semiotic

person with just one functional eye

David Bowie is semiotic

by Journas October 9, 2003

semiotic war

Conducting a war using a full range of signs and symbols -- but pointedly excluding violence or other unlawful or violent acts. A war of ideas in the age of internet and multimedia. Compare scamizdat.

The Internet's response to Scientology's attempt to rmgroup alt.religion.scientology included publishing their trade-secret "scriptures," graphically reviling them, putting billboards on trucks and buses, hosting radio talk-show segments, songwriting, projecting laser glyphs on walls, having aircraft pull pennants with slogans, picketing their headquarters, deconstructing their newsletters, creating cartoon lampoons and webpages, and, in other words, full semiotic war.

by Jeffrey Wright January 4, 2007

Semitic

Family of related languages long spoken across part of western Asia and northern Africa. In antiquity these languages included Hebrew, Aramaic, and Phoenician. The most wide–spread modern member of the Semitic family is Arabic.

As early as 2900 B.C.E., personal names recorded in inscriptions from the northerly cities reveal a non-Sumerian Semitic language.

by HistoryNerd94 December 16, 2010

semitic good looks

the physical attractiveness of a Jewish person

Lisa Simpson: "I believe everything you say, with your words and Semitic good looks."

by beautiful_penguin May 21, 2016

Semitician

Noun:
Anyone who interprets cultural signs and symbols for evidence of a grand Jewish conspiracy.

"That Australian film guy is a semitician."
Or:
"I have this crazy semitician neighbour. He collects World War II memorabilia".

by TajUK January 19, 2007

semitic

Semitic is an adjective which in common parlance mistakenly refers specifically to Jewish things, while the term actually refers to things originating among speakers of Semitic languages or people descended from them, and in a linguistic context to the northeastern subfamily of Afro-Asiatic.

Both Arabs and Jews are semites.

by Anti-zionist April 27, 2005

semiotics

Codeword for "I'm a big bitch." Used often by pseudointellectuals, "artists" who don't do art but talk about it, and philosophy academics that think with their crotch and talk out their asshole.

As an artist, I'm interested in semiotics and the relationship between excreta and the soul.

by bigtrick September 4, 2006