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

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blogject n. “Blogject” is a neologism that’s meant to focus attention on the participation of “objects” and “things” in the sphere of networked social discourse variously called the blogosphere, or social web. The Blogject is a kind of early ancestor to the Spime, Bruce Sterling’s resonant, single-syllable noun for things that are searchable, track their location, usage histories and discourse with the other things around them. [English Technology New or Nonce] [full cite] (Mar. 3, 2006)

blondtourage n. Blondtourage, noun. A posse of pretty blonde socialites or starlets, e.g. Kate Bosworth, Mischa Barton, and Hilary Duff at the Zac Posen show, or Theodora Richards, Gemma Ward, and Kirsten Dunst at the Dazed and Confused party. Example: “It’s impossible to get a drink at the bar because that blondtourage is getting all the attention!” [English New or Nonce Slang] [full cite] (Sep. 20, 2006)

blue adj. Andrea Simon, 31, of the Northeastside, is the daughter of a black mother and a white, Jewish father. “What I call myself is a “blue,” for black and Jew,” said Simon, the owner of a marketing firm. [English Race Religion New or Nonce Slang] [full cite] (Jun. 19, 2007)

blue jacking n. At the age of 10 he sold newspapers in downtown Toledo.…They didn’t have a normal paper route like most kids, delivering to the same house every day in nice, quiet neighborhoods. This young boy and his friend, Louie, did what was known as blue jacking and their territory happened to be skid row. They carried a canvas sack filled with the Toledo Blade. The bag weighed almost as much as they did. They went form bar to bar. If they couldn’t sell a newspaper, they’d shine shoes. If that didn’t work, they’d dance to music on the jukebox hoping the drunks and semi-drunks on skid row would throw nickels and dimes at them. [English Media New or Nonce Slang] [full cite] (Sep. 9, 2008)

blutorial n. Blueyonder’s also adding a wireless channel to its website that will offer advice and a “video blutorial” (their name for it not ours, we hasten to add). [English Technology New or Nonce] [full cite] (Mar. 30, 2006)

boat proctologist n. One Dutch Harbor resident, Jeff Whited, who calls himself a “boat proctologist”—that is, someone who goes down into the bowels of a vessel to fix an engine or a prop shaft—said, “I hate these movie stars” while working on the Northwestern, Captain Hansen’s boat. [English Nautical New or Nonce Slang] [full cite] (Apr. 6, 2008)

body babbling n. To begin the learning process, the UC San Diego researchers directed the Einstein robot head (Hanson Robotics’ Einstein Head) to twist and turn its face in all directions, a process called “body babbling.” During this period the robot could see itself on a mirror and analyze its own expression using facial expression detection software created at UC San Diego called CERT (Computer Expression Recognition Toolbox). This provided the data necessary for machine learning algorithms to learn a mapping between facial expressions and the movements of the muscle motors. [English Technology New or Nonce] [full cite] (Aug. 3, 2009)

bombogenesis n. Bombogenesis is defined as a mid-latitude cyclone that drops in surface barometric pressure by 24 or more millibars in a 24-hour period. The height contours pack around the center of rotation and the number of height contours increases rapidly in the developing stages. [English New or Nonce] [full cite] (Feb. 12, 2006)

boomer interrupted n. The new euphemism for those called to parental assistance is “boomer interrupted.” Just when you began to look forward to your own retirement, your role reverses and you need to take care of those who took care of you. [English Relationships New or Nonce] [full cite] (Dec. 28, 2007)

boozerang n. Boozerang, n. The boomeranglike negative effects of alcohol consumption. [English Food & Drink New or Nonce Slang] [full cite] (Mar. 19, 2007)

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