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Tamsinate

tamsinates, tamsinating, tamsination, past tamsinated

1. verb. subject informal prose to exacting scrutiny and high-handed correction. An act of grammatical pedantry in which amendments are delivered in the manner of a condescending school ma'am, usually resulting in the badgitation of the beneficiary.

2. verb. obsessively clean and tidy an area until it gleams like Mr Muscle's kitchen.
'Madam, I fear I shall be accused of tamsination, but your shopping list contains a most egregious dangling modifier.'
Lady Sneerwell in Richard Brinsley Sheridan, School for Scandal (1777)

'The room was clean. Too clean. The tip-off said there was a Jane on the floor with a slug in her head. Now the joint looked tamsinated.'
Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye (1953)
by badgerboyjon October 26, 2011
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Transintellectual

What is a Transintellectual?

Trans is a Latin noun or prefix meaning across, beyond or on the opposite side.

Transhumanism is an international cultural and intellectual movement with an eventual goal of fundamentally transforming the human condition by developing and making widely available technologies to greatly enhance human intellectual, physical, and psychological capacities. Transhumanist thinkers study the potential benefits and dangers of emerging technologies that could overcome fundamental human limitations, as well as the ethics of developing and using such technologies. They speculate that human beings may eventually be able to transform themselves into beings with such greatly expanded abilities as to merit the label posthuman.

An intellectual is a person who primarily uses intelligence in either a professional or an individual capacity. As a substantive or adjective, it refers to the work product of such persons, to the so-called life of the mind generally, or to an aspect of something where learning, erudition, and informed and critical thinking are the focus.

The Kardashev Scale is a method of measuring a civilization's level of technological advancement, based on the amount of energy a civilization is able to utilize. The scale has three designated categories called Type I, II, and III.

A transintellectual is a person who who values intelligence in either a professional or personal capacity in active pursuit of upward mobility across the Kardashev Scale.
Dave values intelligence in either a professional or personal capacity in active pursuit of upward mobility across the Kardashev Scale. Dave is a transintellectual.
by Dyson Sphere November 21, 2022
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Power-tanning

In efforts to get a tan by direct sun-exposure, one knowingly avoids high SPF values in order to get a darker skin-color ASAP. This usually means risking a sunburn. However, burnt skin will gradually turn tan.
Girl 1: Hey, you should apply some sunscreen. You're gonna get a sunburn.

Girl 2: That's OK, I'm power-tanning.
by simba_j August 9, 2015
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Spicer Tannins

Complete oral diarrhea spewed constantly to no end. Generally leaves a bitter taste on anyone's palette.
Did you read this email from the communications department? Just more top level spicer tannins.
by Eaton Holgoode February 22, 2017
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tanning injections

Tanning injections refer to the injection of one of the melanotan peptides (melanotan-1 and melanotan II) to develop pigmentation in one's skin thus allowing individuals who ordinarily cannot tan or have difficulty doing so (fitzpatrick skin type I and type II, ie: redheads and gingers) to be able to do so. See: Melanotan.org
United Kingdom Jordan's (Katie Price) boyfriend was amazingly tanned from having used tanning injections.
by melanotan September 23, 2009
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tangina

Possibly, one of the most wonderful word ever invented.
Tangina is the word that unfailingly expresses every feeling and word inside your heart.
"Mary, I love you."
"Putangina!"

"There's a cockroach."
"Putangina!"

"Stop writing and pass the paper."
"Putangina!"
by Asdfghjkl pinoy March 22, 2012
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tangina mong gago ka

"Tangina mong gago ka" is a phrase in the Philippines.

It means that you're admiring your feelings to someone you truly love.

So when you like someone say "tangina mong gago ka" that's they way you Express your feelings here in the Philippines.
"Hey, I just wanna say tangina mong gago ka"
"Really??? Omg tangina mong gago ka din."
by Choi beomgyu 010 December 12, 2021
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