Freegan
Someone who eats only what they can get for free. Street kids and misers are largely freegans. The word comes from vegan, which is someone who doesn't eat meat or animal products.
Second-hand speech
Overheard mobile phone [cell-phone] conversation.
walking piñata
A person who is constantly criticized or ridiculed. (That second word, by the way, is pronounced pin-YAR-ta.)
Showdogging
Walking beside an attractive stranger to get people to think you know the person.
Uptalk
Hmmm. You may do this yourself, but we hope not. Uptalkers turn up the last word or syllable of a sentence to make it sound like a question — even though they are just making a statement. They will say “I'm going to school??”, “I've lost my lunch???”, “I bought some new shoes????”. They are just statements of fact, but uptalkers make everything sound like a question. Weird!
Cyberfossil
Someone who spends too much time on the internet.
(Like Me :P)
Skats
Australian slang for body piercings. People who have them are called skatters.
Annoyicon
1. An emoticon.
2. A logo that stays in the corner of a television screen.
type T personality
Someone who regularly seeks out thrilling or dangerous experiences.
Extreme tourism
Traveling to trouble spots such as a country had wars.
McMansion
A big new home in incredibly bad taste.
Togethering
Taking a vacation with your family or a few close friends.
fur kid
A pet whose owner treats it as though it's a child.
Also:fur-kid, furkid.
Cat typing
Typing in emails and elsewhere that is so bad it's almost unreadable. (Like the random keystrokes made by a cat as it walks across a computer keyboard.)
Lunch rage
Becoming hyperactive or acting crazy after eating or drinking something you are allergic to.
Flexitarian
A vegetarian who occasionally eats meat.
Nanny-cam
A special video camera — so small you can hide it inside stereo equipment or a teddy bear — used for spying on baby-sitters
(Nanny for the Nanny :P)
Also: nanny cam, nannycam.
Crittercam
A camera attached to a wild animal.
Tanorexia
Addicted to getting a tan.
Hoplophobia
The fear of guns. You would say that someone who is afraid of guns is a hoplophobe, and is hoplophobic.
Earworm
A song or tune that keeps wriggling around in your mind after you've heard it on the radio, or in McDonald's. Sometimes you will hear someone whistle or hum a tune, and it will keep coming into your mind even though you don't want it to. That's a bad earworm. Earworms don't have to be songs you like — they just have to be persistent.
Hurry sickness
A condition where a person feels chronically short of time, and tries to do every task faster, then flusters over any delay.
Someone who eats only what they can get for free. Street kids and misers are largely freegans. The word comes from vegan, which is someone who doesn't eat meat or animal products.
Second-hand speech
Overheard mobile phone [cell-phone] conversation.
walking piñata
A person who is constantly criticized or ridiculed. (That second word, by the way, is pronounced pin-YAR-ta.)
Showdogging
Walking beside an attractive stranger to get people to think you know the person.
Uptalk
Hmmm. You may do this yourself, but we hope not. Uptalkers turn up the last word or syllable of a sentence to make it sound like a question — even though they are just making a statement. They will say “I'm going to school??”, “I've lost my lunch???”, “I bought some new shoes????”. They are just statements of fact, but uptalkers make everything sound like a question. Weird!
Cyberfossil
Someone who spends too much time on the internet.
(Like Me :P)
Skats
Australian slang for body piercings. People who have them are called skatters.
Annoyicon
1. An emoticon.
2. A logo that stays in the corner of a television screen.
type T personality
Someone who regularly seeks out thrilling or dangerous experiences.
Extreme tourism
Traveling to trouble spots such as a country had wars.
McMansion
A big new home in incredibly bad taste.
Togethering
Taking a vacation with your family or a few close friends.
fur kid
A pet whose owner treats it as though it's a child.
Also:fur-kid, furkid.
Cat typing
Typing in emails and elsewhere that is so bad it's almost unreadable. (Like the random keystrokes made by a cat as it walks across a computer keyboard.)
Lunch rage
Becoming hyperactive or acting crazy after eating or drinking something you are allergic to.
Flexitarian
A vegetarian who occasionally eats meat.
Nanny-cam
A special video camera — so small you can hide it inside stereo equipment or a teddy bear — used for spying on baby-sitters
(Nanny for the Nanny :P)
Also: nanny cam, nannycam.
Crittercam
A camera attached to a wild animal.
Tanorexia
Addicted to getting a tan.
Hoplophobia
The fear of guns. You would say that someone who is afraid of guns is a hoplophobe, and is hoplophobic.
Earworm
A song or tune that keeps wriggling around in your mind after you've heard it on the radio, or in McDonald's. Sometimes you will hear someone whistle or hum a tune, and it will keep coming into your mind even though you don't want it to. That's a bad earworm. Earworms don't have to be songs you like — they just have to be persistent.
Hurry sickness
A condition where a person feels chronically short of time, and tries to do every task faster, then flusters over any delay.