bizweird: (adjective) exceptionally odd, to the point of amusement.
Like: Yesterday it was pouring rain, then it was blue skies and sunny, and then it was cold and snowing. It was totally bizweird.
And: “Bizweird” is kind of a bizweird word.
lesbiaunty: (noun; predicate nominative): An honorary, minimized parental-type role bestowed upon lesbian friends of babies and their full-time parents.
Usage: Used to quantify the part-time caregiving, garden-planting, cookie-baking, cartoon-watching, puppy-wrestling activities involving baby and the lesbians in her life that love her.
Like: “While my partner and I are both in agreement that we don’t want kids, we’re happy to be little Sadie’s lesbiaunties.”
Or: “I will not buy you those ridiculous toe-shoes. Go ask your lesbiaunty.”
Super thanks to Allison Marchant for the creation and definition of this week’s word.
Got one? Gimmie.
sarcasterisk* (noun): An asterisk for typed sarcasm
Usage: For use in any typed situation where you wish to convey sarcasm. Use over the word that will deliver it most clearly.
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Thanks to Grant Hamilton for his contribution of this week’s word.
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nerdversation (noun): a nerdy conversation
Usage: Used to call attention to a conversation containing heavy nerdy themes (see usage for retargument).
Like: The Thanksgiving dinner table had been overtaken by a nerdversation between my uncle and my brother who were discussing the clear superiority of Star Trek: The Next Generation over Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
Or: All of a sudden in the middle of discussing the nuances of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Joss Whedon’s subsequent works, I realized, to my chargin, that I was an active participant in a nerdversation.
refudiate (transitive verb): To simultaneously oppose and ignore the existence of an idea or thing.
Usage: Used to highlight opposition to a thing to the point of pretending it doesn’t exist. Best used sarcastically.
Like: Sarah Palin refudiated the criticism of her tweet when she changed the original but still defended it.
Origin: Misspoken English of Alaskan origin. Thought to have been derived from “refute” and “repudiate”.
Thanks to Sarah from Alaska for contributing this week’s word.
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brimlyjoyed (intransitive verb): Being full of joy to the brim.
Usage: That creamy center between “joyed” and “overjoyed”. A sincere, realistic expression of feeling a large but manageable amount of joy.
Like: “I am brimlyjoyed to be sitting here with you.”
Or: She felt brimlyjoyed about the approach of the evening and the fun events it promised.
knowment (noun): The moment between knowing and not knowing.
Usage: Used to observe the brief span of time that exists between asking for a piece of information that will affect you and receiving it. Use it as a pause in time to reflect on life-as-you-now-know-it and life-as-you’re-about-to.
Like: Closing your eyes and taking a deep breath in the knowment before you look at a pregnancy test.
Or: After receiving the letter from the college he had applied to, he took paper out of the envelope easily enough, but holding it, still folded, he found he had trouble breaking the knowment and actually reading it.
Also: “I’m going to pause you here to observe this knowment.”
prestalgia (noun): Preemptive nostalgia.
Usage: Used to describe the feeling of sentimental longing for something/someone/a situation before it’s gone or before you are removed from it.
Like: If you are feeling melancholy about the end of a fun evening before the evening is over, you are feeling prestalgic.
Or: “A wave of prestalgia hit me as I realized how much I was going to miss all of my co-workers in a few months.”
dudeman (noun): Someone who is causing you minor annoyance/slight inconvenience.
Usage: The best way to use dudeman is to not over think it. Though the window of low-level irritation necessary for dudeman to be applicable is so narrow it’s nearly nonexistent, it’s surprisingly often occurring. A term for someone who momentarily frustrates you, but whose actions will have no affect on your life as soon as they leave your line of vision.
Like: “Dudeman forgot to give me a pickle.”
Or: “Dudeman does not know how to navigate a 4-way stop.”
Also cool to say: Dudelady
Warning about that: Use of dudelady may cause you to have Aerosmith’s “Dude (Looks Like a Lady)” stuck in your head for upwards of 5 hours.
retargument (noun): A retarded argument.
Usage: Best used by a third party to call out an active retargument, but is also very effective when used by a participant of the retargument. When dropped in the middle of one, it has an uncanny tendency neutralize it. This is credited to the difficulty of realizing that an argument is actually about something retarded when in the middle of it.
Like: If your friends/family fall into a heated argument of who would win in a fight between Batman and the Flash, you can drop a “Well this is a fun retargument”.
Or: “I’m glad I could witness this riviting retargument, but I’m going to do something worthwhile with my time.”
