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Shakespalin 

When Twitter users decided that Sarah Palin was not, as she implied, the equivalent to a modern-day Shakespeare, they dutifully gave this term to describe what she probably didn't intend to describe.

Being when you make a mistake, use a word that doesn't exist, then try to claim that English is a "living language" where making up words is all good. It's not, really. We already have lots of really good words. Refudiate isn't one of them.
"I think y'all misunderestimated my refudiation," would be Shakespalin to the max.
Shakespalin by Nashsibanda July 21, 2010
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Shakespalin 

The art of butchering the English language while at the same time comparing yourself to the Bard.

Coined when Sarah Palin defended her repeated use of the word "refutiated" by Twittering that English was a living language and that even Shakespere made up words!
What the heck kind of word is that? That's very Shakespalin of you!
Shakespalin by qiziq July 20, 2010
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Shakespearing 

Self-gratification in a noble manner. The act of nobly "playing" with your genitals, for sexual excitement/pleasure; usually to orgasm.
I started Shakespearing since when I was 12 (yeah, I'm sure you wanted to know that) since then I have Shakespeared at least once a day.
Shakespearing by Asty March 29, 2020

Shakespearing 

the verb that describes the act of someone, who is madly in love to the point where it becomes overly dramatic and obsessive, and they start talking like shakespeare would have
1: "Thou hast stolen my heart, you fair angel from the heavens!"
2: "woah calm down you're shakespearing
Shakespearing by Jmanfh November 18, 2013

Shakespearing 

Verb
tense, shakespeared, shakespearing, to shakespeare
1. To create a word

2. To make a verb from a noun.
My friend told me that I can't just make up words so I shakespeared shakespearing.
Shakespearing by TheAngryCelt September 7, 2014

bang a you-ee 

of Massachusetts orig. "to make a u-turn"
hey, we missed the bar, bang a you-ee
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The word 'flag' as pronounced by people with thick Belfast accents. The term is a perfect encapsulation of the disproportionate and overblown reaction to the removal of the Union Jack (as in 'de fleg') from above City Hall in Belfast. Where previously it had flown for 365 days per year, it is now flown on 17 designated days of the year - in line with many other British cities.

The event caused a portion of the Protestant community ('fleggers') to make international pricks of themselves as they proceeded to wreck the fucking place, claiming it was another erosion of a 'British' identity they perceive to have been under attack since the horrifying spectre of equality reared its head in Northern Ireland.

The word 'fleg' - and indeed 'fleggers' - fittingly describes a section of humanity unconcerned with knowledge, reality or the vagaries of the English language. Like America's tea-baggers they are ruled by instinct, fear and paranoia with a side dish of rampant bigotry and startling ignorance of the world around them.
"Wat de fuck like! The taigs got de fleg took down! Let's wreck de fuckin place! No surrender!"

"De fleg has been took down! Before ye know it there'll be a united Ireland! Attack Short Strand! God Save The Queen!"
Fleg by OnionFleg August 9, 2013
Word of the Day on July 18, 2026