The Gabbler’s house dictionary.
Wednesday, September 12th, 2012
Fashtag Losing (fæʃˌtæg): used to identify a keyword describing another’s poor or inappropriate fashion choices. Did you see that like 65-year-old in a leopard print mini dress at the wedding last night? Fashtag losing. Related: Hashtag winning Mario Card (mär-ē-ō ˈkärd): 1. A credit card with no spending limit. Origin: From Mario Draghi, the Italian president
Friday, August 31st, 2012
Dick-fil-a (dɪk fɪl eɪ): an adjective describing a person who justifies being a total asshole by claiming he or she is engaging in a form of activism. “So I went up to the girl at the...
Wednesday, August 15th, 2012
Mass Execu-diss (mǣs ɪg’zɛkyə-dɪs) : When at least two executives resign on the same day, often to make a statement about their company’s current policies behind the scenes. Did you catch that mass execu-diss of Komen’s...
Tuesday, August 7th, 2012
Blockblister: (blɒkˈblɪstər) A successful movie franchise that was once good, but the studio didn’t know when to quit, so now the movie totally sucks. “They’re making a Bourne Identity Four? Without Matt Damon? That’s worse than...
Tuesday, July 24th, 2012
Fagguh-FAT (fæguh fæt): a verbal crutch or phrase frequently used in public to recover from making an otherwise blatantly homophobic slur, namely “faggot.” The phrase was adopted into the English language after Tripp Palin, three-year old son of...
Thursday, July 19th, 2012
Ethenticity (ɛɵɛn’tɪsɪti): the quality of being authentically ethnic, as opposed to an Americanized version of a certain ethnic group’s customs, clothing, food, or general culture. I love that restaurant because it has some real ethenticity, it’s not...
Tuesday, July 10th, 2012
CHIAA (Chiə): A new Twitter Trend started by Katie Holmes following her recent split from Tom Cruise. CHIAA is an acroynm for “Can’t Have It All, Anyway,” and was inspired by writer Anne-Marie Slaughter’s popular article titled,“Why...
Tuesday, June 19th, 2012
Doting-divorced-and-guilty-white-first-world-upper-class-father problems (doʊtɪɳ dɪ’vɔrsd ǣnd gɪlti waɪt fɜrst wɜrld ʌpər klɑs fɑɵər prɒbləms): Problems related to being an overindulgent father. Especially afflicts divorced fathers. Daughter said “da-da” for the first time and smiled. Put my entire life savings...
Thursday, June 14th, 2012
Zombish: (ˈzɒmb,ɪʃ) 1. The language spoken by zombies. “What do you want for breakfast, hun!?” “Blehh-meh-arghhhhh! It’s 6 a.m., Mom!” “What are you speaking, exactly? Zombish?” 2. Resembling or exhibiting qualities of a zombie. Don’t wear that...