FASHION Magazine
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SNP’s word of the day: Tannervention
Word: Tannervention
Meaning: Tan + ervention. You do the math, guys.
Usage: “Hollywood needs a tannervention stop the madness it’s January folks #GoldenGlobes” — @Bevansburg
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SNP’s word of the day: Precariat
Word: Precariat
Meaning: An emergent social class defined by job insecurity and short-term thinking; semi-synonymous with the freelance economy.
Usage: “Although the experience is different across economic and social situations, we are, at least the 99 per cent of us, the new precariat class. We are frantically digging to keep the tunnel from caving in—digging for air, not treasure.” — Jenna Brager in “No Resolution”
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SNP’s word of the day: Transmodernism
Word: Transmodernism
Meaning: A development in thought following the period of postmodernism.
Usage: “We’re in Transmodern times now, since postmodernism is now mostly dead.” — a commenter on the Kurt Anderson essay we talked about last week
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SNP’s word of the day: Hypergraphia
Word: Hypergraphia
Meaning: The overwhelming urge to write, which can border on disorder (often associated with mania).
Usage: “In my first hypomanic swing I completed an 80,000-word novel in three weeks, experiencing something close to hypergraphia.” — Sam Twyford-Moore on The Rumpus
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SNP’s word of the day: Iconoplast
Word: Iconoplast
Meaning: One who chooses to age naturally (or at least, who appears to age naturally).
Usage: “I love what Julianne Moore hasn’t done with her face; she’s such an iconoplast!”
You should know it because: Sometimes—or perhaps always, and I only sometimes notice—New York Times Magazine puts up neologisms for adoption. I love reading these, duh, although sometimes they should most definitely not be used as words. “Skinjecture,” for example, as in to speculate about who has had plastic surgery? Grossssss. “Iconoplast,” though, is great. It’s a hybrid of “iconoclast,” which in turn is taken from iconoclasm, and “plastic,” as in plastic surgery.
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SNP’s word of the day: Polari
Word: Polari
Meaning: A 1960s gay argot, or slang language—slanguage?—used mostly in Britain.
Usage: “The news of Polari’s demise contained a deeper question: is it a language at all?” — Michael Shulman in “Language Murder”
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SNP’s word of the day: Devolution
Word: Devolution
Meaning: The regressive evolution of (American) pop culture.
Usage: “You Say You Want a Devolution?” — Vanity Fair
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SNP’s word of the day: Babeyoncé
Word: Babeyoncé
Meaning: The primary offspring of Beyoncé Knowles and Jay-Z; synonym: the Saviour.
Usage: “And now for your first Babeyonce update of 2012: There’s still no baby.” —a reporter at Jezebel.com
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SNP’s word of the day: Hyperpolyglot
Word: Hyperpolyglot
Meaning: Someone who’s mastered a vast number of languages. Like, more than 10.
Usage: “Did Mezzofanti have an extraordinary brain? Or are hyper-polyglots just ordinary people with ordinary brains who manage to do something extraordinary through motivation and hard work?” –from The Five-Minute Linguist
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SNP’s word of the day: e-pistolary
Word: e-pistolary
Meaning: Of or associated with the art of writing… emails.
Usage: “Location in or near Minneapolis a plus, although an e-pistolary relationship certainly isn’t out of the question.” — the reliably absurd n+1 personals section
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SNP’s word of the day: Penetralia
Word: Penetralia
Meaning: The innermost sanctum; a deeply private recess.
Usage: “Mr F. in another compartment of the same labyrinth I have described, for suffering any one to penetrate so far into the penetralia of their temple.” — from Walter Scott‘s The Fortunes of Nigel
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SNP’s word of the day: Giftalanche
Word: Giftalanche
Meaning: The unstoppable accumulation of gifts upon gifts at Chrismukkwanzaa-time.
Usage: “Giftalanche guilt is worse than usual this year.” — a commenter on this Jezebel post about not buying stuff for Christmas
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