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w00t is 3rd Favorite Non-Dictionary Word
Jay writes "The word has been getting out apparently. No longer just a word for gamers, 'woot' now appears as #3 in Merriam-Webster's What's Your Favorite Word (That's Not in the Dictionary)? contest. It was beaten out by ginormous and confuzzled."
All of those words in the list look perfectly cromulent to me.
Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
W00t!!!!
"why don't you just slip into something more comfortable...like a coma!"
smeprini
if you want people to think you know what you are talking about, just put ".com" at the end of everything you say.com
I've heard w00t of course, and ginormous, but where are people using the term "confuzzled"?
Well, like with white people speaking ebonicizzle, it's time for us geeks to get a new set of words.
I mean, when your sister who can't do much more that AIM with her computer says w00t, its been "played out" too much.
What do you suggest instead of w00t?
I'm confuzled as to how w00t didn't get first place. I don't see any of the other words -- combined -- as often as w00t, at least when I'm chillaxing with my friends. I think they mad a ginormous mistake.
What happened to "u", "r", "y", etc.?
n00b should too!
Obviously these words haven't been included in the mainline dictionary, but its an increasing trend for modern slang and shortened terms to enter the dictionary. Whether such words should be included in dictionaries, which are important reference works is subjective, but I feel there is a danger that as more words that are subject to current conditions are added, dictionaries will have to become more dynamic and possibly lead to faster evolution of the language.
Business Voyeur
is "rediculous".
Or at least one of the most commonly misspelled.
BTW I was just judged "non-human" even though I typed in the correct letters, has this happened to anyone else?
"Is this just useless, or is it expensive as well?"
Woot, While I was chillaxing with my peeps, avoiding eating the snirt. We were phoncrastinating until my buddy John called. So I pwned him by hanging up after discussing the fact that i'm so confuzzled about the ginormous lack of english comprehension!
Fugly, (Fuh-glee): adj The inherant nature of someone to be F*cking Ugly. Usage, generally at bars, after a few drinks, but before the beer-goggles kick in.
My other favorite is Gigantor, that being a person (there was someone in particular) who s so huge that they have developed a Godzilla like reputation, and the ablity to block sunlight. Or in the case of this person break concrete steps while walking up them.
Like arts? Like cheesy little Indie mags? Check out www.artwerkmag.com, and don't laugh at the bad coding please.
I use w00t way more then I use ginormous or confuzzled. In fact, I think that both of those other words are dumbpendous.
Look out honey cause I'm usin' technology
Ain't got time to make no apologies
I am so confuzzled that w00t has such a ginormous following.
... but I'm sticking with ginormous.
Toxic Sludge is good for you
I am feeling bitter today
or stile?
as in "That chick's ass is so stile!"
I was hearing confuzzled way back in 1995. Isn't there anything new ? :)
It is pretty sad when the dictionary people don't know the real meaning of a word. They say in their introduction that it is merely to fit into a small space. That is not squinching. Dag nabbit. Also, the definition of w00t mis-spells the word, and gives no explanation. It is subtler than what they claim. more useful, and intriguing.
(Duke, Marty, and Jay are playing scrabble)
Duke - Kwizibyck.
Marty - That's not a word.
Duke - Get Webster on the phone. Noah, how ya doing? It's Duke. How much would it cost to make kwizibyck a word? I don't know what it means. Uhh, how about a big problem? Great. How 'bout that other word I invented, Dukelicious? No one's using it? What a Duketastrophy!
I remember when l33t sp34k was underground. Damn you Webster.
Insert witty Slashdot sig here.
Dictionaries are supposed to be descriptive and not proscriptive, so if these words are used so much, why are they NOT in the dictionary? A recent example of this would be the alternate pronounciaton of nuclear as "nookyoulure." Stupid as hell, yes, but it's in the dictionary.
Quid festinatio swallonis est aetherfuga inonusti?
Africus aut Europaeus?
"pwnt", "noob", "frood", and "haxor"?
Why is it that when you believe something it's an opinion, but when I believe something it's a manifesto?
I think it was helped by my near heroic input of whisky tonight , somehow when i reduce my IQ via Whisky i seem to have a supernatural understanding of 1337 sp3ak. ;) i think i just found of a corelation
The only things certain in war are Propaganda and Death. You can never be sure which is which though
Famous Last Words: "hmm...wikipedia says it's edible"
a word that has been used by me and my friends for years. If there is alot more of something than there should be
"Drive Fast Kill Slow"
I made my funny little comments in here. But what honestly frightens about all this woot, confuzzled, OMGWTFR2D2BBQ, LOL crap is that it's come to the point where I find myself actually saying this crap in real life talking to people.
