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Spotted in the news as echo symbol
translates to yummy, from the tweets, it spans several languages.
This is called a 'sarcasm tag'.
This 'tag' is to tell the reader that the previous text was sarcasm. (because people don't get sarcasm on the internet)
Even higher video resolution than 4k
in Canada, I spotted this term when people talk about foster kids turning 18 and no longer being supported by the foster care system. They end up on the street or in some kind of trouble. The examples to the right show it's also a horse riding term for organised horse riding.
Wikipedia shows this as also seen in the US.
Aviation near miss. UK
Spotted in political commentary. alt-righter. alt-righters
from wikipedia:
"The alt-right has no official ideology, although various sources have said that it is associated with white nationalism,126 white supremacism,378 antisemitism,129 right-wing populism,6 nativism,10 and the neoreactionary movement.711"
spotted in email from my local art gallery
" View the Picasso exhibition as part of an animateur guided tour to gain a deeper understanding of the relationship between Picasso and his six muses."
spotted this today in a physics video. Neato.
The inability to visualise things in your mind.
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160524-this-man-had-no-idea-his-mind-is-blind-until-last-week
Refers to the language used relating to Apple and iDevices.
ScienceFriday referred to the distinctive emoji set compared to the Android emoji set and how the different renderings are interpreted differently.
"And the problem is not just a matter of translating from Apple-ese to Android-ese.". http://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/that-emoji-youre-sending-is-open-to-interpretation/
Linux jargon: The last access time of a file.
actually a light triggered sneeze
see Achoo
Bowdlerized version of the word ass
looks like a tiny banjo...
the 'rule' that says you can answer any News headline Question with 'no'.
spotted as short for beverages. or short for bevvies
Beyonce fans.
Blend of bicycle backpacking
spotted online as a combination of human and machine powered device. Ie, an electric bicycle which requires the user to pedal to actuate the motors.
Initially spotted in a news article; a quick search shows this used in S America
verb from tonights debate - deleted using BleachBit.
securely deleted and not recoverable.
sounds neato. I've never actually read any Joyce stuff.
the name of a firefly in Appalachia
Phausis reticulata
From BBC article '10 things you need to know about vaginas'
"We met Callie, an American trans woman who was waiting for bottom surgery, a procedure where a vulva and vagina are created from the penis and scrotum. "
Spotted in a friends status update. related to bourgeoisie
The price of goods going up after Brexit
"This is bril"
bro yoga
did I really leave the previous comment here back in 2011. It seems like only a month or two ago.
because people don't know what brunch is
nickname of Toronto's Brunswick House. now closed
spotted online. looked this up to see other uses online.
This word seems to have started with John Ringo books in 2006
a whole bunch, a lot of
spotted "bunniness as usual"
spotted in news - New York state bans buybots for ticket sales.
A WiFi freeloader. Word spotted in The Guardian.
Spotted this as a prank that involves taping a photo of Nick Cage to the underside of an optical mouse.
Blend of Cantonese and Pop music
hereditary hemochromatosis HHC - too much iron in your body.
"Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement"
a Canada Europe trade agreement.
someone who thinks that the water vapor contrails are actually some kind of chemicals added to the air.
It's too easy to put the pocalypse suffix on everything.
spotted in electionspeak 2016
not a real medical term
slang for a person 'having their head up their ass'
related term DWHUA
Chicago Cubs
refers to how movie posters only show Benedict Cumberbatch's back.
a shady car salesman who pretends to be a 'private seller' of vehicles when they actually sell cars as their full time job.
spotted in the news..
etymology - because you can put 'cyber' in front of almost any word.
slang for a venomous snake
to undo a retweet
Verbify. Spotted at a big BBC article about verbifying all the nouns. http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160825-why-medalling-and-summering-are-so-annoying
Where a medical professional looks at all the pills a person is taking, and had them cut back to something the body can handle.
spotted in the news
Short for desalination
From idgaf
Blend of documentary series
' "Down ballot" is what politicos here call all the other elections that voters will decide on November 8. That includes for 34 Senate seats, 435 House seats, 12 state governors, hundreds of state senators, thousands of state house representatives, plus judges, mayors, district attorneys, attorneys general and so on. '
- CBC article on Down Ballot races.
