adj. There's nothing quite like a hole in the head. Yay?
Real citation: "My unscientific mind finds it curious, however, that for hundreds of years doctors were recommending that those with peptic ulcers cut back on the Moccona-and-jalapeno sandwiches, and try to relax. One can only guess that doctors told patients to do this because it was in some way effective (this wasn't the trepan-happy middle ages, remember - this was all the way up to the early eighties)."
(James P. Wall, "A Brief, Deranged Word About Ulcers," Oct. 5, 2005, http://writingstatic.blogspot.com/2005/10/brief-deranged-word-about-ulcers.html)
Made-up citation: "If the President were trepan-happy as well as an avid jogger, that would explain a few things."
Wednesday, October 04, 2006
pithicism
noun. Insert one-liner here.
Real citation: "It's much easier to write an entertaining review if the reviewer doesn't let legitimate complexities and unknowables interfere with his or her wit, and just spews out whatever clever pithicism he happens to invent without bothering to wonder if it's really at the heart off anything."
("How to be a critic," Oct. 8, 2002, provenance: unknown, http://www.provenanceunknown.com/archive/2002/10-08_how_to_be_a_.html)
Made-up citation: "Does 'bros before hos' count as a pithicism? Or is it more of a Zen koan?"
Real citation: "It's much easier to write an entertaining review if the reviewer doesn't let legitimate complexities and unknowables interfere with his or her wit, and just spews out whatever clever pithicism he happens to invent without bothering to wonder if it's really at the heart off anything."
("How to be a critic," Oct. 8, 2002, provenance: unknown, http://www.provenanceunknown.com/archive/2002/10-08_how_to_be_a_.html)
Made-up citation: "Does 'bros before hos' count as a pithicism? Or is it more of a Zen koan?"
Tuesday, October 03, 2006
terroristette
noun. An evildoer with feminine charms. And maybe some anthrax.
Real citation: "Thenmuli Rajaratnam wasn't a terrorist, she was a terroristette."
(July 23, 2005, groups.google.com/group/alt.buddha.short.fat.guy/
msg/ba2f2b8b3ad9dd13)
Made-up citation: "I'm looking for a thong-twanging, testicle-chomping, testosterone-lactating, tie-to-the-bedable terroristette who likes veggie pizza and sailing. No smokers please."
Real citation: "Thenmuli Rajaratnam wasn't a terrorist, she was a terroristette."
(July 23, 2005, groups.google.com/group/alt.buddha.short.fat.guy/
msg/ba2f2b8b3ad9dd13)
Made-up citation: "I'm looking for a thong-twanging, testicle-chomping, testosterone-lactating, tie-to-the-bedable terroristette who likes veggie pizza and sailing. No smokers please."
pins-and-needles-y
adj. Sweet merciful mother of mothballs! That tingles.
Real citation: "First few miles, felt like stopping though we know this is pretty much normal and I soon got into my stride. 4 miles in and my right leg started to feel a bit puffy and pins-and-needles-y, although I get this when I do long runs so it wasn't any worry."
(Steven Pick, Sept. 17, 2006, http://www.realbuzz.com/network/myBlogs/blog.php?blog=503&caldate=2006-09&post=7936)
Made-up citation: "When I think about seeing the Dresden Dolls in a few weeks, my brain and crotch get mega-pins-and-needles-y. I'm a little excited."
Real citation: "First few miles, felt like stopping though we know this is pretty much normal and I soon got into my stride. 4 miles in and my right leg started to feel a bit puffy and pins-and-needles-y, although I get this when I do long runs so it wasn't any worry."
(Steven Pick, Sept. 17, 2006, http://www.realbuzz.com/network/myBlogs/blog.php?blog=503&caldate=2006-09&post=7936)
Made-up citation: "When I think about seeing the Dresden Dolls in a few weeks, my brain and crotch get mega-pins-and-needles-y. I'm a little excited."
Monday, October 02, 2006
absosmurfing
adverb. An absolutely smurfing alternative to "absolutely."
Related terms: absodiddly, absoforking, absofracking, absofreaking, absofricking, absofucking.
Real citation: "In any case, Horace Andy is obviously a god of some kind, and they were absosmurfing brilliant when I saw them on June 18, so bugger Richard Ashcroft (I don't care what you say Ebby, that's a *weird* double bill).Go and see 'em in a town near you."
(Danielle, July 2, 1998, http://www.smoe.org/lists/fegmaniax/1998/v07.n247)
Made-up citation: "I absosmurfing dread the thought of putting winter booties on my dog. Shoot me in the head."
Related terms: absodiddly, absoforking, absofracking, absofreaking, absofricking, absofucking.
Real citation: "In any case, Horace Andy is obviously a god of some kind, and they were absosmurfing brilliant when I saw them on June 18, so bugger Richard Ashcroft (I don't care what you say Ebby, that's a *weird* double bill).Go and see 'em in a town near you."
