Tagidiot

Out at the Elbows

While reading a translation of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel The Idiot (Bookshop|Amazon), a listener is puzzled by the sentence For the most part these omniscient gentlemen are out at elbow, and receive a salary of seventeen rubles a month. What...

chumbolone

chumbolone  n.— «“I gave him lip service,” Doyle said. “I didn’t know what he was talking about. I don’t wanna look like a chumbolone, an idiot, stupid,” Doyle said from the witness stand. There is a tasty Sicilian Easter...

smash cake

smash cake  n.— «What idiot ever came up with the idea of a “smash cake”?! Why buy an entire small cake for your baby to destroy?» —“NON day” by parkingmaid Stub (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) Feb...

nerd-bomb

nerd-bomb  n.— «Gooner—this wholly untelegenic nerd-bomb who hailed from planet Dateless and spoke a customized Midwestern patois that frequently required its own subtitles…lost and was booted from the island.» —“Idiot Box...

gronk

gronk  n.— «Today, anything that is cool is sik while a gronk is someone who might previously have been called an idiot.» —“Language grows as teens go sik” MX (Melbourne, Australia) July 2, 2002. (source: Double...