DIYD/DIYDont

Useful in writing to avoid actually writing a cliche, while using one. Works in writing only, as most such acros.
Doomed if you do/doomed if you don't
can't say DIYDx2, because the 2nd D is different

Well, they get you somehow - DIYD/DIYDont, you know that cliche with doomed in it?

by vivauganda January 19, 2011

polysillybic

A person who habitually favours a long word over a short one.

That polysillybic? Just a long-word factory. Sometimes he can't even get his tongue around the pronunciation!

by vivauganda January 14, 2011

10/7

10 hours per day, 7 days a week.

Useful for an invisible job - like writing or e-selling from home.

Most people get annoyed when I tell them I may be a writer and working from home but I work damn hard - like 10/7.

by vivauganda December 22, 2010

e-purdah

Anonymity in the electronic space

Is he still attacking you behind his e-purdah? Ignore the e-nonymouse, just a rat

by vivauganda December 11, 2011

Playgiarist

Someone who thinks plagiarism is fun.

Twice I caught him using my results without attribution. He just laughed - a consummate playgiarist.

by vivauganda June 02, 2019

booby trap

Frontal assets used by the fairer gender to entrap one of the opposite gender to carry out espionage for an enemy country.

Poor wanna-be 007! He was booby trapped by his ex to snoop on UK.

by vivauganda May 27, 2019

rural myth

A false rumour that entrenched as truth in poor rural-majority countries

In Egypt farmers believe a hot-air balloon that lands on their field brings good luck. They would, wouldn't they - it brings them instant compensation from the balloon owner. It's a contrived rural myth to disguise their greed. So for rural myth read rural math, you know, as opposed to urban math.

by vivauganda January 14, 2011