(Danielle, July 2, 1998, http://www.smoe.org/lists/fegmaniax/1998/v07.n247)
Made-up citation: "I absosmurfing dread the thought of putting winter booties on my dog. Shoot me in the head."
expositiolicious
adj. Blah blah, yada yada, STFUA.
Real citation: "I don't have a huge problem with skipping forward a year, except that the next season will inevitably be expositiolicious."
(ender988, "2-20: "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II" 2006.03.10," March 11, 2006, Television Without Pity, http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=3136980&view=findpost&p=4704010)
Made-up citation: "My life is a little expositiolicious lately. I need more adult situations and graphic nudity. I've got the strong language covered."
Real citation: "I don't have a huge problem with skipping forward a year, except that the next season will inevitably be expositiolicious."
(ender988, "2-20: "Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II" 2006.03.10," March 11, 2006, Television Without Pity, http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=3136980&view=findpost&p=4704010)
Made-up citation: "My life is a little expositiolicious lately. I need more adult situations and graphic nudity. I've got the strong language covered."
Sunday, October 01, 2006
ho-diddly-fucking-hum
interjection. Quite ho hum.
Real citation: "I conceed it was not the most exciting of days on that particular trip, though that’s just ho-diddly-fucking-hum really isn’t it? ;)"
(Jonathan Stanley, June 10, 2005, http://lambcutlet.org/blog/2005/06/08/day-13-in-hong-kong-unlucky-13/)
Made-up citation: "Working at home can get a little ho-diddly-fucking-hum. Thank God my dog is there to bark at the neighbors and eat the condoms they discard."
Real citation: "I conceed it was not the most exciting of days on that particular trip, though that’s just ho-diddly-fucking-hum really isn’t it? ;)"
(Jonathan Stanley, June 10, 2005, http://lambcutlet.org/blog/2005/06/08/day-13-in-hong-kong-unlucky-13/)
Made-up citation: "Working at home can get a little ho-diddly-fucking-hum. Thank God my dog is there to bark at the neighbors and eat the condoms they discard."
debutchify
verb. Femme it up! Butch it down! Shave something, I guess.
Real citation: "It is a sentence that is personal to us, but I am thinking that I would like to get it incorporated with a pretty picture with colors and stuff in it as well. I kind of need a more femme tattoo to debutchify what I've got on my arm."
(Siobhan, "Tattoos," Jan. 30, 2006, http://noyoudoit.blogspot.com/2006/01/tattoos.html)
Made-up citation: "Long hair can debutchify a woman. All it did for me was make me a goddamn hippie."
Real citation: "It is a sentence that is personal to us, but I am thinking that I would like to get it incorporated with a pretty picture with colors and stuff in it as well. I kind of need a more femme tattoo to debutchify what I've got on my arm."
(Siobhan, "Tattoos," Jan. 30, 2006, http://noyoudoit.blogspot.com/2006/01/tattoos.html)
Made-up citation: "Long hair can debutchify a woman. All it did for me was make me a goddamn hippie."
Thursday, September 28, 2006
fembotitude
noun. Look deep into the circuitry of a sultry female sexpotbot, and this ye shall find.
Real citation: "Thanks. I thought we needed a robot with Fembotitude. ; )"
(Lazarus, Feb. 19, 2006, http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:07iXkIBk8qUJ:www.woot.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx%3FPostID%3D463058+%22fembotitude%22&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1)
Made-up citation: "While giving medical advice, I suggested that my friend Kelly might be a fembot. But how can we prove her fembotitude?"
Real citation: "Thanks. I thought we needed a robot with Fembotitude. ; )"
(Lazarus, Feb. 19, 2006, http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:07iXkIBk8qUJ:www.woot.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx%3FPostID%3D463058+%22fembotitude%22&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1)
Made-up citation: "While giving medical advice, I suggested that my friend Kelly might be a fembot. But how can we prove her fembotitude?"
Jeezass-loving
present participle. Christ-adoring; savior-snorkeling; Jeebus-hugging.
Real citation: "I never said they did. But this crop of Jeezass-loving Rethuglicunts is the worst I've ever seen. Trafficant was an outsider even among the Democrats. Tom DeLay and Duke Cunningham were fist deep up the asses of the Bush inner circle."
(MoeLarryandJesus, May 4, 2006, The Huffington Post, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2006/05/03/republicans-split-on-lobb_n_20328.html)
Made-up citation: "Sam Harris' new epistle to the Jeezass-loving crown doesn't add much to his first book, but I still love it like pancakes."
Real citation: "I never said they did. But this crop of Jeezass-loving Rethuglicunts is the worst I've ever seen. Trafficant was an outsider even among the Democrats. Tom DeLay and Duke Cunningham were fist deep up the asses of the Bush inner circle."
