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A-love n. It had been some time since I’d been obsessed with an Asian girl. In today’s parlance, the phenomenon is known as “A-love” or “Asian fetish.” [English] [full cite] (Aug. 12, 2005)

A-she-ville n. In Asheville, that’s a problem. Straight people here proudly refer to the town as the lesbian capital of the South; when they joke about “A-she-ville,” they’re proud. [North Carolina English Gay Slang Nickname] [full cite] (Nov. 13, 2006)

A-story n. The A-story, as they call it in the TV biz, concerns Tom’s efforts to interview and then assist Crazy Benny, the tire guy, who insanely slashes prices to the bone. [English Entertainment Media Television Jargon] [full cite] (Jun. 3, 2004)

aaargh plop n. Scientists may just be learning what is already common knowledge among Indonesian villagers. Peter Roeder, a consultant for the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, says locals have an onomatopoeic name for bird flu “that sounds like ‘plop,’ the sound of a chicken hitting the ground when it falls out of a tree. They also have a name for the cat form of avian flu—‘aargh plop’—because cats make a screaming noise before they fall out of the tree.” [Indonesia Science] [full cite] (Mar. 13, 2006)

abandominium n. But two years after construction began, the 41 promised condos still haven’t come. Instead, side-by-side cinderblock shells became a squatters’ camp for up to half a dozen people, a shooting gallery for heroin addicts and a haven for prostitution.…Many refer to it as the “abandominium,” and it’s a constant source of anger and frustration for its neighbors. [English Architecture] [full cite] (Aug. 1, 2004)

abandon-minium n. These women would for the most part end up sleeping in their cars or what they would refer to as “Abandon-miniums” (abandoned homes). [English Houses & Housing Slang] [full cite] (Nov. 2, 2006)

abbaco n. In marked contrast to the Jesuits, Piarists taught in the vernacular, not Latin, and over philosophical mathematics they favoured “abbaco”, or mercantile arithmetic. [Business] [full cite] (May. 23, 2004)

abby n. Have you seen this week’s edition of Newsweek? It’s all about the boomer generation—of which I am one of them. According to the article, boomers have played a key roll in defining every decade since the 50’s. First we were hippies, then yuppies—now apparently we are “abbies”—or aging baby boomers. [English Marketing New or Nonce] [full cite] (Jul. 12, 2006)

abcoolen v. But how to explain the Denglish verbs? Smalltalken, brunchen, mailen, floppen, managen, abcoolen and many others? These are not used to save syllables or avoid complexity. They are simply in vogue, whether for better or worse. [English-derived German Germany] [full cite] (Dec. 21, 2004)

ABD adj. I managed to pass my oral qualifying exam, essentially the final hurdle before writing the actual dissertation. In the parlance of academia, this makes me “ABD” (All-But-Dissertation), which also puts me squarely in the position of looking for a full time job as most colleges and universities consider that final step of writing the dissertation as merely an afterthought. [Education] [full cite] (May. 21, 2004)

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