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![[Screenshot of the English entry for "water crouton" on Wiktionary]
Noun
1. (Internet slang, humorous) Synonym of ice cube.
Etymology: From water + crouton (“small piece of dried or fried bread”), due to their visual resembence.
[Sidebar image, captioned "A water crouton next to a regular crouton"]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nz2czue65bbyhrygawldvhwr/bafkreibacf4k56wqmjkn2i5zq3fzpy5ihojnn5mm7pyoy7qiyzhnre2nca)
![[Screenshot of the English entry for "blob of death" on Wiktionary]
Noun
1. (3D printing slang) A blob of filament that sticks to the nozzle of a 3D printer, causing a partial or complete blockage.
Etymology: By analogy with terms for computer errors like blue screen of death and red ring of death.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nz2czue65bbyhrygawldvhwr/bafkreif5t3qpus5aqgn4244sgvgtnbz7dtpyxpyzswabfjlxmo4eeqqsmm)
![[Screenshot of Spanish entry for "en estado interesante" on English Wiktionary]
Adjective
1. expecting (pregnant)
Etymology: Literally, “in (an) interesting state”.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nz2czue65bbyhrygawldvhwr/bafkreibvtswjy4psrztmjuax6kwl2eexy4tqe4mlwcrhjandecmebnvxpy)
![[Screenshot of the Japanese entry for ご飯にする？お風呂にする？それとも私？ (gohan ni suru? ofuro ni suru? sore tomo watashi?) on English Wiktionary]
Phrase
1. A stock phrase in Japanese pop culture supposedly used by the wife in a newly-wed couple to invite her new husband to bed.
Etymology: Literally, “Would you like dinner? Would you like a bath? Or would you like me?”. The phrase is known as 新婚三択 (shinkonsantaku, “the three-choice question for a newly-wed”).
Pronunciation: 私 (watashi) is coquettishly pronounced with a pause in between each mora.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nz2czue65bbyhrygawldvhwr/bafkreifxcrhh4hcq5rfndxg5x3djggoytodcfccxjz76ltpepajjykwalq)
![[Screenshot of the Japanese entry for 適当 (tekitō) on English Wiktionary]
Adjective
1. suitable; appropriate; fit
Usage example: 適当な人物 — just the man (for the job)
2. random, indiscriminate, as one will
Usage example: 適当に記入する — to put in whatever
Usage example: 適当に名前を入れる — to put in any old name
3. half-arsed, lazy, slovenly](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nz2czue65bbyhrygawldvhwr/bafkreibeffunbh2ltpe37ofrzvlbzdidbfwmkuwlwgr2ijm6ennnqjjvqy)
![[Screenshot of the Saanich entry for "SQEQOTE¸" on English Wiktionary]
Noun
SQEQOTE¸ (Americanist spelling sk̕ʷək̕ʷátəʔ)
1. crow, specifically northwestern crow (Corvus caurinus)
Usage example: QENN ES ȻSE SQEQOTE¸ SÁSEU¸. — He saw the crow down on the beach.
Etymology: From S- (nominalizing prefix) + reduplication of QTO¸ (“to surround, to encircle”), as a diminuitive form. See SQTO¸ (“raven”).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nz2czue65bbyhrygawldvhwr/bafkreihcmonz3pbt3f7xcijubnbapsqzlyeussr7e6ogun7jmwq3qur7ry)
![[Screenshot of the English entry for "blep" on Wiktionary]
Verb
1. (DoggoLingo) Of an animal, to extend the tongue beyond the lips, seemingly for no reason, without opening the mouth fully.
Noun
1. (DoggoLingo) Of an animal, the act of extending the tongue beyond the lips without opening the mouth fully.
Etymology: Imitative.
See also:
* mlem
[Sidebar image, captioned "A dog blepping": A scruffy black dog extends its tongue out sideways]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nz2czue65bbyhrygawldvhwr/bafkreid7koofcqxqa5rm2av3zxx4ro5mdouzusyahrtbwrxb3ra6rbkfpm)
![[Screenshot of the English entry for "blobslop" on Wiktionary]
Noun
1. (Internet slang, derogatory, neologism) A genre of webcomics, primarily seen on Twitter, characterized by simplistic, monochromatic, blob-like humanoid characters used to depict clichés and tropes in popular media. [from 2024]
(Internet slang, neologism, by extension) Any simplistic or low-effort Internet artwork perceived as repetitive or lacking originality.
Etymology: From blob + -slop. Coined in 2024 on Twitter (now X). Popularized in a July 2024 post by Twitter user @hood_sanctuary (see first quotation).