(MoeLarryandJesus, May 4, 2006, The Huffington Post, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2006/05/03/republicans-split-on-lobb_n_20328.html)
Made-up citation: "Sam Harris' new epistle to the Jeezass-loving crown doesn't add much to his first book, but I still love it like pancakes."
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
skankstache
noun. A rodent-sized pile of hair, proving that skankitude is a gender-neutral concept.
Related terms: pornstache, fuckstache.
Real citation: "Yeah, shaving is kind of a drag. I only shave about every 3 days, which by then I'm plenty due, but I kinda like the scruff. I keep the upper lip trimmed at all times to avoid the skankstache. This will all change though come May when I have to conform to CP's guidelines. No biggie though."
(Thrill Rider, Jan. 28, 2005, http://www.thrillnetwork.com/boards/archive/index.php/t-33411.html)
Made-up citation: "I'm a beard man, but skankstaches make me weep with bed-wetting fear. I'm complex."
Related terms: pornstache, fuckstache.
Real citation: "Yeah, shaving is kind of a drag. I only shave about every 3 days, which by then I'm plenty due, but I kinda like the scruff. I keep the upper lip trimmed at all times to avoid the skankstache. This will all change though come May when I have to conform to CP's guidelines. No biggie though."
(Thrill Rider, Jan. 28, 2005, http://www.thrillnetwork.com/boards/archive/index.php/t-33411.html)
Made-up citation: "I'm a beard man, but skankstaches make me weep with bed-wetting fear. I'm complex."
infatuationish
adj. Lovey-dovey-obsessiony.
Real citation: "i wonder if he still likes me or if it was like a week-long thing. like an infatuationish thing."
(jax, March 7, 2005, http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:YIX-DIJ-XRwJ:pleonast.com/weblog.php%3FSID%3D81f23bc6dddf57324061a%26user%3Driotgirl05%26o%3D50%26%26l%3D5+infatuationish&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1)
Made-up citation: "I could use a new crush and some fresh infatuationish feelings right now. Otherwise, I'll get a lot of work done."
Real citation: "i wonder if he still likes me or if it was like a week-long thing. like an infatuationish thing."
(jax, March 7, 2005, http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:YIX-DIJ-XRwJ:pleonast.com/weblog.php%3FSID%3D81f23bc6dddf57324061a%26user%3Driotgirl05%26o%3D50%26%26l%3D5+infatuationish&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1)
Made-up citation: "I could use a new crush and some fresh infatuationish feelings right now. Otherwise, I'll get a lot of work done."
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
smurftarded
adj. Tarded...though blue and adorable.
Related terms: fucktarded, fracktarded, asstarded, nontarded, untarded.
Real citation: "I was asking around from some recently ex-patted patrons from the USA; and Emo kids LIKE to be called Emo because it's 'cool'. Personally I think pretending to be emotional or 'emo' is smurftarded."
(Iri Valentine, April 12, 2004, http://forums.eyesonff.com/showthread.php?p=1074804)
Made-up citation: "Smurftarded gnomes need extra classes. But the elves and leprechauns won't pay for it!"
Related terms: fucktarded, fracktarded, asstarded, nontarded, untarded.
Real citation: "I was asking around from some recently ex-patted patrons from the USA; and Emo kids LIKE to be called Emo because it's 'cool'. Personally I think pretending to be emotional or 'emo' is smurftarded."
(Iri Valentine, April 12, 2004, http://forums.eyesonff.com/showthread.php?p=1074804)
Made-up citation: "Smurftarded gnomes need extra classes. But the elves and leprechauns won't pay for it!"
goitertastic
adj. Mmm...abnormally enlarged thyroid gland.
Real citation: "Springer: Goitertastic! I mean, fantastic! I'm really having a lot of goiter...I mean fun!"
("Out With the Old," http://www.worlds-worst.com/worldsworst/fanfic/idea_detail.php?LinkID=55&CatID=5&Gamescope_Session=
150df7e5dd3f7e5b3cbf465d11cf1aa0)
Made-up citation: "Ben & Jerry's new Goitertastic Grandson isn't flying off the shelves, leaving marketers stunned."
Real citation: "Springer: Goitertastic! I mean, fantastic! I'm really having a lot of goiter...I mean fun!"
("Out With the Old," http://www.worlds-worst.com/worldsworst/fanfic/idea_detail.php?LinkID=55&CatID=5&Gamescope_Session=
150df7e5dd3f7e5b3cbf465d11cf1aa0)
Made-up citation: "Ben & Jerry's new Goitertastic Grandson isn't flying off the shelves, leaving marketers stunned."
Monday, September 25, 2006
megadumpage
noun. A substantial instance of dumping, whether of significant others or God-given feces.
