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Regarding one's own behavior or oneself as "awesome" when in fact the behavior is misguided, or embarrassing, or one is really living a thinly-veiled life of mediocrity and fear.
The hipster was convinced that he was completely awesome, but those around him knew he was fauxsome, with no real ideas or action to back him up.
Fauxsome by SnarkGirl January 12, 2012
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Fauxdolences 

False condolences; condolences offered by one swept away by others offering condolences without truly knowing the tragedy; condolences offered in ridicule.
"My condolences on the loss of your cupcake"
"Shut up with your fauxdolences, you ate it!"

"Fauxdolences on your loss of the Peterman account. I understand you fell asleep during the meeting?"
"Yeah, I was up all night Kirlinbooking."
"Tough break, now I get a go at it."
Fauxdolences by ericasisland February 18, 2013
A person that acts like an asshole when around certain people but is really too nice to be one. A "fake asshole."
In front of people he doesn't know, Bob acts like an asshole but he's really just a fauxhole when it's just the two of us.
fauxhole by kmccabe73 January 9, 2008
When something is deemed terribly and irrefutably wrong or unbecoming.
Rog bragged to everyone about how he was going to jump out of the plane, but he pissed his pants and chickened out at the last minute. He was so fauxsome.
It is said of the situation where a person has the bad luck to make contact with his testicles against an undefined surface or object, intentioned or not.
Given the nature of the word, it is more appropriate to design cases where the interaction is made with a moving object, for example, a ball.
Although it is extremely painful for the victim, it tends to be considerably funny to people who witness it.
Today in the baseball game the pitcher took a nutshot; the baseball hit him in the nuts.

Man, I just watched the funniest nutshot video ever.
Nutshot by Uberflaven March 1, 2009
Word of the Day on June 26, 2026

Nerd neck 

A "human" that spends so much time playing video games that their posture is level nerd neck. Everytime anyone goes tryhard they hunch down and their neck gets longer there fore a nerd neck is always hunched down cause they're always going try hard. In other words a nerd neck is a try hard, since their neck is 100% longer than the average human being due to playing too many video games and taking them serious, nerd necks are not even considered human anymore but something more sad. Nerd necks are often found on fortnite, their natural habitat usually being tilted towers.
What a fucking nerd neck!

He is building so fast, nerd neck!

Looser more like a nerd neck ha!
Nerd neck by D Sandwich Maker February 5, 2019
Word of the Day on June 25, 2026