medical news for Monkeypox

May 20, 2022

alexz commented on the word monkeypox

"The word bilby has been adopted by Royal Secret Society of Bilbies."

I think we should double efforts to save the bilbies

May 19, 2022

alexz commented on the word lithophone

spotted on Twitter as a musical instruments made from rocks... in the tweet I saw, it was an archaologist banging on fossils with a rock getting different tones.

"Archaeologist Dr. Jean-Loup Ringot specialized in prehistoric music demonstrates a Lithophone.

May 15, 2022

alexz commented on the word spicy purrito

spotted on Twitter. A new form of the purrito or blanket wrapped cat.

May 15, 2022

alexz commented on the word narluga

spotted in the news again, as a narwhal has been seen swimming with a group of belugas.

April 23, 2022

alexz commented on the word shrinkflation

spotted this term again in 2022.

April 19, 2022

alexz commented on the word s worded

twitter speak for 'suspended'

April 17, 2022

alexz commented on the word acc

spotted in text speak, twitterpseak as 'actually' and 'account' as in a twitter account.

April 17, 2022

alexz commented on the word gooble gobble

This phrase is from the 1932 movie Freaks

It has worked its way into Simpsons and Wolf of Wall Street.

I wonder if the Toy Story phrase 'One of Us' is a reference.

April 5, 2022

alexz commented on the word maidenless

maidenless is a bit of a meme word as the computer game Elden Ring has NPC characters saying "But you, I am afraid, are maidenless"

April 2, 2022

alexz commented on the list words-in-first-3-wordle-word-guess-list-fEttSrihG8

I always lead with 'canes' and then try would/wound might/light to eliminate 15 of the 26 letters of the alphabet.

March 30, 2022

alexz commented on the word protestware

Spotted 'protestware' in the news.

Software written to protest. In some cases a user gets a popup with the protest message, in other cases, computers with specific country code get wiped.

March 24, 2022

alexz commented on the word -dle

i've spotted Worldle and Quordle

March 23, 2022

alexz commented on the word demon egg

Today's XKCD refers to a 'Demon Egg' which is a reference to the demon core which was a plutonium sphere initially created for nuclear bomb making.

March 15, 2022

alexz commented on the user anix27

Well, you enter a word in the search bar, and if you don't see a definition, you an write a comment about it. You can even add it to a list. Putting square brackets around a word ][ make a link to that word.

March 7, 2022

alexz commented on the word peepoSad

ok... this is a meme phrase. I'm not familiar with the reference.

March 6, 2022

alexz commented on the word dressy cas

spotted as dress casual

Also spotted a doubling of this 'dressy dressy cas cas'

March 5, 2022

alexz commented on the word gestures wildly

All I know, is that we need a *gestures wildly* emoji.

And a in Spanish modifier.

March 2, 2022

alexz commented on the word slow roll

In 2022, it refers to a group of vehicles in a protest driving very slow to disrupt traffic, denying people access to streets.

I've also seen 'slow roll' refer to a line of anti riot police moving forward slowly, and yoinking some individuals who do not move out of the way.

February 27, 2022

alexz commented on the word Kootenay candle

spotted in BC news -

"RCMP asks public for help catching people starting fires known as 'Kootenay candles' at a ski hill

The RCMP detachment in Trail, B.C., is investigating a rash of "Kootenay candles" at Red Mountain Resort in nearby Rossland.

The term "Kootenay candle" has come to refer to the practice of lighting old, dead trees on fire in the middle of winter, often using sap or sapwood to start the blaze. ..." From CBC article.

February 27, 2022

alexz commented on the word 💙💛

spotted on Twitter, the blue heart and yellow heart mean love for the Urkaine.

February 26, 2022

alexz commented on the word tfg

Political speak for 'The former guy'

February 26, 2022

alexz commented on the list cities-named-for-animals-flowers-and-objects-fiW21tp9bQ

Saskatoon is named after the berry.

Moose Jaw, Red Deer.

Cherryville , Salmon Arm, Blaeberry , Phoenix,

Whitehorse, Tuktoyaktuk ,

February 26, 2022

alexz commented on the word Twos Day

citation on Twitter by Chandra Xray Telescope.

"Happy #TwosDay! What happens when #two galaxy clusters collide? Sometimes they can bear a striking resemblance to the Starship Enterprise from Star Trek, apparently. Abell 1033 is located about 1.6 billion light years from Earth. Boldly Go for more:"

February 22, 2022

alexz commented on the word Chinada

This slur has been around for years, usually when people criticise social programs, or when they criticise the enforcement of laws.

