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Promptly 

ADJECTIVE:

1. Done immediately, at once and without delay.

VERB:

1. To make somebody decide to do something.

2. To cause something to happen

3. To provide actors during a performance with words or lines they have forgotten.

4. To suggest something that somebody ought to say, or give a reminder to a speaker.

NOUN:

1. A reminder to a performer of the words or lines he or she has forgotten.

2. The act or occasion of reminding a performer of forgotten words or lines.

3. A symbol or message displayed on a computer monitor or an audio signal informing a computer user that some input is required.

4. The time limit of payment for goods or services, as indicated on a prompt note.
ADJECTIVE:

1. She promptly made coffee.

VERB:

1. What prompted him to change his mind, we don't yet know.
2. Fears of inflation prompted an immediate rise in interest rates.
3. He had to be prompted three times in the first scene.
4. His wife had to prompt him to mention the cleaning staff.

NOUN:

1. The reminder itself.
2. The reminding.
3. A computer symbol.
4. Time limit.
Promptly by Jafje April 15, 2007
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Prompty Dumpty 

A term describing the frustrating experience when a carefully crafted AI prompt produces unexpected or nonsensical results. Often used in the context of AI language models or chatbots.
Example of use: "I spent an hour perfecting my prompt, but the AI's response was complete Prompty Dumpty - it totally missed the point and gave me useless information.
I spent an hour crafting the perfect prompt, but it was just another case of Prompty Dumpty - the AI's response fell far short of what I wanted.
Prompty Dumpty by restiguay October 4, 2024
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Promptlagging

The unproductive trance you fall into while waiting for an AI prompt to finish so you can actually do the thing you wanted to do. You can't start the next task because the answer isn't here yet, and you can't walk away because you'll lose your flow. So you just sit there. Watching a spinner. Slowly dying. A blend of "prompt" and "lagging" — like jetlag, but induced by a language model instead of a time zone.
"Sorry I missed your message, I was deep in promptlagging — Claude was cooking on a 200k-context refactor and I just stared at the loading dots like a dog at a window."

funiosity 

The art of being peculiar, but in an amusing fashion.
"Wow, look at that dog running on three legs"
- "Yeah, that sure is a funiosity"
funiosity by Supersonic Stevie November 23, 2007
Word of the Day on July 25, 2026
A toe rag was originally a foot wrapping used, since mediaeval times up until the mid-nineteenth century, to protect the foot from chafing by boots or shoes. As these were, quite literally, rags they weren’t usually washed, and so with use they became very smelly until they were thrown away. Because of the similarity in smell, toe rag also became the name applied to dried, salted cod or other things with a strong, unpleasant, fishy smell. It didn’t take that long before the name was applied to someone who was an obnoxious, unpleasant OIC.
1 “Socks! Those aren’t socks you smelly git, they’re toe rags!”
2 “What have you been cooking? Smells like toe rag!”
3 “I can smell ‘er fanny from ‘ere, proper toe rag.”
4 That Heale Malcolm is a right toe rag.
Toe Rag by AKACroatalin November 29, 2016
Word of the Day on July 24, 2026

Eternity leave 

When some resigns or retires from a job, they are on "eternity leave". This can also refer to someone who has passed away, especially someone who worked somewhere for a long time, retired/resigned, then passed away later.
Oh I'm sorry, you didn't know that Kelly is on eternity leave? She resigned and moved to Hawaii!

With regrets I would like to inform you that my boss is officially on eternity leave. I will never see or hear them again. Ever.
Eternity leave by LingDanc803 February 7, 2023
Word of the Day on July 23, 2026
The hypothetical man (often a sinister character who decided not to go to boot camp) that is doing your girlfriend/wife while you are on deployment overseas.
Ain't no use in goin home,
Jody's got your girl and gone.
Ain't no use in goin back,
Jody's got your Cadillac,
Ain't no use in feeling blue,
Jody's took your checkbook too.
jody by Sgt Apan March 31, 2006
Word of the Day on July 22, 2026