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moistie

moistie  n.— «The vocabulary-building words and phrases I encountered were plater (slang for hard-on), moistie (what girls get downthere), and shebonics (the gum-snapping, wise-cracking language of girl).» —“My Breast...

plater

plater  n.— «The vocabulary-building words and phrases I encountered were plater (slang for hard-on), moistie (what girls get downthere), and shebonics (the gum-snapping, wise-cracking language of girl).» —“My Breast...

Globish

Globish  n.— «They don’t know it, but the Korean and the Colombian are speaking Globish, the latest addition to the 6,800 languages that are said to be spoken across the world. Not that its inventor, Jean-Paul Nerrière, considers it a...

Harvard death

Harvard death  n.— «To die “a Harvard death” (meaning the physicians have managed to normalize the laboratory test values but failed to help the patient).» —“Fracturing the Language of Biomedicine: The Speech Play of U. S...

dog whistle

dog whistle  n.— «The spot, which has no obvious reason to exist, is like a secret signal, a dog whistle blown on the thirtysomething frequency. Come back, MTV beckons, in a language it hasn’t spoken in years.» —“Has Mtv Sharpened Its...