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(adj.) Once a woman reaches middle age and her formerly remarkable and youthful good looks have completely lost their edge, she develops an air of such utter harmlessness that she is no longer attractive to men. A woman is described as "avuncular" when she stops looking like a sexual entity and starts looking like her Aunt Betty.
"At my age, with my looks going into their middle-aged stretch, my nieces and nephews now look at me with wonder and refer to me as their 'avauntcular' auntie. I love it!"
-- Overheard when two middle-aged women were chatting near a watercooler at their office on Madison Avenue in New York
-- Overheard when two middle-aged women were chatting near a watercooler at their office on Madison Avenue in New York
by PRwiz101 August 27, 2009
Get the Avauntcular mug.(n.) -- a neologism for infelicitously-worded newspaper headlines which at first reading seem to mean one thing but upon second reading mean something completely different; often hard to figure out at first; called "crash blossoms" because one specific headline from a newspaper used the two words -- "crash blossoms" -- in a confusing way
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-- overheard at a watercooler in Manhattan, June 25, 2011
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-- overheard at a watercooler in Manhattan, June 25, 2011
by PRwiz101 July 19, 2011
Get the intervine mug.(n.) - An online newspaper which borrows from the magazine industry and shifts to magazine-style writing, design and shorter bites of
information to suit today’s headline-glancing reader.
information to suit today’s headline-glancing reader.
You know, I like reading my daily newspaper online, but I also like these new magapaper news sites, which are a kind of cross between a newspaper and a magazine. Cool!
by PRwiz101 January 24, 2011
Get the magapaper mug.To read text on a computer screen, cellphone screen, Kindle screen or PDA screen or BlackBerry screen; replaces the term "reading" which now only refers to reading print text on paper
by PRwiz101 February 14, 2009
Get the screening mug.(v.) -- to gaze stupidly or in open-mouthed surprise or wonder at someone from another generation for doing or saying something completely surprising or incomprehensible due to the generation gap.
"Whenever I say something old-fashioned to my teenage sons, they just look at me in a totally befuddled way and then generation gape at me in wide-eyed wonder. 'Oh Dad, please!' is what they are thinking, I'm sure!"
by PRwiz101 March 15, 2012
Get the generation gape mug.(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'."
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