slurb
n.— «“Long Island developed, because of him, into this massive slurb,” Caro said. That resonant neologism is a combination of “suburb” and “slum.”» —“Caro Versus Moses: Exhibits Renew Debate Over Power-Mad Builder” by Jeremy Gerard Bloomberg.com Mar. 9, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
What’s a gongoozler? Today a gongoozler is anyone who just stands around watching things, but the term originated in the slang of British canal workers, who specifically applied it to onlookers inordinately interested in their work. A 1904 glossary...
Tom from Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, notices something odd while doing a tick check after a walk in the woods: Both tick and check can mean “a checkmark,” making the compound a kind of accidental synonym sandwich. The linguistic term for a word...