The Buzz
Cats: IMglish, words|The world is abuzz with buzz words these days and a typist has all she can do just to keep up. The Buzz is a new series for Tuesdays. It is offered to keep you stay abreast of the latest buzzwords bombarding the language.
NINJA loans: The lending industry latest offering: No Income, No Job or Assets required
aquadextrous: The ability to turn the bath faucet on and off with your feet.
pet parent: Feel-good term for pet owners that supposedly elevates the
relationship between them and their animals to a higher level. (Subtle reminder for “pet parents”: The law doesn’t require you to have a license to have children, but you do have to have one for your dog.
Hummer house: A huge and architecturally inappropriate house built in an existing neighborhood destroying the aesthetic integrity of said neighborhood.
Newpeat: The showing of a previously aired TV episode that is now considered “new” because it has additional scenes or is simply two episodes edited into single longer episode. Example: “Did you see the ‘Heroes’ newpeat last night?”
WYGIWYG: What You Get Is What You Get or What You Got Is What You Get. A take-off on WYSIWYG - What You See Is What You Get
locked tool box: When a company has the right tools, systems, computers, etc., but lacks skilled employees that can put them to good use.
CFNO: (Chief Financial Officer) whose answer always seems to be “No” no matter how large or small the purchase request.
kleptonarcissist: Someone so vain that he/she compulsively steals glances of himself/herself in any nearby reflective surface - mirrors, polished cars, etc.
Jet Blued: To spend more time sitting on the runway than in the air. “I got Jet Blued this weekend.”
April 17th, 2007 at 6:52 am
I saw a pet parent carrying her “baby” in a snuggly last weekend, damn near drove off the road as I took my second look in disbelief.
Glad to know what to call those very ugly houses plunked in the middle of a beautiful area of reasonably sized, washline in the backyard, kids playing in the front yard neighbourhood homes. What do you call the somewhat attractive, very large home plunked in very strange high traffic areas about an inch off a three-lane highway? It’s as if they wanted the big house but couldn’t afford to go the extra to pay for the nice lot to put it on. Guess they don’t have to mow grass that way. And it’s close to Wally-mart.
April 17th, 2007 at 7:18 am
In Britain we called it a stately home on a postage-stamp sized lot.
April 17th, 2007 at 8:03 am
Oh, god. I am a kleptonarcissist. I just didn’t have a good word for it before…
April 17th, 2007 at 8:10 am
Everyone in a kleptonarcissist at one point or another.
We should think of a buzz word for someone who’s recently completed her undergraduate degree and seems to be giddy about it. Undergiddyist.
April 18th, 2007 at 8:30 am
I like it!