Blend word of China and Canada

February 20, 2022

alexz commented on the word splothery

As someone who has 800 words for Snow and Ice... i love this word.

splother goes back to Lincolnshire dialect.

https://www.google.ca/books/edition/A_Glossary_of_Words_Used_in_South_west_L/pHcKAAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=splothery&pg=PA139

February 17, 2022

alexz commented on the word BoomerBook

A reference to Facebook, because 'only boomers use FaceBook'

February 16, 2022

alexz commented on the word socials

refers to 'social networks' - twitters, tictoks, facebook

February 16, 2022

alexz commented on the word wiktionarians

refers to 'those guys' at Wiktionary
spotted on YouTube in That Word Chat interview with Erin McKean

I expect someone from Wiktionary to come along and say that it should be a capital W for this word, then we can reply "Citation Needed"
Checkmate! Wiktionary!

February 16, 2022

alexz commented on the word convoyers

one term used for the convoy of idiots blocking border crossings for the last few weeks.

February 14, 2022

alexz commented on the word cry ab it

spotted on twitter as a shortening of 'Cry about it'

this had some popularity due to the olympics.

February 13, 2022

alexz commented on the list wordle-tAcc_IXQK8yV

3blue1brown went through the wordle source code to see the actual word list and did a video on it recently.

February 9, 2022

alexz commented on the word wordler

spotted as someone who plays Wordle

February 3, 2022

alexz commented on the word eDNA

Spotted in MBARI news... environmental DNA - material containing DNA which floats about the environment, and in MBARI's case, floats about in the ocean.

February 2, 2022

alexz commented on the word wordlemaster

spotted in my social media feed.

Also..

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February 1, 2022

alexz commented on the word Snowgopogo

spotted in Canadian news... a snowy Ogopogo monster

January 29, 2022

alexz commented on the word PETSCII

This refers to the letters and graphical character elements in the Commodore 64. Each character was in a 8pixel by 8pixel square.

January 27, 2022

alexz commented on the word poopsicle

Frozen dog poop. Spotted in CBC article about Prince George's social media writer.

From the article:

'Other highlights include a message to dog owners to "scoop your poopsicles" from the snow.

"Come spring our parks are going to STINK," the post warned, once again garnering positive responses.'

January 23, 2022

alexz commented on the word megaberg

Spotted in the news - The A68 iceberg dumping fresh water into the ocean. It's a chunk of ice which broke off of an ice shelf.

Adding to the 'words for ice and snow' list. #833

January 22, 2022

alexz commented on the word deltacron

Blend word of Delta and Omicron. People being hyperbolic about the pandemic virus names.

January 9, 2022

alexz commented on the word flurona

spotted on the Colbert report... the flu plus the corona virus

January 5, 2022

alexz commented on the word code orange

spotted in Canadian medical news, the Greater Toronto Hospitals have staff out due to illness and shortages meaning they have to prioritize critical cases first.

January 5, 2022

alexz commented on the word idek

spotted again in text speak for 'i dont even know'

December 29, 2021

alexz commented on the word No Funswick

"To this Fredericton couple, born and raised No Funswickers, New Brunswick is such a hotbed of hilarity, outrageous goings-on and bizarre political antics they had to create a website to hold it all."

- CBC article on The Manatee, a satire news site.

December 29, 2021

alexz commented on the word gfm

Spotted as 'go fund me' , as in the vitual panhandling site to raise funds.

December 24, 2021

alexz commented on the word toodle-oo

spotted a british person saying 'to the loo' and immediately wondered if this the etymology.

December 24, 2021

alexz commented on the word headcanon

I'm spotting this online lately. Same definition as below.

December 15, 2021

alexz commented on the word ILs

abbreviation for 'InLaws'

December 14, 2021

alexz commented on the word tortierre

am i spelling the 'wrong', or does it needed to be added to wordnik?

December 13, 2021

alexz commented on the word monobob

Dictionary dot com is like "did you mean man boob"

and at that point, I realised my future search engine results will be changed for the worse

December 11, 2021

alexz commented on the word monobob

spotted in the news

"Canada wins bronze in World Cup monobob, four-man races at Winterberg" - Global TV

article had zero context for definition. Tweets seem to indicate it means one man bobsled.

December 11, 2021

alexz commented on the word roll tide

I'm seeing this repeatedly on a tik-tok video series.
Wikipedia has this listed as belonging to the University of Alabama for its Crimson Tide team.

December 6, 2021

alexz commented on the word shundo

This is a Pokemon Gaming term for a 'shiny hundo' , a Pokemon with 100% good stats and a shiny cosmetic.

December 4, 2021

alexz commented on the word hundo

This is a Pokemon gaming term for a captured Pokemon which has 100% good stats.

