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Friday 30 January 2004

right words and almost right words

and words that are definitely wrong . . .

If you have ever wondered what terms such as metrosexual, flash mob, poox, man breasts, chickenability, pomosexual, butt call, salad dodger, time porn and dead cat bounce mean or where they came from, fear not.

The Word Spy is devoted to cataloging recently coined words and phrases or old words used in new ways on a regular basis. It’s a great site, filled with intrigue and laughter and plenty of terms you can learn to use to stun your friends, amaze co-workers and outright shock your family!

hat tip: Matt Burris

Filed under:   pop culture
Posted by:   site admin | 06:13 | Comments (26)

26 Responses to “right words and almost right words”

  1. Davezilla says:

    I love you for posting this link! I know what I will be wasting my day reading.

  2. TiJean says:

    Ooh, I know I’m going to enjoy this one…

  3. Guy says:

    Blogged it! One tiny niggle: it’s not “poox” — it’s “poo X …also poo-x”.

    Drove me nuts looking for the four-letter form in that site, so I googled the four-letter form, and google sagely ignored the hyphen, delivering Wordspy entry in position #1.

    Thanks!

  4. Keith says:

    Some of the stuff on that Website is pretty funny. And it takes up entirely too much time. What the hell. Good link.

  5. Ray says:

    Hummm, it still did not help me find out what “genital pooughkeepsie” was in an email spam i recieved. but then Now i do know why I am not part of the mainstream computer phylum. ha. thanks.

  6. Ray says:

    If they just banned the use of the word “evolution” in Georgia, does that mean that the term “e-vulva” would be removed from internet communications in that state also, not being sexist, I am just as much for the “vagina dialogues” as I am for the “testicular testaments”. ok bad humor, but disturbing trend. it is difficult enough surviving as a “human bean” since they declared i would be a “vegetable” the rest of my life, but gave me no choice. ha. “stir fry?” you ask, “of course,” i respond, “with a good Tai curry”

  7. Matt Burris says:

    Yea, I did a search for metrosexual, I had to explain to Molly what it meant. Then just yesterday while walking into the grocery store, for some reason I figured out what being metrosexual means — it means being vain. Not sure why the grocery store provoked me on that one.

    So the next time someone asks if you are metrosexual, tell them you’re not vain!

  8. Sian says:

    Man Breasts! heh! I didn’t see pigeon tits in there though.

  9. kym says:

    heh!…
    Quality reading guys

  10. Forum says:

    This article is very interesting and written by some clever guy.:) Thank you!

  11. jonyh says:

    If they just banned the use of the word “evolution” in Georgia, does that mean that the term “e-vulva” would be removed from internet communications in that state also, not being sexist, I am just as much for the “vagina dialogues” as I am for the “testicular testaments”. ok bad humor, but disturbing trend. it is difficult enough surviving as a “human bean” since they declared i would be a “vegetable” the rest of my life, but gave me no choice. ha. “stir fry?” you ask, “of course,” i respond, “with a good Tai curry”
    and words that are definitely wrong . . .

    If you have ever wondered what terms such as metrosexual, flash mob, poox, man breasts, chickenability, pomosexual, butt call, salad dodger, time porn and dead cat bounce mean or where they came from, fear not.

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