PRwiz101's definitions

Urban Dick

(n.) -- Nickname, in a friendly and easy-to-pronounce form, for a popular online dictionary called the Urban Dictionary.

"I love seeing the new definitions of words that keep popping up daily on the Urban Dick! It's a really cool online dictionary."

-- overheard at a watercooler in Chicago, November 12, 2009

by PRwiz101 November 15, 2009

Nerkey

A nerd who is also a turkey. Nerd + turkey = nerkey.

"He's such a nerd, Adam is. Actually, he's more than a nerd, he's a nerkey!"

by PRwiz101 May 24, 2008

awkwardsome

A person, a pet, a situation, a photograph or an idea that is both awkward and awesome.

"Did you see that TV clip about a donkey parasailing at a beach in Mexico? Awkwardsome!"

overheard at a watercooler on Madison Avenue in Manhattan on March 31, 2011

by PRwiz101 April 21, 2011

eye-mail

(n.) - Visually-pleasing email messages and letters that arrive in your inbox with vibrantly-colored backgrounds and icons.

"Most of my incoming email is boring black-and-white messages, but every once in a while, someone sends me some really cool eye-mail, and I love it!"

-- Overheard at a watercooler at the San Francisco Art Institute

by PRwiz101 September 1, 2009

frankenpapers

(n.) -- digital newspapers that replace print newspapers

"As more and more print newspapers go digital and stop being printed on paper, I worry that these digital frankenpapers might turn into little monsters."

-- overheard at a watercooler in a Madison Avenue advertising agency office, September 1, 2010

by PRwiz101 September 14, 2010

atomic typo

A typo (one-letter keyboarding mistake, typewriter mistake) that the spell-check function cannot pick up because the word is spelled correctly -- although not for the word you wanted to key in. They are called "atomic typos" because the change of just one letter completely changes the word, although it remains spelled correctly in terms of the spell check function

Examples:

Chris, instead of Christ
war, instead of was
bite, instead of byte
massage, instead of message

Quote: "Wow, the newspaper had an atomic typo on the front page, the writer meant to say "message" but what appeared in the article was "massage". Oops! That's a real atomic typo, and there's very little one can do to stop them!"

by PRwiz101 May 15, 2009

beautiful mistake

(n.) - a mistake made while driving or bicycling along rural roads and a wrong turn turns out to be a great find, leading to a beautiful new place you had never been to before

"Wow, I took the wrong road last night but I ended up at an amazing waterfall in the mountains. It was what I like to call a 'beautiful mistake'."

by PRwiz101 April 26, 2010