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Emotional Blackmail 

When the people in your life use fear, obligation, and guilt to manipulate you. It is a very powerful form of manipulation in which the person directly or indirectly threatens to punish you if you don't compile with how they want you to behave.

Some examples of things Emotional Blackmailers say are: "If you really loved me..." "After all I've done for you..." "How can you be so selfish..."
An emotional blackmail artist will use your vulberabilities and deepest secrets against you.
Emotional Blackmail by OneBadAsp October 22, 2006
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Emotional blackmail 

A form of blackmail that usually doesn't affect you directly, however makes you feel guilty if you do not do what the blackmailer wants.

Emotional blackmail often happens when someone refuses to be the blackmailer's boyfriend/girlfriend.
Emotional Blackmail often consists of crying, cutting themselves, or even as far as threatening to commit suicide.

Emotional Blackmail 

When someone tries to get you to do something by suggesting that you will be hurting a loved one, a pet, etc etc.
"I think its insensitive, you shouldn't do it. BUT it's your decision, you do what you wanna do" ~ emotional blackmailing cunt.

Emotional Blackmail 

No.
Hym "No... 'Emotional Blackmail' is using 'your kids' (in abstraction) to aggregate unearned power and grant yourself extra-judicial authority over other people. You're the ones who chose to subject them to reality. They aren't going to be safe either way, so, no... You don't get to be God unto Pharoah. End of discussion."
Emotional Blackmail by Hym Iam April 27, 2023

Emojinal Blackmail 

When someone uses emojis to make you feel guilty about something you have or haven’t done.
Bloke: I’m not gonna be round later I’m off to the pub with the lads.
Mrs: that’s fine 😔
Bloke: that’s emojinal blackmail
Emojinal Blackmail by Wavey Davey February 9, 2019

bang a you-ee 

of Massachusetts orig. "to make a u-turn"
hey, we missed the bar, bang a you-ee
Word of the Day on July 19, 2026
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