lingtuist1's definitions

abarkheid

Dog owners and their companion animals have become subject to growing restriction on their movements in public spaces such as parks. This term refers to the legal banishment of dogs from areas where they previously roamed free by morphing the word "bark" and the policy of apartheid under the previous South African regime. This policy restricted black citizens to living in areas such as the one depicted in the film District 9.

Prior to the policy of abarkheid, my dog Nikita and I could go anywhere we wanted to at Fort Funston.

by lingtuist1 December 22, 2009

hairanoia

The irrational and compulsive sense that one's hair is wrong or out of place.

Nancy Grace kept flipping her bangs back into place, suggesting mild hairanoia.

by lingtuist1 July 9, 2009