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A person who expresses indifference or apathy towards something. Also: <b>meh sayer</b>, <b>mehsayer</b>. </div> </p><p> <div class="entry-citation"> @timoreilly New meta-post responding to Ada Lovelace Day <b>meh-sayers</b>: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100406075155/http://bit.ly/curDXA">http://bit.ly/curDXA</a> #ald10.<br> —Carlos McEvilly (@panopy), "<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100406075155/http://twitter.com/panopy/status/10992340072">New meta post...</a>," <i>Twitter</i>, March 24, 2010 </div> <div class="entry-footer"> <div class="entry-footer-read-more"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100406075155/http://www.wordspy.com/words/meh-sayer.asp" style="text-decoration: underline">Read more about “meh-sayer” »</a></font>    <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100406075155/http://www.wordspy.com/words/meh-sayer.asp#comments" style="text-decoration: underline">Comments (1)</a></font> </div> <div class="entry-footer-posted-on"> Posted on March 26, 2010 </div> </div> </div> <div class="entry1"> <div class="entry-subheader"> NEW </div> <div class="entry-header"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100406075155/http://www.wordspy.com/words/jihobbyist.asp" class="entry-header"> jihobbyist </a> </div> <div class="entry-definition"> <em>n</em>. A person who is interested in and sympathetic to the goals of radical Islam, but who is not a member of a radical group. Also: <b>ji-hobbyist</b>. </div> </p><p> <div class="entry-citation"> '<b>Jihobbyists</b>' are people drawn to the online theater of violent jihad, becoming increasingly radical as they delve deeper into Web forums. Colleen LaRose, also known as 'Jihad Jane,' is an example of this threat, according to counterterrorism experts.<br> —Michael B. Farrell, "<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100406075155/http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/0319/Jihad-Jane-case-suggests-rising-threat-from-online-jihobbyists">Jihad Jane case suggests rising threat from online '<b>jihobbyists</b>'</a>," <i>The Christian Science Monitor</i>, March 19, 2010 </div> <div class="entry-footer"> <div class="entry-footer-read-more"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100406075155/http://www.wordspy.com/words/jihobbyist.asp" style="text-decoration: underline">Read more about “jihobbyist” »</a></font>    <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100406075155/http://www.wordspy.com/words/jihobbyist.asp#comments" style="text-decoration: underline">Comments (0)</a></font> </div> <div class="entry-footer-posted-on"> Posted on March 25, 2010 </div> </div> </div> <div class="entry2"> <div class="entry-subheader"> NEW </div> <div class="entry-header"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100406075155/http://www.wordspy.com/words/Chermany.asp" class="entry-header"> Chermany </a> </div> <div class="entry-definition"> <em>n</em>. China and Germany taken together, particularly as an economic entity or market. [Blend of <i>China</i> and <i>Germany</i>.] </div> </p><p> <div class="entry-citation"> The U.S. perpetually runs large trade deficits with the rest of the world (especially "<b>Chermany</b>") because other countries are far more focused on export-led growth.<br> —Steven Capozzola, "<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100406075155/http://manufacturethis.org/?p=8767"><b>Chermany</b></a>," <i>Manufacture This</i>, March 18, 2010 </div> <div class="entry-footer"> <div class="entry-footer-read-more"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100406075155/http://www.wordspy.com/words/Chermany.asp" style="text-decoration: underline">Read more about “Chermany” »</a></font>    <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100406075155/http://www.wordspy.com/words/Chermany.asp#comments" style="text-decoration: underline">Comments (0)</a></font> </div> <div class="entry-footer-posted-on"> Posted on March 24, 2010 </div> </div> </div> <div class="entry4"> <div class="entry-subheader"> NEW </div> <div class="entry-header"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100406075155/http://www.wordspy.com/words/miserylit.asp" class="entry-header"> misery lit </a> </div> <div class="entry-definition"> <em>n</em>. A memoir or novel that focuses on extreme personal trauma and abuse. Also: <b>misery-lit</b>, <b>mis lit</b>, <b>misery literature</b>, <b>misery memoir</b>. </div> </p><p> <div class="entry-citation"> Today's idea: Is women's fiction plagued by "<b>misery lit</b>," obsessed with bereavement, child abuse and rape? Or "chick lit," obsessed with Prada handbags and landing the perfect catch? Or is it torn between the two? British writers have at it.