Pastimes & Hobbies Slang, Jargon, and New Words from Double-Tongued Dictionary

Citations in the Category Pastimes & Hobbies

Hobbies, pastimes, diversions, amusements, fans, amateurs, sidelines, moonlighting, leisure activities, avocations, etc. You can also see entries assigned to this category.

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trailer queen n. In subsequent years, Vandervort had a team of mechanics completely restore the car. Last year Vandervort won first place in his class at Concours d’Elegance and will be showing the car—affectionately called a “trailer queen” because he keeps it off the road to preserve its condition—there again this year. [English Automobiles & Transportation Pastimes & Hobbies Slang] [full cite] (Jul. 12, 2007)

tru fan n. “Are there any fans of Toyah out there?"…"A Scottish friend of mine claims to have felt her breasts in concert (is that a tru-fan [tm] or a lecher? no need to answer).” [English Pastimes & Hobbies Slang] [full cite] (May. 10, 2004)

trufan n. Jeff Baham has interviewed the author, who appears to be a real Mansion trufan who set out to write a comprehensive historical document about the bestest ride the Imagineers ever built. [English Pastimes & Hobbies Slang] [full cite] (Apr. 26, 2004)

trufan n. I repeat my contention that absence of critical sense is one of the marks of the fringefan, and introduce the corollary (observable from the earliest days of anything recognizable as fandom) that argumentativeness is one of the common denominators of the [trufan] (I hate that term but it carries a useful sense). [English Pastimes & Hobbies Slang] [full cite] (May. 10, 2004)

twisting n. Chee, who prefers his mouth rather than a helium tank to blow up balloons the past 14 years, said he never saw “twisting,” as the medium is called, as his livelihood. [English Pastimes & Hobbies] [full cite] (Jan. 16, 2007)

umbraphile n. Umbraphiles, having endured nearly two and a half years of withdrawal, will no doubt rejoice at the coming of this, the first total solar eclipse since March 2006. [English Pastimes & Hobbies Science] [full cite] (Apr. 28, 2006)

wallpaper n. Morton began collecting stamps as a kid, deciding to specialize in stamps from a particular country. He settled for the Gold Coast, which later became Ghana, and that turned out to be a nightmare when the country turned Communist and issued what collectors refer to as “wallpaper,” he said. Wallpaper is stamps that aren’t used for postage but printed merely for collectors, thus generating revenue beyond the scope of mail postage. [English Pastimes & Hobbies Slang] [full cite] (Oct. 23, 2006)

wild swimming n. While Rew, at 38, is a relative newcomer to the joys of “wild swimming”, as she likes to call it, Douglas started her cold-water career at the age of 12, when she jumped into the water at Liverpool Docks on Boxing Day (“It was intensely terrifying,” she says). And now, aged 27, she can barely keep on dry land. [English United Kingdom Pastimes & Hobbies] [full cite] (Feb. 7, 2008)

woody n. The majority of local darts players prefer the American game, often called “baseball” or “woody.” Players throw wooden darts at a wooden board, taking turns shooting at spots one through nine to rack up to the largest score. [English Entertainment Pastimes & Hobbies Sports & Recreation] [full cite] (Jul. 20, 2006)

wota n. My informant explained that wota—which is pronounced “oh-tah”—are an offshoot branch of Japan’s hobby-obsessed tribe of introverts known as otaku. While regular otaku seek out anime figurines and high-tech gizmos, the infatuation of the nation’s estimated tens of thousands of wota is for girl idols—particularly the pop group Morning Musume.…To distinguish themselves from run-of-the-mill otaku—computer geeks, anime freaks and the like—wota chopped off the “-ku” at the end of the word and, with a touch of playfulness, slapped on a “w” up front. (Typing “wo” on a Japanese computer keyboard renders a kana syllable pronounced “oh.") [Japanese Japan Pastimes & Hobbies Technology Slang] [full cite] (Jan. 17, 2005)

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