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Dictionary

robbyrobs — Sun, 11 Dec 2005 07:09:31 -0800

Merrian-Webster open dictionary "Have you spotted a new word or a new sense for an old word that hasn't made it into the dictionary yet? Well, here's your chance to add your discovery (and its definition) to Merriam-Webster's Open Dictionary"

By: furtive

furtive — Sun, 11 Dec 2005 07:25:04 -0800

The Urban Dictionary has been doing this for ages.

By: Eideteker

Eideteker — Sun, 11 Dec 2005 07:45:46 -0800

Please enter all such words and phrases as "podcasting" "podjacking" "blog" "on crack" "LOL" etc into this book. Then take the book, burn it, throw the ashes down a well, then burn the well and throw those ashes down a giant well. In space.

By: jeffburdges

jeffburdges — Sun, 11 Dec 2005 07:53:08 -0800

santorum : The frothy mix of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex.

By: fire&wings

fire&wings — Sun, 11 Dec 2005 08:02:40 -0800

This will not end well.

By: olbiadle

olbiadle — Sun, 11 Dec 2005 08:14:33 -0800

My favorite word is now an entry.

By: Miko

Miko — Sun, 11 Dec 2005 08:37:05 -0800

I feel for the staffers that will have to comb through this site, now that MeFi has discovered it.

By: scruss

scruss — Sun, 11 Dec 2005 08:46:02 -0800

Feel free to do the same for Collins Word Exchange, from my old employer.

By: Miko

Miko — Sun, 11 Dec 2005 08:53:06 -0800

At last! All of those people who were too late to ride the Sniglets wave will have a place to go. For example: nastitude (adjective) : A nasty attitude. I created this word. Example: She had such a nastitude. —Samantha James flukenstance (noun) : a positive, coincidental convergence of a fluke and a happenstance It was a wonderful flukenstance that an old friend, pulling a horsetrailer, drove by when my horse unexpectedly threw a shoe on a rocky road But some of these have potential. This one Fruk (verb) : Past tense word for Freak. After my cat exploded, I fruk out. strikes me as useful. And this one biastereoa (noun) : The knowing that you're right, even when no one believes you. Everyone laughed at her when she expressed her true feelings. But even she laughed; out of biastereoa. strikes me as useful right here on MetaFilter.

By: mediareport

mediareport — Sun, 11 Dec 2005 10:06:33 -0800

Someone please come up with a word for "cheesy gimmick to boost hits late in the game."

By: Eideteker

Eideteker — Sun, 11 Dec 2005 10:08:25 -0800

So far on #metachat (yes, #metachat; we've got teh music going on so suck it, haters) we've got: Vanitopicality: When you change the topic on IRC to something regarding yourself Stalkmark: When you bookmark a page for the purposes of future stalking Flirtrocious: A miserable and desperate attempt at flirtation Heterno: A polite way of declining the (flattering) advances of a same-sex admirer

By: interrobang

interrobang — Sun, 11 Dec 2005 10:37:28 -0800

Legitimacy at last!

By: weapons-grade pandemonium

weapons-grade pandemonium — Sun, 11 Dec 2005 11:42:02 -0800

Wikocrit: One who criticizes Wikipedia while trying to emulate same.

By: Citizen Premier

Citizen Premier — Sun, 11 Dec 2005 12:44:36 -0800

fat: past tense of fit I'm an affable guy. Even though my woodshop class was dominated by hispanic kids, I still fat right in.

By: dhartung

dhartung — Sun, 11 Dec 2005 13:00:51 -0800

seigenthaler: A complainer about the legitimacy of open-submission websites. Ex.: I can totally see this project getting seigenthaled.

By: Uccellina

Uccellina — Sun, 11 Dec 2005 14:08:02 -0800

Dammit, dhartung beat me to it.

By: goatdog

goatdog — Sun, 11 Dec 2005 14:55:12 -0800

I believe that there is some humor present in misspelling "Merriam" in this post. That is all.

By: Kirth Gerson

Kirth Gerson — Sun, 11 Dec 2005 18:01:39 -0800

This is craptastic!

By: rob511

rob511 — Sun, 11 Dec 2005 18:10:46 -0800

Yup, goatdog, dem lexophiles ain't always the most literate: dictaddiction (noun) : compulsive need to pour through dictionaries endlessly.

By: weapons-grade pandemonium

weapons-grade pandemonium — Sun, 11 Dec 2005 18:20:36 -0800

Well, rob511, had you been more dictaddicted, you would have used "pore".

By: Kirth Gerson

Kirth Gerson — Sun, 11 Dec 2005 18:33:36 -0800

Very astute, w-gp, but it wasn't rob who was doing that using.

By: anarcation

anarcation — Sun, 11 Dec 2005 22:55:42 -0800

You say "Open Dictionary," I say "Open Content"... Let's call the whole thing off.

By: Eideteker

Eideteker — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 10:22:02 -0800

"ad eminem" - When you attack the person, not their argument; but you do so with mad phat rimez on the mic.