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To present personal opinion or conjecture as though it were proven fact.
To conflate “reckons” with actual research or evidence.

Usually delivered with confidence but lacking substantiation.

Also a person or thing that presents opinion as fact, without any support or validation.
Someone who habitually mistakes their gut feeling for empirical truth.
Don’t jonscot your way through the report, we need real numbers.
He totally jonscotted the meeting — three vibes, zero facts.
Classic Facebook thread: 80% jonscotting, 20% cat pics.
She's a jonscot, doesn't know the difference between opinion and fact.
Jonscot by Marque Mywords September 25, 2025
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johnscott 

Johnscott is a famous YouTuber that has been around since the beginning of time. He is the one true big bullheffer. He is the most ancient and crusty being but is a great heffer and loves to role play bull heffers.
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jobscotching 

marked by changing jobs usually in just a matter of a few months as a personal choice rather than necessarily being fired or laid-off; seeking to gain as much work experience as possible through many employment opportunities over short periods of time
Many millennials want to gain as much work experience as possible right out of high school or college and often resort to going from job to job or jobscotching to achieve this.
jobscotching by JJam in MT May 3, 2021
The word 'flag' as pronounced by people with thick Belfast accents. The term is a perfect encapsulation of the disproportionate and overblown reaction to the removal of the Union Jack (as in 'de fleg') from above City Hall in Belfast. Where previously it had flown for 365 days per year, it is now flown on 17 designated days of the year - in line with many other British cities.

The event caused a portion of the Protestant community ('fleggers') to make international pricks of themselves as they proceeded to wreck the fucking place, claiming it was another erosion of a 'British' identity they perceive to have been under attack since the horrifying spectre of equality reared its head in Northern Ireland.

The word 'fleg' - and indeed 'fleggers' - fittingly describes a section of humanity unconcerned with knowledge, reality or the vagaries of the English language. Like America's tea-baggers they are ruled by instinct, fear and paranoia with a side dish of rampant bigotry and startling ignorance of the world around them.
"Wat de fuck like! The taigs got de fleg took down! Let's wreck de fuckin place! No surrender!"

"De fleg has been took down! Before ye know it there'll be a united Ireland! Attack Short Strand! God Save The Queen!"
Fleg by OnionFleg August 9, 2013
Word of the Day on July 18, 2026
To take something small, that doesn't quite qualify as a theft. Probably from the Danish "skæv" or the Dutch "scheef", both of which are pronounced similarly, meaning "askew, or not quite right'. To change an item's ownership without permission, but only something small and of little worth.
"I skeefed an apple off the neighbor's tree." "I skeefed some chips outta your bag when you looked away." "Don't skeef my chair when I go to the bathroom."
Skeef by kachinaflonk July 16, 2026
Word of the Day on July 17, 2026

Hair spider

A tight, tangled knot of loose hair and lint that forms inside clothing during the clothes dryer cycle. It typically hides inside garments, causing an annoying lump or a phantom tickling sensation against the skin until it is found or falls out onto the floor during folding.
I was folding my clothes and a huge hair spider fell out onto my hand
Hair spider by Kmorsels July 15, 2026
Word of the Day on July 16, 2026