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plytanium
1. Seemingly high-end construction, later determined to be of dubious quality.
2. An acknowledgement of one's own less-than-stellar construction abilities.
2. An acknowledgement of one's own less-than-stellar construction abilities.
1. A: Hey, your bookcase collapsed. B: Yeah, it's made of weapons-grade plytanium.
2. A: I sure hope my sad-ass plytanium scaffold doesn't collapse before this garage gets painted.
2. A: I sure hope my sad-ass plytanium scaffold doesn't collapse before this garage gets painted.
plytanium by Jeff Pillasch March 17, 2008
breatharian
breatharian by leena gabor November 8, 2005
Word of the Day on June 3, 2026
A Booger In The Nose Of Progress
"Militarily, that inquest was a booger in the nose of progress."
or
"As far as human rights are concerned, this political infighting is a booger in the nose of progress."
or
"As far as human rights are concerned, this political infighting is a booger in the nose of progress."
A Booger In The Nose Of Progress by Rok'n'rol Wannabe October 19, 2006
Word of the Day on June 2, 2026
fogey
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)