Phrase used to defend your free speech against the PC police. Especially when you are told you “must say” or “can’t say” something.
by atlbraves August 15, 2018
Get the Word Shamingmug. 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.
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
Get the Word-washmug. 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
noun
desperately throwing letters together in the hope that spell check will know what you mean and bail you out.
Related: grammar flailing, incompetence
by Rude Horse August 20, 2018
Get the word spasmmug. When you are editing a paper or any text on a computer and instead of deleting the whole world you are replacing, you instead delete only the necessary letters and fill them in with letters to make your new word.
When she typed, annie was always word recycling. While she typed, she erased the 'i' 'v' and 'n' in the word 'relivant' and added a 'ed' to the end to make 'related':
relivant
relat
related
relivant
relat
related
by <3 pantie <3 March 9, 2010
Get the word recyclingmug. 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.
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
Get the word therapymug. Said in agreement to another's figurative brother or homey. Also may be used in the form of a question to another's figurative brother or homey.
John: Yo, you jack that stereo yo?
James: Word son. Out the back a dat truck.
John: Word son?!
James: Word!
James: Word son. Out the back a dat truck.
John: Word son?!
James: Word!
by FerrisBueler September 28, 2005
Get the Word Sonmug. 