A fork of Rural Dictionary
the act of coining or inventing new words
Few acts are as conceited, supercilious, and trite as coinage of contrived words, most of which will never see their day in the vernacular.
The sound of hocking, and then aiming the hock to perfectly hit the rim of the spitoon to make the "-tung!!" sound. It made everyone pay attention, hence its other, more common definition. Alleged to be the first word in the German language, on which all other words are based.
Acccccccccchhhhh-splat!!!! dammit, let me try again ... don't slip on that ... Acccccccccchhhhh-TUNGGGG!!!! There ya go!
old school(sixties and seventies)shades that have flat, not wraparound, lenses; popularized by musicians such as Ray Charles, Bob Dylan, and Billy Joel.
I found some sweet wayfarers in my dad's closet and they make me look like Billy Joel.
Convenient one word term for the otherwise clumsy "take out of context". Obviously derived from context and extricate (latter meaning to elaborately and deviously withdraw from a precarious situation). This is new coinage - you heard it on Urban Dictionary first.
The attorney contextricated his client's ex-wife tennis lessons on summer afternoons to give them the appearance of a tawdry romance ostensibly culminating in a tryst.
A logical statement in which the conclusion is equivalent to the premise
Example of a tautology: Bad people take drugs; therefore, people who take drugs are bad. The other definition appearing here, "Unnecessary repetition of a word", is a crudification and wrong - such pointless reiterative repetition is a redundancy, and one who makes such a definition is called a "redundunce". Consult Fowler.
It's a culture thing - the antipode of a brother doing the funky broadway, if you come from Texas or Tennessee, you pick up your sour mash and sidle up to that cute chick showing lots of belly, not to scare her off. It is *not* a sashay!!!! Mosey was coined after Mose Allison, jazz pianist
Hey darlin', how about you an' me mosey over to the Motel 6 with us an' the boys, got some Chet Baker