Double-Tongued Dictionary http://www.doubletongued.org/ A growing lexicon of slang, jargon, and new words from the fringes of English. en Grant Barrett Copyright 2009 2009-07-08T08:30:26-05:00 40.68209-73.977835 http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/grantbarrett/call_of_nature/ Call of nature http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DoubleTonguedWordWresterDictionary/~3/S4rhORl5-Q4/ Personal, Language and Languages, The Words latest column in the Malaysia Star. It is written for English learners.

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Bodily functions are a rich source of English slang, so naturally, we have a lot of ways of saying “urinate,” “defecate” and “go somewhere to urinate and/or defecate.” Here’s a quick rundown of appropriate usage.

Freshen up. This can mean anything from “wash one’s face and hands,” to “fix one’s make-up,” to “straighten, retuck, refasten, or smooth one’s clothing.” It covers all the things one is likely to do in a bathroom or WC. Safe to use by anyone anywhere, though perhaps it’s a bit more likely to be used by or to a woman.

Visit the facilities. Same story: vague enough to cover anything that happens in a room where there is a toilet and a sink. Safe for all people and places. You might say, “I need to visit the facilities. Where would I find them?”

Powder one’s nose. Strictly for women, this one explicitly refers to make-up, yet it is widely used even by women who don’t use makeup. It’s a cover-up! Can be used anywhere to cover any purpose in the little room with the porcelain fixtures.

Go to the bathroom covers both visiting the little room as well as the acts of urination and defecation themselves. Though it is less polite and less vague than the expressions above, it is safe to use in front of almost anyone, though it’s far more likely to be heard in North America. In the UK, go to the WC is similarly used. (Americans understand “WC” but they don’t use it much.)

Use the toilet has pretty much the same usage, though for many Americans, toilet refers specifically to the white, water-filled porcelain seat that you sit upon in a bathroom and not to the room itself. If you say, “I need to go to the toilet,” they think of you doing certain bodily acts and not just of you going to a specific room.

Make water. Sufficiently euphemistic that it can be used in a non-giggly way by patients and doctors when discussing the body. No one will be embarrassed by too much detail, and yet it’s less formal and less clinical than a word like “urinate” or, worse, micturate, a synonym. It’s not much used elsewhere in everyday colloquial English.

Go to the little girls’ or little boys’ room. Used by adults talking to children but also used by adults talking among themselves and not often in a joking way. Adults probably remember it being used by their elementary school teachers, who are masters at finding ways to talk about the bathroom so that mobs of children don’t giggle.

Go number 1 or number 2, to urinate or defecate. This is also part of the language of teachers, parents, and children. Children might say to a teacher, “I need to go number 2.” Then the teacher knows how long the child should be out of the classroom and whether or not to come along.

Use the potty or go potty means to visit the bathroom or to urinate or defecate. This is language used when talking to children or in the presence of children. Similar terms are take a pee-pee or poo-poo, go pee-pee or poo-poo, or, for urination only, go wee-wee (British and American), to tinkle (British and American), to widdle (British), and to piddle (British).

Plain old go pee and go poop (without the second syllable repeated) are fine to use around children and are used among family members or close friends of any age.

See a man about a horse is an adult way of saying, “go to the bathroom,” as in, “I need to see a man about a horse and then we can hit the road” (I need to urinate and then we can leave). The expression is so widely used that there’s not much strength left in its euphemism.

Evacuate one’s bowels. An inoffensive but not altogether euphemistic term typical of the sort used by medical professionals and police when making formal descriptions. There’s usually a notion that the bowel evacuation was not intentional, as might happen during a car accident or in the case of diarrhoea. It is rather crude and not to be used to excuse yourself during a meal, when traveling with family, or even when partying with friends. If you said, “Excuse me, this is a fine meal, but I need to go evacuate my bowels,” it would bring unpleasant associations to mind.

Take a piss. To urinate. This is crude and mainly used by and among men. Not a good one for polite company, nor is take a dump, which means to defecate. The British take or take a slash (urinate) has the same kind of usage: it’s used mainly among men and boys.

Similarly, take a leak and drain the lizard aren’t really all that polite and not likely to be used by or among women except in a joking way. Only slightly more polite is take or go for a wizz, also spelled wiz, whiz, and wazz.


]]> 2009-07-02T00:53:45+00:00 http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/grantbarrett/call_of_nature/ http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/grantbarrett/feedburner_urls_that_have_huge_accidental_traffic/ Feedburner URLs that have huge accidental traffic http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DoubleTonguedWordWresterDictionary/~3/ymc58WYw2kU/ My Commentary, Quibbling
But even more oddly, once the 30 days were up, Facebook, which was automatically importing my old feed and which did not automatically pick up the htaccess redirect to the new feed, redirected to http://feeds.feedburner.com/index.rdf which is an all-Chinese news feed. My Facebook friends noticed long before I did and I've only just gotten around to resolving the issue.

That feed URL is extraordinary and is the purpose of this post (because, really, technical snafus on the Internet? Also ordinary). That feed likely picks up a HUGE amount of extra feed traffic because anyone who has moved their feed over from another server to Feedburner is highly likely to have that "index.rdf" at the end of their URL. If they don't change their entire feed URL on their pages to the new Feedburner URL they have picked out; that is, if they change only the host name and not the path after it, then, ta-da! a lot of people will accidentally be reading a lot of Chinese news.

(I'm not completely sure about that explanation, but it's all I have for now.)

What's most extraordinary to me is that that URL, http://feeds.feedburner.com/index.rdf, should even be made available to ANYONE. There are some other URLs that are also allotted that it seems to me should be reserved because of the high incidence of their use in standard web-site-building and blog-hosting software. (The suffix apparently doesn't matter: index.rdf, index.xml, index.php, etc., all point to the same place.)

http://feeds.feedburner.com/RSS
http://feeds.feedburner.com/RSS2
http://feeds.feedburner.com/feed
http://feeds.feedburner.com/atom
http://feeds.feedburner.com/rdf


]]> 2009-06-17T00:41:29+00:00 http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/grantbarrett/feedburner_urls_that_have_huge_accidental_traffic/ http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/grantbarrett/i_held_samuel_johnsons_1755_dictionary_in_my_hands/ I held Samuel Johnson’s 1755 dictionary in my hands http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DoubleTonguedWordWresterDictionary/~3/qyHpMFenbH8/ Language and Languages, Dictionaries and Lexicography







]]> 2009-06-09T12:18:02+00:00 http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/grantbarrett/i_held_samuel_johnsons_1755_dictionary_in_my_hands/ http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/citations/performal_1/ performal http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DoubleTonguedWordWresterDictionary/~3/y0DUZaclKmM/ “There’s a macho performal nature that some of these people crave,” she said. “And what better a performance than the blood and guts of butchery?”. Full bibliographic information... English performal  adj.— «“There’s a macho performal nature that some of these people crave,” she said. “And what better a performance than the blood and guts of butchery?”» —“Young Idols With Cleavers Rule the Stage” by Kim Severson New York Times July 9, 2009. Categories: —More information about and related words at Double-Tongued Dictionary.