Especially the word "woot". "LOL" being the scariest one I use in real life sometimes in place of actually... oh I dunno... *gasp* laughing!
It's all very confuzzling.
"why don't you just slip into something more comfortable...like a coma!"
...automagically?
Circumcision is child abuse.
noob beats woot anyday of the week
...is the number of slashdot users who make spelling errors trying to use the fake words in an attempt at a humorous sentence.
The non-dictionary word of the moment in the UK is Chav - or at least it isn't in the Oxford Dictionary yet, although it might be tomorrow.
OMG t3h r0xx0r!
Many Bothans died to bring you this sig.
Bush'd
They missed a great chance with ginormous. I think this is much better:
gynormous (adj): Carting around a whole lot of junk in the trunk while female. An extra helping of woman.
"Yeah, she's cute, but the chick she's with is gynormous!"
Looking for a Rails developer in Chapel Hill?
Slashdotted is definitely my least favorite verb. Who would ever want such a horrendous thing occur to them :o
w00t!111111111one!!!oneEXCLIMATION MARK!1111
(not redundant)
"Ginormous?" "ESPN-onage"?
Rich Hall must be rolling in his grave right now. That is, if he's dead.
If not, surely his career is rolling in its grave...
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This is my SIG. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
Poor pwn. Nobody loves pwn. It is the finest verb that ever verbed a verb.
... where that word came from (and what it means)?
Frabernackle
Which basically means beyond bullshit.
"Did you see the frabernackle the MPAA is trying to pull with this broadcast flag proposal?"
Then again, me and my friends say a lot of dumb things.
"Plans are for fools! Oglethorpe, the plutonian (Aqua Teen Hunger Force)
Teh word "teh" is prolly teh most favorate misspelled non-word here becuase it;s used more often than any others. LMAO, w00r!
I think this is a good time to point out how irrational some grammar nazis are, particularly the ones who always find it necessary to correct people when they "misuse" the word irony. When someone says a word and everyone understands what they're saying, guess what? That's what the word means. It's only a problem when the misuse of a word results in confusion, but if a particular incorrect use of a word is so common that everyone understands it, it's now a correct use of the word. That's the way language works.
unpossible
"all i wanted was a pepsi..."
Ginormous is a word: lookie
My UID is prime and so is this number: 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0.
Who the smeg says confuzzled???
3. woot (interj): an exclamation of joy or excitement
If I'm not mistaken woot is the abbrivation for We Own the Other Team, and was introduced with multiplayer games.
I think we can keep recursing like this until someone returns 1
The word "woot" (also; "w00t") has been said to be an acronym, not just a word, meaning:
We Own the Other Team
- Agilo
(Just visualise it: all the packets on both Internets all come together to chant "Speech! Speech! Speech!". Aaahhh.)
I'd like to thank all the people who helped me get where I am today, all the script kiddies, my coworkers, O'Reilly & Associates, Linus Torvolds for making Linux, Bill Gates for making Windows, and all the really smart people out there at MIT for making X11.
We've come along way from Athena widgets, nobody in their right mind uses Motif anymore, and everything is a beautiful drab KDE and Gnome gray. We've had SCO try to poison our spirits, but that which does not kill you only makes you stronger.
Way to go folks. You've done well. (note to mods: this is funny, look at my uid)
da w00t. mtfnpy?
It's my favourite word, at least...
That's a Duketastrophy!
BytesTemplar.com
Sinevaseusariasky
sgis ddo ekil t'nod i
Über? or Überw00t!?
"phonecrastinate"
You've got to be fucking kidding me. This is the first time I've ever seen that.
I rarely criticize things I don't care about.
I would say 'conversate' seems to be the most popular non-word. Maybe it doesn't count because it's just an incorrect conjugation.
Really, I'm not trying to be clever with my signature.
I ended up making a small post with this quote as well (huge fan of the show), but I figured someone else would have before me.
;)
So I did the polite thing and searched the thread for the start of the quote...but I spelled it with a 'Q'. Quizibuck. Naturally I didn't see this post. It hadn't even occured to me that it could be spelled that way...
