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ODORABLE
PRONUNCIATION: (OH-duhr-uh-buhl)
MEANING: adjective: Able to be smelled.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin odor (smell). Earliest documented use: 1589.
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FODORABLE - eligible for inclusion in a travel reference guide
ODOTABLE - a list of milage between places, often included on a road map [remember those?!]
ODORABLE - skunkish
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IMPASSIBLE
PRONUNCIATION: (im-PAS-uh-buhl)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Not susceptible to suffering, pain, or injury.
2. Incapable of feeling emotion.
ETYMOLOGY: From French impassible, from Latin impassibilis, from in- (not) + passibilis (passible), from passus, past participle of pati (to suffer). Earliest documented use: 1340.
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I'M PARSIBLE - you can figure out what I'm trying to say
IMP AS BIBLE - little scamp has its own scripture
IMPASS ISLE - When you get to that island, you can't go forward, but you can't go back either. You're stuck.
["Oh, help and bother!" said Pooh!]
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NOS VŒUX - for better, for worse, etc
NO 'VOUS' - please address me as 'tu'
NIVEAU? - Are you upper, middle or working class?
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TOUCH GRASS
PRONUNCIATION: (tuhch GRAS)
MEANING: verb intr.: To spend time in the real world, especially as a corrective to excessive online activity.
ETYMOLOGY: Originally a derogatory remark implying someone is delusional or out of touch due to internet addiction; later adopted as a mantra for digital well-being. Earliest documented use: 2016.
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COUCH GRASS- smoke pot in the comfort of your living room
TOUCH GLASS - show how clean the windowpane really is
TOUGH GRASS - Zoysia
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DOOMSCROLL
PRONUNCIATION: (DOOM-skrohl)
MEANING: verb tr., intr.: To scroll through the news or other online material compulsively, especially negative or distressing stories.
ETYMOLOGY: From doom, from Old English (judgment, law) + scroll, a blend of Old French scrow (writing) + rowle (roll). Earliest documented use: 2020.
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DOORSCROLL - pretentioius term meaning "mezuzah"
DOOM STROLL - taking a walk, remembering the apocalypse
LOOM SCROLL - written list of the punchcard deck that directed a Jacquard fabric on a Jacquard machine
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SHADOW BAN
PRONUNCIATION: (SHAD-oh ban)
MEANING: verb tr.: To block or restrict someone without their being aware of it.
noun: The practice of doing so or an instance of it.
ETYMOLOGY: From shadow, from Old English sceadu (shade) + ban, from bannan (to proclaim). Earliest documented use: 2007.
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SHADOW BANK - an offshore bank, itself a shell company, for purposes of laundering money and avoiding taxes
SHADOW BIN - where all the shadows are stored when the sun goes behind a cloud
SHADOW MAN - he Knows What Evil Lurks in the Mind of Man (maniacal laughter)
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EDGE-LORD
PRONUNCIATION: (EJ-lord)
MEANING: noun,a person who affects an edgy persona by saying or doing provocative things, chiefly to attract attention.
ETYMOLOGY: From edge, from Old English ecg + lord, from hlaford (loaf guard). Earliest documented use: 2013.
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HEDGELORD - Br’er Rabbit in the Briar Patch
EDGELARD - coating the outside of the roast with additional fat
EDGE-LORE - natural outgrowth of flat earth theory.
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NEPO BABY
PRONUNCIATION: (NEH-po bay-bee)
MEANING: noun: A person whose success is significantly aided by family connections.
ETYMOLOGY: Short for nepotism, from Italian nepotismo, from Latin nepos (grandson, nephew) + baby. Earliest documented use: nepotism baby, since 1992; shortened form popularized c. 2020.
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EPO BABY - a baby with polycythemia ("EPO" being an acronym for "erythropoietic hormone," which promotes red cell production)
NERO, BABY - the dude who fiddled while Rome burned
REPO BABY - they reclaimed the kid when his folks couldn't pay the charges any more
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GUYLINER
PRONUNCIATION: (GY-ly-nuhr)
MEANING: noun: Eyeliner used by men.
ETYMOLOGY: A blend of guy + eyeliner. Earliest documented use: 2004.
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GUTLINER - the glass of milk you drink before going bar-hopping (PS It doesn't work!)
GUYLIVER - a boat used to voyage Swiftly abroad, visiting midgets and giants and horse-headed people and other strange creatures
GUYLINEAR - a stralght man for other comedians
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DATAVEILLANCE
PRONUNCIATION: (day-tuh-VAY-luhns)
MEANING: noun: The collection or monitoring of data relating to personal activities.
ETYMOLOGY: A blend of data + surveillance. Earliest documented use: 1972.
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DATAVEILLANCHE - there's enough information coming at you to bury you entirely
DA TRAVEIL LANCE - that long pointy stick you take with you to go fight abroad
DATA-VEIL DANCE - in the proverbial strip-tease, this is the eighth and most obscuring garment
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BROLIGARCHY
PRONUNCIATION: (BRO-luh-gar-kee)
MEANING: noun: A small group of extremely wealthy men who wield disproportionate influence in government.
ETYMOLOGY: A blend of bro, a clipping of brother, used to refer to a male member of the same in-group + oligarchy (a system in which a few people control power). Earliest documented use: early 2000s.
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BRIOLIGARCHY - enthusiastic and energetic government
BIOLIGARCHY - bicameral government, presumably both carbon-based organisms
BROILIGARCHY - government lurching out of the frying pan into the fire, often by impulse
BAROLIGARCHY - pressure tying the government into knots
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PRECARIAT
PRONUNCIATION: (pri-KAIR-ee-uht)
MEANING: noun: People living with chronic economic insecurity.
ETYMOLOGY: A blend of precarious (uncertain) + proletariat (working class). Earliest documented use: 1989.
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PREPARIAT - fancy name for the Kitchen in the Officers' Mess
PRELARIAT - before the invention of rope
PRE ARIA "T" - Aria "S"
PRECARAT - why Bugs Bunny's ancestors went hungry
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