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Academic Writing Month
Allegedly a super long Navy Acronym...
"Administrative Command, Amphibious Forces, Pacific Fleet Subordinate Command"
I'm doubtful that it's a real acronym
spotted in the comments section of a video where someone was petting a leopard.
adorable/terrifying
"An alphamagic square is a magic square in which the number of letters in the name of each number in the square generates another magic square. " - wikipedia
also alpha magic, alpha-magic
a twitter shortering of Americans
refers to the wibbly wobbly poop emojis in the upcoming new phone
Xkcd 1932
doggo speak for a wolf howl
spotted in my FB feed as 'pupper does an awoo' .
Also spotted an 'awoo everyword' twitter handle
Tape drive tech term. Not sure what a tape drive backhitch is.
a fabric water bucket under a firefighting helicopter.
looked up 2400 times,
Big friendly rocket
Sometimes scientists just like to make big words.
bats
🐶
:p
Spotted as doggo speak.
photography chemistry - bleach and fix
spotted on youtube.
female blogger
spotted on CNN "But critics say the name will teach children a nonword. It prompted a hue and cry (pun intended) on Twitter."
a bunny rabbit
term looked up 3200 times. Google Trends search shows this term trending Sept 2013. Google search shows this term popping up on wordnik on Sep 20, 2013
Coincidence?
spotted as "Born On This Day" in twitterspeak.
spotted this word in my facebook feed with a definition of
"Straight white male offended by any feminist or ethnic activity which is not directly designed for him" - this was likely copy and pasted from somewhere else
bubble net feeding - by humpback whales.
also bubble-netting , bubble net fishing, bubble netting, bubble-net fishing,
spotted in a tweet which had a video of a guy in a kayak with half a dozen whales rising and feeding.
can't you
"Dakotah god of the woods" https://books.google.ca/books?id=bQAxAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA41
can't you
South China Morning Post is using this term for Vancouver's Cantonese community
boxed wine
ferrets, according to twitterese.
appears to be short version of certified/ certificate
October 2017. New Zealand ran out of chips.
spotted as short for choreography
dance moves
Spotted as a Christmas themed alcoholic drink. 🎄🍸
spotted this in a local twitter feed for a hybrid between a photo and a video.
seems this word has some staying power.
starting to spot this in my FB and Twitter feeds.
from the usage, it seems to have different meanings for different people.
spotted cmte. as short for committee (spotted in a news headline)
slang for crazy .
kray kray
cryo-electron microscopy
definition spotted on twitter "cute ugly"
self censored version of beer pong
gyped by a curbstoner
A native language in the Prince George area of British Columbia.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/dakelh-nakazdli-language-app-camp-1.4459256
"Growing up, she said, her father would occasionally speak to her in the Nak'azdli dialect of the Dakelh language historically spoken in central B.C., even though he wasn't fluent."
a back surgery operation where the part of a herniated disk is removed because it was pressing against the spinal cord.
see also microdiscetomy
a mom to a furbaby
Dothraki daiquiri
Roadside drug tester. Spotted in the news
A pickup truck with the 2 pairs of tires on the back.
an El Camino car
"Yeah Man, El Camino!" (from a movie)
spotted this in looking up fire corn emojis.
Grilled corn.
spotted as multiple of emoji
🔥 up the emoji plural debate
(Google trends has emojis being more popular)
English / Tagalog . aka Taglish
"Now that this hat is upon mine head, Any and all procamations I make, thus enhatted, are now and forever law"
-Colbert , Big Furry Hat
more Mexican food, cup of elote
from the examples, half the time 'evergreen content' refers to spammy SEO optimization where old articles are refreshed to get search engines to update.
other times it refers to content which is "always true".
a tweet that is accurate now as it was years ago.
updated 2017 definition - any news you don't personally like
Japanese for fake news . spotted in japantimes article "Japan’s buzzwords of 2017 cover everything from politics to poop"
archaic version of phlegmatic?
a flipbook
flying aquatic skateboard - powered by a powerful water jet.
