digital blackface
Digital blackface refers to white people using GIFs, memes, emoji, and other images of black people to express various emotional reactions online.
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kawaii
Kawaii means "cute" in Japanese, and it is associated with a pop-culture aesthetic of such things as cuddly animals and pink hearts. -
Comey
Based on controversies involving former FBI director James Comey, Comey is used as political slang, to pull a Comey or to Comey. To pull a Comey can refer to flip-flopping, bungling something at the last minute, and making… -
Cheggs
Cheggs is a colloquial name for Chegg, a company which offers digital textbook rentals and academic supports for students. -
sense of humor
A sense of humor refers to the ability to find things funny, general enjoyment in doing so, or the particular types of things one finds funny. -
renig
Renig is a common misspelling of renege, variously used for "backing out on an agreement" and often mistaken as a racial epithet. -
cat lady
A cat lady is a humorous and occasionally derisive slang term for a single, often older woman who owns many cats. -
riddle me this
Riddle me this is a stock phrase used to introduce a riddle, joke, observation, or question. -
toma
Toma is a Spanish verb variously meaning "to take." In Latin American slang, toma means to have a drink, get what one deserves, or take someone sexually. -
Are New Idioms Ever Created?
Many idioms—expressions that are not taken literally—are so old and so familiar that we don’t think twice about using them. We say, for example, “it’s raining cats and dogs” to indicate that it’s pouring outside, and “comfortable as an old shoe” to explain an easy and familiar relationship. We can trace the etymology of some idioms to books and sayings that were first used hundreds …
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We’re Never Mercurial With Your Word Of The Day Quiz!
Even balladmongers can ace this Word of the Day Quiz … If the quiz doesn’t display, please try opening in the Chrome browser. Share your favorite word this week with your friends on Facebook and Twitter)!
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HBD
HBD is an acronym for Happy Birthday. It's often seen as a lazy way of messaging someone on their birthday. It's also occasionally used to mean here be dragons, referring to unexplored or dangerous territory ahead.
