NYandwhat's definitions

travishamockery

Originally from a beer commercial, a travishamockery is a combination of a travesty, a sham and a mockery. In other words, something really, really unfair and unjust.

Many people thought the recount during the 2000 election in Florida was a travishamockery.

by NYandwhat December 21, 2004

metaphorgasm

What happens when someone overreacts, gushingly, to an overanalytical comment about literature.

The English teacher had a metaphorgasm when the student compared the clouds in the poem to femininity and the sun in the poem to masculinity.

by NYandwhat February 8, 2005