–fu suffix indicating mastery or expertise. Also foo. Editorial Note: Film critic Joe Bob Briggs, who tends to sprinkle the suffix throughout his reviews, is often credited with popularizing it. Etymological Note: Probably from kung fu, a...
—fu suffix— «The purpose is to make a button generator accessable from the web where users can create their sets of images. I do this with the Perl-Fu.» —“Hello!” by Hans Svensson (hans@ITcampus.org) Usenet:...
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suffix— «anyway, it’s shy on monsters and breasts, but great religon-fu.» —“Re: UFOria” by tomp@amiga.UUCP (Tom Pohorsky) Usenet: net.movies Mar. 14, 1986. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
anaspora n.— «A professor in Hawaii, however, had given it the old college try. He terms it “anaspora.” “The stem for ‘diaspora’ is speirein, meaning to scatter, and the prefix dia means apart. An antonym for ‘diaspora’...
shakhidka n.— «You won’t find it in any Russian dictionary, but a single word dominates newspaper headlines and conversations in the street after two weeks of bombings and mayhem: shakhidka, or female Islamist suicide bomber. A mix of the...
stagette n. an unmarried or unbetrothed woman; any woman or girl unaccompanied by a man, especially when socialiazing as part of a group of women or girls; (hence) especially in Canada, a pre-wedding party given for a bride; a bachelorette party...