"A team of scientists in Ecuador is trying to find and describe mygalomorphs, a group of giant, stocky spiders.
Pedro Peñaherrera and Roberto Jose León from Universidad San Francisco de Quito join us to discuss how they discover and classify spiders. " - spotted on BlueSky
spotted this word on Mastodon and twitter as a blend of frazil and pan ice.
frazil pans are a thing in Alberta's peace river.
'Unlike lakes or ponds, where ice forms in a sheet across the surface, ice in northern rivers forms as frazil crystals, which vary in size as tiny as fractions of a millimetre across. These crystals collide and freeze together forming large flocs that eventually rise to the surface to form "frazil pans," which look like clusters of ice discs.'
"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."
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’),”...
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."
'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.'
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.
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.
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
"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'
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.
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.
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
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. "
"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."
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
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.
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"
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.
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.
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.
"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.
"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:"
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!
Spotted in MBARI news... environmental DNA - material containing DNA which floats about the environment, and in MBARI's case, floats about in the ocean.
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.
"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."
'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'
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.
' “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.
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.
comes from a man who has a chubby dog which makes predictions based on it being a 'bones day' (dog has energy to do things) or a 'no bones day' (dog goes back to bed)
"The 'double weather bomb' continues to strengthen as it approaches Vancouver Island." Kasia Bodurka , Global News on twitter.
In looking up this phrase on twitter, a weather bomb is a drop of 24 millibars in 24 hours, and there have been multiple storms this year worldwide which have had double that, or 48 millibars per 24 hours.
"The stress of the pandemic has led some to experience sleep difficulties dubbed “coronasomnia”, adding to the third of us who already suffer from sleep problems" - The telegraph, Oct 24.
Spotted this in Marine Biologist twitter. Dr. Kakani Katija
Referring to NOAA Ocean Explorer "#ImageOfTheDay: October 10, 2021: A close look at a larvacean house, seen during #Okeanos 2021 North Atlantic Stepping Stones. Larvaceans are solitary, free-swimming tunicates that produce a fragile mucus “house” to filter small particles."
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alexz commented on the word moo-woo
Thank you for the Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu flashback
April 16, 2024
alexz commented on the word oroblanco
so... Gold and White, or Black and Blue?
#theDress
April 16, 2024
alexz commented on the word prison pony
a zebra
March 17, 2024
alexz commented on the word danger zebra
A zebra is a prison pony
March 17, 2024
alexz commented on the word danger zebra
meme name for a Tiger
March 16, 2024
alexz commented on the word 🪩🐔
"Disco Chicken"...
aka The Peacock
March 16, 2024
alexz commented on the word nice weather for ducks
I refer to rainy days as "It's a good day to be a duck"
March 12, 2024
alexz commented on the word chicken-fried chicken
today I discovered.
March 4, 2024
alexz commented on the word Saanich
Also a town north of Victoria, British Columbia
March 4, 2024
alexz commented on the word nonsked
The arrival of the Swan Kid, was totally a nonsked
March 1, 2024
alexz commented on the word Etm.
spotted online as "et merda" ('and shit') instead of etcetera.
Here's a mastodon link - https://mastodon.world/@dbc3/112011742629233863
I think this is a made-up term.
February 29, 2024
alexz commented on the word verb
Today while shopping I spotted verb shampoo... so there you go... they've verbed a physical noun.
February 18, 2024
alexz commented on the word bonkwave
a new genre of music I know nothing about.
February 16, 2024
alexz commented on the word weaponize my blue checkmark
☑️
February 11, 2024
alexz commented on the word ditto
Just saw a video where Ditto is the trade name of a Spirit Duplicator, which is an early document duplicating machine... similar to a mimeograph.
February 11, 2024
alexz commented on the word ➰🛩️
spotted in social media from a pilot describing a plane doing a loop.
February 3, 2024
alexz commented on the word mygalomorph
Spotted in Science Friday social media
"A team of scientists in Ecuador is trying to find and describe mygalomorphs, a group of giant, stocky spiders.
Pedro Peñaherrera and Roberto Jose León from Universidad San Francisco de Quito join us to discuss how they discover and classify spiders. " - spotted on BlueSky
February 3, 2024
alexz commented on the word 8964
"Used to refer the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre that happened on June 4, 1989." - Wikipedia.
January 25, 2024
alexz commented on the word o'ersnow'd
spotted in the NY times. Checked google -S
hakespeare Sonnet 5
January 20, 2024
alexz commented on the word spicy pillow
a 'spicy pillow' is a lithium cell which has expanded filling up the polymer bag.
This typically means the lithium battery is bad and is ripe to explode at any time.
January 16, 2024
alexz commented on the word pooky
Shows up in Garfield comics. archived 2010 May 5.
"Cheer Up Pooky" - garfield to the stuffed bear.
