Young, cute men, as those found in boy-bands such as BTS, who cause young girls' and (some) boys' hearts to go aflutter...WARNING: Swoon Danger!
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N.B. Could, theoretically, also be applied to girl-bands.
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N.B. Could, theoretically, also be applied to girl-bands.
You never know where you stand with these crushbait beaus – just like the dating experience in today’s urban jungles, overgrown with the choking, strangling fears of commitment: indeed, this is the common thread, the leitmotif that runs through the song-stories and ballads of all their hit tunes.
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(adj., n.)
Pronounced: /ˈsnʌɡi ˈsmʌɡi/
1. (adj.) A state of being irresistibly cozy and self-satisfied—often after accomplishing something delightful or mischievous, wrapped in physical or emotional warmth.
Example:
"After finishing the novel and sipping her third hot chocolate, she leaned back with a snuggy-smuggy grin."
2. (n.) A person (or pet!) who embodies maximum snugness with a touch of cheeky smugness.
Example:
"Look at that cat curled up in the sun like he owns the place—total snuggy-smuggy."
3. (adj.) Describes someone (or a group/society) that is so sure of their own excellence, righteousness, or perfection that they become complacent, dismissive, and impenetrably smug—blissfully unaware of their own blind spots.
Example:
"The board's snuggy-smuggy attitude made it impossible to challenge their out-of-touch decisions."
"That town is so snuggy-smuggy, they think the rest of the world is just background scenery."
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Usage Notes
The term spans the spectrum—from endearing coziness to dangerously insulated superiority.
Use carefully. Tone is everything.
Synonyms (for #3):
smugsecure, bubble-blind, cushy-elite, deluxtone-deaf
ETYMOLOGY:
Believed to have emerged from the foggy borderlands engendered in a Swiss winter cabin and a glass of Lagavulin Single-Malt. Possibly whispered by a bespectacled cat in a cashmere sweater, staring into the fire like it knew all along.
(adj., n.)
Pronounced: /ˈsnʌɡi ˈsmʌɡi/
1. (adj.) A state of being irresistibly cozy and self-satisfied—often after accomplishing something delightful or mischievous, wrapped in physical or emotional warmth.
Example:
"After finishing the novel and sipping her third hot chocolate, she leaned back with a snuggy-smuggy grin."
2. (n.) A person (or pet!) who embodies maximum snugness with a touch of cheeky smugness.
Example:
"Look at that cat curled up in the sun like he owns the place—total snuggy-smuggy."
3. (adj.) Describes someone (or a group/society) that is so sure of their own excellence, righteousness, or perfection that they become complacent, dismissive, and impenetrably smug—blissfully unaware of their own blind spots.
Example:
"The board's snuggy-smuggy attitude made it impossible to challenge their out-of-touch decisions."
"That town is so snuggy-smuggy, they think the rest of the world is just background scenery."
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Usage Notes
The term spans the spectrum—from endearing coziness to dangerously insulated superiority.
Use carefully. Tone is everything.
Synonyms (for #3):
smugsecure, bubble-blind, cushy-elite, deluxtone-deaf
ETYMOLOGY:
Believed to have emerged from the foggy borderlands engendered in a Swiss winter cabin and a glass of Lagavulin Single-Malt. Possibly whispered by a bespectacled cat in a cashmere sweater, staring into the fire like it knew all along.
"After finishing the novel and sipping her third hot chocolate, she leaned back with a snuggy-smuggy grin."
"Look at that cat curled up in the sun like he owns the place—total snuggy-smuggy."
"The board's snuggy-smuggy attitude made it impossible to challenge their out-of-touch decisions."
"That town is so snuggy-smuggy, they think the rest of the world is just background scenery."
"Look at that cat curled up in the sun like he owns the place—total snuggy-smuggy."
"The board's snuggy-smuggy attitude made it impossible to challenge their out-of-touch decisions."
"That town is so snuggy-smuggy, they think the rest of the world is just background scenery."
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From the Latin "avos"=grandfather, and the suffix "-inum" = "of, like, having the qualities of"
From the Latin "avos"=grandfather, and the suffix "-inum" = "of, like, having the qualities of"
The teacher brought his ripened avosine skills into play by holding and coddling the unwed-mother-student's restive baby while she took her final exam.
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Comes from the Latin "quod libel" -- What I like!
Comes from the Latin "quod libel" -- What I like!
-- I couldn't wait for that scene in "What did you do in the war, Daddy?" when the Italian officer asks, "Where is the fire?"
-- Out grandkids always dug out their quoddly-bits of melted M&Ms from the muffins their mother had made, leaving
behind clumps of miniscule-crater-pitted, uneaten muffin-cake.
-- There's that one part in Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, toward the end of the second-third of the melody -- THAT's my quoddly-bit.... get transported away in a flood of all-body tingling goosebumps. Wow!
-- Out grandkids always dug out their quoddly-bits of melted M&Ms from the muffins their mother had made, leaving
behind clumps of miniscule-crater-pitted, uneaten muffin-cake.
-- There's that one part in Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, toward the end of the second-third of the melody -- THAT's my quoddly-bit.... get transported away in a flood of all-body tingling goosebumps. Wow!
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A combination of cosmic, crazy, magic, orgasmic
First coined in Dietikon, Switzerland, December 2007
A combination of cosmic, crazy, magic, orgasmic
First coined in Dietikon, Switzerland, December 2007
"Wow! That was a crazmic show."
"Betty, that was a crazmic meal you made!"
"My new iPhone is just crazmic!"
"Betty, that was a crazmic meal you made!"
"My new iPhone is just crazmic!"
by Pen-Dragon January 01, 2008
Get the crazmic mug.Someone who is versed in all sorts of different conspiracy theories, from all over the world, even in different languages...and who spews them gladly and constantly.
"His high-school knowledge of French combined with his ravenous appetite for arcane, unprovable, specious knowledge made him a gollyplot par excellence! He spread the 'secret' of Emmanuel Macron's lascivious habit of dressing up as the Empress Joséphine far-and-wide on the social media platforms, under his nom-de-plume: Pendraggin. "
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1. -ine is a suffix of adjectives of Greek or Latin origin, meaning “of or pertaining to,” “of the nature of,” “made of,” “like”: asinine; crystalline; equine; marine.
1. -ine is a suffix of adjectives of Greek or Latin origin, meaning “of or pertaining to,” “of the nature of,” “made of,” “like”: asinine; crystalline; equine; marine.
While his student went up to collect her technical degree, the venerable, avosine Professor proffered his help, then put all of his skills and years of experience to work, calming and coddling the restive, restless little wee baby that the young woman had just recently born.
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