<br> —Tom Kuntz, "<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100406075155/http://ideas.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/18/woe-is-womens-lit/">Woe Is Women's Lit</a>," <i>Idea of the Day</i> (NYTimes.com), March 18, 2010 </div> <div class="entry-footer"> <div class="entry-footer-read-more"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100406075155/http://www.wordspy.com/words/miserylit.asp" style="text-decoration: underline">Read more about “misery lit” »</a></font>    <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100406075155/http://www.wordspy.com/words/miserylit.asp#comments" style="text-decoration: underline">Comments (0)</a></font> </div> <div class="entry-footer-posted-on"> Posted on March 19, 2010 </div> </div> </div> <div class="entry2"> <div class="entry-subheader"> NEW </div> <div class="entry-header"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100406075155/http://www.wordspy.com/words/thumbo.asp" class="entry-header"> thumbo </a> </div> <div class="entry-definition"> <em>n</em>. An error made while using the thumbs to type, particularly on a mobile device keypad. [Blend of <i>thumb</i> and <i>typo</i>.] </div> </p><p> <div class="entry-citation"> How do you get rid of "<b>thumbos</b>," those cellphone message typos? Practice. And some handy tips.<br> —"<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100406075155/http://www.onenewspage.com/news/Technology/20100317/9225679/Touch-Type-With-Your-Thumbs.htm">Touch Type With Your Thumbs</a>," <i>One News Page</i>, March 17, 2010 </div> <div class="entry-footer"> <div class="entry-footer-read-more"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100406075155/http://www.wordspy.com/words/thumbo.asp" style="text-decoration: underline">Read more about “thumbo” »</a></font>    <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100406075155/http://www.wordspy.com/words/thumbo.asp#comments" style="text-decoration: underline">Comments (0)</a></font> </div> <div class="entry-footer-posted-on"> Posted on March 18, 2010 </div> </div> </div> <div class="entry4"> <div class="entry-subheader"> NEW </div> <div class="entry-header"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100406075155/http://www.wordspy.com/words/infoganda.asp" class="entry-header"> infoganda </a> </div> <div class="entry-definition"> <em>n</em>. A fake or misleading news story designed to further a hidden agenda. [Blend of <i>information</i> and <i>propaganda</i>.] </div> </p><p> <div class="entry-citation"> That is the conclusion of a fascinating new book, "Why America Fights," which traces America's involvement in a number of wars. It introduces a new word: <b>infoganda</b>. This being the masquerading of propaganda to go to war as information; Donald Rumsfeld called it "perception management." When you watch the military flyovers here each July 3, that is really and sadly part of that <b>infoganda</b> campaign, which has gotten costly and almost sacrilegious if you oppose it.<br> —John Frievalds, "<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100406075155/http://www.thonline.com/article.cfm?id=276289">Government '<b>infoganda</b>' has turned defense spending into a sacred cow</a>," <i>Telegraph Herald</i>, March 14, 2010 </div> <div class="entry-footer"> <div class="entry-footer-read-more"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100406075155/http://www.wordspy.com/words/infoganda.asp" style="text-decoration: underline">Read more about “infoganda” »</a></font>    <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100406075155/http://www.wordspy.com/words/infoganda.asp#comments" style="text-decoration: underline">Comments (0)</a></font> </div> <div class="entry-footer-posted-on"> Posted on March 16, 2010 </div> </div> </div> <div class="entry2"> <div class="entry-subheader"> NEW </div> <div class="entry-header"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100406075155/http://www.wordspy.com/words/libeltourist.asp" class="entry-header"> libel tourist </a> </div> <div class="entry-definition"> <em>n</em>. A person who sues for libel in a foreign country, particularly one that has libel laws favorable to the plaintiff.