Stephen King wrote The Mist
Movie idea: the writer - a story about a writer who unleashes monsters on people who steal his ideas. Wait.. that was Goosebumps.
spotted in the news "'Fognado' engulfs California beach" BBC. it's more of a low roll cloud or a low gravity wave cloud.
the customer facing side of tech, ie, the web page, or user interface.
also spotted as a verb, because you can verb all the nouns.
Fujiwhara effect is where storms combine to form a bigger storm.
bbc article " an untranslatable word for pure joy"
Greatest International Scavenger Hunt the World Has Ever Seen
spotted in the office, someone who is biased against people who are gluten intolerant.
good morning
texting/tweeting abbreviation of 'good night'
a golden labrador doggo
Grammatical errors
Spotted in article about Curiosity rover's wheels.
" “In either case, the climbing wheel can end up experiencing higher forces, leading to cracks and punctures. The treads on each of Curiosity's six wheels, called grousers, are designed for climbing rocks. But the spaces between them are more at risk.”
-The Register
Txt/twitterspeak "gtfo of here"
oh, it's a word
Halloween Weekend.
happy Gary refers to this emoticon ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ
"Happy birthday to you"
Computing: "Halt and Catch Fire" assembly code instruction 1967 https://books.google.ca/books?id=VItRAAAAYAAJ&q="halt+and+catch+fire";
opposite of lowkey
a 2015 business insider article has it as
spotted online as a shortening of 'hold my beer'. This is a minority use of this abbreviation.
a html frame that pops up when you hover over an object or text for more information on a web site.
hummingbirds
also found - 1994 usage slang for homies
for when the term super-power isn't good enough
Spotted in The Atlantic
'The nightmare was sketched for me by the head of geosciences at Pennsylvania State University, Lee Kump, whose “horror movie” speculation was that there might have turbocharged “hypercanes” of almost unbelievable intensity assaulting the supercontinent Pangaea—the result of runaway global warming.'
"Ice rises are islands overridden by the ice shelf, allowing them to shoulder more of the weight of the shelf."
- NY Times article - A Crack in an Antarctic Ice Shelf Is 8 Miles From Creating an Iceberg the Size of Delaware
textspeak for 'i hate you'
Spotted this in the news "Star Wars characters get Indigenized by Comox First Nation artist" - CBC article.
From the examples, this term has been around for at least 20 years.
Quick books search has this going back to 1800s https://books.google.ca/books?id=TLw-AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA256&dq=indigenized
spotted shortening of intentional
scheduled to be born around 6/17/18 in Florida
spotted in my social media feed The destructive Hurricane Irma 2017
spotted in the Miami New Times http://www.miaminewtimes.com/arts/hurricane-irma-the-best-memes-from-irmahgherd-to-irmageddon-9648050
"Irmahgerd Hurdicurn Reperder"
British Naval Slang
spotted in 1989 book of the same name "Jackspeak: A guide to British Naval slang & usage"
spotted in my social media feeds as a Iceland book thing with chocolate.
Captain Kirk's fighting style.
when your dad was a racist, your grandfather was a racist, etc...
twitterese for 'know'
from the tweets - automated buoys tweetage for knots.
tongue
short slangy - language
anniversary of a launch
loaded political word.
A smile with raised eyebrows.
Spotted in local news lookeeloos
opposite of highkey
in linux computing, it's 'metal as a service'.
How Google and Apple refer to the Macintosh OS according to their style guides
Moving water using magnets and electricity
spotted in a british video, also mansplaying I assume it's the British version of manspreading
A nickname for a Maud Lewis painting
looked up 1295 times, just saw this term today.
Realm of memes
Yes it was. Sounds similar to a storm surge
spotted in news as a weather generated tsunami
an operation where parts of a herniated disk which is pinching your spinal nerves is removed, relieving pressure on the nerve.
in emoji 🥤🦆
BBC article explains what Milkshake Duck means.
