When two words are blended together to create one word, using only a portion of each word.
Examples:
(Internet)=Interconnected + Network
(Brunch)= Breakfast + Lunch
(Moped)= Motor + Pedal
(Bash)= Bang + Smash
Examples:
(Internet)=Interconnected + Network
(Brunch)= Breakfast + Lunch
(Moped)= Motor + Pedal
(Bash)= Bang + Smash
by Olive989 March 27, 2023
Get the Portmanteaus mug.Someone who pretends to be something other than what they are, while hiding a nefarious agenda.
Note (1.) A snake in the grass doesn't have to be sadistic, but they have to be self-serving enough, they don't care who they hurt in the process of achieving what they want.
Note (2.) The term "snake in the grass" has been around a long time. Long before people had lawnmowers, or constantly trimmed their lawns like a military buzz cut. So the grass metaphor used to be more obvious. When the average person's lawn used to grow past their ankles..snakes were rarely visible.
Note (1.) A snake in the grass doesn't have to be sadistic, but they have to be self-serving enough, they don't care who they hurt in the process of achieving what they want.
Note (2.) The term "snake in the grass" has been around a long time. Long before people had lawnmowers, or constantly trimmed their lawns like a military buzz cut. So the grass metaphor used to be more obvious. When the average person's lawn used to grow past their ankles..snakes were rarely visible.
If you want to describe a cold blooded human with hidden intentions, "snake in the grass" isn't a bad choice.
by Olive989 March 23, 2023
Get the Snake in the grass mug.The absence of something (some detail, signal, or anomaly) which highlights an answer to a problem or question.
Doctors used to believe all disease manifested as something foreign/outside the body attacking it. In the case of Scurvy, a lot of doctors got tunnel vision looking for a positive cue. (Some Germ or pathogen present that would explain the condition.) But none was to be found. It wasn't until biochemist Fredrick Gowland Hopkins considered what was absent (a lack of vitamin C) that the true cause of scurvy was discovered. This absence was a negative cue.
by Olive989 October 25, 2023
Get the Negative Cue mug.A dark horse. An onion that won't make you cry. A walking contradiction in all the best ways. Shy around new people, but has a presence whenever walking into a room. She has a wonderful child like playfulness and sincerity, in spite of surviving terrible things. Incredibly creative and gifted in a variety of arts, but also able to approach subjects with the methodical objectivity of a scientist. Finds the prospect of asking out a cute guy absolutely terrifying, but can keep calm and go into "save the day" mode in life or death situations.
A Christiana is someone you want on your side when shit hits the fan.
Some people talk a big game. Christianas don't talk at all. Seeing what they do, is like watching a fictional trope of the quiet genius or secret badass, come to life. Certain things come so intuitively for them....it's like they're not even aware of what they're capable of.
Some people talk a big game. Christianas don't talk at all. Seeing what they do, is like watching a fictional trope of the quiet genius or secret badass, come to life. Certain things come so intuitively for them....it's like they're not even aware of what they're capable of.
by Olive989 March 01, 2023
Get the Christiana mug.(1.) When someone tries to hold a contest on whose had it worse, as if suffering was a cereal box with a prize at the bottom.. And not in fact, a depressing reality with no winners.
(2.) Employing mental gymnastics to try and cement the message that your suffering is the only suffering that counts.
A suffering olympics can be held in either a one on one scenario (where the person directly compares their own suffering)...Or it could be a context where the person compares first world to third world problems, and individual vs. Systemic, (always as if one cancels out the other. )
(2.) Employing mental gymnastics to try and cement the message that your suffering is the only suffering that counts.
A suffering olympics can be held in either a one on one scenario (where the person directly compares their own suffering)...Or it could be a context where the person compares first world to third world problems, and individual vs. Systemic, (always as if one cancels out the other. )
People who try to turn other people's pain into the suffering olympics, usually have one of two goals:
(1.) They're purely seeking personal vindication, because they're too dumb to realize this isn't a contest anyone should want to win.
(2.) They're trying to police someone else's feelings, boundaries or expectations, after being called out for bad behavior. (I.E. I'm not that bad because I had it so much worse growing up. (Or) How dare you even suggest I modify my behavior in any way! Aren't you aware there are children in Africa dying of AIDS?!)
(1.) They're purely seeking personal vindication, because they're too dumb to realize this isn't a contest anyone should want to win.
(2.) They're trying to police someone else's feelings, boundaries or expectations, after being called out for bad behavior. (I.E. I'm not that bad because I had it so much worse growing up. (Or) How dare you even suggest I modify my behavior in any way! Aren't you aware there are children in Africa dying of AIDS?!)
by Olive989 March 15, 2023
Get the Suffering Olympics mug.Do I have resting bitch face, or am I just a bitch that needs rest? I was up all night you know.
-Great Horned Owl. That's hoo.
-Great Horned Owl. That's hoo.
by Olive989 March 10, 2023
Get the Great Horned Owl mug.A somewhat crass but humorous term for sexual intercourse. (Or any sexual relations in which two sets of genitals meet and appear to have lengthy discussions).
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