# A Net-based Notebook of Nifty Neologisms

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-net-based-notebook-of-nifty-neologisms/253144>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 2, 2004, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-net-based-notebook-of-nifty-neologisms/253144 "2004-07-02T01:00:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2004, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-net-based-notebook-of-nifty-neologisms/253144/1 "2004-07-02T01:00:30Z")

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Heard some new slang? Want to start a catchphrase? Did you get called a brand-new slur? Well, share, dammit. Share! Write the word or phrase, what it means and a brief explanation of where you read/heard it. Fiction, non-fiction, the mass media, the mean streets – whatever your source.

I’m interested in useful new words in spoken English – not professional jargon (per se), not fictional names of alien people or foreign words with meanings with no precise Western translation. There’s already reams of that stuff. We’re on the cutting egde of fighting ignorance here.

Here’s two.

“hatriot” – noun. A citizen who’s overly critical about his country, its policies or public officials. Read it on an SDMB Cafe thread about Dale Ernhardt and Michael Moore.

“student hottie president” – noun. An sexually mature adolescent with whom a teacher enters a consensual, but illegal, relationship. (I made this up… so proud)

Make up your own if you wanna.

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**Author:** ![Shalmanese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2004, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-net-based-notebook-of-nifty-neologisms/253144/2 "2004-07-02T02:20:03Z")

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> [@Askia](#):
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> “student hottie president” – noun. An sexually mature adolescent with whom a teacher enters a consensual, but illegal, relationship. (I made this up… so proud)
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> Make up your own if you wanna.

This one could just be shorted to “student ho”. Check the urbandictionary for all your slang word needs.

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**Author:** ![Dancer\_Flight](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dancer_flight/32/7601_2.png) [@Dancer\_Flight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dancer_Flight)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2004, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-net-based-notebook-of-nifty-neologisms/253144/3 "2004-07-02T16:36:00Z")

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At least three I’ve seen on other web sites:

Salmon Day - A day spent where you are fighting against the current only to get screwed and die at the end.

Seagull Manager - A higher up who flies in, squawks loudly, craps all over everything and then leaves.

Gophering - The rapid appearance of heads above cubicle partitions when someone makes a loud gaffe.

-DF

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**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2004, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-net-based-notebook-of-nifty-neologisms/253144/4 "2004-07-07T00:20:34Z")

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In response to a GQ thread, [Name for people sexually attracted to mentally retarded people,](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=265128) I suggested the following two words:

> [@](#):
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> **hypocognitophilia**  
> (roughly translated, hypo is “below” + cognit is “think” + philia is “love”)
> 
> Or possibly:
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> **paraparphilia**  
> (… para is “almost” and “par” means “equal”)
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> Try prefix variations using “sub”, “hemi”, or possibly “ex” instead.