Spotted in the news. see definition at down ballot
2016 electionspeak similar to throw the bums out
DraLo DraLo DraLo
is a uni-name
DraLo DraLo DraLo
is J Lo and Drake
Drama/comedy
blend name of Drake/Taylor
Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment - Fermilab.
Mountain bike with electric motor
a hippy house made from dirt filled tires, packed earth and tin cans.
Spotted in the news.
"Symbol is ‘online equivalent of taunting someone verbally’, says US watchdog the Anti-Defamation League chief, days after Google removes antisemitic Chrome extension" - The Guardian
embedded multimedia card.
ie, the manufacturer is using a micro SD card for internal device storage.
Some people feel that the plural of emoji is emoji, some think it's emojis.
Spotted on the Late Show - thanks Stephen Colbert for bringing this word to television.
Now I can add it to my already existing emojiverse list.
From Oryx and Crake
a melodica
Typically a fanfic writer
Spotted as female emoji
There's probably a Cthulu dictionary out there that defines this.
short for fibromyalgia or FM
Spotted in the news related to Fidel Castro's passing.
Spotted as the social bubble created by Facebook filtering out things and people that its algorithm thinks you may not like.
Or FinTech. Financial Technology
Newfoundland: cod and hard bread
The cod is soaked before cooking, The bread is soaked in water before cooking as well. They're both cooked and then mixed up and served on a plate with scrunchions
Spotted while looking up scrunchion
a variant of thinspiration
Fitness/sport? .. appears to be a variant of thinspo
A photo of an object or group of objects taken from above, looking down On them.
Spotted at the BBC referring to eating roadkill. flatmeats
Spotted in a FB meme. " an individual who knows their 'flaws' and knows they're awesome regardless"
found an Internet folklore creature
https://www.reddit.com/r/fleshgait/comments/4up9d0/wtf_is_a_fleshgait/d5rson0
<i>'A "fleshgait" is an internet-lore supernatural forest critter that seems to try to stalk and lure people by trying (usually badly) to make vocal noises similar to other animals or to human speech. People who believe they've actually seen it often describe it as walking around as if it has constant upper-body spasms. Aside from these characteristics there isn't much consistently known about it; even the fact of whether it stalks humans to predate them as opposed to just mind-screw with them really depends on which tale you're reading.
The name "fleshgait" came from the name "skinwalker", which was an actual traditional folkloric figure - a dude, basically a Navajo "evil" medicine man who as part of his gig wears the skin of various animals in order to magically gain attributes or powers of those animals (such as enhanced speed, or hearing, or strength) for himself. The term has been appropriated as all get out on the internet though, first for werewolves, and then most recently for these critters until somebody decided that probably wasn't a good thing to do, so they coined the term "fleshgait" by using synonyms for "skin" and "walk"'.</i>
Spotted in the TV news. When your trip goes bad: missing connections, bumped from flights, missing luggage, cancelled flights, running out of food, stuck on the tarmac for 16 hours.
Floating solar panels.
Spotted on my FB feed a gif of
"A group of rabbits is called a fluffle"
I like it. Clearly I can ignore wikipedia on this.
Franglais
see social media description at freebooted
past tense of when your media has been shared/reposted/retweeted on a social media site without any revenue generated.
also freebooting
Front trunk of a car which has no front engine.
Flying Spaghetti Monster-ism
Networking: Fiber To The Distribution Point. Also FTTdp
I also spotted AaaS for Archive as a Service. Wazoo indeed.
fibre-to-the-distribution-point spotted at The Register
electrical and software slang for inputs and outputs.
spotted in a 1973 tech manual as a whole section
see note at gazinta or gazintas and gazoutas
slang for 'goes outta'
electrical and software - outputs of a device or a software function.
in making a pronunciation joke, I suddenly discover people actually have been using the word gjiff to make fun of the pronunciation debate.
pronounced guh-jiff
the debate will now be whether it's a hard gjiff or a soft gjiff
added gluggaveður to a list, and then commented on it.
the language of Roald Dahl
found when looking up squiffly
apparently the OED has an 8000 word dictionary of gobblefunk
Googlenesia - When your Googleheimers is so bad your brain can't remember what you wanted to look up.
... comes from a blend of Grizzly and Buffalo.
