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Word of the Day - New words, and what they mean!
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kinnikinnick
kin·ni·kin·nick also kin·ni·kin·nic (kĭn′ĭ-kĭ-nĭk′)
n.
1. A preparation made from the dried leaves and bark of various plants, often including bearberry and sometimes mixed with tobacco, smoked especially by certain Native American peoples.
2. See bearberry.
[Unami kələkkəníikkan, item for mixing in, kinnikinnick.]
Usage: We sat in a circle around the fire and passed around a "peace pipe" packed with kinnikinnick that included a wee bit of cannabis.
cannabism
can·na·bism (kan'ă-bizm),
1. addiction to marijuana.
2. a toxic condition caused by excessive use of marijuana.
Usage: My wife decided cannabism would be her weapon of choice...should I decide to fuck around again.
kin·ni·kin·nick also kin·ni·kin·nic (kĭn′ĭ-kĭ-nĭk′)
n.
1. A preparation made from the dried leaves and bark of various plants, often including bearberry and sometimes mixed with tobacco, smoked especially by certain Native American peoples.
2. See bearberry.
[Unami kələkkəníikkan, item for mixing in, kinnikinnick.]
Usage: We sat in a circle around the fire and passed around a "peace pipe" packed with kinnikinnick that included a wee bit of cannabis.
cannabism
can·na·bism (kan'ă-bizm),
1. addiction to marijuana.
2. a toxic condition caused by excessive use of marijuana.
Usage: My wife decided cannabism would be her weapon of choice...should I decide to fuck around again.
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KERFUFFLE
/kəˈfʌfəl/
noun
1.
(informal, mainly Brit) commotion; disorder; agitation
verb
2.
(transitive) (Scot) to put into disorder or disarray; ruffle or disarrange
Word Origin
from Scottish curfuffle, carfuffle, from Scottish Gaelic car twist, turn + fuffle to disarrange
'I was in a bit of a kerfuffle this morning, until I sorted myself out'
Fiddynut
Active member
Greetings friends.
I have a word that I love to use b cause it roles off the young so nicely but I don't really know exactly what it means. Maybe one of the Brits here could shed some light on this for a stupid Yankee like myself. The word is wanker but what does it meen? Thanks for your help...Fiddy.
I have a word that I love to use b cause it roles off the young so nicely but I don't really know exactly what it means. Maybe one of the Brits here could shed some light on this for a stupid Yankee like myself. The word is wanker but what does it meen? Thanks for your help...Fiddy.
WANKER
Wanker, literally "one who wanks (masturbates)", is a general insult. It is a pejorative term of English origin common in Britain and other parts of the English-speaking world (mainly commonwealth nations), including Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. It initially referred to an "onanist" and is synonymous with the word tosser.
Meaning
"Wanker" hand gesture
The terms wank and wanker originated in British slang during the late 19th and early 20th century. In modern usage it is usually a general term of contempt rather than a commentary on sexual habits. Wanker has similar meanings and overtones to American pejoratives like jerk or jerk-off. More generally, wanker can carry suggestions of egotistical and self-indulgent behaviour and this is the dominant meaning in Australia and New Zealand.
Wanker may be indicated by a one-handed gesture, usually to an audience out of hearing range. It is performed by curling the fingers of the hand into a loose fist and moving the hand back and forth to mime male masturbation, which is equivalent to saying, "that person is a wanker".
In the United States, the term is understood, but rarely used, and then more in a way suggesting the target is an idiot.
Related are terms such as "wanker's colic", for an undiagnosed visceral pain, and "wanker's doom", for excessive masturbation, from slang used in the RAF and British prisons since the 1920s.
Differences in perceived levels of offensiveness.
In December 2000, the Advertising Standards Authority published research on attitudes of the British public to pejoratives. It ranked wanker as the fourth most severe pejorative in English. The BBC describes it as 'moderately offensive' and 'almost certain' to generate complaints if used before the watershed.
In Australia, it is considered mildly offensive but is widely accepted and used in the media.
