Hectoring

Hectoring is when someone uses a bullying tone to give direction. An aggressive way of telling someone what to do.

Matt: "Mrs Brown was hectoring me so much today about handing in the assignment."
Sam: "Mate, you should just hand it in, save yourself from hearing her go on and on about it."

by TheDefinitionHero April 6, 2015

Lakers Historian

A basketball fan who is specifically a supporter of the NBA team the Los Angeles Lakers, and wears their jersey at any game outside of Los Angeles of a rival team who are facing the Lakers that night, but do not know any of the current members of the team.

An off-breed of the Sports Asshole (who only shows up to games to boo the home team for fun), Lakers Historians are identified by wearing the jersey of a player who used to play for the franchise but no longer does. (i.e. Kobe Bryant, Magic Johnson, Shaquille O'Neal, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ) These specific markings (or names and numbers) are a sign that they're fans of what the team used to be in their glory days and don't keep up with who is on the team now while they're terrible. Hence, why they're not identified as a regular "Lakers Fan".

They're also not to be confused as an actual Basketball Historian, who cares about the history of the game as a whole, and not what one team did in three specific time periods.

Fred: Why's that guy wearing a Lakers jersey to a Jazz game?
Craig: Oh, he's just a Lakers Historian. Check it, he's wearing #8.

by Genuine Mind January 12, 2019

historian

A student, archivist, and author of popular fiction. A quixotic hero. Eschews paradox in favor of imposing a coherent, and therefore false, narrative interpretation of the past. Still, without historians we would be even more clueless about our intellectual, political, social, and economic context. Historians create the narratives that shape our sense of heritage and our perception of "who we are." The study of history is therefore both futile and vital.

"Historian - a broad-gauge gossip." -Ambrose Bierce
"History does not repeat itself. Historians repeat each other." -Arthur Balfour

by Dusty Cioffi May 6, 2008

Orwellian Historian

Someone who erases the past to fit their vision of the present. From the George Orwell novel '1984'.

Why dwell on your sad childhood memories? Just have a orwellian historian take your unhappy pictures and home movies and have them destroyed. Then you block them out of your mind for good.

by Stephan Smolka January 12, 2009

Hictorian

Tacky Victorian style, reflecting more "country charm" than authentic Victorian style. Epitomized by plastic flowers, fake antique furnishings, and by an over-abundance of doilies and potpourri.

Although claiming to be built in the 1870's and restored to its original architectural character, the Bed and Breakfast was more Hictorian than Victorian.

by newsamjohnson February 6, 2010

Hollywood Historian

Someone who accepts movie scripts as historical facts and then uses them in debates/arguments.

Joe: Private Ryan was a real person!
Bob: You're such a Hollywood Historian.

by promeistro May 19, 2010

Hipstorian

A pontificating, preening and obtuse human person who has an emotional opinion on past events based on nothing but conjecture and complaint or a total misrepresentation or misunderstanding of facts.

An hipstorian at Starbucks just tried to explain to another guest how he was a huge fan of the band Mumford and Sons years prior to the “Sons” being born and joining their father’s group and that he owns all of Mumford’s OG work on cassette tape.

by Snreves January 26, 2020