Definitions by fitofpeak
Hapax legomenonist
1. A person who coins new words or terms (such as "hapax legomenonist"). From "hapax legomenon," a longstanding linguistics concept referring to a term of which only one instance of use is recorded (based upon the Greek roots "hapax," for "once," and "legomenon," for "to say"). 2. (rare) A person who creates an entirely new Lego character out of various Lego pieces from different sets.
Scott: Wow, that Urban Dictionary is like a Star Trek convention for hapax legomenonists.
EJ: You took the words right out of my mouth.
EJ: You took the words right out of my mouth.
Hapax legomenonist by FitofPeak August 23, 2026
Bathosphere
The class of literary works of any length, but particularly single sentences, that exhibit bathos, i.e., the quality of switching abruptly from the sublime (a beautiful or important subject) to the ridiculous (a silly or trite one), either intentionally (to create a humorous effect flowing from the incongruity) or inadvertently (reflecting the author's lack of aptitude for the craft). For example: "Jane Hammerlink’s mane of auburn hair blew in the morning breeze like Seabiscuit’s tail passing the quarter pole; her eyes sparkled like the finest cubic zirconia; and her snow-white apron and ruby-red lipstick gave me a tingling sensation in the extremities that I had theretofore associated only with Flo from Progressive." (Not to be confused with "bathysphere," a spherical chamber used for deep-sea exploration.)
Cathy: Oh, man, teaching freshman composition is brutal; these kids start off a sentence like Hemingway and end it like Homer Simpson.
Tim: Congratulations, oh warden of the bathosphere.
Tim: Congratulations, oh warden of the bathosphere.
Bathosphere by FitofPeak August 18, 2026
Universal donor
In the proofreading business, a document that is full of typographical errors, aka, “typos.” The expression is a play on the concept of the so-called universal blood donor: type O being the blood type that can be donated and transfused to anyone regardless of their blood type, a “universal donor” document is … chock full of Type Os.
Universal donor by FitofPeak June 12, 2021
Universal donor
In the proofreading business, a document that is full of typographical errors, aka, “typos.” The expression is a play on the concept of the so-called universal blood donor: type O being the blood type that can be donated and transfused to anyone regardless of their blood type, a “universal donor” document is … full of Type Os.
Chad, take this universal donor back to your desk and fix all the !@#$% misspellings and punctuation errors, jeez.
Universal donor by FitofPeak June 11, 2021
last responder
An obstetrician, midwife, doula, neonatal nurse or pediatrician -- specifically, during the period beginning in January 2021, nine months after the COVID-19 lockdown began, and lasting the same length of time as the lockdown did (so called because of the baby boomlet surely resulting from all those fertile individuals who found themselves at home together for weeks on ends with time on their hands, if you get my meaning).
OMG, I can't believe the epic last responder shifts my obstetrician wife is pulling so far in 2021 -- all those @#$%! millennials couldn't just binge-watch and keep their hands to themselves for a couple of months?
last responder by FitofPeak March 23, 2020
Polarious
Adjective describing hyperbolic political speech that is so over-the-top polarizing as to be laughable, indeed hilarious.
iphone sushi
The article produced when one inserts one's water-soaked iPhone into a box of white rice, desperately trying to resuscitate it by having the rice draw out the moisture.
"Dude, sorry I didn't text you -- I've got iPhone sushi here thanks to my wife washing my trou without checking the pockets."
iphone sushi by FitofPeak July 26, 2015