]]> 2009-07-08T12:30:26+00:00 http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/citations/performal_1/ http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/citations/net_branching_1/ net branching http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DoubleTonguedWordWresterDictionary/~3/xlcx_9M7N-E/ Under the scenario, NARES was one of several shell corporations that operated under the name of “Pacific Bancorp.” The owners and directors of Pacific Bancorp granted franchise rights to do business in North Carolina to unlicensed lenders who, regulators say, operated without meaningful controls, undercutting state oversight. Moreover, by using the shell corporations, Pacific Bancorp was able to shield its involvement and potential liability in the lending process.. Full bibliographic information... English, Business, Jargon net branching  n.— «Under the scenario, NARES was one of several shell corporations that operated under the name of “Pacific Bancorp.” The owners and directors of Pacific Bancorp granted franchise rights to do business in North Carolina to unlicensed lenders who, regulators say, operated without meaningful controls, undercutting state oversight. Moreover, by using the shell corporations, Pacific Bancorp was able to shield its involvement and potential liability in the lending process.» —“North Carolina fines mortgage lender North American Real Estate Services for ‘illegal scheme’” by Lee Weisbecker Triangle Business Journal (Charlotte, North Carolina) July 6, 2009. Categories: , , —More information about and related words at Double-Tongued Dictionary.


]]> 2009-07-07T16:41:31+00:00 http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/citations/net_branching_1/ http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/citations/obitutainment_1/ obitutainment http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DoubleTonguedWordWresterDictionary/~3/jb1o_LCrDrs/ It may say that people are avidly interested in “obitutainment,” a term for celebrity death news coined in the Kurt Anderson novel “Turn of the Century” and reprised by Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” last week in a parody of the often speculative media coverage of Mr. Jackson’s death.. Full bibliographic information... English, Entertainment, Slang obitutainment  n.— «It may say that people are avidly interested in “obitutainment,” a term for celebrity death news coined in the Kurt Anderson novel “Turn of the Century” and reprised by Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” last week in a parody of the often speculative media coverage of Mr. Jackson’s death.» —“A Day (and Night) Devoted to Michael Jackson” by Brian Selter New York Times: Media Decoder July 7, 2009. Categories: , , —More information about and related words at Double-Tongued Dictionary.


]]> 2009-07-07T16:38:57+00:00 http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/citations/obitutainment_1/ http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/citations/vermacular_1/ vermacular http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DoubleTonguedWordWresterDictionary/~3/VRpggeL0Xm4/ Thanks to the character-inspired icons for various Mac-related applications, there’s a new word-building form of entertainment to get bored workers through the doldrums of the day. Like a contemporary version of the grade school novelty of spelling out words on calculators (it actually had a name, beghilos), art director Mike Giepart’s posts examples of the new “typeface.” While the technique seems too recent to have been given a common name, Vermacular sounds about right.. Full bibliographic information... English, Arts & Literature, Technology, New or Nonce vermacular  n.— «Thanks to the character-inspired icons for various Mac-related applications, there’s a new word-building form of entertainment to get bored workers through the doldrums of the day. Like a contemporary version of the grade school novelty of spelling out words on calculators (it actually had a name, beghilos), art director Mike Giepart’s posts examples of the new “typeface.” While the technique seems too recent to have been given a common name, Vermacular sounds about right.» —“Mac Icon Typeface” by Laura Neilson Cool Hunting July 2, 2009. Categories: , , , —More information about and related words at Double-Tongued Dictionary.


]]> 2009-07-06T00:17:05+00:00 http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/citations/vermacular_1/ http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/citations/revengelical_1/ Revengelical http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DoubleTonguedWordWresterDictionary/~3/wkOm36BlTok/ Wasn’t it in Genesis (as Revengelicals follow the Old Testament pretty closely) that Moses was speaking with God over the fate of the “wicked” city Sodom and that if a whole 10 righteous people existed in the city that God would spare it? Apparently they think that there were less than that in all of New Orleans.. Full bibliographic information... English, Religion, Slang Revengelical  n.— Note: A play on "Evangelical." «Wasn’t it in Genesis (as Revengelicals follow the Old Testament pretty closely) that Moses was speaking with God over the fate of the “wicked” city Sodom and that if a whole 10 righteous people existed in the city that God would spare it? Apparently they think that there were less than that in all of New Orleans.» —“Revengelicals” by SM Crafting the Schism (Chicago, Illinois) Mar. 12, 2008. Categories: , , —More information about and related words at Double-Tongued Dictionary.


