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pumpenfreude

Noun. Extreme pleasure derived by an electric cars owner who drive by gas stations, watching owners of fossil-fuel vehicles standing around squeezing gas and diesel filler nozzles. Notably powerful sensation during intense rain or hail. Likely to become more common as we approach 2050.

Similar to 'schadenfreude', pleasure derived from the misfortune of others.

Origin: German Pumpenfreude, from Pumpen 'pumping" + Freude 'joy'.
As John drove by the "Fill and Feed" gas station in a thunderstorm, he was nearly overwhelmed with pumpenfreude. He turned up the stereo and began to sing as he waved and drove past slowly.
pumpenfreude by Tuiliq Midnight March 23, 2025
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pumpenfreude

noun: Pleasure felt by those who watch someone pumping gas when the observer does not have to do so. Especially common among electric car owners; most intense during cold or wet weather.

German Pumpenfreude, from Pumpen ‘pumping’ + Freude ‘joy’.
Jim, awash with pumpenfreude, smiled and waved as he drove his new electric car past the long line of internal combustion vehicles at the diesel and gas pumps ... in the driving rain and howling wind.
pumpenfreude by Tuiliq Midnight March 25, 2025

Stealthie 

when you're holding up your phone and making faces at it, as though you are taking a selfie, but you're really taking a picture of the person across from you or the wall or anything else that seems interesting but you don't want to be caught dead taking a picture of.

This action is often made more convincing by wiggling the eyebrows or opening the mouth, to pretend you're trying to get a Snapchat filter to work.
FRIEND A: "Did you just take a stealthie of me?"

FRIEND B (turning phone around): "no I was just using snapchat's new filter, see?"
Stealthie by gwenhyfar October 2, 2016
Word of the Day on May 25, 2026

Summer Teeth 

When someone has a lot of missing teeth.
Mannn, that dude has summer teeth!
What do you mean?
Summer here, summer there...
Summer Teeth by BeckPot August 2, 2012
Word of the Day on May 24, 2026
The grindset is a contemporary ideology of self-exploitation disguised as strength, deeply tied to the aesthetics of the “sigma male” and to new digital forms of patriarchy. It promotes the idea that human worth depends on productivity, economic success, absolute emotional control, and the ability to work endlessly, turning vulnerability, rest, community, and tenderness into signs of weakness. Beneath its rhetoric of discipline and power often lies a profound inability to relate healthily to pain, fragility, and human interdependence.
“That’s the grindset, brother. While weak men sleep and complain, sigma males stay disciplined, work in silence, suppress emotions, and build power while everyone else wastes time chasing comfort.”
Grindset by Omega-Male May 22, 2026
Word of the Day on May 23, 2026
well known from south park
rednecks get angrry that future folk took there jobs so they yell
They took ouare jerbs!
Them future folk took ouare jerbs!
jerb by Jimberley Kim April 7, 2005
Word of the Day on May 22, 2026