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Word Shaming

Phrase used to defend your free speech against the PC police. Especially when you are told you “must say” or “can’t say” something.
Yeah, the fat guy.
-You can’t say “fat”!
I will not submit to your word shaming.
by atlbraves August 15, 2018
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word therapy

Healing oneself by working with words and letting them order and clarify the way one feels, thinks, and acts.
After a major television network offered to interview me, but then cancel the interview, lowered my self-concept, confused me, made me feel powerless—even helpless, but not hopeless.

Soon after I started to edit the index of a book I'm writing, working with words made me feel increasingly better.

Working with words balanced my emotions and allowed me to feel, think, and act correctly again. I call that word therapy.
by but for March 8, 2018
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Word-wash

The act of using terms, especially, but not limited to, ones that are more unfamiliar and “intellectual” sounding, in order to give a stance more clout, and make an opposing stance feel less valid. It often times makes the user of the term feel superior, and “objectively” correct.

This is usually seen when person A is trying to make an opposing argument against person B, and they try to solidify their stance as the one true stance by ending their argument with something like, “what you’re talking about is called insert word-washing term, and it’s actually a insert descriptive term fallacy.
Don’t generalize the way that I think about this situation with some 10 dollar word. It’s far more complicated than that. You’re just trying to word-wash me.
by Walter Greene March 5, 2022
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word spasm

pronunciation: wurd spaz·uuuhhh·ummmm

noun
desperately throwing letters together in the hope that spell check will know what you mean and bail you out.

Related: grammar flailing, incompetence
"My computer was projecting during the meeting, so everyone saw my word spasm."
by Rude Horse August 20, 2018
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word it up

simply a cooler way to say explain.

or for some people, their vocabulary is so minute that this is how they are able to say "explain".
Erika Erika Erika- "i can't tell you what he did, it's just to hard to word it up."

*as in while texting;
"no man, i'll just tell you tomorrow, i'm too lazy to word it up.
by flagma April 18, 2010
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as if that's an actual word

Something someone says when you tell them a made up word maybe made up by you or someone else
You: hi
Someone: go away
You: shush you lakalakaboomboom
Someone: as if that's an actual word
by lakalakaboomboom October 6, 2020
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word bath

Some people just have to talk all the time. It is as though they have won some kind of word lottery and must use all the words they have won..

When i get stuck for hours with these people and can not get away politely , i feel i have endured a " word bath"
We went to dinner with the Arlene. She couldn't stop talking and we got a real word bath.
by Dr.Billington January 25, 2011
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