shy bowel n.— «Parcopresis is the phobia assigned to those who absolutely cannot do number two in a public restroom. This phobia is also termed as “shy bowel” because the sufferer, your date, must have a certain level of privacy before...
spit and acquit n.— «Defendants charged with low-level drug offenses under existing statutes can have their charges dismissed if they participate in drug treatment programs or undergo court supervision. But under the district attorney’s...
For true word nerds, it’s a guilty pleasure. You meet a stranger, and you find yourself listening closely to that person’s way of speaking as you try to guess the accent. Martha and Grant confess they play “Name That Accent”...
paruretic n.— «Bernie is a paruretic and right then, emotionally and physically, the symptoms were torturing him. We’re talking Bashful Bladder Syndrome. In formal terms, as described in the Lancet, Bernie suffers urinary hesitancy, or...
head-down adj.— «An in-depth corporate workplace survey showed that the main problems for those working in traditional eight- by nine-foot cubes was the lack of privacy and difficulty in doing heads-down work. For employees who had...
PattyMail n.— «If you’ve been following the HP privacy debacle at all, then you’d know that one of the techniques that investigators tried on CNET News.com’s Dawn Kawamoto (in order to figure out who her source inside HP was) was to send...