provincial

describing people who only care about eating, sleeping, making money, and owning crap. Very unimaginative, uncultured people with no concept of the arts, history, language, faith, travel, or why any those things should be valued. Has not visited a library or museum since the 7th grade. Doesn't know the name of a bluebird (really). Like Mr. Banks in Mary Poppins, they "can't see past the end of their nose".

Bell in Beauty and the Beast: "I want much more than this provincial life!"

by Shumado April 14, 2015

Provincetown

Town at the end of US 6 on Cape Cod. Noted for its large Gay community

Gay guy 1:OMG! Look at steven! he got that boa in Provincetown! It looks so good on him

Gay guy 2: We should just take him home and spank him on that arse

Gay guy 1: Oh yeah!

by PetePimp July 24, 2006

Phosing

Phone Posing. Pretending to use your cell phone to avoid a certain situation.

Guy 1: I ran into that girl the other day.
Guy 2: Did you say anything to her?
Guy 1: No way. I started phosing so she never approached me.

by ManKitten November 5, 2010

Provinceside

a. When you're in Canada, you are provinceside.
b. When you want to use the word stateside to sound cool but you are Canadian.

Nate: Hey girl, I thought you were visiting Buffalo. Where are you now?
Sarah: I'm provinceside. I had to get back to buy some maple syrup.

Cindy: I will stay longer than I expected in Thailand but I will catch up with you in Toronto soon.
Nate: See you provinceside.

Yukon-man: I was visiting Alberta there were so many trucks with trucknuts.
Yukon-man2: Oh, I see you were provinceside eh?

by J-nate August 1, 2017

propinquity

Use this word when you want to seem smart – or stupid. It's your choice, really. (It's all just a big game of fortuna, as it's the other people that form their opinion on you and you cannot really affect that process.) It's the type of word you only see on the "most searched" list of dictionary.com and on Yahoo!'s headlines (the latter-mentioned explains the first-mentioned).

People who have to look up this word are either too smart or "too dumb" and if this being the case, they are also very likely to read Yahoo! News. Why Yahoo! in the first place uses words that are understood only by 0.01‰ (1 out of 100 000) of the population, remains yet unclear. But when you are seen to use this word, people will know (if they're intelligent enough) that you got it from nowhere else than Yahoo! News...

Woody: "The propinquity of these – pardon my sterile approach on the topic – two given objects is inversely proportional to..
Bob: "Why don't you just say "approximity" or "distance" or something?"
Woody: "W-what? I don't.."
Bob: "Yes, you do. Don't play stupid."
Gary: "Yeah, man. Don't use words that are understood only by 3500 Americans – that's what Yahoo! News does."

by Burt Milhorse Eriksson April 12, 2021

proinactive

Coworkers who are proactive about doing nothing.

Those proinactive fucks in merchant services did nothing except wait for me to fix it.

by whatwhat! February 18, 2010

Profing it

Verb: inconveniantly accessing ones inventory during combat in an attempt to prove further uselessness

Im going to prof a synthesis.
hold on! Im profing it

by masterme21 June 29, 2015