staycation (n.): a vacation on which one stays home and enjoys the pleasures of one’s home and environs I was introduced to this word at a party last night, in reference to my plan to stay in New York more or less by my lonesome during greater Christmas. It’s more or less perfect, as slang [...]
cuss (n., v.): curse I’ve recently taken to watching Gunsmoke, a western that ran on CBS from 1955 to 1975, making it the longest-running drama in television history. It’s fuckin’ great — before my first episode (which I DVRed more or less arbitrarily), I hadn’t realized that TV dramas had once been so strictly episodic. [...]
scronym (n.): a name given to a man’s ballsack This, shockingly, began as a typo by a dear friend, but the opportunity for a portmanteau was just too delicious to pass up. I’m frankly surprised that a word like this hasn’t already been coined. Though I’ve never seen figures, I would assume that hundreds of [...]
bougie (adj.): characteristic of the pejorative sense of “bourgeois,” i.e. concerned with….ah, fuck it. I can’t actually define “bourgeois” any better than Merriam-Webster Unabridged, which goes into startling, sparkling detail: characterized by selfish concern for material comfort and well-being, by preoccupation with moneymaking or property accumulation, by anxiety about social respectability, and by a tendency [...]
