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panicdote 

Recounting incidents that you make up under lots of pressure when you get caught doing something you shouldn't have to avoid telling the truth. Are often not well thought out and mostly presented to cops, parents, angry friends or teachers.
Guy in shit with the Po: "Oh sorry officer, uh my car..got um...stuck a little ways back so i uhhh came into this guys garage to look for...fuel, yeah fuel, but i didnt want to wake him up see, i was just gonna check if he had any first"

Officer McFagmoore: "Yea sure nice panicdote buddy you look like you're gonna piss yourself. Get in the car."
panicdote by Gary Weedson January 19, 2010
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panicdote 

When one is supposed to be engaged in conversation and therefore actively listening, one can sometimes find oneself at a loss for words when, unexpectedly, a response is desired and the would be responder has not been paying attention. In an effort to comply, one sometimes stammers and says something ridiculous, unrelated or incoherent. The unfortunate utterance is called a panicdote.
John: ....so that is why we should support the ruling party's plan to build a nuclear plant on top of the San Andreas fault, you see?

Mary, having heard nothing John has said, responds with the following panicdote: ....I have a kitty at home.
panicdote by Dr. Fromage September 14, 2013

panicdote 

The feeling that occurs when you have started an anecdote and realise that you don't know where the story is going and you are likely to not even receive a single, isolated, pity filled laugh.
Friend 1: So I was telling this girl the other night about last week I went to that really great new hardware shop that opened in town, and it totally turned into a panicdote.
Friend 2: Did you just have another panicdote?
panicdote by Juni Bear February 27, 2015
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
To take something small, that doesn't quite qualify as a theft. Probably from the Danish "skæv" or the Dutch "scheef", both of which are pronounced similarly, meaning "askew, or not quite right'. To change an item's ownership without permission, but only something small and of little worth.
"I skeefed an apple off the neighbor's tree." "I skeefed some chips outta your bag when you looked away." "Don't skeef my chair when I go to the bathroom."
Skeef by kachinaflonk July 16, 2026
Word of the Day on July 17, 2026

Hair spider

A tight, tangled knot of loose hair and lint that forms inside clothing during the clothes dryer cycle. It typically hides inside garments, causing an annoying lump or a phantom tickling sensation against the skin until it is found or falls out onto the floor during folding.
I was folding my clothes and a huge hair spider fell out onto my hand
Hair spider by Kmorsels July 15, 2026
Word of the Day on July 16, 2026