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Definitions by barleycorn

The malicious desire to do harm others -- either physically, emotionally, economically, or any number of ways that would cause the subject of such malice to seriously suffer.
I could tell from the way Tony held the Louisville Slugger that he meant to Johnny G's brain some evil.
evil by barleycorn March 16, 2021

verbophobia 

fear of language brought on by the War on Te.rror, beginning with abstract nouns and pronouns
There came a knock at the door and when Benny opened the creaking device for entry a booming voice said "Rosebud", filling Benny with hysterical verbophobia and a need to run as fast as his porcine legs would carry him to the nearest bedroom, wherein he dove headfirst under the bed and lay there like Jim Bowie waiting for Santa Ana to jangle in and roust his fearful ass, saying, "Pie alamo?"
verbophobia by barleycorn March 1, 2021

Peppershnippel

Lacanian psychoanalytic babble that spices up the critique with the word play needs the well educated postmod whitey has come to expect in a performance read.
Where are professor Johnson's argument lagged she employed Lacanian peppershnippel to cover her tracks, and keep her would-be critics amused and at bay.
Peppershnippel by barleycorn January 30, 2021
A kinder, gentler putdown of someone on line for comedic rather than vile or destructive purposes. Opposite of snarking.
Davey Crockett was almost as a bad as my snarkin' girlfriend with online comments, but he was light-hearted and meant well, you know, larkin', unlike my girlfriend, who I've stopped seeing after a comment she made about my muff breath the other day -- online! There goes that barrier reef.
Larkin' by barleycorn December 18, 2020
an improvised expressive device
When Bosworth accidentally stepped on Johnny's IED he exploded into a million pieces of laughter. Now, that was punny, said Bosworth.
Pun by barleycorn November 4, 2019