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Category Archives: Nouns

Smoothie

I can’t believe “smoothie” is something you put in your mouth. With all due respect to the delicious diblend s+m, which gives us such wonderful words as “smut” and”smooch” and “smooooth jazz” (as well as BDSM), we can’t forget that from this diblend is also derived the word “smegma”. Call me weird, but I wouldn’t [...]

Posted 11 November 2011 † Christopher § Sounds Gross ‡ Comments (0) °

Sin

Leave it to the Christians to take the fun out of being bad. They could have picked any word at all, even “Quetzalcoatl” or “spork” or “abracadabra” but instead they went with the weakest, least interesting word there ever was. No hard P’s or T’s, not even a nice randy X to stir the loins. It just [...]

Posted 17 May 2011 † Christopher § Doesn't Match Meaning ‡ Comments (2) °

Kerfuffle (Revisited)

I hate kerfuffle so much, I have to post about it a second time. Last year I did a post on this word, and the entirety of the post went as follows: See brouhaha. Then gouge out your eyes. Amazingly, no other word I have posted on has caused such an uproar (commotion, disturbance, furor, row). [...]

Posted 07 February 2011 † Christopher § Sounds Stupid § Trying to be Funny ‡ Comments (2) °

Wigger

Last week I accidentally used the word “wigger”. I was describing someone I know who wears baggy clothing and sports jerseys, listens to nothing but hip-hop, and loves basketball. And while fumbling through the lexicon for a proper descriptor, I called him a “wigger” and was instantly embarrassed for myself, because as it turns out, [...]

Posted 29 January 2011 † Christopher § Just Fucking Horrible § Neologisms § Trapping Word ‡ Comments (0) °

Meme

I don’t fucking care at all that Richard Dawkins invented this word. It’s straight up horrible and nobody will point out this fact so I guess I have to. First of all, Richard Dawkins is a dick. I mean his NAME is even Dick. I’m an atheist but I think between he and Christopher Hitchens, [...]

Posted 25 December 2010 † Christopher § Neologisms § Poor Connotation § Pop Lexicon § Sounds Stupid § Spelling ‡ Comments (2) °

Plethora

Here’s a weird one where I hate the word, but I actually like it in its archaic form. In case you’ve been living in a cage in your uncle Harry’s basement, subsisting off sewer rats that venture too close to your putrid, pus-spewing, gangrenous foot, which you fractured trying to escape but were thwarted by [...]

Posted 29 October 2010 † Christopher § Getting Attention § Pretentious § Redundant § SATs § Sounds Stupid ‡ Comments (2) °

OCD

I am a clean guy. I like my room to be tidy, my hallway to be swept, and my kitchen to be insect-free. But there are those that would accuse me of “being OCD”. This acronym, which once stood for “obsessive-compulsive disorder”, is now a simple stand-in for cleanliness, perpetrated by the denizens of filth, [...]

Posted 25 August 2010 † Christopher § Incorrectly Used § Medical § Personal ‡ Comments (3) °

Irony / Ironic

“Irony” has been a word I hated for a long time, but it’s almost TOO BIG now to blog about. The problems with this word are almost too egregious and too numerous to do justice to it. Nonetheless, it screams out for an entry here, if only to put me on record as anti-irony. Certainly, [...]

Posted 11 August 2010 † Christopher § Adjectives § Incorrectly Used § Meaningless § Overused § Pop Lexicon § Trying to be Cool ‡ Comments (4) °

Kerfuffle

See brouhaha. Then gouge out your eyes.

Posted 16 February 2010 † Christopher § Trying to be Funny ‡ Comments (2) °

Pornography

It’s not 1955 anymore. With the exception of a few holdouts (probably loosely affiliated with Jesus) pornography is accepted as part of modern living. And while it may still have some very important political issues concerning the exploitation of women, most of what you will find out there is not obscene, much of it is [...]

Posted 10 November 2009 † Christopher § Poor Connotation § Sex § Too Long ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , , , ,