fonq
fonq by the finqer February 22, 2022
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fonqa
A word that currently isn't in the dictionary, but should be.
Used by "how big is your vocabulary" tests to trip you up.
First spotted September 22, 2014 at 5:55 pm San Francisco time via a Facebook quiz from the company Jebdu . com. The name of the individual who coined the phrase at the company is unknown at this time (it wasn't me, I don't work there!)
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Used by "how big is your vocabulary" tests to trip you up.
First spotted September 22, 2014 at 5:55 pm San Francisco time via a Facebook quiz from the company Jebdu . com. The name of the individual who coined the phrase at the company is unknown at this time (it wasn't me, I don't work there!)
If you looked up fonqa while doing the quiz to prove that it IS in the dictionary, please add your location and date.
Cromulent was a fonqa until it got popular, now it's in all the dictionaries.
The Oxford Oxford Dictionaries added these three fonqas in 2014: ‘Hot Mess,’ ‘Side Boob,’ ‘Throw Shade’
The Oxford Oxford Dictionaries added these three fonqas in 2014: ‘Hot Mess,’ ‘Side Boob,’ ‘Throw Shade’
fonqa by MichalSpocko September 22, 2014
fogey
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!
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)