Buffalo Gruffalo buffalo Buffalo Brusselo ...
A fictional monster.
What keeps some people from going to the gym.
.. is an actual thing. Term goes back to ~2000
Term used by parents that are embarrassed to say cha cha cha
In Vancouver, it's the chunks of ice that fall from the Port Mann and Alex Fraser bridges landing on cars below.
Electrical Vehicle etiquette - when an internal combustion engine vehicle takes up 1 or more charging station parking spots.
Text speak for "I don't even know" showed up in the news http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/11/11187882/idek-venmo-flagged-transaction-terrorism
Spotted in a BBC article. Refers to people with an online presence on Imgur.
annoying memespeak for impossible
is this an actual thing, or is it an insult for someone who is easily offended?
inspiration
'Aug. 23 is now called Internaut Day, a name that combines “Internet” and “astronaut,” as early technical Internet users were called.' - Globe and Mail
abbreviation for 'in real life'
versus an online persona.
nickname for the USB-C connector.
computer gaming modelling - it's a flexible link in an modeled object.
slang - spotted online for the self driving cabs in Singapore. After the self driving cab in the movie Total Recall
starting to see this term on youtube.. basically a video clip which catches the viewer off guard with an unexpected scare. Boo! also jump scare
The film industry of northern Nigeria. Wikipedia calls it Hausa language cinema.
Spotted this in s BBC article.
Captain Kirk's fighting style
to kitesurf using a board that has a hydrofoil on it, so the rider is lifted out of the water.
kitefoiling spotted in a Kitefoiling on Maui video.
2016 internet eye dialect of 'kiss'.
"now kith"
a person who controls the lasers at a laser music show.
an instagram posting, posted later than the event, so it's no longer 'instant'
Long Baseline Neutrino Facility - Fermilab
Almighty by
I haven't come across this in person, but I'm from the West coast.
linux jargon: LZMA Lempel–Ziv–Markov chain algorithm - related to compressing files and archives.
I hear this term at the coffee shop as an Italian word for 'idiot'.
spotted in the news - an event where men are not allowed - ie, at a womens' hour at a fitness club. also man ban
a man's facial
because some guys exfoliate
From man interrupt
Also manterruption manterrupting
I read it as "me I.R.L."
abbreviation of "me, in real life"
Meme related, like a meme
Spotted as male emojis
Spotted online "someone got merked" not sure of definition.
initials for 'my feelings when'
similar to mrw
A cosmetic eyebrow procedure that involves tattooing the eyebrows with a bunch of small cuts.
Spotted in the news due to health concerns of piercing the skin.
A bike which does not have a top bar, but rather a pair of support tubes from the top of the front tube running down to the back hub.
A rocket liner to take passengers to the moon.
http://www.yesterland.com/moonliners.html
This goes back to the golden age of space travel.
moose caribou hybrid animal
Nickname for someone from West Virginia.
slang for a vape device
spotted in the related tweets - mouth trilby
the joke is that only hipsters vape or use fedoras.
initials for 'my reaction when'
typically a reaction picture captioned with a situation. "mrw wordnik comes back online"
Linux jargon: The modification time. The last time a file was modified or touched.
... because Twitter users can't spell Neil deGrasse Tyson
spotted on message boards - quick search showed it on twitter.
There appears to be a usage which isn't mathematical, or an abbreviation for Newport.
Looks like it's a fun way of saying 'nope'.
A quick search of "next your way" says yes, in the software install sense.
Also spotted "next next next your way" with varying hyphens and commas. It's like "tabbing" as a verb in pressing the tab key.
Repetitive installs are why people use pre-built images of an install.
"The actual install process is a next-fest. You boot, you install, you next your way through." Spotted in Ars Technica article on building your own router.
starting to see this on twitter.
example "God niced me with this weather for my bday boyyy"
niced seems to have a history in England.
"NICE, NICED, NEIST, adj. - particular, fastidious"
https://books.google.ca/books?id=pHcKAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA98 Glossary of words used in South West Lincolnshire 1886
NOBUS spotted in computer security talk as "NObody But Us"
The idea that the bad guys won't get their hands on a computer security back door or exploit.
North Hollywood
A non-domiciled person for tax purposes.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_with_non-domiciled_status_in_the_UK
Spotted in my news feed.