See also:
* CalArts style, bean mouth
* Wojak
[Crude illustration of a two panel comic, titled "MY FAVORITE CHARACTER / MEDIA TROPE". Panel 1, "the character normally", shows a simple character smiling with a flower on its head. Panel 2, "the character when someone is mean to their friend or partners", shows the same character with an anger mark on their head.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nz2czue65bbyhrygawldvhwr/bafkreidts5xo3mecho5qxpdhxt5c3tcfrafjbcrcvsbogywobdkj3bjdnm)
![[Screenshot of the Portuguese entry for "24" on English Wiktionary]
Noun
1. (slang, often offensive) gayness, homosexuality
Etymology: From the fact that veado (“deer”) is slang for a gay man and in jogo do bicho (“animal's game”), the number 24 is associated with deer.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nz2czue65bbyhrygawldvhwr/bafkreifemezuys5xmj6yd75jp3233hszwivmhdi6j26hhdwy6yyrbus5xe)
![[Screenshot of the Māori entry for "Wīwī" on English Wiktionary]
Proper noun
1. France (a country located primarily in Western Europe)
Etymology: From French oui, oui (“yes, yes”), a phrase stereotypically associated with French people. Attested since the 19th century.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nz2czue65bbyhrygawldvhwr/bafkreiaizg5w2y3t5hmxzmzz2gkbl6ujhfsidkokbjg63fx54cuqinvrdm)
![[Screenshot of the English entry for "grippy sock jail" on Wiktionary]
Noun
1. (Internet slang, humorous) A psychiatric facility.
Etymology: Referring to the non-slip socks issued to psychiatric patients in place of lace-up shoes or slippers.
Synonym: grippy sock hotel
Related terms: grippy sock vacation](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nz2czue65bbyhrygawldvhwr/bafkreib634o3tau45nc6nqhbmdlbdpyskupna3r6kql2ra3damq5mnxrje)
![[Screenshot of the English entry "T. rex hands" on Wiktionary]
Noun
1. (slang) A posture in which the arms are kept close to the body with the elbows bent perpendicularly; typically associated with neurodivergent people.
Synonyms: T. rex arms; dinosaur hands, dinosaur arms
[The sidebar has an image of someone in this posture with the caption "A man with T. rex hands"]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nz2czue65bbyhrygawldvhwr/bafkreigqwdvbo55pvvrrjig3fhb5vylndzfqisnz3ezjslyawb6gls4gp4)
![[Screenshot of the English entry for "English English" on Wiktionary]
Noun
1. A dialect of the English language that is spoken mostly in England.
Synonym: Anglo-English
Hypernym: British English](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nz2czue65bbyhrygawldvhwr/bafkreicbovepdutw246cotkznrcv5sji3u2ujvs72me3dqh7kagi35pgja)
![[Screenshot of the English entry for "Jonkler" on Wiktionary]
Proper noun
1. (Internet slang, humorous) The Joker (villainous character in the Batman franchise).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nz2czue65bbyhrygawldvhwr/bafkreieludqhqdekbk6loapiew7t2nqpacufqhhwnyix7q3wfqmbib6crm)
![[Screenshot of the translation section on the English entry for "layman" on Wiktionary]
[Box sense 1]: someone who is not an ordained cleric
[Box sense 2]: someone who is not a professional in a given field — see also normie](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nz2czue65bbyhrygawldvhwr/bafkreihrjwc4ymv7ggbrdwv3bsn5jnlkmbc3zpdlephtfpqmvbo6zsygg4)
![[Screenshot of the German entry for "abfucken" on English Wiktionary]
Verb
1. (transitive) to piss off, to severely annoy
2. (transitive) to fuck up (to negatively affect someone or something)
3. (intransitive, uncommon) to fuck up (to fail severely)
Etymology: Probably borrowed from English fuck up. Attested by 1976 in the context of drugs, and mentioned in 1981 in a slang dictionary in a study on Berlin heroin addicts, though the listed meaning of “being down-and-out, being unbothered” only partially corresponds with later usage.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nz2czue65bbyhrygawldvhwr/bafkreigywx2y3fv2gvp66zwf44hpffcau6ppxzuifi3wecqbtntub5mu7e)
![[Screenshot of the English entry for "Muphry's law" on WIktionary]
Proper noun
1. (humorous) A humorous adage stating that any written criticism of another writer's editing or proofreading will itself contain an error.
Etymology: Deliberate misspelling of Murphy's law, an adage which states that if anything can go wrong, then it will.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nz2czue65bbyhrygawldvhwr/bafkreignfiurkf47u357lvs2wq2rugzpwhjicxbmgjmoccfcq7p6gd5ieq)
![Greek entry for "μωρό" on Wiktionary. The page reads as following:
[...]
Etymology 2: From Byzantine Greek μωρόν (mōrón), from Ancient Greek μωρός (mōrós, “stupid, foolish”), as babies were seen as "stupid morons without knowledge".
Noun
1. baby, infant
Usage examples:
- Το μωρό θέλει τάισμα. ― To moró thélei táisma. ― The baby needs feeding.
- Τα μωρά δεν μπορούν να περπατήσουν. — Ta morá den boroún na perpatísoun. — Babies cannot walk.
2. (colloquial, informal, usually with μου (mou, “my”)) term of address for a romantic partner: baby
Usage examples: Σ’ αγαπώ, μωρό μου. ― S’ agapó, moró mou. ― I love you, baby.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nz2czue65bbyhrygawldvhwr/bafkreidpnq4lq5wmi3fnjs44mbbiztktw742ngqwogslte2cysez3av27e)
![English entry for "regrets only" on Wiktionary. The page reads as following:
Noun
1. Written on an invitation to request that the invited person reply only if they will not attend.
Usage notes:
- The phrase is less commonly used and understood than RSVP.[1]
- The usage of this phrase may be considered presumptuous – because it assumes the person will attend – and imprudent, because it assumes the invitation will be received and read.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nz2czue65bbyhrygawldvhwr/bafkreidgvcorvdefspoe37duestnwdyoejuxoazllsdk7oruokvztctdx4)