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Definitions by ka the wordsmythe

When crazy friends or relatives visit and stay overnight , it’s a folkover, cuz you are as well meaning host folked.
When my crazy cousin Aaron spent the weekend with us, it was a total folkover.
Folkover by ka the wordsmythe September 1, 2025
Presearch is what science fiction writers do when they write works of fiction that over time come to be in reality iow become predictive, if even prophetic.
Who would’ve thought that when science fiction writers wrote of hostile takeovers of artificial intelligence, that they had actually done the presearch, and come up decades ago with the issues and situations society now contends with?
Presearch by ka the wordsmythe August 31, 2025

Big Food 

Just as Big Pharma is the concise designation for the global mega money high profit drug and medical marketplace, whose consumers are manipulated into highest consumption by both sheer size of the producers and the deals they make with governments, so is Big Food the concise designation for the global mega money high profit food and ingestibles marketplace, whose consumers are manipulated into highest consumption by both sheer size of the producers and the deals they make with governments.
Big Food saw to it that children were fundamentally addicted to the low nutrition, multi-colored, high-sugar foods from infancy on.
Big Food by ka the wordsmythe April 16, 2025
Read In Progress equivalent to WIP work in progress, this defines a book currently being read. The plural in long form is Reads In Progress but as an the acronym it is RIPs
My bookstack consists of about half RIPs, which are the books with bookmarks tucked into them.
RIP by ka the wordsmythe August 3, 2024

Krampian 

Anything based on or pertaining to, or which invokes the character of Krampus.
The Christmas horror story had a distinctly Krampian vibe.
Krampian by ka the wordsmythe August 3, 2024

Affirmititis 

Affirmititis is the intellectual affliction whereby one rationalizes, supports, appeases and defends things and actions traditionally held out to be illogical, damaging, destructive, or wrong.
The affirmititis afflicted teacher supported her studentscheating during their exam.

Draftmite 

A Draftmite is a nano-sized gremlin that resides in personal computing devices, seeking out written documents in order to insert errors and writing glitches into them when the composer is away from their device and is why what seemed to be an error-free document will all of a sudden have mistakes in it.
"The frustrated writer could have sworn his story was flawless when he submitted it, but he later found a number of errors, due to the draftmite, which had infected his computer."
Draftmite by ka the wordsmythe November 27, 2021