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The Grauniad is a nickname for the UK national newpaper, the Guardian, because of a now ill-founded reputation for typos. The name was given to it by the satirical magazine Private Eye. The Guardian newspaper earned its reputation for lots of misprints in the days of hot-metal printing when it was published in Manchester (it was originally called the Manchester Guardian), and the editions that appeared in London were very early editions brought down by train, before all the errors had been spotted.
Did you read that article in today's Grauniad?
grauniad by Kropotkin September 3, 2006
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The Guardian is a Manchester newspaper known for both its typos and dedication to Apple technology.
graunIad celebrates both their spelling mistakes and their tech news enthusiasm.

In order to meet their 5 a day apple quota you often get headlines such as "Will and Kate forget their iPad." and "Jamie Oliver's food is improved by the the iPad."
graunIad headline of the day "Japan discovers 'rare earth' minerals used for iPads"
graunIad by ArthursDaily July 6, 2011
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In the UK, there is a left-wing newspaper called The Guardian which is famed for it's abundance of typos and spelling mistakes which make it through the editing process. One time, they printed their own name as "The Grauniad" and since then it has stuck as an affectionate nickname.
John likes to read The Grauniad.
Grauniad by Paul April 26, 2004
The nickname for the UK Guardian. graunIad is so called for its subtle Apple advertising via the tech section.

With Steve Jobs having a reputation for fantastic fudge brownies it is rumoured that some staff have now passed a colossal 30 stone in weight.

The graunIad is such a collosal read that a cannon is now used to get print copy over the cupertino garden walls.
graunIad, graunIad, read all about cupertino.
graunIad by Microchops November 23, 2011
Nickname for a radical left-winged newspaper in the U.K called: 'The Guardian'. The nickname originates from the genius' behind the organisation spelling their domain name as www.grauniad.co.uk. (no joke), and also because of the notorious typos that went unedited and scattered throughout the paper.

The paper is considered by centrists and right of centre folk to be nothing but socialist propaganda in which any right of centre viewpoints are routinely censored by those in charge.
the bleeding heart liberal reads nothing but the Grauniad
Grauniad by Kool_Cat November 14, 2010
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