30 July 2009

NWoTD - Twignorant

Twignorant - not knowing about Twitter or not knowing about some of the culture of Twitter including txtspk abbreviations like LOL, WTF and BFF.

NWoTD - Twitterati

Twitterati - the creme de la creme of the Twitter world.

27 July 2009

NWoTD - Confronsational

Confronsational - people who engage in bullying talk during conversations are being confronsational. It is, obviously, a mashup of confrontational and conversation.

24 July 2009

NWoTD - Noosepaper

Noosepaper - the rope around the neck of the dead tree newspaper business that is slowly strangling the life out of it is called a noosepaper.

21 July 2009

NWoTD - Gerk

Gerk - a geeky jerk. Think the IT guy at a company who treats everyone like they are partially retarded for not being able to configure Outlook properly.

05 July 2009

NWoTD - Indepantsoff Day

Indepantsoff Day - the national holiday where no one is allowed to wear pants.

02 July 2009

NWoTD - Oogling

Oogling - using Google Images to ogle a hot chick or guy.

30 June 2009

NWoTD - Fumungous

Fumungous - an incredibly huge stink, like when Nande gases out an entire room with her fish oil farts. A mashup of fumes and humongous, of course.

And yes, I'm quite proud of this one.

25 June 2009

10 June 2009

NWoTD - Twitbag or Twithole

Twitbag or Twithole - someone who follows you on Twitter in order to get you to follow them back and then they unfollow you.

04 June 2009

NWoTD - Toolbag

Toolbag - a slightly more PC version of douchebag, a combo of tool and douchebag. Inspired by one of the custodians at one of my schools who epitomized the essence of a toolbag.

29 May 2009

NWoTD - Fisciocy

Fisciocy - (pronunciation - fis-key-ah-see) fiscal idiocy. See, current economic plans in California for a great example.

This new word gives rise to other new ones like fisciocracy - a system of government where the richest people have the most authority. Fiscion - fiscal lies, from fiscal and fiction.

27 May 2009

NWoTD - Faillow

Faillow - follow fail, i.e. someone follows you on Twitter in the vain hopes that you'll automatically follow them back. For whatever reason, you do not follow them back and that is the very definition of a faillow.

24 April 2009

NWoTD - Celeberated

Celeberated - berated by celebration. The action of sarcastically celebrating someone's questionable achievement. The sarcastic applause of a crowd when a pitcher, who's given up 7-8 runs in an inning, finally recording the last out of the inning.