23 March 2009

NWoTD - Tersonality

Tersonality - a terse personality. Think stereotypical New Englander.

18 March 2009

NWoTD - Tweeterhea

Tweeterhea - an explosion of tweets on Twitter after a prolonged period of no tweets at all.

16 March 2009

NWoTD - Craw-struck

Craw-struck - when something gets stuck in your mind, usually because you're annoyed.

10 March 2009

NWoTD - Containted

Containted - contained contamination.

This also leads to containters - contaminated containers.

05 March 2009

NWoTD - Vitaminimize

Vitaminimize - to supplement with vitamins in an attempt to minimize the effects of a cold.

Why yes, I am fighting a cold right now, what makes you ask?

04 March 2009

NWoTD - Cumpassion

Cumpassion - pretending to care about someone in order to have sex with them.

26 February 2009

NWoTD - Mironic

Mironic - moronically ironic. As in, a student who should have failed the second grade being forced into third because her parents refused to sign the document to hold her back. If she's not ready for the third grade she needs to stay back.

20 February 2009

18 February 2009

NWoTD - Douchebattery

Douchebattery - beating the annoying snot out of someone who's behaving like a douchebag.

13 February 2009

NWoTD - Lubrary

Lubrary - a place where lubrications are stored and sorted according to the Dewey Decimal System by use (sex, automotive, industrial, etc.) and by chemical formula (graphite, various oils, water-based, etc).

07 February 2009

NWoTD - Horkano

Today's new word comes from combining the words volcano and hork (blowing your nose) thus.

Horkano: when you blow your nose and the resultant flow of goo is like an erupting volcano. Delightful, eh?

06 February 2009

NWoTD - Francheese

Francheese - when a previously good television or movie series is spun off into a cheesy direction. Sort of like the addition of the highly marketable Ewoks to the first Star Wars trilogy or the addition of the incredibly annoying Jar Jar Binks to the second trilogy. I'm sure there are dozens of other examples of francheese.

Got a good example of a franchise taking a turn for the cheese (and the money, of course)? Leave it in the comments.

30 January 2009

NWoTD - Felonocity

Felonocity - the speed at which crime increases as the economy worsens. Compounded from felon and velocity.

28 January 2009

NWoTD - Rideiculous

Rideiculous - a stupid ride (and not in a good way), i.e. the dumbshit with the ape hanger handlebars that made him hold his arms above his head to ride his Harley and he nearly dropped it in the parking lot because it was so ungainly.

21 January 2009

NWoTD - Foolush

Foolush - a stupid drunk, comes from foolish lush, obviously.

17 January 2009

NWoTD - Swervitude

Swervitude - swerving with attitude. Meant to indicate the people who treat the highway like their own personal race course and swerve in and out of traffic and across multiple lanes regardless of the danger they present to everyone around them.

14 January 2009

NWoTD - Twurfing

Twurfing - astroturfing (Wiki - neologism for formal public relations campaigns in politics and advertising which seek to create the impression of being spontaneous "grassroots" behavior, hence the reference to the artificial grass, AstroTurf) via Twitter but includes the marketing wonks/SEO "experts" who use Twitter to expand their network of contacts.

10 January 2009

NWoTD - Phlotation

Phlotation - making ends meet by selling photographs is phlotation.

09 January 2009

NWoTD - Revisionisticalism

Revisionisticalism - the effort to rewrite history in order to paint yourself in a better light by the use of talking points dispersed throughout your organization. See Cheney, Dick and Bush, George for current examples of revisionisticalism.

02 January 2009

NWoTD - Slopportunity

Slopportunity - when someone takes advantage of a drunk person for sex or other actions then you are being slopportunistic. Or, another definition, a slopportunity is an opportunity to make a buck off of a sloppy situation, i.e. how a tow truck driver loves freezing rain because more cars slide off the road and mean more money in his pocket.