bad, originating from the fictional language Newspeak in George Orwell's novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four". Newspeak is closely based on English but has a greatly reduced and simplified vocabulary and grammar. This suited the totalitarian regime of the Party of "Ingsoc" (English Socialism), whose aim was to make subversive thought ("thoughtcrime") and speech impossible. Newspeak is engineered to remove even the possibility of rebellious thoughts—the words by which such thoughts might be articulated have been eliminated from the language. Newspeak contains no negative terms. For example, the only way to express the meaning of “bad” is through the word “ungood.”

It would be ungood and a thoughtcrime to attribute this word to West Coast surfers.

ungood by Literary redhead September 29, 2005

Related Words

ungoof • ungoogleable • ungood • ungoogable • Ungoo • Ungooch • Ungoodday • Ungoodnighted • Ungooglable • ungoogle

Ungoogleable

Something unable to be discovered by use of the Google search engine.

No longer a legal word because Google has abandoned their earlier policy of "Don't Be Evil".

"Late last year, the Swedish Language Council published a report of words that had entered the Swedish lexicon in 2012. Among them was ogooglebar – ungoogleable, in English. This did not please Google."

Ungoogleable by ralphiLOLSWERS March 26, 2013

ungoogleable

(also written as ungooglable)

adj. 1) failing to return results from a search engine, especially google.

2) effectively anonymous in the context of a google search (or similar search) due to the overwhelming number of high-ranking results produced by something/someone else with the same name.

(1) "To be ungoogleable is to have never existed" or (2) to have a very, very common name, like my baby sister: searching on her name yields “Results 1 - 10 of about 5,180.” even if she was there, it’d take me half of forever to find her. - Elaine Nelson

ungoogleable by Peter Gilbert March 28, 2004

ungood

when something that really needs to be good is very far from being so

this situation is highly ungood

ungood by manivineet July 14, 2015

Ungood

Not good

The enemy is planting the bomb. This is ungood

Ungood by BT7275 June 29, 2017

Ungoogleable

Having a name so common that a Google search yields thousands of different people with the same name, rendering the search pointless and thus shielding one from scrutiny.

I tried searching for my old friend Joe Smith but it turns out that he's virtually ungoogleable.

Ungoogleable by IpswichBob January 25, 2010

God Shot

A chance happening with profound meaning, an unexpected blessing, a "sign".

Dr. Drew on Celebrity Rehab said "All of a sudden what had been just another Hollywood proposal became for him an unexpected blessing, an opportunity for growth. In drug recovery language, that's called a "God shot."

God Shot by Imogen1564 February 25, 2011

Word of the Day on September 18, 2026

city chicken

A food native to Pittsburgh/Western Pennsylvania in which cubes of pork and/or veal are put on a short, wooden skewer, breaded, then baked and/or fried.

I've heard that city chicken originated during the Great Depression, when folks didn't have enough money to buy full cuts of meat, so they assembled meat scraps on a wooden skewer, creating a make-shift drumstick. Hence the name.

Are yinz havin' city chicken for dinner?

city chicken by TRF August 31, 2006

Word of the Day on September 17, 2026

Is that cake?

Another way to say is this fake? Like the show real or cake

“Slayyyter just announced another album last night”
“No way, is that cake?”
“Yeah whoops this isn’t real”

Is that cake? by Sexyyred September 15, 2026

Word of the Day on September 16, 2026

just fokin missing her

native american reservation origin... to miss an ex so badly that everyone can see it.. can be used for either sex eg. just fokin missing her/him

friend : *noticably sad*
me : look at you all sad & shit
friend : shut up!
me : just fokin missing her huh?

just fokin missing her by d i z k o 2 0 8 September 14, 2026

Word of the Day on September 15, 2026

endwarfins

The rush of neurotransmitters and neuropeptides triggered specifically by watching the Seven Dwarfs march home singing "Heigh-Ho" — that particular high of pickaxes, whistling while you work, and communal domestic bliss in a cottage built for men half your height.

I only meant to watch the Heigh-Ho scene for the endwarfins, and then it was two hours later and I'd watched the whole movie.

Endwarfins aren't just a Snow White thing — I get the same hit off the Lollipop Guild in Oz.

endwarfins by Howard Ogden September 13, 2026

Word of the Day on September 14, 2026

caillou

A slang term used to describe a bald person, typically someone who is completely bald or has a closely shaved head. The term is derived from the infamous, hairless kids’ cartoon character of the same name.

Example 1:
“Did you see that caillou over there? His head is reflecting the sun like a disco ball.”
Example 2:
“I think Dave is finally accepting his hair loss. He just went full caillou and shaved the whole thing off.”

caillou by WMH01 September 12, 2026

Word of the Day on September 13, 2026