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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."
by ka the wordsmythe November 27, 2021
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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.
by ka the wordsmythe April 16, 2025
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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.
by ka the wordsmythe April 9, 2022
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Folkover

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.
by ka the wordsmythe September 1, 2025
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Shame Phishing

The duplicitous posting of images and information intended not to honestly share but to troll for negative commenters in order to attack them.
She deliberately went shame phishing online by posting less than flattering pics of herself and waiting until the inevitable negative comments trickled in, and then boy did she really launch into attacking them back!
by ka the wordsmythe June 3, 2016
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Pavloved

To become addicted to click and swipe reward reinforcement on social media
The quip went viral, leaving the anonymous poster fully Pavloved, after which he spent even more time on the social media site each day, completely hooked on the virtual attention, looking for more.
by ka the wordsmythe April 16, 2020
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Presearch

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?
by ka the wordsmythe August 31, 2025
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