A place with poor wireless coverage. seems that notspot is the more common usage.
Assuming Newfoundlanders aren't making things up, it's someone who avoids work. http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/nl-word-challenge-nunnyfudger-1.3843700
slang for 'none of your' ... as in nunya business.
spotted in a movie trailer.
Spotted as slang for official
Typically "the olds"
Old people
spotted in messages where people discuss oligopolies of internet service.
"Oligobble this! cable company"
using curved cuts to make a large rubik's style puzzle.
I keep seeing this as a verb - to get a newly hired person up to speed at work.
payroll, HR stuff, email, logins, paperwork, initial training. on-boarding onboarding
I've grown up with oolichan, instead of eulachon
mostly because I'd hear the word and never see it spelled
a mosquito trap which uses 2 sections of rubber car tires and filter paper as a 'landing strip' to catch mosquito larva which prevents the mosquito population from increasing.
spotted at BBC news
"...the ovillanta is a clever — and highly effective — mosquito trap made from the pests' favourite breeding spot."
A paraplegic triathlete. A triathlete at the paralympic games.
Spotted at the register. "For the uninitiated, Photoplethysmography is technology that uses LEDs to measure pulse rate and blood oxygen concentration."
spotted in the examples for pi-kus
"pi-ems (poems about pi)"
a haiku in pilish writing style.
- spotted at the BBC
Also spotted a piecaken in my news feed
spotted at the BBC - "The writing style inspired by pi"
The first word has 3 letters, the second 1, the third 4 ...
Polar grizzly bear hybrid
... how most people spell Pokémon
blend of poke (Hawaiian sushi bowl) and burrito
A place to find a Pokemon
I expect the Poké fad to wane by fall.
In Hawaii, the chopped raw fish salad dish is actually spelled poke despite what restaurants are marketing in the mainland.
"Man describes tragic 'poopocalypse' that occurred in his house when a Roomba met a dog turd."
Spotted in the news.
slang for Adelaide, Australia.
Doctor Who tongue twister.
Representing
' "London has a huge number of these res-non doms," said Lesperance. "And it bolsters the economy in the U.K. tremendously." '-CBC article on a billionaire who left Canada. see also non-dom
'real' + instagram. rinsta
A real instagram account as opposed to a finstagram
Robot boat. Spotted in the news, then a google search showed more examples.
Spotted in BBC article on Christmas creep
'“They have a perception of the holiday that is Rockwellian,” she says referring to the American artist Norman Rockwell, who sentimentalised American culture. '
a rösti
spotted this term in the IETF glossary.
This term goes back to 1975 computerworld.
https://books.google.ca/books?id=f2XZVvbi_TAC&pg=PA6&dq=salami+swindle
Finally, there is the instance security consultants have come to call the "salami swindle." Krauss reported a case in which a programmer "sliced off" rather than rounded off fractional shares bought in an employee investment plan and trans-ferred the fractions to his own account. When caught, the programmer had allegedly credited his account with some $380,000 worth of securities, Krauss reported"
I'll have you know salesy has been looked up over 4000 times, which makes this word adoption a complete bargain compared to other words.
spotted on late night television.... nope.
word made an appearance in 2010 as a SNL spoof.
An east coast Canada term for pork rinds
"Ford reportedly mowed down every last scrunchion (which, for the uninitiated, is a local dish made of fried salted pork fat). " exclaim magazine
slang for a a manager who flies in, craps on everything and leaves
I must have seen this word 25 years ago.
The slang term goes back to 1986 to a John Stewart management book. Earlier search results give a "Seagull Management Ltd" company.
A van with a bed. circa 1980
...has made the news.
"Shawarmageddon: Moscow authorities threaten to ban kebabs"
-The Guardian
This term has been around much longer than the Trailer Park Boys.
Typically it refers to seagulls.
The fictional language of the Sims computer game.
Tech speak for 'high availability'. 99.9999% availability of a computer
from the tweets - a witch who can turn into an animal
Antarctica - Ski Runway / Snow Runway
eqrthquake term for a very slow moving earthquake, such as the slip off the coast of Vancouver.
someone who slurps their drinks and soups. A device that sucks up liquids.
quick search shows this appearing in English in the second half of the 20th century. Did we get this word from German or Dutch?
