Similar to virtue signalling but done by means of buying trendy goods or services so as to display one's sense of contrived self-superiority: items such as books by politically correct authors, garish artwork purported to save rain-forests, or FairTrade coffee that makes the buyer feel woke; faddishly leftist buying habits that conform to intersectionality and other expressions of socially popular SJW pseudoscience, especially popular among university students.
Asheleigh-Meghan isn't going to actually read Michelle Obama's new book. She just bought it to put on the coffee table in case one of her black classmates shows up unexpectedly. It's more of a virtue-purchase.
by Father Hollywood December 4, 2018
Get the virtue-purchase mug.Perchide (verb): to create a word to fit a description or to create a description with which to define a word. Perchiding can stand for the creation of anything, however, and is not limited to words or definitions.
Verb (common form):
(Future tense) Will Perchide
(Present tense) To Perchide
(Past tense) Have Perchud
Noun:
Perchidation - anything that has been perchud
Adjective:
Perchidant - of any relation to a perchidation
Verb (common form):
(Future tense) Will Perchide
(Present tense) To Perchide
(Past tense) Have Perchud
Noun:
Perchidation - anything that has been perchud
Adjective:
Perchidant - of any relation to a perchidation
Running on only two hours of sleep, he still managed to perchide the rough draft before the deadline.
by Ian Rahman November 14, 2007
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A secret form of manipulation commonly used by 4-14 year olds to get what they want. They often use this after receiving bad news, going to do or have just done something hard, or after doing something good. They use pitty as a good excuse to buy or do something that they would normally not be able to do or buy otherwise.
-Moooommmmmm, the dentist really hurt!!! Can we go to the toy store?
-No.
-Please........... It really hurts...............Owwwww.......
-No.
2 minutes later
-I'm sorry for being so annoying.... I'm over it....Owwwww.
-Would you stop trying to get me to do pitty purchasing. And we didn't even go to the dentist, you got a haircut.
-Awkward....
-No.
-Please........... It really hurts...............Owwwww.......
-No.
2 minutes later
-I'm sorry for being so annoying.... I'm over it....Owwwww.
-Would you stop trying to get me to do pitty purchasing. And we didn't even go to the dentist, you got a haircut.
-Awkward....
by sportsdude88 March 16, 2010
Get the Pitty Purchasing mug.What you say at the end of a lame story, or during an awkward silence. Can be used instead of "and then I found 20 dollars" or "and that's why you never milk an ostrich"
Alana: So... I was walking yesterday, and I saw a llama. He looked at me, and then he fell asleep. So I went home because I was tired. And then I went to sleep. When I woke up it was 7:00 so I went to school
Amy:...
Alana: And then a hobo walked out, burst into flames, and gave me a free refrigerator with a purchase of five dollars or more
Amy:...
Alana: And then a hobo walked out, burst into flames, and gave me a free refrigerator with a purchase of five dollars or more
by TheGreatKateWeatherMachine October 30, 2011
Get the And then a hobo walked out, burst into flames, and gave me a free refrigerator with a purchase of five dollars or more mug.One or more people that unlawfully enter a property with the goal of stealing newly delivered packages from the doorstep of a private home before the items have been secured.
by wise_coinmaster January 2, 2018
Get the Porch Pirates mug.A man whose penis is not long enough to hang past his scrotum. Therefor the penis "perches" on the testicles.
The term was coined in Ventura, CA
but since has spread to parts of Nevada and Minnesota
The term was coined in Ventura, CA
but since has spread to parts of Nevada and Minnesota
by Sota507 October 7, 2010
Get the Percher mug.(noun) an intimidating douche who taunts you from the safety of his porch
(noun)Person who sits on his or her porch and points out the obvious to people who pass by. Very shady. Also is slightly rude.
(noun)Person who sits on his or her porch and points out the obvious to people who pass by. Very shady. Also is slightly rude.
Jessie's (from The Walking Dead) husband is a porchdick.
by uncthegreatest40 March 8, 2015
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