by JohnnyTwoFeathers September 27, 2025
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It's linguistically correct description of, well, the sound pigs make.
It's linguistically correct description of, well, the sound pigs make.
First-year linguistics students can be humiliated by asking them to include nasal-ingressive voiceless velar trill in their presentation of rare and difficult-to-pronounce sounds in the West African languages.
by Stephanie^^ December 10, 2010
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Behavior characterized by a statement that insinuates one’s own awesomeness in an unassuming, detached or even self-deprecating manner - i.e. bragging while trying not to seem like you're bragging.
1. Matt was being so passive-impressive when he told us he felt like a total dipshit after realizing he had spinach in his teeth while he was talking to Colin Kaepernick at that party last night.
2. I hate when people tweet passive-impressive stuff like: “Gosh, I am really dragging ass today after running 30 miles before work."
2. I hate when people tweet passive-impressive stuff like: “Gosh, I am really dragging ass today after running 30 miles before work."
by recklessdiver February 20, 2013
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by botoxthisbotoxthat January 9, 2021
Get the Impressive cock mug.1) A form of change which cannot be characterized as either "progressive" or "regressive," yet still constitutes a definite change in state.
2) A word used in academia to mean "staying the same" while sounding smart.
3) Change which does not proceed in a direction along a some ladder or hierarchy, but stays within the same bracket, rung, or level, while still definitely changing. Characteristic of a range of changes that could move up or down a progression, but instead moves sideways.
2) A word used in academia to mean "staying the same" while sounding smart.
3) Change which does not proceed in a direction along a some ladder or hierarchy, but stays within the same bracket, rung, or level, while still definitely changing. Characteristic of a range of changes that could move up or down a progression, but instead moves sideways.
1) "While in former times we believed society to either morally regress into meaner and more privative states, or to progress into ever loftier levels of development — today we realize that the morals of civilization are largely isomorphic with those of previous societies and therefore we move only isogressively.
2) "Who I am today is neither better nor worse than who I was a year ago, my changes are only isogressive, and I have not progressed at all in life.
2) "Who I am today is neither better nor worse than who I was a year ago, my changes are only isogressive, and I have not progressed at all in life.
by Pseudophor January 6, 2019
Get the isogressive mug.when someone you have not seen in a while, like a rediscovery on facebook from 20 years ago from the 5th grade and you are now in your thirties posts..."wow, I didn't recognize you without the glasses, bad haircut...etc...you look great now" translation... "wow, you used to be very ugly in the 5th grade and now you look, well, wow, YOU LOOK GREAT...." impressively rude is when you compliment someone on how they look now in such a way that you insult how they used to look in the process....
Random re-aqaintance to someone they have not seen in a while..
old friend "wow, you look so great now, I barely recognized you because you used to be so fat".
you "um, thanks...I think".
You re-tell the story to an existing friend...so and so was impressively rude when I saw her telling me how great I look now... how fat did she think I was before?
old friend "wow, you look so great now, I barely recognized you because you used to be so fat".
you "um, thanks...I think".
You re-tell the story to an existing friend...so and so was impressively rude when I saw her telling me how great I look now... how fat did she think I was before?
by The one and only Pinksnout December 12, 2009
Get the Impressively Rude mug.Linguistics joke. There's a fake IPA symbol to go with it, that looks like a pig snout.
It's linguistically correct description of, well, the sound pigs make.
It's linguistically correct description of, well, the sound pigs make.
First-year linguistics students can be humiliated by asking them to include nasal-ingressive voiceless velar trill in their presentation of rare and difficult-to-pronounce sounds in the West African languages.
by Stephanie^^ December 10, 2010
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