8.30.2010

Kitschiest

Something or someone that could not be more distasteful.

"Paris Hilton, epitome of kitschiest."
(epitome: representative or perfect example of a class or type)

Online Cleanse

Extreme measure you take when you get so sick of the Internet that you unplug from it; includes not using Email, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and news sites.

"I am so fed up with my online life that I will take an online cleanse for three days... I hope I´ll survive."

Why does everything have to suck?!

Everything sucks or, eventually, will suck.

Why does everything have to suck?!

8.23.2010

Greenjoy

The pleasure you get from doing ecotourism (also known as ecological tourism, it is responsible travel to fragile, pristine, and usually protected areas that strives to be low impact and (often) small scale. It purports to educate the traveller; provide funds for conservation; directly benefit the economic development and political empowerment of local communities; and foster respect for different cultures and for human rights.

—"Guess where is my sister Emilia and her kids now."
"Where?"
—"Costa Rica"
"For holidays? Doing what?"
—"Ecotourism man!"
"Wao!!! What a greenjoy!"

8.21.2010

20-Nothings

Grown children moving back in with their parents delaying the “transition to adulthood” as marked by five milestones: completing school, leaving home, becoming financially independent, marrying and having a child.

"Jesus, I am so fed up of dating 20-Nothings, going-nowhere-fast guys, with their arrested development!"

8.15.2010

Third World America

The decline of the United States of America as an industrial, political, and economic leader.

"From Canada´s border, down to the Patagonia, there is now a united Third World America."

predigital

No longer current or in fashion, out-of-date, faded, aged.

"But darling, those trousers are so last year, so predigital!"

Relatable

Word very much in use by students, meaning someone or something you can relate to.

"Lady Gaga said that there must be something greater than her, meaning that there must be a God. That´s relatable to my ego."

8.11.2010

B.G. (Before Google)


Time lapse that ended on September 4th 1998 with the foundation of Google Inc.

"Our Donald was born in 1997 B.G. (Before Google)."

8.05.2010

Asphinxiation

Being sick to death of unanswerable puzzles or riddles.

—"Cause of death?"
"Asphinxiation."
—"How?"
"His wife."
—"Got it... poor bastard."

Dringle

The watermark left on wood caused by a glass of liquid.

"Whose glass is this that made such a nasty dringle on my antique table?"

Optotoxical

A look that could kill, normally from a parent or spouse.

"End of line! I won´t go out to dine with you anymore. Anytime I greet any woman I know, you get borderline optotoxical."

Wikism

A piece of information that claims to be true but is wildly inaccurate.


"Your life is just a monumental wikism... so full of inaccurate shit you are."

Blogish

A variety of English that uses a large number of initialisms, frequently used on blogs.

"For God´s sake Sheldon, speak English... I don´t understand bloody Blogish!"

Glocalization

Running a business according to both local and global considerations.
"
Think global, act local?... that´s glocalization to me."

Espacular

Really spectacular.

—"The concert was awesome... saw the espacular guitar shredding?"
"Yeah, espacular indeed!"

Furgle

To feel in a pocket or bag for a small object such as a coin or key.

—"Honey... have you seeing my keys."
"Let me furgle."

Pregreening

To creep forwards while waiting for a red light to change.

"Stop it!!! Your are driving me nuts with your third-worldish pregreening way of driving."

Smushables

Items that must be packed at the top of a bag to avoid being squashed.

To supermarket clerk: "Be careful with the smushables dear, and I´ll tip you well."

Scrax

The waxy coating that is scratched off an instant lottery ticket.

"Hear me you asshole... next time you cover my coffee table with scrax I´m gonna rip off your sorry balls!"

Wurfing

Surfing the Internet while at work.

Sign at work: "Wurfing not allowed at any time during work hours."

Xenolexica

A grave confusion when faced with unusual words.

—"Don´t mention anything Urban Dictionary to Mary."
"Why?"
—"She will go xenolexica."

Sprogging


The act of running slower than a sprint but faster than a jog.

—"Yo... what do you do with those running shoes? You are not spring-chicken."
"Sprogging... slower than a sprint but faster than a jog."

Illustration: 2FACE

Accordionate


Being able to drive and refold a road map at the same time.
Folding a map as if you were playing the accordion (a box-shaped musical instrument of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as a squeezebox.)

—"How do you always manage to get to your precise point of destination when driving in a foreign city?"
"I think that is because I accordionate very well."