]]> 2009-07-05T23:50:13+00:00 http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/citations/revengelical_1/ http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/citations/hot_money_1/ hot money http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DoubleTonguedWordWresterDictionary/~3/CKTzPuNfebQ/ Rather than simply wooing local customers, they have turned to out-of-state brokers who deliver billions of dollars in bulk deposits, widely known as “hot money,” from investors nationwide. In fast-growing regions like this one in central Georgia, the money produced record bank profits and financed whole new communities, built at a phenomenal rate. But the hot money also came with a high cost. To lure the money from brokers, banks typically had to offer unusually high rates. That, in turn, often led them to make ever riskier loans, leaving them vulnerable when the economy collapsed. Magnet failed early this year and Security Bank is barely hanging on. Though few people have heard of it, hot money—or brokered deposits, as it is also known in the industry—is one of the primary factors in the accelerating wave of failures among small and regional banks nationwide. [...] But the money is volatile. It can be easily shifted from one bank to another as brokers seek the highest interest rates. Thus the term hot money.. Full bibliographic information... English, Money & Finance hot money  n.— «Rather than simply wooing local customers, they have turned to out-of-state brokers who deliver billions of dollars in bulk deposits, widely known as “hot money,” from investors nationwide. In fast-growing regions like this one in central Georgia, the money produced record bank profits and financed whole new communities, built at a phenomenal rate. But the hot money also came with a high cost. To lure the money from brokers, banks typically had to offer unusually high rates. That, in turn, often led them to make ever riskier loans, leaving them vulnerable when the economy collapsed. Magnet failed early this year and Security Bank is barely hanging on. Though few people have heard of it, hot money—or brokered deposits, as it is also known in the industry—is one of the primary factors in the accelerating wave of failures among small and regional banks nationwide. [...] But the money is volatile. It can be easily shifted from one bank to another as brokers seek the highest interest rates. Thus the term hot money.» —“For Banks, Wads of Cash and Loads of Trouble” by Eric Lipton, Andrew Martin in Macon, Georgia New York Times July 3, 2009. Categories: , —More information about and related words at Double-Tongued Dictionary.


]]> 2009-07-04T11:27:44+00:00 http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/citations/hot_money_1/ http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/citations/yes_and_1/ yes-and http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DoubleTonguedWordWresterDictionary/~3/5km0W36qmvY/ They stayed for over an hour and completely yes-anded everything we threw at them. There were moments where it felt like we actually did all know each other and you sort of forgot you were “acting.”. Full bibliographic information... English, Jargon yes-and  v.—Gloss: To agree to all ideas, act upon them, and embellish them. Note: A staple of improvisational acting. «They stayed for over an hour and completely yes-anded everything we threw at them. There were moments where it felt like we actually did all know each other and you sort of forgot you were “acting.”» —“Surprise Wedding Reception” by Charlie Todd Improv Everywhere June 2, 2009. Categories: , —More information about and related words at Double-Tongued Dictionary.


]]> 2009-07-03T21:06:28+00:00 http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/citations/yes_and_1/ http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/citations/ten_tenths_1/ ten-tenths http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DoubleTonguedWordWresterDictionary/~3/r-Cd2Fsae8Y/ Racers often rate their effort in terms of tenths, with nine-tenths being an agressive race pace and ten-tenths a banzai lap.. Full bibliographic information... English, Sports & Recreation, Colloquial ten-tenths  adj.—Gloss: All, all-out, or completely. «Racers often rate their effort in terms of tenths, with nine-tenths being an agressive race pace and ten-tenths a banzai lap.» —“Ultimate!! Racing!! Machines!!” by Preston Lerner Popular Science Feb., 2004. Categories: , , —More information about and related words at Double-Tongued Dictionary.


