Now here’s a word that should be Safired if it hasn’t already: SLACKTIVISM
Meaning … when apathy (and recreational drugs) are stronger than your original desire to be a do-gooder.
Or do I mean Sapphired? No, I guess I don’t.
Safire, verb.
To delve into the historiographical life of a word for the purpose of deducing its various meanings and uses within a socio-economic context, etc. Named for William Safire who does it all the time, almost without meaning to.
“Is it ‘flesh out’ or ‘flush out’? I wish someone would just Safire it already!”
Thwork (v.)
The aggressive act of suddenly and subtlely righting and redirecting the pedestrian path of one’s partner while perambulating, preferably along the periphery of a promenade.
It’s Friday the 13th and all through the house;
not a creature is stirring; not even a black cat chasing a mouse.
Because unless you’re a triskaidekaphobe, you don’t care. Triskaidekaphobia is a superstitious fear that crazy people have of the number 13. A specific fear of Friday the 13th – held by especially loony people – is called paraskavedekatriaphobia or friggatriskaidekaphobia.
The word is made up of a bunch of Greek parts and everyone knows they were mad as hatters.
Tris = “three”, kai = “and”, deka = “ten” (thus thirteen), + phobia, “fear, flight”. There you have it.
Nutty as the ancient Greeks were, though, the word is actually a modern formation, first appearing in 1911 in I.H.Coriat’s Abnormal Psychology. Speaking of wackjobs.
(Read on …)
Thuggable
adj. meaning adorably thug-like
Ooooh, just look at that little bitty thuggaboo doll holding up that liquor store in his thuggable little black thugabooties. I got him at that thugaboutique way out in the thugaboondocks.
snarfling n.
1. The act of snuffling into someone’s neck while engaged in snuggling.
Helmut is quite the noisy little snarfler.
2. The act of scarfing down matzah farfel on passover.
I must have snarfled three bowls this morning. What I wouldn’t do for a bagel.
What do you call an exceptionally, unfathomably large number composed mostly of potatoes?
A kugelplex
Tripidation n.
1. The fear of tripping and falling on one’s face.
2. The fear of being tripped and falling on one’s face.
3. The fear of the Grateful Dead.
dischiplinarian n
1. one whose strictness and devotion regarding the one right way to do dishes is all-encompassing. “I don’t care if that evil psychoslut Virginia Satir did come up with 260+ ways to do dishes! They’re all wrong! Wrong, I tell you! Wrong!”
2. one whose strictness and devotion regarding the one right way to keep kosher dishes is all-encompassing. “I don’t care if you bury it in the yard for twenty years. The sink is ruined! We’ll have to sell the house!”
3. Peter Falk doing Humphrey Bogart describing Lauren Bacall. “She was some dischiplinarian if you know what I’m saying.”
Shmark
n. A smart shark
Shmarks aren’t stupid, you know. They just care a lot about food.
v. to trick someone
Stop schmarking me around, you chain-yanking prankster