Mary Cresswell, an American etymologist, describes 'wanker' as "somewhat more offensive in British use than Americans typically realize". The word was used twice to comic effect in the Simpsons episode "Trash of the Titans", which caused no offence to American audiences, but prompted complaints on occasions when the episode was broadcast unedited in the United Kingdom.
In popular culture...
"The Winker's Song (Misprint)" by Ivor Biggun is one of many songs about masturbation. It describes the singer: "I'm a wanker, I'm a wanker. And it does me good like it bloody well should", and it reached number 22 in the 1978 UK charts. It was banned by BBC Radio 1 and every national radio and television service.
Phil Collins used the word in his 1984 cameo appearance on Miami Vice and has sometimes been credited with introducing the word to America.
In the film This Is Spinal Tap, David St. Hubbins and Nigel Tufnel both use the word out of earshot to describe fellow rock star Duke Fame after a chance encounter.
On the American television show Married... with Children, Peggy Bundy's family is from the fictional Wanker County.
On the British television quiz show Countdown, contestants have to form the longest word possible from nine randomly selected letters. On one occasion the letters permitted the spelling of 'wanker' (or 'wankers') and both contestants replied with the word, leading one to quip "we've got a pair of wankers". The sequence was edited out of the show (as is common with risqué words), but has been shown as an outtake on other shows. However, on a later occasion, 'wanker' was offered, and this instance was left in and broadcast unedited.
The comedy show Mork & Mindy featured a character named Mr. Wanker who was Mindy's landlord. This was broadcast on American TV and later British TV.
Australian band TISM released an album in 1998 entitled www.tism.wanker.com (which was an active website for a few months after its release). One of the themes in its lyrics is breaking down male society into two distinct cultures: Yobs (the subject of the first single released from the album) and wankers. Its third single, "Whatareya?", offers examples of differences between the types and tells the listener to decide which one he is.
In February 2009, U2 member Bono called Chris Martin a wanker live on air during Jo Whiley's Radio 1 show.
During a live radio debate on 28 May 2010, the future President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins, urged conservative American radio host Michael Graham to "be proud to be a decent American rather than being just a wanker whipping up fear."
When acting as the ombudsman on Red Eye w/Greg Gutfeld in 2011, Mike Baker presents a graph of the "wanker gap" for the first half of the program. Baker has never given an explanation of the meaning of the "wanker gap."
Jack Vance wrote a science fiction book entitled Servants of the Wankh in 1969. The title was changed to The Wannek due to its sounding like wanker.
Iron Maiden's song "El Dorado" contains a veiled reference to the term in the line "I'm a clever banker's face, with just a letter out of place.” In live performances, singer Bruce Dickinson would change to an explicit mention: "I'm a clever wanker's face, just a banker out of place."
In January 2015 the then Mayor of London Boris Johnson described British-born jihadists as "pornography-obsessed inadequates who only turn to radical Islam when they fail to make it with girls...They are literally wankers".
Cockney Wanker is a long running character in Viz, based on a stereotypical male Cockney.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanker
Wanker, literally "one who wanks (masturbates)", is a general insult. It is a pejorative term of English origin common in Britain and other parts of the English-speaking world (mainly commonwealth nations), including Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. It initially referred to an "onanist" and is synonymous with the word tosser.
Meaning
"Wanker" hand gesture
The terms wank and wanker originated in British slang during the late 19th and early 20th century. In modern usage it is usually a general term of contempt rather than a commentary on sexual habits. Wanker has similar meanings and overtones to American pejoratives like jerk or jerk-off. More generally, wanker can carry suggestions of egotistical and self-indulgent behaviour and this is the dominant meaning in Australia and New Zealand.
Wanker may be indicated by a one-handed gesture, usually to an audience out of hearing range. It is performed by curling the fingers of the hand into a loose fist and moving the hand back and forth to mime male masturbation, which is equivalent to saying, "that person is a wanker".
In the United States, the term is understood, but rarely used, and then more in a way suggesting the target is an idiot.
Related are terms such as "wanker's colic", for an undiagnosed visceral pain, and "wanker's doom", for excessive masturbation, from slang used in the RAF and British prisons since the 1920s.