<br> —<b>libel tourism</b> <i>n</i>. </div> </p><p> <div class="entry-citation"> The committee also wants it to be made more difficult for foreign "<b>libel tourists</b>" and big companies to bring British libel actions.<br> —David Leigh, "<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100406075155/http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/feb/24/pcc-and-cost-of-libel">In the line of fire: 'toothless' PCC and the cost of libel</a>," <i>The Guardian</i>, February 24, 2010 </div> <div class="entry-footer"> <div class="entry-footer-read-more"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100406075155/http://www.wordspy.com/words/libeltourist.asp" style="text-decoration: underline">Read more about “libel tourist” »</a></font>    <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100406075155/http://www.wordspy.com/words/libeltourist.asp#comments" style="text-decoration: underline">Comments (1)</a></font> </div> <div class="entry-footer-posted-on"> Posted on February 24, 2010 </div> </div> </div> <div class="entry3"> <div class="entry-subheader"> NEW </div> <div class="entry-header"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100406075155/http://www.wordspy.com/words/cyberdisinhibition.asp" class="entry-header"> cyberdisinhibition </a> </div> <div class="entry-definition"> <em>n</em>. A temporary loss of inhibition while online. Also: <b>cyber-disinhibition</b>. </div> </p><p> <div class="entry-citation"> According to the study, their world is expanding and narrowing at the same time because of social media's hyperlocalization quotient. And "<b>cyberdisinhibition</b>" — being more willing to behave online in ways they wouldn't in person — has both emboldened users and led them to inappropriate behavior.<br> —"<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100406075155/http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:o0-8ytZzgWAJ:eurorscg.squarespace.com/storage/pdfs/11_23_09_rismedia.pdf">Americans redefining their lives online and offline with social media tools</a>," <i>RISMedia</i>, November 23, 2009 </div> <div class="entry-footer"> <div class="entry-footer-read-more"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100406075155/http://www.wordspy.com/words/cyberdisinhibition.asp" style="text-decoration: underline">Read more about “cyberdisinhibition” »</a></font>    <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100406075155/http://www.wordspy.com/words/cyberdisinhibition.asp#comments" style="text-decoration: underline">Comments (0)</a></font> </div> <div class="entry-footer-posted-on"> Posted on January 29, 2010 </div> </div> </div> <div class="entry5"> <div class="entry-subheader"> NEW </div> <div class="entry-header"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100406075155/http://www.wordspy.com/words/cosmophobia.asp" class="entry-header"> cosmophobia </a> </div> <div class="entry-definition"> <em>n</em>. The strong and irrational fear that in the near future the earth will be destroyed by some cosmic event. </div> </p><p> <div class="entry-citation"> There are 19 million 2012-related Google hits, and a vast number of those are concerned with a real world's [sic] and not the Roland Emmerich film that cashes in on rampant fear and on the tastes of those who enjoyed the way he destroyed the world in "Independence Day" and "The Day After Tomorrow."...This latest bit of <b>cosmophobia</b> is based on the Maya or Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, which, set up to run for 5,125 years, appears to terminate on or about Dec. 21, 2012, thus wrecking the key holiday shopping season.<br> —John Bogert, "<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100406075155/http://www.allbusiness.com/humanities-social-science/visual-performing-arts/13379855-1.html">Here comes the end of the world — again</a>," <i>Daily Breeze</i>, October 22, 2009 </div> <div class="entry-footer"> <div class="entry-footer-read-more"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100406075155/http://www.wordspy.com/words/cosmophobia.asp" style="text-decoration: underline">Read more about “cosmophobia” »</a></font>    <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100406075155/http://www.wordspy.com/words/cosmophobia.asp#comments" style="text-decoration: underline">Comments (1)</a></font> </div> <div class="entry-footer-posted-on"> Posted on January 28, 2010 </div> </div> </div> <div class="entry3"> <div class="entry-subheader"> NEW </div> <div class="entry-header"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100406075155/http://www.wordspy.com/words/eco-bling.asp" class="entry-header"> eco-bling </a> </div> <div class="entry-definition"> <em>n</em>. Ineffective green technology, particular equipment added on to an existing building that does little to reduce the building's use of natural resources. Also: <b>ecobling</b>. </div> </p><p> <div class="entry-citation"> Doug King, a visiting professor of building engineering physics at the University of Bath and author of the new report, said that it had become fashionable for people to install renewable energy at home but warned against it. "<b>Eco-bling</b> describes unnecessary renewable energy visibly attached to the outside of poorly-designed buildings - it's a zero-sum approach," he said. "If you build something that is just as energy-hungry as every other building and then put a few wind turbines and solar cells on the outside that addresses a few per cent of that building's energy consumption, you've not achieved anything.<br> —Alok Jha, "<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100406075155/http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jan/20/eco-bling-retrofitting-carbon-emissions"><b>Eco-bling</b> and retrofitting won't meet emissions targets, warn engineers</a>," <i>The Guardian</i>, January 20, 2010 </div> <div class="entry-footer"> <div class="entry-footer-read-more"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100406075155/http://www.wordspy.com/words/eco-bling.asp" style="text-decoration: underline">Read more about “eco-bling” »</a></font>    <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100406075155/http://www.wordspy.com/words/eco-bling.asp#comments" style="text-decoration: underline">Comments (1)</a></font> </div> <div class="entry-footer-posted-on"> Posted on January 21, 2010 </div> </div> </div> <div class="entry3"> <div class="entry-subheader"> NEW </div> <div class="entry-header"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100406075155/http://www.wordspy.com/words/vegangelical.asp" class="entry-header"> vegangelical </a> </div> <div class="entry-definition"> <em>n</em>. An extremely zealous vegan who is eager to make other people believe in and convert to veganism. [Blend of <i>vegan</i> and <i>evangelical</i>.] </div> </p><p> <div class="entry-citation"> Isa Chandra Moskowitz and Terry Hope Romero are <b>vegangelicals</b> with a sense of humor, a sense of proportion and a sense of adventure. What else would you expect from two gals who host a podcast called The Post Punk Kitchen (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100406075155/http://www.theppk.com/">ThePPK.com</a>)?<br> —Ted Scheffler, "Eat Your Veggies," <i>Salt Lake City Weekly</i>, January 31, 2008 </div> <div class="entry-footer"> <div class="entry-footer-read-more"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100406075155/http://www.wordspy.com/words/vegangelical.asp" style="text-decoration: underline">Read more about “vegangelical” »</a></font>    <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100406075155/http://www.wordspy.com/words/vegangelical.asp#comments" style="text-decoration: underline">Comments (0)</a></font> </div> <div class="entry-footer-posted-on"> Posted on January 21, 2010 </div> </div> </div> <div class="entry2"> <div class="entry-subheader"> NEW </div> <div class="entry-header"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100406075155/http://www.wordspy.com/words/orphancancer.asp" class="entry-header"> orphan cancer </a> </div> <div class="entry-definition"> <em>n</em>. A rare cancer that gets little attention and little funding for research. </div> </p><p> <div class="entry-citation"> The treatment is being tested at Stony Brook University Medical Center as a therapy for cancer of the appendix, a malignancy so rare it is known as an <b>orphan cancer</b>.<br> —Delthia Ricks, "<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100406075155/http://www.physorg.com/news155482238.html">New York doctors testing heated chemo for rare cancer</a>," <i>Newsday</i>, March 5, 2009 </div> <div class="entry-footer"> <div class="entry-footer-read-more"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100406075155/http://www.wordspy.com/words/orphancancer.asp" style="text-decoration: underline">Read more about “orphan cancer” »</a></font>    <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100406075155/http://www.wordspy.com/words/orphancancer.asp#comments" style="text-decoration: underline">Comments (0)</a></font> </div> <div class="entry-footer-posted-on"> Posted on January 20, 2010 </div> 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