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...and when I know precisely what is meant by "commissariat"
wofahulicodoc
01/22/2026 9:28 PM
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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TROLLIGARCHY - government by inflammatory insults
wofahulicodoc
01/22/2026 9:08 PM
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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DADAVEILLANCE - tracking the evolution of early 20th Century art
wofahulicodoc
01/22/2026 8:46 PM
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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GUYLONER - a male hermit
wofahulicodoc
01/22/2026 8:27 PM
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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ONE PO' BABY - a sorry-looking child
wofahulicodoc
01/22/2026 7:45 PM
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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EDEL WORD - weiss,
wofahulicodoc
01/21/2026 3:29 AM
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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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Wine, women and law
A C Bowden
01/21/2026 1:26 AM
If they can regurgitate facts
Regarding past cases and Acts,
Exam-taking students
Will learn jurisprudence,
Unless carnal pleasure distracts.
BEFRIEND – BENEFIT
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