Differences in perceived levels of offensiveness.
In December 2000, the Advertising Standards Authority published research on attitudes of the British public to pejoratives. It ranked wanker as the fourth most severe pejorative in English. The BBC describes it as 'moderately offensive' and 'almost certain' to generate complaints if used before the watershed.
In Australia, it is considered mildly offensive but is widely accepted and used in the media.
Mary Cresswell, an American etymologist, describes 'wanker' as "somewhat more offensive in British use than Americans typically realize". The word was used twice to comic effect in the Simpsons episode "Trash of the Titans", which caused no offence to American audiences, but prompted complaints on occasions when the episode was broadcast unedited in the United Kingdom.
In popular culture...
"The Winker's Song (Misprint)" by Ivor Biggun is one of many songs about masturbation. It describes the singer: "I'm a wanker, I'm a wanker. And it does me good like it bloody well should", and it reached number 22 in the 1978 UK charts. It was banned by BBC Radio 1 and every national radio and television service.
Phil Collins used the word in his 1984 cameo appearance on Miami Vice and has sometimes been credited with introducing the word to America.
In the film This Is Spinal Tap, David St. Hubbins and Nigel Tufnel both use the word out of earshot to describe fellow rock star Duke Fame after a chance encounter.
On the American television show Married... with Children, Peggy Bundy's family is from the fictional Wanker County.
On the British television quiz show Countdown, contestants have to form the longest word possible from nine randomly selected letters. On one occasion the letters permitted the spelling of 'wanker' (or 'wankers') and both contestants replied with the word, leading one to quip "we've got a pair of wankers". The sequence was edited out of the show (as is common with risqué words), but has been shown as an outtake on other shows. However, on a later occasion, 'wanker' was offered, and this instance was left in and broadcast unedited.
The comedy show Mork & Mindy featured a character named Mr. Wanker who was Mindy's landlord. This was broadcast on American TV and later British TV.
Australian band TISM released an album in 1998 entitled www.tism.wanker.com (which was an active website for a few months after its release). One of the themes in its lyrics is breaking down male society into two distinct cultures: Yobs (the subject of the first single released from the album) and wankers. Its third single, "Whatareya?", offers examples of differences between the types and tells the listener to decide which one he is.
In February 2009, U2 member Bono called Chris Martin a wanker live on air during Jo Whiley's Radio 1 show.
During a live radio debate on 28 May 2010, the future President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins, urged conservative American radio host Michael Graham to "be proud to be a decent American rather than being just a wanker whipping up fear."
When acting as the ombudsman on Red Eye w/Greg Gutfeld in 2011, Mike Baker presents a graph of the "wanker gap" for the first half of the program. Baker has never given an explanation of the meaning of the "wanker gap."
Jack Vance wrote a science fiction book entitled Servants of the Wankh in 1969. The title was changed to The Wannek due to its sounding like wanker.
Iron Maiden's song "El Dorado" contains a veiled reference to the term in the line "I'm a clever banker's face, with just a letter out of place.” In live performances, singer Bruce Dickinson would change to an explicit mention: "I'm a clever wanker's face, just a banker out of place."
In January 2015 the then Mayor of London Boris Johnson described British-born jihadists as "pornography-obsessed inadequates who only turn to radical Islam when they fail to make it with girls...They are literally wankers".
Cockney Wanker is a long running character in Viz, based on a stereotypical male Cockney.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanker
We use that word a lot in the UK.....because there are a lot of wankers about..
In Australia its considered to be almost a term of endearment...
Even rude words have their place in the English language, and can spur humour. How about this one:
TWUNT
n. Useful, satisfying yet inoffensive combination of two very rude words which can safely be spoken in primmest and properest company. Twat and c u n t.
"He's a right twunt!"
Fiddynut
Active member
Haha! That's one I've not heard of but now that I have I'll be mixing it in with all the usual good natured things I call my coworkers.
