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Pseudolocalism 

The point in which someone decides they belong to a location where they did not grow up.
Person 1: Yo man, how’s the move to New York going for you though?

Person 2: Yo, that was ages ago, I'm at the bodega right now. I'm real New Yorker now bro.

Person 1: Sure, sure. That’s pseudolocalism bro.
Pseudolocalism by Corbusier May 16, 2018
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pseudolocalism 

The fake belonging of a person or group to a defined location. A mental state often exhibited by new residents in cities throughout the world.
‘The students exhibit pseudolocalism by using colloquial words from an area to which they have only just moved .’
pseudolocalism by Corbusier June 3, 2018

🤡🫵🏻

How to say "you're an idiot/clown" using only emojis.
Person 1: Insert completely incorrect and/or idiotic statement here
Person 2: 🤡🫵🏻
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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
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Add a tablespoon of jarlic to two teaspoons of butter and spread it in bread to make garlic bread
Jarlic by YSAC fanboy June 6, 2020
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An armpit enthusiast — typically of the scent, appearance, and touch of hairy underarms.
That dude’s such a pitpig, I have to wear deodorant to keep him at bay.
Pitpig by wimbledon May 28, 2026
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