chamcha n.— «Akbar has been called a chamcha (which means spoon in the Hindi language and has become a slang word for sycophant) to the Gandhi family, and some of that slavish devotion shows up in his uncritical acceptance of Nehru’s...
dogging n.— «Leander Kahney writes: “Giving new meaning to the term ‘flash mob’ the British have invented a new sex craze called ‘dogging’‚ that mixes sex, exhibitionism, mobs and the Internet.” While Kahney believes...
gedunk n.— «You possess one comic feature that is changing the habits of the nation. I refer to Harold Teen and his Gedunk sundae. I have two children, a boy and a girl, now of high school age, and I have spent many a painstaking hour...
trout pout n.— «I’m a celebrity and I want to get out, have your face altered, get a trout pout, be famous for doing nothing at all.» —“You’re all on probation, this is the British nation” by Jeremy...
386 generation n.— «Mr. Lee said in a speech to the Korean Businesswomen’s Federation that an insufficient understanding of economics by Koreans in their late 30s and early 40s—the “386 generation”—was limiting the nation’s...
Caribbeanism n.— «According to him, “Caribbeanism” was the application of Democratic Socialism across the region as a counter to the global spread of capitalism.» —“A New ‘ism’ In The Caribbean” by Albert...