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1. a sexist hypocrite. {via lore sjoberg 1, 2 and paul southworth}

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a retort, intended to be an insult, that unintentionally complements its recipient.  Example: “That salsa is hot.” “Your mom is hot.”  {thanks andrea}

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a word or phrase that, because of its peculiar structure appears to be a palindrome, but cannot in fact be read the same forwards and backwards. {source: falindrome.com} {via waxy and beingfamous}

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a language consisting of foreign sounding words that might be, but probably are not, either French or Italian. {source: dunkin donuts}

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1. something that is utterly foolish.
2. a foolish thought voiced, or action perpetrated by, a nim nam. {thanks julie solomon}

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1. an irrational fear of false words. {thanks thebonobo} {similar to neologophobia, an irrational fear of new words, as in “the term *blogosphere* elicited such intense neologophobia that she covered her ears and screamed.”}

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1. verb - aimless surfing of the web.
2. noun - a meaningless piece of information discovered while aimlessly surfing the web. {thanks wuyi}

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1. a flying octopus. {thanks michael}
2. an underwater-dwelling, surprisingly intelligent bird.

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1. the attempt of remembering a dream at the moment between waking and dreaming. {thanks syndallas}
2. the unfortunate act of remembering an event that occurred in a dream, but failing to recognize that the memory is not of something that actually happened in real life.

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a condition characterized by the tendency to become drowsy when driving or riding in a car.  {thanks zan}

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