asplode v.— «Oh an I almost fergot that all my heirs fells outsa my hed when I asploded it cause I wuz standin too cloze ta it.» —“Re: What 222 was all about—a scenario” by Silent Bob Usenet: alt.dss.hack Mar. 8...
jazz hands n.pl.— «Pauline Gomez pantomimes encouragement. Her arms extend at her side, her fingers stretching for the ground in jazz hands.» —“No Yelling, No Cheering. Shhhhh! It’s Silent Saturday” by Robert Andrew...
fan service n.— «I think the movie was made for fan service and/or to investigate the potential market for bigger project.» —“Re: Silent Mobius” by tkim@sdcc6.ucsd.edu (Tonghyun Kim) Usenet: rec.arts.anime Nov...
bouma shape n.— «Nor have the palaeographers and codicologists ever noted one of the most important lexical consequences of the adoption of minuscule, as opposed to majuscule, as a book script is that it contributed, in conjunction with...
bouma shape n.— «Some have used the term bouma as a synonym for word shape, though I was unfamiliar with the term. The term bouma appears in Paul Saenger’s 1997 book Space Between Words: The Origins of Silent Reading. There I learned to...