Relationships Slang, Jargon, and New Words from Double-Tongued Dictionary

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furparent n. Best of all, there’s a nice seven-page subset out of the “People I Detest” chapter devoted to people with “furkids” or, to use her other neologism, “furparents.” These people don’t have pets. They have furry children on special diets, with special outfits, weekly vet visits and daily caregivers. She has a pretty good go at people who treat their pets better than humans. [English Animals, Insects, & Birds Relationships] [full cite] (Apr. 21, 2007)

garriage n. If the homosexual population was arguing for a defined union of their own, they’d have far more success. Almost nobody is going to argue that gays have no right to form their own union called, say…“Garriage.” And then the political struggle would not be over a label, it would be over assigning rights to those united under Garriage. Garriage may not catch on, but civil unions have plenty of support. [English Gay Relationships] [full cite] (Apr. 3, 2007)

GEO n. We were actually thinking about moving back home, with my husband staying here as a GEO [geographic bachelor, a military term for a married soldier in an isolated base or deployment]. [English Military Relationships Acronym] [full cite] (Dec. 22, 2006)

geographic bachelor n. We were actually thinking about moving back home, with my husband staying here as a GEO [geographic bachelor, a military term for a married soldier in an isolated base or deployment]. [English Military Relationships Euphemism] [full cite] (Dec. 22, 2006)

ghost kid n. The thing that scares me most as a superintendent, as a person, as a professional educator, are kids that are called ghost kids, kids that walk around our schools and don’t have any attachments or association with anybody. I don’t know whether we have them or not. But a school resource officer program would be another resource to provide connections with kids, breaking down some of the stereotypes of law enforcement. [English Relationships] [full cite] (Oct. 31, 2006)

grey-back n. This wasn’t some callow youth adjusting to the exigencies of cruel Fate that saw a father die before his time and mother grappling, appropriately or inappropriately, with that loss; he was an adult—“grey-back,” in our Jamaican parlance—capable of, at this point of his development, understanding how the world worked, how women worked. [English Jamaica Relationships] [full cite] (Jan. 15, 2006)

grooming call n. “Grooming calls”—those calls made just to say hi, to let someone know you’re thinking of them—can release healthy endorphins. The report calls the mobile “an antidote to urban alienation.” [English Relationships Technology] [full cite] (May. 14, 2004)

hallcest n. When asked if living together has brought sexual tension into their friendship, Mr. Danzig said “no” flatly, and Dewar said the same, emphatically. Neither report any awkward or indelicate moments, but when both genders use the same bathroom on the floor not much remains secret. Dating neighbors—known as “hallcest” or “dormcest”—is courting disaster given such close quarters, says Danzig. [English Education Relationships Sex & Sexuality Youth Slang] [full cite] (Jan. 4, 2007)

hubby-sitter n. The singer has hired a male nanny to keep Kevin Federline out of trouble with girls, booze and bar fights. In America, they call him a “hubby-sitter.” In Britain we’ve got another name for it. Sneak. [English Relationships New or Nonce] [full cite] (May. 10, 2006)

in-law chaser n. Theresa felt warmed coming inside, away from the snowy, blowing spring storm.—Theresa overhead that the storm was an in-law chaser and giggled about that. It was the middle of the night but perhaps the son-in-law ran around right now or will run around in the early morning before work check-in, chasing after the chopping of wood and gathering the food and the water and the generator gas! [English Environment Native American Relationships Slang] [full cite] (Sep. 25, 2007)

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