'"Milkshake Duck" is slang for someone who is briefly and universally cheered, but then swiftly turned upon because of their previous social media posts. ' Dec 15, 2017
mini version of you
short for mockumentary
"May the force be with you"
it's a smoochy friendly kiss sound , also common to add extra letters for added effect.
mustgo soup is made from the leftovers in the fridge which 'must go'
A billionth of a century. 3.155 seconds
Spotted in the twitterverse "not gonna lie"
Slang shortening of North Korea
people without magical powers. Muggles.
See modern example at noping
spotted as a verb.
nope nope nope nope.. outta here.
when the Movember moustache takes over the lower face.
"Biologists Just Discovered an Underwater Octopus City And They're Calling It Octlantis "
- unconfirmed story from my FB feed. also Octopolis
And if the Octopuses have a garden, would that be the Octopuses' garden?
another octopus city . also Octlantis
baseball term
"on-base percentage" "on-base streak"
"Office québécois de la langue française"
from the BBC article "The place that banned the term grilled cheese and cocktail"
new allowed word in Quebec: grilled-cheese
The Quebec 'language police'
spotted in a CBC science show
"Now scientists are using human brain 'organoids' to study the roots of some genetic diseases like frontotemporal dementia.
The name of the cigar shaped object hurtling through our Solar system.
This word is written on my apartment building's washing machines.
Supposed to 'avoid oversudsing' by using less detergent.
also sudsing
archaic term found in an archaic book from the 1600's relating to Animals and Minerals.
https://books.google.ca/books?id=U08PAAAAYAAJ
Page 479 has Spirit Animals.
spotted this in verb form - lets patio!
a podcast including cats.. maybe dogs.
also spotted on youtube.
spotted in the article listed at highkey peeped seems popular in tweets still.
Spotted in computer gaming.
A non-existent Earth twin planet we can all fly to when we ruin this one.
"There is no Planet B" - most scientists in 2017
emoji poetry
most emoji poetry is non english
mmm.. potizza
“whole deserts of publessness” spotted in Guardian article on how pubs are disappearing
Beeps heard in Apollo spaceflight audio. Spotted on a Science Friday retweet.
Spotted in tech news as 'Ransomware As A Service' where bad guys have malware for sale and servers to rent.
Glad the examples listed to the right have Recovery as a service.
was looking up the 'shadow snakes' effect which is seen during eclipse, and came across the Rahu legend in search results.
random stranger
spotted someone using this, assumed it meant 'grandpa', probably wrong.
2017 politics - refers to Ruth Bader Ginsburg "Notorious RBG"
thx bilby.
recommended
spotted in the 'recently listed' list.
Interesting examples when you browse twitter.
Apologies for the loss in productivity in looking up this word on twitter.
thanks for catching that typo.
An actual technical term when scrolling is broken in a web browser.
Spotted as a nickname for Ottawa Senators
slang for spaghetti
looked up 2400 times. The people demand a definition.
boom.
Sorry for getting wordnik in trouble with the word police.
fancy way of saying walk in the woods , term coined in 1980's Japan.
Twitterese for 'should'
looked up 2500 times.
Google trends has this word becoming a thing likely with a March 6 Youtube Video 'I am shooketh'
I wonder if those lookups were from after that video.
spotted in a guardian article about denim being a new thing.
"Model Gigi Hadid ‘shrobing’ her denim jacket in New York. "
Vogue has an article called "What Is Shrobing? And How Do You Do it?"
It's basically draping what you're wearing off your shoulders, like your jacket is almost falling off your shoulders.
"shut your"
"skip-level meetings" "skip-level manager" - sounds like some new corporatespeak.
pet boogers.
spotted in Guardian story 'How I survived living with a cat stuffed with uranium'
I don't know why. The 19th c. Had whiskey as part of frostbite treatment. (google book search "whisky frostbite" 19th c.)
This refers to the sourtoe drink which has a mummified toe.
Fron the Guardian article:
"For more than 40 years the Downtown hotel in Dawson City has served up the sourtoe cocktail, a shot of whisky with a blackened toe – nail and all – bobbing inside. Those who manage to touch the gnarled, severed toe to their lips earn a certificate.
