prosopolepsy (n.): Respect of persons; especially, a premature opinion or prejudice against a person, formed from his external appearance. This definition comes straight out of Webster’s 1913 dictionary, and I’ll be the first to admit I’m not entirely sure what “respect of persons” means. The word comes from Greek, a combination of prosopon meaning “person” [...]
nego /n?go?/ (n.): contrarian; pessimist; negative nancy Another post born of exhaustion, I’m afraid, but I have to make a clarion call to my readership that this word exists and must be learned and internalized if you ever hope to converse with me, as I’ve discovered it appears in at least 20% of my conversations [...]
fembot (n.): a vociferous, radical, or militant feminist I’m sick with some sort of gross, brothy sinus thing, and I left work around noon to go home (after a brief stopover to go shoe shopping — how often do I end up at 5th and 34th in the middle of the day?). Consequently, instead of [...]
fluorescidal (/fl?r?sa?dl?/) (adj.): 1. compelled to destroy fluorescent lights; 2. marked by an impulse to commit suicide due to overexposure to fluorescent lights A quick check of the Google corpus confirms that I coined this term today, but I’m fairly certain that all of us office monkeys end up overwhelmed by either sense one or [...]
Good Friday (n.): the Friday before Easter observed in churches as the anniversary of the crucifixion of Christ and in some states of the United States as a legal holiday I’m a little late on the uptake with this, but that’s nothing new. I recently received an email from a good friend suggesting I do [...]
Ask, and ye shall receive. truthiness (n.): 1. the quality by which something is believed emotionally without regard to evidence or rational thought. 2. (non-standard, jocular) the quality of adhering to incorrect concepts one wishes or believes to be true. Used as previous. The history of “truthiness” is, by now, well-documented if not downright well-known. [...]