]]> 2009-07-03T20:54:44+00:00 http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/citations/ten_tenths_1/ http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/citations/harlotfest_1/ harlotfest http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DoubleTonguedWordWresterDictionary/~3/41eeT5KyWnE/ RenFest 2009, a “harlotfest” style of tournement where teammates play against one another with players from other teams.. Full bibliographic information... English, Sports & Recreation harlotfest  n.— Note: A plausible etymology: "It's called the 'Harlot Fest' out of an old rugby tradition about rugby whores. A rugby whore is someone who will go to a tournament & play for any team who will take them, with loyalty to none." «RenFest 2009, a “harlotfest” style of tournement where teammates play against one another with players from other teams.» —“2009 Spring RenFest” by Joe Tresh Flickr May 30, 2009. Categories: , —More information about and related words at Double-Tongued Dictionary.


]]> 2009-07-03T20:44:27+00:00 http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/citations/harlotfest_1/ http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/citations/negative_operating_cycle_1/ negative operating cycle http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DoubleTonguedWordWresterDictionary/~3/99Yy1SO-dEM/ You can buy an iPod nano on Apple, Best Buy, etc. for about $149. Amazon sells it for $134. That’s probably cost price. It turns out that Amazon can sell almost everything at cost price and still make a product because of volume. It’s all down to the Negative Operating Cycle. Amazon turns over its inventory every 20 days whereas Best Buy takes 74 days. Standard retail term payments take 45 days. So Best Buy is in debt between day 45 and day 74. Amazon, on the other hand, are sitting on cash between day 20 and day 45. In that time, they can invest that money. That’s where their profit comes from.. Full bibliographic information... English, Business, Money & Finance negative operating cycle  n.— «You can buy an iPod nano on Apple, Best Buy, etc. for about $149. Amazon sells it for $134. That’s probably cost price. It turns out that Amazon can sell almost everything at cost price and still make a product because of volume. It’s all down to the Negative Operating Cycle. Amazon turns over its inventory every 20 days whereas Best Buy takes 74 days. Standard retail term payments take 45 days. So Best Buy is in debt between day 45 and day 74. Amazon, on the other hand, are sitting on cash between day 20 and day 45. In that time, they can invest that money. That’s where their profit comes from.» —“Revealing Design Treasures from The Amazon” by Jeremy Keith Adactio (Brighton, England) June 22, 2009. Categories: , , —More information about and related words at Double-Tongued Dictionary.


]]> 2009-07-03T20:33:01+00:00 http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/citations/negative_operating_cycle_1/ http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/citations/sporno_1/ sporno http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DoubleTonguedWordWresterDictionary/~3/eqs2qRWdfJA/ Dolce & Gabbana’s latest sporno campaign for their Intimo men’s underwear line (above), employing eager, wide-shouldered chaps from their national team to stretch their designer cotton, seems to have taken inspiration from the tarty antics of the swimmers at last year’s Olympics, peeling their swimsuits off to flash their ‘cum gutters’ at the world (or was it just me?).. Full bibliographic information... English, Sex & Sexuality, Sports & Recreation, Slang sporno  n.—Gloss: Images of sportspeople that are similar to or evocative of pornography. Note: sport(s) + porno «Dolce & Gabbana’s latest sporno campaign for their Intimo men’s underwear line (above), employing eager, wide-shouldered chaps from their national team to stretch their designer cotton, seems to have taken inspiration from the tarty antics of the swimmers at last year’s Olympics, peeling their swimsuits off to flash their ‘cum gutters’ at the world (or was it just me?).» —“Aussie (bender) Rules Football Surrenders To Sporno” by Mark Simpson Mark Simpson.com June 24, 2009. Categories: , , , —More information about and related words at Double-Tongued Dictionary.


