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ginger alement

Any common sickness for which the household 'cure' is ginger ale is known as a ginger alement.
After a few hours of the heaves I have finally graduated to a ginger alement, since I can now keep down liquids.
by Neologian-PJG March 4, 2013
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ancestree

Instead of clumsily talking about one's 'ancestry' and again about one's 'family tree,' we can instead speak with more precision about one's ancestree.
That blue blood family was a little too 'close' (ahem) with sometimes not enough branching out in their ancestree, if you know what I mean.

Everyone wants to find someone famous in their ancestree.
by Neologian-PJG March 31, 2013
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coingratulations

Monetary compensation combined with verbal (written or spoken) praise for a job well done.
When Maria exceeded her monthly work goals, her boss generously compensated her with her due coingratulations.
by Neologian-PJG September 27, 2011
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interbecoming (inter-becoming)

(noun, adjective) The vast, interrelated dynamism of coming to be, or mutual becoming, which characterizes reality as it is. Everything has a definite (though always new), emerging, evolving, and changing relationship with every other thing in the entire cosmos. This is a technical term that describes the interdependent co-arising of all phenomena, or in the words of the Buddha: 'When this exists, that comes to be, with the arising of this, that arises.
When this does not exist, that does not come to be, with the cessation of this, that ceases.'

There is no such thing as anything that is disconnected from everything else, and there is no such thing in the universe (including the universe!) that is the same in two consecutive moments. If being (or interbeing) means anything, it means that we mutually become, we interbecome. (NOTE: Interbecoming is a replacement word for Thich Nhat Hanh's interbeing because the latter, containing the root word 'being.' implies too static an understanding of reality.)
When we abandon false notions that we are separate and permanent individuals and come to understand that we are all interrelated with all other beings, we begin to understand the meaning of interbecoming (inter-becoming).

The interbecoming (inter-becoming) of my person is inexorably intertwined with the interbecoming of your person-- and the interbecoming of both of us is only possible because we participate in the vast interbecoming of the entire cosmos..

Interbecoming (inter-becoming) is the ineradicable nature of all that is; all that is has an interbecoming (inter-becoming) nature.
by Neologian-PJG November 2, 2011
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techfast

Fasting from technology, digital platforms, video conferencing, screen time , social media , streaming, television, computer and smartphone addictions.

Going technology-free in an effort to slow down, reconnect in real life IRL , nourish an analog life, experience nature, and cleanse from the digital chaos of social media .

Techfast is like nourishment for the spirit.
Timmy spends every summer in techfast, so you'll have to write him a letter on paper and post it via snail mail .

If I don't get my techfast, I start to feel overwhelmed by the demands of digital life.
by Neologian-PJG July 2, 2021
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coingratulate

To compensate monetarily, combined with verbal (written or spoken) praise for a job well done.
At the board meeting, the President made an effort to coingratulate Andrew, who well-deserved every bit of coingratulations.
by Neologian-PJG September 27, 2011
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frosy

(pronounced: fro'-zee)

When one's cheeks are red or pinkish from being out in the freezing cold, they are frosy.

Important Note: When one's cheeks are red or pinkish from other causes besides the freezing cold (physical exertion, embarrassment, youth, etc.), they cannot be said to be 'frosy' but merely rosy.
Oh, it must be very cold outside: your cheeks are nice and frosy!

Watching the game out in the cold made my cheeks all frosy.
by Neologian-PJG October 7, 2012
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