Real citation: "So, did anybody hit this during last season's Tahoe megadumpage?"
(bad_roo, Sept. 10, 2005, http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/archive/index.php?t-34868.html)
Made-up citation: "As a summer camp counselor for disabled children, I cleaned up the mightiest megadumpage in the land. And a shitstorm or two."
Real citation: "So, did anybody hit this during last season's Tahoe megadumpage?"
(bad_roo, Sept. 10, 2005, http://www.tetongravity.com/forums/archive/index.php?t-34868.html)
Made-up citation: "As a summer camp counselor for disabled children, I cleaned up the mightiest megadumpage in the land. And a shitstorm or two."
collision-y
adj. May cause an owie.
Real citation: "I'm keen on seeing Baby Face Nelson, the one Siegel I've never lucked across, and even keener to re-see the seldom-shown, collision-y procedural The Lineup, which features a hit man and his dapper assistant, who writes down the victim's last words into a keepsake notebook."
(James Wolcott, "The Siegel Catalog," March 19, 2006, http://jameswolcott.com/archives/2006/03/the_siegel_cata.php)
Made-up citation: "My dad is the ultimate sports nut: if there are balls and collision-y behavior involved, he will watch."
Real citation: "I'm keen on seeing Baby Face Nelson, the one Siegel I've never lucked across, and even keener to re-see the seldom-shown, collision-y procedural The Lineup, which features a hit man and his dapper assistant, who writes down the victim's last words into a keepsake notebook."
(James Wolcott, "The Siegel Catalog," March 19, 2006, http://jameswolcott.com/archives/2006/03/the_siegel_cata.php)
Made-up citation: "My dad is the ultimate sports nut: if there are balls and collision-y behavior involved, he will watch."
Sunday, September 24, 2006
fuckboozled
adj. Fuckin' bamboozled, I'd say. Or drunk.
Real citation: "farrkin school. the only thing ive got to look forward to tonight is CSI. wana get fuckboozled this weekend? xxx"
(March 7, 2006, http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:1IJBD5qv9j0J:profile.myspace.com/index.cfm%3Ffuseaction%3Duser.viewprofile%26friendID%3D14368590+fuckboozled&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1)
Made-up citation: "I'm trying to deal with some issues. Should I try meditation, therapy, or fuckboozlement?"
Real citation: "farrkin school. the only thing ive got to look forward to tonight is CSI. wana get fuckboozled this weekend? xxx"
(March 7, 2006, http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:1IJBD5qv9j0J:profile.myspace.com/index.cfm%3Ffuseaction%3Duser.viewprofile%26friendID%3D14368590+fuckboozled&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1)
Made-up citation: "I'm trying to deal with some issues. Should I try meditation, therapy, or fuckboozlement?"
douchebagface
noun. Not the best name for a kitten.
Related term: douchebaghead.
Real citation: "THAT IS COPYRIGHT OF MEGAN BAKED YOU BIG FAT DOUCHEBAGFACE."
(justsignbythex, Dec. 31, 2005, http://www.blurty.com/talkread.bml?journal=emolyrics&itemid=67115512)
Made-up citation: "Hey douchebagface! Are you enjoying your meal?"
Related term: douchebaghead.
Real citation: "THAT IS COPYRIGHT OF MEGAN BAKED YOU BIG FAT DOUCHEBAGFACE."
(justsignbythex, Dec. 31, 2005, http://www.blurty.com/talkread.bml?journal=emolyrics&itemid=67115512)
Made-up citation: "Hey douchebagface! Are you enjoying your meal?"
Friday, September 22, 2006
non-nonchalant-ness
adj. Look deep into my eyes, and you may see my brain spinning like a top propelled by a hyperactive hamster who put too much crack on his cornflakes. Thus, the non-nonchalant-ness.
Real citation: "After a few minutes of chatting with Richard Roth, the interviewer, my non-nonchalant-ness and his non-nonchalant-ness coupled to make one interesting conversation."
(Drew Powell, "Long Term Benefits of Media Fellows," http://www.depauw.edu/honors/media/alum2.asp)
Made-up citation: "Every time I've ever tried to commit a crime, no matter how small, I've failed miserably, probably due to my non-nonchalant-ness. I couldn't have scored coke in Rick James' bathroom."
Real citation: "After a few minutes of chatting with Richard Roth, the interviewer, my non-nonchalant-ness and his non-nonchalant-ness coupled to make one interesting conversation."
(Drew Powell, "Long Term Benefits of Media Fellows," http://www.depauw.edu/honors/media/alum2.asp)
Made-up citation: "Every time I've ever tried to commit a crime, no matter how small, I've failed miserably, probably due to my non-nonchalant-ness. I couldn't have scored coke in Rick James' bathroom."
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