New or Nonce Slang, Jargon, and New Words from Double-Tongued Dictionary

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Amero n. Pastor has also called for the creation of a new currency which he has coined the “Amero,” a currency that is proposed to replace the U.S. dollar, the Canadian dollar, and the Mexican peso. [English Money & Finance New or Nonce] [full cite] (May. 26, 2006)

amero n. Steve Previs, a vice president at Jefferies International Ltd., explained the Amero “is the proposed new currency for the North American Community which is being developed right now between Canada, the U.S. and Mexico.” The aim, he said, according to a transcript provided by CNBC to WND, is to make a “borderless community, much like the European Union, with the U.S. dollar, the Canadian dollar and the Mexican peso being replaced by the amero.” [English Money & Finance New or Nonce] [full cite] (Nov. 29, 2006)

amortality n. You may not have heard of amortality before—mainly because I’ve just coined the term. It’s about more than just the ripple effect of baby boomers” resisting the onset of age. Amortality is a stranger, stronger alchemy, created by the intersection of that trend with a massive increase in life expectancy and a deep decline in the influence of organized religion—all viewed through the blue haze of Viagra. Amortals live among us. In their teens and 20s, they may seem preternaturally experienced. In later life, they often look young and dress younger. They have kids early or late—sometimes very late—or not at all. Their emotional lives are as chaotic as their financial planning. The defining characteristic of amortality is to live in the same way, at the same pitch, doing and consuming much the same things, from late teens right up until death. [English New or Nonce] [full cite] (Mar. 16, 2009)

angu-apatheism n.

Angu-apatheism—not caring whether or not there is a God, but still
wondering what you did that has Him so pissed off at you.

[English Religion New or Nonce] [full cite] (Aug. 2, 2007)

animanecrology n. There are many different theories as to what causes “zombification.”…Dr Peter Foree, professor of Animanecrology (a big word meaning the study of the living dead), notes that by far the most agreed upon theory is that of a nasty viral infection. [ Language English Register New or Nonce] [full cite] (Oct. 27, 2005)

anthropornography n. Adams coins the term “anthropornography”: “the depiction of nonhuman animals as whores”…. We have all seen anthropornographic ads, but for most of us, we didn’t register what we were looking at. A cartoon with a cow standing like a sexy lady; a pig drawn with lipstick and a voluptuous rump; a chicken lifting her miniskirt to reveal her tasty feminine legs. [English Animals, Insects, & Birds Sex & Sexuality New or Nonce] [full cite] (Aug. 5, 2006)

antihomonuptial adj. I have actually considered that laws against (or implicitly disallowing) gay marriage are, actually, sexist. For example, suppose I lived somewhere with antihomonuptial legislation. [English Gay New or Nonce] [full cite] (Nov. 30, 2008)

aporkalypse n. As a responsible newspaper in serious times—when the world is threatened by climate change, economic collapse and what we are steadfastly refusing to describe as a “hamdemic” or an “aporkalypse”—Metro is very careful to give a balanced view of the major issues of our time. [English New or Nonce Slang] [full cite] (Apr. 28, 2009)

archaearium n. One answer is what he calls an archaearium, a “non-building” with copper roofing and glass walls over interactive exhibits and an open floor showing the excavation of a house that was probably burned during Bacon’s Rebellion of 1676. [English Architecture New or Nonce] [full cite] (May. 6, 2004)

Arizona n. She returns to work, where the brusque, self-obsessed and shallow Manhattanites fret over her only because a) all that grieving can affect productivity; b) ugly facial scar—ugh—find a plastic surgeon, please; and c) people who’ve been out of the office for as long as Anna has are normally recovering addicts returning from “Arizona” (a popular euphemism for the drying-out clinic). [English Drugs New or Nonce Slang] [full cite] (Apr. 30, 2006)

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