Thursday, August 19, 2010

New Words to Know

So, for all of you that are so into being in the know, these are probably words you already use and most definitely know the definition of their meaning.  For the rest of us, here you go:
  • chill pill a notional pill taken to make someone calm down
  • chillax calm down and relax
  • turducken a roast dish consisting of a chicken inside a duck inside a turkey
  • bargainous costing less than is usual or than might be expected; cheap or relatively cheap
  • staycation holiday spent in one's home country
  • fussbudget a fussy person
  • vuvuzela long horn blown by fans at soccer matches
  • national treasure someone/thing regarded as emblematic of a nation's cultural heritage
  • buzzkill a person or thing that has a depressing or dispiriting effect
  • social media websites and applications used for social networking
  • microblogging the posting of very short entries on a blog
  • netbook small light laptop
  • dictionary attack an attempt to gain illicit access to a computer system by using a very large set of words to generate potential passwords
  • paywall an arrangement whereby access is restricted to users who have paid to subscribe to a website
  • freemium a business model, especially on the Internet, whereby basic services are provided free of charge while more advanced features must be paid for
  • automagically automatically and in a way that seems ingenious, inexplicable, or magical
  • carbon capture and storage the process of trapping and storing carbon dioxide produced by burning fossil fuels
  • geoengineering manipulation of environmental processes in an attempt to counteract the effects of global warming
  • toxic debt debt which has a high risk of default
  • deleveraging the process or practice of reducing the level of one's debt by rapidly selling one's assets
  • overleveraged having taken on too much debt
  • quantitative easing the introduction of new money into the money supply by a central bank
  • exit strategy a pre-planned means of extricating oneself from a situation
  • overthink think about (something) too much or for too long
  • catastrophizing view or present a situation as considerably worse than it actually is
  • soft skills personal attributes that enable someone to interact effectively and harmoniously with other people
  • matchy-matchy excessively colour-coordinated
  • LBD little black dress
  • frenemy a person with whom one is friendly despite a fundamental dislike or rivalry
  • cheeseball lacking taste, style, or originality
  • cool hunter a person whose job it is to make observations or predictions about new styles and trends
  • hikikomori the abnormal avoidance of social contact, typically by adolescent males (in Japan)
  • steampunk a genre of science fiction that typically features steam-powered machinery rather than advance technology
  • tweetup a meeting organized by means of posts on Twitter
  • bromance a close but non-sexual relationship between two men
  • wardrobe malfunction an instance of a person accidentally exposing an intimate part of their body as a result of an article of clothing slipping out of position
  • defriend another term for unfriend (remove someone from a list of friends or contacts on a social networking site)
  • Interweb the Internet
  • hater negative person

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