January 15, 2024
alexz commented on the word frazzlepan
spotted this word on Mastodon and twitter as a blend of frazil and pan ice.
frazil pans are a thing in Alberta's peace river.
January 13, 2024
alexz commented on the list words-for-ice
Discovered the National Ice and Snow Data Center... and they have all the science words for snow and ice.
https://nsidc.org/learn/cryosphere-glossary
It looks like Science may win the word race. .. ok we got over 100 terms in this list. some of which are repeats
January 9, 2024
alexz commented on the list words-for-ice
It's been a few years since I touched this list.. added another 25 words or so. Thanks to suggestions from Mastodon.
January 6, 2024
alexz commented on the word rizzler
spotted in the New York Times - ;Gen Alpha Is Here. Can You Understand Their Slang?'
December 14, 2023
alexz commented on the word $#!7
An alternative to typing a swear word...... in this case... the s-word
December 10, 2023
alexz commented on the list what-do-do-with-things-you-detest-UWrDJ5dfQ00yCnqilXyLo
flush it?
poop on it
(or is that just what birds to)
December 10, 2023
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.
© The Archaeologist"
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..
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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.
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
alexz commented on the word no bones day
refers to a chubby dog deciding to go back to bed instead of tackling the world , bones day
October 27, 2021
alexz commented on the word bones day
comes from a man who has a chubby dog which makes predictions based on it being a 'bones day' (dog has energy to do things) or a 'no bones day' (dog goes back to bed)
October 27, 2021
alexz commented on the word Quattuorquinquagintaquadringentillion
This is a job for the really big number list https://wordnik.com/lists/really--really-large-numbers
October 25, 2021
alexz commented on the word double bomb cyclone
Also spotted as a term describing the double weather bomb
October 25, 2021
alexz commented on the word double weather bomb
Maybe start with a coffee drink, the Double Double and throw in a chocolate bomb.
October 25, 2021
alexz commented on the word double weather bomb
"The 'double weather bomb' continues to strengthen as it approaches Vancouver Island." Kasia Bodurka , Global News on twitter.
In looking up this phrase on twitter, a weather bomb is a drop of 24 millibars in 24 hours, and there have been multiple storms this year worldwide which have had double that, or 48 millibars per 24 hours.
October 24, 2021
alexz commented on the word covidsomnia
“Coronasomnia, or covidsomnia, is the term to describe sleep problems related to stress caused by the COVID-19 pandemic,” Dr. Drerup. Cleveland Clinic
October 24, 2021
alexz commented on the word coronasomnia
"The stress of the pandemic has led some to experience sleep difficulties dubbed “coronasomnia”, adding to the third of us who already suffer from sleep problems" - The telegraph, Oct 24.
October 24, 2021
alexz commented on the word SPAC
Special-purpose acquisition company
October 21, 2021
alexz commented on the list adverbs-not-ending-in-ly-5cD0Q_ZN_WY-
halfhearted sorta somewhat arse over teakettle
October 21, 2021
alexz commented on the word dimples
golf balls have dimples because they try to be cute
October 18, 2021
alexz commented on the word dalgona
The sugar based cookie from the TV show Squid Game.
October 15, 2021
alexz commented on the word snotpalace
"It’s called a #snotpalace."
Spotted this in Marine Biologist twitter. Dr. Kakani Katija
Referring to NOAA Ocean Explorer "#ImageOfTheDay: October 10, 2021: A close look at a larvacean house, seen during #Okeanos 2021 North Atlantic Stepping Stones. Larvaceans are solitary, free-swimming tunicates that produce a fragile mucus “house” to filter small particles."
October 14, 2021
alexz commented on the word cackle
spotted as the collective noun for covidiots.
A cackle of covidiots
October 14, 2021
alexz commented on the word quilling
spotted a BC usage of this as making art from Birch bark and porcupine quills.
October 13, 2021
alexz commented on the word lace-runner
I had a mental image of Blade Runner but with a sewing needle.
October 12, 2021
alexz commented on the word boosted
new usage in 2021
boosted in this phrase meaning having had a booster shot, or a 3rd dose of COVID vaccine.
October 12, 2021
alexz commented on the word bunnicula
Bunnicula
I keep running in to this word on Halloween
October 10, 2021
alexz commented on the word Polexit
another -exit
October 9, 2021
alexz commented on the word nillionaire
spotted this word in the twitterverse. someone out there is broke.
October 9, 2021
alexz commented on the word crapaud
I think that 'crap' comes from the 'crapper' which is a toilet invented by Mr. Crapper see crapper
October 7, 2021
alexz commented on the word crapaud
In my twitter feed, found that people in PEI sometimes say 'Holy Crapaud!"
October 5, 2021
alexz commented on the word NDTR
Spotted in the news today as 'National Day for Truth and Reconcilliation' which is on Sept 30
October 2, 2021
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