]]> 2009-07-03T20:28:24+00:00 http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/citations/sporno_1/ http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/citations/twaggot_1/ Twaggot http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DoubleTonguedWordWresterDictionary/~3/G1i3gHQuLbk/ Twaggot please. Maybe the new king of eyeliner.. Full bibliographic information... English, New or Nonce, Slang Twaggot  n.—Gloss: An overtly homosexual male user of Twitter.com. Note: Twitter + faggot «Twaggot please. Maybe the new king of eyeliner.» —by Bruce LaBruce in Toronto, Canada Twitter.com June 26, 2009. Categories: , , —More information about and related words at Double-Tongued Dictionary.


]]> 2009-07-03T20:24:18+00:00 http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/citations/twaggot_1/ http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/citations/heinie_1/ heinie http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DoubleTonguedWordWresterDictionary/~3/YxOcJev4-E8/ The evening crowd at Kirmser’s dressed like everyone else, the men with our hair clipped short, sometimes in a military-cut heinie.. Full bibliographic information... English, Apparel, Appearance, & Fashion, Body, Slang heinie  n.— Note: Perhaps a play off of "Heinie," now outdated slang for a German. «The evening crowd at Kirmser’s dressed like everyone else, the men with our hair clipped short, sometimes in a military-cut heinie.» —by Ricardo J. Brown, William Reichard The Evening Crowd at Kirmser’s , 2001. Categories: , , , —More information about and related words at Double-Tongued Dictionary.


]]> 2009-07-03T20:18:06+00:00 http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/citations/heinie_1/ http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/citations/momshell_1/ momshell http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DoubleTonguedWordWresterDictionary/~3/OlKOuD4DhTY/ Her boobs do look more full. Hmmm, could be that she’s no longer unhealthily skinny and that she’s had kids. Three cheers for the ultimate momshell!!!. Full bibliographic information... English, Slang momshell  n.—Gloss: An attractive mother. Note: mom + bombshell «Her boobs do look more full. Hmmm, could be that she’s no longer unhealthily skinny and that she’s had kids. Three cheers for the ultimate momshell!!!» —“Catherine Zeta Jones headed for lipo land” Awful Plastic Surgery US Apr. 30, 2008. Categories: , —More information about and related words at Double-Tongued Dictionary.


]]> 2009-07-03T20:04:04+00:00 http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/citations/momshell_1/ http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/citations/porn_mode_1/ porn mode http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DoubleTonguedWordWresterDictionary/~3/0DPdbkr-wnc/ With Version 3.5, Firefox joins most other modern browsers with the ability to run in a private browsing mode (often euphemistically knows as “porn mode”). When in this mode, the browser does not save data from the browsing session.. Full bibliographic information... English, Online, Sex & Sexuality, Technology, Colloquial porn mode  n.— «With Version 3.5, Firefox joins most other modern browsers with the ability to run in a private browsing mode (often euphemistically knows as “porn mode”). When in this mode, the browser does not save data from the browsing session.» —“Firefox 3.5 Pushes Mozilla Back Among the Top of the Browser Heap” by Jim Rapoza eWeek . Categories: , , , , —More information about and related words at Double-Tongued Dictionary.


]]> 2009-07-03T20:00:48+00:00 http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/citations/porn_mode_1/ http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/citations/downwinder_11/ downwinder http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DoubleTonguedWordWresterDictionary/~3/tibmGtNDPA8/ Nuclear testing in Nevada during the 1950s and 1960s released radiation into the atmosphere that settled in states far away from the original test site. Researchers determined that certain elements of this fallout, such as the radioactive isotope Iodine-131, settled in states such as Idaho and Montana and found their way into food and milk supplies. Radioactive contamination can manifest itself as various forms of cancer, leukemia and other illnesses, particularly thyroid cancer. Those affected in this way are often referred to as “downwinders,” to denote their situation downwind from the fallout.. Full bibliographic information... English downwinder  n.— «Nuclear testing in Nevada during the 1950s and 1960s released radiation into the atmosphere that settled in states far away from the original test site. Researchers determined that certain elements of this fallout, such as the radioactive isotope Iodine-131, settled in states such as Idaho and Montana and found their way into food and milk supplies. Radioactive contamination can manifest itself as various forms of cancer, leukemia and other illnesses, particularly thyroid cancer. Those affected in this way are often referred to as “downwinders,” to denote their situation downwind from the fallout.» —“Idaho, Montana Downwinder Bill Reintroduced” American Chronicle (Beverly Hills, California) June 25, 2009. Categories: —More information about and related words at Double-Tongued Dictionary.


