Solemncholy

One who is (1) solemn & serious or (2) one who is solemn & melancholic.

The word is a blend of solemn + (melan)choly and originally (late 1700s) meant "solemn & serious". In modern use, especially of or by emos, it's become more a synonym of "depressed".
Q: Victoria says she suffers from solemncholy. Do you think that's a real condition?
A: Victoria is an emo; for her solemncholy is a calling.
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Gaboso

The acronym for Generalized Association Based On Single-Observation (also as the derived noun & verb). The act of taking one identifiable feature of someone or something and using it as the definitional reference for a group; ties in with logical fallacies. (Pronounced gah-boh-so).
I saw a TERF (trans-exclusionary radical feminist) with her hair in blunt bangs. They must be TERF bangs.
You gabosoed someone's fringe?
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Etceteini

In the tradition of mock-Latin, Etceteini was a late twentieth century coining created to refer to the ecosystem of the numerous small-volume Italian sports & racing cars built in the early post-war years. A portmanteau word, the construct being etcete(ra) + ini, the idea was to summon the idea of “many, some obscure” with an Italianesque flavor. Credit for the coining is claimed by both John de Boer and Stu Schaller. Although in wide informal use in the collector car community and appearing often in specialist glossaries, registry websites, and niche discussion forums, no mainstream dictionaries have yet acknowledged the word.
Stanguellini, Moretti and Siata were all manufacturers classified as Etceteini.
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Quondam

(1) As a pronominal, former; one-time; having been formerly.
(2) As a pronominal, of an earlier time.

Quondam is pronounced kwon-duhm or kwon-dam. Quondam is an adjective, quondamship is a noun and quondamly is an adverb; the noun quondam is now archaic but can be used in the sense of “one’s ex” and if one is prolific in the generation of quondamship, the noun plural is quondams. As a re-purposed literary word, it has been adapted to the social media age with helpful, non-standard forms coined:

Quondam: One's ex-partner.

Quondaming: The act of dumping a partner.

Quondamed: The act of being so dumped.

Quaondamer: One who dumps a partner (in the form “serial quondamer” applied to those who frequently dump).

Quondamee: One who has been quonadmed by a quandamer (in the form “serial quondamee”, applied to those frequently dumped).

Quondamish: An act which can be interpreted as being dumped but requires confirmation.

Quondamesque: Behavior which suggests having been dumped.

Quondamism: The study of dumped ex-partners (a branch of behaviorism).

Quondamists: A practitioner of quondamism (employed often by internet gossip sites) who can distinguish between genuine quondamees and those exhibiting quondam-like characteristics. The experts have developed predictive models which they apply to work out who is next to be quondamed.
Lindsay Lohan's (b 1986) best known quondam is Samantha Ronson (b 1977).
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