Yackage: (n.) Incessant, meaningless chatter.

Saturday, June 21, 2008

Enfringe: (v.) To push to the periphery, to marginalize, as in "I don't even bother to go to his stupid meetings anymore. Why should I? He totally enfringes me and my ideas...I feel totally useless."
Ewww-turn or Whew-turn: The kind of turn executed by cars or other vehicles as they dart across multiple lanes to turn left in front of oncoming traffic. Observers use ewww-turn to describe this maneuver; participants call it a whew-turn, as in ""did you see the ewww-turn that guy just made? Why couldn't he have just waited for a real break in the traffic?" or "we were so late that I had to make a whew-turn into the parking lot...I couldn't even wait for the traffic!"
Enbraille: To enable reading in braille, as in "we not only include alternative text for screen readers...we also enbraille our manuals."

Sunday, June 8, 2008

To rattle one's salad: (v.) To make a show of eating healthy foods; to gloat about one's 'proper' diet; to display a kind of smug satisfaction about one's food choices, as in "I know I'm getting kind of tedious about this health thing - I catch myself bragging about how much I ran on the treadmill and I rattle my salad in front of those guys every single day."

Salad-rattling: A display of one's healthy eating habits.
Hinty: To make it very obvious that one is trying to indirectly convey information one cannot openly state, as in "they were clearly sworn to secrecy but he was very hinty about who the next manager will be...lots of wink, wink, nudge, nudge going on."
 

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