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Beat's the hell out of spinster (yetch), bachelor, bachelor girl, girlfriend, boyfriend, wife, husband and finance... sounds less like a label and more like you are a healthy normal person despite your relationship status - I like it.
Quirkyalone: n. a person who enjoys being single (or spending time alone) and so prefers to wait for the right person to come along rather than dating indiscriminately; relishing equal doses of solitude and friendship; attracted to freedom and possibility.
Also adj.: The condition of being equally at home with singledom and being in a healthy relationship, undivided, whole. Of, relating to, or embodying quirkyalones. definition | website
Fresh from the imagination of Ms Boot (and associates)... it's a new word! more...
Borange - meaning rubbish. (see also: Ross & Terri Quasi Official Website)
I dunno. A cross between true and realistic. A kind of useful word. Use to emphasise honesty, truth, etc.
My FAVOURITE word (from the dictionary) would have to be susurrus. It means (from the Australian Macquarie):
n. a soft murmuring sound, whisper.
I first read it in a Sheri Tepper novel, in beautiful context. When I get home I'll find the novel and the excerpt. I've since noticed other people using this word. It's definitely one of those words that sounds like it's meaning. Recently, to my complete surprise, it appeared in a Terry Pratchett children's novel - the character was saying how much she loved the word susurrus ... and then a bit later _heard_ a susurrus. Ms Boot
We should most definitely show care in the words we use in our day to day speech. I was utterly horrified to learn that the word scumbag originally was used as a slang term for a condom. Ick. m1
Is this me or you?
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From: Wordsmith
Subject: A.Word.A.Day--polyonymous
polyonymous (pol-ee-ON-uh-muhs) adjective
Having or known by many names.
[From Greek polyonymos, from poly- (many) + -onyma (name).]
This week's theme: words to describe people. Ms Boot
flip-flop (flpflp)
n.
A suburb that really sucks the big one. Worse that just being a 'burb.
Something that is yelled to add surrealism to the conversation. (That would be my closest guess at it's meaning.)
It is important to note that this phrase can also be used as a Mickey Mouse substituted in the Mickey Mouse song, for example - C A N - K I E - M O O S E). Ms Boot
'Bless you' - in Italian. Pronounced something like Bene-dee-ga MI
Originally the word, or acronym, for yuppie was yumpie (young upwardly-mobile professionals) but was soon changed to the more commonly used 'yuppie'. Variations of this are guppie (gay upwardly-moving professionals), buppie (black upwardly-mobile professionals), dink (double/dual income, no kids), dinky (double-income no kids yet) and lombard (loads of money but a right dickhead).
Along the same kind of lines, the word Yippie is used to denote an activist hippie (eg. a hippie who might enter a pig as a canditate in an election or toss money from the balcony of the New York stock exchange). Green, Jonathon, Bloomsbury Neologisms, New Words since 1960, Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd, 1991.