sourceable

Verifiable by reference to an authority, source or expert quote.

Everything he says is subjective, personal opinion and not sourceable.

by wclay1 July 02, 2011

mean

-- the average, in a negative context, where more could be expected.
-- the midpoint
-- the median

His ambitions and expectations were merely at the mean.

by wclay1 September 02, 2009

feck

Slang expletive, an alternative to fuck. Also "large quantity," and "throw," and "steal."

He fecks out of his mother's purse all the time.
Baby fecked her lunch across the room.
The freight train had a feck of boxcars.
He was ornery the feck of the week

by wclay1 February 25, 2011

reach out

A phrase that inherently implies the person being reached out to has distanced themselves from the reacher or the world.

People who post on Urban Dictionary and swear or trash-talk simultaneously reach out to the audience while distancing themselves from a perceived threat, supplanting their fear with anger in a somewhat conflicted cyclic redundancy.

by wclay1 August 31, 2010

gibber

-- to equivocate
-- a person prone to equivocation, indecision and starts to talk gibberish before they put their brain in gear.

You don't know what you're talking about and you are a cowardly gibber!

by wclay1 September 10, 2009

secondhander

Someone who gets their ideas, opinions and values exclusively form society and from others as opposed to getting: an idea from within oneself; a value from a personal rational process; an opinion from an experience.

Ayn Rand pointed out that Peter Keating was a secondhander because he stole all his ideas.

by wclay1 July 01, 2011

mainstay

-- main support
-- primary constituent

Objective, definitive and authoritative word meanings are the mainstay of language

by wclay1 September 02, 2009