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Today’s Word Wrap keeps on with our tradition of bringing you the hippest, most happening new words being coined, as they’re coined… well, okay, with at least a 5-second delay, ‘cause a blog that brands itself as SMART certainly don’t wanna go lookin’ all stupid and bleep.
Today’s sparkling entries come to you via the good folk over at Word Spy:
guyliner n. Eyeliner designed for and used by men. (Citations)
rejuvenile n. An adult who enjoys activities and things normally associated with children. —adj., v.— rejuveniling pp. (Citations)
SMUM n. A woman who finds motherhood and her children tedious and uninteresting. [Acronym from Smart, Middle-Class, Uninvolved, Mother.] (Citations)
face blindness n. Difficulty recognizing faces or telling faces apart. Also: face-blindness.
—face-blind adj. (Citations)aireoke (air.ee.OH.kee) n. Playing air guitar and singing to prerecorded music; playing air guitar in a public performance. Also: air-eoke. [Blend of air guitar and karaoke.] (Citations)
And if you’ve never heard aireoke, but think you might have the talent – or just like making a fool of yourself onstage, be sure to check out aireoke.com and their cool blog. It’s air-eokay in my book. Heavens, did I just coin a new word? aireokay — adj. a decent aireoke performance, a well played air-guitar
aireoke … that would be a portmanteau, yes/no? If so, yay MentalFloss-U!!
posted by Bj on 8-25-2006 at 11:57 pm
Indeed!
posted by David on 8-26-2006 at 12:40 am
Face-blindness is an actual disorder called prosopagnosia. A person who has it can see faces clearly and remember them, but cannot make a connection between the face and the name of the person.
Here’s a site I found on stumbleupon, if you want more info:
http://www.prosopagnosia.com/
posted by Sammy on 8-26-2006 at 4:04 pm
“patriopathy”, intolerance of political dissent (how timely).
posted by richard sinclair on 9-3-2006 at 3:47 am