pbmax's definitions

hiposterous

Having extraordinarily large hips. A combination of hips and preposterous.

Not to be confused with hippoposterous.

Kim Kardashian may have all kinds of implants, but she's naturally hiposterous.

by PBMax September 28, 2008

mockward

1) Making a situation more awkward by mocking how awkward it is. The situation need not be awkward in the first place.

Apparently coined by Washington Post columnist Monica Hesse.

2) Mocking someone in an awkward — and thereby probably unsuccessful — manner.

Apparently coined by then-Columbia Journalism Review assistant editor Megan Garber.

Someone asked to define the word "awkward" will often resort to describing the task as "awkward," which is just mockward. When someone does the same with "mockward," it's meta-mockward.

by PBMax May 11, 2008

Pathection

The purest, Plantonic manifestation of being pathetic.

Douglas achieved pathection by choosing to "Reply-All" because he didn't realize most of the recipients wouldn't care about him.

by PBMax April 17, 2008

memelitism

Disliking a meme because of other people liking it. This may be due to the quantity of others passing the idea along, or because the undesirable nature of the communities receiving it. A combination of "meme" and "elitist."

Sikander's memelitism kept him from reading danah boyd's blog once it was referenced in 'Newsweek.'

by PBMax January 5, 2009

Metattle

Someone who reveals that someone else has revealed something. From the Greek meta meaning "after" and the Middle English tattle meaning "tattle."

Vanity Fair metattled on W. Mark Felt's involvement in the Watergate scandal by outing him as "Deep Throat."

by PBMax November 4, 2007

finger footsie

An alternate description of holding hands which reinforces its intimate aspects. Used by individuals who are feeling smothered by their significant others.

Whenever Cyriac played finger footsie with Priya, she felt like an animal in steel trap that must gnaw its appendage off to escape.

by PBMax January 9, 2009

Sighness infection

A mood where you feel like sighing all the time. Usually the "infected" are unhappy, but may also be wistful or any other emotion which produces sighs. Not to be confused with clinical depression, which is more persistent but not necessarily more intense.

May also be called "sighnessitis."

Rubi contracts a sighness infection every time she thinks about how her sister Reema got into Harvard but she didn't.

by PBMax February 24, 2008