The use of elevated language or phrases, especially when employing literature, to conceal the extent of an insult.
Professor Sutherlin went Shakespeare on us today in class when he said, "More of your conversation would infect my brain.” He insults certain students and they don't even know it!
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Stage name sometimes used by Shaved Hamster singer Stewart Jennings. Shaved Hamster is an Indie Rock band based out of South Florida.
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Get the Shmake mug.When Twitter users decided that Sarah Palin was not, as she implied, the equivalent to a modern-day Shakespeare, they dutifully gave this term to describe what she probably didn't intend to describe.
Being when you make a mistake, use a word that doesn't exist, then try to claim that English is a "living language" where making up words is all good. It's not, really. We already have lots of really good words. Refudiate isn't one of them.
Being when you make a mistake, use a word that doesn't exist, then try to claim that English is a "living language" where making up words is all good. It's not, really. We already have lots of really good words. Refudiate isn't one of them.
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Coined when Sarah Palin defended her repeated use of the word "refutiated" by Twittering that English was a living language and that even Shakespere made up words!
Coined when Sarah Palin defended her repeated use of the word "refutiated" by Twittering that English was a living language and that even Shakespere made up words!
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