On Saturday a customer took it one step further, allegedly making off with the wrinkled digit after swallowing his drink. “We are furious,” said Terry Lee of the hotel. “Toes are very hard to come by.”"
a graph showing the multiple paths of an incoming storm using multiple mathematical models.
spotted in the news.
spotted in a book search 1973 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute -1975 MIT - Mid Ocean Dynamics Experiment
spotted phrase 'sperg out'
If you use this term, you're being socially insensitive, as it makes fun of people with aspergers, or uses aspergers as an insult, even if the target of the insult doesn't have aspergers.
physics - "Other physicists figured out that this quantum state represented spin.
And the up and down degrees of freedom with direction of pointing along the angular momentum axis. We now call these component waveforms spinors"
an air filter for marijuana smokers to exhale without stinking up the place.
spoiler alert :like a spoiler alert
"Families who would once have eaten potato waffles are now experimenting with lower carb butternut “squaffles” (slices of butternut squash cut to resemble a waffle)." Guardian article - Why we fell for clean eating.
spotted as pilot slang for 'the old round gauge displays' instead of modern rectangular displays.
- froma Juan Browne video.
a do-it-yourself tattoo.. sewing needles and ink. aka snp tattoo aka stick and poke
quick books search, this term is over 100 years old.
this phrase refers to having a hangover from partying.
tea brewed in the sun in a glass jar. sun tea
surfing gear - wetsuits , spotted in BBC article. maybe they meant surfwear
goes back to 1968
text speak for season
refers to the table flip emoticon
(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
or
(ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻
and some people have to 'put the table back'.
┬──┬◡ﾉ(° -°ﾉ)
someone who does takigrafy
spotted in the Shorthand Writer. https://books.google.ca/books?id=IgQDAAAAYAAJ
football term defined at take a knee
Refers to the quarterback kneel-wikipedia.
Spotted in a news article about a crashed warship 'Though the admiral said he had visited the McCain and denied, in response to reporters' questions, that her crew were overworked ("I didn't see a crew taking a knee, so to speak") his...'
Tattoo inspiration
a software industry buzzword bingo jargon word.
it's a term that implies that all these technical things work together nicely and flawlessly, but the reality is that a tech stack is a cross between square pegs hammered into round holes, a Rube Goldberg machine and a Jenga tower which stops working and falls apart at the slightest disturbance.
Also, powered by hamsters. x1636
thicc has been looked up 4285 times. Google trends has this term showing up late 2015.
I heard of the Tim Tam Slam 20 years ago. This should be in the dictionary, or at least the Macquarie
'That Moment When'.
Like the 2009 definition
short version of the word tweet.
clearly this word was coined by marketing types to make people feel inadequate about their laundry and consume more detergent.
United Nations General Assembly
US Army Corps of Engineers
Txt/twitterspeak for "would"
spotted half a dozen times on twitter since 2013. refers to when someone types the words for an emoji instead of using emojis
ie "dumpster fire" instead of"🗑🔥"
spotted quote on Facebook, Can't vouch for it's realness.
"We made it to friday! Raise your cup to surviving another week of wtf-ery." ~ Nanea Hoffman ~…
Spotted Monterey Bay Aquarium tweet
"You can now see the aptly-named wunderpus (full name: wunderpus photogenicus—really!) in our Tentacles special exhibition! 🐙"
Blend of gen-x and millennial. Spotted in an article where this was people born between 1977 and 1983.
A cross-fiction story, combining 2 different fictional universes x-fic
High level of the Texan equivalent of the whom'st contraction.
a bee infected by apocephalus borealis "The zombie fly"
"This week paleontologists from the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto unveiled the latest addition to their dinosaur menagerie: a massive, rhinocerous-sized armoured dinosaur they're calling Zuul - because of its striking resemblance to the demon-monster in the original Ghostbusters movie." -CBC Quirks and Quarks
I'm not sure if this renders on phones and desktops, but this is a heiroglyphic character of a guy with his hands up... I like to think this is the Heiroglyphic shruggie. (it's not)
spotted in looking up puppucino
emoji for milkshake duck