n., A girl or woman who is always in a relationship with someone, and who moves from relationship to relationship. I learned this term from my daughter. When I attempted to look it up to see if a coherent definition already existed, I found quite an oddity in Google’s autosuggestion: What the heck?
Tag: words
Nov 01
Perfection
I recently worked on a computer for someone. While I was there, the guy was at another desk eating his lunch. It sounded like this: munch munch Munch Munch MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH with his mouth open smick smack smick smack munch munch MUNCH MUNCH While I continued to type away clickity typity clickity typity …
Oct 09
Pickle-faced
verb, adjective; to face a chair toward a wall and/or turn its back to a person. Example: “She’s pickle-faced her chair and won’t come out.” The word, its usage, and the example I just used came to me in a dream last night. After some research I have found out that it is actually a …
Sep 13
Caves and onomatopoeia
So I was talking to my friend Logan, who is also a logophile (pronounced LOG-o-FILE). “What’s your favorite onomatopoeia?” I asked him. First, logophiles like words, and not logs, and second, in case you’ve forgotten your middle school English class, an onomatopoeia (ON-o-MOT-o-PEE-uh) is a word that is formed from a sound, like buzz, zip, …
Aug 23
Swine Flue / H1N1
You can’t call it Swine Flu anymore. It’s H1N1, ever since U.S. pork producers lobbied to have it changed. The difference between the terms ‘Swine Flu’ and ‘H1N1’ is that Swine Flu just rolls off the tongue, while Aitch One En One does not. I therefore propose the following pronunciation for the overhyped malady: pronounce …
Aug 19
woppyjarred
adjective, pronounced phonetically. I learned this word from my wife, who I suppose coined it, as I haven’t seen it anywhere else. It means “at a wrong angle, misaligned, uneven, out of level, out of plumb, and/or out of square.” UPDATE: one of my readers pointed out that woppyjarred appears to be a corruption of …
