Posts tagged: dictionary
thrillax
v., to do something that is both stimulating and relaxing
hobbledehoy
n., an awkward, gawky young man
cockalorum
n., a boastful and self-important person; a strutting little fellow
man
n., an animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be. His chief occupation is extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earth and Canada.
—Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)
diarrheaist
n., a person who shares too much online, particularly personal information
friggatriskaidekaphobia
n., a morbid, irrational fear of Friday the 13th
nomophobia
n., the fear of being without your mobile phone or without a cellular signal
peak people
n., a time when the world’s population reaches a maximum, after which it steadily declines due to reduced birth rates or global shortages of energy, food, and water
Eurogeddon
n., an extreme European economic, political, or military crisis
[Europe + Armageddon.]
ineptocracy
n., a government or state ruled by people who are incompetent
