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...
tranzman n.— «David (whose name has been changed to protect his identity) is a female-to-male transsexual (or tranzman, as they’re called) who very much identifies with a strict sense of male gender.» —“More transsexuals speaking out...
potato queen n.— «Merely from my circle of friends, I reckon that about one in five, or one in ten English-speaking Singaporeans are sexually attracted to Caucasians. They are, in our parlance, “potato-queens.”» —“Rice...
vuzvuz n.— «Speaking of pejoratives, have you heard the term “vuzvuz” applied to Ashkenazim? Apparently derived from the frequent use of “vus? vus?” in Yiddish. I am not sure that there is any real insult attached...
chamcha n.— «Speaking in Urdu, the language of South-Asian Muslims, local Muslims who opposed the posse had taken to calling its members chumcha, or “spoons,” a cultural concept akin to being a lackey. For an American Muslim...
Hurban n. a commercial radio programming format made of music intended to be popular with Black and Spanish-speaking city-dwellers. Editorial Note: The format usually emphasizes reggaeton, dancehall, and English- and Spanish-language hip-hop, but...