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• @$$

1. • 2021, Black Panther comic, "everybody's kicked their @$$

• card

1. • 2022 — thisnuts 52, Story of Family Guy

     Quagmire's a card, he likes to bone

• GLAAD
  • Advocate.

• Macbethian

1. • taken for a band of Macbethian witches
   1. • (Shirley Letters, 13 Sep. 1851) 1922 GB

• superhighway:
  • "How true that is", agreed Miss Scarlet. "And a little improvisation goes a long way. Hey look, [Mr. Boddy's] computer is on.
  • "Surf's up, man. Let's see what he was checking out on the Internet Superhighway Express Cloverleaf Eighteen-car Pileup thingie."

• X with a Capital Y:
  • Pockets that mark the diff'rence / Between a gentlemen and a bum / With a capital "B," / And that rhymes with "P" and that stands for pool! -- The Music Man

• XXX (extremely high quality/strong, hardcore porn)

1. • 2021, Olivia Luv, From AAA to XXX: A Dictionary/Commentary on Porn and Porn Addiction, Future Directions Publishing, page 87:

     He might watch raunchy R movies rather than XXX films[.]

• xxx (abbr. for kisses)

1. • 2020, Diana Button, from Pen (elope) with Love Xxx", Books on Demand, page 336:

     From your faithful writing friend,
     Penelope Pen xxx

• XXXing

1. • 2021, Bill Watson, AuthorHouse UK, page unknown
   • Have a whole xxxing harem.

• Every English term suffixed with -fold.
  • They all seem to have somthing to do w/ religion

add a sense to feck (opposite of feckless), gangster, NFL (no f---ing lime, said w/ corona)

• This has some good cites: https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/GbMiAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0
• bird eponyms (w/ etym!): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Q_IJTLYWe0WWmMZueSftKUTJ4wTyuTYTeLk7ELiGiUY/edit#gid=2072416291

Cool New Words To Add

• 🪦 (means death. Used in an editorial comic.)

• -American ("woke PC bullcrud" -- George Washington)

  • Tampa Bay Times, pub. 29 Sep 1991, ed. 13 Oct 2005, Thomas French, "The nadir of nasty":

1. • There's even a woman on the East Coast, says Aman [editor of Maledicta], who insists on being called a "gyno-American."

• • Buffy the Vampire Slayer, "When She Was Bad", 15 Sep 1997, written by Joss Whedon:

1. • Because I don't trust you. You're a vampire. Oh, I'm sorry, was that an offensive term? Should I say 'Undead-American'?

• electronic age

• full Grassley -- visit 99 counties Iowa, a la Sen. Grassley

• How do you spell relief? i-s-w-e-a-r-t-h-i-s-p-a-s-s-e-s

• Hugh Hefner (Playboy man)

• illegal driver - more lit. as "one who drives without a license" or other drive crime, golf sense as well.

• internet time -- The "Inter-net" makes everyone move fast, you agree?

• in your heart, you know he's right -- goldwater campaign slogan (need more of these, tbh), inspired two riffs: "...know he might" and "in your guts, you know he's nuts".

• Laugh-In - old TV show.

1995, 15 Minutes alone with God, Bob Barnes:

• • Rent a funny video and have a “Laugh-In” party.

• Lemmy - Fediverse equivalent to Reddit.
  • It's FOSS News, June 24 2023: "Lemmy: A Decentralized Open-Source Reddit Alternative To Explore"
  • lifehacker, June 22: "The Four Best Reddit Alternatives: As Reddit melts down, users are fleeing to lemmy, kbin, tildes and more."
  • techdirt, June 12: "What Would Aaron Swartz Think Of Reddit’s Ridiculous New Direction?": "There are, already, a few attempts at building a Reddit-like service on ActivityPub, including Kbin and Lemmy (which, because they’re both in the fediverse, interoperate)."
  • Android Authority, June 16: "Looking for a Reddit alternative? Lemmy tell you, they currently kinda suck"]

• letter bank - term w/ no repeating letters ("bank") makes words and phrases using all letters, coined by Will Shortz @ 1980 NPL con.

• Loowit
• Louwala-Clough
  • both Native names of Mount St. Helens

• Mae-Westian
  • Our Sunday Visitor, March 10, 1974

1. • At least there were no Mae-Westian overtones to the word [bosom].

