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Finicking - verb, pest tense: finicked
derived from: finicky

The behavior of swiping 'yes' to or liking everyone on a dating app in order to get matches, then after matching looking at their profile and un-matching immediately after because you're not interested.

A time consuming way to find out who's liked you on a dating app, but with the option of un-matching if you don't like them.
Ex. 1
Julie: How are you getting so many matches on Bumble Sarah?
Sarah: Oh, I've been finicking for weeks.

Ex. 2
Joe: Damn it! Not again...
Bill: What happened?
Joe: I just got a match notification, went to check her out, and when I went back to the matches screen, she fucking finicked on me!
Related Words

Fanicking 

The sense of panic experience by a fanny, reserved for situations such as a first intimate moment with a new partner, experiences of fanny grooming, or other stressful moments the fanny might experience.
She was fanicking about waxing it all off.

She was fanicking about their date in Saturday night and whether they’d finally seal the deal.
Fanicking by Auntie Fanny July 24, 2022

Finnicking 

I’m finnicking
Finnicking by anonymous August 1, 2025

A Booger In The Nose Of Progress 

Anything that impedes or otherwise interferes with a process going forward.
"Militarily, that inquest was a booger in the nose of progress."

or

"As far as human rights are concerned, this political infighting is a booger in the nose of progress."
Word of the Day on June 2, 2026

🤡🫵🏻

How to say "you're an idiot/clown" using only emojis.
Person 1: Insert completely incorrect and/or idiotic statement here
Person 2: 🤡🫵🏻
Word of the Day on June 1, 2026
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)
fogey by Petyush September 14, 2005
Word of the Day on May 31, 2026