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shmoo adj. Aidan got many, many DVDs and videogames, all of which were deemed either “Sweet” or “Shmoo” by him. (I’m told “shmoo” is some new word in preteen boy patois, and it is apparently a synonym for “sweet.”) (Dec. 26, 2004) [full citation…]

dogger n. Problems of a sexual nature, too, for Stan Collymore, outed by the press as a “dogger” (another new word for the football dictionary). (Dec. 26, 2004) [full citation…]

deletear n. A mistake is made and it requires you to cliquear with your maus so you can deletear the file. (Dec. 26, 2004) [full citation…]

llamar pa’ atras v. The phone rings inconveniently and, with an English idiom, you promise to call back. “Back” in English is not just the opposite of front, it also connotes an opposite reaction in a way that makes words like “backlash” work. The Spanish word for back, atras, doesn’t have that secondary meeting. If you translate it directly in a usage like “call back,” the result is Spanish gibberish. But it happens. And when Spanglish speakers issue a baffling promise to llamar pa’ atras (“to call in the back”), they move Spanish words to an exclusive Spanglish understanding. (Dec. 26, 2004) [full citation…]

maus n. A mistake is made and it requires you to cliquear with your maus so you can deletear the file. (Dec. 26, 2004) [full citation…]

bacunclíner n. For instance, the thing that frightens cats as it sucks dirt from the carpet? In Spanglish, it’s a bacunclíner. Breakfast cereal of any sort: confley or sometimes, chirio. A job of less than 40 hours is un partain, perhaps at Berguerquín. (Dec. 26, 2004) [full citation…]

Berguerquín n. For instance, the thing that frightens cats as it sucks dirt from the carpet? In Spanglish, it’s a bacunclíner. Breakfast cereal of any sort: confley or sometimes, chirio. A job of less than 40 hours is un partain, perhaps at Berguerquín. (Dec. 26, 2004) [full citation…]

cliquear n. A mistake is made and it requires you to cliquear with your maus so you can deletear the file. (Dec. 26, 2004) [full citation…]

partain n. For instance, the thing that frightens cats as it sucks dirt from the carpet? In Spanglish, it’s a bacunclíner. Breakfast cereal of any sort: confley or sometimes, chirio. A job of less than 40 hours is un partain, perhaps at Berguerquín. (Dec. 26, 2004) [full citation…]

chirio n. For instance, the thing that frightens cats as it sucks dirt from the carpet? In Spanglish, it’s a bacunclíner. Breakfast cereal of any sort: confley or sometimes, chirio. A job of less than 40 hours is un partain, perhaps at Berguerquín. (Dec. 26, 2004) [full citation…]

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