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

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waste-to-watts attrib. Ameresco Incorporated has reached an agreement with the Delaware Solid Waste Authority for what’s called a “waste-to-watts” project. The company will capture methane from landfills in western Kent County and central Sussex County and use the gas to fire generators. [English Environment] [full cite] (Nov. 21, 2006)

water buffalo n. Larson said his “water buffaloes,” a term used to describe experts in the water field, took advantage of the lull to sway his thinking, too. They didn’t like the idea of bringing water quality into the mix. [English Environment Slang] [full cite] (May. 3, 2006)

water year n. A total of 7.62 inches for what’s called the “water year” (from Oct. 1), also about 3 inches above normal, has to look pretty good. [English Environment] [full cite] (Apr. 18, 2006)

watermelon n. We have one for the greens—“watermelons” (green on the outside, red on the inside, i.e. closet commies). [English Environment Politics Slang] [full cite] (Apr. 29, 2004)

watermelon n. The keynote speaker, William H. Holms, presented a talk entitled, “Wimps, Weirdos and Watermelons,” in which he stated environmentalists were just a bunch of unemployed welfare-leeching Communists. He suggested that the timber industry should join forces with the farming and mining (oil) industries and mount a “hate campaign” against the environmental community, which he portrayed as “green on the outside and red on the inside.” [English Environment Politics Slang] [full cite] (Apr. 30, 2004)

watermelon n. Major Robert D’Aubuisson, leader of the ultra right Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA), likes to compare the Christian Democrats to a watermelon. “Green (the Christian Democrats’ official color) on the outside,” he says, “and red on the inside.” [English Environment Politics Slang] [full cite] (Apr. 30, 2004)

weather war n. In the States, they have a name for the media’s increasingly demented obsession with meteorological phenomena: “weather wars.” Anyone who has watched a US reporter narrowly avoid being blown off a rain-lashed balcony in the course of noting that there might be a tornado on the way will know that it’s more than rough out there: it’s a veritable arms race. Forget good men and women risking life and limb that viewers may know storms are a’coming; these turns are backed up with hardware marginally less expensive than the star wars programme. Up and down the Gulf coast and across the great plain stations now actually run attack ads on each other’s forecasting capabilities. [English Environment Media] [full cite] (Feb. 12, 2007)

wedge tornado n. The tornado that struck Greensburg is being described as at least a mile wide, perhaps a mile and a half wide. It was what is known as a “wedge” tornado, a tornado that looks wider than it does tall. [English Environment] [full cite] (May. 5, 2007)

whale n. In the old days, Taylor remembers making piles, or “whales” as they’re called in the business, of snow so heavy he had to blast them apart with dynamite to move the snow around the hill for grooming. [English Environment Slang] [full cite] (Jan. 23, 2007)

whale n. A whale is a mound of snow allowed to settle on a trail to be moved where it’s needed later. [English Environment Slang] [full cite] (Jan. 23, 2007)

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