Next time, I'll use 'Duketastrophy' to search.
BytesTemplar.com
Never heard confuzzled, confoxed, yes.
Oh well, what the hell...
They are a dictionary and they can't even spell w00t - sad, really sad.
Oh well, what the hell...
... Strategory
Prof. Farnsworth - "Oh a lesson in not changing history from Mr I'm-My-Own-Grandpa!"
I exclaim that whenever I win a big poker hand.
LK
"Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/children/ kidtalk.mspx
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A parent's primer to computer slang
Other common leet words:
"w00t" or the smiley character \o/: An acronym that usually means "We Own the Other Team," used to celebrate victory in a video game.
The latest Slashdot meme.
Surely its unpatriotic not to include it? ;)
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating
is in the dictionary (subscription required)
Interphrastically, Sausage.... Sssaauuusage!
http://www.ziplink.net/~wood/funny/snigglets.html
Snigglets (words that should be in the dictionary but aren't) were invented by comedian Rich Hall. I believe he came up with the idea on the ABC comedy show Fridays (a sort of copycat SNL), then wrote a couple of books on the subject.
I like the term he came up with for people who use the express lane at the supermarket, while carrying one or more items above the limit - expressholes.
Lil' Thindime, lilting a lacrimose lament, krashes the kwaint konfines of Kokonino Kounty
My nominations
- prolly
- lesbohemian
- saxamaphone
- frinked (like macgyvered but better)
- spombed (massive amounts of email from the same person in a relatively short period)
R(k)
Google says...
1. woot 618,000
2. ginormous 93,100 Did you mean: enormous
3. confuzzled 65,400
4. chillax 24,500
5. snirt 7,900
6. lingweenie 7,790
7. gription 4,410
8. slickery 772
9. "cognitive displaysia" 254
10. phonecrastinate 221
Define...
Definitions of woot on the Web:
# The term w00t is a slang interjection used to express happiness or excitement, usually over the Internet. The expression is most popular on USENET posts, multiplayer computer games (especially first person shooters), IRC chats, and instant messages, though use on the World Wide Web in the form of weblogs or in forums is by no means uncommon.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woot
No definitions were found for confuzzled, cognitive displaysia, chillax, snirt, lingweenie, gription, slickery or phonecrastinate.
Of course, i doubt being the 1st or the only one that used it, but at least when the idea come to me i hadnt read before that word.
Not Necessarily the News!!! It's been over a decade since I forgot that I'd forgotten that show! Fridays is probably tattooed on my mind because of the Andy Kaufmann guest appearances, plus the fact that Rich Hall was also a member of the regular cast.
Thanks for clearing that up.
Lil' Thindime, lilting a lacrimose lament, krashes the kwaint konfines of Kokonino Kounty
Am I the only person that thinks of "enormous vagina" when I hear the word "ginormous?"
I know better, but still it makes me cringe.
*sighs*
Sorry n00b t00b, looks like you're not gonna win this year, either.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
as coined by 'W' (in SNL skits) - strategery is how we're going to win the War on Terror...
or something like that
Sapere Aude - Homer
OSGGFG - Open Source Gamers Guide to Free Games
Maybe because "Über" _is_ a word. It's german for "over" (as in overlord :-D)
slashdotted?
-truth
I had a steady B+ in my AI class until I failed the Turing test...
What happens when you hit the send button before you're done typing the email.
I hear it happens to lots of guys.
'In knowledge is power, in wisdom humility.'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glurge
The word is used mostly in a derogatory sense to describe a certain kind of feel-good story. The defining characteristic of glurge is that, while its purpose is to make the reader happy, the feel-good aspect is so overdone that it is more likely to nauseate rather than to inspire. Glurge often has a religious theme and is most commonly circulated via e-mail in the form of a chain letter.
Home come "being slashdotted" or something similar isn't there....here's the "dictionary" suggestions. Suggestions for slashdotted: 1. slaughtered 2. cell-mediated 3. slow-witted 4. Chalcedon 5. selected 6. Colchester 7. shell-shocked 8. solicited 9. sanctioned 10. selector
There are a number of sites I check daily, some are 'deal sites' such as SlickDeals..., but one of the more interesting has to be w00t !
They have a new deal every day (except weekends), once they run out, that's it ! Don't miss their famous "Bag 'o Crap" specials, and always read the details and the photo (they have some of the most entertaining descriptions evar), and keep and eye out for bravewoman.
