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Scuba

(53,475 posts) Fri Jan 18, 2013, 12:22 PM Jan 2013

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Neologisms (them’s new words)

http://guinnessandcreamcakes.blogspot.com/2007/05/neologisms-thems-new-words.html?m=1

debtrosexual Young man who has run up his credit cards paying for dates and is now having financial difficulties.

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hypocracy The only form of government. Types of hypocracy include democracy, monarchy, oligarchy, plutocracy, and republic.

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lackademic A graduate student teaching a university course.

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prigmatism Pretending to adhere to an antiquated moral outlook in order to ingratiate oneself with influential elders.

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Neologisms (them’s new words) (Original Post) Scuba Jan 2013 OP

My all-time favorite from an earlier list: Ignoranus. The Velveteen Ocelot Jan 2013 #1

The Velveteen Ocelot

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1. My all-time favorite from an earlier list: Ignoranus.

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Fri Jan 18, 2013, 12:47 PM

Jan 2013

Someone who is both stupid and an asshole. Like Republican House members, for example.

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