So mad.
It's a Gilmore Girls word.
Spotted in the news as smartphone zombies.
a SPAM sample.
spotted in news story about the SPAM museum.
"It's a SPAMple!"
edit - was doing a search, but it added a comment. My computer's acting up.
a community of people who have spondylitis or AS
short for spondylitis or AS
from wikipedia "A sporeling is a young plant or fungus produced by a germinated spore, similar to a seedling derived from a germinated seed. They occur in algae, fungi, lichens ..."
someone from Squampton
very informal
2016 usage refers to a cell phone surveillance device regardless of the brand name or model name.
spotted in Boston magazine =
'“Strandbeests”—or “beach animals”—consist of skeletons fashioned from lightweight PVC tubes. Wind propels their wing-like sails, which then drives their feet to walk sideways. Created on the Dutch seaside, the strandbeests know to avoid water, walking in the opposite direction as soon as it comes in contact with their feelers.'
news is calling tonight a straweberry moon. A full moon on a solstice.
spotted as 'stuffed animal'.
Spotted this on Twitter.
"I will stunt on anyone who..."
An idiot. Spotted on Late Show with Stephen Colbert."...and those subreddit subgeniuses, grow the **** up"
Ultra High Definition
4k video.
alternate/silly version of super
see super-note
From the examples: physics, "loss of internal friction in fluids"
Swedish/English
physics/sci-fi - a hypothetical device that lets a person communicate with his earlier self.
Because you know Einstein was getting answers from his Future self.
Related to clickety
Blend of Tehran/Los Angeles; referring to the Persian community in LA
Using electric and magnetic fields to assemble molecular things, from a research project at Rice University.
A roadside check of a mobile device to see if texting was involved in a car crash.
spotted TFM as 'total frat move'
the dumb stuff you do when you're a partially drunk frat guy.
Spotted a buzzy buzzword. -The Register
I spotted this in a Guardian article about female emojis.
"Tired Tinderella
Former online-dating enthusiast who is now swiped out. "
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/23/emoji-women-google-suggestions
Also spotted in the same </i></i></i></i></i></i></i> article.
short for "tomorrow" or initials for "that moment when"
appears to be a word from the tv show "The IT Crowd
"Good Morning, that's a nice tnetennba" 2010
also toethumb
There's a wiki article on clubbed thumb
a stubby thumb that looks like a big toe.
also toe thumb also clubbed thumb
recycled water
mars timekeeping for 'today sol',
spotted as a reference to a snow hill which had lots of usage.
Quick search show's it's a skiing/snowboarding term.
time to start labeling the next generation.
A raccoon
2016 , people are using it as a 1 word response to say that something affected them, triggered PTSD, or caused them to have a flashback to a previous stressful event. Usually, the term is used as hyperbole.
Usually said to a friend when they wear the same outfit and you pretend you're twins for a second. Hey, we're twins!
An angry mob of people attacking someone using twitter.
Spotted in a Verge article about online moderation.
people on twitter
Twitterese verb for unfavourite /unfavorite.
Otherwise it seems to be an abbreviation of unfavoured/unfavored
spotted in debates.
This word goes back to the 1700's/1800's
Twitterspeak for un-retweet
abbreviation for un-retweet
spotted in the news about emails and politicians
someone who lives in a van, campervan, or similar vehicle instead of renting or owning a regular dwelling.
also vandweller vandwelling
also (from tweets) vanners
spotted this in an 1888 book for Vancouverite ; see example at Terminal City
recent examples listed to the right show this an an adjective
I never see this term in day to day speech or writing.
spotted at vanpackers
Spotted in a headline : "the camper van tourists annoying Australians" BBC
Quick search shows this word used by someone else - Dec 2015
Slang for vibes.
mizu shingen mochi
aka Japanese Water Cake
spotted on the late show - Glaswegian
Word is likely capitalized... Weegie (quick ngram search)
Wilmington NC and its film industry.
"Instead, the Juno and Grammy-award winning artist will be performing a verse from his song Directo in Wit'suwet'in, an Athabaskan language spoken by First Nations in northwest British Columbia. "
spotted on a CBC article about Canada day events.
means crosspost
to post an identical message into another message board.
Nooooo...
spotted on late night tv.
emoticon for 'corner peek'