I actually bought and actively use the RoboMower RL850 I saw there one day (love it, by the way).
"Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech."--Benjamin Franklin
(Image)
Friendly Robotics Robomower RL500
The Rise of the Machines (into Landscaping Professions)
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Herald of the Terminators, the Robomower RL500 crawls over your lawn like a worker ant, paring back the living grass, making our world more suitable for the robot masters that will ultimately enslave us.
Yard by verdant yard, that which was once free, organic and wild is brought to heel under the RL500's durable, rust-free mowing deck. After your formerly luxuriant lawn is tamed, how long will it be before the Robomower turns its quintuple horsepower equivalent cutting system on you?
(If the Robmower RL500 rises up against you or any member of your puny human community in less than 90 days, subdue it and return it--it's still under warranty.)
"Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech."--Benjamin Franklin
"Charp" noun. The green chip at the bottom of every bag of potatoe chips that no one will eat.
My favourite, or maybe most irksome, word of non-English commonly used is 'deplane' as in 'We expect you will be able to deplane on schedule at LAX'. Funny, I don't recall enplaning in Sydney, or maybe I just planed? What airline bureaucrat came up with that bit of doggerel I wonder.
An Irish word, probably not in common use elswere, but one I like to use at work at lot is 'eejit', as in 'What a great eejit that [person who did something stupid] is'. There are four grades of eejits - eejit, great eejit, fecking eejit and fecking great eejit, as in 'Feck off, you fecking great eejit'. One can only say the English language is enriched by this gem of a contribution from our Feanian cousins.
Back in my early internet days (mid 90s), I used to hang out in Undernet (IRC). Our little hacker community used various 1337 speak and we made up alot on the spot too, always trying to out do each other.
We had our various kiddie words we used to amuse ourselves, such as unf, shnee, woop and jizm.
We used to say woop alot, one day someone decided to say woot, I don't know if they read it elsewhere or made it up on the spot, but it caught on.
I always figured it was derived from "woop", but I guess we'll never know (not like it really matters anyway)
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Step with the times, blackguard.
Your mouth is like Columbus Day.
And I've got nothing against w00t. But ginormous is a bit funnier IMO.
From the article:
slickery (adj): having a surface that is wet and icy
So in other words, slickery means the same thing as slick? Yeah, that's a useful word. Right up there with confuzled on the list of neologisms don't actually add anything to the language.
Mangling an existing word and then claiming that it means the same thing as the old word is just dumb when there are so many useful concepts out there for which words don't exist and so many interesting sounds that aren't already incorporated into words. Come on, pop-culture, you can do better!
Woot isn't all that interesting either, come to think of it, but at least it's new.
Now foo, on the other hand, is a neologism with some real substance.
I have not heard of "ginormous" and "confuzzled" terms before.
Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
What about "schtooped" or "fricking?" Those asshats really borked that one. How pathetisad.
One of the higher ranking words, just under woot, is Chillax.
I have NEVER heard of this before...it sounds like "chill lax" or a chilled laxative...
Does anyone know anyone who uses this word?
From Blackadder Hall:
Dr. Johnson:
This book, sir, contains every word in our beloved language.
Edmund:
Every word, sir?
Dr. Johnson:
Every word, sir.
Edmund:
Well, in that case, sir, I hope you will not object if I also offer the doctor my most enthusiastic contrafibularities.
Dr. Johnson:
What??
Edmund:
Contrafibularities, sir. It is a common word down our way.
Dr. Johnson:
Damn!
Edmund:
Oh, I'm sorry, sir. I'm anaspeptic, frasmotic, even compunctuous to have caused you such pericumbobulation.
Edmund:
Of course, sir. I shall return...interfrastically.
If my call is important, why am I talking to a recording?
How is this beating "embiggen" and "cromulent" ?
"The crows seemed to be calling his name, thought Caw."
It's derived from newbie but it's a different word with different connotations.
Newbies ask for help. N00bs demand it. Very different thing. :)
Anyone typing "woot!" after fragging someone in a FPS would immediately be flagged as a n00b! It's spelt w00t weather or not you work for a dictionary publisher or not.
PS. Where is n00b? It's at least as common as w00t.
Sindri Traustason.
1. ginormous is from gigantic and enormous
2. confuzzled from confused and puzzled.
4. chillax from chill out and relax
6. gription from grip and friction
7. phonecrastinate from phone and procrastinate.
