ese
Ese, amigo, hombre. Or, in English slang, dude, bro, homey. Ese is a Mexican-Spanish slang term of address for a fellow man.
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wypipologist
Wypipologist is a humorous slang term for someone, usually a Black person, who "studies" wypipo, or "white people." Wypipo, after all, do some crazy stuff in need of expert explanation. -
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Feel The Hygge With This Word Of The Day Quiz
Ignore the gibble-gabble and cozy up to this week’s Word of the Day Quiz. | January 28 – February 3, 2019 If the quiz doesn’t display, please try opening in the Chrome browser. Tell us your favorite word from this week, and share it with your friends on Facebook and Twitter)!
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Has The Word “Expert” Lost Its Meaning?
by Ashley Austrew What makes someone an expert? In the days of the internet, it seems like it’s gotten much harder to tell. Social media and the instant expert Social media makes it possible for anyone to have a platform, and that’s given rise to the phenomenon known as the instant expert. These self-appointed authorities on everything from federal policy to last night’s episode of This Is …
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Old King Clancy
You say you have a Canadian girlfriend? Oh yeah? Did she give you an Old King Clancy? Well, we don't believe you, because the Old King Clancy is a suggestive, Canadian-inflected but otherwise unspecified sex act… -
acorn
ACORN is political slang for using deceptively obtained or fake evidence to damage a person's or group's reputation. A squirrelly enterprise, indeed. -
Words You Didn’t Know Came From Chicago
Chi Town, The Big Onion, The Windy City. Call it what you will, Chicago is home to a herd of sports teams that could fill a zoo—the Cubs, the Bears, and the Bulls (and, oh yeah, the White Sox too). Not to mention it’s the land of deep-dish pizza and Chicago-style hot dogs. It’s a fantastic city filled with museums, shopping, and industry. This midwestern …
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mancelled
Before the #MeToo movement took off in 2017, mancelled was sometimes used to refer to dudes being flakey and cancelling their plans. In the post-#MeToo era, problematic or offensive men can expect to get mancelled, a… -
Supremium
In the fashion world, Supremium refers to the (usually hefty) markup in the resale market for hot-ticket, Supreme-branded items, i.e., the premium on Supreme products. As a general blend word of supreme and premium, supremium can also imply… -
These Plain Words Have Very Odd Origin Stories
Most people have fairly rigid ideas about what words mean, but the thing about language is that it’s constantly changing. Words that mean one thing today may expand in definition over the coming decades or come to mean the complete opposite of their current definition once a few hundred more years pass. Sometimes, words even change meanings entirely, leaving behind little trace of what they …
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Instagram husband
Ever wonder how your favorite insta influencers look flawless in every photo? Well, it may be thanks, at least in part, to the person behind the camera: their Instagram husband. An Instagram husband refers to…