December 4, 2021

alexz commented on the word polymutant

Polymutant want a poly-cracker?

'The ‘polymutant spike’ proved fully resistant to neutralizing antibodies from most of the people they tested, who had either received two doses of an mRNA vaccine or recovered from COVID-19. With Omicron, “we expect there to be a significant hit”, says Bieniasz." - spotted in Nature Magazine'

December 4, 2021

alexz commented on the word BNPL

spotted again as 'Buy Now Pay Later'.

This time in reference to a 'buy now pay later' application added to Edge browser.

December 2, 2021

alexz commented on the word flesh and blood

Ok, Shakespeare had a time machine then, because 'flesh and blood' is all over that book.

Ephesians 6:12

King James Version

12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

December 1, 2021

alexz commented on the word tiger dam

Spotted in local news

"B.C. flood: What is a Tiger Dam — and why did they spend all night building one in Abbotsford?

The dam is built using custom-made water-filled tubes around a metre high that combine to create a water barrier." - Vancouver Sun, Nov 29 2021

November 30, 2021

alexz commented on the word prindle

Refers to the Automatic gear selector - spotted on TikTok.

(and twitter has confirming usage)

Prindle because it's how people say P R N D L as shown on an automatic shifter.

November 28, 2021

alexz commented on the word flesh and blood

flesh and blood go back to biblical writings.

November 27, 2021

alexz commented on the word floof

Audubon has an article of "What’s the Difference Between a ‘Borb’ and a ‘Floof’?:

November 25, 2021

alexz commented on the word balloonicle

a balloon Vehicle. in Parade Floats

November 25, 2021

alexz commented on the word floalloonicle

' “It’s a 'floalloonicle.' So it's part float, part 'balloonicle,'” said Will Coss, the executive producer of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. ' -NY1 news.

I spotted this term on the Colbert Report.

November 25, 2021

alexz commented on the word atmospheric river

Here's a good satellite picture of an atmospheric river.

https://twitter.com/PeterVogel/status/1459308627181793280

November 13, 2021

alexz commented on the word iceberg house

Refers to houses which have more space underground than above ground. Built downwards typically due to height restrictions. The building of these houses disrupts the neighbouring buildings and environment.

November 11, 2021

alexz commented on the word boosted

spotted this term again in November in the 3rd dose reference.

November 11, 2021

alexz commented on the word convid

Apparently it's a flat earther / covid denier / anti-masker nickname for Covid

Spotted in Global TV BC's report on a local covid denier who likely died of Covid.

November 5, 2021

alexz commented on the word starbys

Another nickname for Starbucks coffee shop.

November 5, 2021

alexz commented on the word tier-list

A tier list is a chart which ranks items from best to worst.

S tier is for 'super' items' A tier is for great items. B is for good. C is for OK. d is not ok

E is bad and F is 'garbage'

November 3, 2021

alexz commented on the word c-tier

in the world of tier-lists

C-tier is for 'ok' items. Not good, not bad, just ok.

November 3, 2021

alexz commented on the word b-tier

b-tier refers to good items (not great and not super, but not bad either)

November 3, 2021

alexz commented on the word a-tier

a-tier refers to 'great' items. Not quite as good as 'super' s-tier, and better than b-tier for 'good items'.

November 3, 2021

alexz commented on the word s-tier

s-tier refers to 'super' tier. Best items in a ranked items chart. S is super, followed by a,b,c,d,e and F is worst.

November 3, 2021

alexz commented on the word f-tier

f- tier refers to worst tier of item

This comes from tier list videos where

S is for Super items

A is for good items

B

C

D

E

F is for worst items.

November 3, 2021

alexz commented on the word tradesies

Spotted in Vancouver Canucks twitter.

"Tradesies!!!

Signed stick Handshake candy"

November 3, 2021

alexz commented on the word trunk or treat

spotted as giving out candy from the trunk of a car

October 30, 2021

alexz commented on the word cow pat

i have seen this as cow patty

also , road apple

October 30, 2021

alexz commented on the word MandaLorganized

spotted in the Seattle Police Blotter

https://spdblotter.seattle.gov/2021/10/18/police-recover-stolen-star-wars-lego-sets-in-operation-mandalorganized-retail-theft/

October 30, 2021

alexz commented on the word pfp

pfp is textspeak for 'profile picture'.

I think it became popular on instagram first.

October 30, 2021

alexz commented on the word 5ever

encountered this word again.... a dramatic extension of 'forever' 4ever

October 28, 2021

alexz commented on the word smd

Urban Dictionary has this as a rude phrase.

October 27, 2021

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