• painting the bike shed

• palimerick - a palindromic limerick

• Skibidi - head comes out of toilet, from "Skibidi Toilet"

• Skibidi Toilet syndrome - st00pid kidz act like skibidi toilet, esp. in malaysia

• shake, rattle and roll means seksy seggs

• social omnivore - vegan, but eat meat w/ friends

• Toki Ponalize

1. • How do you have a version of Ithkuil that is both easy to learn and has the ability to describe everything. I hope he didn't just Toki Ponalize the whole thing.

Non-English

boom boom, Jamaican Creole for "kill"? (As it Snow's Informer.)

• Is that song English? We say it is here.

despenolases, according to https://es.wiktionary.org/wiki/despenolases , means (roughly!) "second person singular (tú, vos) imperfect pretérito subjective of despenolar (verb used in nautical contexts?)\

kiviaq, is this a Greenlandic term?

Palindroming All Peoples

• Gotta see if I can find a Igbo sentence/phrase palindrome.
  • List of words: aja (soil), àjà (sacrifice), ala (land), ímí (nose), iyi (stream), ọkụ́kọ (chicken),
• Gotta see if I can find a Kabyle phrase/sentence palindrome.
  • Found Wikipedia in that lang. I'll see if I can just yoink.
  • List of words: ili (be), iyi (me), izi (fly), lal (born), assa (today), tizit (mosquito)
• Make better title for this section.

Cool Word Records That You Can't Easily Find on Wiktionary

Longest Words We Have (Less Than 25 Letters) with [letter] in [nth] Position

Sorted by number of letters, and then alphabetically. Additional info in brackets.

1st Position

• Judeo-Christian-Islamic
• zenzizenzizenzizenzike (tied w zygomaticomandibularis)

2nd Position

• Bjelovarsko-bilogorska
• squamoadenocarcinomas
• twenty-five-thousanders (cf Kwiatkowski-Phillips-Schmidt-Shin [could also be an adj, also used w/ "critical values"])
• agrihortisilvicultural
• azobisisobutyronitrile (can be pluralized, despite page's claims.)
• skeletochronologically
• afterhyperpolarizations/afterhyperpolarisations
• extraterrestrialization (tied w oxazolinoanthracyclines)
• adenosinetriphosphatases

3rd Position

• enzymoimmunoassays
• arjunaphthanoloside
• Roquefort-sur-Soulzon
• Hawsker-cum-Stainsacre (cf Shwachman-Bodian-Diamond)

4th Position

• abequosyltransferase

5th Position

• unobjectionableness (tied w Jack-jump-up-and-kiss-me, Kirkjubæjarklaustur)
• inaequihymeniiferous

6th Position

• unknowledgeableness (tied w green-white-checkered, chips-with-everything, Caton-with-Littledale
• interjurisdictionally (tied w transjurisdictionally, cross-jurisdictionally)
• interventionistically (tied w passive-aggressiveness, Bjelovarsko-bilogorska, Koprivničko-križevačka, Dubrovačko-neretvanska, extravascularizations, fibrovascularizations, microviscoamylographs, hypervascularizations, microvascularisations)
• zenzizenzizenzizenzike (tied w pyrrazolooxadiazepines, dibenzocyclooctadienes, imidazobenzodiazepines)
• paraskavedekatriaphobia/paraskevidekatriaphobia (cf twenty-five-thousander comment)

7th Position

• quasi-two-dimensionality
• bisbenzylisoquinolinium
• gynotikolobomassophiles

8th Position

• supermajoritarianism (tied w duodenojejunostomies)
• pyrroloquinolinequinones
• Staronizhestebliyevskaya

9th Position

• Rao-Blackwellizations (tied w model-view-controllers)
• dichloroquinolinolates
• glucoconvallatoxoloside (tied w fibroneovascularization, pseudoenvironmentalists, prostatovesiculectomies)

10th Position

• Couva-Tabaquite-Talparo
• countermajoritarianisms

12th Position

• pancreaticojejunostomies (tied w pseudocystojejunostomies)

13th Position

• bisbenzylisoquinolinium
• choledochojejunostomies
• trinitrotriazidobenzene

14th Position

• asthenoteratozoospermia (tied w asthenoteratozoospermic, cyclopentabenzopyrans)
• tetrahydroisoquinolines
• pancreaticojejunostomies (tied w pseudocystojejunostomies)

15th Position

• clino-ferri-holmquistite (tied w hydroxynaphthoquinones, tert-butylhydroquinones)
• deoxygalactonojirimycin
• oligophenylenevinylenes