PRwiz101's definitions

flattersulted

A portmanteau word combining flattered and insulted; when you are both flattered and insulted by someone's remarks or actions

"Hey, I got a note today from a guy who fished my bestselling novel out of a garbage can in New York and told me he enjoyed reading it. Flattering? Insulting? I'm experiencing some mixed emotions. Maybe I've been flattersulted."

-- overheard at a watercooler outside a publisher's office in Manhattan, March 30, 2010

by PRwiz101 April 1, 2010

apocapricious

An apocalyptic feeling or prediction that is characterized by or subject to whim; someone who issues predictions of a future apocalypse who is both impulsive and unpredictable.

"You know, the British doomsayer James Lovelock has some good ideas about climate change and global warming, but his ideas about breeding pairs of humans surviving in an uninhabited and desolate Arctic is completely over the top and apocapricious!"

-- Overheard at a pub in Cornwall, England

by PRwiz101 May 24, 2009

spinnovation

(n.) - Public relations spin that is put on a recent innovation and in the process putting media focus on the exact spin the company hopes to see its new product get

"Wow, if we can put the right spinnovation on the new e-reader we developed, we can leapfrog over the competition."

-- overheard at a watercool at a Silicon Valley computer firm

by PRwiz101 September 6, 2009

stoopid

(adj.) -- The act of being stupid, but more in the way of being foolish than being really stupid.

"Hey, don't be so stoopid, Danny! What were you thinking, driving with your eyes closed like that!"

by PRwiz101 November 2, 2009

m-tasking

(v.) - to do many things at once, such as talk on your cellphone, work on your computer, watch TV, listen to the stereo, etc., also known by its longer form of "multi-tasking"

"With my new iPhone and E-reader, I can be involved with m-tasking all day long, and I love it!"

-- overhead at a watercool in San Francisco

by PRwiz101 August 30, 2009

cameo visibility

(n.) - The fact or state of something being at least visible in society, even if not everyone knows about it yet.

"You know, even if nobody has heard of my ideas for safer bike lanes yet, I hope that they can at least achieve a small degree of cameo visibility this century."

-- overheard at a watercooler at a national conference for
designers and inventors in San Francisco

by PRwiz101 January 17, 2011

grypo

(n.) -- a grammar mistake in a print newspaper or magazine or online publication

"I'm used to all the typos in the newspapers these days, but what
really irritates me is when I see a major grypo that neither the
editors nor the proofreaders caught! Whatever happened to correct grammar usage?"

overheard at a watercooler in a newspaper newsroom in Boston, January 23, 2011

by PRwiz101 May 20, 2011