Showing posts with label slang. Show all posts
Showing posts with label slang. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Tuesday, November 21, 2023

Friday, October 27, 2023

Nerd sniping

 Nerd sniping is a slang term for the action of giving an interesting problem to a person (usually a nerd), thereby consuming all their attention until the problem is solved. It was coined by xkcd author Randall Munroe in the 356th comic of the series on 12 December 2007.

Thursday, August 24, 2023

fandominance

 

fandominance

n) the extremes and undesirable bits of a fandom or fandoms . Fandominance is this: when a "fandom" goes too far.

Wednesday, May 3, 2023

wombo combo

 

wombo combo (plural wombo combos)

(slang, chiefly video games) A combination of actions which create a decisive advantage (often involving coordination between teammates)

Monday, April 3, 2023

Wednesday, February 15, 2023

youngblood

 

youngblood (plural youngbloods)

  1. Someone who constitutes or brings fresh blood, especially a youngster who joins an older team etc.


 

Saturday, February 4, 2023

touch grass

 

    touch grass (third-person singular simple present touches grass, present participle touching grass, simple past and past participle touched grass)

    1. (Internet slang) To spend time outside. An insult suggesting that a person posting online is out of touch with reality and should spend time away from the internet.
    2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see touch,‎ grass.


Tuesday, January 17, 2023

Craic

 Craic (/kræk/ KRAK) or crack is a term for news, gossip, fun, entertainment, and enjoyable conversation, particularly prominent in Ireland. It is often used with the definite articlethe craic – as in the expression "What's the craic?" (meaning "How are you?" or "What's happening?"). The word has an unusual history; the Scots and English crack was borrowed into Irish as craic in the mid-20th century and the Irish spelling was then reborrowed into English. Under either spelling, the term has attracted popularity and significance in Ireland. 

The word crack is derived from the Middle English crak, meaning "loud conversation, bragging talk".


 

 

Monday, January 16, 2023

feck

 

feck (third-person singular simple present fecks, present participle fecking, simple past and past participle fecked)

  1. (euphemistic, chiefly Ireland) Alternative form of fuck

     

Thursday, January 12, 2023

act the maggot

 

act the maggot (third-person singular simple present acts the maggot, present participle acting the maggot, simple past and past participle acted the maggot)

  1. (Ireland) To play around in a foolish or annoying manner.

Tuesday, October 25, 2022

between Scylla and Charybdis

 Being between Scylla and Charybdis is an idiom deriving from Greek mythology, which has been associated with the proverbial advice "to choose the lesser of two evils". Several other idioms, such as "on the horns of a dilemma", "between the devil and the deep blue sea", and "between a rock and a hard place" express similar meanings. The mythical situation also developed a proverbial use in which seeking to choose between equally dangerous extremes is seen as leading inevitably to disaster. 


 Scylla and Charybdis were mythical sea monsters noted by Homer; Greek mythology sited them on opposite sides of the Strait of Messina between Sicily and Calabria, on the Italian mainland. Scylla was rationalized as a rock shoal (described as a six-headed sea monster) on the Calabrian side of the strait and Charybdis was a whirlpool off the coast of Sicily. They were regarded as maritime hazards located close enough to each other that they posed an inescapable threat to passing sailors; avoiding Charybdis meant passing too close to Scylla and vice versa. According to Homer's account, Odysseus was advised to pass by Scylla and lose only a few sailors, rather than risk the loss of his entire ship in the whirlpool.

synanthrope

 A synanthrope (from ancient Greek σύν sýn "together, with" and ἄνθρωπος ánthrōpos "man") is an organism that evolve...