Societal

Societal (pronounced səˈsʌɪɪt(ə)l) is an adjective meaning of, or relating to society or social relations; of, or relating to the structure, organisation or functioning of society or, when applied outside of society as a whole, it can mean of, or pertaining to a large social group, such as a club, or to their activities and customs.

“I am really pissed off with these miserable fuckwit newscasters and their doom and gloom societal pronouncements.”

by AKACroatalin August 26, 2016

Namby-pamby

A namby-pamby (plural namby-pambies) is someone, usually a male, who is overly weak, sentimental or indecisive. It was a play on the name of Ambrose Philips, who wrote sickeningly sentimental poems for children. The nickname was devised by Henry Carey, a poet and songwriter, who wrote “God Save the Queen” and “My Country ‘tis of Thee”. It was popularized, however, by Alexander Pope in his satirical epic “The Dunciad”. It can also be used as an adjective meaning weak or spineless, lacking vigour or decisiveness, and overly sentimental.

The poet Ambrose Philips was the original Namby-Pamby.

by AKACroatalin June 09, 2015

Workplace Conflict

As the name suggests this is conflict within the workplace. These conflicts can be due to people with different personalities that just don’t get on well, or different opinions as to how the work should be done. Managers showing favouritism can cause or exacerbate workplace conflict as can the environment of the workplace itself or the hierarchical structure of the organisation.
Workplace conflict is pernicious and unpleasant and if there is no way that this conflict can be resolved you could be better off working for another organisation.

“Mark and Terry are butting heads over product development again.”
“No surprise there, this place is full of workplace conflict, I’m just glad I’m gone at the end of the month."

by AKACroatalin June 02, 2015

Clouts

This is quite old slang but still used occasionally in the South-West of England. It derives from cloths or clothes and refers to a woman’s knickers, drawers or panties. It is quite disparaging and is used to described undergarments of the baggy Bridget Jones type or things so foul, tattered and disgusting that they should be classified as a health hazard

Her clouts were so foul, they practically had a life of their own

by AKACroatalin March 21, 2019

Spite Monkey Attack

This is an action that usually takes place on Spite Monkey Sunday, some little prat decides that they can best get their self-aggrandising definition accepted by making multiple submissions. They then decide to try to improve their chances by voting against any other definition that has been submitted, a typical demonstration of the spite monkey mentality. The end result of their self-centred, immature nastiness is to effectively bring Urban Dictionary to a standstill.

What’s happening on Urban Dictionary, nothing’s moving? Must be a spite monkey attack.

by AKACroatalin August 10, 2016

Shivelights

Sharp rays of bright sunshine that pierce the canopy of a wood or forest. The word possibly owes part of its origin to shiv slang for a knife which in turn is derived from the Romany word chiv meaning a blade

Those shivelights are so bright they hurt my eyes

by AKACroatalin February 12, 2019

Sycophancy

Sycophancy is self-serving or servile flattery. It probably derives from the Latin sȳcophantia, meaning trickery, and consists of the fawning behaviour of useless two-faced self-seeking toe rag who attempts to win favour by flattering and pandering to the boss. A person who does this is known as a sycophant or more informally as ass-kisser, crawler, toady, lackey, apple polisher, boot licker, fawner, groveler, groveller, or truckler.

Sycophancy, that snotrag Malcolm wrote the book.

by AKACroatalin December 01, 2016