by mikroth December 22, 2008

opposite of sourpuss. When someone asks you what -- say -- your fierce new grade teacher is like, and neither 'sweetie' nor 'pussy-cat' quite fit the bill..
'My new grade teacher ? She comes across all disciplinarian -- but one-to-one she's a real sweetypuss..'
by mikroth December 30, 2008

the sort of contrived, crass 'new word' based on some strained word-play, that has sadly become the norm on the Urban Dictionary...
'OK, what's the latest feeble, tortured Urbanity to show up onscreen today? What happened to real gritty slang ? Why has this site become a teenage playground ?'
by mikroth August 14, 2009

Now most common in chatgroups -- previously observed at the village well, later the parish pump : a group enjoying a good old communal moan about anything and everything.
'I've given up that chatline -- it's now just a whingefest about everything that's wrong with urban life...'
'I left the dinner-party when it developed into a whingefest about the government...'
'That bitch is a one-woman whingefest -- it makes me tired just listening to her endless moans...
'I left the dinner-party when it developed into a whingefest about the government...'
'That bitch is a one-woman whingefest -- it makes me tired just listening to her endless moans...
by mikroth December 16, 2007

media term for those current TV shows where wannabees or one-star celebs hoping to raise their public profile are encouraged to compete, be humiliated, bullied, or patronised on camera...
Great symbiotic relationship -- the media get hours of cheap or unpaid labour; everyone gets their fifteen minutes of facial recognition; one or two win through to big bucks...
Great symbiotic relationship -- the media get hours of cheap or unpaid labour; everyone gets their fifteen minutes of facial recognition; one or two win through to big bucks...
'Jeez ! Yet another co-promo on TV... this time it's the Whiplash School of Cookery comp...but dammit, I love them all...it's so addictive...'
by mikroth February 06, 2009

Prof called my work 'desultory'... I had to do a quick googletrawl to find out whether that was a compliment or not ! Not !
by mikroth March 22, 2009

A proud acknowledgement of American ethnic diversity as exemplified in America's First Extended Family..
From this Inauguration Day, America can celebrate its multi-ethnic community in glorious Baracknicolor..
by mikroth January 21, 2009
