A listicle (look it up)

[avram]

I’ve seen the dictionary_wotd feed go by on other people’s Friends pages, and found the words insufficiently obscure. Maybe once I saw one I didn’t already know. Egress? Cohort? Acclimate? Come on!

Anyway, while I wasn’t paying attention, the World New York weblog turned into Double-Tongued Word Wrester, a spiffy little ongoing slang dictionary. And I see someone’s already made an LJ RSS feed: doubletongued. Here, a few entries:

potato n. in professional wrestling, a real hit that injures, as opposed to an orchestrated, harmless one.

goonda tax n. money extorted as ‘protection’ or to permit passage on public thoroughfares, or paid as a simple bribe.

Hollywood no n. a lack of response (to a proposal, phone call, message, etc.).

decleat v. in American football, to knock an opponent off his feet. Also n., decleater.

lesbian bed death n. the decline of sexual relations between a committed lesbian couple.

noodle v. to hunt bare-handed in water for fish or turtles.

If you see a word you like, follow the link to the actual site. There are citations and contextual information there that don’t go out in the RSS feed.

Comments

[gentlyepigrams]

I also read (in my RSS reader) these two sites:

http://www.worldwidewords.org/

http://www.wordspy.com/

I don't know if they have LJ feeds.

Unfortunately, the second site hasn't updated since June. It's a book site, and I think the author lost interest. I hope he does a sequel and starts putting up more entries.

[kent-allard-jr.livejournal.com]

Hollywood no is a damn useful term. Bed death should be used in straight and gay male relations, too.

[holyoutlaw.livejournal.com]

Vonda describes the "Hollywood no" as "Great idea! Love it! Can't wait to talk! We'll get back to you!"