Here is another very British one:
PILLOCK
Noun for Idiot, fool. Originally a slang term for the penis but fairly inoffensive now as this meaning has been forgotten. Derog. ref British Slang Dictionary
'You silly pillock, what did you do that for?'
PILLOCK
Noun for Idiot, fool. Originally a slang term for the penis but fairly inoffensive now as this meaning has been forgotten. Derog. ref British Slang Dictionary
'You silly pillock, what did you do that for?'
Fiddynut
Active member
Pillock roles off the tongue nicely as well, kind of like bollocks (sp?) and wanker of course. I think we yanks seem to have limited vocabulary, especially when it comes to ways to give each other a hard time. I'm enjoying learning some new words here and I thank you for that, as well as a place to learn so much about the plant we all love so much. I'm truly thankful that icmag exists and to you for making it happen.
Here is a fun link for British slang translations into American English Fiddynut:
https://www.translatebritish.com/dictionary
https://www.translatebritish.com/dictionary
Fiddynut
Active member
Thanks brother. I'll read up and learn some new words to introduce to peeps around here and on in my grow thread.
And, us Yanks (aka colonialist) have a few quirky words a well--
noogie
(ˈnʊɡɪ)
n
US school slang, a hard rubbing with the knuckles on someone's head, or occasionally elsewhere, intended to inflict pain
Usage: To play high school football, I had my shoulder length hair cut and when seeing my bald ass head, my long haired buddies would greet me with a noogie.
and....
wedgie
wedg·ie (wĕj′ē)
n.
1. The condition of having one's clothing stuck between the buttocks, often from having had one's pants or underpants pulled up as a prank.
Usage: Back in my day, high school nerds were the ones that gave each other wedgies--pot heads and jocks had better things to do with their time (like getting high and chasing skirts).
noogie
(ˈnʊɡɪ)
n
US school slang, a hard rubbing with the knuckles on someone's head, or occasionally elsewhere, intended to inflict pain
Usage: To play high school football, I had my shoulder length hair cut and when seeing my bald ass head, my long haired buddies would greet me with a noogie.
and....
wedgie
wedg·ie (wĕj′ē)
n.
1. The condition of having one's clothing stuck between the buttocks, often from having had one's pants or underpants pulled up as a prank.
Usage: Back in my day, high school nerds were the ones that gave each other wedgies--pot heads and jocks had better things to do with their time (like getting high and chasing skirts).
soothsayer
noun sooth·say·er \ ˈsüth-ˌsā-ər , -ˌser \
Popularity: Bottom 50% of words
Definition of soothsayer
:a person who predicts the future by magical, intuitive, or more rational means :prognosticator
noun sooth·say·er \ ˈsüth-ˌsā-ər , -ˌser \
Popularity: Bottom 50% of words
Definition of soothsayer
:a person who predicts the future by magical, intuitive, or more rational means :prognosticator
chasm
[kaz-uh m]
1. a yawning fissure or deep cleft in the earth's surface; gorge.
2. a breach or wide fissure in a wall or other structure.
3. a marked interruption of continuity; gap: a chasm in time.
4. a sundering breach in relations, as a divergence of opinions, beliefs, etc., between persons or groups
fwiw i am posting words today I used in conversation
I love using unique words to keep similar conversations from being to redundant
I can't do it then
I have bad add and some other issues and depending on the stimulus I can't even get to the words I love so much but if I get nice and high and feel comfortable they flow out of my mind like they never left
it's so fucked up I can't even spell most of them but they come to my mind in that state
[kaz-uh m]
1. a yawning fissure or deep cleft in the earth's surface; gorge.
2. a breach or wide fissure in a wall or other structure.
3. a marked interruption of continuity; gap: a chasm in time.
4. a sundering breach in relations, as a divergence of opinions, beliefs, etc., between persons or groups
fwiw i am posting words today I used in conversation
I love using unique words to keep similar conversations from being to redundant
I can't do it then
I have bad add and some other issues and depending on the stimulus I can't even get to the words I love so much but if I get nice and high and feel comfortable they flow out of my mind like they never left
it's so fucked up I can't even spell most of them but they come to my mind in that state
