A fork of Rural Dictionary
Noun or adjective; refers to new technological devices or systems promoted as progressive when they actually don't work as well as the device or system that they replaced.
Owen remembered a time when most sinks in public bathrooms had handles with which one could turn on the water and adjust its temperature and flow. The new regressotech sinks have motion sensors instead of handles, the user has to wave his or her hands in various ways in order to activate them, and the flow of water is generally very brief.
Noun; a way, or part of a way, to a walker's destination, via a heated warm building when it's uncomfortably cold outside. Antonym: Coolcut
Molly was shivering as she walked through the slush, so she decided to take a warmcut through the Madison Building on her way to the supermarket.
Noun; a consumer of alcoholic beverages who demeans other drinkers (of either alcoholic or non-alcoholic beverages) by invidiously comparing their drink to his.
How dare you call my Shirley Temple a little girl's drink, you ageist, sexist alco-chauvinist!
Noun: the intentional but legal, though not sanctioned, killing of another person. Adjective: lexdolicidal Adverb: lexdolicidally
Jill knew that Jack could not survive without her, but she hated Jack and decided to commit lexdolicide by leaving him.
Noun; an alternative story line in which the events of the original story are told from the perspective of an individual or group that was in the original story, but not as the primary individual or group.
If "The Wizard of Oz" was re- told from the perspective of the Wicked Witch of the South rather than from Dorothy's perspective, it might make an interesting altquel.
Noun; an unsuspecting person used to divert attention from someone committing a crime.
Ben saw that the salesman's attention was diverted from him while showing Jerry the store's selection of ties, so he used Jerry as a pseudopawn, quickly snatching two gold cuff links from the open display case.