buggy's definitions
An act of manipulative or false-emotion put on in order to achieve the desired reaction from others, usually sympathy.
Unlike its near-opposite, a kneejerk, which is a re-action to an action, the tearjerk is an initiated action in itself.
Unlike its near-opposite, a kneejerk, which is a re-action to an action, the tearjerk is an initiated action in itself.
Hitlary sure put on that tearjerk act for the New Hampshire Primary Elections, just when everyone said she was seen as lacking emotion.
by buggy January 9, 2009
Get the tearjerkmug. The kind of anxiety usually expressed by the physical or mental desire to jump up and down, screaming and banging hands on chest or head on walls.
Pre-dates the shortened but now more common variant "apeshit."
Pre-dates the shortened but now more common variant "apeshit."
My roommate just deposited my mail at the bank and dropped my bank-deposit in the post-office box, for the third time! I'm going apeshit-crazy!
by Buggy July 3, 2006
Get the apeshit-crazymug. Text (book, webpage or other) written in a font which is so small that it is visible only to those with good eyesight. Those whose age is over forty increasingly lose their close-up vision as they age (known as hyperopia), because their eye-focus gradually becomes more fixed-focus rather than adaptable-focus.
Well, this webpage certainly loves using under-forty-font!
The ingredients on this candy bar are impossible to read in their under-forty-font.
The ingredients on this candy bar are impossible to read in their under-forty-font.
by buggy October 24, 2005
Get the under-forty-fontmug. "The use of one's gender as a weapon or as an escape against another."
Generally, gender-rape implies some sort of allegation of sexual impropriety or sexual prejudice on the part of the accused, when in fact the accused is generally innocent. Therefore, gender-rape is a means of sexual prejudice, more frequently used by females against males, but not always so. Akin to reverse-sexual-discrimination but on a more passive-aggressive level, usually with ulterior motive.
Used as early as the mid 1980's by Robert W. Schellhaas, Phd MDiv
Generally, gender-rape implies some sort of allegation of sexual impropriety or sexual prejudice on the part of the accused, when in fact the accused is generally innocent. Therefore, gender-rape is a means of sexual prejudice, more frequently used by females against males, but not always so. Akin to reverse-sexual-discrimination but on a more passive-aggressive level, usually with ulterior motive.
Used as early as the mid 1980's by Robert W. Schellhaas, Phd MDiv
1) A woman wishes to shun a male who is showing appropriate attention to her. She fabricates an allegation of impropriety against him as a means of ridding herself of his presence.
2) An effeminate gay male or a male-transgendered falsely accuses a heterosexual male of prejudice, based upon the former's more female-gender identity-- generally either in a passive-aggressive parlay of getting-even, or in a power-play.
2) An effeminate gay male or a male-transgendered falsely accuses a heterosexual male of prejudice, based upon the former's more female-gender identity-- generally either in a passive-aggressive parlay of getting-even, or in a power-play.
by Buggy March 6, 2005
Get the gender-rapemug. I can't breathe in this carcoughagus, let me out!
by buggy September 28, 2006
Get the carcoughagusmug. When someone refuses to say anything in an audio or video recording, out of fear of being incriminated when the material invariably ends up on the internet. A variation on the US Fifth Amendment regarding self-incrimination.
Hey I'm not saying anything to you while you're taking that movie because I know it's gonna end up on the internet-- pleading Internet Fifth!
by Buggy December 9, 2008
Get the internet fifthmug. The kind of virus (or flu) where you don't know which direction to face the toilet, next. Also known as the lid-flipper-virus.
{blahhhhhhhh!!!!}
{sppfffhhhhhlllllltttttt!!!!!}
{blaaaaahhhhhhhhhh blahhhhhh!}
He'll survive, he's just got the 180-virus, tossin' and turnin' and doing the lid-flippin' on the old porcelain.
{sppfffhhhhhlllllltttttt!!!!!}
{blaaaaahhhhhhhhhh blahhhhhh!}
He'll survive, he's just got the 180-virus, tossin' and turnin' and doing the lid-flippin' on the old porcelain.
by buggy January 4, 2008
Get the 180-virusmug.