by vines and veins June 6, 2023
Get the Complicance mug.To remove a portion from a word or sequence of words, leaving the before and after, to make a word.
You can remove any portion as long as a beginning and end remains, but generally the beginning part is just the first consonant cluster and a good portion of the last word is used for the end.
All words besides the first and last in a sequence of words creating a caplication are discarded.
The word is autological—it comes from the caplication of "cap applicator" to "caplicator", which was originally used at 1:39 in the YouTube video "Wow! I'm hungry!" by DaThings.
It differs from portmanteau because not all portmanteaus are caplications (portmanteaus can blend the words however they like), and not all caplications are portmanteaus (caplications often do not attempt to create any new meaning, whereas a portmanteau has to have a meaning blended from the words that made it). That said, most portmanteaus are caplications.
You can remove any portion as long as a beginning and end remains, but generally the beginning part is just the first consonant cluster and a good portion of the last word is used for the end.
All words besides the first and last in a sequence of words creating a caplication are discarded.
The word is autological—it comes from the caplication of "cap applicator" to "caplicator", which was originally used at 1:39 in the YouTube video "Wow! I'm hungry!" by DaThings.
It differs from portmanteau because not all portmanteaus are caplications (portmanteaus can blend the words however they like), and not all caplications are portmanteaus (caplications often do not attempt to create any new meaning, whereas a portmanteau has to have a meaning blended from the words that made it). That said, most portmanteaus are caplications.
"Liquid argon" can be caplicated to "largon".
"There is a cat in my house" can be caplicated to "thy house".
"There is a cat in my house" can be caplicated to "thy house".
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Wearing soft-soled shoes and diligently attending da weekly meetings at Colliders Anonymous, Stumblers Anonymous, and Foot-Steppers Anonymous can help you avoid clomplications during your day-to-day travels on foot.
by QuacksO June 12, 2024
Get the clomplications mug.(noun) A secretive group where members are bound by the dark art of forced complicity and toxic dumping, reminiscent of a witch's coven through shared guilt, peer pressure.
After being dragged into Sarah's latest drama, Martha realized her friend group had turned into a real complicity coven, where every meeting felt like they were brewing secrets and casting spells of silence over their “toxic” confessions.
by saintsundere October 15, 2024
Get the complicity coven mug.(noun) A secretive group where members are bound by a covert social contract of forced complicity and/or toxic dumping. Within this circle, individuals are entwined in each other's secrets, socially pressured to share or bear witness to personal burdens or misdeeds, and as well as guilt or emotional overload.
Luffy noted a complicity coven had formed in his larger friend group because the girls seemed happy and were spending all their time until they imploded and aired other’s dirty laundry over a misunderstanding.
by saintsundere October 23, 2024
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1. Over-engineered, yet still fundamentally wrong.
2. Fucked and incomplete; a mess of complexity that doesn’t work as intended.
1. Over-engineered, yet still fundamentally wrong.
2. Fucked and incomplete; a mess of complexity that doesn’t work as intended.
"Don’t make it tomplicated—just get it done right the first time. It’s not like doing it twice is nicer."
by John not Jack November 27, 2024
Get the tomplicated mug.Complexicated (adj.): a suffocating weave of the complex and the complicated; systems and situations so intertwined that clarity itself becomes obscured.
— coined by Sukan Sethi, the author of SuperApp
— coined by Sukan Sethi, the author of SuperApp
We live in a complexicated world, where technology adds burden instead of alleviating it.
Our relationship is complexicated. She loves and wants to be with me, but can't leave her partner.
In the beginning, there was only cash. Now there's everything but cash; it's a complexicated financial era.
Our relationship is complexicated. She loves and wants to be with me, but can't leave her partner.
In the beginning, there was only cash. Now there's everything but cash; it's a complexicated financial era.
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