The Lexicographer's Rules

Recent interesting catchwords from the Double-Tongued Dictionary are:

dipstick v. to take random samples or to randomly choose people to question.

lock box n. a government account or fund which is protected from reappropriation to other government programs.

Recent interesting catchwords from the Double-Tongued Dictionary are:

coffee-housing n. in a competition or game, trying to distract or annoy another player.

jackpot n. in firefighting slang, a flammable place.

coyote camp n. an improvised place near the site of a forest fire where firefighters have chosen to sleep.

The word-of-the-year flood commences:

Grass Station is Webster’s New World’s 2007 ‘Word of the Year’.

It’s October, people. You don’t have a “word of the year.” You have a “word of the 41rst p0st!!!!”

Though at least “grass station” is better than “info-snacking,” their laughably stupid choice for 2005.

Recent interesting catchwords from the Double-Tongued Dictionary are:

first laddie: n. Bill Clinton’s jocular suggestion for the title of a female president’s husband.

thrownaway n. a child who has been forced to leave home by a guardian or parent.

wedcast n. a wedding broadcast over the Internet.

Recent interesting catchwords from the Double-Tongued Dictionary are:

meatbeard n. a person’s double chin.

scud n. the small and very hot “bird’s eye” chili pepper, also known as the “mouse-dropping” chili. Usually said to be nicknamed after the Scud missile.

jacket n. Richard Allsopp’s Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage defines this as “the child of a married woman and a man who is not her hustband” or “any child whose paternity is denied.” The term is used in Jamaica and Belize.