Skip to main content

Phoenixing 

When you hit your early 30s and realize you need to reassess all your shit...your values, your beliefs, and your choices, because for the first time in your life you can clearly hear your own voice, and it's time to start living that truth even if you have to burn yourself to the ground and rise from the ashes as someone new - more authentic, stronger, and giving absolutely no fucks what the world says you need to be.
That girl is changing...she owns her shit in a new way...she just gives no fucks anymore and knows what she wants. She's kind of terrifying but a part of me wishes I wish I knew myself like that. Girl is phoenixing...
Phoenixing by Riseup327 June 18, 2020
Words you can keep

Phoenixing 

Our 30’s (or really any age) are a time to take stock, to come to terms with whatever great loss or trauma we’ve all come to experience by now, and to really begin to question who we are, who and what we want to. Sometimes this means stripping some of the old parts away as we step into our truer, more authentic self for the next chapter: this is phoenixing.
As we celebrated my birthday, I felt myself

phoenixing - letting go of past versions of myself to embrace a new chapter of growth and a more authentic version of myself.
Phoenixing by Riseup327 February 18, 2021

Phoenixing 

A phrase for the phase of life you enter after going through a really bad time. Your life feels like it's burned down, and slowly, after what feels like an inordinate amount of time, you resurrect in the best way possible — a way that can only be achieved by going through it in the first place.
"Four months after my breakup, I'm truly phoenixing."
"Eugh, after that bleak time, I'm like, feeling really good — I think I'm in my Phoenixing era."
Phoenixing by phoenix2023 July 23, 2023

Phoenixing 

If zombieing is when a person who ghosted you comes back out of nowhere and the ghosting was negative, phoenixing is that but positive.

When someone who needed to ghost you due to life circumstances (job, relationship, family issues, mental health, etc.) and they come back during a time when the time is right for the both of you, the relationship has been phoenixed.
I met Luz years ago, but we were both focused on our careers. I felt a spark, but was travelling like mad at the time. Years later, after we had lost touch, I ran into her again at a friend's birthday party. And just like that, we Phoenixed.

I had to let Jeremy go. The timing wasn't right. He was in a relationship. I had just gotten out of one. Then, months later, he showed up behind me in line. We've been phoenixing a beautiful relationship ever since.
Phoenixing by TIES SUPER BEAST February 11, 2025

phoenixism 

Recurrent theme in pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong; to devour itself in flames and arise again from its own ash, like the legendary creature.

CCP, if we burn, you burn with us.
nmslese: cockroaches! nmsl! cnmb! gtfo of our land! HK's ours and we rule!
hongkonger: oh really? we'll show you how phoenixism works *shrugs
phoenixism by FreeHK May 17, 2020

Phoenixen 

A phoenix-like race created by MNRS (AKA: Tori-Inazuma on dA) in 2003.
Tori Inazuma is a Phoenixen. The one and only.
Phoenixen by Tori-Inazuma - MNRS January 19, 2009

Phoneilingus 

A phone conversation between a man and a woman (or two women) where the conversation is so pleasurable to the woman caller that she nears orgasm.
Last night Candice and I had some sensual phoneilingus. She was so pleased with our conversation that she literally exploded through the phone.
Phoneilingus by Tiny Bubblez June 11, 2010
More from Urban Dictionary
Acronym, meaning Too Long Didn't Understand
Similar to TLDR
Sister: This meeting was to discuss the rough draft of my essay, where we discussed the subsidiary questions I added in my rough draft. We also discussed the relationship between my main title and the real-life situations I chose to use in my essay. We discussed the structure of my essay as well, specifically the Math AOK section and how it relates to the contradiction of the title. This second meeting was particularly helpful in discussing the implications of my essay claims and how to apply the title across various areas of knowledge. There were many sections of the essay that could have been cut down in wordiness and the ways of knowing required further and more in-depth analysis.

Me: Woah! TLDU!
TLDU by L-Evans January 14, 2019
Word of the Day on August 30, 2026
the act of having anonymous sexual encounters with other men in public toilets.
Cottaging by greeef April 24, 2003
Word of the Day on August 29, 2026

Salad Days 

green inexperienced youthful judgement and cold blooded execution of those judgements.

Rashness with little concern of consequence.

Antony and Cleopatra. William Shakespeare

"My salad days,
When I was green in judgment, cold in blood."

- William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, 1.5
"How did you end up in jail?"

"Salad days, 'nuf said."
Salad Days by GilbyRFC0 October 7, 2011
Word of the Day on August 28, 2026
Next