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pmsplaining 

When a girl from Plumstead Manor who thinks she's smarter than you tries to explains something to you
"stop pmsplaining it's bare jarring init"
pmsplaining by Hurl Tie March 5, 2023

paulsplaining 

The act of overriding another's experience and knowledge brought on by your ability to conjure the power of 1,000 vaginas and Mother Teresa herself.
I was trying to describe how bad my period felt but then dumbfuck Jerry paulsplained, saying I shouldn't feel any pain because periods are just papercuts that take a while to clot.

I wanted to get the HPV vaccine, but my dickhole dad paulsplained that it wasn't necessary and I'd get autism if I got it anyhow.

I was talking to my friend at work, Sarah, about how prevalent rape is and our colleague, Terry the Terrible, came over and did some paulsplaining. He said we should just dress more appropriately or start carrying a gun if we didn't want to be raped.
paulsplaining by melinoff March 28, 2019

Pamsplaining 

The art of overly explaining information in great detail when it isn’t necessary
My ears are bleeding because of Pamsplaining.
Pamsplaining by WhoDat1323 January 14, 2022

Polisplaining 

Polisplaining occurs when a politician or political commentator talks condescendingly to someone about something he / she has incomplete knowledge of, with the mistaken assumption that she / he knows more about it than the person he's talking to does.
I just spent the last hour listening to a group of talking head polisplaining an issue everyone knows they haven't seen (or don't have the clearance to see) the evidence.

Puttsplaining 

When a golfer, usually a bad golfer, misses a putt and then explains to everyone in the group that the reason the putt didn't go in was because it didn't break or it went straight when it should have gone right or left. This is despite everyone in the group knowing the puttsplainer is a shitty putter and that he/she had little chance to make this or any other putt attempted.
By the time Greg finished puttsplaining why he missed that six footer that everyone on the planet except him knows breaks six inches to the left, I was ready to get in the cart and go back to the clubhouse.
Puttsplaining by McFlyJones June 7, 2024

Paulsplaining 

The art of condescending when explaining something trival to someone while simultaneously making it up due to a complete lack of knowledge on the subject. Paulsplaining is the art of dogmaticly sticking to a point of view in spite of apposing aguements which seem to be correct.
No chance of getting your point across this fucker is paulsplaining, you might as well go and debate the wind.
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piddlefart

verb. To waste time doing nothing.
Instead of doing my homework, I decided to piddlefart around for two hours.
piddlefart by Rene April 25, 2005
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anyone who succeeds in disgracing/over indulging themselves in the throws of clubland
28 hours and 4 clubs later, gurning for england but still refusing to go home - a total wrongun!!
wrongun by bevvers March 21, 2007
Word of the Day on October 8, 2026

square grouper

Nickname given to bales of marijuana thrown overboard or out of airplanes. Origin is reportedly from members of the US Coast Guard in the area of Southern Florida.
"Base we've got some square groupers floating outside of Miami harbor."
square grouper by slipsheet November 6, 2004
Word of the Day on October 7, 2026
A girl who does ballet and only talks about ballet. Her schedule is filled with dance classes which does not allow her to do any other activity.
"Hey, do you know that girl Sally?"

"Yeah, she's kind of annoying. All she ever talks about it ballet."

"Wow, what a Bunhead."

"Hey Sally, you want to hang out this weekend?"
"I can't, I have dance."
"You're such a Bunhead."

"Yeah... I know."
Bunhead by Jen00 October 24, 2014
Word of the Day on October 6, 2026

trucker's tan 

A sunburn or suntan focused on the left arm. It is caused by the left side of the body being the only half that gets exposed to sunlight while driving. Presumably, it would be located on the right side of the body in countries where they drive on the left side of the road.
I had a trucker's tan after driving for 10 straight hours on a sunny day.
Word of the Day on October 5, 2026
The phenomenon where adults salivate at children's toys
Every time I walk into the toy aisle, I catch myself kidulting over the latest action figures and LEGO sets!
kidulting by Emotional Cruiser October 12, 2025
Word of the Day on October 4, 2026
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