Steven W. E.'s definitions

cooktease

Someone who posts on social media some delicious-looking food that they ostensibly prepared, and tells you how delicious it was and that it's now gone.

Michael was such a cooktease when he posted a picture of a gorgeous apple pie only to go on and tell us how he and his guests had eaten every last slice.

by Steven W. E. March 11, 2021

omino

Pop music sang in a low, ominous voice with similar orchestration.

Tom Wait's "Midnight at the Diner" and Lou Reed's "New York" are my two favorite omino albums. Talk about boomer emo--those guys are further down than Antarctica at midnight on a moonless night.

by Steven W. E. December 20, 2021

vage

To have gone through the physiological responses (maybe mental also) to a Covid 19 vaccine so one is now safe to be around and safe to venture forth, parallel to wine after it has "aged."

Hey, Tom, let's you and your spouse get together for dinner now that my partner and myself have gotten the Covid shots and had the time afterward to vage sufficiently.

by Steven W. E. April 29, 2021

scournge

Scournge refers to the act of digging around for something (scrounging) and being disdainful of what one finds (scorn).

Why, you ask, do we need this word? The English language will finally have a rhyme for "orange."

Example: "Sally scournged through the frig looking for something yummy and only finding some slimy baloney and flaccid carrots.

by Steven W. E. April 26, 2020

streaming cowgirl

The preferred sexual position for females of most sex scenes on streaming services such as Netflix.

You know Sally is really starting to like Shawn. That's two love scenes in a row where she was doing streaming cowgirl.

by Steven W. E. July 8, 2020

fantainer

a unit of packaging one identifies with a valued business or cause and thus cherishes beyond its objective worth.

I brought my i-pod home in an Apple fantainer; a champaign bottle left over from ones wedding party

by Steven W. E. July 23, 2007

necro riche

a group of people made wealthy by the wrongful death of someone and subsequent payout by the offending party.

The Clampets, a family of poor farmers, certainly moved up in the world because they became necro riche when they got a payout from a big agribusiness company that had been polluting the waters upstream from their land.

by Steven W. E. March 13, 2021