]]> 2009-07-03T19:09:44+00:00 http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/citations/downwinder_11/ http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/citations/tele_town_hall_11/ tele-town-hall http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DoubleTonguedWordWresterDictionary/~3/lZQMTbOl50E/ I answered a phone call from Representative Michele Bachmann. The call was a “tele-town hall,” in which Representative Bachmann conducts a town hall meeting over the phone with her constituents.. Full bibliographic information... English, Politics, Technology tele-town-hall  n.— «I answered a phone call from Representative Michele Bachmann. The call was a “tele-town hall,” in which Representative Bachmann conducts a town hall meeting over the phone with her constituents.» —“Representative Bachmann does not represent me” by Lindsay King Stillwater Gazette (Minnesota) June 30, 2009. Categories: , , —More information about and related words at Double-Tongued Dictionary.


]]> 2009-07-03T19:05:18+00:00 http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/citations/tele_town_hall_11/ http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/citations/flame_o_gram_1/ flame-o-gram http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DoubleTonguedWordWresterDictionary/~3/lUa4X4Od070/ Harrison said Tuesday he had seen the e-mail. “It’s what I call a flame-o-gram,” he said, adding that he does not expect to respond to it.. Full bibliographic information... English, Online, Slang flame-o-gram  n.— «Harrison said Tuesday he had seen the e-mail. “It’s what I call a flame-o-gram,” he said, adding that he does not expect to respond to it.» —“Woman Cheats Death at MCH” by Glenn Barr Mountain-News (Lake Arrowhead) June 24, 2009. Categories: , , —More information about and related words at Double-Tongued Dictionary.


]]> 2009-07-03T19:00:22+00:00 http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/citations/flame_o_gram_1/ http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/citations/twinjury_1/ Twinjury http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DoubleTonguedWordWresterDictionary/~3/7t0V_MzvByM/ On May 29th, James Coleman of Bristol smacked his skull on a tree branch while filing updates to the Twitter service (or tweeting) from his Blackberry during a run. His accident spawned a new word: a “Twinjury.”. Full bibliographic information... English, Health, Online, New or Nonce Twinjury  n.— «On May 29th, James Coleman of Bristol smacked his skull on a tree branch while filing updates to the Twitter service (or tweeting) from his Blackberry during a run. His accident spawned a new word: a “Twinjury.”» —“Rethinking rights, accreditation, and journalism itself in the age of Twitter” Reuters Editors June 24, 2009. Categories: , , , —More information about and related words at Double-Tongued Dictionary.


]]> 2009-07-03T01:01:52+00:00 http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/citations/twinjury_1/ http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/citations/adulticiding_1/ adulticiding http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DoubleTonguedWordWresterDictionary/~3/A4oXxinWIzE/ The Memphis and Shelby County Health Department will begin spraying for mosquitoes June 22. The practice, known as adulticiding, is designed to prevent potential outbreaks of the west nile virus.. Full bibliographic information... English, Animals, Insects, & Birds adulticiding  n.— «The Memphis and Shelby County Health Department will begin spraying for mosquitoes June 22. The practice, known as adulticiding, is designed to prevent potential outbreaks of the west nile virus.» —“Mosquito Spraying Begins in Shelby County” by Richard Holden WREG-TV (Memphis, Tennessee) June 22, 2009. Categories: , —More information about and related words at Double-Tongued Dictionary.


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