1. Bugbear
What it means:
(noun) 1. any source, real or imaginary, of needless fright or fear.
2. a persistent problem or source of annoyance.
Example: 'I'm sure the measles outbreak is just a bugbear' say people who are real bugbears.
What it looks like:
(noun) 1. A breed of bear that resembles a bug.
Example: What part of God's plan is the Bugbear?
2. Cabotage
What it means:
(noun) 1. Navigation or trade along the coast.
2. Aviation. The legal restriction to domestic carriers of air transport between points within a country's borders.
Example: I'm sorry but cabotage regulations specifically prohibit freighter ships from parking on the beach.
OR
I'm sorry but cabotage regulations specifically prohibit airplanes from making a pit stop in Cancun. We're in Madrid, Christ, that's like a ten hour flight.
What it looks like:
(verb) 1. A verbal amalgamation of "cab" and "sabotage" used in reference to the unforgivable act of stealing somebody else's taxi.
Example: When I get my hands on the guy who cabotaged me in Times Square there won't be enough of his family to kidnap.
3. Crapulous
What it means:
(adjective) 1. Given to or characterized by gross excess in drinking or eating.
2. Suffering from or due to such excess
Example: The crapulous evening at Cookout resulted in a crapulous time in the bathroom.
What it looks like:
(adjective) 1. Given to or characterized by crapiness or shittiness.
2. Suffering from or due to such shittiness.
Example: The crapulous set design of Sarte's "No Exit" resulted in everyone's deaths. Which also made the title unintentionally meta given the doors were on fire.
4. Christmastide
What it means:
(noun) 1. The festival season from Christmas to after New Year's Day.
2. The period from Christmas Eve to Epiphany, especially in England.
Example: I don't really remember Christmastide. I'm usually drunk by that point.
What it looks like:
(noun) 1. The wave of tourism that accompanies the holiday season in any major city.
Example: Christmastide is here/
Get your riot gear.
5. Gleed
What it means:
(noun) 1. Archaic. A glowing coal.
Example: SCATTER THE GLEEDS BENEATH THE CAULDRON, BEOWULF APPROACHES.
What it looks like:
(adjective) 1. Having endured a prolonged or inordinate exposure to the television show, "Glee"
Example: I'm sorry, hon, I'm just all Gleed out. Can't we watch 'Galavant'?
6. Indubitable
What it means:
(adjective) 1. That cannot be doubted; patently evident or certain; unquestionable.
Example: It's indubitable, Watson, that you were checking me out.
What it looks like:
(adjective) 1. That cannot be dubstepped.
Example: I have yet to encounter anything that is indubitable.
7. Interrobang
What it means:
(noun) 1. a printed punctuation mark available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark and the exclamation point, indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
Example: The interrobang is pointless given we can just put lots of question marks and exclamation points at the end of sentences.
What it looks like:
(verb) 1. The act of extracting information from a suspect by seducing them.
Example: The guy wasn't talking so we had Carl go in and interrobang him and now he won't leave.
8. Lipogram
What it means:
(noun) 1. a written work composed of words chosen so as to avoid the use of one or more specific alphabetic characters.
Example: Whoever decided to publish this lipogram of "Finnegan's Wake" without any "a"s really has a boiling hatred of humanity.
What it looks like:
(noun) 1. A presentable certificate for a liposuction.
Example: I received your lipogram. If there's something you want to say to me say it to my face, bitch.
9. Matrifocal
What it means:
(adjective) 1. Of, relating to, or designating a family unit or structure headed by the mother.
2. Focused or centered on the mother.
Example: With more matrifocal families, there'd probably be substantially fewer cases of dickishness in developing children.
What it looks like:
(noun) 1. The inexplicably large/thick glasses worn by some older mothers.
Example: No, I love your mom, it's just her matrifocals make her look like she's staring into my soul.
10. Mythomane
What it means:
(noun) 1. a person with a strong or irresistible propensity for fantasizing, lying, or exaggerating.
(adjective) 2. of, relating to, or characteristic of a mythomane.
Example: Brian Williams
What it looks like:
(noun) 1. A particularly mythic, remarkable or memorable hairstyle
Example: Brian Williams
11. Pot-valiant
What it means:
(adjective) 1. Brave only as a result of being drunk.
Example: No, Jimmy's just pot-valiant. You can't actually break a pong table with your face.
What it looks like:
(adjective) 1. Brave only as a result of being high.
Example: Bong Jousting is truly a sport for the pot-valiant.
12. Sobersided
What it means:
(adjective) 1. solemn or grave in disposition, attitude, character, etc.; serious-minded.
Example: Batman is usually very sobersided. Unlike his parents, who are dead.
What it looks like:
(adjective) 1. Partially or sectionally sober, especially in regards to groups of people or packed vehicles.
Example: Ladies and gentleman, this flight is currently sobersided on the left. However, the middle and right sections of the plane are white girl wasted.
13. Tarantism
What it means:
(noun) 1. a mania characterized by an uncontrollable impulse to dance, especially as prevalent in southern Italy from the 15th to the 17th century, popularly attributed to the bite of the tarantula.
Example: Tarantism is probably poisonous, but we'll worry about that after we go clubbing.
What it looks like:
(noun) 1. The quality of being reminiscent, in homage to, or in the style of Quentin Tarantino.
Example: The Tarantism of this adaptation of Hamlet is evident in Samuel L. Jackson's verbal abuse of the rest of the cast.
14. Withershins
What it means:
(adverb) 1. in a direction contrary to the natural one, especially contrary to the apparent course of the sun or counterclockwise; considered as unlucky or causing disaster.
Example: I think you're driving a bit withershins to the road, dear. There's a shark outside my window.
What it looks like:
(adverb) 1. Done through the use of the side of a woman's foot.
Example: After kneeing him in the dick, Margaret broke the catcaller's nose withershins.
15. Hemidemisemiquaver
What it means:
(noun) 1. a sixty-fourth note.
What it looks like:
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