ElCommissioner 's definitions

quarantine fifteen

A more specific term relating to lockdown pounds, the weight gained by some who takes the shelter in place order as an excuse to eat.

I need to get busy. All I have to show for the virus is this quarantine fifteen.

by ElCommissioner April 14, 2020

lingodark

The confusing place many of us end up visiting several times a day, or the feeling that we get...when and where people say things that are meaningless to us. Our language changes on a dime these days, and being lingodark is the result.

"I gave my roommate props for cleaning the cat, and he said ,"Totes!". Right then, I felt lingodark.

by ElCommissioner March 14, 2020

coronaphoner

A coronaphoner is a very modern phenomenon triggered by the heinous virus. An interview by a journalist conducted from afar is termed a "phoner". An interview conducted from any distance, but now via cell phone to maintain social distance, is a coronaphoner.

I needed to interview the police chief, so we did a coronaphoner while I sat in the parking lot outside her office.

by ElCommissioner March 30, 2020

Sonomacana

A genre of popular music "indigenous" to Sonoma, California. Originally populated by Native Americans, there is no record of the music original to the area that remains. Sonomacana is the type of music one now hears there, a hybridization of many types and styles, from blues to rock and roll to folk to jazz. Nowhere is such a wide variety of genres kept alive as in Sonomacana.

"What kind of music to the band play?" "They are all over the place, truly Sonomacana."

by ElCommissioner November 4, 2018

Bunga

Charming nickname for Grandpa. Lovingly used by the best grandchildren in the Universe.

"It's Bunga's turn to sing," said 'Lil Rose.

by ElCommissioner April 23, 2022

wordsician

A wordsician is a person who occupies their time with the interesting, playful, and perhaps musical arrangement of words. Not a speechwriter, not a novelist, not a journalist...more of a poet for one's whole soul.

That dude we saw last night at the OverEasy Club...he was quite a wordsician; he had my mind spinning' and dancin', all at the same time.

by ElCommissioner January 1, 2018

fairy loop

The small loop of fabric on the back of a man's dress shirt is called a fairy loop. Created in the 1960's as a way to hang the shirt from a hook without creating wrinkles, its official name is locker loop. It is unclear how the term fairy loop came into use.

"Thanks, but no. I do not need a hanger, I will use the fairy loop to hang my shirt."

by ElCommissioner April 14, 2021