8. slickery from slick and slippery
9. snirt from snow and dirt
10. lingweenie from linguist and weenie
For several of these, Nos. 1, 2, 4, 6, and 8, the meaning remains close to meaning of the original component words, as these already are synonyms of each other and the resulting portmanteau word. Nos. 7, 9, and 10 produce special cases of one of the words. Furthermore, except for number 9, which may provide a useful description of an unpleasant condition, most of these would likely be considered insufferable cute-ish and contrived by anyone overexposed to them.
The "5. cognitive displaysia" seems to be derived from some kind of medical technical term, to make it seem more serious than it is. It still seems to be a nerdy way of saying that I'm bothered by forgetting which stuff I might have forgot before I leave, or something... Perhaps the more succinct term isn't such a waste after all.
This leaves me with the conclusion that the word "woot" is the best of the lot, as it is the more rare, non-portmanteau new-word, that also actually has a distinct meaning.
SIGBUS @ NO-07.308
Sprog: child, kid, nipper, tiddler, youngster, tike, tyke, shaver, small fry, nestling, fry.... How else could we then use the wonderful phrase "dropping sprogs"?
Furthermore, the absence of the red dwarf term smeg clearly shows which side of the atlantic the survey was compiled (or that its been sanitised....)
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I even use "grok" in my corporate correspondence... with select recipients. But really, it's a word that most people understand by now, and use rather frequently.
Was it maybe added to some "official" dicgtionary while I wasn't watching?
Sigged!
I assume it means 'idiot', in that broad southern Irish accent. I picked up both words from the 'Father Ted' series. Fr Dougal says "Ah, what a great eejit I am Ted."
On one of the first seasons of the show, Conan and Andy wanted to be able to curse without being censored, so they made up "crunk" as a vulgar exclamation, too vile to present an official definition. I don't know exactly how long they used it (sample usage: "That's a bunch of crunk!") but it certainly preceded the hip-hop use.
Si la vida me da palo, yo la voy a soportar Si la vida me da palo, yo la voy a espabilar
Anyone who still fails to understand should read the Megatokyo online strip. Preferably give yourself a night and a day with beer, start at the beginning and read to the end. You can also buy most as a book I believe! This will teach you w00t!, teh, j00 and other 133tsp34k and relieve you of all stress and extraneous heartbeats. Oh, and feh is Yiddish.
Dr. Johnson: (places two manuscripts on the table, but picks up the top one) Here it is, sir: the very cornerstone of English scholarship. This book, sir, contains every word in our beloved language.
Prince George: Hmm.
Edmund: Every single one, sir?
Dr. Johnson: (confidently) Every single word, sir!
Edmund: (to Prince) Oh, well, in that case, sir, I hope you will not object if I also offer the Doctor my most enthusiastic contrafribularities. (or maybe `contrafribblarities', coming from the word `fribble'. A closed-caption decoder would help here.)
Dr. Johnson: What? Edmund: `Contrafribularites', sir? It is a common word down our way...
Dr. Johnson: Damn! (writes in the book)
Edmund: Oh, I'm sorry, sir. I'm anispeptic, frasmotic, even compunctuous to have caused you such pericombobulation.
Dr. Johnson: What? What? WHAT?
Prince George: What are you on about, Blackadder? This is all beginning to sound a bit like dago talk to me.
Edmund: I'm sorry, sir. I merely wished to congratulate the Doctor on not having left out a single word. (J sneers) Shall I fetch the tea, Your Highness?
Prince George: Yes, yes! And get that damned fire up here, will you?
Edmund: Certainly, sir. I shall return interfrastically. (exits) (J writes some more)
Don't Tell Me What I Can't Do!
Some of these words seem to hint strongly at a post on a very popular messageboard reading along the lines of:
Hey Merriam-Webster have got this 'What's your favourite non-dictionary word' thing. Lets all submit 'cognitive displaysia' and see if we can get it in.
Maybe its just me.
Mention the Lord of the Rings one more time and I'll more than likely kill you.
"n00b"? "noob"? "newb"? "newbie"? no wonder the top non-dictionary word isn't on the list
goan
IIRC, |2 represents R, as opposed to 12.
-gjr
I agree, i've always heard it pronounced "con-FUZE-led." I first started hearing it amongst my friends in college about eight or ten years ago, i hadn't realized it was that popular though.
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